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SPRING CHALLENGE 2021
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20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's Task: OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLLOption 2.
"Nutbush City Limits": The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
*288 pg*
Total Points = 30
Amy B20.4 - Golden Oldies - Lys's Task: Wintering at Riley
This is a one-book task.
Required: State which option you chose when posting
Option 4: Read a book with a MPG of poetry.
The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 100 Points
Joanne MI5.2 - Antiques Roadshow
a book published before 1921
Pride and Prejudice -First published in 1813
Claiming one Golden Oldie
Points this task 5
Total Points 60
Jen K15.8. It's Black and White
Daughter of Fortune
at least 50% set in Chile
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 105
APRILLEIGH10.10 - Twitter - It’s What’s Happening
A book with a number of pages between 140 and 280 inclusive.
Instant Family Meals by Sarah Copeland (192 pages)
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 10 (175)
Golden Oldie: 0 (2)
Big Book: 0 (2)
Books Read: 1 (17)
Total Tasks: 15
APRILLEIGH20.9 - Moderator’s Pet - Christine V’s Task: Share Appreciation
A book with a word of four or more letters from “compliment” and its listed synonyms can be found intact in the title.
Quick Prep Cooking WITH Your Instant Pot by Stefanie Bundalo
The word WITH is found in both the title and the synonym “ingratiate oneself WITH”
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 20 (195)
Golden Oldie: 0 (2)
Big Book: 0 (2)
Books Read: 1 (18)
Total Tasks: 16
Task 20.10 - Group Readscomment on book: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
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230 points
3 GO tix
1 BB tix
25.7 - Brooke TX's Task: Deja Vu All Over AgainOption B: Before & After
Book 1: Read a new to you book by an author you first read before March 13, 2020.
A House at the Bottom of a Lake by Josh Malerman
I read Bird Box by Josh Malerman April 29th 2019 which was the first book I read by this author, and the book is not a reread.
Book 2: Read a new to you book by an author you first read after May 4, 2020.
Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney
I read Love Poems for the Office by John Kenney on March 4th 2021 which was the first book I read by this author, and the book is not a reread.
Points Earned This Post: 25
Total Points Earned: 155
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
5.2 - Antiques RoadshowRead a book that is considered an antique. For the purposes of this task, an antique is defined as a book that was first published at least 100 years ago (1921 and before).
The Call of the Wild
First Published in 1903
Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket
IL: MG - BL: 8.0 - AR Pts: 7.0
Points Earned This Post: 5
Total Points Earned: 160
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Kathy KS20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's Task: OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLL
Option 2. Choose a song from this list of tracks off the album Live Bullet. Read a book with a Title (ignore subtitles) of at least 3 words, where the initial letters of each word in the title appear in the song name. REQUIRED: You must include the song name in your post.
SONG TITLE: "Beautiful Loser"
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, by V.E. Schwab
TILOAL = beAuTIfuL LOser
I read the large print version; pb=500 p. (no mmpb) (La vida invisible de Addie LaRue)
Claiming 1 Big Book ticket! 500 pages
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 105
Tasks completed: 5
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Kai20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Jen K's Task: Sugaring Season
OPTION 1: A book that has the word “sugar” OR “snow” intact in the title. Must be at least 235 pages.
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
240 pages
Books Read for Challenge: 7
Total New Points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 80
Coralie15.7 Disco, Disco, Duck
D in borDer, I,S,C, O in CrOSsIng
Border Crossing
Total to date 125 points
25.6 - REMINISCINGOPTION 2 - Decker and Joy by Elle Rush
PB for length Decker and Joy
ER in Quadrophenia
OPTION 3 - Murder at Harbor Village
Village in Village Ghetto Land
TOTAL POINTS - 380
FLY Task #20.5 - Bigger is Better - Ann A's Task: Big Books, Big Titles
task: read a book with a title/subtitle consisting of AT LEAST 8 WORDS
book: The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
how it fits: more than 8 words in title/subtitle
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 3 /54
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Kathryn CA10.1 - Spring Starts
Read a book that is book number 1 in a series (series, #1)
Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O'Connor
*First in the Irish Village Mystery Series
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 60
Total Tasks: 7
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 0
Total Books: 7
Kathryn CA20.1. Most Improved Player - Coralie's Task: Knit and Purl
Read a book with at least one letter K and at least one letter P in the title/subtitle.
