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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
Amy B20.3 - BEST REVIEW CONTEST –Joanne MI’s Task: Saturday Matinee
This is a one book task. Choose one of the following options. REQUIRED: State in your task which option you used.
Option 1- Read a book from one of the following lists.
REQUIRED: When posting, state which list you used and what page your book was found on.
List Used: Books Turned Into Disney Movies
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18.0) - Books Turned into Disney Movies #18
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 400 Points
Delicious Deerepost replace book for option 2
25.9 - Bookwrm526's Task: Some of My Favorite Summer Movies
Option 1: Jaws - Girl at the Edge - YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT
Option 2: Dirty Dancing - Alpha Night - Nalini Singh - shelved as romance by 150ppl; NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER
No point change from previous post
Delicious Dee50.1- Bucket's Task: Toss Away the Could Haves and Should Haves
Book 1, Option a - The Summer Garden - i previously put it aside Jul 05, 2012; i read ebook but most popular MMPB had 960pgs (El jardín de verano); 2 big book ticket (already claimed)
Book 2, Option a - The Virgin Suicides - found on pg1, position 97
Book 3, Option a - Party of Two - found on A New Season of Reading blog post; under the romance section
Points this Post: 50
Total Points: 770
Rockynook10.6 - Get Counted
Read a book with number of pages found in 3,939,326 and/or 16 and/or 17
Ethnography: A Way of Seeing by Harry F. Wolcott # pages: 332
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 390
Joanna T20.1 - Most Improved Player - Jen B - The One With All the Books
Option 4: Ross - Author initials appear in PIVOT
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
Task total: 20
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Total points: 160
BB: 3
GO: 1
Christine V20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Sunshine's Task: Springfield!
Option 1: We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
I read the audio edition. The top MMPB has more than 310 pages.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 210
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 11
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=3, 750=2, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=7)
CoffeegirlTask: 15.3 Ford v. Ferrari
Option 2: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
'Ferrari' found in the title; 'Ford' in the Author's name
Points this task: 15
Total Point: 340
Whitnie I5.1 - See You at the Movies
Read 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.
Legacy: Trauma, Story and Indigenous HealingSuzanne Methot
Both of the Authors initials are found in MOVIES. S & M.
Total this post: 5
Total points: 505
BB Tickets: 6
5.5 Summer Blockbusters I read The End of October by Lawrence Wright - using the word "end" in 72. The World's End
Season Total: 5
5.9 Take Me Away I read The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe - mpg humor
New Total: 15
10.2 A Boy's Best Friend...I read Victim 2117 by Jussi Adler-Olsen - has thriller as a MPG
New Total: 35
EMurphy25.12 Brooklyn;s Task: It's Auntie Time!
Option 1: Part of a series It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han
Option 3: Author whose initials are found in STUFFED ANIMALS Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 160
Books Read: 11
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +750: 1
Tasks Completed: 6
Oma122930. 11 - Sandy's Task: Escape!
I chose Option 2 and Option 3
Your two books combined should have at least 500 pages.
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.
Let The Dead Lie by Malla Nunn-382 pages
I have never visited South Africa.
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.
Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers-294 pages
Total Points-415/1205
Total Tasks-26/65
Golden Oldie Books-(1)
Big Books-500-749();750-999(); 1000+()
Jen K30.5 - Sally M's Task: Two of a Kind
Option 2: Companion Reads
C - Read 2 books that explore the same subject (must be a more specific connection than just MPG or shared author)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption and Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Both books are non-fiction written by US defense lawyers who share their experiences defending the poor and vulnerable as well as providing critical analysis of the inequities formalized by law and systems such as minimum sentences in the current criminal justice system with a plea to show more mercy for those caught in the system.
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 330
Big Books: 2
Jen K25.12 - Brooklyn's Task: It’s Auntie Time!
