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Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: One month from your start date
Choose as many tasks as you wish and tasks can be used more than once
Participation Badge is awarded for this challenge

TASKS

1. Scott Mac Davis was born January 21, 1942 in Lubbock Texas, the son of Edith Irene (Lankford) and T. J. Davis, a builder. He spent his childhood years with his sister Linda, living and working at the former College Courts, an efficiency apartment complex owned by his father. Davis described his father, who was divorced from Davis' mother, as "very religious, very strict, and very stubborn.

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.

2.Davis graduated at 16 from Lubbock High School and, looking to escape his hometown, moved to Atlanta where his mother lived. Once Davis was settled in Atlanta, he organized a rock and roll group called the Zots, and made two singles for OEK Records, managed and promoted by OEK owner Oscar Kilgo. Davis also worked for the Vee Jay record company (home to such R&B stars as Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, and Dee Clark) as a regional manager, and later became a regional manager for Liberty Records.
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.


3. Davis became famous as a songwriter and got his start as an employee of Nancy Sinatra's company, Boots Enterprises, Inc. Davis was with Boots for several years in the late 1960s. During his time there, he played on many of Sinatra's recordings, and she worked him into her stage shows. Boots Enterprises also acted as Davis's publishing company, publishing songs such as "In the Ghetto", "Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife", "Home", "It's Such a Lonely Time of Year", and "Memories".

🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.

4. One of the songs he wrote in 1968, called "A Little Less Conversation", was recorded by Elvis Presley (and would become a posthumous success for Presley years later). The song became a success for Presley and he continued to record more of Davis's material, such as "Memories", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "Clean Up Your Own Backyard". Bobby Goldsboro also recorded some of Davis's songs, including "Watching Scotty Grow", which became a No. 1 Adult Contemporary success for Goldsboro in 1971. Other artists who recorded his material included Vikki Carr, O.C. Smith, and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. "I Believe in Music", often considered to be Davis's signature song, was recorded by several artists (including Marian Love, B.J. Thomas, Louis Jordan, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, and Davis himself) before it finally became a success in 1972 for the group Gallery.

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.

5. Davis left Boots Enterprises in 1970 to sign with Columbia Records, taking all of his songs with him. His big success came two years after signing with Columbia. He topped the Country and Pop charts with the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me". It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 1972. Some of Davis's lyrics invoked overtly sexual relationships. In the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me", he pleads with a woman not to become too enamored with him, because he does not want to commit to a full-time relationship. Other hit songs by Davis, such as "Naughty Girl" and "Baby Spread Your Love on Me", contained similar lyrics.

🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)

6. In 1974, Davis was awarded the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year award. He had other successes including the songs "Stop and Smell the Roses" (a number one Adult Contemporary success in 1974) (pop no. 9), "One Hell of a Woman" (pop no. 11), "Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" (pop no. 15), and "Burnin' Thing" (pop no. 53). At the end of the 1970s, he moved to Casablanca Records, which was best known at the time for its successes with disco star Donna Summer and rock'n'roll band Kiss. His first success for the company in 1980 was the novelty song "It's Hard to Be Humble", a light-hearted look at how popularity and good looks could go to one's head. The song became his first Country music top 10 and a rare top 30 hit in the UK.

🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book about country music.

7. From 1974 to 1976, Davis had his own television variety show on NBC, The Mac Davis Show. He made his feature film debut opposite Nick Nolte in the football film, North Dallas Forty (1979) Davis acted in a couple of movies plus he hosted an episode of The Muppet Show. Davis played Will Rogers in the Broadway production of The Will Rogers Follies and in the national tour. He also did the voice for two characters in King of the Hill.

🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.

8. Davis was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1979" by Screen World magazine. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. He was awarded a star symbol on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard, for his contribution to the recording industry.

🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.

9. Mac Davis was married three times. Maybe he really did find it hard to be humble. At 21, he married Fran Cook from Georgia. Their son, Joel Scott, was born a year later. Davis then met Sarah Barg, then 16 and married her two years later. She left him for Glen Campbell. In 1980, Davis started to date a young nurse, Lise Gerard. They married in 1982 when she was 24, and they had two children Noah Claire and Cody Luke.

🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.

10. Singer-songwriter Mac Davis died on September 29,2020 after undergoing heart surgery. He was 78 years old. Mac
Davis song Lubbock Texas in my Rearview Mirror had a last line of "And when I die, you can bury me in Lubbock, Texas, in my jeans." His family says he was be buried like his song back in Lubbock Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).

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Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 10/26/20 - 11/25/20
Choose as many tasks as you wish and tasks can be used more than once
Participation Badge is awarded for this challenge

TASKS

1. 🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
Make Me, Take Me by Amanda Usen 11/9
(Linda)

🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.
The Yada Yada Prayer Group by Neta Jackson 11/10 (Avis, Jodie)

2.🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
Rainbows Ever After: A Black Rainbow Happily Ever After Novella by J.J. McAvoy 10/28
(154 pages)
Jacob's Ladder: Wisdom for the Heart's Ascent by Noah benShea 10/28
(197 pages)
The Sands of Windee by Arthur W. Upfield 11/12
(217 pages)

🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
Her Texan to Tame by Sara Orwig 11/16
set in Texas

6. 🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Tomorrow's Promise by Sandra Brown 10/28
Dax is a popular, good-looking congressman

7. 🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Agatha Christie - The Murder on the Links 11/3
Tony Hillerman - The Blessing Way 11/13

8. 🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 11/3

10. 🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
"Standing before the bathroom mirror, her reflection stared back at her." p. 420
The Ghost of Valentine Past by Bobbi Holmes 11/8

Major flash back! I loved The Mac Davis show when I was a kid, and always loved his music.

Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 10/26/20 - 11/25/20

TASKS

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
North Carolina Ghosts and Legends Nancy Roberts 133 p. 11/8/20
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Double Shots, Donuts, and Dead Dudes Harper Lin 10/27/20. Her (Adriana's) shoulders shook with her sobs. p. 49
🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.
🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)
🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Six Cats a Slayin' Miranda James 11/19/20. Helen Louise unlocked her car before she turned to give me another quick kiss. p. p.54
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Claws for Concern Miranda James 11/6/20. gotta go with the cat- Diesel is very popular in Athena
🎸 Read a book about country music.
🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Murder in the Mews Agatha Christie 11/9/20
🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.
🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
In Hot Water J.J. Cook (Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade) 11/4/20
🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Murder of a Barbie and Ken Denise Swanson 11/18/20. Skye caught sight of herself in the mirror above the sink. p. 210
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).

Tribute to Mac Davis
November 1-30, 2020
Duration: One month from your start date
Choose as many tasks as you wish and tasks can be used more than once
Participation Badge is awarded for this challenge

18 done

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
Scott is the town veterinarian-Turkeys, Tuxes and Tabbies Kathi Daley 11/16/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
Deep Fried Revenge Lynn Cahoon 11/6/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious
Betts-Gear, Grills & Guns Tonya Kappes 11/1/20
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
173 pages-The Bargain Blaze Binks 11/10/20
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
Texas-A Sip of Murder Belinda J Evaline 11/4/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
Quinn is single-Puzzling Ink Becky Clark 11/15/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
Cliff Henry is a singer-Have a Deadly New Year Lynn Cahoon 11/8/20
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Talking about Alabama's mama: Flip That Haunted House Rose Pressey 11/7/20 loc 1961 “…covering most of her brown high-heeled leather boots.”
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Homicide and Honeycrisps Summer Prescott 11/15/20 p 23 “…a photo of Davis Clifton, and Dotty gasped and began to cry.”
🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.
Talking to the neighbor or taking the dog out-Fair Trade Heather Day Gilbert 11/13/20
🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
Under Lock & Key Sam Short 11/3/20 (Who doesn't love a talking goat?) lol
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)
Chad-he tried to kill Edie-Gin & Ghosts J.L.Collins 11/5/20
🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Levi, Heidi's boyfriend-A Jug of Murder Belinda J Evaline 11/11/20
🎸 Read a book about country music.
🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
TC-Murder Steals the Show Thea Cambert 11/12/20
🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.
🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
Carrie Rushton is a nurse-Due or Die Jenn McKinlay 11/7/20
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
#3 in Farm to Fork-One Potato, Two Potato, Dead Lynn Cahoon 11/2/20
🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Deathly Delicious Patti Benning 11/3/20 p 4 “When she met her own gaze in the mirror again…”
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Felonies and Fujis Summer Prescott 11/19/20 p 65 “…and, slipping her phone into her jeans pocket.”

