Pick 3 Mini Challenge - May 2020

May has well known holidays but also some that are not so well known. So in honor of those May days...

May 1. May Day is observed on May 1. In many ancient calendars, May 1 was the first day of summer. This was a cause for celebration.
1. Pick 3 books that are set in the summer…OR 3 books that were published in May of any year.

May 2 - The Kentucky Derby is a tradition that takes place on the first Saturday in May.
Its long and storied history brings out a taste for mint juleps, colorful sun hats, and a thrill for the race.
2. Pick 3 books that have a horse in the story or on the cover OR has drinks or colorful hats on the cover.

May 4 is National Star Wars Day…
3. Pick 3 books that are considered to be in the Science Fiction genre

May 5 is national teacher's Day - You have to thank one every time you read a book!
Pick 3 of your favorite books or 3 books by your favorite author(s) OR 3 books that features a school or a teacher.

May 10 is Mother’s Day in The U.S.
4. Pick 3 books that feature a mother.

May 24 is National Scavenger Hunt Day…
5. Pick 3 books that you just want to read. OR 3 books that you have put off reading for a long time.

May 25 is Memorial Day.
6. Pick 3 books that feature someone in the military or your countries flag on the cover OR features something that you want to always remember.

Carol's Pick 3 Challenge For May

3/3
Pick 3 of your favorite books or 3 books by your favorite author(s)
📌1.Crash & Burn - Abigail Roux - 5 ★
📌2.Touch & Geaux- Abigail Roux - 4★
📌3.Masked Prey - John Sandford - 5★

3/3
Pick 3 books that you just want to read.
📌1. Eight Perfect Murders - Peter Swanson - 5★
📌2. All The Lovely Bad Ones - Mary Downing Hahn 4.5★
📌3.Burntown - Jennifer McMahon - 3★

3/3
3 books that were published in May of any year.
📌1.Blown Away - Sharon Sala - 4.5- ★ (May 14, 2018)
📌2.Such a Perfect Wife - Kate White - 4★ - (May 7, 2019)
📌3. Blood Trail - C.J. Box - (May 20, 2008) - 3★

Oh, Carol, Carol, Carol. You found my soft spot, right next to fantasy. And in your honor I searched some back shelves and find some treasure (aaargh!)!

So in honor of this month's challenge, here are my 3 sci-fi books for May:

Friday by Robert A. Heinlein (fits in with the SFFKit for May as well) ✔
Timetrap by David Dvorkin (a Star Trek novel) ✔
And, believe it or not, I still have it: Star Wars. In paperback. Yep, the original written by George Lucas himself! The subtitle says "From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker" instead of "Episode IV" so it's a real, genuine artifact. ✔

May the Fourth be With You!

Ed. - Have finished two out of three. Cuz Two Outta Three Ain't Bad!

Ed.Ed. Yes! Finished all 3 this month. Go me!

>3 threadnsong: Sounds like some real good ones. I remember reading George Lucas's Star Wars when it first came out. (1977). My son was 14 years old at the time and was never the reader that his sister and I were but he devoured it. He tried to take it with him when he went in the Navy but I caught him. I think I'll will it to him.

>4 Carol420: How cool is that! Glad to hear you snagged it back, just to be on the safe side. I concur with your decision to will it to him. And how interesting you and your daughter share a love of reading. It was one of the few things that my mom and I shared (although our genres were totally different!).

>5 threadnsong: My mother read almost up to the day she died at 95. I can't remember not being able to read. Her mother...my grandmother... brought to America every book her little village could get together plus her own. My grandfather said she would have left him and her bloody clothes standing on the dock in Ireland waving to the ship if there wasn't room on board for her books. It was all ribbing in fun though as he build her a room with beautiful library shelves for all her books. I still have some of them and a couple f my cousins also have some.

>6 Carol420: Wow. So amazing. I would have been standing there with your grandmother if she had to wave off her husband without her books! What a determined woman and how devoted your grandfather was.

I also have the bookshelves my grandfather made for my mother. Modular, and much better constructed than what you can find in most stores these days (geez, I sound old!).

>7 threadnsong: You can be 39 again with me...or just choose your own special age number:)

I am picking 3 books I want to read for National Scavenger Hunt Day. I actually put the names of all my TBR in a cup and randomly picked these books.

1) Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
2) The Birthday Girl by Sue Fortin
3) Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker

>9 marykuhl: One of my cousins and I used to draw out of a box the books that we were going to read next. Gives you a bit of the surprise element.

I've been struggling with what to read and feel like I am neglecting all my other books, so I thought this was the fairest way to pick.

3 books by my favourite authors will definitely not be a hardship, 🙂.

1. Andrea Camilleri - The Overnight Kidnapper 4★s (3 May)
2. Robert Goddard - Into the Blue 4.5★s (16 May)
3. Edward Marston - Railway to the Grave 4★s (30 May)

>12 Sergeirocks: I just be it won't:)

Finished 3

we are legion (we are Bob) by Dennis Taylor - sci fic - :)

I found you Lisa Jewell. The female protagonist is a mother. :)

out of school and into nature. Suzanne Slade. NF about Anna Comstock, naturalist and educator. :)

>14 nrmay:



Good job!

Finished 3 books I just wanted to read AND that I have been putting off for awhile -

the wych elm by Tana French :)

open season C.J. Box :)

a great deliverance Elizabeth George :)

I read 3 books by 3 favorite authors:

The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

Mansfield Park: an annotated edition by Jane Austen, annotated by Deidre Shauna Lynch

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

All 3 were books that I wanted to read and had been on my TBR shelf, the oldest since 2008.

>17 kac522: What did you think of Dombey and Son?

>18 threadnsong: Won't be my favorite Dickens. I enjoyed the first third (about young Dombey) and the last third (more action). The middle dragged for me. Always interesting to see how Dickens pulls the disparate stories and characters together in the end. And there's always one "hidden relation", someone we find out in the end is related to another character. I'm trying to think of a Dickens novel that _doesn't_ have this, and I can't come up with one immediately.