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SPRING CHALLENGE 2013
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Spring Challenge 2013 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC!
Meera20.4 - Author! Author!: Bluemoon's task: DID YOU KNOW....
C. Touch of Power by Maria V. Snyder This is listed as a romance.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 230
20.9 - Moderator's Pet- Peebee’s Task: A New Spring Wardrobe
Option D: Thrift Shop II - came to you used
Aunt Dimity's Death
I got this book through a book swapping site.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 160
Total Tasks Completed: 12
Total Books Read: 12
Total GoodReads Authors: 2
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Option D: Thrift Shop II - came to you used
Aunt Dimity's Death
I got this book through a book swapping site.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 160
Total Tasks Completed: 12
Total Books Read: 12
Total GoodReads Authors: 2
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
15.7I read Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China
by Aminta Arrington (***claiming GRA ticket***)- possessive noun is Family's
20.4
Option B: I read In Siberia
by Colin Thubron . Travel appears on genre on main page.New points:35
New total: 145
Total books: 8
Total tasks: 7
Mod
15.10. Spring Break
A Rake's Vow by Stephanie Laurens
25.7 - Chaitra's task: Judge a Book By Its Cover!
option A, dismembered
The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively
Highland Outlaw by Monica McCartytotal = 870
Jayme VA25.4 Stacie MI's Task: It's Read-a-Thon Time!
Option 1: Genesis by Bernard Beckett is 150 pages.
Bernard Beckett is a goodreads author.
Option 3: Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern is shelved as humor.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 480
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, Rachel Hartman, Bernard Beckett
Big Books: 500+(2),750+(0),1000+(0)
10.8 Pedal To The MetalThe Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't. The author is Nate Silver and "Silver" is a metal.
Claiming one big book ticket, as this book is 544 pages.
15.7. Feeling possessive?
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart.
The possessive is "Napoleon's".
Claiming a Goodreads author: Amy Stewart
20.5 Bigger is Better.
I chose option 2: A collection of short stories by a single author. For that I read
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Total Points for this post: 45
Total Points overall: 45
Total Books read: 3
Total Goodreads Author Tickets: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Casselm15.10 Spring Break
The Island by Elin Hilderbrand
20.3 Traveling in Time
Option 1: Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1938.
30.1 It's Spring Cleaning Time!
Option 3: Ubik by Philip K. Dick, with Mystery listed on its main page.
Option 6: Reading My Father by Alexandra Styron
Total points this post: 65
Total points: 65.
Andy P.Task # 20.3 Best Review: Bucket's task: Traveling in Time
Option 1 Back to the Classics
Read a book originally published before 1963
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
This book was originally published in 1945
Oma1229Task 15.6- Let's All Go to the Lobby
Read a book that has been made into a movie and that has been released by the end of the spring challenge.
For Love of the Game by Michael Jordan was released as a movie in 1999.
Total Points to Date-485
Sheila15.10. Spring Break
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen30.3 Donna Jo's task: Upsy Daisy
Option 3:
The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron - dpAND
Option 4:
Die For Me by Karen RoseAuthors last name is Rose
Total Points = 870
That should do it for me this spring. A big thank you to our hard working moderators.
congrats Sheila!15.10. Spring Break
Yesterday's Shadow - Helen Bianchin
20.6- Seasoned Reader- Alexandra's task: Messing around
Option 4: Bayou Moon - Nalini Singh, GR Author
20.10 Group Reads
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
My review here.
25.1 Delicious Dee's task: Anchor’s Aweigh
Option 3 (2012): Rock the Heart - Michelle A. Valentine, GR Author
Option 4 (Scotland): Seduction of a Highland Lass - Maya Banks
25.7 - Chaitra's task: Judge a Book By Its Cover!
Option A:
- Inara Scott, GR Authorebook approved @737
- Bianca D'Arc, GR AuthorPoints this post: 105
Total points: 620
GR Authors: 37
10.1 Less is MoreRead a book with "less" found intact in a word in the title.
by Chris Howard (Goodreads Author) Points this post: 10
Total points: 180
Tasks completed: 16
Books Read: 19
GR Authors: 14
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Readerboard ID: JENBENT20.6- Seasoned Reader- Aleksandra's task: Messing around
Option 3 - There is a yellow text bubble & a yellow circle representing an emoticon
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe is a Goodreads author.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 430
Total Goodreads authors: 11
Total Big books: 1
15.9 In CamelotThe Once and Future King by T.H. White
***At 639 pages, this is a big book***
15.10 Spring Break
The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
***At 688 pages, this is a big book***
30.1 It's Spring Cleaning Time
Option 1: Has been on my TBR list since Feb 28, 2011-definitely one of my oldest.
