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WINTER CHALLENGE 2023
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JEN B20.6 - It's A Fact - MaryPDX's Task: Say It's Carol Singers
Option 1: Read a book written by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in one of these famous quotes:
“LOVE ACTUALLY IS ALL AROUND”
We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
TL in acTuaLly
TOTAL POINTS: 155
Joanne Mi20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter -
Option 2-hat on cover
An Argumentation of Historians approved in help thread
Points this task 20
Season Total 120
Joanne MI25.4 Robin P’s Task: Children’s Party Games
Option A : A four legged Animal on the cover
James Herriot's Animal Stories
Claiming 1 IAF
Option B: Authors Initials DONKEY TAIL
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
Claiming 1 IAF
Points this task 25
Season Total 145
IAF this post 2
Total IAF 2
Angela IL20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Kathy P's Task: Winter Love... Actually
Read a book by an author who shares a first or last name with one of the actors in the movie. The list of actors can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Ac...
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue- 12/13
ACTOR: Caroline John
AUTHOR: Caroline O'Donoghue
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 170
Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 11
It's A Fact Ticket: 1
Nick KY5.3 betterinasweater. I read The Whole Brain Diet: the microbiome solution to heal depression, anxiety, and mental fog without prescription drugs by Raphael Kellman
“BRAIN” has letters in BetteRINAsweater
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 375
MAZZA15.6- Christmas Murder Mystery Night
Read a MPG Mystery or Christmas.
Begars Abbey MPG Mystery
points this post = 5
Points to date = 390
JenJ IA10.2 - Festive Folklore
Read a book from the first 25 pages of the Folklore shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Required: State the page of the list your book is found on - Page 20
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 215/775
Tasks Completed: 17/49
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 1
trishhartuk20.4 Golden Oldies - Joop's Task: Golden Oldies
Option A: Read a book where 1 or more main characters is of old age.
Better Off Read, Nora Page
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (341pg)
The main character is described on the GR book page as “septuagenarian”. Her age is explicitly stated in the first line of the book itself: "in all her seventy-five years...", and her gentleman friend and best friend are of a similiar age profile
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 250
Tasks Completed: 19
It’s a Fact Tickets: 1
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Amy FL5.3- Better in a sweater
The Covenant of Water - WATER in betterinasWeATER
Points this post: 5
Total points: 185
Amy FL5.8 - Polar Bear Plunge
- 88.0 % #eeeef7 White per TineyePoints this post: 5
Total points: 190
Amy FL10.6 - Roll the Bones
The Secret - 323 pages in paperback edition
Points this post: 10
Total points: 200
Amy FL10.10 - The End?
Drowning - Best Endings list, page 2, #136
Points this post: 10
Total points: 210
Amy FL30.4 Nick KY’s Task: Murder in the Manor
Opt. B: The Quiet Tenant - MPG Horror
Opt. C: None of This Is True - NONE in NEwgate prisON
Points this post: 30
Total points: 240
Rockynook30.1 - The Life of Solomon
Phrase: "That was the end of Solomon Grundy"
Option 1:
Book 1 - author initials in phrase
Book 2 - word of 4 OR MORE letters in the title made from the remaining letters in your chosen line of verse
Book 1: Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
Book 2: Too Good to Be True by Carola Lovering
Initials: SL
Word: Good
that was the end of SOLOmon GrunDy
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 95
Mod
Fiction-Road Trips
The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley / Group Read
link to post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 20
Total points: 580
Mod
Option 1-
Book 1: The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros / THE has 3 letters, CITY has 4 letters, BEAUTIFUL has 9 letters
Book 2: Twisted Love by Ana Huang / 3-5-8 page count; 358pg top PB
Points this post: 25
Total points: 605
10.3 - Season of LoveBook: The Awakening
I read the kindle edition. The paperback edition has 434 pages.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 150
Rockynook15.8 - An Extra Day
Read a book published in a leap year
I Found You by Lisa Jewell
First pub. 2016
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 110
Kathy KS25.4 Robin P’s Task: Children’s Party Games
Option 2: Musical Chairs
Book A: Read a book with a chair on the cover.
by W. Daniel QuillenBook B: Read a book whose author’s first and last initials are found in MUSICAL CHAIRS.
How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records: A Genealogist's Guide by Sunny Jane Morton
SM=MuSical...
