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FALL CHALLENGE 2025
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Lisa MD20.3 - Review Raffle: Masoodah's Task - What's in a Name?
Option 1: Author first initial matches first letter in readerboard name
Done and Dusted by Lyla Sage
Readerboard Name: "LISA MD" - Author first initial and first letter in readerboard name: "L"
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 295/985
Total Books Read: 24
Total Tasks Completed: 20/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 6
10.7 Have Yams Will PartyRead a book with a word of at least 4 letters that can be made from the phrase The Ashanti Yam Festival
A Little Life
'Life' is in the word FEstIvaL from the phrase above
Total points: 40
30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But DifferentlyOption 1:
Choose an author you have discovered (new to you) in the Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 season of reading. Read another book by that author. Book cannot be part of the same series as previously read.
In Summer 2025, I read Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. She was a new author to me at the time. Post is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
This season, I read The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Option 4:
Choose any book you read in the Summer or Fall Season. Using that book's first published date, read a book with the same first published month but has a different year.
In Summer 2025, I read The Safekeep, which was published in April, 2024. Post is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
This season I read Audition, published in April, 2025.
Total points: 70
Julia1035.1 By The Numbers
Read a book where the title (Subtitles excluded) has at least one word of 7, 8, or 9 letters.
Patience & Esther
(Patience has 8 letters)
This post: 5 points
Total points: 415
Total BB: 0
Total GO: 2
Total NF: 3
Tasks completed: 23
Books read: 31
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15.1 Ancient or New?
Book 1 (Lighthouse of Alexandria - Another)
Read a book with a word of 4+ letters in the title that can be spelled from one of the 7 Ancient Wonders on the list.
Restaurant to Another World (Light Novel) Vol. 2
Book 2 (Christ the Redeemer = Crime)
Read a book with a word of 4+ letters in the title that can be spelled from one of the 7 New Wonders on the list.
The Queens of Crime
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 370 /1000
Tasks Completed 18/57
IAF - 4
GO - 2
Readerboard Name: List_Addict5.8: Corps of Discovery
A setting in one of the included US states
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Setting: Seattle, WA
Total this challenge: 25
10.9 - Coven, Claw, Fang, or Wrap
Read a book with standalone title word Witch, Werewolf, Vampire, or Mummy
American Vampire, Vol. 2
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 385/985
Tasks Completed: 25/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(1), GO(5), IaF(7)
5.2 - Autumn or fall?
Read a book with Autumn in the title or author's name
The Autumn Kingdom Vol. 1: Through the Blight
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 390/985
Tasks Completed: 26/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(1), GO(5), IaF(7)
20.4 - Golden Oldies: Erica H's Task - What Fall Brings
Option 2: Read a book whose cover is at least 40% green by Tineye
Elephants Can Remember
(Alt edition for page count Elephants Can Remember)
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 410/985
Tasks Completed: 27/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(1), GO(5), IaF(7)
Katrisa25.1 - Nick KY’s Task : Gothic Types
Opt 1
Book 1: from Early Gothic list P1 I read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Book 2: From Modern Gothic List P3 I read What Moves the Dead
Points this Post: 25
Points Total: 890
20.7 - Golden Oldies: Erica H's Task - What Fall Brings
All books claimed for this task must have the MPG Historical or Historical Fiction.
In addition, your book may have the MPG Graphic Novels, Comics, Manga, or Sequential Art.
Option 3: The Amana Colonies
Read a book that was first published in the month of October in any year 1965-2025
Ace of the Diamond, Vol. 2 published October 17th, 2006.
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 430/985
Tasks Completed: 28/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(1), GO(5), IaF(7)
MEGSCL10.7 Have Yams Will Party
Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters that can be made from the phrase thE AshaNti yaM festival
NAME = First Name Second Name
TOTAL
35 points
MEGSCL10.5 Season of the Harvest
Read a book where the a single author's first and last name initials can be found in the word HARVEST
The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett
TOTAL
55 points
MEGSCL20.8- Nickels and Dimes: MEGSCL's Task: Korean Reads
Set in Korea - The Second Chance Convenience Store
TOTAL
75 points
trishhartuk15.4 Pompeii Italy
Using Option 1.
Book 1: Read a book with MPG Historical Fiction
Speaking from Among the Bones, Alan Bradley (386pg)
Historical Fiction is the third MPG.
Book 2. Word in the title that has a double letter.
Dial M for Mousse, Laura Bradford (304pg)
The word is mouSSE
Points this Task: 15
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 375
Tasks Completed: 24
It’s a Fact Tickets: 2
Golden Oldie Tickets: 5
FLY Task #15.1 Ancient or New?
