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WINTER CHALLENGE 2022
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Task 15.2. Endings and BeginningsA. Celebrate the end of the year by reading the most recently published book in a series or a book that includes the word FINAL or LAST in its title.
The Final Vow (Living History Museum #3) (2017) by Amanda Flower (Goodreads Author) (Paperback 274 pages)
B. Celebrate the beginning of the year by reading the first whole numbered book in a series or a book that includes the word FIRST or ONE in its title.
Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime (Rat Pack Mysteries #1) (2006) by Robert J. Randisi (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover 276 pages)
50 + 15 = 65
Tasks Completed: 04
Points for this post: 15
Points thus far: 50 + 15 = 65
Books read: 06
Pages read: 1,747
Read but not claimed: 07
Goodreads Authors: 05
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 00
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
10.1 - BINGO!John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman
BINGO found in johN le Carré: the BIOGraphy
1x It's a Fact tix
1x Bigger is Better tix (704p)
Total this Post: 10
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 4
It's a Fact: 7
Season Total: 550
REPOST10.4 - Wonder Drug
The Illumination of Ursula Flight by Anna-Marie Crowhurst
word in title, ILLUMINATION, found in peNIcILLIUM NOTAtum
Total this Post: 10
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 4
It's a Fact: 7
Season Total: 560
Task 30.1 - The Sandman500+ pages
option 2: DEATH in title
Vendetta in Death
416 pages
option 4: NIGHT in lyrics
Beasts Made of Night
320 pages
416+320 = 736 pages >500
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565 pages
5 GO tix
4 NF tix
2 BB tix
Fandury5.9 - WGY TV
Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title that can be made from the letters in SCHENECTADY.
Immortal in Death by J.D. Robb
The word DEATH in the title can be made formt he letters in scHEnecTADy
Points this Task: 5
Total Points: 95
Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 12
Task 15.6 - King TutSaul is an archaeologist, per the book blurb
Spectred Isle
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580 points
5 GO title
4 NF title
2 BB tix
trishhartuk30.1 Katrisa's Task: The Sandman
1. The Author - Read a book by Neil Gaiman. Co-authored books are acceptable
The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You, Neil Gaiman (192pg)
Used as the one allowable Graphic Novel
2, The 7 Endless are: Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium/Delight. Read a book with one of their names in the TITLE.
DEATH Comes as the End, Agatha Christie (336pg)
Golden Oldie: First published in 1944
Total pages: 192 + 336 = 528pg
Points this Task: 30
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldie: 1 – Death Comes as the End was first published in 1944
Total Points: 295
Tasks Completed: 20
Golden Oldie Tickets: 3
It’s a Fact Tickets: 3
Rockynook10.1 - BINGO!
Book with all letters in BINGO in title
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
the BOok of longINGs
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 145
Mod
2 books, each 220pg+
Book 1 Read a book with a title of two words. Each word must begin with a letter from the phrase “TWO DOUBLES.”
The Engagement
The title is 2 words & the letters TE appear in Two doublEs
I read an ebook, but the paperback The Engagement is listed as 336 pages
Book 2 Read a book first published in a year from this list of years with exactly two twos: 1922, 2002, 2012, 2020.
The Bermondsey Bookshop
The book was first published February 6, 2020 and is 448 pages long
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 115 + 25 = 140
Total Tasks Completed: 10
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Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 5
Mai5.10 - The Best Things in Life Are Free
The Fade Out, Act Three by Ed Brubaker
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 105
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 12
NF Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
1535 repost Reader Name: ADVENTURER
25.8 - MegSCL's Task: The Chinese Zodiac
Option 1 Read a book published in your animal's year: published 2017.
25.8 O1. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert M. Sapolsky,, 798p (Kindle version 798p), Rooster Year, pub:2017
***Claiming two Big Book tickets for a book over 750 pages***
***Claiming an It’s A Fact ticket as the book is nonfiction***
and
Option 2 Read a book with your animal on the cover. A few variations are allowed: Rooster (a female chicken is OK too) REQUIRED: post the cover
25.8 O2.
by Alice Walker, 208p (hardcover), book cover belowPoints: 625/840
Total Books Read: 52; Total Tasks: 42/52
BB(500+): 9; GO(1950): 6; IAF (NF): 14
Mai20.1 Most Improved - ForestGardenGal's Task: So Much to Read...So Little Time
Option B - Read a book first published before 1950 that is new to you.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
First published 1901 -- the book is new to me
*Claim 1 GO Ticket*
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 125
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 13
NF Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 2
LAUREN JODI25.4 - Sandy's Task: Remembering my Grandparents
Option 2: Bathtub Gin.
Storm Warning by Toni Anderson
Approved for length in line 3075 of the SRC ebook verification spreadsheet.
