The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion
FALL CHALLENGE 2025
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KatieMD5.10 Fall into Reading
Read a book of your choice.
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
This book is non-fiction. I would like to claim an IAF ticket.
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 5
15.1 - Ancient or New?Book 1: title word of 4+ letters spelled from one of the 7 Ancient Wonders (Lighthouse of Alexandria)
shine your icy crown by Amanda Lovelace
🎓 SHINE - SHI in lighthouse; NE in Alexandria
Book 2: title word of 4+ letters spelled from one of the 7 New Wonders (Christ the Redeemer)
Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier
🎓 CHEER - CH in Christ; EER in Redeemer
Points this post: 15
Total points: 30 + 15 = 45
Big Book tickets: 0
Golden Oldies tickets: 0
It's a Fact tickets: 0
Elizabeth PTask 10.2 - Window to the Past
Book with window of building on cover
by Robert Jackson BennettApproved in help thread #11/12
At 505 pages, good for *1 Big Book Ticket*
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 10
Total Tasks: 1
GO: 0
BB: 1
IAF: 0
Total Books: 1
ROBIN P15.3 Stonehenge/United Kingdom
Option 2: 1 book published in a year with 2 of the digits, 1,2,3,5,7
and set in the UK
A Room Full of Bones - pub 2011
set entirely in England
Points this post: 15
Total points: 15
BB:0 GO:0 IAF:0
Kathy KS30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
Option 2:
Choose a task that you completed in the Summer or Fall 2025 Season. Read a book that satisfies one of the options you did not choose previously. Required: State the previous task completed options and new chosen option.
Back of Beyond by C.J. Box
How it fits: Summer 2025, Task 20.2
Previous used: Option 1-author's initials in BOOK CLUB
Chosen new used: Option 2- word title spelled from BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
BEYOND=BirthDaY cElebratiON
I listened to an audiobook; mmpb-496 p.
Option 4:
Choose any book you read in the Summer or Fall Season. Using that book's first published date, read a book with the same first published month but has a different year.
The Alpine Betrayal by Mary Daheim
Previous book read, Summer 2025: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, 1st published: Jan. 2023
Current book 1st published: Jan. 1993
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Points for this task: 30
Total points : 30
Tasks completed: 1/57
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 0
5.2 Autumn or fall?Read a book with Autumn in the title or author's name.
Book read: Wicked Autumn
How it fits: Autumn in book title
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Points This Post: 5
Total points: 15
Tasks completed: 2
LaureYTask: 5.10 Fall into Reading
Read a book of your choice.
Book read: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
*I claim a BB Ticket for this book as it is 672 pages long.*
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Points This Post: 5
Total points: 5
Tasks completed: 1
Rockynook10.2 - Window to the Past
Book with windows on the cover
That's Not My Name by Megan Lally
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 35
15.6 Tikal GuatemalaRead a book with a swimming pool on the cover.
Book read: I've Got My Eyes on You
How it fits:
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Points This Post: 15
Total points: 30
Tasks completed: 3
Lisa MD30.6: MAZZA1's Task: Name Swap
Book 1: Book of choice by a single author
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
Book 2: Shares name with author of book 1 but in reverse position
Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts by Jennie Allen
***I claim an IAF ticket***
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 60/985
Total Books Read: 4
Total Tasks Completed: 3/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 0
IAF Tickets: 2
Jayme(theghostreader)10.2 Window to the past
Read a book with a window on the cover.
by Mercedes LackeyTask +10
Grand Total :10
Books read 1
Tasks completed 1/57
5.6 - Preserving History
Read a book with a 3+ letter title word made from one of the allowed phrases.
Phrase: HISTORIC SCOTLAND
Word: INTO
Into the War
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 5/985
Tasks Completed: 1/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(-), GO(-), IaF(-)
Katrisa10.6 Fields of Plenty
Read a book with a farm as the setting
I read The Curse of Mabb's Farm: A Cosy Mystery
Two amateur sleuths investigate some incidents at a local farm tied to an ancient curse
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 45
Katrisa15.10 Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, Zambia
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the first letter of each word comes from one of the following phrases: 'Thundering Smoke', 'Smoke that Rises, OR 'Boiling Water'.
