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Let the fun begin!MEGA Scavenger Hunt VII
Begins: 01January2023 / Ends: 30June2023
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Word list
✔absurd - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p406 - "'This is absurd' was all I managed."
✔alligator - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p197 - "...nothing more than an abandoned pet alligator."
✔anvil - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p40 - "...I may have dropped an anvil."
✔autopsy - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p58 - "...unlit room containing a stainless-steel autopsy table."
✔baroque - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - 1/16/23 - p171 - "Baroque," she says."
✔basil - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p63 - "...see the herbs - basil, thyme..."
✔bindle - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p133 - "...over his shoulder like a hobo's bindle."
✔blouse - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p292 - "...she very casually unbuttoned her blouse..."
✔Buddha - Appointment with Death - 1/12/23 - p80 - "...like a monstrous swollen female Buddha..."
✔chai - A Spell for Trouble - 2/19/23 - p209 - "I'll take a chai latte."
✔clipboard - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p223 - "...but the clipboard reminded me of...
✔cognac - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p274 - "...picking up two glasses of Cognac..."
✔contagious - A Spindle Splintered - 1/21/23 - p19 - "...as if bad luck is contagious..."
✔crinkles - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p250 - "...small crinkles his eyes as he pushes his hair..."
✔delicacy - His Majesty's Dragon - 1/11/23 - p52 - "...look at the delicacy of the membrane..."
✔dishevelled - Wonton Terror - 1/6/23 - p25 - "...past him at our now sad disheveled tent."
✔downtown - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p120 - "...late-night vegan comfort-food restaurant downtown..."
✔drag queen - Mango, Mambo, and Murder - 4/6/23 - p40 - "...that he was a drag queen by night..."
✔dust bunnies - A Spindle Splintered - 1/21/23 - p74 - "...but a few quarks and dust bunnies."
✔ethics - With the Fire on High - 1/24/23 - p178 - "...and work ethic you're learning in class..."
✔euphoria - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p96 - "...his euphoria crossing the line."
✔expanse - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p282 - "...large gray stones set in an expanse of green..."
✔exploits - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - 1/16/23 - p388 - "...create a roster of my past exploits..."
✔feminist - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p214 - "...let alone a liberal feminist from..."
✔fizz - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p37 - "Her insides fizz."
✔flashbulb - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p372 - "...the world's most powerful flashbulb, I blasted..."
✔floozy - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - 4/13/23 - Audiobook 4:27:31 - "...when she called her auntie a foolish floozy..."
✔food truck - Wonton Terror - 1/6/23 - p2 - "...a food truck pulled into the parking lot..."
gaucho
✔girdle - A Spindle Splintered - 1/21/23 - p12 - "...wears dresses with pleats and girdles..."
✔goosebumps - Wonton Terror - 1/6/23 - p228 - "...my arms covering with goosebumps."
✔guile - Sad Cypress - 1/25/23 - p144 - "...with an apparent lack of guile."
✔hanging - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p220 - "...and on Thursday he left his jacket hanging..."
✔helmet - The Vanishing Type - 1/9/23 - p78 - "...took off her helmet and gazed..."
✔hopscotch - Brown Girl Dreaming - 1/29/23 - p243 - "...we draw hopscotch games that we play..."
✔horde - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p281 - "...plus the usual hordes of blemmyae disguised..."
✔hummingbird - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p190 - "...buzzing at hummingbird frequency."
✔ice pack - The Vanishing Type - 1/9/23 - p193 - "...she took two gel ice packs out..."
✔identification - An Arrow to the Moon - 1/27/23 - p317 - "...had been served documents of identification."
✔idol - Appointment with Death -1/12/23 - p46 - "...as a kind of powerful obscene idol."
✔implications - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p136 - "...this has implications for fire safety..."
✔Jehovah - Brown Girl Dreaming - 1/29/23 - p59 - "...Jehovah, please give us another day..."
jodhpurs
Jurassic
✔karaoke - The Unhoneymooners - 2/9/23 - p14 - "...and got up to sing karaoke with Dad..."
✔kerchief - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p297 - "...cover it with a kerchief the color..."
✔knack - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p247 - "...but I had a knack for it..."
✔lacquer - Wonton Terror - 1/6/23 - p107 - "...made of black lacquer sat in the center..."
✔latte - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - 1/16/23 - p139 - "...lifting the latte to his mouth when someone..."
✔lexicon - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - 1/16/23 - p259 - "...in lexicons and bestiaries but not in formal..."
MEGA Scavenger Hunt VIIBegins: 01January2023 / Ends: 30June2023
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lip sync
✔meager - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - 1/16/23 - p302 - "...slide over the meager bounty on the sill..."
✔mellifluous - Ella Minnow Pea - 1/23/23 - p73 - "...he speaks with such a mellifluous..."
✔minutes (of a meeting) - M Is for Magic - 2/10/23 - p170 - "...in one of the minutes of the Epicurean Club from..."
✔mocha - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p163 - "...and came back with a mocha..."
✔moss - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p150 - "...kneeling down on damp moss with the barrel..."
nasturtium
✔ninny - Sense and Sensibility - 1/21/23 - p273 - "Colonel is a ninny, my dear..."
✔notoriety - Wonton Terror - 1/6/23 - p293 - "...no sense in adding to my notoriety."
✔nudge - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p310 - "...and gave the portrait a nudge with..."
✔obsession - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p50 - "...caught up in his obsession with destroying..."
✔oleander - Appointment with Death -1/12/23 - p76 - "...twisting and turning with clumps of oleander..."
✔oration - Animal Farm - 4/14/23 - p126 - "...and pronounced a short oration in..."
✔outrage - His Majesty's Dragon - 1/11/23 - p12 - "...and to face the outrage of his..."
✔panther - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p78 - "...reminded me of a panther watching its prey..."
✔parasite - I Must Betray You - 2/13/23 - p182 - "...was calling Bunu a parasite."
peevish
✔pigtails - An Arrow to the Moon - 1/27/23 - p145 - "...messy pigtails bobbed to the surface..."
✔pumps (shoes) - Wonton Terror - 1/6/23 - p68 - "...beige knee-length skirt and matching pumps."
✔quake - Muffin But the Truth - 2/19/23 - p69 - "...made his body quake for..."
✔queasy - The Vanishing Type - 1/9/23 - p91 - "...was tired and queasy for days..."
✔red tape - Farm to Trouble - 2/23/23 - p140 - "...until the red tape is cleared to even collect..."
✔relic - His Majesty's Dragon - 1/11/23 - p92 - "...and a relic of an older Navy..."
✔rife - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p296 - "...and today would be rife with..."
✔rogue - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p266 - "...relief hit her like a rogue wave..."
✔rosemary (herb) - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p63 - "...see the herbs - basil, thyme, rosemary."
✔saffron - With the Fire on High - 1/24/23 - p102 - "...crush it like the strands of saffron..."
✔shepherd - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p87 - "...to shepherd the bird out the door..."
✔slogan - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p277 - "...picture of a hamburger and the slogan..."
✔squander - A Spindle Splintered - 1/21/23 - p36 - "...to waste or squander or give to someone else..."
✔stockings - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p137 - "...not to take things out of the stockings..."
✔tavern - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - 1/16/23 - p79 - "...is a tavern inn at the edge of the..."
✔therapy - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p292 - "...he could find a different therapy group..."
✔torture - Appointment with Death -1/12/23 - p5 - "...couldn't torture us like she does if she..."
tres leches cake
✔turmoil - Wonton Terror - 1/6/23 - p231 - "...despite the turmoil it would cause..."
✔undergarments - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - 1/16/23 - p31 - "...between the skirts and aprons and undergarments..."
✔unkempt - My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories - 1/8/23 - p224 - "...I'd never seen him look unkempt before."
✔vanish(-ed,-ing) - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p406 - "...gentle smile vanished as suddenly as the flame..."
✔vestibule - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p221 - "...stops on the black rubber mat in the vestibule."
✔vibrate - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p259 - "...might make my brain vibrate to the point..."
✔vulnerable - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p481 - "...looks at her bare vulnerable face..."
✔warrant - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p431 - "...break into an apartment without a warrant."
✔watercolor - A Spindle Splintered - 1/21/23 - p2 - "...a woman in palest watercolor lying artfully..."
✔wavering - His Majesty's Dragon - 1/11/23 - p31 - "...stood wavering on his hind legs..."
✔wince - The Hypnotist - 1/3/23 - p17 - "...and his face seems to wince slightly..."
✔yardstick - The Dark Prophecy - 1/20/23 - p82 - "...he pulled a folding yardstick."
✔yawning - His Majesty's Dragon - 1/11/23 - p191 - "Lily was yawning widely..."
✔zebra - The Unhoneymooners - 2/9/23 - p163 - "...imagining the tragedy of a zebra..."
✔zest - With the Fire on High - 1/24/23 - p177 - "...probably the orange zest."
Yippee!MEGA Scavenger Hunt VII
Begins: 01January2023 / Ends: 30June2023
50 / 50 completed THIS post (part 1 of 2)
?100 / 100 completed entire challenge
Word list
Absurd ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 1451 ~~ “...I felt simultaneously absurd, sordid, and blessed…”
alligator ~~ A Place at the Table ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 153 ~~ “...like an alligator outside of its swamp..”
Anvil ~~ Gone Tomorrow ~~ 07Jan23 ~~ Page 16 ~~ “...the stirrup and the anvil from the inner ear
Autopsy ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 10 ~~ “...when the police autopsy came out…”
Baroque ~~ The Rabbit Hunter ~~ 01Jan23 ~~ Page 257 ~~ “...melodic Baroque music fills the room..”
Basil ~~ We All Want Impossible Things ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 150 ~~ “...with basil, chiles, lime leaf…”
Bindle ~~ The Last Good Kiss ~~ 07Mar23 ~~ Page 144 ~~ “...Classic bindle stiff, apple knocker, pea pickin’ bum…”
Blouse ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 2326 ~~ “...skirts and blouses with red sashes…”
Buddha ~~ Peril ~~ 24Jan23 ~~ Page 337 ~~ “...including sixth century Buddhas…”
chai ~~ A Place at the Table ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 92 ~~ “...she smells of chai and ginger…”
Clipboard ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 1423 ~~ “...she spends days in the field with a clipboard…”
Cognac ~~ The Rabbit Hunter ~~ 01Jan23 ~~ Page 426 ~~ “...microwave pizza and nips of cognac…”
contagious ~~ Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void ~~ 09Jan23 ~~ Page 115 ~~ “...motion sickness can seem contagious…”
crinkles ~~ A Place at the Table ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 258 “...feeling the stretch in his shirt crinkle..”
delicacy ~~ Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void ~~ 09Jan23 ~~ Page 178 ~~ “...as though it was an Italian delicacy…”
disheveled~~ The Hunger ~~ 03Jan23 ~~ Page 9 ~~ “...he had a perpetually disheveled look…”
Downtown ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 15 ~~ “...part time at a restaurant downtown…”
drag queen ~~ Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol ~~ 11Feb23 ~~ Page 218 ~~ “...began to let women, all women, and drag queens inside…”
dust bunnies ~~ Compulsion ~~ 28Jan23 ~~ Page 53 ~~ “...fuzzed by crumbs and dust bunnies…”
ethics ~~ Head On~~ 07Jan23 ~~ Page 120 ~~ “...check out the ethics on you…”
euphoria ~~ Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void ~~ 09Jan23 ~~ Page 68 ~~ “...NASA preferred the less flowery term, “space euphoria”...”
