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Winter Challenge 2105: Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE POSTS)
HINA5.2 - The Luncheon on the Grass by Edouard Manet -
Double Dare by R.L. Mathewson.Partially nude figure on cover. Approved in Message 126 Help Thread. Approved For Length Message 5410
Current post:
Points: 5
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total:
Total Points: 450
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
Big Books - 500+: 2
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
Andy P.Task # 25.3 - Sirena's task: Hey Baby, It's Cold Outside...So Pick a Side!
I got heads (USA) so my choices were :
Option 1. Key Leaders:
by Robert H. Ferrell (biography of Truman)Option 2: Space Race : A nonfiction book about the space race
by Gene Kranz (Apollo program)Points this post: 25
Total points: 485
Mod
15.1 Make the Switch
Death Toll by Jim Kelly
The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan
Jim/Kim
25.3 - Sirena's task: Hey Baby, It's Cold Outside...So Pick a Side!
I flipped tails
option 2, space race: Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race by Von Hardesty
option 4,fiction, Hasselhoff- hanging: The Hanging by Lotte Hammer
50.1 - Sheila's task: It's Leap Year, Just 4 fun, let's enjoy that extra reading day!
Book A- #4, Alex: The Red Road Alex Morrow #4, by Denise Mina
Book B- first published 2012: The Nameless Dead by Brian McGilloway
Book C- 4 word title/name: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
total = 855
Julia10315.10 - A Reason to Party
A Call to Duty (Honorverse: Manticore Ascendant #1)
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Karen D's task: The Cameron Crazies
Option 3: Flag in Exile (Honor Harrington #5)
25.14 - JennRenee's task: Winter Wonderland
Option 1: An Amish Christmas Quilt
(snow on cover)Option 6: The Darkening Storm
I read this ebook. Paperback edition The Wild Thyme Unseen is 740 pages.
Claiming one BB ticket.
This post: 60 points
Challenge total points: 290
BB: 4
GO: 1
Completed tasks: 14
I'm moving books around. The book I had posted for task 10.10 is now being posted for task 15.10, and there's a new book for 10.10REPOST
10.10. Jump!
Read a book with a number of pages that is evenly divisible by 4.
Book has 388 pages /4 = 97
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15.10 - A Reason to Party
Read a book that is identified on Goodreads as #1, #2 or #12 in a series.
This is Book # 1 in the Commissario de Vincenzi series
* Both books are ARC's
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POINTS
Points This Post: 15
Points Total: 365
Golden Oldies:
Big Books:
500 () 750 () 1000 ()
Tasks Completed: 20
BB Total:
GO Total: 1
JUKKA30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Celebrate Short Fiction
Two books written by people who use a name of three letters or less.
Book 1: Collection of short fiction.
Harmaa antologia. One of the contributors is Lucilla Lin. The name means "Grey Anthology". It's a collection of dystopian short stories. It's only available in ebook format and is no. 925 in the verification document.
Book 2: Book with 100-200 pages.
Nälkävuosi by Aki Ollikainen. I read the ebook. The paperback, White Hunger, has 136 pages.
Points this post: 30
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Points: 260/1185
Books Read: 20
Tasks Complete: 17/65
Big Books Total: 2
Golden Oldies Total: 2
Reader name: Daphne25.16 - Morgan (faeriesfolly)'s task: Don't say I never got you anything!
Both books are from new to me authors
1. Library book: A Darker Shade of Magic
2. Holiday gift: Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy
Points this post: 25
Points Total: 1090
20.4 Camilla's Task: Lost in TranslationI chose Option 3: Read a book that takes place in at least two different countries
A Town Like Alice
This books takes place in Malaya and Australia
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Judy's task: Painting 101
I chose Option 3: Read a book in which the author's initials can be found in LINSEED
The Persian Pickle Club: 20th Anniversary Edition
by Sandra Dallas
Points this post: 40
Total points: 40
5.7 Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renoir1 book task
Read a book with a word endng in ING
Starling by Virginia Taylor
5.10 Rainy Weather by Pissarro
1 book task
Read a book of your choice.
How to Lose a Duke in Ten Days by Kate McKinley
25.2 It's that Time of Year
2 book task
Option 3: Read a book with a cityscape of city skyline on the cover
The Body Institute by Carol Riggs
Option 4: Read the final (or most recently published) book in a series of at least 3 books.
How to Rescue a Rake by Jayne Fresina
This is the most recent in a series that now stands at 3 books.
