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WINTER CHALLENGE 2017
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD
Amy O.25.6 - Perletwo's Task: Winnie the Pooh Day
Option 1: book by a single author whose initials can be found in the phrase HUNDRED ACRE WOOD
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
Option 2: book with main page genre Magical Realism
The Blue Fox by Sjon
This post: 25 points
Total points: 220
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 13
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 1
perletwo15.1 - Don't Make Me Choose! - Book 1: Read a nominee or the winner from a different category than you chose for your Task 20.10 selection.
Pride and Prejudice
First printed in 1813, this qualifies for a Golden Oldie ticket.
Book 2: Read EITHER (1) a nominee or the winner from the 3d category (not your 20.10 selection or book 1 selection) or (2) a nominee from the category of your Task 20.10 selection.
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Points this task: 15
Total points: 945
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 5
Big Book ticket requests: 2
Books read: 71
Tasks completed: 51
Emsreviewsbooks50.1 - MegSCL's Task: GONG XI FA CAI!
I am a DRAGON.
Book 1: I read Short-Straw Bride by Karen Witemeyer. It was first published in 2012.
Book 2: I read The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead. The mythical creatures in question are vampires. This book was approved at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/....
Book 3: I read Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo for the RAT sign. It is #1 in the DC Icons series.
This post: 50
Total: 340
Read: 20
Finished: 13
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska30.8 - Sandy's Task: Anagram It.
Book 1. Read a book of your choice.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (850 p.) **
Book 2. Read a book with a 4+ letter word, the letters of which can be found in the title of Book 1.
The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff (anagrammed word is 'tale') (353 p.)
** I wish to claim 2 Big Book tickets for this book (850 pages.)
➸ Points: 140 of 285 (goal)
➸ Total Pages: 3,954
25.1 - Dakimel’s Task – Hurricane Recovery(reposted from 1664)
Option 1: Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich
Option 2: Dragon Blues by Ophelia Bell
Points this post: 25
Total points: 600
Tasks completed: 34
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: White Winter, Yellow MoonBook 1: Single White Vampire by Lynsay Sands
Book 2: The Yellow Diamond: A Crime of the Super-Rich by Andrew Martin
Points this post: 25
Total points: 625
Tasks completed: 35
Nick KY25. 7 Wayne’s Pastime I read the following:
Book 1. Word in title contains 9 separate letters, The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway. BREATHING has nine letters, all different. 236 pp
Book 2. Author’s name contains 9 characters, Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It by Alan Wolfe. 352 pp
Total pp = 588 > required 499.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 725
30.1Option 1: Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall
Option 4: My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Total Points = 45
Christine V15.10. Trash to Treasure
Macbeth This book was new to me, and it was rated one star by Allison Barilone.
Macbeth was first published in 1623.
***Claiming one Golden Oldie Ticket***
Points this post: 15
GO Tickets this post: 1
Total points: 205
Tasks completed: 23
Books read: 23
Golden Oldies: 7
Big Books: 500=4, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=4)
Task 10.4 – It’s a Llama, MamaNon-human mammal on cover
Approved in HELP Thread
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This Post: 10 points
Total points to date: 280 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 1
Big Books Read: (1) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 1
trishhartuk50.1 MegSCL's Task: GONG XI FA CAI!
REQUIRED: in your post, specify which zodiac sign you are.
I’m a Dragon
Book 1: Read a book first published in a year that matches your zodiac sign.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
Big book (636pg – 1 ticket)
First published in August 2000, two Dragon years ago.
AR Quiz No. 202678 EN Fiction. AR Quiz Information IL: UY - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 32.0. AR Quiz Types: RP, LS, VP
Book 2: Based on your own zodiac animal, read a book that matches the task from the list below. Dragon: Read a book featuring a mythical creature. The creature must be mentioned in the Goodreads book description.
Imprudence, Gail Carriger
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here (352pg)
Approved for mythical creatures for Option 2/Dragon in message #36. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The description mentions both werewolves and vampires, with both putting in an appearance as supporting characters. In addition. one of the main characters is a werelioness.
Book 3: Choose to complete any other task from the list below, using a different animal than your own zodiac animal.
Ox: Read a book with a title (NOT subtitle) that includes an X.
