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WINTER CHALLENGE 2019
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Ava Catherine25.4 - Sally M's Task: I’d Like to Thank…
Option 1: The Academy, er, SRC!
Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in SPREADSHEET TRACKER.
Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash
author's initials RR found in spReadsheet tRacker
252 pages
Option 4: Long Flights and Layovers
Read a book with the MPG Travel, standalone or embedded.
Shadow of the Silk Road Colin Thubron
384 pages; travel mpg
252+384=636 total pages
total=450
Ava Catherine25.5 - Kaora's Task: All Work and Some Play...
Option 2: New Orleans, LA
Read a book that is the second in a series.
Hide and Seek (Inspector Rebus #2) by Ian Rankin
Option 4: Albuquerque, NM
Read a book by a single author whose initials are in ALBUQUERQUE BALLOON FESTIVAL.
Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam
author's initials RA in RumAan balloon festival
total=475
Ava Catherine25.6 - Cordelia's Task: 2019
Option 1: Read a book FIRST published in 2019.
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
first published October 15, 2019
Option 2: Read a book which WON a literary prize or award in 2019.
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood Booker Prize 2019
total=500
Ava Catherine25.7 - 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.
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
double letters in "little" and "Aberdeen"
Book 2: Read a book written by a winning author or finalist from one of these lists:
From 2: General Nonfiction 1962 to present
2011 Winner: "The Emperor of All Maladies" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
total=525
Amy W20.4 - Golden Oldies - Perletwo's Task: Everything Old is New Again, and Again and Again
I read Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. It’s on page 3 of the list.
Points This Task: 20
Total Points to Date: 145
Ava Catherine25.8 - 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.
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve author's initials=AS found in bArtenderS
Option 5: Love Your Pet Day (February 20)
Read a book with an animal that is typically considered an indoor pet on the cover.
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
total=550
Ava CatherineTask 25.9 Diana K's Task: 2020 Number Fun.
Option 3:
Read a book by an author whose first and last name initials appear in the word VIGESIMAL.
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
author's initials=MA found in vigesiMAl
Option 4: Read a book that has a pair of glasses on the cover.
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
by Craig Browntotal=575
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Sarah Ruth's Task: Can You Keep A Secret?Option 3: What's in a name?
Read a book written by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in either SPECTRE or MELTDOWN.
Night of Cake & Puppets by Laini Taylor > LT in MELTDOWN
Total points: 35
25.1 - Andy P.’s Task: Learning the AlphabetBook 1. Read a book which does NOT contain an M or an N in the title or subtitle.
The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
Book 2.
Option 1: Read a book in which the author’s name contains both an M and an N.
Vanilla Beaned by Jenn McKinlay
Total pages: 325 + 281 = 606 pages which is 501+
Total points: 60
Jen K25.8 - Bookwrm526's Task: Celebrate Every Day!
Option 4: Cuddle Up Day (January 6)
A Christmas Date: A Festive Holidays Romantic Comedy
MPG Romance
Option 5: Love Your Pet Day (February 20)
The Christmas Countdown: The perfect cosy feel good romance
cat on the cover
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Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 260
Julia1035.1. Name Calling!
Rivka's War (name Rivka in title)
This post: 5 points
Total points: 265
BB: 5
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 14
Books read: 19
Scooter&Siam15.7 - Stand Alone
Read a book that is a standalone- NOT part of a series or continuing story or world.
Read Monk's Court
Points: 15
Total: 25
MAZZA120.1 - Most Improved - Librarianish's Task: Beating the Winter Blues
Option 3:
For this option, read a book from any GR listopia that has the word "beach" or "summer" in its name. For instance, Best Summer Reads 2019 or Beach Reads 2019.
Required: State and link your chosen listopia, and state the page number of that list on which your book may be found.
From https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... Best Summer reads 2019
Page 1
Stalking Jack the Ripper
Points this post = 20
Points to date = 650
Queen Bee Darlene25.7 Nick KY's Task: Double Duty - Pulitzer Prizes
Book 1: title has consecutive double letters
52 Small Changes: One Year to a Happier, Healthier You by Brett Blumenthal 52 Small Changes: One Year to a Happier, Healthier You
Double letter LL in small
Book 2: Book by winning author or finalist from Fiction, 1948 to the present list
Less by Andrew Sean Greer Less
Winner 2018
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 345
SALLY M.10.6 Fresh Start: #1 in a series
These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling
Points this post: 10
Total points: 370
Tasks completed: 22
Books read: 28
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 3
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Queen Bee Darlene's Task: Be BetterOption 3 - Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard
Total: 20
20.1 Beating the Winter BluesOpt 2 - #5 on Scandinavian Lifestyle Books https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much, Just Right: The Swedish Guide to Creating Balance in Your Life
Total: 20
Total/challenge: 20
20.6 Looking Back, Looking ForwardOpt 2 - standalone genre of "Science Fiction" OR a genre of "Science Fiction > Dystopia" or "Science Fiction > Utopia". The award must be present on the book's main page.
Artemis- won GR Choice Award for SF 2017
Total:20
Total/challenge: 40
25.3 Crime Writers AwardOpt 1 - color in title - olive
Olive Kitteridge
Opt 5 - book from list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3... - #95 on pg 1
A Pocket Full Of Rye
Total: 25
Total/challenge: 65
30.1 Celebrating Louise ErdichOpt 1 - HF genre
The English Wife
Opt 2 - book from list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2... - #1 pg 1
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Total: 30
Total/challenge: 95
30.2 Two Women Honoring a Remarkable Woman >500 pgsOpt 2 - Published in January of any year
The Immortalists- 346 pgs
Published January 9, 2018
Opt 4 - 2 sets of double letters in title and/or auth name
The Seduction of Lord Stone by Anna Campbell - 204 pgs NN and LL in author's name
346+204=550 pgs
Total:30
Total/challenge: 125
30.3 Get Hooked on YarnOpt 1 - ball or skein of yarn on cover
Opt 5 Health/mental health genre
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - health genre
Total: 30
Total/challenge: 155
30.7 Sesame Street's 50thOpt 1 Published 1969-2019
Beguiling the Beauty - pub 2012
Opt 3 - author's shares first or last name with a human SS character - David (a kid from the neighborhood who helps in Mr. Hooper's store)
The Hit by David Baldacci
Total: 30
Total/challenge: 185
30.8 World's without End- >500 pgsBk 1 - Read a book which has won or been nominated for any of the awards listed on the Worlds Without End site, from any year.
The Calculating Stars - 431 pgs
The Hugo Award 2019
Bk 2 - Read a book which has won or been nominated for a different award from the site, in any year. The award used for Book 1 may not be repeated.
Witchmark - 318 pgs
2019 World Fantasy Award finalist
431+318=749 pgs
Total:30
Total/challenge: 215
trishhartuk25.6 Cordelia’s Task: 2019
Option 1: Read a book FIRST published in 2019.
A Whale of a Tail, Kathi Daley
Read the kindle edition. PB here (204pg)
First published 26 June 2019
Option 5: Read a book which has at least 2 of the following numbers: 2, 0, 1, 9 in the number of pages.
Thread the Halls, Lea Wait (320pg)
Includes 2 and 0
Points this task: 25
Books read: 2
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 125
Tasks completed: 8
Golden oldies: 1
Big Book tickets: 0
Cindy FTask 10.2 Comfort Food
MPG Food and Drink
Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker
Points this post:10
Total points:40
Tasks completed:5
Books read:5
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:2
Janice CA5.6. 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.
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
+5
total: 15
tasks: 2
books: 2
Kathy KS10.8 - Leap Year
Read a book first published in a year that contains double consecutive digits
The Cruelest Month, by Louise Penny
1st published: 2007
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Points for this task: 10
Total points : 165
Tasks completed: 9
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Kelly L20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Zach's Task: Looking Back, Looking Forward
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.
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
MPG Historical Fiction, winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction (2019)
This post = 20 points
Total to date = 100 points.
Cindy FTask 15.9 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Non-Fiction graphic novel
March: Book One by John Lewis
Points this post: 15
Total points:55
Tasks completed:6
Books read:6
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:2
Cindy FTask 15.10 Get'em While They're Hot
First published 2019
The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter
Points this post:15
Total points:70
Tasks completed:7
Books read:7
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:2
Cindy FTask 15.5 Lady With a Lamp
Book with Nurse/Midwife as central character
Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War by Pamela D. Toler
Approved in help thread message #22
Points this post:15
Total points:85
Tasks completed:8
Books read:8
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:2
25.7 - 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
Wool (Double "oo")
***Claiming Big Book Ticket, 563 pages***
Book 2: Read a book written by a winning author or finalist from one of these lists:
I used the list fiction
There Thereby Tommy Orange which was a 2019 finalist
New Points: 25
Total Challenge Points: 160
GO: 1
BB: 1
Kristi CO20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - MEGSCL's Task: Title Tropes
Option 2: 5-word title with full name
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO15.6 - Third Time's The Charm
6 awards listed on GR
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Points this post: 15
Total points: 35
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO15.7 - Stand Alone
Half Way Home by Hugh Howey
Points this post: 15
Total points: 50
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO15.10 - Get 'Em While They're Hot
Know My Name by Chanel Miller (2019)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 65
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO25.5 - Kaora's Task: All Work and Some Play...
Option 1: 0, 1, 3, 4, 8
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (208 pgs)
Option 4: ALBUQUERQUE BALLOON FESTIVAL
Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay
Points this post: 25
Total points: 90
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 6
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Book 1: E, I, E, I, O
The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer
**Big Book ticket** for The Flight Portfolio at 576 pgs
Book 2, Option 1: animal
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
Points this post: 30
Total points: 120
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 8
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Sarah Ruth's Task: Can You Keep A Secret?Option 2, a book with the mpg of Technology: The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
Points this post: 20
Total points: 265
Mary P15.5- Lady With A Lamp
Read a book with a nurse or a midwife as a central character.
The Midwife's Revolt by Jodi Daynard
Points this task: 15
Total points: 165
Task: 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Julia103's Task: The Name is ImportantOption: 2
Book read: The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets by Sophie Hannah
Required: Author name Sophie matches the Sophie Brody Medal on page 91 of the list (when sorted by most books, list accessed 5th jan)
GO/BB requested?: no
Points this task: 20
Total points: 170
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 10
Tasks completed: 9
Task: 20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI’s task-Celebrating the 90’sOption: 2
Book read: Royal Tour by Amy Alward
Required: book has MPG of Fantasy and page count is 372 which contains a 3.
GO/BB requested?: no
Points this task: 20
Total points: 190
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 11
Tasks completed: 10
StaceyNC5.9. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words for which the initial letter of each word in the title can be found in Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Book: So Long, Lollipops
Completed: 12/20/19
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 60
Tasks Completed: 4
StaceyNC10.8 - Leap Year
Read a book first published in a year that contains double consecutive digits (ex: 1944, 1995, 2008, 2011).
Book: Savor the Danger
Completed: 1/5/20
Published: June 2011
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 70
Tasks completed: 5
StaceyNC10.9 - Winter's in the Air
Read a book that has won or has been nominated for a literary award that begins with one of the letters found in WINTER.
Book: Consumed
Completed: 1/5/20
RITA Award by Romance Writers of America Nominee in Romantic Suspense
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 80
Tasks Completed: 6
StaceyNC20.5 - Bigger is Better - Julia103's Task: The Name is Important
Option 3: Read a book with a word in the title (not subtitle) of at least 3 letters that is in an award name.
Book: The Year We Hid Away
Completed: 1/3/20
Award: Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Award found on Page 2 of the list
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 100
Tasks Completed: 7
Karen DTask 30.5 - Sandy's Task: As Easy as 1 and 2 (not even 3!)
Option 2: The Fourth Monkey ,finished 1/5 (404 pages)
How it fits: #1 in 4MK Thriller series
Option 3: The Dutch House, finished 12/17 (337 pages)
How it fits: Back Roads (last 5-star rated book as of 12/1) -> Misti, this book was new to me
Points this task: 30
Total points: 395
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Read a book of your choice that meets the SRC rules.
Sticks & Stones - Madeline Urban & Abigail Roux 1/3
Points this task: 5
Total points: 420
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1) 750 (0) 1000 (0)