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WINTER CHALLENGE 2024
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10.4 Wonderful WetlandsRead a book with a word of four or more letters in its title that can be made from WORLD WETLANDS DAY. Letters may be used only as often as they appear.
Required: State the word.
Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman
The word is WORST
Post Total: 10
Grand Total: 310
Theresa20.2 - Rookie at the Top - SheMac's Task: Into 2025
Option 2 - Read a book that is at least 50% set in one or more of these countries that were part of the Roman Empire at that time:
Albania, Austria, Algeria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Egypt, England, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Luxembourg, Moldova, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Wales.
This House is Haunted by John Boyne
Set in England
Points this post 20
Total points - 145
10.6 Inspiration StrikesRead a biography, autobiography or memoir about an artist, musician, poet or writer.
Brothers by Alex Van Halen
Post Total: 10
Grand Total: 320
UNCLAIMING - MEGSCL5.10 Comfort zone
Free choice. Landfall
Total
325 points - 1 big book - 2 It’s a Fact
MEGSCL5.10 Comfort zone
Free choice. Dear Miffy
Not in ARBOOKFIND
Total
330 points - 1 big book - 2 It’s a Fact
MEGSCL50.1 Meg's Task: The best of 2024
Book 1: Choose your favorite book read during 2024. The Vaster Wilds
Read a book from the "Readers also enjoyed" section. Playground (this seems to only show up on the app not on the website at the moment, but it was previously on the website!)
Book 2: The Best of 2024
Read a book that won or was nominated/short-listed/long-listed for any prize in 2024.
Wandering Stars Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2024)
Book 3: Looking to 2025
Read a book by an author who is releasing a new book in 2025.
Landfall Released in 2025
Total
380 points - 1 big book - 2 It’s a Fact
25.5 The Music of ChristmasOption 3: Let It Snow - Read a book where the author’s initials can be found in LET IT SNOW. You may only use letters as many times as they appear.
The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel
Option 4: Walking in the Air - Read a book with any noun found in the lyrics of Walking in the Air in the title. Plurals and possessives are allowed. https://genius.com/Howard-blake-walki...
Required: state the noun
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
The word is SKY
Post Total: 25
Grand Total: 345
25.7 FLY Finally FinishesOption 2: In the car I listened to a LOT of audiobooks. For this option, please pick a book from this list of Best Audiobooks.
Joyland by Stephen King
This is on page 2 of the list.
Option 4: 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
The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
I started this series in 2011. The last book I read in the series was in August 2023.
Post Total: 25
Grand Total: 370
Julia10310.5 - A Gateway to the Past
Read a book set prior to 1903
Miss Amelia's List
(The GR book description says "The year is 1815")
This post: 10 points
Total points: 535
BB: 5
GO: 3
NF: 4
Completed tasks: 26
Books read: 38
Andy p.Task # 20.5 Bigger is Better- Elizabeth P's Task: Celebrating the SRC
Read a book first published in January of a year between 2014 and 2024, inclusive.
The Winter Guest by Pam Jenoff
Published 1/1/2014
Points this post:20
Total points: 650
ROBIN P15.9 My Bloody Valentine
MPG Romance + War, Thriller or Mythology
Gods of Jade and Shadow - MPG Romance & Mythology
Points this post: 15
Total points: 775
BB:0 GO:3 IAF:6
5.9 It's Part of My WorldThis One Wild and Precious Life: The Path Back to Connection in a Fractured World by Sarah Wilson
Total this Post: 5
Season Total: 655
25.3: Beth NC's Task- Winter SolsticeOption 1: Nutshell
On the Bookriots Short Books list. I'm sorry I don't know how to get around the prohibition on outside links.
Option 4: Beautyland
All letters in YULE in the title
Total points: 115
Kristen IA5.9 It's Part of My World
Read a nonfiction book with MPG Nature.
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
*****I claim 1 It's a Fact ticket*****
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 270/995
Tasks Completed: 19/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 2
Kristen IA10.4 - Wonderful Wetlands
Read a book with a word of four or more letters in its title that can be made from WORLD WETLANDS DAY. Letters may be used only as often as they appear.
Required: State the word. - AREN'T
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
*****I claim 1 It's a Fact ticket*****
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 280/995
Tasks Completed: 20/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 3
Kristen IA15.4 It's Starting to Look A Lot Like Christmas
Option B: One-book task
Read 1 book that satisfies both requirements option 1.
Book 1: Read a book with an ornament, garland, wreath, Christmas lights, Santa, or deer on the cover.
Required: Post the cover
Book 2: Read a book where the author's first and last initials are found in MERRY AND BRIGHT.
Christmas by the Book by Anne Marie Ryan
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 295/995
Tasks Completed: 21/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 3
JenJ IA15.2 Holiday who-be what-ee?
This is a two book task.
Book 1: Read a book that is at least 75% green according to Tineye.
Required: Post the cover.
