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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2016
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Summer Challenge 2016: Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS THREAD
perletwo20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Tien's task: Authors in Real Life - 2. Signed books: For this option, read a book written by one of the authors who have signed my books: Tien’s signed books
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
Points this task: 20
Total points: 560
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 5
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 40
Tasks completed: 28
Chris MD25.4 Pair of Opposites
Book 1: One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse
1. Long book (352 pages) 2. Newer (Published 2015) 3. Stand alone
Book 2. Murder Past Due by D. R. Meredith
1. Short book (240 pages) 2. Older (Published 2001) 3. #3 in the Megan Clark series
I listened to the audio version of the book. As noted, the paperback version has 240 pages.
25.6 Last Abstract Impressionist
Option 3: Title includes a letter of at least 3 words that matches a word in the quote
"I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry WITH me . . . "
Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
I listened to the audio version of the book. The paperback version has 448 pages.
Option 4: Author's initials found in JOAN MITCHELL
The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships by Harriet Lerner
Points for this post: 50
Total points: 50 + 80 = 130
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 10
Golden Oldies: 2
MelissaH(repost 901 - with correction)
20.2 - Sweet Summer
Option D
Surrender to Me by Shayla Black
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 115
Completed Tasks: 7
Books Read: 7
10.3 - Time for Vacation Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned is set in London, #7 on the list.
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Chrissy's task: Sweet Summer
Strings Strings (Hard Rock Harlots, #1) by Kendall Grey
Option A. StringS begins and ends with S.
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Tallulah A's task: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Option 3.
The Immortal RulesThe Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden, #1) by Julie Kagawa is well over 360 pages at 485.
Points this post: 50
Pamela32655.9 - Summer Reading
Uglies by Scott Westerfield - Found on page 3 of list
30.4 - Ava Catherine's task: Summer of the Gods
Option 1:
by Debra Clopton - Hummingbirds on coverOption 4:
by Cheryl St. JohnPoints this post: 35
Total Points: 540
Golden Oldie books this post:
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
Cait S5.3- Action!
Read a book with the main page genre "Action" and/or "Adventure."
The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy
Children's Genre Info: MG- 5.0, 12.0
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 130
Big Book Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 10
5.10 School's Out Dance of the Bones by J.A. Jance
10.5 It's Hurricane Season
Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin
Ian is on the Atlantic hurricane list.
20.2 Sweet Summer
Option A: Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Everyone begins and ends with the letter E.
30.8 Cards Against Humanity
1) What Ended my Relationship? Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz
4) You are not along. Millions of people struggle with The Assistants every day. by Camille Perri
Post Total: 65
Grand Total: 160
Mary P20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Lauren Jodi's task: The Queen of Crime
Option1: Read a book from https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3....
Saint Odd by Dean Koontz
Found on page 13, #1235
Points this task: 20
Total points: 240
Mai25.10 - M1nks's task: Give Me Some Reds, Give Me Some Blues, Give Me Some... What the heck is THAT supposed to be!?
2. Book with a title which would make a good name for the painting.
Painting: Munich 2.16.96 by Sean Scully
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
4. Book with a character dealing with mental health issues
Sex Criminals, Volume 2: Two Worlds, One Cop by Matt Fraction
More than half of this volume focuses on Jon's -- one of the two main character's -- issues with depression.
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 245
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 19
Golden Oldies: 5
LAUREN JODI10.6 - Name Your Poison Day
When Maidens Mourn by C.S. Harris
Crime genre confirmed in post #28 of the task help thread.
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 160/1125
Total Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 10/62
Sara ITA25.9 - Fandury's task: Everything is Possible in Love and Warcraft
• Option 1: Factions — Read a book with the main page genre of War.
Cavallo Pazzo by Mari Sandoz
(original title: Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas)
Genre confirmed here
*** Cavallo Pazzo is a Big Book (501 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket. ***
*** Cavallo Pazzo is a Golden Oldie (first published in 1942). Claiming 1 GO ticket. ***
• Option 5: The Film — Read a book that has been turned into a movie.
