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WINTER CHALLENGE 2017
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Louise B10.1 What a zoo!
Title of book contains all the letters of “zoo”
Shadows in Bronze by Lindsey Davis
Points this task: 10
Total points to date: 260
Tasks completed: 13
Golden oldies: 4
Big book tickets: 1
Louise B30.1 Schatzie’s Task: Animal Crackers
I chose options 1 and 4.
Option 1: a book containing all the letters of “Nabisco” in the title
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
Option 4: a book with an author whose initials can be found in “stocking stuffer”
The Making of a Duchess by Shana Galen
Points this task: 30
Total points to date: 290
Tasks completed: 14
Golden oldies: 4
Big book tickets: 1
Post #1620.9 - Moderators' Pet - Morgan Faeriesfolly's Task: Bringing Pets and People Together
Option 4: Mini Merlin
Knight of a Trillion Stars Fantasy MPG
Points this post:20
Total Points:290
Books read:22
Tasks Done:17
50.1 - MegSCL's Task: GONG XI FA CAI!I am a Rabbit: 2011, 1999, 1987, 1975, 1963
Book 1:
Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb(first published February 1st 2011)
and
Book 2:
The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman(Leaphorn & Chee #6)
Paperback, 320 pages
and
Book 3: Goat:
Close Your Eyes by Iris Johansen and Roy JohansenTotal Points = 495
Bookwrm526Task #50.1 - GONG XI FA CAI!
I am a dragon in the Chinese zodiac.
Book 1: Read a book that was first published in a year that matches your Chinese zodiac sign. I read Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (2012).
Book 2: Read a book that matches the challenge the task for your own zodiac sign. Dragon - Read a book featuring a mythical creature. I read The Novice by Taran Matharu, which features demons and orcs. It also has elves and dwarves but those aren't mentioned in the Goodreads description.
Book 3: Complete a task for a zodiac animal other than your own. I chose rooster, to read a book with a storyline about pregnancy or a baby. I read Sleep Like a Baby by Charlaine Harris.
Points this post: 50
Total points so far: 415
Marina H20.6 - Seasoned Rader - Lagullande's Task: IT’S BEHIND YOU!
Option 1: The Boy in the Earth by Fuminori Nakamura
H appears three times in the titel
Points this post: 20
Total points: 325
Big book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 2
Tasks completed: 16
50.1 - MegSCL's Task: GONG XI FA CAI!My Chinese Zodiac sign is the Horse.
BOOK 1: Read a book first published in a year that matches your zodiac sign.
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
(1st pub 2014)
BOOK 2: Read a book that matches the task based on your own zodiac animal: Horse: Read a book from Best Friendship Books listopia.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
(no 62 on page 1 of the listopia)
*This book is a BIG BOOK (554 pages)*
BOOK 3: Choose to complete any other task from the list, using a different animal than your own zodiac animal: Monkey: Read a book with a number of pages that is evenly divisible by 12.
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
(480 pages ; 480/12=40)
Points this post: 50
TOTAL POINTS: 315
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book Tickets: 1 (500+); - (750+)
Total tasks completed: 13
Total books read: 18
CYNBAXTER#25.02 – Anne (Booklady)'s task: Big Cats
Option 2: Read a book set in a place where Cougars can still be found: Canada - Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, and territory of Yukon; USA States: Washington, Oregon, California, Texas, South Dakota, Michigan, Kentucky, Florida, and Maine; and Mexico.
Book 1: Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos – setting is in Seattle, Washington
Option 3: Read a book with a Night Scene on its Cover.
Book 2:
The Golem and the Djinni by Helene WeckerCombined books must be over 550p
Book 1: 400 + Book 2: 484 = 884 combined pages
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date = 125 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 1
READ 60 15.3 Hot or Cold
1. Quick Curtain by Alan Melville I am using the word QUICK.
2.The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss SLOW
Total Points 15 Total points 100
Nick KYFirst I will replace 5.10 Born Free. Originally I had Heroes and Heroines: Tlingit-Haida Legend.
I will remove it and replace it with The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories by Thomas Hardy. At 96 pp, this will be my one allowed 5-pointer at 80-100 pp.
