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FINSHED!!
Donna
Ed
Karen Kay - Found 98/100
Licha-Olivia
Tessa
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STILL SEARCHING...
Celia
Denise
Diana S
JennH
Kathryn
Koren
Marilyn
Melanie
Olivermagnus
Patty
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MEGA Scavenger Hunt Begins: 01Jan20 / Ends: 30June20 100/100 words(1) Shadow Lands K. F. Breene 1/4/2020 4*
(2) Brazen and the Beast Sarah MacLean 1/4/2020 4*
(3) Blood FaerieIndia Drummond 1/8/2020 3*
(4) Sweet Evil Wendy Higgins 1/11/2020 3*
(5) Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring Angela Cervantes 1/11/2020 3*
(6) Sophia, Princess Among Beasts James Patterson and Emily Raymond 1/13/2020 4*
(7) Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star Lynn Rigaud 1/19/2020 4*
(8) The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1/25/2020 5*
(9) Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 1/28/20 3*
(10) Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 2/4/2020 2*
(11) Sweet Temptation Wendy Higgins 4/14/2020 3*
(12) Proxy Alex London 4/17/2020 4*
(13) Yours Until Dawn Teresa Medeiros 2/19/2020 3.5*
(14) Refugee Alan Gratz 2/19/2020 5*
(15) The Flatshare Beth O’Leary 2/24/2020 4*
(16) Until You Judith McNaught 2/27/2020 4*
(17) Pleasure Unbound Larissa Ione 3/1/2020 3*
(18) Desire Unchained Larissa Ione 3/9/2020 4*
(19) Firewing Kenneth Oppel 3/13/2020 4*
(20) Body Love Kelly LeVeque 3/17/2020 4*
(21) Warm Bodies Isaac Marion 3/22/20 4*
(22) Guardian Alex London 3/29/20 4*
(23) Etiquette & Espionage Gail Carriger 3/31/20 3*
24) Fates and Furies Lauren Groff 4/11/20 2.5*
(25) Immortal Rider Larissa Ione 4/18/20 4*
(26) Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut 4/11/20 2.5*
(27) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John Le Carre (4/28/20) 4*
(28) Seraphina Rachel Hartman 4/30/20 3.5*
(29) Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II Vicki Constantine Croke 5/29/20 3*
(30) Every Secret Thing Laura Lippman 6/8/20 3*
(31) Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef Gabrielle Hamilton 6/11/20 2.5*
(32) Shadow Study Maria V. Snyder 6/20/20 4*
(33) Ready Player One Ernest Cline 6/21/20 4*
(34) In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette Hampton Sides 6/27/20 4.5*
(35) Until I Die Amy Plum 6/30/20 2.5*
Part 1-Word list: 50/50
(20) alfalfa: Kindle p. 193-…alfalfa sprouts…
(3) alien: Kindle p. 49-…of alien magic.
(15) aphorism: p. 144-…his favorite aphorisms.
(21) Astroturf: p. 120-…over the Astroturf…
(32) barnacle: Kindle p. 361-Sort of like a barnacle.”
(24) befuddled: Kindle p. 189-…looked all befuddled…
(35) bigot: Kindle p. 90-…raging immortal bigots.
(10) blizzard: Kindle p. 78-…become a blizzard…
(14) boycott: p. 76-…before the boycott is…
(12) cactus: p. 353-A cactus here…
(11) cotton candy: Kindle loc. 2246-…cotton-candy swirl…
(15) cowboy: p. 45-Cowboy boots…
(5) credentials: p. 89-…had fancy credentials…
(15) cucumber: p. 82-Calm as a cucumber.
(29) daffodil: Kindle p. 403-…to grow daffodils…
(1) desperate: Kindle loc. 120-Desperate, yes.
(12) dismount: p. 299-…had to dismount…
(1) divine: Kindle loc. 242-…the Divine Endowment…
(18) dynamite: Kindle p. 138-…one stick of dynamite…
(1) eager: Kindle loc. 73-Kindle loc. 73-“Ready and eager…
(2) ebony: p. 19-…an ebony bed
(3) equinox: Kindle p. 248-“The Equinox passed…
(10) evangelical / evangelist: Kindle p. 41-…my evangelical all.
(3) farmhouse: Kindle p. 218-…come to a farmhouse…
(16) fisticuffs: p. 294-…came to fisticuffs…
(1) forward: Kindle loc. 148-Seafarer started forward…
(7) frame of mind: Kindle 364-…current frame of mind…
(30) fritters: Kindle p. 194-…would fritter away…
(8) gallop(ed): p. 8…galloped toward home.
(17) ghetto: Kindle p. 91-…the ghetto wasn’t it.
(8) grapevine: p. 74-The Scuppernong grapevine…
(5) guitar: p. 55-…guys with guitars.
(6) haggard: p. 33-A haggard, hunched…
(28) harpoon: Kindle p. 83-Picture a harpoon!
(33) hatchery: Kindle p. 32-set to the Hatchery.
(4) hemp: Kindle loc. 3374-…tight hemp necklace…
(30) hillbilly: Kindle p. 29-…hillbilly to have...
(4) innuendo: Kindle loc. 2271-…processed his innuendo…
(20) intellectual: Kindle p. 6-…my intellectual curiosity…
(13) interspersed: Kindle p. 157-Interspersed throughout…
(22) irrigation: p. 84-…a muddy irrigation pit…
(6) jackal: p. 53-…Seth the jackal…
(20) jicama: Kindle p. 118-SUMMER CEVICHE JICAMA…
(27) judo: Kindle p. 175-…a judo black-belt.
(2) jungle: p. 55-“King of the jungle?”
(4) kindred: Kindle loc. 4920-A kindred spirit.
(24) kinky: Kindle p. 247…try to get kinky…
(34) kringle: Kindle p. 48-…Kringle or Santa…
(8) lament: p. 21-…his lament again…
(28) lisp: Kindle p. 59-…with a bad lisp.
MEGA Scavenger Hunt Begins: 01Jan20 / Ends: 30June20(1) Shadow Lands K. F. Breene 1/4/2020 4*
(2) Brazen and the Beast Sarah MacLean 1/4/2020 4*
(3) Blood FaerieIndia Drummond 1/8/2020 3*
(4) Sweet Evil Wendy Higgins 1/11/2020 3*
(5) Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring Angela Cervantes 1/11/2020 3*
(6) Sophia, Princess Among Beasts James Patterson and Emily Raymond 1/13/2020 4*
(7) Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star Lynn Rigaud 1/19/2020 4*
(8) The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1/25/2020 5*
(9) Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 1/28/20 3*
(10) Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 2/4/2020 2*
(11) Sweet Temptation Wendy Higgins 4/14/2020 3*
(12) Proxy Alex London 4/17/2020 4*
(13) Yours Until Dawn Teresa Medeiros 2/19/2020 3.5*
(14) Refugee Alan Gratz 2/19/2020 5*
(15) The Flatshare Beth O’Leary 2/24/2020 4*
(16) Until You Judith McNaught 2/27/2020 4*
(17) Pleasure Unbound Larissa Ione 3/1/2020 3*
(18) Desire Unchained Larissa Ione 3/9/2020 4*
(19) Firewing Kenneth Oppel 3/13/2020 4*
(20) Body Love Kelly LeVeque 3/17/2020 4*
(21) Warm Bodies Isaac Marion 3/22/20 4*
(22) Guardian Alex London 3/29/20 4*
(23) Etiquette & Espionage Gail Carriger 3/31/20 3*
(24) Fates and Furies Lauren Groff 4/11/20 2.5*
(25) Immortal Rider Larissa Ione 4/18/20 4*
(26) Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut 4/11/20 2.5*
(27) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John Le Carre (4/28/20) 4*
(28) Seraphina Rachel Hartman 4/30/20 3.5*
(29) Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II Vicki Constantine Croke 5/29/20 3*
(30) Every Secret Thing Laura Lippman 6/8/20 3*
(31) Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef Gabrielle Hamilton 6/11/20 2.5*
(32) Shadow Study Maria V. Snyder 6/20/20 4*
(33) Ready Player One Ernest Cline 6/21/20 4*
(34) In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette Hampton Sides 6/27/20 4.5*
(35) Until I Die Amy Plum 6/30/20 2.5*
Part 2-Word list: 50/50
(2) literary: p. 195-…time for literary truths…
(20) lobster: Kindle p. 177-…maybe lobster…
(19) lustrous: p. 73-…lustrous as obsidian.
(4) marijuana: Kindle loc. 683-...to be marijuana…
(10) marquee: Kindle p. 157-…past the marquees…
(1) miracle: Kindle loc. 1511-It’s a miracle…
(8) mystical / mystic: p. 95-…a mystic marsh.
(3) navigate(d): Kindle p. 39-…as she navigated…
(8) nostalgia / nostalgic: p. 15-…a nostalgia would…
(1) novice: Kindle loc. 1058-…feel like a novice.
(4) nun: Kindle loc. 76-…the oldest nun…
(2) obscure(d): p. 1-With such an obscure…
(6) ooze: p. 34-…they ooze liquid…
(2) operation: p. 121-…the smuggling operation…
(2) opinion: p. 216-…Physical Opinions…
(13) peony: Kindle p. 167-…a peony right now.
(14) perversion: p. 66-…their twisted perversion…
(9) pitchfork: Kindle p. 175-…the pitchforks, or…
(3) porcelain: Kindle p. 67-…porcelain cats.”
(1) puddle: Kindle loc. 960-…an unseen puddle…
(12) quack: p. 162-Even that quack…
(29) quagmire: Kindle p. 270-…trails into quagmires…
(6) raiment: p. 267-…raiment of a queen.
(25) redneck: Kindle p. 188-…take the redneck…
(2) ridiculous: p. 21-Suddenly very ridiculous.
(24) rugby: Kindle p. 142-Big as a rugby…
(1) saunter(ed): Kindle loc. 861-…Greygual saunter through…
(1) savage: Kindle loc. 74-…a bunch of savages
(14) second-class: p. 75-…Jew second-class citizens…
(21) soliloquy: p. 51-…mumbled soliloquy.
(1) spring: Kindle loc. 1172-Like a field in spring…
(4) tar: Kindle loc. 864-…coughing up black tar.
(13) tenacious: Kindle p. 163-…quite a tenacious…
(29) toke: Kindle p. 88-…man named Po Toke.
(4) toothbrush: Kindle loc. 2122-…shaving cream, toothbrush…
(13) trout: Kindle p. 42-…of beached trout.
(1) upper lip: Kindle loc. 864-…on their upper lip.
(6) urchin: p. 33-The singing urchin…
(1) verbal: Kindle loc. 1829-“Without a verbal report?”
(1) villain: Kindle loc. 860-…the villains came out…
(19) viscous / viscosity: p. 191-…at all, just viscous…
(6) wasp: p. 271-…sting of a wasp.
(8) whale: p. 123-Did you see whales?”
(8) windmill: p. 5-…arms of a windmill.
(1) wobble(d): Kindle loc. 1989-The log wobbled.
(10) xenophobic: Kindle p. 74-…of a xenophobic…
(1) yell: Kindle loc. 2033-…the breathe to yell.
(23) yodel(ed): Kindle p. 295-…yodels and cries.
(31) zilch: p. 247-…more than zilch.
(26) zircon: p. 192-…a planet called Zircon-212.
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Begins: 01Jan20 / Ends: 30June20
POST 1 of 2
48 / 48 words found THIS post
26 books read
Word list
alfalfa - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 10 - "…the green alfalfa fields."
alien - Ike and Kay ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 19 - "…effect of walking among aliens."
aphorism - Don Quixote ✔ – 17Jan2020 - pg 813 - "…transgressing all the aphorisms of…"
Astroturf - An American Marriage ✔ - 23Feb29 - pg 151 - "…unrolled the AstroTurf from…"
barnacle - Ahab's Wife ✔ – 24Feb2020 - pg 356 - "…clinging like barnacles to…"
befuddled - The Preacher's Daughter ✔ – 05Mar2020 - pg 69 - "…and completely befuddled the…"
bigot - Auntie Mame ✔ - 09May20 - pg xiii - "…a variety of snobs and bigots;…"
blizzard - Amish Christmas Kitchen ✔ – 14Jan2020 - pg 133 - "Through the blizzard he saw…"
boycott - Virgil Wander ✔ - 31May20 - pg 31 - "…scattered boycotts in the…"
cactus - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 345 - "…lizard, cactus flowers, the…"
cotton candy - Lab Girl ✔ – 25Jan2020 - pg 209 - "…hot dogs and cotton candy and…"
cowboy - Ike and Kay ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 153 - "…read nothing but pulp cowboy fiction…"
credentials - The President Is Missing ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 227 - "…exfiltrated credentials from a…"
cucumber - The Turn of the Key ✔ – 05Feb2020 - pg 102 - "…rice cakes or cucumber sticks."
daffodil - The President Is Missing ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 486 - "…roses and daffodils and hyacinths."
desperate - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 260 - "…for the last desperate burst."
dismount - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 11 - "…up the lane, dismounted and threw…"
divine - Don Quixote ✔ – 17Jan2020 - pg 675 - "…accordance with divine and natural…"
dynamite - Pecan Pies and Homicides ✔ - 09Mar20 - pg 233 - "…stick of dynamite out of…"
eager - Amish Christmas Kitchen ✔ – 14Jan2020 - pg 125 - "…and Katie was eager to please…"
ebony - Ahab's Wife ✔ – 24Feb2020 - pg 12 - "…of alabaster and ebony."
equinox - Pecan Pies and Homicides ✔ - 09Mar20 - pg 25 - "…Havenswoods spring equinox ritual."
evangelical / evangelist - Montana Sky ✔ – 29Feb2020 - pg 46 - "…admired by TV evangelists."
farmhouse - The Children's Blizzard ✔ – 08Feb2020 - pg 11 - "…and white farmhouses scattered…"
fisticuffs - English Creek ✔ – 28Mar2020 - pg 174 - "…the fisticuffs degenerated into…"
forward - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 13 - "Jane impulsively stepped forward."
frame of mind - Pecan Pies and Homicides ✔ - 09Mar20 - pg 100 - "…what frame of mind she was …"
fritters - The Gift of Rain ✔ - 06Apr20 - pg 156 - "…piece of banana fritter, watching…"
gallop(ed) - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 245 - "…when Wrangle galloped out of…"
ghetto - Two for the Dough ✔ – 10Apr2020 - pg 51 - "…municipal complex is the ghetto."
grapevine - As Nature Made Him ✔ - 23Feb20 - pg 190 - "…through the grapevine even …"
guitar - The President Is Missing ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 47 - "…involves heavy guitar and a …"
haggard - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 323 - "She looked haggard and sad…"
harpoon - Lab Girl ✔ – 25Jan2020 - pg 56 - "…like an old harpoon flattened at…"
hatchery - Quite a Year for Plums ✔ - 30Oct20 - pg 30 - "…at the hatchery, watching…"
hemp - The Snow Leopard ✔ - 06Apr20 - pg 78 - "…and hemp, which is used…"
hillbilly - Pecan Pies and Homicides ✔ - 09Mar20 - pg 188 - "…written by some hillbilly."
innuendo - Amish Christmas Kitchen ✔ – 14Jan2020 - pg 21 - "…Ruby's innuendo-fillled chatter."
intellectual - Ike and Kay ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 24 - "…forgive him his intellectual snobbery…"
interspersed - Lab Girl ✔ – 25Jan2020 - pg 238 - "…weeks interspersed with choruses…"
irrigation - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 101 - "…water from the nearest irrigation ditch."
jackal - The Children's Blizzard ✔ – 08Feb2020 - pg 227 - "…the jackals of the press, who …"
jicama - The House of Broken Angels ✔ – 10Oct21 - pg 282 -"…eggs, jicama, chiles."
judo - Odds Against ✔ – 27Apr2020 - pg 11 - "Judo and wrestling were his…"
jungle - Jade Dragon Mountain ✔ – 18Jan2020 - pg 8 - "…through the hot jungles where…"
kindred - Don Quixote ✔ – 17Jan2020 - pg 456 - "…mother, country, kindred, time…"
kinky - It's a Long Story: My Life ✔ – 21Apr2020 - pg 255 - "…on board: Kinky Friedman, Roger…"
kringle - Once Upon a December ✔ – 09Dec23 - pg 3 - "…bakery, Kringle All the Way,…"
CONTINUED next post
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Begins: 01Jan20 / Ends: 30June20
PART 2 of 2
52 / 52 Words found THIS post
20 books read
Word list (continued from above)
lament - Don Quixote ✔ – 17Jan2020 - pg 211 - "…to lament the misfortune into…"
lisp - Patsy ✔ – 01Feb2020 - pg 15 - "…boy says with a lisp."
literary - Ike and Kay ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 23 - "…in the literary world of London…"
lobster - Pies and Prejudice ✔ – 27Feb2020 - pg 58 - "..soup, grilled lobster, spinach…"
lustrous - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 118 - "…shone the lustrous stars that…"
marijuana - Wife of the Gods ✔ – 30Jan2020 - pg 44 - "Marijuana was Dawson's…"
marquee - Patsy ✔ – 01Feb2020 - pg 52 - "…the marquees at Carib Cinema…"
miracle - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 192 - "…that would be a miracle."
mystical / mystic - The President Is Missing ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 116 - "…Morrison's 'Into the Mystic.'"
navigate(d) - The President Is Missing ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 58 - "I navigate the sedan through…"
nostalgia / nostalgic - The Turn of the Key ✔ – 05Feb2020 - pg 28 - "…those nostalgia soaked twinkly…"
novice - Ike and Kay ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 169 - "… treated Kay as a novice recently…"
nun - Don Quixote ✔ – 17Jan2020 - pg 339 - "…she's a nun, or about to become…"
obscure(d) - Don Quixote ✔ – 17Jan2020 - pg 437 - "…may toil to obscure them."
ooze - Don Quixote ✔ – 17Jan2020 - pg 46 - "…and cinnabar ooze out of the…"
operation - Amish Christmas Kitchen ✔ – 14Jan2020 - pg 43 - "…ran a clean operation and wanted…"
opinion - Amish Christmas Kitchen ✔ – 14Jan2020 - pg 139 - "…to give her opinion now and…"
peony - Lab Girl ✔ – 25Jan2020 - pg 13 - "…buds of peonies that spilled out…"
perversion - Patsy ✔ – 01Feb2020 - pg 378 - "…pity, perversion disguised as…"
pitchfork - Amish Christmas Kitchen ✔ – 14Jan2020 - pg 197 - "He put his pitchfork and shovel…"
porcelain - Jade Dragon Mountain ✔ – 18Jan2020 - pg 1 - "…could not replicate its porcelain."
