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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2022
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Shelby
10.9 - Her Majesty
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tuvalu, United Kingdom.: Dearest Milton James, by N.R. Walker
How Fits: Location - Australia
Points this post: 10
Total points: 80
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
15.6. Leo the Lion
Read a book with the author’s initials (all of them) appearing in LEO THE LION.: How To Lasso A Cowboy, by Lissa Larer
How Fits: Author - Lissa Larer
Points this post: 15
Total points: 95
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
15.8 - 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.: Marked by Shadows, by Lissa Kasey
How Fits: Animal - Jaguar / Title - Marked by Shadows
Points this post: 15
Total points: 110
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Paul's Task: Dancing With the Stars
Option 2
Read a book where the single author’s initials (all of them) can be found in PINK UKELELE.: Witchbond, by Lissa Kasey
How Fits: Author - Lissa Kasey
Points this post: 20
Total points: 130
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Julia103's Task: A Group of Prides
Option B
Read a book with one of the following MPGs: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, asexual, non-binary, or queer.: The Dickens with Love, by Josh Lanyon
How Fits: MPG - LGBT > Gay
Points this post: 20
Total points: 150
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Book Concierge’s Task: Family Vacations
Option C
Read a book by a MALE author whose first and last initials are in ROAD TRIP.: A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future, by David Attenborough
How Fits: Author: David Attenborough
Points this post: 20
Total points: 170
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
20.6 - 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.: Last Guard, by Nalini Singh
How Fits: MPG - Fantasy
Points this post: 20
Total points: 190
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
20.9 - Moderators' Pet - CynBaxter's Task - The Underscore
Option 3
Read a book that is first in a series.: Wallbanger, by Alice Clayton
How Fits: Series: #1 in Cocktail
Points this post: 20
Total points: 210
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
25.1 - MegSCL's Task: Best and Worst of the Spring Challenge
Option 1
Read a book by the same author as your favourite book.: Tangled Threads, by Jennifer Estep
How Fits: Favorite Book - Venom by Jennifer Estep
AND
Option 1
Read a book by the same author as your favourite book.: Final Lap, by Erin McCarthy
How Fits: Least Favorite Book - Jacked Up by Erin McCarthy
Points this post: 25
Total points: 235
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
25.2 - XBM's Task: A's all around
Option 1/Book 1
Read a book with 3 or more A's in the title/subtitle.: Animal Attraction, by Jill Shalvis
How Fits: Title - AnimAl AttrAction
AND
Option 1/Book 2
Read a book with 3 or more A's in the author's name.: The Cat Who Sniffed Glue, by Lilian Jackson Braun
How Fits: Author - LiliAn JAckson BrAun
Points this post: 25
Total points: 260
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
25.5 - Amy FL’s task: Just a Dandy-Lion
Option 1
Read a book with a title word of four or more letters that appears in the lion’s speech. : Darkest Before Dawn, by Maya Banks
How Fits: Speech - Dawn / Title - Darkest Before Dawn
AND
Option 4
Read a book by an author whose initials appear in BETCHA CAN’T EAT JUST ONE.: The Tangle Box, by Terry Brooks
How Fits: Author - Terry Brooks
Points this post: 25
Total points: 285
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
25.6 - TraceyL's Task: Niagara Falls
Option 2
Read a book set at least 50% in the U.K. : The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting, by K.J. Charles
How Fits: Location - England
AND
Option 4
Read a book with a word in the title (ignore subtitles) found on this list of car parts.: Smoke in the Sun, by Renée Ahdieh
How Fits: Car part - Sun Visor / Title - Smoke in the Sun
Points this post: 25
Total points: 310
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
25.10 - Jen K's Task: Malawi and Zambia
Option 1
Read a book that is #1 in a series. : Fakers, by Lucy Lennox
How Fits: Series - #1 in Licking Thicket
AND
Option 4
Read a book by a single author with first and last initials found in MALAWI and ZAMBIA.: Belladonna, by Anne Bishop
How Fits: Author - Anne Bishop
Points this post: 25
Total points: 335
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
30.1 - Katrisa's Task: I Love Santa Fe!
