The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion
note: This topic has been closed to new comments.
WINTER CHALLENGE 2024
>
Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD!
FLY Task #30.3 - Katrisa's Task: Reunion - Go Norsemen!
Option 2: The Reunion
task: A - author shares a first name with a listed high school friend
book: I Am Not a Serial Killer
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: author = Dan Wells (Dan)
task: B - set in either the 1970s or the Victorian age
book: New Boy
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: set in 1970s (see book description)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 705
Tasks completed: 41/57
BB: 9 / GO: 2 / IAF: 4
FLY Task #10. 3 - A Mountain of Books
task: page count is comprised of the numbers 9, 1, 4, 4 in any order
book: A Clockwork Orange
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: 149 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Points this post: 10
Total points: 715
Tasks completed: 42/57
BB: 9 / GO: 2 / IAF: 4
FLY Task #20.5 Bigger is Better- Elizabeth P's Task: Celebrating the SRC
task: 3: 4+ letter title word that can be made from READING CHALLENGES BRING ME JOY
book: A Man Called Ove
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: 'called' in REA(D)ING (C)H(ALLE)NGES
Points this post: 20
Total points: 735
Tasks completed: 43/57
BB: 9 / GO: 2 / IAF: 4
Mod
25.7- FLY's Task-FLY Finally Finishes!
Option 3 - Read a very short book, i.e. a book with fewer than 180 pages.
Cyfres Amdani: Rob (115 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.
DragonquestPoints this task: 25
Season total: 115
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 2
IAF Tickets: 1
SHEMAC 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.
Required: Post the Cover:
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
This task points: 5
Total season points: 830
SHEMAC 15.3 Mysterious and Wise
Choose an option.
Required: State the option: 2
Option 2: One-book task
Read a single book that satisfies both criteria for option 1.
Smile: Behind the Lens of the ‘Dating Game Killer’
(PB Smile: Behind the Lens of the ‘Dating Game Killer’)
(1) Read a book with a cover with at least 75 percent (84.8) of any combination of these THREE colors, RED, BLACK AND YELLOW according to Tineye.
Red: 26.7%
Black: 49.3%
Yellow: 8.8%
Required: Post the Cover
(2) Read a book with at least 2 different lucky numbers (2, 8 and 9) in the page count: page count 129
This task points: 15
Total season points: 845
Joanne MI20.7 Shorter is Sweeter
Option A Holidays-
#7 VALENTINE’S DAY (Feb. 14) - All of the letters L-O-V-E appear in the title
A Lady's Formula for Love
Points this task 20
Season Total 250
4 BB's 4 IAF
Joanne MI5.10 Comfort zone
Book of choice
Sharpe's Havoc
Points this Task 5
Season Total 255
4 BB's 4 IAF
***REPOST***JEN B
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).
The Truth and Other Hidden Things by Lea Geller
A in And
I in hIdden
R in tRuth
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.
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
tRAvISbaldrEe
This author is new to me
TOTAL POINTS: 580
trishhartuk50.1 Meg's Task: The best of 2024
Book 1: Choose your favorite book read during 2024. Read a book by the same author.
The Story Collector, Evie Gaughan
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (384pg)
My 2024 favourite was The Lost Bookshop, which was a 5* read. Evie Woods and Evie Gaughan are the same person, and were okayed in Help Thread message #12: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Book 2: Read a book that won or was nominated for any prize in 2024.
Orbital, Samantha Harvey
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (135pg)
Winner of the Booker Prize, 2024
Book moved from task 25.7, which I unclaimed.
Book 3: Read a book by an author who is releasing a new book in 2025.
The Word is Murder, Anthony Horowitz
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (390pg)
The third book in his Susan Ryland series, Marble Hall Murders is due out in April.
Total pages: 384 + 135 + 390 = 909pg
Points this Task: 50
Books Read: 3
Total Points: 525
Tasks Completed: 34
It’s a Fact Tickets: 9
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
Sarah E20.4 Golden Oldies- Robin P’s Task: Christmas Carols
Option 3: Author whose first and last initials are a combination of SATB
The Gran Tour: Travels with My Elders by Ben Aitken
I listened to an audio, top paperback - no MMP - is The Gran Tour: Travels with my Elders
Non Fiction, claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket.
