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Andy P.Task # 25.4 - Cat's task: Britpop Books
Option 2. Pick two different albums and tracks. For each track read a book whose title or subtitle contains a word of at least four letters from the track title
Book 1. Album : Different Class
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Song is Monday Morning
Book 2. Album : OK Computer
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
Song is Lucky
Points this post: 25
Total points: 625
Andy P.Task # 25.6 - SandyL's task: Fun and Wacky Holidays
Option 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.
Three Lives of Tomomi Ishikawa by Benjamin Constable
2 T's in international in international
L in international
O in international
I in international
Option 4. Read a book by an author whose initials (all of them) are the same
Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
Points this post: 25
Total points: 650
MEGSCL10.2 - Come On, Get Happy!
The Invisible Library
TOTAL TO DATE
880 points
1 golden oldie
5 big book
MEGSCL25.4 - Cat's task: Britpop Books
(What's the Story) Morning Glory by Oasis (1995)
Morning Glory - Glory in Death
Different Class by Pulp (1995)
Live Bed Show - How I Live Now
FINAL TOTAL
905 points
1 golden oldie
5 big book
10.6 - Rug Rats!Read a book with all of its single author's initials in NICKELODEON
Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
CK appears in niCKelodeon
Points Earned This Post: 10
Total Points Earned: 375
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets Total: 3
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 1 (750) / 0 (1000)
Suzannesea15.9 - I'll Be There for You
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The author shares a first name with Friends character Rachel Greene.
Points this post: 15
Points to date: 535
Amy B10.8 - 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). Words must match exactly - no variations. The word 'The" cannot be used.
You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked. by Sheung-King (You from "Come as You Are")
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 505 Points
Task 25.6 - Fun and Wacky Holidaysoption 3: three+ word title, initial letters in INTERNATIONAL DAY
Trick of the Dark
option 4: author initials the same
Rosewater by Tade Thompson
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735 points
6 BB tix
6 GO tix
Jessica DTask 20.3: Happy Anniversary, My Love!
Option C: Male author with initials in LOVES TO READ
The Guncle by Steven Rowley Initials SR
Points this task: 20
Total points: 165
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ5.1 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
I'm Dreaming of an Undead Christmas by Molly Harper
This book is a fill-in for the Half-Moon Hollow Series (#2.7)
There is no print edition of this book but it was approved for length in the SRC eBook Verification spreadsheet (line 1586).
This post: 5 points
Total points to date: 390 points
Tasks completed: 22
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season *
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ20.9 - In Memory of Bailey
Unfaithful by Natalie Barelli
Option 2 - The author's initials can be found in BoopiNator
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): Unfaithful
This post: 20 points
Total points to date: 410 points
Tasks completed: 23
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season *
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ20.10 -Group Reads
Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding
I made a comment (Message #10) about my reactions in the Group Discussion Thread.
This post: 20 points
Total points to date: 430 points
Tasks completed: 24
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season *
EMurphy20.1 Most Improved-Valorie's Task: Fall Festival Celebration
Option 4: Paranormal or horror MPG The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 285
Books Read: 20
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 2
Tasks Completed: 12
Delicious Dee15.2 - Egg Watch
Book A - Manners & Mutiny - Gail Carriger - GC found in TAMAGOTCHI
Book B - Mary Jane - found on pg 6 of the coming of age link - about 1/2 down the page
Points This Post: 15
Points Total: 415
Molly5.6 - The Sixth Sense: Read a book written by an author who uses initial(s) in the first name position.
Genome by A.G. Riddle
Points this task: 5
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Totals:
Points: 5
Tasks completed: 1
Molly5.10 - Aladdin: Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
Points this task: 5
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Totals:
Points: 10
Tasks completed: 2
Molly10.7 - Y2K - Time to Panic!: Read a book with the numeral 2, the Roman numeral II or the word "two" in the title or subtitle.
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
Points this task: 10
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Totals:
Points: 20
Tasks completed: 3
Congratulations, MegSCL! You will have a 30-point task in the Winter 2021 Challenge.
