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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2024
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50.1 -Ashlea's Task-Summer StormsBook 1-Option 2- Read a book where an authors first and last initial can be found in FINNLAN JAMES.
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1) by Arkady Martine
author's initials, AM, found in finnlan jAMes
448 pages
Book 2- Option 2- Read a book by an author who's first and last initial can be found in GREYSON NATHANIEL or HENRY OLIVER
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
author's initials, GN, found in GreysoN nathaniel
435 pages
Book 3-Option 2- Read a book by an author who's first and last initial can be found in JUNIPER HENSLEY GRACE
Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie
author's initials, AC, found in juniper hensley grACe
363 pages
Total pages read: 1,246
Total this Post: 50
Season Total: 625
15.9 Summer BlockbustersRead a book which appears on one of the following lists:
The Book Was Better Than The Movie
The Movie Was Better Than The Book
Required: State which list and which page of the list your book is found on.
The Book Was Better Than The Movie, page 7
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 205
20.10 Group Reads Fiction: Cryptids -
My comment:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 225
Delicious Dee20.9-Moderators Pet: Babbling C's Task-Nephews
Option 1 - Way of the Wolf - E.E. Knight - E initial approved in the THT
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 505
Its a Fact: 5
Big Book Ticket: 2
Golden Oldies: 1
Mod
10.8 - Olympics: Equestrian
Read a book with a horse on the cover.
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America. Elizabeth Letts
Nonfiction - claiming 1 IAF ticket
Points: 10
Total points: 700
Books read: 52
Tasks completed: 45
IAF points: 12
BB points: 1
Christine V5.3 TAG You're It!
Succulents at Home: Choosing, Growing, and Decorating with the Easiest Houseplants Ever
This book is NonFiction. ***Claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket***
Points this post: 5
NF tickets this post: 1
Total points: 5
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 1
Christine V20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Laure's Task: Dragons of Summer
Option 1: The She-Wolf
Points this post: 20
Total points: 25
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 1
Christine V20.4 Golden Oldies - FLY's Task- Kids’ Games Through the Ages
Option B: Wild at Home: How to style and care for beautiful plants
This book is NonFiction. ***Claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket***
Points this post: 20
NF tickets this post: 1
Total points: 45
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 2
Christine V20.6- It's A Fact- KathyP's Task-Summertime Dreaming
Option 3: How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart
This book is NonFiction. ***Claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket***
Points this post: 20
NF tickets this post: 1
Total points: 65
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 3
Christine V20.8 NICKELS & DIMES – Bookwrm526's Task- June Celebrations
Option 1: Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
This book is NonFiction. ***Claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket***
Points this post: 20
NF tickets this post: 1
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 4
Lisa MD5.5 - The Great Cornholio
A Murder Most French by Colleen Cambridge
272 pgs
Series: An American in Paris (#2)
☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 405 / 850
Total Books Read: 33
Total Tasks Completed: 27 / 52
Big Book Tickets: 4
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 5
50.1 -Ashlea's Task-Summer StormsThis is a three book task, 750+ pages.
Task: Book 1 - Option 1: SUNSHINE, SUNRISE, or SUN in the title
Arctic Sun by Annabeth Albert
MMPB: Arctic Sun - 384 pages
SUN in title
Task: Book 2 - Option 2: Author initials in either GREYSON NATHANIEL or HENRY OLIVER
Cruising by Sean Ashcroft
Paperback: Cruising - 330 pages
A, S: greySon nAthaniel
Task: Book 3 - Option 1: Rainbow on cover
This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson - 308 pages
Total pages: 1022
Points this post: 50
Total Points: 850/ 850
Tasks Completed 52/52
Barring errors on my part, this is it for me this season. Thank you!
Lisa MD25.6 - Delicious Dee's Task - Chronicles of St Mary’s and the Time Police
Option 2: Author: "David" Grann shares name of character: "David" Sand
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
331 pgs
I claim an IAF ticket
Option 3: Title Word: "Time" matches Title Word from series: Book 4 - A Trail Through "Time"
Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss by Jenna Bush Hager
240 pgs
I claim an IAF ticket
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 430 / 850
Total Books Read: 35
Total Tasks Completed: 28 / 52
Big Book Tickets: 4
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 7
Task 15.4 - Anyone For Croquet?book 1: #9 in series
Masquerade in Lodi
book 2: scorpion on cover
The Familiar
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785 points
Delicious Dee10.7 - O Canada
Code Blues: When Medicine Becomes Murder
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 515
Its a Fact: 5
Big Book Ticket: 2
Golden Oldies: 1
Gayla20.6 It's a Fact -- KathyP's Task - Summertime Dreaming
Option 1: Read a book with clouds on the cover.
