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WINTER CHALLENGE 2023
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Task 15.4 - Feed the Birdsone book option: bird on cover, author initials GS in STARLING
The Judge's House by Georges Simenon
pub 1940 - claiming 1 GO tix
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15 points
1 GO tix
Cindy FTask 5.7 Telephone Pictionary
MPG Graphic Novel
The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel by Khaled Hosseini
Points this post:5
Total points:5
Books read:1
Big Books:0
Golden Oldies:0
Non-Fiction:0
Tasks completed:1
Kristen IA5.1- No "L" Day
Read a book with no "L" In the title/subtitle/authors name
if multiple authors none of them may contain the letter "L"
Resting Scrooge Face by Meghan Quinn
The ebook was conditionally approved for length for a 5 point task in post 115 and line 2698 of spreadsheet.
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 5/795
Tasks Completed: 1/50
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 0
Katrisa10.4 - You All Meet In A Tavern...
Read a book that contains one of the following D&D classes in its title or subtitle: Fighter, Bard, Cleric, Warlock, Sorcerer, Wizard, Paladin, Rogue, Ranger, Druid, Monk or Barbarian.
I read Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
WIZARD in subtitle
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 10
Jayme(theghostreader)5.6 Christmas Murder Mystery Night
Pink Lemonade Cake Murderby Joanne Fluke
MPG mystery
Total Points: 5
Grand Total: 5
Deborah10.3 - Season of Love
Elves with Benefits MPG: Romance
E-Book verification approved for length post # 115
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 10
Books Read: 1
Tasks Done: 1
Delicious Dee10.3 - Season of Love
The Do-Over - romance is the top genre
Points in Post: 10
Total Points: 10
Delicious Dee10.5 - A Ghost Story For Christmas
Ghost of a Chance - the main character is trying to figure out why ghosts have appeared in her house and what they are trying to tell her
Points in Post: 10
Total Points: 20
Delicious Dee20.10 Group Reads
The Lost City of the Monkey God - My post is comment 3 of the thread; claiming 1 its a fact ticket
Points in Post: 20
Total Points: 40
Its a Fact Tickets: 1
Julia10310.7 - It's-a Me, Mario!
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
MARIO is in author name: MAR in Garmus, IO in Bonnie
This post: 10 points
Total points: 10
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 0
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Katrisa5.8- Polar Bear Plunge
Read book with a cover of at least 70% White according to Tineye.
I read
75.1% white according to tineye
Points this Post: 5
Points Total: 15
Katrisa5.9- Secret Santa
Read a book with a Santa or a gift on the cover.
I read
Points this Post: 5
Points Total: 20
Delicious Dee10.9 - Winners of Winter
The Project - ITW Thriller Award for Young Adult Novel (2022) - I found in WINTER
Points in Post: 10
Total Points: 50
Its a Fact Tickets: 1
5.7- Telephone PictionaryRead a book with the MPG Art or Manga/comic book/graphic novels/Sequential Art
Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis
Points in Post: 5
Total Points: 5
ROBIN P10.1 Poetry for Neanderthals
All word in title are 1 syllable
Knit One, Drop One
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
LoraTask:
5.2- Unique Like a Snowflake
Read a book where each word in title contains no repeat letters.
Book/Author: Sugar Coated Lies / Jan Fields
How it fits: no repeat letters in any of each of the three words in the title
Points for this task: 5
Total points: 5
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 0
LoraTask:
15.5 What the Dickens!
Read a book that shares a word of 3 letters or more in the title with one of Dickens novel/novella (excluding "The" and "And")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
Book/Author: Mission: Christmas Proposal / Lucy McConnell and Ellie Thornton (ebook Approved post https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)
How it fits: shares the word "Christmas" with "A Christmas Carol"
Points for this task: 15
Total points: 20
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 0
trishhartuk10.1 Poetry for Neanderthals
Read a book where all the words in the title consist of a single syllable
She and Her Cat, Makoto Shinkai, Naruki Nagakawa
Read the kindle edition. Top PB (Spanish): here (218pg). Top English PB: here (144pg)
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 1
Mary P5.3- Better in a sweater
Read a book with a 4 or more letter word found in betterinasweater in the title.
Thunder and Rain by Charles Martin
Word- Rain
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 15
Mary P10.3 - Season of Love
Read a book with the MPG Romance.
Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
Points this task: 10
Total points: 15
ROBIN P10.3 Season of Love
MPG Romance
The Mistletoe Temptation: A Regency Christmas Romance
Points this post: 10
Total points: 20
Kathy KS15.9 Pass the Parcel
Read a book that has been "passed on". For the purposes of this task, your book may have been gifted to you, obtained second hand, or borrowed from the libraryRequired: State where you obtained the book
Hope's Chance by Julane Hiebert
I borrowed the book from the library where my sister is director!
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Points for this task: 15
Total points : 15
Tasks completed: 1/?
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 0
Andy P.Task # 10.5 - A Ghost Story For Christmas
Read a book that features ghosts or spirits.
A Head Full of Ghosts by A Head Full of Ghosts
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
MaryPDX5.3 Better in a sweater
Read a book with a 4 or more letter word found in betterinasweater in the title.
