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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

5.7 - Purple Reign
I read a publisher's advance copy of The Virgin and the Viscount by Charis Michaels.
10.8. Happy Birthday
I read Dark Passage by Mary Jo Putney. #2 in the Dark Mirror series.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 40
Books Read: 4
Tasks Complete: 4

5.10
Book of choice
Spider-Gwen, Vol. 0: Most Wanted? by Jason Latour
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 20
Tasks completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)

10.10. Can You Read the Top Row?
I read

Previous point total: 85
New points this post: 10
Total points: 95
New tasks completed in this post: 1
Total tasks: 7
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0

5.10 - School's Out!
A Hundred Hours of Night: I am using the exemption. This book is NOT found in ARBookFinder.
15.3 - June, July and August
Option 2 (one book option)
You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour
Title= 4 words, Author, Nina (4 letters), Lacour (6 letters)
15.4 - The Gift of Life- Donate Blood
Option 2 (one book option)
Blood Roses by Francesca Lia Block (blood in title; abo in author name)
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Tallulah A's task: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Option 2:
The Outsiders
Rated UG so meets SRC req; position #221 on the list
I have read 134/339 on the Rory Gilmore reading list (now that I added this one)
Points this post: 55
Total Points: 130
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 10
Tasks completed: 9

Completed Tasks
10.9. Smile
Humor as main page genre
Kindle edition I read: Year of the Chick
Paperback edition: Year of the Chick
15.6 - Picasso, Miro and Rothko
Author Name (Jojo Moyes) ends in O -- JoJo
Kindle edition I read: The Girl You Left Behind
Most popular paperback edition: The Girl You Left Behind
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Previous Points Claimed: 35
Points This Post: 25
Total Points Earned This Quarter: 60

Read a book by an author who has a name than ENDS in O

by Sandra Lorenzano
The author's last name, lorenzanO ends in O
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25.2 - Perletwo's task: I love beach music
Book 1) Read a book that the first letter of each word in the title can be found in SWINGING MEDALLIONS.

Die of Shame
Swinging meDalliOns
Book 2)
Option B. Read a book set at least 50% in North Carolina or South Carolina.

The book is set in the town of Twin Pines, NC
* Both books are ARC's
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POINTS
Points This Post: 40
Points Total: 40
Golden Oldies:
Big Books:
500 () 750 () 1000 ()
Tasks Completed: 2
BB Total:

TASK DESCRIPTION: Author Initials Consecutive, then in Reverse
BOOK #1 READ:

AUTHOR: Blake Crouch
DATE READ: 6/12/2016
REQUIRED INFO: Author BC
BOOK #2 READ:

AUTHOR: Chelle Bliss
DATE READ: 6/16/2016
REQUIRED INFO: Author CB
TOTAL PAGES : 437 + 284 = 721 (minimum 500 required)
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TOTALS
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 115

10.10 Can You Read the Top Row?
Read a book with a person wearing glasses or sunglasses.
The Girls by Emma Cline

15.2 Colors and Sounds
Book A: Read a book with a color word in the title or subtitle.
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
color word=grey
Book B: Read a book with an image of a musical instrument on the cover.
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks

15.10 Lifelong Learning
I read a book from the category Arts and Humanities.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
total=360

5.1 - A Different View
Read a book found on the Books With Multiple Perspectives list.
Required: State which page the book you chose can be found on when you post.
Wives and Daughters - audiobook Wives and Daughters - paperback pgs 720 by Elizabeth Gaskell
pg1, #64
this is a Golden Oldie: pub 1865
this is a Big Book: 720 pags.

