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WINTER CHALLENGE 2019
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10.3 - Let It Snow
title letters WATW: We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
total = 220
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10.7 - I Have a Dream
From Books By Black Authors pg 1, #14: Buck: A Memoir by M.K. Asante
total = 230
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15.5- Lady With A Lamp
Nurse: The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives by Theresa Brown
total = 245
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20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Helen A's Task: Bird's Wedding
Inuit in subtitle: The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic by Melanie McGrath
total = 265
SALLY M.10.4 Snuggle Up: GG consecutively in author name
The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 180
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 14
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 3
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 0
MAZZA125.5 - Kaora's Task: All Work and Some Play...
Option 1: Palm Springs, CA
Read a book with at least two of these numbers in the page total: 0, 1, 3, 4, 8.
Time Traveling with a Hamster Page count = 432 - 4 and 3 in the required numbers
Option 4: Albuquerque, NM
Read a book by a single author whose initials are in ALBUQUERQUE BALLOON FESTIVAL.
Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo
Points this post = 25
points to date = 425
MAZZA1Sorry please ignore post above just realised one is a children's book
points to date = 400
MAZZA15.4. That's a Strange Title!
Read a book with an odd number of words in its title - subtitles are excluded.
Time Traveling with a Hamster
AR book finder information US
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12.0
points this post = 5
Points to date = 405
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.12 CathyG’s Task: Challenge Addict
Option 1: Alone In the Dark by Karen Rose.
First published on November 5th, 2015.
721 pages.
Option 2: The Ghost Who Was Says I Do by Bobbi HOlmes.
It is #20 in the series and I started the Series in October of this year.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 300
Tasks completed: 20/64
Books read: 24
10.1 - Home for the HolidaysFor many people, the holidays mean time spent with those closest to us, whether that be the family we were born into, the families we have made for ourselves, or a little (or a lot) of both. To celebrate this holiday season, read a book with HOME, HOLIDAY, FAMILY, or FRIEND found intact in title, subtitle, or series title.
Required: If using the series title, include the series name in your post.
I read Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family
which has the word "family" in the subtitle
This book has 539 pages so is a ********BIG BOOK *****
points: 95
books read: 8
tasks completed: 7
tasks in progress: 1
Big Books: 1
pages read: 2618
Laurah3020.8 - Nickels & Dimes - MEGSCL's Task: Title Tropes
Opt 3 Read a book with the main page genre historical fiction and a title referring to a job or employee,
The Garment Maker's Daughter
Points this task: 20
Total points to date: 70
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Tasks complete: 3
Books read: 4
Task: 15.10 Get 'Em While They're HotBook read:Hinch Yourself Happy: All The Best Cleaning Tips To Shine Your Sink And Soothe Your Soul by Sophie Hinchliffe
Required: 1st published 2019
GO/BB requested?: no
Points this task: 15
Total points: 90
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 5
Tasks completed: 5
Task: 15.7 - Stand AloneBook read: The Gender Games: The Problem with Men and Women, from Someone Who Has Been Both by Juno Dawson
Required: Stand alone book not part of a series
GO/BB requested?: no
Points this task: 15
Total points: 105
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 6
Tasks completed: 6
perletwo15.4 - Go Red - Option 2 - Read one book that fulfills book 1 AND book 2. - Read a book written by an author with first and last name initials found in NATIONAL WEAR RED FOR WOMEN DAY AND Read a book with a person wearing an article of red clothing on the cover.
Knit Together: Discover God's Pattern for Your Life by Debbie Macombercover approved
Points this task: 15
Total points: 300
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 1
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 22
Tasks completed: 18
Adallae* Repost to clarify page total for BB ticket
25.13 - Rina's Task: Christmas Markets
Chosen Market - Trento, Italy
Book 1 - Proust Was a Neuroscientist
All letters TRENTO in title
Book 2 - Quo Vadis: A Story of St. Peter in Rome in the Reign of Emperor Nero**
90% of story takes place in Rome, Italy
**This book is 585 pages, I claim 1 big book ticket
Combined page count: 827
Points this post: 25
Total points: 55
GO Tickets: 2
BB Tickets: 1
Task: 25.6 - Cordelia's Task: 2019Option: 4
Book read: Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich
Required: word HANSEN is found in two tHouSANd aNd ninEteen (confirmed here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... message 7)
Option: 5
Book read:The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily by Rachel Cohn
Required: 215 pages uses the 2 and 1 from 2019
GO/BB requested?: no
Points this task: 25
Total points: 130
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 8
Tasks completed: 7
trishhartuk15.1 Days of Celebration
Option 1, Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries that celebrates its national day in Laos, Thailand
I Shot the Buddha, Colin Cotterill
Read the kindle version. HB (the PB didn’t have page numbers): here
Set beetween Laos and Thailand (okayed: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...). “Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit... One of these oddballs is Noo, a Buddhist monk...leaving only a cryptic note in the refrigerator: a plea to help a fellow monk escape across the Mekhong River to Thailand.”
Option 2, Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries that celebrates its national day in January: Australia.
