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FALL CHALLENGE 2019
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SandyL15.7. It's Halloween!
Read a book with a word from this Halloween Word List in its title
Tutu's & Cowboy Boots: Part One by Casey Peeler
"TUTU" is on the List
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 705
Tasks Completed: 44
Books Read: 58
Big Book Tickets: 6
Golden Oldies: 1
10.9 - Portrait of a Lady
❁ single female figure on cover ❁
Total points: 800 + 10 = 810
SandyL15.9. Time to Revisit
Read a book from this list
Lost Light by Michael Connelly
Pg 8 #746 on SRC Recommended Books
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 720
Tasks Completed: 45
Books Read: 59
Big Book Tickets: 6
Golden Oldies: 1
TraceyL (Readerboard Name)15.4. The Perils of Pauline
Option 2
Read 1 book that satisfies both requirements of Option 1.
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
Eleanor matches Eleanor Woodruff
Deadly matches Deadly Turning
Points Earned This Post: 15
Total Points Earned: 905
CHALLENGE COMPLETE!
SandyLTask 25. 5 - Andy P. ‘s Task: Create Your Own Compound Word
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
Word: DOWN
187 pgs
The Time in Between by Kristen Ashley
Word: TIME
555 pgs ***requesting Big Book Ticket*****
Compound Word = Downtime - Dictionary.com
Total pages = 555+187 = 742
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Points This Task: 25
Total Points: 745
Tasks Completed: 46
Books Read: 61
Big Book Tickets: 7
Golden Oldies: 1
perletwo15.7. It's Halloween! - Read a book with a word from this Halloween Word List in its title/subtitle.
Gunpowder Moon
Points this task: 15
Total points: 550
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 1
Books read: 39
Tasks completed: 29
Joanne MI30.4- 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.
Royal Assassin - 752 pages-Claiming 2 BB's
Book 2. Read a short book, fewer than 200 pages, with a long title, at least 5 words.
Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt
181 pages
Points this task 30
Total Points 375
BB's this task 2
Total BB's 8
SandyL50.1 - Lisa MD's Task: Brr!......the “ber” months are upon us
Book 1: Read a book with the letters “ber” intact in the title, subtitle or author's name
Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker
Author: roBERt b parker
304 pgs
Book 2: Read a book with an MPG of Mystery and the book must contain the double letters, “rr,” intact in the title
A Berry Deadly Welcome: A Laugh-Out-Loud Kylie Berry Mystery by A.R. Winters
MPG Mystery
a beRRy deadly welcome
244 pgs
Book 3/Option 1: Read a book with a title containing all the letters needed to spell the word COAT.
The Color of Heaven by Julianne MacLean
The COlor of heAven
296 pgs
Total pages = 304 + 244 + 296 = 844
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Points This Task: 50
Total Points: 795
Tasks Completed: 47
Books Read: 64
Big Book Tickets: 7
Golden Oldies: 1
30.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: A Great DameRead one book from two different options
Option 1: Read a nonfiction book with the mpg science or biography.
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
mpg Science
Option 3: Read a book by a single author whose name contains the letters RA in any order.
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
RifkA
Points this task: 30
Books read this task: 2
Golden oldie claimed this task:0
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 210
Tasks completed: 12
Total Golden oldies: 2
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Total books read: 16
50.1 +750 pgsBook 1: letters “ber” intact in the title, subtitle or author's name Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein 276 pgs
“Ber” is in the first name of the author
Book 2: MPG mystery, thriller, crime, suspense, romantic suspense, psychological thriller or horror
AND double letters, “rr,” intact in the title, subtitle, series name or author's name
The Black Ice by Michael Connelly 448 pgs
“Rr” in the series name (Harry Bosch) used as an example in the task instructions
Book 3:
Option 1: title containing all the letters in COAT
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 480 pgs
Points this post: 50
Total Points: 715/905
Tasks completed: 42/54
Books Read: 55
Golden Oldies: 5
Big Books:500+(1) 750+(0) 1000+(0)
20.1 A Walk through the GlensOpt 2 - all letters in FAIRY in title/subtitle- FRAgIlitY
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Total: 20
Total/challenge: 235
20.7 Two Truths and a LieOpt 2 - car or paved road on cover
Total: 20
Total/challenge: 255
30.6 Riot GirlsBk 1 - Bk 1 - authors name matches band member -Sara Marcus
Poison by Sara Poole
Bk 2 - title has word from band name - Girl matches band Skinny Girl Diet
The Girl On Legare Street
Total: 30
Total/challenge: 285
SALLY M.15.10 What's New in 2019?
