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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2021
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25.3 - CYNBAXTER's Task - My Time has Come!
Book #1 - Using Option 1 where book is published between 2014 and 2021
How Sweet the Sound by Amy K. Sorrells
First published March 1st 2014
Book is new to me
Most popular Paperback, 384 pages
Book #2 - Using Option 4 where author's initials can be found in SUPER MODS
A Ticket to Ride by Paula McLain
Book is new to me
Most popular Paperback, 272 pages
Total page count: 656
(total required more than 500 pages
**POINT SUMMARY**
Previous Points Earned: 35
Points Earned this Post: 25
Total Points To Date: 60
SandiCompleted Task
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: The View from Lockdown
Title includes the word CITY
The Flynn City Egg Man by Ronnie Ray Jenkins
**POINT SUMMARY**
Previous Points Earned: 60
Points Earned this Post: 20
Total Points To Date: 80
25.7 - Amy FL's Task: Right Up My AlleyOption 1: Read a book with a title word of four of more letters that can be made from the letters in AMATEUR BOWLERS TOUR.
Small Town Storm by Elise K. Ackers
5-letter word in title, STORM, can be found in aMaTeuR bOwlerS tour
Option 4: Read a book by a FEMALE author that is the first (#1) in a series.
Daughter of Nomads (The Tales of Jahani #1) by Rosanne Hawke
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 2
Season Total: 465
Task 20.3 - Literary TouristI read Octavia E Butler in June this year
https://www.literature-map.com/octavi...
I picked Ada Palmer - who is a new to me author
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
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360 points
2 BB tix
1 GO tix
Amy B10.2 -O'kay
Read a book written by an author with a name part that begins with O'.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 270 Points
10.10 - Soviet Bloc CrumblesDeadly Descent by Kaylea Cross
Book takes place in Afghanistan
Points This Post: 10
Grand Total Points: 105/1070
Total Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 10/60
Big Book Tickets 500+ pgs: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
15.6 - Don't You Forget About MeCress by Marissa Meyer
Found on page 20
Claiming Big Book 500+ pages: Page count is 552
Points This Post: 15
Grand Total Points: 120/1070
Total Books Read: 11
Tasks Completed: 11/60
Big Book Tickets 500+ pgs: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Inge's Task: Queen BeatrixOption 3: Half Past Dead by Zoe Archer & Bianca D'Arc
Page count is 289, approved in help thread
Points This Post: 20
Grand Total Points: 140/1070
Total Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 12/60
Big Book Tickets 500+ pgs: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
EMurphy30.5 Dlmrose's Task: Ready to Plan
My home continent is North America. The results I got were Europe (Italy/France/Spain) and Asia (Philippines/China/Sri Lanka)
Europe: Italy Q by Luther Blissett
*Big Book Ticket - 768 pages
Asia: Philippines Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
BB Ticket +750: 1
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 80
Books Read: 5
BB Ticket +750: 1
GO Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 3
25.1 - Nick KY’s Task: Shirley JacksonianaOption 3: Tucker by Juliana Stone
Humor on MPG
Option 4: Night with a SEAL by Cat Johnson
NIGHT is found in the word HAUNTING
Points This Post: 25
Grand Total Points: 165/1070
Total Books Read: 14
Tasks Completed: 13/60
Big Book Tickets 500+ pgs: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
30.3 - Bluemoon's Task: My Memories of the 1980'sOption A1: Montana Reunion by Soraya M. Lane
MONTANA is found in MOMENT AND HAPPEN
Option C2: Stealing the Groom by Sonya Weiss
MPG: Travel>Road Trip
Points This Post: 30
Grand Total Points: 195/1070
Total Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 14/60
Big Book Tickets 500+ pgs: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Task:20.1 - Most Improved - Louise's Task: Picking Up The PiecesOption: 2 - Grow Your Own (all the letters in one of the words GROW, YOUR, or OWN in the title )
Book read:Waiting for Callback by Perdita Cargill
Required:GROW in WaitinG fOR callback
Points this task:20
Total points:125
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:0
Books read:8
Tasks completed:5
Jasmiina F20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Inge's Task: Queen Beatrix:
Option 3: Read a book with a number of pages that can be found in their birth years and ages: 83, 95, 1926, 1938:
The Tarot Reader's Daughter by Helen Dunwoodie.
