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FALL CHALLENGE 2015
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Fall Challenge 2015: Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE POSTS)
20.4. Author! Author! - Seakbee's Task: Life’s Too ShortOption 3: For this option, read a book whose cover shows one of the following: a car, the beach and/or ocean, or a map.
(car)first published 2002
20.5. Bigger is Better - Mary P's Task: Into the Wilderness
Option 4: Read a book from one of your own favorite series. The book may be any # in the series. Or you may start a new favorite with #1 of a series.
Pretties
25.6 - Dakimel’s Task: Wedding Traditions
Option 3: Something Borrowed – Read a book you’ve borrowed. (Don’t forget to return it!) REQUIRED: State where or whom you got it from in your post.
Mockingjay
borrowed from my friend Marilia
Option 4: Something Blue – Read a book with a blue “something” on the cover. The blue thing must be an identifiable inanimate object, not a background design or text, and cannot be water or sky. REQUIRED: Include the cover when posting and point out the blue object.
Blue eyePoints of this post:
65
Total:
Points:115
Books:7
Tasks:6
GO:1
BB:0
20.4. Author! Author! - Seakbee's Task: Life’s Too ShortOption 1: book set in Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada or California
White Fire by Douglas Preston
This book is set in Colorado and the main character Corrie Swanson spends all of her time in this state.
Published November 12, 2013.
Points this post: 20
Points to date: 65
Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥5.1 Five Suns--REQUIRED: Include a brief explanation of the natural disaster involved
Includes a natural disaster, such as avalanche, earthquake, flood, forest fire, hurricane, lightning, tornado, tsunami, or volcanic eruption--Last sentence of book descriptionAs a blizzard bears down, and Bearkill’s dark secrets claw their way to the surface, Lizzie gears up for a showdown that could leave the deep, driven snow stained blood red.:Winter at the Door
Points Earned This Post:5
Points Achieved to Date: 135/1070
GO Tickets:
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (0)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)
Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥5.9 Spider Grandmother
Author* whose initials can be found in SPIDER GRANDMOTHER:Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel by Ransom Riggs
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1.0
Points Earned This Post:5
Points Achieved to Date:140/1070
GO Tickets:
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (0)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)
Jonquil20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter: Camilla’s task: Judge the Book by its Cover
Option 2: Pskegdemus single female on cover
A Ghostly Undertaking
Tonya Kappes
Paperback, 304 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 440
Books posted: 39
Tasks complete: 37
Pages this post: 304
Total pages as of this post: 10782
ThunderBritches....Task Number: 30.8 - Nick KY’s Task: Ghost Hunters
REQUIRED:
Option 1: Read a book, fiction or nonfiction, with the word “Ghost” or the word “Hunt” found intact in the title/subtitle/series title, or the author’s* name. Part of a larger word, such as “Ghostly” or “Hunter,” is O.K.
Option 3: "Hunt" for a book which fits the following criteria. The Lesser Blessed: A Novel is a short classic of only 128 pages. Read any novel (“novella,” “novelette”) which is 100 – 150 pages in length. No poetry, plays, short story collections, or nonfiction here.
Book:
Book 1: Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Book 2: The Time Machine (118 pgs)
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[POINTS]
This Post: 30
Total Points: 90
Books Read: 6
Completed Tasks: 4/61
Pages Read: 1,418
Sheila15.3 - Past & Present
Book 1:
The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoffand
Book 2:
Alert by James Patterson(first published July 16th 2015)
15.9 - Animal Guides
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz(spider)
15.10 - Nanowrimo!
"O" is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton(2007)
Total Points = 285
Reader board name: Daphne10.8 - Yo Ho, Yo Ho: 4 letters title: SKULL
Skull Moon
Total Points: 55/1100
Books Read: 7
Completed Tasks: 6/61
Pages Read: 1898
GO Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
BARBARA ★20.4 - Author! Author! - Seakbee's Task: Life’s Too Short
Option 3:
The Forgotten Room - Lincoln Child 9/25(book set in Rhode Island, Atlantic ocean on the cover)
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Reposting this one....
