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SPRING CHALLENGE 2024
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Read a book that has won or been nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards
read Don't Let Her Stay
book nominated for Mystery Thriller 2023
points this post 15
total points 35
Nick KY25.8 - MEGSCL - Learning to read
Choose two options.
Option 1: Kids don't start reading with ABC any more, the first letters they learn are M, S and F. Read a book by an author with a first name that starts with M, S, or F. I read This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack.
Option 2: For a long time, all the books she read were composed solely of 3-letter words. Read a book with a title where all words have 3 or fewer letters. I read A Cup of Tea by Amy Ephron.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 140
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.6 JennRenee's Task: Pick a Genre!
GENRE= True Crime
Book 1: Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan
Book 2: Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse
Points this post: 25
Total points: 165
Task completed: 13
Nick KY30.3 Mazza1’s Olympics
Option 2 - The Eiffel Tower Stadium
The Eiffel Tower is nicknamed La Dame De Fer & will host beach volleyball.
Book a) A 4+ letter word in title is made from "LA DAME DE FER."
Letters may only be used as often as they appear in the phrase.
Required: State the word.
I read Lost Under a Ladder by Linda O. Johnston, the word is LADDER. -- LA Dame DE feR
b) Read a book where the cover shows a beach (sand and water). I read A Side of Murder by Amy Pershing. --
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 170
trishhartuk20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Lois' Task: The Dating Game
Read a book with MPG Romance that is #1, #2, or #3 in a series that has at least three published books.
Mulled to Death (Colorado Wine Mystery #3), Kate Lansing
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB: here (304pg)
Romance is the fourth MPG
The series has four primary works: https://www.goodreads.com/series/2708...
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 115
Tasks Completed:9
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Andy P.5.7 Trust Nobody
Read a book with an MPG of Espionage or Spy Thriller.
The Spy Coast byTess Gerritsen
MPG Espionage MPG
Points this post: 5
Total points: 65
JEN B5.4 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.
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
AS in cArllinnaeuS
***Claiming one It's A Fact ticket ***
TOTAL POINTS: 70
Jayme(theghostreader)5.2 What Goes Around
Blue Shoes and Happinessby Alexander McCall Smith
Borrowed from the library
Task +5
Grand total:10
Jayme(the ghostreader)20.2 The Lego Masters Play Well, Read Well
N or M?by Agatha Christie
Option 1 Amy Corbett
AC -Agatha Christie
Task +20
Grand total 30
Readerboard name: Mel S20.5 - Bowling for Dollars
Option B: Author’s first and last initial can be found in one of the show titles: “bowling for dollaRS”
The Downloaded by Robert J. Sawyer
This post: 20pts
This season: 130pts
Tasks completed: 9
Books read: 11
Delicious Dee20.4 Golden Oldies - Hannelore's Task: I Really Like This Bowl
Option 3 - Fine: A Comic About Gender - Rhea Ewing - RE can be found in the phrase I REALLY LIKE THIS BOWL
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 75
Katrisa20.2 Rookie at the Top - JenJ IA's Task: LEGO Masters - Play Well, Read Well!
Opt 3 - Read a book that is #4 or #5 in a series.
I read The Dark Horse #5 in the Walt Longmire series
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 195
BABBLING C20.4 Golden Oldies - Hannelore's Task: I Really Like This Bowl
Option 2: The Big Flower Fight - Read a book with multiple flowers clearly visible on the cover. (At least 3 flowers.) Bouquets, flower arrangements and gardens all count
Required: Post the cover
Secretly Yours - Audible Secretly Yours - paperback pg. 384 by Tessa Bailey
THIS POST
Points: 20
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 1
NONFICTION : 0
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Total This Season
Points: 40/1110
Completed Tasks: 2/62
Big Book: 1
NONFICTION : 0
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Pages read this season: 928
Books read this season: 2
25.3 - KMarieD: What’s your favorite challenge type?
Option 1: Using a phrase to spell title words or contain author initials. You may read one book that is 500+ pages if it fits both categories of your chosen option.
The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
Top paperback for page count (no mass market paperback):
The Crow Trap, 560 pages
Category 1: Read a book w/ a 4+ letter sub/title word from TITLE WORD SPELLED FROM PHRASE
Word: TRAP
Category 2: Read a book with all author initials in AUTHOR INITIALS CONTAINED IN PHRASE
**Claiming 1 Big Book Ticket**
New Points: 25
Total Points: 250
Tickets as of this post: BB(3), GO(1), IaF(4)
babbling c30.5 - 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.
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission - Kindle Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission - paperback pg. 344 by Hampton Sides
Non-Fiction = It's a fact
Switchboard Soldiers - Audible Switchboard Soldiers: A Novel of the Heroic Women Who Served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps During World War I - paperback pg 464 by Jennifer Chiaverini
344+464=808>450
Soldiers
THIS POST
Points: 30
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 1
NONFICTION : 1
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Total This Season
Points: 60/1110
Completed Tasks: 3/62
Big Book: 1
NONFICTION : 1
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Pages read this season: 1,836
Books read this season: 4
Lisa MD20.2 - Rookie at the Top-JenJ IA's: LEGO Masters - Play Well, Read Well!
Option 3: Series - A Court of Thorns and Roses (#4)
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
757 pgs
I claim 2 BB tickets.
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 110 / 1100
Total Books Read: 8
Total Tasks Completed: 8 / 61
Big Book Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
IAF Tickets: 2
Amanda VA20.1 Most Improved - FLY's Task: Springing To Mind
Option 2: reading a nonfiction book with Main Page Genre of Biography, Science, or War
More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter, MPG of "biography"
Claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket
Points for this task: 20
Total points : 70
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: 2
Nick KY10.3 Dusty Bin. I read Ascension by Nicholas Binge, author's inits in “dusty BiN.”
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 180
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.2 What Goes Around...
Troublemaker by Janet and Alex Evanovich
I borrowed this from my public library.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 170
Task completed: 14
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.10 All The Information Is On The Task
The Girl Who Danced with Death by Sylvain Runberg
Points this post: 5
Total points: 175
Task completed: 15
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.4 Category Is...
Option 1:
Book 1: Aya: Claws Come Out by Marguerite Abouet
Book 2: For Justice: The Serge & Beate Klarsfeld Story by Pascal Bresson
I spun Nonfiction.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 190
Task completed: 16
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.6 It's a Fact - Jammin Jenny's Task: TV Family Fun
Option 1: Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich
Points this post: 20
Total points: 210
Task completed: 17
Readerboard Name Jammin JennySpring 2024 SRC
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.
The Glass Box - fiction - 350 pages
Doctor Who Psychology: A Madman with a Box - non-fiction - 336 pages, claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket
The commons word is "BOX"
Total pages: 350+336=686 pages
Points this post: 30
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 1
Total Points: 30
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 1
JEN B5.8 Roboteers, Stand By
Read a book from the first 25 pages of this Robots shelf
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
This book is on page 1 of the list
TOTAL POINTS: 75
Andy P.Task # 5.9 What is the Seasonal Reading Challenge?
Read a book with a ? In the title
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Points this post: 5
Total points: 70
SUSAN A20.3 Best Review - Lucy-Bookworm's Task: Subtitles - Read a book with a subtitle that has at least 6 words in it.
Mystery on the Menu: A Three-Course Collection of Cozy Mysteries by Nicole Kimberling
No MMPB. paperback here
6 words in the subtitle
previous total: 790
points this post: 20
new total: 810
SUSAN A20.10 GROUP READ
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
I listened to audiobook. No MMPB. paperback here
discussion post
previous post: 810
points this post: 20
new total: 830
Katrisa15.7 - Let's Break
Read a book where a vacation, holiday or leisure break involving at least one overnight stay is central to the story
I read The Icarus Girl
from the main page "Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time that she makes a friend who understands a ragged little girl named TillyTilly."
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 210
SUSAN A30.3 - MAZZA1's task - Looking Forward to the Olympics
Option 4 - Palace Of Versailles
a) Read a book with a a word in the title which CONTAINS but does NOT BEGIN with Q
Once Upon a Marquess by Courtney Milan
I listened to audiobook. No MMPB. paperback here
MarQuess
b. Read a book that is part of a series of FIVE and ONLY FIVE primary works.
System Overload by Saxon James
I listened to audiobook. No MMPB. paperback here
Divorced Men's Club series has 5 primary books
approved here
previous post: 830
points this post: 30
new total: 860
JekylahTask: 5.4 What’s In A Name? – Authors initials must be found in Carl Linnaeus
Book: Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
Points: 5
Total: 5
Task 20.3 - Subtitles8 word subtitle
The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World
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210 points
Task 30.2 - Word Searchbook 1: JOLE found in author name
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold
book 2: author name LOIS found in title (vOrpatrIL'S)
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold
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240 points
Mia N10.6 - Traitor
Read a book written under a pseudonym
The Pumpkin Spice Café
Written by Laurie Gilmore, on her instagram it says this is the pen name for Melissa McTernan
Points for this task: 10
Total points: 65
Lys5.1 Spring Colours
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 0 + 5 = 5
Total Tasks Completed: 1
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Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
Bookwrm526Task #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. I read The Paper Bark Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu (#3 in the Crown Colony series, which has seven books).
Option 2: Read a book that shows a coastline on the cover. It must show a beach/shoreline and water. I read Deadly Ever After by Eva Gates.
Total points so far: 105
Lys5.2 What Goes Around...
If They Come for Us
Borrowed from the library
Claiming an "NF" ticket
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: 0+1 = 1
5.4 What's In A Name?cArL linnaeus - Ada Limon
Bright Dead Things
Claiming an "NF" ticket
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 10 + 5 = 15
Total Tasks Completed: 3
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Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 1+1 = 2
Jasmiina F20.2 Rookie at the Top - JenJ IA's Task: LEGO Masters - Play Well, Read Well!:
Option 1: Read a book written by a single author whose initials have letters from these letters: W, A, J, B, A, C:
The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie.
*Big Book Ticket with 520 pages*
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
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+:
10.3 - Dusty BinThe Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
Tim Burton / dusTy Bin
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 15 + 10 = 25
Total Tasks Completed: 4
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Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 2+0 = 2
Andy P.Task # 10.4 - The Adventure Game
Read a book with MPG Adventure
The Oxygen Farmer by Colin Holmes
Points this post: 10
Total points: 80
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.
My word is: TAKE
Take This Man: A Memoir
***Claiming an It's a FAct ticket for non-fiction***
New Points: 5
Total Points: 5
IaF: 1
20.2 Rookie at the Top - JenJ IA's Task: LEGO Masters - Play Well, Read Well!Option 4b) b) 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.
Shut Up You're Pretty
New Points: 20
Total Points: 25
IaF: 1
25.1 - RobinP task The Fab FourOption 1, author name matches a Beatle's name: Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George
Option 4, MPG Essays: The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America by Sarah Kendzior
Points this post: 25
Total points: 120
ROBIN P10.8 Spring Forward
Next book in series
Death Ex Machina - #5 in Athenian Mysteries series
I have already read books 1-4 of the series, The Pericles Commission through The Marathon Conspiracy
Points this post: 10
Total points: 115
BB: 0 GO:0 IAF: 1
Delicious Dee30.5 - Truitt_T’s task: Match it Up!
OVER
The Big Over Easy
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love - claiming 1 Its a fact ticket for NF
Points this Post: 30
Points Total: 105
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25.5 - Delicious Dee - Bee Hive Bookclub
Option 1: Read a book where BEE can be found intact in the title
Queen Bee. Dorothea Benton Frank - 448 pages
Option 3: Read a book where the authors first & last initials match a member in my sub-hive. Initials must be in the order they appear (team mate LB)
Killing Thyme. Leslie Budewitz - 288 pages
Points: 25
Total points: 220
IAF - 1
GO - 1
25.2 - Tiens task: Kid's SportsOption 1: Swimming - author's (first & last) initials are found in KICKBOARD
Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater
🍀 author's initials (OA) found in KICKB OA RD🍀
Option 3: Crossfit - page count with at least 2 of these numbers (0, 1, 2, 5)
The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman
🍀 352 pages 🍀
Total points: 90 + 25 = 115
Big Book tickets: 1
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 0
Delicious Dee15.5 Survey Says
The Love Hypothesis - Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance in 2021
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 120
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chose option 2:
Read a book with a title that contains at least one X and with a single author that contains at least 2 O's in their name, first, last , or middle.
read Stone Cold Fox
points this post 15
total points 20