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FALL CHALLENGE 2017
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Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD
5.1 - Only NaturalThe Duality Principle by Rebecca Grace Allen
5.2 - Location, Location, Location
Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge
Set in Vancouver, Canada
5.3 - Oh... Craps
Phantom Evil by Heather Graham
5.4 - Best Laid Plans
The Coppersmith Farmhouse by Devney Perry
Task 5.9: Read a book with a main page genre that includes “Romance” or “Romantic”.
5.5 - September, October, November
The Store by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo
5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
Harvest Moon by Robyn Carr
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
When We Collided by Emery Lord
10.1 - Rice is Nice
The Other Girl by Erica Spindler
10.2 - The Bodyguard
Made for Me by Kathryn R. Biel
Song: Jesus Loves Me
10.3 - No Blindfold
Spies and Spells by Tonya Kappes
10.4 - It's a Fan Thing
Warcross by Marie Lu
10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Death of a Toy Soldier by Barbara Early
Barbara Eden
10.6 - Highway Patrol
Nine Minutes by Beth Flynn
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
Stuck-Up Suit by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward
10.9 - Members Only
Ford County by John Grisham
The Reading Cove Book Club
10.10 - Countdown
Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare
15.1 - Climbing Everest
Book 1: The Beauty of Us by Kristen Proby
Puncak Jaya
Book 2: About a Dog by Jenn McKinlay
Kilimanjaro
15.2 - Opposites Attract
Book 1: A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
Book 2: The Emperor's Arrow by Lauren D.M. Smith
15.3 - Victoria Falls
Book 1: Heartache Falls by Emily March
Book 2: Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye by Victoria Laurie
15.4 - Stranger Things
Book 1: If There's No Tomorrow by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Book 2: Sacred and Profane by Faye Kellerman
15.5 - Northern Lights
Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole
Page 5
15.6 - Rio's Harbor
Redemption Bay by RaeAnne Thayne
15.7 - Sea Life
Mobsters and Lobsters by Lyndsey Cole
15.10 - Thrills and Chills
Never Look Away by Linwood Barclay
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Frugalitymom's task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Option 1: Trick Or Treat Murder by Leslie Meier
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Siobhan's task: It's a Love Story
Option 3: The Earl's Defiant Wallflower by Erica Ridley
20.3 - Best Review - Sam M's task: The Secret History
Option 3: Wicked Days by Lily Harper Hart
Wicked in title
20.4 – Golden Oldies – Loafer's task: Golden Oldies
Option 2: Seaside Secrets by Cindy Bell
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Fandury's task: The 11 days of the Fantasy Filmfest
Option 1: There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
Main page genre Horror
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - SweetMelissa's task: In Memoriam
Option C: Kale to the Queen by Nell Hampton
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Book Concierge's task: National Hispanic Heritage Month
Option B: Neanderthal Seeks Human by Penny Reid
20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - MegSCL's task: My own wonder of nature
Option 2: Turn it Up by Kim Karr
20.9 - Moderator’s Pet – Lauren Jodi's task: Morbid Nursery Rhymes
Option 2: Royal Blood by Rhys Bowen
25.1 - Coralie's task: Melbourne’s Spring Holidays
Holiday 1: Part Time Cowboy by Maisey Yates
Holiday 2: The Night Bird by Brian Freeman
Horse: Night Watch
25.2 - Nick KY's task: Schmoop the Dude
Option 1: The Hunter by Kerrigan Byrne
Option 4: An Early Wake by Sheila Connolly
25.4 - Andy P's task: I didn't think I would finish the Summer Challenge but...
Book 1: Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill
Book 2: Stella Bain by Anita Shreve
25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS
Option 1: Map of the Heart by Susan Wiggs
Option 2: Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
25.6 - M1nks's task: Natural Wonders
Option 1: Heart of Fire by Linda Howard
Option 2: Withering Hope by Layla Hagen
From what I can see, in a radius that seems like a few hundred miles, there's no sign of civilization, or a path.
