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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2025
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15.7 Bright and BeautifulRead a book that is at least 50% blue OR 50% green OR 50% Red according to Tineye.
by Fiona McIntosh52.9 %#033248Blue
15.2 %#a8cf3eGreen
11.5 %#d3c2c2Grey
6.4 %#86a1adGrey
5.0 %#54a1b2Blue
3.7 %#427688Blue
2.8 %#9fc858Green
2.0 %#ebf6f6White
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 245
Total BB: 1
Total IAF: 5
5.6; ...; 5.8; 5.9;
10.4; ...; ...; 10.7
15.6; 15.7; ...; 15.9
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; ...; ...; 20.6
25.5
30.6; ...; ...; ...; 30.10
25.5 - Fly's Task - Celebrating SummertimeJune: Option 1 -Read a book where a wedding or a wedding anniversary is essential to the story.
The Cornish Wedding Murder (The Nosey Parker Mysteries #1) by Fiona Leitch
August: Option 2 - Read a book by an author whose initials (first and last) are in one of the following words: BEER or SMORES or WAFFLE.
In Too Deep (Anglesey #2) by Simon McCleave
author's initials, SM, found in SMores
Task total: 25
Season total: 230
JUKKA30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: A Year of Travels
Option 2: Book with a word in title made from BIG CITY VIBE.
City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The word is CITY. The top paperback clocks in at 501 pages, so counting one Big Book.
Option 3: Book whose author's initials are in NIAGARA FALLS.
Batgirl, Volume 3: Death of the Family by Gail Simone.
Total Points: 100/1000
Total Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 6/57
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 1
JUKKA15.6 Animals, Animals, Animals!
Book with Animal, Wildebeest, Zebra, Gazelle, Hyena, Lion, or Cheetah in the title.
Animal Man, Volume 1: The Hunt by Jeff Lemire.
Total Points: 115/1000
Total Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 7/57
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 1
30. 9 Nick KY’s Task: Uluru – National Parks of Australia.Opt. 1. Read a book with at least 3 U's in the title/subtitle
The Undesirables: Inside Nauru by Mark Isaacs
3 U's found in Undesirables: inside naUrU
Opt. 4. Read a book by an author born in or currently living in Australia.
Edge of Time (Lifespan of Starlight #3) by Thalia Kalkipsakis
author born & lives in Australia
Task total: 30
Season total: 260
Nick KY10.5 I’ll Be There From Friendship Fiction list, I read In the Time of Our History by Susanne Pari. p. 9 -- https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 410
Nick KY20.3 Kelly L’s Celebrating Pride
Opt. 2. Read a book with a title or subtitle that contains a 4+ letter word made from the phrase: STONEWALL UPRISING
I read Gluck and the Opera: a Study in Musical History by Ernest Newman. Title word “OPERA” letters in “stOnEwAll uPRising.”
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 430
Ana10.6 Theater Camp
Read a book first published either in July of any year or any month for the year 2022.
Romancing Rem'eb . This book was published in July.
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 20
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30. 9 Nick KY’s Task: Uluru – National Parks of Australia.
This is a two book task. Choose two different options and read one book for each option.
REQUIRED:State the Options.
Opt. 2. Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title/subtitle/author’s name from the phrase ULURU KATA TJUTA NICK KY. Letters may be used only as often as they appear in the target phrase.
Required: State the word RAIN
Texas Rain. Jodi Thomas
Opt. 4. Read a book that takes place at least 50% in Australia or is by an author born in or currently living in Australia.
Required: If the setting or the author birth place is not evident from Goodreads, provide a reference. (set in Sydney, New South Wales (Australia) and author lives in Sydney, Australia
What Alice Forgot. Liane Moriarty
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 155 /1000
Tasks Completed 10/57
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5.9 Sand Time!
Read a book with a stand alone word of at least four letters in the title (subtitles excluded), that can be made from the phrase GREAT SAND DUNES. DEAR
Required: State the word.
Not Tonight Dear, I Feel Fat: How to Stop Worrying About Your Body and Have Great Sex. Michael Alvear
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 160 /1000
Tasks Completed 11/57
Ana30.6 Kmaried's Task - Catching Up On Series
Option A: Get caught up in a series. Read the current last published book in a series of at least 3 books.
Corvak's Challenge This is the 4th book in the series and it was just published June 2025. It is the last book published in the Ice planet clones series.
Option C: Make progress on a series you have already started. Read a book that is #3 or above but not the last published book in the series.
Fire in His Spirit. This is book 5 of 10 in the FireBlood Dragon Series. So it is not the last or the first 3.
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 50
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10.7 Camp Rock
Read a book where the MC is an active performance artist or performing arts is central to the story. (Approved in Help message #16)
Grin and Beard It. Penny Reid
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 170 /1000
Tasks Completed 12/57
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5.7 Summer Vacations
Family vacations often include National Parks. Read a book with at least one adult and two or more children on the book cover. Required: Post the cover
When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine. Monica Wood
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 175 /1000
Tasks Completed 13/57
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5.8 Name Game
Read a book with an author who shares a first name initial with any letter in your Readerboard name.
