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Christine wrote: "When I finish the book I'm currently reading, the next one in line will be a bonus one. But the question becomes, will Amanda post her new total page count before then?"Ya'll crack me up!
ok seriously Amanda - get those last 400 pages...WTH!!
Presidents' Day ChallengeDuration: February 12 - 24
Goal: 3,863 pages (1789+2009+44+21)
Reward: 4 new or 8 used books
Bonus: Double pages if a main character's first name is a president's first name. List is here Nicknames (Jack for John or Jim for James) are OK, as are shortened names (Ben for Benjamin, Frank for Franklin). Naming the president you use would be a nice touch!
46 pp: (from p. 224): Olive Kitteridge - Feb 13
135 pp out of 336: The Double Comfort Safari Club - Feb 13
270 pp: Under the Wire by Cindy Gerard - Feb 14
308 pp: Frostfire by Lynn Viehl - Feb 14
714 pp: (357x2): Blood Moon by Dawn Thompson - Feb 15 Jon Hyde-White is main character (for John Adams)
376 pp: Ruthless Game by Christine Feehan - Feb 17
316 pp: Dance of the Gods by Nora Roberts - Feb 18
Total Pages = 2165/3863
President's Day Challenge Pages: 3, 863
Feb 12th-24th
FINISHED
Date: 2/14p
Pages: 134
Date: 2-18
Pages: 47
TOTAL: 181/3863
Presidents' Day Challenge Leaderboard FINALDuration: February 12 - 24
Goal: 3,863 pages
Reward: 4 new or 8 used books
Bonus: Double pages if a main character's first name is a president's first name. Nicknames (Jack for John or Jim for James) are OK, as are shortened names (Ben for Benjamin, Frank for Franklin). Naming the president you use would be a nice touch!
Kenjii = 181 pages
Briansgirl/Kate = 396 pages
Dee = 758 pages
Debbie = 1198 pages
Melanie = 1776 pages
BJ Rose = 2165 pages
Christine = 2453 pages
Amanda = 3981 pages *CONGRATULATIONS*
Presidents' Day ChallengeDuration: February 12 - 24
Goal: 3,863 pages (1789+2009+44+21)
Reward: 4 new or 8 used books
Bonus: Double pages if a main character's first name is a president's first name. List is here Nicknames (Jack for John or Jim for James) are OK, as are shortened names (Ben for Benjamin, Frank for Franklin). Naming the president you use would be a nice touch!
3981/3863
Completed:
FanFics:
Equal & Opposite by Oh Jasper My Jasper: 404 pgs. 2/12
Errors & Omissions by Oh Jasper My Jasper: 1441 pgs. 2/16
Culture Shock by jtrue: 703 pgs. 2/16
I Wept Not by ArcadianMaggie: 402 pgs. 2/17
Strange Desire by Ealasaid77: 387 pgs. 2/18
Equinox by Annie Windsor, Vonna Harper, & Katherine Kingston (started on pg. 128): 238 pgs. 2/14
Angels' Pawn (started on pg. 81): 38 pgs. 2/14
In Progress:
Call Me Sir, Too by Stormy Glenn: 212 pgs.
Santa, Baby by Jennifer Crusie, Lori Foster, and Carly Phillips: 156 pgs.
Ok, today is my son's Blue and Gold Banquet for Cub Scouts, so we'll have a cover bonus again :)Duration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers :), books about or featuring eagles or scouts
My son just spent 2 hours this morning at the local community college earning his cub scout science belt loop. :)Nice challenge Amanda. And congrats.
ஐ Briansgirl "Book Sale Queen"ஐ wrote: "My son just spent 2 hours this morning at the local community college earning his cub scout science belt loop. :)Nice challenge Amanda. And congrats."
