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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2013
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Summer Challenge 2013: Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE POSTS)
Andy P.Task # 20.8 – It’s My Birthday! - Sue Q's task: Beginnings and Endings
Option 2 Endings Read a book with a title containing a word ending in a "K"
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Spook ends in a "K"
Points this task: 20
Total points: 175
LAUREL CATask 5.1. 10 years ago
Read a book by an author with an initial as part of his/her name.
Sudden Mischief
by Robert B. Parker. B is the initial. Paperback edition 297 pagesI could not get the name to show up by itself, using the add book/author function.
Points this task: 5
Total points: 30
Review available:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
15.9 Mountains to ClimbMountain in title
Burnt Mountain by Anne Rivers Siddons
Points in This Task: 15
Goodreads Authors in This Post: 0
Big Book Tickets in This Post: 0
Pages Read in This Post: 323
Totals:
Total Points: 55
Total Goodreads Authors: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(0), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 3
Total Books Read: 3
Total Pages Read in Summer 2013 SRC: 1070
Review Available. Anne (Booklady) Summer 2013 Reviews
This link works. I posted a broken link in my last post.
25.15 -- Stacie MI's task: It's Barbeque Time!A. Steak: Whenever I think of steak, I think of eating a fancy dinner in a steakhouse. Read a book with a cover picturing someone in fancy clothing - i.e. suit and tie, ball gown
D. Chicken: Read a book that you've been too "chicken" to read. Maybe the page length intimidates you. Maybe you worry that it won't live up to the hype it's received. Maybe you're afraid that it'll be a disappointment. Required: Let us know why you've been chicken.
I read
by Aimee AgrestiThis book is 534 pages and fulfills both categories. I was too chicken to pick up this book because it was so big. I had started it once before and wasn't into it, but it was still sitting there waiting for me. I started this book over for the challenge. I was right to be chicken. It wasn't a good book.
Aimee Agresti is a goodreads author
This book is a big book.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 35
Books read: 3
Goodreads authors: 3
Big books: 1 (500+)
25.12 - WHAT COMES NEXT - OPTION 6 - WINTER/SPRINGBOOK 1 - The Silence of Winter
BOOK 2 - The Hope of Spring
TOTAL POINTS - 140
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 2
BIG BOOKS - 4
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5.1 – 10 years ago.
author with initials: Beneath the Abbey Wall : A Novel by A.D. Scott
15.4 - Get to the Finish Line
Option 2 - Tortoise, one book 400+
The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen, 416 pages
30.1 - Ms Anderson's task: Name Dropping
I rolled a 1 and 3
1, series: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley (Flavia de Luce #4)
3, graphic novel: Silent Partner by Jonathan Kellerman
total = 170
SOELO20.4 Initial Fun
I read
Horten's Incredible Illusions: Magic, Mystery & Another Very Strange Adventure
by Lissa Evans
whose initials LE are in my readerboard name SOELO.
20.8 Beginnings and Endings
Using option 2
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
where the first word in the title ends with a K.
Claiming one GR ticket for this book as Holly Black is one of the authors.
Points this post: 40
Total so far: 40
GR tickets: 1
Michael LA
15.1: A Machiavellian Task
Using Option 5 (50,000+ goodreads ratings) for both
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Mary Roach is a GR Author
Points this post: 15
Total points: 40
GR Authors: 1
Big books:
15.1: A Machiavellian Task
Using Option 5 (50,000+ goodreads ratings) for both
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Mary Roach is a GR Author
Points this post: 15
Total points: 40
GR Authors: 1
Big books:
15.4 Get to the finish line Option 2- Read a book with at least 400 pages
What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
What Happened to Goodbye is 402 pages long.
Sarah Dessen is a Goodreads Author
20.8 It’s My Birthday! - Sue Q's task: Beginnings and Endings
Option 2- Endings: read a book with a word that ends with the letter "k"
I read Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen is a Goodreads Author
Points this post: 35
Total Points: 45
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books:
Lindy-Lane25.20- Reading Goals
rolled a 4: book owned prior 6.1.2013:
The Reincarnationist by M.J. Rose*this is a Goodreads Author
rolled a 6: series all ready started:
Some Like It Hawk by Donna Andrews* this is a Goodreads Author
Points this post: 25
Total points: 70
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
Tasks Completed: 3
15.10 No more Homework-read book of your choiceThe Dead Cat BounceThe Dead Cat Bounceby Sarah Graves Points this post-15 Total points-15
Janice CA25.13 Dirty Dancing....
Option B: Cast
Author shares a name with cast member Jennifer Grey.
Shadows Of The Workhouse by Jennifer Worth
and
Option D: Setting - NY
I read a book set in Queens, NY.