30.1 - Ava Catherine’s task: Wonders of 7
Option 2: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
Option 3: Christmas on 4th Street by Susan Mallery
30.2 - MAZZA1’S Task: Six Degrees of Separation
Book 1: By Degrees by Elle Casey
Book 2: A) The Score by Elle Kennedy
30.6 - Diana K's task: Fall Baking
Used the recipe linked in the task
Option A: Behind Chocolate Bars by Kathy Aarons
Option D: Body on the Bayou by Ellen Byron
30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session
Option 1: Book Clubbed by Lorna Barrett
Option 4: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
50.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Outside the box
Option 1: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
Option 2: A Promise of Fire by Amanda Bouchet
Option 5: Wait for Me by Samantha Chase
Total Points: 720
5.6 - MichaelmasRead a book written by an author named “Michael” or any of the related names
Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
Mitchell is a form of Michael
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Frugalitymom's task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Option 2: Read a book from a series (any number in the series is ok) that you've never read before that can be found on this list of cozy mysteries, Cozy Mystery Series.
Crocodile on the Sandbank
#2 on page One of the list
This series is new to me
Total New Points: 25
Total Challenge Points: 365
CANDY25.2 - Nick KY's task: Schmoop the Dude
This task requires two books. Choose books from 2 different options below.
Your two books combined must TOTAL 500 or more pages.
No book with the main page genre Children or Kids may be used.
Books whose main page lists any of these genres: Sequential Art, Comics, Comic Book, or Manga may be used for this task.
Option 1. Schmoop the Dude…like, for real: Read a book written by one woman that was first published since 1998
This Monstrous Thing by Mackenzi Lee - first published in 2015
*384 pages*
Option 2. Color Me Cool. Read a book that fits SRC guidelines from one of these listopias: *Used Graphic Novels that are Quality page 2*
Afterlife with Archie, Vol. 1: Escape from Riverdale
*160 pages*
Points: 25
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total Points: 260
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 5
Creynard5.4 - Best Laid Plans
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
From Fall 2017 Task 10.4 Author of Neverwhere which is listed in a post in the "Best Books I Accidentally Read" thread on March 11, 2010. Neil Gaiman also wrote American Gods
***American Gods is a big book with 635 pages. Claiming 1 BB Ticket.***
Points this post 5
Total points 675
Golden Oldies this post 0
Total Golden Oldies 3
Big Books this post 1
Total Big Books 1
Tasks completed 43
Books read 60
Kayla C30.5 2 Books from Rory Gilmore's Reading list
>500 pages
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 3rd edition norton by Mary Shelley
page 1, #25
273 pages
*Claiming a GO ticket, book originally published in 1818*
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
page 1, #47
327 pages
*Claiming a GO ticket, book originally published in 1884*
273 + 327 > 500
30.8 Read 2 Books Option B. BookRiot's Best Books of 2017 (so far)
>600 pages
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
444 pages
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
480 pages
444+480>600
points this post 60
total points 705
GO 3
BB 3
Kristen IA20.6 - Seasoned Reader - SweetMelissa's task: In Memoriam
This is a ONE book task. Choose one of the options below and read a book that fits the requirements.
Required: State which option you used when you post.
D) For this option, read a book with either the word LIFE or GOOD in the title. The word must match exactly. Subtitles are excluded.
The Life List by Lori Nelson Spielman
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 420/965
Tasks Completed: 22/56
GO: 1
BB: 2
Readerboard Name - LaureY10.8 - Best Original Novel
Read a book that has made the list for the Booker prize from this list: Man Booker Prize Winners and Nominees
The award listing must appear on the Goodreads book page.
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
*Booker Prize winner - 1981*
*I claim a Big Book ticket for this book as it has 647 pages*
Points this post: 10
Total points: 380
Total Books: 33
Total Tasks: 27
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 4
5.10- Your Own 8th WonderRead a book of your choice.
I read Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
The book has children as an MPG but was confirmed as acceptable in the “Not really for kids” thread.
The book was originally published in 1914 so I’m requesting one Golden Oldie ticket please.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 335
Tasks completed: 25
Books read: 27
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 2
Kayla C**Repost with AR bookfinder***
30.5 2 Books from Rory Gilmore's Reading list
>500 pages
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 3rd edition norton by Mary Shelley
page 1, #25
273 pages
*Claiming a GO ticket, book originally published in 1818*
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
page 1, #47
327 pages
ARbookfinder rating: IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18.0
*Claiming a GO ticket, book originally published in 1884*
273 + 327 > 500
total points 705
10.8 - Best Original NovelRead a book that has made the list for the Booker prize from this list: Man Booker Prize Winners and Nominees
I read Brooklyn which was long listed in 2009.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 345
Tasks completed: 26
Books read: 28
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 2
Anja10.6 - Highway Patrol
Read a book with a motorcycle on the cover.
