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WINTER CHALLENGE 2018
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RAYNEBAIR30.2 - Feliz Navidad
Books read for this task must total a minimum of 500 pages.
Option B – Read a book by a single author whose initials (including middle initial, if used) are in EYDIE GORME Y LOS PANCHOS
The Blueprint by S.E. Harmon
I listened to the audiobook; mass-market paperback is 400 pgs
Option C – Read a book with FOOD or FOOD AND DRINK on the Goodreads main page genre list. May be stand alone or imbedded.
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor by Mark Schatzker
I listened to the audiobook; paperback is 272 pgs
Food and Drink is a MPG
Points this post: 30
Total points: 305
15.5 - Secret IdentityMidnight Secrets by Ella Grace
From author's GRs bio: "Ella Grace is the pseudonym for NYT Bestselling author Christy Reece."
Total points: 85 + 15 = 100
ZachI completed Task 15.9: Hoodie-Hoo Day! by reading
which shows a hand on the cover. Points this post: 15
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Totals:
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Points: 15
GOTs: 0
BBTs: 0
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-.
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson
The letters in DOT DASH are in the title - THe DangerOuS DAys of daniel x.
Link to PB edition - The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
This post: 5 points
Total points to date: 130 points
Tasks completed: 11
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
SandyL5.1 - This and That
Read a book with This, That, These or Those in the title
That Thing You Do by Maria Geraci
"That" in title
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 165
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 13
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
trishhartuk25.7 Wayne’s Task: Sometimes, you have to take the bad with the good
Book 1: Read a book with a GR average rating of 4.2 or higher with a minimum of 100 ratings.
Blood, Sweets and Tears, H Y Hanna
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link (under the original title) here (280pg)
Average rating: 4.42 with 495 ratings (as of 10/01/19)
Book 2: Read a book with a GR average rating of 3.2 or lower with a minimum of 100 ratings.
Emma, Alexander McCall Smith
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here (368pg)
Average rating: 3.05 with 9,177 ratings (as of 10/01/19)
Ratings combination locked in messages 82-84 of the Help Thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Total pages: 280 = 368 = 648pg
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
Total Points: 170
Tasks Completed: 12
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Book tickets: 2
SandyL5.6 - Read Aloud
Read a NONFICTION book about literacy, education or reading
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 by Rafe Esquith
non-fiction book with MGP - Education
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 170
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 14
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
SandyL10.7 - Brown Shoes?
Read a book with the word BROWN or SHOE intact in the title/subtitle, series title, or author's name
Laid Bare by Lauren Dane
Series - Brown Family #1
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 180
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 15
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
SandyL10.10 - Happy Holidays!
Read a book by a single author whose first and last initial can be found in HOLIDAY
Coming Undone by Lauren Dane
author initials LD - hoLiDay
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 190
Tasks Completed: 15
Books Read: 16
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
SandyL15.3 - Songs About Heroes
Book 1:
One Good Reason by Sarah Mayberry
#10 wORkinG class hero
Book 2:
Oklahoma Christmas Blues: A Prequel to the McIntyre Men by Maggie Shayne
#7 - Spiderman by the raMoneS
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 205
Tasks Completed: 16
Books Read: 18
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
SandyL15.5 - Secret Identity
Read a book by a single author who writes under more than one name
The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames
Author also writes under the pseudonym Daryl Wood Gerber
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 220
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 19
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Suzannesea20.4 Golden Oldies
Option 2
Read book that is at least 350 pages long and that was first published in 2007.
The Woods by Harlan Coben
404 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 260
Sarah E5.10 - Book Blitz
Zack & Zoey's Alien Apocalypse: Alien Busting Ninja Adventure
I read the kindle edition but have linked to the paperback (no MMP).
Childrens is a main page genre but the book is not found in ARBookFinder.
Total points: 5
20.9Children of Blood and Bone (Debut author category)
Total points: 185
** Big Book: Children of Blood and Bone has 525 pages
**I claim 1 big book ticket
** Total Big Book tickets: 5
Sarah E10.9 - Write Me a Letter
Dear Coca-Cola
Approved for length on line 790 of the spreadsheet
Total points: 15
DULCINELLA20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Erin NY's Task: Goodreads choice award winners
Read a book that won one of the goodreads choice awards this year that you have not read before. If you read all of them before, then read one of the nominees that you have not read before.
Leah on the Offbeat
Becky Albertalli 368 p. 10 january 2019 2 stars Literary AwardsGoodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction (2018)
I have not read it before
Points in this post: 20 points
Total points : 700 points
4 tickets GO
4 tickets BB
Ava Catherine25.1 - M1nks's Task: What Makes a Good Hero?
