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Andy P.Task # 30.2 Dlmrose's task: Initial Impressions
Book 1: Read a book written by a single author who uses at least 2 names
bySuzanne Chazin
Book 2: Using the initials from the author of Book 1, read a book where the title (excluding subtitle) is comprised of words beginning with the letters of the author's initials
by Thomas H. Cook Author's initials from book 1 are SC, Title initial letters are also SCPoints this post: 30
Total points; 475
25.2 - Schatzie’s Task: Garden QuotesOPTION 2: Pet Sematary by Stephen King 4/6/15
OPTION 4:Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory 4/15/15
Neither book is a reread.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 105
Books Read: 6
SWITCHING A BOOKORIGINAL POST #1212
15.7.Pi Day
Hounded by Kevin Hearne 3/25/15
Iron Druid Chronicles 01
NEW POST
15.7.Pi Day
Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon by Donna Andrews 4/20/15
Meg Langslow #4
20.9 Moderator's Pet- Kait's Task: Hel Hath Fury
Option #3: Hounded by Kevin Hearne 3/25/15 - Irish Wolfhound
Points This Post: 35-15
Total Points: 125
Books Read: 7
Laurajay20.10- Group Reads
11/22/63
***stephen King is a good reads author***
***BB ticket 850 pages***
I have posted my review in the group discussion.
Current post:
Points: 20
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets: 2
Total:
Total Points: 110
Total Goodreads Authors: 5
Total Big Book Tickets: 3
Task # 20.8 - NICKELS AND DIMES – MegSCL’s Task – Getting to Know Fellow SRCersOption 1 – Book set where I live -
I live in WISCONSIN
Lulu's Christmas Story ✔ – 19Apr15
The author grew up in and still lives in Wisconsin. This is a memoir of her childhood in Manitowoc WI
*** Ludmilla Bollow is a Goodreads Author ***
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
This Post: 20 points
Total points to date: 115 points
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books Read: (0) 500 pg / (0) 750 pg / (0) 1000 pg
Total Big Book TICKETS: 0
Mary P30.6 - Happy’s Task: Happy Equinox!
Option A: The Winter Stone: One Legend, Three Enchanting Novellas by Tanya Anne Crosby
Option D: The Best Man by Kristan Higgins
#48 on the list of Feel Good Books.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 410
Amanda D.5.7 - Nidavellir, the Home of the Dwarves
Read a book with 100-360 pages (at least 100, but not over 360 pages)
Two of Hearts by Christina Lee - 304 pages (ARC)
Points this post: 5
Total Points (not including this post): 75
perletwo15.3. Is it Live or is it Memorex? - Option 1.
A. April 11 is Barbershop Quartet Day. In honor of Barbershop and Beautyshop quartets, read a book with 4 words in the title/subtitle. Subtitles may be used or ignored for this task.
AND B. April 11 is also Eight Track Tape Day. Since 8 tracks were popular from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s, read a book first published between 1965 and 1979 (inclusive).
OR Option 2: Read one book that satisfies both A and B.
Crocodile on the Sandbank has four words in the title, and was first published in 1975.
Points this task: 15
Total points: 360
Books read: 26
Tasks completed: 16
Elizabeth B15.7.Pi Day
The Guy From Glamour (#1 in a series)
30.3 - Teri-k's Task: Your Own Personal Tardis (NOT fantasy)
Option 3 1200-1699
Highland Warrior Monica McCarty set in Scotland, 1608
Option 4 1700-1899
Midnight Pleasures with a Scoundrel set in London, 1852
Points: 45
Total points: 580+45=625
HINA5.6 Svartalfheim, the Home of the Dark Elves -
Last Wolf Hunting by Rhyannon Byrd.
Wolf in the title.
**Rhyannon Byrd is a goodreads author.**
Current post:
Points: 5
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets:
Total:
Total Points: 470
Total Goodreads Authors: 24
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
20.2 Rookie at the Top - Maryn’s Task: Midwives Help People Out I chose option 1.Option One: Read a book with the word “midwife” or “birth” in the title or subtitle. Plurals and possessives work, but no other variations.
Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s. by Jennifer Worth
Total: 525
Nikki B15.1 Everything You Think is Right...or Wrong?
Book One: This is Where I Leave You
Friend LA Starks review for 5 stars: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Book Two: The Book Thief
Friend Sandy's review with one star
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Claiming one BB ticket for the Book Thief at 550 pages
Claiming One GR ticket for Markus Zusak
Task Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 165
Total GR: 9
Total BB: 10
30.3 - Teri-k's Task: Your Own Personal TardisOption 2 - The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman, a Goodreads Author
Set in 1193 per GR data.
Option 4 - Beware a Scot's Revenge by Sabrina Jeffries, a Goodreads author.
