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FALL CHALLENGE 2022
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Lisa MD25.8 - Mai's Task: Reading the Posthuman
Option 3: Author initials (all) found in the phrase ARTIFICIAL IN T ELLI G ENCE.
🍁Body Double by Tess Gerritsen
Listened to audio. Linked to MMPB
512 pages
I claim a BB Ticket
Option 4: Word of at least 4 letters in title or subtitle made by the letters in AR T IFICIAL IN TELLI GENCE.
🍁Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor
336 pages
Title Word: Little
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 180/960
Total Books Read: 15
Tasks Completed: 13/56
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets:
Non Fiction Tickets: 2
Jasmiina F20.2 - 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:
High Five by Janet Evanovich.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 55
Golden Oldies this post:
Total Golden Oldies:
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+:
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
Mod
Read a book in which the 3 letter sequence "TIN" is found in a word in the title/subtitle or in the author's name.
Marvels, Mochas, and Murder
The author is Christine Zane Thomas & TIN is found in ChrisTINe
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 235+ 10= 245
Total Tasks Completed: 13
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Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 4
Mod
Read a book this is #4, #5, #6, or #7 in a series.
The Land Girls of Goodwill House
This is #4 in the Goodwill House series which is clearly stated in GR title listing
Note: I read this as an Advance Reader copy via NetGalley - the paperback is listed both here & on the publishers website as being due for release on 2nd Nov 2022.
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 245+ 15= 260
Total Tasks Completed: 14
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Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 4
5.7 - It's Not Easy Being GreenDeadhead and Buried (The English Cottage Garden Mysteries #1) by H.Y. Hanna
the word 'deadhead' is in different shades of green
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 1
It's a Fact: 3
Season Total: 265
20.6 It's A Fact- Jen K's Task: National Book FestivalOption 3: Read a book with the letters LOC found in the title. All three letters must be found in the title. Subtitles are excluded.
How to Survive Your Magical Family by Clare Rhoden
LOC found in hOw to survive your magiCaL family
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 1
It's a Fact: 3
Season Total: 285
10.5. Happy Anniversary!Moon Sugar by Angela Meyer
word in title, Sugar, matches traditional anniversary gift for 6th year
Total this Post: 10
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 1
It's a Fact: 3
Season Total: 295
25.8 - Mai's Task: Reading the PosthumanOption 1: Reread a book that you have read in the past.
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor #1) by Shelley Parker-Chan
Book is a re-read
Option 3: Read a book by a single author whose initials (all) can be found in the phrase ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
T, a novel by Alan Fyfe
author's initials, AF, found in ArtiFicial
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 1
It's a Fact: 3
Season Total: 320
5.2 - Millenium MagicThe Master Magician (The Paper Magician #3) by Charlie N. Holmberg
200 pages
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 1
It's a Fact: 3
Season Total: 325
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Julia103's Task: On the Periodic TableOption C: Read a book where the page count includes 50 intact.
Personal (Jack Reacher #19) by Lee Child
1x Bigger is Better (505 pages)
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 2
It's a Fact: 3
Season Total: 345
5.6 - How Can You Be Here When You're Not Anywhere At all?Myths and Mortals (Numina Trilogy #2) by Charlie N. Holmberg
setting: Kolingrad (name of fictitious city)
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 2
It's a Fact: 3
Season Total: 350
25.1 - Sandy's Task - Use Your AlphabetBook 1 - Read a book that includes all of the vowels, A E I O U, in its title/subtitle.
The Opal Miner's Daughter by Fiona McArthur
vowels found in thE OpAl mIner's daUghter
384 pages
Book 2 - Read a book by a single author whose initials (all of them) are only consonants (that is, not the vowels listed for book 1). We will count Y as a consonant for this task.
Siege and Sacrifice (Numina Trilogy #3) by Charlie N. Holmberg
author's initials are only consonants, CNH
304 pages
Total pages read: 688
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 2
It's a Fact: 3
Season Total: 375
Mai15.6 - Legendary
Book with a MPG Mythology.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 240
Tasks Completed: 15
Books Read: 18
NF Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 0
Mod
20.2 - 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. (This is book 18)
Fox Creek. William Kent Krueger
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 170/960
Tasks completed: 7/56
Books read: 10
GO: 1
BB: 1
Julia10325.8 - Mai's Task: Reading the Posthuman
Option 1: The Curse of the Mistwraith
This is a re-read.
This book has 690 pages so claiming one BB ticket.
