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SPRING CHALLENGE 2017
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LAUREN JODI15.7 - It's Contagious
Book #68 on the Best Fiction Books about Diseases and Viruses
The Turn by Kim Harrison
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 745/850
Total Books Read: 58
Tasks Completed: 42/52
Readerboard Name: Nicola TTask: 5.5 - March, April, May
Read a book with the number of pages as listed on Goodreads that includes the number 3, 4, or 5.
I read Pleasure of a Dark Prince. The version i read had 431 pages.
Task: 20.2 - Rookie At The Top - McCathy's Task: Lucky Charms
I chose Option 2 and read a book with MPG "Cultural>Ireland"
I read The Wonder
Points this post: 5 + 20 = 25
Points overall: 145
BB overall:1
GO overall:1
Books read: 10
Tasks completed:8
trishhartuk15.5. Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!
Read a book with the word “girl” found intact in the title/subtitle of the book.
The Girl at Rosewood Hall, Annis Bell
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
15.9 They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
Read a book with the main page genre Science Fiction.
Everything Belongs to the Future, Laurie Penny
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here
Shelved as Science Fiction by 45 users
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
Total Points: 835
Tasks Completed: 51
Golden Oldies: 8
Big Books: 3 (500+ x 3 = 3 tickets)
Nikki S. 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days...
Option 3 : Read a book where ALL the letters in the word RAINBOW are found in any combination of the title, subtitle and/or author's first and last name.
Brain Training For Runners: A Revolutionary New Training System to Improve Endurance, Speed, Health, and Results by Matt Fitzgerald.
Big Book Tickets: 1 (562 pages).
Points this Post : 20
Tasks This Post : 1
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Points : 210
Total Tasks : 12
Total Big Book Tickets : 3
Golden Oldies : 0
Nikki S. ***Task Correction : AR Verification***
Summerland by Michael Chabon, originally claimed in post 2071.
Nikki S.
Task 20.6
Option 1 : Read a book (fiction or non-fiction) about baseball.
Summerland by Michael Chabon.
From the Wikipedia article : "It is about young children who save the world from destruction by playing baseball, the central theme and symbol throughout the novel. "
I am claiming a Big Books ticket for this book. It is 500 pages.
AR Verification:
IL : MG - BL : 6.3 AR pts: 22.0
Points this Post : 0 - verifying
Tasks This Post : 0 - verifying
Big Book Tickets: 0 - verifying
Total Points : 210
Total Tasks : 12
Total Big Book Tickets : 3
Golden Oldies : 0
Nikki S. ***Task Correction: Verifying Big Book Ticket***
Number of pages was not posted on Post 2461
Task 5.10 Read a Book of Your Choice
Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century
Total number of pages 500. Claiming one big book ticket.
Points this post : 0 - verifying
Tasks This Post : 0 - verifying
Big Book Tickets this post : 1 verifying.
Total Points : 210
Total Tasks : 12
Total Big Book Tickets : 3
Total Golden Oldies : 0
Meg D20.9 - Chandni's Task
Option 3
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Found on Epistolary Fiction list, page 1, #18 as of 5/23/2017
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 125
Total Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 7
BellaGBeartask 5.10: Om te janken zo mooi
>5 points
task 10.2 The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
first published in 1894, so I claim a golden oldie
>10 points
task 15.1:
book 1: Invisible Citieswhich has 'architecture' as main page genre
book 2: Harley Quinn: Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes
>15 points
task 15.5: Tank Girl: The Odyssey
>15 points
task 20.10: The Wonder I participated with message 44 in the discussion
>20 points
TOTAL POST
65 points
TOTAL CHALLENGE:
725 points
10 GO
1 GO
Cait S10.9- Star Wars Stars
Read a book by an author who shares a name with one of these actors who appeared in the film.
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Christina Baker Kline matches Kenny Baker.