Then I will add:
5.3 Banished! I read Heroes and Heroines: Tlingit-Haida Legend by Mary Giraudo Beck. The Title as listed on the Goodreads home page is exactly three words long, not counting the subtitle.
10.6 Up for a Challenge Bookriot’s challenge includes a group of short stories by a female author (# 22 on the list: https://bookriot.com/2016/12/15/book-... ) -- I read The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty.
30.4 DlmRose’s Backwards Day
Book 1. I read Death in Ecstasy by Ngaio Marsh. DIE
Book 2. I read Even in Darkness by Lynn S. Hightower. EID
Points This Post: 45
Total Points So Far: 550
Delicious Dee10.5 - Best Books
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness - featured book in Feb 2016
15.7 - Groundhog Day
Lure of the Dragon - DRAGON can be found in GROUNDHOG DAY
Points this Post 25
Total Points 355
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Task 5.4 Best Laid Plains
Read a book that fits one of the Fall 2017 5, 10 or 15 point tasks. You may use a single book A or B option from tasks 15.1-15.4.
Used Task 15.1-Read a book by an Author whose initials can be found in one of the listed Volcanoes:
Six of Crows
Author: Leigh Bardugo-Volcano: Elbrus (initials LB)
Points this task 5
Total points 160
Siobhan25.3 - Bluemoon's Task: SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN
I chose option B and option C
OPTION B - THE ELVES
Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in ELVES.
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle - Elves
OPTION C - THE POEM
Read a book that contains a word of at least four letters in its title (not subtitle) that is found in the first stanza of the poem as listed below.
A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house
30.11 Andy P's Task: Is There a Pattern Here?
Book 1
Read a book by a single author in which the letters of the author's first, middle, or last name consists of alternating vowels and consonants.
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott
(544 pages)
Karen was the name chosen. K = consonant, A = vowel, R = consonant, E = Vowel, N = consonant
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy has 544 pages and so qualifies for one Big Book ticket
Book 2
Read a book in which the title contains a word of 5 or more letters of alternating vowels and consonants.
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
(197 pages)
I chose the word bones. B = consonant, O = vowel, N = consonant, E = vowel, S = consonant
544 + 197 = 741 pages
Points this post: 55
Total points: 565
Big Book Tickets: 4
Golden Oldies Tickets: 6
Tasks Completed: 30
Books Read: 42
Dakimel5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Pachinko (fits 5.5: 512 pgs)
5.10 - Born Free
It Takes Two to Tangle
25.1 - Dakimel’s Task – Hurricane Recovery
1: Wilde in Love by Eloisa James
2: Jane of Austin: A Novel of Sweet Tea and Sensibility (75%+ in Texas)
25.2 - Anne (Booklady)'s task: Big Cats
1: Piecing Me Together (272 pgs) CHIRP
2: Moxie (330 pgs) all in TX
50.1 - MegSCL's Task: GONG XI FA CAI!
I'm a Rooster
1: Wrong to Need You - 2017
2: La Belle Sauvage (from description: "All are asking about the same thing: a girl--just a baby--named Lyra.")
3: (using Goat) Hamilton's Battalion: A Trio of Romances by Courtney Milan & Alyssa Cole & Rose Lerner
TALLY:
This post - 110 points
Total - 645
Diana K.Task 15.2 - February is for Romance
Book 1: Read a book with a main page genre of Romance.
The Wedding Officer: A Novel of Culinary Seduction
Book 2: Read a book with a ring (a piece of jewelry worn on the finger) on the cover.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 355
Dakimelrearranging prior claimed task post
5.1 - Lassie Come Home
Future Home of the Living God - HOME
(this was previously claimed for 15.7)
15.7 - Groundhog Day
Cherish Hard - HARD
TALLY:
This post - 5 points
Total - 650
Readerboard Name MAZZA115.10. Trash to Treasure.
Using the “read” list for any of your GR friends, read a book that your friend gave only 1 or 2 stars, but that sounds like a book you might like. This must be a book that you’ve never read before.
