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WINTER CHALLENGE 2024
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Shelby
10.7 - I Want To Believe
Read a book with an MPG of Paranormal.: Bound Together, by Christine Feehan
How Fits: MPG - Paranormal
Points this post: 10
Total points: 415
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
15.1 Groundhog Groundhog Groundhog
Read a book with a 4 or more 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.: Next Year in Havana, by Chanel Cleeton
How Fits: Phrase - siX more weeks of wiNTEr / Word: NEXT year in havana
AND
Read a book that has a repeated word consecutively in the title.: Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary, by Amy Lillard
How Fits: Title - DIARY, DAIRY quite contrary
Points this post: 15
Total points: 430
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
15.10 Winter Retreat
Read a book with a cover that shows a secluded house or cabin (no other buildings visible on the cover) in a snowy landscape.: Arctic Heat, by Annabeth Albert
How Fits: Cover: Secluded cabin in snow
Points this post: 15
Total points: 445
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
25.2 - 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.: Hawk in the Rowan, by Sam Burns
How Fits: Published - May 3, 2018
AND
Option 2
Read a book with one of the 8 original River names as a word in the title, subtitle, or series title.: Cry Wolf, by Patricia Briggs
How Fits: River - WOLF / Title - Cry WOLF
Points this post: 25
Total points: 470
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
25.7- FLY's Task-FLY Finally Finishes!
Option 3
Read a very short book, i.e. a book with fewer than 180 pages.: Hay: A Made Marian Short, by Lucy Lennox
How Fits: Page Count - 104pgs
AND
Option 5
Read a book with either a dragon on the cover, just recognizably a dragon) or the word DRAGON intact in the title, subtitle, or series name: The Assassin's Dragon, by W.M. Fawkes
How Fits: Title - the assassin's DRAGON
Points this post: 25
Total points: 495
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
30.2 - MAZZA1's Task: Gregorian Games
Option 3
Read a book whose SINGLE author's first and last (middle can be ignored) initials use only the letters "ARY".: Catered All the Way, by Annabeth Albert
How Fits: Author - Annabeth Albert / Page Count - 292pgs
AND
Option 4
Read a book that is # 12, 1 or 2 in a series.: A Strange Hymn, by Laura Thalassa
How Fits: Series - #2 in The Bargainer / Page Count - 377pgs
Points this post: 30
Total points: 525
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
30.7 - Amy FL’s Task: The Headaches of Home Ownership
Option 2
Read a book with a title word (ignore subtitles) of four or more letters that can be made from MOLD REMEDIATION.: Captive Mate, by Eliot Grayson
How Fits: Word - Mate / Mold rEmediATion
AND
Option 3
Read a book by an author whose first and last initials can be found in MARISSA.: Sea Storm, by Andrew Mayne
How Fits: Author - Andrew Mayne
Points this post: 30
Total points: 555
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
30.8 - Delicious Dee's Task: Codex Alera
Option C / Book A
Read a book where all the letters of the fury can be found in the title : Not All Himbos Wear Capes by C. Rochelle
How Fits: Fury - Air / not All hImbos weaR capes / Author - NTY
Page Count - 420pgs
AND
Option C / Book B
RUsing 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.: Skeleton Crew: PsyCop 14, by Jordan Castillo Price
How Fits: Fury - Aeris / Author - joRdAn caStIllo pricE
Page Count - 322pgs
Total Page Count - 742pgs
Points this post: 30
Total points: 585
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
50.1 Meg's Task: The best of 2024
Book 1
Read a book by the same author or a book from the "Readers also enjoyed" section of your favorite book's page: Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
How Fits: Favorite Book of 2024 - The Spellshop / In Readers Also Enjoyed section
Page Count - 368pgs
AND
Book 2
Read a book that won or was nominated/short-listed/long-listed for any prize in 2024.: The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley
How Fits: Winner of Goodreads Choice Awards for Science Fiction in 2024
Page Count - 339pgs
AND
Book 3
Read a book by an author who is releasing a new book in 2025.: Oona Out of Order, by Margarita Montimore
How Fits: Margarita Montimore published The Dollhouse Academy on Feb 11, 2025
Page Count - 339pgs
Total Page Count - 1046pgs
Points this post: 50
Total points: 635
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Masoodah5.3 Cupid is Coming
Read a book with MPG Romance. Stand Alone or Embedded (Paranormal Romance)
The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
How it fits: MPG Romance/MPG Contemporary Romance
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 520 / 995
Total Books Read: 37
Total Tasks Completed: 28 / 57
BB: 1 + 1 + 1 +1 + 1 = 5
GO:
IAF:
Angela IL30.6 - XBM’s Task – A Partridge in a Pear Tree
Option A: Book 1: Read a book where an author's first and last initials are found in PARTRIDGE.
Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe-2/25
Read via Kindle/No MMPB/PB link: Margo tiene problemas de dinero
Book 2: Read a book where both a tree and a bird appear on the cover.
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout-12/21
Read via Kindle/No MMPB/PB link: Conta-me tudo
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 500
Books Read: 32
Tasks Completed: 20
It's a Fact: 2
Angela IL10.4 - Wonderful Wetlands
Read a book with a word of four or more letters in its title that can be made from WORLD WETLANDS DAY.
All I Want Is You by Falon Ballard-12/6
Word: Want
Points this Task: 10
Total Points: 510
Books Read: 33
Tasks Completed: 21
It's a Fact: 2
EMurphy30.8 Delicious Dee's Task: Codex Alera
Option 3a: All letters from a fury found in title Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
*WOOD
**306 pages
Option 3b: All letters of the alternate name can be found in author's name Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
*FLORA
**197 pages
***It's a Fact Ticket (published 1923)
306+197=503 pages
BOTH AUTHORS NEW TO ME
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 480
Books Read: 32
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 2
BB Ticket +750: 1
IAF Ticket: 3
Tasks Completed: 17
Andy P.Task # 10.8 - Run Away! Run Away!
Read a book from the first 25 pages of the Mythology shelf: page 1
Atalanta by Jennifer Saint
Points this post:10
Total points: 945
Task 30.6 - XBM’s Task – A Partridge in a Pear TreeOption B: Read two books, each with a related homophone in the title
Words; knew, new
Book 1: What the Wife Knew
Book 2: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Points this task: 30
Total points: 955
ED20.8 Nickels & Dimes- Apple's Task: The Wonders of Home
Option 1
Can You Forgive Her? Volume II by Anthony Trollope
pub. 1865
*****I CLAIM 1 GO TICKET*****
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Tasks Completed:
20.8
25.7 Fly FinishedOpt 1 - car on cover
Opt 3 - book with fewer than 180 pages
Exit Strategy 172 pages
Points: 25
Total challenge: 690
ED5.10 Comfort zone
Keepers of The Wisdom Daily Meditations: Reflections from Lives Well Lived by Karen Casey-
*****I CLAIM 1 iT'S A FACT TICKET*****
Points this post: 5
Total points: 25
Tasks Completed:
5.10
20.8
EMurphy30.7 Amy FL's Task: The Headaches of Home Ownership
Option 2: Title word of 4 or more letters that can be made from MOLD REMEDIATION This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
*Word is TIME
Option 3: Author's initials can be found in MARISSA What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 510
Books Read: 34
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 2
BB Ticket: +750: 1
IAF Ticket: 3
Tasks Completed: 20
EMurphy10.9 Making the National International - Word in title that matches one of the current or proposed National Scenic Areas from the list Long Bright River by Liz Moore
*Word is RIVER from Columbia River Gorge
This Task:
Points: 10
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 520
Books Read: 35
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 2
BB Ticket +750: 1
IAF Ticket: 3
Tasks Completed: 21
ED20.4 Golden Oldies- Robin P’s Task: Christmas Carols
Opt. 2- Set in Sicily, Italy
The Sicilian by Mario Puzo
Points this post: 20
Total points: 45
Tasks Completed:
5.10
20.4; 20.8
ED20.2 - Rookie at the Top - SheMac's Task: Into 2025
Option 2- Set in England
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
pub. 1923
*****I CLAIM 1 GO TICKET*****
Points this post: 20
Total points: 65
Tasks Completed:
5.10
20.2; 20.4; 20.8
ED5.5 'Tis the Season to be Festive
Hot Mess by Jeff Kinney
"MESS" found in "chriStMaS trEe"
Points this post: 5
Total points: 70
Tasks Completed:
5.5; 5.10
20.2; 20.4; 20.8
20.5 Bigger is Better- Elizabeth P's Task: Celebrating the SRCOption 3
Time Regained by Marcel Proust
pub. 1927; 784p
"Regained" found in "READING challEngers...:
*****I CLAIM 1 GO TICKET*****
*****I CLAIM 2 BB TICKETS*****
Points this post: 20
Total points: 90
Tasks Completed:
5.5; 5.10
20.2; 20.4; 20.5; 20.8
Mod
SHEMAC 30.1 - Truitt_T’s Task: She Blinded Me With Science
This is a two book task, with a combined 500 page minimum. One book MUST be nonfiction. (336 + 288)
Read two books, Book A and Book B.
