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WINTER CHALLENGE 2022
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Jen K30.3 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: The Importance of December 7th
Option 3: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
MPG True Crime
***Requesting 1 IAF ticket for nonfiction***
Option 5: The Lager Queen of Minnesota
349 pages
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 230
IAF: 3
Theresa10.4 - Wonder Drug
A Place of Secrets by Rachel Hore
PEniCiLlium notAtum - PLACE
Points this post - 10
Total points - 40
Jen K20.1 Most Improved - ForestGardenGal's Task: So Much to Read...So Little Time
Option A - Small Admissions
Page 11 of list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 250
IAF: 3
15.10 They All Look Good to MeRemarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
I read Shrines of Gaiety for task 20.10.
Post Total: 15
Grand Total: 145
30.2 Happy Birthday Grandkids!1) In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead - 345 pages
ANIME:
IN - IN
DREAMS - AME
3) Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
302 pages
Post Total: 30
Grand Total: 175
Bookwrm526Task #30.3 - The Importance of December 7th
Option 3: Read a book with the MPG of True Crime. Genre may be embedded. I read Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman.
Option 5: Read a book with a page count that contains a "4" AND a "9". I read Band Sinister by K.J. Charles (249p).
Total points so far: 220
CHANDNI20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Becky's Task: Little Loves
Option 1: Read a book whose author's initials (first and last) are found in the name of his self-created superhero, OILMAN.
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Points this post: 20
Total points: 555
20.1 Most Improved - ForestGardenGal's Task: So Much to Read...So Little TimeOption B - Read a book first published in 1950 or earlier (qualifying for a Golden Oldies ticket) that is new to you.
The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe #4) by Raymond Chandler
1x Golden Oldiex tix (pub 1943)
Book is new to me
Total this Post: 20
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 2
It's a Fact: 6
Season Total: 485
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Becky's Task: Little LovesOption 1, author's initials in OILMAN: Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
Points this post: 20
Total points: 340
Sue T10.3 - Freudian Slip
Read a book from the first 25 pages of this list of books shelved as Psychology
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg found on page 1 of the list.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 20/840
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
Mod
25.1 - TessaVanessa’s Task: Book Style Challenge
Option 1: Teen Novels in Verse from Barnes & Noble -
Novels in Verse - page 1
Clap When You Land. Elizabeth Acevedo
Option 2: Read a book from this list: Epistolary_Fiction - page 1
Up the Down Staircase. Bel Kaufman
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 400/840
Tasks completed: 19/52
Books read: 28
GO:
BB: 2
IAF: 1
Lisa MD30.2 - Teri-k's Task: Happy Birthday, Grandkids!
600 pages
Option 1. December - Letters in ANIME in the title only.
☑️🎄The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul Newman
ANIME found in title: thE extrAordINary life of an ordinary Man
320 pages
I claim a NF ticket.
Option 3. February - Part of a series AND has an MPG Humor.
☑️🎄Going Rogue by Janet Evanovich
336 pages
Stephanie Evanovich series #29 / MPG of Humor
🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 140/840
Total Books Read: 11
Tasks Completed: 10/52
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Non Fiction Tickets: 1
Shiraloo20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Julia103's Task: Marching for Women's Suffrage!
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall
REQUIRED: Option A; MPG of Feminism
*Claiming a It’s a Fact ticket for this book*
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Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 150
NF Ticket this Task: 1
Total Tickets:
GO: 0
BB: 0
NF: 2
Katrisa25.2 - Nick KY's Task: Playing Doubles
1. Read a book with a title of two words. Each word must begin with a letter from the phrase “TWO DOUBLES.”
I read The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives PB 256 pages
2. Read a book first published in a year from this list of years with exactly two twos: 1922, 2002, 2012, 2020
I read Luster pub 2020
My book was audio PB pages 240
Points this Post: 25
Points Total: 790
Coralie5.1 Votes for Women
Book by a female author
The High Places by Fiona McFarlane
Total to date 345 points
Coralie10.9 Empress of the Blues
Using the word THE from The St Louis Blues
The Fat Years
Total to date 365 points
Task 10.8 - Well, I'll Be Dammed!book set in San Francisco, California
The Emma Project
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495 points
4 NF tix
3 GO tix
2 BB tix
15.9. I Resolve to Read Lots of BookFirst and last initials found sequentially in NEWYEARSRESOLUTION.
On Thin Icing by Ellie Alexander 1/10
Task Points: 15
Total Points: 565
BB Points:
GO Points: 15
NF Points: 2
25.5 - Tien’s Task: Bubble Tea1. Pearl Milk Tea with extra topping (pudding) - Pearl in author's name.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
3. Strawberry flavoured tea with strawberry jelly
Strawberries on cover.
Strawberried Alive by Jenn McKinlay
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 590
BB Points:
GO Points: 15
NF Points: 2
Angela IL5.7. Here's Mickey!
Read a book with a 2 word title, where both words begin with the same letter.
Sister Stardust by Jane Green- 1/13
Points this Task: 15
Total Points: 230
Books Read: 20
Tasks Completed: 16
BB Ticket: 1
NF Ticket: 1
Nick KY10.8 Well, I’ll Be Dammed I read Hombre by Elmore Leonard, set in Arizona. I listened to the audiobook; the MMPB is here: Hombre, 184 pp.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 330
25.8 - MegSCL's Task: The Chinese ZodiacUsing DOG
Option 1
Read a book published in year of the Dog - 1958.
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote
Option 2 - Dog on Cover
Holiday Homecoming by Pamela Tracy
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 615
BB Points:
GO Points: 15
NF Points: 2
Nick KY20.1 Forest Garden Gal’s So Much to Read…
Opt. A. From p. 4 of the Philosophical Literature list, I read The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 350
Fandury5.1 - Votes For Women
Read a book by a female author.
