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SPRING CHALLENGE 2023
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10.10. Collaboration of the YearWormhole by Eric Brown & Keith Brooke
Total this Post: 10
Season Total: 370
Mai20.5 - Bigger is Better - Kristina Simon's task: Sail Away
Option 3: Cats Away
Domestic cat on the cover
Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet by M.C. BeatonPoints this post: 20
Total Points: 155
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 12
NF Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
10.10. Collaboration of the YearRead a book that is written by two authors
Invested: How Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Taught Me to Master My Mind, My Emotions, and My Money by Danielle Town and Phil Town
Total Points: 105
Sophie20.3 Option 1 - colourful blobs on cover
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
p1 of list
Total: 180
Readerboard Name Jammin JennySpring 2023 SRC
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Jen K's Task: Egyptian Spring
Option 1: The Nile. Read a book were all the letters in “NILE” can be found in the title. The letters do not need to be intact or consecutive. Subtitles are excluded.
When the Night Bells Ring - when the NInght bELls ring
Points this post: 20
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 180
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 2
It's a Fact Tickets: 1
Nick KY20.3 - Katy's Task: On Trend
Opt. 2. The Mad Lib Title - Read a book with a title that fits this pattern:
The ___ (Adjective/s) ___ (noun) of ___ (proper name). Subtitles are excluded.
I read The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess by Andy Marino.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 275
Bookwrm526Task #5.8 - One Small Step for Man
Read a book with an MPG of Space. I read You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo (genre noted in help thread posts 19 and 20).
Total points so far: 240
Bookwrm526Task #15.3 - Someday My Prince Will Come
Option 2- Read one book that fulfills both book A and B options, so it has a word from the lyrics to “Someday My Prince Will Come" in the title and it is a whole-numbered book in a series from #1 - #7.
I read A Tempest at Sea by Sherry Thomas, which has both the word a and the word at from the lyrics in the title and is book #7 in the Lady Sherlock series.
Total points so far: 255
Mai15.1 - Vernal Equinox
Read books with virtually the same number of pages: both books have 128 pages
BRZRKR, Volume 2
The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 170
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 14
NF Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
trishhartuk15.2 Earth Day
A. Reduce: Read a book that was added to your TBR before March 1, 2022 (last year).
Rupture, Ragnar Jonasson
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB (French): ici (360pg). Top PB (English): here (244pg)
This was added to my Goodreads To-Read shelf on 16 November 2018: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
B. Reuse: Read a book by an author you have read before.
Silence of the Grave, Arnaldur Indriðason (290pg)
I read Jar City, the first book translated from this series way back in July 2017: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 255
Tasks Completed: 15
It’s a Fact Tickets: 3
10.4 - What's in a Name? #10 in the Top 10 Girl's Name - Read An Island by Karen Jennings. Karen is #10 on the list of girl's names.
Points these task: 10
Total points: 40
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 7
Tasks completed: 3
25.2 - Robin P's Task: An Ode to Chocolate1. 3 Musketeers:
Read a book with a title of exactly 3 words. Subtitles should be ignored.
History. A Mess. by Sigrún Pálsdóttir
2. M & M: Another perennial favorite is M & M’s.
Read a book whose author’s full name (as listed on Goodreads) has exactly 2 M’s in it.
Mizuki tsujiMura
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 140
EMurphy20.4 Golden Oldies-Maria Jo's Task: The Queen of Crime
Option 2: Major plot arc/subject is missing or disappears mysteriously A Borrowing of Bones by Paula Munier
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 95
Books Read: 6
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +1000: 1
IAF Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 4
20.3 - Best Review - Katy's Task: On Trend 4. Direct Address - Read a book that uses "you" or "your" in the title. The word must match exactly- no variations.
I read I Will Find You.
points: 40
books read: 2
tasks completed: 2
pages read: 704
Katrisa20.5 - Bigger is Better - Kristina Simon's task: Sail Away
Opt 2 - Read a book with a homonym found on this list in TITLE
I read Give Me Your Hand
word from list - YOUR
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 360
Katrisa20.6 - It's A Fact- Angela IL's Task: Things I Love in Books!!
