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SPRING CHALLENGE 2014
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Task # 30.3 - DLMRose's task: Crazy Quilt
Option 3 Fat Quarters
Read any book (whole numbers #1-4) from a series identified as a Quartet

Option 4. Q is for Quilt
Read a book with a Q in the book’s title

Points this post: 30
Total points: 565

30.3 - DLMRose's task: Crazy Quilt
*reposting for a book substitution*
Option 3 - Fat Quarters - The Reckless Bride - Stephanie Laurens (GR Author) - #4 in the Black Cobra Quartet series - as designated on GR
Option 4 - Q is for Quilt - Just Like Heaven - Julia Quinn (GR Author) - Q in Quinn
30.5 - Ty's task: Poetry Counts
Option 3 - The Brazen Bride - Stephanie Laurens (GR Author) - 14 characters in title, bride has 5 letters; moved from task 30.3 to this one
Option 4 - First Love, Wild Love - love is repeated twice
Points This Post: 30
Points Total: 565
GR Author: 33

25.1 The 50 States of Monopoly
Book 1: The Magpies by Mark Edward
Book 2: Sweet Fruit from the Bitter Tree: 61 Stories of Creative & Compassionate Ways Out of Conflict by Mark Andreas
** Mark Edwards (ME) = Maine, The Pine Tree State...Book 2 has the word "Tree" in it's title
This task: 25 points
# tasks submitted to date: 24
GRA: 18
New total points: 385

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Witness in Death by J.D. Robb - ***** - 4/16/2014
Totals for challenge:
Points this task: 5
Total points: 175 / 940
Tasks completed: 15
Books read: 15
Goodreads authors: 8
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)


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Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins - **** - 4/17/2014 - Cat (Rejected Token)
Totals for challenge:
Points this task: 10
Total points: 185 / 940
Tasks completed: 16
Books read: 16
Goodreads authors: 9
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)


Option 2: The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison - ***** - 4/10/2014 - Fantasy Genre
Option 3: Blood Wyne by Yasmine Galenorn - **** - 4/20/2014 - Blood in title & Haiku
Totals for challenge:
Points this task: 25
Total points: 210 / 940
Tasks completed: 17
Books read: 18
Goodreads authors: 9
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)



5.2 Go – I read The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima, set in Japan.
10.8 Join the Crowd. I read Fool by Christopher Moore, a favorite of my GR friends – list checked on April 2, 2014.
10.9 Colorful Captions. I read Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma. Letters in the title are of two different colors.

15.4 Wheel and Deal – 1 book option. I read On The Wealth of Nations by P.J. O'Rourke, which meets option 2, “Wealth” in title, and option 3, “J.” in author’s name.
Points This Post: 40
Total Points so Far: 505
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(2)

Option 1: Read a book of poetry or a book written in verse

Option 2: Read a book with one of the genres listed (horror, suspense/thriller, mystery, romance, science-fiction, or fantasy). Genres may be stand alone or embedded but if using suspense/thriller both genres must be listed, separate or together.

(Genre: Horror )
Totals for challenge:
Points this task: 25
Total points: 880/ 940
Tasks completed: 54
Books read: 65
Goodreads authors: 9
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)


5.10 - Poker
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder - title includes the word JACK.
10.2 - Do not pass Go
Pure by Andrew Miller
15.1 - Nowruz Day
Option C - Sliding on the Snow Stone by Andy Szpuk - Title starts with an S.
Option D -

15.8 - Take your vitamins
C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton
20.5 - Bigger is better: Mary Beth's Task: Big books are best!
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett - has over 900 pages!
20.8 - It's my birthday!- Rhonda's Task: On this day in history
The Sculptress by Minette Walters - author's initials are MW.
20.10 - Group Reads
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
25.2 - Elizabeth B's Task: Nordic Noir
Book A - Redemption by Jussi Adler-Olsen - set in Denmark.
Book B - Victim Six by Gregg Olsen - both authors share a surname.
30.3 - DLMRose's task: Crazy Quilt
Option 2 - The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman - this has been on my TBR for a while.
Option 4 - Disgrace by Jussi Adler-Olsen - the subtitle is Dept Q: 2.
30.8 - Delicious Dee's task: Read ‘Em Again
Two authors that I read for the first time last season:
Prophecy by S.J. Parris
Shift by Hugh Howey
Points this post: 195
Total points: 375

