Winter Challenge 2014: Reading Plans

[Dlmrose]

If you would like a place to plan or share what you'll be reading for the Winter 2014 Challenge, you may post a list in this thread. You are NOT required to post here to participate in the challenge.

[Kathy G.]

Kathy G's Winter 2014 Plan


5.1 - Calliope
Poetry
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
5.2 - Clio
historical fiction
The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
5.3 - Euterpe
musical instrument on cover
Steel Guitar by Linda Barnes
5.4 - Erato
"love" in title
Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington by Mary Higgins Clark
5.5 - Thalia
humor
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
5.6 - Melpomene
#16 on list
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
5.7 - Polyhymnia
inspirational
A Light in the Window by Jan Karon
5.8 - Terpsichore
dancers
Dancing On Air by Nicole Hurley-Moore
5.9 - Urania
stars in title
These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman
5.10 - Who's Your Muse?
any book

10.1. A Random Trip Back in Time
#15- book published in 2000
The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
10.2. A New Year and a New Number
251 pages
Winter is Not Forever by Janette Oke
10.3. National Days
set in Japan
Extras by Scott Westerfeld
10.4. Let's Go!
travel
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
10.5. Older and Wiser
I'd like to be a writer one day
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
10.6. Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth!
spy thriller- or espionage
Pacific Vortex! by Clive Cussler
10.7. You Can Do It!
diet or health
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos
author's initials in "penguin"
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
10.9. Get to Know the Author
author interview- page one- John Grisham
Gray Mountain by John Grisham
10.10. A New Blog for a New Year
chic lit- funny
Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot

15.1 Returns and Exchanges
Book 1-I rate 5 stars to Holly Black
Tithe by Holly Black
Book 2-chose If I Stay-
Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
15.2 - Roman Numerals
book 1- I,C, D, and X
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
book 2- L, M, and V
Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke
15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships
book 1- by Alexander McCall Smith
book 2- set in Italy
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
15.4 Ring in the New
book 1 and 2- #1 in series/ pub. 2014
Scan by Sarah Fine
15.5 California Dreamin'
set in California
Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
15.6 My Way
Night by Elie Wiesel
15.7 Creature Feature
serpent in title
Venom of the Serpent's Cunning by L.R.W. Lee
15.8 Under My Thumb
hand with thumb showing
The Darcy Connection by Elizabeth Aston
15.9 Public Enemy
Crime novel
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U
word in title begins with "U"
The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith

20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Caroling, Caroling …
Winter Wonderland- (I used "winter")
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Berls's Task: Back to High School
Opt. 2- Required Reading in High School List
Page 1- #24 on list
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Angie CA's task: 5+5, 5+10, and 10+10 equals 20!
Includes 5.4- love intact (lovers)
and 5.5- Humor Genre
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Jessica PDX's Task: Stop That Slump!
Author's Initals NOT in SLUMP
Looking for Alaska by John Green
20.10 - Group Reads
Christmas Chick-Lit
Candy Cane Murder by Joanne Fluke

25.1 -- Angel **Book Junkie**'s task: New and Old
Option 1- state author you've read and book-
this book by same author
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
Option 3- a new series- book 1
Chosen by Ted Dekker
25.2 - Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators
Book 1- French
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Book 2- Japanese
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
25.3 -- Mrs.soule's task: Two Types of Tasks
Book A- my choice
Testimony by Anita Shreve
Book B- From Mrs. Soule's 5 start list
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn
25.4 - Bluemoon's task: EGYPTIAN DIETIES
Opt. A- winter in title
Winter is Not Forever by Janette Oke
Opt. C- bird on cover
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
25.5 -- Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve
Opt. A- #12 in series
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith
Opt. D- Aug. 27, 54- sign of the horse
Jenna's Cowboy by Sharon Gillenwater
25.6 -- Pamela3265's task: Let It Snow!
Option B- Fire in title
Firelight by Sophie Jordan
Option C- Romance
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
25.7- No Task
25.8 -- Hana C's task: Merry Saturnalia!
Book One- any book
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
Book Two- Sci-Fi
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
25.9 -- Pat's task: Narcissus & Echo
Narcissus - Opt. C- One person on cover
also- 403 pages long
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Echo- Option C- Two people on cover
Also- 232 pages long
And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle
25.10 -- Lois's task: Book Group Books
Book 1- SRC Book Shelf
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Book 2- Most Popular Book Club Books #5 on list
Let It Snow by John Green

30.1 - Captain America Girl's task: It’s All Greek to Me…
Opt. 1- Retelling of Hades/Persephone myth
Awaken by Meg Cabot
Opt. 4- Word "ship" in title
The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane by Kelly Harms
30.2 -- Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey
Opt. 1- classic
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Opt. 3- author's initials in NOBODY- B.D.
Scriber by Ben S. Dobson
30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Greek Key
Opt. 1- Key on Cover
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Opt. 3- "maze" in title
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
30.4 - Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighbourhood
Book A- body of water - "Ocean" in title
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Opt. C- body of water on the cover (post cover)
Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea by Mary Higgins Clark
30.5 - Sandy's task: Atlantis
Book 2- dystopian
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Book 3- "time" from Donovan song
A Time for Silence by Philippa Carr
30.6 - Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun
Rolled a 3
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
30.7 -- Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
Rolled a 4 and 5
Option 4- treat yourself to book you wanted to get to
Son by Lois Lowry
Option 5- Popular retelling (tell the page it's on)
The Fool's Girl by Celia Rees
30.8 -- Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle
Opt. 1- "books" about books on main page
How to Buy a Love of Reading by Tanya Egan Gibson
Opt. 2- red cover
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
30.9 -- Delicious Dee's task: You Are An Ironman
Opt. 1- set in Georgia
Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews
Opt. 4- debut author
Zodiac by Romina Russell

[Sheila]

Sheila's Winter 2014 Plan

5.1 - Calliope - ◆

■ 5.2 - Clio
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter


■ 5.3 - Euterpe
Steel Guitar by Linda Barnes


■ 5.4 - Erato
The Lovers by John Connolly


■ 5.5 - Thalia
Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell by M.C. Beaton


■ 5.6 - Melpomene
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
(Page 2 # 147)

5.7 - Polyhymnia ◆

5.8 - Terpsichore - ◆

■ 5.9 - Urania
Man in the Blue Moon by Michael Morris


■ 5.10 - Who's Your Muse?
The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark
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10.1. A Random Trip Back in Time.
Deception by Jonathan Kellerman
I rolled a 5 so read a 2010 book.


10.2. A New Year and a New Number - ◆


10.3. National Days. - ◆


10.4. Let's Go! - ◆


10.5. Older and Wiser - ◆


10.6. Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth!
The Messenger by Daniel Silva


10.7. You Can Do It! - ◆


10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos
Errors and Omissions by Paul Goldstein


■ 10.9. Get to Know the Author
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
(page 1)


10.10. A New Blog for a New Year
The Railway Detective by Edward Marston
http://bfgb.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/...

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15.1 Returns and Exchanges
For book 1 I started with ◆ The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson which I rated 4 stars.

I read Kindness Goes Unpunished by Craig Johnson
AND
For book 2 I started with ◆ Undercurrents by Ridley Pearson which I rated 4 stars

For Book 2 I read
Laguna Heat by T. Jefferson Parker



15.2 - Roman Numerals
Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke I, C, D, M, X
AND
The Venetian Betrayal by Steve Berry V, L,



15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships
Book 1: Chasing The Night by Iris Johansen (Iris)
AND
Book 2: The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri (Italy)



❏ 15.4 Ring in the New
Book1: Flesh and Blood: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell
AND
Book2: 'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy by Leslie Langtry
(Bombay Assassins #1)



❏ 15.5 California Dreamin'
City Of Bones by Michael Connelly
(Harry Bosch lives and works in the LA area)



15.6 My Way ◆



15.7 Creature Feature
Pegasus: A Novel by Danielle Steel
(Pegasus)



15.8 Under My Thumb
Laced by Carol Higgins Clark



15.9 Public Enemy
Cold Wind by C.J. Box



15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U
Undead and Underwater by MaryJanice Davidson
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20.1 - Most Improved Player - Bea's task: January and Janus
Option 2: Widow's Tears by Susan Wittig Albert

20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Erika’s Task: Feminism is for Everybody!
Option 3: Snagged by Carol Higgins Clark (high heels on cover)


20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Caroling, Caroling …
Christmas Bliss by Mary Kay Andrews 305 pages
Hardcover, 294 pages
Song Title - White Christmas - word is Christmas


20.4 - Author! Author! - Gea's task: The College Years ◆


20.5 - Bigger is Better - Emurphy's task: 2 Sides to Every Coin
Option 1: Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly


❏ 20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Alicia T's task: Deployment
Option 1: Far Abroad – Kissing Christmas Goodbye by M.C. Beaton
(I live in North America and the book is set in Europe)


20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Berls's Task: Back to High School
Option 3 - If I Stay by Gayle Forman
This book was nominated for the GR Choice award for YA Fiction in 2009


20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Angie CA's task: 5+5, 5+10, and 10+10 equals 20! ◆


20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Jessica PDX's Task: Stop That Slump!
The Runaway Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini


■ 20.10 Group Read
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

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■ 25.1 -- Angel **Book Junkie**'s task: New and Old
Option 1. L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton (Kinsey Millhone #12)

Older book by this author was
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
AND
Option 2: Delirious by Daniel Palmer
(author is new to me)




25.2 - Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators ◆



25.3 -- Mrs.soule's task: Two Types of Tasks
Book A: Notorious by Allison Brennan
(library book)
AND
Book B: Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman



25.4 - Bluemoon's task: EGYPTIAN DIETIES
A. THE GODDESS MA'AT - The Dark Winter by David Mark
AND
◆ C. THE GOD OSIRIS - Tumbling Blocks by Earlene Fowler
(Benni Harper #13)
Not a Re Read



25.5 -- Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve ◆



25.6 -- Pamela3265's task: Let It Snow!
Option A: Nightwatcher by Wendy Corsi Staub
AND
Option C – Play Dirty by Sandra Brown


25.7 -- Allison Ann's task: ◆


25.8 -- Hana C's task: Merry Saturnalia!
Book 1: Final Breath by Kevin O'Brien
AND
Book 2: Option 1/Winter Scene
Nowhere to Hide by Carlene Thompson


25.9 -- Pat's task: Narcissus & Echo
Narcissus - Option B:
My First Murder by Leena Lehtolainen
(I listened to the audiobook. The link to the ppb version is here - 257 pages
AND
Narcissus - Option C:
44 Cranberry Point by Debbie Macomber


25.10 -- Lois's task: Book Group Books
Book 1. A Good American by Alex George
AND
Book 2. The Language Of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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30.1 - Captain America Girl's task: It’s All Greek to Me…
Option 2: Orpheus and Eurydice
I'll Find You by Nancy Bush
AND
Option 3: Prometheus
Cape Perdido by Marcia Muller


30.2 -- Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey
Option 2: The Quilter's Homecoming by Jennifer Chiaverini
I read the kindle version. ppk is here The Quilter's Homecoming
AND
Option 3: The Icon by Neil Olson


30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Greek Key
Option 1. Best Kept Secrets by Sandra Brown
AND
Option 4. Apart at the Seams by Marie Bostwick


30.4 - Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighbourhood
◆ Option A) Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger
AND
Option B) Abandon by Blake Crouch


30.5 - Sandy's task: Atlantis
Option 1: Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler
AND
◆ Option 3: No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
(time)


30.6 - Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun
Devil's Claw by J.A. Jance
AND
Dismissed With Prejudice by J.A. Jance
(I rolled a 2 so read 2 books by the same author)


30.7 -- Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
Option 3. Chocolate - Hemlock Bay by Catherine Coulter
AND
Option 6. Stocking filler - The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle by Joanne Huist Smith


30.8 -- Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle
Option 2 :: RED ALL OVER: Silent Partner by
Jonathan Kellerman
AND
Option 4 :: AN OLDIE, BUT HOPEFULLY A GOODIE The Winding Ways Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
(added March 2, 2010. I joined Goodreads in February 2010)


30.9 -- Delicious Dee's task: You Are An Ironman
Option 5. Hitting the Wall:
Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson (Alex Cross #19)
AND
6. You Are An Ironman:
The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey (Michael Kelly #1)

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50.1

[Christine]

Christine V's Reading Plan

5.1 - Calliope:
5.2 - Clio: Fever 1793 *Childrens UG ✔4055
5.3 - Euterpe:
5.4 - Erato: Love and War
5.5 - Thalia:
5.6 - Melpomene: Between Shades of Gray #371
5.7 - Polyhymnia: The Alchemist
5.8 - Terpsichore: Frog Music
5.9 - Urania: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
5.10 - Who's Your Muse? Things Fall Apart✔3296

10.1 - A Random Trip Back in Time: Number=28, Year=1987 Heaven and Hell
10.2 - A New Year and a New Number The Devil and Miss Prym
10.3 - National Days Big Little Lies (Australia) or Purge (Estonia)
10.4 - Let's Go! A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
10.5 - Older and Wiser Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
10.6 - Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth! Casino Royale
10.7 - You Can Do It! Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... The Emperor of All Maladies
10.8 - Our Friends in Tuxedos Wisdom's Daughter: A Novel of Solomon and Sheba
10.9 - Get to Know the Author: Margaret Atwood, page 1 - The Penelopiad
10.10 - A New Blog for a New Year Year of Wonders✔1042

15.1 - Returns and Exchanges: 1) The Edible Woman (The Handmaid's Tale)
2)
15.2 - Roman Numerals: 1) The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 2) Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
15.3 - Launch A Thousand Ships: #1&2) The Glass-Blowers
15.4 - Ring in the New: 1&2) The Paper Magician
15.5 - California Dreamin': Cannery Row
15.6 - My Way: Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide✔1210
15.7 - Creature Feature: The Last Unicorn *Children's (UG), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
15.8 - Under My Thumb: The Paying Guests
15.9 - Public Enemy: The Maid's Version✔
15.10 - All I Want For Christmas is U: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister✔478

20.1 - Bea's task: January and Janus - Option 2: A Tale of Two Cities✔ 296
20.2 - Erika’s Task: Feminism is for Everybody! Option 2: Pride and Prejudice✔ Page 1 #74055
20.3 - Book Concierge's task: Caroling, Caroling …: Love in the Time of Cholera "Christmas Time Is Here"
20.4 - Gea's task: The College Years: Option 1- Purge (Estonia)
20.5 - Emurphy's task: 2 Sides to Every Coin - Option 2: behind the beautiful forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity✔1685
20.6 - Alicia T's task: Deployment: Option 1 - A Christmas Carol✔ 129
20.7 - Berls's Task: Back to High School: Option 2 - The Count of Monte Cristo✔1555
20.8 - Angie CA's task: 5+5, 5+10, and 10+10 equals 20! Cranford✔ (Tasks 5.2 & 10.8)4055
20.9 - Jessica PDX's Task: Stop That Slump! All the Light We Cannot See✔ 107
20.10 - 20.10 - Group Reads: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch✔ 619

25.1 - 25.1 -- Angel **Book Junkie**'s task: New and Old - Pick 2 options and read 1 book from each.
#1) Catching Fire
#4) Mockingjay
25.2 - Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators
25.3 - Mrs.soule's task: Two Types of Tasks
A) Free-for-this-challenge book
B) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Murder on the Orient Express, Mere Christianity
25.4 - Bluemoon's task: EGYPTIAN DIETIES:
B) Book of Longing
D) The Enchanted
25.5 - Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve:Read two books, one each from two different options
B) Madame Bovary
D) Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
25.6 - Pamela3265's task: Let It Snow! Choose TWO different options
A) Code Name Verity
B) A Day of Fire: a novel of Pompeii
25.7 WITHDRAWN
25.8 - Hana C's task: Merry Saturnalia! This is a TWO book task.
#1)
#2) (Option 2) Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal *OR* (Option 3) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
25.9 - Pat's task: Narcissus & Echo: I choose Narcissus
B) I, Claudius
C) Half of a Yellow Sun
25.10 - Lois's task: Book Group Books: Read 2 books, one from each option
#1) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
#2) Room (USA this week, #21)

30.1 - Captain America Girl's task: It’s All Greek to Me: Roll two dice: Rolled 3 and 1.
#1) Cobweb Bride (kindle)
#3) Fahrenheit 451
30.2 - Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey:
#1) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
#5) Les Misérables
30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Greek Key: Read two books using two different options.
#1) Ready Player One
#2) A Study in Scarlet Page 2 #197
#3) The Jungle, The Jungle Book
#4) The Luminaries
30.4 - Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighbourhood:
A) Fourth of July Creek
C) Swamplandia!
30.5 - Sandy's task: Atlantis:
#2) Oryx and Crake
#3)
30.6 - Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun: Rolled #4
1. The Great Gatsby✔
2. Mrs. Dalloway
30.7 - Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care: Rolled 6 and 4
#4)
#6) What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most
30.8 - Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle:
#2) Me Before You✔
#5) The Rosie Project✔
30.9 - Delicious Dee's task: You Are An Ironman
#2) The Giver *Children's IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7.0 (5* by Kristina Simon)
#4) Mistress of Rome

[Ann A]

Total: 270 points, 18 tasks, 23 books, 7,475 pages

5.1 - Calliope - Glass
5.2 - Clio - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
5.3 - Euterpe - Twelfth Night ✔
5.4 - Erato - Enduring Love ✔
5.5 - Thalia - Notes from a Small Island ✔
5.6 - Melpomene - Me Before You
5.7 - Polyhymnia - This I Believe II ✔
5.8 - Terpsichore - Astonish Me
5.9 - Urania - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
5.10 - ??

10.1 - A Random Trip Back in Time - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
10.2 - A New Year and a New Number - La's Orchestra Saves the World ✔
10.3 - National Days - The Glass Palace
10.4 - Let's Go - I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away ✔
10.5 - Older and Wiser - Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
10.6 - Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth! - The World at Night
10.7 - You Can Do It! - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
10.8 - Our Friends in Tuxedos - Suite Française
10.9 - Get to Know the Author - Cat's Eye
10.10 - A New Blog for a New Year - All Quiet on the Western Front ✔

15.1 - Returns and Exchanges - The Cleverness of Ladies and The Mill on the Floss
15.2 - Roman Numerals - Middlesex and A Discovery of Witches ✔
15.3 - Launch a Thousand Ships - Corduroy Mansions and My Life in France
15.4 - Ring in the New - Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt and Gallows View
15.5 - California Dreamin' - The Gods of Guilt ✔
15.6 - My Way - Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
15.7 - Creature Feature - American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
15.8 - Under My Thumb - The Portrait of a Lady
15.9 - Public Enemy - City of Bones
15.10 - All I Want For Christmas is U - Growing up Again

20.1 - January and Janus - The Stone Angel
20.2 - Feminism is for Everybody! - Their Eyes Were Watching God ✔
20.3 - Caroling, Caroling - The High King
20.4 - The College Years - Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy
20.5 - 2 Sides to Every Coin - Chasing the Dime
20.6 - Deployment - Death of an Outsider ✔
20.7 - Back to High School - The Awakening
20.8 - 5+5, 5+10... - Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
20.9 - Stop That Slump! - All the Light We Cannot See
20.10 - Group Reads - Code Name Verity

25.1 - New and Old - The Weird Sisters and Farewell, My Lovely
25.2 - Hats Off to Translators - Madame Bovary and 1Q84
25.3 - Two Types of Tasks - His Excellency: George Washington and The Rosie Project ✔
25.4 - EGYPTIAN DIETIES - Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Summer
25.5 - Lucky Number Twelve - Twelve Years a Slave and Sentimental Education
25.6 - Let It Snow! - Main Street and Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
25.8 - Merry Saturnalia! - Any and Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
25.9 - Narcissus & Echo - Me: Stories of My Life and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
25.10 - Book Group Reads - American Gods and Orphan Train

30.1 - It's All Greek to Me -
30.2 - Homer's Odyssey - Oliver Twist and A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea
30.3 - Greek Key - The Name of the Rose and The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
30.4 - Neptune's Neighborhood - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Fingersmith
30.5 - Atlantis - Never Let Me Go and Treasure Island
30.6 - Twice the Fun - Alexander McCall Smith or Agatha Christie - 2 books
30.7 - Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care -
30.8 - Make Your TBR List Say Uncle - Lost in a Good Book and The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East ✔
30.9 - You Are An Ironman - Anne of Ingleside and The Looking Glass War

[Jenifer]

5.1 Calliope: poetry genre
5.2 Clio: historical fiction
5.3 Euterpe: musical instrument on cover
5.4 Erato: "love" intact in title/subtitle/series title
5.5 Thalia: humor, comedy, funny genre
5.6 Melpomene: from Ugly Cry list
5.7 Polyhymnia: religion, spirituality, inspirational genre
5.8 Terpsichore: features dancers
5.9 Urania: celestial object in title
5.10 Who's Your Muse: book of choice

10.1 A Random Trip Back in Time: pub in 2008 (generated a 7)
10.2 A New Year and a New Number: page numbers consist only of 2 ,0 ,1 , or 5
10.3 National Days: set in Australia, Cuba, Gambia, India, Japan, New Zealand, or Sudan
10.4 Let's Go: travel genre
10.5 Older and Wiser: non-fiction about something I am interested in
10.6 Etiquette & Espionage
10.7 You Can Do It!: fitness, diet, or health genre
10.8 Our Friends in Tuxedos: author's initials found in PENGUINS
10.9 All Fall Down
10.10 Before I Go To Sleep

15.1 1. It Happened One Autumn (rated Rainshadow Road 4 stars) 2. Dragon Bound
15.2 1. The Revenant of Thraxton Hall: The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur 2.Conan Doyle
15.3 The Island
15.4 Now That You're Here (2/1)
15.5 Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
15.6 My Way: autobiography or memoir
15.7 A Dance with Dragons
15.8 Astrid and Veronika
15.9 Glory in Death
15.10 Tess of the D'Urbervilles or The Uncommon Reader

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25.1 1. 4. The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla
25.2 1. Bel-Ami or The Elegance of the Hedgehog or The Angel's Promise 2. Doctor Zhivago
25.3 A. The Miniaturist B. Bridget Jones's Diary or Again the Magic
25.4 A. It Happened One Autumn
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30.3 2. Odd Thomas or And Then There Were None 3. The Maze Runner
30.4 A. Lost Lake C. The Splendour Falls
30.5 Atlantis: 2. The Forest of Hands and Teeth 3 The Paper Magician
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30.7 4. book of choice 5. Cinder
30.8 1. The Bookman’s Tale 4. The Boy in the Suitcase or Clockwork Princess
30.9 2. Blood Promise 5. Destined for an Early Grave

[mstan]

5.1 - poetry
5.2 - One Corpse Too Many
5.3 - musical instrument on cover
5.4 - love in title/subtitle/series/author
5.5 - Noggin (funny)
5.6 - ugly crying list
5.7 - religion/spirituality/inspirational
5.8 - book about dancers
5.9 - name of celestial object in title/subtitle
5.10 - Over My Dead Body (book of choice)

10.1 - That Was Then, This is Now
10.2 - page number contains 2015
10.3 - Girl Defective (book set in Australia)
10.4 - Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan (travel genre)
10.5 - Minimize Me: 10 Diets to Lose 25 lbs in 50 Days (non-fiction book abt sthg I'd like to know more about)
10.6 - The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (espionage/spy thriller)
10.7 - fitness/health/diet
10.8 - St. Peter's Fair (author initials found in PENGUIN)
10.9 - book by GR interviewed author - David Mitchell?
10.10 - Johnny Hiro: Half Asian, All Hero

15.1 - Chew, Vol. 7: Bad Apples and Saga, Volume 4 (using Saga, Volume 3)
15.2 - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home and Drinking at the Movies (I, C, D, L, M, V, X)
15.3 - The Scapegoat (set in Mediterranean country/ author with Greek or Roman name, e.g. Daphne, Helen, Alexander) (can combine into one book)
15.4 - Jackaby
15.5 - book set in California
15.6 - March: Book One (memoir or autobiography)
15.7 - centaur, chimera, dragon, giant, gorgon, griffin, harpy, minotaur, pegasus, satyr, sphinx, serpent, siren, unicorn
15.8 - (human hand with thumb)
15.9 - Black Orchids (crime)
15.10 - Ungifted - 5.2/8.0

20.1 - The Go-Between (coming of age)
20.2 -
20.3 - Time and Again (399 pages)
20.4 - college/foreign student exchange
20.5 - opposites or coin/penny/nickel/dime/quarter
20.6 - Arabella (3- romance)
20.7 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Option 2, pg. 2, #109)
20.8 - Monk's Hood (combine 5- and 10-point tasks)
20.9 - It's Kind of a Funny Story (no SLUMP in author's name)
20.10 -

25.1 - Not Quite Dead Enough (Option 1) and The Silent Speaker (Option 4)
25.2 - Italian and Chinese/Japanese
25.3 - GoGo Monster (library book) and Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
25.4 - Niccolò Rising and (bird on cover)
25.5 - Too Many Women (A - #12) and Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (C)
25.6 - The Gate to Women's Country (A - ST) and The Bonfire of the Vanities (B - fire)
25.8 - Last Night: Stories (book of choice) and Saga, Volume 3 (sf book set away from Earth) (graphic novels ok)
25.9 - Narcissus - book written in first person; My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places (me/my/I - 160 pg); (one person on cover) (500 pages total)
25.10 - The Bean Trees (ATW Dec) and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Most popular in the world this month, generated Dec 3, #43)

30.1 - ? (6 - candle on cover) and (4 - ship) (rolled 4 and 6)
30.2 - Classics (Option 1) and author initials in NOBODY (Option 3 - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics) (300 pages min.)
30.3 - An Instance of the Fingerpost (Option 2, #194) and
30.4 - Where Rivers Change Direction and
30.5 - (2- dystopia) and The Zoo Where You're Fed to God (3- where)
30.6 - The Corrections and Vice: New and Selected Poems (die roll 5 - two books with same award)
30.7 - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (author initials in CHOCOLATE) and (mistake: rolled 1 and 3, so need to find orange cover...)
30.8 - The Book of Lost Things (Option 1) and The Curse of Chalion (Option 6) (min. 250 pages)
30.9 - The Sparrow (Option 4 - debut, #1) and The Final Descent (Option 5 - SALT, #4)

50.1 - Parable of the Sower (#1 - 30.9 - SAL, #1 in series); The Secret Place (#3 - GR nominee); Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading (#5 - to be a better leader)

Points: 775
Books read: 58
Post page numbers: #7, #17, #23, #35, #38, #43, #62, #63, #76, #80, #83, #84, #85

[Aleksandra]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

5.1
5.2
5.3 The Mozart Conspiracy Scott Mariani
5.4 Lily Love Maggi Myers
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10.1 I've Got Your Number Sophia Kinsella
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10.3 The Last Pope Luis MIguel Rocha
10.4 A Field Guide to Happiness: What I Learned in Bhutan about Living, Loving, and Waking Up Linda Leaming
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10.6 Eye of the Needle Ken Follet
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10.9 Frog Music Emma Donoghue
10.10 Losing Clementine Ashley Ream

15.1 Instructions for a Heatwave Maggie O'Farrell Molly Fox's Birthday Deirdre Madden
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15.3 The Return Victoria Hislop
15.4 The Bat Jo Nesbo The Miniaturist Jessie Burton
15.5 Last Bus to Coffeeville J. Paul Henderson
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15.8 The Husband's Secret Liane Moriarty
15.9 Cockroaches Jo Nesbo
15.10 The Careful Use of ComplimentsAlexander McCall Smith

20.1 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman
20.2 Speak Laurie Halse Anderson
20.3The Parisian Christmas Bake Off Jenny Oliver
20.4 Zagubione niebo Katarzyna Grochola
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20.7 The Great Gatsby F.Scott Fitzgerald
20.8 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
20.9 ...Miranda Dickinson
20.10

25.1 RoomsLauren Oliver The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & CafeMary simses
25.2 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Fire in the Blood Irene Nemirovsky
25.3 Shopaholic Ties the Knot Sophie KInsella
25.4 Lost Lake Sarah Addison Allen A Girl Called Summer Lucy Lord
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25.8 Trzepot skrzydeł Katarzyna Grochola
A Family Affair Mary Campisi
25.9 Stargirl Jerry Spinelli The Story of Us Dany Atkins
30.1 Three Wishes Liane Moriarty I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story Michael Hestings
30.2 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
30.3 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie
30.4 The One You Love Paul Pilkington The Sacred River Wendy Wallace
30.5 Requiem Lauren Oliver The Hunt for Atlantis Andy McDermott
30.6 Anne of the Island L.M. Montgomery Anne of Windy Poplars L.M. Montgomery
30.7 The Coffee Shop Book Club Breast Cancer Care The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy Rachel Joyce
30.8 Headhunters Jo Nesbo The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twang Eng
30.9 Sea Swept Nora Roberts
50.1 The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan The Pearl that Broke Its Shell Nadia Hashimi Your Family in Pictures: The Parents' Guide to Photographing Holidays, Family Portraits, and Everyday LifeMe Ra KOh

[Victoria]

5.1 - Genre "Poetry" Good Poems: American Places
5.2 - Genre "History" or "Historical Fiction" Some Luck
5.3 - Musical instrument on cover. A Visit from the Goon Squad
5.4 - "Love" in title, Land of Love and Drowning
5.5 - Humor/Comedy, Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
5.6 - on the Causes of Ugly Crying list. 18. Looking for Alaska
5.7 - Genre "Religion," "Spirituality," or "Inspirational" The Sparrow
5.8 - features dancers. Rita Moreno: A Memoir
5.9 - Celestial object in the title The Forgery of Venus
5.10 - A book of your choice.

10.1 - Random # 26. 2015-26 is 1989. pub 1989. Liar's Poker
10.2 - pages = in 2015 The Orenda, 501p, ISBN 0670064181
10.3 - country with national day in Dec/Jan/Feb. India The White Tiger
10.4 - genre "travel" on its main page Notes from a Small Island
10.5 - nonfiction book that makes you wiser The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
10.6 - genre "espionage" or "spy thriller." A Map of Betrayal: A Novel
10.7 - genres fitness, health, or diet/diets The Empathy Exams: Essays
10.8 -author's initials in "penguin." The Graveyard Book
10.9 - author interviewed by Goodreads Revival https://www.goodreads.com/interviews/...
10.10 - reviewed in Blogging for a Good Book The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football

15.1 Two books
Book 1: 4/5 star author Seabiscuit: An American Legend (from Unbroken)
Book 2: 4/5 star associated The Boy Who Drew Monsters (from Bird Box)
15.2 - TWO books with ALL 7 Roman numeral symbols/letters (I, C, D, L, M, V, X). The Dark Vineyard- Martin Wallace (I,C,D,L,M,V). Middlesex (X)
15.3 - Author/mythology + 50% in Mediterranean country
One book option: The Counterfeit Heiress
15.4 - Two books
(One book option: The Paper Magician)
Book 1 - first published between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015. Station Eleven
Book 2 - identified on GR as book #1 in a series. (series, #1) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
15.5 A book set primarily in California. Perfidia
15.6 A memoir or autobiography The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return
15.7 Sirens: Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
15.8 hand with thumb on cover: The Book of Strange New Things
15.9 Genre "crime". Broken Monsters
15.10 Word that begins with "U" in title. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

20.1 - January & Janus - Aging: Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?. List Aging list, 1st page.
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20.10 - Group Read- Christmas Chick Lit: Candy Cane Murder
REQUIRED: at least one post about the book

25.1 -- Angel **Book Junkie**'s task: New and Old
Option 3: Start a series by a new-to-you author. book #1 in a series on Goodreads. A Burnable Book
REQUIRED: State that the author is new to you!
Option 4: in a series that you have started. #2 or higher in a series on Goodreads. A Fatal Grace
25.2 - Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators
Book 1: A Nod to the Romans The Shadow of the Wind or Blindness
Book 2: And to the Greeks
Read a book originally written in Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, or Russian.
25.3 Mrs. Soule’s Tasks
Book A: book you owned before 12/1/14: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. REQUIRED: State the source of the book when you post.
Book B: book from my Goodreads five-star shelf. Parnassus on Wheels
25.4 Bluemoon's task: EGYPTIAN DEITIES
A. THE GODDESS MA'AT - The Paris Winter
C. THE GOD OSIRIS - Sworn to Silence (Burkholder #1)
25.5 -- Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve
Option A: Celebrate the number 12! Cross
Option D: Chinese Zodiac sign animal on the cover. Seabiscuit: An American Legend REQUIRED: Name your sign, and include the cover of the book when you claim your task.
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25.8 - Hana C's task: Merry Saturnalia!
Book 1: choice
Book 2: Option 2 - The feast was an important part of the festivities. Read a book found on the Food Related Non Fiction list. Required: State which the number the book is at on the list and what page it is on when you post. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, #8 page 1 (12/6)


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30.1 - Captain America Girl's task: It’s All Greek to Me
REQUIRED: State which numbers you rolled when you post. 4,5
4: Odysseus -ship’ found intact in the title,The Gray Ship
5: Medusa - horror genre. The Girl with All the Gifts

30.2 -- Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey
Read 2 books, at least 300 pp, REQUIRED: State the options you chose.
Option 5: published in a year that contains an 8 - 1983: The Name of the Rose
Option 6: water AND a ship/boat on the cover. REQUIRED: Include the cover in your post. Thunderstruck
30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Greek Key
Option 2. Best Twists, p.1, #47, The Secret History
Option 3. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
30.4 - Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighbourhood
A) Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
C) Nora Webster
REQUIRED: State which options you chose. If using option C, you must include the cover when you post.
30.5 - Sandy's task: Atlantis
REQUIRED: State the options you chose when you post.
2. genre "utopia" or "dystopia" Divergent
3. title or subtitle matches exactly a word of 4 or more letters Donovan's song Atlantis. REQUIRED: Identify the word - scientist. Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
30.6 - Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun
6.GENRE: Read 2 books that have the same top genre on the main page. REQUIRED: State which number you rolled when you post.
30.7 -- Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
Rolled 1,2
1. Satsuma - bright orange cover. REQUIRED: Include the cover when you post. Interpreter of Maladies
2. Lump of coal - non-fiction science. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
30.8 -- Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle
REQUIRED: When posting, please list the options that you chose.
Option 1 :: I HEARD YOU LIKE BOOKS :: The Forgers
Option 2 :: RED ALL OVER :: The Blazing World
30.9 -- Delicious Dee's task: You Are An Ironman
1. Road Trip: In a Strange City-#6 Maryland
2. Friendships: Read a book that a GR friend who you have never met has rated 4/5 stars. REQUIRED: Provide a link to the friend's or the moderator's profile when you post. A Study in Scarlet - #1 Kate rated 4/5 stars
REQUIRED: State the options you chose when you post

[Dionisia]

5 points
1. What the Living Do: Poems by Marie Howe
2. A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America by Allyson Hobbs
3. Microfictions by Ana María Shua
4. From Notting Hill with Love... Actually by Ali McNamara
5. How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
6. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak [#5]
7. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
8. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
9. Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill
10. The End Games by T. Michael Martin

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Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam





My Challenge Score = 0 points
GR Author = 0 tickets
Big Book = 0 tickets

[EShay]

Goals:
325 + points
19 + tasks

POINTS: 130
TASKS: 7
GRA:2
BB
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Italics = Currently Readying


5.1 - Genre "Poetry"
5.2 - Genre "History" or "Historical Fiction" The Color Purple (Kindle)
5.3 - Musical instrument on the coverCaptain Corelli's Mandolin (Library)
5.4 - "Love" in the title, subtitle, series title, or author's name. Love in the Time of Cholera (book)
5.5 - Genre "Humor," "Comedy," or "Funny" President Me: The America That's in My Head (Kindle)
5.6 - Causes of Ugly Crying list. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
5.7 - Genre "Religion," "Spirituality," or "Inspirational" Unchristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity...and Why It Matters (Book)
5.8 - Read a book that features dancers.
5.9 - Celestial object in the title
5.10 - A book of your choice Saga, Volume 4

10.1 - Random # 20. Book published in 1995. The Reader (Library)
10.2 - Read a book with the number of pages consisting of digits found in 2015
10.3 - Read a book set in one of the countries that celebrates a national day in Dec, Jan, Feb
10.4 - Genre "travel" on its main page A Pint of Plain
10.5 - Nonfiction book that makes you wiser The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life (Audible)
10.6 - Genre "espionage" or "spy thriller." State of the Union (Library)
10.7 - Genres fitness, health, or diet/diets The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability (Audible)
10.8 - Author's initials can be found in the word "penguin."
10.9 - Book written by an author interviewed by Goodreads Gilead (Book)
10.10 - Reviewed in Blogging for a Good Book Man's Search for Meaning (Kindle)

15.1 Two books
Book 1: Book by the same author that you previously rated their book 4/5 stars:
Book 2: Recommended book associated with one you previously rated 4/5 stars Farewell, My Lovely (Book) associated with The Maltese Falcon
15.2 - Read TWO books whose titles and/or subtitles together contain ALL 7 Roman numeral symbols/letters (I, C, D, L, M, V, X)
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action(Audible) - I, C, D, L, V
Love is a Mix Tape - M, X
15.3 - Two books
Book 1:Author's name associated with mythology Path of the Assassin (Kindle)
Book 2:Read a book set in a country that surrounds the Mediterranean Sea The Name of the Rose (Library)
15.4 - Two books
Book 1 - Published between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015 Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy (Book)
Book 2 - Book #1 in a series. (series, #1) Murder at the Vicarage (Library)
15.5 Set primarily in California The Big Sleep
15.6 A memoir or autobiography (Book)Shrinkage: Manhood, Marriage, and the Tumor That Tried to Kill Me (Kindle)
15.7 word in the title or subtitle: dragon Dealing with Dragons (Library) IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8.0
15.8 Hand on the cover that shows a thumb The Remains of the Day (Library)
15.9 Genre "crime" Sharp Objects (Book)
15.10 Word that begins with "U" The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why (Library)

20.1Speaker for the Dead (Library)
20.2
Option 2: book from the Best Feminist Fiction list Little Women
20.3 Book with Angels, Baby, Beginning, Bells, Christmas, Have, Heard, Here, High, Holy, Home, Like, Look, Night, Santa, Silver, Time, White, Winter, Wonderland, World in the title Night Film
20.4
Option 1: Book which is set at least 50% in a country that is part of European Union (Not UK) Smilla's Sense of Snow
Option 2: Non-fiction book with the genre "Economics"
20.5
Option 1: the word "coin", or the name of a US coin (defined as: penny, nickel, dime, quarter) in the title/subtitle
Option 2: title or subtitle has two words that are conflicting or opposites
20.6 No rereads or children's
Option 1: Read a book set on a different continent(s) than the one you are currently residing in The Talented Mr. Ripley (Audible)
20.7 One book
Option 2: Book from the Required Reading in High School list Lord of the Flies
Option 3: book that's been nominated for Young Adult Fiction or Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction in the Goodreads Choice Awards
20.8 Read ONE book that fits the requirements for two of this season's 5- or 10-point tasks (excluding 5.10). Allegiant (Kindle)
On the Causes of Ugly Crying list (5.6) and Veronica Roth was interviewed by GR (10.9)
20.9 Book by an author whose name does NOT contain ANY of the letters in SLUMP
20.10 Code Name Verity

25.1 Two books
Option 1: Author previously read, new book
Option 2: New author
Option 3: #1 in series, new author The Lincoln Lawyer (Kindle)
Option 4: Series book #2 or greater
25.2 Two books, no childrens
Book 1: Translation from Romance language If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italian) (Library)
Book 2: Translation from Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, or Russian The Master and Margarita (Library)
25.3
Book A: library book, a free ebook, a book you got as a gift, or a book you already owned before December 1, 2014
Book B: A five star book from Mrs Soule A Room with a View
25.4 Two books
Option B: Book with the image of a bird (any bird will do) on the cover I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (library)
Option C: Book that is first in a series Sabriel (Kindle) IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16.0
25.5 Read two books
Option A: Read a book with 12 or dozen in title or subtitle, or 12th in series
Option C: read a book that has YOUR zodiac sign's symbol in the title/subtitle or series name (Aries = Ram)
Option D: read a book with the corresponding animal of your Chinese zodiac on the cover (Dog) The Art of Racing in the Rain
25.6 Two books
Option A: Author’s initials can be found in the song title “LET IT SNOW”.
Option B: FIRE intact in the book title or subtitle
Option C: Romance as main genre
Option D: individual dressed for winter on the cover
25.7 No task
25.8 Two books
Book 1: Book of your choice
Book 2: Option 1: Cover has winter landscape complete with snow
Option 2: Book found on the Food Related Non Fiction list
Option 3: Read a book with the genre Science Fiction on it’s main page (may be embedded), with a setting that is primarily extra-terrestrial
25.9
Book 1: Everything I Never Told You(Audible)
Book 2: Redeployment
25.10
Book 1: Read book from another group read or any past SRC group read Mrs. Dalloway
Book 2: Read a book from the Most Popular bookclub books list Where'd You Go, Bernadette

30.1 Rolled 3 & 6
Option 3: Fire on the cover.
Option 6: Candle or candles on the cover Looking for Alaska
30.2 Two books over 300 pages
Option 1: "Classics" as a genre on its main page (fiction or nonfiction) Frankenstein (Book)
Option 2: "Homecoming" in the title/subtitle of the book
Option 3: Author whose initials can be found in the word "NOBODY."
Option 4: Penelope, Athena, Calypso, or Circe in the title/subtitle or in the author's name.
Option 5: First published in a year that contains an 8 (ex. 1850, 1984, etc.) OR that has the number 24 in the date (ex. 5/24/2013)
Option 6: Water AND a ship/boat on the cover of the book Robinson Crusoe (Kindle)
30.3 Two books
Option 1: Lock and/or key on the cover
Option 2: Best twist Atonement (Audible)
Option 3: Words labyrinth, maze, jungle, snarl, tangle, warren in title or subtitle The Maze Runner (Kindle)
Option 4: repeating pattern of items or design elements on the cover.
30.4 Two books
Option A: "Water" or a term for a body of water in its title/subtitle or series title Wide Sargasso Sea (Book)
Option B: Author whose name includes the word "water" or a term for a body of water intact within their name Sarah Waters
Option C: Body of water large enough to swim in on the cover
30.5
Option 1: Book about Atlantis or Atlanteans.
Option 2: genre "utopia" or "dystopia" The Road (Book)
Option 3: Word that matches on from lyrics of Donovan's song Atlantis behind the beautiful forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Book)
30.6 Rolled 2. Read 2 books written by authors who share the first name or surname.
Catch-22 (Library)
The Secret Agent (book)
30.7 Two books rolled 1 & 6
Option 1: bright orange cover The Sun Also Rises (Kindle)
Option 6: wrapped (or partially wrapped) present or a pair of socks on the cover Let It Snow(Library)
30.8
Option 1: genre “Books about Books” Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Book)
Option 5: Read one of your guilty pleasure type books Broken Harbour (Kindle)
30.9
Option 2: Naked in Death 4 stars (Audible)
Option 3: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Kindle)

50.1 Read 3 books
Option 1: The Remains of the Day (Audible)
Option 2:Read a book you started once upon a time but didn't finish.
Option 3: Pick a book from GoodReads Best Book of the Year 2014 nominees and winners. #GIRLBOSS (Library)
Option 4: "Mythology" AND either "Greek" or "Roman" as genres on the main page.
Option 5: pick a resolution and read a non-fiction book that will help you reach your goal or learn more of what you need to know to reach that goal.

[Marie Claude]

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50 Pointer

[Mindy]

Mindyrecycles

5.1 - Genre "Poetry". The Bell Jar

5.2 - Genre "History" or "Historical Fiction" A Thousand Lives. Have genre confirmed.

5.3 - Musical instrument on the cover. The Pianist
by Władysław Szpilman

5.4 - "Love" found intact in the title, subtitle, series title, or author's name. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

5.5 - Genre "Humor," "Comedy," or "Funny" Juliet, Naked

5.6 - Book found on the Causes of Ugly Crying list. Looking for Alaska

5.7 - Genre "Religion," "Spirituality," or "Inspirational" Why I Became an Atheist John W. Loftus

5.8 - Read a book that features dancers. Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars

5.9 - Celestial object in the title Maggot Moon

5.10 - Child Thief.

10.1 - Random # 33. Need book published in 1982. This Boy's Life

10.2 - read a book with the number of pages consisting of digits found in 2015. Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation 152 pages. ISBN
1565844424

10.3 - Read a book set in one of the countries that celebrates a national day in Dec, Jan, Feb. Looking for Alibrandi

10.4 - Read a book with the genre "travel" on its main page. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

10.5 - Read a nonfiction book that makes you wiser. Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

10.6 - Read a book with the main page genre "espionage" or "spy thriller." Etiquette & Espionage.

10.7 - Read a book with the main page genres fitness, health, or diet/diets. Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer.

10.8 - Read a book whose author's initials can be found in the word "penguin." The Virgins
by Pamela Erens

10.9 - Read a book written by an author interviewed by Goodreads. Oryx and Crake

10.10 - Read a book that has been reviewed in Blogging for a Good Book. Close your Eyes, Hold Hands


15.1 Two books
Book 1: Book by the same author that you previously rated their book 4/5 stars. So Much for That
by Lionel Shriver

Book 2: Recommended book associated with one you previously rated 4/5 stars. The Descendants.

We Need to Talk about Kevin was the starting point for both choices above.

15.2 - Read TWO books whose titles and/or subtitles together contain ALL 7 Roman numeral symbols/letters (I, C, D, L, M, V, X) Middlesex and My Twice-Lived Life: A Memoir

15.3 - Two books
Book 1:Author's name associated with mythology
Book 2:Read a book set (at least 50%) in a country that surrounds the Mediterranean Sea. Joan of Arc: A History by Helen Castor ***satisfies both***

15.4 - Two books
Book 1 - Read a book first published between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015.
Book 2 - Read a book identified on GR as book #1 in a series. (series, #1) The Young Elites (The Young Elites #1)by Marie Lu ***satisfies both requirements*

15.5 A book set primarily in California. Gone (Gone #1)by Michael Grant

15.6 A memoir or autobiography. Skipping Toward Gomorrah

15.7 Read a book with one of these words in the title or subtitle: centaur, chimera, dragon, giant, gorgon, griffin, harpy, minotaur, pegasus, satyr, sphinx, serpent, siren, unicorn. The Centaur in the Garden by Moacyr Scliar, Ilan Stavans

15.8 Human hand on the cover that shows a thumb. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

15.9 Genre "crime". Nightmare by Lars Kepler

15.10 Word that begins with "U" in title. Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
by Héctor Tobar

20.1 Option 4 from Aging List -- Still Alice

20.2 Option 2, The Awakening

20.3 Title (no subtitle) must have:
Angels, Baby, Beginning, Bells, Christmas, Have, Heard, Here, High, Holy, Home, Like, Look, Night, Santa, Silver, Time, White, Winter, Wonderland, World. Gone Baby Gone

20.4 Option 4 Unsavory Elements

20.5 Option 2 Dead and Alive

20.6 Option 2, Parenthood. The Wet Nurse's Tale

20.7 I'll Give You the Sun. 2014 nominee for Best YA book.

20.8 In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin. Fits 5.2 and 5.4.

20.9 read a book by an author whose name does NOT contain ANY of the letters in SLUMP. White Oleander by Janet Fitch.

20.10 Code Name Verity

25.1 Two books
Option 1: Read a new-to-you book by an author that you have read before. Sharp Objects
Option 2: Read a book by a new-to-you author. Station Eleven

25.2 Two books
Book 1:Originally written in Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Romanian. Maigret, French. Suite Francaise
Book 2: Read a book originally written in Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, or Russian. Death and the Penguin Russian.

25.3 A: Any free book including one already owned. Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio
B: from Mrs. Soule's Five Star books. Sound of a Wild Snail Eating.

25.4 A. Book with name of a season in title. Winter People Jennifer McMahon
B. Image of any bird on the cover. Black Swan Green.

25.5 A: Book with twelve or dozen in title or subtitle, or that is 12th in a series.The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #12)
D: Book with Tiger on cover.The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett

25.6 Option A. Gun Machine
by Warren Ellis (Goodreads Author)
Option B. Brain on Fire.

25.8 Book 1. The Martian by Andy Weir. Book 2. Option 1. Boy from Reactor 4.

25.9 Narcissus. A. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman B. I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds

25.10 Book 1. Half Broken Horses. Book 2. Language of Flowers from All Time list.

30.1 - Two books, roll two dice for options.
Option 3: Fire on cover. Death and Oil: A True Story of the Piper Alpha Disaster on the North Sea
Option 4: "Ship’ found in the title, subtitle, or author’s name (first or last). Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead

30.2 - Two books, both a minimum of 300 pages.
Option 1 Classics in genre. I Capture the Castle
Option 6 Water & Ship on cover. The Orphan Master's Son

30.3 - Two books
Option 1: Dark Places
Option 2: From the list Best Twists. My Sister's Keeper

30.4 - Two books
Option A: The word "water" or a term for a body of water in its title/subtitle or series title. Great Wide Sea (asked to verify NOT children's.)
Option B: Fingersmith by Waters

30.5 - Two books, not kids.
Option 2: Genre "utopia" or "dystopia" on its main page. Uglies
Option 3: Title or subtitle contains a word that matches a word of 4 or more letters from these lyrics. Great Gatsby

30.6- Two books. Rolled a 1. Talented Mr. Ripley and Killing Mr. Griffin

30.7 - TWO books
Roll die for two numbers for options.
Rolled 1 and 2.
Option 1: Bright orange cover. The Unknowns
Option 2: Read a non-fiction "science" genre book. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

30.8 - TWO books, at least 250 pages each.
Option 2: Red cover. The Shelf
Option 5: One of your guilty pleasure type books. Do or Die (Reluctant Heroes #1)

30.9 - TWO books, both the # in the series that contains either a 1, 4 or 6. Farthing (Small Change #1) from Butterflycager's list.
Option 3: Read a book that you have been highly anticipating. The Yard Dog (Hook Runyon #1)

[Fandury]

5.1 - Calliope
5.2 - Clio
5.3 - Euterpe
5.4 - Erato
5.5 - Thalia
5.6 - Melpomene
5.7 - Polyhymnia
5.8 - Terpsichore
5.9 - Urania
5.10 - Who's Your Muse? DC Universe by Alan Moore post 4131

10.1. A Random Trip Back in Time.
10.2. A New Year and a New Number
10.3. National Days.
10.4. Let's Go!
10.5. Older and Wiser
10.6. "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!"
10.7. You Can Do It!
10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances post 3078
10.9. Get to Know the Author
10.10. A New Book for a New Year

15.1 Returns and Exchanges
15.2 - Roman Numerals
15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships
15.4 Ring in the New
15.5 California Dreamin' Broken Souls post 3718
15.6 My Way Not My Father's Son: A Memoir post 2849
15.7 Creature Feature The Subtle Serpent post 3211
15.8 Under My Thumb The Deep post 3368
15.9 Public Enemy Lock In post 3954
15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U Unseaming post 3479

20.1 - Most Improved Player - Bea's task: January and Janus Stone Mattress: Nine Tales post 2317
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Erika’s Task: Feminism is for Everybody! Asylum post 1037
20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Caroling, Caroling … Night After Night post 1640
20.4 - Author! Author! - Gea's task: The College Years Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused post 1280
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Emurphy's task: 2 Sides to Every Coin Hot Lead, Cold Iron post 1871
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Alicia T's task: Deployment Afterparty post 747
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Berls's Task: Back to High School Magic's Pawn post 1040
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Angie CA's task: 5+5, 5+10, and 10+10 equals 20! The Sonnet Lover post 1017
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Jessica PDX's Task: Stop That Slump! A Woman of Consequence post 1071
20.10 - Group Reads

25.1 -- Angel **Book Junkie**'s task: New and Old Murder Unprompted: A Crime Novel Fortune Like the Moon post 2805
25.2 - Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators
25.3 -- Mrs.soule's task: Two Types of Tasks The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius Saga, Volume 1 post 2419
25.4 - Bluemoon's task: EGYPTIAN DIETIES The Last Policeman Foxglove Summer post 2718
25.5 -- Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve
25.6 -- Pamela3265's task: Let It Snow!
25.8 -- Hana C's task: Merry Saturnalia! Suffer Little Children Saga, Volume 2 post 2942
25.9 -- Pat's task: Narcissus & Echo Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season Crossed Blades post 3905
25.10 -- Lois's task: Book Group Books

30.1 - Captain America Girl's task: It’s All Greek to Me… The Sword-Edged Blonde Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World post 4063
30.2 -- Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey
30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Greek Key
30.4 - Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighbourhood
30.5 - Sandy's task: Atlantis The Forever Watch A Clash of Kings post 517
30.6 - Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun
30.7 -- Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
30.8 -- Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle
30.9 – Delicious Dee's task: You Are An Ironman The Emperor's Blades Death Comes to the Village post 2519

50.1 - Teri-K's task: Let's Start the New Year Off Right A Skeleton in the Family Death at Wentwater Court What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions post 3479

Total Points: 550
Books Read: 36
Goodreads Authors: 16
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(1)

[Nicola]

5.1 - Poetry - Henry IV Part 1
5.2 - Historical Fictions - Lady Susan
5.3 - Music - Jazz
5.4 - Love - The Lover
5.5 - Comedy - The Inimitable Jeeves
5.6 - Tragedy - Of Mice and Men (#72)
5.7 - Religion - The Nun?
5.8 - Dance - Billy Elliot
5.9 - Astronomy - Evil under the Sun
5.0 - Anything
40/50

10.1 - 1970 - Swords and Deviltry - Ffafhard and the Grey Mouser
10.2 - Number of pages contain 2015 - Arabella?
10.3 - National Days - The Colour
10.4 - Traveling - On The Road
10.5 - Learning - Futures and Options for Dummies
10.6 - The 39 Steps
10.7 - Fitness/Health - Eat Less Crap Lose that Fat
10.8 - Penguin - Here's to You, Jesusa! by Elena Poniatowska
10.9 - Author Interviews - Alexander McCall Smith, page 6
10.0 - Review Blog - American Pastoral
70/100

15.1 - Returns and Exchanges
15.2 - I, C, D, L, M, V, X - 1.Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words; 2. M - A Spell of Chameleon
15.3 - Greek/Roman Names and Mediterranean Country 1. The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty; 2. Dangerous Liasons (France)
15.4 - Ring in the New (March 1, 2014 - February 28)
15.5 - Set in California - The Big Sleep
15.6 - Autobiography/Memoir - Dispatches
15.7 - Under The Dragon: Travels In A Betrayed Land? Dragons at Crumbling Castle?
15.8 - .Picture of Thumb - 4.50 from Paddington
15.9 - Crime - Five Little Pigs - Agatha Christie
15.0 - Begin with 'U' - Ulysses?, A Question of Upbringing?
30/150


20.1 - 3: Doorway - Uncle Fred in Springtime
20.2 - Feminism - 2: Orlando #32
20.3 - Christmas Songs: Angels, Baby, Beginning, Bells, Christmas, Have, Heard, Here, High, Holy, Home, Like, Look, Night, Santa, Silver, Time, White, Winter, Wonderland, World - Tender is the Night
20.4 - 1: Book in Europe (not UK); 4: Notes from a Small Island?,
20.5 - Opposite Coin - Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the light
20.6 - Deployment: 1: Different Continent, Romance - The Pursuit of Love;
20.7 - Back to School: 1. School reread; Required Reading - Othello?; Heart of Darkness?,
20.8 - Henry IV Part II (Poetry and Historical Fiction)
20.9 - SLUMP - Lady of Quality - Georgette Heyer
20.10 - Good Omens
160/200

25.1 - New and Old: 3: A Question of Upbringing (Powell); 4: A Buyers Market
25.2 - Translators: 1: Queen Margot; 2: The Brothers Karamazov
25.3 - Two Types: 1 - Free book - The Sense of an Ending; 2 - The Old Man and the Sea
25.4 - Egyptian: A: The Summer Book; B: Bird on Cover - Eric;
25.5 - Number 12 - B: December 12 - Master and Commander?;D: Rabbit - Alice in Wonderland
25.6 - Let it Snow: A: Initials; B: Fire; C: Romance; Dressed Warmly - The Talisman Ring
25.7 - No Task this challenge
25.8 - Merry Saturnalia: 1. Any Book - Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows; 2.Winter picture, SciFi another planet
25.9 - Narsisis - 1. First Person - The Diary of a Nobody; 3. Single person on the cover - The House of Mirth
25.1 - 1: Book Club Read; 2: list - Frankenstein
100/225

30.1 - Greek to Me: 2: Romance - Georgette Heyer; 4: Ship - The Shipping News
30.2 - Homer's Odyssey: 1: Ulysses; 6. - Moby Dick
30.3 - Key. 2(Twist) Lord of the Flies (#52) 3.(Labyrinth) x 2 options both good
30.4 - Neptune A: The Wide Sargasso Sea; B: Billy Liar? (Keith Waterhouse)
30.5 - Atlantis - 2 A Clockwork Orange; 3: Wide Choice, late selection
30.6 - Twice the Fun - 6(Genre): Taran Wanderer & The High king (Fantasy)
30.7 - Stocking Filler - 2: Wild Thoughts from Wild Places; 3: After the Funeral - Agatha Christie
30.8 - Say Uncle - 5: The Black Moth; 2: Sparkling Cyanide?
30.9 - Ironman 3: The Book of Three; 2: Sula (Dustin)
60/270

[Kaora]

A Wizard of Earthsea

5 Point Tasks - 4 / 10
5.1 - Calliope
5.2 - Clio 1356
5.3 - Euterpe
5.4 - Erato The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
5.5 - Thalia
5.6 - Melpomene
5.7 - Polyhymnia Afterparty
5.8 - Terpsichore
5.9 - Urania Gardens of the Moon
5.10 - Who's Your Muse? Book of the Dead

10 Point Tasks - 6 / 10
10.1. A Random Trip Back in Time.
10.2. A New Year and a New Number For We Are Many
10.3. National Days.
10.4. Let's Go!
10.5. Older and Wiser American Murder Houses: A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide
10.6. Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth!
10.7. You Can Do It! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos The Snow Child
10.9. Get to Know the Author Skin Deep (Page 2)
10.10. A New Blog for a New Year Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
https://bfgb.wordpress.com/2007/07/21...

15 Point Tasks - 5 / 10
15.1 Returns and Exchanges A: What Alice ForgotB: The Unraveling (12/31/2014 Ready Player One)
15.2 - Roman Numerals
15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships The Flight of the Falcon
15.4 Ring in the New Seraphina The Autumn Republic
15.5 California Dreamin'
15.6 My Way Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examinerx
15.7 Creature Feature Dragons of Spring Dawning
15.8 Under My Thumb That Risen Snow: A Scary Tale of Snow White & Zombies
15.9 Public Enemy
15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U

20 Point Tasks - 7 / 10
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Bea's task: January and Janus Red Rising
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Erika’s Task: Feminism is for Everybody! Monday's Lie
20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Caroling, Caroling The Woman in White
20.4 - Author! Author! - Gea's task: The College Years 2: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Emurphy's task: 2 Sides to Every Coin
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Alicia T's task: Deployment Heretic
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Berls's Task: Back to High School 3: Ruin and Rising (2014)
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Angie CA's task: 5+5, 5+10, and 10+10 equals 20! Outlander
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Jessica PDX's Task: Stop That Slump! Saul of Sodom: The Last Prophet
20.10 Group Reads Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

25 Point Tasks - 5 / 9
25.1 -- Angel **Book Junkie**'s task: New and OldWithin These Walls Children of the Mind
25.2 - Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators
25.3 -- Mrs.soule's task: Two Types of Tasks A: Edge of EndB: The Fall of Hyperion
25.4 - Bluemoon's task: EGYPTIAN DEITIES B: The Magician's Lie C: Deadhouse Gates
25.5 -- Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve
25.6 -- Pamela3265's task: Let It Snow!
25.8 -- Hana C's task: Merry Saturnalia! Xenocide Son
25.9 -- Pat's task: Narcissus & Echo Assassin's Quest Shadow Scale
25.10 -- Lois's task: Book Group Books

30 Point Tasks - 7 / 9
30.1 - Captain America Girl's task: It’s All Greek to Me… 3: Golden Son 5:Suckers: A Horror Novel
30.2 -- Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey Lavinia
30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Greek Key 1: Ready Player One 4: Symbiont
30.4 - Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighbourhood
30.5 - Sandy's task: Atlantis 2: The Broken Ones3: The Dire Earth: A Novella
30.6 - Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun 4: Jericho's Razor Better Left Buried
30.7 -- Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care 3:Crushed 4: Vagabond
30.8 -- Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle 3: The Cold Commands 5: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
30.9 -- Delicious Dee's task: You Are An Ironman 3: Die Again 4: Owl and the Japanese Circus

50 Point Task - 1 / 1
50.1 - Teri-K's task: Let's Start the New Year Off Right 1: Firefight (30.7 #1 Not Orange Enough) 2: The Moonlit Mind 3: Station Eleven

Points: 680
GRA: 35
Big Book: 9

[Camilla]

The Seasonal Reading Challenge
Winter Challenge 2014-2015: Reading Plans
Duration: 01 Dec 2014 - 28 Feb 2015

Completed: 26/58

5.1 - Read a book with the genre "Poetry" on its main page.
✔5.2 - History/Historical fiction The Book of Life
5.3 - Read a book with an identifiable musical instrument on the cover.
5.4 - Erato: Love Dark Love
✔5.5 - Thalia: Humor/Comedy/Funny Diary of a Mad Bride
✔5.6 - Causes of ugly crying Angelfall #122 on the list; Susan Ee is GRA
5.7 - Religion I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
5.8 - Dancers Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection
5.9 - Celestial object Red Moon Rising
✔5.10 - Book of choice Ja muita novelleja

10.1. A Random Trip
Random number 21 -> 2015 - 21 = 1994
White Shark originally published in May 1994
10.2. A New Year and New Number The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance 512 pages; one BB ticket
✔10.3. 875 grammaa: Pirpanan tarina set in Finland, approved in task help thread message #29
✔10.4. Travel Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
10.5. Nonfiction Coroner's Journal: Stalking Death in Louisiana
10.6. Read a book with the main page genre "espionage" or "spy thriller."
✔10.7. Health When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
10.8. Penguin Witsec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program by Pete Earley (P and E)
✔10.9. Author interview Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, interview on page 4
10.10. A New Blog Enclave by Ann Aguirre (GRA)
Review: http://bfgb.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/...

✔15.1 Returns and Exchanges
Book 1 - Book read earlier and rated 5 stars: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman; chosen for this task by same author: Smoke and Mirrors; Neil Gaiman is GRA
Book 2 - Book read earlier and rated 4 stars: Sky Inside; readers also enjoyed (date checked 07Jan, but currently not listed) Nomansland by Lesley Hauge (GRA)
15.2 - Roman Numerals
Book 1: Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? contains I, C, D, L, M, V, X
+Book 2: Decline and Fall contains C, D, I
15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships
+Book 1 - Gates of Paradise by Melissa de la Cruz (Melissa is listed in the Greek mythology names); GRA
Book 2 - The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France (France)
15.4 Ring in the New
After the End published May 6, 2014 and is #1 in series; Amy Plum is GRA
15.5 California The Wild Shore
15.6 Memoir/autobiography Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life by Sandra Beasley (GRA)
15.7 Creature Feature Chimera: A Jim Chapel Mission
✔15.8 Under My Thumb 0.4 by Mike A. Lancaster (GRA)
✔15.9 Crime Veljensä vartija by Douglas Preston (GRA); 620 pages, one BB ticket
✔15.10 Word beginning with "U" Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi (GRA)

✔20.1 Most Improved Player - Bea's task: January and Janus
Option 2: Sacred Hearts (I listened to an audio CD, no MMP available, link to paperback Sacred Hearts) by Sarah Dunant
The book is set in Italy in year 1570.

20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Erika’s Task: Feminism is for Everybody!
Option 2: The Gate to Women's Country page 1, #72 on the list

✔20.3 - Book Concierge's task: Caroling, Caroling …
The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider (GRA)
Song: It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas -> the word "Beginning" used in book title.

✔20.4 - Author! Author! - Gea's task: The College Years
Kaislikon kätkössä the book is set in Finland

20.5 - Bigger is Better - Emurphy's task: 2 Sides to Every Coin
Option 2: The Unreal and the Real Volume One: Where on Earth approved in task help thread msg #58

✔20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Alicia T's task: Deployment
Option 1: Paha paikka by Gillian Flynn (GRA)
I live in Europe, the book is set in North America. The book is not a reread for me.

✔20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Berls's Task: Back to High School
Option 3 - The Best YA: Prodigy by Marie Lu (GRA) 2013 YA F&SF nominee

20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Angie CA's task: 5+5, 5+10, and 10+10 equals 20!
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure combines tasks 5.5 (humor as main page genre) and 10.4 (travel as main page genre)

✔20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Jessica PDX's Task: Stop That Slump!
Luminous by Greg Egan

✔25.1 -- Angel **Book Junkie**'s task: New and Old
Option 2: Dark Eden by Chris Beckett. The author is new to me.
Option 4: Visions by Kelley Armstrong (GRA) #2 in series

✔25.2 - Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators
Book 1: Tokyo Fiancée originally written in French; I read the Finnish translation
Samuraisyleily
Book 2: Battle Royale originally written in Japanese; 617 pages, one BB ticket

25.3 -- Mrs.soule's task: Two Types of Tasks
+Book A: Poika raidallisessa pyjamassa
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7.0
I got the book from the library
Book B: The Martian by Andy Weir (GRA)

✔25.4 - Bluemoon's task: EGYPTIAN DIETIES
B.THE SUN GOD RA - Kuoleman asetelma by Douglas Preston (GRA) 616 pages

D. THE GODDESS ISIS - Magical realism The Secret History of Fantasy genre approved in help thread msg #47

25.5 -- Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve
Option C: They Had Goat Heads by D. Harlan Wilson (GRA) Sign: Capricorn
Option D: Moonlit by Jadie Jones (GRA) Sign: horse

25.6 -- Pamela3265's task: Let It Snow!
Choose TWO different options below and read a book that meets the requirements for each option.
Option A – The Wall by William Sutcliffe
+Option C – “As long as you love me so…”: Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side, romance verified in task help thread msg #51.

25.7 No task

25.8 -- Hana C's task: Merry Saturnalia!
+Book One: The Sky Inside IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10.0
Book Two:
1. The Terror 769 pages

✔25.9 -- Pat's task: Narcissus & Echo
Narcissus
B. We Never Talk about My Brother by Peter S. Beagle (GRA) 219 pages
C. Magic for Beginners 297 pages
Both books are new to me.

25.10 -- Lois's task: Book Group Books
Read 2 books, one from each option below.

+Book 1. The Illustrated Man paperback
The Illustrated Man audio CD
Book read in December for my other group
Link to group's front page https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
Book 2. Read a book from the Most Popular bookclub books list. Just above the #1 book, you can select this week, this month, or all time; select your country or the world; and choose one of the books on the list.
Required: State which list among the options, the date the list was generated, and the position of the book you selected.

30.1 - Captain America Girl's task: It’s All Greek to Me…
I rolled 3 and 5.
3: The Paladin Prophecy by Mark Frost (GRA)
5: Blood Crazy

✔30.2 -- Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey
Option 5: Coffin County published in 2008
Option 6: Hyvät pahat pojat

30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Greek Key
+Option 1. 77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz (GRA)
Option 2. In the Woods by Tana French (GRA); #70 on the list

✔30.4 - Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighbourhood
A) What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg (GRA)
B) The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters; 576 pages, one BB ticket

30.5 - Sandy's task: Atlantis
1. Atlantis
+2. Kuivunut maailma

✔30.6 - Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun
I rolled 6
6.GENRE: The Ask and the Answer 517 pages (BB)
Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith (GRA)
both have YA as top genre

30.7 -- Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
I rolled 1 and 2.
1. The Manny by Holly Peterson (GRA)
2. Lump of coal - Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales by William M. Bass and Jon Jefferson (GRA)

✔30.8 -- Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle
Option 3: Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Horror Writing
Option 6: Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

30.9 -- Delicious Dee's task: You Are An Ironman
5. Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow #1 in series
6. The Dig by Michael Siemsen (GRA) #1 in series

[Tara Bieck]

This may be helpful to use...reserving a spot in case.

[Teri-K]

My first time with this challenge. Here's the plan:

5.1 - Genre "Poetry" Paradise Lost
5.2 - Genre "Historical Fiction" Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel, length approved #4233
5.3 - Musical instrument on the cover. Twelve Drummers Drumming
5.4 - "Love" found intact in the title, subtitle, series title, or author's name. Betsy and Joe: A Betsy-Tacy High School Story, IL: UG - BL: 5.0 - AR Pts: 9.0 by Maud Hart Lovelace
5.5 - Genre "Humor," "Comedy," or "Funny" Rock Chick Renegade
5.6 - Book found on the Causes of Ugly Crying list. Heartbreaker
5.7 - Genre "Religion," "Spirituality," or "Inspirational" Burning Sky
5.8 - Read a book that features dancers. The Rope Dancer
5.9 - Celestial object in the title Moon Over Manifest IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12.0
5.10 - A book of your choice. By Arrangement

10.1 - Random #33. 2015-33=1982 The Blue Sword
10.2 - Number of pages found in 2015 A Christmas Carol, 102 pp.
10.3 - Set in country celebrating a national day in Dec, Jan, Feb Sisterchicks on the Loose!, Finland
10.4 - Genre "travel" Bella Tuscany
10.5 - Nonfiction book that makes you wiser Adventures in Yarn Farming: Four Seasons on a New England Fiber Farm
10.6 - Main page genre "espionage" or "spy thriller" Mrs Pollifax on Safari
10.7 - Main page genres fitness, health, or diet/diets Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food
10.8 - Author's initials can be found in the word "penguin" Home to Harmony by Phillip Gulley
10.9 - Author interviewed by Goodreads Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, pg 2.
10.10 - Reviewed in Blogging for a Good Book Peter and the Starcatchers, IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13.0, http://bfgb.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/...

