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SPRING CHALLENGE 2021
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Boston Kate
25.6 Reminiscing
Option 2: Geekerella by Ashley Poston
author's initials in QUADROPHENIA
Option 3: Love Is a Revolution
"Love" from the track "Love's in Need of Love Today"
Points this post: 25
Total points: 120
Delicious Dee10.2 - Earth Day Every Day
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World - shelved as environment by 98ppl
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 695
Amy B25.4 Andy P.’s task: Check Your Eyesight
As this is an activity for adults, no book with a Main Page Genre of Children or Kids may be used for this task. In addition, the total number of pages of your two books must be greater than 500 (at least 501).
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 must be identical, except for the one changed letter. The two words must have different meanings, and cannot be singular and plural forms or alternate spellings of the same word.
Words are Grave and Grace.
Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones (Charley Davidson #2) - 307 pgs
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood - 468 pgs
This Task: 25 Points
To Date: 755 Points
Nick KYREPOST
20.8 MegSCL's 21 years 21 centuries
I generated the number 14.
Opt. a. I read The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen, 1st pub'd 2014.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 790
Nick KYREPOST
30.2 Aprilleigh’s Agatha Christie
Opt. 2. I read from p. 1 on the Locked Room list, Winter Study by Nevada Barr. 370 pp
Opt. 3 I read The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. 272 pp
Total pp = 642 > required 600
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 820
Nick KY20.7 Jen K’s Sugaring Season
Opt. 1. “Snow” in title. I read Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. 460 pp > required 235.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 840
trishhartuk10.2 Earth Day Every Day
Read a book with a main page genre of...Environment.
Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible, Simon Barnes
Read the kindle edition. PB here
Environment > Nature: 69 users
Environment: 6 users
Points this task: 10
Books read: 1
Total points: 530
Tasks completed: 30
Golden oldies: 3
Big book tickets: 1
ED15.5. It's outta here!
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris
305p.
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 145
BB=1
GO=1
EMurphy10.9 Just What the Doctor Ordered - Book with the letters M and D in the author's name The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson
This Task:
Points: 10
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 355
Books Read: 26
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 1
BB Ticket +1000: 1
Tasks Completed: 18
ED10.10 - Twitter - It's What's Happening
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
143p.
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 155
BB=1
GO=1
Andy P.Task # 25.2 - Janet F’s Task: Burgess Shale
Option 1. Read a book with at least 3 of the letter S in the title.
The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen
VANISHINGSEASON
Option 4. Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in WONDERFUL LIFE.
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson WONDERFULLIFE
Points this post: 25
Total points: 765
Sunshine20.5 - Bigger is Better - Ann A's Task: Big Books, Big Titles
Book: Elementally Priceless: A Rylee Adamson and Elemental Series Introductory Story by Shannon Mayer 5/14/21
How it Fits: 10 words in title/subtitle
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 320
Books Read: 22
Sunshine25.7 - Brooke TX's Task: Deja Vu All Over Again
Option C
Book 1: Blood of My Blood by Barry Lyga 5/9/21
How it Fits: I Hunt Killers, #3
Book 2: Windburn by Shannon Mayer 4/22/21
How it Fits: The Elemental Series, #4
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 345
Books Read: 24
Sunshine30.5 - TessaVanessa's Task: Thank you, Dr. Seuss!
Option 3:
Book: Game by Barry Lyga 4/6/21
How it Fits: Published Mar 26, 2013
Option 4:
Book: Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich 4/27/21
How it Fits: Published Jan 10, 1996
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 375
Books Read: 26
Sunshine10.3 - ABBA
Book: Barbarian Alien by Ruby Dixon 3/7/21
How it Fits: All letters ABBA in title
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 385
Books Read: 27
Sunshine10.1 - Spring Starts
Book: Lumberjack by Jenika Snow 4/27/21
How it Fits: A Real Man, #1
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 395
Books Read: 28
Sunshine5.10 - Good Times
Book: Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward 3/13/21
How it Fits: My Choice
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 400
Books Read: 29
ED10.9 - Just What the Doctor Ordered
Broken April by Ismail Kadare
"MD" found in "isMail kaDare"
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 165
BB=1
GO=1
Joanna T25.2 - Janet F’s Task: Burgess Shale
Option 1: Read a book with at least 3 of the letter S in the title.
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
Option 3: Read a book that was first published between 1989 & 2014, inclusive.
Dangerous Women by Otto Penzler
Published 2005
Task total: 25
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Grand total: 575
BB: 5
GO: 0
M1nks5.4 - Swing, Brother, Swing Pub 1949
1x Golden Oldie
(Swing, Brother, Swing - posted for length)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 10
Big Books:
Golden Oldies: 1
M1nks5.5 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Page 1
Points this post: 5
Total points: 15
Big Books:
Golden Oldies: 1
M1nks5.6 - Neither here Nor there: Travels in Europe
Points this post: 5
Total points: 20
Big Books:
Golden Oldies: 1
Laurah3020.4 - Golden Oldies - Lys's Task: Wintering at Riley
option 3: Read a book, fiction or nonfiction, with an LGBT MPG
Untamed
Points this post:20
Total points: 210
Books read: 12
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books; 2
Tasks completed:8
ED10.8 - Bye, Bye Miss American Pie
Games to Keep the Dark Away by Marcia Muller
"Dark" is the word found in the song
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 175
BB=1
GO=1
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Ann A's Task: Big Books, Big TitlesThe Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
❇︎ 8-word title ❇︎
Total points: 270 + 20 = 290
ED5.10 - Good Times
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
pub. 1936
*****I CLAIM 1 GO TICKET*****
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 180
BB=1
GO=2
5.6 - Are You Being Served?🌷 Read a book with the MPG Humor or Comedy.
