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Spring Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS)
15.9 In Like a Lion, Out Like a LambBoiling a Frog by Christopher Brookmyre
This Post: 15
Total Points: 290
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 23
Goodreads Authors: 1 (Elle Amery)
Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
15.3 Earth DayReuse: Blind Alley by Iris Johansen
(wanted to read this for Task 25.1 of the Winter 2010-2011 Challenge)
Recycle: Blood Game by Iris Johansen
(borrowed from the library)
Total points: 295
15.10 Spring BreakOpen and Shut by David Rosenfelt
Task Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 18
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Total Points: 280
I've got two more10.1 Sing Out
The Mozart Conspiracy by Scott Mariani - female MC is an opera singer.
20.4 The Royal Wedding - book title contains royal, wedding, prince, princess, husband, wife or marriage
The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 415
Tasks Completed: 29
Books Read: 38
GoodReads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
5.7 Going GreenSharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell. I listened to the audio book version of this novel.
20.1. Most Improved Player. Cindy AL's Task: Lassiez Les Bon Temps Rouler!
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 376 pages. This author has an Alabama connection: She was born in Alabama.
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 75/910
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 4
Goodreads Author Books: 0
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(1)
KAREN OZREPOST:
Task 20.9. Lucky Me! Laurie's Task
Witch Way to Murder - Ophelia Abby 1 by Shirley Damsgaard
Note: I previously used 'Perfume' but I will be allocating that book with another task and will post that task as soon as I've read the other book required
END OF REPOST
Task 5.5 I'm Tellin':
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
580 pages Claiming big book ticket
Total this post: 25 points
Total to date: 460 points
Ashley FLTask 5.1 (word from a dance) I read Drop Shot by Harlan Coben. On the link there is a dance called "Pop, Lock, and Drop It" (hip hop)
Task 20.7 (quips and quotes) My favorite quote is from Eleanor Rosevelt: Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly. (OK, Goodreads attributes this quote to Elizabeth Gilbert, but I am sure it is Eleanor Rosevelt!!). Anyway, I love the quote and I read The Reversal by Michael Connelly wherein our hero, the Lincoln Lawyer, crosses the aisle and works as a Prosecutor. He's still a Defense Attorney at heart, though ;)
Task 30.3
Part A. (Yours, Mine or My or Our(s) in Title) I read My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman by Lisa Scottoline
Part B. (blended family) I read The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly wherein the two main characters are half-brothers.
Points This Post: 55
Total Points: 510
25.5 March MadnessB. Home Land by Sam Lipsyte** (from 2006 Tournament of Books)
Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames (from 2005 Tournament of Books)
Tasks completed - 11
Books Read - 14
Total Points - 225
**Sam Lipsyte is a Good Reads author**
STACIE MITask 20.8 - The Night I was Born
I read Storm Front by Jim Butcher, which inspired the mini-series The Dresden Files.
Points this task: 20
Total points: 520
Tasks completed: 30
Books read: 40
Pages read: 10915
Goodreads authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
STACIE MITask 5.10 - Kia Ora
I read The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras. My native language is English and this book was originally written in French.
Points this task: 5
Total points: 525
Tasks completed: 31
Books read: 41
Pages read: 11097
Goodreads authors: 6
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
15.9 -- In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
Savage Nature 5/2/1120.3. Best Review Contest. Katy's Task: Happy International Women's Day!
Full Moon Rising 5/11/11
**Goodreads Author: Keri Arthur**
I'm from the USA, residing in Japan; Ms. Arthur is from Australia.
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Points this post: 35
Total Points: 510
Tasks Completed: 29 (2 in this post)
Books Read: 40 (2 in this post)
GoodReads Authors: 18 (1 in this post)**number has been corrected~thanks!**
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Diane20.7 Shorter is Sweeter. Tami's task: Quips and Quotes. Please choose a favorite or meaningful verse, quip, quote or saying. Read one book that either relates in some way to your choice OR one book that has one word from your choice in the Title. The book I chose had the words of not one, but two, of my favorite quotes in it's title - Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah.
