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Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 4045 comments Mod
June 2021 Scavenger Hunt
Begins: 01June21 / Ends: 30June21


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Your challenge is to find the following words/phrases in the TEXT of the books you are reading this month.

You are NOT restricted to one book / one word; you may find as many of the words/phrases in a single book as you like. If you find all the words in one book you are really lucky!

This month's scavenger list are words that were found in
Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
NOTE - you may NOT use this book for the scavenger hunt!


BASIC word list
awnings
ballroom
chapel
difficult
elbows
fly (insect)
hurricanes
idea
keg
language
numbers
owner
stripes
veranda
warehouse

Optional/BONUS word list
gaslight
Jamaica
mainland
repertoire
uncoordinated


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Unless a variation is specified above, words must match exactly, with the following exceptions: I will accept a plural/singular version, or differences in spelling between British and American English (e.g. honor or honour). But those are the ONLY deviations allowed. So if you are looking for "vivid" - I will NOT allow "vividly."

All books used must be a minimum of 100 pages long - Page length determined by HARDCOVER 1st edition. If there is no Hardcover, then the most popular paperback governs page #.

You may read in any format - text, audio or e-book. If using audio or e-book I suggest using Amazon.com's "look inside" feature to get a page number for your quote.

You MUST finish the book before you can claim credit for finding the word/phrase.

EXAMPLE of a successful post:

important - What Alice Forgot ✔ - 13Jan21 - pg 25 - "…about a really important scary…"

Have Fun!

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message 2: by Book Concierge (last edited Mar 15, 2023 07:12PM) (new)

Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 4045 comments Mod
Our Scavenger Expedition includes:

(CLICK on your name to go directly to your challenge post.)

FINISHED :
Donna

Ed

Jonquil - ✔ BASIC list done

Karen K2

Koren

Marilyn

Tessa



STILL Actively searching


JennH

Patty

Rosa

Vanessa

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message 3: by Ed (last edited Mar 15, 2023 05:06PM) (new)

Ed Lehman | 254 comments *****COMPLETED 3/15/23**** Last word="uncoordinated"

June 2021 Scavenger Hunt
Begins: 01June21 / Ends: 30June21

100p. min.

BASIC word list

✔awnings-p.166-Mountolive-"Outside the grey awnings, the city had..." 6/5/21
✔ballroom-p.166- Mountolive-"...to emerge into a airless ballroom..." 6/5/21
✔chapel-p.80- Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was-"...corpses to the cemetery chapel..." 6/11/21
✔difficult-p.132- Blood Brothers-"...it's just like dead difficult." 6/4/21
✔elbows-p.197- Mountolive-"He pressed her elbow and turning..." 6/5/21
✔fly (insect)-p.159-Mountolive-"...in a hot carriage, fly-tormented without and roasted within..." 6/5/21
✔hurricanes-p.6- The Bells of Nagasaki-"...the huge blast of air like a hurricane..." 6/12/21
✔idea-p.86- Blood Brothers-"How quickly an idea, planted, can take root..." 6/2/21
✔keg-p.93-My Tender Matador-"...these books could blow up like a keg of dynamite."7/8/21
✔language-p.142- Mountolive-"...by his judicious use of the language." 6/3/21
✔numbers-p.227- Educating Rita-"She wrote a little Gothic number called Frankenstein." 6/2/21
✔owner-p.288-Mountolive-"The cafe owner was a great bald Tartar-faced Turk..." 6/7/21
✔stripes-p..278- Mountolive-"...at last recognized as the stripe which maturity lays upon..." 6/6/21
✔veranda-p.102- Three Stars Over Luanda-"Matt led them out onto the veranda..." 6/7/21
✔warehouse-p.338- Rabbit at Rest-"...a warehouse with windows and a stump..." 6/18/21

Optional/BONUS word list
✔gaslight-p.23- Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was-"...to catch the glow of the gaslight..." 6/11/21
✔Jamaica-p.170-Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder-"First stop, Jamaica, long a hotbed of homophobia." 6/26/21
✔mainland-p.52- The Bells of Nagasaki-"We have already begun to use this weapon against the Japanese mainland." 6/12/21
✔repertoire-p.24- It Would Be Night in Caracas-"Would she have cooked the repertoire of a woman who moved..." 7/29/21
✔uncoordinated-p.239-Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance-"Vaulta and Leepa ape Poppy's uncoordinated gait..." 3/15/23


message 4: by Donna (last edited Jul 04, 2021 05:46PM) (new)

Donna | 496 comments 15 / 15 basic words found
5 / 5 BONUS words found
9 books read

