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WINTER CHALLENGE 2022
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Theresa10,10 - The Latin Lover
MPG - Romance
The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoff
Points this post - 10
Total points - 120
Lisa MD5.6 - Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes
Monkey or ape on the cover.
☑️🎄An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
464 pages
I claim a NF ticket
🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 495/840
Total Books Read: 37
Tasks Completed: 29/52
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 4
Non Fiction Tickets: 9
15.1. Pick your century!B. A book first published in 1720 - 1729
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
1x Golden Oldies tix (pub 1722)
D. A book first published in 1920 - 1929
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
1x Golden Oldies tix (pub 1928)
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 5
It's a Fact: 8
Season Total: 780
LAUREN JODI50.1. - Lisa MD's Task: Out With the Old, In With the New
Book 1: Old Ways vs. New Habits
Cold Silence by Toni Anderson
Page #: 370
Book 2: Old Year vs. New Year
Published in 2022
A Farewell to Charms by Molly Harper
Page #: 212
Book 3: Clean Slate: You Are the Author of Your Own Story
Option B: Author initials in Clean Slate
Where the Heart Leads by Stephanie Laurens
Page #: 472
Total pages: 1052
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Points This Post: 50
Total Points: 515/840
Big Book Ticket: 1
Golden Oldies Ticket: 6
It's A Fact Ticket: 3
Total Books Read: 41
Total Tasks Completed: 32/52
10.3 - Freudian SlipRead a book from the first 25 pages from the list of books shelved as Psychology
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, on first page of the Psychology list
L'm claiming a IAF ticket for The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Points this post: 10
Total points: 265
Tasks completed: 19
Books read: 26
BB tickets: 3
GO tickets: 1
IAF tickets: 2
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KYLIE15.8 - Can You Feel It?
Read a book from this list: Blind/Deaf/Mute
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
On page 1 of list (number 9 in list)
Task Points: 15
Total Points: 110
Books Read: 9
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Sandy wrote: "Congratulations, Chandni! You will have a 30 point task in the spring challenge."Thanks Sandy, it's the first time I've ever finished a challenge!
Nick KY15.4. "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet"
Option 2: Read one book that fulfills the requirements of Book 1 and Book 2 of option 1.
Book 1. A. Read a book with the word "silent" in the title.
Book 2: Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in "The Jazz Singer."
I read The Silent Land with “Silent” in the title, by Graham Joyce, inits in the Jazz sinGer.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 675
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Read a book with a monkey or ape on the cover.
read
points this task- 5
total points 805
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Read a book from the first 25 pages of this list of books shelved as Psychology
found on page 23
points this task 10
total points 815
Nick KY25.6 Amy FL’s Gotta Dance
Option 1. ZUMBA in the title/author’s name. I read Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
by Donald Miller, 243 pp
Z in “jazZ”
U in “blUe”
M in “Miller”
B in “Blue”
A in “jAzz”
Option 2 – MPG of “Music.” I read The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein, 320 pp
Total pp = 563 > required 500.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 700
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1. Pearl Milk Tea with extra topping (pudding)
For this option, read a book with “pearl” found intact in title (exclude subtitle) or author’s name.
read
and
3. Strawberry flavoured tea with strawberry jelly
My youngest's obsession is strawberries! For this option, read a book with one or more strawberries or identifiable pieces of strawberry on cover. REQUIRED: Include the cover in your post.
read
points this task : 25
total points :840
Amy FL5.7 - The Everest of Swimming
With Love from London - set about 85% in London, England
Points this post: 5
Total points: 755
Amy FL5.8 - And The Winner Is...
Blood Men - Ngaio Marsh Awards (2011)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 760
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Read a book set 50% or more in either the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) or France.
This book is set entirely in the UK, mostly in London & a handful of visits to other places!
Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose
(I did a combo read of partly kindle version & partly audiobook for this one, but the paperback The Last White Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York is 525 pages, so I claim a "big book" ticket!)
