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SPRING CHALLENGE 2011: AUSTRALIA
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Spring Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS)
5.4 Fan Club: Jennifer Barnes is an author I really likehttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
I used Angela’s 5 star book. (Us Angelas have to stick together!)
My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent
15.3 -- Earth Day
Option B: Sold by Patricia McCormick
Option C: Artichoke's Heart by Suzanne Supplee (giving to a friend)
Total Points: 270
Tasks Completed: 16
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I read You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You
15.6 -- The Truth Is...
For the winter challenge, I read the novel The Quiet American, about a foreign correspondent in Vietnam.
To follow up on this, I read Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper
Total points: 455
Angela NY10.2. Say what?
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
This Post: 10
Total Points: 150
Tasks Completed: 9
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Task 5.6 - Water, Water EverywhereBook with water on the Cover
The Piano Tunerby Daniel Mason
Points This Task: 5
Points to Date: 70
Task 30.6 - Myth-behaving Greeks
I rolled a 4 and a 2
A) the word "bones" in the title
Break No Bonesby Kathy Reichs
B) a romance
Harvesting the Heartby Jodi Picoult
Points this task: 30
Total Points to Date: 100
15.10 Spring BreakDead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
This Post: 15
Total Points: 205
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 18
Goodreads Authors: 1 (Elle Amery)
Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
BJ Rose3 new tasks
5.3 Read a book by an author whose last name is five letters or less
Into Temptation by Kathryn Smith
Kathryn Smith is a GoodReads author
10.8. Name of a fruit or vegetable in title, or fruit or vegetable on cover.
Key Lime Pie Murder
by Joanne Fluke has fruit in title and fruit on cover15.2 -- Blurb It
A. Don't Tempt Me by Loretta Chase has the following blurb by Stephanie Laurens: "Wickedly witty, warm, and engaging" so I read
B. The Brazen Bride by Stephanie Laurens
Total Points = 550
Tasks Completed = 38
Total Pages = 14,895
GoodReads Authors = 6
Big Books (500+) = 2
Sandy wrote: "15.8 -- From a Different PerspectiveI read A Visit from the Goon Squad. Each chapter is told by a different character (and one is told in powerpoint slides!)
20.8. It's My Bi..."
Wasn't A Visit Fron the Goon Squad hilarious???
15.2 Blurb ItGideon's Sword by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child and 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
Gideon's Sword has blurb written by Kathy Reichs on the back cover.
Tasks completed: 7
Total Points: 120 points
Books read: 9
Kimber5.1 Waltzing Matilda
The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
Dance = Rain Dance (Rain in title)
This task: 5
Tasks complete: 19
Total points: 270
15.5 -- Award MeRoom
Man Booker 2010 Shortlist
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/priz...
Task Points: 15
Total Points: 70
Jayme(the ghostreader)I completed task 10.5 It Takes Two-two word title. I read "Breaking Night" by Liz Murrary
Tasks Completed 14
Books Read: 17
GR Authors: 1, (Neal Shusterman)
Big Books: 0
Grand Total: 205
15.5 -- Award Me
Read a Man Booker Prize winner or one of the nominees from any of the years this prize has been awarded.
I read a book shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1986:
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) by Kazuo Ishiguro (Paperback, 208 pages)
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/priz...
155 + 15 = 170
Tasks Completed: 11
Points for this task: 15
Points thus far: 155 + 15 = 170
Books read: 13
Pages Read: 3909
Read but not claimed: 9
Goodreads Authors: 2
MG5.3 Gimme Five Death In Holy Orders by P.D. James
25. 2 Sandy's Task: Your Bucket List: My bucket list is the 1001 books to read list and I read two books from that list. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells & The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
30.1. Cheryl's Task: Literature Map By Gender When The Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman & Chasing the Bear by Robert B. Parker. I had entered the author Lee Child and chose two male authors (I am female) that I have not read before.
Task 30.7. Diane's Task: Title Connections Option B: Run by Blake Crouch and Hit and Run by Lawrence Block
Points This Task: 90
Total Points:195
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 16
GoodReads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
AMBER MARIE
5.9 Shrimp on the Barbie
I read Hunger by Jackie Kessler, which is 177 pages.
15.8 -- From a Different Perspective by
I read Plague by Michael Grant.
The book cycles through different points of view, sometimes multiple times a chapter.
Jackie Kessler and Michael Grant are both Goodreads Authors!
