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FALL CHALLENGE 2015
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Fall Challenge 2015: Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE POSTS)
Cindy FTask 5.7 Raven the Trickster
Main page genre humor or funny
I read Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? by Billy Crystal
Points this post:5
Total points:95
Tasks completed:10
Books read:10
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
Kristen IA30.6: Donna Jo's Task - Me, Myself, and I
Choose two different options and read one book for each. State which options you have chosen.
1. Me: Read a book by an author* whose name has "me" found intact in it. "Me" must be in that order. First, last, or middle names will work. Initials may NOT be used. Neither can names with the m in the first name and the e in the last--like Liam Elliott. If a book has multiple authors, only one author name must fit the task.
10th Anniversary by James Patterson
I listened to the audiobook, but have linked to the PB version.
3. I: Read a fiction book written in the first person - at least 50% of the book must be written from the "I" perspective. Nonfiction, such as autobiographies or memoirs, will not work for this task.
Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
REQUIRED: Include in your post the first sentence from the book that demonstrates the first person perspective.
“In my mind, my kitchen is filled with crackers and cheese, roast chicken leftovers, farm fresh eggs, and coffee beans ready to grind.”---Stephanie Plum, Fearless Fourteen
I listened to the audiobook, but have linked to the PB version.
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 95/1070
Total Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 4/60
Big Books This Post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
20.2: Rookie at the Top Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
A) Adventure as main page genre
B) Romance storyline: The main character "must decide if there's room for love in a heart so full of hate." (GR description)
D) Main character owns a horse named Silver
Points this post: 20
Total points: 355
GO tickets: 3
BB tickets: 4
Cait S30.2- My Own Words
Book #1: Option 1
Read a book with the genre "Poetry" on the main page.
Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Book #2: Option 3
Read a book with the genre "Childrens > Middle Grade" on the main page.
The Eighth Day by Dianne K. Salerni
Children's Genre Info: MG+
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 125
Total Tasks Completed: 7
Reader Board Name: Daphne30.3 - Ava Catherine’s task: Perspectives Over Time 2 books
Book 1: Read a book first published before you were born.
REQUIRED: State in your post that your book was first published before you were born.
Published in 1962 and I was born 1982.
Little Fuzzy
Book 2: Read a book published in 2010 or later.
Published 2015.
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 280/1070
Books Read: 25
Completed Tasks: 22/61
Pages Read: 6948
GO Tickets: 3
Big Book Tickets: 1
30.9 Players 3 & 4 Have Joined the Game2 book challenge
I rolled a one.
Book A: Read a book of your choice that is listed as Series #1 on Goodreads.
Spotless by Camilla Monk
(This is the first book in a series, per Goodreads, and I am new to the series.)
Book B: Read a book where the title contains a repeated word of at least four letters.
Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'Connell
(The word "eyes" is repeated in the title, and this book is not by the same author as Book A)
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Points this post: 30
Points thus far: 225
CHANDNI30.5 - DLMRose's Task:In The Middle
Book 1- Read a book by an author* who uses 3 names
I read Reluctantly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
IL: UG - BL: 5.0 - AR Pts: 6.0
Book 2- Read a book by an author* who uses a 3 part name* that includes a middle initial.
I read A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick.
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This Post: 30
Total Points: 110
Books Read: 7
Completed Tasks: 5
Jasmiina F20.1 Most Improved Player - Wayne's Task: A Calgary Autumn:
Option 1: Read a book whose author's initials can be found in the phrase GO STAMPS GO:
Synkkä niin kuin sydämeni by Antti Tuomainen.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 140
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+: 0
BBooks - 750+: 0
BBooks - 1000+: 0
Sheila25.1 Andy P.'s task: The Fall Months
Book 1:
Black Skies by Arnaldur Indriðasonand
Book 2:
BoneMan's Daughters by Ted Dekker25.4 - Catherine T's Task: International Travels
Book 1:
I chose DK for Denmark and read:
Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontzand
Book 2:
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters(set in England/Europe)
30.3 Ava Catherine’s task: Perspectives Over Time
Book 1:
The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel(first published January 28th 1920 before I was born)
and
Book 2:
Think of a Number by John Verdon(first published 2010)
Total Points = 530
trishhartuk20.9 Moderator's Pet: Katy's Task: The Trip of a Lifetime!
