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SPRING CHALLENGE 2017
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MegUnder15.10. Spring Gardening
Read a book whose author's initials can be found in GARDENING. All initials must be used. If a book has more than one author, only one author's initials must be found in the target word.
The Black Book by James Patterson and David Ellis
Total this post: 15
Total Points: 90
Tasks Completed: 5
10.2 - Initial SuccessBlue Heaven by C.J. Box
+10 Points
20.1- Most Improved Player – Camilla’s Task: Finland 100 Years!
Option 2. For this option, read a book with either snow or the sun on the cover.
Snow on the cover:
The Mind's Eye by Håkan Nesser+20 Points
Points this Post: 30
Grand Total: 375
Readerboard Name MAZZA1Task 15.8
Read a book with a map on the cover.
BOOK
HOW IT FITS Map on cover approved in help thread POST 2
POINTS THIS POST 15
Total Points = 600
Books read to date 49
BARBARA ★15.9 ~ They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
Born of Vengeance - Sherrilyn Kenyon 4/12
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20.8 ~ Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: Over and Under
Murder Under a Mystic Moon - Yasmine Galenorn (under in title) 4/12
Totals for Challenge
Points this Post: 35
Total Points: 260
Coralie15.2 May is for Art and Music!
Book 1 – main page genre graphic novel
Saga, Vol. 3
Book 2 – piano on cover
This post 15 points
Total to date 270 points
Stephanie1275.6 - Lady Day: Read a book written by an author named Mary or any of the related names found at Behind the Name - Mary such as Maria, Molly, Miriam, Mia, Polly.
Nine Simple Patterns for Complicated Women by Mary Rechner
Points this post: 5
Total points: 40/850
Tasks completed: 6/52
Books read: 6
Jen UTJen UT
5.5 - Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book by Jennifer Donnelly
Points this post: 5
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Total points: 20
Chris MDRepost - sorry, have no idea how I failed to add the link.
5.1 Thoroughly Modern
Author's initials in modeRN
Inner Harbor by Nora Roberts
Total points: 105
Task 5.3 read City of Night by Dean Koontz, Book 2Task 5.7 read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood found on pg 1 of modern classics
Task 10.3 read Body Double by Tess Gerritson
Task 15.9 read Reached by Ally Condie
task 20.5 read Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between by Lauren Graham, Option 2, Initials
Task points: 55
Total Points: 55
Brooke TX15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15.
Book 1: Read a book featuring a library or librarian. Main character Irene is a librarian, an agent who collects books for the titular library:
Book 2: Read a book with its author's initials in NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK.
30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
Book 1: Read a book which has the name of any element on the Periodic Table in its title, subtitle or series name. With "Iron" (Fe, 26) in the series name:
Book 2: Read a book that has the same number in a series (for Elements with atomic numbers above 12 all the digits can be added together to get a lower number). Iron's atomic number is 26, 2+6=8:
Points
This Post: 45
Total Points: 425
Completed Tasks: 28
Books Read: 39
Janice CA20.2 - Lucky Charms
Option 2: Read a book shelved under "Ireland" on its main page.
Paperboy by Tony Macaulay
+20
total: 55
tasks: 3
books: 4
hoodoomends20.1 - Finland 100 Years!
✿ option 3: a book first published prior to 1917.
Cartas do meu moinho by Alphonse Daudet (★★★)
**I'd like a GO ticket since it was first published in 1869**
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Points: 20
GO: 1
BB: -
Total
Points: 170
GO: 6
BB: -
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM 20.3 - Best Review - Lauren Jodi's task: Hidden Figures
I chose Option 2. I read The Wanderers by Meg Howrey. It is currently #68, page 1, on the Space Race! list and #25, page 1, on the Space Exploration list.
20.10 - Group Reads
I chose "LGBT Mystery" and read The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (paperback for length). I commented in the group thread here.
25.2 - Sandy's Task: Who Am I? Where Am I?
