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Spring Challenge 2013 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC!
Readerboard Name: Jill ReneeTask - 30.1 Sheila/Kathy G's task - It's Spring Cleaning Time!
Option 1: Let's start by sorting and decluttering. Sort your To Be Read/Want to Read list by date added and read one of the 25 books that has been on the list the longest. Optional: How long has the book been on the list?
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Added as "To-Read" in October 2011
Option 2: Clean up a series that you are wanting to finish by reading any book that is part of a series. The series must be identified on Goodreads. For this task, a series is defined as at least 3 published books in the series as of March 1, 2013
The Fall by Guillermo del Toro
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 150
Books Read this Task: 2
Total Books Read: 11
GR Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.3 Best Review – Bucket’s task: Traveling in Time1. Back to the Classics: 1954:
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck
+20 Points
Grand Total: 745
Readerboard ID: JENBENT15.2. Vernal Equinox - 2 books with the same title
Flight by Sherman Alexie
Flight by Darren Hynes
Darren Hynes is a Goodreads author.
15.10. Spring Break
Wanted by Sara Shepard
Sara Shepard is a Goodreads author.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 735
Total Goodreads authors: 26
Total Big books: 1
Jennifer KS10.1 Less is More
I read Soulless by Gail Carriger who is a Goodreads Author
Points this Task: 10
Total Points: 445
Books Read 40
Task Done 36
GR Authors: 17
Pages Read 12700
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Jessica PDX15.2 - Vernal Equinox
by Kahlil Gibran
by Michael KorytaPoints This Post: 15
Total Points: 775
Janice CA20.9 - A New Spring Wardrobe....
Option D: Borrowed from the library
Bad Cop: New York's Least Likely Police Officer Tells All by Paul Bacon
+20
total: 185
tasks: 10
books: 13
GR Authors: 2
20.2 Rookie at the Top - Ty's Task: Pi DayOption 1 requires that the book's page count be made of digits from the first 10 digits of pi: 3.141592653.
I read Entertaining an Elephant: A Novel about Learning & Letting Go, which has 115 pages.
Total Points: 45
Goodreads Authors: 1
25.1 Delicious Dee's task: Anchors AweighOption 2, NROTC:
The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship by Lisa Verge Higgins
The PROper Care and MaiNTenanCe of Friendship
Lisa Verge Higgins is a Goodreads author.
Option 3, book published between 2005-2013:
Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir by Kelle Hampton, published in 2012
Points this post: 25
Total points: 625
GR authors: 18
Oma1229Task 5.5-Spring Chicken
Read a YA book
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
Point Total to Date-580
10.6 Storm Chasers - This book is set near the mythical town of Hanover, Nebraska.O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
15.8. Batter Up!
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
15.9. In Camelot
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
Points this post:40
Total points:715
GR Authors:10
Tasks this post:1
Total tasks: 39
Big Books: 500+(4), 750+(1), 1000+(1)
Task 15.1 - Follow the leader
Book 1: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Book 2 (Jane Austen is mentioned in Book 1):Persuasion by Jane Austen