25.6 - Dakimel’s Task: Wedding Traditions
Option 3: Bones Never Lie - Kathy Reichs 9/3
(borrowed from the library)
Option 4:
The Arrow - Monica McCarty (blue shield on cover) 9/21Goodreads Author
Approval: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Totals for Challenge
Points this Post: 45
Total Points: 195
Goodreads Authors: 14
Big Books - 500+: (0)
Big Books - 750+: (0)
Big Books - 1000+: (0)
195/1070 POINTS
Andy P.Task #
20.2. Rookie at the Top - Puppitypup's Task: Picky, picky, picky!
Read a book that combines at least THREE of the following features.
A. Main page genre: Adventure, C. Main page genre: Humor,
E. Main page genre: History
by Bill BrysonAdventure mp 60 users
Humor mp 453 users
History mp 97 users
Points this post: 20
Total points: 195
trishhartuk25.3 Elizabeth B’s Task: Grape Harvest Season
Option 1: Read a book set in one of the top 20 wine - producing countries. You may NOT choose a book set in the country in which you live. REQUIRED: include in your post the country in which the book is set and the country in which you live.
Mission to Murder, Lynn Cahoon
Read the kindle version. PB reference: Mission to Murder
Set in California. The US is #4 in the top wine producers list. I live in the UK (which didn’t make the list at all, although we're producing some half-way decent wines nowadays!)
Option 3: Read a book with grapes, wine, wine glass, wine bottle, or grape vines on the cover OR with the words "wine", "grape," "vine," in the title/subtitle.
A Touch of the Grape, Claudia Bishop
Has the word Grape in the title. There are also bunches of grapes around the picture, and vines with grapes on the wallpaper in the picture.
Points this Task: 25
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
Total Points: 345
Tasks Completed: 13
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 0
loafer20.2 Rookie at the Top - Puppitypup's Task: Picky, picky, picky!
The Heist by Janet Evanovich satisfies A,B,C (adventure, romance, humor) and is approved in the help thread for the task.
I listened to the audiobook. There is no mass market paperback. Paperback has 372 pages.
points this task: 20
total points: 155
BB: 1
GO: 2
tasks completed: 10
5.1 Natural Disaster-Winter Storm"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Points for this post-5
5.2 The Sun and the Moon"My Sunshine" by Catherine Anderson
A sun on the cover.My Sunshine
Points for this post-5
5.2 The Sun and the Moon"My Sunshine" by Catherine Anderson
Points for this task-5
TASK NUMBER : 10.7 - Sedna the Sea Goddess TASK DESCRIPTION: Read a book with "sea" in title
BOOK #1 READ:
The Winter SeaAUTHOR: Susanna Kearsley
DATE READ: 9/25/2015
REQUIRED INFO: "Sea" in title
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TOTALS
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 240
5.3 What Are We Made Of?"The Captive Maiden" by Melanie Dickerson
Book #4 in the Fairy Tales Series
Points for this task-5
5.6 Four CordsRead a book with a four word title.
"Song of My Heart" by Kim Vogel Sawyer
Points for this task-5
Total points-20
5.7 Raven the TricksterGenre-Humor
"My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space" by Lisa Scottoline
Points for this task-5
Total points-25
5.9 Spider GrandmotherAuthor Initials Found in Spider Grandmother
"The Fairest Beauty" By Melanie Dickerson
M from grandMother & D from spiDer
Points for this task-5
Total points-30
5.8 Four WorldsI read a book with Island in the title.
"Love Finds you on Prince Edward ISLAND, Canada" by Susan Page Davis
Points for this task-5
Total points-35
5.10 Create Your Own WorldBook of your choice
"The New World, A Step Backward" by Andy Skrzynski
Points for this task-5
Total points-40
5.4 Earth and Water"Trenten Caicai Vilu"- make a word
"The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant
TrENTen caicai vilu I spelled tent.
