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WINTER CHALLENGE 2021
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Coralie25.5 What’s in a Name?
Option 1 Book with the same two letters sequentially in the same order in the title
Remember has EM twice
Something to Remember You By: A Perilous Romance
Option 2. Book that has two words in the title that only have one letter different
WHAT – THAT
What Abigail Did That Summer : A Rivers Of London Novella
Total to date 470 points
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ30.1 - The Computer Curse
Book 1 -
NYPD Red by James Patterson
Option 1 - This book takes place in and around Manhattan AND the MMP edition has a "4" in the number of pages (384 pages).
Link to MMP edition: Φόνοι στο Μανχάταν
Book 2 -
Board Stiff by Annelise Ryan
The title has "BOARD" intact AND the PB edition has has a "3" in the number of pages (368 pages).
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): Board Stiff
This post: 30 points
Total points to date: 340 points
Tasks completed: 22
Joanne MI30.4 - Katrisa's Task: Winter in Ms. Kat’s Kindergarten
Optin 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
The word is Siege
The Siege: 68 Hours Inside The Taj Hotel
Option 1B Read a book where all the author’s initials can be found in gIngerbreAd
Violeta by Isabel Allende
Points this task 30
Total Points 320
BB's 6
Rockynook 15.9 - Where DO those letters go?
Read a book set at least 50% in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland or Russia
The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker
Set in Alaska
Points this Post: 15
BB Tickets: 8
Total Points: 440
Mod
Read a book found on the Yellowest Books Ever list
Conversations with Friends
This is #128 on page 2 of the list
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 375 + 5 = 380/970
Total Tasks Completed: 22
Mod
Read a book that was added to your TBR shelf before November 1, 2021
The Dublin Railway Murder
This has been on my "to read" list since 18 Oct 2021 (according to my spreadsheet where I track my ARCs)
I read the kindle version as an advance reader copy but the paperback version is now published
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 380 + 10 = 390/970
Total Tasks Completed: 23
Bookwrm526Task #25.2 - New Year New Goals
Option 2: Read a book from one of these lists about my favourite tropes. I chose the Friends to Lovers list and read The Roommate Risk by Talia Hibbert, from page 4 of the list.
Option 3: Read a book in a series that is the third (3rd) or higher in series. I read Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas, book 6 in the Lady Sherlock series.
Total points so far: 480
JEN B50.1 - TraceyL's Task: Advent Calendar
Using the calendar below, read one book for each roll with the main page genre that matches the number you rolled. The genre may be standalone or embedded.
Required: List your rolls when you post.
Roll #1: 23 (Young Adult)
Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
303 Pages
Roll #2: 19 (Fantasy)
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
260 Pages
Roll #3: 14 (Contemporary)
Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny
320 Pages
303+260+320 = 883 Pages
TOTAL POINTS: 355
Mod
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules
The Maid
I read this as an advance reader copy but it is now published
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 390 + 5 = 395/970
Total Tasks Completed: 24
Barbara ★15.6 - Far, Far Away
Read a book that takes place in a fictional land, or an alternate version of a real country
The Keepers of Sulbreth - Susan Gourley 2/6
(takes place in the kingdom of Futhark)
Points this task: 15
Total points: 580
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (1) 1000 (0)
25.3 - Cat's Task: Operation Clean SlateBoth books are new to me.
Option 1, two book on my TBR that across their combined titles contain the letters CLEAN SLATE:
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
Contains the letters CLEA
paperback edition Zwarte golf. Hoe de rivaliteit tussen Saoedi-Arabië en Iran het leven in het Midden-Oosten heeft verwoest 448 pages
Added to Goodreads TBR November 1, 2021
The Life She Wants by Robyn Carr
Contains the letters N SLATE
paperback edition The Life She Wants 352 pages
Added to Goodreads TBR January 7, 2021
This book was added more than 12 months ago.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 600
5.1 Dorothy, Dot, & DottyRead a book written by an author whose first name begins with the letter D.
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
Task Points: 5
Season Total: 25
5.8 Just Click Your Heels…Read book that is #3 in a series.
Ill Wind by Nevada Barr
Task Points: 5
Season Total: 30
15.9 Where DO Those Letters Go?Try to find out where those letters to Santa go, by 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.
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Set in Alaska.
Task Points: 15
Season Total: 45
Mod
Option 1. Read a book written by an author with the letters J and W in their name.
A Terrible Kindness
The author is Jo Browning Wroe which contains JW
(I read this as an advance reader copy, but the book is now published)
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 395 + 20 = 415/970
Total Tasks Completed: 25
Amy B30.2 - TessaVaness's Task: What does home mean to you?
