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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2018
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TessaVanessaChallenge 10.9 A Look Back
I read The Alice Network by Kate Quinn. Found on Most Popular Books Published In June 2017.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 745
Tasks completed: 44
Books read: 60
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Mod
I chose option 2 and read The Case Is Closed by Patricia Wentworth. Author initials, PW, found in the Play that Went wrong.
I read the kindle edition - here's the MMPB edition - L'affaire est close.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 835
Diana K.Task - Julia103's Task: Do Re Mi
Book 1: Read a book where the first word of the title starts with one of the solfege syllables: DO, RE, MI, FA, SOL, LA or TI.
Midwinter Break 242 pages
Book 2: Read a book whose title/subtitle includes one of following words used in the song:
DOE, RAY, ME, FAR, SEW, LA, or TEA
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built 212 pages
ook 3: Read a book where the author's first name matches one of the Von Trapp children or the English equivalent given in parentheses
The Red Hunter by Lisa Unger 359 pages
Total points: 700
(813 pages in total)
25.4 - Rina's Task: 2018 FIFA World CupOption 2: Read a book from a series that has 21 or more primary books
Book read: Poirot Investigates
How it fits: Hercule Poirot series has 41 books in it
Pages: 237
First published in 1924, claiming 1 GO Ticket
Option 3: Read a book with a setting (city/state/province/country*) that starts with a letter from RUSSIA.
Book read: Magic Shifts
How it fits: set in Atlanta
Pages: 375
Total pages: 612
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Total points: 720
Books read: 53
Tasks completed: 41
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 6
Elizabeth PTask 20.6 - Ballet Slippers and Books
Option Two - Title of 2+ words, initial letter of each word found in CHOREOGRAPHY
China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
ChoReoGraphy
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 100
Total Tasks: 7
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 1
Total Books: 7
Sara G30.6 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Aida
This is a two book task. Read one book from two different options.
Book 3: Aida/Amneris: female lead characters
Aida is an Ethiopian princess, whom the Egyptians hold captive, and Amneris is the daughter of the Egyptian king; both are in love with Radames.
*Read a book written by a female author whose first and last name initials can be found in the words AIDA AMNERIS. Middle name initials may be ignored. Letters may only be used as often as they appear. Spaces determine name. One qualifying author in a work by multiple contributors works.
Cor Rotto: A Novel of Catherine Carey by Adrienne Dillard
AIDA AMNERIS
Book 4: War
In Aida the ancient Egyptians are at war with the Ethiopians.
*Read a book with the main page genre war or historical fiction. Genre may be stand alone or embedded.
On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service by Rhys Bowen
MPG Historical > Historical Fiction 109 users
Points this post: 30
Total points: 615
20.3 - Best Review - TrishhartUK's Task: Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the WorldsOption 1: Read a book with the MPG Classics, standalone or embedded.
I read an ebook version, but linked to most popular paperback.
Molloy
New Points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 505
GO"s: 3
Heather KS10.8 - The World's Oldest
Read a book that was first published in March of any year or in any month of a year that contains at least 2 of the following numbers: 1, 3, 5, 8.
The Great Divorce first published in 1945 (1 & 5)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 200
25.1 Remembering Sue GraftonBook 1: Barbed Wire Heart by Tess Sharpe 416 pages
The letters TS are in Sue Grafton
Book 2:
Brass by Xhenet Aliu 304 pages
720 pages total
25.5 Have You Thanked a Stage Manager?
Option 2: The Hunger by Alma Katsu
The initials AK are in STRIKE MARK
376 pages
Option 4: Broken Places by Tracy Clark
Takes place entirely in Chicago, Illinois
352 pages
728 pages total
Post Total: 50
Grand Total: 140
Brooklyn20.4 – A Few of My Favorite Bookish Websites
Option 2: Read a book by an author whose first and last initials can be found in BOOK RIOT or THE MILLIONS.
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
The millionS
Points this post: 20
Total points: 385/995
Tasks completed: 22/57
Books read: 28
Golden Oldies Tickets:
Big Book Tickets: 1
Brooklyn20.6 – Ballet Slippers and Books
Option 1: Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in CHERIE CHITTENDEN.
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy - originally published in 1878
cherie Chittenden
**Requesting one Golden Oldie ticket**
Points this post: 20
Total points: 405/995
Tasks completed: 23/57
Books read: 29
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 1
Mod
I read The Case of the Stuttering Bishop: A Perry Mason Mystery #9, found on page 16 of the Legal Thrillers list, shelved 2 times as legal thriller.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 840
25.7 - Meg SCL:My next favourite bookOption 2, a book set before 1900: Varina by Charles Frazier
paperback edition Varina 368 p.
Option 4, a book that has won any award in 2013 or later: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction (2017)
paperback edition Kinderen van de rivier 416 p.
Neither book appears on Meg's read list.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 445
5.4 - CatsRead a book with the word memory, memories or memory's in the title, subtitle or series title.
