The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

If you would like a place to plan or share what you'll be reading for the Winter 2020 Challenge you may post a list in this thread. You are NOT required to post here to participate in the challenge.

TraceyL's Reading Plans

Books Read But Not Claimed:

Tasks:

5.1 ("GO" Intact in Sub/Title)
5.2 (Exact Word in Sub/Title: Hey, Hi, Hello, Welcome, Greetings, Good, Day, Howdy, Aloha, Yo, Oh)
5.3 ("I Only Watched the Movie" List) The Green Mile OR Storm of the Century OR Dreamcatcher OR Pay It Forward OR Forrest Gump
5.4 (2 Word Title First Word "The") The Arrest OR The Spirit OR The Wonder OR The Abominable OR The Terror OR The Muse OR The Miniaturist OR The Toymakers OR The Tommyknockers OR The Prestige
5.5 (#5 in Series) Order of the Phoenix
5.6 (Author Name Exact Match: Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Reggie Mantle, Veronica Lodge, Betty Cooper, Ron Dante, Toni Wine, Jeff Barry, Andy Kim)
5.7 (MPG Animals) Pride of Eden OR Perestroika in Paris
5.8 (Exact Word in Sub/Title: Overture, Prologue, Jet, Song, Something's, Coming, Dance, Gym, Maria, America, Tonight, Officer, Intermission, Feel, Pretty, One, Hand, Heart, Quintet, Rumble, Somewhere, Cool, Boy, Like, That, Finale, End, Credits) That Month in Tuscany OR The Boy from the Woods
5.9 ("Best Spy Novels" List) James Bond OR The Gun Seller Page 3 #228
5.10 (Any Book)

10.1 (First & Last in SEAN CONNERY)
10.2 (Set 50% in: Algeria, Argentina, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma (Myanmar), Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Somalia, Somaliland, South Korea, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Turkey, Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), Yemen, Zanzibar)
10.3 (Nonfiction About Civil Rights Movement) Good Trouble
10.4 ("Best Novels about the 1960s" or "Best Books on Sixties History Nonfiction" or "Sixties Memoirs, Biographies" Lists) The Help OR Valley of the Dolls OR The Secret Life of Bees
10.6 (Exact Word in Sub/Title: Who, What, When, Where, How, Why) What Would Mary Berry Do? OR Eat More Better OR Elvis in Vegas OR In Miniature OR Best Movie Year Ever OR How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe
10.7 (3+ Word Title Initials in Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious)
10.8 (Cookie on Cover) Miss Cecily's Recipes for Exceptional Ladies
10.9 (MPG Humor)
10.10 (Plurals and Possessives Word in Sub/Title: Vanilla, Chocolate, Butter, Pecan, Strawberry, Neapolitan, Chip, French, Cookies, Cream, Fudge, Ripple, Praline)

15.1 (2 Books)
*Pick a Day of Woodstock*
(Book 1: Author Name Matches Performer Name)
(Book 2: Exact Word in Sub/Title Matches Song Title)
15.2 (2 Books)
(Book 1: MPG War) Ender's Game
(Book 2: "Anti-War Books" List) The Plague OR Good Omens OR Wicked OR Beacon 23
15.3 (2 Books or 2-in-1)
(Book A: First & Last in ASTRONOMY)
(Book B: MPG Space)
15.4 (2 Books or 2-in-1)
(Book A: "TION" Intact in Sub/Title)
(Book B: 2 Sets of Double Letters in Sub/Title and/or Name)
15.5 (LASER Letters in Title)
15.6 (Heart on Cover)
15.7 (Set 50% in UK)
15.8 (4 Word Title)
15.9 (MPG Science Fiction)
15.10 (First & Last in ARPANET)

20.2 (1 Book)
(Option 1: Pizza List)
(Option 2: 50+% Red Orange and/or Blue Cover)
(Option 3: 3+ Word Title Initials in SHRIMP COCKTAIL)
20.3 (1 Book)
(Option A: Plurals or Possessives Word in Title: king, queen, knight, bishop, rook, or pawn)
(Option B: Comfort Reads List)
(Option C: Nonfiction AND MPG Politics)
(Option D: Author on PopSugar List)
20.4 (1 Book)
(Option 1: First & Last in SILENT NIGHT)
(Option 2: Word in Sub/Title - Silent, Holy, Calm, Bright, Round, Virgin, Mother, Child, Infant, Tender, Mild, Sleep, Heavenly, Peace, Sight, Stream, Heaven, Sing, Born, Pure, Light, Face, Dawn, Grace, Birth)
(Option 3: Translated)
20.5 (1 Book)
(Option 1: Set in 60s NOT 1960s)
(Option 2: Published in 1560s 1660s 1760s or 1860s)
(Option 3: 360+ Pages AND Page Count Ends in 60 OR 66)
20.6 (1 Book No Kids)
(Option 1: Recommended by a Podcast)
(Option 2: MC is Active Military, First Responder or Security)
(Option 3: First & Last in MURDERBOT)
(Option 4: 150-200 Pages OR MPG Novella)
20.8 (1 Book)
(Option 1: Letter A Appears 3 Times in Single Word in Title OR Author Name Part)
(Option 2: Author Named Pieter, Jan, or Paul)
(Option 3: Fruit on Cover OR Name of Fruit in Title)
20.9 (1 Book 250+)
(Option 1: Non-Fiction AND MPG Adventure OR Set in Washington State or Alaska)
(Option 2: Best Female Lead Characters List)
(Option 3: First & Last in OSCAR)
20.10 (Group Read) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

25.1 (2 Book)
(Option 1: Red Blue and/or Green Object on Cover)
(Option 2: First & Last in ANIMATED CHRISTMAS)
(Option 3: 3+ Word Title Initials in SOMEDAY ALL OUR DREAMS WILL COME TO BE)
(Option 4: New to Me Author AND MPG Holiday)
25.2 (2 Books)
Book 1
(Option A: First & Last in REGINA KING)
(Option B: First & Last in JAMES BALDWIN)
Book 2
(Option B: 2 Word Title Initials in Mountain Name)
FUJIYAMA
EVEREST
KENYA
KILIMANJARO
DENALI
TRES CRUCES
25.3 (2 Books)
(Option 1: Word in Title - Don't, Tell, Me, What, To, Do)
(Option 2: 11 in Year OR 11 Letters in Author's Name Part or Full Name OR Title With or Without Subtitle OR 11/Eleven in Sub/Title)
(Option 3: 2 Vowels Appear 3+ Times Each in Sub/Title)
(Option 4: Blue & Yellow on Cover)
25.4 (2 Books 1 Option)
Option 1
(Book A: Flower on Cover)
(Book B: OWER Intact in Sub/Title)
Option 2
(Book A: 2+ Word Title All Initials Same Letter)
(Book B: LL or TT in Name)
Option 3
(Book A: Published Between 1960-1969)
Book B: Hyphenated Word in Sub/Title)
25.5 (2 Books No Kids)
(Option 1: Name Matches: Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Judy Carne, Ruth Buzzi, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, Lily Tomlin, Goldie Hawn, Jo Anne Worley, Alan Sues and Gary Owens)
(Option 2: 3+ Word Title Initials in “You Bet Your Sweet Bippy!” OR "Sock It to Me!")
(Option 3: MPG Short Stories OR Anthology)
25.6 (2 Books Both Must Be New to Me Authors)
(Option 1: X in Sub/Title or Name)
(Option 2: Published in Rabbit Year 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011)
(Option 3: 80% Red Cover)
25.7 (2 Books)
(Option 1: Set 50% in Akrotin and Dhekelia; Bahrain; Cyprus; Egypt; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Kuwait; Lebanon; Oman; Palestine; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Syria; Turkey; UAE; Yemen)
(Option 2: Non-Fiction AND MPG Young Adult)
(Option 3: PopSugar List)
(Option 4: Another Book by Author I Read Jan1-Nov30 Doesn't Have to Be First Time Read) Tribesmen READ
25.8 (2 Books Same Option Ok 1 Comic Ok)
(Option 1: Won an Award)
(Option 2: Last Name Starts with E, I, Q, U, V, X, Y, or Z)
(Option 3: First Published 2020 OR 2021)
(Option 4: MPG Science Fiction)

30.1 (2 Books 600+ No Kids)
(Option 1: Day of Week in Title Plural Ok) The Sunday Lunch Club 397 Pages
(Option 2: Author Name is a Month) The Silence of Bones 352 Pages
(Option 3: Digit 1st-31st in Title)
(Option 4: Year in Title) 2001 226 Pages
30.2 (2 Books 600+ No Kids)
Book 1
(On TBR 3+ Years) Shift Feb 17 2017 630 Pages
Book 2 *Must be New to Me Author*
(Option A: Same Name as Book 1)
(Option B: Similar Author to Book 1) Brandon Sanderson
(Option C: Similar Book to Book 1) Red Rising OR Pines OR Recursion
30.3 (2 Books 1 Comic Ok)
*Pick a Pair of Reindeers. One Author First & Last Initials in One Name, Other Author Initials in the Other. Only One Author of Multiple Needs to Work.*
(Dasher & Dancer)
(Prancer & Vixen)
(Comet & Cupid)
(Donner & Blitzen)
30.4 (2 Books)
(Book 1: Word in Title Becomes New Word Backwards)
(Book 2: Backwards Word from Book 1 in Title)
30.5 (2 Books 600+ Same Option Ok No Kids)
(Option 1: MC is Doctor, Nurse, Medical Researcher or Hospital Worker AND Medical Setting)
(Option 2: All Initials in ESSENTIAL WORKER)
(Option 3: MPG Education OR MC is Teacher, School Bus Driver or Works in a School AND School Setting)
(Option 4: "Future Technology Nonfiction" or "Science & Literature Together at Last" or Essential Computer History and Information Revolution Books" Lists) Contact OR Next OR The Plague
30.6 (2 Books 501+ No Kids)
(Book 1: First or Last Name Begins or Ends with PH)
(Book 2: ACID or BASE Letters in Title)
30.7 (2 Books)
(Option 1: First Published 1964 or 1968)
(Option 2: First & Last in VOLKSWAGEN)
(Option 3: 3+ Word Title Initials in DODGE CHALLENGER)
(Option 4: Exact Word in Title: Flower, Blister, Branch, Twig, Carrion, Checkered, Click, Fireflies, Flat, Bark, Grain, Fungus, Ground, Tiger, Hairy, Ladybugs, Leaf, Cobalt, Milkweed, Colorado, Potato, Flea, Tortoise, Lizard, Metallic, Pleasing, Soldier, Scarab, June, Eastern, Shining, Skin, Spider, Stag, Tumbling, Water, True) The Tiger Flu OR The Shining Girls
30.8 (2 Books Same Option Ok No Kids)
(Option 1: First Published 1932 or 1963)
(Option 2: First & Last in BEEKEEPERS)
(Option 3: First & Last Are WY or TE)
(Option 4: MPG Mental Health or Mental Illness) The United States of Anxiety