Required: Name the friend or mod whose list you used and state that this book is new to you.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
rated 1 star by Anne (Booklady) and a new read for me
I gave it 3 stars and was thoroughly committed to the first 2/3 of it but the book was longer than Calvino had ideas to fill it with and fell off in the latter half - so not a treasure but a decent read
Points this post = 15
Points to date = 810
loafer5.2 - Go Wild
Read a book set at least 50% in ONE of the zoo locations: Austria; Canada; England; Germany; Scotland; Singapore; South Africa; Switzerland; or in the USA: California, Nebraska, New York, Washington DC.
California by Edan Lepucki
points: 5
total: 380
BB: 3
GO: 4
Tasks completed: 25
loafer30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Backward Day
Book 1: Read a book with a title of at least 2 words.
Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
Book 2: Using the book title from Book 1, read a book where the same beginning letters of each word in the reverse order from book 1 are the beginning letters of the words in the title.
My Antonia by Willa Cather
claiming "golden oldie ticket" - first published 1918
points: 30
total: 410
BB: 3
GO: 5
tasks completed: 26
Emsreviewsbooks20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Anja's Task: RARE18 London
Option 2: I read A Song Unheard by Roseanna M. White. It was first published in January 2018.
20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Morgan Faeriesfolly's Task: Bringing Pets and People Together
Option 4: I read Nemesis by Anna Banks. Fantasy is the first genre on the book's main page.
30.8 - Sandy's Task: Anagram It
Book 1: I read Between Husband & Wife by Stephen E. Lamb. 202 pages.
Book 2: I read Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas. 664 pages.
My word is 'Dawn' (betWeeN husbAnD and wife)
Total pages: 866 pages.
This post: 70
Total: 220
Read: 13
Finished: 9
Mod
15.6 - Hoping, Wishing, Trying........
My 2018 goal is to get my spring cleaning done during the spring and not to drag it out into the summer.....
Nonfiction about cleaning: My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag . . . and Other Things You Can't Ask Martha by Jolie Kerr
30.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Animal Crackers
Option 1, Nabisco in title/subtitle: 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement NA in immigrANt, BI in edIBle, S in hiStory, CO in OrChard
Option 3, set in Australia: The Dry by Jane Harper
30.8 - Sandy's Task: Anagram It
Book 1: The Leavers by Lisa Ko, 352 pages
Book 2, harvest found in THE leAVeRS: Blood Harvest by Sharon J. Bolton, 432 pages
352 + 432 = 784
total = 910
Bookwrm526Task #25.6 - Winnie the Pooh Day
Option 1: Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in HUNDREDACREWOOD. I read Flowers from the Volcano and Woman Of The River by Claribel Alegría (each book is listed as more than 100 pages but it's poetry and half the pages are in Spanish, so I read two just to be sure!)
Option 2: Read a book with the main page genre Fantasy. I read Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire.
Points this post: 25
Total points so far: 440
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Barbara ★'s Task: Animal Lover's Unite Option 4: Read a book where the author's first and last initial (ignore middle initials) can be found in either ACROBAT or TEACHER. If there are multiple authors, only one author's initials must satisfy the criteria.
Fudge and Jury by Ellie Alexander
Teacher
Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 675
Total Tasks: 28
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 1
SandiCompleted Tasks
5.1- Lassie Come Home
Word from Lassie film titles in book title. Word is COMES from The Sun Comes Up.
Kindle edition I read: And With Madness Comes the Light
Most popular paperback edition: And With Madness Comes the Light
10.10 - Goin' on a Safari
Main page genre of Travel
Audio edition I listened to: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Mass market paperback edition: Vild: En vandring till mig själv
50.1 - MegSCL's Task: GONG XI FA CAI!
★Book #1: Book published in a year of the Snake. First published April 30th 2013
Audio edition I listened to: The Program
Most popular paperback edition: The Program
★Book #2: A non-fiction with main page genre of health
Audio edition I listened to: When Breath Becomes Air
Most popular paperback edition: When Breath Becomes Air
★Book #3: Using task assigned to Monkey where page numbers are equally divisible by 12
Kindle edition I read: One of Us Is Lying
Most popular paperback edition: One of Us is Lying 360 pp
**POINT SUMMARY**
Previous Points Earned: 235
Points Earned this Post: 65
Total Points To Date: 300
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.8 Animals Around Us
Read a book with a main page genre Animals.
