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✔ 60-84. ⚡Spell CHARLES AUGUSTIN DE COULOMB

✔ C - Mr. Lemoncello and the Titanium Ticket | Chris Grabenstein ★★ (07/31/25)
✔ H - How to Find a Missing Girl | Victoria Wlosok ★ (07/29/25)
✔ A - Arsenic and Old Lies | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (07/28/25)
✔ R - Red Harvest | Joe Schreiber ★★★ (08/08/25)
✔ L - Like Trees, Walking | Ravi Howard ★★★ (08/07/25)
✔ E - Death in a Blackout | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)
✔ S - The Satapur Moonstone | Sujata Massey ★★ (07/22/25)

✔ A - I'll Be Right Here | Amy Bloom ★★ (08/03/25)
✔ U - The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming | David Wallace-Wells ★★ (06/11/25)
✔ G - Booked for Death | Victoria Gilbert ★★★ (07/27/25)
✔ U - Nine Lessons | Nicola Upson ★★ (08/17/25)
✔ S - Silver On The Tree | Susan Cooper ★★★ (08/11/25)
✔ T - The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant | Liza Tully ★★ (08/11/25)
✔ I - A Body in the Villa | Isabella Bassett ★★★ (08/13/25)
✔ N - A Crime of Poison | Nancy Haddock ★★ (07/02/25)

✔ D - Death at the Dinner Party | Ellie Alexander ★ (07/26/25)
✔ E - Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View | Elizabeth Schaefer ★★★★ (08/01/25)

✔ C - Mistletoe and Murder | Connie Berry ★★ (08/12/25)
✔ O - Of Love and Shadows | Isabel Allende ★ (06/23/25)
✔ U - Undeading Bells | Drew Hayes ★★★★★ (09/02/25)
✔ L - Hour of the Bees | Lindsay Eagar ★★ (08/13/25)
✔ O - Brownsville: Stories | Oscar Cásares ★★★★ (06/24/25)
✔ M - Spook Street | Mick Herron ★★★★★ (08/03/25)
✔ B - Bran New Death | Victoria Hamilton ★★★ (07/02/25)

✔ 85. Electrons
⚡Read a book with SCIENCE on the main GR genre page.
Paper: Paging Through History | Mark Kurlansky ★★★★★ (06/17/25)

✔ 86. Matter
⚡Read a book with the author's first and last name in ATOMS; post a link to the author´s page.
Women Talking | Miriam Toews ★★ (06/19/25)

✔ 87. Insulators
⚡Read a book with siblings who stick together.
No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding | Catherine Mack ★ (07/04/25)
Eleanor & Harper.

✔ 88. Conductors
⚡Read a free book (a book with no cost for you for any reason; tell us why).
The Good, the Bad, and the Witchy | Heather Blake ★★★ (08/01/25)
Library.

✔ 89-94. ⚡Spell ATOMS.

✔ A - All That Consumes Us | Erica Waters ★★ (08/06/25)
✔ T - Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang ★★★★ (08/14/25)
✔ O - Killing State | Judith O'Reilly ★★ (07/20/25)
✔ M - Joe Country | Mick Herron ★★★★ (08/04/25)
✔ S - The Higher Power of Lucky | Susan Patron ★★★ (08/11/25)

✔ 95. Conductor
⚡Read a book with the author's first and last initials in one of these words: CONDUCTOR or GENERATOR (both in the same word); post a link to the author´s page.
Death at the White Hart | Chris Chibnall ★★★ (06/29/25)

✔ 96. Paper Clip & Magnet
⚡Read a book with a main character with a magnetic personality.
The Dark Tower | Stephen King ★★★★★ (06/10/25)
Roland, who gathers people to him.

✔ 97. Voltage
⚡Read a book with a main character who is called by a nickname, tell us the nickname.
Death on a Summer’s Day | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (06/12/25)
Christopher is Chrissy to everyone.

