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[Eilymay]

5.7 - Circle of Life

I read Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon who was born on 25th September 1964.

Total: 45 Points

[Lori]

25.3 Daylight Savings

Choice C -- The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler

Choice D -- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury


30.3 Shipwrecked

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

Love & Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson

Mary E. Pearson is a GoodReads author


Adding 55 points makes for a total of 220.

[Sara ♥]

Last post... and I've got some flipping around to do... sorry!

New Completed Tasks

Task 5.8 - Banned Book - What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones (11/24/10)

Task 10.7 - City Name/"City" Title - City Girl by Lori Wick (11/29/10)

Task 10.10 - GR Group Current Book (Wild Things, October 2010) - Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (11/28/10)

Task 20.1 - Stephanie Anne - Bookmarks Mag (March/April) - Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert (11/30/10)

Task 30.3 - Dlmrose - Shipwrecked 2 Books - The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn (GR AUTHOR) (9/2/10) AND The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (531pp - BIG BOOK) (11/30/10)

Changes

Task 15.4 - Same Length Title -
Dancing Queen (12) by Erin Downing (11/18/10) (moved from task 30.7, still a GR author)
AND
Drive Me Crazy (12) by Erin Downing (11/22/10) (moved from task 5.7, still a GR author)

Task 5.7 - Born/Died Sep/Oct/Nov - UNCLAIMING POINTS FOR THIS TASK

Task 30.7 - Donna Jo - Published pre-1983; Smile on Cover -
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (11/6/10) (no change)
AND Maid to Match (Large Cover Image) by Deeanne Gist (9/28/10)

FINAL STATS
Tasks Completed: 42/53
Books Read: 56/71
Pages Read: 17,957
Points Earned: 725/890
CHALLENGE BOOK LIST

[Joanna]

Hi,
I am entering my last book! This was my first challenge, and whoa! I can't wait for Winter. My hat is off to those who finished...excellent job!

For 5.8: Comfort Read, I read

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

I love, love, love this book so much. It was one of my favorite childhood reads, and as I moved to a new city in August, and unpacked my bookshelves (just finished tha this week!), I found my old, dogeared paperback copy, and promptly settled right down to read it. This is my definition of a "comfort read."

This brings me to:

Points this challenge: 5
Number of challenges completed:5
Total points: 40
Number of books: 5

Thank you, moderators!

[Diane]

Diane

My last entry this season.

20.2 Karen GHHS’s Task (Rookie on Top) – Music Tells the Story
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:

Musical: The Lion King
Book: Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen). (399 pgs.)
Both the musical and book take place in Afica.

Total Points: 720/890
Tasks Completed: 43/53
Books Read: 55/71
GoodReads Authors: 4 (Garth Stein, Laila Lalami, Tatiana de Rosnay, Cathleen Schine)
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+(0)

[Arow]

10.9- Under the covers- Flashlight worthy
List used: The Complete Harry Potter Series
Yes it is very flashlight worthy

I read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

10.10- Group Hug- I choice Reading with Style group and they were reading Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Total Points to Date: 255

[JC]

Task 5.8 - Freedom to Read

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Task total = 5

Final Challenge total = 570 Pretty good for a first-timer, I think!

[Sheila]

Congratulations for finishing Valorie. That leaves you one whole day to compose your winter challenge task! LOL. I look forward to it.

[Bluemoon]

Congrats to all the finishers. This will be my last post for this challenge.

10.7 -CITY LIGHTS - Escape from Andersonville: A Novel of the Civil War (3*). Andersonville is a town in Georgia.

Final totals
710 points.
16 GoodReads authors.
4 books 500+ pages.
1 book 750+ pages.

[Tracyj]

OK - Here's my final post for the fall challenge. Once again - I had hoped to do better, alas there is not enough time in the day.
20.2 - Music Tells a story
My favorite musical is West Side Story - so I read a book with a similar subject of star crossed lovers with parents and friends that disapprove of their relationship and one of them being from the "wrong side of the tracks".

I read Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles. Great YA read!

10.1 Shorter Days

Living on the Edge of the World: New Jersey Writers Take On the Garden State which is anthology of short stories about New Jersey.

Tasks Completed - 14
Books Read - 18
TOTAL POINTS - 275

[Rachel]

READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

10.9: Under the Covers

I read Katherine, which was on the "Best Romantic Books You've Never Heard Of" list on the site.

