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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
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Task 15.1 - Moms and DadsBook 1. Read a book by a female author that was first published during your mother's lifetime, but not your own.
My mom was born 1926. I was born 1956.
The Locusts Have No King (1948) by Dawn Powell (Paperback, 286 pages)
** The Locusts Have No King is a Golden Oldie, published in 1948**
AND
Book 2. Read a book written by a male author, first published during your father's lifetime, but not your own.
My dad was born 1926. I was born 1956.
Georgia Boy (1943) by Erskine Caldwell (Paperback, 256 pages)
** Georgia Boy is a Golden Oldie, published in 1943**
15 + 15 = 30
Tasks Completed: 03
Points for this post: 15
Points thus far: 15 + 15 = 30
Books read: 04
Pages read: 1,095
Read but not claimed: 02
Goodreads Authors: 01
Golden Oldies: 02
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Readerboard Name Kathy P5.1 - See You at the Movies
Only Human
Author: Sylvain Neuvel
Totals
Points: 25
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 4
Total Books read: 4
Readerboard Name Kathy P5.8 - Harry Potter Turns 40
Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
First Published in 2014
Totals
Points: 30
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 5
Total Books read: 5
Readerboard Name Kathy P10.9 - Turn It Up
The Heart of Perfection: How the Saints Taught Me to Trade My Dream of Perfect for God's
Song: Drop It Like It’s Hot
Totals
Points: 40
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 6
Total Books read: 6
20.3 - BEST REVIEW CONTEST –Joanne MI’s Task: Saturday MatineeOption 3 - Read a book with a MPG of Espionage or Thriller.
Timeline by Michael Crichton
MPG > Thriller
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Points this post: 20
Total points: 70
Total BB tickets: 1
PegW30. 11 - Sandy's Task: Escape!
Option 3: Read a book with the main page genre history or historical fiction or time travel.
American West 448 pages
Option 5: Read a book from one of the following lists:
I read The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry 288 pages found on page one of the Best Lighthearted Literature list.
448 + 288 = 736 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 95
Big Book: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks completed: 5
Kathy KS30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Gardening Lessons
This is a two book task. Read one book from two different options
REQUIRED: Identify which option or options you select when you post.
Option 3: Read a book whose page count contains a 2 and a 3.
Not So Big Remodeling: Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live
329 pages
Option 4: Read a book by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in LAKE DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK.
Continental Breakfast, by Danny Caine
DC = DistriCt
*****
Points for this task: 30
Total points : 115
Tasks completed: 6
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Pamela326510.4 - Ready For A Closeup
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews
Big Book - 560 pages
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 70
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
Big Books - 500+: 2
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
Pamela326510.5 - From A to Z
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore - A and Z found in eliZAbeth
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 80
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
Big Books - 500+: 2
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
5.9 - Take Me AwayRead a book with the MPG Humor OR a book found on the Popular Funny Books list. https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Required: If using the list, state which page of the list your book can be found on when you post.
I've Got Your Number (Found on page 1 of the Popular Funny Books list.)
Points this task: 5
Total points: 90
trishhartuk10.8 Go Your Own Way
Read a book from a list found at IndieBound's IndieNext List.
In an Absent Dream, Seanan McGuire
Read the kindle edition. No PB, so the HB is here
Can be found on the January 2019 Indie next List: https://www.indiebound.org/indie-next... - it’s the one at the extreme right on the list.
Points this task: 5
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 10
Golden oldies: 0
Big book tickets: 1 (500+ = 1)
Task 30.11 - Escape!total 500+pages
option 1: read a book with MPG Fantasy
The Seventh Bride
236pages
option 4: read a book with MPG Travel
The Jetsetters
verified: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
352pages
236+352>500
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225 points
3 BB tix
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.1 See You at the Movies
Second in Command by Sandi Van
moVieS
Points this post: 5
Total points: 160
Tasks completed: 12/65
Books read: 15
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.9 Turn It Up
The Secrets We Keep by Deb Loughead.
Song: #18 You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)” by Meat Loaf (1977)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 170
Tasks completed: 13/65
Books read: 16
15.4 - A Record Setting Leading PerformerOption 2: Read a book written by a female author with a word in the title/subtitle that matches a word from Hepburn's Filmography.
