PICK THREE (3) MINI CHALLENGE - JUNE 2022

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PICK THREE (3) MINI CHALLENGE - JUNE 2022

1Carol420
Modificato: Giu 6, 2022, 4:01 pm



FATHERS ARE SPECIAL - HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL THE DADS

1.Father’s Day was founded on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA by Sonora Smart Dodd to honor her father, Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, for all his efforts as a single parent raising his six children. It wasn’t until 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed into law a permanent recognition of Father’s Day.

2. According to Hallmark, Father’s Day is the fourth-largest card-sending occasion with 72 million cards given every year.

3. Consumer spending on Father’s Day is expected to rise to an all-time record of close to $20 billion in 2022.

4. Census data shows there are more than 70.1 million dads in the U.S alone, and two million of them are single.

5. A.A. Milne created "Winnie the Pooh" for his son, Christopher Robin. Pooh was based on the teddy bear Christopher received for his first birthday as well as a bear named "Winnie" at the London Zoo they would frequent on their father and son visits.

6.The Stevie Wonder song “Isn’t She Lovely” is about his newborn daughter, Aisha. If you listen closely, you can hear Aisha crying during the song.

The Challenge
1. Read a or books that features a father or grandfather as a main character. (You may count it as 2 if the father is a single Dad).
2. Read a book or books that has a 7 and a 2 in the total page count.
3. Read a book or books that take place in Washington state or in England.
4. Read a book or books that features a teddy bear in the story or on the cover OR is by an author named Ted, Teddy or Theodore.
5. Read a book or books that features the birth of a baby.

2Carol420
Modificato: Giu 12, 2022, 3:23 pm


Carol's Father's Day Pick 3
☀️ - ★
3/3
Read a or books that features a father or grandfather as a main character.
☀️1. Huntsman, Fox Hollow- Morgan Brice - 5★ (features a father & a grandfather)
☀️2. Dead Reckoning - Dawn Lee McKenna - 4★ (features a father)
☀️3. Vintage Affair- Josh Lanyon - 4★ (a grandfather)

☀️ - ★
3/3
Read a book or books that has a 7 and a 2 in the total page count.
1- Right as Raine Lucy Lennox - 4★ (278 pages)
2 Paternity Case - Gregory Ashe- 3.5★ (172 pages)
3 The Widower' s Wife - Cate Holahan - 4★ 972 pages)

☀️ - ★
3/3
Read a book or books that take place in Washington state or in England./ Read a book or books that are by an author named Ted, Teddy or Theodore./Read a book or books that features the birth of a baby. (1 each)
☀️1. In the Dark - Mark Billingham - 4★ (set in England)
☀️2. Paternity Case - Gregory Ashe - 3.5★ (suspects wife has a baby)
☀️3. Chaos - Ted Dekker - 3★ (author named Ted)

3deaflower
Modificato: Giu 29, 2022, 10:51 pm

Here in New Zealand, Father's Day is the first weekend of September. I haven't celebrated it for years, as my Dad died in 1987, and my father in law died over 5 years ago.

Dee's Father's Day Wishes To Dads Everywhere


Read a or books that features a father or grandfather as a main character. (You may count it as 2 if the father is a single Dad).
1. Mystery In The Sand by Gertrude Chandler Warner 3⭐ (Grandfather)

Read a book or books that take place in Washington state or in England.
1. Frontline Nurse by Rosie James 4⭐ (England)

Read a book or books that features the birth of a baby.
1. Call The Midwife by Jennifer Worth 4⭐ (I think the title speaks for this one)

4Carol420
Mag 24, 2022, 6:24 am

>3 deaflower: Well, hey...we can celebrate in September also.

5deaflower
Modificato: Mag 24, 2022, 7:19 pm

>4 Carol420: Haha, yes, then it is our Spring. Double the celebration! For some reason, I am really into reading about nurses at the moment. I just finished reading A Nightingale Christmas Wish, and now I'm reading the two above. I love a variety of books, and for Netgalley, I'm reading a book about the Hawaiian snails. Can't miss reading about snails!

6Carol420
Modificato: Mag 25, 2022, 7:04 am

>5 deaflower: - I had to laugh when I saw that a Donna Douglas had written A Nightingale Christmas Wish. I know it's not the same one, but all I could see was the Donna Douglas that played Ellie Mae Clampett on the "Beverly Hillbillies" TV show. I don't think that character could have written her own name much less an entire book:)

7deaflower
Modificato: Mag 27, 2022, 11:01 pm

>6 Carol420: I thought of that too Carol. When I was looking up the author's name, I did see that Donna Douglas of the Beverly Hillbillies had written a book. But I don't think that I will read it. I'm not really into the Hollywood stories much. That one was about nurses in the 1930's, and I don't read them often, but I was at the library, and saw it, and thought I'd give it a go. I'm nearly finished reading 'Front Line Nurse', about an orphan, who grows up, and becomes a nurse, between 1900-1920. It was a lovely story, and I really enjoyed it.

