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WINTER CHALLENGE 2021
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Amy W20.1 - Most Improved Player - Suzannesea's Task: Challenges and Pleasures
I chose Option 2: Read a book by a new-to-you author.
I read ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer. John Paul Brammer is a new author for me.
Points This Task: 20
Total Points to Date: 20
Amy W20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Tamara's Task: New Years Resolutions
I chose Option 2: Read a book by an author that you have previously read at least three other books by.
I read A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny. I have also read the previous books in this series by Louise Penny. The three most recent are: Bury Your Dead, The Brutal Telling, and A Rule Against Murder.
Points This Task: 20
Total Points to Date: 40
Amy W20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Molly's Task: CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA
I chose Option 1: Read a book by an author born between 1946 – 1964.
I read The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny. Louise Penny was born in 1958, as documented in the provided site: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/years/.
Points This Task: 20
Total Points to Date: 60
Kai10.9 Winter is ComING
Read a book with a word in the TITLE that ends in ING.
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
New Points: 10
Total Points: 205
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read for Challenge: 17
15.9 - Where DO Those Letters Go?Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz
100% Russia
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 605
Kathy KS15.10 - Curl Up and Read
Read a book from the first 25 pages of the list Best Books to Read When the Snow is Falling. REQUIRED: Specify in your post the page of the list on which your book is found.
1st to Die, by James Patterson
This is on page 9 of the list (currently #833)
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Points for this task: 15
Total points : 230
Tasks completed: 12/56
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 4
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
10.7 Not This YearThe Gilly Salt Sisters by Tiffany Baker
370 pages ends in 0
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
20.1 Challenges and PleasuresOption 2
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
I have not read this author before.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 30
20.2 New Years ResolutionsOption 2
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
I have also read: BIG LITTLE LIES, THE HUSBAND'S SECRET, and WHAT ALICE FORGOT by this author
Points this post: 20
Total points: 50
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3
25.6 - Kaora's Task: Honoring FamilyI'm using the two book option
EVAN'S OPTION #3
Read a book where all the initials if the author are in HELLO NEIGHBOR
The Dark Bride: A Novel by Laura Restrepo heLlo neighboR
RILEY's OPTION #2
Read a book where a word in the title or subtitle that is at least three letters long can be made using the letters in KINDERGARTEN CLASS
The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah, my word is last, kindergArTen cLaSs
Points this post: 25
Total points: 560
Tasks completed: 33
Books read: 43
Big Book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 4
Kim O20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Brooklyn's Task: In Honor of My Favorite Dorothy
Option 2: Read a book with a MPG of Sports.
One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season (288 pages)
Points this task: 20
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Totals:
Points: 160
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
MARGO20.1 - Most Improved Player - Suzannesea's Task: Challenges and Pleasures
Option 2 - Read a book by a new-to-you author.
- I haven't read anything by Ali Smith before but delighted to have found her!
Autumn by Ali Smith
Posted paperback but read Kindle edition.
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Points this task: 20
Total points: 270
Tasks completed: 14
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 1
15.2 - Endings and BeginningsBook 1 - Read a book that is the final or most recently published book thar is a primary work in a series
A Tryst of Fate by Piers Anthony this is Xanth 45 - Xanth 46 is expected to be published in May 2022
Book 2: The Marriage Game by Sara Desai (Marriage Game 1)
This series is new to me. There are 3 primary works in this series.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 575
Tasks completed: 34
Books read: 45
Big Book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 4
10.3 - 'S WonderfulHow to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan
Word in title, LOVE, found in song title: LOVE is here to stay
Total this Post: 10
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 615
LAUREN JODI25.3 - Cat's Task: Operation Clean Slate
Option 1
Book #1:
Last Chance by Christy Reece
Letters - c l e a n s a t
Page #: 357
Book #2:
Fallen by Linda Castillo
Letters: l e
Page #: 311
Added to TBR - Oct, 2020)
Page total: 668
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 255/970
Total Books Read: 20
Total Tasks Completed: 17/56
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25.3 - Cat's Task: Operation Clean Slate
Read one book on your TBR that contains the letters CLEAN SLATE in its title and subtitle (must find all the letters , i.e. 2 of L, E, A)
A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter. Clare McHugh
This book is new to me, it was added to my TBR on 8.25.2020. It was 512 very long pages. CLEAN is found in the title, SLATE in the subtitle.
