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WINTER CHALLENGE 2024
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Beth_NC5.9 It's Part of My World
Nonfiction Book with MPG Nature
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
MPG Nonfiction Nature
Task Points: 5
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 397
Total Points: 100
Total Tasks: 7
Total Books: 9
Total Pages: 3473
Big Books: 1
Beth_NC10.5 A Gateway to the Past
Book set prior to 1903
Morgan Is My Name by Sophie Keetch
Book set in 12th century during Authurian times
Task Points: 10
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 368
Total Points: 120
Total Tasks: 9
Total Books:
Total Pages: 4456
Big Books: 1
Beth_NC10.4 Wonderful Wetlands
Word in title made from WORLD WETLANDS DAY
Dead of Night by Annabel Chase
worlD wEtlAnDs day
Task Points: 10
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 218
Total Points: 130
Total Tasks: 10
Total Books: 13
Total Pages: 4674
Big Books: 1
CathyG30.9 - TessaVanessa's Task: Ringing in the New Year
Choose 2 options and read 1 book for each.
You may use one book with a MPG Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, Comics, Comic Book, or Manga Required: State the options.
Option 1: Goodbye 2024! Hello 2025!
Read a book with a page count with only the numbers in 2024 and 2025 (00222245). Numbers may be used only as often as they appear.
Hearts and Swords by Robin D. Owens452pp
Option 2: New Year Resolution
Read a book with food on the cover. The food should be visible (i.e. not in a can or packet).
The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic by Emma
Claim "its a fact"
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 30/995
Tasks Completed: 1/59
BB:
GO:
NF: 1
Beth_NC15.4 It's Starting to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Book 1 book with an ornament, garland, wreath, Christmas lights, Santa, or deer on the cover.
A Dixie Christmas by Sandra HillBook 2 Author''s initials are in MERRY AND BRIGHT
Thorn Queen by Richelle Mead
MeRry and bright
Task Points: 15
Task Books: 2
Task Pages: 620
Total Points: 145
Total Tasks: 11
Total Books: 15
Total Pages: 5294
Big Books: 1
CathyG30.8 - Delicious Dee's Task: Codex Alera
For this task, you will pick one option (A, B or C) and read book A and book B from that option. Your page count needs to be more than 500 pages (so 501+) and at least one of the authors must be NEW TO YOU. No children’s books allowed. No graphic novels/comics. Required: specify which option you chose and state the new to you author(s) in your post.
Option C – The Furies
The six furies are air/aeris. Required: State which fury you picked. 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).
air: The Sheikh's Pregnant Prisoner by Tara Pammi 256pp
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.
aeris Shadow's End by Thea Harrison 294pp
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 60/995
Tasks Completed: 2/59
NF: 1
CathyG30.5 - Cat's Task: Books of South America
Pick an option.
Required: state the option.
Option 1: Two Book Option (no page count requirement)
Book 1: Read a book that is set (at least 70%) in one or more countries in South America,
Required: state the country(/ies), and provide supporting evidence if it's not obvious from the GR metadata or blurb.
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara
set in: Argentina, Chile, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela
Claim It's a Fact ticket
Book 2: Read a book that is written by an author born in a country in South America. Required: provide a link to prove place of birth if it's not obvious from the GR metadata.
It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 90/995
Tasks Completed: 3/59
NF: 2
CathyG30.4 - Susan A's Task: Consecutive Letters
This is a two book task, read one book for each option.
For this task, you will find consecutive letters in alphabetical order, no gaps between the letters. Consecutive letters pairs:AB BC CD DE EF FG GH HI IJ JK KL LM MN NO OP PQ QR RS ST TU UV VW WX XY YZ
Book 1: Read a book in which the first word in the title starts with two consecutive letters. Required: Note the consecutive letters no Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood
Book 2: Read a book with a title ending in two consecutive letters. Required: Note the consecutive letters.
rs The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 120/995
Tasks Completed: 4/59
NF: 2
CathyG25.7- FLY's Task-FLY Finally Finishes!
This is a two book task. Choose two options and read one book for each. One Graphic Novel, Sequential Art, Comics, Comic Book, or Manga may be used for this task.
Required: State the option
Option 3: For this option, pick a very short book, i.e. a book with fewer than 180 pages. (your book must still meet the 100-page minimum!)
