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SPRING CHALLENGE 2025
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CathyG25.1 Cats Task: Books of North America
Help Thread
Required: state the option.
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 North America, or is about one or more countries in North America (if Non-Fiction), but is NOT United States of America. Required: state the country(/ies), and provide supporting evidence if it's not obvious from the GR metadata or blurb. Canada
Black Gold by Vivian Arend
Book 2: Read a book that is written by an author born in a country in North America.
Required: provide a link to prove place of birth if it's not obvious from the GR metadata.
Canada
Copper Kingby Vivian Arend
Points this post 25
Total 25
CathyG30.1 - JennRenee's Task: Spring Up and Grow
Help Thread
This is a two book task.
Book 1
Read a book with at least 2 words in the title, each word beginning with a letter in SPRING. Letters can be used multiple times.
Roped In by Lorelei James
Book 2
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words, each word longer than its preceding word.
The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
MG - BL: 5.0 - AR Pts: 9.0
Points this post 30
Total 55
CathyG30.3 - Katrisa's Task: Nashfest 2024
Help Thread
This is a 2 book task. Choose 2 different tasks and read a book for each. No children’s (or related MPG) or graphic novels/comics allowed.
Required: Specify the options
Option 3 - Wyoming
Read a book set at least 50% in Wyoming. This list may be helpful but you do not need to use a book from this list. Books Set in Wyoming
Racked and Stacked by Lorelei James
Option 4 - The Venue
Read a book where the single author’s first and last initials can be found in STAR PLUNGE.
Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams
Points this post 30
Total 85
CathyG15.6 Finding Easter Goodies
Help Thread
Read a book with a Rabbit, Egg, or Chicken on the cover. The image must be part of the cover art for the book.
Left Fur Dead by J.M. Griffin
Required: Post the Cover.
Points this post 15
Total 100
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trishhartuk10.9 Three/Four/Five
Includes a claim for a Golden Oldie ticket.
Read a book that is number 3, 4 or 5 in a series.
The Moving Finger, Agatha Christie
Read the kindle edition. Top English MMPB: here (224pg).
Golden Oldie: First published in 1942
Well, this one has been generally more complicated than expected. It’s the one I mentioned in the “technical help” thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... For the MMPB, I used the top English one I could find, as it isn’t a task that is page-count specific.
I didn’t realise that it was also interesting from the point of view of the series number. If you search on the ASIN, the search says it's Miss Marple #4, but if you go into the book record itself and the series listing (https://www.goodreads.com/series/5179...), it says Miss Marple #3. I thought I'd claim it anyway, as both of those would meet the task criteria. Hope that's okay.
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie: 1 – The Moving Finger was first published in 1942
Total Points: 415
Tasks Completed: 27
It’s a Fact Tickets: 3
Golden Oldie Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 1
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15.2 South To North
This is a two book task
Book 1: Read a book set at least 50% in Mexico
Skull Duggery. Aaron Elkins
Book 2: Read a book set at least 50% in Canada
When Calls the Heart. Janette Oke
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 71
Total Points: 910
Tasks Completed: 54
Golden Oldies - 5
It's A Fact - 6
Big Books - 2
10.1 It's going to be long ...Read a book that is 500 pages or more: 561 pages
We Are Water by Wally Lamb
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 300
20.1 - Most Improved - Rockynook's Task: Be the MatchOption 2: For his donor
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.
NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM
Pnin
NatIoNal Program
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 320
20.6 - It's A Fact - Jen B's Task: Travels for DadOption 3: The Alps
Read a book with mountains on the cover.
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen ButlerTask Total: 20
Season Total: 340
25.4 - KmarieD's Task: Readerboard Names 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. For this option, letters can be repeated.
Karen Michele Karen micheLe
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Option 3:
Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title, subtitles excluded , that can be made from my Readerboard name, KMARIED.
Dark KmARieD
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Task Total: 25
Season Total: 365
30.7 - Amy FL's Task: Typing ChallengeOption 1: Two-book task
Book 1: Read a book with a word in the title (no subtitles) that can be made by using only the letters on the left side of the keyboard.
War: Q, w, E, r, T, a, S, D, F, G, Z, X, C, V, B
The Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh
Book 2: Read a book by a single author whose name (first or last) can be made using only the right hand on the keyboard.
Lulu : y, U, i, o, p, h, j, k, L, n, m
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
Task Total: 30
Season Total: 395
15.1 Let's Hike ItBook 1- A book with a word from trail name
Cottage by the Sea
Trail: Mountains-to-Sea Trail
Book 2 - book with all letters of TRAIL in the title
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 260
IAF: 1
KRISTA KY20.6 - It's A Fact - Jen B's Task: Travels for Dad
Option 2- read a book with a boat on the cover.
The Five-Star Weekend
Approved in the help thread
Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 280
IAF:1
Kathy KS30.7 - Amy FL's Task: Typing Challenge
**Claiming 1 (one) Big Book ticket** Pages: 513
Option 2: Read one book with a minimum of 500 pages that satisfies both criteria in option 1.
The Cruel Stars by John Birmingham
Book 1: Read a book with a word in the title (no subtitles) that can be made by using only the letters on the left side of the keyboard.
Word in title: STARS
Book 2: Read a book by a single author whose name (first or last) can be made using only the right hand on the keyboard.
Author name in title: JOHN
I listened to an audiobook; mmpb-513 p. (513 >500)
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 290
Tasks completed: 15/54
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
Big Book tickets total: 5
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: 4
Angela IL50.1 - Angela IL's Task: Task Complete!
Option 1: B. Choose an author of a book claimed on the Spring Challenge Completed Task Thread.
Enter the authors name into this website: https://www.literature-map.com/
Read one book each for 3 different authors listed. You can use the author entered in the map as long as it is a different book.
Author: Abby Jimenez/ Just for the Summer
Message #: 251 (pg 6)
Book 1: Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez- 4/24
PB Link: Say You'll Remember Me
Book 2: Hopeless by Elsie Silver- 4/28
Book 3: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry- 5/11
PB Link: Great Big Beautiful Life
Points this Task: 50
Total Points: 350
Books Read: 22
Tasks Completed: 13
It's A Fact: 3
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20.1 - Most Improved - Rockynook's Task: Be the Match
Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials are found in either the word MINECRAFT
The Unfinished by Cheryl Isaacs (mIneCraft)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 325
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20.3 - Review Raffle - Jayne's Task: Trails of Wales
Read a book that was first published between April and October of a year since 1971 (inclusive).
Black River Falls (Published July 5, 2016)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 345
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20.4 - Golden Oldies - Ritika's Task: Dopamine for Winter
For this task, read a book with a cover which shows someone wearing a hat/cap.
The ghost is wearing a hat! :D
Points this post: 20
Total points: 365
SHEMAC 10.6 Take a Hike
Read a book found on the first 25 pages of the Hiking Shelf.
Required: State the page - 15
Rough Terrain
(MMP Rough Terrain)
This task points: 10
Total season points: 795
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20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Lisa MD's Task: Take a Walk on the Wild Side
read a book from the 1st 25 pages of the "Mountains Books" shelf
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
Page 7
Points this post: 20
Total points: 385
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Molly20.3 - Review Raffle - Jayne's Task: Trails of Wales
I chose option 4 and read The Housemaid by Freida McFadden.
This book was first published in April 2022.
Points this task: 20
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Totals:
Points: 40
Task completed: 2
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 1
ROBIN P10.2 It's a Wonderful World - Let's Explore It
MPG Travel
Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French
**claiming 1 IAF pt, nonfiction
Points this post: 10
Total points: 800
BB:2 GO:14 IAF:5
10.3 These Boots are Made for WalkingRead a book with one or more people walking on the cover ...
by Alka JoshiPost Total: 10
Grand Total: 265
10.5 Good CompanyRead a book that is written by 2 or more authors. An anthology or collection of short stories written by different authors would work.
by Outside MagazineThis is an anthology
Post Total: 10
Grand Total: 275
Nick KY***REMOVE***
15.1 Let's Hike It!
Book 1. Title word shared with a trail name on the list: "California" from California Coastal Trail: I read My Dirty California by Jason Mosberg.
Book 2. TRAIL in title. I read Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
“siLver nITRAte."
Points This Post: -15
Total Points So Far: 875
Nick KY***REPLACE***
15.1 Let’s Hike It!
Book 1. Title word shared with a trail name on the list: "California" from California Coastal Trail: I read My Dirty California by Jason Mosberg.
Book 2. TRAIL in title. I read Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson.
“varIabLe sTAR”
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 890
Nick KY20.4 Ritika’s Dope Opt. 3. Takes place in Mexico. I read Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, set 100% in Mexico.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 910
Barring any problems, Challenge is complete.
Amy FL10.10 Celebrating around the world
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - MPG Religion
Points this post: 10
Total points: 825
Amy FL20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Lisa MD's Task: Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Option A: Mountains
The God of the Woods - page 9 of Mountains list
Points this post: 20
Total points: 860
Amy FL50.1 - Angela IL's Task: Task Complete!
