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Raquel15.10. Would I Lie to You?
A Book With "lie" in the title.
Big Little Lies
Points this post 15
Total Points 15
Tasks completed 1
Books read 1
Raquel10.2 Blah blah Blah Day
A book with more than 400 pages
Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James. It's 514 pages long
Points this post 10
Total points 25
Tasks completed 2
Books read 2
5.2- Vanaheim, the Home of the VanirI completed The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Current post:
Points: 5
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 1
Big Books - 500+: 1 pg count of 549
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
Total:
Total Points: 5
Total Goodreads Authors:
Total Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Total Big Book Tickets:
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
10.1 - Remarkable Women Antony and Cleopatra #16 on the list10.2 - Blah, Blah, Blah Day Water for Elephants This book is 421 pages long
15.2. Aesir vs. Vanir Gods Showdown
Book 1: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life A in learning, E in hearing, S in Music, I in Music and R in your
Book 2: The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music V in Redemptive, A in Dream, N in Unlikely, I in Solosist, and R in Power
20.3 - Best Review - Cait S's Task: Thinly Veiled Marvel References When Lightning Strikes by Meg Cabot Claiming Goodreads Author ticket for Meg Cabot
Total Points Earned: 55/1035
Total Pages Read: 1584/27045
Total Books Read: 5/81
Good Read Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets: 500(), 750(), 1000()
10.2 Blah, blah, blah dayBook that is at least 400 pages
Memoirs of a Geisha 434 pages
Points this post: 10
Total points thus far: 25
Mary P5.7 Nidavellir, the Home of the Dwarves.
Confession by Selena Kitt
Points this post: 5
Total points: 25
5.3 AlfheimTaivaslaulu GR rating 3.84, selected 06 March
5.10 Yggdrasil
Luupuisto
Points this task: 10
Points total: 10
GRA total: 0
BB total: 0
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Jayme(the ghostreader)5.5 Home of the Giants
Matchedby Ally Condie
Young adult is on the book's GR page.
Ally Condie is a Goodreads author.
Books read:1
Tasks Completed: 1
Big Books: 0
GR Authors: 1: Ally Condie
Tasks Points: 5
Grand Total: 5/1050
ASHLEY OZ10.2 - Blah, Blah, Blah Day
Read a book that is at least 400 pages
The Road Back by Di Morrissey
POINTS
This Post: 10
Total Points: 40
Books Read: 4
Completed Tasks: 3
Katrina5.6 Svartalfheim, the Home of the Dark Elves
Wolf on cover, bit hard to see in the small preview but it's on the left of the man.
by Maggie Stiefvater *goodreads author* This Post: 5
Total Points: 40/1035
Books Read: 4
Completed Tasks: 4/60
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 0
Nikki B5.9 Muspelheim, the Home of the Fire Giants and Demons
Snow Falling on Cedars
This book is set in the San Juan Islands of Washington State
Points this Task: 5
Total Challenge Points: 45
Total GR tickets: 4
Total BB tickets:2
30.1 - Jonquil's Task: Straight on Till Morning1) Read a book with a roller coaster, carousel or Ferris wheel on the cover. 2) Read a book where the Main Character has made a major career change.
Book One:
Claiming one Goodreads Author Ticket (Stephen King.)
Book Two: Me Before You
Main character, Lou Clark, loses her job as a cafe worker and becomes a personal care assistant for a quadriplegic man.
Claiming one Goodreads Author Ticket (Jojo Moyes.)
Neither of these books are re-reads for me.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 30
Tasks complete: 1
Books read: 2
GR Authors: 2
Big Book Tickets: 0
20.8 Nickels & Dimes Haunted Wisconsin by Michael Norman
Option 1: I live in Wisconsin; this book is about Wisconsin and the author lives in Wisconsin.
Michael Norman is a Goodreads Author.
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 145
Jonquil30.5 - Angel **Book Junkie**'s Task: You Either Like it Or You Don’t
Book 1: Read a book that has your favorite genre on its main page. Investigating/mystery
Genre: Mystery
Mystery 858 users
Mystery > Detective 119 users
The Black Echo
Michael Connelly
3/5 482 pages
Book 2: Read a book that has your least favorite genre on its main page.--
Genre: Chick Lit
Womens Fiction > Chick Lit 27 users
The Dress Shop of Dreams
by Menna van Praag
3/7 336 pages
Points this post: 30
Total points: 85
Books posted: 7
Tasks complete: 6
Pages this post: 818
Total pages as of this post: 2232
10.6 - Older Americans MonthI listened to the audio book Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist. The mmp is here: Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist.
Dorothy Gilman was 88 when she dies, as seen by the GR author data.
