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Jayne wrote: "Appreciate the feedback, folks. As a few people have pointed out, TinEye is good as an objective colour marker (ish - there's been a few issues in the past) rather than relying on task creators to ..."I think that 50% or 60% is much more doable!
XBM50.1 Meg's Task: The best of 2024
This is a 3 book task. Read 1 book for each option.
Your books must have a total page count of 750+ pages.
Book 1: Your Favorite of 2024
Choose your favorite book read during 2024. Read a book by the same author or a book from the "Readers also enjoyed" section of your favorite book's page. Required: Post a link to your favorite 2024 book. (True to Form. Elizabeth Berg)
Range of Motion. Elizabeth Berg - 260 pages
Book 2: The Best of 2024
Read a book that won or was nominated/short-listed/long-listed for any prize in 2024. The award must be listed on the book's goodreads page and specify 2024. Required: Name the 2024 award. Nominee for Readers' Favorite Romance (2024)
The Rom-Commers. Katherine Center - 336 pages
Book 3: Looking to 2025
Read a book by an author who is releasing a new book in 2025. (Published January 7, 2025)
Never Say Never: A Novel. Danielle Steel - 256 pages
Points this post: 50
Total Points: 970 / 995
Tasks Completed 55
XBM25.5 Jessica S’s Task: The Music of Christmas
This is a two-book task.
Option 3: Let It Snow - Performed by Vaughn Monroe
Read a book where the author’s initials (you may ignore middle initials) can be found in LET IT SNOW.
Always, in December. Emily Stone
Option 4: Walking in the Air - Performed by Peter Auty
Read a book with any noun found in the lyrics of Walking in the Air in the title.
Required: state the noun (Midnight)
The Girl at Midnight. Melissa Grey
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 920 / 995
Tasks Completed 54
XBM15.1 Groundhog Groundhog Groundhog
This is a two-book task.
Book 1: Read a book with a 4 or more letter word in the title that can be formed from one of these two phrases: SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER (Stern)
Required: State the phrase and the word.
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern. Lynda Cohen Loigman
Book 2: Read a book that has a repeated word consecutively in the title.
Going, Going, Ganache. Jenn McKinlay
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 895 / 995
Tasks Completed 53
XBM30.7 - Amy FL’s Task: The Headaches of Home Ownership
Option 1: Read a book with a title word that begins with the letters RE.
Reading Between the Lies. Lynn Cahoon
Option 3: Read a book by an author whose first and last initials can be found in MARISSA.
For the Love of Summer. Susan Mallery
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 880 / 995
Tasks Completed 52
XBM5.10 Comfort zone
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
The Christmas Hope. Donna VanLiere
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 850 / 995
Tasks Completed 51
XBM30.9 - TessaVanessa's Task: Ringing in the New Year
Option 1: Goodbye 2024! Hello 2025!
Read a book with a page count with only the numbers in 2024 and 2025 (224).
The Pull of the Moon. Elizabeth Berg. 1.11.25
Option 2: New Year Resolution
Read a book with food on the cover. The food should be visible (i.e. not in a can or packet).
Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter. Lisa Patton. 2.10.25
Required: Post the cover.
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 845 / 995
Tasks Completed 50
XBM20.1 Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and Holidays
Option 3 - Read a book first published in either 1981 or 2024.
We Three Queens. Rhys Bowen. 2.9.25
First published November 19, 2024
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 815 / 995
Tasks Completed 49
XBM5.9 It's Part of My World
Read a nonfiction book with MPG Nature.
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World. Robin Wall Kimmerer. 2.10.25
****Non-fiction - 1 IAF *****
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 795 / 995
Tasks Completed 48
XBM30.8 - Delicious Dee's Task: Codex Alera
For this task, you will pick one option (A, B or C) and read book A and book B from that option. Your page count needs to be more than 500 pages (so 501+) and at least one of the authors must be NEW TO YOU.
Option C – The Furies - air/aeris
Book A - Pick one of the furies listed above – read a book where all the letters of the fury can be found in the title (excluding subtitle).
Murder at the National Cathedral. Margaret Truman - 338 pages - AIR
Book B - Using the same fury than the book you used for Book A and read a book where all the letters of the alternate name can be found in the authors name.
Death by Café Mocha. Alex Erickson. - 304 pages - AERIS - New to me author
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 790 / 995
Tasks Completed 47
XBM20.6 It's A Fact - Julia103's Task Getting Older
Option 1: Read a book where a main character is a senior citizen. (This book is on the list, and is about a woman who has just lost her husband of 62 years).
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont. Laura Pearson. 2.6.25
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 760 / 995
Tasks Completed 46
XBM25.3: Beth NC's Task- Winter Solstice
Option 1: Read during day light hours means you have very little daylight so read a book from this list:
https://bookriot.com/best-short-books/
How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals. Sy Montgomery. 2.5.25
***Nonfiction - 1 IAF ticket ****
Option 2: Long nights are made for curling up with a good book and a blanket.
Read a book from this cozy mystery list:
Borrowed Crime. Laurie Cass. 12.21.25
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 740 / 995
Tasks Completed 45
Not a specific idea, but a plea to reconsider Tin Eye tasks. I feel like it takes hours to find a book cover that is 75% one color. Perhaps lower the percentage?
XBM15.9 My Bloody Valentine
Read a book with MPG Romance as well as MPG of War, Thriller or Mythology (Romance/War)
The Land Beneath Us. Sarah Sundin. 2.4.25
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 715 / 995
Tasks Completed 44
XBM10.5 - A Gateway to the Past
Read a book set prior to 1903
A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting. Sophie Irwin. 2.2.25
(MPG of Regency and Regency Romance)
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 700 / 995
Tasks Completed 43
XBM15.3 Mysterious and Wise
Option 1: Two-book task
Book 1: Read a book with a cover with at least 75 percent of any combination of these THREE colors, RED BLACK AND YELLOW according to Tineye. All colors must be present (the percentage of each color is not important as long as they add up to 75 percent.)
52.3 %#fbe541Yellow
15.3 %#c73c2fRed
8.9 %#ddcc59Yellow
3.9 %#17212eBlack
Razor Girl. Carl Hiaasen. 1.15.25
Book 2:
Read a book with at least 2 different lucky numbers (2, 8 and 9) in the page count. (288)
A Letter to Three Witches. Elizabeth Bass. 2.2.25
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 690 / 995
Tasks Completed 42
XBM10.7 - I Want To Believe
Read a book with an MPG of Paranormal.
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. Sangu Mandanna
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 675 / 995
Tasks Completed 41
XBM30.3 - Katrisa's Task: Reunion - Go Norsemen!
Task: This is a 2 book task. Choose an option and read a book A and a book B for your chosen option
Option 1: Valhalla
A - Read a book from the first 20 pages of this list of books about Norse mythology - From page 1
The Gospel of Loki. Joanne M. Harris
B - Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters (words must match exactly) from the first verse of Immigrant Song: (Midnight)
Midnight Clear. Kathy Hogan Trocheck
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 665 / 995
Tasks Completed 40
XBM25.2 - Nick KY’s Task: Rivers
Task: Choose two options and read one book for each.
Option 1: Read a book first published in 1968 or in a year after 1968 that ends in the digit 8 (1978, 1988, 1998, 2008, or 2018). Published in 2018
The Saturday Night Supper Club. Carla Laureano
Option 2: Read a book with one of the 8 original River names as a word in the title, subtitle, or series title. (Clearwater)
The Water Keeper. Charles Martin
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 635 / 995
Tasks Completed 39
