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Ridiculously Random Reading Challenge: Michalina
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There's a world record for the most world record titles.
It belongs to Brooklyn, New York resident Ashrita Furman, who's held more than 700 Guinness World Records in his lifetime, ranging from heaviest shoes walked in (323 pounds) to most baseballs held in a baseball glove (26).
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π₯ 1. Read a book with at least 323 pages.
π₯ 2. Read a book with at least 26 chapters.
π₯ 3. Read a book with at least 700 ratings.
π₯ 4. Read a book of your choice.
COMPLETION POST - #50: Guinness World Records
Task: π₯ 1. Read a book with at least 323 pages
Book: The Housemaid Is Watching
Author: Freida McFaden
Pages: 402
Date read: 6/24
How it fits: This book has 402 pages
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Giant Pumpkin Kayaking is quite simply the sport of kayaking inside of a giant, hollowed-out pumpkin.
The most famous race takes place on Lake Pesaquid in Nova Scotia at the annual Windsor Pumpkin Regatta. The course is a half-mile long and competitors often decorate their pumpkins with paint and flags.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π 1. Read a book set at least partially in Canada.
π 2.Read a book with all the letters of KAYAK in the title. {2 As, 2 Ks}
π 3. Read a book with something painted or flags on the cover.
π 4. Read a book with the word PUMPKIN found in the text.
COMPLETION POST - #24 Giant Pumpkin Kayaking
Task: π 1. Read a book set at least partially in Canada
Book: Throttled
Author: Lauren Asher
Pages: 369
Date read: 6/28
How it fits: One of the F1 races takes place in Canada
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Apple Pie isn't actually American at all.
The next time you call something "as American as apple pie," you might want to consider the fact that neither apple pies nor apples originally came from America. Apples are in fact native to Asia, and the first recorded recipe for apple pie was actually written in England.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π₯§ 1. Read a book set in America, England, or Asia.
π₯§ 2. Read a book that includes a recipe.
π₯§ 3. Read a book with a clichΓ© in the text.
π₯§ 4. Read a book with an apple or other fruit on the cover.
COMPLETION POST - #8: Apple Pie
Task: π₯§ 1. Read a book set in America, England, or Asia
Book: Collided
Author: Lauren Asher
Pages: 440
Date read: 6/29
How it fits: The book takes place in Asia for a part of the book, since a few F1 races take place in Asian countries
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Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" on a bet.
Theodore Geisel's editor didn't believe the author could write a book in 50 words or less. The finished product contains 50 words on the dot.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π³ 1. Read a book where a character eats a meal.
π³ 2. Read a book with a 50 intact in the page count.
π³ 3. Read a book where a main/major character is a doctor.
π³ 4. Read a book where someone makes a bet of any kind.
COMPLETION POST - #68: Green Eggs and Ham
Task: π³ 1. Read a book where a character eats a meal
Book: Pod pokΕadem
Author: Sophie Hardcastle
Pages: 304
Date rea: 6/30
How it fits: Olive prepares and eat meals on the boat
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Popular at lumberjack competitions, Axe Throwing is a sport in which players throw an axe at a target, attempting to reach the bulls-eye.
On the target, the outside ring is worth 1 point, the second ring is worth 2 points, and so on with the bulls-eye worth 5 points. In a game, each player is allowed 5 throws with a maximum of 25 points possible.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
πͺ 1. Read a book with all the letters of AXE in the title.
πͺ 2. Read a book with a 25 intact in the page count or publication date.
πͺ 3. Read a book a round object, like a target, on the cover.
πͺ 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in LUMBERJACK.
COMPLETION POST - #3: Axe Throwing
Task: πͺ 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in LUMBERJACK
Book: Wrecked
Author: Lauren Asher
Pages: 584
Date read: 7/6
How it fits: The male MC's name is Jax
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The largest sand castle in the world measured 54 feet high.
It took 168 trucks over a week to deliver enough sand for this carefully sculpted masterpiece.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π 1. Read a book with sand visible on the cover.
π 2. Read a book with a 5 OR a 4 in the page count.
π 3. Read a book with a 1, 6, AND 8 in the publication date.
π 4. Read a book that took place over more than a week's time.
COMPLETION POST - #56: The Largest Sand Castle
Task: 2. Read a book with a 5 OR a 4 in the page count
Book: Redeemed
Author: Lauren Asher
Pages: 482
Date read: 7/17
How it fits: This book has 482 pages
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You can major in wine at Cornell University.
Technically it's a degree in "Viticulture and Enology" (a.k.a. the cultivation of grapes and the science of winemaking), but we're still sending in our applications.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π· 1. Read a book at least partially set on a university campus.
π· 2. Read a book where a character consumes wine.
