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SPRING CHALLENGE 2019
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PAULA S15.8 - Right-Hand Cat
Read a book with a domestic cat on the cover
I read the kindle edition, PB for reference (no MMPB): By Book or By Crook
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 435
Big Book Ticket: 0
Golden Oldie: 1
20.6 - Seasoned Reader – Kristen IA’s Task: Tiptoe Through the TulipsOption 1, a book that is #4 in a series: The Best of Us by Robyn Carr (Sullivan's Crossing #4)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 720
DANIELLE M30.10 - Kaora's Task: Horsin' Around
Option 1. DRESSAGE
Book 1: The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
Book 2: The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 120
Books Read: 8
Tasks Complete: 4
Bookwrm526Task #25.2 - Spring Things
Option 1: Read a book which has two consecutive words in the title (NOT subtitle) which begin with the same consonant. I read The Shadowed Sun by N.K. Jemisin.
Option 2: Read a book which has a main page genre of Science Fiction, Sci Fi, or SyFy. I read Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi.
Total points so far: 765
Delicious Dee30.3 - ElaineL's task: The Big Bang Theory
Option 3 - Maisie Dobbs series; series was in progress before the start of this SRC season; both of these books are new to me; there are 8 books left in the series after finishing up these books
Book A - Among the Mad - #6 in the Maisie Dobbs series
Book B - The Mapping of Love and Death - #7 in the Maisie Dobbs series
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 515
Task 25.1 – Susan A’s Task: Die HardOption 2: Read a book that was FIRST published in December of any year.
Homeland Security Ate My Speech: Messages From the End of the World (2017) by Ariel Dorfman (male) (Hardcover, 214 pages) [814.6]
Option 4: Read a book with a gun on the cover.
Alternate Routes (Vickery and Castine #1) (2018) by Tim Powers (Hardcover, 277 pages)
385 + 25 = 410
Tasks Completed: 20
Points for this post: 25
Points thus far: 385 + 25 = 410
Books read: 30
Pages read: 8,306
Read but not claimed: 02
Goodreads Authors: 09
Golden Oldies: 02
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
SandyL30.5 - Dlmrose’s Task: Answered and Asked
Book 1: Read a book with a TITLE that could be a Jeopardy! answer.
To Live Again by V.L. Edwards
Book 2: Read a book with a TITLE that could be a response in the form of a question to the answer proposed in your book 1 title.
Why Resist a Rebel? by Leah Ashton
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Points This Task: 30
Total Points: 1015
Tasks Completed: 57
Books Read: 80
SandyL15.6 - Imagine Peace
Read a book with ‘bed” found intact in the title
Dead in Bed by Wendy Meadows
'Bed' in title
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 1030
Tasks Completed: 58
Books Read: 81
Pamela326520.5 - Bigger is Better - Librarianish's Task: TBR-Buster!
Option 2 William Shakespeare's The Jedi Doth Return by Ian Doescher – Author’s last initial found in to be reaD
This was added to my TBR list on July 29, 2014
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 335
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books:
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
DAWN70Task 30.9 - Sandy's Task: Sandy's Big Adventure
Two books; one must be nonfiction; both totalling 600+ pages. [books total 672 pages]
Option A:
This takes place in South Africa (Jo-burg/specifically the Soweto area - Southwestern Township of Johannesburg); nonfiction/autobiography; I listened to audio but PB version is 304 pages
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah, 5-21-19, 5*
Option B:
Single author; initials found in BIG FIVE ANIMALS; this is also nonfiction. I listened to audio but the PB version has 368 pages.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Margot Lee Shetterly, 5-9-19, 3*, 368 pgs. pub. 9-6-16
Points this task: 30
Total points: 380
Books read: 27
Tasks completed: 19
MEGSCL15.1 - Celebrate Your Name
Book 1: Author name begins with M - The Lubetkin Legacy by Marina Lewycka
Book 2: Option 2: 6 word title - And the Ocean Was Our Sky
TOTAL TO DATE
305 points
3 big books
MEGSCL25.1 – Susan A’s Task: Die Hard
Option 1. Read a book with 2 different numbers from 640 in the page count.
The Marriage Plot - 406 pages
Option 3: Read a book that takes place entirely in California.
The Girls
TOTAL TO DATE
330 points
3 big books
Barbara ★20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Tien's Task: Prequels & Midquels
Option 2: Read a book with series designation of #X.5 for which X can be any number other than 0.
Sins of the Father - Denise Grover Swank (#9.5 in series) 5/21
Points this task: 20
Total points: 540
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes -Paula S's Task: Springtime Traditions in SwedenOption 1: Read a book with all the letters in the word SEMLA in the TITLE,
Thirty-Six and a Half Motives - Denise Grover Swank 5/21
S: Six
E: motivEs
M: Motives
L: haLf
A: hAlf
Points this task: 20
Total points: 560
PAULA S5.10. What Makes a Villain?
