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SPRING CHALLENGE 2013
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Spring Challenge 2013 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC!
Nicki UK10.9 Feeling Lucky?
I rolled 27 and read a book found on page 27, post 1325.
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Points this post: 10 points
Points to date: 95 points
Books read: 6
Pages read: 2441
Goodreads authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
25.3 Nikki's task: Come Play with me !I read one book that satisfies Game 2 (Chess) and Game 4(Connect 4)
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
contains the word "king" which is a valid chess pieces and the title has four words.
This book contains 873 pages but I'm not claiming a big book ticket because I had read 400 pages before the seasonal challenge began. Since I read 473 during the season it is still a valid selection.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 170
Tasks this post:1
Total tasks:10
GR Authors:2
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Ty wrote: "Dee wrote: "Katrina wrote: "Wow Ms Anderson, you have been busy!"on the bright side, we know who is doing the 50 pointer already ;) since she didn't do last season..."
ooohhh. can we get it ear..."
I don't even have a complete idea yet! It may take me a month to come up with something :P
'Sides, I had to make up for my absence somehow, right?
STACIE MITask 20.10 - Group Reads
I decided to read the Noir selection and have posted in the discussion thread:
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Points this task: 20
Total points: 105
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 11
Pages read: 2628
Goodreads authors: 8
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Task 25.6 - Happy Birthday Girl Scouts
Option B ('girl' in the title): The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair ***GR Author***
Option C (Title words start with GG): Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn ***GR Author***
Total GR Authors = 4
Challenge total = 55
5.1 Go West! Set in the USA:
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 145/870
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 11
GR Authors: 7
Big Book Tickets: 1
Keltie Lee5.6 -- Hope Springs Eternal
Jane
by April Lindner
*I tried reading this book when it first came out a few years ago and I couldn't get into it so I gave up after the first couple chapters. I decided to give it second try and found that I really enjoyed it this time*
20.6 Messing around
Option 3:
by Kim Noble*the square in the bottom right is yellow*
Points this post: 25
Total points: 180/870
Tasks: 10
Books: 12
Just completed 20.5 Bigger is Better. I chose Option #2 and read Kinsey and Me: Stories.And for 15.10 Spring Break, I finished Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist. I had started this one before the Challenge, but I wasn't very far into it. So I took this opportunity to buckle down with it -- and I'm so glad I did! I might even have to re-read it soon. What a wonderful book!
JACKIE NC15.10. Spring Break
Murder Well-Done by Claudia Bishop
20.4 - Author! Author!: Bluemoon's task: DID YOU KNOW....
Option D:
Cold in the Earth by Ann Granger
3rd in Mitchell & Markby series
20.8 – It’s My Birthday! Laurie's task: March On!
Option 2:
Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt by Carole Nelson Douglas
9th in Midnight Louie series
25.1 Delicious Dee's task: Anchor’s Aweigh
Option 2:
Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones
NROTC in title - SeCONd GRave on The Left
Option 3:
While My Pretty One Knits by Anne Canadeo
Published May 12, 2009
Carole Nelson Douglas and Darynda Jones are Goodreads authors.
Points this post: 80
Total Points: 80
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Book Tickets:
Task 20.6 - Seasoned Reader- Alexandra's task: Messing around 1. Read a book originally written in a different language than your own.
HHhH: A Novel (2010) by Laurent Binet (translated by Sam Taylor) (Hardcover, 330 pages)
Required : State the original language of the book
FRENCH
25 + 20 = 45
Tasks Completed: 2
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 25 + 20 = 45
Books read: 3
Pages read: 898
Read but not claimed: 3
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
20.6I selected option 1. I read The Dinner by Herman Koch. It was originally written in Dutch, and I read it in English.
Task Points :20
Total points : 55
GoodRead Authors:3
Tasks finished :4
10.10 Above average Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban JK Rowling / my average rating is 3.57 and book is 4.43
Task points 10
Total points105
Coralie10.3 March April May
Red Star Rising R-S-R
20.5 Tournament of Books 2013
Option 3 ‘Historical Fiction’ on main genre page
Flaubert's Parrot
Total points 120
20.7- Shorter is Sweeter- Suzanne VN's task Have Passport, Will TravelMémoires mortes by Patricia Cornwell
Option 5. International travel - I live in Belgium and the book is set in the USA
Patricia Cornwell is a Goodreads Author.
This post: 20 points
Total to Date = 20 points
//Goodreads Author: 1
15.7 – FeelingPossessive?A book with a possessive noun in the title:
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
Total points 100
Delicious Dee5.10 -- Attention Grabber
Merciless - Opening Line - "I blame my unrealistic expectations of becoming an FBI special agent on the X-files.
Total Points: 180
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
Cindy AL5.6 Hope Springs Eternal:
Vanished by Kat Richardson
I like her characters, but I find her writing a bit hard to follow. I do keep giving second chances, working my way through this series.
Kat Richardson is a Goodreads Author
5.8 Cinco de Mayo:
Labyrinth by Kat Richardson
Greywalker #5. See, I said I was working my way through this series, still not in love.
