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SPRING CHALLENGE 2019
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Task 5.9 - Emperor Palpatinenote: this book previously claimed for 30.6 in #361, but replaced above
read a book with title initials in EMPEROR PALPATINE
Emperor of Thorns
EO in EmperOr
T in palpaTine
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850 points
RAYNEBAIR20.8 Springtime Traditions in Sweden
Option 3: Read a book about a witch or witches.
Spells & Shelves by Elle Adams
points this post: 20
total points: 525
BB tickets: 1
GO tickets: 3
Ava Catherine50.1 - Bluegrass Pam's Task: 2 is Better than 1!
Book 1: If one author is good, two are better!
Read a book that is a single work collaboration by exactly two authors.
The Crown of Columbus by Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich 400 pages
Book 2: If you like a single word title, you will love a single compound word title!
Bloodroot= blood+root by Amy Greene 365 pages
Book 3: If one character’s name in a title works, two names are sure to be a winner!
Daisy Miller by Henry James
400+365+126=891 total pages
total=1030
READ 60 Asked and Answered 2 books 1. Asked ; Nine Perfect StrangersNine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
2; Answered : No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub
by Virginia Ironside
Points 30
Total 85
EMurphy20.6 Seasoned Reader - Kristen IA's Task: Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Option 2: The Food - Initials of the words in the title are found in DUTCH LETTER The Dinner List by Rebeca Serle
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 160
Books Read: 10
BB Ticket: +500: 2
+750: 1
GO Ticket: 1
Tasks Completed: 9
10.10 - Spring TrainingRead a book set at least 50% in one of the follwoing locations where spring training takes place: Hawaii
Pills and Starships
Points 10
Total 105
Luara5.2 Sauron
*ring found intact in the title
Ring of Mischief by Margaret Summerton
Total points: 155
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Tien's Task: Prequels & Midquels
Option 2. Midquels
Fairest by Marissa Meyer.
(The Lunar Chronicles #3.5)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 815
Tasks completed: 45/58
Books read: 62
Babbling c15.3 - The Chunnel
Option 2: Read 1 book.
Read a book that is set in BOTH England AND France. The England/France settings must account for at least 75% of the action.
The Alice Network - Auidble The Alice Network - paperback 532 by Kate Quinn
THIS POST
Points: 15
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies: 0
Total This Season
Points: 105/1030
Completed Tasks: 8/58
Golden oldies: 2
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Pages read this season: 3,346
Books read this season:8
Babbling c30.1 – Schatzie’s task: Villain One-liners
This is a two book task. Pick two different options.
Required: state your options when posting
Option 3: “I am your father.”
For this option, read a book that is the second book in any series. It must be identified in the Goodreads metadata and follow the title/subtitle on the book's main page (series #2).
Deadline - Kindle Deadline - paperback 584 by Mira Grant
book 2 in the Newsflesh trilogy
Option 4: “Ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight.”
For this option, read a book with red text on the cover. All of the text need not be red, but at least one entire word has to completely red.
Required: Post cover.
Red Velvet Revenge - kindle Red Velvet Revenge - paperback 272 by Jenn McKinlay
The entire title is red.
THIS POST
Points: 30
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies: 0
Total This Season
Points: 135/1030
Completed Tasks: 9/58
Golden oldies: 2
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Pages read this season: 4,202
Books read this season:10
Andy P.Task # 15.9 - A True Renaissance Man
Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in LEONARDO DA VINCI.
The French Girl by Lexie Elliott
LEONARDO DAVINCI
Points this post: 15
Total points: 480
Andy P.Task # 20.6 - Seasoned Reader – Kristen IA’s Task: Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Option 1. Read a book that is #2, #3, or #4 in a series.
The Fourth Sacrifice by Peter May # 2 in China Thrillers Series
Points this post: 20
Total points: 500
20.3 - Best Review -Trishhartuk’s Task: Burdened with Glorious PurposeOption 3: Read a book by an author, or team of authors, who publish under more than one name.
