The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion
note: This topic has been closed to new comments.
SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
>
Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
Meera25.10 - Rina's Task: Working out during quarantine
Option 1: Fitness Blender
Task 1. Read a book written by a married author.
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
https://bookpage.com/interviews/25003... - talks about her husband in this interview
Task 3. Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle containing both letters F and B.
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 435
Total Tasks: 22
Books read: 32
Meera25.12 - Brooklyn's Task: It’s Auntie Time!
Option 1: The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai - #1 in the Modern Love series
Option 3: The Guest List by Lucy Foley LF can be found in STUFFED ANIMALS
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 460
Total Tasks: 23
Books read: 34
Oma122920.7 - SHORTER IS SWEETER – Cindie’s Task — Small is a State of Mind
I chose Option #2
Option 2: Down the Shore
Read a book from the list Down by the Sea. REQUIRED: State the page on which your book appears.
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
This book is located on page #6 and is numbered 539.
Total Points-385/1205
Total Tasks-25/65
Golden Oldie Books-(1)
Big Books-500-749();750-999(); 1000+()
Task 25.3 - Kaora's Task: Good Things Come In ThreesOption A: The Witches Are Coming, finished 6/30
Option C: Winter in Paradise, finished 7/17. Part of Paradise series, which has 3 books.
Points this task: 25
Total points: 665
Whitnie I30.2 - Cat's Task: Reading in the Valleys
As this is lockdown comfort reading, one book must be a reread. REQUIRED: State in your post which book is a re-read. Pick two tasks and read a book for each. REQUIRED: State in your post which options you are using.
1. Their favourite authors are .... not mine! They love Charles Dickens(BiL) and John le Carré (sis), where I am devoted to Terry Pratchett. Read a book by one of these authors. A collaboration by one of these authors with ONE other author can be used.
The Wee Free MenTerry Pratchett This book is rated UG by the AR book finder.
2. Read a book with MPG Humour or Satire
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things This book was a reread.
Total this post: 30
Total points: 480
BB tickets: 6
Brooklyn 15.4 – A Record Setting Leading Performer
Option 2: Read a book by a female author with a word in the title/subtitle that matches a word from Hepburn’s filmography.
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
Summer matches “Suddenly, Last Summer” (1959)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 95/1205
Tasks completed: 11/65
Books read: 11
Brooklyn 15.5 – Again, Really?
Read a book in a series I started prior to May 15th.
Devil in the Deadline by LynDee Walker
#4 in the Nichelle Clark Crime Thriller series; I read book 1 on November 2, 2019
Points this post: 15
Total points: 110/1205
Tasks completed: 12/65
Books read: 12
Brooklyn 15.7 – Hurricane Season is Here Again!
Read a book by an author whose name matches the name of a 2020 Atlantic or Pacific hurricane.
The Wolf Wants In by Laura McHugh
Laura is a 2020 Atlantic hurricane
Points this post: 15
Total points: 125/1205
Tasks completed: 13/65
Books read: 13
Brooklyn 20.7 – Small Is a State of Mind
Option 1: Read a book by a female author who was born in New Jersey.
Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich
Evanovich was born in South River, NJ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_E...)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 145/1205
Tasks completed: 14/65
Books read: 14
Brooklyn 20.8 – Codenames
Read a book with a title of at least 2 words that can be linked by forming a new word using an equal number of letters in each word of the title.
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
RT in Truly + US in Devious = RUST
Points this post: 20
Total points: 165/1205
Tasks completed: 15/65
Books read: 15
Brooklyn 20.9 – Eureka!
Option 5: Read a book set at least 50% in the Pacific Northwest.
Succubus Revealed by Richelle Mead
Set over 75% in Washington
Points this post: 20
Total points: 185/1205
Tasks completed: 16/65
Books read: 16
Brooklyn 25.3 – Good Things Come in Threes
Option A: Read a book with all of the letters THREE in the title.
The Arrangement by Robyn Harding - 343 pages
Option B: Read a book first published in a year that contains a 3.
The Lost Husband by Katherine Center - 304 pages
First published in 2013
343 + 304 = 648 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 210/1205
Tasks completed: 17/65
Books read: 18
Brooklyn 25.7 – Jagged Little Pill
Option 1: Read a book with a 2 and 5 in the page count.
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
352 pages
Option 3: Read a book with a clearly defined hand on the cover.
by Alex North – 336 pagesApproved in help thread
Points this post: 25
Total points: 235/1205
Tasks completed: 18/65
Books read: 20
25.10 – Working Out During QuarantineI chose option 1
Task 1: Read a book written by a married author.
