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SPRING CHALLENGE 2023
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20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Jen B's Task: Me TimeOption 1: author's initials in #CalliesKillaCrew
PB: A Darkness Absolute by Kelley Armstrong
I read the Kindle edition: A Darkness Absolute
🍀 author's initials (KA) in #CalliesKillACrew 🍀
Total points: 475 + 20 = 495
Big Book tickets: 5
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 2
15. 2 - Earth DayA. Reduce: Read a book that was added to your TBR before March 1, 2022 (last year).
I added this book to my GR TBR on January 1, 2019
The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
B. Reuse: Read a book by an author you have read before. The book may be a reread or a new-to-you book.
I have read Gerald Durrell before
The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 240
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Florence's Task: Busy BeeOption B: DECLUTTERING
Read a book with a 5 or "five" in the page number, title, or subtitle.
355 Pages
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 260
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Jen K's Task: Egyptian Spring📖📖📖 page count must be 200 pages 📖📖📖
Option 2: single author whose initials (all initials) are made of letters without curves
PB (no MMPB): Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
***NF - requesting 1 It's a Fact ticket***
📖 242 pages 📖
I listened to the audiobook: Crying in H Mart
🐣 author's initials (MZ) made up of letters without curves 🐣
Total points: 495 + 20 = 515
Big Book tickets: 5
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 2 +1 = 3
25.3 - Chris MD's Task: 1930s Lit and ListsOption 1: Best Books of the 1930s - There are so many good books to choose from.
Read a book from the the list Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
Page 4 on the list:
The Years by Virginia Woolf
Option 2: It’s Almost Like Being There -
Read a book set more than 75% during the 1930s.
Set in 1939
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 285
30.8 - Kaora's Task: Chicken KatsuOption 1. Shiba Inu means "Brushwood Dog", as it is used to flush game. Read a book that has all the letters SHIBA in the title and/or subtitle.
HAngman'S BeautIful
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb
Option 2. Read a book that has a cover that is at least 50% red or 50% black according to Tineye:
69.9 %#cc393dRed
Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo AndrićTask Total: 30
Season Total: 315
25.2 - Robin P's Task: An Ode to Chocolate1. 3 Musketeers: title of exactly 3 words
Desperation in Death by J.D. Robb
2. M & M: author’s full name (as listed on Goodreads) has exactly 2 M’s
PB: Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
I listened to the audiobook: Heroine
Total points: 515 + 25 = 540
Big Book tickets: 5
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 3
Lisa MD5.7 - Who’s Behind Those Foster Grants?
Sunglasses on cover
Sunburn by Laura Lippman
310 pages
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 725/945
Total Books Read: 59
Tasks Completed: 44/55
Big Book Tickets: 6
Golden Oldies Tickets: 3
Non Fiction Tickets: 16
LAUREN JODI5.1 - Flying High
Tactical Strike by Kaylea Cross\
Confirmed for length in post #34 of the new ebook verification thread.
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 755/945
Golden Oldies Ticket: 4
It's A Fact Ticket: 2
Big Book Ticket: 1
Total Books Read: 57
Total Tasks Completed: 46/55
Mod
Read a book from the first 25 pages of this list: Stories for Book Lovers
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo page 19
points this post: 10
total points 740
Mod
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the states set along the Oregon Trail: Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
read Girl Forgotten takes place in Oregon
points this post- 15
total points -755
Mod
Book 1: Read a book with a title that has a word matching a word* from the first sentence* of text. Subtitles are excluded, of the last book read...
Book used Finnikin of the Rock
first sentence - A long time ago, in the spring before the five days of the unspeakable Finnikin of the Rock dreamed that he was to sacrifice a pound of flesh to save the royal house of Lumatere
read The House Across the Lake
last sentence: "take me home."
read Take Me Home Tonight
points this post-25
total points - 780
Amy FL10.7. Avengers Assemble!
The Secret To Superhuman Strength - MPG Graphic Novels
Points this post: 10
Total points: 865
Amy FL20.10 - Group Reads
Nonfiction - Animals - An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us - my review
Points this post: 20
Total points: 885
Amy FL25.5 - MEGSCL's Task: Between the Lines
I had already returned my book to the library (new release audiobook with a LOT of people on hold), so I used her example: The 52-Storey Treehouse.