Option 3: The Winter Crown: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Elizabeth Chadwick (author initials in INTELLIGENCE)
This post: 25 points, 1 BB
Total points: 305
BB: 3
GO: 1
NF: 0
Tasks completed: 17
Books completed: 24
CYNBAXTER
Task: 5.5 - From O....Z
Task Description: Read a book where the author's initials can be found using the letters from O to Z
Book: One by One by Ruth Ware
Points this post: 5 points
Total points to date: 20 points
NF tickets this post: 0
Total NF tickets to date: 0
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
Golden Oldie tickets this post: 0
Total "GOLDIE" tickets to date: 0
Andy P.Task # 20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Julia103's Task: On the Periodic Table
Option C: Read a book where the page count includes 50 intact.
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 150 p.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 240
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.1 Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All Treats
Option 1: Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker
Word=StakeS
Points this post: 20
Total points: 320/960
Tasks completed: 23/56
Books read: 26
Mai5.7 - It's Not Easy Being Green
Book with at least one letter on the cover that is completely GREEN:
The Demolished Man by Alfred BesterThe word "man" is in green
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 245
Tasks Completed: 16
Books Read: 19
NF Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 0
Creynard15.10 - Give and Take
Read a book that a fellow SRC member has read and rated 5 stars.
Required: State the SRC member.
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
rated 5 stars by Siobhan
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 305/960
Tasks completed: 23/56
Books read: 31
20.6 It's A Fact- Jen K's Task: National Book FestivalOption 1, author attending 2022 National Book Festival https://www.loc.gov/events/2022-natio... — Amanda Eyre Ward
The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward
Points this post: 20
Total points: 360
Jen K15.8 - B Positive
Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell
Page 3 of list
*****
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 140
IAF: 3
15.10 - Give and TakeRead a book that a fellow SRC member has read and rated 5 stars.
Required: State the SRC member.
I listened to an audio version of Paradox Hotel
This book was rated 5 starts by Deedee https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
New Points: 15
Total Points: 150
BB: 1
IaF: 1
Bookwrm526Task #20.2 - For Jules
Option 3: Read a book from a series with a minimum of five whole-numbered books in the series. I read Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came by M.C. Beaton, which is book 12 in the Agatha Raisin series.
Total points so far: 185
Mod
Option 3: Read a book whose title contains a word of 4 or more letters that can be made from the letters in Global Positioning System.
The Last Dollar Princess
The word LAST can be made from gLobAl poSiTioning system
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 260 + 20= 280
Total Tasks Completed: 15
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Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 4
Lisa MD10.3 - I Love Shiny Things
Name of a metal in the title.
🍁Private Gold by James Patterson
Metal: Gold
Listened to audio. Linked to PB. No MMPB
144 pages
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 190/960
Total Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 14/56
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets:
Non Fiction Tickets: 2
Amy B20.7 - Shorter Is Sweeter - XBM's Task: All Who Wander Are Not Lost…Some Are Geocachers!
Select one option. Required: State the option.
Option 3. Read a book whose title contains a word of 4 or more letters that can be made from the letters in Global Positioning System. Subtitles are excluded.
Required: State the word.
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson (Gaiety)
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 90 Points
Amy FL5.3 - Go to Jail, Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass Oz
Hard Wired - WIRED (osWalD statE penItentiaRy)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 250
Amy FL5.9- Number 9, Number 9 .....
When Harry Met Minnie: A True Story of Love and Friendship - 11 words between title and subtitle
Points this post: 5
Total points: 255
Amy FL10.6- It's in There Somewhere
The Darkest Web by KrisTIN Wright
Points this post: 10
Total points: 265
Amy FL20.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All Treats
Option A: Or Else - ElsE begins and ends with E
Points this post: 20
Total points: 285
Amy FL25.7 - Delicious Dee's Task: It's Duolingo Time
Option 2
Book A: The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the Fearless Journalist Who Risked Her Life for Truth and Justice by Katharine Gregorio - KG in GreeK
Book B: Greenwich Park - PARK in uKRAnianjaPanese
Points this post: 25
Total points: 310
MEGSCL25.8 - Mai's Task: Reading the Posthuman
Option 1: Reread from 2014 - A Room of One's Own
*pub 1929 - golden oldie
*non fiction - its a fact
Option 4: made word italian from ArTIfIcIAL iNtelligence - One Italian Summer
TOTAL
240 points
3 It’s a Fact - 1 golden oldie
MEGSCL10.8.-Mexican Independence Day
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson by Leah Purcell
TOTAL
250 points
3 It’s a Fact - 1 golden oldie
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)15.6 - Legendary
MPG Mythology.
