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WINTER CHALLENGE 2021
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Nikki B15.10 Curl Up and Read
Found on Page 1
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
Claiming one BB ticket
Task Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 590
Total BB: 3
INSIYAH50.1 - TraceyL's Task: Advent Calendar
Numbers rolled: 13, 23, 16
No. 13 - MPG Classics
Book 1: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (ebook)
Note: Top MMPB has 685 pages.
No. 23 - MPG Young Adult
Book: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (ebook)
Note: Top MMPB has 509 pages.
No. 16 - MPG Thriller
Book: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca (ebook)
Note: Top Paperback (no MMPB) has 120 pages.
Total Page Count: 685+509+120 = 1314 pages.
Claiming two Big Book Tickets for The Hate U Give (509 pages) and The Secret History (685 pages).
Points This Post: 50
Total Points: 290
Books Read: 19
Tasks Completed: 13
Big Book Tickets: 7
Golden Oldies Tickets: 4
Kristina Marie10.10 - The Story Continues
Read any book from a series with at least 14 primary works.
Pushing up Daisies by M.C. Beaton
Audiobook. There is no MMPB. The paperback has 232 pages.
Pushing up Daisies is the 27th book in the Agatha Raisin series.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 190
Readerboard Name: Priya30.2 - TessaVaness's Task: What does home mean to you?
Option 1: In honor of my grandma read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in GRANDMA WOLFE
GrAndmA wolfe
The Princess Knight by G.A. Aiken
Option 2: Read a book with all the letters of DREAM in the title. Ignore subtitles
the wARDEd Man
The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
Points this post: 30
Total points: 220
Tasks completed: 12
Books read: 14
Kristina Marie15.9 - Where DO Those Letters Go?
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the closest land areas to the North Pole - Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland or Russia.
The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue
Audiobook. There is no MMPB. The paperback has 320 pages.
AR book information: IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9.0
The Lotterys Plus One takes place (more than 50%) in Canada. The Goodreads' book description says, "The Lotterys [. . .] won a lottery jackpot and moved into a Victorian Gothic mansion in Toronto [. . .].
Points this post: 15
Total points: 205
Kathy KS20.10 - Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Winter 2021-2022 season.
Fiction: Pun Title
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters, by Mark Dunn
My discussion (Message 13)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 270
Tasks completed: 14/56
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 4
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
TessaVanessa Challenge 5.5 The Land of Oz
Surprise: Outback Proposal by Jennie Adams
Jennie Adams was born in Australia.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 730/970
Tasks completed: 45/56
Books read: 58
TessaVanessa Challenge 50.1 TraceyL's Task: Advent Calendar
I rolled 5, 11, 14
Book 1: #5 Horror
The Noise: A Thriller by James Patterson
576 pages
Book 2: #11 travel
Float Plan by Trish Doller
272 pages
Book 3: #14 Contemporary
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
228 pages
Points this post: 50
Total points: 780/970
Tasks completed: 46/56
Books read: 61
Suzannesea5.10 - Heart's Desire
Read a book of your choice.
Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci
Points this task: 5
Total points to date: 275
25.4 - Andy P.’s Task: Dog ShowsBook 1, a book by an author whose initials are found in COMPANIONDOG: Christmas in July by Debbie Mason
paperback edition Christmas in July 416 pages
Book 2, a book with a title in which the letters for the word GREEN can be found: The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
paperback edition The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba 320 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 360
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Tamara's Task: New Years ResolutionsOption 3, a book with a title that starts with A: After the War is Over by Jennifer Robson
Points this post: 20
Total points: 380
25.1 - XBM's Task: Read a NewberyOption 1: Read a book that has won a Newbery Award, according to this curated list. Newberry Medal Winner Books
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Option 2: Read a book whose author’s share these initial: KDEKLJKLLKPEGS.
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Points this task: 25
Total points: 220
Sara G20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Molly's Task: CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA
Option 2: “Aussie Jingle Bells”
For this option, read a book originally published in a language other than your first language, that has been translated into the language in which you read it. REQUIRED: Please state the original language of publication and your first language in your post.
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
This book was originally published in Japanese: 容疑者Xの献身 Yōgisha Ekkusu no kenshin
My first language is English.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 30
Lisa MD5.1 - Dorothy, Dot, & Dotty
Read a book written by an author whose first name begins with the letter D.
👠Inside Out: A Memoir by Demi Moore
Listened to audio. Linked to PB. No MMPB.
304 pages
🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 240/970
Total Books Read: 19
Tasks Completed: 16/56
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)20.1 - Most Improved Player - Suzannesea's Task: Challenges and Pleasures
One book task
Option 2: new-to-you author
Author New to Me
Page Count:352
The Cottage by Lisa Stone
Points Earned This Post: 20
Points Achieved to Date: 110/970
GO Tickets:1
Big Book Tickets:1
500+ (1)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)
MEGSCL10.2 - Something Fishy
TOTAL TO DATE
255 points
7 big book
Heather KSTask 30.2 - TessaVaness's Task: What does home mean to you?
Opt 1: In honor of my grandma read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in GRANDMA WOLFE.
I read Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (LM)
Opt 2: Read a book with all the letters of DREAM in the title. Ignore subtitles
I read I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat
Points this post: 30
Total points: 170
Heather KSTask 10.6 - Shelf Aware
Read a book that was added to your TBR shelf before November 1, 2021.
Required: Identify your TBR list and state the date the book was added to your list.
I read The Consequences which I put on my Goodreads TBR shelf on Feb 12, 2014
Points this post: 10
Total points: 180
Helen B10.9 - Winter is ComING
Read a book with a word in the TITLE that ends in ING.
Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik
Total points: 220
BB: 1
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska20.1 - Most Improved Player - Suzannesea's Task: Challenges and Pleasures.
Option 2. Read a book by a new-to-you author.*
You are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero (258 p.)
* I have never read a book by this author before.
➸ Total Points: 80
➸ Total Pages: 2,072
Megs20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk's Task: Representing Cats!
Option 1: Read a book with a MPG of Fantasy and/or Science Fiction and/or Science Fiction Fantasy.
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
Note: Book has Childrens listed as a genre. IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11.0
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Coralie20.7 Three 2’s
A. Is #2 in series
C. Author has name part with 2 letters – Vo
D. Has a 2 in page count – 128
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
Total to date 335 points
MARGO30.5 - Judy's Task: Some SRC New “Favorite Things”
Option 1 - Read a book with a main page genre Classics
A Christmas Carol
- first published December 17th 1843
- CLAIMING one Golden Oldie Ticket
Option 4 - Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in AUDIOBOOKS.
Winter by Ali Smith
Posted paperback but read Kindle edition.
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Points this task: 30
Total points: 300
Tasks completed: 15
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 1
Task 10.6 - Shelf Awareadded to (offline) TBR shelf Aug 2019
The Lost Man
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510 points
10 BB tix
2 GO tix
Julia10350.1 - TraceyL's Task: Advent Calendar
I rolled 9, 19, 2
Book 1: Skeptic in Salem: An Episode of Murder (MPG Mystery)
Book 2: Beyond (MPG Fantasy)
Book 3: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (MPG Romance)
page counts: 220 + 384 + 432 = 1036 (using top paperback for books 1 & 3 which I read on Kindle)
This post: 50 points
Total points: 510
BB:2
GO:1
Tasks complete: 25
Books read: 35
Kai5.2 ...and Your Little Dog, Too!
Read a book written by a single author with a name that matches a name related to Terry.
The Magic Christian by Terry Southern
New Points: 5
Total Points: 255
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read for Challenge: 21
babbling c30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: From Alpha to Zulu
For this task we are going to use the phonetic alphabet to select your books:
Book one: Read a book with a word from the phonetic alphabet in its TITLE (no subtitles)
Alien Tango - kindle Alien Tango - mass market paperback pg. 440 by Gini Koch
TANGO
Book Two: the phonetic alphabet uses words that may also be used as names.
Read a book whose SINGLE author has one of these names (in any position)
The Glass Magician - Audible 硝子の魔術師 - mass market paperback pgs. 319 by Charlie N. Holmberg
CHARLIE
THIS POST
Points: 30
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies:
Total This Season
Points: 100/970
Completed Tasks:6/56
Golden oldies:
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Pages read this season: 3,289
Books read this season: 8
LAUREN JODI20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk's Task: Representing Cats!
Option 1: The Girls - MPG Fantasy
Defy the Dawn by Lara Adrian
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 305/970
Total Books Read: 24
Total Tasks Completed: 20/56
Task 20.2 - New Years Resolutionsoption 2: read a book by an author I have read 3 other books by
Imitation in Death by J.D. Robb
previously read:
Naked in Death, Purity in Death, Glory in Death
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530 points
10 BB tix
2 GO tix
babbling c5.4 - We're Not in Kansas Anymore
Read a book with the MPG Fantasy and/or Science Fiction.
Rogue - Audible Rogue - paperback pg 432 by Julie Kagawa
Fantasy 607 users
THIS POST
Points: 5
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies:
Total This Season
Points: 105/970
Completed Tasks:7/56
Golden oldies:
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Pages read this season: 3,421
Books read this season: 9
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ALL books are new-to-me. I am using my series-next list on GR
Option One:
Hard Justice by Pamela Clare/278 pgs - added to my TBR on 10/25/2021; CSATE in title
Fallen by Linda Castillo/320 pgs - added to my TBR on 9/27/2020 at least 12 months ago; ALLEN in title
Total pages read: 598
Points this post: 25
Points total: 535
FLY Task # 15.6 - Far, Far Away
task: Read a book that takes place in a fictional land
book: Saga, Vol. 8
how it fits: takes place mostly on the fictional planet of Pervious
Points this post: 15
Total points: 190
Tasks completed: 15/56
Big Book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
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FLY Task #15.2 - Endings and Beginnings.
task: Book 1 – read the final or most recently published book that is a primary work in a series
book: Saga, Vol. 9
how it fits: most recently published volume
task: Book 2 – read the first book in a new to you series.
book: Among the Living
how it fits: first book in the series - this is a new to me series
Points this post: 15
Total points: 205
Tasks completed: 16/56
Big Book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
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INSIYAH20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Brooklyn's Task: In Honor of My Favorite Dorothy
Option 4: Author initials in MEALS ON WHEELS
Book: A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw (ebook)
How it fits: SE in WHEELS
Note: Top Paperback (no MMPB) has 384 pages.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 310
Books Read: 20
Tasks Completed: 14
Big Book Tickets: 7
Golden Oldies Tickets: 4
Mai10.10 - The Story Continues
Book from a series with at least 14 primary works
A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
Discworld #32
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 180
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 16
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 2
5.3 - "It's A Twister!"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).
On Juneteenth
As mentioned in the synopsis, this book is about the history of slavery in Texas, and the holiday Juneteenth which started in Texas.
Points Earned This Post: 5
Total Points Earned: 255
Golden Oldie Tickets: 3
Big Book Tickets Total: 1
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Oma122920.10 - Group Reads
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century-Jessica Bruder
Discussion Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 285/970
Tasks: 13/56
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: ()500+,()750+,()1000
babbling c10.5 - Naughty or Nice?
Read a book by an author whose first and last name initials are found in KRAMPUSLAUF.
Enchanted - kindle Enchanted - paperback pgs. 305 by Alethea Kontis
KRAMPUSLAUF
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
Golden oldies:
Total This Season
Points: 115/970
Completed Tasks:8/56
Golden oldies:
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Pages read this season: 3,796
Books read this season: 10
Oma122920.6 - Seasoned Reader - Molly's Task: CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA
I chose Option #3
Option #3-Deck the Sheds
Read a book by an author whose initials (all initials) can be found in DECK THE SHEDS.
The Wild Hunt-Elizabeth Chadwick
Points: 305/970
Tasks: 14/56
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: ()500+,()750+,()1000
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20.10 - Group Reads
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
Angela IL25.6 - 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.
Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane-12/13/21
ST in JuST and LaST
Riley's Option
3: Read a book that follows another book. #2 in a series
Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams-1/20/22
Points this Task: 25
Total Points: 275
Books Read: 18
Tasks Completed: 12/56
BB Ticket: 1
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Brooklyn's Task: In Honor of My Favorite DorothyOption 4: For this option read a book by an author whose initials can be found in MEALS ON WHEELS. All initials count.
WheelS / 528 Pages
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Post Total: 20
Season total: 210
30.2 - TessaVaness's Task: What does home mean to you?Option 1: In honor of my grandma read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in GRANDMA WOLFE.
GRandma
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon
Option 2:
Read a book with all the letters of DREAM in the title.
cARry ME Down
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
Post Total: 30
Season total: 240
Andy P.Task # 30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: From Alpha to Zulu
Book one: Read a book with a word from the phonetic alphabet in its TITLE
Whiskey River by Ralph Compton
Whiskey is a word listed in the phonetic Alphabet
Book 2. Read a book whose SINGLE author has one of these names (in any position)
Already Dead by Charlie Huston
Charlie is on the given list.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 385
Andy P.Task # 30.9 - Sandy's Task: Wowbrary!
Book 1: Read a book with a single author, with ALL of the author's initials found in WOWBRARY
The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us by Bee Wilson 320 pages. Nonfiction
WOWBRARY
Book 2: Read a book with a title of at least 3 words, where the initial letter of each title word can be found in I LOVE MY LIBRARY
Love is Blind byWilliam Boyd
I LOVE My LIB RARY
page count: 320 + 384 = 704> 600 p. minimum
Points this post: 30
Total points: 415
Sara G20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Tamara's Task: New Years Resolutions
Option 2:
Read a book by an author that you have previously read at least three other books by.
Duke of Pleasure by Elizabeth Hoyt
I have also read Thief of Shadows, Duke of Sin, Darling Beast, and many others by this author.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 50
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5.5 - The Land of Oz
Book set in Australia or written by author born in Australia
Book: The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
How it Fits: Liane Moriarty is born in Sydney, Australia
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 240
Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 12
Big Book Tickets: 5
Golden Oldies Tickets: 4