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WINTER CHALLENGE 2019
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Readerboard Name Kathy P15.10 - Get 'Em While They're Hot
Smithsonian American Women: Women's History from the National Collection
Published in 2019
Totals
Points: 215
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 11
Total Books read: 13
SandyL10.1 - Home for the Holidays
Read a book with HOME found intact in title
Home Game by Odette Stone
HOME in title
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 455
Tasks Completed: 31
Books Read: 40
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
SandyL10.2 - Comfort Food
Read a book with the MPG Food and Drink
The Lost Recipe for Happiness by Barbara O'Neal
MPG Food and Drink
Genre verified Msg 33
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 465
Tasks Completed: 32
Books Read: 41
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
SandyL10.9 - 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
Too Good to Be True by Kristan Higgins
RITA Award for Best Contemporary Single Title Romance (2010)
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 475
Tasks Completed: 33
Books Read: 42
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Karen DTask 25.9 Diana K's Task: 2020 Number Fun.
Book 1 - Option 1: Roar, finished 2/16
How it fits; Author Cecelia Ahern
Book 2 - Option 3: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, finished 2/7
How it fits: Author Stephanie Land
Points this task: 25
Total points: 845
SandyL10.10 - Overlooked?
Read a popular book (over 10,000 ratings) that has never won or been nominated for a literary award
My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
22k+ ratings and no awards or nominations
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 485
Tasks Completed: 34
Books Read: 43
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Julia10325.4 - Sally M's Task: I’d Like to Thank…
Option 1: The Silk Train Murder by Sharon Rowse (SR in SpReadsheet)
Option 3: City of Scoundrels
I borrowed this from the Baltimore County Public Library.
This post: 25 points
Total points: 760
BB: 11
GO: 1
Tasks completed: 34
Books read: 53
SandyL15.7 - Stand Alone
Read a book that is a standalone
Exchange of Hearts by N.R. Walker
Stand alone book
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 500
Tasks Completed: 35
Books Read: 44
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
ED(Editing Post2886)
25.5 - Kaora's Task: All Work and Some Play..
Opt. 1- Queer by William S. Burroughs-160p.
Opt. 4- Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
"LT" in "fesTivaL"
pub. 1912
*****I CLAIM 1 GO TICKET*****
Points this task: 25
Total points: 240
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 6
Big Book ticket requests: 1
Books read:17
Tasks completed: 9
MEGSCL15.5- Lady With A Lamp
Murder in Mesopotamia
*pub 1936 - 1 golden oldie
TOTAL TO DATE
580 points
6 big books
1 golden oldie
Blueberry 30.2
Opt 1: Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in CORETTA SCOTT KING. No Exit by Taylor Adams 285 pgs.
Opt 2: Read a book FIRST published in January of any year.
Lost in Translation 384 pgs
Pts: 30
Total pts: 190
Books: 11
20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Queen Bee Darlene's Task: Be BetterOption 3) As an homage to Ellen DeGeneres, read a book written by a single author whose name contains both an E and a D.
I read Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors by Peter Ackroyd whose name contains both a D and an E
pEter ackroyD
points: 335
books read: 26
tasks completed: 21
tasks in progress: 2
Big Books: 4
pages read: 9530
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM5.1 Name Calling!
I read Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano (Edward is the main character of the book, referenced in the GR blurb).
Previous point total: 145
New points this post: 5
Total points: 150
Total tasks completed: 12
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 2
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Sarah Ruth's Task: Can You Keep A Secret?
I chose Option 2. I read Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch (paperback for length). Science>Technology is a MPG.
Previous point total: 150
New points this post: 20
Total points: 170
Total tasks completed: 13
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 2
25.12 - CathyG’s Task: Challenge AddictOption 1, a book first published in 2015 with at least two of the numbers 2877 in the page count: Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio Sasaki, 272 pages and first published 12 June 2015
Option 2, a book in a series previously started that is #2 or higher: Wild Man Creek by Robyn Carr (Virgin River #12)
I have read previous books in this series before the start of the Winter Challenge.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 895
Marina H5.1. Name Calling!
Hypnotisøren by Lars Kepler
First name in series title: Joona Linna
585 pages - claiming 1 BB ticket
Points this post: 5
Total points: 160
Big book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Tasks completed: 11
Marina H5.8. Speaking My Language?