puddle - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 192 - "…he puddles in the mud."
quack - Don Quixote ✔ – 17Jan2020 - pg 203 - "...some quack as a lover,…"
quagmire - The Preacher's Daughter ✔ – 05Mar2020 - pg 87 - "…into a quagmire of self-pity."
raiment - A Discovery of Witches ✔ - 01Aug20 - pg 268 - "…her raiment most beautiful."
redneck - Indianapolis: The True Story ✔ – 11Feb2020 - pg 30 - "…with corn-fed rednecks from…"
ridiculous - Amish Christmas Kitchen ✔ – 14Jan2020 - pg 10 - "…calling with his ridiculous proposal…"
rugby - The President Is Missing ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 301 - "…played rugby in college."
saunter(ed) - Would Like to Meet ✔ – 21Jan2020 - pg 330 - "…went to saunter through the…"
savage - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 27 - "…fierce-blooded, savage youth!"
second-class - Indianapolis: The True Story ✔ – 11Feb2020 - pg 9 - "…which Yeoman Second Class Vic…"
soliloquy - Don Quixote ✔ – 17Jan2020 - pg 545 - "…of Sancho's soliloquy was …"
spring - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 65 - "…this spring was the most …"
tar - Lab Girl ✔ – 25Jan2020 - pg 241 - "…a huge wad of tar out the…"
tenacious - Amish Christmas Kitchen ✔ – 14Jan2020 - pg 219 - "Amos was tenacious, that was…"
toke - It's a Long Story: My Life ✔ – 21Apr2020 - pg 11 - "Have a little toke, play a …"
toothbrush - The President Is Missing ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 44 - "Toothbrush is clean."
trout - Don Quixote ✔ – 17Jan2020 - pg 35 - "…me as well as a trout, because…"
upper lip - Amish Christmas Kitchen ✔ – 14Jan2020 - pg 151 - "Titus lifted his upper lip."
urchin - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 96 - "…toddlers, noisy urchins, laughing…"
verbal - Don Quixote ✔ – 17Jan2020 - pg 300 - "…follow the verbal reasoning, as…"
villain - - The President Is Missing ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 501 - "…another villain in the tale."
viscous / viscosity - The Children's Blizzard ✔ – 08Feb2020 - pg 190 - "…became increasingly viscous as…"
wasp - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 189 - "…houses, like mud wasp nests…"
whale - Ike and Kay ✔ - 09Jan20 - pg 71 - "…looked like a young whale on wheels."
windmill - Don Quixote ✔ – 17Jan2020 - pg 64 - "…charged at the windmill nearest…"
wobble(d) - Would Like to Meet ✔ – 21Jan2020 - pg 213 - "My chair wobbled alarmingly."
xenophobic - Kitchen Confidential ✔ - 29Dec20 - pg 229 - "…that xenophobic, slightly paranoid
yell - Riders of the Purple Sage ✔ - 17Jan20 - pg 155 - "…believe that yell saved …"
yodel(ed) - It's a Long Story: My Life ✔ – 21Apr2020 - pg 185 - "…still had her incredible yodel."
zilch - Montana Sky ✔ – 29Feb2020 - pg 319 - "…legally he'd get zilch."
zircon - A Short History of Nearly Everything ✔ - 18July20 - pg 260 - "…uranium in the zircon samples…"
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MEGA Scavenger HuntBegins: 01Jan20 / Ends: 30June20
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Word list
Uncle Vanya and Other Plays by Anton Chekhov 1.3.19bigot – “middle class bigot” p. 5 Uncle Vanya
desperate “devoted to in quite a desperate manner?” p. 316
divine “what a divine evening it is” p. 15
guitar “Yepikhov stands nearby playing the guitar” p. 63
jackal “Ugh Like jackals” p. 214
literary “without locking it up in my literary larder” p. 254
mystical / mystic Mystical “There is something mystical about the proud man” p. 286
second-class “I even have a Stanislas medal, second-class.” P. 55
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 1.5.20eager “Eager to see it accomplished…” p. 279
frame of mind (phrase) “a hopeful and satisfied frame of mind” p. 13
haggard “cold, wet streets, haggard and worn” p. 82
intellectual “to their own intellectual level” p. 164
lustrous “more lustrous colour from the sun when it shone on her” p. 6
operation “resting from her packing operations” p. 239
opinion “as having been defrauded of his good opinion” p. 4
puddle “could lift her up and swing her over a puddle with one arm” p. 229
ridiculous “it would make a man so ridiculous” p. 277
saunter(ed) “Being left to saunter in the hall a minute” p. 25
savage “they were rescued by a savage old postilion” p. 328
spring “Herein lay the spring of mechanical art” p. 58
villain – “they see a lot of villains walk” p. 156
The Gazebo by Patricia Wentworthmiracle “it was a miracle if she was” Loc 1759
toothbrush “collect toothbrush, nailbrush and toothpaste” Loc 1832
whale “Carey had a whale of a motive!” Loc 1640
Me, Myself & Prague: An Unreliable Guide to Bohemia by Rachael Weiss 1.10.20navigate(d) “To navigate all this I had to squeeze past people” p. 29
novice – “For a novice, yes” p. 168
Field of Blood by Denise Mina 1.12.20blizzard “watching the blizzard through half-closed eyes” p. 169
cowboy “standing like the cowboys did in the movies” p. 212
forward “Mrs. Breslin sat forward” p. 24
ghetto “that would draw wee boys from a ghetto” p. 159
innuendo “through aspersion and innuendo…” p. 213
interspersed “interspersed with giant yellow sandstone” p. 189
kinky “private kinky nightmares” p. 58
obscure(d) “it was an obscure part of Scots law” p. 249
rugby – “More of a rugby woman, are you?” p. 154
viscous / viscosity – “unopened bottle of sweet, viscous Liebfraumilch” p. 92
Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Hoeg 1.12.20alien “more alien than I remember it” p. 251
cactus “Maybe that’s why he collects cactus.” P. 61
cotton candy – “trying to put cotton candy between me and the mouthpiece” p. 55
credentials “as if he had shown me his credentials” p. 138
dynamite – “We had to dynamite a hole in it” p. 258
harpoon – “What he’s leaning on is a long harpoon” p. 146
hemp “my hemp mitt out of my box” p. 287
jungle “In the middle of the jungle” p. 228
nostalgia / nostalgic – “Nostalgia for the past was a completely new feeling in Thule.” P. 358
nun – “that makes me look like a nun” p. 129
ooze “his two lodge brothers ooze imperceptibly…“ p 97
porcelain – “with two, large, flat porcelain sinks” p. 347
soliloquy “recited Hamlet’s soliloquy on the deck of the ship”. P. 127
tar – “crates of face masks, epoxy tar…” p. 379
tenacious – “someone more naïve but also more tenacious” p. 437
trout “And quite a lot of trout” p. 454
upper lip “A rather thick upper lip” p. 194
urchin “green sea urchins that look as if they’ve been out in a storm of cotton” p. 61
verbal – Verbal lectures on the experience of music” p. 44
wobble(d) “at last it staggers, wobbles” p. 167
yell “doesn’t yell at me” p. 114
The Grief Recovery Handbook: A Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Devastating Losses by John James 1.14.20lament “we have heard this lament thousands of times” p. 35 Grief Recovery
The Third Man & The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene 1.15.20wasp – beyond the ham and wasps” p. 133
Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb 1.16.20barnacle “Bella clung to her like a barnacle” p. 209
daffodil - “equaled a forest of Peabody’s daffodils” p. 65
ebony “that ebony skin would be hard to disguise” p. 154
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld 1.17.20cucumber “He was cool as a cucumber” p. 128
lobster “mixed with the gaudiest lobster palaces and vaudevilles” p. 205
windmill “Don Quixote who first tilted at windmills in 1604” p. 87
My Mother's Secret by J.L. Witterick 1.19.20kindred – “it’s funny how you can find a kindred spirit in the most unlikely of places.” P. 133
The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story by Joy Reid 1.23.20boycott – “even calls for boycotts” p. 99
evangelical – “Judges were what bound evangelical and archconservative supporters to Trump.” P. 77
xenophobic - anti-immigrant, xenophobic, anti-Muslim, nationalistic…” p. 30
Long Time No See by Ed McBain 1.25.20marquee – “across the street a theater marquee advertised a movie” p. 133
redneck “track down a couple of redneck bank robbers” p. 32
Summerchill by Quentin Bates 1.28.20farmhouse “house had once been a farmhouse” Loc 39
fisticuffs “no evidence of a dispute between them, no arguments, no fisticuffs.” Loc 2232
toke – “Logi took a deep toke” Loc 68
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944 by Charles Glass 2.10.20
aphorism “punctuated his French, English and German conversations with Latin and Greek aphorisms” p. 133
gallop(ed) “extricating himself from the mass, galloped off across the countryside.” P. 39
Murder at the Savoy
by Maj Sjowall 2.12.20peony – “stood stock still in the bed of peonies” p. 47
The Vogels: On All Fronts by Jana Petken 2.24.20befuddled “leaving it bloodied and befuddled, too dazed to run off” p. 346
Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka 1.30.20perversion – “this perversion of the truth” p. 195 "The Hunger Artist "
Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! by Ed McBain 3.2.20marijuana “a plastic bag full of oregano/marijuana” p. 146
House of Splendid Isolation by Edna O'Brien 3.5.20
lisp – to the soft and several lisps of the night” p. 8
quagmire –“the lawn a quagmire from animals that broke in through the stiles” p. 62
yodel(ed) – “that despairing yodel that he always thought of as half-bird, half-animal.” P. 227
The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch 3.16.29
quack – “Franwieser considered the hangman to be a quack” p. 38
Love and Summer by William Trevor 3.25.20
dismount “He didn’t pause or dismount but went steadily on” p. 209
Station ElevenEmily St. John Mandel 4.4.20
irrigation “do farms even work without electricity and irrigation systems?” p. 183
Cop Hater by Ed McBain 4.12.20
raiment-“ black as a sheer and frothy raiment of seduction” p. 180
zilch - “commissions have totaled zero, nada, zilch.” P. 247
1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War by Morgan Llywelyn 4.14.20
pitchfork “He was brandishing a pitchfork like a bayonet” p. 214 1921
Gramercy Park: An American Bloomsbury by Carol Klein 5.5.20
grapevine – “The Brown alumni grapevine “ p. 278
Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America by Gustavo Arellano 5.7.20
jicama “Cayenne with jicama” p. 105
The Burgundian's Tale by Kate Sedley 5.14.20
fritters: "a plate of apple fritters had been left in a chafing dish” p. 167
The Woman in the Window by A.J.Finn 5.19.20
hillbilly “Do I sound like a hillbilly saying that?” p 1
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk 5.30.20
equinox "“he’s only got til the equinox” p. 400
The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina6.7.20
Astroturf - “earth covered over with vibrant green Astroturf” p. 19
alfalfa
hatchery
judo - "sing alongs, judo classes, rock concerts" p. 204 The Library Book by Susan Orlean 6.25.20
kringle
zircon
Excellent fun ahead!100 / 100 basic words found
Challenge dates: Jan 1 - Jun 30
BASIC word list
✔alfalfa ~~ O Pioneers! ~~ 03Jan20 ~~ Page 99 ~~ “...two white butterflies from Frank’s alfalfa field...”
✔alien ~~ The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ~~ 16Jan20 ~~ Loc 402 ~~ “...This guy looked like an alien...”
✔aphorism ~~ Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do ~~ 23Feb20 ~~ Page 11 ~~ “...famous for the aphorism “I think therefore I am...”
✔Astroturf ~~ The Lost Night ~~ 27Jan20 ~~ Page 71 ~~ “...a bizarre rectangle of astroturf tucked between the office buildings...”
✔barnacle ~~ Challenger Deep ~~ 12Feb20~~ Page 56 ~~ “...shredded by its barnacle encrusted hull...”
✔befuddled ~~ Nemesis ~~ 02Jan20 ~~ Page 429 ~~ “...I was so befuddled she had no problem...”
✔bigot ~~ The Westing Game ~~ 08Feb20 ~~ Page 44 ~~ “...now he had to put up with this bigot...”
✔blizzard ~~ The Secret Mother ~~ 24Jan20 ~~ Page 119 ~~ “...what’s turning out to be a freaking blizzard...”
✔boycott ~~ A People's History of the United States ~~ 26Jan20 ~~ Page 287 ~~ “..the Alliance farmers organized a boycott of jute...”
✔cactus ~~ Challenger Deep ~~ 12Feb20 ~~ Page 112 ~~ “...I reach for a small cactus on the table beside me...”
✔cotton candy ~~ The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ~~ 16Jan20 ~~ Loc 2913 ~~ “..there was cotton candy and sno-cones...”
✔cowboy ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 3651 ~~ “...gold chains and a cowboy hat...”
✔credentials ~~ Mary Chesnut's Diary ~~ 26Jan20 ~~ Loc 3318 ~~ “...at the church door the Sexton demanded our credentials...”
✔cucumber ~~ The Summer Before the War ~~ 11Jan20 ~~ Page 107 ~~ “...gazing with fondness at a cucumber sandwich...”
✔daffodil ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 12558 ~~ “...a new puppy called Daffodil snapping at his heels...”
✔desperate ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 3261 ~~ “...Palillo made desperate signals for me to speak...”
✔dismount ~~ White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America ~~ 14Jan20 ~~ Page 162 ~~ “...the politician had to dismount his horse, grab the squatter’s fiddle...”
✔divine ~~Mary Chesnut's Diary ~~ 26Jan20 ~~ Loc 5371 ~~ “...believe we have a right divine, being white...”
✔dynamite ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 4858 ~~ “...a dynamite technician in an emerald mine in Arauca...”
✔eager ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 9753 ~~ “...Rafael seemed eager to win my confidence...”
✔ebony ~~ The Secret Mother ~~ 24Jan20 ~~ Page 17 ~~ “...her ebony hand wrapped around his pale one...”
✔equinox ~~ The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language ~~ 11Feb20 ~~ Page 96 ~~ “...twice a year at the equinox, when night and day...”
✔evangelical / evangelist ~~ White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America ~~ 14Jan20 ~~ Page 336 ~~ “...Critics of evangelical hypocrisy vented their rage...”
✔farmhouse ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 1538 ~~ “...an old farmhouse with five tin-roofed sheds...”
✔fisticuffs ~~ Once Upon a River ~~ 17Jan20 ~~ Page 134 ~~ “...slack-jawed astonishment, the fisticuffs in the brain...”
✔forward ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 683 ~~ “...leaning forward and extending my hand...”
✔frame of mind (phrase) ~~ Nemesis ~~ 02Jan20 ~~ Page 53 ~~ “...put him into a benevolent frame of mind for my interview...”
✔fritters ~~ Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir ~~ 09Jan20 ~~ Loc 3302 ~~ “...setting fragile little fish fritters on the table...”
✔gallop(ed) ~~ Mary Chesnut's Diary ~~ 26Jan20 ~~ Loc 2885 ~~ “..a dozen Confederates galloped after him, shouting...”
✔ghetto ~~ Hostage ~~ 05Jan20 ~~ Page 61 ~~ “...my father went to the ghetto, first to warn the few friends...”
✔grapevine ~~ The Secret Mother ~~ 24Jan20 ~~ Page 183 ~~ “...what did that poor grapevine ever do to you?...”
✔guitar ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 9742 ~~ “...with a guitar in a soft case flung over ...”
✔haggard ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 4689 ~~ “...eyes were red rimmed and his face looked haggard...”
✔harpoon ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 7148 ~~ “...his killer stare would harpoon me against the wall...”
✔hatchery ~~ Vox ~~ 14Feb20 ~~ Page 177 ~~ “...ranch or fish hatchery from morning to night...”
✔hemp ~~ White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America ~~ 14Jan20 ~~ Page 28 ~~ “...flax and hemp, and tar and timber for ship building...”
✔hillbilly ~~ White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America ~~ 14Jan20 ~~ Page 189 ~~ “...to be the voice of the rednecks and hillbillies...”
✔innuendo ~~ The Summer Before the War ~~ 11Jan20 ~~ Page 479 ~~ “...all innuendo and slander will be conquered by the ancient...”
✔intellectual ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 12284 ~~ “...the intellectual author of the massacre in Puerto Galan...”
✔interspersed ~~ White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America ~~ 14Jan20 ~~ Page 276 ~~ “...he interspersed what he imagined were the unspoken thoughts...”
✔irrigation ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 11355 ~~ “...I would return from fixing the irrigation pipes...”
✔jackal ~~ American Gods ~~ 11Feb20 ~~ Page 144 ~~ “...Follow Mississippi. Go south. Find Jackal...”
✔Jicama ~~ Forgive Me ~~ 15Mar20 ~~ Page 209 ~~ “...pineapple, mango, and jicama sprinkled with chili powder...”
✔judo ~~ The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator ~~ 14Apr20 ~~ Page 265 ~~ “...She used one or two judo techniques...”
✔jungle ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 1566 ~~ “...no candy stores in the jungle, replied Palillo...”
✔kindred ~~ The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ~~ 16Jan20 ~~ Loc 1633 ~~ “...Lydia, for all her assholery, was a kindred trivia spirit...”
✔kinky ~~ Calling Me Home ~~ 30Jan20 ~~ Loc 265 ~~ “..some kind of kinky game...”
✔kringle ~~ Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe ~~ 05Jan20 ~~ Page 10 ~~ “...He bit into a piece of kringle. This is delicious...”
✔lament ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 7131 ~~ “...a cause for lament, not celebration...”
✔lisp ~~ Me Talk Pretty One Day ~~ 12Jan20 ~~ Page 09 ~~ “...believed my mother and viewed my lisp as the sort of thing...”
✔literary ~~ Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir ~~ 09Jan20 ~~ Page 181 ~~ “...a long history of publishing great literary writers...”
✔lobster ~~ Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir ~~ 09Jan20 ~~ Page 133 ~~ “...it smelled like clams, like lemons, like lobsters...”
✔lustrous ~~ Mary Chesnut's Diary ~~ 26Jan20 ~~ Loc 2788 ~~ “...with those large lustrous blue eyes...”