Please choose two different options below for your two books. REQUIRED: State in your post the options that you chose.
Option 1: Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in GRANDMA WOLFE.
Haven (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...) by Emma Donoghue
Haven is an ARC and I was unable to add it through the normal link mechanism, so I added the address to the book in Goodreads above.)
Option 2: Read a book with all the letters of DREAM in the title. Ignore subtitles
Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward
This Task: 30 Points
To Date: 375 Points
Christine V20.5 - Bigger is Better - Sophie's Task: Fever
Option 1: Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
Points this post: 20
Total points: 55
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
Nick KY50.1 - TraceyL's Task: Advent Calendar
Rolls of 1, 12, 19
Roll 1 = 1: Biography. I read Shirley Jones: A Memoir by Shirley Jones 320 pp
Roll 2 = 12: Sociology. I read Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum. Approved for “Sociology” in messages 3 and 26 of the help thread. 480 pp
Roll 3 = 19: Fantasy. I read White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi. 230 pp
Total pp: 320 + 480 + 230 = 1030 > required 750
Points This Post = 50
Total Points So Far = 700
10.4 - MMXXIIRead a book written by a single author with a 2-part name whose initials both begin with the same letter.
I read Hellboy Omnibus Volume 2: Strange Places by Mike Mignola.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 110
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Mod
15.5 - There's No Place Like Home
Read a book set in the country in which you were born. I was born in New York.
The Personal Librarian. Marie Benedict
Task: 15
Total: 970
56/56
Kai20.3 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.
Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko
New Points: 20
Total Points: 325
Tasks Completed: 20
Books Read for Challenge: 25
Sarah E15.8: The Peculiarity of Time Passing
Giant Days, Vol. 1
I read a kindle edition, top paperback - no MMP - is Giant Days, Vol. 1
Total Points: 145
Task 10.9 Winter is comINGBook with a word with ING in the title
Points this post :10
Total points to date : 10
Big book tickets :0
Golden oldie tickets :0
Sarah E15.10 - Curl Up and Read
Hercule Poirot's Christmas - currently #288 on page 3 of the list
I read a kindle edition, top MMP is A Holiday for Murder
Golden Oldie, first published 1938. Claiming 1 GO ticket.
Total Points: 160
Total GOs: 1
APRILLEIGH5.2 - ...and Your Little Dog, Too!
Read a book by a single author with a name that matches or is related to Terry.
Loose Ends by Terri Reid
(Read the kindle version - paperback - no mmpb)
Terri is one of the English equivalents of Terry.
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 5 (280)
Books Read: 1 (25)
Total Tasks: 25
JEN B30.4 - 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 Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
The word DIARIES can be made from the phrase mIltonthEDAncIngchRiStmasmouse
1.b. Read a book where all the author’s initials can be found in GINGERBREAD.
Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life by Anne Bogel
AB in gingerBreAd
TOTAL POINTS: 385
Andy P.Task # 25.1 - XBM's Task: Read a Newbery
Option 2. Read a book whose author’s share these initial: KDEKLJKLLKPEGS
Akin by Emma Donoghue
KDEKLLKPEGS
Option 3: Read a book where the first letter of each title word may be found in John Newbery Medal
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
OH JOHN
Points this post: 25
Total points: 635
Andy P.Task # 20.4 - Golden Oldies - Teri-K's Task: Ready, Set, GO!
Option 2. Read a book with MPG mystery published between 1913 and 1939
A Question of Proof by Nicholas Blake this is a new author for me and I am glad I found him.
Book originally published in 1935 mpg mystery
Points this post: 20
Total points: 655
Maria Jo15.5 - There's No Place Like Home
Red Sky at Morning
set in NM, where I was born
Just in case: IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11.0
Points this post: 15
Total points: 270
Mod
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny / MONTH in title
Points this post: 15
Points total:730
25.1 - XBM's Task: Read a NewberyOption 2: Read a book whose author’s share these initial: KDEKLJKLLKPEGS.
The Fisher of Bones by Sarah Gailey
Option 3: Read a book where the first letter of each title word may be found in John Newbery Medal.
Envy of Angels
EOA appears in jOhn nEwbery medAl
Points Earned This Post: 25
Total Points Earned: 440
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets Total: 1
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Kathy KS30.2 - TessaVaness's Task: What does home mean to you?
choose two different options below for your two books.
Option 2: Read a book with all the letters of DREAM in the title.