BASIC word list ----CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

awnings ~~ Bitter River ~~ 05Jun21~~ Page 109 ~~ “...cinder block box with the awning…”
ballroom ~~ Miss Benson's Beetle ~~ 02Jun21~~ Page 56 ~~ “...even a ballroom next door…”
chapel ~~ Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum ~~ 03Jun21~~ Page 34 ~~ “...at the Bible chapel near my house…”
difficult ~~ Miss Benson's Beetle ~~ 02Jun21~~ Page 224 ~~ “...have difficult conversations…”
elbows ~~ Miss Benson's Beetle ~~ 02Jun21~~ Page 42 ~~ “...grabbed Margery’s elbow…”
fly (insect) ~~ Bitter River ~~ 05Jun21~~ Page 328 ~~ “...a fly trapped in a coke bottle…”
hurricanes ~~ The Affair ~~ 04Jun21~~ Page 167 ~~ “...fences, not hurricane wire…”
idea ~~ Miss Benson's Beetle ~~ 02Jun21~~ Page 17 ~~ “...it was a good idea…”
Keg ~~ 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus ~~ 18Jun21~~ Page 56 ~~ “...a keg of gunpowder…”
language ~~ The Book of V. ~~ 03Jun21~~ Page 17 ~~ “...he spoke three languages…”
numbers ~~ Miss Benson's Beetle ~~ 02Jun21~~ Page 62 ~~ “...babies were her number one subject…”
owner ~~ The Book of V. ~~ 03Jun21~~ Page 181 ~~ “...if its owner is kind…”
stripes ~~ Miss Benson's Beetle ~~ 02Jun21~~ Page 4 ~~ “...ran out of stripes and became a horse…”
veranda ~~ The Affair ~~ 04Jun21~~ Page 52 ~~ “...across the shaky veranda…”
warehouse ~~ The Affair ~~ 04Jun21~~ Page 548 ~~ “...nation’s wartime warehouses…”


Optional/BONUS word list
Gaslight -- Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator ~~ 04Jul21~~ Page 177 ~~ “...why gaslight an innocuous coworker…”
Jamaica ~~ Infinite Country ~~ 08Jun21~~ Page 184 ~~ “...a flight to Jamaica…”
Mainland ~~ A Darkness More Than Night ~~ 16Jun21~~ Page 8 ~~ “...the marina on the mainland…”
repertoire ~~ Bitter River ~~ 05Jun21~~ Page 260 ~~ “...from his emotional repertoire…”
uncoordinated ~~ The Lager Queen of Minnesota ~~ 12Jun21~~ Page 280 ~~ “...uncoordinated work and safety gear…”


message 5: by [deleted user] (last edited Jul 01, 2021 07:10AM) (new)

I'm in with some carry-over

11/29

Wilful Behaviour (Commissario Brunetti, #11) by Donna Leon (6/6/21)

difficult - "...difficult students." (p 16)
elbows - ...jaws, elbows, the tilt of... (p 196)
idea - ...had no idea... (p 12)
language - "...in their own language." (p 184)
numbers - ...juggle the numbers... (p 25)
owner - ...the original owner... (p 102)
mainland - ...to the mainland... (p 111)

Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2) by Martha Wells (6/12/21)

warehouse - ...or cargo warehouses... (p 13)

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria (6/13/21)

hurricanes - ...Hurricane Dorian in 2019... (p 122)
stripes - ...political parties of all stripes. (p 52)


BASIC word list
awnings
ballroom
chapel
fly (insect)
keg
veranda

Optional/BONUS word list
gaslight
Jamaica
repertoire
uncoordinated

Carry-Over May
lust
rigid
misanthrope
vagabond

Carry-over April:
"get high" (any form of "get, got, getting" accepted)
rock 'n' roll (rock and roll)

Carry-over February:
saltine crackers (will accept saltines)

Carry-over May:
varmint

Carry-over February:
Zoloft


message 6: by JennH (last edited Jul 01, 2021 01:34PM) (new)

JennH | 309 comments June 2021 Scavenger Hunt

BASIC word list
✔awnings - Cemetery Boys - 6/9/21 - p70 - "...reached for the wind chime hanging from the awning..."
✔ballroom - Big Summer - 6/30/21 - p74 - "...celebration that had culminated in a hotel ballroom..."
✔chapel - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - 6/6/21 - p339 - "...interred at a chapel named after him on the campus..."
✔difficult - Tales From the Hood - 6/8/21 - p125 - "...that the trial would be more difficult the second day..."
✔elbows - Tales From the Hood - 6/8/21 - p107 - "...pulled the covers up to her sister's elbows..."

✔fly (insect) - Smilla's Sense of Snow - 6/15/21 - p294 - "...I'm a fly on the wall..."
✔hurricanes - Cemetery Boys - 6/9/21 - p89 - "...maybe just a human hurricane named Julian..."
✔idea - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - 6/6/21 - p16 - "...the idea being that you cannot fix a problem until..."
✔keg - Shōgun - 6/20/21 - p774 - "...doesn't matter how small the keg..."
✔language - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - 6/6/21 - p18 - "...have been trained to see humans in the language of race..."

