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FALL CHALLENGE 2020
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
Sarah E10.2 - Avenue Q
Question Quest
I read an ebook, top paperback - no MMP is Question Quest
Total Points: 75
Sarah E15.3 - Abracadabra!
Option 2: 1 book
Witch Is When Everything Went Crazy by Adele Abbott
I read the kindle edition but have linked to the paperback, no MMP
Total Points: 90
Sarah E20.3 – Best Review - Book Concierge – Banned Books Week
On page 4 of the list, currently #347
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - 272 pages
I read an ebook but have linked to the top MMP
Total Points: 110
Bookwrm526Task #10.8 - Trick or Treat
Read a book with the MPG Horror, Paranormal, or Supernatural. Genres may be standalone or embedded. I read Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, with MPG Horror.
Total points so far: 805
Queen Bee Darlene25.9 G.Q.'s Task: Black Books Matter
3) from LA Public Library's List of Recommended African American Non-Fiction
Negroland by Margo Jefferson
4) author from Masterlist of Black YA Writers list
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie pg 1, #39 on list
The Thing Around Your Neck
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 870
Trisha10.9 Rock The Vote
Brave New World - published in 1932
I am claiming this for a Golden Oldies Ticket (published in 1932)
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 75
Tasks Complete: 7
Big Books claimed: 3
Golden Oldies: 1
Trisha5.10 Intermission
Finale
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 80
Tasks Complete: 8
Big Books claimed: 3
Golden Oldies: 1
Trisha20.7 Shorter is Sweeter
Option #1
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
I am claiming this for a Big Book Ticket (748 pages)
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 100
Tasks Complete: 9
Big Books claimed: 4
Golden Oldies: 1
Peg W5.10. Intermission
Read a book of your choice
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 310
Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks Completed: 17
MEGSCL20.3 – Best Review - Book Concierge – Banned Books Week
Page 1 - The Diary of a Young Girl
TOTAL to date
495 points
7 big books
MEGSCL25.10 - Brooke TX's Task: Hocus Pocus FTW
Film: Mean Girls, released 2004
Book 1: The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone (thriller)
Book 2: The Men Who Stare at Goats
TOTAL to date
520 points
7 big books
MEGSCL50.1 - Scattergories
I spun S, F, W and chose S.
Food - Strawberry: The Strawberry Thief
Job - Seamstress: The Paris Seamstress
Name - Sadie: Sadie
TOTAL to date
570 points
7 big books
Jen C10.3 - Wicked
How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
Points this post: 10
Total points: 615
Barbara ★25.10 - Brooke TX's Task: Hocus Pocus FTW
MOVIE CHOICE: Black Pumpkin (2018)
Book 1: Read a book with a word of at least 3 letters in the title/subtitle that matches a word in the title of your chosen film (the/and are excluded). Words must match exactly.
Black Magic - S.J. Davis 9/12
(black in title)
Book 2: Read a book first published the same year your chosen film was released.
Published in 2018 MUST have main page genre of Horror or Thriller,
The Chalk Man - C.J. Tudor 11/18
(MPG horror and thriller AND pub Jan 9, 2018)
Points this task: 20
Total points: 580
Big Book Tickets: 500 (3) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
25.6 - Sandy's Task: Back to BasicsBook 1: Read a book that has all the vowels in its title and/or subtitle.
Undercover Amish (Covert Police Detectives Unit #1) by Ashley Emma
244 pages
Book 2: Read a nonfiction book that has at least 5 different consonants (Y is a consonant) in the title only
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
320 pages
1x Golden Oldies tix (pub. 1903)
Total pages read: 564
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 2
Season Total: 815
G.Q.30.5 - Mazza1's Task: Find The Right Spell
Book 1: Read a book which has a palindrome of 4 or more letters in the title or subtitle.
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Book 2: Read a book with only one occurrence of each letter in the title: NO repeated letters. The title must have at least 4 letters. Ignore subtitles.
