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FALL CHALLENGE 2010
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Fall Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks (do NOT delete any posts in this thread)
Jennifer D.15.2 ~ Recommended Books ~ The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
This novel is 566 pages long so I would like to claim one big book ticket.
This novel was #33 on the list. I recommended The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (#83) & voted on #242 Out Stealing Horses
New Task Points: 15
Total Challenge Points: 150
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 12
Pages Read: 4653
Big Books: 500+ (2 ~ Freedom & The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest ) 750+ (0) 1000+ (0)
GR Authors: 3 ~ Chris Cleave; Kathleen Winter; Susan Henderson
15.4 - Fall Equinox Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews
The Quilter's Legacy by Jennifer Chiaverini
20.1 Stephanie Anne’s Task - Bookmarks Magazine
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
This was listed in the Jan/Feb 2010 issue
*Please may I have a Big Book ticket for The Children's Book (592pp)*
Total points: 240
Big Book tickets: 500+ (4), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
Goodread authors: 4
Books read: 22
Pages read: 9334
Southpaw285Completed Task #30.3 - Shipwrecked!
Book #1 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Book #2 - Persuasion by Jane Austen
Task Points = 30
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Total Challenge Points as of 10/16/10 = 225
Task 15.9 Coin Collectorpicked 2x To Hell with it= read 700 pages
1)All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (pages=336)
2)From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris (pages=368)
Total pages=704
Task 10.1 Shorter Days
A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris (pages=208)
Points for these tasks:25
Total Points:235
Tasks Completed:16
Books Read:21
Total Goodreads Authors:3
Total Big Book Tickets:3
30.4 MYSTERIES AND ANIMALS(A -- Nick & Nora's pet dog, Asta)
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Vintage Crime, 1992 (1933)
201 pg.
Read - 10/14/10
4 Stars
and
(B)
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Vintage Crime, 1992 (1930)
217 pg.
Read - 10/16/10
3 Stars
TOTAL POINTS: 205
10.5 The First Estate (main character has religious vocation)The Sanctuary Sparrow: The Seventh Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
Points this task: 10
Total Points: 385
Tasks Completed: 27
Books Read: 32
GoodReads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (4), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
BJ Rose1 new task
#20.10 Group Reads: Recent TBR Additions: Little Bee
Little Bee by Chris Cleave - I posted message # 26 in the discussion thread
Chris Cleave is a GoodReads Author
Total Points = 485
Tasks Completed = 32
Total Pages = 12,480
GoodReads Authors = 11
20.4-The Plot Line ThickensI really enjoy the tv show Vampire Diaries, and the Twilight movies. I am hooked on the teen vampire soap-opera style of entertainment. I read Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2) by Richelle Mead. This is the second in a series of a vampire style teen drama.
Points for this task-20
Total Points- 430
Books Read- 33
Goodreads Authors-11
Total Pages Read- 10878
Finished:10.4 Leaving Civilization Behind
Finished: (Sorry, my computer stuttered.)10.4 Leaving Civilization Behind:
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Boy working out his prison punishment by living alone on an Alaskan island.
15.3 Continental Divide: Africa
The Boy Next Door: A Novel by Irene Sabatini
Novel takes place almost entirely in Zimbabwewe and by an African author.
20.9 Lucky Me--Lindsey KY's Babies:
Baby Jesus Pawnshop by Lucia Orth
Not my favorite book this fall.
Today's total: 45
Grand total: 535
15.6 One Hit Wonders
by Kelly Creagh ***Goodreads Author***Points this post: 15
Total Points: 70
Books Read: 8
Goodreads Authors: 1 (Kelly Creagh)
Big Book Tickets: 500+() 750+() 1000+()
ERIN C5.1 Fall Colors
The King's Gold by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Has the autumn color "gold" in the title!
Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 220
Tasks Completed: 21
Books Read: 24
Pages Read: 9,176
GoodReads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(5), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
ILOVEBAKEDGOODSTask #5.9 - Comfort Read.
Book Title: Spider Bones , by Kathy Reichs.
