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SPRING CHALLENGE 2022
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HanneloreTask 20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Helen B's Task: Spring Begins
Option 1: Explore new beginnings by reading a book from the list: Do-Overs and Fresh Starts
Required: State the page where you selected your book.
Book: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
How it fits: This book is on the list on the first page. Right now on #20.
This book has 560 pages. --> CLAIMING A BB TICKET.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 260
Tasks completed: 16
BB tickets:
(3) 500+
(1) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
Christine V20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Helen B's Task: Spring Begins
Option 3: The Silence of the Girls
Points this post: 20
Total points: 160
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 10
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 3
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes: Paul's Task: Is 139 a Prime Number?Option 1: Read a book written by a single author whose initials (all of them) can be found in the letters in "AMAZON PRIME".
I listened to an audio version of A Throne for Sisters by Morgan Rice
170 pages
M and R in Prime
New Points: 20
Total Points: 220
IF: 3
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Robin P’s Task: Saluting BrainsOption 2: Read a book with MPG History, Historical, Historical fiction, Historical romance, Historical mystery, or Alternate History.
Mexican Gothic
Total Points: 80
Chris MD 5.5 The Wizard
Read a book from a series with at least 5 whole number published books
Still Life by Louise Penny
The book is the first in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, which currently has 17 whole-number books.
Total points: 5
Chris MD 5.8 A Horse of a Different Color
Book from the Books with a Color in the Title list
White Nights by Ann Cleeves
The book is currently #90 on page 1 of the list.
Total points: 10
Chris MD 20.4 Saluting Brains
Read a book with MPG History, Historical, Historical fiction, Historical romance, Historical mystery, or Alternate History.
The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
Historical>Historical Fiction is the top-listed MPG.
I listened to the audio version of this book. There is no MMP. The top paperback has 303 pages.
Total points: 30
Chris MD 20.7 Wordle, Wordle, Wordle
Option 3: Book by an Australian author
A Decline in Prophets by Sulari Gentill
Although born in Sri Lanka, Gentill's own website (which I can't link to) notes that she was raised in Brisbane, and her GR autiobiography says she currently lives in Batlow, NSW.
I listened to the audio version of this book. There is no MMP. The top paperback has 354 pages.
Total points: 50
Task 20.2 - Books For A BookwormLIBRARY (one of the listed words) in title
The Library of the Dead
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375 points
5 BB tix
5 GO tix
2 NF tix
Task 20.3 - Henry Rexoption 2: KING in title
The King of Warsaw
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395 points
5 BB tix
5 GO tix
2 NF tix
Task 20.7 - Wordle Wordle Wordle!option 1: map on cover
Amongst Our Weapons
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415 points
5 BB tix
5 GO tix
2 NF tix
Mod
Option 3
The Will by Kristen Ashley / set in Maine
Points this post: 20
Total points: 215
Amber20.5 - Bigger is Better – Kristi CO's task - Literary Cat Names
Option 2: MPG Dystopia, Apocalyptic, or Speculative Fiction
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Total Points: 170
It's a Fact Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 2
Amber30.1 - Katrisa's Task: Dune
Option 3: MPG Horror
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
Option 5: Book from the list Genre Bending Books - this book is on page 1 of the list
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
**The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a Big Book (600 pgs in MMPB). Claiming 1 BB ticket.**
Pages: one book is 500+ pgs, total is 352 + 600 = 952 > 700 pgs
Total Points: 200
It's a Fact Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 3
Boston Kate
10.9 - Spring Into a Good Book
Happy-Go-Lucky
rating 4.25
expected publication date: May 31, 2022
approved in post 37 of the help thread
Points this post: 10
Total points: 45
APRILLEIGH5.3 - Uncle Henry
Read a book with a family relationship in its title.
The Other Child by Keith Houghton
(Read the kindle version - top paperback - no mmpb)
The word CHILD in the title is found as the plural CHILDREN in the list of acceptable family relationships.
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 5 (250)
Golden Oldie: 0 (1)
Big Book: 0 (0)
It’s a Fact: 0 (3)
Books Read: 1 (19)
Total Tasks: 16
25.8 - Amy FL’s task: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin OnOption 1, a word of 5 letters or more in the title that came be made from NEUROTRANSMITTERS: The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
The word is NAMES
Option 4, a book from the Brain Books list (p.4): Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam M. Grant
Points this post: 25
Total points: 285
Maria Jo20.3 - Best Review – Lauren Jodi's Task: Henry Rex
Option 2: Gods and Kings
Points this post: 20
Total points: 190
ROBIN P20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Meg SCL's Task: Wordle, Wordle, Wordle
Option 2 - Book #2, 4, or 16 of series
Murder at Queen's Landing (Wexford & Sloane #4)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 390
BB;0 GO:2 NF 5
Christine V15.8 - Mr Potato Head
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales
This book is nonfiction. ***Claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket***
Points this post: 15
IAF tickets this post: 1
Total points: 175
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 11
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 4
REPOST20.3 - Best Review – Lauren Jodi's Task: Henry Rex
Option 2: Read a book with the word "king" or "tower" in the title.
