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WINTER CHALLENGE 2022
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
Julia1035.4 - Hooray For Hollywood
Hickory Dickory Dock
This was made into an episode of the Poirot series on PBS with David Suchet.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0182225/?r...
This post: 5 points
Total points: 555
BB: 3
GO: 2
NF: 6
Tasks completed: 33
Books read this season: 46
Delicious Dee20.3 - Best Review - Chris MD's Task: The Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Option 2 - A Lesson in Secrets - set 1932
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 425
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies: 3
Andy P.Task # 15.2. Endings and Beginnings
A. Celebrate the end of the year by reading the most recently published book in a series Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger # 19 and most recent in the
Cork O'Conner Series
B. A book that includes the word ONE in its title. City Under One Roof byIris Yamashita
Points this post: 15
Total points: 665
Becky C15.4 "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet"
Option 2: Read one book that fulfills the requirements of Book 1 and Book 2 of option 1.
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Book 1, Option A: TURNED
Book 2: JH in "The Jazz Singer"
Points this post: 15
Total points: 155
Becky C15.3. From A to Z
A. Read a book the title of which begins with the letter A.
All These Worlds by Dennis E Taylor
AND
B. Read a book the author of which contains the letter Z.
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
Points this post: 15
Total points: 170
Becky C10.10 - The Latin Lover
Read a book with a main page genre that includes Romance or Romantic.
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Points this post: 10
Total points: 180
Becky C10.9 - 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 Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
The St. Louis Blues
Points this post: 10
Total points: 190
Becky C10.7 - Black Venus
Read a book by an AUTHOR on this list A Book By A Woman of Color
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Found on Page 1
Points this post: 10
Total points: 200
Becky C5.10 - The Best Things in Life Are Free
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Points this post: 5
Total points: 205
Becky C5.8 - And The Winner Is...
Read a book that has WON an award. The award must be listed in the GR metadata.
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Winner Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction
Points this post: 5
Total points: 210
Becky C5.7 - The Everest of Swimming
Read a book set 50% or more in either the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) or France.
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Set in England
Points this post: 5
Total points: 215
Becky C5.4 - Hooray For Hollywood
Read a book or book series that was made into a TV show or movie.
Blitz by Daniel O'Malley
From Checquy Files series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roo...
Points this post: 5
Total points: 220
Becky C5.1 - Votes For Women
Read a book by a female author.
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Points this post: 5
Total points: 225
EMurphy30.1 Katrisa's Task: The Sandman
Option 1: Read a book by Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
*IL: MG, BL: 5.1 AR Pts: 10.0
**312 pages
Option 3: Retelling MPG Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev
*464 pages
312+464=776 pages
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 295
Books Read: 22
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +500: 1
IAF Ticket: 5
Tasks Completed: 14
Becky C25.2 - Nick KY's Task: 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.”
Double Share by Nathan Lowell
Book 2. Read a book first published in a year from this list of years with exactly two twos:
Network Effect by Martha Wells (published 2020)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 250
Delicious Dee10.2 - Bee's Knees
Murder on the Ballarat Train
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 435
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies: 3
babbling c5.9 - 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. You may use letters as often as they appear.
REQUIRED: State the word.
Death and the Girl Next Door - audible Death and the Girl Next Door - paperback pgs. 274 by Darynda Jones
SCHENECTADY = death
THIS POST
Points: 5
Completed Tasks: 1
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points:205/840
Completed Tasks: 17/52
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 6,437
Books read this season: 18
babbling c5.1 - Votes For Women
1920 - The 19th amendment was ratified legally guaranteeing American women the right to vote. Read a book by a female author.
Naked in Death - audible Naked in Death - mass market paperback pgs. 306 by J.D. Robb
THIS POST
Points: 5
Completed Tasks: 1
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points:210/840
Completed Tasks: 18/52
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 7,049
Books read this season: 19
babbling c10.4 - Wonder Drug
Read 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.
