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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2016
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Summer Challenge 2016: Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS THREAD
Lisa MDTASKS COMPLETED:
15.9 Listen Up: Audie Award for Humor 2015
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
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Tasks This Post: 1
Points This Post: 15
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TOTAL Tasks Completed: 24/62
TOTAL Points Completed: 425/1125
TOTAL Books Read: 31
TOTAL Golden Oldie Tickets:
TOTAL Bigger Is Better Tickets: 1
Andy P.Task # 10.6.June 8 is "Name Your Poison" day.
Read a book with "crime" as a main page genre.
by Mons Kallentoft (mystery>crime (27 users)Points this post: 10
Total points:655
Kim A5.2 - Cubism - Read a book that is identified on Goodreads as #3 in a series.
Lady Renegades by Rachel Hawkins
*#3 in Rebel Belle series
Points This Post - 5
Total Points - 730
Task 25.5 - Dakimel’s Task: An Homage to The ToastA: Mallory Ortberg –Read an SRC-qualifying book by any of the authors* named in the Texts From Jane Eyre Reference List
Author: Henry James
Washington Square (1880) by Henry James (Paperback, 223 pages)
** Washington Square is a Golden Oldie, published in 1880**
B: Nicole Cliffe –Read an SRC-qualifying book the first five pages of the Best Canadian Literature List.
List Used: Best Canadian Literature List
On July 30, 2016: Book Found on Page 4, #331 of list
The Heart Specialist (2009) by Claire Holden Rothman (Hardcover, 325 pages)
Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2009)
195 + 25 = 220
Tasks Completed: 11
Points for this post: 25
Points thus far: 195 + 25 = 220
Books read: 17
Pages read: 5,526
Read but not claimed: 10
Goodreads Authors: 06
Golden Oldies: 02
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
MEGSCL10.7. "Give me your tired, your poor,........"
Cutting for Stone is on page 1 of the Immigrant Experience Literature list.
*541pp = 1 big book ticket
30.10 - Robin ♥'s Task: The Dog Days of Summer
A-1: Read a book that shows a nighttime scene with starry sky on the cover.
audio edition:
mmpb: Ender's GameB-1: read a book with a dog on the cover.
*528pp = 1 big book ticket
TOTAL TO DATE:
points: 200
big book tickets: 3
5.3: Action!I read Tigerman by Nick Harkaway. The genre "adventure" was noted in the task help thread.
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 30
Tasks Complete: 5
Books Read: 5
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 0
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM25.10 - M1nks's task: Give Me Some Reds, Give Me Some Blues, Give Me Some... What the heck is THAT supposed to be!?
I chose Options 2 and 4.
Option 2: I read How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life by Heather Havrilesky. I chose this because the figure in "Woman I" by Willem de Kooning seems very indistinct or hesitant but also quite determined so it could be titled "How to Be a Person in the World."
Option 4: I read Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney, a graphic memoir about her struggle with bipolar disorder.
Previous point total: 455
New points this post: 25
Total points: 480
New tasks completed in this post: 1
Total tasks: 23
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 1
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 4
10.6.June 8 is "Name Your Poison" day,Crime genre: 212 by Alafair Burke
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Chrissy's task: Sweet Summer
Option E, my favorite ice cream flavor in the title (chocolate): The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan
Points this post: 30
Total points: 425
Coralie15.2 Colors and Sounds
Book A – colour word in title – midnight
The Midnight Zoo
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6.0
Book B – musical instrument on cover – harp
15.10 Lifelong Learning
From the category – Literature and Language Arts
The Song of Achilles
This post 30 points
Total to date 490 points
BellaGBeartask 5.4: A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories
Will Eisner is a jewish writer and the stories are about jewist people (first lines of this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Contr...)
>Points: 5
25.5:
book 1: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (number 14 on the list)
book 2: option B from the widlerness deaths / survival list number 5 Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
>Points: 25
Task 25.7:
book 1, option 4: The Colour of Magic. Page 1, book 18
book 2, option 6: Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: A Useful and Improving Almanack of Information Including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld. The title is: Nanny Ogg's cookbook, the rest is subtitle
>points: 25
25.10
book 1, option 2: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon I read
The wantomnes of the women on the picture reminds me of the deslote stand of the women on the book cover. Like the women on the cover is praying for het own salvation, And both the book and painting have the same gritty atmosphere which I both likebook 2, option 3: The Handmaid's Tale distopia
>point: 25
Task 30.8:
book 1, What ended my last relationship? Character
Publishished first in 1938 so I claim a golden oldie
book 2: I got 99 problems but Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children isn't one (verified in message 30 task help)
>Points: 30
>golden oldie: 1
TOTAL points this post: 110
golden oldies: 1
total points challenge: 245
golden oldies: 3
Sara ITA20.3 - Best Review - Terri FL's task: New house
Option A — Read a book with a title that could evoke your response to the following question: "My ideal house or location to live would be..."
