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WINTER CHALLENGE 2021
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Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)5.1 - Dorothy, Dot, & Dotty
author whose first name begins with the letter D.
Page Count: 176
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Points Earned This Post: 5
Points Achieved to Date: 435/970
GO Tickets: 3
Big Book Tickets: 1
500+ (1)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)
Task 30.9 - Wowbrary!600+ total, 1 N-F
book 1: author initials in WOWBRARY
The History of Science Fiction by Adam Roberts
this is my non-fiction book
524 pages - claiming 1 BB tix
book 2: 3+word title, initials in LOVE LIBRARY
Love After Love
409 pages
524 + 409 > 600pages
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725 points
13 BB tix
2 GO tix
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Read two books from two different options:
Option 1: Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in GRANDMA WOLFE.
Night of the Living Wed
The author is Laura Durham - initials LD
granDma woLfe
Option 4: Read a book that doesn't include any of these numbers in the page count: 0,1,2,4,5,9
Never Work With Animals
I read this as an advance reader e-book but the hardback is now published & listed as 336 pages. Never Work With Animals (There is no paperback version available at present)
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 445 + 30 = 475/970
Total Tasks Completed: 28
Julia10330.5 - Judy's Task: Some SRC New “Favorite Things”
Option 3: Trade Secret
This is #4 in the Liaden Universe series (internal chronology). #1 in the series, Crystal Soldier is on page one of the list.
Option 4: All In: An Autobiography by Billie Jean King
(Author first and last initials BK are in AUDIOBOOKS)
This post: 30 points
Total points: 665
BB:5
GO:1
Tasks complete: 32
Books read: 46
Mod
Option A: #ALLCAPS Read a book whose title appears on the cover in ALL CAPITAL letters and is red
The Helsingør Sewing Club
(I read this as an advance reader copy - the kindle edition is out now but the paperback is not published until April. It was confirmed as meeting length requirements in post #8445 of the e-book verification thread. The book was approved as meeting the "all in caps & red" requirements in message 30 of the task help thread)
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 475 + 20 = 495/970
Total Tasks Completed: 29
Amy FL10.2 - Something Fishy
(approved in message 2)Points this post: 10
Total points: 495
Amy FL20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Tamara's Task: New Years Resolutions
Option 1: Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger (resoLUtions)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 515
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Amy FL25.1 - XBM's Task: Read a Newbery
Option 2: The Judge's List by John Grisham - KDEKLJKLLKPEGS
Option 3: Better off Dead - BOD (jOhn newBery meDal)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 540
Amy FL25.4 - Andy P.’s Task: Dog Shows
Book 1: Five Minutes Alone by Paul Cleave - PC (ComPaniondog)
Book 2: Never Saw Me Coming - GREEN (NEvER saw me cominG)
Linked to audios which I completed. Total pages in paperbacks is 853 (464 + 389)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 565
10.6 - Shelf AwareRead a book that was added to your TBR shelf before November 1, 2021.
Exit West
This has been on my personal TBR since it came out in March 2017.
Points Earned This Post: 10
Total Points Earned: 450
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets Total: 1
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
5.10 - Heart's Desire Choice book.
I listened to the audiobook, mmpb here Holiday in Death by J.D. Robb
Points: 5
Total Points: 690
GO Points: 7
BB Points: 1
5.1 - Dorothy, Dot, & Dotty Author's first name begins with D.
Hangman's Holiday: A Collection of Short Mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers 2/7
Published 1933 for 1 Golden Oldie Point.
Points: 5
Total Points: 695
GO Points: 8
BB Points: 1
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Sophie's Task: Fever Option 2. Page numbers are made up from 1, 3, 4, 6 or 9.
Concealed in Death by J.D. Robb.
416 pages
Points: 20
Total Points: 715
GO Points: 7
BB Points: 2
Task 20.10 - Group ReadsMistress of the Art of Death
My post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
524pages - claiming 1BB tix
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745 points
14 BB tix
2 GO tix
Sarah E5.2 - ...and Your Little Dog, Too!
Up With the Larks: Starting Again in Cornwall by Tessa Hainsworth
I read an ebook, paperback - no MMP - is Up With the Larks: Starting Again in Cornwall
Tessa is an English Equivalent of Terry
Total Points: 165
Sarah E5.10 - Heart's Desire
Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
I listened to an audio, paperback - no MMP - is Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
This has Childrens MPG but is not found in AR Bookfinder, US or UK.
Total Points: 170
Sarah E20.4 - Golden Oldies - Teri-K's Task: Ready, Set, GO!
