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WINTER CHALLENGE 2020
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Janice CA5.7 - The House of the Rising Sun
MPG: Animals
World Wild Vet: Encounters in the Animal Kingdom
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total: 40
tasks: 4
books: 4
Bookwrm526Task #20.8 - Where in the world?
Option 1: Read a book with 3 As in a single word in the TITLE (title only) or in one part of the author's name (first, middle, last). I read The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas, which has 3 As in the authors last name.
Total points so far: 620
Jen K10.8. Cookies!
Cremas, Christmas Cookies, and Crooks
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 635
Jen K10.9. Laugh, We Made it to 2021!
Nothing to See Here
MPG Humor
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 645
Jen K10.10 - I Want Them All!
French Exit
Matches #7 FRENCH vanilla
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 655
Jen K15.1 - Groovy, Man
Day 1 - Friday, August 15 to Saturday, August 16
Book 1: Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Matches: JOAN Baez
Book 2: How to Be Black
Matches: "HOW Can We Hang On to a Dream?" sung by Tim Hardin
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 670
15.1 - Groovy, ManDay 2
Book 1: Read a book written by a single author who shares a name with one of the musical artists who performed on the day you picked. Names must match exactly but may be in any position (first, middle, last).
Bane and Shadow (Empire of Storms #2) by Jon Skovron
artist: Jon Cole
Book 2: Read a book with a word in the title/subtitle that matches a word** in one of the songs played on the day you chose.
All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry
word in title, "that's", matches a word in song title, "That's How I Eat"
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 4
Bigger is Better: 9
Season Total: 910
trishhartuk20.6 Seasoned Reader - EShay's task: EShay's podcast connection
Option 4: Short and sweet. Read a book with the main page genre Novella and/or that has a page length of 150-200,
The Thanksgiving Trip, Kathi Daley
Read the kindle edition. PB here (184pg)
Points this task: 20
Books read: 1
Total points: 345
Tasks completed: 26
Golden oldies: 3
Big book tickets: 5 (750+ x 2 = 4 tkt; 500+ x 1 = 1 tkt)
Inge50.1 - TraceyL's task: Twister
Result: Left, hand, yellow
Book1 Thanks for the Memories
I've read this author more often, even for this readathon
book 2: De kleine getuige
book 3
74.2 %#feed01Yellow
11.9 %#f2e215Yellow
2.9 %#c34e15Orange
2.6 %#82792eBrown
2.5 %#1c0a0dBlack
2.5 %#b1a82dGreen
2.1 %#d98f19Orange
0.7 %#3f3017Brown
0.5 %#6c2015Brown
0.1 %#88561aBrown
Points this task: 50
total points: 245
total books: 21
task completed: 17
BB ticket: 1
#pages this post: 1106
total #pages: 7781
Task 30.4 - Forward and Backwardpaired words ON / NO
book 1: Shadows on the Tundra
book 2: When No One is Watching
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800 points
11 BB tix
3 GO tix
Delicious Dee15.6 - Heart to Heart
points this post: 15
Updated Total points: 860
trishhartuk50.1 TraceyL's task: Twister
Required: State the results of the Twister spinner.
Right Hand Blue
Book 1 - Option Right: Read a book by an author you have NOT read from before.
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
Read the kindle edition. PB here (261pg)
This author is new to me.
Book 2 - Option Hand: Read a book with 3 words or less in the TITLE.
Affairs of Steak, Julie Hyzy (294pg)
Book 3 – Color. Read a book where the cover is at least 50% the color from your spin according to Tineye.
(342pg)65.5% #184f66 Blue
14.5% #577e90 Blue
9.6% #9ab6c5 Blue
7.1% #000000 Black
3.3% #cbdae3 Grey
Total Blue: 89.6%
Total pages: 261 + 294 + 352 = 891
Points this task: 50
Books read: 3
Total points: 395
Tasks completed: 27
Golden oldies: 3
Big book tickets: 5 (750+ x 2 = 4 tkt; 500+ x 1 = 1 tkt)
PegW5.10 - Freedom
Read a book of your choice that meets the SRC rules.
Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 410
Big books: 3
Golden Oldies: 4
20.6 – Seasoned Reader - EShay's task: EShay's podcast connectionOPTION 1: Read a book recommended or mentioned on a podcast.
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Mentioned in Audio Book Club - May 2016
Points this post: 20
TOTAL POINTS: 180
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Book Tickets: - (500+); - (750+)
Total tasks completed: 9
Total books read: 11
Readerboard name: List_addict15.6: Heart to Heart
A cover featuring a heart or hearts
by Maddie Dawson(The front gate)
Total score this challenge: 35
ZachFor Task 20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Marie-Anne's task: Where in the world? I chose Option 3 read a book with a fruit in the title and read Eat a Peach.
