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SPRING CHALLENGE 2020
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Cindy FTask 15.4 Celebrate Spring
Option 2: 1 book option Set in England and authors initials in CELEBRATE SPRING (P,R)
Justice for the Damned by Priscilla Royal
Points this post:15
Total points:40
Tasks completed:3
Books read:3
Big Books:0
Golden Oldies:0
Cindy FTask 20.3 Experimental reading
Option A: On page 1 of list and shelved 42 as of now
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Points this post:20
Total points:60
Tasks completed:4
Books read:4
Big books:0
Golden Oldies:0
Cindy FTask 30.3 Paskekrim
Option 1: Authors initials in FJELLVETTREGLENE (L,F)
The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
Option 2: Word in title begins with a K
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
Points this post:30
Total points:90
Tasks completed:5
Books read:6
Big books:0
Golden Oldies:0
Pat 🎵 15.7 - Practicing Scales
Task Description ~ Read a book with a TITLE (subtitles should be ignored) of at least 3 words in which the initial letters only ascend (ABC) or descend (CBA) through the alphabet. All words count. Titles that include symbols (&, %) or numerals (1, 2, 3) cannot be used for this task.
(AFW)
A Furious Wind by Michael StephensonCompleted ~ 4.18.20
Pages ~ 384
approved for length HERE
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Points this post ~ 15
Total Points ~ 375
Tasks Completed ~ 24
Books Read This Season ~ 29
Pages Read This Season ~ 9642
Pat 🎵 5.8 - Spring Is In The Air
Task Description ~ Read a book with "AIR" found intact in the title or subtitle.
ex. Fair and Tender Ladies, Thin Air
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey LeeCompleted ~ 4.21.20
Pages ~ 374
downstAIRs
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Points this post ~ 5
Total Points ~ 380
Tasks Completed ~ 25
Books Read This Season ~ 30
Pages Read This Season ~ 10,016
M1nks5.1 - The Best of Saki - Pub 1916
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 5
Golden Oldie books this post: 1
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
Andy P..Task # 15.8 - It Starts with Music
Read a book with a title that begins with a letter found in MUSIC
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett Island starts with an "I"
Points this post: 15
Total points: 505
20.1 - Most Improved - Wayne's task: Play Ball!Option 2: A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
❁ first published 1924 ❁
Total points: 135 + 20 = 155
Repost due to mistake:Delicious Dee
25.5 - Brooke TX's task: Paperback Playlists
Book A - Girls of Paper and Fire - book for playlist - from fiery rebellion playlist
Book B - Going Down - from fiery rebellion playlist; song: talk me DOWN
Points this Post: 25
Points Total: 365
DeborahPost #17
20.9 - MODERATOR'S PET – Suzannesea's task: Wagner's Ring Cycle
2) The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire
PREVIOUS 5 STAR READS BY AUTHOR
One Salt Sea
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 310
Books Read: 23
Tasks Done: 17
Coralie 25.2 MUSYCK is the LIMIT!
Book 1MUSYCK option A – word chosen – MUST in SusaTo MUsyck
A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope
Book 2. LIMIT From page1, #4 of One word titles –C
Cranford
Total to date 270 points
Pamela32655.10 - Goof-Off
Wrath of the Storm by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 100
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
Jen K30.3 - Dlmrose's Task: Påskekrim
Option 1: Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
LE in FJELLVETTREGLENE
Option 4: Flying Too High by Kerry Greenwood (Phryne Fisher #2)
Series #31 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
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Point This Task: 30
Total Points: 400
Big Books: 1
Task 25.2 - Nick KY’s Task: MUSYCK is the LIMIT!Book 1:
Option B: Girl with a Pearl Earring, finished 4/21. Set completely in the Netherlands
Book 2: Cujo, finished 4/4
On p. 1 of the One Word Titles - C list
Points this task: 25
Total points: 715
Readerboard Name: Jammin JennySRC Spring Season - Mar - May
Task 5.5- Long Live Rock
Read a book with a TITLE of at least 3 words where the first letter of each word is found in THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME. Letters may only be used as often as they appear in the phrase. The & must be used as an &.
The Mane Event
Points this post: 5
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
Total Points this Season: 200
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 1
Barbara ★25.4 - TraceyL's task: The Masked Singer
Option 4: Read a book with the word NIGHT or ANGEL intact in the title, subtitle or series name.
