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SPRING CHALLENGE 2021
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TessaVanessa Challenge 25.1 Teri-K's Task: Don't Panic!
Option 2: Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence
244 pages
Option 3: The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World. by Jennifer Baggett
560 pages
Both books are new to me
Points this post: 25
Total points: 630/900
Tasks completed: 38/54
Books read: 51
BB:4
GO: 0
just keeping track for own purposes
Elizabeth PTask 10.8 - Bye, Bye Miss American Pie
Book with word from song lyrics in title
To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn
Word: LOVE
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 110
Total Tasks: 9
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 0
Total Books: 10
MEGSCL25.8- QueenBeeDarlene's Task: 3 Genres I love, and 1 that I hate
1) B: Read a book with all the letters GOAT in title only.
Waiting for Godot
4) Read a book with the author’s first and last initials in MEMOIR
The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta
TOTAL
430 points
3 big book
1 golden oldie
Nick KY15.8. It's Black and White
April 25 is World Penguin Day.
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.
I read The Old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepúlveda -- set in Ecuador.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 340
Julia10330.4 - Sandy's Task: Up and Down
Book 1: The Last Passenger (292 pages, published 2020)
Book 2: The King's Justice (322 pages, published 1986)
This post: 30 points
Total points: 440
BB: 0
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 26
Total books read: 34
Coralie30.1 Same Name
2 books each written by a different author with first name Ann
White Nights by Ann Cleeves
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Total to date 310 points
Ana****I accidently used a book from February****
15.1. Continuing on...Book 1: Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner
Book 2, the first word of the title is the same as the last word in the title of Book 1: Girls with Bright Futures by Tracy Dobmeier
Points this post: 15
Total points: 300
Rochelle20.7 - 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”.
Book: Twenty-One Days, by Anne Perry
Points: 20
Total points: 135
trishhartuk20.5 Bigger is Better - Ann A's Task: Big Books, Big Titles
Read a book with a title/subtitle consisting of AT LEAST 8 WORDS.
Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything, Rob Eastaway
Read the kindle edition. PB here
Points this task: 20
Books read: 1
Total points: 265
Tasks completed: 17
Golden oldies: 2
Big book tickets: 1
10.6 - My Baby, She Wrote Me a LetterThe Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
page 1 (Epistolary Fiction)
Total this Post: 10
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 475
LAUREN JODI10.5 - Spend the Day With a Knight
To Conquer a Highlander by Mary Wine
Set in 1437 immediately after the assassination of James I of Scotland.
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 515/900
Golden Oldie Tickets: 3
Total Books Read: 41
Tasks Completed: 36/54
Readerboard Name: Jammin JennySpring 2021 Season
Task 5.3 - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
🌷Read a book written by a single author who uses 3 names/initials. All three names/initials must appear in the author's Goodreads record.
The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Points this post: 5
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
Total Points to Date: 450
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 2
Readerboard Name Jammin JennySpring 2021 Season
Task 5.4 - Fawlty Towers
🌷Read a book with 2 Ws in title/subtitle OR in the author's name. Books with multiple authors may be used but both Ws must be found in a single author's name (but they may be in different name parts).
Required: If using the author's name, you must include the author's name in your post.
The Great Witches Baking Show
2Ws in title - Witches and shoW
Points this post: 5
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
Total Points to Date: 455
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 2
trishhartuk25.8 QueenBeeDarlene's Task: 3 Genres I love, and 1 that I hate
1) Fredrik Backman: B: Read a book with all the letters GOAT in title only.
The Ghostway, Tony Hillerman
GhOsTwAy
4) Memoirs – Read a book with the author’s first and last initials in MEMOIR.
Trophies and Dead Things, Marcia Muller
MeMoir
Points this task: 25
Books read: 2
Total points: 290
Tasks completed: 18
Golden oldies: 2
Big book tickets: 1
Coralie20.9 Share Appreciation
Using the word ‘with’ from ‘ingratiate oneself with’ I read
The Trouble with Peace
Total to date 330 points
Amy B10.9 - Just What the Doctor Ordered
Read a book written by a single author with the letters M and D in the author's name.
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 310 Points
CYNBAXTERTask #25.04 – Andy P.’s task: Check Your Eyesight
Task Description: 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.
Books: Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki and Women of the Dunes by Sarah Maine
Combined books must be over: 500p
Book 1: 352 + Book 2: 373 = 725 combined pages
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date: 370 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 5
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 4
CYNBAXTERTask #30.03 – MAZZA1's Task: Pawn Sacrifice
Task Description, Option 2a: read 1 book of over 600 pages that has BLACK or WHITE is in the title
Book: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
**This is a Big Book (640 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket
Points this post: 30 points
Total points to date: 400 points
BB tickets this post: 1
Total BB tickets to date: 6
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 4
5.6 - Are You Being Served? Read a book with the MPG Humor or Comedy.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman Read 3/27/21
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 185
Big Books Tickets Claimed:
Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed: 1
CYNBAXTERTask #05.10 – Good Times
Task Description: Read a book of your choice that meets the SRC rules!
