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SPRING CHALLENGE 2011: AUSTRALIA
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Spring Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS)
15 pt TasksTask 15.4 it's a Repeat
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (770 pgs)
and The Complete Poems of John Keats
15.2 The Truth Is...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
I read Uncle Tom's Cabin last year. This book was mentioned in that book for further reading along with other books written by escaped slaves. The events in the life of Harriet Jacobs arecongruent with the events described in the book by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
+5 pts - Big Book
+30 pts for these tasks
420 pts - Grand Total
I would like to make a switch:Please move The Handmaid's Tale from 30.4 part B to 15.5 - Award Me
Please replace 30.4 part B with: The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters. The housekeeper / nanny, Fatima, is a prominent character in the story.
New points = 15
Challenge total = 500
No change in Big Books or GR Authors.
Thank you!
Finished30.1 Literature map by gender
Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey Archer
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Name in the map : Agatha Christie
Task points: 30
Total points: 395
Total tasks: 17
Total books: 27
10.2. Say what?:The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall (Goodreads author)
10.3. Beware the Ides of March:
Medicus by Ruth Downie (Goodreads author)
10.8. Come On, Eat Your Spinach:
Candy Apple Dead by Sammi Carter
20.5. Bigger is Better. Rachel Renee's Task: Alliterative Authors Association
Glossed and Found by India Ink
Total Points This Post: 50
Total Tasks This Post: 4
Goodreads Authors This Post: 2
Grand Total Points: 670/910
Total Books Read: 52
Tasks Completed: 41/54
Total Goodreads Authors: 19
Big Book Tickets This Post: 0
Total Big Books: 2
10.4- Elementary, My Dear WatsonI read Heat Wave by Richard Castle.
Points for this task- 10
Total Points- 510
Goodreads Authors- 3
Tasks Completed- 33
KAREN OZ30.2 - Sheila's Task: Sheila’s Guilty Pleasures
American Idol: Jordin Sparks:
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Dancing With the Stars United States version:
Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough:
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
30.5. Delicious Dee's task: “All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, or a book”
My Birthdate is the 9th:
1. Laurie- 9th: Poland* by James A. Michener
2. Angela NY- 10th: Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
*Big Book: >800 pages
Note: Pam (the other birthday on 9th) has set her profile on private and I was unable to compare books
25.3. Mrs. Soule's Task: A Better World
Option B: Librarians
Book A. Charmed to Death Abby Ophelia Mystery 2 by Shirley Damsgaard* (Ophelia is a Librarian)
*GR Author
Book B. This Book is Overdue : how librarians and cybrarians can save us all by Marilyn Johnson
Total this post: 85 points
Total to date: 575 points
10.6. Respect Your EldersThe Children of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston. Published in 1954.
10.7. Kuddle a Koala?
The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough. Set in and written by an author from Australia.
15.5 Award Me
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey. Won the Man Booker Prize in 1988.
15.8 From a Different Perspective
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan. A retelling of the fairy tale 'Snow White and Rose Red' from multiple perspectives, including those of men changed into bears.
20.1. Lassiez Les Bon Temps Rouler!
I picked choice two and the word 'king'. The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle.
20.2 Random Words
I drew the words: toffee, frost, whisky, beast, CD. I chose 'beast' and read Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley.
20.3. Happy International Women's Day!
The Pursuit of Love. Published in 1945 by Nancy Mitford, who is from England, while I am from the US.
20.5. Alliterative Authors Association
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
20.6. Young Adult Series
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. The first of the Mortal Instruments series, and is 485 pages long.
20.8. The Night I Was Born
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford Made into a mini-series by the BBC. IMDB Link.
20.10 Group Read
Outlander by Suzanne Collins. My post at the discussion board is #28.
25.2. Your Bucket List
A.) I would love to write a novel someday, so I read A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, which is about writing.
B.) The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Number 6 on the list.
30.2. Guilty Pleasures
I chose American Idol winner Carrie Underwood and read Voices of Dragons by Carrie Vaughn. For Dancing With the Stars, I chose Apolo Anton Ohno and read Tiger Moon by Antonia Michaelis.
