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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
Barbara ★25.13 - SandyL's Task: Dog Days of Summer
Option 1: Read a book with at least three words in the title where the first letter of each word is in DOG DAYS OF SUMMER.
Drink of Me - Jacquelyn Frank 7/19
(Dog days Of suMmer)
Option 3: Read a book with an MPG of Mythology, Astrology or Astronomy - standalone or embedded.
Soul of the Sword - Julie Kagawa (MPG fantasy>mythology) 6/22
Points this task: 25
Total points: 535
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (1) 1000 (0)
Task 5.1 - See You at the MoviesREPOSTING WITH AR Info
read a book with one author initial in MOVIES
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
E initial
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7.0
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840 points
7 BB tix
Nick KY20.5 - Bigger is Better - MegSCL's Task: Cover Tropes
Option 3: Simple and serious
Popular nonfiction seems to be going for a clean and simple look. 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). I read Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking by Eric Lax.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 640
EMurphy25.1 Lois's Task: Hair Love
Option 1: HAIR or LOVE intact in title/subtitle Love, Lucy by April Lindner
Option 2: Short stories genre The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 185
Books Read: 13
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +750: 1
Tasks Completed: 7
Task 30.9 – BethNC – Let’s Go Have Some Summer FunOption 5– Main page genre: THRILLER
Long Road to Mercy
I listened to the audio / NO MMP / Paperback; Long Road to Mercy 404 pg
Option 6 - MPG Historical Fiction -and- set in KY
Death of a Winter Shaker
MPG & Kentucky location Confirmed in HELP thread
Several of the reviews on the main page refer to the Kentucky setting.
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This Post: 30 points
Total points to date: 245 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (1) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 1
Delicious Dee20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: Codenames
Wolf Hall - word: HALF - WOLF HALL; https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hal... Big book ticket - 500+pgs; i read the kindle version, most popular MMPB (Wolf Hall) has 524pgs
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 850
Task 25.10 - Working Out During Quarantine500+ pages total; one Graphic Novel MPG OK
option 2A: read a book with Zombies MPG
The Walking Dead: The Best Defense
no MMPB, PB: Monstrueux - 142pages
option 2B: read a book #5 in a series with the series title starting with a letter in RUNNER
Just My Luck
series: Escape to New Zealand
380pages
142+380 = 522 pages
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865 points
7 BB tix
Task 30.6 - Dlmrose’s Task: "All I Really Need To Know”Option 3: Gone by Midnight, finished 7/22.
- #3 in Crimson Lake series, which I started before this season
Option 6: The Book Thief, finished 7/12.
- Laura rated it 5 stars
Points this task: 30
Total points: 805
CoffeegirlTask: 30.9 Let's Go Have Some Summer Fun
Option 1: A Week at the Shore by Barbara Delinsky
Setting Rhode Island Coast
Option 4: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
On the list Book to Read with a Glass of Wine and a Box of Kleenex page 1 #25
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 370
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.
Mobile Library 273 pages
New Points: 10
Total Challenge Points: 215
GO:1
Andy P.Task # 30.8 - Aprilleigh’s Task: The Karate Fan Club
Book 1: A FICTION book with all of the letters in both KARATE and DOJO found in the title (ignore subtitles) and/or author’s name.
The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky 544 p.
K in Brodsky
A in Whale
R in Brodsky
A in Jordanna
T in The
E in The
D in Brodsky
O i Brodsky
J in Jordanna
O in Wolf
Fiction Book.
Book 2: A NON-FICTION book with all of the letters in both KARATE and DOJO found in the title (ignore subtitles) and/or author’s name 384 p.
The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual by James Green
K in Maker's
A in Herbal
R in Maker's
A in Handbook
T in The
E in The
D in Handbook
O in Handbook
J in James
O in Handbook
nonfiction book
page count 544 + 384 = 928 p >500 page minimum
Points this post: 30
Total points: 570
Andy P.Task # 30.9 - Beth NC Task: Let’s Go Have Some Summer Fun
Option 2. Read a book with the letters “TENT” found intact in a single word in the Title
The Tent by Margaret Atwood
Option 4. Read a book from one of these “Wine” lists Words with Wine page 1 # 48 Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
Points this post: 30
Total points: 600
Andy P.Task # 20.2 - ROOKIE AT THE TOP – Ciprian's task: Mindfulness
Option 3. Having the author's first and last initials in SOLARIS
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys SOLARIS
Points this post : 20
Total points: 620
Whitnie ITask 25.8 - Amy FL’s Task: I’ll Be Back.
This is a two-book task; choose one book from each of two different options. REQUIRED: In your post, specify which options you used.