Task: 25
Total: 565
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Angela IL20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk's Task: Representing Cats!
Option 2. Read a book first published between January 2002 and April 2020, inclusive, AND which has a domestic cat on the cover.
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman-1/15/22
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 250
Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 11/56
BB Ticket: 1
10.1 - GiftsOption A: Read a book you have received as a gift.
The School for Good Mothers
Purchased with a gifted Audible subscription from Christmas 2021.
Points Earned This Post: 10
Total Points Earned: 250
Golden Oldie Tickets: 3
Big Book Tickets Total: 1
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
SandyL5.1 - Dorothy, Dot, & Dotty
Read a book by an author whose first name begins with D.
Forsaken Trail by Devney Perry
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 5
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Joanne MITask 10-1 Gifts
Option B Read a book from this list: Best Books to Gift
The Dragon Keeper On page 19, # 1877
Claiming 1 BB with 553 pages
Points this task 10
Total Points 200
BB's this task 1
Total BB's 7
SandyL5.2 - ...and Your Little Dog, Too!
Read a book written by a single author with a name part that matches Terry
Second Chance at the Sugar Shack by Candis Terry
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 10
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
SandyL5.5 - The Land of Oz
Read a book set in Australia
Galaxies and Oceans by N.R. Walker
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 15
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
SandyL5.6 - Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Read a book found on the list: Yellowest Books Ever list.
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
Page 1
**requesting Golden Oldie ticket - published 1941***
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 20
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
SandyL5.9 - Home Sweet Home
Read a book with all the letters of HOME in the TITLE
All She Wants for Christmas by Jaci Burton
all sHE wants fOr christMas
**approved for 5 point task line 274 on e-book spreadsheet***
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Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 25
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
SandyL10.1 - Gifts
Option B. Read a book from this list: Best Books to Gift
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris
Page 20
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 35
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 6
LAUREN JODI25.2 - Tien's Task: New Year New Goals
Option 1 - Dust off some old books.
The Hawk by Monica McCarty
Added August 4, 2012 to my Want to Read shelf
Option 3 - Continuing Series (4th in series)
The Reckless Bride by Stephanie Laurens
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 280/970
Total Books Read: 22
Total Tasks Completed: 18/56
SandyL10.6 - Shelf Aware
Read a book that was added to your TBR shelf before November 1, 2021
Plan B by Jana Aston
Added to my Want To Read list on 6/29/19
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list... (although it's no longer on there since I've read it!)
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 45
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 7
Mod
Read book that is #3 in a series.
A Christmas Courtship by Shelley Shepard Gray / 3rd in series
Points this post: 5
Points total: 480
Mod
Read a book with a number of pages that ends in Zero.
The Crushing Depths by Dani Pettrey / 320 pgs
Points this post: 10
Points total: 490
Amy B5.8 - Just Click Your Heels...
Read book that is #3 in a series. The series name and number must be indicated in the GR title listing in grayscale parentheses following the title.
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings #3)
This Task: 5 Points
To Date: 245 Points
Shawn H.20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lisa MD’s Task: “Rock the Red”
Option A: #ALLCAPS - title in ALL CAPITAL letters and is the color red
by Barry LevinePoints this Post: 20
Total Points: 90
Golden Oldie: 1
Big Ticket Books: 0
Katrisa15.2 - Endings and Beginnings.
Book 1 – read the final or most recently published book that is a primary work in a series
I read Leviathan Falls the last book in the Expanse series
Book 2 – read the first book in a new to you series.
I read The Looking Glass Wars which is a new to me series
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 825
Nikki B5.3 "It's A Twister!"