I chose this book because I enjoy Kathy Reichs' writing and her character, Temperance Brennan (I can relate so well to some of her more irrational moments). I like the mystery/suspense genre because it's usually fast reading for me. I snuggle under a blanket on the couch and try to knock these out in a day or two. I get a lot of enjoyment out of trying to figure out whodunit or what the mystery is all about.
Points this Task: 5
Total Points to Date: 60
Jenny L20.1 - Bookmarks Magazine
I read The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson, which was reviewed in the July/August issue. (Big Book ticket - 500+)
Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 40
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
GoodReads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Pages Read: 1157
Janice CA15.3 Continental Divide....
South America:
My book took place in the rain forest of Bolivia.
Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Adventure and Survival by Yossi Ghinsberg
3.5 stars
I first learned of this story when I watching "I Shouldn't be Alive" on the Discovery Channel. Reading the story was just as riveting, and it seems the book was a little more honest about the arrogance of the men involved. It appeared they felt they were above or stronger than the laws of the jungle, but nature has a way of humbling us all. Great read overall if you can get over the guys' bickering and silly decisions.
+15
total: 125
tasks: 8
books: 9
GR Authors: 1
5.8 - Freedom to ReadBrave New World Revisited
5.9 - Comfort Read
Marabou Stork Nightmares
Not what you would consider a "comfort read" by any stretch of the imagination, but it is one of my favorites and I couldn't resist dipping back into the wretched world of the comatose Roy Strang on his journey of self destruction.
tasks complete - 2
total books - 2
total points - 10
I completed Task 10.9 (Under the Covers) by reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. It was on the "8 Books featuring inventive (and immersive) Fantasy Worlds" list.I think this was a flashlight worthy book. Had I been introduced to this series as a kid, I wouldn't have stopped reading, if I could.
I'm finding the series to be quite amusing and imaginative.
Total points: 165
Lindsey IL15.2 - Recommended Books
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
I voted for Jane Eyre and Guernsey Literary Society on the list.
15.5 - Literature Map
Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier **Goodreads Author**
The map did an excellent job of picking an author I'd love! In fact, I loved her book WAY more than any of the ones I've read by Jacqueline Carey, the author I entered.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 205
GoodReads Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 13
Pages Read: 2874
Readerboard Name: StacyCT15.6 - One Hit Wonders
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose
Kevin Roose is a Goodreads author.
Task Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 10
Total Points Earned: 140
Total Books Read: 13
Pages Read: 4643
GoodReads Authors: 5 (John Elder Robison; Margaret Atwood; Matt Beynon Rees; Heidi Durrow; Kevin Roose)
Big Book Tickets: 500+(2), 750+(), 1000+()
5.1 The Red Blazer Girls:The Ring of Rocamadour by Michael Beil5.8 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Best Banned and/or Censored list
10.6 The Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper
15.6 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
15.7 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury A Classics Literary list
30.5 Rolled a 3 Wings by Aprilynne Pike author has two "P"s in her name & rolled a 2 Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter has the misspelled word "and" in the title
Total points 90
Time to post some completed tasks....10.5 THE FIRST ESTATE
For this task I read Original Sin by Allison Brennan. One of the main characters is Father Philip, a Catholic Priest.
10.6 IN THE PINK
For this task I read This Pen For Hire by Laura Levine. Here is the cover art...
15.9 - COIN COLLECTOR!
I flipped 2 "The Hell With It"'s so I read Seduced By Shadows by Jessa Slade (Goodreads author) at 378 pages, also read Grimspace by Ann Aguirre (Goodreads author) at 312 pages, and also read Legend of the Jade Dragon by Yasmine Galenorn at 288 pages, for a total of 978 pages.
20.9 Lindsey KY’s Task (Lucky Me) – Babies!
For this task I read Buttercup Baby by Karen Fox.
30.5 - Ms. Anderson and Tanja's Task: LIFE LESSONS
I rolled a number 1 and a number 3. So for number 1 "Don't Feed The Trolls" I read Watchers in the Night by Jenna Black and for number 3 "Mind Your P's & Q's" I read Embracing Midnight by Devyn Quinn (Goodreads author).