Bookplate Special by Lorna Barrett
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 80
Total Tasks: 8
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 0
Total Books: 8
Kathryn CA20.6. Seasoned Reader - Iulia's Task: Honoring Zen, the Brave Tomcat
Option 3. Read a book written by an author whose first and last initials may be found in the phrase: "Strong, wise cats"
One by One by Ruth Ware
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 100
Total Tasks: 9
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 0
Total Books: 9
Kathryn CA20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Margo's Task: First Time Lucky!
Option 3. Read a book with MPG cozy-mystery (stand-alone or embedded).
Murder at an Irish Wedding by Carlene O'Connor
*308 pages
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 120
Total Tasks: 10
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 0
Total Books: 10
Kathryn CA20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's Task: OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLL
Option 1 - read a book, where the author’s initials can be found in "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Murder in an Irish Pub by Carlene O'Connor
*336 pages
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 140
Total Tasks: 11
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 0
Total Books: 11
Kathryn CA5.9 - Three's Company
Read a book that is #3 in a series
Murder in an Irish Churchyard by Carlene O'Connor
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 145
Total Tasks: 12
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 0
Total Books: 12
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Iulia's Task: Honoring Zen, the Brave TomcatOption 1: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
❇︎ cat on cover ❇︎
Total points: 60 + 20 = 80
20.9. Moderators' Pet - Christine V's Task: Share AppreciationTitle has word of four letters or more from list - "Hand it to".
I read the ebook Hand In Glove by Ngaio Marsh. The mmp is here: Le Gant maudit.
Points: 20
Total: 220
BB Points: 5
GO Points: 3
Nick KY20.4 - Golden Oldies - Lys's Task: Wintering at Riley
Option 4. GR genre of “Poetry.” I read Essential Keats: Selected by Philip Levine. John Keats, poet. Philip Levine, ed.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Fa: 160
20.6. Seasoned Reader - Iulia's Task: Honoring Zen, the Brave TomcatOPTION 3: Read a book written by an author whose first and last initials may be found in the phrase: "Strong, wise cats".
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
(I read the Kindle version. The MMP edition is Styr din plog över de dödas ben)
Points this post: 20
TOTAL POINTS: 70
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Book Tickets: - (500+); - (750+)
Total tasks completed: 4
Total books read: 4
Andy P.Task # 30.4 - Sandy's Task: Up and Down
Book 1. Never Far Away by Michael Koryta publication date 2021, 384 p.
Book 2. Interference by Brad Parks publication date 2020, 388 p.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 125
APRILLEIGH15.7 - Disco, Disco Duck
A book with with all the letters of DISCO found in the title.
Good Housekeeping 400-Calorie Instant Pot by Susan Westmoreland
DO found in goOD
IS found in houSekeepIng
C found in Calorie
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 15 (210)
Golden Oldie: 0 (2)
Big Book: 0 (2)
Books Read: 1 (19)
Total Tasks: 17
Joanna T15.8. It's Black and White
Read a book set at least 50% in a country/territory from this list ...Argentina...
The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander
Task total: 15
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Grand total: 115
BB: 0
GO: 0
Joanna T20.4 - Golden Oldies - Lys's Task: Wintering at Riley
Option 3: Read a book, fiction or nonfiction, with an LGBT MPG.
Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert
Task total: 20
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Grand total: 135
BB: 0
GO: 0
Joanna T20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Jen K's Task: Sugaring Season
Option 2: Maple - Read a book with a single author with the first and last initials of the author found in the word “maple”.
Another Way by Anna Martin
I read the kindle edition, but the Paperback has 240 pages.
Task total: 20
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Grand total: 155
BB: 0
GO: 0
Joanna T20.9. Moderators' Pet - Christine V's Task: Share Appreciation
Read a book where any single word of four letters or more from "compliment" and its listed synonyms can be found intact in the title (subtitles excluded).
REQUIRED: State the target word from the list that you are using.
...ingratiate oneself with...
Target word: With
With This Collar by Sierra Cartwright
Task total: 20
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Grand total: 175
BB: 0
GO: 0
Joanna TTask # 25.4 Andy P.’s task: Check Your Eyesight
Read two books whose titles/subtitles each contain a word of at least 5 letters that has only one “interior” (not the first or last) letter that is different.
