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WINTER CHALLENGE 2024
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SHEMAC 20.1 Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and Holidays
Read one book from these options. State the option: 3
Option 3 - Read a book first published in 2024
Naughty Elf: Aster - first published November 2024
(PB Naughty Elf: Aster)
This task points: 20
Total Season points: 105
trishhartuk5.9 It's Part of My World
Includes an IAF claim.
Read a nonfiction book with MPG Nature.
The Glorious Life of the Oak, John Lewis-Stempel
Read the kindle edition. HB (no PB): here (96pg)
It’s a Fact: MPGs include Nonfiction, Nature, Natural History, Environment, Science, Ecology, Plants
As I didn’t need it for The Secret Life of the Owl, because of the German version, I’m using this, from the same series/author, under the “One book between 80 -99 pages may be used for ONE 5 point task” exception.
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
It’s a Fact: 1 – The Glorious Life of the Oak is Nonfiction
Total Points: 250
Tasks Completed: 16
It’s a Fact Tickets: 4
Golden Oldie Tickets: 4
trishhartuk25.7 FLY's Task-FLY Finally Finishes!
Option 3: For this option, pick a book with fewer than 180 pages.
Orbital, Samantha Harvey
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (135pg)
Option 5: Read a book with a dragon on the cover or with the word DRAGON in the title, subtitle or series name
Beast-Laid Plans - a cozy mystery with dragons , Kim M. Watt
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (300pg)
The dragons on the cover are placed the same as for the book approved in help thread message #6: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 275
Tasks Completed: 17
It’s a Fact Tickets: 4
Golden Oldie Tickets: 4
SHEMAC 30.9 - TessaVanessa's Task: Ringing in the New Year
Choose 2 options and read 1 book for each.
Required: State the options. Options 1 and 4
Option 1: Goodbye 2024! Hello 2025!
Read a book with a page count with only the numbers in 2024 and 2025 (00222245). 240pp
Bar Down
(PB Bar Down)
Option 4: Sing "Auld Lang Syne"
Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters from the song Auld Lang Syne in the title https://www.britannica.com/topic/Auld...
You may use a word from either the Scots or English version but the word must match exactly.
In the Morning Light
(PB In the Morning Light)
VERIFICATION > Not Really For Kids Books #390
Required: State the word: Morning (English version)
This task points: 30
Total season points: 135
LoraTask: 30.9 - TessaVanessa's Task: Ringing in the New Year, using options 1 and 3
Book 1:
Book/Author: The Corpse in the Cabana / Shéa MacLeod
How it fits: has 205 pages
Book 2:
Book/Author: A Match of Wits / Jen Turano
How it fits: 73% of the book (pg 93 onwards) is set in New York City
Points for this task: 30
Total points: 175
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: 1
babbling c 20.4 Golden Oldies- Robin P’s Task: Christmas Carols
3. Although I cannot carry a tune, my husband is an excellent singer who has performed in local and regional concerts, including holiday programs. Most of the choirs contain men and women who are divided into the four parts of Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass, or SATB for short. Read a book by an author whose first and last initials are a combination of these letters. Letters may only be used as often as they appear, but they may be in any order. Therefore, the options are AB, AS, AT, BA, BS, BT, TA, TB, TS, SA, SB, ST.
Enchanter Redeemed - Kindle Enchanter Redeemed - mass market paperback pg 304 by Sharon Ashwood
SA
THIS POST
Points: 20
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
Total This Season
Points: 105/995
Completed Tasks: 6/57
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
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Pages read this season: 2, 368
Books read this season: 6
Erin NY20.2 Op 1 - Key or door on the cover
The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 95
Mod
Read a book with a cover depicting a natural landscape scene. The landscape cannot contain any human or man-made objects - only animals, plants, water, landforms, etc.
read
Here One Momentpoints this post 5
total points 475
Mod
Read a book set in the Southern Hemisphere AND first published in December or January.
read The Last Love Note
setting in Australia in published Jan 24
points this post 5
total 480
15.8 New Year, New BeginningsTitle word from NEW YEAR BRINGS FRESH BEGINNINGS: Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
The word is Here.
paperback edition Here One Moment
Points this post: 15
Total points: 205
Mod
Read a book set prior to 1903 (or if non-fiction, about events prior to 1903).
read The Frozen River
points this post 10
total 490
Mod
option 3 read a book first published in either 1981 or 2024.
read I Think I Was Murdered
points this post 20
total points 510
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Option 1:Read a book with a title that has at least 5 words. Subtitles are excluded.
