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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2023
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25.7 Lisa MD's Task: I’ve Got Sand Between My ToesI chose options #1 & #3
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. Y
The Summer Queen-Elizabeth Chadwick
Option 3: Anyone who has visited Assateague, OCMD or any beach for that matter understands the phrase, “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.
The word is Archer
Points for this task: 25
Total points: 765/845
Tasks completed: 44/52
Big Book tickets total: 2
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact Tickets total:
5.7 I DoBride in the title: The Patchwork Bride: A Novel by Sandra Dallas
Points this post: 5
Total points: 790
Kathy KS**UNCLAIM!!** Stats adjusted below.
10.5 Long Summer Days
Read a book with a title with at least 5 words
A Wicked Kind of Husband by Mia Vincy
How it fits: Title has five (5) words
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Points for this task: 0
Total points : 295-10=285
Tasks completed: 15/52-1=14/52
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 2
Delicious Dee20.5 - Bigger is Better - Tammy AZ Task: The Compelling and Delights of Travel
Option 1 - Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves - found on pg5 of the "War Has No Winners" list; claiming 1 its a fact ticket
Points This Post: 20
Points Total: 735
Its a Fact: 7
Big Book Ticket: 1
Golden Oldie: 1
25.4 Delicious Dee's Task: From Series Name to Author NameBook A:
Dark Sky Series: Joe Picket
Book B: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber This is a new to me author
Previous Points: 545
This Post 25
Total Points 570
Kathy KS50.1 - Jen B 's Task: Vacation Time!
three books totaling at least 750 pages.
Book 1: Economy
Option 1: Read a book set in the country where you reside.
Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage by Kody Brown
I live in the USA
From Wikipedia: "The family began the series living in Lehi, Utah, moved to Las Vegas in 2011, and to Flagstaff, Arizona, in mid-2018." (All USA)
Pages: 271
**Claiming 1 (one) It’s A Fact ticket** : NONFICTION
Book 2: Business Class
Option 1: Read a book set on a continent that is different than the one where you reside.
A Wicked Kind of Husband by Mia Vincy
I live in the USA (North America)
Setting: England (Europe)
Pages: 386
Book 3: First Class
Read a book set in your dream travel destination, where you have never been.
Blood And Circuses by Kerry Greenwood
Dream destination: Australia
I've never visited yet; a friend and I planned to go after college graduation nearly 50 years ago and then life got in the way for us!
I'd probably appreciate it even more now.
I read as an ebook; mmpb=241 p.
Total pages: 271+386+241=898 (>750)
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Points for this task: 50
Total points : 335
Tasks completed: 15/52
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 1
It's a Fact tickets total: 3
Christine V20.6 - It's A Fact- Julia103's Task: This is Jeopardy!
Option 2: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain from page 2 of the Non-Binary (Genderqueer, Genderfluid, Gender-Unspecified, etc) Fiction and Memoirs list
I read the above Kindle edition. The top PB When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain establishes a page count of 122 pages. (No MMPB available.)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 75
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 1
Christine V10.1 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie It's a Bikini
Countdown City
Points this post: 10
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 1
Christine V10.6 - Disaster Strikes
World of Trouble
Points this post: 10
Total points: 95
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 6
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 1
JP5.5 Pack your trunk!
Read a book with an elephant on the cover
Khan: The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
Points this post: 5
Total points: 750
JP5.10 Easy Breezy
Fleming: Octopussy: The Last Great Adventures of James Bond 007
Points this post: 5
Total points: 755
JEN B***UNCLAIM***
10.1 Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie It's a Bikini
The Lost Art of Mixing by Erica Bauermeister
ADJUSTED TOTAL: 570
JEN B25.2 Robin P’s Task: Casablanca!
