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WINTER CHALLENGE 2022
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20.5Op 2: page count consisting of 3 of the following digits in any configuration 1, 4, 2, or 9
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
429 pgs
Books read: 21
Point Total: 240/840
Tasks Total: 18/52
CHANDNI5.1 - Votes For Women
Read a book by a female author.
Belle and the Beau by Beverly Jenkins
Points this post: 5
Total points: 740
Deborah25.8 - MegSCL's Task: The Chinese Zodiac
TIGER
Option 1
The Ink Black Heart First published August 30, 2022
Option 2
The Timid TigerPoints this post: 25
Total Points: 115
Books Read: 12
Tasks Done: 10
Lisa MD✅ 15.6. King Tut
Set in Egypt, about archaeology, or featuring an archaeologist.
☑️🎄The Collector's Daughter by Gill Paul
384 pages
Listened to Audiobook. Linked to PB. No MMPB.
Historical fiction about Eve Herbert Beauchamp, her father , the Earl of Carnarvon, and Howard Carter's discovery of King Tut's tomb and “the curse of Tutankhamun,.
🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 470/840
Total Books Read: 34
Tasks Completed: 26/52
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 4
Non Fiction Tickets: 8
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I am using the ROOSTER and options 1: 2017; 3: "hardworking"
Option 1
Irresistible In Love by Bella Andre / pub in 2017
Option 3
Unforgettable In Love by Bella Andre / quote: "While she impresses him with how smart, dependable, hard-working, and dedicated she is...."
Points this post: 25
Total points: 245
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Option 2-
Lick by Kylie Scott / MPG Music; 304 pgs PB
Option 3-
Home Sweet Christmas by Susan Mallery / SUSAN in author; 400 pgs HC
Total pages: 704 > 500
Points this post: 25
Total points: 270
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Option 2-
Play by Kylie Scott / 2,9,4 in page total 294 pgs PB: Play
Points this post: 20
Total points: 290
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Option 1, Book A-
All Is Bright by RaeAnne Thayne / title starts with A
Option 1, Book B-
Pause by Kat Mizera / Z in author
Points this post: 15
Total points: 305
Readerboard Name: Librarianish15.4 - "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet"
Option 1: Read one Book 1 and one Book 2.
Book 1:
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!"
I read Keeping a Nature Journal: Deepen Your Connection with the Natural World All Around You (NATURE)
Book 2:
Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in "The Jazz Singer."
I read People We Meet on Vacation, by Emily Henry (EH in The).
❄️ 🕯️ ❄️ 🕯️ ❄️ 🕯️ ❄️ 🕯️
Points this post: 15
Points to date: 455/840
Books read: 38/75
BB: 5
GO: 1
IF: 7
25.2 - Nick KY's Task: Playing DoublesBook 1, a title of two words, each beginning with a letter from TWO DOUBLES: Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
290 pages
Book 2, a book first published in a year with two 2s: The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
first published 2020
mass market paperback edition Les Chemins de la Liberté 542 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 600
Kathy KS30.1 - Katrisa's Task: The Sandman
The combined page total should be at least 500 pages.
Option 3. Read a book with an MPG of retellings.
The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston
MPG: Retellings
I read an ebook; pb-336 p. (no mmpb)
Option 6. Read a book with an MPG of Mythology.
The Queen of Attolia by Megan Turner Whalen
MPG: Mythology [click MORE]
(I requested verification of MPG in task help 1-27, no answer. Still there today, so hope it still is]
I read an ebook; pb-362 p. (no mmpb)
TOTAL PAGES: 336+362=698 (>500)
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 220
Tasks completed: 12/52
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 1
Sue T10.3 - Freudian Slip
Read a book from the first 25 pages of this list of books shelved as Psychology
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek from page 6 of the list.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 40/840
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
25.5 - Tien’s Task: Bubble Tea1. read a book with “pearl” found intact in title (exclude subtitle) or author’s name.
