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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
Pamela326530.2 - Jonquil’s Task: It looked different the last time I was here...
Book 1: The Cowboy's Ready-Made Family by Linda Ford - Set in Granite Creek, Montana - Spring 1899
Book 2: The Cowboy's Baby Bond by Linda Ford - Set in Granite Creek, Montana - Summer 1899
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 50
Golden Oldie books this post:
Total Golden Oldie books:
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets:
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
Post #15.10 - School's Out!
Heidi Grows Up
Not found on AR BookFinder or AR BookFinder UK.
Points this post: 5
Total Points:10
Books read: 2
Tasks Done: 1
SCHATZIE5.9 - Summer Reading
---book from given list
-my book was found on pg. 2 of the list
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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10.10 - Can You Read the Top Row?
---person on cover wearing glasses
Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock
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15.9 - Listen Up
---a book that has won an Audie Award
Jurassic Park
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Points this Post: 30
Challenge TOTAL: 85
Jasmiina F10.6.June 8 is "Name Your Poison" day:
Read a book with "crime" as a main page genre:
The Fade Out, Vol. 1: Act One by Ed Brubaker.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
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
READ 605.3 ActionThe River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Points this Task: 5
Total points; 20
Reader Name: Daphne20.5 - Bigger is Better - TrishHartUK's task: Shakespeare 400
Option #4: MPG: Urban Fantasy
Ghost of a Dream
Points this post: 20
Total points: 50
Reader Name: Daphne20.1 - Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challenged
Word: BEYOND
Spirits from Beyond
Be: Beryllium
Y: Yttrium
O: Oxygen
Nd: Neodymium
Points this post: 20
Total points: 70
FANDURY15.5 - Summer in the City
Read a book with a genre on its main book page that contains "urban" such as urban legends, urban, urban-fantasy, urban-planning, urbanism.
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
This book has Urban Fantasy as one of its genres on the main page.
This was verified in the Genre Verification Thread in post 33
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 15
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
trishhartuk10.8. Happy Birthday
July 4 is America’s 240th birthday. Read the 2nd, 4th, 24th, 40th or 240th (good luck finding that one!) book in a series. Series name and number must be indicated on Goodreads.
Death of a Perfect Wife (Hamish Macbeth #4), MC Beaton
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
Total Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Laura NT20.1 - Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challenged
Read one book and spell out one word** of at least 3 letters from the title or subtitle of your book using the symbols of the chemical elements.
Vixen 03
Word: Vixen
V = Vanadium
I = Iodine
Xe = Xenon
N = Nitrogen
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Andy P.Task #10.3. Time for vacation
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the top 25 vacation destinations NYC is #6
by Linda FairsteinSet in NYC 100%
Points this post: 10
Total points: 20
Shiraloo20.10 -- Group Reads
Beloved by Toni Morrison
REQUIRED: Post #6 in Group Reads Thread
CURRENT POST
Points: 20
BBT: 0
GO: 0
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CUMULATIVE TOTAL
Total Points: 35
BBT: 1
GO: 0
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM5.2 – Cubism
I read Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, #3 in the Chicago Stars series.
15.8 - Commencement
I read How Not To Fall by Emily Foster (genre verified).
Previous point total: 20
New points this post: 20
Total points: 40
New tasks completed in this post: 2
Total tasks: 4
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
5.4 - In the ShadowsI read The Muralist, in which all the main characters are Jewish. In addition, both Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollack play roles as well.
Points: 30
Books read: 3
Tasks completed: 3
pages read: 980
Bookwrm526Task #10.6 - Name Your Poison Day
Read a book with the main page genre "crime", standalone or embedded. I read A Mind to Murder by P.D. James.
Points this post: 10
Total points so far: 25
5.1: A Different ViewI read Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
This book is found in position one, on page one, on the Books with Multiple Perspectives list.
Claiming one Golden Oldies Ticket since book was first published in 1847.
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 5
Tasks Complete: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 0
20.1 - Periodically ChallengedSpell out a word in the title or subtile using the periodic table abbreviations.
Just a Geek: Unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise by Will Wheaton
LIFE - Li - lithium + Fe - iron
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 30
VAL TX30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: North to Alaska - Read a book from two different options.
Option 1: read a book with “coming of age” as a main page genre.
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
Young Adult > Coming Of Age = 71 users
AR info: IL is UG.
Option 2: read a book with the word “sister” found intact in the TITLE.
Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares
This post and total:
Points - 30
BARBARA ★10.1 - Another Kind of Trip
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (#20 on page 1) 6/6
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20.5 - Bigger is Better - TrishHartUK's task: Shakespeare 400
Option 2: Immortal - J.R. Ward 6/2
(J.R. Ward also writes as Jessica Bird)
Goodreads Author
Totals for Challenge
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 30
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books - 500+: (0)
Big Books - 750+: (0)
Big Books - 1000+: (0)
10.9. SmileThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
IL: UG
'Humor' on bookpage
30.9 - Catherine T's task: Should We Stay Or Should We Go?
