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They're Back! Challenge
Duration: April 1 - 30, 2022

They're Back! INSECTS 🐞🪲🪰🐝🦟🦋
You either love them or hate them!

Spell-out one/more of the following insects below:

GRASSHOPPER
FIREFLY
FLEAS
JUNE BUG
MOTHS
LADYBUG
MOSQUITO
CICADAS
HONEYBEE
DRAGONFLY
APHIDS
CRICKET
MANTIS
FLIES
BUTTERFLY
HORNET
CATERPILLAR

Challenge Rules
• one book per letter
• books must be 100+ pages
• use 1st letter of title (exclude A, An or The)
• use 1st letter of author's FIRST/LAST name
• ** use 1st letter of Main Character's FIRST/LAST name
** (new)

For Each Book Read
• LINK to Title
•INDICATE Author
• give DATE you finished Book

Ratings are optional
Happy Reading! & Thanks for y'all patience

🐞🦋Congratulations!!!🦋🐞
🪲🐝 Completed Challenge 🐝🪲

🪲🪲Book Concierge 🐝🐝
🪲🪲Carol🐝🐝
🪲🪲Cara🐝🐝
🪲🪲Donna🐝🐝
🪲🪲Robin P🐝🐝
🪲🪲 Jonquil 🐝🐝
🪲🪲 Beverly 🐝🐝
🪲🪲Koren🐝🐝
🪲🪲 Licha-Olivia🐝🐝

🦋🦟🐝 Participants 🪲🪰🐞
Updated: 4/30/22

🦋🦋 Book Concierge - FLEAS (5/5) C
JennH - GRASSHOPPER (9/11)
🐞🐞 Carol - CATERPILLAR (11/11) C
🦋🦋 Cara - FLIES (5/5) C
🐞🐞 Licha-Olivia - LADYBUG (7/7) C
🐞🐞 Donna - HONEYBEE (8/8) C
Marilyn - FLEAS (3/5)
SouthWestZippy - MANTIS (3/6)
🦋🦋 Robin P - APHIDS (6/6) C
Jonquil - 🐞🐞 MOTHS (5/5) C
🦋🦋 CATERPILLAR (11/11) C
🐞🐞 Beverly - LADYBUG (7/7) C
Diana S - FIREFLY (0/7) MOTHS (1/5)
🦋🦋 Koren - FIREFLY (7/7) C

April 2022 - THEY'RE BACK! Challenge
Begins: 01Apr22 / Ends: 30Apr22


5 / 5 completed


Fleas
F - Five Wounds ✔ – 12Apr22
L - LIPMAN, Elinor / The View from Penthouse B ✔ – 04Apr22
E - Evan Help Us ✔ – 03Apr22
A - Agatha Christie / The Thirteen Problems ✔ – 01Apr22
S - SMITH, Alexander McCall / How to Raise an Elephant ✔ – 17Apr22

They're Back! Challenge
Duration: April 1 - 30, 2022

✔G - Goodnight June by Sarah Jio 4/27/22
✔R - The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys 4/5/22
✔A - The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie 4/21/22
✔S - Son by Lois Lowry 4/10/22
✔S - Don't Start Now by Tara September 4/11/22
✔H - The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen 4/3/22
✔O - The October List by Jeffery Deaver 4/19/22
✔P - 4th of July by James Patterson 4/11/22
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✔E - Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich 4/7/22
✔R - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien 4/5/22

April 2022 - THEY'RE BACK! Challenge
11/11 - DONE 4/26

Chase in Shadow - Amy Lane - 4/1
Amy Lane - Constantly Cotton - 4/11
The Two-Bear Mambo - Joe R. Lansdale - 4/18
Erick J. Brown - All That's Left in The World - 4/3
Rick Bragg - The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People - 4/10
Poe, C.S. -Madison Square Murders - 4/6
Into the Fire - Gregg Andrew Hurwitz -4/26
Langan, John - House of Windows - 4/12
Lin, Hudson - Going Public -4/8
Andrew Grey - The Fight Within
Rachel Hawkins - Reckless Girls - 4/25

FLIES (5/5) DONE

F Fight Night Miriam Toews 4/12
L Loving Frank Nancy Horan 4/21
I I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf Grant Snider 4/5
E Emma in the Night Wendy Walker 4/6
S A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit Alan Lightman 4/14

They're Back! Challenge
Duration: April 1 - 30, 2022

LADYBUG

7/7 Letters

L: Lackey, Mercedes; Arrow's Fall (4/10/22)
A: Alexander, Victoria; The Lady Travelers Guide to Larceny with a Dashing Stranger (4/15/22)
D: Debra Burroughs; The Lake House Secret (4/29/22)
Y: Yancy, Rick; The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (4/20/22)
B: Byrne, Kerrigan Seducing a Stranger (4/30/22)
U: Uglies Scott Westerfeld (4/18/22)
G: Gathering Blue Lois Lowery (4/25/22)