Poisoned Pearls (Cassie Stories #1) by Leah R. Cutter
3. read a book with one or more strawberries or identifiable pieces of strawberry on cover.
The Strawberry Hearts Diner by Carolyn Brown
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: 5
It's a Fact: 8
Season Total: 660
15.9. I Resolve to Read Lots of BooksVirgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
author's initials, IT, found in newyearresoluTIon
1x Golden Oldies tix (pub. 1877)
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 2
Bigger is Better: 5
It's a Fact: 8
Season Total: 675
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Option 2: a non-fiction book with an MPG of one of the following: History, Feminism, Politics, Womens, Social Movements
I Was a Boy in Belsen
This is a non-fiction book & History is listed as a MPG
This is a NON-FICTION book so I claim an "It's a Fact" ticket
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 260 + 20 = 280
Total Tasks Completed: 18
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Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 9 + 1 = 10
Amy B25.1 - TessaVanessa’s Task: Book Style Challenge
Read 2 books, from 2 different options. REQUIRED: Specify in your post the options you used. One book with the genres sequential art, graphic novel, comic books, manga, etc. may be used.
Option 1: Read a book from one of these lists (caution: not all titles will meet SRC requirements):
Novels in Verse
REQUIRED: State which list and page number it came from.
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (Novels in Verse page 9)
Option 3: Read a book with a MPG of sequential art, manga or graphic novel.
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
This Task: 25 Points
To Date: 375 Points
Task 50.1 - Out With the Old, In With the New750+ pages
book 1: OLD in the title
Maigret and the Old People
176 pages
book 2: pub in 2022
The Kaiju Preservation Society
264 pages
book 3: both A&B! CLEAN SLATE found in the subtitle; author initials AC in CLEAN
Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science by Aubrey Clayton
368 pages
non-fiction - claiming 1 NF tix
176+264+368 = 808 >750 pages
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775 points
7 NF tix
6 GO tix
2 BB tix
Mai30.3 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: The Importance of December 7th
Option 4: Book from page 1 of the Epistolary Novels Books list
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
Option 5: Book with a page count that contains a "4" AND a "9"
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
(294 pages)
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 370
Tasks Completed: 25
Books Read: 31
NF Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 2
trishhartuk50.1 Lisa MD's Task: Out With the Old, In With the New
Book 1: Read a book with either the word "old" or "new" found intact in a word in the title or subtitle.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB (French): here (238pg)
Top PB (English): here (213pg)
OLD in cOLD
Book 2: First published in either 2022 or 2023.
The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (416pg)
First published 27 September 2022
Book 3: Author's first and last initials in "clean slate."
One Poison Pie, Lynn Cahoon
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB: here (272pg)
Total pages: 238 + 416 + 272 = 926pg
(Or using the English version of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, 213 + 416 + 272 = 901pg)
Points this Task: 50
Books Read: 3
Total Points: 445
Tasks Completed: 28
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
It’s a Fact Tickets: 5
Jen K10.3 - Freudian Slip
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Page 6 of list: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
***Requesting 1 IAF for nonfiction***
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 430
IAF: 7
Jen K10.10 - The Latin Lover
The Next Always
MPG Romance
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 440
IAF: 7
Jen K10.8 - Well, I'll Be Dammed!
The Confession of Copeland Cane
Set over 50% in California
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 450
IAF: 7
EMurphy30.3 Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: The Importance of December 7th
Option 2: "COTTON" or "CANDY" in the title/subtitle The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Option 3: True Crime MPG Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
*It's A Fact Ticket
**Big Book Ticket (689 pages)
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
BB Ticket +500: 1
GO Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Total:
Points: 195
Books Read: 15
BB Ticket +500: 1
GO Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 5
Tasks Completed: 10
MEGAN F. 10.2 - Bee's Knees
"Louise Brook’s short bob was the hairstyle of the decade –she came to symbolize the 1920’s flapper girl.
Read a short book, one less than or equal to 200 pages."
Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart - Jacques Philippe (112 Pages)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 140
Sarah E5.2 - Guilty
Lord of the Flies - on page 1 of the list, currently #15
I listened to an audio, top MMP is Lord of the Flies
Total points: 55
Sarah E10.5 - Chanel No. 5
The Glass Room - Vera Stanhope #5
My edition has no page count, top paperback - no MMP - is The Glass Room
Total points: 65
ROBIN P25.7 - Delicious Dee's Task: Where in the World Am I?
For this task you will read 2 books, 1 from Book A options and 1 from Book B options. Combined your pages must exceed 600 (so 601).
Book A
Option 3 - Read a book where the author's initials (all of them) can be found in ESTONIA, or LATVIA or BELGIUM - Along Came a Duke - author Elizabeth Boyle - initials found in BELGIUM - 362 pages
Book B
Option 1 Read a book that is set at least 70% in Chicago
Wild Women and the Blues
GR description - "novel of Jazz-age Chicago" - almost exclusively set there - 352 pages
Total pages 714 > 600
Points this post: 25
Total points: 605
BB:2 GO:5 IAF:4
Barbara ★25.7 - Delicious Dee's Task: Where in the World Am I?
Book A
Option 2 - Read a book where the letters of ESTONIA, or LATVIA or BELGIUM can be found in the title
The Gates of Evangeline - Hester Young (416 pages) 12/7
E in thE
S in Gates
T in The
O in Of
N in evaNgeline
I in evangelIne
A in gAtes
Book B
Option 3 Read a book where the author's initials (all of them) can be found in CHICAGO
Reckoning - Catherine Coulter 2/3
(C & C in ChiCago)
TOTAL PAGES: Book 1 (416 pages) + Book 2 (432 pages) = 848 > 600 pages
Points this task: 25
Total points: 405
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1) 750 (1) 1000 (0)
Pat✔️20.9 ~ FOXLEASE
Select one of the following options:
1) Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in “FOXLEASE”.
Love Medicine by Louise ErdrichRead ~ 2.3.23
Pages ~ 333
How it Fits ~ fox(L)(E)ase
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Points this Task ~ 20
Total Points ~ 365
Total Books ~ 28
Total Pages ~ 10,972
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Read a book by an AUTHOR on this list A Book By A Woman of Color
read Children of Blood and Bone
found on page 1 #7
points this task 10
total points 790
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Read a book set at least 50% in one of these U.S. states: Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, California.
read Half in Love with Death
takes place in Arizona
points this task 10
total points 800
15.2. Endings and BeginningsBook A, most recently published book in a series: The Darling Dahlias and the Red Hot Poker by Susan Wittig Albert (The Darling Dahlias #10)
The Darling Dahlias Series
Book B, the first book in a series: The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill ( Dr. Siri Paiboun #1)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 615
MAZZA15.7 - The Everest of Swimming
Read a book set 50% or more in either the United Kingdom or France
Tooth and Nail setting identified as London on main page
Points this post = 5
Points to date = 565
MEGAN F. 25.7 - Delicious Dee's Task: Where in the World Am I?
For this task you will read 2 books, 1 from Book A options and 1 from Book B options. Combined your pages must exceed 600 (so 601).
Book A
Option 2 - Read a book where the letters of ESTONIA, or LATVIA or BELGIUM can be found in the title (no subtitle)
Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel (ESTONIA), 255 Pages
Book B
Option 3 Read a book where the author's initials (all of them) can be found in CHICAGO
Love on the Brain - Ali Hazelwood, 354 Pages
255+354=609>601
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 165
Julia1035.10 - The Best Things in Life Are Free
Command Decision
This post: 5 points
Total points: 405
BB: 3
GO: 1
NF: 4
Tasks completed: 24
Books read this season: 33
Lisa MD5.4 - Hooray For Hollywood
Book or book series that was made into a TV show or movie.
☑️🎄Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen
435 pages
Read ebook. Linked to MMPB.
