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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
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Scooter&Siam20.9 Moderator’s Pet - Option 3 - Read a book where the character’s life had dramatically changed for the better or worse because of a change in their life.
Read The Grass Is Singing. Mary’s life changes for the worse after age marries and moves out to the farm in the South African bush. She goes from a vibrant engaged person who cares about people to a burned out neurotic shell of a woman who in some ways welcomes death. She ultimately is murdered by a servant on the day she is to leave the farm to start a new life.
Points: 20
Total: 30
Jennifer KS---Repost20.9 Sarah Ruth's Task: Eureka!
Option 5 Read a book that is set in Pacific Northwest
Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs
Set in the Tri-Cities Washington State
It has 352 pages
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 80
Total Books Read: 5
Total Pages Read: 1591
Big Books Read: 0
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Jennifer KS---Repost10.1 Okay Boomer
Read a book that the author was born between 1946-1964
What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr
She was born in 1952
It has 304 pages
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 60
Total Books Read: 4
Total Pages Read: 1226
Big Books Read: 0
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Coralie 25.1 Hair Love
Option 1: Book with LOVE intact in title
One Night for Lovee
Option 2: Book with MPG short stories
Exhalation: Stories
Total to date 50 points
MEGSCL5.6 - Somebody Set the Clock
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
TOTAL TO DATE
50 points
1 big book
MEGSCL15.6. The Red Carpet
Red roofs on houses and red jacket on walker
TOTAL TO DATE
65 points
1 big book
Elizabeth PTask 20.2 - Mindfulness
Option 3B: Author's initials in SOLARIS
Wildfire by Ilona Andrews
solArIs
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 70
Total Tasks: 5
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 1
Total Books: 6
20.4 A Few of My Favorite Things Option 2: Read a book by an author whose first and last initials can be found in ERNEST HEMINGWAY.
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 75
Total Books Read: 5
Total Tasks Completed: 4
Total Pages Read: 817
Big Books Read: 0
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20.5 Cover Tropes
Option 2: Meet Cute
Bright background, 2 illustrated people.
Ten Things My Cat Hates About You
Posts this post: 20
Total points: 20
Alyssia 20.8 Codenames
A Grief Observed
The word is AGO
A Grief Observed. One letter from each word.
Points this Post: 20
Total Posts: 2
Total Points: 40
Alyssia20.1 The One With All the Books
Option 6: BEcoming Fluent
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
Points this Post: 20
Total Posts: 3
Total Points: 60
Alyssia20.2 Mindfulness
Option 3
Laurie Anderson LA in the word SOLARIS
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Points this Post: 20
Total Posts: 4
Total Points: 80
Rockynook10.2 - CNN
Nonfiction book with CNN in title
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-François Lyotard
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 90
Bookwrm526Task #15.8 - Parasite
Read a book set in South Korea or with an author born in South Korea. I read The Plotters by Un-su Kim.
Total points so far: 160
15.10 - Let's Travel (Through Books)!#3 on Best Traveling Vicariously
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 15
Total Tasks: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Total Books: 1
Repost 399Jayme(the ghostreader)
5.10 book of choice
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce
IL UG AR 8.0
TASK+5
Grand total: 15
Repost 285Jayme(the ghostreader)
15.4 Red Carpet
by Tamora PierceIL UG AR 7.0
red on the cover
Red hair
Task+15
Grand total:30
hoodoomends5.1 - See You at the Movies
× by a single author with at least one initial found in the word MOVIES ×
Loucura... by Mário de Sá-Carneiro (MovieS)
** Loucura... is the top paperback edition (no MMP) and it's 80 pp long, therefore, my 80-99 pp book **
** I'm claiming a GO ticket (1st published in 1910) **
×-×-×-×-×
This post
Points: 5
GO: 1
BB: -
Total
Points: 105
GO: 3
BB: -
Pamela32655.4 - Lights, Camera, Action!
List: Best Action-Adventure Novels https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5...
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Found on page 1
Big Book – 625 pages
Golden Oldie - Originally published in 1844
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 35
Golden Oldie books this post: 1
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
Pamela32655.6 - Somebody Set the Clock
Solving Sophronia (Blue Orchid Society #1) by Jennifer Moore
V-Solving
CR-Orchid
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 40
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
the_bookish_rose5.10- Carefree Summer Days- Read a book of your choice, following SRC Rules.
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
IL: MG BL:5.2 AR: 11.0
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 15
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books:0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.9 Take Me Away
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson.
Found on Page 1 of list.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 105
Tasks completed: 7/65
Books read: 9
Mod
I read The Constant Princess (the MMPB is Princeza i kraljica) by Philippa Gregory. She was born in 1954 - Fantastic Fiction.
total points: 80
Mod
I read Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography, an autobiography of Eric Idle, of Monty Python fame. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top paperback (no MMPB).
total points: 90
Mod
I read Uncanny Valley: A Memoir, set almost entirely in the San Francisco area (CA).
total points: 100
Mod
I chose option 3(b) and read Bird Summons by Leila Aboulela. Author initials LA found in soLAris.