Dream a Little Dream - kindle Apenas un sueño - mass market paperback pgs 432 by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Penicillium notatum= little
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points:220/840
Completed Tasks: 19/52
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 7,481
Books read this season: 20
babbling c 10.10 - The Latin Lover
Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino was one of the movie industry’s first sex symbols.
Read a book with a main page genre that includes Romance or Romantic.
Dating Dr. Dil - Audible Dating Dr. Dil - paperback pgs. 364 by Nisha Sharma
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points:230/840
Completed Tasks: 20/52
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 7,845
Books read this season: 21
babbling c5.10 - The Best Things in Life Are Free
1929 - The Great Depression began. However, the best things in life are free, so they say, so free choice. Read any book that meets SRC rules. For this task, a book with the MPG Childrens, Kids, Middle Grade or Juvenile that is NOT found in ARBF may be used
Out of Character - kindle Out of Character - paperback pgs 400 by Annabeth Albert
THIS POST
Points: 5
Completed Tasks: 1
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points:235/840
Completed Tasks: 21/52
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 8,245
Books read this season: 22
Alexxy5.2 - Guilty
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Page 1 on the Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books List
Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 190
Barbara ★15.8 - Can You Feel It?
Read a book from this list: Blind/Deaf/Mute
Moon Craving - Lucy Monroe 2/18
(heroine is deaf)(found on Page 1)
Points this task: 15
Total points: 565
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1) 750 (1) 1000 (0)
Angela IL20.4 - 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.
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica- 2/18
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 520
Books Read: 40
Tasks Completed: 29
BB Ticket: 3
NF Ticket: 6
JEN B25.2 - Nick KY's Task: 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.”
One Tequila by Tricia O'Malley (262 Pages)
OT in TwOdoubles
Book 2. Read a book first published in a year from this list of years with exactly two twos:
2020
Every Last Secret by AR Torre (302 pages)
Published in 2020
262 pages + 302 pages = 564 pages >504 pages
TOTAL POINTS: 445
Lisa MD5.1 - Votes For Women
By female author.
☑️🎄Maggie: A Story of Dementia, Exploitation, and Loss by E. Carolyn Wills
120 pages
🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️🎄☃️❤️
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 565/840
Total Books Read: 44
Tasks Completed: 34/52
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 4
Non Fiction Tickets: 11
10.7 - Black VenusTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Zevin in on page 1 (currently #69) on the A Book by a Woman of Color list
Total points: 245
15.7. Here's Mickey!I read an omnibus of plays by Neil Simon The Collected Plays, Vol. 1.
This book was a component: Promises, Promises
Two-word title - both words beginning with the same letter
Total points: 260
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Julia103's Task: Marching for Women's Suffrage!Option C: Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Set in Tennessee
Total points: 280
Mary P15.5. All That Jazz
Read a book from this list: Jazz Age Books
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Found on page 2 of list.
Points this task: 15
Total points: 125
KYLIE10.8 - Well, I'll Be Dammed!
Read a book set at least 50% in one of these U.S. states: Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, California.
C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton
MPS - Santa Teresa, California
Task Points: 10
Total Points: 120
Books Read: 10
Mod
Option 1-
White Rose by Kip Wilson / on Novels in Verse list pg 1, 3/4 way down;
IL:UG, BL:7.0, AR pts:3.0
Option 2-
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon / pg 1 #6 on list
Points this post: 25
Total points: 515
Mod
Option 2-
Just the Sexiest Man Alive by Julie James / 3 J's in title and author
Option 3-
by Kaitlyn Hill / strawberry on chocolate cupcake on coverPoints this post: 25
Total points: 540
Mod
Book 1-
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik / OLD in title; 416 pg PB
Book 2-
Dark of Night by Colleen Coble / pub 2023; 352 pg PB
Book 3B-
The Sweet Spot by Adriana Locke / AL in phrase; 368 pg PB
Total pages: 1136 > 750
Points this post: 50
Total points: 590
EMurphy20.6 It's a Fact-CynBaxter's Task: The Right to Vote!
