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FALL CHALLENGE 2022
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10.7 - An Autumn Debutfirst published in September, October, or November of any year
PB for page count (no mmpb): Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max
I read the Kindle edition: Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max
🎓 first published October 2015 🎓
Total points: 85 +10 = 95
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 1
15.1 - Into the WoodBook 1: book of choice
I listened to the audiobook: Day by Elie Wiesel
MMPB for page count: The Accident
Book 2: word in title + s
I read the Kindle edition: Giant Days, Vol. 4 by John Allison
PB for page count (no mmpb): Giant Days, Vol. 4
🎓 DAY + s = DAYS 🎓
Total points: 95 + 15 = 110
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 1
Lisa MD20.6 It's A Fact- Jen K's Task: National Book Festival
Option 3: Letters LOC found in the title: the joy and Light bus COmpany
🍁The Joy and Light Bus Company by Alexander McCall Smith
Audiobook. Linked to PB. No MMPB
240 pages
🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 50/960
Total Books Read: 3
Tasks Completed: 3/56
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets:
Non Fiction Tickets:
Mod
10.9. Lots Going On!
Read a book from the Dark Academia list.
If We Were Villains (appears on page 1 of the list)
Points this task: 10
Season total: 25
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
IAF Tickets: 0
Barbara ★25.1 - Sandy's Task - Use Your Alphabet
Book 1 - Read a book that includes all of the vowels, A E I O U, in its title/subtitle.
The Alpine Uproar - Mary Daheim 9/2
Book 2 - Read a book by a single author whose initials (all of them) are only consonants. We will count Y as a consonant for this task
Storm Echo - Nalini Singh 9/4
Total Pages = Book 1 (384 pages) + Book 2 (384 pages) = 768 > 500
Points this task: 25
Total points: 25
25.4 - Nick KY's Task: Hawkeye and B.J.Option 1: Read a book whose first and last names begin with the same letter
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
Option 3: Health Aging
The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline by Dale E. Bredesen pg 1 of list
I'm claiming IAF tickets for both The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline and Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
Poinrs this post: 25
Total Points: 35
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 4
BB tickets: 2
GO tickets: 0
IAF tickets: 2
Coralie10.5 Happy Anniversary!
From the UK list 8th anniversary – salt
Salt Creek
Total to date 30 points
Task 20.5 - In Awe of SpaceSpace / Space Opera MPG, and ~75% set on space ship
Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
544 pages - claiming 1 BB tix
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90 points
1 BB tix
1 GO tix
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)10.3 - I Love Shiny Things
Name of metal in title. Stand alone/match exactly.
Page Count: 216 Listened to audio link to PB Jason's GoldMetal: Gold
ARBF: IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8.0
Jason's Gold
Points Earned This Post: 10
Points Achieved to Date:140/960
Tasks Completed: 14/56
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)15.4 - Follow the Clues
Option 2 - ONE book that fulfills both requirements of option 1--MPG Mystery & whole number in series
Page count: 172 Listened to audiobook link to PB Reindeer Runes
Genre/Series: MPG mystery / Winter Witches of Holiday Haven # 2
Reindeer Runes
Points Earned This Post: 15
Points Achieved to Date:155 /960
Tasks Completed:15 /56
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)20.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All Treats
Option D: Kit Kat--Two-word title both words begin with same letter
Page Count: 250 Listened to audiobook link to PB Sleigh Spells
Letter: S-- Sleigh Spells
Sleigh Spells
Points Earned This Post: 20
Points Achieved to Date: 175/960
Tasks Completed: 16/56
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Keli's Task: For Jules
Option 3. Series with minimum of five whole-numbered books in series.
Page Count: 166 Listened to audio link to PB Holiday Hexes
Series: 15 Primary Works/ Winter Witches of Holiday Haven #3
Holiday Hexes
Points Earned This Post: 20
Points Achieved to Date: 195 /960
Tasks Completed:17/56
EMurphy10.9 Lots Going On! Book from the Dark Academia list Madam by Phoebe Wynne
#130, page 2 of the list
This Task:
Points: 10
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
This Task:
Points: 10
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 1
Katrisa20.10 - Group Reads
I read The Cartographers and posted in the thread.
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 50
Julia10330.1 - Ava Catherine’s Task: America’s National Parks
Option 2: Shattered Lives by Sarah Ettritch (SE is in YOSEMITE)
Option 4: The Royal Governess (MPG Historical Fiction)
This post: 30 points
Total points: 95
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 0
Tasks completed: 4
Books completed: 6
10.6 - It's In There SomewhereRead a book in which the three letter sequence "TIN" is found in the title/subtitle or in the author's name
Bossypants by Tina Fey TINa
I'm claiming a IAF ticket for Bossypants, nonfiction
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 45
Tasks Completed: 4
Books read: 5
BB tickets: 2
GO tickets: 0
IAF tickets: 3
Andy P.Task # 15.5 - It Was There All Along
Read a book that you already have in your possession, from any source- borrowed, owned, etc., as of August 17.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
I have had this book on my shelf since 4/21, but if I had realized how good it was it would have been on my read shelf since 5/21.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 70
30.6 - Katrisa's Task: Empty Nest (NOT!)Option 1, a book that includes three generations of one family: Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close
Option 4, author has a double letter in her first name: The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner
Points this post: 30
Total points: 75
Julia10315.7 - Get Happy
Decisions (Rymellan #4)
This post: 15 points
Total points: 110
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 0
Tasks completed: 5
Books completed: 7
✔️ Pat30.6 ~ Empty Nest (NOT!)