π· 3. Read a book with some type of fruit or alcoholic beverage on the cover.
π· 4. Read a book where the author's first AND last initials are found in VITICULTURE ENOLOGY.
COMPLETION POST - #40: Wine Major
Task: π· 2. Read a book where a character consumes wine
Book: The Hate U Give
Author: Angie Thomas
Pages: 454
Date read: 7/18
How it fits: The teenagers are drinking wine at a party
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Coca-Cola consumers will pay more to drink less ounces.
Coca-Cola consumers prefer smaller packaging of their beverage and are willing to pay more per ounce. While soda consumption is declining in the U.S., Coca-Cola had a net revenue of $33 billion worldwide last year. Talk about vanity sizing!
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π₯€ 1. Read a book with a dashed word in the title.
π₯€ 2. Read a book where someone drinks a cola, soda, pop, whatever you call it where you're from.
π₯€ 3. Read a book with two 3s in the publication date.
π₯€ 4. Read a book you were willing to pay for.
COMPLETION POST - #32: Coca Cola
Task: π₯€ 2. Read a book where someone drinks a cola, soda, pop, whatever you call it where you're from
Book: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Author: Satoshi Yagisawa
Pages: 154
Date read: 7/19
How it fits: Main character drinks soda when she goes to a restaurant with a boy she has a crush on
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Extreme Ironing is considered a βdanger sportβ in which people take ironing boards to various, often remote, locations to iron clothes and take a picture.
Some of the locations have included cliff tops, underwater, in the middle of a motorway, and also while skiing and parachuting.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π§Ί 1. Read a book where the MC has a dangerous career/hobby.
π§Ί 2. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in EXTREME.
π§Ί 3. Read a book set at least partially in a remote location.
π§Ί 4. Read a book where a character irons or does other household chores.
COMPLETION POST - #21: Extreme Ironing
Task: π§Ί 4. Read a book where a character irons or does other household chores
Book: King of Wrath
Author: Ana Huang
Pages: 398
Date read: 7/23
How it fits: Dante has a housemaid, Greta, who does all the household chores for him but she is considered to be a part of his family as she has been working and taking care of him since he was a little kid
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The moon has its own time zones.
An astronomer even designed a special watch that relies on "lunations," or the amount of time it takes for the moon to revolve and rotate around the Earth.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π 1. Read a book with a moon, watch, or clock on the cover.
π 2. Read a book with the word REVOLVE or ROTATE found in the text.
π 3. Read a book where the MC's first name ENDS with a letter in EARTH.
π 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in LUNATIONS.
COMPLETION POST - #64: Moon Time Zones
Task: π 3. Read a book where the MC's first name ENDS with a letter in EARTH
Book: Skrucha
Author: Eliza Clark
Pages: 480
Date read: 7/23
How it fits: One of the MCs name is Violet
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A baby puffin is called a "puffling."
To feed its chick, a puffin parent will carry around 10 fish in its beak at one time, but the biggest recorded haul is a whopping 62 fish, according to Audubon Project Puffin.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π 1. Read a book with a bird on the cover.
π 2. Read a book where the MC is a parent.
π 3. Read a book with a 6 and a 2 in the page count.
π 4. Read a book with all the letters of PUFFIN found in the title/subtitle.
COMPLETION POST - #26: Baby Puffins
Task: π 2. Read a book where the MC is a parent
Book: Ruchome ΕwiΔto
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Pages: 280
Date read: 7/25
How it fits: Ernest Hemingway is the MC of this book and he had children
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Fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia.
Irrationally scared of clowns? You might have coulrophobia. Oh, and gephyrophobia is a fear of bridges.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
1οΈβ£3οΈβ£ 1. Read a book where someone has a great fear of something.
1οΈβ£3οΈβ£ 2. Read a book with a number, a clown, or a bridge on the cover.
1οΈβ£3οΈβ£ 3. Read a book with the number 13 intact in the page count or publication date.
1οΈβ£3οΈβ£ 4. Read a book where the first letter of each word in the title is found in TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA. {3-word minimum}
COMPLETION POST - #46: Triskaidekaphobia
Task: 1οΈβ£3οΈβ£ 4. Read a book where the first letter of each word in the title is found in TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA. {3-word minimum}
Book: The Paris Bookseller
Author: Kerri Maher
Pages: 336
Date read: 7/27
How it fits: TriskaidekaPhoBia
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Unsurprisingly, Chess Boxing involves both the classic game of chess and the popular sport of boxing.
The competitors alternate between 5 rounds of boxing and 6 rounds of chess for a total of 11 rounds, each lasting 3-minutes. The game was inspired by a French comic and invented by Dutch artist Lepe Rubingh.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π₯ 1. Read a book where a character plays chess or another board game.
