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Mini-Challenge #9: Sept 2014:Reporting Thread
Starting off small:
Guidebook to Murder
Lynn Calhoon
9/3/14
Genre: Mystery +1
Title: Title in red color +1
Random Tasks: Published in 2014 +1
Page bonus: 228 pages +2
Book Total: 5
Challenge Total: 5
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour BookstoreRobin Sloan
4/9/2014
Genre: Adventure +1
Page bonus: 304 pages +4
Book total: 5
Challenge total: 5
China Dolls376 pages= +4
Set in 1940s=+1
Genre-HF= +1
Published in 2014=+1
Features music (in nightclubs where the girls perform as dancers)= +1
Book total=8 points
Challenge total=8 points
The Sea Without a ShoreGenre: Science Fiction +1
Time Period: 2200 and beyond* +1
Five words in title +1
Title in fall color (yellow/gold) +1
Published in 2014 +1
363 pages +4
Book total: 9
Challenge total: 9
*The book does not specify the year, but there is a scene where one of the characters finds "antique" books that were printed on Earth before starflight.
Blythewood by Carol Goodman
Time Period: 1910s: +1
Genre: Historical Fiction: +1
Setting: US – New York: +1
Title: Fall color (Yellow): +1
496 pages: +4
Book Total: 8
Challenge Total: 8
Time Period: 1910s: +1
Genre: Historical Fiction: +1
Setting: US – New York: +1
Title: Fall color (Yellow): +1
496 pages: +4
Book Total: 8
Challenge Total: 8
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
Time Period: 1940s: +1
Genre: Historical: +1
Title: Fall Color (red): +1
368 pages: +4
Book Total: 7
Challenge Total: 15
Time Period: 1940s: +1
Genre: Historical: +1
Title: Fall Color (red): +1
368 pages: +4
Book Total: 7
Challenge Total: 15
9/5/14
The Associate
John Grisham
Genre: Mystery , Crime +2
Location: New York, Pennsylvania +2
Title: fall color (yellow) +1
Book Cover: Silhouette +1
Pages: 373pgs +4
Book Total: 10 points
Challenge Total: 15
9/5/14Death by Darjeeling
Laura Childs
Genre: Mystery, Crime+2
Pages: 256 pgs +2
book total:4
Challenge total:19
Currently without a computer at home, so my posts will come in spurts...1. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
347 pgs +4 pts
Time - 1940's - +1 pt
Genre - HF +1pt
Title - 5 or more words +1 pt
Book total - 7 pts
2. Empire Girls
304 pgs +4 pts
Genre - HF +1 pt
Locale - NY +1 pt
Random - 2014 pub date +1 pt
Book total - 7 pts
3. Helsinki White
326 pgs - +4 pts
Genre - Mystery +1 pt
Book total - 5 pts
4. Stalking Ivory
352 pgs - +4 pts
Genre - HF +1pt
Book Total - 5 pts
5. Thirteenth Child
334 pgs - +4 pts
Random - Author with 3 names (Incl initial - Patricia C. Wrede) +1 pt
Book total - 5 pts
6. Goodnight June
320 pgs - +4 pts
Random - 2014 pub date +1 pt
Book total - 5 pts
7. The Postmistress
326 pgs - +4 pts
Time - 1940's +1 pt
Genre - HF +1 pt
Book total - 6 pts
Post total - 40 pts
Challenge total - 40 pts
All the Light We Cannot SeeAnthony Doerr
8/9/2014
Time period: 1940s (WWII) +1
Genre: HF +1
Titles: 6 words in title +1
Random: published in 2014 +1
Page bonus: 530 pages +6
Book total: 10
Challenge total: 15
Cheryl A wrote: "Currently without a computer at home, so my posts will come in spurts...1. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
347 pgs +4 pts
Time - 1940's - +1 pt
Genre - HF +1pt
Titl..."
You're off to a great start Cheryl!
Louise wrote: "Cheryl A wrote: "Currently without a computer at home, so my posts will come in spurts...1. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
347 pgs +4 pts
Time - 1940's - +1 pt
Genr..."
Thanks!