The Runaway King (Ascendance #2) by Jennifer A. Nielsen
IL: MG - BL: 5.0 - AR Pts: 12.0
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 575
5.2 - Auntie EmSea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 580
Mod
10.3 - If I Only Had a Brain
Read a book from the Thought Provoking book list. This is on page 2 (currently #116).
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya Angelou
Claiming 1 IAF ticket.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 465
Tasks complete: 27/54
Total points: 465/895
BB: 4
NF: 9
GO: 3
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)20.10 - Group Reads
group read for the Spring 2022 season. Must participate in the book's discussion thread
Post #: 7
Link to post in Group Discussion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Enchanted April
Points Earned This Post: 20
Points Achieved to Date: 640/895
Tasks Completed 42/54
Julia10320.1 - Most Improved - Delicious Dee's Task: Happy Birthday to Me!
Option 1: Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement
(C in Picturing, E in Power, LLO in Political)
This book is non-fiction - claiming one It's A Fact ticket
This post: 20 points, 1 NF
Total points: 340
BB: 6
GO: 0
NF: 3
Tasks completed: 21
Books read: 26
Katrisa15.1 - Hemispheres
Book 1 - Book 1: Read a book set at least 50% in a country that is located entirely the Northern Hemisphere
I read Naturally Tan which is set in North America and Great Britain
Book 2 - Read a book set at least 50% in a country that is located entirely the Southern Hemisphere
I read Talking To My Country which is set in Australia
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 545
Katrisa20.2 - Rookie At The Top - Lucy-Bookworm's Task: Books For A Bookworm
Read a book with one of the following words in the title or subtitle:
Book, Bookworm, Bookshelf, Bookshop, Bookstore, Bookseller, Library
I read Three Past Midnight: The Library Policeman - Library
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 565
Katrisa20.3 - Best Review – Lauren Jodi's Task: Henry Rex
Option 4 - Read a book from the first 25 pages of the Adultery Shelf
I read The Silent Wife from page 1 of the list
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 585
Katrisa25.3 - Cat's Task: Good Reading
Option 1: Diversity - read a book not originally published in English.
I read Optic Nerve originally published in Spanish. This is my new-to-me fiction book.
Option 3: Environment - read a book from Best Environmental Books or Cli-Fi: Climate Change Fiction lists
I read Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
This is my new-to-me non-fiction book from page 1 of the Best Environmental Books list
Points this Post: 25
Points Total: 610
Katrisa25.8 - Amy FL’s task: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On
Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose initials (all) are found in SUBSTANTIA NIGRA.
I read Red Sky Over Hawaii by Sara Ackerman
SA - SubstAntia nigra
Option 4: To do so, read a book from the first ten pages of the Brain shelf.
I read You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself from page 2 of the list
Points this Post: 25
Points Total: 635
Katrisa25.9 - Tien's Task: Come on Down Under
Book 1 - Option 1 - I chose a book from the Outback Books list
Never Never from page 2
Book 2 - Option 4 - 4. #LoveOzYA - Read a book that has been shelved as LoveOzYA from loveozya shelf
I read Words in Deep Blue from page 1 of the list
Points this Post: 25
Points Total: 660
5.4 - Glinda the Good WitchIntimacies by Katie Kitamura
Author first and last names begin with the same letter
Total points: 50
10.2 - The Wisest in All of OzVoid Moon by Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly shares a name with Michael Jackson
Total points: 60
APRILLEIGH20.1 - Most Improved - Delicious Dee’s Task: Happy Birthday to Me!
Option 1: Read a book with all the letters of CELLO in the title.
All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge by Nathan Monk (378 pages)
(Read the kindle version - top paperback - no mmpb)
COL found in COcktaiL.
EL found in hotEL.
378 > 200 pages
TRACKING [this task (total including this task)]
Points: 20 (270)
Golden Oldie: 0 (1)
Big Book: 0 (0)
It’s a Fact: 0 (3)
Books Read: 1 (20)
Total Tasks: 17
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)20.1 - Most Improved Player -
MINIMUM of 200 pages. No children's books allowed.
Option 2: Option 1: ALL the letters CELLO, including 2 Ls, can be found in the title (excluding subtitle).
Page Count: 448
Fits: DangerOus ALLianCE: An Austentacious Romance
Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance
Points Earned This Post: 20
Points Achieved to Date: 660/895
Tasks Completed 43/54
MARGO25.4 - Wayne's Task: Play Ball? Play Ball!
Total 675 pages (259+416) meets 500 page minimum
Option 3: Les Expos
Read a book with a doubled letter in the title.
Moll Flanders
- double L in MOLL
- first published 1722 - claiming one GOLDEN OLDIE
- top MMPB is 259 pages
Option 4: Sayonara MLB
Read a book set at least 50% in Japan.