Una stanza tutta per sé by Virginia Woolf (original title: A Room of One's Own)
confirmed here
*** Una stanza tutta per sé is a Golden Oldie (first published in 1928). Claiming 1 GO ticket. ***
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 240
GO Tickets: 5
BB Tickets: 3
trishhartuk20.3 Best Review -Terri FL’s task: New house
Option B: Read a book with a cover showing your ideal place to live. Required: Include the cover in your post.
As I would love to live somewhere which had a library, comfy chairs (preferably with associated cats) and a great view...
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Big book/Golden oldie: No
Total points: 565
Tasks completed: 26
Golden oldies: 4
Total BB tickets: 4 [750+ x 1 (2 tickets); >500+ x 2 (2 tickets)]
Sara ITA20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Wendy UK's task: Celebrate Norwich!
Read a book by a UAE Alum.
Il gigante sepolto by Kazuo Ishiguro (Original title: The Buried Giant)
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 260
GO Tickets: 5
BB Tickets: 3
Catherine TTask 30.1 - North to Alaska
option 2 - read a book with "SISTER" in the title
It Would Be Wrong to Steal My Sister's Boyfriend by Sophie Ranald
option 3 - read a book whose author initials are in the phrase
Truly Deadly by Rob Aspinall
both letters in MARATHON
ebook verified for length : https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Mary P15.7 - See the Light
Read a book with the word "lighthouse" in the title, subtitle or series name OR with a lighthouse on the cover.
by Loretta ProctorPoints this post: 15
Total points: 370
Task 15.9 – Listen Up!Audie winning book
Not My Father's Son: A Memoir Won the AUDIE award in 2015 for Autobiography
I listened to the audio / NO MMP / Paperback: Not My Father's Son
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Task 30.2 –Jonquil – It Looked Different the Last Time I Was Here
Two books set in the same location, during different seasons.
Book 1 - Set in OLD TOWN Alexandria VA at Thanksgiving (Fall)
The Diva Runs Out of Thyme
Book 2 – Set in OLD TOWN Alexandria VA in June (Summer)
The Diva Takes the Cake
Pairing Approved HERE
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This Post: 45 points
Total points to date: 395 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 0
Big Books Read: (1) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / (0) 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 1
5.4 - In the Shadows We Are All Weird: The Myth of Mass and The End of Compliance
Seth Godin is a Jewish author.
10.5.But watch out - it's hurricane season!
George by ALEX (matches the Atlantic list)
15.6 - Picasso, Miro and Rothko
Seeds Planted in Concrete Sparacino ends in O.
20.4 - Golden Oldie - Heather(Gibby)'s task: The Golden Age
Scion Hero has the genre "mythology" (option A)
30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Wipe Out
Options 1 and 2.
1: The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate - FIVE from "Hanging Five"
2. A Doll's House My friend Delmy =^.^= rated this a 5.
30.4 - Ava Catherine's task: Summer of the Gods
Option 1: Gemini/Twins
Marked: A Two Halves Novella is about twins.
Option 4: June/Juno
Alice in Zombieland was written by a woman author.
Points this task: 110
Total Points: 245
Cindy FTask 5.10 School's Out
Book of choice
The Trial by James Patterson
Points this post:5
Total points:200
Tasks completed:12
Books rerad:15
Golden Oldies:0
Big Books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(0)
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ5.6 - Abstract Design
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
This book cover consists of blocks of cover and is listed as an approve book in Message 2 of the task help thread.
Link to PB edition: The Interestings
This post: 5 points
Total points to date: 155 points
Tasks completed: 13
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ10.5 - But Watch Out - It's Hurricane Season!
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
The author's first name is Matthew which is a 2016 Atlantic Hurricane name.
