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FALL CHALLENGE 2019
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Task 25.5 - Create Your Own Compound Word500+ pages total
Read two books with 4+letter words in the title that can be combined to make a compound word
book 1: The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
word: WORLD
600 pages
book 2: A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East
word: LIND
MMPB - Une ligne dans le sable - 500 pages
compound word: WORLDLINE (see https://www.dictionary.com/browse/wor...)
600 + 500 > 500pages
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775 points
trishhartuk20.5 Bigger is Better - Diane Whitney's Task: Party Like It's 1999!
To help celebrate her birthday, please read a book that contains three (or more) number 9s, using only the following data: Numbers in First Publish date
Them Bones, Carolyn Haines (336pg)
First published January 1st 1999
The 9s are all in the first published date - 1999
Points this task: 15
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 545
Tasks completed: 32
Golden oldies: 7
Big Book tickets: 0
SALLY M.20.4 My Big Classic Books Year
Option 1: MPG Cultural > Russia (verified)
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 730
Tasks completed: 43
Books read: 60
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 12
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 6
Flutterby5.1 - Taking Action
Read a book with the MPG Action and/or Adventure. The genre may be standalone or embedded.
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 265
Golden Oldies total: 1
Total Tasks: 22
Flutterby5.5 - Princess Leia
In honor of Princess Leia, read a book with the word STAR or WARS (plural) intact in the title/subtitle or series name
The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord
STAR is intact in the word STARt
Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 270
Golden Oldies total: 1
Total Tasks: 23
Flutterby5.9 - Elizabeth Swann
In honor of Swann and Sparrow, read a book with a bird on the cover or the name of a specific type of bird in the title/subtitle.
by Shea ErnshawPoints This Task: 5
Total Points: 275
Golden Oldies total: 1
Total Tasks: 24
Flutterby10.7 - Strike!
Read a book written by a single author with a name part that begins with a K.
Bloom by Kevin Panetta
Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 285
Golden Oldies total: 1
Total Tasks: 25
Flutterby10.8 - Forget-Me-Not
Read a book by an author who, at the time you select your book, is deceased.
The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
Date of author’s death included on Goodreads author page. January 12, 1976
Claiming Golden Oldie Ticket: 1923
Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 295
Golden Oldies total: 2
Total Tasks: 26
Flutterby15.2. Falling? - Two Required
For this task, choose two different reasons why you might fall this fall, and read a book for each of those two options.
Option 3. Read the last or most recently published book in a series. The book must be identified as part of a series on Goodreads (series, #).
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
2nd and most recently published book in the Simon Snow series.
Option 4. Read a book with the main page genre science fiction or fantasy, standalone or embedded.
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 310
Golden Oldies total: 2
Total Tasks: 27
APRILLEIGH10.9 - Portrait of a Lady
Read a book with a cover that depicts a female figure alone with no other human forms present.
Delivering the Truth by Edith MaxwellCover approved in the help thread.
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 10 (905)
Golden Oldie: 0 (19)
Big Book: 0 (7)
Books Read: 1 (71)
Total Tasks: 54
Now I need to catch up on housework...
30.5Option 2: word of 5+ letters in title/subtitle ends in Y. Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
Word: Paternity, Genealogy
Option 4: word of 4+ letters in title/subtitle matches word in a Flavia title
The Grave's a Fine and Private Place Alan Bradley
All the words, this is a Flavia de Luce book. Private
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 550/905
Tasks completed: 35/54
Books Read: 45
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books:500+(1) 750+(0) 1000+(0)
JEN B.20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Peg W's Task: The Scents of Fall
Option 1: For this option, read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in the words BAKED GOODS. All initials must be found in the target phrase.
Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do by Sarah Knight (11/11/19)
TOTAL POINTS: 145
Flutterby10.2 - Here’s to Health
Read a nonfiction book with a main page genre Health, standalone or embedded.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 320
Golden Oldies total: 2
Total Tasks: 28
Flutterby15.1. Knock Knock!
Book 1. Read a book in which the same word appears at least twice in the title/subtitle.
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
Book 2: Read a book the title/subtitle of which contains the word "who" or "who's."
The Ones Who Got Away by Roni Loren
Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 335
Golden Oldies total: 2
Total Tasks: 29
Nick KY30.6 Brooke TX’s Riot Girls
For my first book, I read The Joy Plan: How I Took 30 Days to Stop Worrying, Quit Complaining, and Find Ridiculous Happiness by Kaia Roman.
