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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2016
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Summer Challenge 2016: Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS THREAD
CANDY15.10 - Lifelong Learning
Read a book from one of YALSA's 2014 Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners categories:
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
*Fangirl is in the Literature and Language Arts category*
Points: 15
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total Points: 70
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Mod
5.6 - Abstract Design
New Order: A Decluttering Handbook for Creative Folks by Fay Wolf5.8 - Summer Baby
first published in 1958 : Doctor No by Ian Fleming
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Wendy UK's task: Celebrate Norwich!
Wendy Jones (MA 2000): The World is a Wedding by Wendy Jones
total = 375
Cait S5.2- Cubism
Read a book that is identified on ŷ as #3 or #6 in a series.
Murder Runs in the Family by Anne George
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 125
Big Book Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 9
Reader Name: Daphne30.6 - Donna Jo's task: Generation Gap
1: My Decade: 80s
Magician: Master 1982
2: 1950s or 2010s
The Brothers Cabal 2014
Points this post: 30
Total points: 295
Delicious Dee25.2 - Perletwo's task: I love beach music
Book A - Lead - L found in SWINGING MEDALLIONS
Book B - Option A - Play - shelved as MUSIC by 213ppl
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 350
20.1 - Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challengedSpell Out Title with Letters from Periodic Table:
Luther = LU=Lutetium TH=Thorium ER=Erbium
Luther | Lisa Cartwright |
129 Pages | ♡♡ |
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30.7 - Sandy's Task: Forwards and Backwards
Book 1: Authors Initials CD
Dead Is the New Black | Christine DeMaio-Rice | 306 Pages | ♡♡� |
Book 2:Authors Initials DC
Play Away | Dan Calder | 379 Pages | � |
Books have a combined page total greater than 500 = 685 Pages Total Read
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Points This Post: 50
BB This Post: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
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Total Points
Total Points: 360/1125
BB Total: 2
GO Total: 2
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Tien's task: Authors in Real LifeI picked option 2 and selected Liane Moriarty as an author whom she has autographed book.
I read What Alice Forgot.
Task points: 20
Total points:40
10.1. Another Kind of TripThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
found on page 1
Total points: 15 + 10 = 25
COLETTEG20.10 Group reads
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Post #10 in group discussions
20 points total
1 book read
Amy O.5.2 - Cubism - book that is #3 or #6 in series
The Long Shadow by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (#6 in The Morland Dynasty series)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 115
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 8
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 1
Sara ITA20.1 - Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challenged
Book: Tutto ciò che sono by Anna Funder (original title: All That I Am)
My word is Sono
S = Sulfur
O = Oxygen
No = Nobelium
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 95
GO Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 2
Coralie25.11 Visit the Centre Pompidou
Third Floor � short stories and essays including Making Poison, Horror Comics, Raw Materials, Murder in the Dark and Liking Men
Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
Fifth Floor � book published between 1960 and 1974
Cosmicomics first published 1965
30.9 Should We Stay or Should we go?
Option 1
Book A � set in UK with main page genre 'post-apocalyptic'
The Drowned World
Book B � set in Italy without main page genres 'horror' or 'dystopia' or 'post-apocalyptic'
Venice is a Fish: A Cultural Guide
This post 55 points
Total to date 235 points
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I read Dinosaur Planet Survivors, first published in 1984.
20.1 - Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challenged
I read The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia.
Target word is "VATICAN":
V for Vanadium
AT for Astatine
I for Iodine
CA for Calcium
N for Nitrogen
25.2 - Perletwo's task: I love beach music
For book 1, I read Sassinak - first letter of one word title, "S" is also the first letter of Swinging Medallions.
For book 2, I chose option A and read Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It - top main page genre is Music.
Points this post: 50
Total points: 400
Nick KY10.5 Hurricane Season. I read The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers : “Earl� is on the Atlantic storm list.
25.1 Andy P’s Paris � Book 1: “Legs� in the title, I read The Legs Murder Scandal by Hunter Cole.
Book 2: Exactly two authors, I read Journey of the Universe by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker.
Points This Post: 35
Total Points So Far: 375
Elizabeth B5.10
Technically Dating, short book, e-book only approved @ msg#5681
10.9 Humor and Funny genre
Too Stupid to Live
15.6
author who has a name than ENDS in O.