Continuing...✔marijuana ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 1430 ~~ “...a tennis ball sized chunk of marijuana wrapped in plastic...”
✔marquee ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 6142 ~~ “...in a marquee beside the pool, the party was in full swing...”
✔miracle ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 4158 ~~ “...and if by some miracle we’re not stopped and searched...”
✔mystical / mystic ~~ The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language ~~ 11Feb20 ~~ Page 53 ~~ “...the Greek goddess of the soul and the mystical butterfly...”
✔navigate(d) ~~ The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ~~ 16Jan20 ~~ Loc 490 ~~ “...learning to navigate the intricate social networks...”
✔nostalgia / nostalgic ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 2484 ~~ “...it was simply New Year’s Eve nostalgia...”
✔novice ~~ Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir ~~ 09Jan20 ~~ Page 53 ~~ “...I was a novice in this corporate world...”
✔nun ~~ Mary Chesnut's Diary ~~ 26Jan20 ~~ Loc 4992 ~~ “...the nuns and girls marched to the old Hampton House...”
✔obscure(d) ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 7248 ~~ “...I shot him partly obscured by his bodyguards...”
✔ooze ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 4731 ~~ “...stuck to Trigeno’s nose and began to ooze downward...”
✔operation ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 4716 ~~ “...find the guerrilla base and planning an operation against it before...”
✔opinion ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 6892 ~~ “...he’d state his opinion if asked, but...”
✔Peony ~~ The Handmaid's Tale ~~ 07Feb20 ~~ Page 80 ~~ “...rug on the floor with its peach-pink peonies...”
✔perversion ~~ White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America ~~ 14Jan20 ~~ Page 330 ~~ “..both the preacher’s perversions and the underage beauty contests...”
✔pitchfork ~~ The The Summer Before the War ~~ 11Jan20 ~~ Page 309 ~~ “...stop waving that pitchfork like a lunatic...”
✔porcelain ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 592 ~~ “...raised his chubby, porcelain white hands in the air...”
✔puddle ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 2194 ~~ “...a puddle of urine lay below Silvestre’s hammock...”
✔quack ~~ The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language ~~ 11Feb20 ~~ Page 39 ~~ “...word for foods that make your bottom quack is “carminative”...”
✔quagmire ~~ White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America ~~ 14Jan20 ~~ Page 63 ~~ “...the seemingly endless quagmire literally overlapped the two colonies...”
✔raiment ~~ Mary Chesnut's Diary ~~ 26Jan20 ~~ Loc 4921 ~~ “...and I daily part with my raiment for food...”
✔redneck ~~ White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America ~~ 14Jan20 ~~ Page 2 ~~ “...rednecks, or white trash --- should matter to us...”
✔ridiculous ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 4521 ~~ “...he was making ridiculous demands of the government...”
✔rugby ~~ The Summer Before the War ~~ 11Jan20 ~~ Page 401 ~~ “...more at home on the rugby pitch than in Latin class...”
✔saunter(ed) ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 3921 ~~ “...stretched and then sauntered towards the river...”
✔savage ~~ Mary Chesnut's Diary ~~ 26Jan20 ~~ Loc 4542 ~~ “...go back to their naked savage animal nature...”
✔second-class ~~ Foundation ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Page 96 ~~ “...a passenger liner to the Foundation, second-class...”
✔Soliloquy ~~ The Lost Night ~~ 27Jan20 ~~ Page 307 ~~ “...when I reached the end of my soliloquy...”
✔spring ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 1740 ~~ “...a magazine that jammed or a faulty trigger spring...”
✔tar ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 1391 ~~ “...water drenched fields like a dried river of tar...”
✔tenacious ~~ Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir ~~ 09Jan20 ~~ Page 76 ~~ “...it was Laurie, in her quietly tenacious way...”
✔toke ~~ Lethal White ~~ 16Feb20 ~~ Page 444 ~~ “...Hayley said vaguely to Robin after taking a long toke...”
✔toothbrush ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 1350~~ “...I took a change of clothes, toothbrush, pocketknife...”
✔trout ~~ Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir ~~ 09Jan20 ~~ Loc 3312 ~~ “...any trout is glad, truly glad, to be prepared by Monsieur Paul!...”
✔upper lip ~~ The Summer Before the War ~~ 11Jan20 ~~ Page 252 ~~ “...in only two days his upper lip had acquired...”
✔urchin ~~ Mary Chesnut's Diary ~~ 26Jan20 ~~ Loc 1959 ~~ “...this ragged little black urchin was made to climb up...”
✔verbal ~~ Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive ~~ 21Jan20 ~~ Page 75 ~~ “...exercise your verbal and numerical intelligence...”
✔villain ~~ The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ~~ 16Jan20 ~~ Loc 528 ~~ “...he was a popular villain on the boulevard...”
✔Viscous/Viscosity ~~ Gulliver's Travels ~~ 27Jan20 ~~ Page 175 ~~ “...I could easily trace that viscous matter...”
✔wasp ~~ The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ~~ 16Jan20 ~~ Loc 1567 ~~ “...putting on a hatful of wasps and tugging it down firmly...”
✔whale ~~ The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ~~ 16Jan20 ~~ Loc 2453 ~~ “...chain coffee place named for a whale hunter...”
✔windmill ~~ Challenger Deep ~~ 12Feb20 ~~ Page 02 ~~ “...windmills that might be giants grinding bones...”
✔wobble(d) ~~ The Bookish Life of Nina Hill ~~ 16Jan20 ~~ Loc 2923 ~~ “...rolled yourself to the water and wobbled about...”
✔xenophobic ~~ Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist ~~ 08Apr20 ~~ Page 74 ~~ “...named for the f*cking apathy of a xenophobic f*cking nation...”
✔yell ~~ Colombiano ~~ 08Jan20 ~~ Loc 10102 ~~ “...just yell “Yes” from your upstairs window...”
✔yodel(ed) ~~ Yodels & Yo-yos ~~ 20Mar20 ~~ Loc 412 ~~ “...you can’t yodel on an empty stomach...”
✔Zilch ~~ The Handmaid's Tale ~~ 07Feb20 ~~ Page 183 ~~ “...Zilch, I spell, a convenient one vowel word with an expensive Z...”
✔zircon ~~ Zircon ~~ 16Mar20 ~~ Loc 1100 ~~ “...Zircon? Like the stone?...”
*****COMPLETED 9/17/25***** Last word="kringle"MEGA Scavenger Hunt
Begins: 01Jan20 / Ends: 30June20
Your challenge is to find the following words/phrases in the TEXT of the books you are reading this month.
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!
100/100
Word list
✔alfalfa-p.238- Broadway Anecdotes-"...diverse vegetable garden, acres of cornand alfalfa..." 2/16/20
✔alien-p.318-The Overstory-"...the word sounds alien." 1/6/20
✔aphorism-p.62- Death at Victoria Dock-"...she really must remember her audience when minded to coin aphorisms." 7/1/20
✔Astroturf-loc. 1731 of Kindle edition of No Place for Women-"She walked across the reen AstroTurf, bumpy over the rocks..." 4/14/20
✔barnacle-p.7-Hammerhead Ranch Motel-"There were insurance problems and storage fees and barnacles..." 4/9/20
✔befuddled-p.326-The Overstory-"...whose face, as she slips down the two hundred feet of rope, isbefuddled." 1/6/20
✔bigot-p.35- Salvador-"Another, the murder of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero:'A real bigot.'"- 3/15/20
✔blizzard-p.286-Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk-"At last, stuck inside during a blizzard in Chicago..." 1/1/20
✔boycott-p.23- A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis-"First came the day of the general boycott." 6/4/20
✔cactus-p.92-Diamonds Are Forever-"Couldn't be a cactus or anything..." 1/9/20
✔cotton candy-p.481-The Overstory-"Cotton candy on a stick." 1/9/20
✔cowboy-p.137-In the Woods-"...playing mile-wide games of Cowboys and Indians..." 1/9/20
✔credentials-p.29-Salvador-"We presented our credentials again and again..." 3/15/20
✔cucumber-p.26-The Wide Window-"I've made cold cucumber soup for dinner." 2/14/20
✔daffodil-p.152- The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax-"reciting poetry, first Wordsworth's 'Daffodils'..." 1/17/20
✔desperate-p.250- The Overstory-"Eight forty-two and he's desperate." 1/4/20
✔dismount-p.101-Barnaby Rudge-"...she suffered her rider to dismount..." 1/29/20
✔divine- disc 3 of audiobook- Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story-"I'd hate to see her divine nature stripped away." 1/9/20
✔dynamite-p.16- The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax-"...this package of yours is dynamite..." 1/11/20
✔eager-p459- The Overstory-"A mass of eager roots has punched through the waxy paper bottom." 1/8/20
✔ebony-p.2-Japanese Fairy Tales and Others -"...and the chopsticks were of the rarest ebony." 1/20/20
✔equinox- Disc 4 of audiobook- Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story-"even though the Spring equinox is weeks away..." 1/10/20
✔evangelical / evangelist-p.80-Agnes Grey- "I did hear him preach, and was decidedly pleased with the evangelical truth of his doctrine..." 2/6/20
✔farmhouse-p.137-In the Woods-"...four brothers and three sisters piled into an old farmhouse in Galway..." 1/9/20
✔fisticuffs-p.265- Barnaby Rudge-"...if they are ever beaten at fisticuffs, or other kind of warfare..." 6/12/20
✔forward-p.96-In the Woods-"...throwing himself forward and jabbing a finger..." 1/5/20
✔frame of mind (phrase)-p.9- Murder on the Ballarat Train-"It took Phryne the ten minutes to Ballan to induce in the lady a reasonable frame of mind..." 4/13/20
✔fritters-Ch.6 Disc 2) of audiobook of The Swans of Fifth Avenue- something like "He did like the conch fritters that she made."
✔gallop(ed)-p.173-Diamonds Are Forever-"...bring the French Frontier guards along at a gallop." 1/23/20
✔ghetto-ch.3 of audiobook-Between the World and Me-"...the people who sent them into the ghettoes..." 3/24/20
✔grapevine-p.69- In the Woods-"...the grapevine had picked up a series of awkward attempts at relationships..." 1/4/20
✔guitar-p.427-The Overstory-"A whole battalion of guitars..." 1/8/20
✔haggard-Disc 4 of audiobook- The Swans of Fifth Avenue-"...she looked very haggard..." 2/26/20
✔harpoon-p.212- Dr. No-"That explosive harpoons burst in their jellied mantle..." 5/16/20
✔hatchery-p.15- Mayhem at the Orient Express-"Wasn't it the winter Bill Smith over at the hatchery fellnto the fish tank and drowned?" 5/13/20
✔hemp-p.455-The Overstory-"As a sapling, it looks like a piece of braided hemp." 1/8/20
✔hillbilly-p.304- Broadway Anecdotes-"...with ermine coats over their hillbilly dresses." 2/19/20
✔innuendo-p.23- The Naked Civil Servant-" It was a formal game of innuendoes..." 1/29/20
✔intellectual-p.46- Life and Death of Harriet Frean-"...and all the things of their familiar, intellectual life going on and on." 1/10/20
✔interspersed-Disc 4 of audiobook- Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story-"...interspersed with the names of someone's mother, grandmother..." 1/10/20
✔irrigation-p.192-The Professor's House-"...I came upon an old irrigation main..." 1/21/20
✔jackal-loc.31934-The Holy Bible: English Standard Version-"Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals..." 2/3/20
✔ jicama-p.277-The Grim Grotto-"Ha ha jicama!" 12/27/23
✔judo-p.52- The Travelling Cat Chronicles-"'You interested n joining the judo club?'" 3/28/20
✔jungle-p.110-Queer-"...Morgan, who had been thirty years in the jungle." 1/5/20
✔kindred-p.601- The Small House at Allington-"...but she had alluded to vices of nature kindred to that vice..." 5/29/20
✔kinky-p.142-The Professor's House-"...that unexpected, startling red mouth in a setting of kinky beard." 1/21/20
✔ kringle-p.47-The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang-"Together (piggyback) they disguise as Kris Kringle..." 9/17/25
✔lament-p.132- Territory of Light-"Fujino would lament and curse..." 1/26/20
✔lisp-p.67- The Man Who Saw Everything-"I thought she had a lisp at first but l later..." 8/11/20
✔literary-p.234- Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk-"...the Literary Walk, with its statues and elm trees..." 1/1/20
✔lobster-p.266-The Overstory-"The main trails from the Grand Ballroom are laid out with loops and lobster claws. 1/4/20
✔lustrous-p.25- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine-"...sparkling eyes, lustrous hair." 1/26/20
MEGA Scavenger Hunt-2 of 2✔marijuana-p.148-Slang and Euphemism-"fu - marijuana for synonyms see Mari." 1/6/20
✔marquee-p.125-Queer-"I was across the street under a movie marquee." 1/5/20
✔miracle-p.114-Queer-"I know. A latter-day miracle." 1/5/20
✔mystical / mystic-p.454- The Overstory-"This isn't mystical." 1/8/20
✔navigate(d)-p.199- Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth-"...and deftly navigate the bamboo woods..." 4/6/20
✔nostalgia / nostalgic-p.2-The Ravishing of Lol Stein-"...old-fashioned tunes- a program of nostalgic favorites..." 1/6/20
✔novice-p.348-In the Woods-"For a novice, he had done pretty well." 1/15/20
✔nun-disc 3 of audiobook- Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story-"Two nuns singing their prayers..." 1/9/20
✔obscure(d)-p.312- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine-"They'd been obscured by the monitor..." 1/31/20
✔ooze-p.260-The Overstory-"...a lightning strike still fresh enough to ooze..." 1/4/20
✔operation-p.88-Diamonds Are Forever-"...and the care they took to have each step of their operations protected..." 1/9/20
✔opinion-p.286-Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk-"...the attitudes and opinions expressed by Lillian Boxfish are entirely imagined." 1/1/20
✔peony-p.467-The Overstory-"...like ants swarming a peony." 1/9/20
✔perversion- p.145- Agnes Grey-"...I knew to be exaggerations and perversions of the truth..." 2/7/20
✔pitchfork-p.145- Around the Edge-"...resemblance to the lugubrious, pitchfork bearing farmer..." 1/23/20
✔porcelain-disc 1 of audiobook- The Swans of Fifth Avenue-"...her porcelain complexion..." 1/28/20
✔puddle-p.323-In the Woods-"...as she jumped the ruts and puddles." 1/15/20
✔quack- Disc 4 of audiobook- Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story-"
✔quagmire-p.265- Muddling through in Madagascar-"...the track had been churned to a quagmire." 7/13/20
✔raiment-Ch. 24 of audiobook- Shirley-"... who looks young enough to wear much smarter raiment,..." 2/4/20
✔redneck-p.15- The Commitments-"Rednecks and southsiders need not apply" 4/18/20
✔ridiculous-p.233-The Overstory-"...based purely on someone else's ridiculous guesses." 1/2/20
✔rugby-p.156- In the Woods-"...the comfortably sloppy build of a rugby player..." 1/10/20
✔saunter(ed)-p.277-The Overstory-"The animals should start and stop, saunter and stare..." 1/4/20
✔savage-p.67-In the Woods-"The cardboard box (Rowan G., Savage P., 33791/84)..." 1/4/20
✔second-class-p.23- Murder on the Ballarat Train-"Second-class ticket, single. Nothing on her to identify her..." 4/15/20
✔soliloquy-p.24-The Ravishing of Lol Stein-"...performed the soliloquy of some absolute passion..." 1/11/20
✔spring-p.114-Queer-"Everywhere was water, springs and streams..." 1/5/20
✔tar-p.140- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine-"...nasal passages were assaulted by tar, nicotine..." 1/28/20
✔tenacious-p.187- Dr. No-"They're a tenacious lot of people in my Service." 5/15/20
✔toke-p.221- Hammerhead Ranch Motel-"...Lenny, who did a double-clutch toke and passed it to County..." 6/22/20
✔toothbrush-p.70- Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories-"...with his toothbrush firmly planted in the toothbrush holder like a flag..." 3/4/20
✔trout-p.256-The Overstory-"...Dennis brings out two small, magnificent stuffed rainbow trout," 1/4/19
✔upper lip-p.88- The Professor's House-"...with a cruel upper lip and scornful half-closed eyes..." 1/20/20
✔urchin-p.121-Flying Too High-"The smallest urchin began to howl." 3/22/20
✔verbal-p.254-Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine-"...a game of verbal tennis." 1/30/20
✔villain-p.287- Broadway Anecdotes-"...with a villain perfectly recognizable by his pearl-grey derby..." 2/17/20
✔viscous / viscosity-p.80- Diamonds Are Forever-"Then he dug his huge hand into one of them and smeared the thick viscous stuff along the bottom of the shroud..." 1/6/20
✔wasp-p.81- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine-"...her feet looked like big fat wasps." 1/27/20
✔whale-p.264-The Overstory-"...five times larger than the largest whale." 1/4/20
✔windmill- listening in the car to Disc 3 of Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story- so didn't get exact quote but it was something like..." seeing windmills and small islands in the distance..." 1/5/20
✔wobble(d)-p.266- The Overstory-"He wobbles out on a waving branch." 1/4/20
✔xenophobic-p.19-Muddling through in Madagascar-"...and any return to the extreme forms of xenophobic nationalism...has been resolutely rejected..." 5/10/20
✔yell-p.53-In the Woods-"...our mouths open (high, rough-edged boy yells) and..." 1/4/20
✔yodel(ed)-"...the sounds of strident yodels filled the air." 12/28/20
✔zilch-p.197- Hope Never Dies-"The likelihood ofFinn buying one of these highfalutin beverages was zero tp zilch." 6/1/20
✔zircon-p.30-The Sirens of Titan-"...a space pirate from the planet Zircon." 5/10/22
Word listalfalfa-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 129 ...on an acre of what had been an alfalfa field...
alien-Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture by Roseanne Welch finished 1/19 p. 31 ...the word refers to the plant-based alien creature that appears to be hypnotizing humans...
aphorism-Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home--A Memoir by Lise Funderburg finished 7/ 9 p. 27 To quell my father's back-seat hosting and finger-wagging aphorisms...
