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20.1
a book with ALL author initials in the phrase FUZZY YELLOW DUCKLINGS
i read The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
points for this task: 20
total points: 170
books read: 14
tasks done: 13

Task 10.3 - Dusty Bin
Book: The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
Points this task: 10
Total points: 1085!

Read a book that has won or been nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards
link: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceaward...
State the category and year for the winner or nomination.
I chose Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz. The book was nominated in 2023 for Best Young Adult Fiction
*I listened to the audiobook version: no mmpb but hardcover 389p (Wednesday Books)
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Points Earned This Post: 15
Total Points Earned: 390
It's A Fact Tickets: 7
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 4
Big Books Read By Page Count: 4 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)

Read a book with a subtitle that has at least 6 words in it.
I chose Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo.
*I listened to the audiobook version: no mmpb but paperback 288p (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
**I’d like to claim 1 IAF ticket
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Points Earned This Post: 20
Total Points Earned: 410
It's A Fact Tickets: 8
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 4
Big Books Read By Page Count: 4 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)

Read a book with MPG Romance that is #1, #2, or #3 in a series that has at least 3 published books in the series.
I chose It's Not Summer Without You You by Jenny Han.
MPG Romance and book #2 of 3 in a series
*I listened to the audiobook version: no mmpb but paperback 275p (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
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Points Earned This Post: 20
Total Points Earned: 430
It's A Fact Tickets: 8
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 4
Big Books Read By Page Count: 4 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)

10.3 - Dusty Bin
Tea in Tripoli by Bernadette Nason
*****I CLAIM 1 IT'S A FACT TICKET*****
Points for this task: 10
Total points : 245
Tasks completed: 18
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: 1
It's a Fact tickets total: 11
Tasks Completed:
5.1; 5.2; 5.7; 5.10
15.8
10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.8; 10.9
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.8; 20.9

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.
I chose The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Told = Gold
*I listened to the audiobook version: no mmpb but paperback 336p (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books)
Option 4: read a book with a word in the title or subtitle that contains a human body part.
I chose The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . by Rick Mercer.
Ears in yEARS
*I listened to the audiobook version: no mmpb but paperback 305p (Anchor Canada)
**I’d like to claim 1 IAF ticket
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Points Earned This Post: 25
Total Points Earned: 455
It's A Fact Tickets: 9
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 4
Big Books Read By Page Count: 4 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)

read a book that is new-to-you but NOT bought new - for example, borrowed from a library, bought second-hand, or passed on by a friend or family member.
Autumn Leaf
(Using my page exception allowed for one 5 point task)
I bought this book at the Annual Children's Hospital Used Book Sale
New Points: 5
Total Points: 400
BB: 2
GO: 1
IaF: 5

A Bit on the Side: Stories by William Trevor
Read a book written under a pseudonym
William Trevor is the pen name of William Trevor Cox - approved in help thread
Point this Post: 10
Total Points: 645
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; ...; 10.7; 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

Option 1: Read a book from the first 25 pages of the List: Books that Should be Made Into Movies. Required: State the page that your book is found on
I chose Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Found on page 1
*I listened to the audiobook version: mmpb 422p (Bloomsbury USA Childrens)
Option 4: Read 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
I chose Tom Lake by Ann Patchett.
Ann Patchett AP - A in Actor, P in producer
*I listened to the audiobook version: mmpb 320p (Generic)
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Points Earned This Post: 25
Total Points Earned: 480
It's A Fact Tickets: 9
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 4
Big Books Read By Page Count: 4 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)

Read a book written by an author whose initials can be found in DUSTY BIN
I chose Anatomy by Dana Schwartz.
DuSty Bin (D.S)
*I listened to the audiobook version: no mmpb but hardcover 338p (Wednesday Books)
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Points Earned This Post: 10
Total Points Earned: 490
It's A Fact Tickets: 9
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 4
Big Books Read By Page Count: 4 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)

5.1 Spring Colors

Blue, Red, Yellow, White, Black - read ebook
Murder in the Bookshop - pb
Points this post: 5
Total points: 850
BB: 3. GO: 2. IAF: 10