Expanse ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 2332 ~~ “...a green carpeted expanse set up…”
exploits ~~ The Rabbit Hunter ~~ 01Jan23 ~~ Page 174 ~~ “...exploits the things you pride yourself on…”
feminist ~~ The Rabbit Hunter ~~ 01Jan23 ~~ Page 91 ~~ “...there were extreme feminists…”
fizz ~~ The Light Pirate ~~ 19Jan23 ~~ Page 98 ~~ “...bottle of cola sits open, losing its fizz…”
Flashbulb ~~ Gone Tomorrow ~~ 07Jan23 ~~ Page 429 ~~ “... “...right when the flashbulb went off…”
Floozy ~~ The Last Good Kiss ~~ 07Mar23 ~~ Page 88 ~~ “...play a self sacrificing floozy one last time…”
food truck ~~ The Girl in the Glass Box ~~ 28Jan23 ~~ Page 229 ~~ “...from each of the food trucks that rumbled through…”
Gaucho ~~ The Insufferable Gaucho ~~ 27May23 ~~ Page 23 ~~ “...other gauchos and storekeepers soon joined…”
girdle ~~ Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void ~~ 09Jan23 ~~ Page 334 ~~ “...was like a ladies’ girdle you pulled on…”
Goosebumps ~~ The Couple at Number 9 ~~ 09Jan23 ~~ Page 16 ~~ “...Goosebumps ripple over my skin…”
Guile ~~ The Couple at Number 9 ~~ 09Jan23 ~~ Page 377 ~~ “...the same guile, and innocence, and faith…”
Hanging ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 1899 ~~ “...blue tassels hanging down…”
helmet ~~ The Rabbit Hunter ~~ 01Jan23 ~~ Page 27 ~~ “...grabs her helmet, bulletproof vest and gloves…”
Hopscotch ~~ Ten Steps to Nanette ~~ 05Feb23 ~~ Page 38 ~~ “...an emergency hopscotch pitch on the pavement…”
horde ~~ A Place at the Table ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 6 ~~ “...as though hordes of invisible electronic crickets…”
Hummingbird ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 458 ~~ “...like a hummingbird was trapped in her chest…”
ice pack ~~ Carrie Soto Is Back ~~ 25Jan23 ~~ Page 155 ~~ “...with an ice pack on my knee…”
identification ~~ The Broken Window ~~ 19Jan21 ~~ Page 12 ~~ “...military identification and information…”
Idol ~~ We All Want Impossible Things ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 209--My idol Miriam Toews wrote it.
Implications ~~ Head On~~ 07Jan23 ~~ Page 157 ~~ “...some pretty substantial implications for her…”
Jehovah ~~ The Couple at Number 9 ~~ 09Jan23 ~~ Page 267 ~~ “...Are they neighbors? Jehovah’s Witnesses?...”
jodhpurs ~~ The Couple at Number 9 ~~ 09Jan23 ~~ Page 306 ~~ “...a baggy fawn colored jumper and cream jodhpurs…”
Jurassic ~~ Compulsion ~~ 28Jan23 ~~ Page 139 ~~ “...department was stuck somewhere between the Mesozoic and Jurrasic…”
Karaoke ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 21 ~~ “...outside a karaoke joint…”
kerchief~~ The Hunger ~~ 03Jan23 ~~ Page 73 ~~ “...the kerchief was out and he was scrubbing…”
Knack ~~ Got The Look ~~ 10Jan23 ~~ Page 48 ~~ “...had a knack for thinking like a dirtbag…”
lacquer ~~ Compulsion ~~ 28Jan23 ~~ Page 406 ~~ “...curly brass inlay, nice lacquer finish…”
latte ~~ Got The Look ~~ 10Jan23 ~~ Page 76 ~~ “...the waiter brought them two lattes…”
Part II50 / 50 completed THIS post (part 2 of 2)
100? / 100 completed entire challenge
lexicon ~~ Olga Dies Dreaming ~~ 14Jan23 ~~ Page 76~~ “...the proper expression in the lexicon of morning news…”
lip sync ~~ The Night Bird ~~ 18May23 ~~ Page 110 ~~ “...He laughed as she began to lip sync to “Bad Girls”…”
Meager ~~ The Hunger ~~ 03Jan23 ~~ Page 281 ~~ “...had dragged their meager possessions…”
Mellifluous ~~ The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts ~~ 29Jan23 ~~ Page 229 ~~ “...with the mellifluous name of Badalabougou…”
minutes (of a meeting) ~~ In My Shoes: A Memoir ~~ 17Feb23 ~~ Page 236 ~~ “...in the minutes of a Board Meeting…”
mocha ~~ We All Want Impossible Things ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 83--we ate mocha chip Frusen Glaje
moss ~~ We All Want Impossible Things ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 77--sculptures out of leaves and moss
nasturtium ~~ Prognosis: A Memoir of My Brain ~~ 04Apr23 ~~ Page 31 ~~ “...a flower bed, full of nasturtiums and lavender…”
Ninny ~~ Killers of a Certain Age ~~ 07Jan23 ~~ Page 209 ~~ “...sometimes you are such a ninny!...”
notoriety ~~ Got The Look ~~ 10Jan23 ~~ Page 130 ~~ “...an increasing thirst for notoriety…”
nudge ~~ A Place at the Table ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 23 ~~ “...catches me staring and nudges my arm…”
Obsession ~~ A Place at the Table ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 52 ~~ “...my current YouTube obsession…”
oleander ~~ Reckoning ~~ 12Feb23 ~~ Page 152 ~~ “...the wind moving everything, the pink oleander, the pine…”
Oration ~~ Ten Steps to Nanette ~~ 05Feb23 ~~ Page 349 ~~ “...giving one of his favorite orations…”
Outrage ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 1548 ~~ “...bore a trite expression of outrage…
panther ~~ Olga Dies Dreaming ~~ 14Jan23 ~~ Page 74~~ “...the Puerto Rican equivalent of the Black Panthers…”
parasite ~~ Gone Tomorrow ~~ 07Jan23 ~~ Page 310 ~~ “...parasites die if their host dies…”
peevish ~~ Compulsion ~~ 28Jan23 ~~ Page 229 ~~ “...to a persistent peevish rumble…”
pigtails ~~ Every Heart a Doorway ~~ 06Jan23 ~~ Page 24 ~~ “...tied into two childish pigtails…”
pumps (shoes) ~~ Someone Else's Shoes ~~ 20Feb23 ~~ Page 8 ~~ “...does not contain her comfortable black pumps…”
quake ~~ Got The Look ~~ 10Jan23 ~~ Page 445 ~~ “...the slight quake in her voice made him wary…”
Queasy 183-- makes me feel queasy again
red tape ~~ Dark Horse ~~ 23Jan23 ~~ Page 56 ~~ “...tangle of red tape, interfering jurisdictions…”
Relic ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 1935 ~~ “...relics of another era, going nowhere…”
Rife Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, page 220, rife with articles on vibratory massage..”
rogue ~~ Killers of a Certain Age ~~ 07Jan23 ~~ Page 100 ~~ “...he might have gone rogue…”
rosemary (herb) ~~ We All Want Impossible Things ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 17--shrugging and saying “Rosemary scented focaccia
saffron ~~ The Rabbit Hunter ~~ 01Jan23 ~~ Page 6 ~~ “...saffron colored pollen falls from a lily…”
shepherd ~~ We All Want Impossible Things ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 8--at the Graceful Shepherd Hospice
Slogan ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 1611~~ “... mugs, with their terrible, well meaning slogans…”
Squander ~~ Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void ~~ 10Jan23 ~~ page 318 ~~ “...Let’s squander some on Mars…”
stockings ~~ We All Want Impossible Things ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 10-- You’re helping someone into compression stockings
tavern ~~ Got The Look ~~ 10Jan23 ~~ Loc 5328 ~~ “...Sparky’s Tavern wasn’t much to look at…”
Therapy ~~ The Rabbit Hunter ~~ 01Jan23 ~~ Page 7 ~~ “...he got electroshock therapy…”
torture ~~ The Rabbit Hunter ~~ 01Jan23 ~~ Page 415 ~~ “...has been a rabbit torture and slaughter…”
torture ~~ The Rabbit Hunter ~~ 01Jan23 ~~ Page 415 ~~ “...has been a rabbit torture and slaughter…”
???--- Tres leches cake POSSIBLE ~~ Twenty ~~ 20Apr23 ~~ page 319 ~~ “...Arroz con pollo. Plantains. Maybe a little tres leches for dessert…”
turmoil ~~ Gone Tomorrow ~~ 07Jan23 ~~ Page 57 ~~ “...acting out some inner kind of turmoil…”
undergarments ~~ Every Heart a Doorway ~~ 06Jan23 ~~ Page 168 ~~ “...tangled blouses and skirts and undergarments…”
unkempt ~~ The Hunger ~~ 03Jan23 ~~ Page 49 ~~ “...the men dirty and unkempt in their old buckskins…”
vanish(-ed,-ing) ~~ The Rabbit Hunter ~~ 01Jan23 ~~ Page 101 ~~ “...again, the woman has vanished…”
vestibule ~~ Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void ~~ 10Jan23 ~~ page 111 ~~ “...hairs that line the vestibule of the inner ear…”
vibrate ~~ Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void ~~ 10Jan23 ~~ page 143 ~~ “...The glass starts to vibrate more and more…”
vulnerable ~~ Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void ~~ 10Jan23 ~~ page 199 ~~ “...left the bather more vulnerable…”
warrant ~~ The Rabbit Hunter ~~ 01Jan23 ~~ Page 66 ~~ “..show the warrant authorizing the transfer…”
watercolor ~~ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 3:27 ~~ “..the lightness of watercolors…”
Wavering ~~ Memory of Departure ~~ 09Jan23 ~~ Page 62 ~~ “...his shadow looming and wavering in the dark…”
Wince ~~ Land of Big Numbers: Stories ~~ 04Jan23 ~~ Loc 589 ~~ “...the sound of it made her wince…”
Yardstick ~~ The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder ~~ 16Jan23 ~~ Page 361 ~~ “...shaved head and a yardstick of muscled collarbone…”
yawning ~~ Got The Look ~~ 10Jan23 ~~ Page 367 ~~ “...not exactly a yawning invitation…”
zebra ~~ A Place at the Table ~~ 02Jan23 ~~ Page 287 ~~ “...a bag of zebra basmati rice…”
zest ~~ Memory of Departure ~~ 09Jan23 ~~ Page 62 ~~ “...described as a zest for life…”
]MEGA Scavenger Hunt VIIBegins: 01January2023 / Ends: 30June2023
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Word list
absurd -"may seem absurd" - The Sentence p86 1/8
alligator - "walks among alligators" - Peach Blossom Spring p328 1/7
anvil - "hammered on an anvil" - Spinning Silver p360 1/15
autopsy - "reviewed the autopsy report" - The Heirs p 202 1/3
baroque - "baroque dramas are being acted out" - Everything Will Be All Right 1/5
basil - "fragrant with basil" - Old World Murder p253 1/16
bindle
blouse - "slowly begins to unbutton her blouse" - Blues for Mister Charlie p 67 1/2
Buddha - "The Buddha, she said" - The Heirs p90 1/3
chai - "brew a kettle of chai" - A Woman Is No Man p5 1/27
clipboard - "the metal edge of the clipboard" - Old World Murder p28 1/16
cognac - "red wine and cheap cognac" - Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II p383 1/17
contagious -"deadly and highly contagious" - Slippery Creatures Ch 10, 5:21 of audiobook 1/27
crinkles - "crinkles around the man's eyes" - The Liar's Dictionary ch 20, 6:21 of audiobook
delicacy -"his delicacy with the brushes" - A Trip to the Stars p487 1/22
disheveled - "his hair was disheveled' - Everything Will Be All Right p138 1/5
downtown - "a woman downtown" - The Heirs p60 1/3
drag queen - "go for drag queen" - Demon Copperhead - Ch 32 15:14 of audiobook - 2/17
dust bunnies -"through the dust bunnies" - Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average p36 3/12
