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Task 20.2 - Rookie On Top - Barbara★'s task: Calling All Animal Lovers
Option 1: Read a book with a cat or dog on the cover. Required: Include the cover when you post.
Lost & Found by Jacqueline Sheehan

Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 90
Tasks Completed: 6

5.6 - An Apple a Day
Apple: Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn (299 p)
Carrie Vaughn is a GRA.
Note: I realize this is linking to the paperback version, but I spent a while searching for the link to the hardback version (which I read) and couldn't find anything. Very strange. Sorry.
25.4 - JennRenee's task: Fall into T.V.
I rolled a 3 – Once Upon a Time
A. Fairytale Re-telling of Alice in Wonderland: Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter (404 p)
Gena Showalter is a GRA.
D. Rhode Island: Sanctuary: The Stud\T.L.C. by Barbara Delinsky (432 p)
Barbara Delinsky is a GRA.
Points this Post: 30
Tasks Completed this Post: 2
Books Read this Post: 3
Pages Read this Post: 1135
GoodReads Authors this Post: 3
Big Books this Post: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Total Points: 700
Total Tasks Completed: 35
Total Books Read: 52
Total Pages Read: 18253
Total GoodReads Authors: 23
Total Big Books: 500+ (4), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

5.6 -- An Apple a Day --
Beauty Tempts the Beast - Leslie Dickens♥
(Albany Beauty Apple)
Leslie Dickens is a GOODREADS AUTHOR.
10.7 -- School Supplies --

Shirley Damsgaard is a GOODREADS AUTHOR
15.3 -- Bookends --
Option 1: Cold Magic - Kate Elliott♥
(title starts and ends with "C")
Kate Elliott is a GOODREADS AUTHOR
BIG TICKET for Cold Magic = 502 pages
Option 2: The Broken Kingdoms - N.K. Jemisin
(author starts and ends with "N")
20.10 -- Group Reads --
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (comment in group discussion)
30.11 -- Peebee’s Task: Summer Smashes Not Fall Forgotten --
Option 2A: Mona Lisa Eclipsing - Sunny (single name author)
Option 4B:


Points Earned This Post: 80
Points Achieved to Date: 480
Goodreads Authors: 23
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (4)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)


5.3 - Sail Away
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
625 pages BB ticket
Points this post: 5
Goodread Authors This Post: 0
Big Book Tickets This Post: 1
Total Goodreads Authors: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 3
Total Points: 70

Smoke and Mirrors
One book option: Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
***Neil Gaiman is a Goodreads author
Task 15.4 - Bond, James Bond
Option 1. A Murder of Quality (spy thriller)
Option 3. Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James
Task 15.9 - Starry, Starry Night
Number the Stars
Points this post: 45
Tasks completed this post: 3
Big Book Tickets, GR authors this post: 0, 1
Total points: 240
Total tasks completed: 18
Total number Big Books: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Total Goodreads authors: 7

Task 20.6 The Doctor is Calling...
Option 1: Mystery Genre
I read The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille who is a Goodreads Author claiming 1 ticket.
Points this post:20
Total points:230
Tasks completed:13
Books read:18
Goodreads Authors:5
Big Books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(1)


Task 10.9 - 9..10..11
Coraline by Neil Gaiman **GR Author**
162 pages: 1+6+2=9
Total GR Authors = 7
Challenge total = 430