The Risk Pool by Richard Russo
Option 6: Any book I choose
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
***Therese Anne Fowler is a GR Author***
Post Total: 60
Season Total: 485
Jessica PDX25.8 - Janet F's Task - Springy Ideas
Option 1 - "May" in title
by Christopher FowlerOption 4 - Audiobook
by Terry PratchettMMP Edition: Wyrd Sisters
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 555
cupcakebaker5.6 Hope Springs Eternal
I have read one or two other Cleo Coyle coffee mysteries and wasn't that impressed, so I tried Through the Grinder and was pleasantly surprised!
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 220
Total Tasks Completed: 17
Total Books Read: 21
Total Pages Read: 5,559
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Cindy ALLAST TASK!!!
The best authurian book you never heard of!
15.9 In Camelot:
The Forever King by Molly Cochran
Points in this post - 15
Total Points - 870/870
Books - 68/68
Pages - 23456
Goodreads Authors: 51
Big Books:500+ - (5), 750+ - (0),1000+ - (0)
Wow 4 early finishers already. That equals the total spring number. The summer challenge has the potential to be massive. Congratulations Cindy. I look forward to your summer task.
I do a little dance chair wiggle dance whenever I see a finisher. Congrats Cindy!!and yes, Sheila, I foresee the summer challenge to be zomg massive! bigger than this past winter?!?
MARIA HELENA5.9 Roll With It
Fatal Justice by Marie Force
Originally published in 2011. I rolled a 2.
****** Marie Force is a Goodreads Author ******
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 440/870
Tasks Completed: 32
Books Read: 37
GR Authors: 22
Big Book Tickets: 2
Well done to those who have finished since I last logged on! I'm trying to make it there myself, but a fair way to go yet, hopefully nearing the end I will complete.
KAREN F15.3 Laughing in Ireland
Option 1
Book A: Top O' the Mournin' by Maddy Hunter
Set in Ireland
Book B: Nice Girls Don't Live Forever by Molly Harper
Humor listed on main book page
**Molly Harper is a Goodreads Author**
Points this Post: 15
Total Challenge Points: 325
Goodreads Authors: 15
Big Books: 500+(1),750+(0),1000+(0)
30.1 Sheila/Kathy G's task - It's Spring Cleaning Time!Option 2, book that is part of a series:
Missing Justice by Alafair Burke
This is #2 in the Samantha Kincaid series.
Alafair Burke is a Goodreads author.
Option 6, book of choice:
My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes) by Luisa Weiss
Points this post: 30
Total points: 455
GR authors: 15
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ 5.9 - Roll With It
I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
I rolled a 3. The book has an original published date of January 2010.
15.10 - Spring Break
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
20.7 - Have Passport, Will Travel
Objects of My Affection by Jill Smolinski
This book fits option 1 - suitcase on the cover:
This post: 40 points
Total points to date: 195 points
Tasks completed: 14
** Electing to not track GR authors and Big Books this season **
Shawn H.20.10 Group Reads
by James M. Cain***Post # 62 in the discussion***
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 135
GR Authors: 3
Big Ticket Books: 0
cupcakebaker5.3 Here Kitty, Kitty
I read
, which has a cat on the cover.Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 225
Total Tasks Completed: 18
Total Books Read: 22
Total Pages Read: 5,831
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Ana20.7 Will Travel
Option 3
by Meg Cabot. She is a GoodReads Author.Points this Post 20
Total Points 260
Tasks Completed 13
Books Read 17
Total Pages 5214
GoodReads Author 10
Big Books 500+(1)
BEKKA - 50.1 - Ms Anderson's task: Two Truths and a LieLOVED this task!
For this task, I read the following books, all labeled with “Middle School” on the main genre page. Guess which one is the lie?