15.9 Coin Collector!

I got one heads and one tails, so I read Crestmont (309 pgs)and Swan Island (220 pgs)to total more than 500 pgs.

Holly Weiss is also a GoodReads author.

20.10 Group Reads

I read Mockingjay and my post in the discussion is #141.

25.3 Daylight Savings

I chose options A. and C.
A: The Fire Rose--set in the 1910s before I was born
C: The Legend of the Seventh Virgin--my copy was 287 pgs.

30.1 It's in the cards

I got...
Queen of Spades-- by a woman before 1960--so I read The Blue Castle.
King of Hearts--set in a country with a monarch published after Jan.1, 2000--so I read Impulse & Initiative: What If Mr. Darcy Didn't Take No for an Answer?, set in England.

30.5 Life Lessons

I got lessons 3 and 6, so I read:
3: author with "p" or "q" in name--Handling the Undead
6: non-fiction you don't know much about--Century of Struggle: The Womans Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition, about the suffrage movement.

TOTALS
POINTS=305
BOOKS=23 [Big Books:0; GoodReads author books:5]
TASKS=18

I was glad to make it past 300 points--I was competing over at the Reading With Style group for the first time too! Let's see what next season will bring!

[Rach]

Here's my last post for the challenge!

5.4 - Glad My Mom Didn't Name Me

Deadly Décisions by Kathy Reichs
Temperance - really? who would name their kid that?



10.10 - Group Hug

The Thousand by Kevin Guilfoile
On the list for The Inevitably Legendary Book Club of Awesomeness, my local book club. :)



15.7 - Solve the Mystery

B. Best Crime and Mystery Books

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann



15.9 - Coin Collector

I got 1 "Do It", 1 "The Hell With It", so I read books totaling 500 pages

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned by Alan Alda (272 pages)
AND
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore (304 pages)



20.6 - See Self in Title

Name: Rachel

The SnAkE, tHe CRocodiLe and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters



25.4 - Regularly Schedule Program

I rolled 6 & 6:

6 - Glee (high school or musical):
Crimson Hero, Vol. 13 by Mitsuba Takanashi
(set in a Japanese High School)

6 - Bugs Bunny (book with animal in title):
Why? Because We Still Like You: An Oral History of the Mickey MOUSE Club by Jennifer Armstrong



30.8 - Fall Back into Reading

October 2009 List, #13
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

September 2000 List, #136
Death du Jour by Kathy Reichs



Here are my final totals for this challenge:

POINTS: 305
TASKS: 20
BOOKS: 26

[Brenda]

Brenda WI

20.1 Bookmarks Magazine I found The Lacuna on the January/February bookshelf

20 pts this post + 250 previous = 270 total

[Stacie]

STACIE MI

Task 30.3 - Shipwrecked

I read The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner to remind me that happiness can be found just about anywhere.

I also read A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray because, although I was not fond of it the first time I read it, given enough time, I'm sure it would grow on me!

Points this task: 30
Total points: 600
Tasks completed: 41
Books read: 51
Pages read: 14195
Goodreads authors: 10
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (1); 1000+ (0)

[SplkdancerReviews]

Sara VA

25.1 And the Story Continues...
Read two books that are either 9th, 10th or 11th in a series.

I read Extreme Measures Number 9 in the series, and Pursuit Of Honor Number 10 in the series both by Vince Flynn.
(Of course, I had to read all of the earlier ones also, but that was more for fun than required.)

Points for this post: 25
Total Points for the Challenge: 105
Tasks completed: 7
Big Books(500pgs.):2

Not bad for my first challenge!

[Valorie]

Sheila wrote: "Congratulations for finishing Valorie. That leaves you one whole day to compose your winter challenge task! LOL. I look forward to it."

Thanks Sheila! I've pretty much got the idea in my head, so It shouldn't take me long!

[[deleted user]]

One last post for me. Didn't quite make it, but I think 775 is pretty respectable for my first time out!

