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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2023
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25.4 Delicious Dee's Task: From Series Name to Author NameFor this task – you will read 2 books – one from Book A and one from Book B. The books MUST have a combined minimum page count of 501 pages and Book B MUST be a new-to-you author.
Book A Read a book that has a characters name(s) in the series title
The Turquoise Shop-Frances Crane
Pat and Jean Abbot Mysteries
Claiming The Turquoise Shop as Goldie Oldie as it was published in 1941
Book B Read a book by a single author where the author’s name (first or last) matches EXACTLY in both spelling and position, the character name for book A.
Whiskey and Gumdrops-Jean Oram
The character name that I am using is "Jean" and Jean Oram is a new to me author
Points for this task: 25
Total points:550/845
Tasks completed: 29/52
Big Book tickets total: 2
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
It's a Fact Tickets total:
Delicious Dee5.9 Summer adventures
She Who Became the Sun
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 395
Its a Fact: 4
Big Book Ticket: 1
Delicious Dee25.2 Robin P’s Task: Casablanca!
Option 2 - Children of the Street - set in Ghana
Option 3 - Fugitive Telemetry - found on pg2
Points This Post: 25
Points Total: 420
Its a Fact: 4
Big Book Ticket: 1
10.9 The Invention of Duck TapePulled by the Tail
The letters T A P and E are in the title
Previous Points: 135
This Post 10
Total Points 145
15.1 A Ship of Two HalvesA) The Mad Ship
This book is set more than 50% on ships
B) We Hunt the Flame
This book is part of a duology
Previous Points: 145
This Post 15
Total Points 160
20.10 - Group ReadsSea of Tranquility
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Previous Points: 160
This Post 20
Total Points 180
DOM20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Maria Jo's Task: Wedding Time
Option 3:
Read a book first published between June 10, 2022 and June 10, 2023 (inclusive).
Into the Night by Fleur McDonald
This book was first published 4 April 2023, which is between the required dates.
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 265
Books Read: 17
Big Book Tickets: 2
It's a Fact Ticket: 1
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Tammy AZ Task: The Compelling and Delights of TravelOption 2: Read a book where the author initials can be found in ROBERT PLANT
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Total Points: 150
Delicious Dee15.10 Found in Translation
We - first published in Russia, my primary language is English; claiming golden oldies, book first published in 1924
Points This Post: 15
Points Total: 435
Its a Fact: 4
Big Book Ticket: 1
Golden Oldie: 1
Task 10.4 - Summer Songs of the 40'sNEVER in title
I Who Have Never Known Men
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650 points
9 BB tix
3 GO tix
Task 20.4 - (Mid)summer in Swedenoption 3: MISS in title can be made from phrase
Miss Marple's Final Cases
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670 points
9 BB tix
3 GO tix
Task 50.1 - Vacation Time!750+ pages
book 1, option 1: set in my country - UK
Marple: Twelve New Stories
set in UK (75%) - mostly Miss Marple's village of St Mary Mead, but also London
384 pages
book 2, option 2: set in a different continent
Season of Migration to the North
set in Sudan, Africa
192 pages
book 3: set somewhere I want to visit, but haven't
This Thing of Darkness
set in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (60%) - a completely different place that I would love to go, but haven't
875 pages - claiming 2 BB tix
875 + 192 + 384 >> 750 pages
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720 points
11 BB tix
3 GO tix
Amy FL5.8 We all scream for Ice Cream
- approved in message 2Points this post: 5
Total points: 445
Andy PTask # 15.9 Fire Up The BBQ
Read a book with the letters BBQ found in any combination of title, subtitle and/or author’s name.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
2 "B"'s in author's name/or Bell and Butterfly, Q in author's name
Points this post: 15
Total points: 470
Amy FL10.5 Long Summer Days
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Points this post: 10
Total points: 455
20.1 Reading in the 1940'sOpt 3 4 letter word in title made from NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR READING TASTES
The Lost Book of the Grail- LOST
L,O - apOLogize
S,T- taSTes
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 215
20.5 Delights of TravelOpt 2 - auth initials in ROBERT PLANT
Murder at Queen's Landing by Andrea Penrose
A,P in PlAnt
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 235
Amy FL20.1 Most Improved - Kathy KS’ Task: Pleasure Reading in the 1940s
Option 3: Free Fire - FREE is in nEvER...For
Points this post 20
Total points: 475
20.6 JeopardyOpt 2 Read a book by an author whose first or last name matches the first or last name of any of these contestants or host.
