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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2025
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Bookwrm526Task #20.5 - Light Up My World, Scarlett!
Option 1 - Read a book that contains red on the cover, according to Tineye. It doesn’t matter how much, just some. I read Friday I'm in Love by Camryn Garrett (3.6% red according to TinEye).
Total points so far: 35
Katrisa10.1 Walking On Sunshine
Read a book whose title (subtitles are excluded) includes a word of 4 or letters made from the phrase "Walking On Sunshine"
I read The Walk
WALK in WALKing
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 40
Katrisa20.8 Nickels and Dimes: MEGSCL's Task
Opt 2 - Read a book that has been longlisted, shortlisted, or won any of these prizes in any year.
Stella Prize
Women's Prize for Fiction
Miles Franklin
Booker Prize
I read Prophet Song which won the Booker Prize in 2023
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 60
5.4 World EnvironmentBook whose author's first and last initials can be found in "World Environment Day"
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
Post Total: 5
Grand Tota:l 5
15.5 Land of DragonsSingle author with all initials found in Komodo OR Dragon OR Lizard
Jewelweed by David Rhodes
the letters DR are in DRAGON
Post Total: 15
Grand Total: 20
Deborah10.5 I’ll Be There For You
Celebrate by reading a book off of this list.
Friendship Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
The Women Located on page 6, currently 7th from the bottom
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 10
Books Read: 1
Tasks Done: 1
Coffeegirl20.4 - London Adventure
Opt 4 - Read a book with all of the letters KEW in the author's name.
Book: All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
Name: chris WhitaKEr
Points this task: 20
Total points: 20
SHEMAC 25.3 - Shemac's task: Celebrating the end of WW2
This is a two book task. Choose two different options and read one book for each. The combined page count must be 500 or more pages. (174 + 411)
Required: state the options - 2 and 4
Option 2 - Read a book that has MPG World War II
A Hospital Summer: The heartbreaking story of a World War II nurse
(PB A Hospital Summer)
Option 4 - Read a book that has any part set during World War II that has been made into a feature film or TV series. Verify the movie/series is listed here https://www.imdb.com/?ref_=nv_home by entering in the title you chose.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
(MMP Le Cercle littéraire des amateurs d'épluchures de patates)
Required: provide IMBD link to film/series
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289403/...
This task points: 25
Total season points: 65
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20.10 Group Reads Discussion - The Adventures of Sally
Participate in the book's discussion thread - Message 2
The Adventures of Sally. P.G. Wodehouse
First published in 1922
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 30 /1000
Tasks Completed 3/57
Ana10.6 Theater Camp
Romancing Rem'eb This book was published in July.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 20
JEN B20.5 Bigger is Better: Kathy KS's Task - Light Up My World, Scarlett!
Option 1 - Read a book that contains red on the cover, according to Tineye. It doesn’t matter how much, just some.
by Frieda McFadden20.7% Red according to Tineye
TOTAL POINTS: 20
JEN B20.8 Nickels and Dimes: MEGSCL's Task - 2025 Goals
Option 1- Read more new releases and ARCs. For this task read any book first published in March 2025 or later.
The Love Haters by Katherine Center
Published May 20, 2025
TOTAL POINTS: 40
Ana15.5 Land of Dragons
Fire in His Blood The authors initials can be found in Dragon.
Points this Post: 15
Total Point: 35
10.4 Future's So Bright Read a book with a person wearing sunglasses on the cover.
by Clare Bowditch**I'd like an It's A Fact ticket for Your Own Kind of Girl (nonfiction)**
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 10
IAF This post: 1
Total IAF: 1
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10.7 Camp RockRead a book where the MC is a performance artist or performing arts is central to the story.
Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew
**I'd like an It's A Fact ticket for Born with Teeth (nonfiction)**
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 20
IAF This post: 1
Total IAF: 2
10.4; ...; ...; 10.7
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15.10 I'm Not Scared
Read a book with MPG Horror
Horrorstör. Grady Hendrix
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 45 /1000
Tasks Completed 4/57
Erica H.15.9 Let's Go Camping
Read a book with a camper, tent, or RV on the cover.
