The Challenge Factory discussion

3-month
Partner challenge
Runs April - June 2023

Welcome to the School for Good & Evil. The first thing that must be done is that every student must decide if they are inherently good or evil. You can only study one or the other here at this school. One partner must study good and the other must study evil.

Once you have decided which line of study that you will follow, you can find your classes here. To prepare for your 3 tests, you will want to complete as many tasks as you can. Only the most prepared heroes & villains will pass their finals. Oh, and you will be competing against your partner in the finals. Good luck and may the best side win!

*Please note that the 3 tests will run over 3 different weekends. Each test will require one book (minimum 100 pages) that must be read in a 2-day period. You will get one day to study and prepare for your test. Books cannot be started until the test begins. The winner will be determined by whoever wins 2 of the 3 tests. The winning partner will get 100 bonus points. The books for your regular classes will be done at your pace and only be scored if you complete them.


Testing Schedule
Snow Ball: April 22-23
Circus of Talents: May 20-21
Trial By Tale: June 24-25


Rules
✨Books must be minimum 100 pages
✨Books may be started before the challenge BUT must be finished after the start of the challenge. This does NOT apply to TEST books. They must be started after the test starts
✨Re-reads are allowed

Posting Completed Books
Post your completions in this format

Class/Test:
Task:
Book:
Author:
Pages:
Date Read:

Book Points for Classes
5 points for each completed class task

Hi Michelle!! Do you have a preference on good or evil? I don't have one so happy to take whichever.

Hey LaurLa! I don't really have a preference either. I guess I'll go with good. 😊

Michelle's Tracking


Good Classes

Beautification Class
✅ 👸Read a book with a smiling character on the cover
✅ 👸a book with BEAUTY in the title
✅ 👸Read a book with the author’s initials in BEAUTIFICATION
👸Read a book where a character is on a diet

Princess Etiquette Class
✅ 👸Read a book with the word POSTURE in the text
✅ 👸Read a book where someone takes dance lessons
👸Read a book with a polite and mannerly character (your interpretation)

History of Heroism Class
✅ 👸Read a book where the hero wins
✅ 👸Read a book with an unlikely hero (your interpretation)
👸Read a book where the hero escapes from the villain
👸Read a book where the hero dies to protect someone

✅ Good Deeds Class
✅ 👸Read a book where a character does a good deed (your interpretation)
✅ 👸Read a book with one of the 3 keys to good deeds in the text
✅ 1. Creativity
✅ 2. Feasibility
✅ 3. Spontaneity


Classes for Both Good & Evil

✅ Animal Communication Class
✅ ✨Read a book where a character communicates with an animal or insect
✅ ✨Read a book with a creature sidekick (can be any creature – examples: dragons, trolls, etc)

✅ Special Talents
✅ ✨Read a book with a character that is talented (your interpretation)

Surviving Fairy Tales
✅ ✨Read a book with a survivor
✅ ✨Read a book where it is hard to tell who is good or evil
✨Read a book where someone has to eat bugs or hunt food to survive
✅ ✨Read a book tagged Fairy Tales
✅ ✨Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title.
✅ 5 Rules
✅ 1. The Evil attack. ✅ The Good defend.
✅ 2. The Evil punish. ✅ The Good forgive.
✅ 3. The Evil hurt. ✅ The Good help.
✅ 4. The Evil take. ✅ The Good give.
✅ 5. The Evil hate. ✅ The Good love.

Spells
✅ ✨Read a book where someone can manipulate water using magic
✨Read a book where someone can control the weather
✅ ✨Read a book where someone can shift into an animal or plant

LaurLa Tracking


Classes for Both Good & Evil

Animal Communication Class
✅✨Read a book where a character communicates with an animal or insect ➖ completion ➖ 04.30
✅Read a book with a creature sidekick (can be any creature – examples: dragons, trolls, etc) ➖ completion ➖ 06.04

Special Talents
✅✨Read a book with a character that is talented (your interpretation) ➖ completion ➖ 04.02

