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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
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Jayme(the ghostreader)5.4 lights camera, action
Listopia: books with action heroines
P 1 Alanna: The First Adventureby Tamora Pierce
Task + 5
Grand Total: 15
Meera20.3 - BEST REVIEW CONTEST –Joanne MI’s Task: Saturday Matinee
Option 3 - I saw my first James Bond film on one of these Saturday outings. Read a book with a MPG of Espionage or Thriller.
Into the Fire by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Points This Poste: 20
Total Points: 65
Total Tasks: 4
Books read: 4
Bookwrm526Task #15.4 - A Record Setting Leading Performer
I chose the one book option, to read a book with a word in the title/subtitle that matches a word from Hepburn's Filmography AND that is written by a female offer. I chose the movie Holiday, and read Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory.
Total points so far: 115
Oma122915.5 - 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.
It's Classified by Nicolle Wallace
This is the second book in the Charlotte Kramer series. I read the 1st book April 19, 2020
Total Points-60/1205
Total Tasks-6/65
Golden Oldie Books-(2)
Big Books-500-749(1);750-999(1); 1000+()
Task 20.8 – Nickels and Dimes – Anna A – Codenames Option 1: Any book title of 2 or more words, where I can make a word using equal number of letters from each of the title words:
GE from get / SO from Shorty = GOES
Get Shorty
(NOTE: could also make TOES - substituting the T for the G in get)
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This Post: 20 points
Total points to date: 20 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 0
(ETA remove the big book ticket in the tally)
Krista KY10.3 - This is CNN.
Read a NONFICTION book that includes the letters CNN, at least one C and two Ns, in the title and/or subtitle.
I Can Only Imagine: A Memoir by Bart Millard
Points this post: 10
Total points: 70
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 5
Task 30.1 – Mazza1 – Stay Home, Stay SafeBook 1
Option B – Single person on cover
I listened to the audiobook / NO MMPB / Paperback: French Pressed = 270 p
Book 2
Option C – From a series with at least 5 books in it
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series has 16 books (so far)
A Rule Against Murder
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This Post: 30 points
Total points to date: 50 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 0
Kathy KS20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: Codenames
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. REQUIRED: Specify the ‘linking’ word. This word must be found in dictionary.com
Call Down the Thunder, by Dietrich Kalteis
new word: weld
caLl doWn thE thunDer
*****
Points for this task: 20
Total points : 45
Tasks completed: 3
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Suzannesea20.4 - Golden Oldies - Shawn H's Task: A Few of My Favorite Things
Option 4
Start a new series.
A Borrowing of Bones by Paula Munier is the first in the Marcy and Elvis Mysteries series and this series is new to me.
Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 20
20.1 - Most Improved - The One With All The BooksOption 3: Phoebe
The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen
❁ TMC found in SMELLYCAT ❁
Total points: 20 + 20 = 40
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Sarah Ruth's Task: Eureka!Option 5: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
❁ A memoir about growing up on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia. ❁
Total points: 40 + 20 = 60
30.5 - Sally M's Task: Two of a KindOption 2: A - Read 2 books from the same series
Apple Strudel Alibi (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #8) by H.Y. Hanna
The Dough Must Go On (Oxford Tearoom Mysteries #9) by H.Y. Hanna
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies:
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 95
WhimsieCat’s Task: Reading in the Valleys
Option 1 **This book is a re-read**
Task: Read a book by Charles Dickens.
Book Read: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Option 2
Task: Read a book with MPG Humour or Satire
Book Read: Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs by Dave Barry
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 60
Tasks completed: 2
Casey WTask 20.1 - Option 5
Read a book whose title has a word of at least three letters that can be made from the letters in GOINGCOMMANDO
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
Word "AND" made from the word.
Points this post: 20
Total points; 20
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Pamela32655.5 - Summer Blockbusters
Film: “Star Trek into Darkness”
Into the Whirlwind by Elizabeth Camden
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 30
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books: 0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
MEGSCL10.3 - This is CNN.
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
TOTAL TO DATE
30 points
1 big book
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 Swiss Family Robinson
The edition I read has 333 pages.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 45
Blueberry20.7 opt 2 Read a book from the list Down by the Sea.
The Talented Mr. Ripley appears on the first page of the list.
This book was published in 1955 and thus is a Golden Oldie.
Pts: 20
GO: 1
Blueberry20.9 opt 3 Read a book where someone's life changes dramatically.
Evergreen
The main character, Naamah, who takes up the second half of the book is kicked out of the orphanage where she has always lived at the age of 14.
Pts: 20
Total pts: 40
Blueberry15.10 Read a book from one of these lists:
Favourite Travel Books....pg. 3
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Pts: 15
Total pts: 55
Blueberry15.6 Read a book with something red on the cover.
Tales of the City
The street is red.Pts: 15
Total pts: 70
Blueberry30.6
Opt 4 Read a book set at least 50% in a country on a continent different from your own. The Uncommon Reader is set in Europe.
Opt 6 Read a book that a Goodreads friend has read and rated 5 stars. The Moonstone
My Goodreads friend who gave this 5 stars is Rosemarie.
This is a Bib Book with 528 pgs and a Golden Oldie, published in 1868.
Pts: 30
Total pts: 100
BB: 1
GO: 2
Blueberry20.4 opt 1 read a book first published in 1938 or earlier.
A Sicilian Romance
This book is a golden oldie. published in 1790.
Pts: 20
Total pts: 120
GO: 3
Blueberry20.8 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.
Further Tales of the City
furTher tAles oF The citY= the word is 'fatty'.
Pts: 20
Total pts: 140
Blueberry20.6 opt 1 Read a book with over 15,000 Goodreads ratings. (15,001 or higher).
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine has a rating of 630.238.
