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WINTER CHALLENGE 2022
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Reader Name: ADVENTURER 10.1 - BINGO!
Read a book with ALL the letters of BINGO in the title and/or subtitle. Land of Big Numbers: Stories by Te-Ping Chen, 233 pages
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 45
Total Books Read: 4
Total Tasks Completed: 3/52
Big Book Ticket: 0
Golden Oldies Ticket: 1
TessaVanessaChallenge 10.1 BINGO!
Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk
Points this post: 10
Total points: 200/840
Tasks completed: 15/52
Books read: 19
Reader Name: ADVENTURER 10.2 - Bee's Knees
Read a short book, one less than or equal to 200 pages. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, 165 pages
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 55
Total Books Read: 5
Total Tasks Completed: 4/52
Big Book Ticket: 0
Golden Oldies Ticket: 1
Reader Name: ADVENTURER 5.8 - And The Winner Is...
Read a book that has WON an award. The award must be listed in the GR metadata.
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, 300 pages, Pulitzer Prize winner in 2016
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 60
Total Books Read: 6
Total Tasks Completed: 5/52
Big Book Ticket: 0
Golden Oldies Ticket: 1
Reader Name: ADVENTURER 5.5 - Herald Square
Read a book with a main page genre of Holiday or an individual seasonal holiday genre that occurs from December to January, such as "Christmas"
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, pages 104
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 65
Total Books Read: 7
Total Tasks Completed: 6/52
Big Book Ticket: 0
Golden Oldies Ticket: 1
TessaVanessaChallenge 25.4 Sandy's Task: Remembering my Grandparents
Option 2: In Harm's Way by Irene Hannon
327 pages
Option 3: Robert B. Parker's Fool's Paradise by Mike Lupica
384 pages
Takes place in Massachusetts.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 225/840
Tasks completed: 16/52
Books read: 21
trishhartuk20.5 Bigger is Better- Lauren Jodi's task: Public Enemy
Read a book with a page count consisting of 3 of the following digits: 1, 4, 2, or 9.
Gooseberry Christmas, Kathi Daley
Read the kindle edition. PB: here (192pg)
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 100
Tasks Completed: 7
It’s a Fact Tickets: 1
Reader Name: ADVENTURER 5.3 - April Showers
Read a book FIRST published in April or May of any year.
Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon, 271 pages, published May 2016
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 70
Total Books Read: 8
Total Tasks Completed: 7/52
Big Book Ticket: 0
Golden Oldies Ticket: 1
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Reader Name: ADVENTURER 10.4 - Wonder Drug
Penicillium notatum, word: time
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, 128 pages
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 85
Total Books Read: 10
Total Tasks Completed: 9/52
Big Book Ticket: 0
Golden Oldies Ticket: 1
Reader Name: ADVENTURER 5.10 - The Best Things in Life Are Free
MPG Childrens, Kids, Middle Grade or Juvenile
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey, 299 pages,
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14.0
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 90
Total Books Read: 11
Total Tasks Completed: 10/52
Big Book Ticket: 0
Golden Oldies Ticket: 1
EMurphy15.4 "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet"
Option 1b: Title word of at least 4 letters that can be made from "wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet!" The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
*Word is HOME
Option 2: Author whose first and last initials appear in "The Jazz Singer" Meg by Steve Alten
This Task:
Points: 15
Books Read: 2
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Total:
Points: 40
Books Read: 4
BB Ticket: 0
GO Ticket: 0
IAF Ticket: 0
Tasks Completed: 2
Joanne MI10.9 - Empress of the Blues
The word is THE
The Goblin Emperor
Points this task 10
Total points 40
1 IAF
CHANDNI10.7 - Black Venus
Read a book by an AUTHOR on this list A Book By A Woman of Color
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
This is found on page 1 of the list.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 210
10.2 - Bee's KneesWelcome to Orphancorp (Orphancorp #1) by Marlee Jane Ward
130 pages
Total this Post: 10
It's a Fact: 1
Season Total: 130
Theresa10.2 - Bee's Knee's
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
Points this post - 10
Total points - 20
25.2 - Nick KY's Task: Playing DoublesBook 1: Read a book with a title of two words, Each word must begin with a letter from the phrase "TWO DOUBLES"
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, Two Doubles, Audiobook, 311 pg first MMP
Book 2: Read a book first published in a year from the following list of tears:
1922, 2002, 2012, 2020
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab, first published October 6, 2020
Audiobook, no MMP, 500 pg first listed pb
I'm claiming a BB ticket for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, 500 pg
Points this post: 25
Total points: 210
Tasks completed: 14
Books read: 18
GO tickets: 0
BB tickets: 2
IAF tickets: 1
10.7 - Black VenusParable of the Sower (Earthseed #1) by Octavia E. Butler
page 1
Total this Post: 10
It's a Fact: 1
Season Total: 140
Readerboard Name: Librarianish5.6 - Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes
Read a book with a monkey or ape on the cover.