I love his music and having lived in Lubbock Texas for four years. I remember when I first got there I felt just the way Mac Davis did that Lubbock Texas in the rearview mirror was the only place I wanted it. :-)

Welcome Kellene and Tari.

Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 10/26/20 - 11/25/20

TASKS
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
Wonder Woman, Vol 2: Love is a Battlefield-G. Willow Wilson 11/3- pg. 160
夢色パティシエール 2 Yumeiro Patissiere 2 -Natsumi Matsumoto 11/15- pg. 176
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
Learning to Ride-Erin Knightley 11/2
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
Star Wars: Darth Vader, Vol. 4: End of Games-Kieron Gillen 10/27
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
Love, Creekwood-Becky Albertalli 11/10
🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
Alice in Murderland, Vol. 1-Kaori Yuki 11/1
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 11-Rei Toma 11/15- MC who is a princess
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Dark Reign: Deadpool/Thunderbolts-Andy Diggle 10/27
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
Yumeiro Patissiere vol. 03Natsumi Matsumoto 11/15
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Thief-Chantal Fernando 11/5- “I wear blue skinny jeans with a black top.” pg. 51

Welcome Grace.

completion post
Unlike most of the about I have no idea who this guy is

A TRIBUTE TO Mac Davis
27.10.20 – 27.11.20

🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
Mosaic Caro ramsay 14.11.20 256pages
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
44 scotland street - Alexander mccall smith 22.11.20

Mosaic44 Scotland Street

11/1 - 11/30/20
Read 20 books No page minimum DONE!

1. Scott Mac Davis was born January 21, 1942 in Lubbock Texas, the son of Edith Irene (Lankford) and T. J. Davis, a builder. He spent his childhood years with his sister Linda, living and working at the former College Courts, an efficiency apartment complex owned by his father. Davis described his father, who was divorced from Davis' mother, as "very religious, very strict, and very stubborn.

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
Under the Mistletoe (Crooked Halo Christmas Chronicles #3) by Kathy Coatney 11/1/20 4stars (Dani)
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.
His Accidental Amish Family (Unexpected Amish Blessings #3) by Rachel J. Good 11/17/20 4.5stars (Levi and Anna - Amish)

2.Davis graduated at 16 from Lubbock High School and, looking to escape his hometown, moved to Atlanta where his mother lived. Once Davis was settled in Atlanta, he organized a rock and roll group called the Zots, and made two singles for OEK Records, managed and promoted by OEK owner Oscar Kilgo. Davis also worked for the Vee Jay record company (home to such R&B stars as Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, and Dee Clark) as a regional manager, and later became a regional manager for Liberty Records.
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
Undressed with the Marquess (Lost Lords of London #3) by Christi Caldwell 11/15/20 4stars (6 - 364 pages)
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
Springtime at Hope Cottage (Sweetwater Springs, #2) by Annie Rains 11/3/20 4stars (Josie; Tuck is a widower)

3. Davis became famous as a songwriter and got his start as an employee of Nancy Sinatra's company, Boots Enterprises, Inc. Davis was with Boots for several years in the late 1960s. During his time there, he played on many of Sinatra's recordings, and she worked him into her stage shows. Boots Enterprises also acted as Davis's publishing company, publishing songs such as "In the Ghetto", "Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife", "Home", "It's Such a Lonely Time of Year", and "Memories".

🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Admit You Want Me: An Enemies to Lovers Romance (Irresistible Billionaires Book 3) by Ajme Williams 11/11/20 4stars (Kindle location ?? - Toby was clean-cut and dashing, suited and booted and looking expensive.
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
His Castilian Hawk (The Castilian Saga #1) by Anna Belfrage 11/7/20 5stars (Robert both - Noor, wife; Edith, lover)

4. One of the songs he wrote in 1968, called "A Little Less Conversation", was recorded by Elvis Presley (and would become a posthumous success for Presley years later). The song became a success for Presley and he continued to record more of Davis's material, such as "Memories", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "Clean Up Your Own Backyard". Bobby Goldsboro also recorded some of Davis's songs, including "Watching Scotty Grow", which became a No. 1 Adult Contemporary success for Goldsboro in 1971. Other artists who recorded his material included Vikki Carr, O.C. Smith, and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. "I Believe in Music", often considered to be Davis's signature song, was recorded by several artists (including Marian Love, B.J. Thomas, Louis Jordan, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, and Davis himself) before it finally became a success in 1972 for the group Gallery.

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Twins for Brother's Best Friend by Sofia T Summers 11/20/20 4stars (Greta - Kindle location 329 - "Okay?", Mad said, wiping my tears.
🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.
STAINED GLASS HEARTS: Fake Relationship: Fixer Upper to Fabulous (Big Sky Dreamers Book 2) by Nan Dixon 11/27/20 4stars (Tierney and Sheila - talking gardens and planning the one for the house being rehabbed)

5. Davis left Boots Enterprises in 1970 to sign with Columbia Records, taking all of his songs with him. His big success came two years after signing with Columbia. He topped the Country and Pop charts with the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me". It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 1972. Some of Davis's lyrics invoked overtly sexual relationships. In the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me", he pleads with a woman not to become too enamored with him, because he does not want to commit to a full-time relationship. Other hit songs by Davis, such as "Naughty Girl" and "Baby Spread Your Love on Me", contained similar lyrics.

🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
Trusting Skylar (Silverstone #1) by Susan Stoker 11/26/20 4.5stars (new to me author and her writing style)
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
Undercover Lovers, (Female Secret Agents #2) Author's Newly-Revised Version by Fiona McGier 11/9/20 4stars (Tomas)
🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)
Second Chance with Brother's Best Friend: A Single Mom Secret Baby Romance by Sofia T Summers 11/5/20 3.5stars (hot between the sheet moments and other places - extremely daring)

6. In 1974, Davis was awarded the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year award. He had other successes including the songs "Stop and Smell the Roses" (a number one Adult Contemporary success in 1974) (pop no. 9), "One Hell of a Woman" (pop no. 11), "Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" (pop no. 15), and "Burnin' Thing" (pop no. 53). At the end of the 1970s, he moved to Casablanca Records, which was best known at the time for its successes with disco star Donna Summer and rock'n'roll band Kiss. His first success for the company in 1980 was the novelty song "It's Hard to Be Humble", a light-hearted look at how popularity and good looks could go to one's head. The song became his first Country music top 10 and a rare top 30 hit in the UK.

🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Grace After Henry by Eithne Shortall 11/28/20 4stars (paperback page 177 - I spun around and, without a thought in my head, I kissed him (Grace kisses Andy))
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Flirtation & Folly (A Season in London #1) by Elizabeth Rasche 11/22/20 4stars (Belinda - both)
🎸 Read a book about country music.

7. From 1974 to 1976, Davis had his own television variety show on NBC, The Mac Davis Show. He made his feature film debut opposite Nick Nolte in the football film, North Dallas Forty (1979) Davis acted in a couple of movies plus he hosted an episode of The Muppet Show. Davis played Will Rogers in the Broadway production of The Will Rogers Follies and in the national tour. He also did the voice for two characters in King of the Hill.

🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway.
Silver Bells: A 3Square Christmas Romance by Anne Shaw 11/24/20 4stars (Grace is a Seattle area talk show host and hosts the cooking challenge on TV; Alice is the producer of it)
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
The Viscount's Wayward Son: A Regency Romance (Ladies of the North Book 2) by Isabella Thorne 11/7/20 4stars (I, T)

8. Davis was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1979" by Screen World magazine. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. He was awarded a star symbol on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard, for his contribution to the recording industry.

🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.

9. Mac Davis was married three times. Maybe he really did find it hard to be humble. At 21, he married Fran Cook from Georgia. Their son, Joel Scott, was born a year later. Davis then met Sarah Barg, then 16 and married her two years later. She left him for Glen Campbell. In 1980, Davis started to date a young nurse, Lise Gerard. They married in 1982 when she was 24, and they had two children Noah Claire and Cody Luke.

🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
One Bright Christmas (Cape Light #21) by Katherine Spencer, Thomas Kinkade 11/30/20 4stars (Lucy)
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
Snowfall on Cedar Trail (Sweetwater Springs #3) by Annie Rains 11/14/20 4stars

10. Singer-songwriter Mac Davis died on September 29,2020 after undergoing heart surgery. He was 78 years old. Mac
Davis song Lubbock Texas in my Rearview Mirror had a last line of "And when I die, you can bury me in Lubbock, Texas, in my jeans." His family says he was be buried like his song back in Lubbock Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
Secret Lover (Secret Agents, #1) by Fiona McGier 11/8/20 4stars (Cory)
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Kindle location 2254 - Getting dressed, she looked at herself in the mirror, getting rid of any traces of what we had done.
Admit You Need Me: A Secret Pregnancy Romance (Irresistible Billionaires Book 4) by Ajme Williams 11/30/20 4stars
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #)
Kindle location 145 - He stood erect, his powerful muscles evident in his.black pressed shirt and faded jeans.
A Soldier Under Her Tree (Sweet Briar Sweethearts Book 8) by Kathy Douglass 11/19/20 4stars

Welcome DenXXX and JoAnne.

Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 11/01/2020 - 12/01/2020

TASKS
1.🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced.
Lowcountry Bombshell by Susan M. Boyer 11/12/2020

2.🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
An Axe to Rind by Ally Roberts 11/03/2020

4.🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.
The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton 11/19/2020

5.🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.) MoonFace
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton 11/19/2020

8.🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
Santa Puppy by Lynn Cahoon 11/21/2020

9. 🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
Wags to Riches by Ally Roberts 11/22/2020

DenXXX wrote: "Unlike most of the about I have no idea who this guy is

A TRIBUTE TO Mac Davis
27.10.20 – 27.11.20


TASKS

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
🎸 Read a book where a..."
I did wonder who would know him. I totally love his music. I am a big country music fan.

While you work on this challenge a couple of his songs
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A Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 11/01/2020 - 11/30/2020

Tasks: 12/30

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.

🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced.
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren – 11/12/2020 - Maelyn's parents

🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.

🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
Bitó és borostyán by Gyula Böszörményi – 11/11/2020 - 196 pages

🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.

🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
A Megmentő by Tamás Frei – 11/01/2020 - Andre

🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.

🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).

🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden – 11/18/2020 - Virgil has a girlfriend, Marie

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix – 11/02/2020 - Then Slick began to cry. (Kindle Location 4369).

🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.

🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.

🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)

🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.

🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)

🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Till There Was You by Iris Morland – 11/03/2020 - ...she was on her side with Heath still kissing her. (p. 123)

🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
A Lie for a Lie by Helena Hunting – 11/26/2020 - Rook Bowman

🎸 Read a book about country music.

🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.

🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway

🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Harleen by Stjepan Šejić – 11/17/2020

🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.

🎸 Read a book that is set in California.

🎸 Read a book published in 2000.

🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano – 11/22/2020 - Crispin Cox, married four times.

🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
The Road Beyond Ruin by Gemma Liviero – 11/08/2020 - Rosalind

🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
Lucifer (2018-) Vol. 3: The Wild Hunt by Dan Watters – 11/24/2020

🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.

🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica – 11/06/2020 - I see her look in a mirror and hate the image she sees. (Kindle Location 3160)

🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).

Welcome Ferenc.

TASKS

1. Scott Mac Davis was born January 21, 1942 in Lubbock Texas, the son of Edith Irene (Lankford) and T. J. Davis, a builder. He spent his childhood years with his sister Linda, living and working at the former College Courts, an efficiency apartment complex owned by his father. Davis described his father, who was divorced from Davis' mother, as "very religious, very strict, and very stubborn.

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.

2.Davis graduated at 16 from Lubbock High School and, looking to escape his hometown, moved to Atlanta where his mother lived. Once Davis was settled in Atlanta, he organized a rock and roll group called the Zots, and made two singles for OEK Records, managed and promoted by OEK owner Oscar Kilgo. Davis also worked for the Vee Jay record company (home to such R&B stars as Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, and Dee Clark) as a regional manager, and later became a regional manager for Liberty Records.
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.


3. Davis became famous as a songwriter and got his start as an employee of Nancy Sinatra's company, Boots Enterprises, Inc. Davis was with Boots for several years in the late 1960s. During his time there, he played on many of Sinatra's recordings, and she worked him into her stage shows. Boots Enterprises also acted as Davis's publishing company, publishing songs such as "In the Ghetto", "Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife", "Home", "It's Such a Lonely Time of Year", and "Memories".

🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.

4. One of the songs he wrote in 1968, called "A Little Less Conversation", was recorded by Elvis Presley (and would become a posthumous success for Presley years later). The song became a success for Presley and he continued to record more of Davis's material, such as "Memories", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "Clean Up Your Own Backyard". Bobby Goldsboro also recorded some of Davis's songs, including "Watching Scotty Grow", which became a No. 1 Adult Contemporary success for Goldsboro in 1971. Other artists who recorded his material included Vikki Carr, O.C. Smith, and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. "I Believe in Music", often considered to be Davis's signature song, was recorded by several artists (including Marian Love, B.J. Thomas, Louis Jordan, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, and Davis himself) before it finally became a success in 1972 for the group Gallery.

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.

5. Davis left Boots Enterprises in 1970 to sign with Columbia Records, taking all of his songs with him. His big success came two years after signing with Columbia. He topped the Country and Pop charts with the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me". It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 1972. Some of Davis's lyrics invoked overtly sexual relationships. In the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me", he pleads with a woman not to become too enamored with him, because he does not want to commit to a full-time relationship. Other hit songs by Davis, such as "Naughty Girl" and "Baby Spread Your Love on Me", contained similar lyrics.

🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)

6. In 1974, Davis was awarded the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year award. He had other successes including the songs "Stop and Smell the Roses" (a number one Adult Contemporary success in 1974) (pop no. 9), "One Hell of a Woman" (pop no. 11), "Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" (pop no. 15), and "Burnin' Thing" (pop no. 53). At the end of the 1970s, he moved to Casablanca Records, which was best known at the time for its successes with disco star Donna Summer and rock'n'roll band Kiss. His first success for the company in 1980 was the novelty song "It's Hard to Be Humble", a light-hearted look at how popularity and good looks could go to one's head. The song became his first Country music top 10 and a rare top 30 hit in the UK.

🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book about country music.

7. From 1974 to 1976, Davis had his own television variety show on NBC, The Mac Davis Show. He made his feature film debut opposite Nick Nolte in the football film, North Dallas Forty (1979) Davis acted in a couple of movies plus he hosted an episode of The Muppet Show. Davis played Will Rogers in the Broadway production of The Will Rogers Follies and in the national tour. He also did the voice for two characters in King of the Hill.

🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.

8. Davis was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1979" by Screen World magazine. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. He was awarded a star symbol on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard, for his contribution to the recording industry.

🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.

9. Mac Davis was married three times. Maybe he really did find it hard to be humble. At 21, he married Fran Cook from Georgia. Their son, Joel Scott, was born a year later. Davis then met Sarah Barg, then 16 and married her two years later. She left him for Glen Campbell. In 1980, Davis started to date a young nurse, Lise Gerard. They married in 1982 when she was 24, and they had two children Noah Claire and Cody Luke.

🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.

10. Singer-songwriter Mac Davis died on September 29,2020 after undergoing heart surgery. He was 78 years old. Mac
Davis song Lubbock Texas in my Rearview Mirror had a last line of "And when I die, you can bury me in Lubbock, Texas, in my jeans." His family says he was be buried like his song back in Lubbock Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).

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Welcome Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)

Tribute to Mac Davis
November 1, 2020 - November 30, 2020

Choose as many tasks as you wish and tasks can be used more than once
Participation Badge is awarded for this challenge

Completed: 17

🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi - Completed: 11/2/2020

🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue - Completed: 11/6/2020

🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - Completed: 11/7/2020 (Moira)

🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia - Completed: 11/8/2020 (loc. 1752 "I was in my jeans...")

🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians #3) by Kevin Kwan - Completed: 11/10/2020

🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus - Completed: 11/11/2020 (306 pages)

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - Completed: 11/12/2020, pg. 535 "'Rudy', she sobbed, 'wake up'"

🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Completed: 11/14/2020

🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green - Completed: 11/15/2020

🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult - Completed: 11/15/2020

🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
1984 by George Orwell - Completed: 11/18/2020, loc. 3854 "Only when he chanced to put his hand on his bald scalp did he remember the steamed, ruined face that had looked back at him out of the mirror."

🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer - Completed: 11/18/2020 (Charlie Swan)

🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen - Completed: 11/21/2020

🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl - Completed: 11/22/2020 (Good Looks: Ridley Duchannes)

🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl - Completed: 11/26/2020 (Aunt Prue married 5 times)

🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
Bruiser by Ian Chorao - Completed: 11/27/2020 (Bruiser)

🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Completed: 11/28/2020

TLC, Tribute to Mac Davis
November 1-30, 2020

Choose as many tasks as you wish and tasks can be used more than once
Participation Badge is awarded for this challenge
(No pg limit.)

Completed: 21/30

✔Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
p.336 (2 titles in this book; in second story, "Mackenzie's Magic", the H is Alex MacNeil. "Most people call me Mac."
Mackenzie's Heroes: Mackenzie's Pleasure / Mackenzie's Magic Linda Howard, #3 & #3.5 Mackenzie Family, 11-11-20, 4*
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.
✔Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count. - (Audio) PB default=154 pgs.
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Robin DiAngelo, 11-2-20, 3-1/2*
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
✔Read a book where a character is single.
One Man's Art Nora Roberts, #4 The MacGregors, 11-20-20, 3-1/2*
✔Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer. - author, diplomat, educator
Reluctant Neighbors E.R. Braithwaite, 11-30-20, 3*
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
✔Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
The Awakening Kate Chopin, 11-17-20, 3*
✔Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #). - Ch.4 Loc.55:26 His shoulders shook with a sob.
A Dirty Job Christopher Moore, #1 Grim Reaper, 11-16-20, 2-1/2*
✔Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above. - (Helen Reddy)
The Bride Test Helen Hoang, #2 The Kiss Quotient, 11-14-20, 4*
✔Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard. p.172/332 ...jumped into the backyard and whoever lasted the longest won.
Our Star-Crossed Kiss Piper Rayne, #4 The Rooftop Crew, 11-26-20, 3*
✔Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation) - From the very first scene, this book keeps you riveted.
Testimony Anita Shreve, 11-17-20, 5*
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
✔Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)
Loc 7:47:23 "That's when I was truly naughty."
The Duke and I Julia Quinn, #1 Bridgertons, 11-8-20, 3-1/2*
✔Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
2:47:56 ...then leaned in to plant a soft, sweet kiss on my neck.
The Pretending Plot Lauren Blakely, #1 Caught Up In Love, 11-3-20, 4*
✔Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who. - Both MCs are described as being incredibly handsome. One is the son of the first female U.S. president and the other is the Prince of Wales (not the current one! lol). Both are beloved and well-known worldwide.
Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston, 11-14-20, 5*
🎸 Read a book about country music.
🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
✔Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway - MCs are on a reality show; other characters are pro soccer players & on TV as well.
Kicking Reality Kat T. Masen, 11-29-20, 3*
✔Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Barbarous Minerva Spencer, #2 Outcasts, 11-11-20, 4*
🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
✔Read a book that is set in California. - Los Angeles
The Loved One Evelyn Waugh, 11-24-20, 3*
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.
✔Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
H's first two wives died under mysterious circumstances; h is his third wife.
Dangerous Minerva Spencer, #1 Outcasts, 11-3-20, 4*
✔Read a book where a character is a nurse.
5:20:49 Evelyn, one of the many nurses here...
The Notebook Nicholas Sparks, #1 The Notebook, 11-27-20, 5*
✔Read a book that is a number three in a series. The Other Miss Bridgerton Julia Quinn, #3 Rokesbys, 11-1-20, 3*
✔Read a book where a character has surgery.
Ch.8 ...appendix ruptured...woke up from surgery...
The Dutch House Ann Patchett, 11-2-20, 5*
✔Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
ebook pg7/213 A narrow greenish mirror...she locked critically at her reflection.
Summer Edith Wharton, 11-7-20, 4*
✔Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #). - Ch. 2 6:47 ...vaguely surprised to see him in jeans and a sweatshirt.
All The Possibilities Nora Roberts, #3 The MacGregors, 11-16-20, 3*

Welcome Lex and MorpheusZzz

Tribute to Mac Davis
November 3, 2020 - December 2, 2020

Tasks can be used more than once.

8 Tasks Completed

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.

🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced

🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.
Don't Love an Army Ranger by Cami Checketts (11/19/20)

🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.

🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.

🎸 Read a book where a character is single.

🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
Don't Miss the Moment by Cami Checketts (11/18/20) - writer

🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Don't Ditch a Detective by Cami Checketts (11/16/20)
"...grabbed a hat, gloves, and skates, shoving her boots on." (pg 66)

🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Her Loyal Protector by Cami Checketts (11/9/20)
"...brushing at the tears spilling over onto her cheeks." (pg 60)

🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.

🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.
Don't Chase a Player by Cami Checketts (11/20/20)

🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
Don't Abandon the Superstar by Cami Checketts (11/21/20)

🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.

🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)

🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Her Hockey Superstar Fake Fiancé by Cami Checketts (11/14/20)
"He tenderly kissed her..." (pg 10)

🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Don't Date Your Brother's Best Friend by Cami Checketts (11/3/20) - Trey

🎸 Read a book about country music.

🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.

🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway

🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.

🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.

🎸 Read a book that is set in California.

🎸 Read a book published in 2000.

🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.

🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
His Kissing Penalty by Anne-Marie Meyer, Lucy McConnell (11/11/20)

🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
Don't Fall for a Fugitive by Cami Checketts (11/13/20) - Strong Family Romances

🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
Guarding Her Heart by Belle Calhoune (11/15/20)

🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Letters for Phoebe by Sally Britton (11/8/20)
"Phoebe checked the arrangement of her hair once more in the parlor mirror." (pg 81)

🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Her Country Star Fake Fiancé by Sarah Gay (11/17/20)
"...she dressed in her softest blue jeans..." (Loc 1083)

Welcome Shash.

Genevieve wrote: "Welcome Lex and MorpheusZzz"

Thank you!

Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: November 7, 2020-December 6, 2020

7/7 Completed. Finish!!

TASKS
1. Scott Mac Davis was born January 21, 1942 in Lubbock Texas, the son of Edith Irene (Lankford) and T. J. Davis, a builder. He spent his childhood years with his sister Linda, living and working at the former College Courts, an efficiency apartment complex owned by his father. Davis described his father, who was divorced from Davis' mother, as "very religious, very strict, and very stubborn.

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
1.(Mac McCarthy)
Maid for Love-Marie Force 11/12/20



2.Davis graduated at 16 from Lubbock High School and, looking to escape his hometown, moved to Atlanta where his mother lived. Once Davis was settled in Atlanta, he organized a rock and roll group called the Zots, and made two singles for OEK Records, managed and promoted by OEK owner Oscar Kilgo. Davis also worked for the Vee Jay record company (home to such R&B stars as Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, and Dee Clark) as a regional manager, and later became a regional manager for Liberty Records.
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
2.(231)
The Woman in the Trunk-Jessica Gadziala 11/08/20
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
3.(Texas)
Ivan 2-Roxie Rivera 11/11/20



4. One of the songs he wrote in 1968, called "A Little Less Conversation", was recorded by Elvis Presley (and would become a posthumous success for Presley years later). The song became a success for Presley and he continued to record more of Davis's material, such as "Memories", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "Clean Up Your Own Backyard". Bobby Goldsboro also recorded some of Davis's songs, including "Watching Scotty Grow", which became a No. 1 Adult Contemporary success for Goldsboro in 1971. Other artists who recorded his material included Vikki Carr, O.C. Smith, and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. "I Believe in Music", often considered to be Davis's signature song, was recorded by several artists (including Marian Love, B.J. Thomas, Louis Jordan, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, and Davis himself) before it finally became a success in 1972 for the group Gallery.

🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
4.Louis Jordan
J. Daniels-All I Want 11/09/20
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.



