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20.2 - Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage MonthOption 1:
Read a fiction book from this list: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Required: State the page the book was found on
Big Chief by Jon Hickey
Page 6, last one on page
Points This Task - 20
Total Points - 395
Total Tickets
BB - 1
GO - 3
IAF - 3
10.5 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
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Points This Task - 10
Total Points - 405
Total Tickets
BB - 1
GO - 3
IAF - 3
Amy FL25.3 Jecca's Task: There’s a First Time for Everything
Option 2A: book set in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island or New York City
The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club - set in Massachusetts (metadata)
Option 3A: book that won or was a finalist in the Audie Awards
A Line in the Sand - 2024 Mystery finalist
Points this post: 25
Total points: 960
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
The Names by Florence Knapp NAMES
Points This Task - 10
Total Points - 415
Amy FL25.5 - Bookwrm526's Task: SEC Football
Option 1: book set at least 75% in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, or Texas
Gone Too Far - set in Alabama (metadata)
Option 3: football is central to the story
The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory
Points this post: 25
Total points: 985
Finished! Thanks for your hard work and dedication mods!
Mai30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: Beauty is in the Eye of Beholder
Option 3: Book with an MPG of Historical Fiction
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
Option 4: Single author author whose first and last initial can be found in the word MUSEUM.
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 410
Tasks Completed: 26
Books Read: 31
NF Tickets: 3
BB Tickets: 2
Delicious Dee10.5 Season of the Harvest
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America - Roxanna Asgarian - RA in Harvest; claiming 1 its a fact for non-fiction
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 705
Its A Fact: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (2)
Delicious Dee25.2- Ash's Task- Slash and Survive: A Final Girl Challenge
Option 1 - If You've Got It, Haunt It - IT in title
Option 4 - Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance - book of short stories
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 730
Its A Fact: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (2)
Delicious Dee25.3 Jecca's Task: There’s a First Time for Everything
Option 1.A - Behind Every Good Man - main character is a politician
Option 3.A - William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope - Audie Award Nominee for Multi-Voiced Performance in 2014
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 755
Its A Fact: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (2)
Delicious Dee25.8 - Slideshell's Task: Eagles and Terps Touchdown Reading Rally
Option 1 - The Green Mill Murder - GREEN in title
Option 6 - Murder Uncorked - Maddie Day - MD can be found in MARYLAND TERRAPINS
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 780
Its A Fact: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (2)
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20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: JenJ IA's task- Landmarked: History in the Hawkeye State
Book must have an MPG of Historical or Historical Fiction (First Genre: Historical Fiction)
Option 2: Precontact Sites - read a book with a 3+ word title where all of the title words begin with a letter in ONE of these site names: TOOLESBORO MOUNDS (TBL)
The Boxcar Librarian
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 855 /985
Tasks Completed 48/57
IAF - 10
GO - 3
Elizabeth PTask 20.4 - What Fall Brings
Option 2: Book cover at least 40%+ Green
by B.K. BorisonTineye:
52.4 %#9bc6b0Green
12.6 %#25383cGrey
7.5 %#c54e2bOrange
7.0 %#cf9668Brown
6.1 %#f9f8f7White
5.8 %#446359Grey
5.1 %#d2b391Brown
2.0 %#563a28Brown
1.1 %#5f5f4cGrey
0.5 %#c37148Brown
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 270
Total Tasks: 18
GO: 0
BB: 5
IAF: 0
Total Books: 20
Lisa MD15.6 - Tikal Guatemala
Swimming pool on cover
Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 560/985
Total Books Read: 44
Total Tasks Completed: 36/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 10
Lisa MD15.7 - Parthenon Greece
MPG: Travel
Come Fly with Me by Camille Di Maio
🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 575/985
Total Books Read: 45
Total Tasks Completed: 37/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 10
Lisa MD15.10 - Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, Zambia
3+ Word Title - beginning letters in "Thundering Smoke," "Smoke that Rises," OR "Boiling Water"
Swift and Saddled by Lyla Sage
Title Word Beginning Letters: "SAS" found in Smoke thAt riSes
🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂🦉🍂🎃🍁🦇🍂
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 590/985
Total Books Read: 46
Total Tasks Completed: 38/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 10
Deborah5.9 Celebrate History
Read a book set at least 50 percent 100 years ago- 1925 or earlier.
