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WINTER CHALLENGE 2017
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Anja10.7 - What's Your Favorite Hobby?
Read a novel (fiction) in which your favorite hobby is prominently featured.
At Your Service by Lexi Blake
I love cooking and both main characters work in the restaurant where hero is a chef.
POINTS:
Points This Post: 10
Points Total: 20
Big Books: 500() 750() 1000()
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks Completed: 2
Bookwrm526Task #15.4 - Endangered Animals
I chose the one book option. I read In the Clearing by Robert Dugoni. The author's initials can be found in ivoRybilleDwoodpecker, and the first letter of each word in the title can be found in ChInesegianTsalamander.
Points this post: 15
Total points so far: 30
5.2 Go WildRead a book set at least 50% in one of the zoo locations...
The Upside of Unrequited, by Becky Albertalli (set in Washington, D.C.).
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Maddie O's Task: A Year of ImprovementsOption 4: Author's initials found in MALTESE - Read Self-Help by Lorrie Moore.
Points these task: 20
Total points: 20
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 1
Tasks completed: 1
Task 15.8 – World Animal DayFrom LIST: Best Animal Rights Books - Pg 1, # 58
Love, Life, and Elephants
I listened to the audio / No MMP / Paperback: Love, Life, and Elephants
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This Post: 15 points
Total points to date: 15 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: () 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
25.1 Dakimel's taskI selected options 2 and 3.
2: Read a book set at least 50% in one of these hard-hit American regions. I read Replica*, by Lauren Oliver (set in Florida, in GR description).
3: Read a book where every letter in OPHELIA can be found in the title, subtitle, and/or author. I read Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman.
*also: Replica is a Big Book (520 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket
Jen UT5.3 - Banished!
Wires and Nerve, Volume 1 by Marissa Meyer
5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Fall challenge task: 5.5 - September, October, November
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
Points this post: 10
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Total points: 10
HINA30.6 - TessaVanessa's Task: 25 Years and Counting -
Option 2: The Greek's Christmas Bride by Lynne Graham.
Author Lynne Graham has more than 25 distinct work.
Option 3: The Italian's Christmas Child by Lynne Graham.
Title has 25 letters.
Current post:
Points: 30
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total:
Total Points: 30
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
Nick KYFirst Post.
10.4 Llama Mama Animal on the cover, I read Comanche Prairie by Gifford Paul Cheshire, with two horses and a longhorn steer on the cover.
15.6 Hoping, Wishing,…
My New Year’s Resolution will be to Eat Healthier. I read Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 25
Christine V5.3 - Banished!
The Philosopher Kings
20.5 - Bigger is Better - DebraJean's Task: LET IT SNOW!
Option 3: Necessity I read the audio edition. The top Hardcover (no MMPB or PB available) has 336 pages.
Total points: 25
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
Michelle GA15.9 - Let's Party!
Read a book from this list of books written by, about or influenced by drinking: Drunken Masters
I read:
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. ThompsonREQUIRED: Specify the page of the list on which your book was found.
{This book was on Page 1 of the Drunken Masters list.}
Points this post: 15
Total points: 40
Books posted: 4
Tasks complete: 4
Pages this post: 224
Total pages as of this post: 1,267
Golden Oldies: 0; Total = 0
Big Book: 0; Total = 0
Mod
5.1- Lassie Come Home
Home in title: A Hard Ticket Home by David Housewright
10.2 - No, It's a Three-Ring Circus
From Page 1 #100: The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff
10.7 - What's Your Favorite Hobby?
My hobby is genealogy. Nigel Barnes, a specialist in compiling family trees
The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell
PB: The Blood Detective
total = 25
Readerboard Name: Nicola TTask: 10.6 - Who's Up For a Challenge?
read a book that fits into the BookRiot's 2017 Read Harder Challenge.
I chose 18. Read a superhero comic with a female lead.
I read Worlds' Finest, Vol. 2: Hunt And Be Hunted (160 pages)
This features 2 female leads: Huntress and Power Girl.