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 230
Total GoodReads Authors: 7
Total Big Books: 500+ (3) 700+(0) 1000+(0)
5.9 Shrimp on the Barbie
I read Hunger by Jackie Kessler, which is 177 pages.
15.8 -- From a Different Perspective by
I read Plague by Michael Grant.
The book cycles through different points of view, sometimes multiple times a chapter.
Jackie Kessler and Michael Grant are both Goodreads Authors!
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 230
Total GoodReads Authors: 7
Total Big Books: 500+ (3) 700+(0) 1000+(0)
Task 30.7 - Title ConnectionsMargaret's PeaceLinda Hall
Peace Like a RiverLeif Enger
Points this task: 30
Total Points to date: 130
50.1. MsOPP (Julie)'s Task: "I Need to Know What Happens Next!"Bride Quarter
Bed of Roses (book 2) by Nora Roberts 4/22/11
Savor the Moment (book 3) by Nora Roberts 4/22/11
Happy Ever After (book 4) by Nora Roberts 4/22/11
Total This Post: 50
Completed Tasks: 33
Total Points to Date: 540
Goodreads Authors: 10
Big Books: 500+ (5), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
Jen UT5.6 - Water, Water, Everywhere
The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket
Total Points: 65
Total Books: 7
Total Tasks: 6
Joy Marie20.5 Alliterative Authors Association
Read Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Goodreads Authors: 2
Total Points: 150
Readerboard Name: PAPERPILLS#5.9 – Shrimp on a Barbie
Mister Wonderful by Daniel Clowes
Mister Wonderful is an 80-page graphic novel.
#15.10 – Spring Break
The Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport
Read during spring break week in Hawaii!
#20.3 – Happy International Women's Day!
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht.
Téa Obreht was born in Belgrade in the former Yoguslavia. (I live in the US.)
This post: 40 points
Total to date: 40 points
Janice CA15.9 In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb........
Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism
byDawn Prince-Hughes
3.5 stars
This book interwove three interesting subjects: anthropology, great ape conservation, and the workings of an autistic mind. Very unique.
+15
total: 145
tasks: 8
books: 10
25.6 It's All About Australia and OceaniaFor 2, I read a book whose author's initials are contained in the word Australia. I read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
For 3, I read a book whose title contains the word 'back.' I read The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 200
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Heather KSFinished task 10.5 It Takes Two
I read We Worship: A Guide To The Catholic Mass. The subtitle obviously doesn't count in the 2 word title. :)
New point total: 95
20.5 Alliterative Authors AssociationNevermore by Kelly Creagh
Kelly Creagh is a goodreads author
Nevermore is a big book, 543 pages
Total points this post: 20
Total Points: 325
Tasks Completed: 21
Pages Read: 10335
Books Read: 28
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Books: 500+(4), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Heather KSFinished task 15.10 Spring Break-read whatever you want (LOVE this task!)
I read Parenting Teens With Love And Logic
New point total: 110
And now that Lent is over, I can start reading FICTION again! Whoo hoo!!!
**5.2 Circle of Friends**River Marked 4/18/11
**10.1 Sing Out:**
In the Blood 4/21/11
Main male character is the singer in a rock band.
**Goodreads Author: Adrian Phoenix**
**15.4 -- It's a Repeat:**
B. Read two books that have the same word in the title
The Vampire Voss4/10/11
**GR author**Colleen Gleason
Vampire, Interrupted 4/23/11
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Points this post: 30
Total Points: 345
Tasks Completed: 22 (3 in this post)
Books Read: 29 (4 in this post)
GoodReads Authors: 14 (2 in this post)
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
5.2 Circle of Friends 
by J.K. Rowling (652 pgs) ***Big Book***Points for this Task: 5
Total Points: 35
Completed Tasks: 5.2, 30.6
Tasks in Progress: 10.6, 20.10, 50.1
Goodreads Authors: 1 (Cassandra Clare)
Big Books: 500+(1) 750+() 1000+()
Last Point 1511
5.8 Blow Your Stack
Angels' Blood - added in May 2010 - Nalini Singh (GR Author)
10.1. Sing Out
Bel Canto - Main character is an opera singer
25.5. Gayla's Task: March Madness
A. The News from Paraguay - 2005
B. Next - 2011
30.1. Cheryl's Task: Literature Map By Gender
Kathy Reichs
A. Rules of Prey
B. Faceless Killers
30.6 Melanie's Task: Myth-behaving Greeks
A. (4. Hades) Lover Unleashed one of the main characters featured is a ghost, the antagonists are reincarnated individuals - similar to vampires)
B. (5. Socrates) The Dirty Dozen – in light of the recent Westboro Baptist case, I decided I wanted to learn more about significant cases that the Supreme Court has decided on -
Total Points This Post: 100
Total Points in Challenge: 740
Books Read: 60
Tasks Completed: 47
GR Authors: 24
Big Book Tickets: 500+(3); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
Previous Tasks Completed:
5.1;5.2;5.3;5.4;5.5;5.6;5.7;5.9;5.10
10.2;10.3;10.4;10.5;10.8;10.9;10.10
15 pointers - DONE
20.1;20.2;20.4;20.5;20.6;20.7;20.8;20.9;20.10
25.2;25.3;25.6
30.2;30.3;30.5;30.7
BLUEMOONI would like to move a book please.