Pages: 256.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Golden Oldies this post:
Total Golden Oldies:
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+:
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.6 Let's Be Careful Out There
First Family by David Baldacci
Just in case Action verified on post 34 of Genre Verification
Points this post: 5
Total points: 480/1070
Tasks completed: 27/60
Books read: 37
CYNBAXTERTask #25.01 – Nick KY’s Task: Shirley Jacksoniana
Task Description, Option 1: Read any book by Shirley Jackson
Book 1: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Task Description, Option 2: Read any book which is a nonfiction biography of anyone who has ever lived.
Book 2: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date: 305 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 1
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 2
LAUREN JODI25.1 - Nick KY’s Task: Shirley Jacksoniana
Option 3: MPG Humor
Hate Notes by Vi Keeland
Confirmed in Post #43 of the task help thread.
Option 4: THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
Murder in Morningside Heights by Victoria Thompson
Word in phrase: Heights
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 220/1070
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Books Read: 15
Tasks Completed: 13/60
CYNBAXTERTask #25.10 – Bookwrm526's Task: Bingewatching
Task Description, Option 2: Read a book with the main page genre mystery (stand-alone or embedded) AND where the author’s first and last initials can be found in STRATFORD UPON AVON.
Book 1: City on the Edge by David Swinson
Task Description, Option 4: Read a book where ALL the letters in SCORPION can be found in the title and/or subtitle
Book 2: Cleopatra Goes to Prison by Claudia Durastanti
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date: 330 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 1
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 2
Jen K10.3 - Never Bring a Knife to A Gun Fight
Crocodile on the Sandbank
The Emerson brothers are archeologists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodi...
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 210
Jen K10.10 - Soviet Bloc Crumbles
Thirty-Three Teeth
Set 100% in Laos
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 230
Jen K20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Inge's Task: Queen Beatrix
Option 2: My Broken Language: A Memoir
Beatrix wiLhelMina
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 250
NAVI10.4 - E.T. Phone Home
Read a book on the Alien Books Books list.
The Humans by Matt Haig
How it fits: Book listed on Page 2
Points this post: 10
Total points: 65
Nick KY15.3 - Video Killed the Radio Star
Option 2: Read one book that fulfills both book 1 and book 2 requirements.
I read Night Film by Marisha Pessl.
Book 1 requirement. Marisha Pessl’s inits in the name “Robert Palmer.”
Book 2 requirement. The word “Night” in the title also in the song title “All Night Long.”
CLAIM ONE BIG BOOK for Night Foilm at 640 pp
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 255
BBs = 1 500+, 1 750+ = 3 BBs
Nick KY25.1 Nick KY’s Shirley Jacksoniana
Opt.1. I read a book by Shirley Jackson:
Hangsaman
Opt. 3. I read a book with the GR genre of “Humor.” Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 280
30.2 - TessaVanessa's Task: The Joys of Home Ownership 2 books, 2 options.
Book 1 Option 1. Author’s initials in PLUMBER.
The Clockwork Menace by Bec McMaster
Book 2 Option 3. Recipe in book.
Death of a Wandering Wolf by Julia Buckley
Recipes given: Hana's Haluska, Juliana's Palacsinta
Points: 30
Total Points: 475
BB: 1
GO: 1
15.7 - The 80s Mix TapeRead an anthology or collection of short stories (the second review states that this is a "collection of 12 more short stories")
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Total Points: 175
10.10 - Soviet Bloc CrumblesRead a book set in at least 50% in one or more Soviet Bloc countries or other aligned states.
Night
The book mostly takes place in Poland, with stops in Romania, Eastern Germany and Czechoslovakia.
Reference: SparkNotes Under Settings (Place)
Points Earned This Post: 10
Total Points Earned: 310
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Bookwrm526Task #10.3 - Never Bring a Knife to A Gun Fight
Read a book that features an archaeologist as a main character. I read The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths, main character is a forensic archaeologist as described in the Goodreads description.