I'm going to try Honeybee!
FOUND: 8 /8 --- CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

✔H ~~ Hell of a Book ~~ by Jason Mott ~~ 3 Stars ~~ 02Apr22

✔O ~~ One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow ~~ by Olivia Hawker ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 04Apr22

✔N ~~ Nassir Ghaemi, author of A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 18Apr22

✔E ~~ Edward Wilson, author of ~~ Tales from the Ant World ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 01Apr22

✔Y ~~ Yaa Gyasi, author of ~~ Transcendent Kingdom ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 10Apr22

✔B ~~ The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 20Apr22

✔E ~~ Elizabeth Acevedo, author of ~~ Clap When You Land ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 03Apr22

✔E ~~ Elizabeth Korbert, author of ~~ Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 09Apr22

April 2022 - THEY'RE BACK! Challenge
Begins: 01Apr22 / Ends: 30Apr22


3 / 5 completed

Fleas
✔F--The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade--4/5/22
✔L--Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School--4/1/22
✔E--Elizabeth Miki Brina, author of Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir--4/7/22

A
S

April- INSECTS
4/6-Did not finish

M- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 4/5/22
A- America's Most Haunted Hotels: Checking in with Uninvited Guests by Jamie Davis Whitmer 5/12/22
N
T
I- The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro 4/10/22
S- Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith 4/22/22

Insects

A - Andrea Penrose - Murder at Queen's Landing - Apr 10
P - The Personal Librarian - Apr 8
H - The Regent: A Five Towns Story of Adventure in London - Main character is Edward Henry - Apr 24
I -Isabel (Izzie) Richardson is one of the main characters in Little Fires Everywhere - Apr 7
D - Disappearing Earth - Apr 11
S - Sebastian St. Cyr - main character in When Blood Lies - Apr 12

Ideas - How Lucky

April 2022 - THEY'RE BACK!

5/5
11/11

M Murder on the QE2 Jessica Fletcher 4/15
O Opening Gambit Tilly Wallace 4/3
T That Broke Witch! M.Z. Andrews 4/17
H High Stakes Iris Johansen 4/12
S Singapore Sapphire A.M. Stuart 4/10

C Come What May Larry Darter 4/6
A Amethyst Heather Bowhay 4/12
T Taken In Elizabeth Lynn Casey 4/13
E Escape Clause John Sandford 4/14
R Rogue Wolf Paige Tyler 4/17
P Prince of Foxes H.L. Macfarlane 4/11
I I'm Not Lion To You Krystal Shannan 4/10
L Lockdown on London Lane Beth Reekles 4/4
L Let Us Prey Jamie Lee Scott 4/16
A And Only to Deceive Tasha Alexander 4/11
R Run Rose Run Dolly Parton 4/3

They're Back! Challenge
Duration: April 1 - 30, 2022

I'm going for LADYBUG 7/7

L The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan FINISHED 4/11

A All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter FINISHED 4/3

D Dying for Dinner Rolls by Lois Lavrisa FINISHED 4/4

Y Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

B Bone Deep: Untangling the Twisted True Story of the Tragic Betsy Faria Murder Case by Charles Bosworth Jr. FINISHED 4/3

U The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane by Colin Falconer

G Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton FINISHED 4/10

They're Back! Challenge

Spell-out: FIREFLY (0/7)

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F
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Spell-out: MOTHS (1/5)


M
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Tiger, Tiger by Lynne Reid Banks (4/2/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
H
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They're Back! Challenge
Duration: April 1 - 30, 2022

F- Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals by Laurie Zaleski finished 4/2

I-I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir by Harvey Fierstein finished 4/10

R-Rother, Caitlin Then No One Can Have Her finished 4/25

E-Ellis, Helen Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light finished 4/19

F-Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling by Ron Franscell finished 4/14

L-A Life Without Water by Marci Bolden finished 4/7

Y-Yes, My Accent Is Real: and Some Other Things I Haven't Told You by Kunal Nayyar finished 4/12

Updated message #14: 4/7

Carol wrote: "April 2022 - THEY'RE BACK! Challenge
4/11


Chase in Shadow - Amy Lane - 4/1
A
T
Erick J. Brown - All That's Left in The World - 4/3
R
Poe, C.S. -[book:Madison Square Murders|58079..."

Very Cute Caterpillar Carol! 😊

Thanks, He'll turn into a Monarch butterfly.

Updated message #14: 5/7

Update message # 4 - Challenge completed - 17Apr22

finished message 13

Challenge Complete! Thank you!

Challenge complete!

Koren wrote: "Challenge complete!"

Congrats! I think you're the first.

Updated message #14: 7/7 DONE

Beverly wrote: "Updated message #14: 7/7 DONE"

Well done, Beverly.

Carol wrote: "Koren wrote: "Challenge complete!"

Congrats! I think you're the first."

Nope. Donna was ahead of me.

Congrats! 👏 to everyone who has finished their challenge(s) this month! 🐛

Challenge completed!