read The Return of Ellie Black 299 pages
and
Option 4 Read a book with a single author whose initials can be found in GALAPAGOS ISLANDS.
read The Bitter End by Alexa Donne 352 pages
points this post 25
total points 535
Mod
Option 4: Walking in the Air Read a book with any noun found in the lyrics of Walking in the Air in the title
Noun used us eyes
read In Her Eyes
and Option 5:
Read a book with the MPG Urban Fantasy.
read Kitty's House of Horrors Urban Fantasy
Paranormal
Fantasy
Vampires
Werewolves
Fiction
Shapeshifters
points this post 25
total points 560
SHEMAC 30.6 - XBM’s Task – A Partridge in a Pear Tree
This is a two-book task. Pick one option and read two books.
Required: State the option: B
Option B:
Read two books, each with a related homophone in the title from this list of homophones: http://www.singularis.ltd.uk/bifroest...
Required: Identify the related words: Bare; Bear
Right to Bare Fangs
(PB Right to Bare Fangs Spirit of Sage 16 )
The Dragon, the Bear, and Their Sugar Glider Omega
(PB The Dragon, the Bear, and Their Sugar Glider Omega)
This task points: 30
Total season points: 165
Mod
book A :
Read a book from the first 20 pages of this list of books about Norse mythology
read The Boneless Mercies page 2 of list
Book B
Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters (words must match exactly) from the first verse of Immigrant Song:
word used is come
read You Shouldn't Have Come Here: An absolutely gripping thriller from ‘the queen of twists’
points this post 30
total points 590
Mod
Book 1: Read a book in which the first word in the title starts with two consecutive letters.
read No Place Left to Hide NO
Book 2: Read a book with a title ending in two consecutive letters.
read How to Steal a Galaxy XY
point this post 30
total points 620
Kathy KS20.3 Review Raffle- Trishhartuk's Task: Wordplay
Option 3: Word maths. Read a book which fits one of the following word “equations”.
a) Read a book with a title of at least two words where the total number of letters in the title can be averaged by the number of words, to get a whole number.
House Histories: A Guide to Tracing the Genealogy of Your Home by Sally Light
(14 letters, divided by 2 words = 7)
**Claiming 1 (one) It’s A Fact ticket** : NONFICTION
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 190
Tasks completed: 9/57
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: 1
It's a Fact tickets total: 1
MEGSCL5.5 'Tis the Season to be Festive
Read a book with a title that contains a word of at least 4-letters made from CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS. (last)
The Last Continent
Total
110 points - 1 big book - 2 It’s a Fact
MEGSCL10.7 - I Want To Believe
MPG paranormal - The Drowning Kind
Total
120 points - 1 big book - 2 It’s a Fact
MEGSCL15.3 Mysterious and Wise
Option 1: Two-book task
Book 1: Read a book with a cover with at least 75 percent of any combination of these THREE colors, RED BLACK AND YELLOW according to Tineye.
82.6 %#feeb00Yellow
5.4 %#0e0d09Black
3.1 %#d3bf13Yellow
1.9 %#a49818Green
1.6 %#8d1f0dRed
1.5 %#716916Brown
1.1 %#58150fBrown
1.0 %#e1950dOrange
1.0 %#c66e12Orange
0.8 %#37120dBrown
Book 2:
Read a book with at least 2 different lucky numbers (2, 8 and 9) in the page count.
The Breakdown (328pp)
Total
135 points - 1 big book - 2 It’s a Fact
Task 15.5 Old Saint NickRead a book with a single author who shares initials with one of these names. Initials are SC, CS, KK, FC, CF, SN, NS
La Ballade du serpent et de l'oiseau chanteur by Suzanne Collins
Points this post: 15
Total points: 95
Bookwrm526Task #15.3 Mysterious and Wise
(reposting because I forgot to include the cover!
Option 2: One-book task
Read a book with a cover with at least 75 percent of any combination of these THREE colors, RED BLACK AND YELLOW according to Tineye AND with at least 2 different lucky numbers (2, 8 and 9) in the page count. I read Stable Strategies and Others by Eileen Gunn. It has 208 pages, and the cover is 67% black, 12% red, and 3.6% yellow (totals 82.6% black, red and yellow).
Total points so far: 250
TessaVanessa'
Challenge 25.6 Lisa MD's Task-New Year Reflections
Option 1: I'm choosing to do this one twice.
read a book with a MPG of mystery, standalone or embedded, AND whose title and/or subtitle contains ALL the letters of FATHER.