Astroturf-A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost finished 8/18 p. 13 He refused to let the mother of God touch his Astroturf lawn.
barnacle-Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens finished 7/23 p. 128 They hacked at barnacles until dark.
befuddled-No One's Even Bleeding by Lenny Castellaneta finished 6/23 p. 217 Here was a guy who a year ago was as lost and befuddled as Chevy Chase...
bigot- A Prescription for the Soul by Peter Weddle finished 6/5 p. 69 ...I was a recovering bigot...
blizzard--The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 16 ...Oate's final words as he stepped from the tent into a raging blizzard...
boycott-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 185 ...really did not want artists to boycott the country.
cactus-Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture by Roseanne Welch finished 1/19 p. 148 …"I'm a Believer" and "She Hangs Out" in Cactus Flower...
cotton candy-Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore: Childhood and Murder in the Heart of America by Ron Powers finished 4/15 p. 64 There were Ferris wheels and cotton candy stands...
cowboy-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 118 That was how Captain Fantastic and the Brown Cowboy was written.
credentials-Hay Fever: How Chasing a Dream on a Vermont Farm Changed My Life by Angela Miller finished 2/6 p. 26 That's when Sandy decided to challenge my credentials...
cucumber-In Pieces by Sally Field finished 2/7 p. 162 ...or would eat nothing but cucumbers for a week.
daffodil-From Our House: A Memoir by Lee Martin finished 4/9 p. 142 My mother grew irises and daffodils...
desperate-Too Close to Me: The Middle-Aged Consequences of Revealing a Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer finished 1/8 p. 54 As my situation became more desperate...
dismount--Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Eagan finished 7/17 p. 43 Dismount, he ordered.
divine-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 138 ...a guest appearance by Divine...
dynamite-Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston finished 3/11 p. 137He was like caged dynamite most of the time...
eager-No, Daddy, Don't!: A Father's Murderous Act of Revenge by Irene Pence finished 1/6 p.
147 The girls were eager to see their father today...
ebony-Mrs. Ike: Memories and Reflections on the Life of Mamie Eisenhower by Susan Eisenhower finished 2/19 p. 26 ...the Eisenhowers lost everything except their clothes, a few household items, and Ida's ebony piano.
equinox-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 153 The season ends with the first frost around the autumnal equinox...
evangelical / evangelist-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 54 all but the evangelical radio stations fade into static...
farmhouse-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 54...a nicely dormered farmhouse where I stopped one summer to buy clover honey...
fisticuffs-Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk by Rebecca Godfrey finished 4/19 p. 126 Whoever stole Robbie's jacket must have gotten in some fisticuffs!
forward-The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel finished 1/12 p. 41 ...and from this point forward his writing was no longer innocuous...
frame of mind (phrase)-The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death by Jason Bateson finished 3/4 p. 40 ...he asked them about the decedent's frame of mind.
fritters-Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston finished 3/11 p. 228 ...eating more lobster and grouper and conch fritters than we thought we could hold.
gallop(ed)-Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston finished 3/11 p. 41 ...and gallop over fences made from fallen trees.
ghetto-The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters by Wes Moore finished 2/9 p.
28 My grandfather, my father, his brother, and my grandmother moved to the ghetto.
grapevine-Too Close to Me: The Middle-Aged Consequences of Revealing a Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer finished 1/8 p. 150 Then weeks later Marsha discovered through the grapevine...
guitar-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 122 I brought in Caleb Quaye on guitar...
haggard-Signed in Blood: The True Story of Two Women, a Sinister Plot, and Cold Blooded Murder by Jeanne King finished 1/1 p. 235 Both women now looked frail and haggard...
harpoon-Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Eagan finished 7/17 p. 248 The man is holding a heavy wooden harpoon shaft...
hatchery-A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption by Dina Temple-Raston finished 1/11 p. 161 Whites apologized for calling the largely black housing project behind the theater the "hatchery."
hemp-In Pieces by Sally Field finished 2/7 p. 62 I could cling to that knot of hemp and live.
hillbilly-Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture by Roseanne Welch finished 1/19 p. 110 "Some Like It Lukewarm," "The Chaperone," "Hillbilly Honeymoon,"....
innuendo-The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel finished 1/12 p. 102 ...there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone.
intellectual-The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel finished 1/12 p. 181 He says he's aware, on an intellectual level...
interspersed-Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture by Roseanne Welch finished 1/19 p. 103 ...the weird musical numbers that were interspersed....
irrigation-Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston finished 3/11 p. 140 His irrigation scheme failed...
jackal-Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz finished 5/16 p. 34 The domestic dog is distantly related to coyotes and jackals...
jicama-Rebel Homemaker: Food, Family, Life by Drew Barrymore finished 11/17/21 p. 78 ...tomato and jicama salsa.
judo
jungle-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 5 ...as if the kitchen had suddenly crash-landed in some equatorial jungle...
kindred-A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption by Dina Temple-Raston finished 1/11 p. 203 At times, this will mean coming to the aid of our fellow kindred...
kinky-Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop by Marc Myers finished 2/21 loc. 856 A drunk who had been watching us remarked that we looked more like kinks to him- short for "kinky" or "weird."
kringle-Holiday in Stone Creek: A Stone Creek Christmas / At Home in Stone Creek by Linda Lael Miller finished 2/16 loc 1468 Would you believe this place is run by a man named Kris Kringle?
lament-From Our House: A Memoir by Lee Martin finished 4/9 p. 86 ...which seemed to be the lament of all our regrets.
lisp-Forever Yours, Faithfully: My Love Story by Lorrie Morgan finished 5/22 p. 74 She has a kind of lisp on the s's.
literary-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 44 Leopold's journals are less literary and less personal...
lobster-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 192 There was lobster and quail and loin of venison...
lustrous-Predator by Jack Olsen finished 3/22 p. 35 ...all Californians shared the same lustrous weather...
marijuana-Signed in Blood: The True Story of Two Women, a Sinister Plot, and Cold Blooded Murder by Jeanne King finished 1/1 p. 70 Muto's division only tested for the presence of alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine.
marquee-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 300 We erected three interlinked marquees...
miracle-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 89 ...he'd personally convinced Motown to release a three-year-old album track by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles...mystical / mystic-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 80 ...I put her knowledge of my sexuality down to the intangible mystic power of a mother's intuition...
navigate(d)-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 44 ...the cool edge my wife's voice sometimes gets when I navigate by the seat of my pants.
nostalgia / nostalgic-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 294 I think nostalgia can be a real trap for an artist.
novice-Hay Fever: How Chasing a Dream on a Vermont Farm Changed My Life by Angela Miller finished 2/6 p. 30 She wasn't the only novice.
nun-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 257 Made by nuns, it takes them thirty years to make...
obscure(d)-The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters by Wes Moore finished 2/9 p.
46 Keeping a window with obscure foreign policy websites open on my desktop computer....
ooze-The Territory of Men: A Memoir by Joelle Fraser finished 3/2 p. 127 We ooze audacity...
operation-Signed in Blood: The True Story of Two Women, a Sinister Plot, and Cold Blooded Murder by Jeanne King finished 1/1 p. 55 ...Helen was the brains of the operation...
opinion-No, Daddy, Don't!: A Father's Murderous Act of Revenge by Irene Pence finished 1/6 p.
263 The assistant DA's spent a great deal of time quizzing prospects on their opinions about the death penalty.
peony-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 69 Around the turn of the century her grandmother had planted peonies and other perennials...
perversion-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 204 It was all 'disgusting' this and 'private perversion' that.
pitchfork-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 21 ...sometimes I'll linger with a pitchfork to sift through the compost for nightcrawlers.
porcelain-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. Too keen on porcelain and photographs and modern art...
puddle-A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption by Dina Temple-Raston finished 1/11 p. 8 He saw more keys, then loose change, puddles of blood, and more....
quack-In Pieces by Sally Field finished 2/7 p. 48 ...and poisoned Dr. Quack, my first pet...
quagmire-No, Daddy, Don't!: A Father's Murderous Act of Revenge by Irene Pence finished 1/6 p.
141 ...it had stopped paying TDC's expenses when the legal quagmire began...
raiment-My Mantelpiece: A Memoir of Survival and Social Justice by Carolyn Goodman finished 5/21 p. 102 ...a Joseph of many colored raiment.
redneck-A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption by Dina Temple-Raston finished 1/11 p. 113 The trio looked younger than anyone had expected. Less redneck. Less threatening.
ridiculous-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 113 And the title is absolutely ridiculous as well.'
rugby-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. I hate physical violence to the point that I cant even watch a rugby match.
saunter(ed)-In Pieces by Sally Field finished 2/7 p. 102 When he sauntered in with a protective swagger....
savage-Savage Shadows by Eileen Ross finished 1/16 p. 236 A savage breaks into my home...
second-class-Child of the Prairie, Man of the World: The Memoirs of Lavern "Vern" Freeh by Lavern Free finished 3/9 p. 26 ...the Gimbles and the Freehs did not travel first or second class.
soliloquy-Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service by Gary Sinise finished 3/17 p. 51 ...their best rendition of the 'to be or not to be' soliloquy.
spring-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 54 ...I dont look for spring so much as guarentees.
tar-The Territory of Men: A Memoir by Joelle Fraser finished 3/2 p. 22 The pavement was crisscrossed with tar...
tenacious-Mrs. Ike: Memories and Reflections on the Life of Mamie Eisenhower by Susan Eisenhower finished 2/19 p. 39 ...gave him incite into the tenacious loyalty she would invest in him throughout her life.
toke-The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel finished 1/12 p. 180 ...not so much as a toke of pot...
toothbrushThe Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death by John Bateson finished 3/4 p. 118 One man used a candle to melt both ends of a toothbrush.
trout-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 4 ...when it's fortunes were tied to whitefish and lake trout...
upper lip-Signed in Blood: The True Story of Two Women, a Sinister Plot, and Cold Blooded Murder by Jeanne King finished 1/1 p. 109 There was a laceration to the upper lip.
urchin-Not Dead Yet: The Memoir by Phil Collins finished 4/3 p. 16 ...complete with street urchins playing among the rubble.
verbal-No, Daddy, Don't!: A Father's Murderous Act of Revenge by Irene Pence finished 1/6 p.
46 Ultimately, she brushed off episodes of hostility because they were only verbal...
villain-Holiday in Stone Creek: A Stone Creek Christmas / At Home in Stone Creek by Linda Lael Miller finished 2/16 loc 1709 After the villain in The Dudley Do-Right Show.
viscous / viscosity-We Are Still Married: Stories & Letters by Garrison Keillor finished 5/7 p. 51 ...a viscous sound like water splashing on the grass...
wasp-From Our House: A Memoir by Lee Martin finished 4/9 p. 57 ...the short "a" sounding like it did in wasp.
whale-Me by Elton John finished 1/4 p. 165 ...always seemed to be having a whale of a time.
windmill-Child of the Prairie, Man of the World: The Memoirs of Lavern "Vern" Freeh by Lavern Free finished 3/9 p. 99 He would even climb up and fix the windmill during a windstorm...
wobble(d)-In Pieces by Sally Field finished 2/7 p. 54 ...I finally wobbled my way into the cycling world.
xenophobic-The Misbegotten Son by Jack Olsen finished 5/16 p. 27 The permanent hard times had made many of the citizens bitter, clannish, xenophobic.
yell-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 63 Rolling down the car window I'd yell...
yodel(ed)-The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand finished 11/2 p. 63 My calling has advanced since the days when I yodeled out car windows.
zilch-Rachel Maddow: A Biography by Lisa Rogak finished 3/6 p. 17 ...she knew zilch about cars...
zircon
Complete. I didn't find jicama; kringle;
MEGA Scavenger Hunt
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Word list
alfalfa .. they's a place for alfalfa and plenty water to flood it .. [book:Of Mice and Men|890] pg 96
alien .. rumors of torture and alien abductions .. Unspeakable Things pg 76
aphorism .. an aphorism that seemed to suggest the selling of manure .. To Die But Once pg 108
Astroturf .. he refused to let the Mother of God touch his astroturf lawn .. A Very Punchable Face loc 255
barnacle .. only a few small barnacles adhered to the shell .. The Pearl pg 33
befuddled .. with befuddled but loving parents .. Intensity pg 73
bigot .. to play the rich southern bigot, Fred .. In Pieces pg 237
blizzard .. the blizzard consumed the farm day and night .. The Forgotten Home Child loc 1624
boycott .. I did not boycott Marie's funeral .. We Are Water pg 53
cactus .. scarlet apples that grew on cactus bushes. .. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 27
cotton candy .. it dissolved like cotton candy .. Sharp Objects pg 179
cowboy .. I expected a cowboy would any minute come .. Water Darling loc 613
credentials .. got her credentials while they were there .. Things in Jars loc 1982
cucumber .. Cucumbers and bananas and bottles .. Sharp Objects pg 204
daffodil .. daffodils bloomed in cow pastures .. Vera Violet loc 2219
desperate .. I was desperate .. The Painted Drum pg 10
dismount .. the men dismount .. Remembered loc 911
divine .. looking skyward for divine assistance .. Things in Jars loc 3654
dynamite .. clean the mess away with dynamite and picks .. Housekeeping pg 206
eager .. I was eager for the chance .. Water Darling loc 4078
ebony .. ebony fingerboard, and rosewood mahogany ribs .. Cane River pg 330
equinox .. September equinox, reason enough to celebrate .. Things in Jars loc 2013
evangelical / evangelist .. I would have figured to embrace evangelical Christianity .. We Are Water pg 77
farmhouse .. a massive stone farmhouse, a moneyed vision .. Sharp Objects pg 34
fisticuffs .. sported its share of fisticuffs over the years .. Crabb loc 155
forward .. draws his leg back to kick again, I move forward .. The Painted Drum pg 19
frame of mind (phrase) .. in a very preoccupied frame of mind .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 131
fritters .. promise of the rice fritters to come .. Cane River pg 33
gallop(ed) .. went through the brush at a gallop .. The Law at Randado pg 93
ghetto .. the ghetto flew at me adamantly .. Vera Violet loc 579
grapevine .. supports the grapevine that will throttle it .. The Painted Drum pg 26
guitar .. play the music from the piano and guitar .. Water Darling loc 3037
haggard .. a newly haggard aspect to the doctor .. Things in Jars loc 606
harpoon .. like a tiny silver harpoon .. Sharp Objects pg 218
hatchery .. the supermarket, the drugstore, the hatchery .. Sharp Objects pg 161
hemp .. expensive clothing made from hemp .. Vera Violet loc 205
hillbilly .. hillbilly music, my father was so good looking .. Vera Violet loc 115
innuendo .. consisted of winks and innuendo.. Dovetail: A Novel of Love Everlasting loc 1260
intellectual .. the moral and the intellectual .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 113
interspersed .. interspersed with coughing and foot shuffling .. Things in Jars loc 3024
irrigation .. we sit in a irrigation ditch under water .. Of Mice and Men pg 72
jackal .. tears wouldn't fend off the jackal .. Intensity pg 294
jicama
judo .. a few rabbit punches and a judo chop .. Frozen Past loc 3595
jungle .. the air was jungle wet .. Sharp Objects pg 11
kindred .. but this is by kindred power .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 135
kinky .. he married four women and had a kinky side .. Camino Island pg 252
kringle
lament .. I didn't think much of it except to lament it .. Water Darling loc 501
lisp .. an uncustomary lisp to his voice with the missing teeth .. Things in Jars loc 3820
literary .. close friend and literary collaborator .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 27
lobster .. dead fish and lobsters and pink crabs lay everywhere .. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 169
lustrous .. flickering with the lustrous light of afterlife .. Things in Jars loc 1406
marijuana .. as a result of having his marijuana crop .. The Painted Drum pg 264
marquee .. carnival rides and blinking marquees .. Florence Adler Swims Forever loc 4591
miracle .. it would be no small miracle either .. Water Darling loc 4583
mystical / mystic .. which led wholly towards the mystic .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 76
MEGA Scavenger Hunt
Begins: 01Jan20 / Ends: 30June20
Word list
alfalfa .. they's a place for alfalfa and plenty water to flood it .. [book:Of Mice and Men|890] pg 96
alien .. rumors of torture and alien abductions .. Unspeakable Things pg 76
aphorism .. an aphorism that seemed to suggest the selling of manure .. To Die But Once pg 108
Astroturf .. he refused to let the Mother of God touch his astroturf lawn .. A Very Punchable Face loc 255
barnacle .. only a few small barnacles adhered to the shell .. The Pearl pg 33
befuddled .. with befuddled but loving parents .. Intensity pg 73
bigot .. to play the rich southern bigot, Fred .. In Pieces pg 237
blizzard .. the blizzard consumed the farm day and night .. The Forgotten Home Child loc 1624
boycott .. I did not boycott Marie's funeral .. We Are Water pg 53
cactus .. scarlet apples that grew on cactus bushes. .. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 27
cotton candy .. it dissolved like cotton candy .. Sharp Objects pg 179
cowboy .. I expected a cowboy would any minute come .. Water Darling loc 613
credentials .. got her credentials while they were there .. Things in Jars loc 1982
cucumber .. Cucumbers and bananas and bottles .. Sharp Objects pg 204
daffodil .. daffodils bloomed in cow pastures .. Vera Violet loc 2219
desperate .. I was desperate .. The Painted Drum pg 10
dismount .. the men dismount .. Remembered loc 911
divine .. looking skyward for divine assistance .. Things in Jars loc 3654
dynamite .. clean the mess away with dynamite and picks .. Housekeeping pg 206
eager .. I was eager for the chance .. Water Darling loc 4078
ebony .. ebony fingerboard, and rosewood mahogany ribs .. Cane River pg 330
equinox .. September equinox, reason enough to celebrate .. Things in Jars loc 2013
evangelical / evangelist .. I would have figured to embrace evangelical Christianity .. We Are Water pg 77
farmhouse .. a massive stone farmhouse, a moneyed vision .. Sharp Objects pg 34
fisticuffs .. sported its share of fisticuffs over the years .. Crabb loc 155
forward .. draws his leg back to kick again, I move forward .. The Painted Drum pg 19
frame of mind (phrase) .. in a very preoccupied frame of mind .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 131
fritters .. promise of the rice fritters to come .. Cane River pg 33
gallop(ed) .. went through the brush at a gallop .. The Law at Randado pg 93
ghetto .. the ghetto flew at me adamantly .. Vera Violet loc 579
grapevine .. supports the grapevine that will throttle it .. The Painted Drum pg 26
guitar .. play the music from the piano and guitar .. Water Darling loc 3037
haggard .. a newly haggard aspect to the doctor .. Things in Jars loc 606
harpoon .. like a tiny silver harpoon .. Sharp Objects pg 218