Book A
Read a book with an element from the Periodic Table in the title and/or subtitle.
Required: state the element: Gold
Poseidon's Gold
(PB Poseidon's Gold)
Book B
Choose from one of the following four options.
Required: State the option: 2
Option 2:
Read a book with an MPG of Evolution, Natural History, Geology, Biology, and/or Travel.
Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of our Planet (MPG Geology) NON-FICTION
(PB Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet)
This task points: 30
Total season points: 955
Emurphy10.7 I Want to Believe - MPG Paranormal Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
This Task:
Points: 10
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 530
Books Read: 36
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 2
BB Ticket +750: 1
IAF Ticket: 3
Tasks Completed: 22
EMurphy10.4 Wonderful Wetlands - Word of 4 or more letters in tis title that can be made from WORLD WETLANDS DAY Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
*Word is DEAD
This Task:
Points: 10
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 540
Books Read: 37
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 2
BB Ticket +750: 1
IAF Ticket: 3
Tasks Completed: 23
EMurphy5.10 Comfort zone - Book of your choice West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman
This Task:
Points: 5
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 545
Books Read: 38
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket +500: 2
BB Ticket +750: 1
IAF Ticket: 3
Tasks Completed: 24
Lisa MD30.9 - TessaVanessa's Task: Ringing in the New Year
Option 2: Food on cover
Guilt and Ginataan by Mia P. Manansala
304pgs
Cover depicts the Filipino dish ginataan.
Option 3: Set in NYC
Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop by Otto Penzler
332 pgs
From the GR description: "Thirteen festive crime stories set in New York City’s beloved mystery bookstore."
🎀🎄🎅🏻❄️🎀🎄🎅🏻❄️🎀🎄🎅🏻❄️🎀🎄🎅🏻❄️🎀🎄🎅🏻❄️🎀🎄🎅🏻❄️
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 705 / 995
Total Books Read: 50
Total Tasks Completed: 37 / 57
Big Book Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 8
Lisa MD5.10 - Comfort Zone
Free choice
You Never Know: A Memoir by Tom Selleck
***I claim an IAF ticket***
🎀🎄🎅🏻❄️🎀🎄🎅🏻❄️🎀🎄🎅🏻❄️🎀🎄🎅🏻❄️🎀🎄🎅🏻❄️🎀🎄🎅🏻❄️
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 710 / 995
Total Books Read: 51
Total Tasks Completed: 38 / 57
Big Book Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 9
Sarah E30.2 - MAZZA1's Task: Gregorian Games
Option 1: Variant of the number 12, 1 or 2 in the TITLE ONLY
The Twelve Days of Murder - 378 pages
Option 4: Read a book that is # 12, 1 or 2 in a series
Zero Minus Ten - Raymond Benson's Bond #1
I listened to an audio, top MMP is Zero Minus Ten - 287 pages
Total Points: 400
Sarah E20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Kristen IA's Task: Holidays and Hiking
Option A: HOLIDAYS
Option 4: NEW YEAR (Jan. 1) - Read a book that is #1 in a series
Option 5: VALENTINE’S DAY (Feb. 14) - All of the letters L-O-V-E appear in the title
We Solve Murders - We Solve Murders #1
LOVE in sOLVE
I listened to an audio, top paperback - no MMP - is We Solve Murders
Total Points: 420
Sarah E20.8 Nickels & Dimes- Apple's Task: The Wonders of Home
Option 1: First year of publication includes at least two different numbers of 1, 2, 8 and 9
State of Terror - first published in 2021
I listened to an audio, top paperback - no MMP - is State of Terror
Total Points: 440
20.10 Group ReadsI read The Moonstone
My comment in the discussion thread is #4
***Claiming A big book ticket for 528 pages***
***Claiming a Golden Oldie ticket, published in 1868***
New Points: 20
Total Points: 230
BB: 1
GO: 1
IaF: 3
10.5 - A Gateway to the PastRead a book set prior to 1903
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Set in 1878
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 785
Total Tasks Completed: 37
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 3
25.4 JennRenee's Task: Cold Nights With Winter ReadsThe genre I chose for this task was MYSTERY
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.
