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SPRING CHALLENGE 2024
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Christine V20.1 Most Improved - FLY's Task: Springing To Mind
Option 3: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Points this post: 20
Total points: 80
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=1)
It's A Fact: 2
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read a book where the Title AND Author name both contain the letter B
read The Murder After the Night Before by Katy Brent
points this post 10
total points 130
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Read a book that has an author with a first or last name of one of the panel members from this list (they need to be on at least 20 episodes).
read Between Two Strangers by by Kate White
panelist Betty White
points this post 20
total points 150
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Option 1: Swimming
Read a book where author's (first & last) initials are found in one of these swimming training aids: PULLBUOY
read Keep Your Friends Closeby Lucinda Berry
Option 3: Crossfit
The teen is lifting 102.5kg for dead lift these days. Read a book with page count that consists of with at least 2 of these numbers (0, 1, 2, 5). Numbers may not repeat.
read The Stillwater Girls page count 256
points this post 25
total points 175
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Book A: Read a book set primarily (at least 50%) in a Nordic country or written by a single Nordic author (by birth or by residence).
read The Midnight Witness by by Sara Blaedel 281 pages - author Bornin Copenhagen, Denmark
Book B: Read a book that is connected to Book A in one of the following ways:
1. By author’s name The first or last name of the author of Book B is the same as the author of Book A
read Safe In My Arms by Sara Shepard 304 pages
points this post 25
total points 200
Kristen IA5.1 Spring Colours
Read a book whose cover contains a minimum of three distinct colours according to TinEye. A guide to using TinEye can be found here.
Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank by Elle Cosimano
Required: Post the cover
66.3 % Violet
11.2 % Black
6.9 % Green
6.2 % White
3.8 % Orange
2.9 % Red
1.9 % Yellow
0.7 % Grey
I listened to the audio version and no print edition exists.
approved for length in Post 179
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 70/1110
Tasks Completed: 6/62
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 2
Bookwrm526Task #10.9 - Beware the Ides of March
Read a book with a title word of four letters or more that can be made from the letters in BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH. Letters may be used only as often as they appear. I read Where Peace Is Lost by Valerie Valdes (target word is WHERE - WERE in beware, H in march).
Total points so far: 155
5.5 - Welcome, Watchers of Illusion title contains a word of 4+ letters that can be made from letters in KNIGHTMARE
Night of Cake & Puppets by Laini Taylor
🍀 NIGHT can be made from kNIGHTmare 🍀
Total points: 130 + 5 = 135
Big Book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 0
LoraTask: 20.9 Moderators Pet - Marie-Anne's Task: Card Game Memories, using Option 3
Book/Author: A Traitor in Whitehall /Julia Kelly
How it fits: #1 in the Parisian Orphan series, and first published in 2023
Points for this task: 20
Total points: 105
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
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: 0
Kathy KS20.6 It's a Fact - Jammin Jenny's Task: TV Family Fun
Option 1: Read a book with MPG humor
The Wizard's Butler by Nathan Lowell
MPG: Humor (verified in Task Help message 20: by Jammin Jenny)
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 135
Tasks completed: 8/62
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
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
Amy B10.4 - The Adventure Game
Read a book with MPG Adventure OR the word Adventure or GAME in the title
REQUIRED: State whether you have used the MPG or Title word option
Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee (MPG Adventure option)
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 105 Points
ED20.2 Rookie at the Top - JenJ IA's Task: LEGO Masters - Play Well, Read Well!
Option 4 b
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
Points for this task: 20
Total points : 20
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
Tasks Completed: 20.2
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15.2 -It's A Match
Read two book each with a different single author, whose first or last name match.
