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FALL CHALLENGE 2019
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25.6 - TraceyL's Task: Princess PeachOption 1:Read a book written by an author using a pen name or alias.
I listened to an audio version of Shadowland by Jenny Carroll which is a pen name for Meg Cabot
Option 2: Read a book originally published in 1985.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
New Points: 25
Total Challenge Points: 150
GO's: 2
Coralie20.6Well-seasoned Fowl
Option 3 Leaving the Nest
The Grace of Kings being book #1 in the Dandelion Dynasty.
Book #2 was published in 2016
Total to date 110 points
Kathryn CA5.4 - Princess Fiona
Read a book that has all the letters of OGRE (in any order) in the title/subtitle and/or the author's name. Books must be written by a single author.
Daughters of Rome by Kate Quinn
dauGhtERs of rOme
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 30
Queen Bee DarleneThe Haunting of Hill House10.10 Scooby-Dooby-Doo - Ghost Stories List
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House
Page 1, #2 on Ghost Stories list
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 180
30.2 - Dlmrose’s Task: The People in Your NeighborhoodMy Readerboard Name: Tien
Book 1 -Using my group of “above” neighbors: Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in ONE of that group’s Readerboard names. All of the author's initials must be used.
THUNDERBRITCHES
THYAN
TIA
The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky
author's initials, UD, found in thUnDerbritches
Book 2 - Using my group of “below” neighbors: Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in ONE of that group’s Readerboard names. All of the author's initials must be used.
TIFF K
TIFFANI
TIFFANY
Fatal Impact (Dr. Anya Crichton #7) by Kathryn Fox
author's initials, KF, found in tifF K
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 195
Cordelia10.5 Zero in
Accommodations by Wioletta Greg
170 pages.
zero in number of pages
Points: 10
Total points: 220
APRILLEIGH15.6 - Inventors Day
Read a nonfiction book with the MPG Science or Technology, standalone or embedded.
Blood & Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars by Sam Vincent
Genre verified in the help thread.
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 15 (50)
Golden Oldie: 0 (1)
Big Book: 0 (0)
Books Read: 1 (4)
Total Tasks: 4
Breanna15.2. Falling?
Option 2
Read a book with one or more human feet on the cover.
Radical Relations by Daniel Rivers
Option 3
Read the last or most recently published book in a series.
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 30
Tasks completed: 3
Books Read: 4
Suzannesea20.8 Nickels & Dimes - Peg W's Task: The Scents of Fall
Option 1
Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in BAKED GOODS.
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
baKed Goods
Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 155
10.7 - Strike!The Doubleman by Christopher J. Koch
author's last name stars with K for Koch
Total this Post: 10
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 205
Amy FL15.8. A Parade - for me?
Kids of Appetite by David Arnold (pAraDe)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 90
15.8. A Parade - for me?The Complete Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe
author's initials, EP, found in ParadE
1x Golden Oldies tix (pub. 1831)
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 2
Season Total: 220
Amy FL20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk's task: We Didn’t Start the Fire
Option 2: X - Malcolm X (approved in message 2)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 110
Amy FL20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Peg W's Task: The Scents of Fall
Option 1: My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (baked gooDS)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 130
Amy FL30.4- Sandy's task: The Long and the Short of It
Book 1: Ambush (one-word title, 364 pages)
Book 2: The Ballad of Black Tom (five-word title, 149 pages)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 160
Blueberry20.7 Opt. 3: read a book with a MPG of biography or autobiography.
The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table
This is a Big Book with 560 pgs.
Pts this post: 21
Total pts: 20
Books read: 1
BB: 1
Blueberry20.1 Opt 3: read a book where the letters J, K, Q, V, W, X, Y, Z do NOT appear in the title, subtitle, or author’s names.
The Singing Of The Dead
Pts this post: 20
Total pts: 40
Books read: 1
30.6 - BrookeTX's task: Riot GrrlsBook 1: Read a book whose author shares a name with one of the musicians from this list: Riot grrl musicians. Names must match exactly, but can be found in any position.
Land of Fences (Winter #3) by Mark Smith
author's last name, Smith, matches musician's name: Erin Smith
Book 2: Read a book whose title contains a word* found in one of the band names from this list: Riot Girrls Bands. Words must match exactly. (*The word ""The"" may not be used.)
