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WINTER CHALLENGE 2022
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Book a:
Option 3 - Read a book where the author's initials (all of them) can be found in ESTONIA, or LATVIA or BELGIUM
I read They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera whose initials can be found in eStoniA
Book b:
Option 2 Read a book where the letters CHICAGO can be found in the title (not subtitle)
i read Girl's Guide to Witchcraft where all letters in CHICAGO can be found: GIrl's guide tO witCHCrAft
points for this task: 25
total points: 60
books read: 8
tasks done: 7
Lisa MD25.3 - Cat's Task: In the Twenties
Both books are new to me.
Option 2: Set at least 90% in the 1920s (1920 - 1929).
🎄Tiffany Blues by M.J. Rose
317 pages
Set entirely in 1924 except for the prologue and epilogue.
Option 3: In the 20s of a series (#20 - #29).
☑️🎄A Song of Comfortable Chairs by Alexander McCall Smith
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series #23
228 pages
🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 525/840
Total Books Read: 40
Tasks Completed: 31/52
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 4
Non Fiction Tickets: 10
Nick KY5.6 TN vs. Snopes
I read Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- monkey on cover. If the man turning into a monkey is not good enough, an actual monkey's face appears in the lower right.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 705
ROBIN P10.7 Black Venus
Book from Women of Color list
The Painted Drum - Louise Erdrich
On page 1 of list
Points this post: 10
Total points: 700
BB:3 GO:7 IAF:4
ROBIN P5.1 - Votes for Women -female author
A Visitor's Guide To Jane Austen's England - Sue Wilkes
**claiming 1 IAF point, nonfiction
Points this post: 5
Total points: 705
BB:3 GO:7 IAF:5
ROBIN P5.10 The Best Things in Life are Free - any book meeting standards
The Old Woman with the Knife
Points this post: 5
Total points: 710
BB:3 GO:7 IAF:5
Delicious Dee5.7 - The Everest of Swimming
Debating with the Duke - set entirely in England
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 320
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies: 1
Its Just a Fact: 3
15.4. "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet"I did Option 2 which is one book that meets both:
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!"
and
Book 2:Read a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in "The Jazz Singer."
The Word I made for Option 1B is WOMAN
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
New Points: 15
Total Points: 285
IaF: 3
Delicious DeeTask 20.6 - It's a Fact - CynBaxter's Task: The Right to Vote!
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer - has a MPG of feminism; claiming 1 Its a Fact Ticket
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 340
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies: 1
Its Just a Fact: 4
20.5 - Bigger is Better- Lauren Jodi's task: Public EnemyOption 1: Read a book set at least 50% in or around a prison.
The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
***Claiming an Its a Fact Ticket for Non-Fiction***
New Points: 20
Total Points: 305
IaF: 4
Angela IL20.1 Most Improved - ForestGardenGal's Task: So Much to Read...So Little Time
Option A: Read a book from this list:Best Philosophical Literature:https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison- 2/14
On Page 5
Claiming It's a Fact Ticket
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 445
Books Read: 35
Tasks Completed: 25
BB Ticket: 2
NF Ticket: 5
Angela IL5.10 - The Best Things in Life Are Free
Read any book that meets SRC rules.
Long Way Down by Krista & Becca Ritchie- 2/14
Read Kindle version/ No MMPB/ PB attached: Long Way Down 640 pages
Claiming Big Book Ticket
Points this Task: 5
Total Points: 450
Books Read: 36
Tasks Completed: 26
BB Ticket: 3
NF Ticket: 5
Mod
5.1 - Votes For WomenFemale author: The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton
Points this post: 5
Total points: 695
5.2 - GuiltyA book from Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books (p. 3 #225): A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Points this post: 5
Total points: 700
5.3 - April ShowersFirst published in April or May of any year: Another Side of Paradise by Sally Koslow, first published May 29, 2018
Points this post: 5
Total points: 705
Mod
Readerboard Name: NICOLA T10.1 - BINGO!