Book 1: I read Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly (336p). The author posits that we can tell Austen was not politically conservative by examining her novels. Austen is both the subject and, weirdly, made a character since the author created fanciful (imagined) scenes from Austen's life to introduce each chapter (approved here).
Book 2: I read Jane Austen's England by Roy and Lesley Adkins (422p).
336+422=758p
Previous point total: 135
New points this post: 20+20+25
Total points: 200
New tasks completed in this post: 3
Total tasks: 14
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Kait25.3 - Andy P.’s Task: No More Wolves
Book 1 - A book whose title does NOT contain any of the letters in the word WOLF.
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher -- Summer Knight does not contain a W, O, L, or F in the title
Book 2 - A book written by a single author whose initials can be found in the word FLOWER.
Aramus by Eve Langlais -- FLOWER; I read the kindle ebook edition, here is the paperback: Aramus
501 page minimum: 449 pages (Summer Knight) + 210 pages (Aramus) = 659 pages total
Points This Post: 25
Big Book Tickets This Post: 0
Golden Oldies This Post: 0
Total Points: 135
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Readerboard Name: Jammin JennyTask 5.1- Thoroughly Modern - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, read 4/7
Task 5.2 - Location, Location, Location - A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie, published 1950, read 3/16
claiming one GO ticket
Task 5.3 - The 20th Century - Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich
(Series #21), read 3/16
Task 5.5 - March, April, May - I Am Spock, 342 pages, read 3/14
Task 5.6 - Lady Day - The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Mary Higgins Clark, read 3/7
Task 5.7- Modern Classics - The Great Gatsby, page 1, read 3/4
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 30
GO Tickets: 1
BB Tickets: 0
BellaGBeartask 5.5: iZombie, Vol. 3: Six Feet Under and Rising 144 pages which containst a 4
>5 points
task 15.6: 30 Days of Night, Vol. 1 my friend Robyn rated it 5 stars.
>15 points
task 25.3:
book 1: Guards! Guards! 432 pages
book 2: Ethan Frome written by Edith Wharton whose initials are in FLOWER.
128 pages so together >500
first published in 1911, so I claim a golden oldie
>25 points
task 30.4:
book 1:
A fox on the cover and I use the collective 'an earth of foxes'
book 2:
>30 points
total post:
75 points
1 Go
total challenge:
435 points
15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15Option 2. The Library Book
Several of the contributing authors fit the task, including Alan Bennett, Nicky Wire, Anita Anand, and Bali Rai.
30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
Option 1. I chose Silver, atomic number 47.
The Silver Dream by Neil Gaiman
Option 2. 4+7=11, 1+1=2.
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
This is the second book in this series.
Points this post: 45
Points in total: 355
Tasks completed: 20
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Book tickets; 0
Delicious Dee10.4 - Partners in Crime
Dirty Sexy Saint - written by Carly Phillips, and Erika Wilde
10.8 - Build A Bridge
- bridge on cover; ebook only approved in msg 6132 of the ebook approval thread30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
Book A
- fox on the cover; ebook only approved #6190 of the ebook approval threadBook B - Blood of the Earth - a collective of foxes is called an Earth
Total this post: 50
Total overall: 265
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book Ticket: 1
DANIELLE M10.6 - Penguin Places
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Set in South Africa.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 230
Books Read: 15
Tasks Complete: 12
DANIELLE M25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves
Book 1: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
None of the letters WOLF are in the title.
Book 2: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Author's initials can be found in the word FLOWER
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 255
Books Read: 17
Tasks Complete: 13
10.5 - And The Tony Goes To....Mindgame
25.1 - Diana K’s task - Spring Flowers
Option 1: Spring Bulbs
A Bouquet for Iris 176 pages
Option 3: The Netherlands
Floodgate 464 pages
Points
365 + 35 = 400
loafer20.10 - Group Reads
Read ONE of the books selected as the Group Reads choices for the season:
LGBT Mystery: The Wonder
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
my comment is #32 in discussion thread
points: 20
total: 375
BB: 2
GO: 5
tasks completed: 22
Mod
I read The Hanging Tree, set in England (primarily in London).