Total Points This Post: 85
Total Tasks This Post: 5
Goodreads Authors This Post: 3
Grand Total Points: 345/890
Total Books Read: 31
Tasks Completed: 25/53
Total Goodreads Authors: 13
Jayme(the ghost reader)I completed task 10.7 City of Lights. I read "City of Bones" by Cassandra Clare. She is a goodreads author.
Tasks Completed 6/53
Books Read 7/71
Goodread Authors: 2 Rachel Simmons, Cassandra Clare
Big Books 500+ 1
Grand Total: 75/980
Finished20.10 group reads
Little Bee by Chris Cleave*
I posted comment in group reads
*Chris Cleave is GR author
Task points: 20
Total points: 280
Total tasks: 12
Total books: 18
Gr authors: 8
For 15.5 - LITERATURE MAP, I chose Jeffrey Eugenides and read Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje.Books read: 5
Challenges accomplished: 5
Points : 70
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Brave New World Revisited
5.9 - Comfort Read
Marabou Stork Nightmares
Not what you would consider a "comfort read" by any stretch of the imagination..."
Please only list newly completed tasks, not those that you've previously posted. Thanks.
ShayleneCompleted Task 10.9- The Hunger Games
I chose this, and re-read it, from the flashlight worthy list called True Tales of Survival
Total Books Read-5
Total Points- 50
30.6 - Exploration and High AdventureA. Touching My Father's Soul by Jamling Tenzing Norgay
B. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821 1822 1823 by Maria Graham
Total points to date 405
Stacey
30.2: Ins and Outs
Exterior: The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Interior: Room by Emma Donoghue
New points: 30
Total points: 340
Tasks Completed: 22
Books Read: 32
30.2: Ins and Outs
Exterior: The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Interior: Room by Emma Donoghue
New points: 30
Total points: 340
Tasks Completed: 22
Books Read: 32
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Completed Task 10.9- The Hunger Games
I chose this, and re-read it, from the flashlight worthy list called True Tales of Survival"
This book isn't on the True Tales of Survival list (which is not surprising, since it's fiction). Since it does appear on a number of other lists on the site, which other people have posted in their completed task posts, I'm going to go ahead and count it.
5.9 Comfort readThe Last Breath by Denise Mina
This book was set in Glasgow where I grew up, and I enjoyed reading about familiar places. It was also a very quick read.
15.3 The Continental Divide
I drew Europe on the randomiser, and I read
Kieron Smith, boy by James Kelman
James Kelman was born in Scotland and the book was also set in Scotland. I have to say, I loved this book!
Points for these tasks: 20
Total points: 55
Tammy AZ5.9 Comfort Read
Sizzling Sixteen I love this series and always look forward to sitting down to read one of the new books.
15.1 New Horizons - Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days. This book was from the Religious shelf which is definitely out of my comfort zone.
New Total: 100
ERIN C.10.5 The First Estate
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The main character is a Zulu pastor, Stephen Kumalo.
Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 230
Tasks Completed: 22
Books Read: 25
Pages Read: 9,496
GoodReads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(5), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Tani 5.7 - Circle of Life
Wellspring of Chaos by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
L. E. Modesitt Jr. was born on October 19th. He's also a Goodreads author.
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 75
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
GoodReads Authors: 2
Big Books: 0
20.2 Karen GHHS’s Task (Rookie on Top) – Music Tells the Story C. Musical: Sweeney Todd
Book: The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Points: 160
Tasks: 8
Books: 11
Pages: 3557
5.1 Fall Colors -A Study in Scarlet5.6 She's a Beauty - Mockingjay
20.1 Group Reads - Little Bee My post in the discussion was #19 on Oct 1st. Chris Cleave is a Goodreads Author
20.7 Melting Pot - The Namesake
30.6 High Exporation
A. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
B. Eat, Pray, Love
Tasks: 5
Total Points: 80
Goodreads Author: 1 (Chris Cleave)
25.2 As Her Debut: Part A: Read any author's debut novel -- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (a GR author)
Part B: Read any debut novel published in 2010 -- The Mermaid's Pendant (over 500 pages) by LeAnn Neal Reilly (also a GR author)
Total Points: 115
Total Tasks: 7
Total Books: 9
Goodreads Author: 2 (Alan Bradley and LeAnn Neal Reilly)
Big Book 500+: 1 (The Mermaid's Pendant)
Big Book 750+: 1 (Passage)
Big Book 1000+: 0
Alice GI have already claimed points for 25.4 - Stayed Tuned for your Regularly Scheduled Programme but would like to swap a book!