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World
- 100% set in Japan as detailed in GR description
- to paperback is 416 pages
Posted and read Kindle editions.
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Points this task: 25
Total points: 195
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 13
GO: 5 // BB: 2 // NF: 1
Inge199010.1 Scarecrow
read a book with a 3 or more letter word in the titel that can be made of scarecrow
As the Crow Flies
word: CROW
Points this post: 10
total points: 175
Task 15.1 - Hemispheresbook 1: set in northern hemisphere: New York, United States (100%)
Origin in Death
book 2: set in southern hemisphere: Madagascar (at least 75%)
Return to the Enchanted Island
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430 points
5 BB tix
5 GO tix
2 NF tix
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)25.1 - Sandy's Task: I Want My Baseball!
No childrens books. Total of 500 pages.
Book 1: nonfiction book with the main page genre Sports
Page Count: 259--Listened to Audiobook--Link to PB edition Finding Gobi: A Little Dog with a Very Big Heart
Verification Post/Link: Post 32--https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nonfiction Book
Finding Gobi: A Little Dog with a Very Big Heart
Book 2: fiction or nonfiction, with the single author’s initials (ALL initials) found in "END THE LOCKOUT"
Page Count: 440
Author: Dhonielle Clayton
Fiction Book
The Belles
Points Earned This Post: 25
Points Achieved to Date: 685/895
Tasks Completed 44/54
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)25.9 - Tien's Task: Come on Down Under
Option 2: Woman Writer who is Australian by birth or residence
Page Count: 192--Listened to Audiobook-- Link to PB edition Flyaway
Verification: Author's GR page--Kathleen Jennings
Flyaway
Option 4: shelved as LoveOzYA from this shelf loveozya
Page Count: 281
List Info: Page 4
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales
Points Earned This Post: 25
Points Achieved to Date: 710/895
Tasks Completed 45/54
30.4 - TessaVanessa's Task: National Library Week 2022Option 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 (in honor of my 30 years).
No-No Boy Audiobook
No-No Boy PB 260 Pages
This was an audiobook checked out using my local library's app.
0 in the page count.
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.
Strange Beasts of China
CHINA found in CoNnect wItH your librAry
Points Earned This Post: 30
Total Points Earned: 405
It's A Fact Tickets: 10
Golden Oldie Tickets: 4
Big Book Tickets Total: 3
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 1 (750) / 0 (1000)
INSIYAH30.4 - TessaVanessa's Task: National Library Week 2022
Option 3: single author, letters of MORE in Author FN LN
Book: My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem (ebook)
Note: Top PB has 314 pages.
How it fits: ME in Steinem, OR in Gloria
Option 4: 4+ letter word in title from CONNECT WITH YOUR LIBRARY
Book: Connect the Dots by Rashmi Bansal
How it fits: YOUR in title
Both books are non-fiction. Claiming two It's a Fact Tickets.
Points Earned This Post: 30
Total Points Earned: 180
Books Read: 11
Tasks Completed: 8
It's A Fact Tickets: 5
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 3
PatTask 10.8 ~ Feria Nacional de San Marcos
Task ~ 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. Letters may only be used as many times as they appear in the target phrase. Subtitles should be ignored.
Make It Sweet by Kristen CallihanRead ~ 5.9.22
Pages ~ 387
How it Fits ~ (MIS) ~ fer(I)a nacional de (S)an (M)arcos
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Points this Task ~ 10
Total Points ~ 305
Total Books ~ 21
Total Pages ~ 7,527
25.6 - KmarieD's Task: Reaching GoalsBoth books have to be over 200 pages.
Option 1
Read a book first published in 2022.
The Missing Page by Cat Sebastian (248 pages)
Option 5
Read a book that is #2 or above in a series.
Ran Away by Barbara Hambly (256 pages, 11 in the Benjamin January series)
Points this task: 25
Total Points: 40
Bookwrm526Task #20.6 - Spring Begins
Option 2: Read a book with a flower in bloom on the cover. I read When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo.
Total points so far: 420
NAVI20.4 - Golden Oldies - Robin P’s Task: Saluting Brains
Option 2: Read a book with MPG History, Historical, Historical fiction, Historical romance, Historical mystery, or Alternate History.
How it fits: Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine has a MPG History
Points this post: 20
Total points: 150
15.2 - Right/LeftBook 1: Read a fiction book that begins with a letter in RIGHT
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood HargraverighT
Book 2: Read a non-fiction book that begins with a letter in LEFT
The Devil in the White City. Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America lefT
Points this post: 15
Total points: 275
Tasks completed: 21
Books read: 25
Big Book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 4
LAUREN JODI20.10 - Group Reads
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Comment in Post #14 of the book discussion thread.
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 345/895
Big Book Ticket: 2
Total Books Read: 24
Total Tasks Completed: 20/54
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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Option 2: Read a book with the word "king" or "tower" in the title.
The Runaway King (Ascendance #2) by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 1
Season Total: 575