3A: Dirty Little Secrets (Young Adult genre)
4C: Open Minds (Fantasy genre)
5C: Frost by Kate Avery Ellison (KAE found in BASKETBALL)
Total: 195
5.8 Festival of Lights read
by Julianna Baggott (GRA) fire behind the butterfly... apporved in Help Thread
5.10 What Else Can I Read? chose Twilight and read Vampire Kissesby Ellen Schreiber
10.9 9...10...11... read The Blessed by Tonya Hurley (GRA) page number 416 = 11
10.10 Back to School- Graduated in 1990s read
The Dead of Nightby John Marsden first published 1994
20.1 Still Clinging to Summer Vacation - read Through the Tiger's Eyes: A Chronicle of India's Wildlifeby by Stanley Breeden and linda Wright - When I wen to Vegas I watched a Tiger Show-
20.3 Homage to Comic Books- Rolled 4 Humor read Back and Deader Than Everby Lisi Harrison
20.5 Love to Dance option 3 read The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Lifeby Tara Altebrando (GRA)
25.6 Reading for the Video Game Junkie
Option 1: Featuring Aliens read Gravity by Melissa West (GRA)
and
Option 2: Horror Genre read Zom-Bby Darren Shan
25.8 The Long, the Short, and the Diacritical
Option A read Embrace by Jessica Shirvington (GRA)
and
Option 2: read Matt Archer: Monster Hunter by Kendra C. Highley (GRA)
30.11 summer Smashes Not Fall Forgotten
#2A- Rihanna Singer: read My Boyfriend Merlin by Priya Ardis (GRA)
and
#4B: Flo Rida Song: Bird on Cover: read
by Maggie Stiefvater (GRA)
Points this Post: 170
Total points- 515
Tasks Completed: 39
Books read: 32

5.10 What Else Can I Read? chose Twilight and read Vampire Kissesby Ellen Schreiber
10.9 9...10...11... read The Blessed by Tonya Hurley (GRA) page number 416 = 11
10.10 Back to School- Graduated in 1990s read
The Dead of Nightby John Marsden first published 1994
20.1 Still Clinging to Summer Vacation - read Through the Tiger's Eyes: A Chronicle of India's Wildlifeby by Stanley Breeden and linda Wright - When I wen to Vegas I watched a Tiger Show-
20.3 Homage to Comic Books- Rolled 4 Humor read Back and Deader Than Everby Lisi Harrison
20.5 Love to Dance option 3 read The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Lifeby Tara Altebrando (GRA)
25.6 Reading for the Video Game Junkie
Option 1: Featuring Aliens read Gravity by Melissa West (GRA)
and
Option 2: Horror Genre read Zom-Bby Darren Shan
25.8 The Long, the Short, and the Diacritical
Option A read Embrace by Jessica Shirvington (GRA)
and
Option 2: read Matt Archer: Monster Hunter by Kendra C. Highley (GRA)
30.11 summer Smashes Not Fall Forgotten
#2A- Rihanna Singer: read My Boyfriend Merlin by Priya Ardis (GRA)
and
#4B: Flo Rida Song: Bird on Cover: read

Points this Post: 170
Total points- 515
Tasks Completed: 39
Books read: 32


The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Ninth in a series
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 50

25.1 - Mrs. Soule's task: Food Network Challenge
For this challenge you will read two books. You may choose any two options, but you can't do the same option twice.
1. Cupcake Wars
B. Read an anthology of short stories or novellas.
Enchanted: Erotic Bedtime Stories for Women by Nancy Madore
Goodreads Author
6. The Aarti Party
B. Read a book by an author born in Asia.
Ravishing the Heiress by Sherry Thomas
Goodreads Author
25.3 - Ashley FL's task: Naming the Storm
Book A: read a book for which the author has a first, middle or last name from one of the Atlantic Cyclone Names lists. There are six current lists: Tropical Cyclone Names
Required: List the name you used and which list you found it on when you post.
2016 Julia
One Knight Only by Julia Latham
Book B: Read a book which has all the letters from the word STORM in the title. You may use the subtitle, but may not use the series name. The letters may be in any order. Please indicate the letters in your post.
Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas
Goodreads Author
Points this post: 50
Total points: 250
Tasks completed: 17
Books read: 21
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500= 0,750=0, 1000=0

