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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
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Blueberry20.2 opt3: Read a book (A) first published in 2002 or (b)having the author's first and last initials in SOLARIS.
Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair who's first and last initials are in SOLARIS.
Pts: 20
15.9 - Facts Matter!Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker
❁ MPG History ❁
Total points: 415 + 15 = 430
25.6 - TraceyL's Task: The Razzie AwardsOption 1: James Herriot's Cat Stories by James Herriot
❁ no people on cover ❁
Option 2: Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
❁ 126,838 ratings ❁
Total points: 430 + 25 = 455
Task 25.8 - Amy FL’s Task: I’ll Be Back.Option 2: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (first letter of each word in the title appears in MIMETIC POLYALLOY)
(Claiming a Big Book ticket- 720 pages long)
and
Option 4: The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist (MPG science fiction, female author)
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 175
Total Books Read: 14
Total Pages Read: 5053
Big Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 9
Task 15.1 - Moms and DadsBook 1: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (female author, originally published in 1984, within my mom’s lifetime but not mine)
and
Book 2: On the Beach by Nevil Shute (male author, originally published in 1957, within my dad’s lifetime but not mine)
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 190
Total Books Read: 16
Total Pages Read: 5459
Big Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 10
Queen Bee Darlene30.6 Dlmrose's Task: All I Really Need to Know
1) FUN found intact in title/sub
Pretty Fun: creating and celebrating a lifetime of tradition by Kate Hudson Pretty Fun: Creating and Celebrating a Lifetime of Tradition
4) set 50% in country on continent different from my own
The Absolution by Yrsa Sigurdardottir The Absolution
Set in Iceland - Europe
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 700
Whitnie I30.8 - Aprilleigh’s Task: The Karate Fan Club
This is a two-book task, and the combined page count must be at least 500 pages.
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. You may NOT use books with either word found intact in the title. A book with two authors is acceptable, but only one author’s name may be used (your choice).
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling AR Bookfinder: IL- MG+ so no restrictions. This book has 607 Pages so I'm requesting 1 BB Ticket
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. You may NOT use books with either word found intact in the title. A book with two authors is acceptable, but only one author’s name may be used (your choice).
Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir Joshua David Stein this book was approved in the task help thread.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 1125
BB tickets: 12
GO - 1
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.4: Favorite things: Option 4: Deathworld 1
by Harry Harrison is #1 of a new to me series, called DeathWorld.
Totals this posting:
Points: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 195
Books: 12
Tasks: 9
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 500+: 0 750+: 0; 1000+: 0
ED10.7 - What Angels Eat
To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
set over 90% in California
from the 1st line of the GR synopsis-"While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. "
pub. 1933
*****I CLAIM ONE GO TICKET*****
Points these task: 10
Total points: 610
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 10
Big Book ticket requests: 7
Books read: 38
Tasks completed: 28
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.7: Small is a state of mind: Option 1: Amends for Murder
by M. D. Lake had number pages 215 ends in 5.
Totals this posting:
Points: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 215
Books: 13
Tasks: 10
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 500+: 0 750+: 0; 1000+: 0
Whitnie I0.1- Bucket's Task: Toss Away the Could Haves and Should Haves
Read one book for each of the 3 items below. For each of the 3 books state which option you chose. No books with the main page genre childrens or kids may be used for this task. Your three books must have a combined total of at least 750 pages.
1. Accomplish a could have. A. Read a book you abandoned/never finished.
REQUIRED: State when you abandoned the book.
Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure Folk Magic from Appalachia. I had abandoned this book in March 2020. Went back and read it over the summer.
2. Accomplish a should have.
B. Read a book you were supposed to read in school but didn’t (or didn’t finish).
REQUIRED: State the grade or class you were in when you missed out on reading this book.
The Sword of Shannara In Grade 11 I was lucky to have the option of a Science Fiction/Fantasy based English course. I never did totally finish this book. This book is 726 pages so I am requesting 1 BB ticket.
