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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2024
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
trishhartuk10.3 Sumer is icumen in
Read a book with a title word that can be made from "SUMER IS ICUMEN IN"
Charmed Summer, Kathi Daley
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here
SUMMER: SUMER is icuMen in
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 285
Tasks Completed: 23
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 2
JenJ IA25.4 Truitt_T’s Task: It’s a Riot!
This is a two book task, with a combined 500 page minimum. One book MUST be nonfiction. Choose two options and read one book from each. Required:: state which options
Option 1: Read a book that is MPG LGBT and/or Queer AND one of the following: Biography, Fantasy, Graphic Novel(s), Historical/Historical Fiction, History, Humor, Memoir, Mystery/Cozy Mystery/Mystery Thriller, Nonfiction, Science Fiction
Required: state the qualifying MPGs. - LGBT & Memoir
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper - 304 pages
*****I claim 1 It's a Fact ticket*****
Option 2: Read a book for which the author’s initials may be found in STONEWALL RIOTS.
The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley - 320 pages
304 + 320 = 624 pages
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 360/850
Tasks Completed: 22/52
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 7
Amy B25.3 -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.
A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung (Remedy)
Book 2: Read a book with a plural noun of that same noun in the title.
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by Andrew Scull (Remedies)
This Task: 25 Points
To Date: 165 Points
10.4 - Summer SongsTitle word from https://www.timeout.com/music/the-50-...
#6 (Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay: Redemption Bay by RaeAnne Thayne
Points this post: 10
Total points: 550
Amy B30.1 - Susan A's Task: The Stanley Cup Playoffs
Choose two options and read one book for each. A total of 500 or more pages is required.
Option 2: Read a book with the letters N H L in the title. Ignore subtitles. Order doesn't matter.
The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis - 336 pages
Option 4: Read a book originally published in June.
Required: Include the original publication date in your post.
Loot by Tania James (June 13, 2023) - 304 pages
This Task: 30 Points
To Date: 195 Points
25.1 - Amy FL’s task: Farewell to a LegendOption 1: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials appear in RAFAEL NADAL.
The Drop by Dennis Lehane
Option 4: Read a book with a MPG of Mental Health or Mental Illness.
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
New Points: 25
Total Points: 255
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15.7 - Jailbreak
Read a book where the main character is jailed or arrested, or is an ex-prisoner.
The Count of Monte Cristo
This book was first published in 1844. One Golden Oldies ticket please!
This book has 1276 pages. Three Big Book tickets please!
Points this task: 15
Season total: 185
BB Tickets: 5
GO Tickets: 2
IAF Tickets: 4
Deborah50.1 -Ashlea's Task-Summer Storms
Book 1
Option 2
Dark Arts and a Daiquiri by Annette Marie 306 pages
AM: JAMES
Book 2
Option 2
How Heathcliff Stole Christmas by Steffanie Holmes 142 pages
SH: GREYSON NATHANIEL
Book 3
Option 2
The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud 374 pages
AR Bookfinder: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15.0
JS: JUNIPER HENSLEY
306+142+374=822 pages Required minimum 750
Points this post: 50
Total Points: 340
Books Read: 27
Tasks Done: 19
Amy FL5.10 Easy Breezy Summertime
You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell - this is not in ARBF but middle grade appears last
Points this post: 5
Total points: 655
Amy FL20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Laure's Task: Dragons of Summer
Option 2: Fourth Wing - approved in message 14 for dragons
Points this post: 20
Total points: 675
Amy FL20.10 Group Reads
Fiction: Cryptids - Into the Drowning Deep - my review
Points this post: 20
Total points: 695
Amy FL30.5 - RedSycamore's Task: The Sound of Silence
Book 1: Obscura - Obscura is not a word in the Scrabble dictionary
Book 2:
- approved in message 3 for the X's over the eyesPoints this post: 30
Total points: 725
Amy FL50.1 -Ashlea's Task-Summer Storms
Book 1, Option 2: A Forgotten Kill by Isabella Maldonado - IM in fInnlan jaMes
Book 2, Option 2: Luck of the Draw by Gina LaManna - GL in Greyson nathanieL
Book 3, Option 2: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak - JR in JunipeR
I linked to the versions I completed; the paperback page total is greater than 1000.
