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SPRING CHALLENGE 2018
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Suzannesea30.3 Ava Catherine's Task
Option 1. Read a book with a cat on the cover.
by Charlaine Harrisoption 2. Read a book first published in March of any year.
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Mary Jennings Hegar was first published in March 2017.
Points this post: 30
Total points to date: 380
15.10 - Pay the Piper Set in a bagpipe country - Read Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes. This is set fully in Greece.
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Siobhan's Task: Wedding Day
Option 2: Published in June - Read Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida by Gary R. Mormino. Published June 30.
30.4 - Sandy's Task: 3, 4, 5
Option 2: Rating with only a 3, 4 or 5 - Read Writer's Choice: Grammar and Composition by Jacqueline Jones Royster. This has a rating of 4.4.
Option 3: Page numbers include a 3, 4 or 5 (at least 2) - Read Mind of Winter by Laura Kasischke. This has 305 pages.
Lysistrata and Other Plays was first published in 411 B.C.E. so qualifies as a Golden Oldie ticket.
Writer's Choice: Grammar and Composition has 728 pages, so, I claim 1 Big Book ticket.
Points these task: 65
Total points: 255
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 5
Books read: 22
Tasks completed: 14
Boston Kate
30.5 Name Game
Names generated: Jean Jordan, Jewel Horsfall, Mandi Parish, Davis Munson, Gordy Street
Book 1: Girl in Translation
author Jean Kwok (using Jean Jordan)
Book 2: Mudbound
author Hillary Jordan (using Jean Jordan)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 65
Marina HNick KY’s task: To Choose or Not To Choose
Option A:
Good minds suggest by Kate Morton
Book 1: Huset ved Riverton by Kate Morton
Book 2: The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin
Points this post: 25
Total points: 675
Big book tickets: 5
Golden Oldies tickets: 9
Tasks completed: 34
Brooklyn15.8 – The Red Baron
Read a book with an airplane on the cover.
by Chuck Palahniuk====================
30.3 – Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss
Option 2: Read a book first published in March of any year.
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
Published in March 2018
Option 4: Read a book with a MPG of travel.
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
Points this post: 45
Total points: 640/930
Tasks completed: 38/55
Books read: 49
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 2
NICOLE OH10.7 - My Favorite Holiday!
Death: The High Cost of Living Collected found on page 7
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Siobhan's Task: Wedding Day
Option 3: Prodigy
25.8 - Dakimel’s Task: Rulebreakers
Option 2: Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert capital L in Loy, approved in help thread.
Option 5: Nostos (77 pages) and Gulf Music: Poems (96 pages)
Points this post: 55
Total Points: 380
Bookwrm526Task #10.7 - My Favorite Holiday!
Read a book from this list: Stories for Book Lovers. I read The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (page 1, spot 92 at time of posting).
Points this post; 10
Total points so far: 830
Sarah E20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Deborah's Task: Young Sheldon
Option 2
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
I read the ebook, top MMP is The Miniaturist
Points this post: 20
Total points: 540
Sarah E10.8 - Tax Day
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Siobhan's Task: Wedding Day
Option 4 - Author's first and last initials in BEST DAY EVER
The Girl Who Married a Lion by Alexander McCall Smith
I read the ebook, MMP is La femme qui épousa un lion
Points this post: 30
Total points: 570
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Deborah's Task: Young SheldonOption 2: Read a book written by a single author who shares first and last name initials with these iconic Texans: SHJBSS.
Book read: The House of Closed Doors
How it fits: Author's (Jane Steen) initials are JS
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Points this post: 20
Total points: 880
Books read: 68
Tasks completed: 54
BB Tickets: 14
GO Tickets: 2
PAULA SRepost with the ARBookfind info
25.1 - Perletwo's Task: The Ides of March are Come
Option 1: Read a book that is either #1 in the series or the last
Murder in the Art Gallery Pet Portraits Mystery #1. PB for reference: Murder at the Art Gallery
Option 3: Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in the phrase BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead
author initials RR in bewaRe the ides of maRch
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15.0
Points this post: 25
Total points to date: 360
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO tickets claimed: 2
20.4 Wedding Day - white dress on cover
20.6 We are the Music Makers..
Opt 4 - word from lyrics "when"
When Breath Becomes Air
20.7 Young Sheldon
Opt 3 - author's name is Mary
Not Quite a Wife by Mary Jo Putney
20.8 Celebrating SRC
Opt 1, - 1,5 or 10 in series
Because of Miss Bridgerton - Rokesby #1
20.9 Happy 300th Birthday
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - set in TX
20.10 Group Read
A Gentleman in Moscow - post #10 5/13/18
30.2 Castles and other Historical Sites
Opt 1 - biography - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Opt 4 - authors initials in SchWarzwald - The Hostage by Susan Wiggs
30.3 Happy B-day Dr. Seuss
Opt 2 - pub in March or 1904
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - pub March 2013
Opt 4 - travel genre - confirmed post #16
The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
30.4 3,4,5 (over 600 pages)
Opt 1 - 3,4 or 5 in Series - book League of Rogues #3
Her Wicked Proposal - 390 pages
Opt 3, # of pages contains 2 of numbers 3,4 or 5
Turtles All the Way Down - 304 pgs
390 + 304 = 694
30.5 Conference, Convention, Canticle - >500 pages
Opt C Bk 1 - bk by author at BookCon
The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen- 209 pages
Opt C Bk 2 - book set 50% in New York
Manhattan Beach - 438 pages
209 + 438 = 677 pages
Total books this post: 240 points
Kristen IA20.10 - Group Reads
Read ONE of the books selected as the Group Reads choices for the season:
Non-Fiction - On the Seven Seas - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
MMPB for page count - Lusitania 1915, la dernière traversée - 615 pages
I posted in the discussion in post #28.
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 360/930
Tasks Completed: 18/55
GO: 0
BB: 6
10.3 - Tell Me Where It HurtsHelp Thread
The Wellcome Collection is a medical-based museum, which describes itself as "The free destination for the incurably curious". Read a book with a main page genre of "medicine" or "medical," or about or by a doctor, nurse, midwife or veterinarian.
I read An Unwilling Accomplice, in which the main character, Bess Crawford, is a nurse.
Points: 245
books read: 18
tasks completed: 16
pages read: 6913
that is it for me! Thank you to all the Mods!
Readerboard Name: List_Addict15.8: The Red Baron
A cover featuring an airplane
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
30.2: Schatzie’s Task - Castles and Other Historical Sites
Option 3: A MPG of World War II
Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall
Option 4: An author’s initial found in SCHWARZWALD
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
30.6: Brooke TX’s Task - Conference, Convention, Conventicle
Option B: SFWA
Book 1: A Nebula Award winner or nominee
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Pages: 173
Book 2: A title whose words all start with the same letter
Air Awakens by Elise Kova
Pages: 330
Total Pages: 503
Previous Post Total: 5
Total This Post: 75
Challenge Total: 80
(Thanks again!!)
JUKKA20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Deborah's Task: Young Sheldon
Option 1: Book that takes place at least 50% in Texas.
Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale takes place entirely in Texas.
Points this post: 20
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Points: 290/930
Total Books Read: 26
Tasks Completed: 21/55
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 4
MIKE DENNIS(REPOSTED) 15.9 Find Your Muse: 3-letter word & 9-letter word in title and/or sub.
Discovery of the Elements
D-i-s-c-o-v-e-r-y = 9 letters; t-h-e = 3 letters
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Current Post: Points: 15 GO: - BB: -
Total: Points: 315 GO: 1 BB: 1
Tasks: 5.1,5.4,5.10, 10.2,10.6, 15.2,15.4,15.7,15.9, 20.1,20.3,20.4,20.8--20.10,
25.1,25.6, 30.6 using 20 books.
MIKE DENNIS***PLEASE REPLACE MY OLD 20.3 WITH THIS NEW ONE ***
20.3 [Michelle in Alaska]: Red or Green?
OPTION 4: author 1st & last initials in WHITE SANDS.
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
(this frees up In High Places to be used below)
30.4 [Sandy] 3, 4, 5
2 Books from 2 options. REQD: Identify the options. NCK, 600+ pp.
Option 1: #3,4,5 in a series. Series designation on GR record.
In High Places (Crosstime Traffic #3), 270 pp.
Option 3: #pp. includes at least 2 of the numbers 3, 4, 5.