I listened to the audio version of Cataract Cityby Craig Davidson who also writes as Nick Cutter
New points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 325
GO's: 1
RAYNEBAIR30.2 - Amanda A's Task: March Madness
Please choose two different options and read a book for each.
Option 2: Read a book with a cover that is at least 50% blue according to TinEye.
Now You See Her by James Patterson
80.5% blue according to TinEye
I listened to the audio. The MMPB is 359 pgs
Option 3b: Read a book that is #5 in a series which also contains at least one of these numbers in the page count: 1, 2, 5, 9, 0.
Vengeance by Sloane Kennedy
#5 in The Protectors series
I read the Kindle edition. Paperback is 350 pages
The combined pages of both books must be at least 500 pages.
359 + 350 = 709 pages
points this post: 30
total points: 555
BB tickets: 1
GO tickets: 3
SandyL30.9 – Sandy’s Task: Sandy's Big Adventure
Option A. Read a book set in one or more African countries
The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild by Lawrence Anthony
Set in South Africa
368 pages
Option B. Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in BIG FIVE ANIMALS
Best Laid Plans by Lauren Blakely
Big five animaLs
300 pages
Total pages - 668
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Points This Task: 30
Total Points: 270
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 20
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
SandyL30.7 - Dulcinella's Task: The Villain Archetype
Option 1. Femme Fatale
Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs
Page 2 on Bad Girls and Femmes Fatales
532 pages
Option 4. Predators
Playing for Keeps by R.L. Mathewson
Page 5 of Questionable Alphas
330 pages
Total pages = 862
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Points This Task: 30
Total Points: 300
Tasks Completed: 15
Books Read: 22
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
SandyL25.6 - Andy P.’s Task: New Zealand Sheep Farming
Book 1. Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in the word ROMNEY
Getting It All by Erin Nicholas
romNEy
336 pages
Book 2. Read a book with a title that contains a word made from the letters in BUY MORE WOOL CLOTHING.
Just Come Over by Rosalind James
Word - COME: buy MorE wOool Clothing
400 pages
Total pages = 736
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Points This Task: 25
Total Points: 325
Tasks Completed: 16
Books Read: 24
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
SandyL20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Tien's Task: Prequels & Midquels
2. Midquels
Tapping Her by Max Monroe
Series: Billionaire Bad Boys #1.5
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Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 345
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 25
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Readerboard Name: Absurda10.7 - Spring Chicken
Read a "young" book. For the purposes of this task, a young book is defined as a book that was first published in or after 2015.
It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston
Originally published in 2018
Points this task: 10
Total Points to date: 140
Janice CA30.1 – Villain One-liners
option 2: Read a book written by a single female author AND the cover has a domestic dog on it.
Random Acts of Kindness by Animals by Stephanie Laland
and
option 4: title in red
Last Resort by Linwood Barclay
+30
total: 60
tasks: 3
books: 4
Julia10320.6 - Seasoned Reader – Kristen IA’s Task: Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Option 4: The Lost Queen (QUEEN in title)
This book has 527 pages - claiming one BB ticket
This post: 20 points
Total points: 305
Total BB: 5
Total GO: 1
Tasks completed: 14
Books read: 21
Stephanie12710.7 - Spring Chicken: Read a "young" book (first published in or after 2015)
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening, published in 2016.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 50/1030
Tasks completed: 4/58
Books read: 4
Task 20.10 – Group ReadOption: NONfiction: Politics
Fascism: A Warning
I listened to the audiobook / no MMP / Paperback: Fascism: A Warning – 320 p
My comments in Discussion thread
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This Post: 20 points
Total points to date: 235 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 1
Big Books Read: (2) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 2
Readerboard name: Elizabeth B (starts with E, 10 characters)Task 15.1
Book 1: author's initial E Slam by E. Davies
Book 2: Option 1 : 10 characters title Bone to Pick
Total 555
Elizabeth BTask 25.5
Option 1: Color of You, initials C, O, Y can be found in CherrY blOssom
Option 3: set in England Dream
Total 580
Laurah3030.3 - ElaineL's task: The Big Bang Theory
Option 2: Read a book that has 279 pages plus or minus 12 (267-291 pages inclusive).