Read a book that is new-to-you but NOT bought new - for example, borrowed from a library, bought second-hand, or passed on by a friend or family member.
I chose A Grandmother Begins the Story: A Novel by Michelle Porter.
I borrowed the book from my local library
*I listened to the audiobook version: no mmpb but paperback 352p (Algonquin Books)
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Points Earned This Post: 5
Total Points Earned: 495
It's A Fact Tickets: 9
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 4
Big Books Read By Page Count: 4 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)

Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
I chose The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose.
*I listened to the audiobook version: no mmpb but paperback 304p (Penguin Canada)
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Points Earned This Post: 5
Total Points Earned: 500
It's A Fact Tickets: 9
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 4
Big Books Read By Page Count: 4 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)

20.3 Best Review - Lucy-Bookworm's Task: Subtitles.
Read a book with a subtitle of at least 6 words.
Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change by Noam Chomsky (210 p.) *
* I would like to claim an IAF ticket for nonfiction, please.

➸ Total Points: 210
➸ Total Pages: 4,932

Read a book by a single author where the author's initials (first and last) can be found in CARL LINNAEUS.
I chose Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank by Elle Cosimano.
Carl linnaEus (E.C.)
*I listened to the audiobook version: no mmpb, no paperback, no hardcover. Previously Approved in ebook Verification thread (Post #179 for approval), 107p - Kindle (Minotaur Books)
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Points Earned This Post: 5
Total Points Earned: 505
It's A Fact Tickets: 9
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 4
Big Books Read By Page Count: 4 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)

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).
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
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. Both books may be by the same author as well.
Daniel by Henning Mankell
Point this Post: 25
Total Points: 670
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; ...; 10.7; 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; 25.4; 25.5; 25.6; ...; ...; 25.9; ...; ...; 25.12
30.6; 30.7
Congratulations Karen D on completing the challenge - you will have a 25pt task in the Summer Challenge!

25.7 - Happy St. Patrick's Day
Option 1: Read a book with a cover that is at least 50% green according to TinEye AND has minimum 317 pages: 389pg
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

27.4 %#09391cGreen
25.8 %#186738Green
13.3 %#b78957Brown
10.8 %#119148Green
7.1 %#849373Grey
6.6 %#001704Black
4.8 %#e4e5d1Grey
2.2 %#614e28Brown
1.7 %#7c8136Green
0.3 %#8e3e3aBrown
Option 3: Read a book that contains a HARP on the cover

The Harp and the Lyre
This post: 25pts
This season: 915pts
Total books: 61
Total tasks: 47

20.10 - Group Reads Non-Fiction: Extreme Survival
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Discussion post 14
Points this task: 20
It's a Fact ticket(s): 1
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Totals:
Points: 180
Big Book - 500+: 2
Big Book - 750+: 0
Golden Oldie: 0
It's a Fact: 3
Tasks completed: 10

20.10 Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Spring 2024 season. The requirement for this task: you must participate in the book's discussion thread below with at least one post about the contents of the book or your reaction to the book after you have read the book.
Fiction: Space Opera - How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse by K. Eason
Discussion Thread
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 20
Total points: 470
Tasks completed: 20/61
It's a Fact: 1

20.3 Best Review - Lucy-Bookworm's Task: Subtitles
Read a book with a subtitle that has at least 6 words in it.
House Love: A Joyful Guide to Cleaning, Organizing, and Loving the Home You're In by Patric Richardson
Claiming for "It's a Fact"
Points this post: 20
Total points: 490
Tasks completed: 21/61
It's a Fact: 2

25.5 - Delicious Dee - Bee Hive Bookclub
Required: State the options you used.
Option 2: Read a book by an author found on my Bee Hive shelf – you may read a specific book that is on my list, or any other book by the author.
The Hawthorne Legacy - kindle El legado Hawthorne - paperback pgs. 432 by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Jennifer Lynn Barnes is one of the authors on the shelf. This is one of her other books.

