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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2023
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Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska10.9 - The Invention of Duck Tape.
Read a book where all the letters in TAPE can be found in the title.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (435 p.) * **
*Word is 'tape'.
** MPG of 'Childrens':
IL: MG | BL: 6.7 | AR: 18.0
➸ Total Points: 100
➸ Total Pages: 3,328
VAL TX5.10 – Easy Breezy - Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
This post:
Points - 5
Total:
Points - 15
IAF Tickets - 1
20.10 Call Us What We Carry: Poems
My comment is in Msg 13 of the discussion thread
**Claiming 1 IAF point for nonfiction
Points this post: 20
Total points: 280
BB:2 GO:2 IAF:5
25.6 - JennRenee's Task: New Book DiscoveriesOption 1: found on 2023 Anticipated Books
Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire
🥳 I've read this author before, but this book was new to me. 🥳
🥳 found on p. 1 of 2023 Anticipated Books 🥳
Option 3: choose a loved book finished in 2023 & read book from readers also enjoyed section
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver **546 pages - requesting 1 BB ticket**
🥳 I've read this author before, but this book was new to me. 🥳
🥳 I found this book in the Readers Also Enjoyed section of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, which I finished reading on April 30, 2023 🥳
Total points: 175 + 25 = 200
Big Book tickets: 2 + 1 = 3
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 1
20.6 - It's A Fact- Julia103's Task: This is Jeopardy!Option 2:
Read a book from the list A Book By a Trans or Non-Binary Author
Cemetery Boys (page 1)
Total Points: 130
MaryPDX20.2 Rookie at the Top: EmilyGraceR's: Jack of All Trades
**Big Book (774 pages). Claiming 2 BB tickets.**
Option 1: Find a book that you have previously read with the MPG Youth, Teen or Young Adult, and read any other book by the same author.
Original book: A Court of Frost and Starlight Sarah J. Maas
Book read for task: A Court of Silver Flames Sarah J. Maas
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 2
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 125
Books Read: 8
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 2
IAF Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 7
Nick KY15.1 Ship of Two Halves
Book 1. Opt. B. Part of a Duology. I read All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace.
Book 2. Opt. C. Author uses a pseudonym. I read The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald, the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar.
Points This Post: 15
Total points So Far: 340
JEN B5.10 – Easy Breezy
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
TOTAL POINTS: 270
Andy P.Task # 25.1 - Nick KY’s Task: Suddenly, Last Summer.
Opt. 1. Last Summer’s Banff Mountain Book Awards
> Read a book with a title/subtitle word from the above books.
Fox,
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin
Opt. 2. Last Summer’s Interviews:
A. Read a book featured with a picture in any of the following GR Interviews from Last Summer
Blake Crouch Interview
by Blake CrouchPoints this post: 25
Total points: 300
trishhartuk30.3 Katrisa Task: The Game is Afoot!
Option 1: The Original.
A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB (Portuguese): here (119pg); Top MMPB (English): here (160pg)
Page 1, #1 in the list
Golden Oldie: First published in 1887
Option 3: My Favorite Sherlock Shows. Option C: ALL of the author’s initials in ROBERT DOWNEY JR. JUDE LAW.
The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien (416pg)
J in Jr; Rs & T in RobeRT
Total pages: 119 + 416 = 535pg (using Portuguese MMPB) or 160 + 416 = 576pg (using the first English MMPB)
Both total more than 500pg
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie: 1 – A Study in Scarlet was first published in 1887
Total Points: 180
Tasks Completed: 13
It’s a Fact Tickets: 2
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Kathy KS**UNCLAIM!!** Stats adjusted below.
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Paula S's Task: (Mid)summer in Sweden
Option 3: Read a book whose title (not subtitle) contains a word of 4 or more letters made from the letters in INDUSTRISEMESTERN. Letters may only be used as often as they appear.
