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FALL CHALLENGE 2021
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I read The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny, a female author. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top pb listed.
total points: 275
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I read The Story of the Night, set about 90% in Argentina (setting mentioned in GR description and metadata).
total points: 290
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I read a kindle ARC of The Midnight Hour, linked to the top listed pb.
This is #6 in the Stephens & Mephisto series.
total points: 305
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For my first book, I chose option 3 (MPG Science Fiction) and read a kindle ARC of The School for Good Mothers (linked to the top listed pb).
Science Fiction>Dystopia is the 2d MPG listed, and Science Fiction is the 3d.
For my second book, I chose option 6 (MPG History) and read The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the hardback (no pb or mmpb).
History is the 3d MPG listed.
total points: 330
Andy P.Task # 10.8 - Here We Are Now, Entertain Us
Read a book with a word of at least three letters from the track titles on Nevermind in the title of the book
Track List
# 10 Stay Away
Lives Laid Away by Stephen Mack Jones Word away matches
Points this post: 10
Total points: 165
Angela IL 20.10 Group Reads
Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding-9/26
Participated in Group Discussion thread (message 7)
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 50
Books Read: 3
Tasks Completed: 3/54
25.6 - SandyL's task: Fun and Wacky HolidaysOption 3:Read a book with a title of at least three words where the first letter of each word is found in the phrase INTERNATIONAL NACHO DAY.
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
3-word title with first letter of each word, TNT, found in iNTernaTional
Option 4: Read a book by an author whose initials (all of them) are the same.
The Raffles Affair by Vicki Virtue
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 425
25.3 - TraceyL's task: No More JockeysOption 1: Penelope Pitstop - No More Job Gloves (Read a book with a job in the title or subtitle)
For this option, I read The Postman Always Rings Twice where "Postman" is the job title.
Option 2: Mary Magdalene - No More People Who Haven't Said "Hello" in the 21st Century (Read a book first published in 1999 or earlier)
For this option, I read The Pastel City, which was first published in 1971.
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 125
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
10.2 - Come On, Get Happy!Read a book with a title of at least three words in which the initial letters of all the title words are found in the phrase IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE. Ignore subtitles.
I read The River at Night.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 135
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
15.7 - Google ItRead a book with a word in the title/subtitle that contains at least two sets of identical letters. The letters must be found in a single word. They do not need to be sequential.
I read Pearls Goes Hollywood.
The word "Hollywood" has LL and OO.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 150
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
5.8 - TwisterRead a book with all the letters DVD in the title and/or subtitle.
I read Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 155
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Readerboard Name: Kathy P5.9 - Toy Stories
I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50
Totals
Points: 35
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks Completed: 5
Total Books Completed: 5
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.9 - The Year of the Woman
CressAuthor: Marissa Meyer
Pages: 552
Claiming one big book ticket
Totals
Points: 45
BB: 1
GO: 0
Total Tasks Completed: 6
Total Books Completed: 6
Lisa MD10.4 - Stick 'Em Up!
Read a book set at least 50% in Massachusetts, Norway, or Germany.
🍁Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
Setting: Salem, Massachussetts
416 pages
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 130/905
Total Books Read: 11
Tasks Completed: 10/54
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
Coralie20.1 Fall Festival Celebration
Option 1 – book by an author whose initials can be found in the word OkToberfest
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Total to date 160 points
Coralie25.2 Parenthood
Option 1 – book by a single male author that is #2 in a series
The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey
Option 4 – book by an author whose initials are in Horton that SchmendricK
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott
Total to date 185 points
Task:10.9 - The Year of the Woman (a female author)Book read:The Yearbook by Holly Bourne
Required: Holly Bourne is a female author
Points this task:10
Total points:85
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Books read:6
Tasks completed:6
25.3 - TraceyL's task: No More JockeysOption 1: Read a book with a job in the title or subtitle.
2 Sisters Detective Agency by James Patterson & Candice Fox
job in title: detective
Option 2: Read a book first published in 1999 or earlier.
The Case of the Purple Calf (Anthony Bathurst #16) by Brian Flynn
1x Golden Oldies tix (pub. 1934)
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 2
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 450
20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Happy Anniversary, My Love!Option D: Read a book where the main character travels to a different country.
I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Detective Sean Duffy #2) by Adrian McKinty
Protagonist took a short trip from Ireland to USA at approx. 80% of the novel
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 2
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 470
10.8 - Here We Are Now, Entertain UsRead a book with a word of at least three letters from the track titles on Nevermind in the title of the book (not subtitle).