Points this task: 10
Winter 17/18:
Points Overall:35
Tasks Completed:2
Books Read:3
Andy P.Task # 25.3 - Bluemoon's Task: SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN
OPTION B - THE ELVES Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in ELVES. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
ELVES
OPTION D - ST. NICHOLAS
Read a book set at least 50% in Italy
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan Book is set about 75% in Italy
Points this post: 25
Total points: 40
MegSCL15.7 - Groundhog Day
I made the word ANGRY
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
**518pp - 1 big book ticket
TOTAL TO DATE
points: 15
BB tickets: 1
20.5 - Bigger is Better - DebraJean's Task: LET IT SNOW!Option 3. In April of 1973, there was a freak blizzard in Iowa. With winds in excess of 70 mph, the state was crippled for 3 days with snow drifts in excess of 16 feet. For this option, read a book whose page numbers include a 1, 9, 7, or 3.
I read Before We Were Yours, which has 352 pp.
Repost of post 55
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. The target word must be of at least five letters or more.
I read Forest Dark, using the author's name Nicole. N= consonant, I = vowel, C = consonant, O= vowel and L = consonant. This book is 293 pp.
Book 2 I read All You Desireusing the target word Desire.
D= consonant, E= vowel, S=consonant, I = vowel, R = consonant, E= vowel.
This book was 416 pp.
points: 50
books read: 3
tasks completed: 2
pages read: 1061
Readerboard Name: JamminJennyTask 20.6 - Seasoned Rader - Lagullande's Task: IT’S BEHIND YOU!
OPTION 1: THE CAST - The Christmas Mystery read 12/4, the letter "S" appears 3 times (the chriStmaS myStery)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 50
Books read: 6
Tasks completed: 6
BB tickets: 0
GO tickets: 1
Reposting from post 8415.5 - New Beginnings
Lightning Blade by D.N. Erikson
I have not read this author previously
Book has been verified for length in post 6578 of the ebook verification thread.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 55
Tasks completed: 5
Louise B20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Anja's Task: RARE18 London
I chose option 4: a book with “regency” as a main page genre
Four Weddings and a Sixpence: An Anthology by Julia Quinn
Total points this task: 20
Total number of points to date: 25
Total number of tasks completed: 2
perletwo20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Barbara ★'s Task: Animal Lover's Unite - Option 4: Circus - Read a book where the author's first and last initial (ignore middle initials) can be found in either ACROBAT or TEACHER. REQUIRED. indicate which word you used.
The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri - ACrobat
I read it in the kindle omnibus edition Death in Sicily: The First Three Novels in the Inspector Montalbano Series--The Shape of Water; The Terra-Cotta Dog; The Snack Thief
Points this task: 20
Total points: 150
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 11
Tasks completed: 08
VAL TX20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Barbara ★'s Task: Animal Lover's Unite - Choose one of the options below and read a book that fits the requirements.
Option 4: Circus - Read a book where the author's first and last initial (ignore middle initials) can be found in either ACROBAT or TEACHER.
Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England by Tracy Borman acroBaT
This post:
Points - 20
Total:
Points - 75
Readerboard Name - LaureY10.6 - Who's Up For a Challenge?
Read a book that fits into ANOTHER Goodreads challenge group's challenge. You MUST be a member of the challenge group and provide a link to your challenge tracking thread.
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
Total Books:1
Total Tasks: 1
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Readerboard Name: JamminJennyTask 20.5 - Bigger is Better - DebraJean's Task: LET IT SNOW!
Option 3. Betty Crocker The Big Book of Cookies read 12/6, 336 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 70
Books read: 7
Tasks completed: 7
BB tickets: 0
GO tickets: 1
20.5 - Bigger is Better - DebraJean's Task: LET IT SNOW! OPTION 3: Read a book whose page numbers include a 1, 9, 7, or 3.