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules. For this task, a book with the main page genre childrens or kids may be used if it is not found in AR Bookfinder.
- not in AR BookfinderI read the ebook, hardcover for reference (no PB or MMPB): Fyr 137
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 440
Big Book Ticket: 0
Golden Oldie: 1
PegW20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Fee's Task: Villains in Children's Stories
Option 2: Read a book with one of the following words in the TITLE (not subtitle): NIGHT, DARK, SLEEP.
The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator
Points this post: 20
Total points: 200
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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.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
I've never been to England/ the UK.
* Golden Oldie ticket: book first published in 1936 *
Book 2: National dish: Roast Beef
Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content by Colleen Jones
"r" in "aRt", "o" in "clOut", "a" in "Art", "s" in "Science", "t" in "arT", "b" in "weB", 2 "e's" in "sciEncE", and "f" in "inFluential"
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 390
Tasks Completed: 22
Books Read: 30
Golden Oldies: 6
Mai25.5 - SandyL's Task: Spring Festivals!
Option 2: Read a book with a main page genre of Humor. It can be standalone or embedded.
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
Option 3: Read a book set at least 50% in California
Golden State by Ben H. Winters
The setting is in a dystopian society in an alternate future where California is now.
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 415
Tasks Completed: 23
Books Read: 32
Golden Oldies: 6
Nick KY30.6 Tessa Vanessa’s DC vs. Marvel
My reader name has 6 characters, therefore I am doing Opt. 1: DC Comics.
Book 1. I read # 4 on the list, page 1, Batman: Year One. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Book 2. Using the villain name DARKSEID, I read Darkness at Dawn by Elizabeth Jennings, title words begin with letters in DArkseiD.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 960
Diana K20.9- Moderator's Pet - Fee's Task: Villains in Children's Stories
Opt 2 Read a book with one of the following words in the TITLE (not subtitle): NIGHT, DARK, SLEEP.
The Dark Flood Rises
Total points: 1030
Joanne MITask 20.6 Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Option 1-Read a book that is #2, #3, or #4 in a series
Holy Sister
(Book of the Ancestor #3)
Points this task 20
Total Points 325
Total BB's 3
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.7: Prequels & Midquels - Option 1: Prequels:
Countdown: The Doomsday Playbook Introductions by Rashad Freeman. This is a collection, containing #0.5, 1 and 2, acceptable as per task description. Could find ebook edition only, approved for length in ebook verification thread #7432.
Totals this posting:
Points: 20
Summary Totals:
Points: 135
Books Posted: 7
Tasks Completed: 7
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 500+: 0; 750+: 0; 1000+: 0
Sue T10.4 - Loki
a book found on the Best Plot Twist list - Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell which is on page 1 of the list.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 85/1030
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 5
Golden Oldies:
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ ()
Task 30.4 – Ava Catherine – Seeing DoubleREQUIRED: Total pages 501+: 288 + 448 = 736 p
RESTRICTIONS: NO Kids / Childrens books
Option 1 – Author Name has exactly TWO sets of double letters
lEE haRRis
Lee Harris / The Passover Murder – 288 pg
Option 2 – Author name -and- title each have at least one set of double letters
feRRante / briLLiant
Elena Ferrante / My Brilliant Friend
I listened to the audio / MMP: L'Amie prodigieuse - 448 p
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This Post: 30 points
Total points to date: 525 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 2
Big Books Read: (3) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / (0) 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 3
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 30.10: Horsing around - Option 3: Stadium Jumping.
Book 1: Bone Pit by Bette Golden Lamb & J. J. Lamb. #2 in the Gina Mazzio series.
Book 2: Prince of Dogs by Kate Elliott does NOT have any of the letters in FAULT in the title. Claim 1 Big Book ticket for 625 pages.
Totals this posting:
Points: 30
Big Book Tickets: 500+: 1
Summary Totals:
Points: 165
Books Posted: 9
Tasks Completed: 8
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 500+: 1; 750+: 0; 1000+: 0
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 15.5: Black & White: Deadly Slipper by Michelle Wan. The entire book is set in the Dordogne, France, listed on GR page.
Totals this posting:
Points: 15
Summary Totals:
Points: 180
Books Posted: 10
Tasks Completed: 9
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 500+: 1; 750+: 0; 1000+: 0
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 15.9: Renaissance Man: Photo Finished by Laura Childs. Author initials LC are in Leonardo da vinCi.