Points this post: 50
Total points: 775
Kristen IA20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Laure's Task: Dragons of Summer
Option 3. Read a book with either the word: Wizard, Witch, Wild or One in the title.
In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 340/850
Tasks Completed: 20/52
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 5
15.8 Summer SweetsFatal Intrusion (Sanchez & Heron #1) by Jeffery Deaver & Isabella Maldonado
I read an eARC via NetGalley
Total this Post: 15
Season Total: 700
MEGSCL5.9 Hot Summer Months
Southern Hemisphere - First published February 18, 2019
Home Fires
**528 pages - 1 big book
TOTAL
315 points - 2 big book - 5 IAF
MEGSCL30.3 - TessaVaness'S TASK Feeding the Children
Option 1: Salvation Army: ANIMALS - The Memory of Animals
Option 3: Numbers: Anya's Ghost
TOTAL
345 points - 2 big book - 5 IAF
MEGSCL15.3 Let The Games Begin
One book option. Set in USA. 82% black
TOTAL
360 points - 2 big book - 5 IAF
15.2 Stars and Stripes ForeverA - Read a book that has the name of a U.S. state in the title.
California Demon (California Demon #1) by Debra Dunbar
B - Stripes: Each of the 13 stripes on the American flag stands for one of the original 13 colonies (Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island). Read a book that is set at least 50% in one of these states.
Lovelight Farms (Lovelight #1) by B.K. Borison
100% Maryland
Total this Post: 15
Season Total: 715
15.6 Don't MoveMPG Dystopia: World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler
Points this post: 15
Total points: 565
Richard15.2 Stars & Stripes Forever
A - Read a book that has the name of a U.S. state in the title.
Dr. George Washington Carver: Scientist by Shirley Graham du Bois
How it Fits: Washington
B - Read a book that is set at least 50% in one of these states.
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman
How it Fits: New Hampshire
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 420
Tasks Completed: 27
Christine V5.4 Game of HORSE
Plant Parenting: Easy Ways to Make More Houseplants, Vegetables, and Flowers
This book is NonFiction. ***Claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket***
Points this post: 5
NF tickets this post: 1
Total points: 115
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 8
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 6
Sanz20.4 Golden Oldies - FLY's Task- Kids’ Games Through the Ages
Option B: Read a book by an author whose initials (all of them, as they appear on Goodreads) are found in the word HOPSCOTCH
Book: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Initials "S" and "C" are found in the word.
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Point this post: 20
Total points: 40
BB: 1
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
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Read a book that features an outside activity e.g. camping, skiing, swimming, hiking, etc.
read The Hike
points this post 5
total points 245
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Read a book that was first published in one of the 3 Summer months of the hemisphere where you reside.
I reside in Northern Hemisphere
read
A Novel Love Story
Published in June
points this post 5
total points 250
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Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
read Ask for Andrea
points this post 5
total points 255
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Read a book where the author's initials can be found in the word CRICKET
chose the authors initials option
read
Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell
points this post 10
total points 265
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Read a book with the MPG Dystopia or Dystopian.
read Made for You
Dystopian fell of but it was verified in message 9 of the help thread
points this post 15
total points 280
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Option 1 read a book with the MPG of Mystery and/or Crime, stand-alone or as part of an MPG such as Cozy Mystery or Mystery Thriller, AND written by a Female author.
read The Unwedding by Ally Condie
Mystery
Thriller
Fiction
Mystery Thriller
Audiobook
Adult
Suspense
Contemporary
Adult Fiction
Murder Mystery
points this post 20
total points 300
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read a book with sun hat on cover
read
points this post 20
total points 320
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Option 1: June is LGBT Pride Month. For this option, read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in the phrase PRIDE MONTH.
read
by Elin Hilderbrand
points this post 20 total points 340
Amy B20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Laure's Task: Dragons of Summer
This is a ONE book task. You have three options.
Required: State which option you chose when you post.
Option 3: For this option, read a book with either the word: Wizard, Witch, Wild or One in the title. Stand alone word, plurals and possessions are allowed, no other variations
One of the Boys by Daniel Magariel
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 215 Points
trishhartuk10.4 Summer Songs
Read a book with title word of at least 3 letters shared with your chosen song title
A Summer Thing, Kathi Daley
Read the kindle edition. HB (no PB): here
Summer comes up multiple times in the list, for example “School’s Out for the Summer”, Alice Cooper (#14); “Summer Breeze”, Seals and Crofts (#15); and “It’s Summer”, Gladys Knight & the Pips (#16).