Crazy Like a Fox, Shannon Hill
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here (192pg)
Points this Task: 50
Books Read: 3
Golden Oldie: No
Big Book: Yes – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has 636pg (1x500+ ticket)
Total Points: 480
Tasks Completed: 27
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Book tickets: 1 (500+ x 1)
Catherine TI'm moving The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox. I claimed it against task 25.1 option 1 in msg 1300.
Task 5.1 - Lassie Come Home
read a book with Magic in the title (film: "The Magic of Lassie")
Strange Magic by Syd Moore
Task 5.9 - Get It Done
read a book that's been on a TBR for more that a year.
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
this has been on my kindle since I bought it in Jan 2016
Task 10.10 - Goin' on a Safari
read a book with MPG Travel
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Task 25.1 - Hurricane Recovery
reclaiming this task with changed book
option 1 - read a book with author initials in JUST
Nomad by James Swallow
initials JS
option 3 - read a book with OPHELIA in title & author name
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
OHE in OffsHorE
P in Penelope
LIA in fItzgerALd
20 new points
Season total = 670
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.6 It's Alive!
Read a book found on this list of Best Gothic Books of All Time
I read My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. It is #40 on page 1.
Challenge 15.6 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!
I read Becoming Odyssa: Epic Adventures on the Appalachian Trail by Jennifer Pharr Davis. It is a book about a thru-hiker of the Appalachian Trail. I want to walk the trail. I’m hoping that at some point this year I will get to at least step foot on it.
Challenge 25.7 Wayne's task: My Second Favorite Pastime
Book 1: Read a book that has a word in its title or subtitle that contains exactly 9 DIFFERENT letters.
I read Disappearing Act by Dayle Campbell Gaetz. DISAPPEARING D, I, S, A, P, E, R, N, G.
Book 2: Read a book written by an author whose name contains exactly 9 letters.
I read The Vengeance of Mothers by Jim Fergus.
Challenge 30.8 Sandy's Task: Anagram It
Book 1 - Read a book of your choice.
I read Lies My Girlfriend Told Me by Julie Anne Peters. 256 p.
Book 2 - Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title (not subtitle) that can be made from the letters in the title (not subtitle) of Book 1
I readInto the Night by Suzanne Brockmann. I made the word INTO from the letters in book 1. 467 pages
467+256=723 total pages
Points this post: 75
Total points: 990
Tasks completed:6
Books read: 75
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
SCHATZIE5.1- Lassie Come Home
---Lassie film word in book title
My word: COURAGE
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance
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5.2 - Go Wild
---book 50% set in Germany
Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II
IL: MG+
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5.3 - Banished!
---3 word title
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
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5.4 - Best Laid Plans
---task from fall 2017: 15.9 - title starts with a "G"
The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
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5.5 - Wonders of the Deep
---single author with three-part name
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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5.6 - It's Alive!
---book from given list
And Then There Were None
----found on page 1
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5.7 - Power Pets
---2 pg numbers from '1235'
Walking with Peety: The Dog Who Saved My Life
pg. count link: Walking with Peety: The Dog Who Saved My Life -- hardcover (no pb or mmpb) --- 320 pgs
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5.8 - Animals Around Us
---mpg animals
Hannah's Dream
---mpg verified in Genre Verification thread in msg #9.
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5.9 - Get It Done
---on my tbr list for at least a year
Fatal Tide
---added 17 Aug 2015
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5.10 - Born Free
---book of choice
The Poet
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Points this post: 50
Challenge Total: 50
CYNBAXTER# 15.05 – New Beginnings
Task: Read a book by a new-to-you author.
Book: Amatka by Karin Tidbeck – this author is new to me
Points this post: 15 points
Total points to date = 140 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 1
Catherine TI'm moving First Grave on the Right from Task 50, claimed in msg 1452
Task 10.6 - Who's Up For a Challenge?
read a book used for another reading challenge
The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang
I used this in Reading with Style for a "Page Count" task. We don't have tracking threads, but here's my claiming-for-points post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Task 15.2 - February is for Romance
book 1 - read a book with MPG Romance
Minerva by Marion Chesney
book 2 - read a book with a ring on the cover
First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones
skull ring visible on finger
Task 50.1 - GONG XI FA CAI!
my Chinese Zodiac sign is DRAGON
book 1 - read a book published in a DRAGON year
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
pub 2012
book 2 - read a book with mythical creatures
Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly
mermaids approved
book 3 - I chose RAT - read a book #1 in a series
The Point of Death by Peter Tonkin
Master of Defense #1 - https://www.goodreads.com/series/6538...