I read The Grand Design
TGD in ThunDerinG
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 60
Elizabeth PTask 10.9 - Coven, Claw, Fang, or Wrap
Book with word WITCH in title, possessives okay
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 20
Total Tasks: 2
GO: 0
BB: 1
IAF: 0
Total Books: 2
MaryPDX5.10 Fall Into Reading
Read a book that meets SRC rules.
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Points this post: 5
Total points: 5/985
IAF
ROBIN P5.10 Fall Into Reading
Read a book that meets SRC rules.
For this task, a book with the MPG Childrens, Kids, Middle Grade or Juvenile that is NOT found in ARBF may be used
A World Worth Saving
Points this post: 5
Total points: 20
BB:0 GO:0 IAF:0
SHEMAC 15.10 Victoria Falls Zimbabwe, Zambia
Read a book with a title of at least 3 words where the first letter of each word comes from one of the following phrases: 'Thundering Smoke', 'Smoke that Rises, OR 'Boiling Water'. Letters may be used as often as they appear. (R T I)
Required: State the phrase used: Boiling Water
Rocking Thin Ice
This task points: 15
Total season points: 40
30.2 Susan A's Task - Halloween Costumes1. Read a book with all the letters of PIRATES found in the book title and/or author(s) name(s).
A Thousand Recipes for Revenge (Chefs of the Five Gods #1) by Beth Cato
PIRATES found in A Thousand REcIPeS
2. Read a book featuring an athlete (or retired athlete).
Tempting Triton (Mated Myths #2) by Lex Logan
FMC is Olympic swimmer
Task total: 30
Season total: 35
trishhartuk30.2 Susan A's Task - Halloween Costumes
1. PIRATES: Read a book with all the letters of PIRATES found in the book title a
Murder at Pope Investigations, Kathi Daley (183pg)
PIRATES: muRder at Pope InvEStigATions
4. DINO HUNTER: Read a book with a dinosaur or dinosaur skeleton on the cover.
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire (149pg)
Points this Task: 30
Books Read: 2
Total Points: 80
Tasks Completed: 5
Nick KY15.5 Sokuthai Thailand Title word of “City” – I read The Cat and The City by Nick Bradley.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 75
Nick KY15.9 Angor Wat – Author’s initials in CAMBODIA. I read Dead in Dublin by Catie Murphy. C M
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 90
Lisa MDRequired: Must have combined total of 501+ pgs
30.7 - Delicious Dee's Task: Classic Science-Fiction: Isaac Asimov
Option 3: Published between 1/2/1920 - 4/6/1992
Victoria Winters by Marilyn Ross
160 pgs
First published March 1, 1967
***I claim a GO ticket***
Option 5: Book adapted into movie or TV series
Chance of a Lifetime by Jude Deveraux
352 pgs
This is book 1 of 3 in the Providence Fall series. The following link is to the 3-part mini-series broadcast on the Hallmark channel based on the books:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35166700...
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 90/985
Total Books Read: 6
Total Tasks Completed: 4/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 2
5.5 DwaliRead a book with a lighted candle on the cover.
Book read: The Trouble With Magic
How it fits:
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Points This Post: 5
Total points: 35
Tasks completed: 4
Kristina Marie5.8 Corps of Discovery
Read a book that takes place, at least 50%, in one of these States: Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon.
Dream State by Eric Puchner
The books takes place more than 50% in Montana and it is listed as the setting on the book's main page.
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 5
Kristina Marie10.10 Do They Exist?
Read a book with a reference to cryptids (as a whole- non specific), cryptozoologist or cryptid hunter, on the book main page, or has a MPG cryptid or Cryptozoology.
Required: State the reference to Cryptids on the main page.