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 295
Tasks Completed: 24
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 2
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25.6 Chronicles of St Mary's and the Time Police
Book 1: Option 3 book that shares a word of AT LEAST four letters with one of the books in the St Mary's series.
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Dessicated Water #7.7
Book 2 Optin 4 book that is found on the first 10 pages of the following shelf: Time Travel Books
Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance
page 11 approved by moderator in post https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Task Points: 25
Task Books: 2
Task Pages: 754
165+754
Total Points: 335
Total Tasks: 20
Total Books: 27
Total Pages: 9658
Big Books: 1
Beth_NC5.1 Dodge the Ball
Title does not contain letters HIT
Books of Blood: Volume One by Clive Barker
books of blood No H, I or T
Task Points: 5
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 210
Total Points: 340
Total Tasks: 21
Total Books: 28
Total Pages: 9868
Big Books: 1
Beth_NC5.3 TAG You're It
3 word title
The Endless Forest by Sara Donati
Big Book Ticket 628 pages
Task Points: 5
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 628
Total Points: 350
Total Tasks: 22
Total Books: 29
Total Pages: 10496
Big Books: 2
Beth_NC5.5 The Great Cornholia
Book that is #2, #7, or #27 in series
The Missing Sister by Lucinda Riley
#7 in Seven Sisters series
Big Book Ticket 805 pages
Task Points: 5
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 805
Total Points: 355
Total Tasks: 23
Total Books: 30
Total Pages: 11301
Big Books: 3
Beth_NC10.5 Cricket
Author's initials found in Cricket
The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
CRicket
Task Points: 10
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 237
Total Points: 365
Total Tasks: 24
Total Books: 31
Total Pages: 11538
Big Books: 3
Beth_NC10. 8 Olympics:Equestrian
Read a book with a horse on the cover.
The Sweet Blue Distance
by Sara DonatiBig Book Ticket 800 pages
Task Points: 10
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 800
Total Points: 365
Total Tasks: 24
Total Books: 31
Total Pages: 12101
Big Books: 4
Beth_NC10.9 Olympics:Pentathlon
Read a book with exactly 5 words in the title
The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel
Big Book Ticket 828 pages
Task Points: 10
Task Books:1
Task Pages:828
Total Points: 375
Total Tasks: 25
Total Books: 32
Total Pages: 12929
Big Books: 5
Beth_NC10.10 Olympics:Breaking
Author's First Name Begins with a B
Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
Task Points: 10
Task Books:1
Task Pages:320
Total Points: 385
Total Tasks: 26
Total Books: 33
Total Pages: 13249
Big Books: 5
Beth_NC20.2 Dragons of Summer
Option 3 book with either the word: Wizard, Witch, Wild or One in the title.
Sisters One, Two, Three by Nancy Star
ONE
Task Points: 20
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 1
Total Points: 385
Total Tasks: 27
Total Books: 34
Total Pages: 13601
Big Books: 5
PegW5.10 Easy Breezy Summertime
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
I read Address Unknown
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 70
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Book 1- Option 2:
This Is Love by Natasha Madison / NM in phrase; 379 pg PB
Book 2- Option 2:
The Way We Touch by Tia Louise / TL in GREYSON NATHANIEL; 350 pg PB
Book 3- Option 2:
Forever Player by RC Stephens / RCS in phrase; 298 pg PB
Total pages: 1027 > 750
Points this post: 50
Total points: 335
Delicious Dee15.6 Don't Move
Infomocracy - Dystopia is the 4th genre on the main page
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 670
Its a Fact: 6
Big Book Ticket: 3
Golden Oldies: 1
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Option B-
If You Want Me by Helena Hunting / HH in phrase
Points this post: 20
Total points: 355
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30.3 - TessaVaness'S TASK Feeding the Children:
Option 1: Read a book that has a word of at least 4 letters that can be found in SALVATION ARMY:
Kuin salama kirkkaalta taivaalta - kriisit ja niistä selviytyminen by Salli Saari.
Word: Salama
Option 3: Read a book with 200 - 250 pages:
Äitiä etsimässä by Kaj Korkea-aho.
Pages: 222
Points this post: 30
Total points: 30
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