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Movie Mania Rules & Tasks
Requesting Badges

When you finish a badge requirement, you will need to post in the Year Long Reporting Thread as follows:

WoF Name ________________

Badge Requesting (One, Two, Three or Four)
1. Movie, Task, link to Title
2. Wrinkle in Time, Actor, Becoming
3. Red Sparrow, Book, Red Sparrow
4…… continuing to 12



Reporting format:

1. Challenge Progress: Identify where you are in the challenge – Badge 1, book 1 (2, 3, 4, etc.)
2. List Movie
3 List Task
4. Link to book read. REQUIRED: If the cover is part of the task, link the cover of the edition you read as well.
5. List the number of pages of the edition you read. If an ebook or audiobook also give the number of pages of the hardcover edition (refer general rules on page numbers).
6. Give a very brief summary of the task.
7. State how the book fits the criteria.
8. Specifications required in the task. Some tasks require that you report a specific thing. IE – a task requires that you read a book from a Listopia. You need to identify which position number the book is on the list so that it can be verified.

1. Badge X, Book Y
2. Movie -
3. Task -
4. Book Link:
5. Detail:
6. Requirement:
7. How it fits:
8. Specifications if required:

EXAMPLE
1. Badge 1, Book 5
2. Movie - A Wrinkle in Time
3. Task - Actor, Oprah Winfrey
4. Link – Becoming
Becoming by Michelle Obama
5. Listened to Audiobook, Hardcover edition is 480 pages
6. Read a book from Oprah's Book Club
7. It's the lastest book on Oprah's Book Club
8. No specifications.

1. Badge 1, Book 1
2. Movie - Meg
3. Task - 5. Genre: Horror
4. Book Link: The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison 1/2/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Paperback is 276 pages
6. Read a book that is classified as Action and/or Thriller. Must be MPG
7. How it fits: MPG of Thriller

1. Badge 1, Book 2
2. Movie - To All the Boys I've Loved Before
3. Task - 5. Genre: YA Romance
4. Book Link: Tequila Haze by Melissa Toppen 1/6/19
5. Read Ebook 304 pages. There is another unknown edition of 350 pages.
6. Read a Romance. Must be MPG
7. How it fits: MPG of Romance

1. Badge 1, Book 3
2. Movie - The Sisters Brothers
3. Task - 4. Setting: Oregon & California
4. Book Link: Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh 1/6/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Mass Market Paperback is 334 pages
6. Read a book set in Oregon or California.
7. How it fits: Takes place in San Francisco, California

1. Badge 1, Book 4
2. Movie - A Simple Favor
3. Task - 4. Setting: Connecticut
4. Book Link: Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill 1/9/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Paperback is 357 pages
6. Read a book set in Connecticut, Iowa, or Chicago. 
7. How it fits: Takes place in Chicago, IL

1. Badge 1, Book 5
2. Movie - The Girl in the Spider's Web
3. Task - 2. Author: David Lagercrantz
4. Book Link: Red Fox by Karina Halle 1/10/19
5. Read Ebook. Paperback is 324 pages
6. Using the letters in "David Lagercrantz" make a word of at least 3 letters long. Read a book with that exact word in the title
7. How it fits: Word made is "Red"

1. Badge 1, Book 6
2. Movie - Fifty Shades Freed
3. Task - 5. Genre: Erotica
4. Book Link: Croc and the Fox by Eve Langlais 1/10/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Paperback is 190 pages
6. Read a book that is Erotica.
7. How it fits: MPG of Erotica
8. Specifications if required: There a quite a few detailed sex scenes.

1. Badge 1, Book 7
2. Movie - Forever My Girl
3. Task - 3. Actor: Alex Roe.
4. Book Link: Witch Slapped by Dakota Cassidy 1/12/19
5. Read Ebook. Paperback is 224 pages
6. Read a book that was first published in 2016.
7. How it fits: First Published March 31st 2016

1. Badge 1, Book 8
2. Movie - Every Day
3. Task - 2. Author: David Levithan.
4. Book Link: The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White 1/13/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Paperback is 339 pages
6. Read a book by another author whose first book was published 2000 or later.
7. How it fits: Karen White's first book was In the Shadow of the Moon. It was Published August 14th 2000

