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FALL CHALLENGE 2023
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Amy B5.6 - We've Got Reading Down to a Fine Art
Read a book with a word of 4 or more letters in the title that matches a word in the name of an art piece at the Louvre from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... .
Required: state the word and the art piece.
Self-Portrait With Boy by Rachel Lyon (Self-Portrait: Artwork - Self Portrait with Friend)
This Task: 5 Points
To Date: 540 Points
Julia10325.10 - RedSycamore's Task: It's My Party!
Option 1: Dressed to Drill
Option 1: Caught in Crystal: A Lyra Novel
(The task description says the same option can be repeated.)
This post: 25 points
Total points: 505
BB: 3
GO: 7
NF: 2
Tasks completed: 29
Books completed: 39
trishhartuk20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - KSMary's Task: Season of Change
Option 1 – Read a book with a main character who is...an attorney (or equivalent legal role such as a barrister, advocate etc.)
Beaver vs. Beaver, Portia Porter
Read the kindle edition. PB: here (172pg)
The MC/author is a divorce lawyer.
From the kindle GR description: “Portia Porter has struck out on her own and landed her first big client: a millionaire many times over who needs a divorce. But as the billable hours and expenses mount, Portia is learning first hand how hard it is to get a client to pay if they don’t want to.”
And the PB GR description: “With only one pair of courtroom-worthy shoes and desperate for work, a young lawyer from the North hangs her shingle in Ducklingburg, South Duck.”
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 620
Tasks Completed: 35
It’s a Fact Tickets: 3
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 2
Mod
Breathless In Love by Bella Andre / LOVE in 'Love in the Afternoon'
Points this post: 10
Total points: 255
Kai20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - KSMary's Task: Season of Change
OPTION 1
Read a book with a main character who is a military service member, a veteran or who is an attorney (or equivalent legal role such as a barrister, advocate etc.) - the character may be actively practicing or retired.
Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet by M.C. Beaton
Character - James Lacey is retired military. This page (https://agatharaisin.fandom.com/wiki/...) references tv show that is based on the book series and gives information about his character.
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 13
Total Points: 195
Jasmiina F20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - KSMary's Task: Season of Change:
Option 2: Read a book with red, gold, purple, gray, white, black or silver in the title, subtitle, series name or author’s name:
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 100
Golden Oldies this post:
Total Golden Oldies:
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+:
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
Mod
by Carrie Ann Ryan / 79.9% greyhttps://labs.tineye.com/color/0702b44...
Points this post: 10
Total points: 265
ED5.10 - As Easy as Falling off a Log
The Castlemaine Murders by Kerry Greenwood
Points: 5
Total= 5
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Mod
Inked Persuasion by Carrie Ann Ryan / 3 and 5 in page count; 350 pg PB
This book was new to me
Points this post: 20
Total points: 285
Mod
Option 1
The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker / MPG Horror; 320pg PB
Option 2
Identity by Nora Roberts / NR in phrase; 437pg HC
Total pages: 757 > 500
Points this post: 25
Total points: 310
Mod
Option 2
North of Nowhere by Allison Brennan / NORTH from 'North Pacific Beach'; 357pg HC
Option 4A
Riverbend Gap by Denise Hunter / 33 in page count; 336pg PB
Total pages: 693 > 500
Points this post: 30
Total points: 340
Mod
Option 1
The Ghost Tattoo by Tony Bernard / MPG Biography; 307pg PB
Option 4
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St James / COLD in title; 368pg PB
Total pages: 675 > 500
Points this post: 30
Total points: 370
Amy B 15.2 State of Induction
Read 2 books, one book 1 and one book 2.
Book 1: Read a book set at least 50% in a coastal setting.
REQUIRED: If the information is not clear from the GR description or the metadata, provide a reference.
Peacekeeping by Mischa Berlinski (set in Jeremie, on the coast of Haiti - in main page description)
Book 2: Read a book set at least 50% in wooded or forest territory.
REQUIRED: If the information is not clear from the GR description or the metadata, provide a reference.
The Guide by Peter Heller (forested in book description)
This Task: 15 Points
To Date: 555 Points
Angela IL10.6 - Dictionary
Read a book with a word of 4 letters of more in the title that can be made from "A Dictionary of the English Language"
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton- 11/17
Word: Final
Points this Task: 10
Total Points: 375
Books Read: 25
Tasks Completed: 18
BB Ticket: 1
NF Ticket: 2
Amy FL15.1 Golden Age of Television
Book 1: The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham (JOHN Wayne)
Book 2: Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci
Points this post: 15
Total points: 715
Amy FL20.2 - Rookie at the Top - MaryPDX’s Task: Open to Interpretation
Option 1: Mad Honey - MPG Romance
Points this post: 20
Total points: 735
Amy FL20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Terri FL's Task - ChatGPT
Option A: Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City - won Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
Points this post: 20
Total points: 755
Christiana L20.1 - Earning a Ph.D.
