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FALL CHALLENGE 2022
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CHANDNI20.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All Treats
Option A: Read a book whose title or subtitle contains a word that begins and ends with the same letter.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Word: Nineteen
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 20
CHANDNI20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk’s Task: Forever Autumn
Option 2: Read a book from this list: Best Books to Read in Autumn.
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
This is on Page 1 of the list.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 40
CHANDNI20.4 - Golden Oldies - Margo's Task: Homage to Catalonia
Option 1 - Read a book by George Orwell.
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
This book is new to me.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 60
CHANDNI20.6 It's A Fact- Jen K's Task: National Book Festival
Option 3: Read a book with the letters LOC found in the title.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
L from Kill
O from Mockingbird
C from Mockingbird
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 80
CHANDNI20.7 - Shorter Is Sweeter - XBM's Task: All Who Wander Are Not Lost…Some Are Geocachers!
Option 2. Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in GEOCACHING.
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 100
CHANDNI20.9 - 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 Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Alice from Henry V
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 120
CHANDNI 30.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: America’s National Parks
Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in YOSEMITE PARK.
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
316 pages
Option 4: Read a book with a main page genre of History or Historical Fiction.
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
278 pages
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 150
Anja10.8.-Mexican Independence Day
Read a book whose author's initials are in BATTLE OF PUEBLA.
Omega Found by Evelyn Flood
POINTS:
Points This Post: 10
Points Total: 105
Big Books: 500(1) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 7
Anja20.1 - 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.
Wolf Untamed by Alexis Calder
POINTS:
Points This Post: 20
Points Total: 125
Big Books: 500(1) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 8
Anja30.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: America’s National Parks
Option 1: The Wolves of Yellowstone National Park - Read a book with the word WOLF or WOLVES intact in title
Wolf Marked by Alexis Calder
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 Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
232+320=552 pages
POINTS:
Points This Post: 30
Points Total: 155
Big Books: 500(1) 750(0) 1000(0)
Golden Oldies: 0
Completed Tasks: 9
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.
Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
IAF tickets overall: 1
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 330
CHANDNI50.1 - Jen B's Task: Monopoly!
I rolled a 2.
Read three books whose titles share a common word of 4 or more letters.
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
396 pages
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
369 pages
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
286 pages
Points this post: 50
Total Points: 200
30.7 - Schatzie's Task: Chicken LoveOption A: MPG Self Help
Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day by Amishi P. Jha
Claiming 1 NF Point.
Option D: Flower word in title. ROSES
Roses and Champagne by Betty Neels
Task Points: 30 + 1 NF
Total Points: 845
GO Points: 1
BB Points: 1
NF Points: 8
LAUREN JODI15.7 - Get Happy
Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas
#7 in a series
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 180/960
Big Book Ticket: 1
Total Books Read: 18
Total Tasks Completed: 18/56
Task 20.2 - Keli's Task: For JulesOption 3. Read a book from a series with a minimum of five whole-numbered books in the series.
Alive! (Valentino #3) (2013) by Loren D. Estleman (Hardcover 284 pages)
80 + 20 = 100
Tasks Completed: 04
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 80 + 20 = 100
Books read: 05
Pages read: 2,305
Read but not claimed: 06
Goodreads Authors: 03
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 01
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Mod
50.1 - Jen B's Task: Monopoly!
Roll a 4: MPG (Historical Fiction)
Book 1: Alex and Eliza. Melissa de la Cruz (368 pages)
Book 2: How Much of These Hills Is Gold. C Pam Zhang (288 pages)
Book 3: Conjure Women. Afia Atakora (400 pages)
Points this post: 50
Total Points: 365/960
Tasks completed: 15/56
Books read: 22
GO: 1
BB: 3
Barbara ★15.10 - Give and Take
Read a book that a fellow SRC member has read and rated 5 stars.
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover - Sarah MacLean 10/30
HINA - https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Points this task: 15
Total points: 615
Big Book Tickets: 500 (3) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
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20.4 - Golden Oldies - Margo's Task: Homage to Catalonia
Option 2 - Remember Me: A Spanish Civil War Novel - shelved as both Spain and Spanish Civil War; new to me book
Points This Post: 20
Points Total: 530
Its a Fact Tickets: 5
Big Book Tickets: 1
Mod
Nick KY5.8 Wizard of Ozzie -- GR genre of “Sports.” I read Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy by Jules Tygiel.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 525
Nick KY15.7 Get happy!
Read a book this is #4, #5, #6, or #7 in a series. I read Sacrifice by Andrew Vachss, # 6 in the Burke series.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 540
Nick KY30.2 Saturnloo’s Monster Mash
Book 1. I read Live by Night by Dennis Lehane, “Night” from the lyric “I was working in my lab late one night.”
Book 2. I read The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas. It has a witch. From the GR blurb: “No ordinary priest, Andrés will have to rely on his skills as a witch to fight off the malevolent presence “
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 570
Nick KY30.7 Schatzie’s Chicken Love
Pick 2 options and read a book from each.
Option C. Lavender is his favorite chicken. She’s beautiful. Read a book with all the letters LAVENDER in the author’s name.
I read Obedience by Will Lavender.
Option D. Schatzie named most of the chickens with herb, food, or flower names. Per instructions, my book has a word in the title (LEMON) that is food or flower related that I think would make a great name for a chicken!
I read The Lemon Orchard by Luanne Rice. I listened to the audio book. -- There is no Mass Market Paperback. The top rated Paperback is 304 pp. The Lemon Orchard
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 600
Laurah3020.7 - Shorter Is Sweeter - XBM's Task: All Who Wander Are Not Lost…Some Are Geocachers!
Option 2. Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in GEOCACHING. (This must include all initials, and only as often as they appear in the word).
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Points this post: 20
Total points: 235
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 14
Big Book tickets: 3
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 0
CHANDNI20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Julia103's Task: On the Periodic Table
Option D: Read a book where all the numbers of the page count are found in 118.71.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 220
15.7 - Get Happy#4, #5, #6, or #7 in a series: An Island Wedding by Jenny Colgan (Mure #5)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 645
Lisa MD25.7 - Delicious Dee's Task: It's Duolingo Time
Read Book A and Book B for one option.
Each book must exceed 237 pgs.
Option 2:
Book A. All author's initials appear in either: Japanese, Ukrainian or Greek.
🍁The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
Author Initals: JE appear in JapanEse
320 pages
Book B. Word of at least 4 letters in the title made with the letters from 2 remaining languages.
🍁Send Down the Rain by Charles Martin
Title Word: Rain found in Uk rain ian
Read ebook. No MMPB. Linked to PB.
352 pages
🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 410/960
Total Books Read: 32
Tasks Completed: 25/56
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets:
Non Fiction Tickets: 3
Kim O25.2 - Amy FL’s Task: If I Only Had a Heart One-book option
Option 1: Read a book with the word HEART in the title.
Option 3: Read a book that contains a word in the title that can be found in the lyrics of Tin Man. (The word I chose is "like")
Dear Heart, How Like You This? This book has 500 pages.
Points this task: 25
Big Book tickets: 1
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Totals:
Points: 65
Big Book - 500+: 1
Big Book - 750+: 0
Golden Oldie: 0
It's a Fact: 1
30.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: America’s National ParksOption 1: The Wolves of Yellowstone National Park. The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North by Jack London; a book with the word WOLF intact in title. 360 pages. First published in 1900.
**Claiming 1 Golden Oldies Ticket**
Option 4: Grand Canyon National Park. Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance by Janet Gleeson; a book with a main page genre of History. 303 pages.
The combined total of the two books is 663 pages.
Golden Oldies Ticket this post: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets total: 8
Books read this post: 2
Books read total: 37
Points this post: 30
Points total: 545
Kim O15.10 - Give and Take
Read a book that a fellow SRC member has read and rated 5 stars.
The Echo Wife
Read and rated five stars by member TracyL
Points this task: 15
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Totals:
Points: 80
Big Book - 500+: 1
Big Book - 750+: 0
Golden Oldie: 0
It's a Fact: 1
Theresa10.7 - An Autumn Debut
The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig and Karen White
1st published September 4, 2018
Points this post - 10
Total points - 70
Theresa15.4 - Follow the Clues
Option 2 - One book fulfills both requirements
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
MPG Mystery and Hercule Poirot#1
Points this post - 15
Total points - 85
30.2 Robin(Saturndoo)'s Task: The Monster MashBook 1. Word in title from song -
Light from Uncommon Stars
word is FROM - "my monster from his slab"
Book 2. Book with vampires, ghouls, zombies, ghosts, werewolves, or witches
The Graveyard Book
From GR description - "raised and educated by ghosts" . . "city of ghouls" . . "friendship with a witch"
Points this post: 30
Total points: 590
BB:3 GO:4 IAF:2
30.5 - Cat's Task: Back to SchoolOption 2: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall; a book from School Reading List UK's Books for Sixth Form Year 12.
Option 3: The Art of War by Sun Tzu; a book from School Reading List UK's Books for Sixth Form Year 13. First published in 501 C.E.
**Claiming 1 Golden Oldies Ticket**
Both books were new to me.
