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Emsreviewsbooks10.6 - And Alan Rickman
I read Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. It's on the list, and Alan Rickman played Richis in the film.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 170
Books Read: 12
Tasks Complete: 10
Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥20.9 Moderator's Pet: Seakbee's Task: Give Yourself Permission…
Option 1 genre Biography or Autobiography on the main page:Out of Orange: A Memoir
Verification Post--approval
Points Earned This Post:20
Points Achieved to Date: 125
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Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥20.10 Group Reads
The Buried Giant
My Post
Points Earned This Post:20
Points Achieved to Date: 145
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Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥5.7 Flag by Jasper Johns
Read a book with a genre that contains "Retellings" on its main book page:Spelled
Points Earned This Post:5
Points Achieved to Date: 150
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VAL TX20.8 - Nickels & Dimes: SpiderMac's task: Making It Worth Watching - Option 1: read a book with an elephant on the cover or with “nature” or “animals” as a main page genre.
James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories by James Herriot Animals = 31 users.
This post:
Points - 20
Total:
Points - 50
Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
Read a book that is identified on Goodreads as #3 in a series. Whole numbers only--Ohio Amish Mystery #3:Clouds Without Rain
Points Earned This Post:5
Points Achieved to Date: 155
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Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥10.3 It's So Surreal--State which page the book can be found on when you post
book found on the first 5 pages of the Popular Surreal Books list--Page 4 :The Time Traveler's Wife
Page 4 of the Popular Surreal Books List
Points Earned This Post:10
Points Achieved to Date: 165
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Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥10.6 And Alan Rickman
book on this list of The Literary Roles of Alan Rickman. The linked site can be slow and buggy. See post #2 in the Help Thread for a list of books:Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL:MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12.0
Points Earned This Post:10
Points Achieved to Date: 175
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Reader Name: Daphne5.4 -A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
Title/Sub: A word ends with -ER
The Leper of Saint Giles
Points this post: 5
Points Total: 335
Reader Name: Daphne10.1 - Ever So POPular
The Planet Savers: Including The Waterfall
1958 #178
Points this post: 10
Points Total: 345
Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥30.2 Daphne's task: Peering really close at the world
Option 1 Pick a book from the collection Very Short Introductions:Everything: A Very Short Introduction
Option 2 book from the first 2 pages of Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing--Page 1 Book #30 (2/28/16):The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Points Earned This Post:30
Points Achieved to Date: 205
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Readerboard Name: ♥Robin ♥15.5 No More Snow!
Read a book containing all the letters of SPRING in its title/subtitle:Growing Up Amish
Points Earned This Post:15
Points Achieved to Date: 220
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LAUREN JODI25.6 - Robin ♥'s Task: Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands
Plan A: Plain
Option A-1: Page 3 of the Blue list
A Rogue's Proposal by Stephanie Laurens
Option A-2: 7 letters in Michael
The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 90/875
Total Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 5/53
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. SeussI chose Option A and Option D.
Option A: Read a book with all the letters “R-E-D-B-L-U- E” in the TITLE.
Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood
BLUEbEaRD's egg
Option D: Read a book with “Travel” as a main page genre.
My Dateless Diary: An American Journey by R.K. Narayan
Task total=30
Task total=180
Reader Name: Daphne5.6 - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
TITLE: 6 or more words
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Points this post: 5
Points Total: 350
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10.3 - It's So Surreal
Page 2 of Popular Surreal Books: Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink
10.6 - And Alan Rickman
From the role in A Promise based on: Journey Into the Past by Stefan Zweig
15.4. Towel Day
option 2, genre Science Fiction, initials AL in Douglas: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
total = 190
Delicious Dee5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
Dangerous Flirt - 4.3 rating as of 3/20; ebook only approved msg #5530 of the approval thread
15.2. I'm Not Answering my Phone until December
Book A - Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis - shelved as politics by 5 ppl
Book B - Front Lines - (Big Book Ticket - 576pgs) - shelved as dystopia on Mar 4, and approved in the GVT (msg #56)
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 170
perletwo20.3 - Best Review: mstan's Task: Returning to My Source of Inspiration... - Option 2: Read a book that was originally written in Italian. This should be evident in the book's information page from the "Original title."