Ruddy Gore, Kerry Greenwood
Read the kindle edition. PB here
100% set in Melbourne, Australia
Points this task: 15
Books read: 2
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 4
Golden oldies: 1
Big Book tickets: 0
Helen B30.2 - Two Women Honoring a Remarkable Woman
Option 1: Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisis by Thomas S. Kidd
CORETTA SCOTT KING
200 pages
Option 4: The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
“ee” in sleep “rr” in Harris
320 pages
520 pages total
Points this post: 30
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 7
Fiona (Titch)5.1. Name Calling!
The White Rose Killer - Victoria Taylor
Rebecca Filmore is known as Becky in the series
This post: 5 pts
Total points: 5
NAVI5.1 - Read a book with a person's first name in its title/subtitle/series title
Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna
How it fits: First name: Vittoria
Points this post: 5
Total points: 55
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 6
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Fiona (Titch)5.6. Have You Heard the One About..........?
The Compassion of Trees: Wartime foes become friends - united through the loss of loved ones - Chris Phillips
This post: 5 pts
Total points: 10
NAVI5.6 Read a book whose author's initials appear in: Montblanc-National University of Singapore Literary Award
To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History by Lawrence Levy
How it fits: Author's initials - two "L's"
Points this post: 5
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 7
Big Book tickets:
Golden Oldies tickets:
Ava Catherine25.1 - Andy P.’s Task: Learning the Alphabet
Book 1. Read a book which does NOT contain an M or an N in the title or subtitle.
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brien 299 pages
Option 2: Read a book whose TITLE contains the letters LO in sequence.
Losing Battles by Eudora Welty 436 pages
299+436=735 total pages
total=175
Ava Catherine30.3 - TessaVanessa’s Task: Get Hooked on Yarn
Option 1: Ball of color
Read a book with a ball or skein of yarn on the cover.
The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club
by Gil McNeilOption 2: Tell me a story
Read a book from this list: Spinning A Romantic Yarn—Heroes and Heroines Who are Weavers, Spinners, and More
page 1; #26
The Lace Makers of Glenmara by Heather Barbieri
total=205
Ava Catherine30.6 - Aprilleigh’s Task: The World of Xanth
Book 1: The Magic of Xanth
Option 1: Read any book in the Xanth series.
A Spell for Chameleon (Xanth #1) 344 pages
Book 2: The King of Xanth
Option 1: Read any Piers Anthony book for which he is listed as the sole author.
On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony 325 pages
344+325=669 total pages
total=235
Joanne MITask 15.6 Read a book that has won or been nominated for at least three literary awards.
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Claiming 1 BB with 681 pages
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for History (2003), Henry Adams Prize (2003), The Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (2003)
Points this task 15
Total Points 60
BB's this task 1
Total BB's 2
Fiona (Titch)15.10 - Get 'Em While They're Hot
The Compassion of Trees: Wartime foes become friends - united through the loss of loved ones - Chris Phillips
Was published in 2019 - Kindle version is 214 pages
Points this post: 15
Points so far: 20
MAZZA125.5 - Kaora's Task: All Work and Some Play...
Option 1: Palm Springs, CA
Read a book with at least two of these numbers in the page total: 0, 1, 3, 4, 8.
Unexpected Lessons in Love 416 pages
Option 4: Albuquerque, NM
Read a book by a single author whose initials are in ALBUQUERQUE BALLOON FESTIVAL.
Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo
points this post = 25
Points to date = 430
Oma1229I chose Option 1: Looking Back
Read an award-winning book that has a main page genre of History or Historical Fiction, standalone or embedded. The award must be present on the book's main page.
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Zach's Task: Looking Back, Looking
Forward
Claiming Shadow of Night as Big Book with 594 pages
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
Goodreads Choice Award for Paranormal Fantasy (2012)
Total # of Tasks=8/64
Total # of Points read=110/1165
Total # of GO Books=()
Total # of BB=500+=(1),750+=(), 1000+()
Oma122920.8 - Nickels & Dimes - MEGSCL's Task: Title Tropes
I chose Option 3: The Historical Job
Read a book with the main page genre historical fiction and a title referring to a job or employee, e.g. The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Dressmaker's Gift or The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. Subtitles are excluded. Plurals and possessives work.
The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott
Total # of Tasks=9/64
Total # of Points read=130/1165
Total # of GO Books=()
Total # of BB=500+=(1),750+=(), 1000+()
10.8 - Leap YearRead a book first published in a year that contains double consecutive digits
I read an audio version of Awakening which was first published in 2001.
New Points: 10
Challenge Points: 70
Queen Bee Darlene10.6 Fresh Start - #1 in a series
Frozen Assets (Officer Gunnhildur #1) by Quentin Bates Frozen Assets
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 215
15.7 - Stand AloneRead a book that is a standalone- NOT part of a series or continuing story or world.
The Retreat
[POINTS]
This post: 15
Total points: 85
Books read: 5
Tasks completed: 5
Big Book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Pamela326515.10 - Get 'Em While They're Hot
Her Cowboy Till Christmas by Jill Kemerer - Published in 2019
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 150
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
Coralie5.3 The Nobel Prize in Literature
Foe by J.M. Coetzee who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.