Jorden Synger by Vanessa Curtis
Primary language: Danish
Book originally written in English
Points this post: 5
Total points: 165
Big book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Tasks completed: 12
Marina H5.9. The Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Det tredje tegn by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Points this post: 5
Total points: 170
Big book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Tasks completed: 13
Marina H20.1 - Most Improved - Librarianish's Task: Beating the Winter Blues
Fasandræberne by Jussi Adler-Olsen
#575 on Best Beach Reads 2013 (English version The Absent One)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 190
Big book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Tasks completed: 14
Marina HTask 25.9 Diana K's Task: 2020 Number Fun.
Option 1: Paganinikontrakten by Lars Kepler
583 pages - Claiming 1 BB ticket
Option 3:
Huset på klippen by Elly Griffiths
Points this post: 25
Total points: 215
Big book tickets: 3
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Tasks completed: 15
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Zach's Task: Looking Back, Looking ForwardOption 1: Looking Back
Read an award-winning book that has a main page genre of History or Historical Fiction.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Claiming 2 big book tickets, based on this edition
Total points: 130
25.3 TraceyL's Task: Crime Writers Awards 2 booksOption 1: A book with a color word in the title Redshirts Redshirts by John Scalzi
Option 3: A book written by an author born in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, or Sweden The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson born in Sweden
Post Points: 25
Total Points: 275
Big Book Tickets: 2
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Amy B15.1 - Days of Celebration
Select 2 options and read a book for each. You MAY use the same option twice but you MUST choose different countries.
Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries that celebrates its national day during the Winter Challenge. Required: Identify the options.
Option 2, Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries that celebrates its national day in January: Taiwan, Cuba, Haiti, Slovakia, Myanmar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Australia, India, Nauru.
Book 1: The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (India) - 413 pgs
The Golden Son
Book 2: Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton (Australia) - 453pg
Boy Swallows Universe
This task: 15 points
To Date: 420 points
Nick KYI will replace 5.10 Your Own Award. I will take away Rite of Passage and replace it with Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions by Neil Gaiman.
There is no change in score for this substitution.
Nick KY 10.9 In the Air I read Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin. The title begins with a letter from “winteR” and it won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1968.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 910
Nick KY25.4 Sally M’s I’d Like to Thank
Book 1. Opt. 1. Author’s inits in SPREADSHEET TRACKER. I read The Promise of Happiness by Sara Ahmed -- SpreAdsheet tracker. 328 pp
Book 2. Option 4. “Travel” as GR genre. I read Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz. 480 pp.
Total pp = 802 > required 600
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 935
Queen Bee Darlene30.8 Brooke TX's Task: Worlds Without End
500 min pages
Book 1: won or nominated for award listed on Worlds Without End site
Firestarter by Stephen King Firestarter
nominated 1981 August Derleth Fantasy Award
416 pages
Book 2: won or nominated for a different award from the site
Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton Social Creature
nominated Shirley Jackson Award 2018
288 pages
416 + 288 = 704
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 1030
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM25.4 - Sally M's Task: I’d Like to Thank…
I chose Options 1 and 3.
Option 1: I read Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun. A and C are in TRACKER.
Option 3: I read The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea (paperback for length). I borrowed this copy from the Iowa City Public Library's Libby/Overdrive service.
Previous point total: 170
New points this post: 25
Total points: 195
Total tasks completed: 14
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 2
PegW25.12 - CathyG’s Task: Challenge Addict
Option 1-Read a book FIRST published in 2015 with at least two of the numbers from 2877 in the page count.
Seveneves 867 pages
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 listened to the audio, link to MMP Nemesis It is #4 in the series that I started reading in order before this Winter Challenge began.
Claiming one BB for Seveneves - 867 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 480
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 8
Total Tasks: 26
PegW5.4. That's a Strange Title!
Read a book with an odd number of words in its title
Read on kindle, linked to MMP A Christmas Carol
Claiming one GO ticket, published in 1843
Points this post: 5
Total points: 485
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 8
Total Tasks: 27
SALLY M.20.6 Looking Back, Looking Forward
Option 1: MPG History AND award won (verified)
Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years by Mark Lewisohn
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
**Tune In is a Big Book (944 pages). Claiming 2 BB tickets.**
Points this post: 20
Total points: 550
Tasks completed: 31
Books read: 42
BB tix this post: 2
Total BB tix: 5
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
**Repost**20.5 Bigger is Better
Option 3:
Golden State
Golden Crown Literary Award on page 3 of Goodreads awards.