20.3 - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - I previously used The Violin of Auschwitz: A Novel. I would like to replace that with The Tent by Margaret Atwood.
Margaret Atwood is a GoodReads author.
TOTAL POINT - 325
BLUEMOON5.10 - KIA ORA - The Violin of Auschwitz: A Novel which was originally published in Spanish. I speak English.
15.6 - THE TRUTH IS - My Father I chose this book as I have read alot about the fall of Nicholas and Alexandra and wanted to know more about the mysterious monk. I was disappointed as this didn't really focus on Rasputin but more on the politics involved during that time.
20.2 - RANDOM WORDS - My random words were race, railway, bar, spade, and DICTIONARY. I read A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: A Novel.
30.3 - YOURS, MINE, OURS - I read My Life on A Plate and Grave Sight about a sister and her 1/2 brother.
TOTAL POINTS - 395
Task 20.6 - Young Adult Series
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (465 pages)
Task points = 20
Challenge total = 275
30.7 - Title ConnectionsOption A
The Mahatma and the Hare by H. Rider Haggard
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Total points to date 355
30.7 - Title Connections Option A The Mahatma and the Hare by H. Rider Haggard
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal
Total points to date 355
30.6 Book A - Rolled a 3 - The Pirate And The Puritan by Mary ClaytonBook B - Rolled a 1 - Night Road by Kristin Hannah
Total Points: 180
Sorry - don't seem to know what I'm doing! I didn't mean to post that twice!
TANYAPT20.3 Best Review Contest. Read a book 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.
BooK: Tide Running by Oonya Kempadoo (born in England, raised in Guyana - I was born in Jamaica).
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 155
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 8
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
15.5 - "Award Me" - Read The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. This was the Booker prize winner from 1997. I love this task! This is my favorite literature award. I love reading the books nominated and those that won.25.6 - " Jennifer N's Task: It’s All About Australia and Oceania"
Book A - I first chose option 4, reading a book set in Australia or Oceania. Read Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation by Margaret Mead. Obviously, this book was set in Samoa in the western Pacific.
Book B - Next choice was #5, a book by an Australian (or other Oceanic country) author. Read The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. Kate Morton is from Australia.
The Forgotten Garden was over 600 pages so I claim one big book ticket.
Points for above tasks: 40
Tasks above completed: 2
Total tasks completed: 10/54
Points completed: 130/910
Books read & claimed: 12
Books by Goodreads authors: 2
Big Books: 1 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)
20.6 Young Adult SeriesAngelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton (453 pages)
** Courtney Allison Moulton is a Goodreads author **
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 405/910
Tasks Completed: 27
Books Read: 33
Goodreads Authors: 9
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(2), 1000+(0)
20.7 'Quips and Quotes'"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell.
The Telling by Eden Winters
(ebook approved for length in the ebook thread)
As well as both containing the word "telling", this book is related to the subject of the quote in that it's partly about telling the the truth in terms of coming out as gay.
* Eden Winters is a Goodreads Author *
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 550
Tasks Completed: 36
Books Read: 46
Goodreads Author Books: 6
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+(1)
Nickboy.30.1 Literature Map – Since I am reading three books by Australian author Peter Carey for this challenge, I put in his name and came up with Australian lady authors a)Kate Grenville and b) Shirley Hazzard. I read:
a) Dark Places by Kate Grenville, 384 pages, and
b) Greene on Capri: A Memoir by Shirley Hazzard 160 pages
30.3 Yours Mine and Ours a) “My” in title – Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou 192 pages
b) step-family -- Smoke by William Corbin, a YA book about a boy's rocky relationship with his stepfather which is salved when his stepfather entrusts him to care for a foundling dog. 254 pages
Task Points: 60
Total Points: 530/910
Tasks Completed: 32
Books Read: 43
Pages Read: 12,204
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (3)
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One of my favorite quotes, and one that I think is important to try to live by is from Abraham Lincoln:
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
In keeping with this quote, I read The Happiness Project. She was essentially living out this quote - making up her mind to make changes in her actions and attitudes that would make her and those around her happier.