Listed for July in Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2019 Book Preview
They Could Have Named Her Anything by Stephanie Jimenez
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 895
Tasks completed: 53
Books read: 70
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 13
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 7
SALLY M.10.2 Here's to Health
MPG Health (verified)
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 905
Tasks completed: 54
Books read: 71
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 13
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 7
AHHHHHHH! Did I actually do it?! FINALLY finish a challenge after 10 years?! *fingers crossed*
15.8. A Parade - for me?A book whose author's initials appear in the word PARADE: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Points this post: 15
Total points: 735
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 10.7: Strike!: Murder to Go
by Chloe Kendrick. The single author's last name starts with K. The book is in ebook format, approved for length in line 1985 in SRC ebook verification spreadsheet.
Totals this posting:
Points: 10
Summary Totals:
Points: 140
Books Posted: 8
Tasks Completed: 6
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 500+: 0; 750+: 0; 1000+: 0
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.9: The gentle ones: Murder for Tea
by Vered Ehsani. The word TEA in the title can be made from the letters in margArET.
Totals this posting:
Points: 20
Summary Totals:
Points: 160
Books Posted: 9
Tasks Completed: 7
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 500+: 0; 750+: 0; 1000+: 0
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15.8. A Parade - for me?
by Alexandra AdornettoPoints This Post: 15
Total Points: 535
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Task 10.7 - Strike!read a book with an author name having initial K
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
Karen
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805 points
25.2Option 1.
Bram Stoker - Dracula https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Option 2.
Jack Crossley - You Really Couldn't Make it up
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Tasks completed: 3
Total points: 65
CathyG25.4 - Diana K's Task: Two (or Three) Nations Divided by a Common Language
Translation Australian-American words
Book 1. Chose a word pair from one of the lists. Read a book with one of those words in the title or subtitle.
Required: State your word pair. holiday/vacation
Second Chance Holiday by Aurora Rose Reynolds
Book 2. Read a book with the other word from the word pair in the title or subtitle.
Vegas Vacation by Crystal Jordan
Approved for length post #7661
Points this post: 25
Total points: 845
Tasks completed: 49
Books read: 66
Golden Oldie: 1
5.2. Damsel-in-DistressBook read: Kindertransport by Diane Samuels
Authors initials DS found in DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
This book is 96 pages so I would like to use my 1 allowed shorter book for a 5 point task here please.
Points this task: 5
Total points: 340
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 3
Big Book ticket requests: 3
Books read: 24
Tasks completed: 19
Bookwrm526Task #10.8 - Forget-Me-Not
Read a book by an author who, at the time you select your book, is deceased. I read New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver, who died in January of this year as noted on her Goodreads profile.
Total points so far: 870
Sandra5.5 - Princess Leia
Read a book with the word STAR or WARS (plural) intact in the title/subtitle or series name.
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Points this post: 5
Total points to date: 200
Readerboard Name: Absurda25.3 - SandyL's Task - Thanksgiving!
This is a two book task. Choose two options and read one book from each. The total number of pages for both books combined must be at least 500.
Option 1: The Food
Read a book about cooking, baking or chefs from one of the following lists.
Murder, She Barked by Krista Davis
On the Mysteries in Good Taste list, pg 2, #172.
284 pages
Option 4: Shopping
Read a book written by an author whose initials are included in BLACK FRIDAY.
The Take by Christopher Reich
390 pages
Total Page Count: 674
Points this task: 25
Golden Oldies Ticket This Task: 0
Big Book Ticket This Task: 0
Total Points to date: 515
Total Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Sandra5.10 - No Need for Distress
The 6th Extinction by James Rollins
Points this post: 5
Total points to date: 205
Nick KY20.10 Group Read I read the selection for Military: The Huntress by Kate Quinn. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
I listened to the audiobook. With no mass market PPB, the most popular paperback edition is https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
My comment is # 16 in the Comment thread. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 845
Sandra10.9 - Portrait of a Lady
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins ReidPoints this post: 10
Total points to date: 215
Nick KY20.5 Diane Whitney’s Party like it’s 1999 I read Sky Coyote by Kage Baker, 1st pub’d in 1999. (The date contains 3 9's.) 310 pp > required 299
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 865
trishhartuk5.3 Not So Helpless After All
Read a book found on the Badass Female Leads! Listopia.
Clean Sweep, Ilona Andrews (page 1, #97)
Read the kindle edition. PB link here.
