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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2023
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
DOM50.1 - Jen B 's Task: Vacation Time!
Book 1: Economy
Option 1:
Read a book set in the country where you reside.
The Mother by Jane Caro
This book is set in the northern suburbs of Sydney, Australia
I live in Australia
368 pages - paperback
Book 2: Business Class
Option 1:
Read a book set on a continent that is different than the one where you reside.
A Death in East Berlin by Richard Wake
This historic fiction book is set in East Berlin, Europe just prior to the construction of the Berlin Wall in the early 1960's.
I live in Australia
264 pages - hardback
Book 3: First Class
Read a book set in your dream travel destination, where you have never been.
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
This book is set on a remote island in northern Quebec, Canada
I have never visited Canada, and would like to travel there.
199 pages paperback
Total = 831 pages
Points this Task: 50
Total Points: 315
Books Read: 20
Big Books: 2
It's a Fact: 1
Bookwrm526Task #10.3 Summer Beach Read
Read a book off this list: Summer Beach Reads. I read A Beautiful Place to Die by Philip R. Craig, from page 1 of the list.
Total points so far: 310
JEN B5.10 – Easy Breezy
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
An Age of License: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley
TOTAL POINTS: 365
Julia1035.5 Pack your trunk!
This post: 5 points
Total points: 445
BB: 6
GO: 2
NF: 4
Tasks completed: 30
Total books read: 38
ROBIN P 10.7 1948 Olympics
Set in London or Switzerland
A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia
Takes place entirely in London
Points this post: 10
Total points: 435
BB:2. GO:2. IAF:6
Chris MD 10.5 Long Summer Days
Title has at least five words
Her Heart for a Compass by Sarah Ferguson
Ths book had 549 pages. Claiming 1 Big Book ticket.
Total points: 115
LAUREN JODI15.8 - Happy Birthday, NHS!
Danger Close by Kaylea Cross
Per the GR description, the heroine is an army nurse
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 290/845
It's A Fact Ticket: 1
Total Books Read: 24
Total Tasks Completed: 20/52
Chris MD 25.3 Books of the Summer Months
I picked the month of August and Option 1, the two-book task.
Book 1: All the letters of AUGUST appear in the title
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
I listened to the audio version of this book. The onlyMMP has 400 pages.
Book 2: Author's first and last initials found in the chosen month - auGuSt
Gentlemen Formerly Dressed by Sulari Gentill
I listened to the audio version of this book. The only MMP has 368 pages.
Total points: 140
Rockynook10.1 - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie It's a Bikini
author’s first and last initials can be found in Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Bikini
Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake
itsy Bitsy teenie weenie biKini
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 375
PegW20.8 - Nickels & Dimes- Lauren Jodi's task: Lost Cities
Option 2: MACHU PICHU
Read a book with a 3 digit page count that is comprised of 3 of the following digits in any configuration - 0, 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, or 9.
I read The Magic of Mushrooms: Fungi in Folklore, Superstition and Traditional Medicine and the copy I read has 208 pages.
** Claiming one It's a Fact ticket for this non-fiction book.
This post: 20 points,
Total points: 205
BB: 1
GO: 2
It's a Fact: 8
Rhiannon5.5 Pack your trunk
Points Claimed this post: 5
Total Points: 150/845
Books Read: 11/66
Tasks Completed: 8/52
Rhiannon10.1 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie It's a Bikini
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
N in Tennie and S in Itsy
Points Claimed this post: 10
Total Points: 160/845
Books Read: 12/66
Tasks Completed: 9/52
Andy P.Repost of Tasks # 1216 & 1259
25.6 JennRenee's Task: New Book Discoveries
All books used in this task are by authors new to me
Option 2. Author Discoveries
use an author you read for the first time this year (2023) and read another book by that author that is not a next in a series.
Before We Were Strangers by Brenda Novakread and finished on July 8 2023
I next read One Perfect Summer by Brenda Novak finished on July 20 2023
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.
I read How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin
earlier in this challenge and had the following book approved in #27 of the help thread.
The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals by Merlin Tuttle
Points this post: 25
Total points: 430 0r 470 if the ones I added after this one are accepted
Task 30.4 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time TogetherOption 1: Read a book that was first published ON or BEFORE April 26, 1933.
Published 1888
The Reverberator (1888) by Henry James
** The Reverberator is a Golden Oldie, published in 1888**
Option 3: Read a book with a humor MPG.
Good Riddance (2019) by Elinor Lipman (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover 290 pages)
110 + 30 = 140
Tasks Completed: 07
Points for this post: 30
Points thus far: 110 + 30 = 140
Books read: 10
Pages read: 2,779
Read but not claimed: 04
Goodreads Authors: 06
Golden Oldies: 01
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 01
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Mod
20.1 Most Improved - Kathy KS’ Task: Pleasure Reading in the 1940s
Option 3: Read a book with a word of 4 or more letters in the title (subtitles excluded) found in: NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR READING TASTES.
