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Spring Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS)
Readerboardname: Gina NY
Task 30.6
I rolled a 2: A book about Family or families: This book is about the Goodnight Family and the Dempsey Family
and I rolled a 6: a book in a futuristic setting: THis book is set in NYC in 2059
Total Points: 140 Points
Task 30.6
I rolled a 2: A book about Family or families: This book is about the Goodnight Family and the Dempsey Family
and I rolled a 6: a book in a futuristic setting: THis book is set in NYC in 2059
Total Points: 140 Points
Joanna TTask 10.10 Final Frontiers
The Shore of Women by Pamela Sargent
Pamela Sargent is a GR Author.
Grand total: 105
BRENDA MO20.2 Rookie at the Top. Travelgirlut's Task: Random Words
Poisoned Tarts by G.A. McKevett
refugee, butter, tart, bargain, thief
Points:20
Total Points 225
5.4 Fan ClubThe Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
The favorite author I chose was JRR Tolkien, and I chose a 5* book from the read shelf of Namz.
5.7 Going Green
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
Ebook.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 55
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Alice GTask 10.1 Sing Out
Book:Bel Canto
One of the main characters is a professional opera singer.
Task 25.6 It's All About Australia and Oceania
Option 1: Read a book with a natural disaster
Book: Zeitoun
natural disaster: Hurrican Katrina
Option 2: Read a book whose initials are found in the word Australia
Book:So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
Total points: 100
Previous Reads:
5.9 Shrimp on the Barbie - The Humbling by Philip Roth
30.1 Literature Map by Gender - For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemmingway and On the Road by Jack Kerouac
30.3 Yours, Mine and Ours - The Hand that First Held Mine by Maggie O Farrell and The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
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Kathleen FL20.8 The Night I Was Born:
Jane Eyre was made into a miniseries in 1983.
I am also claiming a Big Book ticket for 500+ Pages.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 80
Goodreads Author Books: 1
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
Carla 20.3 International Women's Day
I read One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. Janet was born and lives in the USA; I was born and raised in Canada.
Total Points: 130
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 9
Pages Read: 3395
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
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NICOLE AR-15.10 -- Spring Break
For this task, I read "Vagabonding" by Rolf Potts. It is a fabulous book that I gave 5 stars to and would highly recommend.
Sandy MN20.1. Most Improved Player. Cindy AL's Task: Lassiez Les Bon Temps Rouler!
Option 1: Read a book written by an author whose initials are in the following: J,O,E,C,A,I,N,F,A,T,T,U,E,S,D,A,Y.
Book: Seven Up by Janet Evanovich, 337 pages
Points this Task:20
Total Points: 160
Tasks this post:1
Total Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read this post: 1
Total Books Read:12
Total Pages Read: 4065
Total Goodreads Author Books: 4
Total Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
30.5. Delicious Dee's task: “All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, or a book”
My birthday is April 7th so I read Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger from Amanda's read shelf (April 6th)
AND
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare from Jenn Renee's read list (April 7th)
Total Points = 560
Nickboy.5.2 Circle of Friends:
Separate Peace
by John Knowles 192 pagesThis is currently # 63 on my Friends' Popular Books List. It was actually a reread for me, though the first time I read it was in high school more years ago than I care to remember. I recall thinking of it as very sappy back then -- I guess I still do. But the review by one of my Friends says you see something new in it every time you read it. And I have to admit that’s true.
Task Points: 5
Total Points: 225/910
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 19
Pages Read: 5305
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+ (1)
Cindy AL10.2 Say What? - Who, what, when, etc: What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris, 432pp read 3/25/2011.
15.8 From a Different Perspective - different POV: Allison Hewitt Is Trapped: A Zombie Novel by Madeleine Roux, 352pp read 3/26/2011.
This book is written as a series of blogs with the posts responding to the blog.
Madeleine Roux is a Goodreads author.
25.1 In My Backyard: A - book set on a boat - Sea of Poppies and H - book that a TV show is based on - Dead as a Doornail by Amitav Ghosh and Charlaine Harris, 623pp.
I want to claim a 500 page ticket.
Points in this post - 50
Total Points - 350/910
Books - 32/66
Pages - 10516
Goodreads Authors: 11
Big Books: 500+ - (3), 750+ - (0),1000+ - (0)
RACHEL CA: 120 points total30.03 YOURS, MINE, AND OURS
Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy by Louise Bates Ames
AND
Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters (prominently features a blended family in the plot—the murdered man, his stepson, suspected of the murder, and the boy’s mother, the murdered man's wife.)
Points: 30
Total points: 120
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 10
Goodreads authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
10.9. No Lawyer Jokes!I read This Is How It Goes by Neil LaBute, in which the main character, "Man," is a lawyer-turned-writer.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 80
Total Tasks Completed: 6
Total Books Read: 6
Total Pages Read: 1556
Total GoodReads Authors: 0
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
20.3 International Woman's Day - I read The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah.
This author was born in Mauritius and she currently resides in France.
Tasks Completed - 4
Books Read - 4
Total Points 75
10.5 It Takes TwoI read The Cradle by Patrick Somerville.
Total Points to date: 150
Total Tasks Completed: 9
Total Books Read: 12
Total GoodReads Authors: 6
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
5.1 Waltzing MatildaTeaching the Pig to Dance by Fred Thompson
An interesting memoir--if you grew up in small town America during the late forties and the fifties, you would recognize the people and events in this book.
10.9 No Lawyer Jokes
Sand Sharks by Margaret
Maron
The main character, Deborah Knott, is a judge and the book takes place during a judge's workshop.
15.8 From a Different Perspective
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale
Story is told by the Chimpanzee, Bruno Littlemore.
25.1 Coralie's Task--In My Backyard:
A. Anchor Drowned Ammet by Diana Wynne Jones
The last half of the book takes place on the ocean. (I was so saddened to hear Diana Wynne Jones just died this weekend.)
B. Gymnasium You Make Me Feel Like Dancing: A Novel by Allison Bottke
The main character has a breakdown and is treated by a doctor for several weeks during the book.
Today's total: 55
Grand total: 405
Lisa MDCOMPLETED TASKS:
15.8 From a Different Perspective
multiple narrators
❀Linger by Maggie Stiefvater READ 3.29.11
GOODREADS AUTHOR
30.6 Melanie's Task: Myth-behaving Greeks
2 books Dice Roller
A. (#5) Ares: A book where a main character is in the military or with a mercenary outfit or is a veteran.
❀Private by James Patterson READ 3.22.11
GOODREADS AUTHOR
B. (#3) Herodotus: Read a historical fiction book (set 30+ years before it was written)
❀The King's Daughter by Sandra Worth READ 3.28.11
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COMPLETED TASKS: 15/54
TOTAL POINTS: 235/910
BOOKS READ: 18/71
GOODREAD AUTHORS: 6
BIG BOOKS: 500 pp. [ ✔ ] 750 pp. [ ✔ ] 1000 pp. [ ]
20.5. Bigger is Better. Rachel Renee's Task: Alliterative Authors Association Little Bee by Chris Cleave**
**Goodreads Author**
Total Points = 140
CHRISTINE USI'd like to move Ghost Moon by Heather Graham to task 10.5
Then, I'd like to take the book previously reported for that task (in post 694) and move it to 10.10, Final Frontiers
Ghost Night by Heather Graham
I'm ony adding 10 points in this post.
Total: 255
30.6 Melanie's Task: Myth-behaving Greeks I rolled a three and a five, therefore, I read:
The Hangman's Daughter for 3 (historical fiction)
BoneMan's Daughters for 5
The main character is a military intelligence officer.
Total points: 60
20.5 Alliterative Authors AssociationI read Wildwater Walking Club by Claire Cook(A GoodReads Author).
Total Points to date: 170
Total Tasks Completed: 10
Total Books Read: 13
Total GoodReads Authors: 7
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
15.6 The Truth is...Last year I read The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF and I always wondered how far technology was and if the scenarios described in the book would actually be possible so for the challenge I listened to the audiobook of Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach. And I now know that escaping the world via space shuttles is still far off in the future.
15.10 Spring Break
I listened to Invisible by Paul Auster
20.7 Quips and Quotes
My favorite quote is by Marilyn Monroe: "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." For this task I read The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe by J. Randy Taraborrelli
25.1 In my backyard
I chose option B-A bank and read Die Rache by John Katzenbach one of the main characters works in a bank and is forced to rob it in order to safe his kid.
and I chose option D - A food court, restaurants, bars, cafes etc and read Decaffeinated Corpse by Cleo Coyle.
Total Points: 140
Tasks completed: 11
5.8 Blow Your StackRead a book from your To Read stack that was added before February 19, 2011.
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
This Post: 5
Total Points: 165
Tasks Completed: 15/54
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
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20.6 Seasoned Reader. Kathryn CA's Task: Young Adult Series
Royal Blood (192 pgs) and Kissing Coffins (240pgs) both by Ellen Schreiber
total pages 432
Total points this post 20
total points 35
10.2 Say what The Girl Who Chased the Moon
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
15.1 Land Down Under
Don't Look Down
Don't Look Down by Jennifer Cruise
Evil Under the Sun
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
30.3 Yours, Mine, and Ours
Truly Madly Yours
Truly Madly Yours by Rachel Gibson
A Match For Melissa
A Match for Melissa by Kathryn Kirkwood - A Cinderalla story, Melissa's stepmother has Melissa act as the maid so her stepsisters can attend the Season.
Points This Post: 55
Tasks Completed: 7
Total Points: 120
Books Read: 11
Elizabeth NC5.7 Going Green
Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary. I bought this book at our local PTA Thrift Shop (you have to love books for 25 cents!)
10.4 Mystery
Burn by Nevada Barr
10.10 Fantasy book
Pale Demon by Kim Harrison
20.3 Woman author not from US
The Outlander by Gil Adamson. She is Canadian.
20.4 Royal Wedding
Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn. (Kate)
25.6
1. The Night Season (Gretchen Lowell, #4) by Chelsea Cain. There is a major rainstorm and flood which is central to the plot.
2. Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa S and A are both found in Australia.
That gives me:
Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 6
Points: 90
Pages Read: 2478
Kate C.Finished 20.6 - Young Adult Series:
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
It's shelved as Young Adult and YA and has 403 pages.
Total Points: 110
Brenda WI20.7 Quip ans Quote
"TWenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the one you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds i your sails. Explore. Drean. Discover." Mart Twain This pretty well sums up our philosophy, so I read The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover's Caribbean Adventure which is Ann Vanderhoof's second book about sailing around the Caribbean where they meet, and become close friends with, families of the islands.
20 points this post + 45 previous = 65
Kathleen FL30.6 Myth-Behaving Greeks:
A) Rolled 6-Dark Life which involves people farming the ocean floor in the future.
B) Rolled 6- Sh*t My Dad Says which was definitely very funny!
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 110
Goodreads Author Books: 1
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
MG5.9 Shrimp on the Barbie: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
10.4. Elementary, my dear Watson: Watchers of Time by Charles Todd*** GR author
10.5. It Takes Two: The Pigman by Paul Zindel
10.10. The Final Frontiers: The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness.* Big Book (544 pages) This is a science-fiction novel.
15.3 Earth Day: Romeo and Juliet by and William Shakespeare (an old favorite) and Worth Dying For by Lee Child (borrowed from the library)
15.8 -- From a Different Perspective: Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay.*** GR Author Told from the perspective of two characters.
20.1. Most Improved Player. Cindy AL's Task: Lassiez Les Bon Temps Rouler!: White Nights by Ann Cleeves (option 1)
20.3. Best Review Contest. Katy's Task: Happy International Women's Day!: The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong.*** GR Author The author lives in Canada.
* 1 Big Read
***3 GOODREADS AUTHORS***
Points This Task: 105
Total Points:105
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 9
GoodReads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
15.10 -- Spring BreakRapture 3/25/11
**GoodReads' Author: Jacquelyn Frank
25.1. Coralie's Task:In my Backyard
The Elusive Flame 3/20/11
a. Read a book which is set, at least in part, on a ship or boat: first half of the story is about the main characters' journey from England to the Carolinas.
Cooking Up a Storm 3/26/11
**GoodReads Author: Emma Holly
d. Read a book where a main character works in the food preparation industry: main characters are a cook and a restaurant owner.
30.5. Delicious Dee's task: “All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, or a book”
My birthday is July 2.
Judith Avory 2-Mar: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 3/30/11
Nicki (UK) 3-Mar: Mockingjay (3/6/11)
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Points this post: 70
Total Points: 190
Tasks Completed: 13 (3 in this post)
Books Read: 16 (5 in this post)
GoodReads Authors: 8 (2 in this post)
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
10.3. Beware the Ides of March :
A Body in the Bathhouse by Lindsey Davis
Dateline AD75. Approved in help thread message 2
Total Points = 570
10.5. It Takes TwoI read Some Girl(s): A Play by Neil LaBute.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 90
Total Tasks Completed: 7
Total Books Read: 7
Total Pages Read: 1678
Total GoodReads Authors: 0
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Readerboard Name= Lindy-Lane My Goal Points for this Season: 225
Points earned for this task: 15
Points Achieved to date: 130
Updated last on: 3.30
Total # of books read: 9
Total # of pages read: 3,006
Total # of tasks completed: 8
Task 15.10 Spring Break...take a break and read any book you choose.
I read
The Search by Nora Roberts 488 pages (3.28)
20.2 Rookie at the Top - Travelgirlut's Task - Random Words My 5 random words were kidney, supply, key, scar, parish. I used "key" and read:
The Doomsday Key by James Rollins
James Rollins is a Goodreads Author.
Total points: 135
Harmony20.5. Bigger is Better. Rachel Renee's Task: Alliterative Authors Association
Read any book by an author with an alliterative name!
I read "I'd Know You Anywhere" by Laura Lippman
Points this post: 20
Total points: 80
Tasks completed:5
Books read: 5
Total Pages Read: 1393
Total Big Ticket Books: 500+(0), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
5.4 Fan ClubOne of my favorite authors is Sarah Dessen. I chose one of her fans named Kereesa, and read Confessions of a Not It Girl by Melissa Kantor.
Melissa Kantor is a goodreads author.
Total points = 180
BRENDA MO20.6. Seasoned Reader. Kathryn CA's Task: Young Adult Series
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Series - The Infernal Devices
479 pgs
Cassandra Clare is a Goodreads Author
Points: 20
Total Points: 245
Total Goodreads Authors: 6
Readerboard Name: Gina NY
Task 5.1 Waltzing Matilda
Total Points: 145 Points
Task 5.1 Waltzing Matilda
Total Points: 145 Points
20.10 Group Read B. Biography/Authobiography/Memoir: The Glass Castle
I posted in the discussion thread.
Task Points: 20
Total Points: 40
RACHEL CA: 125 points total5.07 GOING GREEN
Apartment Therapy presents real homes, real people, hundreds of real design solutions by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan (Borrowed from local library)
Points: 5
Total points: 125
Tasks completed: 9
Books read: 11
Goodreads authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Readerboard Name: Cheryl TXREPOST
30.1 Cheryl's Task Literature Map by Gender
Original Author: Patricia Cornwell
Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb
Total points for this post: 30
15.6 -- The Truth Is...20,000 Secrets of Tea: The Most Effective Ways to Benefit from Nature's Healing Herbs by Victoria Zak read 3/30/11
Required: Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs read 3/23/11
Points this Post: 15
Completed Tasks: 17
Total Points to Date: 235
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
5.4 Fan Club - Author Agatha Christie - fan AbbyIn the Woods by Tana French Abby gave it 5 stars but I could only give it 3 - I really disliked the protagonist.
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 245
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 23
GoodReads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
Sandy MN 25.1. Coralie's Task:In my Backyard
Option D: Read a book where a main character works in the food preparation industry.
Book: Delicious by Susan Mallery (Main character is a chef)
***Susan Mallery is a Goodreads Author***
Option H: Read a book based on a television show or one on which a television show is based.
Book: Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Points this Task: 25
Total Points: 185
Tasks this post: 1
Total Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read this post: 2
Total Books Read:14
Total Pages Read: 4673
Total Goodreads Author Books: 5
Total Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
LISA NC15.7 Lab Lit - read a book with the main character a scientist.
How To Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks
The main character is a scientist who owns a large company that produces synthetic blood (for blood transfusions for humans, as well as sustenance for vampires). He also has personally developed several other formulas that are important to the storyline.
This post: 15 points
Total: 85 points
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5.6 Water, Water, Everywhere: I read Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank. She is a Goodreads Author
Points this task 5
Total Points 135
Tasks complete 12
Goodreads Authors 5
Pages read 4430
Books read 13