Who Do You Think You Are? by Alyse Myers
+25
total:45
tasks: 2
books: 3
FANDURY20.4 - Author! Author! - Ann A's task: Initial Fun
Read ONE book by an author that is NEW TO YOU!
Option 1 The author's initials must be found in any order in your Readerboard name.
Something Red by Douglas Nicholas
The initials DN are in my readerboard name: faNDury
This is the first book I read by this author, as he wrote mostly poetry till now, and I'm not really into that.
Douglas Nicholas is a Goodreads Author
Total Points: 95
Books Read: 6
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
Deyara➜ Task # 30.3 - Sheila/Kathy G's task: Kickin' Back with the Girls from R.E.L.A.X.
L - Luscious Lemonade:
Making Lemonade by Kate Langdon
A - Acquire: from the library
Blood Trinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon
ʘ Blood Trinity is a Big Book - 519 pp
➜ Task # 30.4 - Cindy AL's task: All Things Wedding
C) Say Yes To The Dress:
Shadowborn by Alison Sinclair
D) Something Old, Something New...: published Jan 29, 2013
Scent of Darkness by Margot Berwin
ʘ Alison Sinclair is a Goodreads Author
ʘ Margot Berwin is a Goodreads Author
Points this post: 60 points
Total to Date = 60 points
GR Authors: 2
Big Books: 1
Task 25.13 - Dirty Dancing
Option B (The Cast): Neal Jones as Billy Kostecki
American Gods ***Big Book 656 pages*** by Neil Gaiman ***GR Author***
Option D (Set in NY): Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber (The majority of this book is set in New York City).
Total Big Book Tickets = 1
Total GR Authors = 3
Challenge total = 70
10.8 -- Summer ReadingRead a book from NPR's Summer Books 2012
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Total points: 20
Ana30.4 All Things Wedding
Option C:
by R.L. LaFevers. She is a Good Reads author and it is a big book with 549 pages.
Option D:
by Morgan Rhodes. Published Dec. 2012.Points this Post 30
Total Points 115
Tasks Completed 4
Books Read 8
Total Pages 2610
GoodReads Author 4
Big Books 500+(1)
Delicious Dee10.8 -- Summer Reading
Somebody to Love - Kristan Higgins (GR Author) - appeared on the list under the sub-heading "reading romance between (and under) the covers"
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 125
GR Authors: 5
Big Books: 500 + (1)
25.11 -- Vi/Midu 's task: Explore ListopiasStarting Book:Under the Dome
Books That Should Be Made Into Movies: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Best Books Ever: The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
Kendare Blake and Tea Obreht are GoodReads Authors
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 25
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
JOLIE15.7 - 11/11
Two pairs of the same letter in the same book title/author name
Mine contains two pairs of the letter "L" in the author's name:
A Darker Justice by Sallie Bissell
Goodreads Author this post for Sallie Bissell
Points this post: 15
Total points: 70
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 0
Andy P.Task # 20.1 Most Improved Player - Stacy CT's task: All Things Peru!
Option 2. a book that has a 3 AND a 0 in the total number of pages Every Broken Trust: A Mystery by Linda Rodriguez
This book has 304 pages
Points this task: 20
Total points: 195
Nancy NY30.1 Name Dropping
I rolled a 2 (genre time travel):
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom (goodreads author)
and I rolled a 5 (genre poetry):
Collateral by Ellen Hopkins (goodreads author)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 55
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 4
Goodreads authors: 3
Sheila 5.6 – 60 years ago.
One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper(before)
5.7 – 70 years ago.
Seven Days From Sunday by M.H. Sargent(approved for ebook length post 2368)
Total Points = 220
STACIE MITask 15.9 - Mountains to Climb
I read a book with "River" in the title:
Down the Mysterly River by Bill Willingham
**Bill Willingham is a Goodreads author!!
Points this task: 15
Total points: 15
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Pages read: 333
Goodreads authors: 1
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Mod
I read Home Landscaping: Mid-Atlantic Region (Home Landscaping) by Roger Holmes and Rita Buchanan.
20.10 Group Reads
I read The Big Sleep. I posted a comment in post 14 of the discussion thread.
30.6 - Ty's task: Reading Your 123s
I chose option 1 (series placement = last digit of birth year). My year ends in 3, so I read
The Innocent and The Hit. Both are by David Baldacci, and are books 1 and 2 in his Will Robie series.
Total points: 160
30.7 - SCATTEGORIES SRC STYLEROLLED - 3 & 6
LETTER - S
I chose the one book option and read Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness.
3 - Word in title or subtitle - SHADOW
6 - Word in series name - SOULS
Book is 584 pages long.
Deborah Harkness is a Goodreads author.
Shadow of Night is a Big Book with 584 pages.