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Fragile = FR in "for", AGILE in "apologize"
Points this task: 20
Season total: 170
BB Tickets: 3
GO Tickets: 0
IAF Tickets: 2
Joanne MI5-3 Long Play or single?
authors initials (first & last) are found in “VINYL RECORD”
Genghis: Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
Task Total 5
Season Total 160
4 BB's
2 IAF
25.3 Cat's Task : Books of the Summer MonthsI did the 2 book task and used the month AUGUST
Book 1: ALL the letters of your chosen month can be found in the title of your book
Guilty Pleasures
Book 2: the author of your book has first and last initials found in your chosen month.
Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow
New Points: 25
Total Points: 255
BB: 3
IaF: 2
Readerboard Name Jammin JennySummer 2023 SRC
20.6 - It's A Fact- Julia103's Task: This is Jeopardy!
Option 1: The contestants were: James Holzhauer, Mattea Roach, Matt Amodio, Andrew He, Amy Schneider, and Sam Buttrey. The show was hosted by Ken Jennings who won over 70 games during his time as a Jeopardy! contestant.
Read a book by an author whose first or last name matches the first or last name of any of these contestants or host. The name position does not matter (i.e. a book by Henry James could be used to match James Holzhauer.) However, the name used must be an exact match (i.e. Sam, not Samuel).
Book: The Fog by James Herbert, contestant's name is James Holzhauer.
Points this post: 20
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 80
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Readerboard Name Jammin JennySummer 2023 SRC
20.7 Shorter is sweeter- Inge's Task: Enjoying Scotland
Option C) Whisky or in Gaelic Uisge Beatha is a drink that they call ‘aqua vitae’ or water of life, and deeply founded in the culture of Scotland. Read a book where both the first AND last name initials can be found in whisky OR uisge beatha.
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King - SK found in whiSKy, I listened to the audiobook, the MMPB version is 760 pages, claiming 2 BB tickets
Points this post: 20
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 100
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Lisa MD25.5 - Amy FL's Task: Go HEAT!
Option 1: Author initials made from JB and CM
Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes
438 pages
Option 2: MIAMI HEAT is found in any combination of title, subtitle and/or author’s name.
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
448 pages
THE MAkIng of another MAjor motIon picture masterpiece
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 250/845
Total Books Read: 20/67
Total Tasks Completed: 17/52
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets:
Non Fiction Tickets: 2
MEGSCL5.2 Becoming independent
The Bandit Queens - setting India (see metadata)
TOTAL
250 points
3 It’s a Fact
4 Big Books
MEGSCL15.10 Found in Translation
Translated from Spanish. My native language is English.
The Angel's Game
**531 pp - big book ticket
TOTAL
275 points
3 It’s a Fact
5 Big Books
MEGSCL25.6 JennRenee's Task: New Book Discoveries
1 . Anticipated Books - page 5 of 2o22 list
The Bullet That Missed
3. Readers Also enjoyed
The Anniversary - followed reading of Return to Valetto June 1, 2023
TOTAL
300 points
3 It’s a Fact
5 Big Books
trishhartuk10.9 The Invention of Duck Tape
Read a book where the letters of DUCK or DUCT or TAPE can be found in the title/subtitle.
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John le Carré
TAPE: T in The; A, E in cAmE; P in sPy
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 295
Tasks Completed: 20
It’s a Fact Tickets: 5
Golden Oldie Tickets: 3
10.5 Long Summer DaysRead a book with a title with at least 5 words (Subtitles are excluded)
Tristram Shandy Beyefendi'nin Hayatı ve Görüşleri (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman) by Laurence Sterne 7/22/23
Points Earned This Post: 10
Points Earned Previously: 150
Total Points Earned: 160
trishhartuk15.10 Found in Translation
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
The Night at the Crossroads, Georges Simenon (150pg)
Originally written in French as La Nuit du Carrefour – my native language is English
Golden Oldie: First published in 1931
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie: 1 – first published in 1931
Total Points: 310
Tasks Completed: 21
It’s a Fact Tickets: 5
Golden Oldie Tickets: 4
JUKKA5.1 War & Peace
Book with MPG World War II.
Garth Ennis's Complete Battlefields, Vol. 1 by, well, Garth Ennis.
Total Points: 150/845
Total Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 10/52
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 0
20.2 Rookie at the Top: EmilyGraceR's: Jack of All TradesOption 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: The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice #1) by Mark Lawrence
The Girl and the Mountain (Book of the Ice #2) by Mark Lawrence
448 pages
Total this Post: 20
Season Total: 540
Nick KY10.10 With the GR genre of “Science Fiction,” I read Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 470
Nick KY20.10 Group Read From the Canadian Fiction category, I read Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. Commentary in post # 21 of the Help Thread.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 490
Nick KY30.3 Katrisa Task: The Game is Afoot!
