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WINTER CHALLENGE 2021
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Readerboard Name: Priya10.5 - Naughty or Nice?
Read a book by an author whose first and last name initials are found in KRAMPUSLAUF.
kramPuSlauf
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Points this post: 10
Total points: 250
Tasks completed: 15
Books read: 17
30.4 - Katrisa's Task: Winter in Ms. Kat’s Kindergarten1a. Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
❄️ Among: AM in Christmas; O in Mouse; NG in Dancing ❄️
1b. Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts
❄️ author's initials (NR) found in GINGERBREAD ❄️
Total points: 250 + 30 = 280
Kai30.2 TessaVaness's Task: What does home mean to you?
OPTION 1
Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in GRANDMA WOLFE.
The Less Dead by Denise Mina
OPTION 3
Read a book that has a tree name from the list of tree-themed street names in the title.
Cherry by Nico Walker
New Points: 30
Total Points: 285
Tasks Completed: 18
Books Read for Challenge: 23
INSIYAH30.7 - Dlmrose's Task: Festival of Sleep
2 books, 500+ pages
Book 1: All letters of SLEEP in title
Book: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (ebook)
How it fits: SLEEP in PEEL and Society
Note: Top MMPB is 411 pages.
Book 2: 2 Zs in any combination of the title, subtitle, and/or single author’s name
Book: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (ebook)
IL: MG - BL: 7.0 - AR Pts: 7.0
How it fits: ZZ in Oz and Wizard
Note: Top MMPB is 220 pages.
Total Pages: 411+220 = 631 pages
Claiming one Golden Oldies Ticket for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, first published in 1900.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 340
Books Read: 22
Tasks Completed: 15
Big Book Tickets: 7
Golden Oldies Tickets: 5
20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk's Task: Representing Cats!Option 2, a book first published between 1/2002 and 4/2020 and with a cat on the cover: Bless Her Dead Little Heart by Miranda James, published 2014
Points this post: 20
Total points: 400
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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. This book is set in Texas.
Giant. Edna Ferber
Task: 5
Total: 665*
40/56
Edited to correct points (which I forgot to update).
Sara G20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Brooklyn's Task: In Honor of My Favorite Dorothy
Option 2: For this option read a book with a MPG of Sports. It can be standalone or embedded.
Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
MPG Sports > Sports 240 users
Points this post: 20
Total points: 110
VAL TX5.6 - Follow the Yellow Brick Road - Read a book found on the list: Yellowest Books Ever list.
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
Book can be found on page 1.
This post:
Points - 5
Total:
Points - 10
Andy P.Task # 30.4 - Katrisa's Task: Winter in Ms. Kat’s Kindergarten
1 A, 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 The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
DEATH can be made thus DA from DANCING and THE
2.b. Read a book from one of these lists: (must meet SRC requirements):
Essential Reading for a King
Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups by Richard Belzer page # 1 on Essential Reading for a King
Points this post: 30
Total points: 445
ED10.6 - Shelf Aware
How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons by Barbara Kingsolver
Added to my GR TBR shelf 7/21/2020
Task Total= 10
Grand Total=90
Books Read=6
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10.1 - Gifts
option 1, I received as a gift: Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc
total = 830
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30.2 - TessaVaness's Task: What does home mean to you?
option 1, author initials GF in GRANDMA WOLFE: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
option 3, tree CEDAR from "Cedar Place": Through the Banks of the Red Cedar: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game by Maya Washington
PB: Through the Banks of the Red Cedar: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game
total = 860
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30.7 - Dlmrose's Task: Festival of Sleep
Book 1, sleep in title: Eat, Sleep, Ride: How I Braved Bears, Badlands, and Big Breakfasts in My Quest to Cycle the Tour Divide by Paul Howard
PB: Eat, Sleep, Ride, 272 pages
Book 2, ZZ in title: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach, 308 pages
272 + 308 = 580 pages
total = 890
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30.9 - Sandy's Task: Wowbrary!
Both books are nonfiction.
Book 1, author initials AR in WOWBRARY: True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman, 394 pages
Verified not Sequential Art in post 113 of Verification Thread
Book 2, title letters MBL in I LOVE MY LIBRARY: My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes, 336 pages
394 + 336 = 730 pages
total = 920
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50.1 - TraceyL's Task: Advent Calendar
I rolled 9, 6, 7.
