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SPRING CHALLENGE 2016
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Spring Challenge 2016: Completed Tasks:PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS THREAD
5.3 - 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.
As of April 3, the rating for this book is 4.02
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POINTS
Points This Post: 5
Points Total: 200
Golden Oldies:
Big Books:
500 () 750 () 1000 ()
Tasks Completed: 14
BB Total: 2
Readerboard name Kathy P20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Seakbee's Task: Give Yourself Permission…
Option 6) Pets
Black Title
Kind of Kin
Points this post: 20
Total points: 125
Books this post: 1
Total books posted: 8
Tasks complete: 7
CHANDNI20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
Option C - Read a book set at least 50% in Ireland or with a cover that's at least 50% blue.
by Melissa MarrBook was approved here.
[POINTS]
This Post: 20
Total Points: 230
Books Read: 18
Completed Tasks: 17
Sharice20.3 - Best Review: mstan's Task: Returning to My Source of Inspiration..
Option 3: Author is Austin Kleon. I previously read his other book in Winter 2015 challenge. This is in message 859. (can't figure out how to link it).
This season I read
Total this post=20
Total this season=80
LAUREN JODI10.7 - Happy Pi Day
Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell
Letter PI found together in the word “sPIrits"
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Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 210/875
Total Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 13/53
Jasmiina F5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol:
Read a book with a "good" rating of 3.5 or above:
Saga, Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan.
15.4. Towel Day:
Option 1:
A: Read a book with the main page genre science fiction or fantasy:
Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor, Vol. 2: Serve You by Al Ewing.
B:
Read a book whose author's initials can be found in DOUGLAS ADAMS:
Wytches, Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 90
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+: 2
BBooks - 750+: 0
BBooks - 1000+: 0
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for CelebrationOption B - Read a book set at least 50% in South America, Africa or Asia. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The book is set in Japan
Points this task: 20
Total points: 190
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 1
Big Book ticket requests: 2
Books read: 10
Tasks completed: 9
5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy WarholRead a book by an author who is deceased.
Notes on a Cuff and other stories by Mikhail Bulgakov
The author died in 1940.
20.1 - Most Improved - MegSCL's task: Pick a card
I drew the King of Spades: read a Crime or Science Fiction or Memoir book with a K in the title.
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
Genre: Crime
20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Seakbee's Task: Give Yourself Permission…
Option 4: read a book where at least 50% of the story takes place in: California, Florida, France, Japan, Hong Kong, Hawaii or on a cruiseship.
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
Set in France
Points this post: 45
Points in total: 85
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book tickets: 3
ReaderBoard Name: CreynardTask #: 5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
Sacrificial Magic by Stacia Kane
Sacrificial Magic has an "Mmm Mmm Good!" Average rating of 4.24.
Points this post: 5
Golden Oldies Tickets this post: 0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Points to date: 25
GO to date: 0
BB to date: 1
ReaderBoard Name: CreynardTask #: 25.2 - Brooke TX's Task: #ReadingGoals
Option 3:
Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs
Patricia Briggs is #3 on my most read authors list (and I’d been waiting FOREVER for her latest!)
Option 4:
Ready Player One by Ernest Kline
Kline is a new author to me.
Points this post: 25
Golden Oldies Tickets this post: 0
Big Book Tickets this post:0
Points to date: 50
GO to date: 0
BB to date: 1
Bluegrass PamTask 5.4 A Bigger Splack by David Hockney
Title with a word ending in -ER.
The Declutter Code: 10 Simple Steps to Clarity by Yvette Bowlin
Declutter ends in -ER.
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 75
ReaderBoard Name: Creynard25.6- Robin ♥'s Task: Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands
I like plain M&Ms.
Option A-2: First Comes Love by Emily Goodwin
Option A-3: Make Me Sin J.T. Geissinger
Points this task: 25
Golden Oldies Tickets this post: 0
Big Book Tickets this post:0
Points to date: 75
GO to date: 0
BB to date: 1
ReaderBoard Name: Creynard30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police
Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh
Title is in Red.
Points this task: 30
Golden Oldies Tickets this post: 0
Big Book Tickets this post:0
Points to date: 105
GO to date: 0
BB to date: 1
ReaderBoard Name: Creynard25.7 - Dakimel's Task: Sibling and Niece Season
Option C: 9 Letters by Blake Austin
Option D: Highlander Betrayed by Lauren Wittig
There is a loch in the background.