✔numbers - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - 6/6/21 - p121 - "...had an incentive to grow its power and numbers by granting honorary..."
✔owner - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - 6/6/21 - p143 - "...as would a dog to a new owner..."
✔stripes - Smilla's Sense of Snow - 6/15/21 - p12 - "...becoming separate red stripes of light..."
✔veranda - Assault and Beret - 6/11/12 - p228 - "...piles of leaves collected in the corners of the wide veranda..."
✔warehouse - Cemetery Boys - 6/9/21 - p216 - "...was a squat warehouse with three open bay doors..."

Optional/BONUS word list
gaslight
✔Jamaica - A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home - 6/18/21 - p67 - "...from China and Jamaica, yes really..."
✔mainland - Smilla's Sense of Snow - 6/15/21 - p361 - "...regular helicopter service to the mainland."
repertoire
✔uncoordinated - Shōgun - 6/20/21 - p1858 - "...now in uproar, the Browns still uncoordinated..."


message 7: by Book Concierge (last edited Oct 07, 2021 08:04AM) (new)

Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 4045 comments Mod
June 2021 Scavenger Hunt
Begins: 01June21 / Ends: 30June21



15 / 15 basic words found
5 / 5 BONUS words found
7 books read - The Girl with No Shadow (Chocolat, #2) by Joanne Harris All Sales Final (Good Buy Girls #5) by Josie Belle The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides ¡Hola Papi! How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer Jumbo This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World by Paul Chambers Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict


BASIC word list
awnings - The Girl with No Shadow ✔ – 07June21 - pg 441 - "…the awning, the window, the sign…"

ballroom - The High Tide Club ✔ – 09June21 - pg 40 - "The ballroom floor had been…"

chapel - The Girl with No Shadow ✔ – 07June21 - pg 31 - "…the sad, underlit chapel of rest…"

difficult - The Girl with No Shadow ✔ – 07June21 - pg 60 - "…such a difficult child - she eats…"

elbows - All Sales Final ✔ – 09June21 - pg 11 - "…some elbow grease but the…"

fly (insect) - The High Tide Club ✔ – 09June21 - pg 442 - "…and a fly buzzed persistently…"

hurricanes - The High Tide Club ✔ – 09June21 - pg 324 - "…Atlantic hurricanes, blue crabs…"

idea - The Girl with No Shadow ✔ – 07June21 - pg 33 - "…any idea of the consequences."

keg - The Virgin Suicides ✔ – 20June21 - pg 24 - "…beer kegs beached on ice…"

language - The Girl with No Shadow ✔ – 07June21 - pg 53 -"…seems to know some sign language."

numbers - The Girl with No Shadow ✔ – 07June21 - pg 83 - "…hides a number of things."

owner - The Girl with No Shadow ✔ – 07June21 - pg 47 - "It's owner is Laurent Pinson,…"

stripes - All Sales Final ✔ – 09June21 - pg 11 - "…a distinctive stripe in the…"

veranda - The High Tide Club ✔ – 09June21 - pg 40 - "…from the open doors to the veranda."

warehouse - ¡Hola Papi! ✔ – 27June21 - pg 78 - "… to the FUEL warehouse downtown."

Optional/BONUS word list
gaslight - Lady Clementine ✔ – 05Aug21 - pg 136 - "…the low gaslight that lights…"

Jamaica - Mexican Gothic ✔ – 16June21 - pg 30 - "You mean their work in Jamaica?"

mainland - The High Tide Club ✔ – 09June21 - pg 121 - "…visitors over from the mainland."

repertoire - Jumbo: The Greatest Elephant in the World ✔ – 03July21 - pg 14 - "…a wide repertoire of noises."

uncoordinated - The Virgin Suicides ✔ – 20June21 - pg 112 - "…usually the most uncoordinated…"


message 8: by [deleted user] (last edited Jul 29, 2021 09:23AM) (new)

COMPLETED!

June 2021 Scavenger Hunt
Begins: 01June21 / Ends: 30June21

BASIC word list

awnings .. darker under the awnings .. Hell's Jaw Pass loc 730

ballroom .. several in the ballroom .. Holiday in Death pg 61

chapel .. a nondenominational chapel .. Deadlock pg 3

difficult .. it must be difficult .. Holiday in Death pg 92

elbows .. elbows to jab people .. Holiday in Death pg 38

fly (insect) .. flies threw themselves busily against the screen .. The Beet Queen pg 78