15.1 Two books
Book 1: Book by the same author you previously rated a book 4/5 stars Used Kiss of Steel by Bec McMaster, read Forged by Desire
Book 2: Recommended book associated with one you previously rated 4/5 stars Used Mrs. Mike, recommended book was A Girl of the Limberlost, IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18.0
15.2 Two books
Titles and/or subtitles together contain ALL 7 Roman numeral symbols/letters (I, C, D, L, M, V, X) Book 1: Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief, I, C, D, L, M, X
Book 2: Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish, "V"
15.3 Two books
Book 1: Author's name associated with mythology Love With the Proper Husband Victoria Alexander
Book 2: Set in a country that surrounds the Mediterranean Sea The Moonspinners, Crete, Greece
15.4 Two books
Book 1: First published between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015. The Auschwitz Escape, March 18, 2014;
Book 2: Identified on GR as book #1 in a series. (series, #1) Their Frontier Family
15.5 Set primarily in California Mission of Hope, San Francisco
15.6 A memoir or autobiography All Creatures Great and Small
15.7 Word in the title or subtitle: centaur, chimera, dragon, giant, gorgon, griffin, harpy, minotaur, pegasus, satyr, sphinx, serpent, siren, unicorn Facing Your Giants
15.8 Human hand on the cover shows a thumb I Shall Wear Midnight, IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17.0
15.9 Genre "crime" The Kalahari Typing School for Men
15.10 Word that begins with "U" in title Unveiled: Tamar

20.1 Option 2: Genre "Historical Fiction". Protected by the Warrior, Medieval
20.2 Option 2: From Best Feminist Fiction list. Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady, pg 6, #570
20.3 Title contains: Angels, Baby, Beginning, Bells, Christmas, Have, Heard, Here, High, Holy, Home, Like, Look, Night, Santa, Silver, Time, White, Winter, Wonderland or World. Finding Home
20.4 Option 1: Set in European Union Country. A Man Called Ove 
20.5 Option 1: Name of a US coin in the title/subtitle. A Penny for Your Thoughts
20.6 Option 1: Set on a different continent. Tears of the Giraffe
20.7 Option 2: From Required Reading in High School. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation pg 1, #31
20.8 Fits requirements for two 5- or 10-point tasks. Against the Tide, tasks 5.2 & 5.7
20.9 Author's name doesn't use any of the letters in SLUMP. Hidden Talents by Jayne Ann Krentz
20.10 Group read Candy Cane Murder

25.1 Two books
Option 1: New-to-you book by an author that you have read before. The Doctor's Mission
Option 2: By a new-to-you author. Grand Central: Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion
25.2 Two books
Book 1:Originally in Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Romanian. Cyrano de Bergerac
Book 2: Originally in Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, or Russian. The Odyssey
25.3 Two Books
Option 1: A free book, or 1 owned before Dec. 1, 2014. Mrs. Jeffries & the Mistletoe Mix-Up
Option 2: From my Goodreads five-star shelf. Kim
25.4 Two Books
Option A: Name of a season in the title or subtitle. Winter Woman
Option C: New book from a series you've read. A Lawman's Christmas
25.5 Two Books
Option A: The word “twelve” or “dozen” in the title/subtitle, or #12th in a series according to its listing on GR. A Civil Campaign
Option D: You Chinese zodiac animal on cover. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Monkey
25.6 Two Books
Option A – Author’s first and last initials in “LET IT SNOW”. Prince of Annwn Evangeline Walton
Option D – An individual dressed for winter on the cover.  Christmas at Fairacre: The Christmas Mouse, Christmas at Fairacre School, No Holly for Miss Quinn
25.7 No Task
25.8 Two books
Option 1: Any book that fits general rules. The Job
Option 2: Cover of outside winter landscape complete with snow. Dead Men Don't Ski 
25.9 Two books, Choice Narcissus-
Option B:“I,” “me,” or “my” as a stand-alone word in title/subtitle. My Kind of Christmas, 314 pp.
Option C: Exactly one person on the cover. His Secondhand Wife, GRA 296 pp.
25.10 Two Books
Option 1: A book you read for your book group in Dec. - Feb. When Jesus Wept
Option 2: From the Most Popular bookclub books list. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, #11 Dec. 31, 2014.

30.1 - Two books. Roll 2 dice for options. #2 & #4
Option 2: Love, romance, or music as a main page genre. Morning Glory
Option 4: "Ship’ found in the title, subtitle, or author’s name (first or last). Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy
30.2 - Two books, both a minimum of 300 pages. 
Option 5: Book first published in a year that contains an 8. Here be Dragons, 1985
Option 6: Water and boat on cover This Rough Magic
30.3 - Two books
Option 2: From the list Best Twists The Thief Pg 1, #49.
Option 3: Words labyrinth, maze, jungle, snarl, tangle, warren in title or subtitle The Jungle Books IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20.0
30.4 - Two books
Option A: "Water" or a term for a body of water in title. Gift from the Sea
Option C: Water large enough to swim in on cover. Force of Nature
30.5 - Two books, not kids.
Option 2: Genre "utopia" or "dystopia" on its main page. Animal Farm 
Option 3: Match a word of 4 or more letters from these lyrics. The Laughter of Dead Kings "kings"
30.6 - Two books. Roll 1 die for option. #2
Option 2: Authors who share a name. Alaskan Hearts, Teri Wilson and May Cooler Heads Prevail, Teri Dunnegan
30.7 - Two books. Roll 2 dice for options. #2 & #5.
Option 2: Read a non-fiction "science" genre book. The Trees in My Forest
Option 5: Read a book found on Popular Classic Retellings. Only Mr Darcy Will Do
30.8 - Two books, at least 250 pages each.
Option 5: One of your guilty pleasure type books. Marked
Option 6: A book that features either royalty or pirates. Captain Blood
30.9 - Two books, both the # in the series that contains either a 1, 4 or 6.
Option 1: Set at least 50% in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee or Georgia.Be Still My Soul, VA, #1
Option 3: Read a book that you have been highly anticipating.  Wake of the Bloody Angel, #4

50.1 Three books
Option 1: Close but not Quite. My Brother Michael, Reread
Option 2: Try, Try Again. And Then You Dye
Option 5: Be Resolved. A Novel Idea: Everything You Need to Know about Writing Inspirational Fiction

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5.1: Vintage Hughes by Langston Hughes
5.2: Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
5.3:
5.4: The Eaten Heart: Unlikely Tales of Love by Giovanni Boccaccio
5.5: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
5.6: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
5.7: The Witch Of Portobello by Paulo Coelho
5.8:
5.9: Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess
5.10: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

10.1: (Number 20, Year 1995)Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
10.2: (152 Pages) Hiroshima by John Hersey
10.3: (Set in India) Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
10.4: Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
10.5: Jack the Ripper - The Whitechapel Murderer by Terry Lynch
10.6: The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
10.7:
10.8:Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
10.9: (Found on First Page) Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
10.10: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

15.1:You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Short Stories by Alice Walker and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
15.2:Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and The African Queen by C.S. Forester
15.3:The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
15.4: She Who Finds A Husband by E.N. Joy and Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet
15.5:The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas
15.6:Night by Elie Wiesel
15.7:The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
15.8:Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
15.9:In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
15.10:She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

20.1: A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
20.2: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
20.3:Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
20.4: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
20.5:
20.6:The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
20.7:Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
20.8:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
20.9:The Lace Makers of Glenmara by Heather Barbieri
20.10:

25.1: Dust and Decay by Jonathan Maberry and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
25.2: Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25.3:Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
25.4:The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck and City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
25.5:
25.6:The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger and You're (Not) The One by Alexandra Potter
25.7:
25.8: Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut and The Outlander by Gil Adamson
25.9:The Temple Of My Familiar by Alice Walker and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
25.10:The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

30.1:A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura
30.2:1984 by George Orwell and An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
30.3:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling and Lancelot by Walker Percy
30.4:Cane River by Lalita Tademy and Dr. Franklin's Island by Ann Halam
30.5:The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Island by Aldous Huxley
30.6:The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer and The Cider House Rules by John Irving
30.8:Flesh and Bone by Jonathan Maberry and Spider's Web by Agatha Christie
30.9:
30.10:

Finished:

[Vicki Willis]

Winter Reading Plan 2014-15

5 Point Tasks - 2 / 10
5.1 - Calliope Skip
5.2 - Clio - Sarah's Key
5.3 - Euterpe
5.4 - Erato
5.5 - Thalia skip
5.6 - Melpomene - Looking for Alaska
5.7 - Polyhymnia -
★ ☀ 5.8 - Terpsichore - The Painted Girls
5.9 - Urania -
★ ☀ 5.10 - Who's Your Muse? - In the Dark★ ☀

10 Point Tasks - 4 / 10
★ ☀10.1. A Random Trip Back in Time - Motion to Suppress★ ☀
10.2. A New Year and a New Number - Presumed Guilty
10.3. National Days
10.4. Let's Go! Skip
★ ☀ 10.5. Older and Wiser - Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking★ ☀
10.6. Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth! - Hard Target
10.7. You Can Do It! Skip
★ ☀10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos Third Degree ★ ☀
★ ☀10.9. Get to Know the Author - Doctor Sleep (audible)★ ☀
10.10. A New Blog for a New Year

15 Point Tasks - 2/10
★ ☀15.1 Returns and Exchanges - Darkness, Tell Us
and 314
15.2 - Roman Numerals - The Advocate and Sex, Marry, Kill
15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships - Book 1: The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra Book 2: Secret Son
15.4 Ring in the New - Everything I Never Told You and Mr. Mercedes
★ ☀15.5 California Dreamin' - The Language of Secrets★ ☀
15.6 My Way
15.7 Creature Feature
15.8 Under My Thumb - Found
15.9 Public Enemy - A Date with Death: The Secret Life of the Accused "Craigslist Killer"
15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U - Escape: Book One of The Unchained Trilogy

20 Point Tasks - 4/10
20.1 Most Improved Player -
★ ☀20.2 Rookie at the Top - The Game★ ☀
20.3 Best Review, Caroling, Caroling - High Treason
★ ☀20.4 Author, Author - Come Monday★ ☀
★ ☀20.5 Bigger is Better - Inside/Outside
20.6 Deployment - Option3: The Truth About Alice
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter, Back to High School - Option 2: The Giver
20.8 Nickels and Dimes - A Thousand Splendid Suns
★ ☀20.9 Stop That Slump - The Martian ★ ☀
20.10 Group Read - Code Name Verity

25 Point Tasks - 5/9
★ ☀25.1 New and Old - Option2: The Night Class
Option 4: Die Again[★ ☀
25.2 Hats Off to Translators - Not attempting
★ ☀25.3 Two Types - Book A: [book:Cold Fear|17181452] and Book B: The Snow Child★ ☀
★ ☀ 25.4 Egyptoian Dieties - Option B: Bird Box and Option C: Pines★ ☀
25.5 Lucky Number Twelve - skip
25.6 Let it Snow - Option A: Saved and Option C: The Watcher
25.7 NO TASK
★ ☀ 25.8 Merry Saturnalia - Book 1: Old Flames Book 2: Snow★ ☀
25.9 Narcissus & Echo - Narcissus - B: Whisper My Secret /// C:
★ ☀25.10 Book Group Books - Book 1: In the Blood Book 2: Big Little Lies★ ☀

30 Point Tasks - 1/9
30.1 It's All Greek to Me - Rolled 3: The Perfect Scream Rolled 5: Wayward
30.2 Homer's Odyssey - Option 5: The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story Option 6: Sail
30.3 Greek Key - Option 2: Nineteen Minutes Option 4: Intensity
30.4 Neptune's Neighborhood - Option A: We Are Water Option C: The Lifeboat
30.5 Atlantis - Option2: Land, A Stranded Novel Option3: True North
★ ☀30.6 Twice the Fun - Rolled a 4, The Ghost Bride and Pyramid Lake★ ☀
30.7 Hang the X-Mas Stockings with Care - Rolled 1: Finding Claire Fletcher Rolled 3: Defiance
30.8 Make Your TBR List Say Uncle - Option 2: Inside Man and Option 5: Mean Streak (audible)
30.9 You Are an Ironman - Option 2: The Heist Option 3: Speak No Evil

Completed tasks: 18
Total Points: 315
GRA: 16

[Theresa~OctoberLace]

My hopes for Winter reading 2014-2015

5 Point Tasks

5.1 Calliope The Odyssey by Homer
5.2 Clio The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory
5.3 Euterpe
5.4 Erato
5.5 Thalia
5.6 Melpomene Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë #154
5.7 Polyhymnia
5.8 Terpsichore
5.9 Urania
5.10 Who's Your Muse?

10 Point Tasks

10.1 A Random Trip Back in Time. Random number 10, so I must read a book published in 2005. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
10.2 A New Year and a New Number The Poisoned Pilgrim by Oliver Pötzsch 512 pages
10.3 National Days. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth set in India
10.4 Let's Go!
10.5 Older and Wiser True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy because I want to know more about his life, particularly how he dealt with his brain cancer diagnosis.
10.6 Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth!
10.7 You Can Do It!
10.8 Our Friends in Tuxedos
10.9 Get to Know the Author
10.10 A New Blog for a New Year

15 Point Tasks

15.1 Returns and Exchanges Book 1 Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust Book 2 Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
15.2 Roman Numerals
15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships
15.4 Ring in the New
15.5 California Dreamin'
15.6 My Way
15.7 Creature Feature
15.8 Under My Thumb
15.9 Public Enemy
15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U Ulysses by James Joyce

[Margie]

Winter Reading Plan 2014-15

5.1 - Calliope New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
5.2 - Clio Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
5.3 - Euterpe The Scar Boys
5.4 - Erato
5.5 - Thalia
5.6 - Melpomene The Kite Runner
5.7 - Polyhymnia Have a Little Faith: a True Story
5.8 - Terpsichore
5.9 - Urania
5.10 - Who's Your Muse? A Good Marriage

10.1. A Random Trip Back in Time Paradise
10.2. A New Year and a New Number
10.3. National Days Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam
10.4. Let's Go! Paris: A Love Story
10.5. Older and Wiser Born to Win: Find Your Success Code
10.6. Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth!
10.7. You Can Do It!
10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos An Instance of the Fingerpost
10.9. Get to Know the Author Empire Falls
10.10. A New Blog for a New Year

15.1 Returns and Exchanges Returning to Shore and The Good House
15.2 - Roman Numerals
15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships Losing Battles and Beautiful Ruins
15.4 Ring in the New
15.5 California Dreamin' The Joy Luck Club
15.6 My Way A Christmas Memory
15.7 Creature Feature
15.8 Under My Thumb The Engagements
15.9 Public Enemy Wish List
15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U Us

20.10 Group Reads Candy Cane Murder

25.1 Angel "Book Junkie's" Task: New and Old Safe Haven and C is for Corpse
25.2 Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators
25.3 Mrs. Soule's task: Two Types of Tasks Elixir and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
25.4 Bluemoon's task: Egyptian Deities Still Life with Bread Crumbs and The Enchanted
25.5 Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve Death by the Dozen
and there is no goat

30.1 Captain America Girl's Task: It's All Greek to Me The Rosie Effect and The Barter
30.2 Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey The Last of the Mohicans and Homecoming
30.3 Dlmrose's task: Greek Key The Lock Artist and Water for Elephants
30.4 Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighborhood Without A Trace & Beyond A Doubt and Off Season
30.5 Sandy's task: Atlantis Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilization and Great House
30.6 Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun Code Name Verity and Ordinary Grace
30.7 Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption and No Place Like Oz
30.8 Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle Murder on K Street and I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
30.9 Delicious Dee's task: You Are an Ironman The Skin Collector and The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches

[Bea]

Alternate Book Plan

5.1 - Genre = "Poetry"

5.2 - Genre = "History" or "Historical Fiction"
The God of Small Things

5.3 - Musical instrument on the cover.

5.4 - "Love" found intact in the title/subtitle/series title/author's name.
The Law of Love

5.5 - COMPLETED

5.6 - Book found on the Causes of Ugly Crying list.
Eleanor & Park
Pushing the Limits
Thirteen Reasons Why
The Notebook
And the Mountains Echoed
The House of the Spirits

5.7 - Genre = "Religion," "Spirituality," or "Inspirational"

5.8 - COMPLETED

5.9 - Celestial object in the title
The Fault in Our Stars
A Thousand Splendid Suns

5.10 - A book of your choice.
___________________________________

10.1 - Random #6. 2015-6 is 2009. Book published in 2009.
Wolf Hall
The Thirteenth Child

10.2 - Number of pages consisting of digits found in 2015
Northanger Abbey (251)

10.3 - Read a book set in one of the countries that celebrates a national day in Dec, Jan, Feb

10.4 - COMPLETED

10.5 - Nonfiction book that makes you wiser

10.6 - Genre = "espionage" or "spy thriller."
The Honorary Consul
The English Assassin

10.7 - Genre = "fitness", "health", or "diet/diets"

10.8 - Author's initials found in the word "penguin".
Foucault's Pendulum (UE)

10.9 - COMPLETED

10.10 - Read a book that has been reviewed in Blogging for a Good Book
____________________________________

15.1 Two books
Book 1: Book by the same author that you previously rated their book 4/5 stars
Book 2: Recommended book associated with one you previously rated 4/5 stars

15.2 - Read TWO books whose titles and/or subtitles together contain ALL 7 Roman numeral symbols/letters (I, C, D, L, M, V, X)


15.3 - Two books
Book 1:Author's name associated with mythology
Book 2:Read a book set (at least 50%) in a country that surrounds the Mediterranean Sea

15.4 - Two books
Book 1 - Read a book first published between 3/1/14 - 2/28/15.
Book 2 - Read a book identified on GR as book #1 in a series. (series, #1)

15.5 Setting = California

15.6 A memoir or autobiography
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

15.7 Read a book with one of these words in the title or subtitle: centaur, chimera, dragon, giant, gorgon, griffin, harpy, minotaur, pegasus, satyr, sphinx, serpent, siren, unicorn

15.8 Human hand on the cover that shows a thumb

15.9 Genre = "crime"
Defending Jacob
The Bone House

15.10 Word that begins with "U" in title
Bring Up the Bodies
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20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5 - COMPLETED
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10 - COMPLETED
___________________________

25.1 - COMPLETED
25.2
25.3 - COMPLETED
25.4
25.5
25.6
25.7
25.8
25.9
__________________________

30.1 - COMPLETED
30.2
30.3
30.4
30.5 - COMPLETED
30.6
30.7
30.8
30.9
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50.1

[Carly]

5.1 - Calliope
5.2 - Clio
5.3 - Euterpe
5.4 - Erato
5.5 - Thalia
5.6 - Melpomene
5.7 - Polyhymnia
5.8 - Terpsichore
5.9 - Urania -- The Jasmine Moon Murder by Laura Childs
5.10 - Who's Your Muse? -- The Marauders: A Novel by Tom Cooper

