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FALL CHALLENGE 2025
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SWITCHING TASKSTaking back 5.1 - Post 1552
This was a BB as well
Anathema
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Points This Post: -5
Total Points: 770
Total Tasks Completed: 40
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Big Books: 6
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
5.1 By The NumbersRead a book where the title (Subtitles excluded) has at least one word of 7, 8, or ,9 letters.
Brimstone by Callie Hart
CLAIMING BB
672 pages, Hardcover
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 775
Total Tasks Completed: 41
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Big Books: 7
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
5.5 DwaliRead a book with a lighted candle on the cover.
by Christa Carmen~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 780
Total Tasks Completed: 42
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Big Books: 7
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
5.7 National TrustRead a book with a single author's first and last initials can be found in NATIONAL TRUst.
by Shantel TessierCLAIMING BB
606 pages, Paperback
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 785
Total Tasks Completed: 43
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Big Books: 8
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
5.10 Fall Into ReadingFall into reading by reading a book of your choice that meets SRC rules.
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 790
Total Tasks Completed: 44
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Big Books: 8
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
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, vehicles do not count.
by Brynne WeaverThere are windows seen on the buildings in the background.
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 800
Total Tasks Completed: 45
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Big Books: 8
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
10.3 Where Past and Present MeetRead a book that is written in a dual/multiple timeline.
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
This book is told from both Vermont in 1950 and Vermont in 2014 - as stated in the description.
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 810
Total Tasks Completed: 46
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Big Books: 8
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
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
Anathema by Keri Lake
*This is the book I switched from post 5.1*
CLAIMING BB
624 pages, Hardcover
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 820
Total Tasks Completed: 47
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Big Books: 9
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
20.5 - Bigger is Better: Tammy AZ's task - Pearl JamIn honor of this band read a book, that is at least 350 pages, from one of the following two options:
Option 1:
Read a book where the title contains one of the words from any of the songs titles from the album: Ten, Once, Even Flow, Alive, Why Go, Black, Jeremy, Oceans, Porch, Garden, Deep, Release
Black Rose by Karina Halle
408 pages, Paperback
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 840
Total Tasks Completed: 48
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Big Books: 9
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
50.1 - trishhartuk's Task: NewgrangeTotal combined pages must equal 750 or greater.
At least one of your books must be at least 50% set in or about Ireland, or written by an author born in Ireland (Northern or Eire).
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.
Sun
Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli
400 pages
Book 2
Option A. Read a book with a three-word title.
Blood of Hercules by Jasmine Mas
496 pages, Paperback
Book 3
Option B. Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in “wINTeR SOLSTICE”
The Story Collector by Evie Woods
From the description, "Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate fairy stories from Irish to English."
and "Sarah Harper boards a plane bound for the West Coast of Ireland."
This is my book set in Ireland
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Points This Post: 50
Total Points: 890
Total Tasks Completed: 49
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Big Books: 9
Golden Oldies: 0
It's a Fact: 0
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Amy B20.7 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.
Required: State the option.
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:
Required: State the site name used
TOOLESBORO MOUNDS: The Sea Elephants by Shastri Akella
This Task: 20 Points
To Date: 355 Points
SHEMAC 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
Required: State the word - FLAMES
Up in Flames
This task points: 10
Total season points: 810
Option 15.3 Stonehenge United KingdomOption 1: First published in a year that contains at least 2 numbers from the list (1, 2, 3, 5, 7) Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Option 2: Set in the UK Too Close by Natalie Daniels
http://www.chicklitcentral.com/2019/0... - This review mentions that the book is set in Britain
This Task:
Points: 15
Books Read: 2
GO Ticket: 0
BB Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 370
Books Read: 29
GO Ticket: 2
BB Ticket: 3
IAF Ticket: 6
Tasks Completed: 16
SHEMAC 5.6 Preserving History
Read a book with a word in the title of three or more letters made from either ENGLISH HERITAGE, HISTORIC SCOTLAND or CADW.
Required: State the word and the phrase used - HISTORIC SCOTLAND - RANCH
Temptation Ranch
This task points: 5
Total season points: 815
5.7 National TrustBook: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Task: Read a book with a single author's first and last initials can be found in NATIONAL TRUST.
How it fits: by Salman Rushdie, initials S, R in tRuSt
Points this post: 5
Total points: 130
Kelly L 30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
This is a 2 book task. Choose 2 different options and read 1 book for each option. Every task will revolve around books you read or tasks you have completed from the Summer and Fall Season of 2025.
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.
In the Summer 2025 challenge, I completed task 20.2 by choosing option 2.
For Fall 2025 task 30.1, I chose to complete option 3: Read a book which has been made into a TV series, movie series or single movie.
The Underground Railroad was adapted into a TV series. (Link to Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Und...)
