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FALL CHALLENGE 2025
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Amy B20.8- Nickels and Dimes: MEGSCL's Task: Korean Reads
Pick an option and read one book
Required: State the option
Option 1: Read a book that is set at least 50% in Korea (North or South)
Required: If setting is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
We Do Not Part (set on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea) by Han Kang (author born in South Korea)
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 270 Points
Amy B20.3 - Review Raffle: Masoodah's Task -What's in a name?
Choose one option and read one book for that option.
For this task multiple authors may be used as long as one of them satisfies the option chosen.
Required: State the option
Option 2: Read a book by an author that shares the same LAST NAME initial of the LAST LETTER in YOUR READERBOARD name.
We, the Kindling by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek - Letter B in Bitek and Amy B
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 290 Points
Amy B10.7 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.
I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir by Maurice Vellekoop (time)
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 300 Points
Amy B25.3 Jecca's Task: There’s a First Time for Everything
This is a Two book task.
Choose 2 different options and read one book for each option.
Required State the options
B - Boxall
This is the complete list: https://thereadersroom.org/1001-books/
Read a book from this list (All SRC default rules apply)
London Fields by Martin Amis
B - Content
Read a book that has a college setting.
Required: If the setting is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad - series #2 is a retelling of the original story from the antagonists' point of view, set at a New England college Master of Fine Arts program
This Task: 25 Points
To Date: 325 Points
Amy B10.5 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
Letters may be used as many times as they appear.
Bad Gateway by Simon Hanselmann
This Task: 10 Points
To Date: 335 Points
HanneloreTask 30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: Beauty is in the Eye of Beholder
Option 3: Read a book with an MPG of Historical Fiction or Art. MPG may be imbedded.
Book: Anna Karenina
How it fits: Book has the MPG Historical Fiction.
Option 4: Read a book with a single author author's first and last initial can be found in the word MUSEUM.
Book: Stilte
How it fits: Author is Mia Sheridan. MS can be found in the word 'MuSeum'.
** Claiming a 1000+ big book ticket for Anna Karenina, my version has 1232 pages. **
** Also claiming a GO ticket for Anna Karenina. Published in 1878. **
Points this task: 30
Total points: 80
Tasks completed: 3
BB tickets:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(1) 1,000+
GO tickets: 1
IAF tickets: 2
Mai15.1 Ancient or New?
Book 1
Book with a word of 4+ letters in the title that can be spelled from one of the 7 Ancient Wonders:
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK Guide by Project Management Institute
"Guide" and "Lighthouse of Alexandria"
*Claim 1 Non-Fiction Ticket*
Book 2: Book with a word of 4+ letters in the title that can be spelled from one of the 7 New Wonders:
Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher
"Grace" and "Great Wall of China"
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 560
Tasks Completed: 36
Books Read: 45
NF Tickets: 6
BB Tickets: 3
JennB8241215.1 Ancient or New?
Book 1: Children of Fallen Gods
FALLEN Wonder: Lighthouse of Alexandria
**Big Book Ticket**
Book 2: Gone Before Goodbye
GONE Wonder: Great Wall of China
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 120
Total Tasks Completed: 8
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact:
Lisa MD10.1 - School is Cool!
MPG: (NF) - Science, Mathematics, History OR (F) - Literary Fiction, Literature, Dark Academia
History Matters by David McCullough
MPG: Nonfiction & History
***I claim an IAF ticket***
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 700/985
Total Books Read: 55
Total Tasks Completed: 44/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
IAF Tickets: 13
JennB8241220.2 - Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage Month
Read a book with a setting of 50% or more in a state with a Native American reservation-- Iowa
The Banned Books Club
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 140
Total Tasks Completed: 9
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact:
JennB8241220.3 - Review Raffle: Masoodah's Task -What's in a name?
Option 1: Read a book by an author that shares the same FIRST NAME Initial of The First LETTER in you YOUR READERBOARD name
Jenn/Jennifer Hillier
Jar of Hearts
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 160
Total Tasks Completed: 10
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact:
Rockynook5.1 By The Numbers
Read a book where the title (Subtitles excluded) has at least one word of 7, 8, or 9 letters.
The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday by Kiley Dunbar
Word: HOLIDAY
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 550
JennB8241220.4 - Golden Oldies: Erica H's Task - What Fall Brings
Option 3: Read a book by an author whose first OR last name can be spelled from the phrase
RIDDLE OR JOKE.