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
288 pages
Option 3: Read the next book in a series that you are “behind on.” For the purposes of this task, “behind on” means you began the series prior to the Spring 2019 Challenge beginning and there must be at least two more whole number series books currently published in your chosen series that you have not yet read before beginning this task.
The Forgotten
This is book #2 in John Puller series. I read book #1 Zero Day in February. There are 4 books in this series. I have not read The Escape or No Man's Land.
Total points: 100 points
Task 20.4 - In The Gardenoption 1: read a book with BLACK in the title
The Ballad of Black Tom
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870 points
Mai30.7 - Dulcinella's Task: The Villain Archetype
Option 1. Femme Fatale - Bad Girls and Femme Fatales - page 1
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
132 pages
* Golden Oldie ticket - book published around 400 BCE *
Option 6. Crazy People - Great Novels About Madness - front page in view-all mode
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
564 pages
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 160
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 12
Golden Oldies: 1
Jasmiina F15.5 - It's Black and White:
Read a book set at least 50% in ONE of those locations: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, or in the US: California, Georgia, Tennessee, Washington DC:
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 85
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+: 1
BBooks - 750+: 0
BBooks - 1000+: 0
JenniferKS5.9. Emperor Palpatine
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words, where the initial letters of each word are found in EMPEROR PALPATINE. Subtitles need not be considered.
Long Road to Mercy
(hardcover 404 pages)
David Baldacci is a Goodreads Author
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Points this task: 5
Points thus far: 190
Tasks completed: 20
Books read: 20
Pages read 7855
Goodreads Author: 10
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets;
3 500+
0 750+
0 1000+
Diana K30.1 – Schatzie’s task: Villain One-liners
Opt 3 For this option, read a book that is the second book in any series.
Two for the Dough
Opt 4 For this option, read a book with red text on the cover.
Total points: 500
Joanne MITask 20.1 Opt 2.B. Read a book set at least 50% in Italy
The House at the Edge of Night-(GR MPG shows as cultural "Italy"-the MP "blurb is a little vague, so I wanted to point that out-the Island is definitely portrayed as a part of Italy and the characters travel back and forth to Mainland Italy through-out).
Points this task 20
Total points 215
Total BB's 1
JUKKA20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Raynebair's Task: A Day In the Life Of…
Option 3: Book whose title starts with A, B, or M.
As Larp Grows Up by Morten Gade et al.
Total Points: 360/1030
Total Books Read: 33
Tasks Completed: 29/58
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0
Barbara ★15.8 - Right-Hand Cat
Read a book with a domestic cat on the cover
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman 4/18
Points this task: 15
Total points: 430
Sara G30.10 - Kaora's Task: Horsin' Around
Option 1. DRESSAGE
Book 1. Surrounding the dressage arena are letters evenly spaced, which determine where the movements should start and end. Those letters are: A-K-V-E-S-H-C-M-R-B-P-F and the letters in the middle are D-L-X-I-G. Read a book written by a single author whose initials are found in these letters. All initials count.
The Winter Crown by Elizabeth Chadwick
A-K-V-E-S-H-C-M-R-B-P-F D-L-X-I-G
Book 2. Before exiting the arena the rider will typically stop and salute the judge at X. Read a book written by a single author with an X in the TITLE or the author's name. Subtitles are excluded.
The Lady Travelers Guide to Larceny with a Dashing Stranger by Victoria Alexander
I read the Kindle edition. The MMPB here has 538 pages.
**The Lady Travelers Guide to Larceny with a Dashing Stranger is a Big Book (538 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket.**
Points this post: 30
Total points: 575
50.1 - Bluegrass Pam's Task: 2 is Better than 1!Book 1: If one author is good, two are better!
The Chef by James Patterson and Max DiLalloPaperback, 400 pages
and
Book 2: :
Hotshot by Julie GarwoodMass Market Paperback, 400 pages
and
Book 3:
Robert B. Parker's Fool Me Twice by Michael BrandmanMass Market Paperback, 293 pages
205 Points
25.5Option 1: Read a book with a title of at least three words where all the title initials can be found in CHERRY BLOSSOM.
Say You're Sorry by Melinda Leigh
Option 2: Read a book with a main page genre of Humor.
The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes
Task points: 25
Total points: 380
DULCINELLA50.1 - Bluegrass Pam's Task: 2 is Better than 1!
Read 3 books:
Book 1: If one author is good, two are better!
Read a book that is a single work collaboration by exactly two authors.
Het familiegraf Michael Hjorth 432 p. 18 april 2019 3 stars Authors: Hans Rosenfeldt and Michael Hjorth
Book 2:
Read a book with a single word TITLE that is a compound word.
Birdman: A Novel
Mo Hayder 448 p. 17 april 2019 4 stars Book 3:
Read a book with a TITLE that contains either one character name that includes a first and last name OR two character names.
Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King 19 april 2019 4 stars 324 p. Points in this post: 50 points
Total points: 940 points
4 tickets GO
3 tickets BB
20.3 - Best Review -Trishhartuk’s Task: Burdened with Glorious Option 2. Say my name. Read a book with ALL the letters L O K and I in the TITLE (not the subtitle).
I read Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World eLIzabeth of yOrK
this book has 572 pp which makes it a *****BIG BOOK*****
points: 215
books read: 17
tasks completed: 13
big books: 2
pages read: 5522
Coralie10.2 Vito & Michael Corleone
Book in which an organized crime family plays a major role
Stonemouth
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Total to date 425 points
Coralie25.2 Spring Things
Option 2 Sci Fi High
– book with main page genre Science Fiction
The Fated Sky
Option 3. Heat Streak
- book by an Australian author
The Great World by David Malouf
Total to date 450 points
Task 25.5 - SandyL's Task: Spring Festivals!Option 2: Read a book with a main page genre of Humor.
Leave It to Psmith (Psmith #4) (Blandings Castle #2) (1923) by P.G. Wodehouse (Paperback, 293 pages)
** Leave It to Psmith is a Golden Oldie, published in 1923**
Option 3: Read a book set at least 50% in California, Florida, New Orleans, England or Australia.
Book set entirely in San Francisco, California.
Nine Lives Last Forever (The Cats and Curios Mystery #2) (2010) by Rebecca M. Hale (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 291 pages)
150 + 25 = 175
Tasks Completed: 08
Points for this post: 25
Points thus far: 150 + 25 = 175
Books read: 12
Pages read: 3,647
Read but not claimed: 04
Goodreads Authors: 05
Golden Oldies: 01
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Elizabeth BTask 5.3
Wanted - Bad Boyfriend by TA Moore
author’s initials T A M can be found in the phrase OUT DAMNED SPOT (ouT dAMned spot)
Total 585
perletwo 50.1 - Bluegrass Pam's Task: 2 is Better than 1! - Book 1: Read a book that is a single work collaboration by exactly two authors.
Crime Scene by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman
Book 2: Read a book with a single word TITLE that is a compound word.
Comeback
Book 3: Read a book with a TITLE that contains either one character name that includes a first and last name OR two character names. The two character names may be first names, last names, full names or any combination.
Off the Rails - should be "Bryant and May Off the Rails" according to the copyright and Library of Congress data in the book's back matter
Points this task: 50
Total points: 635
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 4
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 48
Tasks completed: 37
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Fee's Task: Villains in Children's Stories Option 2: Night:
A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon J. Bolton235
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previously claimed in #631, but changing book 2
my readerboard name is 3 letters aka odd number, so I used option 2
book 1: read a book from the Marvel list
Thor, Volume 1: The Goddess of Thunder (my one graphic novel for this task)
found on p1, #30
book 2: read a book with title initials found in GALACTUS
An Anonymous Girl
AAG
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no point change = 845 points