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FALL CHALLENGE 2024
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Jayme(theghostreader)15.10
The Great penguiN boOkchaSe
Word- song
Swan Songby Elin Hilderbrand
Task +15
Grand total: 15
babbling c 10.4 Once Upon a Crime
Read a book with MPG Crime
Divided in Death - Audio. Divided in Death - mass market paperback pgs 371 by J.D. Robb
Crime
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
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Total This Season
Points: 10/1045
Completed Tasks: 1/59
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
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Pages read this season: 371
Books read this season: 1
slideshell5.7 Too Precious to Forget
Read a book that is at least 50% combination of pink and blue. according to tineye.
Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood
Hardcover - 379 pages
73.8% pink and blue according to tineye.
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Total This Task
Points: 5
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Total This Season
Points: 5/1045
Completed Tasks: 1/59
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Pages read this season: 379
Books read this season: 1
XBM10.6 On My Hike
Read a book with a 4 or more letter word made for NATIONAL PARKS in the title.
Required State the word (Paris)
The Paris Novel. Ruth Reichl
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points: 10/1045
Completed Tasks: 1/59
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
Julia10315.10 - That's Not Trivial Pursuit...
Winter's Orbit
(ORBIT: OB in BOOKCHASE, RT in GREAT, I in PENGUIN)
This post: 15 points
Total points: 15
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 0
Completed tasks: 1
Books read: 1
Katrisa15.7 - Whose Side Are You On?
Read a book with a single-word title (of any length).
I read Martyr!
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 15
FLY Task #5.4 Embrace the Season
task: Read a book off the list: Best Book To Read In Autumn
book: The Hollow
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: #123 (page 2) on the list
other: **Claiming GO ticket for First published January 1, 1946
Points this post: 5
Total points: 5
Tasks completed: 1/???
BB: 0 / GO: 0 + 1 = 1 / IAF: 0
ROBIN P15.10 That's Not Trivial Pursuit
4+ ltr word in title made from THE GREAT PENGUIN BOOK CHASE
Three Eight One
word THREE found in THE gREat
Points this post: 15
Total points: 15
BB:0 GO:0 IAF:0
ROBIN P10.4 Once Upon a Crime - MPG Crime
The Christmas Appeal
Points this post: 10
Total points: 25
BB:0 GO:0 IAF:0
Readerboard name: List_Addict15.9: Shifting Sands - A setting in the nation containing your chosen desert
Desert: Sonoran Desert
Birding with Benefits by Sarah T Dubb
Setting: Tucson, in the Sonoran Desert, USA
Points this challenge: 15
Julia10310.4 Once Upon a Crime
A Most Efficient Murder
(MPG Crime, confirmed in genre verification thread post 9)
This post: 10 points
Total points: 25
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 0
Completed tasks: 2
Books read: 2
XBM15.9 - Shifting Sands
Choose a desert from the Wiki list of the largest deserts by area and read a book set at least 50% in a nation listed for that desert.
Required: State the desert and the country setting. If the setting is not obvious from the GR book description or metadata, provide a reference. (Mojave Desert - United States)
The Days I Loved You Most. Amy Neff - takes place in New England (CT)
THIS POST
Points: 15
Completed Tasks: 2
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points: 25/1045
Completed Tasks: 2/59
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
Joanne Mi5.3 Autumn Whodunits
Read a book with MPG Cozy Mystery
The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp
Post this task 5
Season Total 5
SHEMAC5.9 It's Fall Y'all
Read a book first published in September, October, or November
Steps to You
First published September 2015
This task points: 5
Season total points: 5
LoraTask: 30.4 TessaVanessa’s US Nationals Drag Racing Challenge, using options 1 and 2
Book 1:
Book/Author: Murder by Milkshake / Elizabeth Maria Naranjo
How it fits: elizabetH NaRAnjo
Book 2:
Book/Author: Falling / T.J. Newman
How it fits: has 304 pages
Points for this task: 30
Total points: 30
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
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: 0
slideshell15.3 In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream
Option 2: Read a single book that satisfies both criteria for option 1:
-Read a book with an MPG of Science Fiction
-Read a book which is numbered 1-7 in a series of at least three whole numbered books (no x.5 etc). The series must appear in greyscale on the GR book page
