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Karsyn ’s comments from the Badass Reading Challenges group.

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Week 9

Task: Read a book with the words CLOSING and CEREMONY in the text
Task: Read a book whose title begins with a letter in CIRCUS
Book: In the Clearing
Author: Robert Dugoni
Pages: 479
Start Date: 5/26/18
Finish Date: 5/29/18
How it Fits: I Title is in Circus, Closing (and opening!) and Ceremony in text -
"Adele stepped from the room, and Tracy heard her opening and CLOSING cabinets and filling a kettle at the sink."
"The CEREMONY was to take place at a football game the following fall."



Week 10

Task: Read a book where the MC interacts with one of these animals
Task: Read a book with 1, 7, 9, and 2 in the publication date
Book: The Merging
Author: John Logsdon
Pages: 206
Start Date: 7/27/18
Finish Date: 7/27/18
How it Fits: Pub date - 9/7/2017, MC interacts with a bear - "That’s when a massive bear flew past me, heading to my right."



Week 11

Task: Read a book where traveling takes place in the story
Task: Read a book with the colors - Red, White and Black in the text
Book: Tricked
Author: Kevin Hearne
Pages: 366
Start Date: 4/1/18
Finish Date: 4/5/18
How it Fits: Atticus travels all over the globe including to Arizona and Colorado in this book. Words in text -
"The RED rocks may have a stark beauty to them..."
"WHITE bone shone through here and there..."
"A slim Navajo man in a BLACK cowboy hat peered around the corner..."



Week 12

Task: Read a book with a tent on the cover (The Big Top)
Task: Read a book with all letters of CIRCUS in the title
Book: The Night Circus
Author: Erin Morganstern
Pages: 401
Start Date: 12/30/18
Finish Date: 12/31/18
How it Fits: Circus in Title, Circus Tent on Cover



Week 13

Task: Read a book featuring a magician / someone who practices magic
Task: Read a book tagged Adventure
Book: Trapped
Author: Kevin Hearne
Pages: 322
Start Date: 4/27/18
Finish Date: 4/29/18
How it Fits: MC Atticus is a Druid and can do things that are like magic / Tagged as Adventure 50 times

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Week 5

Task: Read a book with a DREAMY MC (your interpretation)
Task: Read a book whose Cover or Title supports your favorite NFL team
Book: Alfie Bloom and the Talisman Thief
Author:
Pages: 272
Start Date: 6/1/18
Finish Date: 6/3/18
How it Fits: My interpretation of "dreamy MC" - the book starts with the MC dwelling on a Dream. :) "Tonight’s dream had been the worst yet."
supports your favorite NFL team - Steelers - Cover is 42.1% yellow, 24.7% Black, for a 66.8% Black and Gold Steeler Cover! :D



Week 6

Task: Read a book where teamwork is evident
Task: Read a book with the author's last initial in SUPERBOWL
Book: Artemis (Feb 2018 Re-read)
Author: Andy Weir
Pages: 322
Start Date: 2/14/18
Finish Date: 2/15/18
How it Fits: Jazz has to use the help of her friends/ family to pull of her scheme/heist
Weird is in superboWl



Week 7

Task: Read a book whose MC's first name is the same as any 2018 Winter Olympian
Task: Read a book with all Olympic symbol colors on cover
Book: Otherworld
Author: Jason Segel
Pages: 370
Start Date: 2/15/18
Finish Date: 2/17/18
How it Fits: MC is Simon - 2018 Winter Olympian SIMON SCHEMPP of Germany won 1 Silver and 1 Bronze in the biathlon
Olympic colors on Cover - Red, Black, Blue, Green & Yellow all found



Week 8

Task: Read a book that is 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in a series
Task: Read a book where page count is evenly divisible by 3 (Bronze)
Book: Hounded
Author: Kevin Hearne
Pages: 303
Start Date: 2/20/18
Finish Date: 2/22/18
How it Fits: 1st book in the Iron Druid series / 303 pages divided by 3 = 101

It's a car manufacturer from the 1800s-1960s.



I've actually found it a lot, so if I need to share one or two, I shall. :) Most of the items were easier to find than I expected them to be. For round two, I'll have to get tougher!! :D

Nice one, Jackie. I have a crapton of books coming up with "roger" in them, but they are all military books so it's finding "roger that". LOL!!

Vizier I've found quite a bunch. Here's a few:

It's all yours! :)

Sounds good, Jackie! Angie and I can take on B & O, unless either of you want either of those, then we just need someone for the G. :)

It's all yours Ashley!

Jackie, Angie, either of you fancy the A?

8 of 25 completed

Currently reading 2 others

Any of you have any preferences for N, A, B, O & G?

I can cover any of them, and really don't have a preference at this time. Do either of you wanna grab the N, since Angie will finish fast? Or do y'all prefer I do?

Tati wrote: "Just out of curiosity, from someone who has never developed a challenge before. Do you check beforehand to see if there are books that fit the tasks?"

Nope! I personally don't at least. That was actually something that came up for the ranDEMONium last year. We had created a challenge "Read a Book with 666 pages" and Claire found out that there is no book with 666 pages! We tweaked that one. :)

But like with Bingo, no I haven't looked/searched. So, who knows! That's part of the challenge too. But as hard as it is, it should all be doable, even if you have to delve into some non-fiction or obscure books. I do know the colors are doable, hard, but doable. For example, this cover is 96.1% Red -



I'll be searching right along with y'all! :D

Yay ladies!!

We were worried we wouldn't get any takers. :) Hehehe! Welcome!

Creatively I like to go all out insanity, but I usually tame it down, since not everyone likes my breed of crazy.

As an example, there's a video game (GTA 5) where you can create your own races. Now, there's a crapton of stuff added to it to make it insane, but when it first came out, it was just checkpoints. But my races (I created over 100) were INSANITY!! For me, if my crew wasn't cussing the whole race, then it wasn't a good race. I know, I'm weird. I like the crazy. If your curious, here's my favorite race - it's ALL back and forth, over a hillside. :) (view spoiler)[

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The Insanity just started, we warned you with Chernabog. :) There's already another WAMH challenge in the works based off something I found when creating this one.

Plus, there's a new challenge coming very soon, that is not specifically a WAMH challenge, but the tasks are going to be HARD. It's a RtH style challenge with WAMH aspects. :D

Glad some of you are interested. When my Husband saw the final touches of this one yesterday, He said "are you TRYING to make these people hate you?!" I knew there might be a few of you that get me!! :D

Plethora wrote: "I really enjoy how hard I have to work on BARC challenges! It may be frustrating that I take forever and a day sometimes, but at the end of the day you can feel like wow versus others where it is relatively easy to jam though a challenge."

That is EXACTLY what we are going for. I've toned things down, previously, while having some of them HARD but not insane. For me, the challenges out there aren't that challenging. I think the only challenging part is being in too many, not the actual challenges.

So, we decided to not reign in my more wild ideas, and let them roam free. Hopefully, at least a few of you will like them! :)

Biathlon: Mixed Relay


Completed October 9th, 2018

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Event: Biathlon: Mixed Relay
Task: Opposite Genders / Authors
Title: Hot Lead, Cold Iron
Author: Ari Marmell
Started: 9/18/17
Finished: 9/17/18
Pages: 400
Rating: 3 stars
How it Fits:
Male Author / Historical Urban Fantasy
paired with Angie's
Female Author / Humor / Chick Lit / Fiction



Event: Biathlon: Mixed Relay
Task: Opposite Genders / Authors
Title: The Three Secret Cities
Author: Matthew Reilly
Started: 9/18/18
Finished: 9/19/18
Pages: 448
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits:
Male Author/ Adventure & Thriller
paired with Angie's
Female Author / PNR & Urban Fantasy



Event: Biathlon: Mixed Relay
Task: Opposite Genders / Authors
Title: Bangkok Warlock
Author: John Logsdon
Started: 9/20/18
Finished: 9/21/18
Pages: 320
Rating: 2 stars
How it Fits:
Male Author / Urban Fantasy
paired with Angie's
Female Author / Romance & Contemporary



Event: Biathlon: Mixed Relay
Task: Opposite Genders / Authors
Title: Property of the Rebel Librarian
Author: Allison Varnes
Started: 9/21/18
Finished: 9/21/18
Pages: 256
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits:
Female Author / Middle Grade Fiction
paired with Angie's
Male Author / Action / Adventure / Thriller



Event: Biathlon: Mixed Relay
Task: Opposite Genders / Authors
Title: Cogheart
Author: Peter Bunzl
Started: 9/22/18
Finished: 9/22/18
Pages: 235
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits:
Male Author / Middle Grade Fantasy, Sci Fi & Steampunk
paired with Angie's
Female Author / Romance



Event: Biathlon: Mixed Relay
Task: Opposite Genders / Authors
Title: Scourged
Author: Kevin Hearne
Started: 9/25/18
Finished: 9/26/18
Pages: 276
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits:
Male Author / Urban Fantasy & Mythology
paired with Angie's
Female Author / Historical, YA, Mystery



Event: Biathlon: Mixed Relay
Task: Opposite Genders / Authors
Title: The Gone World
Author: Tom Sweterlitsch
Started: 9/27/18
Finished: 10/3/18
Pages: 383
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits:
Male Author / Mystery, Sci Fi & Time Travel
paired with Angie's
Female Author / YA, Fantasy



Event: Biathlon: Mixed Relay
Task: Opposite Genders / Authors
Title: The Spirit Rebellion
Author: Rachel Aaron
Started: 10/4/18
Finished: 10/9/18
Pages: 465
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits:
Female Author / Epic, High Fantasy, Fantasy & Adventure
paired with Angie's
Male Author / Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense

Alpine Skiing: Giant Slalom


Completed September 13th, 2018

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Event: Alpine Skiing
Task: Use TITLES to spell out word A ~ ALPINE SKIING
Title: Gamer for Life
Author: Daniel Schinhofen
Started: 9/11/18
Finished: 9/13/18
Pages: 403
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: G Title

Completed my H title, on to you Jackie!

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Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in CHERNABOG - H
Title: Haunted
Author: James Patterson
Page Count: 316
Start: 10/8/18
Finish: 10/8/18
How it Fits: H Title

Awesome Ashley!

It's a Sun, so no reading for me today, but I'll start my H book tonight and have it done tomorrow probably, it's on the short side.

Thanks Carmen! Here's picks for you:


- From Karsyn's shelf
- From Karsyn's shelf
- From Carmen's shelf
- From Plethora's shelf
- From Plethora's shelf
- From Angie's shelf
- From Angie's shelf