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Challenges: Year Long Main 2021
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Almeta's My Echo, My Shadow and Me
✔10/12 - Task 15. What is your shoe size? ) 8 – Select that number of books on your TBR, put them into the Fruit Machine. Read the one that is selected.Tropic of Fear, Ron Terpening 20 Apr
✔11/12 - Task 5. What is your favourite movie? Fruit Machine sez choose Big Fish by Daniel Wallace, which I have already read.
Reading another one of his: Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician 1 May
I have a hard time choosing favourites myself. Using the fruit machine was a good way of resolving that.
✔12/12 - Task 25. What is your favourite genre? MysteryThe Mystery of the Yellow Room, Gaston Leroux 2 May
✔13/24 Task 33. Would you rather encounter a ghost, an alien, or neither? A ghostThe Anatomy of Ghosts, Andrew Taylor 7 May
✔14/24 Task 41. Issue you are passionate about Equal Rights, FreeCycling, EnvironmentFlight Behavior climate change, migration, global warming, clear cut forestry 13 Mar
✔15/24 Task 34. What is your favourite animal? FrogThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches 15 May
✔16/24 Task 29. What is your favourite flower? DaisiesRead a book with that selection in the title.
Agatha Raisin Pushing up Daisies 17 May
✔17/24 Task 45. Do you prefer green or black olives? Black
The One from the Other, Philip Kerr 18 May
✔19/24 Task 38. Do you prefer tea, coffee, or water? Tea– set in China where that beverage is a huge export. I actually very rarely drink coffee. I wish it tasted like it smells.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 3 Jun
I keep forgetting to do this separate post!✔20/24 Task 43. To what time period would you like to time travel? The Roaring Twenties
The Diviners 1920s Manhattan 5 Jun
21/24 Task 42. Would you rather explore in space or undersea? Undersea, although I would always keep my feet off the bottom!The Sea Detective 4 Jul
✔22/24 Task 17. What is your country of birth? = Unites States of America. I've recently stated for our other challenges that I rarely read Westerns. What sez USA better than the American Western. This one is completing a series started during other challenges. Read a book set in that country.The Black Dove 7 Ju
Cherie wrote: "Was your father a writer?"lol! No. He wasn't a pornographer either!
He started as a draftsman for an automotive and aeronautic parts manufacturer and worked his way up to executive positions.
Oh my, that is an interesting title to remind you of your father! LOL
✔24/24 Task 10. Are you right or left handed? Right-handedThe Right Attitude to Rain 23 Aug
That completes the second part of the challenge!
On to the last part, for all of them.
✔25/50 Task 44. Do you prefer shoes or barefeet? Bare Feet
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (isbn 9781593080112) 24 Aug
Almeta wrote: "✔24/24 Task 10. Are you right or left handed? Right-handedThe Right Attitude to Rain 23 Aug
That completes the second part of the challenge!
On to the last part, for all of them."
Congratulations on completing part 2. I'm desperate to get that part done.
Congratulations on finishing Part 2, Almeta. I bought a volume of Daniel Defoe books (I think there are five of them). It has been 50 years since I read the first one. Did you know that there is another book about Robinson Crusoe?
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - in which RC goes back to island, gets Friday, sails to China, travels over the Russian steppes and into Siberia.
✔26/50 Task 23. Do you prefer a shower or bath? Scalding hot shower – On my TBR since May 2011. Title has absolutely nothing to do with watery showers...still that's how the title is spelled. It is really about a person who "shows" motion "pictures".The Pitcher Shower, Donald Harington 26 Aug
What a great find for "shower", Almeta. I may have discounted it because it was #11 of a series. The story line does sound compelling though. The link is like "having fun with words"!
Cherie wrote: "What a great find for "shower", Almeta. I may have discounted it because it was #11 of a series. The story line does sound compelling though. The link is like "having fun with words"!"Every other book that I noticed with the word "shower" in it didn't appeal to me...about baby showers or wedding showers. I was tickled pink to find this title AND love the play on words as well.
I actually was unaware of this book's position in a series. As I read, I realized that I have read something about the town of Stay More before. Sure enough I read the first in the series, Lightning Bug.
Fortunately The Pitcher Shower takes you out of town, so that it easily reads as a stand alone.
Now, I need to get back to book #2 in the series!☻
It would work for those needing a truck on the cover as well.