ethics - "personal sense of ethics" - Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II p401 1/17
euphoria - "terror and euphoria" - The Sentence p28 1/8
expanse - "a cozy expanse for living" - The Sentence p45 1/8
exploits - "their lurid exploits" - A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England p31 2/6
feminist - "weak-wristed feminists" - The Heirs p152 1/3
fizz - "a fizz of mental disruptions" - The Sentence p124 1/8
flashbulb - "phosphorescent exploding flashbulbs" - A Trip to the Stars p228 1/22
floozy - "I'm not just some floozy" - However Long the Day p103 1/28
food truck - "his Caribbean food truck" - American Fairytale Ch 10, 6:10 of audiobook
gaucho
girdle - "ends of her girdle" - Death and the Chapman p68 - 2/17
goosebumps - "goosebumps prickle her arm" - Peach Blossom Spring p124 1/7
guile - "smiled back at her without guile" - Innocence - p262 - 2/13
hanging - "a hanging in reverse" - Blues for Mister Charlie - p 83 - 1/2
helmet - "green metal helmets" - Peach Blossom Spring p310 1/7
hopscotch - "hopscotch, and sleeve-valve engines" p42 - The Constant Rabbit - 1/19
horde - "the hordes on the horizon" - Spinning Silver p406 1/15
hummingbird - "curious baby hummingbird" - The Sentence p214 1/8
ice pack - "getting Charlie an ice pack" - Heartstopper: Volume Two p90 1/10
identification -"for his identification" - The Heirs p167 1/3
idol - "Nell's childhood idol" - Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood p57 2/24
implications - "considering the implications" - Peach Blossom Spring p147 1/7
Jehovah - "his relations with Jehovah" - The Old Wives' Tale ch 2, p 3 of Gutenberg book - 2/10
jodhpurs - "encasing the jodhpurs" - Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood p252 2/24
Jurassic
karaoke - "she could hear the karaoke" - Bad Axe County p54 - 3/9
kerchief - "a kerchief tying back her hair" - Peach Blossom Spring p150 1/7
knack - "a knack for knowing where" - Peach Blossom Spring p156 1/7
lacquer - "the black lacquer" - Peach Blossom Spring p69 1/7
latte - "two vanilla lattes" - A Woman Is No Man p150 1/27
Part II47/50
lexicon - "introduced the word into Leater's lexicon" - The Heirs p162 1/3
lip sync
meager - "surrounded by meagre possessions" - Peach Blossom Spring p100 1/7
mellifluous - "the more mellifluous De Beaumarchais" - Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution p27 - 2/15
minutes (of a meeting)
mocha - "a medium mocha" - Dance Away with Me p43 2/1
moss - "like peat moss" - The Heirs p63 1/3
nasturtium - "the joy of nasturtiums" - Tin Man p34 1/23
ninny - "Sophia the naive ninny" - The Old Wives' Tale Ch 6, p3 of Gutenberg book 2/10
notoriety - individuals of great notoriety" - A Trip to the Stars p244 1/22
nudge " she nudges Renshu" - Peach Blossom Spring p47 1/7
obsession - "crossing over to obsession" - The Heirs p51 1/3
oleander - "out of the oleander bushes" - A Trip to the Stars p172 1/22
oration - "a funeral oration" - Babel p414 3/2
outrage - "how big their outrage" - Peach Blossom Spring p191 1/7
panther - "panthers in locked cages" - A Trip to the Stars p343 1/22
parasite - "her body invaded by a parasite" - Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywoodp61 2/24
peevish -"detected a peevish note" - The Heirs p133 1/3
pigtails - "with untidy pigtails" - Peach Blossom Spring p22 1/7
pumps (shoes) - "panty hose and low-heeled pumps" - Old World Murder p254 1/16
quake - "the moon will quake" - Ruslan and Ludmila p15 1/21
queasy - "It made me queasy" - The Heirs p97 1/3
red tape - "regulations and red tape" - Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II p468 1/17
relic- "they were sacred relics" - However Long the Day p 373 1/28
rife - "rife with obliterating dysfunction" - The Heirs p230 1/3
rogue - "tricksters, rogues, wise men and fools" - Peach Blossom Spring p345 1/7
rosemary (herb) - "a small bowl of rosemary" - A Trip to the Stars p111 1/22
saffron - "generous pinch of saffron" - Love & Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love p4 1/24
shepherd - "she shepherds him to the edge of the road" - Peach Blossom Spring p46 1/7
slogan - "a Communist slogan" - Peach Blossom Spring p301 1/7
squander - "who will squander it" - Peach Blossom Spring p175
stockings -"she didn't wear no stockings" - Blues for Mister Charlie p115 1/2
tavern - "directed Chloe to a tavern" - Old World Murder p31 1/16
therapy - "cheaper than therapy" - The Heirs p88 1/3
torture - "the subway ride became torture" - The Heirs p 186 1/3
tres leches cake
turmoil - "all the turmoil" - Peach Blossom Spring p23 1/7
undergarments -"wearing Nana's undergarments"- The Heirs p80 1/3
unkempt - "her hair is unkempt" - Peach Blossom Spring p37 1/7
vanish(-ed,-ing) - "joviality has vanished" - Peach Blossom Spring p200 1/7
vestibule - "in the dark of my vestibule" - Another Brooklyn Ch 9 9:50 of audiobook 1/5
vibrate - "vibrates straight into Meilin" - Peach Blossom Spring p80 1/7
vulnerable - "feeling vulnerable" - Peach Blossom Spring p121 1/7
warrant - "we need a warrant" - Old World Murder p218 1/16
watercolor -"drizzled in watercolors" - Dance Away with Me p23 2/1
wavering - "feel herself wavering" - Peach Blossom Spring p335 1/7
wince -"couldn't suppress a wince" - Slippery Creatures Ch 15 2:03 of audiobook 1/27
yardstick - "a sign taped to a yardstick" - Love & Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love p75 1/24
yawning - "catches herself yawning" - Peach Blossom Spring p357
zebra - "giraffe and zebra roamed" - Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood p345
zest - "her daughter Ava's zest" - Dance Away with Me p124 2/1
Mod
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51 / 51 completed THIS post (part 1 of 2)
51 / 100 completed entire challenge
29 books read
Word list
absurd - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 110 - "The answer, he realized was absurd."
alligator - Candy and Me ✔ – 28Jan23 - pg 51 - ""…Small alligators lumbered…"
anvil - Hondo ✔ – 30Jan23 - pg 9 - "…sheltered an anvil, a forge…"
autopsy - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 77 - "…does the autopsy say about…"
baroque - The Last Chance Library ✔ – 21Feb23 - pg 298 - "…frescoed baroque Library…"
basil - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 151 - "Minced fresh basil speckled…"
bindle - On the Wrong Track ✔ – 23Jan25 - Disc 1, track 4 - "His bindle is still here."
blouse - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 44 - "…silk blouse, her fingers, her…"
Buddha - Bettyville ✔ – 24Jan23 - pg 115 - "Granny's kneeling Buddha…"
chai - Love, Loss, and What We Ate ✔ – 17Jan23 - pg 77 - "…bring me my chai, please."
clipboard - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 12 - "…cover the stains with a clipboard."
cognac - Treasure Island ✔ – 23Feb23 - pg 111 - "…a cask of cognac, and my…"
contagious - U is for Undertow ✔ – 18Jan23 - pg 130 - "…anguish was contagious and…"
crinkles - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 116 - "Each tiny crinkle of paper…"
delicacy - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 8 - "…even get delicacies on …"
disheveled - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 316 - "…face a very disheveled Julian…"
downtown - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 19 - "…contract with a downtown legal firm."
drag queen - Bettyville ✔ – 24Jan23 - pg 63 - "…black drag queen, wore enourmous…"
dust bunnies - Razor Girl ✔ – 28Mar23 - pg 262 - "…not even a dust bunny."
ethics - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 214 - "…about ethics and all that."
euphoria - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 171 - "…his parental euphoria long enough…"
expanse - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 25 - "…an expanse of chocolate water…"
exploits - The Hour of Land ✔ – 02Feb23 - pg 266 - "…American West to exploit."
feminist - Love, Loss, and What We Ate ✔ – 17Jan23 - pg 51 - "…was a closet feminist."
fizz - Bettyville ✔ – 24Jan23 - pg 155 - "…having gin fizzes with…"
flashbulb - Love, Loss, and What We Ate ✔ – 17Jan23 - pg 38 - "…a flashbulb went off."
floozy - West with Giraffes ✔ – 06Feb23 - pg 164 - "…a fiery red-headed floozy."
food truck - Horse ✔ – 08Apr23 - pg 55 - "…amid the food trucks, belting out…"
gaucho - Time Was Soft There ✔ – 20June23 - pg 52 - "The Gaucho is another…"
girdle - The Owl & Moon Cafe ✔ – 01Feb23 - pg 81 - "…nurse's shoes and a girdle."
goosebumps - The Code Breaker ✔ – 30Mar23 - pg 325 - "…spine and goosebumps knowing…"
guile - U is for Undertow ✔ – 18Jan23 - pg 202 - "…was without guile."
hanging - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane ✔ – 01Jan23 - pg 141 - "…was hanging by his…"
helmet - Bettyville ✔ – 24Jan23 - pg 97 - "…a Bible in his helmet."
hopscotch - Yule Be Dead ✔ – 06Apr23 - pg 88 - "I'm playing hopscotch."
horde - The Violin of Auschwitz ✔ – 10Jan23 - pg 20 - "…viscious horde of hyenas."
hummingbird - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 57 - "…jewel-winged hummingbird soared…"
ice pack - Buried in a Good Book ✔ – 18Feb23 - pg 11 - "…one of the ice packs from…"
identification - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 158 - "Identification was pending."
idol - Love, Loss, and What We Ate ✔ – 17Jan23 - pg 222 - "…and various idols and…"
implications - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane ✔ – 01Jan23- pg 15 - "…the implications of being…"
Jehovah - Leave the World Behind ✔ – 15Feb24 - pg 38 - "…come to witness Jehovah."
jodhpurs - Royal Flush ✔ – 15July23 - pg 95 - "…put on my jodhpurs and…"
Jurassic - The Code Breaker ✔ – 30Mar23 - pg 164 - "…movie Jurassic Park, in which…"
karaoke - A Loyal Character Dancer ✔ – 24Jan23 - pg 131 - "Karaoke had been imported…"
kerchief - Upright Women Wanted ✔ – 22Jan23 - pg 111 - "…whipping off their kerchief and…"
knack - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 21 - "I had a knack for finding…"
lacquer A Loyal Character Dancer ✔ – 24Jan23 - pg 191 - "…on a black lacquer tray."
latte - The Second-Worst Restaurant in France ✔ – 15Jan23 - pg 205 - "…say caffe latte like…"
lexicon - The Owl & Moon Cafe ✔ – 01Feb23 - pg 12 - "…had made it into the lexicon."
lip sync - 11/22/63 ✔ – 16July25 - pg 141 - "He's going to lip-synch to..."
