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WINTER CHALLENGE 2019
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Brooke TX30.5 - 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.
Option 2. Read a book that has a series number consisting only of 1 and/or 2. Number 2 of the Central Corps series:
Points
This Post: 30
Total Points: 265
Completed Tasks: 22
Books Read: 41
Bookwrm526Task #5.2- The Maple Leaf Rag
Read a book set at least 50% in Canada. I read The Language of Secrets by Ausma Zehanat Khan.
Total points so far: 190
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I read Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - subtitle word "justICE" contains "ice" intact.
total points: 240
Creynard20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Zach's Task: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Option 2: Read a book by an author who shares a first or last name with the name of a book award or with the person that an award was named for. The name must match exactly.
Say No to the Duke by Eloisa James
Author's last name shares the word "James" with the James Tait Black Memorial Award on page 3 of the Goodreads Book Awards List.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 80
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 6
Creynard5.6. Have You Heard the One About..........?
Straight Up Irish by Magan Vernon
Read a book whose author's initials appear consecutively in the name of the award: Montblanc-National University of Singapore Literary Award.
Author's initials: MV = Montblanc national uniVersity singapore literary award
Points this post: 5
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 6
Creynard5.7. Play Those Words!
by Kelly SiskindRead a book with a musical instrument normally played by a person pictured on its cover.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 90
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 6
Karen DTask 30.8 - Brooke TX's Task: Worlds Without End
Book 1: Rosewater, finished 1/2
Won the 2019 Arthur C. Clarke award
Pages: 432
Book 2: The Cabin at the End of the World, finished 12/22
Nominated for 2019 August Derleth award
Pages: 272
Total pages: 704
Points this task: 30
Total points: 315
Creynard15.10 - Get 'Em While They're Hot
Read a book FIRST published in 2019 or 2020.
Happy Trail by Daisy Prescott
Published October 22nd 2019.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 105
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 7
Creynard15.7 - Stand Alone
That Guy by Kim Jones
Points this post: 15
Total points: 120
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 8
Task 15.9 - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand WordsRead a Non-fiction work in a sequential art/graphic format.
A Fire Story (2019) by Brian Fies [GRAPHIC NOVEL 363.379]
30 + 15 = 45
Tasks Completed: 04
Points for this post: 15
Points thus far: 30 + 15 = 45
Books read: 04
Pages read: 730
Read but not claimed: 06
Goodreads Authors: 03
Golden Oldies: 00
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Julia10315.3 - Spin the Wheel
Option 2: Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
(Charity and Sylvia: A Same ...)
This post: 15 points
Total points: 190
BB: 4
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 13
20.6 Looking Back, Looking ForwardOption 1: Looking Back
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
This was the Goodreads Choice for Historical Fiction in 2017
Post Total: 20
Grand Total: 140
20.7 Be BetterLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
This is on the first page of the Uplifting Fiction list.
This is a big book with 504 pages. I'd like a BB ticket.
This is also a Golden Oldie first published in 1868. I'd like a Golden Oldie ticket.
Post Total: 20
Grand Total: 160
BB: 1
Golden Oldie: 1
Laurah3025.2 - Mazza1's Task: Discussions with Santa
Option 1
Book 1 - Read a book with ALL the letters of NO PLASTIC in the title and / or subtitle
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life 212 p
book 2 - Read a book which contains the word “TOY”, “LIBRARY ” or "WHIRL" in the TITLE. Subtitles are excluded. The word must match exactly.
The Library Book 336 p
Points this task: 25
Total points to date: 155
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Tasks complete: 7
Books read: 10
Pat ☆ ☆ 15.1 ~ Days of Celebration
Task Description ~ Select 2 options and read a book for each. You MAY use the same option twice but you MUST choose different countries.
Option #1 ~ Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries that celebrates its national day during the Winter Challenge
REQUIRED ~ Romania
The Girl They Left Behind by Roxanne VeletzosCompleted ~ 1.2.20
Pages ~ 353
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Option #2 ~ Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries that celebrates its national day in January
REQUIRED ~ Australia
The Dry by Jane HarperCompleted ~ 12.11.19
Pages ~ 328
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Points this post ~ 15
Total Points ~ 195
Tasks Completed ~ 11
Books Read This Season ~ 17
Pages Read This Season ~ 5969
Anja10.8 - Leap Year
Read a book first published in a year that contains double consecutive digits
Pompeii by Robert Harris - first published November 21st 2003
POINTS:
Points This Post: 10
Points Total: 45
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks Completed: 6
MAZZA15.1. Name Calling!
Read a book with a person's first name in its title/subtitle/series title.