The Transcendental Murder by Jane Langton
MURDER=inDUstRiseMestERn
I listened to an audiobook; mmpb-255 p. (The Minuteman Murder)
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Points for this task: 0
Total points : 135-20=115
Tasks completed: 7/52-1=6/52
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
Kathy KS20.4 - Golden Oldies - Paula S's Task: (Mid)summer in Sweden
Option 2: Read a book written by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in PICKLEDHERRING.
Mage's Blood by David Hair
DH=pickleDHerring
I read as an ebook; mmpb-704 p.
**Claiming 1 (one) Big Book ticket** Pages: 704
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 135
Tasks completed: 7/52
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
25.1 - Nick KY’s Task: Suddenly, Last Summer.Option 1: Read a book with a title/subtitle word from the above books.The word I chose was HEART
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Option 3: Read a book with at least two sets of consecutive double consonants in the title/subtitle/author’s name.
Happiness by Will Ferguson
has double PP/SS/LL
New Points: 25
Total Points: 160
BB: 3
IaF: 1
Susan A5.5 Pack your trunk!
Read a book with an elephant on the cover
The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown
I listened to audiobook, no MMPB, paperback HERE
How it fits:
current points: 695
points this task: 5
total points: 695 + 5 = 700
Susan A10.5 Long Summer Days
Read a book with a title with at least 5 words
How to Save a Human]
I listened to audiobook, no MMPB, paperback HERE
How it fits:
5 words in title
How - 1
to - 2
Save - 3
a - 4
Human - 5
current points: 700
points this task: 10
total points: 700 + 10 = 710
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Read a book with an elephant on the cover
points this task: 5
total points: 270
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Read a book with MPG Gay, Lesbian, LGBT/LGBTQ+, Queer, Bisexual or Transgender
Ride or Die
Genres
Young Adult
Mystery
Contemporary
Thriller
Romance
Mystery Thriller
Fiction
LGBT
Queer
Young Adult Contemporary
points this post: 5
total points: 275
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Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
read Four Found Dead
points this post: 5
total points 280
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Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Bikini
End of Storyby Kylie Scott
points this post :10
total points: 290
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Read a book by an author whose initials (in order) match one of these airport codes. IATA's official search function for airport codes
Sweetpea by by C.J. Skuse
airport code is CJS – Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
points this post 15
total points 305
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No children's books. Your book must be at least 250 pages
option 1
Read a book that has at least 2 of the following numbers in it's page count: 0, 1, 2, 4, 5.
Good as Dead
271 pages
points this post: 20
total points 325
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option 4: Read a book with "gold" or golden" in the title. Words must match exactly.
read Darling Rose Gold
points this post :20
total points : 345
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option 1 . Anticipated Books
For this task read a book on either one of these lists.
2023 Anticipated Books pg 3
read Lying in the Deep
and
option 3. Readers Also enjoyed
For this task choose a loved book you finished this year (2023) and go to the readers also enjoyed section on the main page. Choose a book to read from that list.
used book The Block Party
read book Gone Tonight
points this post: 25
total points- 370
DOM15.8 Happy Birthday, NHS!
Read a book featuring a main character who works in a professional health or social care role (e.g. a doctor, therapist, surgeon, midwife, paramedic etc.).
The Swift and the Harrier by Minette Walters
The main character Jayne Swift is a physician.
From the book blurb,"Jayne Swift, a daughter of the Dorset gentry, has resisted all offers of marriage and instead trained as a physician, using her skills to tend to her Royalist father's tenants and the local population."
I claim one big book ticket.
Hardcover version of this book is 512 pages
Points this Task: 15
Total Points: 165
Books Read: 11
Big Books Tickets: 1
10.2 Mai Tai Two-word title, each word consisting of the same number of letters: Small World by Laura Zigman
Points this post: 10
Total points: 275
15.3 Fun in the MudOption 1A, author name part matches part of a headlining Glastonbury act: Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Headlining act: Curtis Mayfield 1983
Option 1B, word in title matches part of the name of a headlining Glastonbury act: The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
Headlining act: Muse 2004
Points this post: 15
Total points: 290
20.10 - Group ReadsCall Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
Discussion post #12
Points this post: 20
Total points: 310
30.3 Katrisa Task: The Game is Afoot!Option 2: Continuing Sherlock
page 1
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (Arsène Lupin #2) by Maurice Leblanc
282 pages
Option 3: My Favorite Sherlock Shows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_L...
