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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
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Amy FL15.2 - The BAFTAs
Book 1: A Cold Trail by Robert Dugoni (Robert Redford - 1970)
Book 2: Paranoid by Lisa Jackson (Glenda Jackson - 1971)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 895
READ 60 20,8 Codenames Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? by Marion Mead
Two letters from each word DoRothy pArkEr = READ
Points 20
Total150
Amy FL25.7 - Jen K's Task: Jagged Little Pill
Option 1: The Lucky Ones (352 pages)
Option 2: A Better Man by Louise Penny (beTTer and peNNy)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 920
G.Q. Task 25.8 - Amy FL’s Task: I’ll Be Back
Option 2: 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.
Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie
Option 4: Read a book by a female author with a MPG of action or science fiction.
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Points this task: 25
Total points: 945
Challenges completed: 51
Books read: 74
Pages read: 19,966
EMurphy10.2 "A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother" Horror or thriller genre Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein
This Task:
Points: 10
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 375
Books Read: 26
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +750: 1
Tasks Completed: 16
Amy B10.8 - Go Your Own Way
Read a book from a list found at IndieBound's IndieNext List.
Required: Include a LINK to the list you used and if using a Book Group list identify the category.
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (Jan 2020)
https://www.indiebound.org/indie-next...
This Post: 10 Points
To Date: 630 Points
20.7 - SHORTER IS SWEETER – Cindie’s Task — Small is a State of MindOption 3: Read a book by a single author who is a woman and was born in New Jersey.
Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich
New Points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 470
GO: 1
Task 20.6 - Sunshine's Task: Springfield!Option 1: Springfield, Vermont won the contest with 15,367 votes. Read a book with over 15,000 Goodreads ratings. (15,001 or higher)
A Long Petal of the Sea (2019) by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author); translated from the Spanish by Isabel Allende (Hardcover, 318 pages)
315 + 20 = 335
Tasks Completed: 19
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 315 + 20 = 335
Books read: 26
Pages read: 7,487
Read but not claimed: 04
Goodreads Authors: 12
Golden Oldies: 02
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Andy P.Task # 15.6. The Red Carpet.
Read a book with something red on the cover.
by Steve BerryThe red object is the red seal in the middle of the cover.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 1205
50.1 Toss Away the Could Haves and Should Haves1. A
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
I abandoned this book in 2018
2. A
1984 by George Orwell
Found on page 1 on list of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
CLAIMING GO TICKET published in 1949
3. A
One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus
Found on the blog The Top 40 Hit Books of the Year (So Far) posted by Sybil
Total pages=928
Points this post: 50
Total points: 190
GO Tickets: 2
Tasks completed: 19
Books read: 21
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Whitnie I30.10 Andy P.’s Task: Junk Food or Fitness?
This is a two book task. The total number of pages in the two books should exceed 600 pages (at least 601), and no book which has a main page genre of Children or kid’s may be used for either book.
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 word must contain at least 3 letters. Letters can be used only as often as they appear in EXERCISE.
The Rise of Theodore RooseveltThe word rise is made of letters found in exercise. Book has 816 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.
Warrior Goddess Training: Become the Woman You Are Meant to Be HeatherAsh Amara
This book has 192 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 1205
Anja20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Sunshine's Task: Springfield!
Option 1: Springfield, Vermont won the contest w ith 15,367 votes. Read a book with over 15,000 Goodreads ratings.
The Dressmaker's Gift by Fiona Valpy
47,184 ratings
POINTS:
Points This Post: 20
Points Total: 365
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 18
Steve E -30.6 - Dlmrose’s Task: "All I Really Need To Know”
Option 4: Read a book set at least 50% in a continent other than your own:
The Down Days
Book is set in Africa, I am in North America
Option 6: Read a Book One of My Friends Has Rated a 5
Under the Banner of Heaven
Friend: Brea Adams
Posts for this post: 30
Cumulative Points: 50
JEN B5.7 - Mysterious Women
Read a book written by a female author that ALSO has the MPG Mystery, Thriller, or Dystopia.
Conviction by Julia Dahl
TOTAL POINTS: 605
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Ciprian's task: MindfulnessOption 3B: My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman by Lisa Scottoline
❁ author's initials (LS) found in SOLARIS ❁
Total points: 455 + 20 = 475
30.9 - Beth NC's task: Let’s Go Have Some Summer FunOption 1: The Ocean Between Us by Susan Wiggs
❁ set on Whidbey Island (Washington state) ❁
Option 5: Under Currents by Nora Roberts
❁ MPG Thriller; verification if needed ❁
Total points: 475 + 30 = 505
20.10 - Group ReadsRead ONE of the books selected as the Group Reads choices for the season:
A Bookshop in Berlin
my review
Points this task: 20
Books read this task: 1
Golden oldie claimed this task: 0
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 325
Total Tasks completed: 19
Total Golden oldies: 9
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Queen Bee DarleneRepost - forgot to post which continent I live on
30.6 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
I live in North America
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 700
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25.6 - TraceyL's Task: The Razzie Awards
For my first book, I chose option 3 and read The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - 3 D's in the title - splenDiD anD.
