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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2022
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read a book set in the united kingdom. I read It’s in His Kiss which takes place in England
points for this task: 10
total points: 25
books read: 4
tasks done: 4
5.7- I'd Like to Teach the World to SingRead a book with a word of at least four or more letters from the title of one of the above songs found intact in its title/subtitle.
You Will Love What You Have Killed
LOVE Matches "Let's Fall in Love" – lyrics by Ted Koehler
Points Earned This Post: 5
Total Points Earned: 5
It's A Fact Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
15.5 – Of Course I'm Brave, I've Got a Medal!Read a book with a MPG of Adventure or Action.
Red Dust
MPG Adventure
Points Earned This Post: 15
Total Points Earned: 20
It's A Fact Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Amy B20.3 - Best Review-Kathy KS's Task: The Other Side of the Rainbow
Pick one of the following options and read a book that meets the requirements. Required: Identify the option.
Option 1. Read a book whose author’s initials (all of them) can be found in his name: L FRANK BAUM.
Significant Others by Armistead Maupin
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 20 Points
ROBIN P5.1 "I'll Take Lyricists for $1000, Alex"
Author initials in EDSEL YIPSEL HARBURG
The Second Mountain - David Brooks
**claiming 1 IAF point, book is nonfiction**
Points this post: 5
Total points: 45
BB:0 GO:0 IAF: 2
Ava Catherine20.6 - It's a Fact - Trishhartuk's Task: Hugos Season
Option 2:
Read a book at least 50% set in Florida or Illinois USA; Canada; China; or Scotland; or by an author born in one of these states or countries.
The Chessmen (set completely in Scotland)
by Peter May
Also, author born and raised in Scotland http://www.ur-web.net/PeterMayMain/pe...
points this task: 20
total points: 80
Mai15.5 – Of Course I'm Brave, I've Got a Medal!
Book with a MPG of Adventure
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Ava Catherine15.1 – If I were King of the Forest!
Book 1 – Read a book with King, Queen, Princess, or Prince in its title.
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
AND
Book 2 – Read a book with “Lion” found intact in a word in its title.
When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys by Thomas Maier
points this post: 15
total points: 95
Ava Catherine10.1 - Cowardly
Read a book with a word in the title that ENDS in LY.
Holy Orders by Benjamin Black
points this task: 10
total points: 105
Ava Catherine10.5 - Girls Together
Read a book written by at least 2 women.
The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
points this task: 10
total points: 115
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)15.2 – The Long and the Short of It
Book 1 – Read a short book – 100-200 pages.
Page Count: read ebook edition(153 pgs)--Link to PB edition(180 pgs) The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition
Book 2 – Read a long book – at least 400 pages.
Page Count: 416
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Points Earned This Post: 15
Points Achieved to Date: 60/1070
Tasks Completed: 6/60
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)10.4 - Fields of Poppies
MPG World War I-standalone or embedded.
Page Count: 336--Listened to audiobook link to PB edition A Duty To The Dead
A Duty To The Dead
Points Earned This Post: 10
Points Achieved to Date: 70/1070
Tasks Completed: 7/60
Task 15.9 - The End of Slavery!Read a book from the first 25 pages of one of these lists :
Civil War Books
Antebellum Books
On June 7, 2022:
Page Nine of Civil War Books:
The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union (2011) by John Lockwood and Charles Lockwood (Hardcover, 320 pages) [973.731]
** The Siege of Washington: The Untold Story of the Twelve Days That Shook the Union is an It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction) Book**
00 + 15 = 15
Tasks Completed: 01
Points for this post: 15
Points thus far: 00 + 15 = 15
Books read: 01
Pages read: 320
Read but not claimed: 00
Goodreads Authors: 00
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 01
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
5.4 - The 1938 Hit ParadeRead a book written by a single author who shares a name with these musical artists from 1938
The name I chose was Andrew from 2: The Andrews Sisters ► Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
I listened to an audio version of Brat: An '80s Story by Andrew McCarthy
***Claiming an It's a Fact ticket for Nonfiction***
New Points: 5
Total Points: 45
IF: 2
Andy P.Task # 10.2 - What A Drag It Is Getting Old
Read a book with a word of at least three letters in the title or subtitle from a song title from the setlist
song chosen: Don't Stay Out All Night
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 70
Mod
5.1 - "I'll Take Lyricists for $1000, Alex"
Read a book by an author all of whose initials appear in EDSEL YIPSEL HARBURG.
