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FALL CHALLENGE 2010
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Fall Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks (do NOT delete any posts in this thread)
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50.1 Emily ID’s task: Semper Fi
A. If your first die is: (I rolled a 3)
3: Read a book about World War I
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1) (2010) by Ken Follett (Hardcover, 985 pages) 5* (specifically approved message #23)
B. If your second die is: (I rolled a 2)
2: Read a book with a Sailor as a main character
Throne of Jade (Temeraire #2) (2006) by Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author) (Mass Market Paperback, 398 pages) 4* (specifically approved message #68)
C. If your third die is: (I rolled a 1)
1: Read a book you haven’t read before with the word ‘Danger(ous)’ in the title
The Importance of Being Dangerous (2007) by David Dante Troutt (Hardcover, 352 pages)... 1 *
Naomi Novik is a Goodreads Author
Big Books:
750 +
985 pages: Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1) (2010) by Ken Follett (Hardcover, 985 pages)
375 + 50 = 425
Tasks Completed: 22
Points for this task: 50
Points thus far: 425/890
Books read: 30
Pages Read: 11,161
Read but not claimed: 4
Goodreads Authors: 10
1. (Goodreads Author) John Joseph Adams (#20.6)
2. (Goodreads Author) Sarah Addison Allen (#15.2)
3. (Goodreads Author) Carol Berg (#25.4)
4. (Goodreads Author) Emma Bull (#20.5)
5. (Goodreads Author) Chris Cleave (#20.10)
6. (Goodreads Author) Jamie Ford (#20.8)
7. (Goodreads Author) Mary Robinette Kowal (#25.2)
8. (Goodreads Author) Naomi Novik (#50.1B)
9. (Goodreads Author) Jonathan Strahan (#20.8)
10. (Goodreads Author) Carrie Vaughn (#30.5)
Big Books:
500 +
(1) 688 pages: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010) by Gardner R. Dozois (#10.1)
(2) 560 pages: The Starry Rift (2008) by Jonathan Strahan (Editor) (Hardcover, 560 pages) (#20.8)
750 +
(1) 985 pages: Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy #1) (2010) by Ken Follett (Hardcover, 985 pages)
10.10 GROUP HUG(1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die Group)
The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
Mariner, 1997 (1986)
353 pg.
Read - 11/20/10
4 Stars
TOTAL POINTS: 270
Jessica VA10.10 - Group Hug
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
This book was the Group Read for The Next Best Book Club in October. (LOVED this book.)
Tatiana de Rosnay is a Goodreads Author
Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 160
Tasks Completed: 11
Tasks in Progress: 2
Books Read: 13
GoodReads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
Pages Read: 293 (5445 total)
25.1- And The Story Continues...I read Cowgirls Don't Cry by Lorelei James. #10 in the series. I also read Tanner's Scheme by Lora Leigh. #9 in the series.
Points for this task-25
Total Points- 610
Books Read- 48
Goodreads Authors-15
Total Pages Read- 14671
5.4 - I'm Glad My Mother Didn't Name Me...Because She Can
Glad my name isn't Bridie.
15.5 - LITERATURE MAP
Breathing Room
20.5 Liz Vegas’s Task (Bigger is Better) - Oprah's On!
C is for Corpse Originally published in 1986.
30.6 - KIRI's task: KIRI's task: Exploration & High Adventure
A. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
B. Eat, Pray, Love
Points: 70
Total Points: 835
Tasks Completed: 49
Books Read: 66
Pages: 20,676
Goodreads Authors: 15
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Stacey
I'm gonna do a little reshuffling here. I previously claimed 5.7, "Circle of Life," with The Girl Who Played with Fire.
I'd like to move that book to:
10.9, "Under the Covers." This book was on the Flashlight Worthy list "What New Yorkers Read on the Subway."
My new book for 5.7 is:
Glasshouse by Charles Stross, who was born in October.
