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WINTER CHALLENGE 2022
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
5.10 The Best Things in Life Are FreeRead any book that meets SRC rules.
Letter from Peking by Pearl S. Buck
Points: 5
Season Points: 35
IAF: 1
GO: 1
5.1 Votes for WomenRead a book by a female author.
A Sense Of Place by Maisie Mosco
Points: 5
Season Points: 40
IAF: 1
GO: 1
50.1 - Lisa MD's Task: Out With the Old, In With the New2022 is coming to a close and it's time to usher in 2023. A new year offers the possibility of a clean slate. It's the opportunity to discard old things and shed old ways, and create new habits and set new goals. While the rest of the world focuses on exercise, losing weight and healthy eating at the start of the new year, let us in the SRC focus in on our reading habits and bookshelf.
Book 1: Old Ways vs. New Habits
Read a book with either the word "old" or "new" found intact in a word in the title or subtitle.
I read New Boy. It has 200 pp
Book 2: Old Year vs. New Year
Read a book first published in either 2022 or 2023.
I read The Dead Romantics. It is 366 pp and was published in 2022
Book 3: Clean Slate: You Are the Author of Your Own Story
OR
B. Read a book whose author's first and last initials are found in "clean slate." Letters may be used only as often as they appear in the target phrase. Multiple authors are acceptable if all their initials meet the requirements.
I read Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christie Tate. It is 287 pp. Christie Tate's initials are found bin Clean slaTe
200 + 366 + 287 = 853; 853> 750
points: 165
books read: 12
tasks completed: 10
pages read: 3896
Mod
Read a book by a female author.
The Box in the Woods by by Maureen Johnson
post points- 5
total points- 580
JEN B***UNCLAIM***
20.4 - Golden Oldies - XBM's Task: Remembering my parents
Option 1: Read a book with ALL of the letters in SALMON found in any combination of the title and/or subtitle.
Carolina Moonset by Matt Goldman
ADJUSTED TOTAL: 290
Mod
a book or book series that was made into a TV show or movie
read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Part of the Hunger Games Series
post points- 5
total points- 585
JEN B20.4 - Golden Oldies - XBM's Task: Remembering my parents
Option 1: Read a book with ALL of the letters in SALMON found in any combination of the title and/or subtitle.
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
womAN troubLeSOMe
TOTAL POINTS: 310
Mod
ALL the letters of BINGO in the title and/or subtitle.
The Haunting of Ashburn House
haunting
of
Ashburn
post points- 10
total points- 595
Nevermind, bad math...ignore this one
Mod
Option 2:
Read one book that satisfies the requirements of both A and B of Option 1.
Read a book the title of which begins with the letter A.
AND
Read a book the author of which contains the letter Z.
read All These Things I've Done by by Gabrielle Zevin
post points- 15
total points- 610
Mod
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.
used the word Wild
read Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
post points- 20
total points- 630
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option 1- Read a book from one of these lists used the2nd list https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/book...
Novels in Verse
read People Kill People found on page 1
option 3: Read a book with a MPG of sequential art, manga or graphic novel.
read Sweet Tooth: Deluxe Edition, Book One
post points- 25
total points- 655
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read 2 books, 1 from Book A options and 1 from Book B options. Combined your pages must exceed 600 (so 601).
book one (a) Option 3 - Read a book where the author's initials (all of them) can be found in BELGIUM
read Here To Stay by Mark Edwards
380 pages, Hardcover
Book 2 (b) Option 3 Read a book where the author's initials (all of them) can be found in CHICAGO
read How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
419 pages, Hardcover
post points- 25
total points- 680
Lisa MD✅ 15.1. Pick your century!