The Goodbye Quilt. Susan Wiggs
The Christmas Wedding Guest. Susan Mallery
Points: 15
Total points: 325
IAF - 1
GO - 1
Deborah25.9 Chris MD - Dance with Me
Option 1: Waltz
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms (Whimbrel House #1)
Option 3: Country Two-Step
Wild Hearts OmegaPoints this post: 25
Total Points: 120
Books Read: 10
Tasks Done: 8
Readerboard name: Mel S25.1 - Keep on Rolling
All the Light We Cannot See
One book of at least 500 pages that matches two of the following options:
Option 3: Read a book where all the letters found in the phrase “The Nile” are found in the title: "all THE LIght wE caNnot see"
Option 4: Won an Audie Award: See Page 7, Audie Award for Fiction, 2015
531 pages
This post: 25pts
This season: 165pts
Total tasks: 12
Total books: 13
*Claim a Big Book Ticket*
Gangee 5.1 Spring Colors 
by Chris McGeorge tineye declares the cover has 9 colors
Points 5
Karen DTask 15.7 Let's Break!
Book: You're Invited, finished 3/30
Amaya travels to her childhood best friend's wedding in Sri Lanka, and is there for a week (per GR description.) On p. 12 she references living in Los Angeles, showing that she did travel for the wedding.
Points this task: 15
Total points: 220
Andy P.Task # 10.2 - Pointless
Read a book with a page count containing two or more zeros (200
They Called Her Reckless: A True Story of War, Love And One Extraordinary Horse by Janet Barrett
200 p.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 95
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30.5 Truitt_T’s task: Match it Up!
Read two books with an identical 4 or more letter word in the title or subtitle. The words must be identical - no plurals, possessives, or embedded words allowed. One of your chosen books MUST be Non-Fiction.
sweet
Home Sweet Murder. James Patterson - Non-Fiction - (297 pages)
God Save the Sweet Potato Queens. Jill Conner Browne - Non-Fiction (261 pages)
Claiming 2 It's A Fact tickets
Points: 30
Total points: 355
IAF - 3
GO - 1
LoraTask: 10.9 - Beware the Ides of March
Book/Author: A Most Peculiar Circumstance / Jen Turano
How it fits: using word "most"
Points for this task: 10
Total points: 115
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
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: 0
Christine V15.10 Take A Mental Health Day
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
This book is Nonfiction.
***Claiming 1 It's a Fact Ticket***
Points this post: 15
NF Tickets this post: 1
Total points: 95
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=1)
It's A Fact: 3
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska20.1 Most Improved - FLY's Task: Springing To Mind.
Option 3. Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in FUZZY YELLOW DUCKLINGS.
The Blood Traitor by Lynette Noni (439 p.)
➸ Total Points: 65
➸ Total Pages: 1,783
20.1 Most Improved - FLY's Task: Springing To Mind2. The Oscars! I don’t watch them on TV, but I do try and watch all the nominated movies at some point. Since Oppenheimer is leading the pack in nominations, let’s recognize its impact by reading a nonfiction book with Main Page Genre of Biography, Science, or War.
I read Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood. It has an MPG of Biography.
points: 30
books read: 2
tasks completed: 2
pages read: 557
Mai25.2 Tiens task - Kid's Sports
Option 1: Swimming
Author's (first & last) initials are found in KICKBOARD
Platforms and Artificial Intelligence: The Next Generation of Competences by Ahmed Bounfour
*Claim 1 Non-fiction ticket*
Option 3: Crossfit
Page count consists of at least 2 of these numbers (0, 1, 2, 5).
Rationality and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence by Boris D. Grozdanoff
230 pages
*Claim 1 Non-fiction ticket*
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 145
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 10
NF Tickets: 9
Golden Oldies: 0
Readerboard name: Mel S25.2 - Kid's Sports
Please select one book from two different options.
Option 1: Read a book where author's (first & last) initials are found in one of these swimming training aids: "tRAininG fin"
The Lost Colony by A.G. Riddle
Option 3: Read a book with page count that consists of with at least 2 of these numbers (0, 1, 2, 5). Numbers may not repeat.