Cast The First Stone (Detective Mike Croft #2) by Jane A. Adams
word in title, STONE, match tv title, Eli STONE
304 pages
Total pages read: 586
Total this Post: 30
Season Total: 430
Jayme(the ghostreader)10.5 Long Summer Days
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
At least 5 words in the title
Task +10
Grand Total: 60
5.3 Long Play or single?August 12th is National Vinyl Record Day & the 1940s saw the launch of both the LP 33rpm & the "single" 45rpm vinyl discs.
Read a book where the authors initials (first & last) are found in “VINYL RECORD”
I read The Measure by Nikki Erlick whose initials can be found in viNyl rEcord
points: 70
books read: 5
tasks completed: 4
pages read: 1682
delicious dee10.4 Summer Songs of the 40's
Blue Smoke - SMOKE
Points This Post: 10
Points Total: 335
Its a Fact: 4
Big Book Ticket: 1
Bookwrm526Task #25.1 - Suddenly, Last Summer.
Read a book with a title/subtitle word from the above books. Only the following words and their singulars, plurals, and possessives are accepted: Fox, Glencoe, Northern, Light, Power, Land, Memory, Water, Valley, Giants, Stories, Women, Heart, Yosemite, Climbing, Native, Air, Year, Woods, Twelve, Small, Journeys, Into, Nature.
I chose the word STORIES and read Not So Stories, edited by David Thomas Moore.
Option 3: Read a book with at least two sets of consecutive double consonants in the title/subtitle/author’s name. I read An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera (SS in PRINCESS and RR from Herrera).
Total points so far: 190
5.8 We all scream for Ice Cream
The Mercy Paperspopsicle on cover
Previous Points: 35
This Post 5
Total Points 40
10.1 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie It's a BikiniRead a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Bikini
Anneler (The Mothers) by Brit Bennett 6/3/23
Points Earned This Post: 10
Points Earned Previously: 0
Total Points Earned: 10
15.7 The International Court of Justice1946 saw the inaugural session of the International Court of Justice at the Hague. Since then, it has seen over 100 judges representing 52 countries. The current sitting judges come from the USA, Russia, Slovakia, France, Morocco, Somalia, China, Uganda, India, Jamaica, Lebanon, Japan, Germany, Australia and Brazil.
Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries.
Zorbaların Elinde (The Violent Bear It Away) by Flannery O'Connor 6/4/23
100% of the book is set in the USA.
Points Earned This Post: 15
Points Earned Previously: 10
Total Points Earned: 25
20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's task: The Number 40Option 1: Read a book that has at least 2 of the following numbers in it's page count: 0, 1, 2, 4, 5. The two digits you use must be different (i.e. you cannot use 300, with 0 appearing twice):
A Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska 6/13/23 (428 pages)
Points Earned This Post: 20
Points Earned Previously: 25
Total Points Earned: 45
Julia10325.4 Delicious Dee's Task: From Series Name to Author Name
Book A: Defending Britta Stein (Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart #6)
Book B: The Book Lover's Bucket List: A Tour of Great British Literature by Caroline Taggart
This is non-fiction, so claiming one It's A Fact ticket.
The shared name is Taggart (character Liam Taggart). Author Caroline Taggart is new to me.
This post: 25 points, 1 NF
Total points: 245
BB: 6
GO: 1
NF: 2
Tasks completed: 16
Total books read: 21
5.6 Something to be proud ofJune is pride month in the USA & UK
Read a book with MPG Gay, Lesbian, LGBT/LGBTQ+, Queer, Bisexual or Transgender
Cennet Çürüdü (Paradise Rot) by Jenny Hval 6/26/23
Points Earned This Post: 5
Points Earned Previously: 45
Total Points Earned: 50
5.10 – Easy BreezyRead a book of your choice 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
İçerinin Haritası (Mapping the Interior) by Stephen Graham Jones 6/18/23
Points Earned This Post: 5
Points Earned Previously: 50
Total Points Earned: 55
15.10 Found in TranslationThe United Nations was founded following the end of the Second World War, with a view to preventing future world wars. To date, 193 countries are party to the UN Charter – almost all of the world’s sovereign states.
