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FALL CHALLENGE 2020
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Amy FL25.2 - Cat's Task: Shakespearean Reading
Book 1: Dying To Tell (…anD Take...Thy…)
Book 2: All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny (wiLliam shakesPeare)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 445
Amy FL25.6 - Sandy's Task: Back to Basics
Book 1: Three Things About Elsie - AEIOU - thrEe thIngs AbOUt (464 pages)
Book 2: The Light Years - >5 consonants - LiGHT YeaRS (I linked to audio which I listened to; print edition has 384 pages so combined total is way over required 500.)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 470
Amy FL30.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Ancient Greek Theatre
Option 3: The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben (sopHoCles)
Option 4: All the Best Lies (Ellery Hathaway, #3)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 500
Task 15.1 – Tinker to Evers to ChanceBook 1 - Book chosen: Catherine House
Format read: audio with ebook readalong
# of pages: 318
Book 2 - Book Chosen: House Arrest
AR Finder info: IL: MG+ - BL: 4.0 - AR Pts: 4.0
Format read: audio
#of pages: 304
Fits task: Both titles 2 words. First word ends in "house," second word starts with "house"
Points this post: 15 points
Total points to date: 400 points
Task 15.8 – Pop!Book chosen: Ready Player One
Format read: audio
# of pages: 374
Fits task: Set in Columbus, OH in the year 2045
Points this post: 15 points
Total points to date: 415 points
Task 25.5 – Whitnie I's Task: First and LastBook 1 chosen: This Present Darkness
Format read: audio
# of pages: 376
Fits task: book #1 in the Darkness series; series title in parentheses
Book 2 chosen: The Hatching
Format read: audio
# of pages: 334
Fits task: MPG Apocalyptic
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date: 440 points
Task 25.7 – Sally M's Task: Happily Ever AfterBook 1 chosen: Marta schläft
Format read: audio with ebook readalong
# of pages: 352
Fits task: author Romy Hausmann - R and H both in "There's only one bed"
Book 2 chosen: Not That Kind of Guy
Format read: paperback
# of pages: 320
Fits task: on page 1 of the list, position 53
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date: 465 points
Task 30.3 – Wayne's Task: My TV is my new best friendOption 3 - book chosen: Nothing Bundt Trouble
Format read: ebook
# of pages: 313
Fits task: All letters of HOODIE found in the title
Option 4 - book chosen: Winter Counts
Format read: audio
# of pages: 336
Fits task: All letters of NEWS found in the author's name
Points this post: 30 points
Total points to date: 495 points
Joanna T5.5 – It Really Happened
The Lover by A.B. Yehoshua
MPG = historical fiction
Task total: 5
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Grand total: 390
BB: 4
GO: 0
Julia10315.6 - Add To Cart
Tuesdays at the Castle
This post: 15 points
Total points: 580
BB: 6
GO: 3
Tasks completed: 32
Books read: 42
10.1 - Let's Go to the TheatreCalamity under the Chandelier
All the letters of THEATRE found in the title.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 170
15.4 - And I Did It My WayOption 1
Book 1:
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
MPG of Autobiography>Memoir
Book 2:
The Burning Issue of the Day
6 word title
Points this post: 15
Total points: 185
15.10 - Be Our GuestDeath Beside the Seaside
In the description of the book, it mentions their other hotel guests and dealing with the hotel manager where the book is set.
Points this post: 15
Total points:
20.1 - Most Improved - Rockynook's Task: Back to SchoolOption 1: #1 in series with a new-to-me author
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
This is the first in the series Spoiler Alert.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 220
20.6 – Seasoned Reader - Mx.shining's Task: All About BooksOption 1:
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
MPG Book about books
Points this post: 20
Total points: 240
25.2 - Cat's Task: Shakespearean ReadingBook 1:
A Sinister Establishment
3 word title where initial letters A, S, E are found in quote
Book 2:
Loathe at First Sight by Suzanne Park
Author initials SP found in Shakespeare.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 265
25.8 - Amy FL's task: My Favorite MusicalsOption 1:
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
Author initials CL found in Carole King.