7. From 1974 to 1976, Davis had his own television variety show on NBC, The Mac Davis Show. He made his feature film debut opposite Nick Nolte in the football film, North Dallas Forty (1979) Davis acted in a couple of movies plus he hosted an episode of The Muppet Show. Davis played Will Rogers in the Broadway production of The Will Rogers Follies and in the national tour. He also did the voice for two characters in King of the Hill.

🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
5.Shey Stahl-Sex. Love. Marriage. 11/13/20



8. Davis was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1979" by Screen World magazine. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. He was awarded a star symbol on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard, for his contribution to the recording industry.

🎸 Read a book published in 2000.
6.The Morning After-Suzanne Forster 11/17/20



9. Mac Davis was married three times. Maybe he really did find it hard to be humble. At 21, he married Fran Cook from Georgia. Their son, Joel Scott, was born a year later. Davis then met Sarah Barg, then 16 and married her two years later. She left him for Glen Campbell. In 1980, Davis started to date a young nurse, Lise Gerard. They married in 1982 when she was 24, and they had two children Noah Claire and Cody Luke.

🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
7.(MC Sierra is a NICU nurse)
Nobody Knows-Lani Lynn Vale 11/11/20

Welcome Frankie.

A Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: Nov 8-Dec 7, 2020
Read: 11

TASKS
1.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced. The Friendship List Susan Mallery 11/11/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.

2.
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas. Texas The One You Can't Forget Roni Loren 11/14/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.

3.
🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. In a Holidaze Christina Lauren 11/28/20 P 15 ...bundled up in a down coat, thick socks, boots, and a blanket,...
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.

4.
🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #). Searching for Beautiful Jennifer Probst 11/15/20
p 206 Gen battled tears, then realized Wolfe would hate her crying.
🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.

5.
🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Carter Sincerely, Carter Whitney G. 11/10/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)

6.
🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. Gimme Some Sugar Molly Harper 11/18/20 p 131 ...pulled him into another kiss.
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book about country music.

7.
🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show. Dirty Secret Emma Hart 11/19/20

8.
🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.

9.
🎸 Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse. Unbridled Diana Palmer 11/26/20
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.

10.
🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery. The Library at the Edge of the World Felicity Hayes-McCoy 11/20/20
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. Catch Me Lisa Gardner 11/23/20 p 229 Around the fourth month of boxing, I happened to catch my reflection in the mirror.
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. Maple Sugar Crush Beth Labonte 11/28/20 p 19 ...the stairs in a hooded sweatshirt and jeans.

Welcome JoAnne.

Finished!

Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 10/26/20 - 11/25/20
Choose as many tasks as you wish and tasks can be used more than once
Participation Badge is awarded for this challenge

TASKS

1. 🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
Make Me, Take Me by Amanda Usen 11/9
(Linda)

🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.
The Yada Yada Prayer Group by Neta Jackson 11/10 (Avis, Jodie)

2.🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
Rainbows Ever After: A Black Rainbow Happily Ever After Novella by J.J. McAvoy 10/28
(154 pages)
Jacob's Ladder: Wisdom for the Heart's Ascent by Noah benShea 10/28
(197 pages)
The Sands of Windee by Arthur W. Upfield 11/12
(217 pages)

🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
Her Texan to Tame by Sara Orwig 11/16
set in Texas

6. 🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Tomorrow's Promise by Sandra Brown 10/28
Dax is a popular, good-looking congressman

7. 🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Agatha Christie - The Murder on the Links 11/3
Tony Hillerman - The Blessing Way 11/13

8. 🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 11/3

10. 🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
"Standing before the bathroom mirror, her reflection stared back at her." p. 420
The Ghost of Valentine Past by Bobbi Holmes 11/8

Congrats Bonita.

Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: November 7, 2020-December 6, 2020

7/7 Completed. Finish!!

TASKS
1. Scott Mac Davis was born January 21, 1942 in Lubbock Texas, the son of Edith Irene (Lankford) and T. J. Davis, a builder. He spent his childhood years with his sister Linda, living and working at the former College Courts, an efficiency apartment complex owned by his father. Davis described his father, who was divorced from Davis' mother, as "very religious, very strict, and very stubborn.

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
1.(Mac McCarthy)
Maid for Love-Marie Force 11/12/20



2.Davis graduated at 16 from Lubbock High School and, looking to escape his hometown, moved to Atlanta where his mother lived. Once Davis was settled in Atlanta, he organized a rock and roll group called the Zots, and made two singles for OEK Records, managed and promoted by OEK owner Oscar Kilgo. Davis also worked for the Vee Jay record company (home to such R&B stars as Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, and Dee Clark) as a regional manager, and later became a regional manager for Liberty Records.
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
2.(231)
The Woman in the Trunk-Jessica Gadziala 11/08/20
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
3.(Texas)
Ivan 2-Roxie Rivera 11/11/20



4. One of the songs he wrote in 1968, called "A Little Less Conversation", was recorded by Elvis Presley (and would become a posthumous success for Presley years later). The song became a success for Presley and he continued to record more of Davis's material, such as "Memories", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "Clean Up Your Own Backyard". Bobby Goldsboro also recorded some of Davis's songs, including "Watching Scotty Grow", which became a No. 1 Adult Contemporary success for Goldsboro in 1971. Other artists who recorded his material included Vikki Carr, O.C. Smith, and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. "I Believe in Music", often considered to be Davis's signature song, was recorded by several artists (including Marian Love, B.J. Thomas, Louis Jordan, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, and Davis himself) before it finally became a success in 1972 for the group Gallery.

🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
4.Louis Jordan
J. Daniels-All I Want 11/09/20
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.



7. From 1974 to 1976, Davis had his own television variety show on NBC, The Mac Davis Show. He made his feature film debut opposite Nick Nolte in the football film, North Dallas Forty (1979) Davis acted in a couple of movies plus he hosted an episode of The Muppet Show. Davis played Will Rogers in the Broadway production of The Will Rogers Follies and in the national tour. He also did the voice for two characters in King of the Hill.

🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
5.Shey Stahl-Sex. Love. Marriage. 11/13/20



8. Davis was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1979" by Screen World magazine. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. He was awarded a star symbol on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard, for his contribution to the recording industry.

🎸 Read a book published in 2000.
6.The Morning After-Suzanne Forster 11/17/20



9. Mac Davis was married three times. Maybe he really did find it hard to be humble. At 21, he married Fran Cook from Georgia. Their son, Joel Scott, was born a year later. Davis then met Sarah Barg, then 16 and married her two years later. She left him for Glen Campbell. In 1980, Davis started to date a young nurse, Lise Gerard. They married in 1982 when she was 24, and they had two children Noah Claire and Cody Luke.

🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
7.(MC Sierra is a NICU nurse)
Nobody Knows-Lani Lynn Vale 11/11/20

Congrats Frankie

Got 18 of them done

Tribute to Mac Davis
November 1-30, 2020
Duration: One month from your start date
Choose as many tasks as you wish and tasks can be used more than once
Participation Badge is awarded for this challenge

18 done

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
Scott is the town veterinarian-Turkeys, Tuxes and Tabbies Kathi Daley 11/16/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
Deep Fried Revenge Lynn Cahoon 11/6/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious
Betts-Gear, Grills & Guns Tonya Kappes 11/1/20
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
173 pages-The Bargain Blaze Binks 11/10/20
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
Texas-A Sip of Murder Belinda J Evaline 11/4/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
Quinn is single-Puzzling Ink Becky Clark 11/15/20
🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
Cliff Henry is a singer-Have a Deadly New Year Lynn Cahoon 11/8/20
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Talking about Alabama's mama: Flip That Haunted House Rose Pressey 11/7/20 loc 1961 “…covering most of her brown high-heeled leather boots.”
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Homicide and Honeycrisps Summer Prescott 11/15/20 p 23 “…a photo of Davis Clifton, and Dotty gasped and began to cry.”
🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.
Talking to the neighbor or taking the dog out-Fair Trade Heather Day Gilbert 11/13/20
🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
Under Lock & Key Sam Short 11/3/20 (Who doesn't love a talking goat?) lol
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)
Chad-he tried to kill Edie-Gin & Ghosts J.L.Collins 11/5/20
🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Levi, Heidi's boyfriend-A Jug of Murder Belinda J Evaline 11/11/20
🎸 Read a book about country music.
🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
TC-Murder Steals the Show Thea Cambert 11/12/20
🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.
🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
Carrie Rushton is a nurse-Due or Die Jenn McKinlay 11/7/20
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
#3 in Farm to Fork-One Potato, Two Potato, Dead Lynn Cahoon 11/2/20
🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Deathly Delicious Patti Benning 11/3/20 p 4 “When she met her own gaze in the mirror again…”
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Felonies and Fujis Summer Prescott 11/19/20 p 65 “…and, slipping her phone into her jeans pocket.”