Read a book with ALL the letters of BINGO in the title and/or subtitle.
Things to Do Before the End of the World by Emily Barr
thINGs tO do Before the end of the world
Points this post: 10
Total points: 40
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 3
Mod
JEN B5.7 - The Everest of Swimming
Read a book set 50% or more in either the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) or France.
Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes
This book takes place entirely in London, England
This NYT Review states setting: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/bo...
"In her 14th novel, “Someone Else’s Shoes,” she whisks her fans back to present-day London."
TOTAL POINTS: 395
Blue15.5 - All That Jazz
Read a book from this list: Jazz Age Books
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The book is on the 1st page of the Jazz Age Books list
*** Claiming 1 Golden Oldies ticket as this book was first published in 1925 ***
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| Points this post: 15
| Total points: 55
| Books read: 6
| Tasks completed: 6
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| Tickets:
| BB: 0
| GO: 1
| NF: 1
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10.1 - BINGO! Read a book with ALL the letters of BINGO in the title and/or subtitle.
calING fOr Blanket
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 225
30.2 Happy Birthday Grandkids I chose option 1 and option 3
1 - all letters of anime in title - hoMIcidE aNd hAlo-halo by Mia P. Manansala
3 - series and MPG humor - The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
Season Total: 180
Andy P.Task # 20.4 - Golden Oldies - XBM's Task: Remembering my parents
Option 2. Read a book set at least 50% in a Scandinavian country.
Tales of Iceland or "Running with the Huldufólk in the Permanent Daylight" by Stephen Markley Takes place almost entirely in Iceland.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 635
FLY Task #15.6. King Tut
task: set at least 50% in Egypt, about archaeology, or featuring an archaeologist.
book: The Curse of the Pharaohs
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: it fits all 3 ways - about an archaeological dig set mostly in Egypt and featuring an archaeologist
Points this post: 15
Total points: 310
Tasks completed: 22/52
Big Book tickets: 4
Golden Oldies tickets: 2
It's A Fact tickets: 3
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Alexxy10.1 - BINGO!
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 185
Sarah ETask 20.6 - It's a Fact - CynBaxter's Task: The Right to Vote!
Option 2: Non-fiction book with MPG History
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
I listened to an audio, top paperback - no MMP - is The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
Non Fiction, claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket.
Total Points: 170
Total NF: 2
Sarah E25.5 - Tien’s Task: Bubble Tea
Option 1: 'Pearl' found intact in title
The Pearl Sister
I read a kindle edition, top MMP is La Sœur à la Perle - 755 pages
Big Book, 755 pages. Claiming 2 BB tickets.
Option 3: Strawberry on cover
I read the kindle editon, paperback - no MMP - is StrawBuried in Chocolate
Total Points: 195
Total BB: 2
Mod
Book 1-
Rewind by Kat Mizera / REWIND spelled from phrase
Book 2-
The Heiress Hunt by Joanna Shupe / JS in phrase
Points this post: 15
Total points: 395
Mod
Option 2-
The Winter Garden Mystery by Carola Dunn / MPG Mystery, Daisy Dalrymple series #2, set in 1923
Points this post: 20
Total points: 415
Mod
Book A Option 2-
Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan / ESTONIA spelled from title; 432 pg PB
Book B Option 3-
Edge of Dusk by Colleen Coble / CC in phrase; 352 pg PB
Total pages: 784 > 600
Points this post: 25
Total points: 440
Kai10.2 Bee's Knees
Read a short book, one less than or equal to 200 pages.
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
179 pages
New Points: 10
Total Points: 265
Tasks Completed: 15
15.6. King TutThe Curse of the Pharaohs (Amelia Peabody #2) by Elizabeth Peters
approx 90% set in Egypt
Total this Post: 15
Golden Oldies: 5
Bigger is Better: 5
It's a Fact: 8
Season Total: 825
Andy P.Task # 15.4. "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet"
Option 2: Read one book that fulfills the requirements of Book 1 and Book 2 of option 1.
