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💃💃Going To PROM Challenge 🕺🕺

Do you remember PROM?
Last night our Samba group performed at a prom, it brought back so many memories. ☺️

Spell-out one/more word(s) listed below dealing with prom.

LIMOUSINE
CORSAGE
TUXEDO
The Perfect DRESS
Prom TICKETS
Dine in STYLE
Prom PROPOSALS
Pretty SHOES
CHAPERONES
HAIRDO
Prom AFTER PARTY
PROM DATE
Prom KING & QUEEN
PHOTO Station
DANCING
DJ VS BAND
PUNCHBOWL

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

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

Ratings are optional
Happy Reading! 😀

👏🎉 CONGRATULATIONS 🎉👏
💃 COMPLETED CHALLENGE 🕺

🎉 Carol
🎉 Robin P
🎉 JennH
🎉 Jonquil
🎉 Cara
🎉 Donna

Participants
Updated 5/30/22

Book Concerige - CORSAGE (5/7)
Marilyn - DRESS (3/5)
🕺💃 JennH - DANCING (7/7) C
🕺💃Carol - THE PERFECT DRESS (15/15) C
🕺💃Cara - STYLE (5/5) C
🕺💃Koren - PUNCHBOWL (9/9) C
🕺💃Donna - PUNCHBOWL (9/9) C
🕺💃Jonquil - PROM DRESS (9/9) C
🕺💃Licha-Olivia - KING & QUEEN (9/9) C
🕺💃Robin P - CORSAGE (7/7) C
Diana S - LIMOUSINE (7/9)
Beverly - CHAPERONES (9/10)

Going to Prom Challenge
Begins: 01May22 / Ends: 31May22

7 / 7 completed


Corsage
C - Cooking with My Sisters ✔ – 25May22
O - One L ✔ – 08July22
R - Rhys Bowen / Naughty in Nice ✔ - 14May22
S - Sweetness of Water ✔ - 05May22
A - Anxious People ✔ – 27May22
G - GLENCONNER, Anne / Lady in Waiting ✔ - 12May22
E - Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good ✔ – 16June22

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Going to Prom Challenge
Begins: 01May22 / Ends: 31May22

3 / 5 completed

Dress

D
✔R--Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives by Kathy Sosa--5/8/22
E
✔S--The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre--5/4/22
✔S--The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende--5/8/22

Going to Prom Challenge

✔D - Double Indemnity by James M. Cain 5/3/22
✔A - Peril at End House by Agatha Christie 5/1/22
✔N - The Noise by James Patterson & JD Barker 5/14/22
✔C - Princess in Training by Meg Cabot 5/2/22
✔I - Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon 5/22/22
✔N - November 9 by Colleen Hoover 5/16/22
✔G - The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden 5/21/22

Going to Prom Challenge
15/15 - DONE 5/21

Tattoos & Teacups - Anna Martin - 5/11
Howard, Linda - Cover of Night - 5/1
Embrace the Fire - Felice Stevens - 5/5

Patterson, James & Dolly Parton - Run Rose Run -5/13
Elle Keaton - Conspiracy Theory - 5/7
Ramsey Campbell - Midnight Sun -5/8
Fletcher - M. Tasia - 5/1
Elizabeth Lowell - Always Time to Die -5/21
Chase the Sun - Christina Lee - 5/2
Third You Die - Scott Sherman - 5/16

Druid Stone, The - Heidi Belleau - 5/4
Reality of Us, The - Vanessa North -5/12
Erickson, J.R. - Ashes Beneath Her - 5/14
Sister Dear - Hannah Mary McKinnon - 5/7
Stronger Than Passion - Katherine McIntyre - 5/8

Style 5/5 Done!

S A Simple Plan Scott Smith 5/5
T This Burns My Heart Samuel Park 5/25
Y You Deserve a Drink: Boozy Misadventures and Tales of Debauchery Mamrie Hart 5/17
L The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil Philip Zimbardo 5/7
E Every Word You Cannot Say Iain S Thomas 5/26

Going to Prom Challenge
Begins: 01May22 / Ends: 31May22

P)-Paris Was the Place by Susan Conley finished 5/12
U-The Unmasking: Married to a Rapist by Kevin Flynn finished 5/28
N-Nedeff, Adam The Matchless Gene Rayburn finished 5/25
C-Clune, Brian Haunted Universal Studios finished 5/5
H-Helen Ellis Southern Lady Code: Essays finished 5/4
B-Brockes, Emma She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me finished 5/9
O-Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love by Larry Levin finished 5/20
W-White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland by Dick Lehr finished 5/16
L-Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog finished 5/1