Sette minuti dopo la mezzanotte by Patrick Ness
(original title: A Monster Calls)
A Monster Calls (2016) on IMDB
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 170
GO Tickets: 1
BB Tickets: 3
Jasmiina F10.8. Happy Birthday:
Read the 2d, 4th, 24th, 40th or 240th book in a series:
東京喰種トーキョーグール 2 Tokyo Guru 2 by Sui Ishida.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 75
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+: 0
BBooks - 750+: 0
BBooks - 1000+: 0
15.3 - June, July and AugustBook A - Read Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel. This book has 4 words in the title. This is a graphic memoir, but, I believe it can count for a 15 point task per the rules.
Book B - Read Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King. Ross and King both have 4 letters.
Points these task: 15
Total points: 80
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 10
Tasks completed: 6
Jonquil25.10 - M1nks's task: Give Me Some Reds, Give Me Some Blues, Give Me Some... What the heck is THAT supposed to be!?
1- cover showing a vibrant and colorful room
approved in task help
Magic and Macaroons
Bailey Cates
Paperback, 304 pages 7/11
2 Name the art. Actual name: Woman I
Broken Soul because the woman pictured is a hot mess
Broken Soul
Faith Hunter
Mass Market Paperback, 329 pages 7/6
Points this post: 25
Total points: 750
Books posted: 62
Tasks complete: 50
Pages this post: 633
Total pages as of this post: 17664
Laura NT25.3 - Maya's Task : Make it Pretty
two book task
Option One | Crazy Colors
read a book that has ONLY colors from the rainbow on the cover
When using the TinEye Color Extractor, I did not get any black or white.
Option Five | Doodle
read a book where the author's first and last name initials can be found in DOODLEPAINTING
Voyager
Author is Diana Gabaldon. Both D and G are in Doodlepainting.
**Voyager is a Big Book (1059 pages). Claiming 3 BB tickets.**
Points this post: 25
Total points: 85
BB tickets: 3
Laura NT5.10 - School's Out!
Read a book of your choice
The Fairy-Tale Detectives
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9.0
Points this post: 5
Total points: 90
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM5.10 - School's Out!
I read Mysterious Acts by My People by Valerie Wetlaufer. It has 92 pages, so this is my under-100 page book.
Previous point total: 310
New points this post: 5
Total points: 315
New tasks completed in this post: 1
Total tasks: 17
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 3
loafer15.6 - Picasso, Miro and Rothko
Read a book by an author who has a name than ENDS in O.
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
points: 15
total: 195
BB: 2
GO: 2
tasks completed: 13
Shiraloo10.9 -- Smile
Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn
REQUIRED: Genre = Humor
25.10 -- M1nks's task: Give Me Some Reds, Give Me Some Blues, Give Me Some... What the heck is THAT supposed to be!?
Book 1: When She Woke by Hilary Jordan
REQUIRED: Option 3
Book 2: The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
REQUIRED: Option 4; main character struggles with schizophrenia and the book tells of his descent into madness
CURRENT POST
Points: 35
BBT: 0
GO: 0
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CUMULATIVE TOTAL
Total Points: 345
BBT: 9
GO: 0
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Lauren Jodi's task: The Queen of CrimeOption 3: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Read a novel (fiction) featuring a serial killer.
Book was approved on Message #2 of Help Thread
* This book was an ARC
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Points This Post: 20
Points Total: 170
Golden Oldies:
Big Books:
500 () 750 () 1000 ()
Tasks Completed: 9
GO Total: 1
BB Total:
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Tien's task: Authors in Real Life3. Read a biography, autobiography, or memoir of an author. This author must have published at least one (1) book that is not related to him/herself.
Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
Points this post: 20
Points in total: 275
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book tickets: 4
Readerboard Name: NICOLA T
Task #30.10 - Robin ♥'s Task: The Dog Days of Summer
This is a 2 book task. Select one book from an A option AND one book from a B option.
