You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

Have a look in the word search below. I want you to note the first THREE (3) words you can find. These are your challenge words. This month you are going to read a book that has one of these three words in the title or in the author's name.


If the image is too small for you, click on it and it will take you to photobucket where you can see it bigger. Or zooming on your browser window should work too.

In your post below, SPOILER your three words eg (view spoiler)[ like this so we can't see them (hide spoiler)] so you are going into the word search with a blank slate. To spoiler like above, type < spoiler>like this so we can't see them< /spoiler> (without the spaces). Then tell us the book you decide to read. There are 60 words in there (that I've put in, I posted this and found 2 more randomly generated that I didn't add), so we should all be able to find 3.

In the reporting thread, I want you to tell us when you're done, and what you think of it.

Clarifications:
Not the subtitle or series title, the main title.
No compound words eg if the word is BLUE, you can't have bluebottle.
Plurals will count. So if the word is BEE and you can read The Bees. If it's BUTTERFLY and you can read In the Time of the Butterflies.

General Rules:
1. The book may be in any format - paperback, ebook, audiobook.
2. The book may be in any genre.
3. The book may NOT be combined with the Year Long Geocaching Challenge.
4. The book must be read between January 1 to January 31 (based on your own time zone).
5. The challenge is for one book. You may read more books if you chose, but only the highest scoring book will apply.
6. The book must be 175 pages or more determined by the issue you read. If reading eBook or audiobook page numbers will be determined by the issue that comes up on a Goodreads search.

(view spoiler)[trail, city, stoned (hide spoiler)] off to gopher a book. Feel free to remove my post if this isn't what you wanted me to do, Rusalka!

update: Got my book request in at the library. Now, I wait. :o)
I got a notice that my book is ready for me to pick up at the library today. I will be reading (view spoiler)[Zoo City. (hide spoiler)]

Nope. Perfect Cherie!

I likey this challenge. I was going to go to bed, but now I'm off to gopher. (view spoiler)[ Monster, Need, and City (hide spoiler)] were the three words I picked out first.

(view spoiler)[city take feast (hide spoiler)] were the words I found. Off to see what I can find on my kindle.

Rusalka, may we use the plural form of the word? For example, may we use apricots if we found the word apricot in the grid above? (I am assuming the word apricot isn't up there!)

Love it! I'm in bed and woke up only minutes ago, but with my slightly hazy head I found (view spoiler)[ lion, green, and bird (hide spoiler)]. I'm sure I have no problems finding a book!

I wonder what books I'll find with these words (view spoiler)[kill, need, monster (hide spoiler)], probably not very cozy! :)

This is what I found (not much choice...)
(view spoiler)[For kill - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee & I Kill Rich People by Mike Bogin.
For need I found none among my TBR.
For monster - The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs. (hide spoiler)]

Ha ha ha! Donald E. Westlake always has my back.

(view spoiler)[feast- A Bitter Feast, S.J. Rozan
monster- Sacred Monster, Donald E. Westlake
river-Whiskey River (hide spoiler)]

I love word searches. At first i thought the book we read had to have all three words in and i was scratching my head for a while. Always helps to reread the instructions ;-) So, my three words are (view spoiler)[Green, Trail, Monster (hide spoiler)] and i have two possibles (view spoiler)[The Green Mile and Monster Hunter International. I'll probably go for the latter as I had wanted to use the Stephen King one for my geocache challenge for the prison setting task. (hide spoiler)]

It was hard to stop looking after I found my three words :)

I found (view spoiler)[feast, right, and city (hide spoiler)]. I will most likely find books with (view spoiler)[ city. Such as The Emerald City, City of Bones and The Magic City. (hide spoiler)]

The first three I saw were (view spoiler)[ trail, green and pier (hide spoiler)] I may have to do my gophering at the library!

Here are my books(view spoiler)[Green: Anne of Green Gables
Trail:A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Pier: The End of the Pier (hide spoiler)]

Kelly B - Your words aren't appearing in a spoiler. They have strikethrough instead. Please could you edit your post.

Sarah wrote: "Kelly B - Your words aren't appearing in a spoiler. They have strikethrough instead. Please could you edit your post."