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
I read an ARC of The Furthest Station. There is no MMPB or PB edition - link to hardback edition The Furthest Station.
25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
For book 1, I read The Circle, 491 pages. Found on p. 1, at the bottom, of the Popular Near Future books list.
For book 2, I read In The Name of the Family, 480 pages. Top genre is Historical Fiction,
Pages - 491+480=971, exceeding 500 page requirement.
Points this post: 35
Total points: 550
Readerboard Name: Nicola T25.2 - Sandy's Task: Who Am I? Where Am I?
2 book task:
Book 1: Read a book with the name of a person in the title/subtitle that is the name of a character in the book
I read
. This book is 400 pages. Addison is a very shy computer genius who hides in his bedroom all day. This book centres around his roommate Holly who has a crush on him trying to get him out of his bedroom and become her boyfriend.Book 2: Read a book with the name of a place in the title/subtitle where at least some of the plot of the book takes place in that specific named place.
I read
. This book has 530 pages. The main story/novella and the second story/first short is set in the fictional English town of Cranford . I would like to claim 1 BB ticket Both books add up to over the 500 page minimum.
Points this post: 25
BB this post: 1
Points overall: 25
BB overall:1
Books read: 2
Tasks completed:1
LAUREN JODI5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Winter Task 5.2 - Sole Survivor: First in Series
Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride
Book #1 in the Logan McRae series.
*This is a big book: 575 pages
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 355/850
Total Books Read: 28
Tasks Completed: 20/52
Big Book Ticket: 1
5.4 - Best Laid PlansA book that fits one of the Winter Challenge 5, 10 or 15 point tasks: The Hero by Robyn Carr
This book fits Winter task 10.5, no L in title/subtitle and no L in the author's name.
15.4. Laughing and Singing
Option 2, a book with main page genre humor and #4 in a series: Miss Julia Hits the Road (Miss Julia #4) by Ann B. Ross
Points this post: 20
Total points: 350
Task 15.3 National Library Week is April 9-15.OPTION 1:
Book 1 – Read a book featuring a library or librarian.
Our heroine is a librarian with a job in a library.
Louisiana Saves the Library (2016) by Emily Beck Cogburn (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 312 pages)
AND
Book 2 – Read a book with its author's initials in NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK.
Good Morning, Midnight (2016) by Lily Brooks-Dalton (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 259 pages)
L I B RARY
155 + 15 = 170
Tasks Completed: 10
Points for this post: 15
Points thus far: 155 + 15 = 170
Books read: 14
Pages read: 4,242
Read but not claimed: 05
Goodreads Authors: 06
Golden Oldies: 00
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Sara G10.5 - And The Tony Goes To....
The first Tony Awards were awarded 70 years ago on April 6, 1947 celebrating excellence in the theatre. Read a play.
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Points this post: 10
Total points: 370
Pamela326530.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
Book 1: Drops of Gold by Sarah M. Eden
Gold ‘s atomic # is 79 and it's symbol is Au
7 + 9 = 16
1 + 6 = 7
Book 2: A Temporary Family by Sherri Shackelford (Prairie Courtships #7)
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 280
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books: 0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+: 1
Big Books - 1000+:
FANDURY20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: Over and Under
Read a book that has either "under" or "over" intact in its title, subtitle or author's name.
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets by Peter Ackroyd
The title has "under" in it.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 255
Books Read: 18
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(0)
SALLY M.15.6 A Little Help From My Friends
Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
My friend Jillian rated the book 4 stars (though I'm still kinda meh about it and ended up at 3 stars)
20.4 April Showers?
Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga by Sally Kempton (option 3: Spirituality genre verified)
Points this post: 35
Total points: 175
Tasks completed: 9
Books posted: 11
Pages read: 3,948
Total BB tickets: 0
Total GO tickets: 0
10.1 - Catch Some Z'sZ
15.7. It's Contagious!
Read a book from one of the following lists:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Vaccine Nation pg 2
15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
Read a book with the main page genre Science Fiction.