First sentence: Hi, my name is Andy. This is my friend Terry.
Book 1: Before You Knew My Name - NAME
Last sentence: One 65-storey treehouse with a pet-grooming salon and a birthday room coming right up!' I say.
Book 2: West with Giraffes - WITH
Points this post: 25
Total points: 910
25.1 Adulting SuxOption 2 - Best American Sports Writing 2020 by Glenn Stout
Option 3 - The Gown by Jennifer Robson
The word is Gown
Best American Sports Writing is NF. I'd like an It's A Fact Ticket.
Post Total: 25
Grand Total: 300
25.3 1930s Lit and ListOption 2 - Euphoria by Lily King
Option 3 - Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
This is on page 3 of the list.
Post Total: 25
Grand Total: 325
Mod
option 2 Read a book with a major plot arc/subject where someone is missing
read Unspeakable Things
approved in message 34
points this post : 20
total points 800
Mod
Choose ONE hashtag and read a book by an author whose initials (all of them) can be found in that hashtag.
used #RKSolidCrew
read Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead by Elle Cosimano
points this post 20
total points 820
EMILYGRACER15.2 Earth Day
Option A: I read a book that has been on my goodreads TBR since 2015, I added it after WhittyNovels reviewed it eight years ago. That book was Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. The activity status on this book on my profile shows that I added this book to my want to read list eight years ago.
Option B: A book by an author whos previous book(s) I have read and loved- I have read everything in Taylor Jenkins Reids backlog except for the book that I read, After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I have read all of her other books.
Points in this post: 15
Points in total: 695
Task completed: 37/55
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 3
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 14
EMILYGRACER20.4 THE QUEEN OF CRIME
OPTION 3, PAGE 1
I read It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
Points in this post: 20
Points in total: 715
Task completed: 38/55
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 3
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 14
EMILYGRACER20.6 THINGS I LOVE IN BOOKS
Option C page 3
I read Still Alice byLisa Genova
Points in this post: 20
Points in total: 735
Task completed: 39/55
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 3
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 14
Mod
option 1
Read a book with teeth (human or animal) on cover
read
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option 3
Read a book with a word in title that is an item of clothing from this list: https://www.enchantedlearning.com/wor...
chose word dress
Murder Wears a Little Black Dress
points this post 25
total points 845
Amy B50.1 - Lisa MD's Task: The Mod Squad
This is a 3-book task. Complete 3 different options from the list. Books must total 750 pages or more - 792 pp total
No books with children, kids or related genres on the main book page may be used. No graphic novel, sequential art or related genres may be used.
Required: Identify the options.
Option 2: Read a book whose author’s first or last name shares one of these initials with our mods, “D, S, K, J or L.”
The Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak (240 pp)
Option 3: Read a book whose title or subtitle contains a word of 4 or more letters made from the letter combo of our founding mods names: (DLMRoseSandyKristina) OR the letter combo of our incoming mods names: (JayneJennReneeLucy-Bookworm.) Letters can only be used as often as they appear in mod name combo.
Required: Identify which name combo and word used.
Born With A Tooth by Joseph Boyden (256 pp) - Born in JayneJennReneeLucy-Bookworm
Option 5: Take a page out of our Mod Squads bookshelf. Choose any mod and read a book that she rated 4 or 5 stars.
Required: Identify the mod and rating in your post.
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson (Dimrose rated 5 stars) (296 pp)
This Task: 50 Points
To Date: 605 Points
StaceyNC15.10- 404: File Not Found
Read a book that is NOT found on your TBR as of Feb 15, 2023.
Book: Three Bells, Two Bows and One Brother's Best Friend
Completed: 5/21/23
How I found it: The first book in this series was on a GR list for a challenge to read in another group, and I was interested in the brother's story.
Added to TBR 5/20/23
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 380
Tasks Completed: 23
Bookwrm526Task #30.7 - Momentous Places
Option 1: Read a book that is set at least 80% in India, or the author was born in India. I read Murder at the Grand Raj Palace by Vaseem Khan, set in India (368p).