10.1. Another Kind of Trip
Abstract art has been described as a departure from reality. Read a book from Best Reality Warping Fiction
The Eyre Affair -Audiobook The Eyre Affair paperback - pg 375 by Jasper Fforde
pg 1, #36

10.2. Bobble heads
To celebrate Miro's round headed characters who look as if they're wearing astronaut helmets, read a book set in outer space or on a planet other than Earth.
Fortune's Pawn - kindle Sternenschiff: Die Paradox-Saga - Band 1 - paperback pg 448 by Rachel Bach

10.8. Happy Birthday
July 4 is America's 240th birthday. Read the 2d, 4th, 24th, 40th or 240th (good luck finding that one!) book in a series. Series name and number must be indicated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.
Murder of Crows - kindle Murder of Crows - paperback pgs. 413 by Anne Bishop
book 2 in the Others series

20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Chrissy's task: Sweet Summer
This is a ONE book task. You have 5 options:
Required: State which option you chose when you post.
Option A: Read a book with a title/subtitle that contains a word that starts and ends with the same letter. I get that not all books are as cool as Oreo but I still love that particular idea. Ex: Explosive Eighteen ~ Explosive
Newlywed Dead- kindle Newlywed Dead -paperbook pg 276 Nancy J. Parra
word: dead (it also has food on the cover)

25.4 - MegSCL's task: A pair of opposites
1. One book must be long (300 pages or more) and one must be short (less than 300 pages)
2. One book must be recent (first published in 2011 or later) and one must be older (first published in 2010 or earlier)
3. One book must be part of a series (any number) and one must be stand-alone
The Masqueraders - audio Masqueraders - paperback pg 314 by Georgette Heyer
long 314 pages
stand alone
older, 1928
this is a Golden Oldie: 1928

The Grim Steeper -kindle The Grim Steeper paperback pg 284 by Amanda Cooper
short 284
#3 in the teapot collector Mystery series
recent, 2016

THIS POST
Points: 80
Completed Tasks: 6
Golden oldies: 2
Big Books: 1
Total This Season
Points: 80/1125
Completed Tasks: 6/62
Golden oldies: 2
Big Books: 1
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Pages read this season: 2,830
Books read this season: 7

10.8 Happy Birthday
Read the 2d, 4th, 24th, 40th or 240th (good luck finding that one!) book in a series. Series name and number must be indicated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ.
Manners & Mutiny by Gail Carriger (#4 in Finishing School)
Points this post: 10
TOTAL POINTS: 10

Noun: DELIGHT
Serpent's DELIGHT by Ruth Park
5.10 - School's Out!
What the Raven Saw by Samantha-Ellen Bound
Not found on AR Bookfinder
10.1. Another Kind of Trip
The Iron Heel by Jack London
Page 1 of list (#22)
1 x GOLDEN OLDIES ticket (pub. 1908)
15.2 - Colors and Sounds
Book A - Read a book with a color in the title
Yellow by Megan Jacobson
Book B - Read a book with an image of a musical instrument on the cover.
The Other Side of Summer by Emily Gale

Post Total: 35
Goldien Oldies: 1
Bigger is Better: -
Season Total: 75

20.1- Periodically Challenged
Read one book, and using this list spell out one word** of at least 3 letters from the title or subtitle of your book using the symbols of the chemical elements.
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
Bones:
B- Boron
O- Oxygen
Ne- Neon
S- Sulfur
Big Book Ticket: Claiming 1 ticket for Bag of Bones, which is 529 pages long.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 25
Big Book Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 2

Task 5.6 Abstract Design
I read

Verified in help threaed message #37
Points this post:5
Total points:35
Tasks completed:2
Books read:3
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)

Read a book of your choice.
I read Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 10
Tasks Complete: 2
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book Tickets: 0

5.6: Abstract Design
---book with an abstract cover design
A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi

-approved in msg 2 of help thread
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15.5: Summer in the City
---"urban" in genre
Blood Rites
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20.7: Shorter is Sweeter - Lauren Jodi's task: The Queen of Crime
---opt. 3: fictional book about a serial killer
Bones Never Lie
(I think the metadata makes this clear that it features a serial killer. There are two killers in this one, both having killed multiple people with significant breaks between the killings.)
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20.9: Moderator's Pet - Wendy UK's task: Celebrate Norwich!
---book written by an author on given list
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
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Post Total: 60
Challenge Total: 405