Set in 1822 per chapter 1, shelved as Regency.
Points: 260
25.10 - Sirena's Task: Ready for Their Close-upOption 1: Shorts:
Read a book with a page count between 100 and 200 pages.
Her Heart for the Asking by Lisa Mondello *Goodreads Author*
*182 Pages
Option 4: Song:
Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in GLORY and/or SELMA.
And Then He Kissed Her by Laura Lee Guhrke
TASK TOTALS
Points: 25
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets:
CHALLENGE TOTALS
Points: 295
Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
20.3 - Best Review - Cait S's Task: Thinly Veiled Marvel ReferencesOption 5: If He Be Worthy
I read A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. This book was NOT a reread! A friend loaned it to me months ago, saying I would enjoy it and love it and why wasn't I reading it already??? So I finally did read it and it is totally worth all the hype!! And Christopher Moore is a *********Goodreads Author*******
Points: 195
Books read: 16
Tasks completed: 13
GR Authors: 11
Big Books: 2(500)
pages read: 5379
MB10.6 older americans months - author that is at least 50 - 61 Hours by Lee Child was born in 1954 pages 492
25.2 garden quotes - option 2 - thriller or suspense - Lake of Sorrows by Erin Hart not a reread - pages 512
option 4 - science fiction - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 255 pages not a reread
25.12 - independence day - option A - war genre - The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkoski 400 pages
option c - published in march of any year - Timeless by Gail Carriger 386 pages
30.5 - either you like it or you don't
book 1 - favorite genre - fantasy - Atlantia by Ally Condie 298 pages
book 2 - least favorite genre - art - The Brilliant History of Color in Art by Victoria Finlay 128 pages
points this post - 90
total points 180
Books read 13
Tasks completed 8
total pages read 5041
25.10 - Sirena's Task: Ready for Their Close-upOption 1 - A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf April 17 (114 p.)
AND
Option 3 - Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly March 1 (Jennifer Hudson)
Jennifer Donnelly is a Goodreads Author
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 135
Total Tasks Completed: 6
Total Books Read: 9
Total Goodreads Authors: 3
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Julia10325.4 - Hina's Task: Evolution of Mythology to Fairy Tales and to Disney's Animated Movies.
Option 1: No True Way: All New Tales of Valdemar
"True" is in the movie title "Cinderella II: Dreams Come True"
Option 2: The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
ThE BOsTon GIrL has all 7 letters from LET IT GO.
Anita Diamant is a Goodreads Author.
Post total: 25 points, 1 GRA
Challenge total points: 340
Total GRA: 7
Total BB tickets: 1
15.7.Pi DayThe Sum of All Kisses by Julia Quinn April 14
Julia Quinn is a Goodreads Author
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 150
Total Tasks Completed: 7
Total Books Read: 10
Total Goodreads Authors: 4
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
JESSRS 15.7.Pi Day
1st book in series of two.
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Current Post
Points: 15
Goodreads Authors: 0
Cumulative Total
Total Points:15
Total Goodreads Authors: 0
15.10. Would I Lie to You?read a book with LIE found intact in the title/subtitle or author's name.
There Was an Old Woman by Hallie Ephron
HalLIE
Task total=15
Grand total=165
JESSRS20.4 – Author! Author! - Elizabeth P's Task: End of an Era
Option 1:
by Nicholas SparksCurrent Post:
Points: 20
Goodreads authors: 0
Cumulative Total:
Total Points: 35
Total Goodreads authors: 0
Task 25.6 1/ choose two different options below
OR
2/ choose one option and do it twice!
I did Option One 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.
Fantasy > Supernatural
Genre verified HERE
The Probable Future (2003) by Alice Hoffman (Paperback, 322 pages)
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.
Fantasy > Supernatural
Dust to Dust(Prophecy #1) (2009) by Heather Graham (Goodreads Author) (Mass Market Paperback, 360 pages)
** Heather Graham is a Goodreads Author.**
305 + 25 = 330
Tasks Completed: 19
Points for this post: 25
Points thus far: 305 + 25 = 330
Books read: 28
Pages read: 8,593
Read but not claimed: 3
Goodreads Authors: 09
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(1) 750+
(0) 1,000+
Mod
5.3 Alfheim, the Home of the Light Elves
rating above 3.5: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, 4.06 rating
10.6 - Older Americans Month
Long Way Down by Michael Sears, GR profile born 1950, NY resident
20.10 - Group Reads
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
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30.6 - Happy’s Task: Happy Equinox!
Option A: Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
Option C, spoon on cover, left of the shoe
The Spoon from Minkowitz: A Bittersweet Roots Journey to Ancestral Lands by Judith Feintotal = 760
Delicious Dee10.10 - The Odd Couple
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman - author name is Neil; shelved as Childrens>Middle Grade and Childrens - the AR Bookfinder lists as MG+
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 445
Goodreads Authors: 29
Lulu10.8. The Vikings are Coming
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Edition states it was published by Viking.