Things We Lost to the Water
Eric Nguyen
Takes place in Louisiana (New Orleans)
Task Points: 5
Total Challenge Points:230
Total BB: 1
5.8 Just Click Your Heels...National Park Mysteries & Disappearances: The Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington and Idaho)
Steve Stockton
Task Points: 5
Total Challenge Points: 235
Total BB: 1
Nikki B5.9 Home Sweet Home
A Werewolf in Manhattan
Vicki Lewis Thompson
Task Points: 5
Total Challenge Points: 240
Total BB Tickets: 1
Nikki B10.2 Something Fishy
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Alastair Bonnett
there are fish on the cover
Task Points: 10
Total Challenge Points: 250
Total BB Tickets: 1
Nikki B10.9 Winter is ComING
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris
Task Points: 10
Total Challenge Points:260
Total BB Tickets: 1
HanneloreTask 20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lisa MD’s Task: “Rock the Red”
Choose one of the following options and read one book to fit.
Option C: Read a book whose title does not contain the individual letters “CAPS.” Subtitles may be ignored and there is no minimum title word requirement.
Book: Hollow Kingdom
How it fits: The title doesn't have "CAPS" in it.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 215
Tasks completed: 14
BB tickets:
(1) 500+
(1) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
Nikki B20.9 Moderator's Pet - Lisa MD's Task: "Rock the Red"
Option A
Deadly Cross
James Patterson
Task Points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 280
Total BB Tickets: 1
Nikki B20.2 Rookie at the Top: Tamara's Task: Representing Goals!
Option 3
Alaska's Mysterious Triangle
Mike Ricksecker
Task Points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 300
Nikki B20.3 Best Review - Trishhartuk's Task: Representing Cats!
Option 1
The Russian Cage
Charlaine Harris
Task Points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 320
Total BB Tickets: 1
10.10 The Story ContinuesPath of the Assassin by Brad Thor
# 2 in a 22 book series.
Post Total: 10
Grand Total: 165
20.2 New Years ResolutionsOption 1: Author initials in RESOLUTION
The Dangers of an Ordinary Night by Lynne Reeves
Post Total: 20
Grand Total: 185
Nikki B25.3 Cat's Task: Operation Clean Slate
Option 1
Both books are new to me and had not been read before the start of the challenge. I am using an excel spreadsheet list I keep on my computer. The first one was added April 30th, 2020, the second one added June 17, 2021. Total pages between the two is 541.
Book 1: Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker
Book 2: Abandoned: The History and Horror of Port Chatham, Alaska
Larry Baxter
Task Points: 25
Total Challenge Points: 345
20.6 Australian ChristmasOpt 1 Six White Boomers - author born between 1946 – 1964
The Age of Desire by Jennie Fields
https://www.google.com/search?q=jenni...
Post: 20
Total/challenge: 20
30.2 What Does Home Mean to YouOpt 1 - author init in gRaNdmawolfe
Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts
Opt 2 - letters of DREAM in title
Cinnamon and Gunpowder
SandyL10.7 - Not This Year
Read a book with a number of pages that ends in Zero
Dream Spinner by Kristen Ashley
480 pages
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 55
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 8
30.3 Alpha to ZuluOpt 1 word from the phonetic alphabet in its TITLE
Whiskey Sour- whiskey
Opt 2 book whose SINGLE author has one of these names (in any position)- Juliet
Dreamer's Pool by Juliet Marillier
Points: 30
Total: 80
SandyL10.9 - Winter is ComING
Read a book with a word in the TITLE that ends in ING
Love on a Spring Morning by Zoe York
love on a sprING mornING
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Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 65
Big Books Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 9
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25.5 - Amy FL’s task: What’s in a Name?
Option 1: Read a book that has the same two letters sequentially in the same order in the title (ignore subtitles). OO
Murder in the Cookbook Nook. Ellery Adams
Option 3: Read a book by an author who has the letter “K” anywhere in their name.
The Fixer Upper. Mary Kay Andrews
Task: 25
Total: 540
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