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WINTER CHALLENGE 2019
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RAYNEBAIR20.10 - Group Reads
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
My post in the discussion
With 579 pages, I claim 1 big book ticket for this book.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 225
BB tickets claimed: 2
GO tickets claimed: 0
Nick KYI am replacing 5.10 Your Award Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub with the book I just read, Glass Houses by Louise Penny.
No change in score for this substitution.
Total Points So Far: 435
Nick KY25.5 Kaora’s Vacation Spots
Option 1. Palm Springs. I read Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub, with 304 pp, both a 4 and a 0 in the page enumeration.
Option 4. Albuquerque, NM. I read Three Women by Lisa Taddeo, inits in “Albuquerque balloon fesTivaL.” 304 pp
Total page numbers = 608 > required 500.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 460
trishhartuk30.4 DLMRose’s Task: Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Book 1: Here and There. Read a book with ALL these letters E, I, E, I, O (2 Es, 2Is) in the title, subtitle, and/or author's name.
The Case of the Sinister Spirit, Leighann Dobbs
Read the kindle version. PB here
Es in thE and casE; Is in sInIster; O in Of
Book 2. On That Farm, Option 1: Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle that matches an animal from this list of Animal Sounds.
The Cats that Stopped the Magic, Karen Anne Golden
Read the kindle edition. PB here
Cats are on the list.
Points this task: 30
Books read: 2
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 265
Tasks completed: 16
Golden oldies: 3
Big Book tickets: 0
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Zach's Task: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Option 1: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate.
MPG=Historical Fiction
Points this post: 20
Total points: 775
Tasks completed: 43/64
Books read: 62
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.10 Your Personal Award!
See No Evil by Diane Young
Points this post: 5
Total points: 780
Tasks completed: 44/64
Books read: 63
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Sarah Ruth's Task: Can You Keep A Secret?Option 3: What's in a name?
I am an Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler
❆ author's initials (EE) can be found in SPECTRE ❆
Total points: 180 + 20 = 200
25.4 - Sally M's Task: I’d Like to Thank…Option 1: Paw and Order by Diane Kelly
❆ author's initials (DK) found in SPREADSHEET TRACKER ❆
📖 368 pages 📖
Option 3: Still Life by Louise Penny
❆ borrowed from my public library ❆
📖 293 pages 📖
📖📖 368 + 293 = 661 pages 📖📖
Total points: 200 + 25 = 225
30.5 - Sandy's Task: As Easy as 1 and 2 (not even 3!)Option 1: Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant
📖 123 pages 📖
Option 3: Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
❆ My 5-star book was: Mooncakes. I selected Erika and picked Carry On, which was new to me. ❆
📖 522 pages 📖
📖📖 123 + 522 = 645 pages 📖📖
Total points: 225 + 30 = 255
Pat ☆ ☆ 15.10 ~ Get 'Em While They're Hot
Task Description ~ Read a book FIRST published in 2019 or 2020
The Last Year of the War by Susan MeissnerPublished March 19th 2019 by Berkley
Completed ~ 1.22.20
Pages ~ 389
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Points this post ~ 15
Total Points ~ 310
Tasks Completed ~ 16
Books Read This Season ~ 25
Pages Read This Season ~ 8663
MAZZA125.13 - Rina's Task: Christmas Markets
This is a two book task. The combined page count for both books must be at least 500 pages.
Using COLOGNE christmas Market in Germany
Book 1 - Read a book with ALL the letters of the city, where your chosen Christmas Market is held, found in either the title/subtitle OR series name.
How to Make Your Heart Sing: A tale of midlife chaos and the courage to change approved in help thread https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
300 pages
Book 2 - Read a book set at least 50% in the country where your chosen market is held.
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold Setting identified as Berlin on main page
Pages 224
300+224 = 524 pages
Points this post= 25
points to date = 965
MAZZA125.8 - Bookwrm526's Task: Celebrate Every Day!
Option 2: Repeal Day (December 5)
Read a book where the author's first and last name initials can be found in BARTENDERS.
Divorce Hotel B.R. Snow
Option 4: Cuddle Up Day (January 6) –
Read a book with the MPG Romance (standalone or embedded).
Strangers in Death MPG romance
Points this post = 25
Points to date = 990
Joanne MITask 25.5: All Work and Some Play.
Option 1. Read a book with at least two of these numbers in the page total: 0, 1, 3, 4, 8.
Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald -page total 248
Option 2. Read a book that is the second in a series.
The Dragon Republic-Second book in The Poppy War Series.