OPTIONAL: My own mindfulness hobby is quillting - making quilts gives me a way to keep myself in balance and focus on something under my control!
total points: 120
Repost 216Jayme(the ghostreader)
5.4
Alanna: The First AdventurebyTamora Pierce
Found on listopia Books with action heroines, p 1 #33 on the list
Task+5
Grand total: 35
Queen Bee DarleneREPOST - forgot page #
15.10 Let's Travel (Through Books)!
From Favourite Travel Books list 1st page #8
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 75
SALLY M.20.3 Saturday Matinee
Option 2: MPG Horror
Bunny by Mona Awad
(I listened to the audiobook & have linked to the PB)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 160
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 13
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 1
GO tix this post: 0
Total GO tix: 0
Nick KY30.2 Cat’s Reading in the Valleys
Opt. 1 Book by Charles Dickens, I read Martin Chuzzlewit
Opt 2.."Humor" as GR genre, I read A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle. This is a re-read.
CLAIM 2 BIG BOOKS for Martin Chuzzlewit at 830 pp.
I meant to have 400 pp of this doorstop of a book read before the challenge began. As it was, I only had 25 pp. read beforehand. Strange times we live in.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 180
Big Books So Far: 750+ (1) = 2 BBs
10.9 - Turn It UpI used the song:18. “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)” by Meat Loaf (1977)
The Wild Heavens
T , W, and H are found in the song title,
New Points: 10
Total Points: 45
Krista KY30.5 - Sally M's Task: Two of a Kind
Option 2: Companion Reads
Read two books that make for good companion reads by having one of these commonalities. REQUIRED: Specify the option you chose and explain the connection in your post.
A - Read 2 books from the same series
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani
Both books are part of Big Stone Gap series.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 135
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 9
Andy P.Task # 5.8 - Harry Potter Turns 40
Read a book first published in a year that includes a 4 AND a 0
Kill Crazy by William W. Johnstone
First published in January, 2014
Points this post: 5
Total points: 100
Andy P.Task # 10.4 - Ready For A Closeup
Read a book with a central character or subject who is a professional actor or actress
The Unidentified Redhead by Alice Clayton
Points this post: 10
Total points: 110
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Oma122910.1 - OK Boomer
Read a book written by a single author who was born between 1946 and 1964 inclusive.
Clockwork by Philip Pullman
Total Points-125/1205
Total Tasks-11/65
Golden Oldie Books-(1)
Big Books-500-749();750-999(); 1000+()
PAULA S5.1 - 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.
by Samantha SilverAuthor initial S found in movieS
I read the kindle edition, PB link for reference (no MMPB): Death Down Under (A Cozy Mystery)
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 5/1205
Total Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1/65
Oma122910.5 - 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 Dispatcher by John Scalzi
Total Points-135/1205
Total Tasks-12/65
Golden Oldie Books-(1)
Big Books-500-749();750-999(); 1000+()
Oma122915.6. The Red Carpet.
Read a book with something red on the cover.
REQUIRED: In your post, include the cover and specify the "something red."
The House of Long Ago by Steve Berry
The red object is the seal
Total Points-150/1205
Total Tasks-13/65
Golden Oldie Books-(1)
Big Books-500-749();750-999(); 1000+()
Oma122920.4 - Golden Oldies - Shawn H's Task: A Few of My Favorite Things
I chose Option #2
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 Old Fox Deceiv'd by Martha Grimes
Total Points-170/1205
Total Tasks-14/65
Golden Oldie Books-(1)
Big Books-500-749();750-999(); 1000+()
Ava Catherine25.1 - Lois's Task: Hair Love
Option 2: Read a book with the main page genre Short Stories.
Acts of God by Ellen Gilchrist mpg short stories
Option 3: Read a book that is short, between 100-200 pages, inclusive.
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald 140 pages
total=480
Ava Catherine20.8 - 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.
Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
"linking word"=wise
from SEa WIfe
total=500
PAULA S5.3 - World Cinema
Read a book set at least 50% in a country where the total number of English speakers is below 50%
set in Cairo, Egypt - Egypt is on the list as having 35% English speakers in totalI read the kindle edition, PB link for reference: The Haunting of Tram Car 015
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 10/1205
Total Books Read: 2
Tasks Completed: 2/65
Jen K5.3 - World Cinema
The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán
Book is set in Chile with 9.53% of English speakers
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Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 5
Jen K10.6 - Get Counted
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
163 pages
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Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 15
PAULA S5.4 - Lights, Camera, Action!
Read a book from a Listopia with the word "Action" intact in the title of the list.
Found as #294 on page 3 of the Best Action-Adventure Novels Listopia
I read the ebook, MMPB for reference: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 15/1205
Total Books Read: 3
Tasks Completed: 3/65
Jen K15.10 - Let's Travel (Through Books)!
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas by Paul Theroux
List: Favourite Travel Books, Page 1 #49
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Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 30
Task 20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Sunshine's Task: Springfield!Option 3:
The Night Sister, finished 6/16
Set in Vermont
Points this task: 20
Total points: 210
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta, finished 6/15
Points this task: 20
Total points: 190