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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
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Casey WTask 20.3 - Option 3
Read a book with MPG Thriller
Mystic River] By Dennis Lehan
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 120
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 6
Big Book Tickets: 1
Anja25.9 - Bookwrm526's Task: Some of My Favorite Summer Movies
Option 1: Jaws - Read a book with a title of at least three words where the initial letter of each word is found in the phrase "YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT".
The Dressmaker's Gift by Fiona Valpy
Option 2: Dirty Dancing - Read a book with the MPG Romance, AND where the author's first and last initials (middle initials can be ignored) can be found in the phrase "NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER".
Royal Bully by Rachel Van Dyken
Romance 20 users
POINTS:
Points This Post: 25
Points Total: 395
Big Books: 500(1) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 20
REPOSTING25.7 - Jen K's Task: Jagged Little Pill
Option 2: Jagged Little Pill
The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams (371pg)
Option 3: Hand in My Pocket
The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy (322pg)
Total Points = 225
Sunshine25.8 - Amy FL’s Task: I’ll Be Back.
Option 2:
Book: The Monster Museum by J.L. Bryan 8/25/20
How it Fits: TMM in MIMETIC POLYALLOY
Option 3:
Book: Off Sides by Sawyer Bennett 6/12/20
How it Fits: #116 & 175
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 395
Books Read: 31
Sunshine20.1 - Most Improved Player - Jen B - The One With All the Books
Option 2:
Book: We Shouldn't by Vi Keeland 7/28/20
How it Fits: Book description mentions competition.
Both MC's worked as Marketing Directors for separate companies that have now merged into one. As there is only one position available, they have to compete for their job. There are five clients they need to pitch a marketing campaign to and the employee who wins the most accounts gets to keep their job.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 415
Books Read: 32
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25.12 - Brooklyn's Task: It’s Auntie Time!Option 1, a book that is part of a series: Summer at the Garden Cafe: A Novel by Felicity Hayes-McCoy (Finfarran Peninsula #2)
Option 4, a book whose title begins with a letter in AMENS: Aunt Erma's Cope Book: How To Get From Monday To Friday . . . In 12 Days by Erma Bombeck
Points this post: 25
Total points: 865
Task 30.6 – Dlmrose – All I really Need To KnowOption 1: Set in a country and continent different from my own
Set in: VENEZUELA, South America (I live in USA / North America)
Doña Barbara
Option 6 – A Goodreads Friend has rated it 5*****
My friend, LINDA rated it 5*****
To The Bright Edge of the World ✔ – 18June2020
I listened to the audio / MMP: Au bord de la terre glacée - 624 pg
*** BIG BOOK *** 1 tickets – 624 pages
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This Post: 30 points
Total points to date: 360 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (2) 500 pg / (1) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 4
Task 20.4 – Golden Oldies – Shawn H – A Few Of My Favorite ThingsRestriction: NO chlidrens/kids books
Option 4 - State a new series - A Wishcraft Mystery # 1
It Takes a Witch
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This Post: 20 points
Total points to date: 380 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (2) 500 pg / (1) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 4
Task 30.11 – Sandy – Escape!REQUIRED: Total pages greater than 500: 480 + 390 = 870 p
Option 2– Set in a country I have never visited - RUSSIA
A Bend in the Stars
I listened to the audiobook / No MMP / Paperback; A Bend in the Stars - 480 pg
Option 3 - Main page genre HISTORICAL FICTION
Caroline: Little House, Revisited
I listened to the audio / NO MMP / Paperback; Caroline: Little House, Revisited - 390 pg
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This Post: 30 points
Total points to date: 410 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (2) 500 pg / (1) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 4
SALLY M.15.9 Facts Matter!: nonfiction book with MPG History
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel, Jason W Moore
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 1050
Tasks completed: 58
Books read: 80
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 4
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
Bookwrm526Task #25.3 - Good Things Come In Threes
Option A: Read a book that has all the letters of THREE in the title. I read Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage by M.C. Beaton (th in Agatha, RE in murderous, E in marriage).
