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FALL CHALLENGE 2025
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20.4 - Golden Oldies: Erica H's Task - What Fall Brings
Option 2
Read a book whose cover is at least 40% green as determined by tineye
Required: Post the cover
Echoes of Darkness
How it fits:
28.5 % #135233 Green
19.9 % #a5d5be Green
19.7 % #11666d Blue
8.9 % #3db8af Blue
8.7 % #549b58 Green
8.4 % #e5f1f0 White
1.9 % #567639 Green
1.6 % #889c78 Grey
1.3 % #97b029 Green
1.0 % #475a5d Grey
= 60% green > 40%
Points this post: 20
Total this season: 325
20.3 What's in a Name Option 1: Read a book whose author's first name is the same as my readerboard name (K).
The Whitewashed Tombs by Kwei Quartey
Points This Post: 20
Season Total: 45
IAF Total: 1
20.6 Reading Goals 2025 Option 1: Read a book between 100-250 pages
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook - IAF book
250 pages even!
Points This Post: 20
Season Total: 65
IAF Total: 2
Joanne MI20.6 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.
Winds of Change (#2 in series)
Points this task 20
Season Total 95
3 BB 3IAF
gangee the ghouls guide to reading 10.8 Death of a Neighborhood Witch by Laura Levine
Halloween and Autumn Mystery Cozy page 1 # 39
points 10
total 90
Joanne MI15.7 Parthenon Greece
Read a book with MPG Travel
The Penguin Lessons
Claiming 1 IAF
Points this task 15
IAF this task 1
Season Total 110
BB's 3
IAF 4
Julia10350.1 - trishhartuk's Task: Newgrange
Book 1: Read a book with a word in the title of three or more letters (excluding and, the), matching a word in the lyrics of the song. https://genius.com/Clannad-newgrange-...
A Scatter of Light
The word LIGHT is in the third verse of the song
Book 2: Option A. Read a book with a three-word title
Suffer Little Children
Book 3: Option B. Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in “WINTER SOLSTICE”
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
All three books were first published after 1993.
Suffer Little Children is set in Ireland.
This post: 50 points
Total points: 495
Total BB: 0
Total GO: 3
Total NF: 3
Tasks completed: 26
Books read: 37
Whimsie15.1 Ancient or New?
7 Ancient wonders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_W...
7 New wonders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_7_W...
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. Letters can be used as many times as they appear. State the word and wonder:
Word: BLADE Wonder: Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Book Read: Traitor's Blade
AND
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. Letters can be used as many times as they appear.
Required: State the word and the wonder
Word: FALL Wonder: Great Wall of China
Book Read: Arrow's Fall
points this post 15
Total points: 170
Tasks Completed: 8
Whimsie20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: JenJ IA's task - Landmarked: History in the Hawkeye State
Choose one option and read one book for that option.
Books must have an MPG of Historical or Historical Fiction The MPG may be embedded IE Historical Romance
Option 2: Precontact Sites
For this option, read a book with a 3+ word title (subtitles excluded) where all of the title words begin with a letter in ONE of these site names:
BLOOD RUN
DAVIS ORIOLE EARTH LODGE
INDIAN VILLAGE
TOOLESBORO MOUNDS
KIMBALL VILLAGE
PHIPPS SITE
Book Read: Life After Life
MPG Historical Fiction
L A L are in KIMBALL VILLAGE
points this post 20
Total points: 190
Tasks Completed: 9
trishhartuk20.10 Group Reads
Includes a claim for a Golden Oldie ticket.
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Fall 2025 season.
Gutenberg Classic - The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, Algernon Blackwood
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, Algernon Blackwood (316pg)
My comments are in message #9 of the discussion thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Golden Oldie: First published in 1906
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie: 1 – The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories was first published in 1906
Total Points: 465
Tasks Completed: 30
It’s a Fact Tickets: 2
Golden Oldie Tickets: 6
Rockynook15.2 - Machu Picchu Peru
B1: Read a book with a train or train tracks on the cover
With a Vengeance by Riley Sager
B2: single author's first and last initials in the phrase LOST CITY OF THE INCAS
Below Zeroby Ali Hazelwood
Lost city of tHe incAs
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 340
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5.9 Celebrate History
Read a book set at least 50 percent 100 years ago- 1925 or earlier.
