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FALL CHALLENGE 2021
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20.1 - Most Improved - Valorie's Task: Fall Festival Celebration!I chose Option 3: Read a book with a 4+ letter word in the TITLE that can be made from the letters in ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO.
Skip the Line: The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals by James Altucher
The letters in LINE can be found in Albuquerque New Mexico.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 155/905
Books read: 9
Tasks completed: 7/54
BB tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
HanneloreTask 15.3 - The Boy Who Lived
Option 2. Read a book that fulfills both requirements.
1. Read a book first published in the 1990s (1990-1999, inclusive).
2. Read a book with the MPG Magic or Witches. Genre may be standalone or embedded.
Book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
How it fits: The book was first published in 1999. It has the MPG 'Fantasy > Magic'.
(BookFinder score is high enough: IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18.0)
Points this task: 15
Total points: 35
Tasks completed: 3
BB tickets:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
HanneloreTask 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Sarah E's task: Epic Maps
Read one book from one of the options.
Option 3: Forests.
Read a book from the Trees, Woods, Forests list.
Book: The Hunger Games
How it fits: The book is on page 1 of the list.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 55
Tasks completed: 4
BB tickets:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
Nick KY20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's task: Geocaching Time Again!
Now that fall is almost here, I can finally start to geocaching again without worrying about dying in the heat! My whole family loves to geocache, but it is hard to get motivated in the south in the summer LOL. In honor of this hobby, read 1 book that fits one of the options below.
Required: State the option when you post.
Option 2: My favorite kind of cache is the mystery or puzzle cache. For this option, read a book that meets SRC rules, including those for children's books, and can be found on one of these lists:
Mystery Books Puzzles Whodunnits And Surprises
Mysteries that integrate puzzles/riddles/clues
Required: State which list you used and, if the list is multiple pages, which page of the list your book can be found on when you post.
I read The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie, p. 1 on the Mystery Books Puzzles Whodunnits and Surprises list. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 90
Nick KY20.10 Group Reads.
I read the Gutenberg Classic The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle and posted in the discussion thread, message 7.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 110
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15.10 - The Streak
Read a book that is #2, #3, #6, or #8 in a series.
A Cup of Silver Linings. Karen Hawkins
Points this task: 15
Total points: 80/905
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Katrisa5.6 - The Sixth Sense
Read a book written by an author who uses initial(s) in the first name position.
I read The Bones Beneath My Skin by T.J. Klune
Points this Post: 5
Points Total: 145
Angela IL20.4 - Golden Oldies - Fly's Task: Moving through the 90s
Option 3: Read a book set at least 50% in either California or Massachusetts.
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid- 9/12/21
Set in Malibu, California
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 20
Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1/54
Nick KY20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Tien's Task: Birthdays
It’s Birthday Season in my house!! My husband’s, my 2 sons’ & our dog’s so to celebrate:
Required: State the option when you post.
1. Written by a single author who identifies as a male AND whose first and last initials are TH, in that order. Middle initials should be ignored.
I read Slave of My Thirst by Tom Holland.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 130
Julia10330.2 - Dlmrose's Task: My Favorite Day of the Week
Option 2: The Star and the Shamrock (MPG War > World War II)
Option 3: A Secret and Unlawful Killing (GRACE in title: G in Killing, R in Secret, A in And, CE in Secret)
This post: 30 points
Total points: 110
BB: 2
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 9
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Fly's Task: Moving through the 90sOption 3: Read a book set at least 50% in either California or Massachusetts.
I read The Hollywood Spy, which takes place entirely in Los Angeles, CA.
points: 70
books read: 4
tasks completed: 3
pages read: 1399
Nick KY20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Kim O's task: In Memory of Bailey
Option 2: I had a lot of nicknames for Bailey. 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.
I read one of my favorite books for this great memorial task, Thirteen Stories by Eudora Welty, inits in SWEETIE PETEY.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 150
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's task: Geocaching Time Again!Death in the Stocks (Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway #1) by Georgette Heyer
author's initials, GH, found in GeocacHing
1x Golden Oldies tix (pub. 1935)
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 210
Kathy KS20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's task: Geocaching Time Again!
read 1 book that fits one of the options below.
