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Deborah10.9 The Wonderful Thing about Dragons
Searching for Dragons
MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9.0
Page 1 #38
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 260
Books Read: 20
Tasks Done: 14
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10.7 Let It Grow
Read a book with a plant, bush or flower on the cover. (There is a potted plant below the tree).
The Last Word. Ellery Adams
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 65
Total This Season
Points: 995/1045
Books read: 78
Big Book: 1
NONFICTION : 5
Golden Oldie: 1
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Read a book with the word "Monster" in tact in the title
Perfect Little Monsters by Cindy He / MONSTER intact in title
Points this post: 10
Total points: 1005
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Read a book with a main character as a superhero or vigilante.
Rock Chick Renegade by Kristen Ashley / character is vigilante
Points this post: 10
Total points: 1015
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Fiction: Musicals - Dear Evan Hansen
Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich / chosen as Group Read - Fiction: Musicals
discussion post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 20
Total points: 1035
Delicious Dee50.1 - Jen B's Task: ‘Bored’ Games
Option 2 - MASH
Book A - The Seaside House
Book B - Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge
Book B - The Lion Women of Tehran
Points This Task: 50
Points Total: 890
Golden Oldies: 1
Its a Fact: 5
Big Book Ticket: 2 (750+pgs)
10.1- Do You Wanna Build a RailwayTask: Read a book set in a country you do not live.
Book: Nine Tailed
How it fits: I live in Germany. The book is set in Las Vegas/USA and in Korea
References:
„Las Vegas feels more like home than any other place“ - p 24
„I’m … sleeping until we land in Korea“ - p 96
I read the kindle edition. The paperback edition has 352 pages.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 250
Julia10330.8 Delicious Dee's Task: Maisie Dobbs
Option 3
Book A – The series features events that occur from 1910 to 1945. Read a book that was first published in this time period.
The Expensive Halo (First published in 1931)
This was first published in 1931 so claiming one Golden Oldie ticket.
Book B – Read a book that has a MPG of either World War 1 or World War 2.
Unsinkable (MPG World War II)
This post: 30 points, 1 GO
Total points: 575
BB: 5
GO: 2
NF: 4
Completed tasks: 26
Books read: 40
Julia10325.2 JennRenee's Task: Happy Fall Y'all
Option 2:
Book A - Read a book with a witches hat, black cat, skull/bones, tombstone or jack-o-lantern on the cover.
(black cat on cover, approved in task help thread post #29)Book B - Read a book with three F's in the title/subtitle, and/or authors name. Any combination
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
(3 Fs in subtitle: oF, Fought, For)
This book is non-fiction so claiming one It's A Fact ticket.
This post: 25 points, 1 NF
Total points: 600
BB: 5
GO: 2
NF: 5
Completed tasks: 27
Books read: 42
MEGSCL15.3 - In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream
One book option (mpg Science Fiction and in series #1-7)
Ancillary Justice
TOTAL
425 points
4 IAF ticket + 1 BB ticket
MEGSCL15.10 - That's Not Trivial Pursuit...
Read a book with a word in the title of four or more letters that can be made from THE GREAT PENGUIN BOOKCHASE (word=STRANGE)
Strange Sally Diamond
TOTAL
440 points
4 IAF ticket + 1 BB ticket
Andy P.Task # 25.6 - RedSycamore's Task: Ticket To Ride
Option 2: Mystery Train
Read a book with the MPG Mystery, Fellowship of Fear by Aaron Elkins
Option 4: Rails and Sails
Read a book that has any of the following Ticket to Ride related words found intact in the title :Ride
The Longest Ride by Nicholas
Sparks
Points this post: 25
Total points: 550
Amy FL15.1 - Whodunnit?
Book 1:
- rope on coverBook 2: The Mystery Guest - page 5 of list
Points this post: 15
Total points: 955
LoraTask: 15.10 - That's Not Trivial Pursuit...
