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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
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PAULA S10.7 - What Angels Eat
Read 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.
- set in Georgia, USAI read the kindle edition, PB link for reference (no MMPB): Dear Martin
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Points This Post:10
Total Points: 115/1205
Total Books Read: 15
Tasks Completed: 15/65
Queen Bee Darlene30.9 Beth NC's Task: Let's Go Have Some Summer Fun
1) set in coastal or beach town
No Judgments (Little Bridge Island #1) by Meg Cabot No Judgments
5) Thriller genre
The Half Sister by Sandie Jones The Half Sister
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 790
Oma122925.7 - Jen K's Task: Jagged Little Pill
I chose Options #2 and #3
Option 2: Jagged Little Pill
Read a book where both the title (subtitles and series names are not included) and the author’s name both include a double set of consonants. The book must have a single author.
The Kaiser's Last Kiss by Alan Judd
Option 3: Hand in My Pocket
Read a book with a clearly defined hand or fist seen on the cover. The hand can be gloved but it must be clear that there is a hand in the glove.
A Royal Affair by Allison Montclair
Total Points655/1205
Total Tasks-39/65
Golden Oldie Books-(2)
Big Books-500-749(1);750-999(); 1000+()
ED5.10 - Carefree Summer Days
Arabian Nights: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights Volume I of II by Jack D. Zipes
595p.- pub. 800
*****I CLAIM 1BB TICKET*****
*****I CLAIM 1GO TICKET*****
Points these task: 5
Total points: 655
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 11
Big Book ticket requests: 12
Books read: 43
Tasks completed: 33
Oma12295.9 - Take Me Away
Read a book with the MPG Humor
Once Upon a Crime by P.J. Brackston
Total Points 660/1205
Total Tasks-34/65
Golden Oldie Books-(2)
Big Books-500-749(1);750-999(); 1000+()
Sarah E30.4 - Wayne's task: Brockian Ultra-Cricket
Option 3: SORRY found in title
The Sittaford Mystery - the SittafORd MysteRY
I listened to an audio, top MMP is The Murder at Hazelmoor
Golden Oldie, first published 1931. I claim 1 GO ticket.
Option 4: Excellent Space Opera list - on page 1, currently #86
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
I read a kindle edition, MMP is Nous sommes Légion
Big Book, 504 pages. I claim 1 BB ticket.
Total points: 440
Total BB tickets: 4
Total GO tickets: 3
ED5.3 - World Cinema
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
619p.- pub. 1920
set entirely in France: From the GR synopsis- "The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century,..."
*****I CLAIM 1BB TICKET*****
*****I CLAIM 1GO TICKET*****
Points these task: 5
Total points: 660
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 12
Big Book ticket requests: 13
Books read: 44
Tasks completed: 34
PAULA S10.8 - Go Your Own Way
Read a book from a list found at IndieBound's IndieNext List.
I read the Swedish ebook edition; the book is found on the February 2019 Indie Next List using the original title The Silent Patient: https://www.indiebound.org/indie-next...
MMPB link for reference: Dans son silence
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Points This Post:10
Total Points: 125/1205
Total Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 16/65
30.6 - Dlmrose’s Task: "All I Really Need To Know”Option 3: Read the next whole number book in a series that you have begun before the Summer Challenge.
The Last Continent
I finished the first book in this series The Color of Magic on May 19, 2013.
Option 6: Read a book that a Goodreads friend has read and rated 5 stars.
Lord of the Flies
Rated 5 star by Goodreads friend Shayantani here
Points this task: 30
Books read this task: 2
Golden oldie claimed this task: 0
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 355
Total Tasks completed: 20
Total Golden oldies: 9
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Christine V50.1- Bucket's Task: Toss Away the Could Haves and Should Haves
Book 1-B: Sleep Donation
This book was added to my GR Want to Read shelf on March 5, 2014.
I read the audio edition. The top PB (no MMPB available) has 166 pages.
Book 2-A: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
This book is found on page 1 of the list.