✔ 98. Michael Faraday
⚡Read a book from a Series with more than 19 books; tell us the series name and how many books it has.
Death by a Honeybee | Abigail Keam ★★★ (06/19/25)
Josiah Reynolds #1; series has 21 books.

✔ 99-105. ⚡Spell DYNAMO

✔ D - The Cat of the Baskervilles | Vicki Delany ★★★ (08/12/25)
✔ Y - The Decagon House Murders | Yukito Ayatsuji ★★★ (07/24/25)
✔ N - No Good Tea Goes Unpunished | Bree Baker ★★★ (08/03/25)
✔ A - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Anne Tyler ★★ (08/13/25)
✔ M - The Medusa Protocol | Rob Hart ★★★ (08/09/25)
✔ O - The Orchid Thief | Susan Orlean ★★ (08/14/25)

✔ 106. Battery or Fuel Cell
⚡Read a short story collection or anthology.
Music for Wartime | Rebecca Makkai ★★★ (06/23/25)

✔ 107-108. Terminals
⚡Read two books that are opposite to each other in some way, please explain.
* Futuristic sci-fi. Revan | Drew Karpyshyn ★★ (06/03/25)
* Historical fiction based on real events. Queen Margot | Alexandre Dumas ★★ (06/06/25)

✔ 109. Pushing Electrons
⚡Read a book with a pushy speaking character (your interpretation, tell us who).
The Diva Poaches a Bad Egg | Krista Davis ★★★★ (06/27/25)
Natasha.

✔ 110. Circuit
⚡Read a book with something metallic on the cover; post the cover.
Run for the Hills | Kevin Wilson ★★★★ (06/30/25)


*** Completed (09/02/25) ***

I'm finished I think.

Electricity

Duration: Jun 01, 2025 - ?
Completed: 110/110

✔ 1-11. ⚡Spell Electricity

✔ E - A Cold, Cold World | Elena Taylor ★★★ (06/15/25)
✔ L - Locklands | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★ (07/17/25)
✔ E - Enemy Women | Paulette Jiles ★★ (06/21/25)
✔ C - Death Comes to the Village | Catherine Lloyd ★★ (07/10/25)
✔ T - Heir to the Empire | Timothy Zahn ★★★ (07/04/25)
✔ R - Redemption Point | Candice Fox ★★★ (06/25/25)
✔ I - Consider Phlebas | Iain M. Banks ★★★★ (06/01/25)
✔ C - Curses, Boiled Again! | Shari Randall ★★★ (07/25/25)
✔ I - The Player of Games | Iain M. Banks ★★ (07/09/25)
✔ T - The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans | Laura Trethewey ★★★★ (07/11/25)
✔ Y - Things in Nature Merely Grow | Yiyun Li ★★★ (06/21/25)

✔ 12. Ancient people
⚡Read a book with people on the cover.
Under the Midnight Sun | Keigo Higashino ★★★★ (06/05/25)


✔ 13. Thales of Miletus
⚡ Read the first book of the series; tell us the name of the series.
Path of Destruction | Drew Karpyshyn ★★ (06/08/25)
Darth Bane #1.

✔ 14. Amber & Fur
⚡ Read a book with a scientist speaking character, tell us who.
The House at Sea's End | Elly Griffiths ★★ (06/11/25)
The MC Ruth is a forensic archaeologist.

✔ 15. Electrostatics
⚡Read a nonfiction book.
Heart: A History | Sandeep Jauhar ★★★★ (06/04/25)