Option 3: Read a book that is set at least 80% in Canada, or the author was born in Canada. I read A Deadly Divide by Ausma Zehanat Khan, set in Canada (384p).
368+384=752 pages
Total pages so far: 690
Julia1035.9 - Do Not Adjust Your Set
Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo (initials LC in MITCHELL)
This post: 5 points
Total points: 735
BB: 4
GO: 2
NF: 7
Tasks completed: 41
Total books read: 53
5.10 - Spring, Just Do Your ThingRead a book that meets SRC rules.
Usagi Yojimbo: Tengu War!
Points for this task: 5
Total points : 300
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 11
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
10.2 . April Fools Day!Read a book that has “humor” as one of the genres listed on the book’s main page.
In.
Points for this task: 10
Total points : 310
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 11
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
Lisa MD25.5 - MEGSCL's Task: Between the Lines
Last Book: Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama by Bob Odenkirk
1st Line: How does one begin a book?
Last Line: As Del triumphantly shouted at me through a cloud of marijuana smoke on that arctic Chicago day in 1983, "Signs and portents in the sky! Eclipses of the moon and fireworks!"
Book 1: TITLE word matching a word* from the first line of text.
🦋The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
416 pages
Matching Word: book
Book 2:TITLE word matching a word* from the last line of text.
🦋On the Night of the Seventh Moon by Victoria Holt
352 pages
Matching Word: moon
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 750/945
Total Books Read: 61
Tasks Completed: 45/55
Big Book Tickets: 6
Golden Oldies Tickets: 3
Non Fiction Tickets: 16
Inge25.5 - MEGSCL's Task: Between the Lines
book: De nachtegaal - Kristin Hannah
First sentence: Als ik een ding in mijn lange leven heb geleerd is het it: in de liefde ontdekken we wie we willen zijn: in de oorlog ontdekken we wie we zijn.
last sentence: Wij blijven bestaan.
book 1: matching word with first sentence:
Meisjes in de oorlog
word: oorlog
book 2: matching word with last sentence
Daar praten wij niet over
word: wij
Total points this task: 25
total points: 475
unclaim5.10 - Spring, Just Do Your Thing
Read a book that meets SRC rules.
Usagi Yojimbo: Tengu War!
Total points : 310-5=305
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 11
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
unclaim15.2 - Earth Day
A. Reduce: Read a book that was added to your TBR before March 1, 2022
Steppenwolf
added May 07, 2017 in "Want-to-read"
unclaiming a golden oldie. published in 1927
B. Reuse: Read a book by an author you have read before.
Somebody at the Door by Raymond W. Postgate
previous book read by the same author : Verdict of Twelve
unclaiming a golden oldie. published in 1943
Total points : 305-15=290
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: -2
Golden Oldies tickets total:9
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
unclaim20.9 - 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.
Castle Waiting (Castle Waiting
458 pages
Total points : 290-20=270
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 9
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Florence's Task: Busy BeeOption B: DECLUTTERING
Read a book with a 5 or "five" in the page number, title, or subtitle
Somebody at the Door
254 pages
claiming a golden oldie. published in 1943
Points for this task: 20
Total points : 290
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 1
Golden Oldies tickets total: 10
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
15.3 - Someday My Prince Will ComeBook A. Read a book whose title contains a word from the lyrics to “Someday My Prince Will Come.”
Can I Go There?
word : go
claiming a golden oldie. published in 1945
Book B. Read a book that is a whole-numbered book in a series from #1 - #7.
Castle Waiting, Vol. 1
Points for this task: 15
Total points : 305
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 1
Golden Oldies tickets total: 11
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
15.2 - Earth DayA. Reduce: Read a book that was added to your TBR before March 1, 2022 (last year).
