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FALL CHALLENGE 2025
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SHEMAC 10.2 Window to the Past
Read a book with a window on the cover. The full window must be visible and shown as a window on a building, vehicles do not count.
Required: Post the cover.
Ashford HallThis task points: 10
Total season points: 860
Task 30.5 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.” Letters may only be used as often as they appear.
Required: State the word
WILL = no Lap sWImming during cLass
You Will Never Be Me (2024) by Jesse Q. Sutanto (female) (Goodreads Author) (Hardback 325 pages)
Option 3:
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.
Set entirely in Southern California.
Meet the Benedettos: A Novel (2023) by Katie Cotugno (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover 245 pages)
235 + 30 = 265
Tasks Completed: 16
Points for this post: 30
Points thus far: 235 + 30 = 265
Books read: 20
Pages read: 5,797
Read but not claimed: 00
Goodreads Authors: 11
Golden Oldies: 00
It’s a Fact (Non-Fiction): 02
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
CathyG5.1 By The Numbers
Read a book where the title (Subtitles excluded) has at least one word of 7, 8, or 9 letters.
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4.0
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 605/985
Tasks Completed 28/57
IAF -7
CathyG5.4 Labor Day
Read a book where the main character is a mother.
Required: If the main characters motherhood is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
A Few Pecans Short of a Pie by Molly Harper
80+ page book
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 610/985
Tasks Completed 29/57
IAF -7
CathyG10.2 Window to the Past
Read a book with a window on the cover. The full window must be visible and shown as a window on a building, vehicles do not count.
Required: Post the cover.
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson
IL: UG - BL: 4.0 - AR Pts: 3.0
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 620/985
Tasks Completed 30/57
IAF -7
CathyG15.4 Pompeii Italy
Help Thread
Required: State the option
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. Required: State the word peel
Option 2- Read a book that fulfills both requirements of Option 1.
by Mary Ann ShafferPoints this post: 15
Total Points: 635/985
Tasks Completed 31/57
IAF -7
Elizabeth P Task 15.3 - Stonehenge, UK
Option 2: 1 book that fit both options
Book set in UK that was published in a year with 2 of the 5 numbers
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Initially published 2007, which contains a 2 and 7
AR Bookfind: MG+
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 490
Total Tasks: 30
IAF: 0
BB: 6
GO: 0
Total Books: 37
Elizabeth PTask 30.2 - Halloween Costumes
Option 2: Book featuring an athlete
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata
Option 3: Book with word mystery or mysteries in the series title
A Trinket for the Taking by Victoria Laurie
Book 1 of the Magical Trinket Mysteries series
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 520
Total Tasks: 31
IAF: 0
BB: 6
GO: 0
Total Books: 39
MEGSCL10.8 The Ghouls Guide to Reading
Books to get you in the halloween mood list page 1.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
Carmilla
*published 1872 *GOLDEN OLDIE*
TOTAL
185 points - 4 IAF ticket - 3 BB ticket - 1 Golden
MEGSCL15.10 Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, Zambia
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the first letter of each word comes from 'Smoke that Rises’
The Mushroom Tapes
**non fiction IAF ticket
TOTAL
200 points - 4 IAF ticket - 3 BB ticket
trishhartuk20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: JenJ IA's task- Landmarked: History in the Hawkeye State
Includes a claim for an IAF ticket.
Option 4: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in either POLITICS OR GOVERN.
On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing In 2025, Timothy Snyder (130pg)
Author initials in poliTicS
Historical is the last MPG under “more” on the main book page. History is the second MPG if that also counts.
It’s a Fact: MPGs include Nonfiction, History, Politics, Political Science and Historical
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
It’s a Fact: 1 – On Tyranny is Nonfiction
Total Points: 680
Tasks Completed: 42
It’s a Fact Tickets: 4
Golden Oldie Tickets: 7
FLY Task #30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
task: 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.
book: The Women of Brewster Place
how it fits: (from summer task 30.5.3 - previously did options 1 and 2)
Option 3: Read a book with a single author’s first and last initial that can be found in NIAGARA FALLS.
author Gloria Naylor initials GN in (N)IA(G)ARA
task: 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.