ROBIN P50.1:Bucket's Task - Reading Adventure
3 books, over 750 pages
Option 2 - Cruise
I live in the US - I chose Atlantic Ocean
Book 1 - Murder Must Advertise
Set in England - from the Wikipedia description of the book
"Back in London in 1932, Wimsey goes undercover. . "
288 pages
**Requesting 1 GO point, Murder Must Advertise was first published in 1933**
Book 2 - A Rule Against Murder
Set in Canada (MPG genre shows Cultural-Canada)
322 pages
Book 3 - Next Year in Havana
Set in Cuba (setting indicated on GR page)
361 pages
total pages - 971
Points this post: 50
Total points: 510
BB:1 GO:3
25.5 - Andy P,s Remember Alphabetical Order?The objective is to pair two authors whose initials, when put together, will form a letter sequence in alphabetical order. The combined page total of both books must be at least 501 pages
Book 1: Winter Solstice by Elin Hilderbrand Audiobook, 320 pg first listed MMP
Book 2: Where She Went by Gayle Forman Audiobook, no MMP, 240 pg first listed PB
Letter sequence EFGH, page total 560
Points this post: 25
Total points: 520
Tasks completed: 36
Books read: 42
Big Book tickets: 6
Golden Oldies tickets: 4
REPOSTING to add info missing in post 2039:Task 50.1 – Bucket's Reading Adventure
Option 2: I live in the U.S. and chose the Atlantic Ocean
Book 1 chosen: Atlantic Ocean: Mountain Man
Fits task: Set in Canada and borders the Atlantic Ocean
"The story is set in Canada and starts over two years after the zombie virus hit the world. Gus has found himself a house up a mountain which he has made safe, and got the scavenging for supplies thing down to an art." - Source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
Format read: audio
# of pages: 514 (printed edition)
Book 2 chosen: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Fits task: Set in the U.K. and also borders the Atlantic Ocean
Format read: audio
# of pages: 1796 (printed edition)
Book 3 chosen: The Man Who Spoke Snakish
Fits task: Set in Estonia and also borders the Atlantic Ocean
Format read: audio
# of pages: 442 (printed edition)
Total number of pages: 514 + 1796 + 442 = 2752
Points this post: 50 points
Total points to date: 420 points
FLY Task #30.5 - Aprilleigh’s Task: A Good Decade
task: Option B: Other Sciences (nonfiction)
book: Einstein: His Life and Universe
how it fits: on list https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
task: Option C: Fiction with a Science Component
book: Unwind
how it fits: on list https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
***I would like to claim a big book ticket for Einstein: His Life and Universe - over 500 pages (even after discounting over 100 pages of index)***
Points this post: 30
Total points: 220
Tasks completed: 12/54
Big Book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
5.1 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom MenaceFour: A Divergent Collection (Divergent #0.1-0.4) by Veronica Roth
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 2
Season Total: 815
INSIYAH6.6 -The Sixth Sense
Author who uses initial(s) in the first name position
Book: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (ebook)
How it fits: Author uses inititals in first name position.
Note: Top Paperback (in French) has 500 pages. The Top Paperback (in English) has 560 pages.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a Big Book (500/560 pages depending on edition). Claiming 1 BB ticket.
Points this task: 5
Total points: 45
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Total Big Books: 2
Books read: 4
Tasks completed: 4
INSIYAH20.1 - Most Improved - Valorie's Task: Fall Festival Celebration!
Option 3: 4+ letter word made from ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
Book: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (ebook)
How it fits: CRIME - CIME in MEXICO, R in ALBUQUERQUE
Note: Top Paperback has 288 pages.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 65
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Total Big Books: 2
Books read: 5
Tasks completed: 5
Julia10330.4 - Sandy's task: Dinosaur Operas!
Book 1: Inda (DINosAur)
This book has 616 pages - claiming one BB ticket
Book 2: Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho (opErAs)
This book is non-fiction.
This post: 30 points, 1 BB
Total points: 615
BB: 5
GO: 3
Tasks completed: 39
Books read: 46
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.5 The Macarena
Honeymooning with Her Brazilian Boss by Jessica Gilmore
Takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Points this post: 15
Total points: 875/905
Tasks completed: 53/54
Books read: 70
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.4 Sandy's task: Dinosaur Operas!
Book 1: The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber
Word is : Nurse diNoSaUR opEras
320 pages
Book 2: Practice to Deceive by Ann Rule
This is a Non-fiction book.
396 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 905/905
Tasks completed: 54/54
Books read: 72
Task 10.5 - I Have a Bad Back, Really!read a book with Medicine/Medical MPG
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
verified: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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745 points
6 BB tix
6 GO tix
Elinaly20.4 - Golden Oldies - Fly's Task: Moving through the 90s
Option 3:
Read a book set at least 50% in either California or Massachusetts.
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Set in 'The Paper Palace' - the gently decaying summer camp in the back woods of Cape Cod (a hook-shaped peninsula of the U.S. state of Massachusetts, is a popular summertime destination)
Points this task: 20
Total points: 40
Tasks completed: 2
Nick KYREPOST
25.6 - SandyL's task: Fun and Wacky Holidays
Read two books from two different options. No books with a MPG of Children or Kids may be used.
Required: State the options when you post.
Option 2: September 28 is Ask a Stupid Question Day.
Read a book with a title/subtitle that includes a question mark. I read Happy, Okay?: Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival by M.J. Fievre.
Option 3: October 21 is International Nacho Day.
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. Letters may be used only as often as they appear in the target word.
I read Art and Liberation: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 4 by Herbert Marcuse. internAtionAL.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 905
25.6 - SandyL's task: Fun and Wacky HolidaysOption 2, a book whose title includes a ?: Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews
Option 4, a book by an author whose initials are the same: The Pessimists by Bethany Ball
Points this post: 25
Total points: 505
15.6 - Buzz, Beep, Squeal!Read a book with a word found on this Onomatopoeia Word List in the title/subtitle. I used the word RING
I listened to an audio version of The Postman Always Rings Twice most popular MMPB is Ο ταχυδρόμος χτυπάει πάντα δυο φορές
***Claiming Golden Oldie Ticket, first published in 1934***
New Points: 15
Total Points: 435
BB: 3
GO: 4
15.9 - I’ll Be There for YouRead a book written by a single author who shares a name with one of the recurring Friends Characters.