Audio of Child of Storm, where this top MMPB edition shows the pages as 344 pp.
Request a Golden Oldie for Child of Storm -- 1913
270 + 344 = 614 pages
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Current Post: Points: 30 GO: 1 BB: -
Total: Points: 345 GO: 2 BB: 1
Tasks: 5.1,5.4,5.10, 10.2,10.6, 15.2,15.4,15.7,15.9, 20.1--20.4,20.8--20.10,
25.1,25.6, 30.4,30.6 using 23 books.
Readerboard Name: Kathy P 20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Rina's Task: Tallinn
Option 3:What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Points this post: 20
Books this post: 1
Totals
Points: 360
BB:3
GO:0
Total Task completed: 18
Total Books read: 22
10.7 - My Favorite Holiday!A book from Stories for Book Lovers list (p. 2 #166): The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett
Points this post: 10
Total points: 825
15.1 A Truth and a Lie**Repost**
Book 1: nonfiction: There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids
Book 2: Sometimes I Lie
Approved in post #191 in the not really for kids thread.
Task 30.6 – Brooke TX – Conference, Convention, ConveticleREQUIRED: BOTH books from one option / total pages 500+: 326 + 336 = 662p
Option A– Texas Library Association
Book 1: By a single author, attending TLA 2018
Suzanne Selfors / Mad Love - 326 pg
Book 2 - From LIST of Texas Authors (must be different from book 1 author)
Sandra Brown (pg 2, # 107) / Rainwater
I listened to the audio / MMP: Rainwater - 336 pg
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This Post: 30 points
Total points to date: 535 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 1
Big Books Read: (3) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 3
Chris MDI need to make a change.
Please remove the book I claimed, Mad About the Boy?, for task 15.10. In it's place:
15.10 Pay the Piper
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Set completely in England, one of the countries listed.
20.5 Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Option 3: First letter in each word in title and subtitle are found in Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Mad About the Boy? by Dolores Gordon-Smith
M in woMen
A in behAved
T in hisTory
B in Behaved
30.4 3, 4, 5
Option 1: # 3, 4, or 5 in a series
A Question of Honor by Charles Todd
The book is #5 in the Bess Crawford series
Option 2: GR rating consists solely of the numbers 3, 4, 5
To Die but OnceT by Jacqueline Winspear
Although it is not listed in the help thread list of approved books for ratings, the rating of 4.35 for this book was approved in this message.
A Question of Honor 336 pages
To Die But Once 336 pages
Total pages 672 pages
I listened to the audio version of this book. The book was published in March, and the paperback hasn't been released yet. The hard cover has 3336 pages.
That will do it for me for this challenge. Thanks to the moderators!
New Points for this post: 20 + 30 = 50
Total points: 50 + 355 = 405
Tasks completed: 18
Books read: 23
Golden Oldies:
Big Books: 1
15.1 - A Truth and A LieBook 1: Read a nonfiction book.
The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain
Book 2: Read a book with any form of the word LIE - a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood in the title or subtitle, such as lies, lie’s, lied, lying, liar, liars, liar’s, liars’ in the title or subtitle.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 615
Total Tasks: 29
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 4
Kristen IA5.4 - Avanos Hair Museum
Read a book that has human hair visible on the cover.
Audiobook cover:
MMPB for page count - Evelina by Fanny Burney
I listened to the audiobook and have linked the audiobook for the cover and MMPB for page count.
******I claim 1 Golden Oldie ticket - published in 1778******
5.10 - From Your Collection
Read a book of your choice.
The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 370/930
Tasks Completed: 20/55
GO: 1
BB: 6
MIKE DENNIS5.3 The Museum of Bad Art title/subtitle contains all letters in BAD ART.
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World
B & D from 'BeD', A from 'mAke', A and T from 'ThAt', and R from 'youR'
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Current Post: Points: 5 GO: 1 BB: -
Total: Points: 350 GO: 2 BB: 1
Tasks: 5.1,5.3,5.4,5.10, 10.2,10.6, 15.2,15.4,15.7,15.9, 20.1--20.4,20.8--20.10,
25.1,25.6, 30.4,30.6 using 24 books.