Link to MMP edition: El lado bueno de las cosas
This post: 10 points
Total points to date: 165 points
Tasks completed: 14
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
Readerboard Name - Rebecca NJ20.1 - Periodically challenged
The Curse of Tenth Grave by Darynda Jones
My word is Tenth -
Te (Tellurium)
N (Nitrogen)
Th (Thorium)
20.4 - The Golden Age
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter
Option A - This book has Fantasy > Mythology as a main page genre shelved by 1,054 users
Link to PB edition: The Goddess Test
20.8 - Authors in Real Life
The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
Option 2 - This book can be found on Tien's signed book shelf and was added on June 17, 2014.
This post: 60 points
Total points to date: 225 points
Tasks completed: 17
** Electing to not track Golden Oldies and Big Books this season **
BellaGBeartask 10.9: Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery
>10 points
task 25.2:
book 1: Eric
book 2: Music genre: Soul Music
>25 points
Task 30.7:
book 1 De zwarte met het witte hart 389 pages written by Arthur Japin
book 2: Northanger Abbey 251 pages (so together >500) written by Jane Austen
also first published in 1817 so i claim a golden oldie
>30 points
> 1 GO ticket
total points post: 65
total GO: 1
TOTAL CHALLENGE
>300 points
>3 GO
Kristen IA20.4 - Golden Oldie - Heather(Gibby)'s task: The Golden Age
This is a ONE book task. Pick one of the options below.
Required: State which option you chose when you post.
Option C. The Golden Age is often used to refer to a Senior Citizen. Read a book that was first published after the author's 65th birthday. If there is more than one author, at least one needs to have reached their 65th birthday.
Required: State the author's birth date when you post. If the GRs author page does not include the author's birth date, provide an outside link for verification.
15th Affair by James Patterson
(I realized the link below was broken about 20 minutes after I posted...see REPOST below)
James Patterson was born 22 Mar 1947. The book was first published in Feb 2016 when he was 68 years old.
I listened to the audiobook and have linked to the PB version for page count
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Points this post: 20
Total Points: 205/1125
Books Read: 14
Tasks Complete: 10
Big Books Total: 2
Golden Oldies Total: 0
REPOST of 1757 with working link. Kristen IA
20.4 - Golden Oldie - Heather(Gibby)'s task: The Golden Age
This is a ONE book task. Pick one of the options below.
Required: State which option you chose when you post.
Option C. The Golden Age is often used to refer to a Senior Citizen. Read a book that was first published after the author's 65th birthday. If there is more than one author, at least one needs to have reached their 65th birthday.
Required: State the author's birth date when you post. If the GRs author page does not include the author's birth date, provide an outside link for verification.
15th Affair by James Patterson
James Patterson was born 22 Mar 1947. The book was first published in Feb 2016 when he was 68 years old.
I listened to the audiobook and have linked to the PB version for page count
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Points this post: 20
Total Points: 205/1125
Books Read: 14
Tasks Complete: 10
Big Books Total: 2
Golden Oldies Total: 0
5.10 - School's Out!Read any Book
After You | Jojo Moyes | ♥♥♥ | 368 Pages |
♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡
10.9. Smile
Humor on Main Page
A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | 337 Pages | ♥♥♥♥ |
♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡
50.1 - Pamela3265's task: Summer Reading Fun
Option A:
Christian Genre on Main Page
Through the Fire | Shawn Grady | 328 Pages | ♥♥♥♥ |
Option E:
Book added to TBR List Before 06/01/2016 Book added to TBR List 05/05/2013
Runaway Heart | Claudy Conn | 232 Pages | ♥♥♥♥ |
Option F:
Any Book
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | John Tiffany and J.K. Rowling | 330 Pages | ♥♥♥♥ |
♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡♥ ♡
This Post
Points This Post: 65
BB This Post: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
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Total Points
Total Points: 855/1125
BB Total: 6
GO Total: 2
Completed: 50 (✔)
Emsreviewsbooks30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Wipe Out
Option 2: I read His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik, which my friend Jessica Day George rated 5 stars.
Option 4: I read Out of the Ruins by Karen Barnett, which takes place in California.
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 500
Books Read: 39
Tasks Complete: 28
Blueberry20.2
Opt. B Read a book with a food item on the cover.
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Pts: 20
Total pts: 310
Julia10325.6 - Jamie NYC's task: The Last Abstract Expressionist
Option 3: Prized and Honoured. The matching word is "and".
