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FALL CHALLENGE 2022
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Mary P20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Julia103's Task: On the Periodic Table
Option B: Read a book by an author with first and last initials SN.
Stargazey Nights: A Novella by Shelley Noble
Points this task: 20
Total points: 65
Task 25.6 - Well Hello Number 9501+ pages
option 1: #19 in series
Maigret
MMPB: Maigret - 156 pages
first pub 1934 - claiming 1 GO tix
option 2: JD Robb is a pseudonym for Nora Roberts
Connections in Death by JD Robb
416 pages
156+416 = 572 pages
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475 points
5 BB tix
4 GO tix
Sara G20.4 - Golden Oldies - Margo's Task: Homage to Catalonia
Option 2 - Read a book with an MPG Spain or MPG Spanish Civil War.
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
MPG Spain
I read the Kindle edition. The MMPB here has 640 pages.
**The Fountains of Silence is a Big Book (640 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket.**
Points this post: 20
Total points: 190
Sara G20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Insiyah's Task: In Awe of Space
In honour of the beauty that the James Webb telescope gives us, and the hope of exploring strange new worlds (get it?), read a book with a main page genre that contains "space", such as Space, Space Travel, or Space Opera that is set at least 50% in space on a space station (an orbiting artificial structure) or spaceship.
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
MPGs Space Opera/Space, over 50% of the book takes place on ships and orbiting space stations.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 210
Sara G20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Deedee's Task: What's In A Name?
Read a book written by a solo writer whose FIRST name is identical to one of the names of a Shakespearean character from the list. The name must match exactly, but need not be a first name of a character.
Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
Maria from Love's Labour's Lost
Points this post: 20
Total points: 230
Task 10.1 - The Tinman's Body Had to Come From Somewhere!set in Australia
The Shepherd's Hut
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485 points
5 BB tix
4 GO tix
LAUREN JODI15.5 - It Was There All Along
True Dead by Faith Hunter
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 70/960
Total Books Read: 7
Total Tasks Completed: 7/56
30.4 Wayne's Task: The First of the Month (ALL NEW TO ME)Option 2: Mug on the cover
by Melissa Albert (Mug is on the right hand side, next to the author's name; coffee is spilling out of it down the cover)400 pages
Option 3: MPG Books About Books
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
385 pages
400pg + 385 pg = 785 pgs (>600)
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 205
BB Tickets: 5
Alexxy15.7 - Get Happy
Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts
Number 6 in the Poirot series
Points This Task:15
Points Total: 50
Barbara ★10.6 - It's in There Somewhere
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.
A Haunting Dream - Jim & Joyce Lavene 10/9
(TIN in haunTINg)
Points this task: 10
Total points: 460
Big Book Tickets: 500 (2) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
10.2 - Call Me NickWish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams by Nick Webb **Claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket**
IAF tickets this post: 1
IAF tickets total: 2
Books read this post: 1
Books read total: 21
Points this post: 10
Points total: 295
10.7 - An Autumn DebutRead a book first published in September, October, or November of any year.
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology Published November 3rd 2015
New Points: 10
Total Points: 165
BB: 1
IaF: 1
Mod
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. birds
Other Birds. Sarah Addison Allen
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 190/960
Tasks completed: 8/56
Books read: 11
GO: 1
BB: 1
Bookwrm526Task #25.3 - Well Hello Number 9
Option 1: Read a book that has a number 9 in its series number- whole numbers only. I read Key Lime Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke, #9 in the Hannah Swensen series. (342p)
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. I read The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling, pseudonym of Rachel Hawkins as stated on author's Goodreads page (308p).
342+308=650p
Total points so far: 250
Ana10.6- It's in There Somewhere
The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau. TIN can be found intact in the title.