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 310 + 5 = 315
Total Tasks Completed: 21
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Big Books: 0 + 1 = 1
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 11
FLY Task #10.2 - Bee's Knees
task: Read a book less than or equal to 200 pages.
book: The Tombs of Atuan
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: first MMPB has 180 pages
other:
MPG childrens: AR Quiz Info - IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7.0
Points this post: 10
Total points: 295
Tasks completed: 21/52
Big Book tickets: 4
Golden Oldies tickets: 2
It's A Fact tickets: 3
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Amy FL50.1 - Lisa MD's Task: Out With the Old, In With the New
Book 1: Cold Hard Truth - old in cOLD
Book 2: The Silent Sisters - published in February 2022
Book 3B: 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen - AC in CleAn
Points this post: 50
Total points: 810
Bookwrm526Task #20.1 - So Much to Read...So Little Time
Option B: Read a book first published in 1950 or earlier (qualifying for a Golden Oldies ticket) that is new to you. I read Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers, first published in 1926. This book is new to me.
Total points so far: 455
Pat10.9 ~ Empress of the Blues
Read a book with a word from a Bessie Smith song listed below in the TITLE. Any word works including I, Do, If, You. The word must match exactly.
Required ~ State the song.
The St. Louis Blues
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (ATY 5)Read ~ 2.7.22
Pages ~ 421
How it Fits ~ THE matches first word of song and book title
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Points this Task ~ 10
Total Points ~ 375
Total Books ~ 29
Total Pages ~ 11,393
Readerboard - Daire5.7 Set in the UK
Hope and Glory by Jendella Benson
Points this post: 5
Total points: 155
Tasks completed: 12
Books read: 13
GO Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 0
IAF /tickets: 1
Readerboard name - Daire15.3
Book 1 - Title starts with A
Addicted to You by Krista Ritchie
Book 2 - Author name containing Z
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez
Points this post: 15
Total points: 170
Tasks completed: 13
Books read: 15
GO Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 0
IAF /tickets: 1
Andy P.Task # 10.6 - It Girl
Read a book with the word GIRL in the title
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Points this Post: 10
Total points: 595
Readerboard name - Daire15.4
Option 2 - A book that has a title containing a 4+ letter word in the "wait a minute" phrase (word - teeth) AND whose author's initials appear in The Jazz Singer
Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
Points this post: 15
Total points: 185
Tasks completed: 14
Books read: 16
GO Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 0
IAF /tickets: 1
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Andy P.Task # 20.6 - It's a Fact - CynBaxter's Task: The Right to Vote!
Option 1: Choose a non-fiction book from this list: Women's Suffrage
Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling
First listed MPG is nonfiction
Page 1 #5 as of 2/13/23
Points this post: 20
Total points: 615
5.6 - Tennessee v. John Thomas ScopesPlanet of the Apes (Planet of the Apes #1) by Pierre Boulle
Total this Post: 5
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 5
It's a Fact: 8
Season Total: 785
Becky C15.5. All That Jazz
From list of Jazz Age Books, page 1
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Points this post: 15
Total points: 85
Becky C15.9. I Resolve to Read Lots of Books
Read a book whose author's first and last initials can be found sequentially in NEWYEARSRESOLUTION.
A House Between Earth and the Moon by Rebecca Scherm
Points this post: 15
Total points: 100
Joanne MI15.3. From A to Z
Book that begins with A
Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Claiming 1 IAF
Authors name contains a Z
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Points this task 15
IAF this task 1
Total Points 235
IAF 7
BB 1
Becky C25.8 - MegSCL's Task: The Chinese Zodiac
Animal = Pig
Option 1: Read a book published in your animal's year.
Half Share by Nathan Lowell, 2007
Option 3: Read a book with a character described in the goodreads blurb using one of those words.
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
"With his trademark compassion and courage, Gamache digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life to find the dangerous secrets long buried there. " (pig described as compassionate)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 125
Joanne MI5.10 Book of Choice
Fool's Assassin
Claiming 1 BB with 667 pages
Points this task 5
BB's this task 1
Total Points 240
IAF 7
BB's 2
Becky C15.2. Endings and Beginnings
A. 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.
Owner's Share by Nathan Lowell (Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, #6)
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.
Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell (Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, #1)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 140
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska20.1 Most Improved - ForestGardenGal's Task: So Much to Read...So Little Time
Option A. Read a book from the 'Best Philosophical Literature' list.
The Stranger by Albert Camus (146 p.) * **
* I would like to claim a GO ticket, please.
