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SPRING CHALLENGE 2021
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Brooke TX5.7 - Mork & Mindy
Read a book with an ampersand (&) or the word "and" in its TITLE.
Points
This Post: 5
Total Points: 190
Completed Tasks: 19
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX5.8 - Monty Python's Flying Circus
Read a book found on the Cult Classics list. Found on page 11:
Points
This Post: 5
Total Points: 195
Completed Tasks: 20
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX5.9 - Three's Company
Read a book that is #3 in a series.
Points
This Post: 5
Total Points: 200
Completed Tasks: 21
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX10.4 - Spring States
Read a book set at least 50% in a US state that was admitted to the Union during March, April, or May. Set in Maine, approved in eBook Verification Spreadsheet line 3669:
Points
This Post: 10
Total Points: 210
Completed Tasks: 22
Books Read: 66
ZachFor Task 5.7 - Mork & Mindy I read Red, White & Royal Blue with the requisite ampersand.
Points this post: 5
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Totals:
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Points: 155
BBTs: 4
GOTs: 0
Brooke TX15.1. Continuing on..................
Book 1: Read any book that meets SRC requirements and that has a title of at least 2 words.
Book 2: Read any book that meets SRC requirements and that has a title of at least 2 words, where the first word of the title is the same as the last word in the title of Book 1.
Points
This Post: 15
Total Points: 225
Completed Tasks: 23
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX15.2. Free To Be... You And Me
Book 1 - Read a book with the word "You" in the title.
Book 2 - Read a book with the word "Me" in the title.
Points
This Post: 15
Total Points: 240
Completed Tasks: 24
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX15.3. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away
Book 1 - Read a book whose author name matches the first, last or middle name of one of the main actors from the movie. By Mark as in Mark Hamill:
Book 2 - Read a book with a main page genre of Space Opera.
Points
This Post: 15
Total Points: 255
Completed Tasks: 25
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX15.4. In honor of Captain Tom
Book 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." Approved in eBook Verification Spreadsheet line 320:
Book 2 - Read a book with an author name of Tom or Thomas, or one of its variations.
Points
This Post: 15
Total Points: 270
Completed Tasks: 26
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX15.5. It's outta here!
Read a book with at least 2 of the digits 75530 in its page count.
Points
This Post: 15
Total Points: 285
Completed Tasks: 27
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX20.1. 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.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 305
Completed Tasks: 28
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Margo's Task: First Time Lucky!
Option 1: Read a book with a ONE word title.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 325
Completed Tasks: 29
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's Task: OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLL
Option 1. Read a book where the author’s initials can be found in "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". Top paperback is 358 pages:
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 345
Completed Tasks: 30
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX20.4 - Golden Oldies - Lys's Task: Wintering at Riley
Option 3: Read a book, fiction or nonfiction, with an LGBT MPG.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 365
Completed Tasks: 31
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX20.5 - Bigger is Better - Ann A's Task: Big Books, Big Titles
Read a book with a title/subtitle consisting of AT LEAST 8 WORDS.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 385
Completed Tasks: 32
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX20.6. Seasoned Reader - Iulia's Task: Honoring Zen, the Brave Tomcat
Option 3. Read a book written by an author whose first and last initials may be found in the phrase: "Strong, wise cats". Approved in eBook Verification Spreadsheet line 4050:
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 405
Completed Tasks: 33
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Jen K's Task: Sugaring Season
Option 2: Maple
Read a book with a single author with first and last initials found in the word “maple”.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 425
Completed Tasks: 34
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX20.8. Nickels & Dimes - MegSCL's Task: 21 Years and 21 Centuries
My number was 6.
Option 1: Read a book first published in that year of the 21st century.
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 445
Completed Tasks: 35
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX20.9. Moderators' Pet - Christine V's Task: Share Appreciation
Read a book where any single word of four letters or more from "compliment" and its listed synonyms can be found intact in the title. With "make" intact in the title:
Points
This Post: 20
Total Points: 465
Completed Tasks: 36
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX25.2 - Janet F’s Task: Burgess Shale
Option 3: Read a book that was first published between 1989 - 2014.