✔ 16-30 ⚡Spell ELECTROSTATICS

✔ E - The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language | Mark Forsyth ★★★★★ (06/27/25)
✔ L - London Rules | Mick Herron ★★★★ (08/04/25)
✔ E - Endling | Maria Reva ★★★★★ (06/29/25)
✔ C - A Fashionably French Murder | Colleen Cambridge ★★★★ (07/28/25)
✔ T - The Burning Issue of the Day | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/22/25)
✔ R - Rosemary and Rue | Seanan McGuire ★★ (07/03/25)
✔ O - Sisters in Science | Olivia Campbell ★★★ (06/16/25)
✔ S - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil | V.E. Schwab ★★ (07/06/25)
✔ T - An Edible History of Humanity | Tom Standage ★★★ (08/05/25)
✔ A - Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★★ (07/14/25)
✔ T - Murder on Pleasant Avenue | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (08/06/25)
✔ I - If Walls Could Talk | Juliet Blackwell ★★ (07/20/25)
✔ C - Charlotte’s Web | E.B. White ★★★ (07/29/25)
✔ S - Shorefall | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★ (07/12/25)

✔ 31. Greek elektron
⚡ Read a book with a foreign word in the title. (a word in a different language than the others in the title)
Live and Let Chai | Bree Baker ★★★★ (07/27/25)
Chai is from Hindi.

✔ 32. William Gilbert
⚡Read a book with the first letters of all the words in the title in WILLIAM GILBERT; (all words count, 3 words minimum).
Abide With Me | Jane Willan ★★★★ (07/07/25)

✔ 33. Electric
⚡ Read a book with HUMOR on the main GR genre page.
Our Man in Havana | Graham Greene ★★★★ (06/12/25)

✔ 34. Stephen Gray
⚡Read a book first published in a year containing two of these numbers: 1, 7, 2, 9; tell us the year.
Designer Dirty Laundry | Diane Vallere ★★ (06/28/25)
2012.

✔ 35. Fluid Analogy
⚡Read a book with a speaking character who builds something; tell us what.
Sin Eater | Megan Campisi ★★ (07/08/25)
The Instrument Maker (unnamed) who constructs musical instruments – from the description it sounds like bass.

✔ 36. Leyden Jar
⚡Read a book with a main character whose name begins with a letter in EWALD VON KLEIST; tell us their name.
How to Seal Your Own Fate | Kristen Perrin ★★★ (06/02/25)
Annie.

✔ 37. Workings
⚡Read a picture book; you don’t need to follow the 150-page rule this time.
I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman ★★★★★ (07/31/25)
66 pages.

✔ 38. Benjamin Franklin
⚡Read a book with two of these numbers in the number of pages: 1, 7, 5, 2; tell us the number of pages.
Murder at Brighton Beach | Lee Strauss ★★★ (06/02/25)
178 pages.

✔ 39-55. ⚡Spell BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

✔ B - Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World | Dan Koeppel ★★★ (06/26/25)
✔ E - Murder in an English Glade | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)
✔ N - Kale to the Queen | Nell Hampton ★★ (06/14/25)
✔ J - Hook, Line and Blinker | Jana Deleon ★★★★★ (07/23/25)
✔ A - Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie ★★★ (07/18/25)
✔ M - How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir | Molly Jong-Fast ★★★ (06/30/25)
✔ I - Death in the Garden | Isabella Bassett ★★★ (07/23/25)
✔ N - Baker's Coven | Nancy Warren ★★★ (06/17/25)

✔ F - Framed in Fire | Iona Whishaw ★★★ (08/18/25)
✔ R - The Readaholics and the Falcon Fiasco | Laura DiSilverio ★ (07/28/25)
✔ A - Against the Claw | Shari Randall ★★★★ (07/25/25)
✔ N - Beyond A Doubt | Nancy Cole Silverman ★★★ (06/28/25)
✔ K - Murder on the Rocks | Karen MacInerney ★★★ (06/25/25)
✔ L - The Drowned Woods | Emily Lloyd-Jones ★★★ (08/05/25)
✔ I - The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina | Zoraida Córdova ★ (08/07/25)
✔ N - Run on Red | Noelle W. Ihli ★★ (06/30/25)

✔ 56. Positive and Negative
⚡Read a book with positive and negative elements; your interpretation, please explain.
So Far Gone | Jess Walter ★★★ (07/06/25)
Positive: It’s fun, characters are likeable. Negative: It just stays very surface level.

