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WINTER CHALLENGE 2010-2011: ASIA
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Winter Challenge 2010-2011 Completed Tasks (do not delete any posts)
Cheryl wrote: "Readerboard Name: Cheryl TX10.4 Auld Lang Syne
A Spoonful of Poison by M. C. Beaton
10.7 My Favorite Things
1st to Die by James Patterson [bookcove..."
Good luck on Thursday, Cheryl! Nothing serious, I hope!
Carly5.9 -- Noel, Noel
I read After the First Death by Robert Cormier.
Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 5
Tasks Completed: 1
Tasks in Progress: 6
Books Read: 1
GoodReads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Pages Read: 237
LISA NC30.4 By the Numbers
Book A) Lover Mine by J.R. Ward
My birth year is odd so I chose author whose last name begins with W.
528 pages claiming Big Book ticket
Book B) Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
My phone number added up to 6 and there are 6 words in title.
Lisa See is a Goodreads Author
This post: 30 points
Total: 80 points
GR Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(1)
Reader board name: Lindy-LaneGoal Points for Winter Tasks= 200
Points for this task = 5
Total points achieved to date = 5
# of books read = 1
# of pages read= 444
# of tasks completed = 1
tasks last updated = 1.03
Task 5.7 Happy New Year!
Read a book with a predominately red cover
I read:
Juliet by Anne Fortier 1.01
10.4 Auld Lang SyneThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith *GR Author*
10.8 Give her...Jewelry
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 190
Total Tasks Completed:10
Total Books Read: 11
Total GoodReads Authors: 5
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
5.8 Here's to a New BeginningThe Sleeping Dragon by Joel Rosenberg
Points: 5
Total Points: 90
Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 9
Stacey
15.8 Festivus
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul A. Offit
(My chosen thing-that-drives-me-crazy is anti-vaccination advocates, so the title should be self-explanatory!)
New points: 15
Total points: 235
15.8 Festivus
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All by Paul A. Offit
(My chosen thing-that-drives-me-crazy is anti-vaccination advocates, so the title should be self-explanatory!)
New points: 15
Total points: 235
15.9 -- Warm up! -- book set in south or by a Southern writerThe Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
20.7 -- Christmas Fuzzies…or Not
I have a love/hate relationship with this time of year. I hate the craziness, but I love spending time with my family. Ultimately, I decided that the love outweighed the hate, so I read a sad book I've been wanting to read for some time --
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
I can't believe it's taken me this long to get around to reading this book (although I think I've seen the movie, or parts of the movie, at some point)! It certainly had it's sad parts, but I really enjoyed it overall and I'm glad I finally picked it up.
Points this post: 35
Total Points: 120/975
Tasks Completed: 8/56
Tasks in Progress: 25.1; 30.1; 30.3; 30.6
Books Read: 13
Books from my book shelves: 5
Jennifer OH10.3 Sláinte! To Your Health!: Read a non-fiction book that might inspire you to improve your physical health. It could be a diet or nutrition book, healthy cooking cookbook, a sports/fitness book, or a self-improvement book with a physical health theme ex. smoking cessation, illness management, pregnancy self-care
Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday by Apolo Ohno read 1-3-11
Completed Tasks- 8
Books Read- 8
Points- 85
Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
5.4 It's Cold OutsideSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Over 500 pages - Big book ticket
Points this post: 5
Total points: 175
GR Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(5), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
BJ Rose2 new tasks
10.8 Promise Her Anything... flowers on the cover
To Catch a Bride by Anne Gracie
30.8 Ms. Anderson's Task: I rolled a 2 and a 1
2: Favorite Genre: Historical Romance: I Kissed an Earl by Julie Anne Long (ASIA in title)
1: Favorite Author: Lisa Kleypas: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor (ASIA is in title)
Lisa Kleypas is a GoodReads Author
Total Points = 135
Tasks Completed = 11
Total Pages = 3,624
GR Authors = 2
Erin B.Task #25.1 - Wendy MA's task - Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire...