The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda – 336 pages
Miranda is married per her Goodreads bio.
Task 2: Read a book set at least 50% in Seattle.
Succubus Shadows by Richelle Mead – 281 pages
Set 100% in Seattle (in book description on Goodreads)
336 + 281 = 617 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 260/1205
Tasks completed: 19/65
Books read: 22
25.12 – It’s Auntie Time!Option 1: Read a book that is part of a series.
Lethal Lifestyles by LynDee Walker
#6 in the Nichelle Clark Crime Thriller series
Option 2: Read a book with a MPG of sports or music.
Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
MPG of sports
Points this post: 25
Total points: 285/1205
Tasks completed: 20/65
Books read: 24
25.13 – Dog Days of SummerOption 2: Read a book with all of the letters SIRIUS in the title.
One Summer in Santorini by Sandy Barker
SIRI in Santorini
US in Summer
Option 4: Read a book from one of the lists
The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews
Found on pg. 1 of “summer beach reads”
Points this post: 25
Total points: 310/1205
Tasks completed: 21/65
Books read: 26
NICOLE OH15.10 - Let's Travel (Through Books)!
The Lost Wife found on Best Traveling Vicariously page 5
Points this post: 15
Total points: 400
Coralie 5.9 Take Me Away
Book with MPG Humor
The Unteachables
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8.0
Total to date 240 points
NICOLE OH20.3 - BEST REVIEW CONTEST –Joanne MI’s Task: Saturday Matinee
Option 3: Hot Six main page genre Thriller (it's the tenth one, but it's there!)
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 420
NICOLE OH25.13 - SandyL's Task: Dog Days of Summer
Option 2: Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
All letters of SIRIUS included in the title: S in Yourself, I in Like, R in Yourself, I in Life, U in Yourself, S in Depends
Option 4: High Five
found on page 6 of Summer List
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 445
TANYA D10.10- Read a book with an average rating of at least 3.5.
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar has a rating of 3.81
Points this post: 10
Total points: 180
BB tickets: 2
TANYA D20.4 - Golden Oldies - Shawn H's Task: A Few of My Favorite Things
Start a new series
Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine is the first book in a series that is new to me.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 200
BB tickets: 2
5.4 - Lights, Camera, Action!A book from a Listopia with the word "Action" intact in the title of the list, Books with Action Heroines p. 2 #105: Naked In Death by J.D. Robb
Points this post: 5
Total points: 385
10.10 - "You Like Me, You Really Like Me"A book with an average rating of at least 3.5: Becoming Duchess Goldblatt: A Memoir by Anonymous rating 4.55
Points this post: 10
Total points: 395
15.9 - Facts Matter!A non-fiction book with one of the original Trivial Pursuit genres listed on its main page (history): Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
Points this post: 15
Total points: 410
Suzannesea25.12 Brooklyn's Task: It's Auntie Time!
Option 1
Read a book that is part of a series.
The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion is #2 in the Don Tillman series.
Option 3
Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials are found in STUFFED ANIMALS.
The Summer House: A Trilogy by Alice Thomas Ellis
stuffEd Animals
Points this post: 25
Total points to date: 145
Janice CA15.9 - Facts Matter!
I read a non-fiction book with a MPG: history.
Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany by Eleanor Ramrath Garner
+15
total: 60
tasks: 3
books: 4
10.10 - "You Like Me, You Really Like Me"Mulan: Before the Sword by Grace Lin
4.28 avg rating
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10.0
Total this Post: 10
Golden Oldies: 2
Bigger is Better: 10
Season Total: 515
Pamela326530.5 - Sally M's Task: Two of a Kind
Option 2A: Long Road to Mercy andA Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci – Atlee Pine #1 and #2
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 350
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
Readerboard Name: Jammin JennySummer 2020 Season
Task 25.1 - Lois's Task: Hair Love
Option 3: Read a book that is short, between 100-200 pages, inclusive.
The Unicorn's Tail - 101 pages
Option 4: Read a graphic novel or graphic memoir (MPG Sequential Art>Graphic Novels)
Churchill: A Graphic Biography
Points this post: 25
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
Total Points this Season: 455
BB Tickets: 5
GO Tickets: 0
Readerboard Name: Jammin JennySummer 2020 Season
5.7 - Mysterious Women
Read a book written by a female author that ALSO has the MPG Mystery, Thriller, or Dystopia.
