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FALL CHALLENGE 2021
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Natalie CH30.3 - Katrisa's task: Missing my Bestie
Option 1:
read a book set in CA
Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California by Matthew Specktor
approved in post 30 of the help thread
Option 2 b:
read book with 2-title intials found in NIGHTSWIMMING
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
'T' and 'N' in NighTswimming
Points this post: 30
Tasks completed: 11
Total Points: 195
Amy B10.6 - 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.
Binge: 60 Stories to Make Your Head Feel Different by Douglas Coupland
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 225 Points
Natalie CH30.2 - Dlmrose's Task: My Favorite Day of the Week
Option 1:
author initials in Tuesday
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
S and A found in Tuesday
Option 4:
read book pub in 2021
The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken
pub April 13, 2021 as per GR page
Points this post: 30
Tasks completed: 12
Total Points: 225
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.
Blueberry Boys (BluEBERRy/bb-ee-rr)
Previous points: 120
Points this post: 15
Total points: 135
Delicious Dee15.6 - Buzz, Beep, Squeal!
Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles - Waffles approved as a reasonable variation
Points This Post: 15
Points Total: 250
Task 10.4 - Stick 'Em Up!read a book set in Norway
The Mercies
per blurb: set in far north of 16th C Norway
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410 points
5 BB tix
4 GO tix
Katrisa10.8 - 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
I read You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams: My Life in Stories and Pictures
Song title - Come as you are - YOU
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 590
Delicious Dee5.7 - Jurassic Park
To All the Boys I've Loved Before - found on page 6, position 501 of the list
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 255
Katrisa5.7 - Jurassic Park
Read a book from this list I Saw the Movie and Read the Book
I read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from page 1 of the list
children's genre is listed - IL: MG - BL: 7.0 - AR Pts: 7.0
Points this Post: 5
Points Total: 595
JEN B10.2 - 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 Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Letters TLA are all in IRRATIONAL
TOTAL POINTS: 60
Suzannesea20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Sarah E's Task: Epic Maps
Option 5: Cities/Towns/Castles
Read a book with with one or more buildings with a door visible on its cover.
by Montagu Don and Sarah DonApproved in Help Thread
Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 290
Theresa5.3 - Men in Black
by Laura MoriartyPoints this post - 5
Total points - 15
Katrisa5.1 - 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.
I read The Book of Phoenix (Who Fears Death #0)
Points this Post: 5
Points Total: 600
30.5 - Aprilleigh’s Task: A Good DecadeOption A: Biology and Medicine (nonfiction)
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Option C: Fiction with a Science Component
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles #1) by Tess Gerritsen
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies: 2
Bigger is Better: 2
Season Total: 575
5.8 - TwisterA book with the letters DVD in the title/subtitle: Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
Points this post: 5
Total points: 270
Natalie CH15.7 - Google It
read book with word of at least two sets of identical letters in title:
A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir by Sandra Gail Lambert
Loneliness => LL EE SS
Points this post: 15
Tasks completed: 13
Total Points: 240
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25.7 - Brooke TX's task: 90s Nickelodeon Nostalgia
Option 3: Read a book with one of the following punctuation marks in the TITLE (question mark)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Edward Albee. 10.4.21
Option 5: Read a book by an author whose first and last initials can be found in SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS. (NT)
A Nantucket Wedding. Nancy Thayer. 10.10.21
Points this task: 25
Total points: 425/905
24/54
30.6 - TessaVanessa's task: Spelling BeeBook 1: Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the first letter of each word in order spells a word or acronym.
The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons = THAT
Book 1: Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the first letter of each word in order spells a word or acronym.
That Night by Chevy Stevens
Points this post: 30
Total points: 320/905
Books read: 21
Tasks completed: 15/54
BB tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
30.4 - Sandy's task: Dinosaur Operas!Book 1 - Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title/subtitle that can be made from DINOSAUR OPERAS.
Safe and Sound by Philippa East SOUND can be found in DINOSAUR OPERAS
Book 2 - Read a book written by an author whose initials (ALL initials) can be found in DINOSAUR OPERAS.