**Lev Grossman is a Goodreads Author**
10.9. Over the Rainbow
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury fits into ROY G BIV.
25.4. Evolution of Mythology to Fairy Tales and To Disney's Animated Movies
Option #1: Disney Animated Movies
Sword and Sorceress 29 edited by Elisabeth Waters
Matches the word "sword" in The Sword in the Stone, featured on the list.
**Elisabeth Waters is a Goodreads Author**
Option #2: Frozen
Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress
Features the letters of EGILTTO: The ELemenTs Of FIcTion WritinG.
**Nancy Kress is a Goodreads Author**
Points this post: 45
Total points: 130
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 10
Goodreads authors: 3
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Cait S30.3- Your Own Personal Tardis
For this task you will read two books composed or written during, set in, or about, the time period given.
Book #1- Option 1: Ancient World
Read a book written/composed during, set in or about the Ancient World, before 200 AD.
Year of the Hyenas: A Novel of Murder in Ancient Egypt by Brad Geagley **Brad Geagley is a Goodreads Author**
This book was approved in the help thread here
Book #2- Option 4: 1700-1899
Read a book written during, set in or about the time period from 1700 through 1899.
The Gentleman and the Rogue by Bonnie Dee **Bonnie Dee is a Goodreads Author**
Included in the book's meta data, this story is set in 1813.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 460
Goodreads Authors: 22
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Tasks Completed: 25
Nick KY15.9 Heavy Coat! I read a book set in Iceland, Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason.
30.5 Angel Book Junkie’s Like It or Don’t!
Favorite genre – Science Fiction – I read Federation by H. Beam Piper. 320 pages
Least fav genre – Business – I read So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport. 304 pages
Points This Post: 45
Total Points So Far: 505
Kristen IA20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter- BellaGBear’s Task: 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
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
Required: Child Narrator list – page 2
******Beth Hoffman is a Goodreads Author******
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Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 140/1035
Total Books Read: 11
Tasks Completed: 8/59
Goodreads Authors This Post: 1
Total Goodreads Authors: 9
20.10 - Group ReadsRead ONE of the books selected as the Group Reads choices for the season. You must participate in the book's discussion thread with at least one post about the contents of the book or your reaction to the book after you have read the book.
I read the book selected for Young Adult LGBT Fiction: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan (both are Goodreads authors). My reaction to this book is posted to the discussion thread at #33.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 165
Total Goodreads Authors: 5
Total Tasks Completed: 9
Total Books Read: 10
Nikki B15.2 Aesir vs Vanir Gods Showdown
Read one book where the letters from Aesir show up the title and one with the letters show up from Vanir in the title.
Book One for Aesir: Hearts in Atlantis
Claiming One BB ticket: 640 pages
Claiming One GR for Stephen King
Book Two for Vanir: The Last American Vampire
Total Task Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 180
Total GR: 10
Total BB: 11
5.6 Svartalfheim, the Home of the Dark Elves.Read a book with a wolf on the cover or in the title.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Claiming a Big Book ticket: 653 pages.
Total points: 95
Tasks completed: 14
GR authors: 3
Big Book tickets: 1
Shiraloo5.10 Yggdrasil, the Giant Tree That Anchors the Worlds
Market Day by James Sturm
*This is my 1 80-99 page book allowed for 5 point tasks*
10.8 - The Vikings are Coming
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
15.2. Aesir vs. Vanir Gods Showdown
Book1: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Book2: Black Swan, White Raven by Ellen Datlow (Editor)
REQUIRED: I preferred AESIR in this show down.
CURRENT POST
Points: 30
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
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CUMULATIVE TOTAL
Total Points: 535
Total Goodreads Authors: 25
Total Big Book Tickets: 4
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+: 3
Laura NT5.5 Jotunheim, the Home of the Giants
read a book with the genre Young Adult on its main page
The Outsiders
Points this post: 5
Total points: 55
20.4 – Author! Author! - Elizabeth P's Task: End of an EraOption Three: So Many Hours!
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Author’s first and last name initials are in the word VOLUNTEER
Total Points = 60
MIMI MICHELE15.2 Aesir vs. Vanir Gods Showdown
Book 1 with AESIR in the title-A Scattered Life by Karen McQuestion a GR’s author
A Scattered Lifeby Karen McQuestion
Book 2 with VANIR in the title-Love In Another Town by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Love in Another Town by Barbara Taylor Bradford
I preferred AESIR-A Scattered Life
CURRENT POST
Points: 15
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets: 0
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CUMULATIVE TOTAL
Total Points: 280
Total Goodreads Authors: 10
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
25.9 - Nick KY’s Task: “Y”Option 1. Read a book with the letter “Y” somewhere in the title or subtitle.
