GOING FOR THE GOLD CHALLENGE

[Diana S]

Going For The Gold Challenge
Duration: February 1 - 28, 2022

🏂The Winter Games ⛷️ are upon us. February 4th - 20th, Athletes from all over the world will gather in Beijing, China to participate in some of following events:

ALPINE SKIING
GIANT SLALOM
BIATHLON
BOBSLEIGH
CURLING
AERIALS
SUPERPIPE
FIGURE SKATING
ICE HOCKEY
SKELETON
SKI JUMPING
SNOWBOARDING
SPEED SKATING

Spell-out one/more of the following EVENTS above.

Challenge Rules
• one book per letter
• books must be 100+ pages
• use 1st letter of title (exclude A, An, or The)
• use 1st of Author's FIRST/LAST name

For Each Book Read
• LINK to title
• INDICATE Author
• give DATE finish book

☆☆☆ ratings are optional
Happy Reading! 🏅

[Diana S]

⭐⭐ Congratulations ⭐⭐
❤️ Completed Challenge ❤️

🏅 Jonquil
🏅 Donna
🏅 Carol
🏅 JennH
🏅 SouthWestZippy
🏅 Licha-Olivia

[Diana S]

PARTICIPANTS (Our Readers Going for the Gold)
Updated: 2/22/22

Book Concierge - BIATHLON (7/8)
🎖️Carol - FIGURE SKATING (13/13) C
🎖️SouthWestZippy - BOBSLEIGH (9/9) C
🎖️Jonquil - ICE HOCKEY (9/9) C
🎖️Donna - GIANT SLALOM (11/11) C
🎖️Licha-Olivia - FIGURE SKATING (13/13) C
🎖️JennH - FIGURE SKATING (13/13) C
Diana S - SNOWBOARD (0/9)
Koren - BOBSLEIGH (7/9)
Robin P - BOBSLEIGH (6/9)
Marilyn - BOBSLEIGH (5/9

[Book Concierge]

Going For the Gold Challenge
Begins: 01Feb22 / Ends: 28Feb22

8 / 8 completed


Biathlon
B - BOWEN, Rhys / Evans Above ✔ – 21Feb22
I - Ilona Andrews / Magic Bites ✔ – 08Feb22
A - Ask Again, Yes ✔ – 06Feb22
T - Thea Stilton and the Dragon's Code ✔ – 02Mar22
H - Have a Little Faith ✔ – 16Feb22
L - LUKACS, John/ Five Days in London, May 1940 ✔ – 17Feb22
O - OZEKI, Ruth / A Tale for the Time Being ✔ – 20Feb22
N - Night Watchman ✔ – 08Feb22

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[Carol]

Going For The Gold Challenge - Completed 2/23
13/13

Featherbed - Annabeth Albert - 2/3
Investigating the Paranormal - Amanda Springer - 2/22
Garrett, Leigh -Heartscape - 2/15
Unspoken Vow - Eden Finley - 2/16
Roan Parrish - The Lights on Knockbridge Lane - 2/5
Edwards, Mark - What You Wish For - 1/4

Stevens, Dustin - The Boat Man - 2/2
Kali White - The Monsters We Make -2/7
Amy Lane - Clear Water - 2/10
Trailer Park Trickster - David R. Slyton -2/1
Ironside - Holly Black - 2/23
N.R. Walker - Dearest Milton James - 2/19
Grey, Andrew - Past His Defenses -2/18

[SouthWestZippy]

9/9--Completed

B- Bailey's Story by W. Bruce Cameron
O-Fourteen: The Murder of David Stukel by Bill O'Connell
B- Brush Up Your Mythology! by Michael Macrone
S- Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
L- The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts
E- Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage
I-In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
G- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
H- Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls by Jax Miller

[Jonquil]

Going For The Gold Challenge
February 1 - 28, 2022

9/9 DONE

I Ice Cream and Incidents Agatha Frost 2/3
C Chicken Culprit Vikki Walton 2/3
E Everybody Lies L.J. Breedlove 2/5
H Hollywood Station Joseph Wambaugh 2/10
O Ocean of Fear Helen Hanson 2/5
C Chasing the Violet Killer R. Barri Flowers 2/6
K Keep Calm & Kill the Chef Livia Day 2/3
E Earthling Ambassador Liane Moriarty 2/5
Y You Should See Me in a Crown Leah Johnson 2/20

[Donna]

Going For the Gold Challenge
Begins: 01Feb22 / Ends: 28Feb22

11 / 11 completed


GIANT SLALOM

✔G ~~ Golden Child ~~ by Claire Adam ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 14Feb22
✔I ~~ I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is Going to be the Next School Shooter: 6 Patient Files That Will Keep You Up At Night ~~ by Dr. Harper ~~ 2 Stars ~~ 07Feb22
✔A ~~ Cloud Cuckoo Land ~~ by Anthony Doerr ~~ 4 Stars because his writing is superb, rounded up from 2 Stars because I just don’t appreciate this kind of book ~~ 02Feb22
✔N ~~ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ~~ by Frederick Douglass ~~ 5 Stars ~~ 20Feb22
✔T ~~ Tana French, author of ~~ The Secret Place ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 18Feb22


