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WINTER CHALLENGE 2015 CT
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Winter Challenge 2105: Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE POSTS)

30.7 - Catherine T's task: A New Start in Art
This is a TWO book task. Choose from 2 different options below.
Because this is a new start, both books must be new to you, not rereads. And because it's a job, one must be non-fiction.
Required: State that both books are new to you and which options you chose when you post.
Option 1: Great Art - Read a book whose author shares initials (middle initials may be ignored) with one of the painters who was working in the period after 1800.
The Quilter's Kitchen by Jennifer Chiaverini
Jennifer Chiaverini shares initials with John Constable
***This book is new to me***
Option 2: Great Building - Read a book where the page numbers can be found in any combination of those figures (46,396; 6; 2,000)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (243 pages)
***This book is non-fiction and new to me***
I listened to audiobook, linked to PB version
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Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 330/1185
Tasks Completed: 18/65
Total Books Read: 22/93
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Total Big Books: 1

10.9. Catch Up With the SRC
REQUIRED: This book is new to me
Notes from a Small Island
15.6 En Plein Air

15.8 Please Mr. Postman
Required: Page 1, #5
The Color Purple
Points This Post: 40
Total Points: 165
Total Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 8

5.6 - Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte
Psmith in the City - Published 1910
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
5.10 - Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather by Camille Pissarro
The Shamutanti Hills
This book is not found in the AR Bookfinder
This book has been read in its entirety
Points this post: 10
Total points: 810
Golden Oldies: 19
Big Books: 500=7, 750=1, 1000=0
Tasks Completed = 50

10.4. C'est ou? - Read a book with the name of a French city or town or the word "France" or "French" in its title/subtitle.
Just Listen 'n' Learn French 2e With (3) CD
10.6. It's Cold Here, but Colder There!
Beowulf Published 900 AD - This is set in Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway)
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
Points this post: 20
Total points: 830
Golden Oldies: 20
Big Books: 500=7, 750=1, 1000=0
Tasks Completed = 52

25.12 - Pamela3265's task: Celebrating the National Park System
Option 2 - read a book set between 1941 – 1945
The Razor's Edge Published 1944
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
Option 3 - read a book whose author’s initials appear in GLACIER CALVING
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (glaCieR) Published 1939
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
Points this post: 25
Total points: 855
Golden Oldies: 22
Big Books: 500=7, 750=1, 1000=0
Tasks Completed = 53

5.4 Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet
Read a book found on first 5 pages of the Popular Satire Books list.
I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
This book is on page one of the list.
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
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30.1 Schatzie’s Task: Tis the season for giving back
This is a two book task. I chose option 1 and option 4.
Book 1 – Option 1 - Read a book about animal rescue.
I read Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles by Denise Flaim and Rescue Ink
Book 2 – Option 4 - Read a book of your choice.
I read Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan
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Points this post: 35
Points total: 970/1185
Tasks completed: 57/65
Books read: 76

30.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Tis the season for giving back
Option 3: Author initials in HEART
Run Girl by Eva Hudson
This in an ebook only, approval is currently on line 1739 of the spreadsheet.
Option 4: Book of my choice
The Worst-case Scenario Survival Handbook: Christmas
Points this post: 30
Total points: 350

Correction Post for Post #2736/Problem Thread Post #391
30.3 Dlmrose's task: Celebrate Short Fiction--Both books must be FICTION and each must be written by an author who uses a short first or last name of no more than 3 letters
Book 1 anthology or collection of at least 3 short stories or novellas:The Twelve Stories of Christmas by Joe L. Wheeler
Book 2 At least 100, but no more than 200, pages--145 pages:The Christmas Clock by Kat Martin


Points Earned This Post:30
Points Achieved to Date: 680/1185
GO Tickets:
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (0)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)

30.4 Ava Catherine's task: Plein Air
Option 1: Read a book with an outdoor setting. At least fifty percent of the book must occur outdoors
Everest: Mountain Without Mercy by Broughton Coburn. This book is almost entirely about the IMAX Everest expedition and the tragedy that struck it. There is some digression about Sherpa culture and traditions, but its primary focus is on scaling Everest.
Option 3: Read a book with at least 80% green on cover

TOTAL IN POST:
Points: 30
Big Book: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
TOTAL SO FAR:
Points: 795 + 30 = 825
Big Book: 3 + 0 = 3
Golden Oldies: 3 + 0 = 3

10.8. Hey, We Were There, Too!
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 4: Last Days by G. Willow Wilson
Wilson is the last name of Henry Wilson who was Vice President from 1873-1875 for President Ulysses S. Grant
Points this post: 10
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Points: 225
Books Read: 16
Tasks Complete: 14
Big Book Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0

Task # 10.7. Are you Up to Date?
Read a book from
Popular Books 2015.