Option 2: MPG Mystery, first published 1937
These Names Make Clues by E.C.R. Lorac
E.C.R. Lorac is a new-to-me author
I read a kindle edition, the top paperback with a page count - no MMP - is These Names Make Clues
Golden Oldie, first published 1937. Claiming 1 GO ticket.
Total Points: 190
Total GOs: 2
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Help Thread
Read a book that takes place in a fictional land, or an alternate version of a real country.
Electric Idol by Katee Robert
Approved just in case: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 15
Points total: 745
Andy P.Task # 25.2 - Tien's Task: New Year New Goals
Option 2. Read a book from one of these lists about my favourite tropes:
Girls Disguised as Boys
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee found on page 1
Option 3. Continuing series.
Read a book in a series that is the third (3rd) or higher in series
Gated Prey by Lee Goldberg
# 3 in Eve Ronin series
Points this post: 25
Total points: 680
10.1 - GiftsThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
page 1
1x Golden Oldies tix (pub. 1925)
Total this Post: 10
Golden Oldies: 6
Bigger is Better: 5
Season Total: 850
Mary P20.5 - Bigger is Better - Sophie's Task: Fever
Option 1: Read a book written by an author with the letters J and W in their name.
Claimed by J.R. Ward
Points this post: 20
Total points: 150
Line5.6
read a book from the “yellowest books ever” list. i read Pride and Prejudice , which is found on page 3 of the list
tasks done: 8
books read: 9
points for this task: 5
total points: 120
Lisa MD15.1 - Welcome to Oz
This is a two book task.
Book 1 – read a book with black/white/gray cover - no other colors on the cover.
👠On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
246 pages
Book 2 –read a book with at least 3 different colors on the cover (not including black, white, gray).
👠In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
Colors: Red, Blue, Green
233 pages
🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 335/970
Total Books Read: 27
Tasks Completed: 22/56
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Lisa MD25.4 - Andy P.’s Task: Dog Shows
Book 1. Read a book by an author whose initials(all of them) may be found in the phrase COMPANIONDOG
👠More Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas by Ace Collins
Author Initials: AC found in COMPANIONDOG
Listened to audiobook. Linked to HB. No MMPB or PB.
217 pages
Book 2. Read a book with a title (subtitles excluded) in which the letters for the word GREEN can be found
👠The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After by Julia Quinn
GREEN found in: The Bridgertonns
384 pages
217 + 384 = 601 total pages
🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 360/970
Total Books Read: 29
Tasks Completed: 23/56
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
30.9 - Sandy's Task: Wowbrary!Book 1: Read a book by a single author with all of the author's initials found in WOWBRARY
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes wowbRaRy
Kindle, no MMP, 432 pages in 1st pb edition listed
Non-fiction
Book 2: Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the initial letter of each word can be found in I LOVE MY LIBRARY
Love is Blind by Lynsay Sands
LIB - I Love my liBrary
Audiobook, no MMP, 342 pages in 1st pb edition listed
Fiction
432 + 342 = 774 pg
Points this post: 30
Total points: 795
Tasks completed: 44
Books read: 61
Big Book tickets: 3
Golden Oldies tickets: 5
Nick KY20.5 Sophie’s Fever
Opt. 2: Page enumeration contains 1 and 6 and 9. I read The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, 169 pp.
Points This Post= 20
Total Points So Far: 720
Bookwrm526Task #30.1 - The Computer Curse
Book 1: In honor of my lovely sister, read a book that is set at least 80% in NYC (includes The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island), AND with a ‘4’ in either the number of pages or the series number. I read Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González (384p).
Book 2: Read a book with either LOGIC or BOARD intact in the title (subtitles are excluded), AND with a ‘3’ in either the number of pages or the series number. I read Board Stiff by Annelise Ryan (368p).
Total points so far: 510
10.6 Shelf AwareCount the Ways by Joyce Maynard
Added to my GR TBR shelf on Aug. 2 2021
Points this post: 10
Total points: 100
10.9 Winter is ComingMalibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (rising ends in ing)
Points this post: 10
Total Points 110
30.4 Winter in Ms. Kate's KindergartenDecember- 1 a
Body & Soul by Frank Conroy
The word soul can be found in MiLton MOUSe
CLAIMING BB TICKET for 544 pages
January- 2 a
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
MPG Race
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 140
BB tickets: 2
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 9
APRILLEIGH20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Brooklyn's Task: In Honor of My Favorite Dorothy
Option 3: Read a book with a page count that includes a ‘9’.