Words: Black/Block
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
This book has 272 pages.
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer by Harvey Karp
(Approved post #96 as not really for kids)
This book has 336 pages.
Page count = 272 + 336 = 608 > 500
Task total: 25
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Grand total: 200
BB: 0
GO: 0
Delicious Dee10.3 - ABBA
Brazen and the Beast - AB in Brazen; BA in beast
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 335
APRILLEIGH25.7 - Brooke TX’s Task: Deja Vu All Over Again
Option B: Before & After
Book 1: A new-to-you book by an author you first read before March 13, 2020.
Mediterranean Instant Pot by America’s Test Kitchen
This is not a re-read.
I read my first book by America’s Test Kitchen, The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook, on March 10, 2020.
Book 2: A new-to-you book by an author you first read after May 4, 2020.
The Languid Belly of the Beast by J.S. Carter Gilson
(Read the kindle version - paperback - no mmpb)
This is not a re-read.
I read my first book by J.S. Carter Gilson, The Loneliness of the Deep Space Cargoist, on February 7, 2021.
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 25 (235)
Golden Oldie: 0 (2)
Big Book: 0 (2)
Books Read: 2 (21)
Total Tasks: 18
MARGO 20.10 Group Readsmessage #2 in discussion thread
Cabin in the Woods - The Bear and the Nightingale
Posted paperback but read Kindle
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Points this task: 20
Total points: 135
Tasks completed: 10
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Laurah3020.8. Nickels & Dimes - MegSCL's Task: 21 Years and 21 Centuries
Option b) Century
Read a book first published or set in that century of the CE.
random number generated was 19 - I picked a book from the 19th century
Crime and Punishment pub in 1866; 671 p
claiming 1 BB ticket
and 1 GO ticket
Points this post: 20
Total points: 40
Books read: 2
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books; 1
Tasks completed: 2
Mod
20.1. Most Improved Player - Coralie's Task: Knit and Purl
Read a book with at least one letter K and at least one letter P in the title.
The Bookshop of Yesterdays. Amy Meyerson. 3.17.21
Points this post: 20
Points total: 210
Tasks complete: 12/54
Amy B - repost20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Margo's Task: First Time Lucky!
Your book for this task must be at least 290 pages.
Choose one option and read one book. REQUIRED: State which option you used when you post.
Option 1.
As I have completed one challenge, read a book with a ONE word title. Ignore subtitles.
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (416 pages)
Received approval that this is not a comic/graphic novel.
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 100 Points
25.7 - Brooke TX's Task: Deja Vu All Over AgainOption A: Year After Year
Book 1: Read a book first published in 2020.
Australian Code Breakers: Our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich by James Phelps
Book 2: Read a book first published in 2021.
The Gaps by Leanne Hall
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 170
MARGIEVANTask 20.8 Nickels & Dimes - MegSCL's Task: 21 Years & 21 Centuries: Generate a random # between 1 and 21. Choose Option A or B
I chose Option A
Generated number is 18
In Pieces
Book published in 2018
Points this post: 20
Points total: 75
20.2 - FIRST TIME LUCKYOPTION 3 - Death at High Tide
290 Pages
MPG of Mystery > Cozy Mystery
TOTAL POINTS - 420
Bookwrm526Task #20.3 - OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLL
Option 1: Read a book, where the author’s initials can be found in "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". I read Hunger Makes the Wolf by Alex Wells (A in road, W in yellow). (462p).
Total points so far: 80
5.1 - All in the FamilyA June Bride
Verified here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
On post 8141
Points 15
APRILLEIGH5.7 - Mork & Mindy
A book with & or AND in the title.
Instant Pot Fast & Easy by Urvashi Pitre
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 5 (215)
Golden Oldie: 0 (2)
Big Book: 0 (2)
Books Read: 1 (20)
Total Tasks: 18
Jayme(the ghostreader)5.10 Book of Choice
And Then There Were Noneby Agatha Christie
Task +5
Grand Total: 15
25.6 - Amy FL's Task: ReminiscingOption 2, a book by an author whose initials can be found in QUADROPHENIA: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8.0
Option 4, a book with MPG True Crime: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Points this post: 25
Total points: 190
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20.6 Seasoned Reader-Iulia's Task: Honoring Zen, the Brave Tomcat
Option 3: First and last initials found in "Strong, wise cats" The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 1