Completed Tasks
5.3 - Candyland.
The word 'and' found intact in title
Singing Sand
TICKET CLAIM: Singing Sand is by David Chattaway who is a Goodreads Author
15.4 Wheeling and Dealing
Using Option 2 where one book satisfies two of the task options
Option B: Word 'Gold' in Title
Option C: Author 'Elizabeth'
Trojan Gold by Elizabeth Peters
*** Summary ***
Previous Points Earned: 535
Points Earned this Post: 20
Total Points to Date: 555
Big Book Tickets to Date: 2
Goodreads Authors to Date: 23

15.4 Wheeling and Dealing
Option 1, B: Drops of Gold by Sarah M. Eden.
Option 1, C: Wednesdays in the Tower by Jessica Day George.
Jessica Day George is a Goodreads Author.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 165
Books read: 23
Tasks complete: 19
GR authors: 7
Big Books:
500+ 1
750+ 0
1000+ 0

20.8 -On This Day In History
Option B : Read a book with "mental illness" or "mental health" as a genre listed on the main page.

Totals for Challenge
Points this task : 20
Total Points : 580
Tasks Completed : 29
Books Read This Season : 44
Good Reads Authors : 24
Big Books : 500+ (1)
Big Books : 750+ (0)
Big Books : 1000+ (0)
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5.5 - Scrabble.
The Color Master: Stories by Aimee Bender goodreads author.
10.9 - Colorful Captions

Points this post: 15
Total points: 430
GR Authors: 17
Big Books: 500+(2),750+(0),1000+(0)

option 2

Carey Baldwin
GOODREADS AUTHOR
option 3
I Am Livia
Phyllis T. Smith
GOODREADS AUTHOR
(Approved in genre thread, just in case)
This task 30 points
total points 240

For this task, I read “

Also, Ava Dellaira 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: 270
Pages Read this Challenge: 323
Total Pages Read to Date: 6808
Books Read this Challenge: 1
Total Books Read: 22
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Book Tickets: 500( 1 ), 750(), 1000()

5.4 - Boggle
a book with a word found in the Boggle board also in the title
The Rose Bride: A Retelling of "The White Bride and the Black Bride" by Nancy Holder
*the word is ROSE*
**Nancy Holder is a GR Author, 1 ticket**
Points: 5
Total Points: 375
GR Authors: 15
Big Books: 2

5.9 - Gin Rummy
Whiskey Sour (Whiskey sour is the name of a whiskey cocktail - this book has 92 pg (using my small book ticket)
10.3 - Do Not Collect $200
Fade Away (368 pg the paperback)
10.4 - A Token Task

15.8 - Take Your Vitamins
For a Few Demons More (one letter word: a)
25.2 -Elizabeth B's task:Nordic noir
My First Murder, set in Finland (257 pg)
Snow Angels, set in Finland (264 pg)
257+264=521 pg
25.6 -Stacie MI’s Task: All the Colors of the Rainbow
Red-mystery:

Blue/purple - HR:

Points this post: 90
Total: 445+90=535

15.5 Vincent From Gogh

15.6 - World Champs

(Australia)
15.8 Take Your Vitamins

(A)
20.8 - It's My Birthday! - Rhonda's Task: On This Day in History!
Option A:

I listened to the audiobook but the ppb link is here for book length Nobody Knows
Total Points = 830


30.3 Crazy quilt
The Manhattan Puzzle Laurence O'Bryan - option 1/ quilt block pattern : Balkan Puzzle
One True Thing Anna Quindlen - option 4/ Q in author's name
30.8 Read'em again
The Lake of Dreams Kim Edwards - new author from Summer 2014: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy - new author from Fall 2013 :The Road
Tasks points 80
Total points 240


Points this post: 10
Total points: 375
Tasks completed: 18
Books read: 24
Goodreads Author: 20
Big Book Tickets: 500 (1); 750 (0); 1000(0)

