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WINTER CHALLENGE 2021
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10.9 - Winter is ComING
ING word in title: Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth
total = 145
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15.7 - Baby It's Cold Outside!
Cold in title: Cold to the Bone by Emery Hayes
I read the kindle edition.
total = 160
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15.8: The Peculiarity of Time Passing
Year in title: This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear
total = 175
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20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk's Task: Representing Cats!
option 1, SF genre: Sporting Chance by Elizabeth Moon
total = 195
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20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Molly's Task: CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA
option 1, author born in 1947: The Left-Handed Twin by Thomas Perry
From GR bio: Thomas Perry is the author of 25 novels. He was born in Tonawanda, New York in 1947.
total = 215
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20.10 - Group Reads
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
Post 5 in discussion
total = 235
Readerboard Name: Priya30.6 - MegSCL's Task: Part and Whole
Book 1: Read a collection or anthology.
Zombie Boyz
Book 2: Choose one of the authors who contributed to Book 1.
Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
Points this post: 30
Total points: 50
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 3
10.4 - MMXXIIRead a book written by a single author with a 2-part name whose initials both begin with the same letter.
Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian
Points Earned This Post: 10
Total Points Earned: 110
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets Total: 1
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Mary P5.5 - The Land of Oz
Read a book set in Australia or written by author born in Australia.
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Points this task: 5
Total points: 90
Katrisa20.4 - Golden Oldies - Teri-K's Task: Ready, Set, GO!
Opt 2 - Read a book with MPG mystery published between 1913 and 1939
I read The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett who is a new-to-me author.
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 535
Katrisa15.1 - Welcome to Oz
Book 1 - read a book with black/white/gray cover - no other colors on the cover.
I read
Book 2 - read a book with at least 3 different colors on the cover
I read
which has pink, yellow and a few shades of brown according to tineyePoints this Post: 15
Points Total: 550
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Option 1:
We Know You Remember by Tove Alsterdal - rEMEMber in title
Option 3:
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro - K in author
Points this post: 25
Points total: 290
5.7 - The Emerald CityRead a book with a word from the Shades of Green list in the title/subtitle. Plurals and possessives will work but no other variations.
Comfort Me with Apples
Apples matches Apple Green
Points Earned This Post: 5
Total Points Earned: 115
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets Total: 1
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
REPOSTING #786 with correct edition of coversTask 15.1 – Welcome to Oz
Book 1 chosen:
Fits task: black/white/gray cover
Format read: ebook
# of pages: 176 (printed edition)
Book 2 chosen:
Fits task: multiple colors (e.g., pink - banner top, yellow - banner bottom, green - leaves in the background, brown - skin color)
Format read: audio
# of pages: 256 (printed edition)
Points this post: 15 points
Total points to date: 95 points
REPOSTING #788: I accidentally chose the wrong book when I looked it up under "add book/author." The one I chose originally was a collection with more than one story. That's not the edition I read. The one I read only had Tom Sawyers Abenteuer in it.Task 15.4 – Happy Valentine's Day!
Book 1 chosen: Tom Sawyers Abenteuer
Fits task: title at least 3 words, T, S, A found in VALENTINES
IL: MG+, BL: 8.1, AR Pts.: 12.0
Format read: audio
# of pages: 238 (printed edition)
Book 2 chosen: A Deadly Education
Fits task: author's initials (Naomi Novik) found in VALENTINES
Format read: audio
# of pages: 336 (printed edition)
Points this post: 15 points
Total points to date: 110 points
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyWinter 2021 SRC
30.4 - Katrisa's Task: Winter in Ms. Kat’s Kindergarten
December -
1.a. in December my class performs an adorable Christmas program and one of the perennial favorites is Milton he Dancing Christmas Mouse. Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the TITLE that can be made from the letters in MILTON THE DANCING CHRISTMAS MOUSE
Death of a Dapper Snowman
DEATH - milton THE DAncing christmas mouse
February - February is the month where we celebrate our 100th day of school.
3.a. Read a book that is at least 100 years old (published in 1922 (inclusive) or before)
A Christmas Carol
first published in 1837, claiming 1 GO ticket
Points this post: 30
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 1
Total Points: 130
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 1
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyWinter 2021 SRC
25.6 - Kaora's Task: Honoring Family
EVAN'S OPTIONS:
2: Evan was born 11/12/12. Lots of repeated digits! Read a book that has the same two letters sequentially in the same order in the title (ignore subtitles). For example, The Sins of Our Father works because TH is repeated in THe and FaTHer
The Three Musketeers, claiming 1 GO ticket, initially published in 1844, claiming 2 BB tickets as I listened to audible version and MMPB version is 896 pages
RILEY'S OPTIONS:
2: My daughter started Kindergarten this year. For this option read a book that has a minimum of three letter word that can be made from KINDERGARTEN CLASS in the title or subtitle. (Kind, Great, Last all work)
My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
AND kiNDergArten
Points this post: 25
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 1
Total Points: 155
BB Tickets: 4
GO Tickets: 2
Joanne MI15.6 - Far, Far Away
Read a book that takes place in a fictional land, or an alternate version of a real country.
