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WINTER CHALLENGE 2024
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Jessica S5.3 Cupid is Coming
Book with MPG Romance
Married to the Fae by Layla Moran
No paperback verification link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this task: 5
Total Points: 525
Masoodah5.4 New Year, New Reads!
Read a book where an author's first and last initials are found in HAPPY NEW YEAR
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Y EA R
**claiming one BB ticket - 517 pages**
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 240 / 995
Total Books Read: 17
Total Tasks Completed: 13 / 57
BB: 1 + 1 + 1 +1 = 4
GO:
IAF:
Masoodah15.5 Old Saint Nick
For this task read a book with a single author who shares initials with one of these names. The initials may be reversed in order but must match a single name. Middle initials may be ignored.
Initials are SC, CS, KK, FC, CF, SN, NS
The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty
Authors initials are SC- Shannon Chakraborty
**claiming one BB ticket - 625 pages**
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 255 / 995
Total Books Read: 18
Total Tasks Completed: 14 / 57
BB: 1 + 1 + 1 +1 + 1 = 5
GO:
IAF:
Masoodah20.5 Bigger is Better- Elizabeth P's Task: Celebrating the SRC
Option 2: Read a book that is #3 or #6 in a series. The series name and number must be indicated in the GR title listing in grayscale parentheses following the title or grayscale italics above the title.
Her Pretty Bones by Carla Kovach
#3 in Detective Gina Harte series.
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 275 / 995
Total Books Read: 19
Total Tasks Completed: 15 / 57
BB: 1 + 1 + 1 +1 + 1 = 5
GO:
IAF:
Angela IL 30.9 - TessaVanessa's Task: Ringing in the New Year
Option 1: Read a book with a page count with only the numbers in 2024 and 2025 (00222245).
Kiss Me at Christmas by Jenny Bayliss-12/30
Pg count 400
Option 2: Read a book with food on the cover.
Good Enough to Eat by Stacey Ballis-1/7
Read via Kindle/ No MMPB/ PB link: Good Enough to Eat
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 90
Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 4
Nick KY5.7 National Cocoa Day
With a hot beverage on the cover, I read Robert B. Parker's Blind Spot by Reed Farrel Coleman.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 370
Nick KY10.6 Inspiration Strikes. I read
Opium: The Diary of His Cure by Jean Cocteau, a memoir of the poet/author Cocteau. CLAIM ONE IT’s A FACT for Opium
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 380
It’s a Fact This Post: 1
It’s a Fact So Far: 7
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Kristen IA's Task: Holidays and Hiking
Option A - Read a book that meets the requirements for any TWO holidays.
While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory
Option A - this book meets the requirements of CHRISTMAS -
31.7% red #eb503a; 3.2% red #b7594c; 1.3% green #4b807b
and meets the requirements of KWANZAA - African-American MPG (do need to select more to see it)
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): While We Were Dating
This post: 25 points
Total points to date: 245 points
Tasks completed: 16
slideshell5.1 It's All Natural
Read a book with a cover depicting a natural landscape scene
Caught in the Axe
Paperback - 510 pages
*Claiming one big book ticket for Caught in the Axe - 510 pages
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Total This Task
Points: 5
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 1
Non-fiction: 0
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Total This Season
Points: 260/995
Completed Tasks: 19/57
Big Book: 2
Non-fiction: 0
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Pages read this season: 7934
Books read this season: 22
slideshell20.1 Most Improved Kathy KS's Task: Family and Holidays
Option 3: Read a book first published in either 1981 or 2024
This Will Be Fun
Paperback - 404 pages
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Total This Task
Points: 20
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Total This Season
Points: 280/995
Completed Tasks: 20/57
Big Book: 2
Non-fiction: 0
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Pages read this season: 8338
Books read this season: 23
slideshell25.1 KmarieD's Task: It's My Birthday
Book 1: Option 1: Read a book with a title that has at least 5 words
A Court of Wings and Ruin
Paperback - 699 pages
Book 2: Option 3: Read a book with both individual MPG Mystery and MPG Romance or the combined MPG Romantic Suspense
A Curious Beginning
Paperback - 337 pages
*Claiming one big book ticket for A Court of Wings and Ruin - 699 pages
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Total This Task
Points: 25
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 1
Non-fiction: 0
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Total This Season
Points: 305/995
Completed Tasks: 21/57
Big Book: 3
Non-fiction: 0
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Pages read this season: 9374
Books read this season: 25
slideshell25.7 FLY's Task-FLY Finally Finishes!
