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SPRING CHALLENGE 2024
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Amy FL15.1 - Here's the Question
Book 1: What the Wind Knows - WHAT in title
Book 2: Up on the Woof Top by Spencer Quinn - SQ in QueStion
Points this post: 15
Total points: 135
Amy FL15.3 X's and O's
Option 1
Book 1: The Raw Shark Texts - X in teXts
Book 2: Her Deadly Game by Robert Dugoni - two O's in rObert dugOni
Points this post: 15
Total points: 150
Amy FL15.8 Readers Unite!
- books on coverPoints this post: 15
Total points: 165
Amy FL20.9 Moderators Pet - Marie-Anne's Task: Card Game Memories
Option 3: Stolen Justice - Cass Leary Legal Thriller #4, first published August 7, 2019
Points this post: 20
Total points: 185
Juliajoy5.5 Welcome, Watchers of Illusion
Title: Book of Night
Author: Holly Black
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Lindsey IL20.5 - Lisa’s Task: Bowling For Dollars
The Kielbasa Killer by Geri Krotow
option A, “WBAL” can be found in the title and/or author’s name
kieLBAsa killer by geri krotoW
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 70
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
IAF: 1
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
20.1 Most Improved - FLY's Task: Springing To MindOption 1, a drink on the cover: Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys by Harper Lin
Points this post: 20
Total points: 155
ROBIN P20.8 Nickels & Dimes - Trishhartuk's Task: The Golden Shot
Option 3 - word in title from BERNIE THE BOLT
A Closed and Common Orbit - word is ORBIT
Points this post: 20
Total points: 160
BB:0 GO: 0 IAF:1
20.4 Golden Oldies - Hannelore's Task: I Really Like This BowlOption 3, author initials in I REALLY LIKE THIS SHOW": The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
Points this post: 20
Total points: 175
Readerboard Name: Kathy P15.5 Survey Says
The Measure
2022 nominee for both best Science Fiction and best debut novel
Totals
Points: 30
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 0
Total Tasks Completed: 2
Total Books Completed: 2
Karen DTask 20.9 Moderators Pet - Marie-Anne's Task: Card Game Memories
Option 2 - Read a book where the number of pages does not include digits 2 through 6.
Book: The Pillars of the Earth, finished 3/23
Has 1,008 pages
Points this task: 20
Total points: 125
Delicious Dee20.1 Most Improved - FLY's Task: Springing To Mind
Option 3 - As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow - Zoulfa Katouh - ZK found in FUZZY YELLOW DUCKLINGS
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 140
15.5 ~ Survey SaysRead a book that has won or been nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
Required: State the category and year for the winner or nomination.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto3.23.24
Pages ~
Required ~ 2023 Nominee Best Mystery & Thriller
Task Points ~ 15
Total Points ~ 15
Lys20.10 Group Reads
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse
I posted my reaction on the discussion board.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 70+ 20= 90
Total Tasks Completed: 7
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Big Books: 1+0 = 1
Golden Oldies: 1+0 = 1
It's a Fact: 4+0=4
Lys15.6 Rebirth, Renew, Refresh
Beauty and His Beast
This is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 90+ 15= 105
Total Tasks Completed: 8
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Big Books: 1+0 = 1
Golden Oldies: 1+0 = 1
It's a Fact: 4+0=4
10.4 - The Adventure Game
Read a book with MPG Adventure
One Piece, Volume 8: I Won't Die
New Points: 10
Total Points: 275
Tickets as of this post: BB(3), GO(1), IaF(5)
20.6 - It's a Fact - Jammin Jenny's Task: TV Family Fun
Option 1: Read a book with MPG humor
One Piece, Volume 9: Tears
(Confirmed in help thread)
New Points: 20
Total Points: 295
Tickets as of this post: BB(3), GO(1), IaF(5)
ROBIN P20.6 It's a Fact - JamminJenny's Task: TV Family Fun
Option 4 - Match Game -author name matches panelist with at least 20 appearances
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot matches panelist George Kennedy who had 29 appearances
**claiming 1 GO point, 1st pub 1876
**claiming 2 BB points, 796 p in this edition
Points this post: 20
Total points: 180
BB:2 GO:1 IAF:1
Lindsey IL5.2 - What Goes Around...