New points: 10
Total points: 605
Tasks Completed: 39
Books Read: 51
I'm gonna do a little reshuffling here. I previously claimed 5.7, "Circle of Life," with The Girl Who Played with Fire.
I'd like to move that book to:
10.9, "Under the Covers." This book was on the Flashlight Worthy list "What New Yorkers Read on the Subway."
My new book for 5.7 is:
Glasshouse by Charles Stross, who was born in October.
New points: 10
Total points: 605
Tasks Completed: 39
Books Read: 51
Diane5.1 - Fall Colors
Read a book with a title that includes a fall leaf color: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle.
25.3 - Sandy’s Task As Suggested by Katy: Daylight Savings
C) Since the days will be shorter, read a short book (100-300 pages):
The Wild Boy of Burundi: A study of an outcast child by Harlan L. Lane (188 pages).
AND
D) Since dark will come earlier, read a "dark" book - select a book that is over 100 pages from Most Depressing Book of All Time: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
Total Points: 565/890
Tasks Completed: 33/53
Tasks in Progress: 4
Books Read: 45/71
GoodReads Authors: 3 (Garth Stein, Laila Lalami, Tatiana de Rosnay)
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
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I completed Task 25.3 (Daylight Savings) using Options A (time period before I was born) and C (100-300 page book).I read Ironweed, which is set in the Depression (1930s) for Option A and Northanger Abbey (256 pgs) for Option C.
I enjoyed both books. I found Ironweed a bit gritty and coarse, at times.
New point total: 350
MG5.5 - Take Me Out to the Ball Game
The Housekeeper and the Professor The book talked a lot about baseball and its' statistics.
5.6 - She's a Beauty
5.8 - Freedom to Read
25.2 - Leigh Ann's task - AS HER DEBUT...
608 pages Big Book Item
by **Goodreads Author** Rachel Hawkins30.1- pjreads's task as suggested by Jen B: IT'S IN THE CARDS
Drew Qspade, 2diamond, 8clubs, queen clubs
For 2diomond –
**Goodreads Author** Gail Carriger#26 in historical fiction in Amazon.com & published this year
8clubs –
by **Goodreads Author** Helen Simonson and published this year.Points This Task: 70
Total Points: 370
Tasks Completed: 25
Books Read: 31
GoodReads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
wendyma is done!!15.10 - SECOND CHANCES
For those who get frustrated when they find “the perfect book” for a task, but they’ve already found another “perfect book” for that task…………
A. Read a book which fits another task from this challenge. The task must be one with some restrictions on the book chosen – for instance, you couldn’t use a task that only specifies a number of pages to be read. REQUIRED: When you post, please indicate which other task your book fits.
Neon Rain by Burke- nice cover
AND
B. Read a book from the Fall Group Reads nominations that was not selected as the Fall Group Reads in its category. You may choose a book from any of the categories – it doesn’t have to be from the same category as the Group Reads book you chose (but it can be, if you’d like). The three books that were selected as Group Reads are not eligible.
Die for Me by Rose
15 points
890 total
the end
Good for you, Wendy. Now you'll have time to organize for the Winter Challenge.
RACHEL CA—Total points, 330 (points since last post, 25)25.01 AND THE STORY CONTINUES…
"A Caribbean Mystery (Miss Marple, #9)" Agatha Christie (The Miss Marple books are approved as a series in the task help thread, even though they are not labeled on Goodreads as such) [I read this large print edition, which has 299 pgs, but editions with typical print size are 224 pgs]
AND
"Dead Man's Ransom(Brother Cadfael Chronicles, #9)" Ellis Peters [224 pgs]
[523 pgs out of the 400 required pgs for this task]
Task 30.3 - Shipwrecked!The two books I read were Across the Universe and Between Shades of Gray.
I picked these two books because my friend, Cathy, asked me to read them and when I got rescued from the desert island the first thing she would ask me would be, "Well, with all that free time did you read them yet?" and if I hadn't, well, she would make me wish I was back on the desert island. (They were both great, I'm glad she 'made' me read them!)