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
Points this Task: 5
Total Points: 5
Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1
Boston Kate
5.8 And The Winner Is...
Sea of Tranquility
won the Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction
Points this post: 5
Total points: 45
Joanne MI15.2. Endings and Beginnings
Book A-a book that includes the word FINAL or LAST in its title
The Last Debutantes
Book B-the first whole numbered book in a series
Krondor: The Betrayal #1 in Riftwar Legacy
Points this task 15
Total Tasks 155
BB's 1
IAF 3
Fandury5.4 - Hooray For Hollywood
Read a book or book series that was made into a TV show or movie.
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson
ImdB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/
Points this Task: 5
Total Points: 10
Books Read: 2
Tasks Completed: 2
Fandury5.5 - Herald Square
Read a book with a main page genre of Holiday or an individual seasonal holiday genre that occurs from December to January, such as "Christmas"
The Skeleton Stuffs a Stocking by Leigh Perry
Has Holiday > Christmas as MPG.
Points this Task: 5
Total Points: 15
Books Read: 3
Tasks Completed: 3
Fandury5.7 - The Everest of Swimming
Read a book set 50% or more in either the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) or France.
Jane and the Waterloo Map by Stephanie Barron
Book is set in London, England
Points this Task: 5
Total Points: 20
Books Read: 4
Tasks Completed: 4
Fandury5.8 - And The Winner Is...
Read a book that has WON an award.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Book has won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1990
Points this Task: 5
Total Points: 25
Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 5
Fandury5.10 - The Best Things in Life Are Free
Read any book that meets SRC rules.
The Cliff House by Chris Brookmyre
Points this Task: 5
Total Points: 30
Books Read: 6
Tasks Completed: 6
Fandury10.2 - Bee's Knees
Read a short book, one less than or equal to 200 pages.
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
Paperback Edition has 103 pages.
Points this Task: 10
Total Points: 40
Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 7
Fandury10.4 - 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.
Impact by Adam Baker
The word IMPACT can be found in PenICilliuM notATum
Points this Task: 10
Total Points: 50
Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 8
Fandury10.9 - Empress of the Blues
Read a book with a word from a Bessie Smith song title listed below in the TITLE.
The World of Shannara by Terry Brooks
This book has the word THE from the song The St. Louis Blues in the title.
Points this Task: 10
Total Points: 60
Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 9
10.10 - The Latin LoverRead a book with a main page genre that includes Romance or Romantic.
Glory in Death by J.D. Robb
This book has Romance as a MPG.
Sorry for the amount of tasks I posted, but I got a little bit out of the habit of reading and stopped doing the challenges, but as this could be the last, and will be the last of the stellar current mod team, I has to join for a perhaps last time.
Points this Task: 10
Total Points: 70
Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 10
Readerboard Name: Priya10.4 - 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. Letters may only be used as often as they appear.
The word OCEAN is in PENiCillium nOtAtum
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Points this post: 10
Total points: 145
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 12
Lisa MD10.2 - Bee's Knees
Short book 200 pages or less.
☑️🎄Maybe Not by Colleen Hoover
160 pages
🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 150/840
Total Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 11/52
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Non Fiction Tickets: 1
Andy P.Task # 25.7 - Delicious Dee's Task: Where in the World Am I?
Book A Option 2. Read a book where the letters of ESTONIA, can be found in the title (no subtitle)
Death on a Galician Shore by Domingo Villar 371p.
E in Death
S in Shore
T in Death
O in Shore
N in Galician
I in Galician
A in Death
Book B
Option 1 Read a book that is set at least 70% in Chicago
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz Set entirely in Chicago. 323 p.
Page count 371 + 323= 694>600 p requirement
Points this post: 25
Total points: 295
Barbara ★20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Julia103's Task: Marching for Women's Suffrage!
Option C: Read a book set at least 50% in Wyoming or Tennessee.
Shattered Souls - Delilah Devlin 1/13
(set 100% in Tennessee)
Points this task: 20
Total points: 295
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Amy FL10.9 - Empress of the Blues
The Overnight Guest - THE St. Louis Blues
Points this post: 10
Total points: 345
Amy FL20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Julia103's Task: Marching for Women's Suffrage!
Option C: Out Of Range - set in Wyoming
Points this post: 20
Total points: 365
Amy FL20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Paul's Task: Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival - FOLLOWED in Frank WinfiELD wOOLworth
Points this poost: 20
Total points: 385
Amy FL25.3 - Cat's Task: In the Twenties
Option 1: Conversations with Friends - from the Vogue list (https://www.vogue.com/article/30-book...)
Option 3: No Plan B (Jack Reacher #27)
Both books were new to me.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 410
Mod
Breathless In Love by Bella Andre / pub in May 2015
Points this post: 5
Total points: 130
Mod
Wild in Love by Bella Andre / #5 in series
Points this post: 10
Total points: 140
Amy FL25.4 - Sandy's Task: Remembering my Grandparents
Option 1: Hunting Time - TIME (EIghTeen aMendment)
Option 2: Rising Tiger by Brad Thor - BT (BaThtub gin)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 435
Mod
Last Call at the Nightingale by Katharine Schellman / last book on pg 2 of list
Points this post: 15
Total points: 155
CHANDNI10.10 - The Latin Lover
Read a book with a main page genre that includes Romance or Romantic.
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Points this post: 10
Total points: 565
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10.3 - Freudian Slip
Room by Emma Donahue
page 11 of the list
Points this post - 10
Total points - 30