30.4 Like I Needed an Excuse.......
A.) I am much more interested in history than cleaning, so I read The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer.
B.) Dragonwyck by Anya Seton. About a girl who goes to work as a governess for wealthy relatives.
30.7. Title Connections
I chose option A and read Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist and In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne M. Valente.
Total Points: 305
Tasks Completed: 15
Books Read: 19
Pages Read: 6834
10.2. Say what?: What Happens in London by Julia Quinn
Goodreads Author: Julia Quinn
20.4 Author, Author. Tracyj's Task: The Royal Wedding
Option A: Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage by M.C. Beaton
50 Point Task: MsOPP (Julie)'s Task: "I Need to Know What Happens Next!"
Lindsay McKenna’s Morgan’s Mercenaries series:
1. Heart Of The Warrior (Morgan's Mercenaries, #14)
2. A Man Alone (Morgans Mercenaries, #15)
3. Man With A Mission (Morgans Mercenaries, #16) (Maverick Hearts, #3)
Points This Post: 80
Total Points: 815
Goodreads authors this post: 1
Goodreads authors total: 11
Total Big Books: (500+) 4
20.1. Most Improved Player. Cindy AL's Task: Lassiez Les Bon Temps Rouler! 1) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (initials CA)
Total Points= 425
TANYAPT15.9 Read a book with the name of an animal in the title or a picture of an animal on the cover.
Book: What the Night Knows, Dean Koontz(bird on the cover)
Points this post:15
Total Points: 325
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 21
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Diane10.1. Sing Out: Read a biography/autobiography/memoir of a musician, or a novel featuring a professional musician or music teacher - Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby (approved in help thread).
Total: 660
Erin NY30.1 Using the lit map to find authors similar to Markus Zusak, that are male:
This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The authors are both I have never read before
Total: 315
Tasks Completed: 14
Tasks in Progress: 2
Books Read: 23
Pages Read: 7340
Mod
I read Earth (the book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race, added to my TBR on 1/14 after my son gave it to me for Christmas.
10.4. Elementary, my dear Watson
I read Painted Ladies: A Spenser Novel. Really good - I've always liked the Spenser series, but it was a little sad, too, knowing that there's apparently only one more that Parker wrote before he died.
Total points: 890
Lisa MDCOMPLETED TASKS:
20.10 Group Read
❀I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore READ 5.23.11
Group Read - comment #53
25.2. Sandy's Task: Your Bucket List
A. “bucket list” - I want to travel to Hawaii
❀Honolulu by Alan Brennert READ 5.22.11
B. book from the list of 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
❀The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood READ 5.25.11
GOODREADS AUTHOR
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COMPLETED TASKS: 40/54
TOTAL POINTS: 720/910
BOOKS READ: 53/71
GOODREAD AUTHORS: 17
BIG BOOKS: 500 pp. [ ✔ ✔✔ ] 750 pp. [ ✔ ] 1000 pp. [ ]
I have completed the following tasks:15.8 "From a Different Perspective"
So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
This book qualifies for this task as the story is told from multiple perspectives, more than 10 people. According to the task description, the inclusion of "multiple perspectives" within a novel is given as an example of a "unique point of view."
Also, Cara Hoffman is a Goodreads Author.
15.10 "Spring Break"
The Long Walk by Stephen King
Total = 190 points
15.3 -- Earth DayI chose B. Reuse: Read a book you planned to read for the Winter 2010-2011 challenge, but didn’t get to -- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
AND
C. Recycle: Read a book borrowed from a friend -- Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
25.2 - Sandy’s task: Bucket List
A. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver -- Growing my own food and living a sustainable lifestyle is on my bucket list. And while I don't think I'll go quite as far as Barbara and her family did in eating locally (I will not be raising and slaughtering my own turkeys!!), I did learn a lot from this book. It's already affected my buying habits (I've found a pick-your-own farm nearby which is great! And I'll continue to frequent our Saturday morning farmer's market until it closes for the summer). I'm also looking into creating a (very small) garden to grow some of my own vegetables (I already have tangerine and red grapefruit trees in the backyard and I love those ;o)).