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England by Daniel Pool DP can be found in DINOSAUR OPERAS, and this book is non-fiction.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 350/905
Books read: 23
Tasks completed: 16/54
BB tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
MARGO20.10 - Group Reads
❋ Fiction: Locked Room Mystery
Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
Discussion - posted message #16
Posted paperback but listed to Audible edition
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Points this task: 20
Total points: 190
Tasks completed: 9
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 1
EMurphy25.1 XBM's Task: My Life as a 90s TV Show
Option 2: Book or series made into a TV show or movie Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264464/
Option 4: Single author whose initials can be found in GENE RODDENBERRY The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 135
Books Read: 9
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +500: 1
Tasks Completed: 5
Julia10320.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Happy Anniversary, My Love!
Option A: Stark's War (main character is Sergeant Ethan Stark, active-duty military in U.S. Army set in the future)
This post: 20 points
Total points: 420
BB: 4
GO: 3
Tasks completed: 26
Books read: 30
(I was double-checking my totals and found that the points matched my records but the number of tasks and number of books were previously understated, so changed those totals on this post.)
Mary P15.9 - I’ll Be There for You
Read a book written by a single author who shares a name with one of the recurring Friends Characters.
The Chief by Monica McCarty
Points this task: 15
Tota; points: 130
10.1 - Africa in the 1990sAt least 50% in a country in Africa.
The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters
Points: 10
Total Points: 395
GO Points: 12
BB Points: 2
Sara G30.2 - Dlmrose's Task: My Favorite Day of the Week
Option 1. Read a book written by an author whose initials (all) can be found in TUESDAY.
Outlaw by Angus Donald
TUESDAY
Option 4. Read a new release, a book first published in 2021 or an ARC of a planned 2022 book.
XOXO by Axie Oh
First published July 13th 2021.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 360
Task 30.2 - My Favorite Day of the Weekoption 2: MPG War
Monstrous Regiment
IL: UG
option 3: letters GRACE in title
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
G in amazinG
RACE in mAuRiCE
IK: UG
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440 points
5 BB tix
4 GO tix
Andy P.Task # 10.3 - Just Like Me.
Read a nonfiction book with the main page genre Science
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
First two MPG's are Nonfiction and Science
Points this post: 10
Total points: 300
Nick KY5.1 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
I read Four Seasons of Mystery: A Gray Whale Inn Cozy Mystery Story Collection by Karen MacInerney, # 10.5 in the Gray Whale Inn series.
Points This Post: 5
Totl Points So Far: 475
Nick KY25.5 - Andy P's task: Remember Alphabetical Order?
With the advent of computers the need for alphabetical order has waned somewhat so I created my task to help preserve its importance.
First the general rules:
This is a two book task.
Books which are labeled on its main page as children’s or kid’s are not eligible for this task.
Books must be written by a single author.
Books with an author who uses his/her initials may be used but will only make the task more difficult. ALL initials must be used.
The total number of pages of both books must exceed 500 pages (i.e., 501 pages or greater).
The objective of the task is to pair two authors whose initials put together will form a letter sequence in alphabetical order i.e. ABCD HIJK.
I used JKLM
I read Gilgamesh by Joan London, 272 pp
I read Murder on the Rocks by Karen MacInerney, 281 pp
Joan
Karen
London
MacInerney
Total pp = 553 > required 501
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 500
Katrisa15.1 - Win or Lose
Book 1: Read a book with WIN found intact in the book's title/subtitle.
I read Dandelion Wine
Book 2: Read a book with LOSE found intact in the book's title/subtitle.
I read This Is How You Lose the Time War
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 615
Kathy KS5.5 - Thelma & Louise
Read a book with an ampersand "&" in the title or subtitle.
Mastering Family, Library & Church Records, by W. Daniel Quillen.
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Points for this task: 5
Total points : 420
Tasks completed: 26
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
Mod
I read Ghost Story. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the pb (no MMPB).
total points: 410
Mod
I listened to an audiobook of Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic - linked to the pb (no MMPB).
Medical is the 3d listed MPG.
total points: 420
Mod
I read a kindle ARC of Even Greater Mistakes, linked to the pb (no MMPB). Author is Charlie Jane Anders.
Charlie matches Friends character Charlie Wheeler.
total points: 435
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I chose option 1, the 2 book option.
Book A - I used option (a) and read The Eagle & the Nightingales. "Music" is the 8th listed MPG.
Book B - I used option (a) and read a kindle ARC of Last Seen Alive, linked to the hardcover edition. Word "seen" is the last word of the 4th line of the song.
total points: 465
Katrisa10.1 - Africa in the 1990s
Read a book set at least 50% in a country in Africa.
I read A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
Set in Nigeria, Mauritania, Somalia, and Uganda
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 625
MEGSCL20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's task: Geocaching Time Again!
Option 1. Initials in GEOCACHING. It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake by Claire Christian
TOTAL TO DATE
410 points
1 golden oldie
5 big book
Bookwrm526Task #20.8 - Tien's Task: Birthdays
Option 2: Read a book with a dog or dogs and, at least, one human companion on cover. I read Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero by Michael Hingson. The cover image was approved in the help thread.
Total points so far: 255
MEGSCL15.3 - The Boy Who Lived
Option 2. Magic mpg and published 1997 - The Magician's Assistant
TOTAL TO DATE
425 points
1 golden oldie
5 big book
Suzannesea30.4 - Sandy's Task: Dinosaur Operas!
Book 1
Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title that are in DINOSAUR OPERAS.
Don't Turn Around by Jessica Barry
Around - DiNOsAUR
320 pages
Book 2
Read a book written by an author whose initials are in DINOSAUR OPERAS.
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
non-fiction
296 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points to date: 320
Lisa MD30.6 - TessaVanessa's task: Spelling Bee
Book 1: Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the first letter of each word in order spells a word or acronym.
🍁History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Word: HOW
288 pages
Book 2: Read a book with the word spelled from Book 1 in the title or subtitle. The word must match exactly.
🍁The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda French Gates
Word: How - found in subtitle
273 pages
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 190/905
Total Books Read: 15
Tasks Completed: 13/54
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
30.3 Missing My BestieOption 1 Road Trip – book set in California
Cemetery Boys
Option 2 Nightswimming b book with title where the first letters of each of the words can be found in nighTSWimming
Someone to Wed
Total to date 315 points
30.6 - TessaVanessa's task: Spelling BeeBook 1: Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the first letter of each word in order spells a word or acronym.
The One Impossible Labyrinth (Jack West Jr #7) by Matthew Reilly
first letter of each word in title: TOIL
Book 2: Read a book with the word spelled from Book 1 in the title or subtitle.
Double, Double, TOIL and Truffle (Bewitched by Chocolate #6) by H.Y. Hanna
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies: 2
Bigger is Better: 2
Season Total: 605
trishhartuk10.9 The Year of the Woman
Read a book written by a female author.
Elatsoe, Darcy Little Badger
Read the kindle edition. PB here
Children's: only in US US AR Quiz No. 512240 EN Fiction, Quiz Information IL: UG
If the GR picture isn’t enough to establish her as a female author, here’s a link to her website: https://darcielittlebadger.wordpress....
Points this task: 10
Books read: 1
Total points: 305
Tasks completed: 22
Golden oldies: 3
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.1 Win or Lose
Book 1: The Twin by Natasha Preston
Book 2: Love Her or Lose Her by Tessa Bailey
Points this post: 15
Total points: 440/905
Tasks completed: 29/54
Books read: 36
UNCLAIMING THIS TASKTask:20.1 - Most Improved - Valorie's Task: Fall Festival Celebration!
Option: 4 - MPG of "paranormal" or "horror".
Book read:Changeling by Cate Tiernan
Required: MPG paranormal
Paranormal > Witches
131 users
Fantasy > Paranormal
96 users
Points this task:20
Total points:35
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Books read:3
Tasks completed:3
Task:15.10 - The Streak [#2, #3, #6, or #8 in a series]Book read:Changeling by Cate Tiernan
Required:number 8 in the wicca/sweep series (depending on publication, series had 2 names) (Wicca #8)
Points this task:15
Total points:135
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Books read:10
Tasks completed:10
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15.4 - Supersize Me
Option 2:
read a book with author initials in MCDONALD'S, FRIES, and/or DRINK and has 500+ pages
Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson
My copy has 817 pages
Author initials S E in FRIES
Points this post: 15
Tasks completed: 10
Total Points: 165