The paperback edition is 542 pages so claiming one BB ticket.
Option 4: Cometh the Hour by Jeffrey Archer (author initials in JoAn Mitchell
This post: 25 points,
Total points: 300
BB: 3
GO: 1
Total tasks completed: 16
Readerboard Name: JamminJennyDate: August 5, 2016
Task 20.3 - Best Review - Terri FL's task: New house
Option B: Chasing Paris, read 8/5
Total Points this post: 20
Total Points to date: 415
Susan W.15.3 June, July, August
This is a two book task.
Book A: Read a book with exactly 4 or 6 words in the title.
I read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by John Tiffany
Book B: Read a book by an author whose Goodreads name is composed of name parts (first, middle, other, last) with exactly 4 OR 6 letters in every part.
I read Black Butler, Volume 01 by Yana Toboso
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30.5 Daphne's Task: A Season of Growth and Color
This is a two book task. Read a book from two different lists shown.
Citrus on Cover: I read
by Thich Nhat HanhApples on Cover: I read
by Peter LauferOrganic is on page one of the Apple list. There's only one page for the Citrus list.
Points this post: 45
Total Points: 220
LAUREN JODI25.3 - Maya's Task: Make it Pretty
Option 2 : Crazy Shapes
Heart on the cover:
For You by Kristen Ashley
*** This is a big book (534 pages)***
Option 4: Signature
All About Love by Stephanie Laurens
Readerboard name: Lauren Jodi
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Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 305/1125
Total Books Read: 21
Tasks Completed: 15/62
Big Book Ticket: 1
Brooke TX5.2 - Cubism
Read a book that is identified on Goodreads as #3 or #6 in a series.
5.4 - In the Shadows
Read a book with a Jewish main character, about Jewish culture or about the Jewish experience, or one that is written by a Jewish author. Author Neil Gaiman on being Jewish.
5.5 - Abstract Nouns
Read a book with an abstract noun in the title/subtitle. Abstract noun "envy":
10.6.June 8 is "Name Your Poison" day
Read a book with "crime" as a main page genre.
15.6 - Picasso, Miro and Rothko
Read a book by an author who has a name than ENDS in O.
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Chrissy's task: Sweet Summer
Option D: Read a book by an author whose first and last name start with a letter in the word STRAWBERRIES.
25.4 - MegSCL's task: A pair of opposites
Book 1: Short book (268 pages), recent (first published 2015), stand-alone.
Book 2: Long book (357 pages), older (first published 2009), part of a series (#2).
25.6 - Jamie NYC's task: The Last Abstract Expressionist
Option 3: Read a book with a title/subtitle that contains a word of at least 3 letters that can also be found in this quote from Mitchell. Matching "and":
Option 4: Read a book written by an author whose initials can be found in JOAN MITCHELL.
25.11 - Amanda A's task as suggested by Karen Michele: Visit the Centre Pompidou
Book 1: Read a book set at least 50% of the time in Paris.
Book 2: Read an illuminated novel or a graphic novel.
Points
This Post: 135
Total Points: 320
Completed Tasks: 26
Books Read: 37
Readerboard Name: JamminJennyDate: August 6, 2016
Task 20.5 - Bigger is Better - TrishHartUK's task: Shakespeare 400
Option 1. "Beware the ides of March"
Gold, Silver, and Bombs - e-length verification post #5732
Gold, Silver, and Bombs by Ted Tayler
Total points this post: 20
Total points to date: 435
loafer15.9 - Listen Up
Read a book that has WON an Audie Award
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Audie Award for Children's Titles (2000)
AR bookbinder info: IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19.0
points: 15
total: 345
BB: 3
GO: 2
tasks completed: 21
loafer25.7 - SpiderMac's task: Get Your Run On!
Book 1/Option 4: Sag wagon / volunteer
read a book from the Funniest Novels of All Time list.
Candide by Voltaire
mmpb: Candide
found on page 1, #39 of list
published in 1759, qualifies as a "golden oldie"
Book 2/Option 6: Hammock
Read a book where the first letter of each word in the title is found in “Sounds fun but I would rather chill with a good book”.
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
mmpb: The Beautiful and Damned
T in but
B in but
A in rather
D in sounds
first published in 1922, qualifies as a " golden oldie"
points: 25
total: 370
BB: 2
GO: 4
tasks completed: 22
Mary P15.8 - Commencement
Read a book with the genre "New Adult" on its main book page.