Kim O15.10 - Pay the Piper
Read a book set at least 50% in ONE of the countries that has a type of bagpipe.
Lisette's List (France)
Points this task: 15
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20.1 - Most Improved Player - Amber's Task: Adventure in the Southwest
Option 2: Read a book written by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in the phrase MANHATTAN PROJECT.
The Dante Club
Points this task: 20
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20.5 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.
Not a Sound
Points this task: 20
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20.6 Seasoned Reader - Kim O's task: We Are The Music Makers, And We Are The Dreamers Of Dreams
Option 4 - Musical Heritage: Read a book with a word in its title (not subtitle) from the lyrics of the song You Belong to Me.
Til We Meet Again: A Memoir of Love and War The word I chose is "again".
Points this task: 20
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20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Deborah's Task: Young Sheldon
3) Read a book written by a single author with a first name of one of Sheldon's family members: Mary (mom), George (dad and brother), Missy (sister), or Constance (Meemaw).
Doc
Points this task: 20
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20.8 - Nickels & Dimes -Christine V's Task: Celebrating the Seasonal Reading Challenge
Option 1: Read a book that is #1, #5, or #10 in a series.
Speaking from Among the Bones
Points this task: 20
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25.7 - Nick KY’s task: To Choose or Not To Choose
Option B. Not to Choose. For this option, read two books by the same author. The books must have only one author, and that author must use the same name for both books.
Book 1: Blue Nude
Book2: Gravity
Points this task: 25
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25.8 - Dakimel’s Task: Rulebreakers
2. “Initials” – 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.
The German Girl
3. “Title or Subtitle” – 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.
Absolution by Murder
Points this task: 25
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50.1 - Booklover's Task: The Classic Novel
1: The Eighteenth Century - Read a novel first published between 1700 and 1799 (inclusive), AND (A) Read a novel whose title includes the name of its protagonist.
Tom Jones This book has 856 pages.
Golden Oldie -- first published in 1749
2: Romanticism - Read a novel first published between 1798 and 1837 (inclusive) AND (A) Read a novel written by a female author.
Sense and Sensibility This book has 282 pages.
Golden Oldie -- first published in 1811
3: The Victorian Era - Read a novel first published between 1837 and 1901 (inclusive), AND (A) Read a novel by either Charles Dickens or Thomas Hardy.
Under the Greenwood Tree This book has 256 pages.
Golden Oldie -- first published in 1872.
Total page count is greater than 1200. (856 + 282 + 256 = 1394)
Points this task: 50
Golden Oldie tickets: 3
Big Book 750+ tickets: 2
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Cumulative Totals
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+ 2
Golden Oldies: 5
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Readerboard name: CariTask #10.2: Free for all
Read a book you got for free; state where you got it.
One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus. Borrowed from library, listened on Overdrive
Task #10.9: "Our freedom depends on the freedom of the press"
Read about by or about a journalist
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
From Brittanica.com
Ta-Nehisi Coates, in full Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates, (born September 30, 1975, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.), American essayist, journalist, and writer who often explored contemporary race relations, perhaps most notably in his book Between the World and Me (2015), which won the National Book Award for nonfiction.
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Points this post: 20
Total points this challenge: 205
# of books read this challenge: 13
(I read 9 books total in 2017; this is a HUGE improvement for me)
Pamela32655.2 - A Cultural Experience
Grant by Ron Chernow - CultuRe
Big Book with 1074 pages
5.10 - From Your Collection
A Family for Easter by Lee Tobin McClain
10.1 - Let's Learn Something.
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
15.2 - Two Of The Tates
Book 1: Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather – First published in 1912
GOLDEN OLDIE - First published in 1912
Book 2: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan – Originally published in 2008
15.3 -Women’s History Month
Option 2
The Topaz by Jennie Hansen
15.4 - Collect, Preserve, Study, Exhibit, Stimulate, Engage
Option 2: The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat by Stephen Guyenet –
Author’s initials found in State Hermitage
Book initials found in The British Museum
15.6 - Oh, Beans!
White Rose, Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey - Flavor: Black licorice
20.3 - Best Review – Michelle in Alaska's Task: Red or Green?
