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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2018
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Task 15.4 Double TroubleOPTION 1:
Book 1 - A book the title/subtitle of which contains a word with a double vowel.
“oo” in Good
Good Trouble: Stories (2018) by Joseph O'Neill (Hardcover, 157 pages)
AND
Book 2 - A book the title/subtitle of which contains a word with a double consonant.
“rr” in Marrow
The Marrow Thieves (2017) by Cherie Dimaline (Paperback, 231 pages)
245 + 15 = 260
Tasks Completed: 13
Points for this post: 15
Points thus far: 245 + 15 = 260
Books read: 19
Pages read: 5,120
Read but not claimed: 01
Goodreads Authors: 03
Golden Oldies: 01
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
FANDURY30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: It's In the DNA
Book 1: Read a book written by a single author with first and last name initials that match the adenine-thymine pair initials AT or TA or the cytosine-guanine initials CG or GC.
The Ghost Orchid by Carol Goodman
Then author has the initials CG.
Book 2: Read a book with consecutive words in the TITLE that begin with the adenine-thymine pair initials AT or TA or the cytosine-guanine initials CG or GC.
The Death of All Things by Laura Anne Gilman
The title has the consecutive words All Things in the title: AT
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 275
Books Read: 19
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
FANDURY10.8 - 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.
Dead Giveaway by Simon Brett
The book was first published in 1985.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 285
Books Read: 20
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
Bookwrm526Task #25.1
Book 1: Read a book in which the author’s initials can be found in SUEGRAFTON. All initials count. I read Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (299p).
Book 2: Read a book whose title does NOT contain any of the letters in the phrase ONLY NO Z (LNOYZ). I read The Reader by Traci Chee (442p).
299+442=741pp
Points this post: 25
Total points so far: 690
Nick KY20.1 Withygal’s Theater Opt. 4. My readerboard name is NICK KY. I chose K and read a book set in Kenya, White Bone by Ridley Pearson.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 840
Creynard30.5 - Mazza1's Task: Spectacular/Vernacular
Book 1/Option 1a: Little Nothing by Marisa Silver
On page 1 of "Crazy Beautiful Book Covers" list
Book 2/Option 1c: The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
My non-fiction choice...also has all the letters in "spectacular" in title.
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 620
Tasks Completed: 36
Books Read: 52
Creynard30.6 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Aida
Book 1/Option 1: 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go by Susan Van Allen
Main Page Genre: Italy
Book 2/Option 4: A Little Thing Called Love by Cathy Maxwell
Main Page Genre: Historical>Historical Fiction
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 650
Tasks Completed: 36
Books Read: 52
Cindy FTask 5.9 Mamma Mia
First word in title is 7 letters
Revenge and Retribution by Anna Belfrage
Points this post:5
Total points:135
Tasks completed:9
Books read:11
Golden Oldies:2
Big Books:500+(2)750+(0)1000+(0)
Cindy FTask 15.8 The Great American Read
Book on list : Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Points this post:15
Total points:150
Tasks completed:10
Books read:12
Golden Oldies:2
Big Books:500+(2)750+(0)1000+(0)
loafer10.4 - Wonder Woman
Read a book written by a female author whose first and last initials can be found in WONDER WOMAN.
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
Wonder woMan
points: 10
total: 630
BB: 5
GO: 5
tasks completed: 33
Task 25.5 – Danibean – Have You Thanked a Stage Manager Today?REQUIRED: 600+ pages: 400 + 368 = 768 p
Option 2: Author initials appears in MaRKs
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings / The Yearling - 400 pg
+++ GOLDEN OLDIE +++ – 1st published 1938
AR Bookfinder data: IL: UG
Option 3 – Title includes word from Our Town Stage Manager’s monologue: “There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being."
Up the Down Staircase – 368 p
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This Post: 25 points
Total points to date: 500 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 1
Big Books Read: (6) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / (1) 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 9
DANIELLE M10.7 - The World's Largest
Mossflower by Brian Jacques (Redwall #2)
AR Book info: IL- MG BL-5.1 AR Pts:17.0
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 190
Books Read: 12
Tasks Complete: 10
Sarah E5.7 - Wicked
Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary - page 3, #253
AR Bookfinder: IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19.0
Big book, 526 pages. I claim 1 BB ticket.
I read up to page 193 of 526 before the season began.
