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FALL CHALLENGE 2018
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Brooke TX15.8 - Spell it Out
Read a book with a Q or a Z in the title/subtitle or author's name.
Points
This Post: 15
Total Points: 250
Completed Tasks: 23
Books Read: 72
Brooke TX15.9 - Get a Clue
Read a book that contains a person's name in the title/subtitle AND has the MPG Mystery.
Points
This Post: 15
Total Points: 265
Completed Tasks: 24
Books Read: 72
Brooklyn10.2 – The Great War
Read a book from the “Popular World War I” list.
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Found on page 1
Points this post: 10
Total points: 555/1010
Tasks completed: 32/58
Books read: 40
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 2
Brooklyn25.3 – Cards Against Humanity
Option A: Read a book with a 2-word title that answers one of the listed questions.
I chose: Why can’t I sleep at night?
American War by Omar El Akkad
Option B: Read a book with a 3+ word title that completes one of the listed phrases.
I chose: Next time on Dr. Phil, how to talk to your child about ___.
The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
Points this post: 25
Total points: 580/1010
Tasks completed: 33/58
Books read: 42
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 2
MEGSCL10.6 - Original Six
Set in Chicago (as per metadata and gr blurb): Fool Moon
TOTAL TO DATE
215 points
3 BB
Brooklyn25.7 – The Games We Played
Option 1: Read a book with a MPG of autobiography or biography.
They're Playing Our Song by Carole Bayer Sager
Option 3: Read a book with a MPG of humor.
Noir by Christopher Moore
Points this post: 25
Total points: 605/1010
Tasks completed: 34/58
Books read: 44
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 2
MEGSCL15.6 - Checkmate
69% white and 30% grey
TOTAL TO DATE
230 points
3 BB
Brooklyn25.8 – Forest Lawn Cemetary
Option C: Read a book with a title/subtitle that contains a pair of antonyms from the list.
Something Old, Something New by Beverly Jenkins
Antonyms are old/new
Option D: Read a book by an author who has the same initials as one of the famous residents of the cemetery.
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
Authors initials WC match Willis Carrier.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 630/1010
Tasks completed: 35/58
Books read: 46
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 2
Brooklyn25.9 – Women of American Ninja Warrior
Option 1: Read a book where the author shares first and last name initials with one of the qualifiers.
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
RG are the initials of Miami qualifier Rachel Goldstein.
Option 5: Read a book in which the first letter of each title word can be found in one of the outdoor climbs.
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
UA found in pAmplemoUsse
Points this post: 25
Total points: 655/1010
Tasks completed: 36/58
Books read: 48
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 2
Brooklyn50.1 – Pokemon
I selected Bulbasaur bucket (MPG of mystery or non-fiction)
Book 1: Read a book with one of the MPG for my starter.
Murder in an English Village by Jessica Ellicott - 304 pages
MPG of mystery
Book 2: Read a standalone book that is not the author’s debut.
Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough – 341 pages
MPG mystery; this is not Pinborough’s debut book
Book 3: Read a book that is rated at least 4.0 on Goodreads and is an award winner.
She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper – 257 pages
MPG mystery; rating of 4.1 approved in message 17 of the help thread; won 2018 Edgar Award for Best Debut Novel
304 + 341 + 257 = 902 pages
Points this post: 50
Total points: 705/1010
Tasks completed: 37/58
Books read: 51
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 2
BEKKA - 5.10: Our favorite recreation!For this task, I read City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab. Its a middle grade book that just barely misses the AR requirements, but meets all other ones for the challenge.
Here’s the summary:
Points Earned this Challenge: 5
Pages Read this Challenge: 285
Books Read this Challenge: 1
Brooke TX15.10 - Ticket to Ride
Read a book that has the MPG genre Romance (I rolled a 1) and has a cover that is at least 50% green.
Points
This Post: 15
Total Points: 280
Completed Tasks: 25
Books Read: 72
Brooke TX15.5 - Nonfiction November
Read a nonfiction book that can be found on the Popular Nonfiction Books list. Found on page 17:
Points
This Post: 15
Total Points: 295
Completed Tasks: 26
Books Read: 73
BEKKA - 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Cat's task: Bookish Quidditch1. Keeper - Quaffle: For this task, I read All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai, which I got as an electronic ARC (publisher’s advanced copy) from Edelweiss+ (Above the Treeline) on August 23, 2016. (It was published February 7, 2017.) I’m deeply ashamed to admit it took me this long to read it! It’s a really good book.
Here’s the summary:
Points Earned this Challenge: 20
Points Earned in Total: 25
Pages Read this Challenge: 373
Pages Read in Total: 658
Books Read this Challenge: 1
Total Books Read: 2
Brooke TX20.1 - Most Improved Player - Dulcinella's task: Scrabble
Read a book with a title that, if laid down on the Scrabble board, would give you more than 25 points.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 315
Completed Tasks: 27
Books Read: 73
BEKKA - 20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Danielle M's task: Neil SimonOption 3: For this task, I read Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood since it is the first book in a trilogy.