Challenge total = 430
KAREN F10.7 Chosen by You
Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward
Nominated in the Romance category
572 Pages - 1 Big Book Ticket
15.10 Spring Break
Sparks Fly with the Billionaire by Marion Lennox
25.7 Judge a Book By It's Cover!
Option A - Dismembered
Book 1: Provocative in Pearls by Madeline Hunter
She's missing the top of her head, one arm and her feet:
**Madeline Hunter is a Goodreads Author**
Book 2: Dream Eyes by Jayne Ann Krentz
He's basically just a head (and missing the top of even that):
**Jayne Ann Krentz is a Goodreads Author**
Points this Post: 50
Total Challenge Points: 525
Goodreads Authors: 24
Big Books: 500+(3),750+(0),1000+(0)
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneTask 20.10- Group Reads!...read one of the Group Reads selections and post in the discussion thread for that book:
I read
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 351 pages (5.12)*[discussion message post #20 in [book:Brideshead Revisited|3655228] thread]
Points earned for this task: 20
Total Points Earned to Date: 400
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 13
Total # of Big Books: 3
500+ = (2)
700+ (1)
1000+ (0)
10.3 March April May Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande
***Claiming Goodreads Author***
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 215
Total Tasks Completed: 18
Total Books Read: 18
Total Pages Read: 6117
Total Goodreads Authors: 14
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
25.8 Janet F's task: Springy Ideas!Option 3: Audiobooks killed the radio star - musical notes
by Sean A. WrightApproved for length in post #2354
Option 6: Searching for the Sun
“For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.” Nalini Singh
Angels' Blood
Nalini Singh is a Goodreads Author
Total Points: 405
Points this Post: 25
Tasks Completed: 19
Books Read: 27
GoodReads Authors: 20
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (), 1000+ ()
25.5 - Nick KY’s Task: Shadow of the White Tiger - Book 1 Option A, Book 2 Option A
Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince by Nancy AthertonAND
Widow's Tears by Susan Wittig Albert
***Claiming Goodreads Author*** (Albert)
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 240
Total Tasks Completed: 19
Total Books Read: 20
Total Pages Read: 6677
Total Goodreads Authors: 15
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Sandy MN25.2 Laurie ME's Task: Interesting Spring Holidays
Option 2 Ides of March
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Goodreads Author
Option 6 National Tourism Day
Crystal Cove by Lisa Kleypas Goodreads Author
Set in the San Juan islands off the coast of Washington. I'd love to visit this beautiful place.
Total Points: 620
Total GR Authors: 27
CathyG5.1 -- Go West!
Read a book set in the Western Hemisphere.
Lover At Last by JR Ward
Set in New York
Big Book
5.5 -- Spring Chicken
Read a YA book. The genre "Young Adult" must appear on the book's main GRs page.
Neferet's Curse by Kristin and PC Cast
Goodreads Author
5.7 -- Someone to Fall Back On
Read a book by a favorite author; one that rarely, if ever, disappoints.
Jill Shalvis Rescue My Heart
Goodreads Author
5.8 -- Cinco de Mayo
Read a book that is #5 in a series, as identified on GRs
Lord of Darkness by Elizabeth Hoyt
Goodreads Author
5.9 -- Roll With It
Set the Dice roller to roll 1 die. I rolled a 3
Published in 2010
Cowgirls Don't Cry by Lorelei James
15.3. Laughing in Ireland
Option I -
A. In honor of St. Patricks’s Day, read a book set in Ireland AND
B. In honor of April Fool’s Day, read a book with the genre “humor”
OR
OPTION 2 – read one book that satisfies both criteria from Option 1.
Watermelon by Marion Keyes
15.6. Let's All Go to the Lobby
read a book that has been made into a movie that has been released by the end of the spring challenge.
The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
Goodreads author
20.4 - Author! Author!: Bluemoon's task: DID YOU KNOW....
C. Romance listed as one of the genres on its home page.
Be With Me by Maya Banks
25.2 Laurie ME's task: Interesting Spring Holidays
Choose 2 different options:
5. May 4: National Renewal Day: Give an old book/author/series you've neglected or given up on another chance.
Chased by Lauren Dane
6. May 7: National Tourism Day: Read a book set in or about a place you'd like to visit.
I would love to visit San Francisco where this book is set.
Wild Invitation by Nalini Singh
Goodreads Author
Points this post: 100
Total points: 600
Tasks completed: 32
Books read: 46
Goodreads Authors: 29
Big Books: 500= 1,750=0, 1000=0
BEKKA - 5.7 -- Someone to Fall Back OnFor this task, I read “Dead Ever After”
by Charlaine Harris, since she is one of my favorite authors who never disappoints, and this has been one of my favorite series. Here’s the summary:
Points Earned this Challenge: 5
Total Points Earned to Date: 695
Pages Read this Challenge: 338
Total Pages Read to Date: 17581
Books Read this Challenge: 1
Total Books Read: 55
Goodreads Authors: 25
Big Book Tickets: 500( 4 ), 750( 1 ), 1000()
10.6 Storm Chasers - KansasMoon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 250
Total Tasks Completed: 20
Total Books Read: 21
Total Pages Read: 7045
Total Goodreads Authors: 15
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
5.4 - Spring Up, Fall down Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
Big Book Ticket - 512 pages
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 205
Goodreads authors: 5
Big Books: 1
Casey TNREPOSTING 20.1 - Again! Again!
