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WINTER CHALLENGE 2016
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15.6 - Multilingual
Et glas mælk, tak
My native language is Danish, and the book was originally published in Norwegian.
20.1. Most Improved Player - CynBaxter's Task: Christmas in the Caribbean
Option 1: Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Author's initials found in caribbean
Points this post: 35
Total points: 110
Tasks completed: 7

Task 10.3 They're Old
Genre of Historical Fiction
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley
Points this post:10
Total points:20
Tasks completed:3
Books read:3
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)

#15.02 – Celebrity Eye-roll
Task: Read a book with “night” found intact in a word in the book’s title, subtitle, series title or author’s name.
Book 1: Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Task: Read a book with “time” found intact in a word in the book’s title, subtitle, series title or author’s name.
Book 2: The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Points this post: 15 points
Total points to date = 370 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 2
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 1

(First time posting, I really hope I've got this right!)
Task 5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Read a book that fits one of the Fall 2016 5, 10 or 15 point tasks.
F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way by John C. Parkin.
I used: Fall Task 10.8 - 26 Letters. Read a book in which the number of words or letters in the title match the numerical designation of the first letter of the title.
I am using the number of words, and I am including the subtitle. The first letter of the first word of the title is F, which equals six words in the title & subtitle.
Task 5.5 - December, January, February
Read a book with the number of pages as listed on Goodreads that includes the number 1 or 2.
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Number of Pages: 130 (MMP Version) - I read it as an ebook.
Claiming 1x Golden Oldie - First Published in 1890.
Task 5.9 - Listmaker
Read a book that was FIRST published in a year that contains the numbers 2 AND 5.
Fairest by Marissa Meyer.
First Published: January 27th, 2015
Task 10.2. Ring, Sing, Bling?
Read a book with a word in the title/subtitle ending in “ing".
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
Claiming 1x Golden Oldie - First Published in 1930.
Task 10.4. Fire and Ice
Read a book with all letters of FIRE and of ICE found in the book’s title/subtitle/author name.
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey.
F - in Gifts
I - in Girl
R - in Girl
E - in The
I - in with
C - in Carey
E - in Carey
Task 25.11 - Wayne's Task: A Festivus for the Rest of Us!
Option 4: Read a book from one of these two lists: Books with Strong Women Characters/Strong Male Characters.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
I used the Strong Male Characters list, and this book is #10.
Claiming 1x Golden Oldie - First Published in 1925.
Option 5: Read a book that is 2nd, 3rd, or 23rd in a series.
Cress by Marissa Meyer. This is listed as #3 in The Lunar Chronicles.
Claiming 1x Big Book
No MMP, linked to Paperback version - 585 pages.
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Points this post: 60
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 7
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books (500+): 1
Total points: 60
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15.8 - Not-So-Secret (leavening) Agent
Read a book where ALL the letters N A H C O O O (3 O’s) are found in any combination of title, subtitle and author’s name.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
THe Five PeOple YOu Meet In HeAveN - MitCh AlbOm
Total Points: 35

5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Read a book that fits one of the Fall 2016 5, 10 or 15 point tasks. You may not use Task 5.10 or 15.2 option A. You may use a single book A or B option from tasks 15.1, 15.2B, 15.3, 15.4.
Required: When you post, indicate which Fall 2016 task you are using, and include any information required by the task.
True Blue by David Baldacci
Task 15.2B - Read a book added to your TBR in June, July, or August 2016. Book added August 2016
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 90/1075
BB Tickets This Post: 0
Total BB Tickets: 500+: (1), 750+: (0), 1000+: (0)
Total GO Tickets: 0
Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 7

Option 1. Cards.
The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory
Word: Queen
Points this post: 20
Points in total: 270
Tasks completed: 14
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book tickets: 0

20.10 - Group Reads
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Mine is post number 16 in the discussion thread. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 110/1075
BB Tickets This Post: 0
Total BB Tickets: 500+: (1), 750+: (0), 1000+: (0)
Total GO Tickets: 0
Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 8

