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SPRING CHALLENGE 2022
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Ana20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Helen B's Task: Spring Begins
Option 1: A Curse So Dark and Lonely byBrigid Kemmerer. It can by found on page 1 #68.
This Post: 20
Total Points: 40
15.2 Right/LeftBook 1: Read a FICTION book with a title that begins with a letter in RIGHT.
For this book, I read the Kindle edition of The Truth and Other Stories (the only paper version is the hardcover).
Book 2: Read a NONFICTION book with a title that begins with a letter in LEFT.
For this book, I read The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History. I claim an NF ticket for this book.
Total Points: 105
Stephanie12720.1 - Most Improved - Delicious Dee's Task: Happy Birthday to Me! The book must be a MINIMUM of 200 pages. No children's books allowed. Required: State the option.
Option 1: Read a book where the ALL the letters CELLO, including 2 Ls, can be found in the title (excluding subtitle).
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents 290 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20/895
Tasks completed: 1/54
Books read: 1
Stephanie12720.5 - Bigger is Better – Kristi CO's task - Literary Cat Names. No books with the MPG children or kids may be used.Select one option. Required: State the option in your post.
Option 5: Read a book written by a single author who has a name with at least three parts (i.e first, middle, last name) as listed on Goodreads.
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Points this post: 20
Total points: 40/895
Tasks completed: 2/54
Books read: 2
trishhartuk20.8 Nickels & Dimes: Paul's Task: Is 139 a Prime Number?
Option 1: Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in "AMAZON PRIME".
Iceland Saga, Magnus Magnusson
Read the kindle edition. PB here (320pg)
One M in each of aMazon and priMe
Points this task: 20
Books read: 1
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 1
15.10 - Scare More Than CrowsAll the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 1
Season Total: 110
INSIYAH25.4 - Wayne's Task: Play Ball? Play Ball!
Option 1: Page number ends with 3, 9 or 4
Book 1: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (ebook)
Note: MMPB has 864 pages.
How it fits: Page count of MMPB ends in 4.
The Innovators has 864 pages. Claiming one Big Book Ticket.
Option 3: Doubled letter in title in sequence
Book: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (ebook)
Note: Top MMPB has 156 pages.
How it fits: SS in Cross
Page count = 864 + 156 = 1020 pages.
The Innovators and 84, Charing Cross Road are non-fiction. Claiming two It's a Fact Tickets.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 50
Books Read: 4
Tasks Completed: 2
Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 2
25.6 KmarieD's Task: Reaching GoalsOption 3: YA MPG One of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus
*416 pages
Option 5: In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George (Inspector Lynley #10)
*Big Book Ticket - 596 pages
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
BB Ticket +500: 1
GO Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
BB Ticket +500: 1
GO Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 1
INSIYAH20.3 - Best Review – Lauren Jodi's Task: Henry Rex
Option 4: First 25 pages of Adultery Shelf
Book: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
How it fits: Page 1 of shelf.
The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850. Claiming one Golden Oldies Ticket.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 70
Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 3
Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 2
Delicious Dee10.3 - If I Only Had a Brain
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are - found on pg1 (currently around postion 43)
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 90
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.5 Nick KY’s Task: Scarecrow Leftovers
Option 2: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Found on page 2 of the TV Genre list in Suggestion 2
512 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 140/895
Tasks completed: 10/54
Books read: 10
Christene Paula20.2 - Rookie At The Top - Lucy-Bookworm's Task: Books For A Bookworm
Book: The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler 339 pages, ebook
Tasks: Read a book with one of the following words in title or subtitle: Book, Bookworm, Bookshelf, Bookshop, Bookstore, Bookseller, Library
How it fits: A Book with "BOOK" on its title.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 60
Total books read: 6
Tasks completed: 6/54
Big Books tickets: 4
(0) 500+
(2) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Its a Fact Tickets:0
LAUREN JODI20.3 - Best Review - Lauren Jodi's Task - Henry Rex
Option 1 - Band of Brothers
Over the Edge by Suzanne Brockmann
MPG Military Fiction
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 120/895
Big Book Ticket: 1
Total Books Read: 8
Total Tasks Completed: 7/54
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15.9 - Hall of Famer
Read a book by an author whose initials (all) can be found in Jackie Robinson.
A Guide to Smithsonian Gardens. Carole Ottesen
IT'S A FACT TICKET - 1
Points this post: 15
Total points: 45
Tasks complete: 5/54
Total points: 45/895
BB:1
NF: 1
10.2 - The Wisest in All of OzRead a book written by an author who shares a name with a performer who played the Scarecrow
Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson (Michael Jackson)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 8
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Lisa MD20.1 - Most Improved - Delicious Dee's Task: Happy Birthday to Me!
Option 1: Read a book where the ALL the letters CELLO can be found in the title (excluding subtitle).