Required: Post the cover.
Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West
***Claiming 1 NF ticket for this book***
Points: 15
Total points: 45
BB: 1
GO: 0
NF: 1
Katrisa5.7 Summer Vacations
Read a book with at least one adult and two or more children on the book cover
I read Unraveling Polygamy: My Path Out
Approved in help thread here help thread Comment 17
Points this Post: 5
Points Total: 65
Katrisa10.2 I Know What You Read Last Summer
Read a book that was claimed in the Summer 2024 Challenge
I read Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime
Claimed in message #9
Points this Post 10
Points Total: 75
Katrisa15.6 Animals, Animals, Animals!
Read a book with one of these words in the title/subtitle. Animal, Wildebeest, Zebra, Gazelle, Hyena, Lion, or Cheetah
I read The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
LION in title
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 90
LoraTask: 25.1 - Ash's Task: Boss Level, using options 3 and 4
Book 1:
Book/Author: Crocodile Tears / Mercedes Rosende
How it fits: word TEARS found in phrase
Book 2:
Book/Author: When Red is Black / Qiu Xiaolong
How it fits: has 320 pages, using the 3 and 0
Points for this task: 25
Total points: 25
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: 0
JUKKA25.2 Robin P's Task: Enjoying Summer - Not!
Option 2: Book with a person wearing shorts or swimsuit on the cover.
Repairing Play: A Black Phenomenology by Aaron Trammell. This is nonfiction, so claiming It's a Fact.
Option 3: Book whose author's first and last initials are blood types.
Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard has AB.
Total Points: 25/1000
Total Books Read: 2
Tasks Completed: 1/57
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 1
Deborah10.2 I Know What You Read Last Summer
Read a book that was claimed in the Summer 2024 Challenge Completed Task Thread
Required: State the Message # for each book.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Guncle Abroad post #674 page 14
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 20
Books Read: 2
Tasks Done: 2
MEGSCL10.4 Future's So Bright
Sunglasses on cover
TOTAL: 15 points
MEGSCL5.4 World Environment
Read a book whose author's first and last initials can be found in "World Environment Day"
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
**non fiction it’s a fact ticket**
TOTAL: 20 points, 1 IAF ticket
JUKKA5.4 World Environment
Book whose author's first and last initials are in WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY.
Monstress, Volume 9: The Possessed by Marjorie M. Liu
Total Points: 30/1000
Total Books Read: 3
Tasks Completed: 2/57
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 1
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Option 1- read any book first published in March 2025 or later.
READ One in Four
First published May 13, 2025
points this post 20
total points 170
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One book must be a debut book.
Option 2- read a book with MPG Romance, may be standalone or embedded
read Definitely Better Now Debut book
Fiction
Romance
Contemporary
Audiobook
and
Option 3
Read a book with a cover featuring at least 5 different colors according to Tineye.
read Shady Hollow - LINE 59 on not really for kids doc.
61.8 %#526c83Blue
17.0 %#9fa394Grey
9.6 %#b7b176Brown
4.2 %#8db5beBlue
2.6 %#cd8396Pink
points this post 30
total points 200
Nick KY5.3 Women’s Rights. Nonfiction w MPG of “Feminism”: I read Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 30
Nick KY5.4 World Environment Day. Author’s initials in that target phrase. I read After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima.
Y in daY
M in environMent
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 35
Nick KY10.8 Summer Lovin’. Book 1st published in the 1960s. I read The Price by Arthur Miller, 1st pub’d 1968.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 45
Nick KY20.5 Kathy KS’s Scarlett. Opt. 4. MPG Thriller. I read Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 65
SHEMAC 30.1 JennRenee's Task: The Great Yellowstone
This is a two book task. Choose two options and read 1 book for each.
Required state the options: 1 and 2
Required: state which book is a debut book: Mating the Omega, first published 7 April 2016
Option 1: Water Water and More Water
Read a book with a title/subtitle that contains one of these words. Plurals/Possessives accepted, no other variations
waterfall, lake, river, stream, pond, wetlands
River's Edge
(PB River's Edge)
Option 2: Read a book with MPG Romance, may be standalone or embedded
Mating the Omega
(PB Mating the Omega}
This task points: 30
Total season points: 95
Kai20.10 Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Summer 2025 season.
