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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2025
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Slideshell20.5 Bigger is Better: Kathy KS's Task - Light Up My World, Scarlett!
Option 2: Read a book with one of these standalone words in the title/subtitle or author’s name: scarlett, scarlet, red, crimson
A Game of Fate
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 26
Total Points: 310
BIG BOOK: 1
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell20.6 It's a Fact: Kristen IA's Task - Let’s Go to the Park!
Option 1: Read a book that was first published in one of these years: 2008, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025
Avalon Tower
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 27
Total Points: 330
*claiming one big book ticket - 522 pgs*
BIG BOOK: 2
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: Karen Michele's Task - I Wonder
Option 3: Read a book that has won the Hugo Award for science fiction
Nettle & Bone
Required: Award must be listed on the GR book page Hugo Award for Best Novel 2023
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 28
Total Points: 350
BIG BOOK: 2
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell20.8 Nickels and Dimes: MEGSCL's Task - 2025 Goals
Option 1: Read any book first published in March 2025 or later
Caught Up
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 29
Total Points: 370
BIG BOOK: 2
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell20.9 Moderator's Pet: Trishhartuk's Task - Crater Lake
Option 4: Read a book with the MPG of Fantasy, Gothic or Ghosts
The Endless War
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 30
Total Points: 390
BIG BOOK: 2
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell25.1 - Ash's Task: Boss Level
Option 1: Until Dawn
For this option pick a book off of one of these lists
Wendigo
Time Loops
Trapped or Stranded
Time Loops & Meet Cutes
Required: State the list and page:Time Loops pg 1
Option 3: Minecraft
For this option read a book with a 4 or more letter word in the title that can be made up of letters in "creepers have no respect"
The Twisted Throne
Required: State the word: THRONE
New Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 31
Total Points: 415
BIG BOOK: 2
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell25.2 - Robin P's Task: Enjoying Summer - Not!
Option 2 - Hot Weather Clothes
Read a book with a person wearing shorts or a swimsuit on the cover
The Love Haters
Required: Post the cover:
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
Skyshade
New Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 32
Total Points: 440
BIG BOOK: 2
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell25.5 - Fly's Task - Celebrating Summertime
Option 1 - June
Read a book that has a wedding dress, a wedding cake, Champagne glass(es) or wedding ring on the cover
The Rose Bargain
Required: Post the cover:
Option 3: August
Read a book whose main character is either a teacher or a student
Ruthless Fae
Required: If it isn't evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference: set at a school on almost everyone is a student or teacher
*claiming one big book ticket - 533 pages*
New Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 33
Total Points: 465
BIG BOOK: 3
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell30.1 JennRenee's Task: The Great Yellowstone
Option 2
Get hot and steamy and read a book with MPG Romance, may be standalone or embedded
First-Time Caller
Option 3:
Read a book with a cover featuring at least 5 different colors according to Tineye
The Wingman
Required: Post the cover:
35.6 %#f6b3c7Pink
13.8 %#bed3deGrey
13.5 %#b1c49cGrey
9.3 %#bd8376Pink
8.9 %#454734Brown
7.9 %#978b92Grey
5.2 %#5e536eViolet
4.7 %#945d92Violet
0.6 %#6a8ea5Blue
0.5 %#564b92Violet
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 34
Total Points: 495
BIG BOOK: 3
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell30.2 Katrisa's Task: Wrapped in Plastic
Option 2 - The Bookhouse Boys
Read a book with one or more conifer trees or a sword on the cover
Axe-identally Married
Required: Post the cover:
Option 3 - The Black Lodge and White Lodge
Read a book from the first 20 pages of this
Good Vs Evil
Pestilence
Required: state the page:11
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 35
Total Points: 525
BIG BOOK: 3
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: A Year of Travels
Option 3: Niagara Falls
Read a book with a single author’s first and last initial that can be found in NIAGARA FALLS
Swift and Saddled
Option 5: Vegas!!!