Points this task: 25
Golden Oldies Tickets this post: 0
Big Book Tickets this post:0
Points to date: 130
GO to date: 0
BB to date: 1
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM10.1 - Ever So POPular
I read Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie, published in 1956 (found at #25 on the 1956 list)
30.2 - Daphne's task: Peering really close at the world.
I chose Options 1 and 2.
1: I read Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler.
2: I read And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts (found at #35 on the first page of the list)
** And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is 656 pages long, I'd like to claim ONE Big Book ticket**
30.6 - Donna Jo's Task--Making a Name for Yourself
I chose the one-book option, Part C - Option 2.
I read Bleak House by Charles Dickens (mass market paperback) - 820 pages. Charles Dickens's initials are adjacent to one another in the alphabet.
** Bleak House is 820 pages long, I'd like to claim TWO Big Book Tickets**
** Bleak House was originally published in 1853, I'd like to claim a Golden Oldies ticket**
Previous point total: 120
New points this post: 10+30+30
Total points: 190
New tasks completed in this post: 3
Total tasks: 9
GO tickets this post: 1
Total GO: 1
Big Book tickets this post: 3
Total Big Books: 3
By Peakles20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter: Pamela3265's Task: When Books Went to War
Option A
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning
25.1 - Sandy's task as suggested by Katy: Fact and Fiction
Book 1: The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin
Book 2: Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black-And-White Ball by Deborah Davis
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
Option C: Book #1 in new-to-you series, 3 word title.
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. This series is new to me.
Option D: Book with Travel as main page genre
Going Gypsy: One Couple's Adventure from Empty Nest to No Nest at All by Veronica James
Points this post: 75
Total points: 280
Total BB: 2
Reader Name: Daphne5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns
Genre: Retellings
Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus
5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi
Genre: Autobiography/Memoir
Genre verification post: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
Points this post: 10
Points Total: 560
repost of 30.130.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
Option B:For this option, read a book with at least 2 items on the cover that are identical.
An Audience of Chairs Cover shows mirror images of two female characters (was approved in the help thread message 34)Option C:#1 in a series that is new to you AND the TITLE can only have exactly 3 words
The Paper Magician
This series was new to me
Points this post 30
Total challenge points::120
15.10 - Batter up!The Other Side of Blue by Valerie O. Patterson
set entirely on the island of Curaçao
Total points: 240
Beth_NC10.9 MARCH MADNESS - Fisheye: A Memoir by Trish Thorpe
Author's first and last name start with T
15.3 STILL FLYING - See Jane Run by Joy Fielding
Option 2 - Title contains RUN from song "Run Around" AND Author's initials are in JeFferson airplane
15.5 NO MORE SNOW - Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper
SleePING with feaR
20.1 PICK A CARD - Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir by Terry Galloway
Drew Queen of Spades - Memoir and Q in title
20.2 TIME FOR CELEBRATION - Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
Option A Genre:Historical
20.4 - POP TV SHOW - Pack of Lies (The Twenty-Sided Sorceress) by Annie Bellet
Option C: Genre - Fantasy
30.1 HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR SEUSS -
A.
Dates From Hell by Kim HarrisonOption B: Pair of shoes on cover
B.
by Allison BrennanOption C: 3 word title and New to me Series
30.6 MAKING A NAME FOR YOURSELF -
by Karleen KoenPart C: Option 1 - author's first and last name begins with K 755 pages
***2 Big Book Ticket - 755 pages****
Total
Points: 160
Tasks: 8
Books: 9
Big Book Tickets: 2
Pages: 3122
BARBARA ★5.4 - A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
The Hotter You Burn - Gena Showalter (hotter ends in ER) 4/3
Goodreads Author
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20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Seakbee's Task: Give Yourself Permission…
Option 2: The Shadows - J.R. Ward 4/1
Goodreads Author
Big Book: 592 pages
Totals for Challenge
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 145
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Books - 500+: (2)
Big Books - 750+: (0)
Big Books - 1000+: (0)
Mai5.10 Self-portrait
Book of my choice
Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
Request 1 Golden Oldies ticket (first published 1934)
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 205
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 14
Golden Oldies: 8
HINA5.10 Self-portrait - The Stephanides Pregnancy (Greek Tycoons) by Lynne Graham.
Reader's Choice.
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too - The Contaxis Baby by Lynne Graham.
