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WINTER CHALLENGE 2022
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20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Paul's Task: Woolworth's Great Five Cent StoreNon-fiction, title/subtitle word from letters in FRANK WINFIELD WOOLWORTH: Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another by Ellen Stimson
The word is Another.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 300
DOM20.3 - Best Review - Chris MD's Task: The Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Option 1: Read a book by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, or Ngaio Marsh that was published BEFORE 1939.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
First published June 7, 1926
This book was written by Agatha Christie and first published before 1939.
I claim a Golden Oldie Ticket for this book.
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 380
Books Read: 25
Golden Oldies: 2
It's a Fact: 1
Big Books: 2
25.6 Gotta DanceOption 1: There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia by Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
Z - Sanchez
UM - Murder
BA - Colombia
336 pages
Option 3 - Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
386 pages
I'd like an It's A Fact ticket for There Are No Dead Here
Post Total: 25
Grand Total: 130
Angela IL30.1 - Katrisa's Task: The Sandman
Option 2: Read a book with one of the names of the Endless found in the TITLE.
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware- 1/8 (368 pages/ using Death)
Option 4. Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters from the lyrics of “Enter Sandman” in the TITLE.
https://genius.com/Metallica-enter-sa...
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister- 12/22 (416 pages/ word Wrong)
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 170
Books Read: 15
Tasks Completed: 13
BB Ticket: 1
NF Ticket: 0
Andy P.Task # 10.4 - Wonder Drug
Read a book with a word in the title of at least 4 letters that can be made using the letters in Penicillium notatum
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor by Laura Hillman
The word is Lilac L appears twice in Penicillium, C appears once, and A in Notatum
Points this post: 10
Total points: 245
JEN B20.10 - Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Winter 2022- 2023 season.
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
My discussion thread post is #21
TOTAL POINTS: 230
ROBIN P20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Lucy- Bookworm's Task: FOXLEASE
Option 1 - Author initials in FOXLEASE
The Sentence - Louise Erdrich
Points this post: 20
Total points: 340
BB:1 GO:2 IAF:3
Lisa MD20.4 - Golden Oldies - XBM's Task: Remembering my parents
Option 1: SALMON found in any combination of the title and/or subtitle.
☑️🎄Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion by Daniel Goleman
224 pages
SALMON found in title: why we MediAte: the ScieNe and practice Of cLarity and compassion
🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 105/840
Total Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 8/52
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Non Fiction Tickets:
Mike in MA5.3 Published in April/May
Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Published May 1982
240 pages
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 5
Total Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1
Jen K30.1 - Katrisa's Task: The Sandman
Option 2, The Endless
The Death of Bees - 312 pages
Endless: Death
Option 4. Enter Sandman
Strange Beasts of China- 232 pages
Word: Beasts -It's just the beasts under your bed
312+232>500
*****
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 180
IAF: 2
Jen K20.3 - Best Review - Chris MD's Task: The Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Option 2: The Green Mill Murder
Phryne Fisher #5, MPG Mystery, Set in 1928
*****
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 200
IAF: 2
Task 20.7 - Marching for Women's Suffrage!option A: MPG Feminism
The Roles We Play
non-fiction - claiming 1 NF tix
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465 points
3 NF tix
3 GO tix
2 BB tix
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)30.1 Katrisa's Task: The Sandman-
500+ pages--One graphic novel
2, The Endless - Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, Delirium or Delight found in TITLE.
Page Count: 291
Word: Death
Death Comes to Pemberley
Option 3: MPG Retelling
Page Count: 336 listened to AB link to PBHester: A Novel
MPG Approval link:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hester
Points Earned This Post: 30
Points Achieved to Date: 610/840
Tasks Completed: 41/52
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)25.1 -TessaVanessa’s Task: Book Style Challenge
Option 3: MPG of sequential art, manga or graphic novel.
Page Count: 208
Prince of Persia
Option 4: MPG of Plays
Page Count: 138 pgs Listened to AB link to PB edition August: Osage County
August: Osage County
Points Earned This Post: 25
Points Achieved to Date: 635/0840
Tasks Completed: 42/52
Boston Kate
5.10 The Best Things in Life Are Free
Futureland: Battle for the Park
book is Middle Grade, but is not in AR Bookfinder.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 40
Nick KY30.3 Saturnloo’s Dec. 7th
Opt. 3. GR genre “True Crime.” I read Tiger King: The Official Tell-All Memoir.
