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FALL CHALLENGE 2022
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Laurah3025.2 - Amy FL’s Task: If I Only Had a Heart
one book option
Option 1: Heart in the title
Option 2: Heart in the author's name
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith
1408 pages
claiming 3 BB tickets
Points this post: 25
Total points: 145
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 9
Big Book tickets: 3
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 0
EMurphy30.4 Wayne's Task: The First of the Months
Option 1: Female author whose first and last names have the same number of letters The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
(304 pages)
Option 2: Cup or mug that would hold a cup of coffee on the cover
by Mateo Askaripour(388 pages)
304+388=692 pages
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 145
Books Read: 10
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +500: 1
IAF Ticket: 2
Tasks Completed: 6
10.6- It's in There SomewhereRead a book in which the 3 letter sequence "TIN" is found in a word in the title/subtitle or in the author's name.
These Fleeting Shadows
TIN appears in fleeTINg
Points Earned This Post: 10
Total Points Earned: 75
It's A Fact Tickets: 3
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)5.6 - How Can You Be Here When You're Not Anywhere At all?
Set at least 50% in a fictitious locale. A fictional setting in a real state/country does NOT work; a fictional country, planet, space system, or fantasy world DOES work. An unnamed setting does not work. Required: State the setting.
Page Count: 88 Listened to audiobook link to HB edition Memento
Location: Set on a spaceship: United Terran Authority battlecarrier Alexander
Memento
Points Earned This Post: 5
Points Achieved to Date: 495/960
Tasks Completed: 36/56
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)10.1. The Tinman's Body Had to Come From Somewhere!
Set at least 50% in one of these countries. REQUIRED: If the setting is not clear from the GR description or the metadata, provide a reference.
Page Count: 296 Listened to audiobook link to PB edition The Dressmaker
Country: Australia
The Dressmaker
Points Earned This Post: 10
Points Achieved to Date: 505/960
Tasks Completed:37/56
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)30.3 - Dlmrose's TasK: Coffee First
Read 2 books from 2 different options.
Required: State the options.
Option 1:Word in the title contains at least 2 sets of double consecutive letters
Page Count: 213
Word: coFFEE
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Option 2: Set at least 50% in one of these countries: Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Slovenia, Austria, Serbia, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Brazil.
Page Count: 216
Country: Germany per GR description
Under the Iron Bridge
Points Earned This Post: 30
Points Achieved to Date: 535/960
Tasks Completed: 38/56
JUKKA10.1. The Tinman's Body Had to Come From Somewhere!
Book set in one of the top tin producing countries.
Ivan Denisovitšin päivä by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is set in Russia.
Total Points: 30/960
Total Books Read: 2
Tasks Completed: 2/56
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
Bookwrm526Task #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. I read The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini, TIN in agosTINi.
Total points so far: 260
CYNBAXTER
Task: 20.7 - Shorter Is Sweeter - XBM's Task: All Who Wander Are Not Lost…Some Are Geocachers!
Task Description: 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.
Book: A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times by Meron Hadero
Requirement: The word created is “Times”
Points this post: 20 points
Total points to date: 65 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
CYNBAXTER
Task: 10.10 - Lost in the Museum
Task Description:Read a book from the first 25 pages of the following list “Museum Books”.
Book: One Grave Too Many by Beverly Connor
Link: Museum Books, page 3
Points this post: 10 points
Total points to date: 75 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
Task 25.8 - Reading the Posthumanoption 2: MPG Technology verified: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
Non-Fic - claiming 1 NF tix
option 4: GENIE can be made from INtElliGEnce
The Reaper Rescues The Genie
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525 points
5 BB tix
4 GO tix
1 NF
Mai15.8 - B Positive
Book shelved as "body positivity" - Page 1
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
*Claim 1 NF Ticket*
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 285
Tasks Completed: 19
Books Read: 22
NF Tickets: 5
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 0
15.10 - Give and TakeA book that a fellow SRC member has read and rated 5 stars: Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
Kristina Simon rated it 5 stars.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 420
20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk’s Task: Forever AutumnOption 1: Rules of Civility - by Amor Towles, published in 2011
Published after 1972 and initials in FOREVER AUTUMN
Total points: 75
Madison U25.1 - Sandy's Task - Use Your Alphabet
Read two books with 500+ page count
Book 1: Read a book with all the vowels in the title
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
(pages = 372)
Book 2: Read a book with author's initials that are only consonants
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
(pages = 310)
Total page count = 682
Points this task = 25
Total points = 235
Tasks complete = 9/56
LAUREN JODI5.10 - There's no place like the SRC!
