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Readerboard ID : JENBENT10.9 -- 9...10...11
Snake Ropes by Jess Richards
352 pages
3 + 5 + 2 = 10
Jess Richards is a Goodreads Author.
Points this task: 10
Total points: 235
Goodreads authors: 6
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
ERIN B.5.7 - What's Your Name Again?
I read Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark
Points this post: 5
Total points: 15
20.5- Bigger is Better- Marscha's Task I read A Lasting Impression by Tamera Alexander for Option 3.
Author's initials are TA.
15.3- Bookends
I chose Option 2 twice and read:
Mockingjay By: Suzanne Collins (S-S)
Four Sisters, All Queens By: Sherry Jones (S-S)
Total Points this post: 35
30.6 - Keltie Lee's task: Reading through Disneyworld (Options 3 & 5)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Historical Fiction is listed as a genre.
Cradle and All by James Patterson
Horror is listed as a genre.
James Patterson is a Goodreads author.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 215
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 12
Pages read: 4,490
Goodreads authors: 3
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (1); 1000+ (0)
Cindy FTask 5.6 An Apple a Day
I read Bonnie by Iris Johansen
Apple:"Bonnie Best Apple"
Points this post:5
Total points:75
Tasks completed:7
Books Read:8
Goodreads Authors:2
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(1)
20.3 - Best Review - Paul's task: Homage to Comic BooksI chose Option 2 and rolled 3 - Science Fiction/Fantasy
Starters by Lissa Price
Total Points: 120
Results; Megan L5.1 - I Did It!
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 2
Books read: 3
Pages Read: 1,174
GR Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
15.1- See the Sea?A: Their New-Found Family which is set in Switzerland
B: Times Change which is set in the USA
15.10 - Fancy Free: Anything He Wants
20.6 The Doctor is Calling.... I chose option 4 and read Craving (ebook verification thread #1618) which has "Romance" listed as a genre on the main page
30.6 Reading through Disneyworld:
Option 3 - Frontierland: I read Simply Voracious which has "historical romance" listed as a genre on the main page
Option 4 - Tomorrowland: I read Space Bride which has "science fiction" listed as a genre on the main page
30.9 Fall Happenings:
Book 1: I read Seize the Day which is on the American Literature College Bound Reading List
Book 2: I read The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream which is #7 on the "Best Books to Become an Informed Voter" list.
Total Points this Post: 110
Total Points in Challenge: 610
Books Read: 51
Tasks Completed: 41
****Not tracking Goodreads Authors or Big Books this challenge****
Delicious Dee
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5.5 - By the Sea
Dream Lake - Lisa Kleypas (GR Author) - lake is the body of water
5.7 - What's Your Name Again
The Report - Jessica Francis Kane (GR Author) - Jessica was #10 in female names in the last century
5.10 - What Else Can I Read?
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (GR Author) - from the Gone Girl list, I read GG, since I hadn’t yet and it came highly recommended
10.9 -- 9...10...11
Taken to the Edge - I read the ebook, but based my page count on the MMPB per group rules – the MMPB had 280 pages, 2+8 =10
15.1- See the Sea?
Book A - Swaziland - Weeding the Flowerbeds
Book B - Croatia/France - Every Day, Every Hour - Natasa Dragnic (GR Author)
15.7 - Show Your Stripes
A Time of Miracles - set in the Republic of Georgia, as well as other countries in the Caucases
20.9 - Lucky Me - Emily Bookshelf's task: Fall Months
Option B - The Many Sins of Lord Cameron - Jennifer Ashley (GR Author) - published August 2nd 2011
25.1 - Mrs Soule's Task: Food Network Challenge
Book A - Option 1.B - Going for Gold: M/M Olympic Anthology - Multiple authors in anthology are GR authors
Book B - Option 4.A -
- Lauren Dane (GR Author)Total Points This Post: 100
Total Points Overall: 580
Books Completed: 46
Tasks Complete: 35
GR Authors: 32
Big Book Tickers: 500(0), 750(0), 1000(0)
JACKIE NC30.8 -- Laurie ME's task: Fall Holidays
Option 5:
by Maggie SeftonCircular object is a ball of yarn.