Option 4: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in WONDERFUL LIFE.
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 490
Completed Tasks: 37
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX25.3 - 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.
Book B - Read a book from a series that has MORE than 15 books published at the beginning of this challenge.
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 515
Completed Tasks: 38
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX25.5 - Cat's Task: Spring Springs
Option 2. Read a book with all the letters LION and LAMB in the title / subtitle.
Option 3. Read a book with a single author name George, or one of the related names listed on Behind the Name.
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 540
Completed Tasks: 39
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX25.6 - Amy FL's Task: Reminiscing
Option 2: Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in QUADROPHENIA.
Option 3: Read a book with a title (ignore subtitles) that contains a word of four or more letters from one of the tracks on the Key of Life album. With "Love" in the title:
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 565
Completed Tasks: 40
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX30.1 - Dlmrose’s Task: Same Name
Read 2 books each written by a different author who shares the same first name.
Approved in eBook Verification Spreadsheet line 3708:
Points
This Post: 30
Total Points: 595
Completed Tasks: 41
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: Pawn Sacrifice
Option 1: Knight
a) The name of the piece is in the title.
c) The setting of the book begins with ANY letter in your chosen playing piece. Set in Illinois:
Points
This Post: 30
Total Points: 625
Completed Tasks: 42
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX30.4 - Sandy's Task: Up and Down
Book 1 - Any book that fits general SRC rules.
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).
Points
This Post: 30
Total Points: 655
Completed Tasks: 43
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX30.5 - TessaVanessa's Task: Thank you, Dr. Seuss!
Option 3: Read a book first published in March of any year.
Option 4: Read a book first published between 1994 and 2004.
Points
This Post: 30
Total Points: 685
Completed Tasks: 44
Books Read: 66
Brooke TX50.1 - Chris MD's Task: Reliving the 70s
I rolled 5, 4, 4.
Book 1: Odd: Read a book with at least one man on the cover.
Book 2: Even: Read a book by a single author whose initials (all initials) are found in Elton John OR Bernie Taupin.
Book 3: Even: Read a book with an MPG of historical fiction that was first published in the second half of the 20th century (1950-1999).
Points
This Post: 50
Total Points: 735
Completed Tasks: 45
Books Read: 66
FLY Task #10.7 - The Uncola
task: Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle that BEGINS with "UN".
book: The Under Dog and Other Stories
how it fits: UNder begins with "UN"
Points this post: 10
Total points: 575
Tasks completed: 32 /54
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 2
Brooke TX25.8- 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.
3) Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in SAD AND LONELY.
Points
This Post: 25
Total Points: 760
Completed Tasks: 46
Books Read: 66
30.5 - TessaVanessa's Task: Thank you, Dr. Seuss!Option 3:Read a book first published in March of any year.
I listened to an audio version of The Glass Hotel first published March 24th, 2020
Option 4: Read a book first published between 1994 and 2004,
Barney's Version first published 1997
New Points: 30
Total Points: 575
BB: 1
GO: 2
Task 5.4 – Fawlty Towers Book chosen: Where the Wild Ladies Are
Fits task: 2 Ws in the title (where; wild)
Format read: audio with ebook readalong
# of pages: 288 (printed edition)
Points this post: 5 points
Total points to date: 550 points
Task 25.6 – Amy FL's Task: Reminiscing Book 1: Option 1
Book chosen: The Hunted Girls
Fits task: 3-word title; T, H and G in GET THE LED OUT
Format read: audio with ebook readalong
# of pages: 408 (printed edition)
Book 2: Option 2
Book chosen: These Feathered Flames
Fits task: Author = Alexandra Overy; A and O in QUADROPHENIA
Format read: audio
+ of pages: 496 (printed edition)
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date: 575 points
Task 30.4 – Sandy's Task: Up and Down Book 1:
Book chosen: The Secretary
Fits task: Fits general SRC rules - published on May 18, 2021, 330 pages
Format read: audio with ebook readalong
# of pages: 330 (printed edition)
Book 2:
Book chosen: Throne of Glass
Fits task: going down in year(s) (published in 2012), going up in pages (406)
Format read: audio
+ of pages: 406 (printed edition)
Points this post: 30 points
Total points to date: 605 points
Sarah E5.7 - Mork & Mindy
Caffe Latte & Murder
I read the kindle edition, paperback - no MMP - is Caffe Latte & Murder
Total Points: 575
Sarah E5.8 - Monty Python's Flying Circus
Of Mice and Men - on page 1 of the list, currently #72
I read an ebook, top MMP is Of Mice and Men
Golden Oldie, first published 1937. Claiming 1 GO ticket.
Total Points: 580
Total GOs: 3
EMurphy15.8 It's Black and White - Set in a country/territory from the list Out of the Silence: After the Crash by Eduardo Strauch Urioste (set in the Andes Mountains in Argentina)
From Wikipedia: "The wreck was located at an elevation of 3,570 metres (11,710 ft) in the remote Andes Mountains in far western Argentina, near the border with Chile." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay...
This Post:
Points: 15
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 450
Books Read: 32
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 1
BB Ticket +1000: 1
Tasks Completed: 23
Sarah E15.5. It's outta here!
The Foundling
I read a kindle edition, top paperback - no MMP - is The Lost Orphan - 352 pages
Total Points: 595
Sarah E20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's Task: OLD TIME ROCK’N ROLL
Option 1: Author initials in "GoodbyE Yellow BriCk Road"
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline - 366 pages
Total Points: 615
Sarah E20.5 - Bigger is Better - Ann A's Task: Big Books, Big Titles
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
I listened to an audio, top paperback - no MMP - is Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Total Points: 635
Task: 5.2 - Antiques RoadshowBook read:Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
children's mpg : IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16.0
Required:first published in 1909, which was over 100 years ago.
GO/BB?: as this was published in 1909 I claim 1 Golden Oldie
Points this task:5
Total points:675
Total Golden Oldies:2
Total Big Books:0
Books read:51
Tasks completed:37
Amy B10.5 - Spend the Day With a Knight
Read a book set during or about medieval times. For the purposes of this task, medieval times will be defined as the 5th through the 16th century (400 AD–1600 AD). Required: If the time setting is not evident on the book's main page include a reference.
Illuminations by Mary Sharratt (about Hildegard von Bingen who died 1179)
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 860 Points
CEELEE Task 50.1 Chris M D's Task: Reliving The '70s
Take a trip down Chris' memory lane and look at the fashion, music and book trends of the decade.
First, go to RANDOM..org Roll three dice. Take not of each number from left to right. Each number will correspond to the three tasks--with even numbers you will read a book related to even number tasks and odd numbers you will read a book from odd numbered task in each category.
My dice roll result is 1-6-3 Odd. Even. Odd.
Your three book page total must be 750+ and no children's books may be used.
Page count for each book and total page count.
Book 1: 240 pp
Book 2: 416 pp
Book 3: 299 pp
Total: 955 pp
Book 1: Fashion
Odd: Leisure Suits
In honor of all the fathers, grandfathers, and brothers who donned these polyester suits , read a book with at east one man on the cover. Include cover in the post.
I chose Forever Young: My Friendship with John F Kennedy Jr by William Sylvester Noonan
Forever Young: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr.
A great history, biography and would be the best buddy movie ever!
Book 2: Music
Even: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
In honor of this popular '70s album with music written by Sir Elton John and Barry Taupin, read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in either the names Elton John or Bernie Taupin.
The book I read is Silver Girl by Elin Hildebrand
Silver Girl
The author's initials E H can be found in E-lton joHn
When I started reading this book, I had no idea how much '70s nostalgia would be in it! Awful characters but still a great book by one of my favorite authors.