Cold Grave (Dr. Anya Crichton #6) by Kathryn Fox
word in title, Cold, can be found in band name: Cold Cold Hearts
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies: 2
Season Total: 250
Task 25.7 - Literary MonthsSeptember Read a book from the list Man Booker International Prize: Eligible Books 2019
I read #2 on the list:
Convenience Store Woman (2016) by Sayaka Murata; translated from Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Hardcover, 163 pages)
October Read a book first published between 1949 and 2019 (inclusive) with title of at least three words (ignore subtitles), where the title initials can be found in CHELTENHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL
ChelTenhAM lIterary festival
A Month in the Country (1980) by J.L. Carr (male) (Paperback, 135 pages)
Booker Prize Nominee (1980)
20 + 25 = 45
Tasks Completed: 02
Points for this post: 25
Points thus far: 20 + 25 = 45
Books read: 03
Pages read: 650
Read but not claimed: 04
Goodreads Authors: 01
Golden Oldies: 00
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Anja5.2 - Damsel-in-Distress
Read a book written by an author whose initials can be found in DAMSEL IN DISTRESS.
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
POINTS:
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 10
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks Completed: 2
Helen BMod
30.5 - All Hail Flavia
Option 2
Deep in the Valley by Robyn Carr
Valley ends with Y
Option 4
Silk and Shadows by Mary Jo Putney
Shadows in title “I Am Half-Sick of Shadows”
Points this post: 30
Total points: 175
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 11
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.5 Mazza1's Task (passed to Sarah E): All Hail Flavia
Option 2: To Be Perfectly Honest: A Novel Based on an Untrue Story by Sonya Sones.
Option 3:
by Carol Lynch Williams.Points this post: 30
Total points: 280
Tasks completed:19/54
Books read: 23
25.7 - Cat's Task: Literary MonthsSeptember includes International Translation Day.
Read a book from the list Man Booker International Prize: Eligible Books 2019
Page 1
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
October finds the Cheltenham Literary Festival in full swing, and celebrating its 70th Anniversary
Read a book first published between 1949 and 2019 (inclusive) with title of at least three words (ignore subtitles), where the title initials can be found in CHELTENHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL
ChelTenham FestIval, 2011
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 40
trishhartuk25.3 SandyL’s task: Thanksgiving!
Option 1: Read a book about cooking, baking or chefs from one of the following lists.
Blood Orange Brewing, Laura Childs (304pg)
Mysteries in Good Taste, Page 1, #86
Option 4: Read a book written by an author whose initials are included in BLACK FRIDAY.
A Whisker In The Dark, Leighann Dobbs
Read the kindle edition. PB link here (216pg)
bLack friDay
Total pages: 304 + 216 = 520
Points this task: 25
Books read: 2
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 230
Tasks completed: 13
Golden oldies: 4
Big Book tickets: 0
Bookwrm526Task #30.2 - The People In Your Neighborhood
My three above neighbors are Booktrovert, Booklover and Booklearner.
My three below neighbors are Boromom, Boston Kate and Bouchra.
Book 1: Using either your group of “above” or “below” neighbors: Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in ONE of that group’s Readerboard names. I chose Bouchra from my neighbor below group and read The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz.
Book 2: Using the OTHER group not used in Book 1: Read a book with ALL of the letters of ONE of that group’s Readerboard names in the title and/or subtitle. I used Booklearner from my neighbor above group for this one and read The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara (B from black, OO from lagoon, K from black, L from lagoon, EA from legacy, RNE from monsters, and R from Patrick).
Total points so far: 220
Delicious Dee5.3 - Not So Helpless After All
Silence Fallen - #10 in the Mercy Thompson series; Moon Called is the first book in series and found in position 15 on the list
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 185
Jen K10.2 - Here’s to Health
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
MPG Non-Fiction and Health
~~~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 90
Tasks Completed: 5
Big Books: 2
Readerboard Name: Absurda10.2 - Here’s to Health
October is Health Literacy Month. Read a nonfiction book with a main page genre Health, standalone or embedded.
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
MPG: Health, Health > Medicine and Health > Health Care
Points this task: 10
Golden Oldies Ticket This Task: 0
Big Book Ticket This Task: 0
Total Points to date: 95
Total Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Nick KY20.7 Brooklyn’s Two Truths and a Lie Option a. I read Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman, whose initials are in “around THe world.”
Total Points So Far: 205
Sarah H10.2 - Here’s to Health - Read a nonfiction book with a main page genre Health, standalone or embedded.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Points this task: 10
Total points to date: 45
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Tasks complete: 4
Books read: 4
LaureY20.5 - Bigger is Better - Diane Whitney's Task: Party Like It's 1999!