Option 1B: CJ Box; page 3, message 139 - https://www.literature-map.com/c+j+box
Book 1: Look Both Ways by Linwood Barclay
Book 2: Vermilion Drift by William Kent Krueger
Book 3: Break Every Rule by Brian Freeman
Points this post: 50
Total points: 910
Thanks, mods, for another great challenge and all of your hard work!
FLY Task #15.2 South To North
Book 1: set at least 50% in Mexico
book: Like Water for Chocolate
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: set 100% in Mexico
Book 2: set at least 50% in Canada
book: A Fatal Grace
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: set 100% in Canada
Points this post: 15
Total points: 655
Tasks completed: 41/54
BB: 9 / GO: 1 / IAF: 0
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20.10 Group Reads
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show
Message 12 on discussion board
Points this post: 20
Total points: 405
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10.7 Saintly Names
Read a book where the authors first name is a derivative of David, Patrick or George
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
Points this post: 10
Total points: 415
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15.2 South To North
Book 1: Read a book set at least 50% in Mexico
Shock Point - "Rick commits Cassie to Peaceful Cove, a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico"
and
Book 2: Read a book set at least 50% in Canada
Murder at Haven's Rock - Setting Yukon Territory (Canada)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 430
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20.6 - It's A Fact - Jen B's Task: Travels for Dad
Read a book set at least 50% in New York City
City of Bones - Setting New York City, New York
Points this post: 20
Total points: 450
Bookwrm526Task #20.5 - Spring Growth (REPOSTING from post 1890 because I forgot to include the cover the first time)
Option 1: Read a book with a green leaf on the cover. This could be a single leaf or an entire forest, but if using tree leaves then this should be deciduous leaves only. I listened to Be My Ghost by Carol J. Perry, which has green leaves on the trees on either side of the walkway.
Total points so far: 715
Bookwrm526Task #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. I chose the word COUNTRY from the North Country Trail and read Indian Country Noir by Sarah Cortez (editor).
Book 2: Read a book that has all the letters of TRAIL in the title. I read Murder at the Piccadilly Playhouse by C.J. Archer (T in the, R in murder, AIL in piccadilly).
Total points so far: 730
Bookwrm526Task #20.4 - Dopamine for Winter
Option A: For this task, read a book with a word in the title (not subtitle) or series’ name which matches one of the character classes. Plurals and possessives are allowed. I chose the class PALADIN and read Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher.
Total points so far: 750
Bookwrm526Task #20.8 - The Capital Ring
Option 1: 1. Either read a book by an author who was born in London, or that is at least 50% set in London. I chose to read a book by an author born in London, and I read The Man in Black: Stories by Elly Griffiths.
The GR page does not say that she was born in London, but her website (https://ellygriffiths.co.uk/about-me/") says "I was born in London in 1963 and my family moved to Brighton when I was five."
Total points so far: 770
Task 25.4 - KmarieD's Task: Readerboard NamesOption 1:
Read a book where the single author's first and last initials can be found in YOUR Readerboard name and/or mine, KMARIED.
Book: Deadstream by Mar Romasco-Moore
Option 3: Read a book with a stand alone word of at least four letters in the title, subtitles excluded , that can be made from my Readerboard name, KMARIED.
Book: By the Time You Read This
word: READ
Points this task: 25
Total points: 550
FLY Task #15.6 Finding Easter Goodies
task: a Rabbit/bunny, Egg, or Chicken/chick/rooster on the cover
book: Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous
(my version is audio, no MMPB, first PB here)
how it fits: chicken on the cover:
Points this post: 15
Total points: 670
Tasks completed: 42/54
BB: 9 / GO: 1 / IAF: 0
EMurphy15.4 The Big Tree
Option 1: Book with 3 word title Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
Option 2: Published in March of any year that ends in a 3 Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd
*Published March 7, 2023
**It's a Fact Ticket
This Task:
Points: 15
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Total:
Points: 385
Books Read: 26
GO Ticket: 2
BB Ticket +500: 2
BB Ticket +750: 1
IAF Ticket: 1
Tasks Completed: 17
Andy P.Task # 15.8 March Means War
Read a book with MARS intact in the title.
The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne
Points this post: 15
Total points: 660
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20.10 Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Spring 2025 season. The requirement for this task: you must participate in the book's discussion thread below with at least one post about the contents of the book or your reaction to the book after you have read the book.
Gutenberg Classic - Three Men in a Boat
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog): New Illustrated Edition with 67 Original Drawings by A. Frederics, a Detailed Map of Tour, and a Photo of the Three Men
(PB Three Men in a Boat)
Discussion Thread
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
This task points: 20
Total season points: 785