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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2021
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I read The Woman with the Blue Star, set completely in Poland.
total points: 15
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I read Changes - I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top pb (no MMPB).
While there are a number of fae characters, most notably Queen Mab of the Winter Court, Toot-toot is listed in the metadata, and is identified as fae in the GR character description.
total points: 30
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I chose the one book option, and read
by John Irving. For page purposes, the top MMPB is
, 679 pages. This book fits Task A - Tineye shows 78.7% blue cover. Other colors are Grey 12.1%,,1 %, and .9%, Black 6.2%, White 1 %.
It fits Task B, because the author's surname, Irving, starts with I.
Fits the page requirement, as 679 pages >500.
total points: 60
CYNBAXTERTask #30.03 – Bluemoon's Task: My Memories of the 1980's
Task Description, Option A-1: Read a book with a word in the TITLE of at least five letters that can be made from the letters in the phrase THIS IS YOUR MOMENT AND IT’S GOING TO HAPPEN.
Book 1: The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne - The word is "MARSH"
Task Description, Option A-2: Read a book where all of the Author’s initials can be found in DEATH OF A DREAM.
Book 2: The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
Points this post: 30 points
Total points to date: 115 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 0
Delicious Dee5.5. Working Together
The Glass Ocean - 3 authors writing together - Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 5
15.9 - I Want My MTVThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland #1) by Catherynne M. Valente
MTV found in circuMnaVigaTed
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11.0
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 95
Delicious Dee5.1. Excuse the Interruption!
Rattlesnake Crossing - SIGNAL found in title - S in Rattlesnake, IGN in Crossing, AL in Rattlesnake
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 10
APRILLEIGH30.6 - Aprilleigh’s Task: Calling All Ailurophiles
I chose the one-book option, using aMANDA – CaSHMErE – PEPPEr (shared letters are lowercase).
Started the book early, reading 234 pages of a 573 page book (40.8%) in May and the rest in June.
Deep-Sky Companions: The Caldwell Objects by Stephen James O’Meara (573 pages)
*** Big Book - one ticket for 500+ pages ***
These names require 4 Es, 3 As, 3 Ps, 2 Ms, and one each C, D, H, N, R, and S.
DEEP CoMPANionS stEPHen oMEARA
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 30 (30)
Golden Oldie: 0 (0)
Big Book: 1 (1)
Books Read: 1 (1)
Total Tasks: 1
Andy P.Task # 5.7. The Bechdel test
Read a book with at least 2 women and no adult men on the cover
by Jane Healey cover approved in Message 2 of help threadPoints this post: 5
Total points: 45
Nick KY30.7 Mazza1’s Fancy
Opt. 2. Book by a favorite author: Gene Wolfe. The Book is NEW TO ME.
I read Endangered Species.
Opt. 3. A book I read at least twice before, 1st pub’d before 2011.
I read the TOR Double Souls/Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by Joanna Russ and James Tiptree Jr. (1st pub’d 1982, 1976)
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 40
****Repost of message 145/ Readerboard name missing from original post****Angela IL
Task 10.2- O'kay
Read a book written by an author with a name part that begins with O'.
The Bitch Posse by Martha O'Connor
This Task: 10 points
To Date:20
Books Read: 2
Tasks Completed: 2/60
Sara G5.1. Excuse the Interruption!
Read a book in which all the letters of SIGNAL or HIJACK can be found in the title/subtitle.
Greek Island Escape by Patricia Wilson
SIGNAL - GREEK ISLAND ESCAPE
Points this post: 5
Total points: 15
LAUREN JODI20.1 - Most Improved - Louise's Task: Picking Up The Pieces
Option 2 - Grow Your Own
Word - OWN
What Doesn't Kill Her by Christina Dodd
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 70/1070
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 5/60
LAUREN JODI20.5 - Bigger is Better - Robin P's Task: Introducing Myself
Option 1 - Q in author's name
The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Amanda Quick
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 90/1070
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Books Read: 6
Tasks Completed: 6/60
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15.5 - On Fairy Wings
Dwarfs and other mythology creatures mentioned in description
Norse Mythology. Neil Gaiman. 6.10.21
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 70/1070
Total Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 6/60
hoodoomends5.2 - Cowabunga!: a book set in Italy.
O falecido Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello - most of the story is set between the Italian cities of Miragno and Rome
**claiming a GO ticket - book first published in 1904**
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This post:
Points: 5
GO: 1
BB: -
Total:
Points: 60
GO: 3
BB: -
5.1. Excuse the Interruption!Hijacked Honeymoon by Susan Kearney
Points This Post: 5
Grand Total Points: 5/1070
Total Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1/60
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
5.10. Cheers!The Devil's in the Details by Kimberly Raye
Points This Post: 5
Grand Total Points: 10/1070
Total Books Read: 2
Tasks Completed: 2/60
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
15.5 - On Faery WingsFire Touched by Patricia Briggs
Fae characters: Zee, Tad, Adrian (Fire touched boy), and others.