Option 1: The Diviners #1 in The Diviners series
**** Requesting 1 Big Book for 578 pages*******
Option 4: Southern Lady Code
amenS
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 355
Big Books: 3
Task 25.12 - Brooklyn's Task: It’s Auntie Time!Option 1: Plainsong, finished 7/4
- In Plainsong series
Option 3: Followers, finished 7/20
- Author: Megan Angelo
Points this tasK :25
Total points: 775
G.Q. 5.8 - Harry Potter Turns 40
Read a book first published in a year that includes a 4 AND a 0.
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler (published 1940)
POINTS:
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 305
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 20
30. 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, standalone or embedded.
Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove #1) by Shelby Mahurin
1x Bigger is Better tix (544p)
5. Escape to a happier place in your mind. Read a book from one of the following lists: Uplifting Fiction (page 1)
Silas Marner by George Eliot
1x Golden Oldies tix (pub. 1861)
192 pages
Total pages read: 736
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 12
Season Total: 575
Ana20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Sunshine's Task: Springfield!
Option 1: Read a book with no less than 310 pages and has over 15,000 Goodreads ratings.
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.
The book has 383 pages and has 533,890 ratings.
Points This Post:20
Total Points:20
BUCKET20.4 Shawn H’s Task: A Few of My Favorite Things
Option 4
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Series: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1. This series is new-to-me.
Points this post: 20
Points total: 120
10.2 - “A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother.” Read a book with a main page genre Horror or Thriller. The genre may be standalone or embedded.
The Shape of Night (thriller)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 245
10.3 - This is CNN.I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Previous points 60
Points this post 10
Current points 70
MEGSCL10.2 - “A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother.”
The Silent Patient
TOTAL TO DATE
265 points
2 big book
MEGSCL20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: Codenames
On a Barbarous Coast
On A barBarous coasT = BOAT
TOTAL TO DATE
285 points
2 big book
MEGSCL25.4 Tien's Task: Staying at Home
1. Books in Hand
Homeland and Other Stories Which I have owned since 2011
2. New books
The Dictionary of Lost Words Which was published in March 2020
TOTAL TO DATE
310 points
2 big book
MEGSCL25.6 - TraceyL's Task: The Razzie Awards
Option 1: Most Tiresome Tabloid Targets.
a book with NO people on the cover.
Option 3: Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse Of 3D.
read a book with 3 or more letter D's in the TITLE only.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
*517 pp - 1 big book
TOTAL TO DATE
335 points
3 big book
5.3 World CinemaThe Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
Book is set in Spain and is 512 pages. I'd like a Big Book ticket.
Post Total: 5
Grand Total: 110
20.7 - SHORTER IS SWEETER – Cindie’s Task — Small is a State of MindOption 2, a book from the list Down by the Sea (p. 5 #453): The Ocean Between Us by Susan Wiggs
Points this post: 20
Total points: 440
25.4 Tien's Task: Staying at Home1. Read a book that you have had in your possession before 1 January 2020. The book may be owned, borrowed, or received in any other way, but you must have had it since 2019 or before
Somme Mud Kids: An Australian Teenager in the First World War by Edward P.F. Lynch