Living Without by Lila Rose
book approved herePOINTS:
Points This Post: 10
Points Total: 645
Big Books: 500(4) 750() 1000()
Golden Oldies: 1
Tasks Completed: 36
Readerboard Name: McCathySo sorry, can you please remove The Night Bird from Task 10.2 - The Bodyguard and If You Dare for 20.2 for Siobhan's Task: It's a Love Story.
Total Points: 450
Would like to use instead:
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Siobhan's task: It's a Love Story
Option 3: Happy Endings - Read a book where the author's first and last initials can be found in HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
Undiscovered by Anna Hackett
Author's initials A & H in HAppily
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25.1 - Coralie's task: Melbourne’s Spring Holidays
Holiday 1: Grand Final Parade Day - Read a book first published in 2015.
If You Dare by AR Torre
First published 2015
PB Edition: If You Dare
368 pgs
Holiday 2: Melbourne Cup Day - Read a book with a word in the title, NOT SUBTITLE, of at least four letters that is also a word in the name of a horse that has won the Melbourne Cup.
The Night Bird by Brian Freeman
Night in Horse name "Night Watch" (1918)
362 pgs
368 + 362 = 730 pages ✓
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Points this post: 45
Total Points: 495
Bluegrass Pam50.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Outside the box
Option 2: MPG fantasy
The Master and Margarita
Option 3: Inanimate, non-living, object on the cover that does NOT come in a box
Tell Tale: Short Stories
Object: Building
I read an Advanced Readers Copy.
Option 4: MPG Science
Time Travel: A History
Points this post: 50
Total points: 215
Shiraloo20.1 -- Most Improved Player - Frugalitymom's task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Any Given Christmas by Candis Terry
REQUIRED: Option 4
20.3 -- Best Review - Sam M's task: The Secret History
Things I Should Have Known by Claire LaZebnik
REQUIRED: Option 3: W from Known, IC from Claire, KE from LaZebnik, D from Should
20.4 -- Golden Oldies – Loafer's task: Golden Oldies
Once and for All by Sarah Dessen
REQUIRED: Option 1
20.8 -- Nickels and Dimes - MegSCL's task: My own wonder of nature
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
REQUIRED: Option 2
CURRENT POST
Points: 80
BBT: 0
GO: 0
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CUMULATIVE TOTAL
Total Points: 730
BBT: 1
GO: 1
Post #2530.8 - Brooke TX's task: Stacks on Stacks on Stacks
Option C: Goodreads
The Sword and Laser bookshelf: City of Stairs page 2 of list: 452 pages
Vaginal Fantasy Book Club bookshelf: Discount Armageddon on page 12 of list: 352 pages
452+352=804/600 pages
Points this post:30
Total Points:515
Books read:37
Tasks Done:26
perletwo5.1 - Only Natural - Read a book written by an author whose first and last name initials can be found in NATURAL.
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Points this task: 05
Total points: 875
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 4
Big Book ticket requests: 5
Books read: 66
Tasks completed: 50
20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - MegSCL's task: My own wonder of nature1. When are you due?
January 2018 - to celebrate January babies read a book first published in January of any year
Crops and Robbers
Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 530
Total Tasks: 25
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 0
trishhartuk5.4 Best Laid Plans
Didn't quite finish last time? Read a book that fits one of the Summer 2017 5, 10 or 15 point tasks.
Summer 5.3 - Six Pack: Read a book that was FIRST published in a year that contains a 6 such as 1968, 1976 or 2016.
Prose and Cons, Amanda Flower
Read the kindle edition. PB reference link here
First published December 6th 2016
Points this Task:5
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
5.8 Under the Fall Moon
Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle from the names used by various tribes to describe the fall season’s moons: corn, barley, harvest, hunter, travel, dying, beaver, blood, frost. Plurals, possessives, verb forms (as in harvested or dead), hyphenated words (blood-red) and forms that preserve the meaning of the word work.