Book/Author: The Blanket Cats / Kiyoshi Shigematsu
How it fits: word is CATS
Points for this task: 15
Total points: 530
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 1
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: 0
Amy FL15.3 - In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream
Option 2: The Hope We Keep - MPG Science Fiction and #3 of 4 in Lost Light series
Points this post: 15
Total points: 970
Barbara ★25.6 - RedSycamore's Task: Ticket To Ride
Option 2: Mystery Train
Read a book with the MPG Mystery, either stand-alone or combined ('Cozy Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', etc.)
Girl, Alone - Blake Pierce 9/7
(has MPG mystery)
Option 4: Rails and Sails
Read a book that has any of the following Ticket to Ride related words found intact in the title or subtitle: Conductor, Engine, Freight, Industrial, Magnate, Master, Rail, Ride, Sail, Station, Steam, Ticket, or Train
Hot Ticket - Deirdre Martin 11/10
(Ticket)
Points this task: 25
Total points: 645
Andy P.Task # 15.3 - In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream
Option 1: Two-book task
Book 1. Book with MPG Science Fiction The Queen's Road by R.S. Belcher Science Fiction Genre
Book 2 Book 2: Read a book which is numbered 1-7 in a series of at least three whole numbered books
Hello Again by Brenda Novak
# 2 in Evelyn Talbot Chronicles
Points this task :15
Total points: 565
Amy FL50.1 - Jen B's Task: ‘Bored’ Games
Option 3: Draw It!
Book 1: The Moonflowers - main character is an artist
Book 2: Dog Day Afternoon by David Rosenfelt - author's initials DR in DRaw
Book 3:
- pencil on coverPoints this post: 50
Total points: 1020
Barbara ★25.5 - Lisa MD’s Task: Bookopoly
Book 1:
Roll the 6-sided die to see which token you will be playing with, then read a book whose title and/or subtitle contain the letters of your game piece.
Confessions of a Red Herring - Dana Dratch 11/2
(rolled 5, horse)
H in Herring
O in cOnfessions
R in Red
S in confeSsions
E in confEssions
Book 2:
Roll the 6-sided die to see what property or action your token lands on, then read a book to satisfy the description.
2 – Buy a Bookstore:
Independent book stores are celebrated one day in the month of April across the United States and also for a week in June in the U.K. and Ireland. Read a book originally published in April or June of any year.
Stone Song - Tricia O'Malley 9/10
(rolled 2, published June 2, 2016)
Points this task: 25
Total points: 670
Barbara ★5.5 - Eerie Equation: 13 + 31 = Spooky Halloween?
Read a book with 13 or 31 intact in the page number or original publication date.
Murder at the Blueberry Festival - Darci Hannah11/7
(319 pages)
Points this task: 5
Total points: 675
Kathy KS30.6 Katrisa's Task Fall Zodiac
pick one option and read a book 1 and a book 2 for your chosen option. Total page count must be at least 500 pages.
Option 3 - Scorpius October 23-November 21
Book 1 - Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in DEATHSTALKER.
The Pickle Queen: A Crossroads Café Novella by Deborah Smith
DS=DeathStalker
I read a large print version; pb-166 p. (no mmpb with pages)
Book 2 - Read a book featuring a shapeshifter of some kind.
Required: If not evident from the main page, provide a reference
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
HOW IT FITS: over 300,000 women transform into dragons (see GR description)
I listened to an audiobook; pb-367 p. (no mmpb)
Total pages: 166+367=533 (>500)
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 520
Tasks completed: 23/59
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: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 8
ROBIN P5.9 It's Fall Y'all
Published in Sep, Oct, Nov
The Message - pub 10/1/24
**claiming 1 IAF point for nonfiction
Points this post: 5
Total points: 540
BB:2 GO:3 IAF:10
25.5 - Lisa MD’s Task: BookopolyBook 1: Roll the 6-sided die to see which token you will be playing with, then read a book whose title and/or subtitle contain the letters of your game piece.