Newspaper, Pennies, Cardboard, and Eggs--For Growing a Better Garden: More than 400 New, Fun, and Ingenious Ideas to Keep Your Garden Growing Great All Season Long. Roger Yepsen
1 IAF ticket
Points this post: 5
Total points: 60/1070
Tasks completed: 5/60
Books read: 5
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 1
ROBIN P20.5 Book Concierge's Task: Family Vacations
Book over 250 pages
Option D: MPG Family
Crossroads
**claiming 1 BB ticket, 592 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 65
BB:1 GO:0 IAF:2
Deborah5.10 - Swing, Baby, Swing!
Trick or Treat
Does not appear on either AR bookfinder or AR bookfinder UK
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 40
Books Read: 5
Tasks Done: 5
Jasmiina F20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Coralie's Task: Poppy the three-legged dog:
Read a book with exactly three P's in any combination of title, sub-title, series name and author:
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda.
Pablo neruda: twenty love Poems and a song of desPair.
*Golden Oldies ticket, book published first in 1924.*
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Golden Oldies this post: 1
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+:
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
5.5 - Making the World Go RoundRead a book in which a monetary unit is found intact in the title or subtitle
Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong. Dime is my monrtary unit
Points rhis post: 5
Total points: 95
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 9
Big Book tickets: 4
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
10.10 - Liquid CourageRead a book with a type of beverage in the title or subtitle
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell: Unabridged Selections by Tucker Max. Beer is my beverage
Points this post: 10
Total points: 105
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 10
Big Book tickets: 4
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
Amy B20.10 - Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Summer 2022 season. The requirement for this task: you must participate in the book's discussion thread below with at least one post about the contents of the book or your reaction to the book after you have read the book.
Posted 6/8
Fiction - Cozy Mysteries - The Maid by Nita Prose
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 40 Points
15.10 – Location, Location, LocationsThe Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
Setting: In a library
Total this Post: 15
It's a Fact: 1
Season Total: 55
Task:10.10 - Liquid Courage [ a book with a type of beverage in the title or subtitle]Book read:Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Required: Milk is listed under See Also at the bottom of the link page. It is a breakfast drink. - confirmed in message 13 of the help thread.
Points this task:10
Total points:40
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:0
Books read:3
Tasks completed:2
MAZZA125.4 - Lauren Jodi's Task: Literary Lions
Read 2 books from different options
Option 2 Aslan
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the following countries that has a lion on its national flag - USING SPAIN
Leaving the Atocha Station GR data shows it set in Madrid, Spain
Option 3: The Lady and the Lion
Read a retelling of the classic "Beauty and the Beast" from one of lists
Bryony and Roses
Page 1 of this list https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Points this post = 25
Points to date = 165
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.8 Apple II
Shine your Icy Crown by Amanda Lovelace
(You Are Your Own Fairy Tale #2)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Katrisa10.6 - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Read a book from the first 25 pages shelved as Aliens
I read Saga, Volume 1 from page 2 of the list
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 60
Ava Catherine30.1 - Katrisa's Task: I Love Santa Fe!
Option 2:
Read a book with the word SILVER intact in title/subtitle/series title or author’s name.
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
Option 5:
Read a book set in the 1930s.
Wingwalkers by Taylor Brown
"The novel braids the adventures of Della and Zeno Marigold, a vagabond couple that funds their journey to the west coast in the middle of the Great Depression by performing death-defying aerial stunts from town to town, together with the life of the author (and thwarted fighter pilot) William Faulkner, whom the couple ultimately inspires during a dramatic air show—with unexpected consequences for all."
from the GR metadata
points this post: 30
total points: 145
Sara G15.3 – Just Call Me Judy
Option 2 – Read one book that satisfies the requirements for both books for option 1.
The Stone Monkey by Jeffery Deaver
Author's initials JD in JUDY GARLAND
Title initials TSM in FRANCES ETHEL GUMM
Points this post: 15
Total points: 40
Mai 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Coralie's Task: Poppy the three-legged dog
Book with exactly three P's in the subtitle
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 35
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
20.10 Group ReadsAn Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
I posted in comment 21 of the discussion thread
Points This Post: 20
Points Total: 25
(reposting from 84 correcting lack of link to the book)
LAUREN JODI20.3 - Best Review-Kathy KS's Task: The Other Side of the Rainbow
Option A: Author initials in L FRANK BAUM
Island of Glass by Nora Roberts
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 40/1050
Total Books Read: 2
Total Tasks Completed: 2/59
Task:20.9 - Moderators' Pet - CynBaxter's Task - The UnderscoreOption:3- a book that is first in a series
Book read:Green Angel by Alice Hoffman
Required:book number 1 in the green angel series.