Total BB tickets: 3
Total points: 145
20.9 - Moderators' Pet - E Murphy's Task: The Dog Days of SummerOption 3: Read a book with a main page genre of Mystery.
Book read: Mädchen Nr. 5
How it fits: MPG Mystery
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Total points: 905
Books read: 70
Tasks completed: 53
BB Tickets: 6
GO Tickets: 8
Sarah E5.9 - Mamma Mia!
Candied Maple Bacon Murder - Can / die / d
I read the kindle edition, paperback (no MMP) is Candied Maple Bacon Murder
Total points: 150
Sarah E25.4 - Rina's Task: 2018 FIFA World Cup
Option 3 - Set in Indianapolis, Indiana
Turtles All the Way Down
I read the ebook, top paperback (no MMP) is Mil veces hasta siempre with 304 pages
Option 4: Author initials (KM) are reverse of Miroslav Klose
One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
I read the ebook, top paperback (no MMP) is One of Us is Lying with 360 pages
304 + 360 = 664 pages
Total points: 175
5.7 - Wicked From the The Best Fairytales and Retellings list - Read The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter. This is on page 1 of the list, #40 (at last glance)
Points these task: 5
Total points: 60
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 2
Books read: 12
Tasks completed: 5
5.10 - Beauty and the Beast Book of Choice - Read The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review by The Paris Review. I could not find any other good place for this so using up my book of choice option.
Points these task: 5
Total points: 65
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 2
Books read: 12
Tasks completed: 6
10.5 - The Globe Word SHAKESPEARE found in title or author's name - Read A Midsummer Night's Dream by none other than William Shakespeare.
This was first published in 1595, so I claim 1 Golden Oldie ticket.
Points these task: 10
Total points: 75
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 3
Big Book ticket requests: 2
Books read: 12
Tasks completed: 7
Delicious Dee15.7 – Beatlemania!
Hard as It Gets - HARD for A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 835
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (3)
5.10 - Beauty and the Beast I read Inspector Chopra and the Million-Dollar Motor Car.
points: 285
Books read: 24
tasks completed: 20
tasks in progress: 1
Big Books: 2
pages read: 7995
MIKE DENNIS30.6 (Ava Catherine) Aida:
Opt. 2: Lord Valentine's Castle, male Robert Silverberg has initials in GIUSEPPE VERDI.
Opt. 3: For Planetfall, female author Emma Newman has initials in AIDA AMNERIS.
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Current Post: Points: 30
Total: Points: 400 GO: - BB: 2
Tasks: 5.1,5.5, 10.1,10.3-10.4,10.7-10.8, 15.4,15.10, all 20s, 30.2, 30.6 and 50.1, using 25 books.
JACKIE M10.7 series number found in 25, 211, 996
Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood
volume 2 in series
Total points: 20
CordeliaTask20.8 Option B Air conditioning. Authors intitial in AIRCONDITIONING (O D )
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
Points 20
Total Points 215
JACKIE M20.1 around the world with theater
option 3: yellow on cover
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores
hair is yellow
Total points: 50
JACKIE M20.6 ballet slippers and books
option 1: author initials found in CHERIE CHITTENDEN
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
originally published in March
author's initials are NC
Total points: 70
JACKIE M20.8 florida
opt c: hurricanes (originally published in june)
The Gentle Art of Murder
originally published June 1st, 2015
Total points: 90
JACKIE M25.3 hamilton
opt 1: rap lyrics
Things Fall Apart (word is things)
opt 5: set in nyc, london, or chicago
Magpie Murders (set in london)
also claiming BB ticket for this one
Total points: 115
JACKIE M25.4 world cup
opt 1: mpg of sports
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life; 447 pgs
opt 3: setting name starts w/ RUSSIA letter
Holy Terror In The Hebrides
(hebrides are part of Scotland); 272 pgs
must combine to >600pgs: 447+272=719
total points: 130
BB: 1
JACKIE M 25.5 stage manager
opt 1: black/white/grey cover
Six Months in Mexico, read in compilation edition The Complete Works of Nellie Bly: Ten Days in a Mad-House, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and More shown here:
; 308 pgsclaiming GO for this one as well, originally published in 1888 (see book description)
opt 2: authors initials appear in keyword
Still Waters, author initials are VS in word CROSSOVER; 387 pgs
must total >600pgs: 308+387=695
Total points: 155
BB; 1
GO: 1
perletwo20.10 - Group Reads - Read ONE of the books selected as the Group Reads choices for the season:
My Cousin Rachel
comment here
First printed in 1938, this qualifies for a golden oldie ticket.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 520
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 6
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 37
Tasks completed: 28
MIKE DENNIS25.6 (Diane Whitney) Pure Michigan!:
Option 3 The Motor City: Forever Free (The Forever War #3) (274 pp. MMPB)
Option 4 The Great Lakes: Swords and Deviltry begins with “S” from “HOMES” (254 pp.)