Option B: Read a book that was first published in a year that contains a 3. I read Mind of Winter by Laura Kasischke, first published in 2013.
Total points so far: 855
DeborahPost #20
15.10 - Let's Travel (Through Books)!
Gorillas in the Mist Best Traveling Vicariously #64
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 370
Books Read: 27
Tasks Done: 20
Queen Bee Darlene20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Cindie's Task - Small is a State of Mind
2) from Down by the Sea list
A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell A Stranger on the Beach
Page 2, #192
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 810
Sarah E15.9 - Facts Matter!
Black and British: A Forgotten History - MPG History
I read an ebook but have linked to the paperback - no MMP
Big Book - 602 pages. I claim 1 BB ticket.
Total Points: 455
Total BBs: 5
Sarah E25.9 - Bookwrm526's Task: Some of My Favorite Summer Movies
Option 1: YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT
Anne of Avonlea
Golden Oldie, first published 1909. I claim 1 GO ticket.
Option 2: MPG Romance, author initials in NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER
Sworn to Raise by Terah Edun
I read a kindle edition but have linked to the paperback - no MMP
Total Points: 480
Total GOs: 4
Readerboard Name: List_addict30.2: Cat’s Task - Reading in the Valleys
Option 1: A book by Dickens, le Carré or Pratchett
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
Re-read: Read about 3 million years ago before GRs existed
Option 3: All the letters of WALES in the title/subtitle
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
IL: MG - BL: 5.0- AR Pts: 9.0
Total this challenge: 115
Task 5.1 - See You at the Movies Read a book written by a single author with at least one initial found in the word: MOVIES. Any initial (first, middle, last) may be used.
mOvies
Shadowshaper (Shadowshaper Cypher #1) (2015) by Daniel José Older (Goodreads Author) (Young Adult) (Hardcover, 297 pages)
370 + 05 = 375
Tasks Completed: 22
Points for this post: 05
Points thus far: 370 + 05 = 375
Books read: 30
Pages read: 8,683
Read but not claimed: 02
Goodreads Authors: 15
Golden Oldies: 03
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Queen Bee Darlene25.6 TraceyL's Task: The Razzie Awards
1) No people on cover
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James The Sun Down Motel
3) 3 or more letter D's in title
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler Redhead by the Side of the Road
reDheaD by the siDe of the roaD
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 835
Jen K25.3 - Kaora's Task: Good Things Come In Threes
Option A: Rosie’s Travelling Tea Shop
TRavEling tEa sHop
Option C: Prince of Fools
The Red Queen's War Series has 3 primary works
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 795
Big Books: 5
Jen K20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: Codenames
We Ride Upon Sticks
Codeword: wipe- We ridE uPon stIcks
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 815
Big Books: 5
Jen K20.1 - Most Improved Player - Jen B - The One With All the Books
Option 6: Chandler
Witch Is When It All Began
Be in Began
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 825
Big Books: 5
REPOST OF ABOVE to correct Total Points (Sorry!)Jen K
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Jen B - The One With All the Books
Option 6: Chandler
Witch Is When It All Began
Be in Began
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 835
Big Books: 5
Shelby
25.3 - Kaora's Task: Good Things Come In Threes
Option A
Read a book that has all the letters of THREE in the title.: The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune
How Fits: Title: THE House in the CERulean Sea
AND
Option C
Read a book that is part of a trilogy or a 3 book series. : Royal Assassin, by Robin Hobb
How Fits: Series: #2 in The Farseer Trilogy
Claiming 1 Big Book Tickets - 752pgs Royal Assassin
Points this post: 25
Total points: 755
Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
25.4 Tien's Task: Staying at Home
Option 1
Read a book that you have had in your possession before 1 January 2020.: William, by Anyta Sunday
How Fits: Bought November 1, 2012
AND
Option 2
Read a book first published in March - July 2020. : The King and His Vigilant Valet, by Charlie Cochet
How Fits: Published: March 31, 2020
Points this post: 25
Total points: 780
Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
25.10 - Rina's Task: Working out during quarantine
Option 1/Task 1
Read a book written by a married author.: Beneath the Stain, by Amy Lane
How Fits: GR Author Info: "She, her brood, and her beloved mate, Mack, live in a crumbling mortgage in Citrus Heights" / Author Webpage: "She lives in a crumbling crapmansion with half of the children and a bemused spouse."