25.6 - Chaitra's task: Reading for the Video Game Junkie!
1. Halo 3 & Mass Effect 3: Dark Horse by J.R. Rain
5. Portal: Taken by Robert Crais
30.6 -- Keltie Lee's task: Reading through Disneyworld
Option 4: Tommorowland Under the Never Sky by Veronica RossiGR Author
Option 7: Toontown Fair
Psion Beta by Jacob Gowans GR Author
Points this post: 55
Total Points: 200
Books read: 16
Completed Tasks: 10
GR Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(1),750+(1),1000+(0)

10.9 - 9....10...11
352 Pages = 10
Captives of the Night by Loretta Chase
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 85
Tasks Completed: 8
Books read: 8
Pages Read: 3,875
Audiobook minutes listened: 571
GR Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

20.5 Loves to Dance
Option 3: All of the authors initials are found in BALLET
Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession by Erma Bombeck
Points this post: 20
Points to date: 625
Goodreads authors to date: 5

I chose "Culinary Fiction": Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. My post is discussion thread #37.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 210
Tasks completed: 9
Books read: 11
Goodreads Authors to date: 2
Big Books: 500=0, 750=1, 1000=0


pink lettering & on Ruby Lu's dress
15.1- See the Sea?
A. Landlocked- Switzerland
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
B. USA/Alaska
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
20.8 – It's My Birthday – Sara ♥'s task: Mormons Among Us!
The Painting on the Pond by Sharon Lewis Koho
listed as LDS fiction and further detail on book/author at http://classic.cedarfort.com/catalog/...
25.3 - Ashley FL's task: Naming the Storm
Book A: Tropical Cyclone Names list 2012 -Michael
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
Book B: letters STORM
Storm Prey by John Sandford
30.7 -- Sassafrass's task: Title Train
An Underachiever's Diary by Benjamin Anastas
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
30.12 -- Coralie's task: A Tour of Melbourne, Australia
Stop 1: Arts Precinct
play-
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde &
A Woman Of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
- 2 books to meet 100 pg minimum.
Stop 2: Federation Square
non-fiction-
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan
Points this post: 130
Total Points: 430
GR author: 2

Rolled a 4- Humor: Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
*****GoodReads Author*****
20.9 Fall Months
Option A: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
This Post
Points: 40
GR authors: 1
Totals
Points: 120
GR authors: 5

Memoirs Aren't Fairytales: A Story of Addiction by Marni Mann
This book fits also into task 30.5 option 3: - Dingley Falls by Michael Malone – Read a book whose author’s first and last names begin with the same letter.
Marni Mann is a Goodreads Author
Points this post: 5
Total points: 415
Tasks completed: 18
Books read: 29
Goodreads Author: 22
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1); 750 (0); 1000(0)

*Rolled a 2* - Romance Catagory
Read: Springtime of the Spirit by: Maureen Lang
20.4 - Author! Author!
I chose option 3- "Romance"
Read: Whisper on the Wind by: Maureen Lang
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Carly's Task
I chose option 4 - "The Doctor's Wife"
Read: Look to the East by: Maureen Lang
Post Points: 60
Total Points: 160

5.3 - Sail Away
The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
The main characters travel to Rome in a ship, the Argo II.
Total Points: 50

Task 20.1 - Still Clinging to Summer Vacation
I must admit, I really had to think for this one! Back in '97 (I believe), my family and I made a road trip to Texas for a family wedding and, along the way, stopped at Meramec Caverns in Missouri. Here we learned that Jesse James used the caves as a hideout. I decided to read more about the elusive outlaw:
Jesse James: The Man and The Myth by Marley Brant
**Marley Brant is a Goodreads author!!**
Points this task: 20
Total points: 665
Tasks completed: 41
Books read: 97
Pages read: 14075
Goodreads authors: 14
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

5.10 What Else Can I Read?
I chose the book Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb and read its read-alike book: Flashpoint by Suzanne Brockmann.
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 110

10.1: Show You Care, Be Aware
Pink Jinx by Sandra Hill

25.7: Kate S's Task: Fun Fall Activities
My Wedding Anniversary: Pearl
Pearl Jinx by Sandra Hill

Fantasy Football:
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare. Cassandra Clare is a GRA.
Points This Post: 35.
Total Points: 860.
1 GRA

50.1
1A (Mom) Home, Toni Morrison
(Historical Fiction)
2C (Step-dad) The Hollow City, Dan Wells
*** Goodreads Author
(Author Initials DW)
3A (Robin) Rot & Ruin, Jonathan Maberry
*** Goodreads Author
(Young Adult)
Points This Post: 50
Total Points: 50
Total Tasks Completed: 1
Total Books Read: 3
Total GoodReads Authors: 2
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)


S.A. Bodeen is a Goodreads Author
5.7 What's Your Name Again?

James Dashner is a Goodreads Author
5.8 Festival of Lights

5.9 Colder and Bigger!

10.7 School Supplies

There is a book on his face.
15.6 Chasing Those Clouds Away

This book has 500+ pages for a Big Book Ticket
Points this Post: 45
Total points: 45
Tasks Completed: 6
Books read: 6
GR Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

30.5
#6 11/22/63, Stephen King (849 pages)
*** Big Book ***
#7 The Help, Kathryn Stockett (530 pages)
*** Goodreads Author & Big Book ***
30.6
#1 Fire Study, Maria V. Snyder (fantasy)
*** Goodreads Author ***
#6 The Inquisitor: A Novel, Mark Allen Smith (fiction)
Points This Post: 60
Total Points: 110
Total Tasks Completed: 3
Total Books Read: 7
Total GoodReads Authors: 4
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

30.10
#2B Cosmic Forces: Book Three in The Jake Helman Files Series, Gregory Lamberson (horror)
#4A The Countess, Rebecca Johns (time period 1500s)
30.11
#3A Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist (513 pages)
*** Big Book ***
#4B

The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater (bird on the cover)
*** Goodreads Author ***
Points This Post: 60
Total Points: 170
Total Tasks Completed: 5
Total Books Read: 11
Total GoodReads Authors: 5
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

30.4
#4 A Million Suns, Beth Revis
*** Goodreads Author ***
#5 The Darkest Night, Gena Showalter
*** Goodreads Author
20.9A Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler (first name starts with "O")
20.7(1)The Immortal Rules, Julie Kagawa (fantasy)
*** Goodreads Author ***
20.6(5) World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks (horror)
*** Goodreads Author ***
20.4(4) Some Kind Of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce
Points This Post: 110
Total Points: 280
Total Tasks Completed: 10
Total Books Read: 17
Total GoodReads Authors: 9
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

The song I used was The Lady in My Life

15.9 Starry, Starry Night

Diana Peterfreund is a Goodreads Author.
20.3 Best Review - Paul's Task
I rolled a 1.

Neal Shusterman is a Goodreads Author.
20.5 Bigger is Better - Marsha's Task
Option 3:

Lindsey Leavitt is a Goodreads Author.
Points This Post: 70
Total Points: 115
Total Tasks Completed: 10
Total Books Read: 10
Total GoodReads Authors: 5
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

5.7- What's your name again?
The Great Brain at the Academy by John D. Fitzgerald
10.1- show you care, be aware

10.10- Back to School
1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 by Thomas W. Phelan I graduated in 1994 (90's)
20.5- love to dance (option 3)
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
25.1- Food Network Challenge
Chopped- B Winter 2011- African American Lit
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
Restaurant Impossible B
25 Mistakes LDS Parents Make and How to Avoid Them by Randal A. Wright
30.12- A tour of Melbourne
stop 2- Federation Square
Positive Discipline A-Z: 1001 Solutions to Everyday Parenting Problems by Jane Nelsen
Stop 5- Melbourne museum...
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
Points this post- 100
Total Points- 285

I chose Wicked.

Jennifer Nielsen is a Goodreads Author.
20.8 – It's My Birthday – Sara ♥'s task: Mormons Among Us!

Traci Hunter Abramson is a Goodreads Author.
20.9 - Lucky Me - Emily Bookshelf's task: Fall Months
Option B: Published in 2011

Gemma Malley is a Goodreads Author.
25.5 -- Stacie MI’s Task: Water, Water Everywhere!
2-C

Jo Treggiari is a Goodreads Author.
3-B

Revis
Beth Revis is a Goodreads Author.
Points This Post: 85
Total Points: 200
Total Tasks Completed: 14
Total Books Read: 15
Total GoodReads Authors: 10
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

Money for Nothing
Points this Post: 15
Total points: 300
Tasks Completed: 16
Books read: 21
GR Authors: 11
Big Books: 500+(4), 750+(0), 1000+(1)

Dlmrose
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Marscha's task: Love to Dance
option 3- initials: Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
25.3 - Ashley FL's task: Naming the Storm
2014 name Laura: The Queen of Water by Laura Resau
storm: Among Others by Jo Walton
30.4 -- They Must Know Something
Boxall's 1001: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
TNBBC: Dracula by Bram Stoker
30.9 -- Sandy's task: Fall Happenings
College Bound: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
At Risk by Stella Rimington
Political Thrillers #157
total 830
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Marscha's task: Love to Dance
option 3- initials: Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
25.3 - Ashley FL's task: Naming the Storm
2014 name Laura: The Queen of Water by Laura Resau
storm: Among Others by Jo Walton
30.4 -- They Must Know Something
Boxall's 1001: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
TNBBC: Dracula by Bram Stoker
30.9 -- Sandy's task: Fall Happenings
College Bound: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
At Risk by Stella Rimington
Political Thrillers #157
total 830

I read a book that takes place in Cambodia.

Previous points: 200
New total:215
Total Tasks:10
Total books: 13

I chose option 2 and rolled a 6. I read a book published before I was born in 1984. I read Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan which was first published in 1965.
20.9 Emily Bookshelf's Task: Fall Months
I chose option A and read a book by an author whose last name starts with N. I read The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion--Our Social Skin by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann.
Points this post: 40
Total points: 115
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 7
0 Goodreads Authors:
1 Big Book Tickets: (1) Media and Society (2) - (3) -

Task #10.2 Trick or Treat
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde. The major character is Humpty Dumpty. Since this is a virtual situation I don't have to actually create the costume which is a good thing considering my artistic talents, or lack thereof.

Book of your own choice...
Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 95
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 8
GR Authors: 4
Big Books: 500 - 2

5.10 What Else Can I Read?
1. A Wrinkle in Time

I chose from the
Mockingjay Read-Alikes
Points Earned This Task:5
Points Achieved to Date: 615/1110
Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (1)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)

15.9 Starry, Starry Night
‘star’ in title
The Nargun and the Stars
20.6 The Doctor is Calling
Option 1 The Unicorn and the Wasp
Book by Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile
30.6 Reading Through Disneyworld
Option 1 Fantasyland
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Option 4 Tomorrowland
Never Let Me Go
30.11 Summer Smashes Not Fall Forgotten
Option 3A Canadian author
WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
Option 4B Bird on cover

Total points 655

15.8 cause this is thriller
The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw - girl in title
30.6 Reading through Disneyworld
Mum on the Runby Fiona Gibson - option 6/ fiction
The Giverby Lois Lowry - option 7/ YA
Tasks points 45
Total points 270

I chose option 2, so I rolled the dice and got a 4. So I read Trail of the Spellmans, which has Humor category listed on its page.
Lisa Lutz is a **** Goodreads *** author
points: 205
tasks completed: 12
Books read: 17
GR authors: 10
Pages read 5593

I took a day trip into DC and visited Ford's Theater and wanted to learn more about the conspiracy theory surrounding Lincoln's assassination.
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly
25.1 Food Network Challenge
Option 1.B. A Collection of Short Stories
Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James
Option 6.B. Takes place in Bangkok
A Nail Through the Heart by Timothy Hallinan
***Timothy Hallinan is a GR Author***
30.1 How Do I Say This...?
I rolled two sixes
Book 1: Originally written in French (I speak English)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
***At 512 pages, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a Big Book***
Book 2: Originally written in French (I speak English)
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
Post Total: 75
Season Total: 585
Tasks Completed: 38

25.4 - JennRenee's task: Fall into T.V.
Required: State what number you rolled and the options you chose when posting. 6
6. Elementary - A modern take on the cases of Sherlock Holmes, with the detective now living in New York City.
B. Read a book set in London (the original setting of Sherlock Holmes) or a book set in New York City (the modern setting).
Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medieros is set in New York City
Goodreads Author
D. Read a modern retelling of a classic.
The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia Block
Goodreads Author
25.5 -- Stacie MI’s Task: Water, Water Everywhere!
Choose 2 different phases below and read a book for each.
Required: Please include the options you chose when you post.
2. Liquid: I think it’s quite obvious where water can be found it its liquid form!
A. Read a book with water visible on the cover: an ocean or lake, a glass of water or a water bottle, dew on a blade of grass, a tear on someone’s cheek, etc.
Required: Include the cover in your post.
Dream Lake

Goodreads Author
3. Solid: Water in it’s solid form can be found in ice, glaciers, and snow.
B. Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in the words “iceberg” and/or “glacier”
Ilona Andrews Gunmetal Magic
Goodreads Author
Points this post: 50
Total points: 300
Tasks completed: 19
Books read: 25
Goodreads Authors: 10
Big Books: 500= 0,750=0, 1000=0

Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
This book satisfies both options.
NEIL GAIMAN IS A GOODREADS AUTHOR.
Points this Post: 15
Total points: 315
Tasks Completed: 17
Books read: 22
GR Authors: 12
Big Books: 500+(4), 750+(0), 1000+(1)


The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
This book is #1 in the "Jason Bourne" series of 10.
(Big Book - 566 pgs.)
15.7 Show Your Stripes
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht (*GR Author)
"tiger" in title
20.8 Mormons Among Us
No Doubt About It by Sheri L. Dew
Author listed in task description.
50 points this post
255 total points
2 total Big Books
4 total GR Authors

10.6 The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Page 3 of Popular Cult Classics
20.7 The Show Must Go On:
Across the Great Barrier by Patricia C. Wrede
I chose "Wicked", genre was fantasy
30.1 How Do I Say This...?:
I rolled a 5 and read Court Duel by Sherwood Smith as an ebook AND
I rolled a 1 and read a collection of plays The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
Sherwood Smith is a Goodreads Author
Points in this post - 60
Total Points - 990/1110
Books - 75/86
Pages - 27296
Goodreads Authors: 44
Big Books:500+ - (3), 750+ - (0),1000+ - (0)

Task 20.5 - Love to Dance
I decided to do option 2 and read a book with the word "dance" in the title:
The Night Dance: A Retelling of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by Suzanne Weyn
Points this task: 20
Total points: 685
Tasks completed: 42
Books read: 98
Pages read: 14268
Goodreads authors: 14
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

I became interested in learning more about the Amish culture after a family trip through Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where Amish farms and Amish horses and buggies are commonly seen.
Growing Up Amish: A Memoir by Ira Wagler
Points this post: 20
Total points: 650
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option 1 - The Unicorn and the Wasp: "mystery" listed as a genre on its main page
The Island by Heather Graham
Heather Graham is a Goodreads Author
Points this post: 20
Total points: 410
Tasks completed: 17
Books read: 28
Goodreads Author: 21
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1); 750 (0); 1000(0)