**Claiming 2 (two) It’s A Fact tickets** : NONFICTION (Both books)
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Points for this task: 25
Total points : 395
Tasks completed: 22/49
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 4
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 2
It's a Fact tickets total: 5
20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Kathy P's Task: Winter Love... ActuallyAuthor shares a name with one of the actors in Love Actually: The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
The actor is Martin Freeman as John.
The author is Madeline Martin.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 245
30.2 Katrisa's Task : Winter ZodiacOption 3: Aquarius - January 20- February 19
Book 1 - Read a book with an MPG of Mythology.
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief (Skandar #1) by A.F. Steadman
IL: MY - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15.0
448 pages
Book 2 - Read a book with a star or stars on the cover or with the word STAR/S in the title (not subtitle).
Bullet for a STAR (Toby Peters #1) by Stuart M. Kaminsky
188 pages
Total pages read: 636
Total this Post: 30
Season Total: 415
Bookwrm526Task #10.7 - It's-a Me, Mario!
Read a book by a single author whose name contains all the letters of one of the following Mario characters. I chose WARIO and read Starling House by Alix E. Harrow WARO in harrow, I in alix.
Total points so far: 240
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska20.1 - Most Improved - TessaVanessa's Task: TessaVanessa's NYC Adventure.
Option 1. Read a book with a title of 3+ words where the first letter of each word can be found in SESAME STREET.
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (293 p.) *
* I would like to claim 1 IAF ticket for this book, please.
➸ Total Points: 110
➸ Total Pages: 3,362
Truitt_T20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sarah E's Task: The Chocolate Game
Option 3: Chocolate Time
Task: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in CHOCOLATE.
10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall
Paperback: 10 Things That Never Happened
Author initals are found in cHocolAte.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 670 / 775
Sue T5.6 -Christmas Murder Mystery Night
Book with MPG of Mystery or Christmas
The Proof of the Pudding by Rhys Bowen
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 5/775
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Julia10330.4 Nick KY’s Task: Murder in the Manor
Option 1: Grace Under Pressure
This is on page 1 of the Whodunit Mansions list.
Option 3: Fourth Wing
WING can be made from the target phrase: W in Newgate, IN in Prison, G in Newgate
I read Kindle edition Fourth Wing. There is no MMP. The top paperback Alas de sangre is 706 pages so claiming one BB ticket.
This post: 30 points
Total points: 235
BB: 2
GO: 0
NF: 5
Tasks completed: 14
Books read: 19
MEGSCL15.9 Pass the Parcel
Borrowed from library - Romantic Comedy
Total
225 points
Tickets - 1 It’s a Fact - 2 Big Books
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.1 Mazza1's Task - The Life of Solomon
LINE: Married on Wednesday
Option 1:
a) The Caretaker by Ron Rash
b) Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
WORD: daisy
Points this post: 30
Total points: 530
Task completed: 38
Task 5.8 - Polar Bear Plungewhite cover - 78%
The Thurber Carnival
78.1 %#f7f7f7White
9.1 %#a2a2a2Grey
5.4 %#484848Grey
4.5 %#70706fGrey
1.7 %#ea7011Orange
0.7 %#e8a669Orange
0.5 %#e48c3fOrange
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470 points
Task 20.6 - Say It's Carol Singersoption 1: author initials AT in ACTUALLY
by Adrian Tchaikovsky=======
490 points
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.3 Cat : Books of the Winter Months
MONTH=December
Option 1:
Book 1: Lost December by Richard Paul Evans
Book 2: I Want You Gone by Miranda Rijks
Points this post: 30
Total points: 560
Task completed: 39
20.10 Group ReadsRead one of the books selected as a group read for the Winter 2023 season
The Only Good Indians
My comments are in comment thread #4 and #8
New Points: 20
Total Points: 145
BB: 1
GO: 1
IaF: 4
Mod
There Should Have Been Eight by Nalini Singh / set in New Zealand
Points this post: 10
Total points: 615
FLY Task #20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Kathy P's Task: Winter Love... Actually
task: Read a book by an author who shares a name with an actor in the movie.
book: A Very Punchable Face
(my version is audio, no MMPB, PB here)
how it fits: author = Colin Jost, actor = Colin Firth (Jamie)
other:
**claiming IAF ticket for nonfiction memoir
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 4/49
BB: 0 / GO: 0 / IAF: 1
MAZZA115.5 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...
