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SPRING CHALLENGE 2021
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StaceyNC10.9 - Just What the Doctor Ordered
Read a book written by a single author with the letters M and D in the author's name.
Book: The Sin Eater's Daughter
Author: Melinda Salisbury
Completed: 3/4/21
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 2
StaceyNC10.10 - Twitter - It's What's Happening
Read a book with a number of pages between 140 and 280 inclusive.
Book: Raphael
Completed: 3/20/21
Pages: 248
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 3
StaceyNC15.5. It's outta here!
Read a book with at least 2 of the digits 75530 in its page count.
Book: Anna and the French Kiss
Completed: 3/17/21
Pages: 372
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 45
Tasks Completed: 4
StaceyNC20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's Task: OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLL
Option 1. For this option, read a book, where the author’s initials can be found in "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".
Book: The Friend Zone
Author: Kristen Callihan
Pages: 309
Completed: 3/2/21
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 65
Tasks Completed: 5
StaceyNC20.6. 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".
Book: Wicked Cravings
Author: Suzanne Wright
Completed: 3/24/21
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 85
Tasks Completed: 6
Stacey NC25.6 - Amy FL's Task: Reminiscing
Option 1: Read a book with a title of at least three words where the first letter of each title word (ignore subtitles) can be found in the name of that show: GET THE LED OUT.
Book: Defying the Odds
Completed: 3/27/21
Option 2: Read a book by an author with the first or last name Tom, Thomas or Tommy OR an author whose initials can be found in QUADROPHENIA.
Book: Angels Fall
Author: Nora Roberts
Completed: 3/9/21
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 110
Tasks Completed: 7
StaceyNC30.5 - TessaVanessa's Task: Thank you, Dr. Seuss!
Option 1: Read a book by an author with first and last initials of DR. Initials must be in that order.
Book: Shifter Planet
Completed: 3/12/21
Author: D.B. Reynolds
Option 3: Read a book first published in March of any year.
Book: Fire Touched
Completed: 3/7/21
Published: March 8, 2016
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 140
Tasks Completed: 8
Nick KY10.9 The Doctor I read The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer & Betrayed by Bart D. Ehrman. The author's name has both an M and a D.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 250
Mod
This is a 2 book task. Your books must have a combined total of at least 600 pages.
Book 1 - any book that fits general SRC rules
Red at the Bone. Jacqueline Woodson. 3.25.21 (2019, 196 pages)
Book 2 - your second book must go up in pages and down in publication date
Little Beach Street Bakery. Jenny Colgan. 3.29.21 (2014, 416 pages)
416 + 196 >600
Points this post: 30
Points total: 355
Tasks complete: 20/54
MEGSCL15.1. Continuing on..................
The Course of Love and Love, Creekwood
TOTAL
270 points
2 big book
1 golden oldie
5.6 - Are You Being Served?I listened to the audiobook. Mass market paperback:
The Inimitable Jeeves
Humor genre
Total points: 50
15.9 - National Library WeekThe Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
❇︎ W in Week; T in National ❇︎
Total points: 135 + 15 = 150
20.10 - Group ReadsPaper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. Jackson
❇︎ my comments in message 11 of discussion thread ❇︎
Total points: 150 + 20 = 170
Theresa5.1 All in the Family
The Secret Sisters by Joni Rodgers
Points Current Post - 5
Total Points - 5
Theresa5.2 Antiques Roadshow
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
first published 1813
Points this post - 5
Total points - 10
RochelleTask: 20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's Task: OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLL
Option 1: The author’s initials can be found in "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road."
Must be 250+ pages.
Book: Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Pages: 288
Points: 20
Total Points: 20
RochelleTask: 5.7 - Mork & Mindy
Read a book with an ampersand (&) or the word "and" in its TITLE.
Book: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Points: 5
Total Points: 25
RochelleTask: 10.8 - Bye, Bye Miss American Pie
Read a book with a word in the TITLE that can be found in the American Pie song lyrics.
Book: Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest, by Nate Powell
(Graphic Novel, that fits SRC reqs - 160 pages)
Word from song: "Save"
Points: 10
Total Points: 35
RochelleTask: 20.5 Bigger is Better - Ann A's Task: Big Books, Big Titles
Read a book with a title/subtitle consisting of AT LEAST 8 WORDS
Book: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein
Points: 20
Total Points: 55
RochelleTask: 10.9 - Just What the Doctor Ordered
Read a book written by a single author with the letters M and D in the author's name.
Book: Meditation Not Medicine: Survive and Thrive in Our Stress-Filled World, by Adam J. Weber
Points: 10
Total Points: 65
Kai10.7 - The Uncola
A book with a word in the title or subtitle that begins with "UN"
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Books Read for Challenge: 14
Total New Points: 10
Total Challenge Points: 155
Coralie5.2 Antiques Roadshow
Book first published at least 100 years ago
A Lear of the Steppes first published 1870
Total to date 175 points
Coralie15.1 Continuing on…..