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen Read 9/26/21
I chose the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and matched the word "like" with Someone Like You.
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 60
Big Books Tickets Claimed: 3
Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed: 1
10.9 - The Year of the WomanRead a book written by a female author. A book with multiple authors may be used, as long as every author is female.
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica Read 9/23/21
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 70
Big Books Tickets Claimed: 3
Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed: 1
HanneloreTask: 25.5 - Andy P's task: Remember Alphabetical Order?
Two book task, combined page total must be 501+.
Pair two authors whose initials put together will form a letter sequence in alphabetical order i.e. ABCD HIJK.
Book: De Cock en een strop voor Bobby
Book: Kikkermuziek
How it fits: 134 pages + 432 pages = 566 pages.
First book is written by A.C. Baantjer (ACB), second is by Emma Donoghue (ED), which forms the letter sequence ABCDE.
(Claiming a virtual pat on the back for the extra letter..) ;)
Points this task: 25
Total points: 115
Tasks completed: 8
BB tickets:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
15.5 - The Macarena Set in Latin American.
I read the ebook, the mmpb is here: The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits by Elizabeth Peters
Points: 15
Total Points: 375 (Off because I need to do an earlier repost.)
GO Points: 11
BB Points: 2
Scooter&Siam10.2 - Come On, Get Happy!
Read a book with a title of at least three words in which the initial letters of all the title words are found in the phrase IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE.
Read The Cutting Edge
Points: 10
Total: 40
Jasmiina F20.1 - Most Improved - Valorie's Task: Fall Festival Celebration!:
Option 1: Read a book written by an author with first and last initials that can be found in OKTOBERFEST:
How to Build a Human: What Science Knows About Childhood by Emma Byrne.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 40
Golden Oldies this post:
Total Golden Oldies:
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+:
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
Nick KY5.10 Alladin I read Life in the iron mills, or The korl woman by Rebecca Harding Davis.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 290
Nick KY30.2 DlmRose’s Favorite Day of the Week no pp. requirements.
Option 1. Read a book written by an author whose initials (all) can be found in TUESDAY.
I read In the Shadow of Vesuvius by Tasha Alexander.
Option 2. In English, Tuesday gets its name from the Old English/Germanic god of sky and war Tiu. Read a book with a main page genre that includes the word War or Wars. The genre may be standalone or embedded.
I read Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 320
Scooter&Siam5.2 - Titanic
Titanic became the highest grossing film of the 90's. Read a book with at least 50,000 ratings on GR.
Read Of Mice and Men
Points: 5
Total: 45
Repost of #662.30.3 - Katrisa's task: Missing my Bestie
2 books.
Book 1 Option 2: Nightswimming A. Initials are some combination of R.E.M.
Howards End by E.M. Forster
Published 1910 for 1 Golden Oldie point.
Book 2 Option 4: Our Favorite Things - Books on cover.
I read the ebook
no mmpb, pb is here: How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form by Thomas C. FosterPoints: 30
Total Points: 375 (Total corrected, I believe)
GO Points: 11
BB Points: 2
Task 25.5 - Remember Alphabetical Order?total 501+ pages
read a pair of books whose author initials (in any order) line up in consecutive alphabetical order
book 1: A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver
480 pages
book 2: Flash Boys: Cracking the Money Code by Michael Lewis
304 pages
initial sequence: LMNO
480+340 >>501pages
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280 points
4 BB tix
3 GO tix
BUCKET5.5 Thelma & Louise
Diaries of Adam & Eve by Mark Twain
**GOLDEN OLDIE: This book was first published in 1906.**
Points this post: 5
Points total: 50
BB total: 0
GO total: 2
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10.2 - Come On, Get Happy!
Read a book with a title of at least three words in which the initial letters of all the title words are found in the phrase IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE.
The Late Bloomers' Club. Louise Miller
Points this task: 10
Total points: 245/905
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Heather KSTask 30.1 - MAZZA1's task: A NIGHT AT THE PROMS
A. The Proms Series
a) Read a book with an MPG of Classics OR Music. Genres may be stand-alone or embedded.
I read Jane Eyre
B. The Last Night
c) The Sailor’s Hornpipe
Read a book with AT LEAST One pair of Human Legs on the cover
I read
Points this post: 30
Total points: 30
Heather KSTask 15.10 - The Streak. Read a book that is #2, #3, #6, or #8 in a series.