C. Published in 1820 - 1829
☑️🎄The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo
109 pages
Published 1829
I claim a GO ticket
D. Published in 1920 - 1929
☑️🎄The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
286 pages
Published 1926
I claim a GO ticket
🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 285/840
Total Books Read: 21
Tasks Completed: 18/52
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets: 4
Non Fiction Tickets: 4
Cindy FTask 5.3 April Showers
Book first published in April
Another Time, Another Place by Jodi Taylor
Points this post:5
Total points:110
Books read:11
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:3
Non-fiction:0
Tasks completed:9
Andy P.Task # 20.1 Most Improved - ForestGardenGal's Task: So Much to Read...So Little Time
Option C. Read a book from one of the following lists:
Law and Lawyers in Fiction
page 1 # 43 in list as of 1/25/23
Points this post: 20
Total points: 390
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25.1 - TessaVanessa’s Task: Book Style ChallengeOption 1, a book from Novels in Verse page 4: For Every One by Jason Reynolds
Option 3, MPG Graphic Novels: Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley
Points this post: 25
Total points: 495
CHANDNI5.7 - The Everest of Swimming
Read a book set 50% or more in either the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) or France.
Nicola and the Viscount by Meg Cabot
Takes place completely in London, England.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 675
Coralie25.2 Playing Doubles
Book 1 Book with a title of two words each of which can be found in tWO doubles
Oh William!
Book 2 Book first published in 2020
The Heap
Total to date 515 points
Coralie25.7 Where in the World Am I?
Book 1 Option 3 book by an author whose initials can be found in Belgium
Someone to Honour by Mary Balogh
Book 2 option 3 book by an author whose initials can be found in Chicago
The Untold Story by Genevieve Cogman
Total to date 540 points
Kathy KS20.1 Most Improved - ForestGardenGal's Task: So Much to Read...So Little Time
Option B - Read a book first published in 1950 or earlier
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
This book is new to me ; 1st published 1930
**Claiming 1 (one) Golden Oldies ticket** 1st published: 1930
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 150
Tasks completed: 10/52
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 1
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 1
Jen K25.2 - Nick KY's Task: Playing Doubles
Book 1. Liberation Day: Stories- 256 pages
two DoubLes
Book 2. When in Doubt, Add Butter- 338 pages
Published in 2012
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 375
IAF: 5
Jen K25.4 - Sandy's Task: Remembering my Grandparents
Option 2. Bathtub Gin.
Legends & Lattes- 305 pages
Option 3. Location
Olga Dies Dreaming- 369 pages
Set over 50% in New York
305+389>500
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 400
IAF: 5
10.6 - It GirlBook: The It Girl
Points this post: 10
Total points: 90
BB tickets: 2
GO tickets: 3
IAF tickets: 1
Bookwrm526Task #10.1 - BINGO!
Read a book with ALL the letters of BINGO in the title and/or subtitle. I read By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham. (B in by, INO in executioners, G in legal).
Total points so far: 240
TessaVanessa Challenge 5.6 Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes
by Ellen RogersPoints this post: 5
Total points: 715/840
Tasks completed: 46/52
Books read: 60
TessaVanessa Challenge 20.3 Best Review - Chris MD's Task: The Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Option 1: The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
Points this post: 20
Total points: 735/840
Tasks completed: 47/52
Books read: 61
TessaVanessa Challenge 25.6 Amy FL’s task – Gotta Dance
Option 1: Ohio Heists: Historic Bank Holdups, Train Robberies, Jewel Stings and More by Jane Ann Turzillo
144 pages
Option 3:When We Found Home by Susan Mallery
480 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 760/840
Tasks completed: 48/52
Books read: 63
TessaVanessa Challenge 25.8 MegSCL's Task: The Chinese Zodiac
I chose the DOG
Option 1: On the Hook: A Crochet Mystery by Betty Hechtman
Published in 2018
Option 2:
by Meg Donahue Points this post: 25
Total points: 785/840
Tasks completed: 49/52
Books read: 65
MEGSCL15.2. Endings and Beginnings
A - The LAST Runaway
B - Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1)
TOTAL - 380
MEGSCL25.7 - 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 -
Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here
Book B Option 2 Read a book where the letters CHICAGO can be found in the title -
Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens
TOTAL - 405
Readerboard Name: Priya20.3 - 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.