New Points: 30
Total Points: 155
Mod
I readWhy My Third Husband Will Be A Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman by Lisa Scottoline.
You just got in under the wire with this one! She just published a second book of essays - looks like about 2 weeks ago! That's too recent for you to have taken into account, though, so this one works.
Task 15.3 Continental DivideBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
Points this task:15
Total Points:610
Tasks Completed:36
Books Read:47
Total Goodreads Authors:9
Total Big Book Tickets:3
25.2 - As Her DebutA. The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath
B. The Still Point by Amy Sackville
These were approved in the help thread.
Total points to date 685
Wendy wrote: "wendyma is done!!15.10 - SECOND CHANCES
For those who get frustrated when they find “the perfect book” for a task, but they’ve already found another “perfect book” for that task…………
A. Read a b..."
Congrats Wendy!
20.1 Bookmarks Magazine: Select and read any book of your choice that was reviewed this year.Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
I believe this is reviewed in the current issue: Nov/Dec 2010
Total Points: 305
Total Tasks: 15
Total Books: 22
Mod
I read How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, the only novel so far by Charles Yu.
I really didn't like it - for one thing, too many sentences that ran on for a page and a half!
total points: 550
Completed three more tasks:10.9 Under the Covers:
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
From the "Back to School" list.
20.1 Bookmarks Magazine:
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
From the Mar/Apr 2010 issue.
20.4 The Plotline Thickens:
The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones
My favorite plotline in movies are when a group of protagonists come to together to help reach a common goal. Like The Goonies, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Serenity. I love this because characterization becomes a greater focus in furthering the plot.
New Total: 100
Jackie NM Forgot my readerboard name so this is a repost.
It's been awhile so I have lots to report!
20.3 Feminist Literature- The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood. The book is The Odyssey from Penelope's point of view focusing on her problems and the problems her maids face from the suitors.
30.1 It's in the Cards- The first card I chose was an Ace of Hearts which means it had to be first in a series and a goodreads author. I chose Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian. The second card I chose was a 5 of Clubs. I read The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
30.3 Shipwrecked!- I read Indulgence in Death (In Death, #31) by J.D. Robb and Kiss of Crimson by Lara Adrian. I chose Indulgence in Death because it's part of my favorite series and I chose Kiss of Crimson for some romance while I'm on my own on an island!
I would also like to claim Goodreads Author tickets for Margaret Atwood, Lara Adrian twice for two books, Kathryn Stockett for a total of 4 for this posting.
Points This Task: 20+30+30=80
Total Points: 265
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 14
GoodReads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Congratulation Wendy. I look forward to seeing your winter task.
15.5 Literature MapI'm No Angel by Patti Berg
I entered Jennifer Crusie into the Literature Map and it led me to Patti Berg.
Total Points: 315
Tasks Completed: 19
Books Read: 23
GoodReads Authors: 3 (Lisa Lane, James Patterson, Chris Cleave)
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Jayme VA20.1: Reviewed in Bookmarks Magazine
I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman **Claiming Goodreads Author**
This was reviewed by Bookmarks in the Nov-Dec 2010 issue.
25.4: Television Task
Rolled 4 (number in title) and a 6 (animal in title). For the 4 I read I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore and for 6 I read Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. Monkingjay was approved in the Q&A Thread.
Points this task: 45
Total Points: 350
Total Tasks: 15
Total Books: 23
Total Pages: 8014
GR Authors: 5 (Cleave, Ebershoff, Patterson, Stevens, Lippman)
Big Books: 500+(1); 750+(1); 1000+(0)
Stacey
15.3 Continential Divide
My continent was Australia.
In a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonBill Bryson
New points: 15
Total points: 620
Tasks Completed: 40
Books Read: 52
15.3 Continential Divide
My continent was Australia.
