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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2021
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VAL TX15.6 - Don't You Forget About Me - Read a book that has been shelved on this list as Coming of Age
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Book appears on page 6.
This post and total:
Points - 15
30.7 - MAZZA1's Task: A Little Of What You FancyOption 1: Read the next new-to-you book in a series that you have previously rated 4 or 5 stars
The Language of Secrets (Rachel Getty & Esa Khattak #2) by Ausma Zehanat Khan
This book is new-to-me & I have read an earlier book(s) in the series before 15/05/2021, and rated that book at least 4 stars
Option 2- Read a NEW to you book by a favourite author
The River and the Book by Alison Croggon
I have read this author at least twice before and I rated more than one of their books 4 or 5 stars and this this book is NEW-to-me
Total this Post: 30
Season Total: 30
5.6. Let's Be Careful Out There!Read a book with the main page genre Action or Adventure.
Captains Courageous - Classic Illustrated Edition
Total this Post: 5
Total Points: 5
LAUREN JODI15.9 - I Want My MTV
Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues by Molly Harper
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 15/1070
Total Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1/60
5.5. Working TogetherRead a book with 3 or more listed authors,
Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901-1961, Evelyn Peters Matthew Stock, and Adrian Werner
Points this post : 5
Total Points: 5
Mod
15.7 - The 80s Mix Tape
Read an anthology or collection of short stories, essays and/or novellas
How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America. Mystery Writers of America
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 15/1070
Total Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1/60
15.6 - Don't You Forget About MeMs. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
page 8
Total this Post: 15
Season Total: 45
Amy B10.1 - Eventful Eighties
Read a book first published in the 1980s (1980 - 1989, inclusive).
Rites of Passage by William Golding (1980)
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 10 Points
KAI10.3 - Never Bring a Knife to A Gun Fight
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Radcliffe Emerson is an archaeologist (Reference)
New Points: 10
Total Points: 10
Books Claimed: 1
Tasks Completed: 1
Joanne MI15.10 Stuck in the Middle
Read a whole number book in a series that is NOT the first or the last
Before They Are Hanged # 2 in series
Points this task 15
Total Points 15
Andy P.Task # 10.8 - Travelin' Man
Read a book with the MPG "Time Travel.
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Second listed mpg is Time Travel
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
LAUREN JODI5.8 - Who Dun It?
Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 20/1070
Total Books Read: 2
Tasks Completed: 2/60
CYNBAXTERTask #10.07 – Sweet Sixteen
Task Description: Read a book with a number in the TITLE that is in word form.
Book: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Points this post: 10 points
Total points to date: 10 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 0
CYNBAXTERTask #20.10 – Group Reads
Task Description: Read ONE of the books selected as the Group Reads choices for the season
Link to Post: Post #02, 06/03/2021
Book: Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy
Points this post: 20 points
Total points to date: 30 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 0
Jayme(the ghostreader) 5.8 Who Dunit
And Then There Were Noneby Agatha Christie
MPG mystery
published 1939
Task +5
Grand Total: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Nick KY5.5. Working Together
Read a book with 3 or more listed authors
I read The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four.
by
Ellen Datlow Ellen Datlow(Goodreads Author) (Editor),
Laird Barron(Goodreads Author) (Contributor),
Brian Hodge(Goodreads Author) (Contributor),
Stephen King(Goodreads Author) (Contributor),
Margo Lanagan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),
Terry Lamsley(Contributor),
John Langan(Contributor),
Alison Littlewood(Contributor),
Livia Llewellyn(Contributor),
Peter Straub(Goodreads Author) (Contributor),
Anna Taborska(Contributor),
Simon Bestwick(Contributor),
Chet Williamson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),
Glen Hirshberg(Goodreads Author) (Contributor),
Leah Bobet Leah Bobet(Goodreads Author) (Contributor),
Priya Sharma (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),
David Nickle(Goodreads Author) (Contributor),
A.C. Wise(Goodreads Author) (Contributor)
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 5
INSIYAH30.8 - Lauren Jodi's task: 80s Dynamic Duos
Option 3: female protagonist who is a police officer in a city or town.
