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25.10 - Sirena's Task: Ready for Their Close-up - I always get excited to watch the Oscars because it often inspires me to see new movies and to try new genres - and now it has inspired this task. This is a two book task; so please pick two options and read one book for each. Required: Identify the options
Option 1: Shorts: My favorite category over the last several years has been Best Live Action Short. For this task, read a book with a page count between 100 and 200 pages.
Violence In Velvet - this is the Kindle edition, but amazon lists the paperback edition at 127 pages.
Option 4: Song: This year, Common and John Legend delivered a very powerful and moving performance of their song "Glory" from the movie "Selma." For this task, read a book by an author whose initials can be found in GLORY and/or SELMA. You can use letters from one or both words. Author middle initials may be ignored. Letters may only be used as many times as they occur.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (SELMA)
Points this task: 25
Total points: 235
Books read: 16
Tasks completed: 8
15.3 Is it Live or is it Memorex? Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Option 2
- A: Four words in title
- B: First published in 1976
15.5 International Women's Day
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Shortlisted for 2012 Baileys/Orange Prize
30.1 Straight on Till Morning
by Sherryl WoodsCarousel on cover
We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee
DIY writer becomes zookeeper
*Neither book was a re-read.*
30.4 Spring Renewal
Shadows on the Moon by Zoë Marriott
GR recommendation based on YA shelf.
*Zoe Marriott is a Goodreads Author.*
Hard to Come By by Laura Kaye
Found on "Popular Books my Friends Read this Month" list on 3/19/15; read by 1 friend.
*Laura Kaye is a Goodreads Author.*
Points this Post: 90
Total Points: 405
Harm NL20.10 Group Reads
I read Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain and wrote a post about in the discussion thread (message 26).
* Susan Cain is a Goodreads Author*
Catherine TTask 30.4 - Spring Renewal for Your Reading Ideas
book 1 - based on a GR recommendation, from my shelf "vampire"
Tempted by PC & Kirstin Cast
book 2 - based on popular with friends
Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
1 friend read, as at 28 Feb
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total points = 440
etwatson20.1 Most Improved Player- Julia103's Task: What's in a Name
Option 4: Tyr (god of war) - The letters in TYR also spell TRY. Read a book from the first 10 pages of either of these shelving lists Did Not Finish or Abandoned.
Required: State the shelf and the page on which your book appeared.
Stardust by Neil Gaiman found on page 9 of the Abandoned Shelf
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 20
Elizabeth B20.8 - MegSCL's Task: Getting to Know Seasonal Reading Challengers
Option 2: I'm a teacher, and the MC is also a teacher (approved at the task thread)
Bad Boyfriend
25.8 - Coralie's Task: Anzac Day
Option 1: I read The Blinding Light and Loving Jay
by Renae Kaye, an author born in Australia
25.12 Elizabeth B's task
Option A: genre war Evenfall Vol. 1 Director's Cut and Evenfall Vol. 2 Director's Cut
Option C: Published on March 2nd 2010 A Local Habitation
Points: 70
Total points: 245+70=315
trishhartuk20.4 Author! Author! - Elizabeth P’s Task: End of an Era
Option Two. Repetition, Repetition, Repetition! Read a book that has three words in the title, two of which must start with the same letter. Subtitles can be ignored.
Death Dines Out, Claudia Bishop
Goodreads Author: No
Big Book: No
Points this Task: 20
Books Read: 1
Tasks completed: 10
Total points: 210
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 0
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25.10 - Sirena's Task: Ready for Their Close-up - I always get excited to watch the Oscars because it often inspires me to see new movies and to try new genres - and now it has inspired this task. This is a two book task; so please pick two options and read one book for each. Required: Identify the options
Option 1: Shorts: My favorite category over the last several years has been Best Live Action Short. For this task, read a book with a page count between 100 and 200 pages.
Violence In Velvet - this is the Kindle edition, but the GR page for the paperback edition lists the size at 127 pages.
Option 4: Song: This year, Common and John Legend delivered a very powerful and moving performance of their song "Glory" from the movie "Selma." For this task, read a book by an author whose initials can be found in GLORY and/or SELMA. You can use letters from one or both words. Author middle initials may be ignored. Letters may only be used as many times as they occur.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (SELMA)
Points this task: 25
Total points: 235
Books read: 16
Tasks completed: 8
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20.3 - Best Review - Cait S's Task: Thinly Veiled Marvel References
Option 3: Where She Went by Gayle Forman
*Gayle Forman is a Goodreads author
*This book is not a re-read
Points this Task: 20
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books Tickets: 1
Total Points: 60
Mimi Michele15.3 Is It Live or is It Memorex
Option 1
4 words in the title:Up The Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
Up the Down Staircase
Option 2
book first published between 1965-1979
Below Stairs by Margaret Powell first published in 1968
Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid
CURRENT POST
Points: 15
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
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CUMULATIVE TOTAL
Total Points: 160
Total Goodreads Authors: 5
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
Task 10.10 The Odd CoupleEveryday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All Around Us by Oscar E. Fernandez
Task 30.2 Dlmrose's Task
Book 1
Brandwashed by Martin Lindstrom
Martin LIndstrom: Initials M L
Book 2
Murder List by Julie Garwood
Murder List: Initials M L
This post Points: 40
Total to Date: 105
Jonquil10.7 - Typhoid Mary
page 2 book 107 on 3/29
Started 4 different books for this task, obviously not my genre. :)
Peeps
Scott Westerfeld
Paperback 312 pages 3/29
Points this post: 10
Total points: 560
Books posted: 46
Tasks complete: 38
Pages this post: 312
Total pages as of this post: 13312
Shiraloo10.4 - May the Fourth Be With You
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Science Fiction genre on main page.
CURRENT POST
Points: 10
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
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CUMULATIVE TOTAL
Total Points: 315
Total Goodreads Authors: 15
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
Andy P.Task # 5.2 Vanaheim, the Home of the Vanir
Read a book with a nine letter word in the title or subtitle
by Jan Burke 9 letter word is Mes/sin/gerPoints this post: 5
Total points: 155
Andy P.Task # 5.9 Muspelheim, the Home of the Fire Giants and Demons.
Read a book set (at least 50%) in a country found in the Ring of Fire (Japan)
by Fuminori Nakamura book is set in Tokyo, JapanPoints this post: 5
Total points: 160
Andy P.Task # 25.2 - Schatzie’s Task: Garden Quotes
Option 1.Read a book that has a flower or flowers on the cover.
by Nevada Barr. Flower just coming into bloom on cover. Not a rereadOption 2. Read a book with the main page genre of “Crime”, “Mystery”, “Suspense”, or Thriller”.
by Owen LaukkanenNot a reread. Mystery (23 users) Crime (13 users)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 185
Blueberry30.7 I Love My Library!
The author I read in the Winter Challenge was a new to me author, Beryl Markham.
The 2nd author I read for the Spring Challenge was also a new to me author, Wendy MacNaughton.
They are both found on the shelf [LOG-MCC]
Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in its Own Words by Wendy MacNaughton
Pts this task: 30
Total pts: 30
BB: 0
GRE: 0
SCHATZIE20.10: GROUP READS
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain --- > GR AUTHOR
Points this post: 20
Total Challenge Points: 490
GRA: 17
BB (500)- 1
BB (750)- 0
BB (1000)- 0
25.9 - Nick KY’s Task: “Y”choose two different options and read 1 book for each
Option 1. Read a book with the letter “Y” somewhere in the title or subtitle.
I read Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution: A Celebration of Design from Art Silk to Nylon and Thinking Fibres by Susannah Handley
Option 3. read any book from one of the following Listopias upon which Fire Season falls
From the Real Man books list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
I read A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
which is currently #19 on the list
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 345
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(0)
NICOLE OH10.9 - Over the Rainbow
Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin (GR in ROYGBIV)
Gretchen Rubin is a Goodreads author.
20.7- Shorter is Sweeter- BellaGBear’s Task: Relive Childhood Feelings
Tell the Wolves I'm Home- found on page 1 of the Child Narrator list
Carol Rifka Brunt is a Goodreads author.
POINTS
This Post: 30
Total Points: 295
Books Read: 21
Goodreads Authors: 17
Big Books: [500+: 1] [750+: 0] [1000+: 0]
20.1 What's in a Name Option 4: From DNF list pg 4
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
New points this post: 20
Total w/this post: 400
GRA tickets this post: 0
Total w/this post: 12
Big Books this post: 0
Total w/this post: 3
Total tasks completed: 21
Total books claimed: 30
Post: #1103
5.5 - Jotunheim, the Home of the GiantsGlass (YA genre)
10.1 - Remarkable Women
The Constant Princess
Page 1, Book #4 on the Remarkable Historical Women in Fiction list
25.2 - Schatzie's Task: Garden Quotes
Option 2 - The Body in the Library (Mystery genre - not a re-read)
Option 3 - Hard Choices (Memoir or autobiography genre - not a re-read)
Total points: 55
Pamela326530.6 Happy’s Task: Happy Equinox!
Option C
by Arlene James - Spoon on coverOption D
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer - #5 on Feel Good List https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 385
Goodreads Authors this post: 0
Total Goodreads Authors: 14
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Big Books - 500+: 2
Big Books - 750+: 0
Big Books - 1000+: 0
Task 20.10 - Group ReadsAlternate History: 11/22/63 (2011) by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 849 pages)
See: Discussion thread Post #24.
**Stephen King is a Goodreads Author.**
**11/22/63 is a Big Book (849 pages). Claiming 2 BB ticket.**
90 + 20 = 110
Tasks Completed: 08
Points for this post: 20
Points thus far: 90 + 20 = 110
Books read: 11
Pages read: 3,485
Read but not claimed: 6
Goodreads Authors: 04
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(1) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Vicki25.7 Awards Season
Option A: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng a GRA
#7 on the Tournament of Books list
Option B: Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
#39 on 2015 Audies Nominations list
Optional: YES! Loved it on audible and hope it wins.
This post:
25 pts
2 GRAs
Total:
55 point
3 GRAs
Lacy Stewart5.3 - Alfheim, the Home of the Light Elves
Dockside by Susan Wiggs - GR avg. rating as of 3/29/15 is 4.05
5.4 - Midgard "Middle Earth", the Home of the Humans
Snowfall at Willow Lake
by Susan Wiggs
5.7 - Nidavellir, the Home of the Dwarves
Jess's Journey
by S.J.D. Peterson - 204 pages
5.10 - Yggdrasil, the Giant Tree That Anchors the Worlds
Fireside - by Susan Wiggs
Total points this post: 20
Total points: 125
25.6- Morgan Faeriesfolly's task: We're a Cozy Mystery:1) choose two different options below
OR
2) choose one option and do it twice
Option One : The family business - Read a book with 'Supernatural' in the main page genres. Variations/embedded genres such as 'Fantasy > Supernatural' or 'Supernatural Romance' are acceptable.
Book #1 - Venom
Book #2 - Tangled Threads
Both have 'Fantasy > Supernatural on their main page. Verified in genre approval thread, post #108
Jennifer Estep is the author on both books - she is a GRA, so 2 GRA points.
Points this post: 25
GRA this post:2
BB this post:0
Total points: 195
Total GRA: 9
Total BB: 1
ASHLEY OZ25.2 - Schatzie’s Task: Garden Quotes
OPTION 2: Read a book with the main page genre of “Crime”, “Mystery”, “Suspense”, or Thriller”
Crazy Love You by Lisa Unger
This is not a re-read
OPTION 4: Read a book with the main page genre of Science Fiction.
Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau
This is not a re-read
POINTS
This Post: 25
Total Points: 235
Books Read: 19
Completed Tasks: 14
25.2 - Garden QuotesOption 2. I have not read this book before and Mystery is a main page genre:
Death Under the Dryer by Simon Brett
Option 3. A memoir which I have not read before:
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively
Total points 145
20.3 Option 3So choose a series you have already started and enjoyed, and read the next book in it.
Game by Barry Lyga *Claiming GR Author Ticket*
This book is 520 pages - *Claiming BB Ticket*
This book is #2 in the Jasper Dent series and is NOT a reread for me.
This Post: 20
Total: 160
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 11
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Total Pages Read: 4201
ColetteGTask 10.6 Older Americans
Read a book by an author who is 50 years old or older
Lacey Eye by Jessica Treadway
Jessica Treadway
Author
Jessica Treadway is an American short story writer. wikipedia.org
Born: 1961 (age 54), Albany, New York
Nationality: American
Partner: Philip Holland
Jessica Treadway was over 50 when this book was published March 10, 2015
10points for task
Goodreads author
ColetteGTask 25.1 Sirena's Task: Ready for their close up
Option 1: Shorts/a book with a page count between 100-200 pages
by GK Chesteron 145pagesOption 3: Supporting Actress First name matches the winner of the best supporting actress for any year
by Alice McDermottIn 1937 Alice Brady won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Molly O'Leary in the film In Old Chicago
Task points 25
Option 3 Supporting Actress
After This by Alice Mcdermott
JESS PHILLY15.5 International Women's Day
For this task I read Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This book was shortlisted for the 2014 Bailey's Prize.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 35
Bluegrass Pam15.9. Better Put on a Heavy Coat!
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the Nordic countries.
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
50% of this book is set in Sweden.
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 65
GR authors this post:0
GR authors to date:3
25.10 - Sirena's Task: Ready for Their Close-upOption 1: Shorts - The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
At 120 pages, this short book falls between a page count of 100 and 200 pages
Option 3: Supporting Actress - The Sweetheart Bargain by Shirley Jump
Shirley Jones won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1960
Points this post: 25
Season Total: 170
Ana20.2 Rookie at the Top - Maryn’s Task: Midwives Help People Out
Option 1
by Sarah Dunant.Points this Post 20
Total Points 170
Tasks Completed 9
Books Read 9
Total Pages 2923
GoodReads Authors 7
Big Book Tickets
Big Books-500+: 1
HINA5.7 Nidavellir, the Home of the Dwarves - Read a book with 100-360 pages.
Just For You by Rosalind James.
Just for You is the paperback version with 152 pages.
**Rosalind James is a goodreads author.**
Current post:
Points: 5
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total:
Total Points: 265
Total Goodreads Authors: 13
Total Big Book Tickets:
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25.2: Schatzie's Task: Garden QuotesOption 2 (not a reread): We Need to Talk About Kevin - Goodreads Author
Option 3 (not a reread): John, George, and Me: My Unlikely Friendship with JFK Jr. at America's Hottest Magazine
Total Points: 95
Total Goodreads Authors: 5
Total Big Book Tickets:
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20.3 Cait S's Task: Thinly Veiled Marvel ReferencesOption 5 (not a reread): Worth Every Penny: How to Charge What You're Worth When Everyone Else is Discounting - this came highly recommended to me by a friend who's in the same line of business as me
Total Points: 115
Total Goodreads Authors: 5
Total Big Book Tickets:
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HINA10.9 - Over the Rainbow - Read a book written by an author whose initials can be found in "ROY G BIV."
The Billionaire's Fake Engagement by Robyn Grady.
Author's Initials: ROY G BIV.
Current post:
Points: 10
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total:
Total Points: 275
Total Goodreads Authors: 13
Total Big Book Tickets:
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SCHATZIE10.3: EARTH DAY
Non-fiction, genre: environment
The Elephant Whisperer
Points this post: 10
Total Challenge Points: 500
GRA: 17
BB (500)- 1
BB (750)- 0
BB (1000)- 0
Mod
15.1.Everything You Think is Right....or Wrong?
Book 1, rated 4 stars by Anne (Booklady): Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Book 2, rated 2 stars by Deedee: Austenland by Shannon Hale
(and my friends were right.)
15.2. Aesir vs. Vanir Gods Showdown
Book 1- Aesir: Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy, A in all, E, S in tends, I in light, R in where
Book 2 - Vanir: The Devil's Ashpit: and other Tales of Ascension Island by Dan Kovalchik, V in devil, A in ashpit, N in and, I in devil, R in other
PB: The Devil's Ashpit: And Other Tales of Ascension Island
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter- BellaGBear’s Task: Relive Childhood Feelings
Page 2 of Child Narrators: Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
total = 375
25.10 Sirena's Task: Ready for Their CloseupOption One Shorts: Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die - 144 pages
Option Four: Author whose initials can be found in GLORY and/or SELMA: Me, Inc. by Gene Simmons
Total Points: 140
Total Goodreads Authors: 5
Total Big Book Tickets:
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15.7 Pi DayThe Daughters - #1 in the series
Total Points: 155
Total Goodreads Authors: 5
Total Big Book Tickets:
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15.6 Tax DayNonfiction - about money, economics or finance
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---And the People Who Pay the Price - economics is a main page genre
Total Points: 170
Total Goodreads Authors: 5
Total Big Book Tickets:
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HINA15.3. Is it Live or is it Memorex? -
Option 2: Bound By A Promise by Diana Palmer.
4 words in title AND book was originally published 1979.
Current post:
Points: 15
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total:
Total Points: 290
Total Goodreads Authors: 13
Total Big Book Tickets:
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10.9 Over the RainbowRead a book by an author whose initials can be found in ROY G BIV.
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
Total this post: 10
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 7
GR authors: 2
Big Book tickets: 0
Cait S20.7- Relive Childhood Feelings
Read a book found on this shelf list Child Narrator or on the listopias Adult Fiction with a Child Protagonist or Juvenile Narrators.
Camp Utopia and the Forgiveness Diet by Jenny Ruden **Jenny Ruden is a Goodreads Author**
This book is found on page 2 of the Child Narrator shelf.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 280
Goodreads Authors: 13
Total Tasks Completed: 16
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30.6 - Happy’s Task: Happy Equinox!
B: Read a book with at least 500 pages.
The Woman Who Stole My Life by Marian Keyes
Pages: 531
D. Read a book from this list of Feel Good Books
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Ranked 10 on 29/03/2015
POINTS
This Post: 30
Total Points: 210
Books Read: 17
Completed Tasks: 13