I rolled a 5 and a 1.
For the 5 I claimed Saturday Night and Sunder Morning by Alan Sillitoe and I wish to keep that one.
For 1 I claimed Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler. I would like to change that book. I had to read a book with bare feet or a dinosaur on the cover. The book I would like to use for this task is now:
The Slap: A Novel
This is a small picture but the feet nearer to the front are bare!As that is a change of book and I have already previously claimed those points there is no point change for that.
Noah's Compass I wish to move to a task I haven't already claimed for and that is as follows:
Task: 5.7 Circle of Life
Book: Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler.
Total Points: 200
PREVIOUS READS
5.2 The Play Must Go On - Jonah and Otto by Robert Holman
5.9 Comfort Read - The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
10.6 In the Pink - A Rabbit's Eyes
10.9 Under the Covers - The Prestige by Christopher Priest
15.1 New Horizons - Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs
15.3 Continental Divide - The Cat Sanctuary by Patrick Gale
15.6 One-hit wonders - The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
20.1 Bookmarks Magazine - Solar by Ian McEwan
20.7 The Melting Pot - Small Island by Andrea Levy
25.3 Daylight Savings - The Backward Shadow by Lynne Reid Banks and My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult
25.4 Stay Tuned for Your Regularly Scheduled Program - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe and The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
30.1 It's in the Cards - Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith and Men from Boys by Tony Parsons
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5.2 - The Play Must Go On
The Crucible
5.4 - I'm Glad My Mother Didn't Name Me...
Lover Enshrined (Cormina) - (Big Book Ticket - 500+ - book is 534)
15.4 - FALL EQUINOX
A Bightmares - Tymber Dalton - (GR Author)
B Safe Harbor - Tymber Dalton - (GR Author)
30.3 - Dlmrose's task: SHIPWRECKED!
A Duck! - Kim Dare (GR Author)
B Jacob's Faith - Lora Leigh
The two books that I picked to have with me if I was stranded are ones that as soon as I finished them, I wanted to read them again - which for me is always a good sign because I rarely re-read...of course, if I could get stuck on the island with my kindle, then I would be completely happy ;)
30.4 - Cheryl TX's task: MYSTERIES AND ANIMALS
A. Hot Stuff - Janet Evanovich
B. Dead Canaries Don't Sing - Cynthia Baxter
Total Points This Post: 85
Total Points in Challenge: 690
Books Read: 55
Tasks Completed: 41
GR Authors: 22
Big Book Tickets: 500+(4); 750+(1); 1000+(0)
Previous Tasks Completed:
5.1; 5.5; 5.7; 5.8; 5.9
10.1; 10.2; 10.3; 10.4; 10.5; 10.6; 10.7; 10.8; 10.10
15.1; 15.2; 15.5; 15.8; 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.3; 20.4; 20.6; 20.8; 20.9
25.1; 25.2; 25.3; 25.4
30.1; 30.2; 30.5; 30.6; 30.7; 30.8
Julie McVey15.8 - Is That an Eye Underneath that Nose?
The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen - Wes is an artist who creates sculptures out of scrap metal.
5.4 - I'm Glad My Mother Didn't Name Me...
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen - The main characters name is Remy. I would not like that name or to be named after an expensive brand of cognac as she is!
**Sarah Dessen is a Goodreads Author**
**Sarah Dessen is a Goodreads Author**
Total Points = 80 Points
Jenny Chicago If this appears twice I'm having internet problems and I apoligize.
20.1 Bookmarks
I picked
. It was reviewed in the Jan/Feb 2010 edition of the magazine. Points this task 20
Total Points 115
wendyma20.2 Karen GHHS’s Task (Rookie on Top) – Music Tells the Story
I love musicals and opera so for this task choose your favorite musical or opera or one set in a time or place that interests you.
