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FALL CHALLENGE 2019
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Task 25. 5 - Andy P. ‘s Task: Create Your Own Compound WordRead two books each of which has a title (subtitles are excluded) which contains a word of four or more letters which can be combined to form one compound word.
Book 1: Dream Man
Word from the title: Dream
Pages: 368 (MMPB Edition: Dream Man)
Book 2: The Body in the Boat
Word from the title: Boat
Pages: 354 (PB Edition: The Body in the Boat)
Dream + Boat = Dreamboat
Total Pages: 722
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Total points: 905
Books read: 71
Tasks completed: 54
BB Tickets: 6
GO Tickets: 4
Thank you for the challenge :-)
Kathy KSThis title was originally used for Task 20.3 and will be replaced. I've adjusted totals until then.
15.5. Back to School.
Read a book with the main page genre Classics, standalone or embedded.
Katherine, by Anya Seton
Classics202 users
{Already counted BB, so points stay the same there]
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Points for this task: 15
Total points : 480-20+15=475
Tasks completed: 24
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 4
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
Sarah E10.10 - Scooby-Dooby-Doo!
Hamlet
From the Ghost Stories list, page 1, #31
I listened to an audio but have linked to the top MMP
Golden Oldie, first published 1603. I claim 1 GO ticket.
Total points: 820
Total GO tickets: 6
15.7. It's Halloween!
the word is Ghost
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 580
Sarah E25.7 - Cat's Task: Literary Months
September: Smoking Kills - page 1, #72
I read the kindle edition, top paperback (no MMP) is Smoking Kills
October: The Chestnut Man - published in 2019
Title initials in CHELTENHAM
I read an ebook, MMP is Kastanjemannen
Big Book, 558 pages. I claim 1 BB ticket.
Total points: 845
Total BB tickets: 6
Kathy KSI moved the book originally used for this task to Task 15.5 and am replacing it. Adjustments adding this back are included below.
20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk's task: We Didn’t Start the Fire
This is a one-book task. Read a book of at least 175pg that satisfies one of the following two options. REQUIRED: State which option you chose when you post.
Option 2: Read a book named in the song, or related to one of the topics mentioned. REQUIRED: Include the topic you're using in your post, and if it isn’t clear from the GR description what the connection is, please explain it.
.The Entertainment Machine: American Show Business In The Twentieth Century,, by Robert C. Toll
284 p.
Topic: Television (and other entertainment-related)
Approved in task help: message 53: by Trish
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 495
Tasks completed: 25
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 4
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
Julia103 15.8 - A Parade - for me
Girls on the Line by Aimie K. Runyan
(AR in PARADE)
This task: 15 points
Total points: 830
BB: 8
GO: 2
Tasks completed: 50
Books read: 65
Mod
Task 25.4 - Two (or Three) Nations Divided by a Common LanguageRead books with paired words from the list in the title
Words: AUTUMN / FALL
Quartet in Autumn: Picador Classic
Fall of Giants
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905 points
Mod
LAUREN JODI 10.3 - Listen Up
The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne
On page #3 of the list.
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 780/905
Total Books Read: 56
Tasks Completed: 38/54
Mod
Stephanie12720.2 - Rookie at the Top – Jen K's task: Fabulous Fall
Option 1: Corn Maze: Read a book and use the initial letters of the title to create a word. The initial letters of every word in the title must be used in your word.
Our Endless Numbered Days --word is DONE, book has 386 pages.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 185/905
Tasks completed: 13/54
Books read: 15
Sarah E30.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: A Great Dame
I chose to do option 3 twice
RA in author name
Book 1: Cactus Waffle Murder by Carolyn Q. Hunter
I read the kindle edition but have linked to the paperback (no MMP)
Book 2: Zombie Waffle Murder (The Wicked Waffle Series) by Carolyn Q. Hunter
I read the kindle edition but have linked to the paperback (no MMP)
Total points: 875
Sarah E30.5 - Mazza1's Task (passed to Sarah E): All Hail Flavia
Option 2: Lord Sunday - Sunday has more than 5 letters and ends in Y.
Option 4: Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
Flavia title - all words match
Total points: 905
Thanks to the mods for a great challenge.