50.1

Completed Tasks:

10.5 Zero Lives Remaining
20.1 (Option 4) Docile
20.7 (Option 1)Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Points Earned This Post: 0
Total Points Earned: 50
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 0
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)

Winter 2020/21

5.1 The Last Van Gogh
5.2 Hello From the Gillespies
5.3 To Sir, With Love
✔5.4 The Switch
5.5 Beach House Reunion
5.6 The Sisters of Glass Ferry
5.7 Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs
5.8 Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
5.9 Casino Royale
✔5.10 A Thousand Mornings

✔10.1 Return to Virgin River
10.2 In the Time of the Butterflies
✔10.3 His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
✔10.4 How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
10.5 Saving Sophie
✔10.6 How to Eat a Cupcake
✔10.7 Sunset in Central Park
✔10.8 Sweethearts
✔10.9 The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
✔10.10 Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate

15.1
✔1. The Seafront Tea Room
✔2.The House of Kennedy
15.2
✔1. All the Flowers in Paris
✔2. A Separate Peace
15.3
✔A. Sleepless in Manhattan
✔B. The Right Stuff
15.4
✔A. Slow Motion
✔B. The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
✔15.5 This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing
✔15.6 Twenty Boy Summer
✔15.7 One Day in December
✔15.8 The Book of Delights
✔15.9 Happiness for Humans
✔15.10 Leave the World Behind

✔20.1 1. The Honey-Don't List
✔20.2 2. Interior Chinatown
✔20.3 C. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
✔20.4 2. As Bright as Heaven
✔20.5 1. Simon the Fiddler
✔20.6 3. 1225 Christmas Tree Lane
✔20.7 2. The Lager Queen of Minnesota
✔20.8 3. Bitter Orange
✔20.9 My Kind of Christmas
✔20.10 Mexican Gothic

25.1
✔3. The Midnight Library
✔4. Mistletoe Cottage
25.2
✔1B. Afterlife
✔2B. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
25.3
✔2B. In a Holidaze
✔4. The Lost and Found Bookshop
25.4
✔2A. Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
✔2B. Hieroglyphics
25.5
✔1. Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
✔3. Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
25.6
✔1. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
✔2. When We Were Strangers
25.7
✔3. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
✔4. Moonflower Murders
25.8
✔1. Hamnet
✔3. The Toni Morrison Book Club


30.1
✔2. The House by the Sea
✔3. Miracle on 5th Avenue
30.2
✔1. The Thing About Love
✔2. Deacon King Kong
30.3
✔The Fifth Avenue Story Society
✔Sunrise Point
30.4
✔Part Time Cowboy
✔The Grasshopper Trap
30.5
✔2. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
✔3. The Class: A Life-Changing Teacher, His World-Changing Kids, and the Most Inventive Classroom in America
30.6
✔1. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
✔2. Midnight at the Blackbird Café
30.7
✔2. The Rust Maidens
✔3. A Good Neighborhood
30.8
✔2. The Scent Keeper
✔4. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

50.1
✔1. The Garden of Small Beginnings
✔2. Any Dream Will Do
✔3. Prodigal Summer

280 points, 2 Golden Oldies, 3 Big Book Tickets

5.1 - Going to A-Go-Go - Homegoing
5.2 - Hey, Jude - A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour
5.3 - Theme from A Summer Place - Fight Club
5.4 - The Twist - The Animators
5.5 - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
5.6 - Sugar, Sugar - Days Without End
5.7 - The House of the Rising Sun - Running with Sherman
5.8 - West Side Story - Any Human Heart
5.9 - Secret Agent Man - Killing Floor
✔5.10 - Freedom - Deception on His Mind

10.1 - Shaken, not Stirred - Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
10.2 - A Decade of Turbulence - Half of a Yellow Sun
10.3 - March On! - His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
10.4 - And in Other News - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
10.5 - Not All Bad! - The Carter of 'La Providence'
10.6 - Please Phrase That in the Form - When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
10.7 - Earworms! - Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid
10.8 - Cookies! -
10.9 - Laugh, We Made it to 2021! - One Summer: America, 1927
10.10 - I Want Them All! - Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

15.1 - Groovy, Man - The Looking Glass War and Growing Up Again: Life, Love and Oh Yeah, Diabetes
15.2 - Vietnam & the Antiwar Movement - The Red Badge of Courage and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
15.3 - Ground Control to Major Tom -
✔15.4 - Assassination Nation - The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
15.5 - Let There Be Light(s) - The Scarlett Pimpernel
15.6 - Heart to Heart - From Doon With Death
✔15.7 - The British Invasion - Hamnet
✔15.8 - The Fab Four - Acid for the Children
15.9 - A Trekkie is Born - 2001: A Space Odyssey
15.10 - The Digital Divide - The Mistletoe Promise

✔20.1 - Escape by Romance - Girls' Night In
✔20.2 - Food, glorious food! - A Burning
✔20.3 - Netflix Binges - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
20.4 - Silent Night - Home Land
✔20.5 - The Sixties, but When? - The Crow Trap
✔20.6 - EShay's Podcast connection - Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now
20.7 - Remembrance -
✔20.8 - Where in the World? - The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
20.9 - Big Sky Documentary Festival - Mrs. Dalloway
20.10 - Group Reads -

✔25.1 - Christmas in the 1960s - Americanah and The Cold Millions
25.2 - Regina and the Mountains - The Cold Millions and Open City
25.3 - The Unfortunate Effect of Planning - A Promised Land and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
25.4 - The Summer of Love - Trust: America's Best Chance and Life After Life
25.5 - Verry Interesting - Gorky Park and Open Secrets
25.6 - New Year 2021 - This Life or the NextThe Silent Patient
25.7 - I LOVE Reading Challenges - Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran and Less
✔25.8 - 2020 Wrapped - Deacon King Kong abd Sharks in the Time of Saviors

30.1 - Create a Date - Murder in Old Bombay and The 19th Wife
30.2 - LOST and FOUND - The Tailor of Panama and Me
✔30.3 - Eight Tiny Reindeer - I Capture the Castle and Raven Black
30.4 - Forward and Backward - Speak No Evil and Reasons to Live
30.5 - Making the Best of It - Sharks in the Time of Saviors and Dear Cyborgs
30.6 - The Litmus Test - Portnoy's Complaint and Deacon King Kong
30.7 - Cars, Cars, Cars - Deception on His Mind and City of Refuge
✔30.8 - Sylvia Plath - The Radetzky March and Calm the F*ck Down: How to Control What You Can and Accept What You Can't So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get On With Your Life

The possibilities, without purchasing any new books:

5.1 After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
5.2 The Good Girl by Fiona Neill
5.3 Perfume by Patrick Suskind
5.4 The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
5.5
5.6 Beloved by Toni Morrison
5.7 H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
5.8 The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
5.9 The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
5.10

10.1 The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan
10.2 Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
10.3 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jame Ford
10.4 Dominicana by Angie Cruz
10.5 The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennert
10.6 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
10.7 The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
10.8
10.9 My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologies by Fredrik Backman
10.10 Bitter Chocolate by Lesley Lokko

15.1 Christodora by Tim Murphy and The Prison Doctor by Amanda Brown
15.2 The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer
15.3 Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterley
15.4 My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
15.5 My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
15.6 Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
15.7 Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie
15.8 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
15.9 1984 by George Orwell
15.10 The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10

25.1
25.2
25.3
25.4
25.5
25.6
25.7
25.8
25.9
25.10

30.1
30.2
30.3
30.4
30.5
30.6
30.7
30.8
30.9
30.10

50.1

Completed tasks:

Winter 2020 Reading Plan

Carmilla
Possession
A Canticle for Leibowitz

5.1 - Here be Dragons
5.2 - Good Bones and Simple Murders
5.3 - Stardust
5.4 - The Fold✔ 2440
5.5 - The Big Four
5.6 - The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
5.7 - Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
5.8 - The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy, That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
5.9 - Storm Front, The Prague Cemetery
5.10 - Daisy Miller✔ 2749

10.1 - Ender's Game✔ 1348
10.2 - The Rosewater Insurrection
10.3 - March: Book One
10.4 - Best Novels Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
10.5 - Black Sun✔ 2608
10.6 - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales
10.7 - Enemy of God
10.8 - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
10.9 - All These Worlds
10.10 - Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