Pts: 20
Total pts: 160
TANYA D15.5 - Read a book in a series with a whole number greater than 1, in which you’ve already read book 1 before May 15.
Family by Frank Tayell which is book 3 of the "Surviving the Evacuation" series. Read book one of the series on April 16, 2020
Points this post: 15
Total points: 70
BB tickets: 1
CoffeegirlTask 30.1
Book Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
1 book - 2 options:
Opt1. A. Single word title
Opt 2. C. Book #3 in Series of 5
Pages 629
Points this Task: 30
Total points: 30
Ava Catherine25.12 - Brooklyn's Task: It’s Auntie Time!
Option 1: Read a book that is part of a series.
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey #5) by Dorothy L. Sayers
Option 4: Read a book with a title that begins with a letter in AMENS.
Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
title begins with letter S found in amenS
total=25
Ava Catherine30.2 - Cat's Task: Reading in the Valleys
Option 1:
Read a book by one of these authors: Charles Dickens, John le Carre, Terry Pratchett.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens This is a reread for me.
Option 2: Read a book with MPG Humour or Satire
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
mpg humor
total=55
Meera15.5 - Again, Really?
Gone to Darkness by Barbara Nickless #4 in the series. I finished the first one on March 26, 2020.
Points This Poste: 15
Total Points: 80
Total Tasks: 5
Books read: 5
Ava Catherine30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Gardening Lessons
Option 1:
Read a book first published in December or May of any year.
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie first published May 14, 2013
Option 3:
Read a book whose page count contains a 2 and a 3.
Heart of the West by O. Henry 320 pages
total=85
Ava Catherine30.4 - Wayne's task: Brockian Ultra-Cricket
Option 1:
Read a book with Physics, Astrophysics, or Astronomy as an MPG
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy by Stephen Hawking
mpg physics; mpg astronomy
Option 4:
Read a book from the Excellent Space Opera list.
page 1; #17
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
total=115
Ava Catherine30.5 - Sally M's Task: Two of a Kind
Option 2: Companion Reads
A - Read 2 books from the same series: have the same main characters and same setting (Oxford, England)
The Wench Is Dead by Colin Dexter
Inspector Morse #8
Service of All the Dead by Colin Dexter Inspector Morse #4
total=145
Ava Catherine30.6 - 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.
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
Option 3:
Read the next whole number book in a series that you have begun before the Summer Challenge.
The Crooked Staircase (Jane Hawk #3) by Dean Koontz
I started this series before the Summer Challenge. (Read the first book in this series in November 2017.)
total=175
Ava Catherine30.7 - TessaVanessa’s Task: Nights at the Drive-in
Option 1:
Read a book that has a night scene including stars and/or moon on the cover.
The Light Between Oceans
by M.L. StedmanOption 3:
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the initial letter of each word is found in FUNNEL CAKES.
A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson
title letters A Nearly Normal Family (ANNF) found in FuNNel cAkes
total=205
Mod
5.2 - I'd Watch That
pg 1, #67: Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
I read the kindle edition: Moon Called
total = 5
Mod
10.3 - This is CNN.
The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
I read the kindle The Last Cowboys: An Pioneer Family in the New West
Nonfiction, C in Cowboys, Ns in Pioneer, New
total = 15
Mod
10.4 - Ready For A Closeup
The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide by Jenna Fischer
I read the kindle: The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide
total = 25
Mod
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Jen B - The One With All the Books
option 6, BE in title: The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
I read the kindle The Nature of the Beast
total = 45
Ava Catherine30.9 - 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/subtitle.
Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum
Option 5:
Read a book with the main page genre Thriller.
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter mpg thriller
total=235
Ava Catherine10.3 - This is CNN.
Read a NONFICTION book that includes the letters CNN, at least one C and two Ns, in the title and/or subtitle.
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
nonfiction mpg
CNN found in midNight in CherNobyl
total=245
Rockynook30.2 - Reading in the Valleys (2 books)
Option 2 - MPG of Humor or Satire
The Next Thing on My List byJill Smolinski (This is my re-read)
Option 3 - Read a book with the letters WALES in the title / subtitle.
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
The GirL Who ChASEd the Moon
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 80
Queen Bee Darlene20.4 Golden Oldies - Shawn H's Task: A Few of My Favorite Things
4) Start a new series
Alice by Christina Henry - Alice
New series to me: The Chronicles of Alice
Alice is the 1st in the series
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 35
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
Vinyl Cafe Diaries
New Points: 5
Total Points: 20
10.5 - From A to ZRead a book with an A and Z in the title, subtitle and/or author’s name.
Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis
A in David, Z in Bezmozgis
New Points: 10
Total Points: 30
Delicious Dee10.3 - This is CNN
Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court - C in Court; N in Women; N in in
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 120
Delicious Dee20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Sarah Ruth's Task: Eureka!
Option 1 - The A.I. Who Loved Me - the main character Li Wei is AI in a human body. ebook only approved in msg 7878 of the ebook only thread
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 140
20.2 - ROOKIE AT THE TOP – Ciprian's task: MindfulnessOption 3: Read a book (A) first published in 2002 or (b)having the author's first and last initials in SOLARIS.
Pandemic
By: A. G. Riddle
Option 3-b: Authors first and last initial (A.R.) are in SOL AR IS.
This book is 696 pages, I am claiming one Big Book Ticket.
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This post: 20
Total points: 20
Books read: 1
Tasks completed: 1
Big Book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets:
Task 15.9 - Facts Matter!read a non-fiction book with MPG Science
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
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110 points
2 BB tix
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I I chose the one book option and read The Mirror & the Light. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top paperback (no MMPB).
This book has 884 pages. It fits option 1-
All the letters of THREE in the title: THE miRror & thE light.
It also fits option 3, since it is the 3d book in the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy.
total points: 70