Book with a word ending in 'ing' - Read The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James. 'Haunting' ends in 'ing'.
Points these task: 10
Total points: 35
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 6
Tasks completed: 3

15.1 - Madly in Love With Me Day
1 - P.S. I Still Love You
2 - You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
15.5 - B-I-N-G-O!
Barkskins
20.3. Best Review - Lorraine's Task: It Was The Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
C: Sylvester - 1957, 410 pages
25.8 - Beth F's Task: Backwards Alphabet Code
1=G Good on Paper - 320 pgs
& 2=T The Trespasser - 449 pgs
25.9 - Brooke TX's Task: Is It Ancient, or Just a Classic?
2: The Curse of Tenth Grave
4: Capture
25.10 – Pamela3265's Task: Tis the Season
1: Trial by Desire by Courtney Milan
3: A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong (approved for length row 36 of google doc)
TALLY
This post - 125
Total - 315

15.7 Tales of Middle-Earth
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
20.6 Nicola T's Task: Repos Production's 7Wonders
Option 1: The First Age
Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation by Pam England

There's a wooden ladder on the cover.
Points this post: 35
Total points: 90

I did this book from the fall challenge:
5.4 - Flowers
Read a book by an author whose first and last name initials are found in the 4th wedding anniversary flower CRANESBILL GERANIUM.
I read The Home Place, by Carrie La Seur, whose 3 initials, CLS, are all found in Cranesbill Geranium.
Points: 155
Books read: 15
tasks completed: 12
GO: 2
tasks in progress: 2
pages read: 4936

20.9L Celebrating Proofreading
What We Saw
Option 2- Heterographs I # 9 What vs. Watt
Total Points: 65

Read a book with a word in the title/subtitle ending in “ing.” No variations allowed.
Here's Looking at You - Mhairi McFarlane
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Points this post: 10
Points total: 45
Tasks completed: 6
Golden Oldies:
Big Books: 1 - 500+(1) 750+() 1000+()
Books read: 6
Pages read: 2217

20.2. Rookie at the Top - Justme's Task: Fun & Games
Option 3: Myst - Read a book that is #1 in a series and has a title beginning with the letter M.
Maggie for Hire by Kate Danley (Kindle edition I read)
Maggie for Hire (Paperback Edition: 286 pages)
This is #1 in the Maggie MacKay, Magical Tracker series and the title starts with "M".
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 170
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 11

10.9 Stories Say: mythology as a main page genre
Penelope's Daughter by Laurel Corona
Points
This post: 10
Total: 205

All letters of FIRE and ICE in the book's title/subtitle/author name:
A Death in the Small Hours by Charles Finch
FI in Finch
RE in Charles
I in in
C in Charles
E in Death
Points this post: 10
Total points: 155

30.6 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Travels
Read one book from each of two different options.
Total page number is above 500.
Book 3:Read a book with the main page genre classic(s).
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Page Number: 209
Book 4:Read a book with a picture of a fish on the cover.

Page number: 329
I claim a Golden Oldie ticket for Book 3 as it was first published in 1927.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 215
Task this post:1
Total Tasks: 12
Golden Oldies this post: 1
Total Golden Oldies: 3
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 2

Date: January 9, 2017
Task 10.8. On the Coast
Under the Tuscan Sun - read 1/7/17
Task 20.7. Shorter is Sweeter - Elizabeth P's Task: One or Two?
Option Two: To study or not to study?
The Genius of Birds - read 1/8/17
Points this post: 30
Points to Date: 235
GO Tickets: 3
BB Tickets: 0

15.7 - Tales of Middle-earth
The Red Queen
**1120pp - 3 big book tickets
TOTAL TO DATE
points: 145
BB tickets: 11