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Total Points: 305
Tasks Completed: 21
Books Read: 25
Pages Read: 7, 872
DeborahPost #28
10.1 - Let's Go to the Theatre
Obsession, Deceit, and Really Dark Chocolate
THEATRE found in title
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 415
Books Read: 34
Tasks Done: 27
Anja5.7 – Not just in NYC!
Read a book set at least 50% in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, or Washington, DC.
The Kiss Thief by L.J. Shen - set in Chicago, Illionois (book description: Mine was stolen by a devil in a masquerade mask under the black Chicago sky.)
POINTS:
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 10
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 2
Anja5.10. Intermission
Read a book of your choice that meets the SRC rules.
Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie
POINTS:
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 15
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 3
Anja10.10 - Square Dance Day
Read a book that has a 2-, 4-, or 8-word title.
Sodni dnevi by Peter Čeferin
POINTS:
Points This Post: 10
Points Total: 25
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 4
Anja15.5 - Get The Word Out
Read a book written by a Goodreads Author
Das Paket by Sebastian Fitzek
POINTS:
Points This Post: 15
Points Total: 40
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 5
Anja20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Brooklyn's Task: A Different Kind of Celebration
Option 4: read a book with a title of at least 3 words, where the first letter of every word is found in the phrase WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS STAYS IN VEGAS.
The German House by Annette Hess
POINTS:
Points This Post: 20
Points Total: 60
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 7
Casey W20.3 - Banned Books
Read a book on the banned books list
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Page 1, Book 24
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 105
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 6
10.8 - TRICK OR TREAT - Aunt Dimity and the Wishing WellMPG of Fantasy > Paranormal
TOTAL POINTS - 925
For Task 20.5 - Bigger is Better Peg W's Task: Bigger is Better – Or is it? I chose to complete Option 3...Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in ONE MORE HIKE.I read Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff.
Points this post: 20
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Totals
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Points: 80
GOTs: 0
BBTs: 0
Joanne MITask 30.4 Tessavanessa's Task: Birds Of A Feather
Option 4: House Finch: The word is Bird
The Bird King
option 5: Non-Fiction History MPG
The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
Points this task 30
Total Points 300
BB's 3
GO's 1
10.3 - Wicked Wicked, a Broadway musical based on the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire is retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Nominated for the 2004 Best Book, Best Musical, and Best Original Score it ultimately lost to Avenue Q. The show is currently (sort of) running at the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London's West End and at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway.
Read a book with a title of 3 or more words in which the initial letter of each word can be found in APOLLO VICTORIA and/or GERSHWIN. Letters may only be used as many times as they appear in the theatre names. Subtitles should be ignored.
I read Tell No One / Gone For Good but I am only using Tell No One for this task.
apOllo vicToria and GershwiN
points: 265
books read: 2
tasks completed: 15
tasks in progress: 2
Big Books: 5
pages read: 9339
Bookwrm526Task #15.4 - And I Did It My Way
Option 2: Option 2: Read 1 book that fulfills the requirements of both Book 1 and Book 2 in option 1, a memoir with a title that has six words. I read Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang .
Total points so far: 820
EMurphy30.6 Delicious Dee's Task: Hurry Up and Wait
Option 1b Gaslight Mystery series Murder on Astor Place by Victoria Thompson
Option 2a Set in Italy A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
*Golden Oldies Ticket - originally published in 1908
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_...
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 325
Books Read: 23
GO Ticket: 3
BB Ticket +500: 3
Tasks Completed: 14
Nick KY20.3 Book Concierge – Banned Books Week on list of Banned Books, min of 250 pp
I read Madame Bovary 329 pp # 88 on 1st page of list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 845
Task 10.8 - Trick or TreatRead a book with the MPG Horror, Paranormal, or Supernatural. Genres may be standalone or embedded.