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Points this post: 35
Points thus far: 690
Coralie25.16 Don't say I never got you anything
Picked up from the bookshelf in our building where residents leave books for others to read
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse a new to me author
Borrowed from the public library
Runaway by Alice Munro a new to me author
This post 25 points
Total to date 345 points
Emsreviewsbooks10.6. It's Cold Here, but Colder There!
I read The Unfailing Light by Robin Bridges. It is set in Russia.
20.10 - Group Reads
I read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. My post is #71 in the discussion thread.
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 370
Books Read: 27
Tasks Complete: 21
EMurphy30.4 - Ava Catherine's Task: Plein Air
Option 1: Book with an outdoor setting - The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge by Michael Punke
**Book is set entirely outdoors as it follows the frontiersman and fur trapper Hugh Glass.
Option 3: Book with a green cover -
by Barbara KingsolverTotal this Post:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
BB Tickets: 0
Total:
Points: 125
Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
BB Tickets +500: 1
HINA10.6. It's Cold Here, but Colder There! - The Immortal Hunter (Argeneau #11) by Lynsay Sands.
Set at least 50% in Canada.
Current post:
Points: 10
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total:
Total Points: 460
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
Big Books - 500+: 2
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
25.17 - Tara Jo's task: Real Life Gets in the WayOption 2, a dog breed in the title: The English American by Alison Larkin
I'm using the breed of my own dog, an English Cocker Spaniel.
Option 3, author's initials in KIDNEY: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn Edin
Points this post: 25
Total points: 335
Jen UT20.5 - Bigger is Better - Shelley UT's task: Winter Birthdays
1. My mom: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Points this post: 20
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Total points: 140
25.8 Nick KY’s task: My Favorite ImpressionismOption A, a book with "sea" in the title: Sea Swept by Nora Roberts
Option D, author's first name begins with "Deb—": Family Affair by Debbie Macomber
Points this post: 25
Total points: 360
LAUREN JODI25.6 - Andy P.’s task: Winter in Tucson
Option 2. Main page genre - "Western"
Tucker's Claim by Sarah McCarty
Confirmed in post #18 of the task help thread.
Option 4. Author initial in WHAT'Z IT WORTH.
Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 295/1185
Total Books Read: 22
Tasks Completed: 15/65
Catherine TTask 5.8 - A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
read a book with a word ending in -ISM in the subtitle
Ebola K: A Terrorism Thriller: book 2: Ebola, Terrorism, and Hope by Bobby Adair
word: terrorism
15.10 - A Reason to PartyRead a book that is identified on Goodreads as #1, #2 or #12 in a series. Whole numbers only:
I read: The Cuckoo's Calling
Points this post: 15
Big Books this post: 1
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Points: 205
Big Books Total: 2
Golden Oldies Total: 4
25.15 - Jamie NY's task: Winter Challenge Goals!First roll Two Dice. - I rolled 2 and 6.
Book 1: Read a book in a series. The position in the series is determined by your dice roll. So if you rolled a 2 and a 4, you may read either #2 or #4 in any series. It must be identified on Goodreads as that # in the series.
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith - #2 in Cormoran Strike series
This book has 580 pages. I claim one big book ticket.
Book 2: Using whichever number you did not use for book 1, read a Goodread's Best Book of 2015 nominee or winner as determined by the numbers below: 6. Mystery/Thriller
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
This book has 512 pages. I claim one big book ticket.
THIS POST
Points: 25
Big Books Tickets: 2
TOTAL
Points: 45
Big book tickets: 3
Nick KY30.3 DlmRose’s Short Fiction
Book 1. I read The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 with contributors including Ben Bova, Joe Haldeman, and R.A. Lafferty, all with three or less letters in their first name.
Book 2. I read The Fox by D.H. Lawrence, at 112 pages, and the author’s first name as it appears on the book’s GR main page is a single letter initial.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 600
Emsreviewsbooks25.5 - Amanda A's task: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Option C: I read a publisher's advance copy of
by Shawn Reilly Simmons.Option D: I read Fairest by Marissa Meyer.
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 395
Books Read: 29
Tasks Complete: 22
10.6 It's Cold Here, But Colder ThereThe Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
This is set entirely in Canada
15.6 En Plein Air
by C.J. Box25.2 It's That Time of Year
1) Birthdays - I was born in 1965 and this author was also born in 1965
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
4) New Year's Eve
Make Me by Lee Child
https://www.goodreads.com/series/4054...
25.5 The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
A) The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) - Word is Fire
How to Start a Fire by Lisa Lutz
Song title was approved in the help thread.