Using CITY as the linking word, I read
The Fall of the Stone City and City of Dragons
Total to date 190 points
25.1 - DON'T PANICOPTION 1 - Perfume
On page 7 of the list
304 pages
OPTION 3 - Shipped
MPG of travel
336 pages
Both of these books are new to me
TOTAL POINTS - 620
15.6. It's Saturday!Wednesdays in the Tower (Castle Glower #2) by Jessica Day George
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8.0
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 360
Inge20.6. Seasoned Reader - Iulia's Task: Honoring Zen, the Brave Tomcat
Option 1, cat on the cover
Book: Fire and Ice
AR ratings:
Fire and Ice
Hunter, Erin
AR Quiz No. 70122 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11.0
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 90/900
Total Books Read: 6
Tasks Completed: 6/54
BB ticket: 1
MEGSCL25.2 - Janet F’s Task: Burgess Shale
Option 1: Read a book with at least 3 of the letter S in the title. Subtitles excluded.
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
Option 4: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in WONDERFUL LIFE.
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
TOTAL
295 points
2 big book
1 golden oldie
MEGSCL15.10. Just the Facts, Please
Your Brain On Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
TOTAL
310 points
2 big book
1 golden oldie
Kathy KS5.7 - Mork & Mindy
🌷Read a book with an ampersand (&) or the word "and" in its TITLE. Only titles work. Subtitles should be ignored.
Estate and Trust Administration for Dummies, by Margaret A. Munro
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Points for this task: 5
Total points : 170
Tasks completed: 10
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Task 20.3 - Old Time Rock and Roll250+pages
option 4: on p3 of list
Lady Sings the Blues
256 pages
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540 points
5 BB tix
5 GO tix
15.8. It's Black and WhiteThe Hope Flower by Joy Dettman
100% Australia (primarily a fictional town, Willama, a few hours' drive from Melbourne)
p.48 - "Tourists loved Willama, because of its river, because of its history, though mainly because it was only a few hours' drive from Melbourne."
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 375
Julia1035.4 - Fawlty Towers
Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet (2 Ws in title)
This post: 5 points
Total points: 270
BB: 0
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 18
Total books read: 20
Sara G20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Jen K's Task: Sugaring Season
Option 1: Sugar on Snow
Read a book that has the word “sugar” OR “snow” intact in the title. Subtitles should be ignored. The word can be stand alone or part of a longer word but must remain intact.
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
Points this post: 20
Total points: 245
Mod
30.4 - Sandy's Task: Up and Down
This is a 2 book task. Your books must have a combined total of at least 600 pages.
Book 1 - any book that fits general SRC rules
Red at the Bone. Jacqueline Woodson. 3.25.21 (2019, 196 pages)
Book 2 - your second book must go up in pages and down in publication date
Little Beach Street Bakery. Jenny Colgan. 3.29.21 (2014, 416 pages)
416 + 196 >600
Points this post: 30
Points total: 355
Tasks complete: 20/54
JEN B15.8. It's Black and White
Read a book set at least 50% in a country/territory from this list that is a home to penguins: Angola, Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, South Georgia Island, South Sandwich Islands, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay.
How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
This book takes place mostly in Antarctica
TOTAL POINTS: 50
FLY Task #20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's Task: OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLL
task: Option 1. Read a book where the author’s initials can be found in "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
book: Stillhouse Lake
how it fits: author Rachel Caine initials RC in bRiCk
Points this post: 20
Total points: 140
Tasks completed: 8 /54
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
20.3 - OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLLOption 2: 3 words, where the initial letters of each word in the title appear in the song name.
Song name - Travelin' man
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
20 points
20.4 - Wintering at RileyOption 3: LGBT MPG
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
40 points
20.6. - Honoring Zen, the Brave TomcatOption 3: author whose first and last initials may be found in the phrase: "StroNg, wise CAts"
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This post: 20
Total: 60
Janice CA10.10 - Twitter - It's What's Happening
Read a book with a number of pages between 140 and 280 inclusive.
pages: 162
Exploring with Frémont by Charles Preuss
+10
total: 15
tasks: 2
books: 2
MARGIEVANTask 5.3 - The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Read a book written by a single author who used 3 names/initials.
Liberating Paris
by Linda Bloodworth Thomason
Points this post: 5
Points total: 105
20.8. Nickels & Dimes - MegSCL's Task: 21 Years and 21 CenturiesRandon generated number: 7
Option a) Year - Published in 2007
I read the ebook, there is no mmp, pb is here: Beau Crusoe by Carla Kelly.
Points: 20
Total: 370
BB Points: 6
GO Points: 3
PAULA S15.10. Just the Facts, Please
Read a NON-FICTION book with the main page genre Medicine, Medical, or Science.
Science is third in the mpg list
I read the kindle edition. PB link for reference: NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. There are no MMPB editions with page numbers.
** The PB has 560p - I claim 1 BB ticket **
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Point this Post: 15
Total Points: 45
Big books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's Task: OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLL1 book, 250 pages.
Option 1: Author’s initials in "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".
The Clocks by Agatha Christie
297 pages.
Points: 20
Total: 390
BB Points: 6
GO Points: 3
Readerboard Name: Jammin JennySpring 2021 Season
Task 5.1 - All in the Family
🌷Read a book with the name of a family member** in the title/subtitle. Plurals and possessives will work. No other variations.
The Good Sister
Points this post: 5
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
Total Points to Date: 430
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 2
15.10 - JUST THE FACTS - Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to StopMedicine, Medical and Science MPG
TOTAL POINTS - 650
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10.6 - My Baby, She Wrote Me a Letter
Read a book from one of these lists.
Book: Dear Aaron
Completed: 3/18/21
Epistolary Fiction, page 3, #102
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 1