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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
20.10 - Group ReadRead one of the books selected as this season's group reads.
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers - Victor LaValle (ed.)
My post on the discussion thread is here.
Post Points: 20
Total Points: 30
25.1 - Lois's Task: Hair LoveOption 3: Read a book that is short (100-200 pages)
Seeing Things - Sonora Taylor
184 pages long.
Option 4: Read a graphic novel or graphic memoir.
Through the Woods - Emily Carroll
MPG of Sequential Art>Graphic Novels.
Post Points: 25
Total Points: 55
30.6 - Dlmrose’s Task: "All I Really Need To Know”Option 4: To Go Interesting Places
Read a book set at least 50% on a continent other than your own.
The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne - Elsa Hart
I'm in North America, this book is set in Europe (the UK).
Option 6: To Make Friends
Read a book a Goodreads friend has rated 5 stars.
The Remaking - Clay McLeod Chapman
Rated 5 stars by my friend Octavia.
Post Points: 30
Total Points: 85
15.10 - Let's Travel (Through Books)!Lists: Favourite Travel Books p1. #66
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
GO=0; BB =0
Points this post: 15
Total points to date: 50
30.5 Sally M's Task: Two of a Kind
Option 1: Retellings
Original story - The Trojan War
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes - MMP 368pp
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker - 291pp
GO=0; BB=0
Points this post: 30
Points to date: 80
Anja30.9 - Beth NC Task: Let’s Go Have Some Summer Fun
Option 1: Let’s Go to the Beach – Read a book set in a coastal or beach town.
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Option 5: Let’s Go Ride a Roller Coaster – Read a book with the main page genre Thriller.
Her Final Breath by Robert Dugoni
POINTS:
Points This Post: 30
Points Total: 70
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 4
Anja30.11 - Sandy's Task: Escape!
1. Escape to another world. Read a book with the main page genre Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Science Fiction Fantasy
Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh
3. Escape to another time. Read a book with the main page genre history or historical fiction or time travel.
Saving Kandinsky by Mary Basson
POINTS:
Points This Post: 30
Points Total: 100
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 5
10.5 - From A to ZRead a book with an A and Z in the title, subtitle and/or author’s name.
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
AZ appears in fitZgerAld
Points Earned This Post: 10
Total Points Earned: 155
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
TANYA D20.3- Joanne MI’s Task: Saturday Matinee
Option 3 - Read a book with a MPG of Espionage or Thriller.
The Last Thing She Ever Did by Gregg Olsen, has an MPG of Thriller
Points this post: 20
Total points: 170
BB tickets: 2
20.5 - Bigger is Better - MegSCL's Task: Cover TropesOption 3: Read a book with main page genre nonfiction (embedded is ok) and a white (or off-white, beige, grey) cover that has only a single object/image depicted, or no image (only words).
Approved in Help Thread Post #87
Points Earned This Post: 20
Total Points Earned: 175
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Julia10330.5 - Sally M's Task: Two of a Kind
Option 2A (two books in same series):
Once A Hero and Rules Of Engagement
These are #4 and #5 of The Serrano Legacy series
Rules Of Engagement is 512 pages, so claiming one BB ticket.
This post: 30 points
Total points: 300
BB tickets: 3
GO tickets: 1
Tasks completed: 24
Books read: 32
Sara G30.2 - Cat's Task: Reading in the Valleys
2. Read a book with MPG Humour or Satire.
Naked by David Sedaris
This book was a reread for me.
3. Read a book with the letters WALES in the title / subtitle.
Mrs. Drew Plays Her Hand by Carla Kelly
MRS DREW PLAYS HER HAND
Points this post: 30
Total points: 240
10.5 - From A to ZRead a book with an A and Z in the title, subtitle and/or author’s name.
Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes by Lun Zhang
Zhang has both A and Z
Points this task: 10
Books read this task: 1
Golden oldie claimed this task: 0
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 60
Total Tasks completed: 4
Total Golden oldies: 1
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Total books read: 5
Ava Catherine15.1 - Moms and Dads
Book 1. Read a book by a female author that was first published during your mother's lifetime, but not your own.
Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather first published in 1935
My mom was born in 1933 and died in 2015. She was two years old when this book was published, so it is obvious that the book was published (in 1935) before I was born.
Book 2. Read a book written by a male author, first published during your father's lifetime, but not your own.
The Unvanquished by William Faulkner first published 1938
My father was born in 1932 and died in 2016. He would have been 6 years old when the book was published in 1938, so it is obvious that I was born long after the publication date.
total=1060
Ava Catherine15.2 - The BAFTAs
Book 1 – read a book where the author's name matches the name of the winner of the BAFTA for male leading actor.
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
actor=1955: Best Foreign Actor: Ernest Borgnine in "Marty"
Book 2 - Read a book where the author's name matches the name of the winner of the BAFTA for female leading actress.
The Book of V. by Anna Solomon
actress=1956: Best Foreign Actress: Anna Magnani in "The Rose Tattoo"
total=1075
10.6 - Get CountedRead a book that has a number of pages that can be found in 3,939,326 and/or 16 and/or 17 (Ohio, the 17th state) . Numbers may only be used as often as they appear in 39393261617.