✔S ~~ Christopher Skaife, author of ~~ The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London ~~ 5 Stars ~~ 15Feb22
✔L ~~ Last Night at the Telegraph Club ~~ by Malinda Lo~~ 4 Stars ~~ 12Feb22
✔A - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ~~ author of Purple Hibiscus ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 05Feb2
✔L - Laura Dave, Author of ~~ Eight Hundred Grapes ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 03Feb22
✔O ~~ 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste ~~ by Kathryn Kellogg ~~ 3 Stars ~~ 13Feb22
✔M ~~ McCandless, Carine, author of ~~ The Wild Truth: A Memoir ~~ 3 Stars ~~ 03Feb22

[Licha-Olivia]

Going For The Gold Challenge
Duration: February 1 - 28, 2022

FIGURE SKATING

13/13 Letters

F: Fatal Grace (A); Louise Penny (2/22/22)
I: In Other Lands Sarah Rees Brennan (2/11/22)
G: Gray, John; Chasing Manhattan (2/19/22)
U: Upson, Nicola; Angel with Two Faces (2/28/22)
R: Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy (2/4/22
E: Eliot, George; Middlemarch (eBook) (2/23/21)

S: Stella Cameron; Out of Body (2/14/22)
K: Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels (2/27/22)
A: Arsenic and Adobo Mia P. Manansala (2/12/22)
T: Tropper, Jonathan; How to Talk to a Widower (2/19/22)
I: In the Arms of Stone Angels Jordan Dane (eBook) (2/24/22)
N: Noah, Trevor Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (2/20/22)
G: Girl of Fire and Thorns (The) Rae Carson (Audiobook) (2/24/22)

[JennH]

Going for the Gold

✔F - Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert 2/3/22
✔I - I've Got My Eyes on You by Mary Higgins Clark 2/23/22
✔G - Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen 2/8/22
✔U - Untimely Death by Elizabeth J. Duncan 2/21/22
✔R - A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 2/20/22
✔E - Murder, She Knit by Peggy Ehrhart 2/13/22

✔S - Earthlings by Sayaka Murata 2/14/22
✔K - Love Your Life by Sophie Kinsella 2/5/22
✔A - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 2/11/22
✔T - These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder 2/4/22
✔I - Silencing Eve by Iris Johansen
✔N - Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee 2/21/22
✔G - Hearts, Keys, and Puppetry by Neil Gaiman 2/23/22

[Diana S]

Winter Olympics Challenge

Spell-out: SNOWBOARD

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[Koren]

Going For The Gold Challenge
Duration: February 1 - 28, 2022

B-Boyle, Kevin The Shattering: America in the 1960s finished 2/13
O-Owens, Valerie Biden Growing Up Biden finished 2/7
B-Bakari Sellers My Vanishing Country finished 2/13
S-The Shattering: America in the 1960s by Kevin Boyle finished 2/14
L-Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of "The View" by Ramin Setoodah finished 2/24
E- Elizabeth Vargas -Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction finished 3/2
I-I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks by Gina Sheridan finished2/14
G
H-Herman, Eleanor Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House finished 2/3

[Robin P]

Going For The Gold Challenge
Duration: February 1 - 28, 2022

B - Bury Your Dead - Louise Penny 2/12
O - An Obvious Fact - Craig Johnson 2/14
B - Rhys Bowen, Malice at the Palace - 2/2
S - The Sun Is Also a Star - 2/23
L - Louisa and the Crystal Gazer 0 Anna Maclean - 2/2
E - Enid Bagnold - The Squire 2/4
I
G - Gordon R. Dickson - The Dragon and the George- 2/13
H - A Homespun Regency Christmas - 2/28

[Diana S]

Welcome Robin P 😊

[Marilyn]

Going For The Gold Challenge
Duration: February 1 - 28, 2022

6/9 Completed

BOBSLEIGH

✔B--The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey--2/18/11

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✔S--The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw--2/5/22
✔L--Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak--2/26/22
✔E--Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe--2/19/21

I

✔G--Gates, Melinda, author of The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World--2/6/22
✔H--Hilma Wolitzer, author of Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories--2/4/22

[Jonquil]

Finished message 7

[Diana S]

That's Great Jonquil - Congrats! ☺️

[Diana S]

Donna wrote: "Going For the Gold Challenge
Begins: 01Feb22 / Ends: 28Feb22

11 / 11 completed


GIANT SLALOM

✔G ~~ Golden Child ~~ by Claire Adam ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 14Feb22
✔I ~~ [book:I'm a Therapi..."

Congrats! Donna - I noticed you finished your challenge ☺️

[Diana S]

Congrats! Carol & JennH for completely your challenge this month!

[Carol]

Diana S wrote: "Congrats! Carol & JennH for completely your challenge this month!"

Thanks, Diana, and thanks for the medal:)

[SouthWestZippy]

Completed the challenge.

[Licha-Olivia]

Challenge completed!

[Diana S]

Congrats! SouthWestZippy & Licha Olivia on finishing your Challenge for this month

[Book Concierge]

Update message # 4 - OOPS, I forgot to update!

Challenge completed - 02March22