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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2025
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trishhartuk10.2 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.
Toxic Toffee, Amanda Flower
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB: here (286pg)
Read by Paula S and claimed in message #2759: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 515
Tasks Completed: 30
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 1
Angela IL25.1 - Ash's Task: Boss Level
Option 1: Read a book off of one of these lists:
Wendigo
Time Loops
Recursion by Blake Crouch-8/19
List: 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.
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid-7/17
PB link: Atmosphere 352 pages
Points this Task: 25
Total Points: 295
Books Read: 18
Tasks Completed: 12
It's a Fact: 3
5.10 Picnic TimeRead a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
A Carnival of Atrocities by Natalia García Freire
Task Total: 5
Season Total: 530
Total BB: 1
Total IAF: 11
5.1; 5.2; 5.3; 5.4; 5.5; 5.6; 5.7; 5.8; 5.9; 5.10
10.2; ...; 10.4; ...; 10.6; 10.7
15.3; ...; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6
25.1; 25.2; 25.3; 25.4; 25.5
30.6; 30.7; ...; ...; 30.10
10.3 500 Reads of SummerRead a popular summer book from the first 25 pages of this list.
Summer Books List
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
**I'd like a Golden Oldie ticket for Madonna in a Fur Coat (first published: 1943)**
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 540
GO this Post: 1
Total BB: 1
Total GO: 1
Total IAF: 11
5.1; 5.2; 5.3; 5.4; 5.5; 5.6; 5.7; 5.8; 5.9; 5.10
10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; 10.7
15.3; ...; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6
25.1; 25.2; 25.3; 25.4; 25.5
30.6; 30.7; ...; ...; 30.10
10.9 Fly Me To The MoonRead a book MPG Space, stand alone or embedded
Contact by Carl Sagan
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 550
Total BB: 1
Total GO: 1
Total IAF: 11
5.1; 5.2; 5.3; 5.4; 5.5; 5.6; 5.7; 5.8; 5.9; 5.10
10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9
15.3; ...; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6
25.1; 25.2; 25.3; 25.4; 25.5
30.6; 30.7; ...; ...; 30.10
20.8 Nickels and Dimes: MEGSCL's Task - 2025 GoalsOption 2- Read award shortlists. Read a book that has been longlisted, shortlisted, or won the Booker Prize in any year.
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Nominated for Booker Prize, 2017
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 570
Total BB: 1
Total GO: 1
Total IAF: 11
5.1; 5.2; 5.3; 5.4; 5.5; 5.6; 5.7; 5.8; 5.9; 5.10
10.2; 10.3; 10.4; ...; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9
15.3; ...; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; ...; 20.8
25.1; 25.2; 25.3; 25.4; 25.5
30.6; 30.7; ...; ...; 30.10
Lisa MD10.8 - Summer Lovin'
Published or set in the 1960's
Dark Shadows: The Complete Paperback Library Reprint Book 1 by Marilyn Ross
First published December 1, 1966
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 710/975
Total Books Read: 54
Total Tasks Completed: 41
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 10
ROBIN P30.3 Susan A's Task: Exploring MPG's
2 books with different MPGs from list - >500 pages total
Song at Dawn - MPG Medieval - 364 p
Olde Robin Hood - MPG Adventure - 313 p
Total pages 677
Points this post: 30
Total points: 875
BB:3 GO:2 IAF:6
Julia10310.2 I Know What You Read Last Summer
Read a book that was claimed in the Summer 2024 Challenge Completed Task Thread
Flag in Exile
This was post 571 in Summer 2024 Challenge Completed Task Thread.
This post: 10 points
Total points: 850
BB: 3
GO: 6
NF: 3
Tasks completed: 43
Books read: 64
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20.2 Favorite Things About BooksOption 2: Read a book with a word of at least four letters in the title/subtitle spelled from the phrase BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS.
When These Mountains Burn by David Joy
The word is THESE
Post Total: 20
Grand Total: 410
5.10 Picnic TimeRead a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
Post Total: 5
Grand Total: 415
Lisa MD30.7 - Cat's Task: Books of Europe
Option 1: Set at least 70% in one or more European countries, excluding the UK
Foster by Claire Keegan
Set in County Wexford, Southeast Ireland, which is not part of the UK.
Here is a link to verify setting: https://booksthatslay.com/foster-summ...