The UN works in six official languages – English, Chinese, French, Russian, Arabic and Spanish. Read a book which was originally written in one of these six languages, excluding your native language(s) - i.e. if your native language is English, choose from Chinese, French, Russian, Arabic or Spanish; if your native language is Spanish, choose from Chinese, English, Arabic, Russian or French.
Required: State the language the book was originally published in and your native language(s). If the original publication language is not evident from the GR record, provide a reference.
Yangında Kaybettiklerimiz (The Things We Lost in the Fire) by Mariana Enríquez 6/21/23
Original publication language: Spanish
My native language: Turkish
Points Earned This Post: 15
Points Earned Previously: 55
Total Points Earned: 70
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes- Lauren Jodi's task: Lost CitiesMy lifelong fascination with the folklore of various cultures began when my mother gifted me a book of Greek myths. As an educator, I am also able to share my love of these tales with my students. One topic that is always popular in class is that of lost cities, i.e., cities that once existed and subsequently disappeared. They can be classified into two types: Ones that have been rediscovered, such as Troy, Pompeii and Xanadu, and those that have remained shrouded in mystery like Atlantis, El Dorado and Shangri-La. This task is dedicated to some of these lost cities.
This is a one book task, choose an option and read one book for that option.
REQUIRED: State the option you chose when posting.
Option 1: TROY
Read a book set at least 50% in Greece or Turkey.
Kuş Diline Öykünen (Google translation of the title: Emulating Bird Language) by Ayşegül Devecioğlu 7/4/23
All of the book is set in Istanbul, Turkey.
Points Earned This Post: 20
Points Earned Previously: 70
Total Points Earned: 90
Julia10325.6 JennRenee's Task: New Book Discoveries
Option 1: The Game Is a Footnote
This is on page 8 of the 2023 list
Option 2: An Affair of Spies by Ronald H. Balson
I first read this author in June 2023 with Defending Britta Stein.
An Affair of Spies is not in the same series.
This post: 25 points
Total points: 270
BB: 6
GO: 1
NF: 2
Tasks completed: 17
Total books read: 23
10.4 Summer Songs of the 40'sRead a book with a word in the title or subtitle of at least 4 letters from one of these summer hits. Words must be exact for the exception of Wood-Pecker- the hyphen can be ignored.
1940: I’ll Never Smile Again
1941: Daddy
1942: Jingle Jangle Jingle
1943: You’ll Never Know
1944: Swinging On A Star
1945: Sentimental Journey
1946: the Gypsy
1947: Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (The Cigarette)
1948: Woody Wood-Pecker
1949: Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend
Required: State the Word
Teasing Annie (The Temptation Saga, #2) by Helen Hardt 6/24/23
TeaSING vs. 1944: SwingING On A Star
Points Earned This Post: 10
Points Earned Previously: 90
Total Points Earned: 100
10.10 Summer of the Flying SaucerThe Roswell Incident of 1947 was born when a local rancher claimed to have found a flying saucer in his field in Roswell. Since then there has many books, movies, stories, and debates concerning UFOS and Aliens.
Read a book with genre Science Fiction or Science Fiction Fantasy
Zaman Makinesi (The Time Machine) by H.G. Wells 6/26/23
Points Earned This Post: 10
Points Earned Previously: 100
Total Points Earned: 110
10.1 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie It's a BikiniOaths of Legacy by Emily Skrutskie
E and S are in Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Bikini
Previous Points: 45
This Post 10
Total Points 55
10.4 Summer Songs of the 40'sRiders of the Dawn
The word Riders is in the song 1949: Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend
Previous Points: 55
This Post 10
Total Points 65
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10.5 Long Summer Days
Read a book with a title with at least 5 words.
How to Examine a Wolverine: More Tales from the Accidental Veterinarian by Philipp Schott
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total: 40
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books: 3