Option 6:Lion in the Valley by Elizabeth Peters
Set in Egypt.
30.11 - Peebee’s Task: Summer Smashes Not Fall Forgotten
Option 3A:
Rueful Death by Susan Wittig Albert
Option 3B: Dying to Call You by Elaine Viets
Susan Wittig Albert is a Goodreads author.
Points this post: 60
Total Points: 230
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Book Tickets:
Connie N.5.8 Festival of Lights (fire on cover)
Robert B. Parker's Killing The Blues by Michael Brandman
15.5 A Drop in the Bucket (series of 10 books)
Summer Nights by Susan Mallery (Goodreads author)
This is #8 in the Fool's Gold series. There are 10 published books in this series, with 3 more scheduled to be released in 2013.
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 210
GRA: 7 + 1 = 8
Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥10.5 Time Warp
1.Kindred
Science Fiction>Time Travel shows up on book's main page.
Points Earned This Task: 10
Points Achieved to Date: 420/1110
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (0)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)
Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥15.3 Bookends
One Book Option
Dearly, Departed(D-D) by Lia Habel(L-L)
Lia Habel is a GRA
Points Earned This Task:15
Points Achieved to Date: 435/1110
Goodreads Authors: 13
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (0)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)
Readerboard Name: EvanaJust found this challenge and spent a couple of hours figuring out how to count what I read in September, but here is a little post to make sure I understand how to report without getting on the wall of shame right away.
5.9 Colder and Bigger, 9th in a series
Eric by Terry Pratchett
10.8 Fall TV
Not a big TV watcher. I had to go back to teenage years for a TV show I watched faithfully, American Bandstand. I read:
American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic by Nancy K. Bristow
15.2 On Pins and Needles
A. genre Suspense - Impact by Douglas Preston
B. library waiting list - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
30.12 Coralie's Task: A Tour of Melbourne
Read one book each from 2 different stops
Stop 2: Federation Square - read a nonfiction book
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame
Stop 5: Melbourne museum
Read a book that has been on your TBR for too long
The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio
Points this post: 60
Points to date: 60
Welcome to the SRC Evana. Fair warning - the SRC is VERY addicting but not neccesarily harmful to your health. Your post looks fine to me.
Sheila15.8 - 'Cause This Is Thriller
Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe word girl is in the song The Girl is Mine. I just can't picture Sir Paul and Jacko fighting over some girl like she is property. Great album though and it is listed in almost every list of top 100 albums of all time.
15.9 - Starry, Starry Night
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson20.4 - Author! Author! - Sarah the Librarian's task: Family Celebrations
I chose option 2. My mother and read a book by Dean Koontz who is also a favorite of mine.
Frankenstein: Lost Souls by Dean KoontzTotal Points = 745
20.3 Homage To Comic BooksOption 2 (rolled 3)
Brighid's Quest - fantasy listed as genre
PC Cast is a Goodreads Author & this book had 507 pages for a big book ticket
Points this post:
Total Points: 70
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 6
GR Authors: 3
Big Books: 500 - 2
Task 10.2 - Trick or Treat
Halloween costume: Vampire
Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward
Challenge total = 240
30.10 - Delicious Dee/Fran's task: A Rocky Horror Halloween3A: Serpent's Kiss by Thea Harrison
book #3 in Elder Races series
5B: Playing for Keeps by R.L. Mathewson
romance on main page
Thea Harrison and R.L. Mathewson are both Goodreads Authors
Points this post: 30
Total points: 260
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 18
Goodreads Author: 14
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0); 750 (0); 1000(0)
5.4 - In Honor of Your BirthdayMy birthday is on the 16th, so I went to page 16 and read The Off Season (post #758).
5.10 - What Else Can I Read?
