October 2012 Challenge REPORTING!

[jaxnsmom]

Alyssa - I listened to it and was also very surprised by how much I liked it! Part of it was at the time I was totally into all the teen angst, and even though I'm a long ways from being a teen, I was feeling very aarrrgggghhhh.

[[deleted user]]

Lol. I guess I could really tell what she was feeling. And I avoided this book for like a year to, so now I'm hooked and my friend is laughing at me this week saying I told you so.

[April]

I, too, was reluctant. After reading Twilight, I immediately drove to the book store for the rest of the series! LOL

[[deleted user]]

I debated a while before I got New Moon

[Janice, Moderator]

April wrote: "I, too, was reluctant. After reading Twilight, I immediately drove to the book store for the rest of the series! LOL"

That was me! LOL!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

LOL I was comparing Alyssa's maths with my example and couldn't for the life of me work out where the other 4 points came from.

[[deleted user]]

Oh haha, that came from the stars because I liked the book

[AmyK]

read Zombie Nights

Genre:horror 1pt
Author:Northern Hemisphere 1pt
Pages: 103 -3pts
Stars: 2 2pts
Bonus: Has a zombie in it 10pts

total points 11

[Lara]

It turns out I only own books with night and midnight in the title. Who knew?

I read .

Genre:
5 points - Mystery
4 points - Romance

Theme: (Please explain how your book fits the theme.)
3 points - Family (heroine was falsely imprisoned for her parents' murders, and has to start to reconcile with the brother who blamed her)

Location: 0

Author:
1 point – is from the northern hemisphere

Cover: 0

Title (must contain night, dusk, evening, twilight or midnight): 0

Pages:
400-499 - 4 points

Stars:
4 points - 4 stars

Bonus Points: 10 points each:
3) Halloween (Oct 31). Has a supernatural being in it.

Total: 31 points

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Whoo hoo! More night reading.

Alright, I am off to the airport. See you guys soon. Can't wait to find out all the reads you guys notch up while I am gone.

[Lara]

Rusalka wrote: "Whoo hoo! More night reading.

Alright, I am off to the airport. See you guys soon. Can't wait to find out all the reads you guys notch up while I am gone."

Safe travels!

[jaxnsmom]

Try and get some reading done (along with a little work).

[Janice, Moderator]

Have a great trip!!

[Debra]

I didn't realize there was a separate reporting thread for the challenge, so all my posts are in the original thread. It was read during the toppler.

Here are my points for Shapes Of Midnight:

1 Horror theme
1 Author in northern hemisphere
4 Title in pumpkin orange
3 Full moon on cover
5 Letter S in title (Shapes)
5 5-Star rating
10 Many stories had supernatural beings in them
---
29 points
-3 Less than 200 pages
--
26 points total

[Janice, Moderator]

You found the reporting thread in time, Debra. :)

[Snoozie Suzie]

One Cold Night
Genre: mystery 5
Theme: the whole book was centred around a family - a husband and wife and the wife's younger sister 3
Author: from northern hemisphere 1
Cover: has a full moon 3
Title: cold night 1
Pages: 272 2
1 star: 1

TOTAL 16

My review is here
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Night Watch

Genre: 0. Prob more Fantasy than Thriller.
Theme: 1 point - Mythology. Vampires and shapeshifters and such.
Location: 0 Moscow
Author: 1 point – is from the northern hemisphere. Technically his name is Сергей Лукьяненко but in the English market he has no European characters.
Cover: 0
Title: 0
Pages: 500+ - 5 points
Stars: 4 points - 4 stars
Bonus Points: 10 points each: 3) Halloween (Oct 31). Has a supernatural being in it.

Total: 21 points

[Rusalka, Moderator]

So the board looks like at the moment. I think there are a few more people coming so I will add them as them come.

Connie - 60
April - 60
Gaeta1 - 42
Almeta - 42
Lara - 31
Shirley - 31
Alyssa **Daughter of Aphrodite** - 30
Helen - 27
Debra - 26
Cherie - 24
Lori - 23
Marcus - 21
Jaxnsmom - 21
Rusalka - 21
Jkmays - 19
Gemma - 18
Sam - 17
Beth - 17
Snoozie Suzie - 16
Janice - 14
Judy - 13
Lindy - 11
AmyK - 11
Kat - 10

[Janice, Moderator]

Awesome job everyone! Congratulations Connie!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Indeed! Really excited how many people played this month!

[Janice, Moderator]

You did an awesome job running the challenge, Rusalka. Thank you so much for taking some of the pressure off for me. HUGS!!

[jaxnsmom]

Great challenge Rusalka!

And wow Connie. What great timing for your book!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I'm still impressed with that book. I was thinking people would have trouble with ONE of those locations, instead of finding a book set in all of them!

[Ava Catherine]

We did a buddy read, and April has posted her book on the thread just below mine. She asked if she could say she was copying mine, and I said that was fine with me. So April should have 60 points, too.

I really didn't select the book to win the challenge; it has been on my kindle for a long time, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to read it. I was shocked when I started tallying the points, and so many things fit the challenge.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

OH! I saw that but misunderstood.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

YAY APRIL!

[Ava Catherine]

Thanks for taking care of it! : )

[Fumi]

Awesome. Thanks Connie

[Kat]

Yeah! I'm the Book Golf winner ;-)

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I'll send you a glue stick for the Melbourne Cup tomorrow ;)

[Jane Reads]

Kat wrote: "Yeah! I'm the Book Golf winner ;-)"


Congrats! That's my goal for the Rainbow Challenge - lowest points for a complete rainbow. lol

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Alright. I believe that all Sandy affected people have reported in now. Board is updated above and grats to Connie and April on their buddy read find of 60pts!!

Check your walls girls.

[jaxnsmom]

Rusalka - I think there should be an honorary badge for being the Book Golf winner, maybe with a glue stick theme :~) It looks like that's becoming more of a goal than to get the most points. ☺

[Rusalka, Moderator]

lol conceded. To Google!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Done.

[AmyK]

LOL....darn, i was one away from the glue stick!!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

AmyK wrote: "LOL....darn, i was one away from the glue stick!!"

Next time Gadget, next time...

[Janice, Moderator]

Things could get sticky!

[AmyK]

I set my sights pretty low for this challenge....i'll get it this time.