10.4. Fire and Ice
Read a book with all letters of FIRE and of ICE found in the book’s title/subtitle/author name.
I listened to The Life Before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke. The mass-market paperback edition (La vie devant ses yeux) has 352 pages.
*The Life Before Her Eyes Laura Kasischke
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 40

30.2 Pros and Cons
Option 1
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweetby Jamie Ford
#92 on Family Relationships List
Option 2
Cons
Read a book with three out of 4 vowels appear in the title
Bastionby Mercedes Lackey
A,I, O in the title
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 6
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Task Points: 30
Grand Total: 60/1250

Task 25.10 - Tis the Season
Option One - Author's initials in CHRISTMAS CARDS
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
ChristmaS carDs
Option Three: Main page genre fantasy
The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 215
Total Tasks: 16
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 1
Total Books: 18

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
My post is #12 in the Group Posting
30.4 Readers Recommend
Option 1 - Reader's Rating: The Hunter by Kerrigan Byrne
Rating 4.27, 432 pages
Option 2 - Award Season: The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Nominated in Mystery & Thriller Category, 320 pages
Total Pages: 752
Post Total: 50
Grand Total: 230

15.4 - To Tell the Truth
Option 2
Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide?:

Points this post: 15
Books this post: 1
Totals
Points: 140
BB: 1
GO: 0
Total Task completed: 8
Total Books read: 8

20.9 Moderator's pet - Heather (Gibby)'s Task: Celebrating Proofreading
Option 1

Author
Robert Penn
Points this post: 20
Books this post: 1
Totals
Points: 160
BB: 1
GO: 0
Total Task completed: 9
Total Books read: 9

30.1 - Maya's Task : Good Things Come in Pairs
3A) Read a book with only black text on the cover.

3B) Read a book with only white text on the cover.

Points this post:30
Total Points:225
Books read:17
Tasks Done: 14

Book 1 - Read a book about architecture or an architect from the following list that has been shelved as “architecture” at least 10 times.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple - 1/09/17 - page 2 - architecture>44 users
Book 2 - Read a book from the following list that has been shelved as “nature” at least 10 times.
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David Miller - 1/09/17 - page 3 - nature>43 users
Points This Post - 25
Total Points - 470

5.1 - The Ancients
Atlantia by Ally Condie - AnCient
25.6 - Trishhartuk's Task: Celebrate the City
Option 1: Pony Express Christmas Bride by Rhonda Gibson - domine diRiGe nos
Option 5: Her Firefighter Hero by Leigh Bale - Tablet: Leigh Pitt (Last on the list)
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 205
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:

Option 3, Book A, a book with only black text on the cover: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

Option 3, Book B, a book with only white text on the cover: Fates and Traitors by Jennifer Chiaverini

Points this post: 30
Total points: 185

5.3 Sole Survivor 5 points
Read a book that is #1 in a series.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
This book is #1 in the Harry Potter series.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Rowling, J.K.
AR Quiz No. 26759 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP, LS, VP
Book Rating Rating: 3.5
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Book #1
Add To AR BookBag Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

20.7. Shorter is Sweeter - Elizabeth P's Task: One or Two?
REQUIRED: Specify your option when you post.
Option One: I or Eye?
Read a book that has 2 “I”s AND 2 “E”s in the title/subtitle - more than 2 of both/either are okay
Fifth Grave Past the Light by Darynda Jones
"I" in Fifth and Light
"E" in Grave and the
I listened to the audiobook and have linked to the MMPB edition
25.4 - MegSCL's Task: World AIDS Day
Read 2 books. There are three options and you can use two different options or do the same option twice (with conditions noted under each option).
In addition, because World AIDS Day is marked through the wearing of a red ribbon, one of your books must have something red on the cover. It can be any object, big or small, including any titles, text, or backgrounds.
REQUIRED: Post the cover and point out the object in your post.
Option 2: HIV can be transmitted through sex, blood, or (rarely) childbirth.
Read a book with a main page genre of erotica, vampires, or pregnancy. Variations such as ‘erotic fiction’ and embedded genres such as paranormal>vampires are allowed. If you choose this option twice you must use two different genres.
Book 1 (Option 2 - Erotica) - Afterburn by Sylvia Day

