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SPRING CHALLENGE 2019
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD
ElaineL5.8: Annie Wilkes
Read a book from the list Books About Books and Authors.
Second Nature
Required: Include in your post the list and page number on which your book is found.
Found on Page 2 (#128 at time of posting)
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 760
10.9 - Spring ForwardThis is a series I've been reading and I have not read this installment in the series before.
Series Book #2
Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 115
15.3 - The ChunnelOption 1: Read 2 books, one book 1 and one book 2.
Book 1: Read a book set at least 50% in England.
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
AND
Book 2: Read a book set at least 50% in France.
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 130
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Louise B's Task: In The GardenOption 3: The Cutting Garden
Read a book by an author whose name matches a name on this list of Flower Names.
Daisy
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 150
Brooke TX25.5 - SandyL's Task: Spring Festivals!
Option 1: Read a book with a title of at least three words where all the title initials can be found in CHERRY BLOSSOM.
Option 3: Read a book set at least 50% in California, Florida, New Orleans, England or Australia. Set in England:
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 480
Completed Tasks: 27
Books Read: 41
ElaineL30.7 - Dulcinella's Task: The Villain Archetype
Required: State the option and the list and page number your book is on.
Option 3: Popular Outlaw Books List
Caine's Reckoning Found on Page 4
Option 4: Questionable Alpha List
Playing for Keeps Found on Page 5 (#425 at time of posting)
600 p. minimum: Book 1 474 p. + Book 2 330 p. = 804 pages
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 790
30.8 - Cat's Task: Big Oldies750 Pages: 796 pages
Option 2: One Book Option
Read a book that meets the criteria for a Golden Oldie ticket, a book FIRST published in or before 1950 AND that meets the criteria for getting TWO Big Book tickets, a book with at least 750 pages.
Published 1876:
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 180
Luara20.8 Springtime traditions in Sweden
Option 2 - Lady Day
*author initials found in vaffeldagen
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Volume One by Gordon Dahlquist
Gordon - vaffeldaGen
Dahlquist - vaffelDagen
Total points: 105
Andy P.Task # 25.4 - Diana K's Task - Eating Around the World
Book 1: Read a book that is set in a country that you have never visited. The Runner by Peter May This book is set entirely in China a country that I have never visited.
Book 2: Find the country from Book 1 on this list of National Dishes. Choose a dish from that country and read a book that has ALL of the letters of that dish in the title/subtitle. Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar by Olga Wojtas National dish is LO MEIN
L in Blaine
O in Golden
M Miss
E in Blaine
I in Blaine
N in Blaine
Points this post: 25
Total points: 445
DULCINELLA20.5 - Bigger is Better - Librarianish's Task: TBR-Buster!
Option 2: A-Z. Sort your TBR list by author's name. Read a book written by a single author whose first or last name begins with any letter in TO BE READ.
My own shelves
The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler 352 p. 14 april 2019 4 stars Points in this post: 20 points
Total points: 835 points
3 tickets GO
3 tickets BB
JenniferKS5.4. President Snow
Read a book with the word “white,” “rose,” or “roses” in its title/subtitle.
(Paperback 384 pages)
Nele Neuhaus
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Points this task: 5
Points thus far: 130
Tasks completed: 16
Books read: 15
Pages read 6139
Goodreads Author: 6
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets;
3 500+
0 750+
0 1000+
Joanne MITask 15.9 Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in LEONARDO DA VINCI.
The Children's Blizzard byDavid Laskin
Initals DL
Points this task 15
Total Points 160
Total BB's 1
5.6. The shark in JawsSecrets of the Lost Summer - Summer beach reads set in beach towns page 4
Total Points: 625
15.1 - Celebrate Your NameBook 1: Collared For Murder - Annie Knox
Book 2, Option 1: Run Away
Total Points: 665
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Raynebair's Task: A Day In the Life Of...Option 1: Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg - page 10
Total Points: 760
25.4 - Diana K's Task - Eating Around the WorldBook 1: Murder in an Irish Village - I have never visited Ireland.
Book 2: Irish Stewed - Irish Stew
Total Points: 805
25.6 - Andy P.’s Task: New Zealand Sheep FarmingBook 1. Lover's Leap - Emily March
Book 2. Mercy
Total Points: 830
30.2 - Amanda A's Task: March MadnessOption 1a: Dylan
Option 2: Midnight Rescue
- 81.1% blue per TinEyeTotal Points: 860
30.5 - Dlmrose’s Task: Answered and AskedBook 1: Can't Fight This Feeling
Book 2: Do You Feel It Too?
Total Points: 890
30.7 - Dulcinella's Task: The Villain ArchetypeOption 1. Femme Fatale - The Female of the Species - Dangerous Teenage Girls page 1
Option 4. Predators - Feral Sins - Questionable Alpha page 1
Total Points: 920
30.8 - Cat's Task: Big OldiesOption 1:
Book 1 - The Murder on the Links
Book 2 - Silent in the Grave
Total Points: 950
30.9 – Sandy’s Task: Sandy's Big AdventureA. City of Saints & Thieves - set in Kenya
B. Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls - Lauren Graham
Total Points: 980
Cait S30.2- March Madness
Option 1
Read a book FIRST published in March of any year.
