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flowers
hummingbird
baseball
picnic
zinnias
sunshine
sundresses
swimming
canoeing
camping
daisies
vacation
lemonade
beaches
waterpark
surfing
watermelon
sunglasses
hiking
F Flying Colours
L Call for the Dead by John le Carré
O Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
W The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
E Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
R The Human Stain by Philip Roth
S Sputnik Sweetheart
H His Bloody Project
U
M Moll Flanders
M Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
I Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
N Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
G Gargantua and Pantagruel
B Tandia by Bryce Courtenay
I When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
R Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb
D Deadeye Dick
B Backstage Pass
A Another Time, Another Place
S The Silence of the Lambs
E Empire of the Vampire
B Sharpe's Assassin by Bernard Cornwell
A A Ship of the Line
L Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard #1)
L Lord Hornblower
P Pillars of the Earth
I I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day
C Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain nemo #1)
N NOS4A2
I Time Regained (Series: In search of Lost Time)
C Commodore Hornblower
Z Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
I I Capture the Castle
N The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
N Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
I Invitation to a Beheading
A The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
S The Secret History
S The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
U Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
N Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
S Shakespeare: The World as a Stage
H Junkyard Cats by Faith Hunter
I The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
N Night Music
E James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
S The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill
U
N
D Dead Men Can't Complain and Other Stories
R The Border by Robert McCammon
E Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
S The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
S The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
E The Eye of the World
S Small Gods
S Tales from the Fire Zone (Sam Hunter series)
W Woman at Point Zero
I The Ionian Mission
M Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
M Moving Pictures
I
N
G Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
C Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Wallbanger by Alice Clayton
N
O Oklahoma Christmas Blues
E Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
I
N
G The Grapes of Wrath
C The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
A Ariadne
M Saint Death by Mark Dawson
P Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
I
N
G The Guns of Avalon
D Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton
A 4�3�2� by Paul Auster
I
S Stories I Only Tell My Friends 320 pages
Billy Summers by Stephen King
I
E Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
S From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran by Jacqueline Saper
V The Vows of Silence
A Kane & Abel by Jeffrey Archer
C Chocky
A Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz
T The Hobbit
I The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
O The Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen
N The Overcoat and Other Russian Tales by Nikolai Gogol
B Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
E Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
A African Queen, The
C Cosmos
H Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
E The Haunted House with story by Elizabeth Gaskell
S Skinwalker
W Wise Children
A Love and Friendship by Jane Austen
T Tangerine
E Book Lovers by Emily Henry
R Freedom of the Mask by Robert McCammon
P The Path Is the Goal
A A Crucible of Souls
R Cardinal Black by Robert McCammon
K Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

May - August 2022
DONE
Second outing:
S Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life Helen Czerski 7/13
W Wedding Cake and Woes Agatha Frost 7/16
I Irish Castle Murder Penny Brooke 7/2
M Midsummer Night's Mischief Jennifer David Hesse 7/10
M Murder Gone Cold B.J. Daniels 7/15
I Into Dust B.J. Daniels 7/17
N Navajo's Woman Beverly Barton 7/14
G Garden of Lies Amanda Quick 7/19
First Daytrip: DONE
S Seabreeze Book Club Jan Moran 6/19
U Under Lock & Skeleton Key: A Secret Staircase Mystery Gigi Pandian 6/6
N No Accident Steven F. Havill 5/7
D Dragon Flight Jessica Day George 5/8
R Run, Hide Carol Ericson 5/18
E Evil in Carnations Kate Collins 6/5
S Starry Nights Daisy Whitney 5/10
S Scream Blue Murder Tony J. Forder 5/16
E Exit Strategy Colleen Cross 5/11
S Surrender the Key D.J. MacHale 5/13
F Familiar Motives Delia James 5/1
L Lady Liberty Vicki Hinze 5/7
O Odd Man Out B.J. Daniels 5/3
W Warm Nights in Magnolia Bay Babette de Jongh 5/4
E Evidence Jonathan Kellerman 5/2
R Ring of Lies Rachel Lynne 5/8
S See Something Carol J. Perry 5/2

