Grab a Book & Play Booktivity! discussion

BACK TO SCHOOL CHALLENGE
August 1 through 31, 2022

School 🏫 is just around the corner. Which were your favorite subjects?
Spell-out one/more of the ALL-CAPPED Subjects below:

SPELLING
HISTORY
ARITHMETIC
THE ARTS
BIOLOGY
CHEMISTRY
ENGLISH
FOREIGN Language
Home ECONOMICS
MUSIC
PHYSICAL Education
COMPUTER Science
DRAMA
GEOGRAPHY

Challenge Rules
• one book per letter
• use 1st letter of the (exclude A, An, 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 🏆🏫
🏫🏆Donna🏆🏫
🏫🏆JennH🏆🏫
🏫🏆Koren🏆🏫
🏫🏆Robin P🏆🏫
🏫🏆 SouthWest Zippy 🏆🏫
🏫🏆 Jonquil 🏆🏫

PARTICIPANTS
Updated: (8/31/22)

📚📖 Carol - PHYSICAL EDUCATION (17/17) C
Book Concierge - ENGLISH (6/7)
Cara - MUSIC (3/5)
📚📖 Donna - GEOGRAPHY (9/9) C
📚📖 SouthWestZippy - MUSIC (5/5) C
Licha-Olivia - ARITHMETIC (7/10)
📚📖 Jonquil - COMPUTER (8/8) C
📚📖 JennH - THE ARTS (7/7) C
Beverly - SPELLING (7/8)
Marilyn - MUSIC (3/5)
📚📖 Koren - PHYSICAL (8/8) C
📚📖 Robin P - ENGLISH (7/7) C

Back To School Challenge - August
17/17 - Done 8/25

Punk 57 - Penelope Douglas - 8/22
Hall, Alexis - Husband Material - 8/8
Yes No Maybe So - Becky Albertelli - 8/25
Shades of Gray - Brooke McKinney - 8/1
I Will Find You - Amanda Rigby - 83
Cullet, Evelyn - The Tarkington Treasure - 8/9
Aiden Bates - Fire And Ice - 8/5
Love Me Again - Max Walker -8/8

Elle Keaton - River Home- 8/2
Dean Koontz - The Big Dark Sky - 8/1
Unnatural Exposure - Patricia Cornwell - 8/20
Clegg, Douglas - Neverland - 8/7
Amy Lane - Fish in a Barrel - 8/11
Trope, Nicole - The Family Across the Street -8/6
Invitation to the Blues - Roan Parrish - 8/16
One Left Alive - Helen Phifer - 8/6
'Nother Sip of Gin - Rhys Ford - 8/3

August 2022: Back To School S*P*E*L*L Challenge
Begins: 01Aug22 / Ends: 31Aug22


7 / 7 completed

English
E - Erika L. Sánchez / I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter ✔ – 06Aug22
N - Nancy Thayer / Family Reunion ✔ – 05Aug22
G - Gunslinger ✔ – 02Sep22
L - Luis Alberto Urrea / Queen of America ✔ – 22Aug22
I - Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting ✔ – 05Aug22
S - Sofie Ryan / Buy a Whisker ✔ – 02Aug22
H - HANNAH, Kristin / The Four Winds ✔ – 01Aug22

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Music 3/5

M The Mountains Sing Nguyen Pan Que Mai
U The Universe of Us Lang Leav 8/17
S The Sky Is Everywhere Jandy Nelson 8/3
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August 2022: Back To School S*P*E*L*L Challenge
Begins: 01Aug22 / Ends: 31Aug22


9 / 9 completed

GEOGRAPHY

✔G ~~ Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 04Aug22

✔E ~~ Emily Itami, author of ~~ Fault Lines ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 24Aug22

✔O ~~ Michelle Obama, author of ~~ Becoming ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 02Aug22

✔G ~~ Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey ~~ 5 Stars ~~ 05Aug22

✔R ~~ Jason Rekulak, author of ~~ Hidden Pictures ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 08Aug22

✔A ~~ Adrienne Brodeur, author of Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 03Aug22

✔P ~~ D.J. Palmer, author of ~~ My Wife is Missing ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 07Aug22

✔H ~~ Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 08Aug22

✔Y ~~ Yvvette Edwards, author of The Mother: A Novel ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 19Aug22

Music- 5/5---Finished

M- Molly's Story by W. Bruce Cameron 8/7/22
U- The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull by Robert M. Utley 8/18/22
S- Shadow by Michael Morpurgo 8/10/22
I- In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn 8/23/22
C-Coached Red-Handed by Victoria Laurie
8/30/22

Back to School Challenge: August 1-31, 2022

10/10 Letters

A: Attack (The) Yasmina Khadra (8/21/22)
R: Rachel (mc); The Saturday Night Supper Club Laureano (8/15/22)
I: Invitation to Die Barbara Cleverly (9/30/22)
T: Throne of Feathers and Bone (A) Shannon Mayer and Kelly St Clare (8/26/22)
H: House of the Spirits (The) Isabel Allende (8/31/22)
M: Mayer, Shannon and Kelly St Clare A Court of Honey and Ash
(8/24/22)
E: Eleanora (mc) The Sweetest Dark Shana Abe (8/8/22) 3*
T: Tally Youngblood (mc) Specials Scott Westerfeld (8/7/22
I: Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V. E. Schwab (9/10/22)
C: Cleverly, Barbara Fall of Angels (9/4/22) )