AND
B. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Points this post: 40
Total Points: 285
Tasks Completed: 14/54
Tasks in Progress: 50.1
RACHEL CA: 355 points total25.01 IN MY BACKYARD
(Choose two)
I chose:
a. set, at least in part, on a ship or boat.
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (most of the action takes place on a boat)
b. main character works in the finance industry.
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (Roger, Major Pettigrew's son, is a main character and works in finance)
Helen Simonson is a GOODREADS AUTHOR
Points: 25
Total points: 355
Tasks completed: 25
Books read: 30
Goodreads authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
15.8 - From a Different PerspectiveIf on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
A book about books, written in the second person addressed to The Reader - with alternate chapters the beginnings of different novels written in the first person, which vanish! It's complex and I'm going to have to reread it at some point.
Total points to date 715
Kristi (Passion for the Page) wrote: "15.3 -- Earth DayI chose B. Reuse: Read a book you planned to read for the Winter 2010-2011 challenge, but didn’t get to -- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by [author:Dai Si..."
How wonderful to have tangerine and red grapefruit trees! My husband works an allotment and yesterday we had our first freshly dug potatoes of the season - what a treat! They were delicious.
Alice GTask: 5.5 Tellin' you
Book: Wolf Brother
Total Points: 315
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
15.10 Spring Break - Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris
20.2 Random Words - Spies of the Balkans
20.3 Happy International Women's Day - Annabel by Kathleen Winter
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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50.1 MsOPP (Julie)'s Task: "I Need to Know What Happens Next!"Read 3 books in a series.
The Way of Shadows
Shadow's Edge
Beyond the Shadows
all by Brent Weeks
Brent Weeks is a GoodReads author.
All three books are Big Books (500+).
This Post: 50
Total Points: 755
Tasks Completed: 48/54
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ (4), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
30.3. Donna Jo's Task: Yours, Mine, and Ours A. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
B. Cinderella by Barbara Ensor
50.1 MsOPP (Julie)'s Task: "I Need to Know What Happens Next!"
A. Fang by James Patterson
B. Max by James Patterson
C. Angel by James Patterson
Total Points: 595
Tasks Completed: 35
Books Read: 48
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Nickboy.15.7 Lab Lit -- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 115 pages -- protagonist is a scientist
25.6 It’s All About Australia…. I chose options 4 -- takes place in Australia, and 5 – Australian author:
4) Runner by Robert
Newton 224 pages, takes place in Melbourne (the following biographical article confirms Robert Newton as Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/... which means that either book would work for either option)
5) 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey 212 pages (Peter Carey is approved as an Australian author -- this brings my total number of books by Australian authors read for this challenge up to 8, including 3 by Peter Carey.)
Task Points: 40
Total Points: 795/910
Tasks Completed: 49
Books Read: 66
Pages Read: 18,229
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+ (4)
20.2 Random Words. My words were window, lasso,lunch, hair guillotineThrough a Window by Jane Goodall
Points: 20
Total points Challenge: 335
CHRISTINE USTask 15.10 Spring Break
Smoke in Mirrors by Jayne Ann Krentz
***Jayne Ann Krentz is a GR author
Task 20.3 Int'l Women's Day
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Ms. Christie was British, I am from the US.
Task 20.6 YA Series
Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder
***Maria V. Snyder is a GR author
Total: 860
20.10 I read I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore and posted a comment about it in the forums. Points this task: 20
Total points: 205
Mod
read Prettiesby by Scott Westerfeld
Points this task 15
Total points 895/910
Tasks Completed: 52/54
Books read: 69/71
Total pages: 20,320
GR Authors: 23
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
RACHEL CA: 370 points total15.03 EARTH DAY
B. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis (planned to read for winter challenge for task 10.5, book that involves mythical creatures)
C. The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (borrowed from a friend)
Points: 15
Total points: 370
Tasks completed: 26
Books read: 32
Goodreads authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
catching up on reads since last time I posted here:TERRI DC
20.6 Seasoned Reader – Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick ( 391 pages) and Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins (352 pages)
Points This Post: 20
Total Points:110
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 10
Goodreads Author Books: 1 (Melissa Marr)
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
TERRI DC 10.4 Elementary My Dear Watson – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Crime – Tamar Myers
Points This Post: 10
Total Points:120
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 11
Goodreads Author Books: 1 (Melissa Marr)
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
TERRI DC 10.5 IT Takes Two – Blockade Billy – Stephen King
Points This Post: 11
Total Points:130
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 12
Goodreads Author Books: 1 (Melissa Marr)
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
TERRI DC 15.3 Earth Day – b. April Fool’s Day – Josip Novakvich and c. Red – Erica Spindler (library)
Points This Post: 15
Total Points:145
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 14
Goodreads Author Books: 1 (Melissa Marr)
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0
Sandy MN25.4. Helen's Task: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Masters
A. Very Far Away from Anywhere Else by Ursula K. Le Guin
B. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.