Bunny (2019) by Mona Awad (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 307 pages)
215 + 10 = 225
Tasks Completed: 15
Points for this post: 10
Points thus far: 215 + 10 = 225
Books read: 19
Pages read: 5,158
Read but not claimed: 06
Goodreads Authors: 06
Golden Oldies: 01
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Barbara ★30.4 - Tessavanessa's Task: Birds Of A Feather
Option 3: Read a book that has the word SIGN in the title or subtitle. The word must stand alone and match exactly
The Sign - Raymond Khoury 10/5
Option 4: Read a book that has a word of 3 or more letters in the title that can be made using only the letters in SARAHBIRD
Air Bound - Christine Feehan 11/19
(can make AIR, sArabIRd)
Points this task: 30
Total points: 610
Big Book Tickets: 500 (3) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Kelly L20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Brooklyn's Task: A Different Kind of Celebration
Option 1: For this task, read a book written by an author whose first and last name initials can be found in CHAMPAGNE. Middle initials may be ignored.
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman = AH = C[[HA]]MPAGNE
This post: 20 points
Total: 290 points
15.5 - Get The Word OutA book by a Goodreads Author: Her Last Flight by Beatriz Williams
Points this post: 15
Total points: 815
30.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Ancient Greek TheatreOption 4: Shark River by Randy Wayne White
❁ Doc Ford Mystery #8 ❁
Option 5A: The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen
❁ first published in 2008 ❁
Total points: 780 + 30 = 810
5.9 - THE EUROPEAN THEATRE PRIZE - Honeymoon For OneSet mostly in Italy. Here is a link to a version with a description of the plot. Honeymoon for One
TOTAL POINTS - 930
Nick KY20.10 Group Read The Book is Better than the Movie. I read The Andromeda Strain
My comment is in post 15 of the help thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 865
5.8 - In London as wellA Fire Story by Brian Fies
❁ initial letter of title words (AFS) in SOCIETY OF LONDON THEATRE ❁
Total points: 810 + 5 = 815
Rockynook25.9 - Black Books Matter
Option 1: Black Lives Matter Library, page 1
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Option 4: Found on page 1
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 345
Rockynook25.10 - Hocus Pocus FTW
Movie: Girl vs. Monster (2012)
Book: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Fulfills book 1 & book 2
Matching work for book 1: "Girl"
First published in 2012
560 pages
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 370
Rockynook10.10 - Square Dance Day
Read a book that has a 2-, 4-, or 8-word title.
The End of Her by Shari Lapena
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 380
Task 5.4 – I'll Have a DoubleBook chosen: The Finders
Format read: ebook
# of pages: 288
Fits task: author's last name Burton = performer Kate Burton
Points this post: 5 points
Total points to date: 485 points
Task 15.3 – Abracadabra!Option 2 - Book chosen: The Murmur of Bees
Format read: audio
# of pages: 476
Fits task: MPG = Magical Realism, author first + last name start with "S"
Points this post: 15 points
Total points to date: 500 points
Task 25.8 – Amy FL's task: My Favorite MusicalOption 1 - Book chosen: The German Girl
Format read: paperback
# of pages: 368
Fits task: A, L, C found in Carole
Option 2 - Book chosen: Battlefield Of The Mind: Winning The Battle In Your Mind
Format read: paperback
# of pages: 328
Fits task: Mind found in the song "New York State of Mind"
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date: 525 points
Task 25.10 – Brooke TX's Task: Hocus Pocus FTWMovie chosen: Return of the Living Dead (2005)
Book 1 chosen: Dead Silence
Format read: audio with ebook readalong
# of pages: 320
Fits task: word "dead" found in the title "Return of the Living Dead"
Book 2 chosen: Marley Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
Format read: audio
# of pages: 320
Fits task: Book published in October 2005
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date: 550 points
Task 30.1 – Ava Catherine's Task: Ancient Greek TheatreOption 2 - Book chosen: The Gatekeeper's Sons
Format read: audio
# of pages: 384
Fits task: MPG Mythology
Option 3 - Book chosen: Relative Silence
Format read: audio with ebook readalong
# of pages: 336
Fits task: C, S, P can be found in SOPHOCLES
Points this post: 30 points
Total points to date: 580 points
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5.1 – Can't Go Wrong with the Bard
Circe - MPG Retellings
I read an ebook but have linked to the top MMP
Total Points: 65