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LDB20.3 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
I am from the US and du Maurier was born in the UK.
Published in 1938
I am off on vacation so this is my last book for this challenge (not that I got that many in). See everyone for the summer challenge!
Total points: 90
Tasks done: 5
Books read: 5
Pages read: 1,591
ERIN C.15.8 Different Perspective
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
I'm pretty sure Italo Calvino used every literary perspective possible in this book, and maybe even made some up. It was awesome. Written in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person, often at the same time. Great book, and not as confusing as it seems!
Points this Post: 15
Grand Total: 300
Tasks Completed: 29
Good Reads Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 500(3) 750(1) 1000(1)
5.4 Fan ClubI read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I used one of my favorite authors, Neil Gaiman and this book was a 5-star book on his fan Bettina's shelf.
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 310
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Jayme VAI am moving Aunt Dimity Down Under from 20.1 to 15.1 (Option A - Down and Under in the title).
15.10: Spring Break
Cuba by Emily Barr
Points this post: +10
Total Points: 270
Big Books: 1 (500+)
Goodreads authors: 3
Alice GI would like to change the following book from task 15.10 to task 20.3 Happy International Women's Day:
Book: Annabel by Kathleen Winter
I live in England and Kathleen Winter is from Canada.
I would then like to add the following:
Task 15.10: Spring Break
Book: Blueeyedboy
Total Points: 310
Previous Reads:
5.6 Water Water Everywhere - Prince of the Mist
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
15.9 In like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb - Even the Dogs
20.2 Random Words - Spies of the Balkans
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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Kate C.Finished 20.5 - Alliterative Authors Association
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Total Points: 230
15.8 From a different perspectiveThe Witch of Portobello by Paul Coelho
The story is told by various people that knew the 'main character'.
Points for this task: 15
Total points: 210
Task Completed: 15
Books Read: 16
20.7 Quips and QuotesThe Dream Whisperer by Davina MacKail
My quote: "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one" by John Lennon.
Points for this task: 20
Total points: 230
Task Completed: 16
Books Read: 17
I'm Lindsey MA and I completed 1 more task:Task 30.5 (Birthday cake) - My birthday is on the 30th and so are Manday's and Bluemoon's. So from Manday's list of books read, I chose A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray and from Bluemoon I read Catching Fire by Suzanna Collins.
Tasks Completed: 14
Total Points: 245
Goodreads' authors: 6
EllenCAFor Task #25.1 I picked g and h. For G (Needle and Thread) I picked the book A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick because the main character, Catherine Land, spends a lot of time sewing her own clothes.
For H (Television Screen)I read Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris because the T.V. show "True Blood" is based on this series.
EllenCA
Total Points: 110
Completed Tasks: 7
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books 1 (500+)
Task 15.10: Spring BreakFor this task I read Shadow Prey by John Sanford.
Total Tasks: 10
Total Points: 100
Task 15.1: The Land Down UnderFor this task I read two books:
Under The Lake and Down River
Total tasks: 11
Total points: 115
Mod
10.8 Eat your Spinach read
by C.S. Lewis Points this task 20
Total points 880/910
Tasks Completed: 51/54
Books read: 67/71
Total pages: 19,534
GR Authors: 23
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
EllenCAFor task #20.3 I read Inside The Kingdom: My Life In Saudi Arabia by Carmen Bin Ladin. Carmen Bin Ladin was born in Switzerland.
EllenCA's points
Total Points: 130
Completed Tasks: 8
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books 1 (500+)
5 Point TasksTask 5.2 Circle of Friends
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Task 5.4 Fan Club
My favorite author is Mark Twain and I used Barbara's 5 star book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Task 5.7 Going Green
I listened to this as an audiobook
The Sisters Brothers: A Novel by Patrick deWitt
Task 5.8 Blow your Stack
Rutherford B. Hayes by Hans L. Trefousse
5.10 Kia Ora
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
orginally written in German which I don't know
25 pts - Total for these tasks
230 pts - Grand Total
10 Point Tasks10.4 Elementary, my Dear Watson
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Task 10.5 It Takes two
Cracker Ingenuity: Tips from the Trailer Park for the Chronically Broke by P.T. Elliott
Task 10.6 Respect Your Elders
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole published in 1794
Task 10.10 The Final Frontier
Fantasy
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
40 pts - Total for these tasks
270 pts - Grand Total
BABBLING C50. MsOPP (Julie)'s Task: "I Need to Know What Happens Next!"
