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SPRING CHALLENGE 2011: AUSTRALIA
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Spring Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS)
15.2 -- Blurb ItFor this task, read one book that has a blurb from another author on it.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Jon Meacham provides a blurb that appears on the back cover of this book.
AND
Read a book by the author that provided the blurb
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
This Post: 15
Total Points: 485
Tasks Completed: 36/54
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
Task 10.10 - The Final Frontier
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
Task points = 10
Challenge total = 365
Diane30.4 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- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (mountain-climbing)
AND
B. Read a book prominently featuring a domestic worker: The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
Points: 435
Mod
30.1 Literature Map used Maria V Snyder and came up with James Dashner and Herbie Brennan
read The Maze Runnerby James Dashner and Faerie Warsby Herbie Brennan
James Dashner is a goodreads author
30.2 Sheila's Guilty Pleasures chose Emmitt Smith and Carrie Underwood
read Tantalizeby Cynthia Leitich Smith
and Captivateby Carrie Jones
Carrie Jones is a Goodreads author
Points this task 70
Total points 715/910
Tasks Completed: 38/54
Books read: 50/71
Total pages: 15,035
GR Authors: 18
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Erin B.20.5. Bigger is Better. Rachel Renee's Task: Alliterative Authors Association
Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder by Rachel Reiland
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 45
Christinab30.5. Delicious Dee's task: “All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, or a book”
My birthday falls on the 20th of the month, so I read a book from the following members' "read" shelves:
Shannon South Africa 20-Apr
Stacie MI 20-Mar
I read Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn from Shannon's list, and If I Stay by Gayle Forman from Stacie's list.
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 250
Total tasks completed: 12
Total books read: 17
Total pages read: 6434
Total GoodReads authors: 4
Total Big Books: 500+ (2) 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
Alice GTask: 30.6
Dice Roll: 1 and 5
Book A: 1 - The Red Queen
Book B: 5 - Wonders of the Universe
Total points: 235
Previous Reads:
5.9 Shrimp on the Barbie - The Humbling by Philip Roth
10.1 Sing Out - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
10.2 Say What? - The Dog who came in from the Cold by Alexander McCall Smith
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
20.9 - Lucky Me - Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
20.10 Group Read - I am Number Four by Pitticus Lore
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
30.7 Title Connections - Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively and Tiger Hills
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Lisa MDCOMPLETED TASKS:
5.10 Kia Ora:
book originally written in a language that is not your native language - Korean
❀Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin READ 5.7.11
15.4 It's a Repeat
word in the title that repeats or two books that have the same word in the title
❀By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan READ 5.8.11
GOODREADS AUTHOR
25.6. Jennifer N's Task: It’s All About Australia and Oceania
A. weather or a natural disaster has a significant impact on the plot or where one of the main characters works outdoors
❀Nocturne by Syrie James (weather-blizzard) READ 4.10.11
GOODREADS AUTHOR
B. author initials in the word AUSTRALIA
❀Peony in Love by Lisa See (author initials) READ 5.9.11
GOODREADS AUTHOR
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COMPLETED TASKS: 35/54
TOTAL POINTS: 630/910
BOOKS READ: 47/71
GOODREAD AUTHORS: 15
BIG BOOKS: 500 pp. [ ✔ ✔ ] 750 pp. [ ✔ ] 1000 pp. [ ]
Jess PhillyAdding 2 more tasks:
5.7 Going Green
I borrowed Sizzling Sixteen from the library.
20.9 Lucky Me
I completed this challenge with The Book Thief, which obviously has the word thief in its title. It is also over 500 pages (550 in my version), so I am claiming a big books ticket.
