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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
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Joanna T15.9 Parasite
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The book is set in South Korea and the author is born there.
Points this post: 15
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Total points: 45
BB: 2
GO: 0
Meera10.9 - Turn It Up
Song: "School's Out for Summer" by Alice Cooper
Close to Home by Cara Hunter
Points This Poste: 10
Total Points: 115
Total Tasks: 8
Books read: 8
MelissaH20.8 Nickels & Dimes: Codenames
The Dinner by Herman Koch
tHE DInner = HIDE
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 40
Total Books Read: 2
Jasmiina F20.8 - 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. The new word must be at least three letters long and you must use an EQUAL number of letters from each title word:
The How and the Why by Cynthia Hand.
tHe hOw aNd thE whY
Word: Honey
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Golden Oldies this post:
Total Golden Oldies:
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+:
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
Krista KY15.6 - The Red Carpet.
Read a book with something red on the cover.
REQUIRED: In your post, include the cover and specify the "something red."
This Won't End Well by Camille Pagán
red on lips
Points this post: 15
Total points: 105
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 7
Nick KY15.4 Record Setting Leading Actress
Opt. 2. Word n title from Kate Hepburn film -- “The Lion in Winter”
AND
Book by Female author – I read Winter by Ali Smith -- fits both criteria.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 120
Joanne MI10.4 Ready For A Close Up
Read a book with a central character or subject who is a professional actor or actress. Actor biographies and memoirs work.
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
Points this task 10
Total Points 80
BB's 1
SALLY M.25.7 Jagged Little Pill
Option 1: a 2 and a 5 in the page number (528 pages)
AND
Option 3: clearly defined hand or fist seen on the cover
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
**Middlegame is a Big Book (528 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket.**
Points this post: 25
Total points: 120
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 10
BB tix this post: 1
Total BB tix: 1
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 0
Andy P.Task # 5.2 - I'd Watch That
Read a book found on the Books That Should Be Made Into Movies Listopia.
Blood Line by John J. Davis found on page 4 # 363
Points this post: 5
Total points: 90
30.5 - Sally M's Task: Two of a KindOption 2: Companion Reads
A - Read 2 books from the same series
Mortal Prey by John Sandford(Lucas Davenport #13)
and
Hidden Prey by John Sandford(Lucas Davenport #15)
120
30.6 - Dlmrose’s Task: "All I Really Need To Know”Option 3: To remember to finish what I begin.
Kill Me Again by Rachel Abbott(DCI Tom Douglas #5) Started series before the summer SRC
and
Option 4: To go to interesting places.
The Caller by Karin Fossum(Konrad Sejer #10)
I live in North America
150
Delicious Dee5.9 - Take Me Away
Hollie Porter Builds A Raft - approved for humor in the genre verification thread (post 16)
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 185
20.3 - BEST REVIEW CONTEST –Joanne MI’s Task: Saturday MatineeOption 3 - Read a book with a MPG of Espionage or Thriller.
The Last Flight
[POINTS]
This post: 20
Total points: 40
Books read: 2
Tasks completed: 2
Big Book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets:
the_bookish_rose5.1- See You At the Movies
Read book where at least one initial is in the word MOVIES.
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Neal (S)husterman
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 5
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books:0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
the_bookish_rose5.9- Take Me Away
Read a book with the MPG Humor.
The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization by Daniel Pinkwater
IL: MG BL: 5.1 AR: 8.0
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 10
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books:0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Amy B30. 11 - Sandy's Task: Escape!
Choose two of the following options, and read one book for each.
Your two books combined should have at least 500 pages.
3. Read a book with the main page genre history or historical fiction or time travel.
Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen by Dexter Palmer (historical fiction - 319 pgs)
5. Read a book from one of the following lists:
Best Lighthearted Literature or Uplifting Fiction.
REQUIRED: Indicate in your post the list you used and the page on which your book appears.
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (255 pgs) - Uplifting Fiction page #1
This Task: 30 Points
To Date: 75 Points
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Ann A's Task: CodenamesThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
husBAnds EveLyn = BALE
Total: 40
Readerboard Name: Jammin JennySummer 2020 Season
Task 20.4 - Golden Oldies - Shawn H's Task: A Few of My Favorite Things
Option 2: In recognition of my favorite book and author, read a book by Ernest Hemingway or by an author whose first and last initials can be found in ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
The Shadow Elf by Terry Spear
TS found in erneST
Points this post: 20
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
Total Points this Season: 200
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
Readerboard Name Kathy P5.3 - World Cinema
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
Country: Russia
Totals
Points: 15
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 2
Total Books read: 2
Readerboard Name Kathy P5.6 - Somebody Set the Clock
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their LivesV in Lives
C and R is Crime
Totals
Points: 20
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 3
Total Books read: 3
10.2 - “A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother.”The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser
Total this Post: 10
Golden Oldies:
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 140
Julia10310.8 - Go Your Own Way
Beheld
This is on the April 2020 list
This post: 10 points
Total points: 150
GO tickets: 1
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 13
Suzannesea30.6 - Dlmrose's Task - "All I Really Need to Know"
Option 3
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
I began the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series before this season.
Option 4
The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion is set in Australia. I live in North America.
Points this post; 30
Total points to date: 50
Nick KY15.7 Hurricane I read The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea by Arthur O. Lovejoy . Arthur was the first hurricane of the 2020 season. Arthur is on the Atlantic hurricane list.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 135
10.10 - "You Like Me, You Really Like Me"Read a book with an average rating of at least 3.5.
