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WINTER CHALLENGE 2024
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Delicious Dee10.8 - Run Away! Run Away!
Blood of Troy - found on pg15
Points This Post: 10
Points Overall: 155
Its a Fact Tickets: 1
Jessica S25.6: Lisa MD's Task-New Year Reflections
Option 1: book with a MPG of mystery AND whose title contains ALL the letters of FATHER
The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love by Alice Winters
Option 3: book whose title does not contain any letters of STRESSED
Unholy by K.T Yarrow
Points this task: 25
Total points: 195
Joanne Mi10.9 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 the list
The Frozen River
The word is RIVER from The Columbia River Gorge
Points this task 10
Season Total 35
IAF 1
MEGSCL5.9 It's Part of My World
Non fiction MPG nature
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
**non fiction - it’s a fact
Total
35 points - 1 big book - 2 It’s a Fact
Deborah5.3 Cupid is Coming
The Hell You Say
MPG: ROMANCE
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 60
Books Read: 5
Tasks Done: 4
Christine V20.6 It's A Fact - Julia103's Task" Getting Older
Option 1: Read a book where a main character is a senior citizen.
Remnant Population
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=2)
It's A Fact: 1
Deborah5.5 'Tis the Season to be Festive
Our Accidental Christmas Mating: A Waiting Hearts World Story
Using word: CHRISTMAS (CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS)
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 65
Books Read: 6
Tasks Done: 5
Delicious Dee20.3 Review Raffle- Trishhartuk's Task: Wordplay
Option 3/b - Set on You - 3 letters in the first word and 3 words in the title
Points This Post: 20
Points Overall: 175
Its a Fact Tickets: 1
Katrisa5.6 Meanwhile, Back in the Southern Hemisphere
Read a book set in the Southern Hemisphere AND first published in December or January
I read Hades
It is set in Australia (Sydney) and was published in January
Points this Post: 5
Points Total: 170
Susan A30.2 - MAZZA1's Task: Gregorian Games
Opt 1: Read a book with a variant of the number 12, 1 or 2 in the TITLE ONLY.
12 Dates of Christmas by Brigham Vaughn
No MMPB. Paperback HERE
12 in the title
288 pages
Opt 3. Read a book whose SINGLE author's first and last (middle can be ignored) initials use only the letters "ARY"
Deck the Palms by Annabeth Albert
No MMPB Paperback HERE
author initals: AA
278 pages
Previous total: 365
points this post: 30
new total: 395
Susan A20.10 Group Reads
Fiction: Australian Crime
Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
No MMPB. Paperback HERE
Discussion Post
Previous total: 395
points this post: 20
new total: 415
Susan A20.4 Golden Oldies- Robin P’s Task: Christmas Carols
1.Read a book with a word of 4 or more letters in the title that matches a word in the name of a carol from this list:
8. "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
Naughty Elf: Merry by Lorelei M. Hart
No MMPB. paperback HERE
word: Merry
song: 8. "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
previous total: 415
points this post: 20
new total: 435
Susan A15.4 It's Starting to Look A Lot Like Christmas
Option A: Two-book task
Book 1: Read a book with an ornament, garland, wreath, Christmas lights, Santa, or deer on the cover.
Merry Kissmas by Piper Rayne
No MMPB. Paperback HERE
Christmas lights on cover
Book 2: Read a book where the author's first and last initials (middle initial may be ignored) are found in MERRY AND BRIGHT.
True North by T.A. Moore
NO MMPB. Paperback HERE
initials T M found in MERRY AND BRIGHT
previous total: 435
points this post: 15
new total: 450
20.1 Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and HolidaysOption 3, first published in 2024: The Hunter by Tana French, published March 5, 2024
paperback edition The Hunter
Points this post: 20
Total points: 80
Susan A15.2 Holiday who-be what-ee?
Book 1: Read a book that is at least 75% green according to Tineye
Christmas After All by Cece Louise
No MMPB Paperback HERE
total 77.5% Green
59.8 % #87c998 Green
14.4 % #3e8013 Green
5.5 % #e6efeb Grey
5.3 % #284c78 Blue
3.8 % #1b1f1a Black
3.3 % #468c50 Green
2.3 % #a92f23 Red
2.0 % #5f3a2d Brown
1.7 % #e7c29a Pink
1.7 % #f3960d Orange
Book 2: Read a book with the MPG Christmas
by Eli EastonMMPB
MPG Christmas
previous total: 450
points this post: 15
new total: 465
Susan A10. 3 - A Mountain of Books
Read a book whose page count is comprised of the numbers 9, 1, 4, 4 in any order.