Total to date 105 points
25.6 - Cordelia's Task: 2019Option 1: published in 2019
Polaris RisingI read the kindle edition. The paperback edition has 431 pages.
Option 4: word in two thousand and nineteen
The Girl With All the Giftsword: "with" - tWo THousand and nIneteen
I listened to the audiobook. The mass market paperback edition has 483 pages.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 135
Aelia30.5 Sandy's Task: As Easy as 1 and 2 (not even 3!)
Option 1: Read a book that contains both a 1 and a 2 in the total number of pages.
For this option I read The Body in the Library
Total pages: 218
Option 3: For this option I read: Neverwhere
The last book I gave 5 stars to: The Body in the Library
Person whose profile I chose: Anna
I chose Neverwhere, which appears on the first page. This book was new to me.
The total number of pages of both books=218+384=602 pages
Total points this post: 30
Total points: 120
Sophie30.5
Opt 2 series number 1, 2, 11, 12
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
Phedre's trilogy book 1
1015 pages - claiming 3 BB
Opt 3
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Started withThe Huntress (my 5*), went to Patti Gadient. This book is new to me.
Total 100
BB 3
Anja5.2. The Maple Leaf Rag.
Read a book set at least 50% in Canada.
Pestilence by Laura Thalassa
Book is set mostly in Canada:
Lastly, the page has a map of North America, a red line drawn up the East Coast before cutting across Canada, and ending with the tip of the line curved downward, suggesting that the horseman and I are traveling down the West Coast, which seems accurate enough. (found at 56%)
I am moving Pestilence from task 5.5 to task 5.2
POINTS:
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 30
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks Completed: 3
Anja5.5. Try to Count Them.
Read a book with a main page genre of science fiction, fantasy, or speculative fiction, standalone or embedded.
War by Laura Thalassa
Fantasy 267 users
POINTS:
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 35
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks Completed: 4
Adallae25.8 - Bookwrm526's Task: Celebrate Every Day!
option 2 - Read a book where the author's first and last name initials can be found in BARTENDERS.
The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
option 3 - Read a book with "bird" or a specific type of bird in the title or subtitle.
Birdsong
Points this post: 25
Total points: 80
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 2
trishhartuk15.5 Lady With A Lamp
Read a book with a nurse or a midwife as a central character.
Murder on Washington Square, Victoria Thompson
The main female lead, Sarah Brandt, is a midwife.
Points this task: 15
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 75
Tasks completed: 5
Golden oldies: 1
Big Book tickets: 0
MAZZA115.4 - Go Red
Option 2
Book 1 Read a book written by an author with first and last name initials found in NATIONAL WEAR RED FOR WOMEN DAY
AND
with a person wearing an article of red clothing on the cover.
The House on the Lake
I read an ARC copy of this book from Netgalley and Penguin books UK
approved in help thread https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post = 15
Points to date = 445
Task 30.4 – Dlmrose – Old MacDonald Had a FarmOption 1 – All letters E I E I O in title
E I O in bOuvIEr
E I in sIstErs
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters
I listened to the audio / No MMP / Paperback: The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters - 336 pg
Option 2a – Title word is an animal from list - WHALE
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
I listened to the audio / MMP: Moby Dick - 544 pg
+++ GOLDEN OLDIE +++ – 1st published 1851
*** BIG BOOK *** 1 tickets – 544 pages
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This Post: 30 points
Total points to date: 50 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 1
Big Books Read: (2) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 2
TraceyL25.7 - Nick KY’s Task: Double Duty – Pulitzer Prizes.
Book 1 - Read a book with at least one word in the TITLE which has a set of consecutive double letters.
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
Double Letters in skiPPing
Book 2 - Read a book written by a winning author or finalist from one of these lists
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum
From #4, Criticism 2016 Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker
Points Earned This Post: 25
Total Points Earned: 130
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Amy B20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Queen Bee Darlene's Task: Be Better
This task is a one book task. Read a book from one of the options below.
Required: Identify the option.
Option 3) As an homage to Ellen DeGeneres, read a book written by a single author whose name contains both an E and a D.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (336 pages)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
This task: 20 points
Total to date: 115 points
15.6 - Third Time's The CharmRead a book that has won or been nominated for at least three literary awards. The awards must be listed in the GR metadata.
From Hell by Alan Moore
Harvey Awards Nominee for Best Writer (for Alan Moore) (1992), Prix du Festival d'Angoulême for Prix de la critique (2001), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album–Reprint (in 2000 awards), Best Writer (for Alan Moore) (in 1995, 1996, 1997 awards) (1995)
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Points this post: 15
Total points: 40
10.9 - Winter's in the AirRead a book that has won or has been nominated for a literary award that begins with one of the letters found in WINTER. The award must show up on book's main page under Literary Awards.
Black Hole by Charles Burns
Won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology or Collection (2006)
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Points this post: 10
Total points: 50
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5.8. Speaking My Language?
Waiting for Tomorrow by Nathacha Appanah
My primary language is English, this book was originally written in French.
total = 210