+20 = 355 points total.
25.5 Kaora's TaskOption 1:
The Family Fang (320 pages)
Option 4:
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo (BE)
+25 = 380 points total.
Kathy KS15.9 - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Read a Non-fiction work in a sequential art/graphic format.
They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei
Sequential Art > Graphic Novels 847 users
Nonfiction 455 users
etc.
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Points for this task: 15
Total points : 410
Tasks completed: 17
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Sunshine5.6 Have You Heard the One About..........?
Book: House Rules by Chloe Neill 2/16/20
How it Fits: Author's initials are CN
MontblanC-National University of Singapore Literary Award.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 390
Books Read: 30
Sunshine15.3 - Spin the Wheel
Option 1:
Book 1:
Book: Atlantis Betrayed by Alyssa Day 1/30/20
How it Fits: RSTLNE found in the title
Book 2:
Book: Maiden Flight by Bianca D'Arc 2/11/20
How it Fits: CDA found in the author's name. M found in title
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 405
Books Read: 32
LAUREN JODI10.10 - Overlooked
First Star I See Tonight by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Ratings: 13, 086
No awards
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 205/1165
Total Books Read: 20
Tasks Completed: 20/64
Sunshine20.1 - Most Improved - Librarianish's Task: Beating the Winter Blues
Option 3:
Book: Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh 2/13/20
How it Fits: ONE DAY Best Summer Reads
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 425
Books Read: 33
Sunshine25.4 - Sally M's Task: I’d Like to Thank…
Option 1:
Book: Lust, Loathing And A Little Lip Gloss by Kyra Davis 1/4/20
How it Fits: Author's initials are KD
Pages: 368
Option 3:
Book: Assailants, Asphalt & Alibis by Tonya Kappes 1/27/20
How it Fits: I borrowed this from Kindle Unlimited
Pages: 286
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 450
Books Read: 35
Sunshine30.7 - Tien's task: Sesame Street 50th
Option 1:
Book: Heart of the Kraken by A.W. Exley 1/24/20
How it Fits: First Pub Mar 01, 2015
Option 3:
Book: Hex on the Beach by Gina LaManna 2/10/20
How it Fits: Gina LaManna - author's first name matched character, Dr. Gina Jefferson
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 480
Books Read: 37
15.6 Third Time`s The CharmHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12.0
Has won more than three literary awards.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 130
20.7 Be BetterThings You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
Option 2
Found on page 1,#14 on Best Up Lit list
Points this post: 20
Total points: 150
Total GO tickets: 1
Total BB tickets: 1
Tasks completed: 15
Books read: 15
Jen K10.2 - Comfort Food
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
MPG Food and Drink
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 490
Queen Bee Darlene5.5 Try to Count Them - science fiction, fantasy, or speculative fiction genre
The Mist by Stephen King The Mist
Fantasy genre
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 1035
ED20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Queen Bee Darlene's Task: Be Better
Opt. 2- #79 on page 1 of the Uplifting Fiction list-
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
pub. 1928-
*****I CLAIM 1 GO TICKET*****
Points this task: 20
Total points: 280
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 7
Big Book ticket requests: 1
Books read:18
Tasks completed: 10
5.9. The Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureRead 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.
The Dark Angel
POINTS
Points This Post: 5/ 1165
Points Total:
Golden Oldies:
Big Books:
500 () 750 () 1000 ()
GO Total:
BB Total:
Tasks Completed: 1
10.3 - Let It SnowRead a book with a title consisting of at least 3 words where each initial letter can be found in the phrase winTer w...O...nDerland
The Outcast Dead
POINTS
Points This Post: 10/ 1165
Points Total: 15/ 1165
Golden Oldies:
Big Books:
500 () 750 () 1000 ()
GO Total:
BB Total:
Tasks Completed: 2
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25.5 - Kaora's Task: All Work and Some Play...
Option 2: Read a book that is the second in a series.
I read the kindle edition, PB link for reference: Sharpe Edge
Option 4: Read a book by a single author whose initials are in ALBUQUERQUE BALLOON FESTIVAL
I listned to the audiobook. This book has no print edition, but has been approved for length in the SRC ebook Verification spreadsheet line 3045
Points this task: 25
Total points so far: 250
Big Books tickets so far: 3