Book: Damaged by Martina Cole
How it fits: DCI Annie Carr is a police officer in a town named Grantley
Option 4: Read a book from Robots With Feelings
Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
How it fits: No. 12 on list (Marvin is a robot with feelings)
Note: I read the ebook. The Mass Market Paperback has 194 pages.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 30/1070
Total Books Read: 2
Tasks Completed: 1/61
10.8 - Travelin' ManRead a book with the MPG "Time Travel.
This Is How You Lose the Time War
New Points: 10
Total Points: 15
Helen B30.1 - Celebrate the Great Outdoors.
Option 2 The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
Author’s initials in target word: thalsSsophilE
Option 3 Hana Khan Carries on by Uzma Jalaluddin
HIKE in the title
H in Hana
I in carrIes
K in Khan
E in carriEs
Total points: 30
VAL TX30.3 - Bluemoon's Task: My Memories of the 1980's -
Please chose two options and read a book for each.
A1. WINTER OLYMPICS - 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.
The Paths of Marriage by Mala Kumar
Paths = the word.
A2. SUMMER OLYMPICS – Read a book where all of the Author’s initials can be found in DEATH OF A DREAM.
Paperweight by Meg Haston
This post:
Points - 30
Total:
Points - 45
DeborahPost #1
30.1 - Teri-K's Task: Celebrate the Great Outdoors.
2) Blood Heir by Ilona Andrews
IA: THALASSOPHILE
375/550 pages
4) White Hot
WHITE: WHITE SANDS, NEW MEXICO
389/550 pages
764/550 required pages
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 30
Books Read:2
Tasks Done: 1
Rochelle20.1 - Most Improved - Louise's Task: Picking Up The Pieces
Option 2: Read a book with all the letters in one of the words GROW, YOUR, or OWN in the title only. Subtitles are excluded.
Book: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Has the letters YOUR in title.
Points: 20
Total points: 20
trishhartuk30.2 TessaVanessa's Task: The Joys of Home Ownership
Option 2. Read a book with one of these creaking words found intact in the title: ...scratch...
Scratch the Surface, Susan Conant
Option 3. Read a fiction book that has a recipe included
Home of the Braised, Julie Hyzy
Includes a complete menu, including braised chuck roast, herb-roasted pheasant with wild rice stuffing, and lemon steamed pudding.
Points this task: 30
Books read: 2
Total points: 30
Tasks completed: 1
Golden oldies: 0
Big book tickets: 0
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ5.4 - Barkis is Willing
A Killer Cupcake by Fiona Grace
The title contains at least three words and the initial letters of each word of the title are found in CHARLES DICKENS. (A in chArles, KC in diCKens)
Link to PB edition: A Killer Cupcake
This post: 5 points
Total points to date: 5 points
Tasks completed: 1
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season *
15.3 - Video Killed the Radio Starone book option
author initials in artist; word in title in song title
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
BO in David Bowie
DREAMS in You Make My Dreams
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15 points
Rochella15.1 - Tsundoku
Book 1 Read a book written by a single author whose initials (all) can be found in TSUNDOKU
On the Right Track by Sam Kadence (SK)
Book 2 Read a book that was added to your TBR before June 1, 2020
Borrowing Trouble added on Oct 31, 2015
(my tbr list)
points this post 15
total points 15
5.1. Excuse the Interruption!Read a book in which all the letters of SIGNAL can be found in the title/subtitle.
Midnight Sweatlodge-96 pages, using the one time page exception for a 5 point task.
New Points: 5
Total Points: 20
trishhartuk5.7 The Bechdel test
Read a book with at least 2 women and no adult men on the cover.
Read the kindle edition. PB here
Points this task: 5
Books read: 1
Total points: 35
Tasks completed: 2
Golden oldies: 0
Big book tickets: 0
Andy P.Task # 5.1. Excuse the Interruption!
