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Spring Challenge 2013 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC!
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I read A Share In Death. The word "share" can be used both as a noun and a verb.
25.8 Janet F's task: Springy Ideas!
For my first book, I chose option 3 and listened to an audiobook - The Lost Gate. Here's the paperback link - The Lost Gate.
For my second book, I chose option 6 and read The Gate Thief by Orson Scott Card. His quote -
"Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees;ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets:they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
30.3 Donna Jo's task: Upsy Daisy
For book 1, I chose option 1 and read The Wall Street Journal Guide to the New Rules of Personal Finance: Essential Strategies for Saving, Investing, and Building a Portfolio in a World Turned Upside Down. Subtitle contains words "Upside Down."
For book 2, I chose option 3, and used the letter pair "dp". I read Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
Total points: 605
15.7. Feeling possessive?The Emperor's Tomb by Steve Berry
Steve Berry is a Goodreads Author.
Points this post: 15
Total points to date: 270
BEKKA - 10.1 Less is MoreFor this task I read “Soulless”
by Gail Carriger because it has the word “less” in its title. Also, Gail Carriger is a Goodreads Author, so I’m claiming a ticket for that.
Here’s the summary:
Points Earned this Challenge: 10
Total Points Earned to Date: 315
Pages Read this Challenge: 357
Total Pages Read to Date: 9281
Books Read this Challenge: 1
Total Books Read: 26
Goodreads Authors: 15
Big Book Tickets: 500( 3 ), 750( 1 ), 1000()
Elizabeth BTask 15.5: Hug a Tree
by Alice ClaytonAlice Clayton is a Goodreads author
Task 20.3 Best Review - Bucket's task: Traveling in Time
Spell of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning (option 2: time-travel)
Points this post:15+20=35
Total points:350
Total tasks: 24
GR Authors: 19
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(1)
Nicki UK15.2 Vernal Equinox
1st To Die by James Patterson
Goodreads author
The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
Goodreads author
Both have 480 pp.
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Points this post: 15
Points to date: 220
Books read: 18
Pages read: 7556
Goodreads authors: 10
Big Books: 500+ (4), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
10.6 Storm ChasersRead a book set in a Dixie state.
(Alabama)
by Lexi George Points this post: 10
Total points: 170
Tasks completed: 15
Books Read: 18
GR Authors: 13
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Karen Oz10.8 Pedal To The Metal
A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce GR Author
20.9 - Moderator's Pet- Peebee’s Task: A New Spring Wardrobe
Option F: "Showing Sking"
Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse Big Book Ticket (678 pages)
Total (this post): 30 points
Grand Total: 305 points
Tasks completed: 20
Books read: 24
Goodreads authors: 6
Big books: 500+ (3); 750+ (2); 1000+ (0)
Jayme VA5.6 -- Hope Springs Eternal
Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
I didn't enjoy Delirium and won't be continuing this series. I might try some of her books that aren't part of this series, but won't be reading on.
Lauren Oliver is a goodreads author.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 430
GR Authors: Karen Russell, Stephen Dau, Elizabeth Wein, Lauren Kate, Andrew Klavan, Dan Wells, Katie Alender, Michael Grant, Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Carrie Ryan**, Beth Hoffman, Robin Sloan, Lauren Oliver
Big Books: 500+(1),750+(0),1000+(0)
20.7 Have Passport, Will TravelOption 2: A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age by Richard Rayner
L.A. approved in help thread as Los Angeles- a major city.
Total points: 55
Jessica PDX10.7 - Chosen By You
This was a nominee for Best Mystery.
by Tana FrenchPoints This Post: 10
Total Points: 465
Cindy AL5.9 Roll With It:
Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
Rolled a 2, published in February 2011
Ben Aaronovitch is a Goodreads Author.
15.10 Spring Break:
Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold is a Goodreads Author.
25.2 Interesting Spring Holidays:
#1 National Pie Day - book about food
Talking with My Mouth Full: My Life as a Professional Eater by Gail Simmons
#6 National Tourism Day - Place I'd like to visit - London
Taken by Benedict Jacka
Benedict Jacka is a Goodreads Author
Points in this post - 10
Total Points - 805/870
Books - 64/68
Pages - 22213
Goodreads Authors: 50
Big Books:500+ - (5), 750+ - (0),1000+ - (0)
5.7 -- Someone to Fall Back OnI've become a fan of Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan series, and I enjoyed this one, #6, as much as the previous 5:
In a Strange City: A Tess Monaghan Novel by Laura Lippman
Laura Lippman is a Goodreads author.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 380
GR authors: 13
25.6 – Lois’s task: Happy Birthday Girl Scouts!A. Read a book with a strong girl* character:
Jazmin has weathered the loss of her mother to an institution and her father to an accident and is finding her way as a teen living with her older sister.
Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes
B. Read a book whose title/subtitle includes the word “Girl”:
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
+25 Points
25.8 Janet F’s task: Springy Ideas!
Option 3: Audiobooks killed the radio star: Letter on Cover
The audiobook cover:
Paperback:
The Absolutist by John Boyne
Option 4: Siri, tell me a story
The audiobook:
Paperback:
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
+25 Points
Points this post: 50
Grand Total: 415
Jenifer15.7 Feeling Possessive
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Total Points: 85
Tasks Completed:5
Books Read: 6
GoodReads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+ (), 750+ (1), 1000+ ()
Andy P.Task # 5.1 Go West!
Read a book set in the Western Hemisphere
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout This book is set in the US specifically the states of Maine and New York
Task # 20.9 Moderator's Pet- Peebee's Task- A New Spring Wardrobe
Option d Thrift Shop Read a book that you did not purchase new
Deadly Virtues by Jo Bannister
This book was given to me for review purposes for a mystery website (Mysteryreaders.com)
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 525
Jenifer25.7 Judge a Book By Its Cover
option A: body parts cut off on cover
The Highlander's Touch and Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Marie Moning
Total Points: 110
Tasks Completed:6
Books Read: 6
GoodReads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+ (), 750+ (1), 1000+ ()
25.2 - Laurie ME - Interesting Spring HolidaysOption 2: The Ides of March - Book set in ancient Egypt - Pharaoh's Son by ***Goodreads Author*** Diana Wilder
Option 3: Titanic Remembrance Day - A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 215/890
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 17
GoodReads Authors: 8
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (), 1000+ ()
Task 20.5 Bigger is Better- Kate S's task: Tournament of Books 20131.A book written by an author who shares their first and last initial with a finalist:
HM : Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami (translated by Alfred Birnbaum (Paperback, 353 pages)
195 + 20 = 215
Tasks Completed: 12
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 195 + 20 = 215
Books read: 17
Pages read: 5,243
Read but not claimed: 3
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
BRIAN15.3. Laughing in Ireland
Option 2 - set in Ireland and genre is humor
The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
Points this post: 15
Total points: 200
Books read: 16
Goodreads author: 5
Big Book tickets: 2
30.3 Donna Jo's task: Upsy DaisyOption #3 - Claimed by Evangeline Anderson
Authors initials - EA
*Approved number 194
Option #4 - The Venus Fix by M.J. Rose
Author's last name Rose
Goodreads Author
Total Points: 285
Points this Post: 30
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 17
GoodReads Authors: 14
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (), 1000+ ()
Jessica PDX15.5 - Hug a Tree
In the larger image of the cover, it's clearer that this is a foliage view of a tree.
by Barbara KingsolverPoints This Post: 15
Total Points: 480
cupcakebaker5.5 Spring Chicken
I read Real Mermaids Don’t Wear Toe Rings, which is a Young Adult book.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 215
Total Tasks Completed: 16
Total Books Read: 20
Total Pages Read: 5,289
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Jennifer KS10.7 Chosen By You
2012 Nominee in the Mystery category
I read Defending Jacob by William Landay who is a Goodreads Author.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 290
Tasks completed: 25
Books read: 26
Goodreads authors: 8
Pages 8723
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
BEKKA - 25.7 - Chaitra's task: Judge a Book By Its Cover!Option A: For this task, I read two books that both feature body parts with no whole people. The first book was “The End: 50 Apocalyptic Visions From Pop Culture That You Should Know About… Before Its Too Late”
by Laura Barcella. It has human heads, both photos and drawings, featured. The second book was “Giant George: Life With the World’s Biggest Dog”
by Dave Nasser. It features a photo of George’s head and front paws on the cover. Also, Laura Barcella is a Goodreads Author, so I’m claiming a ticket for that.
Here’s the summary:
Points Earned this Challenge: 25
Total Points Earned to Date: 340
Pages Read this Challenge: 412
Total Pages Read to Date: 9693
Books Read this Challenge: 2
Total Books Read: 28
Goodreads Authors: 16
Big Book Tickets: 500( 3 ), 750( 1 ), 1000()
15.10 Spring BreakUS: Transforming Ourselves and the Relationships that Matter Most
Points: 100
Books read: 11
tasks completed: 8
GR authors: 5
pages read: 3574
30.1 - It's Spring Cleaning TimeOption 2: a book that is part of a series:
The Witness at the Wedding by Simon Brett
Option 4: a book with a window on the cover:
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Total points335
Nick KY15.7 Feeling Possessive? I read Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan.
