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WINTER CHALLENGE 2020
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
Mary P10.9. Laugh, We Made it to 2021!
Read a book with the main page genre Humor.
Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish
Points this post: 10
Total points:195
Scooter&Siam15.5 - Let There Be Light(s)
Read a book with all the letters of LASER found in the TITLE only. Subtitles are excluded.
Read The Lost Book of the Grail - thE LoSt book of the gRAil
Points: 15
Total: 40
Scooter&Siam5.10 -- Book of choice
Read Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Points: 5
Total: 45
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Sarah E's task: Silent NightOption 3: Originally written in language other than your native one.
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
The original language is Polish, mine is English.
Points: 20
Total Points: 330
GO Points: 6
Elizabeth PTask 5.5 - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
Book #5 in a series
Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas
Book 5 in the Lady Sherlock series
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 155
Total Tasks: 9
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Total Books: 11
Queen Bee Darlene30.4 DLMRose's Task: Forward and Backward
1) word in title that can be read backwards as a new word
If I Live LIVE - EVIL
2) book with backward word that resulted in Book 1 Title
Edge of Evil
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 300
Queen Bee DarleneRepost with page #
5.3 Theme from A Summer Place
from I Only Watched the Movie list
Ring Page 1 #60 on list
Points this post: 5
Total Points:305
Doing Dewey20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Melinde's task: Food, glorious food!
Option 3 - 3+ word title with initials in SHRIMP COCKTAIL
Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League
This Task :
Points: 20
Golden Oldies Ticket: No
Big Books Ticket: No
Totals:
Total: 200/1015
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 3
Total Tasks Completed: 11/58
20.6 – Seasoned Reader - EShay's task: EShay's podcast connectionOption 4: Read a book with the main page genre Novella and/or that has a page length of 150-200, inclusive.
Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant
176 pages
1x Golden Oldies tix (pub. 1888)
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 2
Bigger is Better: 2
Season Total: 340
Kim O5.1 - Going to A-Go-Go Read a book with the letters "go" found intact in a word in the title or subtitle.
The Golden Tresses of the Dead
Points this task: 5
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Totals:
Points: 110
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Golden Oldies: 3
Tasks completed: 8
MARGO 30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Cars, Cars, CarsChoose 2 different options and read a book for each option.
PRE-APPROVED in Help Thread
OPTION 3 Read a book with at least 3 words in the title (ignore subtitle) where the 1st letter of each title word is found in DODGE CHALLENGER. Lie, Lie Again
OPTION 4 Read a book that has a word* in the TITLE (subtitles are excluded) from this list of beetles (words in blue). One Click for CLICK BEETLE
Points this task: 30
Total points: 40
Tasks completed: 2
Coralie15.4 Assassination Nation
Book A: TION intact in title
The African Equation
Book B: OO in title (blood), LL in author’s name (Willey)
The Price of Blood and Honor by Elizabeth Willey
Total to date 215 points
LaureY15.5 - Let There Be Light(s)
Read a book with all the letters of LASER found in the TITLE only. Subtitles are excluded.
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Points this post: 15
Total points: 150
Total Books: 10
Total Tasks: 7
LYS20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sara G's task: Remembrance
Option 2: New Jersey
Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in JERSEY CITY.
I am an Emotional Creature E.E.
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 250
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 18
Big Books: 500: 1, 750: 1
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.1 Groovy, Man
Day 1 - Friday, August 15 to Saturday, August 16
Book 1: Chatsfield's Ultimate Acquisition by Melanie Milburne
Shares name with MELANIE Safka
Book 2: The Weightless One by Anais Chartschenko
ONE is from the song ONE day at a time by Joan Baez
Points this post: 15
Total points: 640/990
Tasks completed: 37/57
Books read: 50
BB:4
GO: 0
(just keeping track for own purposes)
Mod
I read When in Rome - I read the kindle edition, linked to the top MMPB. The book appears on page 12 of the Best Spy Novels list.
total points: 360
Mod
I read The French Powder Mystery. I read the kindle edition, linked to the top pb. Word "French" in title matches "French Vanilla" ice cream.
total points: 370
Mod
I used option D, and read A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top pb.
Sabaa Tahir is listed on page 1 of the Popsugar list.
total points: 390
Mod
For my first book, I chose option 1 and read The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, set completely in Iran (mentioned in description).
For my second book, I chose option 2 and read Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement. Nonfiction is top MPG, YA is 3d.
total points: 415
MAZZA125.4 - Kristina Simon's task: The Summer of Love,
Choose one option. Read one Book A and one Book B.
Required: State which option you chose when you post.
Option 2: Bell Bottoms
Book A: Read a book with a title of at least two words where all the words begin with the same letter.
Memory Man This book has 510 pages and I am claiming a BB ticket
Book B: Read a book written by a single author whose name contains LL or TT.
I read an ARC of this book from Netgalley
This is the PB edition The Bell in the Lake
Lars Mytting (TT in Mytting)
Points this post = 25
Points to date = 565
BB this post = 1
BB to date = 4
EMurphy25.3 Queen Bee Darlene's Task: The Unfortunate Effect of Planning
Option 1: One of the words DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO in the title Be Not Far from Me by Mindy McGinnis
Option 4: Blue and yellow on the cover
by Diana GabaldonBlue background, yellow tree
*Big Book Ticket - 904 pages
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
BB Ticket +750: 1
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
BB Ticket +750: 1
GO Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 2
Sara G10.7 - Earworms!