13/17
BEACHES
B: Brigid Kemmerer - Forging Silver into Stars 7/27
E: Emily Henry - Book Lovers 5/26
A: Maci Aurora - In the Shadow of a Wish 7/3
C: Harlan Coben - Tell No One 8/2
H: Heartstopper: Volume One 5/12
Heartstopper: Volume Two 5/12
E:
S: Simone St. James - The Book of Cold Cases 6/11
WATERMELON
W The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill 7/10
A: Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda DeWitt 5/7
T: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa 5/27
E
R Riley Sager - The House Across the Lake 7/16
M: My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth 5/12
E
L Lucy Foley - The Paris Apartment
O Alice Oseman - Heartstopper: Volume Three 5/13
Alice Oseman - Heartstopper: Volume Four 5/14
N

*Title (first letter)
*Author (First or Last initial)
*Series name (first letter)
Letters Needed
e=2 | i=10 | n=11 | o=3 | u=3 | z=1
Part 1 of 3
FLOWERS
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HUMMINGBIRD
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BASEBALL
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PICNIC
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ZINNIAS
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SUNSHINE
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SUNDRESSES
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SWIMMING
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CANOEING
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CAMPING
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DAISIES
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VACATION
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LEMONADE
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BEACHES
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WATERPARK
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SURFING
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WATERMELON
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SUNGLASSES
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HIKING
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you may use one book no more than three times in different words
*Title (first letter)
*Author (First or Last initial)
*Series name (first letter)
words
flowers
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hummingbird
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baseball
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picnic
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zinnias
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sunshine
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sundresses
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swimming
(view spoiler)
canoeing
(view spoiler)
camping
(view spoiler)
daisies
(view spoiler)
vacation
(view spoiler)
lemonade
(view spoiler)
beaches
(view spoiler)
waterpark
(view spoiler)
surfing
(view spoiler)
watermelon
(view spoiler)
sunglasses
(view spoiler)
hiking
(view spoiler)


May - August 2022
DONE
Second outing:
S Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life Helen Czerski 7/13
W Wedding Cake and Woes Agatha Frost 7/16
I Irish Castle Murder Penny Brooke 7/2
M Midsummer Night's Mischief Jennifer David Hesse 7/10
M Murder Gone Cold B.J. Daniels 7/15
I Into Dust B.J. Daniels 7/17
N Navajo's Woman Beverly Barton 7/14
G Garden of Lies Amanda Quick 7/19
First Daytrip: DONE
S Seabreeze Book Club Jan Moran 6/19
U Under Lock & Skeleton Key: A Secret Staircase Mystery Gigi Pandian 6/6
N No Accident Steven F. Havill 5/7
D Dragon Flight Jessica Day George 5/8
R Run, Hide Carol Ericson 5/18
E Evil in Carnations Kate Collins 6/5
S Starry Nights Daisy Whitney 5/10
S Scream Blue Murder Tony J. Forder 5/16
E Exit Strategy Colleen Cross 5/11
S Surrender the Key D.J. MacHale 5/13
F Familiar Motives Delia James 5/1
L Lady Liberty Vicki Hinze 5/7
O Odd Man Out B.J. Daniels 5/3
W Warm Nights in Magnolia Bay Babette de Jongh 5/4
E Evidence Jonathan Kellerman 5/2
R Ring of Lies Rachel Lynne 5/8
S See Something Carol J. Perry 5/2
Books mentioned in this topic
See Something (other topics)Into Dust (other topics)
Seabreeze Book Club (other topics)
Garden of Lies (other topics)
Under Lock & Skeleton Key (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Carol J. Perry (other topics)Beverly Barton (other topics)
Jan Moran (other topics)
Gigi Pandian (other topics)
B.J. Daniels (other topics)
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Individual challenge
May 2022 - August 2022
Let's go from Spring right into Summer with a spell out. Spell out as few or as many of the Spring & Summer words below as you want. You do not have to do all of them.
Rules
You may spell out the words using any of the following:
*Title (first letter)
*Author (First or Last initial)
*Series name (first letter)
You may use one book up to three times but NOT in the same word and they must be for a different reason.
Example: Taken - Series: Breaking the Darkness - Author: Felicia Starr
* 'b' in baseball using the series
* 't' in waterpark using the title
* 'f' in flowers using the author's first initial
Standard Rules Apply
Spell Out Words
flowers
hummingbird
baseball
picnic
zinnias
sunshine
sundresses
swimming
canoeing
camping
daisies
vacation
lemonade
beaches
waterpark
surfing
watermelon
sunglasses
hiking