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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2022
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Ava Catherine50.1 Lisa MD: “I’M GOING TO TEACH YOU HOW TO SING IT OUT”
(B) choose one option and read three books which meet the task requirement for each of the letters, numbers or musical notes mentioned in the option.
Option 1: ABC
Read one book where the first word of the title begins with either the letter A, B, or C. All title words count, including “A” or “An.”
A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency by Richard Helms 496 pages
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler 480 pages
Christmas Holiday by W. Somerset Maugham 320 pages
496+480+320=1296 pages
points this post: 50
total points: 945
Andy P.Task # 25.8 -Andy P.’s Task: Choose Your Favorite List
Option 2, Rainforests and Jungles of the World
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II by Vicki Constantine Croke
found on page 1 # 13 on list as of 7/18/22
368 p.
Option 4 Choose a book from this list: Niche Non-Fiction
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone page 1 of list # 31 on list as of 7/18/22 444 p.
Page count: 368 + 444 = 812 p.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 330
Nick KY15.1 If I Were King of the Forest
Book 1. “Prince” in title. I read The Prince of Poison by Pamela Kaufman
Book 2. “Lion” in title. I read Lie Down with Lions by Ken Follett
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 475
Julia103 20.10 - Group Reads
The Maid
My comments are in post 22 of the discussion thread.
This post: 20 points
Total points: 295
BB: 8
GO: 0
NF: 1
Tasks Completed: 21
Books read: 26
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)25.3 - Cat's Task: Lion Range
No childrens, one graphic novel ok
Book 1: book set in one or more sub-Saharan country or countries.
Page Count: 336 Listened to audiobook link to PB edition Purple Hibiscus
Country: Nigeria per GR metadata/description
Purple Hibiscus
Book 2: read a book set in India
Page Count: 368 listened to audiobook Link to PB edition The Secrets Between Us
Country: India--First paragraph book description-- modern India.
The Secrets Between Us: A Novel
Points Earned This Post: 25
Points Achieved to Date:625/1050
Tasks Completed: 40/59
Maria Jo20.6 - It's a Fact - Trishhartuk's Task: Hugos Season
Option 1
Outlaw
Points this post: 20
Total points: 45
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)30.4- Dlmrose's Task: Sinistromanual
Option 3: Word Left, Lefty, or Lefties in title.
Page Count: 256--Listened to audiobook link to PB edition The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
ARBF Info: IL: MG - BL: 7.0 - AR Pts: 7.0
The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
Option 4:
Author who was born in/currently resides in the American South: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia
Required: Include a reference if the author’s status is not present in the GR bio.
Page Count: 371
Author born/lives: GR bio--Julie lives in North Texas
Dumplin'
Points Earned This Post: 30
Points Achieved to Date: 655/1050
Tasks Completed: 41/59
Current points: 050.1 A. Read one book for each chorus option.
Option 1: title begins with A,B, or C: American Royals by Katharine McGee 441 pages
Option 2: series #1, 2, or 3: The Lady of the Rivers (Plantagenet and Tudor Novels #1) by Philippa Gregory 502 pages
Option 3: do, re, or mi: re found in word ‘breath’: Last Breath by Rachel Caine 335 pages
Total pages = 1278 which is greater than required 750 :)
Points this post: 50
Total points: 50
Current points: 5030.9 Choose two options and read 1 book for each.
Option 1: title with two words starting with ‘the’ : The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
Option 3: series with at least 10 primary works. Morganville Vampires series has 15 primary works. Bite Club (Morganville Vampires #10) by Rachel Caine
Points this post: 30
Total points: 80
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)30.9 - Brooklyn's Task: The Purge
No children or kids as MPG can be used.
Option 2: single author who uses at least 1 initial in their name.
Page Count: 256
Author: P.L. Gaus
The Names of Our Tears
Option 3: part of a series that has at least 10 primary works.
