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SPRING CHALLENGE 2021
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
25.8- QueenBeeDarlene's Task: 3 Genres I love, and 1 that I hate2 books, 2 different options.
Book 1: Option 3) Author's initials in SAD AND LONELY.
Colton 911: Undercover Heat by Anna J. Stewart
Book 2: Option 4) Author’s initials in MEMOIR.
Village Centenary by Miss Read
Name approved in Help thread message #10.
Points: 25
Total: 555
BB Points: 6
GO Points: 3
NAVI25.2 - Janet F’s Task: Burgess Shale
Choose TWO of the options and read a book for each.
Option 1: Read a book with at least 3 of the letter S in the title. Subtitles excluded.
Dirty Kisses by Kenya Wright
How it fits: Dirty Kisses
Option 2: Read a book with a main page genre of Palaeontology or Natural History.
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte
How it fits: Palaeontology MPG
Points this post: 25
Total points: 295
Casey WTask 20.2 Option 1
Read a book with one word title (and more than 290 pages
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 20
Task completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Casey WTask 20.3 Option 1
Read a book where author's intitals are found in "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
The Woman Outside My Door By Rachel Ryan
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 40
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Casey WTask 10.8
Read a book where the lyrics of American Pie matches a word in the title
Anxious People By Fredrik Backman.
People is found in American Pie....
"That I could make those people dance"
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 50
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
Task 20.5Read a book with a title/subtitle consisting of AT LEAST 8 WORDS.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Task 5.3Read a book written by a single author who uses 3 names/initials.
By The Shores Of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9.0
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Task 5.8 Read a book found on the Cult Classics list.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Found on Page 1, #47 of the Cult Classics list.
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
Task 10.8Read 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 first line:
A long long time ago
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10.0
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 40
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
CYNBAXTERTask #5.1 – All in the Family
Task Description: Read a book with the name of a family member in the title/subtitle.
Book: The Mother Code by Carole Stivers
Points this post: 5 points
Total points to date: 410 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 6
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 4
Bookwrm526Task #25.7 - Deja Vu All Over Again
Option A: Year After Year
Book 1: Read a book first published in 2020. I read The Survivors by Jane Harper.
Book 2: Read a book first published in 2021. I read We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep by Andrew Kelly Stewart.
Total points so far: 360
25.6 - Amy FL's Task: ReminiscingOption 1: First letter of each word in title from GET THE LED OUT
The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty
**The Empire of Gold is a Big Book (766 pages). Claiming 2 BB tickets.**
Option 2: Author whose initials can be found in QUADROPHENIA
The Familiar Dark by Amy Engel
Total Points: 305
Big Book Tickets: 4
Golden Oldies: 1
5.4 - Fawlty Towers🌷Read a book with 2 Ws in title/subtitle OR in the author's name.
I read When We Believed in Mermaids. This title has 2 W's: When We believed in mermaids
points: 115
books read: 10
tasks completed: 7
tasks in progress: 3
Big Books: 1
pages read: 3864
Sunshine25.2 - Janet F’s Task: Burgess Shale
Option 3
Book: Wayward by Blake Crouch 3/15/21
How it Fits: First Published Sep 17, 2013
Option 4
Book: Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon 3/5/21
How it Fits: Author's initials are RD
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 65
Books Read: 4
EMurphy15.5 It's Outta Here! At least 2 of the digits 75530 in its page count
The Whisper Man by Alex North (355 pages)
This Task:
Points: 15
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total: 125
Books Read: 9
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +1000: 1
Tasks Completed: 6
Sunshine20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Margo's Task: First Time Lucky!
Option 1
Book: Outmatched by Kristen Callihan 3/27/21
How it Fits: 1 Word Title
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 85
Books Read: 5
Sunshine20.1. Most Improved Player - Coralie's Task: Knit and Purl
Book: Cookies, Corpses and the Deadly Haunt by Rachael Stapleton 3/7/21
How it Fits: 1 K and 1 P in title
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 105
Books Read: 6
Sunshine30.4 - Sandy's Task: Up and Down
Book 1
Book: Dragon's Storm by Ella Summers 3/25/21
How it Fits: Published Apr 05, 2017
Pages: 300
Book 2
Book: Vicious by L.J. Shen 3/2/21
How it Fits: Published Dec 27, 2016
Pages: 340
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 135
Books Read: 8
trishhartuk25.2 Janet F’s Task: Burgess Shale
Option 3: Read a book that was first published between 1989 & 2014
Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future, Svetlana Alexievich
First published in 1997
Option 4: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in WONDERFUL LIFE.
Dead in the Dining Room, Leighann Dobbs
Read the kindle edition. PB here
Points this task: 25
Books read: 2
Total points: 315
Tasks completed: 19
Golden oldies: 2
Big book tickets: 1
20.1. Most Improved Player - Coralie's Task: Knit and PurlRead a book with at least one letter K and at least one letter P in the title/subtitle.
Keeper'n Me
New Points: 20
Total Points: 300
BB: 1
GO:1
Cindy FTask 5.7 Mork & Mindy
& in title
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Points this post:5
Total points:60
Books read:5
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:2 tickets
Tasks completed:5
30.5 - TessaVanessa's Task: Thank you, Dr. Seuss!Option 3, a book first published in March of any year: The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi, first published March 3rd 2020
Option 4, a book first published between 1994-2004: The Last Girls by Lee Smith, first published 2002
Points this post: 30
Total points: 330
Cindy FTask 15.7 Disco, Disco Duck
All letters in DISCO in title
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
Points this post:15
Total points:75
Books read:6
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:2 tickets
Tasks completed:6
Cindy FTask 20.3 Old Time Rock'n Roll
Option 4: page 8 on list Music Books
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Points this post:20
Total points:95
Books read:7
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:2 tickets
Tasks completed:7
Cindy FTask 10.9 Just What the Doctor Ordered
M & D in authors name
Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid
Points this post:10
Total points:105
Books read:8
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:2 tickets
Tasks completed:8
Joanna T10.6 - My Baby, She Wrote Me a Letter
Read a book from one of these lists:
Epistolary Fiction
Required: State the list and page.