Total Points: 60
Total NF: 1
Sarah E20.9 Moderator's Pet -Jen B's Task: 90s Nostalgia
Option 2B: MPG Young Adult
Passage to Zarahemla
Total Points: 80
Sarah E20.10 Group Reads
Weyward
I read a kindle edition, top MMP is La Maison aux sortilèges - 512 pages
My comment is message 24
Big Book, 512 pages. Claiming 1 BB ticket.
Total Points: 100
Total BBs: 1
25.3: Beth NC's Task- Winter SolsticeOption 2, from https://www.usatoday.com/story/entert..., cozy mystery list: Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
paperback edition Arsenic and Adobo
Option 4, YULE in the title: The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner
Points this post: 25
Total points: 870
Sarah E30.1 - Truitt_T’s Task: She Blinded Me With Science
Book A: Element from the Periodic Table in the title
Witches Steeped in Gold - 544 pages
Element: GOLD
I read approximately 20% before the winter season began
Big Book, 544 pages. Claiming 1 BB ticket.
Book B3: MPG of Birds, Ecology, Nature, and/or Conservation
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Has MPG Nature and MPG Ecology
I listened to an audio, top paperback - no MMP - is Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses - 168 pages
Non Fiction, claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket.
544 + 168 = 712 pages
Total Points: 130
Total BBs: 2
Total NF: 2
Kathy KS25.5 Jessica S’s Task: The Music of Christmas
**Claiming 1 (one) Big Book ticket** Option 4, Pages: 512
Option 1: Read a book with a cover that’s at least 60% white according to TinEye. Required: Post the cover and the TinEye percentage.
by Sandra BalzoTineye: 77.7 % #fcfbf8 White
Option 4: Read a book with any noun found in the lyrics of Walking in the Air in the title. Required: state the noun
Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo
Noun: sky (three different places)
I listened to an audiobook; mmpb-512 p. SEE ABOVE
******
Points for this task: 25
Total points : 500
Tasks completed: 21/57
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
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: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 5
JUKKA15.3 Mysterious and Wise
Option 1
Book 1: Book whose cover's colours have at least 75% red, yellow, and black.
X-Men: Grand Design Omnibus by Ed Piskor
The TinEye percentages are:
59.5 % #f4e916 Yellow
14.8 % #e1342a Red
8.7 % #080603 Black
7.6 % #f1efed White
2.4 % #de8e24 Orange
1.9 % #aa8c68 Brown
1.6 % #ae752b Brown
1.4 % #8c841e Brown
1.1 % #b5a922 Yellow
1.0 % #a69e91 Grey
Book 2: Book with at least two numbers from 2, 8, and 9 in the page count.
The Dragon by Ree Soesbee has 288 pages.
Total Points: 310/995
Total Books Read: 28
Tasks Completed: 22/57
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 8
It's a Fact Total: 2
Julia10315.1 Groundhog Groundhog Groundhog
Book 1: Read a book with a 4 letter word in the title that can be formed from one of these two phrases: SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER or SPRING WILL ARRIVE EARLY
The Sign of Four Spirits
(Sign is in SPRING in second phrase)
Book 2: Read a book that has a repeated word consecutively in the title.
Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby
This post: 15 points
Total points: 760
BB: 7
GO: 3
NF: 5
Completed tasks: 36
Books read: 53
Andy P.Task # 10.9 - 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 this list:
Scenic Area is Saint Helena Island. Matching word: Island
Island by Thomas Perry
Points this post: 10
Total points: 875
babbling c 10.7 - I Want To Believe
Read a book with an MPG of Paranormal. The genre may be embedded, e.g. "Paranormal Romance" or "Paranormal Horror".
The Wren in the Holly Library - audio The Wren in the Holly Library - paperback pgs 381 by K.A. Linde
MPG Paranormal
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
Total This Season
Points: 180/995
Completed Tasks: 12/57
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
******
Pages read this season: 4,685
Books read this season: 12
Mod
Read a book with an MPG of Paranormal.
Haunted Ever After by Jen DeLuca / MPG Paranormal
Points this post: 10
Total points: 970
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.1: Family and Holidays:
Option 2: Elemental by Anthony John is set entirely on Cape Hatteras and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
There is a map of the area at the front of the book.
