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SPRING CHALLENGE 2022
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Sarah E25.3 - Cat's Task: Good Reading
Both books are new to me
Option 1: Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café - originally published in Japanese
I read an ebook, top paperback - no MMP - is Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café
Option 3: Best Environmental Books list page 3, currently #224
The Last American Man - Non fiction
I read an ebook, top paperback - no MMP - is The Last American Man
Non fiction, claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket.
Total Points: 110
Total NF: 2
Babbling c5.2 - Auntie Em
Read a book written by a single author with a name that matches a name related to Em, from https://www.behindthename.com/name/em. Names must match exactly but they may be in any position (first, middle, last).
Sea of Tranquility - Audible Sea of Tranquility - paperback pgs. 224 by Emily St. John Mandel
Emily
THIS POST
Points: 5
Completed Tasks: 1
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points: 270/895
Completed Tasks: 18/54
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 7,482
Books read this season: 20
25.5 - Nick KY’s Task: Scarecrow LeftoversI did Option 2: One Book >500 pages
Suggestion 3: Read a book from the first 10 pages of GR’s “TV” genre list.
American Gods
This is found on page 2 of the list.
***Claiming 2 Big Book Tickets for 750 pages***
New Points: 25
Total Points: 405
BB: 6
IF: 4
babbling c20.3 - Best Review – Lauren Jodi's Task: Henry Rex
Option 1: Band of Brothers
Immortalized in William Shakespeare's eponymous play, Henry V is recognized as one of medieval Europe's greatest military leaders and warrior kings.
Read a book with the MPG of Military Fiction either standalone or embedded.
The Eagle Has Landed - Kindle The Eagle Has Landed - mass market paperback pgs. 347 by Jack Higgins
War > Military Fiction 47 users
THIS POST
Points: 20
Completed Tasks: 1
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points: 290/895
Completed Tasks: 19/54
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 7,829
Books read this season: 21
Angela IL20.8 - Nickels & Dimes: Paul's Task: Is 139 a Prime Number?
Option 2: Read a book with a word of three or more letters in the title and/or subtitle that can be made from the letters in "AMAZON PRIME".
Catching Air by Sarah Pekkanen-5/7 (Word:AIR)
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 515
Books Read: 33
Tasks Completed: 21/54
BB Ticket: 3
NF Ticket: 4
Amber20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Sarah E's Task: Most Volcanoes
Book with a word in the title or subtitle that matches either a word from the mnemonic or the name of a planet in our solar system - target word Mars
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
**Packing for Mars is a non-fiction book. Claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket.**
Total Points: 515
It's a Fact Tickets: 11
Big Book Tickets: 5
Task 5.10 - Wish Upon a Starfree choice
The Cartographers
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715 points
12 BB tix
6 GO tix
5 NF tix
Task 15.8 - Mr Potato HeadFOOT in title (listed)
One Foot in the Grave
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730 points
12 BB tix
6 GO tix
5 NF tix
Stephanie12725.4 - Wayne's Task: Play Ball? Play Ball!Choose any two options. The combined total of the two books must equal at least 500 pages. Books with a Childrens or Kids MPG are not permitted.
Option 3: Les Expos: Read a book with a doubled letter in the title.
Catch the Rabbit (272 pages)
Option 4: Sayonara MLB: Read a book set at least 50% in Japan.
Earthlings (256 pages)
Total page count: 528
Points this post: 25
Total points: 120/895
Tasks completed: 7/54
Books read: 9
Amber25.6 - KmarieD's Task: Reaching Goals
Option 3: MPG Young Adult
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Option 5: Book that is #2 or above in a series
The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths
Total Points: 540
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Helen B's Task: Spring BeginsOption 2:
Flower in bloom on the cover
Total points: 140
Coralie15.5 Hey Joe!
Book by an author with a name related to Joe – Portuguese version
The Society of Reluctant Dreamers by José Eduardo Agualusa
Total to date 495 points
Bookwrm526Task #25.7 - Symmetry
Book 1: Read a book that contains a word of at least 5 letters in the title that begins and ends with the same letter. I read Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather (sisters is the target word) (192p).
Book 2: Read a book by an author whose name contains a name part that begins and ends with the same letter. The name part must be at least 3 letters. I read A Dangerous Crossing by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Ausma begins and ends with A) (331p).
192+331 = 523p
Total points so far: 670
Task 25.4 - Wayne's Task: Play Ball?Option 1: Mr. Padre
Read a book with a page number that ENDS with a 3, 9, or 4. SRC page number rules apply.
Page number ends in 4.