Death in the Dark Woods by Annelise Ryan
The main character is a cryptozoologist and it's stated in the main page description.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 15
15.8 Easter Island ChileRead a book with at least 3 people on the cover.
Elfquest: The Final Quest Volume 1 by Wendy Pini
Points this post: 15
Total points: 15
20.10 Group ReadsFiction - Nordic Noir - The Chestnut Man
by Søren SveistrupMy group discussion post
Claiming 1 BB ticket (519 pages)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 35
BB: 1
Deborah15.9 Angkor Wat Cambodia
Read a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA
The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 20
Books Read: 2
Tasks Done: 2
KRISTA KY15.4 Pompeii Italy
Option 2:
Read a book with MPG Historical Fiction AND with a word in the title that has a double letter.
Required: State the word
A Family Matter
Word with double letter: Matter
Points this post: 15
Total points: 15
Books read: 1
15.9 Angkor Wat CambodiaRead a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER
A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan
author's initials, MR, found in khMeR
Task total: 15
Season total: 50
10.4 - Where the Dead Still Walk
Read a book that is set at least 50 percent in Scotland, France, or India
Sylvie, originally published in 1853
** Claiming 1 Golden Oldies Ticket **
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 15/985
Tasks Completed: 2/57
Tickets as of this post: BB(-), GO(1), IaF(-)
SHEMAC30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
This is a 2 book task. Choose 2 different options and read 1 book for each option.
Required State the options: 1 and 4
Option 1:
Choose an author you discovered (new to you) in the Summer 2025 season of reading.
Read another book by that author.
The Puck Daddy
Required: State book previously read and that the author was new to you.
His Alpha Prince by Kota Quinn: New to Me
Option 4:
Choose any book you read in the Summer Season.
Read a book with the same first published month but a different year.
Paternal Instincts Pub: June 2025
Required Post the link for the previous book read.
The Suit Pub: June 2022
This task points: 30
Total season points: 70
Kristen IA30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
This is a 2 book task. Choose 2 different options and read 1 book for each option.
Option 1:
Choose an author you have discovered (new to you) in the Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 season of reading. Read another book by that author.
Required State book previously read and that the author was new to you.
I read Mrs. Nash's Ashes by Sarah Adler in Summer 2025 SRC - Sarah Adler was a new author to me.
For this task I read Finders Keepers by Sarah Adler
Option 4:
Choose any book you read in the Summer or Fall Season. Using that book's first published date, read a book with the same first published month but has a different year. The day does not matter.
Required Post the link the the previous book read.
I read This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune in Summer 2025 SRC. It was first pubbed in May 2024.
For this task I read Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle. It was first pubbed in May 2025.
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 30/985
Tasks Completed: 1/57
BB: 0
GO: 0
NF: 0
Coffeegirl20.6 Angela IL's Task - Reading Goals 2025
Option 3: reading goals, read a non-fiction book from one of these lists: Nonfiction Published in Year: 2025
Book: My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner
nonfiction published in year: 2025 -- page 5, #439
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 35
Katrisa15.5 Sukhothai Thailand
Read a book with one of these standalone words in the title: First, King, Kingdom, City
I read Kingdom of Play: What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 75
Katrisa30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do it Again, But Differently
Book 1 -
Opt 2 - Choose a task that you completed in the Summer or Fall 2025 Season. Read a book that satisfies one of the options you did not choose previously.
I read God-Level Knowledge Darts: Life Lessons from the Bronx
The task from last season that I completed was my task (30.2 Katrisa's Task: Wrapped in Plastic)
I chose to do Option 1 - “The Owls are not what they seem.” this time (I did options 2 and 5 last season). Read a book with the letters OWL found intact AND imbedded in a word in the title/subtitle.
Word= knOWLedge
Book 2 -
Opt 4 - Choose any book you read in the Summer or Fall Season. Using that book's first published date, read a book with the same first published month but has a different year.