I read the audio edition. The top MMPB has 216 pages.
Book 3-A: Gideon the Ninth
This book is found on the blog post "Goodreads Choice Award Books Now Available in Paperback" in the Fantasy and Science Fiction section.
I read the audio edition. The top PB (no MMPB available) has 496 pages.
Points this post: 50
Total points: 360
Tasks completed: 18
Books read: 21
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 500=4, 750=2, 1000=1 (Total BB tickets=11)
25.7 - Jen K's Task: Jagged Little PillOption 1: 25 Years
To celebrate the 25th anniversary, read a book with a 2 and a 5 in the page number.
Fever: Mahakaler Rather Ghoda
Number of pages 152
Option 3: Read a book with a clearly defined hand or fist seen on the cover.
claiming a golden oldie. Book published in 1942
Points this task: 25
Books read this task: 2
Golden oldie claimed this task: 1
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 380
Total Tasks completed: 21
Total Golden oldies: 10
Total Big Book tickets: 0
15.4 - A Record Setting Leading PerformerOption 2: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Matching word is 'Night' from 'Long Day's Journey into Night'
Total points: 170
15.5 - Again, Really?He Shall Thunder in the Sky
#12 in the Amelia Peabody series. I read book 1 on Aug. 15, 2013
Total points: 185
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Jen B - The One With All the BooksOption 3: The Enchanted Castle
Initial title letters in SMELLYCAT
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11.0
***One Golden Oldie Ticket claimed - published in 1907
Total Golden Oldies: 2
Total points: 205
PAULA S10.9 - Turn It Up
read a book with title of at least 3 words where the first letter of every title word appears in the song title
Ofärd i huset borSong used: Everybody Loves the Sunshine: OIHB found in everyBOdy loves the sunsHIne
I read the ebook, PB link for reference: Murha vuokralaisena
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Points This Post:10
Total Points: 135/1205
Total Books Read: 17
Tasks Completed: 17/65
SALLY M.15.2 The BAFTAs
author's name matches name of BAFTA winner for male leading actor (any year); Richard Attenborough 1964
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
author's name matches name of BAFTA winner for female leading actor (any year); Katie Johnson 1955
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the HC)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 980
Tasks completed: 55
Books read: 75
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 4
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
Mod
For my first book, I used option 1, and read Such a Fun Age - read the kindle edition, linked to the top pb (no MMPB).
"Fun" in the title.
For my second book, I used option 3 and read Telling Tales - I read the kindle edition, linked to the top pb (no MMPB).
This is #2 in the Vera Stanhope series. I read #1 in September 2019.
total points: 1200
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Jen B - The One With All the Books Option 6: Letters BE in title - Read A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul. BE is in 'Bend'.
Points these task: 20
Total points: 175
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 15
Tasks completed: 12
10.8 - Go Your Own Way From Indie Next List - Read The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel. This was on the April 2020 list.
Indie Next April 2020
Points these task: 10
Total points: 185
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 16
Tasks completed: 13
30.1 - Mazza1's Task: “STAY HOME / STAY SAFE” Option 1 - Book 1, option C: Stand alone book- Read The Night Swim by Megan Goldin.
Option 1 - Book 2, option B: 5+ people on the cover- Read Overthrow by Caleb Crain. While they are in black on red, there are a bunch of people running away.
Points these task: 30
Total points: 215
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 17
Tasks completed: 14
PAULA S10.10 - "You Like Me, You Really Like Me"
Read a book with an average rating of at least 3.5.