book: Exit Strategy
how it fits: this book First published October 2, 2018. In Summer Season read Graceling, First published October 1, 2008.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 540
Tasks completed: 26/57
BB: 2 / GO: 8 / IAF: 0
FLY Task #30.2 Susan A's Task - Halloween Costumes
+ GO ticket
task: 1. PIRATES: Read a book with all the letters of PIRATES found in the book title and/or author(s) name(s)
book: A Spindle Splintered
how it fits: (A SPI)ndle splin(TER)ed
task: 3. SHAGGY & VELMA: Read a book with the word MYSTERY or MYSTERIES in the title, subtitle, or series title.
book: The Seven Dials Mystery
how it fits: MYSTERY in the title
other:
**Claiming GO ticket for The Seven Dials Mystery First published 1929
Points this post: 30
Total points: 570
Tasks completed: 27/57
BB: 2 / GO: 8 + 1 = 9 / IAF: 0
CYNBAXTERTask #5.3 American Football
Task: Read a book with the MPG Sports or Football.
Requirement: Genres may be stand alone or embedded.
Book: Life, and Death, and Giants by Ron Rindo – there is an MPG of “Sports”
Points this post: 5 points
Total Points: 25 points
BB tickets this post/Updated to Date: 0/0
GO this post/Updated to Date: 0/0
NF tickets this post/Updated to Date: 0/1
CYNBAXTERTask #5.6 Preserving History
Task: Read 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. Letters may be used as many times as they appear.
Requirement: State the word and the phrase used.
Book: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez – the word “Share” was made from the phrase “ENGLISH HERITAGE”
*This is a Big Book (588 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket
Points this post: 5 points
Total Points: 30 points
BB tickets this post/Updated to Date: 1/1
GO this post/Updated to Date: 0/0
NF tickets this post/Updated to Date: 0/1
CYNBAXTERTask #5.10 Fall Into Reading
Task: Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules
Book: Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda
Points this post: 5 points
Total Points: 35 points
BB tickets this post/Updated to Date: 0/1
GO this post/Updated to Date: 0/0
NF tickets this post/Updated to Date: 0/1
15.9 Angkor Wat CambodiaRead a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA
Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
K in KHMER and C in CAMBODIA
Points this post: 15
Total points: 45
25.9 - Cat's Task: 30 Years of PulpOption 1: Two book option, no page count minimums.
Task 1: Read a book that shares a title word with one of the track titles
Track 6. "Live Bed Show" > word Bed
In Bed with Mr. Wrong
Task 2: Read a book that shares a title word with one of the track titles
Track 7. "Got to Have Love" > word Have
You Can Have Manhattan
Points this Post: 25
Points Total: 485
Elizabeth PTask 30.7 - Classic Science Fiction: Issac Asimov
Option 2: Single author whose initials in ISSAC ASIMOV
Winter's Curse by Mary Stone
iSsac asiMov
290 pages
Option 5: Book that has been adapted into TV series (any book from series adapted counts)
The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Book 2 in Department Q series, which has been made into a Netflix series: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27995114...
411 pages
290+411=701>501
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 550
Total Tasks: 32
GO: 0
BB: 6
IAF: 0
Total Books: 41
Kristen IA20.2 - 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.
So Far Gone by Jess Walter
~~~~~~~~
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 135/985
Tasks Completed: 9/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 0
JEN B10.4 Where the Dead Still Walk
Read a book that is set at least 50 percent in Scotland, France, or India
A Murder Most French by Colleen Cambridge
Set 100% in Paris, France
TOTAL POINTS: 430
10.5 Season of HarvestRead a book where the a single author's first and last name initials can be found in the word HARVEST
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
S,H in HarveSt
Points: 10
Total/challenge: 450
20.10 Group ReadSociopath
Post #17 11/26/25
Claiming It's a Fact Ticket for NF
Points: 20
Total/challenge: 470
IAF ticket: 1
25.1 Gothic TypesOpt 2 Book 1 - read a book from one of lists
Her Fearful Symmetry
Modern Gothics list - page 1
Opt 2 Book 2 - read any book, fiction or non-fiction, with snow on the cover.
Points: 25
Total/challenge: 495
Kristina Marie10.7 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.