Option 4: Read a book that can be found on the first 25 pages of either African Literature or France lists
Tears of the Giraffe - audible Les larmes de la girafe - mass market paperback pgs. 237 by Alexander McCall Smith
African Literature Pg 4

432+237=669>500
THIS POST
Points: 25
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
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Total This Season
Points: 300/1110
Completed Tasks: 22/62
Big Book: 1
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 8,907
Books read this season: 25

**UNCLAIM!!** Stats adjusted below.
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.
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: 0
Total points : 400-10=390
Tasks completed: 18/61-1=17/61
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
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: 3-1=2

10.10 - World Bee day
In honour of the humble Bee, read a book where the Title AND Author name both contain the letter B
Remarkably Bright Creatures - kindle Remarkably Bright Creatures - mass market paperback pgs 368 by Shelby Van Pelt
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt

THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
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Total This Season
Points: 310/1110
Completed Tasks: 23/62
Big Book: 1
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 9,275
Books read this season: 26

25.11 - Kathy KS’ Task : “Spring has sprung”
This is a two book task, choose 2 different options and read 1 book from each option.
State the options.
Option 2. Read a book whose title includes one of these common flower names intact: Rose, Gerbera, Sunflower, Marigold, Tulip, Daffodil, Daisy, Orchid, Carnation, Jasmine. Plurals and possessives are allowed.
The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan
Option 3. Read a book first published during my father’s lifetime: 1927-1997.
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (1951)
This Task: 25 Points
To Date: 880 Points

**UNCLAIM!!** Stats adjusted below.
30.7 - TessaVanessa’s Task: The Price is Right
Read two books, from two different options.
Option 1: COME ON DOWN: Read a book with a word of five letters or more that can be made from COME ON DOWN, YOU’RE THE NEXT CONTESTANT.
A Dance of Cloaks by David Dalglish
DANCE=... Down... ContEstANt
Option 2: PRICING GAMES: Read a book with a title, subtitle and/or author that includes all the letters in one of these games.
Game: DICE GAME
Oath and Honor: a Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney
DICE GAME=ChEnEy... Memoir anD a wArnInG
I listened to an audiobook; pb-372 p. (no mmpb)
**Claiming 1 (one) It’s A Fact ticket** : NONFICTION
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Points for this task: 0
Total points : 390-30=360
Tasks completed: 17/61-1=16/61
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
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: 2-1=1

30.7 - TessaVanessa’s Task: The Price is Right
Read two books, from two different options.
Option 1: COME ON DOWN: Read a book with a word of five letters or more that can be made from COME ON DOWN, YOU’RE THE NEXT CONTESTANT.
A Dance of Cloaks by David Dalglish
DANCE=... Down... ContEstANt
Option 2: PRICING GAMES: Read a book with a title, subtitle and/or author that includes all the letters in one of these games.
Game: DICE GAME
pb=256 p. Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing by Megan Smolenyak
GROCERY GAME=hEy, AMERiCa, YOur Roots are showinG... meGan smolenyak
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: 0
Total points : 390
Tasks completed: 17/61
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
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: 2

******REMOVE Post #2518 - 5.10 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
*****RETURN 1 It's A Fact ticket*****
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Points This Post: -5
Total Points: 675/1085
Tasks Completed: 34/61
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 8

25.8 - MEGSCL - Learning to read
Option 1: Read a book by an author with a first name that starts with M, S, or F.
Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley
*****I claim 1 It's A Fact ticket*****
Option 3: Read a book with the main page genre Childrens, Junior, or Middle Grade - the book must still meet the general rules for the SRC.
The Elephant's Girl by Celesta Rimington
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11.0
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 705/1085
Tasks Completed: 35/61
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 9

20.1 Most Improved - FLY's Task: Springing To Mind
2.Read a nonfiction book with Main Page Genre of Biography, Science, or War.
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Points this task: 20
It's a Fact ticket(s): 1
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Totals:
Points: 200
Big Book - 500+: 2
Big Book - 750+: 0
Golden Oldie: 0
It's a Fact: 4
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 11

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. One of your chosen books MUST be Non-Fiction. The total page count for the two books must be 450 pages or more.
WORD: Warning
Oath and Honor: a Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney
I listened to an audiobook; pb-372 p. (no mmpb)
**Claiming 1 (one) It’s A Fact ticket** : NONFICTION
Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas by Jim Minick
Pages: 250
**Claiming 1 (one) It’s A Fact ticket** : NONFICTION
Both books are NONFICTION.
Total pages: 372+250=622 (>450)
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 420
Tasks completed: 18/61
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 2
It's a Fact tickets total: 4

Remember Love (Ravenswood #1)
Points: 20
Total/challenge 685

5.4 What's In A Name?

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
Totals
Points: 340
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 10
Total Tasks Completed: 22
Total Books Completed: 25

25.7 - Lora - Happy St. Patrick's Day
The Searcher by Tana French

option 1, cover more than 50% green, over 317 pages
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill
option 2, on pg. 1 of Ireland shelf https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
***It's A Fact ticket, please***
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 540
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
IAF: 13
Tasks Completed: 28
Books Read: 38

25.8 - MEGSCL - Learning to read
The Seeker's Guide to Saints by Mitch Finley
option 1, author's first name starts with M
***It's A Fact ticket, please***
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
option 3, childrens genre
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16.0
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 565
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
IAF: 14
Tasks Completed: 29
Books Read: 40

5.10 - All The Information Is On The Task
The Every-Other-Day Diet: The Diet That Lets You Eat All You Want (Half the Time) and Keep the Weight Off by Krista Varady
***It's A Fact ticket, please***
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 570
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
IAF: 15
Tasks Completed: 30
Books Read: 41

25.11 - Kathy KS’ Task : “Spring has sprung”
Option 3. Read a book first published during my father’s lifetime: 1927-1997.
Sleeping Dogs by Thomas Perry
1st published: 1992
I read as an ebook; mmpb-308 p.
Option 4. Read a book with a four-letter or more word in the title/subtitle that can be made from the phrase “SPRING HAS SPRUNG".
Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy and the Indolent by Ruth Stout
AGING=sprING hAs sprunG
**Claiming 1 (one) It’s A Fact ticket** : NONFICTION
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Points for this task: 25
Total points : 445
Tasks completed: 19/61
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
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: 5

50.1 - Tammy AZ's Task: Exploration Through Reading
Select one of the options and read three books in that option. Your books must have a total page count of 750+ pages when combined and no kids/graphic novels allowed.
Required: State which option you used.
Option 1 - Road Trip: Read three books that take place on the same continent but in different locations on the continent. For example: Europe - set in France, Ireland, and Italy. Books can all be in the same country but must then be in different cities/towns as the point of the task is to travel.
Required: If the settings are not obvious from the book description or GR metadata, provide a reference.
Book 1: Danger in Numbers by Heather Graham
Setting: North America - Everglades, Florida, USA
352 pages
Book 2: Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
Setting: North America - New England, USA
From the Reader's Guide on the Penguin Random House webpage: "Nightwatching is set in a New England farmhouse built in the early 1700s, and occurs primarily in late 2020."
355 pages
Book 3: Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano
Setting: North America - Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
320 pages
352 + 355 + 320 = 1,027 total pages
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Points This Post: 50
Total Points: 545/1085
Tasks Completed: 32/61
BB: 1
GO: 1
NF: 6

10.5 - Blankety Blank
Read a book with a 2 word title where both words start with the same letter
Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events by Brent Spiner
I listened to an audiobook; pb-256 p. (no mmpb)
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Points for this task: 10
Total points : 455
Tasks completed: 20/61
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
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: 5
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15.6 Rebirth, Renew, Refresh
Spring traditionally symbolizes rebirth, a new beginning, starting over....
Read a book that is an re-imagining or retelling of a classic, fairytale, or myth.
Required: If re-imagining or retelling is not evident on the main Goodreads page, provide a reference to support the fit.
A Court of Sugar and Spice - audible Królestwo słodyczy i rozkoszy - paperback pgs 360 by Rebecca F. Kenney
This is a Nutcracker retelling.
THIS POST
Points: 15
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
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Total This Season
Points: 275/1110
Completed Tasks: 21/62
Big Book: 1
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 8,238
Books read this season: 23