Page Count: 308
Series: Booktown Mystery Series #8--16 primary works in series
Book Clubbed
Points Earned This Post: 30
Points Achieved to Date: 685/1050
Tasks Completed: 42/59
20.3 - Best Review-Kathy KS's Task: The Other Side of the RainbowA Marvellous Light (The Last Binding #1) by Freya Marske
author's initials, FM, found in l Frank bauM
Total this Post: 20
Bigger is Better: 7
It's a Fact: 2
Season Total: 550
Mod
(B) Option 3:
Book 1-
Doctor's Surprise Delivery by KC Crowne / DO in Doctor's; 314 pgs
Book 2-
Doctor's Secret by KC Crowne / RE in Secret; 238 pgs
Book 3-
Triplets for the Millionaire by KC Crowne / MI in Millionaire; 274 pgs
Total pages: 826 > 750
Points this post: 50
Total points: 460
Barbara ★5.8 - Meanwhile, Back in Oz....
Read a book with a yellow letter on its cover - the entire word need not be yellow, but there must be at least one letter that is completely yellow.
Home Again - Mariah Stewart 7/17
(author's entire name is in yellow)
Points this task: 5
Total points: 410
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (1) 1000 (0)
Mai30.8 - Tien’s Task: Drinks to keep you Warm
2. Coffee Book with a MPG Crime AND “kill” found intact in title and/or subtitle.
A Line To Kill by Anthony Horowitz
(375 pages)
4. Alcohol: Book with a MPG Speculative Fiction AND where cover prominently features an animal
Bellwether by Connie Willis(248 pages)
623 pages in total
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 425
Tasks Completed: 25
Books Read: 33
NF Tickets: 16
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 1
Coralie30.4 Sinistromanual
Option 1: Book with a word in the title that can be typed solely by the left hand – VAST
Sisters of the Vast Black
Option 3: Book with LEFT in title
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Total to date 415 points
trishhartuk20.6 It's a Fact - Trishhartuk's Task: Hugos Season
Option 1: Read a book with an MPG of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Science Fiction Fantasy.
Swordheart, T Kingfisher
Read the kindle edition. PB: here
Fantasy: 967 users
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 100
Tasks Completed: 5
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.1 "I'll Take Lyricists for $1000, Alex"
For Better or Worsted: A Crochet Mystery by Betty Hechtman
Points this post: 5
Total points: 315/1050
Tasks completed: 19/59
Books read: 25
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.3 Press Play
How Y'All Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived by Leslie Jordan
Audie Award for Best Humor (2022),
Points this post: 10
Total points: 325/1050
Tasks completed: 20/59
Books read: 26
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.6 It's a Fact - Trishhartuk's Task: Hugos Season
Option 1: A Sixer of Tequila by Tricia O'Malley
Points this post: 20
Total points: 345/1050
Tasks completed: 21/59
Books read: 27
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.9 Moderators' Pet - CynBaxter's Task - The Underscore
Option 1: Our Broken Earth by Demitria Lunetta
EARTH = HERnerT pope stothArt
Points this post: 20
Total points: 365/1050
Tasks completed: 22/59
Books read: 28
Bookwrm526Task #30.7 - Poppy the three-legged dog
Read a book with exactly three P's in any combination of title, sub-title, series name and author. You may choose any single source or combination of those sources, but there must be exactly 3 Ps in source/combo. I read Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer, which has two Ps in the title and one in the subtitle.
Total points so far: 260
MAZZA130.7 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: Doublejs Doubled
Option 1:
Read a book by a single, male author whose first name begins with the letter "J."
All The Broken Places I received an ARC of this book via netgalley John Boyne
All the Broken Places is HB with page numbers
Option 2
Read a book with a MPG genre Horror.
Nightmare Alley: approved here in help thread https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post = 30
Points to date = 670
Mod
30.4- Dlmrose's Task: Sinistromanual
Option 1: Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title made of letters typed solely by the left hand on a QWERTY keyboard: (Street)
The Girl On Legare Street. Karen White
Option 4: Read a book by an author who was born in or currently resides in the American South. (She was born in rural South Carolina)
Geekerella. Ashley Poston
Points this post: 30
Total points: 470/1050
Tasks completed: 27/59
Books read: 35
Big Book tickets: 3
Golden Oldies tickets: 2
It's a Fact ticket: 10
Task 50.1 - "I'm Going to Teach You How to Sing it Out"750+ pages total
book 1: A title
Ariadne
389 pages
book 2: #2 in series
The Fires of Vengeance
528 pages - claiming 1 BB tix
book 3: RE in maigREt's
Maigret's Anger
160 pages
389+528+160 = 1077 pages >750
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705 points
12 BB tix
2 GO tix
1 NF tix
Task 5.3 - Song of the Century?The Quiet American
AMERICAN listed
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710 points
12 BB tix
2 GO tix
1 NF tix
Kai15.8 There's More than One of Us
Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle from this list of collective nouns for animals
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson
Murder = Crows
New Points: 15
Total Points: 95
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Claimed for Challenge: 7
Jen K30.4- Dlmrose's Task: Sinistromanual
Option 1: Fresh Water for Flowers
Word: WATER
qWERT
Asdfg
Option 4: The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
Born in North Carolina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy...