I used Ross from Ross Geller
I listened to an audio version of Oreo by Fran Ross
New Points: 15
Total Points: 450
BB: 3
GO: 4
Congratulations, TessaVanessa! You will have a 30-point task in the Winter 2021 Challenge.
Congratulations, Nick KY! You will have a 30-point task in the Winter 2021 Challenge.
Andy P.Task # 30.2 - 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. Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
TUESDAY
Option 4. Read a new release, a book first published in 2021
The Madness of Crowds published in August 2021
Points this post: 30
Total points: 680
Readerboard name - JLRN20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Happy Anniversary, My Love!
• Read a book where the main character travels to a different country.
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa (174pgs)
[Starting country: Japan. Travel to North Korea (and then back to Japan)]
Points this task: 20 | Total Points: 300 | Total Tasks Completed: 11
Total BB tickets: (2) 500+ | (0) 750+ | (0) 1,000+
Total GO tickets: 0
MAZZA110.1 - Africa in the 1990s
Read a book set at least 50% in a country in Africa.
The Visitors set in Egypt on GR main page data
Points this post = 10
Points to date = 730
MAZZA110.8 - 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 an ARC of this book from Netgalley We Are Not Like Them
There is no MMP this is Pb edition We Are Not Like Them: A Novel
Uses the word ARE from Track 3 "come as you are"
Points this post = 10
Points to date = 740
MAZZA115.2 - 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.
The Husbands
Book 2: Read a book from the Coming of Age Books list.
Black Swan Green Page 3 of list
points this post = 15
points to date = 755
Readerboard name - JLRN20.4 - Golden Oldies - Fly's Task: Moving through the 90s
Option 3: Read a book set at least 50% in either California or Massachusetts.
Skeptic in Salem: An Episode of Murder by Fiona Grace
[Setting - Massachusetts]
Points this task: 20 | Total Points: 320 | Total Tasks Completed: 12
Total BB tickets: (2) 500+ | (0) 750+ | (0) 1,000+
Total GO tickets: 0
MAZZA120.5 - Bigger is Better - Sarah E's task: Epic Maps
Option 1: Mountain ranges
Read a book with a title of at least three words where the first letter of each word in the title can be found in MOUNTAIN RANGE.
Triflers Need Not Apply mouNTAiN
Points this post = 20
Points to date = 775
MAZZA125.4 - Cat's task: Britpop Books
Option One: One book option. Your book must have at least 500 pages.
Pick two different albums and tracks. Read a book whose title or sub-title contains a word of at least three letters (excluding "the") from a track title on each album. Words must match exactly.
Required: state the albums and songs used
The Stars Look Down
this uses LOOK from What's the Story Morning Glory - Track is Don't LOOK back in Anger"
AND
DOWN from OK Computer Radiohead - Track is Let DOWN
This book is 608 pages
Points this post = 25
Points to date = 800
MAZZA125.5 - Andy P's task: Remember Alphabetical Order?
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.
Book 1 Cat Among the Pigeons 352 pages Agatha Christie initials AC
Book 2 Deception Point
Dan Brown initials DB 556 pages I am claiming 1 BB ticket
sequence is ABCD
Page count is 352 + 556 = 908 exceeding requirement
POINTS this post = 25
Points to date = 825
MAZZA130.5 - Aprilleigh’s Task: A Good Decade
Option B: Other Sciences (nonfiction)
Read a book from my list of popular science books. https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Option C: Fiction with a Science Component
Read a book from my list of popular fiction books. https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Unwind
Points this post = 30
Points to date = 855
MAZZA150.1 - Bucket's task: Reading Adventure
Option 3: World Tour
For option 3, NO books set in the continent where you live.
I live in Europe
Book 1: Read a book set in the country you chose.
The 3 Mistakes of My Life 258 pages Setting India which is in Asia on GR info
Book 2: Read a book set in a different country on a different continent.
The Woman Next Door set in South Africa in Africa on GR page 278 Pages
Book 3: Read a book set in a different country on a third different continent.
Blood Brothers set in Maryland USA in North America on GR info 314 pages
Page count = 258 +278+ 314 = 850 exceeding requirement
Points this post= 50
Points to date = 905
Challenge complete
Readerboard name - JLRN20.5 - Bigger is Better - Sarah E's task: Epic Maps
Option 5: Cities/Towns/Castles
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole (364pgs)
Points this task: 20 | Total Points: 340 | Total Tasks Completed: 13
Total BB tickets: (2) 500+ | (0) 750+ | (0) 1,000+
Total GO tickets: 0
Readerboard name - JLRN20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Kathy KS’ Task: Rearing Twins in the ‘90s
Option 3: Vacations - "FLYOVER"
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
[Initials: LF; FLYOVER]
Points this task: 20 | Total Points: 360 | Total Tasks Completed: 14
Total BB tickets: (2) 500+ | (0) 750+ | (0) 1,000+
Total GO tickets: 0
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