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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2025
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KRISTA KY10.3 500 Reads of Summer
Read a popular summer book from the first 25 pages of this list.
Summer Books List
Yours Truly, found on page 2
Points this task: 10
Total points: 310
Books read: 21
Angela IL20.1 - Most Improved – Erica H’s Task: Organized Procrastinator
Option 2: Read a book with a word of 5 or more letters in the title spelled from PROJECT FINISH RESISTANCE.
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel-7/12
Word: Infinite
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 20
Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1
Angela IL20.3 Review Raffle: Kelly L's Task - Celebrating Pride
Option 2: Read a book with a title or subtitle that contains a 4+ letter word made from one of two phrases: STONEWALL UPRISING or PRIDE PARADE.
The Suite Spot by Trish Doller-7/10
Word: Suite
Phrase: Stonewall Uprising
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 40
Books Read: 2
Tasks Completed: 2
ROBIN P10.9 Fly Me to the Moon
MPG Space
All Systems Red
Points this post: 10
Total points: 570
BB:3 GO:1 IAF:5
ROBIN P20.10 Group Reads
The Adventures of Sally
My comments are in Msg 10 of the discussion thread
**Claiming 1 GO point, pub. 1922
Points this post: 20
Total points: 590
BB:3 GO:2 IAF:5
Janice CA20.2 - Favorite things about Books
option 2:
Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title/subtitle spelled from the phrase "bIrThDay celebratIOns".
word: idiot
The Wilderness Idiot: Lessons from an Accidental Adventurer by Ted Alvarez
+20
total: 25
tasks: 2
books: 2
Mai30.6 Kmaried's Task - Catching Up On Series
Option A: Read the current last book in a series of at least 3 books.
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Option C: Read a book that is #3 but not the last book in the series.
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 250
Tasks Completed: 15
Books Read: 19
NF Tickets: 3
10.7 Camp RockRead a book where the MC is a performance artist or performing arts is central to the story.
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
the protagonist works in "a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production" as per book description
Task total: 10
Season total: 595
Julia10350.1 - Lisa MD: The Summer My Boys Got Married
Book 1 Option A: Read a book with a word of 3 or more letters made from the letters of “Pittsburgh Wedding Cookie Table” or “Smith Island Cake.”
Nine Ladies: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
(LADIES: LA in Table, DIE in Wedding, S in Pittsburgh)
Book 2 Option A: Read a book whose cover shows the night sky with visible stars.
(approved in task help thread post #7)
This was published in 2025.
Book 3 Option B: read a book whose title contains a plural word.
Rational Creatures
(Creatures is plural)
This post: 50 points
Total points: 630
BB: 3
GO: 3
NF: 2
Tasks completed: 30
Books read: 46
Readerboard Name: Kathy P5.7 Summer Vacations
Read a book with at least one adult and two or more children on the book cover.
Becoming Grandma: The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting
Claiming 1 It's a Fact Ticket
TOTALS
Points: 105
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 7
Total books: 13
Total tasks: 12
Readerboard Name: Kathy P10.2 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.
Crying in H Mart
Message number 38
Claiming 1 It's a Fact Ticket
TOTALS
Points: 115
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 8
Total books: 14
Total tasks: 13
30. 9 Nick KY’s Task: Uluru – National Parks of AustraliaOption 2, author name from ULURU KATA TJUTA NICK KY: The Trespasser by Tana French
paperback edition The Trespasser
The word is Tana.