Stacey
30.4: Mysteries and Animals
A: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Mystery is precipitated by a cat's disappearance. Actually, the bird plays a big role too.)
B: The Silver Pigs

New points: 30
Total points: 775

[Karen Michele]

Here are my last two tasks for fall:

5.2 – The Play Must Go On

Othello by Shakespeare

Task Points: 5

5.6 – She’s a Beauty

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare



Task Points: 5

Task Total: 10 Points

Grand Total: 635

[Anna]

30.7 - Donna Jo's task as suggested by Meghan: GOOD SPIRITS
A) A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie (1950)

B) Heist Society by Ally Carter

Points: 190
Tasks: 9
Books: 13

[Laura]

LDB

10.4 LEAVING CIVILIZATION BEHIND
Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban by Stephen Tanner

This book is about the conflict history of Afghanistan - from steppe warriors to the cave networks of the Taliban. The whole book took place outside in the midst of the rough and intimidating terrain of Afghanistan.

Total points: 80
Tasks Completed: 5
Books read: 5
Pages read: 1,275

Not great but I will have more time to read for the winter challenge (or that is the plan, at least).

[Kathy G.]

Kathy G.

15.4 Fall Equinox
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian by Marguerite Henry
*** Both have 13 letters in the titles ****

I had a great time this reading challenge. I read so many good books and found new authors. Thanks a bunch to all the moderators!!!!

Total Points- 260
Total Tasks- 16
Goodreads Authors- 2
Big Books 1 (500+)

[Janet]

10.7 - City Lights

Berlin: City of Smoke, Book Two - 200 pages


15.6 - One-hit Wonder

The Bell Jar - 244 pages

30.5 - Life Lessons

I rolled 2,2 so must read books with word in title from Misspelled Words.

What It Is: The Formless Thing Which Gives Things Form - 209 pages (word on list is "things") - note that GR listing does not include the subtitle, but it is on the book and on the listing at my library.

Potential: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag - 240 pages (word on list is "school")



Total pages in book(s): 893
Total Tasks Completed: 33
Total Books Read: 49
Total Pages Read: 13,929
Total Points: 545
Big Books: 500+(2)
Total GR Authors: 7

[[deleted user]]

30.3 Shipwrecked!

The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton
Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #3) by Laurell K. Hamilton

I chose two early books from a favorite series.



Points This Task: 30
Total Points: 255
Tasks Completed: 18
Books Read: 23
GoodReads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
Total Pages Read: 7207

[Ms.soule]

50.1 Emily ID’s task: Semper Fi

A. 4: World War II - The Lost Garden: A Novel by Helen Humphreys - ★ ★ ★

B. 6: Crazy Kisses by Tara Janzen – main character is a Marine - ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

C. 6: Honor – The Edge of Honor by P.T. Deutermann - ★ ★

Dice Rolled: 4, 6, 6

Points this post: 50 pts.
Total Points: 615 pts.
Total Goodreads authors: 7

[Kristina Simon]

Finally finished my last books! Here goes...

5.1 - Fall Colors
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

20.7 - The Melting Pot
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

20.9 - Babies!
The Baby's Guardian by Delores Fossen

Total Points: 535/890




Tasks Completed: 30/53
Tasks in Progress: none ;o)
Books Read: 39
Books by Goodreads authors: 2 (Kathy Carmichael, Rebecca Skloot)
Big Books: 0 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)

[Jayme Pendergraft]

Last post. thank you to everyone for all your hard work!

30.3: Shipwrecked! Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann and Room by Emma Donoghue (***Both of these authors are goodreads authors**)

I chose Great World because it covers everything you could possibly want to read- romance, crime, immigration, mystery, just everything you could want to read. Room is so that I could remember there are others out there and that there's hope for rescue.

30.7: Good spirits. Smile on Cover and older book.

A. N or M? by Agatha Christie was published in 1941. I was born in the 80s.

B. by Roald Dahl has a smile on the cover.


Points this task: 60
Total Points: 445
Total Tasks: 19
Total Books: 30
Total Pages: 9787
GR Authors: 7 (Cleave, Ebershoff, Patterson, Stevens, Lippmanm Donoghue, McCann)
Big Books: 500+(1); 750+(1); 1000+(0)

[Lauren]

Lauren CT

Last Task
15.3 Continental Divide: I got Europe so I read The Unicorn by Iris Murdochwhich takes place in Ireland.