Read a book with all the letters of VEGAS in the series title
A Dish Best Served Hot
Required: state the series title: Vega Family Love Stories
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 36
Total Points: 555
BIG BOOK: 3
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell30.5 Delicious Dee 's Task: Classic Science-Fiction: HG Wells
Option 2
Read a book by a single author where ALL the authors initials can be found in H.G. Wells
Finale
Option 5
Read a book that is set at least 75% in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) or in New Jersey, USA
The Really Dead Wives of New Jersey
Required If the setting is not obvious from the Goodreads Main Page, provide a reference: Set in New Jersey
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 37
Total Points: 585
BIG BOOK: 3
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell30.6 Kmaried's Task - Catching Up On Series
Option A
Read the current last published book in a series of at least 3 books
Craving My Rival
Option B
Choose a book from my Series-SRCSummer shelf. Read that book or one in the same series
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping On a Dead Man
Required: State the original book picked if reading another in the series shelf: Read the same book as on the list
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 38
Total Points: 615
BIG BOOK: 3
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell30.7 Cat's Task: Books of Europe
Book 1
Read a book that is set (at least 70%) in one or more countries in Europe
Blood of Hercules
Required: If the setting is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference: Set in Italy and Greece
Book 2
Read a book that is written by an author born in a country in Europe, excluding UK
Deep End
Required: If the birthplace is not evident from the Goodreads author information, provide a reference: Ali Hazelwood was born in Italy
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 39
Total Points: 645
BIG BOOK: 3
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Slideshell30. 9 Nick KY’s Task: Uluru – National Parks of Australia
Option 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
A Touch of Ruin
Required: State the word: RUIN
Option 4
Read a book that takes place at least 50% in Australia or is by an author born in or currently living in Australia
Playing by Her Rules
Required: If the setting or the author birth place is not evident from Goodreads, provide a reference: set in Sydney Australia
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 40
Total Points: 675
BIG BOOK: 3
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Kai30.10 Amy FL’s task: Return of a Favorite
OPTION 3
Read a book written using a pseudonym.
The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_S...
OPTION 4
Read a book by an author who shares a first or last name with one of the recurring characters in the Prey series: Lucas Davenport, Jennifer Carey, Weather Karkinnen, Virgil Flowers, Del Capslock, Harrison Sloan, Letty Davenport, Rose Marie Roux, Marcy Sherrill, Elle Kruger
The Aeneid by Virgil
**Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket - Written around 20 BC**
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 21
Total Points: 405
BIG BOOK: 1
GOLDEN OLDIES: 4
IT'S A FACT: 1
Elizabeth PTask 20.4 - London Adventure
Option 5: Book with MPG romance
The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 185
Total Tasks: 13
GO: 0
BB: 1
IAF: 0
Total Books: 15
Elizabeth PTask 15.3 - Quantity or Size?
Option Two: One book that fits both options:
A: Set in Australia
B: 6+ words in title
The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
Set in Melbourne
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 200
Total Tasks: 14
GO: 0
BB: 1
IAF: 0
Total Books: 16
FLY Task #10.10 Radioactive, Radioactive
task: MPG Post-Apocalyptic
book: The Dark Winter
how it fits: MPG Post Apocalyptic
Points this post: 10
Total points: 600
Tasks completed: 34/56
BB: 10 / GO: 5 / IAF: 3
Deborah30.6 Kmaried's Task - Catching Up On Series
A) Get caught up in a series. Read the current last published book in a series of at least 3 books.
The Winter of the Witch The Winternight Trilogy #3
C) 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.
Crime and Publishing Nevermore Bookshop Mysteries #8
There are 9 published books in the series
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 290
Books Read: 21
Tasks Done: 15
30.3 Susan A's Task: Exploring MPGsMPG Adventure: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
mass market paperback edition State of Wonder 384 pages
MPG Medieval: St. Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters
mass market paperback edition St. Peter's Fair 217 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 310
SHEMAC 5.5 Summer Solstice
Read a book where the first letter of each title word can be found in the phrase "Summer Solstice".
Letters may only be used as often as they appear - T, S
The Suit
This task points: 5
Total season points: 510
trishhartuk5.1 Victory Day
Read a book that takes place in one of the States or countries that have a National Park honoring WII.
Tooth and Claw, Craig Johnson
Read the kindle edition. Top HB (no PB): here (208pg)
Using Denali National Park in Alaska as my park.
Setting stated as Alaska.
From the GR description: “Craig Johnson is back with a short novel set in the Alaska tundra where a young Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear face off with powerful enemies who will do anything to get what they want.”
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 225
Tasks Completed: 16
Lisa MD25.4 - Jessica's Task: Celebrating Summertime
Book 1B: Title word of 4 or more letters found in CONGAREE SWAMP
The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
Title Word: "Women" in cONgarEe sWaMp
Book 2A: Debut by a new to me author
Penitence by Kristin Koval
This is a new to me author and is her debut novel as mentioned in the GR book description.