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Paperback - 374 pages
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Total This Task
Points: 15
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Total This Season
Points: 20/1045
Completed Tasks: 2/59
Big Book: 0
Non-fiction: 0
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Pages read this season: 753
Books read this season: 2
25.1 Ash's Task: Killer Reads and Gore GaloreOption 1-1, cover at least 75% red and green: The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews
90.8% green
paperback edition The Santa Suit 210 pages
Option 1-2, Dream intact in the title: Dreams of Falling by Karen White
paperback edition Dreams of Falling 464 pages
Points this post: 25
Total points: 25
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15.10 That's Not Trivial Pursuit
4+ ltr word in title made from THE GREAT PENGUIN BOOK CHASE
Three Eight One
word THREE found in THE gREat
Points this post: 15
Total points: 15
BB:0 GO:0 IAF:0
ROBIN P10.10 Spaceship Pressure
Digital number 1-6 in title or on cover
- Three Eight One - cover has numbers 1 and 3 multiple timesPoints this post: 10
Total points:20
BB:0 GO:0 IAF:0
Deborah15.2 - Don't Stop Me Now
1) NightmareThe Bloodletter Saga #1
2) BlackenedThe Bloodletter Saga #2
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 15
Books Read: 2
Tasks Done: 1
LoraTask: 5.2- Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Book/Author: A Crime Well Versed / Marlene Chase
How it fits: author's initials are MC
Points for this task: 5
Total points: 35
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
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: 0
Task 30.4 - US Nationals Drag Racing Challengeoption 1: letters NHRA in author last name
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
option 3: 75%+ blue, green, red, yellow cover
A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons
62.8 %#142838Blue
8.7 %#186866Green
8.4 %#8f9494Grey
7.5 %#2e1918Brown
6.0 %#3f472aGreen
2.0 %#b28e77Brown
1.9 %#cdbf8dBrown
1.7 %#7c3839Brown
0.5 %#a2213eRed
0.4 %#0a754dGreen
totals 78.4%
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30 points
JUKKA15.5 - Oh No, Not Again...
Book first published in 2002 or 2020.
Money Shot, Vol. 1 by Tim Seeley & Sarah Beattie is from 2020.
Total Points: 15/1045
Total Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1/59
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 0
15.3 - In Space, No One Can Hear You ScreamOption 2: One-book task
Read a single book that satisfies both criteria for option 1.
Book 1: Read a book with an MPG of Science Fiction.
Book 2: Read a book which is numbered 1-7 in a series of at least three books. The series must appear in greyscale on the GR book page.
Murderbot Diaries #4
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Task Total: 15
Season Total: 15
XBM10.2- Slay The Beast
Read a book with the word "Monster" in tact in the title
Little Monsters. Kara Thomas
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 3
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points: 35/1045
Completed Tasks: 3/59
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
SarahBR5.9 It's Fall Y'all
Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard by Tom Felton Was first released on the 18th of October 2022 which meets this challenge.
This is also a non fiction book I am claiming one it's a fact ticket
Total Points: 5/1045
Total Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1/59
Big Books Total: 0
Golden Oldies Total: 0
It's a Fact Total: 1
FLY Task #10.9 The Wonderful Thing about Dragons
task: Read a book from the list: Dragons
book: Dragonflight
(my version is audio, first MMPB here)
how it fits: #6 (page 1) on the list
Points this post: 10
Total points: 15
Tasks completed: 2/59
BB: 0 / GO: 1 / IAF: 0
Nick KY5.1 Most Wonderful Time. I read Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor with "Fall� in the title.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 5
Nick KY5.6 Hauntingly Good. I read The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, a book with a ghost in the plot.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 10
Nick KY10.1 Railway I read Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell set in the U.K., a foreign country to the U.S. where I live.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 20
Mimi Michele10.4 Read a book with MPG Crime
The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family by John Glatt. Read 9/2/24.
THIS POST
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 1
Total This Season
Points: 10
Completed Tasks: 1
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 1
SHEMAC5.5 Eerie Equation: 13 + 31 = Spooky Halloween?
