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2nd Quarter Challenge: Sharon's Spring Challenge
#8 Read a book where weather plays an important part to the plot.
1/4The tides change with the weather and the huge storm at the end.
Just completed #3 Spring - Chocolat by Joanne Harris. This book was alright, but I kept wanting a longer version of the movie, and they could not be more different. Basically, the character names are the same and a couple of the basic plot points, and that's it. I love the movie, so I am disappointed. I will not continue with the series. 3 stars8/12
I have met my goal! I may add more if I read anything else that fits but will just update as I go.
2ND QUARTER CHALLENGE: SHARON'S SPRING CHALLENGE
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2015
Completed: 6/6
2. Spring into action - to suddenly begin moving or doing something. Read a book where a character makes an impetuous decision.
Touch of Death (4/12/15)
4. A spring is a natural source of water – read a book with water on the cover or that takes place on the water.
(4/26/15)
8. Spring goes in like a lion and out like a lamb. With March being such a changeable month, in which we can see warm spring-like temperatures or late-season snowstorms, you can understand how this saying might hold true in some instances. We can only hope that if March starts off cold and stormy it will end warm and sunny, but the key word is hope. Read a book where weather plays an important part to the plot.
The Magician King 4/10/15
9. She’s/He’s no Spring Chicken. New England chicken farmers discovered that chickens born in the Spring bought better prices, rather than old birds that had gone through the winter etc. Sometimes farmers tried to sell the old birds as a new spring born chicken. Smart buyers often complained that a tough fowl was "no spring chicken" and so the term now is used to represent birds (and even people) past their plump and tender years. Read an old favorite or a book you have been putting off reading.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (4/16/15)
11. Spring to mind - to appear suddenly or immediately in your thoughts. Read a book that was released in 2015 or the newest book on your TBR list.
The Shadows (4/26/15)
12. Spring in his step If you walk with or have a spring in your step, you walk energetically in a way that shows you are feeling happy and confident. Read a book that has a character who exhibits these characteristics or an action genre book.
The Lunatic Cafe (4/5/15)
2ND QUARTER CHALLENGE: SHARON'S SPRING CHALLENGE
Duration: April 1 - June 30, 2015
Completed: 6/6
2. Spring into action - to suddenly begin moving or doing something. Read a book where a character makes an impetuous decision.
Touch of Death (4/12/15)
4. A spring is a natural source of water – read a book with water on the cover or that takes place on the water.
(4/26/15)8. Spring goes in like a lion and out like a lamb. With March being such a changeable month, in which we can see warm spring-like temperatures or late-season snowstorms, you can understand how this saying might hold true in some instances. We can only hope that if March starts off cold and stormy it will end warm and sunny, but the key word is hope. Read a book where weather plays an important part to the plot.
The Magician King 4/10/15
9. She’s/He’s no Spring Chicken. New England chicken farmers discovered that chickens born in the Spring bought better prices, rather than old birds that had gone through the winter etc. Sometimes farmers tried to sell the old birds as a new spring born chicken. Smart buyers often complained that a tough fowl was "no spring chicken" and so the term now is used to represent birds (and even people) past their plump and tender years. Read an old favorite or a book you have been putting off reading.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (4/16/15)
11. Spring to mind - to appear suddenly or immediately in your thoughts. Read a book that was released in 2015 or the newest book on your TBR list.
The Shadows (4/26/15)
12. Spring in his step If you walk with or have a spring in your step, you walk energetically in a way that shows you are feeling happy and confident. Read a book that has a character who exhibits these characteristics or an action genre book.
