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SPRING CHALLENGE 2021
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Delicious Dee10.6 - My Baby, She Wrote Me a Letter
Love, Rosie - found on page 1 (position 36) of the Epistolary Fiction list
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 470
Sara G15.9. National Library Week
Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK. All initials must be used.
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK
Points this post: 15
Total points: 310
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Margo's Task: First Time Lucky!Option 1: 1 word title
Stormsong by C.L. Polk
345 pages
This post: 20
Total: 150
30.2 - Aprilleigh’s task: Agatha Christie, Queen of MysteryOption 1: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Page #1
Option 2: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Page #1 Locked Room Mysteries list
This post: 30
Total: 180
5.4 - Fawlty Towers2 Ws in title/subtitle
A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
This post: 5
Total: 185
CYNBAXTERTask #25.01 – Teri-K's Task: Don't Panic!
Task Description #1, Option 2: Read a NONFICTION book with at least one 4 and one 2 in the page number.
Book: If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen - which is 429 pages
Task Description #2, Option 3: read a fiction or non-fiction book with MPG Travel.
Book: Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzer
Combined books must be over: 600p
Book 1: 429 + Book 2: 320 = 749 combined pages
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date: 275 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 4
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 3
10.9 - Just What the Doctor OrderedM and D in author's name
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
This post: 10
Total: 210
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Ann A's Task: Big Books, Big Titlestitle/subtitle at least 8 words
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett
this post: 20
total: 230
15.10. Just the Facts, PleaseStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Non fiction. MPG medicine, meddical, science
this post: 15
total: 245
20.10 - Group ReadsFrankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Message 5 on the discussion board.
This post: 20
total: 265
Joanna T5.7 - Mork & Mindy
Read a book with an ampersand (&) or the word "and" in its TITLE.
Knight & Stay by Kitty French
Task total: 5
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Grand total: 340
BB: 4
GO: 0
Task 20.2: Rookie at the Top - Margo's Task: First Time Lucky!Option 3 - Read a book with MPG cozy-mystery.
The book I read was The Mummy Case.
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 130
Kim O10.2 - Earth Day Every Day Read a book with a main page genre of Conservation, Ecology, or Environment.
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Points this task: 10
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Totals:
Points: 70
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks completed: 5
Joanne MI20.4 - Golden Oldies - Lys's Task: Wintering at Riley
I chose option 2-a previously unfinished book
The Woman Before Wallis
I won this book in a give-away last summer. I started it in June and never finished it.
Points this task 20
Total Points 180
BB's 3
GO's 1
CYNBAXTERTask #10.05 – Spend the Day With a Knight
Task Description: Read a book set during or about medieval times.
Book 1: The Smile of the Wolf by Tim Leach - setting is 11th century Iceland
Points this post: 10 points
Total points to date: 285 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 4
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 3
Nick KY10.10 Twitter I read Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard M. Rorty, 159 pp., between 140 and280.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 310
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5.4 - Fawlty Towers
Read a book with 2 Ws in title/subtitle OR in the author's name.
The Postman Always Rings Twice. James M. Cain (in always and twice)
1 Golden Oldie (1934)
Points this post: 5
Points total: 395
Tasks complete: 23/54
Heather KSTask 25.6 - Amy FL's Task: Reminiscing
Option 2: author whose initials can be found in QUADROPHENIA
I read The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
Option 3: Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life album/book title (ignore subtitles) that contains a word of four or more letters from one of the tracks
Track 10 is called Ordinary Pain and the book I read was Ordinary People
Points this post: 25
Total points: 100 (wooo hooo! Met my first mini goal!)
10.1 Spring StartsNothing Ventured by Jeffrey Archer
1st in the William Warwick series
Post Total: 10
Grand Total: 110
10.4 Spring StatesA Private Cathedral by James Lee Burke
Set in Louisiana
Post Total: 10
Grand Total: 120
Julia10325.7 - Brooke TX's Task: Deja Vu All Over Again
Option A:
Book 1 - Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery (first published in 2020)
Book 2 - Change State (first published in 2021)
This post: 25 points
Total points: 365
BB: 0
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 22
Total books read: 28
25.3 - SERIES I'M READINGOPTION 3A - The Perfect Poison
OPTION 3B -
by Lucy KevinYou can see on the cover it states Bella Andre writing as Lucy Kevin. It is also stated on Bella Andre's Goodreads page that she writes as Lucy Kevin.
TOTAL POINTS - 790
10.8 - Bye, Bye Miss American PieA book with a word in the title that can be found in the American Pie song lyrics: Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
The word is American.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 260
Task 10.10 - Twitter - It's What's HappeningRead a book with a number of pages between 140 and 280 inclusive.
Driftwood (2020) by Marie Brennan (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 206 pages)
70 + 10 = 80
Tasks Completed: 05
Points for this post: 10
Points thus far: 70 + 10 = 80
Books read: 06
Pages read: 1,879
Read but not claimed: 04
Goodreads Authors: 03
Golden Oldies: 00
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Amy B10.2 - Earth Day Every Day
Read a book with a main page genre of Conservation, Ecology, or Environment. The genre may be standalone or embedded.
