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FALL CHALLENGE 2021
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LAUREN JODI15.10 - The Streak
Secret Desires of a Gentleman by Laura Lee Guhrke
Book #3 in the Girl Bachelors Series
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 75/905
Total Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 7/54
Task 15.3 - The Boy Who Livedone book option: read a book with MPG Witches AND published in 90s
Carpe Jugulum
pub 1998
IL: UY
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85 points
15.7 - Google ItCurtsies & Conspiracies (Finishing School #2) by Gail Carriger
conspiracies - CC, SS, II
Total this Post: 15
Season Total: 70
LAUREN JODI5.2 - Titanic
Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts
68,989 ratings
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 80/905
Total Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 8/54
Sara G15.5 - The Macarena
Read a book set at least 50% in Latin America.
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Over 50% of this book takes place in Mexico.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 75
Task 20.10 - Group Readsread & comment on one of the titles
The Hound of the Baskervilles
comment: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
published 1902 - claiming a GO tix
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105 points
1 GO tix
Jessica DTask 5.2: Titanic
50,000+ reviews on Goodreads
The Midnight Library
currently 556,676 ratings
Points this task: 5
Total points: 5
Jessica DTask 25.2: Parenthood
Option 2: book with a cat or dog on the cover
Snowball's Christmas
cover:
Option 4: author initials found in HORTON THAT SCHMENDRICK
by Samantha Downing initials SDPoints this task: 25
Total points: 30
KRISTA KY20.4 - Golden Oldies
Option 2: Read a book where the main character relocates to a new state or country DURING the course of the book.
Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
Points this task: 20
Total points: 20
Christine V30.4 - Sandy's task: Dinosaur Operas!
Book 1: Sand: Omnibus Edition (word: sand)
Book 2: Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor by Anne Edwards (nonfiction)
I listened to the audio editon. The top PB (no MMPB available) Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor has 527 pages.
***Claiming 1 Big Book ticket***
Points this post: 30
BB Tickets this post: 1
Total points: 30
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=1)
Kathy KS15.8 - Beanie Babies
Read a book with one of the animals mentioned ( frog , pig, dog, orca, whale, moose, platypus, bear, lobster) on the cover. Required: Include the cover when you post.
Toad Words And Other Stories, by T. Kingfisher
Verified as "frog" in task help message 6: by Kristina Simon
I read this as an ebook;
Approved @ line #3782, SRC ebook Verification spreadsheet
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Points for this task: 15
Total points : 75
Tasks completed: 6
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 # 5.4 - Ghost
Read a book with a main page genre of Paranormal.
A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris paranormal first listed MPG
Points this post: 5
Total points: 45
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5.1 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
(Slough House #5.5): PB: The Marylebone Drop by Mick Herron
I read the kindle edition The Marlyebone Drop
total = 5
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5.8 - Twister
DVD title/sub: Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
total = 20
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10.3 - Just Like Me.
philosophy genre: Making Things Right: The Simple Philosophy of a Working Life by Ole Thorstensen
total = 30
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10.5 - I Have a Bad Back, Really!
Medical genre: Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova
total = 40
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15.3 - The Boy Who Lived
Option 2, one book
witches genre, first published 1992: The Initiation by L.J. Smith
total = 55
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15.4 - Supersize Me
option 2, 532 pages, initials CL in mCdonaLds: The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
total = 70
Line5.7 jurassic park
read a book from i saw the movie and read the book list. I read Little Women , which is found on page 3 on the list.
Little Women has a children’s MPG, and the book finder scores are: IL: MG, BL: 7.4 - AR pts: 15
points for this task: 5
total points: 5
books read: 1
tasks done: 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
The Bootlegger's Confession
2 O's and 2 G's in Bootlegger's and 2O's, 2 S's, and 2N's in Confession
New Points: 15
Total Points: 35
Julia10310.5 - I Have a Bad Back, Really!
Domina (MPG Health>Medicine)
This book is 509 pages so claiming one BB ticket.
This post: 10 points, 1 BB
Total points: 50
BB: 2
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Kathy KS20.1 - Most Improved - Valorie's Task: 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. Required: State the word used when you post.
Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey
Word used: WOMEN=albuquerque NEW MexicO
I listened to the audiobook; (no mmpb) pb=197 p. (Se buscan mujeres sensatas)
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 95
Tasks completed: 7
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Sara G15.6 - Buzz, Beep, Squeal!
Read a book with a word found on this Onomatopoeia Word List in the title/subtitle.
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
"Ring" is on the Onomatopoeia Word List.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 90
Katrisa 5.4 Ghost - Read a book with a main page genre of Paranormal.