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin*
Option 2. Popular Peace Books (pulled 4/7/15) pg 2:
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed*
*Both Melanie Benjamin & Cheryl Strayed are Goodreads Authors*
Total Points = 85
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: Chile
Or In the US states- California
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende* (takes place in Chile and California)
*Goodreads Author*
Total Points = 90
15.7.Pi Day (read a book that is number 3, 1, 4, 31, or 14 in a series)The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
If you click on the link, Goodreads shows the title as The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry #1)
Total Points = 105
Nikki B15.3 Is it Live or is it Memorex?
Book One Read a book with 4 word in the title:
The Waking That Kills
Claiming one GR ticket for Stephen Gregory
Book Two Read a book published between 1965 and 1979:
The Year of the Intern
Total Task Points: 15
Total Challenge Points to Date:205
Total GR:11
Total BB: 11
Laura NT15.7.Pi Day
read a book that is number 3, 1, 4, 31, or 14 in a series
The Gods of Gotham
Timothy Wilde Mysteries #1
Points this post: 15
Total points: 70
Andy P.Task # 5.6 Svartalfheim, the Home of the Dark Elves.
Read a book with "wolf" in the title
by Steve ThayerWolf appears as the first word of the title.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 480
Andy P.Task # 5.10 Yggdrasil, the Giant Tree That Anchors the Worlds
Be eager to read and read a book of your choice
byCheryl Strayed Actually not so eager to read this book but I needed to read it for my book club and this was the task it fit.Points this post: 5
Total points: 485
15.4. Spring ReadsOption 2
Read one book that satisfies both A and B above: published 2015, SprinG:
At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
+15 Points
15.6. Tax Day
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
+15 Points
Points this Post: 30
Grand Total: 340
SAM ID5.8 - Niflheim, the Home of the Dead
Read a book by an author who also writes under a pseudonym:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
*J.K. Rowling also writes under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith
*AR Bookfinder Stats: IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18.0
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10.7 - Typhoid Mary
read a book from the Apocalypse by Epidemic list
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*This book is number 23 on the required list
*AR Bookfinder Stats: IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13.0
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10.9 - Over the Rainbow
read a book where the author's initials can be found in ROY G BIV
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
*V and R are both found in the required letter set
**Veronica Roth is a GR Author, 1 ticket**
**Allegiant has 526 pages, 1 Big Book ticket**
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20.9 - Hel Hath Fury
Opt 2: read a book that is the last published book in a series.
This Girl by Colleen Hoover
*this is the 3rd, and last, book in the Slammed series
**Colleen Hoover is a GR Author, 1 ticket**
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50.1 - 1-2-3 Go!
Opt 1: read a book with a 1 word title
Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
Opt 2: read a book whose page numbers end in a 2
A Talent for Trouble by Jen Turano
*book has 342 pages
Opt 3: read a book book by an author who has 3 repeated letters in her name
Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover
*Colleen Hoover has 3 o's and 3 e's
*All three books have over 250 pages
**Brandon Sanderson and Colleen Hoover are GR Authors, 2 tickets**
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Points: 95
Total Points: 205
GR Authors: 14
Big Books: 1
5.8 Niflheim: The Home of the Dead:Garden of Lies by Amanda Quick who is Jayne Ann Krentz The Paperback of this for paging is Garden of Lies
50.1 Donna Jo's Task---1-2-3, Go:
1. One word title:
Charming by Elliott James 400pp
2 Book two of series:
The Beekeeper's Ball by Susan Wiggs 432 pp
3. Letter repeated three times in author's name:
The Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs Three S 432pp
Today's total: 55
Grand total: 890
Queenbee Darlene20.9 Moderator's Pet- Kait's Task: Hel Hath Fury
Option 1: Book with genre Zombie on main page
The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey (GRA)
The Girl with All the Gifts
CURRENT POST
Points: 20 points
Goodreads Authors: 1
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
Total Points: 90
Goodreads Authors: 5
Catherine TTask 10.1 - Remarkable Women
Read a book from the list
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
Was #3 on page 1 on 21 April
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Total points = 750
Queenbee Darlene10.6 Older Americans Month
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg (Born 1944 - info located on Goodreads)
Fannie Flagg
CURRENT POST
Points: 10
CUMULATIVE TOTAL
Total Points: 100
Goodreads Authors: 5
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Task # 20.1 Most Improved Player- Julia103's Task: What's in a Name
Option 4: Tyr (god of war)
From the Abandoned list,page 5 # 17 from the top
Points this post: 20
Total points: 445