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham
Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman
Points this post: 25
Total points: 640
Tasks Completed: 42
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.7 FLY's Task-FLY Finally Finishes!
Option 3: pick a very short book, i.e. a book with fewer than 180 pages.
Thanksgiving Treachery by Tonya Kappes
162 pages
Option 5: read a book with either a dragon on the cover (it doesn't need to be the main thing on the cover, just recognizably a dragon) or the word DRAGON intact in the title, subtitle, or series name.
Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons by Frank Tieri
Points this post: 25
Total points: 665
Tasks Completed: 43
slideshell5.7 National Cocoa Day
Read a book with a hot beverage on the cover, such as coffee, tea, cocoa/hot chocolate, hot cider, etc
Clouds in My Coffee
Paperback - 253 pages
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Total This Task
Points: 5
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Total This Season
Points: 205/995
Completed Tasks: 16/57
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Pages read this season: 5953
Books read this season: 18
slideshell20.9 Moderator's Pet -Jen B's Task: 90s Nostalgia
Option 2 Book B: Read a book with the MPG Young Adult
Heartless Hunter
Hardcover - 404 pages
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Total This Task
Points: 5
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Total This Season
Points: 225/995
Completed Tasks: 17/57
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Pages read this season: 6357
Books read this season: 19
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.8 Delicious Dee's Task: Codex Alera
Option C – The Furies
I chose AIR/AERIS
Book A - Pick one of the furies listed above – read a book where all the letters of the fury can be found in the title (excluding subtitle).
A Controversial Cover by Lorna Barrett
320 pages
Book B - Using the same fury than the book you used for Book A and read a book where all the letters of the alternate name can be found in the authors name.
At Any Cost by Lauren Nichols
224 pages
Lauren Nichols is the new to me author.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 695
Tasks Completed: 44
slideshell30.2 MAZZA1's Task: Gregorian Games
Book 1: Option 2: Read a book with a word in the TITLE ONLY that ends with "ARY"
Legendary
Hardcover - 443 pages
Book 2: Option 4: Read a book that is # 12, 1 or 2 in a series
A Court of Mist and Fury
Paperback - 624 pages
*Claiming one BIG BOOK ticket for A Court of Mist and Fury - 624pgs *
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Total This Task
Points: 30
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 1
Non-fiction: 0
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Total This Season
Points: 255/995
Completed Tasks: 18/57
Big Book: 1
Non-fiction: 0
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Pages read this season: 7424
Books read this season: 21
trishhartuk10.3 A Mountain of Books
Read a book whose page count is comprised of 9, 1, 4, 4 in any order.
The Christmas Guest, Peter Swanson (144pg)
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 285
Tasks Completed: 18
It’s a Fact Tickets: 4
Golden Oldie Tickets: 4
Nick KY15.3 Mysterious and Wise
Book 1. I read The Brass Cupcake by John D. MacDonald, cover is 52% Black, 5% Red, and 3.2% Yellow: https://labs.tineye.com/color/ed07ba2...
Book 2. I read As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 288 pp. (digits 2 and 8 in pagination).
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 250
Angela IL20.8 Nickels & Dimes- Apple's Task: The Wonders of Home
Option 1: Read a book who first year of publication includes at least two different numbers of 1, 2, 8 and 9.
Cul-de-sac by Joy Fielding-12/15
Pub Date: 2021
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 20
Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1
Nick KYI had a feeling something was wrong!
I have to take away 15.3 because my first book,
did not have the three colors Black, Red, and Yellow add up to 75%.Points This Post: - 15
Total Points So Far: 235
Nick KY15.5 Old Saint Nick
I read The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler, inits CF.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 250
Task 30.9 - TessaVanessa's Task: Ringing in the New YearOption 2: Read a book with food on the cover.
Book:
Option 3: Read a book set in New York City.
Book: The Accomplice
p. 1 mentions the "Coney Island Killer" the FBI is trying to catch; and references the work being done out of the FBI "New York field office"
Points this task: 30
Total points: 370
Task 10.5 - A Gateway to the PastRead a book set prior to 1903
Book: Equal of the Sun, set in 1576
Points this task: 10
Total points: 380
Nick KY30.7 Amy FL’s Home Ownership Book 1. Option 2. Title word “DEAD” in “molD remEDiAtion, I read The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer.
CLAIM ONE BIG BOOK for The Naked and the Dead at 721 pp.
