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WINTER CHALLENGE 2010-2011: ASIA
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Winter Challenge 2010-2011 Completed Tasks (do not delete any posts)
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For part A, I chose Gunpowder Green Tea, and read a mystery - A Nun in the Closet by Dorothy Gilman.
For part B, I read Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America.
Total points: 415
Task 10.8 Promise Her AnythingThe Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen is a GR Author
Task #15.10 Keep it Simple
Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen is a GR Author
Yes, there is a theme here - I'm trying to read my way through my 15 year old daughter's favorite authors!
Task 25.3 Reflections
Part A - Positive Memory
My Abandonment by Peter Rock
During 2010 I spent an enormous amount of time with my dad, as I was his primary caregiver before he died from a brain tumor. This book is about a father and daughter and their very close, very unique relationship. While my dad and I didn't live in a park together, there were many times when it felt as though it was just the two of us against the world, and there was no one else who understood. Certainly painful, but definitely precious, and pretty much defined my 2010.
Part B - New Author
The Island by Elin Hilderbrand
Task 30.8 In the Spirit of the Season
Part A - Rolled a 2 - One of my favorite genres is historical fiction.
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
If the subtitle is used, the letters all appear in the book title
Part B - Rolled a 5, have been "dying to read"...
Wildwood by Drusilla Campbell
Total points these tasks: 80
Total points to date: 360
Total GR Authors these tasks: 3
Total BB Tix to date: 0
Total GR Authors to date: 10
Total BB Tix to date: 0
Total pages read to date: 10,413
5.3 -- Starts With...Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
**Sarah Dessen is a Goodreads Author**
5.4 -- It’s Cold Outside
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
**Maggie Stiefvater is a Goodreads Author**
5.10 -- About the Author
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
10.2 Orient Express
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
**Lisa See is a Goodreads Author**
10.7 My Favorite Things
I used Mystery & Suspense and read Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
15.2. Beginnings and Endings
A. Paper Towns by John Green
B. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
**Eclipse is a big book at 629 pages**
30.1 -- Sheila's Task -- The B & W Task
A. Black Mirror by Nancy Werlin
**Nancy Werlin is a Goodreads Author**
B. White Lines by Tracy Brown
Points: 80
Total Points: 440
Tasks Completed: 30
Books Read: 41
Pages: 12,696
Goodreads Authors: 14
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Michelle WI5.9 Noel, Noel
Room by Emma Donoghue - 2 stars
***Emma Donoghue is a GoodReads author***
Points this Task: 5
Total Points: 125
Finished:10.3 Slainte! to your health
You Are What You Eat by Gillian McKeith
25.2 Thank You Moderators
Death du Jour by Kathy Reichs --- Kristi`s 2010
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood --- Sandy`s 2010
30.2 Alphabetically speaking
Fried by Jury by Claudia Bishop --- Z-A
The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin --- A-Z
Tasks points 65
Total points 185
Total tasks 7
Total books 13
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For Part A, I read Snow Angels, set in Finland - in December, no less, so it was certainly cold! At the beginning, everyone is hanging out in the bars because it's so cold the ski slopes are closed.
For Part B, I read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
total points:445
I'm reediting tasks 30.4 and 30.830.4 -- Donna Jo’s Task -- By the Numbers (2 bks)
A. I was born in 1987: Stolen Kisses by Suzanne Enoch, finished 12/06 - 4.5*
B. Single digit - 6 The Big Bad Wolf Tells All by Donna Kauffman, finished 12/23 - 4*
30.8 -- Ms. Anderson's Task -- In the Spirit of the Season
I rolled a 1 & 2
A. The Shadow and the Star by LaurA KInSAle, finished 12/14 - 4.5*
B. HR: Uncertain Magic by Laura Kinsale, finished 12/09 - 4*
Laura Kinsale is a GR author (x2)
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Total Tasks completed: 46
Total Books read: 63
Total Pages read: 20403 p
GR authors (total): 11
Big book tickets (total): 0
Total Points 790
Readerboard Name Cheryl TX10.5 Chinese Dragon Dance
Rise of the Evening Star (Fablehaven II Fairies)
25.3 Christine US's Task - Reflections on 2010
High School Reunion by Mallory Kane -- I went back to my hometown and had a great time with all my friends from high school and we renewed some friendships. I can't wait to go back again!
Naked Heat by Richard Castle I read his first book in September and watch his TV show here when it comes on.
Total Points this post: 35
20.3 Undead and Unwed by Mary Janice Davidson30.2 Fool's Puzzle by Earlene Fowler and Neil Armstrong is My Uncle by Nan Marino
Total Points: 225
Diane10.2 Orient Express: Read a book set in Asia. A majority of the plot or the subject matter should take place within the Asian Continent - The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry.