Option B: Social Commentary
I read Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men from P2 of the list
My book was audio - PB 411 pages
Points this Post: 20
Points Total; 380
Katrisa20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Florence's Task: Busy Bee
Opt C - Read a book from these lists:
Books Every Girl Should Read
Best Feminist Books
I read Mrs. Dalloway rom Best Feminist Books P1
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 400
Mai5.3 - 3D View Master
Book which has exactly 3 letter "D"'s in the title
Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 175
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 15
NF Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
20.2 - Rookie at the Top: Nancy J's Task: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch ChangesOption 2: Cultural: Read a book from the first 25 pages of the Cultural list
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, on page 5 of the list
Audiobook, 368 pages from the first MMP book that has a page total
Points this post: 20
Total points: 430
Tasks completed: 25
Books read: 34
BB tickets: 4
GO tickets: 2
IAF tickets: 4
JUKKA5.10 - Spring, Just Do Your Thing
Any book.
Gateways to Terror: Three Evenings of Horror by Leigh Carr et al. This is my one 80-99-page book for the challenge.
Total Points: 140/945
Total Books Read: 14
Tasks Completed: 12/55
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 0
10.1 - Respect Your EldersRead a book first published at least 100 years ago (1923 or earlier)
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë FP Dec. 1 1847
I'm claiming a GO ticket for Agnes Grey FP 1847
Points this post: 10
Total points: 440
Tasks completed: 26
Books read: 35
BB tickets: 4
GO tickets: 3
IAF tickets: 4
Books read: 35
Mod
Option 3B: Read a book with MPG Literary Fiction, no variations.
On Chesil Beach
This has "Literary Fiction" as an MPG
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 90 + 20 = 110
Total Tasks Completed: 9
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Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
MAZZA15.2 - Queens & Kings
Read a book with the word KING or QUEEN standalone in the title or subtitle.
Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
This is non-fictioin and I am claiming an IAF ticket
points this post = 5
Points to date = 205
IAF ticket this post = 1
IAF tickets to date = 1
MAZZA15.3 - 3D View Master
Read a book which has exactly 3 letter "D"'s in the title/subtitle.
Abandoned in Death
Points this post = 5
points to date = 210
MAZZA110.2 . April Fools Day!
Read a book that has “humor” as one of the genres listed on the book’s main page.
Beard Science
Genre noted here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
points this post = 10
Points to date = 220
MAZZA110.9 - Spring into Action
Read a book with the MPG Action and/or Adventure.
Seventeen: Last Man Standing MPG Action
points this post = 10
Points to date = 230
MAZZA115.9 - The Joy of Cooking
Read a NONFICTION book with the main page genre Food, Cooking or Food and Drink
Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong
MPG food approved here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
This is a non fiction book and I am claiming 1 IAF ticket
Points this post = 15
Points to dtae = 245
IAF this post = 1
IAF total = 2
MAZZA120.7 - Shorter is Sweeter- Jen B's Task: Me Time
Option 1: Peloton
Choose ONE hashtag and read a book by an author whose initials (all of them) can be found in that hashtag.
Using #CalliesKillaCrew,
The Bad Always Die Twice Cheryl Crane
points this post = 20
Points to date = 255
MAZZA120.9 - Moderator's Pet - Florence's Task: Busy Bee
Option B: DECLUTTERING
Read a book with a 5 or "five" in the page number, title, or subtitle.
The Story of Arthur Truluv
five in page count of 253
points this post = 20
Points to date = 275
MAZZA125.5 - MEGSCL's Task: Between the Lines
The Book I finished was Emma this edition
Book 1: Read a book with a title that has a word matching a word* from the first sentence* of text.
First line = " Emma's opening sentence, which describes the titular heroine's many advantages, is loaded with foreboding."
USING the word "with"
How to Kill Men and Get Away With It
Book 2: Read a book with a title that has a word matching a word* from the last sentence* of text. Subtitles are excluded.
The last Sentence of Emma is
But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union"
USING the word Happiness
Happiness, a Mystery: And 66 Attempts to Solve It
This is non fiction and I am claiming 1 IAF ticket
points this post = 25
Points to date =300
IAF tickets this post = 1
IAF tickets to date = 3
MAZZA130.4 - TessaVanessa’s Task: New York Times Best Seller List
NB my birthday is March 1957
From week of March 3 but also in other weeks
Book 1 Peyton Place this is 696 pages and I am claiming 1 BB ticket
Book 2 Profiles in Courage this is non fiction and I am claiming 1 IAF ticket
points this post = 30
Points to date = 330
IAF tickets = 1
To date = 4
BB tickets = 1
To date = 5
MAZZA130.5 - JennRenee's Task: Spring Celebrations
Option A : March:
For this option, read a book with the genre Horror listed on the main page.
The Burning Girls genre noted here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Option B: April:
For this option, read a book with exactly two sets of consecutive double letters anywhere in the title/subtitle/authors names. The sets of letters do not need to be adjacent to each other.