Option 1: Read a book with a word of 4 or more letters in the title found in "HERESLOOKINGATYOUKID"
The Lost Art of Mixing by Erica Bauermeister
Word = LOST
Option 2: Read a book set at least 75% in any African country from the list
Solo by Kwame Alexander
Most of this book takes place in Ghana (per synopsis: "All that remains is a letter and a ticket to Ghana—both of which could bring Blade the freedom and love he’s been searching for")
TOTAL POINTS: 595
Delicious Dee20.8 - Nickels & Dimes- Lauren Jodi's task: Lost Cities
Option 1 - One of the Girls - approx 85% is set in Greece
Points This Post: 20
Points Total: 755
Its a Fact: 7
Big Book Ticket: 1
Golden Oldie: 1
JEN B***UNCLAIM***
5.9 Summer adventures
Read a book with one of the following words in the title or subtitle: Beach, Sun/Sunshine, Cocktail, Pool, Forest, Hike/Hiking, Fire, Marshmallow, Toast/Toasted
A Fire Story by Brian Fies
ADJUSTED TOTAL: 590
JEN B10.6 - Disaster Strikes
Read a book featuring one of these Natural Disasters.
Hurricane, Cyclone, Tsunami, Typhoon, Tornado, Volcano Activity, Earthquake, Impact Event, Solar Flare, Avalanche , Mudslide, Landslide, Drought, Dust Storm, Blizzard, Ice Storm, Wildfire, Flooding
A Fire Story by Brian Fies
This book is about Wildfires in California
TOTAL POINTS: 600
ROBIN P30.3 Katrisa's Task: The Game is Afoot!
2 books, 500+ pages
Option 2: Book from list
Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Seven - read ebook, linked pb - book is in 2nd list, p 3 - 511 p
**Claiming 1 BB ticket for over 500 p**
Option 3A - Word of 4 or more letters from TV show
Word is STONE - Jonny Lee Miller -TV show Eli Stone
The Janus Stone - 340 p
Total pages 851
Points this post: 30
Total points: 705
BB:3 GO:3 IAF:6
ROBIN P5.3 Long Play or Single?
Author initials in VINYL RECORD
Olive - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, initials DC
**Claiming 1 GO point, pub 1850
Points this post: 5
Total points: 710
BB:3 GO:4 IAF:6
Christine V*Reposting to correct errors*
20.3 - Best Review - Joanne MI's task: The Number 40
Option 1: The Likeness I read this Kindle edition, which has 470 pages. The top MMPB found here has 571 pages.
***Claiming one Big Book Ticket***
Points this post: 20
BB Tickets this post: 1
Total points: 115
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 7
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=1)
It's A Fact: 1
Angela IL50.1 - Jen B 's Task: Vacation Time!
Book 1: Economy
Option 1: Read a book set in the country where you reside.
The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane- 7/30
I live in the US (Illinois) and book is set in New York (GR meta data)
Book 2: Business Class
Option 1: Read a book set on a continent that is different than the one where you reside.
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell- 8/19
I live in North America, USA (Illinois) and the book is set in Europe, London- multiple references to London "they told us she was in, like, North London" pg 194/ "and now we live less than a mile apart in the same corner of northwest London" pg 53
Book 3: First Class
Read a book set in your dream travel destination, where you have never been.
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle- 8/14
Location is Italy and I have never been.
Points this Task: 50
Total Points: 460
Books Read: 32
Tasks Completed: 24
BB Ticket: 3
NF Ticket:
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 15.6: Wrens and Riveters: Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin is a nonfiction biography, has MPGs Nonfiction, Feminism.
Totals: 15
Books: 1
Tasks: 1
It's a fact: 1
Summary Totals: 15
Books: 1
Tasks: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Big books tickets: 0 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
It's a fact: 1
Julia10310.4 Summer Songs of the 40's
The Woman with the Blue Star
(STAR is in the song title "Swinging On A Star")
This post: 10 points
Total points: 680
BB: 7
GO: 4
NF: 5
Tasks completed: 41
Total books read: 54
JEN B10.1 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
Elevation by Stephen King
S in bitSy
K in biKini
TOTAL POINTS: 610
Reposting 1984-no changes except addition was wrong20.2 Rookie at the Top: EmilyGraceR's: Jack of All Trades
Option 3: Read a book first published within the year of your birth, or the year of my birth -1999
Timeline First published in November 1999
New Points: 20
Total Points: 345
BB: 4
IaF: 2
Kristen IA15.2 Anime, Past and Present
Read two books, from two different options.
Required: state the options.
A: Read a book that has 7 and 4 in the page count.
Heartless by Elsie Silver
B: Read a book with an MPG of Manga, Comics, Comic Books, Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, or Short Stories.
