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FALL CHALLENGE 2020
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Julia10325.3 - Andy P’s Task : Finding a Topic for a Task
Book 1: A Chorus of Detectives SCRATCH: (SCR in Chorus, A in A, TC in Detectives, H in Chorus) (255 pages)
Book 2: Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie (AC in COPYCAT) (I read Kindle edition; top MMPB is 352 pages)
Total pages: 255 + 352 = 607
This post: 25 points
Total points: 725
BB: 7
GO: 3
Tasks completed: 40
Books read: 53
Sarah H10.8 - Trick or Treat - Read a book with the MPG Horror, Paranormal, or Supernatural.
The Outsider
**The Outsider is a Big Book (561 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket.**
Points this task: 10
Total points to date: 80
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books this task: 1
Big Books total: 1
Tasks complete: 5
Books read: 6
Task 15.9 - How Ya Doin'?Read a book that you added to your To-read list between January 1, 2020 and June 30, 2020.
Required: Identify your To-read list and state the date the book was added to your list.
GR Shelf: Want to Read
Added on April 22, 2020
Redhead by the Side of the Road (2020) by Anne Tyler (Hardcover, 178 pages)
225 + 15 = 240
Tasks Completed: 16
Points for this post: 15
Points thus far: 225 + 15 = 240
Books read: 20
Pages read: 5,336
Read but not claimed: 05
Goodreads Authors: 07
Golden Oldies: 01
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Task 30.2 - Dlmrose's Task: In BalanceRead 2 books where both books have the same number of words in their titles AND the same number of characters in their authors' names. Subtitles should be ignored.
The Circus (2019) by Jonas Karlsson; translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith (translator not on goodreads) (Hardcover, 179 pages)
Dancing Backwards (2009) by Salley Vickers (Hardcover, 264 pages)
2 word title, 13 character name
240 + 30 = 270
Tasks Completed: 17
Points for this post: 30
Points thus far: 240 + 30 = 270
Books read: 22
Pages read: 5,779
Read but not claimed: 04
Goodreads Authors: 07
Golden Oldies: 01
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
PAULA S5.5 – It Really Happened
Read a book with the main page genre History or Historical Fiction.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 285/935
Total Books Read: 22
Tasks Completed: 20/55
PAULA S20.4 - Golden Oldies - Ed's Task: A Funny Thing
Option 1-Read a book with a Main Page Genre of Humor, Comedy, Plays or Drama.
I read the ebook edition. MMPB link for reference: Anansi Boys
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 305/935
Total Books Read: 23
Tasks Completed: 21/55
LAUREN JODI30.4 - Tessavanessa's Task: Birds Of A Feather
Option 2: Hummingbird
Roped In by Lorelei James
Page #: 136
Option 4: House Finch
Brash by Laura Wright
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 585/935
Total Books Read: 48
Tasks Completed: 40/55
Jasmiina F5.10. Intermission:
Read a book of your choice that meets the SRC rules:
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 125
Golden Oldies this post:
Total Golden Oldies:
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
BBooks - 500+: 1
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
Jasmiina F15.5 - Get The Word Out:
Read a book written by a Goodreads Author:
A Contemporary Asshat at the Court of Henry VIII by MaryJanice Davidson.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 140
Golden Oldies this post:
Total Golden Oldies:
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
BBooks - 500+: 1
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
EMurphy20.1 Most Improved-Rockynook's Task: Back to School
Option 2: Author whose first and last initials are found in the word flexibility Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 395
Books Read: 27
GO Ticket: 3
BB Ticket +500: 3
Tasks Completed: 16
Steve E.10.1 - Let's Go to the Theatre
Read a book with all the letters of THEATRE found in the title. Titles only. Subtitles are excluded.
My Sister, the Serial Killer by: Oyinkan Braithwaitemy sisTEr, THE seRiAl killer
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 140
CYNBAXTERTask #20.01 – Most Improved: Rockynook's Task: Back to School
Task, Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials are found in the word FLEXIBILITY
Book: History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Points this post: 20 points
Total points to date: 320 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 2
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 1
CYNBAXTERTask #20.03 – Best Review: Book Concierge-Banned Books Week
Book: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde which is #25 on the first page of the list
Task: Read a book from this list: Best Banned Censored and Challenged Books
***This is a Golden Oldie (orig pub = 1890). Claiming 1 GOLDIE ticket
Points this post: 20 points
Total points to date: 340 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 2
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 1
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 2
Joanne MI25.2 - Cat's Task: Shakespearean Reading
Book 1- initial letters of title in "come, And take choice oF all my library, And so beguile thy Sorrow"
A Song for Arbonne
Claiming 1 BB at 509 pages (MMP is 511 pages)
Book 2 -Authors initials in williaM shaKespeare
Total Power byKyle Mills
Points this task 25
Total Points 335
BB's this task 1
Total BB's 6
GO's 1
30.6 - Delicious Dee's Task: Hurry Up and WaitBook A – Option 1
Read a book by an author who lives in/was born in Virginia
Big Cherry Holler (Big Stone Gap #2) by Adriana Trigiani
author born in Big Stone Gap, Virginia
304 pages
Book B – Option 2
Read a book where all the letters of APPLE can be found in the title, ignore subtitles.
Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper #1) by Kerri Maniscalco
APPLE found in stALking jack the riPPEr
392 pages
Total pages read: 696
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies: 6
Bigger is Better: 2
Season Total: 895
Bookwrm526Task #10.6 - Hobbit Day
Read. a popular book (100,000+ ratings) that has an average rating of 4.00 stars or higher. I read Scythe by Neal Shusterman, which has 143,551 ratings and average rating of 4.33.
Total points so far: 885
Joanna T5.10 - Intermission - Free Space
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Task total: 5
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Grand total: 500
BB: 5
GO: 0
Nick KY20.1 - Most Improved - Rockynook's Task: Back to School
I choose
Option 1: A new school year brings new faces into my classroom and the promise for new adventures!
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.
Required: State the author is new to you.
I read Flipped for Murder by Maddie Day. I have never read anything by Maddie Day before, nor have I read anything written under the author's real name, Edith Maxwell. (It is a single author.) The book is # 1 in the Country Store Mysteries.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 935.
JEN B20.1 - Most Improved - Rockynook's Task: Back to School
Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials are found in the word FLEXIBILITY.
The Searcher by Tana French
Author initials TF
TOTAL POINTS: 375
JEN B5.10. Intermission
Take a break and read a book of your choice that meets the SRC rules.
Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren
TOTAL POINTS: 380
25.3 - Andy P’s Task : Finding a Topic for a TaskBook 1: Read a book whose TITLE contains all of the letters in SCRATCH, including 2 Cs.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Audiobook
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake MMPB 304 Pages
SCRATCH appears in THe pARtiCular Sadness of lemon Cake
Book 2: Read a book by a single author whose initials (all of them ) can be found in COPYCAT.
The Spirit by Thomas Page Audiobook
The Spirit MMPB 238 Pages
TP appears in coPycaT
304 + 238 = 542 Pages
Points Earned This Post: 25
Total Points Earned: 840
Golden Oldie Tickets: 8
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
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Readerboard Name: Kathy P5.6 – The AUDELCO awards
Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God
Author: Sarah Bessey
Totals
Points: 95
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 14
Total Books read: 14
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.3 - Wicked
The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred TextsClaiming 1 Big Book - 624 Pages
Totals
Points: 105
BB: 1
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 15
Total Books read: 15
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.4 - The Wiz
Deacon King Kong
Found on page 5
Totals
Points: 115
BB: 1
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 16
Total Books read: 16
[Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.9 - Rock the Vote
[book:Thinking, Fast and Slow|11468377]
Published in 2011
Totals
Points: 125
BB: 1
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 17
Total Books read: 17
Readerboard Name: Kathy P20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Lorna's Task: Flip, Flip, Hooray for New Authors
Coin Flip - Heads Heads
Author - American Female
The Bronze Bow
Author is new to me.
Author: Elizabeth George Speare
AR Bookfinder Information
Title: The Bronze Bow
Author: Speare, Elizabeth George
AR Quiz No. 13 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 5.0 - AR Pts: 10.0
Totals
Points: 145
BB: 1
GO: 0
Total Tasks completed: 18
Total Books read: 18
Inge10.6 Hobbit day
Book: The Art of Racing in the Rain
point this task: 10
total points: 230
task completed: 18
Scooter&Siam20.5 - Bigger is Better Peg W's Task: Bigger is Better – Or is it? Option 2 - Read a book between 200 and 400 pages where the middle number is smaller than the outside numbers.
Read A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
Points: 20
Total: 95
trishhartuk25.5 Whitnie I’s Task: First and Last
Book 1, First: Read a book that is #1 in a series.
Death by Coffee (Bookstore Cafe Mystery #1), Alex Erickson
Read the kindle edition. PB: here (320pg)
Book 2, Last: Read a book with the MPG Apocalyptic or a variation of the word.
Contagion, Tim Lebbon (229pg)
Locked for Apocalyptic > Post Apocalyptic: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this task: 25
Books read: 2
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 285
Tasks completed: 22
Golden oldies: 3
Big book tickets: 500+ x 1 = 1
PAULA S10.3 - Wicked
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
Tre små gummor
T in vicToria
S in gerShwin
G in Gershwin
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 315/935
Total Books Read: 24
Tasks Completed: 22/55
PAULA S10.7 - National Comic Book Day
Read a book with the MPG Sequential Art.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 325/935
Total Books Read: 25
Tasks Completed: 23/55
trishhartuk20.4 Golden Oldies - Ed's Task: A Funny Thing
Option 1-Read a book with a Main Page Genre of Humor,
The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
Humor 2,231 users
Humor > Comedy 722 users
Points this task: 20
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 305
Tasks completed: 23
Golden oldies: 3
Big book tickets: 500+ x 1 = 1
trishhartuk10.6 Hobbit Day
Reading a popular book (100,000+ ratings) that has an average rating of 4.00 stars or higher.