Option C - A surprise bonus highlight of the trip was how many interesting and kind people we met. So many people went out of their way to help us, talk with us, and even teach us some of South Africa's 11 official languages. Read a book whose title/subtitle contains an x (for Xhosa) or a z (for Zulu).
Amazing & Extraordinary London Underground Facts, Stephen Halliday
Has both X and Z in the title
Read the kindle edition. There doesn't seem to be a paperback, but there is a hardback
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
Total Points: 375
Tasks Completed: 15
Golden Oldies: 4
Big Books: 0
25.8 - Amanda A's Task: Happy Fall!B. Are You Ready for Some Football?: I read The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. This book was approved on the help thread.
C. Cooler Weather (Brrrr): September, October and November all end in "ber". I read I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
Points: 160
Books read: 10
Tasks completed: 8
pages read: 3643
Cindy FTask 20.4 Lie's Too Short!
Option 2: Memoir or Autobiography written in the first person. Main page genre memoir/autobiography
I read The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth
First published 2002!
Points this post:20
Total points:115
Tasks completed:11
Books read:11
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
Karen D. Task 25.4 - Catherine T's Task: International Travels
Book One: The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand, finished 9/29 (new to me). Author's initials EH are the country code for Western Sahara, which is in Africa.
Book Two: The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida, finished 9/16 (new to me). This takes place entirely in Morocco.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 80
Books read: 6
Tasks completed: 4/61
Jonquil20.10 - Group Reads
March: Book One
John Robert Lewis
Paperback, 128 pages
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
message 23 9/17/15 11:18AM
Points this post: 20
Total points: 500
Books posted: 42
Tasks complete: 40
Pages this post: 128
Total pages as of this post: 11261
Beth_NC15.8 CULTURE VULTURE - Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson BY Patricia Briggs
# 306 Page 4 of Native American Fiction List
Points: 15
Tasks: 1
Books:1
Pages: 464
Total Points 500
Total Tasks: 22
Total Books: 34
Big Book Tickets: 4
Total Pages: 12145
Laura NT20.9. Moderator's Pet - Katy's Task: The Trip of a Lifetime!
Option B: Read a book with one or more of these animals on the cover. the animals I saw included lions
The RookHas lions on the cover
Points this post: 20
Total points: 40
BB tix this post: 0
Total BB tix: 1
perletwo*********REPOST*********
15.7 - By the Numbers - Read a book where the total number of pages (as stated on Goodreads) can be found, in any order, in the first publication date (year) of that same book. Example: A book first published in 2013 could have a total page count of 310, 213, 201, 320, etc. Numbers may only be used as many times as they are found in the year.
Ali's Pretty Little Lies
- First printed in 2013, & this paperback edition has 320 pages
Points this task: 15
Total points: 300
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 1
Books read: 24
Tasks completed: 21
ALICIAAA1 10.6 Back to Reality
Summer's over, read a non-fiction book.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Points this task: 10
Total points: 35
30.9 Morgan Faeriesfolly's Task: Players 3 & 4 Have Joined the GameI rolled a 3, so option three.
(Book A) Read a book where the title/subtitle contains the phrase "_____ and _____" or " ______ & ______".
I read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
This book was first published in 1937, so I am claiming a Golden Oldies ticket.
(Book B) Read a book where there are consecutive double letters found in a single word in the title/subtitle.