Kat Richardson is a Goodreads Author
10.8 Pedal To The Metal:
The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith Saintcrow
Lilith Saintcrow is a Goodreads Author
10.9 Feeling Lucky?:
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Page 19 post 910 of the Winter Challenge Completed Tasks
Marissa Meyer is a Goodreads Author
Points in this post - 30
Total Points - 205/870
Books - 20/71
Pages - 6982
Goodreads Authors: 16
Big Books:500+ - (0), 750+ - (0),1000+ - (0)
Delicious Dee20.2: Rookie At the Top- Ty's task: Pi Day
Option 1 - Nightshifted - Cassie Alexander (GR Author) - the copy I read had 331 pages which shows up in the sequence of numbers for Pi - 3.141592653
Total Points: 200
Goodreads Authors: 13
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
Jessica PDX20.4 - BlueMoon's Task - Did You Know....
Option B - Shelved as Travel
by Jason WilsonPoints This Post: 20
Total Points: 205
Task 5.3 - Here, Kitty, Kitty
Task 15.10 - Spring Break
Acquired Tastes
Task 25.1 - Anchor's Aweigh
Option 2 - NROTC in title/subtitle
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America (N,O,T,C in Continents, R in Travels)
Option 3 - Published between 5/13/05 and 1/31/13
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town (Published in 2009)
Points this post: 45
Tasks completed this post: 3
Total challenge points: 45
Total tasks completed: 3
Cindy FTask 20.8 March On!
Option 3: Rabbit on cover. I read
by Arto PaasilinnaPoints this post:20
Total points:80
Books read:6
Tasks completed:5
Goodreads Authors:2
Big Books:500+(0)750+(1)1000+(0)
30.1 Sheila/Kathy G's task - It's Spring Cleaning Time!Option 2: Book that is part of a series - Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.
Option 3: book with mystery on main page - Solomon vs. Lord by ***Goodreads Author*** Paul Levine. Paperback is 576 pages so I'm claiming a Big Book.
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 105/890
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 6
GoodReads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (), 1000+ ()
OMA1229Task 30.3-Upsy Daisy Choose 2 books
Option 3 Choose a book by an author who has many of the matching letter pairs in their initials. I chose MW
Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West
Michael Lee West is a Goodreads Author
Option 4 Read a bookby an author with the naem Daisy, Marguerite, Mary or Rose.
Absolute Certainty by Rose Connors
Points this Post-30
Total Points to Date-185
Sheila10.8 Pedal To The Metal
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black20.7- Shorter is Sweeter- Suzanne VN's task Have Passport, Will Travel
Option 2. Read a book whose title specifically mentions a major city.
Baltimore Blues by Laura LippmanTotal Points = 230
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneTask 20.9- A New Spring Wardrobe!...pick an option and read 1 book:
I chose option D (select a book that came to you used..in my case from a used bookstore) and I read
The Secret Keeper: A Novel of Kateryn Parr by Sandra Byrd*[this is a GRA] 331 pages (3.10)Points earned for this task: 20
Total Points Earned to Date: 60
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 2
Total # of Big Books: 0
500+ = (0)
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneTask 15.6- Let's All go to the Lobby!...read a book that's been made into a movie:
I read
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 184 pages (3.14)Points earned for this task: 15
Total Points Earned to Date: 75
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 2
Total # of Big Books: 0
500+ = (0)
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)
15.6 Let's All Go to the LobbyDear John by Nicholas Sparks
***Claiming GoodReads Author***
This is probably one of my favorite Nicholas Sparks books. It's realistic and I'm glad things didn't turn out perfectly for either of the characters. It made it easier to relate to.
Points: 15
Total Points: 40
Tasks This Post: 1
Total Tasks: 3
Books Read: 3
Tasks Complete: 3
GR Authors: 1
Big Books: 0
Pages Read: 827
Sandy MN20.9 - Moderator's Pet- Peebee’s Task: A New Spring Wardrobe
Option D: Library book
The Book of Summers by Emylia Hall
Total Points:120
MARIA HELENA10.5 Piece of Cake
Summer Desserts by Nora Roberts
20.2 Rookie At the Top- Ty's task: Pi Day
Option 3: Hummingbird Lake by Emily March
****** Emily March is a Goodreads Author ******
20.4 Author! Author!: Bluemoon's task: DID YOU KNOW....
Option C: Starting Over by Marie Force
****** Marie Force is a Goodreads Author ******
Points this post: 50
Total Points: 155/870
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 13
GR Authors: 8
Big Book Tickets: 0
25.7 Judge a book by it's coverOption 1
This task 25 points
Total points 60
20.10 Group Read "Noir" The Postman Always Rings Twice post 39 in discussion thread30.3 Upsy Daisy
Option 3: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by by Philip K. Dick initials PD
Option 4: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (Goodreads Author) author name Mary
Total Tasks Completed: 2
Total Books Read: 3
Total GoodReads Authors: 1
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Here Kitty Here Kitty 5:2 Post book with cat on cover, post cover
finished 3/15 5 p0ints-total points-20
15.10 Spring Break!Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures by Cynthia Saltzman
Points this post: 15
Total points: 185
Tasks this post:1
Total tasks:11
GR Authors:2
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
5.6 Hope Springs EternalI read The Tin Horse: A Novelby Janice Steinberg. I had read Death in a City of Mysticsyears ago, which was eh. I LOVE The Tin Horse and read it in what felt like one sitting.