average rating 4.24 > 3.5I read the kindle edition, PB link for reference (no MMPB): Spinning Silver
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Points This Post:10
Total Points: 145/1205
Total Books Read: 18
Tasks Completed: 18/65
20.6 Springfield - >312 pgsOpt 2 Pub in 2007
The Alchemyst- 375 pgs
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14.0
Total: 20
Total/challenge: 215
BB ticket/challenge: 1
20.8 CodenamesRead 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.
The Pleasure Palace
Word: Pleats
TE- ThE
AS-pleASure
PL-PaLace
Total/post: 20
Total/challenge: 235
BB tickets/challenge: 1
30.5 Two of a Kind- Duty and Desire
Opt 2A - read 2 books from the same series
Book 1 An Assembly Such as This (Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman #1)
Book 2 Duty and Desire (Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman #2)
Total/post: 30
Total/challenge: 265
BB tickets/challenge: 1
30.7 Night at the Drive InOpt 1 - book with night scene on cover with moon and/or stars
Opt 4 - ead a book by an author that shares a first or last name with an actor/actress in the movie AND has a word of at least 4 letters in the title/subtitle from the lyrics
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs
Actor from Grease is Jeff Conway and word from lyrics is Left ("there's nothing left for me")
Total/post: 30
Total/challenge: 295
BB tickets/challenge: 1
30.9 Let’s Go Have Some Summer FunOpt 3 - main character is actor or musician
The Only Woman in the Room - main character is Hedy Lamar, actress
Option 6: Let’s Go to the Mountains – Read a book that has the MPG Historical Fiction and is set in one of the states in the Appalachian Region. (Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia)
Where the Crawdads Sing - set in North Carolina
Total/post: 30
Total/challenge: 325
BB tickets/challenge: 1
50.1 Toss Away the Could Haves and Should Haves >750 pgsBook 1: one of 10 oldest on TBR shelf
The Nanny Diaries- added to TBR shelf Nov 13, 2009 306 pgs
Book 2: book from list -1001 books to read before you die
The Hound of the Baskervilles #65 on pg 1. 256 pgs
Pub 1901 Claiming Golden Oldie ticket
Book 3: Bk 3 A book from one of the lists (state list)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January-374 pgs
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1834 Goodreads Employees Share Their Summer Reading Plans
Michael van Hardenberg, Senior Marketing Manager
306+256+374=936 pgs
Total: 50
Total/challenge: 375
BB tickets/challenge: 1
Golden Oldie ticket/post: 1
Rockynook30.1 - STAY HOME / STAY SAFE
Option 1
Book 1: B - Read a book with a single person on the cover
by Elin Hilderbrand
Book 2: C - Read a book that is part of a series of at least 5 books
Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum series, 27 primary works)
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 805
Task 5.3 - World CinemaRead a book set at least 50% in a country where the total number of English speakers is below 50%.
Required: State which country the book is set in when you post.
Set entirely in Russia.
The Eternal Husband (1870) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett (Paperback, 137 pages)
** The Eternal Husband is a Golden Oldie, published in 1870**
335 + 05 = 340
Tasks Completed: 20
Points for this post: 05
Points thus far: 335 + 05 = 340
Books read: 27
Pages read: 7,624
Read but not claimed: 03
Goodreads Authors: 12
Golden Oldies: 03
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Mod
I listened to an audiobook of And Then There Were None, and linked to the top MMPB.
total points: 1205
Task 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.
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse (The Thorne Chronicles #1) (2019) by K. Eason (female) (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 408 pages)
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.
Studio Saint-Ex (2013) by Ania Szado (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 354 pages)
Pagecount: 408 + 354 = 762 > 500
340 + 30 = 370
Tasks Completed: 21
Points for this post: 30
Points thus far: 340 + 30 =370
Books read: 29
Pages read: 8,386
Read but not claimed: 02
Goodreads Authors: 14
Golden Oldies: 03
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
MEGSCL15.1 - Moms and Dads
Published after mother’s birth (1959) before I was born (1982)
Song of Solomon
Published after father’s birth (1952) before I was born (1982)
Consider Her Ways and Others
TOTAL TO DATE
580 points
5 big book
MEGSCL15.3 - Ford v. Ferrari
Book 1 -Read a book with all the letters of "Ferrari" found in its title/subtitle.
The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
Book 2 – Read a book with all the letters of "Ford" found in its author's name.