I read When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
Total Points: 120/1100
Golden Oldies: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Big Books - 500+: 0
Big Books - 750+:0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
Readerboard Name: Daphne25.3 Elizabeth B's Task 2 book
2: a book set in a vineyard, or with a character who's working in the wine production industry
Flesh and Fire
Approved here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
3: a book with grapes, wine, wine glass, wine bottle, or grape vines on the cover OR with the words "wine", "grape," "vine"
A Wine of Wizardry: And Other Poems
*Claiming GO - First published 1909*
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 305/1070
Books Read: 27
Completed Tasks: 23/61
Pages Read: 7462
GO Tickets: 4
Big Book Tickets: 1
Catherine T Task 10.something - Bridging the Gap (or similar)
Read a book with a hyphen in the title
The Hundred-Year Flood by Matthew Salesses
Sorry for the rubbish identification of the task. I completely understand if you put me on the naughty thread. Pleading phone based updating & feeble memory ad my mitigating circumstances!
Karen D.Task 15.10 - Nanowrimo!
X by Sue Grafton, finished 9/22.
Sue Grafton wrote a pep talk in 2007: (http://nanowrimo.org/pep-talks/sue-gr...)
Points this task: 15
Total points: 95
Books read: 7
Tasks completed: 5/61
5.7. Raven the Tricksterread a book with the main page genre humor or funny
Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy. Humor 58 users, on home page.
20.4. Author! Author! - Seakbee's Task: Life’s Too Short
Option 3- read a book whose cover shows one of the following: a car
What Can Be by Mary Calmes
This ebook was approved in spreadsheet line #2488
Points this post- 25
Total points- 75
Andy P.Task # 10.7 - Sedna the Sea Goddess
Read a book with one of these words in the title or subtitle: whale, seal, sea, lion.
by Nathaniel PhilbrickPoints this post:10
Total points: 240
15.8 - Culture VultureThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
#1 on p. 1 of the list
Points this post: 15
Season total: 170
LAUREN JODI5.7 Raven the Trickster
Humor genre on the main page (15 users).
Not Another Bad Date by Rachel Gibson
Confirmed in post #10 of the task help thread.
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 105/1070
Total Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 8/60
Scooter&Siam 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. Required: Identify the word you are using when you post.
Read False Impression by Jeffrey Archer. Noun is Archer.
Points: 15
Total: 80
Big Books: 1
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks: 5
***ABAYOMI***10.6- Back to reality non-fiction book
A Wiccan Bible: Exploring the Mysteries of the Craft From Birth to Summerland by A.J. Drew
Non fiction is on main page.
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POINTS FOR THIS TASK: 10
TOTAL CHALLENGE POINTS: 100
TOTAL BB TICKETS: 4
TOTAL GO TICKETS: 1
LAUREN JODI30.4 Jonquil’s task: Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Book #1: BE ASHAMED TO DIE UNTIL YOU HAVE WON SOME VICTORY FOR HUMANITY
Mine to Hold by Shayla Black
M in ashamed, I in die, N in until, E in be / TO in to / H in ashamed, O in you, L in until, D in die
Book #2: A HOUSE WITHOUT BOOKS IS LIKE A ROOM WITHOUT WINDOWS
Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
H in house, A in a, U in house, N in windows, T in without, E in house, D in windows
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Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 135/1070
Total Books Read: 11
Tasks Completed: 9/60
SHELLEY UT5.4 Earth and Water
Ever After by Kim Harrison (using the word ever)
Kim Harrison is a goodreads author.
This is a big book. (516 pages)
Points this task: 5
Total points: 95
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 9
Goodreads authors: 7
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
30.6: Donna Jo's Task - Me, Myself, and I1. Me:
The Orphanmaster by Jean ZimmermanzimMErman
and
3. I:
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes(From Donna's shelf)
(There are 158 footsteps between the bus stop and home, but it can stretch to 180 if you aren't in a hurry if you aren't in a hurry, like maybe if you're wearing platform shoes. I turned the corner onto our street (68 steps), and could just see the house.)
30.9 Morgan Faeriesfolly's Task: Players 3 & 4 Have Joined the Game
I rolled a 3
Book A:
Sticks & Scones by Diane Mott Davidsonand
Book B:
Killer Instinct by Zoë Sharp(kiLLer)
Total Points = 565
Coralie10.2 happy Hour!