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor and Helping Me Help Myself by Beth Lisick
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 25
a couple more!20.2 Winter Flowers Day
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
20.10 Group Read
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
(I have posted in the discussion thread.)
Points This Post: 40
Total Points: 295
Tasks Completed: 16
Total Books: 22
Pages Read: 7,068
GoodReads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Task Completed:20.6 Seasoned Reader: Beth F's task- The Twenty-tens
Bread Alone - Judith Ryan Hendricks (main character Wynter Morrison is 31, I am 30).
Total: 55points
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10.5 Chinese Dragon Dance
Lust - Charlotte Featherstone (GR Author)
15.3. From A... to Z
A - Against the Wind
B - Zeke - Beth Williamson (GR Author)
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: Mrs soule's task- Christmas Fuzzies…or Not:
Cardinal's Rule - Tymber Dalton (GR Author) - Normally I alternate between the love it and hate it for christmas - this year i'm more in the love it camp because my little sister is visiting and I haven't seen her in two years, so I chose a book by an author who always gets me emotionally involved and quite often I end up crying
25.5 -- Valorie's task - SRC Tea Ceremony - A - Kiyoto Lemon Tea - Sweet Inspiration - Penny Watson (GR Author) - approved in the task help thread, both characters are bakers
B -Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden Book 1) - Charlaine Harris
30.4 -- Donna Jo’s Task -- By the Numbers -
A - even year - A Strong Hand - Catt Ford
B - 7 - The Care and Feeding of Unmarried Men - Christie Ridgway (GR Author)
Total Points This Post: 100
Total Points in Challenge: 500
Books Read: 42
Tasks Completed: 32
GR Authors: 21
Big Book Tickets: 500+(4); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
Previous Tasks Completed:
5.1; 5.2; 5.3; 5.6; 5.7; 5.8; 5.9
10.7; 10.8; 10.9; 10.10
15.1; 15.4; 15.9; 15.10
20.1; 20.3; 20.4; 20.5; 20.9; 20.10
25.1
30.1; 30.2; 30.7; 30.8
Jayme VAFinally on the board- have lots of half completed tasks!
20.4: Game On! I rolled a 4 and got puzzle games, so I read In the Woods by Tana French. It won an Edgar award for best first novel. I was horrible at figuring out this puzzle and loved this book!
30.9: Happy 80th: Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie was published in 1933. Dorothy And the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum is a book any mother would love to read to her children!
Points This Post: 50
Total Points in Challenge: 50
Books Read: 3
Tasks Completed: 2
Pages Read: 833
GR Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 500+(0); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
10.4 Auld Lang Syne - Author from ScotlandHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Claiming a big book ticket for this book - 759 pages
Total Points: 115
Tasks Completed: 10
Pages Read: 3543
Books Read: 11
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(2), 1000+(0)
Readerboard Name: Kimber15.9 Warm Up
Read Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
mostly set in Southport, NC
ok per Sandy
This task: 15
Tasks completed: 8
Total points earned: 70
Goodread authors: 2
Big Book: 1/500
Finally getting some time to post.5.7 Happy New Year (book with red cover)
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
20.6 Twenty 10s-B:A Character in the same age decade
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper. The main character, Judd is in his mid-30s-my age decade
30.4 By the Numbers
A.The last digit of my birth year is even so I read Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb
B. My phone number adds up to 41 which equals 5 so I read The Soul of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
Tasks Completed:7
Books Read:8
Total Points:85
15.4 Opposites DayIndulgence in Death (In Death, #31) by J.D. Robb
A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer *501 pages - Big Book Ticket*
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 140
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 12
GoodReads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+ (4), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Readerboard Name: MICHELLE VA5.8 - Here's to a New Beginning
Deadly Sanctuary Deadly Sanctuary is the first in the Kendall O'Dell series by Sylvia Nobel
5.9 - Noel, Noel
Tropic of Orange Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita (no "l")
20.4 - Author! Author! Tani's Task- Game On!
Rolled a #6 for historical fiction
The Traitor's Wife Takes place in the 1300s.
* Susan Higginbotham is a Goodreads Author
** 512 Pages claiming Big Book Ticket
Total to date: 30 points
30.4 By the NumbersA. The Magician's Nephew my birth year is EVEN, so I chose an author who's last name started with L (C.S. Lewis.)
B. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey my single digit was 9.
Stroke of Insight was absolutely fascinating and I think that EVERYONE should read this book!
Books Read: 19/ 74+
Points Completed: 240/975
Tasks Completed: 11
Carla30.9 -- Coralie's task - Happy 80th Birthday!
A: I read The Forest by Georges Bugnet, which was originally published in 1935.
B: I read Angeline de Montbrun by Laure Conan. I think my mother would like the emotional and spiritual struggle of the title character.
Points: 30
Total Points: 85
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 6
Pages: 2086
Big Books: 500+() 750+(1) 1000+()
20.5 Bigger is Better and Larger Than LifeThe Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue
Ronlyn Domingue is a Goodreads Author
The main character, Razi, was an unconventional woman for her time in that she lived during the 1920's and was sexually active premaritally, passed out information on birth control, and was in the process of applying to medical school when she died. The book alternates between her life and the life of the young couple she "haunts", of whom the wife is another unconventional woman, although not as unusually so for present day.
Task 25.5 The SRC Tea Ceremony
For part A, I chose #2, Gunpowder Green Tea, and read...
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
...in the category of True Crime. The book is a true accounting of serial killer H.H. Holmes during the Chicago World's Fair.
For part B, I read:
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
Total points these tasks: 45
Total points to date: 230
Total GR Authors these tasks: 1
Total BB Tickets these tasks: 0
Total GR Authors to date:5
Total BB Tickets to date: 500+(0),750+(0),1000+(0)
Total pages read to date: 6764
Time to start posting for this challenge, especially all the Christmas books that made up my December reading.5.4 It's Cold Outside - Aunt Dimity: Snowbound by Nancy Atherton.
5.7 Happy New Year - Red Book
A Christmas Secret by Anne Perry
5.9 Noel, Noel - A Christmas Visitor by Anne Perry
10.9 Serial Killer - A Christmas Odyssey by Anne Perry (This is #8 in her Christmas Series - came out in 2010 - shows as a series in title under Find Books)
25.1 Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire (2 books from favorite genre) This time of year my favorite genre is Christmas books - okayed by Wendy on this task thread
The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog by Dave Barry
Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans
Total Points 50
Total Tasks 5
Total Books 6
Total Pages 1298
25.4 -- Beth NC's task - IMBOLCAvalon High by Meg Cabot approved in help section
AND
Fire and Ice by Julie Garwood
Total Points = 775 Points
Mod
15.5 Land War in Asia
Home before morning: The story of an army nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter
Tough to read, but I am so glad I did. The TV series China Beach was inspired by Lynda Van Devanter, but that was only half the story. She wrote of her experiences after she returned home with candor and poignancy.
20.2 Winter Flower- roses
Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts
I needed something light and carefree after a bunch of tough reads- Nora always delivers
20.7 Christmas Fuzzies...or not
Heartbroke Bay by Lynn D'urso
I like the holiday season, so I read a sad book. USA Today said Heartbroke Bay has an ending guaranteed to fire readers up — after they stop sobbing. This bleak book filled with greed and betrayal was an antidote for Christmas joy, but it was thought provoking. Sort of an uneven read- the beginning was awkward, the writing smoothed out in the middle and the conclusion was jarring, the last page+ was disappointing.
30.9 Happy 80th Birthday
A. 1930's book- 1936 (year of my mother's birth)
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
B. mother's book
Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing from America's Favorite Humorist by Erma Bombeck
Mom always had an Erma column up on the fridge and she still prefers happy, light reading. She doesn't do negative- in reading or in life. Erma's writing is still so relevant- many of the columns written in the 60's still ring true. I laughed out loud and cried in alternating paragraphs.
total 375
I loved China Beach! I remember the episode where McMurphy goes home on a leave and what a terrible time she had adjusting to being in the World. I keep hoping the series will come out on dvd. The book sounds like a must read for me.