π₯ 2. Read a book that has a French or a Dutch translation.
π₯ 3. Read a book with an MPG of HUMOR or COMEDY.
π₯ 4. Read a book with the word boxing {can also be box, boxes, boxed, etc.} found in the text.
COMPLETION POST - #15: Chess Boxing
Task: π₯ 2. Read a book that has a French or a Dutch translation
Book: King of Pride
Author: Ana Huang
Pages: 358
Date read: 7/30
How it fits: This book was translated into French
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The longest wedding veil was longer than 63 football fields.
If you thought Meghan Markle's wedding veil was long, get this: there's a woman in Cyprus who set the Guinness World Record for the longest wedding veil. How long was it, you ask? Nearly 23,000 feet, which is the same length as about 63.5 football fields.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π°π»ββοΈ 1. Read a book with something related to a bride on the cover.
π°π»ββοΈ 2. Read a book where someone gets married.
π°π»ββοΈ 3. Read a book that is long - more than 400 pages.
π°π»ββοΈ 4. Read a book with a 6 and a 3 in the total number of reviews.
COMPLETION POST - #5: Wedding Veil
Task: π°π»ββοΈ 2. Read a book where someone gets married
Book: Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Author: Coco Mellors
Pages: 384
Date read: 7/31
How it fits: Cleo and Frank get married at the beginning of the book
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Chocolate is (kinda) a fruit.
In more great chocolate news, the cocoa powder that goes into our fave best dark chocolate bars comes from the "beans" β or fruit of the cacao tree.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
β1. Read a book with a brown cover. {Your discretion.}
β2. Read a book with all the letters of CACAO found in the title.
β3. Read a book with the word BEANS found in the text.
β4. Read a book where a character gets great news.
COMPLETION POST - #59: A Fruit?
Task: β4. Read a book where a character gets great news
Book: Empress of All Seasons
Author: Emiko Jean
Pages: 384
Date read: 8/2
How it fits: The main characters received great news regarding her future
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If you drive south from Detroit, you'll hit Canada.
Head north from Windsor, Ontario, crossing the Detroit River, and you'll reach the good ol' US of A.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π¨π¦ 1. Read a book set in Michigan.
π¨π¦ 2. Read a book with a cityscape on the cover.
π¨π¦ 3. Read a book with a directional word in the title.
π¨π¦ 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in WINDSOR.
COMPLETION POST - #25: Detroit
Task: π¨π¦ 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in WINDSOR
Book: Kobieta w oknie
Author: A.J. Finn
Pages: 416
Date read: 8/4
How it fits: MC's first initial is A (her name is Anna)
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A $1 bill doesn't live as long as you'd think.
According to the Federal Reserve, each buck lasts about 6.6 years, and there's about $1.79 trillion of U.S. currency in circulation right now.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π΅ 1. Read a book with money on the cover.
π΅ 2. Read a book you got for no money.
π΅ 3. Read a book with a title that starts with a letter in MONEY.
π΅ 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in MONEY.
COMPLETION POST - #47: $1 Bill
Task: π΅ 3. Read a book with a title that starts with a letter in MONEY
Book: Earthlings
Author: Sayaka Murata
Pages: 224
Date read: 8/7
How it fits: Title starts with E
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The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
Yes, although it's a fabled creature, the national animal of Scotland is actually the mythical unicorn β chosen because of its association with dominance and chivalry as well as purity and innocence in Celtic mythology. BRB, moving to Scotland real quick.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π¦ 1. Read a book set in Scotland.
π¦ 2. Read a book with all the letters of UNICORN found in the title.
π¦ 3. Read a book tagged MYTHOLOGY any number of times.
π¦ 4. Read a book where the author's first initial is NOT found in CELTIC.
COMPLETION POST - #10: National Animal of Scotland
Task: π¦ 4. Read a book where the author's first initial is NOT found in CELTIC
Book: Till Summer Do Us Part
Author: Meghan Quinn
Pages: 432
Date read: 8/10
How it fits: Author's first name starts with M
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Neil Armstrong didn't say "That's one small step for man."
The astronaut insists he actually stated, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." "That's the only way the statement makes any sense," Armstrong told biographer James Hansen. And for the record, no real astronaut ever uttered "Houston, we have a problem." β Tom Hanks only said that in the movie Apollo 13.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π©βπ 1. Read a book with something small on the cover.
π©βπ 2. Read a book with double letters in the title.
π©βπ 3. Read a book where you can share a favorite quote.
π©βπ 4. Read a book author's first AND last initials are found in NEIL ARMSTRONG.