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Page 4 of the Epistolary Fiction list.
Task total: 10
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Grand total: 350
BB: 4
GO: 0
Joanna T5.8 - Monty Python's Flying Circus
🌷Read a book found on the Cult Classics list.
Required: State the page the book you read can found on when you post.
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Page 1 of the list.
Task total: 5
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Grand total: 355
BB: 4
GO: 0
25.6 - Amy FL's Task: Reminiscing2 books, 2 options.
Book 1: Option 2: Author initials in QUADROPHENIA.
I read the ebook, mmp here: Quicksilver by Amanda Quick.
Author approved in Help thread #14.
Book 2: Option 3: Title word matches track - "Summer" in "Summer Soft".
The Most Marvellous Summer by Betty Neels
Points: 25
Total: 580
BB Points: 6
GO Points: 3
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Jen K's Task: Sugaring SeasonOption 2: First and last initials of the author found in the word “maple”
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons
Total Points: 325
Andy P.Task # 20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Margo's Task: First Time Lucky!
Option 2.
Read a book first published during the Winter seasonal challenge
Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton published 1/12/21
336 p.>290
Points this post: 20
Total points: 400
** SKIP post - issues to fix.... ;-) **Option 3: The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune
❇︎ MPG LGBT ❇︎
Total points: 195 + 20 =215
*UNCLAIMING A TASK IN ORDER TO CHANGE BOOKS*25.7 - Brooke TX's Task: Deja Vu All Over Again
Books used for Option B:
A House at the Bottom of a Lake
Love Poems for Married People
Points Earned This Post: -25
Total Points Earned: 215
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Jen K20.8. Nickels & Dimes - MegSCL's Task: 21 Years and 21 Centuries
Number Generated: 11
Option A) Salvage the Bones
Published 2011
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 290
Big Books: 3
10.8 - Bye, Bye Miss American PieRead a book with a word in the TITLE that can be found in the American Pie song lyrics in the help thread post 2.
Love Poems for Married People
LOVE appears in the lyrics several times.
Points Earned This Post: 10
Total Points Earned: 225
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Jen K10.3 - ABBA
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
uncomfortABle BlAck
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 300
Big Books: 3
Kim O20.1. 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.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Points this task: 20
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Totals:
Points: 125
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks completed: 8
Shawn H.10.10 - Twitter - It's What's Happening
Read a book with a number of pages between 140 and 280 inclusive
The Archer by Paulo Coelho
***160 pages is between 140-280***
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 45
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Ticket Books: 0
Bookwrm526Task #15.5 - It's outta here!
Read a book with at least 2 of the digits 75530 in its page count. I read Ill Wind by Nevada Barr (320p, uses digits 3 and 0 from target numbers).
Total points so far: 375
Coralie20.3 Old Time Rock’n’Roll
Option 4 – from page 14 of Music books
A Song for a New Day
Total to date 350 points
Scooter&SiamIgnore this post.
Kai15.5 - It's outta here!
A book with at least 2 of the digits 75530 in its page count.
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
352 pages
Books Read for Challenge: 19
Total New Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 225
SandiCompleted Task
10.1 - Spring Starts
#1 of a series
Wick by Michael Bunker
**POINT SUMMARY**
Previous Points Earned: 95
Points Earned this Post: 10
Total Points To Date: 105
SandiCompleted Task
5.8 - Monty Python's Flying Circus
On Cult Classics Listopia. Found on page one of the list
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
**POINT SUMMARY**
Previous Points Earned: 105
Points Earned this Post: 5
Total Points To Date: 110
Inge15.2 Free to be, you and me
Book 1 : Voor jou
book 2 : Tell Me to Run
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 105/900
Total Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 7/54
BB ticket: 1
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ15.5 - It's outta here!
The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek
2 of the digits 75530 (3 and 0) are in the HB edition The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life (304 pages)
This post: 15 points
Total points to date: 245 points
Tasks completed: 18
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
Scooter&Siam20.6. Seasoned Reader - Iulia's Task: Honoring Zen, the Brave Tomcat
Chose Option 3
Option 3. Read a book written by an author whose first and last initials may be found in the phrase: "Strong, wise cats.”
Read To Play Again: A Memoir of Musical Survival by Carol Rosenberger
Points: 20
Total: 140
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.10 Twitter - It's What's Happening
Inherit the Wool by Betty Hechtmann
Points this post: 10
Total points: 650/900
Tasks completed: 40/54
Books read: 53
BB:4
GO: 0
just keeping track for own purposes
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Jen K's Task: Sugaring SeasonOption 2: Read a book with a single author with the first and last initials of the author found in the word “maple”.
The Helm of Midnight (The Five Penalties #1) by Marina J. Lostetter
author's first & last initials, ML, found in MapLe
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 495
NAVI30.1 - Dlmrose’s Task: Same Name
Read 2 books each written by a different author who shares the same first name.
1) The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek
2) Gloomwalker by Alex Lang
How it fits: 2 books with the same author first name - Alex
Points this post: 30
Total points: 325
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25.4 - Andy P.’s task: Check Your Eyesight
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. Page count for both books must total at least 501.
BOOK 2: RIVER
The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
148 pages
BOOK 2: RIDER
Pale Horse, Pale Rider: The Short Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
363 pages
Page total: 511
Books Read for Challenge: 18
Total New Points: 25
Total Challenge Points: 210