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WINTER CHALLENGE 2021
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25.2 - Tien's Task: New Year New Goals
option 1, on TBR 5+, added to GR TBR Oct 27, 2010: Artifacts by Mary Anna Evans
option 3, series 3+, (Cass Raines, #4): Runner by Tracy Clark
total= 760
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25.4 - Andy P.’s Task: Dog Shows
book 1, initials MG in COMPANIONDOG: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell, 305 pages
book 2, GREEN in title: Right Behind Her by Melinda Leigh
PB: Right Behind Her, 307 pages
305 + 307 = 612 pages
total = 785
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30.4 - Katrisa's Task: Winter in Ms. Kat’s Kindergarten
1a, ISLAND in MILTON THE DANCING CHRISTMAS MOUSE: The Orcas Island Job by Vince Milam
PB: The Orcas Island Job:
2a,Social Justice genre: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
total = 815
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Read a book with a word in the TITLE that ends in ING
Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
SurvivING
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 40 + 10 = 50/970
Total Tasks Completed: 4
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Choose one of the following options. Your book must have at least 275 pages.
Option 4: Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in MEALS ON WHEELS
Blimey, I'm Knackered!: An American's Survival Guide to British English
Author is Marshall Hall & the initials are in Meals on wHeels
The book has 330 pages
I believe that I have to also state that I read this as an advance reader copy (but it is now published)
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 50 + 20 = 70/970
Total Tasks Completed: 5
Kim O15.5 - There's no place like home Read a book set in the country in which you were born.
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid I was born in Iowa (US).
Points this task: 15
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Totals:
Points: 175
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
ROBIN P15.2 - Endings & Beginnings - 2 books
1. Final/Most recent book in a series - A Line To Kill 3rd of 3 books so far in series
2. First book in new-to-you series - And Only to Deceive - 1st in Lady Emily Ashton series
**This series and this author are new to me***
Points this post: 15
Total points: 405
BB: 0 GO: 1
Lisa MD20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Tamara's Task: New Years Resolutions
Option 1: Read a book where the author's first and last initials can be found in the word RESOLUTIONS.
👠Brazen Virtue by Nora Roberts
Author Initials: NR found in RESOLUTIONS
288 pages
🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 225/970
Total Books Read: 17
Tasks Completed: 14/56
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Readerboard Name: Priya10.7 - Not This Year
Read a book with a number of pages that ends in Zero.
160 pages
I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion by Brendan Leonard
Points this post: 10
Total points: 180
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 11
Readerboard Name: Priya10.6 - Shelf Aware
Read a book that was added to your TBR shelf before November 1, 2021.
Added to off-GR list 3.10.2016
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
Has genre Childrens listed -> IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12.0
Points this post: 10
Total points: 190
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 12
Amber15.6 - Far, Far Away
Book that takes place in a fictional land - from the author's review (1st on the page) "It's a story set in a totally different sci-fi world"
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Total Points: 220
Nikki B20.10 Group Reads
Mistress of the Art of Death
Ariana Franklin
Task Points: 20
Total Challenge Points: 460
Total BB Tickets: 2
Nikki B10.8 #ownvoicestories
Found on page 1 of the list
The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang
Task Points: 10
Total Challenge Points: 470
Total BB: 2
15.1 Welcome to OzBook 1
Werewolf on the Western Front
Shane Carrow
Book 2 Colors: green, red, blue, purple/pink
Strange History
Task Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 485
Total BB Tickets 2
Maria Jo20.4 - Golden Oldies - Teri-K's Task: Ready, Set, GO!
Option 2: Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon
Paperback edition: Mystery in White
author is new to me
book first published 1937
Points this post: 20
Total points: 170
10.1 - GiftsB. Read a book from this list: Best Books to Gift
I listened to an audio version of Daisy Jones & The Six
This is on the third page of the list. (slot 253)
New Points: 10
Total Points: 220
BB: 2
Amber25.3 - Cat's Task: Operation Clean Slate
Option 2: One book on your TBR that contains the letters CLEAN SLATE in its title and subtitle - this book is new-to-me, it was added to my Goodreads TBR shelf on April 21st, 2021, it is more than 500 pages
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore
Total Points: 245
Task 20.3 – Best Review - Trishhartuk's Task: Representing Cats!Book chosen: Option 3 - Florence Adler Swims Forever
Fits task: initial letters of title (4 words long) - F, A, S, F can be found in "STAFF"
Format read: audio
# of pages: 309 (printed edition)
Points this post: 20 points
Total points to date: 570 points
Task 30.2 – TessaVaness's Task: What does home mean to you?Book 1 chosen: Option 1 - Der Donnerstagsmordclub
Fits task: author initials (Richard Osman = R, O) found in GRANDMA WOLFE
Format read: ebook
# of pages: 464 (printed edition)
Book 2 chosen: Option 4 - The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Fits task: page number is 336 and does not contain 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, or 9
Format read: audio
# of pages: 336 (printed edition)
Points this post: 30 points
Total points to date: 600 points
Line10.7
read a book with a number of pages that ends in zero.
