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Here ya go! :PHappy Birthday, America! Challenge
Duration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
How the goal was reached: 2010 + 1776 = 3786
yay!! your awesome Christine!! enjoy your book purchases!
Christine wrote: "Here ya go! :PHappy Birthday, America! Challenge
Duration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July
tradition is observed dur..."
Congrats & good challenge.
Good timing, I just bought a new book today and would have had to zero out. Now everyone does. haha. Love it. I can't wait to start onmy new ones.
Happy Birthday, America! ChallengeDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
Current Status - 453/3786
Completed Books (as of 4am 4th July)
Love's Long Journey - Janette Oke (started at page 95) - 112 pages - 7/3/2010
Some Girls Bite - Chloe Neill - 341 pages - 7/4/2010
In Progress
Case Histories: A Novel - Kate Atkinson (started at 65%)
Summer Sisters - Judy Blume (starting at 10%)
Zero at the Bone - Jane Seville
The River In Winter - Matt Dean (starting at 20%)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski (starting at track 7 of 18 on the audiobook)
Broken - Megan Hart
Happy Birthday, America! ChallengeDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
442 pgs. - The Darkest Passion (7/5) *****
442/3786 pages
reset to zero!! I caved and got tymber dalton's new book today!
Happy Birthday, America! ChallengeDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
1,340/3,786
Completed
Playing with Fire by Gena Showalter - 7/4; 379 pages
His Secondhand Wife by Cheryl St.John - 7/5; 304 (x2 - fireworks on the 4th and a couple picnics) = 608 pages
The Awakening by Christine Feehan - 7/6; 111 pages
Nighttime Sweethearts by Cara Colter - 7/6; 192 pages
In Progress
Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger - (started on pg 174 - pg 224) = 50 pages
...is Kate on vacation? There hasn't been an update post on everyone's status yet.
Happy Birthday, America! Challenge LeaderboardDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
Dee - Reset to Zero
Debbie - 442
Christine - 1340
Thanks Dee. Today - library is having their paperback sale this week so I took a couple dollars planning on splurging and of course having to zero out, but looking at the books they had, I either was not interested or I already had them. How bad is that. Well I thought it was funny anyways. :). Just wanted to share.
good for you debbie! I had to zero out because my fav author had a new book released and I had to get it...lol!!
That's happened to me before. I love running into Half-Price books when I have a free hour or two, but every once in a while I'll find absolutely nothing on my 'I-want-to-read-this' list. It makes me a little sad upon leaving.Of course, there are other times when I'm in the middle of a count-off challenge and find a book I've been hunting for. I end up talking myself out of buying it because I'm usually so far into the count that resetting at that stage is unthinkable. (To me, anyway.)
Luckily when my auto-buy came out, we were between challenges and I didn't have to zero - but I was prepared to do it today. Just didn' t have to. Haha. :)
Oh almost forgot to ask - what did you get??????
me?tymber dalton's new book came out - cardinal's rule - i'd been waiting for it since she posted the excerpt on her website a few months back...plus lady isabella's scandelous marriage was released and I got beth williamson's new book last night
lol oh Christine, I feel the same way in the middle of these bigger page count challenges. I don't want to reset for anything. So, did you hide the book and go back for it later? haha.
Dee, I don't think I know any of those. Time to increase the tbr? I will look them up and see
lol...they are mostly erotic romance - TD and BW - the other one is a historical romance by Jennifer Ashley
:gasp: Lady Isabella came out?!? Where have I been, under a rock??Debbie, sometimes I wish I did. But no, I put them back where they belonged because I can't deny someone else a book they might want to read just as much as me.
it just came out today...you haven't missed much...it showed up on my kindle at like 3am
Well see, now I am interested. lolI am going to finish my Janet Evanovich or at least work in that directon.
Have a great evening all.
Christine wrote: "...is Kate on vacation? There hasn't been an update post on everyone's status yet."I got busy and GRs failed to email me that there were new posts to this thread. gggrrr I dropped by to see why it was so quiet and found 26 new posts! lol
I will be on holiday of sorts starting the end of July for a few weeks. My fiance is flying in from England to visit. I'll be around occassionally but not as often as I usually am, so I will need some help then with the leaderboard for a couple weeks.
