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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2022
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50.1 Lisa MD: “I’M GOING TO TEACH YOU HOW TO SING IT OUT”(B)- Option 3, DO, RE, MI
1. The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation by Elizabeth Letts, 329 pages. DO in DOllar
**Claiming 1 It's a Fact Ticket - Nonfiction
2. The Integral Trees by Larry Niven, 272 pages. RE in tREes
3. Atomic Lobster by Tim Dorsey, 352 pages. MI in atoMIc
Books this post: 3 books, totalling 953 pages
Total books: 8
Points this post: 50
Total points: 120
IAF tickets this post: 1
Total IAF tickets: 1
MEGSCL5.10 - Swing, Baby, Swing!
No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis
TOTAL
970 points
5 big book - 7 It’s a Fact - 3 Golden Oldie
MEGSCL15.4 – Summer Road Trip-North and South
Option 2 - set in NY
TOTAL
985 points
5 big book - 7 It’s a Fact - 3 Golden Oldie
MEGSCL25.4 - Lauren Jodi's Task: Literary Lions
Option 1: feather on the cover. (just above author’s surname)
Option 3: Beauty and the Beast list page 1
Wuthering Heights
TOTAL
1010 points
5 big book - 7 It’s a Fact - 3 Golden Oldie
MEGSCL25.7 - Hannelore’s Task: Hoi! Nice to meet you!
Option 1: Read a book by an author who has one name part that is a palindrome.
Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here by Anna Breslaw
Option 3: Read a book with a MPG of ‘Art’
Still Life
TOTAL
1035 points
5 big book - 7 It’s a Fact - 3 Golden Oldie
JUKKA5.3 - Song of the Century?
Book whose title contains a word from a title of one of the listed songs.
American Flagg!: Definitive Collection by Howard Chaykin. The word is "American", from "American Pie".
Total Points: 495/1050
Total Books Read: 40
Tasks Completed: 32/59
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 5
25.1 - MegSCL's Task: Best and Worst of the Spring ChallengeBook 1 - use your favourite book read during the spring challenge period (March, April, May): Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor
Option 3 - read a book listed as "Readers also enjoyed" on your book's main page.
The Whispering by Veronica Lando
Book 2 - use your least favourite book read during the spring challenge period (March, April, May): Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Option 1 - read a book by the same author as your least favourite book
Freya of the Seven Isles by Joseph Conrad
1x Golden Oldies tix (pub. 1912)
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 10
It's a Fact: 5
Season Total: 945
5.8 - Meanwhile, Back in Oz....Read a book with a yellow letter on its cover
Yellow letter can be found in the author's name/series title (L. J Smith, Night World). Can also be found in the tagline ("She's out for revenge!") for a slightly different shade of yellow.
by LJ SmithBB tickets overall: 3
IAF tickets overall: 2
Points this task: 5
Total Points: 325
Task:5.4 - The 1938 Hit Parade[ a book written by a single author who shares a name with these musical artists ]Book read:Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite by Andrew Jenkinson
Required: Andrew matches the Andrew's sisters [Andrew specifically allowed in task description]
I claim 1 It's A Fact! ticket as this is non-fiction.
Points this task:5
Total points:310
Total Golden Oldies:3
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:3
Books read:20
Tasks completed:16
HanneloreTask 5.9 - Rescued from the Cutting Room Floor
Read a book that does not contain the word "the" in its title, and that is not part of a series.
Book: Grand Jury
How it fits: Book title doesn't contain "the" and book is not part of a series.
CLAIMING 1 BB TICKET --> Book is 655 pages long.
Points this task: 5
Total points: 100
Tasks completed: 11
BB tickets:
(2) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
IAF tickets: 0
HanneloreTask 30.9 - Brooklyn's Task: The Purge
For this task choose 2 of the following options and read 1 book for each.
Option 2: Read a book by a single author who uses at least 1 initial in their name.
Book: Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014
How it fits: Author uses 1 initial; Ursula K Le Guin
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. The series name and number must be shown on the main book page in grayscale after the title.