Book read: Witch Summer Night's Cream
How it fits: Female author (H.Y. Hanna), the word Summer in the title of the book and of the film Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
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Total points: 165
Books read: 13
Tasks completed: 11
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 0
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.6 The Red Carpet.
by Jefferson Bass.Red glove on cover.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 185
Tasks completed: 14/65
Books read: 17
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.9 Moderators' Pet - Sarah Ruth's Task: Eureka!
Option 3: One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
The main character's mother dies and then she has to move across the country to live with her dad she has never met.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 205
Tasks completed: 15/65
Books read: 18
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.2 Cat's Task: Reading in the Valleys
Option 2: The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion.
HUMOR is MPG.
This is a re-read for me.
Option 3: Coral Reef Views by Vicki Delany.
corAL rEef vieWS
Points this post: 30
Total points: 235
Tasks completed: 16/65
Books read: 20
20.3 Saturday MatineeOption 3: MPG Thriller
The Whisper Man by Alex North
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 115
Total Books Read: 7
Total Tasks Completed: 6
Total Pages Read: 1442
Big Books Read: 0
CoffeegirlTask 30.6 "All I Really Need To Know"
Option 3: The Kill Order by James Dashner
Book #4 in the Maze Runner Series which I started in April
Option 6: Saving Meghan by D.J. Palmer
Read by Friend Melissa Erdmier - 5 stars
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 85
Delicious Dee20.1 - Most Improved Player - Jen B - The One With All the Books
option 4 - Murder on Waverly Place - Victoria Thompson - VT found in PIVOT
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 265
CoffeegirlTask: 30.11 "Escape!"
Option 3: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (pages 314)
Historical - Fiction
Option 5: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich (pages 320)
Uplifting Fiction, Page 2, #121
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 115
CoffeegirlTask: 20.4 "A Few of My Favorite Things"
Option 4: Divergent by Veronica Roth
#1 in the series - new to me series that I have never read
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 135
Task 5.8 - Harry Potter Turns 40Book: The Truth About Alice, finished 6/22
First published in 2014
Points this task: 5
Total points: 320
trishhartuk20.2 Rookie at the Top – Ciprian's Task: Mindfulness
Option 1.Read a book that has one or more stools, chairs, armchairs, benches, tables, hangers, shoe racks or cabinets on the cover.
Read the kindle edition. PB here
Kitchen cabinets approved in help thread message #10: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
OPTIONAL: Tell us one hobby you have that could help you practice mindfulness.
For me its Photography, especially out and about in nature, enjoying the world around me.
Points this task: 20
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 105
Tasks completed: 7
Golden oldies: 0
Big book tickets: 1 (500+ = 1)
Ava Catherine20.7 - SHORTER IS SWEETER – Cindie’s Task — Small is a State of Mind
Option 2: Down the Shore
Read a book from the list "Down by the Sea."
page 1; #27
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
total=620
Ava Catherine20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Sarah Ruth's Task: Eureka!
Option 5:
Read a book that is set at least 50% in the Pacific Northwest.
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
(set in Wenatchee, Washington)
total=640
Ava Catherine15.7 - Hurricane season is here again!
Read a book whose author's name matches the name of a 2020 Atlantic or Pacific hurricane name.
"Atlantic Hurricane names"=Josephine selected
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
total=655
Ava Catherine15.5 - Again, Really?
Read a book in a series with a whole number greater than 1, in which you’ve already read book 1 before May 15.
Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6) by Dorothy L. Sayers
First in series: Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey,#1) read September 28, 2017.
total=670
Ava Catherine10.8 - Go Your Own Way
Read a book from a list found at IndieBound's IndieNext List.
https://www.indiebound.org/indie-next...
JUNE 2020 INDIE NEXT LIST
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
total=680
Ava Catherine10.9 - Turn It Up
read a book with title of at least 3 words where the first letter of every title word appears in the song title. Subtitles are excluded.
song="Be Thankful For What You Got"
Flights of Angels: Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
FOA from book title found in song title "be thAnkFul fOr what you got"
total=690
Ava Catherine5.7 - Mysterious Women
Read a book written by a female author that ALSO has the MPG Mystery, Thriller, or Dystopia.