Finished:10.1 Birthday Wishes:
Stray Affections: A Novel by Charlene Ann Baumbich 304 pp from Tanja's list.
15.8 Festivus for the Rest of Us!
The Door of No Return by William St Clair 281 pp
One of my pet peeves is abble-bodied people who can't be bothered to walk two parking places over to return their shopping carts to the cart corral.
20.8 Erin MN's task--Inaugration Day:
A Vote of Confidence by Robin Lee Hatcher 272 pp
25.1 Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire:
A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleypas
A Connecticut Christmas: The Cookie Jar/Stuck on You/Santa's Prayer/Snowbound for Christmas
my genre was Christmas romances.
25.2 Thank You, Moderators
Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh
Trio of Sorcery by Mercedes Lackey
from Sandy's list.
Today's total: 95
Grand total: 470
10.4 Auld Lang SyneSet in Scotland - To Scotland, With Love by Karen Hawkins
25.5 -- Valorie's task - SRC Tea Ceremony
A. I choose 3. Dragon Well (Lung Ching) Tea: Read a book with a supernatural/paranormal character Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris.
B. Murder, She Wrote: Coffee, Tea, or Murder? by Jessica Fletcher
30.8 -- Ms. Anderson's Task -- In the Spirit of the Season
1 - Read a book by one of your favorite authors Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris.
4 - Read a book you've added to your TBR list in the last 6 months All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
Points: 65
Total Points: 360
Tasks Completed: 23
Books Read: 32
Pages: 9,368
Goodreads Authors: 11
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
STACIE MITask 5.7 - Happy New Year!
I read Remembering Raquel by Vivian Vande Velde.
Points this task: 5
Total points: 105
Task completed: 10
Books read: 10
Pages read: 2840
Goodreads authors: 4
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
STACIE MITask 15.6 - "Begins with a Q, Alex"
I readThe Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette by Carolyn Meyer.
Points this task: 15
Total points: 120
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 11
Pages read: 3260
Goodreads authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
BRENDA MOTask # 5.8 - Here's to a New Beginning
The Pleasure Palace
Secrets of the Tudor Court #1
Task # 5.9 - Noel, Noel
Visions of Sugar Plums
Task # 15.2 - Beginnings and Endings
Beginning
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Ending
Life of Pi
Task # 20.5 - Bigger is Better
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Not one, but SIX unconventional women!
Task # 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
Obviously I am in the Happy Camp!
This post: 65 points
Total to Date = 70 points.
STACIE MITask 20.6 - The Twenty-tens
I was born in the 1980s, so I read Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman (who is a Goodreads author!), which was originally published in 1989.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 140
Tasks completed: 12
Books read: 12
Pages read: 3500
Goodreads authors: 5
Big Books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Heather Mac 5.3 Starts With W, D, J, F, A
Not a Creature was Stirring by Jane Haddam - 320 pages
First name begins with J - 5 pts.
5.8 Here’s to a New Beginning
A Perfect Evil (Maggie O'Dell, #1) by Alex Kava - 480 pages
First book in Maggie O'Dell series - 5 pts.
5.9 Noel, Noel
The Treatment by Mo Hayder - 416 pages
No L's in title or author's name - 5pts
10.2 Orient Express
The Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating - 256 pages
Book is set in India - 10pts
10.3 Slainte
How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers by Toni Bernhard(GR Author) - 216 pages
Great book for anyone with a chronic illnes - 10pts.
10.7 My Favorite Things
To Darkness and to Death by Julia Spencer-Fleming(GR Author) - 432 pages
From Book Page genre Mystery - 10pts.
http://www.bookpage.com/books-12720-T...