The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo
Points 30
KATIEGIRL5.2 - Cubism
The 3rd or 6th book in a series.
Cress by Marissa Meyer
The Lunar Chronicles #3.
This book is 550 pages. Claiming as 1 BIG BOOK ticket.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 205
Total tasks: 12
BB total: 1
GO total: 1
Kim A5.10 - School's Out! - Read a book of your choice.
Vivian Apple at the End of the World by Katie Coyle
Points this Post - 5
Total Points - 460
KATIEGIRL5.5 - Abstract Nouns
A book with an abstract noun in the title.
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi
Abstract nouns: Love & Loss
Points this post: 5
Total points: 210
Total tasks: 13
BB total: 1
GO total: 1
Ava Catherine25.11 Amanda A's task as suggested by Karen Michele: Visit the Centre Pompidou
First Floor: You're in Paris!
Read a book set at least 50% of the time in Paris.
A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable
Third Floor: You can see collections of all kinds of modern art.
Read a collection of short stories or essays.
Thirteen Stories by Eudora Welty
total=1070
Ava Catherine5.10 School's Out!
Read a book of your choice.
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
total=1075
Mary P20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Tallulah A's task: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
OPTION 3:
Read a book your choice that consists of at least 360 pages (a page for each minute of the series).
Flight Patterns by Karen White (416 pgs )
Points this post: 20
Total points: 215
Shiraloo5.8 � Summer Baby
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
REQUIRED: First published in 1984
25.5 -- Dakimel’s Task: An Homage to The Toast
Book 1: The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
REQUIRED: Option B; Found on page 1 of Best Canadian Literature List (#14)
*The Book of Negroes is a Big Book (512 pages). I am claiming 1 BBT.*
Book 2: Somewhere Out There by Amy Hatvany
REQUIRED: Option C; genre verified in the help thread
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Points: 30
BBT: 1
GO: 0
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CUMULATIVE TOTAL
Total Points: 310
BBT: 9
GO: 0
NICOLE OH10.1. Another Kind of Trip
Breakfast of Champions - found on page 1 of the list
15.7 - See the Light
(lighthouse on cover)15.8 - Commencement
The Sea of Tranquility (genre was noted in help thread in the event it drops off before points are tallied)
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Chrissy's task: Sweet Summer
Option A
Every Exquisite Thing- Exquisite begins and ends with E
20.4 - Golden Oldie - Heather(Gibby)'s task: The Golden Age
Option B
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (golden age of sci fi author) Claiming Golden Oldie ticket as this was first published in 1946
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Tien's task: Authors in Real Life
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (on Tien's author list)
Points this post: 100
Total Points: 320
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 1
Big Book ticket requests: 1
Books read: 24
Tasks completed: 21
FANDURY15.8 - Commencement
Read a book with the genre "New Adult" on its main book page.
Roses and Rot by Kat Howard
It has now disappeared, but the New Adult genre was there, and luckily I confirmed this in the Genre Confirmation Thread in post 33
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 160
Books Read: 10
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
Janice CA20.1 - Periodically challenged
Word found in periodic table of elements: life
LI - lithium
FE - iron
My Life in a Man-Made Jungle by Belle J. Benchley
***Golden Oldie, first published in 1940***
+20
total: 25
tasks: 2
books: 2
Oldies: 2
Andy P.Task # 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Lauren Jodi's task: The Queen of Crime
Option 3: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Read a novel (fiction) featuring a serial killer.
by Chelsea CainThe blurb on the mp for this book mentions the main protagonist is a serial killer
Points this post: 20
Total points: 290
20.5 - Bigger is Better - TrishHartUK's task: Shakespeare 400Option 2. Read a book written by an author who uses a pseudonym.
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith which is the pseudonym for J. K. Rowling.
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Oldie: 0
Big Book: 0
Total Points: 140
Tasks Completed: 6
Total Books Read: 8
Oldies: 1
Big Books: 0
20.1 - Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challengedRead one book, and using this list: The Chemical Elements sorted alphabetically by symbol, spell out one word** of at least 3 letters from the title or subtitle of your book using the symbols of the chemical elements.