15.9 In Camelot. I read The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe.
15.10 Spring Break. I read Listen to This by Alex Ross, a book which fits SRC guidelines.
Points This Post: 45
Total Points So Far: 415
Big Books: 500+ (1)
20;7-Have passport will travel-The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Takes place in Africa,I live inthe USA.goodreads author Alexandar McCall Smith-5 points total-25 points total points-95
Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥5.7 Someone to Fall Back On
Laurie Halse Anderson : Wintergirls
15.2 Vernal Equinox
240 Pages: Book 1:All the Broken Pieces
240 Pages: Book 2:Mademoiselle Benoir: A Novel
15.7 Feeling possessive?
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
20.4 Author! Author!: Bluemoon's task: DID YOU KNOW..
Option C Romance:The Undomestic Goddess
50.1 - Ms Anderson's task: Two Truths and a Lie
As of 4/17/13 all books had Middle Grade listed as a genre.
Book 1: Twerp(I was a bully in school)
Book 2: The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place(I went to summer camp)
Book 3: Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree(In school I was a problem solver.)
Points Earned This Post:105
Points Achieved to Date: 520/870
Goodreads Authors:
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (0)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)
5.6 - Hope Springs EternalWyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (much better than the first one I read)
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 125
Goodreads authors: 4
Big Books:
Cindy FTask 20.9 A New Spring Wardrobe
Option B:Cleaning Out the Closet ll "GLBT"
I read
My Sweet Untraceable You by Sandra Scoppettone
Point this post:20
Total points:240
Books read:18
Tasks completed:15
Goodreads Authors:8
Big Books:500+(1)750+(1)1000+(0)
25.7 - Chaitra's task: Judge a Book By Its Cover!Option B, both books have yarn on the covers:
Knitting by Anne Bartlett and Another Piece of My Heart by Jane Green
Points this post: 25
Total points: 405
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5.1 -- Go West!
Set in the UK: Watchman: A Novel by Ian Rankin
25.2 Laurie ME's task: Interesting Spring Holidays
option 4 set in 1780: Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson
option 6- set in Scotland, a place I would love to visit: Morning Tide by Neil M. Gunn
25.4 Stacie MI's Task: It's Read-a-Thon Time!
option 1 - 116 pg: The Abbess of Crewe by Muriel Spark
option 3 humor: I Didn't Ask to Be Born: by Bill Cosby
total = 725
Completed Tasks 30.2 -- Dlm Rose’s Task -- For the Love of Reading
A) The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency GR Author
B)Tears of the Giraffe GR Author
According to the help thread, msg. 10, it was okay to read two Alexander McCall Smith books since he appeared on both lists.
Points This Post: 30
Claiming 2 GR Author
Total Points: 160
Total Tasks Completed: 11
Total Books Read: 15
Total Pages Read: 4807
Total GoodReads Authors: 8
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
5.1 Go West!Set in the United States:
Friends Forever by Danielle Steel
5.10 Attention Grabber
Beloved by Toni Morrison
In 1983 I lost my job - or left it.
15.7 Feeling Possessive?
A SEAL's Seduction by Tawny Weber
Tawny Weber is a Goodreads Author.
20.6 Seasoned Reader - Alexandra's task: Messing around
Option 4: Book that makes you happy
Her Reluctant Groom by Rose Gordon
Rose Gordon is a Goodreads Author.
Points this post: 45
Total poins: 325
Tasks completed: 19
Books read: 23
Goodreads Author: 13
Big Book Tickets: 500(2); 750(0); 1000(0)
Delicious Dee15.9. In Camelot
Finding Camlann - Sean Pidgeon (GR Author) - 11 ppl have it shelved as mythology>arthurian
25.4 Stacie MI's Task: It's Read-a-Thon Time!
Book A - Option 1 - The Polysyllabic Spree - book is 146 pages
Book B - Option 3 - Shy - John Inman (GR Author) - 8 ppl have it shelved as humor and 5 ppl have it shelved as humor>funny
Total Points: 640
Goodreads Authors: 36
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (2)
50.1 Two Truths and a LieBook A: Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
I had a detective agency as a kid.
Book B: Who Done It?
I have DEFINITELY used writing as catharsis after someone was being a jerk to me lol
Book C: The Quilt Walk
Like the adults in this book, I enjoy sewing and needlework (one of the home-ec teachers is even letting me do the sixth grade pencil case project during my free periods! :D)
Total: 50 + 820 (from earlier) = 870 pts
All done!