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly **GR Author**
Matching word is "Book" (Belly Button Book)
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 180
GoodReads Authors: 7
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
5.4 Spring Up, Fall DownThe Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley. The word "promise" can be used as a noun or a verb.
Priscille Sibley is a Goodreads author.
20.7 Have Passport, Will Travel
Option 5: This book, set in England, is outside my home country of the United States.
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell.
20.9 A New Spring Wardrobe
Option D: Book loaned from the library.
Nemesis by Philip Roth.
25.7 Judge a Book by its Cover
Option A: Covers showing a person with a body part missing.
The Crooked Branch by Jeanine Cummins.Jeanine Cummins is a Goodreads author.
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain.Paula McLain is a Goodreads author.
30.1 It's Spring Cleaning Time
Option 4: Window on cover
Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler.Option 6: Any book you choose
The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys.
Points this post: 100
Total points: 405
Tasks: 22
Books: 28
Goodreads authors: 10
STACIE MITask 10.8 - Pedal to the Metal
I read a book with the word "gold" in the subtitle:
Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory, 1849 by Kristiana Gregory
**Kristiana Gregory is a Goodreads author!!**
Points this task: 10
Total points: 550
Tasks completed: 39
Books read: 45
Pages read: 12049
Goodreads authors: 23
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Chris MD5.4 Spring Up, Fall Down
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
"Bridge" is both a noun and a verb.
10.5 Piece of Cake
Seduction and Snacks by Tara Sivec, who is a GR author
The main character opens a chocolate shop.
10.7 Chosen by You
I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern
This was a nominee in the humor category.
20.1 Again! Again!
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
The matching word is "big."
Points for this post: 5 + 10 + 10 +20 = 45
Total points: 45 + 540 = 585
Tasks completed: 41
Books read: 49
Goodreads authors: 1 + 14 = 15
Big books: 500=0, 750=0, 1,000=0
I spent the weekend holed up reading Skip Beat! I couldn't believe it fit so many tasks!5.1 -- Go West!:
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase
Most of the book set in UK
5.3 -- Here Kitty, Kitty:
by Marjorie M. Liu *GR Author*5.4 -- Spring Up, Fall Down:
Skip Beat!, Vol. 6
(Word "Beat" is both a noun and a verb.)
5.5 -- Spring Chicken:
Skip Beat!, Vol. 3
(Genre Young Adult appears in the main GR page)
5.6 -- Hope Springs Eternal:
Cross Game 1
(Last time I read the first volume, I felt it was really sad. Second time around, I still think the same. I think I'll his other works first)
5.7 -- Someone to Fall Back On:
Skip Beat!, Vol. 2
(This is my third time re-reading - catching up to the current release. I still love dark Kyoko. She's fantastic)
5.8 -- Cinco de Mayo:
Skip Beat!, Vol. 5
(Book that is #5 in series)
5.9 -- Roll With It:
Skip Beat!, Vol. 10
(First Published in 2007. I rolled a 6)
5.10 -- Attention Grabber:
Skip Beat!, Vol. 1
(I love this line: (view spoiler) It just comes into play so many times in the series.)
Points this Post: 45
Total points: 390
Tasks completed: 28
Books read: 34
Goodreads authors:14
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (2); 1000+ (2) = 11 tickets
Casselm15.3 Laughing in Ireland
Option 1:
A) The Hidden Houses of Ireland: Where to Find Them by Marion Heron
B) Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P.G. Wodehouse
20.5 Bigger is Better- Kate S's task: Tournament of Books 2013
Option 2:
The Golden Pot and Other Tales by ETA Hoffman
25.4 Stacie MI's Task: It's Read-a-Thon Time!
Option 1:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, less than 200 pages.
