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[Cynthia]

Power Plays is a series which one do you plan to read.

Dawn and Gone rhyme so yes

[Lisa Julianna]

OMG'sh I didn't pay attention to that...the one I was looking at is ruthless.com

Sorry Cynthia

[Fiona (Titch)]

3. Spring Cleaning: Follow these directions to find your book for this task...
- Go to your Goodreads bookshelf.
- Click on the All Books link
- Organize them by the Date Added (going from the earliest to the most recent)
- Go down the list and read the first book you come to that you HAVE NOT yet read.

How do I do this, cos I tried last nite?

[Eva-Marie]

Fiona- if you go to your page and then click on 'my books' at the top of the page you'll see all your books. Then down at the bottom next to how many books you want per page you'll see choices on how to organize. Click on 'by date' and it'll organize itself. Then just scroll down to see the first one you have NOT read and that's you're pick!

[Cynthia]

Lisa - sorry that book won't count

Fiona - Eva's instructions are correct - but I did it for you - Hornet's Nest (Andy Brazil Book 1) by Patricia Cornwell is the book you are supposed to read

[Sara ♥]

I should read a REAL military book, but my husband would thing I was SO COOL if I read The Fall of Reach . It's... uhh... futuristic military sci-fi... Yes? No?

Also, I just remembered a family trip we took to Arkansas over Spring Break one year.... *sigh* We're were never very big into traveling... I believe Grave Sight takes place in Arkansas...

Oh, and I wanted to read Stealing Heaven for my author born in Mar/Apr/May book. I can't find Elizabeth Scott's specific birthdate anywhere, but on her MySpace page ( http://www.myspace.com/_elizabeth_scott ), it says she's a Taurus, which is April 21 to May 22... Can I count that? (I swear I'm not stalking her--her MySpace page was a link on Wikipedia!)

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

There's also War and Remembrance; several of the main characters are soldiers. (The big overall subject is World War II.)

[Cynthia]

Sara - TFOR is marginal but ok, yes Grave Sight takes place in Arkansas, and Stealing Heaven is ok.

[Fiona (Titch)]

9. Read a book from the TNBBC Top Books list…
- The book can not be your own contribution
- The number that corresponds to that book must only contain numbers that can be found in the year you were born…i.e. if you were born in 1982 (like me) you could read 1, 28, or 89 but not 93, 15, or 22 (because there is only one 2 in the date) etc.

10. Members of the TNBBC have great tastes in books - follow these directions to find your book for this task...
- Start by going to the club’s membership list.
- Sort the member list by the Date Joined and Find Yourself on that list. (I chose the date joined sorting option because the page you will find your name on for the other options will change more often)
- Read a book that earned a 5-Star rating by another member who is on the same page as you.

4. Read a novel that takes place in a location you plan to visit during this challenge OR have visited previously during spring break (does not have to be overly specific i.e. if you are visiting Paris this spring (LUCKY YOU) you could read a book that takes place anywhere in France).

I am going to Stevenage, United Kingdom for 2 nites at parents, so wondered what I could read as thats the only place we are going.

Can someone please help me on these. Thanks

[Fiona (Titch)]

4. Read a book by an author who was born in March, April, or May.
- You can find a list that will help with this task at http://www.authdir.net/

Any particular date in the month you were born?

[Jeane]

Joanna wrote: "Eva, I was having trouble with the Irish task until I remembered that those were the ones we voted on for March's group read. Then I went downstairs and found a hoard of Irish Fairy Tale and Irish..."

We have also a thread about Irish books I started to get recommendations. Might help to get some ideas too.

[Cynthia]

Fiona - you can use a trip you've taken in the past for that task

Your on pg 66 of the membership list when organized by date joined.

If I knew what year you were born I could help you with the other task.

[Fiona (Titch)]

1975 is when I was born. I have never been out of the United Kingdom in 33yrs Cynthia lol.

[Jeane]

Cynthia wrote: "Lisa - sorry that book won't count

Fiona - Eva's instructions are correct - but I did it for you - Hornet's Nest (Andy Brazil Book 1) by Patricia Cornwell is the book you are supposed to read"

I read that one!not like the scarpetta serie but good too...