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Points this task: 20
Total points: 340
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 26
Tasks completed: 23
Julia1035.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
Silent Nights (rating 3.81 as of 03/20/16)
15.6. Light My Fire
(approved in post 28 of task help thread)20.4 -Golden Oldie: Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
Option C - Dragon Ship
This post: 40 points
Challenge total points: 110
Total BB: 2
Total GO: 0
Tasks completed: 6
SCHATZIE25.3: Whitnie I's Task: Celebrate Spring
Book 1: author's initials in OSTARA
Nightwings
by Robert Silverberg
Book 2: nonfiction self help book
It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
This book is found on page 1 of given list
25.5: Andy P's Task: Symmetry
Book 1: Same # of letters in both first and last name of author
No Buddy Left Behind: Bringing U.S. Troops' Dogs and Cats Safely Home from the Combat Zone
by Terri Crisp
Book 2: title has same # of letters in each word
Mob Cop: My Life of Crime in the Chicago Police Department
25.7: Dakimel's Task: Sibling and Niece Season
Opt. B: urban fantasy genre
The Killing Dance
Opt. D: body of water you can snorkel in
Salt, Sweat, Tears: The Men Who Rowed the Oceans
Post Total: 75
Challenge Total: 535
Catherine TTask 20.9 - Give Yourself Permission
option 6 - read a book with title in white
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
March 20, 2016Readerboard Name JamminJenny
Task 5.6 - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
The Only Tarot Book You’ll Ever Need (seven words) - read 3/19
The Only Tarot Book You'll Ever Need: Gain Insight and Truth to Help Explain the Past, Present, and Future by Skye Alexander
Points this post: 5 points
Total to date: 65 points
CANDY5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
Read a book that is identified on Goodreads as #3 in a series.
The Highlander's Touch by Karen Marie Moning
*The Highlander's Touch is #3 in the Highlander series*
Points: 5
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total Points: 80
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
25.1 - Sandy's task as suggested by Katy: Fact and FictionTime period: early to mid 1800s
Place: Maryland USA
Butler used the Frederick Douglass narrative as research for her book:
Book 1: Read a book with the genre "Historical Fiction" on its main page.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Book 2: Read a nonfiction book that is about the same era (same general time and place) as Book 1.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
+25 Points
Grand Total: 105
20.8 Nickels & DimesA Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Option 2: Women's Prize List (page 2)
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 35
5.10 -A Bigger Splash by David Hockney I completed Speakers of the Dead: A Walt Whitman Mystery by J. Aaron Sanders
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 20/875
Total Books Read: 4
Tasks Completed: 4/53
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Kristi CO20.3 - Best Review: mstan's Task: Returning to My Source of Inspiration...
Option 1: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Seakbee's Task: Give Yourself Permission…Option 4: Travel and entertainment
This book takes place in California.
The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck**The Pastures of Heaven is a Golden Oldie (first published in 1932). I claim one GO ticket.**
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 50
Books Read: 3
Completed Tasks: 2
Pages Read: 827
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: [500+: 0] [750+: 0] [1000+: 0]
Ava Catherine15.10 Batter up!
Book set at least 50% in Germany:The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
20.1 Most Improved: MegSCL's task: Pick a Card
Card Drawn: 3 of Clubs/Historical fiction: 3 word title
Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry
historical fiction=245 users
20.2 Rookie at the Top: Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
Option C: cover at least 50% blue
Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
total=545
Nick KY5.1 Marilyn Diptych I read A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, d. 1930.
10.8 Einstein I read The Birth of Reason and Other Essays by George Santayana, with “Philosophy” as a GR genre.
15.4 Towel Day In honor of Douglas Adams' day I read two books:
1) Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks, with the GR genre of “Science Fiction,” and
2) Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag, initials in douglaSadamS
Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 190
FANDURY30.6 - Donna Jo's Task--Making a Name for Yourself
Part C
Option 6: Pick ANY one of the above 5 options and read a book of at least 650 pages that fits.
I use Option 3: Read a book with a one, two or three word TITLE.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The title has two words and the MMP edition is 816 pages: The Historian
I claim 2 big book tickets for this.
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 175
Books Read: 11
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(1)1000+(0)
Jayme(the ghostreader)20.1 Pick A Card
I chose 5 of Hearts -young adult, romance, mystery
I chose to read a mystery with 5 letters in one of the words of the title- Hush Puppyby Laurien Berenson
Puppy is a five letter word
Tasks Completed 3
Books Read: 3
Task Points 20
Big Book: 0
Grand Total: 40/875
Emsreviewsbooks30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
Option A: I read a publisher's advance copy of GooD DUkEs WeaR BLack by Manda Collins.
Option C: I read The Iron Trial by Holly Black. It is #1 in the Magisterium series and is new to me. AR information: IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13.0
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 200
Books Read: 14
Tasks Complete: 11
HINA10.1 - Ever So POPular - Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle by Georgette Heyer.
The book was popular in 1957 No. 24.
Current post:
Points: 10
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total:
Total Points: 265
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
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SCHATZIE5.10: Self Portrait
---book of choice
A Monster Calls
IL: MG+
20.3: Best Review: mstan's Task: Returning to My Source of Inspiration...
---opt 2: a book originally written in Italian
The Shape of Water
by Andrea Camilleri
30.2: Daphne's task: Peering really close at the world.
