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FALL CHALLENGE 2020
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Jen C25.3 - Andy P’s Task : Finding a Topic for a Task
Book 1 (SCRATCH in title): Echoes of the Fourth Magic by R.A. Salvatore
Book 2 (author initials in COPYCAT): Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Points this post: 25
Total points: 420
Christine V15.7 - The Toniest Award
The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
Points this post: 15
Total points: 90
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 6
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 500=1, 750=1, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=3)
Sue T5.2 - And the record is....
Book that has 1 and/or 2 in it's series number
Ammie, Come Home by Barbara Michaels
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 10/935
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldies:
Big Books: 500+ (), 750+ (1), 1000+ ()
Nikki B20.6 Seasoned Reader - Mx.shining's Task: All About Books
Option 1: The Diary of a Bookseller
Task Points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 570
Nikki B20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Brooklyn's Task: A Different Kind of Celebration
Option 1: Peyton Place
Task Points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 590
Nikki B20.8 Nickels & Dimes - Lorna's Task: Flip, Flip Hooray for New Authors
Flip 1: Tails
Flip 2: Heads
This Author is new to me
A Cosmology of Monsters
Shaun Hamill
Task Points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 610
Nikki B20.9 Moderator's Pet: Deedee's Task: Alexander Hamilton
Option A: Alexander Hamilton
Task Points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 630
Task 10.5 - HamiltonRead a book with a series title that begins with a letter in POC. For this task, articles (a, an, the) may be ignored.
Required: Include the series name when you post.
Series Name: Peter Diamond
Skeleton Hill (Peter Diamond #10) (2009) by Peter Lovesey (Hardcover, 326 pages)
125 + 10 = 135
Tasks Completed: 09
Points for this post: 10
Points thus far: 125 + 10 = 135
Books read: 12
Pages read: 3,191
Read but not claimed: 06
Goodreads Authors: 04
Golden Oldies: 01
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Amy B15.9 - How Ya Doin'?
Read a book that you added to your To-read list between January 1, 2020 and June 30, 2020. Your To-read list may be your GR shelf, a custom GR shelf, or an off-GR list.
Required: Identify your To-read list and state the date the book was added to your list.
Stay Where I Can See You: A Novel by Katrina Onstad - CBC Spring Canada Reads List - books added to my laptop To Be Read list when it came out April 9, 2020
https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-cbc-book...
This Task: 15 Points
To Date: 270 Points
Joanne MI20.5 - Bigger is Better Peg W's Task: Bigger is Better – Or is it?
Option 3 Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in ONE MORE HIKE
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by Robert Kurson R in moRe K in hiKe
Points this task 20
Total Points 225
Totall BB's 3
Total GO's 1
Joanne MI25.6 Sandy's Task: Back to Basics
Book 1- all vowels in title
A Deadly Education
A dEadly edUcatIOn 336 pages
Book 2 -Non-Fic with atleast 5 different consonants
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
iNTo tHe RaGiNg Sea 416 pages
Total pages 752
Points this task 25
Total Points 250
BB's 3
GO's 1
Barbara ★25.7 - Sally M's Task: Happily Ever After
Option 1: Read a book where all the author’s initials can be found in FAKE DATING or THERE’S ONLY ONE BED.
Igniting Darkness - Robin LaFevers 9/25
(R & L in theRe's onLy one bed)
Option 4: In honor of happy endings, read a book with the MPG Romance that ALSO has one of the following words in the title, subtitle, or series name: Happily, Happy, Wedding, Kiss, Love. The word must match exactly.
A Love Beyond Time - Judie Aitken 10/28
(MPG romance and LOVE in title)
Points this task: 25
Total points: 295
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
IngeTask # 30.4 Birds of a feather
Option 2: Hummingbird, a small book
Book: Waddenstorm
# pages: 109
Points this post: 30 points
Total points to date: 175
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 0
Books Read: 14
Tasks completed: 13/55
#pages: 4858
Inge (repost to fix number, sorry guys)Task # 10.8
Book: The Haunting of Hill HouseThe Haunting of Hill House
Points this post: 10 points
Total points to date: 175
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 0
Books Read: 14
Tasks completed: 13/55
#pages: 4858
trishhartuk10.10 Square Dance Day
Read a book that has a 2-, 4-, or 8-word title.
Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells
Points this task: 10
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 235
Tasks completed: 18
Golden oldies: 3
Big book tickets: 500+ x 1 = 1
BUCKET5.7 Not just in NYC!
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
(Set in California)
Points this post: 5
Points total: 5
BUCKET5.10 Intermission
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
(96 pages. This is my one book for the challenge at 80-100 pages that can be used for a 5-point task, per the rules, part 2, number 3.)
Points this post: 5
Points total: 10
BUCKET10.1 Let’s Go to the Theatre
The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell
(THE miliTARy philosophErs)
Points this post: 10
Points total: 20
BUCKET10.2 Avenue Q
In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear
(In This GrAVE Hour)
Points this post: 10
Points total: 30
20.1 - Let's Go to the TheatreOption 1: For this option, start a new series by a new-to-you author. The series can be of any length, but should be listed as #1 in the series on Goodreads.
Intercepted by Alexa Martin Intercepted is the first book in the Playbook series. Alexa Martin is a new to me author.
Task points: 20
Total points: 385
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Big Book tickets: 1
Books read: 33
BUCKET10.6 Hobbit Day
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
(As of 10/27/20, this book has 173,318 ratings and an average of 4.06 stars.)
Points this post: 10
Points total: 40
25.6 - Sandy's Task: Back to BasicsBook 1: Read a book that has all the vowels in its title and/or subtitle. For purposes of this task, vowels are A E I O U (not Y).
I Was Told It Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman
Book 2: Read a nonfiction book that has at least 5 different consonants (Y is a consonant) in the title only. Subtitles cannot be used.
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
Book 1 Pages: 352
Book 2 Pages: 222
Total Pages: 574
Task points: 25
Total points: 410
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Big Book tickets: 1
Books read: 33
BUCKET15.4 And I Did It My Way
Option 2
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
(6 words in title and MPG Autobiography > Memoir.)
Points this post: 15
Points total: 55
BUCKET15.9 How Ya Doin’?
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
(Added to my TBR shelf on 4/15/2020.)
Points this post: 15
Points total: 85
BUCKET20.4 Ed’s Task: A Funny Thing
Option 1.
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
(MPG of Plays.)
Points this post: 20
Points total: 105
BUCKET20.5 Peg W’s Task: Bigger is Better – Or is it?
Option 3.
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
(ONE MORE HIKE)
Points this post: 20
Points total: 125
BUCKET20.6 Mx.shining’s Task: All About Books
Option 1.
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
(MPG of Writing > Books about Books. Genre noted in message #70 of the genre verification thread.)
Points this post: 20
Points total: 145
BUCKET20.7 Brooklyn’s Task: A Different Kind of Celebration
Option 1.
The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell
(CHAMPAGNE)
Points this post: 20
Points total: 165
BUCKET20.8 Lorna’s Task: Flip, Flip, Hooray for New Authors
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
(She is a new-to-me author)
1. Heads: Female author Jacqueline Woodson
2. Heads: American author from Columbus, Ohio
Points this post: 20
Points total: 185
BUCKET25.8 Amy FL’s Task: My Favorite Musicals
Option 1.
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
(C and R are in CAROLE KING.)
Option 2.
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
(The word TIME is at the end of the third line in the second stanza.)
Points this post: 25
Points total: 210
BUCKET25.9 G.Q.’s Task: Black Books Matter
Option 1.
How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
(#7 on An Anti-Racist Reading List: 20 High Rated Nonfiction Books by Black Authors.)
Option 2.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
(First page of the Afrofuturism list, #4.)
Points this post: 25
Points total: 235
BUCKET30.3 Wayne’s Task: My TV is My New Best Friend
Option 3.
Nothing to Be Frightened of by Julian BarnesJulian Barnes
(H in frightened, O in nothing, O in to, D, I, and E in frightened. 244 pages.)
Option 4.
To Die But Once by Jacqueline Winspear
(NE at the end of Jacqueline, W and S in Winspear. 352 pages.)
244+352=596 > 550 pages.
Points this post: 30
Points total: 265
BUCKET30.4 Tessavanessa’s Task: Birds of a Feather
Option 2. Hummingbird.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
(128 pages.)
Option 4. House finch.
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
(Word=BIRDS. All 5 letters are in SARAHBIRD.)