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3
The Year is 1883...
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 550 /985
Tasks Completed 31/57
IAF - 8
GO - 2
Rockynook30.1 - Do it Again, But Differently
Option 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.
The Love Fixers by Angela Casella
Discovered this author in summer with reading Any Luck at All. This author was new to me
Option 2: Choose a task that you completed in the Summer or Fall 2025 Season. Read a book that satisfies one of the options you did not choose previously.
Task Chosen: Summer task 20.5
I previously did option 2
For this task, I choose Option 3: Read a book with an author born or living in one of these states or country where the extended family resides: California, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Germany.
Getting Lucky by A.R. Casella or Angela Casella
She resides in Asheville, NC
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 370
Rockynook**UNCLAIM - 10.2 - Window to the Past
Original Post: #59
Book with a window on the cover
That's Not My Name by Megan Lally
Points this Post: -10
Total Points: 360
Rockynook 10.2 - Window to the Past
Book with a window on the cover
How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 370
20.4 - Golden Oldies: Erica H's Task - What Fall BringsOption 2, a cover at least 40% green: Murder at the Grand Raj Palace: Baby Ganesh Agency Book 4 by Vaseem Khan
Tineye = 53.4% green
Points this post: 20
Total points: 475
25.4 - Robin P's Task: The ABC'sOption 1, author's first and last initials are sequential in the alphabet: In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
Option 2, title words are in alphabetical order: Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
Points this post: 25
Total points: 500
25.5 - Bookwrm526's Task: SEC FootballOption 1, set in Texas: Toughest Cowboy in Texas by Carolyn Brown
Option 2, animal mascot on cover (Oklahoma-Horse): Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
Points this post: 25
Total points: 525
Angela IL30.3 Katrisa’s Task: Leah Renee Comedian
Option 2: Read a book from the first 20 pages of this list of books about cults: Cults Books
Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley-9/12
Page: 6
Option 4: Read a book with an MPG Humor.
Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank by Elle Cosimano-9/13
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 2
Angela IL20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025
Option 1: Read a book that is between 100-250 pages.
Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives by Gretchen Rubin-10/22
Claiming It's a Fact Ticket
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 50
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 3
It's A Fact: 1
Theresa30.3 Katrisa’s Task: Leah Renee Comedian
Option 3: Her Show 2024
For this option check a book off a literary bucket list and read a NEW TO YOU book from this New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century list
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Book is new to me
Option 4: Genre
Read a book with an MPG Humor.
Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
Points this post - 30
Total points - 90
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15.7 Parthenon Greece
Read a book with MPG Travel
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, France, Historical, World War II, Romance, Friendship, Travel, War, British Literature
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 565 /985
Tasks Completed 32/57
IAF - 8
GO - 2
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyFall 2025 SRC
5.9 Celebrate History
Read a book set at least 50 percent 100 years ago- 1925 or earlier.
Required: If the setting is not evident from the Goodreads book main page, provide a reference.
Gulliver’s Travels - first published in 1726, almost 300 years ago, claiming 1 GO ticket
Points this post: 5
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 1
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 170
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 1
It's a Fact Tickets: 3
SHEMAC 25.2- Ash's Task- Slash and Survive: A Final Girl Challenge
This is a two book task- Pick two different options and read one book for each option.
Required: State the options: 1 and 4
Option 1: We All Float Down Here. (Pennywise the Dancing Clown)
Read a book with "IT" in the title only.- subtitles excluded. Word must be stand alone. Possessives allowed, no other variations.
Lay It Down
Option 4: Always check your candy. (Sam)
Read an anthology/collection of stories.
Dirty Daddies Pride 2025
This task points: 25
Total season points: 480
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyFall 2025 SRC
20.9 Moderator's Pet: Rockynook's task- Fall Birthdays
Choose an option and read one book for that option.
