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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2021
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Heather KSTask 30.1- Teri-K's Task: Celebrate the Great Outdoors.
Option 2: Author's initials in THALASSOPHILE
I read Wow, No Thank You.: Essays by Samantha Irby (SI in the word) 319 pgs
Option 3:
All the letters for either the word CAMP or HIKE must be found in the title, including subtitles.
I read Firekeeper's Daughter which contains all the letters in the word HIKE. 496 pages
Page total is over 550 pgs
Points this post: 30
Total points: 230
Heather KS25.9 Brooke TX's Task: Notes From an Elder Millennial
OPTION B: Generation Y/Generation Me
Book 1: Read a book where a word in the title or the author's first or last name begins with a Y. Subtitles are excluded.
I read Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Book 2: Read a book with the word "ME" found intact in the title or subtitle.
I read This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today
Points this post: 25
Points total: 255
Task:5.10. Cheers! [ a book of your choice that meets SRC rules]Book read:On the Other Side by Carrie Hope Fletcher
Required: n/a (free choice task)
Points this task:5
Total points:465
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:3
Books read:32
Tasks completed:23
UNCLAIMING THIS POSTTask:5.10. Cheers! [ a book of your choice that meets SRC rules]
Book read:On the Other Side by Carrie Hope Fletcher
Required: n/a (free choice task)
Points this task:5
Total points:465
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:3
Books read:32
Tasks completed:23
UNCLAIMING THIS POSTTask:15.10 - Stuck in the Middle [book in a series that is NOT the first or the last/most recently published]
Book read:Take Two by Perdita Cargill
Required: number 2 in the waiting for callback series (Waiting for Callback #2), which is a 3 part series.
Points this task:15
Total points:230
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:1
Books read:15
Tasks completed:11
UNCLAIMING THIS POSTTask:25.8 – Shelby’s Task: Things to Look Forward To!!!
Option: 2. FAMILY [6, 6, 4, 3, 2, and 2 months. Read any book from a series that matches one or a combination of their ages]
Book read:Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
Required: book 2 in the arc of a scythe series.
GO/BB?: this has 504 pages so I clam 1 big book ticket.
Option: 3. FILM [author's initials in either INDUSTRIAL or INDEPENDENT FILM ]
Book read:The Toll by Neal Shusterman
Required: author initials NS in iNduStrial
GO/BB?: this book is 625 pages so I claim 1 big book ticket.
Points this task:25
Total points:395
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:3
Books read:27
Tasks completed:18
Andy P.Task # Task 20.9 -Moderator's Pet: Elizabeth P's Task: Big Moves
Option 4. Read a book by an author whose first and last name initials can be found in BROADWAY,
Without Sanction by Don Bentley
BROADWAY
Points this post: 20
Total points: 985
BUCKET25.9 Brooke TX’s Task: Notes From an Elder Millennial
Option B
Book 1
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
(Yacoubian starts with Y.)
Book 2
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
(ME in RAGTIME.)
Points this post: 25
Points total: 260
BB this post/total: 0/3
GO this post/total: 0/4
BUCKET30.5 Dlmrose’s Task: Ready to Plan
My home continent is North America.
Book 1
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
(Set to Europe and got Bath, England. This book is set about 60% in England.)
Book 2
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
(Set to Asia and got Udaipur, India. This book is set 100% in India.)
Points this post: 30
Points total: 290
BB this post/total: 0/3
GO this post/total: 0/4
Jen K20.2 - Rookie at the Top - XBM's Task: SUNY Brockport Writers Forum
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 800
Jen K20.5 - Bigger is Better - Robin P's Task: Introducing Myself
Option 1: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Z in kaZuo
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 820
Jen K25.3 - CYNBAXTER's Task - My Time has Come!
Option 3: Even As We Breathe - 240 pages
Word: even in pErsEVeraNce
Option 4: Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson - 319 pages
Super Mods
240 + 319 > 500 pages
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 845
PegW20.1 - Most Improved - Louise's Task: Picking Up The Pieces
Option 2: Read a book with all the letters of the word OWN in the title only.
Women in the Kitchen: Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today
Points this post: 20
Total points: 425
25.3 - CYNBAXTER's Task - My Time has Come!Both of these books are new-to-me.