Read a book with 31 intact in the original publication date. (First published 31/8/21)
Hidden Heart (4)
This task points: 5
Season total points: 10
Nick KY10.4 Once Upon a Crime. I read Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer with the GR genre “Crime� on the main page.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 30
FLY Task #10.6 On My Hike
task: Read a book with a 4+ letter title word made from NATIONAL PARKS
book: Alonia & Trift
(my version is kindle, no MMPB, first PB here)
how it fits: Alonia in N(A)T(IONAL)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 25
Tasks completed: 3/59
BB: 0 / GO: 1 / IAF: 0
Katrisa10.3 It's a Whole New Town
Read an Anthology of short stories, novellas or essays
I read Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture it is a collection of essays.
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 25
Katrisa15.4 - Flight Risk
Option 2: one-book task
Read a book with a aeroplane on the cover AND by an author whose first and last initials can be found in HIT THE SILK.
I read The Langoliers by Stephen King
cover approved in thread /topic/show/...
SK in SilK
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 40
Sarah H10.3 It's a Whole New Town
Read an Anthology of short stories, novellas or essays
You Like It Darker
**You Like It Darker is a Big Book (502 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket**
Points this task: 10
Total points to date: 10
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets This Task: 1
Total Big Books: 1
Total It's a Fact: 0
Tasks complete: 1
Books read: 1
Christine V5.9 It's Fall Y'all
Uncultured: A Memoir
This book is NonFiction. ***Claiming 1 It's A Fact Ticket***
Points this post: 5
NF tickets this post: 1
Total points: 5
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0 (Total BB tickets=0)
It's A Fact: 1
15.5 - Oh No, Not Again�The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer #1) by Jenny Han
Total this Post: 15
Season Total: 15
30.7 Amy FL’s task: Let’s play Scattergories!Letter: A
Option 1 - Author: Read a book by an author whose LAST name begins with the letter you’ve spun.
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Option 2- Title: Read a book with a title that begins with your letter.
A Peony for Your Claws by L.V. Oaks
Total this Post: 30
Season Total: 45
SHEMAC10.6 On My Hike
Read a book with a 4 or more letter word in the title made from NATIONAL PARKS .
The Trail Boss and the Brat
Required: State the word - TRAIL
This task points: 10
Season total points: 20
Nick KY10.10 Spaceship. I read Caligula and Three Other Plays by Albert Camus, with the digit 3 on the cover in the title of the edition I read.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points So Far: 40
JEN B10.6 On My Hike
Read a book with a 4 or more letter word made for NATIONAL PARKS in the title.
The Suite Spot by Trish Doller
Word = SPOT
naTiOnalParkS
TOTAL POINTS: 10
JEN B15.5 - Oh No, Not Again...
Read a book first published in 2002 or 2020.
Grown Ups by Marian Keyes
Published in 2020
***Claiming One Big Book Ticket - 636 pages***
TOTAL POINTS: 25
JEN B15.10 - That's Not Trivial Pursuit...
Read a book with a word in the title of four or more letters that can be made from THE GREAT PENGUIN BOOKCHASE. Letters may only be used as often as they appear.
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Word - THINGS
TH in THe
GIN in penGuIN
S in bookchaSe
TOTAL POINTS: 40
XBM15.10 - That's Not Trivial Pursuit...
Read a book with a word in the title of four or more letters that can be made from THE GREAT PENGUIN BOOKCHASE. (Shop)
At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities. Heather Webber
THIS POST
Points: 15
Completed Tasks: 4
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
Total This Season
Points: 50/1045
Completed Tasks: 4/59
Big Book: 0
NONFICTION : 0
brooke4.010.1- Do You Wanna Build a Railway
Read a book set in a country you do not live.
The Leopard audio, MMP; Η λεοπάρδαλη 784pgs Jo Nesbø
I live in the US, takes places in Norway
*claiming 2 Big Book tickets - 784pgs*
Points: 10/1045
Completed Tasks: 1/59
BB: 2
Katrisa15.8 - Read My Mind
Read a book in which a main character exhibits (or pretends to have - we'll accept charlatans for this task!) some sort of psychic ability, e.g. clairvoyance, telepathy, telekinesis, mediumship etc
I read Winter's Shock: Winter Black Season Two
The MC Winter Black has a psychic sense that alerts her to clues involving the crimes she investigates and gives her visions.
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 55
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