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November Happenings Spell-out Chat
Duration: the month of November

We all know about celebrating Thanksgiving this month. But there are many unusual celebrations in the month of November.

Spell-out one/more of the ALL - CAPPEd Celebrations below:

(11/14) National PICKLE Day
(11/13) National Hug a MUSICIAN Day
(11/11) National HAPPY HOUR Day
(11/9) Go to an Art MUSEUM Day
(11/4) Love your LAWYER Day
(11/30) National MASON JAR Day
(11/28) Red PLANET Day
(11/11) National ORIGAMI Day
(11/21) Odd SOCKS Day
(11/18) National PRINCESS Day

Challenge Rules:
• one book per letter
• 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!!

🦃 🥧 Jonquil 🦃 🥧
🦃 🥧 Beverly 🦃 🥧
🦃 🥧 Koren 🦃 🥧
🦃 🥧 Donna 🦃 🥧
🦃🥧 Licha-Olivia 🦃🥧
🦃🥧 JennH 🦃🥧
🦃🥧 Carol 🦃🥧
🦃🥧 Robin P 🦃🥧

PARTICIPANTS:
Updated: 12/1/22

Book Concierge - PICKLE (5/6)
🦃 🥧 Beverly - MASON JAR (8/8) C
🦃 🥧 Jonquil - PRINCESS (8/8) C
🦃 🥧 Koren - PRINCESS (8/8) C
🦃 🥧 Licha-Olivia - HAPPY HOUR (9/9) C
Cara - PLANET (4/6)
🦃 🥧 Robin P - MASON JAR (8/8) C
🦃 🥧 JennH - NATIONAL PICKLE DAY (17/17) C
🦃 🥧 Carol - NATIONAL PICKLE DAY (17/17) C
Donna - 🦃 🥧SOCKS (5/5) C & 🦃 🥧 PLANET (6/6) C
Marilyn - MUSICIAN (5/8)
Diana S - MASON JAR (4/8) & SOCKS (1/5)

November Happenings S*P*E*L*L Challenge
Begins: 01Nov22 / Ends: 30Nov22


6 / 6 completed

National PICKLE Day
P - Paris Hours ✔ – 08Nov22
I - I Am the Messenger ✔ – 10Nov22
C - CISNEROS, Sandra / The House on Mango Street ✔ – 02Nov22
K - KLEYPAS, Lisa / Marrying Winterborne ✔ – 21Dec22
L - Last Midwife ✔ – 04Nov22
E - Enemy Women ✔ - 18Nov22

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November Happenings Spell-out Chat
Duration: the month of November

8/8 completed

(11/30) National MASON JAR Day
M Marriage: A Duet by Anne Taylor Fleming FINISHED 11/21
A Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient FINISHED 11/29
S Stabbed in the Baklava by Tina Kashian FINISHED 11/16
O One Feta in the Grave by Tina Kashian FINISHED 11/17
N Game Changer by Neal Shusterman

J Judge Lynch! by James M. Redwine FINISHED 11/3
A Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
R Suzanne Redfearn, Hadley & Grace

November 2022 Happenings Spell-out

8/8 DONE

P Phantom Jo Nesbø 11/6
R Right of Redemption Jenna Bennett 11/6
I In Hot Water Kate Kingsbury 11/2
N No Plan B Lee Child 11/1
C Coral Weddings Jan Moran 11/5
E Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade Nancy Springer 11/1
S Silver Spire Robert Goldsborough 11/1
S Scarlett Undercover Jennifer Latham 11/3

November Happenings Spell-out Chat
Duration: the month of November

P-Peter FitzSimons A Simpler Time finished 11/11
R-Richard La Plante Detours: Life, Death and Divorce on the Road to Sturgis finished 11/15
I-In the Middle of the Night: The Shocking True Story of a Family Killed in Cold Blood by Brian McDonald finished 11/2
N-Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden finished 11/24
C-Casey Sherman Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod finished 11/16
E-Edgar Allan Poe: The Man Behind the Legend by Edward Wagenkneckt finished 11/24
S-Stanley Tucci Taste: My Life through Food finished 11/4
S-The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat by Matt Siegal finished 11/5

November Happenings Spell-out Chat
Duration: the month of November

(11/11) National HAPPY HOUR Day

9/9 Letters

H: Holly Goldberg Sloan Counting by 7s (11/2/22)
A: Axie Oh; XOXO (11/9/22)
P: Patricia Hermes The Brothers' War (11/21/22)
P: Paolini, Christopher; Eragon (11/30/22)
Y: You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life (audiobook) Jen Sincero (11/10/22)

H: Hoover, Colleen; Reminders of Him (11/25/22)
O: Outcasts (The); John Flanagan (11/11/22)
U: Unger, Lisa; Fragile (audiobook) (11/28/22)
R: Rosie Result (The) Graeme Simsion (11/10/22)

Red PLANET Day (4/6)

P Planting Gardens in Graves R.H Sin 11/8
L Leni Zumas Red Clocks 11/3
A
N November 9 Colleen Hoover 11/20
E Exit the Actress Priya Parma 11/7
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National MASON JAR Day (8/8)

M - Master Mercurius, main character in Death in Delft - 11/18
A - All's Well - 11/20
S - Sophie, main char in The Last Anniversary - 11/15
O - Ovidia Yu author of The Frangipani Tree Mystery - 11/29
N - Nancy Hoyt author of Three Cornered Love - 11/30
J - Joe Biden, main char in Hope Never Dies 11/17
A - Armand Gamache, main char in A Better Man 11/16
R - The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain - 11/5