Option 3:
by L.M. Montgomery – Flowers on coverGolden Oldie - First published in 1909
25.1 - Perletwo's Task: The Ides of March are Come
Option 1:
by Stephanie Dees - #3 in Family Blessings published February 20, 2018Option 3: “Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow – Author's initials found in maRCh
Big Book 818 pages
Points this post: 125
Total Points: 470
Golden Oldie books this post: 2
Total Golden Oldie books: 2
Big Book Tickets this post: 5
Total Big Book Tickets: 5
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+: 1
Big Books - 1000+: 1
Task 5.10 - From Your Collection Read a book of your choice.
Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War (2011) by Deb Olin Unferth (Hardcover, 216 pages) [813.6]
National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2011)
320 + 05 = 325
Tasks Completed: 21
Points for this post: 05
Points thus far: 320 + 05 = 325
Books read: 26
Pages read: 7,253
Read but not claimed: 00
Goodreads Authors: 05
Golden Oldies: 03
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(1) 750+
(0) 1,000+
5.4 - Avanos Hair Museum
I read the kindle edition. The most popular paperback edition has 398 pages.
5.10 - From Your Collection
I read the kindle edition. The mass market paperback edition (in French) has 490 pages.
points this post: 10
total points: 480
PAULA S20.9 - Moderator’s Pet - Book Concierge's Task: Happy 300th Birthday
Option C
The Fifth Season
title initials TFS found in baTtle of FlowerS parade
I read the ebook, the most popular PB (no MMP) The Fifth Season has 468p
25.8 - Dakimel’s Task: Rulebreakers
Option 1: read a book with an ‘other role’ person whose initials can be found in the phrase UNIDENTIFIED OTHERS
I read De osynliga städerna, using translator Ester Tengren, initials ET found in unidEnTified others
I read the ebook, MMP for reference: Les villes invisibles
Option 4: read a book that does not have a valid* print edition
Bumpers and Beignets
There is only one edition, the Kindle ebook that I read. The ebook is approved in the google doc. on line 509
30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss
Option 1: cat on the cover
I read the ebook, PB (no MMP) for reference: Dangling by a Thread
Option 2: Read a book FIRST published in March of any year
Mysteriet på Blå tåget
Originally published March 29th 1928.
Originally published in 1928 so I request 1 GO ticket.
Points this post: 75
Total points to date: 435
GO tickets this post: 1
Total GO tickets claimed: 3
This is probably my last post for this season. A big thank you to the moderators for the great job you do with this awesome challenge!
MIKE DENNIS50.1 [Booklover] The Classic Novel
THREE books, novel (prose; NOT short stories, anthologies, poetry, drama or nonfiction) from each literary period below. At least 1200 total pages. REQD: Indicate options. 2B: include cover
1: The Eighteenth Century - first published 1700-1799 AND:
(B) author with a long first or last name (eight or more letters)
● audio of the 1794 archetypical Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
(905 pp. in this MMPB )
(request two Big Book tickets and a Golden Oldie)
2: Romanticism - first published 1798-1837 (inclusive) AND fulfills: (A) written by a female author:
● audio of 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
(336 pp. in this MMPB)
(request a Golden Oldie)
3: Victorian Era - 1st published 1837-1901 (inclusive), AND fulfills:
(B) author 1st & last initials in VICTORIA REGINA. Middle initials may be ignored.
● hoopla e-book of 1871 proto-science-fiction novel The Battle of Dorking by George Tomkyns Chesney
(108 pp. in this PB edition.)
(request a Golden Oldie)
905 + 336 + 108 = 1349 pages
Unless there is a repost for last night's catchup, this is my last entry. Thanks, mods, for 90+ days of hard work!
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Current Post: Points:: : 50 GO: 3 BB: 2
Total: Points: 400 GO: 5 BB: 3
Tasks: 5.1,5.3,5.4,5.10, 10.2,10.6, 15.2,15.4,15.7,15.9, 20.1--20.4,20.8--20.10,
25.1,25.6, 30.4,30.6, 50.1 using 27 books.