Book 3: Books
Odd: Death Comes At The End...or Does it?
In honor of Agatha Christie and other authors whose characters live on even after their death in new works by new authors., read a book created by a living author with the same main characters as the original author's books.
OK, I goofed up on this task with the first book I chose for this category and had to get another title Luckily, I noticed the mistake over the weekend. Quick read. I chose Agatha Christie's character Hercules Poirot in a new series by Sophie Hannah. Dame Agatha died on January 12, 1970 which fits this "70s task even though she only lived 12 days into the decade. Sophie Hannah is good but the original is still the best.
Closed Casket
Total Points for Task: 50
Total Books Read for Task: 3
Total Big Books Tickets Claimed for Task: 0
Total Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed for Task: 0
Total Points for Spring Challenge 2021: 130
Total Tasks Completed for Spring Challenge: 6
Total Boos Read for Spring Challenge: 9
Total Big Books Tickets Claimed for Spring Challenge; 0
Total Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed for Spring Challenge: 0
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ25.4 - Check Your Eyesight
Book 1 -
Grape Expectations by Tamar Myers
word - GRAPE
272 pages
Book 2 -
Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
word - GRAVE
Link to MMP edition: Grave Sight 293 pages
graPe // graVe (words differ by 4th letter)
272 + 293 = 565 (greater than 500 pages)
This post: 25 points
Total points to date: 535 points
Tasks completed: 31
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season *
Shelby
5.8 - Monty Python's Flying Circus
Read a book found on the Cult Classics list.: Stillhouse Lake, by Rachel Caine
How Fits: #223 on Pg. 3 of Cult Classics
Points this post: 5
Total points: 605
Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies: 2
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ30.5 - Thank you, Dr. Seuss!
Book 1 -
First Degree by David Rosenfelt
Option 1 - Author has first and last initials of DR
Link to PB edition: First Degree
Book 2 -
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Option 2: The title contains at least 3 words and the first letter of each word can be found in WACKY WEDNESDAY (A in wacky; AY in wednesday)
Link to PB edition: Ask Again, Yes
This post: 30 points
Total points to date: 565 points
Tasks completed: 32
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season *
Shelby
15.1. Continuing on..................
Book 1
Read any book that meets SRC requirements and that has a title of at least 2 words.: In the Blood, by Hailey Turner
How Fits: Title: 3 Words
AND
Book 2
Read any book that meets SRC requirements and that has a title of at least 2 words, where the first word of the title is the same as the last word in the title of Book 1.: Blood Rights, by Kristen Painter
How Fits: Title: 2 Words & Book 1: In the BLOOD & Book 2: BLOOD Rights
Points this post: 15
Total points: 620
Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies: 2
Shelby
15.3. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away
Option 1 / Book 1
Read a book whose author name matches the first, last or middle name of one of the main actors from the movie.: 'Nother Sip of Gin, by Rhys Ford
Ebook Verified: Here
How Fits: Actor: Harrison Ford - Author: Rhys Ford
AND
Option 1 / Book 2
Read a book with a main page genre of Space Opera.: The Ship Who Sang, by Anne McCaffrey
How Fits: MPG - Space > Space Opera
Points this post: 15
Total points: 635
Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies: 2
Shelby
15.4. In honor of Captain Tom
Option 1 / Book 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.": Lock and Key, by Z. Allora
How Fits: Title - Lock and Key
AND
Option 1 / Book 2
Read a book with an author name of Tom or Thomas, or one of its variations found in Behind The Name - Thomas.: Children of Virtue and Vengeance, by Tomi Adeyemi
How Fits: Author - Tomi Adeyemi, Finnish/Hungarian/Welsh variation of Thomas
Points this post: 15
Total points: 650
Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies: 2
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5.6 - Are You Being Served?
Read a book with the MPG Humor or Comedy.
Points
This Post: 5
Total Points: 185
Completed Tasks: 18
Books Read: 66