The Lunatic Cafe (4/5/15)
Update - read 12/121. Read a book about time travel. The map of time By Felix PalmaThe Map of Time
2. Read a book where a character makes an impetuous decision. The 100 year old man that climbed out of the window and disappeared. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
3. Read a book that takes place in the Spring. The Husbands Secret by Lian Moriaty
4. Read a book with water on the cover or that takes place on the water. The Midnight palace by carlos ruiz zafon. The Midnight Palace
5. Read a steampunk book. Court of the air by Stephen huntThe Court of the Air
6. Read a book that has been on your TBR list the longest. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed
7. Read a book that takes place at a college or during spring break. The man in the picture by Susan HillThe Man in the Picture
8. Read a book where weather plays an important part to the plot. The Hidden girl by Louise MillarThe Hidden Girl
9. Read an old favorite or a book you have been putting off reading. Remarkable Creatures by Tracy ChevalierRemarkable Creatures
10. Read a book of poetry or a book about a poet. In search of small Gods by Jim HarrisonIn Search of Small GodsThe Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
11. Read a book that was released in 2015 or the newest book on your TBR list. The little old lady who broke all the rules by Catharina Ingelman Sundberg
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12. Spring in his step If you walk with or have a spring in your step, you walk energetically in a way that shows you are feeling happy and confident. Read a book that has a character who exhibits these characteristics or an action genre book. The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane
5/6Read a book that has been on your TBR list the longest. I Am Malala
I have read 6! Loved the challenge and may add a few more.1. Read a book about time travel. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
3. Read a book that takes place in the Spring. The Mother's Day Murder by Lee Harris
4. Read a book with water on the cover or that takes place on the water. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
8. Read a book where weather plays an important part to the plot. Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
9. Read an old favorite or a book you have been putting off reading. Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
10. Read a book of poetry or a book about a poet. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Amy wrote: "I have read 6! Loved the challenge and may add a few more.1. Read a book about time travel. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
3. Read a book that tak..."
The Time Traveler's Wife is on my TBR list this year (via the Randomizer challenge)! How was it? I own the hardcover and it seems really long. Did it feel long?
I'll try for 5...SPRING
1. Spring Ahead! The phrase "Spring forward, Fall back" helps people remember how Daylight Saving Time affects their clocks. At 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, we set our clocks forward one hour ahead of Standard Time. Read a book about time travel.
2. Spring into action - to suddenly begin moving or doing something. Read a book where a character makes an impetuous decision.
3. Spring is a Season! Spring is one of the four conventional temperate seasons following winter and preceding summer. There are various technical definitions of spring, but local usage of the term varies according to local climate, cultures and customs. When it is spring in the Northern Hemisphere, it will be autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Read a book that takes place in the Spring.
4. A spring is a natural source of water – read a book with water on the cover or that takes place on the water.
5. Spring, a mechanical device that stores energy. Read a steampunk book - Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." It includes fiction with science fiction, fantasy or horror themes. Most steampunk books have mechanical devices in them.
6. Spring Cleaning. Spring cleaning is the practice of thoroughly cleaning a house in the springtime. The practice of spring cleaning is especially prevalent in climates with a cold winter. The most common usage of spring cleaning refers to the yearly act of cleaning a house from top to bottom which would take place in the first warm days of the year typically in spring, hence the name. However it has also come to be synonymous with any kind of heavy duty cleaning or organizing enterprise. A person who gets their affairs in order before an audit or inspection could be said to be doing some spring cleaning. Read a book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
7. Spring Break is a vacation period in early spring at universities and schools in various countries in the northern hemisphere. Read a book that takes place at a college or during spring break.
8. Spring goes in like a lion and out like a lamb. With March being such a changeable month, in which we can see warm spring-like temperatures or late-season snowstorms, you can understand how this saying might hold true in some instances. We can only hope that if March starts off cold and stormy it will end warm and sunny, but the key word is hope. Read a book where weather plays an important part to the plot.
9. She’s/He’s no Spring Chicken. New England chicken farmers discovered that chickens born in the Spring bought better prices, rather than old birds that had gone through the winter etc. Sometimes farmers tried to sell the old birds as a new spring born chicken. Smart buyers often complained that a tough fowl was "no spring chicken" and so the term now is used to represent birds (and even people) past their plump and tender years. Read an old favorite or a book you have been putting off reading.
10. Hope Springs Eternal is from a poem An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope – people always hope for the best, even in the face of adversity. Will continue to hope even though they have evidence that things cannot possible turn out the way they want. Read a book of poetry or a book about a poet.
