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WINTER CHALLENGE 2018
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Readerboard Name: Absurda20.4 - Golden Oldies - Lagullande's Task: Everyday Heroes
OPTION 1: Read a book first published between 1863 and 1927 (this is the Golden Oldies task, after all).
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
Originally published in 1925
Points this task: 20
Total Points to date: 130
Golden Oldies Ticket Request: 1
Diana K.30.4 - Dulcinella's task: Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium)
Book 1 - a book with a shoe on the cover.
Book 2 - a book that is set at least 50% in Belgium or written by a Belgian author
War and Turpentine
Total points: 225
MAZZA120.6 - Seasoned Reader – Laurah30’s Task: Remembering A Canadian Hero
Option 1: Read a book that was a winner or nominee for the Giller Prize, whose author's first and last initials are found in MARATHON OF HOPE.
Bellevue Square Michael Redhill
won 2017
points this post = 20
Points to date = 640
Bookwrm526Task #25.9 - Winter Solstice
Book 1: Read a book with a title of at least two words, where the initial letters of all of the words in the title can be found in the phrase THE LONGEST NIGHT. I read The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis (TE in the, OE in longest).
Book 2: Read a book with a title of at least two words, where the initial letters of all of the words in the title can be found in the phrase THE SHORTEST DAY. I read The Shootout Solution by Michael R. Underwood (TSS all from shortest).
Book 1 must have a higher page count (192pp) than book 2 (164pp).
Total points so far: 320
Nick KY5.2 Book Flood
I read The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli, 1st pub’d Dec. 2000.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 475
DULCINELLA10.3- Four-Legged Heros
read a book from the Non-Fiction Animal Heroes list.
I Thought You Were Dead
Pete Nelson 274 p. 22 january 2019 3 starsP. 1 nr. 27
Points in this post: 10 points
Total points: 935 points
9 tickets GO
5 tickets BB
DULCINELLA5.10 - Book Blitz
. Get started on your 2019 reading resolutions and read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
Bestemming Bonaire Linda van Rijn 224 p. 22 january 2019 2 starsPoints in this post: 5 points
Total points: 940 points
9 tickets GO
5 tickets BB
Erin NY15.5 - Secret Identity
Many superheroes have secret identities and so do many authors! Read a book by a single author who writes under more than one name. You may read a book written under any of the names that the author uses. REQUIRED: If the GR record or author bio does not show that the author writes under more than one name, include a link to a source establishing this.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
* This is the pseudonym: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Kids book info: IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14.0
Points this post: 15
Books claimed this post: 1
Total Points: 385
Tasks completed: 24
Tasks in progress: 0
Books read: 29
Big Book tickets: 2 (500+) 1 (750+)
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Total pages read: 10,813
25.1 - M1nks's Task: What Makes a Good Hero?Option 1:
Paradox by Catherine CoulterDillon Savitch and Lacey Sherlock are partners
and
Option 2:
Emma in the Night by Wendy WalkerTotal Points = 255
25.2 - SandyL's Task: Winter Sports!Option 1
Enigma by Catherine Coulterand
Option 3
Kingdom of the Blind by Louise PennyTotal Points = 280
Amy FL20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Yo, Adrian!
Option 1:
Points this post: 20
Total points: 205
Amy FL20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Diane Whitney's Task: Membership Required
Option 2: The Humans - First published May 9, 2013 (I've been an SRC member since May 14, 2013.)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 225
Amy FL25.7 - Wayne's task: Sometimes, you have to take the bad with the good
Book 1: A Song of Shadows - Rated 4.31 with over 4000 ratings (448 pages)
Book 2: The Thomas Berryman Number - Rated 2.87 with over 4000 ratings (272 pages)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 250
Brooke TX5.9 - Acts of Heroism
Read a book with a main character or subject who is an active-duty or former member of the armed forces of any nation (real or imagined). (This is my one 80-99 page 5 point task book). Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) is a US Air Force officer:
Points
This Post: 5
Total Points: 265
Completed Tasks: 23
Books Read: 36
Brooke TX20.1 - Most Improved Player - Cordelia's Task: "And the winner is....."
Read a book that has won a literary award. Winner of the "This is Horror" Award for Comics in 2012:
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 285
Completed Tasks: 24
Books Read: 36
5.3 - Learn your name in morse code dayDon’t Go There: From Chernobyl to North Korea—one man’s quest to lose himself and find everyone else in the world’s strangest places by Adam Fletcher
Points: 5
Total points: 240
10.9 - Write Me a LetterI read Holy Lands which is described as a "witty epistolary novel." It consists of a series of letters, both snail mail and emails.
points: 165
books read: 20
tasks completed: 14
tasks in progress: 5
pages read: 5811
25.2 - SandyL's Task: Winter Sports!Option 1, a book by an author whose initials are found in ICE HOCKEY: The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim
Option 3, a book with snow on the cover: The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
Points this post: 25
Total points: 320
20.10Cryptology: Code Girls
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
Posted in the group reads discussion thread here.
New Total: 310
Dakimel5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh
Roll of a Lifetime
pub 12/12/18
TALLY:
This post - 5 points
Total - 185
Dakimel5.8 - Go Short
Four Weddings and a Sixpence: An Anthology
TALLY:
This post - 5 points
Total - 190
Dakimel15.6 - My Personal Hero
Becoming
Michelle Obama's a hero of mine because she embodies drive, grace, and public spirit, and works to make the world more secure for future generations.
