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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Pick Your Poison 24


 Pick Your Poison is hosted by Gregory Road on his blog   He structures his challenge into categories and then you select how many prompts from each category you plan to complete.  It is a nice choice for a variety of users


























































I am going for 52 pickup:  2 prompts from each category allowing for 1 wildcard use.  


Progress 0/52

The Standards

1 Thriller
2 Classic
3 Mystery
4 Fantasy

To Coin A Phrase

6 Coins on the cover
7 By an author known for coining a phrase
8 Title based on a well-known phrase
9 Book about language

Our Amazing World
10 Book about the ocean
11 Memoir about someone living with nature
12 Book about an explorer
13 Book about a lost species

Classic Computer Games

14 Oregon Trail--book where the characters might die of dysentery
15 Legend of Zelda--book where the protagonist is not the title character
16 Pacman--A maze on the cover
17 Space Invaders--book with aliens

Roadkill

18 About something you might find dead on the road
19 Mystery set during a vacation
20 Hotel on the cover
21 Something flat on the cover

How Does Your Garden Grow

22 Author with flower/plant name
23 Coming-of-age story
24 About three main characters
25 "Silver" or "shell" in the title

Bright and Shiny

26 Book released in 2024
27 Memoir about someone with a Hollywood Star
28 Gold or silver cover
29 Picture of the sun on the cover

Things That Are Good for Us

30 Vegetable in the title
31 About walking away
32 Lots of fresh air on the cover
33 About positive changes

Shhh...

34 "Secret" in the title
35 Someone sleeping on the cover
36 About a secret society
37 Book you hope will calm your mind

Reasons a Book Might Be Banned

38 About gender identity
39 Written by a POC
40 With offensive language
41 With talking animals

Reflections

42 Mirror on the cover
43 About looking back
44 Book you know will make you think
45 Antonyms in the title

Book Cliches

46 The butler did it--Book with a butler
47 It was a dark and stormy night--Book with a great first line
48 Once upon a time--Fairy tale retelling
49 There can only be one--Pits characters against each other

Swashbuckling

50 Book with pirates
51 Sword on the cover
52 Daring adventure graphic novel
53 About a stowaway

New Year's Resolutions

54 Read anything--your goal is to read more
55 Title that sounds like exercise
56 About cleaning home or getting organized
57 About getting away from it all

How Do You Want Your Eggs?

58 A hard-boiled crime
59 About finding the sunny side of life
60 With a poacher
61 Book where someone is likely to be "baked"

Doing It "Old School"

62 Stamp or rotary phone on the cover
63 Author old enough to be a grandparent
64 About someone traveling by foot
65 Set before you were born

Generational

66 Written by someone the same generation as you
67 Multi-generational story
68 Set when boomers were in their prime
69 Book that generates hope

Food Groups

70 Dairy--A cheesy book
71 Meat--Book you can sink your teeth into
72 Fruit--Fruit in the title
73 Grain--Set in a farming community


Love Them Pockets!

74 Key or pocket watch on the cover
75 "Pocket Guide"
76 Purse on the cover (because of course your clothes don't have pockets)
77 Book that might have been carried in a soldier's pocket

Just Desserts

78 About revenge
79 Something sweet on the cover
80 Book you'd like to settle in with an after-dinner drink
81 By an author who has a good reputation with fans

Color Me Up!

82 Color word in the title
83 Favorite color on the cover
84 Author with a color name
85 Book that looks like someone went crazy with crayons

Seems Sketchy

86 An illustrated book
87 With an unreliable narrator
88 Sketchbook or notebook on the cover
89 "Fake" in the title

TBR Busters

90 Book you meant to read last year
91 Any book on your TBR
92 Book someone gave you that you haven't read yet
93 Book in your house with a dusty cover

Fakes
94 About a monster no one believes exists
95 By an author who uses a pseudonym
96 Fiction book based on a true story
97 About something counterfeit

Spice It Up

98 Nonfiction book about a controversial person
99 Spice in the title
100 Spicy cover
101 Set somewhere known for its cuisine

The Long and Short of It
102 Over 500 pages
103 Under 150 pages
104 Title at least 7 words long
105 Author whose last name is no more than 5 letters

Wildcards

106 Gothic novel
107 With a geeky character
108 About prophecies
109 Book someone says "changed their life"
110 About someone with a disability

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