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FALL CHALLENGE 2021
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Task:20.1 - Most Improved - Valorie's Task: Fall Festival Celebration!Option:4 [MPG of "paranormal" or "horror"]
Book read:Eclipse by Cate Tiernan
Required:mpg paranormal
Paranormal > Witches
115 users
Fantasy > Paranormal
76 users
Points this task:20
Total points:155
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Books read:11
Tasks completed:11
LAUREN JODIDlmrose's Task: My Favorite Day of the Week
Option 1: Author Initials in TUESDAY
Colder Than Sin by Toni Anderson
Option 2: MPG War
Eagle by Janie Crouch
MPG confirmed in Post #17 of the task help thread.
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 430/905
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Books Read: 33
Tasks Completed: 26/54
Task 10.7 - Y2K - Time to Panic!read a book with TWO in the title
Ready Player Two
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450 points
5 BB tix
4 GO tix
Boston Kate
30.3 Katrisa's task: Missing my Bestie
Option 2b: Iron Widow
IW found in target phrase
Option 3b: Food: A Love Story
Both "Memoir" and "Food" on main page
approved in help thread
Points this post: 30
Total points: 70
Nick KY10.5 I Have a Bad Back
Read a book with a main page genre of Medicine or Medical.
I read The Select by F. Paul Wilson. Verified in message 34 of the Help Thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 510
5.7 Jurassic ParkRead a book from the list, I saw the Movie and read the Book
I listened to an audio version of
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
This is on the first page of the list, in slot #38
This book has an MPG of children’s, the Ar info is:
MG:-BL:7.0-AR PTS 7.0
***Claiming Golden Oldie Ticket, first published in 1900***
New Points: 5
Total : 215
GO: 2
10.7 - Y2K - Time to Panic!Read a book with the numeral 2, the Roman numeral II or the word "two" in the title or subtitle.
I listened to an audio version of Clarity Book Two
New Points: 10
Total Points: 225
10.6 - Rug RatsRead 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.
Jack in a Box by Diane Capri
New Points: 10
Total Points: 235
GO: 2
JEN B15.10 - The Streak
Read a book that is #2, #3, #6, or #8 in a series. The series name and number must be indicated in the GR title listing in grayscale parentheses following the title
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
This book is second in the Waverly Family series
TOTAL POINTS: 75
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's task: Geocaching Time Again!Option 1: Author’s initials in GEOCACHING
Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill
New Points: 20
Total Points: 255
GO: 2
25.1 - XBM's task: My Life as a 90s TV ShowOption 1: Read a book with one of these words in the title/subtitle: I used the word: HOUSE
A Bird in the House.
Option 2: Read a book or book series that was made into a TV show or movie.
The Colorado Kid
The TV series Haven was based on this book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haven_(...
New Points: 25
Total Points: 280
GO: 2
SandyL5.1 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Read a book that is numbered with a #0 or a decimal
Christmas in Quincy by Devney Perry
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 5
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
SandyL5.3 - Men In Black
Read a book with a TITLE that appears in black text
The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 10
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
SandyL5.4 - Ghost
Read a book with a MPG of Paranormal
Sword Song: The Isle of Destiny Series by Tricia O'Malley
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 15
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
SandyL5.5 - Thelma & Louise
Read a book with an "&" in the title
Spurs & Satin by Vanessa Vale
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 20
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
SandyL5.6 - The Sixth Sense
Read a book by an author who uses initial(s)
The Casanova by T.L. Swan
**requesting Big Book ticket - 512 pages***
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 25
Big Books Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
SandyL5.7 - Jurassic Park
Read a book from this list I Saw the Movie and Read the Book
Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse by Lee Goldberg
Page 8
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 30
Big Books Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 6
SandyL5.8 - Twister
Read a book with all the letters DVD in the title
Decidedly With Love by Stina Lindenblatt
DeciDedly with loVe
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 35
Big Books Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 7
SandyL10.4 - Stick 'Em Up!
Read a book set at least 50% in Massachusetts
The Professional by Robert B. Parker
Set in Boston, MA
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 45
Big Books Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 8
SandyL10.10 - Which Way?
Read a book with South found in title
Sweet Gone South by Alicia Hunter Pace
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 55
Big Books Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 9
SandyL15.3 - The Boy Who Lived
Option 1
Book 1: Read a book with the MPG Magic or Witches
Stone Song: The Isle of Destiny Series by Tricia O'Malley
MPG Magic
Book 2: Read a book first published in the 1990s
The Secret by Julie Garwood
Published 1992
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 70
Big Books Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 11
SandyL15.5 - The Macarena
Read a book set at least 50% in Latin America
Her Accidental Husband by Ashlee Mallory
Set 95% in Mexico
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 85
Big Books Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 12
SandyL15.7 - Google It
Read a book with a word in the title that contains at least two sets of identical letters
The Country Guesthouse by Robyn Carr
THE country guEsTHouse - TT HH EE
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 100
Big Books Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 13
SandyL15.9 - I’ll Be There for You
Read a book by an author who shares a name with one of the recurring Friends Characters
Widow's Walk by Robert B. Parker
Name: Parker
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 115
Big Books Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 14
Scooter&Siampost.
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's task: Geocaching Time Again!
Chose Option 1
Option 1: Read a book whose author initials (middle initials can be ignored) can be found in the phrase GEOCACHING.
ReadA Shrine of Murders by Celia L. Grace
Points: 20
Total: 95
SandyL15.10 - The Streak
Read a book that is #2, #3, #6, or #8 in a series
Baiting Him by Aurora Rose Reynolds
How to Catch an Alpha #2
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Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 130
Big Books Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 15
Natalie CH5.9 - Toy Stories
'story' or 'stories' in title
Site Fidelity: Stories by Claire Boyles
Points this post: 5
Tasks completed: 14
Total Points: 245
ZachFor 10.9 - The Year of the Woman I read MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood.
Points this post: 10
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Totals:
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Points: 15
BBTs: 1
GOTs: 0
FLY Task #5.9 - Toy Stories
task: Read a book with the word "story"or "stories" in the title or subtitle.
book: I Sing the Body Electric! and Other Stories
how it fits: "Stories" in title
Points this post: 5
Total points: 120
Tasks completed: 7/54
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
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10.3 - Just Like Me.Read a nonfiction book with the main page genre Science, Ethics, or Philosophy. Genres may be standalone or embedded.
Philosophy:
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 225
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's task: Geocaching Time Again! Option 1:Initials in GEOCACHING.
The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer
Points: 20
Total Points: 415
GO Points: 12
BB Points: 2
Amy B20.5 - Bigger is Better - Sarah E's task: Epic Maps
Read one book from one of the following options.
Required: State which option you chose.
Option 4: Deserts
Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in DESERT.
A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay
This Task: 20 Point
To Date: 245 Points
Amy B25.3 - TraceyL's task: No More Jockeys
This is a 2 book task. Pick two options below, and read one book for each option. Required: State the options when you post.
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.
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
Option 3: Brian Cox - No More Names Without Repeated Letters
Read a book by an author whose entire name does not have any repeated letters across all of the name parts.
I Could Write a Book: A Modern Variation of Jane Austen's "Emma" by Karen M. Cox
This Task: 25 Points
To Date: 270 Points
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20.5 - Bigger is Better - Sarah E's task: Epic Maps
Option 2: Read a book which has RIVER found intact in the title, subtitle, or series name. (Virgin River #9)
Angel's Peak. Robyn Carr. 10.11.21
Points this task: 20
Total points: 445/905
25/54
Katrisa **REPOST**
Katrisa
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Tien's Task: Birthdays
Opt 1 - Written by a single author who identifies as a male AND whose first and last initials are TH, in that order.
I read Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine by Tim Hanley
Genre override for not really a comic in message 42 of the * Not Really a Comic Book/Graphic Novel thread
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 625
Katrisa 20.10 - Group Reads
I read Anxious People and commented after reading in message 17
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 645
30.2 - Dlmrose's Task: My Favorite Day of the WeekOption 2, a book with a MPG that includes the word War: The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
Option 4, a new release, first published in 2021: We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
Points this post: 30
Total points: 300
VAL TX10.8 - 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 (not subtitle).
Look How Happy I'm Making You by Polly Rosenwaike
'Come as YOU Are' was song used.
This post:
Points - 10
Total:
Points - 15
Task 20.1 - Fall Festival Celebration!Option 3: Read a book with a 4+ letter word in the TITLE that can be made from the letters in ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO.
WOMAN: Albuquerque NeW MexicO
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories (2021) by Hilma Wolitzer (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 208 pages)
95 + 20 =115
Tasks Completed: 06
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 95 + 20 = 115
Books read: 08
Pages read: 2,052
Read but not claimed: 05
Goodreads Authors: 06
Golden Oldies: 02
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.5 - Thelma & Louise
Outdoors, Oars, & Oaths by Tonya Kappes
Points this post: 5
Total points: 445/905
Tasks completed: 30/54
Books read: 37
Challenge 10.9 - The Year of The WomanRead a book written by a female author.
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
Tamara wrote: "Challenge 10.9 - The Year of The WomanRead a book written by a female author.
Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
Angela IL20.9 - 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 one of the following: SWEETIE PETEY,
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams- 9/9
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 125
Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 6/54
BB Ticket: 1
EMurphy25.3 - TraceyL's Task: No More Jockeys
Option 1: Job in the title/subtitle The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
*Job is Dancer
Option 2: First published in 1999 or earlier The Testament by John Grisham
*Published in February 1999
*Big Book Ticket - 535 pages
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +500: 1
Total:
Points: 160
Books Read: 11
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +500: 2
Tasks Completed: 6
Andy P.Task # 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 Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves
GEOCACHING
Points this post: 20
Total points: 320
MARGO30.2 - 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.
Life, the Universe and Everything
by Douglas Adams
Posted MMPB but read as part of a Kindle Omnibus:
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five
Option 3. Read a book where all the letters GRACE can be found in the TITLE.
the quantum Curators And the fabeRGE egg
The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg
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Points this task: 30
Total points: 220
Tasks completed: 10
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 1
MARGO15.10 - The Streak
Read a book that is #2 ... in a series.
(The Quantum Curators #2)
The Quantum Curators and the Enemy Within
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Points this task: 15
Total points: 235
Tasks completed: 11
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 1
Task 10.6 - Rug Rats!author initials in NICKEL
Reputation by Lex Croucher
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460 points
5 BB tix
4 GO tix
Task 10.10 - Which Way?title with SOUTH intact within it
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
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470 points
5 BB tix
4 GO tix
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10.7 - Y2K - Time to Panic!
The Two Lost Mountains
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Points Total: 265