Night of the Loving Dead, Casey Daniels
“Dead” was okayed as a variant of dying in the task description, and confirmed in this context in help thread message #28 (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...).
Points this Task:5
Books Read: 1
Golden Oldie/Big Book: No
Total Points: 500
Tasks Completed: 29
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Book tickets: 2 (1 x 750+ = 2 tickets)
FANDURY15.10 - Thrills and Chills
Read a book with the main page genre "Horror" and/or "Thriller."
The Mourning House by Ronald Malfi
Has Horror as MPG.
30.6 - Diana K's task: Fall Baking
I used this recipe: Espresso Cupcakes
Option D: Read a book whose number of pages includes the digits in the number of servings that your recipe says it makes.
The recipe says it makes 24 servings.
The Servant's Tale by Margaret Frazer
The paperback version of the book has 240 pages: The Servant's Tale
Option E: Read a book that has a picture of your baked good on the cover.
by Meghan Ciana DoidgeCupcake on cover.
I read the Kindle version, but the paperback has 264 pages:
240 + 264 = 504 pages
30.7 - TessaVanessa's task: Class is in session
Option 2: Read a book that has at least 2 words written in cursive on the cover.
by Angela CarterBook has cursive writing on the cover.
Option 4: Read a book with "History" or "Historical" as MPG.
The Essence of Malice by Ashley Weaver
Book has Historical as MPG.
Points this post: 75
Total Points: 370
Books Read: 26
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(0)
Readerboard name: DAIRE30.3
Option 1: Letters of APRIL found in title
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV
Option 2: Author whose initials come from these letters: S, A, S, S, E, J, G and/or K.
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott (On the book cover the author is listed as "Kim Scott" but on GR they have added a middle name. Does this still work here?)
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 95
Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 4
BB Tickets: 0
GO Tickets: 0
Readerboard name: Rebecca OH25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS
Option 2 - I read The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
I listened to the audiobook; the MMPB is Le Club des policiers yiddish and has 541 pages.
Option 4 - I read The Picture of Dorian Gray. It is on page 1 of the Best Banned Books list.
541+253=794
794>500
Points this post: 25
Total points: 380
DebraJean50.1 - Schatzie's task
For Option 1 I read Jane Eyre, whose title does not contain the letters B, O, or X. I am also claiming 1 BB ticket (507 pages) and 1 GO ticket for this book.
For Option 2, I read Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which has a MPG of Science.
For Option 5, I read Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng whose initials appear in the phrase "science fiction"
Points this post: 50
Total points: 235
Big Book tickets: 5
Golden Oldies tickets: 4
Nick KY50.1
Book 1. Option 3. I read Eight Worlds Of C.M. Kornbluth. The cover has a gas giant planet, rings around the planet, stars, and clouds.
A gas giant and a star might be considered living things on some level (enh?). But clouds and rings around the planet are inanimate nonliving things– I think -- which do not fit in a box.Book 2. Option 4. I read The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson, with “Science” as a GR genre.
Book 3 Option 5. I read Like Bees to Honey by Caroline Smailes, inits in SCience
Points This Post: 50
Total Points So Far: 865
Sandra20.10 - Group Reads
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
I have posted in the book's discussion thread under post #62
Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 20
perletwo10.2 - The Bodyguard - The soundtrack to the film The Bodyguard was released 25 years ago on November 17, 1992. Read a book with a word from this list of track titles in the title or subtitle. The words the, to, of, a, and, in may not be used. Words must match exactly. Required: State the song title.
The Night Gardener - matches track 5, Queen of the Night
Points this task: 10
Total points: 885
Golden Oldies ticket requests: 4
Big Book ticket requests: 5
Books read: 67
Tasks completed: 51
Cait S20.5- The 11 days of the Fantasy Filmfest
Option 1: For this task, read a book by Stephen King or a book with the main page genre Horror.
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 235
Congratulations, Andy P! Task 30.11 in the Winter Challenge is yours!
Readerboard Name: McCathy15.6 - Rio's Harbor
Read a book with the name of a natural water body found on The Glossary of Bodies of Water list in the title/subtitle.
Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine
Lake in title
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20.3 - Best Review - Sam M's task: The Secret History
Option 3: Read a book that has all the letters of WICKED in the title and/or author's name. Subtitle letters cannot be used.
Stuck-Up Suit by Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland
WICKED in stuCK-up suIt pEnelope WarD
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25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS
Option 1: 1. Read a book whose author's initials can be found in SEPTEMBER TWENTY-FIVE. All initials count, including middle ones.
Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh
Author's initials N & S in September tweNty-five
352 pgs
2. Read a book with a page count that includes a 4 or a 7.
Origin in Death by JD Robb
347 pgs
352 + 347 = 699 pages ✓
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Points this post: 60
Total Points: 555
CANDY50.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Outside the box
Option 1: Read a book that does NOT contain the letters B - O - X in the title or subtitle
The Dazzling Heights
Option 2:Read a book with a main page genre of Fantasy
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Option 3: Read a book with an inanimate, non-living, object on the cover that does NOT come in a box
*Stone wall on cover does not come in a box (approved in help thread)*
Points: 50
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total Points: 310
Total Golden Oldies: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 5
Blueberry20.1
Opt. 2 Read a book from a series that you've never read before that can be found on this list of cozy mysteries.
Murder on the Orient Express
The Hercule Poirot series is new to me.
First page #3 is the first book in the series.
This book is a golden oldie.
Points: 20
GO: 4
Total 120
Blueberry20.6
Opt. C read a book with a garden goodie on the cover.
Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt
Pts: 20
Total pts: 140
Coralie25.2 Schmoop the Dude
Option 1 – book by a woman published since 1998
Valour and Vanity by Mary Robinette Kowal
409 pages, published in 2014
Option 2 –
From page 1 of Graphic Novels that are Quality (others in the series)
Saga, Volume 5 144 pages
This post 25 points
Total to date 655 points
Blueberry20.8
Opt. 1 read a book first published in January of any year.
As The Crow Flies
Pts: 20
Total pts: 160
Cait S20.7- National Hispanic Heritage Month
Option B
Read a book by a single author whose First and Last initials are in HISPANIC HERITAGE.
Spell Bound by Rachel Hawkins
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 255
Blueberry30.1
Opt. 2 Read a book with 7 letters in one of the words in the title.
Sulfur Springs
Opt. 3 Read a book by a single author who has 7 letters in his/her last name.
The 25th Hour
Pts: 130
total pts. 190
Books read: 10
50.1 Opt. 1 Read a book that does NOT contain the letters B - O - X in the title or subtitle.
Designated Daughters
Opt. 2 read a book with a main page genre of Fantasy.
Chocolat
Opt. 3 Read a book with an inanimate, non-living, object on the cover that does NOT come in a box. It must be something that cannot be put in a box.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The object that is inanimate, non-living and does not come in a box is the barn.
Pts: 50
Total pts: 240
Blueberry30.7
Opt. 1 Read a book with the word BOOK found intact in the title/subtitle.
Dear Fahrenheit 451: A Librarian's Love Letters and Break-Up Notes to the Books in Her Life
Opt. 5 Read a book by a single author whose initials can be found in SCIENTIFIC METHOD. That You May Believe: the Gospel of John
Pts: 30
Total Pts: 270
10.1 Read a book set at least 50% in ONE of these top ten rice producing countries: CaliforniaSweet Thursday
This book is a golden oldie.
Pts: 10
GO: 5
Total pts: 280
Bookwrm526****Reposting because I'm an idiot and forgot to include the pic of the cover for option 3!
Task #50.1 - Outside the Box
Option 2: Read a book with a main page genre Fantasy. I read Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado.
Option 3: Read a book with an inanimate, non-living, object on the cover that does NOT come in a box. I read Provenance by Ann Leckie. The red space ship and the space station in the background do not come in boxes.
Option 4: Read a book with Science as a main page genre. I read The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey.
Points this post: 50
Total points so far: 385
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Bookwrm526Task #30.5
Option 1: Choose one of the three lists and read two book from the same list. I chose the Rory Gilmore Reading List and read
Book 1: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (152pp) at position 13.
and
Book 2: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (528pp) at position 35.
152+528=680
Points this post: 30
Total points so far: 415
ANGIE CA10.3 - No Blindfold
Book: The Rebel Spy by April London
Notes: Spy in title.