Points this post: 20
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Totals:
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Points: 235
BBTs: 1
GOTs: 0
Queen Bee Darlene25.6 Tien's task: Lunar New Year 2021
New to me authors
1) X found in title/sub/author's name
The Exiles by Chrstina Baker Kline
This author is new to me
3) 80% red cover
Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
This author is also new to me
88% red according to tineye - this is one of the example books for the task
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 825
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Julia103's task: The Sixties, but When? Option 3:
Read a book of at least 360 pages where the page count ends in 60 or 66
One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus Read 2/16/21 360 pages
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 445
30.5 - Sandy's task: Making the Best of It Option 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.
Virgin River by Robyn Carr Read 1/11/21
The novel is about a nurse practitioner who moves to a remote town and practices medicine there. She spends much of her time caring for patients both in their homes and in the home office of the elderly town doctor.
Option 2:
Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in ESSENTIAL WORKER.
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware Read 2/6/21
R and W found in WoRker
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 475
30.8 - Ava Catherine's task: Sylvia PlathOption 2, a book by an author whose initials are found in BEEKEEPERS: The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
Option 4, a book with MPG mental health: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
Points this post: 30
Total points: 715
Kai30.5 Sandy's task: Making the Best of It
OPTION 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 Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
OPTION 2 Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in ESSENTIAL WORKER.
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
Books read: 20
Tasks completed: 16
Points this task: 30
Total points: 290
Kai5.10 Freedom
Read a book of your choice that meets the SRC rules.`
Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
Books read: 21
Tasks completed: 17
Points this task: 5
Total points: 295
Andy P.Task # 25.4 - Kristina Simon's task: The Summer of Love
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.
Murder Mile by Lynda La Plante
Book B: Read a book written by a single author whose name contains LL Blood Is Blood: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel by Will Thomas
Points this post: 25
Total points: 885
Elizabeth PTask 20.3 - Netflix Binges
Option Two - Book from Favorite Comfort Reads list
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Page One of list
First published 1817, good for *1 Golden Oldies Ticket*
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 535
Total Tasks: 28
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 9
Total Books: 37
Suzannesea10.5 Not All Bad!
Read a book by a single author who you first read in 2020, before 11/15.
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith is not a re-read.
The first book I read by Robert Galbraith was The Cuckoo's Calling which I finished 10/19/20.
Points this post: 10
Total points to date: 335
Coralie50.1 Twister
My spin gave me Left Hand Green
Book 1 – book by an author I have read before
The Last Emperox: The Interdependency Book 3 by John Scalzi
Book 2 – book with 3 words or less in title
The Burning Page
Book 3 – book with cover at least 50% green
72% greenTotal to date 600 points
Kathy KS15.10 - The Digital Divide
Read a book written by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in ARPANET.
Yes Please, by Amy Poehler
AP = ArPanet
I listened to the audiobook ; pb=329 p. (no mmpb)
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Points for this task: 15
Total points : 265
Tasks completed: 12
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Amy FL10.5. Not All Bad!
A Torch Against the Night
Finished reading An Ember in the Ashes on September 9, 2020 which was the first book I've read from this author and #1 in this series. The book I read for this task was the second in the series and not a re-read.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 635
Amy FL20.3 – Best Review - Katy's task: Netflix Binges
Option B: Metzger's Dog (page 5 of Favorite Comfort Reads list)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 670
Kim O15.1 - Groovy, Man
The day I chose is Day 2 - Saturday, August 16 to Sunday, August 17.
Book 1: Read a book written by a single author who shares a name with one of the musical artists who performed on the day you picked.
by Madeline Miller artist: Miller Anderson (Keef Hartley Band)Book 2: Read a book with a word in the title/subtitle that matches a word (excluding a, an, and (&), the, to) in one of the songs played on the day you chose.
A Night to Remember song: Night Time is the Right Time
Points this task: 15
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Totals:
Points: 300
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Golden Oldies: 4
Tasks completed: 21
Delicious Dee20.10
Mexican Gothic - #32 in the discussion thread
points this post: 20
Updated Total points: 880
Delicious Dee25.5 - Amy FL's task: Verrry Interesting
Book A - The Long Flight Home - Alan Hlad - Alan for Alan Sues
Book B - Breaking Without You - BWY found in You Bet Your Sweet Bippy
points this post: 25
Updated Total points: 905
30.2 - LOST AND FOUNDBOOK 1 - LOST - Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage by Jennifer Ashley
Shelved on my GR TBR 10/01/10
316 pages
BOOK 2B - Married By Morning by Lisa Kleypas
Lisa Kleypas is found on the similar authors list of Jennifer Ashley
341 pages
TOTAL POINTS - 835
Task 20.7 - RemembranceOption 1: Motown
Read a book with all the letters in the word MOTOWN in the title only.