The Gorge by David Armand - finished 6/14/2020.
Rating - 4.19
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
DeborahPost #3
20.10 - Group Reads
A Bookshop in Berlin
Discussion Thread post #8
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 50
Books Read: 3
Tasks Done: 3
5.1 - See You at the MoviesRead 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.
Binti
By Nnedi Okorafor
This is my one book < 100 pages.
[POINTS]
This post: 5
Total points: 45
Books read: 3
Tasks completed: 3
Big Book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets:
hoodoomends10.9 - Turn It Up
× title of at least 3 words where the first letter of every word appears in the title of one of the songs from the 50 Best Summer Songs list ×
O Genocídio do Negro Brasileiro: Processo de um Racismo Mascarado
(song #37 - GOoD viBratioNs)
×-×-×-×-×
This post
Points: 10
GO: -
BB: -
Total
Points: 100
GO: 2
BB: -
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Jen B - The One With All the BooksOption 1, a book with a cake on the cover: Happy Birthday by Danielle Steel
Points this post: 20
Total points: 80
trishhartuk5.1 See You at the Movies
Read a book written by a single author with at least one initial found in the word: MOVIES.
The Secret, Book, & Scone Society, Ellery Adams
E is in moviEs
Read the kindle edition. here
Points this task: 5
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 40
Tasks completed: 1
Golden oldies: 0
Big book tickets: 0
Task 25.5 - The Return of the Kingoption 2: read a book with 5 Os in the title
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
nO One tOO tO
option 4: read a book with a metal object on the cover
The Cut
metal link chains on cover=======
135 points
2 BB tix
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.2 “A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother.”
The Chain by Adrian McKinty.
It has the MPG of Thriller.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 90
Tasks completed: 5/65
Books read: 7
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.7 What Angels Eat
Say You're Sorry by Karen Rose.
It is set in Sacramento, California.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 100
Tasks completed: 6/65
Books read: 8
Helen B25.12 - It’s Auntie Time!
Option 2 Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson
MPG Music
Option 4: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
amenS
Total points: 95
Nick KY15.1 - Moms and Dads
Read two books:
Book 1. Read a book by a female author that was first published during your mother's lifetime, but not your own.
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, 1st pub’d 1951. Mother b. 1923, me 1958.
AND
Book 2. Read a book written by a male author, first published during your father's lifetime, but not your own.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 1st pub’d 1937. Father b. 1926, me 1958.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 150
Ava Catherine10.1 - OK Boomer
Read a book written by a single author who was born between 1946 and 1964 inclusive.
Varina by Charles Frazier born 1950
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
total=355
Ava Catherine20.2 - ROOKIE AT THE TOP – Ciprian's task: Mindfulness
Option 2:
Read a book from this list: Road Trip Books.
page 1
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
total= 375
Ava Catherine30.1 - Mazza1's Task: “STAY HOME / STAY SAFE”
Option 1:
Book 1:
C. Read a book that is STAND ALONE i.e. NOT part of a series
Last Orders by Graham Swift (not part of a series)
Book 2:
C. Read a book that is part of a series of at least 5 books
The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse #5 out of 14 in the series) by Colin Dexter
total=405
Ava Catherine30.8 - Aprilleigh’s Task: The Karate Fan Club
Book 1:
A FICTION book with all of the letters in both KARATE and DOJO found in the title and/or author’s name.
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun 256 pages
KARATE & DOJO=
the cAT whO cOulD REAd
bacKwards lillian Jackson braun
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.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee 571 pages
KARATE & DOJO=
the empEROr Of All mAladies
sidDharTha maKherJee
256+571= 827 total pages
total=435
Ava Catherine10.4 - Ready For A Closeup
Read a book with a central character or subject who is a professional actor or actress. Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen
total=445
Ava Catherine10.5 - From A to Z
Read a book with an A and Z in the title, subtitle and/or author’s name.
Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
total=455
20.8 CodenamesBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Linking word is TREAT
beTween The woRld And mE
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 55
Total Books Read: 4
Total Tasks Completed: 3
Total Pages Read: 680
Big Books Read: 0
Andy P.Task # 5.6 - Somebody Set the Clock
Read a book with the letters VCR found in any order in the title
Hard Cash Valley by Brian Panowich
V in Valley
C in Cash
R in Hard
Points this post: 5
Total points: 95
Bookwrm526Task #10.6 - 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. I read Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton, which has 192 pages.
Total points so far: 145
LAUREN JODI5.4 - Lights, Camera, Action!
Under the Wire by Cindy Gerard
Page #1, Book #60 on the Romantic Suspense Full of Action list.
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 70/1205
Total Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 7/65
SALLY M.10.2 “A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother.”: MPG Horror or Thriller
The One by John Marrs
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 130
Tasks completed: 9
Books read: 11
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 1
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 0
SALLY M.10.7 What Angels Eat: set 100% in Los Angeles, California (mentioned in description and reviews, like this one)
Foul Is Fair by Hannah Capin
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 140
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 12
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 1
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 0
Queen Bee Darlene15.10 Let's Travel (Through Books)!
From Favourite Travel Books list
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 75
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25.9 - Bookwrm526's Task: Some of My Favorite Summer Movies
Option 1: Jaws - Girl at the Edge - YOU'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT
Option 2: Dirty Dancing - The Summer Garden - Paullina Simons - shelved as romance by 408ppl; NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER; i read ebook but most popular MMPB had 960pgs (El jardín de verano); 2 big book ticket