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WINTER CHALLENGE 2010-2011: ASIA
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Winter Challenge 2010-2011 Completed Tasks (do not delete any posts)
Carla Task 30.3 Ho Ho Ho
A) I read There Are No Elders by Austin Clarke This was a book of short stories, all set in Canada.
B) I read The Giver by Lois Lowry. This book has GIVE in the title,
Points: 30
Total Points: 155
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 10
Pages: 3181
Big Books: 500+() 750+(1) 1000+()
Task Completed:5.4 -- It’s Cold Outside
Light on Snow Anita Shreve
Total: 85
5.8 New BeginningImmortal Beloved#1: Immortal Beloved by Cate Tiernan
5.9 Noel
House of Night #8: Awakened by P.C. and Kristen Cast
25.3 Reflections on 2010
A) The Line by Teri Hall*
Teri Hall is a goodreads author
Favorite memory going to botanical gardens (inside a huge greenhouse); maintaining an orchid greenhouse is prevalent in this book.
B) Anita Blake #13: Micah by Laurell K. Hamilton
30.5 Old/New
A) Anita Blake #15: The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton
B) 13 to Life by Shannon Delany*
Shannon Delany is a goodreads author
300 points
Task 15.7 - The book is always better than the movie, or is it?
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
This book was on both lists, probably owing to the fact that there are so many movie versions, my favorite being A Muppets Christmas Carol.
Task points = 15
Total challenge points = 200
5.3 - Starts with… (W, D, J, F, A)Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Post points: 5
Total tasks: 9
Total points: 155
NICOLE VA5.9 Noel, Noel
I read Unbelievable by Sara Shepard.
Sara Shepard is a GoodReads author. (I already claimed her as a GR author on another post, don't know if each book counts).
Total points = 115
15.8- Pet PeeveI read A Very Special Delivery by Linda Goodnight.
One of my pet peeves is when the delivery man leaves a delivery on my front step and it gets all wet/snowed on. I hate that sometimes I get a person who won't take the extra second and put it in my door or place it far into the corner away from the elements.
Previous Points- 470
Points for this task- 15
Total Points- 485
Goodreads Authors- 9
wendyma5.8 -- Here's to a New Beginning
The New Year signals a new beginning. Read the 1st book in a new-to-you series. No re-reads allowed. Books must be identified as first a series on GoodReads (Series Name, #1). Examples: Dead Until Dark, The Black Echo, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Maze of Bones 39 clues- #1 by Riordan
5 points
245 total
wendyma20.2 Rookie at the Top: Stacey's task- Winter Flowers Day
December 8 is Winter Flowers Day. Read a book that has the name of a flower or the word "flower" in the title. Required: Identify the flower when you post.
The Sunflower by Evans (sunflower)
20 points
265 total
I completed Task 20.6 (twenty tens) by reading The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis, which was published in the decade of my birth (pub. 1953).Total points: 275
Michelle WI30.7 Forever Young
1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - stand-alone/historical fiction (550 pgs) Considered YA because the main character Liesel is a 14 year old girl living and growing up in Nazi Germany. 5 stars
2. Sent (The Missing #2) by Margaret Peterson Haddix - series/science fiction (320 pgs) Considered YA because the main characters Jonah and Katherine (both still in middle school) are forced to travel through time in order to save their friends lives. 3 stars
Total number of pages for task: 870 pages
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 155
Heather KSTask 15.8: Festivus/Pet Peeves. I read Life as I Know It. My pet peeve is people who are constantly complaining about their life. Life is in the title.
Melanie Rose is a Goodreads author.
New point total: 90
10.4 - AULD LANG SYNEDeath of a Prankster by M.C. Beaton (set in the Scottish Highlands)
30.4 - BY THE NUMBERS
A) the last number in my birth year is a 4 - book with author's last name starting with an 'N'
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads author)
B) my phone number equaled 6 - book with 6 words in the title
I Went to Vassar for This? by Naomi Neale
Points this post - 40
Total points - 360
Goodreads authors this post - 1
Total Goodteads authors - 4
Jayme(the ghostreader)I completed task 25.4 IMBOLC I read "Gwenhwyfar" by Mercedes Lackey for Part A. It is a retelling of King Arthur and Gwennievere. For Part B I read "Feast for Crows" by George RR Martin. There series is called Fire and Ice series. This was book 3. I like to claim a big ticket for "Feast For Crows". It is 752pp.
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 7
Big Books: 2 (500pp 1, 750pp 1
GR Authors: 1, Laurie Hale Anderson
Grand Total: 90/975
Jayme(the ghostreader)I completed task 25.4 IMBOLC. For part A, I read "Gwenhwyfar" by Mercedes Lackey. It is a retelling of King Arthur and Gwenievere. For Part B, I read "Feast For Crows" by George RR Martin. It is the third book in the Fire and Ice series. I am also claiming a big book ticket for "Feast For Crows". It is a 752pp book.