The October Man
180pages
This post: 25pts
This season: 190pts
Total tasks: 13
Total Books: 15
5.1 Spring ColoursBook: The Coworker
How it fits: Tineye lists as cover colors: blue, red, grey, violet, brown and green
Tineye link: https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/comp...
Points this post: 5
Total points: 40
30.1 - Katrisa's Task: Spring Zodiac2 Book task with at least 500 pages
Option 2 - Aries - March 21- April 19
Book 1: Read a book from the first 20 pages of this list of books with quests… https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
I chose a book from page 4 of the above link. I listened to Red Rising by Pierce Brown.
*I listened to the audiobook version: no mmpb but paperback 400p (Del Rey)
Book 2: Read a book with one of these royal titles for men in the title (not subtitle): EMPEROR, KING, PRINCE, DUKE. Word must be standalone, not embedded. Plural or possessive works.
I chose King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard.
*I listened to the audiobook version: no mmpb but paperback 512p (Nourabooks).
**I’d like to claim 1 BB ticket
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Points Earned This Post: 30
Total Points Earned: 90
Task Completed: 5/52
It's A Fact Tickets: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 3
Big Books Read By Page Count: 3 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)
Kai20.2 Rookie at the Top-JenJ IA's Task: LEGO Masters - Play Well, Read Well!
OPTION 4B: Read a book with a title of at least three words (ignore subtitles) where each word must share at least one letter (in any position) with the word preceding it.
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
New Points: 20
Tasks Competed: 5
Total Points: 90
5.2 What Goes AroundThe Rumor Game by Thomas Mullen
I borrowed this from the library.
Post Total: 5
Grand Total: 55
Bookwrm526Task #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. I used the target word NIGHT and read Night Moves by Richard Van Camp.
Total points so far: 160
25.10 Keep On RollingOption 2: The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
This has a MPG of Music
Option 4: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Best Mystery 2024
Post Total: 25
Grand Total: 100
ED 20.8 Nickels and Dimes -Trishhartuk's Task: The Golden Shot
Option 3
Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life by H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"BOOK" found in "BOb mOnKhouse"
*****I CLAIM 1 It's A Fact Ticket*****
Points for this task: 20
Total points : 40
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: 1
It's a Fact tickets total: 1
Tasks Completed: 20.2; 20.8
SUSAN A25.4: Nick KY’s Task: Nordic Noir Plus Ten
Book A: Read a book set primarily (at least 50%) in a Nordic country or written by a single Nordic author
Hidden in Snow by Viveca Sten
I listened to audiobook. MMPB here
Set entirely in Sweden. Setting listed on main page and described in book description.
470 pages
Book B: Read a book that is connected to Book A
2. By setting -- Book B is set at least 50% in the same country as Book A.
Hidden in Shadows by Viveca Sten
I listened to audiobook. MMPB here
Setting approx 80% Sweden, 20% Norway. Setting described in book description.
447 pages
470 + 447 = 917 pages
previous total: 960
points this post: 25
new total: 985
Lindsey IL15.7 - Let's Break!
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
approved here -https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
***500+ page big book***
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 120
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
IAF: 3
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 7
Lindsey IL20.8 - Nickels and Dimes -Trishhartuk's Task: The Golden Shot
The Library Book by Rebecca Gray
option 3, BOOK can be found in BOB MONKHOUSE
***It's A Fact ticket, please***
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 140
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
IAF: 4
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 8
Lindsey IL25.1 - RobinP task The Fab Four
Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson
option 3, 4+ letter word from a song title - "All You Need Is LOVE"
***It's A Fact ticket, please***
One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In by Kate Kennedy
option 4, Essays genre
***It's A Fact ticket, please***
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 165
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
IAF: 6
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 10
LoraTask: 25.1 - RobinP task The Fab Four, using options 3 and 4
Book 1:
Book/Author: Life Is a Joke and It Ain't Even Funny: Not a Novel / Riya Aarini
How it fits: song is "A Day in the Life" from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the connecting word is "life"
Book 2:
Book/Author: Last Victim of the Monsoon Express / Vaseem Khan
How it fits: has MPG Short Stories; this book is in the ebook verification document as approved for length, so I did not re-request approval.