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 175
Book books: 500+(2)
20.4 Author, Author. Tracyj's Task: The Royal Wedding We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg
Total Points = 340
Jennifer KS15.4 -- It's a Repeat
A- I read Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by Tom Franklin a Good reads author
Points this task 15
Total points 350
Good reads authors 12
Books read 31
Tasks done 30
Pages 10558
AMBER MARIE
10.5. It Takes Two
The Fallen: Volume 2 by Thomas E. Sniegoski
Claiming Big Book ticket! The Fallen is 576 pages.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 275
Total GoodReads Authors: 9
Total Big Books: 500+ (4) 700+(0) 1000+(0)
10.5. It Takes Two
The Fallen: Volume 2 by Thomas E. Sniegoski
Claiming Big Book ticket! The Fallen is 576 pages.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 275
Total GoodReads Authors: 9
Total Big Books: 500+ (4) 700+(0) 1000+(0)
5.10 Kia Ora - written in other languageInkspell by Cornelia Funke
This was also a Big book ticket since it was 650 pages.
20.2 Random Words
MY word included "pain" as in A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen.
20.8 The Night I Was Born
For a book made into a Miniseries, I read The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham.
20.9 Lucky Me
I read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky because it contained the word 'crime.'
25.5 Tournament of Books
I read The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart and Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann.
30.2 Guilty Pleasures
Read Die Trying by Lee Child which at 565 pages is eligible for a Big book ticket and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.
This post: 120 points
2 Big Books
Total to Date = 300 points.
Books Read: 22
GR Authors: 2
Big Books: 3 (500+)
Michelle WI50.1 "I Have to Know What Happens Next!"
Books 2, 3 and 4 of the Myron Bolitar Series
Drop Shot by Harlan Coben
Fade Away by Harlan Coben
Back Spin by Harlan Coben
Points this Task: 50
Total Points: 235
KAREN OZTask 15.2 -- Blurb It
Inside Out by Maria V Snyder*
AND
Ill Wind Weather Warden 1 by Rachel Caine
*GR Author
Total this post: 15 points
Total to date: 435 points
Kimber30.2 Sheila's Guilty Pleasures
The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
for DWTS Kelly Monaco
and
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
**Sarah Addison Allen is a Goodreads Author
for AI Kris Allen
This task: 30
Tasks completed: 21
Total points: 315
Goodread authors: 8
Big Book: 1/500+, 1/750+
20.3I read The Thief Lordby Cornelia Funke who is from Germany. (I am from the US)
points this post: 20
total points: 165
STESSE5.2 Circle of Friends
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Points this Post: 5
Tasks Completed this Post: 1
Books Read this Post: 1
Pages Read this Post: 558
GoodReads Authors this Post:
Big Books this Post: 500+(1)
Total Points: 635
Total Tasks Completed: 40
Total Books Read: 51
Total Pages Read: 18286
Total GoodReads Authors: 13
Total Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (2), 1000+ (0)
Kate C.I'm moving The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis from 15.10 to 50.1. 15.10 is now empty.
Finished 50.1 - "I Need to Know What Happens Next!"
I read the last 3 books in The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
Finished 30.6 - Myth-behaving Greeks
I rolled a 5 for Book A and a 4 for Book B
Book A: Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
For the last 2/3 of the book, the main character Thomas Hudson is in the military commanding an anti-submarine boat.
Book B: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Total Points: 175
NICOLE AR-5.7--Going Green
For this task, I read "The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost" by Rachel Friedman
I bought the book at a local second-hand bookstore.
Points for this task: 5
Total Points: 90
5.7 Going Green: Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments by Celia Rivenbark (obtained via Paperbackswap.com)10.10 The Final Frontiers: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
15.10 Spring Break: A Total Waste of Makeup by Kim Gruenenfelder
20.5 Alliterative Authors Association: The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan for Rapid Results by Mike Moreno
20.6 Young Adult Series: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld {425 pgs}
Points This Post: 70
Total Points: 70
Task Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
GR Authors: 0
5.3 Gimme FiveHaunted by Meg Cabot
5.7 Going Green
Twilight by Meg Cabot - library book
15.3 Earth Day
Reduce: Soulless by Gail Carriger
Gail Carriger is a GR author.
