A Trip Down Memory Lane - 1972
1st November 2024 - 31st January 2025
Fond Memories: 1-5 tasks
Reminiscing: 6-10 tasks
Nostalgia: 11-15 tasks
3/15
Tasks:
1. Most watched TV show – All in the Family
🔵 Read a book set in New York City or where two generations of a family live together.
1. Most watched TV show – All in the Family
🔵 Read a book set in New York City or where two generations of a family live together.
Rescuing the Lady of Sedgeworth - C.H. Admirand (Dragonblade - Nov 2024) (2 generations) - Nov 6
2. Best-selling single (US) – American Pie by Don McLean
🔵 Read a book where a plane crashes or someone mourns something or someone.
🔵 Read a book where a plane crashes or someone mourns something or someone.
The Party Line - Carolyn Brown (Montlake - Nov 2024) (mourns) - Nov 5
3. Best-selling album (US) – Harvest by Neil Young
🔵 Read a Series book #4.
4. Most popular film – The Godfather
🔵 Read a book made into a movie/TV show OR where a crime is committed.
5. Best-selling book – Jonathan Livingston Seagull –
Richard Bach
🔵 Read a book tagged/genre Fable or Novella.
6. New Food - Egg McMuffin
🔵 Read a book where a character eats an Egg McMuffin OR goes out for breakfast.
7. Born this year – May 2nd - Dwayne "The Rock"
Johnson
🔵 Read a book where a baby is born OR with a character that has had many jobs or careers.
8. Died this year – January 27 – Mahalia Jackson
🔵 Read a book set in New Orleans OR where a person sings in church.
IN THE NEWS
9. January 4 – The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced.
🔵 Read a book where someone uses a calculator OR does math.
10. March 22 – Eisenstadt v. Baird: The Supreme Court of
the U.S. rules that unmarried people have the right to access contraception on
the same basis as married couples.
🔵 Read a book where any contraception method is used OR set in Massachusetts.
11. June 17 – Watergate scandal: Five White House
operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National
Committee.
🔵 Read a book where someone commits a break and enter OR with politics part of the story.
12. September 1 – The Second Cod War begins between the
United Kingdom and Iceland.
🔵 Read a book where a character is a fisherman OR where someone eats fish.
13. September 5–6 – Munich massacre: Eleven Israeli
athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after eight members
of the Arab terrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village; five
guerillas and one policeman are also killed in a failed hostage rescue.
🔵 Read a book where someone is a hostage OR where a policeman is killed.
14. October 1 – Alex Comfort's bestselling manual The Joy
of Sex is published.
🔵 Read a book where sex occurs OR with a four-word title.
🔵 Read a Series book #4.
🔵 Read a book made into a movie/TV show OR where a crime is committed.
🔵 Read a book tagged/genre Fable or Novella.
🔵 Read a book where a character eats an Egg McMuffin OR goes out for breakfast.
🔵 Read a book where a baby is born OR with a character that has had many jobs or careers.
🔵 Read a book set in New Orleans OR where a person sings in church.
9. January 4 – The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced.
🔵 Read a book where someone uses a calculator OR does math.
🔵 Read a book where any contraception method is used OR set in Massachusetts.
🔵 Read a book where someone commits a break and enter OR with politics part of the story.
🔵 Read a book where a character is a fisherman OR where someone eats fish.
🔵 Read a book where someone is a hostage OR where a policeman is killed.
🔵 Read a book where sex occurs OR with a four-word title.
Thrown to the Lyon - Jude Knight (Dragonblade - Oct 2024) (four words) - Nov 3
🔵 Read a book with a female FBI agent OR with a female law enforcement character.
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