Book that is # 7 in series
A Christmas Promise
30.4 Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Book 1: be ashamEd to die untiL You have won Some vIctory for hUManity
Elysium
Book 2: A house withOut BookS is like A RoOM withouT wiNdows
Amos Barton
This post 40 points
Total to date 320 points
Mod
15.5 - Act (on) Your Age!
My single digit total is 9, 4 word title + 5 word subtitle = 9
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky
15.10 - Nanowrimo!
2013 pep talker Rainbow Rowell: Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
25.10 - M1nks's Task: Let a Little Light and Colour In!
option 2, cat on cover/title:
The Man Who Understood Cats by Michael Allen Dymmochoption 3, horse on cover:
The Wars by Timothy Findleytotal = 365
Readerboard name: Daphne30.6 -Me, Myself, and I
1. Read a book by an author* whose name has "me" found intact in it. Ghost Stories by M.R. James
JaMEs
**Claiming GO ticket : First published 1882**
2. title, subtitle, or series title Myself, Yourself, Oneself, Herself, Himself, Themselves, Ourselves Story of Cole Younger: By Himself
**Claiming GO ticket : First published 1903**
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 335/1070
Books Read: 29
Completed Tasks: 24/61
Pages Read: 7976
GO Tickets: 6
Big Book Tickets: 1
Jayme(the ghostreader)5.9 Spider Grandmother-
read a book by an author whose initals are in Spider Grandmother.
The Grilling Seasonby Diane Mott Davidson
D from Spider, M and D from Grandmother
Tasks Completed 2
Books Read: 2
Big Books : 0
Tasks Points: 5
Grand Total: 15/920
Pamela326520.10 - Group Read
March: Book One by John Robert Lewis
My comment is in post 32 of the Discussion Thread
25.6 - Dakimel’s Task: Wedding Traditions
Option 1: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - First published in 1868 Golden Oldie Ticket
Option 3: Mail Order Madness by Kirsten Osbourne - Borrowed from the Kindle Lending Library - Approved in post 5116 of eVerification thread.
25.10 - M1nks's Task: Let a Little Light and Colour In!
Option 3:
by Leann HarrisOption 4:
by Kirsten Osbourne - Blue dress on cover - Approved in post 5116 of eVerification ThreadPoints this post: 70
Total Points: 380
Golden Oldie books this post: 1
Total Golden Oldie books: 2
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets:
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
Ava Catherine25.3: Elizabeth B's Task: Grape Harvest Season
Option 2: Read a book set in a vineyard or with a character who's working in the wine production industry. A Song for Bellafortuna by Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco
This book is set in the vineyards and town of Bellafortuna, Italy. The villagers working their vineyards are integral to the plot of the book.
Option 3: Read a book with grapes, wine, wine glass, wine bottle, or grape vines on the cover. (wine glass on the cover)
Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass
by Natalie MacLean30.8: Nick KY's Task: Ghost Hunters
Option 1: Read a book with the word "ghost" in the title/subtitle or the author's name.
The Ghost of the Mary Celeste by Valerie Martin ("ghost" in the title)
Option 3: Read any novel (novella, novelette) which is 100-150 pages in length.
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
(128 pages)
Points this post: 55
Total points: 905
Vicki30.2 My Own Words
Option 3: Children>Middle Grade genre
Zia by Scott O'Dell
Approved on HT#2
Option 4: Author with the name Daniel
Desperate by Daniel Palmer
This post:
30 pts
Total:
90 pts
Kimber20.2 Picky, Picky, Picky
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa (goodreads author)
*listed on task writer's acceptable list
*3 features: A-adventure; B-romance; D-Iron Horse
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25.8 Happy Fall
A: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas
*:link to imdb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412253/?...
*ok by task writer msg 24 in task help thread
B:The Game Changer by J. Sterling (goodreads author)
*sports genre
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Above tasks: 45 points
Tasks submitted to date: 4/60
GRA: 4
New total points: 90/1070
CHANDNI10.2 - Happy Hour!