Hunting the Mirror Man
Using the word Man which appears in the novella The Haunted Man
Points this post = 15
Points to date = 405
10.7 It's-a-me, Mario! I read Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - the author's name includes all the letters of Mario (silvia MOReno gArcIa)
New Total: 45
15.5 What the Dickens!I read The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai - shares a title word (great) with Great Expectations
New Total: 60
20.4 Golden Oldies I chose option A and read The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman - the premise is a murder solving club in a retirement community and all the main characters make reference to being in their 70s.
New Total: 80
Lisa MD15.1 - Long and Short
Book A: Short
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler
178 pgs
I claim an IAF ticket
Book B: Long
A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination by Mary Haverstick
548 pgs
I claim a BB ticket
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 105
Total Books Read: 8
Total Tasks Completed: 6 / 49
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 3
Andy P.Task # 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Jenny H's Task: The Nobel Prize
Option 2. Read a book by an author born in Sweden
After She's Gone by Camilla GrebeAccorrding to the blurb on the back cover, Grebe was born in 1968 in Alvsjo, Sweden.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 285
5.3- Better in a sweaterTitle word found in BETTERINASWEATER: The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry
The word is Street.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 250
Andy P.Task # 15.3 Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All
a) Read a book where the letters of UDHR appear in the title
Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
UDHR all found in word Daughter
b) Read a book that is on the first 20 pages of one of the following shelves: "human rights"
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity by Izzeldin Abuelaish found on page 3 # 3 from bottom as of 1/12/34
Points this post: 15
Total points: 300
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.1 Most Improved - TessaVanessa's Task: TessaVanessa's NYC Adventure
Option 1: The Suite Spot by Trish Doller
Sesame STreet
Points this post: 20
Total points: 580
Task completed: 40
Amy B5.8- Polar Bear Plunge
Read book with a cover of at least 70% White according to Tineye. https://labs.tineye.com/color/
Required Post the Cover
Nobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End: A Memoir by Liz Levine (89.2% white)
This Task: 5 Points
To Date: 80 Points
10.6 - Roll the BonesHappy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Collection has 143 pages
Point this Post: 10
Total Points: 250
Total IAFs to date: 2
LoraTask: 25.2 JennRenee's Task: Oh What Fun!, using Option 1
Book 1:
Book/Author: The Clue of the Gold Coin / Helen Wells
How it fits: #12 in the Vicki Barr Flight Stewardess series
Book 2:
Book/Author: Twenty-Seven Minutes / Ashley Tate (publisher's advanced copy)
How it fits: author's initials AT are in TIS THE SEASON
Points for this task: 25
Total points: 415
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: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 7
Barbara ★25.4 - Robin P’s Task: Children’s Party Games
Option 1
Book A: Read a book with a four-legged animal’s tail on the cover (no birds or fish and must be a real world animal, not mythical).
Statue of Limitations - Kate Collins 12/17
Book B: Read a book whose author’s first and last initials are found in DONKEY TAIL.
Meet Your Baker - Ellie Alexander 1/11
(E & A in donkEy tAil)
Points this task: 25
Total points: 320
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Barbara ★20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Kathy P's Task: Winter Love... Actually
Read a book by an author who shares a first or last name with one of the actors in the movie
Line of Fire - Jo Davis 1/1
(Julia "Davis" as Nancy)
Points this task: 20
Total points: 340
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Barbara ★15.4 - Feed the Birds
OPTION 1
a) Read a book with a bird on the cover
The bird may be sketched, outline, silhouette or realistic but must be identifiable as a bird with a significant portion of wing and either beak or feet visible
Lethally Lit - Amber Boffin (owl) 1/9
b) Read a book where ALL of the author's initials are found in ONE of the following most common British garden birds, according to the Big Garden Birdwatch 2020:
book:The Game Bird|39881285] - Aidan R. Walsh 12/19
(A & W in House spArroW)
Points this task: 15
Total points: 355
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
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Required: State the option => OPTION 2
Option 2: Read a book with a person wearing at least one of a hat, scarf, or glove(s) on the cover.
I read Miss Marple Omnibus: Dood van een danseres / De giftige pen / Wie adverteert een moord! / Een handvol rogge by Agatha Christie
Required: Post the cover =>
** Miss Marple Omnibus: Dood van een danseres / De giftige pen / Wie adverteert een moord! / Een handvol rogge is a Big Book (800 pages). Claiming 2 BB tickets.**
Points for this task: 20
Total points : 130+20=150/775
Tasks completed: 9/49
Big Book tickets for this task: 2
Big Book tickets total: 4
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: 1