1. A Good Hero knows when to accept help.
read a book with the main page genre Mystery, where the main character has help from at least one serious sidekick.
Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with retired detective Harry Bosch
book approved in help task #'s 6 and 15
2. A Good Hero is Interesting.
Read a book where the title doesn't contain the word 'A', 'An', 'And' or 'The'.
North River by Pete Hamill
total=755
Sarah E25.4 - Diana K's Task: Happy 200th Illinois
Option 2: LAND OF LINCOLN in the title/subtitle
Backpacker Points and the Quest for Aunt Sheila: one girl's travels, tips and tricks
LAND found in sheiLA, aND
OF found in FOr
LINCOLN found in traveLs, poINts, triCks, One, girL's, oNe
Approved for length in message 7169
Option 5: Road on cover
I read the kindle edition, paperback (no MMP) is To St Petersburg with Love
Total points: 40
Kristen IA5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas
Read a book with a main page genre of Holiday. The genre may be embedded or standalone.
Holiday Wishes by Jill Shalvis
I read the ebook and linked the MMPB edition
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 5/985
Tasks Completed: 1/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
20.7 Shorter is SweeterJust Off For A Walk by Stephen Reynolds.
Option 3: The letters S and R can be found in "Sylvester Stallone".
Points: 20
Total points: 125
Christine V15.7 - Catch up with the SRC
Dark Matter
This book is new to me.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 35
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=1)
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Diane Whitney's Task: Membership RequiredOption 2 - Read a book first published in the same Month AND Year you joined the Seasonal Reading Challenge Group.
I joined SRC in July 2015
In a Dark, Dark Wood308 pages to verify date first published see, In a Dark, Dark Wood
New Points: 20
Challenge Points: 300
GO's: 6
Ava Catherine25.2 - SandyL's Task: Winter Sports!
Option 1
Read a book written by a single author whose first and last initials are found in ICE HOCKEY.
The Maid by Kimberly Cutter
author's initials KC found in ice hoCKey
Option 3
Read a book with snow on the cover.
The Redeemer
byJo Nesbøtotal=780
Katrina T10.10 - Happy Holidays!
Read a book by a single author whose first and last initial can be found in HOLIDAY.
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens hOliDay
Points in this post: 10
G.O: 1
B.B: 1
Total books read: 10
Tasks completed: 8 (5.2/5.4/10.2/10.10/15.10/20.6/25.6/30.6)
Total points: 120
Ava Catherine25.3 Andy P.’s task: Christmas in Japan
Book 1. Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in KIDDIELAND.
Astray by Emma Donoghue
274 pages
author's initials ED found in kiDdiEland
Book 2. Read a book that has a word in its TITLE (not subtitle) of at least 4 letters that can be made from the letters in EXCHANGERATE.
word=heart; ExcHAngeRaTe
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick 302 pages
274+302=576 total pages
total=805
Nick KY10.10 Happy Holidays! I read The End Of Physics: The Myth Of A Unified Theory by David Lindley, inits in HOLIDAY.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 340
Bookwrm526Task #20.9 - Goodreads choice awards winners
Read a book that won one of the goodreads choice awards this year that you have not read before. I read the winner for nonfiction, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara.
Points this post: 20
Total points so far: 220
Task 5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-.read a book with DOTDASH in the title
The Case of the Dangerous Dowager
DO in DOwager
T in The
DAS in DAngerouS
H in tHe
Pub 1937 - claiming GO ticket
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690 points
MAZZA120.9 - Moderators' Pet - Erin NY's Task: Goodreads choice award winners
Read a book that won one of the goodreads choice awards this year that you have not read before.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark Non Fiction Awarrd
I have not read this book before
Points this post = 20
Points to date = 375
MAZZA120.9 - Moderators' Pet - Erin NY's Task: Goodreads choice award winners
Read a book that won one of the goodreads choice awards this year that you have not read before.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark Non Fiction Awarrd
I have not read this book before
Points this post = 20
Points to date = 445 sorry the total is wrong above
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.2 Rookie At The Top- Kettleen's Task: Darwin Day
Ootion 1: Until Proven Guilty by J.A. Jance. It was first published in 1985.
Points this post: 22
Total points: 635/985
Tasks completed: 38/57
Books read: 53
Coralie5.2 The Book Flood Cometh
Book published in December
All the Plagues of Hell
Total to date 245 points
Diana K.10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero. Read a book with a main page genre that starts with an H or E or R or O.
Marilla of Green Gables Historical/Historical Fiction
Points: 115
Mod
I listened to the audiobook of Becoming by Michelle Obama. (the top paperback is Povestea mea).
