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WINTER CHALLENGE 2024
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PegW20.1 Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and Holidays
Option 3 - Read a book first published in either 1981 or 2024.
I read What Feasts at Night first published in Feb. 2024.
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 100
Jecca30.2 - MAZZA1's Task: Gregorian Games
Option 1 - Read a book with a variant of the number 12, 1 or 2 in the TITLE ONLY.
One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon
One
Option 4
Read a book that is # 12, 1 or 2 in a series.
The Librarian of Crooked Lane by C.J. Archer
1st book in the Glass Library Series
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 505
Total Tasks Completed: 25
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Big Books:
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 2
30.6 - XBM’s Task – A Partridge in a Pear TreeOption B: Read two books, each with a related homophone in the title from this list of homophones - four and for
Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer
and
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 535
Total Tasks Completed: 26
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Big Books:
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 2
JennB8241230.1 - 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 : The Oxygen Advantage: The Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques for a Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter You OXYGEN *It's a Fact, nonfiction*
Book B: Option 4: Read a book with the MPG Science Fiction. Insurgent *Big Book Ticket, 526 pages*
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 305
Total Tasks Completed: 12
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Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 1
JennB8241220.2 - Rookie at the Top - SheMac's Task: Into 2025
Option 2: Takes place in France The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 325
Total Tasks Completed: 13
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Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 1
10.4 - Wonderful WetlandsTitle word from WORLD WETLANDS DAY: Real Americans by Rachel Khong
paperback edition Real Americans
The word is Real.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 610
JennB8241220.6 It's A Fact - Julia103's Task" Getting Older
Option 1: Read a book where a main character is a senior citizen.
Old Girls Behaving Badly
From MPG: "At eighty-nine, ‘Dot’ needs someone to help her around the house – or at least, her family seems to think so."
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 345
Total Tasks Completed: 14
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Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 1
JennB8241220.8 Nickels & Dimes- Apple's Task: The Wonders of Home
Option 1 Pub Year 2014
All the Light We Cannot See
*Big Book Ticket, 544 pages*
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 365
Total Tasks Completed: 15
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Big Books: 4
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 1
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20.6 It's A Fact - Julia103's Task Getting Older
Option 1: Read a book where a main character is a senior citizen. (This book is on the list, and is about a woman who has just lost her husband of 62 years).
The Last List of Mabel Beaumont. Laura Pearson. 2.6.25
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 760 / 995
Tasks Completed 46
JennB8241220.1 Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and Holidays
Option 3: Published 2024
Variation
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 385
Total Tasks Completed: 16
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Big Books: 4
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 1
JennB8241210.9 - Making the National International
Light to the Hills
Hills- Alabama Hills
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 395
Total Tasks Completed: 17
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Big Books: 4
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 1
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Read 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.
Under the Storm by Christoffer Carlsson / set in Sweden
Points this post: 5
Total points: 630
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Read a book with MPG Romance.
If You Need Me by Helena Hunting / MPG Romance / MPG Romance
Points this post: 5
Total points: 635
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Option 1-Read a book with a title that has at least 5 words
Escape to the Swiss Chalet by Carrie Walker / 5 word title; 368 pg PB
Option 4-Read a book with a single author whose initials can be found in GALAPAGOS ISLANDS.
Sunlight by Devney Perry / DP in phrase; 303 pg PB
Total pages: 671>500
Points this post: 25
Total points: 660
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Choose the MPG: Christmas, Thriller, Chick Lit, Mystery, or Romance
I chose Romance
Book 1-Read a book with a word int he title of 4 or more letters made from this quote:
Winter was made for warm blankets and large books.
She's a Wild One by Kristen Proby / WILD spelled from phrase; MPG Romance
Book 2-Read a book by a single author whose first and last initial can be found in either COLD NIGHTS or WINTER READS
The December Market by RaeAnne Thayne / RT in WINTER READS; MPG Romance
Points this post: 25
Total points: 685
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Book 1-Read a book by the same author or a book from the "Readers also enjoyed" section of your favorite book's page
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas / on the Readers Also Enjoyed list for my favorite 2024 read Iron Flame; 419 pg PB
Book 2-Read a book that won or was nominated/short-listed/long-listed for any prize in 2024.
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune / won Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy 2024; 416 pg PB
Book 3-Read a book by an author who is releasing a new book in 2025.
Any 2025 release will work. Or you can read from the backlist of an author who has an upcoming release.
Just Like That by Lena Hendrix / published 2025; 470 pg PB
Total pages: 1305>750
Points this post: 50
Total points: 735
Kathy KS20.10 Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Winter 2024 season.
Fiction: Australian Crime - Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
My discussion is found at Message 18
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 340
Tasks completed: 14/57
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: 2
Bookwrm526Task #10.6 - Inspiration Strikes
Read a biography, autobiography or memoir about an artist, musician, poet or writer. I read Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend by Jackie Kay, a biography of a musician.