Adventures of Sally by P.G. Wodehouse
Discussion Link
**Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket**
First Published 1922
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 3
Total Points: 40
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 1
IT'S A FACT: 0
trishhartuk15.4 Beauty in Words
Option 1: Two Book Task
Book 1: Read a book whose titlecontains a 4 or more letter word from one of the poems on the web page.
Tea with the BLACK Dragon, R.A. MacAvoy
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB: here (166pg)
BLACK is in Remember by Joy Harjo: “Remember the earth whose skin you are: red earth, BLACK earth, yellow earth, white earth brown earth, we are earth.”
Book 2: Author that shares either a name or initials with one of the poets on this website.
The Tainted Cup, ROBERT Jackson Bennett
Read the kindle edition. Top PB (no MMPB): here (432pg)
ROBERT matches Robert Frost
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 2
20.9 Moderator's Pet: Trishhartuk's Task - Crater LakeOption 3- If taking it easy, and driving round the caldera enjoying the view is more your thing, you can follow the Rim Drive, with its thirteen designated viewpoints. It’s a stunning trip. However, because of its altitude (6,500-7,900ft), and average snowfall of 41ft a year, it is only open from May to October. Read a book first published between May and October (inclusive) of any year from 1996-onwards.
I read Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again which was published May 20, 2025. Please give me one ********ITs a Fact ****** ticket
Points: 20
Books read: 1
Tasks completed: 1
It's a fact: 1
pages read: 348
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15.8 Shipwrecked and Stranded
Read a book where a shipwreck or someone who stranded in the ocean or on an island is essential to the story.
From Below - They are stranded in the ocean, underwater.
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 35
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10.6 Theater Camp
Read a book first published either in July of any year or any month for the year 2022.
Such a Quiet Place - Published July 12th, 2021
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 45
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5.5 Summer Solstice
Read a book where the first letter of each title word can be found in the phrase "Summer Solstice".
Such Sharp Teeth - SST - Summer solSTice
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 50
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.
The word I used is NEST
Dark Nest
New Points: 5
Total Points: 5
Jessica S15.7 Bright and Beautiful
book that is at least 50% blue OR 50% green OR 50% Red according to Tineye
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam SelvaduraiPoints this post: 15
Total points: 15
Jessica S5.5 Summer Solstice
book where the first letter of each word in the title from the phrase "Summer Solstice"
Under the Madagascar Moon by Rae Marks
Points this post: 5
Total points: 20
Jessica S20.4 Golden Oldies: Kai's Task - London Adventure
Option 5: book with an MPG of Historical, Romance, or Historical Romance
Band Sinister by K.J. Charles
Points this post: 20
Total points: 40
Jessica S5.4 World Environment
book whose author's first and last initials can be found in "World Environment Day"
I've Been Careless with a Delicate Thing by Marina Vivancos
Points this post: 5
Total points: 45
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5.2 Civil War
Read a book with MPG War, Civil War, or Military Fiction.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - War MPG
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 55
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10.8 Summer Lovin'
Read a book set in, first published or about the 1960's
Daisy Jones & The Six
"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go."
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 65
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Option 2: One Book Task
Read a book set at least 75% in Australia and with a title of 6 words or more.
read The House of Now and Then
points this post 15
total points 215
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Read a book with MPG Post-Apocalyptic
read Edge of DefiancePost Apocalyptic
Dystopia
Fiction
Thriller
Science Fiction
Audiobook
Apocalyptic
points this post 10
total points 225
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Option 1- Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in MOUNT MAZAMA. Letters may be used as often as they appear.
read Have You Seen This Girl by Nita Tyndall
points this post 20
total points 245
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30.7 Cat's Task: books of Europe
Option 2: One book over 500 pages set in Europe & written by author born in Europe
Author Nino Haratischwili was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia per GR
**Claiming 2 BB points, total pages 944
Points this post: 30
Total points: 65
BB:2 GO:0 IAF:0