Ms Anderson wrote: "50.1 Two Truths and a LieBook A: Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
I had a detective agency as a kid.
Book B: Who Done It?
I have DEFINITELY used writing as catharsis after someone was being a ..."
Congrats! Will be forever amazed at your speed to complete the challenge!
10.1 Less is More Soulless by Gail Carriger *goodreads author*
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 480/870
Tasks Completed: 29
Books Read: 38
GR Authors: 25
Big Book Tickets: 1
Coralie10.1 Less is More
Deathless
20.4 Did You Know…
Option A Animal you might see on an African safari – leopard.
The Leopard
Total points 430
Sheila25.2 Laurie ME's task: Interesting Spring Holidays
Option 3. April 15: Titanic Remembrance Day:
Sail byJames PattersonAND
Option 5. May 4: National Renewal Day:
You Only Die Twice by Edna Buchanan50.1 - Ms Anderson's task: Two Truths and a Lie
1.
Theodore Boone Kid Lawyer by John Grisham - I wanted to be lawyer just like Perry MasonAND
2.
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume - Same name is me.AND
3.
Judy Moody by Megan McDonald - My best friend in middle school was named Judy.Total Points = 755
We have our first finisher! Congratulations Ms. Anderson.
10.10 Above AverageSaga, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan, which at an average rating of 4.63 is well above my average of 3.31.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 340
Total Tasks Completed: 17
Total Books Read: 21
Total Pages Read: 4478
Total GoodReads Authors: 3
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
SUZANNE VN10.10 Above Average
As of 4/19, my average rating is 3.44.
I read The Royal Wulff Murders: A Novel whose average rating is 3.60.
Points this task: 10
Total points: 240
Tasks completed: 16
Books read: 18
Goodreads authors: 11
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
25.4 - It's Read-a-thon Time1. Shortish Books - a book with less than 200 pages:
A Breath of Autumn by Lillian Beckwith (182 pages)
3. Humorous Books - a book with the genre Humour on its main page:
Jane And Prudence by Barbara Pym
Total points 360
Andy P.Task #10.5 Piece of cake
Read a book that involves food
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach This book was approved in message 36 of this task's help thread
25.5 - INTERESTING SPRING HOLIDAYSOPTION 1 - NATIONAL PIE DAY - A Slice of Murder. The main character owns a Pizza Parlor.
OPTION 6 - NATIONAL TOURISM DAY - Le Crime by Peter Steiner which takes place mostly in France a place I would love to visit.
Peter Steiner is a Goodreads author.
TOTAL POINTS - 460
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 17
BIG BOOKS - 2
Task 15.8 - Batter Up!My favorite Spring sport is baseball.
The Art of Fieldingby Chad Harbach
Points this task: 15
Task 15.10 - Spring Break
The book of my choice:
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
Points this task: 15
Task 20.2 - Pi Day
Option 1 - Page count includes pi digits: 321 pages
The God of Small Thingsby Arundhati Roy
Points this task: 20
Task 20.5 - Tournament of Books 2013
Option 2 - Collection of short stories by single author
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Points this task: 20
Task 20.8 - March On!
Option 3 - Cover has rabbit on it
The Magician's Assistant by
Points this task: 20
Task 30.2 - For the Love of Reading
A Book - Ray Bradbury on list for Farenheit 451
Quicker Than the Eye
B Book - Tracy Chevalier on list for Girl with the Pearl Earring
Burning Bright
Points this task: 30
Points this post: 120
Points to date: 120
Chris MD15.3 Laughing in Ireland
One book option: Set in Ireland and shelved as humor
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
25.5 Shadow of the White Tiger
Option 1a: Black or white silhouette on cover
by Dave Barry Option 2b: Author's initials in W-H-I-T-E-T-I-G-E-R
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti, who is a GR author
25.7 Judge a Book by Its Cover
Option A: Two books showing parts of bodies
by Susan Higginbotham, who is a GR author
by Alice HoffmanPoints for this post: 15 + 25 + 25 = 65
Total points: 65 + 205 = 270
Tasks completed: 22
Books read: 25
Goodreads authors: 2 + 9 = 11
Big books: 500=0, 750=0, 1,000=0
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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30.1 It's Spring Cleaning Time!......
Option 1: I read #11 on my TBR list, which I added August, 2009.
Unstrung Heroes by Franz Lidz
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Option 6: Free choice
Giant George: Life with the World's Biggest Dog by Dave Nasser
+30
total: 110
tasks: 6
books: 8
GR Authors 1