Holiday Crush by Lane Hayes
No MMPB Paperback HERE
194 pages
previous total: 465
points this post: 10
new total: 475
Kai30.4 Susan A's Task: Consecutive Letters
BOOK 1
Read a book in which the first word in the title starts with two consecutive letters.
No Room at the Morgue by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Consecutive letters: NO
BOOK 2
Read a book with a title ending in two consecutive letters.
Liars by Sarah Manguso
Consecutive letters: RS
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 4
Total Points: 65
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 2
IT'S A FACT: 1
trishhartuk15.10 Winter Retreat
Cover shows a secluded house or cabin in a snowy landscape.
Death Through a Dark Green Glass, Julia Buckley
Read the kindle edition. PB: here
Cover okayed in Help Thread message #5: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 135
Tasks Completed: 8
It’s a Fact Tickets: 1
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Delicious Dee20.4 Golden Oldies- Robin P’s Task: Christmas Carols
Option 2 - Grey Bees - set in Ukraine
Points This Post: 20
Points Overall: 195
Its a Fact Tickets: 1
20.5 Bigger is Better- Elizabeth P's Task: Celebrating the SRC2: Read a book that is #3 or #6 in a series.
Prisoncorp (Orphancorp #3) by Marlee Jane Ward
Total this Post: 20
Season Total: 95
JEN B20.3 Review Raffle- Trishhartuk's Task: Wordplay
Option 3: Word maths
b) Read a book with a title of at least two words where number of words in the title (not subtitle) equals the number of letters in the first word.
The Locked Door by Freida McFadden
3 letters in THE, 3 words in title
TOTAL POINTS: 150
10.4 - Wonderful WetlandsCity of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
word in title, LAST, found in weTLAndS
Total this Post: 10
Season Total: 105
20.1 Most Improved -Kathy KS's Task: Family and HolidaysOption 3 - My first great grandchild was born this year, so this will be her first Christmas. She’s my first female descendant born since her grandmother was born over forty years ago!
To celebrate them, read a book first published in either 1981 or 2024.
I read The Grey Wolf which was published October 29, 2024.
points: 20
books read: 1
tasks completed: 1
pages read:421
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30.6 - XBM’s Task – A Partridge in a Pear Tree
Task: Two books from one option
Option A:
Book 1: Read a book where an author's first and last initials are found in PARTRIDGE.
The Social Graces. Renée Rosen
Book 2: Read a book where both a tree and a bird appear on the cover.
The Mother's Promise. Sally Hepworth
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 225 / 995
Tasks Completed 14/57
It's a Fact - 1
Amy FL10.2 - Crossing Borders
This Motherless Land - set in Nigeria and England
Points this post: 10
Total points: 90
Amy FL15.1 Groundhog Groundhog Groundhog
Book 1: Everyone Here Is Lying - LYING is in sprING will arrive earLY
Book 2: Truth Truth Lie - Truth is repeated consecutively in title
Points this post: 15
Total points: 105
Amy FL20.6 It's A Fact - Julia103's Task" Getting Older
Option 1: Lost Luggage - main character is 72 (last paragraph of description)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 125
Amy FL20.10 Group Reads
Fiction: Australian Crime - Darling Girls - my comment
Points this post: 20
Total points: 145
Amy FL25.4 JennRenee's Task: Cold Nights With Winter Reads
Genre: Mystery
Book 1: The Banker’s Wife - WIFE is in WIntEr...For
Book 2: Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens - author's initials AE in wintEr reAds
Points this post: 25
Total points: 170
Andy P.Task # 25.2 - Nick KY’s Task: Rivers
Option 2: Read a book with one of the 8 original River names as a word in the title, Wolf
The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny
Option 4. Read a book with either the words “The End” or “The Mouth” found consecutively in the title, subtitle, or series title.
At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories by Kij Johnson
Points this post: 25
Total points: 70
LoraTask: 10.7 - I Want To Believe
Book/Author: Haunted Ever After / Jan DeLuca
How it fits: MPG Paranormal
Points for this task: 10
Total points: 100
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: 1
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Option A - 2 book task
Book 1: Read a book with an ornament, garland, wreath, Christmas lights, Santa, or deer on the cover
/ christmas lights on coverBook 2: Read a book where the author's first and last initials (middle initial may be ignored) are found in MERRY AND BRIGHT.
