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WINTER CHALLENGE 2019
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Aelia30.3 - TessaVanessa’s Task: Get Hooked on Yarn
Option 1: Read a book with a ball or skein of yarn on the cover.
For this option, I read Casting Spells
Option 3: Read a book that has a word of at least 4 letters in the title or subtitle that can be made from the letters in STEP BACK FROM THE YARN.
Word chosen: FERAL
For this option, I read Feral
Points this post: 30
Total points: 180
20.1 - Most Improved - Librarianish's Task: Beating the Winter BluesOption 1: nonfiction book with an mpg of Health, Self-Help, Food, or Nature (standalone or embedded)
Femei care iubesc prea mult by Robin Norwood
Points this post: 20
Total points: 55
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Page count: 962
LAUREN JODI10.5 - Countdown to New Year's
Tempting Evil by Allison Brennan
Pages decrease sequentially - 432
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 75/1165
Total Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 7/64
15.10 - Get 'Em While They're HotRead a book FIRST published in 2019 or 2020
Ajută-mă să nu dispar by Petronela Rotar
first published in 2019
Points this post: 15
Total points: 70
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Page count: 1186
trishhartuk5.1. Name Calling!
Read a book with a person's first name in its title/subtitle/series title.
Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well, Nancy Atherton
Read the kindle edition. PB here
Okayed in the help thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this task: 5
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 100
Tasks completed: 7
Golden oldies: 1
Big Book tickets: 0
Queen Bee Darlene25.9 Diana K's Task: 2020 Number Fun
3) author initials in VIGESIMAL
The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan The Nanny
viGesiMal
4) Pair of glasses on cover
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 240
MEGSCL15.3 - Spin the Wheel
Option 2
RSTLNECDMA in the title, subtitle and/or author's name
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
TOTAL TO DATE
120 points
2 big books
MEGSCL20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Sarah Ruth's Task: Can You Keep A Secret?
Option 3: What's in a name?
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
initials in MELTDOWN.
TOTAL TO DATE
140 points
2 big books
Julia10325.14 - Cat's Task: Celebrating Trafalgar Square
Option 1
Book A - Fortune's Wheel: The First Meonbridge Chronicle by Carolyn Hughes (CH in CHARITY)
Book B - The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
This is on page 2 of the list. (#125)
This post: 25 points
Total points: 95
BB: 2
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 7
Amy FL5.8. Speaking My Language?
The Lost Boy - Swedish (I speak English)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 5
Amy FL15.3 - Spin the Wheel
Option 2: The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen (The SCaRrEd woMAN by jussi aDLer-olsen)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 20
Amy FL15.10 - Get 'Em While They're Hot
Blue Moon (Published October 29th 2019)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 35
Amy FL20.10 - Group Reads
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (My comment is in message 5.)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 55
Amy FL25.1 - Andy P.’s Task: Learning the Alphabet
Book 1: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Book 2, Option 2: Bloody Genius (bLOody)
689 total pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 80
5.10I read Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy by Judd Apatow.
points: 100
books read: 9
tasks completed: 7
tasks in progress: 2
Big Books: 1
pages read: 3107
Pat ☆ ☆ 15.2 ~ In The Category...
Task Description ~ Using the list of Book Awards on Goodreads select an award that presents awards in multiple categories.
REQUIRED ~ The winning award must be present on the book’s main GR page.
Book 1:
Read a book that has WON an award (no nominee, longlist, shortlist, or list award) in any category.
Before We Were Yours by Lisa WingateGoodReads Choice Award Winner ~ Historical Fiction ~ 2017
Completed ~ 12.26.19
Pages ~ 342
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Book 2:
Using the SAME award and the SAME YEAR read a book that has WON an award in a different category.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste NgGood Reads Choice Award Winner ~ Fiction ~ 2017
Completed ~ 12.14.19
Pages ~ 338
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
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Points this post ~ 15
Total Points ~ 165
Tasks Completed ~ 9
Books Read This Season ~ 14
Pages Read This Season ~ 4906
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Helen A's Task: Bird's WeddingA book with "Amish" in the title: The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Points this post: 20
Total points: 160
***Reposting due to problem in Option 2***Aelia
30.5 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
Neverwhere (London Below, #1) by Neil Gaiman
The last book I gave 5 stars to: Ink and Bone
Person whose profile I chose: Zen Bookworm
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
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.4 That's a Strange Title!