Tales from the Back Row: An Outsider's View from Inside the Fashion Industry by Amy Odell
Contestant matched Amy Schneider
*Claiming It's a Fact Ticket
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 255
Amy FL25.2 Robin P’s Task: Casablanca!
Option 1: I Will Find You - WILL is in WeLL...parIs
Option 2: When Morning Comes - set in South Africa (Johannesburg mentioned in description)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 500
25.4 From Series Name to Author Name >501 pages and Book B MUST be a new-to-you author.Book A Read a book that has a characters name(s) in the series title – you may read any book in the series, but it must have at least 3 published books.
Key Lime Pie Murder Hannah Swenson #9- 342 pgs
Book B -Read a book by a single author where the author’s name (first or last) matches EXACTLY in both spelling and position, the character name for book A.
Required: state the character name you are using and that the author is new-to-you.
Death at High Tide by Hannah Dennison- 304 pgs
Hannah Dennison is a new to me author
Hannah is the name matched
342+304=646 pgs
Points: 25
Total/challenge: 280
15.5 Come Fly With MeBook: Mary Jane
How it fits: written by Jessica Anya Blau, JAB is the airport code of Jabiru
Points: 15
Total points: 135
25.7 I’ve Got Sand Between My ToesOption 1: Read a book by an author whose first and last initial can be found in ASSATEAGUE ISLAND / OCMD.
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
E,S in AsSatEague
Opt 3- 4 letter word in title made from HAPPIER THAN A SEAGULL WITH A FRENCH FRY.
The Mystery of Three Quarters - THREE
T,H - THan
R,E - happiER
E - frEnch
Points: 25
Total/challenge: 305
Amy FL30.4 - Wayne's Task: I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Option 2: Kulti by Mariana Zapata - TARZAN in mARiANa ZapaTa
Option 3: While Drowning in the Desert - MPG Humor
Points this post: 30
Total points: 530
30.3 The Game is Afoot >500 pgOpt 2 Book from List Beyond Conan Doyles #14
Italian Secretary, The: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes - 263 pgs
Opt 3C Read a book where the ALL of the author’s initials can be found in ROBERT DOWNEY JR. JUDE LAW.
The Choice by Nora Roberts- 438 pgs
N,R in Robert dowNey jr
263+438 = 701 pgs
Points: 30
Total/challenge: 335
Barbara ★25.1 - Nick KY’s Task: Suddenly, Last Summer
Opt. 2. Last Summer’s Interviews:
B. Read any single author book by any of the five authors interviewed.
Eerie - Blake Crouch 7/22
Blake Crouch Interview: https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/...
Opt. 3. Suddenly, Last Summer
Read a book with at least two sets of consecutive double consonants in the title/subtitle/author’s name.
A Curious Beginning - Deanna Raybourn 6/6
(double N in begiNNing and in deaNNa)
Points this task: 25
Total points: 365
Big Book Tickets: 500 (2) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
EMILYGRACER25.6 New book discoveries
From option 1, 2023 most anticipated reads list, page 1 I read Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
From option 3, earlier this year I read Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow and in the books reccommended on the same page I decided to read If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin
Points for this task: 25
Points total: 340
Task Completed: 22/55
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
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: 12
EMILYGRACER**I am claiming one Its a fact ticket for this task for reading Spare**
25.7 I've got sand between my toes
Option 1: From the phrase ASSATEAGUE ISLAND / OCMD I read a book by an author whose initials could be found within that phrase, with The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith
Option 3: I read a book with a word more than four letters that could be made using the letters within the phrase HAPPIER THAN A SEAGULL WITH A FRENCH FRY and read Spare by Prince Harry
Points for this task: 25
Points total: 365
Task Completed: 23/55
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
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: 1
It's a Fact tickets total: 13
Mod
Aimee GTask 10.1 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie It's a Bikini
Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Bikini
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
IB - itsy bitsy
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Points this task: 10
Total points: 160
MaryPDX20.10 Group Reads
**1 Golden Oldie**
My Man Jeeves
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 180
Books Read: 13
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket: 4
IAF Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 11
My Comment
15.4 Reading's In Our Blood Book 1A, cover is at least 55% yellow: Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal
TinEye = 78% yellow
Book 1B, all of the letters A AB B and O in title/subtitle/author name: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
Points this post: 15
Total points: 485
EMurphy25.5 Amy FL's Task: Go HEAT!