The Hidden Life of Trees: A Graphic Adaptation by Peter Wohlleben
The word "Life" can be found in The Ashanti Yam Festival.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 805
Kristina Marie30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
Choose 2 different options and read 1 book for each option. Required State the options
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.
For Fall Season task 25.8 (Slideshell's Task: Eagles and Terps Touchdown Reading Rally) I did options 1 and 4. Now I am doing Option 6.
Option 6. Team Initials All-Stars:
Read a book by a single author whose initials (first and last name) are found in PHILADELPHIA EAGLES or MARYLAND TERRAPINS. Required: State the team chosen for the initials.
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven
Laura Steven's initials can be found in PHILADELPHIA EAGLES.
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. Required Post the link the the previous book read.
For Fall Season task 5.5 (Dwali) I read The Midnight Game by Cynthia Murphy. It was First published January 5, 2023.
For this task I read Home Front by Kristin Hannah
This book was first published January 31, 2012.
Both books were first published in January of different years.
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 835
Kristina Marie30.4 TessaVanessa's Task: Beauty is in the Eye of Beholder
Choose 2 different options and read one book for each option. You may use one book with a MPG Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, Comics, Comic Book, or Manga.
Option 3: Read a book with an MPG of Historical Fiction or Art. MPG may be imbedded.
The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal
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.
The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay's first and last initial can be found in MUSEUM.
(St. Vincent is her middle name.)
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 865
Lisa MD25.1 - Nick KY’s Task : Gothic Types
Option 2:
Book 1 - From one of the lists: Early Gothics; Victorian Spiritualism Fiction; Modern Gothics, Sci Fi Horror; or Noir
The Winters by Lisa Gabriele
From the Modern Gothics List - pg. 4
Book 2 - Snow on the cover
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 785/985
Total Books Read: 61
Total Tasks Completed: 47/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
IAF Tickets: 13
Lisa MD25.9 - Cat's Task 30 Years of Pulp
Option 1: 2 books
Task 1 - Title word of 3+ letters shares a title word with a Different Class track title
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Title Word: "People" matches word in track title: "Common People"
***I claim an IAF ticket***
Task 2 - Title word of 3+ letters shares word in More track title
P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
Title Word: "Love" shares word in track title: "Got to Have Love"
COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 810/985
Total Books Read: 63
Total Tasks Completed: 48/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 2
IAF Tickets: 14
15.10 Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, Zambia3+ word title with all initials in SMOKE THAT RISES
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
smOke ThAT riseS
Childrens MPG
AR book find: IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12.0
claiming one Golden Oldies ticket - first published in 1876
Points this post: 15
Total points: 35
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 0
Page count: 644
15.7 Parthenon GreeceRead a book with MPG Travel
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Total points: 220
20.5 - Bigger is Better: Tammy AZ's task - Pearl JamAt least 350 pages
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
The Once and Future King - 639 pages
Matching word is "Once"
Total points: 240
FLY Task #20.2 - Rookie at the Top: August's Task: National American Indian Heritage Month
task: Option 1: a fiction book from the list: Native American Literature
book: The Berry Pickers
how it fits: on page 1 of the list
Points this post: 20
Total points: 590
Tasks completed: 28/57
BB: 2 / GO: 9 / IAF: 0
Elizabeth PTask 30.5 - Back to the Gym
Option 2: Book with word in title of 4+ letters that can be made from letters in NO LAP SWIMMING DURING CLASS
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Word: Carl
no LAp swimming duRing Class
Option 4: Book by an author who matches one of the initial sets: SC, CS, PC, CP, DC, CD, SF, FS
I chose SC
Is She Really Going Out with Him? by Sophie Cousens
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 580
Total Tasks: 33
GO: 0
BB: 6
IAF: 0
Total Books: 43
20.6 It's a Fact: Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025Option 3:
read a non-fiction book from one of these lists:
Nonfiction Published in Year: 2025
Memoirs Published in Year: 2025
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
On page 2 (#177) of the list Nonfiction Published in Year: 2025
Total points: 260
FLY Task #20.10 Group Reads
+GO ticket
task: group read for the Fall 2025 season
book: The Empty House, and Other Ghost Stories
how it fits: my post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
other:
**Claiming GO ticket for First published January 1, 1906
Points this post: 20
Total points: 610
