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SPRING CHALLENGE 2011: AUSTRALIA
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Spring Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS)
5.3 Gimme FiveFragile Eternity by Melissa Marr*
*Melissa Marr is a goodreads author
10.2 Question Word in title
Germs, Genes, and Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped who we are Today by David Clark
15.8 From a Different Perspective
Cut by Patricia McCormick
This book is written in second person (you) as the main character is explaining the story to her therapist
points = 465
Michelle WI30.5 "All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, or a book"
My birthday is 29 September and there were 2 members with spring birthdays on the 29th
1. KatieDE - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
2. Stephanie - Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 155
20.3 Happy International Womens DaySurfacing by Margaret Atwood
Margaret is Canadian; I'm American
Points for this task: 20
Total points: 75
Task Completed: 6
Books Read: 6
20.1 Lassiez Les Bon Temps RoulerMy book will fit either #1 (author initials) or #2 (word in title: black)
Black for Remembrance by Carlene Thompson
Points: 20
Total Points: 375
Total Tasks Completed: 19
Total Books Read: 28
Total Big Books: 500+ (1)
Kelly G.30.5 "Birthday Cake"
My birthday is May 3rd, so I chose two books from Nicki UK's shelf. Poison Study by: Maria V. Snyder AND Magic Study by: Maria V. Snyder. Maria Snyder is a Goodreads Author.
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 130
Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 6
Big Ticket Books (1) 500+ (0) 750+ (0) 1000+
Goodreads Authors: 4 - Clare (2) and Snyder (2)
Kelly G. 10.8 "Come on Eat Your Spinach"
Read: The Peach Keeper by: Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author).
Points this task: 10
Total Points: 140
Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 7
Big Ticket Books (1) 500+ (0) 750+ (0) 1000+
Goodreads Authors: 5 - Clare (2), Snyder (2), and Allen
Jennifer KS20.5. Bigger is Better. Rachel Renee's Task: Alliterative Authors Association
I read Another Thing To Fall by Laura Lippman
She is a Godreads Author
Points this task 20
Total Points 255
Goodreads Authors 7
Books read 23
Tasks finished 22
Pages 8078
Southpaw285Completed task #30.6 - Melanie's Task: Myth-behaving Greeks
I rolled a 4 and a 6
4 = Hades
(A) At Grave's End by Jeaniene Frost
6 = Aristophanes
(B) Four to Score by Janet Evanovich from the Best Humorous Books list
This post: 30
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Total challenge points = 225
5.5 I’m Tellin’:Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
+5
10.7. Kuddle a Koala?:
The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta
+10 Points
Points this Post: 15
Grand Total: 340
20.6. Seasoned Reader. Kathryn CA's Task: Young Adult SeriesFor this task I read The Hunger Games and Catching Fire for a total of 765 pages.
Tasks Complete: 7
Total Points: 70
Jules20.10 Group Read
The Glass Castle
POints this task: 20
Total Points: 75
Tasks completed: 6
Books Read: 6
Total Pages 1990
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books 500 (1) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
ERIN C.10.5 It Takes Two
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
At 1,024pp. I am claiming 3 BigBook tickets!
Task Points: 10
Grand Total: 115
Total Tasks Completed: 16
Total Books Read: 16
Total Pages Read: 6,0001
Total GoodReads Authors: 0
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (1)
30.3. Donna Jo's Task: Yours, Mine, and OursA. Yours, Mine & Ours by Jennifer Greene read 4/16/11
B. Pearl Moon by Katherine Stone (half sisters) read 4/16/11
Total This Post: 30
Completed Tasks: 31
Total Points to Date: 470
Goodreads Authors: 10
Big Books: 500+ (5), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Finished20.4 Yhe royal wedding
Wedding Cake to Turin by Lynda Renham
- word "wedding" in the title
Task points: 20
Total points: 245
Total tasks: 11
Total books: 18
BLUEMOON5.8 - BLOW YOUR STACK - The Chardonnay Charade by Ellen Crosby added Sept 15, 2010 (3*).
25.4 - SCI-FI/FANTASY MASTERS - For (A) I chose The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin who won in 2003. For (B) I chose Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Stories by Jane Yolen who won in 2009. I gave both 3.5*.
25.6 - OCEANIA AND AUSTRALIA - For option 2 I read Light on Snow by Anita Shreve (4*). For option 3 I chose the work BEACH and read Moon Shell Beach by Nancy Thayer (3.5*).
Ellen Crosby is a GoodReads author.
TOTAL POINTS - 325
5.3 Gimme FiveThe Dead Zone by Stephen King. (4 letters in last name)
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 60
Pages Read: 2,440
christinab5.7 Going Green
I read T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton on the Kindle app on my cell phone.