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
A Memory of Light
Option 4: Don’t Mess With Mom - Read a book by a female author with a MPG of action or science fiction. The genre may be stand alone or embedded.
The Testaments Margaret Atwood. This book has the MPG Science Fiction.
I'm requesting 2 BB tickets for The Memory of Light as it's 912 pages.
Total this post: 25
Total Points: 550
BB tickets; 9
15.4 - A Record Setting Leading PerformerOption 2: Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
❁ INTO is the matching word (Long Day's Journey into Night); Mira Grant is female ❁
Total points: 245 + 15 = 260
30.1 - Mazza1's task: STAY HOME / STAY SAFEOption 1: Two books
Book 1 (B): Dear Martin by Nic Stone
❁ single person on the cover ❁
Book 2 (A): The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
❁ 5-word title (ignoring subtitle) ❁
Total points: 260 + 30 = 290
20.1-Most Improved Player - Jen B - The One With All the BooksA Man of Parts by David Lodge - finished 7/22/2020
Meets requirements for Option 5: Joey
Points this post: 20
Total points: 35
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: CodenamesWolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell Trilogy #1) by Hilary Mantel
new word: HALF found in woLF HAll
1x Bigger is Better tix (653p)
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 13
Season Total: 625
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: CodenamesA book with a title whose words can be linked by forming a new word using letters in the title: Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
word: MINE
Maybe
In
aNother
lifE
Points this post: 20
Total points: 460
Jasmiina F20.3 - BEST REVIEW CONTEST –Joanne MI’s Task: Saturday Matinee:
Option 3: Read a book with a MPG of Espionage or Thriller:
Varoitus by Karin Fossum.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 135
Golden Oldies this post:
Total Golden Oldies:
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+:
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
LAUREN JODI5.3 - World Cinema
Into the Dark by Cindy Gerard
Set in Argentina
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 285/1205
Total Books Read: 24
Tasks Completed: 20/65
KATRINAT20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: Codenames
A code word which links a group of unrelated words.
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Codeword: Sisters - 7 words in title, 7 letters. The book features 4 wives who live as 'sisters' in their husband's house.
Points this post: 20
BB: 1
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 5.1/5.3/5.9/10.6/10.9/15.5/15.6/20.2/20.8/20.9/30.1
Total points: 155
KATRINAT10.10 - "You Like Me, You Really Like Me"
Read a book with an average rating of at least 3.5.
The Fire Starters Rating on day on posting 3.94
Points this post: 10
BB: 1
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 5.1/5.3/5.9/10.6/10.9/10.10/15.5/15.6/20.2/20.8/20.9/30.1
Total points: 165
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: CodenamesFor 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.
Hot Water
hOT watER
Word ROTE
Claiming golden oldie.Book published in 1932
Points this task: 20
Books read this task: 1
Golden oldie claimed this task: 1
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 115
Total Tasks completed: 8
Total Golden oldies: 4
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Total books read: 9
Joanna T30.6 - Dlmrose’s Task: "All I Really Need To Know”
Option 3 - Series begun before summer challenge
Strip Jack by Ian Rankin
I read the first book of this series in January 2008.
Option 4 - Book set on continent different from mine
The Dressmaker's Gift by Fiona Valpy
I am in the United States (N. America) and this is set in France (Europe).
Points this post: 30
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Total points: 220
BB: 4
GO: 1
Delicious Dee20.4 - Golden Oldies - Shawn H's Task: A Few of My Favorite Things
Option 4 - The Seventh Sinner - #1 in the Jacqueline Kirby series; new to me series
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 870
Delicious Dee20.7 - SHORTER IS SWEETER – Cindie’s Task — Small is a State of Mind
Option 3 - A Taste of Sage - Yaffa S. Santos - from her BIO - Yaffa S. Santos was born in New Jersey
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 890
Delicious Dee30.10 Andy P.’s Task: Junk Food or Fitness?
Book 1 - Six of Hearts - SIX can be found in EXERCISE
Book 2 -Dragonfly - Leila Meacham - no letters from JUNKFOOD appear in the authors name; 1 Big Book Ticket 500+ pgs, copy read has 592pgs
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 920
Nick KY10.4 Close Up – I read Cary Grant: A Biography by Marc Eliot, biography of an actor.
Points this post: 10
Total Points So Far: 650
Task 5.3 - World Cinema Book: I Was Anastasia, finished 7/23
Set 50% in Russia
Points this task: 5
Total points: 810
Nick KY25.10 Rina’s Work Out
Opt. 1. Zombie’s Run
Task 1. Married Author. I read The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel, who, according to the GR blurb, “lives with her husband and children in New York.”