Points: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 20
Books: 1
Tasks: 1
Big book tickets: 0 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
Non-fiction tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.3: Wordplay:
Option 3a: An Eternal Lei by Naomi Hirahara. Has 12 characters and 3 words in title. 12 is divisible (integer division) by 3.
I also think (tongue in cheek) it loosely fits option 2 with An Eternal Lay".
Points: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 40
Books: 2
Tasks: 2
Big book tickets: 0 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
Non-fiction tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.2: Into 2025:
Option 2: A Dead Man in Athens by Michael Pearce is set entirely in GreeceGreece, mostly in the capital Athens. Documented in title and on book's GR page.
Meets min page requirement of at least 225 pages with 256 pages.
Points: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 60
Books: 3
Tasks: 3
Big book tickets: 0 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
Non-fiction tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Julia1035.10 Comfort zone
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
Storm Watch
Approved for length for 5-point task in eBook Verification thread, post 369
This post: 5 points
Total points: 765
BB: 7
GO: 3
NF: 5
Completed tasks: 37
Books read: 54
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.5 Celebrating the SRC:
Option 3: Magic in Ithkar I by Andre Norton & Robert Adams. All the letters of the word MAGIC are in reAdInG Challenges bring Me joy.
Points: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 80
Books: 4
Tasks: 4
Big book tickets: 0 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
Non-fiction tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.7: Holidays and Hiking:
Option A 4 New Year: A Test Of Wills by Charles Todd is #1 in the Inspector Ian Rutledge series.
Points: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 100
Books: 5
Tasks: 5
Big book tickets: 0 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
Non-fiction tickets: 0
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.8: Wonders of Home:
Option 4: Murder at the Altar by Veronica Heley. The letters of title word ALTAR
can be found in cALifoRniA redwood foresT.
Points: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 120
Books: 6
Tasks: 6
Big book tickets: 0 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
Non-fiction tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 20.9:90s Nostalgia:
Option 2B: Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire has MPG Young Adult.
Points: 20
Books: 1
Summary Totals: 140
Books: 7
Tasks: 7
Big book tickets: 0 (500) 0 (750) 0 (1,000)
Non-fiction tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
5.2- Circle of Dark Set in Sweden: The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf by Alexander McCall Smith
paperback edition The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf
MPG Sweden.
Reference from #1 in the series: "...Ulf Varg, Detective Inspector in the Sensitive Crimes Department of the Criminal Investigation Authority for the city of Malmö, Sweden."
Points this post: 5
Total points: 875
5.3 Cupid is Coming MPG Romance: The Summer Getaway by Susan Mallery
paperback edition The Summer Getaway
Points this post: 5
Total points: 880
5.4 New Year, New Reads! Author's initials in HAPPY NEW YEAR: Mind Games by Nora Roberts
paperback edition Mind Games
Points this post: 5
Total points: 885
5.9 It's Part of My WorldMPG Nature: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
hardcover edition The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Points this post: 5
Total points: 890
JenJ IA10.8 - Run Away! Run Away!
Read a book from the first 25 pages of the Mythology shelf: Mythology Books
Required: State the page of the shelf your book is found on - Page 1
Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati - 512 pages
*****I claim 1 Big Book ticket*****
~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 920/995
Tasks Completed: 52/57
BB: 3
GO: 0
NF: 6
JenJ IA30.5 - Cat's Task: Books of South America
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.
Floreana: A Novel by Midge Raymond - set in Ecuador
Book 2: Read a book that is written by an author born in a country in South America.
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende - author born in Peru
*****I claim 1 It's A Fact ticket*****
~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 950/995
Tasks Completed: 53/57
BB: 3
GO: 0
NF: 7
CathyG25.1 - KmarieD's Task: It's My Birthday
Choose 2 options and read 1 book for each.
Required: State which options you choose.
Your total page count should be at least 500 pages.
Option 1: Read a book with a title that has at least 5 words. The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning 384pp
Option 4: Read a book with a single author whose initials can be found in GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. All initials count
Bond of Destiny by Larissa Ione 125pp
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 605/995
Tasks Completed: 25/59
NF: 4
CathyG20.3 Review Raffle- Trishhartuk's Task: Wordplay
Help Thread
Required: State the option
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.