Option 2: MIAMI HEAT is found in any combination of title/subtitle/author's name From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke
*It's a Fact Ticket
Option 4: Cover is 70% white
by Courtney Summers*73.8% white
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Total:
Points: 255
Books Read: 16
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Tasks Completed: 11
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska5.6 Something to be proud of.
Read a book with a MPG of LGBT.
The Immoralist by André Gide (193 p.) *
* I would like to claim a GO ticket, please (first published in 1902).
➸ Total Points: 180
➸ Total Pages: 5,799
Julia10330.4 - Wayne's Task: I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Option 3: The World Record Book of Racist Stories (MPG Humor)
Option 4: The Nonesuch (on page 1 of list)
This post: 30 points
Total points: 430
BB: 6
GO: 2
NF: 4
Tasks completed: 28
Total books read: 36
Mod
Read a book with one of the following words in the title or subtitle:
chose word Fire
A Slow Fire Burning
point this post 5
total points 410
Mod
Read a book that takes place 50 percent in England or Switzerland.
setting is England
read The Family Upstairs
points this post 10
total points 420
Mod
Book A: Read a book whose author has a name part that matches part of a headlining Glastonbury act.
read In Nightfall by by Suzanne Young
for the act Neil Young
Book B: Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle that matches part of the name of a headlining Glastonbury act.
read My Sister, the Serial Killer
for act Shakespears Sister
points this post 15
total points 435
Mod
Read a book with the letters BBQ found in any combination of title, subtitle and/or author’s name.
read Between Before and After
by Maureen Doyle McQuerry
points this post 15
total points 450
Mod
option 1 : read a book with a title/subtitle word from the above books-
used word Woods for the book
A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund, Greystone Books (Canada, 2021)
read The Woods Are Waiting
and
Opt. 2B
B. Read any single author book by any of the five authors interviewed.
Required: State the interview used
used Taylor Jenkins Reid Interview
read Daisy Jones & The Six
points this post 25
total points 475
Mod
Option 1: Read a book by an author whose first and last initial can be found in ASSATEAGUE ISLAND / OCMD. Letters may only be used as often as they appear. You may combine the two terms to find initials
read None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney
and
Option 3: “HAPPIER THAN A SEAGULL WITH A FRENCH FRY.” Read a book whose title contains a word of 4 or more letters made from this phrase. Letters may only be used as often as they appear.
Required: State the word.
used word With
read With My Little Eye
points this post 25
total points 500
Mod
option 2 Read a book where ALL the letters in TARZAN can be found in the author's NAME.
read We Were Never Hereby ANdReA BarTZ
and
option 5B
read a book that has either 96 or 69 as the last two numbers of the page count
read The Maid's Diary
369 pages
points this post 30
total points 530
10.3 - Summer Beach Readbook from Summer Beach Reads
Beachcombers by Nancy Thayer
🏖 found on p. 2 🏖
Total points: 280 + 10 = 290
Big Book tickets: 4
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 2
MaryPDX5.10 Group Reads
**1 Its a Fact Ticket**
This Task:
Points: 5
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Total:
Points: 185
Books Read: 14
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket: 4
IAF Ticket: 1
Tasks Completed: 12
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska15.9 Fire Up The BBQ.
Read a book where all the letters of BBQ can be found in the title, subtitle and/or author's name.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (146 p.) *
* I would like to claim an IAF ticket, please.
➸ Total Points: 195
➸ Total Pages: 5,945
Julia10310.2 Mai Tai
Twisted Threads
(7 letters in each word)
This post: 10 points
Total points: 440
BB: 6
GO: 2
NF: 4
Tasks completed: 29
Total books read: 37
Delicious Dee5.6 Something to be proud of
Fly with Me - shelved as LGBT
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 440
Its a Fact: 4
Big Book Ticket: 1
Golden Oldie: 1
Delicious Dee25.7 Lisa MD's Task: I’ve Got Sand Between My Toes
Option 1 - It'll Be An Adventure - Cherise Sinclair - C found in OCMD, S found in Assateague
Option 4 - Hell Bent - Hell – “It’s a Maryland Thing, Hell Year”
Points This Post: 25
Points Total: 465
Its a Fact: 4
Big Book Ticket: 1
Golden Oldie: 1
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20.2 - Jack of All Trades
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.
One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake
Original Book: Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 365