Pick Three (3) Mini Challenge - AUGUST 2022

Pick Three (3) Mini Challenge - August 2022

August is the 8th month, but it used to be 6th. In the Southern hemisphere the winter is beginning to disappear, and in the Northern hemisphere summer is still in charge, but autumn is getting ready to say "hello". Let's find out some interesting facts about the month of August.


1.August 1 - This day was traditionally known as "Lammas Day", was a festival to mark the annual wheat and corn harvest.


2. August 11 - This day marks the end of the "Dog Days" of Summer, which began on July 3.


3. August 17 This is when the "Cat Nights" begin, going back to a rather obscure Irish legend concerning witches. This bit of folklore also led to the idea that a cat has nine lives.


4. August 19 - National Aviation Day, chosen for the birthday of Orville Wright who piloted the first recorded flight of a powered heavier-than-air machine in 1903 in Kitty Hawke, North Carolina.


5. August 25 - This is Kiss and Make up Day - Don't think this needs any further explanation.


6. August 26 - Women’s Equality Day- This day celebrates the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment and, with it, women’s right to vote in the United States.


The Challenge
1.Read a book or books, that has a cover that is 50% yellow OR that is 50% brown.
2 Read a book or books, that have a dog on the cover or in the story OR a book or books that is the end of a series.
3. Read a book or books that are set in Ireland OR a book or books that features witches or other creatures that would be consider
supernatural OR a book or books that would be considered as Folklore.
4. Read a book or books that have something on the covers or in the story that would fly in the air OR a book or books that the
authors first and last initials can be found in NORTH CAROLINA.
5. Read a book or books that are in the romance genre or features an "enemies to lovers" storyline.
6. Read a book or books that is written by a woman author OR has a picture of a woman on the cover OR a book or books
that has the number, or the word, "19" in the title.

Carol Keeps Cool in August
3/3 - 🏖️ - ★
Books, that have a cover that is 50% yellow OR that is 50% brown.
🏖️1.The Tarkington Treasure - Evelyn Cullet - 4★ (Yellow)
🏖️2.Fire and Sand (Carlisle Troopers) - Andrew Grey - 5★ (Brown)
🏖️3.The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley - 4★ (Yellow)

3/3- 🏖️ - ★
Books that are in the romance genre or features an "enemies to lovers" storyline.
🏖️1.To My Future Number 1 Fan - L.A. Witt - 4★
🏖️2.Three Player Game - Jaime Samms - ★
🏖️3.Shads of Gray - Brooke McKinley - 4.5★

3/3 -🏖️ - ★
Books that are written by a woman author
🏖️1.Floodgates - Mary Calmes - 3.5★
🏖️2.The Movie-Town Murders- Josh Lanyon 5★
🏖️3.River Home - Elle Keaton - 5★

Books that are written by a woman author

✔️1. The Dark by Sharon Bolton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️2. The Party House by Lin Anderson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
✔️3. Dead Little Corpses by Nicola Upson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Read a book or books that are in the romance genre or features an "enemies to lovers" storyline

✔️1. Mothers and Daghters by Erica James ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
2. A Wedding in Tuscany by Sandy Barker
✔️ 3. Christmas at Honeyford by Tanya Jean Russell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2

Books that the authors first and last initials can be found in NORTH CAROLINA.

✔️1. Night Watch by Neil Lancaster ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
✔️2. Lily by Rose Tremain ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2
✔️ 3. The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Just Like You - Nick Hornby 4★s (Book cover is 50% yellow)
Gently French - Alan Hunter 3.5★s (Author’s initials in NORTH CAROLINA)

Written by a woman author:
The Death Messenger - Mari Hannah 4★s
Winter at Cliff’s End Cottage - Sheila Norton 3.75★s
Holy Island - LJ Ross 4.5★s

OK, I think I can join this challenge this month. I'm still reading these books (or in some cases I'm going to start them because of this challenge!), so I'll put a checkmark by them when I've finished.

The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy (initials in NORTH CAROLINA) ✔️
The Alienist by Caleb Carr (initials in NORTH CAROLINA) ✔️

Choice between:

The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams (dogs on the cover)
Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams (folklore)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (written by a woman) ✔️

My edition of "The Plague Dogs" is the original British edition that I bought when I went to the UK in 9th grade as part of the original Friendship Force. It contains the unfiltered dialect for the Yorkshire farmers, and the tod's dialogue is *pure* Geordie. I remember reading his parts out loud so that I could understand what he was saying. Sort of like how difficult a true North Carolina mountain or Kentucky mountain accent would sound like to someone not from the southern US (I'm thinking of you, my Canadian and British LT friends!).

Thanks as always for a great challenge, Carol!

>7 threadnsong: You are so welcome....and thank you for the check mark to show me that you have finished a book so I could see where you may have journeyed in the world with it. I find that creating challenges "feeds" my creative needs and keeps me almost sane:) Sometimes I wonder about the "sane" part, but I have always loved writing/creating "stuff". I created conservation programs for school children for the 28 years I was in the education department at the zoo. BEST JOB EVER!!! Can I think of all of you as "big kids"??? Accents...We have so many regional accents in the U.S. It isn't so much the accent that makes understanding sometimes hard here...it's the terminology that different regions use for the same thing. My grandfather spoke with such a heavy Scottish accent that my cousin and I translated for the neighbors what he said in English and what they said in their southern terms. I grew up in Florida. He and my grandmother, who was from Northern Ireland, both spoke their regional Galic dialogs...with each other but always English when with their children and we grandchildren.

Finished there -

Dance for the Dead, Thomas Perry. Woman on the cover.
First Comes Scandal, Julia Quinn. Woman on the cover.
The Alice Network, Kate Quinn. Woman on the cover.

Finished 3 more -

Better Off Dead, Lee Child. initials in North Carolina.
The Other Miss Bridgerton, Julia Quinn. Woman on the cover
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Robinet. Initials in North Carolina.