Recycle: The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
500+ pages - Big Book Ticket
20.3 International Women's Day
The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer - pub. 1921, from England
Points this post: 45
Total points: 635
GR Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+(5), 750+(0), 1000+(1)
Jen UT15.10 - Spring Break
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography by Lemony Snicket
Total Points: 95
Total Books: 10
Total Tasks: 9
I would like to start by removing some points in order to move books around.Please remove my points for
10.8 – The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
25.5 – Savages and Room
25.6 – Branded by Fire and Impetuous Innocent
- 60 points
Now I would like to claim some tasks
5.9 – Shrimp on the Barbie
The Bride's Baby by Liz Fielding
This book was 192 pages long
10.7 – Kuddle a Koala
Impetuous Innocent by Stephanie Laurens
Stephanie Laurens is Australian.
10.8 – Eat Your Spinach
by Stephanie MeyerThere is a picture of an apple on the cover.
15.4 – It’s a Repeat
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin**
**Tom Franklin is a Goodreads Author.
15.5 – Award Me
Room by Emma Donoghue
Room was nominated for the Man Booker Award.
25.5 – March Madness
Savages by Don Winslow
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Both books are from the 2011 Tournament of Books List.
25.6 – All About Australia
Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh
Nalini Singh is from New Zealand.
Dancing In The Moonlight (Cowboys of Cold Creek, #2) by RaeAnne Thayne
R and T are in AUSTRALIA.
Total Points to Date: 825 (780 – 60 + 105)
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter. Tami's task: Quips and Quotes Quote: "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -Oscar Wilde
I read Nothing Can Keep Us Together by Cecily von Ziegesar
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 155
Mod
Foundlingby D.M. Cornish which is from australia and is a goodreads author
Points this task 10
Total points 725/910
Tasks Completed: 39/54
Books read: 52/71
Total pages: 15,345
GR Authors: 19
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
15.6 -- The Truth Is...For this task, choose a novel that contained a topic you'd like to know more about and read a non-fiction book about this topic.
The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander
The novel that inspired this choice was Achilles: A Novel by Elizabeth Cook. And also, of course, the Iliad, but that isn't really a novel.
This Post: 15
Total Points: 500
Tasks Completed: 37/54
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
30.6 - Myth Behaving GreeksHera: Gods Behaving Badly - Marie Phillips
*all Greek Gods living in the same house and their family dynamics lead to shenanigans!*
Homer: City at World's End - Edmond Hamilton
*written in 1951, it discusses a 1950s town being transported in time to the end of the world, thousands of years later*
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 270
Tasks Completed: 19
Books Read: 19
GoodReads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.6 - Young Adult SeriesThe Secrets of Vesuvius by Caroline Lawrence 192 pages
The Assassins of Rome by Caroline Lawrence 209 pages
Total points to date 605
5.8 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.The Last Concubine - Lesley Downer - Added 2009 x
Task 20.5 - Alliterative Authors Association
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Task points = 20
Challenge total = 385
MANDY Y.15.3 -- Earth Day
A. Reduce: Coralineby Neil Gaiman(Goodreads Author)
B. Reuse: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Task Points: 15
Grand Total: 520
Tasks Completed: 26
Books Read: 36
Pages Read: 10,489
Goodreads Author Books: 5
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
MANDY Y.20.5. Bigger is Better. Rachel Renee's Task: Alliterative Authors Association
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Task Points: 20
Grand Total: 540
Tasks Completed: 27
Books Read: 37
Pages Read: 10,930
Goodreads Author Books: 5
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
10.3 The Ides of March by Thorton Wilder15.9 The Cat Who Turned On and Off by Lillian Jackson Braun
20.6 A World Without Heroes by BRandon Mull pages 464
30.3 Oh, My Gods by Tera Lynn Childs and Undead and Unappreciated by MaryJanice Davidson main character finds out she has a half sister
30.6 Book A-rolled a 4 Hades: Undead and Unreturnable by MaryJanice Davidson
Book B-rolled a 2 Sappho: 44 Charles Street by Danielle Steel
Total points: 520
30.2- Sheila's Guilty PleasuresI read The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen for Kris Allen and 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson for Kym Johnson.