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 75
Delicious Dee20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Insiyah's Task: In Awe of Space
Project Hail Mary - shelved as space by 533ppl; more than 50% takes place in space/on a spaceship
Points This Post: 20
Points Total: 320
Its a Fact Tickets: 4
Big Book Tickets: 1
Delicious Dee30.3 - Dlmrose's TasK: Coffee First
Option 2 - My First Murder - set in Finland
Option 3 - The Other Man - set in India
Points This Post: 30
Points Total: 350
Its a Fact Tickets: 4
Big Book Tickets: 1
Coralie5.3 Go to Jail, Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass Go
Book with a word in the title that can be made from the letters in oSwAlD sTatE PEnitEntiaRy – DESPERATE
Desperate Undertaking
Total to date 170 points
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)30.7 - Schatzie's Task: Chicken Love
Pick 2 options and read a book from each.
Option C: All letters of LAVENDER in author’s name. Single authors only.
Page count: 359 listened to audiobook link to PB Take My Hand
Author: DoleN PERkins-VALDEz
Take My Hand
Option D: word in the title that is food or flower related that would make a great name for a chicken
Page Count: 273
Word: Sweet Pea is a flower
ARBF:IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8.0
Dear Sweet Pea
Points Earned This Post: 30
Points Achieved to Date: 485/960
Tasks Completed: 34/56
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)5.4 - Ease On Down The Road
Author who shares a name with one of the actors. Name--any position, EXACT match Required: State the actor.
Page Count: 320
ARBF: IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3.0/MG+ or UG may be used with no restrictions
Actor/Author: Diana Ross / Diana Farid
Wave
Points Earned This Post: 5
Points Achieved to Date: 490/960
Tasks Completed: 35/56
5.3 - Go to Jail, Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass OzFirst Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
word in title, PERSON, found in OSwald state PENintentiaRy
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 3
It's a Fact: 4
Season Total: 395
Laurah3015.7 - Get Happy
Read a book this is #4, #5, #6, or #7 in a series.
The Brutal Telling
Points this post: 15
Total points: 120
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 7
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 0
Boston Kate
5.5 From O....Z
Hollow by Shannon Watters
author's initials SW
Points this post: 5
Total points: 45
Jasmiina F20.7 - 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:
The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 75
Golden Oldies this post:
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trishhartuk5.7 It's Not Easy Being Green
At least one letter on the cover that is completely GREEN.
Okayed in Help Thread message #26: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 300
Tasks Completed: 18
It’s a Fact Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 1
10.5. Happy Anniversary!Read a book with a word in the title that exactly matches one of the traditional annivrsary gifts for years 1-10.
My book used SUGAR, which is 6th year in the UK
I read an ebook version of In Watermelon Sugar
New Points: 10
Total Points: 175
BB: 1
IaF: 1
Andy P.Task # 15.10 - Give and Take
Read a book that a fellow SRC member has read and rated 5 stars.
I chose Aprilleigh. A link to her list can be found in message # 8 of the help thread for this task.
The Other Child by Keith Houghton
Points this post: 15
Total points: 270
Chris MD 5.5 From O . . . Z
All author's initials found from O to Z
To Kingdom Come by Will Thomas
I listened to the audio version of this book. There is no MMP. The top paperback has 276 pages.
Total points: 5
Chris MD 5.7 It's Not Easy Being Green
Read a book with at least one letter on the cover that is completely GREEN
by Janet EvanovichI listened to the audio version of this book. The MMP has 374 pages.
Total points: 10
Chris MD 10.5 Happy Anniversary
Read a book with a word in the title that exactly matches one of the traditional annivrsary gifts for years 1-10.
Iron Lake by William Kent Kreuger
Iron is the 6 year anniversary gift on the U.S. list
Total points: 20
Chris MD 20.7 Not All Who Wander Are Lost
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 Gate Keeper by Charles Todd
The word is Gate
GA in GobAl
TT in sysTEm
Total points: 40
CYNBAXTER
Task: 15.6 – Legendary
Task Description: Read a book with a MPG Mythology.
Book: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
**This is a Big Book (640 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket(s)
Points this post: 15 points
Total points to date: 35 points
NF tickets this post: 0
Total NF tickets to date: 0
BB tickets this post: 1
Total BB tickets to date: 1
Golden Oldie tickets this post: 0
Total "GOLDIE" tickets to date: 0
Chris MD 25.2 If I Only Had a Heart
I chose the one-book option a chose a book that meets two different options and is over 500 pages.