Points this post: 10
Total points: 1085

25.10 - Sandy's Task - Bella Italia!
Option 1: Set in England in 1540
Dark Fire
** Dark Fire is a Big Book (608 pages). I claim one BB ticket. **
Option 2: Word from lyrics to Hotel California in title
My word is "there"
And Then There Were None
Line 6 "There she stood in the doorway;"
I read the ebook, the most rated MMPB is Dix petits nègres with 224 pages.
** And Then There Were None is a Golden Oldie (first published in 1939). I claim one GO ticket. **
608 + 224 = 832 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 375
BB tickets this post: 1
Total BB tickets: 3
GO tickets this post: 1
Total GO tickets: 5

Task # 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Shelley UT's task: Winter Birthdays
Option 1. Read a book with books about books" as a main page genre The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Writing>Books about books (266 users)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 1105

10.8. Hey, We Were There, Too!
The Pearl By John Steinbeck
Vice President: John Adams
30.4 - Ava Catherine's task: Plein Air
Option 2: All the Light We Cannot See
Option3:

Points this post: 40
Total points: 265

25.5 - Amanda A's task: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Option B: The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
Option D: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
25.13 - M1nks's task: Art Can Set You Free
(Option 1) The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

(Option 4): The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips The book is about a young woman who tries to keep her individuality and integrity within the racist and misogynistic society that she grew up in.
Points this post: 50
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Points: 275
Books Read: 20
Tasks Complete: 16
Big Book Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0

20.1 Superheroes. This is a one book task. Specify which option you used when posting.
Option 1. Read a book with the main page genre "superheroes"
I read Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
Superheroes is on the main page.
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25.7 Summer at the Stadium. This is a two book task. Choose two different options and read a book for each.
Option 1. Read a book with a main page genre of GLBT
I read Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
GLBT is on the main page.
Option 3. Read a book with the first word of the title 'A'.
I read A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Points this post: 45
Total Points: 255

Option 1: Book by Author with same birth year - The Woods by Harlan Coben who was also born in 1962.
Option 2: Book Given to Me - The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness by Jeff Olson - which was given to me by a neighbor.
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 175/1185
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 11
Golden Oldies 1
Big Books: 500+ (), 750+ (), 1000+ ()

50.1 - Sheila’s task: It’s Leap Year, Just 4 fun, let’s enjoy that extra reading day!
Book A: 4th in a series AND has a 4 letter word in the series name
Criminally Handsome by Cassie Miles
Book #4 in the Kenner County Crime Unit series
Book B: First published in 2012
Time Out by Jill Shalvis
Book C: 4-word title by an author with a 4 letter name
A Cold Dark Place by Toni Anderson
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Points This Post: 50
Total Points: 545/1185
Total Books Read: 39
Tasks Completed: 26/65

15.1 - Make the Switch
Book 1 - At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
Link to PB edition: At the Water's Edge
Book 2 - Tempting Fate by Jane Green
Link to PB edition: Tempting Fate
Gruen // Green
This post: 15 points
Total points to date: 410 points
Tasks completed: 22
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **

Book with page numbers evenly divisible by 4
My Ántonia by Willa Cather. I read the kindle edition, the paperback (My Ántonia) has 232 pages.
This book is a Golden Oldie and I am requesting one ticket, please.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 185/1185
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 12
Golden Oldies 2
Big Books: 500+ (), 750+ (), 1000+ ()

Option 2. I love the smell and taste of cinnamon. It's a great savory and sweet spice. Read a book with a mostly brown (over 50%) colored-cover.
I read

I love Cumin but I probably use Paprika in most recipes!
Points: 295
Books read: 26
tasks completed: 21
Big Books: 1
pages read: 7684

3. My Youngest Jack - Motorized Vehicle on Cover
Northern Lights

by Nora Roberts
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 205/1185
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 13
Golden Oldies 2
Big Books: 500+ (), 750+ (), 1000+ ()

25.9 - Dakimel’s task: Diversify Your Reading -
Book 1: To Have and to Hold by Nalini Singh.
Author was born in Fiji.
Book 2: Luck on the Line by Zoraida Córdova.
Author was born in Ecuador and is a new to me author.
Current post:
Points: 25
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total:
Total Points: 895
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 3
Big Books - 500+: 3
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:

Task # 20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Emmalita's task: Favorite SEASONings
Option 1. Read a book that has something to do with vampires

Paranormal>Vampires on mp (2569 users)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 1125

25.1 - Beth_NC's task: Art of Reading
Option B: Read a book that shows the sun or the moon on the cover.
REQUIRED: Include the cover when you post.