I did the read-alike for The Magician King - read Jitterbug Perfume (totally the wrong choice - I think I would have preferred all the other books here).
20.8 - It's My Birthday – Sara ♥'s task: Mormons Among Us!
With a Name like Love by Tess Hilmo, who won a Whitney Award, given to LDS authors. (Hilmo also refers to her own book as having been written by an LDS author here.)
Tasks completed: 27/61
Books read: 32
Points claimed in this post: 30
Total points claimed: 410
20.4 - Author! Author! - Sarah the Librarian's task: Family CelebrationsI chose Option 3.
Bewitching by Alex Flinn
Total Points: 140
Leslie KTask: 15.2 Pins and Needles
Option A: Judgment Call: A Brady Novel of Suspense by J.A. Jance
Option B: Zoo by James Patterson
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 15
Leslie KTask 15.3: Bookends
One book option: Whiter Than Snow by Sandra Dallas
Both title and author's names begin and end in the same letter
Points this task: 15
Total points: 30
Leslie KTask: 15.10: Fancy Free
Read a book of my choice: Sullivan's Justice by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Points this task: 15
Total pooints: 45
Leslie KTask: 20.2: Calling all animal lovers
Option 2: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 65
Leslie KTask: 20.4 Family Celebrations
Option 3 - My parents: Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James
This is on the Romance Genre list as "intense and "angsty" Romance"
Points this task: 20
Total points: 85
Leslie KTask: 20.6 The doctor is calling
Option 5: Blink. Re-read a favorite book of all time:
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 105
Leslie KTask 30.5 Fall shelf cleaning
Option 3: authors's first and last names begin with the same letter (R)
The St. Zita Society: A Novel by Ruth Rendell
Option 6 - number in title
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
Points this task: 30
Total ppints: 135
10.9, 9-10-11Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal
432 pages, adds up to 9
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
STACIE MITask 30.7 - Title Train
For my first book, I read:
A Hoe Lot of Trouble by Heather Webber
For my second book, I read: The Trouble With Valentine's Day by Rachel Gibson
**Heather Webber is a Goodreads author!!**
Points this task: 30
Total points: 520
Tasks completed: 31
Books read: 64
Pages read: 10703
Goodreads authors: 11
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Leslie KTask 30.6 Reading through disneyworld
Option 6: Main Street
Split Image by Robert B. Parker This is a fiction book
Option 7: Toontown Fair Genre: YA
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson
Points this task: 30
Total points: 165
STACIE MITask 5.1 - I Did It!
I read:
Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty by Jody Gehrman
**Jody Gehrman is a Goodreads author!!**
Points this task: 5
Total points: 525
Tasks completed: 32
Books read: 65
Pages read: 10958
Goodreads authors: 12
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Leslie KTask" 15.5 A drop in the bucket
This is from the Jack Reacher Series of more than 10 books - this is number 17
A Wanted Man by Lee Child
Points this task: 15
Total points: 180
Janice CA10.4 Water Signs.....
Osa Johnson was a Pisces. She was born March 14, 1894.
I Married Adventure: The Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson by Osa Johnson
