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BABBLING C5.8 Blow Your Stack: National Pancake Week is celebrated the first week in March. Since pancakes come in stacks, read a book from your To Read stack that was added before February 19, 2011.
Persecuted (Witch Hunt, #2) by Lisa Childs
Owned book Since July 2007; on GR Shelf since March 2008
This Post
Points: 5
GoodReads Author: 0
Tasks: 1
Total
Points: 75
GRA: 3
Tasks: 6
LaurenVA 5.9 Shrimp on the Barbie
Tinkers
192 pages
Task Points: 5
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Total Points: 20
JessPhilly10.9 No Lawyer Jokes
I read Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich.
Normally this series wouldn't work since it's about bounty hunters, but this particular one is all about a dirty law firm and Plum's lawyer ex-husband, so it features lawyers a lot.
Task Points: 10
Total Points: 45
20.3 Happy International Women's DayGirl in Translation by Jean Kwok
(My country is Canada. Jean Kwok was born in Hong Kong and currently resides in the United States)
Jean Kwok is a Goodreads author
Tasks Complete: 6
Points 100
Books read: 9
Pages read: 3,220
Goodreads authors: 4
Big Books: 1 (750+)
5.8 - Blow Your StackI read The Invisible Mountain, added to my stack on Feb 18 (made it by one day!)
10.5 - It Takes Two
I read True Grit
New Points: 15
Total Points: 20
30.6 Melanie's Task: Myth-behaving GreeksBook A: 5. Ares
In The Name Of Honor by Richard North Patterson read 3/25/11
(military court-martial)
Book B: 4. Homer
Judgement in Death by JD Robb read 3/27/11
(set in 2059, written in 2000)
Total This Post: 30
Completed Tasks: 16
Total Points to Date: 220
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
5.9 Shrimp on the BarbieUnderground to Canada by Barbara Claassen Smucker
This book was 144 pages
Total points: 115
Busy few days... Finished a couple more tasks.5.1 Dancers in Mourning DANCERS IN MOURNING
25.1 Man in the Woods(main character is a carpenter) and Live Wire (main characters include a sports agent, a former professional wrestler, a professional tennis player/instructor).
Janice CA20.3 .... International Women's Day
I live in the US. The female author I read was born and raised in Poland. She was of Jewish descent and disguised herself as a Pole, during WWII, and lived outside the Nazi designated ghetto.
Double Identity: A Memoir byZofia S. Kubar
5 stars
+20
total: 65
tasks: 4
books: 4
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter. Tami's task: Quips and Quotes Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
I have a line from Pearl Jam's song, Nothingman, tattooed on me. It says, "He who forgets will be destined to remember." The book title also has the words "will be" in it.
Total Points: 120
Tasks Completed: 7
10.10 The Final Frontiers Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 110
Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 10
Big Ticket Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Goodreads Authors:
AMBER MARIE
30.5. Delicious Dee's task: “All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, or a book”
I read The Time Traveler's Wife, from Coralie's read shelf, and Catching Fire from Chris FL's read shelf.
All three of us have birthdays on April 19th.
Claiming big book ticket for The Time Traveler's Wife, it's 536 pages.
Audrey Niffenegger is a Goodreads author.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points 105
Total GoodReads Authors: 3
Total Big Books: 500+ (2) 700+(0) 1000+(0)
30.5. Delicious Dee's task: “All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, or a book”
I read The Time Traveler's Wife, from Coralie's read shelf, and Catching Fire from Chris FL's read shelf.
All three of us have birthdays on April 19th.
Claiming big book ticket for The Time Traveler's Wife, it's 536 pages.
Audrey Niffenegger is a Goodreads author.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points 105
Total GoodReads Authors: 3
Total Big Books: 500+ (2) 700+(0) 1000+(0)
20.2 Random WordsMy words were: principal, race, box, concrete, saint. I read Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 85
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
5.4 Fan Club: Go to the profile page of one of your favorite authors and navigate to their fan listing. Click on a fan's profile and read a 5-star book from their Read shelf. Required: Post a link to the author and state the fan whose list you used.http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Fan: Heather
Book: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
15.9 In like a lion, out like a lambI read The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The cover has a dog (about which I'm not sure, because he has a clock in his belly and I discovered while reading that it is not simply painted on his sides but a part of him), and it also has a little white horse right under the title. Here it is:
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 55
Total Tasks Completed: 5
Total Books Read: 6
Total Pages Read: 1829
Total GoodReads Authors: 2
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Inez5.1 Waltzing Matilda
Dance with a Vampire By Ellen Schreiber
5.8 Blow your Stack
Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber
5.9 Shrimp on the Barbie
Vampireville by Ellen Schreiber
20.6 YA Series
Royal Blood by Ellen Schreiber
Inez wrote: "Inez5.1 Waltzing Matilda
Dance with a Vampire By Ellen Schreiber
5.8 Blow your Stack
Vampire Kisses by [author:Ellen Schreiber|1537..."
Total Tasks 4
Total Points 35
Sorry hit the button before I was done
Sandy MNTask 15.4 It's a Repeat
Book:Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan, 185 pages
***David Levithan is a Goodreads Author***
Points this Task:15
Total Points: 140
Tasks this post:1
Total Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read this post:1
Total Books Read:11
Total Pages Read: 3728
Total Goodreads Author Books: 4
Total Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
30.3 -- Donna Jo's Task: Yours, Mine, and Ours - A. What My Mother Doesn't Know and B. Along for the Ride In this book Auden spends the summer before she goes off to college with her Dad, Stepmother and their new baby girl. Also, the author, Sarah Dessen, is a goodreads author.Totals
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 180
Tasks: 12
Books: 15
Pages: 4896
Goodreads Author: 8
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
5.3 - "Gimme Five" - Read Loving Frank by Nancy Horan.5.6 - "Water, Water, Everywhere" - Read Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay.
10.5 - "It Takes Two" - Read The Nude: The Cultural Rhetoric of the Body in the Art of Western Modernity by Richard Leppert. Obviously I'm ignoring the subtitle here! Oh, and this was a school book on art history for a humanities class but was very interesting.
Points for above tasks: 20
Tasks above completed: 3
Total tasks completed: 5/54
Points completed: 45/910
Books read & claimed: 5
Books by Goodreads authors: 1
Big Books: 0 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)
10.2. Say what?:
The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn ((Where))
20.3. Best Review Contest. Katy's Task: Happy International Women's Day!
Out by Natsuo Kirino
I live in the United States and the author lives in Japan. Book was Published January 4th 2005.
Total Points = 520
5.5 I'M TELLING - Goodbye Sister Disco by James Patrick Hunt5.9 SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE - Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
This book is 174 pages long
5.10 KIA ORA - The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
This book was originally written in Spanish
15.6 THE TRUTH IS - Search at Loch Ness: The Expedition of the New York Times and the Academy of Applied Science by Dennis L. Meredith
I read The Loch for the last challenge and I wanted to find out more about the loch ness monster.
20.8 THE NIGHT I WAS BORN - Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
This series was the inspiration for the tv show The Dresden Files
25.1 IN MY BACKYARD -
A. Crescent Dawn by Clive Cussler
Most of this book takes place on a ship
***Big Book 548 pgs***
B. Dying to Have Her by Heather Graham
The main character is a soap opera star
30.1 LITERATURE MAP BY GENDER -
I used author James Patterson as my favorite author
A. What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz
B Faces of Fear by John Saul
30.4 LIKE I NEED AN EXCUSE -
A. The Prudhomme Family Cookbook: Old-Time Louisiana Recipes by the Eleven Prudhomme Brothers and Sisters and Chef Paul Prudhomme by Paul Prudhomme
I love to cook
B. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Points: 135
Tasks: 8
Books: 11
Pages 3915
Big Books 500+: 1
Total Points: 330
Total Tasks: 22
Total Books: 29
Total Pages: 11736
GR Authors: 4
Big Books 500+: 4
Big Books 1000+: 1
20.6. Seasoned Reader. Kathryn CA's Task: Young Adult Series Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Points this post: 20
This book is the first in a series and is 425 pages.
Total points: 100
Total tasks: 7
Total books: 10
Total pages: 4126
Goodreads authors: 0
Big books: 500+(3); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
15.1 - The Land Down UnderMutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
15.7 - Lab Lit
Hostage to Pleasure by Nalini Singh** - The main character is a scientist.
20.1 - Lassiez Les Bon Temps Rouler
Caressed By Ice by Nalini Singh** - N & S appear in joecainfattuesday
**Nalini Singh is a Goodreads Author
Total Points to Date: 270
15.4 It's a Repeat Tiger, Tiger - Margaux Fragoso
15.8 - A different perspective
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (Goodreads Author)
- Multiple narrators that changes with every chapter.
Points This Task: 30
Total Points: 75
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 6
GoodReads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
STESSE10.4. Elementary, my dear Watson
The Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig (405 p.)
Lauren Willig is a GoodReads Author.
15.2 -- Blurb It
The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card (384 p.), who provided a blurb on Elantris by Brandon Sanderson (487 p.)
Brandon Sanderson is a GoodReads Author.
Points this Post: 25
Tasks Completed this Post: 2
Books Read this Post: 3
Pages Read this Post: 1276
GoodReads Authors this Post: 2
Total Points: 255
Total Tasks Completed: 19
Total Books Read: 24
Total Pages Read: 7868
Total GoodReads Authors: 6
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
10.4. Elementary, my dear Watson: March 18-20 is Sherlock Holmes Weekend. Read a mystery book. Mysteries have a detective protagonist (amateur or professional) who investigates and solves a crime. For this task I read Treachery in Deathby J.D. Robb. Very good!
Total Points: 20
Tasks complete: 3
10.10. The Final Frontiers: May 3 is Paranormal Day and May 4 is Intergalactic Star Wars Day - read a fantasy or science fiction book For this task I read Flirt by Laurell K. Hamilton.
Tasks Complete: 4
Total Points: 30
15.10 Spring BreakParents toxiques : Comment échapper à leur emprise by Susan Forward, Craig Buck
This post: 15 points
Total to Date = 30 points
Total Tasks Completed: 3
Total Books Read: 3
Total Pages Read: 872
Total GoodReads Authors: 1
Total Big Books: 500(0);750(0);1000+(0)
15.3 "Earth Day"B: reread: Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
C: library: M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 475
Tasks Completed: 31
Books Read: 39
Goodreads Author Books: 5
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+(1)
Readerboard Name: Cheryl TX15.5 Award Me - Man Booker Award or Nominee
Room (2010) by Emma Donoghue
I cannot add the book or author-I don't know why it won't let me
30.1 Cheryl's Task - Literature Map By Gender
Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb
30.5 Delicious Dee's Task: All the World is Birthday Cake, So Take a Piece, or a Book
My Birthday is June 8th but the only person on the 8th had a profile that was private so...
Sheila's List
Maximum Security by Rose Connors
Laurie's List
Zapped by Carol Higgins Clark
Total Points This Post: 75
last post 522
5.5 I'm Tellin'
While My Sister Sleeps - Barbara Delinsky (GR Author)
15.3. Earth Day
A. Reduce: Halfway To The Grave - Jeaniene Frost (GR Author) - one of the oldest books on my TBR shelf
C. Recycle: Lawless - borrowed from the library
15.10. Spring Break
I'll Be Your Drill, Soldier - Crystal Rose (GR Author)(Big Book Ticket - 500+ pages - 566 pages)
20.4 Author, Author. Tracyj's Task: The Royal Wedding
The Ultimate Romantic Challenge - Katherine Garbera
20.5. Bigger is Better. Rachel Renee's Task: Alliterative Authors Association
Afterglow - Catherine Coulter (both names have a hard C sound)
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter. Tami's task: Quips and Quotes
One of my favorite quotes is "well-behaved women rarely make history" - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life - Elizabeth Cady Stanton wouldn't have made history if she had been the proper lady that she was expected to be in her time, so she is a good example of the quote
20.9 Lucky Me:
Fudge Cupcake Murder (Murder)
Total Points This Post: 115
Total Points in Challenge: 325
Books Read: 27
Tasks Completed: 24
GR Authors: 10
Big Book Tickets: 500+(2); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
Previous Tasks Completed:
5.1;5.3;5.4;5.6;5.9;5.10
10.8;10.10
15.1;15.4;15.5;15.6;15.7;15.9
20.2;20.8
30.3
Kimber20.10 Group Read
Outlander by Diane Gabaldon
+ posted on Outlander thread
Big book ticket please, if avail to group read titles.
I may have developed an unhealthy addiction to this series. I TRULY adored this book! Thanks to all who suggested this as a group read - another one I never would have picked up were it not for SRC!
This task: 20
Total tasks completed: 10
Total points earned: 140
GR authors: 4
Big book: 1/500+, 1/750+
ERIN C.5.4 Fan Club
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
I used a 5-star book from a fellow fan of the author John Fowles. This book is from the list of James Edwards.
At 592pp., I am claiming 1 Big Book Ticket for this book.
Task Total: 5
10.3 Beware the Ides of March
The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest by Peter S. Wells
Task Point: 10
Points this Post: 15
Grand Total: 80
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 13
Pages Read: 2,867
Goodreads Author Books: 0
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
10.10 The Final FrontiersI read The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. It is 994 pages long. It is a fantasy novel, and an excellent one at that.
This author is a Goodreads author.
Task Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
Total Points: 10
5.9 - SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE(book with fewer than 200 pages)
Ivy and Intrigue: A Very Selwick Christmas by Lauren Willig (ebook) - Goodreads author
20.1 - LAISSEZ LES BON TEMPS ROULER
I chose option #2 - a book with one of the listed words (society) in the title
Heist Society by Ally Carter
20.3 - HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
(a book written by an author born/residing in a country other than my own)
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison - born & resides in the UK
20.6 - YOUNG ADULT SERIES
(read a YA book that is a part of a series and has at least 400 pages)
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer - book 3 in the Twilight series (629 pages)
Points this post - 65
Total points - 300
Goodreads authors this post - 1
Total Goodreads authors - 7
Big books this post - 1
Total big books - 1
KRISTENMA15.9 IN LIKE A LION, OUT LIKE A LAMB - Hannah's Dream by Diane Hammond. There is an elephant on the cover.
. 20.1 CINDY AL'S TASK - LASSIEZ LES BON TEMPS RULER - Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
TOTAL POINTS: 100
TOTAL PAGES READ: 3541
TOTAL BOOKS READ:9
GOODREADS AUTHORS: 0
BIG BOOKS: 500 (0), 750 (1), 1000 (0)
CHRISTINE USTask 30.1 Lit Map
I used Nora Roberts
The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
Short Straw by Stuart Woods
Total: 245
Tammy AZTask 5.6: Water Water Everywhere:
Grand Total: 65
Shannon South Africa20.8 Book made into TV series
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Task points = 20
Total points = 60
Alright, this is my first post, so please let me know if I'm not doing it correctly!5.6 Water, Water, Everywhere
Dr. Franklin's Island
by Ann Halam15.8 A Different Perspective
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult.
Each chapter is told by one of the four main characters.
This Post: 10 (5 for each book?)
Total Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 2
Goodreads Authors: 0 (I'm not really sure what qualifies as a Goodreads Author, so I'm just going to assume I don't have any)
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
ANNA E20.3 Best Review Contest. Katy’s Task: Happy International Women’s Day!
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
This book was first published in 1983. Olive Ann Burns was born in America and I live in England.
Task Points: 20
Total Tasks Completed: 5
Total Points Earned: 55
BRENDA MO5.9 Shrimp on the Barbie
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
162 pages
Neil Gaiman is a Goodreads Author
Points: 5
Total Points: 205
Total Goodreads Authors: 5
Rinnie wrote: "10.10 The Final FrontiersI read The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. It is 994 pages long. It is a fantasy novel, and an excellent one at that.
This author is..."
In reference to my previous post, 899, I would like to claim a big book 750+ ticket.
10.1 - Sing OutThe Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
20.3 - International Women's Day
Branded by Fire by **Nalini Singh. Nalini Singh was born in Fiji and lives in New Zealand.
**Nalini Singh is a Goodreads Author
Total Points to Date: 300
Brenda WIRepost 5.6 - Simply Sailing: A Different Approach to a Life of Adventure since this is in e-book only, was approved in message 49 for length
moving Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks to
25.6 Australia & Oceania - Option 2The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It is written by Rebecca Skloot whose initials are in Australia. Option 6 Book set in Australia - The Thorn BirdsI read this when it first came out in 1977 and have wanted to re-read it ever since. Couldn't put it down this time either!
points this post 30
previous posts 15
total points 45
Joy Marie30.7 Title Connections
Option B
Read Secret of the Seventh Son by Glenn Cooper and Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
Total Points: 45
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10.04 ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
Points: 10
Total points: 90
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 8
Goodreads authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)