Surviving Fairy Tales
✅✨Read a book with a survivor ➖ completion ➖ 04.27
✅✨Read a book where it is hard to tell who is good or evil ➖ completion ➖ 04.16
✨Read a book where someone has to eat bugs or hunt food to survive
✅Read a book tagged Fairy Tales ➖ completion ➖ 06.05
✨Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title.
5 Rules
1. The Evil attack. The Good defend.
✅attack ➖ completion ➖ 04.01
✅defend ➖ completion ➖ 04.09
2. The Evil punish. The Good forgive.
✅punish ➖ completion ➖ 04.12
✅forgive ➖ completion ➖ 04.05
3. The Evil hurt. The Good help.
✅hurt ➖ completion ➖ 04.07
✅help ➖ completion ➖ 04.15
4. The Evil take. The Good give.
✅take ➖ completion ➖ 04.18
✅give ➖ completion ➖ 04.20
5. The Evil hate. The Good love.
✅hate ➖ completion ➖ 04.21
✅love ➖ completion ➖ 04.25

Spells
✅✨Read a book where someone can manipulate water using ➖ completion ➖ 05.16magic
✅✨Read a book where someone can control the weather ➖ completion ➖ 05.04
✅✨Read a book where someone can shift into an animal or plant ➖ completion ➖ 05.13


Evil Classes

Uglification Class
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book with an ugly character (your interpretation) ➖ completion ➖ 04.02
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book where a character wears a cape or disguise ➖ completion ➖ 04.17
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book with the author’s initials in UGLIFICATION ➖ completion ➖ 05.23

Henchman Training
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book with a henchman (your interpretation) ➖ completion ➖ 05.06
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book where someone trains ➖ completion ➖ 05.016
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book with at least one of the 5 strategies for training henchmen in the text
1. Command ➖ completion ➖ 04.04
2. Taunt
3. Trick
4. Bribe
5. Bully

Curses & Death Traps
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book with the letters NEMESIS in any order in the title/series ➖ completion ➖ 06.29
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book where someone is poisoned ➖ completion ➖ 04.14
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book where a character uses a curse or spell against someone else ➖ completion ➖ 04.29

History of Villainy
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book where a villain dies ➖ completion ➖ 04.08
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book where a villain eats their nemesis ➖ completion ➖ 05.20
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book where the villain wins ➖ completion ➖ 04.15
✅🦹‍♂️Read a book where a villain sets a trap for their nemesis ➖ completion ➖ 04.12

Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: ✨Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title.
Book: Brainrush
Author: Richard Bard
Pages: 307
Date Read: 4-1-2023
How It Fits: Page 11; "died of a heart attack"

Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: ✨Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title.
Book: Deadly Stillwater
Author: Roger Stelljes
Pages: 424
Date Read: 4-2-2023
How It Fits: Page 42; "to defend themselves"

Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: ✨Read a book with a survivor
Book: Underwater
Author: Marisa Reichardt
Pages: 288
Date Read: 4-3-2023
How It Fits: MC survived a deadly school shooting.

Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Class/Test🔹Surviving Fairy Tales


Task🔹Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title
Book🔹The Buzz Kill
Pages🔹103 pp
How it fits🔹with nowhere to run to and under attack, [loc 11.9]
Date Read🔹04.01 ★★★

Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Class/Test🔹Uglification Class


Task🔹Read a book with an ugly character
Book🔹Scornfully Hers
Pages🔹178 pp
How it fits🔹the character Amanda is a spiteful and vain person who sole purpose seems to be to ruin Emma and Carter's relationship
Date Read🔹04.02 ★★★

Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Class/Test🔹Special Talents


Task🔹Read a book with a character that is talented
Book🔹Hot Single Dad
Pages🔹274 pp
How it fits🔹Linnea is a classically trained pianist and teaches piano to young children
Date Read🔹04.02 ★★★★

Class/Test: Beautification Class
Task: 👸Read a book with a smiling character on the cover
Book: All I Have
Author: Nicole Helm
Pages: 384
Date Read: 4-5-2023

Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Class/Test🔹Henchman Training


Task🔹Read a book with at least one of the 5 strategies for training henchmen in the text: Command
Book🔹The Family You Make
Pages🔹274 pp
How it fits🔹Mostly only when it’s a command performance [loc 33.7]
Date Read🔹04.04 ★★★★

Class/Test: Special Talents
Task: ✨Read a book with a character that is talented (your interpretation)
Book: Carrie Soto Is Back
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Pages: 384
Date Read: 4-6-2023
How It Fits: Carrie is a Grand Slam tennis champion numerous times.

Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Class/Test🔹History of Villainy


Task🔹Read a book where a villain dies
Book🔹Dex
Pages🔹276 pp
How it fits🔹The mob boss who is trying to force Dex to launder money for him is killed by Dex
Date Read🔹04.08 ★★★★

Class/Test: Beautification Class
Task: 👸Read a book with the author’s initials in BEAUTIFICATION
Book: Lies Beneath
Author: Anne Greenwood Brown
Pages: 306
Date Read: 4-7-2023
How It Fits: Initials A & B

Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: Forgive in text
Book: It Began With a Lie
Author: Michele Pariza Wacek
Pages: 383
Date Read: 4-7-2023
How It Fits: Page 92; "I would never forgive myself..."

Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: Punish in text
Book: Where You End
Author: Anna Pellicioli
Pages: 312
Date Read: 4-8-2023
How It Fits: Page 280; "...maybe I'm being punished..."

Current Scores

LaurLa: 25
Michelle: 40

Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Class/Test🔹History of Villainy


Task🔹Read a book where a villain sets a trap for their nemesis
Book🔹Son of the Morning
Pages🔹388 pp
How it fits🔹Parrish sets a trap at his office, leaving doors propped open by what appears to be maintenance men to lure Grace to sneak in where he will capture her and kill her.
Date Read🔹04.12 ★★★★

Ugh! I had no idea she had changed the rule for the 5 Rules task until I saw the scores and wondered how you got so many. Off to hunt for the words in other books!

Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Class/Test🔹Surviving Fairy Tales


Task🔹Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title: forgive
Book🔹The Bride Test
Pages🔹320 pp
How it fits🔹Esme still couldn’t forgive herself [loc 70.9]
Date Read🔹04.05 ★★★★

Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Class/Test🔹Surviving Fairy Tales


Task🔹Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title: hurt
Book🔹No Breaking My Heart
Pages🔹288 pp
How it fits🔹Her heart hurt. [loc 40.9]
Date Read🔹04.07 ★★★★

Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Class/Test🔹Surviving Fairy Tales


Task🔹Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title: defend
Book🔹Breaking Chains
Pages🔹235 pp
How it fits🔹I appreciate your willingness to defend my property. [loc 222.3]
Date Read🔹04.09 ★★★★

LaurLa wrote: "Ugh! I had no idea she had changed the rule for the 5 Rules task until I saw the scores and wondered how you got so many. Off to hunt for the words in other books!"

Who do you think made me make a decision on that particular rule? Somebody submitted like 5 tasks for that one. I can't accept it for the other 2 tasks with multiple items because the Good task only has 3 and the Evil task has more. However, both sides can complete this task so I allowed it for this one only.

Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: ✨Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title.
Book: The Vanishing Half
Author: Brit Bennett
Pages: 343
Date Read: 4-13-2023
How It Fits: Page 19; "her stomach hurt"

Donna wrote: "LaurLa wrote: "Ugh! I had no idea she had changed the rule for the 5 Rules task until I saw the scores and wondered how you got so many. Off to hunt for the words in other books!"

Who do you think..."

😯😁

Completion Post🔹LaurLa
Class/Test🔹Surviving Fairy Tales


Task🔹Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title: punish
Book🔹Knight
Pages🔹281 pp
How it fits🔹You don’t get to punish me. [loc 243.6]
Date Read🔹04.12 ★★★★

Completion Post ➖ LaurLa
Class/Test ➖ Curses & Death Traps


Task ➖ Read a book where someone is poisoned
Book ➖ Moonlight and Magic
Pages ➖ 182 pp
How it fits ➖ The drug cartel villains poisoned Brad, Delores' new boyfriend to kill him. They also make Annette drink it when they capture her but it doesn't affect due to her witch abilities.
Date Read ➖ 04.14 ★★★★

Completion Post ➖ LaurLa
Class/Test ➖ History of Villainy


Task ➖ Read a book where the villain wins
Book ➖ Spellbound in His Arms
Pages ➖ 156 pp
How it fits ➖ The original villain in the story is caught and arrested but behind the scenes, his son Eric, was scheming to take over his father's organization. During the takedown of his father by the police, Eric escapes with his minions and takes over the organization and continues to terrorize our heroine.
Date Read ➖ 04.15 ★★

Completion Post ➖ LaurLa
Class/Test ➖ Surviving Fairy Tales


Task ➖ Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title
Book ➖ How Much I Feel
Pages ➖ 302 pp
How it fits ➖ I want to help him with his problem [loc 57.2]
Date Read ➖ 04.15 ★★★★

Class/Test: Spells
Task: ✨Read a book where someone can manipulate water using magic
Book: Troubled Waters
Author: Sharon Shinn
Pages: 400
Date Read: 4-15-2023
How It Fits: MC can do water magic.

Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title
Book: The Dead Zone
Author: Stephen King
Pages: 402
Date Read: 4-16-2023
How It Fits: Page 204; "Did he hurt you?"