Book series made into TV show: Rizzoli & Isles
🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 475/840
Total Books Read: 35
Tasks Completed: 27/52
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 4
Non Fiction Tickets: 8
Deborah10.2 - Bee's Knees
Caged 148 pages
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 125
Books Read: 13
Tasks Done: 11
Coralie20.1 So Much to Read …. So Little Time
Option B – book that is new to me and was published before 1950
A Daughter Of Eve published 1838
Total to date 635 points
LAUREN JODI25.7 - Delicious Dee's Task: Where in the World Am I?
Book A:
Option 2: Letters in ESTONIA in title
The Viscount and the Vixen by Lorraine Heath
Page #: 389
Book B:
Option 3: Author initials in CHICAGO
Faceless by Alexandra Ivy
Page #: 380
Total pages: 769
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 425/840
Big Book Ticket: 1
Golden Oldies Ticket: 6
It's A Fact Ticket: 3
Total Books Read: 34
Total Tasks Completed: 28/52
StaceyNC20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Becky's Task: Little Loves
Option 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.
Book: Magic Tides
Completed: 2/2/23
Author: Ilona Andrews
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 245
Tasks Completed: 16
StaceyNC25.7 - Delicious Dee's Task: Where in the World Am I?
For this task you will read 2 books, 1 from Book A options and 1 from Book B options. Combined your pages must exceed 600 (so 601).
Book A
Option 3 - Read a book where the author's initials (all of them) can be found in ESTONIA, or LATVIA or BELGIUM
Book: Uncharted
Completed: 12/4/22
Author: Adriana Anders -- Latvia
Pages: 366
Book B
Option 2 Read a book where the letters CHICAGO can be found in the title (not subtitle)
Book: Archangel's Resurrection
Completed: 2/1/23
Pages: 396
Total Pages: 762
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 270
Tasks Completed: 17
StaceyNC30.3 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: The Importance of December 7th
Option 4: Read a book from the following list: Epistolary Novels Books
Book: The Turn of the Key
Completed: 1/14/23
Page 2 of the list
Option 5: Read a book with a page count that contains a "4" AND a "9"
Book: A Court of Thorns and Roses
Completed: 2/4/23
Pages: 419
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 300
Tasks Completed: 18
Julia1035.8 - And The Winner Is...
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
(Hugo Award for Best Novella, 2021)
This post: 5 points
Total points: 410
BB: 3
GO: 1
NF: 4
Tasks completed: 25
Books read this season: 34
Delicious Dee10.8 - Well, I'll Be Dammed!
Blackwater Falls - approx 95% set in Colorado (A couple flashbacks to Chicago)
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 310
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies: 1
Its Just a Fact: 3
Mary P20.1 Most Improved - ForestGardenGal's Task: So Much to Read...So Little Time
Option A: Read a book from this list:Best Philosophical Literature.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Found on page 1.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 30
Readerboard Name: NICOLA T30.1 - Katrisa's Task: The Sandman
Option 1. The Author - Read a book by Neil Gaiman.
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
372/500 pages
Option 6. By the Gods! Read a book with an MPG of Mythology.
The Sandman Vol. 0: Overture by Neil Gaiman
224 pages : 596/500 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 30
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 2
KYLIE10.10 - The Latin Lover
Read a book with a main page genre that includes Romance or Romantic.
Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
MPG: Romance
Task Points: 10
Total Points: 95
Books Read: 8
Barbara ★5.9 - 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
A Death in Door County - Annelise Ryan 1/19
Points this task: 5
Total points: 415
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1) 750 (1) 1000 (0)
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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 name.
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi- 1/20 (288 pages)
Option 3: Read a book by a single female author who shares a name with one of my instructors: Susan Ortiz.
Just Sex by Susan Kay Law- 2/2 (330 pages)
Points this Task: 25
Total Points: 310
Books Read: 26
Tasks Completed: 20
BB Ticket: 2
NF Ticket: 2