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April Showers Bring May Flowers
Explaination for this one--my Mother-in-law's birthday would have been the 13th. She would have been 83. But she died from complications of breast cancer (she had a heart attack that was induced by the stress of the chemo) so this is dedicated to her.
Read 2005pp (short challenge) I arrived at this number because its the year she was born (1927) plus her age at the time she died (61) plus 4 for April and 13 for the date.
Double your points if your title/author has: Betty (her name), the name of a flower in any form, Home, Teacher or Education (she was a home ec teacher) and of course Chocolate (which she loved.)
Rewards: well, since Betty also loved to read, I'm going with 4 new books OR 12 used books to the winner
Quick recap:
April Showers Bring May Flowers
2005 pp total
Double points for: Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
4/17 Tarnished Linings by P.N. Elrod from The Magic Shop Anthology = 18 pages (16 + 2 page introduction)
4/17 finished Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares = 110 pages
Total = 128 pages


Congratulations Kate! That's quite the haul!!
April Showers Bring May Flowers
Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
292 pages: Dead Until Dark 4/18***
27 pages: Cell (currently reading)
319/2005

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
312 pp. (397-85 previously read): Devil's Embrace by Catherine Coulter Apr 17
Total Pages = 312/2005

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
187/2005
The Firefighter's Baby - Alison Roberts - 187 pages - 4/18/2010


Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
336 pages - Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris - 17/04/10*****
208 pages - A Touch of Dead - Charlaine Harris - 18/04/10*****
075 pages - La vallée des dinosaures - Mary Pope Osborne - 18/04/10****
073 pages - La Cabane Magique, Tome 2 : Le mystérieux chevalier - Mary Pope Osborne - 18/04/10****
077 pages - La Cabane Magique, Tome 4 : Le trésor des pirates - Mary Pope Osborne - 18/04/10****
769 /2005 pages

According to the bonus rules for this exchange, yes.

Congratulations Kate! That's quite the haul!!"
Thanks Sara. I thought I did pretty good. Especially with the audiobooks being $1.28 each and I can get 2 book credits for each off PBS. I have Chocolat to read as well at some point.

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
Briansgirl/Kate = 128 pages
Dee = 187 pages
BJ Rose = 312 pages
Sara = 319 pages
Jane = 769 pages

April Showers Bring May Flowers
Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
Storm Front (started at 51-322)271 pages
Dark Prince (1-10) 10 pages
281/2005

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
4/17 Tarnished Linings by P.N. Elrod from The Magic Shop Anthology = 18 pages (16 + 2 page introduction)
4/17 finished Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares = 110 pages
4/18 Royal Scotland = 16 pages
Total = 144 pages


Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
279 pp.: Undead and Unappreciated by Mary Janice Davidson Apr 18 My Review
312 pp. (397-85 previously read): Devil's Embrace by Catherine Coulter Apr 17
Total Pages = 591/2005

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
365/2005
The Firefighter's Baby - Alison Roberts - 187 pages - 4/18/2010
Bad Moon Rising - Sherrilyn Kenyon - 178 pages (started at page 254) - 4/18/2010

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
p/c 379 Pride v Rachel Vincent 4-18-10
379/2005

April Showers Bring May Flowers Leaderboard
Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
672 pages - Lover Avenged (4/18) *****
672 / 2005 total pages

April Showers Bring May Flowers
Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
Storm Front (started at 51-322)271 pages
Dark Prince (1-92) 92 pages
363/2005

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
591/2005
The Firefighter's Baby - Alison Roberts - 187 pages - 4/18/2010
Bad Moon Rising - Sherrilyn Kenyon - 178 pages (started at page 254) - 4/18/2010
Spring Fancy - LaVeryl Spencer - 226 pages (started on page 20) - 4/18/2010

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
182 pp. (352-170 previously read): One Second After by W. Forstchen Apr 19 (4*) This should have been named The New Armageddon - all very possible and too deadly believeable!
Added to:
279 pp.: Undead and Unappreciated by Mary Janice Davidson Apr 18 My Review
312 pp. (397-85 previously read): Devil's Embrace by Catherine Coulter Apr 17
Total Pages = 773/2005

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
195 pages - Steamed by Katie MacAlister
195/2005 pages