Book A. “When you Reach me”
by Rebecca Stead - I’ve lived in New York City. Book B. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Cabin Fever”
by Jeff Kinney - I’ve been trapped in a blizzard. Book C. “The Fairy Tale Detectives”
by Michael Buckley - I have worked as a detective. Here’s the summary:
Points Earned this Challenge: 50
Total Points Earned to Date: 415
Pages Read this Challenge: 698
Total Pages Read to Date: 10985
Books Read this Challenge: 3
Total Books Read: 33
Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Book Tickets: 500( 3 ), 750( 1 ), 1000()
25.6 - Lois's task: Happy Birthday Girl Scouts! Option B (book whose title/subtitle includes the word “Girl”,“Scout” or “Guide”):
The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
Option C (book whose author’s name begin with any two or more of the letters WAGGGS):
So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
The author's initials are SW.
Tess Gerritsen is a Goodreads Author.
Points this post: 25
Total points to date: 295
25.1 Delicious Dee's task: Anchor’s AweighOption 3 (book published between May 13, 2005 and Jan 31, 2013):
Next by Michael Crichton
Originally published in 2006.
Option 5 (book where the initials of authors/contributors are found within one of the abbreviations DDG-58; LSD-41; CPR-4; JCCS-1; NCIS)
The Expats by Chris Pavone
The author's initals are CP and can be found in the abbreviation CPR-4.
Chris Pavone is a Goodreads Author.
Big book ticket for Next (537 pages)
Points this post: 25
Total points to date: 320
Oma1229Task 5.2- It's In Their Genes
Read a book that has a pair of one of the least common letters in the English language. I chose "P".
Maigret and the Apparition by Georges Simenon
Total Points to Date- 490
Jayme VA10.8 Pedal To The Metal
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick, Goodreads Author
Points this post: 10
Total points: 490
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, Rachel Hartman, Bernard Beckett, Matthew Quick
Big Books: 500+(2),750+(0),1000+(0)
Elizabeth BTask 20.10: Group Reads
I listened to the audiobook Brideshead Revisited.
The link to the paperback is
Brideshead Revisited and my commend is in post#14 of the book-discussion thread
Points this post:20
Total points:370
Total tasks: 25
GR Authors: 19
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(1)
Andy P.50.1 - Ms Anderson's task: Two Truths and a Lie
Book A
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson I grew up in New England.
Book B
The Mailbox by Audrey Shafer I have a dog that barks at the mailman
Book C The Goats by Brock Cole I never learned to swim.
All three of these books were approved in the help thread, message 2
Points this task: 50
Total Points: 605
Nick KY25.4 Stacie MI’s Read-a-Thon
Option 1: “Shortish Books” – I read Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates, 138 pages.
Option 6: From “Books to Keep you Up at Night,” I read Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. In truth, both books were from the “Books to Keep You Up…” list, but JCO's Beasts was short also. In contrast to it, I get to…
CLAIM ONE BIG BOOK for Fingersmith at 548 pages.
Points this post: 25
Total Points so far: 440
Big Books: 500+ (2)
BEKKA - 10.10 Above AverageFor this task, I read “Betsy-Tacy and Tib”
by Maud Hart Lovelace. It has an average rating of 4.24, which is higher than my average, which is 3.87. Here’s the summary:
Points Earned this Challenge: 10
Total Points Earned to Date: 425
Pages Read this Challenge: 169
Total Pages Read to Date: 11145
Books Read this Challenge: 1
Total Books Read: 34
Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Book Tickets: 500( 3 ), 750( 1 ), 1000()
Elizabeth BTask 25.1: Anchor’s Aweigh
Option 3: I read Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly, published on 2009.
Michael Connelly is a GRA
Option 6: I listened to the audiobook
, (there’s a boat on the cover). Here’s the link to the paperback Dance Upon the Air
Points this post:25
Total points:395
Total tasks: 26
GR Authors: 20
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(1)
STACIE MITask 10.3 - March April May
I read a book with a W-Y-W sequence:
Back When You Were Easier to Love by Emily Wing Smith
**Emily Wing Smith is a Goodreads author!!**
Points this task: 10
Total points: 360
Tasks completed: 28
Books read: 32
Pages read: 8259
Goodreads authors: 16
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Hpaddict30.4 What Are They All Talking About?