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
97.3 % Green
Book 2: Read a book with the MPG Christmas
Meet Me at Christmas by Jenny Hale
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 520/995
Tasks Completed: 32/59
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 3
JenJ IA15.9 My Bloody Valentine
Read a book with MPG Romance as well as MPG of War, Thriller or Mythology,
Genres need to be standalone - Romance and Thriller
Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 535/995
Tasks Completed: 33/59
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 3
JenJ IA20.4 Golden Oldies- Robin P’s Task: Christmas Carols
3. 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.
Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 555/995
Tasks Completed: 34/59
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 3
JenJ IA20.6 It's A Fact - Julia103's Task" Getting Older
Option 1: Read a book where a main character is a senior citizen.
Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 575/995
Tasks Completed: 35/59
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 3
25.7- FLY's Task-FLY Finally Finishes!Option 3: Ballistics
128 pages (fewer than 180)
Option 4: Pardonable Lies
#3 in the Maisie Dobbs series. I read #1 in 2013, #2 in 2022, then hadn't read any in the series since.
Total points: 140
10.1 - Look to the SkiesRead a book whose cover depicts stars, the moon, or a night sky.
Approved in message 47 of the task help thread
Points this post: 10
Total points: 150
BB:0 GO:6 IAF:0
5.3 Cupid is ComingRead a book with MPG Romance
Points this post: 5
Total points: 155
BB:0 GO:6 IAF:0
5.2- Circle of DarkRead a book set at least 50% in one of the countries or US state that have territory within the Arctic Circle - Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and Alaska.
Setting: Finland
Points this post: 5
Total points: 160
BB:0 GO:6 IAF:0
JenJ IA25.2 - Nick KY’s Task: Rivers
Option 1: Read a book first published in 1968 or in a year after 1968 that ends in the digit 8 (1978, 1988, 1998, 2008, or 2018).
Every Note Played by Lisa Genova (2018)
Option 2: Read a book with one of the 8 original River names as a word in the title, subtitle, or series title.
Required: State the river used. - Wolf
The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog by Rick McIntyre
*****I claim 1 It's a Fact ticket*****
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 600/995
Tasks Completed: 36/59
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 4
FLY Task #15.2 Holiday who-be what-ee?
task: Book 1: cover at least 75% green according to Tineye
book: The Villa
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits:
approx 79.4% green per Tineye: (view spoiler)
task: Book 2: MPG Christmas
book: Christmas in the Montana Pines: Let love find you this Christmas
(my version is kindle, no MMPB, first PB here)
how it fits: MPG Christmas
Points this post: 15
Total points: 350
Tasks completed: 22/57
BB: 3 / GO: 2 / IAF: 2
JenJ IA25.3: Beth NC's Task- Winter Solstice
Option 1: Read a book from this list:
https://bookriot.com/best-short-books/
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
*****I claim 1 It's a Fact ticket*****
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
Bluebird Day by Megan Tady
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 625/995
Tasks Completed: 37/59
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 5
25.7- FLY's Task-FLY Finally Finishes!Option 3: pick a very short book, i.e. a book with fewer than 180 pages. Jane Austen
112 pages
Claiming one golden oldie. Published in 1950
Claiming one It's A Fact. The book does not have any MPG, but it is a non-fiction discussion of Jane Austen's writing and I am hoping that counts.
Option 5: Read a book with either a dragon on the cover
Points this post: 25
Total points: 185
BB:0 GO:7 IAF:1
JenJ IA30.4 - Susan A's Task: Consecutive Letters
Book 1: Read a book in which the first word in the title starts with two consecutive letters.
Required: Note the consecutive letters. - ST
Still Life by Louise Penny
Book 2: Read a book with a title ending in two consecutive letters.
Required: Note the consecutive letters - RS
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 655/995
Tasks Completed: 38/59
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 5
JenJ IA30.6 - XBM’s Task – A Partridge in a Pear Tree
Option D:
Pick one holiday MPG, and read two books which share that MPG but which also have different MPGs.
Christmas with the Lords by Hannah Langdon - Christmas & Romance
December Dread by Jess Lourey - Christmas & Mystery
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 685/995
Tasks Completed: 39/59
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 5
Andy P.Task # 15.5 Old Saint Nick
For this task read a book with a single author who shares initials with one of these names
Initials are SC, CS, KK, FC, CF, SN, NS
I used SN
Girl at War by Sara Nović
Points this post: 15
Total points: 665
Nick KY20.2 SheMac’s 2025 Opt. 2. Set in one of the countries of the Roman Empire. I read Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews, set at least 50% in Morocco.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 590
Nick KY25.5 Jessica S’s Music of Christmas
Opt. 3. Let It Snow. Inits in “let It Snow.” I read American Music by Irving L. Sablosky.
CLAIM ONE IT’s A FACT for American Music.
Opt. 4. Walking in the Air. Read a book with a title word from the lyric. I read Below by Ryan Lockwood, title word “below” from the lyric “The people far below are sleeping as we fly.”
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 615
Nick KY***REPOST*** to include "It's a Fact" points.
25.5 Jessica S’s Music of Christmas
Opt. 3. Let It Snow. Inits in “let It Snow.” I read American Music by Irving L. Sablosky.
CLAIM ONE IT’s A FACT for American Music.