Words With Fiends by Ali Brandon (292 pages)
292 > 275 pages
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 20 (300)
Books Read: 1 (26)
Total Tasks: 26
Mod
Option 2:
This author is new to me
The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor - originally published 1931
Points this post: 20
Points total: 765
Task:25.5 - Amy FL’s task: What’s in a Name?Option:1- the same two letters sequentially in the same order in the title
Book read:Take Me with You When You Go by David Levithan and Jennifer Niven
Required: the word "you" is repeated twice meaning the letter sequence 'yo' and 'ou' are repeated: take me with YOu when YOu go
Option:3-author who has the letter “K” anywhere in their name
Book read:Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
Required: letter K found in mizuKi
Points this task:25
Total points:340
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Books read:20
Tasks completed:14
Readerboard Name: Priya20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lisa MD’s Task: “Rock the Red”
Option A: For this option, show your team spirit and read a book whose entire title appears on the cover in ALL CAPITAL letters and is the color red. Subtitles may be ignored.
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Points this post: 20
Total points: 385
Tasks completed: 20
Books read: 26
Joanne MI20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Coralie's Task: Three 2’s
Read a book that has at least three of the following 2’s.
Double Cross
B. Has a first publication year ending in 2. -Published 2012
D. Has a 2 in the page count.-432 Pages
E. Has a two-word title.-Double Cross
* READERBOARD NAME DENISE M *Task #20.3 - Trishhartuk's Task: Representing Cats!
Option 1 - Read a book with a MPG of Fantasy and/or Science Fiction and/or Science Fiction Fantasy.
Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
MPG of Science Fiction
Points this post: 20
Total points: 115
* READERBOARD NAME DENISE M *Task #20.2 - 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. (These can be books from the same series, but don't have to be.)
Dragon Wytch by Yasmine Galenorn
I have previously read Witchling, Changeling and Darkling by Yasmine Galenorn.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 135
* READERBOARD NAME DENISE M *Task #15.7 - Baby It's Cold Outside!
Read a book with the word "cold" or one of the following synonyms for "cold" in the title.
The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson
"Bitter" is listed as a synonym for "cold."
Points this post: 15
Total points: 150
Delicious Dee15.2 - Endings and Beginnings
Book 1 - Soar High - #4/last book in the series of Cherise Sinclair's "Sons of the Survivalist" series; approved as "not really for kids book" in post 317 of the thread
Book 2 Deal with the Devil - #1 in the Mercenary Librarian's series; new to me series
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 470
Readerboard Name: Priya20.4 - Golden Oldies - Teri-K's Task: Ready, Set, GO!
Option 1: Read a book published before 1900.
first published 1532 & this author is new to me
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Points this post: 20
Total points: 405
Tasks completed: 21
Books read: 27
Delicious Dee25.6 - Kaora's Task: Honoring Family
One Book Option
Chaos Vector
- for Book A - Option 1 - shelved as Space>space opera by 24 ppl
- for Book B - option 3 - #2 in the Protectorate series
- book is more than 500 pages - claiming Big Book Ticket for 1 500+pg book
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 495
Delicious Dee10.2 - Something Fishy
- dolphin on the coverPoints This Post: 10
Total Points: 505
Mai30.5 - Judy's Task: Some SRC New “Favorite Things”
Option 1: Genre Classics
Cane by Jean Toomer
*Golden Oldie ticket: Book first published in 1923*
Option 4: Single author whose initials can be found in AUDIOBOOKS
Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 340
Tasks Completed: 21
Books Read: 26
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 2
20.5 Bigger is BetterI chose option 1 and read An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear - J and W in name
New Total: 50
20.9 Moderator's PetI chose option 3 and read Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear - no C, A, P, or S in title
New Total: 70
25.5 What's in a Name?I chose option 1 and read State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny (TE in both words)
I also chose option 3 and read How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao - K in author name
New Total: 95
10.6 - Shelf AwareRead a book that was added to your TBR shelf before November 1, 2021.
I read Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Vol. 2.
I placed this on my "to-read" shelf on September 10, 2020.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 120
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
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Read a book with one of the following words in the title: second, minute, hour, day, week, month or year. Plural and possessive forms can be used
16 Minutes: Was The Death Of Baby Matthew An Accident Or Arson?
The word Minutes meets the requirement
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 495 + 15 = 510/970
Total Tasks Completed: 30
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30.9 Wowbrary!
Book 1; Book with an author whose initials are found in wOwBrary
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
This book is non-fiction
Book 2Book with a title where the initial letter of each word in the title can be found in I Love My library
Masquerade in Lodi
Total to date 525 points