Book: De Cock en de moord op Anna Bentveld
How it fits: Name of the series is De Cock, it has 90 primary works.
Points this task: 30
Total points: 130
Tasks completed: 12
BB tickets:
(2) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
IAF tickets: 0
Delicious Dee25.5 - Amy FL’s task: Just a Dandy-Lion
Option 3 - Stolen by Starlight - Sara Ivy Hill - Sara and Hill both have 4 letters, ignoring middle name
Option 4 - The Vacuum of Space - Julia Huni - JH found in BETCHA CAN’T EAT JUST ONE
Points This Post: 25
Points Total: 765
Readerboard Name: Keli30.4- Dlmrose's Task: Sinistromanual
August 13 is International Left-Handers Day
Book #1
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:
QWERT
ASDFG
ZXCVB
Book: Grave War - 21/08/22 (The word GRAVE is all from the left hand side of a qwerty keyboard)
Book #2
Option 4: Read a book by an author who was born in or 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
Shakespeare's Christmas- 29/06/22 (Charlaine Harris Louisiana)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 190
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 13
Nick KY20.7 Coralie’s Poppy
With Exactly Three “P”s in title and author’s name, I read The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate by Peter Brook.
P in “Empty”
P in “Space”
P in Peter
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 1030
Nick KY20.3 Kathy KS's Other Side of the Rainbow
Opt. 1. With the author’s initials in “l frank bAuM," I read Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 1050
Christine V10.9 - Her Majesty
The Dry
This book is set 100% in Australia.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 155
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 9
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 1
Task:5.1 - "I'll Take Lyricists for $1000, Alex" [an author all of whose initials appear in EDSEL YIPSEL HARBURG]
Book read:The Father by August Strindberg
Required: initials AS in yipSel hArburg
I claim 1 golden oldie ticket as this was first published in 1887
Points this task:5
Total points:295
Total Golden Oldies:3
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:3
Books read:20
Tasks completed:16
Mai15.3 – Just Call Me Judy
Option 1:
Book 1 - Author whose initials can be found in Judy Garland.
Listening to People: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up by Annette Lareau
*Claim 1 NF Ticket*
Book 2 – Title of at least 3 words, with the initial letter of each word found in Frances Ethel Gumm.
The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI by Ben Buchanan
*Claim 1 NF Ticket*
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 895
Tasks Completed: 53
Books Read: 72
NF Tickets: 41
Golden Oldies: 5
Big Books: 2
trishhartuk20.9 Moderators' Pet - CynBaxter's Task - The Underscore
Option 3: Read a book that is first in a series.
Bridge of Birds (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox #1), Barry Hughart
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 505
Tasks Completed: 25
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
It’s a Fact Tickets: 3
Big Book Tickets: 1
Andy P.Task # 15.6. Leo the Lion.
Read a book with the author’s initials (all of them) appearing in LEO THE LION.
Seasonal Work: Stories by Laura Lippman
L in Leo and Lion
Points this post: 15
Total points: 965
Sarah E30.2 - TessaVanessa's Task: Consonant Clusters
Book 1: The Honeymoon Cottage by Barbara Cool Lee
Using consonant cluster BL, ignoring middle initials
I read a kindle edition, top paperback - no MMP - is The Honeymoon Cottage
Book 2: Bad Blood - word is BLood
I read an ebook, MMP is Bad Blood
Total Points: 185
Andy P.15.9 - The End of Slavery!
