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WINTER CHALLENGE 2019
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BUCKET20.9 Can you keep a secret?
Option 1.
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
Points this post: 20
Points total: 235
BB this post: 0
BB total: 1
GO this post: 0
GO total: 1
Sunshine5.1 Name Calling!
Book: Elijah by Jacquelyn Frank 1/22/20
How it Fits: Elijah is the MC
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 330
Books Read: 25
Sunshine5.9 The Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Book: Assailants, Asphalt & Alibis by Tonya Kappes 1/27/20
How it Fits: There are 3 A's (or 4, if you count "&" as "and") in NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 335
Books Read: 26
Sunshine10.8 - Leap Year
Book: Moon Dance by J.R. Rain 2/2/20
How it Fits: First Pub Aug 10, 2009
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 345
Books Read: 27
Sunshine20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Queen Bee Darlene's Task: Be Better
Option 3:
Book: Jacob's Ladder by Z.A. Maxfield 1/26/20
How it Fits: E and D in author's last name
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 365
Books Read: 28
Mod
I chose option 2 and read The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter. This book is found on page 1 of the Scandinavian Lifestyle Books list.
total points: 715
Kristen IA5.4. That's a Strange Title!
Read a book with an odd number of words in its title - subtitles are excluded.
Hot Winter Nights by Jill Shalvis
I listened to the audiobook and have linked to the MMPB edition.
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 70/1165
Tasks Completed: 5/64
BB: 1
GO: 0
Kristen IA10.1 - Home for the Holidays
To celebrate this holiday season, read a book with HOME, HOLIDAY, FAMILY, or FRIEND found intact in title, subtitle, or series title.
The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
I read the ebook and have linked to the PB edition.
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 80/1165
Tasks Completed: 6/64
BB: 1
GO: 0
Kristen IA10.3 - 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. All title words count. Subtitles should be ignored. Letters may be used only as often as they appear in the target phrase.
One Day in December by Josie Silver
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 90/1165
Tasks Completed: 7/64
BB: 1
GO: 0
VAL TX5.10. Your Personal Award! - Read a book of your choice that meets the SRC rules.
The Castle by Franz Kafka
Book first published in 1926, claiming one GO ticket.
This post:
Points - 5
GO Tickets - 1
Total:
Points - 20
GO Tickets - 1
Kristen IA15.9 - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Read a Non-fiction work in a sequential art/graphic format.
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 105/1165
Tasks Completed: 8/64
BB: 1
GO: 0
TraceyL20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - MEGSCL's Task: Title Tropes
Option 2: Read a book with at least five words in the title including a full name (first name and surname).
The Lost Days of Agatha Christie by Carole Owens
Points Earned This Post: 20
Total Points Earned: 440
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Kristen IA25.1 - Andy P.’s Task: Learning the Alphabet
This is a two book task. Please select a book that satisfies the criteria for Book 1 and another for Book 2.
Required: Identify the Book 2 option.
Both books must be written by a single author.
The total page count for both books must exceed 500 pages. (501+)
Book 1. Read a book which does NOT contain an M or an N in the title or subtitle.
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory - 325 pages
Book 2.
Option 1: Read a book in which the author’s name contains both an M and an N.
The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory - 320 pages
325 + 320 pages = 645 pages > 500 pages
I listened to audiobooks for both and have linked to PB editions.
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 130/1165
Tasks Completed: 9/64
BB: 1
GO: 0
TraceyL10.7 - I Have a Dream
To celebrate racial diversity in literature, read a book that appears on one of these lists: Books by Black Authors
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Page 1 #69 on Books By Black Authors List
Points Earned This Post: 10
Total Points Earned: 450
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
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25.4 I'd Like to ThankOption 1: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
spReaDsheet tracker
Option 3: A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais
I borrowed this one from the Phoenix Public Library
Post Total: 25
Grand Total: 345
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Helen A's Task: Bird's WeddingGrowing Up ABORIGINAL in Australia edited by Anita Heiss
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 2
Bigger is Better: 5
Season Total: 735
25.12 - CathyG’s Task: Challenge AddictOption 1- The Quest-
Read a book FIRST published in 2015 with at least two of the numbers from 2877 in the page count. ex. 280, 377, 427.
2015 and 720 pages
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Option 2-
Using a series that you started before the Winter Challenge began (12/1/19), read a book in the series #2 or higher.
I have read book(s 1 - 3) in the series before the Winter Challenge began.