Mod
Jen K25.6 - TraceyL's Task: Princess Peach
Option 3: MPG Romance
Christmas at Lilac Cottage
Option 4: Building on Cover
Wolves of the Calla -931 pages
**** requesting 2 BB tickets @ 931 pages****
This Post: 25
Total Points: 670
Jen K20.6 - Seasoned Reader – Roxana's task: Well-seasoned fowl
Option 3: Leaving the nest
The Bookshop on the Corner
Book #1 of Scottish Bookshop series
Book #2 The Bookshop on the Shore was published June 25, 2019
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Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 690
Jen K20.4 - GOLDEN OLDIES - Tien's task: My Big Classic Books Year
Option 2: Publishing year
first published 1069
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Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 710
Jen K5.10 - No Need for Distress
Year of Yes
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Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 715
VAL TX10.9 - Portrait of a Lady - Read a book with a cover that depicts a female figure alone with no other human forms present.
by A.J. PearceThis post:
Points - 10
Total:
Points - 165
GO Tickets - 2
BB Tickets - 3
VAL TX20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk's task: We Didn’t Start the Fire - This is a one-book task. Read a book of at least 175pg that satisfies one of the following two options.
Option 1: Read a book first published between 1949 and 1989 (inclusive), where the author’s initials can be found in “WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE”.
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
Book first published in 1981.
Book has 656 pages, claiming one BB ticket.
This post:
Points - 20
BB Tickets - 1
Total:
Points - 185
GO Tickets - 2
BB Tickets - 4
Helen A.Task 50.1
3 tasks, 750 pages
Part 1 "ber"
A Plague of Rats and Rubbervines: The Growing Threat Of Species Invasions 371 pages
Part 2 Mystery or Thriller with RR
The Sinner by Tess GaRRitsen 419 pages
Part 3 Letters of COAT in title
Murder With Peacocks murder wiTh peACOcks 311 pages
Total pages 1101
Total Points: now 695
Total tasks: 36
BB= 1 at 500, 1 at 750=2
GO= 2
Helen A. Task 5.2
Author initial in DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris damsel in DiStress
Total Points: now 700
Total tasks: 37
BB=2
GO=2
Helen A. Task 10.9
Woman on Cover
100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism
(She is disconnected but obviously one woman!)
Total Points: 710
Total Tasks: 38
BB=2
GO=2
Helen A.Task 10.8
Dead Author
Nature Stories by Jules Renard
First published 1894
I request 1 more Golden Oldie Ticket
Total Tasks: 39
Total points: 720
BB=2
GO=now 3
perletwo5.9 - Elizabeth Swann - read a book with a bird on the cover or the name of a specific type of bird in the title/subtitle.
The Chinese ParrotFirst printed in 1926, this qualifies for a Golden Oldie ticket.
Points this task: 05
Total points: 625
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 3
Big Book ticket requests: 1
Books read: 4
Tasks completed: 33
Helen A. Task 15.1
2 books
Book 1: Repeated Word
Dictionary of Theories Theories repeated in title + subtitle
I request another Big Book ticket for this book: 637 pages
Book 2: Who in Title
The Penguin Who Knew Too Much
The Penguin Who Knew Too Much
Total points: 735
Total tasks: 40
Big Books= now 3
G.O.=3
Kathy KSBook 2 was originally used for Task 10.9 and is being moved to here. I've adjusted point totals below
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.
Steel Tide, by Natalie C. Parker
448 p.
Book 2. Read a short book, fewer than 200 pages, with a long title, at least 5 words
To Be Taught, If Fortunate, by Becky Chambers
153 p.
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 495-10+30=515
Tasks completed: 25
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 4
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
10.3 - Listen UpRead a book that has won or been nominated (a finalist) for an Audie Award
Audie Award for Best Female Narrator (2019)
Link to paperback:
POINTS
Points This Post: 10
Points Total: 290/905
Golden Oldies:
Big Books: 1
500 (√) 750 () 1000 ()
GO Total:
BB Total:
Tasks Completed: 17
Last post of the season. Thanks everyone
EMurphy30.5 Mazza1's Task (passed to Sarah E.): All Hail Flavia
Option 2: Chemistry please-Word of at least 5 letters in the title that ends with Y My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
Option 4: Fabulous titles-Word of at least 4 letters in the title that matches exactly a word in a Flavia title The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 285
Books Read: 19
BB Ticket +500: 1
GO Ticket: 1
Tasks Completed: 13
StaceyNCTask 25. 5 - Andy P. ‘s Task: Create Your Own Compound Word
The total number of pages for both books combined must be at least 500 pages.