(Thank you guys for not making this a near impossible task for me!)
Appalachian Song. Michelle Shocklee
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 180 /1000
Tasks Completed 14/57
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10.10 Radioactive, Radioactive
Read a book with MPG Post-Apocalyptic
The Last Tribe. Brad Manuel
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 190 /1000
Tasks Completed 15/57
Delicious Dee5.2 Civil War
Girl in Disguise - MPG Civil War approved in THT, msg 21
Points this Task: 5
Points Overall: 155
Its a Fact Tickets: 2
Delicious Dee5.4 World Environment
How to Read a Book - Monica Wood - authors initials, MW, found in World Environment Day
Points this Task: 5
Points Overall: 160
Its a Fact Tickets: 2
Delicious Dee5.6 Summer Song
And the Lake Will Take Them - work: THEM - found in the line: Them Summer days
Points this Task: 5
Points Overall: 165
Its a Fact Tickets: 2
JUKKA15.5 Land of Dragons
Book whose author's initials are in KOMODO, DRAGON, or LIZARD.
The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag. The initials are in KOMODO.
Total Points: 130/1000
Total Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 8/57
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 1
Kathy KSREPOSTED later, for book cover.
Eligible Children’s books (and related MPGs)... may be used.
Choose one option and read one book for that option. Required: State the option.
Option 1 - Read a book that contains red on the cover, according to Tineye. Required: Post the cover.
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
AR-- IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8.0
Tineye includes:
1.3 %#d91149Red
0.9 %#9a1d3fRed
I read a large print version; mmpb-185 p.
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 190
Tasks completed: 8/57
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: 2
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.3 500 Reads of Summer
Read a popular summer book from the first 25 pages of this list.
The Outsiders
The book is on page 16.
TOTALS
Points: 60
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 3
Total books: 7
Total tasks: 6
JUKKA15.8 Shipwrecked and Stranded
Book where shipwreck or being stranded on an ocean or island is central to the story.
Shipwreck by Warren Ellis.
Total Points: 145/1000
Total Books Read: 11
Tasks Completed: 9/57
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 1
ROBIN P30.9 Nick KY's task: Uluru National Parks of Australia
Option 1: At least 3 U's in title/subtitle - The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver - listened to audio, linked pb
Option 4: Set 50% in Australia or author born in/lives in Australia - Scrublands - set 100% in Australia
Points this post: 30
Total points: 380
BB:3 GO:0 IAF:4
LoraTask: 25.4 - Bookworm526's task: Our National Parks; for book 1, option B; for book 2, option A
Book 1: Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title that can be made from the phrase CONGAREE SWAMP.
Book/Author: Page Fright / Elizabeth Penney
How it fits: using title word PAGE
Book 2: read a debut work by an author who is new to you.
Book/Author: Three Bags Full / Leonie Swann
How it fits: debut work by author who is new to me
Points for this task: 25
Total points: 355
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 3
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 1
Deborah20.4 Golden Oldies: Kai's Task - London Adventure
Option 4- FRIENDS
Read a book with all of the letters KEW in the author's name.
Bewitched and Betrothed by Juliet Blackwell
blac KWE ll
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 180
Books Read: 14
Tasks Done: 10
Task 5.8 - Name Gameauthor first name initial T found in my Reader Board name, CAT
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
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310 points
Masoodah25.2- Robin P's Task: Enjoying Summer - Not!
This is a two book task, choose two different options and read one book for each option.
Required: state the options
Option 2 - Hot Weather Clothes
Read a book with a person wearing shorts or a swimsuit on the cover.
Required: Post the cover.
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Option 3 - Mosquitos!
Read a book whose author has first and last initials made up of these letters. That is, the author initials are AA, AB, AO, BA, BB, BO, OA, OB, or OO.
Author initials are made up of : BB
First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 60 / 975
Total Books Read: 4 / 74
Total Tasks Completed: 3 / 56
BB Total:
GO:
IAF:
EMurphy25.1 Ash's Task: Boss Level
Option 3: 4 or more letter word in the title that can be made up of the letters in CREEPERS HAVE NO RESPECT You Can’t Be Serious by Kal Penn
*Word is CAN'T
**It's a Fact Ticket
Option 4: Page number consists of at least 2 of the numbers 0, 1, 3, or 5 They're Watching You by Chelsea Ichaso
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 1
Total:
Points: 75
Books Read: 5
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 3
Tasks Completed: 4
Mai5.6 Summer Song
Read a book with a word of 4 or more letters lyrics: WHEN
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 55
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 4
NF Tickets: 0
Jessica S5.8 Name Game
Book with an author who shares a first name initial with any letter in your Readerboard name.
The Hunt by J.M. Dabney
Points this task: 5
Total Points: 335
Jessica S20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: Karen Michele's Task - I Wonder
Option 2: A) Read a book from this Coming of Age list
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 355
Jessica S15.8 Shipwrecked and Stranded
Book where a shipwreck or someone who stranded in the ocean or on an island is essential to the story.
