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FALL CHALLENGE 2021
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD
Kristi CO10.9 - The Year of the Woman
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Points this post: 10
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO20.1 - Most Improved - Valorie's Task: Fall Festival Celebration!
Option 1 OKTOBERFEST
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Points this post: 20
Total points: 40
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Happy Anniversary, My Love!
Option A military veteran
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
from character description on Goodreads "Cormoran Strike - the illegitimate son of superstar rocker Jonny Rokeby who first became a hero and disabled veteran in Afghanistan and then a private detective in a threadbare business"
*big book ticket* Troubled Blood is 944 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Big Books: 500=0, 750=1, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO20.4 - Golden Oldies - Fly's Task: Moving through the 90s
Option 3 Massachusetts
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Points this post: 20
Total points: 80
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
Big Books: 500=0, 750=1, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's task: Geocaching Time Again!
Option 1 geocaching
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Points this post: 20
Total points: 100
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 6
Big Books: 500=0, 750=1, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Kim O's task: In Memory of Bailey
Option 2 BOOPINATOR
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson
Points this post: 20
Total points: 120
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 7
Big Books: 500=0, 750=1, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
Kristi CO30.1 - MAZZA1's task: A NIGHT AT THE PROMS
Option 1 two books
A.b composer Anton Webern
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
B.b Great Britain
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Points this post: 30
Total points: 150
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 9
Big Books: 500=0, 750=1, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0
JEN B5.5 - Thelma & Louise
Read a book with an ampersand "&" in the title or subtitle.
Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
TOTAL POINTS: 200
FLY Task #15.4 - Supersize Me
Option 1: Read one book 1 and one book 2
task: Book 1: author initials in MCDONALD'S, FRIES, and/or DRINK.
book: Demons in the Bedroom
how it fits: author Lidiya Foxglove initials LF in mcdonaLd's Fries
task: Book 2: Read a book with at least 500 pages.
book: Crave
how it fits: my book was audio, no MMPB listed, first pb listed is 672 pages
**claiming BB ticket** for 672 pages
Points this post: 15
Total points: 320
Tasks completed: 20/54
Big Book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
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Laurie ME10.1: Africa in the 90s: Read a book set at least 50% in a country in Africa: Egypt
Death on the Nile
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 500
Laurie ME10.2: 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 - EOTR
Echoes of the Runes
Point this Post: 10
Total Points: 510.
Laurie ME10.3: Just Like Me: Read a nonfiction book with the main page genre Science, Ethics, or Philosophy. Genres may be standalone or embedded
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Point This Task: 10
Total Points: 520.
Laurie ME10.4: Stick 'em Up! Read a book set at least 50% in Massachusetts, Norway, or Germany: set in Massachusetts.
Murder at the Gardner
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 530
Laurie ME10.5: I Have a Bad Back, Really! Read a book with a main page genre of Medicine or Medical, standalone or embedded.
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 540.
Laurie ME10.6: Rug Rats! Read a book with all of its single author's initials in NICKELODEON: CD
Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 550
Laurie ME10.7: Y2K - Time to Panic! Read a book with the numeral 2, the Roman numeral II or the word "two" in the title or subtitle
A Tale of Two Vampires
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 560
Laurie ME10.9: The Year of the Woman: Read a book written by a female author
The Last Garden in England
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 570
Laurie ME10.10 Which Way? Read a book with East, West, North or South found intact in its title
North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 580
15.10 The Streak Read a book that is #2, #3, #6, or #8 in a series.Murder at Half Moon Gate (Wrexford & Sloane #2)
Total: 15
Total/challenge: 15
20.4 Movin Through the 90'sOpt 1 Read a book with an author (one of multiple is okay) named Mike or Michael.
The Way I Heard It: True Tales for the Curious Mind with a Short Attention Span by Mike Rowe
Total: 20
Total/challenge: 35
30.1 A Night at the PromsAA. Classic or music genre
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
BC one pair of legs on the cover
Total: 30
Total/challenge: 105
30.3 Missing my BestieOpt 2 - title initals in nighTswiMMing
The Monogram Murders
Opt 4 sandy beach on cover
Total: 30
Total/challenge: 135
Kathy KS5.10 - Aladdin
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
A Place to Call Home, by Deborah Ann Dykeman
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Points for this task: 5
Total points : 700
Tasks completed: 40
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
30.4 Dinosaur Operas >600 pgs, 1 book NFBk 1 - 4 letter word title/sub made from dINOSaur OPeras
- Word made Poison, 427 pgsBk 2 -Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, NF, 240 pgs
427+240 =667 pgs
Total: 30
Total/challenge: 165 pts.
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ15.4 - Supersize Me
Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
Option 2 - Author's initials can be found in Mcdonald'S AND at least 500 pages (560 pages)
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): Serpent & Dove
This post: 15 points
Total points to date: 495 points
Tasks completed: 27
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season *
30.5 A Good DecadeOpt A Biology and Medicine list
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Opt C Popular Fiction with Science Element
The Ghost Brigades
Total: 30
Total/challenge: 195
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ15.7 - Google It
A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones
This books title contains at least two sets of identical letters in a single word (sunshine - SS NN)
This post: 15 points
Total points to date: 510 points
Tasks completed: 28
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season *
30.6 Spelling BeeBk 1 - Bk 1 - 3 word title where initials spell a word
Fates and Traitors - FAT
Bk 2 -word made from BK 1 in title
Size 12 Is Not Fat
Total: 30
Total/challenge: 225
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ20.1 - Fall Festival Celebration!