I have had this book before 1 January 2020
2. Support those authors with cancelled launches by reading a book first published in March - July 2020.
A Dance With Fate (Warrior Bards #2) by Juliet Marillier
Expected publication July 28th 2020 - the publisher was kind enough to send me a copy
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 12
Season Total: 600
25.9 - Bookwrm526's Task: Some of My Favorite Summer MoviesOption 1: The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak
TBOI in "YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT"
Option 2: In Five Years, by Rebecca Serle
MPG Romance
RS in "NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER"
Points this post: 25
Total points: 240
Task 20.7 - Small is a State of Mindoption 1 - read a book with page count ends in 5
A Symphony of Echoes
235 pages
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760 points
6 BB tix
Task 20.9 - Eureka!option 3 - read a book where the MC has a significant life-changing event happen to them
Dear Martin
Justyce is wrongfully arrested, based on racial profiling, and struggles with how to deal with that; escalated when he & his best friend are shot
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780 points
6 BB tix
Task 5.5 - Summer Blockbustersread a book with a word in the title that matches one in a listed film title
The House in the Cerulean Sea
HOUSE matches #74 - National Lampoon's Animal HOUSE
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790 points
6 BB tix
Task 5.2 - I'd Watch Thatread a book on the Books That Should be Made into Movies list
Just One Damned Thing After Another
on p18, #1790 on list
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795 points
6 BB tix
5.3 World CinemaI read Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Samira Ahmed - set mostly in France which is on the linked list. (Small interludes in various other countries)
Season Total: 40
10.6 Get Counted I read The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson - 311 pages, numerals found in census #
Season Total: 50
20.9 Eureka!I chose option 3 and read Parachutes by Kelly Yang - one of the 2 main characters, Clare, is suddenly sent from China to the US to finish high school living with strangers - that seems like a dramatic life change!
Season Total: 70
15.6 - "The Red Carpet" Something red on the cover - Read Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. The lady on the cover has on a red dress. This was approved as red in the task help thread by Sandy - message 24.
Points these task: 15
Total points: 75
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 7
Tasks completed: 6
20.1 Most Improved Player - Jen B - The One With All the BooksThis is a one book task. REQUIRED: In your post, specify which option you used.
Option 6: Chandler
Read a book with the letters BE intact in the title, not subtitle. Letters can appear in any word, but they must appear in that order. Beartown
Points this post: 20
Points total: 35
Big Books:
Golden Oldies:
Tasks completed: 3
15.4 A Record-Setting Leading PerformerKatherine Hepburn set a record-setting (for any gender) four Academy Awards for leading performance, along with eight additional nominations.
Option 1:
Book 1 - read a book with a word in the title/subtitle that matches a word from Hepburn's Filmography. Only the names of films can be used - not plays in which she performed. The word must be at least 3 letters, and the words "the" and "and" cannot be used. Words must match exactly.
AND
Book 2 - read a book written by a female author.
Option 2:
Read 1 book that satisfies the requirements for both books 1 and 2 of option 1. A Long Time Gone (Karen WhiteA Long Day’s Journey Into Night)
Points this post: 15
Points total: 50
Big books:
Golden Oldies:
Tasks completed: 4
Whitnie I5.5 - Summer Blockbusters
Read a book with a word in the title/subtitle that matches a word in the title of one of the 75 Best Summer Blockbusters of All Time. Numbers (2, 3, 9, 13), numerals (V, IV), and the following words may NOT be used: a, and, episode, in, into, of, part, the, to. Words must match exactly. A list of movies can also be found in message 2 of the help thread.
Required: State which word you used when you post.
House Atreides. The word House found in Animal House.
I am requesting 1 big book ticket as it is 704 pages
Total this post - 5
Total points: 510
BB Tickets - 7
Whitnie I10.1 - OK Boomer
Read a book written by a single author who was born between 1946 and 1964 inclusive. REQUIRED: If the author's birthdate is not stated on their Goodreads profile, include a reference LINK that states the author's birthdate when you post.
The Valkyries Paulo Coelho Paulo was born in 1947
Total this post: 10
Total Points: 520
BB Tickets: 7
Task 5.1 - See You at the Moviesread a book with one author initial in MOVIES
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
E initial
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805 points (think I've corrected my error)
6 BB tix
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Task 15.8 - Parasite
Read a book set in South Korea or with an author born in South Korea. If the book is set before 1945 (when North and South Korea were divided), a setting in Korea works, regardless of what part of Korea.
REQUIRED: If the setting or author birthplace is not apparent from the GR description, metadata or author biography, include in your post a link establishing this information.
Banned Book Club - set in Korea during protests by college students
Points this post: 15
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
Total Points this Season: 530
BB Tickets: 10
GO Tickets: 1