BJ is still on holiday and I'm sitting out this challenge until at least monday. This weekend is my library's annual sale. 76,000 books with paperbacks only 50 cents. I save up all year for this sale!Happy Birthday, America! Challenge Leaderboard
Duration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
Dee - Reset to Zero
Debbie - 442
Christine - 1340
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Happy Birthday, America! ChallengeDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
1313/3,786
Reese’s Bride by Kat Martin 04/07 376 pp
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 05/07 553 pp
An Impossible Attraction by Brenda Joyce 06/07 384 pp
Happy Birthday, America! ChallengeDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
Current Status - 227/3786
Completed Books (as of 4am 4th July)
Love's Long Journey - Janette Oke (started at page 95) - 112 pages - 7/3/2010
Some Girls Bite - Chloe Neill - 341 pages - 7/4/2010
Reset to Zero
Broken - Karin Slaughter - 227 pages - 7/7/2010
In Progress
Summer Sisters - Judy Blume (starting at 10%)
Zero at the Bone - Jane Seville
The River In Winter - Matt Dean (starting at 40%)
Rapture in Death - J.D. Robb (start at 30%)
Happy Birthday, America! ChallengeDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
442 pgs. - The Darkest Passion (7/5) *****
576 pgs. = 2X 288(bonus- picnic) - Hero at Large (7/7) ****
1018/3786 pages
ஐ Briansgirl "Book Sale Queen"ஐ wrote: "BJ is still on holiday and I'm sitting out this challenge until at least monday. This weekend is my library's annual sale. 76,000 books with paperbacks only 50 cents. I save up all year for this sa..."Glad to see you, my e-mail did that once too. So glad you get to see fiance soon, have a great time and have a blast at that book sale - let us know what you end up with.
Happy Birthday, America! Challenge LeaderboardDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
Dee - 227 pages
Debbie - 1018 pages
Macwolf01/Elise = 1313 pages
Christine - 1340 pages
Happy Birthday, America! ChallengeDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
Current Status - 599/3786
Completed Books (as of 4am 4th July)
Love's Long Journey - Janette Oke (started at page 95) - 112 pages - 7/3/2010
Some Girls Bite - Chloe Neill - 341 pages - 7/4/2010
Reset to Zero
Broken - Karin Slaughter - 227 pages - 7/7/2010
Bareback - Chris Owen - 372 pages - 7/7/2010
In Progress
Summer Sisters - Judy Blume (starting at 10%)
Zero at the Bone - Jane Seville
The River In Winter - Matt Dean (starting at 40%)
Rapture in Death - J.D. Robb (start at 30%)
We're back from vacation and I'm reading again, but I also decided to take advantage of the reading break to buy some more books today, so I won't be counting the book I started yesterday on the trip home, which was also a purchase - I didn't have anything to read on the plane!
Happy Birthday, America! ChallengeDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
1,642/3,786
Completed
Playing with Fire by Gena Showalter - 7/4; 379 pages
His Secondhand Wife by Cheryl St.John - 7/5; 304 (x2 - fireworks on the 4th and a couple picnics) = 608 pages
The Awakening by Christine Feehan - 7/6; 111 pages
Nighttime Sweethearts by Cara Colter - 7/6; 192 pages
In Progress
Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger - (started on pg 174 - pg 406) = 232 pages
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larrson - (started on pg 58 - pg 178) = 120 pages
Happy Birthday, America! ChallengeDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
Current Status - 738/3786
Completed Books (as of 4am 4th July)
Love's Long Journey - Janette Oke (started at page 95) - 112 pages - 7/3/2010
Some Girls Bite - Chloe Neill - 341 pages - 7/4/2010
Reset to Zero
Broken - Karin Slaughter - 227 pages - 7/7/2010
Bareback - Chris Owen - 372 pages - 7/7/2010
Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson - Keith Ablow - 139 pages - 7/8/2010
In Progress
Summer Sisters - Judy Blume (starting at 10%)
Zero at the Bone - Jane Seville
The River In Winter - Matt Dean (starting at 40%)
Rapture in Death - J.D. Robb (start at 30%)
Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah
The Fairy Godmother - Mercedes Lackey
Brindisi Bedfellows - Jamie Craig
Happy Birthday, America! Challenge LeaderboardDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
Dee - 738 pages
Debbie - 1018 pages
Macwolf01/Elise = 1313 pages
Christine - 1642 pages
Back from the annual friends of the library booksale. Magazines are now 50 cents a pound, paperbacks and kids books 50¢ each, hardbacks $1 each and a few select hardbacks $3 each (if really new). I spent $46.30. I was hoping to come in under $50 and managed that nicely. I got some stuff I wanted, but didn't find as much as I'd hope to. If y'all want I can post a list of what I got.