Anne of Avonlea
This book was published in 1903 and I am claiming a GO ticket for it
Has children's as MPG
Information from AR Bookfinder
Anne of Avonlea
Montgomery, L.M.
AR Quiz No. 551 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP, LS, VP
Book Rating Rating: 3.5
points this post = 5
Points to date = 595
GO tickets this post = 1
GO tickets to date = 4
Task: 20.6 Seasoned Reader - Zach's Task: Looking Back, Looking ForwardOption: 1: Looking Back
Book read: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Required: MPG Historical > Historical Fiction and winner of at least 1 award.
GO/BB requested?: no
Points this task: 20
Total points: 150
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 9
Tasks completed: 8
babbling c10.10 - Overlooked?
Read a popular book (over 10,000 ratings) that has never won or been nominated for a literary award (according to Goodreads). The book's main page should NOT include a section titled Literary Awards in the book's metadata (the section below the book description).
Rogue Lawyer Audible Rogue Lawyer - paperback pg. 371 by John Grisham
Rating details · 61,804 ratings no Awards
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies: 0
Total This Season
Points: 90/1165
Completed Tasks: 6/64
Golden oldies: 1
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Pages read this season: 2,501
Books read this season: 8
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.8 Bookwrm526's Task: Celebrate Every Day!
Option 4: Every Dark Corner by Karen Rose.
Option 5:
by Melodie Campbell.Points this post: 25
Total points: 465
Tasks completed: 30/64
Books read: 38
Delicious Dee5.5. Try to Count Them
Sisters of the Vast Black - shelved as science fiction by 66ppl
points this post: 5
points overall: 290
Delicious Dee20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Helen A's Task: Bird's Wedding
Amish Mercy
points this post: 20
points overall: 310
20.3 Celebrating the '90sOption 2: Read a book with a main page genre of Fantasy AND whose page count contains a 1, 9 or 3.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Page count contains a 3: 635 pages.
***** Claiming a BB ticket for this 635-page book *****
Points this task: 20
Total points: 050
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Big Book tickets: 2
Books read: 3
Tasks completed: 3
Delicious Dee25.5 - Kaora's Task: All Work and Some Play...
Option 2 - Just Past Two - #2 in the Come in Threes series
option 4 - Must Love Chainmail - Angela Quarles - AQ found in ALBUQUERQUE BALLOON FESTIVAL
points this post: 25
points overall: 335
babbling c25.3 - TraceyL's Task: Crime Writers Awards
Option 1: The Scarlet Stiletto
Australia’s annual crime short story competition, the Scarlet Stiletto Awards, is open to women only. The overall winner receives a cash prize plus coveted trophy, a scarlet stiletto shoe with a steel stiletto heel plunging into a perspex mount.
Read a book with a color word in the TITLE. Subtitles are not allowed.
chocolate
Charms and Chocolate Chips - kindle Charms and Chocolate Chips paperback 336 by Bailey Cates
Option 4: The Whodunit Award
The Mystery Writers Key West Whodunit Writing Competition is open to writers of unpublished manuscripts. "Whodunit" is a play on the question "Who has done it?" or "Who did it?"
Read a book with a question mark "?" in the title, subtitle or series name.
Madam, Will You Talk? - kindle Madam, Will You Talk? paperback pg 360 by Mary Stewart
THIS POST
Points: 25
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies: 0
Total This Season
Points: 115/1165
Completed Tasks: 7/64
Golden oldies: 1
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Pages read this season: 3,197
Books read this season: 10
25.10 - Kristina Simon's task: Rewards of AwardsOption 2, a graphic novel that has won or been nominated for at least one literary award: Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast, 228 pages
Many awards, including National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2014)
Option 4, a book from Reese Witherspoon's list (#11): The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
mass market paperback Il giorno che aspettiamo 398 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 245
Karen DTask 25.1 - Andy P.’s Task: Learning the Alphabet
Book 1: The Border, finished 12/15 (pages - 768)
Book 2 (Option 1)
Feed, by Mira Grant, finished 1/3 (pages - 599)
Points this task: 25
Total points: 340
Queen Bee Darlene15.7 Stand Alone - standalone book - not part of series
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan Last Night at the Lobster
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 315
Sophie20.8
Opt 2 5+ words in title with a full name
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Total 150
15.3 Option 2: One book to fit both: Title, Subtitle, and/or Author's Name Must containBook 1: R, S, T, L, N
Book 2: C, D, M
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English, John McWhorter
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
Post Point: 15
Total Point: 165
Big Book Tickets: 2
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
20.1 - Most Improved - Librarianish's Task: Beating the Winter BluesOption 3:
For this option, read a book from any GR listopia that has the word "beach" or "summer" in its name.
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Date Read: 1/1/20
How It Fits: Smart Summer Reads Pg1.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 230
Golden Oldie Books This Post: 0
Total Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets This Post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Perletwo's Task: Everything Old is New Again, and Again and Againread a book from this list: Mythologies and Retellings of Fairy Tales and Classics.
Rise of the Alpha Huntress by Neo Edmund
Date Read: 27/12
How It Fits: pg 2
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 250
Golden Oldie Books This Post: 0
Total Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets This Post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - MEGSCL's Task: Title TropesOPTION 2: Read a book with at least five words in the title including a full name (first name and surname).
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
Points this post: 20
TOTAL POINTS: 110
Golden Oldies: -
Big Book Tickets: - (500+); - (750+)
Total tasks completed: 5
Total books read: 6
SALLY M.5.8 Speaking My Language?: my primary language is English and this was originally written in French
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
Points this post: 5
Total points: 320
Tasks completed: 18
Books read: 24
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 3
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
SALLY M.15.9 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: non-fiction work in a sequential art/graphic format
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Points this post: 15
Total points: 335
Tasks completed: 19
Books read: 25
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 3
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
SALLY M.20.1 Beating the Winter Blues
Option 1: MPG Self-Help (verified)
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 355
Tasks completed: 20
Books read: 26
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 3
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
ZachFor Task 15.9 - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words I read March: Book One.
Points this post: 15
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Totals:
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Points: 30
BBTs: 0
GOTs: 0
20.1 Beating the Winter BluesOption 1: Read a nonfiction book with an mpg of Health, Self-Help, Food, or Nature (standalone or embedded).
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon
Nonfiction book with an mpg of Self Help.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 070
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Big Book ticket tickets: 2
Books read: 4
Tasks completed: 4
Cordelia5.6 Have you heard the one about
Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds
Author's initials A R appear consecutively in the award: montblanc-national university of singapore literARy awARd.
Points: 5
Total points: 340
TraceyL20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI’s task-Celebrating the 90’s
Option 2: For this option read a book with a main page genre of Fantasy, standalone or embedded, AND whose page count contains a 1, 9 or 3.
Agent of Chaos Audiobook
Agent of Chaos PB 311 Pages
MPG Fantasy and page count contains 3 and 1
Points Earned This Post: 20
Total Points Earned: 165
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Helen B25.11 - Rescue Me!
Option 1. Animal Farm by George Orwell 141 pages
On page 2 of great dog books list.
this book is a golden oldie, originally published in 1945. Claiming 1 GO ticket<\b>
Option 3. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 1037 pages claiming 3 big book tickets <\b>
Author’s initials in resC<\b>ue D<\b>ogs
this is a golden oldie, first published in 1853. Claiming 1 GO Ticket <\b>
Points this post: 25
Total points: 110
Books read: 9
Tasks completed: 6
BB tickets: 3
GO tickets: 2
Oma122910.3 - Let It Snow
Read a book with a title consisting of at least 3 words where each initial letter can be found in the phrase WINTER WONDERLAND.
I'll Never Tell by Catherine McKenzie
Total # of Tasks=10/64
Total # of Points read=140/1165
Total # of GO Books=()
Total # of BB=500+=(1),750+=(), 1000+()
Oma1229I chose Option #3.
Option 3: What's in a name?
For this option: Read a book written by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in either SPECTRE or MELTDOWN. Letters may be used only as often as they appear in the target word.
Strictly Murder by Lynda Wilcox
I used the word MELTDOWN
Total # of Tasks=11/64
Total # of Points read=160/1165
Total # of GO Books=()
Total # of BB=500+=(1),750+=(), 1000+()
Oma12295.6. Have You Heard the One About..........?
Read a book whose author's initials appear consecutively in the name of the award: Montblanc-National University of Singapore Literary Award.
Single author only, all initials, including middle initials, must appear in the name of the award. Initials must appear in the order they occur in the target phrase. Ignore the hyphen in the phrase.
Christmas Dreams and Santa Schemes by Barbara Lohr
This book was approved for length (Message 7715) and line #653 on verification list.
Total # of Tasks=12/64
Total # of Points read=165/1165
Total # of GO Books=()
Total # of BB=500+=(1),750+=(), 1000+()
Coralie10.7 I Have a Dream
From page 7 of Books by black authors (right at the bottom)
Behold the Dreamers: An Oprah's Book Club pick
Total to date 145 points
Amy B15.7 - Stand Alone
Read a book that is a standalone- NOT part of a series or continuing story or world.
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge - 300 pages
Deaf Sentence
This Task: 15 points
Points to Date: 175 points
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25.8 - 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.
Option 4: Read a book with the MPG Romance.
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 235
Completed Tasks: 21
Books Read: 41