hatchery .. the supermarket, the drugstore, the hatchery .. Sharp Objects pg 161
hemp .. expensive clothing made from hemp .. Vera Violet loc 205
hillbilly .. hillbilly music, my father was so good looking .. Vera Violet loc 115
innuendo .. consisted of winks and innuendo.. Dovetail: A Novel of Love Everlasting loc 1260
intellectual .. the moral and the intellectual .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 113
interspersed .. interspersed with coughing and foot shuffling .. Things in Jars loc 3024
irrigation .. we sit in a irrigation ditch under water .. Of Mice and Men pg 72
jackal .. tears wouldn't fend off the jackal .. Intensity pg 294
jicama
judo .. a few rabbit punches and a judo chop .. Frozen Past loc 3595
jungle .. the air was jungle wet .. Sharp Objects pg 11
kindred .. but this is by kindred power .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 135
kinky .. he married four women and had a kinky side .. Camino Island pg 252
kringle
lament .. I didn't think much of it except to lament it .. Water Darling loc 501
lisp .. an uncustomary lisp to his voice with the missing teeth .. Things in Jars loc 3820
literary .. close friend and literary collaborator .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 27
lobster .. dead fish and lobsters and pink crabs lay everywhere .. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 169
lustrous .. flickering with the lustrous light of afterlife .. Things in Jars loc 1406
marijuana .. as a result of having his marijuana crop .. The Painted Drum pg 264
marquee .. carnival rides and blinking marquees .. Florence Adler Swims Forever loc 4591
miracle .. it would be no small miracle either .. Water Darling loc 4583
mystical / mystic .. which led wholly towards the mystic .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 76
navigate(d) .. kite-fliers in the windy and cloud-navigated sky .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 111
nostalgia / nostalgic .. he yelled Bourgeois nostalgia .. Salt the Snow loc 1784
novice .. I was a complete novice .. Above the Bay of Angels loc 2741
nun .. had always said she was going to be a nun .. The Painted Drum pg 223
obscure(d) .. many times its style is greatly obscured .. The Painted Drum pg 23
ooze .. blood began to ooze from the round hole .. Water Darling loc 6220
operation .. and I want to have the operation .. Water Darling loc 3399
opinion .. I didn't have much of an opinion of the man .. Water Darling loc 589
peony .. thought it was a peony .. Unspeakable Things pg 172
perversion .. great perversion of this energy of followed .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 192
pitchfork .. a pitchfork here,a sinister looking ghost in a pointed hat there .. Remembered loc 2839
porcelain .. one of those porcelain tubs filled with hot water .. Water Darling loc 1204
puddle .. a slippery puddle of chewed tobacco .. Remembered loc 375
quack .. some of its just quack .. The Painted Drum pg 75
quagmire .. roads have become a slippery quagmire .. Things in Jars loc 3274
raiment .. silently disapproving the mystifying raiment .. Monkeewrench pg 29
redneck .. politicians son who wanted to be a redneck .. Vera Violet loc 1203
ridiculous .. ridiculous, I hain't got none .. Water Darling loc 4282
rugby .. baseball caps and rugby jerseys .. Pride of Eden loc 1976
saunter(ed) .. the promise of conflict saunter toward us .. Remembered loc 210
savage .. to savage his dreams or keep him .. Water Darling loc 4310
second-class .. second-class passengers have a roof .. Things in Jars loc 725
soliloquy .. in the brief soliloquy below .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 119
spring .. allow him to die in the earliest spring growth .. The Painted Drum pg 65
tar .. are pressed into the softened tar .. The Painted Drum pg 4
tenacious ... she had the same tenacious resolve as I did .. Water Darling loc 3541
toke .. many of them toke on the pot .. Unspeakable Things pg 145
toothbrush .. stuck his toothbrush in his shirt pocket .. The Painted Drum pg 254
trout .. like some old struggling trout .. Water Darling loc 3310
upper lip .. canines that peeked out from beneath her upper lip .. Sharp Objects pg 226
urchin .. gathered purple sea urchins to use for dyeing.. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 118
verbal .. not about my verbal abuses so much as .. Water Darling loc 917
villian .. she was as much a victim as villian .. Water Darling loc 4242
viscous / viscosity .. the surface of the bay seemed almost viscous .. Housekeeping pg 126
wasp .. when a wasp stung Angelite .. Cane River pg 406
whale .. have you ever seen a red whale .. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 3
windmill .. like a windmill without its fans .. Water Darling loc 964
wobble(d) .. they fit so fine I wobbled in them .. Water Darling loc 4463
xenophobic .. violent, xenophobic greed .. Beheld loc 2062
yell .. let her yell at me might get me in the wrong .. Water Darling loc 350
yodel(ed) .. yodel as we glide into town .. Unspeakable Things pg 185
zilch .. Zilch in Dallas. Chicago is a maybe .. Monkeewrench pg 78
zircon .. the item front and center on the screen at the moment was a zircon necklace .. Manitou Canyon pg 330
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nostalgia / nostalgic .. he yelled Bourgeois nostalgia .. Salt the Snow loc 1784
novice .. I was a complete novice .. Above the Bay of Angels loc 2741
nun .. had always said she was going to be a nun .. The Painted Drum pg 223
obscure(d) .. many times its style is greatly obscured .. The Painted Drum pg 23
ooze .. blood began to ooze from the round hole .. Water Darling loc 6220
operation .. and I want to have the operation .. Water Darling loc 3399
opinion .. I didn't have much of an opinion of the man .. Water Darling loc 589
peony .. thought it was a peony .. Unspeakable Things pg 172
perversion .. great perversion of this energy of followed .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 192
pitchfork .. a pitchfork here,a sinister looking ghost in a pointed hat there .. Remembered loc 2839
porcelain .. one of those porcelain tubs filled with hot water .. Water Darling loc 1204
puddle .. a slippery puddle of chewed tobacco .. Remembered loc 375
quack .. some of its just quack .. The Painted Drum pg 75
quagmire .. roads have become a slippery quagmire .. Things in Jars loc 3274
raiment .. silently disapproving the mystifying raiment .. Monkeewrench pg 29
redneck .. politicians son who wanted to be a redneck .. Vera Violet loc 1203
ridiculous .. ridiculous, I hain't got none .. Water Darling loc 4282
rugby .. baseball caps and rugby jerseys .. Pride of Eden loc 1976
saunter(ed) .. the promise of conflict saunter toward us .. Remembered loc 210
savage .. to savage his dreams or keep him .. Water Darling loc 4310
second-class .. second-class passengers have a roof .. Things in Jars loc 725
soliloquy .. in the brief soliloquy below .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 119
spring .. allow him to die in the earliest spring growth .. The Painted Drum pg 65
tar .. are pressed into the softened tar .. The Painted Drum pg 4
tenacious ... she had the same tenacious resolve as I did .. Water Darling loc 3541
toke .. many of them toke on the pot .. Unspeakable Things pg 145
toothbrush .. stuck his toothbrush in his shirt pocket .. The Painted Drum pg 254
trout .. like some old struggling trout .. Water Darling loc 3310
upper lip .. canines that peeked out from beneath her upper lip .. Sharp Objects pg 226
urchin .. gathered purple sea urchins to use for dyeing.. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 118
verbal .. not about my verbal abuses so much as .. Water Darling loc 917
villian .. she was as much a victim as villian .. Water Darling loc 4242
viscous / viscosity .. the surface of the bay seemed almost viscous .. Housekeeping pg 126
wasp .. when a wasp stung Angelite .. Cane River pg 406
whale .. have you ever seen a red whale .. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 3
windmill .. like a windmill without its fans .. Water Darling loc 964
wobble(d) .. they fit so fine I wobbled in them .. Water Darling loc 4463
xenophobic .. violent, xenophobic greed .. Beheld loc 2062
yell .. let her yell at me might get me in the wrong .. Water Darling loc 350
yodel(ed) .. yodel as we glide into town .. Unspeakable Things pg 185
zilch .. Zilch in Dallas. Chicago is a maybe .. Monkeewrench pg 78
zircon .. the item front and center on the screen at the moment was a zircon necklace .. Manitou Canyon pg 330
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13/100 words/phrases
5books
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1/11/2020 ***Location 353 And was Beth really so DESPERATE that she needed the approval?
Location 2298 On the Carbon Glacier, they roped up and NAVIGATED the crevasses with care and attention
Location 2333 “Looks like an ALIEN spaceship hovering there.
Location 2893 I didn’t push my face in his and almost SAVAGE him.
Location 3019 In summer, there were nesting birds and brown TROUT.
Location 4308 “At least someone likes searching in a BLIZZARD.”
Stephanie Landp. 5 One brought a GUITAR
p. 25 With that, he turned to leave, releasing a YELL of rage as he punched a hole through the Plexiglass window.
p.53 The combining scents brought up an amount of NOSTALGIA that overwhelmed me.
p. 74 her UPPER LIP thick with ropes of green snot.
p. 74 as she SAUNTERED over to us.
p. 84 These people gave me something to look FORWARD to, people to hope for
p,88 I would use a TOOTHBRUSH on the seal around the door.
p. 100 “Do you like lobster?”
p. 135 She bent herself completely over, her chest flat against her legs, and threw up a large PUDDLE of green snot.
p.146 She rushed out quickly, before we could have any sort of VERBAL exchange,
p. 156 the one who owned the FARM HOUSE
p.165 Jamie had used her judgmental OPINION of the facility against me ever since.
p.180 I did it, not caring how RIDICULOUS that seemed.
p.193 still in awe of the MIRACLE that she wasn’t hurt,
p. 205 The husband greeted me at the door, EAGER to help me carry in my supplies.
p. 226 SPRING in the Skagit Valley is called Tulip Season.
p. 226 It begins with fields of yellow DAFFODILS, purple irises, and the occasional crocus.
p. 248 I stepped in and WOBBLED.
p. 257 Picking her up started to feel like some sort of rescue OPERATION.
p. 263“Did you get pink COWBOY boots for me?”
438779351/19/20 ***Halona was a little surprised her mom hadn’t already heard through the Sweetwater Springs GRAPEVINE.
Halona had designed the bouquet to match, using blush and ivory roses with dark berries INTERSPERSED.
book:Cowboy Tough|46038290] Stacy Finz 1/27/20 ****
Desperate Location 1216 It was no secret he was DESPERATE for childcare.
Obscure Location 1363for an OBSCURE candidate’s bid for state legislature.
Alien Location 1693 Unless ALIENS landed and kidnapped his family,
Irrigation Location 2604 the cattle preferred drinking from an IRRIGATION pond.
Porcelain Location 2825 I’m not a PORCELAIN doll, Jace.
Navigate but it wasn’t a landscape she was ready to NAVIGATE.
Jill Shalvis The Good Luck Sister 1/30/12 **
credentials p.5 she’d gotten her teaching CREDENTIALS to pay the bills.
nun the guy could sell a whorehouse to a NUN.
nostalgia / nostalgic Their gazes held and bunches of unwanted and unwelcome longing and NOSTALGIA welled up inside her,
Your challenge is to find the following words/phrases in the TEXT of the books you are reading this month.
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
alfalfa
aphorism
Astroturf
barnacle
befuddled
bigot
blizzard
boycott
cactus
cotton candy
cucumber
dismount
divine
dynamite
ebony
equinox
evangelical / evangelist
fisticuffs
frame of mind (phrase)
fritters
gallop(ed)
ghetto
haggard
harpoon
hatchery
hemp
hillbilly
innuendo
intellectual
jackal
jicama
judo
jungle
kindred
kinky
kringle
lament
lisp
literary
lustrous
marijuana
marquee
mystical / mystic
novice
ooze
peony
perversion
pitchfork
quack
quagmire
raiment
redneck
rugby
savage
second-class
soliloquy
tar
tenacious
toke
toothbrush
urchin
villian
viscous / viscosity
wasp
whale
windmill
xenophobic
yodel(ed)
zilch
zircon
Word Listalfalfa-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 10-"his life by Superior Alfalfa"
alien-The Guests on South Battery-1/21/20-page 69-"smiling faces completely alien"
aphorism-Blessings-5/8/20-page 88-"speaking in comfortably unoriginal aphorisms"
Astroturf
barnacle-Drums of Autumn2/27/20-page 536-"Barnacles, said a soft Irish voice"
befuddled-Seven Brides for Seven Texans-4/13/20-page 329-"he looked so befuddled?"
bigot-A Touch of Stardust-1/31/20-page 132-"from those bigots at the ballpark."
blizzard-Where the Crawdads Sing- 2/5/20- page 330- "a blizzard of birds came in to land."
boycott-A Touch of Stardust-1/31/20-page 75-"ordering boycotts of their stores."
cactus-The Oregon Trail-3/27/20-page 13-"the sight of sagebrush and cactus"
cotton candy-The Ocean Between Us-1/28/20-page 127-"Navy men were like cotton candy"
cowboy-The Breakdown-1/7/20-page 87-"There are a lot of cowboys out there."
credentials-The Ocean Between Us-1/28/20-page 111-"I have stellar credentials."
cucumber-Manners & Mutiny-1/10/20-page 131-"firm opinion on cucumber"
daffodil-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 5-"sway over the daffodils."
desperate-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 31-"aware of the desperate degree"
dismount-Seven Brides for Seven Texans-4/13/20-page 350-"watched the big man dismount."
divine-Manners & Mutiny-1/10/20-page 78-"they are indeed divine."
dynamite-We Band of Angels-1/25/20-page 202-"Dynamite? whispered a few panicked internees."
eager-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 109-" seemed eager to agree to anything."
ebony-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 184-"tube of polished black ebony"
equinox-The Witch's Daughter-4/29/20-page 171-"Since the equinox, the weather has been mild"
evangelical / evangelist-Their Fractured Light-3/16/20-page 122-"bunch of door-to-door evangelist"
farmhouse-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 17-"in the old Vermont farmhouse"
fisticuffs-Manners & Mutiny-1/10/20-page 292-"two young ladies in fisticuffs."
forward-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 26-"look forward to either occasion"
frame of mind (phrase)-Drums of Autumn2/27/20-page 379-"in a more settled frame of mind"
fritters-Where the Crawdads Sing- 2/5/20- page 12-"frying corn fritters of hoecakes."
gallop(ed)-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 111-"she galloped toward him"
ghetto-Ready Player One4/16/20-page 165-"the edge of the Two Rivers ghetto."
grapevine-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 15-"thanks to the grapevines"
guitar-The Guests on South Battery-1/21/20-page 214-"plucking something out on her guitar."
haggard-Drums of Autumn2/27/20-page 183-"Am I looking indecently haggard?"
harpoon-The Snow Walker-2/19/20- page 45-"readied spears, harpoons and kayaks"
hatchery-Ready Player One4/16/20-page 32-"homepage was set to the Hatchery"
hemp-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 147-"pulling the hemp wool blanket"
hillbilly-The Last Castle-5/6/20-page 206-"Cornelia the "Hillbilly Heiress"'
innuendo-Bridget Jones's Diary-4/2/20-page 89-"full of puns and sexual innuendos"
intellectual-Manners & Mutiny-1/10/20-page 170-"delusions of intellectual grandeur"
interspersed-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 152-"open meadows interspersed with dense patches"
irrigation-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 85"irrigation by canal and aqueducts."
jackal-Ready Player One4/16/20-page 135-"grinning like a jackal"
jicama
judo-The Seventh Moon-4/20/20-page 288-"I did judo,karate and jujitsu."
jungle-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 158-"more like jungle than forest."
kindred-The Guests on South Battery-1/21/20-page 21-"finally met a kindred spirit."
kinky-The Ocean Between Us-1/28/20-page 94-"someone else said nervously, "kinky."
kringle
lament-The Snow Walker-2/19/20- page 116-"singing laments for the dying"lisp-The Geometry of Sisters-3/21/20-page 8-"my old lisp coming back"
literary-Manners & Mutiny-1/10/20-page 214-"nor literary pursuits"
lobster-A Dublin Student Doctor-3/6/20-page 299-"I'm boiled like a feckin' lobster"
lustrous-The Seventh Moon-4/20/20-page 320-"He stroked the lustrous aluminum."
marijuana-A Dublin Student Doctor-3/6/20-page 360-"Hashish or marijuana, sir"
marquee-Ready Player One4/16/20-page 80-"the name on the game's backlit marquee"
miracle-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 4-"when the miracle had left her"
mystical / mystic-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 55-"a mystical notion of everlastingness."
navigate(d)-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 476-"The city was hard to navigate."
nostalgia / nostalgic-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 138-"filled her with nostalgic longing"
novice-The Lake of Dreams-3/31/20-page 158-"He can tell your're a novice."
nun-We Band of Angels-1/25/20-page 21-"The Catholic nuns are grand"
obscure(d)-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 33-"a pang of obscure guilt"
ooze-Drums of Autumn2/27/20-page 141-"showed a thick black ooze"
operation-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 114-"an operation made risky"
opinion-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 122-" before venturing an opinion"
peony-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 95-"browning heads of peonies"
perversion-Lucy-3/9/20-page 181-"acts of beastly perversion."
pitchfork-Seven Brides for Seven Texans-4/13/20-page 98-"reached for a pitchfork."
porcelain-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 42-"two porcelain Chinamen"
puddle-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 137-" fall from her shoulders into a puddle"
quack-A Dublin Student Doctor-3/6/20-page 227-"which became shortened to "quack"."
quagmire-Where the Crawdads Sing- 2/5/20- page 354- "paths through difficult quagmires"
raiment-Shirley-5/2/20-page 1-the shirt-like raiment"
redneck-Ready Player One4/16/20-page 21-"with uprooted rednecks like my parents"
ridiculous-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 25-"Her ironed party dress was ridiculous"
rugby-A Dublin Student Doctor-3/6/20-page 173-"once the rugby season's over."
saunter(ed)-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 56-" The two soldiers sauntered across the stage"
savage-On the Island-2/8/20-page 188-"an island girl, savage, unkempt and wild."
second-class-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 332-"Quadlings were second-class citizens"
soliloquy-A Touch of Stardust-1/31/20-page 43-"she had intruded on a soliloquy."
spring-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 4-"Out of loyalty, each spring"
tar-A Touch of Stardust-1/31/20-page 242-"to hell with the tar."
tenacious-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 238-"only tenacious and bitter farmers"
toke
toothbrush-We Band of Angels-1/25/20-page 41-"toothbrushes were at the bottom if Manila Bay"
trout-We Band of Angels-1/25/20-page 68-"fish for trout and bass"
upper lip-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 243-"His upper lip had become red"
urchin-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 271-"the dirty urchins and toothless"
verbal-The Breakdown-1/7/20-page 30-"I was quite verbal"
villain-Drums of Autumn2/27/20-page 147-"I did ken the man for a villain"
viscous / viscosity-Manners & Mutiny-1/10/20-page 136-"mechanical of a viciously viscous inclination."
wasp-Where the Crawdads Sing- 2/5/20- page 104- "on the wings of wasps."
whale-The Ocean Between Us-1/28/20-page 41-"a pod of whales we spotted."
windmill-The Rope Walk-1/5/20-page 82-" the windmills in Holland"
wobble(d)-Manners & Mutiny-1/10/20-page 169-"her voice did not wobble."
xenophobic-Out of Oz-1/18/20-page 149-"not especially xenophobic."
yell-Manners & Mutiny-1/10/20-page 47-"the three men did not yell"
yodel(ed)-An Irish Country Wedding-6/6/20-page 293-"threw back his head and yodeled."
zilch-Bridget Jones's Diary-4/2/20-page 21-"After that: zilch."
zircon
MEGA Scavenger HuntBegins: 01Jan20 / Ends: 30June20
POST 1 of 2
42 / 48 words found THIS post
13 books read
(1) The Second Mountain by David Brooks--1/9/20
(2) Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne--1/15/20
(3) The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson--1/21/20
(4) Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens--1/30/20
(5) The Witch Elm by Tana French--2/18/20
(6) Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie--2/18/20
(7) The Guardians by John Grisham 2/22/20
(8) Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell--3/7/20
(9) My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray--3/14/20
(10) Queen of America by Luis Alberto Urrea--4/4/20
(11) In Pieces by Sally Field--4/20/20
(12) The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry--4/29/20
(13) Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver--5/24/2020
Word list
✔alfalfa--(6)--loc. 5725--"...with such things as alfalfa sprouts."