Musician: Kaia Wilson
Author: Kaia Roman
matching name: Kaia
For my second book, I read The Father and a Dream Play by August Strindberg.
Band: Dream Nails
Title: The Father and A Dream Play
matching word: Dream
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 750
babbling c15.7. It's Halloween!
Read a book with a word from this Halloween Word List in its title/subtitle.
Plural, singular, and possessive forms for listed words may be used. No other variations.
Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble - kindle Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble - paperback pg 245 by H.P. Mallory
word: Cauldron
THIS POST
Points:15
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies:
Total This Season
Points:225/905
Completed Tasks: 14/54
Golden oldies: 0
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Pages read this season: 6,141
Books read this season:17
30.4 The Long and the Short of ItBook 1: Cinder (400 pages)
Book 2: The Lifespan of a Fact (128 pages)
+30 = 400 points total.
Nick KYWait, wait, wait, wait, wait---
I completely messed up. I had meant to read STrindberg's "The Dream Play," but then realized it was too short -- then I meant to read it in a volume collected with other STrinberg plays -- but then I didn't. Instead, I read "A Midsuumer Night's Dream" -- but I forgot to change it in my pre-post editing.
So, I will replace 30.6 Brooke TX's Riot Grrrls with this:
Nick KY
30.6 Brooke TX’s Riot Girls
For my first book, I read The Joy Plan: How I Took 30 Days to Stop Worrying, Quit Complaining, and Find Ridiculous Happiness by Kaia Roman.
Musician: Kaia Wilson
Author: Kaia Roman
matching name: Kaia
For my second book, I read A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
Band: Dream Nails
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
matching word: Dream
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 750
babbling c20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Brooklyn's Task: Two Truths and a Lie
Option 1: I once traveled around the world on one flight reservation. The trip was roughly 3 weeks long and very difficult to pack for! My reservation took me on the following path: San Francisco Bangkok Dubai Amsterdam San Francisco.
For this option, read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in AROUND THE WORLD. All initials count and spaces determine names. Letters can only be used as often as they appear.
Dance Upon the Air - audible Dance Upon The Air - paperback 373 by Nora Roberts
AROUND THE WORLD
373>250
THIS POST
Points:20
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies:
Total This Season
Points:245/905
Completed Tasks: 15/54
Golden oldies: 0
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Pages read this season: 6,514
Books read this season:18
babbling c30.2 - Dlmrose’s Task: The People in Your Neighborhood
AVA
AVA CATHERINE
AYLAJADE
BABBLING C <------ME
BALLETBOOKWORM
BAMAACE83
BAND DIRECTOR TERRY
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. All of the author's initials must be used.
ABOVE
Kitty Steals the Show - audible Kitty Steals the Show - paperback pg 342 by Carrie Vaughn
AVA CATHERINE
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.
BELOW
Lady with a Black Umbrella - kindle Lady with a Black Umbrella paperback pg 224 by Mary Balogh
BAMAACE83
Lady with a Black Umbrella
THIS POST
Points:30
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies:
Total This Season
Points:275/905
Completed Tasks: 16/54
Golden oldies: 0
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Pages read this season: 7,680
Books read this season: 20
Cordelia REPOST25.1 Fall has all the best stuff
Option 1: A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
Refer to Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/A_NIGHT_in_the_Lon...
In the 2nd paragraph of the plot summary: "The story reveals that once every few decades when the moon is full on the NIGHT OF HALLOWEEN, the fabric of reality thins and doors may be opened between the world and the realm of the Great Old Ones"
Option 2: SquashedSquashed by Joan Bauer
Pumpkin on cover
Points: 25
Total points: 785
Cordelia15.1 Knock knock
Bk1: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
by Raymond Carver
Word: TALK
Bk 2: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
Word: WHO
Points: 15
Total points: 800
babbling c20.1 - Most Improved Player - LaureY's task: a Walk Through the Glens
Option 2
One of the most beautiful places in Scotland is surely the Isle of Skye. My daughter and I took a ‘road trip’ there at Easter this year. We played tourists, and went up several of the beauty spots on the island: the Old Man of Storr, the Fairy Glen. We also had a wonderful walk up the Fairy Pools, a truly enchanted place where the turquoise waters of the pools vie for attention with the surrounding dark volcanic Cuillins hills.
For this option, read a book that contains all the letters of FAIRY in the title/subtitle.