Points for this task-5
5.5 Esaugetuh EmisseeBody of water on the cover!
"Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
Points for this task-5
30.10 - Sandy - Moving the FencesBook 1: Book of Choice -
The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye I listened to the audiobook the MM Paperback The Far Pavilions is 1191 pages. The book's rating is 4.19
Book 2: Book with at least 50 fewer pages and an average rating 0.5 lower than book one
Footprints of a Dancer by Bob Avey - I read the kindle edition, the Paperback Footprints of a Dancer is 240 pages. The book's rating is 3.1
I'd like to claim 3 Big Book tickets for The Far Pavilions
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 30/1070
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldies
Big Books: 500+ (), 750+ (), 1000+ (1)
5.3 What Are We Made Of?I read A Palm for Mrs Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - #4 in series
10.4 Ten-Four Day
I read The Summer I Wasn't Me by Jessica Verdi - 447 5-star ratings
10.6 Back to Reality
I read Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Mark Binelli - nonfiction
15.6 The Name Game
I read Dead Scared by Sharon Bolton - "bolt" is the noun
15.9 Animal Guides
I read Cobra by Deon Meyer
20.5 Into the Wilderness
I chose option 4 and started a new series. I read I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells - #1 in the John Cleaver series
20.8 Happy Anniversary!
I chose option C and read Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton - N Y and M in Germany, S in Australia.
Total Points: 95
10.8 Yo Ho, Yo Ho!Read a book with a word of at least 4 letters from the song lyrics in the title or subtitle. The word must match exactly.
The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold
"Between" is in the subtitle and in the song lyrics ("So here's to old Errol and Depp as Jack Sparrow/And every damn one in between!")
10 points this post
2 / 60 total tasks
15 / 1070 total points
Emsreviewsbooks20.6. Seasoned Reader - Amy O's - Quetzalcoatl
Option 2: I read ReQuiem by Lauren Oliver.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 200
Books Read: 18
Tasks Complete: 18
Morgan Faeriesfolly5.3 What are We Made of?
REQUIRED: Read a book that is #4 or #8 in a series.
Selection: Saga, Volume 4 (Saga: Collected Editions #4) -- Brian K. Vaughan
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5.10 Create Your Own World!
REQUIRED: FREE SPACE -- book of your choice.
Selection: Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned -- Brian K. Vaughan
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10.2 Happy Hour!
REQUIRED: Read a book that is identified as #4, #5, #6 or #7 in a series.
Selection: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce #6) -- Alan Bradley
Page #: PB 352 pages
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10.4 Ten-Four Day
REQUIRED: Read a book that has at least 104 5-star ratings.
# Ratings/Date Selected: 3718 5-star ratings on 9/3
Selection: The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity (The Unwritten #1) -- Mike Carey
[POINTS]
This Post: 5 + 5 + 10 + 10 = 30
Total Points: 300/1070
Books Read: 27
Completed Tasks: 25/60
Pages Read: 6210
Sharice completed20.5. Bigger is Better - Mary P's Task: Into the Wilderness
Option 1: Read a book with a main page genre History, Historical fiction or Historical Romance.
I read
It has the genre of Historical Fiction.
Totals this post=20
Overall total=80
Task 20.9 THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME!OPTION C., A book whose title includes the letter Z:
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 180/1,100
Books Read: 11
Completed Tasks: 10/61
GO Tickets: 0
BB Tickets: 0
Cindy FTask 10.2 Happy Hour!
#5 in a series:
I read Oh Danny Boy by Rhys Bowen
Points this post:10
Total points:90
Tasks completed:9
Books read:9
Golden Oldies:0
Big books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
SCHATZIE25.7 - ELLEN'S WONDERFUL OVERSEAS ASSIGNMENTS
opt. 2: mystery set in Asia (JAPAN)
The Iris Fan: A Novel of Feudal Japan
opt. 3: book set in Germany
City of Women
Points this post: 25
TOTAL POINTS: 725
Morgan Faeriesfolly10.5 Penmanship Practice
REQUIRED: Read a book with a TITLE on the cover that is written in cursive. All the words in the title should be written in cursive. Subtitles may be ignored.
Selection:
Flawless (Pretty Little Liars #2) -- Sara Shepard
Page #: PB 330 pages
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20.8 Nickels and Dimes - Fandury's task: Happy Anniversary!
