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Challenges: Year Long Main 2023
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Badge One- 7. Two words, 15 letters: Coffee Gadget - (view spoiler)
It's a coffee-brewing method of Italian origin.
Read a book set in Italy.
The House of the Vestals
- 4. Two words, total 4 letters: Top Rated - (view spoiler)
Read a book with a higher than 4.1 average rating on Goodreads.
Reckoning
- 8. Four letters: Three hours before noon - (view spoiler)
Read a book that is the third or ninth book in a series.
Echoes of Betrayal
8. Five letters: Alphabet intro - (view spoiler)
Read a book where the first letter of the title (not including articles) starts with ABCDE.
The Ecologic Envoy
9. Seven letters: Meeting Schedule - (view spoiler)
Read a book where the main character is a businessman or businesswoman.
Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History
7. Four letters: School room furniture - (view spoiler)
Read a book where there is a character that is a teacher.
The Lyre of Orpheus
1. Two words, total 15 letters: Plugged in bedding - (view spoiler)
The first crude electric blankets were introduced in the early 1900s and the first electric blanket was sold in the US in 1946.
Read a book set between 1901 and 1946.
The Sleeping Car Porter
4. Two words, total 11 letters: Letter deliverer - (view spoiler)
Read a book where a letter has a significant role. IE letters back and forth, found letters are significant to story.
The Sacrilege
7. Five letters: Londoners informally - (view spoiler)
Read a book written by a British author.
Sharpe's Devil
6. Eight letters: Unmarried guy - (view spoiler)
Read a book where a significant character is a bachelor or bachelorette. The character must remain unmarried through the entire book.
Supercarrier
5. Five letters: Martian, for example - (view spoiler)
Read a book where a significant character is an alien (may be angels/demons too). May not be a fantasy world.
Juggernaut
10. Five letters: Himalayan nation - (view spoiler)
The Constitution of Nepal was adopted in 2015.
Read a book originally publishing in 2015.
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
Badge TwoPuzzle 3
In 2019, 84% of primary energy consumption in the world and 64% of its electricity was from fossil fuels.The large-scale burning of fossil fuels causes serious environmental damage.
Read a book about the environment.
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
- 2. Six letters: Dictator - (view spoiler)
When I googled "which countries are dictatorships", Russia was the first on the list.
Read a book set in Russia.
Anna Karenina
A Gentleman in Moscow
- 3. Three words, total 15 letters: Crack up after a joke - (view spoiler)
Read a book with a main page genre of humour.
Just One Damned Thing After Another
Rivers of London
- 4. Four letters: Elm or Eucalyptus - (view spoiler)
Read a book with the name of a tree in the title from this site - http://bhort.bh.cornell.edu/tree/list.... Note, you may only use the name of a tree, You may not use any descriptors (like black, white, American, slippery, etc.
Legacy of Ash
Through Black Spruce
The ozone layer sits in the stratosphere between 15 km and 30 km above the earth and shields us and other living things from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. Ozone layer depletion could have serious effects on human health and the environment.
Read a book where someone is protecting someone else. Explain how they are protecting someone else.
The Circus Train
- 6. Four letters: 50% - (view spoiler)
Read a book that is number 50 on your TBR or other personal shelf. Specify which shelf it's on. If you don't have a shelf that big, obtain permission from another member to use theirs.
Promise of Blood
- 7. Two words, total 8 letters: Begin a journey - (view spoiler)
Read a book where the main character sets forth on a major journey.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The Outlander
- 9. Five letters: Cairo's country - (view spoiler)
Read a book set in ancient Egypt.
Murder at the God's Gate
- 10. Four letters: Entryway - (view spoiler)
Read a book with a large door on the cover. Must be the focus of the cover.
Stone's FallPuzzle 12
1. Two words, total 15 letters: Urban local for borrowing books - (view spoiler)
Read a book that shows shelves or stacks of books on the cover.