Points for this task- 30
Total Points- 450
Goodreads Authors- 3
Tasks Completed- 29
20.9 Lucky Me: Devil's Food Cake Murder by Joanne FlukePoints This Post: 20
Total Points: 90
Task Completed: 6
Books Read: 6
GR Authors: 0
20.6: YA that is part of a series over 400 pagesI read City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Grand Total= 270
5.6 Water, Water, Everywhere Moon Over Water by Debbie Macomber
Points this Post: 5
Tasks Completed this Post: 1
Books Read this Post: 1
Pages Read this Post: 378
Total Points: 640
Total Tasks Completed: 41
Total Books Read: 52
Total Pages Read: 18664
Total GoodReads Authors: 13
Total Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (2), 1000+ (0)
25.6 It's All About Australia and Oceania2. Double Fault by Lionel Shriver - 320 pages
"LS" (author's initials) are in the word AUSTRALIA
5. Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? by Peter Walsh
Author was born and raised in Australia.
30.2 - Sheila’s Guilty Pleasures
1. Book from American Idol list:
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly - 340 pages
For Kelly Clarkson
2. Book from Dancing with the Stars list:
Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner, a Goodreads Author - 384 pages
For Jennifer Grey.
Points This Post: 55
Total Points: 495
Total Tasks Completed: 31
Total Books Read: 40
Total Pages Read: 12,114
Total Goodreads Authors: 8
Total Big Books: 500(3);750(0);1000+(0)
25.2- Your Bucket ListA. On my "bucket list" would be to travel to Australia. I read Lights, Camera...Kiss the Boss by Nikki Logan. This book takes place in Australia, and the setting is decribed beautifully and makes me want to go to Australia even more!
B. On the list of 1001 Books To Read Before You Die, I read The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Points for this task- 25
Total Points- 475
Goodreads Authors- 3
Tasks Completed- 30
BRENDA MO25.1. Coralie's Task:In my Backyard
e. Sports (football)
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to The Blind Side and Beyond by Michael Oher
i. Television (MSNBC)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Points: 25
Total Points: 555
Erin NY20.3 Book by a woman author from another country
Fall for Anything by Courtney Summers
- Courtney Summers lives in Canada
* Courtney Summers is a goodreads author
Total: 175
Tasks Completed: 10
Tasks in Progress: 3
Books Read: 15
Pages Read: 4876
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneMy Goal Points for this Season: 225
Points earned for this task: 20
Points Achieved to date: 295
Updated last on: 5.11
Total # of books read: 24
Total # of pages read: 8,239
Total # of tasks completed: 19
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 6
Total # of Big Books: 500+ (1)
Task 20.1 Author, Author: Royal Wedding...Read a book written by an author whose first name is one of Catherine Elizabeth Middleton's names.
I read
by Elizabeth Peters; The Camelot Caper 308 pages (5.10)
Readerboard Name= Lindy-Lane My Goal Points for this Season: 225
Points earned for this task: 10
Points Achieved to date: 305
Updated last on: 5.11
Total # of books read: 25
Total # of pages read: 8,541
Total # of tasks completed: 20
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 6
Total # of Big Books: 500+ (1)
Task 10.2 Say What?... Read a book that has "who, what, when, where, why or how" in the title.
I read
Me, Myself, and Why? by MaryJanice Davidson 302 pages (5.11)
Task #10.10 - The Final Frontiers - read a fantasy or science fiction bookWarm Bodies by Isaac Marion
This post:10 points
Total to Date = 250 points
Task: 20.10 Group Read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Post number 35 in discussion.
Points This Post: 20
Total points:195
Total Tasks Completed: 15
Total Books Read: 17
Total Pages Read: 4548
Total GoodReads Authors: 5
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Task Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 17
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Total Points: 265