Book read: My Name Is Memory
How it fits: The word memory in the title
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Total points: 725
Books read: 54
Tasks completed: 42
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 6
DANIELLE M20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - Sara G's Task: Florida
Option C: Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
First published June 14, 2009.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 40
Books Read: 2
Tasks Complete: 2
DANIELLE M20.5 - Bigger is Better - Perletwo's Task: If Not For Bad Luck...
Option 1: Mattimeo by Brian Jacques
Number 3 in the Redwall series.
AR Bookfinder info: IL-MG BL-5.2 Ar Pts-18.0
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 60
Books Read: 3
Tasks Complete: 3
DANIELLE M30.9 - Brooke TX's task: Summer (Reading) is Coming
Option B, Book 1: Shoot the Moon by Billie Letts
On page 7 of Popular Beach Read Books list.
Option B, Book 2: Redwall by Brian Jacques
AR Bookfinder info: IL-MG BL-5.6 AR Pts-16.0
On page 3 Best Series list.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 90
Books Read: 5
Tasks Complete: 4
10.6 - Radio City Music HallInitials: roCKettes: KC
Need to Know by Karen Cleveland
+10 Task
Season Total: 445
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's Task: I DO have a sense of humor!!Option 3: Caddyshack
Since this one is set on a golf course, play 18 holes and read a book where the number of pages includes the digits 1 and 8, in any order.
418 Pages
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
+20 Task
Season Total: 465
30.7 -TessaVanessa’s Task: I “knew” you would love this “new” challenge I came up with.Homophone: Sun / Son
Book 1:
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King
Book 2:
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
+30 Task
Season Total: 495
Diana K.Task 20.9 - Moderators' Pet - E Murphy's Task: The Dog Days of Summer
Opt 2 Option 2: Read a book from one of these dog lover lists:
From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava on page 1 of the Great Dog Books list
Total points: 720
Jess Philly50.1 - Julia103's Task: Do Re Mi
Book 1: Faithful Place by Tana French has FA as the first two letters in the title.
Book 2: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes has the word "Me" in the title.
Book 3: Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty. Louise is the English equivalent of Louisa.
50 points
Total points: 130
25.1 Andy P’s Task: Remembering Sue GraftonBook 1. I read A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Parts by Sebastian Faulks His initials are found in Sue gratin.. This book was 287 pp.
Book 2. Read a book whose title does NOT contain any of the letters in the phrase ONLY NO Z (LNOYZ). Subtitles can be ignored. I read Educated: A Memoir. This book was 352 pp.
352+287 = 639
points: 260
books read: 19
tasks completed: 15
tasks in progress: 2
Big Books: 2
pages read: 6670
Alaina20.9 - Moderators' Pet - E Murphy's Task: The Dog Days of Summer
Option 3: Read a book with a main page genre of Mystery. Genre may be stand-alone or embedded.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette-Maria Semple
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 85
Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 4
BB Tickets: 0
Go Tickets: 0
Stephanie12710.7 - The World's Largest: Read a series book that has a number that can be found in 25, 211, and/or 996.
Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery #1 in its series.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 150/995
Tasks completed: 10/57
Books read: 11
Stephanie12720.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's Task: I DO have a sense of humor!!
Option 3: Caddyshack. : Read a book where the number of pages includes the digits 1 and 8, in any order.
Fever Dream, which has 184 pages.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 170/995
Tasks completed: 11/57
Books read: 12
Kim O30.6 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Aida
Book 1: Setting - Read a book with the main page genre Middle East or Italy.
Cooking with Fernet Branca
Book 4: War - Read a book with the main page genre war or historical fiction.
The Underground Railroad
Points this task: 30
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Cumulative Totals
Big Books - 500+: 1
Golden Oldies: 3
DeborahPost #13
30.3 - JennRenee's Task: New Discoveries to New Favorites
Book 1: Ghoul Interrupted
Part of a series from JennRenee's Shelf
What's a Ghoul to Do?2C) Across the Universe
Using UNIVERSE
Points this post:30
Total Points:310
Books read:22
Tasks Done: 16
Task 5.1 - The Phantom of the Operaread a book with a disguising mask on the cover
The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back by Sariah Wilson
- she's wearing a green mask====
700 points
MegSCL20.4 - Golden Oldies - Heather's Task: A few of my favorite bookish websites
Option 1. I started with Connie Willis and got new to me author Jodi Taylor: Just One Damned Thing After Another
25.5 - Danibean's Task: Have You Thanked a Stage Manager Today?
