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FALL CHALLENGE 2022
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Kim O20.10 - Group Reads
Fiction - Murder Mystery: The Cartographers
Discussion post 16
Points this task: 20
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Totals:
Points: 40
Big Book - 500+: 0
Big Book - 750+: 0
Golden Oldie: 0
It's a Fact: 1
30.2 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: The Monster MashBook 1: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, a book with a word of at least 4 letters from the lyrics of "The Monster Mash", hyphenated words may be broken down. The word is NIGHT.
Book 2: You Suck, by Christopher Moore, a book that features vampires.
Books read this post: 2
Books read total: 13
Points this post: 30
Points total: 190
Sara G5.7 - It's Not Easy Being Green
A key location in the Oz fantasies was Emerald City. Read a book with at least one letter on the cover that is completely GREEN.
by Elizabeth HoytEbook only - approved for length in line 2344 of the verification spreadsheet.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 95
Sara G15.6 - Legendary
Read a book with a MPG Mythology.
In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente
MPG Mythology shows on the main page.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 110
Sara G20.6 It's A Fact- Jen K's Task: National Book Festival
Option 1: I want to celebrate the authors who attended, shared their work and signed books for massive queues of fans. Read a book by an author attending the 2022 National Book Festival.
Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Dolen Perkens-Valdez is in the link as an author who attended the festival.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 130
Sara G20.7 - Shorter Is Sweeter - XBM's Task: All Who Wander Are Not Lost…Some Are Geocachers!
Option 1. Read a book first published in the year 2000.
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
First published June 1st 2000
I read the Kindle edition. The MMPB here has 502 pages.
**Death of a Red Heroine is a Big Book (502 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket.**
Points this post: 20
Total points: 150
JEN B25.3 - MAZZA1's task: Well Hello Number 9
Option 2
Read a book by an author who uses a pseudonym. Your book may be written under any of the pseudonyms (or the real name) used by the author.
Rules at the School by the Sea: The Second School by the Sea Novel by Jane Beaton (288 pages)
Jane Beaton is a pseudonym for Jenny Colgan
Option 3
Read a book which contains the word “TEEN” intact in its title or subtitle
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin (288 pages)
TEEN in TEENage
288 pages + 288 pages = 576 pages > 501 pages
TOTAL POINTS: 210
Sue T15.5 - It Was There All Along
The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 15/960
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Nick KY30.4 Wayne’s First of the Months
Opt. 2. Coffee Cup on cover. I read Uncommon Grounds by Sandra Balzo. 245 pp.
Opt. 3. GR genre “Books about Books.” I read The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
CLAIM ONE BIG BOOK for The Angel’s Game at 531 pp.
Total pp = 786 > required 600.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 180
Big Books So Far: 500+ (1)
VAL TX5.3 - Go to Jail, Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass Oz - Read a book with a word in the title of 4 or more letters that can be made from the letters in "Oswald State Penitentiary".
Word = Aristotle
This post and total:
Points - 5
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.2 Millenium Magic
Struck by Deb Loughead
100 pages
Points this post: 5
Total points: 180/960
Tasks completed: 15/56
Books read: 16
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.9 Number 9, Number 9 .....
The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue by John Glatt
Points this post: 5
Total points: 185/960
Tasks completed: 16/56
Books read: 17
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.6 Katrisa's Task: Empty Nest (NOT!)
Option 1: Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige HIll
In Chapter 1 the author talks about how her grandmother on her mother's side joined the Scientologists after reading the books by L. Ron Hubbard and her grandfather on her father's side joined the church in 1970.
Option 4: Seams Like Murder by Betty Hechtman
Points this post: 30
Total points: 215/960
Tasks completed: 17/56
Books read: 19
Laurah3020.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All Treats
option A Snickers: Read a book whose title or subtitle contains a word that begins and ends with the same letter.
Groundskeeping
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 0
Laurah3020.2 - Rookie at the Top - Keli's Task: For Jules
Opt 2: Read a book with a word of four letters or more in the title or subtitle that can be made from LADILATTE using the letters as many times as they appear.
Five Little Indians
the word is "little"
Points this post: 20
Total points: 40
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 0
Laurah3020.6 It's A Fact- Jen K's Task: National Book Festival
option 3: Read a book with the letters LOC found in the title. All three letters must be found in the title. Subtitles are excluded.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Tasks completed:3
Books read: 3
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 0
20.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All TreatsOption A: Snickers
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust
Word that begins and ends with the same letter is "Trust"
Total points: 40
Barbara ★20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk’s Task: Forever Autumn
Option 3: Read a book with a word of four or more letters found in the lyrics in the title. The word must match exactly.
Wild Irish Eyes - Tricia O'Malley 9/25
(lyric - A gentle rain falls softly on my weary EYES)
Points this task: 20
Total points: 230
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Sara G20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Keli's Task: For Jules
Option 2. Her other email was ladilatte. Read a book with a word of four letters or more in the title or subtitle that can be made from LADILATTE using the letters as many times as they appear.
Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor
The word "little" - LADILATTE
Points this post: 20
Total points: 170
Laurah3015.4 - Follow the Clues
Option 2 - Read ONE book that fulfills both requirements of option 1.
The Man Who Died Twice
(mystery and is part of a series)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 75
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 0
Laurah3015.10 - Give and Take
Read a book that a fellow SRC member has read and rated 5 stars.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
SRC member - Ava Catherine
Points this post: 15
Total points: 90
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 0
Ana5.1-Exiled to the Land of Oz
A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot. MPG Crime
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 5
MAZZA110.3 - I Love Shiny Things
Read a book with the name of a metal in the title.
The Copper Beech
points this post = 10
points to date = 10
MAZZA110.4-It's a Tool, Not a Weapon
Read a book whose title and/or subtitle contains the letters AXE. The letters need not be found sequentially.
Bleak Expectations EXpectAtions
Points this post = 10
Points to date = 20
MAZZA115.2 - Double Nine
Read 2 books, one book 1 and one book 2.
Book 1: Read a book with exactly nine characters in the title.
Urn Burial
Book 2: Read a book with exactly nine characters in the author's name.
These Violent Delights AUTHOR = Chloe Gong
points this post = 15
Points to date = 35
Ana5.6 - How Can You Be Here When You're Not Anywhere At all?
Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder. The book is set over 50% in the fictional country of Sitia.
Points this Task: 5
Total Points: 10
MAZZA120.2 - Rookie at the Top - Keli's Task: For Jules
Option 3. Read a book from a series with a minimum of five whole-numbered books in the series.
The Missing Sister number 7 in series
This book is 806 pages long and I am claiming 2 x BB tickets
Points this post = 20
Points to date = 55
BB tickets this post = 2
BB tickets to date = 2
MAZZA120.10 - Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Fall 2022 season.
The Cartographers
My post in discussion thread is here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
points this post = 20
points to date = 75
MAZZA125.2 - Amy FL’s Task: If I Only Had a Heart
Read one book that fulfills two different options, but that book must be at least 500 pages long.
Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose name contains all the letters in HEART.
The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert
HEA and T in ElizAbTH and R in gilbeRt
Option 3:
Read a book that contains a word in the title that can be found in the lyrics of Tin Man: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ameri....
The word must be at least four letters long and it must match exactly.
The Signature of All Things "things" is in lyrics
This book is 501 pages meeting page requirements and I am claiming 1 BB ticket
points this post = 25
Points to date = 100
BB tickets this post = 1
BB tickets to date = 3
MAZZA125.3 - MAZZA1's task: Well Hello Number 9
This is a 2 book task read one book for 2 different options.
Your total page count must be at least 501 pages. No books with a
Option 1
Read a book that has a number 9 in its series number- whole numbers only- ex. #9, #19, #29.
Vendetta in Death # 49 in series 352 pages
Option 3
Read a book which contains the word “TEEN” intact in its title or subtitle
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death 304 pages
352 + 304 = 656 pages exceeding requirements
points this post = 25
Points to date = 125
MAZZA130.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: America’s National Parks
This is a two book task.of at least 500 pages.
Option 2: Yosemite National Park
Read a book by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in YOSEMITE PARK.
The Nihilesthete 230 pages
Option 4: Grand Canyon National Park
Read a book with a main page genre of History or Historical Fiction.
We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire
MPG approved in help thread here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
This book has 453 pages
230 + 453 = 683 exceeding page requirements
Points this post = 30
Points to date = 155
MAZZA130.3 - Dlmrose's TasK: Coffee First
Read 2 books from 2 different options.
Required: State the options.
Option 1: Read a book with a word in the title that contains at least 2 sets of double consecutive letters,
The Novel Habits of Happiness
Option 2: Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries that consumes the most coffee per capita:
Expo 58
Using Belgium, GR data says MC was sent to Brussels to oversee "authentic British Pub" around 70% of narrative is in Belgium
points this post = 30
Points to date = 185
MAZZA130.4 - Wayne's Task: The First of the Months
This is a 2 book task. Choose 2 of the 3 available options. The page total must be at least 600 pages.
Option 1 -
Read a book written by a female author whose first and last names have the same number of letters.
The Woman at Number 24 414 pages
Option 2 -
Read a book with a cup or mug that would typically hold a cup of coffee on the cover.
208 pagescover approved here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
414 + 208 = 622 exceeding page requirements
points this post = 30
Points to date = 215
MAZZA130.6 - Katrisa's Task: Empty Nest (NOT!)
2. Cassidy - My daughter was named after a Grateful Dead Song. Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters from one of the tracks on the album Reckoning in the TITLE
The Wolf Road (track Is Dire WOLF)
4. Jennifer and Cassidy both have double letters in their names. Read a book with an author who has a double letter (must be next to each other) in their FIRST name.
