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FALL CHALLENGE 2013
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Fall Challenge 2013: Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE POSTS)

Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson
I read this book in English. It was translated from German.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 360

In Flight by R.K. Lilley (GR Author)
book #1 in the Up In The Air series
AND
The Marriage Merger by Jennifer Probst (GR Author)
book #4 and the most recently published book in the Marriage to a Billionaire series
Points this Post = 15
Totals:
Total Points: 415/1,010
Total Goodreads Authors: 28
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(1), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 29
Total Books Read: 37

opt.B: Summer task 20.7
I posted option 3 for this task last season
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Now doing option 1: published 2013
Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
Points this post: 20
Total points: 260
Tasks completed: 12
Books read: 16
Goodreads Author: 12
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0); 750 (0); 1000(0)

I read

Points: 85
Books read:8
Tasks completed:8
Pages read: 2341
GR authors:2
Kate Quinn is a ******GOODREADS AUTHOR************

30.4. Donna Jo's Task: Elementary Art
A. The Primary Colors: (Choose one)
1. Red:

I read this in April 2013 but I needed to reread it for my real life bookclub this month.
AND
B. The Secondary Colors
2. Green: cover -

Total Points = 830

30.5. Ty's Task: Lessons in Defenestration
Option B: (Tion) -

AND
Option C: Least Favorite Books of the Spring 2013 Challenge -

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Total Points = 860

15.5 -- All Fall Down
Lolita - L is in "faLL" (single word titles approved in thread!)
15.10 -- Free for Fall
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey **GOODREADS AUTHOR**
20.6. Seasoned Reader - Jen UT's Task: Only in New York!
Parallel Lies has a city skyline on the cover (approved)

Ridley Pearson is a new author to me.
20.7. Shorter is Sweeter - Mstan's Task: "What I Would Read If I Had More Time"
OPTION A - I did not complete task 20.3 in Spring: "Best Review - Bucket's task: Traveling in Time"
Option 2 - book has "Time Travel" genre on main page.
Clockwise by Elle Strauss **GOODREADS AUTHOR**
(approved)
********
This Post:
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 0
Points: 70
Totals:
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 12
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Books: 0
Total Points: 200

task 30.4 Elementary Art!
*2 books, 1 from primary color; 1 from secondary color:
=primary color of yellow: y in author's name:
April Henry

*this is a GRA
=secondary color of green: green book cover:

Points this post: 30
Total points: 140
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(2) 750+(1) 1000+(0)
Tasks Completed: 9

Task # 5.8 - 50 years ago - The Outer Limits
Read a book with the genre "Science Fiction" on its main book page The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes.
Task # 25.7 – Bamaace83’s task: Football Kick-off Fun!
Option 1 Southeastern Conference (SEC), read a book with one of the following animals/persons associated with one of our schools in the title: Tiger,
Rock Paper Tiger by Lisa Brackmann
Option2
read any book with an NFL team name in the title.
Night of the Jaguar by Michael Gruber (Jacksonville Jaguars)
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 495

30.3 Sheila/Kathy G's Task: Take it or "Leave" It
Option 1: switching Giving Chase by Lauren Dane in for Eternal Rider - Larissa Ione (-1 GRA)
LD found in liquidamber
Option 2: If You Dare - Kresley Cole, GR Author
Found on GR buddy Hina's TBR 7/16/10
Points this post: 0
Total points:520
GR Authors: 30 (-1)
Big books: 500+ (3)

For this task, I read “

Also, Daisy Whitney 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: 120
Pages Read this Challenge: 280
Total Pages Read to Date: 3659
Books Read this Challenge: 2
Total Books Read: 12
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Book Tickets: 500( 1 ), 750(), 1000()

25.3 task: Happy Birthday, American Authors!
Option A: to celebrate Stephen King, I read a book from the Best of Horror list provided-#21 on the list, Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill, who ironically, is S. King's son.
Option B: to celebrate William Faulkner, I read The Way West
By A. B. Guthrie, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction,1950.
Goodreads authors: 1
Big Books: 500 (1) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Points to date: 50
Points today: 25
Total points earned: 75

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (#1 in series)
Inferno by Dan Brown (#4 and last in series)

I rolled a 2 and a 4.
For glbt, I read The Girl For Me approved for length at msg. 2851.
For humor, I read Spell Checkers Volume 3: Careless Whisper. Ms. Anderson approved it in a tag discussion in the help thread - they appear and disappear, it seems.
Jamie S. Rich is a goodreads author.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 145
Books read: 13
Tasks Completed: 12
Goodreads authors: 10
Big Book Tickets: 500+(0); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
15.10 -- Free for Fall
The Clocks
Points this post: 15
Total Points in Challenge: 230
Books Read: 18
Tasks Completed: 17
GR Authors: 6
Big Book Tickets: 500+(0); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
The Clocks
Points this post: 15
Total Points in Challenge: 230
Books Read: 18
Tasks Completed: 17
GR Authors: 6
Big Book Tickets: 500+(0); 750+(0); 1000+(0)

5.4 Dungeons & Dragons
Maybe This Time
'Fantasy' 10/11/2013
15.7 Spookfest!
Horns
'Horror' 9/1/13
Points this post: 20
Total points: 240

5.4 - 30 years ago - Dungeons & Dragons
The House of Hades by Rick Riordan
- fantasy on main book page
*** Big Book with 597 pages
Points This Post: 5
Total points: 345
Tasks Completed: 22
Total Books Read: 27
Goodreads Authors: 20
Big Books: 500 (1), 750 (/), 1000 (1)

Option 3 - Bitopia by Ari Magnusson
AND
Option 5 - Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 215
Books Read: 18
Tasks Completed: 13
Goodreads Author: 8
Big Books:500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

Killer Pancake by Diane Mott Davidson (GR Author)
20.2 School Time - Opt 2 Set in Saudi Arabia (on list)
City of Veils by Zoë Ferraris (GR Author)
20.3 Tribute to 2 Mystery Greats - Opt 4 Grand Master Award Winner
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
20.7 What Would I read if I had More Time
I did not finish the Summer 2013 challenges so I completed 20.6 Creepy and Kooky - Option 2 Morticia and read a romance novel
Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean (GR Author)
20.8 We Love Scrabble - opt 3 double n's in title
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (GR Author)
25.4 Celebration
Opt 2 Pub in 2006
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (GR Author)
Opt 3 couple in embrace on cover

30.3 Take it or Leave it
Opt 2 Lily Pad - added book to my TBR 2/7/10 over 1 year ago
Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig'
Opt 5 Mystery I've been itching to read
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (BB ticket - 531 pgs)
Total pts this post: 155
Total Pts/challenge: 360
GR Authors: 6 (Diane Mott Davidson, Zoe Ferraris, Sarah MacLean, Mary E Pearson, John Greene, Jill Shalvis)
BB tickets: 1

Option 2 - The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group by Catherine Jinks
AND
Option 5 -

Neil Gaiman is a Goodreads Author
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 240
Books Read: 20
Tasks Completed: 14
Goodreads Author: 9
Big Books:500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

Option 2 (viking in title): A Viking's Daughter
The Minnesota Vikings are a professional football team
307pgs
Option 4 (food on cover):

There's macaroni and cheese on the fork
320pgs
30.5 Lessons in Defenestration
Option A (window on cover):

There are windows on the house in the background
304pgs
Option C (from least favorite list): Why We Broke Up
From Lorna's post, #20: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8...
354pgs
Total: 55 + 795 (from earlier) = 850pts

20.2 School Time!
Option 4 (Butterfly on cover):

*ebook length verified post #2842
*Chanda Hahn is a GRA
This task: 20
# completed tasks: 19
GRA: 19
Total: 340

Option 1. The Ice Princess: thanks for the chance to continue the series!
The Stranger by Camilla Läckberg, 384 pages
Option 2. Superman: Kryptonite Nevermore!
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, 296 pages
+25 Points
Grand Total: 320

Option 6 (two-letter word): To Be Perfectly Honest: A Novel Based on an Untrue Story
To and Be are two-letter words
496pgs
Total: 20 + 850 (from earlier) = 870pts

I rolled a 4 and 6
4) Still Alice by Lisa Genova. This was a 5-star read on my friend Lynne's list. Here is the link: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2...
6) Boy Still Missing by John Searles who I found on the Literature Map for Ellen Hopkins.
Lisa Genova is a GR Author
John Searles is a GR Author
Post Total: 30
Grand Total: 165

Dlmrose's Task: What a Team!
Book 1: There is no I in TEAM
They Walk Among Us by T.A. Chase
ThEy WAlk AMong Us -- TEAM with no i
approved for length in post 2810
TA Chase is a goodreads author
Book 2: Read a book with the word "fun" found intact in a word in the title
More Fun With Dick And Shane by Gillibran Brown
FUN is a word in the title
Points this post: 30
Total points: 490
Books read: 38
Goodreads authors: 32
Big Book Tickets: 0
Tasks Completed: 27

Task 20.7: What I would read if I had more time:
Option B: From Spring 13 Challenge: The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith. I completed task 20.7, Option 2, during the spring challenge. This book fits either Option 4 and 5 of this task. For option 4 it takes place mostly in several inns in Italy (Rome and Sienna) and the last part of the book takes place on a cruise ship. For option 5, my home country is the US. This book takes place mainly in Italy and also in Germany and on a cruise ship in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Alexander McCall Smith is a GoodReads author.
Task 30.3 Take it or leave it : Two different options.
Option 1: Author initials in liquidamber: Rebel Angels by Libba Bray. Libba Bray is a GoodReads author. Claim a Big Book ticket: The book is 548 pages.
Option 3 Maple Leaf: Summon the Keeper by Tanya Huff plays in an Inn in Canada, and the author was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada).
Totals this posting:
Total Points: 50
Books Read: 3
Tasks Completed: 2
GoodReads Authors: 2
Big Book Tickets: 500+: 1; 750+: 0;
Summary Totals:
Total Points: 145
Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 7
GoodReads Authors: 4
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1); 750+ (0);

Grounded by R.K. Lilley (GR Author)
Set between Las Vegas and New York, United States and I live in New Zealand
Task #15.10 -- Free for Fall
Mile High by R.K. Lilley (GR Author)
Points this Post = 25
Totals:
Total Points: 440/1,010
Total Goodreads Authors: 30
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(1), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 31
Total Books Read: 39

25.6. Sandy's Task: General Education
2. The Past. - I choose the Autobiography option

4. The World of Thought. - I choose the Religion option

***Both Books are Nonfiction and greater than 250 pages***
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 100
GR Authors: 2
Big Ticket: 1

20.4. Author! Author! - Karen F's task: Tribute to Two Mystery Greats
Option 2:
Read a book from one of your favorite series. Since it should be a favorite series, the first book or two won't count, only book #3 in a series or above.
Fifth Grave Past the Light by Darynda Jones - ***** - 10/14/2013

Total Points Earned: 270/1010
Total Pages Read: 9,007 Pages
Total Books Read: 25/80
Good Read Authors: 13
Big Book Tickets: 500(2), 750(), 1000()

5.4 - Dungeons & Dragons
Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
This book has fantasy at its genre.
Points: 5
Total Points: 5

15.7 Spookfest
Misery by Stephen King
I think this may be a re-read but I have gotten into reading King again and this was wonderful. It has Horror as a genre.
Points: 15
Total Points: 20

20.8 We love Scrabble
Option 6: Never Go Back by Lee Child
"Go" is a two letter word.
Points: 20
Total Points: 55

25.1 The reviews are in
Option 3: Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini
The word "Lincoln" is in the title.
Option 6: Under the Dome by Stephen King
Written by Stephen King
Points: 25
Total Points: 80

25.2 Love that Alphabt
Option B: Night Chill by Jeff Gunhus
Title Letters: G-H-I; Author Letters: E-F-G
Points: 25
Total Points: 105

30.1 I'm sorry, Dee!
Option 1 - New author: Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
Option 6 - use of Option 1 - New author to me: Not in Front of the Corgis: Secrets of Life Behind the Royal Curtains by Brian Hoey
Points: 30
total Points: 135

15.3 -- Half and Half
Read a book written by an author whose first name is in the first half (A-M) of the alphabet
Max and Finn by L.B. Gregg
LB is in first half of the alphabet
approved for length in post 2810
LB Gregg is a goodreads author
A book written by an author whose last name is in the second half (N-Z) of the alphabet
Gamble Everything by Cari Waites
Waites is in the last half of the alphabet
approved for length in post 2855
20.2. Rookie at the Top: Bouchra's Task: School-time!
Option 3: Read a book with a main character who is either working in or studying a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) field. Only fiction may be used for this task.
The Scientist and the Supermodel by Tara Lain
MC is a geneticist according to GR plaot description.
Fiction is listed on book's main page.
approved for length is SRC ebook verification spreadsheet at line 1231 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c...
Tara Lain is a goodreads author
Points this post: 15 + 20 = 35
Total points: 525
Goodreads authors: 34
Big Book Tickets: 0

30.3 Take it or "Leave" it
Option 1: Stone Cold by David Baldacci
Initials "D" and "B" are in linquiDamBer
Option 5: Final Sinsby Michael Prescott
I am "itching" to read all of his books and am slowly getting them read!
Points: 30
Total Points: 165

30.4 Elementary Art
Option A-2 Author with a "y" in her name.
The Beast by Faye Kellerman
Option B-2 Book with green cover. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Points: 30
Total Points: 195
Hana C.
Task 20.2. Rookie at the Top: Bouchra's Task: School-time!
Option 1: Read the biography of a scientist. For the purposes of this task, "science" only includes the "natural sciences"
The following book was approved for this option in post 34 of the The Help Thread (it's also listed in the top "approved" list)
The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics by Robin Marantz Henig
** Robin Marantz Henig is a Goodreads author
points this post: 20
Total Points Earned: 250
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Book Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 21
Task 20.2. Rookie at the Top: Bouchra's Task: School-time!
Option 1: Read the biography of a scientist. For the purposes of this task, "science" only includes the "natural sciences"
The following book was approved for this option in post 34 of the The Help Thread (it's also listed in the top "approved" list)
The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics by Robin Marantz Henig
** Robin Marantz Henig is a Goodreads author
points this post: 20
Total Points Earned: 250
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Book Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 21

One book that fits both criteria.
Possession by J.R. Ward
J first half of the alphabet and W last half of the alphabet
BIG BOOK 529 pages
15.5 -- All Fall Down
Fated by Rebecca Zanetti
F - Fall
Goodreads Author
15.7 -- Spookfest!
Predatory by Alexandra Ivy
"Paranormal" on home page
Goodreads Author
20.5. Bigger is Better - Lindsey IL's Task: The Pumpkin State
Option #3
Darkness Rises by Dianne Duvall
403 pages and this is my favorite kind of read!
Goodreads author
20.6. Seasoned Reader - Jen UT's Task: Only in New York!
Option A -

Book takes place in NY city and that is the NY skyline in the background. This author is new to me.
Goodreads Author
20.8. It's My Birthday - Cindy F's Task: We Love Scrabble!
Option 5:

Color approved by creator too!
Goodreads Author
Points This Post: 105
Total Points: 205
Tasks Completed: 10
Total Books Read: 12
Goodreads Authors: 10
Big Books: 1

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey is ebook
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is paperback with 183 pages.
'Bailey' is approved as a profession in the help thread msg 48
10.6. What’s Your Sign?
Boy in the Striped Pa by John Boyne is digital audiobook.
paperback is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas with 240 pages.
I am born in the year of the pig as is John Boyne
*John Boyne is a GR author, claiming ticket.
10.8. Fall Back.
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
This book is about the WWII era which is about 2 decades before I was born.
15.2 -- Day and Night
Day-

Night-

These bookcovers were approved in help thread msg 98.
15.6 -- Far East
The Cloud Pavilion by Laura Joh Rowland
Book is set in Japan
20.1. Most Improved Player - Andrea's Task: A Cozy Read
Option 2. A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer
Initials of author C & Z are found in the word COZY
*Carl Zimmer is a GR author, claiming ticket.
25.7 – Bamaace83’s task: Football Kick-off Fun!
Option 2. NFL team Baltimore Ravens:
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater is digital audiobook.
paperback edition is
The Raven Boys with 416 pages
*Maggie Stiefvater is a GR author, claiming ticket
Option 4: food item(s) on the cover (pictures of yogurt, fruit, cheese etc. on right side of cover).

by Allison Tannis is ebook version I read.
paperback is

with 269 pages.
25.9. Stacie MI's Task:Stacie MI’s Task - The Cornetto Trilogy
Option 1. First author published - approved help thread msg 41
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Option 2. Horror as a main genre
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
is audiobook
paperback is Dark Places with 345 pages.
*Gillian Flynn is a GR author , claiming ticket.
30.7.Delicious Dee's task: I blame Ms Anderson….and Ellen Hopkins
I rolled a 1 & 3
Option 1- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Ms Anderson rated it a 4. This book & author are new to me.
Option 3- Author initials R & A are found in Ms Anderson
Watership Down by Richard Adams is digital audiobook
Paperback is Watership Down with 484 pages.
This is my first time reading this book, but not 100% sure if Richard Adams is new to me.
I may have read some part of his "Hitchhiker's guide..." I'll have to read it to know for sure. (but fortunately challenge requires 'at least one' author new to me)
Points this post: 160
Points to date: 465
GR Authors this post: 4
GR Authors to date: 10
15.5 -- All Fall Down
I read The Lowland. "T" appears in AUTUMN, and "L" appears in FALL.
15.9 -- Off to College
I read This Is Not a Game, which appeared on the 2011 list, Social Media.
30.1. Ms. Anderson's Task: I'm Sorry, Dee!
I rolled a 3 and a 6.
For my first book, option 3, I read Strip Jack by Ian Rankin. Author's first name has only 3 letters.
For my second book, die roll 6, I decided to use option 1, and read Little Bee by Chris Cleave.
I first discovered the author when I read Gold in August 2013, for the Summer 2013 challenge.
Total points: 405
I read The Lowland. "T" appears in AUTUMN, and "L" appears in FALL.
15.9 -- Off to College
I read This Is Not a Game, which appeared on the 2011 list, Social Media.
30.1. Ms. Anderson's Task: I'm Sorry, Dee!
I rolled a 3 and a 6.
For my first book, option 3, I read Strip Jack by Ian Rankin. Author's first name has only 3 letters.
For my second book, die roll 6, I decided to use option 1, and read Little Bee by Chris Cleave.
I first discovered the author when I read Gold in August 2013, for the Summer 2013 challenge.
Total points: 405

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami is under 20th century Japanese
30.1 - Ms. Anderson's Task: I'm Sorry, Dee!
Rolled: 5 and 6
Option 5: The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
five words in the title
Option 6: I chose to do option 3 - The Cursed by Alyssa Day
Day has only three letters in it
30.7 - Delicious Dee's task: I blame Ms Anderson….and Ellen Hopkins
Rolled: 1 and 4
Option 1: Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Ms Anderson rated this one 5 stars.
Option 4:Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch
Kathy G. rated this one 5 stars. So did I!
Points this post: 80
Season Total: 385

Task 5.4 - 30 years ago - Dungeons & Dragons
Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
***Audrey Niffenger is a Goodreads Author***
This book is 80 pages. I am using one book between 80 and 100 pages for one five point task per Rule 3 under Book Formats and Page Numbers Explained.
Task 15.1 -- Bookends
First book in a series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Freefall by Joss Whedon
Last book in a series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Last Gleaming by Joss Whedon
This post: 20 points
Total to Date = 200 points
Total Goodreads Authors: 1
Total Big Books: 1000+(1)
Tasks completed: 12

Task 20.8. It's My Birthday - Cindy F's Task: We Love Scrabble!
Option 4: The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James
The author has a "J" in her name.
***Simone St. James is a Goodreads Author***
This post: 20 points
Total to Date = 220 points
Total Goodreads Authors: 2
Total Big Books: 1000+(1)
Tasks completed: 13

25.1. Nick KY’s Tasks: The Reviews Are In!
Option 1 - I read The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg (although, I don't find her dark enough for my liking compared to other Nordic authors)
Option 5 -

Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 450
Goodreads Authors: 20
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
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15.2 -- Day and Night
Day
Night
***He is a GoodReads author
Points this Post 15
Total Points 210
Tasks Completed 10
Books Read 14
Total Pages 5040
GoodReads Author 9
Big Book Tickets 1