New points this post: 10
Total w/this post: 125
GRA tickets this post: 0
Total w/this post: 4
Big Books this post: 0
Total w/this post: 1
Total tasks completed: 8
Total books claimed: 10
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10.7 - Typhoid Mary
Apocalypse by Epidemic pg 1 #44: Lock In by John Scalzi
10.10 - The Odd Couple
Neil in author's name: Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris
15.3. Is it Live or is it Memorex?
option 2, 4 word title, first published 1969: The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
total = 35
Jonquil5.10 Yggdrasil, the Giant Tree That Anchors the Worlds
The Shaman's Mate
Donna McDonald
Paperback, 286 pages 3/2
Points this post: 5
Total points: 90
Books posted: 8
Tasks complete: 7
Pages this post: 286
Total pages as of this post: 2518
Beth Robinson10.5 Cinco de Mayo
Read a book set in Mexico or written by a Mexican author (by birth or by residence).
I readTales from the Yucatan Jungle: Life in a Mayan Village by Kristine Ellingson
The author moved to Mexico - shown in the book description - and this is about her experiences.
Ebook was approved in message 4499 but paperback edition appears to have been added in the last day or two.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 30
Books Read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0) (less)
Raquel10.10 The Odd Couple
Read a book with Neil, Simon, Oscar, Felix in the title or author.
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
task completed -1
points for this task-10
total points to date-35
total tasks to date-3
total books to date-3
SCHATZIE10.8: THE VIKINGS ARE COMING
book published by Viking
The Piano Teacher
link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Points this post: 10
Total Challenge Points: 105
GRA: 2
BB (500)- 0
BB (750)- 0
BB (1000)- 0
Sandy MN20.4 – Author! Author! - Elizabeth P's Task: End of an Era
Option 2
Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult Goodreads Author
Total Points:40
Total GR Authors: 2
Dakimel20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter- BellaGBear’s Task: Relive Childhood Feelings
I read As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, which is on page 1 of the Child Narrator list / #68 on the other list
25.9 - Nick KY’s Task: “Y”
I read Destiny's Captive for Option 1
and for Option 3 Chasing Fire, which is on the Firefighters list, #4
TALLY:
This post - 45
Total - 90
ASHLEY OZ20.4 – Author! Author! - Elizabeth P's Task: End of an Era
Option Two: Read a book that has three words in the title, two of which must start with the same letter.
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
POINTS
This Post: 20
Total Points: 60
Books Read: 5
Completed Tasks: 4
Jonquil30.6 - Happy’s Task: Happy Equinox!
Option A: collection of short stories
4 novellas Secrets at Midnight, Magic Steals, The Beast of Blackmoor, and Lucky Charms (which is about leprechauns--it is March, after all).
Night Shift
by Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Lisa Shearin and Milla Vane
Mass Market Paperback, 378 pages 3/7
Option C- spoon on cover
A Spoonful of Murder
Connie Archer
Paperback, 304 pages 3/4
spoon on table to left/above bowl of soup ('cause it was snowing and 21 degrees in Nashville)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 120
Books posted: 10
Tasks complete: 8
Pages this post: 682
Total pages as of this post: 3200
RepostVanaheim, the Home of the Vanir
I completed The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
My word is for/got/ten
Current post:
Points: 5
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 1
Big Books - 500+: 1 pg count of 549
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
Total:
Total Points: 5
Total Goodreads Authors:
Total Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Total Big Book Tickets:
Big Books - 500+: 1
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
5.2 Vanaheim, the Home of the Vanir Read a book with a nine letter word in the title or subtitle.Spymaster: Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief by Tennet H. Bagley (SPYMASTER is 9 letters long)
10.5 - Cinco de Mayo Read a book set in Mexico or written by a Mexican author (by birth or by residence).
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo
20.4 – Author! Author! - Elizabeth P's Task: End of an Era I chose Option 2: Read a book that has three words in the title, two of which must start with the same letter. Subtitles can be ignored.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
20.5 - Bigger is Better – ChrisEverest’s Task – Love and Not Quite Love I chose Option 1: Read a book by a single author (no co-authors or books by multiple contributors) whose last name (name in the last position) ends in –ER
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler. This is my first time reading Chandler.
20.10 - Group Reads
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green (**Goodreads Author**)
Comment number 4 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Total: 75
GRA Tickets: 1
Amy O. - Task #5.7 Nidavellir, the Home of the Dwarves.
Long Past Stopping by Oran Canfield
Book should have 100-360 pages; Paperback version has 336 pages.
Task #15.4 - Spring Reads
The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
Option 2 - first published in 2013 (year ending in 3) AND author's initials can be found in "SPRING"
Philippa Gregory is a Goodreads author.