Tasks completed: 29/57
BB: 2 / GO: 9 + 1 = 10 / IAF: 0
CindyFTask 20.7 Landmarked: History in the Hawkeye State
Option 3: Published in October in any year 1965-2025
and MPG Historical Fiction
The Rain Watcher by Tatiana de Rosnay Published October 2018/MPG HF
Points this post:20
Total points:365
Books read:33
Big Books:1
Golden Oldies:2
Non-Fiction:2
Tasks completed:29
CindyFTask 15.7 Parthenon Greece
MPG Travel
Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island by Peter Rudiak-Gould
Claim 1 Non-Fiction ticket
Points this Post:15
Total points:380
Books read:34
Big Books:1
Golden Oldies:2
Non-Fiction:3
Tasks completed:30
Rockynook20.4 - What Fall Brings
Option 2: cover at least 40% green
How to Seal Your Own Fate by Kristen Perrin
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 570
Rockynook25.7 - A Tribute to Dad
Option 2: one of these verbs in title HOLD, FOLD, WALK, RUN, COUNT, SIT
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
Word: Hold
Option 6: MPG humor
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 595
Rockynook30.7 - Classic Science-Fiction: Isaac Asimov
Option 2: author initials found in Isaac Asimov
When in Rome by Sarah Adams
SA in iSAac asimov
Option 5: Read a book that has been adapted and released into a movie or television series
One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus
tv show: One of us is Lying https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8354062/
This is book 2 in that series
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 625
Rockynook15.9 - Angkor Wat Cambodia
Author initials in KHMER or CAMBODIA
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight
EK in KhmEr
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 640
Mai25.7 - Fly's Task: A Tribute to Dad
Option 1: Book with Phillip, Philip, Phillips as part of author's name
PMP Project Management Professional All-in-One Exam Guide by Joseph Phillips
(~430 pages)
*Claim 1 Non-Fiction Ticket*
Option 6: Read a book with MPG Humor. The weirder the better."
Wankernomics: A Deep-Dive Into Workplace Bullsh*ttery - THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by James Schloeffel
(310 pages)
*Claim 1 Non-Fiction Ticket*
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 610
Tasks Completed: 38
Books Read: 49
NF Tickets: 8
BB Tickets: 3
Mai15.3 Stonehenge United Kingdom
Option 1:
Book 1- Read a book with a first published year that includes at least 2 unique numbers from this list: 1,2,3,5,7
Rock Candy Mountain, Vol. 2 by Kyle Starks
Book 2- Read a book set in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 625
Tasks Completed: 39
Books Read: 51
NF Tickets: 8
BB Tickets: 3
Jasmiina F20.3 - 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:
Hyvien ihmisten juhla by John Steinbeck.
*Golden Oldies: First published in 1943*
Points this post: 20
Total points: 135
Golden Oldies this post: 1
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+:
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
Jasmiina F20.4 - 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:
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 155
Golden Oldies this post:
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book Tickets this post:
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+:
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
Readerboard Name: Kathy P20.3 - Review Raffle: Masoodah's Task -What's in a name?
Option1: Read a book by an author that shares the same FIRST NAME Initial of The First LETTER in you YOUR READERBOARD name
The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott
Author:Kate Alcott
Totals
Points: 305
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 9
Total books: 23
Total tasks: 18
Kristina Marie5.4 Labor Day
Read a book where the main character is a mother. Required: If the main characters motherhood is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley
From the book's main page: "[it] follows Lucy’s personal transition into motherhood."
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 870
Kristina Marie25.3 Jecca's Task: There’s a First Time for Everything
Choose 2 different options and read one book for each option. You may use one book with a MPG Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, Comics, Comic Book, or Manga. Required State the options
Option 2: College
A - Location
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). Required: If setting is not evident from the Goodreads main page, provide a reference.
Going into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast
From the book's main page: "a hilarious illustrated ode/guide/ thank-you note to Manhattan."
Option 3: Side Hustle
A - Audiobooks -
Read (or listen) to a book that won or was a finalist in the Audie Awards. Required State the Year of the award.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
This book won an Audie Award in 2004.
AR BookFinder Information: IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 44.0
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 895
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Book of choice: Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora
94 pages
This is my one book between 80-99 pages.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 945