Steppenwolf
added May 07, 2017 in "Want-to-read"
claiming a golden oldie. published in 1927
B. Reuse: Read a book by an author you have read before.
Usagi Yojimbo: Tengu War!
book previously read by the same writer Usagi Yojimbo: Homecoming
Points for this task: 15
Total points : 320
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 1
Golden Oldies tickets total: 12
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
5.10 - Spring, Just Do Your ThingRead a book that meets SRC rules.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Master's Choice, Book 2
Points for this task: 5
Total points : 325
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 12
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
15.9 - The Joy of CookingRead a NONFICTION book with the main page genre Food, Cooking or Food and Drink
Salt: A World History
claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket
Points for this task: 15
Total points : 340
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 12
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 1
It's a Fact tickets total: 3
trishhartuk5.3 3D View Master
Read a book which has exactly 3 letter "D"'s in the title/subtitle.
fictional lonDon: a GuiDe to the capital’s literary lanDmarks, Stephen Halliday
It’s a Fact: MPGs include Nonfiction and Travel
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
It’s a Fact: 1 – Fictional London is Nonfiction
Total Points: 555
Tasks Completed: 32
It’s a Fact Tickets: 5
25.4 - Delicious Dee's Task: Ted Lasso!Option 2, Tails — Season 2
Book 1, author shares the name of one of the main characters in Ted Lasso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Las...
About That Night by Julie James
The character is James Lance.
Book 2, a word from a season two episode title appears in the book title https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Las...
Summer at Lavender Bay by Sarah Bennett (Lavender Bay #2)
The word is Lavender.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 640
Deborah5.1 - Flying High
Flying Too HighPoints this post:5
Total Points: 390
Books Read:29
Tasks Done: 20
30.5 - JennRenee's Task: Spring CelebrationsOption B, exactly two sets of consecutive double letters in title/subtitle/author's name: Gone Like Yesterday by Janelle M. Williams
Option C, a book from Most Interesting World list p. 4 #355: Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
Points this post: 30
Total points: 670
JUKKAReposting for the BB ticket.
50.1 - The Mod Squad
Option 2: Book by an author with an initial D, S, K, J or L.
Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies. Read as part of the Salterton Trilogy Omnibus.
Option 4: Book set at least 50% in Virginia, Texas, Florida, New Jersey, or the United Kingdom.
Babel by R.F. Kuang is mostly set in the UK. It also clocks in at over 546 pages for one Big Book ticket.
Option 5: Book rated at four or five stars by a mod.
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Rated at five stars by Sandy.
Total Points: 400/945
Total Books Read: 37
Tasks Completed: 30/55
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 2
It's a Fact Total: 2
Task: 20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Jen K's Task: Egyptian SpringOption: 3: Religion.[a word in the title or subtitle of at least 4 letters/characters that can be made using only the letters found in either "Coptic Easter" or "Eid al-Fitr"]
Book read: Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean [336/200 pages]
Required: AFTER in Eid-Al-FiTR
Points this task:20
Total points:90
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:0
Books read:5
Tasks completed:5
Task:20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Nancy J's Task: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-ChangesOption:3b-MPG Literary Fiction
Book read: Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
Required: mpg literary fiction present
Points this task:20
Total points:110
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:0
Books read:6
Tasks completed:6
Task: 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter- Jen B's Task: Me TimeOption: 1-Choose ONE hashtag and read a book by an author whose initials (all of them) can be found in that hashtag.
Book read: Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders-Ransom Riggs
Required: hashtag = #RKSolidCrew
Initials RR in RksolidcRew
Points this task:20
Total points:130
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:0
Books read:7
Tasks completed:7
Task: 15.10- 404: File Not Found [a book that is NOT found on your TBR as of Feb 15, 2023. Find a new-to-you book from any other source]Book read: The Quarantine Princess Diaries- Meg Cabot
Required: this is new to me, this was not on my TBR, I found it browsing through my library!
Points this task:15
Total points:145
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:0
Books read:8
Tasks completed:8
Task: 15.3 - Someday My Prince Will Come Option: Option 2- Read one book that fulfills both book A and B options
Book read: The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
Required:
A- a word from the lyrics of someday my prince will come "When THE prince OF my dreams comes to me" The and Of match THE upside OF unrequited
B- a whole-numbered book in a series from #1 - #7. The upside of unrequited is Simonverse #2
Points this task:15
Total points:160
Total Golden Oldies:1
Total Big Books:0
Total It’s A Fact:0
Books read:9
Tasks completed:9
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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Read a book with the MPG Action and/or Adventure.
Adventure on main page
Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 225