10.1 -- A Random Trip Back in Time -- (#28 - 1987)
10.2. A New Year and a New Number
10.3. National Days
10.4. Let's Go!
10.5. Older and Wiser
10.6. Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth!
10.7. You Can Do It!
10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos
10.9. Get to Know the Author
10.10. A New Blog for a New Year

15.1 Returns and Exchanges
Book 1:
Book 2:
15.2 - Roman Numerals
Book 1:
Book 2:
15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships
Book 1:
Book 2:
15.4 Ring in the New
Book 1:
Book 2:
15.5 California Dreamin'
15.6 My Way
15.7 Creature Feature
15.8 -- Under My Thumb -- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly -- (Picture of Anthony's thumb on the hand that has his watch)
15.9 Public Enemy
15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U

20.1 -- Most Improved Player -- Bea's task: January and Janus -- The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines -- (Option 2: Historical Fiction)
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Erika’s Task: Feminism is for Everybody!
20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Caroling, Caroling... -- The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen
20.4 - Author! Author! - Gea's task: The College Years -- Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen (Option 1: Nice is in France)
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Emurphy's task: 2 Sides to Every Coin
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Alicia T's task: Deployment -- Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (Option 3)
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Berls's Task: Back to High School
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Angie CA's task: 5+5, 5+10, and 10+10 equals 20! -- Snobs by Julian Fellowes (5.2 - Clio [Historical Fiction] and 5.5 - Thalia [Humor]) (265 pages)
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Jessica PDX's Task: Stop That Slump!
20.10 - Group Reads

25.1 -- Angel **Book Junkie**'s task: New and Old
Option 1: The Heist by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg (Older books that I have read by these two authors are One for the Money and Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse) 304 pages -- Both authors are GoodReads authors.
Option 4: Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen (I've read the first two already in this series and the 4th.)(306 pages)
25.2 - Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.3 -- Mrs.soule's task: Two Types of Tasks
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.4 - Bluemoon's task: EGYPTIAN DEITIES
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.5 -- Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.6 -- Pamela3265's task: Let It Snow!
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.8 -- Hana C's task: Merry Saturnalia!
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.9 -- Pat's task: Narcissus & Echo
Echo
Book 1: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (213 pages)(Found on page 7 on 2/6/15)
Book 2: Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day by Toni McGee Causey (328 pages)
25.10 -- Lois's task: Book Group Books
Book 1:
Book 2:

30.1 - Captain America Girl's task: It’s All Greek to Me…
Option 4:
Option 1:
30.2 -- Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Greek Key
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Book 2:
30.4 - Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighbourhood
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Book 2:
30.5 - Sandy's task: Atlantis
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Book 2:
30.6 - Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun
Option 4: Book 1:
Option 4: Book 2:
30.7 -- Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
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30.8 -- Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle
Book 1:
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30.9 -- Delicious Dee's task: You Are An Ironman
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[Erika]

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[Jen]

5 Point Tasks
1. The Odyssey by Homer
2. The Eight by Katherine Neville
3. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
4. Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
5. Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-up by Grace Helbig
6. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling #66 on the list, on page 1 IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 44.0
7. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
8. A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin
9. The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
10. The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan

10 Point Tasks
1. The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White Random Number: 38
2. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
3. On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta Takes place in Australia
4. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank I wanted to learn more about WWII.
6. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
7. French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano
8. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
9. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson Found on page 2
10. Inferno by Dan Brown http://bfgb.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/...

15 Point Tasks
1. Book 1: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Rick Riordan
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17.0
I chose the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Book 2: Let's Get Lost by Adi Alsaid
I chose the book Landline by Rainbow Rowell on 11/19/14
2. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger I, L, M, V
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer I, C, D, L, M, X
3. Book 1: The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
Book 2:
4. Book 1: Atlantia by Ally Condie
Book 2: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
5. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
6. Bossypants by Tina Fey
7. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8.0
8. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
9. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
10. Under Gemini by Rosamunde Pilcher

20 Point Tasks
1. 2. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
2. Option 2: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Page 1, Number 1
3. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Word: Angels Song: Angels We Have Heard on High
4. 1. Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld Takes place in Austria.
5. Option 1: 20-Something, 20-Everything: A Quarter-Life Woman's Guide to Balance and Direction by Christine Hassler
6. Option 1: The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
7. Option 2: Lord of the Flies by William Golding Page 1 Number 4
8. Love Beyond Time by Nancy Campbell Allen 5.2, 5.4
9. The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17.0
10. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett

25 Point Tasks
1. Option 1: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith Also read Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Option 2: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens This author is new to me.
2. Book 1: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Book 2: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
3. Book A: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom I got this book from the library.
Book B: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. A. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
B. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. Option A: Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot
Option B: Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
6. Option A: Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Option B: Pants on Fire by Meg Cabot
7. NA
8. Book One: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Book Two: 1. The Sledding Hill by Chris Crutcher
9. Narcissus: A. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
B. Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock
10. Book 1: Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Book 2: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Found on Most Popular bookclub books - alltime list on 2/21/15. #40 on the list.

30 Point Tasks
1. 3: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23.0
4: Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy by L.A. Meyer
2. Option 1: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Option 3: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
3. Option 1: Magyk by Angie Sage IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18.0
Option 2: Atonement by Ian McEwan
4. A)Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
B) We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
5. 2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
3. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells Matching Word: island
6. 2. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen and Persuasion by Jane Austen
7. 4. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
5. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire Found on page 1
8. Option 1: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Option 2: Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
9. 2. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
5. Austenland by Shannon Hale

Total Books: 9
Total Points: 80

[Fiona (Titch)]

5 Point Tasks
5.1 Because I Am Furniture - Thalia Chaltas
5.2 Katherine Howard: A New History - Conor Byrne
5.3 - C. David Stephens
5.4 Will Love For Crumbs - Jonna Ivin
5.5 The Reluctant Jesus - Duncan Whitehead
5.6 Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma
5.7 The House of the Mosque - Kader Abdolah RELIGION
5.8 Kiss Me, Dancer - Alicia Street
5.9 Moon Dance - J.R. Rain
5.10 Whichever book I fancy

10 Point Tasks
10.1 - Kathryn Stockett. I got 6. So 2015 - 6 = 2009.
10.2 Shades of Gray - Andy Holloman (205 pages = 2015)
10.3 Tell a Thousand Lies - Rasana Atreya for India
10.4 Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland - Pamela J. Olson for Travel
10.5 Guarded: Surviving as a Female Prison Officer A Memoir - Susan S. Jepsen (would like to know more about how a female gets on in a prison full of men and also what it's like to work in a man's world.)
10.6
10.7
10.8 A Touch of Lilly - Nina Pierce (N P in Penguin)
10.9 #30 The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
10.10 I've Got Your Number - Sophie Kinsella (Romance)http://bfgb.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/ive-got-your-number-by-sophie-kinsella/

15 Point Tasks
15.1 Book 1: Tick Tock - James Patterson (Read The 6th Target by him) & Book 2: A Dog Named Slugger - Leigh Brill (Read Endal: How One Extraordinary Dog Brought a Family Back from the Brink and checked 18/11/14)
15.2 The Vampire Club - J.R. Rain = ICLMV & The Medea Complex - Rachel Florence Roberts = DX
15.3 Storm Damages - Magda Alexander & One Summer In France - Bev Spicer = FRANCE
15.4 The Paper Magician - Charlie N. Holmberg = September 1st 2014 & number #1 in series
15.5 Stanley, California - Sheila Evans
15.6 Goodnight Dear: The Unsentimental Diary Of A Bereaved Husband - Darren Humphries
15.7 The Sphinx Project - Kate Hawkings
15.8 - Kerry Wilkinson
15.9
15.10 Underworld Champions - Ella Stone

20 Point Tasks
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20.10 Candy Cane Murder or Code Name Verity or Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

25 Point Tasks
25.1 OPTION 1 Fall of Night - Rachel Caine (I've read Bitter Bloodin May 2013) and OPTION 4 Daylighters - Rachel Caine
25.2
25.3 Captivated by You - Sylvia Day (Brought 2/10/14) and Bossypants - Tina Fey
25.4 Summers & Winters - Heather Dowell Option A and The City of Malgar - Rosemary Lynch Option C
25.5 Twelve Steps to Murder - L.J. Rose and Running of the Bulls - Christopher Smith or The Golden Bulls - Weston Kincade
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30 Point Tasks
30.1
30.2 Kiss the Crystal Sun - Penelope King Option 4 &
30.3 Option 2 - - Yann Martel #16 & Option 3 - - James Dashner
30.4 Option A = WATER MARKED - Asher Grey (WATER) & Option B - Blind Lust - Annie Seaton (SEA)
30.5 Memories of Atlantis - Rogina L Fields Lewis & The Unknown Neighbor - Shaun Horton (NEIGHBOR)
30.6 NYPD Red - James Patterson & NYPD Red 2 - James Patterson (Both are Mystery) Rolled a 6
30.7 Torn - Christine Hughes & White Bones - Graham Masterton Rolled a 3 & 4
30.8 Wanted - J. Kenner (Option 5) & Command Me - Geneva Lee (Option 6 - Prince)
30.9 Hard Landing - Stephen Leather Option 3 & Tales Of A Teenage Bounty Hunter - Mike Bloemer Option 6 (Mike)
30.10

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GR Author = 0 tickets
Big Book = 0 tickets

[Barbara ★]

5 Point tasks
5.1 SKIP
5.2 The Hollow Hills - Mary Stewart
5.3 SKIP
5.4 Love You More - Lisa Gardner
5.5 Baby, I'm Yours - Susan Andersen
5.6 Archer's Voice - Mia Sheridan
5.7 SKIP
5.8 Read a book that features dancers.
5.9 Thunder Moon - Lori Handeland
5.10 - Who's Your Muse? Read a book of your choice.

10 Point tasks
10.1 Fortune and Fate - Sharon Shinn
10.2 Maiden Rock - Mary Logue
10.3 Blood of Tyrants - Naomi Novik
10.4 SKIP
10.5 SKIP
10.6 Read a book with the main page genre "espionage" or "spy thriller."
10.7 SKIP
10.8 Silhouette in Scarlet - Elizabeth Peters
10.9 A Bone to Pick - Charlaine Harris
10.10 The Witness - Nora Roberts

15 Point tasks
15.1
Book 1 - Bones to Ashes - Kathy Reichs
Book 2 - Much Ado About Vampires - Katie MacAlister

15.2
Book 1: Master of Craving - Karen Tabke (D L M V)
Book 2: The 6th Extinction - James Rollins (I X C)

15.3
Book 1 - Wild Things - Chloe Neill
Book 2 - Her Sky Cowboy - Beth Ciotta

15.4 Notorious - Allison Brennan
15.5 The Gods of Guilt - Michael Connelly
15.6 SKIP
15.7 If There Be Dragons - Kay Hooper
15.8 Archangel's Consort - Nalini Singh
15.9 The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths
15.10 Uncorked - Lois Greiman

20 Point tasks
20.1 - Dead Case in Deadwood - Ann Charles (door on cover)
20.2 - Taken by the Cowboy - Julianne MacLean
20.3 - Baby, I'm Yours - Susan Andersen
20.4 - Option 1: Street of the Five Moons - Elizabeth Peters (Italy)
20.5 - SKIP
20.6 - Option 1: The Viper - Monica McCarty
20.7 - Option 3: Seraphina - Rachel Hartman
20.8 - SKIP
20.9 - Ember's Kiss - Deborah Cooke
20.10 - Candy Cane Murder - Joanna Fluke

25 Point tasks
25.1
Option 2: Moloka'i - Alan Brennert
Option 3: Shaedes of Gray - Amanda Bonilla

25.2 SKIP

25.3
Book A: Absolution - Susannah Sandlin
Book B: Clean Sweep - Ilona Andrews

25.4
Option 3: Heart of the Wolf - Terry Spear
Option 4: Hexed - Kevin Hearne

25.5
Option 1: 206 Bones - Kathy Reichs
Option 4: One Heart to Win - Johanna Lindsey

25.6
Option B: Light My Fire - G.A. Aiken
Option C: Magic Breaks - Ilona Andrews

25.8
Book 1: choice
Book 2: Just In Time - Addison Fox

25.9
Option A: TBD
Option C: Flirting with Forever - Gwyn Cready

25.10
Book 1: Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Book 2: The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss


30 Point tasks
30.1
Option 3. - Rob Thurman
Option 5. The Monstrumologist - Rick Yancey

30.2
Option 5: Devil Bones - Kathy Reichs
Option 6: Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch

30.3
Option 1. 77 Shadow Street - Dean Koontz
Option 3. The Jungle - Clive Cussler

30.4
A) Water Bound - Christine Feehan
C) West of Want - Laura Kaye

30.5
Option 1. Waterborne - Katherine Irons
Option 2. Dr. Franklin's Island - Ann Halam

30.6 Rolled 1
Book 1: One Dance with a Duke - Tessa Dare
Book 2: The Duke Is Mine - Eloisa James

30.7 rolled 3 & 4
Option 3: Still Waters - Tami Hoag
Option 4: Dark Skye - Kresley Cole

30.8
Option 2: - Catherine Coulter
Option 6: Captured by the Pirate Laird - Amy Jareski

30.9
Option 2: Option 2: Just Desserts - Mary Daheim
Option 5: Option 5: A Trouble of Fools - Linda Barnes

[SarahA]

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8. neil gaiman

9. Stephen King

10. Susan Crandall

15 points

1.Started with by Matt Haig for both books
Book 1: By Matt Haig
Book 2: By James Smythe

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Book 1: X I C L
Book 2: D M V


3. ( set in Greece) (Counts as both)

4. By Martina Boone


5. by Robin Sloan

6. By Susie Kelly

7. BY Naomi Novik


8. By Margaret Atwood


9. By Truman Capote

10. By Nina Stibbe

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Option 1: . I have read Fingersmith amongst other books by Sarah Waters already.
Option 2: Donna Tartt is a new author to me


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Book 1: (Spanish

Book 2: (Greek)

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Book A: (already owned from bookshelf)
Book B:
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Big Book = 0 tickets

[Alex]

5.1 - Calliope
Poetry

5.2 - Clio
The September Society - Charles Finch

5.3 - Euterpe
musical instrument on cover

5.4 - Erato
Love is a Four-Legged Word - Kandy Shepherd

5.5 - Thalia
Slightly Single - Wendy Markham Read 12/6

5.6 - Melpomene
The Help-Kathryn Stockett (#51 on list)

5.7 - Polyhymnia
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

5.8 - Terpsichore
Quickstep to Murder - Ella Barrick

5.9 - Urania
To the Moon and Back - Jill Mansell

5.10 - Who's Your Muse?
Wicked - Sara Shepard Read 2/22


10.1. A Random Trip Back in Time
#6- book published in 2009
City of Glass - Cassandra Clare Read 2/18

10.2. A New Year and a New Number
# pages in 2015

10.3. National Days
set in country on list

10.4. Let's Go!
Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

10.5. Older and Wiser
nonfiction

10.6. Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth!
The English Assassin-Daniel Silva

10.7. You Can Do It!
diet or health

10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos pEnGuin
Where We Belong - Emily Giffin

10.9. Get to Know the Author - Stephen King pg. 1
Dreamcatcher - Stephen King

10.10. A New Blog for a New Year
Sex, Murder And A Double Latte - Kyra Davis

15.1 Returns and Exchanges
B1: from Watermelon - Last Chance Saloon - Marian Keyes

B2: from Watermelon - readers also like The Love of Her Life - Harriet Evans (looked up 11/19)

15.2 - Roman Numerals
ICVDLMX
The Next Thing on My List - Jill Smolinski (ILMX)
The Debutante Divorcee - Plum Sykes (CVD)

15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships
B1: name on mythology list
B2: set in foreign country on list

15.4 Ring in the New
#1 in series:
pub. 2014

15.5 California Dreamin'
Dead Weight - T.R. Ragan Read 12/2

15.6 My Way
- Tina Fey

15.7 Creature Feature
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsoon

15.8 Under My Thumb
- Cassandra Clare Read 2/22

15.9 Public Enemy
The Fleet Street Murders - Charles Finch

15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U
Knitting Under the Influence - Claire LaZebnik

20.1 January and Janus
Option 2: Historical Fiction
The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton

20.2 - Feminism is for Everybody!
high heeled shoe
- Beth Harbison


20.3 Caroling, Caroling
Seize the Night - Dean Koontz

20.4 The College Years
Option 1: The Girl Who Played with Fire- Stieg Larsoon (set in Sweden)

20.5 - two sides to every coin
Opposite words: boy - girl
Boy Meets Girl - Meg Cabot

20.6 Deployment
Option 1: set in country on different continent than where you reside
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsoon

20.7 Back to High School
2014 Best Young Adult Fiction - We Were Liars - E. Lockhart

20.8 Nickels and Dimes
satisfies two 5 pt or 10 pt tasks
Emily Giffin has been interviewed by Goodreads (task 10.9)
Her initials are in the word PENGUIN (task 10.8)
The One & Only - Emily Giffin

20.9 Stop the Slump!
no author letters in SLUMP
The Darkest Evening of the Year - Dean Koontz

20.10 - Group Read
Candy Cane Murder - Joanna Fluke

25.1 New and Old
Option 1: New book by old author - Perfect-Sara Shepard (I've read Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard) Read 1/27
Option 4: continue a series - Unbelievable - Sara Shepard Read 1/30

25.2 - Hat's off to translators
Book 1:
Book 2:

25.3
Book A: Fear Nothing - Dean Koontz
(already owned)
Book B: Three Wishes - Liane Moriarty

25.4Bearers of the Black Staff
B: bird on cover - - Suzanne Collins
D: genre "magic" - Sorcery and the Single Girl - Mindy Klasky

25.5 - twelve
option A: Size 12 Is Not Fat - Meg Cabot
Option C: Aquarius-"bearer" Bearers of the Black Staff - Terry Brooks

25.6 let it snow
B: fire - City of Heavenly Fire - Cassandra Clare
C: romance - Magic and the Modern Girl - Mindy Klasky

25.7 none!
25.8 Merry Saturnalia
Book 1: Any! Pretty Little Liars-Sara Shepard Read 1/19
Book 2: Option 1 - - Jill Mansell

25.9 Narcissus and Echo

25.10 Book Group Reads
B1: past group read - A is for Alibi - Sue Grafton Read 1/18
B2: pop book club read "all time" list #42: City of Bones - Cassandra Clare Read 2/8

30.1 - rolled 2 and 6:
2: romance, love, music on main genre page
Slightly Engaged - Wendy Markham Read 12/11
6: candle or candles on cover
- Mindy Klasky Read 12/6

30.2
Option 3: author initials in NOBODY
Option 6: sea and ship on cover

30.3 Green Key
B1: Option 1: -Dean Koontz
or A Stranger in Mayfair - Charles Finch
B2: Option 2: Best Twist list #141 - - Gregory Maguire

30.4 Neptune's Neighbourhood
A) body of water in title
A Burial at Sea - Charles Finch
C) water on cover - AG Henley

30.5 Atlantis
1) "dystopia" - The Defiance - AG Henley
3) matching word: Beautiful
A Beautiful Blue Death - Charles Finch

30.6 - rolled a 6 - matching top genres
Slightly Settled - Wendy Markham Read 12/7
Slightly Suburban - Wendy Markham Read 12/16

30.7 - rolled 1 and 3
1: bright orange cover: Flawless - Sara Shepherd Read 1/21
3: author initials in CHOCOLATE
City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare Read 2/14

30.8
Option 2: Red Cover
- Suzanne Collins
Option 4: 10 oldest "to read"
member of GR Nov. 2010
added to list March 23, 2011
Heart of the Matter - Emily Giffin

30.9 -Ironman
both in series at 1, 4, or 6
Option 2:
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins Read 12/20
Hunger Games series #1 (Moderator Kristina Simon rated it 5 stars!)
Option 5: SALT
Slightly Married - Wendy Markham Slightly series #4 Read 12/13


50


Total Books Read: 18
Total Points: 220
GRA: 14
BB: 1

[Anna]

5.1 - Calliope (poetry) October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
5.2 - Clio (history/historical fiction)
5.3 - Euterpe (musical instrument)
5.4 - Erato (love - title,series, or author)
5.5 - Thalia (humor/comedy/funny)
5.6 - Melpomene (ugly cry list) #23 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
5.7 - Polyhymnia (religion/spirituality/inspiration)
5.8 - Terpsichore (dancer)
5.9 - Urania (celestial object - title)
5.10 - Who's Your Muse?