The word used is MONOGRAM
The Monogram Murders
Book 2: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initial can be found in>i used> COLD NIGHTS
Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf
New Points: 25
Total Points: 255
BB: 1
GO: 1
IaF: 3
25.5 Jessica S’s Task: The Music of ChristmasOption 3: Let It Snow - Performed by Vaughn Monroe
Read a book where the author’s initials (you may ignore middle initials) can be found in lET IT sNOW.
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
Option 4: Walking in the Air - Performed by Peter Auty
Read a book with any noun found in the lyrics of Walking in the Air in the title.
Noun - eye
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 810
Total Tasks Completed: 38
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 3
20.5 Bigger is Better- Elizabeth P's Task: Celebrating the SRCOption 3: 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
The word I used was BORN
Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
***Claiming an It's a Fact Ticket for non-fiction***
New Points: 20
Total Points: 275
BB: 1
GO: 1
IaF: 4
20.3 Review Raffle- Trishhartuk's Task: WordplayOption 3:
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.
Finding Flora
12 letters divided 2 words=6
New Points: 20
Total Points: 295
BB: 1
GO: 1
IaF: 4
20.7- Shorter is Sweeter - Kristen IA's Task: Holidays and HikingOption 1: Author’s first and last initials appear in LIGHTS
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
New Points: 20
Total Points: 315
BB: 1
GO: 1
IaF: 4
Sarah E10.1 - Look to the Skies
Read a book whose cover depicts stars, the moon, or a night sky.
I listened to an audio, paperback - no MMP - is Silver
Total Points: 450
Sarah E20.1 Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and Holidays
Option 3: Read a book first published in either 1981 or 2024
Absolution - first published October 22, 2024
I read an ebook, top paperback - no MMP - is Absolution - 528 pages
Big Book, 528 pages. Claiming 1 BB ticket.
Total Points: 470
Total BBs: 4
Sarah E25.1 - KmarieD's Task: It's My Birthday
Option 1: Read a book with a title that has at least 5 words.
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
I listened to an audio, top paperback - no MMP - is Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? - 416 pages
Option 3: Read a book with both individual MPG Mystery and MPG Romance
Vanilla Bean Vengeance
I read a kindle edition, paperback - no MMP - is Vanilla Bean Vengeance - 275 pages
416 + 275 = 691 pages
Total Points: 495
Sarah E25.7- FLY's Task-FLY Finally Finishes!
Option 3: Book with fewer than 180 pages
A Highland Christmas
I listened to an audio, top MMP is A Highland Christmas - 131 pages
Option 5: Book with a dragon on the cover
I listened to an audio, paperback - no MMP - is Fight and Flight
Total Points: 520
Thank you to the mods and task creators for another great season!
Bookwrm526Task #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. I read Dead Before Dinner by Kat Bellemore. (Consecutive letters DE).
Book 2: Read a book with a title ending in two consecutive letters. I read There Goes the Bride by M.C. Beaton. (Consecutive letters DE).
Total points: 915
Kathy KS10.7 - I Want To Believe
Read a book with an MPG of Paranormal.
Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart
MPG: Paranormal; verified in Task help message 7
******
Points for this task: 10
Total points : 540
Tasks completed: 23/57
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
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
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyWinter 2024 SRC
10.4 - 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.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone the word is STONE
Books has MPG Children's genre, but meets the other posting requirements for this MPG:
Book Level: 5.5
Interest Level: Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
AR Points: 12.0
Points this post: 10
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 325
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 1
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyWinter 2024 SRC
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"
Letters may only be used as often as they appear.
Required: State the word
Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red, the word is RABBI
Points this post: 15
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 340
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 1
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
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5.6 Meanwhile, Back in the Southern Hemisphere
Read a book set in the Southern Hemisphere AND first published in December or January.: Two Man Station, by Lisa Henry
How Fits: Location - Australia & Published: January 20, 2018
Points this post: 5
Total points: 405
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0