Option 1
Read a book where the letters KOA can be found in the title and/or subtitle. : The Hitman's Guide to Tying the Knot Without Getting Shot, by Alice Winters
How Fits: Title - the hitmAn's guide tO Tying the Knot without getting shot
AND
Option 3
Read a book with a cover that is 75% blue and/or green according to Tineye.: Stars, by Tal Bauer
How Fits: Cover - 88.2% Blue
Claiming Big Book Ticket - 516pgs
Points this post: 30
Total points: 365
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
30.7 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: Doublejs DoubledOption 1, male author whose first name begins with J: Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future by James Shapiro
Option 2, MPG World War II: Eagle & Crane by Suzanne Rindell
Points this post: 30
Total points: 910
Shelby
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. : Fluke and the Frontier Farce, by Sam Burns
How Fits: Word - Farce / Title - Fluke and the Frontier Farce
AND
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.: The Spooky Life, by S.E. Harmon
How Fits: Author - Location: Florida "She is a native Floridian..."
Points this post: 30
Total points: 395
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
30.5 - Sandy's Task: Impress Your Friends!
Option 1
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.: The Serpent's Tale, by Ariana Franklin
How Fits: Word - grandiloquent / Title - The Serpent's Tale & Page Count - 371pgs
AND
Option 2
Read a book with a single author with one name part that can be made from the letters in the target word.: Sebastian, by Anne Bishop
How Fits: Word - magniloquence / Author - Anne Bishop & Page Count - 436pgs
Total Pages: 807pgs
Points this post: 30
Total points: 425
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
30.7 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: Doublejs Doubled
Option 1
Read a book by a single, male author whose first name begins with the letter "J.": Cold Days, by Jim Butcher
How Fits: Author - Jim Butcher
AND
Option 4
Read a book from Best Southern Literature: The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett
How Fits: #762 on Pg. 8 of Best Southern Literature
Points this post: 30
Total points: 455
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
30.9 - Brooklyn's Task: The Purge
Option 1
Read a book with a 2 word title where the first word is THE.: The Maze, by Catherine Coulter
How Fits: Title - The Maze
AND
Option 3
Read a book that is part of a series that has at least 10 primary works.: Smoke Bitten, by Patricia Briggs
How Fits: #12 of 13 in Mercy Thompson
Points this post: 30
Total points: 485
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
LaureY10.8 - Apple II
Read a book that is number #2 in a series.
Shadowblack by Sebastien de Castell
Points this post: 10
Total points: 215
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies:0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 3
15.7 – If You Don’t Want Me to Read It, I Surely Will!Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
page 3
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 3
Bigger is Better: 10
It's a Fact: 5
Season Total: 960
Task:10.3 - Press Play [a book that has WON an Audie Award]Book read:Educated by Tara Westover
Required: Audie Award for Best Female Narrator (2019) in goodreads metadata
I claim 1 It's a fact! ticket as this is non fiction.
Points this task:10
Total points:305
Total Golden Oldies:3
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:4
Books read:21
Tasks completed:17
HanneloreTask 20.9 - Moderators' Pet - CynBaxter's Task - The Underscore
Option 2: Stothart was born in 1885 and died in 1949 - read a book first published within this time frame
Book: Rivers to the Sea
How it fits: This book was first published in 1926.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 150
Tasks completed: 13
BB tickets:
(2) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
IAF tickets: 0
JEN B25.1 - MegSCL's Task: Best and Worst of the Spring Challenge
Book 1 - use your favourite book read during the spring challenge period (March, April, May)
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
Option 1 - read a book by the same author as your favourite book
The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths
Book 2 - use your least favourite book read during the spring challenge period (March, April, May)
The Collective by Allison Gaylin
Option 3 - read a book listed as "Readers also enjoyed" on your book's main page.
Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
TOTAL POINTS: 500
JEN B5.10 - 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.