🐬🦀🐟🦀🐬🦀🐟🦀🐬🦀🐟🦀🐬🦀🐟🦀🐬🦀🐟🦀
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 480/975
Total Books Read: 32
Total Tasks Completed: 24
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 7
Julia10320.8 Nickels and Dimes: MEGSCL's Task
Option 1: read any book first published in March 2025 or later
The Adventure of the Demonic Ox
(published July 2025)
This post: 20 points
Total points: 550
BB: 3
GO: 3
NF: 2
Tasks completed: 28
Books read: 41
August20.2 Rookie at the Top: Coffeegirl's Task - Favorite things about Books
Choose and option and read 1 book.
Required: state the option.
Option 2 - Celebrate
-Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title/subtitle spelled from the phrase BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS.
A Lady's Guide to London by Faye Delacour - LADY'S
Points this post: 20
Total points: 130
IAF: 2
BB: 1
August20.6 It's a Fact: Kristen IA's Task - Let’s Go to the Park!
Option 1: 2008, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.
-Read a book that was first published in one of these years.
Romancing His Convenient Viscountess by Maggie Weston (Published April 2025)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 150
IAF: 2
BB: 1
10.2 I Know What You Read Last SummerRead a book that was claimed in the Summer 2024 Challenge Completed Task Thread
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Post 329
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 305
Total BB: 1
Total IAF: 5
5.4; ...; 5.6; ...; 5.8; 5.9;
10.2; ...; 10.4; ...; ...; 10.7
15.6; 15.7; ...; 15.9
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; ...; 20.6
25.4; 25.5
Kai25.1 Ash's Task: Boss Level
OPTION 1
For this option pick a book off of one of these lists
Wendigo
Time Loops
Trapped or Stranded
On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle
Time Loops - Page 1
OPTION 4
Read a book where the page number consists of at least two of the numbers 0,1,3, or 5. Numbers may be used as many times as they appear.
Snap by Belinda Bauer
Page Count: 352
New Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 22
Total Points: 430
BIG BOOK: 1
GOLDEN OLDIES: 4
IT'S A FACT: 1
10.6 Theater CampRead a book first published either in July of any year or any month for the year 2022.
About Time by Jodi Taylor
First Published October 2022
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 315
Total BB: 1
Total IAF: 5
5.4; ...; 5.6; ...; 5.8; 5.9;
10.2; ...; 10.4; ...; 10.6; 10.7
15.6; 15.7; ...; 15.9
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; ...; 20.6
25.4; 25.5
5.1 Victory DayRead a book that takes place in one of the States or countries that have a National Park honoring WII.
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Acadia National park, Maine
Task Total: 5
Season Total: 320
Total BB: 1
Total IAF: 5
5.1; ...; ...; 5.4; ...; 5.6; ...; 5.8; 5.9;
10.2; ...; 10.4; ...; 10.6; 10.7
15.6; 15.7; ...; 15.9
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; ...; 20.6
25.4; 25.5
Slideshell25.4 - Bookworm526's task: Our National Parks
Book 1 - Option B
Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title (subtitles excluded) that can be made from the phrase CONGAREE SWAMP
A Game of Retribution
Required: State the word: GAME
Book 2 - Option B
Read a debut work by an author who is new to you
A Language of Dragons
Required: State that the author is new to you: It is her debut novel so she is definitely a new to me author
New Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 41
Total Points: 700
BIG BOOK: 3
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0
Kai20.4 Golden Oldies: Kai's Task - London Adventure
OPTION 5
Read a book with an MPG of Historical, Romance, or Historical Romance
My Friends by Hisham Matar
Historical MPG
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 23
Total Points: 450
BIG BOOK: 1
GOLDEN OLDIES: 4
IT'S A FACT: 1
Elizabeth PTask 5.5 - Summer Solstice
First letter of each word in title in SUMMER SOLSTICE
Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
SUmmer solstice
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 205
Total Tasks: 15
GO: 0
BB: 1
IAF: 0
Total Books: 17
KRISTA KY 50.1 - Lisa MD: The Summer My Boys Got Married
1A Read a book with a word of 3 or more letters made from the letters of “Pittsburgh Wedding Cookie Table” or “Smith Island Cake.”
One Golden Summer
Word: Golden
Phrase: Pittsburgh Wedding Cookie Table
This book also published in 2025 to meet that requirement of task
2B Read a book set at least 50% in one or combination of the places listed above. Colorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida, California, North Carolina, New Jersey, Montana, and Germany.
The Things We Leave Unfinished
State: Colorado
3B Read a book whose title contains a plural word.