Option 2:
Doing Time
The word TIME is found in the lyrics to New York State of Mind.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 290
50.1- MEGSCL's Task: ScattegoriesMy letters were: E L Q
I used the letter E.
A first name: My Year with Eleanor: A Memoir by Noelle Hancock
paperback edition My Year with Eleanor: A Memoir 304 pages
A food: The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
mass market paperback edition The Egg and I 224 pages
A job: The Editor by Steven Rowley
paperback edition The Editor 320 pages
Points this post: 50
Total points: 670
15.6 - Add To CartMonday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 4
Bigger is Better: 2
Season Total: 755
PAULA S10.5 - Hamilton
Read a book with a series title that begins with a letter in POC.
Christer Wijk #14
I read the ebook, MMPB for reference: En främmande man
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 170/935
Total Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 11/55
Jen K15.9 - How Ya Doin'?
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
Added to my to- read wishlist May 1, 2020
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 515
Big Books: 1
IngeTask # 15.9 How are you doing
Spin Cycle
Shelved in my collection : March 1, 2020 – Shelved
Point this post: 15
total points: 160
Jen K15.8 - Pop!
Halloween Hayride Murder by Linnea West
Set in Minnesota stated in series name and GR book blurb
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 530
Big Books: 1
Jen K15.3 - Abracadabra!
Options 2: Witch Is When Life Got Complicated by Adele Abbott
MPG Magic and intials AA
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 545
Big Books: 1
MEGSCL25.2 - Cat's Task: Shakespearean Reading
Book One: read a book with a three word title where the initial letters of every word are found in the quote: "Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow"
Boy Swallows Universe
Book Two: read a book written by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Maybe the Horse Will Talk
TOTAL to date
445 points
7 big books
Christine V10.9 - Rock the Vote
Middlemarch This book was first published in 1871.
***Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket***
I read the audio edition. The top MMPB, Middlemarch, has 1,088 pages.
***Claiming 3 Big Book Tickets***
Points this post: 10
GO Tickets this post: 1
BB Tickets this post: 3
Total points: 115
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 8
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 500=1, 750=1, 1000=1 (Total BB tickets=6)
Task 10.8 – Trick Or TreatMain page genre: Paranormal
Kiss of Surrender
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This Post: 10 points
Total points to date: 220 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
Task 10.10 – Square Dance DayBook title is 4 words
Small as an Elephant
AR Bookfinder: IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7.0
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This Post: 10 points
Total points to date: 230 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
Task 15.4 – I Did It My WayOPTION 2 – One Book fits both tasks
Book 1 – Memoir / autobiography
Book 2 – Six-word title
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
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This Post: 15 points
Total points to date: 245 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
Task 20.3 – Best Review – Book Concierge – Banned Books WeekREQUIRED: 250+ pages
Page # 1 / # 1 on the list
Option 1:
I listened to the audio / MMP: To Kill a Mockingbird 376 pg
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This Post: 20 points
Total points to date: 265 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
Task 20.8 – Nickels and Dimes – Lorna – Flip Flip Hooray For New AuthorsCoin flip: My coin landed: Heads (female) and Heads (American)
DeGeneres is a new-to-me author
Ellen DeGeneres / Seriously... I'm Kidding
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This Post: 20 points
Total points to date: 285 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
30.6 - Delicious Dee's Task: Hurry Up and WaitBook A, Option 3: ECRC can be found in the author's name.
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman
Book B, Option 3: Beginning letter of every word can be found in NO SWIMMING POOL FOR YOU.
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
First published in 1946, Claiming GO ticket.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 675
Tasks completed: 40
Books read: 52
BB: 3
GO: 3
Task 5.6 – The AUDELCO AwardsAuthor initials in VIVIAN ROBINSON - N.O.
Nnedi Okorafor / Home
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This Post: 5 points
Total points to date: 290 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
Task 5.7 – Not Just in NYC!Set in CALIFORNIA / from the main page description: "Frank Machianno is a late-middle-aged ex–surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront..."
