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WINTER CHALLENGE 2020
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
Christine V20.10 - Group Reads
Mexican Gothic
I posted msg 19 in the book's discussion thread here.
Point this post: 20
Total points: 100
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 6
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sara G's task: RemembranceOption 2: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in JERSEY CITY.
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co. #1) by Jonathan Stroud
IL: MY+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14.0
author's initials, JS, found in JerSey
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 5
Season Total: 635
Kristen IA25.6 - Tien's task: Lunar New Year 2021
We like to wear new clothes on New Year's Day so strictly NEW-to-you authors ONLY.
This is a two-book task. Read one book from two different options.
Required: Identify which options you select when you post AND state authors are New-to-you.
1. Year of the Ox
Read a book with 'x' found in title/subtitle and/or author's name
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Chanel Cleeton is a new author to me.
I listened to the audiobook and have linked the PB edition.
3. Red is an auspicious colour
Read a book with a red cover. There should be a Minimum of 80% as determined by tineye.
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett - 92.2% red cover
Alan Bennett is a new author to me.
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 100/990
Tasks Completed: 7/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
10.4. And in Other News....Best Novels about the 60's - Page 1 (current position 4)
Go Ask Alice
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 450
Tasks Completed: 32
Books Read: 39
Big Books: 500: 1, 750: 2
GO: 1
Kristen IA30.5 - Sandy's task: Making the Best of It
Your two books must have a combined total of at least 600 pages.
REQUIRED: In your post, indicate the option(s) that you chose.
1. Read a book in which the main character is a doctor, nurse, or other hospital worker and a significant portion of the plot/subject takes place in a healthcare setting. The setting must be evident on the book's main page.
An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor - 351 pages
2. Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in ESSENTIAL WORKER.
Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva - 320 pages
I listened to the audiobook and linked the PB edition.
351 + 320 = 671 pages
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 130/990
Tasks Completed: 8/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
Nick KY5.2 - Hey, Jude
Sing along Hey is an exclamation or greeting. Read a book with one of these words in the title or subtitle: Hey, Hi, Hello, Welcome, Greetings, Good, Day, Howdy, Aloha, Yo, Oh. The word must match exactly.
I read Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. with the word "Welcome."
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 405
Nick KY10.9. Laugh, We Made it to 2021!
January 24 is Global Belly Laugh Day! Read a book with the main page genre Humor.
I read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 415
Nick KY15.10 - The Digital Divide
Read a book written by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in ARPANET. Spaces determine names. Letters can only be used as often as they appear in the target word.
I read The American Dream & The Zoo Story by Edward Albee.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 430
10.3 Nonfiction About Civil Rights Movement The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph
Total points: 515
Tasks completed: 31
Books read: 41
GO: 4
BB: (500) 1(750) (1000)
30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Forward and BackwardBook 1: Read a book with a word in the TITLE that can be read backwards as a new word
The Last Circus on Earth by B.P. Marshall
ON --> NO
Book 2: Read a book with the backward word that resulted in Book 1 in the TITLE.
No Wind of Blame (Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway #5) by Georgette Heyer
1x Golden Oldies tix (pub. 1939)
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies: 4
Bigger is Better: 5
Season Total: 665
READ 60 The House of the Rising Sun 5.7 A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Points 5
Total points 45
15.4 - Assassination NationOption 2: The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
TION intact in Meditations;SS in Essays;EE in Speeches
Total points: 130
APRILLEIGH25.3 - Queen Bee Darlene’s task: The Unfortunate Effect of Planning
Option 2: Read a book which has 11 letters in the author’s name or title.
Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
*** Golden Oldie, first published in 1937 ***
Eleven letters in DUMB WITNESS.
Option 3: Read a book where at least two different vowels appear at least three times each in the title.
The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
Title contains three Es, three Is, and three Os.