EMurphyDiana K's Task: Windy City Museums
Option 2-The Art Institute of Chicago: Author's first and last initials can be found in CLAUDE MONET Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Option 3-The Field Museum of Natural History: Number of pages include the numbers 5 and 3 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (352 pages)
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 240
Books Read: 16
BB Ticket +500: 1
GO Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 10
I am switching the book from 10.2 to 25.7. 10.2 - Free for All - Kiss of the Highlander - i got this book from the library
25.7 - Choose or not to choose
Option A Good Minds Suggest
Book 1: Charlaine Harris - Deadlocked (formerly 10.2)
https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/...
She suggested Her Royal Spyness
Points this post: 25 (new points)
Total Points: 500
EMurphy15.10 Pay the Piper - Set in one of the countries that has a type of bagpipe (England) Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
This Task:
Points: 15
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
20.1 Most Improved Player-Amber's Task: Adventures in the Southwest
Option 1: Book with a number of pages evenly divisible by 15 Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (285 pages/15=19)
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 275
Books Read: 18
BB Ticket +500: 1
GO Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 12
50.1 - Booklover's Task: The Classic NovelBook 1: Read a novel first published between 1700 and 1799 (inclusive) AND fulfills
Option B: Read a novel by an author with a long first or last name, which for the purposes of this task means eight or more letters
Book read: Amelia
How it fits: first published in 1751, author's (Henry Fielding) last name has 8 letters in it
Pages: 620 (PB Edition: Amelia)
Claiming 1 BB Ticket, 1 GO Ticket
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Book 2: Read a novel first published 1798 and 1837 (inclusive)
AND fulfills
Option A: Read a novel written by a female author.
Book read: Persuasion
How it fits: first published in 1817, by female author (Jane Austen)
Pages: 236 (MMPB Edition: Persuasion)
Claiming 1 GO Ticket
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Book 3: Read a novel first published between 1837 and 1901 (inclusive) AND fulfills
Option B: Read a novel by a single author whose first and last name initials appear in VICTORIA REGINA.
Book read: Dead Souls
How it fits: first published in 1842, author's (Nikolai Gogol) initials are NG
Pages: 425 (MMPB Edition: Dead Souls)
Claiming 1 GO Ticket
Total pages: 1281
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Points this post: 50
Total points: 930
Books read: 71
Tasks completed: 55
BB Tickets: 15
GO Tickets: 5
Danibean10.8 - Tax Day: Read a book whose author's initials can be found in TAX DAY.
I read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
This Post:
Points - 10
BB Tickets - 0
GO Tickets - 0
Books Read - 1
Tasks Complete - 1
Totals:
Points - 930
BB Tickets - 5
GO Tickets - 5
Books Read - 69
Tasks Complete - 55
**CHALLENGE COMPLETE**
LAVENDER5.06 - 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.
The Vineyard of Liberty (American Experiment, Vol 1) by James MacGregor Burns 741 pages
First published January 12th 1982, over 300 pages.
I am claiming a BIG BOOK for this book at 741 pages.
5.10 - From Your Collection
Read a book of your choice.
The Waste-Wise Kitchen Companion by Jean B. MacLeod Kindle I read
The Waste-Wise Kitchen Companion Top paperback, no MMPB 194 pages
(Last post for Spring 2018)
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 590
Tasks Completed: 31
Books Read: 41
Golden Oldie Tickets: 9
Big Book Tickets: 8
25.5 - MegSCL's Task: My Favorite Museums Chose Option 3. The Met, New York City
Book 1: Set in NY - Read White Tears by Hari Kunzru. Part of the last half was in Mississippi, but, the majority of the book, more than 50% was in New York. For more reference see http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-wh...
Book 2: Set on a Pacific Island - Read The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks. I hope a few islands count. Most of the book was set in Pingelap, an island in Micronesia, but, a part on Pohnpei also in Micronesia, and in Guam.
Points these task: 25
Total points: 280
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 5
Books read: 23
Tasks completed: 15
Sarah E25.3 - Andy P.’s Task: Correcting Mistakes Before They Happen
Book 1
The Ice Princess - originally written in Swedish, in which I am not literate
I read the kindle edition, top MMP is La princesa de hielo with 416 pages
Book 2: Author initials in READ CAREFULLY
Remix by Lexi Revellian
I read the kindle edition, paperback (no MMP) is Remix with 278 pages
416 + 278 = 694 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 595
Siobhan15.4 - Collect, Preserve, Study, Exhibit, Stimulate, Engage
I chose option 2
2.