Grey by E.L. James
** Grey is a Big Book ( 576 Pgs ). Claiming 1 BB Ticket **
Points this task: 15
Total points: 385
Big Book Tickets: 2
Andy P.Task # 30.2 - Jonquil’s Task: It looked different the last time I was here...
Book 1: Read a book set predominantly (at least 80%) in one community during one season of the year:
by Mari Jungstedt Set in Gotland winterBook 2.
by Mari Jungstedt set in Gotland summerSetting approved here
more than 80% of both books occurs on Gotland
Points this post: 30
Total points: 685
Delicious Dee5.6 - Abstract Design
25.8 - Brooke TX's task: Finally, A Little Vacation
Option 2 -
- more than 50% purpleOption 3 - Unleashed - author Cherrie Lynn initials appear in CandyLand
30.4 - Ava Catherine's task: Summer of the Gods
Option 1: Gemini/Twins - Sacred Waters - the book description mentions brothers, Braydon and Colin, who are part of an 8 kid family
Option 4: June/Juno - Flirting with Disaster - Victoria Dahl is female
Points this Post: 60
Total Points: 855
Sarah E15.10 - Lifelong Learning
From the Science and Technology category
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
I listened to the audio, paperback (no MMPB) is: Bad Science
Points this post: 15
Total points: 165
Marina H15.9 - Listen Up
The Graveyard Book
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10.0
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Chrissy's task: Sweet Summer
Option A: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Word that starts and ends with same letter: Suns
30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Wipe Out
Option 2: Blood on Snow
Rated 5 stars by GR friend Marta Moslet
Option 4: I'll Give You the Sun
Set in California, USA
50.1 - Pamela3265's task: Summer Reading Fun
Option A: Time and Time Again
Main page genre: Historical fiction
Option E: Flowers for Algernon
On TBR list on May 1st 2016
Option F: Uglies
Points this post: 115
Total points: 325
BARBARA ★Previously posted. I wish to withdrew completion for 15.9. I'm going to use this book for 25.9 instead.
15.9 - Listen Up
White Trash Zombie Gone Wild - Diana Rowland 7/7
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25.3 - Maya's Task : Make it Pretty
Option 1: Thirty and a Half Excuses - Denise Grover Swank 8/6
Link to TinEye: http://labs.tineye.com/color/082cbbdb...
Option 4: Unbound - Angela Knight/Jennifer Ashley/Jean Johnson/Hanna Martine 7/9
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25.9 - Fandury's task: Everything is Possible in Love and Warcraft
Option 2: White Trash Zombie Gone Wild - Diana Rowland 7/7
Option 4: Zero Hour - Clive Cussler 8/6
(set in Australia, Russia and the US)
Totals for Challenge
Points this Post: 50 - 15 = 35
Total Points: 420
5.5 - Abstract NounsRead a book with an abstract noun in the title/subtitle
My abstract noun is Death
The Death of Ivan Ilych
*This is 86 pages in length and is my One book between 80 -99 pages that may be used for ONE 5 point task.
Claiming golden Oldies Ticket as this was published in 1886
20.4 - Golden Oldie - Heather(Gibby)'s task: The Golden Age
Option B. Read a book written by one of the authors who wrote during the Golden Age of Science Fiction:
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
Total New Points: 25
Total Challenge Points: 270
GO's" 4
BB;s: 2
Delicious Dee5.10 - School's Out!
Schooled - ebook only (conditional for 5pt), approved #5724 of the ebook approval thread
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 860
25.4 - MegSCL's task: A pair of opposites1. One book must be long (300 pages or more)
2. one must be older (first published in 2010 or earlier)
3. one must be stand-alone
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Originally published in 1991; 382 pages; stand-alone.
one must be short (less than 300 pages)
One book must be recent (first published in 2011 or later)
One book must be part of a series (any number)
Angelfall by Susan Ee
First published in 2011; 288 pages; book one of the Penryn & the End of Days series.
Points this task: 25
Total points: 205
Books read: 13
Tasks completed: 7
babbling c15.5 - Summer in the City
Read a book with a genre on its main book page that contains "urban" such as urban legends, urban, urban-fantasy, urban-planning, urbanism. The genre may be stand-alone or embedded.