Angel of Mercy - Lisa Olsen (angel in title) 4/21
Ebook Approval: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Option 5: Read a book with a Llama/Alpaca, Camel or Horse/Mule/Donkey on the cover.
Gabe - Susan Fisher-Davis (horse on cover) 4/5
Points this task: 25
Total points: 470
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Amy W30.3 - Dlmrose's Task: Påskekrim
I chose Options 1 and 2.
Option 1: Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in FJELLVETTREGLENE. I read I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum. The author’s initials EN are found in fjEllveettregleNe.
Option 2: Read a book with a word in the TITLE that begins with a K. I read Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton. ‘Kingdom’ begins with K.
Points This Task: 30
Total Points to Date: 150
Readerboard Name: Jammin JennySRC Spring Season - Mar - May
Task 30.2 - Mazza1's Task: Are we Going to Scarborough Fair?
Required: Identify the option when you post.
OPTION 1
A) Read a book that has a TITLE that includes all the letters of one of these words: PARSLEY, SAGE, ROSEMARY, or THYME. Subtitles may not be used. All occurrences of the letters must be found in the book title (i.e., if using ROSEMARY, book title must have 2 Rs).
B) Read a book where the author's first and last initials appear in the SAME herb as the one used for book A. Middle names/initials may be ignored. Letters can only be used as often as they appear in the target word.
Required: Identify the word used when you post.
Book A: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - contains all the letters of PARSLEY, claiming 2 BB tickets for 791 pages
Book B: The Rule of One by Ashley Saunders (AS in PARSLEY)
Points this post: 30
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 0
Total Points this Season: 230
BB Tickets: 3
GO Tickets
Readerboard Name: List_addict10.2: It’s Spring!
A title containing a word of at least three letters that can be made from the letters in SPRINGTIME
Betrayal in Time by Julie McElwain
Word: time
Total this challenge: 65
30.1.Option 1: foLsoM prison
A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan
Option 2: Rebel/Advocate ( war, Vietnam)
The Sympathizer
30.2.Option 1:
a) ROSEMARY
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
b) roseMAry
The Year of the Flood
Tasks completed: 4
Total points: 80
M1nks5.3 - The Red Tent - pge 2
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 10
Golden Oldie books this post:
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
M1nks5.4 - Finder, Volume 7: Desire in the Viewfinder
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 15
Golden Oldie books this post:
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
M1nks5.6 - As You Like It - Pub 1599
* I Claim 1x Golden Oldie Ticket *
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 20
Golden Oldie books this post: 1
Total Golden Oldie books: 2
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
M1nks5.7 - Strong Poison Pge 1/Pub 1930
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
(Included for length - Strong Poison)
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 25
Golden Oldie books this post: 1
Total Golden Oldie books: 3
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
M1nks5.8 - The Man Upstairs and Other Stories - Pub 1914
* I Claim 1 x Golden Oldie Ticket *
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 30
Golden Oldie books this post: 1
Total Golden Oldie books: 4
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
M1nks5.9 - Heresy
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 35
Golden Oldie books this post:
Total Golden Oldie books: 4
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
15.4 - Celebrate SpringOption 2: Simetria dorințelor, by Eshkol Nevo
Action is set in Israel. EN is in CELEBRATE SPRING
Points this post: 15
Total points: 330
Amy B20.10 - Group Reads
Read ONE of the books selected as the Group Reads choices for the season:
❋ Nonfiction - Rebels With a Cause - Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
REQUIRED: You must participate in the book's discussion thread with at least one post about the contents of the book or your reaction to the book after you have read the book.
Posted on discussion thread April 22
This Task: 20 points
To Date: 265 points
25.1 - Cat's task: My genre's Opera, Space OperaTask B: Albastrul din miez de noapte, by Simone van der Vlugt
Task C: Cititorul din peşteră, by Rui Zink
3-word title, CDPRZ in "Also sPRaCh Zarathustra" and/or "Flash GorDon, Queen."
