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FALL CHALLENGE 2021
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TessaVanessaChallenge 20.8 Nickels & Dimes - Tien's Task: Birthdays
by Roxanne St. ClairePoints this post: 20
Total points: 115/905
Tasks completed: 7/52
Books read: 8
Amy B20.10 - Group Reads
Read ONE of the books selected as the Group Reads choices for the season:
❋ Gutenberg Classic The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
REQUIRED: You must participate in the book's discussion thread with at least one post - posted 9/14
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 50 Points
Lisa MD15.10 - The Streak
Read a book that is #2, #3, #6, or #8 in a series.
🍁An Offer from a Gentleman: Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Series: Bridgertons #3
480 pages
🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 65/905
Total Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 5/54
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
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I read The Return of the King - I read the kindle edition, linked to the top MMPB.
735,489 ratings.
total points: 100
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I read The Robin & the Kestrel - ampersand in title. I read the kindle edition, linked to the pb.
total points: 105
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I chose option 2 - one book that fits both requirements - and read The Lark and the Wren. I read the kindle edition, linked to the MMPB.
1. Fantasy>Magic is the 6th listed MPG.
2. Book was first published in 1991.
total points: 120
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I chose option 1 and read Tess d'Urberville by Thomas Hardy - initials TH. I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top listed MMPB.
total points: 140
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For my first book, I chose option 1 and read a kindle ARC of An Untidy Death Simon Brett, linked to the hardcover (no pb or mmpb)
Author is male, and this is #2 in the Decluttering Mysteries series.
For my second book, I chose option 4 and read Rizzio by Denise Mina. Author initials, DM, found in schMenDrick.
total points: 165
5.5 - Thelma & LouiseRead a book with an ampersand "&" in the title or subtitle.
Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch Read 9/7/21
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 15
Big Books Tickets Claimed: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed:
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For my first book, I chose option A and listened to the audiobook of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - the MMPB is Blackout - När min hjärna blev min fiende. Book is found on p. 2 of the required list.
For my second book, I chose option B and read A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash - I read the kindle edition, linked to the top MMPB. Book is found on page 2 of required list.
total points: 195
5.8 - TwisterRead a book with all the letters DVD in the title and/or subtitle.
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear Read 7/9/21
anD
loVe
Death
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 20
Big Books Tickets Claimed: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed:
15.10 - The Streak #2 in a series.
The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie.
First published 1929 for 1 Golden Oldie Point.
Points: 15
Total Points: 135
GO Points: 5
BB Points: 1
Sara G20.9 - 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.
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems by David Rakoff
MRS PEEBODY
Points this post: 20
Total points: 210
trishhartuk25.6 SandyL's task: Fun and Wacky Holidays
Option 2: Read a book with a title/subtitle that includes a question mark.
Whodunit?, Norma Seely
Read the kindle edition. HB (no PB): here
Option 3: Read a book where the first letter of each word is found in the phrase INTERNATIONAL NACHO DAY.
No One Noticed the Cat, Anne McCaffery
N, O, N in No ONe; T in inTernational; C in naCho
Points this task: 25
Books read: 2
Total points: 75
Tasks completed: 6
Golden oldies: 1
BUCKET20.1 Valorie’s Task: Fall Festival Celebration!
Option 3
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
(Word: WOMAN. W and N in new, OM in Mexico, A in Albuquerque)
Points this post: 20
Points total: 20
BB total: 0
GO total: 0
Scooter&Siam10.9 - The Year of the Woman
Read a book written by a female author.
Read A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
Points: 10
Total: 10
Scooter&Siam20.1 - Most Improved - Valorie's Task: Fall Festival Celebration!
Required: State the option when you post.
Option 1: Read a book written by an author with first and last initials that can be found in OKTOBERFEST. Middle initials can be ignored.
Read Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Points: 20
Total: 30
25.3 - TraceyL's task: No More JockeysOption 2: Read a book first published in 1999 or earlier.
The Reader first published 1995
Option 3: Read a book by an author whose entire name does not have any repeated letters across all of the name parts
The Wandering Soul Murders by Gail Bowen
New Points: 25
Total Points: 75
30.2 - Dlmrose's Task: My Favorite Day of the WeekOption 1. Read a book written by an author whose initials (all) can be found in TUESDAY.