In a Sunburned Country by Bill BrysonBill Bryson
New points: 15
Total points: 620
Tasks Completed: 40
Books Read: 52
Jackie NM5.9 Comfort Read- Grave Witch by Kalayna Price.
I chose it as a comfort read because it's my favorite genre and easy to get through.
15.5 Literature Map- Midnight Awakening by Lara Adrian
I put J.R. Ward into the search and out popped Lara Adrian. Lara Adrian was very similar to J.R. Ward and her series has got me in it's hooks!
Both authors are GR authors so I would like to claim tickets!
Points This Task: 5 + 15= 20
Total Points: 285
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 16
GoodReads Authors: 8
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Task 15.5 - Literature map
I put in Alexandre Dumas and got lots of great authors that write deeply descriptive and moody novels. I read:
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
Task points = 15
Total Challenge points = 530
Task Completed:15.7 - SOLVE THE MYSTERY
b) One for the Money (Stephanie Plum #1) – Janet Evanovich
Total: 175
Donna Jo wrote: "Good for you, Wendy. Now you'll have time to organize for the Winter Challenge."THANKS!!
Sheila wrote: "Congratulation Wendy. I look forward to seeing your winter task."Thanks Sheila!
★Meghan★ wrote: "Wendy wrote: "wendyma is done!!15.10 - SECOND CHANCES
For those who get frustrated when they find “the perfect book” for a task, but they’ve already found another “perfect book” for that task………..."
Thanks, M!
kiki wrote: "congrats, wendy ma! :)"Thanks, KIKI
wendyma Last task again
15.1 Outside comfort zone Horror
Club dead by Harris
I read horror but it is the most outside my comfort zone of all of the possibilities, except abandoned books, which is really the one that is outside my comfort zone.
15 points
890
done again maybe
Brenda WI30.8 Top 150 Bestsellers a) Nov 15 2009 Freedom b) Oct 15 2000 The Rescue
30 pts + 180 previous = 210 total
Kate.x.15.4 Fall Equinox, I read POPCO by Scarlett Thomas and NUDGE by Thaler and Sunstein, both have five letters in there title.
I think this may be all I have time to read this challegne, so final points
Total = 330 (which is better than last challegne).
10.9 UNDER THE COVERSFight club by Chuck Palahniuk
chosen from the list : 21 Great Books with Just-As-Great Movie Versions
Task points : 10
Total Points: 210
Total Tasks Complete: 14
Total Tasks in Progress:1
Total Books Read: 18
Total Big Book Tickets 500+(7), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Total Goodreads Authors 1
Mod
A. Read a mystery where an animal plays a main part in the story and B. Read a mystery with an animal besides a dog or cat in the title.
I read (A) The Fairy-Tale Detectives- the dog, Elvis, provides clues, tries to protect the girls, etc. AND
(B)Crocodile on the Sandbank
Total points: 580
5.6 - She's a BeautyNovember 20th is Beautiful Day. Read a book with a cover you consider beautiful.
I read My Reading Life by Pat Conroy
I am partial to any seascapes and that combined with books makes this cover irresistible to me!total Points: 315
total tasks:15
total books read:26
total big books: 3
total goodreads authors: 4
total pages: 8414
Elizabeth NC30.4 (animal mysteries)
A. Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr. There is a death that everyone (except Anna of course( believes is done by a mountain lion
B. Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews (Peacocks being the animal)
That gives me:
Points: 275
Books Read: 22
Challenges Completed: 18
Pages Read: 6250
5.2 Our Town by Thorton Wilder 5.7 Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
15.2 Voted for Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and read the book also
20.1 The Wild Things by Dave Eggers Jan-Feb 2010
30.3 Wings by Danielle Steel the setting takes place in a small town in Illinois that my Father is from so I'd have memories of family close by. and
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. If I'm on deserted island this book's setting could help "cool" me off.