Oathbreakers -Fantasy world taking place in Rethwellan and the surrounding mountains
Points this task 15
Total Points 135
BB's 3
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyWinter 2021 SRC
5.3 - "It's A Twister!"
Dorothy ends up in the land of Oz after being swept away in a tornado. Read a book set at least 50% in one or more of the states located in the area known as Tornado Alley (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa or Nebraska).
Oklahoma Christmas Blues set in Oklahoma
Points this post: 5
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
Total Points: 160
BB Tickets: 4
GO Tickets: 2
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyWinter 2021 SRC
10.6 - Shelf Aware
Read a book that was added to your TBR shelf before November 1, 2021.
A Year Of Tarot - 3 Card Tarot Spreads Weekly Planner: Plan Your Weekly Journey with This 52 Week Journal , Purple Tones, added to my want to read shelf on 12/25/2020 (now sitting on my read shelf
Points this post: 10
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
Total Points: 170
BB Tickets: 4
GO Tickets: 2
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyWinter 2021 SRC
5.9 - Home Sweet Home
Read a book with all the letters of HOME in the TITLE. Subtitles are excluded.
Love Among the Chickens, initially published in 1906 claiming 1 GO ticket
lovE aMOng tHe Chickens
Points this post: 5
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 1
Total Points: 175
BB Tickets: 4
GO Tickets: 3
Rockynook25.5 - What's In a Name
Option 1: read a book with 2 letters in same order in title
Beach Read by Emily Henry
bEAch rEAd
Option 3: read a book wuth author`s name containing a K
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Claiming 1 BB ticket (624 pages)
Points This Post: 25
BB Tickets: 5
Total Points: 340
Nick KY15.2 Endings & Beginninngs
Book 1. I read A Clue in the Stew, #5 (final entry so far) in the Soup Lovers Mystery series.
Book 2. I read I Love This Bar, # 1 in the Honky Tonk Cowboys series.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 295
Barbara ★30.4 - Katrisa's Task: Winter in Ms. Kat’s Kindergarten
Option 1a: Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the TITLE that can be made from the letters in MILTON THE DANCING CHRISTMAS MOUSE
It Takes Two to Mango - Carrie Doyle 12/3
(Mango in "Milton the dANcinG christmas mOuse")
Option 1b: Read a book where all the author’s initials can be found in GINGERBREAD.
Asteroid Made of Dragons - G. Derek Adams 12/28
(G-D-A in GingerbreAD)
Points this task: 30
Total points: 270
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Barbara ★15.7 - Baby It's Cold Outside!
Read a book with the word "cold" or one of the following synonyms for "cold" in its title.
Cold Blood - Theresa Monsour 12/27
Points this task: 15
Total points: 285
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Jen K10.3 - 'S Wonderful
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
Word: Lady
Song: "Oh, Lady Be Good"
*****
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 200
25.3 - Cat's Task: Operation Clean SlateOption One: Read two books on your TBR that across their combined titles, contain the letters CLEAN SLATE (must find all the letters, i.e. 2 of L, E, A).
The Silent Country by Di Morrissey
CLEaN SlaTE found in thE SiLENT Country
added to GR TBR on Nov 30, 2010
498 pages
Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy #1) by Sally Green
cleAn sLAte found in hALf bAd
added to GR TBR on Jun 17, 2014
380 pages
Total pages read: 878
Both books are new-to-me
Total this Post: 25
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 335
Jen K10.7 - Not This Year
Five Tuesdays in Winter
240 Pages
******
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 220
30.5 - Judy's Task: Some SRC New “Favorite Things”Option 1- Read a book with a main page genre Classics
Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
Option 4- Read a book by a single author whose initials (first and last- you may ignore middle initials) can be found in AUDIOBOOKS.
Clean Sweep (Innkeeper Chronicles #1) by Ilona Andrews
author's initials, IA, found in AudIobooks
Total this Post: 30
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 365
Lisa MD10.1 - Gifts
A. Read a book you have received as a gift*.
👠Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight by Janet Evanovich
320 pages
This was a Christmas gift from my son. Every Christmas one of my boys buys me the newest Stephanie Plum novel.
🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 70/970
Total Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 7/56
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
FLY Task # 10.6 - Shelf Aware
task: Read a book that was added to your TBR shelf before November 1, 2021.
book: Saga, Vol. 7
how it fits: added to my library queue in August
Points this post: 10
Total points: 105
Tasks completed: 9/56
Big Book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
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Task 5.4 - We're Not in Kansas Anymore
Read a book with the MPG Fantasy and/or Science Fiction.