Points this post: 30
Points total: 295
Task 25.10 - Hocus Pocus FTWfilm picked: Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King (2008)
book 1: read a book with a word in the title that matches one in the film, with MPG Thriller
The King Tides
KING
book2: read a book published in the same year as the film
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
pub 2008
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865 points
18 BB tix
4 GO tix
30.6 - Delicious Dee's Task: Hurry Up and WaitBook A
Option 2: Murder on Astor Place by Victoria Thompson
❁ Gaslight Mystery #1 ❁
Book B
Option 3: Nightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonald
❁ beginning letter of every word (NIP) found in SWIMMING POOL ❁
Total points: 430 + 30 = 460
EMurphy30.3 Wayne's Task: My TV Is My New Best Friend
Option 1: Manga/Sequential Art/Graphic Novel/Sci-FI genre Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
*333 pages
Option 4: Single author who has all the letters the word NEWS in their name Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
*260 pages
*333+260=593 pages
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 160
Books Read: 12
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 2
Tasks Completed: 8
JEN B15.5 - Get The Word Out
Read a book written by a Goodreads Author
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer is a Goodreads Author
TOTAL POINTS: 260
Andy P.Task # 25.7 - Sally M's Task: Happily Ever After
Option 1: Read a book where all the author’s initials can be found in FAKE DATING
Cold Storage by David Koepp
FAKE DATING
Option 3: In honor of my absolute favorite bookstore, The Ripped Bodice, read one of their bestselling or award-winning books
From the 2017 list # 2 on list is: An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
Points this post: 25
Total points: 610
Scooter&Siam15.5 - Get The Word Out
Read a book written by a Goodreads Author- an author enrolled in the Goodreads Author Program.
Read The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver
Points: 15
Total: 50
Laurah30UNCLAIM
20.1 - Most Improved - Rockynook's Task: Back to School
option 1 - start a new series by a new-to-you author
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 604 p
Claiming 1 BB ticket
Hilary Mantel is new to me. This book is #1 in a series.
Laurah3020.1 - Most Improved - Rockynook's Task: Back to School
Option 2: For this option, read a book by a single author whose first and last initials are found in the word FLEXIBILITY.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Points this post: 20
Total points: 120
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 7
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Sara G25.9 - G.Q.’s Task: Black Books Matter
Option 2: Black Futures Matter
For this task, read a book from this list: Afrofuturism
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
This book is on page 1 of the list.
I read the Kindle edition. The MMPB here has 576 pages.
**The Fifth Season is a Big Book (576 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket.**
Option 3: Black Histories Matter
For this option, put Black history front and center by reading a book from the following lists:
I used the list The LA Public Library's List of Recommended African American Non-Fiction.
Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
I read the Kindle edition. The MMPB here has 508 pages.
**Just Mercy is a Big Book (508 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket.**
Points this post: 25
Total points: 700
Kathy KS25.5 - Whitnie I's Task: First and Last
... OR read ONE book with at least 500 pages that fits both tasks.
Book 1, First: Read a book that is #1 in a series.
Book 2, Last: Read a book with the MPG Apocalyptic or a variation of the word.
Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
#1 of the Children of Time series
MPG: Apocalyptic > Post Apocalyptic 68 users
600 pages (>500)
***Claiming 1 Big Book ticket for >500 pages***
******
Points for this task: 25
Total points : 235
Tasks completed: 11
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
Big Book tickets total: 5
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
15.8 - Pop!Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
set in Ohio
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 2
Season Total: 635
G.Q.5.8 – In London as well
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words, where the initial letter of each word of the title is found in SOCIETY OF LONDON THEATRE.
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
Total Points: 250
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 20
Pages Read: 6,402
20.3 – Best Review - Book Concierge – Banned Books WeekA book from Best Banned Censored and Challenged Books list (p. 4 #317): Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
mass market paperback Teacher Man: A Memoir 307 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 565
Delicious Dee25.10 - Brooke TX's Task: Hocus Pocus FTW
Movie: Once Bitten - 1985
Book A - Smoke Bitten
Book B - Flood - first published September 1985
points this post: 25
Total Points: 795
Delicious Dee20.4 - Golden Oldies - Ed's Task: A Funny Thing
Option B - The Crystal Cave - found on pg1, postiion 56
points this post: 20
Total Points: 815
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20.1 - Most Improved - Rockynook's Task: Back to School
Option 1:Start a new series by a new-to-you author.
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
This is a new author for me.
Points this task:20
Total points: 140