Dr. Potter's Medicine Show [ANGRY ROBOT] (2017) by Eric Scott Fischl (Goodreads Author) (Mass Market Paperback, 348 pages)
dr. pOTter's MediciNe shOW
210 + 20 = 230
Tasks Completed: 12
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 210 + 20 = 230
Books read: 17
Pages read: 5,355
Read but not claimed: 04
Goodreads Authors: 11
Golden Oldies: 00
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
LAUREN JODI30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Cars, Cars, Cars
Option 2: VW Microbus
When You See Me by Lisa Gardner
Option 4: VW Beetle
The Duke and the Lady in Red by Lorraine Heath
Name of beetle: Red bugs
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 465/990
Total Books Read: 35
Tasks Completed: 26/57
LAUREN JODI5.5 - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
Twisted by Laura Griffin
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 470/990
Total Books Read: 36
Tasks Completed: 27/57
MARGO 30.1 - Mazza1's task: Create a DatePage count: Book 1 (308) + Book 2 (384) = 692
These are paperback equivalents but I read both on Kindle.
Option 1: Read a book with a day of the week in its TITLE: an S may be added to pluralise or create a possessive.
Tuesday's Child
Option 4: Read a book with a year (numerical format) or a range of years in its TITLE.
Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History
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Points this task: 30
Total points: 420
Tasks completed: 18
Amy B10.1. Shaken, not Stirred.
Read a book with a single author whose initials can be found in SEAN CONNERY. All initials must be present. Letters can only be used as often as found in the target name.
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 595 Points
20.3Option c: MPG "Politics."
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Total points: 785
Tasks completed: 46
Books read: 61
GO: 4
BB: 4(500) 1(750) (1000)
trishhartuk5.6 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...
Cockatiels at Seven, Donna Andrews
Shares a name with Archie Andrews
Points this task: 50
Books read: 1
Total points: 400
Tasks completed: 29
Golden oldies: 3
Big book tickets: 5 (750+ x 2 = 4 tkt; 500+ x 1 = 1 tkt)
20.3 – Best Review - Katy's task: Netflix BingesD. "The Babysitter's Club" -
Page 1) Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Total Points = 140
20.10 - Group ReadsRead ONE of the Group Reads.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
I commented in messages 16 and 17.
This book has 576 pages for 1 Big Book point.
Published in 1848 for 1 Golden Oldie point.
Points: 20
Total Points: 980
Golden Oldies: 25
Big Books: 4
10.3. March On!Nonfiction about important figure of Civil Rights movement.
His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
Points: 10
Total Points: 990
Golden Oldies: 25
Big Books: 4
M1nks50.1- Left Foot Blue
1. The Nine Tailors 405 pgs/Pub 1943- I have read this author before
* Golden Oldie ticket
2. Death at the Bar 310 pgs/Pub 1940
* Golden Oldie ticket
3.
288 pgs/Pub 1938* Golden Oldie ticket
71.2 %#71a0acBlue
11.8 %#c1e7f5Blue
7.9 %#16302eGreen
7.1 %#3a6881Blue
0.9 %#5a242bBrown
0.5 %#3b2c32Violet
0.5 %#5c5f67Grey
Exclude background color from extracted colors
Points for this task: 50
Total points : 50
Big Book tickets : 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 3
Golden Oldies tickets total: 3
M1nks30.6
1. The Queen's Fool 504 pgs/PHillipa
* 1 X Big Book Ticket
2. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding - ACID
Points for this task: 30
Total points : 80
Big Book tickets : 1
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 3
Golden Oldies tickets total: 3
ED20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sara G's task: Remembrance
Opt. 1-
What Kind of Woman: Poems by Kate Baer
"MOTOWN" FOUND IN "WhaT kiNd Of wOMan"
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 245
Books read=16
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 2
(Note- the readerboard has me 10 points higher. Not sure where the error is.)
50.1 - TraceyL's task: TwisterTwister spin results: Left—Foot—Green
Book 1, a book by an author I've read before: The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
I have read two previous books by this author.
mass market paperback edition Les coeurs brisés ont la main verte 416 pages
Book 2, a book with 4 or more words in the title: Any Dream Will Do by Debbie Macomber
paperback edition Any Dream Will Do 400 pages
Book 3, a book whose cover is at least 50% green: Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
mass market paperback edition Prodigal Summer 447 pages
Points this post: 50
Total points: 765
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30.6 - Andy P.’s Task: The Litmus Test
Book 1. Read a book by a single author whose first or last name begins or ends with the sequence PH
Ubik by Philip K. Dick (227 pages)
Book 2. Read a book where the word ACID or BASE
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Crazy Adventure in a Crazy War by John "Chick" Donohue (288 pages)
***BASE found in grEAteSt Beer ***
515 pages is greater than 500
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 160
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Ticket Books: 0