COMPLETION POST - #19: One Small Step
Task: π©βπ 3. Read a book where you can share a favorite quote
Book: Your Endgame
Author: Katarzyna Kucharczyk
Pages: 664
Date read: 8/16
How it fits: My favorite quote - "I wanted to remember as much details of this love - not to use them as song materials, but to help cope with the burning feeling inside my chest."
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The odds of getting a royal flush are exactly 1 in 649,740.
Poker fiends have a slightly better chance of laying down a straight flush: Try 72,192 to 1. Out of the 7,462 distinct five-card poker hands, you have a 42% chance of getting a single pair though.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π 1. Read a book where a character plays a hand of cards.
π 2. Read a book with a bathroom scene.
π 3. Read a book with the word ROYAL found in the text.
π 4. Read a book with more than 649,740 ratings.
COMPLETION POST - #23: Royal Flush
Task: π 4. Read a book with more than 649,740 ratings
Book: People We Meet on Vacation
Author: Emily Henry
Pages: 480
Date read: 8/17
How it fits: This book has over a million ratings
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We're all stars.
Okay, technically we're all made of stardust, but that's still pretty cool. Recent research found that humans and the galaxy share 97% of the same kind of atoms.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π 1. Read a book with a nighttime scene on the cover.
π 2. Read a book where the word STAR is found in the text.
π 3. Read a book with a 9 OR a 7 found in the page count.
π 4. Read a book with an MPG of NON-FICTION.
COMPLETION POST - #53: Stardust
Task: π 3. Read a book with a 9 OR a 7 found in the page count
Book: The Children's Bach
Author: Helen Garner
Pages: 176
Date read: 8/18
How it fits: Number 7 in the page count
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Like Arm Wrestling or Thumb Wrestling, Toe Wrestling involves two competitors who lock bare feet in an attempt to pin the other personβs foot to the ground for at least 3 seconds.
There tends to be 3 rounds played with the winner having the best 2 out of 3.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π£ 1. Read a book where a character does something you think is gross.
π£ 2. Read a book where toes/feet are visible on the cover.
π£ 3. Read a book you would rate between 2 and 3 stars.
π£ 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in TOE and ends with a letter in WRESTLING.
COMPLETION POST - #48: Toe Wrestling
Task: π£ 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in TOE and ends with a letter in WRESTLING
Book: Three Women
Author: Lisa Taddeo
Pages: 306
Date read: 8/21
How it fits: Title starts with T and ends with N
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About 700 grapes go into one bottle of wine.
That's approximately 2.6 pounds, if you're wondering how much "fruit" you get when you uncork your favorite red.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π 1. Read a book with less than 700 reviews on Goodreads.
π 2. Read a book with a red or purple cover. {Your discretion.}
π 3. Read a book with a 2 and a 6 in the publication date.
π 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in UNCORK.
COMPLETION POST - #44: 700 Grapes
Task: π 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in UNCORK
Book: King of Greed
Author: Ana Huang
Pages: 352
Date read: 8/22
How it fits: MC's first name is Alessandra
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Pumpkins, squash, and gourds are all technically the same species.
That's right, your zucchini and Jack o' lanterns are one and the same: Cucurbita pepo, a species that originated in Mexico more than 10,000 years ago. Farmers have since developed the many cultivars we know and use today.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π©π½βπΎ 1. Read a book with some type of vegetable on the cover.
π©π½βπΎ 2. Read a book with at least 10,000 ratings.
π©π½βπΎ 3. Read a book set in Mexico.
π©π½βπΎ 4. Read a book where the author's first AND last initials are found in CUCURBITA PEPO.
COMPLETION POST - #35: Pumpkins, Squash, and Gourds.. Oh My!
Task: π©π½βπΎ 2. Read a book with at least 10,000 ratings
Book: The City We Became
Author: N.K. Jemisin
Pages: 437
Date read: 8/24
How it fits: This book has over 76,000 ratings
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The Cooperβs Hill Cheese-Rolling & Wake is an annual event that takes place each spring near Gloucester, England and involves a 9 pound round of cheese, which is rolled from the top of a hill.
Competitors race after the cheese and the first person to reach the finish line at the bottom wins the cheese.
Complete ONE of the following tasks:
π§ 1. Read a book where a character eats cheese, or does something foolish.
π§ 2. Read a book set at least partially in England.
π§ 3. Read a book with all the letters of SPRING in the title.
π§ 4. Read a book with a 9 in the page count or publication date.
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Task: π₯ 4. Read a book with either of these words found in the text: BITE, DUNK, or TWIST
Book: Lis
Author: Dubravka Ugresic
Pages: 344
Date read: 6/23
How it fits: "I have a friend, she said taking a bite of her spaghetti." pg. 277