Read a book in which all the letters of SIGNAL can be found in the title
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs by Christopher Reid
SINAL in Consequential
G in dogs
Points this post: 5
Total points: 15
Andy P.Task # 5.3. Mr. Conductor
Read a book where the author's initials are found in George Carlin
The Track of Sand by Andrea Camilleri CARLIN
Points this post: 5
Total points: 20
DeborahPost #2
5.6. Let's Be Careful Out There!
The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan
MPG: Adventure (approved and listed in Task Help Thread post #2)
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 35
Books Read:3
Tasks Done: 2
LaureY30.2 - TessaVanessa's Task: The Joys of Home Ownership
Option 1
The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan
Author's initials in PLUMBER
* I claim a Big Book ticket for this book as it is 596 pages long. *
Option 3
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Some of the recipes from the book have been collated here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..., e.g., rose petal scones
Points this post: 30
Total points: 30/1070
Total Books: 2
Total Tasks: 1/60
Golden Oldies this post:0
Total Golden Oldies:0
Big Book Tickets this post: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
LAUREN JODI15.10 - Stuck in the Middle
Shadows by Ilsa J. Bick
Book #2 in the Ashes Trilogy
* I claim a Big Book ticket for this book, which is 518 pages long. *
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 35/1070
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Books Read: 3
Tasks Completed: 3/60
Task 30.3 - My Memories of the 1980'soption A1: HOUSES made from phrase
The Bricks That Built the Houses
option A2: author initials in DEATH DREAM
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
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45 points
Helen B15.4 - Sweet Tea
Option 2
After Sundown by Linda Howard
Romance set in Tennessee.
Total points: 45
Julia10310.8 - Travelin' Man
1636: The Atlantic Encounter (MPG Time Travel is verified in task help thread post #7)
This post: 10 points,
Total points: 10
BB: 0
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 1
Total books read: 1
KATRINAT10.8 - Travelin' Man
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 10
BB:
GO:
KATRINAT20.5 - Bigger is Better - Robin P's Task: Introducing Myself (1) Read a book whose title OR author contains at least one J, Q, X, or Z. Subtitles are excluded.
The Crossing, Manjeet Mann
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 30
BB:
GO:
KATRINAT25.3 - CYNBAXTER's Task - My Time has Come!
(1) Read a book first published between the years 2014-2021 - PUB. 2016, 391pgs.
Holding Up the Universe
(4) Read a book written by an author whose initials can be found in the phrase: SUPER MODS.
Rainbow Milk, Paul Mendez 336pgs
total pages: 737
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 55
BB:
GO:
CYNBAXTERTask #30.01 – Teri-K's Task: Celebrate the Great Outdoors.
Task Description, Option 1: Read a book from this list:50 of the Best Nonfiction Nature Books
Book 1: Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch
Task Description, Option 4: Read a book with at least one word in the title that is also in the name of a U.S. National Park.
Book 2: Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine
Name of Park: Crater Lake, Oregon
Combined books must be over: 550p
Book 1: 379 + Book 2: 301 = 680 combined pages
Points this post: 30 points
Total points to date: 60 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 0
Andy P.Task # 5.4. Barkis is Willing
Read a book with a title of at least three words, where the initial letters of each word of the title are found in CHARLES DICKENS
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
CHARLESDICKENS
Points this post: 5
Total points: 25
Julia10330.1 - Teri-K's Task: Celebrate the Great Outdoors.
Option 2 - From Newsprint to Footprints by Elaine Orr (EO in DENDROPHILE)
Option 3 - Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family (HIKE: H in Harry, I in Finding, K in Making, E in Freedom)
This post: 30 points
Total points: 40
BB: 0
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 2
Total books read: 3
10.1 - Eventful EightiesRead a book first published in the 1980s (1980 - 1989, inclusive).
The Woman in Black first published 1983
New Points: 10
Total Points: 30
Task 30.9 - The Perks of UNOone book option; 500+pages
fits task B & C: author initial E; on 80s shelf
Lilith's Brood byOctavia E. Butler
746 pages - claiming 1 BB tix
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75 points
1 BB tix
5.8. Who Dun It?Read a book with MPG of Mystery.
I read The Fourth Wall, which has the MPG of Mystery.
Points this task: 5
Total Points: 5
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
15.8 - Found in TranslationRead a book by a female author originally written in a language other than your primary language.
I read Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood.
My primary language is English. Persepolis was originally written in French.
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 20
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
10.4 E.T. Phone HomeRead a book on the Aliens Books list.
I read Saga, Vol. 1.
This book is found on Page 2 of the Aliens Books list.
Points this Task: 10
Total Points: 30
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
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