For my second book, I chose option 4 and read All Adults Here by Emma Straub. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top non Large Print pb (no MMPB).
Author initials, ES, found consecutively in recklESs.
new total 1065 - 25 = 1040
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For my first book, I chose option 1 and read
- no people on cover.For my second book, I chose option 3 and read The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - 3 D's in the title - splenDiD anD.
total points 1065
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I read Eastern Standard Tribe, first published in 2004.
total points: 1070
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I read All Adults Here - I listened to the audio version, linked to the paperback.
This is found on the May 2020 Indie Next list.
Total points: 1080
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For book 1 (fiction), I read The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson. I read the kindle edition, linked to the top MMPB. 306 pages.
ThE lOttery AnD Other stoRies shirley JAcKson
For book 2 (nonfiction), I read The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin by Jan Stocklassa. I read and linked to the kindle edition - the top pb (no MMPB) is Архивът на Стиг Ларшон - 456 pages.
ThE mAn whO plAyeD with fiRe Jan stOcKlassa
306 + 456 = 762
Total points: 1100
Read 60 20.7 Small Is a State of MindThe Talented Mr. RipleyRipley|2247142] by Patricia Highsmith #47 on page 1of Down by the Sea
Points 20
Total Points 170
NICOLE OH10.3 - This is CNN.
Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair C in Stitches, NN in Meaning
Points this task: 10
Total Points: 960
BB Tickets: 2
NICOLE OH30.2 - Cat's Task: Reading in the Valleys
Option 2: The Last Black Unicorn MPG humor
Option 3: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers W in Wow, A in Thanks, L in Help, E in Help, S in Thanks. This book was a reread for me. And worth rereading!
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 990
BB Tickets: 2
G.Q. 25.5 - Sarah E's Task: The Return of the King
Option 3: To rescue Frodo, from this spiderous (it's totally a word) nightmare read a book from this list of Creature Books.
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (page 2)
Option 4: Read a book with something metallic on the cover. Swords, armour, knives all work but so do spoons, goblets, jewellery, even car parts.
by Colin Meloy(The lower half of the cover has a man and a coyote facing each other with swords.)
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19.0
Whimsie50.1 - Bucket's Task: Toss Away the Could Haves and Should Haves
1. Accomplish a could have
Option B
Task: Read one of the ten books that have been on your TBR shelf the longest.
Book Read: There Goes the Bride
How it fits: Was #1 on my Goodreads TBR, added Dec. 19, 2012
2. Accomplish a should have
Option A
Task Read a book from 1001 Books You must Read before you die
Book: Interview with the Vampire
How it fits: on page 1 of the list (#47)
3. Toss the Rest away
Option B
Task: Choose any book you rated 5 stars and read something on its similar books list
Book: The Last Emperox
How it fits: I rated Network Effect 5 stars, and the Last Emperox was on its similar books list.
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Points this post: 50
Total Points: 495
Tasks completed: 20
Shelby
5.9 - Take Me Away
Read a book with the MPG Humor OR a book found on the Popular Funny Books list.: The Dirt on Ninth Grave, by Darynda Jones
How Fits: Popular Funny Books - pg. 12
Points this post: 5
Total points: 615
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
the_bookish_rose 10.1- OK Boomer
Read a book by an author born in between 1946-1964, inclusive.
The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
Riordan's birthday is June 5th, 1964. Link: https://www.britannica.com/biography/...
IL: MG; BL: 5.2, AR: 17.0
**Claiming (1) BB Ticket; page count is 516 pages.**
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 125 (points stayed the same because I'm reposting for credit)
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Whimsie30.9 - Beth NC Task: Let’s Go Have Some Summer Fun
Option 2:
Task: Read a book with the letters TENT found intact in a single word in the Title / Subtitle
Book Read: The Red Tent
Option 5:
Task: Read a book with the main page genre Thriller
Book Read: The Collectors
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Points this post: 30
Total Points: 525
Tasks completed: 21
Whimsie30.4 - Wayne's task: Brockian Ultra-Cricketb>
Option 1:
Task: Read a book with Physics, Astrophysics, or Astronomy as an MPG
Book Read: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Option 4:
Task: Read a book from the Excellent Space Opera List
Book Read: The Calculating Stars
How it fits: on p. 6 of list
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Points this post: 30
Total Points: 555
Tasks completed: 22
Whimsie30.5 - Sally M's Task: Two of a Kind
Option 1: Retellings
Task: Read two books that are retellings of the same original story
I chose retellings of Beauty and the Beast
Book 1: Rose Daughter
Book 2: Hunted
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Points this post: 30
Total Points: 585
Tasks completed: 23
Margaret LTask #25.12 - It’s Auntie Time!