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 Family Outing, which was first published in October (2022)
For Fall 2025 task 30.1, I read Nine Dragons, which was also published in October, but in a different year (2009)
This post: 30 points
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Season total: 530 points
Season Tickets: 2 IAF, 1 BB
15.7 - Parthenon GreeceMPG Travel
The Puma Years by Laura Coleman
Points this post: 15
Total points: 295 + 15 = 310
25.9 - Cat's Task: 30 Years of PulpOption 1, task 1, title word in one of the track titles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differe...
The Hollywood Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal
The track title is "I Spy."
The book title word is Spy.
Option 1, task 2, title word in one of the track titles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_(P...
Love by Toni Morrison
The track title is "Got to Have Love."
The book title word is Love.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 930
LoraTask: 10.9 Coven, Claw, Fang, or Wrap
Read a book with one of these words in the title: Witch, Werewolf, Vampire, and Mummy.
Book/Author: The Witch at the Edge of the Wood / Liz Delton
How it fits: title word WITCH
Points for this task: 10
Total points: 540
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 3
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
LoraTask: 5.4 Labor Day
Read a book where the main character is a mother.
Book/Author: Pads, Purses, and Plum Pudding / Aubrey Wynne
How it fits: the FMC takes in an abandoned girl and mothers her
Points for this task: 5
Total points: 545
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 3
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
LoraTask: 5.8 Corps of Discovery
Read a book that takes place, at least 50%, in one of these States: Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon
Book/Author: From Snow / J.E. Pace
How it fits: set in Kentucky; ref Amazon blurb "hills of Kentucky": https://a.co/d/f9VUqcc
Points for this task: 5
Total points: 550
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 3
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
Task 20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025Option 2:
Read a book that is #2 or later in a series-whole numbers only.
Required: Series must be listed on book page
Murder with Ganache (Key West Food Critic Mystery #4) (2014) by
Lucy Burdette (Goodreads Author) (Paperback 297 pages)
215 + 20 = 235
Tasks Completed: 15
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 215 + 20 = 235
Books read: 18
Pages read: 5,227
Read but not claimed: 01
Goodreads Authors: 10
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 02
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Gangee Pompeli Italy 15.4 Option 2: rea a book fulfills both requirements of option one.
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
double letters, ss listed under Historical Fiction
points 15 total points 105
CathyG20.1 Most Improved: Kai's Task- Onihei Jokei
Read a book that combines a real historical event with fictional ones. For a historical event, we are looking for an event of limited scope (location, time, participants) that someone could put up a historical marker to memorialize. event must be featured or essential to the storyline, not simply mentioned or observed in a newspaper or on television by the characters.
Required: State the event Creation and marketing of Barbie
Let's Call Her Barbie by Renée Rosen
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 520/985
Tasks Completed 23/57
IAF -6
GO -
CathyG20.2 - Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage Month
Pick one option and read one book for that option.
Required: State which option you choose.
Option 2:
Read a nonfiction book from the first 20 pages of this list: Native American History
Required: State the page the book was found on p3
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Claiming It's a Fact ticket
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 540/985
Tasks Completed 24/57
IAF -7
CathyG20.3 - 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 1: Read a book by an author that shares the same FIRST NAME Initial of The First LETTER in you YOUR READERBOARD name
First letter in CathyG - C
Author used is - Christina Lauren-
The Honeymoon Crashersby Christina Lauren
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 560/985
Tasks Completed 25/57
IAF -7
CathyG20.7 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
Required: State the option.
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: DAVIS ORIOLE EARTH LODGE
Hardly a Gentleman by Eloisa James
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 580/985
Tasks Completed 26/57
IAF -7
CathyG20.8- 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.
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 600/985
Tasks Completed 27/57
IAF -7
FLY Task #25.7 - Fly's Task: A Tribute to Dad
task: Option 5: MC has one of the listed professions
book: The Spellman Files (353 pages)
how it fits: MC is a private investigator (in description)
task: Option 6: MPG Humor
book: Network Effect (350 pages)
how it fits: MPG Humor
other:
minimum page count: 353 + 350 > 500
Points this post: 25
Total points: 510
Tasks completed: 25/57
BB: 2 / GO: 8 / IAF: 0
Lisa MD50.1 - Trishhartuk's Task Newgrange
Required:
1 - 750+pgs total - 768 total pgs read
2 - Published 1993 or later - All 3 books published after 1993
3 - 1 book set 50% in Ireland OR author born in Northern Ireland or Eire - Option 1 author satisfies requirement
Option 1: Title word 3+ letters matches word in lyrics of Newgrange song
So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan
128 pgs
First published February 22, 2022
Claire Keegan born in Wexford, Ireland
Title Word: "Day" matches word in Newgrange song
Option 2A: 3 Word title
The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose
288 pgs
First published April 15, 2025
Option 3A: Set in winter
Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson
352 pgs
First published November 12, 2012
Set in winter on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 50
Total Points: 760/985
Total Books Read: 59
Total Tasks Completed: 46/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
IAF Tickets: 13
Julia10320.8- Nickels and Dimes: MEGSCL's Task: Korean Reads
Option 2: Read a book that is by a Korean author. The author can be Korean either by birth, residence, or ethnicity (e.g. if they identify as Korean-American).