Here’s the summary:
Points Earned this Challenge: 20
Points Earned in Total: 45
Pages Read this Challenge: 374
Pages Read in Total: 1032
Books Read this Challenge: 1
Total Books Read: 3
Brooke TX20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Sophie's task: Boardgames
Option 3: Read a book with a number in the title or subtitle.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 335
Completed Tasks: 28
Books Read: 73
Brooke TX20.3 - Best Review - TrishhartUK's task: 11am on 11 November 1918
Option 3: Rread a book which is #1, #8, #9, #11, #18 or #19 in a series.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 355
Completed Tasks: 29
Books Read: 73
Brooke TX20.5 - Bigger is Better - Cat's task: Bookish Quidditch
Option 3A: Read a book that is 2, 4, 12, or 14 in a series.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 375
Completed Tasks: 30
Books Read: 73
Brooke TX20.6 - Seasoned Reader – Kathy P's task: Careers
Option 3: Read a book with more than one person on the cover.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 395
Completed Tasks: 31
Books Read: 73
Brooke TX20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Karen Michele's task: The Ozette Loop: A Favorite Hike
Option 2:Read a book with the word "bird" or the name of a specific bird in the title or subtitle.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 415
Completed Tasks: 32
Books Read: 73
Brooke TX25.1 - Andy P's task: A Quick Look at Asian Sport
Book 1. Read a book in which none of the letters in SUMO are in the author's name as indicated on the GR main page of the book.
Book 2. Read a book whose TITLE contains 3 different vowels and no more than that.
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 440
Completed Tasks: 33
Books Read: 73
Brooke TX20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Danielle M's task: Neil Simon
Option 1: Read a book with a main page genre of Comedy or Humor.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 460
Completed Tasks: 34
Books Read: 73
Brooke TX25.2 - TessaVanessa's task: Game on!
Option 1: Read a book that has one of the numbers 24, 28, 84, or 87 in order in number of pages.
Option 4: Pick one of the and read a book that includes all the letters of one of the special tile names (dragon, flower, season, or wind) in the author's first and last name. With all the letters of "dragon" found in "Cordelia Kingsbridge":
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 485
Completed Tasks: 35
Books Read: 73
Brooke TX25.3 - Beth NC 's task: Cards Against Humanity
Option A – Read a book with a one or two word title that completes the phrase: Money can’t buy me love, but it can buy me ________________________.
Option B – Read a book with a title that has three or more words in the title that can complete the phrase: Wes Anderson’s new film tells the story of a precocious child coming to terms with _________________________.
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 510
Completed Tasks: 36
Books Read: 73
Congratulations, Wayne! Task 25.7 in the Winter Challenge is yours.
Brooke TX25.6 - Nick KY’s task: Autumn Indoors and Outdoors
Option B. Read a book first published in 1992.
Option D. Read a book that has the word “FIRE” or the word “SMOKE” intact in the title/subtitle or series title.
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 535
Completed Tasks: 37
Books Read: 73
Brooke TX25.7 - M1nks's task: The Games We Played
Option 3. Read a book with the main page genre Humor.
Option 4. Read a book with a cover that is at least 50% black according to TinEye.
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 560
Completed Tasks: 38
Books Read: 73
Brooke TX25.8 - Bluemoon's task: FOREST LAWN CEMETERY
Option C: Read a book whose title and/or subtitle includes a pair of antonyms from this list: 40 Common Opposites In English. With "in" and "out":
Option D: Read a book by an author who has the same initials as the resident. With SC as in Shirley Chisholm:
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 585
Completed Tasks: 39
Books Read: 73
Cordelia25.8 Forest Lawn Cemetary
Option A: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Word used: SWAN
Option B: The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
Word used: FOREST
Points 25
Total points: 780
Stephanie1275.10: Our favorite recreation!: Read a book of your choice, that meets SRC rules.
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Points this post: 5
Total points: 145/1010
Tasks completed: 11/58
Books read: 13
StaceyNC5.3: International Football
Read a book set at least 50% in a country that qualified for this summer's World Cup
Country: England
Book: Hello Stranger
Completed: 11/29/18
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 405
25.2 TessaVanessa's Task: Game On!Option 1: Read a book that has one of the numbers 24, 28, 84, or 87 in order in number of pages.
Book Read: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
#pages = 287
Option 3: Read a book first published in the 1980s.
Book Read: Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh
first published in 1981
**526 pages Claiming ONE Big Book Ticket**
Points This Task: 25
BB: 1
GO:
Total Points: 900
Total BB: 12
Total GO: 5
Total Tasks: 48
10.1 These ARE the Droids You're Looking ForRead a fiction book with a robot, android or cyborg as an important character.
Book Read: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
**first published in 1950 Claiming ONE Golden Oldie Ticket**
Points This Task: 10
BB:
GO: 1
Total Points: 910
Total BB: 12
Total GO: 6
Total Tasks: 49
Brooke TX25.9 - Delicious Dee's task: Women of American Ninja Warrior
Option 4: Read a book from this list: Kickass women in superhero comics. Found on page 1:
Read a book in which the first letter of every word in the book's title can be found in one of the outdoor climbs she has completed: Meagan Martin's Outdoor Climbs. CC found in Scare Tactics:
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 610
Completed Tasks: 40
Books Read: 73
10.8 - Happy Anniversary SRC!Read a book that was FIRST published in 2009 or 2018.