Yours for Christmas by Susan Mallery
Approved for length in line 4242 of the SRC ebook Verification document.
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 75/960
Total Books Read: 8
Total Tasks Completed: 8/56
15.7 - Get HappyTorpedo Juice by Tim Dorsey; a book in series: Serge Storms #7
Books read this post: 1
Books read total: 22
Points this post: 15
Points total: 310
trishhartuk10.9 Lots Going On!
Read a book from this list: Dark Academia.
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (page 1 of the list, #81-ish)
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB (French) here
Top PB (English): here
Golden Oldie: First published in 1817
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie: 1 – Northanger Abbey was first published in 1817
Total Points: 310
Tasks Completed: 19
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
It’s a Fact Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 1
JUKKA20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Deedee's Task: What's In A Name?
Book whose author shares a name with a Shakespeare character.
Othello by William Shakespeare, who coincidentally shares a name with one William Stafford of Henry VI, Part II. Also, published around 1603, it's definitely a Golden Oldie.
Total Points: 50/960
Total Books Read: 3
Tasks Completed: 3/56
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 1
Rockynook20.1-No Tricks, All Treats
Option C: Read a book by an author whose first or last name starts with a letter in RPBC.
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 20
10.7 - An Autumn DebutRead a book first published in September, October, or November of any year.
I read Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories which was first published September 27, 2022.
points: 95
books read; 7
tasks completed: 6
tasks in progress: 3
Big Books: 3
pages read: 3110
20.7 - Shorter Is Sweeter - XBM's Task: All Who Wander Are Not Lost…Some Are Geocachers!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. - stolen
The Stolen Queen
Points this post: 20
Total points: 50
Tasks completed: 2/56
Books read: 3
GOs this post: 0
Total GOs to date: 1
20.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All TreatsOption C: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
Read a book by an author whose first or last name starts with a letter in RPBC.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
**I'd like a Golden Oldie for Wuthering Heights (first published: 1847)**
Points this post: 20
Total points: 70
Tasks completed: 3/56
Books read: 4
GOs this post: 1
Total GOs to date: 2
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)10.10 - Lost in the Museum
First 25 pages of the following list Museum Books. REQUIRED: Specify the page of the list on which your book is found.
Pages: 288 Listened to audio link to PB The Sixty-Eight Rooms
List Page/Link: Page 1 https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
ARBF: IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9.0
The Sixty-Eight Rooms
Points Earned This Post: 10
Points Achieved to Date: 545/960
Tasks Completed: 39/56
Katrisa10.1. The Tinman's Body Had to Come From Somewhere!
Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries. - Indonesia China Peru Bolivia Australia Thailand Malaysia Belgium Russia Congo-Kinshasa
I read The Survivors set in Tasmania, Australia
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 480
Jayme(the ghostreader)20.1 No Tricks, All treats
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stoneby J.K. Rowling
's in the title
Task +20
Grand Total: 50/960
Barbara ★15.1 - Into the Wood
Book 1 Read a book of your choice, but choose carefully, the title determines your book 2 choice
The Bone Orchard - Sara A. Mueller 9/23
Book 2 Read a book with a word in the TITLE that includes a word from your book one TITLE with the addition of a single letter S.