Page Count: 350pgs - Beneath the Stain
AND
Option 2/Task 3
Read a book with a comma or an exclamation mark in the title or subtitle.: Go Fetch, by Shelly Laurenston
How Fits: Title: Go Fetch!
Page Count: 255pgs - Go Fetch!
Total Page Count = 605pgs
Points this post: 25
Total points: 805
Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
25.11 - Delicious Dee's Task: Space X
Option 1
Read a book that is written by 2 or more authors.: The Silver Gryphon, by Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon
How Fits: Authors: Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon
Published: First published in 1996
AND
Option 3
Read a single author book where the author's initials (including middle initial) can be found in APATOSAURUS.: Squared Away, by Annabeth Albert
How Fits: Author: Annabeth Albert
Points this post: 25
Total points: 830
Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
25.12 - Brooklyn's Task: It’s Auntie Time!
Option 1
Read a book that is part of a series.: Vengeance, by Sloane Kennedy
How Fits: Series: #5 in The Protectors
AND
Option 3
Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials are found in STUFFED ANIMALS.: On Point, by Annabeth Albert
How Fits: Author: Annabeth Albert
Points this post: 25
Total points: 855
Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Mike MATask 25.6
Option 1: Tiresome Tabloid Targets: No Person on a Cover
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Audiobook, Read by Tim Robbins
Fahrenheit 451
Option 2: Over 100,000 Reviews:
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1,116,432 ratings)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 160
Books This Task: 2
Total Books Read: 14
Total Tasks Completed: 12
Big Books Read: 1
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Amy FL20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: Codenames
Thief River Falls
Word that can be made using two letters from each title word:
FATHER - THief rivER FAlls
Points this post: 20
Total points: 1020
Amy FL30.1 - Mazza1's Task: “STAY HOME / STAY SAFE
Book 1, Option A: Incarnate (1 word title)
Book 2, Option A: Big Lies in a Small Town (5 words in title)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 1050
Amy FL30.4 - Wayne's task: Brockian Ultra-Cricket
Option 2:
Option 3: Echoes of an Angel: The Miraculous True Story of a Boy Who Lost His Eyes but Could Still See - SORRY (tRue StORY)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 1080
JEN B10.6 - Get Counted
Read 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.
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
This book has 336 pages
TOTAL POINTS: 615
SALLY M.30.10 Junk Food or Fitness?
Book 1: word in title/subtitle can be made from EXERCISE
Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson, Ellen Hagan
(I read the ebook & have linked to the PB)
Book 2: single author name does not have letters in JUNKFOOD
This Train Is Being Held by Ismée Amiel Williams
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the HC)
353 + 336 = 689 > 500 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 1080
Tasks completed: 59
Books read: 82
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 4
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
MelissaH20.1 The One With All the Books
Option 6: Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis by Patti Callahan
20.2 Option 2
One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
Found on page 1
20.4 Option 2
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Points this Post: 60
Total Points: 145
Total Books Read: 8
Kelly L50.1- Bucket's Task: Toss Away the Could Haves and Should Haves
Read one book for each of the 3 items below.
1. Accomplish a could have.
A. Read a book you abandoned/never finished.
REQUIRED: State when you abandoned the book.
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Abandoned in August 2018, returned to/abandoned in May 2020, and finally finished in August 2020!
2. Accomplish a should have.
A. Read a book from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
REQUIRED: State the page of the list on which your book is found in your post.
