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'LOST IN SPACE Reading Challenge'


Challenge Begins: January 1, 2020
Challenge Ends: when you finish your journey

✪ After signing up, you will receive your own thread.
✪ In that thread, there will be a list of the planets in our Solar System and our Sun.
✪ Each planet and the Sun will have a set of tasks.
✪ In your thread you will request the tasks for a specific planet or the Sun. The planets and the Sun can be requested in any order.
✪You will chose one task to read for that planet or the Sun and then report on the reporting thread when you have completed the assignment.
✪ In your report you will request the next planet or the Sun.
✪ You continue until you have read a task for each of the planets and the Sun.

Please follow this format for your Completion Posts.
Completion Report:
Planet or the Sun:
Task:
Book:
Author:
Date Read:
How My Book Fit the Task:
Next Planet or the Sun:

Rules:
Books must be 140 pages.
Re-reads and audio books are okay.
Page count for audio books will be determined by the hardcover issue. If there is no hardcover, then paperback issue. Where there is more than one edition, the one with the highest number of ratings will be used.

List of Planets and the Sun

Pluto
Neptune
Uranus
Saturn
Jupiter
Mars
Earth
Mercury
Venus
the Sun

Hey, I'm missing my crew, so - spin the wheel (or planets)! I'm willing to start whever it lands!

Shelley wrote: "Hey, I'm missing my crew, so - spin the wheel (or planets)! I'm willing to start whever it lands!"

Good luck traveling with a crew. random.org picked the Sun for you to start with.

the Sun:
1. Read a science fiction book.
2. The Sun is gradually becoming hotter. Read a book with a person on the cover that you consider hot.
3. The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star. Read a book whose title begins with a 'G' (ignoring 'a', 'an' and 'the').
4. The Sun does not have a definite boundary. Read a book where the main character travels to a different country.
5. The Sun has been regarded by some cultures as a deity. Read a book that has been shelved as 'Mythology'.

Completion Report:

The Sun

Task: Read a science fiction book.
Book: Solar Storm: Episode 1: IMPACT ✰✰✰✰
Author: Marcus Richardson
Date Read: 1/23/20
How My Book Fit the Task: This is a science fiction book. There has been a CME (coronal mass ejection) - charged particle ejections after a solar flare. It has knocked out all electricity. The main character, Jay, is faced with a dilemma. His wife, a commercial pilot whose plane was in the direct path of the CME is possibly dead and he has lost all contact with his daughter who is attending college in another state. With no way to communicate, he must decide whether to go in search of his daughter or his wife.



Next Planet: Mars

Don't forget to post a Completion Post in the Reporting thread, Shelley.

Mars:
1. Read a science fiction book.
2. Mars is called the "Red Planet". Read a book with a red cover.
3. The fashionable idea that Mars was populated by intelligent Martians exploded in the late 19th century. Read a historical book.
4. Mars is scarred by a number of impact craters: a total of 43,000 craters have been found. Read a book with a scarred main character.
5. Mars is the 4th planet from the Sun. Read the 4th book in a series.

Does this count as a book with a red cover?
Last Son of the War God

Shelley wrote: "Does this count as a book with a red cover?
Last Son of the War God"

I looks more orange to me, Shelley. Maybe the main character will have scars, and you can use that task instead.

After looking at it again, I thought so too. Didn't hurt to ask. 😊😊

Completion Post

Planet: Mars



Task: Read a Science Fiction book
Book: Soundless: Soundless Quadrilogy, Book 1☆☆☆☆
Author: Abdulrahman Ahmed Altheeb
Date Read: 2/27/20
How it fit: Science Fiction. This is the first in a series. Tobey Tyson has been deaf since he was 5 years old. A series of events (1) lands Tobey in the hospital in a coma (2) he awakes from the coma hearing, and (3) with enhanced abilities. Along with coping with his changing abilities, he still has the problem that landed him in the coma. Good beginning to a series.

Next planet: Jupiter

Jupiter:
1. Read a science fiction book.
2. Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System. Read a book with 400+ pages.
3. The best known feature of Jupiter is the Great Red Spot, a persistent storm. It rotates counterclockwise, with a period of about six days. Read a book from start to finish within 6 days.
4. In 1955, bursts of radio signals were detected coming from Jupiter. Listen to an audio book.
5. Jupiter is the 5th planet from the Sun. Read the 5th book in a series.

Planet: Jupiter
Task: Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System. Read a book with 400+ pages.
Author: Ronan Farrow
Date Read: 3/11/2020
How it fits: 448 pages
Next Planet: Saturn

Saturn:
1. Read a science fiction book.
2. Saturn is known as the "Ringed Planet". Read a book where the main character is married.
3. The Cassini–Huygens space probe entered orbit around Saturn on 1 July 2004. Read a book that was published in July.
4. The continued exploration of Saturn is still considered to be a viable option for NASA as part of their ongoing New Frontiers program of missions. Read a book by an author that is new to you.
5. Saturn is the 6th planet from the Sun. Read the 6th book in a series.