REQUIRED: Option D: OUR ANNIVERSARY -- To celebrate 12 years of "happily married" read a book with exactly 12 letters in the author's name.
Richelle (8) Mead (4) = 12 letters
Selection: The Immortal Crown (Age of X #2) -- Richelle Mead
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30.8 Nick KY’s Task: Ghost Hunters
REQUIRED: Option 3. “Hunt” for a book which fits the following criteria. The Lesser Blessed: A Novel is a short classic of only 128 pages. Read any novel (“novella,” “novelette”) which is 100 – 150 pages in length. No poetry, plays, short story collections, or nonfiction here.
The edition I read is 146 pages.
Selection: We Have Always Lived in the Castle -- Shirley Jackson
REQUIRED: Option 2. Most ghost stories are gothic, but not all gothics are ghost stories. Read a book with the GR genre “Gothic” which does NOT have the word “Ghost” in the title/subtitle/series title. Embedded genres are OK, as well as if “Gothic” is a part of a larger genre name (“Gothic Romance.”)
Approval/Verified: Genre Verification
Selection: The Beautiful and the Cursed (The Dispossessed #1) -- Page Morgan
Page #: PB 342 pages
[POINTS]
This Post: 10 + 20 + 30 = 60
Total Points: 360/1070
Books Read: 31
Completed Tasks: 28/60
Pages Read: 7460
Vicki20.4 Life's Too Short
Option 1: Character sets foot in CA
Friday Night in Beast House by Richard Laymon
This takes place is Malcasa Point, CA which is one hour west of San Francisco, CA
REPOST 20.7 Judge the Book by its Cover
by A.K. Alexander Approved for length on the E book list #2208 (I had forgot to add this last time)
This post:
40 pts
Total:
40 pts
RUCHI#10.5 - Penmanship Practice
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
Points this post : 10
Total points : 245
15.8 - Culture VultureDelve into Native American culture by reading a book found on the Native American Fiction list.
This book is #30 and appears on Page 1 of the Native American Fiction List
POINTS
Points This Post: 15
Points Total: 215
Golden Oldies:
Big Books:
500 () 750 () 1000 ()
Tasks Completed: 11
BB Total:
GO Total: 3
Anne (Booklady)15.5 - Act (on) Your Age!
58 = 5 + 8 = 13 = 1+3 = 4 Word Title
Arsenic and Old Books by Miranda James
25.10 - M1nks's Task: Let a Little Light and Colour In!
Opt 1: 2 people are sitting on a bench in the sun looking at the water on cover
by Nicholas SparksOpt 2: Cat on cover
by Miranda JamesPoints in These Tasks: 40
Golden Oldies in This Post: 0
Big Book Tickets in This Post: 0
Pages Read in This Post: 1044
Totals:
Total Points: 180
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(0), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 10/60
Total Books Read: 13
Total Pages Read in Fall 2015 SRC: 4400
Reader Board name: Daphne15.4 - The World Without End
Fits 1. and 2.
Extinction Horizon "post-apocalyptic" and 2014
15.6 - - The Name Game
Read a book written by an author whose first, middle, or last name contains a NOUN of 4 or more letters intact within the name.
The Price of Silence by Kate Wilhelm
Using the word HELM found in last name.
Total Points: 85/1100
Books Read: 9
Completed Tasks: 9/61
Pages Read: 2675
GO Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Reader Board name: Daphne25.10 - M1nks's Task (2 books)
Option 3: Read a book with a picture of a horse on the cover.
Option 4: Read a book with some nice brightly coloured clothing on the cover. (Not summer attire)
(Bright Green suit worn by man on the left)
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 110/1100
Books Read: 11
Completed Tasks: 10/61
Pages Read: 3024
GO Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
SCHATZIE15.9 - ANIMAL GUIDES
Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak: Dictated by Himself
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25.9 - DELICIOUS DEE'S ON THE INJURED BEACH
opt. 1: food item on cover
A Slice of the Pie: How to Build a Big Little Business
req'd: There is a pizza on the table
opt. 4: on TBR pile for more than a year
Sleeping with Fear
req'd: this has been on my GR TBR pile since Jan 2013 which is more than a year
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25.10 - M1NKS'S LET A LITTLE LIGHT AND COLOUR IN!