Option 1: Read a book with the word HEART in the title
Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose name contains all the letters in HEART
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith
HART in gAlbRaiTH
E in robErt
This is one of the examples given for the one book option in the help thread.
This book is 1,027 pages long. Claiming 3 Big Book tickets
Total points: 65
Nick KY15.8 B Positive. I read How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days by K.M. Jackson p. 9 of list: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... [-- Curently the book is at the top of p. 9 -- when I chose the book two weeks ago it was near the bottom of p. 8. It may fluctuate in the future as well.]
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 365
Nick KY15.9 And Toto Too. I read Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson. “Too” in “Took.”
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 380
Boston Kate
10.7 - An Autumn Debut
Hollow
First published October 4, 2022
Points this post: 10
Total points: 50
Boston Kate
20.2 Keli's Task: For Jules
Option 3: Lost in the Moment and Found
This is book #8 in the Wayward Children series
Points this post: 20
Total points: 70
Barbara ★10.8 - Mexican Independence Day
Read a book whose author's initials are in BATTLE OF PUEBLA. All initials count.
A Nurse for the Wolfman - Eve Langlais 10/10
(E & L in battLE)
Points this task: 10
Total points: 470
Big Book Tickets: 500 (2) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
CYNBAXTER
Task: 10.3 - I Love Shiny Things
Task Description: Read a book with the name of a metal in the title.
Book: Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
Points this post: 10 points
Total points to date: 45 points
NF tickets this post: 0
Total NF tickets to date: 0
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 1
Golden Oldie tickets this post: 0
Total "GOLDIE" tickets to date: 0
MARGO30.3 - Dlmrose's TasK: Coffee First
Option 1: Read a book with a word in the title that contains at least 2 sets of double consecutive letters.
Free Falling
- 2 x E and 2 x L
Option 2: Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries
The Girl from Berlin
- setting GERMANY
- Posted and read Kindle editions.
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Points this task: 30
Total points: 320
Tasks completed: 13
Books read: 24
GO: 0 // BB: 1 // NF: 0
Stephanie12720.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All Treats
Option C: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup: Read a book by an author whose first or last name starts with a letter in RPBC.
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
Children's/YA book...IL designation is UG
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20/960
Tasks completed: 1/56
Books read: 1
Mai5.3 - Go to Jail, Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass Oz
"pearly" made from "Oswald State Penitentiary"
Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between by Thomas Cathcart
*Claim 1 NF Ticket*
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 250
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 20
NF Tickets: 3
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 0
Mai20.6 It's A Fact- Jen K's Task: National Book Festival
Option 3: Book with the letters LOC in the title.
A History of the Cuban Revolution by Aviva Chomsky
*Claim 1 NF Ticket*
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 270
Tasks Completed: 18
Books Read: 21
NF Tickets: 4
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 0
Creynard15.3 - High-Five!
Option 1. Read one book 1 and one book 2.
Book 1: Read a book with a library or librarian central to the subject, setting or plot.
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Book 2: Read a book with a 5-word TITLE. Spaces determine words.
Death at the Crystal Palace by Jennifer Ashley
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 345/960
Tasks completed: 25/56
Books read: 35
Coralie20.2 For Jules
Option 3. Book from a series of at least five books
Lanterns
Total to date 190 points
Creynard15.6 - Legendary
Read a book with a MPG Mythology.
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 360/960
Tasks completed: 26/56
Books read: 35
Coralie20.9 What’s in a Name
Book by an author whose first name is identical to Ursula from Much Ado about Nothing
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
Total to date 210 points
ED20.3 - Best 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”.
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
pub. 2015
"TM" found in "auTuMn"
*****I CLAIM 1 IT'S A FACT TICKET*****
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 135
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
It's a Fact tickets: 2
Tasks completed: 6/56: 5.2; 10.7; 20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.7; 20.9
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20.6 It's A Fact- Jen K's Task: National Book Festival
Option 3: Read a book with the letters LOC found in the title
The Last Enforcer: Outrageous Stories From the Life and Times of One of the NBA's Fiercest Competitors
L in Last
OC in Enforcer
***Claiming 1 It's a Fact***
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 60
Big Ticket Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 3