Total Points:685
TERRI DC 10.8 Come On, Eat Your Spinach – Forbidden Fruit – Erica Spindler
Points This Post: 10
Total Points:155
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 15
Goodreads Author Books: 1 (Melissa Marr)
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Kathleen FL30.5 “All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, or a book” :
My birthday is on the 1st so I chose The Book Thief from Leora's RL(1st) and The Historian from Judith's RL (2nd).
I am claiming a big ticket (500 Page) for The Historian.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 340
Goodreads Author Books: 2
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
Mod
I read Exile on Main St.: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones. Sex, drugs and rock n roll!
10.9. No Lawyer Jokes!
I read The Unbidden Truth. This series of mysteries features a lawyer, Barbara Holloway, and this one also contains a considerable amount of "courtroom drama."
Total points: 910. FINISHED!
15.9 -- In Like a Lion, Out Like a LambMarley et moi by John Grogan
This post: 15 points
Total to Date = 100 points
Total Tasks Completed: 8
Total Books Read: 9
Total Pages Read: 3233
Total GoodReads Authors: 1
Total Big Books: 500(0);750(1);1000+(0)
Way to go Sandy! I've never read any of the Kate Wilhelm books are they good?
Task 30.7. Diane's Task: Title Connections Option A. Read two books. The first book must end with the same word or group of words as the beginning of the second book. You may disregard words such as “the”,” a”, and “an”.
The House on Salt Hay Road by Carin Clevidence
The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone
This Post: 30
Total Points: 785
Tasks Completed: 49/54
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ (4), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
10.9 No Lawyer Jokes!The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
The main character is a lawyer.
15.9 In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales by Tamora Pierce
On the cover is a lion(ess):
.** Tamora Pierce is a Goodreads author **
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 610/910
Tasks Completed: 36
Books Read: 47
Goodreads Authors: 15
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(2), 1000+(0)
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Joy Marie10.7 Kuddle a Koala
Read I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak who is Australian.
Total Points 190
Goodreads authors 2
25.4. Helen's Task: Science-Fiction/Fantasy Masters I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Just After Sunset by Stephen King
Total points this post - 25
Total points - 480
Tasks completed - 28
Pages read - 14508
Books read - 39
Goodreads authors - 13
Big books - 500+(5), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
I'm LindseyMA and I completed 1 more task:Task 10.10 - Paranormal day - I read Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins which is a fantasy book.
New total: 255pts
Total Goodreads' authors: 6
5.2 Circle of Friends- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
+5
5.10 Kia Ora:
Translated from Swedish:
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
+5
+ Big Book Ticket 630 pages
20.3. Best Review Contest. Katy’s Task: Happy International Women’s Day!
Author is from Sierra Leone and now living in London.
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
+20
Points this Post: 30
Big Book: 1
Grand Total: 700
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A. Reduce Damia's Children
B. Reuse The Rowan
20.3. Best Review Contest. Katy's Task: Happy International Women's Day!
Damia by Anne Mccaffrey
I'm from England and Anne Mccaffrey was born in the US
50 Point Task: MsOPP (Julie)'s Task: "I Need to Know What Happens Next!"
Over Sea, Under Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
Books 1, 2 and 3 from the Dark is Rising
Points this post 85
Total points 85