15.1
15.2
15.3 - 2: A Memory Called Empire
15.4 - 2: Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, On Immunity: An Inoculation
15.5 - Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower✔ 806
15.6 - The Book of Lost Things
15.7 - The Winter King
15.8 - For We Are Many
15.9 - Lent✔ 1640
15.10 - The Warden✔ 2248

20.1 - 4: Year One
20.2 - 2: Moonflower Murders 90.1% red
20.3 - C: A Promised Land
20.4 - 3: The Three Musketeers
20.5 - 1: The Journal of the Plague Year: London, 1665
20.6 - 1: Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness✔ 291
20.7 - 1: Howl's Moving Castle
20.8 - 1: The Body in the Library✔ 2085
20.9 - 3: The Thursday Murder Club✔ 396
20.10 - Mexican Gothic✔ 1892

25.1 - 2: The Humans✔
3: Mistress of the Art of Death✔ 3397
25.2 - 1B: Head On
2B: Lock In DENALI
25.3 - 1: If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
2A: The House of Silk, Among Others, Leviathan Wakes
25.4 - 3A: The House on the Strand
3B: The Glass-Blowers
25.5 - 1: Hyperion Dan Rowan
2: The Poppy War
25.6 - 1: Ball Lightning
2: The Tiger and the Wolf, All the Birds in the Sky
25.7 - 3: Crosstalk
4: The Immortals
25.8 - 1: Ninefox Gambit
3: The Glass Hotel

30.1 - 3: 1st to Die
4: 1776
30.2 - 1: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
2C: Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
30.3
30.4
30.5 - 2: author initials in ESSENTIAL WORKER
4: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Sci&Lit pg1
30.6 - 1: The Plot Against America
2: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax note
30.7
30.8

I hope that with a reading plan I will be able to finish more tasks, but mostly will have less mistakes in claiming the tasks.

So here I go, my way to ambitional reading plan. (still working on it ;) )

5.1 De zigeunergodin
5.2
5.3 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
5.4 The Twins
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8 The Twisted Heart
5.9 I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
5.10 free pass :)

10.1 The Gift
10.2
10.3
10.4 The Collector
10.5
10.6: Waar zijt gij, schildpad (waar = where)
10.7De Achtste Rune
10.8 That's More Of It Now: The Second Book Of Irish Mammies

15.1
15.2 A Nurse at the Front: The First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton & The Plague
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6 Where Rainbows End
15.7
15.8 De kokkin van Himmler or The Van Alen Legacy
15.9
15.10 De lunchroom van de weduwen

✓5.1 -A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
✓5.2 - Swear to Howdy (post children info)
5.3 - Fight Club
✓5.4 - The Outsiders
5.5 - Into Darkness
5.6 - Magic Burns
5.7 - Migrations
5.8 For Today I Am a Boy
5.9 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
✓5.10 Jonny Appleseed

10.1 - The Thing Around Your Neck
✓10.2 Death Is Hard Work
10.3 March: Book Two
10.4 The Crying of Lot 49
10.5Grave Surprise
10.6 When Breath Becomes Air
10.7 The Sunday Philosophy Club
10.8 - Sugar Cookie Murder
✓10.9 - Visions of Sugar Plums
10.10 - Butter Honey Pig Bread

15.1 The Lesser Blessed and Moon of the Crusted Snow
15.2 Redeployment and This Is How You Lose the Time War
15.3 Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
15.4 - Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
✓15.5 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
✓15.6 - Heart-Shaped Box
15.7 Maisie Dobbs
✓15.8 - How to Pronounce Knife
15.9 - Parable of the Sower or Matched or Rite of Passage
✓15.10 The Joy Luck Club

✓20.1 Bone Crossed
20.2 Parable of the Sower
20.3 My Sister, the Serial Killer
20.4 Half Spent Was the Night: A Witches' Yuletide
20.5 On the Eve
✓20.6 Exit Strategy
✓20.7 Metro Girl
20.8 Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
✓20.9 Matched
✓20.10 -Mexican Gothic

✓25.1 A Christmas Guest, A Christmas Beginning, A Christmas Odyssey
25.2 The Matter With Morris; Digging In
25.3 I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter, Shatter Me
25.4 The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession; Wildflower
25.5 The Turn of the Screw, Goodnight, Beautiful Women
25.6 Jack in a Box, A Fool and His Honey
25.7 Hole in My Life, This Is How You Lose the Time War
✓25.8 The Sentimentalists, Clara Callan


30.12nd Chance and Dirty Billionaire
30.2 The Best Laid Plans and
They Left Us Everything: A Memoir
✓30.3 A Holiday for Murder and The Vacationers
30.4The Devil and Miss Prym and
Livvie Owen Lived Here (post Children info)
30.5 The Pull of the Stars and
The Burgess Boys
✓30.6 - The White Queen and An Ice Cold Grave
✓30.7 Hench and
Come, Thou Tortoise
✓30.8 The Two-Headed Calf and Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

50 The Midnight Bargain
Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

5 Point Tasks
5.1 When She Was Good by Michael Robothom
5.2 Exact Word in Sub/Title: Hey, Hi, Hello, Welcome, Greetings, Good, Day, Howdy, Aloha, Yo, Oh
5.3 "I Only Watched the Movie" List
5.4 2 Word Title First Word "The"
5.5 Wicked by Sara Shepard
5.6 Author Name Exact Match: Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Reggie Mantle, Veronica Lodge, Betty Cooper, Ron Dante, Toni Wine, Jeff Barry, Andy Kim
5.7 MPG Animals
5.8 Exact Word in Sub/Title: Overture, Prologue, Jet, Song, Something's, Coming, Dance, Gym, Maria, America, Tonight, Officer, Intermission, Feel, Pretty, One, Hand, Heart, Quintet, Rumble, Somewhere, Cool, Boy, Like, That, Finale, End, Credits
5.9 "Best Spy Novels" List
5.10 Free choice
0/50

10 Point Tasks
10.1 First & Last in SEAN CONNERY
10.2 Set 50% in: Algeria, Argentina, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma (Myanmar), Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Somalia, Somaliland, South Korea, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Turkey, Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), Yemen, Zanzibar
10.3 nonfiction about civil rights movement
10.4 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
10.5 How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
10.6 What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr
10.7
10.8 Cookie on Cover
10.9 Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
10.10 When in Doubt, Add Butter by Beth Harbison
0/100

15 Point Tasks
15.1 (2 Books)
Day 2
Book 1: Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell
*Jewell matches saxophonist Jimmy Jewell from the Keef Hartley Band**12/18
Book 2: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 32.012/20
**Fire matches “Ring of Fire” by Joe McDonald**
15.2 (2 Books)
Book 1: Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
Book 2:
15.3 Option 2: 2-in-1
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
15.4 Option 2: 2-in-1
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
15.5 Little Disasters by Sarah Vaughan
15.6 Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner
15.7 The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
15.8 Then She Was Gone 12/13
15.9 The Whispering Room by Dean Koontz
15.10 Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
30/150

20 Point Tasks
20.1 - Love Your Life 12/11
20.2 - House of Correction by Nicci French
20.3 - Option B: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12.0) 12/13
20.4 - Option 1: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
20.5 - Option 1: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
20.6 - Option 1: from NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour - In the Woods by Tana French (p.3 #251)
20.7 - Option 2: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows IL: MG+ 12/26
20.8 - Option 1: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18.012/19
20.9 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 44.012/22
20.10 - Mexican Gothic
100/200

25 Point Tasks
25.1 - 2 books
Option 2: Unbelievable by Sara Shepard
Option 3: Us Against You
25.2 - 2 books
Book 1 Option B. Playing Nice
Book 2 Option B. No Offense
25.3 - Option 2: B. When All Is Said
Option 4: The Vanishing Half
25.4 - Option 2
Book A -
Book B - Good Girls Lie
25.5 - Option 1: One by One
Option 2: The Wife Upstairs
25.6- Option 1: The Fixer Upper
Option 2: The Selection
25.7 Option 1: The Book of Two Ways12/22
Option 4: Killer
25.8 -Option 1: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14.0,12/14
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (both have won awards) IL: MG+12/26
25/200

30 Point Tasks
30.1 2 Books 600+ No Kids
Option 1: Saturdays at Noon
Option 3: The 5th Wave
30.2 (2 Books 600+ No Kids)
Book 1: Summer Rental
Book 2 Option A: The Summer Girls (new to me author)
30.3 (2 Books)
Dasher & Dancer
Beach Read
The Girl in the Mirror
30.4 (2 Books)
Book 1: The Girl Who Lived
Book 2: Racing the Devil
30.5 2 Books
Option 2: The Book of Lost Friends 12/5
Option 3: Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom
30.6 2 Books
Book 1: The Bachelor
Book 2: The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual—Theory, Ethnography, Activism (BASE)12/21
30.7 (2 Books)
Option 2: Red Queen
Option 4: The Things We Wish Were True (kindle; matching bug: True Weevils)
30.8 (2 Books Same Option Ok)
Option 2: Open House, Olive, Again
0/240

50 Point Tasks
50.1
0/50

Total Points Earned: 155/990
Total BB Tickets: 6

Sheila's Winter 2020 Plan

5.1 - Going to A-Go-Go
Kissed a Sad Goodbye by Deborah Crombie


5.2 - Hey, Jude
The Sixth Day by Catherine Coulter
(Day)


5.3 - Theme from A Summer Place
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
(page 2)


5.4 - The Twist
The Guilty by David Baldacci


5.5 - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
The Bitterroots by C.J. Box
⬛ This book shows it is #4 in the Cassie Dewell series but it is also # 5 in the Highway Quartet series as shown in the info on the book page https://www.goodreads.com/series/2029...⬛