I read Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley.
Challenge 5.10 Born Free
Read a book of your choice.
I read Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur.
Challenge 10.8 Here Kitty Kitty
Read a book with one of the top 100 cat names in the title/subtitle or author's name.
I read The Murder of an Angelby James Patterson. ANGEL is # 19 on the list.
Challenge 15.10 Trash to Treasure.
Read a book that your friend gave only 1 or 2 stars, but that sounds like a book you might like.
I read The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald. It was on Sandra’s list and she gave it 2 stars. It was the first time I read this book and I really liked it.
Challenge 50.1 MegSCL's Task: GONG XI FA CAI!
Book 1: Read a book first published in a year that matches your zodiac sign.
My zodiac sign is the ROOSTER. Rooster: 2017, 2005, 1993, 1981, 1969
I read Nooners by James Patterson. It was published in 2017.
Book 2: read a book that matches the task from the list below.
Rooster: Read a book that includes a story-line about pregnancy or a baby.
I read the The Pregnancy Plot by Paula Roe.
Book 3: Choose to complete any other task from the list below, using a different animal than your own zodiac animal.
I choose OX. Read a book with a title (NOT subtitle) that includes an X.
I read A Murder for Max: A Maxine Benson Mystery by John Lawrence Reynolds.
Points this post: 85
Total points: 835
Tasks completed:47
Books read: 62
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Delicious Dee25.2 - Anne (Booklady)'s task: Big Cats
Option 1 - Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I - CHIRP found in Last CHRIstmas in Paris; 368pgs
Option 2 - Frost Burned - book was set in Washington state and is reflected in the metadata; 342pgs
Points this Post 25
Total Points 380
20.8 Nickels and DimesI read the audiobook of The Crown's Game, by Evelyn Skye.
The top paperback edition has 416 pages (41).
The book has a crown on the cover (Extravagant:crown):
20.4 Golden OldiesOption 2: #1 or #6 in a series.
I read the ebook of The Aeronaut's Windlass, by Jim Butcher (#1 of the Cinder Spires series).
The paperback edition of this book has 751 pages.
**Claiming 2 BB tickets for The Aeronaut's Windlass**
25.6 Option 2: genre Magical Realism, Fantasy, or Coming-Of-Age
Scarlet byMarissa Meyer
Option 4: list Concealed Authorship.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Page 1 option 1 of the list
*GO ticket published 1847*
*BB ticket 507 pages*
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 225/1055
Tasks completed: 15/59
Books Read: 16
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books:500+(2)750+(0)1000+(0)
Andy P.Task # 30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Mad Max; My Heart
Option 2: Schnauzer
Read a book written by an author whose first and last name initials can be found in the the word SCHNAUZER 289 p.
Exit Strategy by Steve Hamilton
SCHNAUZER 344 p.
Option 3: Work
Read a book with the main page genre mystery, detective, crime, or thriller The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indriðason Mystery (38 users) on main page 344 p.
289+ 344= 633> 500p.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 510
5.10 - Born FreeThe Chemist by Stephenie Meyer
+5 Points
Task 30.2 - Mazza1's Task: Prolific Pensmiths
368 pages
Body of Work:
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/d/ch...
The Christmas Books, Vol 2: The Cricket on the Heart/The Battle of Life/The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens
544 pages
Body of Work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_...
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
+30 Points
30.11 Andy P's Task: Is There a Pattern Here?
500 pages: 552 + 192 = 744 pages
Book 1. Read a book by a single author in which the letters of the author's first, middle, or last name consists of alternating vowels and consonants. The target word must be of at least five letters or more.
Meyer
Renegades by Marissa Meyer, 552 pages Complete
Book 2. Read a book in which the title contains a word of 5 or more letters of alternating vowels and consonants. The title must be at least 3 words in length and may contain a subtitle BUT the target word must appear in the title.
Decapitated
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga, 192 pages
+30 Points
Points this Post: 65
Season Total: 315
15.4 - Endangered AnimalsOption 2: The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan
Author's initials in northern sportIve leMur.