25 new task points
Season total = 695
bother! forgot one!Catherine T
Task 15.10 - Trash to Treasure
read a book that a GR friend scored 1/2* which I think I'll like
The Queen's Poisoner by Jeff Wheeler
Tammie Tackett scored it 2* (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...). I thought 2.5 / 3*
and I confirm it was new to me
Season total = 710
SCHATZIE10.1 - What a Zoo
---Z-O-O in title/subtitle/author's name
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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10.2 - No, It's a Three-Ring Circus
---book from given list
The Flying Circus
---found on pg. 3 (#296)
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10.3 - Sir Nils Olav
---male author pub. between 1972 - 1987
Legends of the Fall
by Jim Harrison
---1st pub. 1979
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10.4 - It's a Llama, Mama
---non-human on cover
Finding Gobi: A Little Dog with a Very Big Heart
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10.5 - Best Books
---book from given list
---January 2015
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10.6 - Who's Up For a Challenge?
---book from a different group challenge
---link to challenge: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
---my entry is #65
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10.7 - What's Your Favorite Hobby?
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My favorite hobby is baking: I like to keep tweaking a recipe until it is perfect.
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10.8 - Here Kitty Kitty
---top cat name
---MIDNIGHT, number 15 on list
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10.9 - Good Dog!
---title starts with g
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10.10 - Goin' on a Safari
---travel as mpg
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points this post: 100
challenge total: 150
15.3 - Hot or Cold?Option 2, one book whose title contains both words from an opposite word pair on Opposite Word Pairs list: Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
Points this post: 15
Total points: 560
Readerboard name: DAIRE20.10 Group read
Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly
(Posted in group discussion - post #25)
Points this post: 20
Points total: 170
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 12
DANIELLE M30.11 Andy P's Task: Is There a Pattern Here?
Book 1: The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Alice: A=Vowel, L=Consonant, I=Vowel, C=Consonant, E=Vowel
Book 2: The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Tides: T= consonant, I=Vowel, D=Consonant, E= Vowel, S= Consonant
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 160
Books Read: 10
Tasks Complete: 5
SCHATZIE15.1 - Don't Make Me Choose!
Book 1: book nominee or winner for task 20.10 category-Family Saga
Commonwealth
Book2: book nominee or winner for task 20.10 category-Space Opera
Shards of Honor
I've read for 20.10: Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race - category: non-fiction space
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15.2 - February is for Romance
Book 1: mpg Romance
The Nothing Girl
--genre verified in Genre Verification thread #9
Book 2: ring on cover
Third Grave Dead Ahead
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15.3 - Hot or Cold?
opt. 2: a book with both opposite words in title/subtitle
---my opposites from list are BIG & LITTLE
The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue EXCELLENCE
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15.4 - Endangered Animals
opt 2. author's initials found in endangered animal name & initial letter of each title word in a different animal name
After the Storm
by Linda Castillo
--for author's initials: Chinese Giant Salamander
--for the title words: Leatherback Sea Turtle
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15.5 - New Beginnings
---This is a new to me author
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
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15.6 - Hoping, Wishing, Trying........
--- non-fiction - goal or aspiration
One Year to an Organized Life: From Your Closets to Your Finances, the Week-by-Week Guide to Getting Completely Organized for Good
I'm hoping to downsize my living space next year, and I need to get the excess stuff under control.
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15.7 - Groundhog Day
--- title word from letters of task name
Scratchgravel Road
---my word: ROAD
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15.8 - World Animal Day
---book from given list
Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love
---found on page 1
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15.9 - Let's Party!
---book from given list
Cujo
---found on page 1
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15.10. Trash to Treasure.
---a low rated book by a GR friend
The Program
---my GR friend is Michael Jenkins
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Points this Post: 150
Challenge Total: 300
10.10 - Goin' on a SafariCity Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World by Catie Marron
15.4 - Endangered Animals
Option 2: The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan
Author's initials in northern sportIve leMur.