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 25 (480)
Golden Oldie: 1 (15)
Big Book: 0 (1)
Books Read: 2 (39)
Total Tasks: 31
Queen Bee DarleneRepost - forgot to put task #
20.5 Bigger is Better - Julia103's task: The Sixties, but When?
1) set at least 60% during a 60's decade in any century except 1960s
My Name is Mary Sutter
Civil war fiction which of course was in the 1860s
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 525
Queen Bee Darlene15.4 Assassination Nation
Option 2: TION intact in title/sub & 2 sets of double ltrs in title/sub/author
Plantation Shudders by Ellen Byron
plantaTION shuDDers eLLen
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 540
Queen Bee Darlene15.8 The Fab Four
4 word title
The Dead Will Tell
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 555
Queen Bee Darlene50.1 TraceyL's Task: Twister
Right Foot Blue
1) Right: author not read before
An Unrestored Woman by Shobha Rao
244 pgs
I have not read this author before
2) Foot: 4 or more words in title
Murder on St. Mark's Place 277 pgs
3) Blue: cover at least 50% the color from spin according to tineye
The Girl in the Mirror
55.2 + 33.7 + .6 + .5 = 90% Blue 304 pgs
750 min pages
244 + 277 + 304 = 825
Points this post: 50
Total Points: 605
Readerboard Name: Jammin JennyWinter Season 2020 SRC
Task 5.6 - Sugar, Sugar
Read a book written by an author who shares a name of a band vocalist- fictional or actual - from this list : Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Reggie Mantle, Veronica Lodge, Betty Cooper, Ron Dante, Toni Wine, Jeff Barry, Andy Kim. The name must match exactly, but may be used in any position.
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry - Barry matches Jeff Barry
Claiming 1 BB ticket, I listened to the audible version, there is no MMPB version, but the most rated PB version is 546 pages
Points this post: 5
GO Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 1
Total points this season: 595
Total GO Tickets: 5
Total BB Tickets: 6
VAL TX25.2 - Nick KY's task: Regina and the Mountains - Read one Book 1 and one Book 2.
Book 1 - Option B. - Read a book with an author whose first and last initials are in JAMES BALDWIN.
Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington
Book 2 - Option B. - Read a book with a two-word title. (subtitles are excluded.) The first letters of each word should be in the name of ONE of the following famous mountains.
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Mountain is KILIMANJARO.
This post and total:
Points - 25
APRILLEIGH20.5 - Bigger is Better - Julia103’s task: The Sixties, but When?
Option 2: Read a book first published in the 1560's, 1660s, 1760s or 1860s.
The Misanthrope by Molière
*** Golden Oldie, first published in 1666 ***
First publish in the 1660s, specifically 1666.
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 20 (500)
Golden Oldie: 1 (16)
Big Book: 0 (1)
Books Read: 1 (40)
Total Tasks: 32
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sara G's task: RemembranceOption 2, a book by an author whose initials are found in JERSEY CITY: The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
Points this post: 20
Total points: 500
Ana30.3 - Cat's task: Eight Tiny Reindeer!
I picked the the pair Comet and Cupid
No JudgementsbyMeg Cabot.The Authors initials are in Comet.
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini. The Authors initials are in Cupid.
***Claiming 2 BB Tickets the book has 878 pages.****
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 70
BB Tickets: 2
30.5 - Sandy's task: Making the Best of It2. Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in ESSENTIAL WORKER.
Sandstone by Stephen Lacey
author's initials, SL, found in eSsentiaL
304 pages
The Girl with the Gold Bikini by Lisa Walker
author's initial, LW, found in essentiaL Worker
264 pages
Total pages read: 604
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies: 4
Bigger is Better: 5
Season Total: 695
DeborahPost #14
20.3 – Best Review - Katy's task: Netflix Binges
A) The Dire King
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 260
Books Read: 18
Tasks Done: 14
Task 5.10 - FreedomRead a book of your choice that meets the SRC rules. For this task, a book with the main page genre Childrens or Kids may be used.
D: A Tale of Two Worlds (2020) by Michel Faber (Young Adult) (Hardcover, 304 pages)
155 + 05 = 160
Tasks Completed: 09
Points for this post: 05
Points thus far: 155 + 05 = 160
Books read: 12
Pages read: 3,796
Read but not claimed: 04
Goodreads Authors: 07
Golden Oldies: 00
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Task 10.6 - Please Phrase That in the Form of a Question.WHO in title
Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?