OCD, the Dude, and Me by Lauren Roedy Vaughn
Option 4
Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA.
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
Points This Post: 30
BB Tickets: 1
Total Points: 135
Mary P20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Fee's Task: Villains in Children's Stories
Option 1: Read a book from this list: Best Monster Books
The Cellar by Richard Laymon
Found on page 1 of list.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 200
MEGSCL25.2 - Nick KY’s Task: Spring Things
Option 1. Double Trouble. Read a book which has two consecutive words in the title (NOT subtitle) which begin with the same consonant.
Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting
Option 3. Heat Streak. read a book by an Australian author, born in or currently resides there, or set at least 50% in Australia.
Little Gods
TOTAL TO DATE
130 points
30.10 - Kaora's Task: Horsin' AroundOption 1. DRESSAGE
Book 1: author initials A L
A Fool and His Manny by Amy Lane
Book 2: x in author name
The Brothers Grime: Eddie by Z.A. Maxfield
points: 30 + 850 = 880
25.6The combined page count for both books must be 501 pages or more.
Book 1. Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in the word ROMNEY.
Deerskin by Robin McKinley
384 pages
Book 2. Read a book with a title that contains a word of four or more letters that can be made from the letters contained in the phrase, BUY MORE WOOL CLOTHING.
Creatures of Want and Ruin by Molly Tanzer
"Ruin" 352 pages
Task points: 25
Total points: 355
Pamela326520.9 - Moderator's Pet - Fee's Task: Villains in Children's Stories
Option 2: A Night in Grosvenor Square by Timeless Regency
Aprroved for length at this link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 195
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books:
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets:
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
30.2 - Amanda A's Task: March MadnessOption 2: Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich ~ 288 pages
#3b8cbc 31.2 % Curious Blue (Blue)
#2a5489 15.7 % Endeavour (Blue)
#efefe1 13.6 % Sugar Cane (Green)
#808786 12.1 % Oslo Grey (Grey)
#7ac7e8 7.8 % Spray (Blue)
#42576e 6.0 % East Bay (Blue)
#e1a140 5.4 % Fire Bush (Yellow)
#bca883 3.2 % Pavlova (Grey)
#d8ab65 2.7 % Equator (Yellow)
#191d49 2.3 % Midnight Express (Blue)
Total Blue = 63%
Option 3b: Endangered Species (Anna Pigeon #5) by Nevada Barr ~ 400 pages
Total points: 365 + 30 = 395
15.10 - Celebration of the QueenOption 1: Read a book FIRST published during 1819 -1901 inclusive.
Cousin Phyllis by Elizabeth Gaskell
1x Golden Oldies Tix (pub. 1864)
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 3
Season Total: 575
Kristen IA10.3 Vincent Vega
Read a book written by a single author with the initial V. The initial may be in any position (first, middle, last) but must be present in the Goodreads record.
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 10/1030
Tasks Completed: 1/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
Kristen IA10.8 - Spring Fever
Read a book written by a single author in which M A M can be found in in the title/subtitle and/or author's name.
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
(M in Mundy; A in American; M in Women)
I listened to the audiobook and have linked to the PB edition.
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 20/1030
Tasks Completed: 2/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
Kristen IA20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Raynebair's Task: A Day In the Life Of...
Choose one option and read a book for that option.
REQUIRED: state which option you chose in your post.
Option 1: Read a book from this list: Best Memoir/Biography/Autobiography
REQUIRED: state which page the book was found on.
Educated by Tara Westover
#184 on page 2 of the list
I listened to the audiobook and have linked to the PB edition.
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 40/1030
Tasks Completed: 3/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
Kathy KSI am replacing the book used for this task. This task was originally done in message 787
20.3 - Best Review -Trishhartuk’s Task: Burdened with Glorious Purpose
REQUIRED: state the option when you post.
Option 2. Read a book with ALL the letters L O K and I in the TITLE (not the subtitle).
Ginkgo Glen, by Cathy Callen
LOKI = gInKgO gLen
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Points for this task: 20
Total points: 250
Tasks completed: 17
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
Kristen IA20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Tien's Task: Prequels & Midquels
No books with the main page genre Childrens or Kids may be used. Books with the main page genre "Sequential Art," "Graphic Novel," "Comics," "Comic Book," or "Manga" may be used.
Read ONE book according to your choice of option as follows:
Required: Identify the option.
2. Midquels:
Read a book with series designation of #X.5 for which X can be any number other than 0. The series information must be present in the Goodreads metadata. Any series noted in the metadata may be used.
The Suffragette's Secret: A Morton Farrier Short Story
The ebook was approved for length in post 7316.
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 60/1030
Tasks Completed: 4/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
Kristen IA20.8 Nickels & Dimes -Paula S's Task: Springtime Traditions in Sweden
Choose one option and read a book for that option.
REQUIRED: state which option you chose in your post.
Option 2: Read a book written by a single author with first and last name initials in VÅFFELDAGEN. Note that there is only one A, the second letter is Å, a letter found in the Swedish alphabet but not in the English, and pronounced like the vowel sound in all.
The Missing Man: A Morton Farrier Novella by Nathan Dylan Goodwin
I read the ebook and have linked to the PB edition.
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 80/1030
Tasks Completed: 5/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
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