Reid- RIDDLE Taylor Jenkins Reid
Atmosphere
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 180
Total Tasks Completed: 11
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact:
Kai25.3 Jecca's Task: There’s a First Time for Everything
OPTION 1B
Read a book from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
#949 on the linked list
**Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket**
Published: 1922
OPTION 2A
Read a book set in one of the places we have toured; Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island or New York City (must NYC, not New York State).
Audition by Katie Kitamura
Setting: New York City
New Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 6
Total Points: 85
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 1
IT'S A FACT: 0
JennB8241220.9 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
J.T. Ellison ANTHONY JOSEPH - JTE
A Very Bad Thing
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 200
Total Tasks Completed: 12
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact:
JennB8241230.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
Option 1: Read another book by that author.
Book read this task: Last Seen J.T. Ellison
Book previously read: A Very Bad Thing - author was new to me.
Option 4: Choose any book you read in the Summer or Fall Season. The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club, pub date: June 2025
How to Age Disgracefully pub date: June 2024
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 230
Total Tasks Completed: 13
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact:
Kai30.7 Delicious Dee's Task: Classic Science-Fiction: Isaac Asimov
Books must have a combined page count of at least 501 pages.
OPTION 3
Read a book that was first published between 2 January 1920 and 6 April 1992, inclusive.
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin
First Published 1955
Page Count: 238 pages
**Claiming 1 It's A Fact Ticket**
OPTION 5
Read a book that has been adapted into a movie or television series.
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Page Count: 276
Film Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tri...
**Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket**
First Published: 1925
Total Pages = 238+276 = 514
New Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 7
Total Points: 115
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 2
IT'S A FACT: 1
Kai25.2 Ash's Task- Slash and Survive: A Final Girl Challenge
OPTION 1
Read a book with "IT" in the title only- subtitles excluded. Word must be stand alone. Possessives allowed, no other variations.
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
**Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket and 1 It's a Fact Ticket**
First Published: 1930
OPTION 2
Read a book where a Roadtrip is essential to the story.
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
AR Results: IL: MG BL: 7.0 AR: 7.0
**Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket**
First Published: 1900
New Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 8
Total Points: 140
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 4
IT'S A FACT: 2
Kai20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025
OPTION 1
Read a book that is between 100-250 pages.
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
190 pages
**Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket and 1 It's a Fact Ticket**
First Published: 1513
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 9
Total Points: 160
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 5
IT'S A FACT: 3
Kai20.4 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
Love Forms by Claire Adam
52.9% Green
New Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 10
Total Points: 180
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 5
IT'S A FACT: 3
Kai15.10 Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, Zambia
OPTION 2
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the first letter of each word comes from one of the following phrases: 'Thundering Smoke', 'Smoke that Rises, OR 'Boiling Water'.
Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson
Phrase Used: Thundering Smoke
**Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket**
First Published: 1885
New Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 11
Total Points: 195
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 6
IT'S A FACT: 3
Kai15.9 Angkor Wat Cambodia
Read a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA
The Search Party by Hannah Richell
HR - Khmer
New Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 12
Total Points: 210
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 6
IT'S A FACT: 3
Kai10.1 School is Cool!
Read a fiction book with MPG Literary fiction/Literature or Dark Academia,
MPGs may be stand alone or embedded
Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan
MPG: Literary Fiction
New Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 13
Total Points: 220
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 6
IT'S A FACT: 3
Kai5.9 Celebrate History
Read a book set at least 50 percent 100 years ago- 1925 or earlier.
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus
Set immediately after the Trojan War (12-13th Century BC): Reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oresteia
**Claiming 1 Golden Oldie Ticket**
First Published 459 BC
New Points: 5
Tasks Completed: 14
Total Points: 225
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 7
IT'S A FACT: 3
Kai5.10 Fall into Reading
Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
New Points: 5
Tasks Completed: 15
Total Points: 230
BIG BOOK: 0
GOLDEN OLDIES: 7
IT'S A FACT: 3
Lisa MD10.2 - Window to the Past
Full window of building on cover
Good Dog, Bad Cop by David Rosenfelt
If you zoom in on book cover, the windows on building are visible.
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 710/985
Total Books Read: 56
Total Tasks Completed: 45/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
IAF Tickets: 13
Mai25.3 Jecca's Task: There’s a First Time for Everything
Option 2: College
A - Location: Book set in NYC
Paradise Logic by Sophie Kemp
The book is set mainly in Gowanus, Brooklyn, NYC
https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...