Claiming 1 big book at 560 pages
Points this task 25
Total Points 225
BB's this task 1
Total BB's 5
5.6. Have You Heard the One About..........?univERsity
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
Task Total: 5
Season Total: 135
30.5 - Sandy's Task: As Easy as 1 and 2 (not even 3!)600 Pages: 218 + 396 = 614 Pages
Option 1. Read a book that contains both a 1 and a 2 in the total number of pages.
Human Acts by Han Kang 218 pages
Option 2. Read a book that has a series number consisting only of 1 and/or 2 - i.e. 1, 2, 11, 12, and so on.
Hundred Year Old Man #1
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, 396 pages
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 165
Cordelia30.5 As easy as 1 and 2
Option 1:
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
201 pages
Has 1 and 2 in total number of pages
Option 2:
The Passage by Justin Cronin
#1 in series.
Series: The Passage
766 pages
Points: 30
Total points: 530
BUCKET5.9 The Neustadt International Prize for Literature
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
(Title letters: TDOT)
NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Points this post/total: 5/5
BB this post/total: 0
GO this post/total: 0
BUCKET10.8 Leap Year
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
First published in 2003
Points this post/total: 10/15
BB this post/total: 0
GO this post/total: 0
BUCKET10.9 Winter’s in the Air
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Nominated for International Dublin Literary Award in 2000
(starts with I)
WINTER
Points this post/total: 10/25
BB this post/total: 0
GO this post/total: 0
BUCKET10.10 Overlooked?
Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography by Mark Mathabane
As of 1/22/20, this book has 14,519 ratings and NO award wins or nominations. It was first published in 1986.
Points this post/total: 10/35
BB this post/total: 0
GO this post/total: 0
BUCKET15.4 Go Red
Option 2.
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
Initials ML (NATIONAL WEAR RED FOR WOMEN DAY)
Clothing item: Red hat/hood
**GOLDEN OLDIE: FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1796**
Points this post/total: 15/50
BB this post/total: 0
GO this post/total: 1/1
25.3 - TraceyL's Task: Crime Writers AwardsOption 1, a book with a color word in the title: Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Option 5, a book found on Detective Fiction List, p. 4 #392: A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
Points this post: 25
Total points: 485
BUCKET15.7 Stand Alone
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Not part of series/continuing world of any kind.
Points this post/total: 15/65
BB this post/total: 0
GO this post/total: 0/1
15.8 Ice Ice BabyJeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
(ICE in VENICE)
Points this post/total: 15/80
BB this post/total: 0
GO this post/total: 0/1
Mod
I read Selected Poems, found on page 5 of Books by Black Authors. currently # 408.
Total points: 435
BUCKET20.5 The Name is Important
Option 3.
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Award: Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize (Page 60, third from bottom)
Points this post/total: 20/100
BB this post/total: 0
GO this post/total: 0/1
BUCKET20.6 Looking Back, Looking Forward
Option 2.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Science Fiction genre, won ALA Alex Award (2006)
Points this post/total: 20/120
BB this post/total: 0
GO this post/total: 0/1
BUCKET20.8 Title Tropes
Option 2.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Points this post/total: 20/140
BB this post/total: 0
GO this post/total: 0/1
>b> Andy P.20.5 - Bigger is Better - Julia103's Task: The Name is Important
Option 2: Read a book by an author who shares a first or last name with the name of a book award
page 2. Barry Award
Hard Rain by Barry Eisler
Author's first name matches award name
Points this Post: 20
Total points: 410
BUCKET25.1 Learning the Alphabet
Book 1
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
(No M or N in title)
Book 2: Option 2
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear
(LO in Love)
Points this post/total: 25/165
BB this post/total: 0
GO this post/total: 0/1
BUCKET30.4 Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Book 1
A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement by Anthony Powell
A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME
(E in Dance, I in Music, E in The, I in Time, O in Of)
**BIG BOOK – 1 ticket – 722 pages**
Book 2: Option 1
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Foxes are on the animal sounds list.
Points this post/total: 30/195
BB this post/total: 1/1
GO this post/total: 0/1
30.8 - Brooke TX's Task: Worlds Without EndBook 1: The Dark Days Deceit (Lady Helen #3) by Alison Goodman
Aurealis Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2018)
1x Bigger is Better tix (545 pages)
Book 2: Circe by Madeline Miller
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2019)
420 pages
Total pages read: 965
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies: 2
Bigger is Better: 5
Season Total: 600
Helen B10.7 - I Have a Dream
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
Page 3 of ‘Books by Black Authors’ list
Points this post: 10
Total points: 165
Books read: 14
Tasks completed: 11
BB tickets: 4
GO tickets: 2
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
I read an audio version of Between the World and Me MMPB Une colère noire : lettre à mon fils
This Book won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2015),
New Ponts: 10
Total Points: 225
GO: 1
BB: 1
Please remove task 858 from my record. I will replace it later:(5.5. Try to Count Them.