The Thirteenth Tale
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
2. Four letters: Actor Pitt - (view spoiler)
Read a book written by an author with the initials BP or PB.
The Rising Tide: A Panorama of Europe, 1900-1914
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome & the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD
Read a book that has a pregnant a character or a new born baby in it.
Braiding Sweetgrass
4. Three words, total 15 letters: "More fun than" bunch - (view spoiler)
Types of monkeys - snow, bald, black, Barbary, spider, blue, emperor,
Read a book with one of the aforementioned words in the title. Monkey is another word you may use.
Snow Road Station
Through Black Spruce
5. Six letters: Pieces of broken glass - (view spoiler)
Read a book with something broken in pieces on the cover.
Witchcraft was a felony in both England and its American colonies, and therefore witches were hanged, not burned. However, witches’ bodies were burned in Scotland, though they were strangled to death first.
Read a book about the persecution of witches.
VenCo
7. Five letters: Titled British Women - (view spoiler)
Read a book with a female title in the title (dame, Lady, Duchess)
Lady Oracle
8. Five letters: Insect attacks - (view spoiler)
Insects can be carriers of diseases, most notably malaria. Malaria is mostly concentrated in Africa.
Read a book set in Africa
The Book of Negroes
The English Patient
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Earp arrived in the silver-mining boom town of Tombstone, Arizona, in 1879, and eventually found periodic work as a law officer. The famous gunfight took place on the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a lot behind the OK Corral.
Read a book set in Arizona.
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
1. Badge 1, Book 12. Puzzle 4, Task 8
3. The Ecologic Envoy
4. Listened to Audiobook, paper edition is 288 pages
5. Read a book where the first letter of the title (not including articles) starts with ABCDE.
6. Today is brought to you by the letter E
1. Badge 1, Book 22. Puzzle 8, Task 4
3. The Sacrilege
4. Listened to Audiobook, paper edition is 256 pages.
5. Read a book where a letter has a significant role.
6. A letter is the final piece of evidence to solve the mystery.
1. Badge 1, Book 32. Puzzle 3, Task 8
3. Echoes of Betrayal
4. Listened to Audiobook, paper edition is 451 pages.
5. Read a book that is the third or ninth book in a series.
6. This is the third book in the Paladin's Legacy series.
1. Badge 1, Book 42. Puzzle 10, Task 6
3. Supercarrier
4. Listened to Audiobook, paper edition is 454 pages.
5. Read a book where a significant character is a bachelor or bachelorette.
6. Captain Keyes is a bachelor through out the entire book. Not even a romantic interest in sight.
1. Badge 1, Book 52. Puzzle 11, Task 5
3. Juggernaut
4. Listened to Audiobook, paper edition is 426 pages.
5. Read a book where a significant character is an alien.
6. Because I am listening to the audio I have no idea how to spell their names but there are 2 specific aliens. One is a lead fighter pilot that has the characteristics of a chicken, the species are called wingers. The second is a underwater type of alien with the ability to predict events called Ex. Both are important secondary characters to the story.
1. Badge 1, Book 62. Puzzle 2, Task 4
3. Reckoning
4. Listened to Audiobook, paper edition is 404 pages.
5. Read a book with a higher than 4.1 average rating on Goodreads.
6. This book has a 4.11 average rating (I think it is highly overrated!)
1. Badge 1, Book 72. Puzzle 7, Task 1
3. The Sleeping Car Porter
4. Listened to an Audiobook, paper edition is 216 pages.
5. Read a book set between 1901 and 1946.
6. Set entirely over a few days in 1929.
Way to get a series out of the way with the three tasks in message 10, 11, and 12, Dawn!
I know. I was impressed that I could fit the whole thing into the challenge!!
Also, I am trying really hard to actually get a badge this year. :)
🔆I don't think you'll have a problem - 5 more books and you've got the 1st badge.