1 – Worm
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club #2) by Theodora Goss
WORM found in euROpean…GentleWoMan
Book 2: Roll the 6-sided die to see what property or action your token lands on, then read a book to satisfy the description.
1 –Property: You landed on a Genre property. Read a book from one of these genres listed on the board: Romance, Mystery, Humor, Sci-Fi, or Fantasy. Genre must appear on Main Page, standalone or embedded.
The Drowning Girls by Veronica Lando
Total this Post: 25
Season Total: 680
Jessica S30.2 Cat's Task: Books of Africa
Option 2: One Book Option
Read one book of at least 500 pages that fits both criteria of Option 1
(book that is set (at least 70%) in one or more countries in Africa (Egypt) and book that is written by an author born in a country in Africa)
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Points this task: 30
Previous total: 745 Updated total: 775
Tasks completed: 47 Books read: 60
Jessica S30.8 Delicious Dee's Task: Maisie Dobbs
Option 2 Book A: book that meets the requirements: female author, first in series, mystery MPG
Dead Speak by Pandora Pine
Option 2 Book B: book from one of the three nominated categories from that season of SRC
First book in a mystery series by a female author: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/7...
Soulless by Gail Carriger
Points this task: 30
Previous total: 775 Updated total: 805
Tasks completed: 48 Books read: 62
Jessica S15.4 - Flight Risk
Option 1: two-book task
Book 1: Book with a aeroplane on the cover
Heroes for Ghosts by Jackie North
Book 2: book by an author whose first and last initials can be found in HIT THE SILK
Hair Balls by Tara Lain
Points this task: 15
Previous total: 805 Updated total: 820
Tasks completed: 49 Books read: 64
SHEMAC 30.9 Truitt_T’s Task: Be Prepared!
Two book task; combined 600 page minimum; one MUST be nonfiction.
(384 + 232 = 616)
Choose two options and read one book from each.
Required: state which options. Option 1 and Option 2
Option 1: Read a book with Hurricane in the title
Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain
(PB Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain)
MPG Nonfiction
Option 2: Read a book from one of two lists:
Into the Tempest
(PB Into the Tempest)
Required: state which list, and on which page the book is found.: Natural Disaster Books on page 2
This task points: 30
Total season points: 745
trishhartuk10.1 Do You Wanna Build a Railway
Read a book set in a country you do not live.
Cherry Pies & Deadly Lies, Darci Hannah
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (384pg)
Set in Wisconsin, USA. I live in the UK.
From the GR description: “The annual Cherry Blossom Festival has just kicked off at the Cherry Orchard Inn in Door County, Wisconsin.”
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 435
Tasks Completed: 30
It’s a Fact Tickets: 4
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
trishhartuk25.6 RedSycamore's Task: Ticket To Ride
Read Two Books
Option 2: Book with the MPG Mystery
A Geek Thing, Kathi Daley
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (199pg)
MPGs include Cozy Mystery, Mystery
Option 3: Ghost Train. Book with at least one of the MPGs Horror, Weird Fiction, New Weird, or Speculative Fiction.
The October Country, Ray Bradbury
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB: here (276pg)
Horror is the first MPG
Total pages: 199 + 276 = 475pg
(I think this is okay, as neither the overall task, nor the two-book option specify a page count - just the one-book option)
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 460
Tasks Completed: 31
It’s a Fact Tickets: 4
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
Nick KY15.5 Oh NO, Not Again! I read Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark, 1st published in 2020.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 885
Nick KY25.9 Bookwrm256's Task: Fall in the Southland
Book 1. I read Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century by A. Naomi Paik -- Target word: WALLS
WA in reWArd
LL in faLL
S in Southerner’s
Book 2. Option 2. I read The Diva Paints the Town by Krista Davis. Author’s last name from phrase:
D in rewarD
AVI in hAVIng
S in Survived
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 910
EMurphy30.9 Truitt_T's Task: Be Prepared!