A Hidden Fire -kindle A Hidden Fire -paperback pg 437 by Elizabeth Hunter
Fantasy > Urban Fantasy 240 users
25.9 - Fandury's task: Everything is Possible in Love and Warcraft
Option 1: Read a book with the main page genre of War. The genre may stand alone or be embedded.
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America -audiobook Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America - paperback pg. 624 Annie Jacobsen
War > World War II 17 users
this is a Big BooK: pgs. 624
Option 5: For this option, read a book that has been turned into a movie . If choosing the movie option, the movie must be a theatrical release, no television mini-series.
The House of Mirth - audiobook The House of Mirth - paperback pg 349 by Edith Wharton
this is a Golden Oldie: published in 1905
Required IMDB: House of Mirth (2000)
30.8 - Beth NC's task: Cards Against Humanity (The Book Version)
5) What will you bring back in time to convince people you are truly a wizard?
Kitty and the Midnight Hour -audiobook Kitty and the Midnight Hour -paperback pg 259 by Carrie Vaughn
6) I got 99 problems but __________________ isn’t one .
Enchanted Warrior -kindle Enchanted Warrior - paperback pg. 299 by Sharon Ashwood
THIS POST
Points: 70
Completed Tasks: 3
Golden oldies: 1
Big Books: 1
Total This Season
Points: 325/1125
Completed Tasks:20/62
Golden oldies: 3
Big Books: 4
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Pages read this season: 10,160
Books read this season: 25
Task 30.10 - The Dog Days of SummerA-3: Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in ROBINAUGU ST ELEVENTH. Middle names can be ignored.
More Than Human (1953) by Theodore Sturgeon (Paperback, 197 pages)
B-3: Read a book that was first published in 2003, 2007, 2008, or 2011.
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture (2011) by Peggy Orenstein (Hardcover, 244 pages) [305.23]
220 + 30 = 250
Tasks Completed: 12
Points for this post: 30
Points thus far: 220 + 30 = 250
Books read: 19
Pages read: 5,967
Read but not claimed: 09
Goodreads Authors: 06
Golden Oldies: 02
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Chrissy's task: Sweet SummerOption B: Read a book with a food item on the cover.
by Wendy MeadowsThe paperback version of this book has 166 pages, thus conforming to SRC requirements. Raspberry Truffle Murder.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 225
Books read: 14
Tasks completed: 8
30.9 - Catherine T's task: Should We Stay Or Should We Go?Option 2: Go --
Book A: Vote Leave by reading a book set at least 70% in an EU country** (excluding the UK) with main page genre of "Horror" or "Dystopia" or "Post-apocalyptic";
The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper - takes place in Italy - has main page genre of Horror
AND
Book B: Read a book set at least 70% in the UK**. Your UK book should NOT have any of the genres "Horror" or "Dystopia" or "Post-apocalyptic" in its main book page.
Incendiary by Chris Cleave - takes place in UK.
Points this Task: 30
Books Read: 2
Oldie: 0
Big Book: 0
Total Points: 355
Tasks Completed: 14
Total Books Read: 22
Oldies: 4
Big Books: 0
Task 20.2 - Sweet SummerOption A: Read a book with a title/subtitle that contains a word that starts and ends with the same letter.
SHADOWS
Shadows on the Rock (1931) by Willa Cather (Paperback, 229 pages)
** Shadows on the Rock is a Golden Oldie, published in 1931**
250 + 20 = 270
Tasks Completed: 13
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 250 + 20 = 270
Books read: 20
Pages read: 6,196
Read but not claimed: 08
Goodreads Authors: 06
Golden Oldies: 03
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
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25.6 - Jamie NYC's task: The Last Abstract Expressionist
This is a two book task with several options. Pick two different options.
Required: State which options you chose when you post.
Option 3: Read a book with a title/subtitle that contains a word of at least 3 letters that can also be found in this quote from Mitchell. Words must match exactly.
My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.
Required: Identify the word used when you post
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid - The word is ‘after’
I listened to the audiobook and have linked to the PB version for page count
Option 4: Read a book written by an author whose initials (first and last) can be found in JOAN MITCHELL. If the book has multiple authors, only one author's initials must be found in the artist's name.
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
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Points this post: 25
Total Points: 185/1125
Books Read: 13
Tasks Complete: 9
Big Books Total: 2
Golden Oldies Total: 0