3. Toss the rest away.
B. Let serendipity guide you. Choose any book you have rated 5 stars and read something on its "similar books" list. T
REQUIRED: When you post, state which book you rated 5 stars.
Weave the Liminal: Living Modern Traditional Witchcraft I rated Backwoods Witchcraft 5 stars and this book was on the similar book list.
Points this post: 50
Total Points: 1175
BB Tickets: 13
GO:1
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.8: Codenames: A Dead Red Cadillac by R. P. Dahlke. The code word LARD is in the dictionary and uses 1 letter of every word in the 4-word title: A Dead Red cadiLlac .
Totals this posting:
Points: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 235
Books: 14
Tasks: 11
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 500+: 0 750+: 0; 1000+: 0
G.Q. 5.3 - World Cinema
Read a book set at least 50% in a country where the total number of English speakers is below 50%, based on this list: Countries by English-Speaking Population.
De:Tales : Stories from Urban Brazil by Fábio Moon (takes place in Brazil)
Points this task: 5
Total points: 860
Challenges completed: 48
Books read: 68
Pages read: 18,651
Sara G25.4 Tien's Task: Staying at Home
1. Books in Hand
Read a book that you have had in your possession before 1 January 2020.
Tarnish by Katherine Longshore
I've had this book in my possession since 2016.
2. New books
Support those authors with cancelled launches by reading a book first published in March - July 2020.
The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
This book was first published July 7, 2020.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 650
10.7 - What Angels EatRead a book set at least 50% in one of these top producing watermelon locations: China, Turkey, Iran, Brazil, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Spain, Greece, Italy, in the United States- Texas, Florida, Georgia, California.
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
Set 100% in China
Points Earned This Post: 10
Total Points Earned: 615
Golden Oldie Tickets: 3
Big Book Tickets Total: 4
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 0 (750) / 1 (1000)
15.4 - A Record Setting Leading PerformerI did Option 2: one book that fit both
Book 1 - read a book with a word in the title/subtitle that matches a word from Hepburn's Filmography
Book 2 - read a book written by a female author.
L.A.WOMAN by Eve Babitz
The Word Woman is found in the title Woman of the Year (1942)
New Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 450
GO's: 1
ED10.6 - Get Counted
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
163 pages
Points these task: 10
Total points: 620
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 10
Big Book ticket requests: 7
Books read: 39
Tasks completed: 29
Kelly L25.2 - Simone's Task: Children of the Apocalypse!
Option 3: One of my favorite TV shows is AMC's The Walking Dead. Read a book that prominently features zombies or undead creatures (must be obvious from the description on GR or shown on the cover)!
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires prominently features a vampire, an undead creature.
Option 5: Read a book that features survival in a dystopian setting (radiation, flood, pandemic, etc.). REQUIRED: If it is not apparent from the synopsis what the dystopian setting is, provide that information in your post!
Severance takes place during a pandemic, and has MPG Sci Fi > Dystopian.
Points this post: 25
BBT this season: 1
Total points this season: 360
5.8 Harry Potter Turns 40Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
First published in 2004
Points this post: 5
Total points: 140
GO Tickets: 1
Tasks completed: 18
Books read: 18
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ5.7 - Mysterious Women
The Housekeeper by Natalie Barelli
This book is written by a female author AND has a MPG of "Thriller" shelved by 49 users.
Link to PB edition: The Housekeeper
This post: 5 points
Total points to date: 5 points
Tasks completed: 1
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ10.3 - This is CNN
Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
This book is non-fiction (a memoir) and contains the letters CNN in the title CN (titanic) N (sounds).
Link to PB edition: Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir
This post: 10 points
Total points to date: 15 points
Tasks completed: 2
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ10.6 - Get Counted
Run No More by Catherine Mulvany
This books contains 373 pages which the 3 and 3 can be found in 3,939,326 and the 7 can be found in 17.