Option B - November 9th by Colleen Hoover
Initials Found: teaCHing and learning
Points this post: 20
Tasks Completed: 11
Total Points: 125
JEN B20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Terri FL's Task - ChatGPT
Option C: Read a book with a pie on the cover or a book set in a rural or Amish community.
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
This book is set in the rural town of Adams, New Hampshire (stated in book description)
TOTAL POINTS: 190
Sarah E15.2 State of Induction
Book 1: The Murder Game
From the GR description: 'In the seaside town of Hamlet Wick ...'
I read a kindle edition, top paperback - no MMP - is The Murder Game
Book 2: Redwall
The end of the first section of the Plot Summary on Wikipedia indicates the forest setting: '... a local terror in Mossflower Wood, the forest that surrounds the abbey.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwall...
AR Bookfinder: IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16.0
Total Points: 215
ROBIN P50.1 Angela IL's Task: Sort By
3 books, 750p+
Option 3 - Highest or lowest page count - Prima Facie is my lowest page count - 154 p
Option 4. Random sorting
Plays by American Women: 1900-1930 - 261 p
Option 5 Alphabetical - 1st book alphabetically ignoring A, An, The is The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power - 336 p
**Claiming 1 IAF point, nonfiction**
Total pages 751 - whew, just made it!
Points this post: 50
Total points: 825
BB:6 GO:8 IAF:10
Mai15.1 Golden Age of Television
Book 1: Read a book by an author who shares a name with a famous star: James Stewart
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2 by James Tynion IV
Book 2 : Read a book featuring a movie or television celebrity
The World's Worst Assistant by Sona Movsesian
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 460
Tasks Completed: 30
Books Read: 37
NF Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
15.1 Golden Age of TelevisionBook 1: Read a book by an author who shares a name with one of these famous movie/television stars listed below…I used James Stewart
3rd Degree by James Patterson
Book 2 : Read a book featuring a movie or television celebrity
This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today by Chrissy Metz
***Claiming an Its a Fact Ticket for Non-fiction***
New Points: 15
Total Points: 215
BB: 3
GO: 2
IaF: 2
Mai25.2 - Delicious Dee's Task: The Big Bang Theory
Option 3
Book A – Book with at least a three-letter word in the title that shares a word with one of the episodes:
Season 10
Episode title: "The Gyroscopic Collapse"
Word: "Collapse"
System Collapse by Martha Wells
Book B – book whose number in a series corresponds to the season number you spun.
The season number I spun was 5
Deadly Assessments by Drew Hayes
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 485
Tasks Completed: 31
Books Read: 39
NF Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Jen K25.6 - Robin P's Task: Four and More
Book 1: Buried in a Good Book
Word: BOOK
Book 2: Bookshops & Bonedust
Work: BOOKshops
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 525
BB: 5
IAF: 3
Jen K5.4 - Apocalypse Not
A Children's Bible
MPG Post Apocalyptic
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 535
BB: 5
IAF: 3
Jen K5.5 - Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Vintage Contemporaries
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 540
BB: 5
IAF: 3
Jen K5.7 – The Evolution of PopSci
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
MPG Science
****Requesting 1 IAF ticket for non-fiction****
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 545
BB: 5
IAF: 4
Jen K5.8 - Sit Down For What You Believe In
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson
RoSa
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 550
BB: 5
IAF: 4
JENNY H5.9 – How to Save a Language
Read a book with a word of 4 or more letters in the title found in ONE MILLION WELSH SPEAKERS.
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Word used: OMENS
Points this task: 5
Season total: 155
BB Tickets: 7
GO Tickets: 0
IAF Tickets: 1
JENNY H5.2 – Back to School
Read a book from the Dark Academia list.
If We Were Villains
Found on page 1.
Points this task: 5
Season total: 160
BB Tickets: 7
GO Tickets: 0
IAF Tickets: 1
Bookwrm526Task #50.1 Angela IL's Task: Sort by...
Option 1: Read the book that has been on your TBR the longest or the shortest. Sort by Date Added. (The Newest must have been added before Oct 20, 2023). I read The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (106p), added to my TBR on Oct 19. 2023.