Read a book that is identified as #4, #5, #6 or #7 in a series.
All But Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
IL: UG - BL: 5.0 - AR Pts: 5.0
This is the 4th book in the series.
(I previously used this for Task 10.4, but I am moving it to 10.2)
10.3 - Inti
Read a book by an author* with a name that starts and ends with the same letter.
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
PhiliP
10.4 - Ten-Four Day
Read a book that has at least 104 5-star ratings.
Reluctantly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
IL: UG - BL: 5.0 - AR Pts: 6.0
This has 474 5-star ratings.
[POINTS]
This Post: 20 (10 are being moved to a different task)
Total Points: 100
Books Read: 7
Completed Tasks: 6
CYNBAXTERTask # 25.06 – Dakimel’s Task: Wedding Traditions
Book 1 - Option 4:
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach* - the blue inanimate item on the cover is a featherBook 2 - Option 5: My Two Worlds by Sergio Chejfec. The author’s initials, “S.C.” are found within the word SIXPENCE
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date = 215 points
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 1
GOLDEN OLDIE this post: 0
Total “GOLDIE” tickets to date: 2
5.4 Earth and WaterA word in the title from the letters in "Trenten Caicai Vilu": In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
The word is EVENT
Points this post: 5
Total points: 160
BARBARA ★30.6 - Donna Jo's Task - Me, Myself, and I
Option 1: A Love Untamed - PaMEla PalMEr 9/12
Goodreads Author
Option 3: Touched by an Alien - Gini Koch 9/19
Goodreads Author
(1st POV - I was walking from the courthouse to the parking garage, p1)
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30.9 - Morgan Faeriesfolly's Task: Players 3 & 4 Have Joined the Game
(Rolled 3)
Book A: Tall, Dark & Heartless - R.L. Mathewson 9/29
(Dark & Heartless)
Goodreads Author
Book B: Warrior Untamed - Melissa Mayhue (waRRior) 9/7
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5.6 previously claimed. I'm changing the book. I'm using that book for 30.9 option 3.
5.6 - Four Cords
The Prince of Frogs - Annaliese Evans (four word title) 9/21
Totals for Challenge
Points this Post: 60
Total Points: 310
Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Books - 500+: (0)
Big Books - 750+: (0)
Big Books - 1000+: (0)
310/1070 POINTS
Marina H20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter: Camilla’s task: Judge the Book by its Cover
Option 3:
points this post: 20
Total points: 150
Jonquil25.1 Andy P.'s task: The Fall Months
Book 1: author's surname has 9 letters ger rit sen
Die Again:
Tess Gerritsen
Paperback, 480 pages
Book 2: 10 letter word ha rm on iz ed
Harmonized
Mary Behre
Print Length: 125 pages
approved for length message 5068
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points this post: 25
Total points: 525
Books posted: 44
Tasks complete: 41
Pages this post: 605
Total pages as of this post: 11866
Sheila - Repost of 1075❏ 25.4 - Catherine T's Task: International Travels
Book 1:
I chose DK for Denmark and read:
Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontzand
Book 2:
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters(set in England/Europe)
(Both books are new to me)
Total Points = 590
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Task: 30.10 - Sandy's Task: Moving the Fences!
Description:
Book 1 - Book of your choice.
Book 2 - Read a second book that has fewer pages than book 1 (at least 50 pages less) and that has a lower average rating than book 1 (at least .50 lower).
Book 1 - Ready Player One - 372 pages; 4.31 average rating.
Book 2 - The Invisible Man - 161 pages; 3.59 average rating.
Total Pages: 533
Difference in Pages: 211
Difference in Rating: 0.72
TOTALS - THIS POST
Points This Post: 30
Golden Oldies This Post: YES (Invisible Man; Published 1897)
Big Book This Post: No
TOTALS - OVERALL
Total Points: 165
Total Golden Oldies: 3
Big Book Tickets: 0