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SPRING CHALLENGE 2024
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Jen K25.8 - MEGSCL - Learning to read
Option 1: Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
Monique starts with M
***Requestingn 1 IAF ticket for nonfiction***
Option 3: The Rithmatist
MPG Middle Grade
The Rithmatist
Sanderson, Brandon
AR Quiz No. 159269 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13.0
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 850
BB: 8
IAF: 10
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Option 3: Happiness
Read a book that has a cover that’s at least 75% according to Tineye of any combination of the colors associated with happiness…yellow, orange, pink, or red. It can be all of one color or a combination of any of those colors to reach the 75%.
read
61.9 %#fbd545Yellow
15.9 %#f63859Pink
4.0 %#d0c5c3Grey
3.9 %#9b884dBrown
3.1 %#181308Black
2.9 %#794954Violet
2.7 %#f39156Orange
2.4 %#fa8eacPink
1.8 %#582483Violet
1.3 %#d20804Red
Option 4: New Beginnings –ead a book where the author’s first & last initials can be found in the job titles I might be holding here soon…ACTOR, WRITER, and/or PRODUCER. Letters can only be used as many times as they appear, but can split across the words
read The Summer She Went Missing by Chelsea Ichaso
points this post 25
total points 1080
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Read a book that has been published as a Penguin Classic according to this Wiki list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... OR where a Penguin Classics edition of the book exists on Goodreads.
read The Island of Dr. Moreau
points this post 5
total points 1085
Barbara ★10.5 - Blankety Blank
Read a book with a 2 word title where both words start with the same letter.
Wolf Winter - Cecilia Ekbäck 5/4
Points this task: 10
Total points: 775
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Readerboard name: Mel S50.1 - Exploration Through Reading
Option 1: 3 books on the same continent (North America)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Mostly Georgia, 304pg
When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
Mostly Florida, 346pg
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Mostly New Orleans, 346pg
This post: 50pts
This season: 840pts
Total books: 59
Total tasks: 46
25.9 Chris MD - Dance with MeOption 1:Read a book that is either #1, 2, or 3 in a series that has at least three books.
Grave Surprise Harper Connelly #2
Option 4: Read a book set at least 75% in Mexico
Malinche
New Points: 25
Total Points: 395
BB: 2
GO: 1
IaF: 5
Readerboard name: D20.1 Most Improved - FLY's Task: Springing To Mind
I chose Option 3, author initials in the phrase FUZZY YELLOW DUCKLINGS
The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham
Points this post: 20
Total points: 75
Theresa15.2 - It's A Match
Book 1 - The Making of Us by Lisa Jewell
Book 2 - Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
Both authors 1st name is Lisa
Points this post - 15
Total points - 130
Bookwrm526Task #20.9 - Card Game Memories
Option 3: Read a book that is either #1, #3 or #4 in a series and has at least one of the digits 1, 3, or 4 in year of first publication. I read The Hatak Witches (Volume 88) by Devon A. Mihesuah (312p) (#1 in the Detective Monique Blue Hawk Series).
Total points so far: 900
25.6 - JennRenee's Task: Pick a Genre!From the list below, pick a genre to read. This is a two book task, read one book for each option listed. Both books must have the MPG of the genre chosen, and the MPG must be stand alone.
Mystery
Book One: Read a book where all the letters of your genre appear in the title/subtitle/author name.
By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie
Book Two: Read a book with at least a three word title where the first letter of every word can be found in the name of your genre. Letters can only be used as often as they appear.
The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
**I'd like a Golden Oldie ticket for The Sittaford Mystery (first published: 1931)**
Point this Post: 25
Total Points: 610
GO this post = 1
Total GOs to date = 1
Total BBs to date: 1
Total IAFs to date: 21
5.1; 5.2; 5.3; 5.4; 5.5; 5.6; 5.7; 5.8; ...; 5.10
10.3; ...; 10.5; ...; ...; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10
...; 15.2; 15.3; ...; 15.5; ...; 15.7;...; ...; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; ...; 20.8; 20.9; 20.10
25.1; 25.2; 25.3; ...; 25.5; 25.6; ...; ...; 25.9
30.6; 30.7
MEGSCL20.6 It's a Fact - Jammin Jenny's Task: TV Family Fun
OPTION 1 - MPG HUMOR - Dr. No
TOTAL
410 points - 5 IAF ticket - 2 BB tickets
Karen DTask 5.3 P-P-P-Pick Up A Penguin
Book: The Age of Innocence, finished 5/30
Points this task: 5
Total points: 1055
JenJ IA****REMOVE*****Post #1835
10.9 - Beware the Ides of March
Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
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Points This Post: -10
Total Points: 630/1085
Tasks Completed: 31/61
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 8
JenJ IA10.9 - 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.