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 135
Total tasks completed: 8
Total books read: 9
Total pages read: 3929
Total GoodReads authors: 1
Total Big Books: 500+ (1) 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
10.3. Beware the Ides of March Read a book about, or set during, the time of the Roman Empire (44 BC to 476 AD) and having some connection to the Roman Empire. The book does not have to be set in Rome.
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
(pre-approved in task thread)
This Post: 10
Total Points: 260
Tasks Completed: 22/54
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Jennifer KS15.3 -- Earth Day
A: Reduce I read The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen
She is a Goodreads Author
B: Recycle Death of a Valentine by M. C. Beaton which I got from the library
Points this task 15
Total Points 270
Good reads Authors 8
Books read 24
Tasks complete 23
Pages 8324
Kate H15.3 Earth Day - A.Reduce - #5 on my TBR list The Highlander's Touch C. Recycle - borrowed from the library Rebellion
Pages: 354 & 395
Points: 15
30.1 Literature Map by Gender - My initial author was Becca Fitzpatrick
The Knife of Never Letting Go by: Patrick Ness & Tunnels **GOODREADS AUTHOR** Roderick Gordon
Pages: 479 & 472
Points: 30
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Points this Post: 45
Total points: 265
Total Pages:8555
GoodReads Authors: 8
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
Joy Marie10.5 It Takes Two
Read Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
Total Points: 110
Goodreads Authors: 1
15.9 In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lambi read The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for The Animals We Love
(jane is holding a baby chimp on the cover.) what a beautiful, important book. jane is a hero!Books Read: 21/69+
Points Completed: 345/910
Tasks Completed: 17/54
5.8 'Blow Your Stack'The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 525
Tasks Completed: 35
Books Read: 44
Goodreads Author Books: 5
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+(1)
Sandy MN20.6. Seasoned Reader. Kathryn CA's Task: Young Adult Series
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (Book 1 of the Mortal Instruments series)
***Cassandra Clare is a Goodreads Author***
Total Points: 345
Total GR Authors: 8
aka Metshaft20.3 Happy international womens day
I read Bunner Sisters - published in 1918 in the USA
new points = 20
Total 130
Task 15.7 - Lab lit
Heaven and Earth by Nora Roberts
Mac is a paranormal researcher; approved in help thread.
Task points = 15
Challenge total = 255
15.6 The Truth Is...I read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot after I read My Sister's Keeper and wondered about the genetics behind cancer and the issue of informed consent. Both of which are explored in HeLa.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 135
Books Read: 11
Tasks Completed: 12
Big Ticket Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Goodreads Authors:
Diane15.3 -- 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 - Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan.
C. Recycle Read a book you’ve been dying to read and then give it away - The Zahir by Paulo Coelho.
Paulo Coelho is a GOODREADS AUTHOR.
Points = 235
Erin B.5.9 - Shrimp on the Barbie
Forensic Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by David Canter
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 25
Heather KSFinished task 15.4 It's a Repeat. Both books I read have the word "grace" in the title. I checked before the challenge started and was told that subtitle counted. I read:
Experience Grace in Abundance: Ten Strategies for Your Spiritual Life and The God Of Second Chances Experiencing His Grace For The Rest Of Your Life
New point total: 85
M_ELLEREADS20.7: Shorter is Sweeter. Tami’s Task: Quips & Quotes
Divergent by Veronica Roth (Goodreads Author)
My Quote: "Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love. We have now organized what are modestly described as super-powers, which include groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together — surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power. We will hear much about treason and disloyalty. Rich nation-states will have to share their wealth with poor ones. But the choice, as H. G. Wells once said in a different context, is clearly the universe or nothing." — Carl Sagan
SPOILER!!: Not only does this quote have the word “Divergent” in it, but the nature of the quote also reflects the underlying topic of the book.
Task Points: 20
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 496
Total Goodreads Authors: 7
Total Accumulated Points: 110
30.4 Dlmrose's Task: Like I Needed an Excuse.......A. Read a non-fiction book about an interest or activity you would pursue instead of housework.
Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life by Stephanie Staal
B. Since the spring cleaning needs to be done anyway, read a book prominently featuring a domestic worker: cleaning lady, housekeeper, maid, governess, nanny, butler, chauffeur, household cook, dog walker, laundress, nursemaid, etc.
Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky
Marie is a nanny (book was pre-approved in task thread).
This Post: 30
Total Points: 290
Tasks Completed: 22/54
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Michelle WI30.3 Yours, Mine and Ours
A. the word "my" in the title - My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
B. step-brother/sister relationship - Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 185
5.8 Blow Your StackCatching Fire by Suzanne Collins
This book was added to my TBR list on 9/26/2010
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 240
Tasks Completed: 16
Pages Read: 8315
Books Read: 23
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Kimber15.4
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
TOM FRANKLIN IS A GOODREADS AUTHOR
This task: 15
Total Tasks completed: 17
Total points: 245
GR Authors: 7
Big Book: 1/500+, 1/750+
I thought I posted this one, but I cannot find it - sorry if I've made a repeat!Readerboard Name: Kimber
15.10 Spring Break
Hide by Lisa Gardner
This task: 15
Total tasks completed: 17
Total points: 250
GR authors: 7
Big book: 1/500+, 1/750+
MASANOBU5.10 KIA ORA
I've read The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin, which was originally written in Russian. My native language is Spanish.