✔alien--(1)--loc. 1958--"...leads me away from myself towards something alien..."
aphorism
Astroturf
✔barnacle--(4)--loc. 1643--"...scraping blotchy barnacles from her hull..."
✔befuddled--(3)--loc. 181--"...mountainfolk who had befuddled the rest..."
✔bigot--(11)--loc. 2215--"...to play the rich Southern bigot..."
✔blizzard--(4)--loc. 4098--"...and a blizzard of birds came in..."
✔boycott--(13)--loc. 3360--"...economic boycotts helped end..."
✔cactus--(2)--loc.617--"...and the cactus proliferating across it."
✔cotton candy--(6)--loc. 2041--"...milkshakes and cotton candy."
✔cowboy--(5)--loc. 857--"...in a pink cowboy hat..."
✔credentials--(2)--loc. 2663--"...she had the credentials to decide everything..."
✔cucumber--(5)--loc. 5064--"It's too cold for cucumber..."
✔daffodil--(9)--loc. 5466--".Sunny daffodils from Mama's garden..."
✔desperate--(1)--loc. 4890--"...individuals feel a desperate need..."
✔dismount--(3)--loc. 3150--"...I had to stop once and dismount..."
✔divine--(1)--loc. 4077--"...he perceived glimpses of the divine..."
✔dynamite--(10)--loc. 4667--"...with a bad dynamite charge..."
✔eager--(2)--loc. 141--"She was a little eager,..."
✔ebony--(12)--loc. 390--"Is ebony expensive?"
equinox
✔evangelical--(1)--loc. 3936--"...there's not an evangelical tradition."
✔farmhouse--(1)--loc. 3484--"...a light went on in a distant farmhouse."
✔fisticuffs--(9)--loc. 4266--"...as if ready to come to fisticuffs about it."
✔forward--(1)--loc. 2302--"..."when it is going forward in a straight line..."
✔frame of mind--(1)--loc. 3874--"I was in a spiritual frame of mind..."
✔fritters--(3)--loc. 2434--"...highfalutin books that fritters away time."
✔galloped--(3)--loc. 1400--"...broke into a wild gallop."
✔ghetto--(6)--loc. 5638--"...who write those bullshit ghetto books...z'
✔grapevine--(3)--loc. 3485--"...a thick arch made from grapevine..."
✔guitar--(1)--loc. 2369--"He bought a beat-up old guitar..."
✔haggard--(6)--loc. 137--"...haggard and thin-lipped as he was..."
harpoon
hatchery
✔hemp--(5)--loc. 1908--"...and tie-dye organic hemp?"
✔hillbilly--(13)--loc. 6614--"...via the so-called hillbilly highway into..."
✔innuendo--(9)--loc. 2131--"...what might have been Mac's innuendo---"
✔intellectual--(1)--loc. 803--"I tried to achieve intellectual perfection;..."
✔interspersed--(1)--loc. 3699--"...all overflowing enthusiasm interspersed with..."
✔irrigation--(7)--loc. 2311--"...surrounded by tractors, mowers, and irrigation equipment."
✔jackal--(5)--loc. 608--"...wild dog, maybe a jackal,..."
✔jicama--(10)--loc. 2826--"...stacks of chiles and jicama in lime juice..."
✔divine--(8)--loc. 1729--"...videotape of judo fighters who had just..."
✔jungle--(1)--loc. 1926--"...into a stagnant jungle pool in..."
✔kindred--(9)--loc. 689--"We're kindred spirits, then."
✔kinky--(6)--loc. 194--"...she wanted a medium kinky twist..."
kringle
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MEGA Scavenger HuntBegins: 01Jan20 / Ends: 30June20
PART 2 of 2
46/ 52 Words found THIS post
14 books read
(1) The Second Mountain by David Brooks--1/9/20
(2) Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne--1/15/20
(3) The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson--1/21/20
(4) From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke--1/25/20
(5) Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens--1/30/20
(6) The Witch Elm by Tana French--2/18/20
(7) Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie--2/18/20
(8) The Guardians by John Grisham--2/22/20
(9) Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell--3/7/20
(10) My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray--3/14/20
(11) Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman--3/27/20
(12) My Ántonia by Willa Cather--5/19/20
(13) Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver--5/24/20
(14) The Wife by Meg Wolitzer--6/21/20
Word list (continued from above)
✔lament--(6) loc. 3108--"...stopped to play a lament..."
✔lisp--(6) loc. 1013--"...voices, a lisp, a stutter?"
✔literary--(1) loc. 3014--"...turned him into a financial and literary success."
✔lobster--(1) loc. 4088--"...as if I were a lobster."
✔lustrous--(2) loc. 2459--"...their skin became lustrous."
✔marijuana--(9) loc. 4430--"...tatoos of 'marijuana leaves'."
✔marquee--(10) loc. 8802--"...expect to find a richly decorated marquee..."
✔miracle--(1) loc. 2659--"It's a miracle!"
✔mystical--(1) loc. 353--"...the world is enchanted by a mystical force."
✔navigate--(1) loc. 2990--"Marriage involves a thousand decisions as you navigate your way."
✔nostalgia--(2) loc. 2782--"The nostalgia came out of nothing..."
✔novice--(1) loc. 3316--"We were just novices in this eternal procession,..."
✔nun--(2) loc. 2792--"...the instruments of forgotten nuns."
✔obscure--(1) loc. 2439--"...a job in an obscure school..."
✔ooze--(12) loc. 285--"That silence seemed to ooze out of the ground..."
✔operation--(1) loc. 4242--"...that activate God's operations in our lives,..."
✔opinion--(1) loc. 26887--"They tend to express strong opinions..."
✔peony--(10) loc. 9768--"...frothy rose bows, pale peony petticoat..."
perversion
✔pitchfork--(11) loc. 986 --"...the pitchfork action and the..."
✔porcelain--(3) loc. 1329--"...black hands on the porcelain dial..."
✔puddle--(3) loc. 2246--"...splashing barefoot through puddles..."
✔quack--(8) loc. 4127--"...knew he could find a quack like..."
✔quagmire--(5) loc. 4401--"...paths through difficult quagmires..."
✔raiment--(13) loc. 3815--"...and as to raiment thou shalt wear a gunny bag."
✔redneck--(8) loc. 1135--"...a hard-drinking redneck..."
✔ridiculous--(1) loc. 328--"My ridiculous heels were killing me."
✔rugby--(6) loc. 1992--"...is this your school rugby jersey?"
✔sauntered--(2) loc. 3115--"He sauntered up to the scene..."
✔savage--(1) loc. 3221--"...I wrote a savage parody of Buckley..."
✔second-class--(7) loc. 3968--"...his second-class upper degree..."
✔soliloquy --(14) loc. 1732--"...for all his sighs and soliloquies about..."
✔spring--(1) loc. 433--" But in the spring of 2018, I..."
✔tar--(1) loc. 2326--"Mike Beebe grew up in a tar shack,..."
✔tenacious--(4) loc. 828--"...characteristically tenacious in his love,..."
toke
✔toothbrush--(7) loc. 3761--"...reached for his toothbrush..."
✔trout--(3) loc. 3665--"...brought home a pail of trout."
✔upper lip--(1) loc. 3633--"The genteel elegant stiff upper lip..."
✔urchin--(10) loc. 8118--"I'm not a starving urchin."
✔verbal--(8) loc. 11495--"His verbal report is typically blunt..."
✔villain--(6) loc. 3335--"...the mustachioed villain who..."
✔viscous--(7) loc. 2663--"...lost in a viscous haze..."
✔wasp--(2) loc. 2484--"The air was thick with stupefied wasps..."
✔whale--(10) loc. 2974--"well lit by whale oil lamps,..."
✔windmill--(2) loc. 287--"...stood one of the old island windmills..."
✔wobbled--(3) loc. 940--"The shotgun wobbled in my grip...:
xenophobic
✔yell--(1) loc. 3254--"...and yells Charge!"
yodel(ed)
zilch
zircon
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alfalfa
alien
aphorism
Astroturf
barnacle
befuddled
bigot
blizzard
boycott
cactus
cotton candy
cowboy
credentials
cucumber
daffodil
desperate
dismount
divine
dynamite
eager
ebony
equinox
evangelical / evangelist
farmhouse
fisticuffs
forward
frame of mind (phrase)
fritters
gallop(ed)
ghetto
grapevine
guitar
haggard
harpoon
hatchery
hemp
hillbilly
innuendo
intellectual
interspersed
irrigation
jackal
jicama
judo
jungle
kindred
kinky
kringle
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lament
lisp
literary
lobster
lustrous
marijuana
marquee
miracle
mystical / mystic
navigate(d)
nostalgia / nostalgic
novice
nun
obscure(d)
ooze
operation
opinion
peony
perversion
pitchfork
porcelain
puddle
quack
quagmire
raiment
redneck
ridiculous
rugby
saunter(ed)
savage
second-class
soliloquy
spring
tar
tenacious
toke
toothbrush
trout
upper lip
urchin
verbal
villain
viscous / viscosity
wasp
whale
windmill
wobble(d)
xenophobic
yell
yodel(ed)
zilch
zircon
Mega Scavenger Hunt - January - June 2020Word list Part I
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✔alfalfa - The Japanese Lover - 3/9/20 - p273 - "...drinking alfalfa juice..."
✔alien - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p107 - "...had an alien grandeur..."
✔aphorism - Ask Again, Yes - 2/7/20 - p325 - ...in the doctor's aphorism..."
✔Astroturf - Exposed - 2/19/20 - p215 - "...could've been Astroturf."
✔barnacle - Writing All Wrongs - 2/20/20 - p58 - "...a pair of barnacles."
✔befuddled - Writing All Wrongs - 2/20/20 - p164 - "...exchanged befuddled glances."
✔bigot - The Immortalists - 1/5/20 - p133 - "Don't be a bigot."
✔blizzard - The Japanese Lover - 3/9/20 - p138 - "...by hail, blizzards, and snow..."
✔boycott - China Rich Girlfriend - 6/3/20 - p316 - "...decided to boycott the place."
✔cactus - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p356 - "...a pink cactus growing..."
✔cotton candy - Writing All Wrongs - 2/20/20 - p292 - "...at the cotton candy booth..."
✔cowboy - The Immortalists - 1/5/20 - p4 - "...watching Midnight Cowboy..."
✔credentials - Ask Again, Yes - 2/7/20 - p367 - "What were their credentials?"
✔cucumber - Ask Again, Yes - 2/7/20 - p97 - "Cucumbers."
✔daffodil - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p426 - "Daffodils."
✔desperate - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p176 - "...desperate for a cigarette..."
✔dismount - Children of Blood and Bone - 1/31/20 - p145 - "We dismount our ryders..."
✔divine - The Secret Keeper - 2/5/20 - p87 - "...that divine piece of silver..."
✔dynamite - Wildcard - 1/11/20 - p77 - "Dynamite."
✔eager - Night of Miracles - 1/5/20 - p205 - "...not exactly eager to hear..."
✔ebony - Children of Blood and Bone - 1/31/20 - p66 - "...her ebony skin."
equinox
✔evangelical / evangelist - The Japanese Lover - 3/9/20 - p229 - "...popular music, evangelical preachers..."
✔farmhouse - The Immortalists - 1/5/20 - p115 - "...of their Hydesville farmhouse."
✔fisticuffs - Hooked on Ewe - 5/29/20 - p264 - "...I expect no fisticuffs on this witness."
✔forward - Night of Miracles - 1/5/20 - p83 - "...leans forward to say..."
✔frame of mind (phrase) - Look Alive Twenty-Five - 1/12/20 - p53 - "...a serious frame of mind..."
✔fritters - Ask Again, Yes - 2/7/20 - p229 - "...to fritter away..."
✔gallop(ed) - The Secret Keeper - 2/5/20 - p17 - "...the water gallop of her own blood..."
✔ghetto - The Japanese Lover - 3/9/20 - p131 - "...people in the ghetto..."
✔grapevine - Read and Buried - 2/23/20 - p171 - "...the Nags Head grapevine..."
✔guitar - The Starless Sea - 3/2/20 - p33 - "...on a guitar case."
✔haggard - Wildcard - 1/11/20 - p98 - "...faces look haggard..."
harpoon
hatchery
✔hemp - Homegoing - 3/10/20 - p131 - "...smell oakum or hemp..."
✔hillbilly - Tailspin - 2/10/20 - p261 - "...acts that bring hillbilly deputies..."
✔innuendo - Dying for Devil's Food - 3/15/20 - p142 - "Was that an innuendo?"
✔intellectual - Wildcard - 1/11/20 - p209 - "...in an intellectual capacity..."
✔interspersed - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p37 - "..became interspersed with pictures..."
✔irrigation - Thunderball - 1/22/20 - p15 - "...tone you up, irrigation..."
✔jackal - The Immortalists - 1/5/20 - p345 - "...Rory Koslow at Jackal..."
jicama
✔judo - The Japanese Lover - 3/9/20 - p128 - "...with a judo move..."
✔jungle - Thunderball - 1/22/20 - p174 - "...from the jungle life..."
✔kindred - The Scarlet Letter - 3/29/20 - p34 - "...mourn with the kindred sorrow..."
✔kinky - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p107 - "...was kinky that way..."
✔kringle - Color Me Murder - 5/17/20 - p61 - "...to fabulously sinful Danish kringles."
✔lament - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p94 - "...might silently lament..."
✔lisp - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p54 - "...with a pronounced lisp..."
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✔literary - The Starless Sea - 3/2/20 - p56 - "...formal, literary costumes..."
✔lobster - A Crime of Passion Fruit - 3/13/20 - p156 - "...honey hams and steak and lobster..."
✔lustrous - The Immortalists - 1/5/20 - p214 - "...on Ruby's lustrous copper-black mane."
✔marijuana - The Japanese Lover - 3/9/20 - p289 - "...handed out the marijuana..."
✔marquee - The Immortalists - 1/5/20 - p106 - "...the neon marquees of the strip..."
✔miracle - The Immortalists - 1/5/20 - p127 - "...a miracle..."
✔mystical / mystic - Akata Witch - 2/26/20 - p78 - "...group of mystical combination..."
✔navigate(d) - Luck of the Draw - 2/28/20 - p69 - "...you can navigate..."
✔nostalgia / nostalgic - The Immortalists - 1/5/20 - p141 - "...in San Francisco with nostalgia..."
✔novice - Luck of the Draw - 2/28/20 - p91 - "...that a novice can..."
✔nun - The Immortalists - 1/5/20 - p319 - "...could have been a nun..."
✔obscure(d) - Wildcard - 1/11/20 - p123 - "...some obscure illegal racing..."
✔ooze - By the Shores of Silver Lake - 3/20/20 - p78 - "...slowly into ooze."
✔operation - Cinder - 1/24/20 - p98 - "The cybernetic operation?"
✔opinion - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p23 -"In his opinion..."
✔peony - Cinder - 1/24/20 - p22 - "Pearl and Peony each stood..."
✔perversion - The Japanese Lover - 3/9/20 - p304 - "...declaring unforgiving perversions."
✔pitchfork - The Three Musketeers - 5/28/20 - "...struck with a pitchfork handle."
✔porcelain - Thunderball - 1/22/20 - p42 - "...the very clean porcelain bell..."
✔puddle - Thunderball - 1/22/20 - p151 - "...a small puddle..."
✔quack - A Map of Days - 4/2/20 - p61 - "...on the advice of a quack..."
✔quagmire - The Japanese Lover - 3/9/20 - p90 - "...ground into a quagmire."
raiment
✔redneck - Tailspin - 2/10/20 - p407 - "...like that redneck pilot..."
✔ridiculous - Wildcard - 1/11/20 - p108 - "Hideo's ridiculous pipe dream."
✔rugby - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p3 - "...black rugby shirts."
✔saunter(ed) - Look Alive Twenty-Five - 1/12/20 - p79 - "...when a man sauntered in..."
✔savage - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p79 - "...a savage retrospective pleasure..."
✔second-class - The Giver of Stars - 3/15/20 - p280 - "...to grow up second class?"
✔soliloquy - A Gentleman in Moscow - 6/21/20 - p353 - "...making a soliloquy full of weighty pauses..."
✔spring - Wildcard - 1/11/20 - p9 - "...playing again next spring..."
✔tar - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p299 - "Swigging tar-black coffee..."