Book 1: a title word of 4+ letters that can be spelled from one of the 7 Ancient Wonders
book: The Golden Couple
how it fits: "GOLDEN" in hanging (G)ar(DEN)s of Baby(LO)n
Book 2: a title word of 4+ letters that can be spelled from one of the 7 New Wonders
book: Fight Club
how it fits: "FIGHT" in (G)rea(T) wall o(F) c(HI)na
Points this post: 15
Total points: 190
Tasks completed: 13/57
BB: 1 / GO: 2 / IAF: 0
TessaVanessaChallenge 20.9 Moderator's Pet: Rockynook's task- Fall Birthdays
Option 2: read a book that has a 3+ letter title word (subtitles excluded) made from the letters in either ANTHONY JOSEPH or in ICE CREAM CAKE,
Race Against Time by Christy Barrett
RACE letters can be found in ICE CREAM CAKE
Points this post: 20
Total points: 745/985
Task completed: 47/57
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.7 Fly's Task: A Tribute to Dad
Option 3: read a book with at least one entire bare foot on the cover.
by Ann Brashares349 pages
Option 4: read a book whose single author has initials that are found consecutively forward in order in the word ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
by Balazs Lorinczi224 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 770/985
Task completed: 48/57
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.8 Slideshell's Task: Eagles and Terps Touchdown Reading Rally
Option 4: Read a novel set at least 75% in Pennsylvania or Maryland
Losing Jon: A Teen's Tragic Death, a Police Cover-Up, a Community's Fight for Justice by David Parrish
Setting: Columbia, Maryland
Option 6: Read a book by a single author whose initials (first and last name) are found in PHILADELPHIA EAGLES or MARYLAND TERRAPINS
Two Seconds Too Late by Dani Pettrey
DP found in PHILADELPHIA EAGLES
Points this post: 25
Total points: 795/985
Task completed: 49/57
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Option 2: Titles
Read a book whose title words (minimum 3) are in alphabetical order
read Circle of Strangers
and
Option 3: Genres-Read a book with an MPG that starts with A, B, or C - Genre Crime
read The Ghostwriter
genres are
points this post 25
total 635
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25.6 – Lisa MD's Task: The Harry Bosch Universe
Read a book whose title contains a matching title word from any of the total works of the “Harry Bosch Universe Series,”
word uses is LAST from Book 4: The Last Coyote
read Last Seen
and Option 3:
Read a book by a single author whose first and last initial can be found in one of the main characters' name:
USED :“ Jack McEvoy.”
read One Little Lie Colleen Coble
points this post -25
total points 610
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Option 2:
ead a book with one of these verbs in the title: COUNT,Words must be exact but do not need to function as a verb in the title.
read Count My Lies 336pages
and
Option 6:
Read a book with MPG Humor. The weirder the better.
read The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association 368 pages
Fantasy
Cozy
Fiction
Paranormal
Cozy Fantasy
Urban Fantasy
Adult
Magic
Vampires
Humor
points this post - 25
total 660
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Task 1: Read a book that shares a 3 letter title word with one of the track titles
track title used - "Sorted for E's & Wizz" word is FOR
read Kill for Me, Kill for You
Task 2 Read a book that shares a 3 letter title word with one of the track titles
Track is "Got to Have Love" word is love
read Eat, Slay, Love
points this post 25
total 685
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Option 3: LA Fitness originated in California in 1984. Read a book set at least 50% in California.
read A Tour to Die For setting is San Francisco CA
and
Option 4:
a book by a single author who shares first and last name initial with instructor - David C
initials may be reversed
read Guess Again
by Charlie Donlea
points this post 30
total points 715
Nick KY5.6 Preserving History. Title word has letters from HISTORICAL SCOTLAND. I read Scotland: The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson. The word is “SCOTLAND.”
CLAIM 2 BB Tickets for Scotland at 752 pp.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 525
Big Books So Far: 500+ (1), 750+ (1) = 3 BB tickets
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5.3 American Football
Read a book with the MPG Sports or Football.
No Plan B: Peyton Manning's Comeback with the Denver Broncos
***Nonfiction - claiming 1 IAF ***
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 375 /1000
Tasks Completed 19/57
IAF - 5
GO - 2
5.3 - American Football
Read a book with the MPG Sports or Football
Ace of the Diamond, Vol. 1
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 435/985
Tasks Completed: 29/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(1), GO(5), IaF(7)
Lisa MDAutumn or Fall
"Autumn" in title or author name
The Autumn of Ruth Winters by Marshall Fine
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 300/985
Total Books Read: 25
Total Tasks Completed: 21/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 6
Correction for post 1020Amy FL
30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
Option 1: read another book by a new author discovered in the Summer 2025 season of reading
For task 5.9 in Summer 2025 I read I See You've Called in Dead by John Kenney who was new to me.