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Pages 366
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16.0
*Claiming a Golden Ticket. Published in 1937)*
Points this task: 10
Books read this task: 1
Golden oldie claimed this task: 1
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 70
Total Tasks completed: 5
Total Golden oldies: 2
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Total books read: 6
KATRINA T5.1 See you at the Movies
How To Find Home BY Mahsuda Snaith
Author's initials can be found in MovieS
Points this post: 5
BB: 0
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 5.1/5.3/10.6/10.9/15.6/20.2/20.9
Total points: 85
KTKIZZIE15.7 - Hurricane season is here again!
Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs
Read a book whose author's name matches the name of a 2020 Atlantic or Pacific hurricane name.
Total points this task: 15
Total points this far: 45
Total Tasks completed: 4
Total Golden oldies: 0
Total Big Book tickets: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Total books read: 6
Ava Catherine15.8 - Parasite
Read a book with an author born in South Korea.
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang-R...
total=1090
Ava Catherine15.10 - Let's Travel (Through Books)!
Read a book from this list: "Best Traveling Vicariously."
page 1; #34
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
total=1105
Ava Catherine15.9 - Facts Matter!
Read a nonfiction book with one of the original trivial pursuit genres listed on its main page - history.
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom by Nancy Goldstone mpg history
total=1120
Ava Catherine15.4 - A Record Setting Leading Performer
Option 2:
Read 1 book that satisfies the requirements for both books 1 and 2 of option 1.
film selected "The African Queen"
word selected = queen
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich female author
total=1135
Suzannesea10.2 -"A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother."
Zero Day by David Baldacci has Thriller as a main page genre.
Points this post: 10
Total points to date: 100
Ava Catherine15.3 - Ford v. Ferrari
Option 1:
Book 1 -Read a book with all the letters of "Ferrari" found in its title/subtitle.
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival by Jeremy Dronfield
Ferrari in "the boy who FollowEd hIs fatheR into Auschwitz: a tRue story of family and suRrival"
AND
Book 2 – Read a book with all the letters of "Ford" found in its author's name.
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
Ford found in penelOpe FitzgeRalD
total=1150
Kathy KS15.9 - Facts Matter!
Read a nonfiction book with one of the original trivial pursuit genres listed on its main page - geography, entertainment, history, arts or literature, science or nature, sports or leisure.
Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker, by Chuck (Charles H.) Warner
MPG: History 1 user
*****
Points for this task: 15
Total points : 235
Tasks completed: 12
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Amy B30.6 - Dlmrose’s Task: "All I Really Need To Know”
Choose two options from the list below and read two books, one for each option.
Option 3: To remember to finish what I begin.
Read the next whole number book in a series that you have begun before the Summer Challenge.
Required: State that you began the series before this season.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling - IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18.0 - started the series Nov. 15, 2019
Option 4: To go to interesting places.
Read a book set at least 50% in a country on a continent different from your own. Required: Identify your continent
Early Riser by Jasper Fforde (Wales in Europe - I live in North America)
This Task: 30 Points
To Date: 320 Points
MAZZA15.4 - Lights, Camera, Action!
Choose a Listopia with the word "Action" intact in the title of the list. Read a book from your chosen list.
The Andromeda Strain
Page 2 of Best Action Adventure novels https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
Points this post = 5
Points to date = 530
MAZZA15.8 - Harry Potter Turns 40
5.8 - Harry Potter Turns 40
Read a book first published in a year that includes a 4 AND a 0
A Thousand Pieces of You published 2014
Points this post = 5
Points to date = 535
MAZZA15.9 - Take Me Away
. Read a book with the MPG Humor OR a book found on the Popular Funny Books list.
Logging Off MPG humor
points this post = 5
Points to date = 540
MAZZA15.10 - Carefree Summer Days
Book of your choice
Five Feet Apart
Points this post = 5
Points to date = 545
MAZZA110.7 - What Angels Eat
Read a book set at least 50% in one of these top producing watermelon locations: = Italy,
The Rome Affair
Points this post = 10
Points to date = 555
MAZZA 115.4 - A Record Setting Leading Performer
Option 2:
Read 1 book that satisfies the requirements for both books 1 and 2 of option 1.
- a word in the title/subtitle that matches a word from Hepburn's Filmography.
- read a book written by a female author.
Upright Women Wanted
Word = Women as in "Little women"
Author Sarah Gailey
Points this post = 15
Points to date = 570
MAZZA115.5 - 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.
Out for Blood
I read #1 in this series Hold Your Tongue on 11th January 2020
Points this post = 15
Points to date = 585
MAZZA120.6 - Seasoned Reader - Sunshine's Task: Springfield!
