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FALL CHALLENGE 2021
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Laurah3020.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's task: Geocaching Time Again!
Option 1: Read a book whose author initials (middle initials can be ignored) can be found in the phrase GEOCACHING.
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
published in 1936.
Claiming 1 GO ticket
Points this post: 20
Total points: 90
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
Big Book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
5.3 - Men In BlackBorderline by Janette Turner Hospital
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 375
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20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's task: Geocaching Time Again!
Option 1: Read a book whose author initials (middle initials can be ignored) can be found in the phrase GEOCACHING.
The Stranger. Albert Camus. 9.20.21
Points this task: 20
Total points: 205/905
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20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Happy Anniversary, My Love!Option A:
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn (624pp)
*As stated in the description, the three main characters work for the English military during WWII: one as a translator of decoded enemy secrets, another works the legendary codebreaking machines, and the last is one of few female cryptanalysts.*
Total Points = 20
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Fly's Task: Moving through the 90sOption 4: The Push by Ashley Audrain
*This book is on page 5 of the Unhappy Marriages list.*
Total Points = 40
Katrisa30.5 - Aprilleigh’s Task: A Good Decade
Option B: Other Sciences (nonfiction) Read a book from this list of popular science books..
I read How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Option C: Fiction with a Science Component
Read a book from this list of popular fiction books
I readUnwind
Points this Post: 30
Points Total: 270
FLY Task #10.9 - The Year of the Woman
task: Read a book written by a female author.
book: Rogue Protocol
how it fits: author Martha Wells is female
Points this post: 10
Total points: 55
Tasks completed: 3 /54
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
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Task: 10.6 - Rug Rats! [ author's initials in NICKELODEON]Book read:Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Required:initials KI in nIcKelodeon
Points this task:10
Total points:75
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Books read:5
Tasks completed:5
Coralie20.6 Rearing Twins in the 90’s
Option 3 Vacations – book with all the letters of FLYOVER in title and/or author’s name
F in Huff, L in privilege, Y in Tanya, O in of, VER in privilege
The Privilege of Peace by Tanya Huff
Total to date 110 points
LAUREN JODI10.3 - Just Like Me
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
MPG Science
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 180/905
Total Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 14/54
Amy B5.10 - Aladdin
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules. For this task only, you may choose a book with the genre Childrens or Kids that is not found in AR Bookfinder.
The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen - 240 pages - ISBN 978-0-06-269259-7 not found in Bookfinder - approved by Sandy 9/21
This Task: 5 Points
To Date: 100 Points
Delicious Dee5.1 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Lucky Break - 10.5 in the Chicagoland Vampires series; conditionally approved for a 5point task in msg #8321 of the ebook approval thread
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 125
Krista KY10.6 - Rug Rats!
Read a book with all of its single author's initials in NICKELODEON.
What You Wish For by Katherine Center
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 80
20.10 - Group Reads I listened to the audiobook, the mmpb is here: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
My comment is Message #12 on the thread. The link:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Published in 1902 for 1 Golden Oldie Point.
Points: 20
Total Points: 240
GO: 8
BB: 2
Christine V5.7 - Jurassic Park
I Capture the Castle, found on page 4 of the list.
This book was first published in 1948.
***Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket***
Points this post: 5
GO Tickets this post: 1
Total points: 35
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 3
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=1)
Christine V15.10 - The Streak
Excalibur, which is #3 in The Warlord Chronicles.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 50
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 4
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=1)
Suzannesea30.2 - Dlmrose's Task: My Favorite Day of the Week
Option 1
Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in TUESDAY.
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott Turow
Option 3
Read a book where all the letters of GRACE can be found in the title.
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
thE CRossinG plAces
Points this post: 30
Total points to date: 205
Julia10320.6 - Seasoned Reader - Kathy KS’ Task: Rearing Twins in the ‘90s
Option 2: False Colours (main character Kit is impersonating his twin brother Evelyn for most of the book - this is in the book description)
This post: 20 points
Total points: 245
BB: 3
GO: 1
Tasks completed: 15
Books read: 20
ROBIN P20.4 - Golden Oldies - Fly's Task: Moving through the 90s
Option 1: Author named Mike or Michael
Nolyn - author is Michael J. Sullivan
Points this post: 20
Total points: 180
Nick KY10.3 Just Like Me I read A Susan Sontag Reader, GR of “Philosophy” verified -- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 220
Nick KY15.7 Google It I read Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror, the single title word (not counting subtitle) has two H’s and two E’s (and three L’s thrown in).
