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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2024
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
Kai5.7 We All Scream
Read a book by an author born in the 1980s.
Emergency by Daisy Hildyard
Born 1984; Reference https://www.penguin.co.nz/authors/dai...
New Points: 5
Tasks Completed: 11/52
Total Points: 160
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 1
IT'S A FACT: 2
Kai20.8 NICKELS & DIMES – Bookwrm526's Task- June Celebrations
OPTION 1
Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in the phrase PRIDE MONTH.
I: New & Selected by Toi Derricotte
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 12/52
Total Points: 180
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 1
IT'S A FACT: 2
LaureY30.4 Nick KY’s Task: Lots of Books
Option 1: Read a book whose author's initials can be found sequentially in SUMMERMEANSREADINGLOTSOFBOOKS.
Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire
403 pages
Option 2: Read a book from the first 25 pages of the “Comedy” list.
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
Page 1 /pages: 276
Point this Post: 30
Total Points: 205
LaureY15.3 Let The Games Begin
Option 1
A Read a book whose cover is at least 75% made up of any combination of these colours according to Tineye:blue, yellow, black, green, and red.
by Kevin KwanI claim a Big Book Ticket for this book as it is 541 pages long.
B Read a book at least 50% set in one of these countries: Britain.
The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews
Points this post: 15
BBT this post: 1
Total points: 220
Total Big Books: 3
25.6 - Delicious Dee's Task - Chronicles of St Mary’s and the Time Police1. Read a book (that is a whole number) from either the Chronicles of St Mary’s series or the spin-off The Time Police
A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St Mary's #4) by Jodi Taylor
383 pages
4. Read a book that is found on the first 10 pages of the following shelf
A Second Chance (The Chronicles of St Mary's #3) by Jodi Taylor
page 2
298 pages
Total pages read: 681
Total this Post: 25
Season Total: 450
Rockynook30.5 - The Sound of Silence
Option 1: 2 books
B1: no words in title
B2: letter or number in cover art
B1: The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
B2:
by Peter SwansonNewsprint around the edges contains letters in the cover art
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 220
Julia1035.5 The Great Cornholio
Murder in Rose Hill
(Gaslight Mystery #27)
This post: 5 points
Total points: 280
BB: 3
GO: 1
NF: 3
Tasks completed: 18
Books read: 23
Gayla15.1 The Long and Short of It
Read a book with 400 or more pages
Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown, by Maureen Waller (480 pages)
Read a book with 200 or fewer pages
Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata (163 pages)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 170/850
Total tasks: 15/52
Total books: 17/67
JenJ IA15.5 Do You Have A Flag?
Read a book whose author's initials are found in CAPTURE THE FLAG. Middle initials can be ignored, and letters can only be used as often as they appear.
Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 145/850
Tasks Completed: 9/52
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 2
Lisa MD10.10 - Olympics: Breaking
Tourist Season by Brenda Novak
400 pgs
Author's first name starts with the letter "B"
☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 290 / 850
Total Books Read: 21
Total Tasks Completed: 18 / 52
Big Book Tickets: 3
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 4
25.4 Truitt_T’s Task: It’s a Riot!This is a two book task, with a combined 500 page minimum. While children’s and middle grades books are NOT allowed, a book with MPG Graphic Novel(s) MAY be used for one book. One book MUST be nonfiction.
Option 1: Option 1: Read a book that is MPG LGBT and/or Queer AND one of the following: Nonfiction
I read Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture.
I listened to the audiobook but the paperback is 272 pages.
I claim 1 It's a Fact ticket for this non-fiction book.
Option 3: Read a book from one of the following lists.
I read The Song of Achilles.
It is featured in the first list "60 LGBTQ+ Books That Reaaally Deserve a Spot on Your Shelf" on place 5 https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertai...
The book is 408 pages.
In total, I read 680 pages for this task.
Points this post: 25
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 1
Total Points: 175
BB Tickets: 3
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 5
JUKKA10.5 – Cricket
Book whose author's initials are in CRICKET.
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher.
Total Points: 165/850
Total Books Read: 14
Tasks Completed: 13/52
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 1
Task 20.4 Kids’ Games Through the Agesa) Jump rope –
Pick a book from this list of rope books: Covers for Old Rope
On July 7, 2024
Page One, #34 (bottom of the list)
The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander #2) (1992) by Henning Mankell; translated from Swedish by Laurie Thompson (Paperback 326 pages)
60 + 20 = 80
Tasks Completed: 05
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 60 + 20 = 80
Books read: 06
Pages read: 1,615
Read but not claimed: 04
Goodreads Authors: 02
Golden Oldies: 02
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 00
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Jen K20.8 NICKELS & DIMES – Bookwrm526's Task- June Celebrations
Option 3: Starter Villain
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 120
BB: 1
IAF: 1
Julia10320.2 - Rookie at the Top - Laure's Task: Dragons of Summer
Option 2: Dragons at Land's End (Dragons are important characters)
I read the Kindle edition. The paperback edition is Dragons at Land's End. (I have posted in the librarian thread for these to be combined.)
This post: 20 points
Total points: 300
BB: 3
GO: 1
NF: 3
Tasks completed: 19
Books read: 24
Jen K15.3 Let The Games Begin
Option 2: The End of Drum-Time
Set at least 50% in Sweden; 84.8 % Blue
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 135
BB: 1
IAF: 1
Jen K15.4 Anyone For Croquet?
Option 2: Cheery Charms (Aurora Hart, #2)
Winter Witches of Holiday Haven #6; squirrel on cover
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 150
BB: 1
IAF: 1
Mod
10.5 - Cricket
Read a book where the author's initials can be found in the word CRICKET
Sunrise Point. Robyn Carr
Points: 10
Total points: 470
Books read: 37
Tasks completed: 31
IAF points: 8
BB points: 1
Cordelia10.2 Celebrating Dads
My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor
Points this task - 10
Total points 325
Mod
25.3 -JennRenee's Task - Summer English Lesson
Option A: A noun is plural when it represents two or more people, places, things, or ideas.
Book 1: Read a book with a noun of 4 or more letters in the title. (Book/books)
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade. Janet Skeslien Charles
Book 2: Read a book with a plural noun of that same noun in the title.
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books. Kirsten Miller
Points: 25
Total points: 495
Books read: 39
Tasks completed: 32
IAF points: 8
BB points: 1
15.4 Anyone For Croquet?This is a two book task - Option 1
Task: Book A - #6 or #9 in series
The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
MMPB: The Hanging Tree
This book is #6 in the Rivers of London series.
Task: Book B: Animal/bird on cover
A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell
MMPB: Зоологическа градина в моя багаж
Bird in silhouette on cover.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 570 / 850
Tasks Completed 35/52
ROBIN P5.5 The Great Cornholio
#2, 7 or 27 of series
Scarlet Devices - #2 of Steam and Seduction Series
Points this post: 5
Total points: 250
BB:0 GO: 2 IAF: 3
Gayla15.10 Summer Months
Read a book that has exactly 6, 7, or 8 words in the title (not subtitle).
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity, by Jill Burke
Points this post: 15
Total points: 185/850
Total tasks: 16/52
Total books: 18/67
30.3 - TessaVaness'S TASK Feeding the ChildrenOption 1: Read a book that has a word of at least 4 letters that can be found in SALVATION ARMY. Letters can only be used as often as they appear.
The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club #4) by Richard Osman
word in title, LAST, found in SALvaTion army
Option 3: Read a book with 200 - 250 pages (inclusive - so 200 & 250 count, 199 & 251 do not)
DallerGut Dream Department Store by Lee Mi-ye
243 pages
Total this Post: 30
Season Total: 480
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.5 The Great Cornholio
Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 2 by James Tynion IV
Points this post: 5
Total points: 505
Task completed: 37
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.9 Hot Summer Months
Blackwater by Jeannette Arroyo
First published: July 19, 2022
I live in the northern hemisphere.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 510
Task completed: 38
Nick KY5.8 Sand Castles. I read Caldé of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe.
On the riverbank there are three buildings with towers. On is probably a cathedral/church, but the other two are probably castles.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 420
Nick KY10.9 Pentathlon. I read
by Gene Wolfe, Exodus from the Long Sun is a title of five words exactly.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 430
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.6 Don't Move
The Rules Have Changed by Lesley Choyce
Points this post: 15
Total points: 525
Task completed: 39
TessaVanessaChallenge 15.9 Summer Blockbusters
About a Boy by Nick Hornsby
The movie was better than the book. Page 1
Points this post: 15
Total points: 540
Task completed: 40
EMurphy30.4 Nick KY's Task: Lots of Books
Option 1: Author's initials can be found sequentially in SUMMERMEANSREADINGLOTSOFBOOKS The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
*EM backwards in "MEANS"
**Big Book Ticket - 574 pages
Option 4: Book by Paul Auster Sunset Park by Paul Auster
*574+309=883 pages
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 1
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 170
Books Read: 11
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 1
IAF Ticket: 2
Tasks Completed: 7
Andy P.Task # 15.5 Do You Have A Flag?
Read a book whose author's initials are found in CAPTURE THE FLAG.
One Wrong Word by Hank Phillippi Ryan H in THE, P in Capture, R in Capture
Points this post: 15
Total points: 250
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.10 Group Reads
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by JOhn Berendt.
Discussion post #7 is my post in the thread.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 560
Task completed: 41
FLY Task #5.7 We All Scream
task: Read a book by an author born in the 1980's.
book: Carve the Mark
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: author Veronica Roth born August 19, 1988 according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronic...
other: **Claiming BB ticket for MMPB = 550 pages
Points this post: 5
Total points: 185
Tasks completed: 12/52
BB: 3 + 1 = 4 / GO: 1 / IAF: 1
trishhartuk25.2 Mazza1's Task: Title Pairs
OPTION 1. Read 2 books where the last word of the first book's title is the first word of the second book's title
WITCH
Seven-Year WITCH, Angela M. Sanders
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB: here (288pg)
WITCH King, Martha Wells (432pg)
Total pages: 288 + 432 = 720pg
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 175
Tasks Completed: 11
Big Book Tickets: 1
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.6 Delicious Dee's Task - Chronicles of St Mary’s and the Time Police
Option 2: Secondary Target by Angela Carlisle
Shares name with Angela Bessant
336 pages
Option 3: We Are All So Good at Smiling ny Amber McBride
Word=GOOD found in The Good, the Bad and the History
304 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 585
Task completed: 42
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.5 RedSycamore's Task: The Sound of Silence
Option 1:
Book 1: Northranger by Ray Terciero
Book 2:
by Nora PageSign that says Library Closed
Points this post: 30
Total points: 615
Task completed: 43
20.10 Group ReadsFiction: Victorian - I did post in the thread.
A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 270
Total Tasks Completed: 12
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Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 2
25.3 -JennRenee's Task - Summer English LessonOption A: A noun is plural when it represents two or more people, places, things, or ideas.
Book 1: Read a book with a noun of 4 or more letters in the title.
House
Secrets of Sloane House by Shelley Gray
Book 2: Read a book with a plural noun of that same noun in the title.
Houses
Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 295
Total Tasks Completed: 13
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Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 2
15.7 JailbreakBook: Migrations
How it fits: MC was in jail for murder; reference: "I spent four years in a cell in Limerick." - p 161
Points this post: 15
Total points: 150
Mod
10.4 - Summer Songs
Pick one song from this list of 40 Best Summer Songs
6. ‘(Sittin’ on the) Dock of the Bay’ by Otis Redding - BAY
Driftwood Bay. Irene Hannon
Points: 10
Total points: 505
Books read: 40
Tasks completed: 33
IAF points: 8
BB points: 1
Delicious Dee10.9 - Olympics: Pentathlon
A Lady's Formula for Love
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 285
Its a Fact: 4
Big Book Ticket: 1
Delicious Dee15.3 Let The Games Begin
Book A -
- according to tineye - the cover is 72.9% black, 8.8% red, 1.4% yellow and less than 1% green/blue - which exceed the required 75% - https://labs.tineye.com/color/c9dde2c...Book B - The Berlin Letters - more than 50% set in Germany
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 300
Its a Fact: 4
Big Book Ticket: 1
20.6- It's A Fact- KathyP's Task-Summertime Dreaming Option 2, non-fiction book with all the letters of GRASS in the title: Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family by Kathleen Flinn
Points this post: 20
Total points: 285
Cordelia 15.4 Anyone for croquet
Option A: Copper River by William Kent Krueger #6 in series
Option B: Tiger the Lurp Dog by Kenn Miller
Dog on cover
Points this task- 15
Total points - 340
Bookwrm526Task #10.10 - Olympics: Breaking
Read a book where the authors first name begins with B. An author with the first initial B will also count. I read The Peacekeeper by B.L. Blanchard.
Total points so far: 345
Lindsey IL30.3 - TessaVaness'S TASK Feeding the Children
The Fastest Diet: Supercharge your weight loss with the 4:3 intermittent fasting plan by Victoria Black
option 3, between 200-250 pg. (240 pg.)
***It's A Fact ticket, please***
A Kind of Paradise by Amy Rebecca Tan
option 4, on pg. 1 of Volunteerism list
MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9.0
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 120
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
IAF: 2
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 7
Delicious Dee15.9 Summer Blockbusters
I, Robot - found on pg2 of The BOOK was BETTER than the MOVIE; claiming 1 golden oldies ticket - I Robot was first published December 1950
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 315
Its a Fact: 4
Big Book Ticket: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
Lindsey IL15.7 - Jailbreak
Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
MG+
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 135
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
IAF: 2
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 8
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10.9 Olympics: Pentathalon
Read a book with exactly 5 words in the title (not subtitle).
Gretel and the Great War by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
New Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 10/52
Total Points: 155
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 1
IT'S A FACT: 2