Chapter Adventure Reading Challenges (Formerly GXO) discussion

MAY Key Words:

"Away, Wait, Book, Raven, Lake, Angel, Nine, Island"

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(1) The name and author of the book you're reading for the challenge,
(2) CHALLENGE COMPLETE if you've finished reading the book.
(3) Did you like the book? What did you love (or not love) about it?!

1. The Cookbook Club by Beth Harbison
2. Finished 5/3/21
3. Loved it! I've been reading a lot of psychological thrillers lately & needed a break. This was light, funny & full of yummy recipes that I can't wait to try. I'm a sucker for books with recipes in them.
The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship

Finished Mr Penumbras 24hr bookstore and loved this book. Gripped me from the first page 🤗

Challenge Complete
Title: How to Walk Away
Author: Katherine Center
Keyword: Away

Great and quick read! Very heartfelt and enjoyable. Just when I thought I had the plot all figured out, a twist came.

Kimberly wrote: "APRIL Key Words:

"Away, Wait, Book, Raven, Lake, Angel, Nine, Island"

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(1) The name and author of the book you're reading for the challenge,
(2) CHALLENGE COMPLETE if yo..."
This says "April" keywords, wasn't that supposed to be May Keywords? They match the ones I wrote down, but just checking.... ;)

May: Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge
Key Word: Book
Title: The Book of Speculation
Author: Erika Swyler
Challenge Complete
This book was so fun to read. It went from current to the past with a group of traveling circus performers. Love book that take me on an adventure.

May: Monthly Key Word Challenge
Key Work: Book
Title: The Great American Read: The Book of Books
Author: Jessica Allen
The book based on the PBS Program "The Great American Read." Summaries and interesting facts about 100 favorite books. A fun book to flip through and read a few pages at a time. Challenge complete.

Hell Island - Matthew Reilly
Action all the way novella with his SEAL hero Scarecrow.

Hell Island - Matthew Reilly
Action all the way novella with his SEAL hero Scarecrow.

Challenge complete.
Key word: book
Title: The Book of Lost Names
Author: Kristin Harmel
WWII historical fiction about forgers helping Jews (and others) escape France. Really good book. Need to read more by this author.

I read The little bookshop of love stories and I loved it. Most of the story takes place in a bookshop, which is a great setting and there are lots of references to books and reading that made me want to read even more. Challenge complete

Key Word: Nine
Title: The Nine: A Gritty Urban Fantasy by C.G. Harris (sci-fi/fantasy)

A FUN book to read - the main character Gabe Gantry is now one of my faves. Witty, sarcastic - he defaults to humor in every situation - even when he should probably shut up! And he lives in the afterlife ... a quick, short read.

(1) Camino Island by John Grisham
(2) CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
(3) I gotta be honest, I haven't read a John Grisham novel in a while. I used to read his novels the moment they hit the shelves....honestly, this book reminded me why I used to be obsessed his novels. It was an engaging read and the characters were well developed and interesting. I read it over a few days and found myself gravitating to it over other books or even tv shows wanting to know what was going to happen next to the characters. I've pick up the second book (Camino Winds) to read next!

Now....what to read for June?! I hope everyone is having as much fun with this challenge as I am! :)

Emily wrote: "(1) Camino Island by John Grisham
(2) CHALLENGE COMPLETE! ..."

I'm having so much fun with this challenge too! I haven't read a Grisham novel in a long time!

Keyword: Book
Title: By Book or By Crook
Author: Eva Gates
Completed: 23 May 2021

A great cozy mystery about a library based in a lighthouse. Great characters that become likable from the beginning. Well written and fun to read.

Here's my book with the word 'book':

Body in the Book Drop Lynn Cahoon 5/29/21

I love the series Cat Latimer that this is a prequel to. We see what Cat Latimer (originally Gibson in this story) was doing as a grad student and TA. She got her first taste of sleuthing a murder. Just as awesome as the regular books, and I'm pretty sure the author actually did write this before she wrote any of the regular series.

Keyword: book
Title: The Art of Happiness: A HandBOOK for Living
Author: the Dalai Lama
Completed: this week

Been meaning to read this for awhile. I needed it after a trying school year. Hoping to take wisdom from this book and apply it to my life.

CHALLENGE COMPLETED
Key Word: Book
Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan
Chasing dreams and realizing 'adulting' is hard but worth it.
Parenting as a team vs alone. The Red Balloon a book by Albert Lamorisse takes a much bigger part of the book than it shpuld, IMO.

Challenge Complete!
Key Word: Lake
Read: The Boy and the Lake by Adam Pelzman
Interesting take on the 60’s from a Jewish point of view, partial based on the politics of the time. But that’s only part of the picture, and main story line revolves more around what is deemed acceptable and what is not in the society in their neighborhood. And what people are willing to do to keep the status quo, protecting their lifestyle, their family, and their vision of the American dream. Nice twist in the end.

I read this one for the challenge:



Interesting book with God and the devil as characters basically fighting over the MC

Good day to every one: Challenge complete
1) The book of two ways/ Jodi Picoult
2) The nine Tailors/