The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States First published January 1, 1776
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 250
Books Read: 20
Tasks Done: 15
Bookwrm526Task #20.4 - What Fall Brings
Option 1: Read a book with any of the words HUNT, HUNTER or HUNTING in the title/subtitle. Word must be exact, no variations allowed. I read The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones.
Total points so far: 850
10.2 Window to the PastRead a book with a window on the over. The full window must be visible and shown as a window on a building
The Lost Bookshop Evie WoodsPoints for this Task - 10
Total Points - 425
20.5 - Bigger is Better: Tammy AZ's task - Pearl JamOption 2 - Read a book set at least 50% in one of the two locations I saw Pearl Jam on this most recent tour: Montana (anywhere in the state) or New Orleans.
What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
>50% set in the wilderness of Montana
Points this Task - 20
Total Points - 445
20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025Option 1 Read a book that is between 100-250 pages.
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green 198 pages
Option 3 read a non-fiction book from one of these lists:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
First page, #2
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
** Claim IAF Ticket**
Points This Task - 20
IA F ticket - 1
Total Points - 465
Total Tickets
BB - 1
GO - 3
IAF - 4
25.2- Ash's Task- Slash and Survive: A Final Girl Challenge Read a book where a Roadtrip is essential to the story.
Option 2
Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson MPG - RoadtripOption 6
Read a book off of one of these lists.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
Ultimate The Ballad of Snakes and Songbirds : A Novel by Suzanne Collins
First page, #34
Points This Task - 25
Total Points - 490
25.4 - Robin P's Task: The ABC'sOption 1
Read a book whose author's first and last initials are sequential in the alphabet
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris this is Non-Fiction
Option 4
Read a book whose main character is in kindergarten through high school.
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Book starts day before her first day of school and continues until she has graduated and sailing away to go to Nursing School
Points This Task - 25
IAF ticket - 1
Total Points - 515
Total Tickets
BB - 1
GO - 3
IAF - 5
25.6 – Lisa MD's Task: The Harry Bosch UniverseOption 3
Read a book by a single author whose first and last initial can be found in one of the main characters' name: “Mickey Haller,”
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
Option 4
Read a book from any series with at least 3 primary works that has an MPG of Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Legal Thriller or Detective which has been adapted to the big screen or developed into a TV series or movie. Add link
A Song of Comfortable Chairs by Alexander McCall Smith
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1356380/...
Points This Task - 25
Total Points - 540
20.10 Group Readsyou must participate in the book's discussion thread
Sociopath by Patric Gagne
**Claim Non-Fiction**
Points This Task - 20
IAF Ticket - 1
Total Points - 560
Total Tickets
BB - 1
GO - 3
IAF - 6
ROBIN P15.1 Ancient or New?
Book 1: 4+ ltr word in title from list of ancient wonders
Pride and Prejudice - PRIDE found in grEat PyRAmID
**Claiming 1 GO point, orig pub 1813
Book 2: 4+ltr word in title from list of modern wonders
The Ruin of a Rake - RUIN found in lighthoUse of alexaNdRIa
Points this post: 15
Total points: 795
BB:3 BO:5 IAF:6
trishhartuk10.7 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.