For Option A i chose : A-1: The brightest star in the night sky is Sirius so read a book that shows a nighttime scene with an unmistakable, realistic starry sky on the cover. Stars must be present and plentiful.
I read These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman/Meagan Spooner : 
which was verified in the help thread https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... as approved (message 2)
For Option B i chose: B-3: July 3-August 11 is 20 days before and 20 days after the conjunction of the sun and Sirius. Read a book that was first published in 2003, 2007, 2008, or 2011.
I read Where She Went by Gayle Forman : 
which was first published April 5th 2011
Points this post : 30
Overall points: 75
Overall GO: 1
Sheila25.6 - Jamie NYC's task: The Last Abstract Expressionist
Option 3: - the word is after
Eighth Grave After Dark by Darynda Jonesand
Option 4:
Human Remains by Elizabeth Haynes30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: North to Alaska
Option 2:
Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brasharesand
Option 3:
The Naming of the Dead by Ian RankinPoint Total = 515
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM20.10 - Group Reads
I read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I participated in the discussion thread here.
** Middlesex is 529 pages long, I'd like to claim ONE Big Book ticket.**
Previous point total: 315
New points this post: 20
Total points: 335
New tasks completed in this post: 1
Total tasks: 18
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 1
Big Book tickets this post: 1
Total Big Books: 4
(Reposting to claim a Golden Oldies ticket - sorry, I marked in my spreadsheet but just now realized that I hadn't claimed it in my post. I had already claimed the BB tickets, so you can ignore that bit.)Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM
30.7 - Sandy's Task: Forwards and Backwards
Book 1: I read Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.
** Little Dorrit is 985 pages long, I'd like to claim TWO Big Book tickets**
**Little Dorrit was first published in 1857, I'd like to claim a Golden Oldies ticket**
Book 2: I read Columbine by Dave Cullen (the paperback is 443 pages).
985+443=1,428 pages combined
25.4 - MegSCL's task: A pair of oppositesBook 1: Angel's Tip (Ellie Hatcher #2) by Alafair Burke
1-Long book (368 pages, paperback edition Angel's Tip); 2-Older (first published 2008); 3-Part of a series
Book 2: A Paris Affair by Tatiana de Rosnay
1-Short book (128 pages, paperback edition A Paris Affair); 2-Recent (first published 2015); 3-Stand alone
Points this post: 25
Total points: 205
5.4 In the ShadowsA Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in This Life and the Next by David Horowitz
The author is Jewish and it's a memoir.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 5
Task 30.8 – Beth NC – Cards Against Humanity (The Book Version) Option 3 –
Nothing Says “I Love You” Like __The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down __.
Option 4 –
You are not alone. Millions of people struggle with __ Brain on Fire __ every day
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This Post: 30 points
Total points to date: 145 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 0
Big Books Read: (1) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / (0) 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 1
CHANDNI20.4 - Golden Oldie - Heather(Gibby)'s task: The Golden Age
Option A: Read a book with a main page genre of "Mythology."
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Book approved here
[POINTS]
This Post: 20
Total Points: 265
Books Read: 21
Completed Tasks: 19
Delicious Dee30.2 - Jonquil’s Task: It looked different the last time I was here...
Book A - Christmas in Good Hope - set during December in small town of Good Hope, WI
Book B - Summer in Good Hope - set around 4th of July in Good Hope, WI
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 505
[Reposting]30.9 - Catherine T's task: Should We Stay Or Should We Go?
Option 1-A: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
*Claiming a GO ticket as it was first published in 1895*
Dystopia verified as main genre in msg #175 of the Genre Verification Thread.
1-B: O Remorso de Baltazar Serapião by valter hugo mãe (Portugal)
Points this post: 30
Total: 380
perletwo25.2 - Perletwo's task: I love beach music - Book 1) Read a book that the first letter of each word in the title can be found in SWINGING MEDALLIONS. Subtitles should be ignored. One word titles will work.