✔ 57. Charles Augustin de Coulomb
⚡Read a book first published at least 30 years ago (1995 or before).
Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford ★★ (06/15/25)
1949.

✔ 58. Like Charges
⚡Read a difficult-to-read book; please explain why you find it difficult.
The Fifth Petal | Brunonia Barry ★ (06/23/25)
It was excruciating, it had too many irrelevant plot threads and it’s a mystery that’s really obvious. The MC was horrible also.

✔ 59. Electrostatic Force
⚡Read a book with MYSTERY on the main GR genre page.
L is for Lawless | Sue Grafton ★★★★ (06/18/25)

My next song is Last Resort by Papa Roach

🎼9. Sugar, Sleep Token

✔ S - The Satapur Moonstone | Sujata Massey ★★ (07/22/25)
✔ U - Nine Lessons | Nicola Upson ★★ (08/17/25)
✔ G - Booked for Death | Victoria Gilbert ★★★ (07/27/25)
✔ A - The Decagon House Murders | Yukito Ayatsuji ★★★ (07/24/25)
✔ R - Curses, Boiled Again! | Shari Randall ★★★ (07/25/25)

✔ S - Against the Claw | Shari Randall ★★★★ (07/25/25)
✔ L - Live and Let Chai | Bree Baker ★★★★ (07/27/25)
✔ E - Death in a Blackout | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)
✔ E - Death at the Dinner Party | Ellie Alexander ★ (07/26/25)
✔ P - The Higher Power of Lucky | Susan Patron ★★★ (08/11/25)

✔ T - The Burning Issue of the Day | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/22/25)
✔ O - The Orchid Thief | Susan Orlean ★★ (08/14/25)
✔ K - Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse ★★★ (09/02/25)
✔ E - Charlotte’s Web | E.B. White ★★★ (07/29/25)
✔ N - No Good Tea Goes Unpunished | Bree Baker ★★★ (08/03/25)

Barb wrote: "Chaitra wrote: "Guess #4: CHAOS"

That is correct :) Would you like to play another round?"

Yes please!

Old, Obsolete and Obscure Words #6 - Arts and Crafts

Duration: Sep 01, 2025 - ?
Completed: 0/26

A
ARTIFICER:
Task: Read a book that has a French character or who is from a French-speaking country OR read a book which has a character who is highly skilled in their craft or work (for either option tell us who).

B
BRODERER/BROIDERER/BROTHERER/BROWDERER/EMBROIDERER: Task: Read a book that has a main character who does some type of needlework (bonus for embroidery) (tell us who) OR read a book that has an author or a main character who has a first name with more than one common spelling (e.g. Kristine/Christine, Jeffrey/Geoffry, etc.) (link to the author or tell us who).

C
COLOURATOR:
Task: Read a book set in one of the places listed above (for Asia Minor you may also use Turkey) (tell us where) OR read a book that has a colourful cover (post the cover).

D
DAGUERREOTYPIST:
Task: Read a book that has a person’s name in its title OR read a book that is set sometime in the 1800s (tell us when).

E
ESMAILLER/ÉMAILER/AMAILER/ASMAILER/ENAMAILER:
Task: Read a book that is set during the medieval period (500-1500 CE) (tell us when) OR read a book that has something shiny on its cover (post the cover).

F
FICTOR:
Task: Read a book marked FICTION on its GR main page OR read a book that has a statue or something carved on its cover (post the cover).

G
GRAVER:
Task: Read a book that has a main character who uses tools for a living or as a serious amateur (tell us who) OR read a book in which a main character changes their name or uses more than one name (tell us who).

H
HACKER:
Task: Read a book in which an important character works in a garden, farm or other setting where they would use a hoe or other hacking tool (tell us who) OR read a book where someone regularly uses a computer either professionally or as an interested amateur (tell us who).

I
IVORY WORKERS:
Task: Read a book in which a main character is Chinese or is of Chinese heritage (tell us who) OR read a book that has two of these digits: 0, 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 in its original publication year (tell us the year).