Read a book with the genre GLBT on its main page.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan GoodReads Author
Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 105
GoodReads Authors: 10
Big Books: 500+ (3); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

5.10 - Poker
Why Kings Confess by C.S. Harris
- word king in the title
*** C.S. Harris is GR author***
10.10 - Take a Chance
The Night Killer by Beverly Connor
30.8 - Delicious Dee's task: Read ‘Em Again
Fall 2013 - read Dragon Bound
Storm's Heart by Thea Harrison
Winter 2013/2014 - read Kiss of Midnight
Kiss of Crimson by Lara Adrian
*** Thea Harrison is GR author***
*** Lara Adrian is GR author***
Points This Post: 45
Total points: 360
Tasks Completed: 19
Total Books Read: 28
Goodreads Authors: 22
Big Books: 500 (/), 750 (/), 1000 (/)

Organized for Murder by Ritter Ames
*** Ritter Ames is a Goodreads Author ***
10.9 - Colorful Captions

*** Emma Donoghue is a Goodreads Author ***
Total points this post: 15
Total GRA this post: 2
Total points: 135
Total GRA: 9
Total big book tickets: 0

15.6 World Champs
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
book set in UK
20.10 Group Reads
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
discussion post
pts this post: 35
total points: 115

Little White Duck : a childhood in China by Na Liu April 19
Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 215
Total Tasks Completed: 16
Total Books Read: 16
Total Goodreads Authors: 8
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

5.6 - Stratego.
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
War genre
15.3 You Go Girl!
Option 2:
Miss Julia Throws a Wedding by Ann B. Ross
15.5 Vincent From Gogh
Advent of Dying by Carol Anne O'Marie
15.6 - World Champs
Unscrewed by Lois Greiman
Set in California, U.S.
15.8 Take Your Vitamins
Buried in a Bog by Sheila Connolly
Word: a
15.10 Goof Off!
Coming Clean in Lerpe by R. Jimon
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Shelby's task: Chug-a Chug-a...Chug-a Chug-a...Choo-Choo
Killer Market by Margaret Maron
Option 3:
Series: Deborah Knott #5; not first or last in series
20.3 - Best Review - Chris MD's task: Monopoly Money, Spring, and the SRC
Option $5 - Pink:

Flower on cover
20.4 - Author! Author! - Janet F's Task: My Bye Bye Birdie Birthday
Option 4:

Bird on cover
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Mary Beth's task: Big Books are Best!
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
558 pages
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Kimber's task: Celebrate the Sibs!
Have 2 siblings
Reservations for Murder by Tim Myers
Lighthouse Inn Mystery #2
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Bluemoon's task: Covers of Spring
Option 2:

Clouds on cover
Sheila Connolly, Margaret Maron, Heather Webber, and Rick Riordan are Goodreads authors.
Points this post: 200
Total Points: 280
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Book Tickets:

20.10 Group Reads
By reading:
Dune by Frank Herbert, in the category Space Opera.
I am message number 15 on the discussion board. Dune had over 500 pages, so I will claim 1 big book ticket.
Total Points: 110
Tasks Complete: 7
GR Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(3) 750+() 1000+()

15.8
Taking Your Vitamins!
Plan B
15.9
Spring Into Action
Rock Chick Revolution
20.2
Rookie At the Top
Pamela's Su's Task: Fun In a Box!
When You Dare
Word used: when
20.8
It's My Birthday!
Rhonda's Task: On This Day in History
Option A: Star Bright
20.9
Moderator's Pet
Bluemoon's Task: Covers of Spring
Option 2: The Dream Thief
30.5
Ty's Task: Poetry Counts
Option 1: Waking Up Married
Option 3: Powder and Patch
Total Points This Post: 120
Total Points: 370

The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown by Julia Quinn April 21 (My Fair Lady)
Julia Quinn is a Goodreads Author
Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 220
Total Tasks Completed: 17
Total Books Read: 17
Total Goodreads Authors: 9
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier April 21
Makiia Lucier is a Goodreads Author
Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 230
Total Tasks Completed: 18
Total Books Read: 18
Total Goodreads Authors: 10
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

The Art of War by Sun Tzu April 17
Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 235
Total Tasks Completed: 19
Total Books Read: 19
Total Goodreads Authors: 10
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