November Happenings Spell-out Chat
Duration: the month of November

✔N - The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik 11/3/22
✔A - Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard by Mawi Asgedom 11/4/22
✔T - Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan 11/6/22
✔I - Pride by Ibi Zoboi 11/21/22
✔O - One Feta in the Grave by Tina Kashian 11/7/22
✔N - The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan 11/18/22 - Nico di Angelo
✔A - The Kidnapped Prime Minister by Agatha Christie 11/10/22
✔L - Fiber and Brimstone by Laura Childs 11/3/22

✔P - The Plot and the Pendulum by Jenn McKinlay 11/23/22
✔I - On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming 11/30/22
✔C - - The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline 11/11/22
✔K - Died in the Wool by Mary Kruger 11/5/22
✔L - Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich 11/7/22
✔E - Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano 11/9/22

✔D - Death with All the Trimmings by Lucy Burdette 11/10/22
✔A - The Adventure of the Cheap Flat by Agatha Christie 11/12/22
✔Y - White Ivy by Susie Yang 11/17/22

November Happenings Spell-out Chat
17/17

No More Secrets - Becca Seymour - 11/29
Anne McFarland - The Black Velvet - Coat -11/13
Take Care of Me - Gianni- Holmes - 11/4
Illusion of a Boy, The - 11/2
One Step Too Far - Lisa Gardiner - 11/10
The Name of the Wind- Patrick Ruffuss - 11/26
Aiden Fischer - character in Breakaway - E.M. Lindsey - 11/27
Last to Vanish, The - Megan Miranda - 11/3

Paula Hawkins - A Slow Fire Burning - 11/14
Iron Daughter, The Julie Kagawa -11/30
Calmes, Mary - Balanced and Tied - 10/4
King, Davidson - Taste of Fear -11/18
Lighthouse Keeper, The - Alan K. Baker - 10/6
Enemies of the State - Tal Bauer - 11/15

Declan Moore, Character in Take Care of Us - Gianni Holmes - 10/5
Auden - a character in Turnabout - Laurel Greer - 11/28
You're Waffle-y Cute - Frankie Love - 11/10

Socks and Planet
11 / 11 DONE

✔S ~~ This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers ~~ 3 Stars ~~ 02Nov22

✔O ~~ Tochi Onyebuchi, author of ~~ Riot Baby ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 05Oct22

✔C ~~ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty ~~ 4 (gruesome) Stars ~~ 10Oct22

✔K ~~ Stephen King , author of ~~ Gerald's Game ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 06Oct22

✔S ~~ Hampton Sides, author of ~~ Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 04Nov22


and

✔P ~~ The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 12Nov22

✔L ~~ Leyna Krow, author of Fire Season ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 10Nov22

✔A ~~ Annalee Newitz, author of Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 01Nov22

✔N ~~ The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver ~~ 3 Stars ~~ 16Nov22

✔E ~~ The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 12Nov22

✔T ~~ Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 03Nov22

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November Happenings
Currently Reading:

Spell-out: MASON JAR (4(/8)


Matthew Pearl's The Taking of Jemima Boone: The True Story of the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America (11/17/22) ⭐⭐⭐
A
Sycamore Row by John Grisham (11/9/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
O - The Oracle by Clive Cussler (11/2/22) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
N

J
A
Rebecca Serle's The Dinner List (11/19/22) ⭐⭐⭐


Spell-out: SOCKS (1/5)


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Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy (11/10/22) ⭐⭐⭐
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K
S

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November Happenings Spell-out Chat
Duration: the month of November

(11/13) National Hug a MUSICIAN Day

Spell out MUSICIAN (6/8)

✔M--A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg--11/9/22

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✔S--Sonia Purnell, author of A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II--11/10/22
✔I--In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park--11/3/22
✔C--Coll, Susan, author of Bookish People--11/27/22
✔I-- Isabel Allende, author of The House of the Spirits--11/19/22
✔A--Amor Towles, author of The Lincoln Highway--11/16/22

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November 2022 Happenings Spell-out

8/8 DONE

P Phantom Jo Nesbø 11/6
R Right of Redemption Jenna Bennett 11/6
I In Hot Water Kate Kingsbury 11/2
N No Plan B Lee Child 11/1
C Coral Weddings Jan Moran 11/5
E Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade Nancy Springer 11/1
S Silver Spire Robert Goldsborough 11/1
S Scarlett Undercover Jennifer Latham 11/3

Jonquil wrote: "November 2022 Happenings Spell-out

8/8 DONE

P Phantom Jo Nesbø 11/6
R Right of Redemption Jenna Bennett 11/6
I [book:In Hot Water|..."

Good job!

Socks and Planet
11 / 11 DONE

Donna wrote: "Socks and Planet
11 / 11 DONE"

Good job, Donna:)

Challenge finished message #7.

Koren wrote: "Challenge finished message #7."

Congrats, Koren.

Updated message #5: Challenge complete

Beverly wrote: "Updated message #5: Challenge complete"

Good job, Beverly

Challenge Completed!

Ftoday, had totally given up on finding a book with N, forgot about it and randomly read a short book I had recently acquired & it turned out to fit!

Update message #4 - Challenge completed - 21Dec22


November Happenings S*P*E*L*L Challenge
Begins: 01Nov22 / Ends: 30Nov22


6 / 6 completed

National PICKLE Day
P - Paris Hours ✔ – 08Nov22
I - I Am the Messenger ✔ – 10Nov22
C - CISNEROS, Sandra / The House on Mango Street ✔ – 02Nov22
K - KLEYPAS, Lisa / Marrying Winterborne ✔ – 21Dec22
L - Last Midwife ✔ – 04Nov22
E - Enemy Women ✔ - 18Nov22



Note If I had chosen "planet" I would have finished in November ... S*I*G*H
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