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Current Post: Points: 25
Total: Points: 425 GO: - BB: 2
Tasks: 5.1,5.5, 10.1,10.3-10.4,10.7-10.8, 15.4,15.10, all 20s, 25.6, 30.2,30.6 and 50.1, using 25 books.
5.8 - Oh! Calcutta! O Pioneers!
Poimts this pose
Total 5+885= 890
4 GO Ticket
2 BB ( Just recording for personal interest now, not actual tickets)
25.1 - Andy P's TaskBook 1: Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys
Book 2: Here I Am, by Jonathan Safran Foer
This post: +25
Total: 265
DeborahPost #19
15.7 – Beatlemania!
I'll Be There using BE from Let It Be
Points this post:15
Total Points:410
Books read:30
Tasks Done: 22
DeborahPost #20
10.1 - Summer Blockbusters
Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop
Ocean's 8 features Anne Hathaway who shares the same first name of the author of the book
Points this post:10
Total Points:420
Books read:31
Tasks Done: 23
perletwo15.1 - Which Did You Like Better? - Book 1 – read a book from the list The Book Was Better Than the Movie
The Princess Diaries - page 2
Book 2 – read a book from the list The Movie was Better Than the Book
A Stir of Echoes - page 3
Points this task: 15
Total points: 535
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 6
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 39
Tasks completed: 29
Nick KY30.9 Brooke TX’s Summer (Reading)
Option A. NEA BIG READ.
Book 1. From the list of Big Read Titles, I read How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 by Joy Harjo. 272 pp
Book 2. I read Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman, inits in “nEa Big reaD.” 294 pp
Total pp = 566 > required 500.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 870
DULCINELLA15.6 - They Call It Acting!
Read a book from the following list: Thespians.
After the Funeral Agatha Christie 378 p. 21 august 2018 3 starsHow it fits: P. 1 nr. 44 on the list
Points in this post: 15 points
Total points: 690 points
1 ticket GO and two tickets BB
Task 20.8 - Floridanote: I have previously claimed for this task in #1213, I am replacing that book now
option B: read a book with author initials in AIRCONDITIONING
The Governess Game by Tessa Dare
TD initials
Brooklyn10.7 – The World’s Largest
Read a series book that has a number that can be found in 25, 211 and/or 996.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
#1 in the series
Points this post: 10
Total points: 515/995
Tasks completed: 30/57
Books read: 38
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 1
Task 15.3 - My Feet Hurttwo book option
book 1 - read a book with an author sharing a first name with the listed choreographers
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
matches: Martha Graham
book 2 - read a book with an author sharing a last name with the listed dancers
The Custodian of Marvels by Rod Duncan
matches: Isadora Duncan
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points = 805
Task 30.1 - Limited Exposureoption 1 - read a book with Aliens MPG
The Alien's Pet
don't judge! it worked for a different challenge!
option 4 - read a book with author initials in NUTCRACKER
99 Red Balloons by Elisabeth Carpenter
EC initials
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points = 835
REPOST Changed to the correct options!
30.6 - 3. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Pub 1928
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
4. The Hermit Of Eyton Forest (The Hermit of Eyton Forest - length)
30.8 - B. Nobody's Fool Pg 1 Pgs 549
* I Claim 1 x Big Book ticket *
D. Poirot's Early Cases
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 565
Golden Oldies: 11
Big Book: 6
Brooklyn20.7 – I DO Have a Sense of Humor
Option 3: Read a book where the number of pages includes the digits 1 and 8 in any order.
The Deep Dark Descending by Allen Eskens
281 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 535/995
Tasks completed: 31/57
Books read: 39
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 1
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5.10 - Beauty and the Beast
A Whisper of Bones
This post: 5 points
Total points: 705
BB: 10
GO: 1
Tasks completed: 36
Books read; 50