Option 1: The Animators, published in 2017, 369 pages
Published between 2014-2021
Option 4: Version Control by Dexter Palmer, 495 pages
Author initials in SUPER MODS
Total points: 210
Amy FL20.4 - Golden Oldies - Ed's Task: Summer Play
1. Sooley (approved for MPG Drama in message 8)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 980
Amy FL30.9 - Cat's Task: The Perks of UNO
Option 1 (604 total pages)
Task A:
(linked to audiobook which I completed; there are 320 pages in paperback edition)Tineye results: 69.2% Blue
67.0 % #1b5694 Blue
16.7 % #060d17 Black
10.3 % #d2d3d4 Grey
2.9 % #97aabf Grey
2.2 % #586c88 Blue
0.9 % #3c3f46 Grey
Task B: The Unrepentant by E.A. Aymar (first initial "E," 284 pages)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 1010
Jessrs15.7 - The 80s Mix Tape
Read an anthology or collection of short stories, essays and/or novella
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion By Jia Tolentino
New Points: 15
Total points: 145
MEGSCL15.10 - Stuck in the Middle
Lords and Ladies
ARbookfind - IL: UG
TOTAL TO DATE
560 points
3 big book
MEGSCL25.1 - Nick KY’s Task: Shirley Jacksoniana
Opt. 2. Read any book which is a nonfiction biography of anyone who has ever lived.
Tracker
Opt. 4. Read a book with a word of 4 or more letters in the title or subtitle which can be made from the letters in “the hAunting oF hiLL houSe.”
FALLS - Where the Fruit Falls
TOTAL TO DATE
580 points
3 big book
Bookwrm526Task #15.6 - Don't You Forget About Me
Read a book that has been shelved on this list as Coming of Age. I read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, from page 2 of the list.
Total points so far: 795
Lisa MD50.1 - Trishhartuk's task: 3-2-1
Must total at least 750 pages.
At least one of the books you must be at least 50% set in either the UK (England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland - but not Eire) or Spain .
3: Read a book by an author with exactly three name parts
🔸Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam M. Grant
307 pages
2: Read a book that is part of a series AND includes a 2 in its series number in grayscale parenthesis after the title (#2, #12, #21, #22, etc).
🔸The Forgotten Road by Richard Paul Evans
Series: The Broken Road #2
Listened to audiobook.
Linked to PB. No MMPB.
272 pages
1: Read a book with a one-word title, where the initial of the title word can be found in either TED ROGERS or DUSTY BIN. Subtitles should be ignored.
🔸Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
Title Initial: T in Ted
Setting: England
455 pages
307 + 272 + 455 = 1034 pages
👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓👓
Points This Post: 50
Total Points: 500/1070
Total Books Read: 37
Tasks Completed: 27/60
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 2
Kathy KS30.4 - Sandy's Task: Opposites Attract.
Read 2 books, the titles (NOT subtitles) of which each contain one of the words in the pair you've chosen. Words must match exactly. REQUIRED: Specify your word pair in your post.
Your combined total pages for the two books must be at least 600 pages.
Bad - Good
A Bad Day for Pretty: A Crime Novel, by Sophie Littlefield
and
No Good Asking, by Fran Kimmel
I listened to both books; pages are based on paperbacks (no mmpb)
Pages: 304 + 300=604 (>600)
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 565
Tasks completed: 25
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Barbara ★15.3 - Video Killed the Radio Star
Book 1: Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in the name of one of the artists/groups from this list of Greatest 1980s Music Videos.
A Killer Plot - Ellery Adams 7/10
(E & A in george michAEl)
Book 2: Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle that matches exactly a word in the title of one of these Best 80s songs.
Child of Silence - Abigail Padgett 8/23
(Sweet Child 'O Mine)
Points this task: 15
Total points: 585
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (1) 1000 (0)
INSIYAH10.4 - E.T. Phone Home
Aliens Book List
Book: Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (ebook)
How it fits: On Page 3 of list
Note: MMP has 232 pages.
Points for this task: 10
Total points : 800
Tasks completed: 46
Books Read: 62
5.6. Let's Be Careful Out There!Hill Street Blues, The A-Team, Magnum, P.I., and Miami Vice were all hit crime dramas from the 80s.
Read a book with the main page genre Action or Adventure.
Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber
Total points: 75
30.1 - Teri-K's Task: Celebrate the Great Outdoors.Option 2: Read a book whose author's first and last initials are found in DENDROPHILE or THALASSOPHILE.
The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver by Shawn Inmon Audiobook
The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver PB 318 Pages
SI appears in thalaSsophIle
Option 3: All the letters for either the word CAMP or HIKE must be found in the title, including subtitles.
How to be Champion Audiobook
How to be Champion PB 304 Pages
CAMP appears in ChAMPion
318 + 304 = 622 Pages
Points Earned This Post: 30
Total Points Earned: 1050
Golden Oldie Tickets: 4
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
INSIYAH10.10 - Soviet Bloc Crumbles
Set at least 50% in an Eastern Block country
Book: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (ebook)
How it fits: Set in Russia (MPG Russia)
Note: MMP has 128 pages.
Points This Task: 10
Total Points : 810
Tasks Completed: 47
Books Read: 63
Amy B30.4 - Sandy's Task: Opposites Attract.
Pick a pair of antonyms from the following list: Michigan Proficiency Exams Antonym List.
Read 2 books, the titles (NOT subtitles) of which each contain one of the words in the pair you've chosen. Words must match exactly. REQUIRED: Specify your word pair in your post.
Word Pair: Here and There
No books with the main page genres children or kids can be used for this task. Your combined total pages for the two books must be at least 600 pages.
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman (336 pgs)
Somewhere Out There by Amy Hatvany (344 pgs)
This Task: 30 Points
To Date: 675 Points
ZachFor Task 15.8 - Found in Translation I read Aya: Life in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet. My primary language is English and this book was originally written in French.
Points this post: 15
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Totals:
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Points: 145
BBTs: 0
GOTs: 0
SandyL15.5 - On Faery Wings
Read a book with at least one fae character
The Selkie Prince's Forbidden Mate by J.J. Masters
MC Prince Marlin is a Selkie
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 905
Big Books Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 52
Books Read: 72
Sarah E15.10 - Stuck in the Middle
The Diamond Pin - #10 in a series of 61
I read an ebook, top paperback - no MMP - is The Diamond Pin
Golden Oldie, first published 1919. Claiming 1 GO ticket.
Total Points: 370
Total GOs: 3
Angela ILTask 20.9 -Moderator's Pet: Elizabeth P's Task: Big Moves
Option 3: Read a book first published between 2014-2021, inclusive.
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith 8/24
Published in 2021 and 305 pages
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 445
Books Read: 32
Tasks Completed: 20/60
Heather KS 30.4 - Sandy's Task: Opposites Attract
My words were BIG and LITTLE
I read Little Big Love 384 pages
and
Hush Little Baby 336 pages
page total more than 600: 720
Points this post: 30
Points total: 285
SandyL25.2 - Andy P’s Task: Living with Dogs
Book 1. Read a book with a domestic animal central to the plot
About a Dog by Jenn McKinlay
305 pages
Book 2. Read a nonfiction book in which an animal or animals are major characters or subjects
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
246 pgs
305 + 246 = 551 pgs
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Points This Task: 25
Total Points: 930
Big Books Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 53
Books Read: 74
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SandyL30.9 - Cat's Task: The Perks of UNO
Task A: Read a book that is at least 50% Yellow
Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
https://labs.tineye.com/color/becfa05...
368 pages
Task B: Read a book written by an author whose name starts with the initial E
Completely Yours by Erin Nicholas
283 pages
368 + 283 = 651 pages
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Points This Task: 30
Total Points: 960
Big Books Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 54
Books Read: 76
CEELEETask 15.6 Don't You Forget About Me
In honor of the 1980s Brat Pack, read a book that has been shelved on the Coming Of Age list. State the page where the book appears.
I read Normal People by Sally Rooney.
The book appears on the first page of the list.
Normal People
Such a wonderful book! So realistic, heart wrenching and I really felt for Marianne and her struggles to fit in at school and in life. A classic in the genre.