Option 1: Stay
Book A: "Horror" on book page & Set 100% in Scotland (UK)
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
AND Book B: Set 99% in Italy
The Watercolourist by Beatrice Masini
Post Total: 40
Goldien Oldies: -
Bigger is Better: -
Season Total: 40
Shannon South Africa20.2 Sweet Summer
Option E: my favourite ice cream flavour in the title: Rocky Road
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Task points: 20
Challenge points: 20
Marina H15.6 - Picasso, Miro and Rothko
Længsel by Margit Sandemo
20.10 - Group Reads
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
My post in discussion thread
Points this post: 35
Total points: 35
Jonquil5.7 - Purple Reign
royal rank in the title: queen
Death of a Beauty Queen
Mallory Kane
Paperback 288 pages 6/6
Points this post: 5
Total points: 35
Books posted: 7
Tasks complete: 7
Pages this post: 288
Total pages as of this post: 2059
Jonquil5.8 - Summer Baby
first published September 24th 1984
Proof
Dick Francis
Paperback, 368 pages 6/5
Points this post: 5
Total points: 40
Books posted: 8
Tasks complete: 8
Pages this post: 368
Total pages as of this post: 2427
Jonquil5.9 - Summer Reading
Page 5 four from the bottom
The Thief
Megan Whalen Turner
Paperback, 280 pages 6/2
Points this post: 5
Total points: 45
Books posted: 9
Tasks complete: 9
Pages this post: 280
Total pages as of this post: 2707
Jonquil5.10 - School's Out!
approved for length as 5-point conditional book Message 5639
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spike
Kathy Reichs
Kindle Edition, 91 pages 6/2
Points this post: 5
Total points: 50
Books posted: 10
Tasks complete: 10
Pages this post: 91
Total pages as of this post: 2798
HINA10.5.But watch out - it's hurricane season! - The Bridesmaid by Julia London.
Name from Atlantic list: Julia.
10.8. Happy Birthday - Ring in the Holidays by Katie Lane.
Book 2 in Hunk for the Holidays series
25.6 - Jamie NYC's task: The Last Abstract Expressionist -
Option 3: After the Greek Affair by Chantelle Shaw.
Word found in quote: "My paintings are titled after they are finished."
Option 4: Taken by the Maverick Millionaire by Anna Cleary.
Author initials can be found in: JOAN MITCHELL.
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: North to Alaska -
Option 2: The Substitute Sister by Lisa Childs.
Sister found in title.
Option 3: One Night, So Pregnant! by Heidi Rice.
Authors initials found in: MOUNTAIN MARATHON.
Current post:
Points: 75
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total:
Total Points: 75
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
5.9 Summer Reading:Yes Please by Amy Poehler on page 5 of list about half-way down.
10.4 Don't Leave Home without One:
From 2016 List, Fantasy winner
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
10.9 Smile
Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips which has 61 readers listing humor.
15.3 June, July, August:
Option 1
A. Title with 4 words: I Dream of Dragons by Ashlyn Chase
B. Author 6 letters each name: The Darcys & the Bingleys: A Tale of Two Gentlemen's Marriages to Two Most Devoted Sisters by Marsha Altman
20.1 Group Read:
Animals (Nonfiction: Katie Up and Down the Hall: The True Story of How One Dog Turned Five Neighbors into a Family by Glenn Plaskin. I commented on post 2.
Today's total: 75
Grand total: 75
Andy P.Task # 5.5 - Abstract Nouns
Read a book with an abstract noun in the title
by Libby Fischer HellmannDeath is on the list of abstract nouns.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 25
Mai15.5 - Summer in the City
Book with genre urban-fantasy
The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM20.1 - Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challenged
I read Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett.
B - Boron
La - Lanthanum
C - Carbon
K - Potassium
As - Arsenic
S - Sulfur
Previous point total: 40
New points this post: 20
Total points: 60
New tasks completed in this post: 1
Total tasks: 5
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Morgan Faeriesfolly20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Chrissy's task: Sweet Summer
Option A: Read a book with a title/subtitle that contains a word that starts and ends with the same letter.
StarS
Stars Above - Marissa Meyer
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Points: 20
Total Points: 35
Andy P.Task # 10.2. Bobble heads
Read a book set in outer space or on a planet other than Earth.
by Dan Simmons According to information about the book, travelers from other worlds besides Hyperion, are on a pilgrimage to Hyperion to consult with a being called Shrike. As Earth (referred to as Old Earth) in the text has been destroyed 400 years ago, it cannot be visited (except in simulators for time travelers) which means no one actually sets foot on Earth.Points this post: 10
Total points: 35
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: North to AlaskaOption 2: Read a book with the word “sister” found intact in the TITLE (subtitles do not count).
Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler
Option 3: Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in MOUNTAIN MARATHON. All initials should be included.
Hurma by Ali Al-Muqri
Letters are A-A-M.
