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Suzannesea30.4 Donna Jo's Task: Elementary Art
A. The Primary Colors
Option 2 - Yellow
Fall from Grace by Wayne Arthurson has 320 pages and there is a "y" in Wayne.
B. The Secondary Colors
Option 1 - Orange
Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll has 304 pages and there are sliced bananas in the bowl of cereal on the cover.50.1 Sassafrass's Task: A Sucker for Series!
- Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke is the first book in the Billy Bob Holland series.
- A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny is the second book in the Inspector Gamache series.
- Shooting at Loons by Margaret Maron is the third book in the Deborah Knott Mysteries series.
This post: 80 points
Total to date: 420 points
25.1 The Reviews Are InOption 1: This book was #23 in "The Land of Ice and Snow" when I chose it.
Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason. 275 pages.
Option 5: I read 3 plays by Tennessee Williams.
The Glass Menagerie 115 pages
Summer and Smoke 90 pages
Suddenly Last Summer 45 pages
30.5 Lessons in Defenestration
Option A: Word "window" in the title.
A Tap on the Window by Linwood Barclay. 500 pagesOption B: Title includes a word that ends in "tion"--"perfection"
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville. 401 pages
Points this post: 55
Total points: 380
Tasks: 23
Books: 28
Goodreads authors: 7
30.2. Dlmrose's Task: What a Team!1. TEAM in title:
Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews
2. FUN in title:
Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from The Philadelphia Inquirer by John Grogan
Points this post: 30
Total points: 705
Delicious Dee25.3. Kate S's Task: Happy Birthday American Authors
Option 2 - Olive Kitteridge - won the pulitzer prize in 2009 for Fiction
Option 5 - The Patron Saint of Liars - 114th on the list of Best Experimental Books Ever (although, I'm not so sure what is experimental about it)...
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 950
Goodreads Authors: 47
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
Shelby
5.3 - 20 years ago - Frasier
Book that won an award : The Hot Floor, by Josephine Myles
Goodreads MM Romance Member's Choice Awards Winner
Listed on author's website here. Pre-approved in Post 23
- Claiming Goodreads Author Ticket
10.9. Put on Your Hat – It’s Getting Cold Outside!
Hat on Cover : Two Tickets to Paradise, by J.L. Merrow (among lots of others)
- Claiming Goodreads Author Ticket
20.6. Seasoned Reader - Jen UT's Task: Only in New York!
Option A: New Author + Set in New York : Disasterology 101, by Taylor V. Donovan
Setting is listed in the main bullet points on the page as New York.
- Claiming Goodreads Author Ticket
20.7. Shorter is Sweeter - Mstan's Task: "What I Would Read If I Had More Time"
Option A: New 20pt Task :
Spring 2013 20.2: Rookie At the Top- Ty's task: Pi Day - Option 3: Romance Genre
Wake Me Up Inside, by Cardeno C.
- Claiming Goodreads Author Ticket
Points this post: 55
Total points: 290
Goodreads Authors: 21
Big Books: 0
Suzanne10.1 Early to Bed, Early to Rise
September is Self Improvement Month, so read a book with self-help listed as a genre on the book’s main page
Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick by Molly Ringwald - **** - 11/14/2013
Total Points Earned: 450/1010
Total Pages Read: 13,646 Pages
Total Books Read: 38/80
Good Read Authors: 20
Big Book Tickets: 500(2), 750(1), 1000()
Suzanne25.4. Elizabeth B's task: Celebration!
Option C: Gypsy Wind by Lisa Jackson - ** - 11/8/2013
Option A: Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs - ***** - 11/14/2013
Total Points Earned: 475/1010
Total Pages Read: 14,242 Pages
Total Books Read: 40/80
Good Read Authors: 20
Big Book Tickets: 500(2), 750(1), 1000()
Who else is going to finish today and snag a 30 pointer??
Andy P.Task 3
15.2 -- Day and Night
Read a book with an obvious daytime scene on the cover and a book with an obvious nighttime scene on the cover
Book 1 daytime:
by Lee GoldbergBook 2 nighttime:
byAndrea Kane
These books were approved in messages 38 & 119 of the help thread
Points this post: 15
Total points: 975
20.7 Shorter Is Sweeter--Mstan's Task--What I Would Read If I Had More Time:A. I didn't do most of Spring Challenge, so I picked 20.8.2 Laurie's Task--9th Book in Series:
Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters is #9 in the Amelia Peabody series
20.9 Moderator's Pet--Bucket's Task--Expanding the Classic Canon:
Snow by Orhan Pamuk Found under 20th Century Middle East--next to the last author.
25.1 Coralie's Task--One or More:
Noun used; Duchess/Duchesses
1. The Duchess War by Courtney Milan
2. Desperate Duchesses by Eloisa James
Today's total: 65
Grand total: 845
20.8. It's My Birthday - Cindy F's Task: We Love Scrabble!Option 6: Read a book with a 2 letter word in the title.
Streaks of Blue: How the Angels of Newtown Inspired One Girl to Save Her School by Jack Chaucer**
** Claiming Goodreads Author
Points: 20
Total Points: 45
GR Authors: 4
Big Books: 0
5.3 - 20 years ago - Frasier
➥Read a book that has won a literary award. The book must have received the award, not the author for a body of work.
Required: Name the award the book won if it does not appear on the Goodreads book main page and provide an external reference
Coraline by Neil Gaiman ***Goodreads Author***
Bram Stoker Award for Works for Young Readers (2002)
10.6. What’s Your Sign?
➥Read a book by an author who shares your animal sign.(monkey)
REQUIRED: Include in your post the zodiac sign that you and the author share and the author's date of birth.
the bell jar by Sylvia Plath
My sign is Monkey and Sylvia Plath was born October 27, 1932.
15.7 -- Spookfest!
➥Read a book that has "Horror," "Paranormal," or "Supernatural" listed as a genre on its main page.
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (Horror)
15.9 -- Off to College
➥Browse through UC Berkeley's Summer Reading Lists and choose a book from one of the lists to read.Required:Identify the list you used when you post.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger List: (2002) Banned Books
20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Bucket's Task: Expanding the Classic Canon
➥ Read an eastern classic title or author from this list: Great Books - Non-Western Literature. Any book by an author on this list is acceptable, not just the book associated with the link for the author's name.
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto --> 20th century - Japanese
Totals for challenge:
Points this task: 65
Total points: 610
Tasks completed: 39
Books read: 46
Goodreads authors:6
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
➥Read a book that has won a literary award. The book must have received the award, not the author for a body of work.
Required: Name the award the book won if it does not appear on the Goodreads book main page and provide an external reference
Coraline by Neil Gaiman ***Goodreads Author***
Bram Stoker Award for Works for Young Readers (2002)
10.6. What’s Your Sign?
➥Read a book by an author who shares your animal sign.(monkey)
REQUIRED: Include in your post the zodiac sign that you and the author share and the author's date of birth.
the bell jar by Sylvia Plath
My sign is Monkey and Sylvia Plath was born October 27, 1932.
15.7 -- Spookfest!
➥Read a book that has "Horror," "Paranormal," or "Supernatural" listed as a genre on its main page.
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (Horror)
15.9 -- Off to College
➥Browse through UC Berkeley's Summer Reading Lists and choose a book from one of the lists to read.Required:Identify the list you used when you post.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger List: (2002) Banned Books
20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Bucket's Task: Expanding the Classic Canon
➥ Read an eastern classic title or author from this list: Great Books - Non-Western Literature. Any book by an author on this list is acceptable, not just the book associated with the link for the author's name.
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto --> 20th century - Japanese
Totals for challenge:
Points this task: 65
Total points: 610
Tasks completed: 39
Books read: 46
Goodreads authors:6
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
20.7. Shorter is Sweeter - Mstan's Task: "What I Would Read If I Had More Time"Option A
Summer 20.1 Option 2:
Abandon by Meg Cabot 304 pages
20.2. Rookie at the Top: Bouchra's Task: School-time!Option 3: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Big Book: 512 pages.
The main character is a bryologist, which is someone who studies mosses. This book was approved on the Help thread.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 475
GR Authors: Melanie Benjamin, Neil Gaiman, Kevin Kwan, Janet Edwards, Elizabeth L. Silver, Susan Elia MacNeal, Curtis Sittenfeld, Ellen Hopkins, Michelle Moran, James Dashner**, Jonathan Evison, J.M. Sidorova, Laura Nowlin, Kathleen Kent, Kiera Cass
Big Books: 500+(3),750+(1),1000+(0)
Jessica PDX30.7 - Delicious Dee's Task - I Blame Ms Anderson...and Ellen Hopkins
I rolled a 3 and a 2. Neither book is a re-read, and Ellen Hopkins is new to me.
by Denise Mina
by Ellen HopkinsPoints This Post: 30
Total Points: 655
Andy P.Task # 5.5 - 35 years ago - WKRP in Cincinnati
Read a book with a living thing that can fly on the cover
by Stephan TaltyThere are numerous birds mostly sitting on utility wires on the cover (34 birds if I'm counting correctly)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 980
JeniferTask 30.1 I'm Sorry, Dee!
I rolled a 3 & a 6
Option 3: three letters in author's first or last name
ADHD According to Zoe: The Real Deal on Relationships, Finding Your Focus, and Finding Your Keys by Zoe Kessler
Option 6: I chose to do option 5 which asks for a 5-word title.
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
**I am claiming two GR Author tickets for both Zoe Kessler and John Green**
Total Points this Post: 30
Total Points in Challenge: 175
Delicious Dee30.2. Dlmrose's Task: What a Team!
book 1 - Rhythm and Bluegrass - Molly Harper (GR Author) - tm in Rhythm, ea in Bluegrass, no i, ebook only approved msg 2772 in the verification thread
book 2 - Reasons I Fell for the Funny Fat Friend - Cassie Mae (GR Author)
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 980
Goodreads Authors: 49
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
Mod
I read Split Second - with the time unit of "second" in the title.
20.9. Moderator's Pet: Bucket's Task: Expanding the Classic Canon
I read Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto. Yoshimoto is listed under 20th century Japan.
25.3. Kate S's Task: Happy Birthday American Authors
For my first book, I chose option 1, and read a book from the list Best Horror Novels. I read The Graveyard Book, which (at time of posting) is number 881 on the list (p.9). (Note - children is listed as a genre, but the book has >300 pages).
For my second book, I chose option 3, and read Christian Nation, which has "speculative fiction" listed as a genre on its main page.
Points this post: 50
Total points: 690
Ana20.10. Group Reads
by John Berendt. I commented on the discussion thread message 18.
Points this Post 20
Total Points 405
Tasks Completed 19
Books Read 26
Total Pages 9382
GoodReads Author 17
Big Book Tickets 2
Kate Y5.1 - new season
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... - rating 25
Tasks Completed - 3
Books Read - 3
Points - 5
Total Points - 15
Amy FL5.1 - 2013 - A New Season
Original Sin (511 ratings)
5.2 - 10 years ago - Two and a Half Men
Happily Never After (Night Huntress #2.5)
5.3 - 20 years ago - Frasier
Dinner With Friends
Pulitzer Website
5.4 - 30 years ago - Dungeons & Dragons
Once Burned
5.5 - 35 years ago - WKRP in Cincinnati
(approved in message 2 of thread for this task)5.6 - 40 years ago - Last of the Summer Wine
The Cold Cold Ground (Northern Ireland)
5.7 - 45 years ago - 60 Minutes
Zero Day
5.8 - 50 years ago - The Outer Limits
Fragment (science fiction)
5.9 - 55 years ago - The Rifleman
The Sisters Brothers (western)
5.10 - 60 years ago - Make Room For Daddy
Half Brother
Points this post: 50
Total points: 50
Oma122910.1 Early to Bed, Early to Rise.
September is Self Improvement Month, so read a book with self-help listed as a genre on the book’s main page.
100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer's and Age-Related Memory Loss by Jean Carper
Totals:
Total Points: 555/1010
Total Goodreads Authors:15
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(3), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed:29
Total Pages Read in Fall 2013-12379
Delicious Dee30.6. Beth NC's Task: Ancestry
Option 1 - Forever Innocent- Deanna Roy (GR Author) - Deanna is my real name, although I only get called that when i'm in trouble
Option 2 - The Duchess War- Courtney Milan (GR Author) - both sides of my family have roots in England, where this book is set
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 1010
Goodreads Authors: 51
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1)
*pending any mistakes, this should finish my challenge ;)
Hana C.
Task 20.8 It's my Birthday- Cindy F's Task: We Love Scrabble!
Option 3: Double letters in title
Ten Little Aliens by Stephen Cole
liTTle
305 pages.
points this post: 20
Total Points Earned: 590
Goodreads Authors: 14
Big Book Tickets: 3
Tasks Completed: 34
Task 20.8 It's my Birthday- Cindy F's Task: We Love Scrabble!
Option 3: Double letters in title
Ten Little Aliens by Stephen Cole
liTTle
305 pages.
points this post: 20
Total Points Earned: 590
Goodreads Authors: 14
Big Book Tickets: 3
Tasks Completed: 34
Correction for Post # 171830.1 I'm Sorry, Dee
Claiming a GoodReads Author point for The Forgotten by David Baldacci
3 total GoodReads Authors
Suzannesea15.9 Off to College
Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esmé Raji Codell appears on U.C. Berkeley's 2010 Education Matters Summer Reading List.
This post: 15 points
Total to date: 435 points
10.8 - Fall BackAngle of Repose
More than half of this book is set in the late 1800's. Approved in the Task Help thread.
*** 1 Big Book Ticket claimed - 569 pages
Points this post: 10
Total challenge points: 305
Total tasks completed: 26
Total number Big Books: 500(3) 750(0) 1000(1)
Total Goodreads authors: 7
5.4 Dungeons and Dragons River Secrets by Shannon Hale (GR Author)
"Fantasy" is listed as a genre
15.2 Day and Night
Day:
by Antoine Wilson (GR Author)Night:
BY Dean Koontz20.4 Two Mystery Greats
Option 3:The Movies
The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum (Big Book, 688 p.)
#48 on the "I Only Watched the Movie" list.
40 Points this post
160 total Points
2 GoodReads Authors this post.
5 total GoodReads Authors
1 total big book
BRIAN30.1. Ms. Anderson's Task: I'm Sorry, Dee!
Option 4 - genre is humor
America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't by Stephen Colbert
Option 6 - choose another option (5: title has at least 5 words)
What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art by Will Gompertz
Points this post: 30
Total points: 240
Books read: 16
Goodreads authors: 6
Big Book Tickets: 4-0-1 (7)
ANGELASUNSHINE15.5 -- All Fall Down
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
5.1 - 2013 - A New Season
Proxy by Alex London 822 ratings
5.2 - 10 years ago - Two and a Half Men
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
book #2 in the series
Total Points: 320
Natalie CH5.1 A New Season
Visual Writing 1 rating as of 11/12/2013
5.4 Dungeons and Dragons
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
10.2 Far, far away
The Bluest Eye
The story is set in Ohio, I live in Switzerland
10.5 Found in Translation
Candide, or Optimism
Translated to English from French
10.8 Fall Back
The Lady of the Rivers by Goodreads AuthorPhilippa Gregory
set in the 15th century ( I'm not THAT old)
Book has 527 pages=> 1 big book ticket
plus Goodreads Author
15.3 Half and Half
A Sport and a Pastimeby James Salter
James (a-m) Salter (n-z)
15.10 Free for Fall
Oroonoko
20.8 It's my Birthday- Cindy F's Task: We love Scrabble
Othello Option One.
Total points for this post: 90
total points in all: 90
Big books: 1 x 500
GRA: 1
Readerboard Name: Jill ReneeTask - 5.3 20 years ago - Frasier
Read a book that has won a literary award. The book must have received the award, not the author for a body of work.
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2006), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature (2006), ALA Alex Award (2006), British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2006)
Points this Task: 5
Total Points this Challenge: 120
Books Read this Task: 1
Total Books Read this Challenge: 12
GR Authors: 4
5.4 - 30 years ago - Dungeons & DragonsThe Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
=5 points
5.6 - 40 years ago - Last of the Summer Wine
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The book is set in England
=5 points
10.6. What’s Your Sign?
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Emily Bronte was born on July 30, 1818 and is therefore a Tiger according to the Chinese zodiac signs. I was born in 1986 and am also a Tiger.
=10 points
Points this Post: 20 points
Total Points: 300 points
Tasks Complete: 22
Goodreads Authors Tickets: 6
Big Book Tickets: (1)500+(3)750+(1)1000 = 10 tickets
5.3 - FRASIER - Kira-Kira which won the Newberry Medal in 2005.15.6 - FAR EAST - The Stone Goddess. Most of this book is set in Cambodia.
TOTAL POINTS - 900
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 31
BIG BOOKS - 2
LDB10.2 FAR, FAR AWAY
Verre cassé by Alain Mabanckou
This book takes place in the Republic of Congo. I currently live in Liberia.
Total points: 105
Pages read: 2,340
Books read: 7
10.4 Back by Request - Labor DayOccupation: Baker
Fangirl by Ken Baker
20.3 Best Review: Stefu's Task: Most Read Authors
I rolled a 3 and a 2. At the time, Jan Bent was my third friend and Janet Evanovich was her second favorite author.
Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich is a Goodreads Author.
20.8 It's My Birthday - Cindy F's Task: We Love Scrabble!
Option 1: 7 letter word: Bellamy
Marrying Daisy Bellamy by Susan Wiggs
Susan Wiggs is a Goodreads Author.
20.9 Moderator's Pet: Bucket's Task: Expanding the Classic Canon
20th Century: Japanese
The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima
Points this post: 70
Total points: 890
Tasks completed: 50
Books read: 70
Goodreads Author: 44
Big Book Tickets: 500 (3); 750 (0); 1000(0)
10.8Mrs. Mike
historical fiction listed, takes place in 1907-1920ish, loooong before my time.
15.5
Life After Life
529 pages BIG BOOK TICKET
A, L, L found in FALL
15.10
Me Before You
this post 40 points
total points 315 points
30.1. Ms. Anderson's Task: I'm Sorry, Dee!
Rolled 1: Read a book by an author you've discovered and read at least one book by since January 2013.
Perfect by Rachel Joyce
First book I read by Rachel Joyce was The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry in May 2013.
Rolled 2: Read a book with the genre GLBT on its main page.
The Night Listener
Points this post: 30
Total Points in Challenge: 415
Books Read: 33
Tasks Completed: 27
GR Authors: 11
Big Book Tickets: 500+(1); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
Rolled 1: Read a book by an author you've discovered and read at least one book by since January 2013.
Perfect by Rachel Joyce
First book I read by Rachel Joyce was The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry in May 2013.
Rolled 2: Read a book with the genre GLBT on its main page.
The Night Listener
Points this post: 30
Total Points in Challenge: 415
Books Read: 33
Tasks Completed: 27
GR Authors: 11
Big Book Tickets: 500+(1); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
Boston Kate10.7 But I Really Wanted to Read That One!
Life After Life
nominated for "Contemporary Women's Fiction"
15.5 All Fall Down
Messenger
"M" in "AUTUMN"
Points this post: 25
Total points: 150
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 12
DEANA15.10 -- Free for Fall (REPLACEMENT)
I would like to replace The Snow Child. Instead please use ...
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
25.1. Nick KY’s Tasks: The Reviews Are In!
Option 1: The Snow Child - was #76 on Land of Ice and Snow on October 14, currently #79.
(Previously claimed the GRA ticket for this one when I used it for 15.10)
Option 2: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore is a graphic novel.
Both book have over 200 pages.
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This Post (a little weird due to replacement):
(new) Tasks Completed: 1
(new) Books Read: 2
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 0
Points: 25
Totals:
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 16
Goodreads Authors: 9
Big Books: 0
Total Points: 255
Andy P.10.1 Early to Bed, Early to Rise
Read a book with self help listed on its main page
Goodnight Mind: Turn Off Your Noisy Thoughts and Get a Good Night's Sleep by Colleen E. Carney
Points this post: 10
Total points: 990
SOELO20.7 What I Would Read If I Had More Time
I picked option B and redid task 20.9 from the Spring 2013 Challenge. Option D is to read a used book, so I read a book I got from the used bookstore in my library:
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
by Carrie Ryan who is a GoodReads author.
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Previous points: 150
Points this post: 20
Total so far: 170
GR author tickets: 5
Hana C.
Task 25.4 Elizabeth B's task: Celebration!
Option B: Read a book first published in 2006.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
First published October 19, 2006.
Option C:
by Sabrina Jeffries
** Sabrina Jeffries is a GRA
points this post: 25
Total Points Earned: 615
Goodreads Authors: 15
Big Book Tickets: 3
Tasks Completed: 35
Task 25.4 Elizabeth B's task: Celebration!
Option B: Read a book first published in 2006.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
First published October 19, 2006.
Option C:
by Sabrina Jeffries** Sabrina Jeffries is a GRA
points this post: 25
Total Points Earned: 615
Goodreads Authors: 15
Big Book Tickets: 3
Tasks Completed: 35
STACIE MITask 20.1 - A Cozy Read
I did option 1 and read a book shelved as "Cozy Mystery":
Spying in High Heels by Gemma Halliday
**Gemma Halliday is a Goodreads author!!**
Points this task: 20
Total points: 755
Tasks completed: 46
Books read: 57
Pages read: 15198
Goodreads authors: 27
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Tea15.10. - Free for Fall
Persuasion by Jane Austen
25.1. Nick KY’s Tasks: The Reviews Are In!
Option 1
Simply Irresistible by Rachel Gibson
- #13 on Hockey in Fiction ~ Adult Books
Option 6
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
*** Jim Butcher is GR author ***
25.2. - Andy P.'s task: Love That Alphabet
A - two book option
1. Wicked Deeds of Daniel Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley
- title has C-D-E & K-L-M-N-O
*** Jennifer Ashley is GR author ***
2. Hostage to Pleasure by Nalini Singh
- author has G-H-I
*** Nalini Singh is GR author ***
30.7. - Delicious Dee's task: I blame Ms Anderson… and Ellen Hopkins
Rolled: 3 & 4
Roll 3
The Witness by Nora Roberts
- N & R are part of Ms Anderson
Roll 4
Wallbanger by Alice Clayton
- couple of my GR friends (none met in RL) have rated this book 4 or 5 stars Lisa Kay, Ezi, Karen
*new to me author*
*** Alice Clayton is GR author ***
Points This Post: 95
Total points: 605
Tasks Completed: 36
Total Books Read: 49
Goodreads Authors: 33
Big Books: 500 (1), 750 (1), 1000 (1)
Oma 12295.7 - 45 years ago - 60 Minutes
Read a book with one of these units of time measurement in the title or subtitle: second, minute, hour, day, week, month, season, year, decade, generation, century, millennium.
The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton
10.10. In Honor of Veterans, Military and Otherwise.
Read a book in which a main character is either a military veteran (a former member of the armed forces of any country)
Through the Evil Days: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery by Julia Spencer-Fleming
The two main characters in this series---Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne are both veterans--check link
http://us.macmillan.com/series/ClareF...
Claiming Julia Spenser-Fleming as Goodreads Author
Totals:
Total Points: 570/1010
Total Goodreads Authors:16
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(3), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed:30
Total Pages Read in Fall 2013-12379
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