I listened to the audio / NO MMPB / Paperback: L'inverno di Frankie Machine 324 p
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This Post: 5 points
Total points to date: 295 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
Task 10.1 – Let’s Go To the TheatreAll letters THEATRE in title: THEA in benEATH / T in The / RE in bonfiRE
Beneath the Bonfire
I listened to the audio / no MMP / Paperback: Sotto il falò 240 pg
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This Post: 10 points
Total points to date: 305 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
Task 10.4 – The WizFound on Page 6 of African American Book
I listened to the audio / NO MMPB / Paperback: American Spy 294 p
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This Post: 10 points
Total points to date: 315 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
Task 20.6 – Seasoned Reader – Mx.Shining – All About BooksOption 2: All letters READING in single author’s name
Robin DiAngelo / White Fragility
(Note “foreward by Michael Eric Dyson” doesn’t not count as an author per the SRC rules, post 4
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This Post: 20 points
Total points to date: 335 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
10.10 - SQUARE DANCE DAY - A MacKenzie Clan GatheringA MacKenzie Clan Gathering this is the only paperback listed for page count
4 word title
TOTAL POINTS - 785
Task 25.4 – Nick KY – Man BookeringREQUIRED: 500+ pages: 266 + 384 = 650 p
ALLOWED: ONE Manga/Comic okay
Book 1: Title matches “THIS” from This Mournable Body
This Time Together 266 p
Book 2: Author name matches Booker author: ANNE Tyler
Anne Hillerman / Song of the Lion
I listened to the audio / no MMP / Paperback: Song of the Lion - 384 p
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This Post: 25 points
Total points to date: 360 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
Task 25.6 – Sandy – Back to BasicsREQUIRED: 500+ pages: 240 + 327 = 567 p
Option 1 – All vowels : A E I O U in title
Quite a Year for Plums – 240 p
Option 2 – NONfiction w/ at least 5 different consonants : T H L S R N
The Last Rhinos – 327 p
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This Post: 25 points
Total points to date: 385 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier):
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / () 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS:
Joanna T15.10 - Be Our Guest
All Inclusive by Farzana Doctor
The title and setting refer to an all-inclusive guest resort in Mexico where the protagonist works.
Task total: 15
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Grand total: 410
BB: 4
GO: 0
Joanna T20.4 - Golden Oldies - Ed's Task: A Funny Thing
Option 1 - MPG = Humor
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Task total: 20
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Grand total: 430
BB: 4
GO: 0
Melinde10.8 - Trick or Treat
Read a book with the MPG Horror, Paranormal, or Supernatural.
De schemerjagers
MPGs: Horror/Paranormal>Vampires/Fantasy>Paranormal/Fantasy>Supernatural
IL: UY - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6.0
Points this post: 10
Total points: 425
G.Q. 10.9 - Rock the Vote
Read a book that has at least two numbers from 11/3 found in the year the book was first published.
The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out by Robert Kirkman (2011)
Total Points: 270
Tasks Completed: 19
Books Read: 22
Pages Read: 6,829
JEN B10.9 - Rock the Vote
Read a book that has at least two numbers from 11/3 in its publication year.
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
This book was published in 2013
TOTAL POINTS: 310
Andy P.Task # G.Q.’s Task: Black Books Matter
Option 1: Black Lives Matter
I used An Anti-Racist Reading List: 20 Highly Rated Nonfiction , Books by Black Authors Line #2 second from left
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Option 2. Read a book from this list: Afrofuturism
Page ! #4 Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Points this post: 25
Total points: 790
Jen C25.9 - G.Q.’s Task: Black Books Matter
Option 1: Black Lives Matter
List: Black Lives Matter Library
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Page 1 of the list
Option 3: Black Histories Matter
List: The LA Public Library's List of Recommended African American Non-Fiction
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Points this post: 25
Total points: 535
SandyL5.3 – Twice a Hat Trick!"
Read a book first published in one of these years – 1950, 1979, 2003, 2018.
Rainy Day Friends by Jill Shalvis
First published 2018
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 380
Big Books Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 24
Books Read: 29
SandyL10.2 - Avenue Q
Read a book with the letter Q in the author's name.
Unbreak My Heart by Nicole Jacquelyn
nicole jacQuelyn
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 390
Big Books Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 25
Books Read: 30
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25.6 - Sandy's Task: Back to Basics
Book 1: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
Book 2: They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? by Patrick F. McManus
Points this post: 25
Total points: 540