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40 points
Task 10.7 - Earworms!4 word title, initials in supercalifraGilisTicexpialiDOcious
Gallery of the Dead
528 pages - 1 BB tix
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50 points
1 BB tix
Task 15.1 - Groovy, Manday 3 - Sunday
book 1 - author matches STEPHEN Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
Troy by Stephen Fry
book 2 - title HOUSE matches Red HOUSE (Jimi Hendrix)
Catherine House
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65 points
1 BB tix
Task 20.10 - Group Readread & comment on one of the books
Mexican Gothic
comment: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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85 points
1 BB tix
Task 25.1 - Christmas in the 1960soption 1: red & green item on cover
The Ordeal of the Haunted Room
holly sprig on RHS next to the M in ROOMlength verified: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
option 2: author initials in CHRISTMAS
Brilliant Devices by Shelley Adina
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110 points
1 BB tix
Task 25.2 - Regina and the Mountainsbook 1 option B: author initials in JAMES
The Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons
book 2 option B: two word title, initials in CRUCES
Crossed Skis
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135 points
1 BB tix
Task 25.6 - Lunar New Year 2021both authors are New to Me
option 1: X in author name
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
option 2: published in a RAT year (1996)
Dark Rose
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160 points
1 BB tix
Task 25.8 - 2020 Wrappedone Graphic Novel MPG allowed
I did option 3 twice
option 3: read books published in 2020
In Black and White
Rivers of London Volume 8: The Fey and the Furious
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185 points
1 BB tix
Task 30.2 - LOST and FOUND600+ total pages
book 1: has been on my off-line TBR since December 2016
The Alloy of Law
325 pages
book 2 option B: book by on "Readers also enjoyed"
The Rage of Dragons
verified as OK: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
this author is NEW TO ME
544 pages - claiming 1 BB tix
325 + 544 > 600 pages
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215 points
2 BB tix
Task 30.8 - Sylvia PlathI did option 2 twice
option 2: author initials in BEEKEEPERS
Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
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245 points
2 BB tix
Task 50.1 - Twister750+ total pages
I spun RIGHT HAND BLUE
Right: NEW TO ME author
Strategy: A History
768 pages - claiming 2 BB tix
Hand: 1 word title
Crownbreaker
528 pages - claiming 1 BB tix
Blue: blue cover
The Dolphins Of Pern
320 pages
768 + 528 + 320 >> 750 pages
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295 points
5 BB tix
Task 10.5 - Not All Bad!read a book by an author first read before Nov 2020
Aurora Blazing by Jessie Mihalik
NOT a re-read
I first read Polaris Rising on 6 Sep 2020
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305 points
5 BB tix
Task 25.3 - The Unfortunate Effect of Planningoption 3: 2 vowels repeated 3 times in the title
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
3 As
9 Es
3 Is
3 Os
1 U
option 4: blue and yellow on cover
Ayoade on Top
blue sky; yellow shirt=======
330 points
5 BB tix
Task 15.9 - A Trekkie is BornScience Fiction MPG
Foundryside
512 pages - claiming 1 BB tix
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345 points
6 BB tix
Task 5.3 - Theme from A Summer Placep1, #96 on list
Dracula
published 1897 - claiming 1 GO tix
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350 points
6 BB tix
1 GO tix
Amy B5.10 - Freedom
Sing along Read a book of your choice that meets the SRC rules.
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
This Task: 5 Points
To Date: 375 Points
Bookwrm526Task #10.6 - Please Phrase That in the Form of a Question.
Read a book with one of these "question words" in its title/subtitle - Who, What, When, Where, How, Why. I read Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States by Maya Schenwar et al.
Total points so far: 380
Joanne MI15.1 - Groovy, Man
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair
Choose a day from the List of performances and events at Woodstock Festival:
I chose Day 1 -
Book 1: Arlo Gurthrie/John Pilla on guitar
Book 2: The word is road: The Road to Travel, Brett Sommer
Book 1: Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy by John Prevas
Book 2: American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
Points this task 15
Total Points 245
BB's 2
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20.5 - Bigger is Better - Julia103's task: The Sixties, but When?
This is a one book task.
Required: State which option you chose when posting.
Option 1: Read a book which is set at least 60% during a ‘60s decade in any century EXCEPT the twentieth century (1960s).
The Union Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini - takes place during American Civil War (1861-1865)
I listened to the audiobook and have linked the PB edition.
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 75/990
Tasks Completed: 6/57
BB: 0
GO: 0