D) Book of Your Choice
Re Jane by Patricia Park
Post Total: 75
Grand Total: 190
Mod
I read The Nightingale, set predominantly in France during WWII.
15.3 Lost and Found
I chose option 2 and read one book with all the letters in LOST and FOUND in the title/subtitle - The Lies About Money: Achieving Financial Security and True Wealth by Avoiding the Lies Others Tell Us-- And the Lies We Tell Ourselves.
Lost - L in "Lies," O in "mOney," S in "lieS," T in "The.
Found - F in "Financial," OU in "abOUt," ND in "aND."
25.9 - Dakimel’s task: Diversify Your Reading
For my first book, I read The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama. According to her GR bio, Ms. Tsukiyama is the daughter of a Chinese mother and a Japanese father - thus falls within the Asian-Pacific group.
For my second book, I read An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir. Ms. Tahir's GR bio doesn't indicate her background, but this link does:
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-04-20...
"Tahir is a new voice in fantasy. She's the daughter of Pakistani immigrants who owned a small 18-room motel at a Navy base in the Mojave dessert."
As the daughter of Pakistani immigrants, she falls within the Asian-Indian group.
BOTH of these authors are new to me.
Points this post: 45
Total points: 655
Kimber20.6 Favorite SEASONings
Option 1 Read a book that has something to do with vampires
Moon Bayou by J.R. Rain
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30.4 Plein Air
Option 2 Read a book with the word 'light' embedded in title
A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Option 3 Read a book with a green cover
The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
* task writer ok'd this book in post 115 of task help page
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Above tasks: 50 points
# tasks submitted to date: 8
New total points: 190
Julia10320.6 - Seasoned Reader - Emmalita's task: Favorite SEASONings
Option 2:
This post: 20 points
Challenge total points: 310
BB: 4
GO: 1
Completed tasks: 15
20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Art and PassionOption 2. Frieda Kahlo.
Read a memoir by a female author.
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Total points: 55
G.O : 1
BBTL: 0
Karen D.Task 20.4 - Camilla's Task: Lost in Translation
Option 3: Read a book that takes place in at least two different countries.
The Kill Artist - set in England, France, Canada, US, and Israel
Points this task: 20
Total points: 275
Tasks completed: 12/65
Elizabeth B5.2
nude or partially-nude figure on the cover
25.16 - Morgan (faeriesfolly)'s task
Book 1: Breakaway by Avon Gale, book received as a gift
Book 2: My Roommate's a Jock? Well, Crap! by Wade Kelly, I borrowed this book from a friend
Both authors are new to me.
Points: 30
Total: 740
25.17 - Real Life Gets in the WayOPTION 2:Read a book with a word in the title found in the list of AKC Dog Breeds.
Death Of An Ancient King by Laurent Gaudé
"King" appears in the book title and in Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
OPTION 3: Read a book where the Author’s Initials can be found in KIDNEY, DIALYSIS, TRANSPLANT.
Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
Points this post: 25
TOTAL POINTS: 190
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Book Tickets: 0 (500+)
Total tasks completed: 9
Total books read: 12
Kelly B10.5. Curl Up and Read
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Found on page 2 of Best Books to Read When the Snow Is Falling list.
Points this post:10
Total points:10
Kelly B20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Art and Passion
Option B: Read a memoir by a female author
Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Points this post: 20
Total points: 30
Laura NT15.10 - A Reason to Party
Read a book that is identified on Goodreads as #1, #2 or #12 in a series
Divergent
Divergent is #1 in the Divergent series
I claim 1 big book ticket for this book. 576 pages
Points this post: 15
Total points: 145
1 Big Book ticket
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Karen D's task: The Cameron CraziesOption 1: Duke blue
Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews - approved by task creator msg #96
(https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)
Ebook approved for length on post #1432 (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 405
Golden Oldie tickets: 1
Big Book tickets: 1
Kelly B20.4 - Camilla's Task: Lost in Translation
Option 2: Read a book that was originally published in a language other than your native language.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Originally published in Japanese; my native language is English.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 50
Kelly B10.3 Young Girl Reading
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Painting used: Madame Charpentier and Her Children (1878). Shared word is children.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 60
Kelly B20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Laura NT's task: Art and Science
Option B: Read a short story collection.
