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CYNBAXTERTask # 25.5
Book 1:
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFeversItem worth taking is the crossbow she is holding, 549 pages
Grave Mercy is a Big Book (549 pages). Claiming 1 BB ticket.
Points this post: 25 points
Total points to date = 165 points
BB tickets this post: 1
Total BB tickets to date: 3
20.9 Moderator's Pet- Kait's Task: Hel Hath FuryOption 2: Most Recently Published in Series and last published book in the series. Published February 28, 2015
Fire Down Below | Debra Anastasia | 282 Pages | ♥♥♥ | GR Author
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This Task :
Points: 20
GR Authors: 1
Big Books: (500+): 0 (750+): 0 (1000+): 0
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Totals:
Total: 400/1035
GR Authors: 18
Big Books: (500+): 3 (750+): 0 (1000+): 0
Total Pages Read: 9973
Total Tasks Completed:26/59
5.1 - Asgard, the Home of the Aesir! Found in the Title
Mother, Please! | Brenda Novak | 377 Pages | ♥ | GR Author
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This Task :
Points: 5
GR Authors: 1
Big Books: (500+): 0 (750+): 0 (1000+): 0
♥ ♥ ♥
Totals:
Total: 405/1035
GR Authors: 19
Big Books: (500+): 3 (750+): 0 (1000+): 0
Total Pages Read: 10,350
Total Tasks Completed:27/59
Dakimel5.2 Vanaheim, the Home of the Vanir
I read A Bollywood Affair bol/lyw/ood
20.6 Seasoned Reader: Diane Whitney's Task: I Spy Spring with the letter B
I read
(baseball in his hand; 315 pages)30.4. Sandy's Task: Spring Renewal for your Reading Ideas
Book 1: Double Play by Jill Shalvis (contemporary genre rec on 4/2)
Book 2: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō (found 4/2 & 1 friend read)
TALLY:
This post - 55 points
Total - 605
5.4 Midgard "Middle Earth", the Home of the HumansBittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
Points this Post 5
Total Points to date 190
Vicki30.2 Initial Impressions
Book 1: Land by Theresa Shaver a GRA
Initials TS
Book 2: The Stranger by Harlan Coben
Book title TS
This post
Pts 30
GRA 1
Total
115 Pts
6 GRA
I goofed on this post. Please ignore. I will repost when I don't have a headache. :)Sorry.
Coralie20.7 Relive Childhood Feelings
#47 on page 1 of Adult Fiction with Child Protagonist list
The Member of the Wedding
30.3 Your Own Personal Tardis
Option 1 book first composed 200 to 1200
The Bhagavad Gita
Option 4 Book written 1700 – 1899
Manon Lescaut
This post 50 points
Total to date 470 points
perletwo15.7.Pi Day - In honor of Pi Day (3/14), read a book that is number 3, 1, 4, 31, or 14 in a series. NOTE: The book must be identified as a series on GR. The series information is in parentheses after the title - Book Title (Series #4).
Seventy-Seven Clocks: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery The book's main page identifies this as (Bryant & May #3).
Points this task: 15
Total points: 375
Books read: 27
Tasks completed: 17
Post 125.5 Jotunheim, the Home of the Giants
Just in Case Young Adult on main page
Points this post:5
Total: 200
Books read: 17
Tasks Done:12
15.9 Better Put on a Heavy CoatThis book is set in Sweden.
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
20.3 Thinly Veiled Marvel References
Option 2: This book has the genre "Magical Realism" on its main page.
Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan
20.4 End of an Era
Option 2: This book has three words in the title, two of which start with the same letter.
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
25.2 Garden Quotes
These two books are not rereads.
Option 2: This book has the genre "Mystery" on the main page.
My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh
Option 3: This is a memoir.
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Points this post: 80
Total points: 145
Goodreads authors: 1
Big Books: 1 (500)
Mai20.4 – Author! Author! - Elizabeth P's Task: End of an Era
Option Three: So Many Hours!
Read a book whose author's initials are in the word VOLUNTEER.