Embrace the Night
verified: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Cumulative Total 440+40 = 480
Task 20.3 – Best Review – Lauren Jodi – Hidden FiguresOption 1 – Trailblazing Women
Beryl Markham was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west (England to North America)
West with the Night
Approved in HELP thread
I listened to the audio / no MMP / Paperback: West with the Night
+++ GOLDEN OLDIE +++ – 1st published 1942
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This Post: 20 points
Total points to date: 230 points
Golden Oldies (pub 1950 or earlier): 1
Big Books Read: (1) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / (2) 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 7
Cait S25.4- Sydney Harbour
Book #1- Option 2. Shrimp on the Barbie
Read a book of 100-150 pages in length.
You and Yours by Naomi Shihab Nye
Book #2- Option 3. Outback!
Read a book written by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in OUTBACK.
Vicious by Kevin O'Brien
Points This Post: 25
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Points: 140/850
Jen UT10.3 - Aim High
Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
Points this post: 10
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Total points: 30
Theresa 5.1 - Thoroughly Modern
5.2 - Location, Location, Location
Set in France
5.3 - The 20th Century
Anna Pigeon #2
5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Winter 2016/2017 - 5.3 - Sole Survivor – Anna Pigeon #1
5.5 - March, April, May
357pgs
Points this post –25
Total Points - 25
Readerboard Name: Jammin JennyDate of Post: 4/14
Task 5.9 - Whodunit? - A is for Alibi, read 3/2
Task 10.1 - Catch Some Z's - The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body, read 3/4
Task 10.2 - Initial Success - Adrift by K.R. Griffiths, read 3/26
Task 10.3 - Aim High - Wuthering Heights, first published 1847, claiming one GO ticket
Task 10.5 - And The Tony Goes To.... - Henry VIII by William Shakespeare, originally published in 1613claiming one GO ticket
Task 10.6 - Penguin Places - Where'd You Go, Bernadette, read 3/28 (set in Antarctica)
Task 10.8 - Build A Bridge -
, read 4/6, 836 pages, claiming 2 BB ticketsTask 10.10 -The 2017 Rooster - Sweet Lamb of Heaven, read 3/17
Task 15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15. OPTION 1:
Book 1 - True Believer, read 3/24 AND Book 2 - Blackfern Girls], read 3/31
Task 15.5. Girls Just Wanta Have Fun! - The English Girl, read 4/5
Task 15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends. - Skin Game read 3/29, Allison rated it 4 stars
Task 20.1- Most Improved Player – Camilla’s Task: Finland 100 Years! Option 1. The Rabbit Back Literature Society - set in Finland originally written in Finnish, read 3/17
Task 20.2 - Rookie At The Top - McCathy's Task: Lucky Charms
Option 2 - Dubliners by James Joyce, first published in 1914, read 3/15, claiming one GO ticket
Task 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days...Option 2.- Dying to Please by Linda Howard, read 4/9
Task 20.6 – Seasoned Reader - Bookwrm526's Task: Batter Up!!
Option 3: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, first published 1999, read 4/11
Task 20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball!
Option 1. Attraction by Penny Reid, read 4/13
Task 25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves
Book 1. In Secret Service - read 3/2, 327 pages
Book 2. Moving Target by Elizabeth Lowell, read 3/4, 464 pages
Task 30.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, published in 1934, read 3/9, claiming one GO ticket
Book 2: Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth by Norman F. Cantor, published 2005, read 3/1
Points this post: 275
Total Points to date: 305
GO Tickets: 5
BB Tickets: 2
Anna K25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride!
2 book task
Option A, Old & New:
#1 - book first published before 1992
#2 - book first published in 2017
Book #1: The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (first published 1850) <— claiming as Golden Oldie (1850)
Book #2: Perfect Little World, by Kevin Wilson (first published 2017)
Total points this post: 25
Total points this challenge: 25
Golden Oldies: 1
Diana K15.2 May is for Art and Music!.