Option 4, author born in Australia: The Mother's Promise by Sally Hepworth
Points this post: 30
Total points: 360
Task 50.1 - The Summer My Boys Got Marriedone book must be pub 2025; 750+ pages
option 1A: WITH in title made from PITTSBURGH WEDDING; pub March 2025
Kills Well with Others
368 pages
option 2B: set in Florida
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
482 pages
option 3A: author initials MF in MOTHER OF
Murder in the Pacific: Ifira Point by Matt Francis
260 pages
368+482+260 = 1100 pages
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630 points
Task 30.2 - Wrapped in Plasticoption 2: sword on cover (held in hand on RHS)
The Sword of Kaigen
option 5: FIRE in title & poem
Things We Lost in the Fire
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660 points
JEN B10.4 Future's So Bright
National Sunglasses Day is observed annually on June 27th
Read a book with a person wearing sunglasses on the cover.
by Taylor Jenkins ReidTOTAL POINTS: 355
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.3 Shemac's task: Celebrating the end of WW2
Option 1: Read a book that is set (at least 50%) in any combination of Japan and/or of the territories in Asia that Japan invaded between 1st September 1939 and 15th August 1945.
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future by Maria Ressa
Set in the Phillipines.
320 pages
Option 2: Read a book that has MPG World War II
Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce
281 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 800/975
Task completed: 48/56
TessaVanessaChallenge 30.3 Susan A's Task: Exploring MPGs.
Choose 2 of the MPGs listed and read 1 book for each.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
MPG=Adventure
207 pages
The Girls in the Basement by Steena Holmes
MPG=Survival
326 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 830/975
Task completed: 49/56
Nick KY10.2 I Know What You Read From Summer 2024 SRC read list, I read Not a River by Selva Almada, p. 39. (One of the first books read in the challenge, June 2024.)
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 745
Nick KY15.1 More or Less
Book 1. More. With 1,862,611 ratings, I read The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, the most popular book on my TBR.
Book 2. Less. Lowest # ratings on TBR--With 1 rating so far, I read Irish plays and playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 760
Nick KY20.1 Erica H’s Task: Organized Procrastinator.
Opt. 2: Read a book with a word of 5 or more letters in the title spelled from PROJECT FINISH RESISTANCE.
I read Fresh Start by Joel Osteen. FRESH in the target phrase:
F in Finish
RES in RESistance
H in finisH
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 780
Repost to correct error from post 1320Delicious Dee
30.8 MAZZA1's Task: Gregorian Games
Option 1 - Seven Exes - seven, eight or nine in title
Option 3 - Detective Aunty - Uzma Jalaluddin - Authors initials, UJ, found in June
Points this Task: 30
Points Overall: 675 (original total) or 755 (revised based on reposting)
Its a Fact Tickets: 6
Bookwrm526Task #10.7 Camp Rock
Read a book where the MC is an active performance artist or performing arts is central to the story. I read You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria. Both MCs are actors and the filming of the show they are on is central to the plot.
Total points so far: 415
Angela IL30.10 Amy FL’s task: Return of a Favorite
Option 1: Read a book with one of these words from the series in the title: Golden
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune-6/16
PB link: One Golden Summer
Option 3: Read a book written using a pseudonym. The pseudonym must be a single author.
What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella-6/29
PB link: Comment tu te sens ?
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_...
Madeleine Sophie Wickham, known by her pen name Sophie Kinsella
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 70
Books Read: 4
Tasks Completed: 3
Bookwrm526Task #15.4 Beauty in Words
Option 2: One Book Task, Read a book whose title (subtitles are excluded) contains a 4 or more letter word from one of the poems on the web page AND with an author that shares either a name or initials with one of the poets on this website. I read They Can't Take Your Name by Robert Justice.
The word "YOUR" is found in the poem Remember by Joy Harjo, and the author shares a first name with Robert Frost.
Total points so far: 430
Kai10.7 Camp Rock
Read a book where the MC is a performance artist or performing arts is central to the story.
Death on the Aisle by Frances Lockridge
**Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket - published 1942**
New Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 25
Total Points: 480
BIG BOOK: 1
GOLDEN OLDIES: 5
IT'S A FACT: 1
Masoodah5.10 Picnic Time
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules
Ready or Not by Cara Bastone
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 205 / 975
Total Books Read: 14 / 74
Total Tasks Completed: 10 / 56
BB Total: =1
GO:
IAF:
trishhartuk25.4 Bookworm526's task: Our National Parks
Book 1 - Option A. Read a book set at least 50% in Alaska.