Book 1 - book club, this month, home country, #12 as of 4/22/13
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew QuickBook 2 - most read, this year, home country, #6 as of 4/22/13
11/22/63 by Stephen KingBig Book = 849 pages
this post = 30
challenge total = 215
Big Book = (1) 500, (1) 750, (0) 1000+
Congrats to all our super-early finishers! I don't know if I'll make it, but I'm giving it my best shot.
25.1 - Delicious Dee - Anchor’s AweighOption 2: NROTC in Title - Thread Reckoning by Amanda Lee T and R in Thread; R, O and C in Reckoning
Option 3: Book published between 5/13/05 and 1/31/13 - Second Chance Grill by ***Goodreads Author Christine Nolfi - published 10/30/12
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 250/890
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 20
GoodReads Authors: 9
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (), 1000+ ()
Sandy MN5.1 - Go West!
The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Set in South Dakota,USA)
5.5 Spring Chicken
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson Goodreads Author
15.5 Hug A Tree
by Laura Ingalls Wilder15.6 Let's All Go To the Lobby
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew QuickGoodreads Author
30.2 Dlmrose's task: For the Love of Reading
Book A:
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Goodreads Author
Book B:
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
30.3 Donna Jo's task: Upsy Daisy
Option #2
by Emily GiffinOption #3
Lover At Last by J.R. Ward Big Book 591 Pages
Total Points:475
Total GR Authors:16
Total Big Books: (3)500;(1)750;(0)1000
15.3. Laughing in IrelandOption 2 - setting is Ireland and humor is a genre
Skulduggery Pleasant
is audiobook so paperback for other reference
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
20.7- Suzanne VN's task Have Passport, Will Travel
Option 6. Landmark is Tower of London, approved msg 39 help thread.
by Boria Sax Boria Sax is a GR author-claiming ticket
20.8 – Laurie's task: March On!
Option 5- word 'fall' in title
The Long Fall by Walter Mosley
is audiobook so The Long Fall for additional reference.
20.9 - Peebee’s Task: A New Spring Wardrobe
Option D. I got this book from the library (after a long wait!)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Robin Sloan is a GR author, claiming ticket.
25.2 Laurie ME's task: Interesting Spring Holidays
Option 1 Mar 14-a food memoir
Apron Anxiety: My Messy Affairs In and Out of the Kitchen by Alyssa Shelasky
Option 6 May 7 tourism - Australia is a country I would love to visit.
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
used audiobook so paperbook for other ref In a Sunburned Country
25.8 Janet F's task: Springy Ideas!
Option 2 My GR friend Erica http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/12... rated it a 4 on Feb24.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
is audiobook so The Twelve Tribes of Hattie version for additional reference. Ayana Mathis is a GR author, claiming ticket
Option 4 audiobook
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
the paperback version is Linger Maggie Stiefvater is a GR author, claiming ticket.
30.3 Donna Jo's task: Upsy Daisy
Option 3 AV author initials
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
is audiobook. paperback version for page length is Cutting for Stone. It is a Big Book, claiming ticket.
Option 4 author named Mary
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
is audiobook. paperback for additional reference Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach is a GR author, claiming ticket.
30.4 Sandy's Task: What Are They All Talking About?
Book 1 -
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The book at the time of this post is listed 16th on my country/this wk. popular Bkclub bks.
Book 2 -26th on most read in US this week
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
paperback for page count The Host
It is a Bigbook, claiming ticket.
Point this Post -185
GR authors this Post -5
Big Books this Post - 3
Points to date - 420
GR author to date -11
Big books to date - 5
10.6 Storm ChasersSet in Texas during the dust bowl era:
House of Earth by Woody Guthrie
+10 Points
20.5 Bigger is Better- Kate S’s task: Tournament of Books 2013
3. A book with “Historical Fiction” on its main genre page:
HHhH by Laurent Binet
+20 Points
Points this Post: 30
Grand Total: 480
Task 15.10 - Spring BreakLover Enshrined by J.R. Ward ***Big Book 534 pages***
Total Big Book tickets = 3
Challenge total = 280
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15.6. Let's All Go to the Lobby
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
First made into a movie in 1981
20.5 Bigger is Better- Kate S's task: Tournament of Books 2013
Option 3: Historical Fiction
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Total (this post): 35 points
Grand Total: 340 points
Tasks completed: 22
Books read: 26
Goodreads authors: 6
Big books: 500+ (3); 750+ (2); 1000+ (0)