✔tenacious - The Japanese Lover - 3/9/20 - p127 - "...slow but tenacious correspondence..."
✔toke - Lethal White - 5/23/20 - p438 - "...to a couple of long-ago tokes on a bong..."
✔toothbrush - Look Alive Twenty-Five - 1/12/20 - p30 - "...a change of clothes and a toothbrush..."
✔trout - Children of Blood and Bone - 1/31/20 - p54 - "...like I eat trout?"
✔upper lip - Career of Evil - 1/21/20 - p271 - "...twisted his upper lip..."
✔urchin - The Scarlet Letter - 3/29/20 - p41 - "...those sombre little urchins..."
✔verbal - Night of Miracles - 1/5/20 - p105 - "...the verbal equivalent of..."
✔villain - Children of Blood and Bone - 1/31/20 - p286 - "...hold the villains..."
✔viscous / viscosity - Ask Again, Yes - 2/7/20 - p204 - "...from whatever viscous materials..."
✔wasp - Children of Blood and Bone - 1/31/20 - p107 - "Like wasps..."
✔whale - Writing All Wrongs - 2/22/20 - p12 - "...the humped backs of whales."
✔windmill - Thunderball - 1/22/20 - p124 - "...spidery windmill pumps..."
✔wobble(d) - Look Alive Twenty-Five - 1/12/20 - p314 - "Angie wobbled away..."
✔xenophobic - The Cherry Cola Book Club - 6/25/20 - p3 - "...small and parochial, even xenophobic at times."
✔yell - Night of Miracles - 1/5/20 - p208 - "...heard you yell..."
✔yodel(ed) - Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death - 6/28/20 - p199 - "...controlled t with ropes and yodeled melodiously..."
✔zilch - Marker - 6/14/20 - p245 - "...we got zilch from the scene..."
✔zircon - Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death - 6/28/20 - p207 - "..creatures on Zircon-212 told their captives..."
1/1/19 - 6/30-1931/50
alfalfa
alien - "The station looks alien somehow..." p.361
1/4aphorism
Astroturf - "Lying on the Astroturf..." p.112
3/9/20barnacle
befuddled
bigot
blizzard
boycott
cactus - "...a priest, a zombie, and a cactus that walk into a bar..." p.29
1/4cotton candy
cowboy
credentials - "'...access to Kit and Holden Gander's credentials.'" p.267
1/12cucumber
daffodil
desperate - "...each contestant has their own desperate reasons..." p.293
1/4dismount - "We dismount our ryders..." p.145
1/17divine - "It's just such a divine moment." p.79
1/12dynamite
eager - "...off into the eager distance." p.132
1/4ebony - "...her ebony skin." p.66
1/17equinox
evangelical / evangelist
farmhouse
fisticuffs
forward - "The step forward into my punch..." p.143
1/4frame of mind (phrase)
fritters
gallop(ed) - "We gallop across..." p.300
1/22ghetto
grapevine - "...filtered down the grapevine." p.16
2/23guitar - "'Bring me a guitar and I'll strum you a tune.'" p.125
3/18haggard - "'This Haggard guy found him?'" p.335
1/12harpoon - "...shape of a harpoon gun." p.272
1/4hatchery
hemp
hillbilly
innuendo
intellectual
interspersed
irrigation
jackal - "Roathy lopes past like a jackal..." p.122
1/4jicama
judo
jungle - "...back in the concrete jungle..." p.7
1/4kindred
kinky
kringle
lament - "'...baby brother again,' he laments. p.135
1/8lisp
literary
lobster - "'Lobster.'" p.129
2/23 (that's the entire sentence/paragraph)lustrous
marijuana
marquee
miracle - "...result in some kind of miracle." p.296
1/4mystical / mystic - "...touch of mystical power..." p.432
1/31navigate - "...learn to navigate similar conditions..." p.254
1/4nostalgia / nostalgic - "...but there's no nostalgia in his glare." p.457
1/17novice
nun
obscure(d) - "Shadows stretch and obscure the so-called Adamites. p.8
1/4ooze
operation - "...entire operation is a waste." p.32
1/4opinion - "'We had a difference of opinions." p.144
1/8peony
perversion
pitchfork
porcelain - "I grasp the porcelain sink's rim..." p.420
1/17puddle "...puddle-jumping around the moon." p.8
1/4quack - "'...that makes them quacks?'" p.230
1/4quagmire
raiment - "'...no fitting raiment for a royal princess!'" p.188
1/31redneck
ridiculous - "...like all of this is ridiculous." p.111
1/8rugby - "This tough rugby guy..." p.222
1/8saunter(ed) - "The guard saunters over..." p.10
1/17savage - "...slides forward with such savage grace..." p.372
1/8second-class
soliloquy - "...launch into another soliloquy..." p.106
3/9/20spring - "...springs me two meters into the air." p.246
1/4tar
tenacious
toke
toothbrush - "'And a spare toothbrush.'" p.50
3/9/20trout - "'Do I look like I eat trout?'" p.54
1/17upper lip - "...mustache along my upper lip." p.23
1/4urchin
verbal - "'Send a request for verbal confirmation.'" p.10
1/12villain - "...don't hold the villains father always warned of." p.286
1/17viscous / viscosity
wasp - "Like wasps, they dart toward me." p.107
1/17whale - "Katsu makes a joke about whales..." p.37
1/4windmill - "...turned its ears like a windmill." p.69
1/31wobble - "The ladder spins and wobbles..." p.263
1/8xenophobic
yell - "I'm about to yell down to them..." p.277
1/12yodel(ed)
zilch
zircon
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🌷 alfalfa - This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger - 1/10/20 - page 18 - "Frost drove into the field where the alfalfa, cut and dried ,lay in rows that seemed to stretch to the hotizon"
🌷alien - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - J.D. Vance - 1/6/20 - page 157 - "And what turned me into an alien was my optimism"
🌻aphorism - Bone Crossed
🌻Astroturf - The Black Ice
🌷barnacle - Safe from the Sea - Peter Geye - 1/16/20 - page 6 - "On the mismatched barstools half a dozen gray-haired men sat like barnacles"
🌷befuddled - A Rule Against Murder - Louise Penny - 2/12/20 - page 37 - "This brought much hilarity and the Gamaches exchanged amused but befuddled looks"
🌷bigot - The Lost Vintage - Ann Mah - 1/23/20 - page 338 - "Every day I find myself scouring my thoughts, terrified they'll reveal that deep down inside I'm a bigot"
🌷blizzard - Safe from the Sea - Peter Geye - 1/16/20 - page 170 - "Sixty-one is a hell of a road in a blizzard, that I can tell you"
🌷boycott - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 166 - "He never minded standing in the cold outside supermarkets handing out leaflets about the lettuce boycott or the grape strike".
🌷cactus - Morning Glory - LaVyrle Spencer - 1/7/20 - page 228 - "His body was swelled like a cactus in a March rain"
🌷cotton candy - Safe from the Sea - Peter Geye - 1/16/20 - page 4 - "There were bookshops, ice cream parlors, wilderness outfitters, toy stores, even a popcorn and cotton candy cart, all lining the street"
🌷cowboy - Part Time Cowboy - Maisey Yates - 2/17/20 - loc 477 - "Get in there, part-time cowboy".
🌷credentials - Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton - 1/22/20 - page 456 - "Arnold had impressive credentials"
🌷cucumber - A Rule Against Murder - Louise Penny - 2/12/20 - page 59 - "Have you tried the cucumber sandwiches, Claire?"
🌷daffodil - Vision in White - Nora Roberts - 2/10/20 - page 330 - "It was daffodil time"
🌷desperate - Vision in White - Nora Roberts - 2/10/20 - page 35 - "The doorbell cut him off and brought desperate relief"
🌷dismount - The Night Stages - Jane Urquhart - 2/21/20 - page 182 - "He would cycle down the road, then dismount, and approach her door"
🌷divine - This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger - 1/10/20 - page 2 - "Lest we forget the divine source of all that beauty"
🌷dynamite - The Night Stages - Jane Urquhart - 2/21/20 - page 91 - 'A pleasant afternoon to him was one spent watching dynamite lift the green overburden out of a field"
🌷eager - This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger - 1/10/20 - page 407 - "Dmitri crushed my hand in his eager grip and a hearty slap to my back"
🌷ebony - The Night Stages - Jane Urquhart - 2/21/20 - page 9 - "Now and then an ebony ocean emerges between long arms of altostratus clouds"
🌷equinox - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 2/13/20 - page 329 - "The period of darkness on Jerusalem's Lot during that rotation of the Earth, thirteen days after the vernal equinox lasted eleven hours and forty seven minutes
🌷evangelical - The Second Amendment - Michael Waldman - 2/14/20 - page 91 - "Evangelical Christian churches underwent a similar change".
🌷farmhouse - This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger - 1/10/20 - page 20 - "The old farmhouse was always in need of repair"
🌷fisticuffs - The Bachelor Girl's Guide to Murder - Rachel McMillan - 2/22/20 - page 33 - "Ray intervened as much as he could, but Viola loved Tony, so coming to fisticuffs with him resulted in little more than black eyes"
🌷forward - This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger - 1/10/20 - page 158 - "The river moved us forward at a crawl"
🌻frame of mind (phrase) - Golden in Death
🌻fritters - The Emerald Affair
🌷gallop(ed) - Morning Glory - LaVyrle Spencer - 1/7/20 - page 62 - "She watched him gallop ahead, smiling after him"
🌷ghetto - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 323 - "The Catholic church has been forced to reinterpret its whole approach to evil- bombers over Cambodia, the war in Ireland and the Middle East, cop killings and ghetto riots".
🌷grapevine - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 133 - "I heard it through the grapevine".
🌷guitar - This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger - 1/10/20 - page 165 -"Knew a cowpoke out of Oklahoma could play that on his guitar and sing it so it broke your heart"
🌷haggard - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 213 - "He looked old and haggard*.
🌷harpoon - Final Option - Clive Cussler - 1/16/20 - page 278 - "We're lucky they didn't cook off after that harpoon hit"
🌷hatchery - Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton - 1/22/20 - page 429 - "The raptor advanced in the dark red gloom of the hatchery"
🌷hemp - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 308 - "Prickles of coarse hemp dug into his throat".
🌷hillbilly - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - J.D. Vance - 1/6/20 - page 4 - "To understand me, you must understand that I am a Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart".
🌷innuendo - Part Time Cowboy - Maisey Yates - 2/17/20 - loc 1991 - "Well, he'd obviously taken that innuendo on board".
🌷intellectual - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 77 - "He was not a blind, bullish, anti intellectual".
🌷interspersed - Morning Glory - LaVyrle Spencer - 1/7/20 - page 8 - "The town square was typical of most of the south, dominated by a Baptist Church and the town hall, with other businesses scattered around, interspersed by vacant lots".
🌻irrigation -Golden in Death
🌷jackal - This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger - 1/10/20 - page 386 - "Both men stood over me, ugly as jackals"
🌂jicama -
🌷judo - Final Option - Clive Cussler - 1/16/20 - page 80 - "If it weren't for that sweet judo move, I would have thought you were the prototypical damsel in distress".
🌷jungle - Final Option - Clive Cussler - 1/16/20 - page 208 - "It's a big jungle".
🌷kindred This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger - 1/10/20 - page 132 - "I could see in her a kindred spirit"
🌷kinky - The Unsung Hero - Suzanne Brockmann - 2/4/20 - page 231 - "Pretty kinky, David Sullivan".
🌻kringle - High Country
🌷lament - A Rule Against Murder - Louise Penny - 2/12/20 - page 288 - "To lament what I no longer had or be grateful for what remained".
🌷lisp - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 171 - "Where do you get your ideas Matt asked, mimicking Ruthy Crockett's sexy little girl lisp".
🌷literary - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 180 - "Of course being a literary man it had been the first thing that had come to mind".
🌷lobster - A Rule Against Murder - Louise Penny - 2/12/20 - page 239 - He put a lobster salad in front of her".
🌷lustrous - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 432 - He was a young man now, his black hair vibrant and lustrous, flowing over the satin pillow".
🌷marijuana - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 169 - "Not marijuana"?
🌷marquee - Safe from the Sea - Peter Geye - 1/16/20 - page 55 - When they pulled up under the hotel marquee, Olaf drummed his fingers on the dash".
🌷miracle - This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger - 1/10/20 - page 57 - "Then by some miracle the tornado turned and began to follow the river"
🌷mystic - Pompeii - Robert Harris - 2/24/20 - page 143 - "He suddenly felt overwhelmed by the mystic forces he had unleashed".
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Page 2🌷navigate(d) - Final Option - Clive Cussler - 1/16/20 - page 256 - The islands were so narrow that the Deepwater had to proceed at a crawl to navigate them".
🌷nostalgia - Vision in White - Nora Roberts - 2/10/20 - page 150 - "It would circle around to the nostalgia I get when I come in here".
🌷novice - A Rogue by Any Other Name - Sarah MacLean - 2/6/20 - page 370 - "Langford was likely to come to the same conclusion as Michael - that Penelope was a novice".
🌷nun - Mistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin - 1/1/20 - page 26 - "A nun on the same errand"?
🌷obscure(d) - A Rogue by Any Other Name - Sarah MacLean - 2/6/20 - page 297 - "It's perfectly obscure".
🌷ooze - King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard - 1/19/20 - page 182 - "We sprang forward with desperate energy, and, standing in a bloody ooze, began to feel up and down the door".
🌷operation - Final Option - Clive Cussler - 1/16/20 - page 48 - "Now all Juan had to do to get the operation underway was to speak the signal words"
🌷opinion - Final Option - Clive Cussler - 1/16/20 - "You've always had a high opinion of yourself".
🌷peony - A Rule Against Murder - Louise Penny - 2/12/20 - page 262 - "Still, said Reine Marie, straightening up after sniffing the sweet perfume of a peony".
🌷perversion - Mistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin - 1/1/20 - page 141 - "Our killer having satisfied his perversion, also wants his debt cancelled"
🌷pitchfork - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 446 - "Farrington was lying facedown outside a low haymow, a pitchfork near one hand".
🌷porcelain - A Rogue by Any Other Name - Sarah MacLean - 2/6/20 - page 355 - "For fear of breaking me as though I'm some sort of porcelain doll with no strength".
🌷puddle - This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger - 1/10/20 - page 396 - "In the lamplight, she stood assessing the puddle that spread across the floor"
🌷quack - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 197 - "Jimmy Cody, local quack, meet Ben Mears, local hack".
🌷quagmire - The Flight Attendant - Chris Bohjalian - 2/26/20 - page 31 - "The van turned on its lights and started trying to extricate itself from the quagmire and perform a U turn"
🌷raiment - King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard - 1/19/20 - page 37 - "If he could have foreseen the future and the raiment prepared for him".
🌷redneck - The Unsung Hero - Suzanne Brockmann - 2/4/20 - page 285 - "The other, however, was a redneck asshole".
🌷ridiculous - A Rogue by Any Other Name - Sarah MacLean - 2/6/20 - page 25 - "Don't be ridiculous".
🌷rugby - Final Option - Clive Cussler - 1/16/20 - page 134 - "The blonde Swede was actually six foot five and built like a rugby player".
🌷saunter - Morning Glory - LaVyrle Spencer - 1/7/20 - page 68 - Will lagged behind, watching them saunter up the lane, holding hands".
🌷savage - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 16 - But this one swept over him with a savage power that was dismaying".
🌻second-class - Defiant hero - page 25 - "Petty Officer Second Class Mark Jenkins more than made up for Paoletti's lack of enthusiasm".
🌷soliloquy - The Bachelor Girl's Guide to Murder - Rachel McMillan - 2/22/20 - page 49 - "Jem broke into one girl's soliloquy about a priceless family heirloom".
🌷spring - This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger - 1/10/20 - page 37 - "On Saturdays, in spring and summer, we were required to put in only half a day for a farmer"
🌷tar - This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger - 1/10/20 - page 269 - "The unpleasant odor of hot tar hung over everything"
🌷tenacious - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 435 - "And there's still no end to its tenacious hold on the world".
🌻toke - White Heat
🌷toothbrush - Vision in White - Nora Roberts - 2/10/20 - page 135 - "I never leave the house without my toothbrush".
🌷trout - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King - 1/13/20 - page 208 - "Trying desperately to reel in a large trout wearing a yellow print shift".
🌷upper lip - The Lost Vintage - Ann Mah - page 321 - "Danielle's flushed cheeks, a line of sweat beading her upper lip".
🌷urchin - A Carrion Death - Michael Stanley - 1/17/20 - loc 4239 - "A filthy street urchin had run up to him, begging for money or food".
🌷verbal - The Unsung Hero - Suzanne Brockmann - 2/4/20 - page 20 - "Don't even think about giving me some of the same verbal disrespect that you dished out to Larry Tucker last week".
🌷villian - The Flight Attendant - Chris Bohjalian - 2/26/20 - page 241 - "Elena knew the West viewed the president of the Russian Federation as a Bond villain"
🌷viscous - Bitter Falls - Rachel Caine - 2/9/20 - page 301 - "They slide down his legs and hit the bottom with a thump of viscous silt".
🌷wasp - A Rule Against Murder - Louise Penny - 2/12/20 - page 55 - "Too late you realize there was a wasp buried deep"
🌷whale - Final Option - Clive Cussler - 1/16/20 - page 23 - "I'll find that white whale one of these days"
🌷windmill - Sworn to Silence - Linda Castillo - 2/7/20 - page 361 - "Beyond, a large barn, grain silo and windmill stand in the silhouette against the predawn sky".
🌷wobble(d) - Final Option - Clive Cussler - 1/16/20 - page 109 - "A second later, the camera wobbled from the blast concussion".
🌻xenophobic - Quietly in Their Sleep
🌷yell - A Rule Against Murder - Louise Penny - 2/12/20 - page 68 - "He'd have to yell at her"
🌷yodel(ed) - Red Russia - Tanya Thompson - 1/5/20 - loc 3445 - "Did you fucking yodel"?
🌷zilch - The Unsung Hero - Suzanne Brockmann - 2/4/20 - page 174 - "It was nothing. Zilch".