I read the ebook and have linked to the PB edition for page count and Ebook for cover
Book 2 (Option 2 - Vampires) - Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
I read the ebook and have linked to the MMPB edition
30.1 - Maya's Task : Good Things Come in Pairs
Choose one pair of the following and read the two books for that pair. You CANNOT mix and match pairs!
One:
Book A: Read a book that is 1st in a series. This must be indicated by the book's metadata on Goodreads, and must be marked as #1 in the series (no .5 prequels).
Blurred Lines by Lauren Layne
I read the ebook. There is no print edition, but it is approved for length in line 392
AND
Book B: Read the 2nd book in the same series as book A. This must be indicated by the book's metadata on Goodreads, and must be marked as #2 in the series.
Good Girl by Lauren Layne
I read the ebook. There is no print edition, but it is approved for length in line 1005
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Points this Post: 75
Total Points: 105/1075
Total Tasks: 6/60
GO: 0
BB: 0

Task # 15.1 - Madly in Love With Me Day
Book 1 - Read a book with a word in the title from this list: me

Book 2 - Read an autobiography or memoir

Points this post: 15
Total points: 315

30.3 Daphne’s task: Atlas Obscura
4. Calistoga Pioneer Cemetery - read a book with a single grave or cemetery on the cover. REQUIRED: Include the cover in your post.

Dixie Lyle (352pg)
Approved for cemetery: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
5. Territorio de Zaguates (Land of Strays) - read a book with the main page genre of Dogs, Animals, or Wolves. Can be embedded or standalone.

Laura Morrigan (336pg)
Shelved as Animals by 6 users. Genre locked in message 28 of the help thread
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Total pages: 352 + 336 = 688
Points this Task: 30
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
Total Points: 395
Tasks Completed: 20
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 2 (500+ x2)

Date: January 10, 2017
Task 30.4 - Mazza1's Task - Readers Recommend
Two book option
OPTION 3 Birthday Bests
1960s, page 1
In Cold Blood - 343 pages - read 1/10/17
OPTION 5 Reading Through Your Ears
A Short History of Nearly Everything - read 1/1/17 - 544 pages
Claiming one BB ticket
Points this post: 30
Points to Date: 265
GO Tickets: 3
BB Tickets: 1

20.9 - Moderator's pet - Heather (Gibby)'s Task: Celebrating Proofreading
Option 1: Read a book where the author's initials can be found in the word PROOFREADING.
PD: Philip Dick
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Points this post: 20
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Points: 55
Total books read: 3
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0

20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Elizabeth P's task: One or Two?
Option 1: Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers
I in Gumption; I in Relighting; 2 E's in Freedom.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 410
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Tasks completed: 22
Books read: 31

20.5 The Long and Short of It
Option 2: UnBound: Stories from the Unwind World by Neal Shusterman
collection of short stories
20.10 Group Reads
2016 Debut Author Fiction: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
posted on discussion thread, message #9
Points this post: 40
Total points: 40
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2

Task 10.4 - Fire and Ice
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
F.I.R.E: angEls In ameRica: a gay Fantasia on national themes
I.C.E: angels in amErICa: a gay fantasia on national themes
This Post: 10 points
Total: 10 pts.
Big B's: 0
Oldies: 0
Tasks: 1
Books: 1

5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
The Gift
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25.6 - Trishhartuk's Task: Celebrate the City
1) A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire
S in NOS M in DOMINE
2) Someone to Love Historical Fiction on main genre page
Takes place in London
Points this post:30
Total Points:225
Books read:18
Tasks Done: 15

