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SPRING CHALLENGE 2024
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Readerboard name: Mel S10.9 - Beware the Ides
Title word of four letters or more that can be made from the letters in "bEwARE The ideS of march:" EATERS
Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
This post: 10pts
This season: 70pts
Tasks completed: 6
trishhartuk5.2 What Goes Around...
Read a book that is new-to-you but NOT bought new
The Question of the Missing Head, E.J. Copperman
Bought second-hand from Better World Books, Abe Books: “Former library book; may include library markings.” The inside cover is stamped “Selby Public Library, Sarasota”.
The book is new to me.
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 70
Tasks Completed:4
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Bookwrm526Task #5.6 Tiger, Tiger
Read a book that features a tiger on the cover. This must clearly be a tiger (not a domestic Bengal cat) with stripes visible. I read Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong.
Total points so far: 45
Mia N15.9 - I am beautifully different
Read a book from one of the lists for Autism Acceptance Month
The Bride Test
On the Neurodiverse Characters list, page 1, number 11
Points for this task: 15
Total points: 25
Trying this again…Juliajoy
5.2 What comes around…
Agents of light and darkness
Simon R Green
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
I got this book in a pile of boxes of used books given to me by a family member.
Juliajoy10.7 Springtime in Paris
The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
The whole novel is set in Paris
Juliajoy10.9 Beware the Ides of March
Just Get Home
Bridget Foley
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Word in title: Home
Task 5.1 - Spring Coloursread a book with at least three colours on the cover
The Flowers of Vashnoi
TinEye shows Brown, Violet, Yellow, Green
48.6 %#625635Brown
16.6 %#3e2929Brown
10.8 %#967594Violet
8.9 %#928638Brown
7.8 %#ece41dYellow
2.5 %#a2b396Grey
2.4 %#aba026Green
1.4 %#a56136Brown
0.5 %#e7bb7fOrange
0.5 %#9e9b9dGrey
at 96 pages (hardcover:
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5 points
Task 30.1 - Spring Zodiac500+ pages
option 1
book 1: in a series longer than 12 books
Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse
#59 in series
160 pages
book 2: MOON in title
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
500 pages
500+160 =660 pages
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35 points
Task 20.10 - Group Readscomment on one of the group reads
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse
comment: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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55 points
Task 30.7 - The Price is Rightoption 1: RANSOM (6 letters) in phrase
Freedom's Ransom
option 3: spun 15
The Skeleton Key
512 pages
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85 points
JenJ IA5.5 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. Letters may be used only as often as they appear.
The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins - the word is "Great"
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 20/1085
Tasks Completed: 2/61
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 0
Andy P.Task # 5.2 What Goes Around...
Read a book that is new-to-you but NOT bought new
I bought this in a used book store for 50% off.
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
Points this post: 5
Total points: 10
Andy P.Task # 20.10 Group Reads
It is hard to find a novel about WWII that has something new to say but I believe that Ariel Lawson has done it. This book is obviously well researched and as the author's comments at the end of the book , her story is based on what really happened without stuffing the text full of disclaimers or voicing her own thoughts as commentary. Would that more authors would take her approach.
Andy P.Task # 20.10 Group Reads
Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon Comment is posted in discussion for this book # 1 I think.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 30
Kristen IA20.4 Golden Oldies - Hannelores Task: I Really Like This Bowl
This is a one book task, choose an option and read one book for that option.
Required: State the option
Option 1: The Great British Bakeoff - My absolute favourite cake is lemon merengue pie. Read a book that is, according to TinEye, at least 50% yellow. A guide to using Tineye can be found here
Required: Post the cover
Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere by Savannah Guthrie
95.1 % Yellow
I listened to the audiobook so have linked to the HC edition.
******I claim 1 "It's a Fact" ticket******
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 40/1110
Tasks Completed: 3/62
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 1
Mod
Read a book that features a tiger on the cover.
This is non-fiction so I claim an It's a Fact ticket
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 5 + 5 = 10
Total Tasks Completed: 2
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Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 1 + 1 = 2
Barbara ★30.7 - TessaVanessa’s Task: The Price is Right
Option 1: Read a book with a word of five letters or more that can be made from COME ON DOWN, YOU’RE THE NEXT CONTESTANT.
Crescent Calling - Nicole R. Taylor 3/6
(Come on down, you'RE the next ContEStaNT)
Option 2: A few of the games I remember are Plinko, Grocery Game, Cliff Hangers, Safe Crackers, Dice Game, Bonkers, and Bullseye. Read a book with a title, subtitle and/or author that includes all the letters in one of these games.
Murder in the Paperback Parlor - Ellery Adams 3/3
(Plinko in "murder IN the PaperacK parLOr")
Points this task: 30
Total points: 30
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Barbara ★20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter Lois' Task: The Dating Game
Read a book with MPG Romance that is #1, #2, or #3 in a series.
Aurora Rising - Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff 3/2
(has MPG romance AND #1 in Aurora Cycle series)
Points this task: 20
Total points: 50
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Susan A15.10 Take A Mental Health Day - MPG mental health, non-fiction
10 Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly
I listened to audio, MMPB here
MPG mental health
MPG non-fiction
Previous points: 5
points this post: 15
total points: 20
15.10 Take A Mental Health DayI read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks. This is a non-fiction book with an MPG of Mental Health.
Claiming one It's a Fact ticket for this non-fiction book.
Points this task: 15
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Totals:
Points: 25
Task completed: 3
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
It's a Fact tickets total: 1
STORMIE15.5 Survey Says
Read a book that has won or been nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Good Reads Choice Award: Nominee for Best Mystery & Thriller 2023
Points this task: 15
Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 1
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 0
Julia10310.9 - Beware the Ides of March
Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond Issue #1
(ERIC can be made from the target phrase: ER in Beware, I in Ides, C in March)
This post: 10 points
Total points: 35
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 0
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 4
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska20.4 - Golden Oldies - Hannelores Task: I Really Like This Bowl.
Option 2. Read a book with at least three flowers on the cover.
The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni (432 p.)
➸ Total Points: 20
➸ Total Pages: 432
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska10.6 - Traitor.
Read a book by an author who uses a pseudonym.
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake (375 p.) *
*The author's pseudonym is Olivie Blake; her real name is Alexene Farol Follmuth, which can be confirmed through her Goodreads author profile, here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show....
➸ Total Points: 30
➸ Total Pages: 807
20.3 Best Review - Lucy-Bookworm's Task: Subtitles
Read a book with a 6+ word subtitle
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
**Claiming 1 It's A Fact ticket**
New Points: 20
Total Points: 75
Tickets as of this post: BB(0), GO(1), IaF(1)
10.8 - Spring Forward
Read the next book in a series that you've already started.
One Piece, Volume 2: Buggy the Clown
This book was new to me, and I'd previously read One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn in the series.
New Points: 10
Total Points: 85
Tickets as of this post: BB(0), GO(1), IaF(1)
5.5 Welcome, Watchers of IllusionRead a book where the title contains a word of four letters or more that can be made from the letters in KNIGHTMARE. Letters may be used only as often as they appear.
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson
TREK
*I'd like an It's A Fact ticket for Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback(nonfiction)**
Point this Post: 5
Total Points: 5
IAFs this post: 1
Total IAFs to date: 1
5.5
15.5 Survey SaysRead a book that has won or been nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards
link: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Winner of Best Memoir and Autobiography 2022
*I'd like an It's A Fact ticket for I'm Glad My Mom Died (nonfiction)**
Point this Post: 15
Total Points: 20
IAFs this post: 1
Total IAFs to date: 2
ROBIN P30.5 Katrisa's Task: Spring Zodiac
500 p minimum
Taurus
1. 4+ ltr word from phrase - I used "Lover not a fighter"
Pars vite et reviens tard - VITE - V in lover, ITE in fighter - 346 p
2. MPG Religion - God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America - 168 p
Total pages 514
**claiming 1 IAF pt for this book, nonfiction**
Points this post: 30
Total points: 75
BB:0 GO:0 IAF:1
LoraTask: 5.2 What Goes Around...
Book/Author: Scone Cold Revenge / Jan Fields
How it fits: borrowed from the library
Points for this task: 5
Total points: 30
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
Gangee 5.3 Spring Colors TinEye All least 3 colors this has 9
Chris McGeorge Points 5
Total 5
25.3 - KMarieD: What’s your favorite challenge type?Option 3: Genres or Lists
Book 1: MPG Romance
American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera
Book 2: from Scandinavian Nordic Mysteries list
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg (p. 1)
Total points: 30 + 25 = 55
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 0
Karen DTask: 15.8 Readers Unite!
Read a book with a book featured on the cover.
Book:
, finished 3/10Points this task: 15
Total points: 40
trishhartuk5.8 Roboteers, Stand By
Read a book from the first 25 pages of this Robots shelf.
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here
Page 1, around #20
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 75
Tasks Completed:5
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Kathy KS10.9 - 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.
Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing by Megan Smolenyak
AMERICA=bEwARe... Ides... MArCh
I read as an ebook; pb-256 p. (no mmpb)
**Claiming 1 (one) It’s A Fact ticket** : NONFICTION
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Points for this task: 10
Total points : 35
Tasks completed: 3/62
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
Kathy KS20.8 Nickels and Dimes -Trishhartuk's Task: The Golden Shot
Option 3: Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title, that can be made from the letters in EITHER “BOB MONKHOUSE” OR “BERNIE THE BOLT”.
Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs
BONES=boB mONkhouSE
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 55
Tasks completed: 4/62
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: 1
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20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Lois' Task: The Dating Game
Read a book with MPG Romance that is #1, #2, or #3 in a series.
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead. Elle Cosimano
Points: 20
Total points: 80
IAF - 1
GO - 1
Amanda VA20.3 Best Review - Lucy-Bookworm's Task: Subtitles
Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson
Claiming one It's a Fact Ticket
Points for this task: 20
Total points : 20
Tasks completed: 1/62
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
Andy P.Task # 5.4 What's In A Name?
Read a book by a single author where the author's initials (first and last) can be found in CARL LINNAEUS.
Forsaken Country by Allen Eskens
CARL LINNEA>US
Points this post: 5
Total points: 35
trishhartuk5.10 All The Information Is On The Task
The Night Raven, Johan Rundberg
Read the kindle edition. Top PB (French): here (208pg). PB (English): here (191pg)
MPGs include Middle Grade and Childrens, but I couldn't find it in either the UK or US AR bookfinder, hence using it here.
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 80
Tasks Completed:6
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Mia N15.4 - Category is...
Option 2: Read one book that satisfies the requirements for both books of Option 1
Read a book with an author that shares a first or last name with one of the Wheel of Fortune Hosts.
Spin the wheel and read a book with the corresponding MPG
Peace, Love and Potatoes by John Hegley
Author name is John Hegley, after John Burgess, and it has an MPG of Poetry.
Points for this task: 15
Total points: 40
Mia N15.5 - Survey Says
Read a book that has won or been nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards
I Was Born for This
Nominated for Young Adult Fiction in 2018
Points for this task: 15
Total points: 55
Bookwrm526Task #5.9 What is the Seasonal Reading Challenge?
Read a book with ! Or ? In the title or subtitle. I read Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie.
Total points so far: 50
Deborah15.5 Survey Says
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Fiction: 2022 Winner
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 15
Books Read: 1
Tasks Done: 1
Deborah15.7 Let's Break!
A Dangerous Thing
Travels to Pine Shadow Ranch due to writer's block and his relationship hoping to figure things out.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 30
Books Read: 2
Tasks Done: 2
Delicious Dee10.7 - Springtime in Paris
Jacqueline in Paris - approx 85% of book is set in France
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 15
Delicious Dee15.4 Category Is....
Book A - Double Pucked - title starts and ends with a D
Book B - Sometimes I Lie- I spun and landed on Suspense/Thriller - Sometimes I Lie has a top genre of thriller and suspense is also a MPG
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 30
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15.7 Let's Break!
Book about trip/vacation/getaway
Greyhound - entire book is story of a bus trip from California to Pennsylvania
Points this post: 15
Total points: 45
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