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Midsummer's Night Dream Challenge
Duration: month of June 2022

Do you remember "Shakespeare in the Park" ?
I loved going to the Botanical Gardens' to see "Shakespeare in the Park", early June. One of the first
performances ever done there was "Midsummer's Night Dream". 🃏

Here are some words/phrases that represent this play.
Spell-out one/more ALL-CAPPED words below:

OBERON
TITANIA
Puck's LOVE POTION
JESTER
LYSANDER
DEMETRIUS
HERMIA
HELENA
ATHENS
The CRAFTSMEN
DONKEY
THE DUKE
Queen of the AMAZON
FAIRIES
COBWEB
PEASEblossom
MUSTARDSEED

CHALLENGE RULES
• one book per letter
• books must be 100+pages
• use 1st letter of title (exclude A, An, The)
• use 1st letter of Author's FIRST/LAST name
• use 1st letter of Main Character's FIRST/LAST name

For Each Book Read
• LINK to Title
• INDICATE Author
• give DATE you finished Book

Ratings are Optional
Happy Reading 😊

Congratulations 🎉🎉
🌅 Completed Challenge 🌄

🎉 Book Concierge
🎉 Carol
🎉 Donna
🎉 Jonquil
🎉 Beverly
🎉 Licha-Olivia
🎉 Koren

Congrats! to All who have finished their challenge for the month 🥂

Participants
updated: 6/30/22

🃏 Book Concierge - HERMIA (6/6) C
🃏 Carol - QUEEN OF THE AMAZON (16/16) C
🃏Licha-Olivia - LOVE POTION (10/10) C
🃏 Donna - CRAFTSMEN (9/9) C
JennH - THE CRAFTSMEN (10/12)
🃏 Jonquil - TITANIA (7/7) C
Robin P - ATHENS (4/6) LYSANDER (6/8) = 10/14
Cara - HERMIA (3/6)
🃏 Beverly - FAIRIES (7/7) C
Diana S - MUSTARDSEED (4/11)
Marilyn - LYSANDER (7/8)
🃏Koren - COBWEB (6/6) C

June Challenge - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Begins: 01June22 / Ends: 30June22


6 / 6 completed

✔ Hermia
H - Helene Tursten / An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good ✔ - 16June22
E - Exiles ✔ – 11June22
R - Ray Bradbury / Zen in the Art of Writing ✔ - 14Jun22
M - M.O. Walsh / The Big Door Prize ✔ – 07June22
I - Ildefonso Falcones / Cathedral of the Sea ✔ – 04June22
A - Amor Towles / The Lincoln Highway ✔ – 04June22



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June Challenge - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
16/16 - DONE 6/22

Queen and I, The - Sue Townsend - 6/6
Upside Down- Andrew Grey - 6/5
Elly Grifith - The Night Hawks - 6/14
Every Which Way But Dead - Kim Harrison - 6/22
Nina Laurin - What My Sister Knew - 6/3

Oates, Joyce Carol - Breathe -6/5
Ford, Rhys - Dirty Kiss -6/10

Trusting the Elements - Elle Keaton -6/10
Huntsman - Morgan Brice - 6/1
Evenfall (In the Company of Shadows, #1)
by Ais - 6/16

Above and Beyond - Andrew Grey - 6/3
Mystery of the Spirits, The - C.S. Poe - 6/1
Amy Lane - Talker's Redemption - 6/11
Zero Hour - Jordan Castillo Price -6/14
Oliver, Tess - Hard Edge -6/20
Nobin Annie England - St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets - 6/6

Midsummer's Night Dream Challenge
Duration: month of June 2022

LOVE POTION: 10/10 Letters

L: Lonsdale, Kerry No More Lies (6/4/22) 4*
O: Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout (audiobook) (6/10/22) 4*
V: Vanishing Acts Phillip Margolin and Ami Margolin Rome (6/18/22) 4*
E: Ellery Adams Murder in the Mystery Suite (6/16/22) 3.5*

P: Picoult, Jodi Vanishing Acts (audiobook) (6/23/22) 4*
O: Olive, Again Elizabeth Strout (6/20/21) 4*
T: Tempting Fate Kerrigan Byrne (6/30/22) 4*
I: Ivy, Alexandra Darkness Revealed (6/6/22) 4*
O: O’Farrell, Maggie The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (audiobook) (6/13/22) 4*
N: Niffenegger, Audrey; The Time Traveler's Wife (audiobook) (6/25/22) 3*

CRAFTSMEN
09/ 09 --- CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

✔C -- Chris Rush, author of The Light Years ~~ 5 Stars ~~ 02Jun22

✔R -- Mary Roach, author of Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 03Jun22

✔A ~~ Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 06Jun22

✔F ~~ Alice Feeney, author of Rock Paper Scissors ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 03Jun22

✔T ~~ Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of One True Loves ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 04Jun22

✔S ~~ John Sandford author of Field of Prey ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 18Jun22

✔M ~~ M.O. Walsh, author of The Big Door Prize ~~ 2 Stars ~~ 15Jun22

✔E -- Evanovich, Janet, author of Take Down Twenty ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 10Jun22

✔N -- Nicholas Petrie, author of Burning Bright ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 24Jun22

Diana S wrote: "Midsummer's Night Dream Challenge
Duration: month of June 2022

Do you remember "Shakespeare in the Park" ?
I loved going to the Botanical Gardens' to see "Shakespeare in the Park", early June. One..."