opt. 1: one or more persons sitting in the sun
The Summer Girls
opt. 2: Cat on cover or in title
Panthers Play for Keeps
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Points this post: 65
TOTAL POINTS: 790
Beth _NC15.10 NANOWRIMO Unlucky 13 by James Patterson
Pep Talk in 2013
25.9 ON THE INJURED BENCH
A. People of the FirePeople of the Fire by W. Michael Gear
People of tHe fIre
Option 2: I gave People of the Wolf 2 stars previously
B. The Hiding Place by David J. Bell
the HIding Place
Option 4 On TBR since 1/9/14
Points: 40
Tasks: 2
Books: 3
Pages: 1283
Total Points: 450
Total Tasks: 18
Total Books: 30
Big Book Tickets: 3
Total Pages: 10570
ERIN C.5.7 Raven the Trickster
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Main page genre of "Humor"
Task Points: 5
Total Points: 35
BB: 2
GO: 0
Books Read: 6
Tasks Completed: 6
5.4: Earth and WaterI read The Children Act.
The word I made was act.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 20
Tasks complete: 4
Books read: 4
Goldie Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 1
ANGIE CA5.6.Four Cords
Book: Dark Heart of Magic by Jennifer Estep
Notes: 4 words in title. I read an ARC.
25.1 Andy P.'s task: The Fall Months
Book 1: Stone Cold Touch by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Notes: Author's surname has 10 letters.
Book 2: The Double Life of Incorporate Things by Leanna Renee Hieber
Notes: Incorporate has 11 letters.
25.2: SarahBR's task: Footy, Movies and Horses oh my!
Book 1: Outback Affair by Annie Seaton
Notes: 1) Author is from Brisbane, Queensland. Approved for length.
Book 2: Cam Girl by Leah Raeder
Notes: 3) meLbouRne cup. I read an ARC.
25.3 - Elizabeth B's Task: Grape Harvest Season
Book 1: The Spanish Billionaire's Hired Bride by Rachel Lyndhurst
Notes: 1) Set in Spain. Approved for length.
Book 2: The Best Man by Kristan Higgins
Notes: 2) Set at the family vineyard.
25.9 - Delicious Dee's Task: On the Injured Bench
Book 1: Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean
Notes: 2) I gave this author a 2 star and 1 star rating previously.
Book 2: Wicked in Your Arms by Sophie Jordan
Notes: 4) I've owned this book for over a year.
This Post: 105
Points to Date: 270
Delicious Dee25.2: SarahBR's task: Footy, Movies and Horses oh my!
option 1 - No More Mr. Nice Guy - Amy Andrews - from her GR bio - She lives on acerage on the outskirts of Brisbane, Australia
Option 3 - Seduced by Sunday - Catherine Bybee - author's initials appear in melBourne Cup
points this post: 25
points total: 325
RUCHI# 15.4 - The World Without End
Champion by Marie Lu
Book 1 Requirement : Published in 2013 (After December 2012)
Book 2 Requirement : Main page genre has 'Dystopia'
Points this post : 15
Total points : 260
DEANA20.5. Bigger is Better - Mary P's Task: Into the Wilderness
OPTION 1: Historical Ficiton/Historical on main page
Exodus (audio edition)
Exodus (MMPB for length)
At 599 pages, this book is worth one big book ticket
20.8. Nickels and Dimes - Fandury's task: Happy Anniversary!
OPTION D: exactly 12 letters in the author's name.
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
by Alice Hoffman
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THIS POST:
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 1
Points: 40
TOTALS:
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 1
Points: 50
30.3 Perspective over time 1. Black Coffee Agatha Christie, published 1930 , before I was born
2. When the Moon is Low Nadia Hashimi, published 2015, book published after 2010
Task points 30
Total points 115
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15.8 - Culture Vulture
read a book found on the Native American Fiction list.
Found on the First Page
Shadow Tag
Total Points: 45/1100
Books Read: 6
Completed Tasks: 5/61
Pages Read: 1712
GO Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0