hurricanes .. in this realm of hurricanes .. The Hungry and the Lost loc 1083

idea .. pushed the idea aside .. Holiday in Death pg 14

keg .. it reached the powder keg .. Hell's Jaw Pass loc 3113

language .. judging the body language .. Holiday in Death pg 201

numbers .. not names and numbers to you .. Holiday in Death pg 170

owner .. full data on owners .. Holiday in Death pg 66

stripes .. chartreuse and silver stripes .. Holiday in Death pg 78

veranda .. a jutting veranda .. The Second Life of Mirielle West loc 356

warehouse .. a warehouse or supply shed .. Hell's Jaw Pass loc 1019

Optional/BONUS word list

gaslight .. I can still see the gaslight .. All the Little Hopes loc 1856

Jamaica .. their honeymoon in Jamaica .. Godspeed loc 1302

mainland .. politics of mainland China .. Godspeed loc 1529

repertoire .. a budding little repertoire .. Godspeed loc 474

uncoordinated .. an uncoordinated indoor hurling match .. Snowflake loc 1005


Holiday in Death (In Death, #7) by J.D. Robb 6/1/21 4☆ The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich 6/6/21 4.5☆ The Hungry and the Lost by Bethany W Pope 6/3/21 2☆
Hell's Jaw Pass (Wolf Stockburn, Railroad Detective Book 2) by Max O'Hara 6/7/21 3☆ All the Little Hopes by Leah Weiss 6/10/21 3.75☆ Godspeed by Nickolas Butler 6/11/21 2.75☆
Deadlock (V.I. Warshawski, #2) by Sara Paretsky 6/12/21 2☆ The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore 6/14/21 2.75☆ Snowflake by Louise Nealon 7/29/21 2.25☆


message 9: by Patty (last edited Jun 27, 2021 07:25AM) (new)

Patty | 247 comments BASIC word list

awnings-In Five Years-6/17/21-page 106- "with the blue awning"

ballroom-The Nazi Officer's Wife-6/8/21-page 48-"lived on the ballroom floor"

chapel-Sweet Taste of Liberty-6/26/21-page 97-"inside the penitentiary chapel"

difficult-Get A Life, Chloe Brown-6/4/21-page 115-"It had been difficult."

elbows-Get A Life, Chloe Brown-6/4/21-page 50-"cupped her elbow"

fly (insect)-The Family Upstairs-6/20/21-page 69-"a fly caught somewhere"

hurricanes-Get A Life, Chloe Brown-6/4/21-page 56-"gustier than a hurricane"

idea-Get A Life, Chloe Brown-6/4/21-page 10-I've no idea."

keg-The Family Upstairs-6/20/21-page 15-"his own private keg"

language-Get A Life, Chloe Brown-6/4/21-page 172-"have learned her language"

numbers-Get A Life, Chloe Brown-6/4/21-page 102-"got any hard numbers"

owner-Get A Life, Chloe Brown-6/4/21-page 66-"until we find the owners."

stripes-Get A Life, Chloe Brown-6/4/21-page 257-"a thick white stripe"

veranda

warehouse-The Nazi Officer's Wife-6/8/21-page 191-"from the Arado warehouse"

Optional/BONUS word list

gaslight

Jamaica-Get A Life, Chloe Brown-6/4/21-page 220-"an infant in Jamaica."

mainland

repertoire-Sweet Taste of Liberty-6/26/21-page 2-"another anecdote for his repertoire."

uncoordinated


message 10: by Jonquil (last edited Jun 30, 2021 09:05AM) (new)

Jonquil | 157 comments June 2021 Scavenger Hunt

15/15
4/5

awnings "red and white striped awnings" loc 74 Mystic Pieces: A Shady Grove Psychic Mystery Ada Bell 6/3
ballroom "ballroom dancing for all" loc 2345 Snowmen in Paradise Kathi Daley 6/2
chapel "how big is Smithson's funeral chapel" loc 1996 Unfinished Business J.A. Jance 6/3
difficult "people find it difficult to quit" loc 248 Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
elbows "took hold of her elbow" loc 3135 Unfinished Business J.A. Jance 6/3
fly (insect) "the humble fruit fly" loc 3553 Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
hurricanes "looking like a hurricane hit it" loc 1632 Mystic Pieces: A Shady Grove Psychic Mystery Ada Bell 6/3
idea "the idea took hold" Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
keg "a keg of beer" loc 1733 Unfinished Business J.A. Jance 6/3
language "partly a matter of language" loc 242 Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
numbers "the numbers are still startling" loc 525 Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
owner "its owner at the time" loc 2303 Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
stripes "encircled with colored stripes" loc 2634 Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
veranda "sitting on the verandah" loc 278 Poisoned Palette Jill Paterson 6/3
warehouse "looking for warehouse space" loc 3781 Unfinished Business J.A. Jance 6/3

BONUS

gaslight "it hit the gaslight" loc 5109 The Darwin Affair Tim Mason 6/10
Jamaica "my first trip to Jamaica" loc 1614 Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer Mari SanGiovanni 6/18
mainland "between the island and the mainland" loc 4548 On the Road to Death's Door M.J. Williams 6/7
repertoire "his entire repertoire" loc 4056 Barely Bewitched Kimberly Frost 6/12
uncoordinated


message 11: by Vanessa (last edited Jun 13, 2021 12:43PM) (new)

Vanessa (nesshawk) | 14 comments June 2021 Scavenger Hunt
Duration: June 1 - June 30, 2021