+10
total: 60
tasks: 4
books: 5
GR Authors: 1
5.7 What's Your Name Again?Zoo by James Patterson
James - #1 male name
20.9 Fall Months
Option B -
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
published 2011
25.8 The Long, the Short and the Diacritical
Option A -
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Morgenstern is 11 letters
Option B -
Off the Grid by P.J. Tracy
author uses initials
Points this post: 50
Total points: 295
Tasks completed: 17
Books read: 22
20.4 Family CelebrationsI chose option 1 and read Half Blood Blues -- all the characters are jazz musicians.
25.6 Reading for the Video Game Junkie
Option 3 -- I read Gold by Chris Cleave (GOODREADS AUTHOR) which is all about cyclists competing in the Olympics
Option 5 -- I read The Devil's Hearth -- mystery as genre on the main page
New Total: 140
KAREN F10.9 9..10..11
Dark Taste of Rapture by Gena Showalter
451 Pages - 4+5+1=10
**Gena Showalter is a Goodreads Author**
20.5 Love to Dance
Option 3: And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander
TA in BALLET
**Tasha Alexander is a Goodreads Author**
30.10 A Rocky Horror Halloween
1A: Darker After Midnight by Lara Adrian
Midnight in title
**Lara Adrian is a Goodreads Author**
5B: Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks
Romance Genre on main book page
Points this Post: 60
Total Challenge Points: 160
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Books: 500+(0),750+(0),1000+(0)
Readerboard name: Evana5.5 By the Sea - body of water in the title
The River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
10.7 School Supplies - object you need for school on the cover
E: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor
Compass in lower right corner
15.7 Show Your Stripes - country where tigers were once found
Survivors: An Oral History Of The Armenian Genocide by Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller
This book is set in eastern Turkey. The Turks are still claiming the events of this book never happened.
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Sam's Task: The Show Must Go On
Option 2 - a word of the book title can be anagrammed from HAKUNA MATATA and/or NO WORRIES
Word anagrammed is MASTER (HAKUNA MATATA NO WORRIES)
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
25.6 Reading for the Video Game Junkie
Pick two books from two different options
Option 1 - Read a book from a series with at least three published books
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters, book 3 of the Amelia Peabody series
Option 6 - Read a book published or set in the 19th century
Hard Times by Charles Dickens, published in 1854
Points this post: 75
Points to date: 135
Results; Megan L15.9 - Starry, Starry Night
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 35
Tasks Completed: 3
Books read: 4
Pages Read: 1,553
GR Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Carly's task: The Doctor is Calling....Option 4: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
David Ebershoff is a Goodreads author.
This is a Big Book, with 514 pages.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 420
GR authors: 15
Big Books: 500+ (1)
20.10 Group Read Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Post #26 in the discussion thread
25.4 Fall into T.V.
I rolled a 5 (Arrow)
Book A -
Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult (Fantasy)
Book D -
by Harlan CobenGreen cover
Points this post: 45
Total points: 180
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 13
Goodreads Authors: 4
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ 5.10 - What Else Can I Read?
You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning by Celia Rivenbark
This was book was on the Read-Alikes list for Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang.
20.6 - The Doctor is Calling....
Down River by Karen Harper
Used Option 3 - title contains "river".
20.9 - Fall Months
Breakfast at Stephanie's by Sue Margolis
Author's first name starts with "S".
This post: 45 points
Total points to date: 190 points
Tasks completed: 14
**Electing to not track Goodreads Authors and Big Books this challenge**
25.6 - Chaitra's task: Reading for the Video Game Junkie!Option 1/Halo 3: Loving the Highlander by Janet Chapman
Book is part of a series with more than 3 published books.
Option 5/Portal: Stick a Fork In It by Robin Allen (Goodreads author)
Has genre "Mystery" on main page
30.3 -- Donna Jo's Task: Back by Popular Demand
Book 1: Running Scared by Shannon K. Butcher (Goodreads author)
Book 2: Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher (Goodreads author)
These authors are husband and wife
BIG BOOK TICKET: I'm not sure if I can claim a big book ticket for an audiobook? If so, Furies of Calderon is 673 pages.
30.5 -- Butterflycager's task: Fall Shelf-Cleaning
Option 1: Suspense and Sensibility: Or, First Impressions Revisited by Carrie Bebris
Book has "Historical Fiction" as a genre on main page.
Option 3: Killer Blonde by Laura Levine (Goodreads author)
Author has same letter beginning first and last name
30.6 -- Keltie Lee's task: Reading through Disneyworld
Option 3: The Winter Garden Mystery by Carola Dunn
Has "Historical" as genre on main page.
Option 6: Unforgivableby Laura Griffin (Goodreads author)
"Non-Fiction" not listed on main page.
30.8 -- Laurie ME's task: Fall Holidays
Option 4: Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats: A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners by Rachael Ray
Talk show host - approved in help thread.