I read You've Been Volunteered #2 in a series
Points this post: 15
Total points: 45
Heather KSTask 5.6 - The Sixth Sense
Read a book written by an author who uses initial(s) in the first name position
I read Liberated Through Submission by P.B. Wilson
Points this post: 5
Total points: 50
25.7 - Brooke TX's task: 90s Nickelodeon NostalgiaOption 2, a book by an author who shares a name with one of the Rugrats (Charles): An Extravagant Death: A Charles Lenox Mystery by Charles Finch
Option 6, a book whose title initials are found in LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE: The Magdalen Girls by V.S. Alexander
Points this post: 25
Total points: 175
Christine V25.1 - XBM's task: My Life as a 90s TV Show
Option 1: My Real Children
Option 3: A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Points this post: 25
Total points: 75
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 6
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=1)
MEGSCL10.1 - Africa in the 1990s
Set in South Africa - A Beautiful Place to Die
TOTAL TO DATE
185 points
1 golden oldie
4 big book
PegW5.5 - Thelma & Louise
Read a book with an ampersand "&" in the title or subtitle.
Rust & Stardust
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 120
MEGSCL30.1 - MAZZA1's task: A NIGHT AT THE PROMS
Book 1 - the proms
b) Read a book by a single author who shares first and last initials - JH - Joseph Haydn
No One by John Hughes
Book 2 - The Last Night
c) The Sailor’s Hornpipe. Read a book with AT LEAST One pair of Human Legs on the cover
TOTAL TO DATE
245 points
1 golden oldie
4 big book
Kathy KS**UNCLAIM!!**
25.7 - Brooke TX's task: 90s Nickelodeon Nostalgia
This is a two book task. You can read two books from two different options or from the same option.
Option 3: Hey Arnold! & Aaahh!!! Real Monsters - Read a book with one of the following punctuation marks in the TITLE (subtitles do not count): exclamation point, period, comma, semicolon, apostrophe, hyphen/dash, or question mark.
Saga, Vol. 2, Brian K. Vaughan
Title contains comma and period
pb=160 p. (no mmpb)
I read this as part of an omnibus: Saga: Book One, p. 170-313
Option 6: Legends of the Hidden Temple - Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the initial letter of each word can be found in LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE.
Flying Too High, by Kerry Greenwood
FTH=legends oF THe....
I read an ebook; mmpb=147 p.
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 340-25=315
Tasks completed: 19-1=18
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
15.2 - Egg WatchBook 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.
For Book 1, I read The Anome.
Book 2: Read a book from the Coming of Age Books list.
For Book 2, I read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which can be found on page 1 of the Coming of Age Books list.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 170
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Kathy KS10.7 - Y2K - Time to Panic!
Read a book with the numeral 2, the Roman numeral II or the word "two" in the title or subtitle.
Saga, Vol. 2, Brian K. Vaughan
pb=160 p. (no mmpb)
I read this as part of an omnibus: Saga: Book One, p. 170-313
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Points for this task: 10
Total points : 325
Tasks completed: 19
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Kathy KS25.7 - Brooke TX's task: 90s Nickelodeon Nostalgia
This is a two book task. You can read two books from two different options or from the same option.
Option 3: Hey Arnold! & Aaahh!!! Real Monsters - Read a book with one of the following punctuation marks in the TITLE (subtitles do not count): exclamation point, period, comma, semicolon, apostrophe, hyphen/dash, or question mark.
Saga, Vol. 3, Brian K. Vaughan
Title contains comma and period
pb=144 p. (no mmpb)
I read this as part of an omnibus: Saga: Book One, p. 314-504
Option 6: Legends of the Hidden Temple - Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the initial letter of each word can be found in LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE.
Flying Too High, by Kerry Greenwood
FTH=legends oF THe....
I read an ebook; mmpb=147 p.
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Points for this task: 25
Total points : 350
Tasks completed: 20
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Lisa MD20.1 - Most Improved - Valorie's Task: Fall Festival Celebration!
Option 3: Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta - Read a book with a 4+ letter word in the TITLE that can be made from the letters in ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO.
🍁Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
Title word "Women" found in New Mexico
207 pages
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 150/905
Total Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 11/54
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Sarah E's task: Epic MapsOption 2: Read a book which has RIVER found intact in the title, subtitle, or series name.
The River Leith
Previous points: 40
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
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I read Long Shadows - I read the kindle edition, linked to the paperback. Paranormal>Ghosts is the 8th listed MPG, Paranormal>Demons is the 9th.
total points: 265