The Finisher by David Baldacci April 13 (512 p.)
David Baldacci is a Goodreads Author
The Finisher is a Big Book
Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 255
Total Tasks Completed: 20
Total Books Read: 20
Total Goodreads Authors: 11
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

Option A - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore March 16 (4 letters)
AND
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart March 31 (42 letters)
Christopher Moore is a Goodreads Author
Points This Task: 25
Total Points: 280
Total Tasks Completed: 21
Total Books Read: 22
Total Goodreads Authors: 12
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

Option 1 - Death in Venice by Thomas Mann March 29 (160 p.)
Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 300
Total Tasks Completed: 22
Total Books Read: 23
Total Goodreads Authors: 12
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

Option B - Lunch Money by Andrew Clements April 14
AND
Option C - This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin March 30
Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 315
Total Tasks Completed: 23
Total Books Read: 25
Total Goodreads Authors: 12
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

Just now starting. Fractured my right hip and have been in hospital recovering and spent last week cleansing all the medication I was on. Am weak and slightly dehydrated but am glad just to be finally on the mend and back to the SRC.
5.6 - Stratego. Spy genre
**The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva
**Big Book: The Unlikely Spy is 752 Pages**
10.9 - Colorful Captions

*James Patterson is a Goodreads Author*
Points in These Tasks: 15
Goodreads Authors in This Post: 1
Big Book Tickets in This Post: 2
Pages Read in This Post: 1152

Totals:
Total Points: 15
Total Goodreads Authors: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(0), 750=(1), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 2/55
Total Books Read: 2
Total Pages Read in Spring 2014 SRC: 1152

25.1 - Andy P's task: The 50 States of Monopoly
Book 1- State is Kansas-Abbr. is KS
Triptych by Karin Slaughter
Claiming Karin Slaughter as GR author
Book 2- The nickname for Kansas is The Sunflower State.
The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
Total Points: 325/940
Total Tasks: 16/55
Total GR Authors: (10)
Total Big Books: 500+( );759+( )
Hana C.
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Bluemoon's task: Covers of Spring
Option 3: Read a book with a boat on the cover.
Doctor Who The Feast Of The Drowned by Stephen Cole
points this post: 20
Tasks Completed: 23
GRAs: 12
Big Book Tickets: 2
Total Points: 405
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Bluemoon's task: Covers of Spring
Option 3: Read a book with a boat on the cover.
Doctor Who The Feast Of The Drowned by Stephen Cole

points this post: 20
Tasks Completed: 23
GRAs: 12
Big Book Tickets: 2
Total Points: 405

20.8 - It's My Birthday! - Rhonda's Task: On This Day in History!
Option A-Read a book by an author whose initials (first and last - middle initials should be ignored), can be found in any order in AMERICA or whose initials are M.W (in that order).
Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover: A Novel by Ann B. Ross
Total Points: 345/940
Total Tasks: 17/55
Total GR Authors: (10)
Total Big Books: 500+( );759+( )

Read a book set primarily (at least 50%) in one or more of the largest producers of the sweet stuff: ...New York...
New York setting mentioned in GR description
Passing by Nella Larsen
Task total=10
Grand total=430

Option 2, romance genre: Life's a Beach by Claire Cook
**Claire Cook is a Goodreads author.**
Option 3, with a word from the Haiku in the title (Weather): Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
**Liza Klaussmann is a Goodreads author.**
Points this post: 25
Total points: 510
GR authors: 26