Option 3: Location
Drown Her Sorrows by Melinda Leigh
Set in Grey's Hollow, New York State
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 305/840
Big Book Ticket: 1
Golden Oldies Ticket: 6
It's A Fact Ticket: 3
Total Books Read: 24
Total Tasks Completed: 20/52
Mod
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Paul's Task: Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store
Read 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.
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
Fake = FAK in Frank, E in Winfield
This book is non-fiction. One It's A Fact ticket please!
Points this task: 20
Season total: 165
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 2
IAF Tickets: 3
5.6 monkey or ape on the cover An Immense World by Ed Yong
Books read: 13
Point Total:135/840
Tasks Total: 12/52
Change 5.1 female authorReplace Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
for
Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie
Books read: 13
Point Total:135/840
Tasks Total: 12/52
5.4 - Hooray For HollywoodRead a book or book series that was made into a TV show or movie.
Three Pines Series:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15351648/
Approved in help thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Robin P wrote: "What about the Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny? The series called Three Pines supposedly started on 12/2/22 based on the series. Would any book in the series then work?"
yes
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
Task Total: 5
Season Total: 100
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Becky's Task: Little LovesOption 1: For my first grader, read a book whose author's initials (first and last) are found in the name of his self-created superhero, OILMAN.
OilMan
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 120
20.5 - Bigger is Better- Lauren Jodi's task: Public EnemyOption 2: BUGS MORAN
To commemorate the date of the massacre (14/2/1929), read a book with a page count consisting of 3 of the following digits in any configuration 1, 4, 2, or 9.
149 pages
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 140
Andy P.Task # 25.6 - 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 nameFamily Business by S.J. Rozan
Z in Rozan
U in Business
M in Family
B in Business
A in Family
Option 2: .Read a book from this list: Best Books About Dance.
Dancing on My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland page 1 # 5 as of 1/19/23
Points this post: 25
Total points: 335
25.4 combined total 500 pgsOp 1: title w/ a word of at least 4+ letters in EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton
word: death pgs 285
Op 3: set in New York
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
392 pgs
Books read: 15
Point Total:160/840
Tasks Total: 13/52
Beth F5.4 - Hooray For Hollywood
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
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CYNBAXTER
Task: 15.8. Can You Feel It?
Task Description: Read a book from this list: Blind/Deaf/Mute
Book: True Biz by Sara Novic
Link: Blind/Deaf/Mute, page 1
Points this post: 15 points
Total points to date: 160 points
NF tickets this post: 0
Total NF tickets to date: 2
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
Golden Oldie tickets this post: 0
Total "GOLDIE" tickets to date: 0
JEN B***UNCLAIMING***
15.9. I Resolve to Read Lots of Books
Read a book whose author's first and last initials can be found sequentially in NEWYEARSRESOLUTION.
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
ADJUSTED TOTAL POINTS: 285
JEN BTask 20.6 - It's a Fact - CynBaxter's Task: The Right to Vote!
Option 2: Choose a non-fiction book with an MPG of one of the following: History, Feminism , Politics, Womens, Social Movements
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes
Book is Nonfiction, MPG Feminism
TOTAL POINTS: 305
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.8 Can You Feel It?
Clarity by Loretta Lost
Found on Page 2
Points this post:15
Total points: 645/840
Tasks completed: 43/52
Books read: 55
TessaVanessaChallenge 50.1 Lisa MD's Task: Out With the Old, In With the New
Book 1: There Was an Old Woman by Hallie Ephron
320 pages
Book 2: Only on the Weekends by Dean Atta
Published in May, 2022
368 pages
Book 3 Option B: With You Forever by Chloe Liese
349 pages
Points this post:50
Total points: 695/840
Tasks completed: 44/52
Books read: 58
15.8. Can You Feel It?Braille was first published in 1829. Read a book from this list:
Blind/Deaf/Mute
I listened to an audo version of Homer and Langley (MMPB edition has no page numbers, so I used most popular PB)
(this is found on page 3 of the list)
New Points: 15
Total Points: 175
IaF: 3
DOM10.2 - Bee's Knees
Read a short book, one less than or equal to 200 pages.
All Systems Red
The paperback version of this book has 152 pages and meets the criteria of less than or equal to 200 pages.
Points this Task: 10
Total points: 405
Books Read: 27
Golden Oldies: 3
It's a Fact: 2
Big Books: 2
MEGSCL15.10. They All Look Good to Me
Shrines of Gaiety (Message 6)
I read Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood for 20.10
TOTAL - 310
MEGSCL25.6 - Amy FL’s task – Gotta Dance
Option 2: MPG music - The Music Shop
Option 3: Catherine - Fragile Monsters by Catherine Menon
TOTAL - 345
Helen B20.10 - Group Reads
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Discussion thread message #7
Total points: 290
Helen B20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Paul's Task: Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store
Read 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.
Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living by David Fideler
HC has 288 pages
Word in target phrase WITH.
Total points: 310
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska30.3 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: The Importance of December 7th.
Option 4. Read an epistolary novel.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (219 p.) * **
* Found on 1st page
** I would like to claim a GO ticket (1959)
Option 5. Read a book with a page count that contains a "4" AND a "9".
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (479 p.)
➸ Total Points: 60
➸ Total Pages: 1,555
Helen B15.2. Endings and Beginnings
A. Celebrate the end of the year by reading the most recently published book in a series.
The Blood Traitor by Lynette Noni. This is the third book in the Prison Healer trilogy.
B. Celebrate the beginning of the year by reading the first whole numbered book in a series
Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik
This is the first book in the Consortium Rebellion Trilogy. All books in the trilogy have been published.
Total points: 325
15.3. From A to ZOption 2, title begins with the letter A and author's name contains the letter Z: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
Points this post: 15
Total points: 430
ROBIN P25.8- Meg SCL's Task: The Chinese Zodiac
REQUIRED: State the animal and the options that you are using.
My animal is Rabbit
Option 2 - Read a book with your animal on the cover.
The Constant Rabbit
REQUIRED: post the cover
Option 3 - In the link above, 3-4 words are used to describe each animals personality. Read a book with a character described in the Goodreads blurb using one of those words
REQUIRED: specify the animal's characteristic and the quote from the Goodreads description.
Word is quiet
Mansfield Park
From the GR description: Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine
**claiming 1 GO point, book pub 1814
Points this post: 25
Total points: 405
BB:2 GO:3 IAF:4
Deborah5.4 - Hooray For Hollywood
Misery
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100157/
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 70
Books Read: 8
Tasks Done: 7
Reader Name: ADVENTURER15.1. Pick your century!
Read 2 books, from 2 different options: REQUIRED: Specify in your post which options you used.
B. A book first published in 1720 - 1729
15.1 B. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, 339p (paperback), pub. 1722
***Claiming a Golden Oldies ticket as the book was published in (before) 1950***
D. A book first published in 1920 - 1929
15.1 D. The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings, 200p (paperback), pub. 1922, Task #38, GO
***Claiming a Golden Oldies ticket as the book was published in (before) 1950***
Completed Points: 730/840
Total Books Read: 60; Total Tasks: 48/52
BB(500+): 9; GO(1950): 9; IAF (NF): 15
Reader Name: ADVENTURER15.4. "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet"
Option 2: Read one book with the word "silent" in the title or 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!" REQUIRED: State the word. AND Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in "The Jazz Singer."
15.4 The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders by John E. Sarno, 394p, (read kindle 402p), contains:MIND in phrase and author (JS) initials in "The Jazz Singer"
***Claiming an It’s A Fact ticket as the book is nonfiction***
Completed Points: 745/840
Total Books Read: 61; Total Tasks: 49/52
BB(500+): 9; GO(1950): 9; IAF (NF): 16
Reader Name: ADVENTURER20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Julia103's Task: Marching for Women's Suffrage!
Option A: Read a book with MPG Feminism, Womens, Social Movements, or Social Justice.
20.7 OA. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, p. 336, MPG:SJ
***Claiming an It’s A Fact ticket as the book is nonfiction***
Completed Points: 765/840
Total Books Read: 62; Total Tasks: 50/52
BB(500+): 9; GO(1950): 9; IAF (NF): 17
5.5 - Herald SquareChristmas Cocoa Murder by Carlene O'Connor, Maddie Day, & Alex Erickson
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 4
It's a Fact: 7
Season Total: 565
15.8. Can You Feel It?Inkheart (Inkworld #1) by Cornelia Funke
page 1
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23.0
1x Bigger is Better (544p)
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 5
It's a Fact: 7
Season Total: 580
trishhartuk15.6. King Tut
Read a book set in Egypt
Disappearance of a Scribe, Dana Stabenow
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (336pg)
Set in the Alexandria of Cleopatra, Egpyt.
From the GR description: “The second in the trilogy of Ancient Egyptian crime novels that began with 2018's Death of an Eye.”
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 310
Tasks Completed: 21
Golden Oldie Tickets: 3
It’s a Fact Tickets: 3
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.5 All That Jazz
Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood
Found on page 2 of the list
Points this post:15
Total points: 710/840
Tasks completed: 45/52
Books read: 59
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15.10. They All Look Good to Me
I plan to read Shrines of Gaiety in the Historical Fiction category.
☑️🎄I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
304 pages
Non Fiction category
I claim a NF ticket
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 235/840
Total Books Read: 17
Tasks Completed: 15/52
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Non Fiction Tickets: 3