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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2023
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
10.7 1948 OlympicsRead a book that takes place 50 percent in England or Switzerland.
Thistlewood Manor: Murder at the Hedgerow-Fiona Grace
MPG description places Thistlewood Manor in rural England.
Points for this task: 10
Total points:595/845
Tasks completed: 38/52
Big Book tickets total: 2
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact Tickets total:
15.2 Anime, Past and PresentRead two books, from two different options.
I chose Options A and B
A: Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei had a runtime of 74 minutes. Read a book that has 7 and 4 in the page count.
Eight Hundred Grapes-Laura Dave
B: A great deal of modern anime is adapted from manga or other short fiction. Read a book with an MPG of Manga, Comics, Graphic Novels, or Short Stories.]
The Coldest City-Antony Johnston
Points for this task: 10
Total points:610/845
Tasks completed: 39/52
Big Book tickets total: 2
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact Tickets total:
15.5 Come Fly With MeRead a book by an author whose initials (in order) match one of the airport codes.
If Tomorrow Doesn't Come by Jen St. Jude - JSJ - Jiansanjiang, China
Total Points: 200
Readerboard name: List_Addict5.10: Easy Breezy
A book of your choice
A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley
Total this challenge: 25
30.2 - KmarieD task -Book Buddies and Summer FunOption 5: Many of the kids find series they like to read and then ask us to bring them the next ones. Read any 2 consecutive books from a series. The series must appear in gray-scale on the book’s main page.
The Housemaid and The Housemaid's Secret
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 115
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 7
20.7 Shorter is sweeter- Inge's Task: Enjoying Scotland Book: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
How it fits: author initials S, W in WhiSkey
I listened to the audiobook. The mass market paperback edition has 427 pages.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 155
Andy P.Task # 5.6 Something to be proud of
Read a book with MPG LGBT
Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding
Points this post: 5
Total points: 560
10.3 Summer Beach ReadA book from Summer Beach Reads (p. 3 #239): Ocean Beach by Wendy Wax
Points this post: 10
Total points: 570
JP10.7 1948 Olympics
Read a book that takes place 50 percent in England or Switzerland.
Berg: Berg
Set in Brighton, England.
Setting approved in Task Help #15
Points this post: 10
Total points: 410
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Maria Jo's Task: Wedding TimeOption 4: Our wedding color is navy blue.
Read a book with a cover that is (according to Tineye) at least 75% blue
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did
74.6 %#1bb5c2Blue
10.9 %#ffaa50Orange
5.9 %#3ab0abBlue
5.1 %#cef0f2Blue
2.1 %#77af91Green
0.9 %#9daf7fGreen
0.5 %#b9ae71Brown
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 135
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 8
Theresa10.5 - Long Summer Days
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman
Points this post - 10
Total points - 50
Theresa10.6 - Disaster Strike
Snowblind by Christopher Golden
Blizzard
Points this post - 10
Total points - 60
Amy FL15.1 A Ship of Two Halves
B. Wildcard - #2 in the Warcross duology
C. Immortal in Death by J.D. Robb (pseudonym for Nora Roberts which is described on author page)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 550
5.8 We all scream for Ice CreamDevil's Delight (Agatha Raisin #33) by M.C. Beaton
Total this Post: 5
Season Total: 595
Amy FL20.5 - Bigger is Better - Tammy AZ Task: The Compelling and Delights of Travel
Option 2: The Last Trial by Robert Bailey - RB in RoBert plant
Points this post: 20
Total points: 570
Amy FL30.1 - MAZZA1's Task - WORDLED
Book 1: Rapture in Death - DEATH
Book 2a: Dark Angel - ANGEL
Points this post: 30
Total points: 600
15.3 Fun in the Mudoption 2
Acts:
White Stripes
David Bowe
The Man in the White Linen Suit: A Stewart Hoag Mystery by David Handler
Previous Points: 180
This Post 15
Total Points 195
15.4 Reading's In Our BloodOption 2
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Book is over 55 percent yellow
Book has A, B, AB, and O Letters in it
Previous Points: 195
This Post 15
Total Points 210
Deborah5.4 – Let's hear it for the youth!