The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides (340pg)
SILENT: the aShaNTI yam fEstivaL
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 590
Tasks Completed: 37
It’s a Fact Tickets: 3
Golden Oldie Tickets: 6
Jasmiina F15.9 Angkor Wat Cambodia:
Read a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA:
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 100
Golden Oldies this post:
Total Golden Oldies:
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+:
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
LoraTask: 30.7 Delicious Dee's Task: Classic Science-Fiction: Isaac Asimov, using options 2 and 4
Book 1: Read a book by a single author where ALL the author’s initials can be found in ISAAC ASIMOV.
Book/Author: How to Survive a Horror Story/Mallory Arnold
How it fits: author initials are MA; 368 pages
Book 2: read a book from list
Book/Author: William/Mason Coile
How it fits: on the Artificial Intelligence list on page 5; 224 pages
Total pages: 592
Points for this task: 30
Total points: 445
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
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: 1
5.5 DiwaliA book with a lighted candle on cover
When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice by Ilise S. Carter Non-Fiction **Claim IAF Ticket**
Points this Task - 5
IAF Ticket - 1
Total Points - 565
Total Tickets
BB- 1
GO - 3
IAF - 7
20.1 Most Improved: Kai's Task- Onihei JokeiRead a book that combines a real historical event with fictional ones.
The World's Fair Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
In 1933, Sears and Roebuck sponsored a quilt contest for the upcoming World’s Fair in Chicago. The finalists were exhibited at fair. The winner received $1000 and the quilt was presented to the First Lady, Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt. This book is about two sisters who participated in the contest.
https://www.qisforquilter.com/2010/12...
Points This Task - 20
Total Points - 585
10.1 School is Cool!Go back to school and read a non fiction book with the MPG Science, Mathmatics, or History
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II by Abbott Kahler Non - Fiction
**CLAIM IAF TICKET**
Points this Task - 10
IAF Ticket - 1
Total Points - 595
Total Tickets
BB - 1
GO - 3
IAF - 8
Elizabeth PTask 25.1 - Gothic Types
Option 2: One book from lists, one book with snow on cover
Book 1: Book from one of the lists, I chose Noir Books:
The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Page 6 of Noir Books
Book 2: Book with snow on cover
by B.K. BorisonPoints this Post: 25
Total Points: 295
Total Tasks: 19
GO: 0
BB: 5
IAF: 0
Total Books: 22
30.5 Amy FL’s task - Back to the gymOption 2
Read a book with a title (excludes subtitles) word of 4 or more letters that can be made from "NO LAP SWIMMING DURING CLASS.”
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams - LONG
Option 4
Read a book that shares their initials. The initials can be reversed so SC, CS, PC, CP, DC, CD, SF, and FS all work.
The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
Points for this Task - 30
Total Points - 625
Mai25.1 - Nick KY’s Task : Gothic Types
Option 2 – Read two books.
Book 1. Read ONE book from the Noir list, page 1.
Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me by Ed Brubaker
Book 2. Snow on the cover.
Wintersmith by Terry PratchettPoints this post: 25
Total Points: 435
Tasks Completed: 27
Books Read: 33
NF Tickets: 3
BB Tickets: 2
30.7 Delicious Dee's Task: Classic Science-Fiction: Isaac Asimov Must be 501 pages combined
Option 3 – Isaac Asimov was born 2 January 1920 and died 6 April 1992. Read a book that was first published between those dates- inclusive.
The Professor's House by Willa Cather Pub in 1925, 225 pages
**Claim GO ticket**
Option 5
Read a book that has been adapted and released into a movie or television series. If the movie/tv series is from a series of books, any book from that series may be read.
The Great Hippopotamus Hotel by Alexander McCall Smith. 288 pages
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1356380/...