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
Book: Never-Tied Nora by Cheyenne Blue
15.5 - Northern Lights
Book: Valkyrie Rising by Ingrid Paulson
Notes: First page.
30.4 - Dlmrose's task: Vowel Power
Book 1: Queen of Starlight by Jessa Slade
Notes: qUEEn
Book 2: Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
Notes: skY
This Post: 65
Points to Date: 490
20.1 Most Improved Player - Frugalitymom's task: Pumpkin Spice and Everything NiceOption 2: Woof at the Door Page 2 of the list. The series is new to me.
Points this post: 20
Points: 20+ 700 = 720
BB: 2
GO: 2
5.1 - Only NaturalAn Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey #1) by Nicola Upson
author's initials, NU, found in NatUral
5.8 - Under the Fall Moon
Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle from the names used by various tribes to describe the fall season’s moons: blood
The Blood of an Englishman (Agatha Raisin #25) by M.C. Beaton
10.7 - Mosi-oa-Tunya
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land by Rosa Praed
1 x Golden Oldies Tix (pub. 1915)
10.8 - Best Original Novel
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Man Booker Prize Nominee (1993) as noted on book's metadata
Total this Post: 30
Golden Oldies: 6
Bigger is Better: 6
Season Total: 755
REPOST25.7 - Sandy's task: More is Better
Book 1 – Read a book whose title/subtitle contains a regular plural noun. A regular plural noun is one where the plural form is made by adding s, es, or changing a y to an i and adding es.
A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird #1) by Claudia Gray
piece ---> pieceS
360 pages
Book 2 – Read a book whose title/subtitle contains an irregular plural noun – basically, one that is both singular and plural in one form (e.g. deer), one that is made by changing another end letter (elf>elves, memorandum>memoranda), or one that is just different (woman>women, foot>feet, mouse>mice).
Killer Women: Crime Club Anthology #1) by various authors
woman ---> womEn
210 pages
Total pages read: 570
Total this Post: 25
Golden Oldies: 6
Bigger is Better: 6
Season Total: 780
Maddie O.10.1 - Rice is Nice
Read a book set at least 50% in ONE of the top ten rice producing countries or US States.
I read An Excess Male, which is set in China.
10.5 - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
Read a book written by an author who shares a name with one of the show's stars or season 1 guest stars.
I read We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. (Shirley shares a first name with Shirley Jones)
10.6 - Highway Patrol
Read a book with a motorcycle on the cover.
I read
.25.7 - Sandy's task: More is Better
Book 1: Read a book whose title/subtitle contains a regular plural noun.
I read The Way of Kings (Kings is a regular plural noun)
Book 2: Read a book whose title/subtitle contains an irregular plural noun.
I read The Best Kind of People (People is an irregular plural of person)
Points this post: 55
Points total: 540
Pamela32655.7 - A Breath of Fresh Air
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen – Found on page 2
Hatchet
Paulsen, Gary
AR Quiz No. 367 EN Fiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP, RV, LS, VP
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 420
Golden Oldie books this post: 0
Total Golden Oldie books: 1
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 3
Big Books - 500+: 3
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
Julia10320.6 - Seasoned Reader - SweetMelissa's task: In Memoriam
Option A: A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas
This post: 20 points
Total points: 540
Total BB: 5
Total GO: 2
Tasks completed: 26
Kristen IA15.10 - Thrills and Chills
Read a book with the main page genre "Horror" and/or "Thriller.
The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag
I listened to the audiobook and have linked to the PB edition
***I claim 1 BB Ticket for 512 pages***
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Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 435/965
Tasks Completed: 23/56
GO: 1
BB: 3
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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25.5 - Perletwo's task: HAPPY RETURNS
Option 2: Read one book which fulfills two of the options offered, with a length of no less than 500 pages.
2. Read a book with a page count that includes a 4 or a 7.
4. My birthday also happens to fall within the annual observance of Banned Books Week, Sept. 24-29. Read a book from one of these two lists: Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books or The Most Frequently Challenged Books.
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
973 pages (making this a "big book" worth 2 tix)
found on page one of https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3... the Most Frequently Challenged Books list
points: 25
total: 585
BB: 9
GO: 6
tasks completed: 33