Psy/Changeling Series
Bk 2. Visions of Heat by Nalini Singh GOODREADS AUTHOR
Bk 3. Caressed By Ice by Nalini Singh GOODREADS AUTHOR
Bk 4. Mine to Possess by Nalini Singh GOODREADS AUTHOR
This Post:
Points: 50
Completed Tasks: 1
Good Read Authors: 3
Big Books: 0
Total:
Points: 160
GRA: 10
TASKS: 11
15.3 Reduce, Reuse, RecycleOptions B and C
B: read Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
C: from the library: Nothing to Lose by lee Childs
task points: 15
total points: 80
STACIE MITask 25.3 - A Better World
For Book A, I read CSI: Serial by Max Allan Collins, in which the main characters are police officers and crime scene investigators.
For Book B, I read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks. The author is a neurologist and the book is about some of his many patients.
Points this task: 25
Total points: 725
Tasks completed: 41
Books read: 55
Pages read: 14314
Goodreads authors: 6
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
20 Point Tasks20.1 Lassiez Bon Temps Rouler
Option 1) The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
20.2 Random Words
My words were Poster, Summer, String, Bandit & Socks
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
20.3 Happy International Women's Day
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Ms Rosoff was born in the USA but moved to London in 1989 where she still lives. This book was published in 2004. I live in Texas.
30 pts - These Tasks
300 pts - Grand Total
25 Point Tasks20.2 Your Bucket List
A Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid by J. Maarten Troost
I've always wanted to travel and see the Current Seven Wonders of the World. That would include the Grat Wall of China. I also wanted to see the Terra Cotta Warriors and the Forbidden City, but after reading this book, china might be a place i really don't want to visit!
B The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
25.3 A Better World
A - You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon Fictional Book about soldiers and their families at Fort Hood, TX and about when they are sent to Iraq, go on leave or stay at Fort Hood. (A GoodReads Author)
B - Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon by Nick Trout(a Goodreads Author)
10 pts - Goodreads Authors
50 pts - Total for these tasks
350 pts - Grand Total
10.6 - Respect Your EldersI read The Scarlet Pimpernel, originally published in 1905
New Points: 10
Total Points: 160
30 Point Task30.6 Myth-behaving Greeks
I rolled 4 (Hades) and 2(Sappho)
Book A Dead Man's Bones by Susan Wittig Albert (a Goodreads Author)
Book B The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
5 pts - Goodreads Author
35 pts - Total for This Task
385 pts - Grand Total
25.3 read A. Dirty Martini by J.A. Konrath (main character is a police detective) and
B. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof
points this task 25
30.2 A. Chose American Idol winner Kris Allen
read Dinosaur Cat by Garrison Allen and
B. Chose DWTS US winner Kelly Monaco
read The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
points this task 30
Task 10.5 It Takes Two Title with Two WordsNature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
Points this Task: 10
Task 20.7 Quips & Quotes
Title has a word from my favorite quote:
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.-Aristotle
Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sonsby Tim Russert
Points this task: 20
Points to date:210
Tammy AZ10.10 - Final Frontiers (Sci-Fi) Robopocalypse
20.1 - Lassiez Les Bon Temps Rouler - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Alabama Author)
Post Total: 30
Grand Total: 255
5.9 Shrimp on the BarbieLess Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
5.10 Kia Ora
I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells. It was written in English, German is my native language.
10.4 Elementary, my dear Watson
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
15.4 It's a Repeat
I chose option B and read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
20.3 Happy International Women's Day
I live in Germany, Frances Mayes lives in the USA. I read Bella Tuscany.
