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Fall 22 Readathon: Ind. Challenge Completion
Confirmed raffle entries:
Alicia L
Kathy
Rachel G
Sue
Juliet B
Kat
Amy
Leah S
Sherri
Trish H
Deborah S
Laurel K
Robin P
Aimee
Mahi
Edie
Tamara
Irene
Meg
Misty
Joy D
Laurii B
Nancy J
Lindsay K
Fourevver
Joyce M
Louise
Nancy T
Rae
Lynn
Lailah
Roxana S
Kelly Sj
Jillian
Katherine
Bec S
Chrissy
Rachel A
Kathryn
Pearl
Kendra
Marilia
Alicia L
Kathy
Rachel G
Sue
Juliet B
Kat
Amy
Leah S
Sherri
Trish H
Deborah S
Laurel K
Robin P
Aimee
Mahi
Edie
Tamara
Irene
Meg
Misty
Joy D
Laurii B
Nancy J
Lindsay K
Fourevver
Joyce M
Louise
Nancy T
Rae
Lynn
Lailah
Roxana S
Kelly Sj
Jillian
Katherine
Bec S
Chrissy
Rachel A
Kathryn
Pearl
Kendra
Marilia

Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover
Completed :

Eggplants: A book that includes a romance
Completed :

Green Beans: A book under 250 pages
Completed :

Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book*
Completed :


✔️Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book
The Woman on the Orient Express - Lindsay Jayne Ashford
✔️Peas: A book that is part of a series
The Prime Minister (Palliser #5) - Anthony Trollope
✔️Carrots: A book published in or before 2012
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival - Velma Wallis (1993)
✔️Edamame: A translated book
Gunnar's Daughter - Sigrid Undset (trans. from Norwegian)

✅Carrots: A book published in or before 2012:

✅Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover:

✅Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover:

✅Eggplants: A book that includes a romance:

✅Peas: A book that is part of a series:

✅Garlic: A book that features food:

✅Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book*:


Carrots: A book published in or before 2012
Edamame: A translated book
Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover
Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover
Eggplants: A book that includes a romance
✔︎Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere - Kayang & Me by Kim Scott & Hazel Brown (Australia)
✔︎Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages - Gould's Book Of Fish A Novel In Twelve Fish
Peas: A book that is part of a series
Garlic: A book that features food
✔︎Green Beans: A book under 250 pages - The Death of Napoleon (105 pp)
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book*
✔︎Onions: A book with more than one point of view - The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

Carrots: A book published before 2012
The Return of the King originally published in 1955
Pumpkins: A book over 400 pages
Just One Damned Thing After Another is 480 pages
Garlic: A book that features food
Lessons in Chemistry has the main character present a cooking show
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller or horror book
Eight Perfect Murders is a murder mystery

Carrots: A book published before 2012
The Painted Veil - 1925

Pumpkins: A book over 400 pages
The Satanic Verses

Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover
Two Down, Bun to Go

Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book - mystery
Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist


🍁Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover

🍁Green Beans: A book under 250 pages

🍁Garlic: A book that features food

🍁Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover


Carrots: A book completed in or before 2012
The Nowhere City
Edamame: A translated book
Apricot Jam and Other Stories
Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere
Apples Never Fall [set in Australia]
Onions: A book with more than one point of view:
A Keeper

1. Edamame: A translated book - Gerta
2.Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover -

3.Eggplants: A book that includes a romance - Now Lorraine Has Gone
4. Green Beans: A book under 250 pages - A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Trish H's Individual Challenge - four and one spare, just in case
Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere - Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay (set in Australia) - 15/09/22
Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages - The Devil and the Dark Water, Stuart Turton (576pg - of which I read 244pg during the RAT) - 12/09/22
Peas: A book that is part of a series - Thanksgiving Past, Kathi Daley (Cottage on Gooseberry Bay #2 of 11)- 14/09/22
Garlic: A book that features food - Strawberry Shortcake Murder, Joanne Fluke (POV character makes cookies) - 14/09/22
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book*- Death of an Eye, Dana Stabenow (Mystery) - 13/09/22
Completed:
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Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere - Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay (set in Australia) - 15/09/22
Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages - The Devil and the Dark Water, Stuart Turton (576pg - of which I read 244pg during the RAT) - 12/09/22
Peas: A book that is part of a series - Thanksgiving Past, Kathi Daley (Cottage on Gooseberry Bay #2 of 11)- 14/09/22
Garlic: A book that features food - Strawberry Shortcake Murder, Joanne Fluke (POV character makes cookies) - 14/09/22
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book*- Death of an Eye, Dana Stabenow (Mystery) - 13/09/22
Completed:






BOOKS READ





INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGE PROMPS:
� Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen
� Eggplants: A book that includes a romance
Before Beauty by Brittany Fichter
� Peas: A book that is part of a series
Keys to the Demon Prison by Brandon Mull
� Garlic: A book that features food
Blackberry Crumble by Josi S Kilpack
� Green Beans: A Book under 250 Pages
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples

Carrots: A book published in or before 2012 - No Game For a Dame by M. Ruth Myers (published 2011)
Eggplants: A book that includes a romance - The Princess Will Save You by Sarah Henning
Peas: A book that is part of a series - A Game of Fear by Charles Todd
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book* - Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead
Onions: A book with more than one point of view - The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
Robin P individual challenge
Edamame: A translated book - An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good - 9/15 -2*
Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages - The Ink Black Heart - 9/14 - 5*
Green Beans: A book under 250 pages - The Beginning of Spring - 9/11 4*
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book* - The Cartographers (mystery/thriller) - 9/15 3*
Edamame: A translated book - An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good - 9/15 -2*
Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages - The Ink Black Heart - 9/14 - 5*
Green Beans: A book under 250 pages - The Beginning of Spring - 9/11 4*
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book* - The Cartographers (mystery/thriller) - 9/15 3*

Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, completed 15/09

Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover
Animal Farm by George Orwell, completed 12/09

Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere
Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende, completed 12/09
(set in Peru and Chile)
Peas: A book that is part of a series
The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters, completed 14/09
(book 6 of the Brother Cadfael series)
Onions: A book with more than one point of view
A Million Aunties by Alecia McKenzie, completed 11/09
(each chapter has a different POV)

🍂 Edamame: A translated book - A Man Called Ove
🍂 Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages - The Kingdoms
🍂 Peas: A book that is part of a series - The Sea of Monsters
🍂 Onions: A book with more than one point of view - The Well of Ascension

🥕Carrots: A book published in or before 2012 Go Tell It on the Mountain still in progress
✔︎ Edamame: A translated book Chess Story Done 9/14/2022
✔︎ Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover A River in Darkness Done 9/16/2022
✔︎ Peas: A book that is part of a series Election Done 9/11/2022
✔︎ Green Beans: A book under 250 pages The Stranger in the Woods Done 9/13/2022
✔︎ Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book Ring Shout Done 9/13/2022
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Tomatoes: a book with red on the cover

Peppers: a book set in southern hemisphere
Torto Arado
Pumpkins: any book over 400 pages
The Golem and the Jinni
Garlic: a book that features food
Homicide and Halo-Halo
Green beans: abook under 250 pages
The Ballad of Black Tom
Cucumber: a mystery, thriller or horror book
The Hacienda

☑Carrots: A book published in/before 2012 - The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1958) 9/11/22
☑Edamame: A translated book - The Governesses (from French) 9/11/22
☑Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover - The Bloody Chamber 9/16/22
☑Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere - Whiteout (Antarctica) 9/10/22





The Bird Tribunal✔︎
🥕 Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover
The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World✔︎
🥕 Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere
Mullumbimby✔︎
🥕 Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book
My Best Friend's Exorcism✔︎

� Carrots: A book published in or before 2012
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington - finished 9/13/22
First published in 1901
� Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo - finished 9/12/22

� Peas: A book that is part of a series
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie - finished 9/15/22
First book in the Tommy and Tuppence series
� Green Beans: A book under 250 pages
The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne - finished 9/16/22
188 pages

�Carrots: A book published in or before 2012
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner - 9/13/22 - 4* - My Review (published in 1930)
✅Edamame: A translated book
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - 9/15/22 - 4* - My Review (translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover
Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover
Eggplants: A book that includes a romance
Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere
�Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng - 9/14/22 - 5* - My Review (460 pages)
Peas: A book that is part of a series
Garlic: A book that features food
�Green Beans: A book under 250 pages
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald - 9/16/22 - 3* - My Review (163 pages)
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book*
Onions: A book with more than one point of view
Challenge Completed: 9/17/22

✔️Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
✔️Green Beans: A book under 250 pages
Drowned Country by Emily Tesh
✔️Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book
The Sorority Murder by Allison Brennan
✔️Onions: A book with more than one point of view
Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi

Fall 2022 Readathon September 10-18
Individual Challenge = Complete 4 of the prompts.
Completed:
✔️Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson 🍅 tomato
✔️Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson green beans
✔️Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption:Hope Springs Eternal 🥒 cucumber
✔️Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 🥕carrots
✔️The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman🥔 potatoes
✔️Carrots: A book published in or before 2012 -
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, 2002
✔️Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover -
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman

✔️Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover -
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

✔️Green Beans: A book under 250 pages -
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
✔️Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book
-Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

� Edamame: A translated book The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
� Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
� Eggplants: A book that includes a romance In Five Years by Rebecca Searle
� Onions: A book with more than one point of view The Prynne Viper by Bianca Marias