[Fiona (Titch)]

Jeane wrote: "Cynthia wrote: "Lisa - sorry that book won't count

Fiona - Eva's instructions are correct - but I did it for you - Hornet's Nest (Andy Brazil Book 1) by Patricia Cornwell is the book you are sup..."

Will be interesting to see how she does with that as well Jeane.

[Alisha Marie]

Okay, so this being my first time participating in something like this, I'm aiming for 250 points.

Five Point Tasks
1.Science Fiction Novel: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
2. Epistolary Novel: The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters A Novel by Elisabeth Robinson
3. Spring Cleaning: Off Season by Jack Ketchum
4. Commute???
5. For Easter/Lent: Persuasion by Jane Austen
6. Women's History Month: Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
7. Arbor Day: Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin (swapping it on paperbackswap)
8. Humorous Novel: The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz (reread)
9. Spring Animal Title: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
10. Book with Rain related word: The House of Thunder by Dean Koontz
Category Totals:

10 Point Tasks
1. Irish Author:PS, I Love You by Cecilia Ahern
2. Mexican Author: The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
3. ANZAC Day: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
4. Author B-Day in March: Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
5. Book about Magic: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
6. Earth Day: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
7. Mother's Day:????
8. Armed Forces Day: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
9. TNBBC Top Books List: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
10. Five Stars Member's List: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Offmat)
Category Totals:

15 Points
1. SCORPIO: The Waste Lands by Stephen King OR Wastelands Stories of the Apocalypse
2. National Poetry Month: What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
3. TNBBC Unread Group Read: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
4. Location You've Been (CT): Swapping Lives by Jane Green
5. Award Winning Author:Beloved by Toni Morrison (Pulitzer in 1988)
6. Translated Book: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. Rhyming Novels: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood & No Place Like Home A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark
8. Get to Know the Author: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
9. Book with Color Title: The Green Mile Book Box Set by Stephen King
10. 3-4-5: All That Remains, Cruel and Unusual, & The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell
Category Totals:

25 Points
1. Karen's Task: The Good Guy by Dean Koontz AND Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
2. El's Task: To Be Decided
3. Angela's Task: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova AND Alphabet Weekends Love on the Road from A to Z by Elizabeth Noble
4. Ros's Task: The Stand by Stephen King
5. Bonnie's Task: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
6. Jon's Task: The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Wier
7. Darla's Task: PENDING
8. Cassie's Task: Looking for Alaska by John Green AND The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
9. Sara's Task: Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale by Catherine Orenstein


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[Jeane]

Is there anybody who found a book for the award task and is born in 1980?

[El]

Jeane, you could read Czeslaw Milosz - he won the Nobel for Lit in 1980. He was a wonderful Polish author.

[Eva-Marie]

Jeane- there is a link that someone posted, twice I think actually, on the previous one or two pages that is a lot of help with the awards task.
You can click on any award link and then just scroll down to your year of birth.

[Fiona (Titch)]

5 POINTS
1. Read a Science Fiction OR Fantasy Novel.

Can we read GOOD OMENS - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett?

[Becky]

Fiona wrote: " 5 POINTS
1. Read a Science Fiction OR Fantasy Novel.

Can we read GOOD OMENS - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett?"

That's definitely fantasy, so I can't see why it wouldn't be allowed. :)

[Natalia]

I'm giving this a shot! My goal is 300 points.

Five Point Tasks
1.Science Fiction/Fantasy Novel: His Majesty's Dragon
2. Epistolary Novel: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
3. Spring Cleaning: A Thousand Splendid Suns
4. While Traveling: The Matarese Circle
5. Christian Fiction: This Present Darkness
6. Women's History Month: In the Land of Invisible Women A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
7. Arbor Day: The Lace Reader (received through Ravelry book RAK swap, will be passed on the same way)
8. Humorous Novel: Funny in Farsi A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
9. Spring Animal Title: The Sparrow
10. Book with Tree or Flower: The Orchid Thief A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
Category Totals:

10 Point Tasks
1. Irish Author:Angela's Ashes
2. Mexican Author: The Hummingbird's Daughter
3. ANZAC Day: The Thorn Birds
4. Author B-Day in March: Two for the Dough
5. Book about Magic: Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends
6. Earth Day: 40 Days and 1001 Nights, One Woman's Dance Through Life in the Islamic World
7. Mother's Day: The Lighthouse
8. Armed Forces Day: Jarhead
9. TNBBC Top Books List: The Eyre Affair (#91)
10. Five Stars Member's List: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Chrisy)
Category Totals:

15 Points
1. LEO: The Other Boleyn Girl
2. National Poetry Month: A Far Rockaway of the Heart
3. TNBBC Unread Group Read: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
4. Location You've Visited: Baltimore Blues
5. Award Winning Author: Eros, Eros, Eros Selected and Last Poems (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1979)
6. Translated Book: Jar City A Reykjavik Thriller
7. Rhyming Books: The Lady Tasting Tea How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century and World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War
8. Get to Know the Author: The Numerati
9. Book with Color Title: Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog
10. 3-4-5: Three To Get Deadly, Four to Score, High Five
Category Totals:

25 Points
--PENDING--
Category Totals:

[Sara ♥]

Fiona wrote: "1975 is when I was born. I have never been out of the United Kingdom in 33yrs Cynthia lol."

Don't feel bad. I've only been one place outside the United States (South Korea), but it was to live, not as a vacation... I've never been east of Arkansas!

As for the 1980 awards...

*Pulitzer Fiction: Norman Mailer
*Pulitzer Biography: Edmund Morris - Beethoven: The Universal Composer (not the winning book)
*Newbery: Joan Blos won for A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
*Nobel Literature: Czesław Miłosz - He's got a bunch of poetry books; won for The Captive Mind
*Booker Prize (UK): William Golding... won for Rites of Passage; also Lord of the Flies (which I HATED... he won the Nobel for it in 1983, which is when I was born)
*John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (UK):Desmond Hogan - he wrote novels and short stories
*Somerset Maugham Award (UK): Humphrey Carpenter - wrote a biography on Tolkien

This is where I've been looking:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...

[Stephanie]

6. In honor of Earth Day (April 22) read a book with the word Earth, Moon, Sun, World, Star or one of the other planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) in the title.
- Words such as earthly, sunset etc. are acceptable.

Would Lunar Park work for this task?

[Cynthia]

Fiona - find a book that takes place in a city in the UK that you've visited but never lived in - if that still doesn't work you can pick a place that you would like to visit. - good omens is fine

Stephanie - Lunar is acceptable

[Fiona (Titch)]

I have been to London & Leeds only. I am not that well travelled lol.

[Cynthia]

London
The Dark Lantern a Novel
The Various Flavours of Coffee
The Victoria Vanishes A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery

Leeds
Kingdom of Lies
No Place of Safety

[Fiona (Titch)]

The Various Flavours of Coffee will read this as I have this on my TBR.

[Cynthia]

Glad I could help.

[Fiona (Titch)]

For Taurus, can we read any Western novel?

[Fiona (Titch)]

Also Task 8 for 15pts. I have met 2 authors last year (won't be meetin anymore for a while), so wondered if I could use 1 of them. I met Jon McGregor & Alison Penton Harper back in November.

[Cynthia]

Yes any western would work.

[Fiona (Titch)]

9. Read a book with one of the following Spring animals in the title…
- Rabbit or Bunny
- Bird (the word bird or any type of bird)
- Butterfly
- Lion
- Lamb OR
- A term for a baby animal such as kitten, cub, calf etc.

Can I have The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd?

[Cynthia]

Bees is ok.

For the author task you have to go to a reading or read/watch an interview during the challenge - previous meetings don't count. Several authors on GR have video interviews posted on their pages/interviews on their webpages that would count for the challenge.

[Fiona (Titch)]

8. Get To Know The Author - Read a book by an author AND then either attend a reading by that author OR read/listen to an interview with that author.

I have met 2 authors last year (won't be meetin anymore for a while), so wondered if I could use 1 of them. I met Jon McGregor & Alison Penton Harper back in November.

[Sara ♥]

This is what I think I'll do. It looks pretty good--a nice combination of things I would normally read and things I never would have heard of without TNBBC.