All the Names They Used for God
First published 2/20/18
Total Points: 245
15.7 - Pay UpHelp Thread
The game Monopoly is 85 years old and is one of the world’s favorite gaming brands. The total amount of money in a classic Monopoly game is $20,580. Read a book in which the number of pages is made up only of the numbers 0, 2, 5, and 8.
I read The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius, which has 250 pp.
points: 270
books read: 20
tasks completed: 14
Big Books: 7
pages read: 8464
That is it for me for this challenge. Thank you to all the moderators for all their hard work!!!
Jenifer25.2 Game On
Option 2: Maid in title
Maid to Match by Deeanne Gist
Option 3: pub in the 1980's
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (pub in 1988)
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 270
Jenifer25.1 A Quick Look at Asian Sport
book 1: SUMO not in author's name
The Witch Elm by Tana French
book 2: 3 different vowels in title: I, O, A not E or U
Attraction by Penny Reid
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 295
30.5 Celebrate the Equinox Every Note Played by Lisa Genova 307 pages
And
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 346 pages
Both books contain 15 characters
Points this post: 30
Total points: 360
Books read: 23
Tasks completed: 19
Thank you moderaters!! It was a fun challenge.
Amy FL50.1 - Shree's task: POKEMON
Step 1: Squirtle: The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Historical Fiction -272 pages
Step 2: Button Man - Historical Fiction - I've read multiple books by this author prior to this most recent standalone one - 384 pages
Final Step: Ordinary Grace - Historical Fiction - 4.16 rating, Anthony Award for Best Novel (2014) - 307 pages
Points this post: 50
Total points: 590
Bluegrass Pam10.3 - Happy Trails to You
Main page genre of Nature or Travel
Island Home: A Landscape Memoir
*Mpg of Environment>Nature
Points this post: 10
Total points: 190
Total GO: 3
MIKE DENNIS15.10 - Ticket to Ride
I rolled 3. Historical Fiction and spun brown
Listened to Under Heaven
Tineye provided the following percentages of browns:
37.1% Havana (Brown)
27.5% Medium Wood (Brown)
12.0% Russett (Brown)
4.5 % Sante Fe (Brown)
4.1 % Ironstone (Brown)
2.1 % Zombie (Brown)
0.5 % Mahogany (Brown)
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Current Post: Points: 15
Total: Points: 355 GO: - BB: 7
Tasks: All 5s; All 10s; 15.3,15.4,15.6,15.8-15.10; 20.2,20.5; 25.10;50.1 using 33 books.
30.1 - Ava Catherine’s task: Southeastern Conference (SEC) Football Option 1: SEC Teams
I read We Are Called to Rise. It was published in June 2014.
Option 2: Author
I read Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys. Her initials RS are in SEC CONFERENCE.
Task points:30
Total Points:195
Tasks completed:10
And I am done with the Fall Challenge. I am hoping to do much better in the Winter Challenge, and hope that life slows down enough for me to accomplish that!
Bluegrass Pam5.10: Our favorite recreation!
I Am the Messenger
Points this post: 5
Total points: 195
Total GO: 3
Total Books: 17 / Total Tasks: 15
Kristen IA25.8 - Bluemoon's task: FOREST LAWN CEMETERY
This is a two book task. Choose two of the options below and read a book for each.
Required: State which options you used when you post.
B. BLUE SKY MAUSOLEUM
For this option read a book that has a word of at least 4 letters from the quote below in the title (not subtitle). Words must match exactly and be found in the quote itself (this does not include the author of the quote, Frank Lloyd Wright).
"If monuments must be, why not now extend the monument horizontally, keep it broad and low instead of pushing it upward to make the usual inane forest of stone posts." - Frank Lloyd Wright
The Choices We Make by Karma Brown
I read the ebook and have linked the PB edition
C. HAIL TO THE CHIEF
Choose a pair of antonyms from this list: 40 Common Opposites In English. Then read a book whose title and/or subtitle includes both words. Exact matches only, no variations. If there are two words listed as antonyms either may be used.
REQUIRED: State the pair of words chosen when you post.
GOOD/BAD: Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land
I listened to the audiobook and have linked the PB edition
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 410/1010
Tasks Completed: 21/58
GO: 0
BB: 3
Caseyw20.6 Option 3 - Read a book with more than 1 person on the cover.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 90
Completed Task: 5
Big Book Tickets: 1
Pamela326520.5 - Bigger is Better - Cat's task: Bookish Quidditch
Option 1: The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores“The Tenth Island” by Diana Marcum – I received this as a Kindle First Read
Print edition: The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 315
Golden Oldie books this post:
Total Golden Oldie books: 3
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets: 5
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
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15.7 - Pay Up
Read a book in which the number of pages is made up only of the numbers 0, 2, 5, and 8.
Points
This Post: 15
Total Points: 235
Completed Tasks: 22
Books Read: 70