Option 6:
Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster, found under the heading "Other"
Points this post: 60
Total points: 125.
Shannon South Africa15.7 Feeling possessive
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Task points = 15
Challenge points = 135
Bette Greene is a GR Author
Goodreads Authors = 7
Casselm20.6 Seasoned Reader- Alexandra's task: Messing around
Option 4: Whisker of Evil by Rita Mae Brown
20.9 Moderator's Pet- Peebee’s Task: A New Spring Wardrobe
Option D: Death's Half Acre by Margaret Maron, which I bought at a used bookstore.
Points this post: 40
Total points: 165.
15.6. Let's All Go to the LobbyA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
IMDB movie link
15.7. Feeling possessive?
The Juice Lady's Turbo Diet: Lose ten pounds in ten days-the healthy way! by Cherie Calbom
20.3 Best Review - Bucket's task: Traveling in Time
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Back to the classic option: published in 1813
20.5 Bigger is Better- Kate S's task: Tournament of Books 2013
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Option 1: Author initial is JW (this is one of the tournament of books books :-D)
20.7- Shorter is Sweeter- Suzanne VN's task Have Passport, Will Travel
Option 1: Suitcase on the cover
by Kate Klise20.9 - Moderator's Pet- Peebee’s Task: A New Spring Wardrobe
Option B: Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Genre GLBT and gay main character
***** GoodReads Author ******
20.10 Group Reads
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Discussion Post
Task Points: 130 pts
Tasks this post: 7
Challenge Total: 130 pts
GoodReads Author: 1
Laurie ME5.6: Hope Springs Eternal - another try for this author, an okay book ...
In A Dry Season by Peter Robinson
10.8: Petal to the Metal: Gold
Shanghai Gold by Thomas Sturm
15.4: Celebrate the White Tiger
White: White Hot by Sandra Brown. Sandra Brown is a GRA.
Tiger: Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
25.1: Stacie MI's Task: It's Read-a-Thon Time!
Option 5: JCCS:
Weddings Can Be Murder by Christie Craig
Option 6: water bound ship on cover:
The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe
Points This Post: 55.
Total Points: 570.
1 GRA this post.
Keltie Lee10.10 Above Average
Twice Upon a Time #3: Beauty and the Beast, the Only One Who Didn't Run Away
by Wendy Mass
*rated 3.85 and my average rating is 3.37*
15.7. Feeling possessive?
Gabriel's Rapture
by Sylvain Reynard
*possessive in the title*
Points this post: 25
Total points: 570/870
Tasks: 37
Books: 46
10.5 Piece of CakeThe School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister *GRA*
10.6 Storm Chasers
Love Irresistibly by Julie James *GRA*
(Book is set in Chicago, Illinois)
10.7 Chosen By You
The Marriage Bargain by Jennifer Probst *GRA*
(Final Nominee in Romance Category)
10.9 Feeling Lucky?
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
(Page 30, Post 1484)
10.10 Above Average
Skip Beat!, Vol. 4
(My Average is 3.59. Book average is 4.52)
15.5. Hug a Tree
15.6. Let's All Go to the Lobby
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
15.7. Feeling possessive?
Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep *GRA*
15.8. Batter Up!
Cross Game 2
(The book is revolved around Middle School/High School Baseball.)
15.10. Spring Break
Cross Game 5
Points this Post: 125
Total points: 515
Tasks completed: 38
Books read: 44
Goodreads authors:18
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (2); 1000+ (2) = 11 tickets
Ana30.2 For the love of reading
I MESSED UP
Elizabeth BTask 25.2: Interesting Spring Holidays
Option 5 (neglected series): I read Naked Edge by Pamela Clare * GR Author *(I-team series #4) – I read #3 of this series in Jan 2012, I had this in my TBR for ages but for some reason I couldn’t start reading it
Option 6: I'd like to visit Denver, USA and I read Mystery Man by Kristen Ashley *GR Author*, which was set there
Task 25.5: Nick KY’s Task: Shadow of the White Tiger
Book 1, Option A: Zero Day by David Baldacci (approved by Nick at post #169 of the task thread)
Book 2, Option A: Jack & Jill by James Patterson *GR Author*
Points this post: 25+25=50
Total points:775
Total tasks: 45
GR Authors: 36
Coralie10.9 Feeling Lucky?
