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WINTER CHALLENGE 2022
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ROBIN P15.3
1 book that fits both A and B - title beginning with A and author name containing Z
Avalon by Nell Zink
Points this post: 15
Total points: 35
10.1 - BINGO! All the letters of BINGO in the title: The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson
Points this post: 10
Total points: 20
10.6 - It GirlIt in the title: It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover
Points this post: 10
Total points: 30
10.10 - The Latin LoverRead a book with a main page genre that includes Romance or Romantic.
Served Hot by Annabeth Albert
Ebook only. Approved for length in message 8648 of the ebook verification thread.
Points this task: 10
Total Points: 20
DOM25.1 - TessaVanessa’s Task: Book Style Challenge
Options 2 and 4 chosen
Option 2: Epistolary Fiction:
Read a book from this list: Epistolary_Fiction
The Martian
This book is listed on Page 1
Option 4: Plays:
Read a book with a MPG of Plays.
The Cherry Orchard and Other Plays
Also claim a golden oldie as this book was first published in 1935 and plays written in the late 1800's to early 1900's.
Points this Task: 25
Total Points: 35
Books Read: 3
Golden Oldies: 1
Line5.10
Read any book that meets SRC rules
I read The Crown
points for this task: 5
total points: 10
books read: 2
tasks done: 2
5.7 - The Everest of SwimmingThe Watchmaker's Daughter (Glass and Steele #1) by C.J. Archer
100% London, UK
Total this Post: 5
Season Total: 10
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.2 Bee's Knees
Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughn
144 pages
Points this post: 10
Total points: 30/840
Tasks completed: 5/52
Books read: 5
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.4 "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet"
Option 1:
Book 1 Option B: Post Mortem by Tonya Kappes
Word = MORTEM
Book 2: The Colours of All the Cattle
by Alexander McCall Smith
Points this post: 15
Total points: 45/840
Tasks completed: 6/52
Books read: 7
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.9 I Resolve to Read Lots of Books
Middle Row by Sylvia Olsen
Points this post: 15
Total points: 60/840
Tasks completed: 7/52
Books read: 8
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.4 Wonder Drug
The Name She Gave Me by Betty Culley
Points this post: 10
Total points: 70/840
Tasks completed: 8/52
Books read: 9
25.2 - Nick KY's Task: Playing DoublesBook 1. Dangerous Love by Riley Edwards, a book with a title of two words, each word beginning with a letter from the phrase “two DoubLes.” 360 pages.
Book 2. A Little Bit Wicked by Melissa Foster, a book first published in 2020, a year on the list of qualifying years with exactly two twos. 300 pages.
Books Read this post: 2
Books read Total: 9
Points This Post: 25
Point Total: 95/840
Tasks Total: 8/52
JEN B10.3 - Freudian Slip
Read a book from the first 25 pages of this list of books shelved as Psychology
Required: State the page.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
This book is on page 19 of the list
TOTAL POINTS: 45
LAUREN JODI5.7 - The Everest of Swimming
What Price Love? by Stephanie Laurens
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 45/840
Big Book Ticket: 1
Golden Oldies Ticket: 3
It's A Fact Ticket: 2
Total Books Read: 5
Total Tasks Completed: 5/52
Task 20.7 - Marching for Women's Suffrage!Option C: Read a book set at least 50% in Wyoming or Tennessee.
Book set >95% in Wyoming.
Open Season (Joe Pickett #1) (2001) by C.J. Box
00 + 20 = 20
Tasks Completed: 01
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 00 + 20 = 20
Books read: 01
Pages read: 293
Read but not claimed: 00
Goodreads Authors: 00
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 00
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
JEN B10.10 - The Latin Lover
Read a book with a main page genre that includes Romance or Romantic
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
MPG Romance
TOTAL POINTS: 55
Christine V15.10. They All Look Good to Me
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
I plan to use Remarkably Bright Creatures for Task 20.10.
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is Nonfiction.
***Claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket***
Points this post: 15
NF Tickets this post: 1
Total points: 25
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 1
Readerboard name: DAIRE10.9 - Empress of Blues
(Song: Baby won't you please come HOME)
Take Me Home by Carrie Elks
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
GO Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 0
IAF /tickets: 0
Readerboard name: DAIRE5.1 - Votes for Women
(Book by female author)
Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell
Points this post: 5
Total points: 15
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
GO Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 0
IAF /tickets: 0
Readerboard name: DAIRE20.9 - Moderator's pet - Lucy - Bookworm's Task: FOXLEASE
Author's initials found in "foxlease"
Flawless by Elsie Silver
Points this post: 20
Total points: 35
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3
GO Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 0
IAF /tickets: 0
Readerboard name: DAIRE20.5 - Bigger is Better- Lauren Jodi's task: Public Enemy
Option 4 - beach on the cover
The Cove by L.J. Ross
Points this post: 20
Total points: 55
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
GO Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 0
IAF /tickets: 0
Readerboard name: DAIRE5.10 - Free choice
The Coppersmith Farmhouse by Devney Perry
Points this post: 5
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
GO Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 0
IAF /tickets: 0
EShay25.2
Book 1. 2 word title, words begin w/ letters in “TWO DOUBLES.” The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson 450 pgs
Book 2. pub 2020 The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier 391 pgs
Books read: 2
Point Total: 25/840
Tasks Total: 1/52
5.7Set 50% or more in the UK or France
Death of an Outsider by M.C. Beaton
Setting: Scotland
Books read: 3
Point Total: 30/840
Tasks Total: 2/52
5.1Female author
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton
Books read: 4
Point Total: 35/840
Tasks Total: 3/52
15.5. All That JazzRead a book from this list: Jazz Age Books
Book: Mord im Pfarrhaus (Murder at the Vicarage)
On page 3 of the list.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 50
Reposting from previous post #114(Paperback page numbers have been added by a Goodreads Librarian per instructions in Questions/problems post #5)
10.4 - Wonder Drug
Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time by Tracy L. Higley, a book with a word in the title of at least 4 letters that can be made using the letters in pEnIcillium noTatuM (TIME).