Points This Task - 30
GO Ticket - 1
Total Points - 655
Total Tickets
BB - 1
GO - 4
IAF - 8
Mod
25.9 - Cat's Task: 30 Years of Pulp
Option 1: Read a book w/ a 3+ title word from one of the Different Class track titles
Track: "Sorted for E's & Wizz"; Word: FOR
Waiting for Godot
(Alt edition for page count: Waiting for Godot)
Option 2: Read a book w/ a 3+ title word from one of the More track titles
Track: "A Sunset"; Word: SUNSET
Sunset Limited
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 885/985
Tasks Completed: 51/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(7), GO(8), IaF(13)
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20.2- Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage Month
Option 3
Read a book with a setting of 50% or more in a state with a Native American reservation
These states are
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
The Medical Examiner by James Patterson
Required: If the setting is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference. - Searching Google with the terms: "setting of the Medical Examiner Women's Murder Club book," AI Overview stated: "The Medical Examiner book, from the Women's Murder Club series, is set in San Francisco, California."
points this post 20
total points 470/985
31/57
2 IAF / 2 BB / 0 GO
20.2 - Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage Month
Option 3: Read a book set 50%+ in a state with a Native American reservation
State: LOUISIANA
Jolie Blon's Bounce
(Alt copy for page count: Jolie Blon's Bounce)
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 905/985
Tasks Completed: 52/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(7), GO(8), IaF(13)
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15.3 - Stonehenge United Kingdom
Option 2: book with with a first published year that includes at least 2 unique numbers from this list: 1,2,3,5,7 AND set in the United Kingdom
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 15/985
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
30.2 Susan A's Task - Halloween CostumesOption 3
Read a book with the word MYSTERY or MYSTERIES in the title
The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet and Other Mysteries by Burton Egbert Stevenson pub in 1911
**Claim GO Ticket **
Option 5
Read a book with the word PUMPKIN (intact) in the title or subtitle.
In the Time of Five Pumpkins by Alexander McCall Smith
Points This Task - 30
GO Ticket - 1
Total Points - 685
Total Tickets
BB - 1
GO - 5
IAF - 8
MEGSCL10.3 Where Past and Present Meet
Read a book that is written in a dual/multiple timeline.
The Actual Star
From blurb - “telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart”
** big book ticket - 624 pages
TOTAL
95 points - 1 IAF ticket - 2 BB ticket
MEGSCL10.10 Do They Exist?
Read a book where cryptids are essential to the story.
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre - mentions bigfoot
TOTAL
105 points - 1 IAF ticket - 2 BB ticket
MEGSCL5.1 By The Numbers
Read a book where the title has at least one word of 7, 8, or 9 letters
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing (3 different 7 letter words - take your pick!)
**non fiction IAF ticket
TOTAL
110 points - 2 IAF ticket - 2 BB ticket
MEGSCL15.7 Parthenon Greece
MPG travel
Is a River Alive?
**non fiction IAF ticket
TOTAL
125 points - 3 IAF ticket - 2 BB ticket
10.1 School is Cool! Non-fiction with MPG History: The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss
Points this post: 10
Total points: 735
15.1 Ancient or New?Book 1, title word spelled from one of the 7 Ancient Wonders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_W...
A Fountain Filled with Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming
The word is Blood.
The Wonder is Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Book 2, title word spelled from one of the 7 New Wonders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_7_W...
Close Knit by Jenny Colgan
The word is Close.
The Wonder is Colosseum.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 750
LoraTask: 25.5 - Bookwrm526's Task: SEC Football, using options 1 and 2
Book 1: Read a book set at least 75% in one of these states
Book/Author: Hot Cross Burglary / Katy Lee
How it fits: set in Moss Hollow, Georgia
Book 2: Choose a mascot from the list below and read a book with that animal on the cover.
Book/Author: All Gators Go To Heaven / Cynthia Rowan
How it fits: using Florida, alligator silhouette on the cover
Points for this task: 25
Total points: 470
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
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: 1
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ10.1 - School is Cool!
Read a non fiction book with the MPG Science, Mathematics, or History
What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara Butcher
The book has a MPG of "Science".
Link to PB edition (no MMP edition): Co wiedzą umarli
This post: 10 points
Total points to date: 165 points
Tasks completed: 15
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