The Law by Jim Butcher109pp
Option 5: For this option, read a book with either a dragon on the cover or the word DRAGON intact in the title, subtitle, or series name. Required: Post the Cover
The Choice by Nora Roberts Dragonheart Legacy
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 145/995
Tasks Completed: 5/59
NF: 2
Beth_NC30.6 A Partridge in a Pear Tree
Read two books, each with a related homophone in the title from list of homophones
Book 1
The Sea Hunters by Clive Cussler
Book 2
See How They Run by James Patterson
sea/see
Task Points: 30
Task Books: 2
Task Pages: 750
Total Points: 175
Total Tasks: 12
Total Books: 17
Total Pages: 6044
Big Books: 1
CathyG25.3: Beth NC's Task- Winter Solstice
Choose 2 options and read 1 book each
Required: State the options
Option 1: read a book from this list:
https://bookriot.com/best-short-books/
Graphic novels are allowed.
Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley
Claim 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
Dishonestly Yours byKrista Ritchie
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 170/995
Tasks Completed: 6/59
NF: 3
CathyG20.9 Moderator's Pet -Jen B's Task: 90s Nostalgia
Required: State the option
Option 1 - Music
A: read a book with EXACTLY 5 words in the title (subtitles ignored) Only words count.
The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 190/995
Tasks Completed: 7/59
NF: 3
CathyG20.8 Nickels & Dimes- Apple's Task: The Wonders of Home
Help Thread
Option 4: For this task, read a book with a word of at least 4 letters in the title that can be made from CALIFORNIA REDWOOD FOREST.
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
IL: MG - BL: 5.0 - AR Pts: 9.0
Required: State the word. fowl
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 210/995
Tasks Completed: 8/59
NF: 3
Beth_NC25.56 The Music of Christmas
Book 1 Option 3 Author's Initials in LET IT SNOW
Heart of Stone by Lisa Edmonds
LEt it snow
Book 2 Option 5 MPG Urban Fantasy
Dead Wrong by Annabel Chase
Task Points: 25
Task Books: 2
Task Pages: 676
Total Points: 200
Total Tasks: 13
Total Books: 19
Total Pages: 6720
Big Books: 1
CathyG20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Kristen IA's Task: Holidays and Hiking
Required: State the option
Option A: HOLIDAYS Option A: For this option, read a book that meets the requirements for any TWO holidays.
Required: State which two holidays you chose.
2) CHRISTMAS (Dec. 25) - Both red and green appear on the cover, any percentage, according to TinEye Required: Post the cover and the percentages.
red 7.5 green 3.64) NEW YEAR (Jan. 1) - Read a book that is #1 in a series.
The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 230/995
Tasks Completed: 9/59
NF: 3
CathyG20.5 Bigger is Better- Elizabeth P's Task: Celebrating the SRC
Choose one option
Required: State the option.
3: Reflection
Read a book with a word of 4 or more letters in the title (subtitles do not count) that can be made from the letters in READING CHALLENGES BRING ME JOY. Letters can be used as often as they appear in the phrase.
Required: State the word. beyond
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 250/995
Tasks Completed: 10/59
NF: 3
Beth_NC25.6 New Year's Reflections
Book 1 Option 3 Book from Wedding Books List
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Page 3
Book 2 book with a MPG of mystery, , AND whose title contains ALL the letters of FATHER.
Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz
FEAR noTHing
Task Points: 25
Task Books: 2
Task Pages: 896
Total Points: 225
Total Tasks: 14
Total Books: 21
Total Pages: 7616
Big Books: 1
Beth_NC15.1 Groundhog Groundhog Groundhog
Book 1 book with a 4 or more letter word in the title that can be formed from SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER
Whatever Happened to Mourning Free? by Yael Politis
Free
Book 2 Book that has a repeated word consecutively in the title.
Liar Liar by James Patterson
Task Points: 15
Task Books: 2
Task Pages: 841
Total Points: 240
Total Tasks: 15
Total Books: 23
Total Pages: 8465
Big Books: 1
Beth_NC5.6 Meanwhile Back in the Southern Hemisphere
book set in the Southern Hemisphere AND first published in December or January.