Complicit Winnie M. Li
points this post = 30
Points to date = 245
MEGSCL25.1 - Sandy's Task - Use Your Alphabet
Book 1 - Things You Save in a Fire
Book 2 - My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
TOTAL
145 points
2 It’s a Fact
Coralie20.5 In Awe of Space
Book with MPG Space Opera set mostly in space
Sisters of the Forsaken Stars
Total to date 90 points
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.7 - An Autumn Debut
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
First published October 4, 2016
Claiming 1 It's a fact ticket
Totals
Points: 10
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 1
Total Tasks Completed: 1
Total Books Completed: 1
Readerboard Name: Kathy P20.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All Treats
Option C: Inkdeath
Author: Cornelia Funke
699 Pages - claiming 1 Big Book Ticket
Accelerated Reading scores
Inkdeath
Funke, Cornelia
AR Quiz No. 125633 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 29.0
Totals
Points: 30
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 1
Total Tasks Completed: 2
Total Books Completed: 2
20.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All TreatsOption C: Read a book by an author whose first or last name starts with a letter in RPBC.
Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile
Total Points: 40
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk’s Task: Forever Autumn
Option 3: Word of four+ letters found in the lyrics in the title--exact match.
Page Count: 160 Listened to audiobook link to PB Mrs. Budley Falls from Grace
Word: Falls/A gentle rain FALLS softly on my weary eyes
Mrs. Budley Falls from Grace
Points Earned This Post: 20
Points Achieved to Date: 330/960
Tasks Completed: 26/56
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)20.4 - Golden Oldies - Margo's Task: Homage to Catalonia
New to me
Option 3 - list of Best Books of the Decade: 1930s.
Page Count: 285 Listened to audiobook link to MMPB Matrimonio de conveniencias
Page/link: Page 3 https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
The Convenient Marriage
Points Earned This Post: 20
Points Achieved to Date: 350/960
Tasks Completed:27/56
AnjaBest Review - Trishhartuk’s Task: Forever Autumn
Option 1. Read a book first published in or after 1972, AND where the single author’s first and last initials can be found in the phrase “FOREVER AUTUMN”.
Nixon's Promise by Riley Edwards
POINTS:
Points This Post: 20
Points Total: 20
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 1
Task 25.7 - It's Duolingo Timeeach book 237+ pages
option 1A: published within range, on 1 Mar 2012
Elegy for Eddie
334 pages
option 1B: OWL in title
Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine
320 pages
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275 points (I think. going to doublecheck my posts & sheet)
2 BB tix
2 GO tix
MARGO15.7 - Get Happy
Read a book this is #4, #5, #6, or #7 in a series.
The Big Man Upstairs
- Posted and read Kindle edition.
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Points this task: 15
Total points: 210
Tasks completed: 9
Books read: 16
GO: 0 // BB: 1 // NF: 0
Anja10.1. The Tinman's Body Had to Come From Somewhere!
Read a book set at least 50% in Russia
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
POINTS:
Points This Post: 10
Points Total: 30
Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 2
Anja10.7 - An Autumn Debut
Read a book first published in September, October, or November of any year.
When Gracie Met the Grump by Mariana Zapata
First published September 15, 2022
Book has 570 pages - claiming big book ticket
POINTS:
Points This Post: 10
Points Total: 40
Big Books: 500(1) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 3
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.7 Schatzie's Task: Chicken Love
Option C: Thirty Talks Weird Love by Alessandra Narvaez Varela
Option D: Popcorn and Poltergeists by Nancy Warren
Chicken name: Popcorn
Points this post: 30
Total points: 245/960
Tasks completed: 18/56
Books read: 21
Mod
Option A: Snickers Read a book whose title or subtitle contains a word that begins and ends with the same letter.
Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story
The word Strangeways starts & ends with S
This is a non-fiction book so I claim an "It's a Fact" ticket
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 75 + 20= 95
Total Tasks Completed: 5
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Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 0 + 1 = 1
Mod
one book that fulfills two different options, but that book must be at least 500 pages long.
Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose name contains all the letters in HEART.
Option 3: Read a book that contains a word in the title that can be found in the lyrics of Tin Man
The Signature of All Things
Option 2: Heart in the author's name: ElizAbetH gilbeRT
Option 3: The word things is in both the lyrics (sometimes late when THINGS are real) and the title (the signature of all THINGS)
I listened to the audiobook (over 21 hours) but the top Mass Market Paperback The Signature of All Things is listed as 609 pages which meets the 500pg+ requirement.
I also claim a "Big Book" ticket
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 95+25 = 120
Total Tasks Completed: 6
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Big Books: 1+1=2
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 1
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30.7 Schatzie's Task: Chicken Love
Option 3: All the letters LAVENDer in the author's name Need to Know by Karen Cleveland
Option 4: Word in the title that is food or flower related House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
*Big Book Ticket +500 pages (736 pages)
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +500: 1
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 70
Books Read: 5
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +500: 1
IAF Ticket: 1
Tasks Completed: 3