In honor of the show airing 31 seasons, your book must be at least 310 Pages
Option 1:. Read a book with over 15,000 Goodreads ratings. (15,001 or higher)
The Knife of Never Letting Go has 147,925 ratings
Is 512 pages and so exceeds requirement It is therefore also a book over 500 pages and i claim 1 BB ticket
Points this post = 20
Points to date = 605
BB tickets this post = 1
BB tickets to date = 11
MAZZA1Task 25.8 - Amy FL’s Task: I’ll Be Back.
Option 2: Liquid Metal
Read a book with a title of three or more words (subtitles should be ignored) where the first letter of each word appears in MIMETIC POLYALLOY
One More Tomorrow
Option 3: A First
Read a book by an author whose name is comprised of two first names (middle names should be ignored).
Grave Secrets: The Lavington Windsor Mysteries Book 1 Alice James
Points this post = 25
Points to date = 630
MAZZA130. 11 - Sandy's Task: Escape!
Choose two of the following options, and read one book for each. REQUIRED: In your post, indicate which options you used.
Your two books combined should have at least 500 pages. No books with the main page genre children or kids may be used.
2. Escape to another country. Read a book set at least 50% in a country you have never visited. State in your post that you have never visited the country. REQUIRED:
The Samurai's Garden set in Japan which i have never visited
211 pages
3. Escape to another time. Read a book with the main page genre history or historical fiction or time travel. The genre may be standalone or embedded.
The Psychology of Time Travel MPG embedded Time Travel
Pages 360
211+ 360 = 571 Exceeding requirement
Points this post = 30
Points to date = 660
MAZZA1I realise i have posted Logging off before so my points total is 5 less
than stated above
current total is 655
EMurphy20.8 Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: Codenames
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
Word Created is SIDE (In thE Dream HouSe)
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 80
Books Read: 5
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +750: 1
Tasks Completed: 3
Elizabeth PTask 15.5 - Again, Really?
Book in series whose first book you read before May 1 2020
The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley
This book is number six of The Seven Sisters series, and I finished book one on December 6th, 2019
At 728 pages, good for *1 Big Book Ticket*
Link: Zon
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 240
Total Tasks: 14
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 3
Total Books: 17
Whitnie I30.4 - Wayne's task: Brockian Ultra-Cricket
This is a two-book task. Read one book from two different options. REQUIRED: State in your post the options you used.
Books with an MPG of Childrens, Children or Kids may NOT be used for this task.
Option 3: Read a book that has all the letters in either APOLOGIZE or SORRY in the book's title/subtitle. Letters can only be used as often as they appear.
Living with Intent: My Somewhat Messy Journey to Purpose, Peace, and Joy. The letters of SORRY are contained in the title. SO in somewhat, R's in journey & purpose, and the Y in journey.
Option 4: Read a book from the Excellent Space Opera list.
REQUIRED: State the page where you found the book
Dune This was found on page 1 and listed as #2
Points this post: 30
Total points: 350
BB tickets: 6
Joanne Mi20.4 - Golden Oldies - Shawn H's Task: A Few of My Favorite Things
I chose option #4- Read a book 1st in a series
The Oathbound This series is new to me and is # 1
Points this task 20
Total Points 225
BB's 1
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.6 - Get Counted
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
233 pages
Totals
Points: 75
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 10
Total Books read: 10
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.8 - Go Your Own Way
The One-in-a-Million Boy
https://www.indiebound.org/indie-next...
Category FAMILY TIES THAT BIND
Totals
Points: 85
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 11
Total Books read: 11
Coffegirl30.2 Reading in the Valleys
Option 1: Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré
Option 3: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen WALES in the title. This book was a re-read
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 280
Coffeegirl25.6 The Razzie Awards
Option 1: Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry by Mary Higgins Clark
No people on the cover
Option 3: The Wicked Redhead by Beatriz Williams
3 D's in the title
Points this task: 25
Total Points: 305
Coffeegirl20.6 Sunshine's Task: Springfield
Option 1 The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
104,215 Ratings, 337 pages
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 325
NICOLE OH25.5 - Sarah E's Task: The Return of the King
Option 2- L exactly 5 O's: To Be Perfectly Honest: A Novel Based on an Untrue Story Using the subtitle!
Option 6: The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz (continuation of Stieg Larsen series)
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 330
25.13 - SandyL's Task: Dog Days of SummerOption 3: Read a book with an MPG of Mythology, Astrology or Astronomy - standalone or embedded.
Goddess of the Sea (MPG mythology)
Option 4: Read a book from one of these Summer or Beach Reads Lists:
Summer Beach Reads
Best Summer Romance Books
Summer List https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Seven Up (Summer List p. 6)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 210
Kelly L20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: Codenames
For this task, read one book with a title (subtitles excluded) consisting of at least two words you can ‘link’ by forming a new word using letters in the title. The new word must be at least three letters long and you must use an EQUAL number of letters from each title word. Letters may be in any position, but all words in the title must be used.
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
noBody wilL Tell yOu thiS buT mE = BOTTLES
Points this post: 20
Total points this season: 155
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Read a book with a main page genre of horror or thriller.
The Sun Down Motel - Simone St. James
MPG of both horror and thriller.
Post Points: 10
Total Points: 10