Hell's Bell by Keri Arthur
Set in Australia and published in January of 2018
Task Points: 5
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 356
Total Points: 245
Total Tasks: 16
Total Books: 24
Total Pages: 8821
Big Books: 1
Beth_NC10.10 Cold as Ice
Read book from Nordic/Scandinavian Mysteries: Female Voices List
The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
Page 1
Task Points: 10
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 480
Total Points: 255
Total Tasks: 17
Total Books: 25
Total Pages: 9301
Big Books: 1
Beth_NC25.1 It's My Birthday
Book 1 Option 2 Book where all letter from either BOOKS or GAMES can be found in title/subtitle
Bookends by Jane Green
BOOKendS
Book 2 Option 3 Book with MPG Mystery and MPG Romance OR MPG Romantic Suspense
Hold Back the Dark by Kay Hooper
MPG Romantic Suspense
Task Points: 25
Task Books: 2
Task Pages: 704
Total Points: 280
Total Tasks: 18
Total Books: 27
Total Pages: 10005
Big Books: 1
Beth_NC15.5 Old Saint Nick
Author shares initials with names for ST Nick
Cold Spectrum by Craig Schaefer
Initials CS
Task Points: 15
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 326
Total Points: 295
Total Tasks: 19
Total Books: 28
Total Pages: 10331
Big Books: 1
Beth_NC5.2 Circle of Dark
Book set at least 50% in country/state in Arctic Circle
Arctic Drift by Clive Cussler
Set in British Columbia
Big Book Ticket 593 pages
Task Points: 5
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 593
Total Points: 300
Total Tasks: 20
Total Books: 29
Total Pages: 10924
Big Books: 2
Beth_NC20.5 Celebrating the SRC
Book published between 2014 and 2024
Alex Cross Must Die by James Patterson
Published 10/26/2023
Task Points: 20
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 416
Total Points: 320
Total Tasks: 21
Total Books: 30
Total Pages: 11340
Big Books: 2
Beth_NC15.7 We Three Kings
Book from series with only 3 books OR #12 in series
Inca Gold by Clive Cussler
#12 in Dirk Pitt Series
Big Book Ticket 592 pages
Task Points: 15
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 592
Total Points: 335
Total Tasks: 22
Total Books: 30
Total Pages: 11340
Big Books: 3
Beth_NC20.1 Families and Holidays
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.
All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
Set in NC
Task Points: 20
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 371
Total Points: 355
Total Tasks: 23
Total Books: 32
Total Pages: 12303
Big Books: 3
50.1 Meg's Task: The best of 2024Book 1, author of favorite of 2024: The Lost Man by Jane Harper
mass market paperback edition The Lost Man: A Novel 448 pages
Favorite book of 2024 The Dry by Jane Harper
Book 2, award winner or nominee for any prize in 2024: This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune 368 pages
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Romance 2024
Book 3, author is releasing a new book in 2025: The Sweetheart List by Jill Shalvis 352 pages
Better Than Friends by Jill Shalvis published Jan 21, 2025
Points this post: 50
Total points: 570
This is a repost to claim a golden oldie ticket.Lys
10.8 - Run Away! Run Away!
Read a book from the first 25 pages of the Mythology shelf: Mythology Books
The Illiad and The Odyssey
Robert Fagles
The Illiad and The Odyssey are both on page 1 of the list.
I would like to claim a golden oldie ticket for this book.
LysThis is a repost
5.10 Comfort zone
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
The Wee Free Men
Reposting and adding that this has a UG level in Bookfinder. Thank you.
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP, VP
20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Kristen IA's Task: Holidays and HikingOption B
Read a book with NATURE, HIKE, WALK, TRAIL, or EXPLORE in the title/subtitle.
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy through Jokes
I would like to claim an IAF ticket for this book.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 200
Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 13
Big Book Tickets - 3
IAF Tickets - 3
Golden Oldies Tickets - 1
Lys25.7
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 started this series in 2014 and abandoned it after the 3rd book in the series (also in 2014). So, it's been considerably more than 6 months.
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: 200
Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 13
Big Book Tickets - 3
IAF Tickets - 3
Golden Oldies Tickets - 1
FLY Task #10.4 - Wonderful Wetlands
task: 4+ letter title word made from WORLD WETLANDS DAY
book: Nerilka's Story
how it fits: 'story' in W(OR)LD WE(T)LAND(S) DA(Y)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 360
Tasks completed: 23/57
BB: 3 / GO: 2 / IAF: 2
Masoodah25.1 - KmarieD's Task: It's My Birthday
Option 2: Read a book where all the letters from either BOOKS or GAMES can be found in the title and/or subtitle.
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - 400p
Option 4: Read a book with a single author whose initials can be found in G AL APAGOS ISLANDS.
Ann Liang - author
I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang - 384p
Total pages: 780p
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 355 / 995
Total Books Read: 25
Total Tasks Completed: 19 / 57
BB: 1 + 1 + 1 +1 + 1 = 5
GO:
IAF:
Masoodah5.7 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.
Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys by Harper Lin
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 360 / 995
Total Books Read: 26
Total Tasks Completed: 20 / 57
BB: 1 + 1 + 1 +1 + 1 = 5
GO:
IAF:
Masoodah20.1 Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and Holidays
Option 3: Read a book first published in either 1981 or 2024.
Table for Five by Izzy Bromley
Published June 25, 2024
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 380 / 995
Total Books Read: 27
Total Tasks Completed: 21 / 57
BB: 1 + 1 + 1 +1 + 1 = 5
GO:
IAF:
Beth_NC30.4 Consecutive Letters
Book 1 first word in the title starts with two consecutive letters
Dead Heat by Annabel Chase
DE
Book 2 >/b>title ending in two consecutive letters.