Title initials in wesTern lowlanD gorilla
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Creynard's Task: My February Baby
Option 4.
by Philippa GregoryWing on cover
Big book - 528 pages
Points this post: 35
Points in total: 165
Tasks completed: 9
Golden Oldies: 0
Big book tickets: 1
DebraJean20.6 - Seasoned Reader
For Option 1, I read The Graveyard Book whose title contains the letters B,G, and D. Because this book has a MPG of Children's, I am including the AR Bookfinder info:
The Graveyard Book
Gaiman, Neil
AR Quiz No. 125535 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP, LS, VP
Points This Post - 20
Total Points - 180
BB - 0
GO - 1
perletwo15.6 - Hoping, Wishing, Trying........ - Read a NONFICTION book that involves something you’d like to do in 2018, a goal or an aspiration or even a faint hope! REQUIRED: Tell us what your goal is, and if it's not obvious, explain how the book relates to it.
Yes, Chef
I hope to expand my cooking repertoire beyond my comfort zone of traditional Southern dishes I was raised on. Integrating new, international flavors and techniques into a traditional foodway was Chef Marcus' mission in his many years as executive chef at the Swedish-traditional restaurant Aquavit.
Points this task: 15
Total points: 815
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 4
Big Book ticket requests: 2
Books read: 59
Tasks completed: 40
Mod
I read Rebecca. I read the audiobook, the top MMPB is Rebecca. Page 1, currently #5, on the Best Gothic Books list.
25.5 - Tien's Task: All in the Family
I chose option A and read The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater and The Young Elites by Marie Lu. Both author first names begin with "M."
30.9 - Jennifer NC's Task: Obsession
I chose to do option 3 twice and read The Castlemaine Murders and Queen Of The Flowers - both are in the Phryne Fisher series, on which Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (currently #57 on required list) were based.
Points this post: 60
Total points: 550
25.4 Nick KY's task:Book 1: Option A:
"White" in the title
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, by Michael Eric Dyson
Book 2: Option B:
Moon, Sun and Stars listopia, page 1
Honeymoon in Tehran, by Azadeh Moaveni
Task 30.2 - Mazza1's Task: Prolific PensmithsBook 1: The Grand Tour by Patricia C. Wrede 469 pages
Author has >25 distinct works as shown by books in series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/list... (she has additional stand-alones as well)
Book 2: Restoree by Anne McCaffrey 256 pages
>26 works can be seen here: https://www.goodreads.com/series/list... (the first series shows 25, and subsequent unrelated series take her over 26)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 570
Tasks completed: 32
Pamela326510.10 - Goin' on a Safari
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Anja's Task: RARE18 London
Option 3:
by Jean C. Gordon - Winter scene on cover20.4 - Golden Oldies - Creynard's Task: My February Baby
Option 2:
by Lisa Bingham - Bachelors of Aspen Valley #120.5 - Bigger is Better - DebraJean's Task: LET IT SNOW!
Option 3:
by Mary Balogh - 361 pages20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Barbara ★'s Task: Animal Lover's Unite
Option 4:
by Tina Radcliffe - Authors’s initials can be found in both acRobaT and TeacheRPoints this post: 90
Total Points: 320
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+: 1
Big Books - 1000+:
Jayme(the ghostreader)20.1 A Year of Improvements
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Option 3 Fantasy p1 #106 on the list
Tasks Completed:5
Books Read: 5
Points This Task: 20
Grand Total: 65/1055
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Anja's Task: RARE18 LondonOption 2: Read a book FIRST published in February of any year
The Winter People
POINTS
This post: 20
Total: 145
20.5 - Bigger is Better - DebraJean's Task: LET IT SNOW!Option 2, a book from White as the Driven Snow list (p. 2, #110): Rising Tides by Nora Roberts
Points this post: 20
Total points: 440
10.3 - Sir Nils OlavRead a book that was first published between 1972 and 1987 (inclusive) and that was written by a male author.
World's End by T.C. Boyle - published 1987, and the author is male
Points this post = 10
Total points = 255
Big Book tickets = 2
Golden Oldies = 4
FANDURY15.3 - Hot or Cold?