Required: State the option
Option 3: Happy Birthday, Nook!
To celebrate Nook’s birthday, read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in either Curly OR Monkey.
You may use the letters as often as they appear. If the book has multiple authors, only one author must satisfy the condition.
Required: State the word used
Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen, MN in MoNkey
Points this post: 20
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 190
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 1
It's a Fact Tickets: 3
Delicious Dee15.4 Pompeii Italy
Book A - Loving a Noble Gentleman - MPG Historical Fiction
Book B - The Cinnamon Bun Book Store - NN in Cinnamon
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 430
Its A Fact: 6
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
Delicious Dee15.9 Angkor Wat Cambodia
The Hundredth Queen - Emily R. King - ERK can be found in KHMER
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 445
Its A Fact: 6
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
Delicious Dee15.10 Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, Zambia
Spin the Dawn - STD can be found in Thundering Smoke
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 460
Its A Fact: 6
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
Delicious Dee20.4 - Golden Oldies: Erica H's Task - What Fall Brings
Option 2 -
- 72% green cover per tineye - https://labs.tineye.com/color/191e961...Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 480
Its A Fact: 6
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyFall 2025 SRC
10.7 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
Letters may be use as often as they appear.
Required: State the word.
The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis, the word is ATLAS, AShanTi festivAL
claiming 1 It's a Fact ticket for non-fiction MPG
Points this post: 10
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
It's a Fact Tickets: 1
Total Points: 200
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 1
It's a Fact Tickets: 4
Delicious Dee20.8- Nickels and Dimes: MEGSCL's Task: Korean Reads
Option 1 - Winter in Sokcho - from google: Sokcho is a city and major tourist hub located in the northeast of Gangwon Province, South Korea
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 500
Its A Fact: 6
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
Delicious Dee25.1 - Nick KY’s Task : Gothic Types
I chose Option 2
Book A - The Night Villa - Found on pg2 of the Modern Gothic list
Book B -
- snow on cover; approved in THTPoints This Post: 25
Total Points: 525
Its A Fact: 6
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
Kathy KS20.9 Moderator's Pet: Rockynook's task- Fall Birthdays
Option 1: Happy Birthday, Zach!
read a book that has one of the following items on the cover:
A pumpkin, black cat, witch’s hat, skull or full moon on the cover.
by M.D. LakeSkull approved in task help message 16
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Points for this task: 20
Total points : 270
Tasks completed:12/57
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
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: 2
Readerboard Name Jammin JennyFall 2025 SRC
5.10 Fall Into Reading
Fall into reading by reading a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
For this task, a book with the MPG Childrens, Kids, Middle Grade or Juvenile that is NOT found in ARBF may be used
The Odyssey by Homer, initially published in -700 BC, claiming 1 GO ticket
Points this post: 5
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 1
It's a Fact Tickets: 0
Total Points: 205
BB Tickets: 1
GO Tickets: 2
It's a Fact Tickets: 4
15.9 Angkor Wat CambodiaBook: My Favorite Bad Decision by Elizabeth O'Roark
Task: Read a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA
How it fits: author initials E, O in khmEr and cambOdia
Points this post: 15
Total points: 60
Task 30.5 - Back to the Gymoption 2: CORA in title made from phrase NO DURING CLASS
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
option 4: author initials match CD (listed set of initials)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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690 points
Task 10.3 - Where Past and Present Meetbook has dual timeline: Electra's in 2008 NYC and Cecily's 1939 - 1950 Kenya
The Sun Sister
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700 points
20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025Option 1:
My reading goal for the year was to read 125 books. I usually meet or exceed my goal, but this year I seem to be struggling to meet my goal. I have decided to try to prioritize shorter books so I can hopefully meet my goal.
Read a book that is between 100-250 pages.