"In the depth of WINTER, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my GARDEN forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
***Kristen Hannah is a GOODREADS AUTHOR***
Total: 455
BJ Rose1 new task
50 Point Task: MsOPP (Julie)'s Task: "I Need to Know What Happens Next!"
I read the 3 books in Celeste Bradley's trilogy "The Runaway Brides"
a. Devil In My Bed #1
b. Rogue In My Arms #2
c. Scoundrel In My Dreams #3
Total Points = 810
Tasks Completed = 49
Total Pages = 20,818
GoodReads Authors = 8
Big Books (500+) = 2
15.7 -- Lab LitRead a novel in which a scientist plays a major role.
When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle
This Post: 15
Total Points: 515
Tasks Completed: 38/54
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
Task 50.1 - "I need to know what happens next!"
I read the first three books of the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin:
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Task points = 50
Challenge total = 435
20.5 - Alliterative Authors AssociationAccording to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
Total points to date 625
Kate.x.15.5 Award Me - I read Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2010.
15.6 The Truth Is.... I read Lying Tongue by Andrew Wilson, which is set in Venice and I wondered if all the things it refered to were actually there, so I read Lonely Planet guide to Venice and the Veneto by Alison Bing and then in April I went there. It was as described in The Lying Tongue.
Total points = 155
Kate.x.Sorry that should be "Total Points = 185"
5.1 Waltzing MatildaDancing Naked in the Mind Field by Kary Mullis
5.5 I'm Tellin
Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman
15.7 Lab Lit
Morganville Vampires #10: Bite Club by Rachel Caine
Myrnin is a vampire mad scientist that does all kinds of crazy experiments and is involved in maintaining the computer that runs the town, Claire is a human college student that works in Myrnin's lab as a sort of apprentice.
points = 620
I have moved The Boy in Striped Pyjamas from 5.8 In it's place is The Maze Runner - James Dashner. No points changed.15.3 Earth Day - Reuse, Reduce, Recycle - Pick two options
a) A book that is one of your 22 oldest - The boy in Striped Pyjamas
c) Read a book and give it away or take it out of the library- Half-Broke Horses - Jeanette Walls
10.1 The Final Frontiers - Fantasy or Science Fiction Paycheck - Philip K Dick
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 295
Tasks Completed: 22
Books Read: 22
GoodReads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
AMBER MARIE
MsOPP (Julie)'s Task: "I Need to Know What Happens Next!"
I read Succubus Blues, Succubus on Top, and Succubus Dreams by Richelle Mead.
Richelle Mead is a GR author!
Points This Post: 50
Total Points: 300
Total GoodReads Authors: 12
Total Big Books: 500+ (4) 700+(0) 1000+(0)
MsOPP (Julie)'s Task: "I Need to Know What Happens Next!"
I read Succubus Blues, Succubus on Top, and Succubus Dreams by Richelle Mead.
Richelle Mead is a GR author!
Points This Post: 50
Total Points: 300
Total GoodReads Authors: 12
Total Big Books: 500+ (4) 700+(0) 1000+(0)
15.3 Earth DayReuse: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan, a book I planned to read for the Winter 2010-2011 Challenge.
Recycle: Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris, a book I borrowed from a friend.
50.1 I Need to Know What Happens Next!
Club Dead (Sookie #3) by Charlaine Harris
Dead to the World (Sookie #4) by Charlaine Harris
Dead as a Doornail (Sookie #5) by Charlaine Harris
Points this post: 65
Total Points: 190
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 17
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
10.5: It Takes Two.For this task I read Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton.