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 370
20.4 Golden Oldies: Kai's Task - London AdventureOption 5- JANE AUSTEN
Read a book with an MPG of Historical, Romance, or Historical Romance.
Obsession meurtrière
MPG Romance
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 275
Readerboard Name: Kathy P5.1 Victory Day
Read a book that takes place in one of the states or countries that have a National Park honoring WII.
The Customer Is Always Wrong
The book is set in Oakland California and the park is Redwood which is in California.
TOTALS
Points: 65
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 3
Total books: 8
Total tasks: 7
5.7 Summer VacationsAt least one adult and two or more children on the cover: The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne
paperback edition The Friday Afternoon Club
Points this post: 5
Total points: 105
JUKKA5.2 Civil War
Book with MPG War, Civil War, or Military Fiction.
Strange Adventures by Tom King has War.
Total Points: 150/1000
Total Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 10/57
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 1
30.7 Cat's Task: Books of EuropeOption 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 Europe
Black Wolf (Antonia Scott #2) by Juan Gómez-Jurado
100% set & author born in Spain
Book 2: Read a book that is written by an author born in a country in Europe, excluding UK.
After She's Gone by Camilla Grebe
author born in Sweden
Task total: 30
Season total: 290
JUKKA5.9 Sand Time!
Book with a word in title that can be made of GREAT SAND DUNES.
Dune: The Official Movie Graphic Novel by Lilah Sturges. The word, not that it is not obvious, is DUNE.
Total Points: 155/1000
Total Books Read: 13
Tasks Completed: 11/57
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 1
ROBIN P30.1 TessaVanessa's Task: A Year of Travels
Option 2: 4+ltr word found in BIG CITY VIBE
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris - word is CITY
**Claiming 1 IAF point for nonfiction
Option 5: Vegas!
Letters of VEGAS found in series name
The Good Knight - Gareth & Gwen Medieval Mysteries - VE in mediEVal, GA in GAreth, S in mySteries
Points this post: 30
Total points: 410
BB:3 GO:0 IAF:5
JUKKA10.6 Theater Camp
Book first published in the year 2022 or the July of any year.
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King is July 2022, coincidentally.
Total Points: 165/1000
Total Books Read: 14
Tasks Completed: 12/57
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 1
25.3 - Shemac's task: Celebrating the end of WW2Option 2, MPG World War II: A Peculiar Combination by Ashley Weaver
paperback edition A Peculiar Combination: An Electra McDonnell Novel 320 pages
Option 3, published between 22 September 1939 and 23 June 1958: The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie, first published 1 July 1942
mass market paperback edition The Moving Finger 224 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 130
Task 10.7 - Camp RockAgnes is an opera singer (i.e. meets the requirement of "performance artist"), and opera is a main focus of the book
Maskerade
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320 points
15.10 I'm Not ScaredRead a book with MPG Horror- Stand alone or embedded
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
Horror is the 2nd genre
Claiming BB - 535 pages
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 400
Total Tasks Completed: 18
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 1
30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: A Year of TravelsOption 1: Lakeside Cabin
Read a book that has snow on the cover.
by Rebecca ZanettiI see snow on the sides of the road and in the fields behind
Option 3: Niagara Falls
Read a book with a single author’s first and last initial that can be found in NIAGArA FALLs.
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 430
Total Tasks Completed: 19
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact: 1
Task 30.6 - Catching Up On Seriesoption 1: latest in series
Stone and Sky
Rivers of London series #10
option 3: #6 in series of #14
Mrs Pollifax On China Station
Mrs Pollifax series
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350 points
trishhartuk5.5 Summer Solstice
Read a book where the first letter of each word in the title is from the phrase "Summer Solstice".
Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger (391pg)
Summer soLstice
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 160
Tasks Completed: 12
Kai30.6 Kmaried's Task - Catching Up On Series
OPTION A
Read the current last book in a series of at least 3 books.
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
OPTION B
Choose a book from my Series-SRCSummer shelf. Read that book or one in the same series.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Original book from list = Good Girl, Bad Blood
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 14
Total Points: 215
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 1
IT'S A FACT: 0
Rockynook15.7 - Bright and Beautiful
Read a book that is at least 50% blue OR 50% green OR 50% Red according to Tineye.
by Mary Lawson35.7 % #3a6746 Green
24.0 % #24412f Green
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 180
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Task: 30.9 Nick KY’s Task: Uluru – National Parks of Australia, using options 2 and 4
Book 1: Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title/subtitle/author’s name from the phrase ULURU KATA TJUTA NICK KY.
Book/Author: Wild Fae Primrose: Court of Midsummer Mayhem Book 1.5 / Tara Grayce
How it fits: using author's first name TARA, all letters are in phrase
Book 2: Read a book that takes place at least 50% in Australia or is by an author born in or currently living in Australia.
Book/Author: Island of Secrets and Sacrifice / Deborah Grace White
How it fits: author was born in Australia, according to GR author page
Points for this task: 30
Total points: 330
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 3
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 2
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 1