Thanks! Joseph was excited to get his Whittling Chip tonight :) (He's a Bear) We also had some friends' kids that were Webelos 2's cross-over into Boy Scouts, but I was out in the car with the 3-year-old by then :)
Danny's a Webelo's 2 so will join his big brother's Boy Scout troop this summer. He's trying to earn his Arrow of Light before he transitions but he's in a new cub pack and he's the only Webelo's 2 so they aren't used to helping the boys transition yet.
wow, GREAT challenge . I know I'm not gonna win any of it but I think it'd be so fun to participate :)
in the last hour I finished Wisdom of Narnia FCS(62P)and I'll start nowغرام الافاعي(an Arabic novel)the tile means(Snakes' love)
so till now I'm just (62 Pages)
Cub Scout Challenge LeaderboardDuration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers, books about or featuring eagles or scouts
Skena = 62 pages
Duration: February 19 - 28, 2011Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers :), books about or featuring eagles or scouts
172/2500
Completed:
Santa, Baby by Jennifer Crusie, Lori Foster, and Carly Phillips (started at p. 156): 172 pgs. 2/20
Congratulations on the win, Amanda! And congratulations to your son!!Cub Scout Challenge
Duration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers :), books about or featuring eagles or scouts
249 pp (from p. 91): Dark and Deadly by Jeanne Adams - Feb 19
Cub Scout Challenge LeaderboardDuration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers, books about or featuring eagles or scouts
Skena = 62 pages
Amanda = 172 pages
BJ Rose = 249 pages
till now ,I read only 20 pages fromغرام الافاعي(an Arabic novel)the tile means(Snakes' love)so my total would be(62+20)=82.
I started
yesterday and finished today. I cant tell if the cover is golden or yellow so I will just count the pages regular until challenge leader verfies :) Cub Scout Challenge
Dates: Feb 19-28 2011
Pages: 2,500
TOTAL: 83/2500
FINISHED
Date: 2/21
pages: 83
Cub Scout Challenge LeaderboardDuration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers, books about or featuring eagles or scouts
Skena = 82 pages
Kenjii = 83 pages
Amanda = 172 pages
BJ Rose = 249 pages
Cub Scout ChallengeDuration: February 19th - 28th
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers, books about or featuring eagles or scouts.
906/2,500
Completed
Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn - 2/20; 299 pages
Without Reservations by J.L. Langley - 2/21; 268 pages
Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott - 2/21; 307 pages
In Progress
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter - 32 pages
Cub Scout ChallengeDuration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers :), books about or featuring eagles or scouts
1530/2500
Completed:
Santa, Baby by Jennifer Crusie, Lori Foster, and Carly Phillips (started at p. 156): 172 pgs. 2/20
FanFics
Show Me a Garden... by atypical-swan: 984 pgs. 2/21
Born to Bite by Lynsay Sands: 374 pgs. 2/21
Cub Scout Challenge LeaderboardDuration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers, books about or featuring eagles or scouts
Skena = 82 pages
Kenjii = 83 pages
BJ Rose = 249 pages
Christine = 906 pages
Amanda = 1532 pages
Cub Scout ChallengeDuration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers :), books about or featuring eagles or scouts
249 pp (from p. 91): Dark and Deadly by Jeanne Adams - Feb 19
724 pp (464 - 102 prev read) x2 for gold cover:
by Elizabeth Peters - Feb 21341 pp: False Colours by Georgette Heyer - Feb 22 delightful!
Total Pages = 1314/2500
Cub Scout ChallengeDuration: February 19th - 28th
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers, books about or featuring eagles or scouts.
1,341/2,500
Completed
Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn - 2/20; 299 pages
Without Reservations by J.L. Langley - 2/21; 268 pages
Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott - 2/21; 307 pages
What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown - 2/22; 352 pages
In Progress
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter - 115 pages
Skena, you can wait and update your page count after you finish the book. We can log partial reads, but it's usually easier to just list them after you've finished the book unless the current challenge is close to ending.
ஐ Briansgirl "Book Sale Queen"ஐ wrote: "Skena, you can wait and update your page count after you finish the book. We can log partial reads, but it's usually easier to just list them after you've finished the book unless the current chall..."ok . thanks for telling me :)
Cub Scout ChallengeDuration: February 19th - 28th
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers, books about or featuring eagles or scouts.
1,713/2,500
Completed
Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn - 2/20; 299 pages
Without Reservations by J.L. Langley - 2/21; 268 pages
Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott - 2/21; 307 pages
What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown - 2/22; 352 pages
In Progress
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter - 169 pages
The Passage by Justin Cronin - (started on pg 463 - pg 622) = 159 (x2 - blue cover) = 318 pages
i might actually post tonight when i get home...lol! i'm going into withdrawl's
Cub Scout ChallengeDuration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers :), books about or featuring eagles or scouts
249 pp (from p. 91): Dark and Deadly by Jeanne Adams - Feb 19
724 pp (464 - 102 prev read) x2 for gold cover:
by Elizabeth Peters - Feb 21341 pp: False Colours by Georgette Heyer - Feb 22 delightful!
