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Oct 2024 Mini Challenge - HALLOWEEN SCAVENGER HUNT
Begins: 01Oct24 / Ends: 31Oct24


This month’s challenge is inspired by all the spooky decorations already prevalent in my neighborhood.

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

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
apple
bat
cider
costume
ghost
hobo
pirate
princess
pumpkin (bonus if Jack-o-lantern)
tombstone
treat
vampire
witch



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

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’s "look inside" or “read a sample” 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:
Finger - The Summer Wives ✔ - 15August24 - pg 47 - "...instant before her fingers opened, I saw..."


If you'd like to be recognized as finishing the challenge, please post a new comment alerting me to your finish. I do not get notifications when you edit your original post.

Have Fun!

Reserved for list of participants.

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

Beverly ✔ Completed

JennH

Koren ✔ Completed

Sheila

TerriS ✔ Completed


Tessa ✔ Completed

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Oct 2024 Mini Challenge - HALLOWEEN SCAVENGER HUNT
Begins: 01Oct24 / Ends: 31Oct24

Word list
apple - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - 10/3/24 - p164 - "under an old apple"
bat - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - 10/3/24 - p138 - "a family of Bats"
cider - Closely Harbored Secrets - 10/6/24 - p87 - "added hot apple cider"
costume - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - 10/3/24 - p179 - "make a costume for the"
ghost - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - 10/3/24 - p51 - "they're like ghosts."
hobo
pirate - Closely Harbored Secrets - 10/6/24 - p16 - "the infamous pirate earned"
princess - Thornhedge 10/4/24 - p2 - "a princess in a tower"
pumpkin (bonus if Jack-o-lantern) - Closely Harbored Secrets - 10/6/24 - p77 "generous numbers of pumpkins"
tombstone
treat - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - 10/3/24 - p236 - "wrong to treat animals"
vampire
witch - Closely Harbored Secrets - 10/6/24 - p286 - "as Kitchen Witch"

Oct 2024 Mini Challenge - HALLOWEEN SCAVENGER HUNT
Begins: 01Oct24 / Ends: 31Oct24

13 / 13 words found
8 books read


apple - Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures ✔ – 11Oct24 - pg 63 - "…the smell of hot apple pie."

bat - Someone We Know ✔ – 11Oct24 - pg 29 - "…like a bat without radar."

cider - The Expectant Detectives ✔ – 17Oct24 - pg 5 - "…with undertones of cheap cider."

costume - Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures ✔ – 11Oct24 - pg 35 - "…thrift stores and costume shops."

ghost - Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures ✔ – 11Oct24 - pg 25 - "…decided to give up the ghost."

hobo - Whiskers of the Lion ✔ – 12Dec24 - pg 10 - "…looked like a derelict hobo."

pirate - Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures ✔ – 11Oct24 - pg 38 - "…baby carriages and pirate ships."

princess - Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures ✔ – 11Oct24 - pg 39 - "Princess Stephanie was singing…"

pumpkin - The Housemaid ✔ – 13Oct24- pg 129 - "…turns back into a pumpkin."

tombstone - Tom Lake ✔ – 29Oct24 - pg 102 - "…along the tombstones the…"

treat - Something Like Home ✔ – 11Oct24 - pg 84 - "…for the treat he wants to chew."

vampire - The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society ✔ – 06Nov24 - pg 99 - "…creatures called vampires."

witch - Something Like Home ✔ – 11Oct24 - pg 40 - "…called The Okay Witch, where…"


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Oct 2024 Mini Challenge - HALLOWEEN SCAVENGER HUNT
Begins: 01Oct24 / Ends: 31Oct24

Word list
13/13

apple-Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy by Kate Swenson finished 10/4 p. 84 Point to the apple.

bat-Night Goblins: A Memoir by JT Gregory finished 10/11 p. 155 ...like a bat into hell.

cider-Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own by Jenna Woginrich finished 10/6 p. 58 ...I could sip my hard cider...

costume-Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy by Kate Swenson finished 10/4 p. 159 ...a red Power Rangers costume...

ghost-Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy by Kate Swenson finished 10/4 p. 220 ...I called him my little ghost.

hobo-When the Ghost Screams: True Stories of Victims Who Haunt by Leslie Rule finished 10/11 p. 29 ...a refuge for squatters and hobos...

pirate-When the Ghost Screams: True Stories of Victims Who Haunt by Leslie Rule finished 10/11 p. 67 They also hung pirates and Quakers...

princess-You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: Memoirs of a Social Worker by J. Traveler Pelton finished 10/5 p. 131 ...I dressed like a princess...

pumpkin (bonus if Jack-o-lantern)-Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own by Jenna Woginrich finished 10/6 p. 55 ...pick your own jack-o'lantern from a farmer's field...

tombstone-Living Among Headstones: Life in a Country Cemetery by Shannon Applegate finished 10/14 p. 37 Tombstone makers quickly transformed many of these...

treat-The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession by Alexandra Robbins finished 10/7 p. 136 Inside the bag were treats...

vampire-The Vampire of Sacramento: The True Story of Richard Chase The Blood-Thirsty Cannibal by Genoveva Ortiz finished 10/19 p. 95 If this cannibal vampire wasn't crazy....

witch-When the Ghost Screams: True Stories of Victims Who Haunt by Leslie Rule finished 10/11 p. 63 ...the 1692 Salem witch trials...

Oct 2024 Mini Challenge - HALLOWEEN SCAVENGER HUNT
Begins: 01Oct24 / Ends: 31Oct24

13/13

Word list
apple Haunted Halloween Murder by Addison Moore page 192 "...the Honey Hollow Apple Festival is coming..." FINISHED 10/4

bat Haunted Halloween Murder by Addison Moore page 187 "...like a bat out of the hot place..." FINISHED 10/4

cider Haunted Halloween Murder by Addison Moore page 42 "Steph lifts her cider my way." FINISHED 10/4

costume Haunted Halloween Murder by Addison Moore page 12 "...what a wonderful costume you chose..." FINISHED 10/4

ghost Haunted Halloween Murder by Addison Moore page 37 "...not a ghost or a goblin in all of Starry Falls..." FINISHED 10/4

hobo A Toxic Trousseau by Juliet Blackwell page 115 "...calling him my "pet hobo". FINISHED 10/11

pirate William by Mason Coile page 213 "A boy in a pirate outfit..." FINISHED 10/2

princess Haunted Halloween Murder by Addison Moore page 27 "Flo is basically a goth princess..." FINISHED 10/4

pumpkin (bonus if Jack-o-lantern) Haunted Halloween Murder by Addison Moore page 158 "...lit up like a jack-o-lantern with eyes that shine..." FINISHED 10/4

tombstone My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse page 88 "...to have inscribed on my tombstone." FINISHED 10/5

treat Haunted Halloween Murder by Addison Moore page 103 "...he's in for a real treat." FINISHED 10/4

vampire Haunted Halloween Murder by Addison Moore page 14 "...what looks to be a heated argument with a vampire..." FINISHED 10/4

witch Haunted Halloween Murder by Addison Moore page 10 "She nods to the witch and we share a laugh." FINISHED 10/4

Oct 2024 Mini Challenge - HALLOWEEN SCAVENGER HUNT

13/13

Word list:
✔apple - “…he tasted of salt and bread and apple cider….” The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon -- P. 160, FINISHED 10/4

✔bat- “…bats are damnably erratic...” A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny -- P. 17, FINISHED 10/22

✔cider - “…he nods toward the jug of cider on the wood tray…” The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon -- P. 149, FINISHED 10/4

✔costume - “Wherever they went he was loaded with peasant costumes -- which she would put on as soon as they reached their hotel…” Angel by Elizabeth Taylor -- P. 154, FINISHED 10/11

✔ghost - “…Here one moment, gone the next. Like a passing ghost….” Way Station by Clifford D. Simak -- P. 30, FINISHED 10/5