Random number 12
message 571: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Maisie Dobbs
20.9 A new Spring Wardrobe
Option D Thrift Shop II – borrowed from the library
The Flanders Panel
Total points 785
Jayme VA5.2 -- It's In Their Genes
The Divorce Party by Laura Dave has two v's: DiVorce and DaVe.
Laura Dave is a goodreads author.
15.9. In Camelot
The Forever King by Molly Cochran is shelved as mythology:Arthurian by 40 people and was an excellent read!
Points this post: 20
Total points: 780
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, Jennifer Holm, Mitch Albom, Amanda Hodgkinson, Emma Donoghue, John Grisham, Anne Ursu, Doug Magee, Beth Harbison, Laura Dave
Big Books: 500+(2),750+(0),1000+(0)
15.3 Laughing in IrelandOption 2 - One book that is set in Ireland and has genre "humor"
An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor
Points this post: 15
Total points:730
GR Authors:10
Tasks this post:1
Total tasks: 40
Big Books: 500+(4), 750+(1), 1000+(1)
20.2: Rookie At the Top- Ty's task: Pi DayDarkhouse by Karina Halle *GRA*
(Option 3: Romance Genre in the main book page)
20.6- Seasoned Reader- Alexandra's task: Messing around
His Eyes by Renee Carter *GRA*
(Option 1: My native language is Tamil. The original language of this book is English)
20.7- Shorter is Sweeter- Suzanne VN's task Have Passport, Will Travel
Montana Sky by Nora Roberts
(Option 5: Book is set in Montana, US. I'm living now in Singapore)
20.8 – It’s My Birthday! Laurie's task: March On!
The Billionaire's Pregnant Mistress by Lucy Monroe *GRA*
(Option 1: Lion is found intact in Billionaire)
20.9 - Moderator's Pet- Peebee’s Task: A New Spring Wardrobe
Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson *Big Book @ 1180 pages*
(Option D: I borrowed this book from the library)
25.4 Stacie MI's Task: It's Read-a-Thon Time!
(1. Short Books @181) Skip Beat!, Vol. 13
(4. Manga)Cross Game 3
25.6 - Lois's task: Happy Birthday Girl Scouts!
(Option C: Author's Initials Found in WAGGGS) The Restorer by Amanda Stevens *GRA*
(Option D: Book Set in Savannah)Waking Nightmare by Kylie Brant
30.2 Dlmrose's task: For the Love of Reading
A: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh *GRA*
B: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
30.3 Donna Jo's task: Upsy Daisy
(Option 2: Daisy on cover; Approved in Help thread)
by Lorraine Heath(Option 2: Matching pair "jr"; Approved in Help thread)Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb
30.4 Sandy's Task: What Are They All Talking About?
(Book 1: Generated Apr 21; World List #50):
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
(Book 1: Generated May 11; Singapore List #13):
Wedding Night by Sophie Kinsella
Points this Post: 240
Total points: 755
Tasks completed: 48
Books read: 55
Goodreads authors:23
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (2); 1000+ (3) = 14 tickets
Nick KY5.5 Spring Chicken. I read Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech which has YA on its GR homepage, and, I believe, fits all the guidelines for a 5 point task.
20.5 Kate S’s Tournament of Books. Option 2. Read a book of stories by a single author. I read
5 Stories by Peter Straub.
Points in this post: 25
Total Points so far: 665
Big Books: 500 + (3)
5.4 Spring Up, Fall Down style
/stīl/
Noun
A manner of doing something.
