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Frasier's listening and has the answer.
☕🎧OPTIONAL LISTENING PROMPTS🎧☕
🐶 Eddie 🐶
1. MPG Animal or MPG Cozy Mystery or tagged min 5x
2. A book with a dog or another pet
3. A book max. 3 hours long
4. A book where a character goes for a walk
5. A book with the letters PARK in the title
📢 Bulldog 📢
1. MPG Sports or MPG Action or tagged min 5x
2. A book with with a loud or abrasive character
3. A book bw 3-6 hours
4. A book with a competition or winning
5. A book with a character mostly referred to by a Nickname
🪑 Martin 🪑
1. MPG Police Procedural or MPG Army or tagged min 5x
2. A book bw 7-10 hours
3. A book with characters who are/were estranged
4. A book featuring some kind of card game
5. A book with a down-to-earth, unpretentious character
🎧 Roz 🎧
1. MPG Contemporary or MPG Humo(u)r or tagged 5x
2. A book bw 11-15 hours
3. A book with a character or author or narrator who is Irish or has Irish roots
4. A book with a character who is a single parent
5. A book with author's or narrator's initials in PRODUCER
🌓Daphne🌓
1. MPG Romance or Magical Realism or tagged min 5x
2. A book bw 15-20 hours
3. A book with a character who is a caretaker
4. A plot featuring intuition, fate, or psychic elements
5. A book with a character or author or narrator from the North of England
🎻Niles🎻
1. MPG Music or MPG Art or tagged min 5x
2. A book bw 21-25 hours
3. A book with a character who plays a musical instrument
4. A book with sibling rivalry
5. A plotline with unrequited or complicated love
☕Frasier☕
1. MPG Classics or Psychology or tagged min 5x
2. A book 25+ hours long
3. A book with a character/author who is a therapist or a psychologist, or an academic
4. A book from the GR shelf radio
5. A book with an Ivy League university mentioned in text
📺 The Series 📻
1. A book that can be considered a spin-off of a series or subseries
2. A book first published between 1993 and 2004
3. A book that spans multiple years or long periods of life
4. A book that has any coffee-related word in the title or that has a cup on cover
5. A character- or dialogue-driven plot
6. A book set in the Pacific Northtwest
7. A book with full-cast narration
8. A book with any kind of tower on cover
9. A book that won or was nominated for an Award
10. Book title starts with a letter from SEATTLE
“How exciting to be present at the birth of a new phobia.” ~ Niles Crane, Season 7 episode "Radio Wars"
~ 🥬🍳 "TOSSED SALADS & SCRAMBLED EGGS" - A FRASIER Annual Audiobook Challenge 📻🎙️🎧~
☎️ Welcome, Callers.
You’ve reached Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs, a Frasier-inspired, year-long audiobook challenge for listeners whose tastes are eclectic, whose headphones are well worn, and whose opinions about narration may occasionally verge on… firm.
This is a space to celebrate audiobooks in all their glorious variety: classics and comfort reads, literary fiction and guilty pleasures, bold narration choices, questionable accents, and those listens that leave you thinking, “Well. That was… enlightening.”
Whether your listening habits are steady and dependable or wildly unpredictable, you are most welcome here. There is no prescribed pace, no required genre, and absolutely no expectation of consistency. After all—be that as it may—life happens.
📞How It Works📞
🎧Listen to audiobooks throughout the year
🎧 Create your own Call Log (thread)
🎧 Log your listens with as much or as little commentary as you wish
🎧 At the end of each month, you can assign yourself the listening level you reached (levels may change; flexibility is encouraged)
🎧 You can complete optional bonus prompts if you feel like it.
🎧 At the end of the year, participants may earn certificates of distinguished listening, awarded in recognition of the number of bonus prompts completed—and a general commitment to the art of listening.
🎧 Prompts may be completed in any order, at any time.
So settle in. Adjust your headphones. Pour something comforting (coffee, tea, sherry—no judgments).
You’re among friends now.