Anything for Her - kindle Anything for Her - paperback pg 304 by Janice Kay Johnson
Anything for Her
THIS POST
Points:20
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies:
Total This Season
Points:295/905
Completed Tasks: 17/54
Golden oldies: 0
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Pages read this season: 7,984
Books read this season: 21
JUKKA20.6 - Seasoned Reader – Roxana's task: Well-seasoned fowl
Option 2: Book with blooming flowers on the cover.
Camarilla by Matthew Dawkins et al.
Total Points: 455/905
Total Books Read: 40
Tasks Completed: 32/54
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0
Brooke TX20.2 - Rookie at the Top – Jen K's task: Fabulous Fall
Option 2: Read a book where the author’s initials can be found in the phrase APPLE CIDER.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 710
Completed Tasks: 43
Books Read: 61
25.5 - Andy P. ‘s Task: Create Your Own Compound WordBring Me Sunshine: A Windswept, Rain-Soaked, Sun-Kissed, Snow-Capped Guide To Our Weather by Charlie Connelly
word in title used: Bring
321 pages
Down a Dark Road (Kate Burkholder #9) by Linda Castillo
word in title used: Down
320 pages
Compound Word: Bringdown
dictionary.com entry
Total pages read: 641
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 4
Season Total: 880
RAYNEBAIR15.1. Knock Knock!
Book 1. Read a book in which the same word appears at least twice in the title/subtitle.
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls by Lauren Graham
Book 2: Read a book the title/subtitle of which contains the word "who" or "who's."
The Girl Who Lived by Christopher Greyson
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 255
BB tickets: 2
GO tickets: 0
30.2 The People In Your NeighborhoodMy Neighborhood:
LESLIESOUP, LETTIE, LIATHANO;
LINDAAZ, LINDSAYS, LINDSAYT
Book 1: Below
A Long, Long Sleep (AS in LINDSAYS)
Book 2: Above
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (LETTIE)
+30 = 430 points total
Pat Task 20.2 - Fabulous Fall
Read a book of at least 250 pg that satisfies one of the following three options. REQUIRED: State which option you chose when you post.
Option 1: Corn Maze
Read a book and use the initial letters of the title (all words count but subtitles should be ignored) to create a word. The initial letters of every word in the title must be used in your word. The word should be at least 3 letters long, and should be found in Official Scrabble Words. You may also choose to include the author’s initials to create your word.
LOSS - Garden O f S tones || S ophie L ittlefield
Garden of Stones by Sophie LittlefieldCompleted ~ 11.11.19
Pages ~ 301
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Points this post ~ 20
Previous Total ~ 20
Total Points ~ 40
Tasks Completed ~ 2
Books Read This Season ~ 2
Pages Read This Season ~ 294 + 301 = 596
Andy P.Task #
25.4 - Diana K's Task: Two (or Three) Nations Divided by a Common Language
From the Australian-English List : Finish-Quit
Book 1. Chose a word pair from one of the lists. Read a book with one of those words in the title or subtitle.
Assholes Finish First by Tucker Max
Book 2. Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit by Sonny Brewer
Points this post: 25
Total points: 775
Bookwrm526Task #10.2 - Here's to Health
Read a nonfiction book with a main page genre Health, standalone or embedded. I read The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives by Theresa Brown.
Total points so far: 815
Bookwrm526Task #15.2 - Falling?
Option 3: Read the last or most recently published book in a series. I read The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss, the most recent book in the series The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club.
Option 4: Read a book with the main page genre science fiction or fantasy, standalone or embedded. I read Passing Strange by Ellen Klages.
Total points so far: 830
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Joanne MITask 20.6- Roxana's task: Well-seasoned fowl
Option # 3 Read a book identified on Goodreads as #1 in a series. Book #2 in the series needs to have been published before September 1st, 2019.
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 -
Book # 2 Sarah's Quilt was published in 2005
Points this task 20
Total Points 300
Total BB's 6
Pamela326515.6. Inventors Day
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 245
Golden Oldie books this post:0
Total Golden Oldie books: 2
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+:
Kathy KS15.9. Time to Revisit
this list - SRC Recommended Books. Read a book from this list. REQUIRED: Specify the page of the list on which your book is found.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley
found on page 2 of the SRC list (#127 today)
*****
Points for this task: 15
Total points : 385
Tasks completed: 19
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 3
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
Amy FL5.6 - Princess Buttercup
Points this post: 5
Total points: 390
Amy FL15.10. What's New in 2019?
