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SPRING CHALLENGE 2018
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FANDURY15.2 - Two Of The Tates
Book 1: Read a book FIRST published between 1897 and 1999 (inclusive).
The Outlaw's Tale by Margaret Frazer
First published 1994
Book 2: Read a book FIRST published since the year 2000 (pre-May is OK).
Snake Eyes by Joseph D'Lacey
First published 2012.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 325
Books Read: 23
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
10.9 -"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press" - Thomas JeffersonRead a non-fiction book written about or by a journalist.
Book read: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
How it fits: It is a non-fiction book, author Barbara Demick is a journalist
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Points this post: 10
Total points: 270
Books read: 19
Tasks completed: 17
BB Tickets: 4
GO Tickets: 0
10.6 - Want to See My Slides?The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Points this post = 10
Total points = 215
Big Book tickets = 3
Golden Oldies = 7
Marina H30.1 - Dlmrose's Task: And The Award Goes To...
Option 1: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Option 3: Før faldet by Noah Hawley
Points this post: 30
Total points: 250
Big book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 3
Tasks completed: 14
Diana K.Task 30.6 Option C
Book 1: Read a book written by a single author who is appearing this year at BookCon 2018
The Refugees
Book 2: Read a book set at least 50% in a city that has hosted BEA: New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Washington, DC; or Los Angeles, CA
Alternate Side Takes place in NYC
Points this post: 30
Total points: 320
Catherine TTask 15.3 - Women’s History Month
one book option - read a book with MPG Historical & written by a woman
An Argumentation of Historians by Jodi Taylor
MPG verified in help thread
Season total = 485
Sara G15.4 - Collect, Preserve, Study, Exhibit, Stimulate, Engage
Option 2: Read ONE book that satisfies BOTH book 1 and book 2 requirements. Note that 2 different museum names must be used to satisfy each requirement.
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
FL in The UFfizi GaLlery
AS in The AcropoliS Museum
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes -Christine V's Task: Celebrating the Seasonal Reading Challenge
Option 3: I love finding books that fit the requirements of each season’s tasks, but I have never finished an entire SRC challenge. Read a book from this list: The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Initiated) Book Ever
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
It's on page 2, currently at #141 on the list.
Points this post: 35
Total points: 410
CYNBAXTER# 15.02 – Two Of The Tates this is a re-post of #414, now with a link for Book 1! (point totals will sync after this :-) )
Task: Read a book FIRST published between 1897 and 1999 (inclusive).
Book 1: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard – first published in 1966
Task: Read a book FIRST published since the year 2000 (pre-May is OK)
Book 2: The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert – first published January 2018
Points this post: 15 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 1
loafer20.9 - Moderator’s Pet - Book Concierge's Task: Happy 300th Birthday
C) Read a book where the first letter of each title word can be found in: BATTLE OF FLOWERS PARADE -or- FIESTA FLAMBEAU PARADE.
Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
fIestA fLaMbeau parade
no mmpb. PB: Maybe in Another Life 342 pages
points: 20
total: 315
GO: 4
BB: 4
tasks completed: 20
Readerboard: JENBENT15.4 - Collect, Preserve, Study, Exhibit, Stimulate, Engage
Option 2
Still Here by Lara Vapnyar
Title Initials - State Hermitage
Author Initials - Le LouVre
25.4 - Catherine T's Task: Museums For Learning
Both books are new to me, are nonfiction, and the total pages equal 856.
Book 1 - mpg SCIENCE
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris
Book 2 - building on cover
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman
Points this post: 40
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Big Books this post: 0
Total points: 215
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Books: 0
5.3 - Museum of Bad Art - A Closed and Common Orbit Contains BAD ARTA closeD And common oRBiT
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 155
CelesteR5.1 - A Night at the Museum
Celtic Tales Told to the Children by Louey Chisholm
Genre 4#: fantasy --> mythology (5 users)
This is my one book under 100 pages.
Total pts: 180 + 5 = 185 pts.
McquaidReposting as requested, original post #905
10.2: Free for All - Read a book that you got for free. Explain how I got the book.
Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs
This was a library book.
10.8: Tax Day - Author whose initials can be found in TAX DAY.
The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan
20.9 - Moderator’s Pet - Book Concierge's Task: Happy 300th Birthday
D) NIOSA – Night in Old San Antonio: Read a fiction book that includes one of the following food items in the text. Include the text reference. Words: taco, tamale, tortilla, barbacoa; plurals are fine.
The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed
Text Reference: "I hate beans and corn. I hate tortillas."- pg. 273
Points this post: 40
Total Points: 265
Tasks Completed: 21
Books Read: 22
Joanne MITask 10.1 Read a non-fiction book with a main page genre of history, art or culture/cultural.
Claiming one BB ticket 558 pages
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
I really took this "Let's Learn Something" to heart! So glad I picked this book up-I loved it and learned things I never knew!
Points this task 10
Total Points 175
BB points this task 1
Total BB points 8
Anja20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Frugalitymom's Task: Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Option 4: Read a book FIRST published in May or December from 2007-2018 inclusive.
One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus (Published May 30th 2017)
POINTS:
Points This Post: 20
Points Total: 160
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000()
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks Completed: 12
Bookwrm526Task #25.4 - Museums For Learning
Two book option. Both books are new to me (I'm reposting because I forgot to say that the first time, sorry!)
Book 1: Read a book with a main page genre of History, Science or Biography or a related subgenre under one of those genres, such as History>Microhistory or Science>Biology. I read I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong (368p).
Book 2: Read a non-fiction book with a building on the cover. The building must be an exterior view of a man-made construction. I read Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell (274p), approved in help thread for building on the cover.
368+274=642p
Points this post: 25
Total points so far: 370
5.1 - A Night at the MuseumBlackout by Ragnar Jónasson
MPG Mystery
5.10 - From Your Collection
Nightblind by Ragnar Jónasson
15.3 -Women’s History Month
Option 2. The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland
15.5 - Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Room by Emma Donoghue
Points this post: 40
Points in total: 135
Tasks completed: 9
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 2
Mod
I listened to the audiobook of Devil's Peak by Deon Meyer. The MMPB is Le Pic du diable. Book is set in South Africa, a member of the African Union, and author is from South Africa.
20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Frugalitymom's Task: Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History
I chose option D and read an ARC of The Memory of Fire. First publication date is May 17, 2018.
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Deborah's Task: Young Sheldon
I chose option 1 and read News of the World, set completely in Texas.
Points this post: 50
Total points: 500
Task 20.5 – Bigger is Better – FrugalityMom – Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History Option 3 – 1st Letter of each title word in “BeHAved hiStorY
So Brave, Young and Handsome
I listened to the audio / No MMP / Paperback: So Brave, Young, and Handsome
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This Post: 20 points
Total points to date: 220 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 1
Big Books Read: (2) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 2
ED20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Deborah's Task: Young Sheldon
Option 3- Read a book written by a single author with a first name of one of his family members: Mary (mom), George (dad and brother)...
The Beaux Strategem by George Bernard Farquhar- (first published 1707) **I claim 1 GO Ticket**
Points This Post: 20
Total Points 175
Task Completed: 11
Books completed=13
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 8
ED15.7 - Spring Saints-Read a book by an author named David, Patrick or George or...
The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar- (first published 1706)
**I Claim 1 GO Ticket**
Points This Post: 15
Total Points 190
Task Completed: 12
Books completed=14
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 9
EMurphy20.3 Best Review-Michelle in Alaska's Task: Red or Green?
Option 5: Book with the words "red" or "green" as a standalone in the title/subtitle
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
*368 pages (250 page minimum)
Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
30.2
Schatzie's Task: Castles and Other Historical Sites
Option 1: Biography genre Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
Option 2: Castle on the cover
by Katherine ArdenApproved in message 70 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 125
Books Read: 8
BB Ticket +500: 1
GO Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 5
CelesteR5.2- CULTURE
Only the Flower Knows by Rihito Takarai
100+ < 180 pgs.
Total: 185 +5pts. = 190 pts.
Edit: edition (ISBN13: 9783842008168)
Readerboard Name: Jammin JennyTask 5.5 - International Cryptozoology Museum
American Vampire, Vol. 2 by Scott Snyder
Task 5.7 - New England Maple Museum
Cream Puff Murder by Joanne Fluke
Task 10.3 - Tell Me Where It Hurts
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them - this book is about several famous doctors who fought against some really bad diseases - like Jonas Salk
Task 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Deborah's Task: Young Sheldon
Option 1 - Texas Troubles
Points this post: 40
Total points: 425
Books read: 35
Tasks completed: 31
BB tickets: 2
GO tickets: 1
10.3 - Tell Me Where It HurtsRead a book with a main page genre of "medicine" or "medical," or about or by a doctor, nurse, midwife or veterinarian.
I read The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness by Jerome Groopman. He is a doctor, and the good has a main page genre of "medical".
Task Points: 10
Total Challenge points:60
Total tasks completed:5
Books Read:5
perletwo20.10 - Group Reads - Read ONE of the books selected as the Group Reads choices for the season:
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
a few thoughts here
Points this task: 20
Total points: 465
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 3
Big Book ticket requests: 1
Books read: 34
Tasks completed: 24
trishhartuk20.3 Best Review – Michelle in Alaska's Task: Red or Green?
OPTION 3: Georgia O’Keeffe. Read a book with a flower/flowers on the cover.
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here (336pg).