10.3 - Do Not Collect $200
The Wanderer - the mmpb is 377pgs, no 2 or 0 in the number
Points This Post: 10
Points Total: 575
GR Author: 33
10.10 - Take a Chance
The random number generator gave me an 8, so I read The Post-American World, #8 on my list of 20 books that I really wanted to read.
25.5 - Oma1229/JenneRenee's task: Spring Reading Haiku
For my first book, I chose option 2, and read The School of Night. Both mystery and fantasy are listed as genres.
For my second book, I chose option 4, and read A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro. The letters K and I both appear in "haiku."
30.7 - Nick KY’s task: Back to Australia
For my first book, I used option 2 and read The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint. 134 pages, so between 100 and 200.
For my second book, I used option 4. When I put Charles de Lint into the lit map, one of the female authors listed was Emma Bull, so I read Finder by Ms. Bull.
Points this post: 65
Total points: 560
The random number generator gave me an 8, so I read The Post-American World, #8 on my list of 20 books that I really wanted to read.
25.5 - Oma1229/JenneRenee's task: Spring Reading Haiku
For my first book, I chose option 2, and read The School of Night. Both mystery and fantasy are listed as genres.
For my second book, I chose option 4, and read A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro. The letters K and I both appear in "haiku."
30.7 - Nick KY’s task: Back to Australia
For my first book, I used option 2 and read The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint. 134 pages, so between 100 and 200.
For my second book, I used option 4. When I put Charles de Lint into the lit map, one of the female authors listed was Emma Bull, so I read Finder by Ms. Bull.
Points this post: 65
Total points: 560

The Last Concubine
Set in China per GR main page
10.1 - Go to Jail
Mountain Prey
MC is an ex-convict per GR book description
Points this post: 5 + 10 = 15
Total Points: 825 + 15 = 840
Big Books: 1

TASK NAME: 20.7 Shorter is Sweeter
Miss Buncle's Book
Qualifier: 1 sibling = Read 1st in series.
Points this task: 20
Points Total: 170
Tasks Completed: 10
GR Author: 7
Big Books: 0

Option 3
Read: Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth is a Goodreads Author.
Claiming a Big Book Ticket - 525 pgs.
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Kimber's task: Celebrate the Sibs!
Read: Divergent by Veronica Roth
I have one sibling and read the first book in a series.
Veronica Roth is a Goodreads Author.
Points this post: 40
Total Points: 90
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Books: 1

5.8 - Go Fish!
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Name of fish: Alaska Blackfish
Total Points: 30
Total Books Read: 6

10.10 - Take a Chance
Make a list of 20 books you really want to read this season.
Set the True Random Number Generator to generate a number between 1 and 20.
Read the book at the number generated.
Random Generator - 5

Totals for Challenge
Points this task : 10
Total Points : 590
Tasks Completed : 30
Books Read This Season : 45
Good Reads Authors : 25
Big Books : 500+ (1)
Big Books : 750+ (0)
Big Books : 1000+ (0)

5.8 Go Fish!
Read a book with the word "fish" or with the name of a type of fish in its title/subtitle or with a fish on the cover.
Black Magic by Megan Derr
Fish name: Black angelfish
Megan Derr is a GR author.
10.1 Go to Jail
Read a book in which a main character is or was in jail, a detention center, a death camp, or imprisoned in some way. People who work or live in a jail would work, too.
Brute by Kim Fielding
Brute, the MC is a jailer and the other MC, Grey is the prisoner Brute is guarding.
Kim Fielding is a GR author.
10.8 Join the Crowd
Read a book that's popular with your GRs friends.
Sunset by Arshad Ahsanuddin
Book found from the popular books list 18.3.2014.
Arshad Ahsanuddin is a GR author.
15.1 Nowruz Day
A) Read a book set predominately in one of countries that share this holiday.
A Werewolf's Soldier by Kayley Scott
Book is set in Afghanistan.
Kayley Scott is a GR author.
D) Read a book with a person wearing an article of red clothing on the cover.

M. Jules Aedin is a GR author.
Points in this post: 40
Total points: 250
GR authors: 16
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Place selected: VIRGINIA
Book A: A Week At The Beach by VIRGINIA Jewel
BookB: Crazy, VA by Shannon Hill - set in VIRGINIA
30.7: Nick KY's task: Back to Australia
Option 1: Kuddle a Koala: book set in Australia or Austrailian author
Murder With the Lot by Sue Williams - book setting is Rusty Bore, Austrailia and Sue Williams is an Australian living in Melbourne
Option 2: Shrimp on the barbie: book between 100-200 pages
The Pearl by John Steinbeck - 118 pages
1 Goodreads author - Virginia Jewel
Points this post: 60 -------Total: 510/940
Tasks this post: 2 -------Total: 33/55
Books read: 4 ------- Total: 38
GR authors: 1 --------------Total: 12