Seraphina - Rachel Hartman
Se - Selenium
Ra - Radium
P - Phosphorous
H - Hydrogen
I - Iodine
Na - Sodium
Points this post: 20
Points total: 40
Tasks completed: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 1 - 500+(1) 750+() 1000+()
Books read: 2
Pages read: 903
JENNY H20.3 -Terri FL's task: New house
Option B: I love sailing and being on the sea. Looking out over the enormous masses of water, only seeing horizon, is the best thing I know and I would love to live on a boat. The cover of Gravkamrarna i Atuan shows a sailing boat on the sea.
20.1 - Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challenged
The Hero With A Thousand Faces
My word is Faces
F - Fluorine
Ac - Actinium
Es - Einsteinium
*Claiming Golden Oldie ticket (874 pages)
JENNY H20.2 - Rookie at the Top
Read a book with a food item on the cover (Option B)
The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5) by Patrick Rothfuss There are some minuscule apples in the apple tree on the cover.
20.6 - Seasoned Reader
Read a book of your choice that consists of at least 360 pages (Option 3).
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson has 386 pages.
25.4 - MegSCL's task: A pair of opposites
Read two opposite books.
Book 1: Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson 1 - Long book (383 pages). 2 - Recent (first published 2015). 3 - Part of a series (Mistborn #5).
Book 2: Petersburgsnoveller by Nikolai Gogol. 1 - Short book (146 pages). 2 - Older (published 1946, originally 1848). 3 - Stand alone.
*Claiming one Golden Oldie ticket (published 1848)
Points this post: 65
GO: 1
perletwo20.4 - Golden Oldie - Heather(Gibby)'s task: The Golden Age - Option A. Read a book with a main page genre of "Mythology." Genre may be stand alone or embedded.
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold - first printed in 1956, this qualifies for a Golden Oldie ticket.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 470
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 6
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 35
Tasks completed: 23
5.7 - Purple ReignPrincess in Title
The Wronged Princess | Kathy L. Wheeler | 190 Pages | ♥♥� |
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This Post
Points This Post: 5
BB This Post: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
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Total Points
Total Points: 365/1125
BB Total: 2
GO Total: 2
Delicious Dee5.8 - Summer Baby
A Matter of Choice - first published May 1984
10.3. Time for vacation
Endings and Beginnings - more than 50% set in washington DC which is #19 on the list
10.10. Can You Read the Top Row?
- the female on the cover has sunglasses on - you can see one of the lenses15.1 - Live Your Passion - Rio 2016
Book A - Buried Strangers - set in Brazil
Book B - All of Me - 18ppl have it shelved as sports romance and 18 as sports
25.10 - M1nks's task: Give Me Some Reds, Give Me Some Blues, Give Me Some... What the heck is THAT supposed to be!?
Option 3 - The Book of Speculation - shelved as magical realism by 161ppl
Option 4 - When We Collided - the main character, Vivi, suffers from bipolar disorder
30.10 - Robin �'s Task: The Dog Days of Summer
Book A - Option 3 - A Front Page Affair - Author initals Radha Vatsal - appear in ROBINAUGUSTELEVENTH
Book B - Option 1 -
Points this Post: 95
Total Points: 445
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20.4 - Golden Oldie - Heather(Gibby)'s task: The Golden Age - Option A. Read a book with a main page genre of "Mythology." Genre may be stand alone or embedded.
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
Points this task: 20
Total points: 470
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 5
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 35
Tasks completed: 23
Repost of part of 96015.2 - Colors and Sounds
Book A - Read a book with a color in the title or subtitle from this list of colors: Sea
The Sea Of Grass by Conrad Richter
Book B - Read a book with an image of a musical instrument on the cover.
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks+15 Points
Grand Total: 235
Creynard10.6.June 8 is "Name Your Poison" day.
Private Paris by James Patterson
"Crime" is listed as a main page genre.
***Private Paris is 544 pages long. Claiming 1 BB Ticket***
Points this post: 10
Total points: 375
BB this post: 1
Total BB: 2
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Tasks completed: 26
Books read: 38
Pages: 12,089
COLETTEG5.5 A book with an abstract noun in the Title
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Freedom is listed in the list "More examples of Abstract Nouns"
5 points
25 points total
COLETTEG10.8 Happy birthday
Read a book that is 2nd, 4th, 24th, etc... in a series
Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo
(Sully #2)
(Nobody's Fool was Sully #1)
10 points
35 points total
COLETTEGtask 20.1 Most improved
read a book with one word that contains three periodic table chemicals
Did You Ever Have A Family by Bill Clegg
FAMILY:
F--flourine
AM--americium
I--Iodine
Y--yttrium (an extra for good measure)
20 points for task
55 points total
COLETTEG30.4 Summer of the Gods
2 book task
1) book about brother's or sisters or with bird on cover
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The book revolves primarily around 4 sisters and a mission trip their parents took them to to the Congo. Rachel, Leah, Adah and Ruth May.