Option 3: Side Hustle
A - Audiobooks
Finalist of the 2007 Audie Award for Literary Fiction
https://www.audiopub.org/2007-audies-...
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 585
Tasks Completed: 37
Books Read: 47
NF Tickets: 6
BB Tickets: 3
JennB8241215.3 Stonehenge United Kingdom
Option 1: Published 2014
Red Rising
Option 2: The Story Collector
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 245
Total Tasks Completed: 14
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact:
JennB8241215.4 Pompeii Italy
Option 1: MPG Historical Fiction: The Book of Lost Friends
Option 2: Double letters: LL, YELLOWFACE
Yellowface
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 260
Total Tasks Completed: 15
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact:
JennB8241215.10 Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, Zambia
Thundering Smoke: Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 275
Total Tasks Completed: 16
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Big Books: 2
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact:
JennB8241210.1 School is Cool!
MPG Dark Academia
Nocticadia
Big Book Ticket: 682 pages
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 285
Total Tasks Completed: 17
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Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact:
SHEMAC50.1 - trishhartuk's Task: Newgrange
This is a 3 book task:
1. Read one book for each of the 3 options.
2. Total combined pages must equal 750 or greater. (344 + 238 + 248 = 830)
4. All books must have a first published date of 1993 or later
5. At least one of your books must be at least 50% set in or about Ireland (Northern or Eire).
Required: Book 3 set in Ireland - MPG precis
Book 1: Read a book with a word in the title of three or more letters matching a word in the lyrics of the song. https://genius.com/Clannad-newgrange-...
Words must match exactly.
Required: State the word - PLACE
Stand in Place
Book 2 - Choose one of the following options.
Required: State the option - A
Option A. Read a book with a three-word title.
The Mobster's Mate
Book 3 - Choose one of the following options.
Required: State the option - B
Option B. Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in “WINTER SOLSTICE” - C, W
Irish Charm by C.F. White
This task points: 50
Total season points: 800
JennB8241230.3 Katrisa’s Task: Leah Renee Comedian
Option 1 Location: Scotland
The Highland Fling
Option 3: Her Show 2024
Station Eleven - book is new to me
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 315
Total Tasks Completed: 18
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Big Books: 3
Golden Oldies:
It's a Fact:
Readerboard Name: Kathy P15.10 Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, Zambia
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the first letter of each word comes from one of the following phrases: 'Thundering Smoke', 'Smoke that Rises, OR 'Boiling Water'. Letters may be used as often as they appear.
The phrase used is BOILING WATER
Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
Claiming 1 Its a Fact Ticket.
Totals
Points: 285
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 9
Total books: 22
Total tasks: 17
CindyFTask 5.2 Autumn or Fall?
Autumn in title (Plurals allowed)
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner
Claim 1 Non-Fiction ticket
Points this post:5
Total points:325
Books read:31
Big books:1
Golden Oldies:2
Non-Fiction:2
Tasks completed:27
CindyFTask 20.3 What's in a Name
Option 2: Book by author that shares the same last name initial of last letter of reader board name (CindyF) Letter F
Small Country by Gaël Faye
Points this post:20
Total points:345
Books read:32
Big Books:1
Golden Oldies:2
Non-Fiction:2
Tasks completed:28
CathyG30.5 Amy FL’s task - Back to the gym
This is a two-book task. Choose two different options and read one book for each option.
Required State the options
Option 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.” Letters may only be used as often as they appear.
Required: State the word: crown
Crown by Evanthia Bromiley
Option 3: LA Fitness originated in California in 1984. Read a book set at least 50% in California.
Required: If the setting is not evident on the Goodreads book main page, provide a reference.
The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 430/985
Tasks Completed 19/57
IAF -6
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CathyG30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
Help Thread
This is a 2 book task. Choose 2 different options and read 1 book for each option.
Required State the options
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.
Required State book previously read and that the author was new to you.
A Man Called Ove - Frederik Bachman was new to me in Summer 2025
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
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.
Required State the previous task completed options and new chosen option.
20.4 Golden Oldies: Kai's Task - London Adventure Summer 2025 Option 3- PLAY
Read a play. The Odd Couple
Fall 2025 Option 5- JANE AUSTEN
Read a book with an MPG of Historical, Romance, or Historical Romance. MPGs must be stand-alone, not embedded.