Love-Lies-Bleeding Don DeLillo
double E in bleeding and double L in Author name
points this post = 30
Points to date = 360
MAZZA130.6 - Coralie's Task: Before AND or After
Read two books. The two books must have a combined total of at least 500 pages. The two books must be by different authors.
Book 1. Read a book with the word AND in the title (not the subtitle). An ampersand & is acceptable.
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen394 pages
This book was first published in 1811 I am claiming a GO ticket
Book 2. Read a book whose title (not subtitle) includes either everything that came before the AND in book 1 or everything that came after the AND.
Sense & Sensibility Joanna Trollope 368 pages
394 + 368 = 762 pages exceeding requirements
Points this post = 30
Points to date = 390
GO this post = 1
To date = 1
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Jen K's Task: Egyptian SpringOption 2: Read a book written by a single author whose initials (all initials) are made of letters without curves.
Albatross by Terry Fallis
New Points: 20
Total Points: 275
BB: 1
GO: 1
IaF: 3
Nick KY5.2 Queens and Kings I read Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life by Marshall Frady with the word "King" in the title.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 280
Nick KY30.9 Amy FL’s Farewell.
Opt. 3. Digits “3” and “7” are in the page enumeration. I read Thomas Paine -- Collected Writings Common Sense; The Crisis; Rights of Man; The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, 370 pp.
Opt. 4. Title contains the word “This” from the song lyric: “this will never end.” I read This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 277 pp.
Total pp = 647 > required 501.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 310
Kai15.10 404: File Not Found
Read a book that is NOT found on your TBR as of Feb 15, 2023.
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
Found through the 2023 Women's Prize Longlist, which was announced on March 7, 2023
New Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 5
Total Points: 75
Lisa MD10.1. Respect Your Elders
Published 1923 or earlier
☑️🦋The Awakening by Kate Chopin
272 pages
Published in 1899
I claim a GO ticket
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 115/945
Total Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 7/55
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
Non Fiction Tickets: 2
Andy P.Task # 10.6. Batter up!
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the countries listed above.
(Australia)
Exiles by Jane Harper
set entirely in Australia
Points this post: 10
Total points:205
Andy P.Task # 20.6 - It's A Fact- Angela IL's Task: Things I Love in Books!!
Option A: Mixed Media
The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead
Book given as an example in task description
Points this post: 20
Total points: 225
20.10 - Group Reads PB: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
I listened to the audiobook: Lessons in Chemistry
🍀 my reaction is in message 10 of the Group Reads discussion thread 🍀
Total points: 100 + 20 = 120
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 0 + 1 = 1
Mod
Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis / free choice
Points this post: 5
Total points: 330
Mod
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate / pg 3 #289 on list
Points this post: 10
Total points: 340
Mod
The Forever Farmhouse by Lee Tobin McClain / new-to-me book that was not on my TBR, I found it on a library visit in March
Points this post: 15
Total points: 355
Mod
Option 2-
by Tessa Bailey / flowers on cover; PB 384 pgs > 200 pgsPoints this post: 20
Total points: 375
Mod
Option 1-
Encore in Death by JD Robb / 3 word title
Option 3-
We Were Liars by E Lockhart / pg 1 #1 on list
Points this post: 25
Total points: 400
CANDY20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Jen K's Task: Egyptian Spring
Read a book of at least 200 pages that satisfies one of the following three options.
Option 1: The Nile - Read a book were all the letters in “NILE” can be found in the title. The letters do not need to be intact or consecutive.
Funeral Girl
272 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 80
Books read: 6
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Non-Fiction: 0
Tasks completed: 5
CANDY15.4 - I'm Going On An Adventure!
Option 2. Read one book that fulfills both book A and B options.
Book A: Read a book with a main page genre of Fantasy
Book B: Read a book written by an author who uses an initial in the first name position
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Golden Oldies first published in 1946
Points this post: 15
Total points: 95
Books read: 7
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 0
Non-Fiction: 0
Tasks completed: 6
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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15.2 - Earth Day
Required: State which 2 options you chose when you post.
A. Reduce: Read a book that was added to your TBR before March 1, 2022 (last year). Your To-Be-Read list may be your GR shelf, a custom GR shelf, or an off-GR list.
Required: Identify your TBR list and state the date the book was added to your list.
So Lucky by Nicola Griffith - my GR shelf - added July 14, 2019
C. Recycle: Choose option A or B again and complete it with another book. Include the required elements.
Option A repeat: Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix - my GR shelf - added Feb 3, 2021
This Task: 15 Points
To Date: 200 Points