Girls Like Me by Lola St. Vil
Points this post: 5
Total points: 360
Tasks completed: 24/64
Books read: 29
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.1 Days of Celebration
Option 2: Stolen by John Wilson
Set in Australia.
Option 3: Bound by Marriage by Nalini Singh.
Set in New Zealand.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 375
Tasks completed: 25/64
Books read: 31
perletwo25.8 - Bookwrm526's Task: Celebrate Every Day! - Option 1: Read a book with at least one clearly visible six-sided* snowflake on the cover.
The Nightingale Before Christmas cover approved
Option 3: Read a book with "bird" or a specific type of bird in the title or subtitle. Plurals and possessives work.
All the Birds in the Sky
Points this task: 25
Total points: 330
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 25
Tasks completed: 20
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.10 - Get 'Em While They're Hot
The 19th Christmas by James Patterson.
Published 2019.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 390
Tasks completed: 26/64
Books read: 32
Jen K20.1 - Most Improved - Librarianish's Task: Beating the Winter Blues
Option 2: The Hygge Holiday
Currently page 1, #21 on Listopia for Scandinavian Lifestyle Books
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Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 175
Anja5.8. Speaking My Language?
Read a book originally written in a language other than your primary language.
Billionaire's Matchmaker by Sierra Cartwright
My primary language is Slovenian, book is written in English
POINTS:
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 35
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks Completed: 5
Amy B30.2 - Amanda A & Amy FL's Task: Two Women Honoring a Remarkable Woman
Choose two different options and read a book for each option. The combined total of both books must be at least 500 pages.
REQUIRED: State the options you chose in your post.
Option 1: The Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in CORETTA SCOTT KING. All initials count.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (343 pages)
In Cold Blood
Option 4: Coretta Scott King has two sets of double letters in her name. Read a book with at least two sets of double letters in the title and/or author name.
The Need by Helen Phillips (272 pages)
The Need
This Task: 30 points
To Date: 145 points
Christine V15.7 - Stand Alone
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Points this post: 15
Total points: 125
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 7
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=1 (Total BB tickets=3)
30.2 - Amanda A & Amy FL's Task: Two Women Honoring a Remarkable WomanThe combined total of both books must be at least 500 pages.
OPTION 1: Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in CORETTA SCOTT KING.
Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith
corettA Scott king / 220 pages
OPTION 4: Read a book with at least two sets of double letters in the title and/or author name.
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
haLLdor laxneSS / 482 pages
Total pages = 220 + 482 = 702 > 500
**Independent People is a GOLDEN OLDIE (1st pub 1934)**
Points this post: 30
TOTAL POINTS: 120
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book Tickets: - (500+); - (750+)
Total tasks completed: 5
Total books read: 7
LAUREN JODI5.2 - The Maple Leaf Rag
Watcher in the Woods by Kelley Armstrong
Set in Canada
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 80/1165
Total Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 8/64
MAZZA130.3 - TessaVanessa’s Task: Get Hooked on Yarn
Option 1: Ball of colour
Read a book with a ball or skein of yarn on the cover.
The Knitting Diaries: The Twenty-First Wish\Coming Unraveled\Return to Summer Island
Required: Include the cover when you post.
Option 3: Step back from the yarn
For this option read a book that has a word of at least 4 letters in the title or subtitle that can be made from the letters in STEP BACK FROM THE YARN.
One Year of Ugly the word is YEAR
I read an ARC copy of this book from net galley
points this post = 30
Points to date = 490
Mod
I read A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder, #1 in the Inspector Singh Investigates series. I read the kindle edition, linked to the top pb edition.
total points: 100
Sarah H5.8. Speaking My Language? - Read a book originally written in a language other than your primary language.
The Twenty Days of Turin
Originally written in Italian. My primary language is English.
Points this task: 5
Total points to date: 95
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Tasks complete: 8
Books read: 9
20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Queen Bee Darlene's Task: Be BetterOption 3) read a book written by a single author whose name contains both an E and a D.
The Good Woman of Renmark by Darry Fraser
E & D in author's name found in Darry frasEr
Total this Post: 20
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 205
Mary P20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - MEGSCL's Task: Title Tropes
Option 1:Read a book with mystery or thriller as a main page genre and the word 'girl" 'wife' or 'woman' in the title.
The Lullaby Girl by Loreth Anne White
Points this task: 20
Total points: 95
Readerboard Name EstherTask #5.5 - Try to Count them
House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig.
Main page genre: Fantasy
Task # 5.7 - Play those words
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg - musical instrument in title.
This post: 10 points
Total to Date = 10 points.
Readerboard Name: EstherTask: 10.7 - I Have a Dream
A Long Way Gone
(List: Books by Black Authors, p. 1 #49)
This post: 10 points
Total to date: 20 points
25.15 - Sarah E's Task: Do You Want to Build a Snowman?Option 2, a book with black text on the cover: Prison Poems by Daniel Berrigan
(Sorry, they're kind of small in this image, but the title and author's name are in black lettering on the white stripe across the middle of the cover.)
Option 4, a book by an author whose initials are found in STICKS: A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
Points this post: 25
Total points: 185
Karen DTask 20.1 - Most Improved - Librarianish's Task: Beating the Winter Blues
Option 3:
Book: The Children Act,finished 12/27
How it fits: On Listopia List "Smart Summer Reads", p. 7
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Points this task: 20
Total points: 230
Readerboard Name: Esther Task 15.3 Spin the Wheel
(Option 2: Read a book with all the letters R, S, T, L, N, E and C, D, M, A in the title / subtitle and/or author’s name).
10 MiNutes 38 SEConds in this sTRAnge worLD by Elif Shafak
This post: 15 points
Total to date: 35 points
Readerboard Name: EstherTask 20.9 Moderator’s Pet - Sarah Ruth’s Task - Can you keep a secret?
Option 1 - “secret” in the title ‘Madame Fourcade's Secret War’ by Lynne Olson
This post: 20 points
Total to date: 55 points
15.10 - Get 'Em While They're HotRead a book FIRST published in 2019 or 2020.
Things You Save in a Fire
Published 8/13/2019
[POINTS]
This post: 15
Total points: 120
Books read: 7
Tasks completed: 7
Big Book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Pamela326530.7 - Tien's task: Sesame Street 50th
Option 1: The Candy Cane Caper by Josi S. Kilpack – Published in 2019
Option 3: The Tale of Hill Top Farm by Susan Wittig Albert – Author’s first name matches character Susan Robinson
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 180
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
Sanz10.6 - Fresh Start
Read a book that is #1 in a series
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling
This book is #1 in the Harry Potter series
(Scores on AR Bookfinder: IL = MG; BL = 6.0; AR Points = 12.0)
Points this task: 10
Completed Tasks: 5
Total Points Earned: 65
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Kathy KS20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Sarah Ruth's Task: Can You Keep A Secret?
Option 3: Read a book written by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in either SPECTRE or MELTDOWN.
Violet, by Scott Thomas
SpecTre
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 110
Tasks completed: 6
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Laurah3015.5- Lady With A Lamp
Read a book with a nurse or a midwife as a central character.
Maisie Dobbs
Points this task: 15
Total points to date: 85
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Tasks complete: 4
Books read: 5
30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Old MacDonald Had a FarmBook 1: Here and There: I read Inside Out by Demi Moore. (EI in title, EIO in author's name).
Book 2 On That Farm, Option 2 (animal selected from list is a Parrot, and the sound is "talk"). I read The Talk-Funny Girl.
Points this task: 30
Total points: 30
Number of tasks complete: 1
Number of books: 2
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 4 - Read a book with the MPG Romance (standalone or embedded).
Birdsong
Points this post: 25
Total points: 80
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 2
Julia10310.10 - Overlooked?
The Winds of War
This book is 1047 pages - claiming 2 BB tickets
This post: 10 points, 2 BB
Total points: 105
BB: 4
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 8
perletwo30.6 - Aprilleigh’s Task: The World of Xanth - Book 1 Option 2: Read any book on Goodreads’ list of Popular Punny Books.
Six Geese A-Slaying - list p. 3
Book 2 Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in PIERS ANTHONY (All initial count, and letters can be used only as often as they appear in the target phrase) AND that has MPGs of BOTH Science Fiction and Fantasy (Science Fiction Fantasy as an MPG will count as both).
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
genres verified here
Each book should be a minimum of 200 pages with a combined total of at least 500 pages.
I read Kindle editions, but: book 1 top mmp ed. 316 pgs + book 2 top pb ed. 307 pgs = 623 pgs
Points this task: 30
Total points: 360
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 27
Tasks completed: 21
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