First published August 22, 1924
The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
Points this post: 20
Total points: 230
Tasks completed: 16
Books read: 19
Task 10.3 - Freudian Slipon p2 of list
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
non-fiction - claiming a NF tix
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620 points
5 NF tix
5 GO tix
2 BB tix
10.1 BINGO!Read a book with ALL the letters of BINGO in the title and/or subtitle.
Family History 101: A Beginner's Guide to Finding Your Ancestors by Marcia D. Yannizze Melnyk
BING found in "Beginner'"
O found in "to"
Non-fiction = It's a Fact Ticket
Points: 10
Season Points: 50
IAF: 2
GO: 1
10.2 Bee's KneesRead a short book, one less than or equal to 200 pages.
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson
Page count = 117p
Non-fiction = It's a Fact Ticket
Points: 10
Season Points: 60
IAF: 3
GO: 1
10.5 Chanel No. 5Read a book that is #5 in a series.
Frill Kill by Laura Childs
A Scrapbooking Mystery, #5
Points: 10
Season Points: 70
IAF: 3
GO: 1
10.10 The Latin LoverRead a book with a main page genre that includes Romance or Romantic.
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
BIG BOOK Ticket Page count = 757pp
MPG = Romance
Points: 10
Season Points: 80
IAF: 3
GO: 1
BB: 1
10.4 Wonder DrugRead 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.
Required: State the word.
Word = nine
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Points: 10
Season Points: 90
IAF: 3
GO: 1
BB: 1
Laurah3010.2 - Bee's Knees
Read a short book, one less than or equal to 200 pages.
A Mirror Mended 130 p
Points this post: 10
Total points: 90
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
Big Book tickets:
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 2
Laurah3010.9 - Empress of the Blues
Read a book with a word from a Bessie Smith song title listed below in the TITLE. Any word works including I, Do, If, You, The. The word must match exactly.
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home
Truths I Never Told You
word is YOU
Points this post: 10
Total points: 100
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 6
Big Book tickets:
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 2
Laurah305.5 - 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"
Let It Snow
Points this post: 5
Total points: 105
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 7
Big Book tickets:
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 2
Laurah3020.7 - 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.
Looking for Jane
Points this post: 20
Total points: 125
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 8
Big Book tickets:
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact ticket: 2
trishhartuk25.7 Delicious Dee's Task: Where in the World Am I?
Book A: Option 3 - Author's initials found in ESTONIA, or LATVIA or BELGIUM
Read and Buried, Eva Gates (336pg)
bElGium
Book B: Option 3 - Author's initials found in CHICAGO
Treasure Hunt, Andrea Camilleri
Read the kindle edition. PB: here (288pg)
chiCAgo
Total pages: 336 + 288 = 624pg
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 360
Tasks Completed: 25
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
It’s a Fact Tickets: 4
UNCLAIMING post 1090Task 15.9 - I Resolve to Read Lots of Books
author initials AR in YEAR
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
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605 points
Task 20.6 - The Right to Vote!NON-FICTION
option 2: MPG Politics
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
non-fic - claiming 1 NF tix
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625 points
2 BB tix
5 NF tix
5 GO tix
Task 15.9 - I Resolve to Read Lots of Booksauthor initials ES in RESOLUTIONS
The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling
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640 points
5 NF tix
5 GO tix
2 BB tix
Nick KY25.1 TessaVanessa’s Book Style Challenge
Opt. 2. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, from p. 8 of the Epistolary list. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Opt. 4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, a play.
Point this Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 475
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Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title that can be made from the letters in SCHENECTADY. You may use letters as often as they appear.
REQUIRED: State the word.
Word = death
Death in D Minor by Alexia Gordon
Points: 5
Season Points: 30
IAF: 1
GO: 1