REQUIRED: State the word - Search
Search by Michelle Huneven
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 640/1085
Tasks Completed: 31/61
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 8
JenJ IA5.4 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. Letters may only be used as often as they appear.
The River Runs South by Audrey Ingram
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 645/1085
Tasks Completed: 32/61
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 8
JenJ IA5.10 All The Information Is On The Task
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley
*****I claim 1 It's A Fact ticket*****
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 650/1085
Tasks Completed: 33/61
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 9
JenJ IA30.3 - MAZZA1's task - Looking Forward to the Olympics
For this task you must read 2 books. Choose 1 option and read BOTH tasks for that option.
In ALL cases the title tasks mean TITLE ONLY, no subtitles.
No books with Children's MPG or Manga or Graphic Novels allowed
Required: State the option.
Option 1 - The Opening Ceremony
a) Read a book with a title word of 4 or more letters found in "The River Seine"
Letters may only be used as often as they appear in the phrase.
Required: state the word - Rise
Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
b) Read a book with a small boat on the cover (e.g. a canoe, dinghy, yacht, NOT cruise ship or tanker NOR a toy boat).
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 680/1085
Tasks Completed: 35/61
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 9
Task 20.7 The Dating GameRead a book with MPG Romance that is #1, #2, or #3 in a series that has at least 3 published books in the series.
The series number must be indicated in gray on the book's main page, usually above the title. Whole numbers only. Romance genre may be stand-alone or embedded.
Shopaholic Ties the Knot (Shopaholic #3) (2002) by Sophie Kinsella (Goodreads Author) (Paperback 328 pages)
330 + 20 = 350
Tasks Completed: 16
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 330 + 20 = 350
Books read: 25
Pages read: 7,179
Read but not claimed: 00
Goodreads Authors: 18
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 03
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Kristen IA25.6 - JennRenee's Task: Pick a Genre!
From the list below, pick a genre to read. This is a two book task, read one book for each option listed. Both books must have the MPG of the genre chosen, and the MPG must be stand alone.
Required: State the Genre - Historical Fiction
Book One: Read a book where all the letters of your genre appear in the title/subtitle/author name.
Exception: For Historical Fiction & Science Fiction, you can remove the word Fiction
Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark - 592 pages
*****I claim 1 Big Book ticket*****
Book Two: Read a book with at least a three word title where the first letter of every word can be found in the name of your genre. Letters can only be used as often as they appear.
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 495/1085
Tasks Completed: 31/61
BB: 1
GO: 1
NF: 6
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.1: Springing to mind: Option 1: The Agatha Christie Book Club by C. A. Larmer has a cup filled with either tea of coffee on the cover.
Totals: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 270
Books: 14
Tasks: 11
Big books tickets: 1 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.5: Bowling for dollars: Option B:
Death Brims Overby Barbara Jaye Wilson. Author FL initials BW are in BoWling for dollars.
Totals: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 290
Books: 15
Tasks: 12
Big books tickets: 1 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
Shelby
10.2 - Pointless
Read a book with a page count containing two or more zeros.: Ready For Love
How Fits: Page Count - 300pgs
Points this post: 10
Total points: 485
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Readerboard name: D20.8 Nickels and Dimes -Trishhartuk's Task: The Golden Shot
I chose Option 1. Read a book first published between 1967 and 1975, inclusive.
The Arm by Clark Howard (first published 1967)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 95
Shelby
10.3 - Dusty Bin
Read a book written by an author whose initials can be found in DUSTY BIN.: Archangel's Kiss
How Fits: Author - Nalini Singh
Points this post: 10
Total points: 495
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 25.10: Keep on rolling: Option 1: De Christiemoorden by Dominique Biebau. The cover is 82.4% red according to tineye.
Option 2: Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon has MPG MUSIC.
Totals: 25
Books: 2
Summary Totals: 315
Books: 17
Tasks: 13
Big books tickets: 1 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
Shelby
10.4 - The Adventure Game
Read a book with MPG Adventure OR the word Adventure or GAME in the title.: Searching for Dragons
AR Bookfinder: BL - 5.3 / AR - 9.0
How Fits: MPG - Adventure
Points this post: 10
Total points: 505
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Shelby
20.1 Most Improved - FLY's Task: Springing To Mind
Option 3
Read a book with ALL author initials in the phrase FUZZY YELLOW DUCKLINGS: Lash
How Fits: Author - Sam Crescent
Points this post: 20
Total points: 525
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Shelby
20.6 It's a Fact - Jammin Jenny's Task: TV Family Fun
Option 1
Read a book with MPG humor: The Sweetest Thing
How Fits: MPG - Humor
Points this post: 20
Total points: 545
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Shelby
25.2 Tiens task - Kid's Sports
Option 1
Read a book where author's (first & last) initials are found in one of these swimming training aids: TRAINING FIN, KICKBOARD, PULLBUOY: Wedded to a Wayne: A Finn World Holiday Romance
How Fits: Word - KickboARd / Author - R.G. Alexander
AND
Option 3
Read a book with page count that consists of with at least 2 of these numbers (0, 1, 2, 5): The Redemption of River
How Fits: Page Count - 260
Points this post: 25
Total points: 570
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Shelby
25.6 - JennRenee's Task: Pick a Genre!
Book 1
Read a book where all the letters of your genre appear in the title/subtitle/author name.: A (Non) Comprehensive Guide to Sea Serpents
How Fits: Genre - Romance / Title - A (NO)n CoMpREhensive guide to sea serpents
AND
Book 2
Read a book with at least a three word title where the first letter of every word can be found in the name of your genre: Required of Me
How Fits: MPG - Romance / Title - Required Of Me
Points this post: 25
Total points: 595
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Shelby
25.9 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.: Something Wicked
How Fits: #3 of 3 in Black and Blue
AND
Option 4
Read a book set at least 75% in Mexico, Central or South America, or Cuba, Puerto Rico, or the Dominican Republic.: Charlie's Doctor
How Fits: Location - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Points this post: 25
Total points: 620
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Shelby
25.13 - Bookwrm526 - Connections
Option 2
Read a book with a word of at least three letters in the title or subtitle that would spell the name of a color if you added a letter at the beginning of the word OR if you changed the letter at the beginning.: The Prey
How Fits: Title - The Prey / Color - Prey to Grey
AND
Option 4
Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle that contains a human body part.: Armageddon's Children
How Fits: Title - ARMageddon's Children / Body Part - Arm
Points this post: 25
Total points: 645
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 30.7: The price is right: Option 1: The Hound of Rowan by Henry H. Neff. The word in title is HOUNDm found in come ON Down, ... tHe next ....
**MPG includes children: IL: MG+, BL: 5.9, AR Pts: 16.0
Option 2: 101 American Geo-Sites You've Gotta See by Albert B. Dickas. All the letters of GROCERY GAME can be found:
2 G: Geo-sites, Gotta
2 R: ameRican, albeRt
2 E: sEE
1 C, 1M, 1A: AMeriCan
1 O: gOtta
1 Y: You
Totals: 30
Books: 2
Summary Totals: 345
Books: 19
Tasks: 14
Big books tickets: 1 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
Shelby
30.2 - Susan A's Task: Word Search
Task 1
Read a book that has a four letter or more word in the title (not subtitle) that can be made from the author's name.: Earth Bound
How Fits: Word - Earth / Author - cHRisTinE feehAn
AND
Task 2
Read a book with an author whose first or last name is at least 4 letters long. Use the letters in the title (not subtitle) to spell the author's first or last name.: The Hitman's Guide to Codenames and Ill-Gotten Gains
How Fits: Author: Alice Winters / Title - the hItmAns guidE to Codenames and iLl-gotten gains
Points this post: 30
Total points: 675
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Shelby
30.4 - Cat's Task: Books of Oceania
Book 1
Read a book that is set (at least 70%) in one or more countries in Oceania: Outrun the Rain
How Fits: Location - Australia
AND
Book 2
Read a book that is written by an author born in a country in Oceania: Three's Company
How Fits: Author - N.R. Walker / Birth Place - Australia (from description "N.R. Walker is an Australian author")
Points this post: 30
Total points: 705
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Shelby
30.5 - Truitt_T’s task: Match it Up!
Book 1
Read two books with an identical 4 or more letter word in the title or subtitle.: Burned by Magic
How Fits: Title - Burned by Magic / Page Count - 238pgs
AND
Book 2
Read two books with an identical 4 or more letter word in the title or subtitle.: Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
How Fits: Title - Rough Magic / Genre - Non-Fiction / Page Count - 288pgs
Total Page Count: 526pgs
Points this post: 30
Total points: 735
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Shelby
25.1 - RobinP task The Fab Four
Option 3
Read a book with a word or 4 or more letters found in the title of one of the songs on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band OR on Magical Mystery Tour: How to Love Thine Enemy
How Fits: Title - How to Love Thine Enemy / Song - All You Need Is Love
AND
Option 4
Read a book that has one of the following as MPG: Essays, Short Stories, Letters, or Anthology/Anthologies.: So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
How Fits: MPG - Short Stories
Points this post: 25
Total points: 760
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Shelby
15.5 Survey Says
Read a book that has won or been nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards: King of Thorns
How Fits: Goodreads Choice Award Nominated for Best Fantasy 2012
Points this post: 15
Total points: 775
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Readerboard Name: List_Addict20.9: Moderator’s Pet - Marie-Anne’s Task: Card Game Memories
Open Season (Joe Pickett #1) by CJ Box
Published 2001
Total point this challenge: 70
25.12 - Shelby - A Birdish YearOption 1: Hope –
Read a book from the first 25 pages of the List: Books that Should be Made Into Movies
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Page 2
**I'd like an It's A Fact ticket for The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (nonfiction)**
Option 2: Good Luck –
Read a book where a leading character is/becomes pregnant.
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser
Approved in help thread
Point this Post: 25
Total Points: 635
IAFs this Post = 1
Total GOs to date = 1
Total BBs to date: 1
Total IAFs to date: 22
5.1; 5.2; 5.3; 5.4; 5.5; 5.6; 5.7; 5.8; ...; 5.10
10.3; ...; 10.5; ...; ...; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10
...; 15.2; 15.3; ...; 15.5; ...; 15.7;...; ...; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; ...; 20.8; 20.9; 20.10
25.1; 25.2; 25.3; ...; 25.5; 25.6; ...; ...; 25.9; ...; ...; 25.12
30.6; 30.7
Readerboard Name: List_Addict15.5: Survey Says
A winner or nominee of a GR’s award
Only a Monster by Vanessa Len
Nominee: YA Fantasy & Science Fiction 2022
Points this challenge: 85
Mod
EMurphyTake a Mental Health Day - Non-fiction with MPG Mental Health/Mental Illness Rememberings by Sinead O'Connor
*It's a Fact Ticket
This Task:
Points: 15
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Total:
Points: 470
Books Read: 33
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 11
Tasks Completed: 24
*Last post of the season. Thank you Moderators!!
Sanz50.1 - Tammy AZ's Task: Exploration Through Reading
Option 2: Read three books with each book being set on a different continent
Book 1: Anatomy of a Scandal > set in Europe (England)
Book 2: The Stationery Shop of Tehran > set in Asia (Iran)
Book 3: Handle with Care > set in North America (USA)
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Point this post: 50
Total points: 110
IAF: 1
BB: 3
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 6
Sanz20.3 Best Review - Lucy-Bookworm's Task: Subtitles
Read a book with a subtitle that has at least 6 words in it.
Prisoners of Geography – Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics
Subtitle has 13 words
I'd like to claim 1 IAF point for this non-fiction book
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Point this post: 20
Total points: 130
IAF: 2
BB: 3
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 7
Boston Kate
10.4 The Adventure Game
The Adventure Zone Vol. 4: The Crystal Kingdom
"Adventure" MPG, as well as in title
Points this post: 10
Total points: 60
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Lisa’s Task: Bowling For DollarsOption B: Read a book where the author’s first and last initial can be found in one of the show titles.
Bowling For Dollars
Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 115
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 7
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.9 - Beware the Ides of March
Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter
Word is TIMES
Claiming 1 It's a fact ticket
Totals
Points: 330
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 10
Total Tasks Completed: 20
Total Books Completed: 23
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25.12 - Shelby - A Birdish Year
Option 3: Happiness
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
51.8 %#d36b73Pink
32.8 %#efbac1Pink
Option 4: New Beginnings
The Golden Gate by Amy Chua
AC in ACtor
Both authors are female
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 825
BB: 8
IAF: 9