30.6 Robert E. Peary and the Fight for the North Pole by Madelyn Klein Anderson and The Stormy Voyager: The Story of Charles Wilkes by Robert Silverberg
total points 395
I completed task 10.4: Leaving Civilization BehindI read An Echo in the BoneDiana Gabaldon.
Points this task: 10
Total Points: 235
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 19
GoodReads Authors: 4 Kate Quinn Chris Cleave Monica Burns Penelope Marzec
Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0) (less) (less)
I completed task 25.4: Stay Tuned.
I rolled a 2 & 5. I read
The Heretic's Daughter and One Fifth Avenue.
Points this task: 25
Total Points: 260
Tasks Completed: 18
Books Read: 21
GoodReads Authors: 4 Kate Quinn Chris Cleave Monica Burns Penelope Marzec
Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0) (less) (less)
I completed task 30.3: Shipwrecked.
I read The Book Thief and A Northern Light. I consider these good books to have while shipwrecked because both are sad and would remind me that even though I'm trapped on an island, it could always be worse.
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 290
Tasks Completed: 19
Books Read: 23
GoodReads Authors: 4 Kate Quinn Chris Cleave Monica Burns Penelope Marzec
Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0) (less) (less)
I completed task 15.9: Coin Collector.
I rolled "The Hell With It" and "Do It". I read The Luxe and The House on Oyster Creek.
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 305
Tasks Completed: 20
Books Read: 25
GoodReads Authors: 4 Kate Quinn Chris Cleave Monica Burns Penelope Marzec
Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0) (less) (less)
5.9 Comfort ReadThe Brave: A Novel
This is a comfort read for two reasons: literary, contemporary fiction is my favorite genre, and Nicholas Evans is one of my favorite authors and this is his first book in quite a while.
Points this task: 5
Total points: 180
Tasks completed: 12
Goodreads author: 2
Pages: 4,818/25,919
Southpaw285Completed Task #25.2 - Leigh Ann's Task: As Her Debut
Book #1 - Debut Novel:
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
Lauren Willig is a Good Reads Author
Book #2 - 2010 Debut Novel:
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Task Points: 25
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Total Challenge Pointst as of 11/22/10 = 400
25.4 - Lisa MD's Task: Stay Tuned For Your Regularly Scheduled ProgramYou are all settled in the recliner, remote in hand, for a night of television watching. It’s that much anticipated time of year, when old favorites return and new shows premiere. You scroll through the menu on your big, flat-screen HDTV, then press the remote to tune in to your show; but wait, the t.v. goes static, develops rabbit ears, and your rocker fully reclines and you flip over backwards in time until you reach 1960. .
MINE WAS 3 and 5
3. Blue Bloods
Read a book with a police officer as a main character
Death of Prankster - MC BEaton
and
5. 77 Sunset Strip
Read a book with a number in the title (actual #, written form or ordinal number).
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
TERRI DC
Readerboard name: LeoraI completed 2 tasks this weekend:
Task 10-3 Freedom
I read Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author of Uncle Toms's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
and:
Task 30-1 It's In the Cards
For cards I drew: A Queen of Hearts and read Sarah's Key By Tatiana de Rosnay
and an 8 of hearts and I read
No Nest for the Wicket by Donna Andrews.
Thbis brings me to 400 points
Huh, the first book that I posted for the 10-3 task, I chose the wrong cover link I actually read "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Sorry about that!
30.1 - it's in the cards six of hearts: Blue Eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas (Goodreads author)
=published in an even year since 1/1/00 (published 2008)
queen of hearts:204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macomber
=written by a woman and published since 1/1/00 (published 2005)
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Points Claiming: 30
Points Total: 465
Goodreads author: 10+1=11 (adding Lisa Kleypas)
Masanobu5.2 Take Me Out To The Ball Game
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Points Total: 45+1*5 = 50
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15.4 Fall Equinox
I read Dream Factory and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth, which each have 12 characters in the title.
Total points = 245