4) Book written by a female author
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
30point task
85 points total
Jaclyn TX20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Tallulah A's task: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
OPTION 3: Read a book of your choice that consists of at least 360 pages (a page for each minute of the series).
Daughters of Rome by Kate Quinn
400 pages
This post: 20
Total points: 160
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Tasks completed: 14
Kait5.7 - Purple Reign
A book with one of the listed royal ranks in the title/subtitle.
The Werewolf Prince and I by Marian Tee -- The Werewolf Prince and I; I read the kindle ebook edition, here is the paperback: The Werewolf Prince And I (Moretti Werewolf Series)
Points This Post: 5
Big Book Tickets This Post: 0
Golden Oldies This Post: 0
Total Points: 15
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 0
BARBARA �5.7 - Purple Reign
King - T.M. Frazier (king in title) 6/21
15.9 - Listen Up
White Trash Zombie Gone Wild - Diana Rowland 7/7
(on first page of list)
Totals for Challenge
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 205
Mai30.10 - Robin �'s Task: The Dog Days of Summer
A-3: Author whose initials can be found in ROBINAUGUSTELEVENTH
Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman
B-3: Book first published in 2011.
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 220
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 17
Golden Oldies: 5
CHANDNI30.7 - Sandy's Task: Forwards and Backwards
**Your books must have a combined total of at least 500 pages.**
Book 1: Read a book whose author's initials are alphabetically sequential.
Hard Times by Charles Dickens - 353 pages
Book 2: Read a book whose author's initials are the same as those of book 1, but in the reverse order.
Columbine by Dave Cullen - 360 pages
[POINTS]
This Post: 30
Total Points: 230
Books Read: 19
Completed Tasks: 17
trishhartuk5.2 - Cubism
Read a book that is identified on ŷ as #3 or #6 in a series.
Bewitched, Bothered, and Murdered (Wendy Lightower Mystery #3), Emily Rylands
Ebook approved for length by DLMRose, in verification thread message #5458 (page 110). Listed in the file at line 334.
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
30.10 Robin’s Task: The Dog Days of Summer
This is a 2 book task. Select one book from an A option AND one book from a B option. Required: Identify the options you used when you post.
A-1: The brightest star in the night sky is Sirius so read a book with a starry sky on the cover. Required: Include the cover when you post.
- Big book: 616pg Listed as approved for Option 1 in the task help thread.
B-1: Since Sirius is the brightest star in Canis Major, aka the "big dog," read a book with a dog on the cover. Required: Include the cover when you post.
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here
Points this Task: 30
Books Read: 2
Big Book: Yes � 1 ticket (Nethereal)
Golden Oldie: No
Total points: 300
Tasks completed: 14
Golden oldies: 0
Total BB tickets: 3 [1,000+ x 0 (0 tickets); 750+ x 1 (2 tickets); >500+ x 1 (1 ticket)]
Julia10315.5 - Summer in the City
February Thaw & Other Stories of Contemporary Fantasy (main page genre Urban Fantasy)
Ebook approved for length in post 5692 of ebook verification thread.
20.1 - Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challenged
War Brides
My word is WAR:
W-Tungstun
Ar-Argon
This post: 35 points,
Total points: 100
BB: 0
GO: 1
Total tasks completed: 7
MelissaH20.1 - Periodically challenged
Shattered Ties
My word is TIES
TI - Titanium
ES - Einsteinium
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 115
Completed Tasks: 7
Books Read: 7
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30.4 - Ava Catherine's task: Summer of the Gods
Required: Identify which options you selected when you post. I chose options 1 and 4
Option 1- Read a book with a bird(s) on the cover
This book cover was approved in help thread message #14-Message #14
Option 4-Read a book written by a female author.
A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
Claiming A Shilling for Candlesas GO book as it was published in 1936
Total Points--315/1125
Completed Tasks-13/62
GO Books (2)
Big Books 500-750 pages (1); 750+pages()