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Challenge #5: Report Points Here
50.2 Evelina C's Task- Read any book that is set in a country that is primarily at 60 degrees N. latitude or above. Use this link to help you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60th_parall...The Bronze Horseman
832 pages - 8 pts
HF - 1 pt
Total Points - 59 pts
Grand Total - 83 pts
Lisa, I am confused re your listed books. Have you read all four of these which seems right based on total points. If so I need pages, whether HF or not, and total points for EACH one. Thank you.
20.3 Read one book of GR’s Most Popular Books Published In 2010 List.Read: First Drop of Crimson (Number 70 on 2010 list.)
Pages: 371 Points: 4
HF Bonus: 0
Task Total: 24 points
Grand Total: 78 points
Nikki, You have 108 points:Message No. 53 - Watership Down - 54 points
Message No. 63 - Kleopatra - 30 points
Message No. 110 - First Drop of Crimson 24 points
Lisa, I think I am also confused. What do you mean when you say "to notate all of the challenges that apply to each book". I am only asking because I do not understand what you mean and I want to understand it. Thank you.
50.1 Jen C's Task: Read any book that has been nominated for or won any literary award.Read: The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
Winner - Edgar Award for Best Novel (1997)
Pages: 336 (4 points)
HF Bonus: 1
Task Total: 55 points
Challenge Total: 90 points
Oh jeez Maude, I'm sorry. I'm not keeping track of the challenge this time around because I am just reading whatever I feel like it and if it happens to fit into the challenge then great! Maybe I should write it down now though lol.
20.2 In honor of New Year's, pick a book in which one of the characters is given a new beginning or a second chance.Poison Study 416 pages
Task points: 20
Page bonus: 4
Total task points: 24
Total to date: 56
50.1 Jen C's Task: Read any book that was nominated for or won an award.Generation Kill 368 pages
Awards: PEN-USA award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, LA Times Book Prize
Task points: 50
Page bonus: 4
Total task points: 54
Total points to date: 110
50.1 Jen C's Task- Read any book that has been nominated for or won any literary award.The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood (2000 Mann Booker Prize)
Page Bonus = 6 points
HF Bonus = 1 point
Task Total = 57 points
Challenge Total = 174 points
Nikki, You can keep on with what you are doing. The only reason I wrote down your points was you only listed two and I wanted to make sure they were all yours. Read and enjoy!
10.3: Chinese sign & pub. date. My birthday 8/11/51. My sign: rabbit. Worst Fears Realizedpublished 1999.Pages: 409 = 4
Total: 14
Challenge Total: 329
50.2 Evelina C's Task- Read any book that is set in a country that is primarily at 60 degrees N. latitude or above. Leif the Unlucky - Greenland
206 pages = 2 pts
HF = 1 pt
Total = 53 pt
Challenge Total = 170 points
JenC. - I really enjoyed Abundance. It was interesting to hear the story (listen to the book!) from Marie's point of view.
20.1- Read 2 books from GR HF group book polls.Drood (Aug/Sept 2010)
775pgs - 8pts
HF - 1pt
March (Jan/Feb 2011)
280pgs - 2pts
HF - 1pt
Total points - 32pts
Grand total - 47pts
25.4 In honor of Valentine’s Day read a historical romance False Colors
333 pages: 4 pts
HF: 1 pt
Total: 30 pts
Grand Total: 179 + 30 = 209 pts
Hi Maude - In the last updated scoreboard my message #76 was not added which would give me 160 points. I'd also like to add:50.1 Jen C's Task- Read any book that has been nominated for or won any literary award.
Read: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009)
Pages: 304 pgs- 4 pts
HF: 1 pt
Total points: 55 pts
Grand total: 215 pts
Thanks!
50.1 Jen C's Task- Read any book that has been nominated for or won any literary award. March by Geraldine Brooks
Pulitzer Prize - 2006
280 pages - 2 pts
HF - 1pt
Total Points - 53 pts
Grand Total - 136 pts
50.1 Jen C's Task: Read any book that has been nominated or won any literary award.Read: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
Award Won: Time Magazine Asia Book of the Year.
Pages: 349 - 4pts.
HF: 0pts
Total: 54pts
Challenge Total: 54pts
Yeah! I finally got some points on the board for the new challenge.
I completed task 5.1 Read a book with two or more authors. I read "Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of the Atlantic Paranormal Society" by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.Task Points: 5
Bonus: 2 (288pp)
HF: 0
Grand Total: 115
Super Bonus Task 100: HF group authorMadame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
464p--4pts
hf--1pt
goodreads "first read"
50.1 Jen C's Task- Read any book that has been nominated for or won any literary award.Read: The Handmaid's Tale
Pages: 311 pages - 4 pts
Total Points = 54
Grand Total = 54
Task 50.2 Evelina C's Task- Read any book that is set in a country that is primarily at 60 degrees N. 
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Takes place in Sitka, Alaska
411 Pgs - 4 pts
HF Bonus - o
Total Task Points: 54
Task 5.2 - Set in country most like to visit (UK).
An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
Task points = 5
992 pages = 8 bonus
HF = 1
Task total = 14
Challenge total = 86
50.3 LemonLinda's Task - Read any book with a color word in the title Read: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Pages: 388 = 4 points
HF: 1
Total: 55 points
Grand total: 296 points
50.3 Read a book with a color in the titleFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Pages 416-4pts
HF 1
Total 55
Grand total 55
10.2 Read a book from Oprah's book club 1999The Reader
pages 218- 2pts
HF 1 pt (not sure if this counts as HF? let me know and I'll take it off)
total 13
Grand total 68
100 super bonus, read a book by a goodreads author, Michelle MoranNefertiti
pages 480-4pts
HF 1
total 105
grand total 203
25.2 Read a HF book in which a historical figure meets an untimely endInnocent Traitor by Alison Weir
Task points = 25
Bonus points = 4 points (416 pp)
HF point = 1
Total = 30
Grand total = 275
50.1 Nominated for or Won any AwardWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Nominated for the 2006 Quill Award
Task points: 50
Page points: 4 (418pp)
HF points: 1
Task total: 55
Challenge Total: 84
LemonLinda, I have your points at 330 - probably my error but can you send me a list of your books so far. I have NO heat in my house and can't get any until tomorrow. My fingers are frozen. I am going to my son's house and will check back later and fix whatever. Thanks.
10.1 Read any author's first bookSword of the Prophet: The Mahdi of Sudan and the Death of General Gordon by Fergus Nicoll
323 pages:4 bonus points
points:14
total points: 31 points
5.2 Read a book set in the country you would most like to visitBlameless- set in Italy
Task= 5 pts
Pages- 355= 4 pts
HF= 0
Total= 9 pts
Grand total= 91 pts
20.1 Go to the HF Group polls thread and read 2 books from any month or different months. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey 206 pages - poll #7 Aug./Sept. (don't know how to tell what year)
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier 256 pages - poll #3 Dec./Jan.
20 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 26 task points
Challenge points to date: 146
I loved The Lady and the Unicorn. :)
5.2 Country I want to visit: Australia The Road to Paradise Islandpages: 480 = 4
hf: 1
total: 10
challenge total: 339
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I loved The Lady and the Unicorn. :)"Yeah, it was pretty good. I also liked her book Girl with a Pearl Earring. I may need to look for more of hers.
I saw that movie and I thought it was great.
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "I saw that movie and I thought it was great."The movie was good, but I thought the book was much better. I watched the movie after I had read the book.
5.1 In the spirit of friendship read a book written by two or more authorsSpecial Forces by Aleksandr Voinov and Marquesate
409 pages - 4 pts
HF : 1 pt? (story covers 1980-1989, was published in 2007)
Total : 9 or 10 points
Grand total: 218 or 219 pts
Now see I like to do the opposite. Watch the movie first and if I like it, I read the book.
20.2 In honor of New Year’s pick a book in which one of the characters is given a new beginning or a second chanceRead: The Help
Pages: 464 Points: 4
HF Bonus: 1
Task Total: 25 points
Grand Total: 133 points
50.1 Jen C's Task- Read any book that has been nominated for or won any literary award.The Mistress Of Nothing (Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award)
256pgs - 2pts
HF - 1pt
Total points - 53pts
Grand Total - 130 pts
Evelina C wrote: "Super Bonus Task 100: HF group authorMadame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
464p--4pts
hf--1pt
goodreads "first read""
Soooo jealous that you have gotten to read this already!! I'm anxiously awaiting it to be released!! I love Michelle Moran. How was it?!?!
Task 25.2--historical figure meets untimely end.My Lady of Cleves: A Novel of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves
400p--4pts.
HF--1pt.
Tom Culpepper/Katherine Howard/Hans Holbein
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I read "Gwenhwyfar" by Mercedes Lackey. It is a retelling of King Aurthur and Gwenievere. In this retelling Gwenievere is a warrior queen and gets a second chance at life when King Arthur dies in battle.
Tasks Points: 20
Bonus: 4 (400pp)
HF: 1 (King Arthur was a historical figure)
Grand Total: 108