I read Truth in Advertising also by John Kenney for this task.
Option 2: a book that satisfies one of the options you did not choose previously for a task completed in the Summer 2025
For task 20.2 in Summer 2025 I completed Option 1.
For this task, I read Back Blast which satisfied option 2 (a title word of at least four letters spelled from the phrase BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS) - BLAST is in ceLeBrATionS
Points this post: 30
Total points: 470
15.4 Pompeii ItalyBook: The Ballad of Black Tom
Option 2 - a book that fits both tasks
Task 1: MPG Historical Fiction
Task 2: double letters in title word - double LL in „ballad“
Points this post: 15
Total points: 25
15.8 - Easter Island Chile
Read a book with at least 3 people on the cover
Ace of the Diamond, Vol. 3
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 450/985
Tasks Completed: 30/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(1), GO(5), IaF(7)
15.2 - Machu Picchu Peru
Book 1: Read a book with a train or train tracks on the cover.
American Vampire, Vol. 1
Book 2: Read a book w/ author's initials in LOST CITY OF THE INCAS
Ace of the Diamond, Vol. 4 by Yuji Terajima
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 465/985
Tasks Completed: 31/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(1), GO(5), IaF(7)
Amanda E
10.10: Do they Exist?
How it fits:
Features a Loch Ness monster that is mentioned multiple times throughout the book and then is ultimately used against the main character during a witch trial (bc she interacted with it)
Reference: Chapter 19: " The Waterhorse" (which is the name they used for loch ness monster) : "I felt some faint kinship with it, a creature further from its own time than I, the flat eyes old as its ancient Eocene seas, eyes grown dim in the murky depths of its shrunken refuge"
and here is a quote and link from an author Q&A where she respondes to questions about the use of the loch ness mosnter in the book:
"In my books, there’s a scene in which the heroine (a WWII nurse who passes through a time-portal in a stone circle in the Highlands, and ends up in 1743) sees the Loch Ness monster when she goes down to get water from the loch. In a later book, when she’s talking to her daughter’s boyfriend, she tells him she thinks the creature she saw was a plesiosaur, and speculates that maybe it got there the same way she did–but through a portal under the water.
What made me include it? I’m tempted to say pure whimsy, because that certainly had something to do with it. However, there really is more to it than that. In Highland folklore, there’s a creature called a waterhorse; this is a supernatural thing that lives in bodies of water, and is rather dangerous; there are lots of stories about them. I did a lot of research on folklore, customs, etc. when writing these books, and so I saw a sort of tie-in between the notion of the Loch Ness monster, and the much older notion of the waterhorse. And when I began thinking about it in depth, I could see the poignancy of having this woman, thrown out of her own time, meeting a creature that might also be displaced–or might be an omen to her. You know, thematic stuff." https://dianagabaldon.com/wordpress/r...
Points this post: 10
Total points: 100
Tasks completed: 7
Bookwrm526Task #30.3 - Leah Renee Comedian
Option 1: Read a book set at least 50% in either Pennsylvania or Scotland. I read Jackal by Erin E. Adams, which is set totally in Pennsylvania (setting is in GR).
Option 2: Read a book from the first 20 pages of this list of books about cults. I read The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, from page 10 of the list.
Total points so far: 460
Kelly L15.3 Stonehenge United Kingdom
Option 2
Read a book that fulfills both requirements of Option 1:
1) Read a book with a first published year that includes at least 2 unique numbers from this list: 1,2,3,5,7
2) Read a book set in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
Katabasis
1) Publication year = 2025 (using 2 and 5 from the unique numbers list)
2) Setting (per GR) = Cambridge University, Cambridge, England = UK
**CLAIMING a Big Book Ticket. Page count = 559 pages**
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This post: 15 points
Tickets: 1 Big Book ticket
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Season total: 195 points
Season Tickets: 1 IAF, 1 BB
Kelly L20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025
Option 2:
Read a book that is #2 or later in a series-whole numbers only
Lost Light is #9 in the Harry Bosch series
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This post: 20 points
Tickets: ---
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Season total: 215 points
Season Tickets: 1 IAF, 1 BB
Kelly L20.9 Moderator's Pet: Rockynook's task- Fall Birthdays
Option 2: Happy Birthday, AJ!