🌻zircon - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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Is this ok since wobble is also a noun? ✔wobble(d)-p.266- The Overstory-"He wobbles out on a waving branch." 1/4/20
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Word listalfalfa
alien
aphorism
Astroturf
barnacle
befuddled
bigot
blizzard
boycott
cactus
cotton candy
cowboy
credentials
cucumber
daffodil
desperate
dismount
divine
dynamite
eager
ebony
equinox
evangelical / evangelist
farmhouse
fisticuffs
forward
frame of mind (phrase)
fritters
gallop(ed)
ghetto
grapevine
guitar
haggard
harpoon
hatchery
hemp
hillbilly
innuendo
intellectual
interspersed
irrigation
jackal
jicama
judo
jungle
kindred
kinky
kringle
lament
lisp
literary
lobsterlustrous
marijuana
marquee
miracle
mystical / mystic
navigate(d)
nostalgia / nostalgic
novice
nun
obscure(d)
ooze
operation
opinion
peony
perversion
pitchfork
porcelain
puddle
quack
quagmire
raiment
redneck
ridiculous
rugby
saunter(ed)
savage
second-class
soliloquy
spring
tar
tenacious
toke
toothbrush
trout
upper lip
urchin
verbal
villian
viscous / viscosity
wasp
whale
windmill
wobble(d)
xenophobic
yell
yodel(ed)
zilch
zircon
Mod
I.ve found perverse. Can we use that in place of perversion?
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Sorry, no. The only accepted variations are already listed.
Book Concierge wrote: "Kathryn wrote: "I.ve found perverse. Can we use that in place of perversion?"Sorry, no. The only accepted variations are already listed."
So no plurals even if the base word stays the same, such as was[s instead of wasp or oozed. instead of ooze?
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Mega challenge completed, 6/30/20
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Complete. I didn't find jicama; kringle;
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Word list
alfalfa .. they's a place for alfalfa and plenty water to flood it .. [book:Of Mice and Men|890] pg 96
alien .. rumors of torture and alien abductions .. Unspeakable Things pg 76
aphorism .. an aphorism that seemed to suggest the selling of manure .. To Die But Once pg 108
Astroturf .. he refused to let the Mother of God touch his astroturf lawn .. A Very Punchable Face loc 255
barnacle .. only a few small barnacles adhered to the shell .. The Pearl pg 33
befuddled .. with befuddled but loving parents .. Intensity pg 73
bigot .. to play the rich southern bigot, Fred .. In Pieces pg 237
blizzard .. the blizzard consumed the farm day and night .. The Forgotten Home Child loc 1624
boycott .. I did not boycott Marie's funeral .. We Are Water pg 53
cactus .. scarlet apples that grew on cactus bushes. .. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 27
cotton candy .. it dissolved like cotton candy .. Sharp Objects pg 179
cowboy .. I expected a cowboy would any minute come .. Water Darling loc 613
credentials .. got her credentials while they were there .. Things in Jars loc 1982
cucumber .. Cucumbers and bananas and bottles .. Sharp Objects pg 204
daffodil .. daffodils bloomed in cow pastures .. Vera Violet loc 2219
desperate .. I was desperate .. The Painted Drum pg 10
dismount .. the men dismount .. Remembered loc 911
divine .. looking skyward for divine assistance .. Things in Jars loc 3654
dynamite .. clean the mess away with dynamite and picks .. Housekeeping pg 206
eager .. I was eager for the chance .. Water Darling loc 4078
ebony .. ebony fingerboard, and rosewood mahogany ribs .. Cane River pg 330
equinox .. September equinox, reason enough to celebrate .. Things in Jars loc 2013
evangelical / evangelist .. I would have figured to embrace evangelical Christianity .. We Are Water pg 77
farmhouse .. a massive stone farmhouse, a moneyed vision .. Sharp Objects pg 34
fisticuffs .. sported its share of fisticuffs over the years .. Crabb loc 155
forward .. draws his leg back to kick again, I move forward .. The Painted Drum pg 19
frame of mind (phrase) .. in a very preoccupied frame of mind .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 131
fritters .. promise of the rice fritters to come .. Cane River pg 33
gallop(ed) .. went through the brush at a gallop .. The Law at Randado pg 93
ghetto .. the ghetto flew at me adamantly .. Vera Violet loc 579
grapevine .. supports the grapevine that will throttle it .. The Painted Drum pg 26
guitar .. play the music from the piano and guitar .. Water Darling loc 3037
haggard .. a newly haggard aspect to the doctor .. Things in Jars loc 606
harpoon .. like a tiny silver harpoon .. Sharp Objects pg 218
hatchery .. the supermarket, the drugstore, the hatchery .. Sharp Objects pg 161
hemp .. expensive clothing made from hemp .. Vera Violet loc 205
hillbilly .. hillbilly music, my father was so good looking .. Vera Violet loc 115
innuendo .. consisted of winks and innuendo.. Dovetail: A Novel of Love Everlasting loc 1260
intellectual .. the moral and the intellectual .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 113
interspersed .. interspersed with coughing and foot shuffling .. Things in Jars loc 3024
irrigation .. we sit in a irrigation ditch under water .. Of Mice and Men pg 72
jackal .. tears wouldn't fend off the jackal .. Intensity pg 294
jicama
judo .. a few rabbit punches and a judo chop .. Frozen Past loc 3595
jungle .. the air was jungle wet .. Sharp Objects pg 11
kindred .. but this is by kindred power .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 135
kinky .. he married four women and had a kinky side .. Camino Island pg 252
kringle
lament .. I didn't think much of it except to lament it .. Water Darling loc 501
lisp .. an uncustomary lisp to his voice with the missing teeth .. Things in Jars loc 3820
literary .. close friend and literary collaborator .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 27
lobster .. dead fish and lobsters and pink crabs lay everywhere .. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 169
lustrous .. flickering with the lustrous light of afterlife .. Things in Jars loc 1406
marijuana .. as a result of having his marijuana crop .. The Painted Drum pg 264
marquee .. carnival rides and blinking marquees .. Florence Adler Swims Forever loc 4591
miracle .. it would be no small miracle either .. Water Darling loc 4583
mystical / mystic .. which led wholly towards the mystic .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 76
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Word list
alfalfa .. they's a place for alfalfa and plenty water to flood it .. [book:Of Mice and Men|890] pg 96
alien .. rumors of torture and alien abductions .. Unspeakable Things pg 76
aphorism .. an aphorism that seemed to suggest the selling of manure .. To Die But Once pg 108
Astroturf .. he refused to let the Mother of God touch his astroturf lawn .. A Very Punchable Face loc 255
barnacle .. only a few small barnacles adhered to the shell .. The Pearl pg 33
befuddled .. with befuddled but loving parents .. Intensity pg 73
bigot .. to play the rich southern bigot, Fred .. In Pieces pg 237
blizzard .. the blizzard consumed the farm day and night .. The Forgotten Home Child loc 1624
boycott .. I did not boycott Marie's funeral .. We Are Water pg 53
cactus .. scarlet apples that grew on cactus bushes. .. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 27
cotton candy .. it dissolved like cotton candy .. Sharp Objects pg 179
cowboy .. I expected a cowboy would any minute come .. Water Darling loc 613
credentials .. got her credentials while they were there .. Things in Jars loc 1982
cucumber .. Cucumbers and bananas and bottles .. Sharp Objects pg 204
daffodil .. daffodils bloomed in cow pastures .. Vera Violet loc 2219
desperate .. I was desperate .. The Painted Drum pg 10
dismount .. the men dismount .. Remembered loc 911
divine .. looking skyward for divine assistance .. Things in Jars loc 3654
dynamite .. clean the mess away with dynamite and picks .. Housekeeping pg 206
eager .. I was eager for the chance .. Water Darling loc 4078
ebony .. ebony fingerboard, and rosewood mahogany ribs .. Cane River pg 330
equinox .. September equinox, reason enough to celebrate .. Things in Jars loc 2013
evangelical / evangelist .. I would have figured to embrace evangelical Christianity .. We Are Water pg 77
farmhouse .. a massive stone farmhouse, a moneyed vision .. Sharp Objects pg 34
fisticuffs .. sported its share of fisticuffs over the years .. Crabb loc 155
forward .. draws his leg back to kick again, I move forward .. The Painted Drum pg 19
frame of mind (phrase) .. in a very preoccupied frame of mind .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 131
fritters .. promise of the rice fritters to come .. Cane River pg 33
gallop(ed) .. went through the brush at a gallop .. The Law at Randado pg 93
ghetto .. the ghetto flew at me adamantly .. Vera Violet loc 579
grapevine .. supports the grapevine that will throttle it .. The Painted Drum pg 26
guitar .. play the music from the piano and guitar .. Water Darling loc 3037
haggard .. a newly haggard aspect to the doctor .. Things in Jars loc 606
harpoon .. like a tiny silver harpoon .. Sharp Objects pg 218
hatchery .. the supermarket, the drugstore, the hatchery .. Sharp Objects pg 161
hemp .. expensive clothing made from hemp .. Vera Violet loc 205
hillbilly .. hillbilly music, my father was so good looking .. Vera Violet loc 115
innuendo .. consisted of winks and innuendo.. Dovetail: A Novel of Love Everlasting loc 1260
intellectual .. the moral and the intellectual .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 113
interspersed .. interspersed with coughing and foot shuffling .. Things in Jars loc 3024
irrigation .. we sit in a irrigation ditch under water .. Of Mice and Men pg 72
jackal .. tears wouldn't fend off the jackal .. Intensity pg 294
jicama
judo .. a few rabbit punches and a judo chop .. Frozen Past loc 3595
jungle .. the air was jungle wet .. Sharp Objects pg 11
kindred .. but this is by kindred power .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 135
kinky .. he married four women and had a kinky side .. Camino Island pg 252
kringle
lament .. I didn't think much of it except to lament it .. Water Darling loc 501
lisp .. an uncustomary lisp to his voice with the missing teeth .. Things in Jars loc 3820
literary .. close friend and literary collaborator .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 27
lobster .. dead fish and lobsters and pink crabs lay everywhere .. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 169
lustrous .. flickering with the lustrous light of afterlife .. Things in Jars loc 1406
marijuana .. as a result of having his marijuana crop .. The Painted Drum pg 264
marquee .. carnival rides and blinking marquees .. Florence Adler Swims Forever loc 4591
miracle .. it would be no small miracle either .. Water Darling loc 4583
mystical / mystic .. which led wholly towards the mystic .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 76
navigate(d) .. kite-fliers in the windy and cloud-navigated sky .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 111
nostalgia / nostalgic .. he yelled Bourgeois nostalgia .. Salt the Snow loc 1784
novice .. I was a complete novice .. Above the Bay of Angels loc 2741
nun .. had always said she was going to be a nun .. The Painted Drum pg 223
obscure(d) .. many times its style is greatly obscured .. The Painted Drum pg 23
ooze .. blood began to ooze from the round hole .. Water Darling loc 6220
operation .. and I want to have the operation .. Water Darling loc 3399
opinion .. I didn't have much of an opinion of the man .. Water Darling loc 589
peony .. thought it was a peony .. Unspeakable Things pg 172
perversion .. great perversion of this energy of followed .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 192
pitchfork .. a pitchfork here,a sinister looking ghost in a pointed hat there .. Remembered loc 2839
porcelain .. one of those porcelain tubs filled with hot water .. Water Darling loc 1204
puddle .. a slippery puddle of chewed tobacco .. Remembered loc 375
quack .. some of its just quack .. The Painted Drum pg 75
quagmire .. roads have become a slippery quagmire .. Things in Jars loc 3274
raiment .. silently disapproving the mystifying raiment .. Monkeewrench pg 29
redneck .. politicians son who wanted to be a redneck .. Vera Violet loc 1203
ridiculous .. ridiculous, I hain't got none .. Water Darling loc 4282
rugby .. baseball caps and rugby jerseys .. Pride of Eden loc 1976
saunter(ed) .. the promise of conflict saunter toward us .. Remembered loc 210
savage .. to savage his dreams or keep him .. Water Darling loc 4310
second-class .. second-class passengers have a roof .. Things in Jars loc 725
soliloquy .. in the brief soliloquy below .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 119
spring .. allow him to die in the earliest spring growth .. The Painted Drum pg 65
tar .. are pressed into the softened tar .. The Painted Drum pg 4
tenacious ... she had the same tenacious resolve as I did .. Water Darling loc 3541
toke .. many of them toke on the pot .. Unspeakable Things pg 145
toothbrush .. stuck his toothbrush in his shirt pocket .. The Painted Drum pg 254
trout .. like some old struggling trout .. Water Darling loc 3310
upper lip .. canines that peeked out from beneath her upper lip .. Sharp Objects pg 226
urchin .. gathered purple sea urchins to use for dyeing.. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 118
verbal .. not about my verbal abuses so much as .. Water Darling loc 917
villian .. she was as much a victim as villian .. Water Darling loc 4242
viscous / viscosity .. the surface of the bay seemed almost viscous .. Housekeeping pg 126
wasp .. when a wasp stung Angelite .. Cane River pg 406
whale .. have you ever seen a red whale .. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 3
windmill .. like a windmill without its fans .. Water Darling loc 964
wobble(d) .. they fit so fine I wobbled in them .. Water Darling loc 4463
xenophobic .. violent, xenophobic greed .. Beheld loc 2062
yell .. let her yell at me might get me in the wrong .. Water Darling loc 350
yodel(ed) .. yodel as we glide into town .. Unspeakable Things pg 185
zilch .. Zilch in Dallas. Chicago is a maybe .. Monkeewrench pg 78
zircon .. the item front and center on the screen at the moment was a zircon necklace .. Manitou Canyon pg 330
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nostalgia / nostalgic .. he yelled Bourgeois nostalgia .. Salt the Snow loc 1784
novice .. I was a complete novice .. Above the Bay of Angels loc 2741
nun .. had always said she was going to be a nun .. The Painted Drum pg 223
obscure(d) .. many times its style is greatly obscured .. The Painted Drum pg 23
ooze .. blood began to ooze from the round hole .. Water Darling loc 6220
operation .. and I want to have the operation .. Water Darling loc 3399
opinion .. I didn't have much of an opinion of the man .. Water Darling loc 589
peony .. thought it was a peony .. Unspeakable Things pg 172
perversion .. great perversion of this energy of followed .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 192
pitchfork .. a pitchfork here,a sinister looking ghost in a pointed hat there .. Remembered loc 2839
porcelain .. one of those porcelain tubs filled with hot water .. Water Darling loc 1204
puddle .. a slippery puddle of chewed tobacco .. Remembered loc 375
quack .. some of its just quack .. The Painted Drum pg 75
quagmire .. roads have become a slippery quagmire .. Things in Jars loc 3274
raiment .. silently disapproving the mystifying raiment .. Monkeewrench pg 29
redneck .. politicians son who wanted to be a redneck .. Vera Violet loc 1203
ridiculous .. ridiculous, I hain't got none .. Water Darling loc 4282
rugby .. baseball caps and rugby jerseys .. Pride of Eden loc 1976
saunter(ed) .. the promise of conflict saunter toward us .. Remembered loc 210
savage .. to savage his dreams or keep him .. Water Darling loc 4310
second-class .. second-class passengers have a roof .. Things in Jars loc 725
soliloquy .. in the brief soliloquy below .. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde pg 119
spring .. allow him to die in the earliest spring growth .. The Painted Drum pg 65
tar .. are pressed into the softened tar .. The Painted Drum pg 4
tenacious ... she had the same tenacious resolve as I did .. Water Darling loc 3541
toke .. many of them toke on the pot .. Unspeakable Things pg 145
toothbrush .. stuck his toothbrush in his shirt pocket .. The Painted Drum pg 254
trout .. like some old struggling trout .. Water Darling loc 3310
upper lip .. canines that peeked out from beneath her upper lip .. Sharp Objects pg 226
urchin .. gathered purple sea urchins to use for dyeing.. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 118
verbal .. not about my verbal abuses so much as .. Water Darling loc 917
villian .. she was as much a victim as villian .. Water Darling loc 4242
viscous / viscosity .. the surface of the bay seemed almost viscous .. Housekeeping pg 126
wasp .. when a wasp stung Angelite .. Cane River pg 406
whale .. have you ever seen a red whale .. Island of the Blue Dolphins pg 3
windmill .. like a windmill without its fans .. Water Darling loc 964
wobble(d) .. they fit so fine I wobbled in them .. Water Darling loc 4463
xenophobic .. violent, xenophobic greed .. Beheld loc 2062
yell .. let her yell at me might get me in the wrong .. Water Darling loc 350
yodel(ed) .. yodel as we glide into town .. Unspeakable Things pg 185
zilch .. Zilch in Dallas. Chicago is a maybe .. Monkeewrench pg 78
zircon .. the item front and center on the screen at the moment was a zircon necklace .. Manitou Canyon pg 330
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I"m missing Jicama, Kringle, Raiment, Xenophobic. I've found "Zircon" but haven't finished the book yet.
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Book Concierge wrote: "I finally found KRINGLE ! Challenge completed - ✔ 09Dec23"Wow! I think you win the prize for perseverance.
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Your challenge is to find the following words/phrases in the TEXT of the books you are reading this month.
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
alfalfa
alien
aphorism
Astroturf
barnacle
befuddled
bigot
blizzard
boycott
cactus
cotton candy
cowboy
credentials
cucumber
daffodil
desperate
dismount
divine
dynamite
eager
ebony
equinox
evangelical / evangelist
farmhouse
fisticuffs
forward
frame of mind (phrase)
fritters
gallop(ed)
ghetto
grapevine
guitar
haggard
harpoon
hatchery
hemp
hillbilly
innuendo
intellectual
interspersed
irrigation
jackal
jicama
judo
jungle
kindred
kinky
kringle
lament
lisp
literary
lobster
lustrous
marijuana
marquee
miracle
mystical / mystic
navigate(d)
nostalgia / nostalgic
novice
nun
obscure(d)
ooze
operation
opinion
peony
perversion
pitchfork
porcelain
puddle
quack
quagmire
raiment
redneck
ridiculous
rugby
saunter(ed)
savage
second-class
soliloquy
spring
tar
tenacious
toke
toothbrush
trout
upper lip
urchin
verbal
villian
viscous / viscosity
wasp
whale
windmill
wobble(d)
xenophobic
yell
yodel(ed)
zilch
zircon
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NOTE - Given the length of this challenge, and Goodreads' character limit within one post, I'd strongly recommend you reserve TWO spaces right away.
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 "vivid" - I will NOT allow "vividly."
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.com's "look inside" 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 ✔ - 15May19 - pg 47 - "...instant before her fingers opened, I saw..."
Have Fun!