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FALL CHALLENGE 2013
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Fall Challenge 2013: Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE POSTS)
Suzanne5.6 - 40 years ago - Last of the Summer Wine
Read a book set in the United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland for a substantial portion of the book. Required: Please identify the setting if it is not clear in the book description
A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare - ***** - 9/10/2013
Total Points Earned: 35/1010
Total Pages Read: 2,367 Pages
Total Books Read: 6/80
Good Read Authors: 4
Big Book Tickets: 500(1), 750(), 1000()
Jessica PDX20.8 - Cindy F's Task - We Love Scrabble!
Option 6 - 2-letter word ("In") in title
by Barbara KingsolverPoints This Post: 20
Total Points: 120
Sarah M5.2 - 10 years ago - Two and a Half Men
A Man Betrayed
Book number #2 in the series
Big Book - 598 pages
Points earned this post: 5
Big Book Tickets earned this post: 1x500
Total points earned: 10
Total Big Book Tickets 500(1)
Sandy MN20.4. Author! Author! - Karen F's task: Tribute to Two Mystery Greats
Option 2: Book in series, #3 or above
Inferno by Dan Brown
Total Points: 100
Andy P.Task # 5.3 20 years ago- Frasier
Read a book that has won a literary award
Red Leaves by Thomas H. Cook
This book won the Barry Award in 2006 for the best novel as noted on the Good Reads main page for this book.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 90
Erin C.5.5 - 35 years ago - WKRP in Cincinnati
by: A.S. ByattDragonfly on the cover.
Points this task:5
Total Points:5
10.8. Fall Back.The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott
(This historical fiction takes place in 1912 - before I was born.)
20.8. It's My Birthday - Cindy F's Task: We Love Scrabble!
Option 4: The Angel's Game* by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (author's name has a Z)
*Big Book Ticket 500+ pg*
20.10. Group Reads
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple*
*GoodReads Author*
(I posted in discussion thread - msg 20)
Total Points = 50
15.4 -- Inside Out Option B: Cat/Cats approved in help thread post 23
Cat Trick A Magical Cats Mystery series by Sofie Kelly
Points this post: 15
Total points: 35
GR authors: 2
Books read: 4
Tasks completed: 3
Katie M15.2 -- Day and Night
Day:
When Love Takes Over by Jacob Z. Flores
Night:
Love the Sinner by Avril Ashton
Approved on Spreadsheet, Line 641.
This Post: 15 points
Total to Date: 15 points
Jen UT10.9 - Put on Your Hat - It's Getting Cold Outside!
UnWholly by Neal Shusterman
Total Points: 10
Total Books Read: 1
LAUREL CA5.6. Last of the Summer Wine. book to be set in the UK. I read Black Out
, set in London, England during WW2, following the Blitz, up to 1948.5 points for this task
0 Big Book Tickets, 0 Goodreads authors
2 books read, in total
10 total points
5.4 - 30 years ago - Dungeons & Dragons American Gods by Neil Gaiman (fantasy genre)
***Neil Gaiman is a GRA***
20.3. Best Review - Stefu's task: Most Read Authors
I rolled a 4 & a 6. I read a book from my sixth friend's #4 author.
Right as Rain by George Pelecanos
25.6. Sandy's Task: General Education
1: Math
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
5: Psychology
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Points this Post: 50
Total Points: 50
Goodreads Author: 1
Big Books: 0
Delicious Dee15.3 -- Half and Half
The Wishing Hill: A Novel - Holly Robinson (GR Author) - H is in the first half of the alphabet and R is in the second
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 55
Goodreads Authors: 2
5.5 35 Years Ago – WKRP in CincinnatiRead a book with a living thing that can fly on the cover- i.e. a bird, insect, animal, or person with wings or magical abilities.
by Lysley Tenorio(That's an upside-down bird, in case it isn't clear.)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 20/1010
Total books: 3/79
STACIE MITask 20.7 - What I Would Read if I had More Time
I finished all the 20-pointers from the last two seasons, so I did option B and redid Task 20.6 from the Summer Challenge. I previously completed option 1 (http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...), so this time around I did option 2 and read a book with a flower on the cover:
Enchanted by Alethea Kontis
**Alethea Kontis is a Goodreads author!!**
Points this task: 20
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Pages read: 305
Goodreads authors: 1
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Sheila10.2 Far, Far Away.
A Conspiracy of Faith by Jussi Adler-Olsen The book is Danish, I live in the United States
10.3. The Waiting is Over
Benediction by Kent Haruf Most Anticipated Books of 2013 list. This is the book that was reviewed
Total Points = 135
Repost:30.7 Delicious Dee's task: I blame Ms Anderson...and Ellen Hopkins
I rerolled and ended up with a 6 and a 4. Jennifer Brown is a new author to me.