5.6 - Sugar, Sugar
Black Jack Point by Jeff Abbott


5.7 - The House of the Rising Sun
Leader of the Pack by David Rosenfelt


5.8 - West Side Story
Song of the Lion by Anne Hillerman
(song - Jet song)


5.9 - Secret Agent Man
The Defector by Daniel Silva
(page 1)


5.10 - Freedom
Any book

10.1 - Let's Go to the Theatre
Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver


10.2 - Avenue Q
Quantum by Patricia Cornwell


10.3 - Wicked
The Anatomist's Wife by Anna Lee Huber


⬛ 10.5 - Hamilton
All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
(Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)


⬛ 10.8 - Trick or Treat
The Other Side of Midnight by Simone St. James


10.9 - Rock the Vote
The Kill Room by Jeffery Deaver
Published June 20th 2013


10.10 - Square Dance Day

15.2 - Obie Awards
Book 1:
Vertical Coffin by Stephen J. Cannell
and
Book 2:
Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff


15.3 - Abracadabra!
Book 1:
Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch
and
Book 2:
Nemesis by Catherine Coulter


15.4 - And I Did It My Way
Option 1
Book 1:
The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek
and
Book 2:
The Facts of Life and Death by Belinda Bauer


⬛ 15.5 - Get The Word Out
Walk the Wire by David Baldacci


15.6 - Add To Cart
Fat Tuesday by Sandra Brown


15.7 - The Toniest Award
The First Eagle by Tony Hillerman


15.8 - Pop!
Storm Prey by John Sandford


15.9 - How Ya Doin'?
The Summer House by James Patterson
Added to my On PC TBR list on June 26, 2020

BrendaSD's Reading Plans

Group Read - Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

5.1 - A Book Without Dragons by Olivia Berrier
5.2 - An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
5.3 - Stardust or Misery
5.4 - The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem - done
5.5 - The Big Four by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #5) - done
5.6 - Stormy Surrender by Nicole Andrews Moore or Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
5.7 - Runaway by Dandi Daley Mackall
5.8 - Never Coming Home by A.R. Wise (Something's Coming)
5.9 - The Gray Man by Mark Greaney (#211 on the list)
5.10 - Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan - done

10.1 -
10.2 - The Stranger by Albert Camus; takes place in Algeria - done
10.3 -
10.4 -
10.5 -
10.6 - Apocalypse How? by Galen Surlak-Ramsey
10.7 -
10.8 -
10.9 - Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
10.10 -

15.1 -
15.2 -
15.3 -
15.4 -
15.5 -
15.6 -
15.7 -
15.8 -
15.9 -
15.10 -

30.1 -
30.2 -
30.3 -
30.4 -
30.5 -
30.6 -
30.7 -
30.8 -

Reading Plans

✓ 5.1 - Going to A-Go-Go
"Go" intact in title
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, read 1/15
✓ 5.2 - Hey, Jude
"Hello," "hey," "welcome", "good," "day," "aloha" in title
The Scandalous, Dissolute, No-Good Mr. Wright by Tessa Dare, read 12/3
5.3 - Theme from A Summer Place
"I Only Watched the Movie" list
✓ 5.4 - The Twist
Two word title, first word "the"
The Wives by Tarryn Fisher, read 12/26
✓ 5.5 - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
No. 5 in the Throne of Glass series
Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas, read 2/7 (689 pages)
✓ 5.6 - Sugar, Sugar
Author Name Exact Match: Archie Andrews
Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews, read 12/6
✓ 5.7 - The House of the Rising Sun Migrations
MPG Animals - approved by post 21 on 12/3/20
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, read 12/2
✓ 5.8 - West Side Story
Title with a word from West Side Story song title - I picked "I feel Pretty
Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane, read 2/25
5.9 - Secret Agent Man
"Best Spy Novels" list
✓ 5.10 - Freedom
Free book
I pick Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas, read 2/5

✓ 10.1. Shaken, not Stirred
Single author initials in SEANCONNERY
Mr. Malcolm's List by Suzanne Allain, read 2/14
✓ 10.2. A Decade of Turbulence
Set over 50% in Nigeria,
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaede Emezi, read 1/21 (set entirely in Nigeria - it's in the title's summary)
10.3. March On!
Non-fiction book about the civil rights movement or an important figure in the CR movement
10.4. And in Other News....
Go Ask Alice, The Day of the Jackal
1960s Book List - Best Novels About the 60s:
✓ 10.5. Not All Bad! Saga, Vol. 5
Read a book by an author I first read between 1/1/20 and 11/15/20: I first read The Bromance Book Club on 10/24/20 - it was my first book by this author
Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams, read 2/9
10.6. Please Phrase That in the Form of a Question.
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, The Nerd Who Loved Me, The Viscount Who Loved Me
Who, What, When, Where, How, Why in title or subtitle
10.7 - Earworms!
3+ word title with first letter of each word found in "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
10.8. Cookies!
Cookie on the cover
10.9. Laugh, We Made it to 2021! Network Effect
MPG Humor
10.10 - I Want Them All!
"french, vanilla, chocolate, pecan, butter, fudge" in title

15.1 - Groovy, Man

15.2 - Vietnam & the Antiwar Movement

15.3 - Ground Control to Major Tom Walking to Aldebaran

15.4 - Assassination Nation Black Panther, Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1

15.5 - Let There Be Light(s)

15.6 - Heart to Heart

15.7 - The British Invasion

15.8 - The Fab Four

15.9 - A Trekkie is Born Saga, Vol. 6

15.10 - The Digital Divide


20.1 - Most Improved - SandyL's Task: Escape by Romance
Option 4: Read a book with a main page genre (MPG) of Paranormal or Science Fiction. Note: Your book must also contain an MPG of Romance.
Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa, read 1/29
Romance. -1,229 users
Romance > Paranormal Romance - 361 users

20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Melinde's task: Food, glorious food!
Option 2 -Read a book with a cover that is more than 50% (51+%) rocket colors (red-orange-yellow) according to Tineye.
Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas, read 2/11 (984 pages)

41.1% #cea42fOrange
17.7% #8d6936Brown
12.2% #5c5a5aGrey
10.3% #f4d120Yellow


20.3 – Best Review - Katy's task: Netflix Binges
Option A. "The Queen's Gambit" - Read a book whose title contains the name of a chess piece - king, queen, knight, bishop, rook, or pawn.
Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas, read 2/6

20.4 - Golden Oldies - Sarah E's task: Silent Night
Option 3: Read a book that was originally written in a language other than your native one. This was originally published in Spanish. English or French are my native languages
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, read 12/6

20.5 - Bigger is Better - Julia103's task: The Sixties, but When?
Option 1: Read a book which is set at least 60% during a ‘60s decade in any century EXCEPT the twentieth century (1960s).
Innocent in Death by JD Robb, read 12/8 - set in 2060. Approved in Post #10.

20.6 – Seasoned Reader - EShay's task: EShay's podcast connection
Option 4 - Read a book with the main page genre Novella and/or that has a page length of 150-200, inclusive.
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas, read 2/15 ("novella" MPG with 323 users)

20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sara G's task: Remembrance
Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in JERSEY CITY.
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne, read 2/21

20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Marie-Anne's task: Where in the world?
Option 1 ❄︎ Read a book with 3 As in a single word in the title or in one part of the author's name (first, middle, last). If using the author option, the book must be written by a single author.
My Lovely Wife by SAmAnthA Downing, read 2/8


20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Tammy AZ's task: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Option 2 ❄︎ Read a book from the following list: Best Female Lead Characters
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, read 12/18 (850 pages)
- #22 on page 1 of the list


25 Point Tasks 7/10
25.1 - Bluemoon's task: CHRISTMAS IN THE 1960S
2 books
Book 1: Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose initials (first and last) are found in ANIMATED CHRISTMAS.
If I Never Met You by Mhairi MacFarlane, read 12/13

Book 2: Option 3 - Read a book with a title of at least three words where the initial letter of each word is found in the phrase SOMEDAY ALL OUR DREAMS WILL COME TO BE
Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn, read 2/14


25.2 - Nick KY's task: Regina and the Mountains
2 books
Book 1: Option A - Read a book with an author whose first and last initials are in REGINA KING.
Wildfire by Ilona Andrews, read 12/9
Book 2: Option B - Read a book with a two-word title. (subtitles are excluded.) The first letters of each word should be in the name of ONE of the following famous mountains. I picked EVEREST
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, read 12/2

25.3 - Queen Bee Darlene's task: The Unfortunate Effect of Planning
2 books
Book 1: Option 2B - Read a book with 11 letters in the title
Dark Harmony by Laura Thalassa, read 1/30
Book 2: Option 4 - Read a book with both blue and yellow on the cover. This book is one of the examples given in the task.
Beartown by Fredrik Backman, read 12/24


25.4 - Kristina Simon's task: The Summer of Love
2 books
Option 1 - Flower Power
Book A: - Read a book with a flower or flowers on the cover.
Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell, read 2/12

Book B: Read a book with a word that has "ower" intact in the title/subtitle.
Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas, read 2/10

25.5 - Amy FL's task: Verrry Interesting
2 books
Book 1: Option 1 - Read a book by a single author who shares a name with one of these funny people: .... Ruth Buzzi
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware, read 1/16
Book 2: Option 2: Read a book with a title of at least three words where the first letter of each title word can be found in “You Bet Your Sweet Bippy!”
Sea of Ruin by Pam Godwin, read 12/3