Points This Post: 10
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Points: 210/850
Task 15.1 – It’s a WonnderOPTION 1 - Main page genre: ENGINEERING or ARCHITECTURE
A Burglar's Guide to the City
Approved in HELP thread
OPTION 2 – Two consecutive ‘N’s in Title
heNNessy
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
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This Post: 15 points
Total points to date: 510 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 3
Big Books Read: (4) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / (2) 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 10
Sarah E15.7. It's Contagious!
#1 on page 1 of the History of Disease list
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
15.8. How do I Get There?
I read the kindle edition, top paperback (no MMPB) is Paper Towns
Points this post: 30
Total points: 705
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ10.6 - Penguin Places
Just This Once by Rosalind James
More than 50% of this book was set in New Zealand/Australia.
Link to PB edition: Just This Once
This post: 10 points
Total points to date: 430 points
Tasks completed: 30
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
CEELEETask 5.10 Your Own 8th Wonder
I chose JANE STEELE by Lyndsay Faye
Jane Steele
Total Points for Task: 5
Total Books Read for Task: 1
Total Big Book Tickets Claimed for Task: 0
Total GO Books Tickets Claimed for Task: 0
Total Poets Earned for Spring Challenge: 55
Total Tasks Completed in Spring Challenge: 4
Total Books Read for Spring Challenge: 5
Total Big Book Tickets Claimed for Spring Challenge: 1
Total GO Tickets Claimed for Spring Challenge: 1
20.4 - Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers?Option 1: Author's initials in the phrase "APRIL SHOWERS" - Read My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout. E & S is in the phrase.
Points these task: 20
Total points: 255
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 3
Big Book ticket requests: 5
Books read: 23
Tasks completed: 17
Kristen IA5.7- Modern Classics
Read a book that has been shelved at least 10 times as “modern classic” from this list Popular Modern Classics
Required: State the page.
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
I found this on Page 7 of the list, listed 17 times as a “modern classic.”
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Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 325/850
Total Tasks: 22/52
GO: 0
BB: 5
Kait5.7 - Modern Classics
A book that has been shelved at least 10 times as “modern classic” from this list Popular Modern Classics.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling -- On page 2 of the Popular Modern Classics shelf; I read the kindle ebook edition, here is the mass market paperback: Harry Potter et la Chambre des Secrets; AR Bookfind designation is IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14.0
Points This Post: 5
Big Book Tickets This Post: 0
Golden Oldies This Post: 0
Total Points: 370
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
Total Golden Oldies: 1
EMurphy20.6 Seasoned Reader-Bookwrm526's Task: Batter Up!
Option 3-Book FIRST published in a year ending with the number 9
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
*published in 1939
**Golden Oldies Ticket - publish date 1939
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 1
Total:
Points: 205
Books Read: 13
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 12
Creynard25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
Book 1: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
From GR Popular Futurism Books Page 2.
**Red Mars is a Big Book with 572 pages. Claiming 1 BB Ticket.**
Book 2: The Hunter by Kerrigan Byrne
Historical Fiction listed as GR Main Page Genre
Points this post: 25
Total points: 580
BB this post: 1
Total BB: 5
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Tasks completed: 37
Books read: 47
Coralie20.8 Over and Under
Book with the word “under” intact in author’s name
All That I Am by Anna Funder
This post 20 points
Total to date 625 points
Julia10330.5 - Jonquil’s task: There Is No Frigate Like A Book
Book 1 -
- I like reading on a plan (cover approved in post 145 of task help thread)Book 2 -
- I like reading on the sofa in my living room which has lots of bookcasesThis post: 30 points
Total points: 605
Total BB: 3
Total GO: 2
Tasks completed: 33
10.7 Mad for Plaid - plaid on cover
15.10 Spring Gardening - authors initials in gaRdeNing
Island of Glass by Nora Roberts
20.5 One of those March Days - authors initials in be bold foR chAnge
The Complete Ketogenic Diet for Beginners: Your Essential Guide to Living the Keto Lifestyle by Amy Ramos
25.2 Who am I? Where am I >500 pages
Bk 1 - title includes name of character in book
Caroline - 336 pages
Caroline is main character in book
Bk 2 - place is in title of book
Salem Falls -434 pages
Salem Falls is where the story takes place
336 + 434 = 770 pages
30.1 Two Halves of a Whole
Bk 1 - Spring, March, April or May in the title
The Enchanted April
Bk 2 - 9th, 10th or 11th in a series.