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
Task Total: -5
Season Total: 130)
Repost of task message 1940:30.5 - Sandy's Task: As Easy as 1 and 2 (not even 3!)
600 Pages: 218 + 410 = 628 Pages
Option 1. Read a book that contains both a 1 and a 2 in the total number of pages.
Human Acts by Han Kang 218 pages
Option 2. Read a book that has a series number consisting only of 1 and/or 2 - i.e. 1, 2, 11, 12, and so on.
The Broken Earth #2 / 3 published in the series
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin, 410 pages
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 160
Helen B20.1- Beating the Winter Blues
Option 1: Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl
MPG: Environment > Nature
Points this post: 20
Total points: 185
Books read: 15
Tasks completed: 12
BB tickets: 4
GO tickets: 2
Bookwrm526Task #30.7 - Sesame Street 50th
Option 1: Read a book first published in 1969 to 2019 inclusive. I read Kingston Noir by Colin Channer (first pub'd 2012).
Option 3: Read a book written by a single author whose first or last name matches a human Sesame Street character's name. I read Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague by David K. Randall, which matches the human character's name David, a kid from the neighborhood.
Total points so far: 395
EMurphy15.3 Spin the Wheel
Book 1: ALL the letters R, S, T, L, N, E in the title/subtitle/author's name
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
Book 2: ALL the letters C, D, M, A in the title/subtitle/author's name
The Twelve Deaths Of Christmas by Marian Babson
This Task:
Points: 15
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Books Read: 2
Total:
Points: 140
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 6
Kait25.3 - TraceyL's Task: Crime Writers Awards
Option 1 - A book with a color word in the title that is found on the Wikipedia 'List of Colors' page. Subtitles are not allowed.
Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews -- 'Sapphire' is found on the list and in the title
Option 2 - A book with a knife, sword, or other blade on the cover.
Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco -- There is a stiletto blade on the cover at the bottom of the item Audrey Rose is holding
Total Points: 80
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 0
perletwo25.14 - Cat's Task: Celebrating Trafalgar Square - A - Read a book by an author whose first and last name initials are found in CHARITY CAROLS
A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
C - Read a book with a TITLE of at least 3 words, where the beginning letter of each word is found in SEASONAL WARMTH.
Someone Like Me
I read the Kindle version, but the top pb edition is 500 pages, qualifying for a Big Book ticket.
Points this task: 25
Total points: 580
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 3
Big Book ticket requests: 3
Books read: 44
Tasks completed: 32
5.8 Speaking My Language?The President's Hat
Book originally written in French. My primary language is English.
Total to date 210 points
Mod
I chose option 2 and read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top pb (no MMPB). 6 word title, including a full name.
total points: 455
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Zach's Task: Looking Back, Looking ForwardOption 1: Read an award-winning book that has a main page genre of History or Historical Fiction
A Murder at Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry #1) by Sujata Massey
Mary Higgins Clark Award (2019), Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel (2018)
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 2
Bigger is Better: 5
Season Total: 620
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.6 - Third Time's The Charm
All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry.
Edgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult (2014),
Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2015),
The Inky Awards for Silver Inky (2014),
Points this post: 15
Total points: 795
Tasks completed: 45/64
Books read: 64
Sandra20.5 - Bigger is Better - Julia103's Task: The Name is Important
Option 1:
Read a book by an author who has an award named for them
Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
The Agatha Award is named for Agatha Christie, page 1.
Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 395
Sandra20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Zach's Task: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Option 1:
Read an award-winning book that has a main page genre of History or Historical Fiction, standalone or embedded.
The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry
Has 'History>Historical Fiction' genre on main book page.
Won the Massachusetts Book Award for Children's/Young Adult Literature (2004)
Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 415
Ava Catherine15.1 - Days of Celebration
Option 1, Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries that celebrates its national day in December: the Netherlands
set in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Option 3, Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries that celebrates its national day in February: Japan
set in Tokyo, Japan
Out by Natsuo Kirino
total=995
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read a book published in 2019
Bloodlust & Bonnets
pub Sep 2019
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560 points
10 BB tix
3 GO tix