Happy Birthday, America! ChallengeDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
442 pgs. - The Darkest Passion (7/5) *****
576 pgs. = 2X 288(bonus- picnic) - Hero at Large (7/7) ****
442 pgs. - The Darkest Lie (7/9) ****
1460/3786 pages
Kate, congrats coming in under 50. Always like to find some good deals. I wouldn't mind know what you are planning on reading soon. but if you are adding them to your GR bookshelf, we could always head there ($46 sounds like a lot)
Debbie wrote: "Kate, congrats coming in under 50. Always like to find some good deals. I wouldn't mind know what you are planning on reading soon. but if you are adding them to your GR bookshelf, we could alwa..."I've spent more in the past Debbie, so I figure this is doing pretty good. Especially when you realize I bought 21 items for $1 each, the rest being 50¢ each or 50¢/lb. Here's what I got:
National Geographic Magazines (50¢ pound)
Dec 2008 - The Real King Herod, Architect of the Holy Land
Apr 2009 - The She-King of Egypt
Jul 2009 - Angkor, Why an ancient civilization collapsed
Nov 2009 - Egypt's Animal Mummies, pets of the pharaohs
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (50¢ pound)
2005 - March/Apr, May, June
2007 - Jul, Sep/Oct, Nov
2008 - Feb
2009 - Mar/Apr, Aug, Sep/Oct, Nov (x2 oops), Dec
2010 Feb, Mar/Apr
(I accidently had a duplicate in the box, and bought one I already had. I use them as short stories to fill hard to find categories some months. If anyone wants them I have Nov 2009 and Mar/Apr 2005 double issue. These are nothing more than mystery short stories published in a small magazine.)
VHS Tapes ($1 each)
Looney Tunes - The Collector's Edition (90 mins each tape)
All Stars
Daffy Doodles
Musical Masterpieces
Running Amuck
Tex-Book Looney
Welcome to Wackyland
Audio Books ($1 each)
Dirty Jokes and Beer by Drew Carey (2 cassettes)
Wizard and Glass, The Dark Tower IV by Stephen King (23 CDs) (for PBS, already on wishlist hold for someone - I get 2 credits as its an audiobook)
Hardbacks ($1 each)
Fire and Ice by Julie Garwood
Great Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (collector's edition leather bound with gold edges)
The Adventures of Robin Hood: An English Legend by Paul Creswick (Reader's Digest Collector's Edition)
Masterpieces of Mystery: The Supersleuths selected by Ellery Queen (Red Collector's Edition
How to Cook a Tart - a novel by Nina Killham
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings by Amy Kelly (I'm very distantly related to some Lady from Aquitaine, and I thought her name was Eleanor but I can't find the ancient geneology list to confirm.)
Sherlock Holmes Cookbook by Sean Wright
The Tasha Tudor Cookbook: Recipes and Reminiscences from Corgi Cottage by Tasha Tudor
Everyday life through the ages by Reader's Digest
Guide to Good Food Teacher's Annotated Edition 1996 Edition by Deborah L. Bence and Velda L. Largen
The Great Victorian Cookbook by John Midgley
Paperbacks (50¢ each)
Trade Size paerbacks
A Victorian Christmas Cottage by Catherine Palmer
The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency #5)
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith (The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency #2)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Comfort Food - a novel by Kate Jacobs
The Celestine Prophecy - an adventure by James Redfield
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
Nebraska Centennial First Ladies Cookbook
Top Secret Restaurant Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones from America's Favorite Restaurant Chains by Todd Wilbur
Mass Market Paperbacks
Waking Up In Charleston by Sherryl Woods
Dragon's Lair by Sharon Kay Penman (A Medieval Mystery)
Amber's Mirage & Other Stories by Zane Grey (Western)
The Silver Needle Murder by Laura Childs (A Tea Shop Mystery #9)
Dark Sunlight by Patricia Wilson (Postcards from Europe)
Eleventh Hour by Catherine Coulter
O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton (so audiobook on 4 cassettes goes on PBS now)
Motif for Murder by Laura Childs (A scrapbooking mystery)
Chance by Clay Tanner (western)
Summer By the Sea by Susan Wiggs
Murder Between the Covers by Elaine Viets (A Dead-End Job Mystery)
Triple Witch by Sarah Graves (Remodeling is Murder)
Sticks and Scones by Diane Mott Davidson (A Delicious Whodunit)
The London Blitz Murders by Max Allan Collins
Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot Mystery)
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot Mystery)
Sunshine and Shadow by Earlene Fowler (A Benni Harper Mystery)
McNally's Luck by Lawrence Sanders (Archy McNally Mystery)
The Magic of Christmas Anthology - Emma Craig, Annie Kimberlin, Kathleen Nance, Stobie Piel
Cover-Up Story by Marian Babson (murder mystery)
The Third Circle by Amanda Quick (An Arcane Society Novel) (One of those stupid tall paperbacks an extra inch taller!)
Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds by Nancy Martin
Millionaire Dad, Nanny Needed! by Susan Meier (Harlequin)
The Rustler by Linda Lael Miller
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon (for PBS, already on wishlist hold for someone)
wow, great list - Sherlock Holmes cookbook hahaha, interesting. Looks like you got some great deals - again Congrats :)
Thanks Debbie. $46 doesn't sound so bad when you look at how much I got for it. I save up all year and it's the one time I splurge. I thought the Sherlock Holmes cookbook would be interesting. It's a cookbook full of recipes typical of 1895 London. Considering my fiance is british, I thought I might find a few recipes out of it and if nothing else, it should be interesting.
I get it, it caught my attention too and I have nothing tying me to England but plain old curiosity. Definitely a lot for the money .... so what are you reading first? that is always the hardest part for me after getting a whole bunch like that. haha, just teasing ya.
Debbie wrote: "I get it, it caught my attention too and I have nothing tying me to England but plain old curiosity. Definitely a lot for the money .... so what are you reading first? that is always the hardest ..."I have absolutely no idea! lol Right now, I'm just finishing up adding them to my virtual goodreads shelves (by clicking on links above, lol) and then sorting them and putting them away on the appropriate shelves in the house (by genre, etc.). I don't even know what The Kite Runner or Middlesex is about but have heard they are suppose to be really good and they were only 50 cents apiece so picked them up, but it's not like I'm rushing to read it immediately.
What I'm currently reading is an autobiography of/by Alan Alda called Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned. And yes, as a child they stuffed the family dog after it passed away. lol
Kite Runner is set in Afghanistan and supposed to be really good...it keeps showing up on my list of professional reading for the military (I guess i'll finally read it) and it was turned into a movie a few months back (oooh, maybe I shoudl do it for the books into movie challenge...hmmm)
Delicious Dee the book slut wrote: "Kite Runner is set in Afghanistan and supposed to be really good...it keeps showing up on my list of professional reading for the military (I guess i'll finally read it) and it was turned into a mo..."I've heard both Kite Runner and Middlesex are almost like modern classics. They've appeared on best seller lists and are frequently BOM choices. I figured for 50 cents I might as well pick them up. (Same for Water for Elephants earlier this year for ten cents).
Happy Birthday, America! ChallengeDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
Current Status - 1154/3786
Completed Books (as of 4am 4th July)
Love's Long Journey - Janette Oke (started at page 95) - 112 pages - 7/3/2010
Some Girls Bite - Chloe Neill - 341 pages - 7/4/2010
Reset to Zero
Broken - Karin Slaughter - 227 pages - 7/7/2010
Bareback - Chris Owen - 372 pages - 7/7/2010
Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson - Keith Ablow - 139 pages - 7/8/2010
Brindisi Bedfellows - Jamie Craig - 120 pages (guesstimate based on locations) - 7/8/2010
Metro Girl - Janet Evanovich - 296 pages - 7/9/2010
In Progress
Summer Sisters - Judy Blume (starting at 10%)
Zero at the Bone - Jane Seville
The River In Winter - Matt Dean (starting at 40%)
Rapture in Death - J.D. Robb (start at 30%)
Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah
The Fairy Godmother - Mercedes Lackey
Happy Birthday, America! ChallengeDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
1562/3,786
Reese’s Bride by Kat Martin 04/07 376 pp
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 05/07 553 pp
An Impossible Attraction by Brenda Joyce 06/07 384 pp
Bodyguard Confessions by Donna Young 09/07 249 pp
Happy Birthday, America! Challenge LeaderboardDuration: July 3rd - July 20th
Goal: 3,786 pages
Reward: 3 new books or 6 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a 4th of July tradition is observed during the book (i.e., fireworks show, picnic, day on the lake, etc).
Dee = 1154 pages
Debbie = 1460 pages
Macwolf01/Elise = 1562 pages
Christine = 1642 pages
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