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Dog Days of Summer Challenge
Duration: month of August


Spell-out one/more ALL-CAPPED Dog Breeds listed below:

GERMAN SHEPHERD
BULLDOG
GOLDEN Retriever
Siberian HUSKY
BEAGLE
POODLE
CHIHUAHUA
DACHSHUND
GREYHOUND
DOBERMAN
GREAT DANE
MALTESE
BOXER
POMERANIAN
YORKSHIRE Terrier
CORGI
BASSET Hound

Challenge Rules
• one book per letter
• use 1st letter of 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
Stay Cool!🍹

THE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: (Carol's going to the dogs!)
16/16 - DONE

Year One - Nora Roberts - 8/24
Old Ink - Ali Lyda - 8/3
Run for the Hills - Kevin Wilson - 8/5
Kate Bold - The Killing Place - 8/1
Sofie Kelly - Paws and Effect -8/3
House on Abigail Lane - Kealan Patrick Burke - 8/1
In the Eye of the Beholder - Dianna Roman -8/2
Ralston, Duncan - The Method -8/13
Ella Kade - Away Game1127] - 8/16

Tell Me What You Did - Carter Wilson - 8/6
Eli Easton - Unwrapping Hank -8/19
Roberts J.G. - Little Girl Missing - 8/14
Romeo Alexander - Can I Trust You? -8/31
Imagine Living - Deborah Morgan - 8/25
Ellis, Kate -The Shining Skull - 8/18
Romeo Alexander - Hit or Miss, to Kill or Kiss -8/31

Participants
Updated 8/16/25


🐕🐩Carol - YORKSHIRE TERRIER (16/16) C
🐕🐩Licha-Olivia - GOLDEN & CHIHUAHUA (15/15) C
🐕🐩Robin P - BASSET (6/6) C
🐕🐩SouthWestZippy - HUSKY (5/5) C
🐕🐩Jonquil - POMERANIAN (10/10) C
🐕🐩JennH - MALTESE (7/7) C
Marilyn - BASSET (5/6)
🐕🐩Cara - GERMAN SHEPHERD (14/14) C
Book Concierge - DOBERMAN (4/8)
Carolyn - HUSKY (4/5)
🐕🐩Beverly - POMERANIAN (10/10) C
Diana S - POMERANIAN (1/10)
🐕🐩Koren - BASSET (6/6) C

Congratulations



👋🥂 Licha-Olivia
👋🥂 Robin P
👋🥂 SouthWestZippy
👋🥂 Jonquil
👋🥂 JennH
👋🥂 Cara
👋🥂 Beverly
👋🥂 Koren
👋🥂 Carol

Dog Days of Summer Challenge (August 1-31, 2025)

15/15 letters completed

G: Gail Carriger Prudence (8/15/25)
O: One Good Turn Kate Atkinson (8/28/25)
L: Lane, Zoe (mc) The Treasure Keeper Shana Abe (8/4/25)
D: Diana Palmer Paper Rose(8/13/25)
E: Eliana K. Arnold Damsel (8/17/5)
N: Nora Roberts The Mirror (8/23/25)

&

C: Cord Romero (mc) Desperado (8/10/25)
H: Hutton, Pierce (mc) Once In Paris (8/10/25)
I: Inheritance Nora Roberts (8/2/25)
H: Hawk, Jane (mc) The Silent Corner Dean Koontz (8/19/25)
U: Undead and Unwed MaryJanice Davidson (8/29/25)
A: Armentrout, Jennifer L. Bitter Sweet Love(8/15/25)
H: Hawk, Jane (mc) The Whispering Room Dean Koontz (8/25/25)
U: Undead and Unemployed MaryJanice Davidson (8/31/25)
A: Abe, Shana The Time Weaver (8/20/25)

August 1-31


B - Bury the Lead - 8/2
A -Yukito Ayatsuji - The Decagon House Murders - 8/4
S - The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America - 8/1
S - Song at Dawn: 1150 in Provence - 8/15
E - Debra Magpie Earling - The Lost Journals of Sacajewea - 8/3
T - Anne Tyler - If Morning Ever Comes - 8/7

August-Dog Days of Summer Challenge
Duration: month of August
5/5
H--Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf--8/29/25
U--Uncle Whiskers by Philip Brown--8/30/25
S--Sensing the Rhythm: Finding My Voice in a World Without Sound by Mandy Harvey--8/18/25
K--A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko--6/27/25
Y--You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie-8/19/25

Dog Days of Summer Challenge
August 2025

10/10 DONE

P Protecting Wren Susan Stoker 8/1
O Out of the Woods Hannah Bonam-Young 8/3
M Murder on the Intergalactic Railway Kate MacLeod 8/3
E Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies Catherine Mack 8/8
R Raven Marked Morgan Quaid 8/10
A Any Other World Will Do Alex Lubertozzi 8/18
N Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson 8/7
I I See You've Called in Dead John Kenney 8/6
A Ain't Love a Witch? Dakota Cassidy 8/10
N No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson Gardiner Harris 8/5