11. Spring to mind - to appear suddenly or immediately in your thoughts. Read a book that was released in 2015 or the newest book on your TBR list.
12. Spring in his step If you walk with or have a spring in your step, you walk energetically in a way that shows you are feeling happy and confident. Read a book that has a character who exhibits these characteristics or an action genre book.
Update to message 26, 93 and 103 newest update message 204 ...Participants: last updated 4/28
Adriana 1/4
Amanda 5/12
Amy 6/6 finished!
Anissa 0/4
Ariel 5/9
Berit 1/12
Brianna 6/6
Cassandra 2/7
Charity 3/5
Chris 0/3
Cindy 3/5
Dana 4/6
Debra 0/?
Eggp 2/4
Ellen 0/?
Elsbeth 0/8
Emma 12/12 finished!
Ericka 0/7
Erika 0/5
Heather 0/12
Holli 0/3
Isa 0/12
Kylie 0/3
Joanne 2/6
Jodi 1/7
Jodie 0/12
Julie 0/3
Julee 4/12
Kari 0/3
Karina 0/6
Kelsi 6/6 finished!
KME_17 0/12
Kylie 0/4
Mallory Heart 0/12
Maria 5/6
Mary Pat 1/4
Megan 8/12
Megan FL 0/6
Megan 2 0/6
Melanie 0/12
Melissa 0/5
Merja 1/6
Nicole 3/12
Nicole W 0/4
Nola 0/5
Reija 4/7
ScarlettMi 1/12
Sharon 2/7
Sherry 0/4
Sheryl 1/4
Sibyl 0/3
Silja 3/6
Stephanie 1/12
Susan 2/6
Tasha 3/6
Vernice 0/5
Winter 6/12
Updated everyone's progress, see message 171. Congratulations to those who have finished - guess you only needed a month and not a whole quarter! Welcome to Erika.
I'm at 1/6 now. I forgot to add that in my message.Packing, moving, and unpacking takes up a lot of time I'd rather spend on reading. :-(
Megan wrote: "Amy wrote: "I have read 6! Loved the challenge and may add a few more.1. Read a book about time travel. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
3. Read a b..."
It was long. Not painfully long, but there were definitely parts that sort of drug on or felt unnecessary. Overall, I am glad I read it and that this book has moved off the to be read shelf. This was one of those books that I felt like everyone had read but me. Reading it did not make me want to run out and read everything by the author.
12. Spring in his step If you walk with or have a spring in your step, you walk energetically in a way that shows you are feeling happy and confident. Read a book that has a character who exhibits these characteristics or an action genre book.
Finished April 28
5 stars
3/7
Updated message #32 - completed 3/6
2. Read a book where a character makes an impetuous decision - A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold by George R. R. Martin
4. A spring is a natural source of water – read a book with water on the cover or that takes place on the water. 
4/6
Updated:2/4 BOOKS Completed
5. Spring, a mechanical device that stores energy. Read a steampunk book - Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." It includes fiction with science fiction, fantasy or horror themes. Most steampunk books have mechanical devices in them.
The Girl in the Clockwork Collar (Steampunk Chronicles, #2)
6. Spring Cleaning. Spring cleaning is the practice of thoroughly cleaning a house in the springtime. The practice of spring cleaning is especially prevalent in climates with a cold winter. The most common usage of spring cleaning refers to the yearly act of cleaning a house from top to bottom which would take place in the first warm days of the year typically in spring, hence the name. However it has also come to be synonymous with any kind of heavy duty cleaning or organizing enterprise. A person who gets their affairs in order before an audit or inspection could be said to be doing some spring cleaning. Read a book that has been on your TBR list the longest.
11. Spring to mind - to appear suddenly or immediately in your thoughts. Read a book that was released in 2015 or the newest book on your TBR list.
Ensnared (Splintered #3) by A.G. Howard [Read 4/12/2015]
12. Spring in his step If you walk with or have a spring in your step, you walk energetically in a way that shows you are feeling happy and confident. Read a book that has a character who exhibits these characteristics or an action genre book.