Option 2. Author initials in BLOCKING. Tigers in Red Weather
Option 5. Main character Anna matches Anna D Shapiro: The Woman in the Window
TOTAL TO DATE
405 Points
3 big books
15.1 - Opt1: Book Better than Movie: City of Bones - Page 2
Opt2: Movie Better than Book: Howl's Moving Castle - Page 1
Howl's Moving Castle
Jones, Diana Wynne
AR Quiz No. 29765 EN Fiction
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12.0
AR Quiz Types: RP
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 405
30.6 - Aida2 - male author initials in Composer "giusePPe verdi" - Paul Pen - The Light of the Fireflies
4 - Female author initials in AIda amneris - Nora Roberts - Shelter in Place
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 435
M1nks5.1 -
5.2 - In Cold Blood (page 5)
5.3 - The Machine Stops - Gift from friend. This is my less than 100 pages choice. Pub 1909
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
5.5 - Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Ruffelle. Pub 1886
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 11.0
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
5.7 - Howl's Moving Castle - Pge 1
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12.0
5.9 - Totally Captivated, Volume 3
5.10 - Desolation Island
Points this Post: 35
Total Points: 35
Golden Oldies: 2
M1nks10.2 - Mao's Last Dancer
10.4 - The Birds and Other Stories (The Birds and Other Stories - length)
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 55
Golden Oldies: 2
Nick KY5.7 Wicked
I read Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown, # 2195, p 22 on the list.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 735
Bookwrm526Task #25.5 - Have You Thanked a Stage Manager Today?
Option 2: Choose one of the terms listed here and read a book by a single author whose first and last initials appear in that word. I chose SPIKEMARKS and read Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl (327pp).
Option 3: Read a book that includes in the title or subtitle one of the words from the excerpt of Stage Manager dialogue. I chose the word THOUSAND (...telling us that for five thousand years and yet...) and read A Thousand Beginnings and Endings edited by Ellen Oh (336pp).
327+336=663pp
Points this post: 25
Total points so far: 515
DANIELLE M20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Ashlea's Task: A Few of my Favorite Things
Option 3(B) -
by Jonathan Safran FoerPoints This Post: 20
Total Points: 110
Books Read: 6
Tasks Complete: 5
Diana K.25.7 - Meg SCL:My next favourite book
Opt 2 Read a book (fiction) set before 1900. At least two thirds of the book must take place in this time period.
Only Killers and Thieves
Option 4: Read a book that has won any award (must be listed in the book's goodreads metadata) in 2013 or later.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Total points: 745
NICOLE OH5.6 - A Chorus Line
Tex
15.8 - The Great American Read
The Alchemist
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Heather's Task: A few of my favorite bookish websites
Option 2: Hold Still by Nina LaCour author initials found in phrase THE MILLIONS
POINTS THIS POST: 40
TOTAL POINTS THIS CHALLENGE: 575
Christine V20.1 Most Improved Player - Witchygal’s task: Around the world with theatre
Option 2: Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist
This book was first published in 1950. ***Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket***
Points this post: 20
GO Tickets this post: 1
Total points: 90
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 6
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
M1nks10.7 - Totally Captivated, Volume 2
10.8 - The Shamutanti Hills (I have read all of this book)
10.10 - If This Is a Man 2003 (War and Peace - under the title: Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity) Pub 1947
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 85
Golden Oldies: 3
5.10 - Beauty and the Beast Celebrate Belle and stick your nose in a book of your choice. Note: Books with the genre "children" or "kids" NOT found in AR Bookfinder MAY be used for this task.
Black Beans & Vice
Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 395
Total Tasks: 16
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book: 1
M1nks15.1 1. Murder on the Orient Express Pub 1934 (Pge 3); 2. Master and Commander (Pge 3)
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
15.5 - Shakespeare: The World as Stage
15.9 - Oryx and Crake (2005)
15.10 - Maskerade (26)
Points this Post: 60
Total Points: 145
Golden Oldies: 4
25.2 - Nick KY’s Task: This Summer’s Theme, more or lessOption A: Read a nonfiction book which meets SRC guidelines which has at least one of the following mainpage GR genres:
“Medicine”
“Health”
“History”
“Archaeology.”
The Library Book
Option B: Read a book with a beverage in a drinking glass, cup or mug on its cover.
Glass of wine
Points This Task: 25
Total Points: 420
Total Tasks: 17
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book: 1
Brooklyn15.10 – Time To Kick Back and Relax!
Read a book written by one of your most read authors from your Goodreads “read” shelf.
Summer Island by Kristin Hannah
Prior to reading this book I’ve read 6 books by this author. Summer Island makes 7.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 420/995
Tasks completed: 24/57
Books read: 30
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 1
JUKKA25.1 Andy P’s Task: Remembering Sue Grafton
Book 1: Book whose author's initials are in SUEGRAFTON.
The Orc King by R.A. Salvatore.
Book 2: Book whose title does not contain the letters LNOYZ.
Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
Total Points: 395/995
Total Books Read: 31
Tasks Completed: 27/57
Big Books Total: 5
Golden Oldies Total: 2
Brooklyn30.2 – Contrasts
Option 2: Read 2 books originally written in languages from 2 different language families or which are language isolates.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman – originally written in English, from the Indo-European family
The Good Son by You-jeong Jeong – originally written in Korean, a language isolate
The author is Korean and the Goodreads page lists the translator.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 450/995
Tasks completed: 25/57
Books read: 32
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 1
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50.1 - Julia103's Task: Do Re Mi
Book 1: Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier. DO is the beginning of DON'T
272 pages
Book 2: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi. Using ME. 338 p.
Book 3: River Traffic by Martha Martin. 144 p.
272+338+144=754 total pages
Points this post: 50
Total points: 735
Tasks completed: 43
Books read: 59
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0