Completion Post ➖ LaurLa
Class/Test ➖ Uglification Class


Task ➖ Read a book where a character wears a cape or disguise
Book ➖ The Phantom of the Opera
Pages ➖ 320 pp
How it fits ➖ Erik disguises himself as does Raoul during the masquerade ball
Date Read ➖ 04.17 ★★★

Class/Test: Good Deeds Task
Task: 👸Read a book with one of the 3 keys to good deeds in the text
Book: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Author: HONEYMAN GAIL
Pages: 336
Date Read: 4-18-2023
How It Fits: Page 3; "I was a creative type"

Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: ✨Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title.
Book: The Sky Is Everywhere
Author: Jandy Nelson
Pages: 288
Date Read: 4-18-2023
How It Fits: Page 17; "help him weed or something"

Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: ✨Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title.
Book: Firestarter
Author: Stephen King
Pages: 403
Date Read: 4-18-2023
How It Fits: Page 8; "to take care of him"

Completion Post ➖ LaurLa
Class/Test ➖ Surviving Fairy Tales


Task ➖ Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title
Book ➖ Mr. Fixer Upper
Pages ➖ 402 pp
How it fits ➖ I’ll take that as a big fat no. [loc 15.7]
Date Read ➖ 04.18 ★★★★

Class/Test: Spells
Task: ✨Read a book where someone can shift into an animal or plant
Book: Dead to the World
Author: Charlaine Harris
Pages: 291
Date Read: 4-19-2023
How It Fits: Sam is a dog shifter

Completion Post ➖ LaurLa
Class/Test ➖ Surviving Fairy Tales


Task ➖ Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title
Book ➖ Suddenly Psychic
Pages ➖ 324 pp
How it fits ➖ have so much to give [loc 258.9]
Date Read ➖ 04.20 ★★★★

Completion Post ➖ LaurLa
Class/Test ➖ Surviving Fairy Tales


Task ➖ Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title
Book ➖ Dare to Touch
Pages ➖ 308 pp
How it fits ➖ I hate it when you’re right. [loc 131.4]
Date Read ➖ 04.21 ★★★★

Please check the Q&A & the test thread for updates.

Completion Post ➖ LaurLa
Class/Test ➖ Snow Ball Test 1


Task ➖ Read a book with a hot guy/girl on the cover
Book ➖ Safe by His Side
Pages ➖ 143 pp
How it fits ➖ hot looking guy with nicely sculpted chest and abs
Date Read ➖ 04.22 ★★★
Points ➖ 1

Completion Post ➖ LaurLa
Class/Test ➖ Snow Ball Test 1


Task ➖ Read a book with a hot guy/girl on the cover
Book ➖ When Darkness Ends
Pages ➖ 352 pp
How it fits ➖ handsome/hot looking man
Date Read ➖ 04.22 ★★★★
Points ➖ 3

Completion Post ➖ LaurLa
Class/Test ➖ Snow Ball Test 1


Task ➖ Read a book with a hot guy/girl on the cover
Book ➖ All In With Him
Pages ➖ 310 pp
How it fits ➖ handsome/hot looking men
Date Read ➖ 04.23 ★★★★
Points ➖ 3

Completion Post ➖ LaurLa
Class/Test ➖ Snow Ball Test 1


Task ➖ Read a book with a hot guy/girl on the cover
Book ➖ Dirty Rogue
Pages ➖ 284 pp
How it fits ➖ handsome/hot looking man
Date Read ➖ 04.23 ★★★★
Points ➖ 1

Current Scores

LaurLa: 85
Michelle: 75


Snowball Test

LaurLa: 8 - passed
Michelle: 0 (uh oh somebody fell asleep during the test!)

Oh my! I sure did. I had it on my calendar for this weekend. 😅


We were driving across country from CO to GA last weekend and I didn't even log onto GR. Double-checking my dates for the other tests now!

Michelle's Empty Nest wrote: "Oh my! I sure did. I had it on my calendar for this weekend. 😅


We were driving across country from CO to GA last weekend and I didn't even log onto GR. Double-checking my dates for the other test..."

Sorry you missed it Michelle...

Completion Post ➖ LaurLa
Class/Test ➖ Surviving Fairy Tales


Task ➖ Read a book where it is hard to tell who is good or evil
Book ➖ A Deeper Darkness
Pages ➖ 414 pp
How it fits ➖ the villain disguised himself really well as a good guy
Date Read ➖ 04.16 ★★★★