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SPRING CHALLENGE 2025
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Deborah20.3 - Review Raffle - Jayne's Task: Trails of Wales
Option 4: Offa’s Dyke Path
Read a book that was first published between April and October of a year since 1971 (inclusive).
The Spellshop First published July 9, 2024
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 225
Books Read: 18
Tasks Done: 15
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5.3 Santa Fe Trail After All these Years
Read a book whose title or series title includes a word of 4 letters or more that matches one of the words on this map:
Santa is an eligible word.
The Santa Suit. Mary Kay Andrews
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 39
Total Points: 520
Tasks Completed: 32
Golden Oldies - 3
It's A Fact - 2
Big Books - 2
EMurphy30.3 Katrisa's Task: Nashfest 2024
Option 2: Book from first 20 pages of one of the Family Saga Lists Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
*Best Family Sagas List, page 1
Option 4: Single author's first and last initials can be found in STAR PLUNGE The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 140
Books Read: 9
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 5
trishhartuk15.3 East to West
Option 1: Two Book Task
Book 1: Page count or first published year has at least 2 numbers from 6800.
The Blanket Cats, Kiyoshi Shigematsu
Read the kindle edition. Top PB (Thai?): here (352pg). PB matching the Kindle: here (301pg)
First published 7 February 2008: three figures match 6800
Book 2: Number 1-15 in series of at least 3 published books.
Murder in Montparnasse (Phryne Fisher #12), Kerry Greenwood
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (262pg)
The series has 22 primary works: https://www.goodreads.com/series/4099...
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 235
Tasks Completed: 17
It’s a Fact Tickets: 2
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 1
ROBIN P25.6 Jen JA's Task: Triple Crowns
This task requires that you choose TWO books, one from option 1 and one from option 2. Additionally, each book must either have a three word title (ignore subtitles), a page count including a 3, publication year ending in 3, OR a series # ending in 3 (whole numbers only, no 1.3, etc.).
Required: State the options you chose.
Option 1: Thoroughbred Racing
A) The first winner of the Triple Crown was the horse named Sir Barton in 1919. The most recent Triple Crown winner was Justify in 2018. Read a book with the author’s first initial in “SIR BARTON” and the author’s last initial in “JUSTIFY.”
The Queen of Poisons - Robert Thorogood - 1st initial in Barton, 2nd initial in Justify
**Book #3 in Marlow Mystery Club series
Option 2: Hiking
A) The trailheads for the Appalachian Trail are located at Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine. Read a book with a 4+ letter word in the title/subtitle that can be made out of the letters in SPRINGER and KATAHDIN. Letters may be used only as often as they occur in these words. You can pick just one of the words or use a combination.
Required: State the word
Speak No Evil: A Midlands Crime Thriller - the word SPEAK - SPE in Springer, AK in Katahdin
Points this post: 25
Total points: 405
BB:2 GO:9 IAF:0
Delicious Dee5.4 Star Wars Day
Crow Mary - CROW can be found in the letters of the provided phrase
Points this Post: 5
Points Overall: 260
Its a fact: 3
Delicious Dee5.9 Memorial Day
- gravestones on coverPoints this Post: 5
Points Overall: 265
Its a fact: 3
Delicious Dee10.4 Strap on your backpack
James - Percival Everett - PE found in BACKPACKER
Points this Post: 10
Points Overall: 275
Its a fact: 3
Delicious Dee10.6 Take a Hike
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail - found on pg1 of provided list; 1 its a fact ticket for non-fiction
Points this Post: 10
Points Overall: 285
Its a fact: 4
Delicious Dee10.8 Pi Day
Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet - 279pgs which can be found consecutively in Pi 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375; claiming 1 its a fact for non-fiction
Points this Post: 10
Points Overall: 295
Its a fact: 5
Delicious Dee10.9 Three/Four/Five
Sinister Graves - #3 in the Cash Blackbear series
Points this Post: 10
Points Overall: 305
Its a fact: 5
Nick KY25.6 JenA’s Triple Crowns
Opt. 1.C. Horse on Cover. I read Doubtful Canon by Johnny D. Boggs.
Opt. 2.B. The Continental Divide and Pacific Crest Trails are both located in the western United States. Read a book set at least 50% in one or more of the states that these trails pass through: California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico,, etc.
Set 50%+ in New Mexico, I read The Ghostway by Tony Hillerman. 50%+ of the novel takes place in and around the Navajo sub-station where the police officers Leaphorn and Chee work, Shiprock, NM. Though venturing into Arizona and Los Angeles, most of the events take place in and around Shiprock. https://ehillerman.unm.edu/3091#sthas...