Option 2: Author born in European country, except UK
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Author born in Stockholm, Sweden
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 740/975
Total Books Read: 56
Total Tasks Completed: 42
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 10
Task 10.9 - Fly Me To The MoonMPG Space (is there standalone and embedded as Space Opera
A Desolation Called Peace
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825 points
Jessica S5.7 Summer Vacations
Book with at least one adult and two or more children on the book cover
Until September by Chris ScullyPoints this post: 5
Total points: 795
Jessica S15.2 Here or There?
Book 1: Using the North American parks, read a book whose title contains a word from the name one of the parks
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey (Jasper National Park)
book 2: Using the Europe parks, read a book whose title contains all the letters of the complete name of one parks. The words National and Park may be excluded.
Zephyr and the Western Wolf by Sam Burns (Rondane National Park)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 810
Jessica S30.2 Katrisa's Task: Wrapped in Plastic
Option 2 - The Bookhouse Boys: book with one or more conifer trees or a sword on the cover
The Wind Will Guide Us by Sasha M. ValerioOption 5 - Fire Walk with Me: Book with a word of at least four letters from the poem in the title
Reading Between the Lines by Nicky James (BETWEEN)Points this post: 130
Total points: 855
Bookwrm526Task #30. 9 - Uluru – National Parks of Australia
Opt. 1. Read a book with at least 3 U's in the title/subtitle. I read Daughters of the Dust: A Gullah-Geechee Novel by Julie Dash,
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. I read Murder in the Drawing Room by C.J. Archer. The author's GR page states she was born in Australia.
Total points so far: 855
Task 20.5 Bigger is Better: Light Up My World, Scarlett!Option 4 - Scarlett’s Mommy and some of her Daddy’s cousins are avid readers. Celebrate their favorite genres by reading a book with one of these MPGs (main page genres): Suspense: standalone or embedded, Thriller(s): standalone, or Fantasy: standalone.
MPG THRILLER standalone
The Strange Case of Jane O. (2025) by Karen Thompson Walker (Goodreads Author) (Hardback 278 pages)
200 + 20 = 220
Tasks Completed: 09
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 200 + 20 = 220
Books read: 14
Pages read: 4,175
Read but not claimed: 03
Goodreads Authors: 07
Golden Oldies: 01
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 01
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
SHEMAC 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 - 2 and 4
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 - ATTACK
Target London: Under attack from the V-weapons during WWII
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. (Setting)
Pieces of You
This task points: 30
Total season points: 685
ROBIN P5.9 Sand Time!
4+ letter word in title found in GREAT SAND DUNES
Stages of Desire - STAGES is the word
S in Sand, TAGE in GrEAT, S in duneS
Points this post: 5
Total points: 880
BB:3 GO:2 IAF:6
ROBIN P10.7 Theater Camp
MC is performance artist
Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru - autobiography of a professional actor
Points this post: 10
Total points: 890
BB:3 GO:2 IAF:6
trishhartuk10.5 I’ll Be There For You
Reading a book off of the Friendship Fiction list
The Bookshop Ladies, Faith Hogan
Read the kindle edition. Top PB (no MMPB): here (320pg)
Page 2, around #13
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 525
Tasks Completed: 31
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 1
Coffeegirl30.2 Wrapped in Plastic
Option 3: Good vs evil. Read a book from the first 20 pages of this Good vs Evil list.
Book: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
found on page 2
Option 5: Fire walk with Me. Rad a book with a a word of a least four letter form the poem in the title. Plurals can be dropped.
Book: Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
"World"
One chants out between two worlds.
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 305
Coffeegirl25.5 Celebrating Summertime
July: Read a book with a cover containing all the colors red, white, and blue
Book: It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
Red, White and BLue
August: Read a book by an author whose initials (first and last) are in one of the following words: SMORES
Book: A Map to Paradise by Susan Meissner
Initials SM in SMores
Points this task: 25
Total points: 330
Lisa MD5.2 - Civil War
MPG: War
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
***I claim an IAF ticket***
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 745/975
Total Books Read: 57
Total Tasks Completed: 43
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 11
Coffeegirl50.1 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”
Book: Back After This by Linda Holmes
Word: BACK -- pittsBurg wedding CooKie table
Published 2-25-25
Book 2: Option B: Read a book set at least 50% in one or combination of the places listed above. -- California
Book: Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
"Love and Other Words" by Christina Lauren is primarily set in Healdsburg, California, a town in the wine country outside of San Francisco. https://www.google.com/search?q=where...