Page count: 320
ARBF: IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9.0
MPG Verification: Post 10 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Josephine Against the Sea
Points Earned This Post: 15
Points Achieved to Date: 455/960
Tasks Completed: 33/56
25.3 - MAZZA1's task: Well Hello Number 9Option 1: Hurricane Punch by Tim Dorsey; a book that is #9 in its series (Serge Storms #9). 384 pages.
Option 2: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism by Ayn Rand; an Author who uses a pseudonym (Alice O'Connor, nee Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum). 176 pages.
Page total, both books: 560 pages
Books read this post: 2
Books read total: 20
Points this post: 25
Points total: 285
30.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: America’s National ParksOption 2, author's first and last initials in YOSEMITE PARK: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
paperback edition Sea of Tranquility 255 pages
Option 4, MPG Historical Fiction: Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
paperback edition Booth 480 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 390
trishhartuk20.2 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
The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait (Haunted Bookshop Mystery #7), Cleo Coyle
Read the kindle edition. PB: here
The Haunted Bookshop Series has nine primary works (eight published, one announced as of 4 October 2022): https://www.goodreads.com/series/4137...
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 275
Tasks Completed: 15
It’s a Fact Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 1
Task 5.6 - How Can You Be Here When You're Not Anywhere At all?set in Zunidh - ficitional world (per series info blurb https://www.goodreads.com/series/3312...
Portrait of a Wide Seas Islander
my one permitted <100 page book (97 pages)
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410 points
5 BB tix
2 GO tix
5.1-Exiled to the Land of OzMurder in First Class (Miss Underhay #8) by Helena Dixon
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 2
It's a Fact: 3
Season Total: 380
! Repost of task (originally posted 30/09, page 15 of thread) with e-book verification !30.6 - Katrisa's Task: Empty Nest (NOT!)
Option 2
Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters from one of the tracks on the album Reckoning in the TITLE (subtitles excluded).
Down by Contact by Santino Hassell
"To Lay Me Down" = word used is Down
! Down by Contact is e-book only, approved for length message 8602 (page 173) in usual thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... !
Option 4
Read a book with an author who has a double letter (must be next to each other) in their FIRST name.
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
Fathoms is a non-fiction book, so I'm claiming one IAF ticket for it!
IAF tickets this post: 1
IAF tickets overall: 1
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 185
Creynard25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Hawkeye and B.J.
Book 1 -
Option 1 - Read a book by an author whose first and last names begin with the same letter.
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
Option 2. B.J. -- Read a book that has both a B and a J in the title/subtitle and/or author's name.
The Marriage He Demands by Brenda Jackson
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 330/960
Tasks completed: 24/56
Books read: 32
Barbara ★20.2 - 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
And Then You Dye - Monica Ferris 9/9
(this is #16 in the series)
Points this task: 20
Total points: 425
Big Book Tickets: 500 (2) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
10.1 - The Tinman's Body Had to Come From Somewhere!set at least 50% in: Indonesia, China, Peru, Bolivia, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Belgium, Russia, Congo-Kinshasa
MMPB for page count: Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station by Dorothy Gilman
I listened to the audiobook: Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station
🎃 first chapter set in the US; the rest of the book set in China 🎃
Total points: 330 + 10 = 340
Big Book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 2
Joanne MI20.7 Shorter Is Sweeter - XBM's Task
Option 3-make a word from Global Positioning System letters
Three Bags Full - The words is BAGS
Points this task 20
Total Points 165
BB's 1
IAF 6
MARGO25.5 - Andy P’s Task: By the Number
Book 1. Read a book whose title (subtitles excluded) contains a number written as such.
2 Sisters Detective Agency
- top paperback has 416 pages
Book 2. Read a book whose title (subtitles excluded) contains a number written in letter form.
Four Stories
- top paperback has 282 pages
Total = 698 pages
- Posted and read Kindle editions.
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Points this task: 25
Total points: 260
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 20
GO: 0 // BB: 1 // NF: 0
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20.4 - Golden Oldies - Margo's Task: Homage to Catalonia
Option 3 - Book from this list of Best Books of the Decade: 1930s (page 5)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
This book is new to me
*Golden Oldie ticket: book first published 1934*
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 225
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 17
NF Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 0