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
Total Points: 400
Tasks Completed: 23
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Book tickets: 0
Marina HCan I move my book from task 10.1 (I'll be reading another book for this task) and use it for:
15.8 - The Red Baron
Ukuelig by Laura Hillenbrand 640 pages (1 BB ticket already claimed)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 255
Big book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 3
Tasks completed: 14
Julia10315.10 - Pay the Piper
Wordwings (set in Poland)
This post: 15 points,
Challenge total points: 300
BB: 2
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 19
MARY CIPORAH10.2 - Free for All
✿ A book that you got for free
How to Be Safe by Tom McAllister (240 pages)
How I got this book: My sister is friends with the author, Tom McAllister, and she gave me a copy as a gift. It was a great book; I highly recommend it!
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New points: 10
Total points: 25
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Pages read: 1,399
Task 5.1 – A Night at the MuseumMain page genre begins with a letter in MUSEUM - European Literature
Lucky Jim
Genre confirmed in Confirmed in Help Thread
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This Post: 05 points
Total points to date: 225 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 1
Big Books Read: (2) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 2
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.6 Meguro Parasitological Museum
Read a book with at least 300 pages that was first published in a year that contains the numbers 2 and 9.
I read I, Alex Cross by James Patterson. It was first published in November 2009. It has 400 pages.
Challenge 10.5 Springtime in Paris
Read a book set in France or written by an author born or currently living in France.
I read Tender Is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald. It is set in France.
Challenge 20.9 Moderator’s Pet - Book Concierge's Task: Happy 300th Birthday
Option C: Read a book where the first letter of each title word can be found in: BATTLE OF FLOWERS PARADE -or- FIESTA FLAMBEAU PARADE. All words count; minimum 3-word title.
I read The Orphan's Taleby Pam Jenoff. The first letter can be in Battle of Flowers Parade.
Challenge 25.2 Librarianish's Task - Roads and Rails
Option 1: Read a book set at least 50% in any U.S. state that you've never visited, i.e. never set your feet on the ground outside.
I read The Woman in the Windowby A.J. Finn. It is set in New York. I have never been there. 427 pages
Option 2: Read a book from this road trip-themed Listopia:
Young Adult Road Trip Novels
I read 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson. It is found on page 1. 322 pages
427+322=749 pages
Points this post: 60
Total points: 675
Tasks completed: 43
Books read: 56
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Andy P.Task # 10.8 - Tax Day
Read a book whose author's initials can be found in TAX DAY
The Adventuress by Tasha Alexander TAX DAY
Points this post:10
Total points: 340
ED30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss
Book 1-Option 3-Read a book written by an author whose first and last name initials can be found in THE LORAX.
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
EO found in "thE lOrax"
(first published January 1st 1931)**I Claim 1 GO Ticket.**
Book 2 Option 4- Read a book with main page genre travel.
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding- (first published September 1st 1755)
**I Claim 1 GO Ticket.**
Points This Post: 30
Total Points 220
Task Completed: 13
Books completed=15
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 11
Kayla C15.2 Two Of The Tates
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
originally published June 1999
and
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
originally published in June 2017
points this post 15
total points: 200
MARY CIPORAH20.8 (Option 3) - Nickels & Dimes
✿ A book from this list: The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Initiated) Book Ever
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (279 pages, page 1 of list)
20.9 (Option D) - Moderator's Pet
✿ A fiction book in which you find one of these food items referenced in the TEXT of the novel: taco, tamale, tortilla, barbacoa
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (359 pages)
"When I got home, my mom was in the kitchen warming up some tamales for dinner" (210).
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New points: 40
Total points: 65
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 6
Pages read: 2,037
Task 20.8 - Celebrating the Seasonal Reading ChallengeOption 1: Read a book that is #1, #5, or #10 in a series. The series designation must appear in the Goodreads metadata.
Neanderthal Seeks Human (Knitting in the City #1) (2013) by Penny Reid (Goodreads Author) (Kindle Edition, 403 pages)
100 + 20 = 120
Tasks Completed: 07
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 100 + 20 = 120
Books read: 08
Pages read: 2,303
Read but not claimed: 03
Goodreads Authors: 03
Golden Oldies: 00
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Marina H10.8 - Tax Day
Man gjorde et barn fortræd by Tove Ditlevsen
First published 1941 - claiming 1 GO ticket
Points this post: 10
Total points: 265
Big book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 4
Tasks completed: 15
Nick KY5.8 Museum of Sex I read Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis “Feminism” as GR genre.
30.2 Schatzie’s Castles
Option 1. Neuschwanstein & Hohenschwangau. “Biography” as a GR genre. I read M Train by Patti Smith. O.K.d in message 65 of the help thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Option 2. Hohensalzburg. Castle on the cover. I read Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson.