Book 1 – To celebrate Free Comic Book day on May 6, read a book with the main page genre graphic novels, sequential art, comics, etc.
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Book 2 – Celebrate Buy a Musical Instrument Day on May 22 – read a book with a musical instrument on the cover.
30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious : A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
Book 1 Read a book with an animal from this list of Animal Groups on the cover.
I am using the camel on the cover and th collective is caravan.
Book 2 Using the same animal as book 1, select an Animal Group word associated with that animal from the same list and read a book with that word in the title or subtitle. Plurals and Possessives are ok, no other variations.
Caravans
Points this post: 45
Total points: 555
10.8 - Build A BridgeA book with the word Bridge in the title: A Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner
Points this post: 10
Total points: 360
trishhartuk30.2 Ava Catherine’s Task: Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1: Read a book FIRST published between 1890 and 1939 whose author’s first and last name initials can be found in ONE of these words/phrases: "ART DECO" or "ART NOUVEAU" or "BAUHAUS".
Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie
Art deCo
Golden Oldie: First published in 1937
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here
Book 2: Read a book FIRST published between 1970 and the present whose author’s first and last name initials can be found in ONE of these phrases: "CONTEMPORARY ART" or "POST MODERN ART". M
God Save the Child, Robert B Parker
contemPoRary art
First published in 1974.
Read the kindle edition. Top MMPB link here
Points this Task: 30
Books Read: 2
Golden Oldie: 1 - Death on the Nile was first published in 1937
Big Book: No
Total Points: 405
Tasks Completed: 26
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 1 (500+ x 1 = 1 ticket)
BARBARA ★5.1 ~ Thoroughly Modern
You and I, Me and You - Mary Janice Davidson (M & D in MoDern) 4/13
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15.5 ~ Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!
The Girl with the Golden Gun - Ann Major 4/11
Approval: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Totals for Challenge
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 280
DAIRE15.5 - Book with the word "girl" in title
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 85
Total Tasks: 4
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book pts: 3
Total Books: 5
20.10 - Group ReadsStand-alone Fantasy Novel: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Reported in the Discussion Thread - Message 14
I request 2 BB tickets for this book - 1006 pages
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Oldie: 0
Big Book: 2
Total Points: 100
Tasks Completed: 5
Total Books Read: 5
Oldies: 0
Big Books: 2
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball!Option 2. Read a book that takes place in Florida or France. At least 50% of the book must be set in either of those locations.
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - book is set in France
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Oldie: 0
Big Book: 0
Total Points: 120
Tasks Completed: 6
Total Books Read: 6
Oldies: 0
Big Books: 2
20.4 – Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers?Option 1: Read a book whose author’s initials can be found in the phrase "APRIL SHOWERS".
Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith – Initials SH found in phrase April Showers
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Oldie: 0
Big Book: 0
Total Points: 140
Tasks Completed: 7
Total Books Read: 7
Oldies: 0
Big Books: 2
Marina H 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days...
Option 2: Kindred by Octavia Butler
Written by a woman and initials found in BE BOLD FOR CHANGE
20.9 - Chandni's Task: Welcome to My Wheelhouse
Option 4: Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Found on page 1
Points this post: 40
Total points: 285
Big book tickets: 2
Golden Oldies tickets: 5
Tasks completed: 17
Sara G10.2 - Initial Success
CN tower: read a book with an author who uses exactly 2 initials instead of a first name as it appears on Goodreads, e.g. J.K. Rowling, H.G. Wells.
The Bone Thief by V.M. Whitworth
Points this post: 10
Total points: 380
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Task 5.5- March, April, May: Read a book with the number 3, 4, or 5 in the page count. My book had 256 pages.
Don't Sleep with a Bubba: Unless Your Eggs Are in Wheelchairs
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Task 15.9-They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!: Read a book with the main page genre Science Fiction. Science Fiction>Time Travel is present as of 11:46 am PDT today.
Dragonfly in Amber
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Total tasks: 4