Tasks Complete: 8
Total Points: 85
5.1 WALTZING MATHILDA - Hand of Isis by Jo Graham I used Hand Dance from the list of dances provided.***Big Book 656pgs***
15.1 THE LAND DOWN UNDER -
A. Way Down Dead in Dixie by Caroline Cousins
B. Under the Radar by Fern Michaels
Points: 20
Tasks: 2
Books: 3
Pages: 1187
Big Books 500+: 1
Total Points: 850
Total Tasks: 51
Total Books: 69
Total Pages: 29,540
GR Authors: 14
Big Books 500+: 9
Big Books 750+: 1
Big Books 1000+: 3
Mod
read Manifestby Artist Arthur Australia initials
and
The Dead and the Goneby Susan Beth Pfeffer Natural Disaster
Points this task 25
Total points 750/910
Tasks Completed: 40/54
Books read: 54/71
Total pages: 16,413
GR Authors: 19
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
30.5 All the World is Birthday CakeMy Birthday is the 26th.
Amy (26) ~~ Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Cait (27) ~~ Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Both authors are GoodReads Authors
This makes my total 60 points.
10.4. Elementary, my dear Watson: 
by William Manchee ***Goodreads Author***This book was about this new Marine who was being tried for murder though innocent and him along with a few others had to solve who was the real murderer.
Points for this Task: 10
Total Points: 110
Completed Tasks: 5.2, 10.4, 15.10, 30.6, 50.1
Tasks in Progress: 10.6, 20.10, 30.1
Goodreads Authors: 5 (Cassandra Clare, William Manchee, Sara Shepard x3)
Big Books: 500+(1) 750+() 1000+()
20.5. Bigger is Better. Rachel Renee's Task: Alliterative Authors Association The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
Points this post: 20
Total points: 185
BRENDA MO5.7 Going Green
Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
(borrowed from the library)
10.9. No Lawyer Jokes!
The Insider by Reece Hirsch
Reece Hirsch is a Goodreads Author
Points: 15
Total Points: 570
Goodreads Author: 13
Alice GTask: 5.6 Water, Water Everywhere
Book: The Prince Of Mist
Task: 15.9 In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
Book: Even the Dogs: A Novel
Task: 15.10 Spring Break
Book: Annabel
Total Points: 270
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
30.6 Myth-behaving Greeks - The Red Queen by Phillippa Gregory and Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox
30.7 Title Connections - Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively and Tiger Hills
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30.7 Option A. Read Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones and Castle Waiting by Linda Medley
Points this task 30
30.6 'Myth-behaving Greeks'A. I rolled 3: Poseidon.
Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek : The Man Who Discovered Britain by Barry Cunliffe
Pytheas made a sea voyage of exploration beyond what was then the known world, all around Britain and to Iceland (Thule).
B. I rolled 1: Aeschylus.
The Rapture of Lol V. Stein
It may not be clear from the description but this is a book about a woman who has never gotten over being jilted by her fiance, makes a loveless marriage, and goes on to stalk the man who is the lover of the woman who was her best friend at the time she was jilted. It's definitely a tragedy.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 785
Tasks Completed: 49
Books Read: 54
Goodreads Author Books: 6
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(1), 1000+(1)
Katie OH 30.5. Delicious Dee's task: “All the world is birthday cake..."
My birthday is on the 15th. I read books from:
Petra (March 15) - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Jenna VA (May 15) - Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 165
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 13
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.5. Alliterative Authors Association I read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
20.3. Happy International Women's Day!
I read The Lover by Marguerite Duras, a French author who grew up in French-occupied Vietnam.
Points This Post: 40
Total Points: 120
Total Tasks Completed: 8
Total Books Read: 8
Total Pages Read: 2110
Total GoodReads Authors: 0
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Kathy G.15.9 In Like a Lion .....
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo
Task 5
Total Points- 45
Goodreads Authors- 0
Big Books- 0
10.5. It Takes Two: April is Couple Appreciation Month – read a book with a 2 word title. Articles such as "a, an, the" count as words. Subtitles may be ignored.