Opt. 5. “4” and “9” in pagination. I read Cosmic Canticle by Ernesto Cardenal, 490 pp.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 290
10.3 shelved as Psychology The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
page 4 of psychology shelves
Books read: 11
Point Total:110/840
Tasks Total: 10/52
10.7 - Black VenusRead a book by a woman of colour.
Slay by Brittney Morris (page 1: number 82)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 40
10.10 - The Latin Lover MPG includes Romance or Romantic
PB: Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition by Tee Franklin
I read the Kindle edition: Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition
❄️ MPG Romance ❄️
Total points: 285 + 10 = 295
Big Book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 4
Blue5.10 - The Best Things in Life Are Free
Read any book that meets SRC rules.
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
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| Points this post: 5
| Total points: 40
| Books read: 5
| Tasks completed: 5
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| Tickets:
| BB: 0
| GO: 0
| NF: 1
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Janice CA20.7 - Marching for Women's Suffrage!
option A: MPG - womens
I Married the Klondike by Laura Beatrice Berton
+20
total: 40
books: 2
tasks: 2
trishhartuk25.1 TessaVanessa’s Task: Book Style Challenge
Option 3: Graphic Novels: Read a book with a MPG of sequential art, manga or graphic novel.
The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman (202pg)
MPGs include Graphic Novels, Comics and Graphic Novels Comics
The slight genre differences (plural, not singular, etc) are okayed in help thread messages #7 and #8 (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)
Option 4: Plays: Read a book with a MPG of Plays.
An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen (164pg)
Plays is present among the new book page genres
Golden Oldie: First published in 1882
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldie: 1 – An Enemy of the People was first published in 1882
Total Points: 210
Tasks Completed: 25
It’s a Fact Tickets: 2
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Bookwrm526Task #5.7 - The Everest of Swimming
Read a book set 50% or more in either the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) or France. I read Summerwater by Sarah Moss.
Total points so far: 185
Task 5.5 - Herald SquareHoliday / Christmas MPG
A Very Merry Bromance
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470 points
3 GO tix
3 NF tix
2 BB ti
Andy P.Task # 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Julia103's Task: Marching for Women's Suffrage!
Read a book set at least 50% in Wyoming
Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center Well over 50% set in Wyoming
Points this post: 265
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Paul's Task: Woolworth's Great Five Cent StoreRead a non-fiction book of 200 or more pages with a word of four or more letters in the title / subtitle that can be made from the letters in Frank Winfield Woolworth. Letters can be used only as often as they appear in the target phrase.
REQUIRED: Specify the word.
I read She Memes Well. The word "well" can be made from letters in frank WinfiELd wooLworth
points: 100
books read; 7
tasks completed: 7
pages read: 2233
CHANDNI25.6 - Amy FL’s task – Gotta Dance
Option 1: Read a book with ALL of the letters in ZUMBA found in any combination of the title, subtitle and/or author’s name.
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
337 pages
Option 3: Read a book by a single female author who shares a name with one of my instructors.
The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley
224 pages
Robin from Robin Davies
Total pages: 561
Points this post: 25
Total points: 535
JEN B10.4 - Wonder Drug
Read a book with a word in the title of at least 4 letters that can be made using the letters in Penicillium notatum.
The Tenant by Katrine Engberg
TENANT can be found in pENiclliumNoTATum
TOTAL POINTS: 240
Barbara ★25.2 - Nick KY's Task: Playing Doubles
Book 1. Read a book with a title of two words. Each word must begin with a letter from the phrase “TWO DOUBLES.”
Double Dealer - Barbara McCafferty & Beverly Herald (250 pages) 1/7
Book 2. Read a book first published in a year from this list of years with exactly two twos:
1922, 2002, 2012, 2020
Left To Die - Blake Pierce (218 pages) 1/9
(published April, 30, 2020)
Points this task: 25
Total points: 285
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Mod
Read a book that has WON an award
The Silent Patient
won:
Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller
points this post- 5
total points - 300
Mod
1 book that satisfies both:
book1 option b
Read a book with a title word of at least 4 letters that can be made from the letters in the phrase, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet!"