👩🌾The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks
CELLO found in Title: the goLden COupLE
329 pages
🌽🧠🌽🧠🌽🧠🌽🧠🌽🧠🌽🧠🌽🧠🌽🧠🌽🧠🌽🧠
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 60/895
Total Books Read: 4
Tasks Completed: 4/54
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Non Fiction Tickets: 0
5.10 - Wish Upon a StarMy Friend Flicka
IL: MG - BL: 6.0 - AR Pts: 15.0
Points this post: 5
Total points: 25
25.4 - Wayne's Task: Play Ball? Play Ball!Option 1: Read a book with a page number that ENDS with a 3, 9, or 4.
So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park (339 pages)
Option 3: Read a book with a doubled letter in the title.
MeSSy, Wonderful Us by Catherine Isaac (416 pages)
Points this task: 25
Total points: 60
Andy P.Task # 5.5. - The Wizard
Read a book from a series with at least 5 whole number published books
The Runaway by Nick Petrie
This is # 7 in Peter Ash series.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 75
Barbara ★30.4 - TessaVanessa's Task: National Library Week 2022
Option 2: Read a book checked out from your local library that has exactly one number 3 OR 0 (not both) in the number of pages
Crowbones - Anne Bishop (384 pages) 3/14
NOTE: I borrowed this book from the library
Option 4: Read a book that has a word in the title/subtitle of at least 4 letters that can be made from Connect with Your Library.
Steel Crow Saga - Paul Krueger 3/7
CROW in COnnect With youR library
Points this task: 30
Total points: 155
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
15.6. - That’s Dr. ScarecrowAn author who has T H D in her name: Slightly South of Simple by Kristy Woodson Harvey
Points this post: 15
Total points: 25
Kai5.4 Glinda the Good Witch
Read a book whose author has a first and last name beginning with the same letter.
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
New Points: 5
Total Points: 5
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Claimed for Challenge: 1
5.2 - Auntie EmRead a book written by a single author with a name that matches a name related to Em.
I read the Kindle version of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (this is a link to the paperback, the MMP is not in English).
Total Points: 110
MEGSCL25.5 - Nick KY’s Task: Scarecrow Leftovers
One book option. Suggestion 1. Books by Black Authors list page 2
Small Island
**533 pages - 1 big book ticket
Total
55 points, 1 bb
Task 20.7 - Wordle Wordle Wordle!2. DORDLE, QUORDLE, SEDECORDLE.
Read a book that is #2 #4 or #16 in a series.
This is #2 in a series.
Unseemly Science (Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire #2) [ANGRY ROBOT] (2015) by Rod Duncan (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 368 pages)
00 + 20 = 20
Tasks Completed: 01
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 00 + 20 = 20
Books read: 01
Pages read: 368
Read but not claimed: 02
Goodreads Authors: 01
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 00
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
HanneloreTask 15.6. - That’s Dr. Scarecrow
Read a book by an author who has all the letters T H D in his/her name.
Book: Noragami: Stray God, Vol. 1
How it fits: The name of the author is Adachitoka. 'aDacHiToka' has D H T in it.
Points this task: 15
Total points: 135
Tasks completed: 10
BB tickets:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 0
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I read The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel, first published April 7, 2020. Rating is 4.10 (confirmed in help thread).
total points: 50
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I chose option 3 and read an ARC of Robert B. Parker's Revenge Tour - I read the kindle version, linked to the hardcover (no pb or mmpb). This book is set about 85% in and around Boston.
total points: 70
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I chose option 2 and read Day Shift, #2 in the Midnight, Texas series. I read the kindle edition, linked to the MMPB.
total points: 90
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I read Oona Out of Order - I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top pb (no MMPB). My discussion thread comment is message 10.
total points: 110
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For my first book, I chose option 3 and read Belgarath the Sorcerer - I listened to the audiobook, and linked to the top pb (736 pages).
YA is the 5th MPG listed.
Childrens is also listed. ARBF scores IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 42.0.
For my second book, I chose option 5 and read Night Shift, # 3 in the Midnight, Texas series. I read the kindle, linked to the top pb edtion. 400 pages.
total points: 135
CYNBAXTERTask #30.03 – Dlmrose’s Task: Recurring Keys
Task Description: Word in title that contains A E N
Book 1: Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan - the word Beneath in the title contains A E N
**This is a Big Book (509 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket
Task Description: Author's single name part contains A E N
Book 2: A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes - last name contains A E N
Points this post: 30 points
Total points to date: 060 points
BB tickets this post: 1
Total BB tickets to date: 1
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 0
LAUREN JODI10.8 - Feria Nacional de San Marcos
Closing the Deal by Marie Harte
Approved for length in line 748 of the SRC ebook Verification document.