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
**Claiming one It's A Fact ticket***
TOTAL POINTS: 505
EMurphy30.7 Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: Doublejs Doubled
Option 1: Single male author whose first name begins with J Keys to the Kingdom by Joe Hill
Option 2: WWII or Horror MPG Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 285
Books Read: 22
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +500: 3
Tasks Completed: 13
Julia10320.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Coralie's Task: Poppy the three-legged dog
Golden Poppies (3 Ps in title)
This post: 20 points
Total points: 810
BB: 13
GO: 2
NF: 4
All 5 point and 10 point tasks completed
Tasks Completed: 49
Books read: 64
Joanne MI5.2- 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"
When Women Were Dragons- the word is When
Points this task 5
Total Points 405
BB's 6
IAF 9
Joanne MI5-10 Swing, Baby, Swing Book of Choice
Dinner in French: My Recipes by Way of France: A Cookbook
Points this task 5
Total Points 410
BB's 6
IAF 9
Lisa MD5.1 - "I'll Take Lyricists for $1000, Alex"
Read a book by an author all of whose initials appear in E D SEL YI P SEL HARBURG.
🦁Massacre Pond by Paul Doiron
Author Initials: PD
Listened to audiobook. Linked to PB. No MMPB.
336 pages
🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️🏖️
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 820/1050
Total Books Read: 61
Tasks Completed: 42/59
Big Book Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
Non Fiction Tickets: 10
Jen K30.7 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: Doublejs Doubled
Option 1: Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
Option 5: Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
****Requesting 1 IAF ticket for Nonfiction***
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 755
BB: 3
IAF: 17
Task:30.5 - Sandy's Task: Impress Your Friends!Bk 1: 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
Book read:The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Required: word chosen: magniloquence. magic in MAGnIloquenCe
Page count:400
Bk2: a single author with one name part that can be made from the letters in the target word
Book read:Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness; With a New Introduction for the UK Edition by Gail A. Hornstein
Required:word chosen: grandiloquent. Gail in GrAndILoquent.
Page count:335
I claim 1 It's A Fact ticket as this is a nonfiction book.
total page count:400+335=735 /600
Points this task:30
Total points:335
Total Golden Oldies:3
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:5
Books read:22
Tasks completed:18
20.1 Dancing With the StarsOption 2: Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
Post Total: 20
Grand Total: 400
20.6 - It's a Fact - Trishhartuk's Task: Hugos SeasonOption 1. The Best of All Possible Wars by Larry Niven et. al.
MPG of Science Fiction, Fantasy.
Books this post: 1
Books read total: 9
Points this post: 20
Points total: 140
Angela IL20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Book Concierge’s Task: Family Vacations
Option D: Read a book with a main page genre of FAMILY
Between Husbands and Friends by Nancy Thayer- 8/27
No MMPB/ attaching paperback since I read Kindle version:
Between Husbands and Friends (320 pages)
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 595
Books Read: 40
Tasks Completed: 25
BB Ticket: 1
NF Ticket: 1
30.9 - Brooklyn's Task: The PurgeOption 2: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig - Author uses at least one initial in his name.
Option 3: Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey, part of a series that has at least 10 primary works - Serge Storms Series, has
26 primary works (25 published and 1 due out in 2023, but already shows up in series list).
Books this post: 2
Total books read: 11
Points this post: 30
Total points: 170
Sarah E20.1 - Most Improved Player - Paul's Task: Dancing With the Stars
Option 2: Author initials in PINK UKELELE
A Country Wife by Lucy Pinney
I read an ebook, paperback - no MMP - is A Country Wife - 352 pages
Non-fiction, claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket.
Total points: 235
Total NF: 1
20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Book Concierge’s Task: Family VacationsOption A - a book with an outdoor nature scene on the cover, including water scenes. No buildings should be visible. Animals and people are fine. Min. 250 pages.
The Smoke Ring by Larry Niven. 323 pages.
Books this post: 1
Total books read: 12
Points this post: 20
Total points: 190
Mod
15.6. Leo the Lion.
Read a book whose author’s initials appearing in LEO THE LION
Good Riddance. Elinor Lipman
Points this post: 15
Total points: 1005/1050
Tasks completed: 54/59
Books read: 71
Big Book tickets: 4
Golden Oldies tickets: 4
It's a Fact ticket: 12
CEELETask 30.4 DLMRose's Task: Sinistromanual
Two Book Task. Read two books from two different options
Book 1: Option 1
Rad a book with a word in the title that is at least four letters made up of letters typed solely by the left hand on a QWRTY keyboard.
I chose the word WATER. I read INTO THE WATER by Paula Hawkins
Into the Water
This book has been on my TBR Mountain for a long time so I created the word so I could read it. The writing was good but the story was so weird I wish I had created another word. Oh well, it is now in my giveaway box and has a future of tormenting someone else.