Totals this posting:
Points: 15
Summary Totals:
Points: 195
Books Posted: 11
Tasks Completed: 10
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 500+: 1; 750+: 0; 1000+: 0
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
I read an ebook edition of
Dubliners by James Joyce
who shares a first name with James Cagney who plays Tom Powers , villain #42
***Claiming Golden Oldies, first published in 1914***
New Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 530
GO's: 3
EMurphy10.4 Loki - Book that can be found on the Best Plot Twist list
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
*Found on first page of the list
This Task:
Points: 10
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 275
Books Read: 18
BB Ticket +500: 3
+750: 1
GO Ticket: 1
Tasks Completed: 15
PegW15.8 - Right-Hand Cat
Read a book with a domestic cat on the cover
Points this post: 15
Total points: 215
EMurphy15.5 It's Black and White - Set in one of the countries listed (France)
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
*Set entirely in France
This Task:
Points: 15
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 290
Books Read: 19
BB Ticket +500: 3
+750: 1
GO Ticket: 1
Tasks Completed: 16
EMurphy20.8 Nickels & Dimes-Paula S's Task: Springtime Traditions in Sweden
Option 1: Fat Tuesday-All the letters in the word SEMLA in the title
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 310
Books Read: 20
BB Tickets +500: 3
+750: 1
GO Ticket: 1
Tasks Completed: 17
15.1 - Celebrate Your NameUsing your SRC readerboard name: Jecca
Book 1:
Read a book written by a single author whose first or last name begins with the same letter as the FIRST letter in your readerboard name.
The Devil by Ashley Jade
Book 2: Option 1: Read a book with a title with the same number of characters* as your readerboard name. Jecca = 5 letters
Sloth = 5 letters
by Giana Darling
Points this task: 15
Total points: 325
Big book tickets: 0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Tasks completed: 21
25.1 – Susan A’s Task: Die HardOption 1.
Read a book with 2 different numbers from 640 in the page count.
Junk Mail by Kendall Ryan
306 pages
Option 2:
Read a book that was FIRST published in December of any year.
Ace of Harts by Dani René
First published December 2015
Points this task: 25
Total points: 350
Big book tickets: 0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Tasks completed: 22
25.2 - 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.
Darkest Deeds by Cora Kenborn
"DD"
Option 3. Heat Streak. read a book by an Australian author, born in or currently resides there.
BEAUTY: Part 1 by Kirsty Dallas
"author from the southeast corner of Queensland, in Australia."
*Approved for length post 7386
Points this task: 25
Total points: 375
Big book tickets: 0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Tasks completed: 23
Amy FL30.1 – Schatzie’s task: Villain One-liners
Option 1: Baby Teeth (baby)
Option 3: On the Chase - #2 in Rocky Mountain K9 Unit series
Points this post: 30
Total points: 330
Amy FL30.10 - Kaora's Task: Horsin' Around
Option 1. DRESSAGE
Book 1: Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch (a-K-v-e-s-H…)
Book 2: Extraordinary Means
Points this post: 30
Total points: 360
50.1 - Bluegrass Pam's Task: 2 is Better than 1!Book 1: If one author is good, two are better!
I read The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen.
(432 pages)
Book 2: If you like a single word title, you will love a single compound word title!
I read Sisterland. (400 pages)
Book 3: If one character’s name in a title works, two names are sure to be a winner!
I read Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. ( 325 pages).
Total pages for task : 1167
Task Points: 50
Total Points: 450
Tasks Complete: 18
Books Read: 28
Louise B30.4 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Seeing Double
Read two books, one from Book 1 and one from Book 2.
The page number total for both books must exceed 500 (i.e. must be 501 or greater).
Since villain is a double-letter word, we are going to look at words containing double-letters.
Book 1: Read a book in which the author’s name contains exactly TWO sets of double-letters. One qualifying author in a work by multiple contributors works.
Anarchy And Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill 272 pages
Author has two sets of double letters in last name
Book 2: Read a book in which the TITLE (subtitles are excluded) contains at least one set of double-letters, AND the author’s name contains at least one set of double-letters.
examples.
The Enemies of Versailles by Sally Christie 416 pages
Both title and author name have a set of double letters.
Total pages read is 688, which exceeds requirement of 500.
Points this task: 30
Number of tasks completed: 4
Total points to date: 85
DeborahPost 19
15.7 - Villains We Love To Hate
Sixth Grave on the Edge by Darynda Jones
Using Jones: James Earl Jones
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 310
Books read: 23
Tasks Done: 19
Janice CA30.4 - Seeing Double
Book 1: Author's name has two sets of double letters.
author: luciLLe baLL
Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball
and
Book 2: Title and author each have a set of double letters.
title: jeSSie's
author: jeSS
Jessie's Journey: Autobiography of a Traveller Girl by Jess Smith
pages: 256 + 245 = 501
+30
total: 95
tasks: 5
books: 7
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Task 5.6 - The shark in Jawsread a book from the Summer Reads set in Beach Towns list
The Summer I Turned Pretty
p1, #55
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20.5 - 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
Author's last name begins with A, found in TO BE READ
This book has been om my Want to Read-shelf since Sep 27, 2016
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 420
Big Book Ticket: 0
Golden Oldie: 1