The Sidewalk Artist (2006) by Gina Buonaguro (Goodreads Author) and Janice Kirk (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 224 pages)
Option 3: Les Expos
Read a book with a doubled letter in the title.
bOOk toLLs
For Whom the Book Tolls (Antique Bookshop Mystery #1) (2020) by Laura Gail Black (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 314 pages)
Total Pagecount:
224 + 314 = 538 > 500
200 + 25 = 225
Tasks Completed: 09
Points for this post: 25
Points thus far: 200 + 25 = 225
Books read: 15
Pages read: 5,025
Read but not claimed: 03
Goodreads Authors: 10
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 01
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
REPOST5.4 - Glinda the Good Witch
The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1) by Rick Riordan
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13.0
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 4
It's a Fact: 4
Season Total: 895
FLY Task #30.4 - TessaVanessa's Task: National Library Week 2022
task: Option 2: checked out from your local library, 3 OR 0 in page count
book: Exile's Valor
how it fits: Hardcover, 402 pages; I checked this out from my local library
task: Option 3: single author, all the letters of MORE in first and last name
book: 1st to Die
how it fits: author James Patterson
Points this post: 30
Total points: 285
Tasks completed: 14/54
Big Book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
It's A Fact tickets: 2
25.6 Reaching goals - each book >200 pgsOpt 1: Pub. in 2022
The Great Witch of Brittany: A Novel- 400 pgs
Pub. Feb. 15, 2022
Opt 3 - YA genre
The House in the Cerulean Sea- 398 pgs
Points: 25
Total/challenge: 45
30.1 Dune - 1 book >500 pgs, total 700 pgsOpt 4 word in title from one of DUNE primary works
House Rules - 532 pgs
Matches: Book 7 House Atreides
Opt 6 book from series that someone else finished
Closed Casket (New Hercules Poirot series) - 299 pgs.
Original author Agatha Christie, continued by Sophie Hannah
Series approved in post #36
532+299=831 pgs
Points:30
Total/challenge: 75
30.2 Birds and BeesOpt 4 Biography, Autobiography or Memoir
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Opt 6 Read a book with both an A and a Z any place in the title
The Jazz Palace
Points: 30
Total/challenge: 105
30.3 Recurring KeysBk 1- A,E,N in title word
White Chrysanthemum - chrysANthEmum
Bk 2 - author whose name contains all the letters A E N in a single name part.
The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton bEAtoN
Points: 30
Total/challenge: 135
30.4 National Library WeekOpt 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
Darius the Great Deserves Better- 342 pgs
- I checked this book out from my local library
Opt 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.
Once a Scoundrel ONCE
CONnEctwithyour library
Points: 30
Total/challenge: 165
Mod
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.5: Literary cat names: O' Artful Death by Sarah Taylor Stewart is set 90% in Vermont, documented on the book cover and on GR main page.
Totals this posting:
Points: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 20
Books: 1
Tasks: 1
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 30.2: Birds and Bees:
option 5: The Word Is Murder by Anthony HorowitZ has both A and Z.
option 6: Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind has both A and Z in title (wiZArd). *** Claim 2 Big Book tickets for 836 pages.
Totals this posting:
Points: 30
Books: 2
Summary Totals: 50
Books: 3
Tasks: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big books tickets: 0(500) 1(750) 0(1,000)
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 30.3: Recurring keys:
Book 1: A Funeral for an Owl by Jane Davis. Title word that contains AEN: fuNErAl.
Book 2: Wolves of Winter by R. Allen Chappell. Author name part that contains AEN: AllEN.
Totals this posting:
Points: 30
Books: 2
Summary Totals: 80
Books: 5
Tasks: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Big books tickets: 0(500) 1(750) 0(1,000)
Amber10.3 - If I Only Had a Brain
Book from the Thought Provoking book list - this book is on pg 1
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
**On Tyranny is a non-fiction book. Claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket.**
Total Points: 600
It's a Fact Tickets: 12
Big Book Tickets: 5
HanneloreTask 20.5 - Bigger is Better – Kristi CO's task - Literary Cat Names
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.
Book: A Study in Scarlet
How it fits: Author is Arthur Conan Doyle, a name with 3 name parts.
Book was first published November 1st 1887 --> CLAIMING 1 GO TICKET.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 665
Tasks completed: 37
BB tickets:
(4) 500+
(1) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 4
IAF tickets: 2
Andy P.Task # 25.7 - Andy P’s Task: Symmetry
Book 1. Read a book that contains a word of at least 5 letters in the title that begins and ends with the same letter.
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica Eligible word is LOCAL
Book 2. Read a book by an author whose name contains a name part that begins and ends with the same letter
The Fix by David Baldacci
DAVID starts and end with D
Points this post: 25
Total points: 595
15.1 - HemispheresBook 1, set in a country in the Northern Hemisphere: The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
Set in United States
Book 2, set in a country in the Southern Hemisphere: Violeta by Isabel Allende
Set in Chile
Points this post: 15
Total points: 590
Readerboard Name: List_addict20.3: Best Review - Lauren Jodi’s Task: Henry Rex
Option 4: A book from the list ‘Adultery Shelf’
Verity by Colleen Hoover *
Page 3
Total this Challenge: 55
ZachFor Task 20.1 - Most Improved - Delicious Dee's Task: Happy Birthday to Me! I chose Option 1: Read a book where the ALL the letters CELLO, including 2 Ls, can be found in the title (excluding subtitle). I read Children of Blood and Bone which has all the letters of CELLO in the title.