The Red Palace by June Hur
This post: 20 points
Total points: 785
Total BB: 0
Total GO: 6
Total NF: 3
Tasks completed: 42
Books read: 59
Kathy KS15.7 Parthenon Greece
Read a book with MPG Travel
What If I Never Get Over You by Paige Toon
MPG includes: Travel (Approved in Task Help message 27)
I read as an ebook; pb-416 p. (no mmpb) What If I Never Get Over You
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Points for this task: 15
Total points : 485
Tasks completed: 20/57
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
Joanne MIDISREGARD THIS POST. I REALIZED TOO LATE THAT I HAD ALREADY USED BOOK 1 SOMEWHERE ELSE
15-1 Ancient or New?
Book 1 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.
The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines
Colossus of Rhodes
The word is Hours
Claiming 1 IAF
Book 2 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.
Mystic and Rider
Christ the Redeemer
The word is Rider
Points this task 15
IAF this task 1
Season Total 190
4 BB's 5 IAF
trishhartuk20.2 Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage Month
Option 1: Read a fiction book from this list: Native American Literature.
Sacred Clowns, Tony Hillerman (305pg)
On page 7 of the list, towards the top (around #7)
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 660
Tasks Completed: 41
It’s a Fact Tickets: 3
Golden Oldie Tickets: 7
10.4 Where the Dead Still Walk Read a book that is set at least 50 percent in Scotland, France, or India
Set in France:
Time Regained by Marcel Proust
Points this post: 10
Total points: 190
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.
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus - Of aRTemiS ePhesUs
Proust
This book has 100+ pages of text along with the art
Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to 'In Search of Lost Time' by Eric Karpeles
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.
Great Wall of China - WaLL chIna
Will
No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024 by Najwan Darwish
Points this post: 15
Total points: 205
15.8 Easter Island ChileRead a book with at least 3 people on the cover.
McSweeney's Issue 79 by Rita BullwinkelPoints this post: 15
Total points: 220
20.1 Most Improved: Kai's Task- Onihei Jokei Read a book that combines a real historical event with fictional ones.
New York Hotel Bombing
The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
Points this post: 20
Total points: 240
20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025Option 1:
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.
133 pages
The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto
Points this post: 20
Total points: 260
Angela IL30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
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.
Completed Fall Task 20.6 Option 1: Read a book that is between 100-250 pages
Using Option 3 for this task: Read a non-fiction book from one of these lists: Nonfiction Published in Year: 2025 (on page 5)
We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, & Amanda Doyle-10/11
Claiming It's a Fact Ticket and a Big Book Ticket (512 pages)
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. The day does not matter.
Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell-9/9
Published June 2025
Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave-10/6
Published June 2015 (Used this book for Fall 30.5 task)
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 235
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 16
It's A Fact: 2
Big Book: 1
Angela IL20.3 - 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 YOUR READERBOARD name
The Compound by Aisling Rawle-11/17
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 255
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 17
It's A Fact: 2
Big Book: 1
Elizabeth PTask 15.10 - Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, Zambia
Title of 3+ words, initial letters found in one of phrases
I chose BOILING WATER
A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan
bOiling WAteR
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 450
Total Tasks: 28
GO: 0
BB: 6
IAF: 0
Total Books: 34
Elizabeth PTask 25.3 - There's a First Time for Everything
Option 2A: Book set in New York City
Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza
Option 3A: Book that has won an Audie Award
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Per book's main page, won award in 1998
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 475
Total Tasks: 29
GO: 0
BB: 6
IAF: 0
Total Books: 36
SHEMAC20.8- Nickels and Dimes: MEGSCL's Task: Korean Reads
Pick an option and read one book
Required: State the option - 2
Option 2: Read a book that is by a Korean author.
Required: If not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park
This task points: 20
Total season points: 835
SHEMAC15.8 Easter Island Chile
Read a book with at least 3 people on the cover. Silhouettes will work, but not skeletons.
Required: Post the cover
Little Did We KnowThis task points: 15
Total season points: 850
5.3 American Football MPG Sports: Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Points this post: 5
Total points: 935
5.4 Labor DayMain Character is a mother: The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path by Emma Heming Willis
This is a memoir about the author's experience as a caregiver for her husband.
https://emmahemingwillis.com/about-me/
"... I was grappling with grief, the loss of the life I had known, all while raising our two young daughters."
Points this post: 5
Total points: 940
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5.7 National Trust:
Read a book with a single author's first and last initials can be found in NATIONAL TRUST:
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor.
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