Congrats Tari.

Completion Post
Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 10/26/20 - 11/25/20

7 TASKS completed

🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
North Carolina Ghosts and Legends Nancy Roberts 133 p. 11/8/20
🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Double Shots, Donuts, and Dead Dudes Harper Lin 10/27/20. Her (Adriana's) shoulders shook with her sobs. p. 49
🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Six Cats a Slayin' Miranda James 11/19/20. Helen Louise unlocked her car before she turned to give me another quick kiss. p. p.54
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Claws for Concern Miranda James 11/6/20. gotta go with the cat- Diesel is very popular in Athena
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Murder in the Mews Agatha Christie 11/9/20
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
In Hot Water J.J. Cook (Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade) 11/4/20
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Murder of a Barbie and Ken Denise Swanson 11/18/20. Skye caught sight of herself in the mirror above the sink. p. 210

Finished! :)

Tribute to Mac Davis
November 3, 2020 - December 2, 2020

Tasks can be used more than once.

13 Tasks Completed

🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.
Don't Love an Army Ranger by Cami Checketts (11/19/20)

🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
Don't Miss the Moment by Cami Checketts (11/18/20) - writer

🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Don't Ditch a Detective by Cami Checketts (11/16/20)
"...grabbed a hat, gloves, and skates, shoving her boots on." (pg 66)

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Her Loyal Protector by Cami Checketts (11/9/20)
"...brushing at the tears spilling over onto her cheeks." (pg 60)

🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.
Don't Chase a Player by Cami Checketts (11/20/20)

🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
Don't Abandon the Superstar by Cami Checketts (11/21/20)

🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Her Hockey Superstar Fake Fiancé by Cami Checketts (11/14/20)
"He tenderly kissed her..." (pg 10)

🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Don't Date Your Brother's Best Friend by Cami Checketts (11/3/20) - Trey

🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
His Kissing Penalty by Anne-Marie Meyer, Lucy McConnell (11/11/20)

🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
Don't Fall for a Fugitive by Cami Checketts (11/13/20) - Strong Family Romances

🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
Guarding Her Heart by Belle Calhoune (11/15/20)

🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Letters for Phoebe by Sally Britton (11/8/20)
"Phoebe checked the arrangement of her hair once more in the parlor mirror." (pg 81)

🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Her Country Star Fake Fiancé by Sarah Gay (11/17/20)
"...she dressed in her softest blue jeans..." (Loc 1083)

Congrats Kellene, and Shash

FINISHED
Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 11/01/2020 - 12/01/2020

TASKS
1.🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced.
Lowcountry Bombshell by Susan M. Boyer 11/12/2020

2.🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
An Axe to Rind by Ally Roberts 11/03/2020

4.🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.
The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton 11/19/2020

5.🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.) MoonFace
The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton 11/19/2020

8.🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
Santa Puppy by Lynn Cahoon 11/21/2020

9. 🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
Wags to Riches by Ally Roberts 11/22/2020

Finished!

Tribute to Mac Davis
November 1, 2020 - November 30, 2020

Choose as many tasks as you wish and tasks can be used more than once
Participation Badge is awarded for this challenge

Completed: 17

🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi - Completed: 11/2/2020

🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue - Completed: 11/6/2020

🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - Completed: 11/7/2020 (Moira)

🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia - Completed: 11/8/2020 (loc. 1752 "I was in my jeans...")

🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians #3) by Kevin Kwan - Completed: 11/10/2020

🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus - Completed: 11/11/2020 (306 pages)

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - Completed: 11/12/2020, pg. 535 "'Rudy', she sobbed, 'wake up'"

🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Completed: 11/14/2020

🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green - Completed: 11/15/2020

🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult - Completed: 11/15/2020

🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
1984 by George Orwell - Completed: 11/18/2020, loc. 3854 "Only when he chanced to put his hand on his bald scalp did he remember the steamed, ruined face that had looked back at him out of the mirror."

🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer - Completed: 11/18/2020 (Charlie Swan)

🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen - Completed: 11/21/2020

🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl - Completed: 11/22/2020 (Good Looks: Ridley Duchannes)

🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl - Completed: 11/26/2020 (Aunt Prue married 5 times)

🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
Bruiser by Ian Chorao - Completed: 11/27/2020 (Bruiser)

🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Completed: 11/28/2020

Congrats Lex

Finished!

A Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 11/01/2020 - 11/30/2020

Tasks: 12/30

🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced.
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren – 11/12/2020 - Maelyn's parents

🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
Bitó és borostyán by Gyula Böszörményi – 11/11/2020 - 196 pages

🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
A Megmentő by Tamás Frei – 11/01/2020 - Andre

🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden – 11/18/2020 - Virgil has a girlfriend, Marie

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix – 11/02/2020 - Then Slick began to cry. (Kindle Location 4369).

🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Till There Was You by Iris Morland – 11/03/2020 - ...she was on her side with Heath still kissing her. (p. 123)

🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
A Lie for a Lie by Helena Hunting – 11/26/2020 - Rook Bowman

🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Harleen by Stjepan Šejić – 11/17/2020

🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano – 11/22/2020 - Crispin Cox, married four times.

🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
The Road Beyond Ruin by Gemma Liviero – 11/08/2020 - Rosalind

🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
Lucifer (2018-) Vol. 3: The Wild Hunt by Dan Watters – 11/24/2020

🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica – 11/06/2020 - I see her look in a mirror and hate the image she sees. (Kindle Location 3160)

21/30 completed Thank you!
m.21

TLC, Tribute to Mac Davis
November 1-30, 2020

Choose as many tasks as you wish and tasks can be used more than once
Participation Badge is awarded for this challenge
(No pg limit.)

Completed: 21/30

✔Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
p.336 (2 titles in this book; in second story, "Mackenzie's Magic", the H is Alex MacNeil. "Most people call me Mac."
Mackenzie's Heroes: Mackenzie's Pleasure / Mackenzie's Magic Linda Howard, #3 & #3.5 Mackenzie Family, 11-11-20, 4*
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.
✔Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count. - (Audio) PB default=154 pgs.
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Robin DiAngelo, 11-2-20, 3-1/2*
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
✔Read a book where a character is single.
One Man's Art Nora Roberts, #4 The MacGregors, 11-20-20, 3-1/2*
✔Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer. - author, diplomat, educator
Reluctant Neighbors E.R. Braithwaite, 11-30-20, 3*
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
✔Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
The Awakening Kate Chopin, 11-17-20, 3*
✔Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #). - Ch.4 Loc.55:26 His shoulders shook with a sob.
A Dirty Job Christopher Moore, #1 Grim Reaper, 11-16-20, 2-1/2*
✔Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above. - (Helen Reddy)
The Bride Test Helen Hoang, #2 The Kiss Quotient, 11-14-20, 4*
✔Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard. p.172/332 ...jumped into the backyard and whoever lasted the longest won.
Our Star-Crossed Kiss Piper Rayne, #4 The Rooftop Crew, 11-26-20, 3*
✔Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation) - From the very first scene, this book keeps you riveted.
Testimony Anita Shreve, 11-17-20, 5*
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
✔Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)
Loc 7:47:23 "That's when I was truly naughty."
The Duke and I Julia Quinn, #1 Bridgertons, 11-8-20, 3-1/2*
✔Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
2:47:56 ...then leaned in to plant a soft, sweet kiss on my neck.
The Pretending Plot Lauren Blakely, #1 Caught Up In Love, 11-3-20, 4*
✔Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who. - Both MCs are described as being incredibly handsome. One is the son of the first female U.S. president and the other is the Prince of Wales (not the current one! lol). Both are beloved and well-known worldwide.
Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston, 11-14-20, 5*
🎸 Read a book about country music.
🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
✔Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway - MCs are on a reality show; other characters are pro soccer players & on TV as well.
Kicking Reality Kat T. Masen, 11-29-20, 3*
✔Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Barbarous Minerva Spencer, #2 Outcasts, 11-11-20, 4*
🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
✔Read a book that is set in California. - Los Angeles
The Loved One Evelyn Waugh, 11-24-20, 3*
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.
✔Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
H's first two wives died under mysterious circumstances; h is his third wife.
Dangerous Minerva Spencer, #1 Outcasts, 11-3-20, 4*
✔Read a book where a character is a nurse.
5:20:49 Evelyn, one of the many nurses here...
The Notebook Nicholas Sparks, #1 The Notebook, 11-27-20, 5*
✔Read a book that is a number three in a series. The Other Miss Bridgerton Julia Quinn, #3 Rokesbys, 11-1-20, 3*
✔Read a book where a character has surgery.
Ch.8 ...appendix ruptured...woke up from surgery...
The Dutch House Ann Patchett, 11-2-20, 5*
✔Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
ebook pg7/213 A narrow greenish mirror...she locked critically at her reflection.
Summer Edith Wharton, 11-7-20, 4*
✔Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #). - Ch. 2 6:47 ...vaguely surprised to see him in jeans and a sweatshirt.
All The Possibilities Nora Roberts, #3 The MacGregors, 11-16-20, 3*