** This book is found on Page 1 of the list.
➸ Total Points: 110
➸ Total Pages: 3,086
Amy FL5.4 - Hooray For Hollywood
Triple Cross - https://www.imdb.com/list/ls083477396/ - movies with main character Alex Cross
Points this post: 5
Total points: 815
Deborah20.10 - Group Reads
Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Read with Jenna Pick
Discussion thread post #37
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 180
Books Read: 17
Tasks Done: 14
Barbara ★25.5 - Tien’s Task: Bubble Tea
Option 1: read a book with “pearl” found intact in title
The Pearl Savage - Tamara Rose Blodgett 2/13
Option 3: read a book with one or more strawberries or identifiable pieces of strawberry on cover.
Sweet Trouble - Susan Mallery 2/10
(Chocolate covered strawberry in upper right corner)
Points this task: 30
Total points: 540
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1) 750 (1) 1000 (0)
5.8 - And The Winner Is...A book that has won an award: Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis
RITA Award for Best Contemporary Single Title Romance 2011
Points this post: 5
Total points: 690
25.6 - Amy FL’s task – Gotta DanceOption 1: Read a book with ALL of the letters in ZUMBA found in any combination of the title, subtitle and/or author’s name.
The Abduction by Mark Gimenez
ZUMBA found in word in title, ABdUction, & author's last name, giMeneZ
544 pages
Option 3: Read a book by a single female author who shares a name with one of my instructors.
A Kind Man by Susan Hill
author's first name, Susan, matched "Susan Ortiz"
185 pages
Total pages read: 729
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 5
It's a Fact: 8
Season Total: 810
trishhartuk5.3 April Showers
Read a book FIRST published in April or May of any year.
Under Cold Stone, Vicki Delany
Read the kindle edition. MMPB: here (although it seems a bit odd). PB: here
First published: 1 April 2014
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 485
Tasks Completed: 31
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
It’s a Fact Tickets: 6
Fandury15.2. Endings and Beginnings
Book A: Read the most recently published book in a series.
Jane and the Year Without a Summer by Stephanie Barron
The last published book in the Jane Austin Mystery Series (and perhaps the last ever published, as we are nearing Jane's end :-( ).
Book B: Read the first whole numbered book in a series.
Six Stories by Matt Wesolowski
The first book in the Six Stories Series.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 135
Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 15
Fandury20.4 - 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 Devil's Domain by Paul Doherty
All the letters of SALMON are found in the title: the deviL'S dOMAiN
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 155
Books Read: 17
Tasks Completed: 16
25.4 - Sandy's Task: Remembering my GrandparentsOption 1 - Prohibition
Read a book with a title (not subtitle) containing a word of at least 4 letters that can be made from the letters in EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT.
Book: Hide and Seek
How it fits: "hide" can be made from eIgHtiEenth amenDment"
I read the kindle edition. The paperback edition has 306 pages.
Option 2. Bathtub Gin.
Read a book with a single author, whose initials (all of them) appear in the phrase BATHTUB GIN. Letters may be used only as often as they appear in the target phrase.
Book: Testimony of the Dead
How it fits: written by Anthony Hulse, A and H appear in bAtHtub gin
I read the kindle edition. The paperback edition has 274 pages.
The page count total is 580
Points this post: 25
Total points: 280
Mary P20.9 - 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”.
A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
Points this task: 20
Total points: 110
Bookwrm526Task #15.6. King Tut
Read a book set at least 50% in Egypt, a book about archaeology, or a book featuring an archaeologist. I read The Scorpion's Bite by Aileen G. Baron, which features an archaeologist main character and also discusses archaeology in Jordan.
Total points so far: 470
babbling c15.5. All That Jazz
The 1920s is often referred to as the Jazz Age, because of the popularity of jazz music and the pleasure-seeking people who made it popular during this period of economic prosperity.
Read a book from this list: Jazz Age Books
The Widows of Malabar Hill - kindle A Murder at Malabar Hill mass market paperback pg 385 by Sujata Massey
Page 4
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Points: 15
Completed Tasks: 1
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points:175/840
Completed Tasks: 12/52
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 4,499
Books read this season: 13
15.4. "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet"I did option 2 to read one book that did both
1B: 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!"
and
2: Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in "The Jazz Singer."
The word I used for Option 1B was WOMAN
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
New Points: 15
Total Points: 285
IaF: 3
Amy FL25.2 - Nick KY's Task: Playing Doubles
Book 1: Desert Star - DS in DoubleS
Book 2: This Bitter Earth - First published February 1, 2002
Points this post: 25
Total points: 840
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10.8 - Well, I'll Be Dammed!
Book set in Nevada
Desperation by Stephen King
Setting Desperation, Nevada
Points this post - 10
Total points - 110