REQUIRED: Post the cover.
I read: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler.
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Points this post: 5
Points to date: 75/840
Books read: 9/75
BB: 3
GO: 0
IF: 0
Readerboard Name: Librarianish20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Lucy- Bookworm's Task: FOXLEASE
Select one of the following options:
Option 1: Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in “FOXLEASE�.
I read: The Reading List, by Sara Nisha Adams (S.A.)
❄️ 🕯� ❄️ 🕯� ❄️ 🕯� ❄️ 🕯�
Points this post: 20
Points to date: 95/840
Books read: 10/75
BB: 3
GO: 0
IF: 0
ROBIN P20.1 Most Improved - ForestGardenGal's Task: So Much to Read...So Little Time
Option B - Read a book first published in 1950 or earlier (qualifying for a Golden Oldies ticket) that is new to you.
Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time
**This book is new to me**
**Claiming 1 GO point, published 1945**
Points this post: 20
Total points: 160
BB:1 GO:2 IAF:2
Katrisa25.5 - Tien’s Task: Bubble Tea
Opt 1 - For this option, read a book with “pearl� found intact in title (exclude subtitle) or author’s name.
I read Dragon Pearl
children's on MPG - MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13.0
Opt 2 - read a book with 3 Js in title, subtitle, and/or author's name (any combination of these).
I read Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey by A.J. Jacobs
J in Journey and 2Js in A.J. Jacobs
Points this Post: 25
Points Total: 145
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30.2 - Teri-k's Task: Happy Birthday, Grandkids!Option 1, the letters in ANIME in the title: Christmas in Peachtree Bluff by Kristy Woodson Harvey
paperback edition Christmas in Peachtree Bluff 368 pages
Option 3, part of a series and MPG Humor: Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P.G. Wodehouse (Uncle Fred #1)
mass market paperback Bravo, oncle Fred ! 284 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 145
Readerboard Name: Robin (Saturndoo)30.2 -Teri-k's Task: Happy Birthday, Grandkids!
Option 1. December
Letters ANIME are found in the title only.
Page Count: 342 Listened to AB link to PB Among the Wicked
Letters: AMoNg the WIckEd
Among the Wicked
Option 3. Part of series AND MPG Humor.
Page Count: 368
Series: Shopaholic #1
MPG Humor Verification: /topic/show/...
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Points Earned This Post: 30
Points Achieved to Date: 320/840
Tasks Completed: 25/52
DOM20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Julia103's Task: Marching for Women's Suffrage!
Option C:
Read a book set at least 50% in Wyoming or Tennessee.
Open Season
This book is set in Wyoming. It is the first in the series, and introduces Joe Pickett the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming.
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 140
Books Read: 9
Golden Oldies: 1
It's a Fact: 1
Amy B15.7. Here's Mickey!
Read a book with a 2 word title, where both words begin with the same letter.
My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
This Task: 15 Points
To Date: 25 Points
Task 25.3 - In the TwentiesBOTH books are new to me
option 1: from the Vogue list
Maurice
option 3: #22 in series
Cécile is Dead
pub 1942 - claiming 1 GO tix
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160 points
1 BB tix
1 GO tix
trishhartuk10.2 Bee's Knees
Read a book of less than or equal to 200 pages.
Murder in the Falling Snow: Ten Classic Crime Stories, Cecily Gayford (ed)
Read the kindle edition. PB: here (192pg)
Points this Task: 10
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 110
Tasks Completed: 8
It’s a Fact Tickets: 1
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.5 Herald Square
The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
MPG: Holiday>Christmas
Points this post: 5
Total points: 230/840
Tasks completed: 17/52
Books read: 22
TessaVanessaChallenge 5.8 And The Winner Is...
Saga, Volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughan
Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Continuing Series, Best Writer (for Brian K. Vaughan), Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team (for Fiona Staples), and Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers) (Fiona Staples) (2017),
Points this post: 5
Total points: 235/840
Tasks completed: 18/52
Books read: 23
XBM15.8. Can You Feel It?