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 300 Points
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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 "The birds flew off with a fallout shelter"
Word: shelter
Shelter Mountain. Robyn Carr. 4.8.21
Points this post: 10
Points total: 405
Tasks complete: 24/54
CYNBAXTERTask #20.04 GOLDEN OLDIES – Lys's Task: Wintering at Riley
Task Description, Option 3: Read a book, fiction or nonfiction, with an LGBT MPG.
Book: The Upstairs House by Julia Fine
Points this post: 20 points
Total points to date: 305 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 4
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 3
Task 10.8 – Bye, Bye Miss American Pie Book chosen: Before the Ruins
Fits task: "before" is a word in the song
Format read: audio with ebook readalong
# of pages: 288 (printed edition)
Points this post: 10 points
Total points to date: 225 points
Bookwrm526Task #5.8 - Monty Python's Flying Circus
Read a book found on the Cult Classics list. I read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, from page one of the list.
Total points so far: 305
CYNBAXTERTask #25.02 – Janet F’s Task: Burgess Shale
Task Description #1, Option 3: Read a book that was first published between 1989 & 2014, inclusive.
Book: Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler - which was first published in 1989
**This is a Big Book (576 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket
Task Description #2, Option 5: Read a book by an author who didn’t live past the age of 60.
Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald who died at the age of 44
***This is a Golden Oldie (orig pub = 1925). Claiming 1 GOLDIE ticket
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date: 330 points
BB tickets this post: 1
Total BB tickets to date: 5
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 1
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 4
Sara G15.7. Disco, Disco Duck
Read a book with all the letters of DISCO found in its title (not subtitle). Letters can be used only as many times as they appear in the title.
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent
Points this post: 15
Total points: 325
Task:25.2 - Janet F’s Task: Burgess ShaleOption:1 - at least 3 of the letter S in the title
Book read:Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Required: 4 letter S's in Simon vS the homo SapienS agenda
Option: 3 - first published between 1989 & 2014
Book read:Awakening by Cate Tiernan
Required: First published in 2001
Points this task:25
Total points:345
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Books read:24
Tasks completed:20
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5.9 - Three's Company
Bruno, Chief of Police #3: Black Diamond by Martin Walker
total = 325
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10.10 - Twitter - It's What's Happening
Allmen and the Dragonflies by Martin Suter, 187 pages
total = 335
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15.5. It's outta here!
3 and 5 in page numbers: Joe Country by Mick Herron, 345 pages
total = 350
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20.4 - Golden Oldies - Lys's Task: Wintering at Riley
option 3, LGBT genre: The Other Mothers by Jennifer Berney
total = 370
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20.5 - Bigger is Better - Ann A's Task: Big Books, Big Titles
14-word title/sub: Lords of the Fly: Madness, Obsession, and the Hunt for the World Record Tarpon by Monte Burke
total = 390
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20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Jen K's Task: Sugaring Season
option 1, sugar title: The Taste of Sugar by Marisel Vera, 380 pages
total = 410
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25.3 - Delicious Dee's Task: Series I’m Reading
option 2
Book A, In Death #25: Creation in Death by J.D. Robb
Book B, book in 15+ book series Chief Inspector Armand Gamache - 16 books: A Better Man by Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #15)
total = 435
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Task # 25.4 Andy P.’s task: Check Your Eyesight
Book 1, grace: Death by His Grace by Kwei Quartey, 272 pages
Book 2, grave: My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni, 416 pages
272 + 416 = 688
total = 460
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25.6 - Amy FL's Task: Reminiscing
option 1, TLD in The Led: The Less Dead by Denise Mina
option 2, last name Thomas: What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas
total = 485
20.6. Seasoned Reader - Iulia's Task: Honoring Zen, the Brave Tomcat1 book.
Option 3. Author's initials in: "Strong, wise cats".
More Than a Lawman by Anna J. Stewart
Points: 20
Total: 480
BB Points: 6
GO Points: 3
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25.8- QueenBeeDarlene's Task: 3 Genres I love, and 1 that I hate
option 1A, Backman: Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
option 2A, Icelandic author: Snare by Lilja Sigurðardóttir
total = 510
LAUREN JODI5.10 - Good Times
Mate Bond by Jennifer Ashley
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 475/900
Golden Oldie Tickets: 3
Total Books Read: 37
Tasks Completed: 32/54
Kathy KSUNCLAIMING!!!
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 in the help thread post 2.
WORD: night
Night of Camp David, by Fletcher Knebel
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Points for this task: 0
Total points : 185-10=175
Tasks completed: 11-1=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
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20.6. Seasoned Reader - Iulia's Task
Read 1 book from the 3 options below. REQUIRED: In your post, indicate the option you used.
Option 3. Read a book written by an author whose first and last initials may be found in the phrase: "Strong, wise cats".
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin (a translator is also listed on Goodreads - I am just focusing on the author)
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 290 Points