8Carol420
Mag 28, 2022, 9:14 am

>7 deaflower: I grew up in the south and I always thought the Beverly Hillbillies portrayed Southerns as stupid. I know I didn't know anyone that acted like the characters on the show. I guess I'm sensitive about people being portrayed so different than they really are. I wondered how many people in the north, east and west, and other countries of the world really thought southerners were like the Clampetts?

9deaflower
Mag 30, 2022, 11:10 pm

>8 Carol420: I did watch it as a child, but I don't think that I thought of it like that. It was just something funny that my parents watched. I picked up how people spoke in different parts of the USA, when I started watching different documentaries about nature, or the way of life in the south, when I watched them as an adult. It's like how some words I learnt to spell or pronounce in school, or an even a different word for something in New Zealand, is something else in the USA. You wouldn't believe that I learnt the different words for objects in the USA, in hidden object games. Such as, we call it a torch here, but you call it a flashlight. A torch to you is one with a flame. Or you spell harbor like this, and we spell it like harbour. It has been a learning curve for me, but really interesting. I feel less ignorant in knowing how everyone sees things. It would be like that in other countries too, objects having completely different names again.

10Carol420
Mag 31, 2022, 7:23 am

>9 deaflower: I understand, and I believe that a lot of the way I felt has to do with that as a child hearing my neighbors make comments about the way my grandparents spoke. My Grandfather has such a deep Scottish accent that many times I translated for the neighbors what he was saying in English. I even had one ask me what language my grandfather spoke and when I said "English" he looked at me like I had grown another head. My Grandmother never learned to call objects by their American names but at least the neighbors understood her Irish accent most of the time. I'm more tolerant in my "old age" than I was at 10. I've lived in Michigan for almost 43 years and up until 2020 traveled frequently to Canada. They spell certain words like "color" and "harbor" like the rest of the English-speaking world. The thing that I believe would bother me more than then what objects are called would be having to drive on the "wrong" side" of the road and sitting on the "wrong side" of the car to do it. At least we don't have to do that in Canada:)

11deaflower
Giu 3, 2022, 2:53 am

Haha, we drive on the left, just as the English do.It intrigues me in movies, to watch people driving on the right side of the road. Most of our holidays are English, except for two. Anzac Day, remembrance of when Australia and New Zealand fought at Gallipoli, and Waitangi Day, when the English signed a treaty with the Maori people's. Sometimes I wish we could get rid of some of the holidays that most people don't understand, like Guy Fawkes Day, and Halloween. Honestly the Halloween here, is nothing like the Americans celebrate it. The kids just do it to get candy I think. They just made a new holiday here to celebrate Matariki, which is the beginning of the Maori New Year. This weekend, we are celebrating Queen's Birthday Weekend, and it is the Queen's Platinum celebrations too. I don't mind the Queen, because I have followed her family for years, but the controversy surrounding them, can be annoying sometimes.

12Carol420
Giu 3, 2022, 6:57 am

>11 deaflower: Halloween here is mostly so the kids can get candy also. It used to be fun but with so much meanness in the world today you almost don't dare let you kids go out, let alone take anything even from people you think you know. I was always fascinated with the Queen. You look at her and it's hard to imagine her repairing trucks and things during WWII. Quiet a lady. I love her clothes! In some ways I feel rather sorry for her when it comes to the behavior of her children.

13Sergeirocks
Modificato: Giu 30, 2022, 7:30 am

Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins - James Runcie 3.75★s (Main character has a daughter)
The Guest List - Lucy Foley 3.25★s (One of the main characters has children)

14deaflower
Giu 7, 2022, 11:44 pm

>12 Carol420: And grandchildren too! She has seen a lot, and is now very frail. Still strong willed though. I remember a few years ago, one government wanted us to become a republic, but there are just too many lovers of the monarchy here, so it failed. I was so glad, because I have watched the Queen and her family all my life, and it just wouldn't be the same without her.

15Carol420
Giu 8, 2022, 6:55 am

>14 deaflower: I totally agree with you. I think she is going to be the last of the "Grand Ladies".