Points: 40
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 4
GR authors: 2
5.7 - Someone to Fall Back OnPoltergeist by Kat Richardson
Kat Richardson is a Goodreads Author.
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 25
Goodreads author: 1
Big Books:
5.5 Spring ChickenThe genre "YA" is on the Goodreads main page.
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.
10.6 Storm Chaser
A large part of this book was set in Florida.
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston.
10.8 Pedal to the Metal
The word "gold" is in the title.
Gold by Chris Cleave.
Chris Cleave is a Goodreads author.
20.2 Pi Day
Option 1: The page count of this book has digits in the first 10 numbers of pi. 394 pages.
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean.
Points: 45
Tasks: 4
Books: 4
Goodreads authors: 1
Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥20.9 Moderator's Pet- Peebee’s Task: A New Spring Wardrobe
Option D Used Book/Goodwill:An Irish Country Doctor
Points Earned This Post: 20
Points Achieved to Date: 130/870
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (0)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)
BEKKA - 5.4 -- Spring Up, Fall DownFor this task I read “World War Z”
by Max Brooks, since “war” is both a noun and a verb. This was approved in post 29 of the help thread for this task; also here is the definition from Mirriam-Webster:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio...
Also, Max Brooks is a Goodreads Author, so I’m claiming a ticket for that.
Here’s the summary:
Points Earned this Challenge: 5
Total Points Earned to Date: 75
Pages Read this Challenge: 342
Total Pages Read to Date: 2422
Books Read this Challenge: 1
Total Books Read: 8
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Book Tickets: 500( 1 ), 750(), 1000()
5.6 -- Hope Springs EternalRead a book by an author that has disappointed you you in the past, but who you are willing to give another chance.
by J.F. Jenkins (Goodreads Author) Approved here.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 30
Tasks completed: 6
Books Read: 6
GR Authors: 5
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Karen Oz5.3 -- Here Kitty, Kitty
The Sending (The Obernewtyn Chronicles #6) by Isobelle Carmody GR Author
– one eyed cat being held by girl’s armBig Book Ticket – 750 pages
20.2: Rookie At the Top- Ty's task: Pi Day
Option 3: Genre > Romance
The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord GR Author
25.4 Stacie MI's Task: It's Read-a-Thon Time!
Book 1: Option 1; Shortish – An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
Book 2: Option 4; Genre > Manga – Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 1 by Nabuhiro Watsuki
Total (this post): 50 points
Grand Total: 120 points
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 9
Goodreads authors: 3
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (1); 1000+ (0)
5.4 - Spring Up, Fall DownThe Devil All the Time ('time' is both a noun and a verb)
10.3 - March April May
The Whole Stupid Way We Are (Whole Stupid Way - WSW)
15.5 - Hug a Tree
- approved in task help threadTotal books read: 6
Points in this post: 30
Total points accumulated: 60/870
Meera10.5 Piece of Cake
The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What You Should Eat and Why by Jonny Bowden25.5 - Nick KY’s Task: Shadow of the White Tiger
Book 1. Option A. Read a book with a black or white silhouette on the cover:
The Leopard by Jo NesbøBook 2.
Option A. Literature map:
The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-OlsenPoints this post: 35
Total points: 80
Reposting after score correction to #402Task 20.2:Rookie At the Top- Ty's task: Pi Day
Option 1 - Pi Day: Read a book whose page count include digits from the first 10 digits of pi (3.141592653).
Read The Autobiography Of Henry VIII (★★★★, 14 Mar '13)|Pages 932
Points this task: 20
Total points: 25
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Pages read: 1178
Goodreads authors: 0
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (1); 1000+ (0)
Jayme VA5.10 -- Attention Grabber
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The first line is "The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything."
Pretty good first line, but didn't really enjoy the rest of the book.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 85
GR Authors: Karen Russell, Stephen Dau
Big Books: 500+(0),750+(0),1000+(0)
SOELO10.10 Above Average
My average rating was 3.87, so I read
which has an average rating of 4.07. Angleberger is a GR author.20.6 Messing Around
I picked option 3 and read
which has several yellow books on the cover and was approved in the Help Thread.Points this post: 30
Total so far: 30
GR Author tickets: 1
10.3 March April MayAlso Known As by Robin Benway (A-K-A)
*** Robin Benway is a Goodreads Author ***
20.9 - Moderator's Pet- Peebee’s Task: A New Spring Wardrobe
Option F: Spring Wardrobe II
by Elise Sax*** Elise Sax is a Goodreads Author ***
Total points: 40
Total GRA: 2
Total big book tickets: 0
Kristi CO20.2 Pi Day
Option 1
Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro, 336 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 75
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
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20.7 -- Shorter is Sweeter - Suzanne VN's task Have Passport, Will Travel
Option 2 -
On Dublin Street by Samantha Young
This post: 20 points
Total to Date: 130 points