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FALL CHALLENGE 2022
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5.8 - Wizard of OzzieMPG Sports.
Blockade Billy by Stephen King
Task Points: 5
Total Points: 885
GO Points: 2
BB Points: 1
NF Points: 8
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25.5 - Andy P’s Task: By the Number
Book 1. Read a book whose title (subtitles excluded) contains a number written as such.
Genealogy 101: Never Assume Murder. Carol Grieshop (371 pages)
Book 2. Read a book whose title (subtitles excluded) contains a number written in letter form.
The Four Profound Weaves. R.B. Lemberg (192 pages)
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 390/960
Tasks completed: 16/56
Books read: 24
GO: 1
BB: 3
✔️ Pat20.2 ~ For Jules
Please choose from one of the three options.
REQUIRED ~ State the option.
Option 1 ~ Read a book with either a horse or a crab on the cover.
REQUIRED ~ Post the cover.
Think Like a Horse: Lessons in Life, Leadership, and Empathy from an Unconventional Cowboy by Grant GolliherRead ~ 10.31.22
Pages ~ 272
How it Fits ~ Gray horse on the cover
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Points this Task ~ 20
Total Points ~ 360
Total Books ~ 26
Total Pages ~ 8,920
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25.7 - Delicious Dee's Task: It's Duolingo Time
Option 1:
Book A. Read a book that was FIRST published between November 27, 2011 and June 19, 2012.
It Takes a Witch. Heather Blake
First published January 3, 2012, 299 pages
Book B. Read a book where the letters DUO or OWL can be found in the title (not subtitle).
Required: State which letters you are using.
Due or Die. Jenn McKinlay
DUO, 283 pages
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 415/960
Tasks completed: 17/56
Books read: 26
GO: 1
BB: 3
Mai10.6- It's in There Somewhere
Letter sequence "TIN" is found in a word in the title/subtitle
The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations & Books by Eviatar Zerubavel
*Claim 1 NF Ticket*
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 465
Tasks Completed: 30
Books Read: 36
NF Tickets: 14
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 3
Bookwrm526Task #30.2 - The Monster Mash
Book 1: Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters from the lyrics of "The Monster Mash". I chose the word ABOUT and read It's Not About the Burqa by Mariam Khan.
Book 2: Read a book that features one of these specific characters: vampires, ghouls, zombies, ghosts, werewolves, witches. I read The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu, in which the main character (Ropa) makes her living by carrying messages from ghosts to the living.
Total points so far: 450
Lisa MD20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Deedee's Task: What's In A Name?
Author FIRST name is identical to one of the names of a Shakespearean character from the list. Must match exactly, but need not be a first name of a character.
🍁The Island by Adrian McKinty
375 pages
Character: Adrian / Play: Tempest
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 430/960
Total Books Read: 33
Tasks Completed: 26/56
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets:
Non Fiction Tickets: 3
ROBIN P25.7 Delicious Dee's Task: It's Duolingo Time
2 books, >237 pages each
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.
Wilde in Love - Eloisa James initials found in JapanEse - listened to audiobook, linked mmpb which has 405 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.
A Few Green Leaves - 250 pages - GREEN found in GREEk UkraiNian
Points this post: 25
Total points: 615
BB:3 GO:4 IAF:2
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 4: Grand Canyon National Park - Read a book with a main page genre of History or Historical Fiction.
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
Deborah15.7 - Get Happy
Undeniably Yours (Lucy Valentine #5)
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 155
Books Read:13
Tasks Done: 10
Deborah15.5 - It Was There All Along
The Long-Forgotten Winter King
Kindle purchase May 17, 2022
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 170
Books Read:14
Tasks Done: 11
Inge25.2 - Amy FL’s Task: If I Only Had a Heart
option 1 read a book with the word heart in the title
Welkom thuis in Love Heart Lane
#pages: 336
Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose name contains all the letters in HEART
The Unhoneymooners
author: Christina Lauren
#pages: 400
total#pages: 736
Points this task: 25
total points: 265
Inge30.2 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: The Monster Mash
book 1: word used: Eyes
Starry Eyes
book 2: Read a book that features one of these specific characters: vampires, ghouls, zombies, ghosts, werewolves, witches.
Door de zombiespiegel
character: zombies &ghost
Points this task: 30
total points: 295
5.3 - Go to Jail, Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass OzRead a book with a word in the title of 4 or more letters that can be made from the letters in "Oswald State Penitentiary".
The Power by LJ Smith
The word I made is Power.
IAF tickets overall: 1
Points this task: 5
Total Points: 335
15.3 - High-Five!Option 2 - By Book or By Crook by Eva Gates; a book with a 5 word title and which has a library as the central setting.
Books this post: 1
Books read total: 43
Points this post: 15
Points total: 640
15.3 - High-Five!Option 2
The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights #1) by T.L. Huchu
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 3
It's a Fact: 5
Season Total: 645
MARGO20.3 - Best Review - Trishhartuk’s Task: Forever Autumn
Option 2: Read a book from this list: Best Books to Read in Autumn,
The Graveyard Book
- #26 on Page 1 of list
- Children's' Book - AR Bookfinder details IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10.0
Posted and read Kindle edition.
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Points this task: 20
Total points: 605
Tasks completed: 26
Books read: 42
GO: 2 // BB: 1 // NF: 3
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Task: 30.5 - Cat's Task: Back to School
Task Description: Option 1: Read a book from GR's “66 Campus Novels for Back to School”
Book: Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib
Requirement: This book is new to me
Task Description: Option 2: Read a book from School Reading List UK's Books for Sixth Form Year 12
Book: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Requirement: This book is new to me
Points this post: 30 points
Total points to date: 180 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
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Margo's Task: Homage to Catalonia Option 3 - List Best Books of the Decade: 1930s. PAGE 3.
This book is new-to-me.
Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery
AR: IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12.0
First published in 1937 for 1 GO Point.
Task Points: 20 + 1 GO
Total Points: 905
GO Points: 3
BB Points: 1
NF Points: 8
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
Bookfinder IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10.0
From GR description - "raised and educated by ghosts" . . "city of ghouls" . . "friendship with a witch"
Points this post: 30
Total points: 615
BB:3 GO:4 IAF:2
Andy P.Task # 20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Keli's Task: For Jules
Option 2. Read a book with a word of four letters or more in the title or subtitle that can be made from LADILATTE
The Scorpion's Tail by Douglas Preston
LADILATTE
Points this post: 20
Total points: 415
15.5 It was there all along- book you have in possession alreadyProject Hail Mary
I have had this book for months before August
Points: 15
Total/challenge: 15
20.4 Homage to CataloniaOpt 3 book from list - found on page 2
Death in the Clouds
Published 1935
Claiming Golden Oldie ticket
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 35
20.5 In Awe of Space - main genre contains space - set 50% on spaceship or in spaceRogue Protocol
space listed as genre and is set on spaceship and on far planet
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 55
30.1 America's National Parks >500 pgsOpt 2 Author's first and last initials in yoSemitepArk
The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abe - 352 pgs
Opt 4 - History or Historical Fiction genre
The Enigma Game - HF - 320 pgs
352+320 = 670 pgs
Points: 30
Points/challenge: 85
30.3 Coffee FirstOpt 1 - title wood contains two sets of double letters - LL, OO
The Hollywood Daughter
Opt 3 set in one of countries listed producing the most coffee - set in Mexico
American Dirt
Points: 30
Points/challenge: 115
30.4 First of the Months >600 pgsOpt 1 - book written by female author whose first and last names contain the same number of letters
The Mapmaker's Children by Sarah McCoy - 300 pgs.
Author's first and last names both contain 5 letters
Opt 3: Books about Books genre
The Masked City - 357 pgs
300+357 = 657 pgs
Points: 30
Points/challenge: 145
30.5 Back to School - both books new to youOpt 1 Read a book from GR's 66 Campus Novels for Back to School
The Atlas Six
This book is new to me
Option 3: Read a book from School Reading List UK's Books for Sixth Form Year 13: https://tinyurl.com/bdxjymh5
Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year
Search
This book is new to me
Points: 30
Points/challenge: 175
30.7 Chicken LoveOpt A Read a nonfiction book with a MPG of SELF HELP.
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
*Claiming It's a Fact Ticket
Opt D title with a food or flower related word that could be used for a chicken name
Black Cake- cake
Chicken is black and white. :)
Points: 30
Points/challenge: 205
It's a Fact ticket: 1
5.1-Exiled to the Land of Oz MPG Crime: The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
Points this post: 5
Total points: 655
Kathy KS**UNCLAIM!!** Stats adjusted below.
20.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All Treats
Read a book that meets the requirements for the chocolate you chose. Required: State the option.
Option B: M&M’s
Read a book whose title or subtitle contains either an ampersand (&) or an apostrophe (') symbol.
Junk Fiction: America's Obsession with Bestsellers by S.T. Joshi
How it fits: America ' s has an apostrophe
I read an ebook; pb-328 p. (no mmpb)
**Claiming 1 (one) It’s A Fact ticket** : NONFICTION
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Points for this task: 0
Total points : 235-20=215
Tasks completed: 14/56-1=13/56
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 3-1=2
Kathy KS20.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All Treats
Read a book that meets the requirements for the chocolate you chose. Required: State the option.
Option A: Snickers
Read a book whose title or subtitle contains a word that begins and ends with the same letter.
Transatlantic Lives: The Irish Experience in Colonial America
contains two different words in subtitle: ExperiencE OR AmericA
**Claiming 1 (one) It’s A Fact ticket** : NONFICTION
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 235
Tasks completed: 14/56
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 1
It's a Fact tickets total: 3
Kathy **UNCLAIM!!** Stats adjusted below.
5.6 - How Can You Be Here When You're Not Anywhere At all?
Read a book set at least 50% in a fictitious locale. Required: State the setting.
The City by Stella Gemmell
Setting: The City [Yes, that's the name]
**Claiming 1 (one) Big Book ticket** : 553 pages
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Points for this task: 0
Total points : 235-5=230
Tasks completed: 14/56-1=13/56
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1-1=0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
It's a Fact tickets for this task:
It's a Fact tickets total: 3
Nick KY20.8 Julia 103’s Per Tab
Opt. 5. “50” intact in page enumeration. I read The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. 350 pp.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 620
Kathy KS25.1 - Sandy's Task - Use Your Alphabet
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.
Junk Fiction: America's Obsession with Bestsellers by S.T. Joshi
vowels: AEIOU=jUnk fictIOn: AmErica's...
I read an ebook; pb-328 p. (no mmpb)
**Claiming 1 (one) It’s A Fact ticket** : NONFICTION
Book 2 - Read a book by a single author whose initials (all of them) are only consonants
The City by Stella Gemmell
consonants: SG
553 pages
**Claiming 1 (one) Big Book ticket**
Total pages: 328+553=881 (>500)
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Points for this task: 25
Total points : 255
Tasks completed: 14/56
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 1
It's a Fact tickets total: 4
JEN B10.10 - Lost in the Museum
Read a book from the first 25 pages of the following list Museum Books.
Still Lives by Maria Hummel
This book is on page 3 of the list
TOTAL POINTS: 485
Barbara ★50.1 - Jen B's Task: Monopoly!
Rolled a 4: MPG
Read three books that share the same main page genre.
MPG Fantasy
1. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon 9/21
BIG BOOK: 848 pages
2. Thistlefoot - GennaRose Nethercott 10/10
3. Archangel's Light - Nalini Singh 11/1
Points this task: 50
Total points: 665
Big Book Tickets: 500 (3) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Coralie10.2 Call Me Nick
Book by an author with a name found on the list of related names for Nick – Colson
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Total to date 395 points
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.10 There's no place like the SRC!
The Hunt by Faye Kellerman
Points this post: 5
Total points: 640/960
Tasks completed: 41/56
Books read: 50
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.5 Happy Anniversary!
Last Wool and Testament by Molly MacRae
Points this post: 10
Total points: 650/960
Tasks completed: 42/56
Books read: 51
TessaVanessaUNCLAIM Challenge 15.7 Get Happy
Fair Isle and Fortunes by Nancy Warren
Points this post: -15
Total points: 635/960
Tasks completed: 41/56
Books read: 50
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.7 Get Happy
Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
Spenser #4
Points this post: 15
Total points: 650/960
Tasks completed: 42/56
Books read: 51
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.8 Mai's Task: Reading the Posthuman
Option 3: Hideout by Louisa Luna
Option 4: Fair Isle and Fortunes by Nancy Warren
WORD= FAIR
Points this post: 25
Total points: 675/960
Tasks completed: 43/56
Books read: 53
30.4 - Wayne's Task: The First of the MonthsOption 1 - Read a book written by a female author whose first and last names have the same number of letters.
Built To Last by Erin Hahn
female author with 4 letters in each first & last names
336 pages
Option 3 - Read a book with an MPG of Books About Books
Murder in the Mystery Suite (Book Retreat Mysteries #1) by Ellery Adams
277 pages
Total pages read: 613
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 3
It's a Fact: 5
Season Total: 675
Bookwrm526Task #20.10 - Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Fall 2022 season. The requirement for this task: you must participate in the book's discussion thread below with at least one post about the contents of the book or your reaction to the book after you have read the book. I read The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd and posted in the discussion thread at post 28.
Total points so far: 470
Mod
Read a book with a MPG of Sports.
Proud: My Autobiography
This book has an MPG of sports
This is non-fiction so I claim an "It's a Fact" ticket
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 410 + 5 = 415
Total Tasks Completed: 23
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Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 6+1 = 7
Mai20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Deedee's Task: What's In A Name?
Book written by a solo writer whose FIRST name is identical to one of the names of a Shakespearean character from the list.
Adrian from The Tempest
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry Into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley by Adrian Daub
*Claim 1 NF Ticket*
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 485
Tasks Completed: 31
Books Read: 37
NF Tickets: 15
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 3
15.2 - Double NineBook 1, nine characters in the title: The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Book 2, nine characters in the author's name: Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Points this post: 15
Total points: 670
ED20.6 It's A Fact- Jen K's Task: National Book Festival
Option 3: LOC
Magical Negro by Morgan Parker
"LOC" found in "magiCaL negrO"
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 190
Big Book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
It's a Fact tickets: 2
Tasks completed: 12/56-
5.2; 5.10; 10.7; 15.5; 15.10; 20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4;20.6; 20.7; 20.9
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I rolled a 5. (Three books, same setting.)
Practical Demonkeeping, 243 pages.
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, 304 pages.
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, 306 pages.
All written by Christopher Moore, all set in Pine Cove, California. (Pine Cove series #1, #2, and #3.)
Total pages, all 3 books: 853 pages.
Books read this post: 3
Books read total: 42
Points this post: 50
Points total: 625