Points This Post: 35
Total Points So Far: 385
30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Happy Birthday, Dr. SeussOption 1, a book with a cat on the cover: Out of Circulation by Miranda James
Option 2, a book first published in March of any year: News of the World by Paulette Jiles, first published March 29, 2016
Points this post: 30
Total points: 440
MARY CIPORAH20.4 - Wedding Day (Option 2: The Date)
✿ A book first published in June of any year
The Good Girls by Sara Shepard (368 pages, first published June 2, 2015)
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New points: 20
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 7
Pages read: 2,405
Readerboard name: DAIRE15.10 Book set 50% or more in England
The Sculptress by Minette Walters
20.1 Option 2 - Book by author whose initials can be found in MANHATTAN PROJECT
Brave by Rose McGowan
20.4 Option 1 - Book with white dress on cover
Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders by Brandi Glanville
20.7 Option 3 - Book written by someone who shares a name with one of Sheldon's relatives (I picked Mary)
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell
(1 BB ticket - 616 pages)
25.1
Book 1: Option 1 - #1 in a series
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Book 2: Option 3 - Author initials found in BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
Blood Vines by Erica Spindler
Points this post: 100
Total points: 100
GO tickets: 0
BB tickets: 1
MARY CIPORAH10.6 - Want to See My Slides?
✿ A book with the main page genre Science Fiction
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (392 pages)
30.4 - Sandy's Task: 3, 4, 5 (Options 2 and 3)
✿ Option 2: A book whose average rating consists solely of the numbers 3, 4, and 5
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (480 pages, 4.34 average rating as of April 13 at 8:19 PM EST - verified in help thread)
✿ Option 3: A book where the number of pages includes at least 2 of the numbers 3, 4, 5
Pastel Orphans by Gemma Liviero (352 pages)
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New points: 40
Total points: 125
Tasks completed: 9
Books read: 10
Pages read: 3,629
Brooke TX10.1 - Let's Learn Something.
Read a non-fiction book with a main page genre of history, art or culture/cultural.
15.1 - A Truth and A Lie
Book 1: Read a nonfiction book.
Book 2: Read a book with any form of the word LIE in the title or subtitle.
15.6 - Oh, Beans!
Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle from this list of the most popular Jelly Belly jelly bean flavors.
25.6 - Diana K's Task: Windy City Museums
Option C (One book option): Read a book whose number of pages includes the numbers 5 and 3.
25.8 - Dakimel’s Task: Rulebreakers
Option 1: Read a book with an ‘other role’ person named in the GR record whose first and last initials can be found in the phrase UNIDENTIFIED OTHERS. With Emily Shaw (editor):
Option 2: Read a book by an author whose GR-recorded name contains a capitalized letter somewhere OTHER than the first initials of the first and last name, and that letter must be found in the phrase CAPITAL NOT INITIAL.
30.2 – Schatzie's Task: Castles and Other Historical Sites
Opt. 1: Read a book with a main page genre of biography.
Opt. 4: Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in SCHWARZWALD, middle initials can be ignored.
Points
This Post: 120
Total Points: 350
Completed Tasks: 25
Books Read: 33
20.5 Bigger is BetterOption 3.
History Is All You Left Me, by Adam Silvera
Points this post: +20
Total: 205
Mod
Read a book written by an author whose first and last initials can be found in CULTURE.
CultuRe
5.5 - International Cryptozoology Museum
Read a book that features cryptozoology, a cryptozoologist, or one or more cryptids from this list:
Chose Mermaids-
5.10 - From Your Collection
Read a book of your choice
10.2 - Free For All
Read a book that you got for free- REQUIRED: Explain in your post how you got the book.
Got from the publisher to review
10.6 - Want to See My Slides?
Read a book with the main page genre Science Fiction
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Amber's Task: Adventure in the Southwest
Read a book written by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in the phrase MANHATTAN PROJECT.
MAnhattan project
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Rina's Task: Tallinn
Read a book with at least 2 pairs of double letters in the title and/or subtitle.
20.3 - Best Review – Michelle in Alaska's Task: Red or Green?
For this option, read a book with a flower/flowers on the cover.
20.10 - Group Reads
Read ONE of the books selected as the Group Reads choices for the season:
25.8 - Dakimel’s Task: Rulebreakers
2. “Initials”
For this option, read a book by an author whose GR-recorded name contains a capitalized letter somewhere OTHER than the first initials of the first and last name, and that letter must be found in the phrase CAPITAL NOT INITIAL
cApital not initial
3. “Title or Subtitle”
For this option, read a book whose SERIES TITLE (as listed in the GR record) contains one of the following words: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Season, Reading, Challenge, Girl, Boy, Sister, Brother, Child, Woman, Man.
Points this post: 140 points
Total points to date = 340 points
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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15.5 - Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Read a book where all the letters in the title can be found in MISTER ROGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD.
Room by Emma Donoghue (321 p.)
➸ Points: 45 of 290 (goal)
➸ Total Pages: 1,568