Word used is TIME
book 2 option
Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in "The Jazz Singer."
read book The Last Time I Lied by by Riley Sager
points this post- 15
total points - 315
Mod
Read a book whose author's first and last initials can be found sequentially in NEWYEARSRESOLUTION. The letters can appear either forward or backwards,
read
The Familiar Dark by Amy Engel
points this post- 15
total points - 330
Mod
Option C- Read a book from one of the following lists:
chose Law and Lawyers in Fiction
Page 3 # 294
read 1st to Die
points this post- 20
total points - 350
EMurphy20.8 Nickels & Dimes-Paul's Task: Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store - Non-fiction with a word of 4 or more letters in the title/subtitle that can be made from the letters in "Frank Winfield Woolworth" Hello, Molly!: A Memoir by Molly Shannon
(HELLO)
*It's a Fact Ticket
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Total:
Points: 115
Books Read: 9
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 3
Tasks Completed: 5
Mod
Option 2: BUGS MORAN
ead a book with a page count consisting of 3 of the following digits in any configuration 1, 4, 2, or 9. The numbers 1, 2, and 9 can be used twice.
read The Dead of Winter
219 pages, Hardcover
points this post- 20
total points - 370
Mod
1) Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in “FOXLEASE”.
read The Cabin in the Woods by Sarah Alderson
points this post- 20
total points - 390
Readerboard Name: Librarianish10.3 Freudian Slip
Read a book from the first 25 pages of this list of books shelved as Psychology. Required: State the page.
I read Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, by James Clear. Page 1 of the list.
Claiming 1 IF ticket.
❄️ 🕯️ ❄️ 🕯️ ❄️ 🕯️ ❄️ 🕯️
Points this post: 10
Points to date: 375/840
Books read: 231/75
BB: 4
GO: 1
IF: 7
Stephanie1275.7 - The Everest of Swimming: Read a book set 50% or more in either the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) or France.
REQUIRED: If the setting is not clear from the GR description or the metadata, provide a reference.
Heartstopper: Volume One
Not very clear of setting in GR page, https://noflyingnotights.com/blog/202...
"British all-boys' high school"
Points this post: 5
Total points: 10/840
Tasks completed: 2/52
Books read: 2
READ60 Well, I'll Be Damned The Sacred Bridgeby Anne Hellerman
Set in the Southwest
Points 10
Total 20
20.1 Op B: published in 1950 or earlier new to you
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
published 1944 and this book is new to me
Books read: 12
Point Total:130/840
Tasks Total: 11/52
HanneloreTask 5.8 - And The Winner Is...
Read a book that has WON an award. The award must be listed in the GR metadata.
Book: Hof van assisen
How it fits: Won the Hercule Poirot Prize. It is noted in the book data.
Points this task: 5
Total points: 55
Tasks completed: 9
BB tickets:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
IAF tickets: 0
HanneloreTask 10.4 - Wonder Drug
Read a book with a word in the title of at least 4 letters that can be made using the letters in Penicillium notatum.
Book: Into This River I Drown
How it fits: "Into" : peNIcillium nOTatum
Points this task: 10
Total points: 65
Tasks completed: 10
BB tickets:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
IAF tickets: 0
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.7 Delicious Dee's Task: Where in the World Am I?
Book A: Option 3: Robert B. Parker's Stone's Throw by Mike Lupica
ML=beLgiuM
336 pages
Book B: Option 3: The Wild Inside by Christine Carbo
CC=ChiCago
404 pages
Points this post:25
Total points: 530/840
Tasks completed: 37/52
Books read: 46
FLY Task #15.3. From A to Z
task: Option 2: Read one book that satisfies both:
A. title begins with A.
B. author name contains the letter Z.
book: Amber Beach
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: Amber starts with A, Elizabeth Lowell contains Z
Points this post: 15
Total points: 165
Tasks completed: 14/52
Big Book tickets: 4
Golden Oldies tickets: 1
It's A Fact tickets: 1
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20.6 - It's a Fact - CynBaxter's Task: The Right to Vote!Option 2, a non-fiction book with MPG Feminism: Living Out Loud by Anna Quindlen
Points this post: 20
Total points: 320
Chris MD 5.5 Herald Square
Main page genre of Holiday or an individual seasonal holiday genre that occurs from December to January, such as "Christmas"
Six Cats a Slayin' by Miranda James
Has an MPG of Holidays>Christmas
Total points: 85
Chris MD 5.8 And the Winner Is. .
A book that has WON an award.
A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver
This book won the Goodreads Choice Award for Poetry in 2012. It's listed in the metadata.
This book is 82 pages long and will be used for my one 5-point task with a book under 100 pages.
Total points: 90
Chris MD 10.10 The Latin Lover
Main page genre of Romance
A Lawman's Christmas by Linda Lael Miller
Total points: 100
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Book from a series that was made into a TV show: A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George (Inspector Lynley #4)
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries TV series 2001-2007 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988820/
Points this post: 5
Total points: 280