See Also Murder, by Larry D. Sweazy
DREAM=... Also MuRDEr
I listened to the audiobook; pb=253 p. (no mmpb)
Option 4: Read a book that doesn't include any of these numbers in the page count: 0,1,2,4,5,9
Our American Friend, by Anna Pitoniak
336 pages
I read an ARC for this one. Pagination above.
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 360
Tasks completed: 17/56
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 5
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
Mod
Read a book with the word "cold" or one of the following synonyms for "cold" in its title.
shine your icy crown
This contains the specified synonym icy
(I read this as an audiobook advance copy - audiobook due March 2022 - but a paperback copy is currently published)
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 415 + 15 = 430/970
Total Tasks Completed: 26
Mod
Option 2: Read 1 book that satisfies both A and B
(A. initial letters of each word in the title in the word VALENTINES & B. author’s initials are in the word VALENTINES)
The English Lesson by Sara Alexi
Initials TEL&SA are in vALEnTineS
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 430 + 15 = 445/970
Total Tasks Completed: 27
Brooklyn 5.1 – Dorothy, Dot & Dotty
Read a book by an author whose first name begins with D
The Secrets We Bury by Debra Webb
Points this post: 5
Total points: 155/970
Tasks completed: 7/56
Books read: 13
Brooklyn 5.2 – …and Your Little Dog, Too!
Read a book by a single author with the name of Terry or a related name.
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Tessa is on the list of related names
Points this post: 5
Total points: 160/970
Tasks completed: 8/56
Books read: 14
Brooklyn 5.3 – It’s a Twister!
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the Tornado Alley states
The Chicken Sisters by K.J. Dell'Antonia
100% set in Kansas
Points this post: 5
Total points: 165/970
Tasks completed: 9/56
Books read: 15
Brooklyn 5.4 – We’re Not in Kansas Anymore
Read a book with a MPG of Fantasy and/or Science Fiction
Another Time, Another Place by Jodi Taylor
Points this post: 5
Total points: 170/970
Tasks completed: 10/56
Books read: 16
Brooklyn 5.6 – Follow the Yellow Brick Roade
Read a book found on the “Yellowest Book Ever” listopia
Meet Cute by Helena Hunting
Found on pg. 11 (at very bottom so could roll over to pg. 12)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 175/970
Tasks completed: 11/56
Books read: 17
Brooklyn 5.7 – The Emerald City
Read a book with a word from the Shades of Green list in its title
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
Word is DARK from DARK green
Points this post: 5
Total points: 180/970
Tasks completed: 12/56
Books read: 18
Brooklyn 5.8 – Just Click Your Heels…
Read a book that is #3 in a series
Daylight by David Baldacci
#3 in the Atlee Pine series
Points this post: 5
Total points: 185/970
Tasks completed: 13/56
Books read: 19
Brooklyn 5.9 – Home Sweet Home
Read a book with all the letters HOME in the title
Stealing Home by Sherryl Woods
Points this post: 5
Total points: 190/970
Tasks completed: 14/56
Books read: 20
Brooklyn 5.10 – Heart’s Desire
Read a book of your choice
Every Last Secret by A.R. Torre
Points this post: 5
Total points: 195/970
Tasks completed: 15/56
Books read: 21
20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lisa MD’s Task: “Rock the Red”Option A:
Title in all capital letters and is the color red
Total points: 210
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)30.9 - Sandy's Task: Wowbrary!
Combined number of pages of at least 600.
One book must be nonfiction
Book 1: Single author, with ALL of the author's initials found in WOWBRARY.
Page Count: 392
Letters Used: Wowbrary
Cocoa Beach by Beatriz Williams
Book 2: Title of at least 3 words, where the initial letter of each title word can be found in I LOVE MY LIBRARY
Page Count: 256
Genre: Non-fiction
Letters Used: I Love My Library
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Points Earned This Post: 30
Points Achieved to Date: 430/970
GO Tickets: 3
Big Book Tickets: 1
500+ (1)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)
LAUREN JODI20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Brooklyn's Task: In Honor of My Favorite Dorothy
Option 3 - 9 in page count
Born in Ice by Nora Roberts
Page #: 369
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 525/970
Total Books Read: 40
Total Tasks Completed: 32/56
Coralie25.1 Rad a Newbury
Option 2 ; Book by an author who share these initials kdeklJkllkpegS
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
Option 3; Book where the initials of each of the words in the title can be found in jOhn newbury AwaRd
Realm of Ash
Total to date 495 points
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20.3 Representing Cats!
Option 1 The Girls. Book with MPG of Fantasy
The Tangled Lands
Total to date 445 points