TOTAL POINTS - 170
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 3
BIG BOOKS - 5
10.9 - Add it upI ended up with a 2, so I read Lost Voices by Sarah Porter
***Sarah Porter is a GRA***
15.2 - Good Luck Charms
Option 3: Something borrowed (from my GR friend Anette Divjak) The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Option 4: Something Blue
by Chuck Palahniuk The devil is wearing blue eyelinerPoints this post: 25
Total Points: 40
GR Author: 4
Big Ticket Books: 0
KAREN F5.3 30 Years Ago
A Lot Like Love by Julie James
Repeated Letters - Lot Like Love or Julie James
**Julie James is a Goodreads Author**
20.4 Initial Fun
Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist
Raymond Feist - KAREN F
Raymond Feist is a New To Me Author
Points this Post: 25
Total Challenge Points: 65
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(0),750+(0),1000+(0)
20.3 - Best Review - Nick KY's task: The Blank BlankThe Forever Queen by Helen Hollick
Helen Hollick is a Goodreads Author.
Book is 656 pages long.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 45
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500- 1, 750, 1000 pages
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5.2 - 20 Years AgoAlanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
***Claiming Goodreads Author***
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 70
Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 5
Goodreads Author: 6
Readerboard ID: JENBENT20.10 Group Reads
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Post 15 in discussion thread
Points this post: 20
Goodreads Authors this post: 0
Big Books this post: 0
Total points: 105
Total Goodreads authors: 3
Total Big books: 1
Oma1229Task 20.10-Group Reads
Read a book set in the western U.S.
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
I posted in discussion for group reads- number 16
Total Points to Date-135
Total Tasks-8
Goodreads Author-1
Big Book-0
CHRISTINE L.Task 5.1 - 10 years ago
Read a book by an author who uses an initial in her name.
Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery
Points this task: 5
Total Points to Date - 40
Total Tasks - 3
Goodreads Author - 2
Big Book - 0
Total Books - 4
Liora15.7 11/11
Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry (two sets of double l’s)
Maureen Sherry is a Goodreads Author.
25.19 School’s Out Forever
1. Where in the World – The Red Velvet Turnshoe by Cassandra Clark is set in France and Italy.
Cassandra Clark is a Goodreads Author.
2. Woo Hoo! Field Trip! – Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil by Nancy Atherton (painting on cover)
30.4 All Things Wedding
A. Destination Wedding – The House on Tradd Street by Karen White is set in Charleston, S.C. which would make a lovely place to get married.
B. White Wedding –
by M.C. Beaton has a mostly white cover. 70 points this post
70 points total
5 books read this post
5 books read total
2 Goodreads Authors
5.2 – 20 years ago.A Table for Three - Lainey Reese, GR Author
5.7 – 70 years ago.
Come Monday - Mari Carr, GR Author
ebook approved @212
5.8 – 80 years ago.
The Lion of Kent - Aleksandr Voinov (GR Author) & Kate Cotoner
ebook approved @1017
5.10 – 100 years ago
The Breaker's Concubine - Ann Mayburn, GR Author
Ann found in Ann Roth nominated for Best Costume Design of a Play
10.6 -- Black Flag Day
Tethered Liberty - Jessica Steele
set in Mexico
25.8 - Karen GHHS's task: Big Sky Country
Option 3 (moon) - Full Moon Mating - Stormy Glenn
Option 6 - Hunting Ground - Patricia Briggs
set in Seattle, Washington
25.11 -- Vi/Midu 's task: Explore Listopias
Starter book: Rock Chick
From Best Kristen Ashley Books (#12): Rock Chick Revenge - Kristen Ashley, GR Author
From Best Book Boyfriends (#9): The Edge of Never - J.A. Redmerski, GR Author
Points this post: 80
Total points: 165
GR Authors: 6
25.15 -- Stacie MI's task: It's Barbeque Time!D. Chicken: I read The Legacy of Moses and Akhenaten: A Jewish Perspective. I am always interested in this kind of thing but am always afraid it is too academic and dry in tone to be interesting. Also that it is a crock and everyone knows but me. I really found it interesting, incidentally.
E. Yellow: I read Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad This book was approved on the help thread.
Dan Zevin is a ****Goodreads Author ******
Points: 80
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 7
GR authors: 3
Pages read: 2215
LAUREL CA Task 5.2. 20 years ago
Read a book with a number in the title or subtitle.
Read Sixkill
SixkillGoodreads authors: 1
5 points
25 points totalRobert B. Parker
RobynTask 5.8 80 Years Ago
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity. Goodreads lists 3 different co-authors.