Total points so far: 555
MEGSCL10.9 - Making the National International
Using the word Mountain from the National scenic area Seng Mountain
Ash Mountain
Total
360 points - 1 big book - 2 It’s a Fact
MEGSCL10. 3 - A Mountain of Books
Read a book whose page count is comprised of the numbers 9, 1, 4, 4
Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North (144pp)
Total
370 points - 1 big book - 2 It’s a Fact
MEGSCL10.10 - Cold As Ice
On first page of 52 Book Club 2023: #24 Nordic Noir
The Absent One (but I read this edition with a different title:Disgrace )
#530 pages, 1 big book ticket
Total
380 points - 2 big book - 2 It’s a Fact
5.8 Birdwatching Month Bird word in title: To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan
paperback edition To Night Owl From Dogfish
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9.0
The bird is Snowy Owl.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 615
5.4 New Year, New Reads!Book: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Task: Read a book where an author's first and last initials are found in HAPPY NEW YEAR. Letters may be used only as often as they appear.
How it fits: author initials y & r in YeaR
The book has 623 pages and I’d like to claim one big book ticket, please.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 110
Big book tickets this post: 1
Total # of big book tickets: 2
Task 20.2 - Into 2025option 2: set in London, England
The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows
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835 points
Julia10330.9 - 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). Numbers may be used only as often as they appear.
Kayavan Rising
I read the Kindle edition. The paperback Kayavan Rising has 422 pages.
Option 4: 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...
The Left Hand of Darkness
HAND is in the last verse "And there’s a hand..."
This post: 30 points
Total points: 565
BB: 5
GO: 3
NF: 4
Completed tasks: 27
Books read: 40
10.2 - Crossing BordersSaltblood by Francesca De Tores
UK, Spanish Netherlands, Bahamas, etc
Total this Post: 10
Season Total: 665
JEN B***UNCLAIMING***
25.1 - KmarieD's Task: It's My Birthday
Your total page count should be at least 500 pages.
Option 1: Read a book with a title that has at least 5 words. Subtitles are excluded.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (223 pages)
6 words in title
***Claiming one It's A Fact ticket***
Option 4: Read a book with a single author whose initials can be found in GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. All initials count and letters may only be used as often as they appear.
The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave (289 pages)
LD in isLanDs
223 pages + 289 pages = 512 pages > 500 pages
ADJUSTED TOTAL: 395
JEN B25.1 - KmarieD's Task: It's My Birthday
Option 1: Read a book with a title that has at least 5 words. Subtitles are excluded.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Option 4: Read a book with a single author whose initials can be found in GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. All initials count and letters may only be used as often as they appear.
House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen
SP in galaPagoS
TOTAL POINTS: 420
JEN B50.1 Meg's Task: The best of 2024
Book 1: Your Favorite of 2024
Choose your favorite book read during 2024. There are no restrictions on what you choose, it doesn't have to have been used for SRC. Read a book by the same author or a book from the "Readers also enjoyed" section of your favorite book's page
Required: Post a link to your favorite 2024 book.
My favorite book of 2024 was The God of the Woods by Liz Moore.
I read The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave, which is on the "Readers Also Enjoyed" page
Book 2: The Best of 2024
Read a book that won or was nominated/short-listed/long-listed for any prize in 2024. The award must be listed on the book's goodreads page and specify 2024.
Required: Name the 2024 award.
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
This book was nominated for 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards for both Fiction and Debut Novel
Book 3: Looking to 2025
Read a book by an author who is releasing a new book in 2025.
Any 2025 release will work. Or you can read from the backlist of an author who has an upcoming release.
Adult Assembly Required by Abbi Waxman
The author has a new book One Death at a Time releasing in April 2025
TOTAL POINTS: 470
EMurphy25.4 JennRenee's Task: Cold Nights With Winter Reads
Option 1: Word in the title of 4 or more letters made from the quote "Winter was made for warm blankets and large books" Third Girl Agatha Christie
*GIRL
**MPG Mystery
Option 2: Author's initials can be found in either COLD NIGHTS or WINTER READS Sandwich by Catherine Newman
*CN in COLD NIGHTS
**MPG Chick Lit
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 285
Books Read: 20
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket +500: 2
IAF Ticket: 2
Tasks Completed: 11
Bookwrm526Task #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". I made the word FISH (FSH in fresh, I in beginnings) and read Pleading the Fish by Bree Baker.
Total points so far: 570
Nick KY10.5 Gateway to the Past. I read The Three Impostors and Other Stories by Arthur Machen, set contemporary to its publication in 1895.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 665
Nick KY15.7 We Three Kings I read # 1 in the Poseidon’s Children trilogy, Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds.
CLAIM ONE BIG BOOK at 566 pp.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 680
Big Books So Far: 500+ (3), 750+ (1) = 5 BB’s
Nick KY20.3 TrishHartUK’s Wordplay. Opt. 1. Tongue Twisters. I read A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland. Three words begin with “S.”
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 700
Andy P.20.9 Moderator's Pet -Jen B's Task: 90s Nostalgia
Option B. Read a book set in the state of Washington, USA.
Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule
Points this post: 20
Total points: 705
brooke4.05.3 Cupid is Coming
Read a book with MPG Romance. Stand Alone or Embedded (Paranormal Romance)
The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu (audio read, no MMP, no PB, this is the only hardback)
MPGS: Fiction
Contemporary
Audiobook
Humor
Adult
Romance
Adult Fiction
Realistic Fiction
Literary Fiction
Education
Pts this post: 5pts
Golden Oldie: 1
It's a Fact: 2
Big Book: 1
Total Pts: 195
Task 30.4 - Consecutive LettersFor this task, you will find consecutive letters in alphabetical order, no gaps between the letters. The following is the list of acceptable consecutive letter pairs. The order of the letters may not be changed.
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.
Consecutive Letters: DE
Word: DEath
Death at a Country Mansion (Daisy Thorne Mystery #1) (2020) by Louise R. Innes (Goodreads Author) (Paperback 219 pages)
Book 2: Read a book with a title ending in two consecutive letters.
Required: Note the consecutive letters.
Consecutive letters: ST
Word: gueST
The Night Guest (2021) by Hildur Knútsdóttir (Goodreads Author); translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal (Goodreads Author) (Hardback 197 pages)
105 + 30 = 135
Tasks Completed: 07
Points for this post: 30
Points thus far: 105 + 30 = 135
Books read: 10
Pages read: 2,710
Read but not claimed: 07
Goodreads Authors: 04
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 00
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Bookwrm526Task #25.7- FLY Finally Finishes!
Option 3: Read a very short book, i.e. a book with fewer than 180 pages. (your book must still meet the 100-page minimum!). I read Holly's Home by Jenna St. James (162 p).
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). I read My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 by Emil Ferris (I read Vol. 1 in 2018). I used the allowance for one graphic novel for this task.
Total points so far: 595
ROBIN P5.8 Birdwatching Month
word in title from name of bird
I used House from House Sparrow
The Keepers of the House
Points this post: 5
Total points: 940
BB:1 GO:4 IAF:9
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30.8 - 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.
Option 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).
Murder at the National Cathedral. Margaret Truman - 338 pages - AIR
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.
Death by Café Mocha. Alex Erickson. - 304 pages - AERIS - New to me author
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 790 / 995
Tasks Completed 47
Amy FL 5.1- It's All Natural
- natural landscapePoints this post: 5
Total points: 685
Amy FL15.2 Holiday who-be what-ee?
Book 1:
- 92% green per TinEyeBook 2: The More the Terrier - MPG Christmas
Points this post: 15
Total points: 700
Amy FL15.5 Old Saint Nick
Shadows of Pecan Hollow by Caroline Frost - initials CF for Father Christmas
Points this post: 15
Total points: 715
Amy FL20.1 Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and Holidays
Option 3: The House of Cross - first published November 25, 2024
Points this post: 20
Total points: 735
Amy FL30.3 - Katrisa's Task: Reunion - Go Norsemen!
Option 2: The Reunion
Book A: Ragdoll by Daniel Cole - Daniel matches a name on the list of friends
Book B: Take My Hand - set in 1973
Points this post: 30
Total points: 765
Bookwrm526Task #20.4 - Robin P’s Task: Christmas Carols
Option 2: Read a book set at least 50% in Germany. France, England, Wales, Ukraine, or Italy. I read The Overnight Kidnapper by Andrea Camilleri, set completely in Italy.
Total points so far: 615
25.1 - KmarieD's Task: It's My BirthdayOption 1: Read a book with a title that has at least 5 words. Subtitles are excluded.
I read Κι ως την άλλη μου ζωή θα σε λατρεύω. The title of this book has 9 words. This book has 360 pages.
Option 4: Read a book with a single author whose initials can be found in GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. All initials count and letters may only be used as often as they appear.
I read Alpinisme & anarchisme: Essai sur les vertus révolutionnaires de l'art de grimper les montagnes by Guillaume Goutte initials: GG
This book has 144 pages.
I also claim 1 It’s a fact ticket for this non-fiction book.
Total pages: 504
This task:
Points: 25
BB Tickets: 3
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 6
Total:
Points: 270
BB Tickets: 3
GO Tickets: 1
It's a Fact Tickets: 6
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