Rose in Chains by Julie Soto
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 460/985
Tasks Completed 20/57
IAF -6
GO -
CathyG20.10 Group Reads
Read one of the books selected as a group read for the Fall 2025 season. The requirement for this task: you must participate in the book's discussion thread below with at least one post about the contents of the book or your reaction to the book after you have read the book.
Fiction: Fiction - Cozy Fantasy - The Lost Bookshop
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
Discussion Thread
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 480/985
Tasks Completed 21/57
IAF -6
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CathyG20.9 Moderator's Pet: Rockynook's task- Fall Birthdays
Choose an option and read one book for that option.
Required: State the option
Option 2: Happy Birthday, AJ!
To celebrate AJ’s birthday, 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, excluding the word “the”.
Letters may be used as often as they appear.
Required: state the phrase and word. Anthony Joseph -say-
Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 500/985
Tasks Completed 22/57
IAF -6
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Task 10.1 School is Cool!Read a fiction book with MPG Literary fiction/Literature or Dark Academia,
MPGs may be stand alone or embedded
MPG Literary Fiction
The Little Hotel (1973) by Christina Stead (Hardback 191 pages)
205 + 10 = 215
Tasks Completed: 14
Points for this post: 10
Points thus far: 205 + 10 = 215
Books read: 17
Pages read: 4,930
Read but not claimed: 02
Goodreads Authors: 09
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 02
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Kathy KS30.6 MAZZA1's Task: Name Swap
This is a Two book task. Both books read need to be single author only. Combined total for both books must be 501 pages or more.
Book 1: Read a book of your choice by a single author.
Book 2: Using your first book, read a second book whose author has the same name as the author of the first book BUT in the alternate position. ONLY first and last names count.
Book 1: Growing Up Weightless by John M. Ford
I listened to an audiobook; pb-261 p. (no mmpb)Growing Up Weightless
Book 2: Clocked Out: A Josie Posey Mystery by Anna St. John
I listened to an audiobook; pb-254 p. (no mmpb)Clocked Out: A Josie Posey Mystery
John M. Ford -- Anna St. John
Total Pages: 261+254=515 (>500)
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 470
Tasks completed: 19/57
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 2
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: 3
Mod
Read a book from one of these lists.
Halloween and Autumn Cozy Mysteries
Books to get you in the Halloween Mood
Rest in Pieces by Rita Mae Brown / pg 1 #24 on Halloween and Autumn Cozy Mysteries list
Points this post: 10
Total points: 925
Mod
Read a book where cryptids are essential to the story.
A Death in Door County by Annelise Ryan / cryptozoologist main character
Points this post: 10
Total points: 935
Mod
Read a book with a swimming pool on the cover.
by Anne Canadeo / swimming pool on coverPoints this post: 15
Total points: 950
Mod
Read a book with MPG Travel
Murder on the Minnesota by Conrad Allen / MPG Travel; noted here in case: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 15
Total points: 965
Mod
Option 2- Read a book that is by a Korean author.
A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur / born in Korea per GR author page
Points this post: 20
Total points: 985
Janice CA10.2 Window to the Past
Book cover shows windows in a building.
The World of Lore: Dreadful Places by Aaron Mahnke
+10
total: 85
tasks: 7
books:7
trishhartuk25.9 Cat's Task: 30 Years of Pulp
Includes a claim for a golden oldie ticket.
Option 1:
Task 1: Read a book that shares a title word with one of the track titles from Different Class
A Tine to Live, A Tine to Die, Maddie Day (334pg)
Uses LIVE from Live Bed Show
Task 2: Read a book that shares a title word with one of the track titles on More
Death on Gokumon Island, Seishi Yokomizo (283pg)
Uses ISLAND from Spike Island
Golden Oldie: first published in 1948
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldie: 1 – Death on Gokumon Island was first published in 1948
Total Points: 640
Tasks Completed: 40
It’s a Fact Tickets: 3
Golden Oldie Tickets: 7
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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Option 2- Read a book that fulfills both requirements of Option 1.
Book 1 - Read a book with MPG Historical Fiction
Book 2- Read a book with a word in the title that has a double letter. Examples of words with double letters: KEEP, HALL, COMMIT
Required: State the word
Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham (Blood)
This Task: 15 Points
To Date: 250 Points