Cruel Summer by Ed Brubaker / EB in phrase
Points this post: 15
Total point: 190
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Option 3: For this option, pick a very short book, i.e. a book with fewer than 180 pages.
Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood by Will Eisner / 169 pg PB; one graphic novel is allowed in this task
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).
Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine / I started this series in 2017, I last read #3 in 2018, and now I have read #4.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 215
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Option 1: read a book with a title word that begins with the letters RE
Reining in Murder: A Carson Stables Mystery, Book One by Leigh Hearon / REINING starts with RE
Option 3: Read a book by an author whose first and last initials can be found in MARISSA.
Arya Khanna's Bollywood Moment by Arushi Avachat / AA in phrase
Points this post: 30
Total points: 245
5.5 'Tis the Season to be FestiveTitle word from CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS: Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews
paperback edition Bright Lights, Big Christmas
The word is Lights.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 85
5.7 National Cocoa DayHot beverage on the cover: Lemon Curd Killer by Laura Childs
Points this post: 5
Total points: 90
20.9 Moderator's Pet -Jen B's Task: 90s NostalgiaOption 2 - Movies
Β. Since teens were the stars, read a book with the MPG Young Adult.
Kingdom of Ash
I claim 2 Big Book tickets for this 984 pages book.
Points: 20
BB Tickets: 2
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Books read: 1
20.1 Family & HolidaysOption 3: Long Island by Colm Tóibín
First published in 2024
Post Total: 20
Grand Total: 80
Delicious Dee20.8 Nickels & Dimes- Apple's Task: The Wonders of Home
Option 4 - Just Add Water: My Swimming Life - WATER can be made with the letters in CALIFONIA REDWOOD FOREST; claiming 1 its a fact ticket for non-fiction
Points This Post: 20
Points Overall: 215
Its a Fact Tickets: 2
ROBIN P10.4 A Gateway to the Past
Set prior to 1903
The Mistletoe Trap - has MPG Regency and first sentence of book says it is set in 1817
Points this post: 10
Total points: 220
BB:0 GO:0 IAF: 3
10.9 - Making the National InternationalTask: Title word from list
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny
Paperback: Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
The word is RIVER, taken from Columbia River Gorge.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 240 / 995
Tasks Completed: 18/57
Janice CA10.4 - Wonderful Wetlands
Book title has a four-letter word found in "wOrLd wetlaNds daY".
word: only
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood by Kit de Waal
+10
total: 10
tasks: 1
books: 1
Katrisa10.5 - A Gateway to the Past
Read a book set prior to 1903
I read Murder on Gramercy Park
Set in September 1896
reference: https://victoriathompson.com/gaslight...
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 180
Bookwrm526Task #5.3 Cupid is Coming
Read a book with MPG Romance. Stand Alone or Embedded. I read The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee.
Total points so far: 165
20.4 Golden Oldies- Robin P’s Task: Christmas Carols2. Read a book set at least 50% in Germany. France, England, Wales, Ukraine, or Italy.
Crooked House by Agatha Christie
100% England
Total this Post: 20
Season Total: 125
Task 25.1 - It's My Birthday500+ pages
option 2: BOOKS (and indeed GAMES) found in title+subtitle
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
BlacK jacObinS: tOussaint
416 pages
option 4: author initials AS in GALAPAGOS
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
496 pages
416+496 = 912 pages
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250 points
Jessica S5.6 Meanwhile, Back in the Southern Hemisphere
book set in the Southern Hemisphere AND first published in December or January.
Finders Keepers by N.R. Walker
Points this task: 5
Total points: 200
Jessica S10.4 - Wonderful Wetlands
book with a word of four or more letters in its title that can be made from WORLD WETLANDS DAY
The Cat Returns to Adderly by Sam Burns (ADDERLY)
Points this task: 10
Total points: 210
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Book A Read a book with an element from the Periodic Table in the title and/or subtitle. Exact matches only, no plurals or possessives.
element is arsenic
read Arsenic and Adobo
option Read a book with an MPG of Birds, Ecology, Nature, and/or Conservation.
read When You Find My Body: The Disappearance of
Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail
Nonfiction
Biography
True Crime
Audiobook
Adventure
Nature
Outdoors
Memoir
Travel
Adult
points this post 30
total points 470
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MAZZA1's Task: Gregorian Games
Option 1: Read a book with a variant of the number 12, 1 or 2 in the TITLE ONLY
It Takes Two to Tumble by Cat Sebastian
Option 4: Read a book that is # 12, 1 or 2 in a series
The Invention of Wings by Robin Knight
Points this task: 30
Total points: 170