Back to School Challenge:
August 2022

DONE


C Cold, Cold Bones Kathy Reichs 8/19
O One Taste Too Many Debra H. Goldstein 8/5
M Man with the Muscle Julie Miller 8/3
P Panic at the Pier Mel McCoy 8/6
U Undercover K-9 Cowboy Addison Fox 8/2
T Trouble Vision Allison Kingsley 8/22
E Erika Chase Read and Buried 8/23
R Remember Lisa Genova 8/16

Back to School Challenge

✔T - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 8/8/22
✔H - Death by Beach Read by Eva Gates 8/15/22 - Jo/Richard Harper
✔E - Book Lovers by Emily Henry 8/2/22

✔A - The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji 8/19/22
✔R - The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali 8/9/22 - Roya
✔T - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 8/17/22
✔S - Majesty by Katharine McGee 8/4/22 - Samantha Washington

Back To School S*P*E*L*L Challenge: spelling

7/8 completed

S Storm Front by Jim Butcher FINISHED 8/4
P
E The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler FINISHED 8/5
L Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill FINISHED 8/4
L The Last Green Valley by Mark T. Sullivan FINISHED 8/14
I Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Illustrated) and Other Tales By Washington Irving FINISHED 8/14
N Sofia Nova, The Secret of Moon Lake FINISHED 8/16
G Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado FINISHED 8/3

Back To School S*P*E*L*L Challenge: spelling

MUSIC
3/5 completed

✔M - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig--8/14/22
✔U - Urrea, Luis Alberto, author of The House of Broken Angels--8/1/22
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✔C - Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen--8/27/22

BACK TO SCHOOL CHALLENGE
August 1 through 31, 2022

P-Patterson, James Murder, Interrupted finished 8/6
H-Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be by Marissa Moss finished 8/7
Y-Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind finished 8/29
S-Spiers, Kathy (main character) in Till Murder Do Us Part by James Patterson finished 8/14
I-Iger, Robert The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company finished 8/17
C-Cowboy & Wills by Monica Holloway finished 9/8
A-The Angel in My Pocket: A Story of Love, Loss, and Life After Death by Sukey Forbes finished 8/22
L-Lawless, Wendy Chanel Bonfire finished 8/24

Back To School S*P*E*L*L Challenge: spelling
7/7 completed 8/26
**Funny, I hadn't even signed up for this challenge but found I had read enough books for this without even trying!

E - Elizabeth Jane Howard - After Julius - 8/12
N - Nev March - Murder in Old Bombay 8/26
G - Peter Grainger - But For The Grace - 8/15
L - Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life - 8/15
I - Interior Chinatown - 8/19
S - Semper Fidelis - 8/26
H - Hangman's Holiday: A Collection of Short Mysteries - 8/14

Finished!

Can I be added based on my message 15 or does it only work if I signed up at the beginning? No big deal either way.

Robin P wrote: "Can I be added based on my message 15 or does it only work if I signed up at the beginning? No big deal either way."

I'm not the admin but I don't see why you couldn't be added. The challenge lasts through the month of August and August still had a couple of days to go. Congratulations by the way, on your finish of the challenge.

Carol wrote: "Robin P wrote: "Can I be added based on my message 15 or does it only work if I signed up at the beginning? No big deal either way."

I'm not the admin but I don't see why you couldn't be added. Th..."

Book Concierge advised me to message Diana, who handles these monthly challenges. I'm sure she will take care of it.

Music- 5/5---Finished 8/30/22

Back to School Challenge:
August 2022

DONE


C Cold, Cold Bones Kathy Reichs 8/19
O One Taste Too Many Debra H. Goldstein 8/5
M Man with the Muscle Julie Miller 8/3
P Panic at the Pier Mel McCoy 8/6
U Undercover K-9 Cowboy Addison Fox 8/2
T Trouble Vision Allison Kingsley 8/22
E Erika Chase Read and Buried 8/23
R Remember Lisa Genova 8/16

Update message # 5 - Challenge completed - 01Sep22 (just forgot to post)


August 2022: Back To School S*P*E*L*L Challenge
Begins: 01Aug22 / Ends: 31Aug22


7 / 7 completed

English
E - Erika L. Sánchez / I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter ✔ – 06Aug22
N - Nancy Thayer / Family Reunion ✔ – 05Aug22
G - Gunslinger ✔ – 02Sep22
L - Luis Alberto Urrea / Queen of America ✔ – 22Aug22
I - Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting ✔ – 05Aug22
S - Sofie Ryan / Buy a Whisker ✔ – 02Aug22
H - HANNAH, Kristin / The Four Winds ✔ – 01Aug22

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Challenge completed