Roll 4:
I chose Ms. Anderson. She loved this book as much as I did! It's an awesome book.
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/27...
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Roll 6:
Goodreads - Authors Like Ellen Hopkins
See You at Harry's by Jo Knowles
Jo Knowles is a Goodreads Author.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 115
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 10
Goodreads Author: 8
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0); 750 (0); 1000(0)
5.2 - 10 years ago - Two and a Half Men
Gunpowder Green (A Tea Shop Mystery #2)
5.4 - 30 years ago - Dungeons & Dragons
Larceny and Lace
20.4. Author! Author! - Karen F's task: Tribute to Two Mystery Greats
The Diva Frosts a Cupcake (A Domestic Diva Mystery #7)
25.8. Chaitra's Task: A Quarter of Baking Cakes
option1 -
option2 - The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma
points this post:55
total points:95
Gunpowder Green (A Tea Shop Mystery #2)
5.4 - 30 years ago - Dungeons & Dragons
Larceny and Lace
20.4. Author! Author! - Karen F's task: Tribute to Two Mystery Greats
The Diva Frosts a Cupcake (A Domestic Diva Mystery #7)
25.8. Chaitra's Task: A Quarter of Baking Cakes
option1 -
option2 - The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma
points this post:55
total points:95
5.1 A New SeasonLawyer Lincoln by Albert A. Woldman
Which as of today, has 6 ratings.
5.2 Two and a Half Men
A Fragile Design by Tracie Peterson
#2 book in the Bells of Lowell Series
5.3 Frasier
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
won the Prix Renaudot in 2004
5.6 Last of the Summer Wine
Rival to the Queen by Carolly Erickson
set in England
10.4 Labor Day
The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Singer is the occupation (approved in HT from Fall 2011)
20.3 Most Read Authors
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Rolled a 2 and a 1. My second friend's first most read author was Neil Gaiman, according to the rules of this task, books with the genre 'children's' on the main page with over 100 pages are allowed.
***Neil Gaiman is a GR Author***
20.7 What I Read if I Had More Time
Paradise of the Blind by Dương Thu Hương
Option B: For this season, I used 20.6, option 1 from the Spring season. Previously, I used option 3 for this task in post 281. My native language is English, this book was originally published in Vietnamese.
30.2 What a Team!
Book 1: Guns, Germs, and Steel (ignoring subtitles, per task description)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Book 2: "fun" in title (used as example)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Post Total: 100
Season Total: 100
20.5 - THE PUMPKIN STATEOPTION 3 - Inferno which was 463 pages. I wish I could have read this at home under the afghan but I read it at work. At least it took my mind off of having to be up all night.
TOTAL POINTS - 115
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 2
BIG BOOKS - 2
Task #10.10. In Honor of Veterans, Military and OtherwiseHeaven and Hell by Kristen Ashley (GR Author) Main hero Sampson Cooper was formerly in the army.
(ebook only, approved line 488 of the spreadsheet)
Task #15.5 -- All Fall Down
The Ultimate Millionaire by Susan Mallery (GR Author) Letters TUM from Autumn
Task #30.7.Delicious Dee's task: I blame Ms Anderson….and Ellen Hopkins
Dice Rolled: 3 & 5
Option 3
Undeniable by Madeline Sheehan author's initials MS appear in MS ANDERSON
(author new to me)
Option 5
This Girl by Colleen Hoover (GR Author) Young Adult as a genre on main page
Points this Post: 55
Totals:
Total Points: 115/1,010
Total Goodreads Authors: 10
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(0), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 9
Total Books Read: 11
30.2. Dlmrose's Task: What a Team!There’s no “I” in team - suMmEr renTAl
Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews
We have to have fun - FUNeral
The Viking Funeral by Stephen J. Cannell
Points in This Task: 30
Goodreads Authors in This Post: 0
Big Book Tickets in This Post: 0
Pages Read in This Post: 798
Totals:
Total Points: 125
Total Goodreads Authors: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(0), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 6/58
Total Books Read: 8
Total Pages Read in Fall 2013 SRC: 2760
Kat T.Task #30.7 Delicious Dee's task
Rolled a 4 and a 5. Veronica Roth is an author new to me.
4. Divergent by Veronica Roth
Given 4 stars by my online friend Sarah C.
5. Looking for Alaska by John Green
This post: 30 points
Total to date = 30 points.
15.5 -- All Fall DownAttachments by Rainbow Rowell
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
GoodReads Authors: 1
Tea5.1 - 2013 - A New Season
Keeping Sweets by Cate Ashwood
- 394 rating on the main book page at the time of posting
*** Cate Ashwood is GR author ***
Points This Post: 5
Total points: 115
Tasks Completed: 7
Total Books Read: 9
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: /
5.7 45 Years Ago – 60 MinutesRead 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.