Book: Ready Player Two
How it fits: This book has both the MPGs Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Points this task: 5
Total points: 110
Tasks completed: 8
BB tickets:
(0) 500+
(1) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.7 Dlmrose's Task: Festival of Sleep
Book 1: Petrified Flowers by Joiya Morrison
300 pages
Book 2: Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
272 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 370/970
Tasks completed: 24/56
Books read: 29
Helen B20.9 - Lisa MD’s Task: “Rock the Red”
Option B - read a book that contains “the great”, intact, in its title or subtitle.
The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
Total points: 85
Amy B10.3 - 'S Wonderful
Read a book with one of the words from one of Ira Gershwin's notable song titles in the title or subtitle. The word must match exactly. These words may not be used: the, a, on, is, to.
Required: State the word.
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (How in How Long Has This Been Going On?)
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 175 Points
30.8 - Nick KY’s task: Four Years, Four Films: 2000 – 2003The task requires the page count for the two books to total at least 400 pp.
Option 1: Read a book whose author has a last name beginning with a G.
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham Audiobook
Nightmare Alley MMPB 275 Pages
Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket - First Published 1946
Option 4: Read a book that has a title of exactly TWO WORDS (articles count).
Post Office Audiobook
Post Office MMPB 248 Pages
275 + 248 = 523 Pages
Points Earned This Post: 30
Total Points Earned: 145
Golden Oldie Tickets: 3
Big Book Tickets Total: 1
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Kristina Marie15.5 - There's No Place Like Home
Read a book set in the country in which you were born. For those born in the US, the book should be set in the same state in which you were born.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Audiobook. The MMPB has 324 pages.
This book is set mostly in Maryland, USA, the same country and state in which I was born.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 80
JEN B25.6 - Kaora's Task: Honoring Family
EVAN'S OPTION 2: Read a book that has the same two letters sequentially in the same order in the title.
Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch
VE is repeated in loVE and oliVEs
*I'd like to claim one Big Books ticket for this book (506 pages)*
RILEY'S OPTION 1: For this option read a book with a flower on the cover.
by Tracy Garvis GravesLots of flowers in her hair on this cover
TOTAL POINTS: 165
Big Books: 1
JEN B20.5 - Bigger is Better - Sophie's Task: Fever
Option 2 Read a book where the page numbers are made up from 1, 3, 4, 6 or 9. Each number can only be used once, and no other numbers can be used.
The Husbands by Chandler Baker
This book has 346 pages
TOTAL POINTS: 185
Nick KY5.7 - The Emerald City
I read Dark Matters by Bruce Boston. “Dark” is a word in the green hue “Dark Green” as listed in the given chart. This book is 97 pp and fulfills my one book of 80-100 pp allowed in a 5 point task.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 300
Nick KY10.8 I read Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, on p. 9 of list.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 310
INSIYAH20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Molly's Task: CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA
Option 1: Author born between 1946 – 1964 OR a book first published between 1946 – 1964
Book: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
How it fits: Book was first published in June 1947
The Diary of a Young Girl was published in 1947. Claiming one Golden Oldies Ticket.
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 155
Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 7
Golden Oldies Tickets: 3
Big Book Tickets: 3
Maria Jo20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Tamara's Task: New Years Resolutions Option 1
The Story Of The Roman People: An Elementary History Of Rome by Eva March Tappan
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Readerboard Name: Priya15.10 - Curl Up and Read
Page 7 - #614 on list
The Midnight Line by Lee Child
Points this post: 15
Total points: 65
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 4
EMurphy20.1 Most Improved-Suzannesea's Task: Challenges and Pleasures
Option 2: New-to-you author Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes by Loren D. Estleman
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 110
Books Read: 8
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 5
ElaineLReposting with new information
Originally posted in msg #774
10.3 - 'S Wonderful
Read a book with one of the words from one of Ira Gershwin's notable song titles in the title.
You Never Know** by Mary Calmes
You from "Embraceable You"
**This book has Children's as an MPG but has been determined to be NOT for children in the "Not Really for Kids Books" thread in msg #311
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 505
HanneloreTask 5.4 - We're Not in Kansas Anymore
Read a book with the MPG Fantasy and/or Science Fiction.
Book: After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse
How it fits: Has the MPG fantasy.
Points this task: 5
Total points: 115
Tasks completed: 9
BB tickets:
(0) 500+
(1) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
ElaineL15.9 - Where DO Those Letters Go?
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the closest land areas to the North Pole - Alaska.
Loss Recovery by Jemma Westbrook
From book description: "Bess Hines is hiding. Tucked away in the mountains of Alaska, hoping for a miracle."
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 520
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10.4 - MMXXII
Author DD: The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live by Danielle Dreilinger
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