✔hobo - - “A newspaper cartoon of the time shows a hobo -- a Brooklyn bum -- clinging to Burt as he steers a rusty bicycle….” Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever by Kevin Cook -- P. 116, FINISHED 12/2

✔pirate - “He no more looks like a musician than I a pirate…” The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon -- P. 207, FINISHED 10/4

✔princess - - “So which of the prom princesses was it tonight? Jake asked, grinning.” The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister -- P. 140, FINISHED 10/25

✔pumpkin (bonus if Jack-o-lantern) - “and then the pasta gave way easily to her teeth, the pumpkin melting across her tongue,…” The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister -- P. 96, FINISHED 10/25

✔tombstone - “…In the moonlight Enoch tried to read the graven line upon the rough-hewn tombstone, but there was not light enough.” Way Station by Clifford D. Simak -- P. 34, FINISHED 10/5

✔treat - “…They dono ‘ow to treat a lady, do they?” 1984 by George Orwell -- P. 300, FINISHED 10/8

✔vampire - “…his monster editor was a vampire.” The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer -- P. 70, FINISHED 12/3

✔witch - “I ain’t about to have no witch in any family of mine.” Way Station by Clifford D. Simak -- P. 17, FINISHED 10/5

I'm in.

apple--Oral Hex--pg. 39--He offered me a sugar topped red apple in a bag.

bat--Oral Hex--pg. 7--I didn't bat for the straight team.

cider

costume--Zero Pucks Given--pg. 9--"Angelique approved the costumes herself...."

ghost--A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer--pg. 8--If a soul wasn't collected and delivered within forty-five days of its body eviction, it would be relegated to stay on earth as a soul forever. In layman's terms, a ghost.

hobo--Hanukkah at the Great Greenwich Ice Creamery by Sharon Ibbotson--finished 12/24/2024--pg. 161--"Urgh, you look like a hobo. You're destroying the Brooks Brothers, Ford."

pirate--Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir--pg. 31-- "So it's sort of like pouring over a boat to keep Somali pirates from getting on board."

princess--Zero Pucks Given--pg. 3--Beau had been linked with famous movie stars, models, and even a princess.

pumpkin (bonus if Jack-o-lantern)--Summoned on Halloween: An Polyamorous MMF Romance--pg. 25--Jack-o'-lanterns grinned from porches and fake cobwebs adorned bushes.

tombstone--Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir--pg. 317--The lexicon of a language is not those words on a thousand tombstones.

treat--Oral Hex--pg. 25--"Our son," she continued. "He's our son." And that worked a treat.

vampire--Oral Hex--pg. 15--If I'd been an omega vampire, I wouldn't have been forced to survive this long.

witch--Summoned on Halloween: An Polyamorous MMF Romance--pg. 24--"You're a feisty little witch. I like. you."

Welcome Scavengers! I think I've got everyone linked to this point.

I'm headed out to Yellowstone National Park in the morning and will NOT have reliable WiFi or cell coverage for the next week. So I may not be posting much or checking for any newcomers to the challenge.

I'll catch up when I return home on Oct 13.

Updated message #6: Challenge complete.

Wow, Beverly, that was fast!

Book Concierge wrote: "Wow, Beverly, that was fast!"

I was lucky to find the majority of the words in one book!

Finished-message #5

Excellent challenge work, Koren!

I finally finished!! It took me forever to find the words "hobo" and "vampire"! Thanks for the fun, BC ;)

Terris wrote: "I finally finished!! It took me forever to find the words "hobo" and "vampire"! Thanks for the fun, BC ;)"

Great job, Terri ... I'm still searching for "hobo" myself!

Book Concierge wrote: "Terris wrote: "I finally finished!! It took me forever to find the words "hobo" and "vampire"! Thanks for the fun, BC ;)"

Great job, Terri ... I'm still searching for "hobo" myself!"

Would believe I found it in a baseball book about the 1947 World Series?! ;)