Planet: Saturn
Task: The continued exploration of Saturn is still considered to be a viable option for NASA as part of their ongoing New Frontiers program of missions. Read a book by an author that is new to you.
Book: Lean on Me ☆☆☆☆
Author: Pat Simmons
Date Read: 3/16/2020
How it Fits: Author is new to me.

Next Planet: Uranus

Uranus:
1. Read a science fiction book.
2. Uranus is called the "ice giant". Read a book set during the wintertime.
3. In 1986, images from Voyager 2 showed Uranus as an almost featureless planet. Read a book without a person on the cover.
4. The Uranian system has a unique configuration because its axis of rotation is tilted sideways. Its north and south poles, therefore, lie where most other planets have their equators. Read a book set in a different hemisphere than you.
5. Uranus is the 7th planet from the Sun. Read the 7th book in a series.

Completion Post


Planet: Uranus
Task: In 1986, images from Voyager 2 showed Uranus as an almost featureless planet. Read a book without a person on the cover.
Book: The Joy Luck Club
Author: Amy Tan
Date Read: 3/26/2020
How it fits: Read a book without a person on the cover.


Next planet: Neptune

Neptune:
1. Read a science fiction book.
2. Neptune is also the Roman god of the sea. Read a book with water on the cover.
3. There was a heated nationalistic rivalry between the French and the British over who deserved credit for the discovery. Read a book set in France or Great Britain.
4. Shortly after its discovery, Neptune was referred to simply as "the planet exterior to Uranus". Read a book that has been published under a different name.
5. Neptune is the 8th planet from the Sun. Read the 8th book in a series.

Completion Report
Planet: Neptune
Task: Neptune is also the Roman god of the sea. Read a book with water on the cover.
Book: The Killing Tide: A Brittany Mystery
Author: Jean-Luc Bannalec
Date Read: 5/1/2020
How My Book Fit the Task: Water on the cover.



Next Planet: Pluto

Pluto:
1. Read a science fiction book.
2. Pluto is also a Disney character. Read a book that was made into a movie.
3. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. Read a book with an author's name starts with 'C' or 'T'.
4. The New Horizons spacecraft performed a flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015. Read a book first published in 2015.
5. Pluto was the 9th planet from the Sun. Read the 9th book in a series.

Can a Netflix mini-series count as a move? Defending Jacob?

Shelley wrote: "Can a Netflix mini-series count as a move? Defending Jacob?"

Sure.

Completion Report:

Planet: Pluto
Task: Pluto is also a Disney character. Read a book that was made into a movie.
Book: Defending Jacob
Author: William Landay
Date Read: 5/9/2020
How My Book Fit the Task: Defending Jacob is currently a mini-series on Apple TV



Next Planet: Mercury

Mercury:
1. Read a science fiction book.
2. Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. Read a book that has 150 - 199 pages.
3. The planet has no known natural satellites. Read a standalone book.
4. The first spacecraft to visit Mercury was NASA's Mariner 10 (1974–1975). Read a book first published in 2010.
5. Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun. Read the 1st book in a series.

Completion Report:
Planet: Mercury

Task: The planet has no known natural satellites. Read a standalone book
Book: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Author: Holly Jackson
Date Read: 5/22/2020
How My Book Fit the Task: It's a standalone book.



Next Planet or the Sun: Venus

Venus:
1. Read a science fiction book.
2. Venus is shrouded by an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds. Read a book with clouds on the cover.
3. Venus was the first planet visited by a spacecraft. Plans have been proposed for rovers or more complex missions, but they are hindered by Venus's hostile surface conditions. Read a book set during a battle or war.
4. Venus is similar to Earth in size and mass, and is often described as Earth's "sister" or "twin". Read a book about sisters or twins.
5. Venus is the 2nd planet from the Sun. Read the 2nd book in a series.

Completion Report:
Planet: Venus
Task: Read a science fiction book.
Book: Recursion
Author: Blake Crouch
Date Read: 5/31/2020
How My Book Fit the Task: Using a "memory chair" the main characters travel back in time.



Next Planet: Earth (home)

Earth:
1. Read a science fiction book set on Earth.
2. Earth is the only astronomical object known to harbor life. Read a book where a baby is born.
3. The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits Earth as its only natural satellite. Read a spin-off book.
4. As of April 2018, there are 1,886 operational, human-made satellites orbiting Earth. Read a book that has more than 1,886 ratings.
5. Earth the is 3rd planet from the Sun. Read the 3rd book in a series.

Completion Report
Planet: Earth

Task: As of April 2018, there are 1,886 operational, human-made satellites orbiting Earth. Read a book that has more than 1,886 ratings.
Book: Monster
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Date Read: 6/5/2020
How My Book Fit the Task: This book has 58,421 ratings.



All planets/task completed!