The Job by Janet Evanovich
6/2=3
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 625/995
Tasks Completed: 26/59
NF: 4
JUKKA15.7 We Three Kings
Book from a series with only three books or #12 in a series.
Eerie Archives, Vol. 12
Total Points: 325/995
Total Books Read: 29
Tasks Completed: 23/57
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 8
It's a Fact Total: 2
Rockynook5.5 - 'Tis the Season to be Festive
4+ title word from CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS
The Honey-Don't List by Christina Lauren
Word: LIST
chrISTmas tree Lights
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 385
Bookwrm526Task #30.8 - Delicious Dee's Task: Codex Alera
Option C Book A: 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). I chose FIRE and read The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar (F in of, IR in thirty, E in names) (291p).
Option C 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. The alternate name for fire is IGNUS. I read Switchback by Pamela Fagan Hutchins (256p). (INUS in hutchings, G in fagan). THIS AUTHOR IS NEW TO ME.
291+256=547pages
Total points so far: 825
Amy B15.3 Mysterious and Wise
Choose an option.
Required: State the option
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. All colors must be present (the percentage of each color is not important as long as they add up to 75 percent.)
Required: Post the Cover
Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell (84.1%)
Book 2:
Read a book with at least 2 different lucky numbers (2, 8 and 9) in the page count.
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney (298 pages)
This Task: 15 Points
To Date: 380 Points
Amy B25.3: Beth NC's Task- Winter Solstice
Choose 2 options and read 1 book each
Required: State the options
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/
All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
Option 4: 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
This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
This Task: 25 Points
To Date: 405 Points
Andy P.Task # 10.10 - Cold As Ice
Read a book from one of the following lists:
52 Book Club 2023: #24 Nordic Noir
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten page 1 # 3 as of 2/23/25
Points this post: 10
Total points: 885
Amy B30.9 - TessaVanessa's Task: Ringing in the New Year
Choose 2 options and read 1 book for each.
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.
Chemistry by Weike Wang (224 pages)
Option 3: Times Square Ball Drop
Read a book set in New York City.
Required: If the setting is not evident from the Goodreads page or metadata provide a reference.
We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
This Task: 30 Points
To Date: 435 Points
Task 20.9 90s NostalgiaOption 1 - Music
A: Read a book with EXACTLY 5 words in the title (subtitles ignored).
The Day the Martians Came (1988) by Frederik Pohl (Hardback 248 pages)
250 + 20 = 270
Tasks Completed: 14
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 250 + 20 = 270
Books read: 19
Pages read: 5,158
Read but not claimed: 01
Goodreads Authors: 08
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 02
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Amy B25.1 - KmarieD's Task: It's My Birthday
Choose 2 options and read 1 book for each.
Required: State which options you choose.
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.
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell - 368 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.
Ghostroots: Stories by 'Pemi Aguda - 224 pages
This Task: 25 Points
To Date: 460 Points
Andy P.Task #10. 3 - A Mountain of Books
Read a book whose page count is comprised of the numbers 9, 1, 4, 4 in any order
City of Secrets by Stewart O'Nan 194 p.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 895
Andy P.Task # 10.6 - Inspiration Strikes
Read a biography, autobiography or memoir about an artist, musician, poet or writer.
California Dreamin': Cass Elliot Before The Mamas & the Papas byPénélope Bagieu
Points this post: 10
Total points: 905
20.8 Nickels & Dimes- Apple's Task: The Wonders of HomeOption 4: Colored Television
The world "Colored" is in the phrase CALIFORNIA REDWOOD FOREST
Total points: 160
This topic has been frozen by the moderator. No new comments can be posted.
The Seasonal Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Out Stealing Horses (other topics)Christmas in Rose Bend (other topics)
Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones (other topics)
Family Family (other topics)
Third Girl (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Ngozi Ukazu (other topics)Laurie Frankel (other topics)
Layne Fargo (other topics)
Louise Erdrich (other topics)
Tiffany McDaniel (other topics)
More...
30.4 - 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. - NO
No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall
Book 2: Read a book with a title ending in two consecutive letters.
Required: Note the consecutive letters. - ST
The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf
~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 470/995
Tasks Completed: 31/57
BB: 2
GO: 0
NF: 4