Winterkill MPG: Young Adult
AR BOOKFINDER: : MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9.0
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 215
Books Read: 18
Tasks Done: 15
Task 20.10 - Group Readsread and comment on one of the group reads
Sea of Tranquility
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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785 points
12 BB tix
3 GO tix
EMILYGRACER*I am claiming one its a fact ticket for option 2's book**
25.2 CASABLANCA
Option 1: word found in the phrase HERESLOOKINGATYOUKID I used the word GIRL and read Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
Option 2: Set in Africa I read the book Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
Points for this task: 25
Points total: 390
Task Completed: 24/55
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: 14
EMurphy25.4 Delicious Dee's Task: From Series Name to Author Name
Book 1: Character's name in the series title The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
*Series name is Harbinder Kaur
Book 2: Single author where a part of the author's name matches exactly in both spelling and position, the character name for Book A Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
*This author is new to me
**It's a Fact Ticket
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Total:
Points: 325
Books Read: 21
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +1000: 1
IAF Ticket: 2
Tasks Completed: 14
Mod
Read a book that was first published in or is set in the 1980's
My Best Friend's Exorcism
Set in 1988
review from amazon for reference
“Take The Exorcist, add some hair spray and wine coolers, and enroll it in high school in 1988 — that’ll give you My Best Friend’s Exorcism...Campy. Heartfelt. Horrifying.”—Minnesota Public Radio
points this post :10
total points 670
Mod
This task requires three books totaling at least 750 pages.
book 1
Option 1: Read a book set in the country where you reside.
I reside in the US
read Prom Mom 320 pages
setting is Baltimore MA, USA
book 2
Option 1: Read a book set on a continent that is different than the one where you reside.
read The Dry 352 pages
setting is in Australia, I reside in North America
book 2
Read a book set in your dream travel destination, where you have never been.
I have never been to Greece.
read One of the Girls 432 pages
setting is Greece, my number desired travel location... it just looks beautiful with some cool looking old architecture.
points this post 50
total points 670
Mod
read Sea of Tranquility post 24 in the group read discussion
points this post 20
total points 690
Nick KY15.10 Found in Translation I read Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco. My language is English. This book is translated from French.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 545
Nick KY20.3 Joanna MI’s Task: The Number 40.
Opt. 1. I read Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval Englandby Alison Weir, > 250 pp. and with the digits 4 and 0 in the pagination, 490 pp.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 565
trishhartuk50.1 Jen B's Task: Vacation Time!
Book 1: Economy. Option 1: Read a book set in the country where you reside.
The Rhesus Chart, Charles Stross
Read the kindle edition. Top PB here (384pg)
Primarily set in London, and 100% in England – I live in England.
From the GR description: “LONDON CAN DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF YOU...”
Book 2: Business Class. Option 1: Read a book set on a continent that is different than the one where you reside.
Dead as a Door Knocker, Diane Kelly (368pg)
100% set in Nashville, TN, USA in North America – I live in England/Europe
From the GR description: “The first in a brand-new cozy series from Diane Kelly set in Nashville”
Book 3: First Class. Read a book set in your dream travel destination, where you have never been.
Died in the Wool, Ngaio Marsh (272pg)
100% set in New Zealand: from the GR description: “Ngaio Marsh returns to her New Zealand roots to transplant the classic country house murder mystery to an upland sheep station on South Island”
I've never been to New Zealand, but it's top of my list of places I'd like to go if I ever got the money together.
Golden Oldie: First published in 1945
Total pages: 384 + 368 + 272 = 1,024pg
Points this Task: 50
Books Read: 3
Golden Oldie: 1 – Died in the Wool was first published in 1945
Total Points: 405
Tasks Completed: 25
It’s a Fact Tickets: 5
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
Nick KY25.2 Robin P’s Casablanca!
Opt. 2. Takes place in African country of Tanzania. I read The Magic of Saida by M.G. Vassanji.
Opt. 3. From p. 6 of the “antiheroes” list, I read The Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard. https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 590
10.1 - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie It's a Bikini Author’s first and last initials can be found in Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Bikini - Read Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs. ET is found in the phrase.
Points these task: 10
Total points: 85
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 1
Big Book ticket requests: 0
It's A Fact ticket requests: 1
Books read: 10
Tasks completed: 6
25.3 - Cat's Task : Books of the Summer Months I chose option 1 - 2 book task. June is my selected month.
Book 1: All letters from 'June' is found in the book's title - Read The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury by Marc Levy.
Book 2: Author's initials found in 'June' - Read Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven.
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic is non-fiction, so I claim 1 It's a Fact ticket.
Points these task: 25
Total points: 110
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 1
Big Book ticket requests: 0
It's A Fact ticket requests: 2
Books read: 14
Tasks completed: 7
JEN B30.2 - KmarieD task -Book Buddies and Summer Fun
Option 3-
Read a book first published in June, July or August from 2015 forward.