Task 3. F and B in one word in title – I read A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking -- the word is "BrieF."
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 675
Nick KY25.11 Delicious Dee’s Space X
Opt. 3. Inits in APATOSAURUS – I read The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
CLAIM ONE BIG BOOK for The Rest is Noise at 684 pp.
Opt. 4. Space Race – I read Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 700
Big Books So Far: 500+ (3) 750+ (1) = 5 BBs
5.6 Somebody Set the Clock I read How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 by Joanna Faber - V in survival, C in children, R in Survival
Approved in line 25 of "not really for kids" spreadsheet
Season Total: 75
20.10 Group Reads I read My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman and made comment 16 in the discussion thread.
Really enjoyed it, too!
Season Total: 95
KATRINA T5.6 - 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.
Girl. Boy. Sea. by ChRis Vick
IL: MY+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7.0
Points this post: 5
BB: 1
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 5.1/5.3/5.6/5.9/10.6/10.9/10.10/15.5/15.6/20.2/20.8/20.9/30.1
Total points: 170
Reposting post 1698 due to missing infoKATRINA T ***Claiming BB***
15.5 - Again, Really?
The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon Book 2 in the Bones Seasons Trilogy 544 pgs
I read the first book in October 13th 2019
Points this post: 15
BB: 1
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 5.1/5.3/10.6/10.9/15.5/15.6/20.2/20.9
Total points: 100
Task 20.5 - Cover TropesOption 1: Back to the History
Read a book with the main page genre Historical Fiction (embedded is OK) and one or more people facing away from you on the cover. All persons depicted on the cover must have their back to you.
The Jane Austen Society (2020) by Natalie Jenner (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 309 pages)
185 + 20 = 205
Tasks Completed: 12
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 185 + 20 = 205
Books read: 16
Pages read: 4,537
Read but not claimed: 05
Goodreads Authors: 09
Golden Oldies: 02
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Andy P.Task # 15.9 - Facts Matter!
Read a nonfiction book with one of the original trivial pursuit genres: science or nature
Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton Environment> Nature mpg , nonfiction
Points this post: 15
Total points: 635
JEN B25.13 - SandyL's Task: Dog Days of Summer
Option 1: Read a book with at least three words in the title where the first letter of each word is in DOG DAYS OF SUMMER.
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
F in OF, AS in DAYS
Option 2: Read a book with all the letters of SIRIUS in the title - subtitles not included.
I Was Told It Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman
I WaS Told It WoUld Get EaSieR
TOTAL POINTS: 420
Amy FL5.5 - Summer Blockbusters
Out of the Dark (#3: Inside "Out")
Points this post: 5
Total points: 330
Amy FL10.10 - "You Like Me, You Really Like Me"
Fair Warning (rated 4.26)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 340
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Sunshine's Task: Springfield!Option 1: This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
*450pgs, 38686 ratings*
Total Points = 150
Amy FL20.4 - Golden Oldies - Shawn H's Task: A Few of My Favorite Things
Option 4: The Dawn Patrol - Boone Daniels #1 (series is new to me)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 360
Amy FL25.4 Tien's Task: Staying at Home
1. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers - I've had this audiobook since July 2019
2. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - First published May 19, 2020
Points this post: 25
Total points: 385
15.10 - Let's Travel (Through Books)!Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Traveling Vicariously (page 14)
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 13
Season Total: 640
Julia1035.8 - Harry Potter Turns 40
Marque and Reprisal (first published in 2004)
This post: 5 points
Total points: 475
BB tickets: 5
GO tickets: 1
Tasks completed: 29
Books read: 39
Coralie 25.3 Good Things Come in Threes
I chose to read a book of over 500 pages that satisfies two of the options
Option A: All the letters of THREE in the title
Option C: Book that is part of a trilogy
The System of the World
The Baroque Cycle is a trilogy
At 908 pages I would like to claim 2 big book tickets
Total to date 305 points
5 big books
Sara G50.1- Bucket's Task: Toss Away the Could Haves and Should Haves
1. Accomplish a could have.
B. Read one of the ten books that have been on your TBR shelf the longest.
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria by Julia P. Gelardi
I added this book to my TBR shelf on August 3, 2014.
2. Accomplish a should have.
A. Read a book from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
This book is on page 3 of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list.
**A Town Like Alice is a Golden Oldie (first published in 1950). I claim one GO ticket.**
3. Toss the rest away.
A. Dive into summer and read any book mentioned in any of the 8 Goodreads Summer Reading blog posts.
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
This book is on the The Top 40 Hit Books of the Year (So Far) list.
Points this post: 50
Total points: 430
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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