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FALL CHALLENGE 2019
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RAYNEBAIR15.7. It's Halloween!
Read a book with a word from this Halloween Word List in its title/subtitle.
word used is dead
Dead in the Pond by Dahlia Donovan
ebook approved for length in message 7571
points this post: 15
total points: 30
bb tickets: 1
go tickets: 0
RAYNEBAIR10.3 - Listen Up
Read a book that has won or been nominated (a finalist) for an Audie Award.
The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Audie Award for Romance 2014
points this post: 10
total points: 40
bb tickets: 1
go tickets: 0
Suzannesea20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Brooklyn's Task: Two Truths and a Lie
Option 1
Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in AROUND THE WORLD.
God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
368 pages
around the WorLd
Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 135
Readerboard name Kathy P10.7 - Strike!
Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding
Author: Heather King
Points this task: 10
Totals
Points: 10
BB: 0
GO:0
Total Tasks completed: 1
Total Books read: 1
Readerboard name Kathy P15.7. It's Halloween!
Good Morning, Midnight
Word in list is MIDNIGHT
Points this task: 15
Totals
Points: 25
BB: 0
GO:0
Total Tasks completed: 2
Total Books read: 2
Readerboard name Kathy P20.2 - Rookie at the Top – Jen K's task: Fabulous Fall
Option 2: Murder on the Orient Express
Author:Agatha Christie
Points this task: 20
Claiming Golden Oldie
Totals
Points: 45
BB: 0
GO:1
Total Tasks completed: 3
Total Books read: 3
Sue T5.5 -Princess Leia
Book with the word STAR or WARS (plural) intact in the title/subtitle or series name
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 5/905
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldies:
Big Books: 500+ (), 750+ (), 1000+ ()
Sue T10.9 - Portrait of a Lady
Book with a cover that depicts a female figure alone with no other human forms present
Wildflower Heart by
by Grace GreenePoints this post: 10
Total Points: 15/905
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldies:
Big Books: 500+ (), 750+ (), 1000+ ()
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JUKKA20.2 - Rookie at the Top – Jen K's task: Fabulous Fall
Book whose title's initial letters make up a word.
Sacrifice of the Widow by Lisa Smedman. Title initials spells out STOW.
Total Points: 50/905
Total Books Read: 6
Tasks Completed: 6/54
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
HELEN A25.2 #2 HUMOR
Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions
Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions
#5 Look back -setting in Africa
The Poisonwood Bible
The Poisonwood Bible
Points this post: 25
Books this post: 2
Total points: 95
Total Books: 8
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
LAUREN JODI 15.2 - Falling?
Option #2: Feet on cover
Diamond Bay by Linda Howard
Confirmed in Post #6
Option 4: MPG Science Fiction
After Glow by Jayne Castle
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 125/905
Total Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 6/54
trishhartuk30.1 Ava Catherine’s task: A Great Dame
Option 2: Applied Science. Read a book (fiction or nonfiction) with the mpg World War I, World War II, medical or medicine.
Station X: The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park, Michael Smith
Shelved as WWII by 18 users
Genre locked in help thread message #12: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Option 3: Radium. Read a book by a single author whose name contains the letters RA in any order.
The Kappillan of Malta, Nicholas MonsarRAt
Read the kindle edition. PB link here
Points this task: 30
Books read: 2
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 140
Tasks completed: 8
Golden oldies: 3
Big Book tickets: 0
Ronda5.3 Not So Helpless After All
page 1 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
points this post: 5
points to date: 30
Ronda15.2 Falling
Option 1 - Alphas Like Us by Becca and Krista Ritchie (Farrow is a doctor that is doing his residency in the hospital during this book and later becomes concierge doctor)
Option 3 - Sinful Like Us by Becca and Krista Ritchie
points this post: 15
points to date: 45
Bookwrm526Task #20.2 - Fabulous Fall
Option 2: Read a book where the author’s initials can be found in the phrase APPLE CIDER. I read The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates (both initials in CiDer) (344p).
Total points so far: 170
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.1 Most Improved Player - LaureY's task: a Walk Through the Glens
Option 3: Bruiser by Neal Shusterman.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 145
Tasks completed:12/54
Books read: 13
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.2 Rookie at the Top – Jen K's task: Fabulous Fall
Option 1: This Impossible Light by Lily Myers.
word made it LIT
339 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 165
Tasks completed:13/54
Books read: 14
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.3 SandyL's Task - Thanksgiving!
Option 2: family by Micol Ostow.
384 pages
Option 4: Robert B. Parker's the Hangman's Sonnet by Reed Coleman Farrel Coleman.
369 pages
blaCk FRiday
Points this post: 25
Total points: 190
Tasks completed:14/54
Books read: 16
trishhartuk20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Brooklyn's Task: Two Truths and a Lie
Option 2: Read a book with a car or a paved road on which a car could drive on the cover.
(289pg)(I know the image is small, although I think you can still make out cars on a road. The Amazon page for this edition shows the same cover, but a bit bigger: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Delegates-Ch...)
Points this task: 20
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 160
Tasks completed: 9
Golden oldies: 3
Big Book tickets: 0
Delicious Dee20.4 - GOLDEN OLDIES - Tien's task: My Big Classic Books Year
Option 1: - Flying Too High - shelved as cultural>australia by 78ppl (as of 16 september)
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 170
TraceyL (Readerboard Name)5.2 - Damsel-in-Distress
Read a book written by an author whose initials can be found in DAMSEL IN DISTRESS.
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
daMseL in distRess
Points Earned This Post: 5
Total Points Earned: 95
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Sandra5.3 - Not So Helpless After All
Read a book found on the Badass Female Leads! Listopia.
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
This book is #11 on the list.
Points this post: 5
Total points to date: 55
Readerboard Name: Absurda20.4 - GOLDEN OLDIES - Tien's task: My Big Classic Books Year
Option 2: Publishing year
For this option, read a book that was first published between 1605 - 1975 (inclusive)
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
First published in 1932 claim one golden oldie ticket
Points this task: 20
Golden Oldies Ticket This Task: 1
Big Book Ticket This Task: 0
Total Points to date: 75
Total Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
30.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: A Great DameOption 1, a non-fiction book with mpg science or biography: Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
Option 3, A book by an author whose name contains the letters RA: Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine G. Johnson
Points this post: 30
Total points: 75
5.5 - Princess LeiaTwo Girls Staring at the Ceiling by Lucy Frank
❁ STAR found intact in STARing ❁
Total points: 95 + 5 = 100
Andy PTask # 10.1 - I’ll Be There For You
Read a book that a Goodreads friend has read and rated 5 stars. Thank you Dlmrose for being my friend. This is a 5 star book from her list: Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge by Gordon Edgar
Points this post: 10
Total points: 100
Andy P.Task # 15.6. Inventors Day
Read a nonfiction book with the MPG Science
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson Nonfiction, and Science are MPG
Points this post: 15
Total points: 115
Kathy KS25.6 - TraceyL's Task: Princess Peach
Two book task. Choose two options and read one book for each.
Option 1: Read a book written by an author using a pen name or alias.
REQUIRED: If the book's main page author listing does not include both the pseudonym and the real name, you must include a reference when you post.
Any Duchess Will Do, by Tessa Dare
(Real name, Eve Ortega - see: https://www.orangecoast.com/stuff-we-love/romance-novelist/
I read this as an audiobook. mmpb=375 p.
Option 4: Read a book with a building on the cover.
REQUIRED: Include the cover in your post.
Forgotten heiress, by Wendy SolimanI read this as an ebook. pb=264 p.
*****
Points for this task: 25
Total points : 30
Tasks completed: 2
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Laurah3020.4 - GOLDEN OLDIES - Tien's task: My Big Classic Books Year
Option 2: Publishing year
For this option, read a book that was first published between 1605 - 1975 (inclusive)
Wuthering Heights published 1847
Claiming 1 GO ticket
Points this task: 20
Total points to date: 50
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 0
Tasks complete: 3
Books read: 3
Kathy KS10.5 - Zero In
Read a book with a zero in the number of pages.
Die Upon a Kiss, by Barbara Hambly
I read the ebook; pb=480 p. [no mmpb] Die Upon a Kiss
*****
Points for this task: 10
Total points : 40
Tasks completed: 3
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Kathy KS20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Brooklyn's Task: Two Truths and a Lie
Option 3: Read a book with a MPG of biography or autobiography. The genre may be standalone or embedded.
This Fight Is Our Fight, by Elizabeth Warren
352 pages [hb]
*****
Points for this task: 20
Total points : 60
Tasks completed: 4
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
20.4 - GOLDEN OLDIES - Tien's task: My Big Classic Books YearOption 2, a book first published between 1605-1975: Flush: A Biography by Virginia Woolf, first published 1933
Points this post: 20
Total points: 95
Readerboard: JENBENT15.10. What's New in 2019?
The Other Americans
from the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 list in the month of March
Points this post: 15
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Big Books this post: 0
Total points: 70
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Diana K.Task 5.5 Princess Leia, read a book with the word STAR or WARS (plural) intact in the title/subtitle or series name.
A River of Stars
Total points: 30
Diana K.10.7 - Strike! Read a book written by a single author with a name part that begins with a K.
My First Loves by Ivan Klíma
Total points: 40
Diana K.15.5 Back to School. Time to read something that might be assigned reading - read a book with the main page genre Classics, standalone or embedded.
The Old Man and the Sea
Total points: 55
Diana K.30.5 - Mazza1's Task (passed to Sarah E): All Hail Flavia
Opt 1 Read a book from this list.
Memoirs of Hadrian On page 1
Opt 2 Read a book with a word of at least five letters in the title or subtitle that ends in Y.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Total points: 85
ElaineL5.2 - Damsel In Distress
Read a book written by an author whose initials can be found in DAMSEL IN DISTRESS.
Tommy by Sean Michael (ebook verified here)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 95
ElaineL10.5 - Zero In
Read a book with a zero in the number of pages.
Something For Santa 130 pages
Points this post: 10
Total points: 105
ElaineL5.8 - Ann Darrow
Read a book with two or more consecutive words in the title/subtitle that start with the same letter.
And Manny Makes Seven
Points this post: 5
Total points: 110
ElaineL15.2. Falling
Required: Specify in your post the options you chose.
Option 2: Read a book with human feet on the cover.
Where Death Meets the Devil
Required: Include the cover in your post.
Option 4: Read a book with the main page genre science fiction standalone or embedded.
Chaos Station (ebook verified in line #623 of the SRC ebook verification form at time of posting)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 125
Lisa MD15.5. Back to School.
Read a book with the main page genre Classics
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 136 pp
*Listened to audiobook. Linked to MMPB
*I claim a Golden Oldie ticket. Published in 1912
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TOTALS:
Current Points: 15
Total Points: 105/905
Tasks Completed: 7/54
Books Read: 8
BB Tickets:
GO: 1
15.6. Inventors DayGulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Total this Post: 15
Season Total: 135
Kathryn CA15.6 - Princess Buttercup
Read a book that has yellow letters on the cover.
Current Points: 5
Total Points: 5/905
Kathryn CA20.6 - Seasoned Reader – Roxana's task: Well-seasoned fowl
Option 3: Read a book identified on Goodreads as #1 in a series.
The Lost Hero - #1 in the Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan. IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19.0
The second book in the series is The Son of Neptune which was published October 4, 2011.
I'm claiming a BB ticket. It has 557 pages.
Current Points: 20
Total Points: 25
Readerboard name Kathy P10.9 - Portrait of a Lady
The Paris Architect
Points this task: 10
Totals
Points: 55
BB: 0
GO:1
Total Tasks completed: 4
Total Books read: 4
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The character's name is Mary.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 45