Title initials in wesTern lowlanD gorilla
IL: MY - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4.0
15.5 - New Beginnings
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop - this is a new author for me.
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Maddie O's Task: A Year of Improvements
Option 4: Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis
Points this post: 60
Points in total: 210
Tasks completed: 12
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book tickets: 1
DANIELLE M20.6 - Seasoned Rader - Lagullande's Task: IT’S BEHIND YOU!
Option 1: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
The letter R is found three times in the title: Her Fearful Symmetry
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 180
Books Read: 11
Tasks Complete: 6
Andy P.Task # 15.6 - 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!
Every year I say I'd like to visit those states in the USA where I have never set foot. (I decided a foot was good enough when I spent about 15 minutes in Kansas just over the Oklahoma border going back to Michigan from Arizona... any more would have taxed my husband's patience). It doesn't look promising this year either so I read the following nonfiction book about Nebraska, another state on my to visit list.
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps byTed Kooser
Points this post: 15
Total points; 630
Andy P.Task # 25.2 - Anne (Booklady)'s task: Big Cats
Option 1. For this option read a book that has the letters PURR in the Title (not subtitle)
Murder at the Puppy Fest by Laurien Berenson (278 p.)
URR in Murder
P in Puppy
Option 2. read a book set in a place where Cougars can still be found: , California
Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton
(496 p.) set entirely in California.
Page count 278+496=774>550
Points this post: 25
Total points: 655
SCHATZIE20.1 - Most Improved Player - Maddie O's Task: A Year of Improvements
Opt. 1: Economics as mpg
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Reveals About Who We Really Are
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20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Anja's Task: RARE18 London
Opt. 2: first pub. in February
Salt to the Sea
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20.3 - Best Review - Ed's Task: Titles and Suffixes
---title with a title like MRS.
The Second Mrs. Hockaday
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20.4 - Golden Oldies - Creynard's Task: My February Baby
Opt. 3: zombie book list
I Am Legend
found on page 1
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20.5 - Bigger is Better - DebraJean's Task: LET IT SNOW!
Opt. 1: SNOW in title
Girl in Snow
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20.6 - Seasoned Rader - Lagullande's Task: IT’S BEHIND YOU!
Opt. 2: 'no' in title/subtitle
No Prisoners
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20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Barbara ★'s Task: Animal Lover's Unite
Opt. 4: author's initials in ACROBAT
Into the Bright Unknown
Rae Carson
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20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Shiraloo's Task: Coins for Christmas
---32, 24, or 41 in page number
Death of a Nurse
---approved for beach in msg 28 of help thread
pg. count link:Death of a Nurse -- 320 pgs
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20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Morgan Faeriesfolly's Task: Bringing Pets and People Together
Opt. 4: fantasy mpg
Witches in Flight
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20.10 - Group Reads
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
my 2 cents are in msg. 2 of discussion thread
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Points this post: 200
Challenge Total: 500
Kathy G.20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Morgan Faeriesfolly's Task: Bringing Pets and People Together
Opt. 4- Fantasy Genre
Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams
Total Points: 65
Laurah3020.5 - Bigger is Better - DebraJean's Task: LET IT SNOW!
Option 2. Nothing is more beautiful than a fresh white blanket of snow. For this option, choose a book from the list White as the Driven Snow. REQUIRED: Specify the page of the list on which your book is found.
Room
p 1 #16
SCHATZIE25.1 - Dakimel’s Task – Hurricane Recovery
Opt. 1: author's initials in JUST ONE MORE
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
by Scott Jurek
Opt. 3: OPHELIA in title/subtitle and/or author
Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fears for Power and Control
---all letters can be found in subtitle
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25.2 - Anne (Booklady)'s task: Big Cats
Opt. 1: PURR in title
The Prince and the Pauper - 240 pgs.
Opt. 3: night scene on cover
Halfway to the Grave
pg. count link: Halfway to the Grave - 358 pgs
240 + 358 = 598
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25.3 - Bluemoon's Task: SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN
Opt. B: author initials in THE ELVES
The Paradise Guest House
by Ellen Sussman
OPT. C: word from given stanza
my word: CHRISTMAS
Redbird Christmas, a
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25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: White Winter, Yellow Moon
Book 1, Opt B: Book from given list 'Ice and Snow'
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
---found on page 1 of list
Book 2, Opt. A: book with 'yellow' in title
The Yellow Dog
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25.5 - Tien's Task: All in the Family
Opt. A: two authors with same first initial
Star Wars: Darth Bane: Rule of Two
by Drew Karpyshyn
Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann
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25.6 - Perletwo's Task: Winnie the Pooh Day
Opt. 1: author's initials in HUNDRED ACRE WOOD
Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
Opt. 2: fantasy mpg
The Girl in the Tower
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25.7 - Wayne's task: My Second Favorite Pastime
Book 1: 9 different letters in a title word
The Merchant's Daughter
---word: MERCHANT'S
pg. count link: The Merchant's Daughter - 284 pgs
Book 2: 9 letters in author's name
Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life
by Lara Casey
pg. count link: Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life - 224 pgs
284 + 224 = 508
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Points this Post: 175
Challenge Total: 675
Pamela326525.2 - Anne (Booklady)'s task: Big Cats
Option 2: Would-Be Mistletoe Wifeby Christine Johnson - Set in Singapore, Michigan
Option 4: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – Found on Page 1
Big Book - 1037 Pages
Golden Oldie - Originally published in 1936
25.6 - Perletwo's Task: Winnie the Pooh Day
Option 1: A Cowboy for the Twins by Carolyne Aarsen - Author's initials are found in ACre
Option 2: Freedom's Ransom by Anne McCaffrey – Fantasy MPG
30.6 - TessaVanessa's Task: 25 Years and Counting
Option 1: An Unlikely Match by Sarah M. Eden - Author's initials found in SwEet
Option 2: Freedom's Challenge by Anne McCaffrey – Anne McCaffrey has 320 distinct works listed
Points this post: 80
Total Points: 400
Golden Oldie books this post: 1
Total Golden Oldie books: 2
Big Book Tickets this post: 3
Total Big Book Tickets: 5
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+: 1
Big Books - 1000+: 1
Post #2415.10. Trash to Treasure.
New to Me
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
GR friend Tamsen rated it 2 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Points this post:15
Total Points:455
Books read:32
Tasks Done:24
SCHATZIE30.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Animal Crackers
Opt. 1: NABISCO in title/subtitle
Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin Free
Opt. 3: book set in Australia
Words in Deep Blue
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Task 30.2 - Mazza1's Task: Prolific Pensmiths
2 books from prolific writers
Book 1:
The Pale Horseman
by Bernard Cornwell
pg. count link:The Pale Horseman - 384 pgs
Book 2:
Hero at Large
by Janet Evanovich
pg. count link: Hero at Large - 288 pgs
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30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Mad Max; My Heart
Opt. 1: set in Germany
The Healer's Apprentice
pg. count link: The Healer's Apprentice - 272 pgs
Opt. 3: crime/mystery mpg
Her Last Breath
pg. count link: Her Last Breath - 368 pgs
272 + 368 = 640
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30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Backward Day
Book 1: book with at least two words in title
Hardcore Twenty-Four
---letters HT
Book 2: The Highway
---letters TH
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30.5 - Diana K’s Task - Word Play on a Few of My Favorite Things
Opt. 3: My words- 1. Lost ------ 2. Last
Book 1: Lost Stars
Book 2: Her Last Whisper
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30.6 - TessaVanessa's Task: 25 Years and Counting
Opt 1: author's initials in SWEET SIXTEEN
Taking Aim: Daring to Be Different, Happier, and Healthier in the Great Outdoors
by Eva Shockey
Opt. 2: author with 25 distinct works or more
Glass Houses
Rachel Caine
GR says this author has 171 distinct works....wowza
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30.7 -Catherine T's Task: Down the Rabbit Hole
Book 1: title letters in definition
Sold
Book 2: book title with "so"
So B. It CD
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30.8 - Sandy's Task: Anagram It
Book 1: choose a book
7 Habits of Highly Effective Families
pg. count link:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families: Building a Beautiful Family Culture in a Turbulent World - 390 pgs
Book 2: word in title that can be made from letters in Book 1 title
Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil
---the word EVIL can be made from book 1 title
pg count link: Dynasty of Evil - 306 pgs
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30.9 - Jennifer NC's Task: Obsession
Opt. 3 for both books
Book 1: Thirteen Reasons Why - 288 pgs
Book 2: Another Man's Moccasins
---pg. count link: Another Man's Moccasins - 290 pgs
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30.10 - Brooke TX's Task: By the Numbers
Book 1: book of choice
Bone White
---pg count link: Bone White - 384 pgs
Book 2: divisible page #'s
Glory Road
---pg count link: Glory Road - 288 pgs
384 + 288 = 672
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30.11 Andy P's Task: Is There a Pattern Here?