Read a book from this list:
Blind/Deaf/Mute - found on page 1
The Texan's Wager. Jodi Thomas
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 110/840
Tasks completed: 7/52
Books read: 7
GO:
BB:
IAF: 1
Delicious Dee15.3. From A to Z
Book A - Atlas's Accident - ebook only approved msg 8664
Book B - Despair - Lana Pecherczyk - Z in Perherczyk
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 75
Big Book Tickets:
Golden Oldies: 1
Its Just a Fact:
Mod
20.6 - It's a Fact - CynBaxter's Task: The Right to Vote!
Option 2: Choose a non-fiction book with an MPG of one of the following: History, Feminism, Politics, Womens, Social Movements
Airhead (MPG Politics & History)
This book is Non-Fiction. One It's A Fact ticket please!
Points this task: 20
Season total: 80
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 1
Nick KY10.3 Freudian Slip I read Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert, from p. 1 of the Psychology list: /shelf/show/...
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 105
Nick KY25.8 MegSLC’s Chinese Zodiac
My animal is the Tiger.
Opt. 1. I read The Singularities by John Banville, 1st pub’d in the Year of the Tiger, 2022.
Opt. 2. I read When the Tiger Came Down the MountainWhen the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi VoNgih Vo with a tiger on the cover.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points So Far: 130
Nick KY20.9 Lucy Boo]kworm’s FOXLEASE Opt.2. “Vision� in title. I read Trouble Vision by Allison Kingsley.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 150
20.1 - Most Improved Player - ForestGardenGal's Task: So Much to Read...So Little TimeOption A: book from Best Philosophical Literature list
Blindness by José Saramago
🎄 found on page 1 🎄
Total points: 90 + 20 = 110
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 1
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Lauren Jodi's task: Public EnemyOption 4: Read a book with a beach on the cover. The sand and water must be clearly visible.
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
Total points: 110 + 20 = 130
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 1
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Paul's Task: Woolworth's Great Five Cent Storenon-fiction (200+ pages) with 4+ letter word in title/subtitle that can be made from letters: FRANK WINFIELD WOOLWORTH
PB: Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
📖 320 pages 📖
I listened to the audiobook: Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
🎄 REAL: RA in Frank; EL in Winfield🎄
🎓***nonfiction - claiming It's a Fact Ticket***🎓
Total points: 130 + 20 = 150
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 2
Kristina Marie5.2 - Guilty
Read a book from this banned book list: Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
REQUIRED: State the page.
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.
Audiobook
The MMPB has 159 pages.
Why We Can't Wait is on page 6.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 5
Kristina Marie15.3. From A to Z
A. Read a book the title of which begins with the letter A.
AND
B. Read a book the author of which contains the letter Z.
Option 2:
Read one book that satisfies the requirements of both A and B of Option 1.
Option 2
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Audiobook
The MMPB has 448 pages.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Points this post: 15
Total points: 20
trishhartuk5.8 And The Winner Is...
Read a book that has WON an award.
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB: here (160pg)
Audie Award for Classic (2005)
Golden oldie: First published in 1843
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie: 1 � A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843
Total Points: 115
Tasks Completed: 9
It’s a Fact Tickets: 1
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
20.4 Op 1: letters in SALMON in title and/or subtitle.
Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton
Books read: 7
Point Total: 70/840
Tasks Total: 6/52
MARGO5.5 - Herald Square
Read a book with a main page genre of Holiday or an individual seasonal holiday genre that occurs from December to January, such as "Christmas"
Gingerbread and Ghosts
- MPG Holiday and MPG Christmas
- Posted and read Kindle edition.
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Points this task: 5
Total points: 65
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 6
GO: 2 // BB: 0 // NF: 0
MARGO20.4 - Golden Oldies - XBM's Task: Remembering my parents
Option 2: Read a book set at least 50% in a Scandinavian country. For this task, we will accept Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
Hidden in Snow
- Set 100% in Sweden. No setting listed in GR, but this is the first line of the GR description: "The splendor of the Swedish mountains becomes the backdrop for a bone-chilling crime."
- Posted and read Kindle edition.
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Points this task: 20
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 7
GO: 2 // BB: 0 // NF: 0
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Task: 5.1 - Votes For Women
Task Description: Read a book by a female author.
Book: Violeta by Isabel Allende
Points this post: 5 points
Total points to date: 45 points
NF tickets this post: 0
Total NF tickets to date: 1
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
Golden Oldie tickets this post: 0
Total "GOLDIE" tickets to date: 0