Please read a book that contains three (or more) number 9s.
The Quiet Game by Greg Isles
This book was published in 1999.
I claim a Big Book ticket for this book as it is 580 pages long.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 125/905
Total Books: 10
Total Tasks: 7/54
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets this post: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 6
5.5 STAR or WARS (plural) intact in the title/subtitle or series name The World According to Star Wars by Cass R. Sunstein
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 105/905
Tasks completed: 9/54
Books Read: 10
Golden Oldies:
Big Books:500+(1) 750+(0) 1000+(0)
20.2 - Rookie at the Top – Jen K's task: Fabulous FallOption 2: Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig
❁ author's initials (CR) can be found in CIDER ❁
❁ 448 pages ❁
Total points: 110 + 20 = 130
15.10 - What's New in 2019?Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
❁ found on Most Anticipated Books of 2019, the last book in March ❁
Total points: 130 + 15 = 145
Tasks completed:1Books read: 2
Points this post: 30
Total points: 30
30.3
Option 3:
Page 1 - Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Page 1 - Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Cordelia20.9 The Gentle Ones
Option 1: Ancient Shores by Jack McDevitt
Author's name contains a J and a M
Points: 20
Total points: 240
perletwo 30.3 - TessaVanessa's Task: Picture this - Option 3: Choose a book from this list of Silhouette Covers.
A Caribbean Mystery - list p. 3
Option 4: Read a book by a single author where the initials of the author's first and last name (ignore middle names/initials) can be found in either FLOWERS or INSECTS.
Dietland by Sarai Walker
Points this task: 30
Total points: 205
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 1
Big Book ticket requests: 1
Books read: 17
Tasks completed: 12
Diana K.Task 30.4- Sandy's task: The Long and the Short of It
Book 1. Read a long book, at least 350 pages, with a short title, no more than 2 words.
The Trick 384 pages.
Book 2. Read a short book, fewer than 200 pages, with a long title, at least 5 words.
Signs Preceding the End of the World 114 pages
Total points: 135
Queen Bee Darlene10.6 Birth of the Internet
Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in AdvancedResearchProjectsAgencyNetwork consecutively
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
advanceDResearchprojectsagencynetwork
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 190
Julia1035.4 - Princess Fiona
Message from Malaga (O and R in from, G and E in Message)
This post: 5 points
Total points: 135
BB: 0
GO:0
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 10
Sarah H20.4 - GOLDEN OLDIES - Tien's task: My Big Classic Books Year - Option 3: Imprints. Read a book from one of these lists: Vintage Classics Red Spine
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Currently position #33 on list.
Points this task: 20
Total points to date: 65
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Tasks complete: 5
Books read: 5
10.4 - Give ThanksRisk by Fleur Ferris
99.9% set in Australia
Total this Post: 10
Golden Oldies: 2
Season Total: 260
Jackie O.20.1 - Most Improved Player - LaureY's task: a Walk Through the Glens
Option 2
For this option, read a book that contains all the letters of FAIRY in the title/subtitle.
Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy by Serena Valentino
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 120
Jackie O.5.8 - Ann Darrow
... read a book with two or more consecutive words in the title/subtitle that start with the same letter. Ex: Tangled Threat; The Wallflower Wager; Darkly Dreaming Dexter; When We Believed in Mermaids
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 125
ANGIE CA30.6 - BrookeTX's task: Riot Grrls
Book 1: Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Notes: JENNIFER finch
Book 2: Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
Notes: 7 YEAR bitch
Total Points: 120
Teresa Jo30.5 Mazza1's Task (passed to Sarah E): All Hail Flavia
Read two books
Option 2: Read a book with a word of at least five letters in the title that ends in Y
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
And the answer is HARRY
Option 4: Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title that matches a word in a Flavia title
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
"The Golden Tresses of the Dead" with the special shared word of DEAD
This book is not shelved as "children" or "kids"
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 115
Teresa Jo15.7 It's Halloween
Read one book
Read a book with a word from the Halloween Word List in its title
Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
Once again, the special word is DEAD
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 130
Teresa Jo10.6 Birth of the Internet
Read one book
Read a book with an author whose initial are found consecutively:
advancedresear(CH)projectsagencynetwork
Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris = CH -the last two letters in the word RESEARCH.
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 140
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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