Read a book from the first 25 pages of one of these lists :
Antebellum Books
The Crescent Spy byMichael Wallace
Page 2 #5 on list as of 8/26/22
Points this post: 15
Total points: 980
Sarah E30.6 - Nick KY’s Task: The White Tiger
Option 2: letters “T I G E R” in the title
This Is Your Own Time You’re Wasting: Classroom Confessions, Calamities and Clangers
ThIs you'RE wastinG
I read a kindle edition, the only print edition is the hardcover - This Is Your Own Time You’re Wasting: Classroom Confessions, Calamities and Clangers - 336 pages
Option 4: set at least 50% in India
The White Tiger - set completely in India
I read an ebook, top MMP is The White Tiger - 276 pages
336 + 276 = 612 pages
Total Points: 215
Andy P.Task # 50.1 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 numbers
Book 1 The Cipher by Isabella Maldonado #1 in Nina Guerrera series
Book 2 A Different Dawn by Isabella Maldonado #2 in Nina Guerrera series
Book 3 The Falcon by Isabella Maldonado # 3 in Nina Guerrera series
page count: 336 +350 +334 =1020 pages above 750 p. minimum
Points this post: 50
Total points: 1030
Mod
Kathy KS**UNCLAIM!!** Stats adjusted below.
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.
Required: State the song : Don't Stay Out All Night
Night Hawk: A Western Story by Stephen Overholser
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Points for this task: 0
Total points : 760-10=750
Tasks completed: 35/59-1=34/59
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 3
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 8
MAZZA110.5 - Girls Together
August 1 is Girlfriends Day.
Read a book written by at least 2 women.
Cold Kill: Monkeewrench Book 7
The author page of PJ Tracy https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... them as a mother/ daughter writing duo
points this post = 10
Points to date = 1040
Kathy KS25.1 - MegSCL's Task: Best and Worst of the Spring Challenge
This is a two book challenge, read one book for Book 1 and one for Book 2.
Book 1 - Favorite book, Spring: The House in the Cerulean Sea
Option 2 - read a book with a word in the title (no subtitles) that is the same as a word in the title (no subtitles) of your favourite book.
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Word: HOUSE
Book 2 - Least Favorite book, Spring: A Night to Surrender
Option 2 - read a book with a word in the title (no subtitles) that is the same as a word in the title (no subtitles) of your least favourite book.
Night Hawk: A Western Story by Stephen Overholser
Word: NIGHT
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Points for this task: 25
Total points : 775
Tasks completed: 35/59
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 3
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 8
Lisa MDRepost from #2777 to include cover
25.10 - Jen K's Task: Malawi and Zambia
Option 1:
Read a book that is #1 in a series.
🦁Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Series: The Rokebys
384 pages
Option 3:
Read a book with a cover that includes the colors black, red AND green. Use Tineye to confirm the presence of all 3 colors, any percentage is fine.
🦁The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
373 pages
TinEye: Black 9.1%, Red 3.6%, Green 4%
https://labs.tineye.com/color/b10f92e...
🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 815/1050
Total Books Read: 60
Tasks Completed: 41/59
Big Book Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Non Fiction Tickets: 10
Sara G10.8 - Apple II
Read a book that is number #2 in a series. The series name and number must be indicated in the GR title listing in grayscale parentheses following the title.
Vengeful by V.E. Schwab
I read the Kindle edition. The paperback (no MMPB) here has 512 pages.
**Vengeful is a Big Book (512 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket.**
Points this post: 10
Total points: 395
Sara G5.10 - Swing, Baby, Swing!
Relax to some great old-time music (preferably by Arlen or Harburg) as you select your free choice book that meets SRC requirements. Books with the MPG children or kids that are NOT found in ARBF may be used for this task.
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat by Matt Siegel
**The Secret History of Food is nonfiction (MPG Nonfiction). I claim one It's a Fact ticket.**
Points this post: 5
Total points: 400
Sara G30.5 - 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. ALL letters in the word must be found in the target word, and letters can be used only as often as they appear.
I chose the word "grandiloquent."
The Silent Tide by Rachel Hore
The word "tide" can be found in granDIloquEnT.
I read the Kindle edition. The paperback (no MMPB) here has 514 pages.
**The Silent Tide is a Big Book (514 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket.**
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.
I chose the word "magniloquence."
Nimisha's Ship by Anne McCaffrey
The author's first name Anne can be found in mAgNiloquENce.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 430
Angela IL30.4- 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:
QWERT
ASDFG
ZXCVB
After Anna by Lisa Scottoline- 8/26
Word Used: After
Option 2: Read a book that has been shelved as Sinister:
Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica- 8/24
On Page 5
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 575
Books Read: 39
Tasks Completed: 24
BB Ticket: 1
NF Ticket: 1
Joanne MI25.2 - XBM's Task: A's all around
Book 1: with 3 or more A's in the title/subtitle
An Autumn War
Book 2: with 3 or more A's in the author's name.