Option 2: Non-fiction book with MPG History, Feminism, Politics, Womens, Social Movements Spare by Prince Harry
*It's a Fact Ticket
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Total:
Points: 315
Books Read: 23
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +500: 1
IAF Ticket: 6
Tasks Completed: 15
Delicious Dee25.1 - TessaVanessa’s Task: Book Style Challenge
Option 1 - Collateral - found on pg1 of Tess's Books in verse shelf; claiming 1 big book ticket - book was 512pgs
Option 3 - Almost American Girl - shelved as Graphic Novels
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 460
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 3
Sarah E20.5 - Bigger is Better- Lauren Jodi's task: Public Enemy
Option 2
Murder in the Falling Snow: Ten Classic Crime Stories
I read the kindle edition, the only paperback - no MMP - is Murder in the Falling Snow: Ten Classic Crime Stories - 192 pages
Total Points: 250
Sarah E50.1 - Lisa MD's Task: Out With the Old, In With the New
Book 1: "old" found intact in the title
Private Gold
I read a kindle edition, top paperback - no MMP - is Private Gold - 144 pages
Book 2: first published in 2022
Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
I listened to an audio, top paperback - no MMP - is Nielekarz, czyli jak wyleczyłem się z medycyny - 320 pages
Non-Fiction, claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket.
Book 3: Option B - author's first and last initials are found in "cleaN slaTe"
Falling by T.J. Newman
I read an ebook, top paperback - no MMP - is Falling - 320 pages
144 + 320 + 320 = 784 pages
Total Points: 300
Total NF: 3
Kaylee10.8 - Well, I'll Be Dammed!.
Read a book set at least 50% in one of these U.S. states: Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, California.
REQUIRED: If the setting is not clear from the GR description or the metadata, state the setting and provide a reference.
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Book set in California, link to article with setting. https://www.supersummary.com/im-glad-....
*Claiming 1 It’s A Fact Ticket for non-fiction books
Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 10
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 120
GO Tickets: 2
BB Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 2
Jen K10.2 - Bee's Knees
Catching the Light - 128 pages
*** Requesting 1 IAF ticket for nonfiction***
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 610
IAF: 11
Jen K10.5 - Chanel No. 5
Sweep of the Heart
Innkeeper Chronicles #5
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 620
IAF: 11
Jen K15.1. Pick your century!
A.The Winter's Tale- 1623
D. To the Lighthouse - 1927
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 635
IAF: 11
Jen K15.5. All That Jazz
The Murder on the Links
Page 3 of list
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 650
IAF: 11
Kristen IA5.5 - 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"
Дневникът на Ноел by Richard Paul Evans
I read the ebook of The Noel Diary and have linked the paperback edition.
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 50/840
Tasks Completed: 5/52
BB: 1
GO: 1
NF: 1
Kristen IA5.9 - 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. You may use letters as often as they appear.
REQUIRED: State the word - the word is Hand
The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson
I listened to the audiobook and have linked the paperback edition.
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 55/840
Tasks Completed: 6/52
BB: 1
GO: 1
NF: 1
ROBIN P10.8 - Well, I'll Be Dammed!
Book set at least 50% in one of these U.S. states: Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, California.
Devil in a Blue Dress - set in California
GR description starts "The time is 1948, the town is Los Angeles."
Points this post: 10
Total points: 790
BB:4 GO:7 IAF:6
Rockynook15.8 - Can You Feel It?
Read a book from the list Blind/Deaf/Mute
Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 250
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5.7 The Everest of Swimming
Read a book set 50% or more in either the United Kingdom or France.
What Happened in London, Kim M. Watt
Read the kindle edition. PB: here (292pg)
100% set in London, England
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 495
Tasks Completed: 33
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
It’s a Fact Tickets: 6