Books Used:
Murder at the Taffy Shop by Maddie Day 6/12/21

BASIC

awnings
ballroom
chapel
✔️difficult Murder at the Taffy Shop Pg 44 "Had you witnessed Ms. Ruchatr being difficult about anything else?"
✔️elbows Murder at the Taffy Shop Pg 121 "I watched him, elbows swinging..."
fly (insect)
hurricanes
✔️idea Murder at the Taffy Shop Pg 70 "Sounds like a good idea."
keg
✔️language Murder at the Taffy Shop Pg 11 "Pa had grown up speaking the language with his father.
✔️numbers Murder at the Taffy Shop Pg 88 "It turned out I had quite a facility for numbers"
✔️owner Murder at the Taffy Shop Pg 55 "Tulia, a congenial lobster shack owner..."
stripes
veranda
warehouse

BONUS

gaslight
Jamaica
mainland
repertoire
uncoordinated


message 12: by Koren (last edited Oct 30, 2021 10:25AM) (new)

Koren  (koren56) | 758 comments June 2021 Scavenger Hunt
Begins: 01June21 / Ends: 30June21

BASIC word list
15/15

awnings-Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden finished 6/1 p. 242 We did it under an awning on the apartment's airy patio.

ballroom-Billy Joel by Fred Schruers finished 6/25 p. 291 ...a drafty, venerable Manhattan concert hall called the Hammerstein Ballroom...

chapels-Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden finished 6/1 p. 240 ...if you chose to use their on-site Encino chapel....

difficult-The Evil Within by Darren Galsworthy finished 6/3 p. 25 ...through that whole difficult period...

elbows-Finders Keepers by Stephen King finished 6/4 p. 20 ...one flailing elbow into his chest...

fly (insect)s-Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden finished 6/1 p. 154 Rhea wouldn't hurt a fly.

hurricanes-Billy Joel by Fred Schruers finished 6/25 p. 338 ...and become the largest Atlantic hurricane on record...

ideas-Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden finished 6/1 p. 178 ...the idea that we could keep Beau alive by being together...

kegs-Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden finished 6/1 p. 85 ...a hole drilled through the door for the tap from a beer keg...

languages-Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden finished 6/1 p. 135 ...probably six other languages as well...

numbers-The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende finished 6/2 p.87 I was 80 but that's just a number.

owners-Finders Keepers by Stephen King finished 6/4 p. 205 Morris wouldn't want to be the owner of the bike...

stripes-We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder by M. William Phelps finished 7/9 p. red, white, and blue stars and stripes flag tie...

veranda-One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson finished 7/15 p. 249 ...could be seen enjoying cocktails on their veranda.

warehouses-Finders Keepers by Stephen King finished 6/4 p. 211 ...too soft to shift cartons in a warehouse...

Optional/BONUS word list
5/5

gaslight-Minnesota Book of Days by Tony Greiner finished 8/2 p. 191 Gaslights illuminate the streets of St. Paul...

Jamaica-Billy Joel by Fred Schruers finished 6/25 p. 338 Forming around Kingston, Jamaica...

mainland-Billy Joel by Fred Schruers finished 6/25 p. 26 ...dozens of islands floating off the mainland.

repertoire-Billy Joel by Fred Schruers finished 6/25 p. 97 ...the strongest songs in his repertoire...

uncoordinated-The Boys : A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard and Clint Howard finished 10/29 p. 171 But the others ranged from average to downright uncoordinated


message 13: by Marilyn (last edited May 25, 2022 08:21AM) (new)

Marilyn Lott | 516 comments June 2021 Scavenger Hunt
Begins: 01June21 / Ends: 30June21

15 / 15 basic words found
5 / 5 BONUS words found
10 books read:
(1) Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse--6/4/21
(2) The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another by Ainissa Ramirez--6/13/21
(3) The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre--6/14/21
(4) Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy--6/25/21
(5) The Overstory by Richard Powers--6/30/21
(6) The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry--7/17/21
(7) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett--7/26/21
(8) An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn--8/2/21
(9) Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb--9/13/21
(10) Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson--5/25/22

BASIC word list
✔awnings--(8)--loc. 2796--"Bright blue awnings snapped and fluttered..."
✔ballroom--(2)--loc. 1811--"...address in the Grand Ballroom..."
✔chapel--(2)--loc. 391--"...tolled twelve times at St. Paul's Chapel..."
✔difficult--(3)--loc. 1020--"Also it was difficult to post..."
✔elbows--(3)--loc. 1433--"Yelena was all elbows and anger,..."
✔flies--(1)--p. 56--"The German prisoners and the flies..."
✔hurricane--(2)--loc. 2813--"...started in the morning before the hurricane..."
✔idea--(3)--loc. 263--"...they shared compatible ambitions and similar ideas..."
✔keg--(7)--loc. 1329--"...jostled into the room with a keg..."
✔language--(1)--p. 59--"We had our own language..."
✔numbers--(3)--loc. 485--"...any number of new identities could be fabricated."
✔owner--(3)--loc. 5063--"Its owner, Adrian...
✔stripe--(2)--loc. 2300--"...like a candy-cane stripe..."
✔veranda--(6)--loc. 2941--"He and Cole withdrew into the room with a veranda..."
✔warehouse--(1)--p. 150--"We need everything the Red Cross warehouse holds."