Dog Days of Summer Challenge
Duration: month of August

M - The Hunter by Richard Stark 8/11/25 - Mal
A - Misfortune Cookie by Vivien Chien 8/15/25 - Anna May
L - Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger 8/4/25
T - The Trial by Franz Kafka 8/3/25
E - Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter 8/5/25 - Elizabeth Buxbaum
S - Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe 8/9/25
E - Demian by Hermann Hesse 8/16/25 - Emil Sinclair

Dog Days of Summer Challenge (August 1-31, 2025)

5/6 letters

BASSET
B--Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton--8/1/25
A--Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie--8/1/25
S--The Seamstress of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno--8/9/25
S--Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks--8/20/25
E--Percival Everett, author of James--8/7/25

T

German Shepherd (14/14)


G Goro Before the Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi 8/21
E Elizabeth Acevedo With the Fire on High 8/5
R Ronan Farrow Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators 8/7
M Marilyn Monroe Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters 8/5
A Alan Karlsson The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson 8/20
N Nisha Sharma Dating Dr. Dil 8/12

S Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins 8/7
H Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Mikki Kendall 8/11
E Elizabeth Gonzalez James The Bullet Swallower 8/14
P Patrisse Khan-Cullors When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir8/4
H Rob Henderson Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class 8/6
E Elise Loehnen On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good 8/18
R Leah Remini Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology 8/26
D Fiona Davis The Address 8/25

Aug 2025 Challenge: DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
Begins: 01Aug25 / Ends: 31Aug25


7 / 8 completed

Doberman
D - December to Remember ✔ – 03Aug25
O
B - Brenda L. Baker / Sisters of the Sari✔ – 04Aug25
E - Eight Flavors ✔ – 12Sep25
R - ROBIE is mc in To Catch a Thief ✔ – 13Aug25
M - Miranda James / Six Cats a Slayin' ✔ – 09Nov25
A - AMATO, Carmen / Cliff Diver ✔ – 30Oct25
N - Nović , Sara / True Biz ✔ – 06Aug25

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Dog Days of Summer

h All the Diamonds in Paris Kristin Harmel

u Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 Lisa Unger Finished 10/08

s The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky 13/08

k From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg 23/08

y Yellowface R.F. Kuang finished 13/08

Dog Days of Summer Challenge
Duration: month of August

10/10

P Mary Annette Pember, Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools FINISHED 8/22
O On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong FINISHED 8/16
M Mousse Hysteria by Gretchen Allen FINISHED 8/15
E Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin FINISHED 8/6
R Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville FINISHED 8/25
A Anselm Ritter) (von Feuerbach, The Wild Child: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser FINISHED 8/8
N Night by Elie Wiesel FINISHED 8/18
I The Incandescent by Emily Tesh FINISHED 8/14
A Andy Kaufman: The Truth, Finally by Bob Zmuda FINISHED 8/27
N Nina Simon, Mother-Daughter Murder Night FINISHED 8/11

DOG DAYS OF SUMMER

Spell-out: POMERANIAN (1/10)


P
O
M
E
R
A - The American Daughters by
Maurice Carlos Ruffin (8/8/25) ⭐⭐⭐
N
I
A
N

Dog Days of Summer Challenge
Duration: month of August

B-By Invitation Only92] by Dorothea Benton Frank finished 8/1
A-An American Killing by Mary-Ann Tyrone Smith finished 8/20
S-Steven D. Wolf Comet's Tale: How the Dog I Rescued Saved My Life finished 8/12
S-St. Amant, Claire Killer Story: The Truth Behind True Crime Television finished 8/4
E-Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler finished 8/27
T -Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland by Ken Ilgunas finished 8/14

Update message # 13
2/5 finished
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Close Your Eyes and Count to 10

Dog Days of Summer Challenge
August 2025

10/10 DONE

P Protecting Wren Susan Stoker 8/1
O Out of the Woods Hannah Bonam-Young 8/3
M Murder on the Intergalactic Railway Kate MacLeod 8/3
E Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies Catherine Mack 8/8
R Raven Marked Morgan Quaid 8/10
A Any Other World Will Do Alex Lubertozzi 8/18
N Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson 8/7
I I See You've Called in Dead John Kenney 8/6
A Ain't Love a Witch? Dakota Cassidy 8/10
N No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson Gardiner Harris 8/5

Updated Comment #14: Challenge Completed.

Great job, Beverly!

Finished challenge. Message 16

I got 4 books read but number 5 will come next week. Life got in the way of me finishing the last book

Finished yesterday, forgot to post this part.
Message 7

Challenge completed

Done. Fun challange.

Hooray! Thanks 🤓