30.9 - Catherine T's task: Should We Stay Or Should We Go
Option 1: Stay
Book 1: The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
Set in the U.K. with a main page genre of "Horror".
Book 2: Frenched by Melanie Harlow
More than 70% in a EU country (France)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 110
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Tasks completed: 8
Pages read: 4,386

5.2 - Cubism
Champion by Marie Lu
This is book #3 of the Legend series.
Points this post: 5
Total points to date: 25

20.1 - Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challengedHis Witness To Evil by Autumn Jordon
My word is His
H - hydrogen
I - iodine
S - sulfur
Points this task: 20
Total points: 85

Task # 10.1. Another Kind of Trip
Read a book from The Best Reality Warping Fiction List

Points this post: 10
Total points: 130

20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Chrissy's task: Sweet Summer
Option D: Read a book by an author whose first and last name start with a letter in the word STRAWBERRIES.
Grange House by Sarah Blake
StrawBerries
Points this post: 20
Total Points:30
Books read: 3
Tasks Done: 3

5.1 - A Different View
Read a book found on the Books With Multiple Perspectives list.
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
found on page 1, #45 of list
orig. published in 1868, this is a "Golden Oldie"
points: 5
total: 35
BB: 0
GO: 1
tasks completed: 3

10.10 Can You Read The Top Row: Read book with persons w/glasses on cover
Every Day I Fight by Stuart Scott Every Day I Fight

10 points
20.1 Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challenged: spell out one word** of at least 3 letters from the title or subtitle of your book using the symbols of the chemical elements. (one word title ok, can reuse symbols)
Confessions by Kanae Minato

Co - Cobalt
N - Nitrogen
Fe - Iron
S - Sulfur
S - Sulfur
I - Iodine
O - Oxygen
N - Nitrogen
S - Sulfur
20 points
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 55

5.9 - Summer Reading
Read a book found on the first 5 pages of the Popular Summer Reading List Books.
Book -

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
How it Fits - Found on page 3 (at the bottom)
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 95

25.4 - MegSCL's task: A pair of opposites - For this task you need to read two books that are opposites. To be considered opposites: 1. One book must be long (300 pages or more) and one must be short (less than 300 pages); 2. One book must be recent (first published in 2011 or later) and one must be older (first published in 2010 or earlier); 3. One book must be part of a series (any number) and one must be stand-alone
Death Notes by Ruth Rendell
First printed in 1981; #11 in the Inspector Wexford series; 224 pages
Armada by Ernest Cline
First printed in 2015; stand-alone (but I'd love a sequel!); 349 pages
Points this task: 25
Total points: 300
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 6
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 23
Tasks completed: 15

Task 15.8 - Commencement
Book with New Adult genre on main page
Pucked Over by Helena Hunting
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 40
Total Tasks: 4
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Total Books: 4

10.6.June 8 is "Name Your Poison" day.

10.8. Happy Birthday

(Chesapeake Bay Saga #4)
10.9. Smile

10.10. Can You Read the Top Row?

Total Points = 135 Points

Includes a Jewish main character and a section in the concentration camps during WWII:
The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
+5 Points
5.9 - Summer Reading
Page 4 of the list:
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
+5 Points
10.2. Bobble heads
Most of the book takes place in space or on the moon:
Stars Above by Marissa Meyer
+10 Points
20.1 - Most Improved - Sarah E's task: Periodically challenged
My word is Began
Be - Berrylium
Ga - Gallium
N - Nitrogen
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
+20 Points
Points this Post: 40
Grand Total: 40

Jun 17, 2016
Task 5.10 - School’s Out
Slow Cooker Cookbook: 101 Delicious and Simple Slow Cooker Recipes - approved for length in post #5662
Task 10.3. Time for vacation
The Mystery of the Yellow Room - set in Paris, France - read 6/13
Task 30.6 - Donna Jo's task: Generation Gap
Book 1. The Master and Margarita (published 1966) - read 6/11
Book 2. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (published 1997) - read 6/17
Born in the 1960s
Points this post: 45
Total Points to Date: 75