10.10 Top Ten Lists
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith - 433 pages
Anna Shevchenko's Top 10 books set in Moscow - 10pts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/...
15.9 Warm-up
All The Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison(GR Author) - 411 pages
Book is set in Nashville and visits other southern States - 15pts
20.8 Inauguration Day
Flesh House by Stuart MacBride - 480 pages
Book has the word 'House' in title - 20pts
Points: 90
Total Points: 90
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 9
Pages: 3444
Goodreads Authors: 3
25.2 - Emily IN's task - Thank You ModeratorsI chose Kristi (Passion for the Page)'s 2010 book list and read:
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
Total points: 170
Mod
Read
Points this post: 10
Total points: 95
Tasks Completed: 6
Books read:6
Total pages: 2437
GR Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
30.4 By the NumbersI was born in 1989, an odd year, so I read a book by Banana Yoshimoto, N.P.. My telephone number yielded a 1, so I also read Naked by David Sedaris for this task.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 120
Total Tasks Completed: 5
Total Books Read: 7
Total Pages Read: 1628
Total GoodReads Authors: 1
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
KAREN OZTask 10.3 Sláinte! To Your Health!
The Click Diet:Use it. Lose it. by Scott Penn
Total to Date = 140 points.
10.1 Birthday Wishes: Visit the shelves of a SRC member with a winter birthday and read a book he/she has rated 5 stars. I picked a book fom Katrina's shelf: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling. total points: 165
tasks: 11
books read:13
total pages read:4551
Good reads authors (Lisa See x2. Lisa Genova)
Big Books 500 (1) 750 (1)
30.2 Cheryl Tx - Alphabetically SpeakingBook A. Author has consecutive initials A,B. The books was My Name Is Memory by Anne Brashears. I loved this book, giving it 5 stars.
Book B. Author has consecutive initials, C,B. The book was The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell. I really enjoyed this book about Carrie Bradshaw in high school, giving it 4 stars.
Total Points: 85 +30 = 115
Big Book Tickets: 750 (1)
my first tasks of this challengepinky_rocks
5.2 Singles Awareness Day
Room by Emma Donoghue
5.9 Noel, Noel
The Face of Death by Cody McFadyen
15.4 Opposite Day
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
and
The Guy Next Door by Meg Cabot
15.6 Begins with Q, Alex
Die Dispo-Queen by Karyn Bosnak
20.9 President's Day
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Completed Tasks: 5
Books Read: 6
Task 5.7 Happy New YearChinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Task 10.4 Auld Lang Syne
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Claiming a Big Book Ticket for 766 pages
Task 15.2 Beginnings and endings
a)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
b)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Claiming a big book ticket for 607 pages
Task 15.7 Better than the movie
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Claiming a Big Books Ticket for 607 pages
20.3 Frosty the Snowman
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Task 30.2 Alphabetically Speaking
a)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
b)The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #4) by Laurell K. Hamilton
Points these tasks:95
Total Points:360
Total Goodreads Authors:6
Total Big Book Tickets:4
20.9 - "Lucky Me: Nancy's task-Presidents' Day" - Read The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Caroline Kennedy. By the president's daughter.20.10 - "Group Reads" - Read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Already posted some of my thoughts.
30.9 - "Coralie's task - Happy 80th Birthday!"
Book A - Read Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies by Margaret Mead. This was first published in 1935.
Book B - Read Jaws by Peter Benchley. I think I need to explain this one. My mother grew up not far from where this was supposed to take place on Long Island and always talked about it. She still will bring it up when meeting someone from the same area.
Points for above tasks: 70
Tasks above completed: 3
Total tasks completed: 7/56
Points completed: 120
Books read & claimed: 8
Books by Goodreads authors: 0
Big Books: 0 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)
Kathleen FL25.1:Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
The Story Sisters and Censoring an Iranian Love Story
My favorite genre is literary fiction but these also fit into another of my favorites...magical realism.
Points: 25
Total Points: 125
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
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