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words, where the first letter of each word in the title can be found in "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".
This Side of Glory by Gwen Bristow
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
**This Side of Glory is a Golden Oldie (first published in 1940). I claim one GO ticket.**
Points this post: 10
Total points: 360
30.8Option 1: First Published 1963
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Option 4: MPG Mental Health or Mental Illness
Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks: A Workbook for Managing Depression and Anxiety by Seth J. Gillihan
Total points: 325
Tasks completed: 18
Books read: 24
GO: 3
BB: (500) (750) (1000)
CYNBAXTERTask # 10.01– Shaken, not Stirred.
Task: Read a book with a single author whose initials can be found in SEAN CONNERY.
Book: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - the author's initials S.C. can be found in SEAN CONNERY
Points this post: 10 points
Total points to date: 160 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 1
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 4
Task 20.6 – Seasoned Reader - EShay's task: EShay's podcast connectionOption 4: Down Among the Sticks and Bones, finished 12/29
- Has 187 pages
Points this task: 20
Total points: 330
15.7 - The British InvasionRead a book set at least 50% in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland).
I read The Mystery of Mrs. Christie. It takes entirely in England.
points: 95
books read: 9
tasks complete: 6
tasks in progress: 2
pages read: 3231
Sara G5.8 - West Side Story
Read a book with a word from one of the songs on the album in the title or subtitle from this list: West Side Story Tracks. The words A, At, The may not be used. The word must match exactly.
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment by Mei Fong
One Child shares a word with the song title "One Hand, One Heart" from the list.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 365
Doing Dewey20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Marie-Anne's task: Where in the world?
Option 2 - Pieter, Jan, or Paul in author's name
In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary by Jan Morris
This Task :
Points: 20
Golden Oldies Ticket: No
Big Books Ticket: No
Totals:
Total: 220/1015
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 3
Total Tasks Completed: 12/58
Kelly L 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sara G's task: Remembrance
Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in JERSEY CITY.
The Daughters of Erietown by Connie Schultz, initials CS found in JER[[S]]EY [[C]]ITY.
This post: 20 points
Total: 185 points
Total BBT: 2
15.2 - VIETNAM AND THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENTBOOK 1 - Keep Saying Their Names
MPG - War > WWII
BOOK 2 - The Moon Is Down
On page 10 of the list
TOTAL POINTS - 360
Delicious Dee5.8 - West Side Story
Yours Tonight - tonight for song title: tonight
points this post: 5
Updated Total points: 370
MEGSCL25.3 - Queen Bee Darlene's task: The Unfortunate Effect of Planning
Option 2: Dressmaker’s has 11 letters: The Dressmaker's Secret
Option 3: 3 Os and 3 Es: Those Who Are Loved
Total to date
175
MEGSCL25.4 - Kristina Simon's task: The Summer of Love
Option 1
Flowers on cover -
OWER in subtitle - Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Total to date
200
Inge20.1 - Most Improved - SandyL's Task: Escape by Romance
Book: Ik geef je de zon
option 2
List: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
page: 5 book 458
Points this task: 20
total points: 150
total books: 13
task completed: 11
BB ticket: 1
#pages this post: 368
total #pages: 4960
Amy B30.5 - Sandy's task: Making the Best of It
No books with the main page genre children or kids may be used. Your two books must have a combined total of at least 600 pages. REQUIRED: In your post, indicate the option(s) that you chose.
2. Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in ESSENTIAL WORKER. All initials, including any middle initials listed on Goodreads, must be in the phrase, and letters can only be used as often as they appear in the phrase.
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam - 256 pgs
3. Read a book with the main page genre Education (standalone or embedded) or in which the main character is a teacher, a school bus driver, or someone else who works in a school.
Just Like You by Nick Hornby (MC is a school teacher, in book description) - 368 pgs
This task: 30 Points
To Date: 230 Points
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.5 Bigger is Better - Julia103's task: The Sixties, but When?
Option 1: My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
Set during the American Civil War 1860-1867
Points this post: 20
Total points: 660/990
Tasks completed: 38/57
Books read: 51
BB:4
GO: 0
(just keeping track for own purposes)
5.3 - Theme from A Summer PlacePage 3 on the list
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Post Total: 5
Season Total: 5
5.5 - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine InAmelia Peabody #5:
The Deeds of the Disturber by Elizabeth Peters
Post Total: 5
Season Total: 15
5.7 - The House of the Rising SunMy Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Post Total: 5
Season Total: 20
15.5 - Let There Be Light(s)LASER
juLiuS cAEseR
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 55
15.10 - The Digital DivideARPAnEt
The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Post Total: 15
Season Total: 70
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Book 1 - Option 1:
Title word in "don't tell me what TO do".
To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn
Used the word "TO"
Book 2 - Option 2:
11 letters in the author’s name.
Pirate King by Laurie R. King
LAURIE R KING has 11 letters.
Points: 25
Total Points: 310
GO Points: 6