Book 1: opt. 2: a book from list Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Book 2: opt. 3: a book shelved at least 4 times as microbiology and from the specific list given
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Points this Post: 55
Challenge Total: 590
CHANGEFROM: 5.8
To:
20.4 Golden Oldie Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
A. Using the word Twenty (Verse 4, line 1)
The House of Twenty Thousand Books by Sasha Abramsky
Today's total 20
Grand total: 145
5.2 - Whaam! by Roy LichtensteinChelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
Bang
5.6 - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Book has more than six words in the title
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18.0
POINTS: 155
babbling c5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi
Read an autobiography or memoir- a non-fiction account of the author’s own life or experiences.
Bossypants - audiobook Bossypants - paperback pg. 250 by Tina Fey
20.5 - Bigger is Better- Catherine T's Task: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book
1: Read a book whose title (excluding sub-title) can be made up of ONLY the letters found in "Peter Blake Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" Letters can only be used as many times as they appear in the phrase. Punctuation in the book title may be ignored; only the letters should be considered..
The Naturals audiobook - The Naturals - paperback pgs 315 by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Peter Blake Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
25.2 - Brooke TX's Task: #ReadingGoals
The two books combined must have a total of at least 600 pages, and both books must be new to you.
3. #OldFavorites: Choose a new to you book by one of the authors on this list.
Thea Harrison, #4, 19 books
Shadow's End- kindle Shadow's End - paperback pgs 294 by Thea Harrison
4. #NewBooks: There's always room for discovering new authors. Read a book first published in 2016 by a new to you author.
The Queen's Poisoner -kindle The Queen's Poisoner paperback pgs.318 by Jeff Wheeler
REQUIRED: author is new to me
both books are new to me.
318 + 294 = 612
THIS POST
Points: 50
Completed Tasks: 3
Golden oldies: 0
Big Books: 0
Total This Season
Points: 105/875
Completed Tasks: 8/53
Golden oldies: 1
Big Books: 1
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Pages read this season: 3,171
Books read this season: 9
Bluegrass Pam 20.7 When Books Went to War
Option A: Read "When Books Went to War"
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 20
Bluegrass Pam10.9 March Madness
--Author whose first and last name initials are the same
The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson
AR Bookfinder - IL: MG BL: 7.0 AR Points: 7.0
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 30
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. SeussOption C: Go, Dog, Go -- Playing The Odds by Nora Roberts
#1 in The MacGregors series, which is a new-to-me series
Option D: Oh the Places you will go! -- Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts
“Travel” is a main page genre
Total points: 120
Jen UT5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Points this post: 5
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Total points: 70
20.5 - Bigger is Better- Catherine T's Task: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BookOption 2, author shares a name with someone on the Sgt Pepper's album cover (Marilyn Monroe): The Summer's End by Mary Alice Monroe
Points this post: 20
Total points: 145
Stephanie1275.5. Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein - Read a book with the genre Sequential Art, comics or manga on the GR main page: Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
Points this post: 5
Total points: 25/875
Tasks completed: 3/53
Books read: 3
MEGSCL25.5 - Andy P's Task: Symmetry
Book 1. Read a book written by an author who has the same number of letters in his/her first and last names. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
Book 2. Read a book whose TITLE consists of words of the same number of letters. Odd One Out
TOTAL TO DATE
Points: 95
Big Book Tickets: 1
MEGSCLRealised I forgot to claim a Golden Oldie ticket for the book below which was published in 1949. Thanks
5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol
Read a book by an author who, at the time you select your book, is deceased.
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (Maria von Trapp died in 1987)
CHANDNI5.10 Self-portrait
Read a book of your choice.
Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
10.9 - March Madness
Read a book with a two-word, alliterative title OR written by an author whose first and last initials are the same.
Achingly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4.0
20.6 Seasoned Reader: Val TX's Task: Eurovision Calling!
Option 1: Read a book set at least 50% in Australia and/or by an author who was born in Australia.
Stolen: A Letter to My Captor by Lucy Christopher
This book is set in Australia.
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This Post: 35
Total Points: 150
Books Read: 13
Completed Tasks: 12
15.6. Light My FireA book with the word Fire in the title: How to Start a Fire by Lisa Lutz
Points this post: 15
Total points: 160
Catherine T Task 15.6 - Light My Fire
Read a book with fire in the title
Mackenzie Fire by Elle Casey
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Book 1. Read any book (not necessarily the highlighted one) written by any of the Good Minds authors.
Book read: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
*Interviewed in September 2015, page 1*
Book 2, option A. Read any of the five choices (or sometimes there are 6) recommended by the author of your first book.
Book read: Bossypants by Tina Fey
Points this post: 25
Total points = 170 + 25 = 195