Ms. Obama has been a personal hero since the 2008 campaign, for her dignity, grace, intelligence. That continued throughout her time in the White House - the initiative she took for childhood nutrition, the work for veterans and their spouses, the way she combined work for the country with raising and protecting her daughters. And, after listening to this book and learning more about her as a person, she's even more a personal hero.
Total points: 400
Brooke TX5.7 - Crimson And Clover
Read a book with a three-word TITLE that includes "AND" or "&".
Points
This Post: 5
Total Points: 185
Completed Tasks: 17
Books Read: 25
Task 25.1 – M1nks – What Makes a Good Hero? Option 2 – Title has NO “a” “an” “and” or “the”
Other Voices, Other Rooms
+++ GOLDEN OLDIE +++ – 1st published 1948
Option 5 – Hero is no longer alive
Carnegie's Maid
Book is about Andrew Carnegie (b: 11/25/1835, d: 8-11/1919), a 19th century tycoon who gave his immense fortune to build libraries so that everyone, regardless of income, wealth or education, could access books in order to better themselves. Makes him a hero in my book! (Pun intended)
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This Post: 25 points
Total points to date: 90 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 1
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
Coralie20.1 And the winner is….
Winner of the World Fantasy Award 2018
Jade City
Total to date 265 points
10.9 - Write Me a LetterRose Under Fire (Code Name Verity #2) by Elizabeth E. Wein
Novel listed on Wikipedia list of Epistolary novels
Total this Post: 10
Golden Oldies:
Bigger is Better: 4
Season Total: 430
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.10 National Book Awards
Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed.
It was the winner in the poetry category.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 650/985
Tasks completed: 39/57
Books read: 54
Cordelia20.5 Bigger is Better
Option 3b: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Author's initials (CL) in "college student"
Points: 20
Total points: 385
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Cordelia's Task: "And the winner is....."Read a book that has won a literary award.
I read Less by Andrew Sean Greer. It won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Task points:20
Total Points:70
Books read:6
30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Alpha and OmegaBook 1, a book with a one-word title of at least four letters that begins and ends with the same vowel: Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro, 320 pages
Book 2, a book with a one-word title of at least four letters that begins and ends with a consonant, which does not have to be the same consonant: Roomies by Sara Zarr
paperback edition Roomies, 288 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 235
MEGSCL25.6 - Sandy's Task: They Go Together
Book 1, The Paperboy by Pete dexter
Book 2, Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky chambers
TOTAL TO DATE
225 points
2 big books
Coralie25.6 They Go together
Book 1 – initial letters of all the words in the title found in author’s name botToN
The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton
Book 2 – title contains the author’s initials spaCeBorn
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Total to date 290 points
FANDURY30.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Gotta love the Hero!
Option 2: Read a book by an author who shares a first or last name of an actor who played a hero from this list of movies : Greatest Movie Heroes
Shadow Man by Alan Drew
The author shares the first name with the actor at #13 on the list Alan Ladd.
Option 3: Read a book from one of your favorite series (a series you have already started) that features a hero.
The Green Mill Murder by Kerry Greenwood
This book is new for me, but I have already read books 1-4 in the Phryne Fisher series.
Points this post: 30
Total Points:160
Books Read: 14
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(1)1000+(0)
✔️30.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Gotta love the Hero!Option 1: . Read a book with a mpg of Young Adult.
Fangirl
Rainbow Rowell 459 p. 1/11/19 4 starsI claim a BB ticket for this book
2.Read a book by an author who shares a first or last name of an actor who played a hero from this list of movies : Greatest Movie Heroes Only numbers 1 through 50 on the list can be used.
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney 336 p. 9 january 2019 5 stars Nr. 19 on the list Sally Field
Points in this post: 30
Total points: 710 points
4 tickets GO
5 BB tickets
30.5 - Mazza1's Task: A world of books BOOK 1: Read a book that is SET IN or WRITTEN BY an author from a country starting with ANY letter of your READERBOARD name.
Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
(Set in and Author born in Latvia, Europe)
BOOK 2: Read a book that is SET IN or WRITTEN BY an author from a country starting with one of the initials of the author of Book 1, including middle initials.
Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat in North Korea by John Everard
(Set in North Korea, Asia)
My own country is England, United Kingdom.
Points this post: 30
TOTAL POINTS: 130
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book Tickets: - (500+); - (750+)
Total tasks completed: 6
Total books read: 8
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I read an ARC of The Lost Man, linked to top paperback. Single author Jane Harper - no "o" in name.
Total points: 385