Verb
Design or make in a particular form.
I read Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 415
Total Tasks Completed: 23
Total Books Read: 28
Total Pages Read: 6164
Total GoodReads Authors: 6
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
15.10. Spring Break J'étais sa petite prisonnière by Jane Elliott
This post: 15 points
Total to Date = 185 points
//Goodreads Author: 3
//Big Books: 1 (500)
Readerboard Name: Barbara★5.2 - It's In Their Genes --Girl of Nightmares - Kendare Blake♥ (2 Ks, 2 Gs) 5/8
***Claiming Goodreads Author***
25.5 - Nick KY’s Task: Shadow of the White Tiger --
Book 1: Option A:
- Maggie Stiefvater♥ (silhouette on cover) 5/11***Claiming Goodreads Author***
Book 2: Option A: Voice Of Crow - Jeri Smith-Ready♥ (on map - just below and to the left) 4/8
***Claiming Goodreads Author***
30.4 - Sandy's Task: What Are They All Talking About?
Book 1: Defending Jacob - William Landay♥ 5/11
(popular book club, this month, #22)
***Claiming Goodreads Author***
Book 2: A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin 3/25
(most read, this month, #50)
***Claiming Big Book Ticket- 1010 pages***
Points Earned This Post: 60
Points Achieved to Date: 475
Goodreads Authors: 19
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (1)
750+ (0)
1000+ (1)
20.2 Rookie At the Top- Ty's task: Pi DayOption 1 - Pi Day. I read Dead Shot which has 352 pages, which can be found in 3.141592653
Points this post: 20
Total points: 115
Tasks this post: 1
Total tasks: 7
GR Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
SUZANNE VN5.3 Here Kitty, Kitty
25.2 Interesting Spring Holidays
Option 1 - National Pi Day
If You Can't Stand the Heat - a cozy mystery revolving around the Markham Grille & Cocktails Restaurant
Robin Allen is a GoodReads Author
Option 6 - National Tourism Day
Buried in a Bog - takes place in Ireland, where I would LOVE to visit
Sheila Connolly is a GoodReads Author
Points this task: 30
Total points: 400
Tasks completed: 25
Books read: 31
Goodreads authors: 19
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Repost with correction.5.4 - Spring Up, Fall down
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter - both 'ship' and 'fools' can be nouns and verbs.
Big Book Ticket - 512 pages
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 205
Goodreads authors: 5
Big Books: 1
Task 30.1 - It's Spring Cleaning Time!Option 4: Window on cover
This book was approved in the Task Help thread.
Option 6: The Bell Jar (any book)
Task 30.4 - What Are They All Talking About?
Book 1: Popular Bookclub Books - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
#32 on this month list on 5/13/13
*** Erik Larson is a Goodreads author
Book 2: Most Read - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
#22 on this month list on 5/13/13
Points this post: 60
Tasks completed this post: 2
GR authors this post: 1
Total challenge points: 415
Total tasks completed: 23
Total number Big Books: 500(1) 750(0) 1000(1)
Total Goodreads authors: 8
Andy P.Task # 5.6 Hope Springs Eternal
Read a book by an author that has disappointed you in the past
Sleight of Hand by Phillip Margolin
I'm not a big fan of courtroom thrillers (too much lawyerese) , but I thought I'd try again and was pleasantly surprised.
Task # 10.10 Above Average
Read a book that exceeds your average book rating.
I have a rating of 4.8 so I read Poppet by Mo Hayder which has a rating as of today of 4.22
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 870
Baring any mistakes in this post I have finished the challenge for Spring 2013
D.G. ~Shameless Hussy~5.7 Someone to Fall Back On (1 Book)
--Favorite author: The Mad Earl's Bride by Loretta Chase - Approved for Length
10.2 Angry Birds (1 Book)
--"Thriller" genre on main book page: Kiss Me While I Sleep by Linda Howard
Points for this post: 15
Total points: 510/870
Total GR Tickets: 25
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
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This post: 5 points
Total points to date: 15 points
Tasks completed: 3