, by Justin Taylor(several clouds on top half of cover)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 320/850
Total tasks: 24/52
Total books: 27/67
Lisa MD10.2 - Celebrating Dads
The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel
384 pgs
"Daughter" in Title
☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓☀️👓⛱️👓
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 440 / 850
Total Books Read: 36
Total Tasks Completed: 29 / 52
Big Book Tickets: 4
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 7
Richard20.2 Rookie at the Top - Laure's Task: Dragons of Summer
Option 1. Read a book which has a 1 & a 5 in its year of publication
Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again by Tom Jackson
How it Fits: Published 2015
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 265
Tasks Completed: 13
EMurphy15.3 Let the Games Begin
Option 1: Cover is at least 75% combo of blue, yellow, black, green, red
by S.J. Sindu*87.2% combination of blue and yellow
Option 2: Set in one of the countries The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
*Set in Vermont, USA
This Task:
Points: 15
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 260
Books Read: 17
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 1
IAF Ticket: 2
Tasks Completed: 12
Rockynook5.1 - Dodge the Ball
Book without letters HIT in title
Forever Never by Lucy Score
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 315
Rockynook20.8 - June Celebrations
Option 1: Author initials in PRIDE MONTH
A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn
pRiDe month
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 335
Nick KY20.6 Kathy’s Dreaming. Option 1. I read 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, with clouds on the cover:
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 560
Repost15.1 The long and short of it
a. short book under 200 pp
Here Comes Santa Pawsby Laurien Berenson
196pp
b. long book
Gwenhwyfar: The White Spiritby Mercedes Lackey
404pp
Task points +15
Grand total: 100
Mod
Andy P.Task # 20.4 Golden Oldies - FLY's Task- Kids’ Games Through the Ages
c) Hot Potato read a book off this list of books set in Idaho: Books Set in Idaho
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki page 1 # 11 as of 7/23/24
Points this post: 20
Total points: 350
ROBIN P10.10 Olympics: Breaking
Author first name begins with B
The Birthday Boys - Beryl Bainbridge
Points this post: 10
Total points: 415
BB:1 GO:4 IAF:5
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter : Barbara ★' s Task - Scotland or Bust Option 2. Read a book set on an island - Read The Summer Book by Tove Jansson. This surprisingly enchanting book was entirely set on an island in the Gulf of Finland.
Points these task: 20
Total points: 105
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 1
Big Book ticket requests: 0
It's A Fact ticket requests: 1
Books read and claimed: 6
Tasks completed: 6
Richard20.9 Moderator's Pet - Babbling C's Task - Nephews
Option 1. Read a book by an author whose first name begins with an A or an E
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 285
Tasks Completed: 14
MAZZA120.10 Group Read
I read A Tale of Two Cities
My comment in the discussion thread is here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post = 20
points to date = 825
Readerboard name: Michelle in Alaska30.2 - Katrisa's Task - Summer Zodiac.
Option 2-1. Read a book that is number 1-12 in a series.
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer (756 p.) *
Option 2-2. Read a book with a dragon on the cover.
When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker (576 p.) **
* I would like to claim 2 BB tickets for this book, please.
** I would like to claim 1 BB ticket for this book, please (3 total for post).
➸ Total Points: 65
➸ Total Pages: 2,176
Richard5.4 Game of HORSE
Read a book that has all the letters of HORSE in the title.
We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships by Kat Vellos
How it Fits: wE SHOuld get togetheR
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 290
Tasks Completed: 15
Cordelia50.1 Summer Storms
Book 1 Opt 2 Mawrdew Czgowchwz by James McCourt Author's initials J M in finnlan JaMes. pages 221
Book 2 opt 1 Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger Word THUNDER in title
pages 288
Book 3 opt 2 Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson.
Author's initials J P in JUNIPER HENSLEY GRACE pages 432 - I included the cover as proof that James Patterson was the author. The other author Michael Crichton died some time ago.Points this task - 50
Total points - 455
PegW10.5 - Cricket
Read a book where the author's initials can be found in the word CRICKET
I read Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 65
Mod
5.1 Dodge the Ball
Read a book whose title does not contain the letters HIT.