25.6 - Tien's task: Lunar New Year 2021
2 books
Book 1: Option 1 - Read a book with 'x' found in title/subtitle and/or author's name
Lore by AleXandra Bracken, read 2/28
Book 2: Option 3: Read a book with a red cover25.7 - Bookwrm526's task: I LOVE Reading Challenges
2 books
Book 1: Option 1: read a book set at least 50% in the Middle East, including Iran.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Ayar Nafisi, read 12/1 (set entirely in Iran)
Book 2: Option 4: choose a book that you read between January 1 and November 30, 2020. Read another book by this author. I read Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn on 9/1/20.
The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn, read 2/14
25.8 - Brooke TX's task: 2020 Wrapped
2 books
Book 1: Option 2: Read a book whose title or author's LAST name starts with E, I, Q, U, V, X, Y, or Z.
An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn, read 2/14
Book 2: Option 3: first published in 2020 or 2021
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune, read 12/2 (published 3/17/20)

30 Point Tasks 0/
30.1 - Mazza1's task: Create a Date

5 Point Tasks 3/10
5.1 - Going to A-Go-Go Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
5.2 - Hey, Jude The School for Good and Evil
5.3 - Theme from A Summer Place The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
5.4 - The Twist The Gown
5.5 - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
5.6 - Sugar, Sugar
5.7 - The House of the Rising Sun
5.8 - West Side Story
5.9 - Secret Agent Man
5.10 - Freedom Majesty

10 Point Tasks 5/10
10.1. Shaken, not Stirred. - Hope Never Dies Author Andrew Shaffer
10.2. A Decade of Turbulence I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - this book is set in Pakistan
10.3. March On!
10.4. And in Other News....
10.5. Not All Bad! The Ask and the Answer
10.6. Please Phrase That in the Form of a Question.
10.7 - Earworms! One Dark Throne
10.8. Cookies!
10.9. Laugh, We Made it to 2021! Fortune and Glory
10.10 - I Want Them All!

15 Point Tasks 3/10
15.1 - Groovy, Man
Day 2 Trust: America's Best Chance Author's name Pete matches Pete Townshend from The Who
The House in the Cerulean Sea The word "sea" found in "Beside the sea" from Mountain.
15.2 - Vietnam & the Antiwar Movement
15.3 - Ground Control to Major Tom
15.4 - Assassination Nation
15.5 - Let There Be Light(s) American Royals
15.6 - Heart to Heart
15.7 - The British Invasion
15.8 - The Fab Four A Whole New World
15.9 - A Trekkie is Born
15.10 - The Digital Divide

20 Point Tasks 5/10

20.2 Rookie at the Top - Melinde's task: Food, glorious food! Option 2: Ice cream Things Fall Apart - 37.6% yellow, 37.5% orange, 1.7% red = 76.8% rocket colors
20.3 – Best Review - Katy's task: Netflix Binges - Option C Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
20.6 – Seasoned Reader - EShay's task: EShay's podcast connection - Option 3: Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in MURDERBOT.
A Promised Land by Barack Obama (initials B.O., both found in MURDERBOT) *Big Book Ticket

20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sara G's task: Remembrance
Option 1: Motown - Read a book with all the letters in the word MOTOWN in the title only. Subtitles are excluded.The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Marie-Anne's task: Where in the world? Option 1: Read a book with 3 As in a single word in the TITLE (title only) or in one part of the author's name (first, middle, last). If using the author option, the book must be written by a single author. Liminal: a refugee memoir *Author's Last Name has 3 A's (Babayan)
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Tammy AZ's task: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival - Option #2 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West found on page 1
20.10 - Group Reads

25 Point Tasks 2/8
25.1 - Bluemoon's task: CHRISTMAS IN THE 1960S - Option #1 Christmas Cake Murder Option #4 Death by Eggnog This author is new to me
25.2 - Nick KY's task: Regina and the Mountains -
Book 1 - Option B. Read a book with an author whose first and last initials are in JAMES BALDWIN. Rage Bob Woodward (initials BW in Baldwin)
25.3 - Queen Bee Darlene's task: The Unfortunate Effect of Planning - Option #2 As Old As Time Liz Braswell (11 letters) Option #4 Room Yellow text/trees, blue sky/coat
25.8 - Brooke TX's task: 2020 Wrapped -

30 Point Tasks 1/8
30.1 - Mazza1's task: Create a Date
30.2 - Delicious Dee's task: LOST and FOUND Lost - Go Set a Watchman (added Mar 10, 2016) Found - The City New-to-me author
30.3 - Cat's task: Eight Tiny Reindeer!
30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Forward and Backward
30.5 - Sandy's task: Making the Best of It
30.6 - Andy P.’s Task: The Litmus Test
30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Cars, Cars, Cars
30.8 - Ava Catherine's task: Sylvia Plath -


50 Point Tasks 1/1

50.1 - TraceyL's task: Twister (Required: State the results of the Twister spinner.)

Right Hand Blue

Option Right: Read a book by an author you have NOT read from before.
Required: State that this author is new-to-you when you post.
A Darker Shade of Magic This author is new to me.

Option Hand: Read a book with 3 words or less in the TITLE. Ignore subtitles. Spaces determine words.
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Book 3 - Color Blue

69.7% blue

Points this task:
Books read: 26
Golden oldie:
Big book: 3

Total points: 340
Tasks completed: 20

Total points 900/990
Tasks completed: 50/58
Books read: 69/81
GO: 3
BB: 4(500) 1(750) (1000)

5.1 Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science
5.2 The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
5.3 The Blind Side
5.4 The Searcher
5.5 Troubled Blood
5.6 Castle in the Air
5.7 Watership Down
5.8 Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays
5.9 Best Spy Novels List The Hunt for Red October
5.10 Book of choice A Caribbean Mystery

10.1 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
10.2 Things Fall Apart
10.3 The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
10.4 Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
10.5 A Closed and Common Orbit
10.6 Exact Word in Sub/Title: Who, What, When, Where, How, Why Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It
10.7 The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
10.8 Mistletoe Murder
10.9 My Man Jeeves
10.10 Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

15.1 B1: Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
B2: The Sun Down Motel
15.2 B1: The Quiet American
B2: The Forever War
15.3 Book A: First & Last in ASTRONOMY A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
Book B: MPG Space Artificial Condition
15.4 Book A: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Book B: Love Warrior
15.5 All Systems Red
15.6 Parker Pyne Investigates
15.7 The Body in the Library
15.8 Murder on Washington Square
15.9 Rogue Protocol
15.10 Rules of Civility

20.1 Op 4: Lost Stars BB 560
20.2 Op 3: The Midnight Library
20.3 Op c: The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts
20.4 Op 3: The Last Wish (Polish)
20.5 Op 3: Komarr 366 pgs
20.6 Op 2: All the Devils Are Here
20.7 Op 2: Is This Anything?
20.8 Op 3: Eat a Peach
20.9 Op 2: The Blue Sword
20.10 Twelve Years a Slave

25.1 Op 2: Poirot's Early Cases
Op 3: Murder on Mulberry Bend
25.2 B1: Op B: The Big Nowhere
B 2 Op B: Exit Strategy
25.3 Op2: Ready Player Two
Op3: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
25.4 Op 2: A: Moonflower Murders
B: Network Effect
25.5 Op 1: Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor
Op 2: The Thursday Murder Club
25.6 NEW-to-you authors ONLY.
Option 1: 'x' in title/subtitle and/or author's name Exhalation: Stories
Option 3: red cover Redshirts
25.7 Op 3: This Is How You Lose the Time War
Op 4: Murder on St. Mark's Place
25.8 Op 3: The Guest List
Op 4: The Last

30.1 Op 1: Blue Monday
Op 3: 1st to Die
30.2 B1: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
B2: Op C: The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
30.3 Holidays on Ice
Hickory Dickory Dock
30.4 B1: The Dog Stars
B 2: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
30.5 Op 2: The Hollow of Fear
Op 4: A Short History of Nearly Everything
30.6 B1: The Future of Power
B2: Record of a Spaceborn Few
30.7 Op 2: Darkness at Noon
Op 4: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
30.8 Op 1: Cat's Cradle
Op 4: Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks: A Workbook for Managing Depression and Anxiety

50.1 left foot red
B1: Option Left: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
B2: Option Foot: The Left Hand of Darkness
B3: Red cover At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Winter Challenge 2020

Readerboard Name: ElaineL
(Kids Books: 5.0 level, 7.0 points)

5 Point Tasks

5.1 Going to A-Go-Go Read a book with the letters "go" found intact in a word in the title or subtitle.

5.2 Hey, Jude Read a book with one of these words in the title or subtitle: Hey, Hi, Hello, Welcome, Greetings, Good, Day, Howdy, Aloha, Yo, Oh. The word must match exactly.

5.3 Theme from A Summer Place Read a book from I Only Watched the Movie! Required: State the page. (p. 1)Twilight, P.S. I Love You, (p. 2) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

5.4 The Twist Read a book with a two-word title where the first word is "The". Subtitles should be ignored.

5.5 Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In Read a book that is book number 5 in a series (series, #5) The series name and number must be indicated in the GR title listing in grayscale parentheses following the title.

5.6 Sugar, Sugar Read a book written by an author who shares a name of a band vocalist from this list : Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Reggie Mantle, Veronica Lodge, Betty Cooper, Ron Dante, Toni Wine, Jeff Barry, Andy Kim. The name must match exactly, but may be used in any position.