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read:7
Big Books: (500) 1, (750) 1
GR Authors: Laurie Halse Anderson
Total Points: 90/975
NICOLE VA20.3 Best Review Contest: chucklesthescot's task- Frosty the Snowman
I read Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs.
The book features 2 types of magical transformations- the main character, Mercy, is a "walker" who can transform into a coyote. She is friends with a local werewolf pack who (obviously, lol) change from men & women into wolves.
If I could turn into any animal, I think I would want to be some type of cat- domestic or wild, either way! :-)
Total points = 135
Janice CA10.8 Promise Her Anything....
The Scent of God: A Memoir
by Beryl Singleton Bissell
(Girl, on the cover, is wearing a necklace.)
3.5 stars
***Goodreads Author***
+10
total: 70
tasks: 4
books: 5
GR Authors: 1
5.2 Singles Awareness Day
Micah by Laurell K. Hamilton
30.6 Looking For A Few Good... Authors
I used Tanith Lee as a favorite author and I rolled a 1 and a 6.
(1) Beastly by Alex Flinn
(6) Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Points for this post: 35
Total points: 170
GR Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+ (2)
Micah by Laurell K. Hamilton
30.6 Looking For A Few Good... Authors
I used Tanith Lee as a favorite author and I rolled a 1 and a 6.
(1) Beastly by Alex Flinn
(6) Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Points for this post: 35
Total points: 170
GR Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+ (2)
Kandie10.8 Promise Her Anything, But Give Her...
I read
which has a flower on the cover. 15.4. Opposite Day
I chose option B - two books with opposite words in the title - light/dark.
I read The Light of Other Days
AND
Full Dark, No Stars
15.6. "Begins with Q, Alex"
I read When Red Is Black by Qiu Xiaolong
20.3 Best Review Contest: chucklesthescot's task- Frosty the Snowman
I read The Reapers Are the Angels which had humans turning into zombies.
25.3 -- Christine US's task - REFLECTIONS on 2010
A. I reconnected with an old friend in 2010. Both of us are into Buddhism and learning more about it so I read My Spiritual Journey.
AND
B. I read An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, who I first read earlier in 2010.
Total Points: 275
Finished a couple more tasks30.4 - Donna Jo's By the Numbers
1. The last digit of my birth year is odd so I picked an author who has a last name that starts with the letter "M". I read The Other Wes Moore:One Name Two Fates by Wes Moore. I really wanted to like this book, but ended up giving it 2*.
2.My phone number adds up to the single digit of 1. I read Obedience by Will Lavender. I didn't really care for this book either, giving it 2 stars.
20.6 Seasoned Reader - Beth F - the Twenty tens
I read Every Last One by Anna Quindlen and gave it 4*. The mother in the story is the main character and she is in her 40s, just like me.
Total Points: 195 + 30 + 20 = 245
Big Books: 500(1), 750(1)
GR Authors: 0
20.9 President's DayI read Last Light over Carolina by Mary Alice Monroe. President Monroe was president from 1817-1825.
Total Points: 225
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 17
GoodReads Authors: 8
Big Books:
Total Pages: 5496
Joanna T15.10 Keep It Simple
Naked Masks: Five Plays by Luigi Pirandello
Task 20.4 RPG, Die roll: 4 (fantasy/sci-fi)
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Total points: 195
Jacqueline 5.9 -- Noel, Noel
Hot Finish by Erin McCarthy
20.6 Seasoned Reader: Beth F's task- The Twenty-tens
I chose the second option. Read a book where the character is in the same age bracket. Imogen is 28 and I'm 29.
Hard and Fast
Previous Points- 0
Points for this task- 25
Total Points- 25
Goodreads Authors- 0
Angie TXCompleted Tasks:
5.8 Here's to a New Year
The Greyfriar by Clay Griffith (Book 1 in the Vampire Empire series)
25.1 Wendy MA's Task-Chestnuts
Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon and
Dance With The Devil also by Sherrilyn Kenyon
One of my favorite genres is paranormal romance.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 30
Total # of books read: 3
Goodreads Authors: 1
5.2 -- Singles Awareness DayI read Stolen by Tess Gerritsen.
10.2 Orient ExpressRead a book set in Asia.
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
The Lotus Eaters is set in Vietnam.
Tatjana Soli is a GoodReads Author.
This Post: 10
Total Points: 400
Tasks Completed: 28
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ (5), 750+ (0), 1000+ (1)
25.1 25.1 -- Wendy MA's task - Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire...Fav Genre: Sci-fi
1) Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
2) Messenger by Lois Lowry
Total Points: 140
20.3 Read Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris (humans turn into werewolves and other creatures)Points 20
Kathleen FL10.4:Auld Lang Syne
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson was born in England but now lives in Scotland and was listed on the list of Scottish writers.