Saga, Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan
I read ebooks of both books and linked to the PB editions.
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 195/845
Tasks Completed: 12/52
BB: 4
GO: 0
NF: 2
Kristen IA20.6 - It's A Fact- Julia103's Task: This is Jeopardy!
This is a one book task. Choose one option and read a book from that option.
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. However, the name used must be an exact match.
Required: State the name of the contestant - James Holzhauer
The Bookwanderers by Anna James
AR Bookfinder: IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9.0
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 215/845
Tasks Completed: 13/52
BB: 4
GO: 0
NF: 2
JP20.4 (Mid)summer in Sweden
Option 2: Read a book written by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in PICKLEDHERRING.
Gideon Defoe: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
Points this post: 20
Total points: 775
Readerboard Name: Kathy P25.1 - Nick KY’s Task: Suddenly, Last Summer.
Option 1: The Garden of Small Beginnings
The word is SMALL
Option 3: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
Double T in Little and double L in Still
Claiming 1 It's a fact ticket for Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
Totals
Points: 160
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 4
Total Tasks Completed: 12
Total Books Completed: 13
Mary P30.4 - Wayne's Task: I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Option3: Read a book with a humor MPG.
Texasville byLarry McMurtry
544 pages
Option4: Read a book from the list of Domestic Service
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Found on page 1 of list. 443 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 200
FLY Task #15.2 Anime, Past and Present
task: B: Read a book with an MPG of Manga, Comics, Comic Books, Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, or Short Stories.
book: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
how it fits: MPG Graphic Novels
task: C: Read a book first published in 2003
book: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: First published April 22, 2003
other:
MPG childrens: AR Quiz Info - IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11.0
Points this post: 15
Total points: 405
Tasks completed: 21/52
Big Book tickets: 11
Golden Oldies tickets: 5
It's A Fact tickets: 1
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Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 10.2: Mai Tai: Frozen Assets by Quentin Bates. 2-word title, each word has 6 letters.
Totals: 10
Books: 1
Tasks: 1
Summary Totals: 25
Books: 2
Tasks: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big books tickets: 0 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
It's a fact: 1
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 10.4: Summer songs of 40's: Star Hunter by Andre Norton. Word STAR in title is in 1944 Swinging on a STAR summer hit.
Totals: 10
Books: 1
Tasks: 1
Summary Totals: 35
Books: 3
Tasks: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Big books tickets: 0 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
It's a fact: 1
Deborah25.2 Robin P’s Task: Casablanca!
1) Hide
HERESLOOKINGATYOUKID
3) Hamlet on page 2
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 285
Books Read: 23
Tasks Done: 19
15.6 Wrens and RivetersWarrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries by Kate Mosse
NF with Feminism MPG
Total this Post: 15
Season Total: 750
20.1 Most Improved - Kathy KS’ Task: Pleasure Reading in the 1940sI chose option 3, and read Girt by David Hunt.
Girt can be found in the target phrase NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR READING TASTES
**Claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket for this non-fiction book**
Points this task: 20
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Totals:
Points: 195
Task completed: 13
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact tickets total: 4
5.10 – Easy BreezyRead a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
Anne of Ingleside-L.M. Montgomery
IL: MG - BL: 6.0 - AR Pts: 16.0
Claiming Anne of Ingleside as Goldie Oldie as it was published in 1939
Points for this task: 5
Total points: 770/845
Tasks completed: 45/52
Big Book tickets total: 2
Golden Oldies tickets total: 3
It's a Fact Tickets total:
15.8 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.).
Last April Fair-Betty Neels
Points for this task: 15
Total points: 785/845
Tasks completed: 46/52
Big Book tickets total: 2
Golden Oldies tickets total: 3
It's a Fact Tickets total:
50.1 - Jen B 's Task: Vacation Time!Book 1;Option 1: Read a book set in the country where you reside.
Required: State the country where you live.
I live in Canada
The Red Dress 153 pages
"living in a small town in Ontario" Ontario is in Canada
Book 2;Option 1: Read a book set on a continent that is different than the one where you reside.
Required: State where you live.
I live in Canada
I listened to an audio version of no Mass market paperback, so most populer paperback is Fayne
***Claiming 2 Big Book tickets for 768 pages***
This book is set in the UK "Fayne, a vast and lonely estate straddling the border between England and Scotland,"
Book 3: Read a book set in your dream travel destination, where you have never been. This must be a real place on Earth
A Paris Affair 128 pages
This book takes place in Paris , France and I have never been there.
The metadata does not specify it takes place here, except that one of the main page genres indicates France. The description from Amazon states"A PARIS AFFAIR will take you on a vacation overseas, into the hidden lives of husbands, wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, where illicit desire wars with duty, and where a French take on romance will surprise you every time."
total pages=1049
New Points: 50
Total Points: 395
BB: 6
IaF: 2
Sarah E5.1 War & Peace
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
AR Bookfinder: IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7.0
Total Points: 205
Sarah E5.8 We all scream for Ice Cream
I read the kindle edition, paperback - no MMP - is Ice Cream and Incidents
Total Points: 210
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.2: Jack of all trades: Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip. Previously read several other books by this author, including Winter Rose. Both of these have MPG YOUNG ADULT.
Thi book has 291 pages >250 required.
Totals: 20
Books: 1
Tasks: 1
Summary Totals: 55
Books: 4
Tasks: 4
Golden Oldies: 0
Big books tickets: 0 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
It's a fact: 1
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes- Lauren Jodi's task: Lost CitiesI chose option 4, and read The Golden Ball and Other Stories by Agatha Christie.
Matching word is "golden".
Points this task: 20
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Totals:
Points: 205
Task completed: 14
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact tickets total: 4
Delicious Dee20.6 - It's A Fact- Julia103's Task: This is Jeopardy!
Option 2 - Light from Uncommon Stars - found on pg1 of "Novels by Trans Authors with Trans Protagonists"
Points This Post: 20
Points Total: 775
Its a Fact: 7
Big Book Ticket: 1
Golden Oldie: 1
CathyG30.3 Katrisa Task: The Game is Afoot!
Help Thread
Requred:State the options you choose
Total Pages must be 500+
Option 2: Continuing Sherlock
Read a book from one of these lists featuring Sherlock Holmes characters.
Best Sherlock Holmes Fiction p1
A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas 323pp
Required: State the chosen list and page number
Option 3: My Favorite Sherlock Shows
C: Read a book where the ALL of the author’s initials can be found in ROBERT DOWNEY JR. JUDE LAW. You can use any combination of the actors’ names
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear 338pp
Points this post: 30
Total points: 400
Total Books Read: 26
Total Tasks Completed: 17
BB tickets:
GO tickets: 1
IAF tickets: 1
CathyG20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Maria Jo's Task: Wedding Time
Choose one option.
Required State the option.
Option 3: We are getting married on June 10, 2023, a year to the day of our first date. Read a book first published between June 10, 2022 and June 10, 2023 (inclusive).
All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers
Published Aug. 16, 2022
Points this post: 20
Total points: 420
Total Books Read: 27
Total Tasks Completed: 18
BB tickets:
GO tickets: 1
IAF tickets: 1
CathyG20.6 - It's A Fact- Julia103's Task: This is Jeopardy!
This is a one book task. Choose one option and read a book from that option.
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. The name position does not matter.
Required: State the name of the contestant James Holzhauer:
Dragon Bites by Allyson James
Points this post: 20
Total points: 440
Total Books Read: 28
Total Tasks Completed: 19
BB tickets:
GO tickets: 1
IAF tickets: 1
CathyG20.2 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.
The Pirate's Wish by Cassandra Rose Clarke 330 pp
Required: state the original book. The Assassin's Curse
Points this post: 20
Total points: 460
Total Books Read: 29
Total Tasks Completed: 20
BB tickets:
GO tickets: 1
IAF tickets: 1
MEGSCL5.6 Something to be proud of
Carry On
**522 pages - big book ticket
510 points
4 It’s a Fact
6 Big Books
MEGSCL10.3 Summer Beach Read
Page 3 - The Summer Before the War
**592 pages - big book ticket
520 points
4 It’s a Fact
7 Big Books
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10.8 "I Taped It"
The Low Maintenance Garden - first published January 1, 1983
Non Fiction, claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket.
Total Points: 200
Total NF: 3