5.7 The House of the Rising Sun Read a book with a main page genre Animals. The genre may be standalone or embedded.

5.8 West Side Story Read a book with a word from one of the songs on the album in the title or subtitle from: West Side Story. The words A, At, The may not be used. The word must match exactly. Required: State the word.
Words: Jet, Song, Something's, Coming, Dance, Gym, Maria, America, Tonight, Gee, Officer, Krupke, Feel, I, Pretty, One, Hand, Heart, Quintet, Rumble, Cool, Boy, Like, That, Have, Love, Somewhere, Cool, End, Credits

5.9 Secret Agent Man Read a book from Best Spy Novels Required: State the page.
Chasing Vengeance (p. 9 - on Hoopla), Spy School (p. 9, BL 5.3, AR Points 9.0), Kill and Tell (p. 9), The Secret Adversary (p. 2), Assassin's Apprentice (p. 8), Her Royal Spyness (p. 4), Remembrandt (p. 7 KU)

5.10 Freedom Read a book of your choice that meets the SRC rules.

10 Point Tasks

10.1 Shaken, Not Stirred Read a book with a single author whose initials can be found in SEAN CONNERY. All initials must be present. Letters can only be used as often as found in the target name.

10.2 A Decade of Turbulence Read a book set at least 50% in one of these countries: Algeria, Argentina, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma (Myanmar), Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Somalia, Somaliland, South Korea, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Turkey, Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), Yemen, Zanzibar. Required: Specify in your post the country in which your book is set.

10.3 March On! Read a nonfiction book about the Civil Rights movement, or about one of the leaders/important figures of the Civil Rights movement.

10.4 And In Other News Read a book from one of the following lists:
Best Novels about the 1960s Darnay Road (p. 2 KU), Confessions in B Flat (p. 2)

Required: Include in your post the list you used and the page of the list on which your book is found

10.5 Not All Bad! Read a book by a single author who you first read in 2020, before 11/15. You may have read as many books as you like by this author in 2020, but the book you use for this task must be new to you, not a re-read.

Required: In your post, link to the book in which you first read this author, and state the date read. Also state that the book you use for this task is not a re-read.

10.6 Please Phrase That in the Form of a Question Read a book with one of these "question words" in its title/subtitle - Who, What, When, Where, How, Why. The words must be standalone - no variations.

10.7 Earworms! Read a book with a title of at least 3 words, where the first letter of each word in the title can be found in "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". Letters can be used only as often as they appear in the target word.

10.8 Cookies! Read a book with one or more cookies on the cover. Required: Include the cover in your post.

10.9 Laugh, We Made it to 2021! Read a book with the main page genre Humor.

10.10 I Want Them All! Read a book with a word from this list in its title/subtitle. The word "and" cannot be used. The word must be standalone, but plurals and possessives may be used.
1. vanilla
2. chocolate
3. butter pecan
4. strawberry
5. neapolitan
6. chocolate chip
7. french vanilla
8. cookies and cream
9. vanilla fudge ripple
10. praline pecan

Peanut Butter Promise by Lorelei M. Hart (asked for length verification in msg #8068

15 Point Tasks

15.1 Groovy, Man Choose a day from the List of performances and events at Woodstock Festival:

Required: State the day you picked when you post.
Day 2

Read 2 books, one Book 1 and one Book 2.

Book 1: Read a book written by a single author who shares a name with one of the musical artists who performed on the day you picked. Cat Sebastian (John Sebastian - Day 2),
Required: State the matching name when you post.

Book 2: Read a book with a word in the title/subtitle that matches a word in one of the songs played on the day you chose. Words must match exactly. Day 2
Required: State the song title when you post.

15.2 Vietnam & the Antiwar Movement

Read 2 books, one Book 1 and one Book 2.

Book 1: Read a book with the MPG War or a MPG that includes the word WAR. Any of these would work:
War > World War II
World War II > Holocaust
Military History > Civil War

Book 2: Read a book found on the Anti War Books list.
Required: State which page the book can found on when you post.
A Separate Peace (p. 1), All the Light We Cannot See (p. 1), Kent State (p. 2 - only has 144 p.), The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (p. 3), Architects of Memory (p. 4), Harry Potter #4, 5, 6, or 7 (p. 4), All the Birds in the Sky (p. 4), Scythe (p. 5), A Memory Called Empire (p. 6), His Majesty's Dragon (p. 6), Ninefox Gambit (p. 8), Old Man's War (p. 8), Binti (p. 9), Daughter of Smoke & Bone (p. 9), Ancillary Justice (p. 9), Pax (p. 10 BL 5.2 AR Points 8.0)

15.3 Ground Control to Major Tom

Choose one of the following options.
Required: Identify the option you chose when you post.

Option 1: Read 2 books, one Book A and one Book B.

Book A: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in ASTRONOMY. Spaces determine names. Letters can only be used as often as they appear in the target word.

Book B: Read a book with the MPG Space. Genre may be standalone or embedded.

Option 2: Read 1 book that fulfills the requirements of both Book A and Book B.

15.4 - Assassination Nation

Choose one of the following options.
Required: Identify the option you chose when you post.

Option 1: Read 2 books, one Book A and one Book B.

Book A: Read a book with the letters TION intact in the title/subtitle.

Book B: Read a book with at least TWO sets of double letters (consonants and/or vowels) in the title/subtitle and/or the author's name. Books must be written by a single author.

Option 2: Read 1 book that fulfills the requirements of both Book A and Book B.

15.5 - Let There Be Light(s) Read a book with all the letters of LASER found in the TITLE only. Subtitles are excluded.

15.6 - Heart to Heart Read a book with a heart(s) on the cover. The heart(s) may be realistic or stylized. Required: Include the cover in your post.

15.7 - The British Invasion Read a book set at least 50% in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland). Required: If the location is not evident from the metadata or book description, include a reference to establish how the book fits the task when you post.

15.8 - The Fab Four Read a book with a 4-word title. Spaces determine words. All words count. Subtitles should be ignored.

15.9 - A Trekkie is Born Read a book with the MPG Science Fiction. Genre may be standalone or embedded.

15.10 - The Digital Divide Read a book written by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in ARPANET. Spaces determine names. Letters can only be used as often as they appear in the target word.

20 Point Tasks

20.1 - Most Improved - SandyL's Task: Escape by Romance

This is a one-book task. Your book must have a main page genre (MPG) of Romance.
Required: State which option you chose when posting.

Option 1: Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the first letter of each word can be found in the phrase I NEED TO LAUGH. Letters may only be used as often as they are found in the target phrase. All words count, but you can ignore subtitles.

Option 3: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in LISA KLEYPAS. Letters can only be used as often as they are found in the target name (and middle initials can be ignored.)

Option 4: Read a book with a main page genre (MPG) of Paranormal or Science Fiction. Note: Your book must also contain an MPG of Romance.

20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Melinde's task: Food, glorious food!
This is a one book task. Choose one option from below and read one book for that option.
Required: Identify the option when you post.

Option 2: Read a book with a cover that is more than 50% (51+%) rocket colors (red-orange-yellow) according to Tineye. A single color over 50% or combination of colors may be used to reach >50% if necessary.
Required: Include the book cover and the percentage of red, orange, and/or yellow when you post.

Option 3: Read a book with a title of 3 words or more, where the initial letters of each word can be found in the words SHRIMP COCKTAIL. Letters can only be used as often as they appear in the target phrase. Subtitles should be ignored. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (AR: BL 6.7, points 14.0)

20.3 – Best Review - Katy's task: Netflix Binges

Choose 1 option and read a corresponding book.

Required: State which option you chose when you post.

A. Read a book whose title contains the name of a chess piece - king, queen, knight, bishop, rook, or pawn. Plurals and possessives will work, but no other variations.

B. Read a book from the Favorite Comfort Reads list.
Required: State which page your book can be found on when you post. Harry Potter series (p. 1),

20.4 - Golden Oldies - Sarah E's task: Silent Night

Required: State which option you chose when you post.

Option 1: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in SILENT NIGHT.

20.5 - Bigger is Better - Julia103's task: The Sixties, but When?
Required: State which option you chose when posting.

Option 1: Read a book which is set at least 60% during a ‘60s decade in any century EXCEPT the twentieth century (1960s).
Required: If the date is not mentioned in the book description or metadata, include a reference in your post to show when the book was set. Ex: a link to a review (inside or outside GRs), an article about the book, the author's website establishing how the book fits the task, etc.

Option 2: Read a book first published in the 1560's, 1660s, 1760s or 1860s. Suggestions can be found on these lists, but your book is not required to be on the lists:
Best Books of the Decade: 1760s
Best Books of the Decade: 1860s

Option 3: Read a book of at least 360 pages where the page count ends in 60 or 66 (360 pages, 366 pages, 460 pages, 466 pages, 560 pages, 566 pages, etc.) Providence by Jamie McGuire 360 p.

20.6 – Seasoned Reader - EShay's task: EShay's podcast connection
This is a one book task. No children's books may be used.
Required: Identify the option when you post.

Option 1: Read a book recommended or mentioned on a podcast.
What Should I Read Next Podcast
Radiolab Suggested Readings
NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour

Required: If you read a book recommended or mentioned on a podcast, you must include a link to the podcast when you post. If you choose to read from one of the lists, state which list you used and on which page of the list your book appears when you post.

Option 2: Read a book with a main character who risks their life or physical safety for the safety of others. This includes active military, first responders (police, fire fighters, EMTs) and security personnel (secret service, bodyguards, FBI and CIA agents, etc.).
Required: If not obvious in the book's description, provide a link as reference to establish how the book fits the task.

Option 3: Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in MURDERBOT. Middle initials can be ignored and letters can only be used as many times as they appear.

Option 4: Read a book with the main page genre Novella and/or that has a page length of 150-200, inclusive.