Total points: 20+5 = 25
30.2. Sheila's Task: Sheila’s Guilty Pleasures City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare**
Kris Allen's last name allen falls within Fallen
River Marked by Patricia Briggs
Mark Ballas' first name mark falls within Marked
**Cassandra Clare is a Goodreads Author
Total Points to Date: 515
Spring Cleaning15.4 Historical Fiction - The Help by Kathryn Stockett
15.5 Supernatural - Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
20.10 Potent Potables - Heat Wave by Richard Castle
Points This Task: 50
Tasks Completed: 9
Total Points: 140
Books Read: 9
For 25.3. Mrs. Soule's Task: A Better World, I read Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier (one of the main characters, Bear, is a Cherokee spiritual leader), and No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process by Colin BeavanBooks read: 4
Challenges completed: 3
Points : 65
Joanna TTask 15.7 Lab Lit
Mary Modern by Camille DeAngelis
The main character is a geneticist who works in a lab and has a lab in her basement. The book involves cloning.
Grand total: 185
5.1 - Waltzing MatildaKitty and the Dead Man's Hand by Carrie Vaughn, a Goodreads author.
Hand Dance
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10.4 - Elementary, my dear Watson
Naked in Death by JD Robb
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15.8 - From a Different Perspective
Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot
Format: epistolary
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15.10 - Spring Break
To Tame a Highland Warrior by Karen Marie Moning
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20.5 - Bigger is Better. Rachel Renee's Task: Alliterative Authors Association
Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night by Kresley Cole
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30.4 Dlmrose's Task: Like I Needed an Excuse.......
1: Speed Knitting: 24 Quick and Easy Projects by Kris Percival
I definitely prefer knitting to housework. :)
2: The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
Position: Housekeeper
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Points Claiming: 95
Total Points: 205
STACIE MITask 15.10 - Spring Break
I decided to read Goodnight Tweetheart by Teresa Medeiros, who is a Goodreads author!
Points this task: 15
Total points: 245
Tasks completed: 17
Books read: 20
Pages read: 5280
Goodreads authors: 6
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Kathleen FL20.1 : Lassiez Les Bon Temps Rouler! :
Outside the Dog Museum by Jonathan Carroll
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 225
Goodreads Author Books: 1
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
15.2 BLURB IT - A. Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand by Carrie Vaughn
***GR Author***
This book had a blurb in it by Charlaine Harris.
B.
Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris
20.3 HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough who is from Australia.
***Big Book Read 1076pgs***
25.4 SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY MASTERS -
A. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey a Damon Knight Award Winner
B.
Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub who is a World Fantasy Award Winner
***GR Author***
30.2 GUILTY PLEASURES -
A. Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn using Carrie Underwood.
***GR Author***
B. Killing Kelly by Heather Graham using Kelly Clarkson
Points: 90
Tasks: 4
Books: 7
Pages: 3,039
GR Authors: 3
Big Books 1000+: 1
Total Points: 550
Total Tasks: 33
Total Books: 45
Total Pages: 18,119
GR Authors: 8
Big Books: 500+: 4
Big Books 1000+: 2
BJ Rose3 new tasks
15.8 -- From a Different Perspective this is from a dog's perspective
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Garth Stein is a GoodReads author
15.9 -- In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb horse on the cover
Surrender to a Wicked Spy by Celeste Bradley20.9. Laurie's Task thief, murder, crime, criminal, exile, convict, robber or stolen
A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
Total Points = 480
Tasks Completed = 33
Total Pages = 12,407
GoodReads Authors = 5
Big Books (500+) = 1
ERIN C.10.8 Come on, Eat Your Spinach
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Task Points: 10
Grand Total: 125
Total Tasks Completed: 17
Total GoodReads Authors: 0
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (1)
ERIN C.10.4 Elementary, My Dear Watson
Borrower of the Night by Elizabeth Peters
Task Points: 10
Grand Total: 135
Total Tasks Completed: 18
Total GoodReads Authors: 0
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (1)
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter. Tami's task: Quips and QuotesThis is one of the quotes I keep on a post-it stuck to my wall at work because any opportunity to think about my daughter offers and instant mood boost!
"A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional and forever." - unknown
So I read -
The Warlord Wants Forever by Kresley Cole
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Points Claiming: 20
Total Points: 225
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10.9. No Lawyer Jokes!
The Insider by Reece Hirsch (Goodreads Author)
The main character is a lawyer at a corporate firm.
This Post: 10
Total Points: 140
Tasks Completed: 8
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)