Maisie Dobbs Book 4
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 215
30.7 - Tien's task: Sesame Street 50thOption 2: The Sesame Street Muppets
Read a book that has been shelved as Anthropomorphism
Page 8
Required: Include the page number where your book can be found in your post
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
Option 3: Human Sesame Street characters
Read a book written by a single author whose first or last name matches a human Sesame Street character's name.
Jane Tuesday (2004)
Sanditon by Jane Austen
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 245
PegW10.2 - Comfort Food - Read a book with the MPG Food or drink.
Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
Points this post: 10
Total points: 385
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 7
Total Tasks: 21
EMurphy15.10 Get "Em While They're Hot - First Published in 2019 or 2020
Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
*published in 2019
This Task:
Points: 15
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 195
Books Read: 14
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 9
EMurphy20.9 Moderator's Pet-Sarah Ruth's Task: Can You Keep a Secret?
Option 3: Author whose initials can be found in SPECTRE or MELTDOWN Inside Out by Demi Moore
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 215
Books Read: 15
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 10
Readerboard name: D10.8 - Leap Year
book published in a year that contains double consecutive digits
Pittsburgh Noir by Kathleen George (2011)
Task=10
Season total=265
15.7 - Stand AloneRead a book that is a standalone- NOT part of a series or continuing story or world.
Daisy Jones & The Six-Taylor Jenkins Reid
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 120
Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 8
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 0
5.5. Try to Count Them.Read a book with a main page genre of science fiction, fantasy, or speculative fiction, standalone or embedded.
The Time Keeper-Mitch Albom
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 125
Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 9
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 0
Task 30.3 - Get Hooked on YarnOption 1: Ball of color
Read a book with a ball or skein of yarn on the cover.
Required: Include the cover when you post.
Last Wool and Testament (Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery #1) (2012) by Molly MacRae (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 320 pages)
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.
BROKEN = stEp BacK frOm the yaRN
More Walls Broken (2019) by Tim Powers (Hardcover, 136 pages)
225 + 30 = 255
Tasks Completed: 13
Points for this post: 30
Points thus far: 225 + 30 = 255
Books read: 20
Pages read: 4,972
Read but not claimed: 04
Goodreads Authors: 12
Golden Oldies: 00
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
15.8 - Ice Ice BabyA book with a word in the title that includes "ICE" intact: Voices in Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher
Points this post: 15
Total points: 625
Sarah H10.3 - 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.
Days Without End
Points this task: 10
Total points to date: 310
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Tasks complete: 19
Books read: 25
Task 15.4 - Go Redone book option
read a book with a (mostly) red dress on the cover and author initials in RED
Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings
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830 points
10 BB tix
3 GO tix
5.10. Your Personal Award
by Jim ButcherPoints This Post: 5
Total Points: 335
Books Read: 25
Completed Tasks: 15
BB tickets:00
BB Tickets to Date: 01
GO tickets: 0
GO Tickets to Date: 0
Karen DTask 25.8 - Bookwrm526's Task: Celebrate Every Day!
Option 2: Normal People, finished 2/5
How it fits: Author Sally Rooney
Option 5:
Finished: 1/16
Mouse approved as indoor pet here
Points this task: 25
Total points: 755
Sunshine25.3 - TraceyL's Task: Crime Writers Awards
Option 1:
Book: Red Russia by Tanya Thompson 1/19/20
How it Fits: Matches color Red
Approved SRC ebook Verification @ line #2371
Option 2:
Book: Siren's Song by Ella Summers 2/1/20
How it Fits: Swords on cover
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 385
Books Read: 29
Kristi CO20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Zach's Task: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Option 1: March by Geraldine Brooks
Historical Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2006)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 140
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 9
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Queen Bee Darlene's Task: Be Better
Option 3: E & D
The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
Points this post: 20
Total points: 160
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 10
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO25.4 - Sally M's Task: I’d Like to Thank…
Option 1: SPREADSHEET TRACKER
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup (528 pgs)
Option 3: from Minuteman Library Network
The Innocents by Michael Crummey (304 pgs)
**Big Book ticket** The Chestnut Man is 528 pgs
Points this post: 25
Total points: 185
Tasks completed: 9
Books read: 12
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
trishhartuk30.3 TessaVanessa’s Task: Get Hooked on Yarn
Option 1: Ball of color. Read a book with a ball or skein of yarn on the cover.
Read the kindle edition. PB link here
Cover approved in help thread message #16: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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.
and then THERE were nuns, Kylie Logan
THERE: T,H,E in THE, R in yaRn, E in stEp
Points this task: 30
Books read: 2
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 330
Tasks completed: 21
Golden oldies: 3
Big Book tickets: 0
Bookwrm526Task #25.2 - Discussions with Santa
Option 1
Book 1: Read a book with ALL the letters of NO PLASTIC in the title and / or subtitle. I read Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (N in in, OP in topics, LA in calamity, S in special, TIC in topics) (514p).
Book 2: Read a book which contains the word “TOY”, “LIBRARY ” or "WHIRL" in the TITLE. I chose LIBRARY and read The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie (272p).
514+272=786p
Total points so far: 535
Queen Bee Darlene15.10 Get 'Em While They're Hot
1st published in 2019 or 2020
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker Whisper Network
1st published 2019
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 765
Mod
I chose option 1 and read Mr. Churchill's Secretary, with "secret" intact in title. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top paperback.
total points: 735
Pat ☆ ☆ 25.11 ~ Rescue Me!
This is a two book task. Choose two options and read one book from each. Your books should total at least 500 pages.
Total Pages This Task ~ 519
Option 2 ~ Read a book that has a MPG of Animals, standalone or embedded.
The God of Animals by Aryn KyleCompleted ~ 2.5.20
Pages ~ 305
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Option 4 ~ Read a book with a dog on the cover. The dog can be a photograph, drawing, cartoon or silhouette and does not have to show the entire dog, but must clearly BE a dog.
Required:: Include the cover in your post.
Optional: Post a picture of your rescued pet in the help thread!
Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love by Larry LevinCompleted ~ 12.10.19
Pages ~ 214
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Points this post ~ 25
Total Points ~ 445
Tasks Completed ~ 24
Books Read This Season ~ 37
Pages Read This Season ~ 12,501
babbling c10.7 - I Have a Dream
To celebrate racial diversity in literature, read a book that appears on one of these lists:
2019 Books by Authors of Color
Wicked Fox - Audible Wicked Fox - paperback pgs 480 by Kat Cho
pg 1, #25
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies:
Total This Season
Points: 270/1165
Completed Tasks: 15/64
Golden oldies: 2
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Pages read this season: 7,764
Books read this season: 22
Mod
For my first book, I used option 3 and read Three Blind Mice and Other Stories. I borrowed this from my public library, via Overdrive. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top MMPB - 288 pages.
For my second book, I used option 4, and read Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam. I read the kindle edition, linked to the top pb edition (no MMPB). Travel is the top MPG. 344 pages.
total pages - 288 + 344 = 632 (greater than required 600).
total points: 760
Helen B30.7 - Sesame Street 50th
Option 1: Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout published in 2019
Option 3: Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo
Author Linda Castillo matches character “Linda” on the show 1972-2003
Points this post: 30
Total points: 225
Books read: 18
Tasks completed: 14
GO tickets: 2
BB tickets: 4
5.5. Try to Count Them.
by P.N. ElrodPoints This Post: 5
Total Points: 340
Books Read: 26
Completed Tasks: 16
BB tickets:00
BB Tickets to Date: 01
GO tickets: 0
GO Tickets to Date: 0
Kristen IA10.2 - Comfort Food
Read a book with the MPG Food and Drink, standalone or embedded.
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices Into Fearless Home Cooks by Kathleen Flinn
I listened to the audiobook and have linked to the PB edition.
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 140/1165
Tasks Completed: 10/64
BB: 1
GO: 0
JUKKA30.5 - Sandy's Task: As Easy as 1 and 2 (not even 3!)
Option 1: Book with both 1 and 2 in the page count.
Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn, at 221 pages in paperback.
Option 2: Book with series number consisting of 1 and/or 2.
Ruutukymppi by Tuomas Vimma. #2 in Shicklgruber-trilogia.
Total Points: 325/1165
Total Books Read: 28
Tasks Completed: 23/64
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 5
Andy P.Task # 25.1 - Andy P.’s Task: Learning the Alphabet
Book 1. Read a book which does NOT contain an M or an N in the title or subtitle.
Pulse byFelix Francis 375 p.
Book 2,
Option 2: Read a book whose TITLE contains the letters LO in sequence.Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan 255 p.
page count: 375 + 255 = 630> 500 p. minimum
Points this post: 25
Total points: 610
TraceyLTask 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.
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
SM appears in vigeSiMal
Option 4: Read a book that has a pair of glasses on the cover.
Points Earned This Post: 25
Total Points Earned: 475
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
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20.3 Celebrating the 90's
Option 1.
Love, Etc. by Julian Barnes
First published: 1992
240 pages > required 190
Points this post: 20
Points total: 215
BB this post: 0
BB total: 1
GO this post: 0
GO total: 1