Tough Cookie (Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery #9)
30.2 Modern and Contemporary Art
Bk 1 - pub 1890-1930 and authors initials in ART DECO" or "ART NOUVEAU" or "BAUHAUS". 9 - ACD in ART DECO
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle - published 1890
Golden Oldie ticket
Bk 2 - pub 1970 - present and authors initials in CONTEMPORARY ART" or "POST MODERN ART".-CA in CONTEMPORARY ART
A Harvest of Thorns by Corban Addison - published 2017
30.4 Pride of Lions or School of Sharks
Bk 1 - animal on cover - Raven
Bk 2 - using animal from Bk 1, read title using animal group word - murder is a group of ravens
- published in 1950Golden Oldie ticket
Total points this post: 160
Golden Oldie tickets: 2 (The Sign of Four, A Murder is Announced)
Melly5.1- Thoroughly Modern
Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson. Initials are E and D.
5.2 - Location, Location, Location
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
**Claiming Big Book ticket for The Goldfinch. The Goldfinch is 771 pages long (2 BBs)**
5.3 - The 20th Century
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. Night Watch is #29 in Discworld series.
5.4 - Best Laid Plans --- 5.8 - Full Moon
Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin. "Wolf" is in the title.
5.5 - March, April, May
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. 554 pages.
***Oliver Twist is a Golden Oldie (first published 1838)**
***Oliver Twist is a Big Book- 554 pages.. Claiming 1 BB ticket.***
5.7- Modern Classics
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Page 1.
***Mrs Dalloway is a Golden Oldie (first published 1925).***
5.9 - Whodunit?
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein.
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
**This is a Golden Oldie (published 1939)**
10.2 - Initial Success
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab.
***This is a Big Book, 624 pages (1 BB ticket).
10.3 - Aim High
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
10.8 - Build A Bridge
***Hiroshima is a Golden Oldie (first published 1946).***
10.10 -The 2017 Rooster
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.
15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15. OPTION 1
Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami AND Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher
15.7. It's Contagious!
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel. Page 1 of Best Fiction Books About Diseases or Viruses.
15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
15.10. Spring Gardening
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
20.1- Most Improved Player – Camilla’s Task: Finland 100 Years! -- OPTION 2
Silence by Shūsaku Endō. Sun on the cover.
20.3 - Best Review - Lauren Jodi's task: Hidden Figures -- OPTION 1
Marie Curie: A Life by Susan Quinn.
**This is a Big Book (528 pages). Claiming 1 BB.**
20.4 – Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers? -- OPTION 1
The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich.
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days... OPTION 2
Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
20.6 – Seasoned Reader - Bookwrm526's Task: Batter Up!! OPTION 2
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.
***Gone With the Wind is a Golden Oldie (first published 1936.)***
***Gone With the Wind is a Big Book, 1037 pages. I'm claiming 3 BB tickets.***
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball! OPTION 2
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Set in France.