The Inheritance Games
Points this task: 50
Total points: 280
Books read: 19
Task 30.5 Classic Science-Fiction: HG WellsOption 3 - H.G. Wells was born 21 September 1866 and died 13 August 1946. Read a book that was first published between those dates.
First published in 1901.
Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling (Paperback 352 pages)
** Kim is a Golden Oldie, published in 1901**
Option 5 - Read a book that is set at least 75% in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) or in New Jersey, USA.
Set entirely in Brighton, England.
Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron (Jane Austen Mysteries #10) (2010) by Stephanie Barron (Paperback 339 pages)
Total Pagecount: 352 + 339 = 691 > 501
55 + 30 = 85
Tasks Completed: 04
Points for this post: 30
Points thus far: 55 + 30 = 85
Books read: 06
Pages read: 1,678
Read but not claimed: 05
Goodreads Authors: 02
Golden Oldies: 01
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 01
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
10.1 Walking on SunshineRead a book whose title (subtitles are excluded) includes a word of 4 or letters made from the phrase "Walking On Sunshine"
King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby
The word is KING
Post Total: 10
Grand Total: 215
10.8 Summer Lovin'Read a book set in, first published or about the 1960's
The Beautiful People by Michelle Gable
This book is set in 1961.
Post Total: 10
Grand Total: 225
30.2 Wrapped in PlasticOption 3 - Read a book from the first 20 pages of this list
Good Vs Evil Required: state the page
Holly by Stephen King
This is on page 5 of the list.
Option 5:
"Through the darkness of future past,
The magician longs to see.
One chants out between two worlds.
Fire walk with me."
Read a book with a word of at least four letters from the poem in the title
City on Fire by Don Winslow
The word is FIRE
Post Total: 30
Grand Total: 255
LoraTask: 10.2 I Know What You Read Last Summer
Read a book that was claimed in the Summer 2024 Challenge Completed Task Thread.
Book/Author: The Time Machine / H.G. Wells
How it fits: claimed at message 1270, second book for two-book task.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Claiming 1 Golden Oldie for published in 1895.
Points for this task: 10
Total points: 515
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 3
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 1
Golden Oldies tickets total: 4
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 1
CHANDNI30.5 Delicious Dee 's Task: Classic Science-Fiction: HG Wells
Option 2 - Read a book by a single author where ALL the authors initials can be found in H.G. Wells.
Mania by Lionel Shriver
288 pages
Option 5 - Read a book that is set at least 75% in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) or in New Jersey, USA.
The Whistling by Rebecca Netley
Takes place on a Scottish island (First line of plot summary)
378 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 345
JEN B15.7 Bright and Beautiful
Read a book that is at least 50% blue OR 50% green OR 50% Red according to Tineye.
by Lisa Jewell76.9 % Blue according to Tineye
TOTAL POINTS: 345
EMurphy10.6 Theater Camp - First published either in July of any year or any month for the year 2022 Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
*Published July 7, 2020
This Task:
Points: 10
Books Read: 1
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 200
Books Read: 13
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 3
Tasks Completed: 10
10.5. I'll be There for YouRead a book from list
Killers of a Certain Age
Found on page 1 of the list
Points: 10
Total/challenge: 310
10.8 Summer Lovin'Read a book set in, first published or about the 1960's
Summer of '69
Points: 10
Total/challenge: 320
15.8 Shipwrecked or StrandedRead a 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
*Claiming It's a Fact ticket for Non-fiction
Points: 15
Total/challenge: 335
IAF ticket: 1/4
20.2 Favorite Thing about BooksOpt 3 - Read a book which has been made into a TV series, movie series or single movie.
Rocket Boys: A Memoir
In 1999, Rocket Boys was made into a Hollywood movie named October Sky (from GR)
*Claiming It's a Fact ticket for non-fiction
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 355
IAF: 1/5
20.3 Celebrating PrideOpt 4 Read a book set at least 50%in any of the following past, current, or future host countries of World Pride: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States.
Calico Joe
Set in United States
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 375
20.4 London AdventureOpt 5 Read a book with an MPG of Historical, Romance, or Historical Romance. MPGs must be stand-alone, not embedded.
The Chelsea Girls- Historical
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 395
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20.4 Golden Oldies: Kai's Task - London Adventure
Option 2: Read a book where the main character takes a trip to a country other than the one they live in
Problematic Summer Romance
Required: Please provide a reference if the Goodreads Main Page does not reference the trip: travel from the US to Italy for a wedding
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 25
Total Points: 290
BIG BOOK: 1
GOLDEN OLDIES: 0
IT'S A FACT: 0