Book 3: Option B: read a book whose title contains a plural word.
Book: Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives by Gretchen Rubin
Published 4-1-2025
Plural Words: Secrets, Truths, Lives
Total page count: 919
Points this task: 50
Total points: 380
Coffeegirl20.6 Let’s Go to the Park!
Option 4B: Read a book with a two word title where each word has the same first initial:
Book: Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Letter R in both words.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 400
Coffeegirl15.8 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.
Book: Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 by Lisa Unger
the characters are indeed stranded on a secluded island during a reality TV show that turns dangerous. https://www.google.com/search?q=are+t...
Points this task: 15
Total points: 415
LoraTask: 25.2 - Robin P's Task: Enjoying Summer - Not!, using Options 3 and 4
Book 1: Read a book whose author has initials of AA, AB, AO, BA, BB, BO, OA, OB, or OO.
Book/Author: The Dark King and the Eternal Dance / Alesha Adamson
How it fits: author's initials are AA
Book 2: Read a book from the first 25 pages of one of the lists.
Book/Author: Rock Paper Scissors / Alice Feeney
How it fits: on page 1 of the Winter Books list
Points for this task: 25
Total points: 790
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 3
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 6
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 1
SHEMAC 20.3 Review Raffle: Kelly L's Task - Celebrating Pride
This is a one book task. Choose from one of the following options
Required: State the option - 4
Option 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.
Pieces of Me
Required: State the country. AUSTRALIA
This task points: 20
Total season points: 705
20.4 Golden Oldies: Kai's Task - London AdventureOption 5: MPG of Historical, Romance, or Historical Romance
Camilla
Both Historical and Romance are MPGs
Total points: 165
MEGSCL15.10 I'm Not Scared
Read a book with MPG Horror- Stand alone or embedded
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
**535 pages - big book ticket
TOTAL: 300 points
TICKETS: 6 IAF, 5 BB, 1 GO
Lisa MD25.3 - Shemac's Task: Celebrating The End of WW2
Required: 500 total pgs
Option 2: MPG: WWII
Last Twilight in Paris by Pam Jenoff
336 pgs
Option 4: Book has some part set in WWII and made into film or TV series
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
272 pgs
Set during WWII.
More than one movie has been made based on the book. Here is a link to one of them: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073109/
***I claim an IAF ticket***
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 770/975
Total Books Read: 59
Total Tasks Completed: 44
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets:
IAF Tickets: 12
Elizabeth PTask 30.3 - Exploring MPGs
Read two books from two different genres as specified by task thread
Book 1: Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score
MPG: Adventure
PPB 480 pages: The Dead Guy Next Door
Book 2: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
MPG: Medieval
MMPB 197 pages: A Morbid Taste for Bones
480+197 = 677 > 500
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 465
Total Tasks: 25
GO: 0
BB: 2
IAF: 0
Total Books: 34
10.5 I’ll Be There For YouInternational Day of Friendship is celebrated on July 11. Celebrate by reading a book off of this list.
Friendship Fiction
The History of Everything: A Graphic Novel by Victoria Evans
Page 3
Task Total: 10
Season Total: 580
Total BB: 1
Total GO: 1
Total IAF: 11
5.1; 5.2; 5.3; 5.4; 5.5; 5.6; 5.7; 5.8; 5.9; 5.10
10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9
15.3; ...; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; ...; 20.8
25.1; 25.2; 25.3; 25.4; 25.5
30.6; 30.7; ...; ...; 30.10
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: Karen Michele's Task - I WonderOption 2 A) Read a book from this Coming of Age list:
Best Coming of Age stories
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Page 1
**I'd like a Golden Oldie ticket for The Diary of a Young Girl (first published: 1947)**
**I'd like an It's A Fact ticket for The Diary of a Young Girl (nonfiction)**
Task Total: 20
Season Total: 600
GO this Post: 1
IAF this Post: 1
Total BB: 1
Total GO: 2
Total IAF: 12
5.1; 5.2; 5.3; 5.4; 5.5; 5.6; 5.7; 5.8; 5.9; 5.10
10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; ...; 10.9
15.3; ...; 15.5; 15.6; 15.7; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.2; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.6; 20.7; 20.8