I read Small Worlds published April 2023. My book from the Summer challenge that I used was The Great Gatsby published April 1925
Points this Post: 30
Points Total: 105
****UNCLAIM Post 14****Katrisa
5.4 Labor Day
Read a book where the main character is a mother
I read Sleep
The book deals with the main character as both a mother and daughter
Points this Post: minus 5
NEW Points Total: 100
Katrisa10.3 Where Past and Present Meet
Read a book that is written in a dual/multiple timeline
I read Sleep
The book goes back and forth between the MC's younger years and her present
Points this Post: 10
Points Total: 110
Lisa MD30.3 - Katrisa’s Task: Leah Renee Comedian
Option 1: Set at least 50% in Pennsylvania or Scotland
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Set entirely in Scotland
Option 4: MPG - Humor
What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings by Leanne Morgan
***I claim an IAF ticket***
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 120/985
Total Books Read: 8
Total Tasks Completed: 5/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 3
Janice CA10.7 Have Yams Will Party
Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters that can be made from the phrase "thE ashantI yam FestivaL".
word: life
Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!
by Chelsea Handler
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total: 10
tasks: 1
books: 1
Nick KY5.9 Celebrate History. Set before 1925. I read Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1st pub’d in 1846 but the stories are set 150 years earlier in the time of New England Puritanism, a time when Hawthorne’s great-grandfather sat as a judge at the New England Witch Trials.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points So Far: 95
Nick KY20.6 AngelaIL’s Reading Goals. Opt. 2. # 2 (or higher) in a series. I read Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane, # 2 in the Kenzie & Gennaro series.
CLAIM ONE BIG BOOK for Darkness, Take My Hand at 512 pp. I had 200 pp of this book read in the week before the challenge began.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points So Far: 115
Big Books So Far: 500+ (1) = 1
ROBIN P30.1 JennRenee's Task: Do It Again, But Differently
Option 2: A task you completed for Summer or Fall 2025 but use a different option
In Summer 2025, Msg 1970, I did Options 1B & 2A, now using Option 2B - a book set in the Caribbean
Our Man in Havana - set in Cuba
Option 4: Book with the same published month as one read for Summer or Fall 2025, but a different year
In Summer 2025, Msg 934, I read Bug Hollow pub. June 2025
Now I read The Bee Sting, pub June 2023
**Claiming 1 BB point, 645 p
Points this post: 30
Total points: 50
BB:1 GO:0 IAF:0
trishhartuk5.8 Corps of Discovery
Read a book that takes place in one of these States: Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon.
Maid of Murder, Amanda Flower (235pg)
The setting is stated as Ohio in the GR setting data (specifically, near Akron), where the whole book takes place
Points this Task: 5
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 85
Tasks Completed: 6
LoraTask: 15.9 Angkor Wat Cambodia
Read a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA
Book/Author: A Lost Clause / K.D. McCrite
How it fits: author initials KM are in KHMER
Points for this task: 15
Total points: 35
Big Book tickets for this task: 0
Big Book tickets total: 0
Golden Oldies tickets for this task: 0
Golden Oldies tickets total: 0
It's a Fact tickets for this task: 0
It's a Fact tickets total: 0
15.9 Angkor Wat CambodiaRead a book where the single author first and last initials can be found in KHMER and/or CAMBODIA
Ne Pleure Pas by Mary Kubica
Points this Post: 15
Points Total: 25
Lisa MD5.1 - By the Numbers
Title Word of 7,8, or 9 Letters
Dog Day Afternoon by David Rosenfelt
Title Word: "Afternoon" has 9 letters
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 125/985
Total Books Read: 9
Total Tasks Completed: 6/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 3
Lisa MD5.6 - Preserving History
Title Word of at least 3 letters made from ENGLISH HERITAGE or HISTORIC SCOTLAND
Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell
Title Word: "Let" in EngLish heriTage
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COMPLETED TASKS:
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 130/985
Total Books Read: 10
Total Tasks Completed: 7/57
Big Book Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
IAF Tickets: 3
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10.7 - Have Yams Will Party
Word of 4+ that can be made from the phrase "The Ashanti Yam Festival"
Better Luck Next Time by A.R. Casella
Word: Time
The ashantI yaM fEstival
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 25