Optional/BONUS word list
gaslight--(10)--loc. 5277--"...minimizes and gaslights African Americans..."
✔Jamaica--(4)--loc. 1282--"...after his single mother moved from Jamaica..."
✔mainland--(6)--loc. 7148--"...mainland Chinese authorities..."
✔repertoire--(5)--loc. 3458--"...years of evolution gives you a repertoire."
uncoordinated--(9)--loc. 1714--"...I think I've become uncoordinated."


message 14: by Book Concierge (new)

Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 4045 comments Mod
I think I've got everyone linked to this point. If I missed you, please let me know.


Sorry it took me so long to acknowledge your participation, Marilyn. I never got a notification of your post. S*I*G*H


message 15: by JennH (new)

JennH | 309 comments You missed me. :)


message 16: by Book Concierge (new)

Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 4045 comments Mod
JennH wrote: "You missed me. :)"

So I did ... Fixed now.


message 17: by [deleted user] (new)

I finished the basic list but still looking for one bonus

June 2021 Scavenger Hunt
Begins: 01June21 / Ends: 30June21

BASIC word list

awnings .. darker under the awnings .. Hell's Jaw Pass loc 730

ballroom .. several in the ballroom .. Holiday in Death pg 61

chapel .. a nondenominational chapel .. Deadlock pg 3

difficult .. it must be difficult .. Holiday in Death pg 92

elbows .. elbows to jab people .. Holiday in Death pg 38

fly (insect) .. flies threw themselves busily against the screen .. The Beet Queen pg 78

hurricanes .. in this realm of hurricanes .. The Hungry and the Lost loc 1083

idea .. pushed the idea aside .. Holiday in Death pg 14

keg .. it reached the powder keg .. Hell's Jaw Pass loc 3113

language .. judging the body language .. Holiday in Death pg 201

numbers .. not names and numbers to you .. Holiday in Death pg 170

owner .. full data on owners .. Holiday in Death pg 66

stripes .. chartreuse and silver stripes .. Holiday in Death pg 78

veranda .. a jutting veranda .. The Second Life of Mirielle West loc 356

warehouse .. a warehouse or supply shed .. Hell's Jaw Pass loc 1019

Optional/BONUS word list

gaslight .. I can still see the gaslight .. All the Little Hopes loc 1856

Jamaica .. their honeymoon in Jamaica .. Godspeed loc 1302

mainland .. politics of mainland China .. Godspeed loc 1529

repertoire .. a budding little repertoire .. Godspeed loc 474

uncoordinated


Holiday in Death (In Death, #7) by J.D. Robb 6/1/21 4☆ The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich 6/6/21 4.5☆ The Hungry and the Lost by Bethany W Pope 6/3/21 2☆
Hell's Jaw Pass (Wolf Stockburn, Railroad Detective Book 2) by Max O'Hara 6/7/21 3☆ All the Little Hopes by Leah Weiss 6/10/21 3.75☆ Godspeed by Nickolas Butler 6/11/21 2.75☆
Deadlock (V.I. Warshawski, #2) by Sara Paretsky 6/12/21 2☆ The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore 6/14/21 2.75☆


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Jonquil | 157 comments Not sure what goodreads "improvement" has made it so hard to copy an entire message. Not that it matters if it won't notify the Mods.


June 2021 Scavenger Hunt

15/15
5/5

awnings "red and white striped awnings" loc 74 Mystic Pieces: A Shady Grove Psychic Mystery Ada Bell 6/3
ballroom "ballroom dancing for all" loc 2345 Snowmen in Paradise Kathi Daley 6/2
chapel "how big is Smithson's funeral chapel" loc 1996 Unfinished Business J.A. Jance 6/3
difficult "people find it difficult to quit" loc 248 Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
elbows "took hold of her elbow" loc 3135 Unfinished Business J.A. Jance 6/3
fly (insect) "the humble fruit fly" loc 3553 Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
hurricanes "looking like a hurricane hit it" loc 1632 Mystic Pieces: A Shady Grove Psychic Mystery Ada Bell 6/3
idea "the idea took hold" Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
keg "a keg of beer" loc 1733 Unfinished Business J.A. Jance 6/3
language "partly a matter of language" loc 242 Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
numbers "the numbers are still startling" loc 525 Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
owner "its owner at the time" loc 2303 Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
stripes "encircled with colored stripes" loc 2634 Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions Michael Moss 6/1
veranda "sitting on the verandah" loc 278 Poisoned Palette Jill Paterson 6/3
warehouse "looking for warehouse space" loc 3781 Unfinished Business J.A. Jance 6/3

BONUS

gaslight "it hit the gaslight" loc 5109 The Darwin Affair Tim Mason 6/10
Jamaica "my first trip to Jamaica" loc 1614 Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer Mari SanGiovanni 6/18
mainland "between the island and the mainland" loc 4548 On the Road to Death's Door M.J. Williams 6/7
repertoire "his entire repertoire" loc 4056 Barely Bewitched Kimberly Frost 6/12
uncoordinated "danced an uncoordinated little jig" loc 54 Death by Chocolate Sally Berneathy 6/30


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Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 4045 comments Mod
Great challenge work, KarenK2 and Jonquil!


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Jonquil | 157 comments I just tripped over uncoordinated "danced an uncoordinated little jig" loc 54 Death by Chocolate Sally Berneathy 6/30


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Jonquil wrote: "I just tripped over uncoordinated "danced an uncoordinated little jig" loc 54 Death by Chocolate Sally Berneathy 6/30"

LOL! And congratulations!


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I did not much reading done this month...

10/29

Wilful Behaviour (Commissario Brunetti, #11) by Donna Leon (6/6/21)

difficult - "...difficult students." (p 16)
elbows - ...jaws, elbows, the tilt of... (p 196)
idea - ...had no idea... (p 12)
language - "...in their own language." (p 184)
numbers - ...juggle the numbers... (p 25)
owner - ...the original owner... (p 102)
mainland - ...to the mainland... (p 111)

Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2) by Martha Wells (6/12/21)

warehouse - ...or cargo warehouses... (p 13)

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria (6/13/21)

hurricanes - ...Hurricane Dorian in 2019... (p 122)
stripes - ...political parties of all stripes. (p 52)


BASIC word list
awnings
ballroom
chapel
fly (insect)
keg
veranda

Optional/BONUS word list
gaslight
Jamaica
repertoire
uncoordinated

Carry-Over May
lust
rigid
misanthrope
vagabond

Carry-over April:
"get high" (any form of "get, got, getting" accepted)
rock 'n' roll (rock and roll)

Carry-over February:
saltine crackers (will accept saltines)

Carry-over May:
varmint

Carry-over February:
Zoloft


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Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 4045 comments Mod
That happens, Rosa. I never close out the challenges, so you are welcome to keep working on them and updating whenever you finish.


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Donna | 496 comments Challenge complete! I found the word "gaslight", but didn't have time to read the book until this week.


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WTG, Donna!


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Ed Lehman | 254 comments I completed the Basic Word List...still working on two bonus words:
June 2021 Scavenger Hunt
Begins: 01June21 / Ends: 30June21

100p. min.

BASIC word list

✔awnings-p.166-Mountolive-"Outside the grey awnings, the city had..." 6/5/21
✔ballroom-p.166- Mountolive-"...to emerge into a airless ballroom..." 6/5/21
✔chapel-p.80- Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was-"...corpses to the cemetery chapel..." 6/11/21
✔difficult-p.132- Blood Brothers-"...it's just like dead difficult." 6/4/21
✔elbows-p.197- Mountolive-"He pressed her elbow and turning..." 6/5/21
✔fly (insect)-p.159-Mountolive-"...in a hot carriage, fly-tormented without and roasted within..." 6/5/21
✔hurricanes-p.6- The Bells of Nagasaki-"...the huge blast of air like a hurricane..." 6/12/21
✔idea-p.86- Blood Brothers-"How quickly an idea, planted, can take root..." 6/2/21
✔keg-p.93-My Tender Matador-"...these books could blow up like a keg of dynamite."7/8/21
✔language-p.142- Mountolive-"...by his judicious use of the language." 6/3/21
✔numbers-p.227- Educating Rita-"She wrote a little Gothic number called Frankenstein." 6/2/21
✔owner-p.288-Mountolive-"The cafe owner was a great bald Tartar-faced Turk..." 6/7/21
✔stripes-p..278- Mountolive-"...at last recognized as the stripe which maturity lays upon..." 6/6/21
✔veranda-p.102- Three Stars Over Luanda-"Matt led them out onto the veranda..." 6/7/21
✔warehouse-p.338- Rabbit at Rest-"...a warehouse with windows and a stump..." 6/18/21

Optional/BONUS word list
✔gaslight-p.23- Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was-"...to catch the glow of the gaslight..." 6/11/21
✔Jamaica-p.170-Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder-"First stop, Jamaica, long a hotbed of homophobia." 6/26/21
✔mainland-p.52- The Bells of Nagasaki-"We have already begun to use this weapon against the Japanese mainland." 6/12/21
repertoire
uncoordinated


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Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 4045 comments Mod
Great scavenging, Ed!


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Koren  (koren56) | 758 comments Basic list done!


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Great challenge work, Koren!


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COMPLETED!