Shroud For A Nightingale by P.D. James
mpg mystery
total=695
Ava Catherine5.6 - Somebody Set the Clock
Read a book with the letters VCR found in any order in the title/subtitle, series title, and/or author's name.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
VCR= just meRCy: a story of justice and redemption
bryan steVenson
total=700
Mai30.5 - Sally M's Task: Two of a Kind
Option 2: Companion Reads
A - Read 2 books from the same series: Book of Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence Series
#4: By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie
and
#5: Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Andy P.Task # 10.8 - Go Your Own Way
Read a book from a list found at IndieBound's IndieNext List.
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer
May 2020 Indie List Fourth Row Down Extreme left
Points this post: 10
Total points: 165
Kathy KS20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Sunshine's Task: Springfield!
your book must be at least 310 Pages
Option 1: Read a book with over 15,000 Goodreads ratings. (15,001 or higher)
Sycamore Row, by John Grisham
101,744 ratings (>15,000)
I read a large print version; mmpb=642 p.
Requesting 1 Big Book ticket (642 p.)
*****
Points for this task: 20
Total points : 135
Tasks completed: 7
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Queen Bee Darlene20.3 Best Review Contest - Joanne MI's Task: Saturday Matinee
3) thriller genre
Something She's Not Telling Us by Darcey Bell Something She's Not Telling Us
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 125
**Repost for Post 688**JEN B
25.2 - Simone's Task: Children of the Apocalypse!
1. Read one of the books by Stephen King from this list: Stephen King Novels
11/22/63 by Stephen King
5. Read a book that features survival in a dystopian setting (radiation, flood, pandemic, etc.). REQUIRED: If it is not apparent from the synopsis what the dystopian setting is, provide that information in your post!
Recursion by Blake Crouch
The technology that causes the syndrome in this book becomes controlled by the government and causes mass, end-of-world type disasters, leading the main characters to fight against the technology and government to try to save the world.
*I am claiming 2 Big Books tickets for 11/22/63 (849 pages)
TOTAL POINTS: 170
BB Tickets Total: 2
MEGSCL10.10 - "You Like Me, You Really Like Me"
The Diviners (3.76*)
578 pages - 1 big book
TOTAL TO DATE
80 points
2 big book
MEGSCL10.1 - OK Boomer
Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith (born 1962)
TOTAL TO DATE
90 points
2 big book
BUCKET20.1 Jen B’s Task: The One With All the Books
Option 6
Better than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin
(BE in Better)
Points this post: 20
Points total: 20
BUCKET20.6 Sunshine’s Task: Springfield!
Option 1
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(96,322 ratings, 433 pages long)
Points this post: 20
Points total: 40
BUCKET20.8 Ann A’s Task: Codenames
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Word: LETTER - LET in Castle, TER in Capture
Points this post: 20
Points total: 60
5.1 See You at the MoviesRead a book written by a single author with at least one initial found in the word: MOVIES. Any initial (first, middle, last) may be used.
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
From AR Bookfinder:
https://www.arbookfind.com/bookdetail...
Heidi (Unabridged)
Spyri, Johanna
AR Quiz No. 509 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP, LS, VP
Points this post: 5
Total points: 95
Task 15.6. The Red Carpet.Book:
finished 6/22
The pendant she's holding is red
Points this task: 15
Total points: 335
20.7 - SHORTER IS SWEETER – Cindie’s Task — Small is a State of MindOption 3: Read a book by a single author who is a woman and was born in New Jersey.
Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay
approval
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies:
Bigger is Better: 2
Season Total: 205
Bookwrm52610.7 - What Angels Eat
Read a book set at least 50% in one of these top producing watermelon locations: China, Turkey, Iran, Brazil, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Spain, Greece, Italy, in the United States- Texas, Florida, Georgia, California. I chose Italy and read Excursion to Tindari by Andrea Camilleri.
Total points so far: 200
Mai10.3 - This is CNN.
NONFICTION book that includes the letters CNN in the title/ subtitle
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
c in "Black", n in "and" and "Feminism"
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 40
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
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Task #10.1 - OK Boomer
Read a book written by a single author who was born between 1946 and 1964 inclusive. I read A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (Wikipedia lists her birth year as 1958 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_...).
Total points so far: 190