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WINTER CHALLENGE 2023
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15.6 Lets CelebrateThe Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman
The letters RO are in FIREWORKS
Post Total 15
Grand Total: 195
MAZZA120.1 - Most Improved - TessaVanessa's Task: TessaVanessa's NYC Adventure
Option 1
Read a book that has a title of at least 3 words, where the first letter of each word appears in SESAME STREET.
The Summerville Sisters
Points this post = 20
points to date = 625
Bookwrm526Task #5.10 A Holiday Gift For You
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules. I read Seven Years of Darkness by You-Jeong Jeong.
Total points so far: 385
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sarah E's Task: The Chocolate GameOption 2: Get Dressed Up (person wearing hat on cover)
Changeless by Gail Carriger
Total points: 120 + 20 = 140
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 0
Delicious Dee30.3 Cat : Books of the Winter Months
Option 1 - December
Book A - Just for December
Book B - Lovebug - Erin Mallon - EM found in December
Points in Post: 30
Total Points: 415
Its a Fact Tickets: 3
Big Book Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies: 1
ROBIN P15.10 Here Be Dragons
Option B - word Dragon in title
Under the Dragon's Tail
Points this post: 15
Total points: 500
BB:2 GO:4 IAF:4
Jen K25.2 JennRenee's Task: Oh What Fun!
Option 1: Twelve Days
Book 1: The Triumphant Daughter
Unstoppable Liv Beaufont #4
Book 2: Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood
SeaSon
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 475
IAF: 1
Jen K20.5 - Bigger is Better - Jenny H's Task: The Nobel Prize
Option 2: Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck
Author born in Sweden, noted in bio
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 495
IAF: 1
Kelly L 15.4 Feed the Birds
Cover image has a bird, and all author initials found in bird name
Option 2 - 1 book that fits both A & B
Weyward by Emilia Hart EH found in {{H}}ous{{E}} sparrow
This task: 15 points
Season total: 15 points
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Jenny H's Task: The Nobel PrizeOption 2: Read a book by an author born in Sweden or Norway.
Sweet Revenge (Hämndserien #1-2) by Camilla Lackberg
Total this Post: 20
Season Total: 635
20.1 - Most Improved - TessaVanessa's Task: TessaVanessa's NYC AdventureOption 4, author shares a name with KISS member Tommy Thayer: The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again by Nancy Thayer
Points this post: 20
Total points: 470
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ10.2 - Festive Folklore
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
This book is found on Page 6 of the Folklore Books list
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): Elatsoe
This post: 10 points
Total points to date: 170 points
Tasks completed: 12
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ20.2 - Christmas Special
Faking Christmas by Cindy Steel
This book features a word of 4 or more letters (Christmas) from one of the television specials: Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): Faking Christmas
This post: 20 points
Total points to date: 190 points
Tasks completed: 13
MAZZA110.4 - You All Meet In A Tavern...
Read a book that contains one of the following D&D classes in its Using WIZARD
Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
points this post = 10
Points to date = 635
trishhartuk15.1 Long and Short
a) Read a SHORT book (under 200 pages)
Finding Hope, Kathi Daley
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (172pg)
b) Read a LONG book (over 500 pages)
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB: here (502pg)
Started the Winter Challenge 15% through the kindle edition, so equivalent to page 75 or thereabouts.
Big book: 502pg = 500+ x 1 = 1tkt
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 2
Big Book: 1 – The Night Circus is 502opg = 500+ x 1 = 1tkt
Total Points: 335
Tasks Completed: 24
It’s a Fact Tickets: 1
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big book Tickets: 1
Jen K20.1 - Most Improved - TessaVanessa's Task: TessaVanessa's NYC Adventure
Option 1: The Stubborn Advocate
sesAme STreet
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 520
IAF: 1
Jen K10.2 - Festive Folklore
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Page 2 of list
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 540
IAF: 1
Jen K10.3 - Season of Love
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
MPG Romance
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 550
IAF: 1
MaryPDX15.3 Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All
Option b: Read a book from the lists given.
List Chosen: Dignity, page 1
The Midnight Library
This Task:
BB: 0
IF: 0
GO: 0
Books: 1
Points: 15
Totals:
BB: 1
IF: 5
GO: 2
Points: 290
Nick KY30.3 Cat’s Winter Months
I chose the month of February.
Book 1. I read Carry Yourself Back to Me by Deborah Reed, all letters in FEBRUARY in the title: “cARRY yoUrselF Back to mE.” 316 pp
Book 2. I read Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story by Ron Franscell, inits in FebruaRy. 336 pp.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 550
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyWinter 2023 SRC
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sarah E's Task: The Chocolate Game
Option 3: Chocolate Time
Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in CHOCOLATE.
Vengeance of the Pirate Queen by Tricia Levenseller
Points this post: 20
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 60
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
ROBIN P10.4 You All Meet in a Tavern
Character name in title
A Rogue's Life - Rogue is one of the names
**Claiming 1 GO point, orig pub 1856
Points this post: 10
Total points: 510
BB:2 GO:5 IAF:4
Kelly L10.1 - Poetry for Neanderthals
Title words are all 1 syllable
Tom Lake
This task: 10 points
Season total: 25 points
Kelly L10.3 - Seasons of Love
MPG Romance
The Fiancée Farce
This task: 10 points
Season total: 35 points
Kelly L10.6 - Roll the Bones
Page numbers only consist of digits 1-6
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Page number = 416
This task: 10 points
Season total: 45 points
Kelly L20.6 - It's a Fact
Author initials found in LOVE ACTUALLY IS ALL A{{RO}}UND
A Wild and Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira
Initials RO found in phrase -- a{{RO}}und
This task: 20 points
Season total: 65 points
Kelly L20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter
Option 1, Roll a : Read #6 in a series
Among the Mad, #6 in the Maisie Dobbs series
This task: 20 points
Season total: 85 points
Mod
Read a book that features ghosts or spirits.
read Silence for the Dead
points this post 10
total points 270
Mod
Read a book that has won or has been nominated for a literary award that begins with one of the letters found in WINTER
read The Return
award: RUSA CODES Reading List Nominee for Horror (2021)
points this post 10
total points 280
Mod
Read a book with MPG Music
read Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
points this post 15
total points 295
Mod
Read a book with the word Dragon intact in the title or subtitle
read Dragon's Blood
points this post 15
total points 310
Mod
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” (Love Actually)
read The Hike by Lucy Clarke
points this post 20
total points 330
Mod
option 3 :Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in CHOCOLATE
read Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford
points this post 20
total points 350
Lys15.8 An Extra Day
When Breath Becomes Air
This book was published in 2016, a leap year.
I would like to claim an "NF" ticket for this book.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 110
NF tix: 4
BB tix: 1
Tasks Completed: 11
Lys15.9 Pass the Parcel
The Madness Vase
I borrowed this book from the library.
I would like to claim an "NF" ticket for this book.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 125
NF tix: 5
BB tix: 1
Tasks Completed 12
Mod
Lys15.4 Feed the Birds
A:
Bird on the cover
I would like to claim an "NF" ticket for this book.
B:
Call Us What We Carry: Poems
AG for Amanda Gorman found in GreAt tit
I would like to claim an "NF" ticket for this book.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 140
NF tix: 7
BB tix: 1
Tasks Completed: 13
Lys15.5 What the Dickens!
Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
"LIFE" in the title matches the Dickens' novella "The Battle of Life"
I would like to claim an "NF" ticket for this book.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 155
NF tix: 8
BB tix: 1
Tasks Completed: 14
Lys30.1 Mazza1's Task - The Life of Solomon
thAt was the end of SoLOmon GRunDy
LORD for
Lord of the Butterflies
I would like to claim an "NF" ticket for this book.
and AG for
Andrea Gibson who wrote Take Me With You
I would like to claim an "NF" ticket for this book.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 185
NF tix: 10
BB tix: 1
Tasks Completed: 15
15.3 Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for AllBook A, UDHR in title: The Husband Hour by Jamie Brenner
Book B, a book from Dignity Books page 3: Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Points this post: 15
Total points: 485
Deborah25.4 Robin P’s Task: Children’s Party Games
Option 1: Pin the Tail on the Donkey
A)
Six Cats a Slayin'B) Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong
KA: DONKEY TAIL
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 255
Books Read: 20
Tasks Done: 15
Line20,5
Read a book by an author born in Sweden or Norway
I READ Sandmannen which is written by Lars Kepler. Lars Kepler is a pseudonym used by a swedish couple
.points for this task: 20
total points: 35
books read: 4
tasks done:4
Task 20.5 - The Nobel Prizeoption 1: Nobel Literature Prize Winner 2023
Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse
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710 points
Julia10325.1 Susan A's Task: Long, Longer, Longest
Book 1: The King's Consort: The Louise Rasmussen Story (3,5,7)
Book 2: Wrighting Old Wrongs
I read the Kindle edition. The paperback Wrighting Old Wrongs has 359 pages.
This post: 25 points
Total points: 435
BB: 3
GO: 0
NF: 7
Tasks completed: 26
Books read: 34
10.2 - Festive FolkloreRead a book from the first 25 pages of the Folklore shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Required: State the page of the list your book is found on: page 8
Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 320
Nick KY15.8 Extra Day I read Tracks by Louise Erdrich, 1st pub’d in leap year 1988.
Points This Post: 15
Total points So Far: 565
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