5.3: Action!
---book with genre of action or adventure
438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
-approved in msg 37 of help thread
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25.7: SpiderMac's task - Get Your Run On!
Opt. 3: word "run" in title
Desert Run
Opt. 5: nonfiction biography/memoir
You Are an Ironman: How Six Weekend Warriors Chased Their Dream of Finishing the World's Toughest Tr iathlon
--approved in msg 2 of help thread
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25.9: Fandury's task - Everything is Possible in Love and Warcraft
Option 1: war as main page genre
A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
Option 2: 2 different races(ethnicity) on cover
The Force Awakens

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Post Total: 55 pts
Challenge Total: 460

#2 on Books with Multiple Perspectives List
A Tale of Two Cities | A Tale of Two Cities | 416 Pages | ★★� | Golden Oldies Book First Published 1859
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10.1 - Another Kind of Trip
#6 Page 1 on Best Reality Warping Fiction List
1984 | 1984 | 268 Pages | ★★� | Golden Oldies Book First Published 1949
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10.2 - Bobble Heads
Book Set in Mars (Another Planet)
The Mars Imperative | Mark Terence Chapman | 276 Pages | ★★ |
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This Post
Points This Post: 25
BB This Post: 0
Golden Oldies: 2
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Total Points
Total Points: 55/1125
BB Total: 0
GO Total: 2

20.2 Rookie at the Top
Option B: Read a book with a food item on the cover.

Popcorn is on the cover
20.5 Bigger is Better
Option 4 Read a book with "Urban Fantasy," as a Main Page genre. (It can be stand-alone or embedded)
Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
Fantasy>Urban Fantasy is a Main Page genre
20.6: Seasoned Reader
Option 4 Read a book with the word spring, summer, autumn, fall or winter in the title...
Summer in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk
"Summer" is in title
25.6 The Last Abstract Expressionist
(Two books - two different options)
Option 2Read a book which takes place in more than one clearly defined location.
Throne of Jade Naomi Novik
Book starts in England and about the first third is set there. The MC then journeys to China, and the last half is set there.
From Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ description: "an angry Chinese delegation vows to reclaim the remarkable beast. But Laurence refuses to cooperate. Facing the gallows for his defiance, Laurence has no choice but to accompany Temeraire back to the Far Eastâ€�"...
Option 4 Read a book written by an author whose initials can be found in JOAN MITCHELL.
The Wheel of Osheim by Mark Lawrence
joan MitcheLl
30.8 Cards Against Humanity
1) What ended my last relationship? Dreams of Distant Shores
6) I got 99 problems but Parasite isn't one.
Points this post: 115
Total points: 130

10.3. Time for vacation
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
London
Request 1 GO Ticket (first published 1893)
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 80
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 6
Golden Oldies: 2

5.5 - Abstract Nouns
Read a book with an abstract noun in the title/subtitle.
Memories of Ash by Intisar Khanani
[POINTS]
This Post: 5
Total Points: 120
Books Read: 11
Completed Tasks: 11

20.5 - Bigger is Better - TrishHartUK's task: Shakespeare 400
Read ONE book which matches one of the following options.
Option 4. "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes" (Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1): Witches seem to be popular characters in Urban Fantasy and Horror, as well as Cozy Mysteries. Read a book with "Urban Fantasy," "Horror," "Paranormal" or "Supernatural" as a main-page genre. The genre can be stand-alone or embedded.

30.6 - Donna Jo's task: Generation Gap
Born 1982
Book 1. Read a book first published during the decade of your birth.

Book 2. Read a book from the decade either 30 years before your birth or 30 years after your birth.