Points for this task: 25
Total points: 130
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
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: 0
Joanne MI20.2 Rookie at the Top
Option 1: A book whose authors initials are included in these letters
W, A, J, B, A, C
The Pig Comes to Dinner by Joseph Caldwell
Points this task 20
Season Total 110
IAF 3
Julia10320.7 Shorter is Sweeter Lois' Task: The Dating Game
The Choice
(MPG Romance, #3 in The Dragon Heart Legacy)
This post: 20 points
Total points: 210
BB: 5
GO: 0
NF: 0
Tasks completed: 13
Books read: 15
15.5 Survey SaysBook nominated or won GR award
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Nominated for Science Fiction in 2019
Points: 15
Total/challenge: 15
20.1 Springing to MindOpt 3 author initials in fuzzy yellow duCklinG
Waistcoats & Weaponry by Gail Carriger
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 35
25.5 Beehive Bookclub >500 pgsOption 1: Read a book where BEE or HIVE can be found intact in the title
The Music of Bees 322 pgs
Opt 4 Read a book that can be found on the first 25 pages of either African Literature or France lists
The Paris Apartment 360 pgs
Page 2 of the France list
322+360 =682 pgs
Points: 25
Total/challenge: 60
25.9 Dance with MeOpt 2 coastline on cover
Approved Post #43Opt 5 couple dancing or waltz, foxtrot, salsa, rumba, swing, jive, jitterbug, hustle, tango, mambo in title
Mango, Mambo, and Murder
Points: 25
Total/challenge: 85
25.12 A Birdish Year - all female authorsOpt 3 cover 75% yellow, orange, pink, or red
by R.F. Kuanghttps://labs.tineye.com/color/a716cad...
Opt 4 auth first/last initial in actor, WRiter, and/or producer
One by One by Ruth Ware
Points: 25
Total/challenge: 110
25.13 ConnectionsOption 3: Anagram animals - read a book with a word of at least three letters in the title or subtitle that is an anagram of an animal
Murder in Three Acts Pub 1934
ACTS - CATS
*Claiming Golden Oldie ticket
Option 4: Body parts - read a book with a word in the title or subtitle that contains a human body part.
What Angels Fear
EAR found in fEAR
Points: 25
Total/challenge: 135
Golden Oldie ticket: 1
30.1 Spring Zodiac >500 pgsOpt 3 Taurus
Book 1 - Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title (not subtitle) that can be made from the letters in “STUBBORN AS A BULL” or “LOVER NOT A FIGHTER”
We Were Never Here 304 pgs
HERE in lovER not a figHtEr
Book 2 - Read a book with an MPG of Religion.
Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear 221 pgs
*Claiming It's a Fact Ticket for NF
304+221=525 pgs
Points: 30
Total/challenge: 165
IAF ticket : 1
Karen DTask 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Lisa’s Task: Bowling For Dollars
Option A: Read a book where the letters “WBAL” can be found in the title and/or author’s name.
Book: The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk, finished 3/31
Points this task: 20
Total points: 240
30. 3 Looking Forward to the OlympicsOpt 2 Eiffel Tower
Book 1 - title has 4 letter word made from "lA DAme de fER"
Dear Edward Word used DEAR
Book 2 - Read a book where the cover shows a beach (sand and water)
Points: 30
Total/challenge: 195
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25.4 Nicky Ky's Task: Nordic Noir Plus Ten
2 books, 500 + pages
A. Set in Nordic country - Miss Iceland
Set almost totally in Iceland, small part in Denmark (pub 2018)
256 p
B.3. Same year of publication - Carnegie's Maid - pub 2018, 342 p
Total pages 598
Points this post: 25
Total points: 275
BB:2 GO:2 IAF:2