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SPRING CHALLENGE 2021
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Shelby
15.6. It's Saturday!
Read a book with a day of the week in the title (not subtitle) .: Fat Tuesday, by Sandra Brown
How Fits: Title - Fat Tuesday
Points this post: 15
Total points: 495
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 2
Shelby
15.9. National Library Week
Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK.: Dream Lake, by Lisa Kleypas
How Fits: Author - Lisa Kleypas
Points this post: 15
Total points: 510
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 2
Shelby
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Margo's Task: First Time Lucky!
Option 1
Read a book with a ONE word title.: Defiance, by Sloane Kennedy
How Fits: Title - Defiance + Page Count - 328pgs
Points this post: 20
Total points: 530
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 2
Shelby
15.2. Free To Be... You And Me
Book 1
Read a book with the word "You" in the title.: Fighting for You, by Megan Derr
How Fits: Title - Fighting for You
AND
Book 2
Read a book with the word "Me" in the title.: Burn for Me, by Ilona Andrews
How Fits: Title - Burn for Me
Points this post: 15
Total points: 545
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 2
20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's Task: OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLLOption 2: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 from this list of tracks off the album Live Bullet.
The song name I used is Nutbush City Limits
I listned to an audio version of The Midnight Library-288 pages
T, M, and L in Limits
New Points: 20
Total Points: 445
BB: 1
GO: 1
Julia10330.5 - TessaVanessa's Task: Thank you, Dr. Seuss!
Option 2: Death at Wentwater Court (DAWC in WACKY WEDNESDAY)
Option 3: The Murder at Sissingham Hall (published March 2013)
This post: 30 points
Total points: 685
BB: 1
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 40
Total books read: 52
Mod
5.6 - Are You Being Served?
Read a book with the MPG Humor or Comedy.
Off to Be the Wizard. Scott Meyer. 5.6.21
Points this post: 5
Points total: 700
Tasks complete: 42/54
25.4 Check Your Eyesight Book 1: The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian by David Dyer (323 pages)
Book 2: The Witch Elm by Tana French (528 pages)
Claiming a big book ticket for this book at 528 pages
(watch/witch)
New Season Total: 140
25.6 Reminiscing I chose option 1 and read The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna - T in out, G in get, O in out
I also chose option 3 and read A Promised Land by Barack Obama - land is from "village ghetto land"
Claiming a big book ticket - 768 pages
New Season Total: 165
25.7 Deja Vu All Over AgainI chose option A and read...
1. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - pub 2020
2. Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo - pub 2021
New Season Total: 190
25.8 3 Genres I Love...I chose option 3 and read All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal PartnershipDarcy Lockman - D in sad and L in lonely!
I also chose option 4 and read Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo - I and O in memoir
New Season Total: 215
Kathy KS20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Jen K's Task: Sugaring Season
Your book must be at least 235 pages
Option 2: Read a book with a single author with the first and last initials of the author found in the word “maple”.
Rules Of Engagement, by Elizabeth Moon
EM=MaplE
Claiming one (1) Big Book ticket 512 pages (>235)
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 385
Tasks completed: 17
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
Big Book tickets total: 3
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
MEGSCLTask # 25.4 Andy P.’s task: Check Your Eyesight
Feeling Sorry for Celia
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
TOTAL
690 points
3 big book
1 golden oldie
FLY Task #10.1 - Spring Starts
task: Read a book that is book number 1 in a series
book: On Dublin Street
how it fits: (On Dublin Street #1)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 325
Tasks completed: 17/54
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
10.2 Earth Day Every DayFlight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Main page genre Environment
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
10.7 The Uncola Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks
Title begins with "un"
Points this post: 10
Total points: 20
15.9 National Library WeekThe Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Author's initials can be found in National Library Week
Points this post: 15
Total points: 35
15.10 Just the Facts, PleaseThe Alzheimer's Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life by Gary Small
Non-fiction medical genre
Points this post: 15
Total points: 50
20.5 Big Books, Big TitlesVampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite by Zoraida Córdova
Title/subtitle has 8 words
Points this post: 20
Total points: 70
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
LAUREN JODI15.4 - In honor of Captain Tom
Option 1:
Book #1:
One Night with an Earl by Jennifer Haymore
Book #2:
AWOL with the Operative by Jean Thomas
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 795/900
Golden Oldie Tickets: 3
Total Books Read: 64
Tasks Completed: 49/54
DeborahPost #15
5.6 - Are You Being Served?
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie MPG: Humor
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 260
Books Read:18
Tasks Done: 15
LAUREN JODI30.5 - TessaVanessa's Task: Thank you, Dr. Seuss!
Option #1: DR
Rock Me Two Times by Dawn Ryder
Option #2: Wacky Wednesday
An Artless Demise by Anna Lee Huber
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 825/900
Golden Oldie Tickets: 3
Total Books Read: 66
Tasks Completed: 50/54
Sara G25.1 - Teri-K's Task: Don't Panic!
Both of these books were new to me.
Option 1. Read a book from this Trippy Books List
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
This book is on page 3 of the list.
Option 3. Keep your cool and read a fiction or non-fiction book with MPG Travel.
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George
MPG Travel > 25 users
Points this post: 25
Total points: 535
Sara G25.2 - Janet F’s Task: Burgess Shale
Option 3: Read a book that was first published between 1989 & 2014, inclusive.
Foreign Soil: And Other Stories by Maxine Beneba Clarke
This book was first published in 2014.
Option 4: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in WONDERFUL LIFE.