Total points so far: 200
15.5 - On Faery WingsI read The House in the Cerulean Sea. One of the children in the orphanage (Talia, who is a major character) is a gnome. Looks like this was approved on the help thread.
points: 160
Books read: 10
tasks completed: 10
pages read: 4027
Amy FL15.4 - Sweet Tea
Option 2: Regretting You - Romance set in Texas (setting in metadata)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 205
Amy FL15.5 - On Faery Wings
The House in the Cerulean Sea - Approved in message 16 for Trish (there is a Gnome named Talia)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 220
Amy FL20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Inge's Task: Queen Beatrix
Option 2: The Lost Apothecary (beATrix wILlhelmina)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 240
Amy FL20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: The View from Lockdown
A Sky Beyond the Storm (Sky)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 260
15.3 Video Killed the Radio Star1 book option
Nevil Shute from geNesiS
A Town Like Alice from Like a Prayer
First published 1950 Golden Oldie
New points: 15
Total points: 45
25.3 - MY TIME HAS COMEOPTION 1 - Switching Hour
OPTION 3 - NEVER - Never Date Your Brother's Best Friend this is the version I read.
Deep Blue PB for page count
Both of these books are new reads for me
TOTAL POINTS - 430
hoodoomends5.8 - Who Dun It?: a book with the MPG mystery.
Dos Delitos e das Penas by Cesare Beccaria [genre verified here]
**claiming a GO ticket - book first published in 1763**
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This post:
Points: 5
GO: 1
BB: -
Total:
Points: 120
GO: 5
BB: -
Katrisa 20.6 - Queen Beatrix
Opt. 1 - Read a book with the word Queen in the title.
I read The Queen's Gambit
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 510
Katrisa20.7 - Group Reads Rejects
read one of the nominees in any of the three categories that did not win.
I chose Cinder from the YA Sci-Fi poll
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 530
Mary P25.9 - Brooke TX's Task: Notes From an Elder Millennial
Option B
Book 1: Read a book where a word in the title or the author's first or last name begins with a Y.
Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
Book 2: Read a book with the word "ME" found intact in the title or subtitle.
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
Points this post: 25
Total points: 125
EMurphyCYNBAXTER's Task: My Time has Come!
Option 1: Published between 2014 and 2021 Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
*Book is new to me
*310 books
Option 4: Author whose initials can be found in the phrase SUPER MODS Ghost Story by Peter Straub
*Book is new to me
*567 pages
**Big Book Ticket
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
BB Ticket +500: 1
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 105
Books Read: 7
BB Ticket +500: 1
BB Ticket +750: 1
GO Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 4
Sara G30.8 - Lauren Jodi's task: 80s Dynamic Duos
Option 2: REMINGTON STEELE
Read a book with an imposter – the character must be impersonating someone else OR have assumed a fictitious identity.
The Thirteenth House by Sharon Shinn
The main character is a shapeshifter who impersonates her sister for most of the story. From the GR description: "But when Casserah refuses to go on a social tour of great Houses, Kirra shifts into her sister's form and makes the rounds..."
Option 4: KNIGHTRIDER
Read any book that meets the SRC rules from one of the following Listopias:
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
This book is on page 1 of the Robots With Feelings list.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 240
Sara G15.6 - Don't You Forget About Me
Read a book that has been shelved on this list as Coming of Age.
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
This book is on page 2 of the list.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 255
25.2 - Andy P’s Task: Living with DogsBook 1. Read a book, fiction or nonfiction, with a domestic animal central to the plot or subject.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles Audiobook
The Travelling Cat Chronicles MMPB 325 Pages
Told from the perspective of a pet cat.
Book 2. Read a nonfiction book in which an animal or animals are major characters or subjects.
The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird Audiobook
The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird PB 336 Pages
Subject is the illegal animal trade of birds of prey - mainly peregrine falcons.
325 + 336 = 661 Pages
Points Earned This Post: 25
Total Points Earned: 335
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Jen K15.9 - I Want My MTV
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
a liTtle deVil in aMerica
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 265
Jen K15.10 - Stuck in the Middle
Blameless
#3 of 5 in Parasol Protectorate series
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 280
Line5.6 let’s be careful out there!
read a book with the main page genre Action or Adventure
I read Catching Fire , which has the MPG action and adventure
Point this task: 5
Total points: 5
books read: 1
tasks done: 1
Line10.5 She blinded me with science
option b: read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in SCIENCE
I read Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, whose initials SC can be found in science
points this task: 10
total points 15
total books read: 2
tasks done: 2
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Completed Task
5.7. The Bechdel test
At least 2 women and no men on cover
The Divine Secrets of The Whoopie Pie Sisters 1 by Sarah Price
no print edition. Verified for length at post #8268 of ebook verification thread . . . https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Previous Points Earned: 30
Points Earned this Post: 5
Total Points To Date: 35