25.2. Sandy's Task: Your Bucket List
A. Most of the items on my own bucket list involve travel and going to places I've never been. One of the places I really want to visit is Australia, so I read In a Sunburned Country. After reading this, I want to go there even more!
B. From the "1001 Books" list, I read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
Total points: 500
First, I would like to make a switch:10.4. Elementary, my dear Watson:
I would like to use:
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Like many others, I will be moving my original book:
The Kalahari Typing School for Men to the 50 Point Task.
0 Points
Now the new task claims:
20.10 Group Read
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
My post is #41.
+20
25.2. Sandy’s Task: Your Bucket List
A. This book fits my bucket list in two ways:
1} I want to go to Venice someday and
2} I'm trying to catch up with some classics I've missed and Wilkie Collins is an author I'm trying to catch up on.
The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
B. 1001 Books List:
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
+25
Points this Post: 25+20=45
Grand Total: 425
10.4. Elementary, my dear Watson: Somebody Killed His Editor
Holmes, a mystery writer, is an amateur detective that tries to solve a double murder at a mystery writer's retreat. He is aided by Moriarity, an ex-lover and an ex-cop.
Josh Lanyon is a **GOODREADS AUTHOR**
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 860
Tasks Completed: 53
Books Read: 68
Goodreads Authors: 19
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
25.6. Jennifer N's Task: It’s All About Australia and OceaniaOption 1: Ill Wind by Rachel Caine.
The main character can manipulate the weather.
Option 5: Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh
Nalini Singh (Goodreads author) is from New Zealand.
30.4 Dlmrose's Task: Like I Needed an Excuse.......
Part A: Origami Handbook The Classic Art of Paperfolding in Step by Step Contemporary Projects by Rick Beech
I recently watched a documentary on origami and it got me itching to try some out, but it seemed so frivolous when I had housework to do. So thanks for the excuse Dlmrose!
Part B: To Live & Die in Dixie by Kathy Hogan Trocheck.
The main character in the book owns a housecleaning business.
30.6 Melanie's Task: Myth-behaving Greeks
Rolled 4: House of Cards by C.E. Murphy.
One of the main characters is a vampire.
Rolled 2: The Wish List by Gabi Stevens (Goodreads author).
This is a paranormal romance story.
Total Points This Post: 85
Total Tasks This Post: 3
Goodreads Authors This Post: 2
Grand Total Points: 440/960
Total Books Read: 34
Tasks Completed: 27/54
Total Goodreads Authors: 11
Big Book Tickets This Post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Readerboard Name: Jana5.3 Gimme Five
Marked by P.C. Cast
10.2 Say What?
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
10.5 It Takes Two
For Keeps by Natasha Friend
10.6 Respect Your Elders
Night by Elie Wiesel
This book was originally published in 1958.
Points this Post: 35
Total Points: 35
Total Tasks Completed: 4
Total Books Read: 4
Total Pages Read: 981
Total GoodReads Authors: 0
Total Big Books: 500 (0); 750 (0); 1000 (0)
Readerboard Name: Jana10.10 Final Frontier
The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter
This is a romantic fantasy.
15.10 Spring Break
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons
**THIS IS A GOODREADS AUTHOR**
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 60
Total Tasks Completed: 6
Total Books Read: 6
Total Pages Read: 1675
Total GoodReads Authors: 1
Total Big Books: 500 (0); 750 (0); 1000 (0)
15.3 -- Earth DayA. Reduce: The Covenant
B. Reuse: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Task Points: 15
Total Points: 85
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My Goal Points for this Season: 225
Points earned for this task: 5
Points Achieved to date: 180
Updated last on: 4.23
Total # of books read: 15
Total # of pages read: 5,119
Total # of tasks completed: 13
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 4
Total # of Big Books: 500+ (1)
Task 5.3 Gimme Five....Read a book by an author whose last name is five or fewer letters.
I read
This author is a Goodreads Author.