I know, I did it on my kindle and you can not check there if your html is correct, I thought it was wrong. Had to boot up the laptop. Sorry about that. I really don't like the kindle app, it is only good for checking updates.

This looks like fun!
My 3 words : (view spoiler)[monster, lion, take (hide spoiler)]

Off to gopher :)

EDIT

I can't believe none of my words were in any of my lists of to be read or owned books! I finally found a book that is available at my library though :)

I'm going with (view spoiler)[Lives of the Monster Dogs<\spoiler> (hide spoiler)]

No worries Kelly B. All done now. I have the kindle app but i only use it for checking posts and basic commenting but I'll use the Silk web browser to access the GR website for anything else more complicated.

Fun! Mine are -- (view spoiler)[feast, green, air (hide spoiler)]!

Fun idea! I don't know how you guys keep coming up with such great ideas!!

(view spoiler)[The first 3 words: trail, bag and bird (hide spoiler)]

Off to gopher as well...

I found these (view spoiler)[

Trail: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

Bag: nothing on my tbr, no surprise

Bird: The Good Lord Bird, The Bird's Nest, and The Thorn Birds.

At this point, it will be either A Walk in the Woods or The Bird's Nest (if we can use plural). (hide spoiler)]

I was thinking the same thing, Tasha! They are SO creative, our mods!

My words:

(view spoiler)[pill - WTF??? of course none in my TBR
kill - strange, but none in my TBR. I'm a pacifist. :) Some killer and killing, though.
river - Thanks God, to make up for the other too. MANY books with this word. No surprise. For some reason my TBR is full of "landscape" and "weather" words. (hide spoiler)]

I decided to go with (view spoiler)[ The Secret River since it's highly rated among my GR friends. My plan was to read the second in the series The Lieutenant for the Heritage Challenge, so Bingo! (hide spoiler)]

My three words are (view spoiler)[stone, green, wood (hide spoiler)].

Now, I'm reading all the spoilers to find great books to add to my TBR! That's what is about, right? In each monthly challenge we kill one of our TBR, and add around 8 or 12. Did I get it right?

Pretty much. ;)

I have 3 potential books: (view spoiler)[Cutting for Stone, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe orLottery (hide spoiler)].

This sounds so fun! I'm on the app, so I can't see the word search, but I'll be choosing my words as soon as I can get on line again.

Of the three words I picked (msg 3), I decided to go with (view spoiler)[Monster Hunter International (hide spoiler)]

Sarah, we could buddy read it.

What I dislike about the mobile apps is that I cannot read spoilers.

With Sandra's statistics in mind though - keep putting your books into spoilers too, and I will not be tempted to add eight books to my already full TBR list. he he he

None of my words yielded one single title from ANY of the books I already own. Bummer! One of my words had no hits on my TBR list, nor anything I was remotely tempted to want to read. I was about ready to beg a second chance for some new words when I found a title that jumped out of my TBR list and started flashing neon lights and begging to be read. So awesome when that happens!

edited: I updated my first post with the book title I will be reading.

Sounds like a Christmas miracle, Cherie - flashing neon lights! Woot! I'm dying to know what you're going to read. Hate hate the mobile app.

Janice wrote: "Of the three words I picked (msg 3), I decided to go with [spoilers removed]

Sarah, we could buddy read it."

That would be cool. That would mean three buddy reads I'll be participating in for January. I think this will likely be the first book i read of the year. That way i'll definitely complete the challenge.

I am partial to a couple more words if no other option but has to be a really good reason. As I have worked out there are now at least 70 words in the search, there should be something very quickly for everyone.

I am so interested to see what words people find first though.

@ Cherie - I agree. Not being able to read spoilers is one of the things I don't like about the app. Also, not being able to reply to specific comments and not being able to check on polls without a link posted. I use the app a lot though. I am constantly checking notifications. Currently, I am in a location with very patchy internet service, so I've been grateful whatever access the app can give me.

I do love a wordsearch! The first 3 words I found are: (view spoiler)[Lion, Red, City. (hide spoiler)] Now off to gopher...