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 235
Lisa MD10.5 - I Have a Bad Back, Really!
Read a book with a main page genre of Medicine or Medical.
🍁The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
MPG - Medicine & Medical
299 pages
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 120/905
Total Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 9/54
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
Katrisa10.3 - Just Like Me.
Read a nonfiction book with the main page genre Science, Ethics, or Philosophy.
I read The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
Science and Philosophy on MPG
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 280
Task 15.2 - Egg Watchbook 1: two word title, initials in TAMAGOTCHI
The Truth
IL: UY
book 2: on p8 of Coming of Age list (74 tags)
Clap When You Land
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240 points
5 BB tix
3 GO tix
FLY Task #30.3 - Katrisa's task: Missing my Bestie
task: Option 1: Read a book set at least 50% in California
book: Everything, Everything
how it fits: set ~90% in California
task: Option 3: Read a book with a MPG Mystery or Thriller AND has a main character crime/mystery solver who is a female police officer, detective, or private eye.
book: Iced
how it fits: MC is a PI, not in description of edition I read, but in this one: Iced, and also here
Points this post: 30
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 4 /54
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
trishhartuk10.6 Rug Rats!
Read a book with all of its single author's initials in NICKELODEON.
Axiom's End, Lindsay Ellis
Read the kindle edition. PB here
nickeLodEon
Points this task: 10
Books read: 1
Total points: 165
Tasks completed: 12
Golden oldies: 3
15.4 - Supersize MeOption 2: Read one book that fulfills both book 1 and book 2 requirements.
Billy Summers by Stephen King Audiobook
Billy Summers PB 512 Pages
SK appears in frieS drinK
Claiming 1 BB Ticket 512 Pages
Points Earned This Post: 15
Total Points Earned: 110
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets Total: 3
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 1 (750) / 0 (1000)
Kai15.10 The Streak
Read a book that is #2, #3, #6, or #8 in a series.
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
(Amelia Peabody #3)
New Points: 15
Total Points: 50
Books Claimed: 4
Tasks Completed: 4
10.1 - Africa in the 1990sRead a book set at least 50% in a country in Africa. REQUIRED: Indicate the location in which the book is set in your post.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Read 9/21/21
The metadata for this book lists the settings as Botswana and South Africa.
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 40
Big Books Tickets Claimed: 3
Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed: 1
10.6 - Rug Rats!Read a book with all of its single author's initials in NICKELODEON. Letters may be used only as often as they appear in the target word.
Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas Read 9/20/21
nicKeLodeon
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 50
Big Books Tickets Claimed: 3
Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed: 1
Joanne MI20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's task: Geocaching Time Again!
Option 1: Read a book whose author initials can be found in the phrase GEOCACHING.
Margaret of Anjou by Conn Iggulden
Points this task 20
Total Points 95
BB's 1
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trishhartuk15.2 Egg Watch
Book 1: Read a book with a title of at least 2 words, where the initial letters of each word of the title are found in TAMAGOTCHI.
Ghosts of Manhattan, George Mann
taMaGOtchi
AND Book 2: Read a book from the Coming of Age Books list.
The Giver, Lois Lowry
UK AR Quiz No. 220915 EN Fiction. AR Quiz Info IL: MY - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7.0, AR Quiz Types: RP, VP
Page 1, about 15 down
Points this task: 15
Books read: 2
Total points: 180
Tasks completed: 13
Golden oldies: 3
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Kim O's task: In Memory of BaileyOption 2: Read a book by a single author where all of the author's initials can be found in one of the following: SWEETIE PETEY, BOOPINATOR, or MRS PEEBODY.
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Total Points: 35
15.2 - Egg Watch One book 1 and one book 2.
Book 1: Initial letters of title in TAMAGOTCHI.
True Grit by Charles Portis
Book 2: Coming of Age Books list.
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
AR: IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17.0
Page 1 of list.
First published 1908 for 1 GO point.
Points: 15
Total Points: 255
GO Points: 9
BB Points: 2
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5.1 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Read a book that is a prequel or fill-in in a series that is numbered with a #0 or a decimal.