25.1; 25.2; 25.3; 25.4; 25.5
30.6; 30.7; ...; ...; 30.10
30.5 Delicious Dee 's Task: 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.
My Man Jeeves (Jeeves #1) by P.G. Wodehouse
published 1919
256 pages
Option 4 - Read a book that can be found on the first 5 pages of the following shelves:https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
This Shattered World (Starbound #2) by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
390 pages
Total pages read: 646
Task total: 30
Season total: 780
Task 15.6 - Animals, Animals, Animals!LIONS in title, LION in list
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
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840 points
JUKKA20.6 It's a Fact: Kristen IA's Task - Let’s Go to the Park!
Option 1: Book first published in 2008, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025.
Descender, Vol. 4: Orbital Mechanics by Jeff Lemire was first published in 2017.
Total Points: 380/1000
Total Books Read: 33
Tasks Completed: 29/57
Big Books Total: 4
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 3
Julia1035.4 World Environment
Read a book whose author's first and last initials can be found in "World Environment Day".
Deck the Hounds by David Rosenfelt
(DR in WORLD)
This post: 5 points
Total points: 855
BB: 3
GO: 6
NF: 3
Tasks completed: 44
Books read: 65
Line5.1
i read The Mothers which takes place in california.
Point Reyes
Yosemite - CA is the park i used
pints for this task: 5
total points: 15
books read: 3
tasks done: 3
JUKKA5.10 Picnic Time
Any book.
Descender, Vol. 5: Rise of the Robots by Jeff Lemire.
Total Points: 385/1000
Total Books Read: 34
Tasks Completed: 30/57
Big Books Total: 4
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 3
Bookwrm526Task #15.6 Animals, Animals, Animals!
Read a book with one of these words in the title/subtitle. Animal, Wildebeest, Zebra, Gazelle, Hyena, Lion, or Cheetah. Possessives and plurals accepted. I chose the word ANIMAL and read The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey.
Total points so far: 870
EMurphy50.1 Lisa MD: The Summer My Boys Got Married
Option 1a: Word of 3 or more letters from PITTSBURGH WEDDING COOKIE TABLE or SMITH ISLAND CAKE Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
*LAKE from SMITH ISLAND CAKE
**309 pages
Option 2b: Set in Colorado, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida, California, North Carolina, New Jersey, Montana, or Germany The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
*Set in Massachusetts
**320 pages
Option 3b: Title contains a plural word My Friends by Fredrik Backman
*Published in 2025
**436 pages
309+320+436=1,065 pages
This Task:
Points: 50
Books Read: 3
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 445
Books Read: 31
GO Ticket: 2
BB Ticket +500: 1
IAF Ticket: 6
Tasks Completed: 20
trishhartuk5.2 Civil War
Read a book with MPG War, Civil War, or Military Fiction. MPG may be stand alone or embedded.
Midshipman Bolitho, Alexander Kent (240pg)
War is the sixth MPG, plus Military Fiction is there if you click "...more" on the main book page.
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 530
Tasks Completed: 32
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 1
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: Karen Michele's Task - I WonderOption 2B, a memoir that includes the childhood of the author: Solito by Javier Zamora
paperback edition Solito
Points this post: 20
Total points: 630
30.5 Delicious Dee 's Task: Classic Science-Fiction: HG WellsOption 2, author's initials in H G WELLS: Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman
Option 5, set in New Jersey: Knit One, Die Two by Peggy Ehrhart
Points this post: 30
Total points: 660
ROBIN P15.2 Here or There?
1. book whose title contains a word from the name of one of the parks
Kitchens of the Great Midwest - GREAT from Great Smoky Mountains Park
2. book whose title contains all the letters of the park name
The Rake Mistake - contains all the letters of SAREK National Park in Sweden
Points this post: 15
Total points: 905
BB:3 GO:2 IAF:6
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MPG Survival
MPG Maritime
MPG Geology
MPG Medieval
MPG Adventure
MPG Post Apocalyptic
Choose 2 of the MPGs listed and read 1 book for each.
MPG Post Apocalyptic: All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall / 304 pg PB
MPG Adventure: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo / 435 pg HC
Total pages: 739 > 500
Points this post: 30
Total points: 900