Lyrics: Come on, baby, don't say maybe
Current post:
Points: 15
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total:
Total Points: 385
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books- 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
25.1 - Sandy's task as suggested by Katy: Fact and FictionBook 1, historical fiction: Loving Eleanor by Susan Wittig Albert
Book 2, NF set in same time and place as book 1:Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth by Marc Peyser
Points this post: 25
Total points: 260
CreynardTask # 20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Seakbee's Task: Give Yourself Permission…
Option 6: With a Twist by Staci Hart
Title is all in white.
Points this post: 20
Tasks completed: 7
Total Points: 150
GO to date: 0
BB to date: 1
Jasmiina F20.4 -Golden Oldie: Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows:
Option C: Read a book with "Fantasy" or "Supernatural" genre on the book's main GR page:
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 110
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+: 2
BBooks - 750+: 0
BBooks - 1000+: 0
CreynardTask # 20.5 - Bigger is Better- Catherine T's Task: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book
Option 1: The Play by Karina Halle
Title (excluding sub-title) can be made up of ONLY the letters found in "Peter Blake Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band".
Points this post: 20
Tasks completed: 7
Total Points: 150
GO to date: 0
BB to date: 1
CreynardTask # 20.4 -Golden Oldie: Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
Option C: Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh
Points this post: 20
Tasks completed: 9
Total points: 190
GO to date: 0
BB to date: 1
CreynardTask # 10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too
Sweet as Sin by J.T. Geissinger
Song: "I gotta know that your sweet love is gonna save me."
Points this post: 10
Tasks completed: 10
Total points: 75
GO to date: 0
BB to date: 1
CreynardTask # 5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
Dylan and Aubrey by M. Robinson
Points this post: 5
Tasks completed: 11
Total points: 195
GO to date: 0
BB to date: 1
10.5 - Glenn Frey, TooRead 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. Words must match exactly.
Required: Identify the word you used when you post.
The word is GIRL
from the phrase: "It's a GIRL my lord, in a flatbed..."
The Girl from the Train
* This book was an ARC
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POINTS
Points This Post: 10
Points Total: 210
Golden Oldies:
Big Books:
500 () 750 () 1000 ()
Tasks Completed: 15
BB Total: 2
10.6 - And Alan RickmanHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling, a BIG BOOK with 870 pages
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 44.0
15.6. Light My Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling, a BIG BOOK with 734 pages.
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14.0
POINTS: 200
Laura NT20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
Option C - Read a book set at least 50% in Ireland or with a cover that's at least 50% blue.
A night in with Audrey Hepburn
The cover is greater than 50% blue.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 85
DANIELLE M5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel by Anya Ulinich
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 95
Books Read: 7
Tasks Complete: 7
Dakimel10.2 - Andy Warhol
Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson
10.7 - Happy Pi Day
The Pirate Hunter
15.1. From Soup to ............Breakfast??
Book 1: The Love That Split the World SPLIT
Book 2: A Spool of Blue Thread BLUE
20.5 - Bigger is Better- Catherine T's Task: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book
option 1: Unbroken
25.7 - Dakimel's Task
option 1: Soulless by Gail Carriger
option 3:
("1" in series name at bottom)TALLY:
This post - 80 points
Total - 365
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Tooread a book with a title/subtitle that contains a word of at least 4 letters that can also be found in the lyrics of Take It Easy
Shakespeare Never Did This by Charles Bukowski
matching word: never
Task total=10
Grand total=280
Andy P.Task 3 20.3 - Best Review: mstan's Task: Returning to My Source of Inspiration...
Option 1: Read a book by Elena Ferrante.
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Points this post: 20
Total points: 285
Boston Kate
15.6 Light My Fire
Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor
flames on cover
Points this post: 15
Total points: 35
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 3
15.8. It's Magic Spring is a magical time of year, but it is not the spooky reality of autumn. Rather, it is the reality of the renewal of life. So read a book with "Magical Realism" as a GR main page genre.
I read the book Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman – “Magical Realism" 310 users
This Post
Points: 15
Tasks Posted: 1
Books Posted: 1
Pages Read: 286
Total
Points: 50
Tasks Posted: 3
Books Posted: 3
Pages Read: 1086
Beth NC15.9 THREE/FOUR/FIVE - Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward
4.33 Rating on 3/14/16
***Big Book Ticket 502 pages***
20.5 SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BOOK - Private Down Under by James Patterson
Option 2 James Joyce
20.6 EUROVISION CALLING - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Option 3 Page 1
AR Rating IL:UG
20.7 WHEN BOOKS WENT TO WAR - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Option B
20.8 MAKING IT WORTH WATCHING - Dark Heir by Faith Hunter
Option 3: Book is set in New Orleans, I want to visit there someday.
20.9 GIVE YOURSELF PERMISSION - Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
Option 2: Big Book 816 pages
***2 Big Book Ticket 816 pages***
30.4 EVERY LETTER COUNTS
A. The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille
***Big Book Ticket 637 pages***
B. Frost Moon by Anthony Francis
30.5 CALL THE GRAMMAR POLICE
A. You're So Vein by Christine Warren
Option 2
B.
Mine by Robert McCammonOption 3
Points: 175
Tasks: 8
Books: 10
Big Book Tickets: 4
Pages: 3778
Total Points: 335
Total Tasks: 16
Total Books: 19
Total Big Book Tickets: 6
Total Pages: 6900
perletwo10.7 - Happy Pi Day - Read a book with the letters "PI" found together, in order, and intact in the title/subtitle or author's name.
A Sleeping Life
Points this task: 10
Total points: 515
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 2
Big Book ticket requests: 0
Books read: 38
Tasks completed: 30
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for CelebrationI chose option c, selecting a book with a cover that is at least 50% blue.
I read
by Seré Prince Halverson.Task points:20
Challenge total:20
MEGSCL15.8. It's Magic
Read a book with "Magical Realism" as a GR main page genre. The Enchanted
TOTAL TO DATE
Points: 210
Big Book Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies: 1
Just realized this is only half of the task. Will go back and finish it, then repost.
Double checking my work...this is a duplicate. Sorry!
Teresa JoTask 20.7 Shorter is Sweeter
Option B: Read ONE book published by the Council on Books in Wartime: Armed Services Editions
Version Read: Kindle
Suds in Your Eye
by Mary Lasswell
Golden Oldies ticket:
Originally published in 1942
Totals
Points this Post: 20
Big Book Tickets: 2
Golden Oldies Tickets: 1
Total Points: 190
CreynardTask # 10.2 - Andy Warhol
His Price: A Billionaire Romance by Leah Holt
L & H can both be found in WARHOL.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 140
5.1 Marilyn Diptych by Andy WarholRead a book where the author is deceased
The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
5.2 Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
Read a book with an onomatopoeia
The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood
5.4 A bigger splash by David Hockney
Read a book with the ending er
Across the Rolling River by Celia Wilkins
5.5 Drowning girl by Roy Lichtenstein
Read a book with the genre of Manga
Sailor Moon, #1 by Naoko Takeuchi
5.6 Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
Read a book with six or more words
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 by Kathryn Lasky
5.7 Flag by Jasper Johns
Read a book with the genre retellings
UnEnchanted by Chanda Hahn
5.8 I was a rich man's plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi
Read an autobiography
Grief Girl: My True Story by Erin Vincent
5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
Read a book that is identified as #3 of a series
The Borrowers Afloat by Mary Norton
5.10 Self portrait
Read a book of your own choice
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
10.1 Ever so popular
Read a book that's on the top 200 list for 1955 books
Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
10.2 Andy Warhol
Read a book by an author whose initials are in ANDY WARHOL
The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
10.3 It's so surreal
Read a book on the first five pages of the so surreal pages
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
10.4 Remembering David Bowie
Read one of David Bowie's favorite books
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10.5 Glenn Frey, Too
Read a book with a word of at least four letters is in the band's song take it easy
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
10.6 And Alan Rickman
Read a book on the list of literary titles of Alan Rickman
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
10.7 Happy PI Day
Read a book with the letters PI together
Ketchup Clouds by Annabel
Pitcher
10.9 March Madness
Read a book with the authors initials the same letter or the book title the same letter
Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
15.1 From Soup to................Breakfest
Read a book with a word on Campbell's soup cans and Read a book with a word on one of 27 flavors of poptarts
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery and Candy Apple Red by Nancy Bush
Points this post: 140
Total Points: 140
loafer 10.3 - It's So Surreal
Read a book found on the first 5 pages of the Popular Surreal Books list.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
found on page 2 of list
AR bookfinder info: IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10.0
points: 10
total points: 220
BB: 1
GO: 5
tasks completed: 14
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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Option 1: Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction by Joseph Dan (page 2 of list)
Option 2: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant (number 64 of list)
Total points: 30