This Indian Kid: A Native American Memoir by Eddie Chuculate
I borrowed this book from my local library.
***It's A Fact ticket, please***
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 75
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
IAF: 2
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
Mai20.7 Shorter is Sweeter Lois' Task: The Dating Game
MPG Romance (Paranormal Romance) that is #2 in a series.
One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 100
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 7
NF Tickets: 6
Golden Oldies: 0
EMurphy20.1 Most Improved-FLY's Task: Springing to Mind
Option 3: ALL the author's initials in the phrase FUZZY YELLOW DUCKLINGS Family of Liars by E. Lockhart
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 50
Books Read: 3
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Tasks Completed: 2
Kai20.10 Group Reads
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
My comment
New Points: 20
Tasks Competed: 3
Total Points: 50
Jasmiina F20.5 - Bigger is Better - Lisa’s Task: Bowling For Dollars:
Option C: Read a book where one of these Bowling For Dollars terms: STRIKE, SPARE, PIN PAL or JACKPOT can be made using letters in the Title:
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher.
Term: STRIKE
Points this post: 20
Total points: 40
Golden Oldies this post:
Total Golden Oldies:
Big Book Tickets this post: 1 (500+)
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+: 1
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
Mai20.2 Rookie at the Top-JenJ IA's Task: LEGO Masters - Play Well, Read Well!
Opt3:
a) Read a book with a two-word title (where the second word starts with the last letter of the first word.
Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection by Tung-Hui Hu
*Claim 1 NF Ticket*
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 120
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 8
NF Tickets: 7
Golden Oldies: 0
Janice CA20.1 - Springing To Mind
Option 2: MPG - biography
High on Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips
+20
total: 20
tasks: 1
books: 1
Sue T30.7 - TessaVanessa - The Price is Right
Option 1: book with a word of five letters or more that can be made from COME ON DOWN, YOU’RE THE NEXT CONTESTANT
Forgotten In Death by J.D. Robb
Word is Death
Option 4:book with a domestic dog or cat on the cover
Curiosity Thrilled the Cat by Sofie Kelly
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 30/1110
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Theresa10.3 - Dusty Bin
Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas
DuSty bin
Points this post - 10
Total points - 30
Theresa10.5 - Blankety Blank
Nantucket Nights by Elin Hilderbrand
NN
Points this post - 10
Total points - 40
30.4 - Cat's Task: Books of OceaniaOption 2: One Book Option
Read one book of at least 500 pages that fits both
Book 1: Read a book that is set (at least 70%) in one or more countries in Oceania
Book 2: Read a book that is written by an author born in a country in Oceania.
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
The book is set in Australia and the author was born in Australia according to the Goodreads metadata
***Claiming a Big Book tickets for page length of 576 pages***
New Points" 30
Total Points: 85
BB: 1
IaF: 1
Katrisa15.5-Survey Says
Read a book that has won or been nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards
I read Family of Liars
Nominee for Best Young Adult Fiction (2022)
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 315
Lindsey IL10.8 - Spring Forward
Sit, Stay, Love by Debbie Burns
This book is #2 in the Rescue Me series, and it was new to me. I've already read the first book in the series - A New Leash on Love. https://www.goodreads.com/series/1961...
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 85
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
IAF: 2
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
trishhartuk10.7 Springtime in Paris
Read a book set at least 75% in France.
La Vie: A year in rural France, John Lewis-Stempel
Read the kindle edition. HB (PB has no pagecount): here (195pg)
100% set in France, mostly the Charente department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, swith a brief diversion to Paris.