Opt. 2. Continuing Sherlock. I read The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz, #2 on p. 1 of the Best Sherlock Holmes (Patiches) list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... 294 pp
Opt. 3. A. Sherlock Shows. I read Laura & Emma by Kate Greathead. 337 pp. The word “Emma” is in the title. Johnny Lee Miller, according to his list, is in a 2008 TV miniseries, Emma.
Total pp = 631 > required 500
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 520
Mod
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Summer 2023 season.
My Man Jeeves
I listened to the audiobook & my comment is #8 in the Discussion thread
*** Claiming Golden Oldie *** as this book was first published in 1919
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 45 + 20 = 65
Total Tasks Completed: 5
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Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0 + 1 = 1
It's a Fact: 1
Boston Kate
5.6 Something to be proud of
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
MPG "Queer" on main page
Points this post: 5
Total points: 50
Mod
Option 1:Read a book by an author whose first or last name matches the first or last name of any of these contestants or host.
John Glenn: America's Astronaut
The author is Andrew Chaikin & the first name Andrew matches Andrew He
This is an ebook only, but appears at line 1773 of the ebook verification document
*** Claiming It's a Fact *** as this book is non fiction
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 65 + 20 = 85
Total Tasks Completed: 6
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Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 1 + 1 = 2
Andy P,Task # 25.2 Robin P’s Task: Casablanca!
Option 1. Read a book with a word of 4 or more letters in the title found in ""HERESLOOKINGATYOUKID
Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker Word is LOOK
Option 2. Read a book set at least 75% in any African country from the list.
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
as the title suggests, book set entirely in Morocco
Points this post: 25
Total points: 495
Andy P.Task # 30.4 - Wayne's Task: I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Option 1. Carol Burnett was born on April 26, 1933. Read a book that was first published ON or BEFORE that date
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon published 1/1/32
Option 3. Read a book with a humor MPG.
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Humor third listed MPG
Points this post: 30
Total points: 525
15.4 Reading's In Our BloodI chose Option #2
Option 2: Read one book that satisfies the requirements for both A and B options.
-Melanie Benjamin46.7%-Red according to TinEye
Points for this task: 15
Total points:565/845
Tasks completed: 30/52
Big Book tickets total: 2
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact Tickets total:
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
All the Days of Summer-Nancy Thayer
Points for this task: 10
Total points:575/845
Tasks completed: 31/52
Big Book tickets total: 2
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact Tickets total:
VAL TX20.2 Rookie at the Top: EmilyGraceR's: Jack of All Trades - Choose an option and read one book for that option. Minimum 250 pages.
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.
Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram
Darius the Great Is Not Okay is the original book read by the author.
This post:
Points - 20
Total:
Points - 55
IAF Tickets - 1
Bookwrm526Task #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. I read World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters.
Total points so far: 320
Bookwrm526Task #30.4 - Wayne's Task: I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Option 2: Read a book where ALL the letters in TARZAN can be found in the author's NAME. I read The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken (eliZAbeThmccRAkeN).
Option 3: Read a book with a humor MPG. I read Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon by M.C. Beaton.
Total points so far: 350
JEN B5.1 War & Peace
Read a book with MPG World War II/WWII
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
MPG WWII
TOTAL POINTS: 370
ED- 20.1 Most Improved - Kathy KS’ Task: Pleasure Reading in the 1940s
Option 3:
Word Play by Maxwell Nurnberg
*****I CLAIM 1 IAF TICKET*****
"PLAY" found in "never APoLogize for Your..."
Points this task: 20
Season total: 60
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 1
Tasks completed=
20.1; 20.3; 20.7
JEN B***UNCLAIM***
20.9 - 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).
The Daydreams by Laura Hankin
ADJUSTED TOTAL: 350
JEN B25.6 JennRenee's Task: New Book Discoveries
1 . Anticipated Books
For this task read a book on either one of these lists.
2023 Anticipated Books
Required: state the list used and the page number
The Daydreams by Laura Hankin
This book is on Page 3 of the 2023 Anticipated Books list
This book is new to me
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.
Required: state book and when you read the first book.
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
This book is new to me
This book was on the "Readers Also Enjoyed" section for Remarkably Bright Creatures, which I read in January 2023.
TOTAL POINTS: 375
Angela IL20.7 Shorter is sweeter- Inge's Task: Enjoying Scotland
Option C: Read a book where both the first AND last name initials can be found in whisky OR uisge beatha.
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett- 7/24
Word: uisge beatha
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 245
Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 15
BB Ticket: 2
NF Ticket:
Angela IL15.7 The International Court of Justice
Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries-United States.
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout- 7/21
Setting: Maine, (United States)
Points this Task: 15
Total Points: 260
Books Read: 17
Tasks Completed: 16
BB Ticket: 2
NF Ticket:
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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Read a book which was originally written in one of six languages, excluding your native language(s)
Late to the Party (originally written in English)
Native language: Indonesian.
Total Points: 165