Book 1: Option 3: Read a very short book
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
Hardback - 171 pages
Book 2: Option 5: Read a book with a dragon on the cover
Fear the Flames
Hardback - 379 pages
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Total This Task
Points: 25
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Total This Season
Points: 330/995
Completed Tasks: 22/57
Big Book: 3
Non-fiction: 0
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Pages read this season: 9924
Books read this season: 27
slideshell30.7 Amy FL’s Task: The Headaches of Home Ownership
Book 1: Option 1: Read a book with a title word that begins with the letters RE
Vow of Revenge
Paperback - 312 pages
Book 2: Option 2: Read a book with a title word of four or more letters that can be made from MOLD REMEDIATION
*word is LORD*
Lord of the Wings
Hardback - 307 pages
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Total This Task
Points: 30
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Total This Season
Points: 360/995
Completed Tasks: 23/57
Big Book: 3
Non-fiction: 0
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Pages read this season: 10543
Books read this season: 29
trishhartuk15.2 Holiday who-be what-ee?
Book 1: Read a book that is at least 75% green
Stillhouse Lake, Rachel Caine
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (286pg)
Kindle Version TinEye: 88.3% Green
88.3% #204a4a Green
2.9% #e18157 Orange
2.1% #ee6439 Orange
1.8% #3baaad Blue
1.0% #ae7458 Brown
1.0% #d15b3a Orange
0.9% #7fbac3 Blue
0.7% #56362b Brown
0.7% #5b5a4c Grey
0.6% #856852 Brown
Top PB is up to 88.9% Green
Book 2: Read a book with the MPG Christmas
Dying in a Winter Wonderland, Vicki Delany
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (291pg)
Christmas is the second MPG
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 335
Tasks Completed: 23
It’s a Fact Tickets: 4
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
30.2 - MAZZA1's Task: Gregorian GamesOption 3
Read a book whose SINGLE author's first and last (middle can be ignored) initials use only the letters "ARY"
I listened to audio version of The Bird Eater by Ania Ahlborn 270 pages
Option 4
Read a book that is # 12, 1 or 2 in a series.
I listened to an audio version of Fiends and Festivals which is #2 in the series 311 pages
New Points: 30
Total Points: 125
SHEMAC 25.4 JennRenee's Task: Cold Nights With Winter Reads
This is a two book task. Choose a genre from my list of favorite genres for winter and use that genre for two books.
Choose the MPG: Christmas, Thriller, Chick Lit, Mystery, Romance
Required: State the genre: Romance
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.
Required: State the word: OMEGA
An Omega For Dylan
(PB An Omega For Dylan)
Book 2: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initial can be found in WINTER READS: NW
Deck the Fire Halls by N.R. Walker
(PB Deck the Fire Halls)
Required: State the phrase: WINTER READS
This task points: 25
Total season points: 330
Andy P.Task # 15.8 New Year, New Beginnings
Read a book with a word of four or more letters in the title that can be made from "NEW YEAR BRINGS FRESH BEGINNINGS
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul The word Hear can be made from the phrase
H in Fresh
EAR in Year
Points this post: 15
Total points: 340
slideshell10.9 Making the National International
Read a book with a word in its title that matches one of the current or proposed National Scenic Areas from the list
*Word is ROCKS matching Sedona Red ROCKS
On the Rocks
Kindle - 346 pages
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Total This Task
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Total This Season
Points: 360/995
Completed Tasks: 23/57
Big Book: 3
Non-fiction: 0
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Pages read this season: 10543
Books read this season: 29
slideshell10.2 Crossing Borders
Read a book which is set in at least two countries
*novel follows the F1 circuit - the novel starts in Monaco but they travel all over the world and they are from San Diego so they are often at home in the United States
Cross the Line
Paperback - 416 pages
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Total This Task
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Total This Season
Points: 360/995
Completed Tasks: 23/57
Big Book: 3
Non-fiction: 0
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Pages read this season: 10543
Books read this season: 29
20.4 Christmas CarolsOption 1: What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
Do you Hear What I Hear
Post Total: 20
Grand Total: 230
30.8 Codex AleraOption B
Book 1: Lady Sunshine by Amy Mason Doan
Book 2: The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan
Amy Mason Doan is a new author to me.
Post Total: 30
Grand Total: 260
MEGSCL5.1- It's All Natural
Read a book with a cover depicting a natural landscape scene.