Nashville's Shakespeare in the Park is under a flight path. The actors stop in mid sentence and everyone on stage tracks the plane with their head and then their body. After the plane has passed, the actor finishes exactly what she was saying as the plane approached.

I wonder if Shakespeare's actors had to pause for critters.

🧚🏻Midsummer's Night Dream Challenge🧚🏻
Duration: month of June 2022

🧚🏻T - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone 6/11/22
H
🧚🏻E - Kiki's Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono 6/15/22

🧚🏻C - Murder Lo Mein by Vivien Chien 6/1/22
🧚🏻R - A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas 6/30/22 - Rhysand
🧚🏻A - The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory 6/3/22 - Alexa Monroe
🧚🏻F - Caramel Pecan Roll Murder by Joanne Fluke 6/19/22
🧚🏻T - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi 6/22/22
🧚🏻S - Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao 6/7/22 - Li Shimin
🧚🏻M - B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton 6/8/22 - Kinsey Millhone
🧚🏻E - Chilled to the Cone by Ellie Alexander 6/21/22
N

Midsummer's Night Dream Challenge
June 2022

7/7 DONE

T Though Not Dead Dana Stabenow 6/17
I Influential Magic Deanna Chase 6/7
T Tightrope Amanda Quick 6/3
A Angry Betty: Kate Darby (Book 1) Jamie Lee Scott 6/8
N Navigating the Stars Maria V. Snyder 6/13
I Intensive Care Jessica Andersen 6/2
A Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage Nancy Atherton 6/6

Midsummer Night's Dream Challenge

A - All the Seas of the World - Jun 13
T - Trust - Jun 4
H
E -
N - Nita Prose - The Maid - Jun 9
S - The Second Mountain - Jun 2

L - Mackenzi Lee - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - Jun 16
Y
S - Steven Johnson - Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life - Jun 6
A - Abigail Ted - Oh dear, Maria! - Jun 14
N - Nicholas D. Kristof - A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity - Jun 5
D - Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night- Jun 20
E
R - Robert D. Putnam - The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

Hermia 4/6

H
E Everyone Brave Is Forgiven Chris Cleave 6/12
R Red Queen Victoria Aveyard 6/28
M Megan Mullally/Nick Offerman The Greatest Love Story Ever Told 6/2
I I've Got This Round Mamrie Hart 6/22
A

FAIRIES 7/7

F The First Time I Said Goodbye by Claire Allan FINISHED 6/11

A Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan FINISHED 6/9

I A Catered Murder by Isis Crawford FINISHED 6/15

R The Rose Code by Kate Quinn FINISHED 6/18

I The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe FINISHED 6/6

E Escape From Danger by Courtney McFarlin FINISHED 6/8

S State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy FINISHED 6/13

Jonquil wrote: "Diana S wrote: "Midsummer's Night Dream Challenge
Duration: month of June 2022

Do you remember "Shakespeare in the Park" ?
I loved going to the Botanical Gardens' to see "Shakespeare in the Park",..."

LOL! Good Question!

The Midsummer's Night Dream Challenge


Spell-out: MUSTARDSEED (5/11)


Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte (6/11/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
U
S
T - A Time for Mercy by John Grisham (6/8/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Anthony Ray Hinton's The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (6/15/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
R
Delancy, J P - The Perfect Wife (6/9/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
S
Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (6/25/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
E
D

Oh, I haven't been paying attention! I hadn't realized that we can use main character initials, too. Nice!

JennH wrote: "Oh, I haven't been paying attention! I hadn't realized that we can use main character initials, too. Nice!"

Don't feel bad Jenn. I didn't realize that either.

Carol wrote: "JennH wrote: "Oh, I haven't been paying attention! I hadn't realized that we can use main character initials, too. Nice!"

Don't feel bad Jenn. I didn't realize that either."

I'm glad I posted, in case anyone else missed it too!

Yes, I also missed it!

The Midsummer's Night Dream Challenge

Spell-out: LYSANDER (7/8)

✔L--Lise Olsen, author of Code of Silence: A Federal Judge, a Reluctant Whistleblower, and a Culture of Cover-Ups in Our Nation's Courts--6/13/22

Y

✔S--Stoltz, Lacy, main character in The Judge's List by John Grisham--6/4/22
✔A--All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson--6/12/22
✔N--Nick, Ben's friend who helps him get an apartment in The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley--6/10/22
✔D--Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather--6/23/22
✔E--Effron, Delia, author of Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life--6/7/22
✔R--The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman--6/3/22

Midsummer's Night Dream Challenge
Duration: month of June 2022

C-A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home by Steve Pemberton finished 6/24

O-Out of the Corner by Jennifer Grey finished 6/10

B-Back to the Prairie: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered by Melissa Gilbert finished 6/1

W-The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception by Robin Gaby Fisher finished 6/28

E-Estabrook, Barry Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit finished 6/21

B-Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough finished 6/29

Update to Message # 4 - Challenge completed ✔ - 18Jun22

finished message 10

Updated message #13: Challenge complete!

Completed 6/22- message 5

Challenge completed

Finished!