Antiques Maul
Book 2) A. Read a book with the GR main page genre "Music" or "Dance"
Save the Last Dance for Me: A Love Story of the Shag and the Society of Stranders
Points this task: 25
Total points: 585
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 5
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 42
Tasks completed: 29
Pamela326515.3 - June, July and August
Option 2: Once More a Family by Lily George
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 555
Golden Oldie books this post:
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
trishhartuk25.9 Fandury’s Task: Everything is Possible in Love and Warcraft
Option 3: Class - As World Of Warcraft is a cooperative game where you have to work together with other people, read a book from the Different Perspective Books list or The Best Books That Change Narrators Every Chapter list.
City of Bones, Cassandra Clare (#10 on the Different Perspective Books list)
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here
Option 4: The World - For this option read a book that is set in at least 2 different primary countries for significant portions of the book. Required: State the countries the book is set in and, if it is not clear from the GR description, explain how the book fits the task in your post.
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Key parts of the story take place in Bosnia (Sarajevo), Austria (Vienna), Italy (Venice), the US (Boston) and Spain (Seville, Tarragona). It also visits the UK, Israel and Australia. (Approved in help thread message #31 )
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Big Book/Golden Oldie: No
Total points: 325
Tasks completed: 15
Golden oldies: 0
Total BB tickets: 3 [750+ x 1 (2 tickets); >500+ x 1 (1 ticket)]
Mod
I read Murder at the Brightwell, Winner in the Mystery Category on the 2015 list
25.1 - Andy P's Task: Pairs
For book 1, I read Breath, Eyes, Memory, with the plural body part pair "eyes" in the title.
For book 2, I read The Death of Sleep. Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye are both listed as authors.
25.3 - Maya's Task : Make it Pretty
For my first book, I chose option 4 and read a book with more than one author - Generation Warriors by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon.
For my second book, I chose option five and read Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler - initials AT found in doodlepAinTing.
Points this post: 60
Total points: 460
Read 6015.10 Lifelong Learning
Literature and Language Arts
Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
Points this Post 15
Total Points 80
5.9 - Summer ReadingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling - page 1 of the list
MG BL 6.7 AR points 18.0
Total points: 5
BellaGBeartask 20.2:
option A: Extase First published 1892
>points 20
> 1 GO ticket
task 20.3
option A: My ideal house or location to live would be the Library of Souls
>points: 20
task 20.5: option 4 horror and paranormal genre Hollow City
>points: 20
TOTAL this post
Points: 60
GO: 1
total points challenge: 80
total go challenge: 1
TASK NUMBER :30.8 - Cards Against HumanityTASK DESCRIPTION: Fit Books Into Statement
BOOK #1 READ:
AUTHOR: Cherise Sinclair
DATE READ: 7/6/2016
REQUIRED INFO: #3 - "Nothing says I love you like Protecting His Own"
BOOK #2 READ:
AUTHOR: K.A. Merikan
DATE READ: 7/12/2016
REQUIRED INFO: #1 - "What ended my last relationship? Bare-Knuckle Love
✦Approval for eBook
✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦
TOTALS
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 255
20.1 - Periodically ChallengedThe word REPUTE can be spelt out from the periodic table:
RE - rhenium
PU - plutonium
TE - tellurium
A Man of Some Repute by Elizabeth Edmondson
Total points 100
Lisa MDTASKS COMPLETED:
15.7 See the Light: lighthouse in title
16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie Macomber
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Tasks This Post: 1
Points This Post: 15
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TOTAL TASKS COMPLETED: 11/62
TOTAL POINTS COMPLETED: 230/1125
TOTAL BOOKS READ: 15
TOTAL GOLDEN OLDIE TICKETS:
TOTAL BIGGER IS BETTER TICKETS: 1
Message: #889, 965, 1045, 1084
Bookwrm526Task #15.3 - June, July, August
One book option: read a book with exactly four or six words in the title AND where the author's goodreads name is made up of parts with exactly 4 or 6 letters. I read Other Voices, Other Rooms (4 words) by Truman Capote (6, 6).