1. Badge 1, Book 82. Puzzle 1, Task 7
3. The House of the Vestals
4. Listened to an Audiobook, paper edition is 275 pages.
5. Read a book set in Italy.
6. Set entirely in Rome.
1. Badge 1, Book 92. Puzzle 9, Task 7
3. Sharpe's Devil
4. Listened to an Audiobook, paper edition is 322 pages.
5. Read a book written by a British author.
6. The author was born in Britain
1. Badge 1, Book 102. Puzzle 5, Task 9
3. Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History
4. Listened to an Audiobook, paper edition is 608 pages.
5. Read a book where the main character is a businessman or businesswoman.
6. It's Coco, she was a pretty impressive business women.
1. Badge 1, Book 112. Puzzle 12, Task 10
3. The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
4. Listened to an Audiobook, paper edition is 227 pages.
5. Read a book originally publishing in 2015.
6. First published March 24, 2015
1. Badge 1, Book 122. Puzzle 6, Task 7
3. The Lyre of Orpheus
4. Listened to an Audiobook, paper edition is 427 pages.
5. Read a book where there is a character that is a teacher.
6. Professor the Reverend Simon Darcourt & Professor Clement Hollier are 2 major characters in the book. One at least has tenure.
🔆Congrats on finishing the first badge. :)
And there's lots of time to earn the 2nd badge. :) It's only March.
lolI have my first book all queued up for the second badge, I just have to decide on a second puzzle now.
1. Badge 2, Book 12. Puzzle 12, Task 9
3. Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
4. Listened to an Audiobook, paper edition is 358 pages.
5. Read a book set in Arizona.
6. A book about the Camp Grant Massacre, located in Arizona.
1. Badge 2, Book 22. Puzzle 3, Task 1
3. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
4. Listened to an Audiobook, paper edition is 280 pages.
5. Read a book about the environment.
6. This book is about the effects of climate change on plants and animals.
🔆I had a similar dilemma in choosing the puzzles I was going to do for badge 2.
As long as I can find a cover with something broken, I should do okay with these two. :)
1. Badge 2, Book 32. Puzzle 12, Task 3
3. Braiding Sweetgrass
4. Listened to an Audiobook, paper edition is 391 pages.
5. Read a book that has a pregnant a character or a new born baby in it.
6. The Potawatomi Nation creation story is about Sky Woman who come to earth already pregnant. This aspect of the story is repeated several times in the book.
1. Badge 2, Book 42. Puzzle 3, Task 5
3. The Circus Train
4. Listened to an Audiobook, paper edition is 352 pages.
5. Read a book where someone is protecting someone else.
6. Something you learn early and not a really big spoiler but (view spoiler)
1. Badge 2, Book 52. Puzzle 12, Task 6
3. VenCo
4. Listened to an Audiobook, paper edition is 400 pages.
5. Read a book about the persecution of witches.
6. This book tells the story of a group of women trying to create a new coven but they are working against time and an immortal witch-hunter who has been thwarting this for hundreds of years.
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The Challenge
The Rules
Report each book as follows:
1. Challenge Progress: Identify where you are in the challenge – Badge 1, book 1 (2, 3, 4, etc.)
2. List the Puzzle number and Task number
3. Link to book read. Link to the title and not to the cover.
4. List the number of pages of the edition you read. If an ebook or audiobook also give the number of pages of the paper edition (refer general rules on page numbers).
5. Give a very brief summary of the task.
6. State how the book fits the criteria. Any requirements must be included in this section (cover link if cover task, picture link if interactive task, etc.)
Sample: I’ve read 5 books in the Badge 1 section:
1. Badge 1, Book 5
2. Puzzle 1, Task 1
3. Link – Ghost Story
4. Listened to Audiobook, Hardcover edition is 567 pages
5. Read a book that is a ghost story.
6. As the title indicates, this is a ghost story. "Ghosts" also show on the main book page as a genre.