Janice wrote: "It would work for those needing a truck on the cover as well."Wow! I didn't notice that.
I need a truck book BUT I think I'll stick with SHOWER.
I think there have been lots of book covers with pick-up trucks posted in the challenge thread, Almeta. I have several in my TBR list that I have not read yet. If you need a list, let me know.
All this talk about TRUCK books....I had read this back in July!!!✔27/50 Task 26. Do you prefer a car or truck? Truck
Read a book with your selection on the cover or in the title.
Savage Season 9 Jul
LOL! See, now you are one book closer to the end of the challenge.
Cherie wrote: "LOL! See, now you are one book closer to the end of the challenge."That seems pretty far away at this point!☻
✔28/50 Task 39. What is your birthstone using the US 2016 listing: Garnet- the colour of that gemstone is the colour of the cover.
Fractured 30 Aug
✔29/50 31. If you could meet anyone famous, infamous, notorious, who would it be?Dorothy Parker
The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection 9 Sep
✔30/50 Task 19. What is your current desk top picture? A closeup photograph of a praying mantis from a friends garden.I'm going with Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects. I'll probably have nightmares! 9 Sep
✔31/50 Task 14. What is something you use daily? Pharmaceuticals! Prior to May 2016, I had not been taking any prescriptions. Now I pop three every morning...when I remember!☻One Step Behind. Kurt Wallander's investigation is affected by his diabetes. 20 Sep
✔32/50 Task 8. What is your favourite holiday? = Halloween Read a book that is about that holiday, set during that holidayA Night in the Lonesome October 12 Oct
✔33/50 Task 11. What is your birthday month? set in JanuaryLair of Dreams 10 Nov
"a small but enthusiastic crowd waited in the January drizzle"
"The last will and testament of Cornelus Rathbone, recorded this day, the fourth of January in the year of our Lord, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen"
"The gloom of January weighed on New Yorkers"
"Eight o'clock in the evening on January"
Saw people reporting their completion of 2017's yearly challenge and decided to take a look at how far away I am from getting them all done. Not likely to finish it by end of December. However I did notice that I had not reported some that I have finished! Must have been out of it in September.☺
✔35/50 Task 9. What is your relationship status? SingleWell I had to do this as part of my personal challenge to read one book from each of the band members of the Rock Bottom Remainders, peopled by authors and other bookish types, like Stephen King, Ridley Pearson, Amy Tan, Al(ice) Kooper, Mitch Albom, Barbara Kingsolver, Dave Barry, Greg Iles, Scott Turow, and others, including Cynthia Heimel.
Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of SINGLE Women 2 Sep
✔36/50 Task 21. How many candles were on your last birthday cake? Not the appropriate amount. They ran out of stock at the dollar store. – 100.Bandits, Elmore Leonard 7 Sep
✔37/50 Task 16. What is your favourite Ice cream flavour? Häagen-Dazs Coffee. I eat it even though I'm lactose intolerant. The COFFEE Trader 8 Sep
✔39/50 Task 35. What type of holiday do you prefer? Hanging with friends, usually in the out-of-doors...trees, water, campfire, etc.By Cheyenne Campfires, George Bird Grinnell 2 Dec
Close. 11 books left. If you don't sleep for a few days, I think you can do it. :o)Your book in message 92 reminded me that I had one of his books on my Nook. I think it must be the oldest unread book on my list, and it has a BLUE cover. I added it to my Cancer task.
Found another!✔40/50 Task 13. What is your favourite type of food? Authentic Mexican. And YES there is a distinction!
Mexico The Damselby Richard Stark a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake There he is again! 25 Apr
✔41/50 Task 46. What is your Zodiac sign? Depends on whose chart. I am on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius. water
Interpreter of Maladies 14 Oct
Cherie wrote: "Close. 11 books left. If you don't sleep for a few days, I think you can do it. :o)Your book in message 92 reminded me that I had one of his books on my Nook. I think it must be the oldest unread..."
Elmore Leonard is one of my favorite authors. He was a local Michigan author. Unfortunately he died in 2013, so once I catch up on his oeuvre, I'll notice the loss!
I found a couple more books that I had not reported. So I've narrowed it down to nine. Just ordered them all. Gotta try!☺
I did it last month with 8 to go. You can do it. You don't even have to go to work, do you?
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