Total
200 points - 1 big book - 2 It’s a Fact
MEGSCL10.8 - Run Away! Run Away!
Read a book from the first 25 pages of the Mythology shelf: Mythology Books
(page 1) Stone Blind
Total
215 points - 1 big book - 2 It’s a Fact
30.8 - Delicious Dee's Task: Codex AleraOption C – The Furies
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).
Seams like Murder (Grace Designs Mysteries #1) by Tilly Wallace
AIR found in seAms lIke muRder
Author is new to me
234 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.
Partikel (Supernova #4) by Dee Lestari
AERIS found in dee lEStARI
508 pages
Total pages read: 742
Total this Post: 30
Season Total: 640
Jessica S20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Kristen IA's Task: Holidays and Hiking
Option A: HOLIDAYS
Holiday 1: NEW YEAR - 1st in a series
Holiday 2: VALENTINE’S DAY - All of the letters L-O-V-E appear in the title
Of Secrets and Wolves by Alice Winters
Points this task: 20
Total points: 545
Jessica S15.1 Groundhog Groundhog Groundhog
Book 1: Book with a 4 or more letter word in the title that can be formed from SPRING WILL ARRIVE EARLY - PLAYER
Untouchable Player by Emmery Fox
Book 2: Read a book that has a repeated word consecutively in the title
Knock Knock by Nordika Night
Points this task: 15
Total points: 560
Nick KY20.6 Julia103’s Task of Getting Older
Opt. 3. NYT’s Bestseller list Feb. 7 1960, I read Two Weeks in Another Town by Irwin Shaw.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 400
Lisa MD20.1 - Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and Holidays
Option 3: Published in 1981 or 2024
Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra
First Published on February 1, 2024
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 370 / 995
Total Books Read: 27
Total Tasks Completed: 21 / 57
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 4
Bookwrm526Task #15.5 Old Saint Nick
Read a book with a single author who shares initials with one of these names. I chose the name SANTA CLAUS (initials SC) and read Unbaked Croakies: A Magical Cozy Mystery with Talking Animals by Sam Cheever.
Total points so far: 340
Bookwrm526Task #10.1 - Look to the Skies
Read a book whose cover depicts stars, the moon, or a night sky. I read The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, which has a moon and several stars visible on the cover.
Total points so far: 350
Delicious Dee15.2 Holiday who-be what-ee?
Book A -
- cover is 80% green per tineye; https://labs.tineye.com/color/5e75224...Book B - The Naughty List - MPG Christmas
Points This Post: 15
Points Overall: 420
Its a Fact Tickets: 4
Delicious Dee15.3 Mysterious and Wise
Book A -
- cover is 80+% red/black/yellow according to Tineye - https://labs.tineye.com/color/1598184...Book B - Sisters of the Forsaken Stars - page count is 192pgs - 9 and 2 are lucky numbers
Points This Post: 15
Points Overall: 435
Its a Fact Tickets: 4
Delicious Dee20.2 - Rookie at the Top - SheMac's Task: Into 2025
Option 2 - Clueless in Croatia - at least 50% set in croatia
Points This Post: 20
Points Overall: 455
Its a Fact Tickets: 4
Delicious Dee20.10 Group Reads
Weyward - comment 15 in the discussion thread
Points This Post: 20
Points Overall: 475
Its a Fact Tickets: 4
Delicious Dee25.1 - KmarieD's Task: It's My Birthday
Option 2 - The Book Proposal - all the letters of BOOKS can be found in the title
Option 4 - The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice - Simon Parkin - SP found in GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; Claiming 1 its a fact for non-fiction
Points This Post: 25
Points Overall: 500
Its a Fact Tickets: 5
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyWinter 2024 SRC
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
Option D:
Pick one holiday MPG, and read two books which share that MPG but which also have different MPGs. For example, if you picked Christmas, Book 1 might have a combination of MPG Christmas and Mystery, and Book 2 a combination of MPG Christmas and Romance.
One Day in December - MPG Christmas and Romance
The Christmas Book Hunt - MPG Christmas and Books about Books - approved for length in ebook verification list
Points this post: 30
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 165
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 1
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Delicious Dee25.4 JennRenee's Task: Cold Nights With Winter Reads
Genre: Romance
Book A - Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake - MISTAKE can be found in Winter was made for warm blankets and large book
Book B - Make Room for Love - Darcy Liao - DL in COLD NIGHTS
Points This Post: 25
Points Overall: 525
Its a Fact Tickets: 5
Delicious Dee25.6: Lisa MD's Task-New Year Reflections
Book A - Option 2 - The Plus One - pg2 of the provided list
Book B - Option 2 - The Wedding Game - pg2 of the provided list
Points This Post: 25
Points Overall: 550
Its a Fact Tickets: 5
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyWinter 2024 SRC
25.7- FLY's Task-FLY Finally Finishes!