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith
Points this post: 5
Total points: 25/1010
Total books: 4/79
Jayme VA20.8. It's My Birthday - Cindy F's Task: We Love Scrabble!
Option 1: The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Kitchen has 7 letters in the title. This book is 369 pages long.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 35
GR Authors: Melanie Benjamin, Neil Gaiman
Big Books: 500+(0),750+(0),1000+(0)
15.8 - Same Time Last YearThis book is #58 on the November 2012 Most Popular Books list:
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Total points 45
Cindy FTask 5.3 20 Years Ago-Frasier
Award winner: I read The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Points this post:5
Total points:25
Books read:2
Tasks completed:2
Goodreads Authors:0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
Sheila10.7. But I Really Wanted to Read That One!
Murder at Longbourn by Tracy KielyContemporary Women's Fiction/Chick Lit
Total Points = 145
DanaMy first post ever in this group (besides getting my name)!
5.1 A New Season
only 70 ratings today
15.10 Free For Fall
20 points
Amanda (Pearl the Book Girl)25.6. Sandy's Task: General Education
Option 1 -
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary RoachStiff has Science listed as one of the genres and 303 pages.
Mary Roach is a goodreads author
Option 2 -
The Devil, The Lovers and Me: My Life in Tarot by Kimberlee AuerbachThe Devil The Lovers and Me has autobiography > memoir listed as one of the genres and 304 pages.
Kimberlee Auerbach is a goodreads author.
Points in This Task: 25
Goodreads Authors in This Post: 2
Big Book Tickets in This Post: 0
Pages Read in This Post: 607
Totals:
Total Points: 25
Total Goodreads Authors: 2
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(0), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 1
Total Books Read: 2
Total Pages Read in Fall 2013 SRC: 607
Suzannesea5.7 45 Years Ago - 60 Minutes
A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton
This post: 5 points
Total to date: 20 points
Task #15.3 -- Half and HalfThe Marriage Mistake by Jennifer Probst (GR Author) Book fits both criteria - first name is in the first half of the alphabet and last name is in the second half of the alphabet
Points this Post: 15
Totals:
Total Points: 130/1,010
Total Goodreads Authors: 11
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(0), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 10
Total Books Read: 12
5.1 - 2013 - A New SeasonSweet Thunder: A Novel by Ivan Doig
This is a new book with only 55 ratings, as of today.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 70
Post #45.7 - 45 years ago - 60 Minute
Using YEAR
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Points this post: 5
Total points: 40
GR authors: 2
Books read: 5
Tasks completed: 3
Andy P.25.8. Chaitra's Task: A Quarter of Baking Cakes
Option 1
For this option, read a book with a (at least 50%) yellow cover
approved in help threadOption 6 For this option, read a book by an author who has published only one book
The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver approved in help thread message # 31
Points this task: 25
Total points: 115
Angela IL20.7. Shorter is Sweeter - Mstan's Task: "What I Would Read If I Had More Time"
Option A: I decided to use a task from Spring 2013:
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Jessica PDX - Again! Again!
Alongside the SRC, I have another "reading challenge" -keeping my patience while I read my toddler daughter's much-loved picture books to her many, many, many times over.
Read a book that shares a title word in common with one of the following titles that she can't get enough of:
Say What?
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Belly Button Book
Go, Dog. Go!
Big Little
Children Make Terrible Pets
Your book should have an exact match in its title or subtitle; no plurals/possessives or series titles allowed. Punctuation (?, !) may be ignored. Standard SRC rules (including the revised rules regarding children's and comics/manga) apply to this task.
Required: Identify the matching word in your post.
***Sorry I know a link is required, but I have no idea how to do that, so I just copy and pasted the task***
Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner with GO being the matching word used
Task Points: 20
Total Points: 65/1010
Tasks Completed: 5/
Books Read: 5/
Pages Read: 1827
Goodreads Authors*: 1
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
20.7 - WHAT I WOULD READ IF I HAD MORE TIMEI finished the 20 point tasks in both challenges so I decided to do task 20.2 from the Spring Challenge.
PI DAY - OPTION 1 - PAGE COUNT IN FIRST 10 DIGITS OF PI (3.141592653) - The South Beach Diet Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life which has 352 pages. When I did this task in the Spring I did option 3.
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
TOTAL POINTS - 115
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 2
BIG BOOKS - 2
Jennifer KS20.1. Most Improved Player - Andrea's Task: A Cozy Read
Option 1 "Cozy mystery"
I read Hen of the Baskervilles by Donna Andrews who is a Goodreads author.
Task Points: 20
Total Points: 50
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
Pages Read: 1479
Goodreads Authors*: 3
Big Book Tickets: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
20.4. Author! Author! - Karen F's task: Tribute to Two Mystery Greats
option2 - The Diva Frosts a Cupcake (A Domestic Diva Mystery #7)
points this post: 20
total points: 95
option2 - The Diva Frosts a Cupcake (A Domestic Diva Mystery #7)
points this post: 20
total points: 95
Katie M5.2 -- 10 years ago - Two and a Half Men
Flesh & Blood by Ethan Stone
15.10 -- Free for All
Lorcan's Desire by S.J.D. Peterson
This Post: 20 points
Total to Date: 35 points
Jenexplainsitall15.10 Free for Fall
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow RowellPoints this post: 15
Points so far: 15
Total Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1
Goodreads Author: 1
Big Book Tickets: 0
Laurie ME5.1: A New Season: ratings - 137
I See You by Holly Lisle. Holly Lisle is a GRA.
5.9: 55 Years Ago: The Rifleman: horse on cover.
True Betrayals by Nora Roberts.
.5.10: 60 Years Ago: Make Room for Daddy: Son is in title:
Son of the Morning by Linda Howard
10.7: But I Really Wanted to Read That One: from Contemporary Woman's Fiction/Chick Lit:
Murder at Longbourn by Tracy Kiely
15.1: Bookends:
1. First in Series:
Night of the Living Deed by E.J. Copperman
2. Last in a 4 book series to date:
Resurrection in Mudbug by Jana Deleon. Jana DeLeon is a GRA.
Points This Post: 40
Total Points: 40
3 GRA.
15.4 Inside OutOption B: Read ONE book in which a word of at least 3 letters can be found intact within another word in the title, subtitle, or series name.
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding
and/Methland
Points this post: 15
Total points: 40/1010
Total books: 5/79
20.8. It's My Birthday - Cindy F's Task: We Love Scrabble!Option 1: 7 letter word in the title
Secrets by Sara Shepard
Sara Shepard is a Goodreads Author
This post: 20 points
Total to Date = 55 points
//Big Book Tickets: 1
//GR Authors: 2
Delicious Dee15.9 -- Off to College
Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year - found on the 2010 list - HERE
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 70
Goodreads Authors: 2
10.1 Early to Bed, Early to Rise.Self Help 87 users is listed on book's GR main page.
Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield
Points in This Task: 10
Goodreads Authors in This Post: 0
Big Book Tickets in This Post: 0
Pages Read in This Post: 428
Totals:
Total Points: 135
Total Goodreads Authors: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(0), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 7/58
Total Books Read: 9
Total Pages Read in Fall 2013 SRC: 3188
Nick KY5.2 Two and a half Men. I read Valley of the Lost by Vicki Delany (no. 2 in the "Constable Molly Smith" series).
30.3. Sheila/Kathy G’s Take it or Leave it…
Option 1. Liquidamber. Author’s initial are found in LIQUIDAMBER.
I read The Natural Man by Ed McClanahan. E and M are found in LIQUIDAMBER.
Option 3. Maple Leaf. I read Winter of Secrets by Vicki Delany, which takes place in British Columbia, Canada. (#3 in th e"Constable Molly Smith" series)
30.4 Donna Jo’s Elementary Art.
Primary Color – yellow. I read Negative Image by Vicki Delany, whose name ends in a “Y.” (#4 in the "Constable Molly Smith" series)
Secondary Color – orange. I read A Decadent Way to Die, whose cover shows some blueberries and raspberries on top of a decadent cheesecake,
by G.A. McKevett. (fruit on the cover)Points This Post: 65
Total Points So Far: 120
Big Books: 500+ (1)
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30.6. Beth NC's Task: Ancestry
Option 1
Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison
My name is Tea and authors name is Thea which is English spelling of my name.
*** Thea Harrison is GR author ***
Option 2
Vitez slavonske ravni by Marija Jurić Zagorka
I'm sorry, I don't think there is English version of this book. Here is author's wiki page and this is what it's says about this book:
(view spoiler)[Vitez slavonske ravni (The Knight of the Slavonian plain) Set in the time of Maria Theresa. It tells the story of an impoverished noblewoman Krasanka and a masked knight who threatens the plundering bands by the use of what they see as "magic". He soon becomes a legend among the lands of Slavonia gaining nicknames such as "The Elf Knight" due to his use of pyrotechnics to frighten the superstitious bandits. It stands out as Zagorka's only literary work that's not thematically connected with Zagreb.
Trust me, book is much better than it looks from this. This is one of those 'lost in translation' cases. ☺
(hide spoiler)]
Reason for reading this book: My branch of the family tree didn't move that much. If we moved, that was from one city to another. My grandparents were born in Osijek (city in Slavonia) and as children they moved to Zagreb (where we live now).
This book takes place in Slavonia (part of the book is even set in Osijek).
Points This Post: 30
Total points: 110
Tasks Completed: 6
Total Books Read: 8
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Books: /