I read In the Time of Five Pumpkins This book has 224 pp.
points: 100
books read: 6
tasks completed: 6
Its a fact: 1
pages read: 2310
20.9 Moderator's Pet: Rockynook's task- Fall BirthdaysOption 3: Happy Birthday, Nook!
My cat Nook turns 12 this November! He’s a sweet, social boy unless you’re his brother, Pik. Our days are filled with entertainment watching our two fur-babies act the way that all cats do: unpredictably and ridiculously. Because all owners of cats know that when you give one a treat, you give both a treat, we are using both Nook and Pik for this task! Over the years, they have earned the nicknames “Curly Tail” (Nook) and “Monkey Tail” (Pik).
To celebrate Nook’s birthday, read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in either Curly OR Monkey.
You may use the letters as often as they appear. If the book has multiple authors, only one author must satisfy the condition.
Required: State the word used
I read HemlockKiersten Modglin, whose name contains the letters from MonKey
points: 120
books read: 7
tasks completed: 7
It's a fact: 1
pages read: 2714
10.5 Season of the HarvestFall is known to be the great harvest time.
Read a book where the a single author's first and last name initials can be found in the word HARVEST
Letters may be used as many times as they appear.
I read The Little Sushi Chef whose author's initial;s can be found in HarvesT Ty Hutchinson.
points: 130
books read: 9
tasks completed: 9
It's a fact: 1
pages read: 3323
Task 25.8 - Eagles and Terps Touchdown Reading Rallyoption 5: Terps colours (red, black, white, yellow) combine to 50%+
The Other Black Girl
52.0 %#141414Black
20.5 %#3c53b2Blue
18.4 %#f6f6f6White
4.4 %#818181Grey
1.1 %#a5b2d2Grey
1.0 %#f7c824Yellow
1.0 %#8a7840Brown
0.9 %#7686bcBlue
0.5 %#493c23Brown
0.3 %#f8170bRed
option 6: author initials AM in MARYLAND
Rose/House by Arkady Martine
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725 points
Task 30.7 - Classic Science-Fiction: Isaac Asimov501+ pages
option 2: author initials SS in ISAAC ASIMOV
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
258 pages
option 4: page 1 of Artificial Intelligence list
Ancillary Justice
356 pages
258+356= 614 pages
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755 points
Task 5.4 - Labor Daymain character Bella is mother to Grace
The Midnight Feast
(loc 449 "I'm a mother, for God's sake")
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760 points
Task 5.6 Preserving HistoryRead a book with a word in the title of three or more letters (excluding And, The), made from either ENGLISH HERITAGE or HISTORIC SCOTLAND or (if you can find one!) CADW.
Required: State the word and the phrase used. '
Used: HISTORIC SCOTLAND
SAINTS = hISToric ScotlANd
Saints and Strangers (1985) by Angela Carter (Paperback 126 pages)
90 + 05 = 95
Tasks Completed: 07
Points for this post: 05
Points thus far: 90 + 05 = 95
Books read: 08
Pages read: 2,356
Read but not claimed: 02
Goodreads Authors: 04
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 02
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Julia10315.2 Machu Picchu Peru
Book 1- Read a book with a train or train tracks on the cover.
Book 2- Read a book with a single author's first and last initials in the phrase LOST CITY OF THE INCAS
Damsel by Evelyn Skye
This post: 15 points
Total points: 510
Total BB: 0
Total GO: 3
Total NF: 3
Tasks completed: 27
Books read: 39
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: JenJ IA's task- Landmarked: History in the Hawkeye StateMPG Historical Fiction
Option 2: Precontact Sites
Read a book with a 3+ word title (subtitles excluded) where all of the title words begin with a letter in ONE of the site names
Les ombres d'Adelaide Hills by Kate Morton
L O D H found in the site name DAVIS ORIOLE EARTH LODGE
Points this Post: 20
Points Total: 280
Rockynook20.1 - Onihei Jokei
Read a book that combines a real historical event with fictional ones.
The First Hunt by Audrey J. Cole
Includes fictionalized accounts from The Green River Serial Killer
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 390
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Read a book written in a dual/multiple timeline
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? by Nicci French
Set partially in the 1990s and partially in the 2020s.
Points This Post: 10
Season Total: 25
IAF Total: 1