I am also claiming a Big Book Ticket as this book has 544 pages.
Points this post: 20
BBTs this post: 1
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Totals:
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Points: 60
BBTs: 4
GOTs: 0
IAFs: 1
Task:20.3 - Best Review – Lauren Jodi's Task: Henry RexOption:4-a book from the first 25 pages of the Adultery Shelf
Book read:The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Required: the scarlet letter is on the first page of the adultery shelf.
This was first published in 1850 so I claim one golden oldie ticket.
Points this task:20
Total points:350
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:3
Total It’s A Fact:4
Books read:21
Tasks completed:15
Mod
Option 1
The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen / SEASON can be spelled from phrase
Option 2
The Sorority Murder by Allison Brennan / AB in phrase
Points this post: 25
Total points: 540
Task:5.1 - The Wicked Witch [a word of at least 4 letters from the lyrics of Ding Dong the Witch is Dead in its title]Book read:You’re the One That I Want by Simon James Green
Required: THAT matches THAT brought the wicked, wicked witch her doom
Points this task:5
Total points:355
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:3
Total It’s A Fact:4
Books read:22
Tasks completed:16
Mod
Option 2 - 1 book option
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi / listened to audio, PB is 531 pages, is #75 on pg 1 of Books by Black Authors list
Points this post: 25
Total points: 565
UNCLAIMING THIS POSTTask:30.4 - TessaVanessa's Task: National Library Week 2022
Option:2- a book checked out from your local library that has exactly one number 3 OR 0 (not both) in the number of pages
Book read:Camp by Lev A.C. Rosen
Required: I got this out from the library and it has 384 pages.
Option:3- a book by a single author that has all the letters of MORE in the author's first and last name
Book read:Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Required: more in MaRgarEt atwOod
Points this task:30
Total points:145
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:1
Books read:8
Tasks completed:7
JEN B10.9 - Spring Into a Good Book
Read a book first published in March, April, or May (of any year) that has an average Goodreads rating of 4.0 or higher.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski
This book was published in March 2019, and has a 4.00 rating
TOTAL POINTS: 125
JEN B20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Helen B's Task: Spring Begins
Option 2: Read a book with a flower in bloom on the cover. The picture can be an illustration but petals must be clearly visible.
by Greer Hendricks and Sarah PekkanenTOTAL POINTS: 145
Mod
5.10 - Wish Upon a Star
Read a book of your choice.
Little Souls. Sandra Dallas
Points this post: 5
Total points: 840/895
Tasks complete: 49/54
Total pages: 21,149
BB: 5
NF: 13
GO: 5
MEGSCL20.2 - Rookie At The Top - Lucy-Bookworm's Task: Books For A Bookworm
The Bookseller's Secret
Total
755 points, 1 bb, 5 nf, 1 go
MEGSCL30.1 - Katrisa's Task: Dune
Option 3 - read a book with an MPG of horror.
Lair of Dreams - 613 pages
Option 5 - Read a book from this list Genre Bending Books (page 4)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - 147 pages
Total
795 points, 1 bb, 5 nf, 1 go
ZachFor Task 20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Helen B's Task: Spring Begins I chose Option 3. Read the first book (#1) in a series. The series name and number must be indicated in the GR title listing in grayscale parentheses following the title. I read Mating the Huntress which is an eBook approved (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...) at post 8502.
Points this post: 20
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Totals:
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Points: 80
BBTs: 4
GOTs: 0
IAFs: 1
Julia1035.10 - Wish Upon a Star
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
(This has MPG Childrens but not found on AR Bookfinder)
This post: 5 points
Total points: 565
BB: 8
GO: 0
NF: 4
Tasks completed: 31
Books read: 43
Ana15.1 - Hemispheres
Book 1:A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot. This book is set in the United States which is in the Northern Hemisphere.
Book 2: Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood. This book is set in Australia which is in the Southern Hemisphere.
This Post: 15
Total Points: 335
Inge199010.6 - Renewal
mpg plants or animals
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Points this post: 10
total points: 460
inge199015.6. - That’s Dr. Scarecrow
THD in authors name
Lightning Rods
Points this post: 15
total points: 475
Task 20.10 - Group Readscomment: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Thursday Murder Club
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750 points
12 BB tix
6 GO tix
5 NF tix
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25.7 - Andy P’s Task: Symmetry
Many things in nature display some form of symmetry. During the spring with plants and animals rousing themselves from a winter’s sleep this symmetry becomes apparent.
First the general guidelines for this task:
> No book containing the genre Children’s on the book’s main page may be used for this task
> All books used for this task must be written by a single author.
> One book must fulfill the requirements for Book One, the other must fulfill the requirements for Book 2.
> The total page count for both books must be 500 or more.
Book 1. I read A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor, the word "Summons" begins and ends with "S." 209 pp.
Book 2. I read The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson, the author's name "Willow" begins and ends with "W." 403 pp
Total pp = 612 > required 500
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 825