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Page 3 of the list, #293
3. Toss the rest away.
A. Dive into summer and read any book mentioned in any of the 8 Goodreads Summer Reading blog posts.
REQUIRED: State which blog post your book is on and which section or recommender mentions your book.
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Found on the "Goodreads Choice Books Available in Paperback" blog post, in the Mystery and Thriller section.
Points this post: 50
BBT this season: 1
Total points this season: 410
Task 20.4 - A Few of My Favorite ThingsOption 4: FiFor this option, start a new series. The series can be of any length, but your book must be in a series that is new to you and is the first in the series.
REQUIRED: State in your post that this series is new to you.
This series is NEW TO ME!
City of Stairs (The Divine Cities #1) (2014) by Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 452 pages)
375 + 20 = 395
Tasks Completed: 23
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 375 + 20 = 395
Books read: 31
Pages read: 9,135
Read but not claimed: 01
Goodreads Authors: 16
Golden Oldies: 03
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
SALLY M.30.7 Nights at the Drive-in
Option 1: night scene including stars and/or moon on the cover
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Option 4: Grease actor = Eve Arden, song word = when
Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 1110
Tasks completed: 60
Books read: 84
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 4
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
30.11 - Sandy's Task: Escape!Option 2, a book set in a country I have never visited: The Women In Black by Madeleine St. John, 141 pages
It is set in Australia. I have never been to Australia.
Option 3, a book with MPG historical fiction: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
paperback edition The Night Watchman 464 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 895
DeborahPost #21
10.7 - What Angels Eat
Fatal Shadows
Setting: Los Angeles, California (United States)
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 380
Books Read: 28
Tasks Done: 21
Scooter&Siam5.3 - 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. Required: State which country the book is set in when you post.
Read The Plague. Country: Algeria
Points: 5
Total: 180
Queen Bee Darlene25.1 Lois's Task: Hair Love
1) HAIR or LOVE intact in title/sub
The Wind in My HAIR by Masih Alinejad The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
2) Short Stories genre
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 860
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: CodenamesTears of the Giraffe
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.
My Word is GOAT: G from Giraffe, O from Of, A from teArs and T from The .
New Points: 20
Total Points: 505
GO: 1
JEN B10.9 - Turn It Up
Pick one song from this list of 50 Best Summer Songs
Using that song, read a book with title of at least 3 words where the first letter of every title word appears in the song title. Subtitle are excluded.
Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
Song = Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding (#6)
TOTAL POINTS: 625
SALLY M.15.4 A Record Setting Leading Performer
Option 2: female author AND word in title/sub matches word from Hepburn's Filmography (Christopher Strong)
Strong Is the New Beautiful by Lindsey Vonn, Sarah Toland
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 1125
Tasks completed: 61
Books read: 85
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 4
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
SALLY M.20.9 Eureka!
Option 2: the “outside” group is that he’s a minority and an immigrant, and part of his struggle to fit in is getting through a very unique/elaborate citizenship test to prove his worth as a human and potential citizen that is legit life or death
The Test by Sylvain Neuvel
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 1145
Tasks completed: 62
Books read: 86
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 4
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 2
EMurphy30.3 Ava Catherine's Task: Gardening Lessons
Option 3: Book whose page count contains a 2 and a 3 Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (273 pages)
Option 4: Author whose first and last initials can be found in LAKE DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK Gerald's Game by Stephen King
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 405
Books Read: 28
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +750: 1
Tasks Completed: 17
StaceyNC20.7 - SHORTER IS SWEETER – Cindie’s Task — Small is a State of Mind
Option 1: What exit?
Read a book that has its number of pages listed as ending with a 5.
Book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Completed: 8/26/30
Pages: 435
Per BookFinder: IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18.0
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 550
Tasks Completed: 28
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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Task 20.5 - Option 1
Read a book with a MPG Historical Fiction and has a person on the cover with their back to you.
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 100
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
Big Book Tickets: 1