Pick 3 Mini Challenge - September 2020

Remember that you may combine 3 books from any of the categories any way you wish. You may choose one book from 3 different ones; 3 books from the same; 2 from one and 1 from another etc…just so you end up with 3.

Pick 3 Mini Challenges – September 2020

1. September 1 – Emma M. Nutt Day (She was the first telephone operator)
Choose a book(s) that features a woman OR has a telephone or some means of communication on the cover, or in the story, or in the title.

2.September 2- Ghost/Spirit Festival Day (Taiwan & China)
Read a book(s) that is a ghost story Or a book(s) that feature a fair, carnival or a festival.

3. September 6 – Read A Book Day This is diffidently our day!
Choose a book(s) that someone visits or works in a library or a book store OR a book that you borrowed from your library.

4. September 7 – Labor Day (in the U.S.)
Choose a book(s) that are set in any state in the United States OR the author’s first and last initial can be found in LABOR DAY.

5. September 18 – National Grandparents Day
Choose a book(s) that has either a grandmother or a grandfather in the story or a word that is used to indicate a "grandfather" or "grandmother" in the title OR a character that you would consider elderly.

6. August 28 – Good Neighbor Day
Choose a book(s) that features characters that are neighbors OR that has a fence or a house with a porch on the cover.

Carol Picks 3 in September
📌 - ★

3/3 - DONE 9/16
A Ghost Story
📌1.A Reason To Believe - Diana Copeland - 5★
📌2.The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher- 5+★
📌3.The Forgotten Room- Lincoln Child - 5★

3/3 DONE 9/9
Set in any Any U.S. State
📌1.Contest- Matthew Reilly - ★ (New York)
📌2.Half Moon Bay - Jonathan Kellerman - 3★ -(Rhode Island)
📌3.The Echo Killing – Christi Daugherty - 4★ (Georgia)

3/3 DONE -9/11
A Book Borrowed From The Library
📌1.Something In The Water - Catherine Steadman - 3.5★
📌2.Our Little Secret - Roz Nay - 4★
📌3.The Last House Guest - Megan Miranda - 3.5★

OK, I've got two and I'll add the third after some perusal. Maybe a cozy mystery set in a bookshop would be a perfect third option?

Emma M. Nutt Day - Ladies of the Lake by Caitlin and John Matthews (definitely a book about some powerful ladies!)
Ed. Nope. Only 2** and I had to stop reading it. I had high hopes for this book, but no.
Ghost/Spirit Festival Day - Murder of Angels by Caitlin R. Kiernan (and I'm bought this thinking of you, Carol, since I know you love those ghost stories. You inspired me!). ✔
Labor Day - The Movement of Stars set in Massachusetts, and it's about one of the first American woman astronomers. (May be able to finish between now and Wednesday??)

Ed. Added the third book which I've meant to read for years.
Ed.Ed. And finished in October, so I'll zip on over there for posting its review.

>3 threadnsong: Hope you enjoy your ghost story. Spirit festival Day was just too good to pass up:) I think I'll try your books. The descriptions sounds interesting.

>4 Carol420: I started it the other night and it seems to be the second in a duology, with the first being Silk. While I haven't gotten to the ghost part yet, the visions from one of the characters are certainly spooky. And the language! Loving it.

6 September 2020 - A Woman's Fortune - Josephine Cox 3.5★s (features 'Grandma Sue')

15 September 2020 - Lost Girls - Angela Marsons 5★s (mobile phones feature strongly in this story of kidnap)

19 September 2020 - Windermere Witness - Rebecca Tope 3.5★s (main character is a woman)

finished these so far in Sept -

story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg.
Arthur and his friend Lucille are neighbors and in their 80s.

Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.
Set in Harlem, NYC, NY.

golden poppies by Laila Ibrahim.
Grandmothers in the story; takes place in Chicago IL and Oakland CA.

Lulu and the hedgehog in the rain, Hilary McKay.
All the characters are neighbors.

Silver in the wood, Emily Tesh.
Has both a spirit and a festival in the story.

piecing me together, Renee Watson. Set in Portland, Oregon; chracters visit Powell's City of Books (my favorite bookstore!)

Three library books finished in Sept:

The Geometry of Holding Hands, Alexander McCall Smith
The Baker's Daughter, D. E. Stevenson
The Doctor's Family and Other Stories, Margaret Oliphant