20.6 Young Adult Series
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
25.6 It's all about Australia and Oceania
For Option 2 I read Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
For Option 3 I read A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
30.6 Myth-behaving Greeks
I rolled 4 and read Ewige Liebe by J.R. Ward about vampires.
And I rolled 2 and read Nullnummern by Maria Beaumont which is a romance.
Total Points: 340
Tasks completed: 25
Kimber20.5 Alliterative Authors
Fireby Kristin Cashore
*pronounced Ka-ristin Ka-shore
This task: 20
# tasks complete: 30
Total points: 455
GR authors: 9
Big Book: 1/500+, 2/750+
30.2. Sheila's Task: Sheila’s Guilty Pleasures For this task you will need to read 2 books whose titles (no series titles please) or authors names match either the first or last names of the winners of these two shows.
For this challenge, you will read two books.
American Idol Winners:
7. David Cook
The Moment of Psycho by David Thomson
Dancing With the Stars United States version - Winners and their partners:
11. Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough
Something Red: A Novel by Jennifer Gilmore
This Post: 30
Total Points: 705
Tasks Completed: 48/54
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
5.3 I read Steering by Starlight by Martha Beck
total points> 340
tasks completed 17
books read 25
pages read 8816
Goodreads authors 7
Big Books 1(500) 1 (750+)
Repost of 256620.1 Most Improved Player I read Queen Victoria
My edition of this book was 536, so I am claiming a **BIG BOOK TICKET**
10.5 It takes two
I read Victoria's Daughters
total points: 340
tasks: 17
books read: 25
pages read: 8816
Goodreads authors 7
Big Books 1(500) 1 (750
20.1. Lassiez Les Bon Temps RoulerThe Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
224 pages. The author's initials are JT, letters that are in 'Joe Cain Fat Tuesday'
20.3. Happy International Women's Day!
Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
225 pages. Charlotte Roche lives in Germany.
15.10. Spring Break
Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughn
128 pages. Just a graphic novel I've meant to read for a long time.
20.7. Quips and Quotes
Ex Machina Vol. 1: The First Hundred Days by Brian K. Vaughn
136 pages. Quote is: ""If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." - A.A. Milne. The word was 'hundred'.
10.5. It Takes Two
Ex Machina Vol. 2: Tag by Brian K. Vaughn
144 pages. 'Ex Machina' is a two word title.
30.6. Myth-Behaving Greeks
Lucifer Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway by Mike Carey
160 pages. Option 'Hades' - main character is Lucifer, the angel.
Morning Glories Vol. 1: For A Better Future by Nick Spencer
192 pages. Fantasy - school where strange, violent things occur from which the six main characters, one of whom seems to be pyschic, must try to both escape and to survive. Fourth popular tag.
10.4. Elementary, my dear Watson
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
528 pages in the version I read (link) so claiming big book ticket (500+). Story centres around the murder of one of the character's daughters, and Sean Devine, a detective, trying to solve it.
15.9. In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
We3 by Grant Morrison
104 pages. Front cover has a dog, cat and rabbit on it.
Points: 140
Total Points: 140
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 9
Pages: 1,841 pages
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
15.2 Blurb ItA. The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood blurb by Nicholas Sparks
B. Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
25.3. Mrs. Soule's Task: A Better World
A. The Choice by Nicolas Sparks The main Character is a veterinarian
B.32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny: Life Lessons from Teaching by Phillip Done Non-fiction teaching stories
Total Points: 515
Tasks Completed: 33
Books Read: 43
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
BRENDA MO50 - I Need to Know What Happens Next!
Odd Thomas #1-3
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
Points: 50
Total Points: 625
25.5. Gayla's Task: March Madness Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Freedom was a 2010 tournament of books winner and also incidentally about basketball (didn't know that when I picked it up)
The Road was a 2007 tournament of books winner.
Freedom is a big book at 576 pages.
Total points this post - 25
Total points - 455
Tasks completed - 27
Pages read - 14141
Books read - 38
Goodreads authors - 13
Big books - 500+(5), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Task #20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Quips and QuotesChoose one book that has one word from a meaningful quote
"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck
Colleen Houck is a Goodreads Author
This post:20 points
Total to Date = 300 points
STESSE5.4 Fan Club
I enjoyed Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit, so I found one of her fans (Beverly Nault) with her newest book on her shelf: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (473 p.).