A Rumor Of Bones - Beverly Connor 10/11
Book 1 = bone
Book 2 = boneS
Points this task: 15
Total points: 485
Big Book Tickets: 500 (2) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
30.7 - Schatzie's Task: Chicken LoveOption A, MPG Self Help: Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness by Gretchen Rubin
Option C, letters LAVENDER in author's name: The Taster by V.S. Alexander
Points this post: 30
Total points: 450
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.10 Group reads
The Cartographers by Peng Shepard
Discussion post #21
Points this post: 20
Total points: 390/960
Tasks completed: 27/56
Books read: 30
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Hawkeye and B.J.Option 1. Read a book by an author whose first and last name begin with the same letter.
The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik
Option 2. Read a book that has both a B and a J in the title/subtitle and/or author's name.
Date with Betrayal (The Dales Detective Series #7) by Julia Chapman
B found in title, Betrayal, and J found in author's first name, Julia
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 3
It's a Fact: 4
Season Total: 420
Julia10310.4-It's a Tool, Not a Weapon
Grantville Gazette IX
(A and E in GrAntvillE, X in IX)
This post: 10 points
Total points: 355
BB: 3
GO: 1
NF: 0
Tasks completed: 21
Books completed: 28
Shiraloo20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Keli's Task: For Jules
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
REQUIRED: Option 3: Comes from a series with more than 5 books.
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Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 115
CYNBAXTER
Task: 20.10 – Group Reads
Task Description: Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Fall 2022 season.
Book: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
Link to Post: Post #22, date 10/12/2022
Points this post: 20 points
Total points to date: 95 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
25.1 - Sandy's Task - Use Your Alphabet. Page total of the two books combined must be at least 500 pages. Book 1 - Read a book that includes all of the vowels, A E I O U, in its title/subtitle.
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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.
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
Total page count: 912
Points this post: 25
Total points: 45/960
Tasks completed: 2/56
Books read: 3
Madison U30.2 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: The Monster Mash
Read one book for each option
Option 1: Read a book with a word of 4+ letters from the lyrics of "The Monster Mash" in the title
The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous
word = GUESTS
Option 2: Read a book that features a main character that is a: vampire, werewolf, ghoul, witch, etc.
Bitten by Kelly Armstrong
Elena Michaels = werewolf
Points this task = 30
Total points = 265
Tasks complete = 10/56
✔️ Pat25.1 ~ Use Your Alphabet
This is a two book task, and the page total of the two books combined must be at least 500 pages. No books with the tags Childrens, Kids, Middle Grade, Juvenile, and related synonyms may be used.
Total Pages This Task ~ 875
Book 1 ~ Read a book that includes all of the vowels, A E I O U, in its title/subtitle.
Opium and Absinthe by Lydia KangRead ~ 10.11.22
Pages ~ 379
How it Fits ~
(A)nd
absinth(E)
op(I)um
(O)pium
opi(U)m
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.
The Sanatorium by Sarah PearseRead ~ 9.5.22
Pages ~ 496
How it Fits ~ Author initials (S/P)
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Points this Task ~ 25
Total Points ~ 265
Total Books ~ 20
Total Pages ~ 7,076
Angela IL25.8 - Mai's Task: Reading the Posthuman
Option 3: Read a book by a single author whose initials (all) can be found in the phrase ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
There's No Place Like Here by Cecelia Ahern-10/12
Option 4: Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title or subtitle that can be made by the letters in the phrase ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering-9/19
Word Used: TELL
Points this Task: 25
Total Points: 150
Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 7
BB Ticket: 0
NF Ticket: 0
Lisa MD10.2 - Call Me Nick.
🍁The Wish by Nicholas Sparks
Listened to audiobook. Linked to PB. No MMPB
416 pages
🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 230/960
Total Books Read: 19
Tasks Completed: 16/56
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets:
Non Fiction Tickets: 2
Andy P.Task # 15.2 - Double Nine
Book 1: Read a book with exactly nine characters in the title.