1. Badge 1, Book 9
2. Movie - Mortal Engines
3. Task - 6. Trivia
4. Book Link: Haunted on Bourbon Street by Deanna Chase 1/16/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Paperback is 262 pages
6. Read a book that is first in a series.
7. How it fits: Jade Calhoun, #1

1. Badge 1, Book 10
2. Movie - Annihilation
3. Task - 5. Genre: Science Fiction
4. Book Link: Hunter's Claim by S.E. Smith 1/18/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Paperback is 236 pages
6. Read a book from the genre Science Fiction. Must be MPG
7. How it fits: MPG of Science Fiction

1. Badge 1, Book 11
2. Movie - Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
3. Task - 4. Setting: Scotland
4. Book Link: Gifted Thief by Helen Harper 1/19/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Paperback is 348 pages
6. Read a book that is set in Scotland or written by a Scottish author.
7. How it fits: Book takes place in Scotland. Author is also a Scottish native.

1. Badge 1, Book 12
2. Movie - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
3. Task - 4. Setting Guernsey 1946
4. Book Link: Dead Sky Morning by Karina Halle 1/20/19
5. Read Ebook. Paperback is 358 pages
6. Read a book set on an island.
7. How it fits: Takes place on D'Arcy Island between British Columbia and Washington State

WoF Name: Sunshine

Badge Requesting (One, Two, Three or Four)
1. Meg, Genre, The Butterfly Garden
2. To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Genre, Tequila Haze
3. The Sisters Brothers, Setting, Slave to Sensation
4. A Simple Favor, Setting, Friday Night Bites
5. The Girl in the Spider's Web, Author, Red Fox
6. Fifty Shades Freed, Genre, Croc and the Fox
7. Forever My Girl, Actor, Witch Slapped
8. Every Day, Author, The Strangers on Montagu Street
9. Mortal Engines, Trivia, Haunted on Bourbon Street
10. Annihilation, Genre, Hunter's Claim
11. Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart, Setting, Gifted Thief
12. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Setting, Dead Sky Morning

Congrats on earning your first badge!

We equate ebooks and audiobooks first to the hardcover edition when determining the page count. If there is no hardcover edition, then we go to paperback. For quite a few of yours, there was no hardcover edition, so it would be good to mention that in your reports.

Ok. Will do. :-)

1. Badge 2, Book 1
2. Movie - Ophelia
3. Task - 3. Actor: Daisy Ridley.
4. Book Link: Hendrix by M.J. Fields 1/22/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 195 pages
6. Read a book with a tattoo on cover
7. How it fits:

1. Badge 2, Book 2
2. Movie - Fifty Shades Freed
3. Task - 4. Setting: Seattle
4. Book Link: Lying Season by Karina Halle 1/24/19
5. Read Ebook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 348 pages
6. Read a book set in Washington State.
7. How it fits: Set in Seattle, Washington

1. Badge 2, Book 3
2. Movie - Little Women
3. Task - 6. Trivia 
4. Book Link: Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine 1/30/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Hardcover 352 pages
6. Read a book with a strong female lead character.
7. How it fits: MC has learned how to live on the run and off the grid to protect her children

1. Badge 2, Book 4
2. Movie - The Jungle Book. Movie name, Mowgli
3. Task -2. Author: Rudyard Kipling.
4. Book Link: On Demon Wings by Karina Halle 2/3/19
5. Read Ebook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 446 pages
6. Read the 5th book in a series
7. How it fits: Experiment in Terror, #5

1. Badge 2, Book 5
2. Movie - First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
3. Task - 3. Actor: Ryan Gossling.
4. Book Link: Into the Hollow by Karina Halle 2/8/19
5. Read Ebook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 438 pages
6. Read a book set in Canada
7. How it fits: Set in the Canadian Rockies

1. Badge 2, Book 6
2. Movie - Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
3. Task - 2. Author: Garrard Conley.
4. Book Link: Changeling by Yasmine Galenorn 2/7/19
5. Read Paperback, 278 pages
6. Read a book with a single word title.
7. How it fits: One word Title

1. Badge 2, Book 7
2. Movie - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
3. Task - 2. Author: Becky Albertalli.
4. Book Link: Come Alive by Karina Halle 2/12/19
5. Read Ebook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 436 pages
6. Read a book where the cover is black and white as the only colours.
7. How it fits:

1. Badge 2, Book 8
2. Movie - The Long Home
3. Task - 4. Setting: Tennessee
4. Book Link: The Skeleton in the Closet by Angie Fox 2/13/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 250 pages
6. Read a book set in Tennessee.
7. How it fits: Set in Sugerland, TN

1. Badge 2, Book 9
2. Movie - The Little Stranger
3. Task - 5. Genre: Horror
4. Book Link: Psychosis by K.R. Griffiths 2/15/19
5. Read Ebook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 300 pages
6. Read a book that is in the Horror genre. Must be MPG
7. How it fits: MPG Horror

1. Badge 2, Book 10
2. Movie - Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker
3. Task - 5. Genre: Fantasy, Christmas
4. Book Link: Honour Bound by Helen Harper 2/24/19
5. Read Ebook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 292 pages
6. Read a book from the Fantasy genre. Must be MPG
7. How it fits: MPG Fantasy

Could you post two or three books at a time rather than save them up to do at once? It's makes easier work for me. Thanks.

Sorry. I always update challenges in a batch but I will make note to do this one every couple of books. I have more to add but will only post a couple at a time. I assume these ones are good?

Thanks, Sunshine. I appreciate it. :)

These books are all fine and tracked.

1. Badge 2, Book 11
2. Movie: Between Shades of Gray, Movie name: Ashes in the Snow
3. Task: 3. Actor: Bel Powley.
4. Book Link: Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls by Victoria Laurie 2/19/19
5. Read Paperback, 344 pages
6. Read a book set in Ireland or by an Irish author.
7. How it fits: Takes place in Ireland

1. Badge 2, Book 12
2. Movie: 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
3. Task: 5. Genre: Non-Fiction
4. Book Link: Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling 2/27/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Hardcover is 228 pages
6. Read a book that is non-fiction. Must be MPG
7. How it fits: MPG Nonfiction

1. Badge 2, Book 13
2. Movie: 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
3. Task: 2. Author: Doug Stanton.
4. Book Link: Stone Cold Bad by Tess Oliver 3/2/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 210 pages
6. Read a book from a trilogy. It may be any book in the trilogy.
7. How it fits: Stone Brothers Trilogy, Book #1

1. Badge 2, Book 14
2. Movie: A Simple Favor
3. Task: 6. Trivia
4. Book Link: Bird Box by Josh Malerman 3/5/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Hardcover is 262 pages
6. Read a book from this list, The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK.
7. How it fits: Page 10, Position 909

1. Badge 2, Book 15
2. Movie: Between Shades of Gray, Movie name: Ashes in the Snow
3. Task: 6. Trivia
4. Book Link: Ashes to Ashes by Karina Halle 3/7/19
5. Read Ebook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 406 pages
6. Read a book that has "Ashes" or "Snow" in the title. Must be exact.
7. How it fits: "Ashes" is in the title

1. Badge 2, Book 16
2. Movie: Red Sparrow
3. Task: 3. Actor: Jennifer Lawrence.
4. Book Link: Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout 2/19/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 366 pages
6. Read a book that was an award winner or nominee (of any kind) in 2012. Required - List the award and whether it was the winner or nominee of that award.
7. How it fits: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction and for Goodreads Author (2012)

(there are hardcovers listed but not in English so didn't know if I was supposed to count that)

Sunshine✰✰✰ wrote: "1. Badge 2, Book 16
2. Movie: Red Sparrow
3. Task: 3. Actor: Jennifer Lawrence.
4. Book Link: Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout 2/19/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. No H..."

I'll accept the pages for the paperback version.