Sycamore Row. John Grisham
Points: 5
Total points: 705
Books read: 53
Tasks completed: 46
IAF points: 12
BB points: 1
Mod
30.4 Nick KY’s Task: Lots of Books
Option 1. Summer Means Reading Lots of Books! Read a book whose author's initials can be found sequentially in SUMMERMEANSREADINGLOTSOFBOOKS.
Good Material. Dolly Alderton - 345 pages
Option 2. Read a book from the first 25 pages of the “Comedy” list - page 1
Bossypants. Tina Fey - 277 pages
Nonfiction - claiming 1 IAF ticket, please
Points: 30
Total points: 735
Books read: 55
Tasks completed: 47
IAF points: 13
BB points: 1
LoraTask: 15.8 Summer Sweets
Book/Author: Mycroft and Sherlock / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse
How it fits: two authors writing under their own names
Points for this task: 15
Total points: 380
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: 2
Richard10.7 O Canada
Read a book set in Canada
Who Is Alex Trebek?: A Biography by Lisa Rogak
How it Fits: "he wasn’t yet ready to leave Canada and the CBC behind." p.47
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 300
Tasks Completed: 16
Richard10.6 Pride
Read a book with one of the following MPGs: LGBT, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Queer
Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue by Nicholas M. Teich
How it Fits: MPGs of LGBT, Transgender & Queer
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 310
Tasks Completed: 17
Richard10.9 Olympics: Pentathlon
Read a book with exactly 5 words in the title
Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures by Nessa Carey
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 320
Tasks Completed: 18
20.5 - Bigger is Better: Lisa MD's Summer Scavenger HuntWitchmark (The Kingston Cycle #1) by C.L. Polk
- bicycle on coverTotal this Post: 20
Season Total: 645
Gayla30.5 RedSycamore's Task -- The Sound of Silence
Option 1, Book 1: Read a book with no words in the title.
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
Option 1, Book 2: Read a book with at least one letter or number that's part of the cover art.
by Mirinae LeeApproved here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 30
Total points: 350/850
Total tasks: 25/52
Total books: 29/67
Nick KY15.5 Flag? I read The Kraken Sea by E. Catherine Tobler, inits in “CapTurE the flag.”
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 575
Nick KY15.6 Don’t Move. I read Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn, GR genre of “Dystopia.” (8th listed genre)
Points This Post: 15
Total Points : 590
Nick KY30.3 TessaVanessa’s Feeding the Children
Opt. 1. I read Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi. RIOT in “salvaTIOn aRmy.”
Opt. 2. I read The Devil's Disciples by Susanna Gregory, author’s 1st name a variant of Suzanne.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 620
Kai15.4 Anyone for Croquet?
OPTION 1
Read two books, book A and book B.
BOOK A
Read a book which is either #6 or #9 in a series.
Hangman's Holiday: A Collection of Short Mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers
#9 Lord Peter Wimsey series
BOOK B
Read a book which features either an animal/bird (real only, no fictional creatures like unicorns or phoenixes) or playing card(s) on the cover.
Galore by Michael Crummey
New Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 19/52
Total Points: 295
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 3
IT'S A FACT: 4
MAZZA110.7 - O Canada
Read a book set in Canada
Surfacing setting identified on main page as Quebec
points this post 10
Points to date = 835
JENNY H10.2 - Celebrating Dads
Read a book with one of the following "dad" or "child" relationships standalone in the title or subtitle.
Wolf Children: Ame & Yuki
*Claiming a BB ticket, book is 549 pages long*
Points this post: 10
BB: 3
GO: 0
NF: 0
Total points: 310
JENNY H10.4 - Summer Songs
Pick one song from this list of 40 Best Summer Songs and read a book with title word (not subtitle) of at least 3 letters shared with your chosen song title
My song: Cruel Summer
The Cruel Prince
Points this post: 10
BB: 3
GO: 0
NF: 0
Total points: 320
JENNY H10.5 - Cricket
Read a book that depicts the game of cricket on the cover (bat, cricket ball, stumps, players etc) OR where the author's initials can be found in the word CRICKET
I'm choosing the author initial option.
Bleach, Volume 1 by Tite Kubo (TK)
Points this post: 10
BB: 3
GO: 0
NF: 0
Total points: 330
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15.7 Jailbreak
Main character jailed arrested or ex-prisoner
A Trick of Fate
Main character Max is falsely accused, arrested by a constable and taken to a local jail.
**Approved in Help thread where I posted quotations supporting this.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 405
BB:1 GO:4 IAF:5