This post: 10 points
Total points to date: 25 points
Tasks completed: 3
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ10.7 - What Angels Eat
Dear Wife by Kimberly Belle
This book takes place in Atlanta Georgia and can be confirmed on this webpage Due South (6th paragraph - "As an Atlanta native, it was extra fun to discover that my hometown isn’t just featured in Belle’s novel but actually explored.")
Link to PB edition: Dear Wife
This post: 10 points
Total points to date: 35 points
Tasks completed: 4
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
ED10.4 - Ready For A Closeup
The Public Image by Muriel Spark
The GR synopsis for this book includes-"Spark chooses Rome, "the motherland of sensation," for the setting of her story about movie star Annabel Christopher (known to her adoring fans as "The English Lady-Tiger"), ..."
Points these task: 10
Total points: 630
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 10
Big Book ticket requests: 7
Books read: 40
Tasks completed: 30
Barbara ★10.5 - From A to Z
Read a book with an A and Z in the title, subtitle and/or author’s name. One qualifying author in a book with multiple contributors works.
The Fallen Vampire - Beata Blitz 7/18
(A and Z in author's name)
Points this task: 10
Total points: 845
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1) 750 (1) 1000 (0)
Nick KY20.2 - ROOKIE AT THE TOP – Ciprian's task: Mindfulness
Opt. 3. 1st pub’d 2002. I read Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 1165
G.Q. 30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Gardening Lessons
Option 3: read a book whose page count contains a 2 and a 3.
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (123 pages)
Option 5: Read a book set at least 50% in Japan.
Confessions by Kanae Minato (A LA Times Review calling Confessions the Gone Girl of Japan and says the book is about the main character's issues with the Japanese legal system)
Points this task: 30
Total points: 890
Challenges completed: 49
Books read: 70
Pages read: 19,009
Whitnie I30.8 - Aprilleigh’s Task: The Karate Fan Club
This is a two-book task, and the combined page count must be at least 500 pages.
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. You may NOT use books with either word found intact in the title. A book with two authors is acceptable, but only one author’s name may be used (your choice).
On the Road Jack Kerouac
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. You may NOT use books with either word found intact in the title. A book with two authors is acceptable, but only one author’s name may be used (your choice).
Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir Joshua David Stein
this book was approved in the task help thread.
Points this post: 30
BB tickets: 11
GO - 1
Stephanie12710.10 - "You Like Me, You Really Like Me": Read a book with an average rating of at least 3.5.
Paradise Rot, average rating of 3.75
Points this post: 10
Total points: 35/1205
Tasks completed: 3/65
Books read: 3
25.1- Lois's Task: Hair LoveOption 2: Monstress by Lysley Tenorio - 8/15/2020 - Short Stories on MP
Option 3: A Greater Music by Bae Suah - 8/21/2020 - 132 pages
Points this task: 25
Total Points: 65
Julia10310.7 - What Angels Eat
Mission to Murder (set in California)
This task: 10 points
Total points: 940
BB tickets: 9
GO tickets: 5
Tasks completed: 53
Books read: 73
ED10.3 - This is CNN.
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
"CNN" found in "wiCked plaNts: the weed that killed liNcoln's..."
Points these task: 10
Total points: 640
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 10
Big Book ticket requests: 7
Books read: 41
Tasks completed: 31
Kathy KS15.7 - Hurricane season is here again!
Read a book whose author's name matches the name of a 2020 Atlantic or Pacific hurricane name.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondō.
Marie is on the Pacific hurricane name list
I listened to an audio version; mmpb=160 p. [Arrume a Sua Casa, Arrume a Sua Vida].
*****
Points for this task: 15
Total points : 475
Tasks completed: 23
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 3
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Scooter&Siam5.1 - Book where one of the author’s initial is in movies.
Read The Baron on Board by Anthony Morton
Points: 5
Total: 175
30.10 Andy P.’s Task: Junk Food or Fitness?Book 1. Read a book, the title/subtitle of which must contain the word EXERCISE (exactly, no variations) OR have a word in the title or subtitle that can be made using only the letters in EXERCISE.