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
(197 pages)
20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Morgan Faeriesfolly's Task: Bringing Pets and People Together
OPTION 2: Read a book that has the letters B O S S in the title
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
(I read a Kindle version. The MPMMP version is Le secret des abeilles)
Points this post: 40
TOTAL POINTS: 40
Golden Oldies: -
Big Book Tickets: - (500+); - (750+)
Total tasks completed: 2
Total books read: 2
Marina H15.4 - Endangered Animals
Option 2: Michael Laudrups tænder by Maise Njor & Camilla Stockmann
Author's initials found in: Chinese Giant Salamander
Titel initials found in: Northern Sportive Lemur
20.3 - Best Review - Ed's Task: Titles and Suffixes
Mrs. Saint Nick by Caroline Mickelson
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Creynard's Task: My February Baby
Option 2: Miss Kane's Christmas by Caroline Mickelson, Christmas Central #1
Points this post: 55
Total points: 55
Big book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Tasks completed: 3
Readerboard Name: Nicola TTask: 10.9 - Good Dog!
Read a book with a title that begins with the letter D, O, or G. All words count.
I read Gotham Academy: Second Semester, Vol. 1: Welcome Back (144 pages)
Points this task: 10
Winter 17/18:
Points Overall:45
Tasks Completed:3
Books Read:4
ED5.4 - Best Laid Plans
using 5.3 - Oh... Craps
Read a book that was FIRST published in a year that contains two 1’s such as 1981 or 2011.
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
(first published 1918)**I claim one GO ticket**
82 pages- using my one book with 80 to 99 pages for this task.
Post Total=5
Season Total= 5
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 1
Kristi CO20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Anja's Task: RARE18 London
Option 2: published Feb 14, 2017
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
loafer10.1 - What a Zoo
Read a book with the letters Z-O-O in the title/subtitle and/or author's name.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One day in the life Of ivan denisovich / aleksandr solZhenitsyn
points: 10
total: 45
BB: 2
GO: 0
tasks completed: 3
Readerboard name: Rebecca OH20.10 - Group Reads
I read Artemis. I commented in post #6 of the discussion thread.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Skandia30.11 Andy P's Task: Is There a Pattern Here?
Book 1: Sa saad mind tundma by Megan Abbott
target word - MEGAN , 336 pages
Book 2: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
target word - BECOMES, 225 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 40
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Completion PostReaderboard Name: Louise
5.2: 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.
Fever Of The Bone by Val McDermid
Date Read: 7/12/17
Rating: 4*
How It Fits: Set in England
Claiming Big Book ticket: 512pgs
Points this Post: 5
Points Claimed: 20
Tasks Completed: 4
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Books Read: 4
loafer5.1- Lassie Come Home
Read a book with one of the words from Lassie's film titles in the book's title or subtitle.
Lassie Come Home, Son of Lassie, Courage of Lassie, Hills of Home, The Sun Comes Up, Challenge to Lassie, The Painted Hills, Lassie's Great Adventure, The Magic of Lassie.
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
first published in 1925, it is a "golden oldie"
points: 5
total: 50
BB: 2
GO: 1
tasks completed: 4
Cindy FTask 5.2 Go Wild
Set in New York
Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly
Claim 1 Golden Oldie Published 1887
My 1 book for 5 points 80-99 pages
Points this post:5
Total points:5
Tasks completed:1
Books read:1
Golden Oldies:1
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
BARBARA ★15.7 - Groundhog Day
Dragon Wytch - Yasmine Galenorn 12/3
(dragon can be made from Groundhog Day)
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20.6 - Seasoned Rader - Lagullande's Task: IT’S BEHIND YOU!
Option 1: Vampires Dead Ahead - Cheyenne McCray 12/5
(There are exactly 3 D's)
Totals for Challenge
Points this Post: 35
Total Points: 35
VAL TX20.1 - Most Improved Player - Maddie O's Task: A Year of Improvements - Option 4: read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in the word (and dog breed) MALTESE.
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
This post:
Points - 20
Total:
Points - 95
perletwo30.3 - 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.
The Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri
I read it in the kindle omnibus edition Death in Sicily: The First Three Novels in the Inspector Montalbano Series--The Shape of Water; The Terra-Cotta Dog; The Snack Thief
Option 3: Work >Because Schnauzers are fierce little detectives snooping out what is different around the house (or castle) or even neighborhood when taking a walk and immediately alerting their owners, read a book with the main page genre mystery, detective, crime, or thriller.