Option 1: book that is part of a series
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Book #1 in A Court of Thorns and Roses series
Option 3: author whose initials are found in “sTuffed aNimals”
The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat
Points this post: 25
Total points: 320
Whimsie25.13 - SandyL's Task: Dog Days of Summer
Option 2:
Task: Read a book with all the letters of SIRIUS in the title - subtitles not included.
Book Read: Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate
Option 3:
Task: Read a book with an MPG of Mythology, Astrology or Astronomy - standalone or embedded.
Book Read: Sea Witch
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Points this post: 25
Total Points: 580
Tasks completed: 23
Margaret LTask #10.10 - "You Like Me, You Really Like Me"
Book with average rating at least 3.5
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
Average rating is 4.45 as of this post
Points this post: 10
Total points: 330
Whimsie25.10 - Rina's Task: Working out during quarantine
Option 2:
Task 1: Read a book MPG Zombies
Book Read: Infected
Verified in Genres thread
Task 3: Read a book with a comma or an exclamation mark in the title or subtitle
Book Read: To Be Taught, If Fortunate
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Points this post: 25
Total Points: 605
Tasks completed: 24
25.1 - Lois's Task: Hair LoveOption 3: Read a book that is short, between 100-200 pages.
Ripple: A Dolphin Love Story by Tui Allen
172 pages
Option 4: Read a graphic novel or graphic memoir (MPG Sequential Art>Graphic Novels)
Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 2 (The Parasol Protectorate Manga #2) by Gail Carriger & Rem
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 19
Season Total: 1,110
Shelby
10.4 - Ready For A Closeup
Read a book with a central character or subject who is a professional actor or actress. : Gone with the Nerd, by Vicki Lewis Thompson
How Fits: From the description - "Hot movie star Zoe Tarleton gets piles of money but no respect because she always plays a beautiful bombshell."
Points this post: 10
Total points: 625
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
10.5 - From A to Z
Read a book with an A and Z in the title, subtitle and/or author’s name. : Spin the Dawn, by Elizabeth Lim
How Fits: Author - Elizabeth Lim
Points this post: 10
Total points: 635
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
15.9 - Facts Matter!
Read a nonfiction book with one of the original trivial pursuit genres listed on its main page - geography, entertainment, history, arts or literature, science or nature, sports or leisure.: I Am America, by Stephen Colbert
How Fits: MPG - Literature
Points this post: 15
Total points: 650
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
30. 11 - Sandy's Task: Escape!
Option 1
Read a book with the main page genre Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Science Fiction Fantasy, standalone or embedded.: Witchblood, by Lissa Kasey
How Fits: MPG - Fantasy
AND
Option 3
Read a book with the main page genre history or historical fiction or time travel.: Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
How Fits: MPG - Historical Fiction
Claiming 1 Big Book Tickets - 537pgs
Points this post: 30
Total points: 680
Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
50.1- Bucket's Task: Toss Away the Could Haves and Should Haves
Option 1B
Read one of the ten books that have been on your TBR shelf the longest.: Wanted, by Amanda Lance
How Fits: Added to shelf July 3, 2013
AND
Option 2A
Read a book from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
How Fits: #123 on 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" - pg. 2
AND
Option 3B
Choose any book you have rated 5 stars and read something on its "similar books" list.: Milo, by Lily Morton
How Fits: Rated 5 Star - Blindsided by Eden Finley, Milo is on Similar Book List
Points this post: 50
Total points: 730
Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
30.3 Ava Catherine’s Task: Gardening Lessons***Repost with correction to correct for which edition I read.
Option 3:
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Page count: 362
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
15.8 - ParasiteI'll Be Right There by Shin Kyung-sook
100% South Korea
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 19
Season Total: 1,125
Julia10330.9 - Beth NC Task: Let’s Go Have Some Summer Fun
Option 3: We Open on Venus
The narrators are a stagehand and an older actor in a theater troupe that is planning to perform on other planets.
Option 6: Fire Along the Sky (MPG Historical Fiction, set in New York State)
This book has 624 pages so claiming one BB ticket.
This task: 30 points, 1 BB
Total points: 970
BB tickets: 10
GO tickets: 5
Tasks completed: 54
Books read: 75
Katrina H30. 11 - Sandy's Task: Escape!
#1: MPG of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Sci-Fi Fantasy.
The Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter. Paperback, 453 pages.
#3: MPG of history or historical fiction or time travel.
Clash of Empires by Ben Kane. Paperback, 448 pages
Total pages read = 901
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 35
10.4 Ready for a Closeup I read The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie - one of the main characters is film star Marina Gregg
New Total: 235
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5.4 - Lights, Camera, Action!
The Drifter from Book Series for Men who like Action (#10)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 880