30.4 -- Donna Jo’s Task -- By the Numbers:
Book A. If the last digit of your birth year is even, read a book by an author whose last name starts with one of the following letters: B,D,F,H,J,L,N,P,R,T,V,X,Z -
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks (My birth year is even).
Book B. Take your phone number, add all of the digits together (9+1+3+4+0+6+7+7+0+7=44) and add those digits together (4+4=8) until you get a single digit. Use that number to look for a book title with that number of words in it - So, You Want to Live on an Island... by Gay Morse (Numbers add up to 8).
Total Points: 695/975
Tasks Completed: 41/56
Tasks in Progress: 2
Books Read: 54
Goodreads Authors: 5 (Neil Gaiman, James Patterson, Jennifer Weiner, Jackson Pearce, Rebecca Wells)
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
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5.04 It's Cold Outside The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
Pages: 895
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.5 Bigger is Better - read a fiction or non-fiction book where the main character is an unconventional womanJust Kids by Patti Smith
Total Points: 85
Tasks Completed: 7
5.10 About the AuthorKey of Knowledge by Nora Roberts - male protagonist is a novelist.
Points this task: 5
Total Points: 210
Tasks Completed: 16
Books Read: 19
GoodReads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (4), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
5.2 -- Singles Awareness DaySpeak by Laura Halse Anderson
Goodreads Author
Total Points: 150
Tasks Completed: 13
Pages Read: 4425
Books Read: 15
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(2), 1000+(0)
5.4 It's Cold Outside
A Winter Night's Dream by Andrew Matthews
Total Points: 45
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 7
Coralie5.9 Noel Noel
The Vampire Tapestry: A Novel By Suzy McKee Charnas
10.5 Chinese Dragon Dance
The Ringworld Engineers which features aliens
10.8 Promise Her Anything, But Giver Her … flowers
which has 2 roses on the back cover, one on the spine and 2 on the front cover – one falling from her right hand and one in her left hand.30.4 By the numbers
A. Born in en even year
No Enemy but Time by Michael Bishop
B. Telephone adding up to one
Kindred
Total points 340
Brenda WI10.7 -Bookpage.com - historical fiction The Binding Chair or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society
not sure I really like the story - but the history and insights were very interesting
5.9 Noel - The Kindness of Strangers - short stories about travelers who have been saved by the kindess of strangers.
15 pts this post + 165 previous = 180 total points
Jenny ChicagoTask 10.8 Promise Her Anything but Give Her...
I read
by David Ebershoff. It has a flower holding the woman's hair on the cover. David Ebershoff is a Goodreads Author.
This is a Big Book approximately 502 pages.
Points this task 10
Total Points 65
Good Reads Authors 3
Big Books 500+(1)
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One of my pet peeves is rudeness, so I read I See Rude People: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society. I thought it was disappointing - a large part of the book was all about how all sorts of things happened to her (car stolen, hit and run damage to another car, money stolen from her bank account) and how nobody at the police, bank, etc. would help her at all and how cleverly she found the responsible people, etc., etc. And lots about how noble she is to confront the forces of rudeness - I just kept thinking "get over yourself."
total points: 460
Task 30.7 - Forever Young
Graceling by Kristin Cashore Series, Fantasy, 471 pages
(When I picked this book it said "Seven Kingdoms #1" after it, but now it doesn't. It was on the list of approved books in the help thread along with it's sequel, though.)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Stand-alone, Historical Fiction, 550 pages ******big book*********
Task points = 30
Total Big Book tickets = 8
Challenge total = 185
I completed Task 20.7 (Christmas Fuzzies....Or Not). I'm one of those who doesn't enjoy the Christmas commercialism and hype so I read a happy book: Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies, which is a humerous look at the effects of a practical joke played by printing a false announcement in a small town newspaper.Total points: 245
10.1 Winter BirthdaysI read Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan (GOODREADS AUTHOR). This was on SRC member Katrina's list.
10.9 Serial Killer
I read Gone by Lisa McMann (GOODREADS AUTHOR) - the latest in the series.
30.8
I rolled a 1 and a 5
1 - favorite author - And Then There Were None by AgAtha chrIStie
5 - dying to read - The Shadow of the Wind by cArloS ruIz zAfon
Total Points: 265
20.6 The Twenty-Tens - The Sunday Philosophy Club (main character is in her 40's like I am) by Alexander McCall Smith (GR author)
30.3 Ho Ho Ho
Part A - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(set in Sweden) I'd also like to claim a Big Book Ticket (590 pages)
Part B -A Christmas Odyssey: A Novel by Anne Perry
30.9 Happy 80th Birthday
Part A - Rebecca (Pub.1938)
Part B - Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously - My mother would have liked this book because she loved to cook and learn new things.
