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SPRING CHALLENGE 2019
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M1nks5.1 - The Case Against Sugar
(Just in case: The Case Against Sugar)
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 110
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 1
M1nks5.5 -
Pub 1910* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
(The burglar on the left is wearing a blue outdoor coat)
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 115
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 1
M1nks5.9 - Indiscretions of Archie Pub 1921
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie ticket *
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 120
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 1
M1nks10.1 - Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 130
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 1
M1nks10.2 - ほんと野獣 1 Honto Yajuu 1
Yakuza = Japanese Mob Family
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 140
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 1
M1nks10.6 - Carry On
* I Claim 1 x Big Book Ticket *
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 150
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 2
M1nks10.7 - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 160
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 2
M1nks10.8 - The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 170
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 2
M1nks15.5 - ほんと野獣 2 Honto Yajuu 2 - this is set in Tokoyo (Japan)
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 185
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 2
M1nks20.1 - 3B The Spanish Bride Pub 1940
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
(This book is set at least 50% in Spain)
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 205
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 2
Bookwrm526Task #15.6 - Imagine Peace
Read a book with ‘bed” found intact in the title, subtitle or author's name. I read Deathbed & Breakfast by Bart J. Gilbertson.
Total points so far: 645
Nick KY20.8 Paula S’s Springtime in Sweden
Opt. 2. Author’s inits in VFFELDAGEN. I read Consequence: A Memoir by Eric Fair: “vfFEldagen.”
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So far: 810
15.7 - Villains We Love To HateRead a book written by a single author whose name matches the name of a performer who played one of AFI’s 50 Greatest Screen Villains
Absolutes and Other Stories by Robert Stanek Villain actor: #28 Robert Mitchum
Points 15
Total 170
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. For example J.K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
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Points this post: 20
Total points: 180
Total GO tickets: 1
Total BB tickets: 1
Nick KYRepost: Something bizarre went on with my first post. I am unsure if it got posted or not. I am reposting.
20.8 Paula S’s Springtime in Sweden
Opt. 2. Author’s inits in VFFELDAGEN. I read Consequence: A Memoir by Eric Fair: “vfFEldagen.”
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So far: 810
15.5 - It's Black and WhiteRead 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.
Prism Between Normal California and alternate California, there is more than 50% of the book set in California.
Points 15
Total 185
Ed30.8 - Cat's Task: Big Oldies
Option 1-
Book 1-Kim by Rudyard Kipling
pub. 1901 ***I Claim 1 GO Ticket***
366 pages
Book 2- The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
pub. 1840 ***I Claim 1 GO Ticket***
576 pages ***I Claim 1 BB Ticket***
366 + 576= 942 pages
Points This Task: 30
Total Points: 245
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 17
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 4
Diana K.5.9. 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.
Interpreter of Maladies
Total points: 850
ED20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Raynebair's Task: A Day In the Life Of...
Option 3- An Unobstructed View: A Personal Journey from Illinois to Arizona
Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 265
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 18
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 4
babbling c15.4 - Number, Please?
Option 2: read one book that fulfills BOTH book 1 and book 2 requirements.
ex #7 - S Shattered, #8 - T Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd , #9 - W Wind Spirit
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand audible Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand paperback pg. 282 by Carrie Vaughn
#5 in the Kitty Norville series #5 = K
THIS POST
Points: 15
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies: 0
Total This Season
Points: 325/1030
Completed Tasks: 18/58
Golden oldies: 3
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Pages read this season: 8,502
Books read this season: 22
ED20.5 - Bigger is Better - Librarianish's Task: TBR-Buster!
Option 2- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Book was on my TBR and author's last nitial"R" found in "TO BE READ"
Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 285
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 19
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 4
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Raynebair's Task: A Day In the Life Of...Option 2: Pack Up the Moon by Rachael Herron
author initials (RH) found in BIOGRAPHY
Total points: 475 + 20 = 495
30.9 – Sandy’s Task: Sandy's Big AdventureBoth of the books I read are set in South Africa, meeting Option A.
Long Walk to Freedom
Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
The first book (Long Walk to Freedom) is 656 pages, so I easily meet the 600-page requirement for the task.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 130
Big Book tickets: 1
JUKKA20.4 - Golden Oldies - Louise B's Task: In The Garden
Option 1: Book with one of the words BLACK, RUFFLES, SUN, GOLD, NUGGET, MOUNTAIN, or MERIT in title/subtitle.
The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark.
Total Points: 450/1030
Total Books Read: 39
Tasks Completed: 34/58
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0
Andy P.Task 3 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Tien's Task: Prequels & Midquels
Option 2. Midquels:
Read a book with series designation of #X.5 for which X can be any number other than 0. No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories by Lee Child Book is #21.5 in Jack Reacher Series. Book was suggested by Task Creator in Message 20 of help thread
Points this post: 20
Total points: 855
Mod
I chose option 2B, and read The Waters of Eternal Youth - I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top paperback (no MMPB). Set 100% in Italy (Venice)
New total: 785
30.3 - ElaineL's task: The Big Bang TheoryBoth books from option 2, a book that has 267-291 pages:
The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman 290 pages
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
paperback edition Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love 272 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 645
EMurphy10.8 Spring Fever - Book in which M A M can be found in the title/subtitle/author's name
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara
This Task:
Points: 10
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 235
Books Read: 15
BB Ticket +500: 3
+750: 1
GO Ticket: 1
Tasks Completed: 13
Suzannesea15.6 Imagine Peace
Read a book with 'bed' found in the title.
The Cat Who Robbed a Bank by Lilian Jackson Braun
robBED
Points this post: 15
Total points date: 270
Suzannesea5.10 What Makes a Villain?
Read a book of your choice.
The Water-Saving Garden: How to Grow a Gorgeous Garden with a Lot Less Water by Pam Penick
Points this post: 5
Total points to date: 275
Joanne MITask 10.5 Spring into Action:Read a book with the MPG Action and/or Adventure
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey -Tagged as Adventure(231 tags)
Points this task 10
Total Points 295
Total BB's 3
StaceyNC15.8 - Right-Hand Cat
Read a book with a domestic cat on the cover
Book:
Completed: 5/14/19
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 465
Tasks Completed: 22
Jayme(the ghostreader)10.6 Spring Break
Legaciesby Mercedes Lackey
set in a school for children with magical powers. The characters are high school age.
Task +10
Grand Total: 70
5.7. The JokerA Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 4
Bigger is Better: 7
Season Total: 840
Bookwrm526Task 30.7 - The Villain Archetype
Option 1: Femme Fatale, read a book from the list Dangerous Teen Girls. I read Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins (page 1, position 89 at time of posting) (323p).
Option 4: Predators, read a book from the list Serial Killers. I read The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston (this list only has one page) (322p).
323+322=645pp
Total points so far: 675
15.10 - Celebration of the QueenOption 2: Read a book set at least 50% during Queen Victoria's lifetime - the years 1819 -1901 inclusive.
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Goodreads blurb: It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. (all except for about 1 page takes place in the year 1900)
TOTAL TO DATE
255 points
3 big books
MEGSCL15.9 - A True Renaissance Man
Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in LEONARDO DA VINCI. The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
TOTAL TO DATE
270 points
3 big books
30.9 – Sandy’s Task: Sandy's Big AdventureI chose to read 2 books from the same option.
Option B: Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in the phrase BIG FIVE ANIMALS.
Nonfiction: I read Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy by Stephanie Nielson.
Fiction: I read From the Kitchen of Half Truth by Maria Goodin.
Task Points: 30
Total Points: 345
Tasks Complete: 15
Books Read: 23
Pamela326510.3 - Vincent Vega
Blood for Blood by Victoria Selman
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 265
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
5.8. Annie WilkesBooks about Books and Authors (#17)
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 4
Bigger is Better: 7
Season Total: 845
Dakimel5.6. The shark in Jaws
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves - pg 2 of the Vacations from Hell list
Tally: +5
Total: 745
Dakimel15.1 - Celebrate Your Name
1: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
2-2: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
Tally: +15
Total: 760
Dakimel15.5 - It's Black and White
Playing for Keeps - set 100% in CA, as noted in the GR series description: https://www.goodreads.com/series/1690...
Tally: +15
Total: 775
Dakimel30.3 - ElaineL's task: The Big Bang Theory
2: Fight or Flight
3: Someone to Wed - new-to-me, #3 in the Westcott series, which I began before 2019; there are 2 published later books in the series I haven't yet read
Tally: +30
Total: 805
Task 15.2 - Villains- Real and Imagined2Book 1 - Real - Read a nonfiction book with a main page genre of True Crime or Truecrime. The genre may be standalone or embedded.
The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World (2015) by Anthony M. Amore (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 264 pages) [702.874]
Book 2 - Read a fiction book with a main page genre of Crime. The genre may be standalone or embedded.
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good (2018) by Helene Tursten; translated by Marlaine Delargy (Hardcover, 173 pages)
320 + 15 = 335
Tasks Completed: 17
Points for this post: 15
Points thus far: 320 + 15 = 335
Books read: 25
Pages read: 7,206
Read but not claimed: 04
Goodreads Authors: 08
Golden Oldies: 02
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Task 30.10 - Kaora's Task: Horsin' AroundOption 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.
Initials: P, L
Swing, Swing Together (Sergeant Cribb #7) (1976) by Peter Lovesey (Paperback, 266 pages)
Book 2. Read a book written by a single author with an X in the TITLE or the author's name.
The Expert System's Brother (2018) by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 167 pages)
335 + 30 = 365
Tasks Completed: 18
Points for this post: 30
Points thus 335 + 30 = 365
Books read: 27
Pages read: 7,639
Read but not claimed: 03
Goodreads Authors: 09
Golden Oldies: 02
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
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20.3 Burdened with Glorious Purpose
Option 1 I am Loki … of Asgard.
Book with main page genre Superheroes
Black Panther: Long Live the King
Total to date 750 points