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March Happenings Challenge
duration: month of March

Spell-out one/more of the ALL-CAPPED holidays.

3/3 World WILDLIFE Day
3/4 MARDI GRAS
3/6 National DRESS Day
3/9 National BARBIE Day
3/12 National PLANT A FLOWER Day
3/13 National POPCORN Day
3/14 International Day of MATHEMATICS
3/17 St PATRICK's Day
3/19 National LET'S LAUGH Day
3/19 International READ TO ME Day
3/21 World POETRY Day
3/29 National MOM AND POP Business Owners Day

Challenge Rules
• one book per letter
• use 1st letter in title (exclude A, An, or 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 🤓

PARTICIPANTS


Diana S - LET'S LAUGH (3/9)
Licha-Olivia - PLANT A FLOWER (2/12)
Carol - WORLD WILDLIFE DAY (15/16)
🍀🍀JennH - READ TO ME DAY (11/11) C
🍀🍀BOOK CONCIERGE - DRESS (5/5) C
🍀🍀Robin P - MARDI GRAS (9/9) C
🍀🍀Koren - POPCORN (7/7) C
🍀🍀Beverly - MARDI GRAS (4/9)
🍀🍀SouthWestZippy DRESS (3/5)
Cara - PLANT A FLOWER (10/12)
Marilyn - DRESS (2/5)
🍀🍀Jonquil - READ TO ME (8/8) C

CONGRATULATIONS 🍻


🍻 JennH
🍻 Book Concierge
🍻 Robin P
🍻 Koren
🍻 SouthWestZippy
🍻 Jonquil

March Happenings Challenge
March 2025

Spell-out: LET'S LAUGH (3/9)


L
E
Tacoma Jones in Dinner at the Brake Fast by Renee Beauregard Lute (3/11/25) 4.5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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L
A
U The Ugly Truth by Jeff
Kinney (3/10/25) 3.5 ⭐⭐⭐
G
H The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson (3/14/25) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

March Happenings Challenge
duration: month of March

3/12 National PLANT A FLOWER Day

2/12 Letters

P: Peter Hatcher (mc) Fudge-a-Mania Judy Bloom (4/12/25)
L: Little, Stuart (mc) Stuart Little E. B. White (4/18/25)
A: Alphonse, Elaine Marie Picture Perfect by Elaine Marie Alphin (4/15/25)
N: Nora Roberts Mind Games (4/4/25)
T: To Sir, with Love Lauren Layne (4/10/25)

A: Armentrout, Jennifer Obsidian (5/15/25)

F: Fitzpatrick, Huntley My Life Next Door (3/13/25)
L: Liz Moore The God of the Woods (5/8/25)
O: One Day Nicholls (3/9/25)
W: Wish I Were Here Melissa Wiesner (4/7/25)
E: E. (Elwin) B. White The Trumpet of the Swan (5/12/25)
R: Rebakah (Beka) Cooper (mc) Mastiff Tamara Pierce (5/5/25)

March Happenings
15/16

We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kilewer -3/4
One Man's Trash - Marie Sexton - 3/14
Rose, Jeneva - Home Is Where the Bodies Are - 3/4
Love in the Balance - Brighm Vaughn - 3/7
D

Wendy Webb - The Stroke of Winter -3/2
In a New York Minute - Felice Stevens - 3/10
Lanyon, Josh - A Case of Christmas - 3/11
Dearest - Jacquie Walters - 3/11
Lucinda Berry - The Perfect Child -3/10
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood|45299992] - Gregg Olsen - 7/8
Felice Stevens - Castles in the Air - 3/9
Elle Keaton - His Best Man -3/3

Douglas, Penelope - Kill Switch *3/19
Alexander, Romeo -Unbreak My Heart - /3/5
You Shouldn't Have Come Here- Jeneva Rose - 3/1

March Happenings Challenge
duration: month of March

R - P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia 3/10/25
E - Sticks and Scones by Ellie Alexander 3/5/25
A - The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnette Friis 3/1/25
D - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst 3/19/25

T - The Summer Book by Tove Jansson 3/7/25
O - The Nest by Kenneth Oppel 3/2/25

M - Murder on the Ballarat Train by Kerry Greenwood 3/3/25
E - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 3/30/25

D - Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire 3/5/25
A - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker 3/4/25
Y - Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yōko Tawada 3/2/25