I read an audio version of The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek
Option 2: Read a book with a main page genre that includes the word War or Wars.
I listened to an audio version of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
New Points: 30
Total Points: 105
Kathy KS15.10 - The Streak
Read a book that is #2, #3, #6, or #8 in a series.
Rogue Protocol, by Martha Wells
The Murderbot Diaries #3
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Points for this task: 15
Total points : 190
Tasks completed: 13
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
Bookwrm526Task #20.2 - Going Back to India
Read a book set at least 50% in India that was written by an author born in India. I read Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (368p) (setting and birthplace of author both found on Goodreads).
Total points so far: 75
Suzannesea20.3 - Best Review -Book Concierge's Task: Happy Anniversary, My Love!
Option B
Read a book with a main page genre of FOOD.
Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson
Approved in Help Thread
Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 125
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Kim O's task: In Memory of BaileyOption 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.
The Good Turn (Cormac Reilly #3) by Dervla McTiernan
author's initial, DM, found in Mrs peeboDy
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 270
Task 25.4 - Britpop Booksone book option - 500+pages
read a book with a 3+ letter word from two different album/songs
The Way We Live Now
LIVE: Different Class / Live Bed Show
NOW: (What's the Story) Morning Glory / Hey Now!
1024 pages - claiming 3 BB tix
pub 1875 - claiming 1 GO tix
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170 points
3 BB tix
3 GO tix
Amy B15.8 - Beanie Babies
Read a book with one of the animals mentioned (frog, pig, dog, orca, whale, moose, platypus, bear, lobster) on the cover. The animal must be clearly identifiable on the book's cover.
Required: Include the cover when you post.
Sing to It by Amy Hempel (dogs)
This Task: 15 Points
To Date: 65 Points
Julia10325.5 - Andy P's task: Remember Alphabetical Order?
Against Civility: Race and the Dark History of an Idea by Alex Zamalin (176 pages)
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers (I read Kindle edition, no MMP, top paperback is 325 pages)
Author initials form sequence ZABC.
Total page count: 176 + 325 = 501 (just squeaked in for this requirement)
This post: 25 points
Total points: 135
BB: 2
GO: 0
Tasks completed: 9
Books read: 11
25.2 - Amy FL's task: ParenthoodOption 2: read a book with a domestic dog or cat on the cover.
Salted Caramel Sorcery (Bewitched by Chocolate #7) by H.Y. Hanna
Option 4: reading a book by a single author whose initials (all initials count) are found in HORTON THAT SCHMENDRICK
Murder in the Belltower (Miss Underhay #5) by Helena Dixon
author's initials, HD, found in Horton that schmenDrick
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 295
trishhartuk20.1 Most Improved - Valorie's Task: Fall Festival Celebration!
Option 5: Read a book that is set at least 50% in Maine.
Claw Enforcement, Sofie Ryan
From the GR description: “Sarah Grayson owns a delightful secondhand shop in the small town of North Harbor, Maine”
The whole book is set in and around that town.
Points this task: 20
Books read: 1
Total points: 95
Tasks completed: 7
Golden oldies: 1
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15.9 - I’ll Be There for You
Read a book written by a single author who shares a name with one of the recurring Friends Characters. (David)
The Wright Brothers. David McCullough. 9.15.21
Points this task: 15
Total points: 120/905
7/54
EMurphy30.3 Katrina's Task: Missing my Bestie
Option 1: Set in California, Nevada, Arizona, or Utah The Library Book by Susan Orlean (set in Los Angeles, California)
Option 2b: Title of at least 2 words where the first letter of each word can be found in NIGHTSWIMMING The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 1
Andy P.Task # 5.6 - The Sixth Sense
Read a book written by an author who uses initial(s) in the first name position
Dark Sky by C.J. Box
Points this post: 5
Total points: 90
Bookwrm526Task #25.2 - Parenthood
Option 2: Read a book with a domestic dog or cat on the cover. I read Gone with the Whisker by Laurie Cass, which has a cat on the cover on the right hand side.
Option 4: Read a book by a single author whose initials (all initials count) are found in HORTON THAT SCHMENDRICK. I read The Shadows by Alex North (A in that, N in horton).