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 180
IAF: 4
BB: 1
Jen K20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Book Concierge’s Task: Family Vacations
Option C: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
roAd Trip
335 pages > 250 pages
*****
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 200
IAF: 4
BB: 1
Pat15.2 ~ The Long and Short of It
Book 1 ~ Read a short book – 100-200 pages.
The Assault by Harry MulischRead ~ 7.3.22
Pages ~ 193
How it Fits ~ Between 100&200 pages
Book 2 ~ Read a long book – at least 400 pages.
Broken Harbour by Tana FrenchRead ~ 7.17.22
Pages ~ 559
How it Fits ~
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Points this Task ~ 15
Total Points ~ 315
Total Books ~ 21
Total Pages ~ 7,777
Andy P.30.5 - Sandy's Task: Impress Your Friends!
Book 1 – chose 1 of these words and read a book with a title (not subtitle) containing a word of at least 4 letters that can be made from the letters in the target word.
Word chosen: 1. grandiloquent
target word is LAND
No Man's Land by David Baldacci 464 p.
Book 2 – chose a second (different) word, and read a book with a single author with one name part that can be made from the letters in the target word.
Word Chosen: quintessence
The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen
349 p .Author's first name is TESS
word count: 349 + 464= 813>goo p, requirement
Points this post: 30
Total points: 360
UNCLAIMING THIS POSTTask:15.6. Leo the Lion. [author’s initials in LEO THE LION]
Book read:Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
Required: E in Leo, I in Lion
I claim one It's A Fact! ticket as this is non-fiction.
Points this task:15
Total points:95
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:1
Books read:6
Tasks completed:5
20.6 - It's a Fact - Trishhartuk's Task: Hugos SeasonOption 1: Read a book with an MPG of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Science Fiction Fantasy.
We Hear Voices
MPG Science Fiction
Points Earned This Post: 20
Total Points Earned: 250
It's A Fact Tickets: 3
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 1
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Task:50.1 Lisa MD: “I’M GOING TO TEACH YOU HOW TO SING IT OUT”(A) Read one book for each chorus option
Option:1- first word of the title begins with either the letter A, B, or C
Book read:Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
Required: begins with B
Page count:348
This is non fiction so I claim 1 it's a fact! ticket
Option:2-book which is either number 1,2, or 3 in a series
Book read:The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
Required: number 2 in the disc world series
Page count:277 pages
Option:3- book with either “do,” “re,” or “mi” found intact in a title word
Book read:Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Required: re in wheRE'd
Page count:330
Total page count: 348+277+330 = 955/750
Points this task:50
Total points:205
Total Golden Oldies:2
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:1
Books read:13
Tasks completed:10
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)5.6 - Happy Happy Joy Joy
Setting 50% or more in one of the 10 happiest countries in the world ( per the World Happiness Report):
Finland,Denmark,Iceland,Switzerland,Netherlands,Luxembourg,Sweden,Norway,Israel,New Zealand
Page Count: 336 Listened to audiobook link to HB edition The Reckless Kind
Country: 1904 Norway per GR description
The Reckless Kind
Points Earned This Post: 5
Points Achieved to Date: 690/1050
Tasks Completed: 43/59
Amy FL10.7 - To The Sea
(approved in message 2)Points this post: 10
Total points: 490
Amy FL15.10 – Location, Location, Locations
The Night Shift - At the office
Points this post: 15
Total points: 505
Amy FL20.3 - Best Review-Kathy KS's Task: The Other Side of the Rainbow
Option 1: An Imperfect Plan by Addison McKnight - AM (l frAnk bauM)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 525
Amy FL20.9 - Moderators' Pet - CynBaxter's Task - The Underscore
Option 1: The Other People - OTHER (HERberT pOpE)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 545
Amy FL30.8 - Tien’s Task: Drinks to keep you Warm
2. Coffee: Hard Kill - KILL and MPG Mystery > Crime
3. Hot Chocolate: Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover - CH in CHocolate and MPG Romance
Points this post: 30
Total points: 575
Kathy KS30.9 - Brooklyn's Task: The Purge
Option 3: Read a book that is part of a series that has at least 10 primary works. Required: State the name of the series and how many primary works have been published in the series to date.