J
JOINER/JOYNER:
Task: Read a book with furniture on its cover (bonus if it is made of wood) (post the cover) OR read a book in which someone is ‘still going strong’ (tell us who).

K
KNAPPER:
Task: Read a book in which someone is suffering from a serious illness or disease (tell us who) OR read a book in which someone carries or uses a firearm (tell us who).

L
LORIMER:
Task: Read a book that has a horse shown clearly on its cover (post the cover) OR read a book in which someone or something is specified as being ‘small’ (synonyms for ‘small’ also count) (tell us what/who).

M
METALSMITH:
Task: Read a book that has a cover that is predominantly one of the colours listed above, or a mix of these colours (post the cover) OR read a book that includes someone you might call a ‘colourful character’ (tell us who).

N
NARROW WEAVER:
Task: Read a book that has hands or arms (or both) taking up the majority of its cover (post the cover) OR read a book in which there is some confusion about someone’s identity (tell us who).

O
ORRICE WEAVER:
Task: Read a book with something gold or silver shown clearly on its cover (post the cover) OR read a book that has a 1, 7, or 9 in its GR rating at the time you read it (tell us the rating).

P
PLAIN WORKER:
Task: Read a book that has a plain cover (little or no artwork) (post the cover) OR read a book in which someone sews (tell us who).

Q
QUARREL PICKER/QUARREL-PICKER:
Task: read a book with window(s) shown clearly on its cover (post the cover) OR read a book in which people having an argument is important to the plot.

R
RINCEAU:
Task: Read a book that you think has an intricate or complex plot or subject matter OR read a book that has at least two of these digits: 1, 5, 7, or 8 in its total page number (tell the number of pages).

S
SPINSTER:
Task: Read a book in which a main character is happily single (bonus for an older woman) (tell us who) OR read a book in which someone has their own business or is self-employed (bonus for a woman) (tell us who).

T
TEXTOR (TEXTRIX)/TIXTOR (TIXTIX):
Task: Read a book that has an insect or bird shown clearly on its cover (post the cover) OR read a book set anywhere in any of the regions named here (tell us where).

U
UPSET/UPSETTING:
Task: Read a book that has a title word that is also a word when spelled backward OR read a book in which all or most of the main characters are male.

V
VAGINARIUS:
Task: Read a book in which someone carries a knife, sword, or similar weapon (tell us who) OR read a book in which someone gives birth (tell us who).

W
WRIGHT:
Task: Read a book with a compound word in its title OR read a book that has a title word that has a silent letter.

X
XYLOGRAPHER:
Task: Read a book with wood or something wooden shown clearly on its cover OR read a book that is set in Greece.

Y
YEDDER/EDDER:
Task: Read a book that has a verb in its title OR read a book that clearly shows a fence or hedge (or similar structure, e.g. a wall) on its cover.

Z
ZINCOGRAPHER:
Task: Read a book in which someone reads some type of mass-printed material (e.g. newspaper, magazine, printed book, etc.) (tell us who and what they read) OR read a book that has a fairly intricate pattern, image, or artwork on its cover (post the cover)

Congrats, Cats!

Welcome to the challenge, August, Jonquil, L&M and Jimena!

Meg wrote: "Scientist ==> Sarah F. Noel - A Proud Woman 08/28

Fall (tower) ==> A Proud Woman, Sarah F. Noel 08/28

Silicon Valley ==> [book..."

The murder was not at Silicon Valley.

Katharine wrote: "I'd like to play, if possible, please
"

Sure thing, Katharine. The murderer was not the computer programmer.

Christina (AKA Babbling) wrote: "Guess #15

J2 - Rev It Up by Julie Ann Walker 31 August 2025 ★★★ 352 pages, Kindle Edition

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J2 is a hit.

Congrats, Vickie!

Welcome to the challenge, August, L&M and Mary!

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Congrats, August!