Option 5: Read a book that starts with an A or starts with a Z. Sort by Title. Ignore A, The, or An. I didn't have a Z, so I turned to the help thread for clarification and found this from the taskholder "If you do not have the letter Z, a Y title would be your starting point instead of Z." I read You're Invited by Amanda Jayatissa (384p).
Option 6: Read a book with the highest number of rating or the lowest number of ratings. Sort by Num Ratings. I couldn't get the one with the lowest number of ratings, so I went with the next one on the list and read One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928 by Matthew J. Mancini, which only had 16 ratings (296p).
106+384+296=786p
Total points so far: 720
ROBIN P20.4 Golden Oldies- Paula S's Task: Autumn in Sweden
Option 4 - Children's book from list
Treasure Island - on p 1
AR Bookfinder - IL:MG BL:8.3 AR Pts: 12.0
**Claiming 1 GO pt, orig pub 1882**
Points this post: 20
Total points: 845
BB:6 GO:9 IAF:10
10.2 - Audrey Hepburnpaving the new ROAD (rowland sinclair #4) by Sulari Gentill
word in title, ROAD, found in movie title, two for the ROAD
Total this Post: 10
Season Total: 660
Amy B20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - KSMary's Task: Season of Change
The genres of children, sequential art and graphic novels/comics are not allowed for this task.
Choose one of the following options.
Required: State the option.
Option 2 - Read a book with red, gold, purple, gray, white, black or silver in the title, subtitle, series name or author’s name.
Words must be standalone and spelled exactly as listed
Disorientation: Being Black in the World by Ian Williams
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 575 Points
Delicious Dee20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - KSMary's Task: Season of Change
Option 2 - A Vow of Silence - Veronica Black - black in authors name
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 685
Its a Fact Tickets: 8
Big Book Tickets: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Delicious Dee15.9 Space Exploration
Dark Quasar Rising -set more than 50% on a space ship or space station
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 700
Its a Fact Tickets: 8
Big Book Tickets: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Kai30.1 JennRenee's Task: Board Gaming in the Fall!
OPTION 3
Read a book that is part of series.
Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton
(Agatha Raisin #4)
OPTION 4
Read a book with MPG Mystery
Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 14
Total Points: 225
Kai25.4 Kristina Simon's task: Sailing Abaco (For Wanda)
OPTION 4
Read a book with all the letters of ABACO found in any combination of the title/subtitle/series name/author's name.
Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage by M.C. Beaton
(series/author combo) AgAtha raisin mC BeatOn
OPTION 5
Read a book set at least 50% in one or more of the locations listed: the Gulf Coast (Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas), the Eastern Seaboard (Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia), and the Bahamas.
This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Setting: Maine
New Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 15
Total Points: 250
EMurphyBest Review-Michelle in Alaska's Task: Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Alaska anymore
Option 1: Author whose initials match 2 of the 3 initials (SJM) My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 345
Books Read: 25
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 4
Tasks Completed: 14
Readerboard Name: List_Addict10.3: Great Exhibition
An author’s initials found in CRYSTAL PALACE
Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine
Points this challenge: 10
Cindy FTask 5.9 How to Save a Language
Word of 4 or more letters in ONE MILLION WELSH SPEAKERS
(SPEAK)
Let the Dead Speak by Jane Casey
Points this post:5
Total points:5
Books read:1
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:0
Non-Fiction:0
Tasks completed:1
Cindy FTask 5.10 As Easy As Falling Off A Log
Book of Choice
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Claim 1 BB ticket 724 pages
Points this post:5
Total points:10
Books read:2
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:1
Non-Fiction:0
Tasks Completed:2
Kristen IA15.10 Fall Back
Read a book first published in September, October, or November 2022
The Family Game by Catherine Steadman
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 280/950
Tasks Completed: 16/56
BB: 2
GO: 0
NF: 4
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.7 The Evolution of PopSci
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Points this post: 5
Total points: 455
Task completed: 30
Kristen IA20.2 - Rookie at the Top - MaryPDX’s Task: Open to Interpretation
Choose 1 book from either option below:
Required: State the option.
Option 1: Read a book with a MPG tag of Romance, History, Business or War.
Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 300/950
Tasks Completed: 17/56
BB: 2
GO: 0
NF: 4
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Non-fiction book about royalty: The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina Brown
Royalty is not an MPG, but it is clear from the book title and description that this book is about the British royal family.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 580