Duration: 1 January - 31 December
Levels to be assigned at the end of each month:
1. 🐶 Eddie 🐶 (1-2 books/month)
2. 📢 Bulldog 📢(3-4 books/month)
3. 🪑 Martin 🪑 (5-6 books/month)
4. 🎧 Roz 🎧(7-8 books/month)
5. 🌓Daphne🌓 (9-10 books/month)
6. 🎻Niles🎻 (11-12 books/month)
7. ☕Frasier☕ (13+ books/month)
Levels:
🐶 Eddie 🐶 (1-2 books/month)
📢 Bulldog 📢(3-4 books/month)
🪑 Martin 🪑 (5-6 books/month)
🎧 Roz 🎧(7-8 books/month)
🌓Daphne🌓 (9-10 books/month)
🎻Niles🎻 (11-12 books/month)
☕Frasier☕ (13+ books/month)
2026 January Book of the Month: Pretend I'm Dead
by Jen BeaginMiranda July meets Mary Karr in this brilliant debut novel from Jen Beagin, Whiting Award winner and “one of the freshest voices I've read in years—funny, wise, whip-smart and compassionate” (Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins), about a cleaning lady on a quest for self-acceptance after her relationship with a loveable junkie goes awry.
Jen Beagin’s quirky, moving, “frank and unflinching” (Josh Ferris) debut novel introduces an unforgettable character, Mona—almost twenty-four, emotionally adrift, and cleaning houses to get by. Handing out clean needles to drug addicts, she falls for a recipient she calls Mr. Disgusting, who proceeds to break her heart in unimaginable ways.
In search of healing, Mona decamps to Taos, New Mexico, for a fresh start, where she finds a community of seekers and cast-offs, all of whom have one or two things to teach her—the pajama-wearing, blissed-out New Agers, the slightly creepy client with peculiar tastes in controlled substances, the psychic who might really be psychic. But always lurking just beneath the surface are her memories of growing up in a chaotic, destructive family from which she’s trying to disentangle herself, and the larger legacy of the past she left behind.
The story of Mona’s journey to find her place in this working-class American world is at once hilarious and wonderfully strange, true to life and boldly human, and introduces a stunningly one-of-a-kind new voice in American fiction.
2026 January Book of the Month: Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins ReidJoan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.
Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.
As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.
Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.
Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love—this time among the stars.
This folder is for Buddy Read requests!
The way this works is that if someone wants to read a book, you suggest it in this thread.
Then, if other members want to read with you they can agree to a buddy read.
You choose a date, start a new thread in this Buddy Reads folder for the book and discuss.
Make sure you add the title of your book and a date to your thread so others that want to join the discussion know when you're reading.
Looking forward to reading about you plans for 2026, your current reads and your opinions/reviews on books read. 😊
At the end of 2025, looking back, what were your Top 5 or Top 10 ... books of the Year? Care to Share?
It's time to nominate books for our BotM in February 2026. Please nominate books that you would like to read and discuss with the group here.Rules:
➙ Please nominate only ONE book.
➙ Books do not need to be seconded.
➙ Do not nominate books that have not been published at the time of nomination.
➙ Do not nominate books that have been read as a BOTM in the past 2 years. Book list can be found on the bookshelf
➙ If a book has already been a BotM two times, it is no longer eligible to be nominated again.
‼️ INELIGIBLE BOOKS:
All the Light We Cannot See
The Book Thief
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Giver
The Light Between Oceans
Little Women
The Lost Apothecary
Me Before You
The Nightingale
The Night Circus
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Project Hail Mary
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Shining
The Silent Patient
Where the Crawdads Sing
Sharp Objects
Six of Crows
The Midnight Library
➙ Do not nominate books that are the second or later in a series.
➙ Do not use this thread for author/book-promotion.
Any attempts perceived as promotion will be removed without notice.
➙ No erotica.
Additional tips -
Please use a book link, if possible. If it's not possible, please include the author's name. We want to make sure to include the correct books! You can add a synopsis from the books Goodread's page, if you like, but it is not necessary.
Directions to add a book link:
This can only be done when online and not when using an app.
When typing in the text box, on top of the box there is a link that says "add book/author". Click on that and a new box will appear. Type your book name in the space provided and click on "search". When you see your book, click the "add" button to the right of it.