Option 2: Book from first 15 pages from one of the lists Dry by Neal Shusterman
*Page 1 of Natural Disasters list
**390 pages
Option 3: Author's initials are in FEMA OR all the letters of FEMA are found in the title Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul Scheer
*FEMA found in title
**256 pages
***It's a Fact Ticket
**390+256=646
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Total:
Points: 410
Books Read: 29
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500:1
IAF Ticket: 3
Tasks Completed: 16
EMurphy20.9 Moderator's Pet-Jasmiina F's Task: Feels & Thrills
Option 4: MPG Humor Mr. & Mrs. American Pie by Juliet McDaniel
This Task:
Points: 20
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 430
Books Read: 30
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 1
IAF Ticket: 3
Tasks Completed: 17
Angela IL30.6 Katrisa's Task Fall Zodiac
Option 1 - Virgo August 23-September 22
Book 1 - Read a book with a main character who is an unmarried woman aged 15 - 29 inclusive.
Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing by Jessa Hastings-10/16
MC Daisy Haites is 21-pg 345 She scratches the tip of her nose "I'm twenty-one"
She does not ever marry and remains single.
Book 2 - Read a book with a title word of at least 4 letters from the lyrics of Stairway to Heaven.
My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman by Lisa Scottoline-9/2
Word: Just
Claiming It's a Fact Ticket
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 275
Books Read: 19
Tasks Completed: 10
It's a Fact: 3
Big Book: 1
Josh 20.6 - It's A Fact - JenJ IA's Task: It’s Booked! You’re Invited to a Fall Reading
Read a book by an author whose first and last initials can be found in either FARMHOUSE or SCHOOLHOUSE. Letters may only be used as often as they appear.
I read Have a Little Faith: a True Story by Mitch Albom (FARMHOUSE)
Task Points: 20
Task Pages: 249
Total Tasks: 3
Total Points: 45
Jecca30.6 Katrisa's Task Fall Zodiac
Option 1 - Virgo August 23-September 22
Book 1 - Read a book with a main character who is an unmarried woman aged 15 - 29 inclusive.
The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning
384 pages
From a review by Nilufer Ozmekik
“The story revolves around 24-year-old Zo Grey, living in debt, working multiple jobs to keep a roof over her head, and taking care of her mother, who is battling cancer. One day, while begging for another job at the diner, she gets a call from the fire department informing her that the house she shares with her mother has burned down, with her mother inside.”
Book 2 - Read a book with a title word of at least 4 letters from the lyrics of Stairway to Heaven.
With a “word” she can get what she came for
There's a Word for That by Sloane Tanen
375 pages
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 670
Total Tasks Completed: 28
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 2
Delicious Dee25.8 - Shelby's Task: Are You Ready For Some Football???
Option 1 - The Right Wrong Number - Katie Warren - KW found in seattle seahaWKs; new to me author
Option 4 - The Hawthorne Legacy - page count ends with 8
Points This Task: 25
Points Total: 915
Golden Oldies: 1
Its a Fact: 5
Big Book Ticket: 2 (750+pgs)
trishhartuk25.1 Ash's Task: Killer Reads and Gore Galore
Option 5: Michael Myers from Halloween.
Book 1. Read a book with a MPG of Halloween.
A Night in the Lonesome October, Roger Zelazny
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB: here (280pg)
MPGs include Halloween
And Book 2. Author initials in HE CAME HOME.
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library, Michiko Aoyama
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB (German): here (288pg); English PB matching the kindle version: here (256pg)
cAMe
Page counts:
280 + 288 (German) = 568pg
280 + 256 (English) = 536pg
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 485
Tasks Completed: 32
It’s a Fact Tickets: 4
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
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25.5 - Lisa MD’s Task: Bookopoly
Book 1:
Roll the 6-sided die to see which token you will be playing with, then read a book whose title and/or subtitle contain the letters of your game piece. I rolled a 3, 3 - Glasses
The Land of Mango Sunsets. Dorothea Benton Frank
Book 2:
Roll the 6-sided die to see what property or action your token lands on, then read a book to satisfy the description.