My three words are (view spoiler)[ monster, pill and feast. I reacted to pill the same way Sandra did (????). In the hope that maybe it wasn't supposed to be there or did not count, I found a fourth word, "green." (hide spoiler)] I'm not sure what to do with this, since nothing on my TBR contains these words, but I guess I will just have to gopher some more.

Cool challenge!
The first words that I found are: (view spoiler)[ Lion, river, city (hide spoiler)]. Not sure what I will use yet.

Sarah, I'll set up a buddy read thread for the beginning of January.

Casceil, you have the same word as Sarah and I. If you want to read the same book (view spoiler)[Monster Hunter International head on over to the buddy read folder. (hide spoiler)]

Thanks Janice. Looking forward to this one. Although it's another series ;-)

I know! Grrrr - Audiobooks just announced their 2-for-1 credit sale and I have 2 firsts in a series books I want to get. I just have to admit that I'm irrevocably lost in serial hell.

So, I intentionally looked in a different area than I usually do, just to see if I could get some different words than what's been posted so far. My first three words were (view spoiler)[ Lion, Red, and Monster (hide spoiler)]. After looking at other people's words, there are still some words in common. :) So, off to gopher a bit.

Janice wrote: "I know! Grrrr - Audiobooks just announced their 2-for-1 credit sale and I have 2 firsts in a series books I want to get. I just have to admit that I'm irrevocably lost in serial hell."

I saw that too. There are a couple series books I would like as well. It is never ending!

Kristie wrote: "I saw that too. There are a couple series books I would like as well. It is never ending! "

There were two Books #5 in series that I've just read the first book. I'd kind of like to read books 2-4 before I buy book 5. There's no rhyme or reason, it seems.

Ok, my books so far are: (view spoiler)[

Lion: none on TBR over 175p, I could read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Red: (TBR jackpot!)Red Rising, Red Queen, A Tale Of Red Riding: Rise Of The Alpha Huntress, Red Hill, Written in Red, Ruby Red
Monster: A Monster Calls or the buddy read of Monster Hunter International, which was not on my TBR, but looks interesting and will probably be added anyway

At the moment, I'm thinking Red Rising, Red Queen, or Written in Red, all of which I wanted to read last year, but the monster books look really good too, so I guess I'm just not sure yet.

(hide spoiler)]

I am sure I'll end up adding more from other people's ideas before I make my final decision.

Trolled my TBR list and found one - I'll be reading (view spoiler)[The Feast of the Goat which I had slated to read in 2016, so that works out great! (hide spoiler)]

I have two possibilities: (view spoiler)[The Scarlet Lion (Lion) and Red Queen (Red). However, 'The Scarlet Lion' is part of a trilogy and I haven't read any of the other books yet so I will go with Red Queen. (hide spoiler)]

My words are (view spoiler)[ may, take, pier. 550 books in my TBR list and not a single hit...haha. So I hunted, and came up with Love May Fail (hide spoiler)]

Jean wrote: ""

msg 48 will work, if you just sandwich your words in between!

My first words are (view spoiler)[ take, need and green (hide spoiler)] off to gopher.

I found nothing on my TBR for my first two words, but I have (view spoiler)[ The Green Road, Black Swan Green or Paper Towns by John Green (hide spoiler)] for my third.

Three possibilities (view spoiler)[Take A Chance Motor City Fae City of Blaze (hide spoiler)]

Janice wrote: "Kristie wrote: "I saw that too. There are a couple series books I would like as well. It is never ending! "

There were two Books #5 in series that I've just read the first book. I'd kind of like t..."

I always think that's a bit strange when they have random books from the middle of a series. They're probably the slower sellers.

So fun - My words are (view spoiler)[game, mountain, kill (hide spoiler)]. Off to find something on my TBR pile. It's grown since xmas!

I found (view spoiler)[ kill, may, and monster (hide spoiler)]

Off to find a book

Creative challenge! My three words are: (view spoiler)[hoe, green, and pier (hide spoiler)]. Off to see what I can find, and to look at everyone's spoilers! I had a hard time finding anything that really grabbed me, as nothing in my already existing TBR qualified. Ended up settling on, (view spoiler)[ Black Swan Green (hide spoiler)].