Watchmen, Alan Moore and others
Average rating of 4.36, 489,119 ratings as of 25/11/20
Points this task: 10
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 315
Tasks completed: 24
Golden oldies: 3
Big book tickets: 500+ x 1 = 1
trishhartuk20.7 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 Halloween House, Kathi Daley
Read the kindle edition. PB: here
T, H in wHaT, H in Happens
Points this task: 20
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 335
Tasks completed: 25
Golden oldies: 3
Big book tickets: 500+ x 1 = 1
Amy B10.2 - Avenue Q
Avenue Q, a musical comedy, won the Best Musical, Book, and Original Score at the 2004 Tony Awards. Read a book with the letter Q or the letters AVE intact in the title/subtitle or author's name.
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 455 Points
Rockynook20.4 - A Funny Thing
Option 1-Read a book with a Main Page Genre of Humor, Comedy, Plays or Drama
Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 400
CYNBAXTERTask #20.04 – Golden Oldie: Ed’s Task: A Funny Thing
Task, Option 2: Read a book on this list: Best Historical Fiction About Ancient Rome, page 3
Book: Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist
***This is a Golden Oldie (orig pub = 1950). Claiming 1 GOLDIE ticket
Points this post: 20 points
Total points to date: 360 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 2
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 1
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 3
Joanne MI25.2 - Cat's Task: Shakespearean Reading
Book 1- initial letters of title in "come, aNd Take choice of all my library, And so begUlie thy Sorrow"
The Unspoken Name
Book 2 -Authors initials in williaM shaKespeare
Total Power byKyle Mills
Points this task 25
Total Points 335
Total BB's 5
GO's 1
LAUREN JODI25.2 - Cat's Task: Shakespearean Reading
Book 1:
Gone to Darkness by Barbara Nickless
Page # - 364
Option 2:
Bonded by Laura Wright
Page # - 336
Total page # - 700
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 610/935
Total Books Read: 50
Tasks Completed: 41/55
Joanna T30.5 - Mazza1's Task: Find The Right Spell
Book 1 - Palindrome (Madam)
Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World by Jennifer Palmieri
Book 2 - No repeated letters
The King by Tiffany Reisz
Task total: 30
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Grand total: 530
BB: 5
GO: 0
Rockynook25.2 - Shakespearean Reading
one book that fits both requirements, 500+ pages
One: 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"
Two: author initials in WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 425
ED30.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Ancient Greek Theatre
Opt. 3- Option 3: Sophocles
Guinea Bissau: From Liberation Struggle To Independent Statehood by Carlos Lopes
"CL" found in "sophoCLes"
Opt. 4- Option 4: Aeschylus’s The Oresteia
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
James Bond series #7
Points Earned This Post: 30
Total Points Earned: 60
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Total Books Read : 4
trishhartuk20.5 Bigger is Better - Peg W's Task: Bigger is Better – Or is it?
Option 2: Read a book between 200 and 400 pages where the outside numbers are larger than the center one.
The Mother's Day Mishap, Kathi Daley
Read the kindle edition. PB: here (206pg)
Points this task: 20
Books read: 1
Golden oldie/Big book: No
Total points: 355
Tasks completed: 26
Golden oldies: 3
Big book tickets: 500+ x 1 = 1
Bookwrm526Task #10.1 - Let's Go to the Theatre
Read a book with all the letters of THEATRE found in the title. I read A Death of No Importance by Mariah Fredericks (THEA in death, TRE in importace).
Total points so far: 895
Mary PRead a book where a hotel* is the location or center of the action of the book.
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Points this post: 15
Total points: 260
ED25.6 - Sandy's Task: Back to Basics
Book 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).
San Marino, the History in Miniature: The Very Small History by Pierluigi Taddei
AEIOU found in "sAn marInO, thE history in miniatUre"
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.
New Caledonia: Essays in Nationalism and Dependency by Michael Spencer
Five different consonants in title : NeW CaLeDonia..."
Points Earned This Post: 25
Total Points Earned: 85
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Total Books Read : 6
Sarah E5.3 – Twice a Hat Trick!"
Truly Devious - first published in 2018
I listened to an audio but have linked to the top paperback, no MMP
Total points: 235
Sarah E10.5 - Hamilton
Blackberry Cream & Murder: An Oceanside Cozy Mystery - Book 4: Volume 4 (Oceanside Cozy #4)
I read the kindle edition but have linked to the paperback, no MMP
Total points: 245
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20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter
Read a book where outside numbers are larger than inside numbers
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
Total pages: 304
Points the Post: 20
Total Points: 140
Tasks Completed: 8
Books read: 8