i read One of Us Is Lying which has 360 pages
tasks done: 4
books read: 4
points for this task: 10
total points: 55
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5.1 - Dorothy, Dot, & Dotty
Read a book written by an author whose first name begins with the letter D.
16 Lighthouse Road. Debbie Macomber
Task: 5
Total: 630
38/56
Sue T15.2 - Endings and Beginnings
Book 1 – read the final or most recently published book that is a primary work in a series
The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
Book 2 – read the first book in a new to you series
Death in the English Countryside by Sara Rosett - I have not read any other books in this series.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 90/970
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 7
Lisa MD10.3 - 'S Wonderful
Read a book with one of the words from one of Ira Gershwin's notable song titles in the title or subtitle.
👠Be a Work in Progress: And Other Things I'd Like to Tell My Younger Self by John Cena
Title Word: Work
Song Title: "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
192 pages
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 235/970
Total Books Read: 18
Tasks Completed: 15/56
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Jen K20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lisa MD’s Task: “Rock the Red”
Option 1 #ALLCAPS: Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 440
Jen K10.6 - Shelf Aware
Miss Benson's Beetle
This has been on my Amazon Wishlist since 10/28/2020
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 450
STORMIE10.8 - #ownvoicestories
Read a book that has been shelved as Own Voice from the first 25 pages: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Required: State the page: Page 1 #5
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 55
Total Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 5
Coralie20.1 Challenges and Pleasures
Option 2 – Book by an author who is new to me (also fits option 3)
Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith
Total to date 315 points
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Tamara's Task: New Years ResolutionsOption 1:
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Total Points = 60
KaiGolden Oldies - Teri-K's Task: Ready, Set, GO!
OPTION 1: Read a book published before 1900.
Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Both authors were new to me. First published in 1798 and 1800.
New Points: 20
Total Points: 250
Tasks Completed: 16
Books Read for Challenge: 20
Bookwrm526Task #25.4 - Dog Shows
Book 1. Read a book by an author whose initials (all of them) may be found in the phrase COMPANIONDOG. I read The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert (359p)
Book 2. Read a book with a title (subtitles excluded) in which the letters for the word GREEN can be found. I read Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire (GR in girls, EE in where, N drowned) (150p).
359+150=509p
Total points so far: 385
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)5.6 - Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Yellowest Book Ever List
Book # 335 on page 4
Pulp by Robin Talley
Points Earned This Post:5
Points Achieved to Date:40/970
GO Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (0)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)50.1 - TraceyL's Task: Advent Calendar
One book for each roll with the main page genre that matches the number you rolled. Total page count 750 pages
Claiming Big Book Ticket for Deathless Divide
Rolled 23: Young Adult
Page Count: 560
Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
Rolled 3: Historical
Page Count: 301
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Rolled 9: Mystery
Page Count: 343
The Silent Wife by Kerry Fisher
Points Earned This Post:50
Points Achieved to Date: 90/970
GO Tickets:1
Big Book Tickets Total:1
500+ (1)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)
5.5 - The Land of OzOsprey Reef by Annie Seaton
set 100% Australia
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 3
Season Total: 680
Kim O10.6 - Shelf Aware Read a book that was added to your TBR shelf before November 1, 2021.
The Sign of Four
Golden Oldie -- first published February 1, 1890
Added to my TBR October 9, 2021
Points this task: 10
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Totals:
Points: 185
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+: 0
Golden Oldies: 2
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Read two books, one from two different options. The page count for the two books to total at least 400 pp.
Option 1: author has a last name beginning with a G.
The Midwife's Secret
Author: Emily Gunnis (Page count 384)
Option 4: Read a book that has a title of exactly TWO WORDS
Lord Snowdon (Page count 274)
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 70 + 30 = 100/970
Total Tasks Completed: 6
HanneloreTask 25.5 - Amy FL’s task: What’s in a Name?