Required: State the number of the die you rolled.
1 –Property:
You landed on a Genre property. Read a book from one of these genres listed on the board: Romance, Mystery, and Fantasy.
Better Read Than Dead. Victoria Laurie
THIS POST
Points: 25
Completed Tasks: 66
Total This Season
Points: 1020/1045
Books read: 80
Big Book: 1
NONFICTION : 5
Golden Oldie: 1
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5.10 Free For Fall
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
The Accused. John Grisham
Grisham, John
AR Quiz No. 151574 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP, VP
THIS POST
Points: 5
Completed Tasks: 67
Total This Season
Points: 1025/1045
Books read: 81
Big Book: 1
NONFICTION : 5
Golden Oldie: 1
Mod
Read a book by an author whose first and last initial can be found in PUMPKIN SPICE.
read
The Hollowby Kiersten Modglin
points this post 5
tota points 750
Mod
Book 1: Read a book with one of the iconic Cluedo murder weapons on the cover:
read
Book 2: Read a book from the first 25 pages of this Murder Mystery Death at Morning House page 25
points this post 15
total points 765
Task 5.6 - A Hauntingly Good Timeghost / haunting is an essential part
Saint Death's Daughter
Grandfather Rad is a ghost and is Lanie's teacher / mentor (albeit not a supportive, nurturing one!)
in blurb "terrorised by the ghost of her great-grandfather"
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1020 points
Task 10.3 - It's a Whole New Towncollection of short stories (Short Stories MPG)
This Is Paradise: Stories
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1030 points
ETA: sorry! points wrong: 1035.
I've two 5 pointers left
FLY Task #15.4 - Flight Risk
Option 2: one-book task
task 1: an aeroplane on the cover
task 2: author initials in HIT THE SILK
book: The Bride Test
(my version is audio, no MMPB, first PB here)
how it fits:
1. jet on cover:
2. author Helen Hoang initials HH in (H)IT T(H)E SILK
Points this post: 15
Total points: 630
Tasks completed: 37/59
BB: 4 / GO: 2 / IAF: 3
Delicious Dee25.1 Ash's Task: Killer Reads and Gore Galore
Option 2
Book A - That Summer Feeling - adult sleepaway camp
Book B -
- hockey stick on coverPoints This Task: 25
Points Total: 940
Golden Oldies: 1
Its a Fact: 5
Big Book Ticket: 2 (750+pgs)
Kelly L15.9 - Shifting Sands
Choose a desert from the Wiki list of the largest deserts by area and read a book set at least 50% in a nation listed for that desert.
Desert: Saharan
Country: Egypt
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction is set primarily in Egypt.
**I'd like an It's A Fact ticket (non-fiction)**
This post: 15 points
Season total: 170 points
IAFs this post: 1
IAFs season total: 3
Kelly L20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Jasmiina F's task: Feels & Thrills.
Option 2: The Grown-Up Life.
For this task, choose a book that features at least one adult person on the cover
The Address has one adult woman on the cover.
This post: 20 points
Season total: 190 points
IAFs season total: 3
Kelly L25.9 - Bookwrm256's Task: Fall in the Southland
Book 1:
A Novel Love Story --> NOVEL
FALL IS A SOUTHERNER'S REWARD FOR HAVING SURVIVED SUMMER
L O E N V scrambled makes NOVEL
Book 2, Option 2:
The Invisible Hour by Alice HOFFMAN
FALL IS A SOUTHERNER'S REWARD FOR HAVING SURVIVED SUMMER
F A O H N F M scrambled makes HOFFMAN
This post: 25 points
Season total: 215 points
IAFs season total: 3
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10.10 Spaceship Pressure
Read a book with a number at least one number of 1,2,3,4,5,6, on the cover.
Apartment 303 by Kelli Hawkins
Points this Task: 10
Total Points: 305