This is a two book task. Choose two different options and state which options you choose.
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). Word must match exactly. For this task hyphenated words can be separated.
REQUIRED ~ State the word.
Whistle in the Dark by Emma HealeyRead ~ 9.3.22
Pages ~ 336
How it Fits ~ DARK ~ Dark Hollow
4☆
Option 4 ~ Read a book with an author who has a double letter in their FIRST name. Initials do not count (so no e.e. cummings).
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne CroninRead ~ 9.10.22
Pages ~ 326
How it Fits ~ maria(NN)e
4☆
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Points this Task ~ 30
Total Points ~ 55
Total Books ~ 4
Total Pages ~ 1453
Bookwrm526Task #15.4 - Follow the Clues
Option 2 - Read ONE book that fulfills both requirements of option 1, has the MPG Mystery AND is a whole numbered book in a series. I read The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu, book one in the Crown Colony series.
Total point so far: 70
Sara G20.1 - Most Improved– Lisa MD’s Task: No Tricks, All Treats
Option B: M&M’s
Read a book whose title or subtitle contains either an ampersand (&) or an apostrophe (') symbol.
The King's Blood by Daniel Abraham
I read the Kindle edition. The paperback (no MMPB) here has 501 pages.
**The King's Blood is a Big Book (501 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket.**
Points this post: 20
Total points: 90
JEN B20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Insiyah's Task: In Awe of Space
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 Last Astronaut by David Wellington
MPG Space, set mostly in space (Description reads, " a mission to make first contact becomes a terrifying struggle for survival in the depths of space ")
TOTAL POINTS: 90
Katrisa5.6 - How Can You Be Here When You're Not Anywhere At all?
Read a book set at least 50% in a fictitious locale.
I read God Emperor of Dune which is set on the fictional planet of Arrakis
Points this Post: 5
Points Total: 55
15.8 - B PositiveRead a book that has been shelved as Body Positivity
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado, on page 1 of list
Points this post: 15
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 6
BB tickets: 2
GO tickets: 0
IAF tickets: 3
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.
Dreaming of You by Lisa Keyplas
Pages: 373
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).
Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs
Pages: 294
Points this post: 25
Total points: 45/960
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets this post: o
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
Fact Book Tickets this post: 0
Fact Book Tickets Total: 0
Julia10325.7 - Delicious Dee's Task: It's Duolingo Time
Option 1
Book A: The Triad (first published March 2012)
Paperback edition has 278 pages.
Book B: The Tomorrow Log (OWL in title)
Top paperback edition has 350 pages.
This post: 25 points
Total points: 120
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 0
Tasks completed: 5
Books completed: 7
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)20.6 It's A Fact- Jen K's Task: National Book Festival
Option 3: letters LOC found in the title. All three letters must be found in the title. Subtitles are excluded
Page Count: 184 Listened to audiobook link to PB Lady Fortescue Steps Out
Lady Fortescue Steps Out
Points Earned This Post: 20
Points Achieved to Date: 215/960
Tasks Completed: 18/56
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)20.7 - Shorter Is Sweeter - XBM's Task: All Who Wander Are Not Lost…Some Are Geocachers!
Option 3. Title contains word of 4+ letters that can be made from the letters in Global PoSItioning SysteM. Subtitles are excluded.
Page Count: 184 listened to audiobook link to PB Miss Tonks Turns to Crime
Word: Miss
Miss Tonks Turns to Crime
Points Earned This Post: 20
Points Achieved to Date: 235/960
Tasks Completed:19/56
ED10.7 - An Autumn Debut
Pub. 10/3/2017
Semiautomatic by Evie Shockley
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 50
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 1
Tasks completed: 3/56: 10.7; 20.1; 20.7
Delicious Dee10.10 Lost in the Museum
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake - found on pg8 of the list; claiming 1 its a fact ticket
Points This Post: 10
Points Total: 90
Its a Fact Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets:
babbling c20.1 - 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.
The Cartographers - kindle The Cartographers - paperback pg 400 by Peng Shepherd
RPBC
THIS POST
Points: 20
Completed Tasks: 1
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points: 35/960
Completed Tasks: 2/56
NONFICTION : 0
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Pages read this season: 784
Books read this season: 2
Katrisa10.7 - An Autumn Debut
Read a book first published in September, October, or November of any year.