This post: 20 points
Total to Date = 20 points
Total Goodreads Authors Tickets: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
Books read: 2
Tasks completed: 2
VAL TX10.1 - Remarkable Women - Read a book found on the Remarkable Historical Women in Fiction list.
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Found on Page 1
This post:
Points - 10
Total:
Points - 60
CYNBAXTERTask # 20.7
Book 1: The Bear by Claire Cameron*
The Bear is on pg 1 of the Child Narrator list https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Claire Cameron is a Goodreads Author.
Points this post: 20 points
Total points to date = 45 points
GRA this post: 1
Total GRA to date: 02
BB tickets this post: 0
Total BB tickets to date: 0
Repost20.3 - Best Review - Cait S's Task: Thinly Veiled Marvel References When Lightning Strikes by Meg Cabot Claiming Goodreads Author ticket for Meg Cabot I chose Option 1
Total Points Earned: 55/1035
Total Pages Read: 1584/27045
Total Books Read: 5/81
Good Read Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets: 500(), 750(), 1000()
Jasmiina F5.7 Nidavellir, the Home of the Dwarves:
Read a book with 100-360 pages
Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: A Useful and Improving Almanack of Information Including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld by Terry Pratchett.
This book has 176 pages
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 5
GR Authors this post: 0
Total GR Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets:
BBooks - 500+: 0
BBooks - 750+:
BBooks - 1000+:
FANDURY20.2 Rookie at the Top - Maryn’s Task: Midwives Help People Out
Option 2: Read a book where a midwife is a main character.
Murder in Little Italy by Victoria Thompson
The main character Sarah Brandt is a midwife.
Victoria Thompson is a Goodreads Author!
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 80
Books Read: 5
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(0)
perletwo30.5 - Angel **Book Junkie**'s Task: You Either Like it Or You Don’t - Read one book from each of the following options. Books must be at least 250 pages. Book 1: Read a book that has your favorite genre on its main page. Book 2: Read a book that has your least favorite genre on its main page. Required: State the Genre for each option.
The Long Goodbye has my favorite genre, mystery, on its main page.
Bulls Island has my least favorite genre, romance, on its main page.
Points this task: 30
Total points: 90
Books read: 6
Tasks completed: 3
5.8 Niflheim, the Home of the DeadRead a book by an author who also writes other books concealed under another name or pseudonym.
by Ellis PetersEllis Peters is the pseudonym of Edith Pargeter
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Total Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 5
Tasks completed: 1
Other totals
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Big Books (1000):
Julia103Task 5.2 Vanaheim, the Home of the Vanir
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (fan/tas/ies)
Rick Wilber is a Goodreads Author
Task 10.2 - Blah, Blah, Blah Day
Scarlet (451 pages)
Marissa Meyer is a Goodreads Author
Post total: 15 points, 2 GRA
Challenge total points: 65
Total GRA: 2
Total BB: 0
trishhartuk20.3 Best Review - Cait S's Task: Thinly Veiled Marvel References
Option 3: This Book, I Like It-- Another! So choose a series you have already started and enjoyed, and read the next book in it. Required: State that this book is not a reread for you.
Borrowed Crime, Laurie Cass
This was only published in the UK this week, so it isn't a reread for me.
Read the kindle edition: MMPB reference:
Goodreads Author: No
Big Book: No
Points this task: 20
Books read: 1
Tasks completed: 2
Total points: 25
Goodreads Author: 1
Big Book: 0
20.4 – Author! Author! - Elizabeth P's Task: End of an EraOption One: Tutor Time
Read a book with exactly two people on the cover.
Then Came You by Jill Shalvis *Goodreads Author*
TASK TOTALS
Points: 20
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets:
CHALLENGE TOTALS
Points: 65
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books - 500+:
Big Books - 750+:
Big Books - 1000+:
20.3 - Thinly Veiled Marvel ReferencesOption 3: This Book, I Like It -- Another! I had read the first two books in the Mirabelle Bevan series. This is number three which I hadn't read previously and was looking forward to:
England Expects by Sara Sheridan ***Goodreads Author***
Total points 20
Beth Robinson15.9 Better Put on a Heavy Coat!
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the Nordic countries.
I read:
Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard
which is set almost entirely in Iceland
which is clear in the Goodreads description of the paperback edition
Eric Brighteyes
30.2 Dlmrose's task: Initial Impressions
Book 1: Read a book by an author who uses two names
Book 2: Read a where the title is composed of words beginning with the letters of the author's initials.