Debt of Bones. Terry Goodkind. 9.22.21
Points this task: 5
Total points: 210/905
12/54
25.1 - XBM's task: My Life as a 90s TV ShowOption 5, a book with MPG Art: Learning to See by Elise Hooper
Option 6, a book with MPG History: The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Points this post: 25
Total points: 125
trishhartuk15.10 The Streak
Read a book that is #2, #3, #6, or #8 in a series.
Gathering Blue (The Giver #2), Lois Lowry
Read the kindle edition. PB here
UK AR Quiz No. 205785 EN Fiction; AR Quiz Information IL: MY - BL: 5.0 - AR Pts: 7.0; AR Quiz Types: RP, VP
Points this task: 15
Books read: 1
Total points: 195
Tasks completed: 14
Golden oldies: 3
Kathy KS25.2 - Amy FL's task: Parenthood
Read 2 books from 2 different options.
Option 1: read a book by a single MALE author that is #2 in a series.
The Mugger, by Ed McBain
87th Precinct #2
originally published 1956; mmpb=178 p.
I read this as part of an omnibus: The Eight-Seven: Three Classic Crime Novels from the 87th Precinct, p. 1-140
Option 4: read... a book by a single author whose initials (all initials count) are found in HORTON THAT SCHMENDRICK
Navajo Autumn, by R. Allen Chappell
RAC=horton thAt sChmendRick
I listened to the audiobook: pb=142 p. (no mmpb)
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Points for this task: 25
Total points : 270
Tasks completed: 15
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Andy P.Task # 10.10 - Which Way?
Read a book with East, West, North or South found intact in its title
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl by Jonathan C. Slaght
East as in Eastern is acceptable as per example in task description
Points this post: 10
Total points: 140
Bookwrm526Task #25.5 - Remember Alphabetical Order?
Pair two authors whose initials put together will form a letter sequence in alphabetical order. You can switch the positioning of the letters used to get alphabetical order. Any letter sequence in the alphabet can be used but they must follow exactly in the alphabet.
I read the following:
Book 1: The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord (320p).
Book 2: Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March (389p).
The letter sequence is KLMN
320+389=709p
Total points so far: 145
5.9 - Toy StoriesRead a book with the word "story" or "stories" in the title or subtitle. The word must match exactly.
Bloodchild and Other Stories
Points Earned This Post: 5
Total Points Earned: 115
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets Total: 3
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 1 (750) / 0 (1000)
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10.3 - Just Like Me.
Read a nonfiction book with the main page genre Philosophy.
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty Peter Singer. 9.22.21
Points this task: 10
Total points: 220/905
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MEGSCL20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Kathy KS’ Task: Rearing Twins in the ‘90s
Option 3: Read a book where all the letters FLYOVER can be found in the Title/Subtitle and/or Author's name
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
TOTAL TO DATE
120 points
1 golden oldie
4 big book
MEGSCL20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Kim O's task: In Memory of Bailey
Option 2: Read a book by a single author where all of the author's initials can be found in SWEETIE PETEY
Where the Trees Were by Inga Simpson
TOTAL TO DATE
140 points
1 golden oldie
4 big book
Katrisa15.7 - Google It
Read a book with a word in the title/subtitle that contains at least two sets of identical letters.
I read The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Giving - GG II
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 295
I want to "unclaim" POST 534:20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Happy Anniversary, My Love!
Option A:
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn (624pp)
*As stated in the description, the three main characters work for the English military during WWII: one as a translator of decoded enemy secrets, another works the legendary codebreaking machines, and the last is one of few female cryptanalysts.*
Total Points = 20
DeborahPost #6
5.10 - Aladdin
Dragon Keeper
AR Bookfinder: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12.0
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 90
Books Read: 7
Tasks Done: 6
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30.1 - MAZZA1's task: A NIGHT AT THE PROMS
Option 1- READ TWO books- One from "A. The Proms Series" and the other from "B. The Last Night." There is NO page requirement for this option.
A. The Proms Series
b) Read a book by a single author who shares first and last initials with one of the 50 greatest composers of all time. The initials should match exactly (i.e., be found in the exact order)
Masquerade in Lodi, by Lois McMaster Bujold
LB=Ludwig van Beethoven
I listened to the audiobook; hb=176 p. (no mmpb or pb)
B. The Last Night
c) The Sailor’s Hornpipe
Read a book with AT LEAST One pair of Human Legs on the cover
Required: include cover in post
German Settlement in Missouri: New Land, Old Ways
How it fits: A number of people showing full legs (clothed) are shown in the cover photos
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 245
Tasks completed: 14
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0