20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sara G's task: Remembrance

This is a one book task.
Required: State which option you chose when posting.

Option 1: Read a book with all the letters in the word MOTOWN in the title only. Subtitles are excluded.

Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in JERSEY CITY.

Option 3: Read a book set at least 50% in Japan or one of these countries in Southeast Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.
Required: If the setting is not mentioned in the book description or metadata, include a reference in your post establishing how the book fits the task.

20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Marie-Anne's task: Where in the world?
Choose 1 option and read a corresponding book.
Required: State which option you chose when you post.

Option 1: Read a book with 3 As in a single word in the TITLE (title only) or in one part of the author's name (first, middle, last). If using the author option, the book must be written by a single author.

Option 3: Read a book with fruit on the cover or the name of a fruit in the title. (Fruit may be stylized but should be recognizable as a real fruit.)
Required: If using the cover option, include the cover in your post.

20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Tammy AZ's task: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

This is a one book task.
Required: State which option you chose when posting.

Your book must have at least 250 pages.

Option 1 - Read a non-fiction book with Adventure as a MPG or a non-fiction book set in Washington State or Alaska.
Required: If using the setting option and the setting is not mentioned in the book description or metadata, include a reference in your post establishing how the book fits the task. Ex: a link to a review (inside or outside GRs), an article about the book, the author's website, etc.

Option 2 - Read a book from the following list: Best Female Lead Characters
Required: State the page on the list where your book is found when you post.

Option 3 - Read a book where the author’s first and last initials can be found in OSCAR.

20.10 - Group Reads

❋ Southern Literature - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Discussion

❋ Love Triangles - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Discussion

❋ Nonfiction > Fashion - Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Caroline Weber
Discussion

Required: You must participate in the book's discussion thread with at least one post about the contents of the book or your reaction to the book after you have read the book.

25 Point Tasks

25.1 - Bluemoon's task: CHRISTMAS IN THE 1960S

This is a two book task. Chose two options below and read a book for each option.

OPTION 1 - Read a book with a red, blue, and/or green OBJECT on the cover. This can be an actual object or stylized. Background color or lettering will not work for this task.

Required: Include the cover and point out the object when you post.

OPTION 2 - Read a book by a single author whose initials (first and last) are found in ANIMATED CHRISTMAS. Letters may only be used as often as they are found in the target phrase.

OPTION 3 - Read a book with a title of at least three words where the initial letter of each word is found in the phrase SOMEDAY ALL OUR DREAMS WILL COME TO BE. Letters may only be used as often as they are found in the target phrase.

OPTION 4 - Read a book with the MPG Holiday by an author that is new to you. The holiday does not have to be Christmas but the author must be one you have not read before. The genre may stand alone or be embedded.
Required: State that the author is new-to-you when you post.

25.2 - Nick KY's task: Regina and the Mountains

This is a 2 book task. Read one Book 1 and one Book 2.

Required: State which option you chose for each book when you post.

Book 1
Option A. Read a book with an author whose first and last initials are in REGINA KING.

Option B. Read a book with an author whose first and last initials are in JAMES BALDWIN.

Book 2
Option A. Read a book from the Banff Mountain Books Awards list: Banff Mountain Book Festival Award Winners
Required: State which page on the list your choice is from when you post.

Option B. Read a book with a two-word title. (subtitles are excluded.) The first letters of each word should be in the name of ONE of the following famous mountains. Letters may be used only as often as they appear in the target word.

FUJIYAMA
EVEREST
KENYA
KILIMANJARO
DENALI
TRES CRUCES
Required: State which mountain you used when you post.

25.3 - Queen Bee Darlene's task: The Unfortunate Effect of Planning

This is a two-book task. Read one book from two different options.

Required: Identify which options you select when you post.

Option 1: Read a book with one of the words DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO in the title only. The word must stand alone and match exactly.

Option 2: Read a book that:
A. was first published in a year with 11 in it.
B. has 11 letters in the author’s name or title. The complete author's name or a name part (first, middle, last) may be used. Titles that have 11 letters total or an 11-letter individual word will work. Subtitles may be used or excluded.
C. has the number 11 in the title/subtitle (in any variation.)
Required: State which option you used and how the book fits the task when you post.

Option 3: Read a book where at least 2 different vowels appear at least 3 times each in the title and/or subtitle.

Option 4: Read a book with both blue and yellow on the cover.
Required: Include the book cover and point out the yellow and blue when you post.

25.4 - Kristina Simon's task: The Summer of Love

Choose one option. Read one Book A and one Book B.
Required: State which option you chose when you post.

Option 1:
Book A: Read a book with a flower or flowers on the cover. The flower(s) may be realistic or stylized but at least one flower must be clearly shown on the cover. Required: Include the cover when you post.
Book B: Read a book with a word that has "ower" intact in the title/subtitle.

Option 2:
Book A: Read a book with a title of at least two words where all the words begin with the same letter. All words count. Subtitles should be ignored.
Book B: Read a book written by a single author whose name contains LL or TT. Ex: Jennifer Donnelly, Matthew J. Sullivan

Option 3: Hippies in Haight-Ashbury
Book A: Read a book first published between 1960 and 1969, inclusive.
Book B: Read a book with a hyphenated word in the title/subtitle.

25.5 - Amy FL's task: Verrry Interesting

Books with the MPG Childrens may NOT be used for this task.

Required: Identify the options you have selected in your post.

Option 1: Read a book by a single author who shares a name with one of these funny people: Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Judy Carne, Ruth Buzzi, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, Lily Tomlin, Goldie Hawn, Jo Anne Worley, Alan Sues and Gary Owens. Spaces determine names.

Names must match exactly but can appear in any position, e.g., Martin Walker would work for Dick Martin. Anne Rice would work for Jo Anne Worley.

Option 2: Read a book with a title of at least three words where the first letter of each title word can be found in EITHER “You Bet Your Sweet Bippy!” OR "Sock It to Me!" Letters may be used only as often as they appear.

Option 3: Read a book with a MPG of Short Stories or Anthologies.

25.6 - Tien's task: Lunar New Year 2021

Strictly NEW-to-you authors ONLY. Books may have multiple authors but ALL authors must be new-to-you.

This is a two-book task. Read one book from two different options.

Required: Identify which options you select when you post AND state authors are New-to-you.

1. Read a book with 'x' found in title/subtitle and/or author's name

2. Read a book first published in one of your Zodiac's years. We will be using this website, Zodiac, to determine the years.

Required: Specify your Chinese Zodiac animal when you post (you do not have to tell us your birth year).

3. Read a book with a red cover. There should be a Minimum of 80% as determined by tineye. Please ensure you untick the option to "Exclude background color from extracted colors" (found at the bottom of the list of extracted colours). You may add up all the shades classed as 'Red' to achieve the 80% minimum.

Required: Include the book cover and the percentage of red when you post.

25.7 - Bookwrm526's task: I LOVE Reading Challenges

This is a two-book task. Choose two options below and read a book for each option.

Required: State which options you chose when you post.

Option 2: Read a nonfiction book with the main page genre Young Adult (standalone or imbedded).

Option 3: Read a book found on the Popsugar 2020 - A Book with an Upside-Down Image on the Cover.
Required: Include which page your book can be found on when you post.

Option 4: Choose a book that you read between January 1 and November 30, 2020. Read another book by this author.
Required: In your post, include the name of the book you previously read, and the date when you finished it.

25.8 - Brooke TX's task: 2020 Wrapped

This is a two book task - you can read two books from two different options, or use the same option for two books.

Option 1 -Read a book that has WON an award. The award must be included in the book's Goodreads metadata.

Option 2 - Read a book whose title or author's LAST name starts with E, I, Q, U, V, X, Y, or Z. For the purposes of this task, articles (a, an, the) may be ignored.

Option 3 - Read a book first published in 2020 or 2021.

Option 4 - Read a book with MPG Science Fiction. The genre may be standalone or embedded (nested) but combination genre "Science Fiction Fantasy" does NOT work.

30 Point Tasks

30.1 - Mazza1's task: Create a Date

This is a two book task, from two different options.
600 p. minimum **NO EBOOKS**

Books with the MPG Childrens may NOT be used.
All title tasks are TITLE only, ignore subtitles.

Required: State the options you chose when you post.

Option 1: Read a book with a day of the week in its TITLE: an S may be added to pluralise or create a possessive.

Option 2: Read a book written by a single author whose name (first, middle or last) is a month of the year Somebody to Love by April Wilson (390 p.), The Fire by May Archer (332 p.)

Option 3: Read a book with an ordinal number that corresponds to a day in the month (i.e., 1st through 31st) in its TITLE. Ordinals written out such as First or Fourth do NOT work.

Option 4: Read a book with a year (numerical format) or a range of years in its TITLE. This could be a year or a range of years in the past, present, or future but MUST pertain to a year(s). The full year(s) must be represented. e.g., 1984, 2312

30.2 - Delicious Dee's task: LOST and FOUND

This is a 2 book task, you must read one book from LOST and one book from FOUND.
Your books need to be a total of 600 pages
Books with the MPG Childrens are NOT allowed.

Both books must be by single authors.

Book 1 – LOST – Read a book that has been LOST on your TBR for at least 3 years (added to TBR list prior to 1 Dec 2017). Your To-read list may be your GR shelf, a custom GR shelf, or an off-GR list. WARNING: This book will be used to determine Book 2 so be sure to select a book that gives you an option that will work for Book 2.