I'm still waiting on my mom's recommendation (whenever she wakes up). Oh, the joys of having my mom live 15 time zones away... :(

5 Point Tasks
1. SciFi/Fantasy: Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
2. Epistolary Novel: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
3. Oldest TBR: The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them by E. Lockhart
4. Book in Car: The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
5. Christian Fiction: Tennis Shoes: Warriors of Cumorah by Chris Heimerdinger
6. Woman/Girl word: Secret Society Girl: An Ivy League Novel by Diana Peterfreund
7. Audiobook: What I Did for Love by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
8. Humorous Novel: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
9. Spring Animal Title: Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe
10. Rain/Flower/Tree: Under the Rose: An Ivy League Novel by Diana Peterfreund

10 Point Tasks
1. Irish Book: PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
2. Mexican Book: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
3. Australian Book: The Spell Book Of Listen Taylor by Jaclyn Moriarty
4. Mar/Apr/May Author: Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott
5. Book about Magic: A Little Magic by Nora Roberts
6. Earth Day word: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
7. Recommended by Mom: ??? (Still waiting for an e-mail back)
8. Military Fiction: The Fall of Reach by Eric S. Nylund
9. TNBBC Top Book 1983: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
10. 5-Star Book from Bevin: Holes by Louis Sachar

15 Point Tasks
1. Scorpio: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2. Poetry Book: What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
3. TNBBC Group Read: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
4. Spring Break Vacation (Arkansas): Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
5. Winner of Newbery 1983: Bad Girls by Cynthia Voigt
6. Book Translated to English: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
7. Rhyming Titles: Smart Girls Think Twice by Cathie Linz AND Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter (smart & heart)
8. Book + Interview: Forever by Judy Blume
9. Color Title + 2 Foods: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
10. 3, 4, 5: Life, the Universe and Everything ; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish ; and Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams

25 Point Tasks
TBA

[Tien]

Jeane wrote: "Is there anybody who found a book for the award task and is born in 1980?"

Hi Jeane, that's me! :) It was hard since most of them didn't appeal to me! However, just keep in mind that it doesn't have to be the winning book just that the author has to have won an award in 1980. I was looking at Arthur C. Clarke who won Hugo in '80 and William Golding won Booker in 1980. But my choice is Shirley Hazzard (won National Critics Circle Awards in '80) since I already have one of her books (not the winning one) on my tbr.

I hope that helps a bit :)

[Fiona (Titch)]

Is there anybody who found a book for the award task and is born in 1975?

[Sara ♥]

1975

*Pulitzer Drama - Edward Albee - wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's
*Booker Prize - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - wrote a bunch of stuff
*Newbery Medal - Virginia Hamilton...

I checked the Rita Awards (romance novels), but they started in 1982... sad...

Good luck!

[Becky]

Edward Albee wrote "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?". Truman Capote wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's". :)

[Sara ♥]

*shrugs* I only know what Wikipedia tells me! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_A... )

Looks like he did the screen adaptation from Truman Capote's novel.

[Cynthia]

Eugenio Montale - Nobel
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Man/Booker
Jon Cleary - Edgar Award
Robert Stone - National Book Award
Michael Shaara - Pulitzer
David Lodge - Hawthornden

[Andrew]

WEll, I almost have a finalized list, but I need some suggestions.

10 point task number 2. I don't have a clue what to read for a book about/set in Mexico, or a Mexican Author

10 point task number 5. I have no clue on a book about magic.

15 point task 1 and 2. I"m a Taurus and I don't ever read Western books or books aobut cowboys. And Any suggestios for a good poetry collection?

[Sara ♥]

I don't know a lot about westerns... All I know is that Louis L'Amour is ridiculously popular here in Texas. Other than that, I'd probably read a western romance novel... Lorraine Heath's pretty good... BUT, I could see how you might not be terribly interested in that...

This website: http://poetry.crouchnet.com/western.html has 5 published western poetry books listed on the left.

[Becky]

Ahh... that would make sense then. :)

[Cynthia]

I'm going to read The Wild Girl A Novel for the book set in Mexico. And
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell for the magic task.

[SusannaW]

How come the Irish, Mexicans and the Australians all get their national day included - and not the English!?

St George's day is on April 23rd.

I demand an enquiry...!!

[Cynthia]

It wasn't suggested I don't think (if I missed it - there was a lot of suggestions I just couldn't fit in everything).

Feel free to lobby the winner's of the winter challenge if you want a task that focuses on Brit Lit (I've received some but not all of the 25 point tasks and a few more people are close to finishing).

[Charity]

We could always do a task concerning Guy Fawkes' Day in November. :-)

[Andrew]

So I got a Mexican book and Poetry. That still leaves A Taurus book and A Magic book...0.o