Points this post: 25
Total points: 355
50.1 - Trishhartuk's task: Remembering Neil PeartBook1: In the Skin of a Lion, by Michael Ondaatje, action is set in Canada, 256 pages
Book2: The Lavender Garden, by Lucinda Riley
First published in 2012, 472 pages
Book3: The Ponder Heart, by Eudora Welty
mpg Classics, 156 pages
page count: 256 + 472 + 156 = 884
Points this post: 50
Total points: 405
EMurphy30.3 Dlmrose's Task: Paskekrim
Option 1: Written by an author whose initials can be found in FJELLVETTREGLENE We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Option 3: Anthology with Crime, Mystery or Thriller genre Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales edited by Stephen King
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 165
Books Read: 11
BB Ticket: 1
GO Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 7
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10.7. It Takes Two
2 word title: Diver's Paradise by Davin Goodwin
HC: Diver's Paradise
total = 695
Mod
20.6 - SEASONED READER – Kevin's task: Baseball Road Trip
option 3, initials DS in reD Sox: Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera
PB: Call Your Daughter Home: A Novel
total = 715
Mod
25.3 - Queen Bee Darlene's task: What I chose not to do
option 3, apostrophe title: The Dressmaker's Gift by Fiona Valpy
PB: The Dressmaker's Gift
option 4, set in Sweden: The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell
MMPB: L'Homme inquiet
total = 740
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50.1 - Trishhartuk's task: Remembering Neil Peart
Book 1, set in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada: The Promised Land: a novel of Cape Breton by Bill Conall
PB: The Promised Land, 239 pages
Book 2, first published in 2002: Close to Home by Peter Robinson
PB: Close to Home, 464 pages
Book 3, mpg Classics: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 209 pages
239 + 464+ 209 = 912 pages
total = 790
Delicious Dee10.9. Tax Day
Free: The Future of a Radical Price - shelved as economics by 150ppl
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 375
Delicious Dee20.3 - BEST REVIEW CONTEST – Bucket's task: Experimental Reading
Option a - Red Clocks - shelved as experimental 3 times and found on pg8 of popular experimental books
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 395
Sarah E15.5 - 2020 Grammy Awards
A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor
Song of the Year nominee Taylor Swift
I read a kindle edition but have linked to the top paperback - no MMP
Total points: 75
Sarah E15.9 - Richard Adams
The Darkest Thread - first published in 2016
I read the kindle edition but have linked to the paperback - no MMP
Total points: 90
Marina H10.7. It Takes Two
Marco Effekten by Jussi Adler-Olsen
506 pages - claiming 1 BB ticket
Points this post: 10
Total points: 120
Big book tickets: 3
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Tasks completed: 8
30.4 Amanda A and Amy Fl's task:Chose Option B.
Book 1: Read a book by a single male author with a male main character.
Read Foreign Affairs
Book 2: Read a book by a single author who shares a name with a famous composers of musicals from this list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Read Murder at Cluster Springs Raceway
Points this task: 30
Total points: 245
Marina H30.2 - Mazza1's Task: Are we Going to Scarborough Fair?
Option 1:
Book A: A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
Contains all the letters of SAGE
Book B: De udstødte by Elly Griffiths
Points this post: 30
Total points: 150
Big book tickets: 3
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Tasks completed: 9
Sarah E20.2 - ROOKIE AT THE TOP – Esther's task: Spring Cleaning
Option 3: “CLEAN” intact in the title
My Cleaner
I read a kindle edition, top paperback - no MMP - is My Cleaner
Total points: 110
SandyL5.1 - Baby, Remember My Name
Read a book by an author who uses a one-word name
A Warning by Anonymous
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 35
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 7
SandyL5.3 - Susan B.
Read a book that has been shelved Women's Rights from the list of Popular Women's Rights books
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
Book on Page 1 of list
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 40
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 8
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50.1 Trishhartuk's task: Remembering Neil Peart
1. Read a book set at least 50% in Canada or written by a single author who was born in Canada.
Among the Departed, Vicki Delany
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (250pg)
Set in British Columbia, Canada.
Vicki Delany was born in Winnipeg, Canada
2. Read a book first published between 1974 and 2015, inclusive.
Death of a Kitchen Diva, Lee Hollis
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB: Death of a Kitchen Diva (327pg)
First published in March 2012
3. Read a book with an MPG of either Classics or Retellings.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Chrisite
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB (French): ici (256pg). Top English MMPB: here (288pg)
Shelved as Classics by 1,204 users
Golden Oldie: First published in 1926
Total pages: 250 + 327 + 256 = 833 or 250 + 327 + 288 = 865
Points this task: 50
Books read: 3
Golden oldie: 1 – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was first published in 1926
Big book: No
Total points: 285
Tasks completed: 17
Golden oldies: 4
Big Book tickets: 0