Points This Post: 15
Grand Total Points: 25/1070
Total Books Read: 3
Tasks Completed: 3/60
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
15.8 - Found in TranslationLike Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
My primary language is English, this was originally written in Spanish.
Points This Post: 15
Grand Total Points: 40/1070
Total Books Read: 4
Tasks Completed: 4/60
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Amy B30.7 - MAZZA1's Task: A Little Of What You Fancy
This is a 2 book task
You may use the same OR different options BUT your books MUST be by different authors (this includes authors who write under different names)
You may use books with the genre Children’s or the genre Manga /Comic books for one option.
State the options.
Option 2
Read a NEW to you book by a favourite author - for this challenge a favourite author is one you have read at least TWICE before and RATED 4 or 5 stars
Required: State that you have read the author at least twice before and that you rated more than one of their books 4 or 5 stars and this this book is NEW-to-you.
Book 1: Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead (have read the author 3 times before, all 4 or 5 star ratings, this book is new to me)
Book 2: Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler (have read author 3 times before, all 4 star ratings, this book is new to me)
This Task: 30 Points
To Date: 75 Points
25.9 - Brooke TX's Task: Notes From an Elder MillennialOPTION A: The Era
Book 1: Read a book first published between 1981 and 1996, inclusive.
Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth #1) by M.C. Beaton
pub. 1985
Book 2: Read a book by an author born between 1981 and 1996 inclusive.
Am I Doing This Right? : Life Lessons from the Encyclopedia Bri-Tanya by Tanya Hennessy
Google Search Result noted author's birthday being November 16, 1985
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 120
Amy FL10.3 - Never Bring a Knife to A Gun Fight
Thunderhead (main character, Nora Kelly, is an archaeologist)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
Amy FL15.3 - Video Killed the Radio Star
Option 2: Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty (initials in MAdonna; Purple RAIN)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 25
Amy FL20.5 - Bigger is Better - Robin P's Task: Introducing Myself
Option 3: The Russian by James Patterson and James O. Born
Points this post: 20
Total points: 45
Amy FL25.4 - MEGSCL's Task: Lucky Number
Rolled 6
Book 1: The Wall of Winnipeg and Me - meets three criteria:
a) 6-word title, c) 672 pages in paperback edition, d) first published 2016
Book 2: Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly - b) #6 in the Detective Sean Duffy series
Points this post: 25
Total points: 70
JEN B20.2 - Rookie at the Top - XBM's Task: SUNY Brockport Writers Forum
Read a book by one of the AUTHORS on this list: Authors From the Brockport Writers Forum.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
This book/author is on the list at #70
TOTAL POINTS: 30
Jen K30.1 - Teri-K's Task: Celebrate the Great Outdoors
Option 3: Death Is Hard Work- 192 pages
dEatH Is hard worK
Option 4: Black Water Sister- 384 pages
Matches: Black Canyon of the Gunnison in CO
192+384 =576>550
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 30
Kim O20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Lois's Task: Group Reads Rejects Read one of the Group Reads nominees in any of the three categories that did not win.
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Points this task: 20
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Totals:
Points: 20
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks completed: 1
Jen K30.6 -Aprilleigh’s Task: Calling All Ailurophiles
One-book option: AMANDA, CASHMERE, and PEPPER
Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried- 544 pages
AMANDA: AND MeAl At
CASHMERE: aMERiCA: HarvEy buSiness
PEPPER: aPPEtitE foR stePhen
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 60
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: The View from LockdownA book with SKY in the title: Under the Southern Sky by Kristy Woodson Harvey
Points this post: 20
Total points: 65
LAUREN JODI10.1 - Eventful Eighties
A Coral Kiss by Jayne Ann Krentz
First published in 1987
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 100/1070
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 7/60
LAUREN JODI20.2 - Rookie at the Top - XBM's Task: SUNY Brockport Writers Forum
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 120/1070
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 8/60
INSIYAHrepost from Message 103
25.5 - Sarah E's Task: The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Option 4: at least 50% set in a capital city
Book: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
How it fits: Set in London
Option 5: Read a book found on the Gold list
Book: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
IL: UG
How it fits: No. 16 on Page 1 of list
Note: I read the ebook. The Mass Market Paperback has 351 pages.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 95/1070
Total Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 4
FLY Task #20.5 - Bigger is Better - Robin P's Task: Introducing Myself
task: Option 1: Read a book whose title OR author contains at least one J, Q, X, or Z.
book: We
how it fits: author Yevgeny Zamyatin name contains Z
claiming **Golden Oldies** First published 1920
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 1 /60
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
5.1. Excuse the Interruption!Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #1) by Patricia C. Wrede
SIGNAL found in deALING with dragonS
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8.0
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 125
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Inge's Task: Queen Beatrix1 book.