Option 5: Death Makes the Cut by Janice Hamrick (Goodreads author)
Tennis Balls on the cover
Total Points This Post: 145
Total Tasks This Post: 5
Goodreads Authors This Post: 6
Grand Total Points: 145/1110
Total Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 5
Total Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Book Tickets This Post: 1?
Total Big Book Tickets: 1?
MICHELLE VA5.2 Do It Again A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin Could be used for 10.9; 1009 pages = total 10
Big Book
10.9 9...10...11 Fated by Alyson Noel 352 pages = 10
*Alyson Noel is a Goodreads Author*
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 15
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books this post: 1
30.9 -- Sandy's task: Fall HappeningsBook 1: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Book 2: Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth (Goodreads author)
On the "Political Thrillers" list, #89.
30.10 - Delicious Dee/Fran's task: A Rocky Horror Halloween
Option 3A: The Bride of Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta (Goodreads author)
Book #3 in the series
Option 4B: Aye Do or Die by Candy Calvert
Water on the cover.
30.12 -- Coralie's task: A Tour of Melbourne, Australia
Stop 9: Forbidden Highlander by Donna Grant (Goodreads author)
Has the word "land" in the title
Stop 13: If Looks Could Chill by Nina Bruhns (Goodreads author)
Has "war" listed as genre on main page
Total Points This Post: 90
Total Tasks This Post: 3
Goodreads Authors This Post: 4
Grand Total Points: 235/1110
Total Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 8
Total Goodreads Authors: 10
Big Book Tickets This Post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 1?
20.4 Family Celebrations: I chose option 3 and read Candy Girl (ebook verification thread #1574) which has "romance" listed as a genre on the main page.30.2 Goodreads - Good Friends:
Book 1: I read Liar, Liar from Sheila's list (it was #61)
Book 2: I read Wicked Lovely from Kathy G's list
Total Points this Post: 50
Total Points in Challenge: 660
Books Read: 54
Tasks Completed: 43
****Not tracking Goodreads Authors or Big Books this challenge****
Michelle WI15.5 A Drop in the Bucket
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich *****
(number 16 in the Stephanie Plum series)
20.1 Still Clinging to Summer Vacation
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
(Visited my husband's family in Utah, which has a large Mormon population. This book is about the actual history of the religion and the offshoots of fundamentalism within it)
20.4 Family Celebrations
option 2: mother
Blaze by Stephen King
(one of her 2 favorite authors)
***** Janet Evanovich is a GR author *****
Points This Post: 55
Total Points: 290
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 17
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Book Tickets: 1
Mod
I read We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle
15.2 - On Pins and Needles
For book A, I read Gone Girl - suspense is listed as a genre on the book's main page.
For book B, I read Love Anthony. After reading Lisa Genova's first two books, I was eager to read her latest.
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sam's task: The Show Must Go On
I chose option 3, Legally Blonde, and read The Brass Verdict, shelved as "legal thriller."
Total points: 330
Reader name: Marie-AnneTask 25.6: Reading for the video game junkie
Option 1: Book in a series with at least 3 at start of fall challenge: Donor, by Ken McClure. *** Ken McClure is a GoodReads author.
Option 5: Mystery: The Camelot Caper, by Elizabeth Peters.
Task 30.5: Fall Shelf Cleaning
Option 2: Name of a real-life city in title: The Messenger of Athens, by Anne Zouroudi.
Option 7: Read a Big Book: King's Dragon, by Kate Elliot. (***Claim a Big Book ticket of 500+ pages). *** Kate Elliot is a GoodReads author.
Totals this posting:
Total Points: 55
Books Read: 4
Tasks Completed: 2
GoodReads Authors: 2
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1);
Summary Totals:
Total Points: 165
Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 7
GoodReads Authors: 3
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (2); 750+ (1)
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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Task 15.10- Fancy Free!... read a book of your choice:
I read
Points earned for this task: 15
Points Achieved to date: 205
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 6
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