Word: DEAL - FERIA NACIONAL DE SAN MARCOS
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 130/895
Big Book Ticket: 1
Total Books Read: 9
Total Tasks Completed: 8/54
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25.9 - Tien's Task: Come on Down Under
Read one book of 500+ pages which fits 2 different options
2. Australian Women Writers (approved in help thread)
4. Read a book that has been shelved as LoveOzYA from this shelf loveozya (p. 12)
A Dance with Fate. Juliet Marillier
Big Book TICKET - 1 (512 pages)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 70
Tasks complete: 6/54
Total points: 70/895
BB: 2
NF: 1
15.9 - Hall of FamerRead a book by an author whose initials (all) can be found in Jackie Robinson.
I read Apsara Engine by Bishakh Kumar Som.
Total Points: 125
Mary P30.3 - Dlmrose’s Task: Recurring Keys
Book 1:Read a book with a word in the title that contains all the letters A E N.
The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley
Book 2: Read a book written by an author whose name contains all the letters A E N in a single name part.
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
Points this post: 30
Total points: 35
Mod
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the initial letter of all title words can be found in FERIA NACIONAL DE SAN MARCOS
CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour
The title letters CAOSS are all in FERIA NACIONAL DE SAN MARCOS
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 85+ 10 = 95/895
Total Tasks Completed: 8
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Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 3
Nick KY5.7 - The Flying Monkeys
Read a book with a living creature with wings showing on the cover. For purposes of this task, angels, demons, fantasy creatures/animals will work. The wings must be obviously shown on the cover.
REQUIRED: Post the cover in your post.
I read Still Life with Crows by Douglas Preston. I listened to the unabridged audiobook. The cover of the unabridged audiobook version is here:
The most popular MMP is Still Life With Crows with 564 pp.
CLAIM ONE BIG BOOK
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 100
Total Big Books So Far: 500+ (1)
15.8 - Mr Potato HeadRead a book with a word in the title or subtitle that was one of the original toy parts: hand, foot, ear, mouth, eye, nose, hat, eyeglasses, pipe, hair.
I read Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People.
Total Points: 140
Kai10.7 Holi
Read a book with a title that begins with one of these letters: H, O, L, I.
Homestead by Rosina Lippi
New Points: 10
Total Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Claimed for Challenge: 2
20.1 - Most Improved - Delicious Dee's Task: Happy Birthday to Me!Option 1: Read a book where the ALL the letters CELLO, including 2 Ls, can be found in the title (excluding subtitle).
Minimum of 200+ pages
Royally Screwed (Royally Screwed), 276 pages
Points this post: 20
Previous points: 10
Total points: 30
Kathy KS10.5 - Spring Break
Read a book set at least 50% in one or more of these popular spring break destinations: ... London...
Cotillion, by Georgette Heyer
Set mostly in London (see GR data)
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Points for this task: 10
Total points : 70
Tasks completed: 5/54
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
Christene Paula20.4 - Golden Oldies - Robin P’s Task: Saluting Brains
Book: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 594 pages, ebook
Tasks: Read a book with MPG History, Historical, Historical fiction, Historical romance, Historical mystery, or Alternate History. The genre may be standalone or embedded.
How it fits: Book with MPG Historical Fiction
Points this task: 20
Total points: 80
Total books read: 7
Tasks completed: 7/54
Big Books tickets: 4
(0) 500+
(2) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Its a Fact Tickets:0
Christene Paula wrote: "Christene Paula20.4 - Golden Oldies - Robin P’s Task: Saluting Brains
Book: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 594 pages, ebook
Tasks: Read a book with MPG History..."
***Requesting for a Big book Ticket***
Big Books tickets:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Pat30.2 ~ The Birds and the Bees
Read two books, using 2 different options.
Required ~ State the options you use.
Option 1 ~ Read a book with bird(s) or bee(s) on the cover
Required ~ Post the cover.
The Music of Bees by Eileen GarvinRead ~ 3.15.22
Hardcover Pages ~ 322
How it Fits ~ 3 bees on the cover
Option 5 ~ Read a book with an author with both an A and a Z any place in their name
A Letter to Three Witches by Elizabeth BassRead ~ 3.12.22
Paperback Pages ~ 288
How it Fits ~ AZ (eliZAbeth)
Points this Task ~ 30
Total Points ~ 90
Total Books 6
Total Pages ~ 2055
Coralie10.10 Spring Series
Book in a series with a series title that begins with a letter in spring
The Secret Chapter #6 in The Invisible Library
Total to date 25 points
Suzannesea20.1 - Most Improved - Delicious Dee's Task: Happy Birthday to Me!
Option 2
Read a book where the author's initials can be found in CELLO.
The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt
CellO
240 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 60
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20.3 - Best Review – Lauren Jodi's Task: Henry Rex
Option 2: The King in the Tower
Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller. King is in the title.
This Post: 20
Total Points:20