Points this task:20
Total points:60
Total Golden Oldies:0
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:0
Books read:4
Tasks completed:3
MAZZA130.4- Dlmrose's Task: Sinistromanual
Read two books from two different options.
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:
Using the word TREE -
The Dance Tree
Option 2: Sinister, Latin for left, used to refer to something of, on, or towards the left-hand side of the body.
Read a book that has been shelved as Sinister on list https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Crazy Love You
On page 4 of list
Points this post = 30
Points to date = 195
15.9 - The End of Slavery!Read a book from the first 25 pages of one of these lists: Antebellum Books
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear Audiobook
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear PB 537 pages
Antebellum List Page 4
Claiming 1 Big Book Ticket (500+ Pages)
Claiming 1 It's a Fact Ticket - Nonfiction
Points Earned This Post: 15
Total Points Earned: 35
It's A Fact Tickets: 1
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 1
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Mod
Option D-
The Summer Getaway by Susan Mallery / MPG of Family
genre noted in case it disappeared before verification(but still last on list right now): https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Mod
Option B-
Servant Mage by Kate Elliott / MPG of LGBT>Queer
Points this post: 20
Total points: 40
Mod
Option 3-
The Best Friend Bargain by Crystal Kaswell / 1st in series
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Mod
Crazy Beautiful by Jessica Prince / 2nd in series
Points this post: 10
Total points: 70
JEN B20.10 - Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Summer 2022 season.
Fiction - Cozy Mysteries - The Maid.
The Maid by Nita Prose
Discussion Post #11
TOTAL POINTS: 40
Mod
25.8 -Andy P.’s Task: Choose Your Favorite List
For this challenge choose two different lists and read one book from each.
Option 1. Choose a book from this list Books About Books and Libraries (Page 1)
84, Charing Cross Road. Helene Hanff - 97 pages
Option 4 Choose a book from this list: Niche Non-Fiction (Page 1)
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World. Stephen Brusatte (404 pages)
1 IAF ticket
Points this post: 25
Total points: 85/1070
Tasks completed: 6/60
Books read: 7
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 2
Cindy FTask 5.3 Song Of The Century
Match word in title "TAKE" Song 8 Take me out to the Ballgame
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Points this post:5
Total points:20
Books read:3
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:1
Non Fiction:1
Tasks completed:3
Bookwrm526Task #20.3 - The Other Side of the Rainbow
Option 1: Read a book whose author’s initials (all of them) can be found in his name: L FRANK BAUM. I read The Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan.
Total points so far: 45
Bookwrm526Task #15.7 - If You Don’t Want Me to Read It, I Surely Will!
Read a book from this list: Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books. I read O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, from page 5 of the list.
Total points so far: 60
Mary P15.4 – Summer Road Trip-North and South
Option 1
Book 1 – Read a book set at least 50% in one of these states.
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine.
Midnight Rain by James Newman
Set in North Carolina.
Book 2 – Read a book with a motor vehicle on the cover.
by Fannie FlaggPoints this task: 15
Total points: 55
10.8 - Apple II #2 in a series: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (Thursday Murder Club #2)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 45
SandiCompleted Task
5.5 - Making the World Go Round
Monetary Unit found intact in title. Using the word pound. One country that uses pound as part of their currency is the United Kingdom. The word in the title in which the word pound can be found is Compound.
The Compound by S.A. Bodeen
**POINT SUMMARY**
Previous Points Earned: 0
Points Earned this Post: 5
Total Points To Date: 5
Coralie20.10 Group Reads
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good
Post 23 in discussion thread
Total to date 45 points
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)25.1 -MegSCL's Task: Best and Worst of the Spring Challenge
Book 1/Option 2 -
Favorite book--Forbidden--Link to Spring 2022 Post
-Word in title (no subtitles) that is same word in title (no subtitles) of favourite book.
Page Count: 192 pgs
Word: Forbidden
Spencer's Forbidden Passion
Book 2 /Option 3 Least Favorite Book--Sing, Unburied, Sing--Link to Spring 2022 Post
-"Readers also enjoyed" on your book's main page--Link https://www.goodreads.com/book/simila...
Page Count: 480--Listened to Audiobook Link to PB Harlem Shuffle
Approval Link: Message 29 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Harlem Shuffle
Points Earned This Post: 25
Points Achieved to Date:95/1070
Tasks Completed: 8/60
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5.3 - Song of the Century?
Read a book with a word in the title that is also found in the title of one of the top 10 songs
Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
"Land" is found in Song #3 This land is your land
Points this post: 5
Tasks completed: 1
Total Points: 5