Carrots: A book published in or before 2012 Rumpole's Return (published in 1980)
Edamame: A translated book The coming of Joachim Stiller (original Dutch title: De komst van Joachim Stiller)
Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover

Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover

Eggplants: A book that includes a romanceThat Wintry Feeling
Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere No Questions Asked (set in Brazil)
Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages Beau Death (417 pgs)
Peas: A book that is part of a series Best in Snow
Garlic: A book that features food State of the Onion
Green Beans: A book under 250 pages Lessons from Plants (240 pgs)
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book* Death Comes to the School
Onions: A book with more than one point of view Too Close

Carrots: A book published in or before 2012 - Lolly Willowes
Edamame: A translated book - The Lover
Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover - To Sir, With Love

Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages - Ace of Spades
Green Beans: A book under 250 pages - An Artist of the Floating World
Onions: A book with more than one point of view - Wahala

4/12
A minimum of 4 books:
🥔Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover

🍆Eggplants: A book that includes a romance
We Had to Remove This Post Done
🥒Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book*
Sudden Death Done
🧅Onions: A book with more than one point of view
The Wind That Lays Waste Done
My basket
🍆🥔🧅🥒

Carrots: A book published in or before 2012 - The House on Mango Street
Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover - Lab Girl
Eggplants: A book that includes a romance - Carrie Soto Is Back
Peas: A book that is part of a series - Less
Green Beans: A book under 250 pages - The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book* - Gods of Jade and Shadow
Onions: A book with more than one point of view - Drunk on Love

Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover

Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover

Garlic: A book that features food
I'm Glad My Mom Died
chapter after chapter describing food that she is/is not eating as she describes her eating disorder
Onions: A book with more than one point of view
Every Note Played

September 10-18
September 21--I just NOW noticed you wanted a last initial! (Duh!)
My name = Lynn G
Complete 4 prompts to enter the raffle to name one 2023 Challenge prompt!
10/12 as of September 17!
1. Carrots: A book published in or before 2012
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
1958
September 12--5 STARS
3. Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover

September 13--5 STARS
4. Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover

September 11--5 STARS
5. Eggplants: A book that includes a romance
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
September 15--5 STARS
7. Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
September 14--5 STARS
416 pages
8. Peas: A book that is part of a series
Ghost (Track #1) by Jason Reynolds
September 11--5 STARS
9. Garlic: A book that features food
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
September 10--5 STARS
10. Green Beans: A book under 250 pages
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
September 17--5 STARS
152 pages
11. Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book*
"*Because a character gets into a pickle! Get it? Get it? LAUGH, darn you."
Ha! Ha! LOL :) I get it. I got it. I definitely LAUGHED!
I, Alex Cross (Alex Cross #16) by James Patterson
September 17--5 STARS
12. Onions: A book with more than one point of view
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
September 17--5 STARS
A reminder that while books need to be finished by midnight tonight to count, this thread will remain open through tomorrow for posting your entries! It will close on Tuesday morning.


✔Eggplants: A book that includes a romance Love on the Brain
✔Peas: A book that is part of a series The Grief of Stones
✔Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book 56 Days

Carrots: A book published in or before 2012: Mrs. McGinty's Dead
Potatoes: A book with an animal on the cover:

Eggplants: A book that includes a romance: The Sun Is Also a Star
Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages: The War Girls
Peas: A book that is part of a series: The Murder on the Links
Garlic: A book that features food: 4:50 from Paddington
Green Beans: A book under 250 pages: The Lives of Christopher Chant
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book: The Perfect Stranger
Onions: A book with more than one point of view: Olga Dies Dreaming

Legend
* Peas (series)
The Bone People
* Pumpkins (>400 p)
A Mirror Mended
* Green Beans (<250 p)
Fool
* Carrots (pub <2012)


Peas: A book that is part of a series

Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book*

Onions: A book with more than one point of view



Potatoes: Animal on the Cover

Peppers: Set in the Southern Hemisphere:

Tomatoes: Red on the Cover


My first individual read-a-thon. Stayed up until 11pm last night (Sunday) to finish my 4th book.
Finished 4/4
Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover
Liam’s Town finished 14/9/2022
Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere
Gemini Falls - Finished 12/9/2022
Green Beans: A book under 250 pages
Battle of the Hexes: A Paranormal Cozy Mystery Romance - Finished 17/9/2022
Cucumber: A mystery, thriller, or horror book*
Haunting Emily- A Spirit Hunters Novel - Finished 18/9/2022

Pumpkins: Any book over 400 pages - Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 10 Sept (~200 pages read during readathon)
Tomatoes: A book with red on the cover - A Very Large Expanse of Sea ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 12 Sept (one of the words is in red)
Eggplants: A book that includes a romance - Happiness for Beginners ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sept 13
Peppers: A book set in the Southern Hemisphere - The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina (Guayaquil, Ecuador) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sept 18
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