Continued next post
Mod
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49 / 49 completed THIS post (part 2 of 2)
100 / 100 completed Entire Challenge
29 books read
meager - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 205 - "Imagine our meager hills being…"
mellifluous - Love, Loss, and What We Ate ✔ – 17Jan23 - pg 6 - "…had such a mellifluous voice."
minutes - The Last Chance Library ✔ – 21Feb23 - pg 295 - "…minutes from a Friends of Chalcot Library meeting."
mocha - Uncommon Type ✔ – 07Mar23 - pg 107 - "…with a shot of mocha a while…"
moss - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 92 - "…rust or moss, but the stains…"
nasturtium - The Second-Worst Restaurant in France ✔ – 15Jan23 - pg 105 - "…red and orange nasturtiums;…"
ninny - Buried in a Good Book ✔ – 18Feb23 - pg 99 - "…just any Peabody, you ninny."
notoriety - Gaudy Night ✔ – 21Feb23 - pg 3 - "…a roar of notoriety."
nudge - U is for Undertow ✔ – 18Jan23 - pg 14 - "I gave him a nudge."
obsession - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 103 - "…were no obsession of mine."
oleander - Finding Nouf ✔ – 28Apr23 - pg 79 - "…commonly known as oleander."
oration - Cloud Cuckoo Land ✔ – 11Apr23 - pg 171 - "…transcriptions of orations; requests…"
outrage - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 103 - "You used the public outrage about…"
panther - Hondo ✔ – 30Jan23 - pg 115 - "…the panther best, preferring…"
parasite - Love, Loss, and What We Ate ✔ – 17Jan23 - pg 291 - "…of memory; this parasite."
peevish - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 205 - "…rid the mind of peevish folks…"
pigtails - The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream ✔ – 07Feb23 - pg 255 - "… in pigtails whenever…"
pumps - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 165 - "…silk shirtdress and spectator pumps."
quake - The Code Breaker ✔ – 30Mar23 - pg 301 - "…bioengineer Stephen Quake, who…"
queasy - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 69 - "…making my stomach feel queasy,…"
red tape - The Case of the Missing Servant ✔ – 02July23 - pg 64 - "…industry of Indian red tape."
relic - Bettyville ✔ – 24Jan23 - pg 32 - "…assortment of strange relics in our…"
rife - Love, Loss, and What We Ate ✔ – 17Jan23 - pg 73 - "…culture was rife with color…"
rogue - A Loyal Character Dancer ✔ – 24Jan23 - pg - 332 - "…with the rogue who had…"
rosemary (herb) - The Second-Worst Restaurant in France ✔ – 15Jan23 - pg 65 - "…scented with thyme and rosemary."
saffron - The Second-Worst Restaurant in France ✔ – 15Jan23 - pg 120 - "…of course, and saffron."
shepherd - U is for Undertow ✔ – 18Jan23 - pg 96 - "… or a German shepherd."
slogan - The Second-Worst Restaurant in France ✔ – 15Jan23 - pg 161 - "…full of slogans and…"
squander - Rilla of Ingleside ✔ – 10May23 - pg 265 - "…can't squander his inheritance…"
stockings - Bettyville ✔ – 24Jan23 - pg 20 - "…held together with nylon stockings."
tavern - Love, Loss, and What We Ate ✔ – 17Jan23 - pg 25 - "…of Grammercy Tavern fame…"
therapy - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 249 - "…physical therapy for months…"
torture - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 166 - "…imagine torture with soccer…"
tres leches cake - Once Upon a Quinceañera ✔ – 19Apr23 - pg 17 - "…too much tres leches cake…"
turmoil - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 115 - "With all the turmoil in my life…"
undergarments - Secrets of a Summer Night ✔ – 17Feb23 - pg 39 - "…referring to undergarments?"
unkempt - The Second-Worst Restaurant in France ✔ – 15Jan23 - pg 70 - "…expanse of unkempt lawn."
vanish(-ed,-ing) - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 22 - "…and vanished, possibly in …"
vestibule - The Violin of Auschwitz ✔ – 10Jan23 - pg 6 - "…in the spacious vestibule."
vibrate - The Night Masquerade ✔ – 12Jan23 - pg 52 - "…around us began to vibrate and…"
vulnerable - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 14 - "…any hint she was vulnerable."
warrant - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 30 - "You're signing my death warrant."
watercolor - Southtown ✔ – 06Jan23 - pg 96 - "…a mildewed watercolor of…"
wavering - Dying for Chocolate ✔ – 05Jan23 - pg 84 - "I began in a wavering voice."
wince - Love, Loss, and What We Ate ✔ – 17Jan23 - pg 50 - "I wince now when I think…"
yardstick - Time Was Soft There ✔ – 20June23 - pg 213 - "…the yardsticks of a civilization."
yawning - The Night Masquerade ✔ – 12Jan23 - pg 28 - "…saw a yawning black tunnel…"
zebra - Bettyville ✔ – 24Jan23 - pg 57 - "…sort of faux zebra trimmed…"
zest - Gaudy Night ✔ – 21Feb23 - pg 309 - "Did it add zest to facial…"
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Starting out 2023 with a fun challenge!!MEGA Scavenger Hunt VII
Begins: 01January2023 / Ends: 30June2023
50/50
Word list
absurd Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld page 221 "So the way that you constantly pass judgment on me is absurd." FINISHED 1-12
alligator The Penguin Who Knew Too Much by Donna Andrews page 186 "...and Dr. Blake to see if there are any alligators in the lagoon." FINISHED 1/22
anvil The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason page 234 "...which he hammered against an anvil." FINISHED 1/19
autopsy Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala page 31 "You mean, like, an autopsy? " FINISHED 1/16
baroque White Oleander by Janet Fitch page 200 "...green women with long breasts and vmpire teeth, men with baroque erections." FINISHED 3/30
basil A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny page 135 "...which smelled of garlic and basil from the linguine primavera." FINISHED 1/3
bindle Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck page 3 "George unslung his bindle nd dropped it gently on the bank." FINISHED 3/10
blouse A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny page 292 "Harriet looked over the forest and imagined a woman in long, torn skirts and a rough blouse,..." FINISHED 1/3
Buddha Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 296 "A statue of Buddha, carved out of ruby marble..." FINISHED 1/3
chai Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala page 94 "...salabat banana bread, calamansi chia seed muffins, chai gingerbread cookies..." FINISHED 1/16
clipboard Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 192 "...and shoved a clipboard and a pen at me through a slot at the base of the Plexiglas window." FINISHED 1/7
cognac Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon page 337 "...sometimes lasting for weeks at a time before bingeing on gin or cognac." FINISHED 1/10
contagious The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason page 178 "It is a horrid disease, so contagious, and so disfiguring." FINISHED 1/19
crinkles Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala page 47 "You already have the ube crinkles on your permanent menu..." FINISHED 1/16
delicacy Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 246 "There is a delicacy to her stitchwork." FINISHED 1/3
disheveled Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 56 "...and my disheveled silver lame dress thrown across the bed like a mermaid's fin... " FINISHED 1/3
downtown Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 39 "...to you about werewolves killing people in downtown Chicago." FINISHED 1/7
drag queen Game of Scones by Mary Lee Ashford location 2292 "(...But that was a drag queen, so not technically a woman." FINISHED 1/22
dust bunnies Dust Bunnies & Dead Bodies by Janis Thornton page 21 "...couldn't believe what I found hiding there: dust bunnies and dead bodies..." FINISHED 5/1
ethics The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis page 35 "They teach a course in ethics, I hope?" FINISHED 1/5
euphoria Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 249 "...while the first euphoria was going over me." FINISHED 1/7
expanse Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 81 "...the expanse of black water seems to widen in the dark..." FINISHED 1/3
exploits The Locked Door by Freida McFadden page 12 "...the bartender remarks as the mystery patient finishes the extended account of my exploits." FINISHED 1/26
feminist The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis page 31 "...as her essays were reexamined by feminist scholars and cited for their forward thinking." FINISHED 1/5
fizz Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon page 287 "...slurping up the bits of fizz liquid that seeped onto the can's surface." FINISHED 1/10
flashbulb The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker page 215 "Flashbulbs exploded, blinding her." FINISHED 1/14
floozy Jack Jetstark's Intergalactic Freakshow by Jennifer Lee Rossman page 128 "You all will, starting with your crew and your precious little owl floozy." FINISHED 1/30
food truck The Locked Door by Freida McFadden page 216 "Thankfully, the morning food trucl doesn't have any meat items." FINISHED 1/26
gaucho The Last Cowboys at the End of the World: The Story of the Gauchos of Patagonia by Nick Reding page 3 "Duck, who was a gaucho, a Patagonian cowboy..." FINISHED 5/10
girdle Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld page 87 "...I saw that beneath it, like a girdle, she was wearing spandex bike shorts..." FINISHED 1-12
goosebumps Jack Jetstark's Intergalactic Freakshow by Jennifer Lee Rossman page 190 "Once upon a time, the thought of being in her proximity would have given my soul goosebumps. " FINISHED 1/30
guile Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy page 202 "God's doves outwitting the serpents' guile, so to say." FINISHED 2/6
hanging Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 58 "I really hate hanging out with you." FINISHED 1/7
helmet Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon page 45 "...and fastened her helmet on." FINISHED 1/10
hopscotch The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker page 31 "...flying from mouth to mouth among alley games of hopscotch and marbles..." FINISHED 1/14
horde The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis page 302 "And with the hordes of tourists coming in and out of he Reading Room..." FINISHED 1/5
hummingbird Kairos by Mechelle Morrison page 159 "...but a fly the size of a hummingbird rams into me, leaving a splotch of gooey muck on my shoulder." FINISHED 1/19
ice pack The Penguin Who Knew Too Much by Donna Andrews page 254 "...he snapped yet another picture of me with the ice pack over my eye and nose." FINISHED 1/22
identification A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny page 3 "...and no formal identification had been made." FINISHED 1/3
idol Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld page 344 ",,,I'd put Rosie to bed and the rest of s would watch American Idol." FINISHED 1-12
implications Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 108 "I thought over what he had said, and the implications..." FINISHED 1/7
Jehovah The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff page 240 "Elohim was talking to Jehova, who was growing more elaborate..." FINISHED 2/12
jodhpurs Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man's Quest to Preserve the World's Great Animals by Jay Kirk page 303 "In the same slouch terai hat and flared jodhpurs and tie..." FINISHED 4/13
Jurassic Kairos by Mechelle Morrison page 46 "That raptor thing's a Jurassic dino." FINISHED 1/19
karaoke Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala page 121 "She'd remembered Ronnie mentioning how his partners had really wanted to attend one of our karaoke parties..." FINISHED 1/16
kerchief The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason page 33 "Edgar can see tears, their tracks cut short by the kerchief." FINISHED 1/19
knack Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 142 "...but my guide seemed to have an uncanny knock for avoiding them." FINISHED 1/7
lacquer Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 296 "It's black and white in a black lacquer frame." FINISHED 1/3
latte Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala page 110 "Do you want this ube latte named after you..." FINISHED 1/16
lexicon The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker page 50 "...an image so evocative that they's added it at once to the lexicon of borrowed human idioms.,," FINISHED 1/14
MEGA Scavenger Hunt VII...Part IIBegins: 01January2023 / Ends: 30June2023
50/50
lip sync The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull page 27 "...he had experienced before doing a lip sync in his fourth-grade talent show." FINISHED 2/5
meager Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon page 70 "A meager weapon." FINISHED 1/10
mellifluous Half of What You Hear by Kristyn Kusek Lewis page 128 "It's a mellifluous laugh, the kind that's pleased with itself." FINISHED 3/20
minutes (of a meeting) Game of Scones by Mary Lee Ashford location 3160 "She nodded, continuing to stack and straighten copies of the minutes she'd passed out at the meeting." FINISHED 1/22
mocha Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala page 182 "Think you could make a mocha version as well?" FINISHED 1/16