Books Read this post: 1
Books read Total: 9
Points This Post: 10
Point Total: 95/840
Tasks Total: 8/52
20.6 - It's A Fact - CynBaxter's Task: The Right to Vote!Option 2: non-fiction book with an MPG: History, Feminism, Politics, Womens, Social Movements
PB: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
I listened to the audiobook: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
🎄MPG History, Feminism, Politics, Womens, AND Social Justice! 🎄
🎓***nonfiction - claiming It's a Fact Ticket***🎓
Total points: 50 + 20 = 70
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 0 + 1 = 1
Coralie20.5 Public Enemy
Option 2: Bugs Malone
Page count consists of three of digits 1, 4, 2, 9 – including two 2’s
Lovers in the Age of Indifference 224 pages
Total to date 35 points
Andy P.Task # 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.
Shutter by Ramona Emerson
RE sequentially in Resolution
Points this post: 15
Total points: 60
CHANDNI30.1 - Katrisa's Task: The Sandman
Option 2: Read a book with one of the names of the Endless found in the TITLE.
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
Endless name: Death
Page count: 273
Option 3: Read a book with an MPG of retellings.
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Book approved here and here
Page count: 256
Total page count: 529
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 115
MEGSCLTask 20.6 - It's a Fact - CynBaxter's Task: The Right to Vote!
Option 2, mpg non fiction and feminism
Dearly
TOTAL - 25
Kaylee20.8 - 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. Letters can be used only as often as they appear in the target phrase.
Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient by Theresa Brown, RN
Word: WHEN (frank WiNfiEld woolwortH)
*Claiming 1 It’s A Fact Ticket
Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 5
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 65
GO Tickets: 1
BB Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 1
Katrisa5.3 - April Showers
Read a book FIRST published in April or May of any year
I read Hunters of Dune first published April 22 2006
Points this Post: 5
Points Total: 35
Rockynook5.5: Herald Square
Read a book mpg Holiday or Holiday from Dec to Jan
The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 20
Amy FL5.3 - April Showers
Hard Way - First published May 11, 2017
Points this post: 5
Total points: 10
Amy FL5.5 - Herald Square
Sleigh All Day - MPG Holiday > Christmas (I'm still on the old site)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 15
Amy FL15.7. Here's Mickey!
Rum Runner - two-word title, both words start with "R"
Points this post: 15
Total points: 40
5,9 - WGY TVRead a book with a word of at least 4 letters that can be made from the letters in SCHENECTADY
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
My word is, well, dance: schENeCtADy
Points this post: 5
Total points: 105
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 9
GO tickets: 0
BB tickets: 0
IAF tickets: 1
ROBIN P10.10 The Latin Lover
MPG Romance
The Fictitious Marquis
read ebook, linked mmpb
Points this post: 10
Total points: 45
Coralie25.4 Remembering My Grandparents
Option 1 Prohibition
Book with a word in the title that can be made from the letters in eIghTeenth AmeNdmenT- TAINT
A Taint in the Blood
Option 2 Bathtub Gin
Book by an author whose initials appear in the phrase bAThtub gin
War Master's Gate by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Total to date 60 points
TessaVanessaReposting: Challenge 10.4 Wonder Drug
The Name She Gave Meby Betty Culley
Word is NAME
Points this post: 10
Total points: 70/840
Tasks completed: 8/52
Books read: 9
Delicious Dee25.2 - Nick KY's Task: Playing Doubles
Book A - The Storm - TS found in TWO DOUBLES
Book B - A Guy Walks Into My Bar - first published 2020
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 25
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies:
Its Just a Fact:
JEN B20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Lucy- Bookworm's Task: FOXLEASE
1) Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in “FOXLEASE”
When in Rome by Sarah Adams
SA in foxleASe
TOTAL POINTS: 75
20.4 - Golden Oldies - XBM's Task: Remembering my parentsOption 1:
Read a book with ALL of the letters in SALMON found in any combination of the title and/or subtitle.
Christmas on Firefly Hill by Garrett Leigh
Christmas on Firefly Hill
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 40
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5.8 - And The Winner Is...
1927 - WON an award--must be listed in the GR metadata.
Page Count: 416 pgs Listened to AB link to PB The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Award: GR Choice Award Winner for Best History & Biography 2019 & The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2019)
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Points Earned This Post: 5
Points Achieved to Date: 140/840
Tasks Completed: 14/52