Points this post: 270
Total points: 270
Total tasks: 22
GO: 4
BB: 8
Total books: 23
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ15.5 - Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
"Girl" is found intact in the title
Link to PB edition: Stargirl
25.3 - No More Wolves
Book 1 - Private by James Patterson
The title does not contain any of the letters in the word WOLF
Link to MMP edition: Private Los Angeles (408 pages)
Book 2 - California by Edan Lepucki
The author's initials can be found in the word FLOWER (E in Edan, L in Lepucki)
Link to PB edition: California (416 pages)
408+416 = 824 pages (which exceeds 500 pages)
30.5 - There Is No Frigate Like A Book
Book 1 - Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
I like to read on the beach/by water
Link to MMP: L'été de la deuxième chance
Book 2 - Delivered With Love by Sherry Kyle
I like to read while riding in the car
Link to PB edition: Delivered with Love
This post: 70 points
Total points to date: 500 points
Tasks completed: 33
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
Mod
Boston Kate
30.3 It's Elementary
Book 1: Strands of Bronze and Gold
title contains "Gold" (Au), atomic number 79
7+9=16, 1+6=7
Book 2: Frost Burned
#7 in Mercy Thompson series
Points this post: 30
Total points: 100
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 11
Pamela326510.2 - Initial Success
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells -
Golden Oldie - First published in 1897
10.5 - And The Tony Goes To....
William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher
10.10 -The 2017 Rooster
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
15.4. Laughing and Singing
Book 1: William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back by Ian Doescher
Book 2: “A Rake's Redemption by Susannah Carleton – The Six #4
15.7. It's Contagious!
The Maze Runnerby James Dasher – Books about Diseases or Viruses page 1
Points this post: 60
Total Points: 660
Golden Oldie books this post: 1
Total Golden Oldie books: 5
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+: 1
Big Books - 1000+:
20.9 -- Welcome to my Wheelhouse Option 2: Read a book with True Crime as the main page genre.
Honeymoon With A Killer by Don Lasseter
Points this Post: 20
Big Books this Post: 0
Golden Oldies this Post: 0
Total Points: 145
Total Books Read: 11
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
Coralie20.1 Finland 100 years
Option 1 – book written by an author who was born in Finland
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
This post 20 points
Total to date 645 points
REPOSTED FOR GOLDEN OLDIE TICKET25.6 PerleTwo's Task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
This is a two-book task. Read one book for each option.
The total page count for the two books must be at least 500 pages.
1. Spring Forward: Read a book from the first 5 pages of Popular Futurism Books or Popular Near-Future Books
Required: State the list you used and the page where your book was found.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Book found on Popular Near-Future Books list, page 1.
AND
2. Fall Back: Read a book with a genre that contains "historical" or "history" intact on its main book page, e.g., Historical Romance, Microhistory, Military History. The genre can be stand-alone or embedded.
Common Sense: The Call to Independence by Thomas Paine
MPG = History 644 users
GOLDEN OLDIE TICKET - published in 1776
Points: 25
5.2 - Location, Location, LocationThe Secret Life of France by Lucy Wadham
Set in France
20.9 - Chandni's Task: Welcome to My Wheelhouse
Option 4. Watership Down by Richard Adams
Found on page 3 of the list.
Points this post: 25
Points in total: 685
Golden Oldies: 5
Big Books: 0
JUKKA25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
Book 1: Book from the Popular Futurism Books list.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It's on the first page of the list. The copy I read had 190 pages.
Book 2: Book with History as a main page genre.
Designers & Dragons: The '70s by Shannon Appelcline. The paperback edition has 386 pages.
190 + 386 = 576 pages.
Points this post: 25
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Points: 380/850
Total Books Read: 33
Tasks Completed: 30/52
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 4
loafer5.9 - Whodunit?
Read a book with a main page genre that includes "Mystery"
London Fields by Martin Amis
mmpb: London Fields 768 pages
claiming 2 "big book" tickets
points: 5
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15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends.
Read a book that a GR friend has rated 4 or 5 stars.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
rated 5 stars by my friend Jill
points: 15
total: 650
BB: 5
GO: 8
tasks completed: 39
EMurphy10.2 - Initial Success: A Book with an author who uses exactly 2 initials instead of a first name
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
This Task:
Points: 10
Books Read: 1
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
Total:
Points: 215
Books Read: 14
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 13
Kristi CO20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball!
Option 1: Grapefruit League initials
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls by Lauren Graham
25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride!