Going to Prom Challenge
Begins: 01May22 / Ends: 31May22

9 / 9 completed

PUNCHBOWL

✔ P ~~ Patrick Radden Keefe author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, completed 02May22, 4 Stars
✔U --Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier by Stephen E. Ambrose, completed 09May22, 4 Stars
✔N -- Nine Lives by Peter Swanson, completed 12May22, 4 Stars
✔C -- Lee Child, author of Past Tense, completed 28May22, 4 Stars
✔H -- Harlan Coben author of Shelter, completed 02May22, 4 Stars
✔B -- Saul Bellow, author of Seize the Day, completed 19May22, 4 Stars
✔O -- David Owen, author of Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River, completed 19May22, 4 stars
✔W -- The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore, completed 07May22, 5 Stars
✔L -- John le Carré, author of Call for the Dead, completed 17May22, 3 Stars

Going to Prom Challenge
May 2022

9/9 DONE

P Pleading the Fish Bree Baker 5/6
R Run, Hide Carol Ericson 5/18
O Odd Man Out B.J. Daniels 5/3
M Murder on Madison Square Victoria Thompson 5/3

D Double Shot Death Emmeline Duncan 5/13
R Rising Danger Jerusha Agen 5./19
E Evidence Jonathan Kellerman 5/2
S Surrender the Key D.J. MacHale 5/13
S See Something Carol J. Perry 5/2

Going to the PROM Challenge
Begins: 01May22 / Ends: 31May22

KING & QUEEN: 9/9 Letters

K: Kerrigan Byrne Courting Trouble (5/2/22) 4*
I: Ivy, Alexandra Darkness Everlasting (5/8/22) 4*
N: No More Words Kerry Lonsdale (5/18/22) 4*
G: Garth Nix A Confusion of Princes (audiobook) (5/25/22) 3*

&

Q: Quicksilver Neal Stephenson (5/22/22) 3*
U: Universe versus Alex Woods (The) Gavin Extence (5/15/22) 3.5*
E: Eloisa James Duchess By Night (5/11/22) 4*
E: Ellery Adams The Whispered Word (5/28/22) 4*
N: Nell Freudenberger The Newlyweds (audiobook) (5/31/22) 4*

Going to Prom Challenge
May 2022

7/7 - complete May 14

C - The Far Country - 1 of the 2 main characters is Carl - May 1
O - Olive is a main character in Sea of Tranquility - May 6
R - Robert is one of the main characters in Five Children on the Western Front - May 14
S - The Night She Died - Dorothy Simpson - May 2
A - Angie Thomas, author of Concrete Rose - May 13
G - The Beautiful Mystery - main character Armand Gamache - May 4
E - The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich - May 1

Going To PROM Challenge

Spell-out LIMOUSINE (7/9)



Longbow, Bodine - Come Sundown by Nora Roberts (5/18/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I - The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand (5/14/22) 3.5 ⭐⭐⭐
MOORE, KATE - The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear (5//19/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
O
Unnatural Acts by Stuart Woods (5/7/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sun, Anna in The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang (5/4/22) 3.5 ⭐⭐⭐
I
Nyuki in The Way of the Hive: A Honey Bee's Story by Jay Hosler (5/16/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Easter Bonnet Murder by Leslie Meier (5/21/22) 3.5 ⭐⭐⭐

Going to Prom Challenge

CHAPERONES 9/10

C Chili Con Corpses by J.B. Stanley FINISHED 5/16

H The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard FINISHED 5/7

A Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery FINISHED 5/6

P Last Call by Laura Pedersen FINISHED 5/11

E Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean FINISHED 5/21

R Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand FINISHED 5/5

O

N A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes FINISHED 5/10

E Early Riser by Jasper Fforde FINISHED 5/26

S The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith FINISHED 5/15

👏👏 Congrats Carol & Robin for finishing your challenges this month.😃😃

Going to Prom Challenge
May 2022

9/9 DONE

P Pleading the Fish Bree Baker 5/6
R Run, Hide Carol Ericson 5./18
O Odd Man Out B.J. Daniels 5/3
M Murder on Madison Square Victoria Thompson 5/3

D Double Shot Death Emmeline Duncan 5/13
R Rising Danger Jerusha Agen 5./19
E Evidence Jonathan Kellerman 5/2
S Surrender the Key D.J. MacHale 5/13
S See Something Carol J. Perry 5/2

👏👏 Congrats! JennH & Jonquil for finishing your challenges this month 😃 😃

👏👏 Congrats! Cara & Donna for finishing your challenges this month 😃 😃

Challenge Completed!

Almost forgot to mark my challenge as complete.

👏 👏 Congats! Koren & Licha-Olivia for finishing your challenges this month. 😃😃

Update message # 4 - FINALLY got that 'O' - Challenge completed - 08July22

Going to Prom Challenge
Begins: 01May22 / Ends: 31May22

7 / 7 completed


Corsage
C - Cooking with My Sisters ✔ – 25May22
O - One L ✔ – 08July22
R - Rhys Bowen / Naughty in Nice ✔ - 14May22
S - Sweetness of Water ✔ - 05May22
A - Anxious People ✔ – 27May22
G - GLENCONNER, Anne / Lady in Waiting ✔ - 12May22
E - Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good ✔ – 16June22

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