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
Points this task 25
Total Points 400
BB's 6
IAF 9
30.3 - Schatzie's Task : Escaping My BoxBook 1: Book 1: Read a nonfiction book with a main page genre of Health.
I read an ebook edition of The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss 315 pages
This book was new to me
Book 2: Read a book with a main page genre of Urban Fantasy or Epic Fantasy.
Awakened 304 pages (genre approved in help thread)
This book was new to me
New Points: 30
Total Points: 525
IF: 5
LaureY5.1 - "I'll Take Lyricists for $1000, Alex"
Read a book by an author all of whose initials appear in EDSEL YIPSEL HARBURG.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Points this post: 5
Total points: 165
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies:0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 3
LaureY10.9 - Her Majesty
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the following countries: United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).
It Takes Two to Tumble by Cat Sebastian
Points this post: 10
Total points: 175
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies:0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 3
LaureY20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Book Concierge’s Task: Family Vacations
Option B:
• Read a book that is set at least 50% in either California or Mexico.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The book has 352 pages.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 195
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies:0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 3
ROBIN P25.3 - Cat's Task: Lion Range
1. Book set in sub-Saharan country
Nervous Conditions set in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe per GR book details
2. Book set in India - Murder in Old Bombay set in India per GR description
Points this post: 25
Total points: 615
BB:5 GO:4 IAF:5
Shelby
5.1 - "I'll Take Lyricists for $1000, Alex"
Read a book by an author all of whose initials appear in EDSEL YIPSEL HARBURG.: Boyfriend 101, by Riley Hart
How Fits: Author - Riley Hart
Points this post: 5
Total points: 5
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
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".: Breath, by A.J. Sherwood
How Fits: Title - BREATH
Points this post: 5
Total points: 10
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
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 (per RIAA) of the twentieth century.: Game On, by Riley Hart
How Fits: Song - Take Me Out to the Ball Game / Title - Game On
Points this post: 5
Total points: 15
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
5.6 - Happy Happy Joy Joy
Read a book set 50% or more in one of the 10 happiest countries in the world.: Us Against You, by Fredrik Backman
How Fits: Location - Sweden
Points this post: 5
Total points: 20
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
5.7- I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
Read 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.: Paper Princess, by Erin Watt
How Fits: Song - It's only a Paper Moon / Title - Paper Princess
Points this post: 5
Total points: 25
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
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.: Semi-Human, by Isabel Jordan
How Fits: Cover - Semi-Human is Yellow
Points this post: 5
Total points: 30
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
10.1 - Cowardly
Read a book with a word in the title that ENDS in LY.: Prickly By Nature, by Piper Vaughn
How Fits: Title - Prickly by Nature
Points this post: 10
Total points: 40
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
10.5 - Girls Together
Read a book written by at least 2 women. : Liars, by Lucy Lennox & May Archer
How Fits: Authors - Lucy Lennox & May Archer
Points this post: 10
Total points: 50
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
10.6 - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Read a book from the first 25 pages shelved as Aliens.: Shades of Midnight, by Lara Adrian
How Fits: On Pg. 22 of Aliens Shelf
Points this post: 10
Total points: 60
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
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25.10 - Jen K's Task: Malawi and Zambia
Option 1:
Read a book that is #1 in a series.
🦁Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Series: The Rokebys
384 pages
Option 3:
Read a book with a cover that includes the colors black, red AND green. Use Tineye to confirm the presence of all 3 colors, any percentage is fine.
🦁The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
373 pages
TinEye: Black 9.1%, Red 3.6%, Green 4%
https://labs.tineye.com/color/b10f92e...
🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 815/1050
Total Books Read: 60
Tasks Completed: 41/59
Big Book Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Non Fiction Tickets: 10