Option A, Book 1: published before 1992
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Book 2: published in 2017
American War by Omar El Akkad
*1 Golden Oldie ticket for A Tale of Two Cities, published in 1859*
Points this post: 45
Total points: 290
Tasks completed: 20
Books read: 23
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 2
Becky P repost for 21985.6 - Lady Day
Shy Girls Write it Better by May Sage
Pb edition Shy Girls Write It Better
Points this post-5
Total points- 435
25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride!Option A: Old & New
Book 1: My sister has decided that "old" refers to anything older than she is (for example, me). For this option read a book FIRST published before 1992 (the year she was born). I read My Mother's Sabbath Days: A Memoirm which was written in 1986.
AND
Book 2: For something new, read a book FIRST published in 2017.The Drowning King, which was published in 2017.
points: 290
books read: 24
tasks completed: 19
pages read: 8479
Becky P5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
PB edition Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends.
Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
PB edition Remember Me?
Friend who rated it 4 stars- Pani
20.9 - Chandni's Task: Welcome to My Wheelhouse
Option 3- Pg. 5 of epistolary fiction
The Not So Secret Emails Of Coco Pinchard by Robert Bryndza
PB edition The Not So Secret Emails Of Coco Pinchard
30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
Book 1- animal group wolves
by Patricia BriggsPb edition
Book 2- Protecting the Pack by Tabitha Conall
Pb edition Protecting the Pack, an Mmf Erotic Romance
30.5 - Jonquil’s task: There Is No Frigate Like A Book
Book 1- I like to read in my garden
by Kat FrenchPb edition
Book 2- I like to read on the beach when I go on holiday
by Debbie Johnson
Points this post- 100
Total Points- 535
KATRINAT5.2 - Location, Location, Location
Read a book set at least 50% in a location of a modern wonder: England; France; Canada; New York, USA; California,USA; Brazil; Paraguay; Panama; Netherlands
Sacred Country, Rose Tremain Set in England, from GR description: Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the "sacred country" within us all. (They go to America in the last 70 pages.
#Points this post: 5
Total Points: 295
GO: 1
BB: 1
Tasks completed:17
(5.1/5.2/5.4/5.5/5.9/5.10/10.3/10.10/15.6/15.7/15.9/20.1/20.5/20.6/2...)
Books read: 21
Readerboard Name - LaureY30.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1: Read a book FIRST published between 1890 and 1939 whose author’s first and last name initials can be found in ONE of theses words/phrases: "ART DECO" or "ART NOUVEAU" or "BAUHAUS".
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
First published in 1930.
'A' and 'C' are found in 'ART DECO'.
* I claim a Golden Oldie ticket for this book. *
Book 2: Read a book FIRST published between 1970 and the present whose author’s first and last name initials can be found in ONE of these phrases: "CONTEMPORARY ART" or "POST MODERN ART".
Full Tilt by Emma Scott
First published in 2016.
'E' and 'S' are both in 'POST MODERN ART'.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 280
Task this post: 1
Total Tasks: 19
Golden Oldies this post: 1
Total Golden Oldies: 6
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
CEELEETask 30.3 It's Elementary
Two Book Task
Book 1 Read a book whose title , subtitle or series name contains the name of an element you have chosen from the Periodic Table.
I chose Oxygen and read the book OXYGEN by Carol Cassella.
Oxygen
Book 2 Using the element you chose, read a book in a series based on the atomic number of the element.
Oxygen has an atomic number of 8. I chose THE HIPPOPOTAMUS POOL by Elizabeth Peters, #8 in her Amelia Peabody series. One of my favorite series and it is not a re-read.
The Hippopotamus Pool
This was a great task! I discovered a new-to- me author, read
from a favorite series, learned to properly spell "hippopotamus" and I will NEVER forget that Oxygen's atomic number is 8! Thanks for the fun reading experience!