Points this task: 5
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 675
Tasks completed: 37
Golden oldies: 8
Big Book tickets: 0
5.6 - Princess ButtercupRead a book that has yellow letters on the cover.
Verified on Help Thread.
Points this task: 5
Books read this task: 1
Golden oldie claimed this task:0
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 215
Tasks completed: 13
Total Golden oldies: 2
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Total books read: 17
5.10 - No Need for DistressRelax and read a book of your choice that meets the 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.
New Chronicles of Rebecca
*Claiming one Golden Oldie ticket (first published in 1907)*
Points this task: 5
Books read this task: 1
Golden oldie claimed this task:1
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 220
Tasks completed: 14
Total Golden oldies: 3
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Total books read: 18
LAUREN JODI5.2 - Damsel-In-Distress
Hot in Here by Sophie Renwick
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 715/905
Total Books Read: 51
Tasks Completed: 34/54
Bookwrm526Task #5.1 - Taking Action
Read a book with the MPG Action and/or Adventure. The genre may be standalone or embedded. I read Finder by Suzanne Palmer (genre confirmed in help thread at posts 49, 50).
Total points so far: 875
MEGAN RAE10.9 - Portrait of a Lady
Read a book with a cover that depicts a female figure alone with no other human forms present. Obvious facial or body features and/or traditionally female clothing must be seen.
- Completed 21st NovemberHow it fits: Lone female figure (approved in help thread)
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 170
25.7 Literary MonthsOption 1: Man Booker International
Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
Option 2: CHELTENHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL
After the Flood, Kassandra Montag
+25 = 575 points
ANGIE CA20.6 - Seasoned Reader – Roxana's task: Well-seasoned fowl
Book: Hunted by the Others by Jess Haines
Notes: 3) #1 in the H&W Investigations series. #2 published in 2010.
Total Points: 455
Julia1035.2 - Damsel-in-Distress
The Turquoise by Anya Seton
(AS in dAMsel)
This was first published in 1946 - claiming one GO ticket
This post: 5 points, 1 GO
Total points: 735
BB: 8
GO: 2
Tasks completed: 42
Books read: 56
5.10 - No Need for DistressRelax and read a book of your choice
The Wild Things
This book has an MPG of children's, but it is not found on AR Bookfinder
New Points: 5
Total Challenge Points: 590
GO's: 3
Task 25.1 - Fall Has ALL the Best StuffOption 1: Read a book where Halloween, Dia de Los Muertos, or All Saint's Day features prominently in the story.
The Halloween Tree (1972) by Ray Bradbury (Young Adult) (Hardcover, 145 pages)
Option 2: Read a book with a pumpkin on the cover.
REQUIRED: Include the cover in your post.
Foul Play at the Fair (Celebration Bay #1) (2012) by Shelley Freydont (Goodreads Author) (Mass Market Paperback, 298 pages)
Note pumpkin is center left, beneath the “first in a new series” logo
250 + 25 = 275
Tasks Completed: 13
Points for this post: 25
Points thus far: 250 + 25 = 275
Books read: 20
Pages read: 5,087
Read but not claimed: 04
Goodreads Authors: 08
Golden Oldies: 02
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Bookwrm526Task #5.4 - 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. I read Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson (O in nelson, G in Maggie, RE in murder).
Total points so far: 880
Jayme(the ghostreader)10.7 Strike
Read a book with K in the author's name
Winter Gardenby Kristin Hannah
K in Kristin
Task +10
Grand Total: 40
Jen K25.7 - Cat's Task: Literary Months
September: Convenience Store Woman
October: Frost Like Night
FLN found in chelteNham Literary Festival
Published 2016
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Points this task: 25
Total points: 620
Total Golden oldies: 0
Total Big Book tickets: 4
15.3B1: TBR list for at least one year
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
From personal TBR since Nov 29, 2011
B2: list: I Should Probably Read This Sometime
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Page 1 of list
*Claim BB ticket 552 pgs*
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 730/905
Tasks completed: 43/54
Books Read: 57
Golden Oldies: 5
Big Books:500+(1) 750+(0) 1000+(0)
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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15.1. Knock Knock!
Book 1. Read a book in which the same word appears at least twice in the title/subtitle.
In It to Win It by Kelly Jamieson
"IT" is in title twice
Ebook approved for length Msg 7606
Book 2: Read a book the title/subtitle of which contains the word "who"
The Cat Who Said Cheese by Lilian Jackson Braun
"WHO" in title
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 690
Tasks Completed: 43
Books Read: 57
Big Book Tickets: 6
Golden Oldies: 1