Running On Empty by Christy Reece 396 p. (added to TBR 9-29-14)

Required: State the date the book was added to your TBR list
Book 2 – Read a book by a NEW TO YOU author that fits one of the criteria below:
A – shares a first or last name with LOST book. Names may be in any position, but must match exactly Desperate Measures by Christy Barritt (288 p.)
OR
C – a book found in the readers also enjoyed section (click on the similar books link to expand your choices). Warning: The books on this list may change over time. Books may be confirmed as appearing on the list in the Help Thread. Ruckus by Zoe Dawson (252 p.) (asked for confirmation in help thread msg. #45)

Required: State which option you used AND that the author is new-to-you when you post.

30.3 - Cat's task: Eight Tiny Reindeer!

Pick a reindeer pairing and read two books, the author initials (first and last names) can be found in each of the names.

i.e. author 1 must be found in one reindeer, author 2 in the paired deer.

Pairs:
Dasher & Dancer
Prancer & Vixen
Comet & Cupid
Donner & Blitzen

For books with multiple authors only one name needs to work. The same author may be used for both books if the author's initials are found in both reindeer names.

Required: State the reindeer pairing when you post.

30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Forward and Backward

Read two books. One Book 1 and 1 Book 2.

Book 1: Read a book with a word in the TITLE that can be read backwards as a new word, such as War backwards is Raw. Subtitles are excluded. How the Duke Was Won by Lenora Bell (WON) OR

Book 2: Read a book with the backward word that resulted in Book 1 in the TITLE. Subtitles are excluded. Need You Now, Need You Now, Now a Major Motion Picture, Then, Now, AlwaysRight Here, Right Now (NOW)

30.5 - Sandy's task: Making the Best of It

No books with the main page genre children or kids may be used. Your two books must have a combined total of at least 600 pages. You may choose two different options, or read two books from the same option.
Required: In your post, indicate the option(s) that you chose.

1. Read a book in which the main character is a doctor, nurse, or other hospital worker and a significant portion of the plot/subject takes place in a healthcare setting. The setting must be evident on the book's main page.

2. Read a book by a single author whose initials are found in ESSENTIAL WORKER. All initials, including any middle initials listed on Goodreads, must be in the phrase, and letters can only be used as often as they appear in the phrase.

3. Read a book with the main page genre Education (standalone or embedded) OR
a book in which the main character is a K-12 or college teacher or someone who works in a school in another capacity (bus driver, guidance counselor, etc) and a significant portion of the plot/subject takes place in an academic setting or on a school bus. The setting must be evident on the book's main page.

30.6 - Andy P.’s Task: The Litmus Test

This is a two book task. Choose one book that satisfies the requirements for Book 1, and another that satisfies the requirements for Book 2.

No books with the Main Page Genre of Children may be used for this task.

The total number of pages for both books must be greater than 500 pages (501+).

Book 1. Read a book by a single author whose first or last name begins or ends with the sequence PH (ex. Philip or Rudolph)

Book 2. Read a book where the word ACID or BASE may be made from the letters in its TITLE. Subtitles are excluded.
Required: State which word you used when you post.

30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Cars, Cars, Cars

Choose 2 different options and read a book for each option.

Required: Indicate which options you chose when you post.

1. Read a book that was first published in 1964 (the first year of production) OR 1968 (the year of my son’s car).

2. Read a book where the authors first and last initial can be found in VOLKSWAGEN. Letters may only be used as often as they appear.

3. Read a book with at least 3 words in the title (ignore subtitle) where the 1st letter of each title word is found in DODGE CHALLENGER.

30.8 - Ava Catherine's task: Sylvia Plath

This is a two book task. Read one book from two different options or two books from one option.

Required: Identify which option or options you select when you post.

No books with the MPG Childrens or Kids may be used.

Option 1: Read a book first published in 1932, or read a book first published in 1963.

Option 2: Read a book by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in BEEKEEPERS. The letters may be used only as often as they appear in the target phrase. Middle names/initials may be ignored.

Option 3: Read a book with a single author whose first and last name initials are either WY or TE emulating either William Butler Yeats or T.S. Eliot. Middle names/initials may be ignored.

Option 4: Read a book with MPG mental health or the MPG mental illness. (MPG may be stand alone or embedded)

Does anyone still make a spreadsheet of the challenge to track their books? If so, would you be willing to share it with me? Thanks!

Heather

Heather wrote: "Does anyone still make a spreadsheet of the challenge to track their books? If so, would you be willing to share it with me? Thanks!

Heather"

Here's a copy of the Google Sheet I use: SRC Template

You can save a copy to edit by going to File>Make a Copy.

this is my template https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...#

5.1 Lady Osbaldestone's Christmas Goose
5.2 Oh, Baby!
5.3 The Mark of Zorro
5.4 The Heist
5.5 The Pursuit
5.6 Fate's Edge
5.7 All Things Wise and Wonderful
5.8 The Duke and I
5.9 Above Suspicion 1941
5.10 Have His Carcase 1932

10.1 The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
10.2 Incident at Badamya by Dorothy Gilman
10.3 His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
10.4 The Day of the Jackal
10.5 Snowbound
10.6 The Viscount Who Loved Me
10.7 For This Christmas Only
10.8 Gingerbread Cookie Murder
10.9 The Inimitable Jeeves 1923
10.10 The French Powder Mystery 1930

15.1 No Wind of Blame 1939 + A Promise to Cherish
15.2 The Guns of Navarone + The High King
15.3 The Brandons 1939 + Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
15.4 Detection Unlimited 1953 + Roses for Christmas
15.5 His Lordship's Holiday Surprise
15.6 The Rocky Road to Romance
15.7 Behold, Here's Poison 1936
15.8 Footsteps in the Dark 1936
15.9 A Civil Campaign
15.10 Growing Up 1943

20.1 The Admiral's Penniless Bride
20.2 Real Men Knit
20.3 The Adventures of Ellery Queen 1941
20.4 The Last Wish
20.5 The Bride Fair
20.6 The Chase
20.7 Smitten
20.8 Avalanche of Trouble
20.9 And Then There Were None 1939
20.10 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 1848

25.1 The Santa Klaus Murder 1936 + Why Shoot a Butler? 1933
25.2 Foul Play + The Scam
25.3 Pirate King + To Sir Phillip, With Love
25.4 They Found Him Dead 1937 +Colorado Courtship: Winter of Dreams / The Rancher's Sweetheart
25.5 Tabitha In the Moonlight + My Man Jeeves 1919
25.6 The Next Right Thing + Lab Girl
25.7 Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled + Dark Carousel
25.8 Envious Casca 1941 + Alaskan Christmas Cold Case

30.1 The Unseen Bridegroom or Wedded for a Week 1869 + 1776
30.2 The Black Moth 1921 + Truly Yours
30.3 Sustained + Since You're Leaving Anyway, Take Out the Trash
30.4 Devil in Winter + The Cat Who Lived High
30.5 Emerald Blaze + Locked Rooms
30.6 Home to Harmony + Death in the Stocks 1935
30.7 Copper Lake Encounter+ Garment of Shadows
30.8 Peril at End House 1932 + Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective 1932

50.1 Penhallow 1942+ Murder Must Advertise 1933 + 4:50 from Paddington

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5.1 - The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
5.2 - Five Go On A Strategy Away Day
5.3 - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
5.4 - The Magician
5.5 - Vintage Murder
5.6 - Cheshire Crossing
5.7 - Dogsbody
5.8 - Hand in Glove
5.9 - The Ipcress File
5.10 - The Girl on the Boat


10.1 - Three Act Tragedy
10.2 - Totally Captivated Side Story: Diary of Sangchul
10.3 - Nigger
10.4 - Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
10.5 - Beneath the Sugar Sky
10.6 - Why Shoot a Butler?
10.7 - Artists in Crime
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10.10 - The French Powder Mystery

15.1 - The Painted Veil, The Shamutanti Hills
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15.4 - Dissolution
15.5 - Surfeit Of Lampreys
15.6 - Parker Pyne Investigates
15.7 - Detection Unlimited
15.8 - Mary, Queen of France
15.9 - Wintersmith
15.10 - The Wee Free Men

20.1 - Indiscretions of Archie
20.2 - A Man Lay Dead
20.3 - Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Changed the World
20.4 - The Exploits of Juve
20.5 - Lady Audley's Secret
20.6 - Enter a Murderer
20.7 - Down Among the Sticks and Bones
20.8 - Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden
20.9 - Poirot's Early Cases
20.10 - Mexican Gothic

25.1 - Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens, The Clocks
25.2 - Colour Scheme, Death in a White Tie
25.3 - The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural, Midwinter Murder: Fireside Mysteries from the Queen of Crime
25.4 - 1. Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency, 2. The Borgias: Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
25.5 - The Mating Season, Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
25.6 - 1. The Dragon's Teeth, 2. Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
25.7 - 1. Gilgamesh Retold, 2. Hangman's Holiday
25.8 - 1. The Graveyard Book, 2.Totally Captivated Side Story: Totally Peeking Under the Sheets Volume 1

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30.3 - 1. Whose Body?, 2. Evil under the Sun
30.4 - 1. Evil Genius, 2. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
30.5 - 1. The Nursing Home Murder, 2. Decline and Fall
30.6 - 1. The Queen's Fool, 2. Death and the Dancing Footman
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50.1 - 1. The Nine Tailors, 2. Death at the Bar, 3. Hercule Poirot's Christmas

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✓ Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer (2/9/21) (662 p.) 📚

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (279 p.) 🌟

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✓ Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (12/21/20) (438 p.)

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✓ Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen (2/8/21) (177 p.)

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✓ Goal: 60/100 points
Pages Read... This Season: 1,277 || SRC All Time: 31,324
🌟 Golden Oldies: 0 || SRC All Time: 16
📚 Big Book: 1 || SRC All Time: 24