I read Treacle Walker first published in October 2021
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 65
Julia1035. 9- Number 9, Number 9 .....
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England
(Title/Subtitle has 9 words)
This was first published in 1930 - claiming one Golden Oldie tickt
This post: 5 points, 1 GO
Total points: 125
BB: 1
GO: 1
NF: 0
Tasks completed: 6
Books completed: 8
10.1. The Tinman's Body Had to Come From Somewhere!A book set in one of the largest tin mining countries: Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood
Set in Australia
Points this post: 10
Total points: 85
JEN B25.1 - Sandy's Task - Use Your Alphabet
Book 1 - Read a book that includes all of the vowels, A E I O U, in its title/subtitle.
The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World by Jessica Nabongo
A in cAtch
E in mE
I in If
O & U in yOU
***Claiming one It's A Fact ticket***
Book 2 - Read a book by a single author whose initials (all of them) are only consonants
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
TJR are all consonants
418 pages + 336 pages = 754 pages > 500 pages
TOTAL POINTS: 115
25.2 - Amy FL’s Task: If I Only Had a HeartI did the one book option that fulfilled:
Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose name contains all the letters in HEART.
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 used was THINGS
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert 501 pages
***Claiming a Big Book ticket for 501 pages****
New Points: 25
Total Points: 35
BB:1
IaF: 1
Maria Jo20.6 It's A Fact- Jen K's Task: National Book Festival
Option 3: Blessed Charles of Austria: A Holy Emperor and His Legacy
Claiming It's A Fact ticket for nonfiction book
IAF Ticket: 1
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Creynard10.8.-Mexican Independence Day
Read a book whose author's initials are in BATTLE OF PUEBLA.
A Fatal Grace
Author's initials: L. P.
battle of PuebLa
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 110/960
Tasks completed: 8/56
Books read: 10
Creynard15.8 - B Positive
Read a book that has been shelved as Body Positivity.
Spoiler Alert
On the first page of the list.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 125/960
Tasks completed: 9/56
Books read: 11
Creynard15.7 - Get Happy
Read a book that is #4, #5, #6, or #7 in a series.
A Bundt Instrument
#4 in the Great Witches Baking Show series.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 140/960
Tasks completed: 10/56
Books read: 12
Joanne Mi10.4-It's a Tool, Not a Weapon
A book whose title and/or subtitle contains the letters AXE.
One Hundred and Sixty Minutes: The Race to Save the RMS Titanic
Claiming 1 IAF
Points this task 10
Total Points 30
IAF this task 1
Total IAF 1
Delicious Dee25.3: Mazza1's Task - Well Hello Number 9
Option 1 - Creme Brulee Murder - #39 in the series
Option 2 - Vendetta in Death - JD Robb is a pseudonym for Nora Roberts
Points This Post: 25
Points Total: 115
Its a Fact Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets:
Mod
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Margo's Task: Homage to Catalonia
Option 3 - Read a book from this list of Best Books of the Decade: 1930s. PAGE 1
Out of the Silent Planet. C.S. Lewis
Published in 1938, claiming 1 Golden Oldies ticket
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 20/960
Tasks completed: 1/56
Books read: 1
GO: 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.
I read The Ink Black Heart. This book has 1024 pp and is a *****BIG BOOK *****
Robert Galbraith is the author and his first name starts with an R. This is a pseudonym of course for JK Rowling. Whose last name also starts with R
points: 35
books read: 2
tasks completed: 2
Big Book tickets: 3
pages read: 1408
Barbara ★15.5 - It Was There All Along
Read a book that you already have in your possession, from any source- borrowed, owned, etc., as of August 17.
I Want Candy - Susan Donovan 9/11
(bought paperback in February 2012)
Points this task: 15
Total points: 40
Katrisa30.5 - Cat's Task: Back to School
Opt 1 - Read a book from GR's 66 Campus Novels for Back to School
I read Either/Or which was new to me.
Opt 2 - Read a book from School Reading List UK's Books for Sixth Form Year 12
I read Land of Big Numbers: Stories which was new to me.
Points this Post: 30
Points Total: 95
MARGO30.2 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: The Monster Mash
Book 1: Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters from the lyrics of "The Monster Mash" : https://tinyurl.com/yecxrpcx in the title.
All Eyes on Me
- Chosen words is "eyes"
Book 2: Read a book that features one of these specific characters: vampires, ghouls, zombies, ghosts, werewolves, witches.
Witchy Reservations
- Chosen character is "witches".
- Posted and read Kindle editions.
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Points this task: 30
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 6
GO: 0 // BB: 1 // NF: 0
CC20.7 - 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
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
IL: MG - BL: 6.0 - AR Pts: 12.0
Stone - Global Positioning System
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 20
Books Read:1
Tasks Done: 1
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Task # 20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Insiyah's Task: In Awe of Space
Read a book with a main page genre that contains "space"Space Opera that is set at least 50% in space .
The End of All Things by John Scalzi
Points this post: 20
Total points: 55