Option 2 - Read one book whose title/subtitle contains both words from an opposite word pair on the list.
Last First Snow by Max Gladstone
I used the word pair last/first and both are in the title.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 255
Books Read: 16
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(0)
Catherine TTask 50.1 - GONG XI FA CAI!
I am Dragon
book 1: read a book published in a Dragon year
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
pub 2012 - a Year of the Dragon
book 2: Dragon: read a book with a mythical creature in it
Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly
mermaids confirmed mythical, and are the main characters
book 3: Rat: read a book that is #1 in a series
First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones
Season total = 610
5.1 – Lassie Come HomeRead a book that has one of the words from Lassie’s film titles in its title/subtitle.
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The word “magic” matches The Magic of Lassie.
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5.7 – Power Pets
Read a book with a number of pages containing at least 2 different digits in 1235.
My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The edition I read had 192 pages.
Originally published in 1919
**claiming 1 Golden Oldie ticket**
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15.5 – New Beginnings
Read a book by a new-to-me author.
Final Girls by Riley Sager
Sager is new to me.
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25.5 – All in the Family
Option A
Read 2 books by 2 different authors who have the same first initial.
A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen - 528 pages
**Claiming 1 Big Book ticket**
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30.2 – Prolific Pensmiths
Book 1
Read a book by any author who has published more than 25 books. It can be standalone or part of a series.
Home by Harlan Coben – 387 pages
Harlan Coben has published more than 25 books. (https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/ha...) This book is part of his Myron Bolitar series.
Book 2
Read a book by an author who has published more than 25 books. This must be a standalone book.
Seeing Red by Sandra Brown – 432 pages
Sandra Brown has published more than 25 books. (https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/sa...) This book is not part of a series.
Points this post: 80
Total points: 195/1055
Tasks completed: 10/59
Books read: 14
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 2
Brooklyn20.1 – A Year of Improvements
Option 3: Read a book from the first 5 pages of the “most interesting magic systems” listopia.
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Found on page 1
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20.2 – RARE18 London
Option 3: Read a book with a winter scene on the cover.
by Jennifer McMahonApproved in the help thread.
Points this post: 40
Total points: 235/1055
Tasks completed: 12/59
Books read: 16
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 2
loaferTask 30.2 - Mazza1's Task: Prolific Pensmiths
Book one
Joyland by Stephen King
mmpb: Joyland 320 pgs
per Wikipedia: "King has published 56 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman,[therefore 49 for the task purposes] and five non-fiction books."
Book two
Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
no mmpb, pb: Black Dahlia White Rose: Stories 288 pgs
as per wikipedia: Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over 40 novels
points: 30
total: 440
BB: 3
GO: 5
tasks completed: 27
loafer10.6 - Who's Up For a Challenge?
Read a book that fits into ANOTHER Goodreads challenge group's challenge.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
mmpb: Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
claiming as "golden oldie" - published in 1864
read for the ATY in 52 weeks 2018 challenge here
points: 10
total: 450
BB: 3
GO: 6
tasks completed: 28
Joanne MIOk, Sandy gonna try this again-I am so sorry, gads
I hope I got it right, I wouldn't blame you for banning me :{
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Task 5.4 Best Laid Plains
Read a book that fits one of the Fall 2017 5, 10 or 15 point tasks. You may use a single book A or B option from tasks 15.1-15.4.
Used Task 15.1-Read a book by an Author whose initials can be found in one of the listed Mountain Peaks:
Six of Crows
Author: Leigh Bardugo-Volcano: Elbrus (initials LB)
Points this task 5
Total points 160
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OPTION 4 - Brother’s Ruin
25.7 - MY SECOND FAVORITE PASTIME
BOOK 1 - SNOWFLAKES - Falling Like Snowflakes
BOOK 2 - The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff
30.2 - PROLIFIC PENSMITHS
BOOK 1 - Christmas Letters by Debbie Macomber
BOOK 2 - Merry and Bright: A Christmas Novel by Debbie Macomber
As per Fantastic Fiction she has 383 distinct works https://www.fantasticfiction.com/m/de...
TOTAL POINTS - 445