Dead Last by Annabel Chase
ST
Task Points: 30
Task Books: 2
Task Pages: 530
Total Points: 385
Total Tasks: 24
Total Books: 34
Total Pages: 12833
Big Books: 3
Delicious Dee5.9 It's Part of My World
Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas - nonfiction with a MPG of Nature; claiming 1 its a fact ticket
Points This Post: 5
Points Overall: 650
Its a Fact Tickets: 6
Beth_NC10.2 Crossing Borders
Book set in 2 countries
Avalon by Anya Seton
Set in Iceland, Greenland, America as well as England
Task Points: 10
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 440
Total Points: 395
Total Tasks: 25
Total Books: 35
Total Pages: 13273
Big Books: 3
Delicious Dee15.4 It's Starting to Look A Lot Like Christmas
1 book option
- Ilsa Madden-Mills - there is a sphere shaped ornament on the floor (cover approved in THT); IM found in Merry and BrightPoints This Post: 15
Points Overall: 665
Its a Fact Tickets: 6
Delicious Dee15.5 Old Saint Nick
The Mother Code - Carole Stivers - authors initial are one of the given combos
Points This Post: 15
Points Overall: 680
Its a Fact Tickets: 6
Beth_NC5.4 New Year, New Reads!
Author initials are found in HAPPY NEW YEAR
Blood of Angels by Reed Arvin
happy new yeAR
Task Points: 5
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 400
Total Points: 400
Total Tasks: 26
Total Books: 36
Total Pages: 13673
Big Books: 3
Delicious Dee20.5 Bigger is Better- Elizabeth P's Task: Celebrating the SRC
Option 1 - The Lies You Wrote - first published January 2024
Points This Post: 20
Points Overall: 700
Its a Fact Tickets: 6
Beth_NC5.5 Tis the Season to be Festive
title that contains a word of at least 4-letters made from CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS.
The Russian Cage (3)
by Charlaine Harris
ChistmAs trE liGts
Task Points: 5
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 304
Total Points: 405
Total Tasks: 27
Total Books: 37
Total Pages: 13977
Big Books: 3
Beth_NC30.8 codex Alera
Option C Air/Aeris
Book 1 Pick a fury – read a book where all the letters of the fury can be found in the title
Crosshairs by James Patterson
crosshAIRs
Book 2 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.
Compelling Evidence by Steve Martini
StEve mARtIni
This author is new to me
Task Points: 30
Task Books: 2
Task Pages: 857
Total Points: 435
Total Tasks: 28
Total Books: 39
Total Pages: 14834
Big Books: 3
JEN B20.4 Golden Oldies- Robin P’s Task: Christmas Carols
Read a book set at least 50% in Germany. France, England, Wales, Ukraine, or Italy.
The Guncle Abroad by Stephen Rowley
The majority of this book takes place in Lake Como, Italy (listed on main page)
TOTAL POINTS: 410
10.9 - Making the National InternationalRead a book with a word in its title that matches one of the current or proposed National Scenic Areas - Columbia River Gorge
The Frozen River byAriel Lawhon
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 430
Total Tasks Completed: 22
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Big Books:
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 2
15.7 We Three KingsRead a book from a series that only has 3 books published as of February 28, 2025
The Night Island by Jayne Ann Krentz
Book 3 Shattering Dawn was published January 7, 2025
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 445
Total Tasks Completed: 23
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Big Books:
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 2
30.8 - Delicious Dee's Task: Codex AleraOption C – The Furies
air/aeris
Book A - read a book where all the letters of the fury can be found in the title - Aeris
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
thE ImmoRtAliSts - this author is new to me
Book B - Book A and read a book where all the letters of the Air
can be found in the authors name.
The Women by Kristin Hannah
kRIstin hAnnah
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 475
Total Tasks Completed: 24
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Big Books:
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 2
trishhartuk10.8 Run Away! Run Away!
Includes an IAF query.
Read a book from the Mythology shelf
Mythos, Stephen Fry
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB (German): here (445pg)
Top PB (English): here (459pg)
Page 1, around #14 of the list.
It's a Fact - Maybe. Mythos includes the MPGs Nonfiction, History and Historical, but it also includes Mythology. I’m not sure if it can be claimed for an IAF. I'm being optimistic, but if it can't, please let me know and I'll correct my count.
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
It’s a Fact: 1 – maybe? Mythos has the MPG of Nonfiction
Total Points: 415
Tasks Completed: 28
It’s a Fact Tickets: 8
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
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5.1 It's All Natural
cover depicting natural landscape
Task Points: 5
Task Books: 1
Task Pages: 353
Total Points: 95
Total Tasks: 3
Total Books: 9
Total Pages: 3473
Big Books: 1