Points Earned This Post: 50
Points Achieved to Date: 80/1125
GO Tickets:
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (0)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)

15.3 - June, July and August
OPTION 2: One book option
Girl on a Wire (4 words in title)
by Gwenda Bond (6/4)
*
THIS POST:
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Points: 15
TOTALS:
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Points: 15

10.5.But watch out - it's hurricane season!
Because of Miss Bridgerton - author - Julia Quinn from the Atlantic storm list
25.4 - MegSCL's task: A pair of opposites
Book 1 - Protecting His Own - series book (Masters of shadowlands #11); released 2011 or later (2016); less than 300 pgs (262)
Book 2 - Slave To Love - stand-alone; released 2010 or earler (2007); more than 300pgs (318)
Points this Post: 35
Total Points: 175

5.9 - Summer Reading
Thirteen Reasons Why
Page 1 of list
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 60
Completed Tasks: 4
Books Read: 4

15.5 - Summer in the City
Read a book with a genre on its main book page that contains "urban" such as urban legends, urban, urban-fantasy, urban-planning, urbanism. The genre may be stand-alone or embedded.
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
[book has urban fantasy as a main page genre]
Points this post: 15
Big Books this post: 0
Golden Oldies this post: 0
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Total Points: 35
Total Books Read: 2
Tasks Completed: 2
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0

10.8. Happy Birthday
Charged by Jay Crownover
2nd book in the Saints of Denver series
Points this post: 10
Total points: 120
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Tasks completed: 9
Pages read: 4,747

5.6 Abstract Design. I read Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds by David Toop, which has a pretty abstract cover:

10.2 Bobbleheads. I read Martian Time-slip by Philip K. Dick, set on Mars.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 115

30.4 - Summer of the Gods
Option 1: A book with birds on the cover.
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Option 4: A book by a female author.
Where I Lost Her by T. Greenwood
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 30
Total Tasks: 1
BB Total: 0
GO Total: 0

10.2 - Bobble Heads
A book set in outer space or on another planet.
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
This book is set on the spaceship Godspeed in outer space.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 40
Total tasks: 2
BB total: 0
GO total: 0

20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Tien's task: Authors in Real Life
Option 3: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain
Bourdain has also written the mystery novel Bone in the Throat
Points this post: 20
Total points: 140
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Total tasks: 10
Total pages read: 5,028

read a book set in outer space or on a planet other than Earth
The Martian Chronicles which is set on Mars
Claiming Golden Oldie, first published in 1950
Points this post : 10
Total Points: 60
GO's this post: 1
Total GO: 2
BB's: 2

15.5 - Summer in the City
Urban Fantasy genre on the main page (788 users).
One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 90/1125
Total Books Read: 6
Tasks Completed: 5/62

30.8 - Beth NC's task: Cards Against Humanity (The Book Version)
1) What ended my last relationship? Mail Order Doctor by Cynthia Woolf
6) I got 99 problems but A Scot in the Dark isn’t one. (by Sarah MacLean, and I read a publisher's advance copy)
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 70
Books Read: 6
Tasks Complete: 5

20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Lauren Jodi's task: The Queen of Crime
REQUIRED: State the option you chose when posting
I chose Option 1
Option 1: A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED
Read a book from the Best Cozy Mystery Series Listopia. Be careful as it is possible that some of the books do not meet the SRC rules.
Back to the Bedroomby Janet Evanovich-
This book is found on page 10 of Best Cozy Mystery Series List
Total Points--75/1125
Completed Tasks--4/62
GO Books ()
Big Books 500-750 pages (1); 750+pages()

The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
10.6 June 8 Is Name Your Poison Day:
Brother Cadfael's Penance by Ellis Peters
10,10 Can You Read the Top Row?:
American Housewife: Stories by

20.7 Shorter Is Sweeter:
1. From the Best Cozy Mystery list page 1 #28

Today's total: 45
Grand total: 145

10.9. Smile
Humor 2 users
Diva Las Vegas
Eileen Davidson
Paperback, 304 pages 6/18
Points this post: 10
Total points: 140
Books posted: 19
Tasks complete: 19
Pages this post: 304
Total pages as of this post: 5025
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Task # 5.1 - A Different View
Read a book found on the Books With Multiple Perspectives list
Points this post: 5
Total points: 120