50 Point Task : MsOPP (Julie)'s Task: "I Need to Know What Happens Next!"
Dearly Devoted Dexter (292 p.)
Dexter in the Dark (302 p.)
Dexter By Design (285 p.)
All by Jeff Lindsay
Points this Post: 55
Tasks Completed this Post: 2
Books Read this Post: 4
Pages Read this Post: 1352
Total Points: 735
Total Tasks Completed: 45
Total Books Read: 59
Total Pages Read: 21073
Total GoodReads Authors: 13
Total Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (2), 1000+ (0)
Task: 20.1 Bon Temps Rouler The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Choice number 1: chose author with initials JOECAINFATTUESDAY (A.C.)
Points This Post: 20
Total points: 215
Total Tasks Completed: 16
Total Books Read: 18
Total Pages Read: 4836
Total GoodReads Authors: 5
Joanna TTask 20.4 Royal Wedding
The Battle of Marathon: A Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Task 30.5 Spring Birthdays
My birthday is on the 29th.
From KatieDE's shelf (birthday on the 29th):
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
From JaymeVA (28th) OR Manday's (30th) shelf:
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Grand total: 455
30.2 - Sheila's Task: Sheila’s Guilty Pleasures
American Idol and Dancing with the Stars: For this task you will need to read 2 books whose titles (no series titles please) or authors names match either the first or last names of the winners of these two shows
American Idol
Winner: 9. Lee DeWyze
The Silver Metal Lover (The S.I.L.V.E.R. Series #1) (1981) by Tanith Lee (Mass Market Paperback, 291 pages)
Dancing With the Stars United States version -
Winner: 8 Shawn Johnson and Mark Ballas
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne #1) (2010) by Mark Hodder (Paperback, 367 pages)
405 + 30 = 435
Tasks Completed: 25
Points for this task: 30
Points thus far: 405 + 30 = 435
Books read: 34
Pages Read: 10,449
Read but not claimed: 3
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(1) 750 +
(0) 1000 +
Mod
I read SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, which I borrowed from the library.
Task 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.
I read Murder On Monday.
The first book in a cozy mystery series that I'd never read before. It was a decent read - the plot was a little contrived, but I liked the characters. I don't think I'd buy any of the following books, but my library has them all, so I'll read the second in the series.
Total points: 875
ANNA E10.5 - It Takes Two
Liberal Judaism: The First Hundred Years by Lawrence Rigal
50 point mid Task
Dead Until Dark (1), Living Dead in Dallas (2) and Club Dead (3) by Charlaine Harris
Task Points: 60
Total Tasks Completed: 15
Total Points Earned: 230
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Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffen - 352 pages
One of the two main female characters is a practicing lawyer.
15.6 - And the truth is....
Sidetracked Home Executives(TM): From Pigpen to Paradise by Pam Young. - 192 pages
Last challenge I read The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella and got inspired to try to improve my housekeeping abiltiy.
20.5 - Alliterative Authors Association
The Guilty Plea by Richard Rotenberg - 336 pages
25.3 - A Better World
A. Fiction: The Complaints by Ian Rankin, a Good Reads author - 336 pages.
Main character is a police officer (improves safety).
B. Non-fiction: Made By Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World by Mark Frauenfelder - 288 pages.
Book is about learning to make things by yourself, rather than buying. This leads to a more sustainable lifestyle, less waste, less consumerism. (protecting the natural environment)
30.4 - Like I Needed an Excuse
A. Incredible Edibles by Sonia Day - 128 pages
I'd rather be gardening this spring than doing housework!
B. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa - 192 page
The narrator and main character is a housekeeper to a former mathematics professor.
Points This Post: 100
Total Points: 595
Total Tasks Completed: 36
Total Books Read: 47
Total Pages Read: 13,938
Total Goodreads Authors: 9
Total Big Books: 500(3);750(0);1000+(0)(less)