Among Others (2011) by Jo Walton (Hardcover, 304 pages)
AND
10.9. No Lawyer Jokes!:. Read a fiction or non-fiction book about law or featuring a lawyer.
Summer (1917) by Edith Wharton (Paperback, 192 pages)
The focus of the story is the relationship of a teenaged girl and her legal guardian. The legal guardian is a lawyer for an insurance company, and from time to time he leaves home to go to the city and argue his case.
Specifically approved in post #64 of the help thread
300 + 10 + 10 = 320
Tasks Completed: 20
Points for this task: 10 + 10 = 20
Points thus far: 300 + 20 = 320
Books read: 26
Pages Read: 7084
Read but not claimed: 5
Goodreads Authors: 4
Task 10.6 - Respect Your Elders
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen originally published in 1817.
Task points = 10
Challenge total = 445
CoralieI would like to change my book for 5.1 to
Robot Dreams for robot dance.
10.1 Sing out
Ragtime– Coalhouse Walker Jnr is a ragtime pianist
10.2 Say What?
Why Shoot a Butler?
10.8 Come On, Each Your Spinach
– apple on coverTotal points 765
20.2 Rookie at the Top. Travelgirlut's Task: Random Words Lamp, Faith, Pie, Sedative, Poem:
Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
Total points = 360
Diane30.1. Cheryl's Task: Literature Map By Gender
Using literature-map.com choose one of your favorite authors. Choose 2 new authors you've never read before of the opposite gender from yourself. Read one book by each of these authors. Graham Greene is one of my favorite authors. From his Literature Map I chose Ian McEwan and William Styron and read Atonement and Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.
Total = 485
Ashley FLI'm sorry, I've been forgetting my Goodreads authors. Could I add in:
Message 2239, I read two books by Goodreads author,
Michael Connelly:
The Brass Verdict (Task 30.3B), and
The Reversal (Task 20.7)
Also, The 9th Judgment by Goodreads author James Patterson (Task 20.7)
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly (Task 30.7)
Double Black by Goodreads author Wendy Clinch
Don't Look Down by Goodreads author Jennifer Crusie (task 30.6)
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America by Goodreads author Paul Tough (Task 25.3B)
The Lincoln Lawyer by Goodreads author Michael Connelly (task 10.7)
plus I had previously reported two Goodreads authors (Chloe Neill and Rachelle Mead) so now I should be at 10 Goodreads authors total.
Thanks!
5.10 Originally published in foreign languageI read (actually re-read) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. It was a big book at 644 pages.
Originally written in Swedish and translated to English. I liked it even better the 2nd time around!
Total Points to date: 345
Total Tasks Completed: 25
Total Books Read: 32
Total GoodReads Authors: 12
Total Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0
30.6 Myth-Behaving GreeksI rolled double 4s.
A. Hades: I read Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris. Many main characters are vampires, who can be considered dead.
B. Homer: I read Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb. This book is set in the future, in 2060.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 285
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
10.2. Say What?I read This Is How It Goes by Neil LaBute.
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 130
Total Tasks Completed: 9
Total Books Read: 9
Total Pages Read: 2211
Total GoodReads Authors: 0
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Shannon South Africa15.3 Earth Day
A - One of the Oldest on TBR
Blackmoor by Edward Hogan
B - Borrowed
To Kill a Tsar by Andrew Williams
Task points = 15
Total points = 145
20.2 Rookie at the Topmy words: bus stop, ghost, smoke, brakes, escape
Southern Ghost 5/13/11
**Goodreads Author: Carolyn Hart**
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Points this post: 20
Total Points: 530
Tasks Completed: 30 (1 in this post)
Books Read: 41 (1 in this post)
GoodReads Authors: 19 (1 in this post)
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
20.1 - Lassier les Bon Temps Rouler 3. A book by an author with an Alabama connection:
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg
Total points to date 645
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My birthday is December 7th, so I chose to read from Sheila's list. Her birthday is April 7th.
Stalemate by Iris Johansen
Quicksand by Iris Johansen
Total points: 280