Total Points for Task: 15
Total Books Read for Task: 1
Total Big Books Tickets Claimed for Task: 0
Total Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed for Task: 0
Total Points for SRC Summer Challenge 2021: 60
Total Tasks Completed for Summer Challenge 2021: 4
Total Books Read for Summer Challenge 2021: 4
Total Big Books Tickets Claimed for Summer Challenge 2021: 0
Total Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed for Summer Challenge 2021: 1
25.5 - Sarah E's Task: The Mysterious Cities of GoldOption 3, a book with the word MYSTERIOUS in the title: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Option 5, a book found on the Gold list (p. 1 #47): The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
Points this post: 25
Total points: 935
HanneloreTask 5.10 - Cheers! Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
Book: Mij krijgen ze niet levend. De zelfmoorden van mei 1940
How it fits: Meets SRC rules.
Points this task: 5
Total points: 350
Tasks completed: 17
BB tickets:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
HanneloreTask 10.9 - 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.
Book: Club Dead
How it fits: The title has 2 words and both words have 4 characters in them.
Points this task: 10
Total points: 360
Tasks completed: 18
BB tickets:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
Kathy KS30.2 - TessaVanessa's Task: The Joys of Home Ownership
Option 1. Read a book with the author’s first and last name initials in the word: PLUMBER.
The Widening Gyre, by Robert B. Parker
RBP=PlumBeR
I listened to the audiobook; mmpb=183 p.
Option 2. Read a book with one of these creaking sound words found intact in the title/subtitle: groan, screech, squeak, chirr, rasp , scrape, scratch, sound, squeal and creak.
The Rasp, by Philip MacDonald
the RASP=rasp
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 595
Tasks completed: 26
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Task:15.6 - Don't You Forget About Me (shelved as coming of age)Book read:Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Required: it is on page one of the list of coming of age books
Points this task:15
Total points:435
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:1
Books read:29
Tasks completed:21
Task 25.10 - BingewatchingOption 1: Taskmaster –Read a book with the main page genre humor. The genre may be stand-alone or embedded.
Venus in Copper (Marcus Didius Falco #3) (1991) by Lindsey Davis (Mass Market Paperback, 275 pages)
**note: MPG “humor” verified in the Genre Verification Thread
Option 4: Scorpion –Read a book where ALL the letters in SCORPION can be found in the title and/or subtitle.
SCORPIONfish
Scorpionfish (2020) by Natalie Bakopoulos (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 244 pages)
265 + 25 = 290
Tasks Completed: 13
Points for this post: 25
Points thus far: 265 + 25 = 290
Books read: 20
Pages read: 5,429
Read but not claimed: 01
Goodreads Authors: 09
Golden Oldies: 00
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Task: 10.2 -O'kay (author with a name part that begins with O')Book read:The Switch by Beth O'Leary
Required: O'Leary starts with O'
Points this task:10
Total points:445
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:1
Books read:30
Tasks completed:22
EMurphy30.3 Bluemoon's Task: My Memories of the 1980s
Option 1a: Word in the title of at least 5 letters that can be made from the letters in the phrase THIS IS YOUR MOMENT AND ITS GOING TO HAPPEN Sin Eater by Megan Campisi
*Word is EATER
Option 1b: All of the author's initials can be found in DEATH OF A DREAM In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 380
Books Read: 26
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 1
BB Ticket +750: 1
Tasks Completed: 15
30.7 mazza1’s task i chose option 2 and 3
option 2 - read a new to me book by a favourite author i’ve read at least twice before and rated 4 or 5 stars. The author I chose was Neal Shusterman. I read The Toll. Previously i’ve read Scythe, which i gave 4 stars, and Thunderhead, which i gave 5 stars. The toll was a new to me book.
option 3 - read a much loved book that i’ve read at least twice before. I read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:22844202. i’ve read this book at least twice before, and the book is over 10 years old (published in 2005). It has a children’s MPG, but the tasks states that one book can have the children’s genre.
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR PTS: 29.0
points for this task: 30
total points: 220
books read: 20
tasks completed: 16
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30.7 - MAZZA1's Task: A Little Of What You Fancy
Option 1
The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce #9)
I listened to an audio but have linked to the top paperback, no MMP
This is a new-to-me book, I finished book #8 in the series Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd on November 25, 2019, and I gave it 4 stars.
Option 3
Wyrd Sisters
I listened to an audio but have linked to the top MMP
I have read this at least twice before, it was first published in 1988
Total points: 340