Total Points for Task: 30
Total Books Read for Task: 2
Total Big Books Claimed for task: 0
Total Golden Oldies Claimed for Task: 0
Total points for Spring Challenge 2017: 85
Total Tasks Completed for Spring Challenge 2017: 5
Total Books Read for Spring Challenge 2017: 7
Total Big Books Claimed for Spring Challenge 2017: 1
Total Golden Oldies Claimed for Spring Challenge 2017: 1
FANDURY10.7 - Mad For Plaid
Read a book with something plaid on the cover.
by Nicholas MeyerPoints this post: 10
Total Points: 435
Books Read: 34
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(0)
Readerboard Name - LaureY25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
1. Spring Forward: Read a book from the first 5 pages of Popular Futurism Books or Popular Near-Future Books
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
On page 1 of the Popular Futurism Books.
Number of pages: 374
2. Fall Back: Read a book with a genre that contains "historical" or "history" intact on its main book page
Lustrum by Robert Harris
Number of pages: 419
The two books together have over 500 pages.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 305
Task this post: 1
Total Tasks: 20
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 6
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
LAUREN JODI15 - Location, Location, Location
Set in New York:
Scandal Never Sleeps by Shayla Black
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 750/850
Total Books Read: 59
Tasks Completed: 43/52
Readerboard Name - LaureY25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Sydney Harbour
Option 2. For this option read a book of 100-150 pages in length.
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Number of pages: 104.
*I claim a Golden Oldie ticket for this book as it was first published in 1940*
Option 3. Outback! – For this option read a book written by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in OUTBACK.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
'A' and 'T' are both in OUTBACK.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 330
Task this post: 1
Total Tasks: 21
Golden Oldies this post: 1
Total Golden Oldies: 7
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Sarah E5.8 Under the Spring Moon
Wildflower Bay: Part One
This is my one 80-99 page book allowed for one 5 point task.
Approved for the conditional 5 point task message 6231
Points this post: 5
Total points: 710
Chris MD5.6 Lady Day
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
25.6 A Stitch in Time Saves Nine
Book 1: From page 5 of the Popular Futurism Books
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
I listened to the audio version of this book. The mass market paperback has 215 pages.
This book has Childrens listed asn an MPG, but AR Bookfinder lists it as MG+. (IL: MG+ - BL: 5.0 - AR Pts: 7.0)
Book 2: MPG of History or Historical
The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry
Book 1: 215 pages
Book 2: 345 pages
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Total: 560 pages
30.1 Two Halves of a Whole
Book 1: Spring, March, April or May in the title
Devil May Care by Elizabeth Peters
Book 2: 9th, 10th or 11th in a series
Raisins and Almonds by Kerry Greenwood
This is #9 in the Phryne Fisher Mysteries series.
I think I can, I think I can. Three more books to finish. Guess what I'm doing this weekend?
Points for this post: 5 + 25 + 30 = 60
Total points: 60 + 730 = 790
Books read: 63
Tasks completed: 50
Golden Oldies: 5
Big Books: 0
10.5 - And the Tony Goes To...I read Othello by William Shakespeare which fits the requirements because it's a play.
15.4 - Laughing and Singing
For book one, I read Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh. This works for the task because it has MPG of Humor.
For book two, I read Saga, Vol. 4 by Brian K. Vaughan which is #4 in the Saga series.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 265
Tasks complete: 26
Books read: 28
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Sara G25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves
Book 1. Read a book whose title does NOT contain any of the letters in the word WOLF.
Paper and Fire by Rachel Caine
Book 2. Spring is a time of rebirth. Conveniently REWOLF spelled backwards is FLOWER which is a sign of Spring so…
Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in the word FLOWER.
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Points this post: 25
Total points: 715
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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5.8 Under the Spring Moon
Title includes "milk."
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
10.7 Mad for Plaid
There is a plaid scarf under the hat.
15.1 It's a Wonder
Book 1: MPG of architecture
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
Book 2: 2 n’s found sequentially in the title/subtitle/author’s name
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by JeNNifer Chiaverini
Points for this post: 5 + 10 + 15 = 30
Total points: 30 + 700 = 730
Books read: 58
Tasks completed: 47
Golden Oldies: 5
Big Books: 0