Points: 10
Total Points: 140
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Task 10.8: Promise Her Anything, but give her......Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts
I also enjoy a good "fluff" read
Points for this post: 10
Total Points: 70 points
Task 10.8: Promise Her Anything, but give her......
Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts
I also enjoy a good "fluff" read
Points for this post: 10
Total Points: 70 points
Coralie25.3 Reflections on 2010
A. My most positive memories of 2010 are doing things with friends old and new, including attending a luncheon at which Wendy Harmer spoke. So I read Roadside Sisters.
B. I first read John Varley in 2010, so I read Millennium.
Total points 440
Task 30.5 Old ’10, New ‘11A. Out with the old: Herfstlied by Simone van der Vlugt
B: In with the new: Koude Lente by Lieneke Dijkzeul
Task 5.8. New Beginning
Glee #1: The Beginning by Sophia Lowell
Task 20.7 Christmas fuzzies
I love the holiday times of the year, so I read the sad The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger for this challenge.
Points this post: 55
*Claiming one Big Book ticket >500 pages for the Time Traveller’s Wife
*Audrey Niffenegger is a Goodreads author
Points in total: 100
Tasks completed: 5
Goodreads authors: 1
Big book tickets: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Mod
A. I read Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, and
B. I read The White Queen
Total points: 500
Julie TN25.1 - Same genre
Get Out of That Pit!: Straight Talk about God's Deliverance
Sacred Marriage: Celebrating Marriage as a Spiritual Discipline
Total points to date: 105
GR Author: 0
Big Book tickets: 0 (500+ books= 0) (750+ = 0) (1000+ = 0)
total books read: 7
total tasks completed: 5
NICOLE VAREPOST
5.9 Noel, Noel
I read Perfect by Sara Shepard.
Sara Shepard is a GoodReads author.
Total points = 135
RACHEL CA: 170 points total5.01 SHORT AND SWEET The Tales of Beedle the Bard, by J.K. Rowling (109 pgs)
5.03 STARTS WITH… Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind: Thoughts on Teacherhood, by Phillip Done
10.02 ORIENT EXPRESS Kim, by Rudyard Kipling (set in India)
10.09 SERIAL KILLER The Lost Art of Gratitude, by Alexander McCall Smith (GOODREADS AUTHOR: Alexander McCall Smith)
20.10 GROUP READ Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier (my post is msg 28)
Points: 50
Total points: 170
Tasks completed: 13
Books read: 15
Goodreads authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.10 read Rebecca and my post on the discussion is message 29.points for this task: 20
Total points :105
Tasks completed 6
Goodreads authors 0
Big Books 500+(1) 750+(0) 1000+(0)
Mod
20.4 Game On: I rolled a 2- fantasy
Avempartha by Michael J. Sullivan
This is the 2nd Riyria book- fun and fast-paced
20.5 Larger than Life
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
I enjoyed this book that focused much more on the life than the legend of Cleopatra
20.8 Inauguration Day- about a President w/President in title
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
My political junkie son couldn't believe that I had never read this book. I'm glad I did. I thought I knew all about it, but I learned many interesting things.
30.2 Cheryl's A-Z
A. J-K: You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness by Julie Klam
B. S-R: American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella
30.7 Forever Young- total 930 pgs
Libyrinth by Pearl North series, 15 yo narrator, fantasy, 336 pg
Paper Towns by John Green stand alone, 17 yo narrator, mystery, 305 pg
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson stand alone, 16 yo narrator, historical fiction, 289 pg
Paper Towns was the strongest in this group. It was especially interesting to me because I've been to the final locale at the end of the mystery (a very middle-of-nowhere place!)
total 595
Cindy AL10.2 Orient Express - book set in Asia: The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison, 416 pp, read 1/12/2010.
Set in Tibet.
15.6 Begins with Q - Q in title or author: The Third Circle by Amanda Quick, 342pp 1/17/2011.
30.6 Few Good Authors: Lord of the Changing Winds and The Bride of Newgate by Rachel Neumeier and John Dickson Carr 612pp total, read 12/8/2010 and 1/18/2010.
I rolled a 1 and 5 and I chose as my favorite author Mercedes Lackey who was born in 1950.
The Bride of Newgate was published in 1950.
30.7 Forever Young - YA books 800 pages: The Demon's Lexicon (The Demon's Lexicon Trilogy #1), Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant and By Darkness Hid by Sarah Rees Brennan, Christopher Grey and Jill Williamson 1226 pp total, read 12/24/2010, 12/26/2010 and 1/13/2010.
Sarah Rees Brennan and Jill Williamson are both Goodreads Authors.
