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WINTER CHALLENGE 2018
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Delicious Dee25.7 - Wayne's task: Sometimes, you have to take the bad with the good
Book 1 - Magic Triumphs - 4.6/11433ratings; 327pgs
Book 2 - Merry Christmas, Paige - 3.12/172ratings; 208pgs
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 65
Big Book Ticket: 500+ (1)
Mary P15.7 - Catch up with the SRC
Read a book from the SRC Group Bookshelf that you have never read before.
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
This was a new read for me.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 15
loafer20.1 - Most Improved Player - Cordelia's Task: "And the winner is....."
Read a book that has won a literary award.
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
PEN Hemingway Foundation Award 1982
points: 20
total: 50
tasks completed: 5
Task # 10.1 - Holding Out for a HeroRead a book with a main page genre that starts with an H or E or R or O.
His Right Hand byMette Ivie Harrison Religion (9 users)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 85
babbling c5.8 - Go Short
Convenient Christmas Brides: The Captain's Christmas Journey / The Viscount's Yuletide Betrothal / One Night Under the Mistletoe - kindle Convenient Christmas Brides: The Captain's Christmas Journey / The Viscount's Yuletide Betrothal / One Night Under the Mistletoe - paperback pgs 284 by Carla Kelly, Louise Allen and Laurie Benson
THIS POST
Points: 5
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Total This Season
Points: 5/985
Completed Tasks: 1/57
Golden oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
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Pages read this season: 284
Books read this season: 1
Andy p.Task # 5.9 - 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).
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
Book is listed as an example in task description
Points this post: 5
Total points: 90
Karolyn15.8 - Mythological Heroes
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
MPG Mythology
Points This Task: 15
Points to Date: 15
Total BB: 0
Total GO: 0
Karolyn 20.3 - Best Review - TrishhartUK: Elementary, My Dear Watson
Evil Under the Sun byAgatha Christie
Option 2: Agatha Christie is on the 50 Crime Writers to Read Before You Die List
Book is 320 pages, over 150 page minimum for the task
Claiming 1 GO: Published in 1941
Points This Task: 20
Points to Date: 35
Total BB: 0
Total GO: 1
KarolynTask 20.10 - Group Reads
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Post #3 in Group Read discussion thread
Points This Task: 20
Points to Date: 55
Total BB: 0
Total GO: 1
Karolyn 30.4 - Dulcinella's task: Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium)
#2 - New Year
Book 1: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - listed on plage 1 (#8) on Epistolary Fiction list with 311 pages
Book 2: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan - has 312 pages (contains 3, 2, and 1)
Both books over 200 pages and total over 500
Points This Task: 30
Points to Date: 85
Total BB: 0
Total GO: 1
babbling c15.3 - Songs About Heroes
Option 2:
Read one book that satisfies both criteria for option 1. The title initials and author initials can be from the same or different songs. REQUIRED: Specify the song/artist you are using and their numbers on the list.
An Artificial Night - Kindle An Artificial Night paperback 354 by Seanan McGuire
AAN in 16. Waitin' for a Superman - The Flaming Lips
SM in The Flaming Lips
THIS POST
Points: 15
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Total This Season
Points: 20/985
Completed Tasks: 2/57
Golden oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
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Pages read this season: 638
Books read this season: 2
Joanne MIRe-posting from # 304 where I saw I forgot my reader-board name=so sorry
Task 15.3
Book 1
read a book with a title of at least 3 words, where the initial letters of each word can be found in the name of one of these song
The Tombs of Atuan
Song # 22 # 22 Too lATe the herO
Book 2
Read a single author book, where the initial letters of the author's name can be found in the name of one of the listed artists
Half a War byJoe Abercrombie
# 33 JAmes last
Points this task 15
Total points 30
JoanneMITask 15.8 Mythological Heroes
Read a book with the main page genre Mythology (standalone or embedded).
The Silence of the Girls
Points this task 15
Total points 45
DULCINELLA20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task
Option 3: There wouldn’t be a Rocky without its star and creator. Read a book written by a single author whose first and last initials are found in SYLVESTER STALLONE.
Super de luxe
Suzanne Vermeer 312 p. 10 december 2018 2 starsPoints in this post: 20 points
Total points: 135 points
2 tickets GO
DULCINELLA5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas
Read a book with a main page genre of Holiday. The genre may be embedded or standalone.
Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea
Mary Higgins Clark 287 p. 11 december 2018 2 starsPoints in this post: 5 points
Total points: 140 points
2 tickets GO
10.6 - Let's Eat!Oscar and Lucinda
set in Australia
*** One Big Book Ticket claimed - 515 pages
Total points: 20
DULCINELLA15.5 - Secret Identity
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.
Poirot Investigates Agatha Christie 265 p. 10 december 2018 3 starsAgatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
1 claime 1 ticket Golden Oldie as the book is from 1924
Points in this post: 15 points
Total points: 155 points
3 tickets GO
Danibean**REPOSTING WITH CORRECT READERBOARD NAME**
20.6 Remembering a Canadian Hero. Option 2: Read a book where the letters from the word COURAGE can be found in the title (subtitles can be used as well).
I read Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulson
Andy P.Task# 10.6 - Let's Eat!
Read a book set at least 50% Australia.
Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time byDoris Pilkington
Takes place entirely in Australia
Points this post: 10
Total points: 100
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Yo, Adrian!Option 1, a book with a horse on the cover: Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
Points this post: 20
Total points: 55
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska5.10 - Book Blitz.
A book of your choice.
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (pub. 1929) (114 p.)*
I would like to claim a GO ticket for this book, please.
➸ Points: 15
➸ Total Pages: 258
MEGSCL20.3 - Best Review - TrishhartUK: Elementary, My Dear Watson
Option 3 - The Passage of Love by Alex Miller (Jonny Lee Miller)
**592 pages = 1 big book ticket
TOTAL TO DATE:
20 points
1 big book
20.6 - Seasoned Reader – Laurah30’s Task: Remembering A Canadian HeroOption 2: Read a book where the letters from the word COURAGE can be found in the title
I listened to an audio version of The Red Badge of Courage MMPB is Il segno rosso del coraggio
***Claiming Golden Oldies Ticket, as first published in 1895***
Total New Points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 85
GO's: 1
Reposting 321 as I forgot to claim the Golden Oldie Ticket20.3 - Best Review - TrishhartUK: Elementary, My Dear Watson
Option 2:Read any book by one of the authors on the list, which also has the MPG Crime or Mystery
I read an ebook version of
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
***Claiming Golden Oldie Ticket, first published in 1892***
GO's: 2
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Babbling C's Task: February Babies2. My Brother, Robert, currently stationed in Kansas. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Army, a contracting officer, and a father of two.
b. read a book with at least a three word title, where the first initials of all words in the title can be found in "lieutenant colonel" OR "contracting officer" (subtitles should be ignored).
I read Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine all the words in the title can be found in
COntractIng oFficEr
points: 55
books read: 5
tasks completed: 5
pages read: 1306
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Babbling C's Task: February Babies2. My Brother, Robert, currently stationed in Kansas. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Army, a contracting officer, and a father of two.
Read a book with at least a three word title, where the first initials of all words in the title can be found in "lieutenant colonel" OR "contracting officer" (subtitles should be ignored).
I read Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine . Every first letter in each of the title words can be found in COntractIng oFficEr.
points: 55
tasks completed: 5
books read: 5
pages read: 1306
Pamela326520.1 - Most Improved Player - Cordelia's Task: "And the winner is....."
A Christmas Bride by Mary Balogh – Winner All About Romance (AAR) Annual Reader Poll for Favorite Regency Romance (1998)
https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/...
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 25
Golden Oldie books this post: 1
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
15.3 - Songs About HeroesOption 2: Read one book that satisfies both criteria for option 1.
Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
5 words in title with initials, LTROI, found in song title #33 - bILly, don'T be a heRO
author's initials, JAL found in artist name for song #33 - JAmes Last
1x Bigger is Better tix (513 pages)
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies:
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 75
trishhartuk15.5 - Secret Identity
Read a book by a single author who writes under more than one name.
Negative Image, Vicki Delany
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here
Vicki Delany also writes the Lighthouse Library series, as Eva Gates
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
Total Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book tickets: 0
30.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Gotta love the Hero!Option 1: Read a book with a mpg of Young Adult.
Carnial of Souls by Melissa Marr
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 Only numbers 1 through 50 on the list can be used.
Looking for Alaska by John Green
#36 - John Wayne
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies:
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 105
MEGSCL15.6 - My Personal Hero
The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir
Ahn Do is a hero because he survived war, pirates, being a refugee, childhood poverty and an alcoholic father to become a prominent and highly successful Australian in many different fields of achievement. Through all this he maintained a positive and generous attitude.