We Were Liars word: "Were"
This Task:
BB: 0
IF: 0
GO: 0
Books: 1
Points: 5
Totals:
BB: 0
IF: 0
GO: 0
Tasks: 1
Books: 1
Points: 5
MaryPDX15.9 Pass the Parcel
*** 1 IF ticket***
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Borrowed from the library
This Task:
BB: 0
IF: 1
GO: 0
Books: 1
Points: 15
Totals:
BB: 0
IF: 1
GO: 0
Tasks: 2
Books: 2
Points: 20
Erica H.Task 30.1 - Mazza1's Task - The Life of Solomon
Using Option 1 - Two book option
a) Author’s FIRST and LAST initials appear in the line of verse.
b) A word of 4 OR MORE letters in the title made from the remaining letters in your chosen line of verse
Chosen line of verse:
That was the end of Solomon Grundy
Book 1. The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life by Laurie Notaro
Author's initials L and N appear in the verse in the word soLomoN. I listened to the audio book for this book. There is no MMP. The paperback version has 225 pgs.
Book 2. West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge. The word WEST is 4 letters and its letters are found in the rest of the verse: That WaS thE end of ... grundy
I am claiming an It's a Fact ticket for the The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life book.
Points for this task: 30
Total points: 30
Tasks completed: 1
BB tickets: 0
GO tickets: 0
NF tickets: 1
20.10 Group ReadsThe Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley
discussion post #2
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Katrisa20.10 Group Reads
I read Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and posted in the thread.
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 40
15.9 Pass the ParcelRead a book that has been "passed on". For the purposes of this task, your book may have been gifted to you, obtained second hand, or borrowed from the library
Required: State where you obtained the book
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
borrowed from the library
Post Total = 15
Season Total = 20
LoraTask:
5.6- Christmas Murder Mystery Night
Read a MPG Mystery or Christmas. Genres may be embedded or stand alone
Book/Author: A Deadly Chapter / Jan Fields
How it fits: MPG of Mystery, and also MPG of Christmas (in case one disappears)
Points for this task: 5
Total points: 25
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 0
5.6- Christmas Murder Mystery NightBook: Same Time Next Year
How it fits: MPG Christmas
I read the kindle edition and there is no print edition. It was approved for length here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 5
Total points: 5
Mod
Read a book that is first published in or is set in the 1980's.
Ticket to the World: My 80s Story
This book is described as "is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all" and it is very much an "80s book"
This is a non-fiction book so I claim an "It's a Fact" ticket
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 5
Total Tasks Completed: 1
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Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0 + 1 = 1
Joanne MI IGNORE THIS POST-Wrong edition posted here, reposting15.10 Here be Dragons
The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall
Dragon on the Cover
Points this task 15
Season Total 15
Kai5.7 Telephone Pictionary
Read a book with the MPG Art or Manga/comic book/graphic novels/Sequential Art
Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky
New Points: 5
Tasks Competed: 1
Total Points: 5
Kathy KS10.1 - Poetry for Neanderthals
Read a book where all the words in the title consist of a single syllable,
If She Ran by Blake Pierce
I listened to an audiobook; pb-166 p. (no mmpb)
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Points for this task: 10
Total points : 25
Tasks completed: 2/?
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 0
Aimee G10.6 - Roll the Bones
Read a book whose page count consists solely of numbers found on a traditional six-sided die
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
page count for my edition: 264
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Points for this task: 10
Total points: 10
BB: 0; GO: 0; IaF: 0
5.9- Secret SantaSimple Lies (Amish Inn Mysteries #3) by Jan Fields
Total this Post: 5
Season Total: 5
Katrisa5.4- A Werewolf in the Mafia
Read a book that is first published in or is set in the 1980's
I read My Best Friend's Exorcism it is set mostly in 1988.
Points this Post: 5
Points Total: 45
Julia10310.6 - Roll the Bones
Canary Girls: A Novel (432 pages)
This post: 10 points
Total points: 20
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 0
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska15.9 - Pass the Parcel.
Read a book that has been passed on to you.
Scythe by Neal Shusterman (435 p.) *
* I checked this book out from the library
➸ Total Points: 15
➸ Total Pages: 435
ROBIN P5.9 Secret Santa
Santa or gift on cover
Weird Christmas
- Santa on cover**Claiming 1 IAF point, nonfiction**
Points this post: 5
Total points: 25
BB:0 GO:0 IAF:1
Natalie CH10.3 - Season of Love
MPG Romance
The Brutal Truth by Lee Winter
point this post: 10
total points: 10
15.8 An Extra DayMurder Simply Played (Amish Inn Mysteries #4) by Rachael O. Phillips
pub 2016
Total this Post: 15
Season Total: 20
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ5.9 - Secret Santa
A Down Home Christmas by Liz Talley
This cover has gifts under the tree.
Link to MMP edition: A Down Home Christmas
This post: 5 points
Total points to date: 5 points
Tasks completed: 1
Joanne MI10.2 - Festive Folklore
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Found on page 2 of the list
Points this task 10
Season Total 25
Joanne MIRepost from message # 36 where Kindle Link was used in error, I Read the paperback
15.10 Here be Dragons
The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall
Dragon on the Cover
Points this task 15
Season Total 15
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ5.7 - Telephone Pictionary
Our Not-So-Lonely Planet Travel Guide, Volume 1 by Mone Sorai
This book has a MPG of Manga.
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): Our Not-So-Lonely Planet Travel Guide, Volume 1
This post: 5 points
Total points to date: 10 points
Tasks completed: 2
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