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson (completed 9/9/14)
397 pages +4
Titles: 5 words in title +1
Title in fall color (yellow/gold) +1
Book total: 6
The Sins of the Fatherby Jeffrey Archer (completed 9/10/14)
352 pages +4
Titles: 5 words in title +1
Time period: 1940s (WWII) +1
Genre: HF +1
Book cover: A silhouette +1
Location: New York +1
Book total: 9
Total challenge: 15
Cheryl A wrote: "Currently without a computer at home, so my posts will come in spurts...1. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
347 pgs +4 pts
Time - 1940's - +1 pt
Genre - HF +1pt
Titl..."
WOW Cheryl!!! You read all those books in the last 8 days. Impressive!!!
Diane wrote: "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
397 pa..."
Loved that book. LOL funny the first 6 or 7 chapters. I read so long ago I can't remember exactly. But it was one of my favorites to gift to other people.
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Gretchen, Keep your head up or the crown slips
(last edited Sep 16, 2014 07:07PM)
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B.C. (time period)- 1pt
Historical Fiction- 1pt
Mystery- 1pt
Fall Color (Yellow) in Title- 1pt
Published in 2014- 1pt
352 pgs- 4pts
Book Total= 9 pts
634 pgs= 6 pts
Setting (1500s)= 1 pt
Historical Fiction= 1 pt
Mystery= 1 pt
Title Words in Fall Color (Yellow)= 1 pt
Book Total= 10 points
Challenge Total= 19pts
(finished 7 September 2014)Historical Fiction +1
Time Period (BC) +1
Locale (Italy) +1
Fall Color (Yellow) in Title +1
Cover (Mountain) +1
Page bonus +4
Book total = 9 points
Historical Fiction +1
Fall Color (Yellow) in Title +1
Page Bonus +4
Book total = 6 points
Challenge total = 15 points
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux360 pages = 4 points
Title: 5 or more words = 1 point
Book Total = 5 points
Challenge Total = 5 points
Last to Know
336 pages=+4
Genre: Mystery=+1
Words in title in fall color (yellow)=+1
A lake on the cover =+1
Published in 2014=+1
Book total=8
Challenge total=16
The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush304 pages=+4
Genre Mystery=+
5 or more words in the title=+1
Author with 3 or more names=+1
Published in 2014=+1
book total=8
Challenge total=24 points
The MidwifeGenre: Historical Fiction +1
Locale: Russia & New York +2
Title in fall color (brown) +1
559 pages +6
Book total=10
Challenge total=19
Living Dead in Dallas
Genre: Mystery=+1
Locale: Louisiana=+1
Book Cover: A moon=+1
Page count: 288 pages=+2
Book Total=5
Challenge Total=5
The Quiche of DeathM.C. Beaton
12/9/2014
Genre: Mystery +1
Titles: title words in orange +1
Random: author has 3 names including initials +1
Page bonus: 262pp +2
Book total: 5
Challenge total: 25
Sovereign of StarsGenre: Historical Fiction +1
Time Period: BC +1
Author with three names (initials count) +1
287 pages +2
Book total=5
Challenge total = 24
Chris wrote: "Cheryl A wrote: "Currently without a computer at home, so my posts will come in spurts...1. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
347 pgs +4 pts
Time - 1940's - +1 pt
Genr..."
Thanks! It's nice to have a couple of days off and an already clean house!