March Happenings
Begins: 01Mar25 / Ends: 31Mar25


5 / 5 completed

National DRESS Day
D - Douglas Armstrong / Sun Dog Memory ✔ – 20Mar25
R - ROFANO is mc in A Certain Age ✔ – 27Mar25
E - Ed McBain / Give the Boys a Great Big Hand ✔ - 04Mar25
S - Soul of an Octopus ✔ – 14Mar25
S - Secret, Book & Scone Society ✔ – 21Mar25

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I'll try MARDI GRAS

M - Charlotte McConaghy - Wild Dark Shore - 3/12
A - Agatha Christie - Partners in Crime - 3/4
R - Gabrielle Roy - Bonheur d'occasion - 3/2
D - Death Is Like a Box of Chocolates -3/6
I - Gary Inbinder - The Hanged Man: A Mystery in Fin de Siecle Paris - 3/20
G - Glory Be - 3/8
R - Roderick Alleyn - main character in A Man Lay Dead - 3/16
A - Artists in Crime - 3/10
S - The Secret Adversary - 3/2

March Happenings Challenge
duration: month of March

P-Phelps, M. William book:Where Monsters Hide: Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest|40972846] finished 3/18
O-Oh, Hello Alzheimer's: A Caregiver's Journey of Love by Lisa Marshall finished 3/8
P-Penner, Mil Section 27: A Century on a Family Farm finished 3/22
C-The Color Purple by Alice Walker finished 3/27
O-Osmond, Wayne Laugh Lines: 50 Years of Jokes, Stories, and Life As an Entertainer finished 3/13
R-Robert Timberg Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir finished 3/5
N-Neighbors, Cindy Lee TOO MUCH

March Happenings Challenge
duration: month of March

9/9

M The Mesmerist by Ronald L. Smith FINISHED 3/2
A Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie FINISHED 3/18
R Annelise Ryan, A Death in Door County FINISHED 3/5
D Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea FINISHED 3/9
I Irena's Gift: An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival by Karen Kirsten FINISHED 3/18

G Lamar Giles, Ruin Road FINISHED 3/11
R Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures FINISHED 3/20
A Acacia: Secrets of an African Painting by Paul Bondsfield FINISHED 3/29
S Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden FINISHED 3/6

3/6 National DRESS Day

5/5 Completed--3/16/25
D-Dear John by Nicholas Sparks--3/10/25
R-Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land by Russell Cobb--3/12/25
E-A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan--3/16/25
S-The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained by Stanley Milford Jr.--3/5/25
S-Big Weather: Chasing Tornadoes in the Heart of America by Mark Svenvold--3/3/25

Plant a Flower (10/12)

P A Play for the End of the World Jai Chakrabarti 3/18
L Love, Theoretically Ali Hazelwood 3/25
A
N Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life Emily Nagoski 3/16
T Tom Hanks The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece 3/10

A All the Stars and Teeth Adalyn Grace 3/26

F The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way Sara Ahmed 3/19
L Lot Bryan Washington 3/24
O Tommy Orange There There 3/28
W Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity Julia Serano 3/4
E Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven 3/8
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March Happenings
Begins: 01Mar25 / Ends: 31Mar25

2 / 5 completed

National DRESS Day
D
✔R--Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt--3/14/25
E -
✔S--Sides, Hampton, author of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook--3/24/25
S

3/6 National DRESS Day

5/5 Completed--3/16/25

Updated message #11: Challenge completed.

Great challenge work, SouthWest Zippy and Beverly!

Finished - msg 9

March 2025 Happenings Challenge

8/8 DONE

R Romancing the Gravestone Gena Showalter 3/10
E Elegy for Eddie Jacqueline Winspear 3/2
A Ancillary Mercy Ann Leckie 3/13
D Dirty Thirty Janet Evanovich 3/17
T Tropic of Night Michael Gruber 3/15
O Over the Top and Back Tom Jones 3/22
M Murder on Potrero Hill M.L. Hamilton 3/21
E Eastside Hedge Witch T.J. Deschamps 3/18

Update message # 8 - Challenge completed ✔ – 27Mar25

March Happenings
Begins: 01Mar25 / Ends: 31Mar25


5 / 5 completed

National DRESS Day
D - Douglas Armstrong / Sun Dog Memory ✔ – 20Mar25
R - ROFANO is mc in A Certain Age ✔ – 27Mar25
E - Ed McBain / Give the Boys a Great Big Hand ✔ - 04Mar25
S - Soul of an Octopus ✔ – 14Mar25
S - Secret, Book & Scone Society ✔ – 21Mar25

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Finished! Message 10