Then select a book or books from these options to reach a minimum of 300 pages:
A. The original novel your choice was based on:
Musical : Les Miserables
Book: Les Misérables
B. A nonfiction book about your choice:
Wicked: The Grimmerie, a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hit Broadway Musical
Richard Strauss, Salome
C. A book with the same setting as your choice (time or place or subject). This can be a real life or fantasy setting. This task is meant to be fun for you and allow you to find a way in which the two stories, musical and book, connect.
Examples:
Musical: Miss Saigon
Books: The Things They Carried
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Musical: Wicked
Books:
Witch Child
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Opera: Madame Butterfly
Books:
Memoirs of a Geisha
Kissing the Mask
The Teahouse Fire
Required: Name your musical or opera.
Optional: Explain the connections between your musical choice and your book choice
The Lion King is the musical. The book is The Lion by DeMille The protagonist The Lion in the book was as vicious and ruthless as Simba’s uncle Scar. Subject of conquering governments has similarities.
20 points
450 total
30.5 - Life Lessons2: Keys to the Demon Prison by Brandon Mull 593 pages
to is a commonly misspelled word
5: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 324 pages
This book is controversial to me because I don't believe the experiment they did to Charlie was ethically right.
Total Points: 55
ERIN MN5.3 - T.H.A.N.K.S.G.I.V.I.N.G
Murder Takes the Cake by Gayle Trent (GT)
20.4 - Mrs. Soule’s Task - The Plot Line Thickens
Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett
Favorite Plot - Mystery/Who Dunit?
New Points: 5 + 20 = 25
TOTAL POINTS: 140
Task 20.6 - Seeing yourself in a title (my middle name: Marie)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez This was a spectacular book, and my second 5 star read in a row!
Task points = 20
Total Challenge points = 355
ERIN C.15.8 Is That an Eye Underneath That Nose?
History of Beauty by Umberto Eco
In this book, Umberto Eco analyses how the concept of beauty has changed throughout history, mostly using visual art as examples of ideal forms of beauty.
Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 245
Tasks Completed: 23
Books Read: 26
Pages Read: 9,928
GoodReads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(5), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Barbara VA5.4 I'm Glad My Mother Didn't Name Me - Mary Lou
The Eighth Commandment by Lawrence Sanders. Main character was named Mary Lou.
5.8 Freedom To Read
From the Most Frequently Challenged list I chose The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
15.1 New Horizons
I chose Graphic Novel and picked The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Graphic Novel by Nunzio DeFilippis.
This was not a genre that I enjoyed at all and will not read another adaptation, I would much rather visualize the story as the author intended. Strange, I know. I love movies and watch many adaptations even if they do not meet the love that I have of the book, I always hope. This just seemed written for people that do not have the attention span for the words of the author. At least in a movie the actors try to give some emotion.
20.2 Music Tells The Story - Karen GHHS Read 300 pages
I love "Hello Dolly", the first play I saw in New York back in 1967 when I was 12 and my love of theater was born! The movie was filmed close to home for me and the scenes of the train along the Hudson and the final wedding scene make me smile every time I watch
Read
The Matchmaker A Farce in Four Acts by Thornton Wilder.
The play takes place in the 1880's and picked Time and Again by Jack Finney so the setting of New York City in 1882 fits the setting of most of Hello Dolly.
Read 519 pages for this task.
New Points Claimed - 45
Tasks Completed - 17
Books Read - 23
Pages Read - 5298
Points/Goal - 180/400
5.9 - Comfort Read I read Every Now and Then. Karen Kingsbury is a very "comfort read" author. No matter how cheesy the story, they always make me feel good and make me want to read her story. New point total: 25 (oh how I hate when school starts up again and I can't just read all the time!!)
Heather in KS
Coralie10.5 The First Estate
Devil Never Sleeps which is about two Irish Catholic priests in China.
Total points 585
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I read "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman (GoodReads Author)from the "Fantasy" shelf.
So not my kind of book. Took me a week to get through it. I will try other books if the look good, but it isn't my favorite genre.
Total Points: 170
Total Tasks: 10
Total Pages: 6385
Total Books Read: 18
Total GoodReads Authors: 6