Book: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Points this post: 5 points
Total points to date: 405 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 6
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 4
ERINJ 25.8- QueenBeeDarlene's Task: 3 Genres I love, and 1 that I hate
Choose 2 options
3) Sad and Lonely Men: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in SAD AND LONELY
Book: Much Ado About You
Author: Samantha Young (SY)
4) Memoirs: Read a book with the author’s first and last initials in MEMOIR
Book: The Song of Achilles
Author: Madeline Miller (MM)
Points in this post: 25
Total Points: 285
ERINJ10.1 - Spring Starts
Read a book that is book number 1 in a series
Book: The Heiress Gets a Duke
Series: #1 in the Gilded Age Heiresses series
Points in this post: 10
Total Points: 295
5.10 - Good Times Read 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 if it is not found in AR Bookfinder.
Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar Read 04/01/21
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 190
Big Books Tickets Claimed:
Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed: 1
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. The word must match exactly, including letter-dropping: singin', 'cause, etc.
All I Want is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar Read 04/05/21
The word I am using is "All" from the line "We all got up to dance."
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 200
Big Books Tickets Claimed:
Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed: 1
Amy FL5.2 - Antiques Roadshow
Dubliners (first published June 1914)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 230
Amy FL5.4 - Fawlty Towers
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (two W's in Where and Sweet)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 235
Amy FL15.1. Continuing on..................
Book 1: In the Morning I'll be Gone
Book 2: Gone by Midnight
Points this post: 15
Total points: 250
5.3 - THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW - All She Wants for Christmas by Amy Rose BennettApproved for length for a 5 point task in line 260 of the verification spreadsheet
TOTAL POINTS - 825
Amy FL20.5 - Bigger is Better - Ann A's Task: Big Books, Big Titles
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna (8 words in title)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 270
Amy FL30.2 - Aprilleigh’s task: Agatha Christie, Queen of Mystery
Option 1: An Unwanted Guest - #8 on list
Option 2: The Escape Room - #20 on Popsugar list
I listened to (and linked) the audiobook versions, but the combined total of pages in the paperbacks is >700.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 300
Bookwrm526Task #25.8 - 3 Genres I love, and 1 that I hate
Option 1B: Read a book with all the letters GOAT in title only. I read Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham by M.C. Beaton (GAT in agatha, O in of).
Option 2B: Read a book set at least 50% in Iceland. I read The Undesired by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir.
Total points so far: 335
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.2 Earth Day Every Day
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
MPG: Environment
Points this post: 10
Total points: 640/900
Tasks completed: 39/54
Books read: 52
BB:4
GO: 0
just keeping track for own purposes
Task 10.6 - My Baby, She Wrote Me a Letteron p1, #31 of Epistolary Fiction list
Code Name Verity
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665 points
6 BB tix
6 GO tix
Oma122925.2 - Janet F’s Task: Burgess Shale
I chose options #1 & #3
Option #1-Read a book with at least 3 of the letter S in the title. Subtitles excluded.
The Sweeney Sisters-Lian Dolan
Option #3-Read a book that was first published between 1989 & 2014, inclusive.
No Graves As Yet-Anne Perry
Points= 280/900
Tasks= 14/54
Goldie Oldies Books()
Big Books=500+(3),750+,1000+()
Oma122925.8- QueenBeeDarlene's Task: 3 Genres I love, and 1 that I hate
I chose Option #1 & Option #4
Option #1-"B"- Read a book with all the letters GOAT in the title only.
Mexican Gothic-Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Optioin #4-Read a book with the author’s first and last initials in MEMOIR
The Missing Sister-Elle Marr
Points= 305/900
Tasks= 15/54
Goldie Oldies Books()
Big Books=500+(3),750+,1000+()
Oma122920.8. Nickels & Dimes - MegSCL's Task: 21 Years and 21 Centuries
The number generated was 16
Option a) Year
Read a book first published in that year of the 21st century.
Devonshire Scream-Laura Childs
Points= 325/900
Tasks= 16/54
Goldie Oldies Books()
Big Books=500+(3),750+,1000+()
Oma122915.7. Disco, Disco Duck
Read a book with all the letters of DISCO found in its title
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows-Alan Bradley
Points= 340/900
Tasks= 17/54
Goldie Oldies Books()
Big Books=500+(3),750+,1000+()
Oma122910.10 - Twitter - It's What's Happening
Read a book with a number of pages between 140 and 280 inclusive.
The Wright Sister-Patty Dann
Points= 350/900
Tasks= 18/54
Goldie Oldies Books()
Big Books=500+(3),750+,1000+()
Oma12295.4 - Fawlty Towers
🌷Read a book with 2 Ws in title/subtitle OR in the author's name.
The Woman in the Water -Charles Finch
Points= 355/900
Tasks= 19/54
Goldie Oldies Books()
Big Books=500+(3),750+,1000+()
Nick KY15.7 Disco Duck. Read a book with all the letters of DISCO found in its title (not subtitle).
I read Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty by Thomas Kiffmeyer, tO raDICalS.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 355
Nick KY20.9. Moderators' Pet - Christine V's Task: Share Appreciation I read The Ionia Sanction by Gary Corby. The target word is “Sanction.”
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 375
15.10. Just the Facts, PleaseLife on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine
95 points
Mod
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.
Sisters
The Sweeney Sisters. Lian Dolan. 4.12.21
Points this post: 5
Points total: 440
Tasks complete: 26/54
BUCKET15.6 It’s Saturday!
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Points this post: 15
Points total: 95
BB total: 2
GO total: 1
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Challenge 15.1 Continuing on..................
Book 1: I Am Here Now by Barbara Bottner
Book 2: Now You See Her by Linda Howard
Points this post: 15
Total points: 605/900
Tasks completed: 37/54
Books read: 49
BB:4
GO: 0
just keeping track for own purposes