This is a two book task, using two different options. REQUIRED: specify in your post the options you used.
Option 1: Read a book that has the same two letters sequentially in the same order in the title (ignore subtitles). The letters can be in the same word (like Toto) or in two separate words of at least three letters each .
Book: Undead and Unwed
How it fits: This book has 'un' in it two times. UNdead and UNwed.
Option 3: Read a book by an author who has the letter “K” anywhere in their name. If the book is by multiple authors, all must have a K in their name.
Book: The Nightmare
How it fits: The author is Lars Kepler. So the author has the letter "K" in their name.
** THIS BOOK HAS 585 PAGES. CLAIMING A BB TICKET **
Points this task: 25
Total points: 240
Tasks completed: 15
BB tickets:
(2) 500+
(1) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
Laurah3025.6 - Kaora's Task: Honoring Family
opt 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
The Paper Palace 400 p
opt 1: My daughter loves everything girly and loves to wear anything flowery. For this option read a book with a flower on the cover.
What You Wish For 320 p
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 185
Books Read: 11
Tasks Completed: 11
Big Book: 2
Golden Oldies: 1
Laurah3050.1 - TraceyL's Task: Advent Calendar
first roll - 16 Thriller
Lucky 232 pages
second roll - 21 Literary Fiction
Bright Burning Things 336 p
third roll - 19 fantasy
The Midnight Library 304 p
total pages - 872 p
Points This Post: 50
Total Points: 135
Books Read: 14
Tasks Completed: 11
Big Book: 2
Golden Oldies: 1
Joanne MITask 20.8 Nickels & Dimes - Brooklyn's Task: In Honor of My Favorite Dorothy
Option # 4 - read a book by an author whose initials can be found in MEALS ON WHEELS.
The Spanish Daughter by Lorena Hughes L.H found in Wheels. books is 352 pages
Points this task 20
Total Points 220
Total Big Books 6
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Read one of the books selected as a group read ... you must participate in the book's discussion thread
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
I read this book, that I had previously not heard of, & posted in the Discussion Thread
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 100 + 20 = 120/970
Total Tasks Completed: 7
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Read 2 books. You may do different options or the same option twice.
Option 1: Read a book with a main page genre Classics
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Option 2: Read a book with at least a 3 word title where all the initial letters are in DRAGON and/or FANTASY
A Narrow Door
DrAgoN
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 120 + 30 = 150/970
Total Tasks Completed: 8
Nick KY25.3 Cat’s New Year’s Goals
I read the following two books.
CEAN STE in The Soundscape ThE SouNdsCApE 320 pp. -- on tbr since June 2020
LLA in Ball Lightning bALL 400 pp. -- original English edition on tbr since Oct 2018 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Points This Post 25
Total Points So Far: 545
Nick KYREPOST There was a lot to get to in this post. I didn't quite get it all the first time.
25.3 Cat’s New Year’s Goals
I read the following two books. Both are new to me.
Opt. 1. the letters CLEAN SLATE are divided between the two titles.
CEAN STE in The Soundscape ThE SouNdsCApE 320 pp. -- on tbr since June 2020
LLA in Ball Lightning bALL 400 pp. -- original English edition on tbr since Oct 2018 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Both books are on my tbr for more than 12 months
Points This Post 25
Total Points So Far: 545
5.4 - We're Not in Kansas AnymoreDusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire
❄️ MPG Fantasy ❄️
Total points: 245 + 5 = 250
Nikki B30.2 Options 1 & 2
An Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List
Laurie Notaro
Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder
T.A. Willberg
Task Points: 30
Total Challenge Points: 515
Nikki B15.3 The Ruby Slippers
Book 1
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier
Book 2
Cinder
Marissa Meyer
Task Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 530
Total BB: 1
Nikki B15.4 Happy Valentine's Day!
Book 1
The Neighbor's Secret
L. Alison Heller
Book 2
I Was Anastasia
Ariel Lawhon
Task Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 545
Total BB: 2
Nikki B15.6 Far, Far Away
The Night Country
Melissa Albert
Task Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 560
Total BB: 2
Nikki B15.7 Baby It's Cold Outside
The Arctic Fury: A Novel
Greer/G.R. Macallister
Task Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 575
Total BB Tickets: 2
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10.6 - Shelf Aware
From GR TBR added Aug 31, 2021: Slough House by Mick Herron
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