The Demon's Lexicon is a paranormal series book
Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant is a stand-alone historical novel and
By Darkness Hid is a straight fantasy with Christian overtones.
30.10 Asian authors - Different countries: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and Sea of Poppies by Dai Sijie and Amitav Ghosh 712pp total read 1/16/2010 and 1/14/2010.
One is set in China and the other is set in India,
This post: 115 points
Total to Date = 490 points.
Points - 490/975
Books - 37/74
Pages - 14237
Goodreads Authors: 11
Big Books:500+ - (2), 750+ - (0),1000+ - (0)
Inez Task 5.6 All in the numbers
Fallen by Lauren Kate
Lauren Kate is a Goodreads Author
Task 5.9 Noel Noel
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater is a Goodreads Author
Task 10.8 Promise her anything
Spells by Aprilynne Pike
Points this post = 20
Total to date = 70
Goodreads Author this post = 2
Goodreads Author to date = 5
TERRI DC 10.5 Chinese Dragon Dance
Succubus Heat - Richelle Mead
Goodreads Author
Finished:30.1 Sheila's Task- The B & W Task:
A. The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story by Yvonne S. Thornton.
B. Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition by E.B. White
Today's Total; 30
Grand Total: 755
30.2 A. Book by author who has two initials consecutive from A to Z. Read Eight Days to Live: An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller by Iris Johansen
B. Book by author who has two initials consecutive from Z to A. Read
Lives in the Balance: Nurses' Stories from the ICU by Tilda Shalof
Points this task 30
STESSE10.4 Auld Lang Syne:
When Eight Bells Toll by Alistair MacLean (254 p.)
I really enjoyed this - I'm going to have to read more by MacLean. The original James Bond!
30.9 -- Coralie's task - Happy 80th Birthday!
A. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, first published 1938 (410 p.)
B. Big Trouble Movie Tie-In by Dave Barry (317 p.)
Mom likes his humor columns.
Points this Post: 40
Tasks Completed this Post: 2
Books Read this Post: 3
Pages Read this Post: 981
Total Points: 395
Total Tasks Completed: 30
Total Books Read: 36
Total Pages Read: 13417
Total GoodReads Authors: 9
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
10.8 Promise Her Anything But Give Her...Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
There are flowers on the cover. Lisa See is a Goodreads author
Tasks Completed:12
Books Read:13
GR Authors:1
Total Points:145
20.5 Bigger is Better, and Larger than LifeThe Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters - 320 pages
Amelia Peabody, the protagonist, is an Egyptologist in the late 19th century when this was very unusual for a woman.
25.3 Reflections on 2010
A. My memory is of the last visit to see my mother-in-law before she died last summer. It was in Paris and we had cake and champagne when all her children were together. For this challenge I read
This Cake is for the Party: Stories by Sarah Selecky - 224 pages
B. I read a book by Neil Kleid for the first time in 2010 - Brownsville
For this challenge I read
The Big Kahn also by Kleid - 176 pages
30.8 In the Spirit of the Season
I rolled a 2 and 3.
A(2) One of my favorite genres is the graphic novel. I read
Rabbi Harvey Rides Again: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Folktales Let Loose in the Wild West by Steve Sheinkin - 127 pages (A-S-I-A in title)
B(3) Reread a book I loved as a kid. I read
Third Girl by Agatha Christie - 365 pages (page count in GR is incorrect) (A-S-I-A in author's name)
Points: 75
Total Points: 290
Tasks Completed: 20
Books Read: 23
Pages: 6183
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500(1)
I haven't posted for a while, so I have a few:5.6 Book with >25K ratings
Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
20.1 Reread a book you didn't previously enjoy
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
-I actually liked it less the second time I read this book.
20.2 Type of flower in title
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn
-The flower is Lily
Total Points: 75
Total Pages Read: 2249
Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 5
Tasks in Progress: 2
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East of the Sun by Julia Gregson -- Takes place in India.
10.9 - Serial Killer
Meridon by Philippa Gregory -- Third and final book of the Wideacre series.
15.7 - The Book is Always Better Than the Movie...or Is It?
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine -- This one was on both lists, but I rather preferred the book.
20.4 - Game On!
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin -- I rolled a six and read a book which takes place from the 1850's through the 1930's, and simulated it quite nicely, I thought.
20.6 - The Twenty-tens
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman -- I was born in 1985, and this book was published in 1985.
20.7 - Christmas Fuzzies…or Not
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett -- I DO NOT look forward to the holiday season, with the ensuing traffic and shoppers getting in my way when I'm trying to go about my business and the same music being piped into every public establishment around, so I read a funny book about angry little blue people in kilts to celebrate the holidays being over.
Total Points: 115
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 10
Pages Read: 3032