Golden Oldies Ticket this post: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets total: 9
Books read this post: 2
Books read total: 39
Points this post: 30
Points total: 575
Coralie25.3 Well Hello Number 9
Option 2 Book by an author who uses a pseudonym
Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire who also writes as Mira Grant
Option 3 book with TEEN intact in title/subtitle (in sixTEEN)
Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers
Total to date 385 points
5.9- Number 9, Number 9 .....Title and/or subtitle of 9 or more words: I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by Jessi Klein
Points this post: 5
Total points: 650
Shiraloo20.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All Treats
Love & Olives by Jenna Evans Welch
REQUIRED: Option B, title contains an ampersand.
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Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 230
Total Tickets:
GO: 0
BB: 0
NF: 3
Julia10320.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Julia103's Task: On the Periodic Table
Option A: Snowdrift and Other Stories
(Snowdrift starts with SN)
This post: 20 points
Total points: 550
BB: 5
GO: 1
NF: 0
Tasks completed: 29
Books completed: 39
Boston Kate
10.6 It's in There Somewhere
The Meeting Point
TIN found in the word meeTINg
Points this post: 10
Total points: 95
Jen K30.2 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: The Monster Mash
Book 1: Night of the Living Rez: Stories
Word: Night- "I was working in the lab, late one NIGHT"
Book 2: Deathless Divide
The book is full of Zombies, the MCs are Zombie Hunters and several of their friends are bitten and changed.
*****Requesting 1 BB ticket @ 560 pages *****
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 270
BB: 3
IAF: 4
Jen K30.4 - Wayne's Task: The First of the Months
Option 1 - September 1: Emma M Nutt Day
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik - 407 pages
Option 3 - November 1: Family Literacy Day
Writers & Lovers - 320 pages
MPG of Books About Books
407+320 > 600 pages
*****
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 300
BB: 3
IAF: 4
Maria Jo30.4 - Wayne's Task: The First of the Months
Option 2: Black Coffee
Option 3: The Book Woman's Daughter
IAF Ticket: 3
GO Ticket: 1
Points this post: 30
Total points: 195
Mai10.7 - An Autumn Debut
book first published in November
Death's End by Liu Cixin
Claim 1 big book ticket: 604 pages
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 440
Tasks Completed: 28
Books Read: 33
NF Tickets: 11
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 3
Task 30.7 - Chicken Loveoption C: LAVENDER in author name
Shadows Of The Short Days by Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson
LAENDER in ALExaNDER
V in Vilhjalmsson
528 pages - claiming 1 BB tix
option D: food / flower word in title
Nettle & Bone
verified in help thread, nettle = flower word; bone = food word (nettle arguably also food word)
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715 points
7 BB tix
4 GO tix
1 NF tix
Mod
pick ONE option and read Book A and Book B for that option.
Each of your books must exceed 237 pgs.
Option 2:
Book A. Choose one of those three languages: Japanese, Ukrainian and Greek, and read a book where the author's initials (all) appear in that single language word.
Katherine Grainger: Dreams Do Come True
The author's initials KG are in GreeK
I listened to the audiobook, but the hardback (no paperback listed) Dreams Do Come True is listed as 293 pages
Book B. Using the two remaining language words, read a book where a word of at least 4 letters in the title can be made with the letters of those languages. Letters may be used as often as they appear.
Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I
The word PARIS can be made from jaPAneSe, ukRraInian
I listened to the audiobook but the paperback Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I is listed as 368 pages
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 385 + 25 = 410
Total Tasks Completed: 22
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Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 6
JEN B5.6 - How Can You Be Here When You're Not Anywhere At all?
Many people don't believe that Oz exists. Let's assume that to be the case. Read a book set at least 50% in a fictitious locale.
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
This book is set mostly in a fictional, fairy tale kingdom. It isn't specifically named, but book description reads:
"But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds"
TOTAL POINTS: 475
10.9. Lots Going On!List: Dark Academia. PAGE 2.
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
First published in 1606 for 1 Golden Oldie ticket.
Task Points: 10 + 1 GO
Total Points: 855
GO Points: 2
BB Points: 1
NF Points: 8
25.6 - MegSCL's Task: Bookish PodcastsOption 2: First 10 pages of Book Club Books list. PAGE 6
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Option 4: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 880
GO Points: 2
BB Points: 1
NF Points: 8
Mai15.1 - Into the Wood
Two books with the same word in the title with one having an extra "S"
Book 1:
A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are by Flynn Coleman
*Claim 1 NF Ticket*
Book 2:
Algorithms and Subjectivity: The Subversion of Critical Knowledge by Eran Fisher
*Claim 1 NF Ticket*
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 455
Tasks Completed: 29
Books Read: 35
NF Tickets: 13
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 3
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30.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: America’s National Parks
Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in YOSEMITE PARK.
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager- 10/30 (349 pgs)
Option 4: Read a book with a main page genre of History or Historical Fiction.
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss- 9/25 (252 pgs)
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 425
Books Read: 27
Tasks Completed: 18
BB Ticket: 1
NF Ticket: 0