Points this post: 30
Points in total: 50
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
JUKKA5.2 – Cubism
Book that is #3 or #6 in a series.
Rat Queens, Vol. 3: Demons by Kurtis J. Wiebe is #3 in Rat Queens.
10.10. Can You Read the Top Row?
Book whose cover has someone wearing glasses or sunglasses.
by Garth Ennis has a man wearing sunglasses.15.5 - Summer in the City
A book with a main page genre containing "urban".
Jim Butcher's Dresden Files: Ghoul Goblin by Jim Butcher has Urban Fantasy.
25.8 - Brooke TX's task: Finally, A Little Vacation
Option 1: Book with main page genre Superheroes.
The Boys, Volume 4: We Gotta Go Now by Garth Ennis.
Option 3: Book whose author's initials are in CANDYLAND.
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score by Darwyn Cooke.
Points this post: 55
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Points: 135/1125
Total Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 10/62
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
Christine V10.1. Another Kind of Trip
The Master and Margarita, found on Page 1 of the list. I read the indicated audio edition - Link to top MMP
Points this post: 10
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=1)
Creynard30.8 - Beth NC's task: Cards Against Humanity (The Book Version)
I got 99 problems but Faking It isn't one.
What ended my last relationship?
Wrong Place, Right Time ...need I say more?
Points this post: 30
Total points: 40
Jen UT15.8 - Commencement
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Points this post: 15
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Total points: 40
10.4 don't leave home without one2016 list - adrenaline - read alikes
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Points this post: 10
Total: 20
gillian flynn is a Goodreads author
5.1 - A Different View I read Five Little Pigs, which was found on page 1 of the list.
It was published in 1942, making it a *******Golden Oldie*********
points: 30
books read: 4
tasks completed: 4
Golden Oldies: 1
pages read: 1232
perletwo25.8 - Brooke TX's task: Finally, A Little Vacation - NOTE: Sequential Art, Comics, Comic Book, or Manga may be used provided the general SRC guidelines are met.
Option 1. Gotham City Sirens: For this option, choose a book with main page genre "Superheroes." The genre may stand alone or be embedded.
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Option 3. Candyland: For this option, choose a book whose author's initals can be found in CANDYLAND. Middle initials may be ignored. If a book has multiple authors, only one author's initials must fit the task.
The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
First printed in 1936, this qualifies for a Golden Oldie ticket.
Points this task: 25
Total points: 125
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 23
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 11
Tasks completed: 8
JUKKAReposting with correct information.
5.2 – Cubism
Book that is #3 or #6 in a series.
Rat Queens, Vol. 3: Demons by Kurtis J. Wiebe is #3 in Rat Queens (Collected Editions).
Points this post: 5
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Points: 135/1125
Total Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 10/62
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
5.1 - A Different ViewRead a book found on the Books With Multiple Perspectives list.
Book read: Wonder by R. J. Palacio
#123, page 2
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11.0
Points this task: 5
Total: 130
CHANDNI15.9 - Listen Up
Read a book that has WON an Audie Award.
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
This book won the Audie Award for Paranormal (2015).
[POINTS]
This Post: 15
Total Points: 55
Books Read: 4
Completed Tasks: 4
Andy P.Task # 15.5 - Summer in the City
Read a book with a genre on its main book page that contains "urban"
byJenna BlackFantasy>Urban Fantasy (8 users)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 50
Mod
I read A Little Life, set predominantly in New York City.
15.8 - Commencement
I read A Court of Thorns and Roses, with "New Adult" as the 4th main page genre. Also was verified in post 15 of the help thread.
15.10 - Lifelong Learning
I read Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink, from the Science and Technology YALSA list.
Points this post: 40
Total points: 40
NICOLE OH5.2 - Cubism
Night Shift by Charlaine Harris
(#3 in the Midnight, Texas series)
5.5 - Abstract Nouns
Troubling Love- abstract noun is LOVE
15.9 - Listen Up
Euphoria: Audie Award for Literary Fiction (2015)
20.3 - Best Review - Terri FL's task: New house
Option B:
Approved in help thread- I would like to live in London!
30.8 - Beth NC's task: Cards Against Humanity (The Book Version)
1) What ended my last relationship? The Way I Used to Be
4)You are not alone. Millions of people struggle with Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between every day.
Points this post: 75
Total Points: 75
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 6
Tasks completed: 5
TARABLYTHE20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Chrissy's task: Sweet Summer
Option A: Read a book with a title/subtitle that contains a word that starts and ends with the same letter.
The Dead Place by Rebecca Drake
Points this post: 20
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
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Total Points: 20
Total Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Tallulah A's task: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the LifeOption 3: Read a book your choice that consists of at least 360 pages (a page for each minute of the series).
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
At 561 pages, this is a Big Book, and fits the task.
Points this post: 20
Points in total: 70
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 1
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Read a book with a Jewish main character, about Jewish culture or about the Jewish experience, or one that is written by a Jewish author.
Book read: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Points this post: 5
Total: 125