Option 1: Read a book whose author initials (middle initials can be ignored) can be found in the phrase GEOCACHING.
Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson, by George Alec Effinger
GE=GEocaching
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 165
Tasks completed: 11
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
MEGSCL5.1 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge #0)
**913pp - 2 big books
TOTAL TO DATE
70 points
1 golden oldie
4 big book
Suzannesea25.1 - XBM's Task: My Life as a 90's TV Show
Option 2
Read a book or book series that was made into a TV show.
The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves is #9 in the Vera Stanhope series. From the Goodreads' author notes: " Ann is the author of the books behind ITV's VERA, now in its third series. . . " I'm currently enjoying the eleventh season of VERA on Britbox.
Option 4
Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in GENE RODDENBERRY.
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy
Gilman
Gene roDdenberry
Points this post: 25
Total points to date: 105
Coralie30.6 Spelling Bee
Book 1 – first letter of each word in title spells a word – DID
Death in Daylesford
Book 2 – book with word in title
The Tusk That Did the Damage
Total to date 85 points
15.6 - Buzz, Beep, Squeal!A book with a word from the Onomatopoeia Word List in the title: Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Jenn McKinlay
The word on the list is bark.
The variation in the title is barking.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 30
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.10 The Streak
Life, Some Assembly Required by Kaje Harper
Series: The rebuilding year #2
Points this post: 15
Total points: 55/905
Tasks completed: 4/52
Books read: 4
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.4 Supersize Me
Option 2: Say Goodbye by Karen Rose
KR found in dRinK; book is 608 pages
Points this post: 15
Total points: 70/905
Tasks completed: 5/52
Books read: 5
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.1 XBM's task: My Life as a 90s TV Show
Option 4: A Dying Fall: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 5 by Elly Griffiths
Option 6: The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths
Points this post: 25
Total points: 95/905
Tasks completed: 6/52
Books read: 7
5.5 - Thelma & LouiseDark, Witch & Creamy (Bewitched by Chocolate #1) by H.Y. Hanna
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 215
5.4 - GhostWitch Chocolate Fudge (Bewitched by Chocolate #2) by H.Y. Hanna
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 220
Jessica DTask 20.10: Group Reads
Anxious People
My group discussion post is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this task: 20
Total points: 50
trishhartuk10.2 Come On, Get Happy!
Title of at least three words in which all the initials are in IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE.
Arrivals and Arrests, Diana Xarissa
Read the kindle edition. PB here
irrAtionAl exuberAnce
Points this task: 10
Books read: 1
Total points: 50
Tasks completed: 5
Golden oldies: 1
Task: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
UNCLAIMING THIS TASKTask:10.7 - Y2K - Time to Panic! [2, the Roman numeral II or the word "two" in the title or subtitle]
Book read:A Tale of Two Families by Dodie Smith
Required: two in the title
Points this task:10
Total points:15
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Books read:2
Tasks completed:2
Task:20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Kim O's task: In Memory of BaileyOption:2- all of the author's initials can be found in one of the following: SWEETIE PETEY, BOOPINATOR, or MRS PEEBODY.
Book read:A Tale of Two Families by Dodie Smith
Required: Dodie Smith = DS - mrS peeboDy
Points this task:20
Total points:45
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Books read:3
Tasks completed:3
5.2 - TitanicRead a book with at least 50,000 ratings on GR.
Burned by Ellen Hopkins Read 9/2/21
At the time of posting Burned has 59,208 ratings.
Burned is a Big Book 544 pages. I would like to claim 1 BB ticket.
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 5
Big Books Tickets Claimed: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed:
5.3 - Men In BlackRead a book with a TITLE that appears in black text on the cover.
by Ellen Hopkins Read 9/12/21Impulse is a Big Book 666 pages. I would like to claim 1 BB ticket.
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 10
Big Books Tickets Claimed: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed:
Sara G20.7 - 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.