The moon is behind the characters head on the right
Option D: For this option, read a book set entirely in France between 1800 and 1899. The majority of the book must be set during the 1800-1899 time period.
The Lady of the Camellias
**I am claiming a Golden Oldies ticket for this book published in 1844**
Points this post: 25
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 1
Total Points: 1025
Books Read: 83
Tasks Complete: 59
Big Books Total: 7
Golden Oldies Total: 3

I chose option 2: author with initials in KRZYZEWSKI
Thatcher's Trial: 180 Days that Created a Conservative Icon by Kwasi Kwarteng
25.5 - Amanda A's task: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
I chose options B & D: author's initials in CHRISTMAS LIGHTS and book of choice
B: The Magic of Ordinary Days by Ann Howard Creel
D: God is Able
Points this post: 45
Total points: 200

Option 1, title initials found in the word LUMINARIA: Run by Ann Patchett
Option 3, a gemstone in the title: Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting by Ann Hood
Points this post: 25
Total points: 565

This is a repost of #2472 only to claim the Golden Oldie.
30.2 You may select two of these images OR use just one of these images for two different books. Please post the 1-2 images that were the inspiration for your two books and your creative title or caption. The title of your book (not the book's cover or content) should relate to the masterpiece.
Camille Pissarro alone in the country, away from the city crowds
Far from the Madding Crowd
This is a Golden Oldie. It was first published in 1874.
Cezanne the picture has rosy fruit
The Rosie Effect
Pts: 30
Total pts: 260
GO: 2
BB: 3

This post is to change the one of the books for something else.
25.5
B. Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in CHRISTMAS LIGHTS.
The Promise
D. Read a book of your choice.
Infidel

Task 10.4 - C'est ou?
Title with name of French city
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
French town: Paris
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 550
Total Tasks: 29
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 4
Total Books: 41

Task 20.1 Most Improved - Megan W's task: (Super)Heroes
2) Read a non-fiction book by or about someone who you consider heroic.
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family - Nicole (ne Wyatt) as well as both her parents are heroic for all their efforts to advance transgender rights.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 670
Tasks completed: 31/65

task 25.7 - Coralie's task: Summer at the Stadium
Option 1. Early in December there will be two AC/DC concerts.
Read a book with a main page genre GLBT.
The Song of Achilles
Option 3. After the cricket there are a couple of A-League soccer games.
Read a book with the first word of the title 'A'.
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Points this task: 25
Total points: 695
Tasks completed: 32/65

Rearranging claimed books post
previously had:
The Whites at 25.2 option 3
A Desperate Fortune at 25.7 at option 3
When a Scot Ties the Knot at 25.17 at option 3
now those tasks & books (& new tasks) are:
25.2 - Brooke TX's task: December: It's that time of the year
option 3:

option 4: All I Want from https://www.goodreads.com/series/5789...
25.3 - Sirena's task: Hey Baby, It's Cold Outside...So Pick a Side!
I got tails for USSR
option 3: The Gold Coast
option 4: When a Scot Ties the Knot - "WHEN" from the Gorbachev quote
25.7 - Coralie's task: Summer at the Stadium
option 1: Under the Udala Trees
option 4:

25.17 - Tara Jo's task: Real Life Gets in the Way
option 2: Fifteen Dogs - breed "AMERICAN ESKIMO DOG"
option 3: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
30.2 - Jonquil's task: You think you saw what?
for

I read The Whites because the subject is white wearing white posed against white sofa & white curtains
& also The Poser because the subject is totally posing, and checking herself out in the mirror to be sure she'll look good in her painting
TALLY:
New points this task - 55
Total - 1020

5.8 - A Bar at the Folies-Bergere by Edouard Manet
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
10.9. Catch Up With the SRC
I've Got Your Number
(This book was new to me. I stayed up all night reading this! Am I going to have to gobble up all of her books now?)
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Judy's task: Painting 101
option 2: A Canticle for Leibowitz - first pub 1959
TALLY:
This post - 35 points
Total - 1055

Readerboard name Kathy P
15.3 Lost and Found
Option 2
A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "Master"

Points this post: 15
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Points: 155
Books Read: 11
Tasks Complete: 10
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0

25.15 - Jamie NY's task: Winter Challenge Goals! - First roll Two Dice. If you roll doubles, keep rolling until you get two different numbers.
I rolled a 2 and a 5.
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.
Lola and the Boy Next Door is ID'd on its GR main page as Anna & the French Kiss #2.
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: 5. Fiction
The Royal We was a 2015 best fiction nominee (came in 3rd behind Go Set A Watchman and Me Before You).
Points this task: 25
Total points: 875
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 8
Big Book ticket requests: 2
Books read: 65
Tasks completed: 44

20.4 Lost in Translation
I read All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - Anthony Doerr is a goodreads author. Option 3: The story takes place in a number of countries in Europe - most prominently in Germnay and France.
I would like to claim 1 big book ticket and one Goodreads author ticket please.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 35
Tasks complete: 3
Big Book tickets: 1
Goodreads Author tickets: 1