10.1. A Random Trip Back in Time (48, 1967)
10.2. A New Year and a New Number (page number in 2015)
10.3. National Days
10.4. Let's Go! (travel)
10.5. Older and Wiser (NF know something more about)
10.6. Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth! (espionage/spy thriller) Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
10.7. You Can Do It! (fitness/health/diet) *Madness: A Bipolar Life
10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos (author initials, including middle, in penguin)
10.9. Get to Know the Author (author interviews)
10.10. A New Blog for a New Year Peter and the Starcatchers (IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13.0) https://bfgb.wordpress.com/2013/08/19...

15.1 Returns and Exchanges - 2 books (4 or 5 stars - same author & readers also enjoyed)
15.2 Roman Numerals - 2 books (I, C, D, L, M, V, X in title) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships - 1 or 2 books (name in mythology & set on Mediterranean sea)
15.4 Ring in the New - 1 or 2 books (published 3/1/2014 - 2/28/15 & 1st is series)
15.5 California Dreamin' (set in CA)
15.6 My Way (memoir/autobiography) Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie
15.7 Creature Feature (title - centaur, chimera, dragon, giant, gorgon, griffin, harpy, minotaur, pegasus, satyr, sphinx, serpent, siren, unicorn) Here, There Be Dragons (GRA)
15.8 Under My Thumb (thumb on cover)
15.9 Public Enemy (crime)
15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U (title - word begins with U) Under the Never Sky

20.1 January and Janus (door/gate on cover, Historical Fiction or Science Fiction, Coming of Age, Memory or Ageing lists, medical setting/practitioner)
20.2 Feminism is for Everybody (NF Feminism/Women’s Studies/Gender/Sexuality/Race, Best Feminist Fiction list, cover - pink object/high heel/shirtless man)
20.3 Caroling, Caroling - 250+ pages (title - Angels, Baby, Beginning, Bells, Christmas, Have, Heard, Here, High, Holy, Home, Like, Look, Night, Santa, Silver, Time, White, Winter, Wonderland, World)
20.4 The College Years - no children's (set in EU but not UK, NF economics, MC in college, foreign exchange student or Ex-pats list)
20.5 2 Sides to Every Coin (coin/penny/nickle/dime/quarter in title, opposites in title)
20.6 Deployment - new to you, no children's (set on a different continent, fiction MC is parent or NF parenting self help book, romance, Best Modern Day Military Accounts list)
*20.7* Back to High School (reread book from HS, Required Reading in High School list, GR Choice Awards for YA fiction or YA fantasy & sci-fi, MC is teacher) 2. Frankenstein (#24 on pg 1)
20.8 Nickels & Dimes (fits the requirements of two 5 or 10 point tasks)
*20.9* Stop That Slump! (author's name does NOT contain ANY of the letters in SLUMP) The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband (GRA) (5.5, 15.6, 25.1.2)
*20.10* Group read - post in discussion Code Name Verity (GRA)

25.1 New and Old - 2 books (old author/new book, new author, 1st in series/new author, 2nd+ in series/old author)
25.2 Hats off to Translators - 2 books, no kids (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or Romanian & Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, or Russian)
25.3 Two types of tasks - 2 books (A- free, B- Mrs.Soule's 5 stars) B Dash & Lily's Book of Dares (GRA) or Swell : A Girl's Guide to the Good Life
25.4 Egyptian Deities - 2 books (winter/spring/summer/fall/autumn in title, bird on cover, new or neglected series, magic/magical realism)
25.5 Lucky #12 - 2 books (12 - title or series #, author birthday 12/12, crab - title, dog - cover) You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness (GRA)
25.6 Let it snow - 2 books (author initials - let it snow, fire - title, romance, dressed for winter - cover)
25.7 - N/A
25.8 Merry Saturnalia! - 2 books (free book & cover - winter landscape, Food Related Non Fiction list, extra terrestrial sci-fi)
*25.9* Narcissus & Echo - 2 books, 500+ pages total, new to you (written in 1st person, tilte - I/me/my, 1 person on cover OR romance from Books With Sad Endings list, repeated word in title, 2 people on cover)
A Hate is Such a Strong Word (GRA) (10.3, 20.6.1, 20.6.3, 25.1.2, 25.6.3, 25.9.E3, 30.1.2)
C (GRA)
*25.10* Book Group Books - 2 books (YA/MA group read or SRC group read, Most Popular bookclub books list) 1. Hex Hall 2. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (#10 Jan 7, this week in US)

30.1 It’s All Greek to Me - 2 books (2-love/romance/music & 5-horror)
30.2 Homer's Odyssey - 2 books, 300+ pages each (classics, homecoming - title, author initials - nobody, Penelope/Athena/Calypso/Circe - title or author,publication year w/ 8 or the 24th, water & boat - cover)
*30.3* Greek Key - 2 books (key or lock, best twists list, labyrinth/maze/jungle/snarl/tangle/warren title, repeating pattern - cover) 1. IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12.0 (GRA) 4.
30.4 Neptune's Neighbourhood - 2 books (body of water in title, authors name, or on cover)
*30.5* Atlantis - 2 books, no kids (Atlantis/Atlanteans, utopia/dystopia, word in lyrics) 2. California 3. My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories (twelve)
30.6 Twice the Fun - 2 books (same top genre)
30.7 Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care - 2 books (2-NF science & 4- long TBR) 2The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor 4Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
30.8 Make Your TBR List Say Uncle - 2 books, 250+ pages (books about books, red cover, lgbt, 10 oldest TBR, guilty pleasure, royalty/pirates) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe & *The Ring of Solomon 5/20/13 & 5/13 (GRA)
30.9 You Are An Ironman - 2 books, series w/ 1, 4 or 6 1-VA Only the Good Spy Young 5-Dorothy Must Die

50.1 Midpoint task - 3 books

Read but unassigned:
*Madness: A Bipolar Life 10.7, 15.6
*The Ring of Solomon 30.8.4
*The Perks of Being a Wallflower 5.6, 20.1.3, 30.1.2
*A Christmas Carol 20.6.1 (Europe)
*A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other--and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way 15.2, 15.6
*Marina 20.6.1, 30.1.5
*We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a true story 15.6, 30.1.2
*The Angel Experiment 15.2
*Divergent 20.2.2 (227 on pg 3), 30.6
*Not Exactly a Love Story 20.8 (5.2 & 5.4)
*The Outside of a Horse
*Insurgent 20.2.2 (582 on pg 6)
*School's Out—Forever 30.6
*Riot 20.1.2
*Undivided 15.10

Total Points: 400
Goodread Authors: 18
Big Books:

Posts: 312, 2736, 4008, 4221, 4225, 4228, 4231

[Juana "Darkness"]

I'm in. Although I don't know what I want to read yet.

[[deleted user]]

I'm gonna try to make a dent in my challenge this time round...

POINT5
1:Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
2:A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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POINT10

[Teresa Jo]

5.1 - Calliope Poetry
Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Stephanie Hemphill

5.2 - Clio Historical Fiction
Beyond the Bougainvillea by Dolores Durando

5.3 - Euterpe Musical instrument on cover
Jazz by Gary Giddins


5.4 - Erato Love in title
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

5.5 - Thalia Humor
Deedee Divine's Totally Skewed Guide to Life by Diana Estill

5.6 - Melpomene #28 on list
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

5.7 - Polyhymnia Inspirational
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown Read

5.8 - Terpsichore Dancers
A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson

5.9 - Urania Moon in title
Waiting for the Moon by Kristin Hannah

5.10 - Who's Your Muse? Any book
Texas Splendor by Lorraine Heath

10.1. A Random Trip Back in Time Rolled 37, book published in 1978
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

10.2. A New Year and a New Number 250 pages
Hide in Plain Sight by Marta Perry

10.3. National Days Set in Cuba
Cuba Blue by Robert W. Walker

10.4. Let's Go! Travel
Travel as a Political Act by Rick Steves

10.5. Older and Wiser I want to learn more about our parent company.
Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values by Lawrence A Cunningham

10.6. Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth! Spy thriller, espionage
American Assassin by Vince Flynn

10.7. You Can Do It! Health, fitness
Yoga for Fibromyalgia: Move, Breathe, and Relax to Improve Your Quality of Life by Shoosh Lettick Crotzer Read

10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos Author's initials in "penguin"
Stardust by Neil Gaiman

10.9. Get to Know the Author Author interview, page 2, Karen Marie Moning
Iced by Karen Marie Moning

10.10. A New Blog for a New Year Review dated 6/6/2013
Escape From Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden Read

15.1 Returns and Exchanges
Book 1, 5 stars, Secrets by Jude Deveraux
Wild Orchids by Jude Deveraux
Book 2, Cat on the Edge by Shirley Rousseau Murphy, found 11/27/2014
The Big Kitty by Claire Donally

15.2 - Roman Numerals
Book 1, I,C,L,V,X
Executive Privilege by Phillip Margolin
Book 2, D,M
Midnight Sun by M.J. Fredrick

15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships
Book 1 and 2, by Victoria and Set in Greece
The Thread by Victoria Hislop

15.4 Ring in the New
Book 1 and 2, #1 in series, published July 2014
Divine and Dateless by Tara West

15.5 California Dreamin' Set in California
Dead Girls Don't Blog by Pamela Frost Dennis

15.6 My Way Memoir, autobiography
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

15.7 Creature Feature Sphinx in title
Sphinx by Robin Cook

15.8 Under My Thumb Hand with thumb showing
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer


15.9 Public Enemy Crime
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U Word in title begins with "U"
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

25.1 -- Angel **Book Junkie**'s task: New and Old
Option 3, New-to-me author, Book 1
Texas Destiny by Lorraine Heath
Option 4, Existing series, Book 2
Texas Glory by Lorraine Heath

25.2 - Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators
Book 1, Portuguese
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Book 2, Korean
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin

25.3 -- Mrs.soule's task: Two Types of Tasks
Book A, My choice, Owned since April 2011
Heir To the Everlasting by Janice Daugharty
Book B, From Mrs. Soule's 5 star list
Manhunting by Jennifer Crusie

25.4 - Bluemoon's task: EGYPTIAN DIETIES
Option A, Summer in title
Summer Island by Kristin Hannah
Option C, First in a series
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind

25.5 -- Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve
Option A, Twelve in the title
Twelve Days of Christmas by Trisha Ashley
Option C, Western zodiac, Leo the Lion
Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn

30.1 - Captain America Girl's task: It’s All Greek to Me…
Option 3, Prometheus, fire on the cover
Firelight by Kristen Callihan

Option 6, Cupid and Psyche, candle on the cover
Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur


30.2 -- Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey
Option 2, Homecoming in the title, 336 pages
The Homecoming by Dan Walsh
Option 4, Calypso in the title, 310 pages
Calypso by Ben Cero

30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Greek Key
Option 2, Best Twists, Page 1, #21
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Option 3, Maze in title
The Maze Runner by James Dashner

30.4 - Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighbourhood
Option A, River in title
Virgin River by Robyn Carr
Option B, Lake in author's name
Hostage Three by Nick Lake

30.5 - Sandy's task: Atlantis
Option 1, Atlantis
Atlantis Rising by Alyssa Day
Option 2, Dystopian
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

30.6 - Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun
Rolled a 2, Same name
Fly Away by Kristin Hannah
Home Front by Kristin Hannah

30.7 -- Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
Rolled a 3 and 4
Option 3, Author's initials in chocolate
Walking on Broken Glass by Christa Allan
Option 4, Treat yourself
Elisha's Bones by Don Hoesel

30.8 -- Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle
Option 1, Books about books
The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
Option 4, An oldie from my shelf
Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans by Rosalyn Story

30.9 -- Delicious Dee's task: You Are An Ironman
Option 2, Karen K. Miller's review
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
Option 3, Sense of anticipation
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

[Diane]

Didi3023: I am only planning to do part of the challenge.

5.1 - Calliope: Where the Deer Were: Poems

5.2 - Clio: The Pillars of the Earth

5.3 - Euterpe: The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

5.4 - Erato: Women in Love

5.5 - Thalia: Zombies & Calculus

5.6 - Melpomene: # 1. On the Causes of Ugly Crying List
Page 1 The Fault in Our Stars

5.7 - Polyhymnia: What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered

5.8 - Terpsichore: African American Dance: An Illustrated History

5.9 - Urania: The Far Side of the Sun

5.10 - Who's Your Muse?Killed At The Whim Of A Hat

10.1 - A Random Trip Back in Time: 2015-48=1967 One Hundred Years of Solitude

10.2 - A New Year and a New Number: 510 pgs The Poet

10.3 - National Days: Estonia Independence Day, declaration of independence from the Russia 1918 Purge

10.5 - Older and Wiser: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Native American History

10.6 - Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth!: Gone Girl

10.7 - You Can Do It! The Alchemist

10.8 - Our Friends in Tuxedos: The Accidental AlchemistGigi Pandian

10.9 - Get to Know the Author: Herman Koch

10.10 - A New Blog for a New Year:

[Diana S]

Diana S Reading Plans

5 pts
10 pts
15 pts
20 pts
25 pts
30 pts

[Alkmini]

5 points
1.Calliope: Macbeth
2.Clio: To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.Erato: The Four Loves
5.Thalia: Skipping Christmas
6.Melpomene: Mockingjay (#12)
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10.Gossamer

10 points
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4.Let's Go: Around the World in Eighty Days
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15 points
1.Returns and Exchanges: Book 1: The Casual Vacancy, Book 2: The Valley of Fear (3/12 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd )
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20 points
1. option 1
2. option 2 #31
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6.option 1 (I live in Europe. Book set in America)
7. option 2 #88 Les Miserables
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25 points
1.Option1:Gossamer Option 2: Down a Dark Hall
2. Book 1: The Stranger read in french, Book 2: The Last Black Cat read in greek
3.Book 1 : The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Book 2 : An Abundance of Katherines
4. option C: Uglies, option D: The Magicians' Guild
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8.The Fault in Our Stars has a celestial body in the title (task 5.9) and was reviewed on Blogging for a Good Book (task 10.10).
9. Echo: A:Looking for Alaska
10. Book 1: SRC The A.B.C. Murders Book 2: world, this week (8/12) #4 Let It Snow
30 points
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9.option 2 A Discovery of Witches https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and option 3 A Wizard of Earthsea
50 points
Book 1: option 2 -> Les Misérables started it and abandoned it two years ago. its not a reread.
Book 2:
Book 3:

TOTAL:
Books read:4
Tasks completed:3
Goodreads Authors:3
Big Books:0
Total Points:35

[Stephanie]

5.1 - Calliope
Poetry
Beowulf

5.2 - Clio
historical fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird

5.3 - Euterpe
musical instrument on cover
Sing You Home

5.4 - Erato
"love" in title
Redeeming Love

5.5 - Thalia
humor
How to Be a Woman

5.6 - Melpomene
#2, Page 1
Hopeless

5.7 - Polyhymnia
inspirational
The Book of Strange New Things

5.8 - Terpsichore
dancers
Mao's Last Dancer

5.9 - Urania
stars in title
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

5.10 - Who's Your Muse?
Any Book

10.1. A Random Trip Back in Time
(Random # 12) 2003
The Time Traveler's Wife


10.2. A New Year and a New Number
Haunted Kansas

10.3. National Days
set in India
The Lowland

10.4. Let's Go!
travel
Eat, Pray, Love

10.5. Older and Wiser
I know nothing about Scientology except some celebrities do it--time to learn!
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

10.6. Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth!
spy thriller- or espionage
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

10.7. You Can Do It!
diet or health
Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us

10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos
author's initials in "penguin"
Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women

10.9. Get to Know the Author
(page 2)
Life After Life

10.10. A New Blog for a New Year
chic lit- funny
Jackaby

15.1 Returns and Exchanges
Jane Austen, Emma (READ) to Jane Austen, Persuasion

Book 2-chose If I Stay-
The Book Thief (INSPIRED), Code Name Verity(accessed 12/3)

15.2 - Roman Numerals
Book 1: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Book 2: The Devil Wears Prada


15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships
The Glass-Blowers(Satisfies Both)

15.4 Ring in the New
The Young Elites

15.5 California Dreamin'
set in California
East of Eden

15.6 My Way
Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle

15.7 Creature Feature
serpent in title
Facing Your Giants

15.8 Under My ThumbHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
hand with thumb showing
The Paying Guests

15.9 Public Enemy
Crime novel
The Cuckoo's Calling

15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U
word in title begins with "U"
An Untamed State

20.10 - Group Reads
Christmas Chick-Lit
Candy Cane Murder

20.3-Caroling, Caroling


25.1 -- Angel **Book Junkie**'s task: New and Old
Book 1: Option #2 I, Claudius
Book 2: Option #4 The Vampire Diaries #2

25.2 - Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators
Book 1: Around the World in 80 Days (French)
Book 2: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World(Japanese)

25.3 -- Mrs.soule's task: Two Types of Tasks
Book 1: This Is How You Lose Her
Book 2: Unaccustomed Earth

25.4 - Bluemoon's task: EGYPTIAN DIETIES
Book 1: Winter Garden
Book 2: The Goldfinch

25.5 -- Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve
Book 1: Size 12 Is Not Fat
Book 2: Confessions of a Shopaholic

25.6 -- Pamela3265's task: Let It Snow!
Book 1: (Romance Novel TBD)
Book 2: Frostfire

30.1 - Captain America Girl's task: It’s All Greek to Me…
Book 1: The Goddess Test
Book 2: Ship of Magic

30.2 -- Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey
Book 1: (CLASSIC 300 pg)
Book 2: Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Greek Key
Book 1: And Then There Were None (#3 on the list)
Book 2: The Maze Runner

30.4 - Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighbourhood
Book 1: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Book 2: Tipping the Velvet

30.5 - Sandy's task: Atlantis
Book 1: Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
Book 2: Station Eleven

30.6 - Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun
Rolled a 5, National Book Award
Book 1: Redeployment
Book 2: Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China


30.7 -- Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
Book 1: Geek Love
Book 2: (any other book)

30.8 -- Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle
Book 1: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Book 2: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

30.9 -- Delicious Dee's task: You Are An Ironman
Book 1: Gossip Girl
Book 2: Hex Hall

[Meg]

5.1 – Calliope – Poetry Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion de desesperada y cien sonetos de amor
5.2 – Clio = historical fiction – Life After Lifeor Fall of Giantsor Between Shades of Gray
5.3 – Euterpe - musical instrument on cover Jigs & Reels: Stories
5.4 – Erato - "love" in title- Lovers And Newcomers or Beloved
5.5 – Thalia – humor- The Rosie Project
5.6 – Melpomene - causes of ugly crying- Allegiant
5.7 – Polyhymnia – religion- Lila or The Children Act or The Book of Strange New Things
5.8 – Terpsichore – dancers- Frog Music
5.9 – Urania - planet in title - The Girl Who Chased the Moon or Little Star
5.10 - Who's Your Muse? Any Book - A Wrinkle in Time

10.1. A Random Trip Back in Time - (Random # 27 =1998) - The Satanic Verses
10.2. A New Year and a New Number- The Book of Strange New Things - 512 p
10.3. National Days - set in Australia – Big Little Lies
10.4. Let's Go! Travel Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands
10.5. Older and Wiser The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
10.6. Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth! spy thriller- or espionage - Sweet Tooth
10.7. You Can Do It! diet or health Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos - author's initials in "penguin" The Ocean at the End of the Laneor phillipness or philipagregory
10.9. Get to Know the Author - Me Before You
10.10. A New Blog for a New Year - The Age of Miracles

15.1 Returns and Exchanges
15.2 - Roman Numerals
15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships – Golden Earrings
5.4 Ring in the New – The Paper Magician
15.5 California Dreamin' set in - California
15.6 My Way - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
15.7 Creature Feature Acorna: The Unicorn Girl
15.8 Under My Thumb - The Paying Guests
15.9 Public Enemy – crime – Burial Ritesor The Silkworm
15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U - Us

20.10 group readsGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

25.1 -- Angel **Book Junkie**'s task: New and Old
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.2 - Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.3 -- Mrs.soule's task: Two Types of Tasks
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.4 - Bluemoon's task: EGYPTIAN DIETIES
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.5 -- Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.6 -- Pamela3265's task: Let It Snow!
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.8
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.9
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.10
Book 1:
Book 2:

30.1 - Captain America Girl's task: It’s All Greek to Me…
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.2 -- Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Greek Key
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.4 - Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighbourhood
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.5 - Sandy's task: Atlantis
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.6 - Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun
Rolled a 1, two books with same word in title
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.7 -- Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.8 -- Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.9 -- Delicious Dee's task: You Are An Ironman
Book 1:
Book 2:

[Lacy]

Tentative plans

30.7 - Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
Rolled 3 & 4
3. Laura HillenbrandUnbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
4. The Rake

30.9 - Delicious Dee's task: You are an Ironman
2. Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover
3. Immortal

[Melissa]

Lacy wrote: "Tentative plans

30.7 - Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
Rolled 3 & 4
3. Laura Hillenbrand[book:Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and ..."

Oh Lacy - You are in for a treat - Never Judge a Lady is fabulous!

[Bec]

5.1 - 100 Best-Loved Poems by Philip Smith
5.2 - Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
5.3 - The Piano by Jane Campion
5.4 - Bad Love by Jonathan Kellerman
5.5 - Fobbit by David Abrams
5.6 - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
5.7 - True Grit by Bear Grylls
5.8 - Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
5.9 - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
5.10 -

10.1 - Blackout by Chris Ryan
10.2 - Hiroshima by John Hersey
10.3 - Time to Kill by Jack Coughlin
10.4 - Visit Sunny Chernobyl by Andrew Blackwell
10.5 - Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
10.6 - Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter
10.7 - A Guide to Living With Hypermobility Syndrome by Isobel Knight
10.8 - Coraline by Neil Gaiman
10.9 - Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
10.10 - Night of Thunder by Stephen Hunter

15.1 - The Watchman by Chris Ryan (rolled a 10) & Dead Zero by Stephen Hunter(from Kill Zone by Coughlin)
15.2 - Proximity: A Novel of the Navy's Elite Bomb Squad by Stephen Phillips & Lockdown by Sean Black
15.3 - Irreparable Harm by Melissa F. Miller & Masters of War by Chris Ryan
15.4 - Shock Factor: American Snipers in the War on Terror by Jack Coughlin & Any book 1st in series
15.5 - L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
15.6 - One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick
15.7 - Serpent by Clive Cussler
15.8 - Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
15.9 - Dying Light by Stuart MacBride
15.10 - Undersea Prison by Duncan Falconer

20.1 -
20.2 - Emma by Jane Austen (option 2, #38 on list)
20.3 - Time to Hunt by Stephen Hunter
20.4 -
20.5 -
20.6 - Any book set outside of Australia
20.7 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
20.8 - Aggressor by Andy McNab (rolled a 10)
20.9 - Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
20.10 - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

25.1 - Read a new to me book by an author I have read before & Read a book in a series that I have already started
25.2 - The Periodic Table by Primo Levi & Greek, Russian, Japanese or chinese translation
25.3 - Any library book/free book & Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
25.4 - Victims by Jonathan Kellerman & The Broken Places by Ace Atkins
25.5 - Exit Wound by Andy McNab & any Sophie Kinsella
25.6 - a Stephen Leather rereaf & Virgin River by Robyn Carr
25.7 - NO TASK
25.8 - Any book & Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger
25.9 - Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie & Hunter-Killer by Chris Ryan
25.10 - Map of Bones by James Rollins & The Light Between Oceans (#5, Australia, all time)

30.1 - 4 - Plague Ship by Clive Cussler & 6 - The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman
30.2 - Fire Ice by Clive Cussler & Flesh House by Stuart MacBride (pub 2008)
30.3 - In the Woods by Tana French #69 on list & The Maze Runner by James Dashner
30.4 - Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger & Blue Gold by Clive Cussler
30.5 - Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler & Time Bomb by Jonathan Kellerman (time in song)
30.6 - Read two books from the same series
30.7 - 4 - any book & 6 - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
30.8 - Killing for the Company by Chris Ryan & A guilty pleasure book - some trashy action novel.
30.9 - Flesh House by Stuart MacBride & A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton

[Bouchra]

Bouchra's Reading Plan

5 pointers:
5.1 -
5.2 -
5.3 -
5.4 -
5.5 -
5.6 - The Kite Runner
5.7 -
5.8 -
5.9 - A Thousand Splendid Suns
5.10 -

10 pointers:
10.1 - 1983
10.2 - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
10.3 -
10.4 -
10.5 -
10.6 -
10.7 -
10.8 -
10.9 - It
10.10 -

15 pointers:
15.1 -
15.2 -
15.3 - (1) , (2) Children of the New World
15.4 -
15.5 -
15.6 -
15.7 -
15.8 -
15.9 -
15.10 - From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

20 pointers:
20.1 -
20.2 -
20.3 -
20.4 -
20.5 -
20.6 -
20.7 -
20.8 -
20.9 -
20.10 - Code Name Verity

25 pointers:
25.1 - () , (4) The Scorch Trials
25.2 - (1) The Plague, (2) 1Q84
25.3 - (1) , (2) The World Without Us
25.4 -
25.5 -
25.6 -
25.7 - NO TASK
25.8 -
25.9 -
25.10 -

30 pointers:
30.1 -
30.2 -
30.3 - (2) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, (3/4)
30.4 - (A) , (B)
30.5 - (1) Atlantis, (2)
30.6 - (3) 2 Hercule Poirot books (#4,#5)
30.7 - (2) The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality, (6)
30.8 - (2) The Great Zoo of China, (4) Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
30.9 - (2) City of Bones, (6) The Tournament

[Amanda]

Amanda D.'s Reading Progress

15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships
Read TWO books, one from Book 1 and one from Book 2
(1) Read a book by an author whose name (in any position) is found on one of these lists:

Greek Mythology Names
Roman Mythology Names

Required: State the author's name.
Blood Assassin by Alexandra Ivy

(2 )Read a book set (at least 50%) in a country that surrounds the Mediterranean Sea using this list Mediterranean Countries

Required: State the country

[btwthesepages]

Arshiya's Challenge tracking Post:

5.1 - Calliope
->Genre: Poetry
5.2 - Clio
->Genre: History, Historical fiction, Military History, Historical Romance, Historical Mystery
5.3 - Euterpe
->Cover: Musical instrument
5.4 - Erato
5.5 - Thalia
5.6 - Melpomene
5.7 - Polyhymnia
5.8 - Terpsichore
5.9 - Urania
5.10 - Who's Your Muse?
10.1. A Random Trip Back in Time.
10.2. A New Year and a New Number
10.3. National Days.
10.4. Let's Go!
10.5. Older and Wiser
10.6. Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth!
10.7. You Can Do It!
10.8. Our Friends in Tuxedos
10.9. Get to Know the Author
10.10. A New Blog for a New Year
15.1 Returns and Exchanges
15.2 - Roman Numerals
15.3 Launch A Thousand Ships
15.4 Ring in the New
15.5 California Dreamin'
15.6 My Way
15.7 Creature Feature
15.8 Under My Thumb
15.9 Public Enemy
15.10 All I Want For Christmas is U
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Bea's task: January and Janus
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Erika’s Task: Feminism is for Everybody!
20.3 - Best Review - Book Concierge's task: Caroling, Caroling …
20.4 - Author! Author! - Gea's task: The College Years
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Emurphy's task: 2 Sides to Every Coin
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Alicia T's task: Deployment
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Berls's Task: Back to High School
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Angie CA's task: 5+5, 5+10, and 10+10 equals 20!
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Jessica PDX's Task: Stop That Slump!
20.10 - Group Reads
25.1 -- Angel **Book Junkie**'s task: New and Old
25.2 - Andy P's task: Hats off to Translators
25.3 -- Mrs.soule's task: Two Types of Tasks
25.4 - Bluemoon's task: EGYPTIAN DEITIES
25.5 -- Dakimel's task: Lucky Number Twelve
25.6 -- Pamela3265's task: Let It Snow!
25.7 -- Allison Ann's task:
25.8 -- Hana C's task: Merry Saturnalia!
25.9 -- Pat's task: Narcissus & Echo
25.10 -- Lois's task: Book Group Books
30.1 - Captain America Girl's task: It’s All Greek to Me…
30.2 -- Hina's task: Homer's Odyssey
30.3 - Dlmrose's task: Greek Key
30.4 - Annapoorni's task: Neptune's Neighbourhood
30.5 - Sandy's task: Atlantis
30.6 - Elizabeth B's task: Twice the Fun
30.7 -- Catherine T's task: Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
30.8 -- Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: Make Your TBR List Say Uncle
30.9 -- Delicious Dee's task: You Are An Ironman

[Happy]

5 Pointers
5.1 - Calliope - Poetry
5.2 - Clio - History
5.3 - Eurterpe - Music
5.4 - Erato - Love
5.5 - Thalia - Comedy

5.6 - Melpomene - Tragedy
5.7 - Polyhymnia - Divine hymns and poetry
5.8 - Terpsichore - Dance
5.9 - Urania - Astronomy

5.10 - Who's Your Muse?

10 Pointers
10.1 - A Random Trip Back in Time
10.2 - A New Year and a New Number
10.3 - National Days
10.4 - Let's Go!
10.5 - Older and Wiser

10.6 - Better Check that Gift Horse's Mouth!
10.7 - You Can Do It!
10.8 - Our Friends in Tuxedos
10.9 - Get to Know the Author

10.10 - A New Blog for a New Year


15 Pointers
15.1 - Returns and Exchanges
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15.2 - Roman Numerals
15.3 - Launch a Thousand Ships
15.4 - Ring in the New
15.5 - California Dreamin'
15.6 - My Way

15.7 - Creature Feature
15.8 - Under My Thumb
15.9 - Public Enemy
15.10 - All I Want for Christmas is U


20 Pointers
20.1 - January and Janus

20.2 - Feminism is for Everybody

20.3 - Caroling, Caroling...
20.4 - The College Years
20.5 - 2 Sides to Every Coin
20.6 - Deployment

20.7 - Back to High School
20.8 - 5+5, 5+10, and 10+10 equals 20!

20.9 - Stop that Slump!
20.10 - Group Reads


25 Pointers
25.1 - New and Old
25.2 - Hats off to Translators
25.3 - Two Types of Tasks
25.4 - Egyptian Deities
25.5 - Lucky Number Twelve
25.6 - Let It Snow!
25.8 - Merry Saturnalia!
25.9 - Narcissus & Echo
25.10 - Book Group Books

30 Pointers
30.1 - It's all Greek to Me
30.2 - Homer's Odyssey
30.3 - Greek Key
30.4 - Neptune's Neighbourhood
30.5 - Atlantis
30.6 - Twice the Fun
30.7 - Hang the Christmas Stockings with Care
30.8 - Make your TBR List say Uncle
30.9 - You are an Ironman

50 Pointer

[[deleted user]]

5.1
5.2 The Yard
5.3 Little Women
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10 Skipping Christmas

10.1
10.2 The Return of the King
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8 Cranford
10.9 Gathering Blue
10.10

15.1
book 1
book 2
15.2
book 1
book 2
15.3
book 1
book 2
15.4 Maplecroft
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9 Naked in Death
15.10

20.1
20.2 Eat Cake
20.3 The Woman in White
20.4 The Miniaturist
20.5
20.6 Mudbound
20.7 Wuthering Heights
20.8 The Fault in Our Stars
20.9 Wizard's First Rule
20.10

25.1
book 1 The Westing Game
book 2 The Bone Season
25.2
book 1 The Count of Monte Cristo
book 2
25.3
book 1 The Turn of the Screw
book 2 The Martian
25.4
book 1 Ruby Red
book 2 Shadow and Bone
25.5
book 1
book 2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
25.6
book 1 The Secrets She Carried
book 2
25.8
book 1 Frost At Christmas
book 2
25.9
book 1
book 2
25.10
book 1 Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
book 2 What Alice Forgot

30.1
book 1 The Fellowship of the Ring
book 2 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
30.2
book 1 The Two Towers
book 2
30.3
book
book 2 Counting by 7s
30.4
book 1 The Paying Guests
book 2
30.5
book 1
book 2
30.6
book 1
book 2
30.7
book 1
book 2
30.8
book 1 Bad Blood
book 2 Atonement
30.9
book 1 The Name of the Wind Dlmrose
book 2

Total Points: 190
Tasks Completed: 12
GR Authors: 9
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

[Deana]

Already claimed:
5.2 Half Blood Blues
10.10 The Blind Assassin
15.8 The Door into Summer
20.1 The Virgin Suicides
20.2 Forever
20.4 The Finnish Line
25.1.1 Perfect
25.1.2 Sorry Please Thank You: Stories
25.9.N.C Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
25.9.N.B I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
30.6.1.a The Chocolate War
30.6.1.b The Mapmaker's War

Ideas:
ANY BOOK: 25.3(A), 25.8(1)

Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health 10.5, 10.7, 20.6(2)?
Still Alice



These can be paired with ANY library book.
25.3(B) The Martian, Unaccustomed Earth, Ender's Shadow


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This Post: 4146
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets: 1
Points: 10

Totals:
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 9
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Points: 145
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