Book 2: Option 4
In honor of all South Paws, Read a book written by an author born or currently living in the American South
YAY! I am a huge fan of Sothern authors and novels set in the South. My ancestors on both sides of the family settled in the American South in the early 19th century. The voices in these books are the voices of my childhood. I can't help but love them even if they are not always kind. Sad but true. I was fortunate to have loving and caring parents who did not share the hateful opinions. We do exist.
I read Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. Ms Hoffman is Kentucky woman.
The very beginning of the book was set in a small town in Ohio but when CeeCee's mama tragically died her daddy sent her to live with an aunt in Savannah Georgia Oh! Savannah! Such a beautiful city and one of my favorites in the South! I love CeeCee and her relationship with Aunt Tottie's housekeeper was wonderful! YAY! I discovered a new to me Southern writer!
Total Points for Task: 30
Total Books Read for Task: 2
Total Big Book Tickets Claimed for Task: 0
Total Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed for Task: 0
Total Nonfiction Tickets Claimed for Task: 0
Total Points for Summer Reading Challenge 2022: 80
Total Tasks Completed for Summer Reading Challenge 2022: 3
Total Books Read for Summer Challenge 2022: 5
Total Big Book Tickets Claimed for Summer Challenge 2022: 0
Total Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed for Summer Challenge 2022:0
Total Non Fiction Tickets Claimed for Summer Challenge 2022: 0
babbling c 5.5 - Making the World Go Round
Read a book in which a monetary unit is found intact in the title or subtitle.
Examples: Chasing the Dime, Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
The Quarter Storm - kindle The Quarter Storm - paperback page 288 by Veronica Henry
quarter - U.S. currency
THIS POST
Points: 5
Completed Tasks: 1
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points: 320/1070
Completed Tasks: 20/60
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 9,801
Books read this season: 27
babbling c10.8 - 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.
From This Day On - Kindle From This Day On - paperback page 304 by Janice Kay Johnson
Wakefield College #2
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points: 330/1070
Completed Tasks: 21/60
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 10,105
Books read this season: 28
MAZZA110.4 - Fields of Poppies
Read a book with a genre of World War I.
The Victory Garden
genre noted in help thread https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
points this post = 10
Points to date = 1050 challenge finished thanks for all your hard work
Kristen IA10.2 - 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. "The" is excluded. The word must match exactly.
"I Want You to Love Me"
Love & Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love by Kim Fay
I read the ebook and linked to the PB edition
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 60/1050
Tasks Completed: 3/59
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 0
Kristen IA20.3 - Best Review-Kathy KS's Task: 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.
The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People by Rick Bragg
***I claim 1 "It's a Fact" ticket***
I listened to the audiobook and linked to the PB edition
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 80/1050
Tasks Completed: 4/59
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 1
Julia10315.6. Leo the Lion.
No Quarter by Tanya Huff
(author initials TH in LEO THE LION)
This post: 15 points
Total points: 825
BB: 13
GO: 2
NF: 4
All 5 point and 10 point tasks completed
Tasks Completed: 50
Books read: 65
Mai25.5 - Amy FL’s task: Just a Dandy-Lion
Option 1: Book with a title word that appears in the lion’s speech
The word is "What"
What Things Do: Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design by Peter-Paul Verbeek
*Claim 1 NF Ticket*
Option 4: Book by an author whose initials appear in BETCHA CAN’T EAT JUST ONE.
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
*Claim 1 Golden Oldie ticket: Book first published 1938*
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 920
Tasks Completed: 54
Books Read: 74
NF Tickets: 42
Golden Oldies: 6
Big Books: 2
Jayme(the ghostreader)5.7 I Like to Teach the World To Sing
Home from the Seaby Mercedes Lackey
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue SEA
Task +5
Grand Total: 90
Kathy KS**UNCLAIM!!** Stats adjusted below.
30.9 - 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: 0
Total points : 775-30=745
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
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10.8 - Apple II
Read a book that is number #2 in a series.: Foreseen: Lex, by Sloane Kennedy
How Fits: Series: #2 in The Four
Points this post: 10
Total points: 70
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0