Betrayals by Kelley Armstrong
Book 2: Read a book with exactly nine characters in the author's name Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li Eight letters +a period
Points this post: 15
Total points: 285
Bookwrm526Task #30.6 - 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). I chose the target work DARK from the song Dark Hollow and read Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom.
Option 4 Read a book with an author who has a double letter (must be next to each other) in their FIRST name. I read Elektra by Jennifer Saint (NN in jeNNifer).
Total points so far: 290
trishhartuk25.2 Amy FL’s Task: If I Only Had a Heart
Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose name contains all the letters in HEART.
Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse, Nancy Atherton (240pg)
ATHERton
Option 3: Read a book that contains a word in the title that can be found in the lyrics of Tin Man
The Crime THAT Binds, Laurie Cass
Read the kindle edition. PB: here (368pg)
“And catch the perfect prize THAT waits among the shelves”
"THAT", was confirmed as okay in Help Thread message #11: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Total pages: 240 + 368 = 608pg
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 335
Tasks Completed: 20
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
It’s a Fact Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 1
25.2 - Amy FL’s Task: If I Only Had a HeartOption 2:
Read a book by a single author whose name contains all the letters in HEART.
Devil's Dance by Garrett Leigh
Option 3
Read a book that contains a word in the title that can be found in the lyrics of Tin Man
That Irresistible Poison by Alessandra Hazard
Word is "that" = "That he didn't, didn't already have"
2 books together have to be 500 pages. 374 (Devil's Dance) + 316 pages (That Irresistible Poison) = 690 pages
IAF tickets overall: 1
Points this task: 25
Total Points: 240
JEN B25.5 - Andy P’s Task: By the Number
Book 1. Read a book whose title (subtitles excluded) contains a number written as such.
56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard (305 pages)
Book 2. Read a book whose title (subtitles excluded) contains a number written in letter form.
Nine Lives by Peter Swanson (320 pages)
305 pages + 320 pages = 625 pages > 500 pages
TOTAL POINTS: 295
Mai30.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: America’s National Parks
Option 2: Author whose initials can be found in YOSEMITE PARK.
Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire
(482 pages)
Option 4: Main page genre of History
The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples by Stephan Palmié
(624 pages)
*Claim 1 NF Ticket and 1 Big Book ticket*
Combined total 1106 pages
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 315
Tasks Completed: 20
Books Read: 24
NF Tickets: 6
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 1
Mai15.10 - Give and Take
Book that a fellow SRC member has read and rated 5 stars
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
rated 5 stars by Dlmrose https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 330
Tasks Completed: 21
Books Read: 25
NF Tickets: 6
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 1
Amy FL5.5 - From O....Z
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham (o,p,q,r,S,t,u,v,W,x,y,z)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 315
Angela IL25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Hawkeye and B.J.
Option 1. Read a book by an author whose first and last name begin with the same letter.
The Mothers by Brit Bennett- 9/30
Option 2. Read a book that has both a B and a J in the title/subtitle and/or author's name.
The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith- 10/6
Points this Task: 25
Total Points: 175
Books Read: 11
Tasks Completed: 8
BB Ticket: 0
NF Ticket: 0
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30.7 ~ Chicken Love
Pick 2 options and read a book from each.
Option B ~ Read a book that has all the letters CHICKEN PAPA in the title and/or subtitle.
Read ~ 9.25.22
Pages ~ 352
How it Fits ~
spe(C)ial
t(H)e
spec(I)al
colle(C)tions
boo(K)s
th(E)
collectio(N)s
de(P)artment
dep(A)rtment
s(P)ecial
r(A)re
Option D ~ Read a book that has a word in the title that is food or flower related that would make a great name for a chicken . I’ll let you know if we use it. If it helps, this chicken is black and white.
REQUIRED ~ State the word.
Read ~ 10.9.22
Pages ~ 246
How it Fits ~ word is TULIPS
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Points this Task ~ 30
Total Points ~ 240
Total Books ~ 18
Total Pages ~ 6,201