Book 2. Option 3. Author’s initis in “mArIssa,” I read Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 280
BB’s So Far: 500+ (2)
Masoodah20.3 Review Raffle- Trishhartuk's Task: Wordplay
Option 3: Word maths. Read a book which fits one of the following word “equations”.
a) Read a book with a title of at least two words where the total number of letters in the title can be averaged by the number of words, to get a whole number.
A Dirge for Princes by Morgan Rice
(16 letters divided by 4 = 4)
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 205 / 995
Total Books Read: 14
Total Tasks Completed: 11 / 57
BB: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
GO:
IAF:
JUKKA20.1 Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and Holidays
Option 3: Book first published in either 1981 or 2024.
Polostan by Neal Stephenson first came out in 2024.
Total Points: 85/995
Total Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 4/57
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 3
It's a Fact Total: 0
Masoodah30.2 - MAZZA1's Task: Gregorian Games
Option 1: Read a book with a variant of the number 12, 1 or 2 in the TITLE ONLY.
Recipe for Second Chances by Ali Rosen
Second in title.
Option 4
Read a book that is # 12, 1 or 2 in a series. The number must be shown in greyscale on the GR record.
A Summer Escape and Strawberry Cake at the Cosy Kettle by Liz Eeles
#2 in series
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 235 / 995
Total Books Read: 16
Total Tasks Completed: 12 / 57
BB: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
GO:
IAF:
FLY Task #10.9 - Making the National International
task: word in the title matches one from the list of National Scenic Areas
book: Mystic River
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: 'River' in Columbia River Gorge
Points this post: 10
Total points: 170
Tasks completed: 12/57
BB: 1 / GO: 1 / IAF: 2
trishhartuk5.5 'Tis the Season to be Festive
Word in the title of at least 4-letters from CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS.
Beneath the Ashes, Sue Henry (336pg)
ASHES: christmAS trEe ligHtS
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 290
Tasks Completed: 19
It’s a Fact Tickets: 4
Golden Oldie Tickets: 4
JUKKA20.6 It's A Fact - Julia103's Task" Getting Older
Option 1: Book whose main character is a senior citizen.
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie. The main character is Miss Marple, usually described as an elderly spinster. The book is from 1930 and a Golden Oldie.
Total Points: 105/995
Total Books Read: 6
Tasks Completed: 5/57
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 4
It's a Fact Total: 0
Erin NY10.6 Biography or memoir about artist, poet, musician or writer
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb
This is an autobiography of a ballerina who studied at School of American Ballet. Ballerina is an artist...
Claiming a non-fiction ticket!
Points this task: 10
Total Points: 105
Bookwrm526Task #5.4 New Year, New Reads!
Read a book where an author's first and last initials are found in HAPPY NEW YEAR. I read Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities by Nick Walker (NW both in NeW).
Total points so far: 255
Bookwrm526Task #5.7 National Cocoa Day
Read a book with a hot beverage on the cover, such as coffee, tea, cocoa/hot chocolate, hot cider, etc. The beverage should be visible; no empty containers. I read Earl Grey and Shallow Graves by Victoria Tait, which has a cup of tea on the cover.
Total points so far: 260
Bookwrm526Task #20.1 Family and Holidays
Option 3: Read a book first published in either 1981 or 2024. I read The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History by Karen Valby, first published in 2024.
Total points so far: 280
Bookwrm526Task #25.4 Cold Nights With Winter Reads
I chose the genre CHRISTMAS
Book 1: Read a book with a word in the title of 4 or more letters made from this quote: Winter was made for warm blankets and large books. I made the word SEASON (SEAN in blankets, SO in books). I read Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake.
Book 2: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initial can be found in either COLD NIGHTS or WINTER READS. I chose the phrase COLD NIGHTS and read The Christmas Conquest by Claire Delacroix (CD both in the word ColD).
Total points so far: 305
Andy P.Task # 30.1: Truitt T's Task: She Blinded Me With Science
Book A. Read a book with an element from the Periodic Table in the title and/or subtitle. All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane by Amy Elizabeth Smith (LEAD approved in Help Thread)
Book B
Option 3.Read a book with an MPG of Birds.
9781594486357 (The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
bybNoah Strycker
Both books are nonfiction
Points this post: 30
Total points: 245
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20.5 Bigger is Better- Elizabeth P's Task: Celebrating the SRC
Choose one option
Required: State the option: 1
1: Discovery - Read a book first published in January of a year between 2014 and 2024, inclusive.
The Tech First published 10 January 2023
(MMP The Tech)
This task points: 20
Total season points: 85