276 pp: Aunt Dimity's Good Deed by Nancy Atherton - Feb 23 - love this series!
Total Pages = 1590/2500
Cub Scout ChallengeDuration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers :), books about or featuring eagles or scouts
2298/2500
Completed:
Santa, Baby by Jennifer Crusie, Lori Foster, and Carly Phillips (started at p. 156): 172 pgs. 2/20
FanFics
Scouting for Happiness by HoochieMomma: 204 pgs. 2/20
Show Me a Garden... by atypical-swan: 984 pgs. 2/21
Born to Bite by Lynsay Sands: 374 pgs. 2/21
Born of Fire by Sherrilyn Kenyon: 540 pgs. 2/23
In Progress:
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (started on pg. 275): 24 pgs.
I can finish this tonight, assuming Amanda doesn't beat me to it. =PCub Scout Challenge
Duration: February 19th - 28th
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers, books about or featuring eagles or scouts.
2,334/2,500
Completed
Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn - 2/20; 299 pages
Without Reservations by J.L. Langley - 2/21; 268 pages
Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott - 2/21; 307 pages
What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown - 2/22; 352 pages
The Passage by Justin Cronin - 2/24; (started on pg 463 - pg 766) = 303 (x2 - blue cover) = 606 pages
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter - 2/24; 295 pages
Alice in the Country of Hearts Volume 5 by QuinRose - 2/24; 192 pages
In Progress
Red Glove by Holly Black - 15 pages
Cub Scout Challenge Leaderboard Duration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers, books about or featuring eagles or scouts
Total Pages Read: 1640
Finished Books
Gideon - started at 65% - 118 pages - 2/19
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs And Men in a Race Against an Epidemic - started at page 195 - read 72 pages - 2/21
Bengal's Heart - started at page 131 - 192 pages - 2/21
The Help - started at part 9 of 14 (audiobook) - 468 pages (234 pagesx2 - cover of book is predominantly gold/yellow) - 2/24
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - started at page 45 - 254 pages - 2/24
Blood of the Wicked - started at pg 34 - 270 pages - 2/24
Hot Mail - 266 pages - 2/24
Books in Progress:
ePistols at Dawn
Island of Icarus
Friday's Child
I'll sneak my last one in here before Amanda & Christine finish!Cub Scout Challenge
Duration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers :), books about or featuring eagles or scouts
249 pp (from p. 91): Dark and Deadly by Jeanne Adams - Feb 19
724 pp (464 - 102 prev read) x2 for gold cover:
by Elizabeth Peters - Feb 21341 pp: False Colours by Georgette Heyer - Feb 22 delightful!
276 pp: Aunt Dimity's Good Deed by Nancy Atherton - Feb 23 - love this series!
312 pp: They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer - Feb 26
Total Pages = 1902/2500
Cub Scout Challenge LeaderboardDuration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers, books about or featuring eagles or scouts
Kenjii = 83 pages
Skena = 218 pages
Dee = 1640 pages
BJ Rose = 1902 pages
Amanda = 2298 pages
Christine = 2334 pages
Close race!
BJ Rose wrote: "276 pp: Aunt Dimity's Good Deed by Nancy Atherton - Feb 23 - love this series!"That's the third in the series BJ. Book 16 was just released this week: Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree. I got it preordered from Amazon this week and will be starting it shortly, having read all the rest. I love the series too. My favorite cozy mysteries.
Yup! you're way ahead of me with Aunt Dimity, Kate - and you know that you're the one who got me started on them! I have so many books in my physical TBR stacks that I've trying not to buy too many more! Happily, my library has these, so I just hop online and request the next one, especially if I need an 'A' or 'N' for a challenge book!
Oh I know I'm way ahead. lol I would definetly read them in order though, since the people she encounters in books become friends and their relationships develop over time. You grow to love the quirky residents of her lil english village of Finch. :) I had a few paperback Aunt Dimity's. I read them originally from the library, especially new editions. At one point I found a half dozen of them, 1 or 2 at a time at a thrift shop for 50 cents each. Eventually what I did last year was put all my paperback Aunt Dimity books's on PBS and ordered hardback replacements so that I have the entire series now in hardback. :) I've read all but the last one twice. Some three times. And the latest came yesterday but I'm trying to hold of til March to read it so I can fit it into challenges. So started rereading the Sookie books.