moss Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 174 "...with a large living room decorated in moss green and honeysuckle yellow..." FINISHED 1/3
nasturtium Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 186 "...low mounds of nasturtium stuffed with buds that resemble Red Hot Dollars..." FINISHED 1/3
ninny Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 299 "...and I needed to buck up and stop being a ninny." FINISHED 1/3
notoriety The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff page 364 "As time passed, it became clear he was more interested in his own gain and notoriety than saving my mother from Brigham's wrath." FINISHED 2/12
nudge The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis page 46 "...Laura looked over his shoulder and gave him a nudge.: FINISHED 1/5
obsession Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 153 "They made my mother's obsession for a beautiful home a family project." FINISHED 1/3
oleander White Oleander by Janet Fitch page 33 "Then she tucked a white oleander into a buttonhole." FINISHED 3/30
oration Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon page 213 "...seemed made for oration..." FINISHED 1/10
outrage A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny page 47 "Gamache's eyes had hardened, his face gone rigid as he struggled to contain his outrage." FINISHED 1-3
panther Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon page 336 "They were Black Panthers." FINISHED 1/10
parasite Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 270 "To hell with him and his whole stinking breed of parasites." FINISHED 1/7
peevish Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 125 "He's standing by the hood of his car with a peevish expression on his face." FINISHED 1/3
pigtails Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 70 "Her bright red hair is braided in small pigtails that rest on her shoulders." FINISHED 1/3
pumps (shoes) Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 13 "I slide on a pair of matching metallic pumps." FINISHED 1/3
quake Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man's Quest to Preserve the World's Great Animals by Jay Kirk page 226 "...when he tried to get off the ground he began to quake..." FINISHED 4/13
queasy Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 40 "I was feeling guilty and a little queasy still." FINISHED 1/7
red tape The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall page 64 "...the very sound of the great, self-perpetuating industry of Indian red tape." FINISHED 2/16
relic The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis page 300 "Sadie reached in and lifted it out, carefully, as if it were a religious relic." FINISHED 1/5
rife The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff page 445 "Their society is rife with adultery, yet among the Saints, this sin remains mostly unknown." FINISHED 2/12
rogue Jack Jetstark's Intergalactic Freakshow by Jennifer Lee Rossman page 169 "...stopping the model just as the rogue asteroid's erratic orbit..." FINISHED 1/30
rosemary (herb) White Oleander by Janet Fitch page 136 "I picked sprigs of her rosemary and tucked them in my pockets." FINISHED 3/30
saffron Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 223 "...Spanish spices--cumin and chili pepper and saffron--" FINISHED 1/3
shepherd Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 231 "Instead of trying to pay shepherd, you need to play coach..." FINISHED 1/7
slogan Step on a Crack by James Patterson page 159 "The network already had its slogan in place." FINISHED 1/27
squander Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 202 "I can't squander any opportunity to be with Roberta..." FINISHED 1/3
stockings Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 4 "...legs are covered to the knee in black stockings held up by elastic braces." FINISHED 1/3
tavern A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny page 202 "Said her spells had lured them to her tavern against their will." FINISHED 1/3
therapy Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 117 "...the first thing I did after I overhauled his diet with lycopene was to study color therapy." FINISHED 1/3
torture Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 253 "You hear stories about men who keep silent through all the torture..." FINISHED 1/7
tres leches cake Ramón and Julieta by Alana Quintana Albertson page 214 "On tonight's menu was enchiladas verdes and tres leches cake." FINISHED 5/18
turmoil Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 361 "...but my feelings were in too much turmoil." FINISHED 1/7
undergarments The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff page 239 "Sister Snow handed me two undergarments, each made of plain muslin." FINISHED 2/12
unkempt Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon page 37 "...why was it not easier to rein her assion for their wellness into something less hot and unkempt?" FINISHED 1/10
vanish(-ed,-ing) Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 141 "I felt Tara's hand slide beneath my jacket, then vanish as she pressed it the numbed area of my arm." FINISHED 1/7
vestibule Step on a Crack by James Patterson page 49 "He shook Rooney's hand in the vestibule." FINISHED 1/27
vibrate Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 378 "Felt his whimpers vibrate into my mouth." FINISHED 1/7
vulnerable Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 19 "...a small and oddly vulnerable gesture." FINISHED 1/7
warrant Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 34 "You had that warrant out for me and then had it rescinded." FINISHED 1/7
watercolor Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 202 "...and still-life renderings in watercolor." FINISHED 1/3
wavering Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 354 "...the barrel of the gun wavering every which way." FINISHED 1/7
wince Fool Moon by Jim Butcher page 127 "It was huge, large enough to make you wince at how far you'd have to go to get to the bathroom in the middle of the night. " FINISHED 1/7
yardstick The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber page 161 "...not only because he was a former linebacker with a clean-shaven head and a yardstick of muscled collarbone..." FINISHED 1/22
yawning Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon page 98 "...with his teeny-tiny voice before yawning big and wide." FINISHED 1/10
zebra Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani page 134 "...demi love seats in matching zebra print..." FINISHED 1/3
zest Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala page 69 "...perfectly star-shaped cookies scented with delicious calamansi citrus juice and zest popped out..." FINISHED 1/16
MEGA Scavenger Hunt VIIBegins: 01January2023 / Ends: 30June2023
Part 1: 50/50 Word list
(1) Scorpion Mountain John Flanagan (1/2/2023) 4*
(2) Dark Light Jayne Castle (1/5/23) 4*
(3) The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath (audiobook) (1/10/2023) 4*
(4) The Ghostfaces John Flanagan (1/16/23) 4*
(5) Witchlings Claribel A. Ortega (1/21/22) 4*
(6) The Other Emily Dean Koontz (2/1/23) 3*
(7) The Caldera John Flanagan (2/5/23) 4*
(8) Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" Lena Dunham (2/6/23) 2*
(9) Forbidden Shifters Complete Series #1-6 Selena Scott (2/18/23) 4*
(10) The Enchanted April (audiobook) Elizabeth von Armin (2/18/23) 3*
(11) Rock Chick Kristen Ashley (2/21/22) 4*
(12) AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future (audiobook) Kai-Fu Lee (2/21/23) 4*
(13) The Stern Chase John Flanagan (2/26/23) 4*
(14) The Simple Wild K. A. Tucker (2/26/23) 3*
(15) The Tourist Attraction Sarah Morganthaller (2/28/23) 5*
(16) Layla Colleen Hoover (3/4/23) 4*
(17) In Perfect Light Benjamin Alire Saenz (3/10/23) 4.5*
(18) The Four Winds Kristin Hannah (3/18/23) 4*
(19) Restart Gordon Korman (4/2/23) 4*
(20) Hummingbird Natalie Lloyd (4/5/23) 5*
(21) Fly by Night Frances Hardinge (4/8/23) 2.5*
(22) A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving (5/14/23) 3*
(23) Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh (5/18/23) 3*
(24) Howl’s Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones (5/19/23 3*
(25) Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Gino Wickman (5/25/23) 3 *
(26) Cannery Row John Steinbeck (5/31/23) 4*
(27) The Codex Douglas Preston (6/5/23) 4*
(28) How to Be a Woman Caitlin Moran (6/28/23) 2*
(29) The Vibrant Years Sonali Dev (6/30/23) 4*
(9) absurd: p. 1234-...the absurd weight of him...
(9) alligator: p. 58-...shifter form of an alligator...
(1) anvil: p. 375-,,,hammer blow on an anvil...
(6) autopsy: Loc. 2608-When they do the autopsy...
(23) baroque: Loc. 1108-...conversion to the Baroque.
(9) basil: p. 733-...like basil and baking flour...
(18) bindle: p. 204-...bindle stiffs walked alone...
(9) blouse: p. 331-...her pencil skirt and silk blouse...
(8) Buddha: p. 233-...the Buddha roll over in his...
(29) chai: p. 2-Well, an empty chai cup...
clipboard: p. 1337-...clipboards and tablets in their hands.
(15) cognac: p.346-...a bottle of cognac.
(4) contagious: p. 28 ...fear can become contagious.
(9) crinkles: p. 1510-...the crinkle next to his eyes...
(9) delicacy: p. 135-...incredible delicacy to him.
(1) disheveled: p. 237-...wearing filthy, disheveled rags...
(6) downtown: loc. 1381-...downtown Corona del Mar and...
(11) drag queen: p. 91-...the top drag queen in Denver...
(2) dust bunnies: p. 5- “Dust bunnies are naturally very...
(9) ethics: p. 967-Ethics, her job, the fact that...
(2) euphoria: p. 243-...in a state of euphoria.
(9) expanse: p. 1507-...expanse of her bare legs.
(9) exploits: p. 65-...exploits blurry and easily forgotten.
(8) feminist: p. 41-My feminist indoctrination continued...
(24) fizz: p. 222-There was a bit of fizz...
(28) flashbulb: p. 101-A flashbulb.
(9) floozy: p. 1320-...no idea what a floozy is...
(9) food truck: p. 912-...food from the food trucks...
(27) gaucho: p. 1-...in his gaucho pants, sandals...
(22) girdle: pp.284-...of the lingerie and girdle models...
(9) goosebumps: p. 352-...goosebumps race up his arms.
(9) guile: p. 1305-...admired the Director’s guile.
(1) hanging: p. 29-...dart quiver were hanging on what...
(1) helmet: p. 5-...horned helmets for which the...
(20) hopscotch: p. 280-Boys playing hopscotch in...
(6) horde: Loc. 3862-...where a hideous horde would...
(9) hummingbird: p. 638-...colony of hummingbirds wake...
(6) ice pack: Loc. 457-...eat dinner with an ice pack...
(9) identification: p. 690-...risked identification and arrest.
(6) idol: Loc. 4071-...work of his imprisoned idol...
(1) implications: p. 230-...they realized the implications of...
(28) Jehovah: p. 58-...make do with “Jehovah” instead.
(3) jodhpurs: Ch 8-...big horsey girl in jodhpurs...
(27) Jurassic: p. 48-...through the Jurassic sandstone beds...
(15) karaoke: p. 220-...karaoke night at the Tourist Trap.
(18) kerchief: p. 86-In her brown kerchief and...
(1) knack: p. 31-...a knack of placing himself between...
(18) lacquer: p. 323-Bright red lacquer polish...
(11) latte: p. 8-...a skinny vanilla latte that...
(12) lexicon: Introduction (21:00)- ...the term AI entered the lexicon...
MEGA Scavenger Hunt VIIBegins: 01January2023 / Ends: 30June2023
Part 2: 50/50 Word list
(1) Scorpion Mountain John Flanagan (1/2/2023) 4*
(2) Dark Light Jayne Castle (1/5/23) 4*
(3) The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath (audiobook) (1/10/2023) 4*
(4) The Ghostfaces John Flanagan (1/16/23) 4*
(5) Witchlings Claribel A. Ortega (1/21/22) 4*
(6) The Other Emily Dean Koontz (2/1/23) 3*
(7) The Caldera John Flanagan (2/5/23) 4*
(8) Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" Lena Dunham (2/6/23) 2*
(9) Forbidden Shifters Complete Series #1-6 Selena Scott (2/18/23) 4*
(10) The Enchanted April (audiobook) Elizabeth von Armin (2/18/23) 3*
(11) Rock Chick Kristen Ashley (2/21/22) 4*
(12) AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future (audiobook) Kai-Fu Lee (2/21/23) 4*
(13) The Stern Chase John Flanagan (2/26/23) 4*
(14) The Simple Wild K. A. Tucker (2/26/23) 3*
(15) The Tourist Attraction Sarah Morganthaller (2/28/23) 5*
(16) Layla Colleen Hoover (3/4/23) 4*
(17) In Perfect Light Benjamin Alire Saenz (3/10/23) 4.5*
(18) The Four Winds Kristin Hannah (3/18/23) 4*
(19) Restart Gordon Korman (4/2/23) 4*
(20) Hummingbird Natalie Lloyd (4/5/23) 5*
(21) Fly by Night Frances Hardinge (4/8/23) 2.5*
(22) A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving (5/14/23) 3*
(23) Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh (5/18/23) 3*
(24) Howl’s Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones (5/19/23 3*
(25) Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Gino Wickman (5/25/23) 3 *
(26) Cannery Row John Steinbeck (5/31/23) 4*
(27) The Codex Douglas Preston (6/5/23) 4*
(28) How to Be a Woman Caitlin Moran (6/28/23) 2*
(29) The Vibrant Years Sonali Dev (6/30/23) 4*
(11) lip sync: p. 91-Tod could lip sync to...
(1) meager: p. 403-...last of their meager rations.
(21) mellifluous: p. 21-...music and mellifluous magic.”
(25) minutes (of a meeting): p. 168-“The meetings are 90 minutes...