30.10 Asian Authors
Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer who was born in Kashmir which is between India and Pakistan
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro who was born in Japan
30.7 Forever Young
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (GR author) YA Paranormal/Series - 485 pages. Story revolves around a teen who discovers she has powers previously unknown to her. Has Shadowhunters and werewolves in it.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher YA Issue oriented/stand alone - 288 pages. Written about a high school teen suicide and what lead up to her suicide.
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier YA Coming of Age/stand alone - 272 pages. All characters are high school boys and the main character deals with conformity and finding his own voice against peer pressure and harassment.
Total pages 1045
Points this Post: 140
Total: 205
GR Authors: Alexander McCall Smith and Cassandra Clare
Big book: 1
15.7. The Book is Always Better Than the Movie...or Is It? Book is better than the movie:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling, finished 01/16 - 5*
I always find books better than the movie adaptation, and this was no different :-)
This book was 734 p, so I'm claiming 1 (500+) Big book ticket
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Points in this post: 15
Tasks in this post: 1
Books read in this post: 1
GR authors claimed in this post: 0
Total Tasks completed: 47
Total Books read: 64
Total Pages read: 21137 p
GR authors (total): 11
Big book tickets (total): 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Total Points 805
For 15.10 - Keep it Simple, I read For The Mom Who's Best At Everything by Alison Maloney.Books read: 2
Challenges accomplished: 2
Points : 35
Kathy G.20.7 Christmas Fuzzies---
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
GOODREADS AUTHOR
****I dread the Christmas season--- so I read a funny book and this book did make me laugh all through it.
The "pooters" was hilarious. It was also very poignant and touching.****
Total Points- 120
Totatl Tasks- 8
Goodreads Authors- 2
Big Books- 0
30.2 - Alphabetically speaking - A) Read a book by an author who has two initials that are consecutive from A to Z.
The Ravine - Paul Quarrington
B) Read a book by an author who has two initials that are consecutive from Z to A.
Soucouyant - David Chariandy
Total Points: 115
Total Challenges Completed: 8
10.8 - Promise Her Anything, But Give Her...
The Lost Guide to Life and Love by Sharon GriffithsIt's not very clear but the girl on the front is holding flowers and there are more around the title.
Total points to date 265
i would like to resubmit a task, because i'm switching books around. i'm switching to a different book for part A of the task and moving the previous book to a different task, which is unfinished at this point. there's no point change as a result. hope i do it correctly, and please let me know if there's a problem! :)30.3 Ho! Ho! Ho!
A. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster set in Nepal.
B. If You Liked School, You'll Love Work LOVE is in the title.
Books Read: 27/ 74+
Points Completed: 330/975
Tasks Completed: 14
15.1 Time After TimeA: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Written in 1989 about 1943)
B: On Basilisk Station by David Weber (Set in the far future in space)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 220
GR Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(6), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
15.10- Keep It SimpleI read Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Previous Points- 455
Points for this task- 15
Total Points- 470
Goodreads Authors- 9
BJ Rose2 new tasks
15.10 No Brainer Day
When Seducing a Duke by Kathryn Smith - Goodreads Author
20.7 Mrs. Soule's task: Christmas Fuzzie...or not
I love the Christmas season because of family gatherings, but I didn't want to read a sad book, so I chose a blue cover, but there was still plenty of sad in it!
Comanche Moon
by Catherine AndersonTotal Points = 290
Tasks Completed = 19
Total Pages = 6,843
GoodReads Authors = 5
5.2 Singles Awareness DayI read Room by Emma Donoghue **Emma Donoghue is a Goodreads Author**
15.10 Keep it Simple
I read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
20.3 Frosty The Snowman
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Points for this post = 40
Total points to date = 75
10.7 My Favourite ThingsI read The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. The genre was "fiction" and I really liked this book
20.6 Beth F's Task - the Twenty-Tens
I read The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Total points for these tasks = 30
Total points to date = 105
LISA NC25.1 Chestnuts - two books from favorite genre
I chose the genre Paranormal Romance
Book A - The Immortal Highlander by Karen Marie Moning
Book B - Spell of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning
This post: 25 points
Total: 115 points
20.9 President's Day - author's name contains a President's last nameMurder at the Library of Congress by Margaret Truman
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 230
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 20
GoodReads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (4), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
More catch-up posts:5.2 Singles Awareness Day - one word title
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
5.6 It's All in the Numbers
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer has 465,749 Goodreads ratings
10.1 Birthday Wishes
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Happy Birthday Joanna T - I rated this book 5 * also - a great read - thanks for having it on your list
10.7 My Favorite Things - from Bookpage
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
My favorite genre was science fiction - this book was reviewed in the July 2001 edition
30.3 HO HO HO
A. Cold Weather Country - Afghanistan
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
B. Title from Christmas word list
Unwrapping Christmas by Lori Copeland
Laurie Halse Anderson is a Goodreads Author
Neil Gaiman is a Goodreads Author
American Gods is a Big Book - 672 pages
Points today = 60
Total Points = 325
Total Tasks = 23
Total Books = 29
Total Pages = 7759
EllenCAFor Task #20.4 Author! Author! Tani's task - Game On I rolled a 6. So for the historical fiction catagory I read March by: Geraldine Brooks. It takes place during the civil war - but was written in 2005.