Opt. 4. Walking in the Air. Read a book with a title word from the lyric. I read Below by Ryan Lockwood, title word “below” from the lyric “The people far below are sleeping as we fly.”
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 615
IT's A FACT this post: 1
IT's A FACT So Far: 13
Elizabeth PTask 10.4 - Wonderful Wetlands
Book with 4+ letter word in title made from letters in WORLD WETLANDS DAY
The Toll by Neal Shusterman
Word: Toll
wOrLd weTLands day
At 833 pages, good for *2 Big Book Tickets*
MMPB Link: Le Glas
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 220
Total Tasks: 12
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 4
IAF: 0
Total Books: 16
Elizabeth PTask 20.6 - Getting Older
Option One: Main character is senior citizen
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
Main character Steve is mentioned to be "retired" in GR description
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 240
Total Tasks: 13
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 4
IAF: 0
Total Books: 17
20.7 HolidaysA1 Christmas - red and green on cover
https://labs.tineye.com/color/15870bd...
7% green, 2.1% red
and
A4 New Years - 1st in Frosted Firs series
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 255
20.10 Group Read
Post #14 1/18/25
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 275
25.3 Winter SolsticeOpt 2 Book from list https://www.usatoday.com/story/entert... Her Royal Spyness series listed
A Royal Pain #2 in series
Opt 4 4 letters in YULE in the title/subtitle OR in author's name
Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens
Y,L - roYaL
U,E - mUrdEr
Points: 25
Total/challenge: 300
25.4 Cold Nights/Winter ReadsBk 1 - 4 letter word from Winter was made for warm blankets and large books
The Mitford Affair - word MITFORD
M,D-MaDe
I,T- wInTer
F,O,R - FOR
Bk 2 - auth init in COLD NIGHTS or WINTER READS
Inheritance by Nora Roberts
N,R - wiNteR reads
Points: 25
Total/challenge: 325
30.8 Codex Alera >500 pgs and one new to me authorOpt B The Title
Bk A - Lady Notorious- 288 pgs
Lady on singular words list
Bk B - The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Alison Goodman - 452 pgs
Alison Goodman is a new to me author
Ladies is plural of Lady in book A
288+452=740 pgs
Points: 30
Total/challenge: 355
30.8 - Delicious Dee's Task: Codex AleraOption C – The Furies
I chose wood/flora.
Book A - read a book where all the letters of the fury can be found in the title (excluding subtitle).
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly - letters WOOD in title
The paperback edition has 398 pages. Stephanie Oakes is a new to me author.
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.
Éphémère by Lauren DeStefano - letters FLORA in author's name
The paperback edition has 358 pages. Lauren DeStefano is a new to me author.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 225
Nick KY25.7 Fly’s Finally Finished!
Opt. 1. I read a book with a car on the cover. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh --
Opt. 5. I read a book with a dragon on the cover. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 640
Shelby
30.9 - TessaVanessa's Task: Ringing in the New Year
Option 3
Read a book set in New York City.: Memory in Death, by J.D. Robb
How Fits: Location - New York City, New York
AND
Option 4
Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters from the song Auld Lang Syne in the title.: Dear Satan..., by Eve Langlais
How Fits: Word - Dear / Title - DEAR Santa
Points this post: 30
Total points: 400
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
ROBIN P30.3 Katrisa's Task: Reunion - Go Norsemen
Option 2. The Reunion
Book A. My friends - author name matching friend name
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things - Dan Ariely matches friend Dan
**Claiming 1 IAF point, nonfiction
Book B. The Venue - set in 1970's or Victorian era
Hester - Published 1883, set in that period in England and has MPG Victorian
**Claiming 1 GO point - pub. 1883
**Claiming 1 BB point - 512 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 805
BB:1 GO:4 IAF: 7
Task 20.1 Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and HolidaysOption 3 - read a book first published in either 1981 or 2024.
Book: Memorials: A Novel
Published in october 2024
Points this task: 20
Total points: 610
brooke4.05.6 Meanwhile, Back in the Southern Hemisphere
Read a book set in the Southern Hemisphere AND first published in December or January.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (audio read, this is MMP)
Setting: Botswana, Gaborone (Botswana), Africa
First Published: January 1, 1998
Pts this post: 5pts
Golden Oldie: 1
It's a Fact: 2
Total Pts: 160
Beth_NC25.4 Cold Nights with Winter Reads
Book 1 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.
Coyote Dreams by C.E. Murphy
Dreams MPG Mystery
Book 2 book by a single author whose first and last initial can be found in either COLD NIGHTS or WINTER READS
Mississippi Blood by Greg Iles
cold nIGhts MPG Mystery
Big Book Ticket 736 pages
Task Points: 25
Task Books: 2
Task Pages: 1152
Total Points: 90
Total Tasks: 5
Total Books: 8
Total Pages: 3120
Big Books: 1
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20.1 - Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and Holidays
Option 2 - Read a book set at least 50% in one of the places in which some of our family members live: California, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, or Germany.
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Set in Mississippi
Points this post - 20
Total points - 125