Fishing for Trouble (Alaskan Diner Mystery #2), Elizabeth Logan
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB: here (304pg)
Set in Elkview, Alaska.
Alaska is in the metadata on the main book page.
Book 2 - Option A . Read a debut work by an author who is new to you.
The Scapegracers, H.A. Clarke
Read the kindle edition. Top PB: here (400pg)
This author is new to me, and this is their debut book, published in 2020.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
The author also writes under August Clarke, but the only novel under that name was published after Scapegracers. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 250
Tasks Completed: 17
Joanne MI10.6 Theater Camp
Read a book first published either in July of any year or any month for the year 2022.
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
First published, April 2022.
Claiming 1 IAF
Points this task 10
IAF this task 1
Season Total 200
IAF 3
BB 4
EMurphy25.4 Bookworm526's Task: Our National Parks
Option 1a: Set in Alaska The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Option 2b: Set in a location on the list OR a cruise ship Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard
This Task:
Points: 25
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 225
Books Read: 15
GO Ticket: 1
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 3
Tasks Completed: 11
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.3 500 Reads of Summer
Read a popular summer book from the first 25 pages of this list.
Summer Books List
It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Found on page 1
Points this post: 10
Total points: 840/975
Task completed: 50/56
5.5 Summer SolsticeRead a book where the first letter of each word in the title (subtitle words excluded) from the phrase "Summer Solstice".
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
first letter of each word in title, OLS, found in SOLstice
Task total: 5
Season total: 600
25.1 - Ash's Task: Boss LevelOption 1 - pick a book off of one of these lists: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4... (page 1)
The Martian by Andy Weir
Option 3-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".
Heart of the Sun Warrior (The Celestial Kingdom #2) by Sue Lynn Tan
word in title, HEART, found in cREepers HAve no respecT
Task total: 25
Season total: 625
JUKKA25.1 Ash's Task: Boss Level
Option 1: Book whose page number has at least two of 0, 1, 3, and 5.
Hyvää matkaa! ranskaksi by Brigitte Rix has 160 pages.
Option 5: A tie-in or a spinoff of a video game.
Dark Souls: The Breath of Andolus by George Mann.
Total Points: 260/1000
Total Books Read: 24
Tasks Completed: 21/57
Big Books Total: 1
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 2
trishhartuk30.7 Cat's Task: Books of Europe
Includes a claim for a golden oldie ticket
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 Europe, excluding the UK.
A Crime in Holland, Georges Simenon
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB (Portuguese): here (160pg). PB matching the kindle: here (160pg)
Set in The Netherlands. Netherlands and Holland are mentioned in the metadata on the main book page.
(and Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium)
Golden Oldie: First published in 1931
Book 2: Read a book that is written by an author born in a country in Europe, excluding the UK.
Angelica's Smile, Andrea Camilleri
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB: here (240pg). Top English PB: here (304pg)
Andrea Camilleri was born in Porto Empedocle, Italy
(and the book is set in Sicily, Italy)
Points this Task: 30
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldie: 1 – A Crime in Holland was first published in 1931
Total Points: 280
Tasks Completed: 18
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Bookwrm526Task #10.1 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 made the word LIES (LI from walking, ES from sunshine) and read Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp.
Total points so far: 440
Kathy KS30.3 Susan A's Task: Exploring MPGs.
Choose 2 of the MPGs listed and read 1 book for each. The total number of pages read must exceed 500 pages.
The Outlaw's Tale by Margaret Frazer
MPG: Medieval (Approved TH message 34)
I listened to an audiobook; mmpb-217 p.
Valiant by Jack Campbell
MPG: Adventure (Approved TH message 38)
I listened to an audiobook; mmpb-284 p.
Total Pages: 217+284=501 (>500)
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 340
Tasks completed: 17/56
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 1
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 4
Task 20.7 Karen Michele's Task - I WonderOption 3:
Read a book that has won the Hugo Award for science fiction (just winners in all categories) and perhaps wonder about whether anything in the book could really happen.