The Power of Six (Lorien Legacies #2) by Pittacus Lore
a word in title, SIX, found in eXercISe
448 pages
Book 2. Read a book, the author of which must be the sole author of the book and must NOT have any of the letters in JUNKFOOD in his/her name.
Cleave (Jacob's Ladder #3) by Elizabeth Bear
352 pages
Total pages read: 800
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 19
Season Total: 1,085
Kim O25.10 - Rina's Task: Working out during quarantine
Option 1: Fitness Blender
Task 1. Read a book written by a married author.
Real Men Knit Biographical information
Task 3. Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle containing both letters F and B.
The Summer Before the War This book has 512 pages.
Points this task: 25
Big Book tickets: 1
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Totals:
Points: 165
Big Books - 500+: 2
Big Books - 750+: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks completed: 6
Jen K30.8 - Aprilleigh’s Task: The Karate Fan Club
Book 1: The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
Karate: sAlT zEynab jouKhadAR
Dojo: Of JOukhaDar
Book 2: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Karate: ThE yeAR mAgical thinKing
Dojo: JOan DidiOn
*********
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 770
Big Books: 5
G.Q. 30.2 - Cat's Task: Reading in the Valleys
1. Read a book by Charles Dickinson, James Le Carre, or Terry Pratchett.
Mort by Terry Pratchett (reread)
2. Read a book with MPG Humour or Satire
Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice by John Layman
Points this task: 30
Total points: 920
Challenges completed: 50
Books read: 72
Pages read: 19,380
Coralie15.5 Again, Really?
The Warlock's Curse #3 Veneficas Americana
I read the first book in this series in April 2012.
Total to date 580 points
15.1 Moms and DadsI was born in the 1970s. My parents were both born in 1949.
Book 1
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Published in 1966
Book 2
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Published in 1952
I am claiming a Big Book ticket for East of Eden (602 pages).
This post: 15 points
Total points: 130 points
BB tickets: 3
GO tickets: 3
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 9
30.3 Ava Catherine’s Task: Gardening LessonsOption 3:
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Page count: 326
Option 4:
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
“A” and “E” appear in “LAKE”
I am claiming a Golden Oldie ticket for Gulliver’s Travels. Published in 1726.
This post: 30 points
Total points: 160 points
BB tickets: 3
GO tickets: 4
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 11
Jasmiina F20.4 - Golden Oldies - Shawn H's Task: A Few of My Favorite Things:
Option 2: Read a book by Ernest Hemingway or by an author whose first and last initials can be found in ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
Äärimmäisen onnen ministeriö by Arundhati Roy.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 215
Golden Oldies this post:
Total Golden Oldies:
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+: 1
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
Helen B20.3 - Saturday Matinee
Option 2: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
MPG Horror
Total points: 425
LAUREN JODI10.7 - What Angels Eat
Gift of Gold by Jayne Ann Krentz
Set in California
~~~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 625/1205
Total Books Read: 46
Tasks Completed: 35/65
Amy B10.2 - “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.
If It Bleeds by Stephen King
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 590 Points
Amy B30.9 - Beth NC Task
Choose two options from the list below and read two books, one for each option.
Option 2: Let’s Go Camping – Read a book with the letters “TENT” found intact in a single word in the Title/subtitle.
The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson
Option 5: Let’s Go Ride a Roller Coaster – Read a book with the main page genre Thriller. The genre can be standalone or embedded
The Last Wife by Karen Hamilton
This Task: 30 Points
To Date: 620 Points
Amy FL5.3 - World Cinema
We Came Here to Forget (set mostly in Argentina)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 875
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30.10 Andy P.’s Task: Junk Food or Fitness?
Book 1: The Power of Six (Lorien Legacies, #2) Amazon Penguin - SIX can be found in EXERCISE
I read a kindle edition, top paperback - no MMP - is The Power of Six - 448 pages
Book 2: A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction by Terry Pratchett
I read a kindle edition, MMP is A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction - 362 pages
448 + 362 = 810 pages
Total Points: 410