Read two books each of which has a title (subtitles are excluded) which contains a word of four or more letters which can be combined to form one compound word.
REQUIRED: State the compound word.
Book 1: Into the Water
Completed: 9/8/19
Pages: 386p
Book 2: Sweet Ruin
Completed: 11/30/19
Pages: 529p
Word: Sweet + Water = Sweetwater
In Dictionary.com as Noun
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 605
Tasks Completed: 36
EMurphy5.3 Not So Helpless After All - Book found on the Badass Female Leads list
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
*669 on page 7 of the list
This Task:
Points: 5
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 290
Books Read: 20
BB Ticket +500: 1
GO Ticket: 1
Tasks Completed: 14
Kim O20.1 - Most Improved Player - LaureY's task: a Walk Through the Glens
Option 2 - Read a book that contains all the letters of FAIRY in the title/subtitle.
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Points this task: 20
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Totals:
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks completed: 11
babbling c10.7 - Strike!
Read a book written by a single author with a name part that begins with a K, ex, Karen M. McManus, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Kent Krueger
Hunted - audible Hunted - paperback 384 by Kevin Hearne
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies:
Total This Season
Points:405/905
Completed Tasks: 26/54
Golden oldies: 0
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Pages read this season: 10,945
Books read this season: 31
Jenifer20.1 A Walk Through the Glens
option 1: hill or mountain on cover
Love and Death Among the Cheetahs by Rhys Bowen
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 20
Jenifer 20.6 Well Seasoned Fowl
option 3: #1 in series
#2 in this series was published Sep 25, 2018
This Side of Murder by Anna Lee Huber
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 40
Jenifer20.7 Two Truths and a Lie
option 1: authors initials in AROUND THE WORLD
Charming the Shrew by Laurin Wittig
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 60
Jen ifer 20.9 . The Gentle Ones
option 1: J amd M in author's name
The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 80
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska5.7 - Rose DeWitt Bukater.
Read a book with a protagonist with a 4-letter name.
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn *
* Protagonist's name is Anna.
➸ Points: 25
➸ Total Pages: 625
Amy FL25.7 - Cat's Task: Literary Months
September: Small Country
October: Sweet Little Lies - published in 2017 - (cheLtenham Literary feStival)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 815
Jenifer 20.8 The Scents of Fall
option1: author initials in BAKED GOODS
Unseen by Karin Slaughter
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 100
Jenifer10.1 . I'll Be There For You
GR friend (Fictionophile) rated 5 stars
Rainy Day Sisters by Kate Hewitt
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 110
Jenifer10.5 Zero In
zero in page number : 470 pp
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 120
Jenifer10.7 Strike!
author name starts with K
The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 130
Jenifer10.9 Portrait of a Lady
Lone female figure on cover
Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 140
babbling c30.5 - Mazza1's Task (passed to Sarah E): All Hail Flavia
Help Thread
Option 2: Chemistry please
Chemistry may be Flavia's abiding passion, but there are many interesting subjects that also end in a Y. Read a book with a word of at least five letters in the title or subtitle that ends in Y.
Kitty Rocks the House - kindle Kitty Rocks the House - paperback pg 324 by Carrie Vaughn
Kitty
Option 4: Fabulous titles
The titles of the books all come from literature. Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title or subtitle that matches exactly a word in a Flavia title. The titles are listed in post 2 of the Help Thread.
Claimed in Shadows - audible Verbündete der Schatten - paperback pg 304 by Lara Adrian
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
THIS POST
Points: 30
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies:
Total This Season
Points:435/905
Completed Tasks: 27/54
Golden oldies: 0
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Pages read this season: 11, 573
Books read this season: 33
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Totals this posting:
Points: 5
Summary Totals:
Points: 220