Die For Me - MPG Mystery & Thriller
the edition I read was 708 pages long, claiming 1 BB ticket
Points this post: 5
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 0
Total Points this Season: 460
BB Tickets: 6
GO Tickets: 0
5.6 - Somebody Set the ClockRead a book with the letters VCR found in any order in the title/subtitle, series title, and/or author's name
Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
whateVer happened to the Caped cRusader
Points this task: 5
Books read this task: 1
Golden oldie claimed this task: 0
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 75
Total Tasks completed: 6
Total Golden oldies: 2
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Total books read: 7
Mod
Task 30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Gardening LessonsOption 3: The Light We Lost, finished 6/7. Has 328 pages
Option 4: The Servants of Twilight, finished 7/18. By Leigh Nichols
Points this task: 30
Total points: 695
Task 20.3 - BEST REVIEW CONTEST –Joanne MI’s Task: Saturday MatineeOption 3: Pieces of Her, finished 7/7
Points this task: 20
Total points: 715
Jen K20.5 - Bigger is Better - MegSCL's Task: Cover Tropes
Option 3: Simple and serious
How to Be an Antiracist
Approved in Task Help, Message 19
**************
Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 280
Big Books: 2
Jen K20.7 - SHORTER IS SWEETER – Cindie’s Task — Small is a State of Mind
Option 2: Down the Shore
Page 2, #175
**********************
Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 300
Big Books: 2
Sara G15.5 - Again, Really?
Sequels are a staple of the movie industry. Read a book in a series with a whole number greater than 1, in which you’ve already read book 1 before May 15.
Fever Season by Barbara Hambly
This is book 2 in the Benjamin January series. I read book 1 on February 27, 2020.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 365
LAUREN JODI20.4 - Golden Oldies - Shawn H's Task: A Few of My Favorite Things
Option 4:
Hour of Need by Melinda Leigh
This is a new to me series
~~~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 270/1205
Total Books Read: 22
Tasks Completed: 18/65
LAUREN JODI10.1 - OK Boomer
Death Angel by Linda Howard
Born August, 1950 as per her Goodreads page.
~~~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 280/1205
Total Books Read: 23
Tasks Completed: 19/65
15.5 - Again, Really?The Princess and the Fangirl
This is book 2 of the Once Upon a Con series.
I read book Book 1 on April 6, 2020.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 215
30.5 - Sally M's Task: Two of a KindOption 1
A-2 books from the same series
Obsidian Murder
Murder at the Ladies Club
Both books are from the Violet Carlyle Mystery series.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 245
30. 11 - Sandy's Task: Escape!Option 2: Set at least 50% in country I have never visited.
The Vanished Bride
Set in Yorkshire-I have never been to England.
293 pages
Option 3: MPG History
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
244 pages
Total page count over 293+244=537
Points this post: 30
Total points: 275
Chris MD 15.4 A Recording-Setting Leading Performer
One book option
Title of 3+ words matches word in title from filmography: The Lion in Winter
Female author: Susanna Kearsley
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearlsey
This book is 536 pages long. Claiming 1 Big Book ticket.
Total points: 35
Chris MD 15.5 Again, Really?
A book in a series with a whole number greater than 1, in which you’ve already read book 1 before May 15
A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn
I finished the first book in the series March 3, 2018.
I listened to the audio version of this book. There is no MMP. The top paperback has 336 pages.
Total points: 50
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Sunshine's Task: Springfield!Option 1: Girl, Woman, Other
49,688 ratings, 453 pages
Total points: 110
Andy P.Task # 30.6 - Dlmrose’s Task: "All I Really Need To Know”
Option 1. Read a book with FUN found intact in a word in the title or subtitle.Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond by Lydia Denworth FUNdamental
Option 3. Read the next whole number book in a series that you have begun before the Summer Challenge.
The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths # 12 in the Ruth Galloway Series. I began this series in 2012 at the suggestion of my daughter. That was all it took to get me hooked.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 510
This topic has been frozen by the moderator. No new comments can be posted.
The Seasonal Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
We Were Liars (other topics)Lakeshire Park (other topics)
The Lightkeeper's Ball (other topics)
In Cold Blood (other topics)
Deadeye Dick (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
E. Lockhart (other topics)James Patterson (other topics)
Jeaniene Frost (other topics)
Lily Morton (other topics)
Jody Gehrman (other topics)
More...
20.10 Group Reads.
Category: Comedy. I read My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman.
My comment is number 15 in the thread.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 575