Task Points: 5
Number of Challenges Completed: 2
Number of Books Read: 2
Total Number of Points: 10
Delicious Dee30.4 - Cindy AL's task: All Things Wedding
Option B -
- Ellen Hopkins (GR Author)(Big Book Ticket, 500+ pages - book is 532 pages)Option C -
- Elena Aitken (GR Author) - dress approved in the THTPoints This Post: 30
Total Points: 155
GR Authors: 7
Big Books: 500 + (2)
Sheila5.9 – 90 years ago.
Bloody Mary by J.A. Konrath(celery stalk and lemon slice)
5.10 – 100 years ago
What Dies in Summer by Tom WrightTom Hanks is the nominee in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for Lucky Guy
Total Points = 230
Readerboard Name: Barbara★20.7 -- Shorter is Sweeter - Ana's task: Something New -
Option 3: Hannah's Dream - Diane Hammond (new to me author) 6/15
25.5 -- Bluemoon's task: In the Gardens -
Option C:
- Fern Michaels (roses on cover) 6/16Option D: On Dublin Street - Samantha Young♥ (romance) 6/14
***Claiming Goodreads Author***
Points Earned This Post: 45
Points Achieved to Date: 55
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (0)
750+ (0)
1000+ (1)
Kathy G.25.4 - Janet F's task: Bookin' Around the Bases
Option 2- One word title
Rainwater by Sandra Brown
Link to paperback:
Rainwater
***Claiming Goodreads Author***
Option 3- Book from the SRC Scavenger Hunt
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch
Link to paperback:
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
link to the page- (Post 684)
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...
***Claiming Goodreads Author***
Total Points- 120
Total Tasks- 7
Goodreads Authors- 4
Big Books- 0
Task 25.7 - Author or Title?Choose 1 book for each of the following options:
Book A: The font size for the author's name on the cover should be BIGGER than the smallest font size used in the title on the cover.
The Player on the Other Side (Ellery Queen Detective #28) (1963) by Ellery Queen (Mass Market Paperback, 233 pages)
Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (1964)
Book B: The font size for the author's name on the cover should be SMALLER than the biggest font size used in the title on the cover.
The Earl (1971) by Cecelia Holland (Hardcover, 301 pages)
40 + 25 = 65
Tasks Completed: 3
Points for this post: 25
Points thus far: 40 + 25 = 65
Books read: 5
Pages read: 1,548
Read but not claimed: 2
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
20.7 Shorter Is Sweeter--Ana's Task--Something New:3. Baba Yaga's Daughter & Other Tales of the Old Races by C.E. Murphy
I had never read C. E. Murphy before. 257 pp.
30.3 Sheila/Kathy G's Task--Kickin' Back with the girls from R.E.L.A.X.:
L. The Sassy Belles
by Beth Albright glass of something iced tea-ish on cover.
A. Hello, It's Me by Wendy Markham
borrowed from the public library.
Today's total: 50
Grand Total: 240
Katie M10.7 -- Blown Away
Karen
Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning
This post: 10 points
Total to Date: 40 points
LioraREPOST
15.7 11/11
Walls Within Walls by Maureen Sherry (two sets of double l’s)
Maureen Sherry is a Goodreads Author.
25.19 School’s Out Forever
Option A - Where in the World – The Red Velvet Turnshoe by Cassandra Clark is set in France and Italy.
Cassandra Clark is a Goodreads Author.
Option C - Woo Hoo! Field Trip! –
Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil by Nancy Atherton (painting on cover)30.4 All Things Wedding
A. Destination Wedding – The House on Tradd Street by Karen White is set in Charleston, S.C. which would make a lovely place to get married.
B. White Wedding –
Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden by M.C. Beaton has a mostly white cover. 70 points this post
70 points total
5 books read this post
5 books read total
2 Goodreads Authors
Nick KY25.2 JenBent’s Trivial Pursuit
Option 4 – I chose “Arts & Literature” and read a book with “mystery” as a GR genre, A Thief in the House of Memory by Tim Wynne-Jones.
Option 5 – I chose “Science and Nature” and read a book with an outdoor scene on the cover, Ghost Stories by Henry James shows an autumnal wooded lane
25.4 Janet F’s Round the Bases
Book 1. Option 1. I read Fair Ball: A Fan's Case for Baseball by Bob Costas during the Chicago Cubs playing the Cincinnati Reds on Wed, June 12. It's a very difficult match-up for me, as I like to root for both teams.
Book 2. Option 2. One-Word Title. I read
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.
Points in this Post: 50
Total Points so Far: 220
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10.5 -- The Tortoise and the Hare
Owls Well That Ends Well by Donna Andrews
Series name is Meg Langslow
30.2 - DLMRose's task: Behind the Name
Book 1: Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
Book 2: Tickled to Death by Joan Hess
Name used to start: Jackie
Donna Andrews and Jim Butcher are Goodreads authors.
Points this post: 40
Total Points: 40
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Book Tickets: