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Spring Challenge 2016: Completed Tasks:PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS THREAD
Andy P.Task # 10.6 - And Alan Rickman
From the list in the help thread # 10
by Patrick SüskindPoints this post: 10
Total points: 205
Ana30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police
Option 2: Contains Their
Their Secret Child: Home to Firewood Island by Mary J. Forbes.
Option 3: Red Title
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead.
Points this Post 30
Total Points 130
Tasks Completed 6
Books Read 7
Total Pages 2258
Laura NT5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol
Read a book by an author who, at the time you select your book, is deceased.
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
AR Bookfinder: IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16.0
The author, Johanna Spyri died in 1901.
**Heidi is a Golden Oldie (first published in 1880). I claim one GO ticket.**
Points this post: 5 + 1 GO ticket
Total points: 25
Mai20.1 - Most Improved - MegSCL's task: Pick a card
I drew 5 Diamonds and picked a non-fiction book with a 5-word title.
Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design by Alvin E. Roth
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 130
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 8
Golden Oldies: 3
Delicious Dee5.4 -A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
The Paper Magician - papER
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 235
Coralie5.5 Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel
15.9 Three/Four/Five
Life and Fate
Average rating 4.44 (on March 26)
This post 20 points
Total to date 95 points
perletwo30.4 - Jonquil's Task: Every Letter Counts - Book 1 This book title has longer and longer words. Each word in the title is exactly one letter longer than the previous word.
Heat Rises
Book 2 This book title has shorter and shorter words. Each word in the title is exactly one letter shorter than the previous word.
Pretty Girls
Points this task: 30
Total points: 425
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 32
Tasks completed: 26
Catherine T Task 15.8 - It's Magic
Read a book with MPG magical realism
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
MEGSCL5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi
Read an autobiography or memoir.
Between the World and Me
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too
Read a book with a title/subtitle that contains a word from Take It Easy.
“we will never be here again”
Never Never: Part Two
15.5. No More Snow!
Read a book containing all the letters of SPRING in its title/subtitle.
Growing Up Asian in Australia
TOTAL TO DATE
Points: 135
Big Book Tickets: 1
Golden Oldies: 1
20.1 - Most Improved - MegSCL's task: Pick a cardI drew the King of Spades, so a Crime, Science Fiction or Memoir book with a 'K' in the title. I read:
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
Option A - April 8 is the birthday of my "one and only" and History is one of her favorite subjects. Read a book with a genre on its main book page that contains "History" or "Historical".
1914: Goodbye To All That by Lavinia Greenlaw - Main Page genre 'History' on 29.3.16.
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 BLEAK 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.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
This is a Big Book (3 tickets) at 1036 pages, and a Golden Oldie published in 1853.
Total this post: 60
Total to date: 60
Golden Oldie: 1
Big Book tickets: 3
Andy P.Task # 5.6 - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
Read a book with a TITLE of six or more words
The Last Talk with Lola Faye by Thomas H. Cook
Points this post: 5
Total points: 210
Christine USTask 10.10 Tournament of Books
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradell
Total: 10
CEELEETask 5.1 Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol
Read a book by an author who was deceased at the time you choose the book.
I chose CHESTNUT STREET by Maeve Binchy who passed July 30 2012
Chestnut Street
This link confirms her death:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Total Points for Task: 5
Total Books Read for Task: 1
Big Book tickets claimed for Task: 0
Golden Oldie Tickets claimed for Task: 0
Total Tasks Completed for Spring Challenge: 1
Total Books Read for Spring Challenge: 1
Total Points for Spring Challenge: 5
Total Big Book Tickets Claimed for Spring Challenge: 0
Total Golden Oldies Tickets Claimed for Spring Challenge: 0
Mai10.9 - March Madness
Book written by an author whose first and last initials are the same.
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 140
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 9
Golden Oldies: 3
Julia10315.4. Towel Day
Option 2 - Games Wizards Play by Diane Duane
This book is 640 pages - claiming one BB ticket
15.5. No More Snow!
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
This post: 30 points
Challenge total points: 170
Total BB: 3
Total GO: 1
Tasks completed: 9
Jordan FL20.4 -Golden Oldie: Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
Option C, read a book with fantasy or supernatural on the main GR page.