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Task #30.1 - North to Alaska
Option 2 - read a book with the word "sister" found intact in the title. I read My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni.
Option 3 - Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in MOUNTAINMARATHON. I read The Rose & the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh.
Points this post: 45
Total points so far: 275
Kristen IA30.9 - Catherine T's task: Should We Stay Or Should We Go?
Option 1: Stay -- Stay campaigners claim* that the EU brings loads of benefits to the UK, and that leaving will cause all sorts of bad things to happen.
Book A: Vote Stay by reading a book set at least 70% in the UK** with a main page genre of "Horror" or "Dystopia" or "Post-apocalyptic";
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Setting: United Kingdom / Genre: Dystopia
I listened to the audiobook and have linked to the MMPB version for page count
AND
Book B: Read a book set at least 70% in a EU country** (excluding the UK). Your EU book should NOT have any of the genres "Horror" or "Dystopia" or "Post-apocalyptic" in its main book page.
La ladrona de libros (The Book Thief) by Markus Zusak - 544 pages
Setting: Germany
I listened to the audiobook and have linked to the MMPB version for page count
*****I claim 1 Big Book Ticket*****
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Points this post: 30
Total Points: 105/1125
Books Read: 7
Tasks Complete: 6
Big Books Total: 2
Golden Oldies Total: 0
Readerboard name Kathy P20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Chrissy's task: Sweet Summer
Option B
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Points this post: 20
Books this post: 1
Total Points: 165
Total Books: 9
Total Tasks: 9
Readerboard name Kathy P20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Wendy UK's task: Celebrate Norwich!
Author Sarah Butler
Ten Things I've Learnt About LovePoints this post: 20
Books this post: 1
Total Points: 185
Total Books: 10
Total Tasks: 10
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ10.8 - Happy Birthday
Darkest Hour by Meg Cabot
This is the 4th book in the Mediator series
20.6 - Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
This book was written by an author who shares a name of the two main characters or the actresses who played them - (Lauren)
This post: 30 points
Total points to date: 150 points
Tasks completed: 12
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
Susan W.15.6 Picasso, Miro, and Rothko: Read a book by an author that has a name that ends in "O"
I read Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 3 by Naoko Takeuchi
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30.4 Ava Catherine's task: Summer of the Gods: This is a two book task.
Option 2. Cancer/Crab: Read a book with crabs, sea life, or an animal with an exoskeleton on the cover. Any creature that lives in the ocean (real or fantasy) works.
I read
by Diana Reiss There is a dolphin on the cover.
Option 4. June/Juno: read a book by a female author.
I read 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian by Pamela Rice
Points this post: 45
Total Points: 125
Nick KY5.3 Action! I read Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson which has the GR genre "Adventure" on its main page.
5,9 Summer Reading I read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, fifth book down on the list first page.
15.2 Colours and Sounds
Book A -- I read Snow Sky by Cameron Judd, with Two color words on the list in the title: "Snow" and Sky."
Book B -- i read Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz with Two musical instruments on the cover, a guitar and a harmonica.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 400
Coralie20.2 Sweet Summer
Option A – book with word in title that begins and ends in same letter – NuN
How I Became a Nun
25.6 The Last Abstract Expressionist
Option 3 – using the word 'from' from the quote
A Far Cry from Kensington
Option 4 – book by author whose initials can be found in joan miTChell
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín
This post 45 points
Total to date 320 points
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20.1 - Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challenged
A Front Page Affair by Radha Vatsal
Spelling the word PAGE:
Pa = Protactinium
Ge = Germanium
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20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Lauren Jodi's task: The Queen of Crime
Option 3: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Read a novel (fiction) featuring a serial killer.
Vicious by Kevin O'Brien
[The book linked is the version that I read, however, if you follow this link to the ebook version, it has more of a description in which the serial killer in the book, Mama's Boy - a serial killer who targets young mothers with sons - is mentioned.]
Points this post: 40
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
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Total Points: 95
Total Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 5
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0