June 2021 Scavenger Hunt
Begins: 01June21 / Ends: 30June21

BASIC word list

awnings .. darker under the awnings .. Hell's Jaw Pass loc 730

ballroom .. several in the ballroom .. Holiday in Death pg 61

chapel .. a nondenominational chapel .. Deadlock pg 3

difficult .. it must be difficult .. Holiday in Death pg 92

elbows .. elbows to jab people .. Holiday in Death pg 38

fly (insect) .. flies threw themselves busily against the screen .. The Beet Queen pg 78

hurricanes .. in this realm of hurricanes .. The Hungry and the Lost loc 1083

idea .. pushed the idea aside .. Holiday in Death pg 14

keg .. it reached the powder keg .. Hell's Jaw Pass loc 3113

language .. judging the body language .. Holiday in Death pg 201

numbers .. not names and numbers to you .. Holiday in Death pg 170

owner .. full data on owners .. Holiday in Death pg 66

stripes .. chartreuse and silver stripes .. Holiday in Death pg 78

veranda .. a jutting veranda .. The Second Life of Mirielle West loc 356

warehouse .. a warehouse or supply shed .. Hell's Jaw Pass loc 1019

Optional/BONUS word list

gaslight .. I can still see the gaslight .. All the Little Hopes loc 1856

Jamaica .. their honeymoon in Jamaica .. Godspeed loc 1302

mainland .. politics of mainland China .. Godspeed loc 1529

repertoire .. a budding little repertoire .. Godspeed loc 474

uncoordinated .. an uncoordinated indoor hurling match .. Snowflake loc 1005


Holiday in Death (In Death, #7) by J.D. Robb 6/1/21 4☆ The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich 6/6/21 4.5☆ The Hungry and the Lost by Bethany W Pope 6/3/21 2☆
Hell's Jaw Pass (Wolf Stockburn, Railroad Detective Book 2) by Max O'Hara 6/7/21 3☆ All the Little Hopes by Leah Weiss 6/10/21 3.75☆ Godspeed by Nickolas Butler 6/11/21 2.75☆
Deadlock (V.I. Warshawski, #2) by Sara Paretsky 6/12/21 2☆ The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore 6/14/21 2.75☆ Snowflake by Louise Nealon 7/29/21 2.25☆


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Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 4045 comments Mod
Great scavenging, KarenK2!


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Marilyn Lott | 516 comments Basic Challenge completed for June, 2021!


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Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 4045 comments Mod
YAY, Marilyn!

(NOTE: I never got any notification of your post ... S*I*G*H)


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Vanessa (nesshawk) | 14 comments Ugh... Didn't finish this one.


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Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 4045 comments Mod
Vanessa wrote: "Ugh... Didn't finish this one."

I never shut them down, so take all the time you want, Vanessa. I'm still searching for "habanero" that dates back to 2019, I think!


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Koren  (koren56) | 758 comments Found 'uncoordinated' to finish both Basic and Bonus lists!!!!


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Way to Go, Koren!


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Marilyn Lott | 516 comments Finally finished June, 2021 Basic Words with "gaslight"! Only took me nearly a year!


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THAT's perseverance, Marilyn!


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Ed Lehman | 254 comments *****COMPLETED 3/15/23**** Last word="uncoordinated"

June 2021 Scavenger Hunt
Begins: 01June21 / Ends: 30June21

100p. min.

BASIC word list

✔awnings-p.166-Mountolive-"Outside the grey awnings, the city had..." 6/5/21
✔ballroom-p.166- Mountolive-"...to emerge into a airless ballroom..." 6/5/21
✔chapel-p.80- Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was-"...corpses to the cemetery chapel..." 6/11/21
✔difficult-p.132- Blood Brothers-"...it's just like dead difficult." 6/4/21
✔elbows-p.197- Mountolive-"He pressed her elbow and turning..." 6/5/21
✔fly (insect)-p.159-Mountolive-"...in a hot carriage, fly-tormented without and roasted within..." 6/5/21
✔hurricanes-p.6- The Bells of Nagasaki-"...the huge blast of air like a hurricane..." 6/12/21
✔idea-p.86- Blood Brothers-"How quickly an idea, planted, can take root..." 6/2/21
✔keg-p.93-My Tender Matador-"...these books could blow up like a keg of dynamite."7/8/21
✔language-p.142- Mountolive-"...by his judicious use of the language." 6/3/21
✔numbers-p.227- Educating Rita-"She wrote a little Gothic number called Frankenstein." 6/2/21
✔owner-p.288-Mountolive-"The cafe owner was a great bald Tartar-faced Turk..." 6/7/21
✔stripes-p..278- Mountolive-"...at last recognized as the stripe which maturity lays upon..." 6/6/21
✔veranda-p.102- Three Stars Over Luanda-"Matt led them out onto the veranda..." 6/7/21
✔warehouse-p.338- Rabbit at Rest-"...a warehouse with windows and a stump..." 6/18/21

Optional/BONUS word list
✔gaslight-p.23- Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was-"...to catch the glow of the gaslight..." 6/11/21
✔Jamaica-p.170-Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder-"First stop, Jamaica, long a hotbed of homophobia." 6/26/21
✔mainland-p.52- The Bells of Nagasaki-"We have already begun to use this weapon against the Japanese mainland." 6/12/21
✔repertoire-p.24- It Would Be Night in Caracas-"Would she have cooked the repertoire of a woman who moved..." 7/29/21
✔uncoordinated-p.239-Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance-"Vaulta and Leepa ape Poppy's uncoordinated gait..." 3/15/23


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Break out the bubbly, Ed!


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