Option 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! and a book by an author whose first and last initials appear in "The Jazz Singer."
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager The word time is in MINUTE and the author's Initials RS in SINGER
Points this post: 15
Total points: 650
Amy B5.1 - Votes For Women
Read a book by a female author.
And Again by Jessica Chiarella
This Task: 5 Points
To Date: 465 Points
25.1Option 3: MPG of sequential art, manga or graphic novel
Saga, Volume 10 by Brian K. Vaughan
Option 4: MPG of Plays
Othello by William Shakespeare
Books read: 26
Point Total: 305/840
Tasks Total: 22/52
Kai15.9 I Resolve to Read Lots of Books
Read a book whose author's first and last initials can be found sequentially in NEWYEARSRESOLUTION.
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
New Points: 15
Total Points: 280
Tasks Completed: 16
Bookwrm526Task #15.3. From A to Z
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 the author of which contains the letter Z).
I read America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton.
Total points so far: 485
Chris MD 5.1 Votes for Women
Book by a female author
A Christmas Legacy by Anne Perry
Total points: 405
Chris MD 5.9 WGY-TV
Title has a word of 4+ letters found in Schenectady
Wild Seed by Octavia Butler
SEED can be found in SchEnEctaDy
Total points: 410
Chris MD 5.10
Book of your choice
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
I listened to the audio version of this book. There is no MMP. The paperback has 400 pages.
Total points: 415
Chris MD 10.2 Bees Knees
Book of 200 pages or less
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerny
This book has 182 pages
Total points: 425
Chris MD 10.3 Freudian Slip
Book from the Pyschology book list
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
This book is on the first page.
Total points: 435
Chris MD 15.2 Endings and Beginnings
Book A: The most recently published book in a series or a book that includes the word FINAL or LAST in its title.
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
LAST in the title
Book B: The first whole numbered book in a series or a book that includes the word FIRST or ONE in its title.
Front Page Murder by Joyce St. Anthony
This is the first book in the Homefront News Mysteries series
Total points: 450
Chris MD 15.3 From A to Z
One book option:
A book with a title that begins with the letter "A"
A book by an author that contains the letter "Z"
Afterlife by Julia Alverez
I listened to the audio version of this book. There is no MMP. The top paperback has 288 pages.
Total points: 465
Chris MD 15.5 All the Jazz
Book from the Jazz Age Books book list
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
This book is on page 2 of the list.
I listened to the audio version of this book. There is no MMP. The top paperback has 436 pages.
Total points: 480
Chris MD 20.1 So Much to Read, So Little Time
A new-to-you book published in 1950 or earlier
Remembering Laughter by Wallace Stegner
This book was first published in 1937. Claiming one Golden Oldie ticket
I have never read this book before.
Total points: 500
Chris MD 25.2 Playing Doubles
Book 1: Read a book with a title of two words. Each word must begin with a letter from the phrase “TWO DOUBLES.”
Little Souls by Sandra Dallas
L and S both found in doubLeS
I listened to the audio version of this book. There is no MMP. The top paperback has 304 pages.
Book 2: Read a book first published in 1922, 2002, 2012, 2020.
The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James
I listened to the audio version of this book. The MMP has 384 pages.
Total points: 525
Chris MD 25.3 In the Twenties
Option 2: Read a book set at least 90% in the 1920s (1920 - 1929).
Ruddy Gore by Kerry Greenwood
GR metadate puts the setting as 1928.
Option 3: Book in a series numbered 20-29.
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
This is #22 in the Hercule Poirot series.
I listened to the audio version of this book. The MMP has 218 pages.
This book was first published in 1942. Claiming one Golden Oldie ticket
Total points: 550
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✅ 5.10 - The Best Things in Life Are Free
Any book that meets SRC rules.
☑️🎄Living in the Light: Yoga for Self-Realization by Deepak Chopra
304 pages
I claim a NF ticket
🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 500/840
Total Books Read: 38
Tasks Completed: 30/52
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 4
Non Fiction Tickets: 10