I read Broken. I read the audio. Here is the hardcover Broken
points: 210
books read: 19
tasks completed: 14
tasks in progress: 4
Big Books: 1
pages read: 6658
25.3 - Delicious Dee's Task: Series I’m ReadingOption 2: In Death Books #46 & #47
Dark in Death by J.D. Robb
Leverage in Death by J.D. Robb
Total points: 290 + 25 = 315
25.2 - Janet F’s Task: Burgess ShaleOption 3: Swan for the Money by Donna Andrews
❇︎ first published 2009 ❇︎
Option 4: A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff
❇︎ author's initials (IW) in WONDERFUL LIFE ❇︎
Total points: 315 + 25 = 340
10.1 - Spring StartsOpen and Shut by David Rosenfelt
❇︎ Andy Carpenter #1 ❇︎
Total points: 340 + 10 = 350
Coralie30.5 Thank you, Dr Seuss!
Option 1 book by an author with initials DR
All This I Will Give to You by Dolores Redondo
Option 4 book first published between 1994 and 2004
Decoded published 2002
Total to date 625 points
ED5.7 - Mork & Mindy
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
pub. 1950
*****I CLAIM 1 GO TICKET*****
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 185
BB=1
GO=3
ED5.6 - Are You Being Served?
Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon
MPG= Humor
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 190
BB=1
GO=3
Amy FL10.10 - Twitter - It's What's Happening
Fresh Ink: An Anthology
I linked to the audio version which I listened to, but the paperback edition of Fresh Ink: An Anthology has 224 pages which is between 140 and 280.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 700
Jen K20.10 - Group Reads
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Message 21 in the group read thread.
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 630
Big Books: 5
Amy FL15.2. Free To Be... You And Me
Book 1: Lost You
Book 2: Riddle Me This
Points this post: 15
Total points: 715
Amy FL15.10. Just the Facts, Please
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character - Nonfiction, Science
Points this post: 15
Total points: 730
Amy FL20.1. Most Improved Player - Coralie's Task: Knit and Purl
The Keep (KeeP)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 750
Coralie15.5 it’s outta here!
Book with a 7 and a 0 in the page number
The City and the Pillar 207 pages
Total to date 640 points
25.7 - Brooke TX's Task: Deja Vu All Over AgainThis is a two book task. Choose one of the options below and read a Book 1 and Book 2 from that option. One of your books may have the genre Comics/Graphic Novel/Sequential Art/Manga.
Option A: Year After Year
Book 1: Read a book first published in 2020.
Book 2: Read a book first published in 2021.
Book 1: I read Anxious People which was published in 2020.
Book 2: I read The Woman with the Blue Star which was published in 2021.
points: 235
books read: 20
tasks completed: 15
tasks in progress: 3
Big Books: 1
pages read: 6999
Jen K25.6 - Amy FL's Task: Reminiscing
Option 3: Black Futures
Matches the song BLACK Man
Option 4: The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
MPG True Crime
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 655
Big Books: 5
Task 50.1 Reliving the 70sROLLED 1, 6, 1
Book 1: Fashion
Odd: Leisure suits – read a book with at least one man on the cover.
The Seduction of Phaeton Black (Paranormal Investigator #1) by Jillian Stone
335 pages
Book 2: Music
Even: Good-Bye Yellow Brick Road – Read a book by a single author who initials (all initials) are found in Elton John OR Bernie Taupin.
Across the Universe (Across the Universe #1) by Beth Revis
author's initials, BR, found in BeRnie taupin
399 pages
Book 3: Books
Odd: Death Comes as the End, or Does It? – Read a book that features characters created by a now deceased author. It must be clear from the GR description that it features the original characters
A Study in Regret by Claire Daines
approval
252 pages
Total pages read: 986
Total this Post: 50
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 700
20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's Task: OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLLOption 1, a book whose author's initials can be found in "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road": The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
paperback edition The Weight of Ink 575 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 650
BUCKET15.7 Disco, Disco Duck
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
(ISCO in Reflections; D in Golden.)
**GOLDEN OLDIE: First published in 1941**
Points this post: 15
Points total: 210
BB total: 3
GO total: 2
BUCKET15.10 Just the Facts, Please
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
(MPG: Science.)
Points this post: 15
Points total: 225
BB total: 3
GO total: 2
Kathy KS25.3 - Delicious Dee's Task: Series I’m Reading
Option 2: Series 2 – In Death series – J.D. Robb
Book A - Read a book in the In Death series
Naked in Death, by J.D. Robb
(In Death, #1)
I listened to an audio; mmpb=306 p.
Book B - Read a book from a series that has MORE than 15 books published at the beginning of this challenge.
Plum Lovin', by Janet Evanovich
Book #27 of the Stephanie Plum series was published November 10th 2020
I listened to an audio; mmpb=164 p.
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Points for this task: 25
Total points : 425
Tasks completed: 19
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 3
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
FLY Task # 15.4. In honor of Captain Tom
task: Option 2: Read one book that satisfies the requirements for both books of Option 1.
1 - Read a 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."
2 - Read a book with an author name of Tom or Thomas
book: A Korean War Odyssey
how it fits: title initials AKWO found in WalK AlOne, and author = Tom Gormley
Points this post: 15
Total points: 425
Tasks completed: 23 /54
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
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20.3 OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLL
Option 3: My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
author's name matches Kenney Jones
*This was an ARC ebook. For page number purposes, the hardcover (My Heart Is a Chainsaw) has 416 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 95