Rest You Merry, by Charlotte MacLeod
Series: Peter Shandy #1 (10 books published)
I read a large print edition; mmpb=142 p.
Option 4: Read a book with either a cake or balloons on the cover. REQUIRED:: Include the cover in your post.
, by Sandra BalzoI read an ebook; pb-184 p. (no mmpb)
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 350
Tasks completed: 17/59
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: 3
Barbara ★5.5 - Making the World Go Round
Read a book in which a monetary unit is found intact in the title or subtitle.
Bad Penny - Sharon Sala 7/18
Points this task: 5
Total points: 415
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (1) 1000 (0)
Mod
25.4 - Lauren Jodi's Task: Literary Lions
Option 3: Read a retelling of the classic "Beauty and the Beast" fairytale from one of the following lists (the book must meet SRC requirements):
Best Retellings of Beauty and the Beast (page 1)
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast. Robin McKinley
Option 2: Read a book set at least 50% in one of the following countries that has a lion on its national flag - Spain
A Long Petal of the Sea. Isabel Allende
Points this post: 25
Total points: 495/1050
Tasks completed: 29/59
Books read: 35
Big Book tickets: 3
Golden Oldies tickets: 2
It's a Fact ticket: 10
Readerboard Name Jammin JennySummer 2022 SRC
5.2- Oscar Time, Baby!
Read a book with a word of four or more letters in the title/subtitle that can be made from "OVER THE RAINBOW". All letters in the title word must be found in the target phrase, and letters can be used only as often as they appear in the target phrase.
Bear Witness, word is BEAR, ovER the rAinBow
Points this post: 5
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 265
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 1
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
MEGSCL30.4- Dlmrose's Task: Sinistromanual
Option 1 - (dear) Dear Mrs. Bird
Book 2 - Network Effect (Martha Wells is from Texas)
TOTAL
375 points
3 big book - 1 It’s a Fact - 2 Golden Oldie
Theresa5.7 - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
The Rise of Magicks by Nora Roberts
"That Old Black Magic"
Points this post - 5
Total points - 35
Theresa5.8 - Meanwhile Back in Oz...
by Joshilyn JacksonAll letters in the title are yellow
Points this post - 5
Total points - 40
30.4- Dlmrose's Task: SinistromanualOption 1, a word of at least 4 letters in the title made of letters typed by the left hand on a QWERTY keyboard: The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
The word is Greta
Option 3, the word Left in the title: We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year by Charles Wheelan
Points this post: 30
Total points: 435
DOM30.9 - Brooklyn's Task: The Purge
Option 1:
Read a book with a 2 word title where the first word is THE.
The Waterhole by Lily Malone
2 word title, first word THE.
Option 2:
Read a book by a single author who uses at least 1 initial in their name.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
One initial 'F' in author's name.
Also claim one golden oldie point for this book, which was first published in 1925.
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 235
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 19
It's a Fact: 1
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 1
Task 25.5 - Just a Dandy-Lionoption 2: question mark in title
Can You Forgive Her?
847pages - claiming 2 BB tix
pub 1865 - claiming 1 GO tix
option 4: author initials in BETCHA
They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
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730 points
14 BB tix
3 GO tix
1 NF tix
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20.1 - Most Improved Player - Paul's Task: Dancing With the Stars
Read a book of 200 or more pages that meets one of two options.
Option 1: read a book with an MPG of DANCE, MUSIC, or THEATER/THEATRE.
🦁The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
MPG: Music
368 pages
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 305/1050
Total Books Read: 21
Tasks Completed: 16/59
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Non Fiction Tickets: 2