I read:
Book 1
Tae Kwon Do for Women by Jennifer Lawler
Jennifer Lawler = Initial J L
Book 2
Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone by Mark Goulston
Just Listen = title letters J L
Points this post: 45
Total Points: 75
Books Read: 7
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
ANGIE CA5.2 Vanaheim, the Home of the Vanir
Book: The Savage Vengeance by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Notes: Ven/gea/nce
5.8 Niflheim, the Home of the Dead
Book: The Savage Dream by Tamara Rose Blodgett
Notes: Also writes as Marata Eros. Mentioned in author bio.
15.7.Pi Day
Book: One Real Man by Coleen Kwan
Notes: Real Men #3. Approved for length.
20.3 - Best Review - Cait S's Task: Thinly Veiled Marvel References
Book: Real Men Don't Quit by Coleen Kwan
Notes: 3) Real Men #2. Not a reread. Approved for length on line ~1400
20.5 - Bigger is Better – ChrisEverest’s Task – Love and Not Quite Love
Book: Black Iris by Leah Raeder
Notes: 1) She is a new to me author.
20.9 Moderator's Pet- Kait's Task: Hel Hath Fury
Book: A Cold Legacy by Megan Shepherd
Notes: 2) Last published book of The Madman's Daughter series.
This Post: 85
Points to Date: 85
Andy P.Task # 20.3 - Best Review - Cait S's Task: Thinly Veiled Marvel References
Option 3: This Book, I Like It-- Another!
by Peter MayThis is the second on May's series The Enzo Files following
which I read. This book is not a reread.Points this post: 20
Total points: 45
Delicious Dee25.3 - Andy P's Task: Ragnarok
Book A - About Last Night - Ruthie Knox (GR Author) - RK appear in RagnaroK; ebook only approved #108 of the spreadsheet
Book B - The Hooker and the Hermit - L.H. Cosway (GR author) - TH in The, OR in Hooker to spell out THOR
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 80
Goodreads Authors: 4
20.3 - Best Review - Cait S's Task: Thinly Veiled Marvel ReferencesOption 5
by Robert GalbraithThis book is not a re-read
The Cuckoo's Calling is a big book, 520 pages
20.4 – Author! Author! - Elizabeth P's Task: End of an Era
Option 1
by Meg CabotMeg Cabot is a goodreads author
20.9 Moderator's Pet- Kait's Task: Hel Hath Fury
Option 2
by Julianna BaggottJulianna Baggott is a goodreads author
TOTAL POINT : 60
BOOKS READ : 3
GRA : 2
BIG BOOKS : 1
Jonquil20.10 - Group Reads
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
by John Green and David Levithan
3/8 Paperback, 320 pages
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... messages 7 & 8.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 140
Books posted: 11
Tasks complete: 9
Pages this post: 320
Total pages as of this post: 3520
Sandy MN20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter- BellaGBear’s Task: Relive Childhood Feelings
I'll Give You the Sun
by Jandy Nelson Goodreads Author
Shelf: Child Narrator, page 2
Total Points: 60
Total GR Authors: 3
amandab19755.7 Nidavellir, the Home of the Dwarves.
Read a book with 100-260 pages.
See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid, 182pgs.
Points: 5
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
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CUMULATIVE TOTAL
Total Points: 5
Total Goodreads Authors: 0
Total Big Book Tickets:
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Becky P30.5 - Angel **Book Junkie**'s Task: You Either Like it Or You Don’t
Book 1- Fantasy The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
***The Fellowship of the Ring is a BB at 531 pgs***
Book 2- Non- Fiction Naming Jack the Ripper by Russell Edwards
Points this post-30
Total Points-30
Total GRA-
Total BB- 1
5.10 Yggdrasil, the Giant Tree That Anchors the Worlds
Still Alice by Lisa GenovaNOT found in ARBookFinder
10.6 - Older Americans Month
Potshot by Robert B. Parker❏ 15.7.Pi Day
Honeymoon by James Patterson(Honeymoon #1)
❏ 15.9. Better Put on a Heavy Coat!
Someone to Watch Over Me: A Thriller by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir(Iceland - http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/y...
❏ 15.10. Would I Lie to You?
Lie Still by Julia HeaberlinTotal Points = 150
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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15.1.Everything You Think is Right....or Wrong?
Book 1 – Read a book that a GR friend has rated 4 or 5 stars
Faithful Place - Tana French 3/4
Nataliya rated 5 stars. Her review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Goodreads Author
Book 2 – Read a book that a GR friend has rated 1 or 2 stars.
Zoo - James Patterson 3/5
ChucklesTheScot rated 1 star. Her review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Goodreads Author
Totals for Challenge
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 50
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books - 500+: (0)
Big Books - 750+: (0)
Big Books - 1000+: (0)
50/1055 POINTS