TOTAL TO DATE:
35 points
1 big book
Marina H5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas
The Noel Diary by Richard Paul Evans
Points this post: 5
Total points: 50
Big book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 2
Tasks completed: 4
Task 5.9 - Acts of Heroismread a book with a MC a former member of the military
Ninja at First Sight
As per the blurb, Greg is an ex-Marine
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125 points
Task 5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmasread a book with MPG Holiday
One Day in December
genre verified: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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130 points
Mod
For book one, I read Armada, one word title starting and ending with the vowel A. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top paperback (no MMPB). 384 pages.
For book two, I read Wonderblood, one word title starting and ending with a consonant. I read the kindle edition, linked to the top paperback (no MMPB). 352 pages.
total pages 384 + 352 = 736, exceeding required minimum of 501.
Total points: 80
Task 20.1 - "And the winner is....."previously claimed in #282, changing my book, soz!
read a book that won a literary prize
The Dinner
won a Netherlands prize in 2009 (as per metadata) - see list here https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/..., whcih shows it under the Winners subdivision :)
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130 points (no change)
Task 30.2 - Feliz Navidadtotal 500+ pages
option B: read a book with author initials in the phrase
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
SM in gorMe ... panchoS
I listened to the audio, no MMPB, paperback is Ahí abajo, entre raíces y huesos - 200p
option D: read a book with more than four people on the cover
My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
336p
200 + 336 = 536 >500p
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160 points
Marina H30.4 - Dulcinella's task: Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium)
Option 3:
Book 1: Bridget Jones's dagbog by Helen Fielding, 253 p.
Main character: Bridget
Book 2: Prodigy by Marie Lu, 374 p.
Author named Marie
Points this post: 30
Total points: 80
Big book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 2
Tasks completed: 5
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.1 Holding Out for a Hero
I read The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn.
It has an MPG of History.
Points this post: 10
Total points:100/985
Tasks completed: 9/57
Books read:11
ElaineL5.7: Crimson and Clover
Read a book with a three-word TITLE that includes "AND" or "&."
Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 285
Total Tasks Completed: 17
Sara G20.2 - Rookie At The Top- Kettleen's Task: Darwin Day
Option 2:
Read a book where the initials of the words in the title are to be found in CHARLES DARWIN. The book must have a minimum of three words in the title. Subtitles can be used (for instance, if you need the subtitle to reach the 3 word minimum) or ignored - your choice.
Death at Apothecaries' Hall by Deryn Lake
CHARLES DARWIN
Points this post: 20
Total points: 155
Mod
I read The Christmas Train, with the MPG Holiday. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top PB (no MMPB).
Total points: 85
loafer15.4 - From A to Z
Option 2:
Read one book that satisfies both criteria for Option 1: Read a book the title of which begins with "A."
AND
Book 2 - Read a book whose author has a "Z" in their name.
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
points: 15
total: 65
tasks completed: 6
trishhartuk10.2 - Every Day Heroes
Read a book with a main character who is an everyday hero.
Finding Answers, Kathi Daley
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here
From the GR description: “Harmony Carson is a lifelong resident who volunteers as a member of the local search and rescue team.” In addition, the rest of the S&R team, plus the local policeman are equal secondary characters.
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book tickets: 0
10.1 - Holding Out for a HeroAt Home: A Short History of Private Life
MPG History
*** One Big Book Ticket claimed - 592 pages
Total points: 30
Re-posting ONLY to get a Golden Oldies ticket. I goofed on post #291: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee
Cannery Row
Published in 1945
*** One Golden Oldies ticket claimed - published in 1945
Total Golden Oldies: 1
MEGAN RAE15.8 - Mythological Heroes
Read a book with the main page genre Mythology (standalone or embedded).
- Completed 12th DecemberHow it fits: MPG Fantasy > Mythology
Points this post: 15
Tasks Complete: 3
Total Points: 35
Queen Bee Darlene20.5 Bigger is Better - Babbling C's Task: February Babies
Option 3A) #1 in a series
A Share in Death by Deborarh Crombie A Share in Death
This is the 1st in the Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Series
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 110
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Task #10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman!
Read a book that can be found on the list of Super Hero Books. I read The Young Elites by Marie Lu (page 1, position 53 at time of posting).
Points this post: 10
Total points so far: 60