The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
This book has an AR Points of 18.0.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 25
Books Read: 2
Tasks Complete: 2
30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar PoliceOption 2: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley
the word "Their" in the title: The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
Option 3:
by Brian P. Morantitle in red on the cover
Total points: 205
5.6 - Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? by Richard HamiltonAll the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen - 3/28/16
5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns
Alice by Christina Henry - 3/28/16
Points this post: 10
Total points: 35
ShariceTask 20.4 - Golden Oldie: Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
Option C, I read
it has the genre of Fantasy. In the AR bookfinder it has the designation of UG.20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Seakbee's Task: Give Yourself Permission…
I completed task 1 for genres and read
which is autobiography and biography.Total this post=40
Total this season=60
Pamela326515.7. Tax time!
The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich by David Bach
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter: Pamela3265's Task: When Books Went to War
Option B: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - GOLDEN OLDIE first published in 1943
25.1 - Sandy's task as suggested by Katy: Fact and Fiction
Book 1: Lord Fenton's Folly by Josi S. Kilpack - Set in Regency England
Book 2: Jane Austen's World: The Life and Times of England's Most Popular Author by Maggie Lane - About the life of Jane Austen who lived in Regency England the the environment she lived in.
Points this post: 60
Total Points: 220
Golden Oldie books this post: 1
Total Golden Oldie books:
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets:
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+: Books to Fit In
FANDURY20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
Option A: Read a book with a genre on its main book page that contains "History" or "Historical".
The King's Evil by Edward Marston
This book has Historical and Historical Fiction as genres on the Main Page.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 295
Books Read: 19
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books:500+(0)750+(1)1000+(0)
15.10. Batter up!I read The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia which takes place entirely in Italy. This book was approved on the help thread.
Points: 90
books read: 7
tasks completed: 5
pages read: 2257
Louise 20.2 Time For Celebration
Option A: Read a book with a genre on its main book page that contains "History" or "Historical".
by Keira AndrewsHow It Fits: MP Genre Historical
20.4 Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
Option 3: Fantasy Island: For this option, read a book with "Fantasy" or "Supernatural" genre on the book's main GR page.
by Apryl BakerHow It Fits: MP Genre Fantasy.
20.6 Eurovision Calling
Option 2:Read a book with a title/subtitle that contains a word of at least 4 letters that can also be found in the lyrics of "Heroes". Words must match exactly.
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
How It Fits: WORLD
20.9 Give Yourself Permission
Option 6: Read a book with the complete TITLE in white OR in black on the cover
by Tess LakeHow It Fits: Title in WHITE
Points This Post: 80
Total Points: 80
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
25.7 - Dakimel's Task: Sibling and Niece SeasonOption A
Read A Miracle in Paradise by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera. The initials C and G (as well as A, but, this one does not matter) are both are in the term 'VEGETARIANACTUARY'.
Option B
Read The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan. At the time of this post, this does have Gardening as a main page genre, but, just in case, Goodreads does something weird in the next couple days, this was approved for Gardening in the Genre verification thread, message 45.
Points these task: 25
Total points: 75
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 0
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 8
Tasks completed: 4
SpiderMac5.4 A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle that ends in -ER.
I read Hellblazer: Original Sins by Jamie Delano
HellblazER
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10.1 Ever So POPular
Read one of the top 200 books published from 1955 through 1959.
I read The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
This book is #11 on the 1955 list.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/popula...
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10.3 It's So Surreal
Read a book found on the first 5 pages of the Popular Surreal Books list.
I read Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
This book is found on page 3 of the list.
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
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10.5 Glenn Frey, Too
Read a book with a title that contains a word that can also be found in the lyrics of the hit song, Take It Easy.
I read Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
My word is “GIRL”.
Lyrics - “It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford…”
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Points this post: 35
Golden oldies this post: 0
Big book tickets this post: 0
Points total: 145/875
Golden oldies total: 3
Big book ticket total: 0
Tasks completed: 13/53
Books read: 14
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ5.4 - A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand
Winter ends in "-er".