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 195
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 15
GR Authors: 4
Big Book Tickets: 500(), 750(), 1000()
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM10.3 - Earth Day (oddly, just in time to post for Earth Day)
I chose to read
by Helen Macdonald. Non-fiction is the top genre and environment is the fourth (verified here).Previous point total: 290
New points this post: 10
Total points: 300
New tasks completed in this post: 1
Total tasks: 17
GRA tickets this post: 0
Total GRA: 6
Big Books this post: 0
Total Big Books: 500+(0) 750+(0) 1000+(0)
15.7.Pi DayVaarallinen varjostaja (#4 in series)
20.3 - Thinly Veiled Marvel References
Option 3: This Book, I Like It-- Another!
The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon (#2 in series)
*Samantha Shannon is a GR author, claiming one GRA ticket*
*510 pages, claiming one BB ticket*
This book is not a re-read for me.
Points this task: 35
Points total: 200/1035
GRA total: 7
BB total: 5
Tasks completed: 14/59
Books read: 17
15.4 - SPRING READSThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman which was published in 2013 and the authors initials can be found in SPRING.
AR Bookfinder info - IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8.0
15.5 - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
The Invention of Everything Else which was short listed for the Bailey's/Orange Prize in 2009.
TOTAL POINTS - 500
MELANIE CTASK NAME: 25.1 Catherine T's Task: Auntie Tattin's Challenge
Book 1:
Shadow of the Serpent by David Ashton
Qualifier: Written by a man, first in the Inspector McLevy series, new to me, 240 pages, published in 2007
Book 2:
An Inquiry Into Love and Death by Simone St. James
Qualifier: Published March 2013, new to me, written by a woman, stand alone novel not her debut, 368 pages
Years published: 2007, 2013
Pages: 240, 368
Both new to me.
Points this task: 25
Points Total: 175
Tasks Completed: 12
GR Author: 8
Big Books: 1
5.5 Jotunheim, the Home of the Giants Skip Beat!, Vol. 34 by Yoshiki Nakamura - per genre “Young Adult”
5.10 Yggdrasil, the Giant Tree That Anchors the Worlds
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
15.3. Is it Live or is it Memorex?
Option 2
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre - 4 words in title, first published 1974
15.4. Spring Reads
Option 2
The One You Want by Gena Showalter - published 2014 & SPRING
Ebook approved for length board post 4550: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Gena Showalter is a Goodreads author.
15.8 Women in War
A Duty To The Dead by Charles Todd - approved on task board
Charles Todd is a Goodreads author.
20.5 - Bigger is Better – ChrisEverest’s Task – Love and Not Quite Love
Option 1- LOVE:
Outback Hearts by Susan Stoker - per author’s last name ends in -ER, this is a new-to-me author (and I really enjoyed the book!)
Susan Stoker is a Goodreads author.
20.6 Seasoned Reader: Diane Whitney's Task: I Spy Spring with the letter B
The Perfect Rake by Ann Gracie - blossoms on cover, 360 pgs
Anne Gracie is a Goodreads author.
Points this post: 95
Grand Total: 305
Goodreads Authors: 14
LAUREN JODI5.2 Vanaheim, the Home of the Vanir
Nine letter word in the title: Moo / nli / ght
Captured by Moonlight by Nancy Gideon*
*Goodreads Author
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Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 235/1035
Total Books Read: 22
Tasks Completed: 20/59
Goodreads Authors: 1
Total Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Books: 0
20.7 Relive Childhood Feelings Child Narrator list page 5
To Kill a Mockingbird
25.2 Garden Quotes
Option 1: Flower on Cover
This is not a reread.
Option 3: Autobiography/memoir genre
An American Childhood
This is not a reread.
New points this post: 55
Total w/this post: 755
GRA tickets this post: 0
Total w/this post: 24
Big Books this post: 0
Total w/this post: 3
Post: 1927
15.4 Spring ReadsBook One: Read a book first published in a year ending in 3, 4 or 5
One for the Money:First published in 1994
Claiming one GR for Janet Evanovich
Book Two: Read a book where the author's initials can be found in "SPRING"
Floating Dragon
Claiming one GR for Peter Straub
Claiming one BB, 595 pages
Total Task Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 220
Total GR: 13
Total BB: 12
10.6 - Older Americans MonthThe author is American and over 50 - Born Louisville, Kentucky; April 24, 1940:
C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton
Total points 225
15.7 Pi Dayread a book that is number 3, 1, 4, 31, or 14 in a series.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Points of this post: 15
GRA:0
Big Book: -500+ :1
TOTAL:
Points:40
GRA:1
Books 500+:1
Books 700+:0
Books 1000+:0
5.10 Yggdrasil, the Giant Tree That Anchors the WorldsBe eager to read and read a book of your choice.
Dead Letter Office
THIS POST
points:5
GRA:1
Big Books:0
TOTAL
points:45
GRA:2
Big Books 500+:1
Big Books 700+:0
Big Books 1000+:0
25.1 Auntie Tattin's ChallengeBook 1 - Book by a male author and his debut novel.
The Amber Room by Steve Berry, first published in 2003, 416 pages
Book 2 - Book by a female author and not her debut nor first in a series.
Hearts of Texas #6, Lone Star Baby by Debbie Macomber, first published 1998, 217 pages
Both of these books were new to me.
Years first published 1998 and 2003.
Total pages 217 + 416 = 633
25.2 Garden Quotes
OPTION 2: Read a book with the main page genre of “Crime”, “Mystery”, “Suspense”, or Thriller”.
Treasure of Khan by Clive Cussler
OPTION 3: Read an autobiography or memoir.
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
25.3 Ragnarok
Book 1. Read a book by an author whose initials can be found in the word RAGNAROK.
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Book 2. Using ALL the letters in ONE of the following gods' names read a book whose TITLE (excluding subtitle) includes the name's letters IN ORDER.
THOR
THe brOtheRs of glastonbury
The Brothers of Glastonbury by Kate Sedley
25.4 Evolution of Mythology to Fairy Tales and to Disney’s Animated Movies
Option 3: Lightheartedness - Disney movies provide a lighthearted mood for its audience with a good story and a little humor. Read a book that has "humor" or "funny" in the main page genre list.
I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
Option 4: Cinderella - Read a book with the cover that shows a shoe(s) with high heels.
Killer Cupcakes by Leighann Dobbs25.5 A Viking Pillage
Read one or two books with a total of at least 500 pages and item(s) in the title that would be pillaged.
SILVER and GEM
Streams of SILVER by R.A. Salvatore, 377 pages
The Halfling's GEM by R.A. Salvatore, 336 pages
Total pages 377 + 336 = 713
Point this Post: 125
Points to date: 125
Andy P.Task # 5.4 Midgard "Middle Earth", the Home of the Humans
Read a book with a tree on the cover
by Paul Doiron Numerous trees on cover.Points this post: 5
Total points: 490
20.5 - Bigger is Better – ChrisEverest’s Task – Love and Not Quite LoveOption 1- LOVE: Read a book by a single author whose last name ends in –ER
Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer *Goodreads Author*
*Author is new to me
TASK TOTALS
Points: 20
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets:
CHALLENGE TOTALS
Points: 315
Goodreads Authors: 19
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
Cindy FTask 20.3 Thinly Veiled Marvel References
Option 3: A book next in a series I read Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter WHO IS A GOODREADS AUTHOR!!
This book is not a re-read for me!!
Points this post:20
Total points:80
Tasks completed:9
Books Read:9
Goodreads Authors:5
Big Books:500+(1)750+(1)1000+(0)
20.3 - Best Review - Cait S's Task: Thinly Veiled Marvel ReferencesOption 2: Science and Magic
Thor describes his home as a place where science and magic are one in the same.
Read a book with the genre science, science fiction, or magical realism on it’s main page. Genres may stand alone or be embedded.
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Total points: 20
Delicious Dee5.4 Midgard "Middle Earth", the Home of the Humans
- Brynn Stein (GR Author) - there is an image of a tree in the lower right in the painting; approved in the THT30.7 - Delicious Dee's Task - I Love My Library!
My 2 new to me authors from last season were Cora Carmack and Susannah Scott
Book A
author: Cora Carmack
shelving: CAN-CHD
new author: Georgia Cates (GR Author)
book: Beauty from Pain
Book B
author: Susannah Scott
shelving: SAY-SHD
new author: Jennifer Seasons
book: Stealing Home
Points this Post: 35
Total Points: 480
Goodreads Authors: 31
CYNBAXTERTask # 10.3 – Earth Day
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste by Bea Johnson
Points this post: 10 points
Total points to date = 175 points
babbling c25.9 - Nick KY’s Task: “Y”
Option 1. Read a book with the letter “Y” somewhere in the title or subtitle.
The Dragon Conspiracy - kindle - The Dragon Conspiracy - paperback - 292 pages by Lisa Shearin
Lisa Shearin is a GRA.
Option 3. “Y” means “Yggdrasil” the Great Ash Tree, which means wood, which means fuel for the fire ---
Books Set in New Mexico - pg 2, no 91.
Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet - kindle Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet - paperback - 339 pgs by Darynda Jones
Darynda Jones is a GRA.
THIS POST
Points: 25
Completed Tasks: 1
Good Read Authors: 2
Big Books:
Total This Season
Points: 115
Completed Tasks: 7
Good Read Authors: 5
Big Books:
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Pages read this season: 2,662
Books read this season: 8
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Personal Best: 660/1180 (summer 14)
Oma122915.3. Is it Live or is it Memorex?
Option A-Read a book with four words in the title
Option B Read a book that was published between 1965-1976
Option 2
Read one book that satisfies both A and B.
No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman
Total Points-310/1060
Total Tasks Completed-21/60
Number of GR authors-(9)
Big Books-500 pages ();750 ()
30.4 Sandy's Task--Spring Renewal:1. Being Caribou: Seven Months on Foot with an
Arctic Herd by Karsten Heuer
on Based on To Read Shelf. search March 16.
2. Candlelight Christmas by Susan Wiggs Found March 16, 1 Friend read.
Thanks, Sandy. The Caribou book was great: I'd never have found it without this task
Today's total: 30
Grand total: 920
Post 1315.5. International Women's Day
http://thestellaprize.com.au/the-stel...
Mateship With Birds Won the Stella Prize 2013
Points this post:15
Total: 215
Books read: 18
Tasks Done:13
NICOLE OH10.2 - Blah, Blah, Blah Day
The Children's Crusade (448 pages)
Ann Packer is a Goodreads author.
20.5 - Bigger is Better – ChrisEverest’s Task – Love and Not Quite Love
Option 1: Vaclav and Lena by Haley Tanner
Haley Tanner ends in an ER and she is a new to me author this season!
POINTS
This Post: 30
Total Points: 495
Books Read: 36
Goodreads Authors: 24
Big Books: [500+: 1] [750+: 0] [1000+: 0]
25.6 We're a Cozy MysteryI did Option 3 twice: Author's initials in VALKYRIE.
Murder To Go by Emma Lathen.
Right on the Money by Emma Lathen.
New points this post: 25
Total w/this post: 780
GRA tickets this post: 0
Total w/this post: 24
Big Books this post: 0
Total w/this post: 3
Post: 1945
10.6 Older Americans Month:All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, an American author born in 1933.
10.7 Typhoid Mary
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry, which was on Page 2 #117 of list.
10.8 The Vikings Are Coming:
Being Caribou: Seven Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd Karsten Heuer
Today's Total: 30
Grand Total: 950
Andy P.Task # 30.7 - Delicious Dee's Task - I Love My Library!
Book 1. Book I read last season by a then new to me author is
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth byChris Hadfield. The author's last name is Hadfield which leads to shelf GRE- IAF. A new to me author and fiction book that would be on the same shelf (except my Winter season book is nonfiction which is allowed in the task instructions)
is
by Paula HawkinsBook 2. A new to me author and book in the winter season was
by Arthur Koestler, which lead me to KHA-KON, so I chose a new to me author and fiction book
by Herman KochPoints this post: 30
Total points: 520
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM25.9 - Nick KY’s Task: “Y”
I chose Options 1 and 2.
Option 1:
I chose to read
edited by Michael Salcman. There is a "y" in the first word of the title, "Poetry."Option 2:
I chose to read
by Hermann Hesse. It is found on the first page of the "Popular Peace Books" list, approximately 2/3 of the way down. I found it there April 21, 2015.Previous point total: 300
New points this post: 25
Total points: 325
New tasks completed in this post: 1
Total tasks: 18
GRA tickets this post: 0
Total GRA: 6
Big Books this post: 0
Total Big Books: 500+(0) 750+(0) 1000+(0)
Jamie NYCTask #5.1 Asgard, the Home of the Aesir
The Isle of... Where? by Sue Brown
There are both a question mark and an ellipsis in the title
Task #5.9 Muspelheim, the Home of the Fire Giants and Demons
After Ben by Con Riley
It is Book #1 in a series called "Seattle Stories" because they are all set in Seattle, Washington.