To add a link that just has the book name, you can click "link" at the bottom of the "add book/author" box. The link is the automatic setting. To add a book cover, click on "cover" at the bottom left.
2025 DECEMBER NEWSLETTER
Hello Everyone,
You can vote for the January Books of the Month here:
❎ Poll: vote here
📑📖If you want to join the discussions, the December Books of the Month are The Christmas Tree Farm by Melody Carlson & I, Medusa by Ayana Gray
🔖 The Christmas Tree Farm - discussion here
🔖 I, Medusa - discussion here
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♓💫WHAT'S NEW?💫♓
✨📜A Challenge Universally Acknowledged📜✨
🎂 starts on 16 December to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Birth of Miss Jane Austen. You can join any time as an individual player or as part of a self-organised team. All details can be found here: A Challenge Universally Acknowledged
💟 If you do not want to join the challenge itself, yet you love Everything Austen, you are welcome to chat with other devotees in: A Refined Regency Drawing Room
Shout-out (or in the spirit of the challenge, a polite bow and a curtsy ;) to Sammy & Karen , co-creators of this challenge. 😊
A word to the wise: This will be a self-directing, open-ended challenge and WILL NOT replace our annual UNO Team Challenge that is scheduled to start on 1 Feb 2026.
As usual, you will get an update message on UNO towards the end of December/beginning of January. 😊
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❄️🍵📘 Winter Seasonal Challenges 🍵❄️🎧
🎧❄️Winter Season Audiobook Challenge❄️🎧
Winter Season Audiobook Challenge
For those of you who have completed this challenge already: This is a slightly updated version of the challenge lauched in 2024. Setting tasks have been updated and some extra tasks added just for fun. 😊
🍵📘Winter Season Freestyle Challenge📘❄️
Winter Season Freestyle Challenge
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🍭🍭2026 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge🍭🍭 has already been published.
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📘 Challenges Links
❄️ December Challenges
📖 General Challenges
🃏 UNO Mini Challenges for individual players
📙If you have any questions concerning the challenges or proposals/requests for new challenges, you can post them here.
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📕 2026 BUDDY READS can be requested and followed under this folder.
If you choose to request a buddy read in the buddy read requests thread, please be sure to come back to see if anyone has responded to your request. Please note that this folder is not for promotional purposes.
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📗Our folders for Promotions are here Promote Anything
Any activity perceived as promotional outside these folders will be removed without notice.
🎄❄️Happy Reading! 📚
Melinda
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Here are some Warm-up Questions for you to consider for starters.
1. What was your first book by Jane Austen? When/why did you read it?
2. Which novels do you like the most/least?
3. Which Austen character do you identify with?
4. If you could pay a visit to one fictional Austen household, where would you go and why?
5. Which Austen side character deserves their own novel or at least a novella?
6. Which movie / film adaptations have you watched? What are your favourites? The ones you don't like?
7. Have you ever visited any Austen-related places in the UK?
8. Do you have a favourite Austen hero: who is it and why? And if you could choose, who should cast to play him in your movie/series?
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.” — Emma
📜 This is the optional part of the challenge.
To cover the bonus tasks, you can use books you have read for the obligatory task sets 1-10 OR you can read new books instead.
📜 1 book covers 1 task only.
Scavenger Bonus 1 - Names - Find the names in the text.
1. Elizabeth OR Bennet
2. Fitzwilliam OR Darcy
3. Elinor (or Eleanor) OR Dashwood
4. Edward OR Ferrars
5. Fanny OR Price
6. Edmund or Bertram
7. Emma OR Woodhouse
8. George OR Knightley
9. Catherine OR Morland
10. Henry OR Tilney
11. Anne OR Elliot
12. Frederick OR Wentworth
Scavenger Bonus 2 - Characters - Find similar characters in your books. (Some prompst have been added on the sheet.) They don't need to be 100% fits.