This is a two book task. Choose two options and read one book for each. Required: State the option
Option 4: For this option, read a book in a series that you had started prior to last year (so 2022 or earlier) and then later abandoned (had not read a book from that series for at least the last six months).
Required: state the year you started the series and verify that you had abandoned it for at least 6 months
Winterkill, #3 Joe Picket series
started the series in 2019, abandoned in 2020
Option 5: For this option, 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.
The Dragon Queen - dragon in the title
Points this post: 25
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 190
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 1
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Lisa MD10.10 - Cold As Ice
52 Book Club 2023: #24 Nordic Noir - page 1
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 380 / 995
Total Books Read: 28
Total Tasks Completed: 22 / 57
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 4
SHEMAC 10.1 - Look to the Skies
Read a book whose cover depicts stars, the moon, or a night sky.
Required: Post the cover
Muscle and Bone
(PB Muscle and Bone)
This task points: 10
Total season points: 340
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyWinter 2024 SRC
10.2 - Crossing Borders
Read a book which is set in at least two countries. For the purposes of this task, we will consider the constituent nations of the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) to be distinct countries.
Required: If the locations are not evident in the book description or the GR metadata, provide a reference.
Beautiful Ugly - the book starts out in England, then in Scotland
Points this post: 10
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 200
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 1
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Jessica S30.6 - XBM’s Task – A Partridge in a Pear Tree
Option A:
Book 1: Author's first and last initials are found in PARTRIDGE.
Permanent Ink by Avon Gale
Book 2: Book where both a tree and a bird appear on the cover.
Woods of the Raven by Mary CalmesPoints the post: 30
Total Points: 590
Barbara ★20.9 - Moderator's Pet -Jen B's Task: 90s Nostalgia
Option 1
A: read a book with EXACTLY 5 words in the title (subtitles ignored) Only words count.
The Dragon of Cecil Court - Genevieve Jack 1/16
(title has 5 words)
Points this task: 20
Total points: 175
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Barbara ★20.8 - Nickels & Dimes- Apple's Task: The Wonders of Home
Option 4: read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title that can be made from CALIFORNIA REDWOOD FOREST.
The Last Outpost - Hannah Ross 1/6
(LAST in cALifornia foreST)
Points this task: 20
Total points: 195
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
ROBIN P**UNCLAIM!***
25.3 Beth NC's Task
Option 1: Read during day light hours means you have very little daylight so read a book from this list:
https://bookriot.com/best-short-books/
Graphic novels are allowed.
Books must meet the SRC guidelines (100 page minimum)
Goodbye, Vitamin - 208 pages
Option 4: Dec 21st is also known as Yule. Read a book that has all 4 letters in YULE in the title/subtitle OR in author's name. They do not have to be sequential
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
Y in York, U in Resurrection, L and E in Life
**Claiming 1 IAF point, this book is nonfiction**
Points this post: -25
Total points: 540
BB:0 GO:2 IAF:5
ROBIN P25.3 Beth NC's Task
Option 1: Read during day light hours means you have very little daylight so read a book from this list:
https://bookriot.com/best-short-books/
Books must meet the SRC guidelines (100 page minimum)
Kitchen - 160 pages
Option 4: Dec 21st is also known as Yule. Read a book that has all 4 letters in YULE in the title/subtitle OR in author's name. They do not have to be sequential
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
Y in York, U in Resurrection, L and E in Life
**Claiming 1 IAF point, this book is nonfiction**
Points this post: 25
Total points: 565
BB:0 GO:2 IAF:6
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25.7
Option 4
For this option, read a book in a series that you had started prior to last year (so 2022 or earlier) and then later abandoned (had not read a book from that series for at least the last six months).
Required: state the year you started the series and verify that you had abandoned it for at least 6 months
I read Bone Crossed. I read the 3rd book in the series all the way back in 2014!
Option 5
For this option, 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. It can stand alone, as in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, or it can be part of a word as in Pendragon or Dragonquest.
Required: Post the Cover
This book has the following AR numbers:
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP, VP
Points this post: 25
Total points: 110
Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 9
Big Book Tickets - 3
IAF Tickets - 1