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 595
Erica H.Unclaiming task 5.10 World Book Day
Read a book of your choice that meets the SRC guidelines.
The Last Bookshop in London
Points: -5
Total points: 155
BB: 0
GO: 1
NF: 1
REPOSTING TO CORRECT PRIOR POST 940:Erica H.
30.5 - TessaVanessa’s Task: Compound Words
Compound word is deadline, made up of dead and line
Book 1:
Read a book with the first part of the compound word in the title/subtitle. Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
Book 2:
Read a book with the second part of the compound word found intact in the author’s name. The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin
Word line is in author's first name
Points: 30
Total points: 185
BB: 0
GO: 1
NF: 1
Kristen IA10.2 It's a Wonderful World - let's explore it!
Read a book with MPG Travel
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko
*****I claim 1 Big Book ticket - 512 pages*****
*****I claim 1 It's A Fact ticket*****
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 210/910
Tasks Completed: 14/54
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 5
Amy B20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Masoodah's Task: Mother's Day
Read one book from the three options:
Required: State the option.
Option 1: Read a book with an author whose first and last initials appear in MOTHERING.
My Friends by Hisham Matar
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 20 Points
Kristen IA15.9 April is Love
Read a book where all the letters of APHRODITE can be found in in any combination of the title/subtitle/authors name.
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson
*****I claim 1 It's A Fact ticket*****
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 225/910
Tasks Completed: 15/54
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 6
Erica H.5.10 World Book Day
Read a book of your choice that meets the SRC guidelines.
The Book of Night Women
Points: 185
Total points: 190
BB: 0
GO: 1
NF: 1
Kristen IA20.4 - Golden Oldies - Ritika's Task: Dopamine for Winter
Required: State the option
B. KNITTING: For this task, read a book with a cover which shows someone wearing a hat/cap. Any hat/cap of any era works. The hat should be on a person's head, not held by them or by itself.
Swift and Saddled by Lyla Sage
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 245/910
Tasks Completed: 16/54
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 6
Kristen IA30.6 - Delicious Dee's Task: In Death by J.D. Robb
For this task, you will pick one option and read a book A and book B from that option.
Your page count MUST exceed 500 pages (so 501) and at least one of the authors MUST BE NEW-TO-YOU.
Required: State which author is new-to-you
Option 3 – Titles and Series Numbering
For this option, you may pick any book in the series that is a whole number entry - with the exception of 33.
Book A: Read a book that shares the first word with your chosen edition. Words must match exactly.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler - New-to-me Author - 288 pages - matches #29 Kindred in Death
Book B: Read a book in a series, where the series number entry can be found in your chosen In Death book.
Required: state which series title and number you used
The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose - #2 in series (#29 In Death series book used) - 293 pages
288 + 293 = 581 total pages
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 275/910
Tasks Completed: 17/54
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 6
Task 20.1 - Rockynook's Task: Be the MatchOption 2:
Read a book with a word of four or more letters in its title that can be made from the letters in BE THE MATCH or NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM. Letters may be used only as often as they appear.
Required: State the word and the phrase you made it from.
MART = naTional MARrow donor program
Crying in H Mart (2021) by Michelle Zauner (Hardback 243 pages) [Biography/921]
** Crying in H Mart is an It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction) Book**
115 + 20 = 135
Tasks Completed: 08
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 115 + 20 = 135
Books read: 10
Pages read: 2,925
Read but not claimed: 01
Goodreads Authors: 09
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 02
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Nick KY25.3 XBM’s So Many Names. I opt to do Option 2 twice with different authors. For Option 2, the author has four names (initials count as names).
Book 1. I read Birthday Party by C.H.B. Kitchin.
Book 2. I read The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel (approved in task description as a 4 name author).
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 620
Readerboard Name: List_Addict30.4:Susan A’s Task - Consecutive Numbers
Option 1: Two consecutive books from the same series
Book 1: Storm Front (The Dresden Files #1) by Jim Butcher
Book 2:Fool Moon (The Dresden Files #2) by Jim Butcher
Total this challenge: 30
Katrisa30.5 - TessaVanessa’s Task: Compound Words
My compound word is EYEBROW EYE and BROW
Book 1:
Read a book with the first part of the compound word in the title/subtitle.
I read The Eye of the Heron
EYE intact in title
Book 2:
Read a book with the second part of the compound word found intact in the author’s name.
I read The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
BROW in BROWn
Points this Post: 30
Points Total: 860
JenJ IA25.6 - JenJ IA's task - Triple Crowns
This task requires that you choose TWO books, one from option 1 and one from option 2. Additionally, each book must either have a three word title (ignore subtitles), a page count including a 3, publication year ending in 3, OR a series # ending in 3 (whole numbers only, no 1.3, etc.).
Required: State the options you chose.
Option 1: Thoroughbred Racing
A) Read a book with the author’s first initial in “SIR BARTON” and the author’s last initial in “JUSTIFY.”
Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
Page Number: 368
Option 2: Hiking
C) Read a book with a mountain or mountain range on the cover.
Required: Post the cover
Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb
Three Word Title
Page Number: 336
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 235/910
Tasks Completed: 13/54
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 6
JenJ IA30.4 - Susan A's Task: Consecutive Numbers
Option 3 (Complete 1 Book A and 1 Book B)
Book A: Read a book with 2 consecutive digits in the page count.
A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost - 312 pages
*****I claim 1 It's A Fact ticket*****
Book B: Read a book with two consecutive digits in the year of the first published edition.
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell - first published 2023
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 265/910
Tasks Completed: 14/54
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 7
Bookwrm526Task #10.2 It's a Wonderful World - let's explore it!
Read a book with MPG Travel. I read Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere by André Aciman.
Total points so far: 335
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.10 Celebrating around the world
Read a book with MPG Religion or where one of the festivals named (Ramadan, Lent, Easter, Passover, Holi, Vaisakhi, Beltane, May Day) is central to the storyline
33 Days to Eucharistic Glory
MPG Religion is listed
Claiming 1 It's a fact ticket.
Total Points: 90
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 6
Total books: 10
Total tasks: 10
15.4 The Big ThreeBook 1: Read a book with a three word title
The Thirteen Problems
Claiming 1 Golden Oldie. Published in 1932
Book 2: Read a book that is first published in March of any year that ends in a 3.
Ephemera
Published: March, 2023
Claiming 1 It's a Face Ticket
Points for this task: 15
Total points : 305
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 1
Golden Oldies tickets total: 11
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 1
It's a Fact tickets total: 1
Task 25.2 - The NATO Alphabetoption 2: ROGER author name
The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny
option 3: set in New York
A Rage in Harlem
set in the Harlem area of New York City
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665 points
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25.5 Jessica S’s Task: Signs of the Zodiac - Pisces, Aries and Taurus
This is a two book task. For this task, choose one zodiac sign, and complete both tasks for that sign. Your total page count should be at least 500 pages.
Required: State the option you chose
Option 3: Dependable Taurus (April 21st - 20th May)
Book A: Read a book that was published between April 21st and May 20th of 2024 or 2025. (First published April 23, 2024)
Funny Story. Emily Henry
400 pages
Book B:Read a book that is MPG Food. (Discussed at length, approved message #21 by moderator in help thread).
Cooking at Home With Bridget & Julia: The TV Hosts of America's Test Kitchen Share Their Favorite Recipes for Feeding Family and Friends. Bridget Lancaster
320 pages
***Nonfiction - Claiming 1 IAF ticket****
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 41
Total Points: 545
Tasks Completed: 33
Golden Oldies - 3
It's A Fact - 3
Big Books - 2
Kai20.9 Moderators' Pet - Lois' Task: On the Trail of West Coast Writers
Read a book by an author who was born in or lives/lived in California, Oregon, or Washington.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Born in Oregon
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 14
Total Points: 205
BIG BOOK: 2
GOLDEN OLDIES: 3
IT'S A FACT: 1
FLY Task #15.1 Let's Hike It!
+GO ticket
Book 1: title that shares a word with one of the trails on the list
book: With the Fire on High
(my version is audio, no MMPB, first PB here)
how it fits: "high" in Appalachian High Route
Book 2: all the letters of TRAIL in the title
book: A Study in Scarlet
how it fits: TRAIL in (I)n sc(ARL)e(T)
other:
**Claiming GO ticket for A Study in Scarlet First published December 27, 1887
Points this post: 15
Total points: 370
Tasks completed: 22/54
BB: 7 / GO: 0 + 1 = 1 / IAF: 0
15.2 South To NorthBook 1: Read a book set at least 50% in Mexico
Prayers for the Stolen
Book 2: Read a book set at least 50% in Canada
Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood
***Claiming an It's a Fact ticket for Non-fiction***
New Points: 15
Total Points: 125
IaF: 1
Andy P.Task # 15.9 April is Love
Read a book where all the letters of APHRODITE can be found in in any combination of the title
The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis
APH in Happy
R in Keeper
O in OF
DI in ending
TE in The
Points this post: 15
Total points: 380
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15.1 Let's Hike It!