1. Mrs Bennet
2. Lady Catherine
3. Colonel Brandon
4. Mr Darcy
5. Lydia Bennet
6. Emma Woodhouse
7. Mr Collins
8. Tom Bertam
9. Sir Walter Elliot
10. Mrs Norris
11 Miss Bates
12 Mrs John Dashwood
Scavenger Bonus 3 - Regency words Find the words in text
Transport & Travel
1. carriage
2. chase
3. curricle
4. phaeton
5. gig
6. postilion
7. coach
8. barouche
9. chaise and four
10. horse(s)
Clothing & Fashion
1. bonnet
2. muslin
3. pelisse
4. shawl
5. waistcoat
6. petticoat
7. regimentals or uniform
8. stockings
9. breeches
10. cravat
Architecture & Houses
1. manor
2. estate
3. parsonage
4. rectory
5. assembly (room/s)
6. cottage
7. park
8. ha-ha
9. stables
10. library
Society & Status
1. ball
2. promenade
3. concert
4. country dance
5. lord or lady
6. fortune
7. dowry
8. rank
9. inheritance
10. income
“Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawing up at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through—and very good lists they were—very well chosen, and very neatly arranged... ” - Emma
📜 Google Sheet
(YOU CAN MAKE A COPY OF THE SHEET!)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
📜 Task Set 1 - Biography
1. a book published in December
2. a book with a character who stays single till the end
3. a JA biography or a book about her works, her letters or her times OR a book of fiction featuring JA as a characer
4. a book with a character who has a big or extended family (your interpretation)
5. a book set in the South of England (statistical regions of London, the South East, the South West and the East) (view spoiler)
6. a book (novel, novella, short story, poem, play, essay) by an author admired or read by JA (view spoiler)
7. a book (novel, novella, short story, poem, play) by an author who admired JA or was influenced by her work (view spoiler)
8. a book with MPG Classic(s)
9. a book with a cover in soft pastels or muted tones (evoking regency aesthetics - your interpretation)
10. a book with any type of correspondence in the text
📜 Task Set 2 - Sense and Sensibility
1. a "Domestic fiction" book or from the GR shelf of the same name
2. a book featuring two contrasting main characters
3. a book published in October or with 11 in the publication date
4. a book with a teacup or teapot on the cover
5. a book with a character who can play the piano or can draw/paint
6. a book featuring a character moving houses
7. a book with MPG YA
8. a book with events that can be considered dramatic
9. a book with the letters HEARTBREAK in the title and/or author's name
10. a book featuring a journey to London
📜 Task Set 3 - Pride and Prejudice
1. First sentence of the book contains one of the following words: Truth, Man, Fortune, Want, Wife
2. an enemies-to-lovers or rivals-to-lovers book
3. a book with any big social gathering (where people are expected to dress up: party, wedding, ball...)
4. a book with a character who married for money or social position
5. a book featuring 3 or more sisters OR from the GR shelf Siblings
6. a book with a wealthy character
7. a book with Regency-era clothing on cover
8. a book where the publication date contains 1 & 3
9. a book with a character who was/is in the army
10. a book where the plot shifts between city and country
📜 Task Set 4 - Mansfield Park
1. a "country house" book or from the GR shelf of the same name
2. a book featuring a timid or shy character
3. a book with a morally ambiguous or manipulative character
4. a book with an actor character or where characters visit the theatre
5. a book where someone is (or think they are) hopelessly in love
6. a book featuring someone sailing or a sea voyage
7. a book with a with a horse or riding scene on cover
8. a book with "harp" in text
9. a book that is disliked or underrated (your interpretation) or from the shelf on GR with the same name: disliked / underrated
10. a book set in a country considered the West Indies (or Caribbean) (view spoiler)
📜 Task Set 5 - Emma
1. a book featuring a matchmaker or a meddlesome character
2. a book about society or social issues (your interpetation) OR from the GR shelf society or class
3. a book with a love triangle (your interpretation)
4. a book with a friends-to-lovers OR slow-burn romance
5. a book featuring a hypochondriac
6. a book set in a village or small town
7. a book with fruit on cover
8. a book featuring a jealous character
9. a book featuring a character who is a "newcomer"
10. a book with all the letters SECRET in title
📜 Task Set 6 - Northanger Abbey
1. a book with MPG Gothic or Mystery
2. a book with someone reading on the cover
3. a book that references or parodies another book OR from the GR shelf Parody
4. a book with a title containing a building or location
5. a book with the words "secret" and "passage" in text
6. a book with a misunderstanding in plot OR with a character who jumps to wild conlcusions
7. a book with a character whose sibling(s) behaves badly
8. a book where the publication date contains 1 & 7
9. a book with a plot twist that could be supernatural (or someone thinks it is)
10. a book with a character who eventually realises they were wrong about someone/something
📜 Task Set 7 - Persuasion
1. a book with a character whose first and last names both start with a vowel
2. a book that is partly set during autumn or winter
3. a book with all letters in BATH found in title
4. a book featuring a character in a seafaring profession
5. a book with a stately home/country house on cover
6. a book where a character visits or lives by the sea
7. a book with author's initials in CAPTAIN
8. a book featuring a second chance romance
9. an MC with unpleasant family member(s)
10. a cover with a pen (quill) or letter or handwriting on cover
📜 Task Set 8 - Lady Susan, Juvenilia, Unfinished works
1. a "comedy-of-manners" book or from the GR shelf of the same name
2. a book with a scheming character
3. a book with a character who has an aristocratic title to their name
4. a book with a character who is an entrepreneur/developer (your interpretation)
5. a book with a street scene or promenade on cover
6. a book with the word "reputation" in text
7. a book with the word "health" or "wellness" in text
8. a book with an eccentric or exaggerated character (your interpretation)
9. a book set in a fictional world
10. a book from the GR shelf Humour (or Humor) or Absurd
📜 Task Set 9 - Moving Pictures
1. a book with character or author or narrator named Colin
2. a book with the words WET and WHITE and SHIRT in the text
3. a book with a character you consider to be "Clueless"
4. a book with a character who keeps a diary or journal
5. a book with a character working in the film industry
6. a book with a character described as "brooding"
7. a book where a character is transported either in Space (eg.: Portal fiction/alternate worlds, etc) OR Time
8. a book where a famous Fashion House is mentioned
9. a book with "Bollywood" in text OR tagged India at least 5x
10. a book with a character considered an influencer or who works in some web(or IT)-related field
📜 Task Set 10 - Retellings & Graphic Adaptations
1. Read a book featuring zombies OR all the letters in ZOMBIE in the title
2. a retelling set in the same period as the original novel
3. a modern retelling set in the 20th or 21st century
4. a gender-swap or LGBTQIA retelling
5. a retelling in a genre that is not Romance only (Mystery, Paranormal, Fantasy, etc..)
6. a retelling set in a country outside Europe and North America
7. an illustrated edition or a graphic adaption (graphic novel, comic book, manga, etc.) of any JA novel or a graphic novel (or manga, etc.) inspired by JA
8. a book with a cover art that reminsd you of / you associate with JA or her novels (your interpretation)
“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.” - Persuasion
📜 There are 10 sets of obligatory tasks + 3 sets of optional scavenger bonus tasks.
📜Tasks/tasks sets may be completed in any order. Up to you how you go about it.
📜If you are an individual player, you can complete any 6 tasks from each set to consider the set completed. Of course you are welcome to complete them all.
📜 Teams must read for all tasks in a set.
📜 There are no page/genre limits for this challenge. Any book is fair game.
📜 Only books you start reading after creating your own thread and not earlier than 16 December 2025 can count towards the challenge.
📜 1 book covers 1 task only in Sets 1-10, however, you can use each book you read for an obligatory task to cover 1 scavenger bonus task as well. (It is not necessary. If you decide you want to use extra books for the bonus tasks, feel free to do so.)
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” — Pride and Prejudice
📜 This is a self-directing, open-ended challenge and it's up to you whether you'll do it individually or as part of a team. Individual readers and teams can all create their own threads, but we'll be happy to help, if needed.
📜 You can also decide whether you'll be using a copy of the provided google sheet template or simply list and tick off tasks within a post.
🎻 How to Find a Team
Please go to The Assembly Rooms to seek Reading Partners.
📜 Challenge Date:
You can start any time from 16 December 2025. The challenge is open ended, no time pressure. Only books started on 16 December or later will count.
📜 Link to Master Sheet: This is for viewing only. Please make your own copies!!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
❓If you have questions, gather your courage and Ask Lady Catherine. 🤭