A Brief History of Montmaray
304 pgs +4 pts
Genre - HF +1 pt
Cover - Castle +1 pt
Book total - 6 pts
The Reckoning
368 pgs - +4 pts
Time - 1940's +1 pt
Genre - Mystery +1 pt
Title in fall color (red) +1 pt
Cover - Silhouette +1 pt
Random - Published 2014 +1 pt
Book total - 9 pts
Between Shades of Gray
344 pgs - +4 pts
Time - 1940's +1 pt
Genre - HF +1 pt
Locale - Russia/USSR +1 pt
Book total - 7 pts
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
277 pgs - +2 pts
Genre - HR +1 pt
Locale - NY +1 pt
Title - 5 or more words +1 pt
Random - Published 2014 +1 pt
Random - Retelling of fairy tale (Twelve Dancing Princesses) +1 pt
Book total - 7 pts
Post total - 29 pts
Challenge total - 69 pts
Club Dead
Genre: mystery=+1
Locale: Louisiana=+1
Book Cover: A moon=+1
Book Length: 278 pages =+2
Book Total: 5 points
Challenge Total: 10 points
Underdog by Laurien BerensonGenre: Mystery +1
Book Length +4 (313pp)
Title +1 Title is in yellow
Book Total: 6
Grand Total: 6
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon627 pages = +6
Genre: Historical Fiction +1
Title: Words in a fall color +1
Book Total = 8
Challenge Total = 13
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief364 pp 4pts
Time Period: 1980 1pt
Title: a title word in a fall color "Scientology"- yellow 1 pt
Sept tasks: takes place on a ship 1pt ( part of the book)
Book total: 7pts
9/8/14
Buttercream Bump Off
Jenn McKinlay
Genre: Mystery +1
Title: Fall color (red) +1
September Tasks:Read a book featuring music or musicians (one of the main characters and murder suspects, ROACH, is the drummer in a band which is featured in the story) +1
pages: 212 +2
Book Total: 5
Challenge Total: 24
9/8/14
Love Over Scotland
Alexander McCall Smith
Random: Read a book by an author with three names +1
September: Read a book featuring music or musicians (Bertie joins the Teenage Orchestra and travels to Paris with them) +1
Pages: 355 +4
Book Total: 6
Challenge Total: 30
The Bloodletter's DaughterBy Linda Lafferty
Historical fiction +1
Mystery +1
Pages - 512 - +6
Total = 8
Challenge total = 23
Death in Saratoga Springs304 pages +4
Genre Mystery +1
Set in NY +1
Published in 2014 +1
Book total +7
challenge total=31
by M.L. Stedman342pp +4pts
Genre: HF +1pt
Title words in fall color (gold) +1pt
author w/ 3 names: +1pt
Book Total 7pts
Challenge total: 14 pts
Bury Your Dead371 pgs +4 pts
Genre - Mystery +1 pt
Locale - Canada +1 pt
Book total - 6 pts
All the Light We Cannot See
530 pgs +6 pts
Time - 1940's +1 pt
Genre - HF +1 pt
Title - 5 or more words +1 pt
Random - 2014 pub date +1 pt
Book total - 10 pts
A Grave Matter
432 pgs +4 pts
Genre - HF +1 pt
Random - Author with 3 names +1 pt
Random - 2014 pub Date +1 pt
Book total - 7 pts
Post total - 23 pts
Challenge total - 92 pts
Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare's Dark LadyGenre: Historical Fiction +1
Published in 2014 +1
448 pages +4
Book total=6
Eden in WinterAuthor with three names +1
Published in 2014 +1
519 pages (default edition) + 6
Book total=8
Post total=14
Challenge total=38
The Secret Life of Violet Grant448 pgs +4 pts
Time - 1910's +1 pt
Genre - HF +1 pt
Locale - NY +1 pt
Title - 5 or more words +1 pt
Random - 2014 pub date +1 pt
Book total - 9 pts
Cinder
390 pgs +4 pts
Genre - SCF +1 pt
Random - Retelling of a fairy tale +1 pt
Book total - 6 pts
Post total - 15 pts
Challenge total - 107 pts
India Black296 pages 2
Genre: mystery +1
book total +3
The Heiresses
320 pages +4
Genre: mystery +1
Set in New York +1
Published in 2014 +1
book total +7
Challenge total =50
The Time in BetweenBy María Dueñas
615 pages = 6
Genre: historical fiction = 1
Title in fall color - red =1
Time - 1940s = 1
Setting - Spain = 1
Book total = 10
Challenge total = 38
The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte by Ruth Hull ChatlienGenre: Historical Fiction +1
Author with three names +1
484 pages +4
Book total=6
Challenge total=44
Best Kept SecretBy Jeffrey Archer
373 pages = 4
Book cover, silhouette = 1
Genre, Historical fiction = 1
Book total = 6
Challenge total = 44
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Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Genre: Historical Fiction +1
Cover: Castle +1 [MUST show cover when claiming point]
Title: Fall colors +1
Time Period: 1910s +1
Locale: US-NY, Russia +2
Jan Event: Labor Day +1
Pages = 985 = +8
Post Total: 15
Challenge Total: 15