Winesburg, Ohio
Points this post: 20
Total points: 80
Kelly B15.3 Lost and Found
Option 2: Read ONE book that fulfills both Book A and Book B - letters LOSTFOUND including 2 O's
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate by Wendy Moore
Points this post: 15
Total points: 95
COLLEENS5.10 - Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather by Camille Pissarro
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
**This is a Big Book (846 pages edition read linked above). Claiming 2 BB tickets.**
What better way to spend a rainy day than curled up with a good book? Read a book of your choice.
Points this post: 5
Big Books tickets this post: 2
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Points: 15
Books Read: 2
Tasks Complete: 2
Big Books Total: 2
Golden Oldies Total: 0
Kelly B10.7. Are you Up to Date?
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Currently #32 on the list.
Points:10
Total points: 105
Task 5.1 – Dance at Le moulin de la GalettePerson wearing a hat on cover
Help thread approval
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This Post: 5 points
Total points to date: 250 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 2
Big Books Read: (1) 500 pg / (1) 750 pg / (0) 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 3
Kelly B10.9. Catch Up With the SRC
]The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
This book is new to me; it is not a re-read.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 115
Task 25.10 - Bella Italia!Option 2 - Rome Read a book the title of which contains a word of at least 5 letters that is found in the lyrics of Hotel California.
“And I was thinking to myself,
This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great #1) (1969) by Mary Renault (Mass Market Paperback, 480 pages)
Man Booker Prize Nominee for The Lost Man Booker Prize (1970)
Option 5 - Siena Read a book with 17 letters in the book title or in the author's name or in the two combined. Subtitles may be used or ignored.
The Co / urilo / f Affa / ir
The Courilof Affair (1933) by Irène Némirovsky (Paperback, 176 pages)
** The Courilof Affair is a Golden Oldie, published in 1933**
Pagecount: 480 + 176 = 656 > 500
175 + 25 = 200
Tasks Completed: 13
Points for this post: 25
Points thus far: 175 + 25 = 200
Books read: 18
Pages read: 5,134
Read but not claimed: 06
Goodreads Authors: 07
Golden Oldies: 04
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
perletwo30.6 - Donna Jo's task: Winter in Iowa circa 1950s - 1. ➜ Read a book with one of the following words in the title (title only, no subtitles): Cold, Snow, Ice, Freeze, or Frozen. Plurals and the endings -er, -est, or -ing will work. No other variations are allowed.
Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen. I read the Kindle edition, but the paperback edition (Ice Cold) has 464 pages.
2. ➜ Read a book written by an author whose first and last name have initials in the phrase "DRESSING WARMLY". Letters may be in any order, but may only be used as many times as they appear in the phrase (i.e., the only letters that can be used more than once are R and S). Multiple authors are fine as long as at least one author has initials found in the phrase.
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater. This hardcover edition has 391 pages.
The two books combined should have a total of at least 500 pages. Combined, the two books I read have a total of 855 pages.
Points this task: 30
Total points: 590
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 8
Big Book ticket requests: 2
Books read: 42
Tasks completed: 30
30.2 Jonquil's Task--You Think You Saw What?:For
. I thought the girl in the painting looked more than a little pained so I picked up on a headache theme. So 
by Mike O'ConnorFor
I thought the people were very dubious about the dog following them them, hence
by Martin Kihn30.3 Dlmrose's Task--Celebrate Short Fiction:
1.
by Fern Michaels. the third author of this collection is Lin Stepp2.
by Meg Rosoff has 194 pp.Today's total: 60
Grand Total: 1035
25.7 - Coralie's task: Summer at the StadiumChoose two Options
Option 2: Read a book with the the name of an insect in the title/subtitle.
I read The Bees by Laline Paul.
Option 4: Read a book with someone with a tattoo on the cover and include cover.
I read The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson.
Points this post: 25
Total points to date: 200 points
Post #815.7 Here Be Dragons
Wit'ch Storm Goodreads synopsis mentions Sea dragons in the second paragraph
approved in help thread #2 and #12
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 15
Total: 235
Books read: 16
Tasks Done:11
Unclaimed 1
CYNBAXTERTask # 30.05 – Daphne's task: Exploring the world of -ogy
Book 1 - Option 1: Walden by Henry David Thoreau which can be found on page 1 of the Popular Ecology Books list https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
***This is a Golden Oldie (orig pub =1854). Claiming 1 GOLDIE ticket
Book 2 - Option 4: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan which can be found on Page 1 of the Popular Neurology Books listhttps://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Points this post: 30 points
Total points to date = 675 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 5
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 1
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 4
Kelly B10.10. Jump!
The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon
Pages: 336
Points this post: 10
Total points: 125
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