Total points so far: 100
Joanne MI10.10 - Which Way?
Read a book with East, West, North or South found intact in its title
Go West, Young Man: A Riveting Western Novel of the American Frontier
Points This Task 10
Total Points 65
1 BB
Andy P.Task # 10.9 - The Year of the Woman
Read a book written by a female author.
Holding Smoke by Steph Post
Points this post: 10
Total points: 100
5.1 - Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom MenaceA Dawn Most Wicked by Susan Dennard
Points This Post: 5
Grand Total Points: 5/905
Total Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1/54
Big Book Tickets 500+ pgs: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
5.8 - TwisterSeventh Grave and No Body by Darynda Jones
Points This Post: 5
Grand Total Points: 10/905
Total Books Read: 2
Tasks Completed: 2/54
Big Book Tickets 500+ pgs: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
20.10 - Group ReadsThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Message #9 in group reads discussion
CLAIMING GOLDEN OLDIE, published 1902
Points This Post: 20
Grand Total Points: 30/905
Total Books Read: 3
Tasks Completed: 3/54
Big Book Tickets 500+ pgs: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
30.2 - Dlmrose's Task: My Favorite Day of the WeekOption 1: Strange and Ever After by Susan Dennard
Author's initials are found in tueSDay
Option 4: The Shadow in the Glass by J.J.A. Harwood
Published May 4, 2021
Points This Post: 30
Grand Total Points: 60/905
Total Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 4/54
Big Book Tickets 500+ pgs: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
5.6 - The Sixth SenseRead a book written by an author who uses initial(s) in the first name position
Box Socials by W.P. Kinsella
New Points:5
Total Points: 110
10.6 - Rug Rats! Read 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.
nIcKelodeon
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Post Total: 10
Season Total: 50
20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Happy Anniversary, My Love!Option A: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
🎃 the main character, Easy Rawlins, is a WWII veteran 🎃(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel...)
📖 263 pages 📖
Total points: 55 + 20 = 75
REPOST5.10 - Aladdin
Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay #2) by Helena Dixon
Total this Post: 5
Season Total: 270
REPOST25.1 - XBM's task: My Life as a 90s TV Show
Option 1: Read a book with one of these words in the title/subtitle: Full, House, Married, Children, Family, Matters. Words must match exactly.
Murder at Elm House (Miss Underhay #6) by Helena Dixon
Option 6: Read a book with an MPG of History.
March: Book Three (March #3) by John Lewis
Total this Post: 25
Season Total: 295
Readerboard Name: Kathy P5.3 - Men In Black
French Milk
Totals
Points: 5
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks Completed: 1
Total Books Completed: 1
Readerboard Name: Kathy P5.6 - The Sixth Sense
Happiness for Humans
Author: P.Z. Reizin
Totals
Points: 10
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks Completed: 2
Total Books Completed: 2
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25.1 - XBM's task: My Life as a 90s TV Show
Option 1: Read a book with House in the title/subtitle:
House Lessons: Renovating a Life. Erica Bauermeister. 9.1.21
Option 2: Read a book or book series that was made into a TV show or movie. (I am going to watch the movie this weekend, so I'm not sure whether the book or the movie is better, but the book was very good).
To Sir, with Love. E.R. Braithwaite. 9.15.21
Points this task: 25
Total points: 145/905
8/54
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.8 - Here We Are Now, Entertain Us
The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't, and Get Stuff Done
Word is WAY from 12. "Something in the Way"
Totals
Points: 20
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks Completed: 3
Total Books Completed: 3
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.10 - Which Way?
Exit West
Totals
Points: 30
BB: 0
GO: 0
Total Tasks Completed: 4
Total Books Completed: 4
Katrisa20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Bookwrm526's task: Geocaching Time Again!
Opt 2 a book from this
Mystery Books Puzzles Whodunnits And Surprises
or this Mysteries that integrate puzzles/riddles/clues
I chose to pick from the second list (mysteries that integrate puzzles/riddles/clues) and read Winterhouse from the first page of the list. It has children's listed the AR info is
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12.0
Points this point: 20
Points Total: 175
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Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 250