Book 1: alternating vowels/consonants in author's name
Witches Under Way
by Debora Geary
{DEBORA}
pg count link: Witches Under Way - 418 pgs
Book 2: alternating vowels/consonants in title word
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
{MAGIC}
pg count link: Magic Cleaning: Wie richtiges Aufräumen Ihr Leben verändert - 224 pgs
Elizabeth PTask 20.8 - Coins for Christmas
Read one book that has one of the 9 items on the cover, with a page count with 24 intact
by V.E. SchwabI picked the extravagant category - there is a crown above the chair
There are 624 pages, and 24 is one of the sets of numbers required for the task
At 624 pages, good for *1 Big Book Ticket*
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 355
Total Tasks: 22
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 8
Total Books: 25
REPOSTING with the correct editionBARBARA ★
30.11 - Andy P's Task: Is There a Pattern Here?
Book 1. Crush - Nicole Williams 2/3
Nicole: N=Consonant, I=Vowel, C=Consonant, O=Vowel, L=Consonant, E - Vowel
Book 2. Seven Stones to Stand or Fall - Diana Gabaldon 1/14
Seven: S=Consonant, E=Vowel, V=Consonant, E=Vowel, N=Consonant
Total Pages: Book 1 (389 pages) + Book 2 (526 pages) = 915 pages > 500 pages
Totals for Challenge
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 315
BARBARA ★25.1 - Dakimel’s Task – Hurricane Recovery
Option 1: Deadly Sting - Jennifer Estep (J&E in JUST ONE MORE) 2/5
Option 3: How to Seduce a Vampire (Without Really Trying) - Kerrelyn Sparks 12/14
O - hOw
P - vamPire
H - How
E - sEduce
L - kerreLyn
I - wIthout
A - vAmpire
Totals for Challenge
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 340
5.5 - Wonders of the DeepRead a book written by a single author who uses a three-part name: first, middle, last.
Book read: Genesis
How it fits: Author Bonnie Berman Shores uses a three-part name.
Ebook was approved for length here
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Points this post: 5
Total points: 370
Books read: 28
Tasks completed: 17
Task #30.7 - Down the Rabbit HoleBook 1: Read a book where all the letters in the title can be found in the definition "loLcAT (noun) (on the internet) A photoGRAph oF a CAt accompaniEd by a humorous caption written typically in a misspelled and grammatically incorrect version of english". I read A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny.
Book 2: Read a book with one of the modifiers: so / much / very / such / many in the title (not subtitle). I read Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente
Points this post: 30
Total points so far: 570
Task 15.5 – New BeginningsNew to me author
Lucy Grealy / Autobiography of a Face
This is the first book by Grealy that I've read.
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This Post: 15 points
Total points to date: 295 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 1
Big Books Read: (1) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 1
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25.2 - Anne (Booklady)'s task: Big Cats
Opt. 1: PURR in title
The Prince and the Pauper - 240 pgs.
IL:MG+
Opt. 3: night scene on cover
Halfway to the Grave
by Jeaniene Frost
pg. count link: Halfway to the Grave - 358 pgs
loafer15.8 - World Animal Day
Read a book from this list: Best Animal Rights Books
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
found on page 1
points: 15
total: 515
BB: 4
GO: 7
tasks completed: 32
SCHATZIEREPOST
15.10. Trash to Treasure.
---a low rated book by a GR friend
The Program
by Suzanne Young - a new to me author
---my GR friend is Michael Jenkins
loafer15.6 - 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!
Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni
my child is making decisions on colleges and I am hoping to help with this process - this book helps us put things in perspective
points: 15
total: 530
BB: 4
GO: 7
tasks completed: 33
Catherine Tmoving a book - I've suddenly realised that it's getting to the end of the season, that I've not been super effective at using books, and that I am slightly panicking!