April Showers Bring May Flowers
Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
4/17 Tarnished Linings by P.N. Elrod from The Magic Shop Anthology = 18 pages (16 + 2 page introduction)
4/17 finished Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares = 110 pages
4/18 Royal Scotland = 16 pages
4/19 Windows on His World by Dora Hagge = 321 pages
Total = 465 pages


Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
634/2005
The Firefighter's Baby - Alison Roberts - 187 pages - 4/18/2010
Bad Moon Rising - Sherrilyn Kenyon - 178 pages (started at page 254) - 4/18/2010
Spring Fancy - LaVeryl Spencer - 226 pages (started on page 20) - 4/18/2010
Passion Unleashed - Larissa Ione - 43 pages (started at pg 57) - IN PROGRESS

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author
465/2005
Waking Up by Amanda Carpenter - 4/18
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn - 4/19
Harmony's Way (Breeds, #8) by Lora Leigh - IN PROGRESS

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
814/2005
The Firefighter's Baby - Alison Roberts - 187 pages - 4/18/2010
Bad Moon Rising - Sherrilyn Kenyon - 178 pages (started at page 254) - 4/18/2010
Spring Fancy - LaVeryl Spencer - 226 pages (started on page 20) - 4/18/2010
Passion Unleashed - Larissa Ione - 183 pages (started at pg 57) - IN PROGRESS
Dark Lover - JR Ward - 40 pages (started at pg 40)

WOW! Kate!! Reliving things you didn't even want to experience the first time can definitely be !@##%&! (couldn't really think of an appropriate word!)
This sounds like something I'd put safely in a box labelled "for my children when they're my age" or something like that. Just the fact that their grandmother wrote the book makes it great family history for them, and they won't have the remembrances of actually experiencing any of it. I have an audiotape of my mother singing songs with my youngest daughter - altho mom's been gone for almost 10 years, it's still bittersweet to listen to it, and it will go to my daughter as part of her shared history.

April Showers Bring May Flowers
Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
324 pp. Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen, who is truly the Queen of the Medical Thriller Apr 19 (5*)
Added to:
182 pp. (352-170 previously read): One Second After by W. Forstchen Apr 19 (4*) This should have been named The New Armageddon - all very possible and too deadly believable!
279 pp.: Undead and Unappreciated by Mary Janice Davidson Apr 18 My Review
312 pp. (397-85 previously read): Devil's Embrace by Catherine Coulter Apr 17
Total Pages = 1097/2005

I actually have four copies of this book, each came in a clear plastic box. She signed the front page for each of my boys and one for me. I'll keep it as mom wrote it, but I won't read it again. She finished the book several years ago. Took me til now to read it.

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
336 pages - Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris - 17/04/10*****
208 pages - A Touch of Dead - Charlaine Harris - 18/04/10*****
075 pages - La vallée des dinosaures - Mary Pope Osborne - 18/04/10****
073 pages - La Cabane Magique, Tome 2 : Le mystérieux chevalier - Mary Pope Osborne - 18/04/10****
077 pages - La Cabane Magique, Tome 4 : Le trésor des pirates - Mary Pope Osborne - 18/04/10****
272 pages - Princess in the Spotlight - Meg Cabot - 20/04/10***
330 pages - Sea Swept - Nora Roberts - 20/04/10*****
1371 /2005 pages

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author
777/2005
189 pg - Waking Up by Amanda Carpenter - 4/18
276 pg - Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn - 4/19
312 pg - Harmony's Way (Breeds, #8) by Lora Leigh - 4/20

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
Nairabell = 195 pages
Ashley = 281 pages
Sara = 319 pages
Ashley = 363 pages
Kenjii = 379 pages
Briansgirl/Kate = 465 pages
Debbie = 672 pages
Christine = 777 pages
Dee = 814 pages
BJ Rose = 1097 pages
Jane = 1371 pages

April Showers Bring May Flowers
Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author
Storm Front (started at 51-322)271 pages
Dark Prince (1-130) 130 pages
401/2005

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
Nairabell = 195 pages
Ashley = 281 pages
Sara = 319 pages
Kenjii = 379 pages
Ashley = 401 pages
Briansgirl/Kate = 465 pages
Debbie = 672 pages
Christine = 777 pages
Dee = 814 pages
BJ Rose = 1097 pages
Jane = 1371 pages


Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author
1043/2005
Waking Up by Amanda Carpenter - 4/18; 189 pages
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn - 4/19; 276 pages
Harmony's Way (Breeds, #8) by Lora Leigh - 4/20; 312 pages
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - In Progress; 5 pages
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks - In Progress; 35 pages
When Darkness Comes by Alexandra Ivy - In Progress; 113(x2 for author's name) = 226 pages

April Showers Bring May Flowers
Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
210 pp.: Call of the Wild by Jack London Apr 20 (5*)
Added to:
324 pp. Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen, who is truly the Queen of the Medical Thriller Apr 19 (5*)
182 pp. (352-170 previously read): One Second After by W. Forstchen Apr 19 (4*) This should have been named The New Armageddon - all very possible and too deadly believable!
279 pp.: Undead and Unappreciated by Mary Janice Davidson Apr 18 My Review
312 pp. (397-85 previously read): Devil's Embrace by Catherine Coulter Apr 17
Total Pages = 1307/2005

April Showers Bring May Flowers
Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
4/17 Tarnished Linings by P.N. Elrod from The Magic Shop Anthology = 18 pages (16 + 2 page introduction)
4/17 finished Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares = 110 pages
4/18 Royal Scotland = 16 pages
4/19 Windows on His World by Dora Hagge = 321 pages
4/20 Interlude by G. Norman Lippert = 3 pages
4/20 Dancers in the Dark by Charlaine Harris from Night's Edge Anthology = 127 pages
Total = 595 pages


Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
Nairabell = 195 pages
Ashley = 281 pages
Sara = 319 pages
Kenjii = 379 pages
Ashley = 401 pages
Briansgirl/Kate = 595 pages
Debbie = 672 pages
Dee = 814 pages
Christine = 1043 pages
BJ Rose = 1307 pages
Jane = 1371 pages

Wow - That's some potent reading material! I've had some things I've read hit close to home, but not like that!!!
April Showers Bring May Flowers
Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
292 pages: Dead Until Dark 4/18***
343 pages: Mr. Perfect 4/20****
86 pages: Devil's Embrace (did not finish - I was impressed I made it that far!!!)
Currently reading:
27 pages: Cell
128 pages: Immortal in Death
14 pages: The Duke And I
24 pages: A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
914/2005

Be glad. It wasn't fun. She meant it to be inspiring to others, but written by my mother about me and my family, it just hit too close to home for me.

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
934/2005
The Firefighter's Baby - Alison Roberts - 187 pages - 4/18/2010
Bad Moon Rising - Sherrilyn Kenyon - 178 pages (started at page 254) - 4/18/2010
Spring Fancy - LaVeryl Spencer - 226 pages (started on page 20) - 4/18/2010
Passion Unleashed - Larissa Ione - 303 pages (started at pg 57) - IN PROGRESS
Dark Lover - JR Ward - 40 pages (started at pg 40)

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
Nairabell = 195 pages
Kenjii = 379 pages
Ashley = 401 pages
Briansgirl/Kate = 595 pages
Debbie = 672 pages
Sara = 914 pages
Dee = 934 pages
Christine = 1043 pages
BJ Rose = 1307 pages
Jane = 1371 pages

April Showers Bring May Flowers
Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author
1535/2005
Waking Up by Amanda Carpenter - 4/18; 189 pages
Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn - 4/19; 276 pages
Harmony's Way (Breeds, #8) by Lora Leigh - 4/20; 312 pages
When Darkness Comes by Alexandra Ivy - 4/21; 359(x2 for author's name) = 718 pages
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks - In Progress; 35 pages
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - In Progress; 5 pages

April Showers Bring May Flowers
Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author
185/2005
Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward In Progress; 180 pages

Duration: April 17th thru April 30
Goal: 2005 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 12 used books
Bonus: Double points for Betty, Chocolate, Flower name, Home, Teacher, Education in title or author.
Dalene = 185 pages
Nairabell = 195 pages
Kenjii = 379 pages
Ashley = 401 pages
Briansgirl/Kate = 595 pages
Debbie = 672 pages
Sara = 914 pages
Dee = 934 pages
BJ Rose = 1307 pages
Jane = 1371 pages
Christine = 1535 pages
Suprirsed nobody's used the bonus so far this time around.
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