Link to PB edition: Winter Stroll
5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World by Chris Roberson
Sequential Art > Graphic Novels is a main page genre shelved by 391 users.
This post: 10 points
Total points to date: 30 points
Tasks completed: 3
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ15.5 - No More Snow!
Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
The letters in "SPRING" can be found in the title - whIStliNg Past the GRaveyard
15.10 - Batter up!
The Calling by Kelley Armstrong
This book takes place on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Please see the description.
Link to PB edition: The Calling
This post: 30 points
Total points to date: 60 points
Tasks completed: 5
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ20.2 - Time for Celebration
In Cold Pursuit: A Mystery From The Last Continent by Sarah Andrews
Option C - This cover is at least 50% blue.
20.6 - Eurovision Calling!
The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
Option 3 - This book is #101 on the Best Friendship Books list.
This post: 40 points
Total points to date: 100 points
Tasks completed: 7
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
Sarah E10.4 - Remembering David Bowie
#6 on the list under an alternative title, I listened to
The Outsider
The most rated MMPB is: L'étranger
** The Outsider is a Golden Oldie, first published in 1942. I claim one Golden Oldie ticket. **
Points this post: 10
Total points: 115
GO tickets this post: 1
Total GO tickets: 2
HINA10.2 - Andy Warhol - Walk on the Wild Side by Natalie Anderson.
Author's initials are found in ANDY WARHOL.
Current post:
Points: 10
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total:
Total Points: 355
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books- 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
MWEAVER10.2 Andy Warhol
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
Points this post:10
Total Points: 50
Tasks Complete: 3
Sheila20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
Option C - set in Ireland
Aftermath by Casey Hill20.4 -Golden Oldie: Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
Option A: Miami Vice - The word is KILL in the 6th line
The Kill by Jane Casey25.7 - Dakimel's Task: Sibling and Niece Season
Option A:
Hostage by Robert Craisand
Option C:
NYPD Red 4 by James PattersonThe number 4 on cover
Total Points = 300
10.9 - March MadnessA two-word alliterative title: Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews
Points this post: 10
Total points: 195
Karen D. Task 10.9 - March Madness
Author option: Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman
Points this task: 10
Total points: 295
Tasks completed: 15
Books read: 17
Susan W.15.5 No More Snow!: Read a book containing all the letters of SPRING in its title/subtitle
I read Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 2 by Naoko Takeuchi
S in Sailor
P, R in Pretty
I, N, G in Guardian
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20.8 Making it Worth Watching: Choose one book that fits an option listed.
Option 1: Read a book with "nature" or "animals" as a main page genre.
I read Living the Farm Sanctuary Life: How to Eat Healthier, Live Longer, and Feel Better Every Day by Bringing Home the Happiest Place on Earth by Gene Baur
Animals is a main page genre (13 users)
Points this post: 35
Total Points: 55
Ava Catherine5.10 Self-portrait: book of choice
Behave by Andromeda Romano-Lax
25.2-Brooke TX's Task: #Reading Goals
Option 1: #More Genre: Read a book from 2016 Locus Fantasy Novels Recommended Reading List. page 1, #16
Slade House by David Mitchell
238 pages
Option 4: #New Books: Read a book first published in 2016 by a new to you author.
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney author is new to me;
first published March 22, 2016
368 pages
238 pages+368 pages=606 pages
30.2-Daphne's task: Peering really close at the world
Option 1: Book from the collection Very Short Introductions.
(page 1, #40) Jung: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens
Option 2: Book from first two pages of Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing. (page 1, #3)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
total=825
5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy WarholThe Gate by Natsume Sōseki
Died December 09, 1916
1x GOLDEN OLDIES -pub. 1910
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
Option B - Read a book set at least 50% in South America, Africa or Asia.
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bảo Ninh
Set in Vietnam, Asia (100%)
25.5 - 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
Scared Yet? by Jaye Ford (4/4)
Book 2. Read a book whose TITLE consists of words of the same number of letters.