Total Points: 60
Big Book Tickets: 1
Goodreads Author: 2
20.4 Author! Author!: Tani's task- Game On! Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
I rolled a #3 (sports games). Whale Talk is about a ragtag group of boys starting a swim team at their school so they can letter along with the regular jocks.
Total Points: 280
Tasks Completed: 19
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Read Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott 170 pages
Elizabeth Scott is a goodreads author
30.2 Alphabetically Speaking
read ttyl By Lauren Myracle 221 pages
and Fallen by Lauren Kate 451pages
Lauren Kate is a Goodreads author
Points this post: 45
Total points: 200
Tasks Completed: 10
Books read:13
Total pages: 3882
GR Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.4. Game On!Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
I rolled a five, and read this collection of essays by George Orwell - and they were fantastic, too.
Points: 20
Total Points: 60
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
Pages: 1618
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
15.2. Beginnings and Endings A. Read a book from the GR list of books with best beginning or opening chapter.
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
B. Read a book from the GR list of books with best ending or closing chapter.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman is a GoodReads Author.
This Post: 15
Total Points: 355
Tasks Completed: 25
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+ (5), 750+ (0), 1000+ (1)
Heather KSCompleted task 10.8 Promise her anything but give her...
I read Heart of the Matter
The ribbon on the cover is in the shape of a heart.
New point total: 75
Finished:10.10 Top Ten Lists:
From Jennie Rooney's Top Ten Women Travellers in Fiction #5.
Small Island by Andrea Levy
25.4 Imbolc:
A. Red Haired Girl from the Bog by Patricia Monaghan
B. The Spirit Lens
by Carol Berg (Three candles on cover)30.2 Cheryl TX's Task--Alphabetically Speaking
A.
by Robert SilverbergB.
by Spider Robinson30.6 Delicious Dee's Task-Looking for a Few Good... Authors:
My Chosen Author was Georgette Heyer (14 letters) and I rolled a 3, 1. Her book, Cotillion, take place in Regency London.
A.
by Teresa Medeiros (14 letters)B.
by Jennifer Kloester30.8 Ms. Anderson' Task--In the Spirit of the Season.
Rolled 6, 4
A. Book added to TBR in last 6 months:
by Sam KeanB. Reread a book you gave 5 stars to
by Georgette HeyerToday's total: 125
Grand Total: 725
5.7 - Happy New Year! Mystic Warrior: A Mystic Isle Novel by Patricia Rice -
- ★ ★10.8 Promise Her Anything, But Give Her...
Born in Ice by Nora Roberts -
- ★ ★ ★15.7. The Book is Always Better Than the Movie...or Is It?
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett from The Movie Was Better Than the Book – I agree with the list, the movie was better - ★ ★ ★
15.9 - Warm up
Red Kiss by Deidre Knight (author born in Atlanta, series is based in Savannah) - ★ ★ ★ ★
Goodreads author: Deidre Knight
20.2 Rookie at the Top: Stacey's task- Winter Flowers Day
Boys Over Flowers: Hana Yori Dango, Volume 2 by Yoko Kamio - ★ ★ ★
25.2 - Emily IN's task - Thank You Moderators
Both books from Cynthia's 2010 books :
A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris - ★ ★ ★
AND
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (#9) - ★ ★ ★
Points this post: 90
Total so far: 445
Goodreads authors this post: 1
Goodreads authors so far: 10
I completed Task 10.5 (Chinese Dragon Dance) by listening to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis (approved in the Help Thread), which includes the mythical creatures of Dwarves. New points: 255
Katie OH Task #30.8 - Ms. Anderson's Task - In the Spirit of the Season
I rolled a 1 and a 2 for this task.
1) Read a book by one of your favorite authors.
The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories by Mary Higgins Clark
2) Read a book from one of your favorite genres. (cozy mystery)
Decaffeinated Corpse by Cleo Coyle
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 85
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 7
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
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Read a book with a winter related word in the title ( winter , cold, ice, frost, snow, shiver, arctic, freeze, blizzard, etc.).
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
This Post: 5
Total Points: 340
Tasks Completed: 24
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (5), 750+ (0), 1000+ (1)