Rumors by Anna Godbersen
GEOCACHING
Points this post: 20
Total points: 190
Natalie CH25.6 - SandyL's task: Fun and Wacky Holidays
Option 3:
title initials in INTERNATIONAL NACHO DAY
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays by Lauren Hough
Letters are L I T H T (E)
Option 4:
book by an author whose initials same letter
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
double s
Points this post: 25
Tasks completed: 4
Total Points: 55
5.2 - Titanic At least 50,000 ratings on GR.
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
First published 1897 for 1 Golden Oldie Point.
Points: 5
Total Points: 105
GO Points: 3
BB Points: 1
15.7 - Google It Word in the title with at least two sets of identical letters.
"Shakespeare" contains 2 "s" and 3 "e".
I read the ebook of Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt, the mmpb is here: I personaggi del teatro di Shakespeare.
First published in 1817 for 1 Golden Oldie Point.
Points: 15
Total Points: 120
GO Points: 4
BB Points: 1
Andy P.Task # 5.2 - Titanic
Read a book with at least 50,000 ratings on GR.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 533, 534 ratings
Points this post: 5
Total points: 75
Andy P.Task # 10.4 - Stick 'Em Up!
Read a book set at least 50% in Norway.
Blind Goddess by Anne Holt
Takes place entirely in Norway
Points this post: 10
Total points: 85
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25.2 - Amy FL's task: Parenthood
Option 1: Read a book by a single MALE author that is #2 in a series.
The Forgotten Road. Richard Paul Evans
Option 2: Read a book with a domestic dog or cat on the cover.
. A Likely Story. Jenn McKinlayPoints this task: 25
Total points: 105/905
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Serenahind(the ghostreader)5.5 Thelma and Louise
Read a book with a & or and in the title or subtitle
Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Sevenby Janet Evanovich
Task +5
Grand Total: 10
Books Read: 2
Big Books: 0
ROBIN P25.1 - XBM's Task: My Life as a 90's TV Show
2 books
Option 1 - Word HOUSE in title
The Empty House
Option 6 - MPG History
The Golden Lane: How Missouri Women Gained the Vote and Changed History
Points this task: 25
Total points: 110
Julia103Repost
5.1 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Rise of a Sky Pirate (World of Linaria #0.5)
E-book Approved for length in post 8336 of e-book verification thread.
This post: 5 points
Total points: 110
BB: 2
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 9
10.7 - Y2K - Time to Panic!Read a book with the numeral 2 or the word "two" in the title or subtitle. The numeral or word must stand alone
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
Points this Post: 10
Season Total: 40
ROBIN P30.2 - DLM Rose's Task: My Favorite Day of the Week
2 books from 2 different options
Option 2 - MPG War - The Mountains Sing
Option3 - All letters of GRACE in title - A Fatal Grace
Points this task: 30
Total points: 140
Katrisa10.2 - 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.
I read The Lost Apothecary
TLA irraTionAL exuberance
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 155
Kathy KS10.9 - The Year of the Woman
Read a book written by a female author.
Better World, by Autumn Kalquist
Kalquist is female, per GR photo
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Points for this task: 10
Total points : 175
Tasks completed: 12
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
25.7 - Brooke TX's task: 90s Nickelodeon NostalgiaOption 3: Read a book with one of the following punctuation marks in the TITLE (subtitles do not count): apostrophe
Witch Summer Night's Cream (Bewitched by Chocolate #3) by H.Y. Hanna
Option 6: Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the initial letter of each word can be found in LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE
Murder on the Dance Floor (Miss Underhay #4) by Helena Dixon
title with 5 words & first letter of words are MOTDF which can be found in legenDs OF The hidden teMple
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 245
Task 20.7 - Geocaching Time Again!option 2: on p1 of the Mysteries that integrate puzzles/riddles/clues
The Westing Game
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8.0
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145 points
2 GO tix
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15.5 - The Macarena
Exile Music
More than 50% of this book is set in Bolivia. (The main character arrives in Bolivia on page 125.)
This post: 15 points
Total points: 80
BB: 2
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 7