TALLY
This post - 15 points
Total - 220
Dakimel20.2 - Rookie At The Top- Kettleen's Task: Darwin Day
2. Scandalous Ever After
TALLY:
This post - 20 points
Total - 240
Dakimel25.1- M1nks's Task: What Makes a Good Hero?
2: French Exit
4: Peter Darling
TALLY:
This post - 25 points
Total - 285
StaceyNC5.8 - Go Short
Read an anthology or collection of at least 3 short stories, novellas, or essays (or any combination).
Book: Countdown To A Kiss: A New Year's Eve Anthology
Completed: 1/22/19
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 240
Tasks Completed: 18
MEGSCL15.4 - From A to Z
One book (starts with A, Z in author name)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
TOTAL TO DATE
380 points
4 big books
TessaVanessaChallenge 50.1 Coralie's Task: Three Fictional Heroes
Book 1: Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid by Denis Leary.
240 p.
Book 2: Injustice for All by J.A. Jance.
217 p.
Book 3: Alex and Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz.
359 p.
240+217+359=813 pages
Points this post: 50
Total points: 875/985
Tasks completed: 51/57
Books read: 71
Janice CA15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day!
Hands featured on cover:
Confessions of a School Nurse by Michael Alexander
+15
total: 85
tasks: 5
books: 6
Anja5.10 - Book Blitz
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
Untouchable by Sam Mariano
POINTS:
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 115
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks Completed: 10
FANDURY20.6 - Seasoned Reader – Laurah30’s Task: Remembering A Canadian Hero
Option 2: Read a book where the letters from the word COURAGE can be found in the title
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
All letters of COURAGE can be found in the title: st. lUCy's hOmE for GiRls rAised by wolves
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 215
Books Read: 17
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(1)1000+(0)
perletwo5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh - Read a book FIRST published in October, November or December of any year.
The Witch Elm - first printed 10/9/18
Points this task: 05
Total points: 335
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 24
Tasks completed: 16
Sophie15.1 and 2
Title starts with A and author name includes a Z
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
p 588 - 1 BB
Total 515
BB 4
M1nks5.4 - Envious Casca Pub 1941
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
Points this post: 5
Total points: 525
Golden Oldie Tickets: 11
Big Book Tickets: 6
M1nks5.10 - Nouveaux contes de fées pour les petits enfants - Nouvelle édition illustrée et augmentée (For Length - Old French Fairy Tales) Pub 1856
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
This children's book in not in ARBookfinder and although it has original illustrations it is not a picture book - it is mostly text.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 530
Golden Oldie Tickets: 12
Big Book Tickets: 6
M1nks 10.8 -
Pub 1848* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
Points this post: 10
Total points: 540
Golden Oldie Tickets: 13
Big Book Tickets: 6
M1nks15.4 - 2. Americanah - 588 Pgs
* I Claim 1 x Big Book Ticket *
Points this post: 15
Total points: 555
Golden Oldie Tickets: 13
Big Book Tickets: 7
M1nks 15.10 - The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq - Translated Literature Long list
Points this post: 15
Total points: 570
Golden Oldie Tickets: 13
Big Book Tickets: 7
M1nks20.1 - The Siege of Krishnapur - Man Booker Prize (1973)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 590
Golden Oldie Tickets: 13
Big Book Tickets: 7
M1nks20.10 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Pub 1889
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
Points this post: 20
Total points: 610
Golden Oldie Tickets: 14
Big Book Tickets: 7
KATRINA T **claiming BB**20.5 - Bigger is Better - Babbling C's Task: February Babies
3. a. read Book #1 in a series
Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi No. 1 in the Legacy of Orisha series
525pp.
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20.0
Points in this post: 20
G.O: 1
B.B: 2
Total books read: 12
Tasks completed: 10
(5.2/5.4/10.2/10.10/15.10/20.3/20.5/20.6/25.6/30.6)
Total points: 160
danibean20.9 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
REQUIRED: Include in your post the category in which your book is found. State in your post that you have not read this book before. If you read a nominee, also state in your post that you have read all of the winners.
I read The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King (Goodreads choice award for History and Biography) i have not read itbefore.
Sara G15.7 - Catch up with the SRC
Read a book from the SRC Group Bookshelf that you have never read before. If you have read every book on the bookshelf, read one of the nominees for the Winter 2018 Group Reads that was not chosen as a group read and that you have never read before.
REQUIRED: State in your post that the book read is new to you.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
This book was new to me from the SRC Group bookshelf.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 630
Scooter&Siam5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh
Read a book FIRST published in October, November or December of any year.
Read The Forgotten
Points: 5
Total: 80
RAYNEBAIR30.3 - Alpha and Omega
The page number total for both books must exceed 500
Book 1
Read a book with a one word title of at least four letters that begins and ends with the SAME vowel
Exhale by Joel Abernathy
paperback is 252 pages
Book 2
Read 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
Havoc by Kindle Alexander
paperback is 317 pages
total pages for both books is 569 pgs
Points this post: 30
Total points: 395
RAYNEBAIR20.3 - Elementary, My Dear Watson
Note: read a book of at least 150 pages
Option 1. Read a book with a title of at least three words, where the initial letter of each word can be found in A STUDY IN SCARLET.
Skin After Skin by Jordan Castillo Price
paperback is 416 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 415
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Points this post: 20
Total points: 100