Read a book that has a 3+ letter title word (subtitles excluded) made from the letters in either ANTHONY JOSEPH or in ICE CREAM CAKE
A Darkness More Than Night
ANTHONY JOSEPH --> ANTH (4 letters) --> A Darkness More THAN Night
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This post: 20 points
Tickets: ---
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Season total: 235 points
Season Tickets: 1 IAF, 1 BB
JUKKA20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: JenJ IA's task- Landmarked: History in the Hawkeye State
Book with main page genre Historical or Historical Fiction.
Option 3: Book released in October 1965-2025.
Reinhardt's Garden by Mark Haber.
Total Points: 145/985
Total Books Read: 13
Tasks Completed: 12/57
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 0
Bookwrm526Task #15.1 Ancient or New?
Book 1: Read a book with a word of 4+ letters in the title that can be spelled from one of the 7 Ancient Wonders on the list. I chose Mausoleum at Helicarnassus and made the word SECTOR (SECR from helicarnassus; T from at, O from mausoleum) and read Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin.
Book 2: Read a book with a word of 4+ letters in the title that can be spelled from one of the 7 New Wonders on the list. I chose Great Wall of China, made the word WHORE (W from all, H from China, O from of, RE from great) and read Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant.
Total points so far: 475
15.1 Ancient or New?Book 1- Read a book with a word of 4+ letters in the title that can be spelled from one of the 7 Ancient Wonders on the list.
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
word in title, GUIDE, found in lIGthoUsE of alexanDria
Book 2- Read a book with a word of 4+ letters in the title that can be spelled from one of the 7 New Wonders on the list
The Vine Witch (The Vine Witch #1) by Luanne G. Smith
word in title, WITCH, found in greaT Wall of CHIna
Task total: 15
Season total: 465
10.4 Where the Dead Still WalkRead a book that is set at least 50 percent in Scotland, France, or India
The Glamourist (The Vine Witch #2) by Luanne G. Smith
100% set in Paris
Task total: 10
Season total: 475
Task 25.7 - Fly's Task: A Tribute to DadOption 4:
Read a book whose single author has initials that are found consecutively forward in order in the word ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM. You can disregard middle initials, or use them if you can find an author that fits - I can't think of one. Example: TA will work but not AT.
Discarding the middle initial:
antidiseSTablishmentarianism
The Visitor (2002) by Sheri S. Tepper (Paperback 502 pages)
** The Visitor is a Big Book, pagecount: 502 pages **
Option 6:
Read a book with MPG Humor. The weirder the better.
None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive (2022) by Carolyn Prusa (Goodreads Author) (Hardback 325 pages)
Pagecount: 502 + 325 = 830 > 500
40 + 25 = 65
Tasks Completed: 04
Points for this post: 25
Points thus far: 40 + 25 = 65
Books read: 05
Pages read: 1,714
Read but not claimed: 02
Goodreads Authors: 03
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 01
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
FLY Task #15.4 Pompeii Italy
+GO ticket
Option 2- Read a book that fulfills both requirements of Option 1
book: The Valley of Fear
task 1: MPG Historical Fiction
how it fits: MPG Historical Fiction
task 2: a word in the title that has a double letter
how it fits: double L in 'Valley'
other:
**Claiming GO ticket for First published January 1, 1914
Points this post: 15
Total points: 205
Tasks completed: 14/57
BB: 1 / GO: 2 + 1 = 3 / IAF: 0
LoraTask: 20.3 - Review Raffle: Masoodah's Task -What's in a name?, using Option 1.
Read a book by an author that shares the same FIRST NAME Initial as The First LETTER in YOUR READERBOARD name.
Book/Author: Unbirthday / Liz Braswell
How it fits: AFN Liz starts with L, which is the first letter in my leaderboard name
Claiming 1 Big Book ticket for 512 pages.
Points for this task: 20
Total points: 225
Big Book tickets for this task: 1
Big Book tickets total: 1
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: 1
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5.2 Autumn or fall?
Read a book with Autumn in the title or author's name.
Autumn Grace
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 380 /1000
Tasks Completed 20/57
IAF - 5
GO - 2
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Option 2
Read a book with a first published year that includes at least 2 unique numbers from this list: 1,2,3,5,7 and Read a book set in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
read One Dark Night
set in england and first published August 19, 2025
points this post 15
total points 730
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Option 2
Read a book with MPG Historical Fiction
and
with a word in the title that has a double letter. Examples of words with double letters
read None Left to Tell
genres Historical Fiction
Thriller
Mystery Thriller
Audiobook
Mystery
Book Club
points this post 15
total points 745
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10.7 - Have Yams Will Party
Title Word of 4 Letters+ in "THE ASHANTI YAM FESTIVAL"
Thief of Fate by Jude Deveraux
Title Word: "Thief" in THEashantI yam Festival
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 275/985
Total Books Read: 23
Total Tasks Completed: 19/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 6