Book 1, 9, Mystery: The Runaway by Nick Petrie, 400 pages
Book 2, 6, Sports: Orr: My Story by Bobby Orr, 304 pages
Book 3, 7, Humor: Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson, 287 pages
400 + 304 + 287 = 991
total = 970
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15.10 - Curl Up and Read
Read a book from the first 25 pages of the list (This is found on page 1)
Blackberry Winter. Sarah Jio
Task: 15
Total: 680
41/56
Mai20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Tamara's Task: New Years Resolutions
Option 3: Book with a TITLE that starts with an A. ]
Artful by Ali Smith
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 190
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 16
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 2
Delicious Dee25.3 - Cat's Task: Operation Clean Slate
Option A
Book 1 - BoneMan's Daughters - Added to my amazon-archive shelf in 2010; book is new to me
Book 2 - If Looks Could Kill - Added to my amazon-archive shelf in 2010; book is new to me
CL - found in If Looks Could Kill; EAN found in Boneman's Daughters; SL found in If Looks Could Kill; ATE found in BoneMan's Daughters
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 345
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
This book has Childrens as a main page genre and has an IL designation UG on AR Bookfinder
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 200
Tasks Completed: 15
Books Read: 17
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 2
ROBIN P30.5 - Judy's Task: Some SRC New Favorite Things
2 books
Option 1 - Classics - Louise de La Vallière
**Claiming one BB (733 pages) and 1 GO (pub 1850)
Option 4 - Author initials in AUDIOBOOKS
The Price of Murder by Bruce Alexander
Points this post: 30
Total points: 470
BB: 1 GO: 3
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM15.1 Welcome to Oz
Book 1: (book with a black/white/gray cover) I read
by Patton Oswalt (paperback for length).Book 2: (book with at least three colors on the cover) I read
by Stephanie Foo (I read an advance copy), the cover of the book is dark blue with a bouquet of red and pink flowers, green leaves, and what I think looks like an orange-y colored pear.Previous point total: 0
New points this post: 15
Total points: 15
Total tasks completed: 1
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
30.6 - MegSCL's Task: Part and WholeBook 1, a collection: That Holiday Feeling by Debbie Macomber, Sherryl Woods and Robyn Carr
Book 2, a solo-authored book by one of the contributors to Book 1: A Slice of Heaven by Sherryl Woods
Points this post: 30
Total points: 430
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.4 Golden Oldies - Teri-K's Task: Ready, Set, GO!
Option 1: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
This is a new-to-me author.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 800/970
Tasks completed: 47/56
Books read: 62
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.2 TessaVaness's Task: What does home mean to you?
Option 1: The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
Option 4: If Hooks Could Kill by Betty Hechtman
336 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 830/970
Tasks completed: 48/56
Books read: 64
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.3 MAZZA1's Task: From Alpha to Zulu
Book 1: Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates: And a Thousand Cocktails by Mike Stangle
Book 2: Misadventures of a Curvy Girl by Sierra Simone
Points this post: 30
Total points: 860/970
Tasks completed: 49/56
Books read: 66
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Delicious Dee10.9 - Winter is ComING
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 355
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5.10 - Heart's Desire
Read a book of your choice
The Christmas Promise. Richard Paul Evans
Task: 5
Total: 685
42/56
Mai20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk's Task: Representing Cats!
Option 1. The Girls.
Book with MPG Science Fiction
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 220
Tasks Completed: 16
Books Read: 18
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 2
50.1 - TraceyL's Task: Advent Calendar 3 books
Roll a Die, match numbers to genres. I rolled 18, 9, 16.
18 - Science Fiction
Vendetta in Death by J.D. Robb
9 – Mystery
I read the ebook Pilgrim's Rest by Patricia Wentworth, mmpb here: Dernière Demeure.
16 - Thriller
I listened to the audiobook, the mmpb is here: Forgotten in Death by J.D. Robb
Pages: 356 + 335 + 416 = 1107
Points: 50
Total Points: 540
GO Points: 5
BB Points: 1
JEN B15.9 - Where DO Those Letters Go?
Reading 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.
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
This book is set in both Russia and Alaska
TOTAL POINTS: 280
Kai20.8 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.
All's Well by Mona Awad
Page Count: 352
New Points: 20
Total Points: 305
Tasks Completed: 19
Books Read for Challenge: 24
Mod
Read a book with one of the words from one of Ira Gershwin's notable song titles in the title
Your Work Wellness Toolkit: Mindset tips, journaling and rituals to help you thrive
WORK is in "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 150 + 10 = 160/970
Total Tasks Completed: 9
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Read a book with an image of a creature that lives primarily in water on the cover
The Twyford Code
I think I also need to declare that I read this as an Advance Reader Copy (though it has now been published)
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 160 + 10 = 170/970
Total Tasks Completed: 10
Task 30.6 - MegSCL's Task: Part and WholeBook 1: Read a collection or anthology.
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000) edited by Gardner Dozois (Hardcover, 766 pages)
** The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection is a Big Book, pagecount: 766 pages **
Book 2: Choose one of the authors who contributed to Book 1. Read a book that they have solo authored (e.g. a novel or a collection of stories written by the one author).
Kage Baker
The Graveyard Game (The Company #4) (2001) by Kage Baker (Hardcover, 298 pages)
145 + 30 = 175
Tasks Completed: 08
Points for this post: 30
Points thus far: 145 + 30 = 175
Books read: 11
Pages read: 4,137
Read but not claimed: 02
Goodreads Authors: 05
Golden Oldies: 01
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(1) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Kristina Marie5.4 - We're Not in Kansas Anymore
Read a book with the MPG Fantasy and/or Science Fiction.
The Island by Teri Hall
The Island has both Science Fiction and Fantasy MPGs.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 210
***UNCLAIM*** (this wasn't approved and I wasn't sure if I should unclaim or just leave it?)25.1 - XBM's Task: Read a Newbery
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Brooklyn's Task: In Honor of My Favorite DorothyOption 3: For this option read a book with a page count that includes a ‘9’.
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
(Has 359 pages, as stated on goodreads page)
Points this task: 20
Total points: 215
Kathy KS10.8 - #ownvoicestories
Read a book that has been shelved as Own Voice from the first 25 pages of this shelf list: Own Voice. Required: State the page.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers
currently found on page 9 of list
I listened to the audio; mmpb=592 p. (L'Espace d'un an)
**Claiming 1 (one) Big Book ticket** 592 pages
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Points for this task: 10
Total points : 280
Tasks completed: 15/56
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
Big Book tickets total: 5
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
10.7 - Not This YearRead a book with a number of pages that ends in Zero.
Confess by Colleen Hoover
(Has 320 pages, as stated on goodreads page
Points this task: 10
Total points: 225
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Suzannesea's Task: Challenges and PleasuresOption 2: Read a book by a new-to-you author
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
(This is the first book I have read by this author).
Points this task: 20
Total points: 245
ROBIN P10.4 - Author has 2 part name with same initials
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Point this post: 10
Total points: 470
BB: 2 GO: 3
15.1 - Welcome to OzBook 1: Read a book with any combination of black/white/gray on the cover but no other colors
A Happy Death by Albert Camus
Book 2: Read a book with at least three colors on the cover, not counting black/whlte/gray
Laundry Love: Finding Joy in a Common Chore by Patric Richardson and Karin B. Miller
Yellow background, letters used to spell the title/subtitle are blue, red, green
Points this post: 15
Total points: 660
Tasks completed: 38
Books read: 52
Big Book tickets: 3
Golden Oldies tickets: 5
MEGSCL25.2 - Tien's Task: New Year New Goals
Option 1: The Life of Elves - added to goodreads TBR in April 2016
Option 3: A Second Chance
TOTAL TO DATE
305 points
8 big book
MEGSCL30.2 - TessaVaness's Task: What does home mean to you?
Option 1: read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in GRANDMA WOLFE.
The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters
**512 pages - 1 big book
Option 4: Read a book that doesn't include any of these numbers in the page count: 0,1,2,4,5,9 .
The Jane Austen Project - 373 pages
TOTAL TO DATE
335 points
9 big book
Lisa MD20.10 - Group Reads
Nonfiction: Social Justice
👠Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
288 pages
Group Discussion Message #17
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 275/970
Total Books Read: 21
Tasks Completed: 18/56
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
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15.5 There's No Place Like Home - set in country/state where you were born
Harlem Shuffle
GR setting lists Harlem and New York City, I was born in NYC.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 440
BB: 0 GO: 2