The Mapping of Love and Death - genre verified here
The books must have a combined total of at least 500 pages.
book 1 top pb ed 352 pgs + book 2 top pb ed 338 pgs = 690 pgs
Points this task: 30
Total points: 180
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 13
Tasks completed: 09
loafer20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Morgan Faeriesfolly's Task: Bringing Pets and People Together
Option 3: Peaches
Read a book that has a food or drink in the title.
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
points: 20
total: 70
BB: 2
GO: 1
tasks completed: 5
20.3 - Best Review - Ed's taskRead a book in which a title or suffix is used in either the Title, Sub-Title, or Author's name as presented on Goodreads.
Last Night in Montreal, by Emily St. John Mandel
20.10 - Group ReadsFiction - Space Opera
Artemis by Andy Weir
Points this post: 20
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 7
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Barbara ★'s Task: Animal Lover's Unite Option 1: Zoo
by Kristen Painter (bats)Points this post: 20
Total points: 105
Tasks completed: 8
5.7 - Power PetsHelp Thread
In 1235, Henry III was presented with three ‘wildcats’ (probably leopards in reference to the lions on Henry’s coat of arms) by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. Gifts of animals from other rulers around the world followed forming the royal menagerie at the Tower of London.
Read a book with a number of pages* that includes at least 2 different digits from 1235.
*Remember the page number rules.
I read The Invention of Hugo Cabret which has 525 pp.
points: 55
books read: 4
tasks completed: 3
pages read: 1596
Task 5.2 – Go Wild! Set in one of the best zoos locations: CALIFORNIA
Imaginary Men
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This Post: 5 points
Total points to date: 20 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: () 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
Readerboard Name: JamminJennyTask 15.4 - Endangered Animals
Option 2 - Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indriðason
Endangered Animal: Javan Rhinoceros
AC/AI - jAvAn rhInoCeros
Points this post: 15
Total points: 85
Books read: 8
Tasks completed: 8
BB tickets: 0
GO tickets: 1
5.9 - Get It DonePieces of Sky by Trinity Doyle
According to my GR 'to-read' shelf, this book was added May 30, 2015
10.6 - Who's Up For a Challenge?
Draekora (The Medoran Chronicles #3) by Lynette Noni
My bookopoly thread
15.7 - Groundhog Day
The Road to Winter (Winter #1) by Marsk Smith
Word in title, ROAD, found in gROundhog DAy
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 TEACHER.
Dear Fang, With Love by Rufi Thorpe
author's initials, RT, found in TeacheR
Total this Post: 50
Season Total: 50
Mod
15.3 - Hot or Cold?
option 2, one book with good/bad: Good News, Bad News by William H.S. McIntyre
20.10 - Group Reads
Artemis by Andy Weir
PB: Artemis
Post 4
30.9 - Jennifer NC's Task: Obsession
option 6, Outlander, one book 500+: A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon, 1439 pages
total = 90
Readerboard: JENBENT15.3 - Hot or Cold?
Option 2 - title/subtitle contains both words from opposite word pair: Up / Down
It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree by A.J. Jacobs
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Maddie O's Task: A Year of Improvements
Option 2 - set in New England - Vermont
From GR description: "she will have to contend with the outrage of a small Vermont community..."
Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
Points this post: 35
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Big Books this post: 0
Total points: 35
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Books: 0
15.6 - Hoping, Wishing, Trying...Read a NONFICTION book that involves something you’d like to do in 2018...
I read The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well, about creating more warmth/togetherness during this winter.
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10.1 What a Zoo
Read a book with the letters Z-O-O in the title/subtitle and/or author's name.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling
harry pOtter and the prisOner of aZkaban
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here
AR Quiz No. 201923 EN Fiction. AR Quiz Information IL: MY - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18.0. AR Quiz Types: RP, LS, VP
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
Total Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 3
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book tickets: 0