The setting is noted in the Goodreads metadata.
Task #10.6 - Older Americans Month
A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White
According to his Goodreads profile, Edmund White was born in the US in January 1940 so he is an American author older than 50.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Task #10.9 - Over the Rainbow
Read a book written by an author whose initials can be found in "ROY G BIV"
Ethan: Lord of Scandals by Grace Burrowes
Grace and Burrowes are both found in ROYGBIV
Task #25.1 - Catherine T's Task: Auntie Tattin's Challenge
Book 1: by a male author, debut published work
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
It was first published in 2011 and has 512 pages in the Hardcover edition that I read
From Wikipedia, about the male author Chad Harbach, Reception - The book had a great deal of publicity prior to publication, especially for a first-time novelist, and Harbach received an advance...
and this book was approved in the Help Thread
Book 2: by a female author, not first book or #1
The Understatement of the Year by Sarina Bowen
It was published in 2014 and is 300 pages. It is Book #3 in a series so it is not the author's debut.
Both books were new to me reads
Years first published: 2011, 2014
Pages: 512, 300, for over 500 pages
Current
Points this post: 55
Books: 6
Tasks: 5
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Cumulative
Total Points: 405
Books: 36
Tasks: 29
50.1: 1-2-3-Go!Book 1: 1 word title
Soulless
Gail Carriger is a GRA for 1 ticket.
Book 2: #2 in series
Heavenly Pleasures
Book 3: Author with letter that appears 3 times
Devil's Food
There are 3 E's in Kerry Greenwood.
New points this post: 50
Total w/this post: 830
GRA tickets this post: 1
Total w/this post: 25
Big Books this post: 0
Total w/this post: 3
Post: 1950
10.2 - Blah, Blah, Blah Daybook of at least 400 pages
The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 80/1035
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 8
GoodReads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (), 1000+ ()
CYNBAXTERTask # 15.4. Spring Reads
Option 2: Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman* which was published in 2015, “N.G.” can be found in the word SPRING
Neil Gaiman is a Goodreads Author
Points this post: 15 points
Total points to date = 190 points
GRA this post: 1
Total GRA to date: 7
5.8 Niflheim, the Home of the DeadRead a book by an author who also writes other books concealed under another name or pseudonym.
Required: State a pseudonym used by the author of your book. Include a reference to support the connection if it is not evident on the author's profile page.
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab, which is the pseudonym for Victoria Schwab, as stated on the GR page.
This Post: 5
Total: 370
Tasks Completed: 19
Books Read: 26
Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Books: 500+ (4), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Total Pages Read: 9246
5.2 Vanaheim, the Home of the VanirRead a book containing a nine-letter word in the title.
Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
Men/age/rie has nine letters.
Total points: 100
Tasks completed: 15
GR authors: 3
Big book tickets: 1
BlueberryI want to cancel post 1758 and use the books (The Queen's Fool and The House Girl) elsewhere. This was for task 30.3.
Blueberry30.6
Opt. A Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace is a collection of essays.
The author Anne Lamott is a GRA.
Opt. B The Queen's Fool has 504 pgs.
The author Philippa Gregory is a GRA.
This book is a BB.
Pts: 30
Total pts: 60
Total GRA: 3
Total BB: 1
Blueberry25.2
Opt. 2 Read a book with the main page genre of “Mystery”, or Thriller”.
Gray Mountain
John Grisham is a GRA.
Opt. 3 Read an autobiography or memoir.
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
One of the authors Joe Layden is a GRA.
Pts this post: 25
Total pts: 85
Total GRA: 5
Total books read: 6
5.5 Jotunheim, the Home of the GiantsJotunn Thiazi tricked Loki into kidnapping Idun the keeper of the golden apples of youth. Read a book with an apple on the cover OR read a book with the genre Young Adult on its main page.
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran (Young Adult)
Points this post: 5
Points total: 75
Tasks completed: 5
GRA total: 2
BB totals: 0 - 500+() 750+() 1000+()
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5.4 Read a book with a tree on the cover
by Susan Gregg Gilmore (Goodreads Author)
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 40
Books Read: 8
Tasks Complete: 8
Total GRA: 5