1. Badge 2, Book 17
2. Movie: Forever My Girl
3. Task: 4. Setting: Texas
4. Book Link: Hard Corps by Scott Hildreth 3/11/19
5. Read Ebook. Hardcover has no pages listed, Paperback is 328 pages
6. Read a book set in Texas.
7. How it fits: Takes place in Texas

1. Badge 2, Book 18
2. Movie: First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
3. Task: 4. Setting: Space
4. Book Link: Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon 3/15/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 352 pages
6. Read a book set in Space.
7. How it fits: Takes place in Space

1. Badge 2, Book 19
2. Movie: Forever My Girl
3. Task: 5. Genre: Romance, Music
4. Book Link: Mister Moneybags by Vi Keeland 3/19/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 308 pages
6. Read a book listed as New Adult. Must be MPG
7. How it fits: MPG New Adult

1. Badge 2, Book 20
2. Movie: Crazy Rich Asians
3. Task: 5. Genre: Romance
4. Book Link: Undead and Unreturnable by MaryJanice Davidson 2/23/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Hardcover is 272 pages
6. Read a book with the genre Chick Lit or Women's Lit. Must be MPG
7. How it fits: MPG Chick Lit

1. Badge 2, Book 21
2. Movie: The Jungle Book. Movie name, Mowgli
3. Task: 5. Genre: Classics
4. Book Link: The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones 3/23/19
5. Read Hardcover, 251 pages
6. Read a Short Story Anthology. Must be MPG
7. How it fits: MPG Short Stories and Anthologies

1. Badge 2, Book 22
2. Movie: The Long Home
3. Task: 5. Genre: Southern Gothic
4. Book Link: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 3/23/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. Hardcover is 235 pages
6. - Read a book in the Gothic genre. Must be MPG
7. How it fits: MPG Gothic

1. Badge 2, Book 23
2. Movie: The Little Stranger
3. Task: 3. Actor: Domhnall Gleeson.
4. Book Link: Taming a Wild Scot by Rowan Keats 3/27/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 346 pages
6. Read a book where the main character has red (ginger) hair.
7. How it fits: MC, Ana Bisset, has red hair (also on cover)

1. Badge 2, Book 24
2. Movie: A Simple Favor
3. Task: 2. Author: Darcey Bell.
4. Book Link: Who, What, Where, When, Die by Amanda M. Lee 3/28/19
5. Read Ebook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 178 pages
6. Read the debut book of any author.
7. How it fits: Author's Debut Book

WoF Name: Sunshine

Badge Requesting: Two
1. Ophelia , Actor, Hendrix
2. Fifty Shades Freed , Setting, Lying Season
3. Little Women , Trivia, Stillhouse Lake
4. The Jungle Book - Movie name, Mowgli , Author, On Demon Wings
5. First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong , Actor, Into the Hollow
6. Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family , Author, Changeling
7. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda , Author, Come Alive
8. The Long Home , Setting, The Skeleton in the Closet
9. The Little Stranger , Genre, Psychosis
10. Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker , Genre, Honour Bound
11. Between Shades of Gray, Movie name: Ashes in the Snow , Actor, Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls
12. 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers , Genre, Why Not Me?
13. 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers , Author, Stone Cold Bad
14. A Simple Favor , Trivia, Bird Box
15. Between Shades of Gray, Movie name: Ashes in the Snow , Trivia, Ashes to Ashes
16. Red Sparrow , Actor, Onyx
17. Forever My Girl , Setting, Hard Corps
18. First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong , Setting, Alien: Out of the Shadows
19. Forever My Girl , Genre, Mister Moneybags
20. Crazy Rich Asians , Genre, Undead and Unreturnable
21. The Jungle Book - Movie name, Mowgli , Genre, The Ones That Got Away
22. The Long Home , Genre, The Haunting of Hill House
23. The Little Stranger , Actor, Taming a Wild Scot
24. A Simple Favor , Author, Who, What, Where, When, Die

Sunshine✰✰✰ wrote: "1. Badge 2, Book 20
2. Movie: Crazy Rich Asians
3. Task: 5. Genre: Romance
4. Book Link: Undead and Unreturnable by MaryJanice Davidson 2/23/19
5. Listened to Audio..."

Tiny correction here. The task for for MPG of Chick Lit or Women's Lit, not Romance. Fortunately both Chick Lit and Women's Lit are on the main page, so it still counts.

Congrats on earning badge 2. :)

Yay! Thank you. I've corrected that task. :-D

Thanks. :)

1. Badge 3, Book 1
2. Movie: Little Women
3. Task: 2. Author: Louisa May Alcott.
4. Book Link: Revelation by Randi Cooley Wilson 3/29/19
5. Listened to Audiobook. No Hardcover, Paperback is 314 pages
6. Read a book with a stormy cover.
7. How it fits: