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10.10. The Final Frontiers - read a fantasy or science fiction bookDays by James Lovegrove /Science Fiction
This post: 10 points
Total to Date = 70 points
Total Tasks Completed: 6
Total Books Read: 6
Total Pages Read: 1715
Total GoodReads Authors: 1
Total Big Books: 500(0);750(0);1000+(0)
Task # 10.2 - Say What! Read a book with question words in the title.The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba
William Kamkwamba is a Goodreads Author.
This post: 10 points
Total to Date = 160 points
Readerboard Name: Michelle VA5.2 Circle of Friends: Water for Elephants
6 Friends have read it.
Points this Post: 5
Total to date: 70
Thank you!
20.10 Group Read I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (440 pages)
10.1. Sing Out
Where She Went by Gayle Forman (264 pages)
Total Points: 155
Tasks Completed: 10
5.1 Waltzing Matilda The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester using "Gypsy Girl" dance. It was pre-approved in the help thread.5.9 Shrimp on the Barbie A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It had 101 pages.
10.5 It Takes Two Princess Ka'Iulani: Hope of a Nation, Heart of a People by Sharon Linnea. (I was going with the assumption that everything after the colon counts as a subtitle, therefore this would work).
10.7 Kuddle a Koala I read The Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan Maushart. I used the author from Australia option. She was okayed in the help thread.
15.4 It's a Repeat I read Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany
15.9 In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb I read Dewey's Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions
by Vicki Myron.
Alice GTask 20.10 Group Read
Book: I Am Number Four
I have posted in the I am Number Four Group Reads thread and my message is number 34.
total points: 145
Previous Reads:
5.9 Shrimp on the Barbie - The Humbling by Philip Roth
10.1 Sing Out - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
10.4 Elementary, my dear Watson - Started Early, Took my Dog by Kate Atkinson
15.4 It's a repeat - Cold Comfort Farm and The Double Comfort Safari Club
25.6 It's all about Australia and Oceania - Zeitoun by Dave Eggers and So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
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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30.2. Sheila's Task: Sheila’s Guilty Pleasures American Idol: How To Marry a Millionaire Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks 4/11
Dancing With the Stars: Persuading The Playboy King: The Royal Wager by Kristi Gold 4/6
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 815
Tasks Completed: 50
Books Read: 64
Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
15.3 -- Earth Day
Earth Day is celebrated around the world on April 22nd. In honor of Earth Day, choose two of the following:
B. Reuse: Read a book you planned to read for the Winter 2010-2011 challenge, but didn’t get to OR reread an old favorite.
Reuse: [#20.5 read a fiction or non-fiction book where the main character is an unconventional woman. *explicitly approved*] I had planned this for last challenge but ran out of time! So here it is in this challenge:
The Last Illusion (Molly Murphy Mysteries #9) (2010) by Rhys Bowen (Hardcover, 288 pages)
C. Recycle Read a book you’ve been dying to read and then give it away OR read a book you've borrowed from the library or a friend..
Borrowed from the library:
The journal of Nicholas the American (1986) by Leigh Kennedy (Paperback, 204 pages)
Nominated 1987 Nebula Best Novel
110 + 15 = 125
Tasks Completed: 8
Points for this task: 15
Points thus far: 110 + 15 = 125
Books read: 10
Pages Read: 3194
Read but not claimed: 6
20.1 (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. Initials can be in any order, but all initials must be within these four words, that is you can use two Es or Ts, but only one S or N. I read Rescue by Anita Shreve.
Total Points to date: 245
Total Tasks Completed: 15
Total Books Read: 19
Total GoodReads Authors: 8
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Jennifer KS10.2. Say what?: Me, Myself and Why? by Mary Janice Davidson
Points this task 10
Total points 195
Tasks complete 19
Books read 20
Pages read 6771
5.3 - Gimmie FiveThe Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant
The author's name, Grant, has 5 letters.
Total Points: 30
Jess PhillyGot a little bogged down in the length of this one, but here it is.
20.10 Group Read
I read Outlander and posted in the discussion thread (message 19).
Total points: 110
Readerboard Name: Diane15.8 -- From a Different Perspective
Read a novel written from a unique point of view - The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy. This book was told in a series of vignettes all featuring a different person on the bus and their points of view and thoughts about one another.
15.10 -- Spring Break
Take a break and read any book you choose -
I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton.
Total = 220
RACHEL CA: 165 points total25.06 IT'S ALL ABOUT AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA
3) Title contains the word "house"
This House Of Sky by Ivan Doig
4) Book that is set in Australia
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin is set almost entirely in Australia
Points: 25
Total points: 165
Tasks completed: 13
Books read: 16
Goodreads authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.1 Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins whose initials are SC20.9 The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
points this post: 40
Total Points: 135
Kate H10.1 Sing Out
Backstage Pass **GOODREADS AUTHOR** Olivia Cunning
Pages: 384
Points: 10
20.10 Group Read
The Glass Castle
Pages: 288
Points: 20
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Points this Post: 30
Total points: 220
Total Pages:7319
GoodReads Authors: 7
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
KAREN OZRepost: Task 5.7 Going Green (ebook)
Shrouded in Silence by Robert L Wise
Advanced Reader Copy
Task 5.2 Circle of Friends-
Room by Emma Donoghue - GR Author
Task 10.6. Respect Your Elders:
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Task 10.1. Sing Out:
Is this the real life the untold story of Queen by Mark Blake (Non Fiction: Bio on UK rock group, Queen)
Task 20.1 Most Improved Player. Cindy AL's Task: Lassiez Les Bon Temps Rouler!
1) Author Initial: A C
A Marked Man: Some Episodes in His Life by Ada Cambridge
Total this post: 50 points
Total to date: 225 points
5.7 Going Green: Listen to an audiobook, read an ebook or read a book that you borrow from the library or a friend, obtain from a swap, or buy from a supplier of second-hand books. Required: State the format or source when you postSnow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
Borrowed from a friend x
Kathy G.15.10 Spring Break
Lost in the Labyrinth by Patrice Kindl
Total Tasks- 2
Total Points- 20
Goodreads Authors- 0
Big Books- 0
5.3 Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran10.8 The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
20.7
"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis
I'll Walk Alone: A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark
Total Points: 130
BRENDA MO15.2 Blurb It
Red by Ted Dekker
There was a blurb by Frank Peretti
Tilly by Frank E. Peretti
Points: 15
Total Points: 390
Southpaw285Completed task #30.5 - Delicious Dee's Task: All the world is birthday cake
(A) Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (May 4)
(B) Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (May 13)
My birthday is May 5
Please note: As of April 8, the spring birthday for May 3 - profile is set to private, unable to send message.
This post: 30 points
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Total challenge points = 195
NICOLE AR-15.9 "In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb"
I read "Oogy" by Larry Levin for this task.
Task Points: 15
Total Points:30
STESSE10.2. Say what?:
March 14 is International Ask a Question Day. Read a book with “who,” “what,” “when,” “where,” “why,” or “how” in the title.
Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? by Jen Lancaster
(I don't recommend reading this in a public place, such as an airplane, as it's really hard to keep from snorting with laughter. Your fellow passengers will give you some seriously strange looks.)
10.9. No Lawyer Jokes!: May 1 is Law Day.
Read a fiction or non-fiction book about law or featuring a lawyer.
Strategic Moves by Stuart Woods
Points this Post: 20
Tasks Completed this Post: 2
Books Read this Post: 2
Pages Read this Post: 675
GoodReads Authors this Post: 0
Total Points: 355
Total Tasks Completed: 25
Total Books Read: 31
Total Pages Read: 10532
Total GoodReads Authors: 7
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
20.6 -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (435 pages)20.7 -- "A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard To me this quote is about the joy of having someone to sharing your secrets with who still loves you. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (this was approved in the task help threads)
Totals
Points This Post: 40
Total Points: 235
Tasks: 16
Books: 19
Pages: 6456
Goodreads Author: 8
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
5.1 Waltzing MatildaThe Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard - for "Rain Dance"
5.8 Blow Your Stack
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri - added 11/5/10
10.5 It Takes Two
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
30.1 Literature Map By Gender
A. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
B. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
My original author was Markus Zusak. I am a girl :)
30.6 Myth-behaving Greeks
A. rolled a 2: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant approved in help thread
B. rolled a 4: Zombies vs. Unicorns by Holly Black - fantasy book ****GR author****
Points this post: 80
Total Points: 210
Total GR Authors: 3
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
NICOLE AR-20.8 "It's My Birthday"
For this task, I read "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne.
The mini-series is titled "Around the World in 80 Days" as well...the same as the book.
Points for this Task: 20
Total Points:50
BJ Rose3 new tasks
20.1 Cindy AL's Task: 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.
Amaryllis by Jayne Castle *I used initials J & C
20.10 Group Read: C. Science Fiction/Fantasy: I Am Number Four
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore I posted message #36 in the discussion thread
30.3. Donna Jo's Task: Yours, Mine, and Ours
A. Read a book with the word Your(s), My or Mine, or Our(s) in the Title:
My Lord and Spymaster by Joanna Bourne
Joanna Bourne is a GoodReads author
B. Read a book with a blended family (Children, Steps, and/or Halfs) in it.
Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris *Harper & Tolliver are steps
Total Points = 385
Tasks Completed = 28
Total Pages = 10,495
GoodReads Authors = 3
Big Books (500+) = 1
25.1 d. read a book where the main character works in food preparation - Read Gingerbread Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke one of the main characters is a baker.
h. Read a book on which a TV show is based
Read Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay TV show - DEXTER
points this task 25
Nickboy. 5.3 Gimme Five – The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty 168 pages
20.7 Quips and Quotes. The Quote: “"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love." Ernest Hemingway -- The Book: The Hemingway Women by Bernice Kert 555 pages.
Mini-biographies of the women associated with Ernest Hemingway give insight to his complicated relationship with the concept of love.
25.1 In My Back Yard
Option b: Main character works in the finance industry. – Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore 304 pages. Main character is an insurance broker. Insurance salesmen as representative of the finance industry was OK’d in the help thread. Shyster insurance practices play a large part in this comic fantasy.
Option h:Based on a TV show – Spock's World by Diane Duane, 388 pages, is based on the ORIGINAL “Star Trek” series.
Claiming one Goodreads Author for Diane Duane
Claiming one Big Book for The Hemingway Women 555 pages
Task Points: 50
Total Points: 400/910
Tasks Completed: 25
Books Read: 32
Pages Read: 9636
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+ (3)
Joanna TTask 20.7 - Quips and Quotes
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
My selected quote (really a quip) is:
"Boy, can't you feel the ghosts of a century and a half of great thinkers, especially Twain?" --Mark Twain
Grand total: 170
10.4. Elementary, my dear Watson: Died in the Wool by Mary Kruger (Goodreads author)
15.1 -- The Land Down Under:
Bad Boys Down Under by Nancy Warren
15.9 -- In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb:
Wolf Tales II by Kate Douglas (Goodreads author)
20.2 Rookie at the Top. Travelgirlut's Task: Random Words My random words were Book, Carnival, Loaf, Stamp, Bell
The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers by Angie Fox (Goodreads author)
25.4. Helen's Task: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Masters
Part A: The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Part B: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
Total Points This Post: 85
Total Tasks This Post: 5
Goodreads Authors This Post: 3
Grand Total Points: 290/910
Total Books Read: 24
Tasks Completed: 20/53
Total Goodreads Authors: 9
Big Book Tickets This Post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
25.2 'Bucket List'A. My personal bucket list is to read all the books in the Ultimate Teen Book Guide. The list is here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/5...
I read: Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
B. 1001 Books To Read Before You Die:
I read: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 500
Tasks Completed: 32
Books Read: 41
Goodreads Author Books: 5
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+(1)
10.9- No Lawyer Jokes!I read Just the Sexiest Man Alive by Julie James. The heroine in the story is a lawyer, and much of the book involves a case she is working on.
Points for this task- 10
Total Points- 290
Goodreads Authors- 3
Tasks Completed- 17
30.3. Donna Jo's Task: Yours, Mine, and Ours A. By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker
B. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (the Stepmother Topaz is a main character)
Total points = 210
15.6 The Truth Is...Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice by Gabrielle Roth
I was inspired by Marked and the House of Night series to read a book about using dance in spiritual practice.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 220
Tasks Completed: 14
Pages Read: 7641
Books Read: 21
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.9 Lucky Me! Laurie's Task: Read a book that has one of the following words in its title: thief, murder, crime, criminal, exile, convict, robber or stolen.For this I read
Die Meisterdiebe von Nürnberg: Paul Flemmings vierter Fall by Jan Beinßen (262 pages). The title would translate to "The Master Thieves of Nuremberg" . The book was specifically approved in the help thread.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 295/910
Tasks Completed: 22
Books Read: 26
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
20.3 Best Review Contest. Katy's Task: Happy International Women's Day! For this task, read a book that was published in 1911 or later and written by a female author who was born in or currently resides in a country other than your own. When posting, please indicate your country and that of the author.
Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson
I am from the United States. Emma Henderson is from Great Britain.
This Post: 20
Total Points: 220
Tasks Completed: 19/54
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
20.5 Alliterative Authors Association A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Double B!
Points for this task: 20
Total points: 20
Task Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
5.10 Kia OraThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
This was originally published in Russian.
Points for this task: 5
Total points: 25
Task Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
10.5- It Takes TwoI read Wicked Intent by Lora Leigh (pre-approved in ebook thread).
Points for this task- 10
Total Points- 300
Goodreads Authors- 3
Tasks Completed- 18
Sandy MNTask 30.7 Diane's Task:Title Connections
Option A: Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult and Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles.
**Simone Elkeles is a Goodreads Author**
Points this Task:30
Total Points: 295
Tasks this post:1
Total Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read this post: 2
Total Books Read: 24
Total Pages Read: 8175
Total Goodreads Author Books: 6
Total Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
5.6 Water, Water, Everywhere The Waves by Virginia Woolf
A photo of the sea is on the cover
Points for this task: 5
Total points: 30
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
LauMarie20.7 Shorter is Sweeter
Quote:
"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth."
— William W. Purkey
I read
by Nora Roberts. The book relates to the quote because the main character of the story has been hurt so many times by her mother and father. The people who are supposed to love and support you. She saw her parents divorce and remarry and never thought she herself was meant to love and be in a relationship, but eventually learns that with the right person love can happen.Points this post: 15
Total Points: 45
Total tasks completed: 3
Total books read: 3
Carla 25.4 Science Fiction
Part A: I read The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin who won in 2003.
Part B: I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl who won in 1983.
Total Points: 175
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 13
Pages Read: 4189 + 1 audiobook
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
10.4 Mystery Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle by Dorothy Gilman
20.8: Miniseries
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 85
Pages Read: 1275
Big Books: 0
Goodreads authors: 1
Jayme VAI'm also going to move some things around.
I previously claimed Aunt Dimity Down Under by Nancy Atherton for 15.9. I would like to move it to task 20.1: letters in Fat Tuesday/Joe Cain.
For 15.9 I read
by Stephen King which has a crow on the cover.Points this post: 20
Total Points: 105
Pages Read: 1275
Big Books: 0
Goodreads authors: 1
NICOLE AR-25.2 "Your Bucket List"
For this task, I read Alice Steinbach's "Without Reservations". In this book, this woman takes off to France, Italy and the UK and experiences life without the worry of work, etc... I want to be able to do that, to just leave everything behind and just travel.
The second book I read was Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Points for this Task: 25
Total Points: 75
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Original Language: French
Lemoine Affair by Marcel Proust
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10.6 -- Respect Your Elders
Published: 1945
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
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15.6 -- The Truth Is...
Inspiration book: Across the Nightingale Floor, Episode 1
Topic: Philosophy of Swordsmanship
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
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20.2 -- Rookie at the Top: Travelgirlut -- Random Words
Random Words: Copier, Pigeon, Knife, Bee, Grass
The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind
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25.3 -- Mrs.Soule's Task -- A Better World
25.3.1 -- Fiction/Teachers -- Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
25.3.2 -- Non-Fiction/Scientists -- My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
**Jenna Blum is a GoodReads Author
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25.4 -- Helen's Task -- Science-Fiction/Fantasy Masters
25.4.1 -- Damon Knight Award -- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
25.4.2 -- World Fantasy Award -- The Illyrian Adventure by Lloyd Alexander
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THIS POST:
Total Points: 100
Tasks Completed: 6
GR Authors: 1
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Total Points: 205
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 14
Total Pages: 3498
GR Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0)x1, 750+(1)x2, 1000+(0)x3