Well, I expect Christine will win this one - I had to reset because I pre-ordered something I found the other night a B&N (I love omnibuses!)Cub Scout Challenge
Duration: February 19 - 28, 2011
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers :), books about or featuring eagles or scouts
482/2500
Completed:
Santa, Baby by Jennifer Crusie, Lori Foster, and Carly Phillips (started at p. 156): 172 pgs. 2/20
FanFics
Scouting for Happiness by HoochieMomma: 204 pgs. 2/20
Show Me a Garden... by atypical-swan: 984 pgs. 2/21
Born to Bite by Lynsay Sands: 374 pgs. 2/21
Born of Fire by Sherrilyn Kenyon: 540 pgs. 2/23
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (started on pg. 275): 47 pgs.
*reset to zero*
Call Me Sir, Too by Stormy Glenn: 146 pgs. 2/24
Unexpected by Lori Foster: 276 pgs. 2/25
In Progress::
Killing Time by Linda Howard: 60 pgs.
Cub Scout ChallengeDuration: February 19th - 28th
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers, books about or featuring eagles or scouts.
2,613/2,500
Completed
Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn - 2/20; 299 pages
Without Reservations by J.L. Langley - 2/21; 268 pages
Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott - 2/21; 307 pages
What Would Jane Austen Do? by Laurie Brown - 2/22; 352 pages
The Passage by Justin Cronin - 2/24; (started on pg 463 - pg 766) = 303 (x2 - blue cover) = 606 pages
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter - 2/24; 295 pages
Alice in the Country of Hearts Volume 5 by QuinRose - 2/24; 192 pages
Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham - 2/26; 128 pagesFables: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham - 2/26; 128 pages
In Progress
Red Glove by Holly Black - 38 pages
It's my birthday tomorrow, so I'm making up my own challenge.Christine's Birthday Challenge
Duration: Feb 26th - March 8th
Goal: 5,000 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 8 used ones
Bonus: Double pages if a female character is named Christine, loves to read, or is 26 years old.
Enjoy!
haha! awesome! love the new challenge and early Happy Birthday!
Christine wrote: "Cub Scout ChallengeDuration: February 19th - 28th
Goal: 2,500 pages
Reward: 3 new or 6 used books
Bonus: Double pages for blue or gold (yellow) covers, books about or featuring eagles or scout..."
congratulations :)
Christine wrote: "It's my birthday tomorrow, so I'm making up my own challenge.Christine's Birthday Challenge
Duration: Feb 26th - March 8th
Goal: 5,000 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 8 used ones
Bonus: Double..."
Happy birthday .interesting challenge ;)
Congratulations, Christine! And Happy Birthday!
SCORE!! lol! Lisbeth Salandar in The Girl Who Played With Fire turned 26 right at the beginning...haha! and here I thought I might not get bonus points!
Congrats and Happy Birthday Christine!Well done Dee! lol
Happy, happy birthday, Christine! I hope you have a wonderful one!Christine wrote: "It's my birthday tomorrow, so I'm making up my own challenge.
Christine's Birthday Challenge
Duration: Feb 26th - March 8th
Goal: 5,000 pages
Reward: 4 new books or 8 used ones
Bonus: Double..."
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Duration: February 12 - 24
Goal: 3,863 pages (1789+2009+44+21)
Reward: 4 new or 8 used books
Bonus: Double pages if a main character's first name is a president's first name. List is here Nicknames (Jack for John or Jim for James) are OK, as are shortened names (Ben for Benjamin, Frank for Franklin). Naming the president you use would be a nice touch!
3438/3863
Completed:
FanFics:
Equal & Opposite by Oh Jasper My Jasper: 404 pgs. 2/12
Errors & Omissions by Oh Jasper My Jasper: 1441 pgs. 2/16
Culture Shock by jtrue: 703 pgs. 2/16
I Wept Not by ArcadianMaggie: 402 pgs. 2/17
Equinox by Annie Windsor, Vonna Harper, & Katherine Kingston (started on pg. 128): 238 pgs. 2/14
Angels' Pawn (started on pg. 81): 38 pgs. 2/14
In Progress:
Call Me Sir, Too by Stormy Glenn: 212 pgs.