The Nickel Boys - July on the Most Anticipated Books for the Second Half of 2019 list
Points this post: 15
Total points: 415
Amy FL25.4 - Diana K's Task: Two (or Three) Nations Divided by a Common Language
Book 1: Track of the Cat
Book 2: Crossfire Trail
Pair is from Translation Australian-American words list:
Track (eg Kokoda track is the Australian term) — Trail (eg trail riding is a U.S. term)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 440
Amy FL30.6 - BrookeTX's task: Riot Grrls
Book 1: Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner (Jennifer Finch)
Book 2: The Kill Clause (Bikini Kill)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 470
Lisa MD20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk's task: We Didn’t Start the Fire
Read a book of at least 175pg that satisfies one of the following two options.
Option 2:
Read a book named in the song, or related to one of the topics mentioned. Look at the following Wikipedia link: We Didn't Start the Fire. The book choice must be linked to the topic name (in bold blue immediately after the bullet), not just a single word in that topic or the description.
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott 368 pp
Topic - 1957 - Boris Pasternak, the Russian author, publishes his novel Doctor Zhivago.
Book Description of The Secrets We Kept - "A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice—inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.
📕📙📒📗📘📕📙📒📗📘📕📙📒📗📘📕📙📒📗📘
TOTALS:
Current Points: 20
Total Points: 395/905
Tasks Completed: 28/54
Books Read: 27
BB Tickets: 1
GO: 4
perletwo 15.10. What's New in 2019? - Read a book from one of these two 2019 lists: Most Anticipated Books of 2019 or Most Anticipated Books for the Second Half of 2019.
Many of the book reviews include information about earlier books by the author. You may choose to read one of the books mentioned in the review instead of the specific book reviewed.
Eat, Pray, Love - mentioned in the review for City of Girls in the June section of Most Anticipated Books of 2019
Points this task: 15
Total points: 490
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 1
Big Book ticket requests: 1
Books read: 34
Tasks completed: 25
trishhartuk50.1 Lisa MD's Task: Brr!......the “ber” months are upon us
Book 1: Septem-"ber". Read a book with the letters “ber” intact in the title, subtitle or author's name.
Death Knocks Twice, RoBERt Thorogood
Read the kindle edition. PB link here (384pg)
BER is in roBERt
Book 2: Octo-"b-rr". Read a book that gives you the shivers. with a MPG, standalone or embedded, of ...mystery, AND The book must also contain the double letters, “rr.”
puRRfect murder Nic Saint (232pg)
RR in puRRfect
Mystery 14 users, Mystery > Cozy Mystery 4 users
Genre locked for mystery in help thread message #31: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/....
Book 3: Novem-"Brr!". Option 2: Take the “brr” off the cool, autumn weather. Read a book with one of these things on the cover: coat, jacket...
Kindle:
, PB
(336pg) Total pages: 384 + 232 + 336 = 952pg
Points this task: 50
Books read: 3
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 595
Tasks completed: 33
Golden oldies: 7
Big Book tickets: 0
Delicious Dee50.1 - Lisa MD's Task: Brr!......the “ber” months are upon us
Book A - Deep Burn - Kimberly Kincaid - BER in KimBERly
Book B - Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris - mystery by 1006ppl; RR in HaRRis
Book C - The Fountains of Silence - C in silence; OAT in Fountains
Points This Post: 50
Total Points: 550
Delicious Dee30.5 - Mazza1's Task (passed to Sarah E): All Hail Flavia
option 2 - Daisy Jones & The Six - Daisy has 5 letters and ends with a y
Option 3 -
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 580
Teresa Jo5.2 Elizabeth Swann
Read a book with the name of a specific bird in the title.
Cuckoo bird
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 520
Teresa Jo15.6 Inventors Day
Read a nonfiction book with the MPC Science or Technology.
MPG - Nonfiction, Science, History
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 535
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 (other topics)The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (other topics)
The Hush (other topics)
Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault: Essays from the Grown-up Years (other topics)
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
John Hart (other topics)Ronan Farrow (other topics)
Kate Quinn (other topics)
Dan Abrams (other topics)
Daphne du Maurier (other topics)
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Book read:The Fall by Albert Camus
Halloween word in title: Fall
Points this task: 15
Total points: 335
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 3
Big Book ticket requests: 3
Books read: 23
Tasks completed: 18