25.8 - Beth F's Task: Backwards Alphabet Code
H=S
The total combined page count for both books MUST be at least 500 pages.
Book 1 - Ignoring the articles "the", "a" and "an", read a book whose title begins with a letter in the left-hand column.
Horns (370 pages)
Book 2 - Ignoring the articles "the", "a" and "an", read a book whose title begins with the letter in the right-hand column that corresponds to the letter you selected from the left-hand.
The Scorpio Races (409 pages)
Points: 25
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 2
Total Points: 65
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 2

all letters of FIRE and of ICE found in the book’s title/subtitle/author name.
Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 160/1075
Tasks completed: 13/60
Books Read: 13
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(0)

5.9 Listmaker
Book published in year which contains a 2 and a 5 – 2015
Half the World
15.10 The Plane! The Plane!
Book with an aircraft on cover

25.4 World AIDS Day
Option 2 – book with main page genre vampires
Hard Spell
Option 3 book by author on list of tuberculosis cases

IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12.0
The title is read and there are red bands on the sleeves.
25.5 A Return to Stars Hollow
Option 1: Rory's reading list
Eva Luna 288 pages
Option 3: Where you lead
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 317 pages
Word from the song – lonely.
This post 70 points
Total to date 310 points

Task 5.3 #1 in series
Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton
First in Hamish Macbeth series
Points this task: 5

5.4 - Best Laid Plans
The Year We Hid Away by Sarina Bowen
- Fall task 5.4 - author's initials in CRANESBILL GERANIUM
15.8 - Not-So-Secret (leavening) Agent
Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition by Michelle M. Pillow
N, A, O, O - in subtitle (wanton edition)
C, H, O - in author's name (michelle pillow)
15.10 - The Plane! The Plane!

20.4 - Golden Oldie - Mhairi's Task: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Option 2
Flirting with Disaster by Jane Graves
- Jane is version of Jack
Points this post: 55
Total points: 55
Tasks Completed: 4

20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Nicola T's Task: Repos Production’s 7Wonders
Option 2

- cloth on cover
- approved for length
25.8 - Beth F's Task: Backwards Alphabet Code
Book 1
Hour Of The Hunter by J.A. Jance
- 576 pgs
Book 2
The Shadow Revolution by Clay Griffith
- 300 pgs
H=S
576 + 300 = 876 pgs (>500)
25.11 - Wayne's Task: A Festivus for the Rest of Us!
Option 3
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Anna gave it 2 stars
- 369 pgs
Option 5
Fragmented by Indra Vaughn
- 2nd in Shadow Mountain series
- 266 pgs
369 + 266 = 635 pgs (>500)
30.4 - Mazza1's Task - Readers Recommend
Option 1
Archangel's Enigma by Nalini Singh
- rating 4,43 - verified
- 357 pgs
Option 3
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18.0
- first published in 1979, year I was born --> on first page of the list
- 396 pgs
357 + 396 = 753 pgs (>600 )
Points this post: 100
Total points: 155
Tasks Completed: 8

15.4 - To Tell the Truth
1 book option
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley - what in the title; non-fiction book
Total this post: 15
Total overall: 385

10.3 read a book with History or Historical Fiction as a main page genre.
A Place Called Winter
Pts: 10
Total pts: 135

Read a book with all letters of FIRE and of ICE
Fire and Ice by Mary Connealy - 1/3/17***
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 140
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Book 1: Read a book with “night” found intact in a word in the book’s title, subtitle, series title or author’s name.
The Night Face (1963) by Poul Anderson (Mass Market Paperback, 145 pages)
Book 2: Read a book with “time” found intact in a word in the book’s title, subtitle, series title or author’s name.
Doctor Who: The Sands of Time: The Monster Collection Edition (Virgin Missing Adventures #22) (1996) by Justin Richards (Paperback, 336 pages)
140 + 15 = 155
Tasks Completed: 09
Points for this post: 15
Points thus far: 140 + 15 = 155
Books read: 11
Pages read: 2,758
Read but not claimed: 06
Goodreads Authors: 02
Golden Oldies: 01
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+