Done on post #11

11/1 - 11/30/20
Read 20 books No page minimum DONE!

1. Scott Mac Davis was born January 21, 1942 in Lubbock Texas, the son of Edith Irene (Lankford) and T. J. Davis, a builder. He spent his childhood years with his sister Linda, living and working at the former College Courts, an efficiency apartment complex owned by his father. Davis described his father, who was divorced from Davis' mother, as "very religious, very strict, and very stubborn.

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
Under the Mistletoe (Crooked Halo Christmas Chronicles #3) by Kathy Coatney 11/1/20 4stars (Dani)
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.
His Accidental Amish Family (Unexpected Amish Blessings #3) by Rachel J. Good 11/17/20 4.5stars (Levi and Anna - Amish)

2.Davis graduated at 16 from Lubbock High School and, looking to escape his hometown, moved to Atlanta where his mother lived. Once Davis was settled in Atlanta, he organized a rock and roll group called the Zots, and made two singles for OEK Records, managed and promoted by OEK owner Oscar Kilgo. Davis also worked for the Vee Jay record company (home to such R&B stars as Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, and Dee Clark) as a regional manager, and later became a regional manager for Liberty Records.
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
Undressed with the Marquess (Lost Lords of London #3) by Christi Caldwell 11/15/20 4stars (6 - 364 pages)
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
Springtime at Hope Cottage (Sweetwater Springs, #2) by Annie Rains 11/3/20 4stars (Josie; Tuck is a widower)

3. Davis became famous as a songwriter and got his start as an employee of Nancy Sinatra's company, Boots Enterprises, Inc. Davis was with Boots for several years in the late 1960s. During his time there, he played on many of Sinatra's recordings, and she worked him into her stage shows. Boots Enterprises also acted as Davis's publishing company, publishing songs such as "In the Ghetto", "Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife", "Home", "It's Such a Lonely Time of Year", and "Memories".

🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Admit You Want Me: An Enemies to Lovers Romance (Irresistible Billionaires Book 3) by Ajme Williams 11/11/20 4stars (Kindle location ?? - Toby was clean-cut and dashing, suited and booted and looking expensive.
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
His Castilian Hawk (The Castilian Saga #1) by Anna Belfrage 11/7/20 5stars (Robert both - Noor, wife; Edith, lover)

4. One of the songs he wrote in 1968, called "A Little Less Conversation", was recorded by Elvis Presley (and would become a posthumous success for Presley years later). The song became a success for Presley and he continued to record more of Davis's material, such as "Memories", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "Clean Up Your Own Backyard". Bobby Goldsboro also recorded some of Davis's songs, including "Watching Scotty Grow", which became a No. 1 Adult Contemporary success for Goldsboro in 1971. Other artists who recorded his material included Vikki Carr, O.C. Smith, and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. "I Believe in Music", often considered to be Davis's signature song, was recorded by several artists (including Marian Love, B.J. Thomas, Louis Jordan, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, and Davis himself) before it finally became a success in 1972 for the group Gallery.

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Twins for Brother's Best Friend by Sofia T Summers 11/20/20 4stars (Greta - Kindle location 329 - "Okay?", Mad said, wiping my tears.
🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.
STAINED GLASS HEARTS: Fake Relationship: Fixer Upper to Fabulous (Big Sky Dreamers Book 2) by Nan Dixon 11/27/20 4stars (Tierney and Sheila - talking gardens and planning the one for the house being rehabbed)

5. Davis left Boots Enterprises in 1970 to sign with Columbia Records, taking all of his songs with him. His big success came two years after signing with Columbia. He topped the Country and Pop charts with the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me". It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 1972. Some of Davis's lyrics invoked overtly sexual relationships. In the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me", he pleads with a woman not to become too enamored with him, because he does not want to commit to a full-time relationship. Other hit songs by Davis, such as "Naughty Girl" and "Baby Spread Your Love on Me", contained similar lyrics.

🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
Trusting Skylar (Silverstone #1) by Susan Stoker 11/26/20 4.5stars (new to me author and her writing style)
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
Undercover Lovers, (Female Secret Agents #2) Author's Newly-Revised Version by Fiona McGier 11/9/20 4stars (Tomas)
🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)
Second Chance with Brother's Best Friend: A Single Mom Secret Baby Romance by Sofia T Summers 11/5/20 3.5stars (hot between the sheet moments and other places - extremely daring)

6. In 1974, Davis was awarded the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year award. He had other successes including the songs "Stop and Smell the Roses" (a number one Adult Contemporary success in 1974) (pop no. 9), "One Hell of a Woman" (pop no. 11), "Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" (pop no. 15), and "Burnin' Thing" (pop no. 53). At the end of the 1970s, he moved to Casablanca Records, which was best known at the time for its successes with disco star Donna Summer and rock'n'roll band Kiss. His first success for the company in 1980 was the novelty song "It's Hard to Be Humble", a light-hearted look at how popularity and good looks could go to one's head. The song became his first Country music top 10 and a rare top 30 hit in the UK.

🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Grace After Henry by Eithne Shortall 11/28/20 4stars (paperback page 177 - I spun around and, without a thought in my head, I kissed him (Grace kisses Andy))
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Flirtation & Folly (A Season in London #1) by Elizabeth Rasche 11/22/20 4stars (Belinda - both)
🎸 Read a book about country music.

7. From 1974 to 1976, Davis had his own television variety show on NBC, The Mac Davis Show. He made his feature film debut opposite Nick Nolte in the football film, North Dallas Forty (1979) Davis acted in a couple of movies plus he hosted an episode of The Muppet Show. Davis played Will Rogers in the Broadway production of The Will Rogers Follies and in the national tour. He also did the voice for two characters in King of the Hill.

🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway.
Silver Bells: A 3Square Christmas Romance by Anne Shaw 11/24/20 4stars (Grace is a Seattle area talk show host and hosts the cooking challenge on TV; Alice is the producer of it)
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
The Viscount's Wayward Son: A Regency Romance (Ladies of the North Book 2) by Isabella Thorne 11/7/20 4stars (I, T)

8. Davis was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1979" by Screen World magazine. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. He was awarded a star symbol on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard, for his contribution to the recording industry.

🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.

9. Mac Davis was married three times. Maybe he really did find it hard to be humble. At 21, he married Fran Cook from Georgia. Their son, Joel Scott, was born a year later. Davis then met Sarah Barg, then 16 and married her two years later. She left him for Glen Campbell. In 1980, Davis started to date a young nurse, Lise Gerard. They married in 1982 when she was 24, and they had two children Noah Claire and Cody Luke.

🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
One Bright Christmas (Cape Light #21) by Katherine Spencer, Thomas Kinkade 11/30/20 4stars (Lucy)
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
Snowfall on Cedar Trail (Sweetwater Springs #3) by Annie Rains 11/14/20 4stars

10. Singer-songwriter Mac Davis died on September 29,2020 after undergoing heart surgery. He was 78 years old. Mac
Davis song Lubbock Texas in my Rearview Mirror had a last line of "And when I die, you can bury me in Lubbock, Texas, in my jeans." His family says he was be buried like his song back in Lubbock Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
Secret Lover (Secret Agents, #1) by Fiona McGier 11/8/20 4stars (Cory)
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Kindle location 2254 - Getting dressed, she looked at herself in the mirror, getting rid of any traces of what we had done.
Admit You Need Me: A Secret Pregnancy Romance (Irresistible Billionaires Book 4) by Ajme Williams 11/30/20 4stars
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #)
Kindle location 145 - He stood erect, his powerful muscles evident in his.black pressed shirt and faded jeans.
A Soldier Under Her Tree (Sweet Briar Sweethearts Book 8) by Kathy Douglass 11/19/20 4stars

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Unlike most of the about I have no idea who this guy is

A TRIBUTE TO Mac Davis
27.10.20 – 27.11.20

🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
Mosaic Caro ramsay 14.11.20 256pages
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
44 scotland street - Alexander mccall smith 22.11.20

Mosaic44 Scotland Street

Congrats DenXXX

Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 10/26/20 - 11/25/20

Completed: 10
FINISHED

TASKS
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
Wonder Woman, Vol 2: Love is a Battlefield-G. Willow Wilson 11/3- pg. 160
夢色パティシエール 2 Yumeiro Patissiere 2 -Natsumi Matsumoto 11/15- pg. 176
🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
Learning to Ride-Erin Knightley 11/2
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
Star Wars: Darth Vader, Vol. 4: End of Games-Kieron Gillen 10/27
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.
Love, Creekwood-Becky Albertalli 11/10
🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
Alice in Murderland, Vol. 1-Kaori Yuki 11/1
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 11-Rei Toma 11/15- MC who is a princess
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.
Dark Reign: Deadpool/Thunderbolts-Andy Diggle 10/27
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.
Yumeiro Patissiere vol. 03Natsumi Matsumoto 11/15
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
Thief-Chantal Fernando 11/5- “I wear blue skinny jeans with a black top.” pg. 51

I'm in!

Tribute to Mac Davis
Duration: 26.12.2020-25.01.2021

Read: 5

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TASKS

1. Scott Mac Davis was born January 21, 1942 in Lubbock Texas, the son of Edith Irene (Lankford) and T. J. Davis, a builder. He spent his childhood years with his sister Linda, living and working at the former College Courts, an efficiency apartment complex owned by his father. Davis described his father, who was divorced from Davis' mother, as "very religious, very strict, and very stubborn.

🎸 Read a book with a character who is called Scott, Mac, or Linda.
🎸 Read a book where a character is divorced
🎸 Read a book where a character is religious.
Ace of Shades - Amanda Foody - 07.01.2021

2.Davis graduated at 16 from Lubbock High School and, looking to escape his hometown, moved to Atlanta where his mother lived. Once Davis was settled in Atlanta, he organized a rock and roll group called the Zots, and made two singles for OEK Records, managed and promoted by OEK owner Oscar Kilgo. Davis also worked for the Vee Jay record company (home to such R&B stars as Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, and Dee Clark) as a regional manager, and later became a regional manager for Liberty Records.
🎸 Read a book with a 1 or 6 in the page count.
Titaanien kirous - Rick Riordan - 09.01.2021
312 pages

Poirotin varhaiset jutut - Agatha Christie - 10.01.2021
256 pages

🎸 Read a book set in either Georgia or Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character is single.
Lasikaupunki - Cassandra Clare - 31.12.2020

Hirviöidenmeri - Rick Riordan - 02.01.2021

Only When It's Us - Chloe Liese - 10.01.2021

3. Davis became famous as a songwriter and got his start as an employee of Nancy Sinatra's company, Boots Enterprises, Inc. Davis was with Boots for several years in the late 1960s. During his time there, he played on many of Sinatra's recordings, and she worked him into her stage shows. Boots Enterprises also acted as Davis's publishing company, publishing songs such as "In the Ghetto", "Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife", "Home", "It's Such a Lonely Time of Year", and "Memories".

🎸 Read a book where a character is either a writer or a singer.
🎸 Read a book where a character wears boots. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where the MC has either a wife or a lover.

4. One of the songs he wrote in 1968, called "A Little Less Conversation", was recorded by Elvis Presley (and would become a posthumous success for Presley years later). The song became a success for Presley and he continued to record more of Davis's material, such as "Memories", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "Clean Up Your Own Backyard". Bobby Goldsboro also recorded some of Davis's songs, including "Watching Scotty Grow", which became a No. 1 Adult Contemporary success for Goldsboro in 1971. Other artists who recorded his material included Vikki Carr, O.C. Smith, and Kenny Rogers and The First Edition. "I Believe in Music", often considered to be Davis's signature song, was recorded by several artists (including Marian Love, B.J. Thomas, Louis Jordan, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, and Davis himself) before it finally became a success in 1972 for the group Gallery.

🎸 Read a book where a character cries. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book that an author's first or last name can be found in the names above.
🎸 Read a book that a character spends time in a backyard.

5. Davis left Boots Enterprises in 1970 to sign with Columbia Records, taking all of his songs with him. His big success came two years after signing with Columbia. He topped the Country and Pop charts with the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me". It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 1972. Some of Davis's lyrics invoked overtly sexual relationships. In the song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me", he pleads with a woman not to become too enamored with him, because he does not want to commit to a full-time relationship. Other hit songs by Davis, such as "Naughty Girl" and "Baby Spread Your Love on Me", contained similar lyrics.

🎸 Read a book that gets you "hooked". (Your interpretation)
Det slutna sällskapet - Elizabeth Klehfoth - 30.12.2020
🎸 Read a book where a character is overtly sexual. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book where a character is "naughty. (Your interpretation.)

6. In 1974, Davis was awarded the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year award. He had other successes including the songs "Stop and Smell the Roses" (a number one Adult Contemporary success in 1974) (pop no. 9), "One Hell of a Woman" (pop no. 11), "Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)" (pop no. 15), and "Burnin' Thing" (pop no. 53). At the end of the 1970s, he moved to Casablanca Records, which was best known at the time for its successes with disco star Donna Summer and rock'n'roll band Kiss. His first success for the company in 1980 was the novelty song "It's Hard to Be Humble", a light-hearted look at how popularity and good looks could go to one's head. The song became his first Country music top 10 and a rare top 30 hit in the UK.

🎸 Read a book where a character gets kissed. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where a character has either good looks or is popular or both. Tell us who.
🎸 Read a book about country music.

7. From 1974 to 1976, Davis had his own television variety show on NBC, The Mac Davis Show. He made his feature film debut opposite Nick Nolte in the football film, North Dallas Forty (1979) Davis acted in a couple of movies plus he hosted an episode of The Muppet Show. Davis played Will Rogers in the Broadway production of The Will Rogers Follies and in the national tour. He also did the voice for two characters in King of the Hill.

🎸 Read a book where there is a character who is a king.
🎸 Read a book with a character who is either on television, or on Broadway
🎸 Read a book whose author's initials can be found in The Mac Davis Show.

8. Davis was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1979" by Screen World magazine. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. He was awarded a star symbol on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard, for his contribution to the recording industry.

🎸 Read a book set in Nashville.
🎸 Read a book that is set in California.
🎸 Read a book published in 2000.

9. Mac Davis was married three times. Maybe he really did find it hard to be humble. At 21, he married Fran Cook from Georgia. Their son, Joel Scott, was born a year later. Davis then met Sarah Barg, then 16 and married her two years later. She left him for Glen Campbell. In 1980, Davis started to date a young nurse, Lise Gerard. They married in 1982 when she was 24, and they had two children Noah Claire and Cody Luke.

🎸Read a book where a character has been married more than twice.
🎸 Read a book where a character is a nurse.
🎸 Read a book that is a number three in a series.

10. Singer-songwriter Mac Davis died on September 29,2020 after undergoing heart surgery. He was 78 years old. Mac
Davis song Lubbock Texas in my Rearview Mirror had a last line of "And when I die, you can bury me in Lubbock, Texas, in my jeans." His family says he was be buried like his song back in Lubbock Texas.
🎸 Read a book where a character has surgery.
🎸 Read a book where a character looks in the mirror. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
🎸 Read a book where a character wears jeans. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).