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WINTER CHALLENGE 2019
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Coralie 5.5 Try to Count them
book with MPG science fiction
Tiamat's Wrath
At 534 pages I would like to claim a Big Book ticket!
Total to date 350 points
Jen K30.6 - Aprilleigh’s Task: The World of Xanth
Book 2: The King of Xanth
Option 1: A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony (mmpg 344 pages > 200 pages)
Option 2: Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts (453 pages > 200 pages)
MPG Fantasy and Science Fiction, pieRs aNthony
344 + 453 = 797 > 500 pages
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Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 345
Kathy KSThe first two books were originially used for Tasks 15.6 and 20.7, respectively. Totals are adjusted below.
50.1 - Delicious Dee's Task: Diversify Your Reading
Book 1: Read a fiction book where the main character falls into one of the diversity categories.
The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion
Neurodiverse -- Main character Don Tillman is somewhere on the autism spectrum. (The publisher's book club notes (https://www.therosieresult.com.au/) for the third book in the series includes: " By the end of The Rosie Result, though, both
Don and his son Hudson identify as autistic.")
I listened to the audiobook; mmpb=329 p.
Book 2: Read a fiction book where the Author falls into one of the diversity categories.
There's Something About Sweetie, by Sandhya Menon
Person of Color/Diverse Background-- From the FAQs on her website (http://www.sandhyamenon.com/faq/), the author states: "At least one of my heroes/heroines will be Indian-American because that’s my identity..."
378 p.
Book 3: Read a non-fiction book that is about one of the diversity categories
Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church, by Megan Phelps-Roper
LBGTQIA*-- approved in Task Help, message 62: by Dee for this use
290 p.
329+378+290=997 p. (>750)
All three authors above were new to me.
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Points for this task: 50
Total points : 280-15-20+50=295
Tasks completed: 14-2+1=13
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
trishhartuk5.10. Your Personal Award!
Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWII, P O’Connell Pearson
Read the kindle edition. HB (PB doesn't have a page count) here
US AR Bookfinder - AR Quiz No. 194793 EN Nonfiction. AR Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7.0; AR Quiz Types: RP
Points this task: 5
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 300
Tasks completed: 20
Golden oldies: 3
Big Book tickets: 0
5.6. Have You Heard the One About..........?
by Suzanne Enochmontblanc-national university of SingaporE literary Award
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 330
Books Read: 24
Completed Tasks: 14
BB tickets:00
BB Tickets to Date: 01
GO tickets: 0
GO Tickets to Date: 0
Pat ☆ ☆ 5.8 ~ Speaking My Language?
Read a book originally written in a language other than your primary language.
REQUIRED ~ In your post, state your primary language and the language in which your book was originally written.
Death Is Hard Work by Khaled KhalifaOriginal Title ~ الموت عمل شاق
My Language ~ English
Originally published in Arabic
Completed ~ 2.1.20
Pages ~ 192
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Points this post ~ 5
Total Points ~ 395
Tasks Completed ~ 22
Books Read This Season ~ 33
Pages Read This Season ~ 11,311
25.6 - Cordelia's Task: 2019Option 1: Read a book FIRST published in 2019.
I listened to audio version of We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Option 5: Read a book which has at least 2 of the following numbers: 2, 0, 1, 9 in the number of pages. Each number can be used only once.
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 210 pages
New Points: 25
Total Points: 290
GO: 1
BB: 1
30.2 - Amanda A & Amy FL's Task: Two Women Honoring a Remarkable WomanOption 1:Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in CORETTA SCOTT KING. All initials count.
I listened to an audio book of Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy by Savannah Knoop 223 pages
Option 4: Read a book with at least two sets of double letters in the title and/or author name
This is Happy by Camilla Gibb 288 pages
Double ll in Camilla, Double bb in Gibb
223+228=511 pages
New Points: 30
Total Points: 320
BB: 1
GO: 1
Sara G25.15 - Sarah E's Task: Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
Option 1: Snow
The essential beginning of a snowman is, of course, snow. Find the snow by reading a book from the Books With Snow, Ice or Frost on the Cover or in the Title list.
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
This book is on page 1 of the list.
Option 4: Sticks for the arms
Find some arms by reading a book by a single author whose first and last name initials are found in STICKS or TWIGS.
Lady Sarah's Son by Gayle Wilson
TWIGS
Points this post: 25
Total points: 660
Jen K15.4 - Go Red
Option 2: For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors by Laura Esther Wolfson
LEW in NATIONAL WEAR RED FOR WOMEN DAY
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 360
Julia10330.7 - Tien's task: Sesame Street 50th
Option 1: Sorry for the Dead: A Josephine Tey Mystery (published in 2019)
Option 3: The Shadow of Saganami by David Weber. Sesame Street character is David.
Claiming 2 BB tickets - This book is 960 pages
This post: 30 points, 2 BB
Total points: 575
BB: 7
GO: 1
Tasks completed: 26
Books read: 40
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25.15 - Sarah E's Task: Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
option 2, black text cover, authors' names
The Tilted Worldoption 4, initials TS in STicks: Fatal Ally by Tim Sebastian
total = 1135
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30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Book 1, EIEIO
The Wild One by Nick Petrie
Book 2, option 1, whales
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures by Nick Pyenson
total = 1165
Readerboard name: D10.6 - Fresh Start
book that is #1 in a series
Kick the Can by Jim Lehrer
Task=10
Season total=255
Karen DTask 5.7. Play Those Words!
Book:
, finished 2/2How it fits: Guitar on cover
Points this task: 5
Total points: 705
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.2 In The Category...
USING ITW Thriller award found on page 4 of awards list
Book 1: All Our Yesterdays .
by Cristin Terrill
ITW Thriller Award for Best Young Adult Novel (2014)
Book 2: The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon.
ITW Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original Novel (2014)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 980
Tasks completed: 54/64
Books read: 79
ZachFor task 15.8 - Ice Ice Baby I read Ice Cream Man, Vol. 1: Rainbow Sprinkles which has "ICE" in the title.
Points this post: 15
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Totals:
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Points: 65
BBTs: 1
GOTs: 0
Mod
For my first book, I used option 1 and read The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper. I listened to the audiobook - the MMPB is Les Fabuleuses tribulations d'Arthur Pepper - 380 pages.
This book is found on page 9 of the Popular Book Club Books list.
For my second book, I used option 3 and read Lexicon. I read the kindle edition, linked to the top pb edition (no MMPB) - 390 pages.
This book is found on page 2 of the Alex Awards Winners list.
total pages - 380 + 390 = 770 (>required 500).
total points: 680
TessaVanessaChallenge 50.1 - Delicious Dee's Task: Diversify Your Reading
Book 1: What If? by Anna Russell
category 5: Josh has OCD
200 pages
New to me author
Book 2: Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boylan.
Category 3: Transgender: from Jenny's memoir, She's Not There, published by Broadway Books in 2003, was one of the first bestselling works by a transgendered American. Found in her bio on GR
New to me author
320 pages
Book 3: Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood by Julie Gregory.
Category 5: the mother: Munchausen by proxy : Munchausen by proxy -- is a psychological disorder marked by attention-seeking behavior by a caregiver through those who are in their care.
256 pages
Points this post: 50
Total points: 1030
Tasks completed: 55/64
Books read: 82
5.2. The Maple Leaf RagA book set in Canada: Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper
Points this post: 5
Total points: 610
PegW30.2 - 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.
Option 1:Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in CORETTA SCOTT KING. All initials count.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King 686 pages
Option 4: Read a book with at least two sets of double letters in the title and/or author name
How the Post Office Created America: A History by Winifred Gallagher 336 pages
Claiming one Big Book for The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 375
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 7
Total Tasks: 20
Kathy KSMoving this book from task 10.8 to replace the one that was earlier moved to 50.1
15.6 - Third Time's The Charm
Read a book that has won or been nominated for at least three literary awards.
The Cruelest Month, by Louise Penny
Barry Award Nominee for Best Novel (2009), Macavity Award Nominee for Best Mystery Novel (2009), Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel (2009), Arthur Ellis Award Nominee for Best Novel (2008), Agatha Award for Best Novel (2008)
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Points for this task: 15
Total points : 295-10+15=300
Tasks completed: 13 [no change]
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Kathy KSThis book is moving from task 15.7 to replace the one moved to 50.1
20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Queen Bee Darlene's Task: Be Better
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.
How to Cheat at Gardening and Yard Work: Shameless Tricks for Growing Radically Simple Flowers, Veggies, Lawns, Landscaping, and More, by jeff brEDenberg
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 300-15+20=305
Tasks completed: 13 [no change]
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
MEGSCL25.10 - Kristina Simon's task: Rewards of Awards
Option 2: New-to-Me Genre Readers. Read a graphic novel that has won or been nominated for at least one literary award. Saga, Vol. 9
Option 4: The Media Oprah Winfrey’s list (page 1). The Water Dancer
TOTAL TO DATE
455 points
5 big books
Julia10330.3 - TessaVanessa’s Task: Get Hooked on Yarn
Option 1:
(yarn skeins at bottom right)Option 3: Bark If It's Murder. The word BARK is in BACK FROM.
This post: 30 points
Total points: 605
BB: 7
GO: 1
Tasks completed: 27
Books read: 42
Adallae20.5 - Bigger is Better - Julia103's Task: The Name is Important
option 2 - Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (author: Donald Canfield)
book: Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History by Donald E. Canfield
Points this post: 20
Total points: 275
BB Tickets: 4
GO Tickets: 3
Coralie 10.3 Let it Snow
Book with a title consisting of at least 3 words where each initial letter can be found in the phrase wInTer wonderland
Dignity in a Teacup: True Stories of Courage and Sacrifice from Christmas Island
Total to date 360 points
DeborahPost #12
15.6 - Third Time's The Charm
Red Sister
David Gemmell Legend Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2018)
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2017)
Reddit r/fantasy Stabby Award for Best Novel (2017)
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 230
Books read: 17
Tasks Done: 12
DeborahPost #13
25.4 - Sally M's Task: I’d Like to Thank…
1) Donners of the Dead by Karina Halle 286 pages
KH in SPREADSHEET TRACKER
3) Mutts and Mistletoe 320 pages
Library: Washington County
286+ 320 = 606/600 pages
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 255
Books Read: 19
Tasks Done: 13
5.9. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature
by Suzanne EnochneuStADt INternational Prize for Literature
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 330
Books Read: 24
Completed Tasks: 14
BB tickets:00
BB Tickets to Date: 01
GO tickets: 0
GO Tickets to Date: 0
Mary P20.4 - Golden Oldies - Perletwo's Task: Everything Old is New Again, and Again and Again
Read a book from this list: Mythologies and Retellings of Fairy Tales and Classics.
All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother by Danielle Teller
Book found on page 7 of list.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 285
Task 10.10 - Overlooked?read a book with more than 10k reviews but no award nominations
Valiant
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815 points
10 BB tix
3 GO tix
Marina H20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Queen Bee Darlene's Task: Be Better
Option 3: Sandheden om Harry Quebert-sagen by Joël Dicker
704 pages - claiming 1 BB ticket
Points this post: 20
Total points: 155
Big book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Tasks completed: 10
Delicious Dee25.15 - Sarah E's Task: Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
Option 3: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - C, R in Creek, A in Woman, ROT in Troublesome
Option 4: Faking Ms. Right - Claire Kingsley - CK in STICKS
points this post: 25
points overall: 600
Nick KY25.15 Sarah E’s Build a Snowman?
Option 2. Black text on the cover, I read Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author’s name and text below are in black letters.
Option 4. Inits is STICKS or TWIGS -- I read The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King, inits in "sTicKs.
Points This Post: 25
Total points So Far: 630
Nick KY15.2 In the Category Bram Stoker Awards 2018
Book 1. I read The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, edited by Ellen Datlow, winner of the Best Anthology Bram Stoker Award, 2018.
Book 2. I read The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay, winner of the best novel Bram Stoker Award, 2018.
http://horror.org/2018-bram-stoker-aw...
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 645
Joanne MITask 5.10. Your Personal Award!-Book of Choice
Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
Points this task 5
Total Points 295
Total BB's 7
5.8. Speaking My Language?A Nearly Normal Family - I speak English, originally written in Swedish
Total Points: 745
15.1 - Days of CelebrationOption 2: Next Year in Havana - Cuba
Option 3: Just This Once - New Zealand
Total Points: 790
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5.4. That's a Strange Title! - Read a book with an odd number of words in its title - subtitles are excluded.
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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