Anyway, I'm going to be moving Murder on the Orient Express out of task 30.6 (claimed in msg 254) and using it in 25.1 as below...
Task 5.4 - Best Laid Plans
read a book which fits an Autumn 2017 5 - 15pt task
A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
271 pages
fits 10.10 - page count between 244 and 334
read a book of my choice
Essays In Love by Alain de Botton
Task 10.7 - What's Your Favourite Hobby?
read a book which features a favourite hobby
A Secret Garden by Katie Fforde
Hobby: gardening; link: there's professional landscape gardener
25.2 - Big Cats
option 2 - read a book set in California
One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
360 pages
option 4 - read a book with a night scene on the cover
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
336 pages
360 + 334 = 694 pages >550
Task 25.4 - White Winter, Yellow Moon
book 1, option B - read a book on the Ice & Snow list
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
#9 on the list
book 2, option B - read a book on the Solar Space Opera list
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
561 pages - claiming Big Book ticket
Task 30.6 -25 Years and Counting
option 3 - read a book by an author who has more than 25 published works
The Coelura by Anne McCaffrey
McCaffrey has published at least 45 books as a solo writer, and many more in collaborations
option 4 - read a book pub before 1992
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
pub 1936
65 new task points
season total = 775
Siobhan5.9 - Get It Done
Read a book that has been on your want-to-read shelf for at least a year (added on/before 11/18/16.)
Firelight by Kristen Callihan
On my Kindle since 15/05/16
15.6 - Hoping, Wishing, Trying........
Read a NONFICTION book that involves something you’d like to do in 2018.
Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe by Louisa Preston
My goal is to read/write/watch more Sci-Fi this year, and this book was research towards that as it examines what kind of alien life could arise in the cosmos.
30.8 - Sandy's Task: Anagram It
Book 1
Read a book of your choice.
Three Weeks to Wed by Ella Quinn
(The MMP is 338 pages)
Book 2
Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title (not subtitle) that can be made from the letters in the title (not subtitle) of Book 1.
From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
(The paperback is 208 pages)
The word I chose was 'Here'
338 + 208 = 546 pages
Points this post: 50
Total points: 635
Big Book Tickets: 4
Golden Oldies Tickets: 7
Tasks Completed: 35
Books Read: 49
20.2 Rookie at the TopI selected option 3, a book with a winter scene on the cover.
The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey. (hardcover)
30.8 - Sandy's Task: Anagram ItBOOK 1: Read a book of your choice.
The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melville (357 pages)
BOOK 2: Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title (not subtitle) that can be made from the letters in the title (not subtitle) of Book 1.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (270 pages)
The word in the title of Book 2 made from the letters of the title of Book 1 is OLIVE (thE VentrILOquist's tale).
Points this post: 30
TOTAL POINTS: 345
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book Tickets: 1 (500+); - (750+)
Total tasks completed: 14
Total books read: 20
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5.5 - Wonders of the Deep
I read Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns - author who uses a 3 part name.
10.9 - Good Dog!
I read Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act, title beginning with "O." I read a kindle ARC. No paperback, hardback with page numbers is Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act.
No point change
30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Backward Day
For book 1, I read What Happened - title initials WH.
For book 2, I read Holding Wonder - title initials HW.
New points this post: 35
Total points: 835
Readerboard: JENBENT10.3 - Sir Nils Olav
Male author & published in 1976
The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block
30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Mad Max; My Heart
total pages 610
Option 3: Work (Main page genre = Mystery)
The Endless Knot by Gail Bowen
(304 p)
Option 5: Travel (Main page genre = Travel)
Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places by Andrew Blackwell
(306 p)
Points this post: 40
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Big Books this post: 0
Total points: 370
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Total Big Books: 0
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10.8 - Here Kitty Kitty
Cat name= Zoe
The Believers by Zoe Heller
25.7 - Wayne's task: My Second Favorite Pastime
Book 1: Read a book that has a word in its title or subtitle that contains exactly 9 DIFFERENT letters. inexplicable - INE/XPL/CAB
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
Book 2: Read a book written by an author whose name contains exactly 9 letters.
Turtles All the Way Down By JOH/NGR/EEN
TOTAL TO DATE
points: 815
BB tickets: 4
Goldies: 1