I read Hunting Ground paranormal on MPG
Points this Post: 5
Points Total: 50
MEGSCL15.7 - Google It
The Year of Magical Thinking (thinking IINN)
TOTAL TO DATE
45 points
1 golden oldie
2 big book
ROBIN P20.6 Seasoned Reader - Kathy KS’ Task: Rearing Twins in the ‘90s
Option 2- Main character is twin
Nine Perfect Strangers
The book has an ensemble cast, 3 of the major characters are a father, mother and teenage daughter . You find out early on that the daughter had a twin brother who died and one strand of the plot is the story of that. From a wikipedia list of the cast in the corresponding TV show:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Pe...
"Zoe Marconi, Napoleon and Heather's daughter, grieving the death of her twin brother"
OK'd per Kathy in message 21 of Help Thread provided reference was given.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 20
ROBIN P20.5 - Bigger is Better - Sarah E's task: Epic Maps
Option 1 - 1st letter of words in title found in MOUNTAIN RANGES
A Gift of Time
Points this task: 20
Total points: 40
ROBIN P20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Kim O's task: In Memory of Bailey
Option 2. Author initials in BOOPINATOR - The Color of Death, author Bruce Alexander
Points this task: 20
Total points: 60
5.8 - TwisterRead a book with all the letters DVD in the title and/or subtitle.
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act
Points this task: 5
Books read this task: 1
Golden oldie claimed this task: 0
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 5
Total Tasks completed: 1
Total Golden oldies: 0
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Total books read: 1
Task 15.10 - The Streakread a book #3 in series
The Late Monsieur Gallet
pub 1931 - claiming 1 GO tix
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120 points
2 GO books
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I read Midnight in Death, #7.5 in the In Death series. I read the kindle edition, linked to the MMPB. 90 pages.
This is my one 5 point task <100 pages.
total points: 5
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I read a kindle ARC of Robert B. Parker's Stone's Throw, linked to the hardback (no pb or mmpb). Book is set 100% in MA (metadata show setting as Paradise, MA).
total points: 15
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I read The Two Towers - read the kindle edition, linked to the top MMPB. Word "two" in title.
total points: 25
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I chose option 2 and read The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang. I read the kindle edition, linked to the top pb (no MMPB) - 527 pages.
1. Author initials, RFK , found in Fries, dRinK.
2. Book >500 pages - 527.
total points: 40.
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I chose option 3, and read Ice and Stone, set completely in California. "Private Investigator Sharon McCone goes undercover to investigate the murders of two Indigenous women in remote Northern California."
total points: 75
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I chose the Gutenberg Classics category and read The Hound of the Baskervilles - I listened to the audiobook, linked to the MMPB.
My discussion post is comment 5
total points: 95
Sara G20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Kathy KS’ Task: Rearing Twins in the ‘90s
Option 2: Twins - Read a book with a main character who is a twin.
The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
From the GR description: "Her twin sister Cassie’s advice to “just go for it” and “take a risk” isn’t that helpful."
Points this post: 20
Total points: 110
20.1 - Most Improved - Valorie's Task: 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.
Death Blow (Veranda Cruz #3) by Isabella Maldonado
4-letter word in title, BLOW, can be found in aLBuquerque neW mexicO
Total this Post: 20
Season Total: 90
10.7 - Y2K - Time to Panic! Roman numeral II in title.
Richard II by William Shakespeare
First published in 1595 for 1 GO point.
Points: 10
Total Points: 35
GO Points: 1
BB Points:
Laurah3020.4 - Golden Oldies - Fly's Task: Moving through the 90s
Option 2: Read a book where the main character relocates to a new state or country DURING the course of the book.
The World That We Knew
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
PegW20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Kim O's task: In Memory of Bailey
Option 1: Read a book in which all the letters BAILEY can be found in the title/subtitle.
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
Points this post: 20
Total points: 70
ROBIN P25.5 Andy P's task: Remember Alphabetical Order?
2 books, total must exceed 500 pages
The objective of the task is to pair two authors whose initials put together will form a letter sequence in alphabetical order -
I chose JKLM
A Gift of Time by Jerry Merritt - listened to audio, linked paperback, 352 pages
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
listened ot audio, linked paperback, 336 pages
Total pages 688 > 500
Points this task: 25
Total points: 85
20.1 - Most Improved - Valorie's Task: Fall Festival Celebration! 1 book.
Option 1: First and last initials in OKTOBERFEST.
Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry
Points: 20
Total Points: 55
GO Points: 1
BB Points:
Joanne MI15.10 - The Streak
Read a book that is #2, #3, #6, or #8 in a series.
The Death of Kings # 2 in The Emperor Series
Claiming 1 BB @ 531 pages
Points this task 15
Total Points 30
BB's this task 1
Total BB's 1
READ 60 The Sixth Sense 5.6 Author uses initials in first name place
A Hundred Billion Ghosts D. M. Sinclair
Points 5
Total 20
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5.9 - Toy Stories
Read a book with the word "story"or "stories" in the title or subtitle.
A Story to Kill by Lynn Cahoon
This post: 5 points
Total Points: 35
BB: 0
GO: 0
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 7