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeannette McCurdy
This book was published in August 2022
Option 4-
Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title that can be spelled out from OUTDOORGAMES
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Word = GOOD
This book is 433 pages >350 pages
TOTAL POINTS: 440
MAZZA15.7 I Do
Read a book with one of the following words intact in the title
Using WEDDING
Summer Wedding
points this post = 5
Points to date = 515
MAZZA110.1 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
A Merry Bramblewick Christmas
Sharon Booth
points this post = 10
Points to date = 525
MAZZA110.3 Summer Beach Read
Read a book off this list
Summer Beach Reads https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Seaview Road on page 1 of list
points this post = 10
Points to date = 535
MAZZA110.8 "I Taped It"
Read a book that was first published in or is set in the 1980's
Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
First published 1988
points this post = 10
Points to date = 545
MAZZA115.4 Reading's In Our Blood
Option 2: Read one book that satisfies the requirements for both A and B options.
Has a cover that is (according to Tineye) at least 55% yellow (for the plasma) OR at least 45% red.
AND
which features A B AB & O in any combination of the title/subtitle/author name.
TINEYE
73.6 % #fde720 Yellow
7.7 % #ead6d0 Grey
7.1 % #d57f7d Pink
4.0 % #f1d243 Yellow
3.5 % #d88e5d Orange
1.3 % #faf5a8 Yellow
1.1 % #faf27f Yellow
1.0 % #e5ae4b Orange
0.8 % #fcfad9 White
points this post = 15
Points to date = 560
MAZZA115.9 Fire Up The BBQ
Read a book with the letters BBQ found in any combination of title, subtitle and/or author’s name.
The Burnt Island Burial Ground: A Reverend Lindsay Harding Mystery Mindy Quigley
B in Burnt and Burial Q in Quigley
points this post = 15
Points to date 575
MAZZA120.4 - 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
Hungry Ghosts
Kevin Jared Hosein K H intarget phrase
points this post = 20
Points to date = 595
MAZZA120.10 - Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Summer 2023 season.
Sea of Tranquility my post in discussion thread
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
points this post = 20
Points to date = 615
MAZZA130.4 - Wayne's Task: I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Option 3: Read a book with a humor MPG.
I read the Kindle edition
The Prophet and the Idiot
This is PB A próféta és a hülye
Option 5:
Read a book that
A: Has the word "question" in the title or subtitle, singular or plural only.
I Have Some Questions for You
points this post = 30
Points to date = 645
MAZZA150.1 - Jen B 's Task: Vacation Time!
For the purposes of ALL tasks I live in THE UK - England
Book 1: Economy
Option 1: Read a book set in the country where you reside.
The Golden Tresses of the Dead
pages 368
Set in England
Setting identified on series page https://www.goodreads.com/series/4616...
Book 2: Business Class
Option 1: Read a book set on a continent that is different than the one where you reside.
The Distant Dead Set in Nevada USA stated on GR main Page
368 pages
Book 3: First Class
Read a book set in your dream travel destination, where you have never been.
Sea of Poppies 530 Pages
set in India stated on GR main Page
A place I have never visited but would love to go especially since i took up Bollywood dancing
368 +368+530 = 1266 pages exceeds requirements
points this post = 50
Points to date = 695
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Tammy AZ Task: The Compelling and Delights of TravelOption 2: Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper
***Claiming IAF ticket
Points this post: 20
Total points: 130
BB tickets: 2
GO tickets: 1
IAF tickets: 3
Delicious Dee30.3 Katrisa Task: The Game is Afoot!
Option 2 - A Letter of Mary - found on pg1 of Best Sherlock Holmes Fiction
Option 3C - Shadows in Death - J.D. Robb - JDR can be found in ROBERT DOWNEY JR
Points This Post: 30
Points Total: 550
Its a Fact: 5
Big Book Ticket: 1
Golden Oldie: 1
Readerboard name: D20.6 - It's A Fact- Julia103's Task: This is Jeopardy!
I chose 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.
Contestant: Andrew He
The Golden Deed by Andrew Garve
Task=20
Season total=150
10.9 The Invention of Duck TapeRead a book where the letters of DUCK or DUCT or TAPE can be found in the title/subtitle.
TAPE - Drum up the Dawn: Galaxy Girl Book One
Total Points: 210
Aimee GTask 10.10 - Summer of the Flying Saucer
Read a book with genre Science Fiction or Science Fiction Fantasy
Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley
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Points this task: 10
Total points: 185
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