TOTALS
Points:615
Tasks: 40
Pages: 18751
Books: 50
GR Authors: 14
Big Books: (7) 500, (2) 750

[Joanie]

15.9 Coin Collector I got 2 The Hell With Its so I had to read 700 pages.

1. Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner-368 pgs. Jennifer Weiner is a goodreads author.

2. Tinkers by Paul Harding-192 pgs

3. The Naked Gardener by L.B. Gschwandtner-218 pgs. LB is a goodreads author.

Total pages:778

Points for this task: 15

Total points for the challenge:285

[Katy]

25.1 Series
The Hard Way by Lee Child (Jack Reacher series #10)

and

The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King (Mary Russell series #10) LAURIE R KING IS A GOODREADS AUTHOR

TOTAL POINTS: 275

[Rachel]

Just under the gun!

20.2 Music Tells the Story

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

The musical is "In the Woods" and they are both fairy tale related.

Points this task: 20
Total points: 220
Tasks completed: 15
Goodreads author: 2

[Casey]

Casey TN

This was my first challenge...I had a great time, and can't wait to start the next one!


Task 10.4 - Leaving Civilization Behind

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle


Task 30.2 - Ins and Outs

Part A, Exterior: The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Part B, Interior: The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman

Total Points This Post: 40
Total Points: 415
Tasks Completed: 23
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

[Rachel]

RACHEL CA—Total points, 485 (points since last post, 90)

5.06 SHE’S A BEAUTY

"Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner", by Wallace Stegner
BIG BOOK TICKET (500 pgs)—the book is 525 pages

10.04 LEAVING CIVILIZATION
"21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey", by Patrick O'Brian (ON THE OCEAN)

10.10 GROUP HUG
"Egil's Saga", by Anonymous (Old Norse Literature currently-reading shelf)

15.01 NEW HORIZONS
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid", by Jeff Kinney on the “graphic novels” shelf; I didn't like this very much. If this is representative of the genre, I'm not very interested in reading more. If I tried another, I'd get one with a different style of illustration, and one with more likeable characters.

20.04 THE PLOT LINE THICKENS
"Ballet Shoes", by Noel Streatfeild—I like movies about people, especially underdogs, developing astonishing skills over time—like “Shall We Dance”, or “Hoosiers”, or “Vincent and Theo”. The three orphans in "Ballet Shoes" have a rough start, but develop their talents and thrive!

30.02 INS & OUTS
A) EXTERIOR: "Steps to Independence: Teaching Everyday Skills to Children With Special Needs", by Bruce L. Baker (STEPS)

B) INTERIOR: "I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives", by Deborah Tannen(FAMILY room)

[laurel]

5.7 author born/died in Sept. Thru Nov
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn by Colin Dexter (born Sept. 29, 1930)

10.1 book of short stories, essays, etc
Prefaces without Books by Christopher Morley (essays)

10.5 Character has religious vocation
Service of All the Dead by Colin Dexter - most characters associated with church, including priests, church wardens, etc.

15.4 Read two books with same number of characters in title
15 characters - Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter and Cowboy Cocktails by Grady Spears and Brigit Legere Binns

15.6 Only book by an author
The Mighty Book of Boosh by Dave Brown, Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding, et al. Most of the authors (incl. Brown, Barratt, Fielding) only have this book to their name.

15.9 Rolled 1 Do it and 1 the Hell with It - read one+ books totalling 500 pages
The Complete Bartender by Robyn M. Feller (550 pages)

20.3 Feminist lit
The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin

20.6 title and subtitle contain all letters in FN, which is Laurel.
University of Tennessee Football Vault: the story of the Tennessee Volunteers, 1891-2006 by Tom Mattingly

25.3 read two out of three
A. Historical fiction of period before birth - The Prestige by Christopher Priest takes place primarily in late 19th/early 20th centuries.
B. Book of 100-300 pages - Christopher Morley by Mark I. Wallace and Jon Bracker (145 pages)

25.4 rolled 5 and 2, so read 7
Multicolor cover - the Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors by Anthony and Laura Blond
B&W cover - a View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller

Total: 160 points
1 book over 500 pages: see 15.9

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

The Fall Challenge is over!

[Kristina Simon]

Congratulations to all the finishers and to everyone who met or exceeded their goals for this season! Great job!

Let the Winter Challenge begin...