(3/3) The Axe (Olav Audunssøn #1) by Sigrid Undset
1 x GOLDEN OLDIES -pub. 1925
Post Total: 50
Goldien Oldies: 4
Season Total: 210
Emsreviewsbooks10.9 - March Madness
I read Wickedly Wonderful by Deborah Blake.
30.6 - Donna Jo's Task--Making a Name for Yourself
Part A, option 2: I read The Here and Now by Ann Brashares. It has 256 pages.
Part B, option 3: I read My Fair Gentleman by Nancy Campbell Allen. It has 256 pages as well.
Points this post: 40
Total Points: 275
Books Read: 21
Tasks Complete: 16
Emsreviewsbooks20.6 Seasoned Reader: Val TX's Task: Eurovision Calling!
Option 3: I read Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery. It is on page 2 of the Best Friendship Books list, at position 107 (as of 3/29/16).
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 295
Books Read: 22
Tasks Complete: 17
Delicious Dee5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns
The Wrath and the Dawn - shelved as retellings by 438ppl
10.4 - Remembering David Bowie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - #16 on the list
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 250
Andy P.Task 3 10.2 - Andy Warhol
Read a book written by an author whose initials can be found in ANDY WARHOL
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead ANDY WARHOL
Points this post: 10
Total points: 220
Karrie10.1 - Ever So POPular
Required: State which year the book was popular when you post. (The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1) 1955) was number 11 on the 1955 list.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
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.
In a Sunburned CountryBill Bryson
15.3. Still Flying.........
Option A Read a book whose title/subtitle contains a word that matches one of the words from the titles of the songs on the Airplane's first album (when Anderson was with the band) Jefferson Airplane Takes Off.
Any word except articles (a, an, the) may be used, but the words must match exactly.
Alice in Zombieland In for the song Let Me In
Option B B. read a book whose author's initials can be found in JEFFERSON AIRPLANE. Middle initials can be disregarded.
The Only Good Yankee Jeff Abbott
EMurphy30.6 Donna Jo's Task: Making a Name for Yourself
Part A Option 2: Author whose first and last name are adjacent letters in the alphabet - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (416 pages)
Part B Option 4: Title that contains TWO or more of the following words: A, An, The, And, If, But - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
This Task:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
BB Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Total:
Points: 30
Books Read: 2
BB Tickets: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Karrie5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
Read a book with a "good" rating of 3.5 or above. As ratings can change, note the book's rating at the time you select your book.
Required: If your book's rating falls below 3.5 at the time you post include the date and rating at the time of selection.
The Goldfinch Rated 3.86 on March 29
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too
read a book with a title/subtitle that contains a word of at least 4 letters that can also be found in the lyrics of the band's first single, Take It Easy.
Cutting for Stone Two that wanna stone me.
Kathy G.30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police
Opt. 2- word "It's" in the title
It's. Nice. Outside. by Jim Kokoris
Opt. 3- the title is Red
by Irene HuntAcross Five Aprils (AR info)
Hunt, Irene
AR Quiz No. 102 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10.0
Total Points- 90
Total Tasks- 4
Kathy G.5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
Manga on main page
Maximum Ride, Vol. 1 by James Patterson
Total Points- 95
Total Tasks- 5
30.6 - Donna Jo's Task--Making a Name for YourselfI did this as a two book task.
Part A:
Using letter "D," I did Option 1: Read a book by an author whose first and last name start with the same letter.
Blood Lines: Long and Short Stories by Ruth Rendell (215 pgs)
Part B: If your Part A book had 100-300 pages do option 3.
Option 3. Read a book with a one, two or three word TITLE.
Piranha to Scurfy: And Other Stories by Ruth Rendell (224 pgs)
Task total=30
Grand total=260
Mai10.2 - Andy Warhol
Book written by an author whose initials can be found in ANDY WARHOL
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh by David Hume
Request one Golden Oldies ticket (first published 1748)
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 150
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 10
Golden Oldies: 4
Reader Name: Daphne15.8. It's Magic
MPG: Magical Realism
Mr. Splitfoot
Points this post: 15
Points Total: 460
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 70
Books Read: 5
Tasks Complete: 5