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Option 1 - author's first and last initials can be found in oKToberfest.
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): Before the Coffee Gets Cold
This post: 20 points
Total points to date: 530 points
Tasks completed: 29
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season *
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ50.1 - Reading Adventure
I live in the U.S.A. in North America.
Option 3
Book 1 -
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
232 pages
Setting: Scotland; Continent: Europe (from book's description - "...the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast.")
Book 2 -
Fault Lines by Emily Itami
224 pages
Setting: Japan; Continent: Asia (confirmed in metadata)
Book 3 -
The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): The Family Next Door, 352 pages
Setting: Australia; Continent: Australia (confirmed in metadata)
232 +224 + 352 = 808 (at least 750 pages)
This post: 50 points
Total points to date: 580 points
Tasks completed: 30
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season *
Congratulations, Andy P! You will have a 25-point task in the Winter 2021 Challenge.
Theresa5.7 - Jurassic Park
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
page 1 on the list
Points this post - 5
Total points - 35
Line5.5
read a book with an ampersand “&” in the title. i read Love & Luck
points for this task: 5
total points: 150
tasks done: 11
books read: 14
Bookwrm526Task #20.6 - Rearing Twins in the ‘90s
Option 3: Read a book where all the letters FLYOVER can be found in the Title/Subtitle and/or Author's name. I read The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (FE in five, LO in untold, V in lives; Y in by, R in ripper).
Total points so far: 655
Kristen IA5.8 - Twister
Help Thread
Read a book with all the letters DVD in the title and/or subtitle.
Laundry Love: Finding Joy in a Common Chore by Patric Richardson
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 275/905
Tasks Completed: 18/54
BB: 2
GO: 0
Kristen IA15.3 - The Boy Who Lived
Select an option. Required: Indicate the option when you post.
Option 2: Read one book that fulfills both book 1 and book 2 requirements.
Book 1: Read a book with the MPG Magic or Witches. Genre may be standalone or embedded.
Book 2: Read a book first published in the 1990s (1990-1999, inclusive).
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman - published 1995
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 290/905
Tasks Completed: 19/54
BB: 2
GO: 0
Amy FL5.8 - Twister
Beneath Devil's Bridge - DVD (DeVil's briDge)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 905
Thanks, Mods, for another great challenge and for your hard work!
50.1: Bucket's Task: Reading AdventureI live in Canada, North America
Option 3: World Tour
Book 1: The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood Europe, Set 85% in the UK, 15% in the US, 400 pg
Book 2: The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato South America, Set 100% in Argentina, 140 pg
Book 3: Wind/Pinball: Two novels by Haruki Murakami, Asia, set 100% in Japan, Audiobook, 285 pg for 1st listed MMP
Total page count: 825 pg
Points this post: 50
Total points: 585
Tasks completed: 38
Books read: 45
Big Book tickets: 6
Golden Oldies tickets: 4
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.
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Total Points: 170
HanneloreTask 20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Kim O's task: In Memory of Bailey
Read 1 book that fits one of the options.
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, BOOPINATOR, or MRS PEEBODY.
Book: The Colour of Magic
How it fits: Author is Terry Pratchett. His initials can be found in 'sweeTie Petey'.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 310
Tasks completed: 18
BB tickets:
(4) 500+
(2) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 2
Amy B30.1 - MAZZA1's task: A NIGHT AT THE PROMS
Option 2 - READ ONE book of over 600 pages that fits an option from both "A. The Proms Series" and "B. The Last Night."
NO books with the MPG Children's may be used for this task.
Required: State the options used when you post.
A) The Prom Series: a) Read a book with an MPG of Classics OR Music. Genres may be stand-alone or embedded.
B) The Last Night: c) Read a book with AT LEAST One pair of Human Legs on the cover. Required: include cover in post
Option 2: Thank you for the example of one book option - I've been meaning to read this.
The Stand by Stephen King A.a. MPG Classics & B.c. legs on cover (1152 pages)
This Task: 30 Points
To Date: 715 Points
StaceyNC5.8 - Twister
Read a book with all the letters DVD in the title and/or subtitle.
Book: Devil in Disguise
Completed: 9/16/21
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 455
Tasks Completed: 25
StaceyNC 5.10 - Aladdin
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules
Book: Kiss of Steel
Completed: 11/21/21
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 460
Tasks Completed: 26
StaceyNC20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Happy Anniversary, My Love!
Option D:
• Read a book where the main character travels to a different country.
Book: The Player
Completed: 10/31/21
Pages: 320
MCs travel from New York City to Manchester/London UK
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 480
Tasks Completed: 27
StaceyNC25.6 - SandyL's task: Fun and Wacky Holidays
Option 1: September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Read a book from one of theses pirate-themed lists
Book: The Lion's Lady
Completed: 11/20/21
#29 on page 1 of Pirates/Swashbuckling Romance
Option 4: November 8 is Tongue Twister Day
Read a book by an author whose initials (all of them) are the same. Book: Interference
Completed: 10/26/21
Author: Mignon Mykel
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 505
Tasks Completed: 28
Sophie5.6 Author first name an initial
The Lost Girls by J.R. Hogan
Length verification for ebook
Total: 390
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10.2 - Come On, Get Happy!
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Golden Oldie tickets: 0