Book 1: Read a book with a title (subtitles are excluded) that shares a word from one of the names of the trails on the list.
Appalachian High Route
High Tea and Misdemeanors. Laura Childs
Book 2: Read a book that has all the letters of TRAIL in the title.
GodPretty in the Tobacco Field. Kim Michele Richardson
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 43
Total Points: 560
Tasks Completed: 34
Golden Oldies - 3
It's A Fact - 2
Big Books - 2
Andy P.Task # 25.5 Jessica S’s Task: Signs of the Zodiac - Pisces, Aries and Taurus
Option 2: Energized Aries (March 21st - 20th April)
Book A: Read a book that was published between March 21st and April 20th of 2024 or 2025.
Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie by Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
Published 4/1/25
Book B: Read a book with MPG Memoir will work as long as the author is the subject of the book
Boat Baby: A Memoir by Vicky Nguyen Author is subject of memoir
Points this post: 25
Total points:405
b>Andy P.Repost of Post # 1070 Task # 25.1 Cats Task: Books of North America
Book 1: Read a book that is set (at least 70%) in one or more countries in North America, or is about one or more countries in North America (if Non-Fiction),
People of the Deer by Farley Mowat
"From the Blurb on the back cover"UIT of northern Canada numbered 7000 souls; by 1946 when Twenty-five-year-old Farley Mowat began a two year stay in the Arctic, their population had dwindled to only 40. Living among them he observed for the first time a sight that would inspire the rest of his life;
Book 2.And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat Author born in Canada and lived his life there now deceased.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 405
Bookwrm526Task #10.6 Take a Hike
Read a book found on the first 25 pages of the Hiking Shelf. I read Something Wild & Wonderful by Anita Kelly, from page 2 of the list.
Total points so far: 345
Task 5.3 Santa Fe Trail After All these YearsRead a book whose title or series title includes a word of 4 letters or more that matches one of the words on this map:
Book: City of Night Birds
Word: City
Points this task: 5
Total points: 285
5.3 Santa Fe Trail After All these YearsBook title includes a word that matches a word on the map https://www.researchgate.net/figure/M...
Santa Fe Rules by Stuart Woods
mass market paperback edition Santa Fe Rules
The word is Santa.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 445
30.4 - Susan A's Task: Consecutive NumbersOption 3
Book A: Read a book with 2 consecutive digits in the page count.
Ink by Sabrina Vourvoulias
Paperback edition has 230 pages (23)
Book B: Read a book with two consecutive digits in the year of the first published edition.
La fille de papier by Guillaume Musso
First published March 31, 2010 (01)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 220
trishhartuk15.1 Let's Hike It!
Book 1: Title shares a word from one of the names of the trails on the list.
Dead North, Sue Henry (355pg)
Matches North in North Country Trail
Book 2: All the letters of TRAIL in the title
The Stranger in the Library, Eva Gates
Read the kindle edition. Top PB with Page Count: here (320pg)
TRAIL: The stRAnger In Library
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 250
Tasks Completed: 18
It’s a Fact Tickets: 2
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 1
Kathy KS25.4 - KmarieD's Task: Readerboard Names
Choose two options and read one book for each.
Option 1: Read a book where the single author's first and last initials can be found in YOUR Readerboard name and/or mine, KMARIED.
Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
RA=kmARied
Option 2: Read a book with at least three words in the title where each word starts with a letter in YOUR Readerboard name and/or mine, KMARIED. For this option, letters can be repeated.
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
AAA=kAthy KS/kmAried
I listened to an audiobook; pb-308 p. (no mmpb)
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Points for this task: 25
Total points : 205
Tasks completed: 11/54
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 3
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: 3
Joanne MI5-8 International Women's day
Read a book by a single female author
An Impossible Impostor by Deanna Raybourn
Points this task 5
Season Total 140
2 BB, 2 IAF
Nick KY20.8 Trish Hart UK’s Capital Ring
Opt. 4. Read a book with a word of four or more letters, intact in the title or subtitle, that is in the name of one of the stages. I read . I read Beneath Devil's Bridge by Loreth Anne White, title word “Bridge” from Ring Marker Section 6: Wimbledon Park to Richmond Bridge.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 640
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15.10 May For Growth
Read the most recent published book ( as of March 1, 2025) in a series of at last 3 published books.
Cold as Hell Haven's Rock #3
First published February 18, 2025
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 205
Books Read: 17
Tasks Done: 14