Read ONE book that satisfies BOTH book 1 and book 2 requirements. Read a book written by a single author whose initials are found in the name of one of these museums listed above & Read a book with a title of at least two words in which the initial letter of each word of the title can be found in the name of a DIFFERENT museum from the above list.
The Seer by Jordan Reece
The Seer (TS) can be found in State Hermitage. Jordan Reece (JR) can be found in Rijksmuseum.
Approved for length in post 6849 of the ebook thread.
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Amber's Task: Adventure in the Southwest
I chose option 2.
Option 2:
Read a book written by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in the phrase MANHATTAN PROJECT.
The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
Points this post: 35
Total points: 460
Big Book Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets: 5
Tasks Completed: 28
Books Read: 37
Katrina H15.5 Won't You Be My Neighbour
Read a book where ALL the letters in the title can be found in MISTER ROGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD.
I read Mort by Terry Pratchett.
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15.9 Find Your Muse
Read a book with BOTH a three-letter word AND a nine-letter word in the title and/or subtitle.
I read Become a Key Person of Influence by Daniel Priestley.
Key = 3
Influence = 9
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30.2 Castles and Other Historical Sites
Option 2 - Read a book with a castle on the cover.
Sleeper’s Castle by Barbara Erskine.
Option 4 - Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in SCHWARZWALD.
I chose Steven Levy (S & L) and read In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.
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Points this post = 60
Total points = 185
Sarah E15.10 - Pay the Piper
The Illegal Gardener - over 50% set in Greece
I read the kindle edition, top paperback (no MMP) is The Illegal Gardener
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Rina's Task: Tallinn
Option 3
I read the kindle edition, paperback (no MMP) is Chocolate Revolution Murder
Points this post: 35
Total points: 630
Suzannesea15.2 Two of the Tates
Hopefully I have this first published criterion finally figured out!
Book 1. Between 1897 and 1999
A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris was first published January 1, 1994.
Book 2. Since 2000
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Mary Jennings Hegar was first published June 1, 2016.
Points this post: 15
Total points to date: 365
5.10 - From Your CollectionThe Terminal List by Jack Carr
10.2 Free For All
The Woman in the Camphor Trunk: An Anna Blanc Mystery by Jennifer Kincheloe
I'm on a committee that does reader's advisory service and I received this for free as part of that work.
10.6 Want to See My Slides?
The Oracle Year by Charles Soule
15.2 Two of the Tates
Book 1 - Tate Britain
Moonraker by Ian Fleming
First Published in 1955
Book 2 - Tate Modern
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
15.3 Women's History Month
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
This book satisfies both requirements.
20.7 Young Sheldon
2) The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
Author initials are in SHJBSS
25.1 The Ides or March are Come
Option 1: The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
#1 in the Parveen Mistry series
Option 3: Tangerine by Christine Mangan
CM is in Beware the Ides of March
25.6 Windy City Museums
B - The Art Institute: A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
AC is in Claude Monet
C- Field Museum: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
325 pages
Post Total: 115
Grand Total: 220
trishhartuk10.9 -”Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press” - Thomas Jefferson
Read a non-fiction book written about or by a journalist.
Things Can Only Get Feta: Two Journalists and Their Crazy Dog Living Through the Greek Crisis, Marjory McGinn
GR author bio: “Marjory McGinn is a Scottish-born journalist who has worked on newspapers in the UK, and Australia where she was brought up.”
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
Total Points: 860
Tasks Completed: 52
Golden Oldies: 10
Big Book tickets: 1
30.2 Schatzie's Task: Castles and Other Historic SitesOption 3: Read a book, nonfiction or fiction, with a main page genre of World War II, embedded or stand alone.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
MPG = War > World War II 773 users
Option 4: Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in SCHWARZWALD, middle initials can be ignored.
D.C. Dead by Stuart Woods
SW found in SchWarzwald
Points: 30
Total Points: 135
20.2 TallinnOption 1: Read a book with at least 2 pairs of double letters in the title and/or subtitle.
Greenwich Village - EE, LL
Claiming Golden Oldie ticket - published 1917
Points this post = 20
Total points = 455
Big Book tickets = 3
Golden Oldies = 14
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Coates is a journalist. See Britannica entry here.
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