City of Jasmine by Deanna Raybourn
WONDERFUL LIFE
Points this post: 25
Total points: 560
5.1 - All in the FamilyName of a family member in the title/subtitle
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
Total Points: 470
15.4. In honor of Captain TomOption 2: Book with a title of at least three words, where the initials of each title word can be found in "You'll Never Walk Alone." AND book with an author name of Tom or Thomas (or variant)
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
Total Points: 485
20.1. Most Improved Player - Coralie's Task: Knit and PurlBook with at least one letter K and at least one letter P in the title/subtitle
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Total Points: 505
Joanne MI15.1. Continuing on......
Book 1: Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
Claiming 1 BB at 563 pages
Book 2: Empire of Sand
Points this task 15
Total Points 250
BB's this task 1
Total BB's 6
Amy B30.4 - Sandy's Task: Up and Down
This is a 2 book task. Your books must have a combined total of at least 600 pages. No books with the main page genres childrens or kids may be used.
Book 1 - any book that fits general SRC rules
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell - 2021, 256 pgs
Book 2 - your second book must go up in pages (that is, more pages than book 1) and down in publication date (published in an earlier year than book 1).
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders - 2019, 366 pgs
This Task: 30 Points
To Date: 600 Points
Boston Kate
5.8 Monty Python's Flying Circus
Fahrenheit 451
on page 1 of "Cult Classics" list
Points this post: 5
Total points: 40
Mod
10.7 - The Uncola
Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle that BEGINS with "UN".
The House of Unexpected Sisters. Alexander McCall Smith. 5.7.21
Points this post: 10
Points total: 710
Tasks complete: 43/54
Boston Kate
30.2 Agatha Christie, Queen of Mystery
Option 1: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
on page 1 of "And Then There Were None: Deadly Parties" list
I read the ebook - for page-number purposes, the MMPB listing (The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle) is 600 pages
Option 2: Death on the Nile
found on "Popsugar 2021 #13 - A Locked Room Mystery" list
I read the ebook - for page-number purposes, the MMPB listing (Death on the Nile) is 320 pages
Total pages = 920
Points this post: 30
Total points: 75
Nick KY25.1 - Teri-K's Task: Don't Panic! Both Books Need to be New to Me and I need to state this.
Opt. 2 completed twice. Nonfiction books with a 2 and a 4 in the page numeration.
Book 1. I read A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin, 432 pp.
Book 2. I read To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction by Phillip Lopate. 240 pp.
Both Books are New to Me.
Total pp = 632
Points This Post: 25
Points This Post: 675
Nick KY25.6 Amy FL's Reminiscing
Opt. C. I read All the Lovely Pieces by J.M. Winchester. “Lovely” is the title of one ot the tracks on the album, “Isn’t She Lovely.”
Opt. D. I read Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer by David Reichert with an MPG of “True Crime.”
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 700
Task 25.7 Brooke TX's Task: Deja Vu All Over AgainOption C: in sequence
The two books I read were (book 1) Blood of Elves and (book 2) Hidden Bodies.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 225
Andy P.Task # 5.6 - Are You Being Served?
Read a book with the MPG Humor
Quick Service by P.G. Wodehouse
Humor MPG
Points this post: 5
Total points: 625
CYNBAXTER repost of 2491Task #20.02 ROOKIE AT THE TOP –
Task Description, option 2: Read a book first published during the Winter seasonal challenge (1 December 2020 to 28 February 2021)
Book: The Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
Points this post: 20 points
Total points to date: 600 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 7
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 5
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.
The words are: Sleep and Sheep
Books: Sleep Donation by Karen Russell & The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
Combined books must be over: 500p
Book 1: 160 + Book 2: 453 = 613 combined pages
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date: 625 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 7
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 5
10.5 Spend the Day with A KnightThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
This book takes place in the 12th Century.
I'd like two BB tickets. This book had 976 pages.
Post Total: 10
Grand Total: 215
Suzannesea30.3 MAZZA1's Task: Pawn Sacrifice
Option 1
a) Read a book with the name of a chess piece in the title. I chose QUEEN.
Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen
b) The setting of the book begins with any letter of your chosen playing piece.
Tularosa by Michael McGarrity is set in New Mexico.
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Points this post: 30
Total points to date: 190
Julia10320.5 - Bigger is Better - Ann A's Task: Big Books, Big Titles
The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
This post: 20 points
Total points: 705
BB: 1
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 41
Total books read: 53
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I read My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top pb (no MMPB).
total points: 745
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I read Fever Season, set completely in Louisiana (in and around New Orleans). I read the kindle edition, linked to the pb (no mmpb).
total points: 755
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My random number was 13.
I chose option a and read A Calamitous Chinese Killing, first published in 2013. I read the kindle edition, linked to the top pb (no mmpb).
total points: 775
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For my first book, I chose option 1B and read The Galaxy, and the Ground Within.
GA in GAlaxy
O in grOund
T in The
For my second book, I chose option 3 and read Transient Desires by Donna Leon. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top pb (no MMPB). Authors initials, DL, found in saD and Lonely.
total points: 800
Task 10.4 - Spring States Read a book set at least 50% in: Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Wisconsin.
Required: If the setting is not evident on the GR main book page include a reference when you post.
Set 100% in Vermont.
A Murderous Glaze (Clay and Crime #1) (2007) by Melissa Glazer (Paperback, 216 pages)
160 + 10 = 170
Tasks Completed: 12
Points for this post: 10
Points thus far: 160 + 10 = 170
Books read: 14
Pages read: 4,584
Read but not claimed: 06
Goodreads Authors: 08
Golden Oldies: 00
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Coralie15.2 Free To Be … You and Me
Book 1 – book with YOU in title
You Let Me in
Book 2 – book with ME in title
It's Fine By Me
Total to date 535 points
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15.5. It's outta here!
Read a book with at least 2 of the digits 75530 in its page count.: In the Solace, by Hailey Turner
How Fits: Page Count - 354
Points this post: 15
Total points: 480
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 2