From the GR description: “'Britain's finest living nature writer' takes the plunge and buys an old farmhouse deep in the French countryside”
It’s a Fact: MPGs include Nonfiction, Nature and Memoir
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
It’s a Fact: 1 – La Vie is non-fiction
Total Points: 155
Tasks Completed:11
It’s a Fact Tickets: 1
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Joanne MI10.10 A book where author and title both contain a B
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown
Claiming 1 IAF
Points this task 10
IAF this task 1
Season Total 75
IAF 2
Joanne MI5.2 What Goes Around...
Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
Book was borrowed from the library
Claiming 1 IAF
Points this task 5
IAF 1
Season Total 80
IAF 3
Nick KY10.6 Traitor
I read Sargasso of Space by Andre Norton, pseudonym of Alice Mary Norton.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 190
Nick Ky20.8 TrishhartUK’s Opt. 1. Book 1st pub’d1967-1975. I read– The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe, 1st pub'd 1972.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 210
Nick KY30.2 Susan A’s Word Search
Book 1. A 4+ letter word in the title has all its letters in the author’s name.
I read Above the Line: My Wild Oats Adventure by Shirley MacLaine. “LINE” in macLaINE.
Book 2. A title that contains all the letters of one of the author’s names.
I read Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany. “DELANY” in “stars in mY pocket LikE grains of sAND.”
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 240
Bookwrm5265.7 Trust Nobody
Read a book with an MPG of Espionage or Spy Thriller. I read The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen.
Total points so far: 135
Delicious Dee25.4: Nick KY’s Task: Nordic Noir Plus Ten
Book A - The Guests - set in Norway, first published 2022
Book B - A Brush with Love - published 2022 - fits option C
Points this Post: 25
Points Total: 165
Andy P.Task # 5.5 Welcome, Watchers of Illusion
Read a book where the title contains a word of four letters or more that can be made from the letters in KNIGHTMARE.
The Angel Maker by Alex North
The word is Maker KNIGHTMARE
Points this post: 5
Total points: 85
ROBIN P5.3 P-P-P Pick Up a Penguin
Book with Penguin edition
Captains Courageous - on Wikipedia page
**claiming 1 GO point, pub 1897
AR Bookfinder: UG, GL8.0, AR 9.0
Points this post: 5
Total points: 185
BB:2 GO:2 IAF:1
SUSAN A25.9 Chris MD - Dance with Me
Option 1: Read a book that is either #1, 2, or 3 in a series that has at least three books
Solstice by Eli Easton
NO MMPB. paperpack here
#1 in The Lake Prophet Mysteries, which has 3 books
Option 2: Read a book that shows a coastline on the cover.
The Descent by Matt Brolly
I listened to audiobook. No MMPB. paperback here
previous post: 860
points this post: 25
new total: 885
SUSAN A15.3 X's and O's - Option 1
Book 1: Read a book with a title that contains at least one X
In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation by Alexandra Vasti
approved for length here (not yet added to spreadsheet)
X in the word Halifax
Book 2: Read a book with a single author that contains at least 2 O's in their name, first, last , or middle.
In the Clearing by Robert Dugoni
I listened to audiobook. No MMPB. paperback here
2 Os in author name: RObert DugOni
previous post: 885
points this post: 15
new total: 900
5.1 Spring ColoursRead a book whose cover contains a minimum of three distinct colours according to TinEye.
by Annalee NewitzI'd like an It's A Fact ticket for Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (nonfiction)**
Point this Post: 5
Total Points: 90
IAFs this post: 1
Total IAFs to date: 6
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Karen DTask 20.3 Best Review - Lucy-Bookworm's Task: Subtitles
Book: Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe, finished 3/25
Points this task: 20
Total points: 145
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The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler / on Wiki list of classics
Points this post: 5
Total points: 5
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More Than I Could by Adriana Locke / THAN in phrase
Points this post: 5
Total points: 10
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Unstoppable!: My Journey from World Champion to Athlete A to 8-Time NCAA National Gymnastics Champion and Beyond by Maggie Nichols / ! in title
Points this post: 5
Total points: 15
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Lore Olympus, Vol. 3 by Rachel Smythe / new to me, #3 in series, I had previously read #1, 2 in series
Points this post: 10
Total points: 25
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