Hugo Award for Best Novel (2014)
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1) (2013) by Ann Leckie (Goodreads Author) (Paperback 386 pages)
85 + 20 = 105
Tasks Completed: 05
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 85 + 20 = 105
Books read: 07
Pages read: 2,064
Read but not claimed: 05
Goodreads Authors: 03
Golden Oldies: 01
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 01
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
15.3- Quantity or Size?Option 1: Two Book Task
Book 1- Read a book set at least 75% in Australia
The Unearthed by Lenny Bartulin
100% set in Tasmania, Australia
Book 2- read a book with title with 6+ words excluding subtitles OR 12+ more words including the subtitle
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang
Task total: 15
Season total: 640
Kai25.2 Robin P's Task: Enjoying Summer - Not!
OPTION 2
Read a book with a person wearing shorts or a swimsuit on the cover.
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
OPTION 4
Read a book from the first 25 pages of one of these lists.
Winter Books
Christmas Books
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Winter Books - Page 2
**Claiming 1 Big Book Ticket - 559 pages**
New Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 26
Total Points: 505
BIG BOOK: 2
GOLDEN OLDIES: 5
IT'S A FACT: 1
JEN B20.10 Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Summer 2025 season.
Fiction: Psychological Thriller
You Killed Me First by John Marrs
Comment is post #14
TOTAL POINTS: 375
Delicious Dee5.9 Sand Time!
The Grand Design - GRAND can be found in GREAT SAND DUNES
Points this Task: 5
Points Overall: 760
Its a Fact Tickets: 6
Delicious Dee20.1 - Most Improved – Erica H’s Task: Organized Procrastinator
option 2 - North to the Future: An Offline Adventure through the Changing Wilds of Alaska - NORTH can be found in PROJECT FINISH RESISTANCE; claiming 1 its a fact for non-fiction
Points this Task: 20
Points Overall: 780
Its a Fact Tickets: 7
Delicious Dee30.1 JennRenee's Task: The Great Yellowstone
Option 2 - Single Player - MPG of romance; authors debut novel
Option 3 -
- according to Tineye, cover has 5 distinct colors from the provided list: yellow, blue, brown, orange and green - https://labs.tineye.com/color/3063ed1...Points this Task: 30
Points Overall: 810
Its a Fact Tickets: 7
Bookwrm526Task #20.4 - London Adventure
Option 5: Read a book with an MPG of Historical, Romance, or Historical Romance. MPGs must be stand-alone, not embedded. I read A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna, which has MPG Romance.
Total points so far: 460
Amy FL5.5 Summer Solstice
First letter of each word in the title found in the phrase "Summer Solstice"
Under Locke - UL in sUmmer soLstice
Points this post: 5
Total points: 690
Amy FL15.7 Bright and Beautiful
A book that is at least 50% blue OR 50% green OR 50% Red according to Tineye
- 66.5% green per TineyePoints this post: 15
Total points: 705
Amy FL20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: Karen Michele's Task - I Wonder
Option 2A: Read a book from the Best Coming of Age stories list
City Boy - page 4 of list
Points this post: 20
Total points: 725
Amy FL30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: A Year of Travels
Option 3: a single author’s first and last initial found in NIAGARA FALLS
The Blood Tide by Neil Lancaster - NL in Niagara faLls
Option 4: MPG Health or MPG Animals
Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History - MPG Health
Points this post: 30
Total points: 755
Amy FL30.6 Kmaried's Task - Catching Up On Series
Option A: the current last published book in a series of at least 3 books
Lethal Prey - Lucas Davenport #35 (published March 25, 2025)
Option C: a book that is #3 or above but not the last published book in the series
Fifty-Fifty - Eddie Flynn #5 (of 8)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 785
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20.1 - Most Improved – Erica H’s Task: Organized Procrastinator
Option 2 - : Read a book with a word of 5 or more letters in the title spelled from PROJECT FINISH RESISTANCE.
The Book Eaters
Word: EATERS
Points this task:20
Total points: 300
Books read: 20