Option B: Read a book that shows the sun or the moon on the cover.
The Moon is on the cover:

Fool Moon (The Dresden Files #2) (2001) by Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 342 pages)
** Jim Butcher is a Goodreads Author.**
Option E: Read a book that has a title (title only, no subtitles) that contains the letters: M-O-N-E-T.
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce #7) (2015) by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 392 pages)
M: Chi m ney
O: C o me
N: Chim n ey
E: Chimn e y
T: Dus t
** Alan Bradley is a Goodreads Author **
350 + 25 = 375
Tasks Completed: 22
Points for this post: 25
Points thus far: 350 + 25 = 375
Books read: 33
Pages read: 9,324
Read but not claimed: 05
Goodreads Authors: 13
Golden Oldies: 06
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+

25.5 - Amanda A's task: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
I chose Options A and D.
Option A: My favorite carol is "The 12 Days of Christmas" (particularly the John Denver and the Muppets version) so I read And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile, matching "days" in both titles.
Option D: I read A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
30.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Tis the season for giving back
I chose Options 2 and 4.
Option 2: I read The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do by Sarah Knight. I used the word "Giving" from the title (approved in the task help thread here).
Option 4: I read Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin.
Previous point total: 575
New points this post: 25+30
Total points: 630
New tasks completed in this post: 2
Total tasks: 31
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 1
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 4

1. Ecology - A Walk in the Woods
Found on page 1 of the list, shelved 12 times as ecology (15Nov)
3. Biology - The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story
Biology verified in genre verification thread msg #3
Points this post: 30
Points total: 635/1185
GO total: 2
BB total: 5
Tasks completed: 34/65
Books read: 49

10.8. Hey, We Were There, Too!
Perlen by John Steinbeck
Vice President: John Adams
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 265

15.4 The Force, It's Calling To You
Option 2: Read ONE book that fulfills two different options
a) Read a book with a main page genre that contains "Science Fiction" and
b) Read a book that is identified on Goodreads as #3 or #7 in a series (series, #)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
POINTS
This Post: 15
Total Points: 475
Books Read: 39
Completed Tasks: 28

15.5 That’s So Random
Secret of the Seventh Son using the word Secret
(GROWING WITCHES) (ALL THE STORMS) (SWORD OF GAME) (THE TALES'S STONE) (THE VISION OF THE BOYFRIEND) (PAST IN THE SECRET)
Points this post: 15
Total: 425
Books read: 30
Tasks Done:21

great = big
The Great World by David Malouf
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
25.15 - Jamie NY's task: Winter Challenge Goals!
Rolled 1 & 2
Book 1: Read First book of series
Firstlife (Everlife #1) by Gena Showalter
Book 2: 2. Memoir & Autobiography
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story by Hyeonseo Lee
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2015)
30.6 - Donna Jo's task: Winter in Iowa circa 1950s
Total pages read: 1,206
1. Read a book with one of the following words in the title: Cold, Snow, Ice, Freeze, or Frozen.
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey ~390 pages
2. Read a book written by an author whose first and last name have initials in the phrase "DRESSING WARMLY".
Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett #1) by Robert McCammon
Robert McCammon in WARMLY
2 x Bigger is Better (816 pages)
Total this post: 70 points
Golden Oldies Tix: 6
Bigger is Better Tix: 10
Total points: 750 points

25.7 - Coralie's task: Summer at the Stadium
Option 3. Read a book with the first word of the title 'A'. eg A Court of Thorns and Roses, A Spool of Blue Thread, A Little Life
A Wolf at the Table
Option 4. Read a book with someone with a tattoo on the cover. Required: Include the cover when you post.

Points this post: 25
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Points: 1050
Books Read: 85
Tasks Complete: 60
Big Books Total: 7
Golden Oldies Total: 3

20.1. Most Improved - Megan W’s task: (Super) Heroes
Option 1: Superheroes as main page genre
Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman
Superheroes > Marvel (185 users)
Comics > Superheroes (147 users)
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 565/1185
Total Books Read: 40
Tasks Completed: 27/65

20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Art and Passion
Option 2 - Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland
This post: 20 points
Challenge total points: 530
BB: 13
GO: 1
Completed tasks: 24

5.7 - Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Read a book with a word ending in -ING in the title or subtitle.
The Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough
The word in the title ending with -ING is dyING.
I take this as my one time exception for a book with 80-99 pages for a 5-points tasks, as the most popular Hardcover has only 88 pages: The Language of Dying
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 575
Books Read: 38
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)

5.10 - Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather by Camille Pissarro
Read a book of your choice.
Madwand
Points this post: 5
Total points: 245
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One more book - thought I had posted this one already!
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Judy's task: Painting 101
Option 3: Author's initials found in LINSEED.
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter by Steve Dublanica
Steve Dublanica.
Final, Final post for Winter, 2015.
Total Points: 175