Option 3: Pages match ages - 125.
I read the ebook, there is no mmpb, pb is here: Tarnished Knight by Bec McMaster.
Points: 20
Total Points: 115
BB: 1
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Joanne MI10.9 - Rain Man
Read a book with a title that has at least 2 words AND none of the words in the title have more than 4 characters in them.
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
Points this task 10
Total Points 30
Nick KY30.4 Sandy’s Opposites
Book 1. I read Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Dandicat, 238 pp.
Book 2. I read Lovely, Dark, Deep by Joyce Carol Oates, 420 pp.
“Light” and “Dark”
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 70
NAVI20.1 "Most Improved - Louise's Task: Picking Up The Pieces"
Option 2: Grow Your Own * Read a book with all the letters in one of the words GROW, YOUR, or OWN in the title only. Subtitles are excluded.
The Lone Star Lawman by Justine Davis
How it fits: All letters in OWN in the title
Points this post: 20
Total points: 35
30.9 - THE PERKS OF UNOTASK A -
382 pages75.9 % #1b4d77 Blue
10.9 % #e4eaef Grey
5.5 % #7d9cb2 Grey
5.3 % #3fa2cf Blue
2.3 % #144f50 Green
TASK B - Down Deep by Virna DePaul 228 pages
TOTAL POINTS - 80
Andy P.Task # 5.8. Who Dun It?
Read a book with the main page genre mystery
The Shape of Night: A Novel by Tess Gerritsen
1st mpg is mystery
Points this post: 5
Total points: 50
LaureY20.1 - Most Improved - Louise's Task: Picking Up The Pieces
Option 4 - * Read a book with a domestic dog on the cover. No silhouettes. The dog must be clearly visible.
by Spencer QuinnPoints this post:20
Total points: 140 /1070
Total Books: 9
Total Tasks: 5/60
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
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10.1 - Eventful Eighties
This book was originally published in 1986
The Ritual Bath. Faye Kellerman. 6.11.21
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 80/1070
Total Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 7/60
INSIYAH5.5. Working Together
3 or more listed authors, either writing together, or in separate short stories/essays.
Book: Black Enough by Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste , Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia
How it fits: More than 3 listed authors
Note: I read the ebook. The Paperback has 416 pages.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 100/1070
Total Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 5/60
MARGO25.7 - Amy FL's Task: Right Up My Alley
Option 1: word = WATER
Read a book with a title word of four of more letters that can be made from the letters in "AmaTEuRboWlerstour".
Thicker than Water
Option 4:
Read a book by a FEMALE author that is the first (#1) in a series.
Murder in the Crypt
by Irina Shapiro
Posted PBs but read Kindle editions.
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Points this task: 25
Total points: 40
Tasks completed: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
MARGO30.9 - Cat's Task: The Perks of UNO
Option 1 (Total 571 pages meets minimum of 500)
Pick two different tasks and read one book for each.
Task A: (316 pages)
Read a book that is at least 50% (as per TinEye) Red, Yellow, Green or Blue.
The Speed of Light: A Novel
Tineye results:
90.9 %#1f4f71 Blue
3.5 %#c9d7e1 Grey
2.9 %#89a1b5 Blue
2.4 %#8ac2de Blue
0.4 %#465466 Grey
Task B: (255 pages)
Read a book written by a single author who has a name part that starts with the initial I, V or E.
Murder at the Abbey
by Irina Shapiro
Posted PBs but read Kindle editions. For task A, the Kindle edition has the same cover.
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Points this task: 30
Total points: 70
Tasks completed: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
5.7. The Bechdel testRead a book with at least 2 women and no adult men on the cover.
I read Saga, Vol. 5
The cover shows two women and no men.
Points this task: 5
Total Points: 95
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
5.10. Cheers!I read Epileptic 1 L'Ascension du Haut Mal, 1-3
Points this task: 5
Total Points: 100
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
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book set 1300 - 1599
I read Three Sisters, Three Queens - I listened to the audiobook, linked to top pb (no MMPB).
The book really focuses on Margaret Tudor, 28 November 1489 – 18 October 1541 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...), the other two queens are Catherine of Aragon, 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheri...), and Mary Tudor, 18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tu...).
While the book does not cover the entire lives of these women, the outer bounds are 1485-1541, so is set within the specified time frame.
total points: 5