Anne of Green Gables By L. M Montgomery [Read 4/16/2015]
I have completed another 2 categories, and so am now on 7/12 – I have updated Message 23.3. Read a book that takes place in the Spring - Chocolat by Joanne Harris
7. Read a book that takes place at a college or during spring break - Happenstance part 1 by Jamie McGuire
updated post 71 - 2/4
2. Read a book where a character makes an impetuous decision.American Sniper: Memorial Edition
I'd say he made a lot of them... when you're at war, there isn't much time to think about what you're doing.
I'm 2/6 now.
Update to post #1065/5
Thanks Sharon! This was fun! :)
11. Spring to mind - to appear suddenly or immediately in your thoughts. Read a book that was released in 2015
May 15/6
11. Spring to mind - to appear suddenly or immediately in your thoughts. Read a book that was released in 2015 or the newest book on your TBR list. 
2/4 books read
6. Spring Cleaning. Read a book that has been on your TBR list the longest. 
May 8,15Has been on my TBR since I started on Goodreads. The first book added Feb 12 2014
Challenge complete 6/6
Just completed #9 Book putting off - The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert. Overall, the story was interesting and enlightening. However, while the prose was informative, it was rather formal. The flow of the novel was lost at times. Characters were interesting but the constant wordiness of the prose got in the way of character development at times. Worth reading but it's a task. 3 stars9/12
6/6Read a book where weather plays an important part to the plot.
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
8. Spring goes in like a lion and out like a lamb. With March being such a changeable month, in which we can see warm spring-like temperatures or late-season snowstorms, you can understand how this saying might hold true in some instances. We can only hope that if March starts off cold and stormy it will end warm and sunny, but the key word is hope. Read a book where weather plays an important part to the plot.
Finished May 11
4 stars
6/7
Finished 3 so far.2. Impetuous decision: A Thousand Splendid Suns
3. Takes place in spring: Me Before You
9. Been putting of reading: Gone Girl
Update to message 26, 93, 103 and 171 ...Participants: last updated 5/12
Adriana 2/4
Amanda 7/12
Amy 6/6 finished!
Anissa 0/4
Ariel 7/9
Berit 1/12
Brianna 6/6
Cassandra 6/7
Charity 6/5 finished! and still going!
Chris 0/3
Cindy 5/5 finished!
Dana 4/6
Debra 0/?
Eggp 2/4
Ellen 0/?
Elsbeth 0/8
Emma 12/12 finished!
Ericka 0/7
Erika 0/5
Heather 0/12
Holli 1/3
Isa 0/12
Kylie 0/3
Joanne 3/6
Jodi 1/7
Jodie 0/12
Julie 0/3
Julee 6/12
Kari 0/3
Karina 0/6
Kelsi 6/6 finished!
KME_17 0/12
Kylie 0/4
Mallory Heart 0/12
Maria 6/6 finished!
Mary Pat 1/4
Megan 9/12
Megan FL 0/6
Megan 2 2/6
Melanie 0/12
Melissa 0/5
Merja 1/6
Nicole 5/12
Nicole W 0/4
Nola 0/5
Reija 4/7
ScarlettMi 1/12
Sharon 2/7
Sherry 2/4
Sheryl 2/4
Sibyl 0/3
Silja 3/6
Stephanie 1/12
Susan 3/6
Tasha 6/6 finished!
Vernice 0/5
Winter 9/12
UPDATE:Goal: 4 Progress: 2 Complete: 2 to go
Read a book of poetry or a book about a poet. - Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
Read a book that was released in 2015 or the newest book on your TBR list. - My Sister's Keeper
4. A spring is a natural source of water – read a book with water on the cover or that takes place on the water.
11. Spring to mind - to appear suddenly or immediately in your thoughts. Read a book that was released in 2015 or the newest book on your TBR list.
12. Spring in his step If you walk with or have a spring in your step, you walk energetically in a way that shows you are feeling happy and confident. Read a book that has a character who exhibits these characteristics or an action genre book.
3/4 books complete
I'd like to join in. Finished!
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