(11) mocha: p. 44-...a mocha heavy on the chocolate...
(9) moss: p. 549-The green scent of moss...
(10) nasturtium: Chap. 8-...nasturtiums in great heaps...l
(18) ninny: p. 18-Don’t be a ninny.
(16) notoriety: p. 96-...to get me more notoriety.
(9) nudge: p. 209-...the table to nudge Natalie’s...
(9) obsession: p. 45-...obsession with home decoration...
(17) oleander: Loc. 1097-...white and pink oleanders in...
(1) oration: p. 282-...” Sometimes an oration by a poet...
(4) outrage: p. 295-Then a roar of outrage sounded...
(8) panther: p. 37-...a mighty tattoo of a panther...
(14) parasite: p. 156-“Like a damn parasite,”
(22) peevish: pp. 108-...he would be peevish and aloof...
(7) pigtails: p. 163-...thick pigtails, nodded back.
(2) pumps (shoes): p. 17-...in her high-heeled pumps.
(9) quake: p. 1145-...quake of attraction for him.
(11) queasy: p. 232-I was getting that queasy feeling...
(15) red tape: p. 259-...enough red tape to jump...
(2) relic: p. 11-All of the relics of the lost...
(13) rife: p. 200-But superstition was rife among...
(9) rogue: p. 15-...snatching a rogue carrot from...
(17) rosemary (herb): Loc. 4206-Or the smell of rosemary.
(21) saffron: p. 31-...saffron, mauve, sky blue, mint green.
(16) shepherd: p. 42-...like a German shepherd.
(2) slogan: p. 8-...with its familiar slogan.
(19) squander: p. 27-Don’t squander it!
(9) stockings: p. 521-...sheer black stockings and a...
(1) tavern: p. 3-...the local tavern what led him...
(9) therapy: p. 299-You need therapy.”
(1) torture: p. 106-...order to torture the man.
(8) tres leches cake: p. 189-...tres leches cake in it.
(9) turmoil: p. 1544-...bring her so much turmoil.
(6) undergarments: Loc. 1291-She plucked her undergarments...
(1) unkempt: p. 84-...more unkempt area leading to...
(1) vanish (-ed, -ing): p. 299-...vanished into the town...
(2) vestibule: p. 55-...out of another vestibule and...
(9) vibrate: p. 466-...he still seemed to vibrate...
(1) vulnerable: p. 57-...him vulnerable in a battle.
(16) warrant: p. 42-...warrants an overprotective boyfriend.
(5) watercolor: p. 121-...a smudged watercolor painting.
(1) wavering: p. 371-...and his wavering followers.
(9) wince: p. 372-He resisted the urge to wince.
(26) yardstick: p. 34- We can only use ourselves as yardsticks.
(1) yawning: p. 349-...responded by yawning hugely at the...
(20) zebra: p. 74-...a zebra-striped backpack.
(8) zest: p. 263-...driver’s ed with zest and zeal...
MEGA Scavenger Hunt VIIBegins: 01January2023 / Ends: 30June2023
100p.min.
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Your challenge is to find the following words/phrases in the TEXT of the books you are reading during this challenge period.
88/100
Word list
✔absurd-p.178-Slippery Creatures-"...the street's too narrow. How absurd!" 2/27/23
✔alligator-p.44-Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance-"...one jagged rusty alligator clip of jumper cables..." 2/6/23
✔anvil-p.165-Leaves of Grass-"There bt the furnace, and there by the anvil..." 3/3/23
✔autopsy-p.36-Murder in Montparnasse-"What did the autopsy say about that?" 3/4/23
✔ baroque-p.98-Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna-"...walls housed a unique baroque jewel." 10/5/24
✔ basil-p.100-Shrines of Gaiety-"as keenly as Isabella did her pot of basil." 5/4/23
bindle
✔blouse-p.86- Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham-"...quick shower and put on a clean blouse and skirt." 2/22/23
✔Buddha-p.27-Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha-"'A Buddha!' she gasped." 3/16/23
✔ chai-p.206-Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World-"...look on while sipping their chai." 12/18/23
✔clipboard-p.185-Murder in Montparnasse-"...the leading bailiff, consulting a clipboard." 3/10/23
✔cognac-p.2- Murder in Montparnasse-"Real French onion soup, made with cognac..." 3/2/23
✔ contagious-p.328-The Prisoner-"...feelings is anything but contagious..." 12/1/23
✔ crinkles-p.1-No Filter-"...I could picture the crinkles fanning his sky blue eyes..." 7/30/23
✔delicacy-p.121-You Only Live Twice-"This is a very great Japanese delicacy." 1/3/23
✔disheveled- p.142-Double-"Beddoes stood there, looking disheveled and hot." 2/4/23
✔downtown-p.281-Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"Downtown- Fill your tray with mashed potatoes..." 1/27/23
✔drag queen-p.77-Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance- "...and all that drag queen leaping scares fellow travelers..." 2/20/23
✔ dust bunnies-p.95-The Candidate-There were dust bunnies under the bed." 5/8/24
✔ethics-loc.30 on Kindle- The Insurrection In Dublin: An Eyewitness Account of the Easter Rising, 1916-"...no other ethics save that of kindness..." 2/9/22
✔euphoria-p.240-Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"...enlivened by little spikes of euphoria." 2/2/23
✔expanse-p.336-Foucault's Pendulum-"We climbed in third gear toward great expanses..." 5/12/23
✔ exploits-p.264-Guy Mannering-"The news of their exploit had already flown far..." 2/18/24
✔feminist-p.23- America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction-"...making her one of the country's first feminists." 2/27/23
✔fizz-p.73-Murder in Montparnasse-"The champagne still held a little fizz..." -3/6/23
✔ flashbulb-p.253-The Stingray Shuffle-"...a mere flashbulb going off." 10/15/23
✔ floozy-p.165-Tea in Tripoli-"...enough to warrant the term double-crossing floozy." 5/27/24
✔ food truck-p.376-Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"...the Caribbean's only 'food truck boat' specially fitted..." 2/17/24
✔ gaucho-p.219-Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World-"They became gauchos, Argentine cowboys." 12/18/23
✔ girdle-p.230-The Albigenses, by the Author of 'Bertram' Volume 1-"...and his beard descended to his girdle..." 5/14/23
✔ goosebumps-p.200-In September, the Light Changes-"...which raised goosebumps on his arms..." 6/3/23
✔ guile-p.183-Leaves of Grass-"...from craft and guile and tears..." 6/4/23
✔hanging-p.142-Charmed Life-"...chestnut cases hanging all around..." 1/8/23
✔helmet-p.203-You Only Live Twice-"...spiked and winged helmet of steel..." 1/4/23
✔hopscotch-p.177-Murder in Montparnasse-"'Or hopscotch,' she added, not wanting to be seen..." 3/10/23
✔horde-p.45-Guy Mannering-"Some hordes of them yet remain..." 2/4/23
✔hummingbird-p.281-Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"...specimens -including 6,957 hummingbirds..." 1/27/23
✔ice pack-p.74-Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha-"'No, I've got an ice pack on my head..." -3/16/23
✔identification-p.183-Double-"'Do you have any identification?'" 2/4/23
✔idol-p.25-Can You Forgive Her?-"...had been an idol of clay..." 1/25/23
✔implications-p.232-Charmed Life-"...as all the implications struck her." 1/9/23
✔Jehovah-p.140-Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham-"'I'm not a Jehovah,'" 3/13/23
✔ jodhpurs-p.82-The Know-It-All-"...all decked out in a red jacket and jodhpurs..." 1/2/24
✔Jurassic-p.273-Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"In Jurassic Park, a velociraptor hatches from its shell..." 3/13/23
✔karaoke-p.48-The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World-"I sang at nomihodai (all-you-can-drink) karaoke..." 3/21/23
✔kerchief-p.34-Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha-"...she tied a dark kerchief around her head..."-3/16/23
✔knack-p. 28-King Solomon's Mines-"...he had a wonderful knack of keeping up our spirits." 3/10/22
✔lacquer-p.121-You Only Live Twice-"Lacquer boxes of rice, raw quails' eggs..." 1/3/23
✔latte-p.62-A Cut Above-"She finished her mocha latte..." 3/21/23
✔ lexicon-p.19-Déjà Dead-"...as he searched his personal lexicon for the right word." 9/1/24
✔ lip sync-p.341-Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"The ensuing show is a lip-synced retelling of The Little Mermaid..." 7/18/23
✔ meager-p.390-Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide-"...they lived in enclaves on meager wages..." 3/5/24
✔mellifluous-p.69-Slippery Creatures-"...just let the persuasive, mellifluous tone wash over him..." 2/22/23
✔ minutes (of a meeting)-p.268- Guy Mannering-"Clerk, said Pleydell, 'minute down that reply.'" 2/18/24
✔ mocha-p.496-14,000 Things to Be Happy About: The Happy Book-"...cups of mocha coffee with cream..." 6/2/24
✔moss-p.130-The Long Valley-"...a newt lying in the sun moss in the bottom of the trough." 1/24/23
✔ nasturtium-p.25-14,000 Things to Be Happy About: The Happy Book-"...nasturtium=splendor...village church bells..." 1/9/24
✔ ninny-p.176-The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers-"...the great ninny invited every trained-dog buffoon..." 11/14/23
✔ notoriety-p.265-Shrines of Gaiety-"Must he always be tarred with notoriety?" 5/7/23
✔nudge-p.88- Trouble in Nuala-"...and a firm nudge from his elbow..." 1/28/23
✔obsession-p.21-Double-"...understand that obsession all too well..." 1/29/23
✔oleander=p.53-Double="...stands of bamboo, jacaranda and oleander shrubs..." 1/30/23
✔ oration-p.42-Dombey and Son-"...giving utterance to this prodigious oration." 7/2/24
✔outrage-p.38-Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance-"Peanut Himself bellows in outrage." 2/5/23
✔panther-p.56-The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers-"...in a manner reminiscent of a panther..." 2/3/23
✔ parasite-p.283-Russell Baker's Book of American Humor-"...which were unseemly on a parasite..." 12/27/23
✔peevish-p.107-Double-"...like a small peevish boy." 2/1/23
✔pigtails-p.154-The Long Valley-"He braided the mane into a dozen little pigtails..." 1/25/23
✔ pumps (shoes)-p.140-In September, the Light Changes-"...in his underwear and sling-back pumps..." 6/1/23
✔quake-p.287- Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"...in the aftermath of the 1906 quake..." 2/1/23
✔queasy-p.280- Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"If the picture makes you feel queasy..." 1/27/23
✔red tape-p.144-Slippery Creatures-"'Red tape,' Phoebe said." 2/26/23
✔relic-p.281-Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"basement contains relics of a 3rd-centurySaint Vibiana." 1/27/23
✔ rife-p.30-Tea in Tripoli-"...but comparisons were rife..." 1/10/24
✔rogue-p.38-Guy Mannering-"...than any rogue that ever came out of Ramsay." 1/27/23
✔ rosemary (herb)-p.22-The Albigenses, Vol 1-"...with capons, and gallantly guarded with rosemary and bays..." 5/12/23
✔saffron-p.72-Murder in Montparnasse-"He smelt of saffron..." 3/6/23
✔shepherd-p.82-The Grapes of Wrath-"A...yellow shepherd dog came trotting..." 2/1/23
✔ slogan-p.264-14,000 Things to Be Happy About: The Happy Book-"...the 'Think Factory' slogan...Friendship Gardens..." 3/7/24
squander
✔stockings-p.53-Murder in Montparnasse-"...should be ten pairs of silk stockings,no, eight and a half..." 3/5/23
✔ tavern-p.342-Leaves of Grass-"He stands in the room of the old tavern..." 6/13/23
✔therapy-p.62- The Donkey Inside-"...a healer who believed in occupational therapy." 3/5/23
✔torture-p.140-Charmed Life-"...not even under the most modern refined tortures..." 1/8/23
tres leches cake
✔turmoil-p.98-Charmed Life-"...quite unconscious of the turmoil." 1/7/23
✔ undergarments=p.12-Babbitt: The 1922 Sinclair Lewis Classic Satire Novel-"...he didn't wear tight, long, old-fashioned undergarments..." 7/30/23
✔unkempt-p.166-The Long Valley-"The hair lay rough and unkempt..." 1/26/23
✔vanish(-ed,-ing)-p.32-Guy Mannering-"...all these have vanished;..." 1/27/23
✔ vestibule-p.292-Babbitt: The 1922 Sinclair Lewis Classic Satire Novel-"...passengers moving toward the vestibule..." 8/18/23
✔vibrate-p.279-Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"...by causing parts of the body to vibrate individually." 1/26/23
✔vulnerable-p.119-You Only Live Twice-"Go for the vulnerable machinery..." 1/3/23
✔warrant-p.39-Guy Mannering-"...draw the warrants and manage the business..." 1/27/23
✔watercolor-p.232-Murder in Montparnasse-"...and watercolours, pencils and paper wee laid out in preparation..." 3/12/23
✔ wavering-p.4-The Pearl-"...and threw a wavering square of light..." 1/21/24
✔wince-p.97- Trouble in Nuala- "The very thought...made him wince." 2/1/23
✔ yardstick-p.379-14,000 Things to Be Happy About: The Happy Book-"...the uses of a yardstick...theatergoing..." 4/4/24
✔yawning- p.210-Charmed Life-"...and got to its doglike feet yawning." 1/9/23
✔ zebra-p.338-Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"...killed with spears, including buffalo, lions, zebras..." 7/8/23
✔zest-p.205-You Only Live Twice-"...his surging zest would add to this lunatic operation!" 1/4/23
Does "Rosemary's Baby" (reference to the book/movie) count for "rosemary"? Would the name Rosemary by itself count?
Mod
Possessives do NOT count.
In this case the word specifies "rosemary (herb) ... so the reference must be to the herb. A Proper name of a person will not count.
However, if there were a proper name for any of the other words on the list they would count. Maybe someone has a child named "Saffron" or a pet named "Panther" etc ....
Sort of the same question... one of the characters becomes "a Jehovah's Witness." Would that count for Jehovah? I'm only asking bc this is the term I'm most familiar with.
Mod
No ... the rules clearly state "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."
Thanks for clarifying, that's actually what I thought but I wanted to be sure.
Book Concierge wrote: "JennH wrote: "Sort of the same question... one of the characters becomes "a Jehovah's Witness." Would that count for Jehovah? I'm only asking bc this is the term I'm most familiar with."No ... th..."
Thanks. It was one of many that was going to be hard ones for me. It was too good to be true to find it so early!
Word listabsurd-Skeletons at the Feast-1/8/23-page 98-"it's absurd of you to sleep out there"
alligator-An Echo in the Bone-1/28/23-page 11-"there were crocodiles and alligators here"
anvil-Girls Burn Brighter-6/19/23-page 158-"crashed through her like an anvil"
autopsy-The Tuscan Child-2/4/23-page 17-"they'll will conduct an autopsy"
baroque-An Echo in the Bone-1/28/23-page 4447-"the right of the baroque mantelpiece"
basil-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 300-"bean that she dashed with basil"
bindle
blouse-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 102-"the V of her blouse"
Buddha-Sugar and Salt-1/17/23-page 129-"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.-Buddha"
chai-Hell Bent-5/20/23-page 341-"A golden Chai glinted on his neck."
clipboard-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 186-"that detail down on the clipboard"
cognac-Whitethorn Woods-4/3/23-page 192-"we had an Armagnac or a Cognac"
contagious-Where the Drowned Girls Go-1/14/23-page 14-"as if fat was somehow contagious"
crinkles-Klara and the Sun-3/2/23-page 130-"starting to crinkle"
delicacy-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 76-"if her mouth was a rare delicacy"
disheveled-Where the Drowned Girls Go-1/14/23-page 55-"which were still disheveled"
downtown-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 149-"maintain a good downtown"
drag queen
dust bunnies-Key of Valor-1/13/23-page 211-"I've been chasing dust bunnies"
ethics-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 250-"Don't question my ethics"
euphoria-Sugar and Salt-1/17/23-page 8-"vacillitating between euphoria and terror"
expanse-Skeletons at the Feast-1/8/23-page 238-"the thin expanse of carpet"
exploits-Key of Knowledge-1/5/23-page 160-"enough to exploit his wants"
feminist-Diana - Her True Story-2/1/23-page 255-"as a feminist"
fizz
flashbulb-Haunted Lady-4/26/23-page 68-"plop of the cameramen's flash bulbs"
floozy-A Line to Kill-5/7/23-page 139-"with different floozies for the gossip columns"
food truck-Sugar and Salt-1/17/23-page 10-"You gonna take the food truck"
gaucho
girdle-The Paris Library-4/8/23-page 76-"limp girdles dried"
goosebumps-Sugar and Salt-1/17/23-page 12-"goose bumps on her legs"
guile-Key of Knowledge-1/5/23-page 144-"Jealousy, guile, betrayal and ambition"
hanging-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 3-"hanging by a very slim thread"
helmet-Skeletons at the Feast-1/8/23-page 292-"She pulled off his helmet"
hopscotch
horde-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 186-"had a horde of ideas"
hummingbird-Sugar and Salt-1/17/23-page 171-"buzzing around the unit like a hummingbird"
ice pack-Key of Knowledge-1/5/23-page 318-'an ice pack for this knee"
identification-Skeletons at the Feast-1/8/23-page 248-"reviewing their identification papers"
idol-Diana - Her True Story-2/1/23-page 185-1930"s matinee idol"
implications-Skeletons at the Feast-1/8/23-page 189-"I take that implication as a compliment"
Jehovah-An Echo in the Bone-1/28/23-page 361-"the name of the Great Jehovah"
jodhpurs-Skeletons at the Feast-1/8/23-page 82-"and the jodhpurs"
Jurassic-Ready Player Two-5/2/23-page 232-"Futurewordl and Jurassic World"
karaoke-Sugar and Salt-1/17/23-page 275-"he set up a karaoke screen"
kerchief-Key of Knowledge-1/5/23-page 260-"whipped the kerchief off her head"
knack-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 100-"really got a knack for that"
lacquer-The Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo-4/25/23-page 21-"on the black lacquer coffee table"
latte-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 3-"she'd spilled latte"
lexicon-Diana - Her True Story-2/1/23-page 283-"her lexicon was that of her smile"
lip sync
meager-Skeletons at the Feast-1/8/23-page 136-"the meager remnants of their lives"mellifluous-Girls Burn Brighter-6/19/23-page 8-"It was soft and mellifluous"
minutes (of a meeting)-The Night Watchman-5/11/23-page 120-'read the minutes in both languages"
mocha-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 155-"a skinny mocha latte"
moss-Where the Drowned Girls Go-1/14/23-page 33-"mottled with moss and lichen"
nasturtium
ninny-Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor-2/21/23-page 294-"would surely think me a ninny"
notoriety-An Echo in the Bone-1/28/23-page 186-"My few brushes with notoriety"
nudge-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 38-"gave her a little nudge"
obsession-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 262-"nothing to do with obsession"
oleander-Ruby-5/24/23-page 223-"some with oleander lined pike fences"
oration-A Gentleman in Moscow-4/18/23-page 115-"a seated oration with a finger in the air"
outrage-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 23-'whip of outrage in his voice"
panther-An Echo in the Bone-1/28/23-page 22-Ye're sure it wasna a panther?
parasite-Where the Drowned Girls Go-1/14/23-page 134-"a density of fleas and parasites"
peevish-An Echo in the Bone-1/28/23-page 137-"to throw things when peevish"
pigtails-Where the Drowned Girls Go-1/14/23-page 148-"Her hair was pulled into two pigtails"
pumps (shoes)-Key of Knowledge-1/5/23-page 303-"dressy black leather pumps
quake-Key of Valor-1/13/23-page 83-"the ground begin to quake"
queasy-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 208-"she felt strangely queasy"
red tape-Whitethorn Woods-4/3/23-page 38-"Visas and red tape"
relic-The Tuscan Child-2/4/23-page 204-"some kind of religious relic"
rife-Diana - Her True Story-2/1/23-page 42-"It was rife, four times a day"
rogue-A Woman of No Importance-2/12/23-page 140-"one rogue girlfriend was not enough"
rosemary (herb)-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 10-'smelled faintly of rosemary"
saffron-The House of Fortune-2/24/23-page 81-"saffron and white wine sauce"
shepherd-Skeletons at the Feast-1/8/23-page 228-"Blondi is a German Shepherd"
slogan-Skeletons at the Feast-1/8/23-page 237-"shour patriotic slogans"
squander-Emily's Ghost-2/7/23-page 70-"to squander much of the good will"
stockings-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 42-"that run in her stocking"
tavern-An Echo in the Bone-1/28/23-page 3-"arranged to meet him at the tavern"
therapy-Key of Valor-1/13/23-page 225-"You may need therapy"
torture-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 116-"Can we torture him"
tres leches cake
turmoil-Skeletons at the Feast-1/8/23-page 11-"In the midst of the turmoil"
undergarments-The Golden City-3/18/23-page 2-"one didn't have the proper undergarments"
unkempt-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 273-"without looking, well, unkrmpt"
vanish(-ed,-ing)-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 34-"the roaring fire vanished"
vestibule-An Echo in the Bone-1/28/23-page 138-"they took shelter in the vestibule"
vibrate-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 178-" it vibrate through him"
vulnerable-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 165-"he was vulnerable to someone else's whims"
warrant-An Echo in the Bone-1/28/23-page 207-"I'll warrant that"
watercolor-The Word is Murder-2/16/23-page 266-"a watercolour by Eric Ravilious"
wavering-Key of Valor-1/13/23-page 127-"wavering beams of early sunlight"
wince-Key of Light-1/2/23-page 96-"that single statement made him wince"
yardstick-Diana - Her True Story-2/1/23-page 115-"had no yardstick to which to compare"
yawning-An Echo in the Bone-1/28/23-page 91-"yanwing and sat up."
zebra-Klara and the Sun-3/2/23-page 167-"I took out a picture of a zebra"
zest-The Tuscan Child-2/4/23-page 170-"grated some lemon zest"
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I'm sorry ... My mistake .... I clearly stated in the list that the word is
"rosemary (herb)"
So the reference MUST be to the herb rosemary. A proper name of a person will NOT count in this instance.
Sorry for the confusion. Glad I caught it early.
MEGA Scavenger Hunt VIIBegins: 01January2023 / Ends: 30June2023
51/ 51 completed THIS post (part 1 of 2)
100 / 100 completed entire challenge
29 Books read:
(1) Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman--1/7/23
(2) Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do by John A. Bargh--1/15/23
(3) The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear--1/18/23
(4) This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub--1/27/23
(5) Matrix by Lauren Groff--2/4/23
(6) A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins--2/9/23
(7) Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris--2/11/23
(8) Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt--2/20/23
(9) Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan--2/21/23
(10) Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra--3/1/23
(11) What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez--3/1/23
(12) My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante--3/11/23
(13) The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim--3/24/23
(14) Pachinko by Min Jin Lee--3/30/23
(15) Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer--4/4/23
(16) The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura--4/8/23
(17) Horse by Geraldine Brooks--4/15/23
(18) The Keep byJennifer Egan--5/7/23
(19) Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman--6/24/23
(20) On The Plain Of Snakes: A Mexican Journey by Paul Theroux--7/9/23
(21) Small World by Laura Zigman--7/28/23
(22) A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders--8/28/23
(23) The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama--9/6/23
(24) Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver--10/13/23
(25) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath--12/11/23
(26) Properties of Thirst by Marianne Wiggins--3/21/24
(27) While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams--7/25/24
(28) A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan--11/17/24
(29) The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende--3/5/25
Word list
✔absurd--(2)--p. 120--"Even absurd numbers can stick and..."
✔alligator--(2)--p. 31--"...a large and scaly alligator appeared..."
✔anvil--(5)--loc. 2827--"...like a metal file on an anvil..."
✔autopsy--(16)--loc. 3390--"...standing by during the autopsy..."
✔baroque--(10)--loc. 5381--"So I have a passion for Baroque art,.."
✔basil--(1)--loc. 755--"Basil will preserve fish."
✔bindle--(26)--loc. 59--"...copies of his journal in his bindle."
✔blouse--(3)--loc. 166--"...with a fawn blouse tucked into..."
✔Buddha--(14)--loc. 900--"...--not Jesus, not Buddha, not..."
✔chai--(2)--p. 228--"...my NY colleagues Peter Gollwitzer and Annette Lee-Chai,..."
✔clipboard--(3)--loc. 4659--"The doctor took a clipboard..."
✔cognac--(6)--loc. 2675--"Theo had brought cognac in a hip flask,..."
✔contagious--(1)--loc. 4118--"Love was contagious..."
✔crinkles--(4)--loc. 1060--"...tiny crinkles around his eyes..."
✔delicacy--(1)--loc. 3991--"Maria fixed a delicacy called Hedgehog Pudding,..."
✔disheveled--(6)--loc. 95--"Her clothes are disheveled,..."
✔downtown--(2)--p. 165--"...whether he should live downtown or in the suburbs."
✔drag queen--(24)--loc. 4161--"You're going for drag queen then..."
✔dust bunnies--(4)--loc. 2657--"...with dust bunnies along the base boards."
✔ethic--(2)--p. 75--"...traditional American morale and ethics..."
✔euphoria--(9)--loc. 566--"Or the euphoria of the religion."
✔expanse--(2)--p. 4--"...a cold, forbidding expanse of snow..."
✔exploits--(3)--loc. 4476--"...I did not leap into exploits..."
✔feminist--(11)--loc. 1006--"And Mom even used to be a feminist."
✔fizz--(6)--loc. 3354--"...joy fizzes up in her..."
✔flashbulb--(10)--loc. 1689--"His boots crunch over discarded flashbulbs."
✔floozy--(28) loc. 3935--"...to plant a floozy on him, to entrap him."
✔food truck--(4)--loc. 2641--"...stood in line at food trucks outside..."
✔gaucho--(20)--loc. 4087--"...children as gauchos, men dressed as women,..."
✔girdle--(10)--loc. 4367--"You couldn't even buy a rubber girdle..."
✔goosebumps--(18)--loc. 3028--"Danny's whole body broke out in goosebumps."
✔guile--(3)--loc. 2166--"There was no guile in the woman..."
✔hanging--(1)--loc. 92--"...fortunate to have escaped a hanging..."
✔helmet--(3)--loc. 1777--"...picked up her gas mask and helmet..."
✔hopscotch--(12)--loc. 257--"If Nu played hopscotch in Lila's..."
✔horde--(4)--loc. 2083--"...hordes of people moving around the space."
✔hummingbird--(1)--loc. 807--"...flamingos and hummingbirds no larger than bees..."
✔ice pack--(4)--loc. 1363--"Need a Band-Aid? Ice pack?"
✔identification--(3)--loc. 1626--"...Maisie had a new identification card..."
✔idol--(3)--loc. 495--"Tall, handsome, matinee idol type?"
✔implications--(2)--p. 219--"...has implications for our degree of vulnerability..."
✔Jehovah--(24)--loc. 2530--"...religionwise, like Jehovah Witness."
✔jodhpurs--(25)--loc. 2621--"The big horsey girl in jodhpurs..."
✔Jurassic--(21)--loc. 2558--"...roaming around loose like something out of Jurassic Park."
✔karaoke--(20)--loc. 4060--"...there had been pop music and karaoke..."
✔kerchief--(1)--loc. 1998--"...and not even a kerchief tied around his..."
✔knack--(1)--loc. 3584--"Perhaps this girl had a knack for making..."
✔lacquer--(14)--loc. 3986--"...porcelain cups on a lacquer tray lined in..."
✔latte--(7)--p. 255--"...I saw a sign for an Almond Joy Latte,..."
✔lexicon--(15)--loc. 6276--"In the unique lexicon shared by Mormons..."
✔lip sync--(23)--loc. 894--"...as a first grader lip syncing a Phil Collins song..."
Continued next post
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49/ 49 completed THIS post (part 2 of 2)
100 / 100 completed Entire Challenge
✔meager--(4)--loc. 1851--"...meager though the sunlight ever was..."
✔mellifluous--(27) loc. 5078--"...driven by a mellifluous gift of..."
✔minutes--(19)--p. 188--"...let someone else read these minutes I took on today's lessons."
✔mocha--(9)--p. 255--"Is the ice in a Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappucino..."
✔moss--(1)--loc. 3916--"...a fake remedy that was called skull moss..."
✔nasturtium--(13)--loc. 2246--"...across the bowl of nasturtiums..."
✔ninny--(22)--loc. 1094--"Oh come along, you ninny,..."
✔notoriety--(10)--loc. 143--"...and capitalize on his newfound notoriety..."
✔nudge--(3)--loc. 2290--"...doctor might nudge open otherwise closed doors."
✔obsession--(11)--loc. 467--"...who'd been the love and obsession of his..."
✔oleander--(13)--loc. 3839--"...telling him the story of the oleander tree..."
✔oration--(10)--loc. 4171--"...reacting from memories of old courtroom orations."
✔outrage--(7)--loc. p. 141--"--an outrage, given that we'd both..."
✔panther--(10)--loc. 3975--"I had to give away my panther."
✔parasite--(10)--loc. 3363--"There's some kind of intestinal parasite..."
✔peevish--(6)--loc. 3737--"...she said in a small, peevish voice,..."
✔pigtails--(7)--p. 166--"...an earnest woman with pigtails asked."
✔pumps--(10)--loc. 3880--"...a more practical pair of dark pumps."
✔quake--(8)--loc. 1869--"Sing, Oh, hurrah, let England quake,..."
✔queasy--(3)--loc. 3223--"I felt a bit queasy,..."
✔red tape--(19)--p. 356--"...the school system is strangulated by its own red tape."
✔relic--(4)--loc. 941--"...a relic from her childhood."
✔rife--(1)--loc. 1278--"...the islands nearby were rife with such places..."
✔rogue--(1)--loc. 640--"...still there were rogue companies..."
✔rosemary--(1)--loc. 303--"...dried lavender for luck and rosemary for remembrance."
✔saffron--(8)--loc. 2340--"...he looks lovely in his saffron kilt."
✔shepherd--(1)--loc. 5085--"My soul mate was a German shepherd..."
✔slogan--(2)--p. 248--"...(as the Gatorade advertising slogan had it)."
✔squander--(3)--loc. 3684--"...nothing in his pocket, so she could squander it."
✔stockings--(1)--loc. 172--"...along with stockings Hannah knitted..."
✔tavern--(1)--loc. 4203--"...the owner of the tavern was watching..."
✔therapy--(2)--p. 8--"...or go into therapy...."
✔torture--(2)--p. 187--"...five hundred years later, similar torture occurs."
✔tres leches cake--(29) loc. 3083--"...served the horchata and tres leches cake."
✔turmoil--(5)--loc. 1264--"...who gives the impression of boiling turmoil..."
✔undergarments--(1)--loc. 2329--"Who was she to wear undergarments?"
✔unkempt--(15)--loc. 937--"...wore flowers in his unkempt hair..."
✔vanish--(1)--loc. 568--"...only one reason for her mother to vanish..."
✔vestibule--(16)--loc. 1327--"The vestibule of the church was..."
✔vibrate--(17)--loc. 4062--"...every heart vibrates to that..."
✔vulnerable--(1)--loc. 5554--"How vulnerable beneath all that bluster."
✔warrant--(1)--loc. 3968--"...heard there was a warrant drawn out for her..."
✔watercolor--(17)--loc. 4643--"...her first show of American watercolors..."
✔wavering--(1)--loc. 5322--"...made out of old, wavering green glass."
✔wince--(5)--loc. 217--"It makes Marie wince."
✔yardstick--(10)--loc. 5150--"...he pressed a yardstick to the back of her legs."
✔yawning--(5)--loc. 3750--"...door is opened by a yawning underservant..."
✔zebra--(1)--loc. 5620--"...tray of heirloom tomato seedlings called Blue Zebra..."
✔zest--(1)--loc. 2789--"...fragrant mixture when lemon zest and rosemary were added..."
I found meagre in a book set largely in British Taiwan & this infoMeager and meagre are both English terms. Meager is predominantly used in American (US) English while meagre is predominantly used in British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) ( en-GB ).
I am assuming that is ok.
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Meager and meagre are both English terms. Meager is predominantly used in American (US) English while meagre is predominantly use..."
Yes ... Brit/Eng variations are always allowed. Thanks for alerting me (us).
Is it alright for a word to be spelled out by how the character pronounces the word. Example “De ally-gator don’ take him”
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Sorry, no.
I found the following: We have a team meeting in five minutes -Is this acceptable for minutes (of a meeting)?
Mod
Sorry, no. Minutes (of a meeting) refers to the official record of the meeting.
What about "a slice of tres leches for dessert" instead of tres leches cake?
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Given that this is such a unique and difficult item to find .. I'll take it
B U T ... I ask that you continue looking for the entire phrase until the end of this scavenger hunt period (i.e. 30Jun23) before claiming this.
Updated message #12: 6 month word search challenge completed!!!
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I have finished the Challenge with all 100 words if you choose to accept this alternative for Tres Leches Cake.tres leches cake POSSIBLE ~~ Twenty ~~ 20Apr23 ~~ page 319 ~~ “...Arroz con pollo. Plantains. Maybe a little tres leches for dessert…”
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Does this work?lip sync-p.341-Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"The ensuing show is a lip-synced retelling of The Little Mermaid..." 7/18/23
Finally found the last 3 words in the challenge, including "tres leches cake" so completed the MEGA Scavenger Hunt VII! whew!
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Begins: 01January2023 / Ends: 30June2023
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Your challenge is to find the following words/phrases in the TEXT of the books you are reading during this challenge period.
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!
Word list
absurd
alligator
anvil
autopsy
baroque
basil
bindle
blouse
Buddha
chai
clipboard
cognac
contagious
crinkles
delicacy
dishevelled
downtown
drag queen
dust bunnies
ethics
euphoria
expanse
exploits
feminist
fizz
flashbulb
floozy
food truck
gaucho
girdle
goosebumps
guile
hanging
helmet
hopscotch
horde
hummingbird
ice pack
identification
idol
implications
Jehovah
jodhpurs
Jurassic
karaoke
kerchief
knack
lacquer
latte
lexicon
lip sync
meager
mellifluous
minutes (of a meeting)
mocha
moss
nasturtium
ninny
notoriety
nudge
obsession
oleander
oration
outrage
panther
parasite
peevish
pigtails
pumps (shoes)
quake
queasy
red tape
relic
rife
rogue
rosemary (herb)
saffron
shepherd
slogan
squander
stockings
tavern
therapy
torture
tres leches cake
turmoil
undergarments
unkempt
vanish(-ed,-ing)
vestibule
vibrate
vulnerable
warrant
watercolor
wavering
wince
yardstick
yawning
zebra
zest
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NOTE - Given the length of this challenge, and Goodreads' character limit within one post, I'd strongly recommend you reserve TWO spaces right away.
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:
chaperone - Longbourn ✔ – 06Jan22 - pg 288 - "…suitable chaperones for unmarried…"
Have Fun!
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