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
TOTAL TO DATE
595 points
5 big book
SALLY M.25.11 Space X
Option 1: book written by 2 or more authors
The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Option 3: author initials in APATOSAURUS + first published before 2011
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur, published 1987
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 1005
Tasks completed: 56
Books read: 77
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 4
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
SALLY M.30.2 Reading in the Valleys
Option 2: MPG Humor or Satire
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Option 3: all letters WALES in title/subtitle + a re-read
How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care by Marlee Grace
Points this post: 30
Total points: 1035
Tasks completed: 57
Books read: 79
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 4
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
G.Q. 20.7 - SHORTER IS SWEETER – Cindie’s Task — Small is a State of Mind
Option 1: read a book that has its number of pages listed as ending with a 5.
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (285 pages)
Points this task: 20
Total points: 1010
Challenges completed: 54
Books read: 78
Pages read: 21,277
Anja5.6 - 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.
Envy by Rachel Van Dyken
POINTS:
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 370
Big Books: 500(1) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 19
Anja25.10 - Rina's Task: Working out during quarantine
Option 1: Fitness Blender - Read a book written by a married author.
Exposed by Rachel Van Dyken
Author is married, which is mentioned here
Task 3. Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle containing both letters F and B.
Frida Kahlo in barve življenja by Caroline Bernard
POINTS:
Points This Post: 25
Points Total: 395
Big Books: 500(1) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 20
30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Gardening LessonsOption 2, a book with MPG Scotland: The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan
Option 3, a book whose page count contains a 2 and a 3: 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand, 432 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 840
Sophie30.2
Opt 1: Terry Pratchett, John LeCarre or Charles Dickens author
Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
Reread - 1st read 2011
Opt 3: WALES letters in title/subtitle
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman
Total: 480
Julia10325.13 - SandyL's Task: Dog Days of Summer
Option 2: Murder in the Mystery Suite (SIRIUS in title: Murder In the Mystery Suite)
Option 3: The Mythic Dream (MPG Mythology)
This task: 25 points
Total points: 1005
BB tickets: 10
GO tickets: 5
Tasks completed: 56
Books read: 78
Mod
trishhartuk10.3 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.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder
Read the kindle edition. PB here
C in Century, NN in tyraNNy
Nonfiction: 1,813 users
History: 1,436 users
Points this task: 10
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 385
Tasks completed: 23
Golden oldies: 0
Big book tickets: 2 (500+ = 2)
trishhartuk 20.8 Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: Codenames
Read one book with a title consisting of at least two words you can ‘link’ by forming a new word using letters in the title.
The Deep, Rivers Solomon and others
Read the kindle edition. PB here
The linking word is HEED, using two letters from each word: HE from tHE, ED from DEep (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/heed)
Points this task: 20
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 405
Tasks completed: 24
Golden oldies: 0
Big book tickets: 2 (500+ = 2)
20.5 - Bigger is Better - MegSCL's Task: Cover TropesOption 1:
, by Alka JoshiPreapproved by message 106 in help thread.
Points: 20
Total points: 455
Sophie10.5 A and Z in title, subtitle, series or author name
Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
Total: 495
25.11 - Delicious Dee's Task: Space X1. Partnership
A Calendar of Realistic Smiles, by Iulia Dobre-Trifan, Ciprian Dobre-Trifan, Andrei Cristian, Iulia Radu
3. Stowaway
Ultimele povestiri, by Olga Tokarczuk
first published 2004
Points: 25
Total points: 480
Sophie25.9
Opt 2: MPG Romance with author initials in 'Nobody puts baby in the corner'
Lady of Devices by Shelley Adina
Opt 3: MPG Scifi; at least 50% on spacecraft or another planet
Redshirts by John Scalzi
Total: 520
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20.5 Bigger is Better - Meg SCL's Task: Cover Tropes
2) romance genre, 2 people on cover, cover background bright colour, people illustrated
Proposal by Meg Cabot Proposal
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 760