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SPRING CHALLENGE 2011: AUSTRALIA
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Spring Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS)
5.2 Circle of FriendsDead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 525
Tasks Completed: 34
Books Read: 46
GoodReads Authors: 10
Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
Janice CA10.2 Say What?.....
Ask Me Why I Hurt by Randy Christensen
3 stars
+10
total: 205
tasks: 13
books: 16
GR Authors: 2
20 pt Tasks20.7 Quips and Quotes
I know it's become a cliche but I still believe in the Golden Rule and spout it to my children at regular intervals.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Luke 6:31 KJV
What Do You Do All Day?: A Novel by Amy Scheibe
Task 20.8 The Night I was Born
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
According to the imdb list given through the link, it ran in Belgium under the same title as the book
+40 pts Total for these Tasks
460 pts - Grand Total
Kelly G10.7 Kuddle a Koala
The House at Riverton by: Kate Morton (born in Australia). This book was originally claimed for task 20.3.
20.3 International Women's Day
The Daughter of Siena by: Marina Fiorato. Born in Manchester Englad.
Points this task(s): 30 (10 new points)
Total Points: 200
Books Read: 13
Tasks Completed: 11
Big Ticket Books (1) 500+ (0) 750+ (0) 1000+
Goodreads Authors: 4 (Clare, Clare, Snyder, Snyder and Allen)
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I enjoy them. I read the first 6 in the series years ago, then didn't read any more - don't know why, probably I had read all the ones that were out, then forgot to go back to the series. I read the 7th and 8th for the spring challenge, and really enjoyed them.
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read Reckless by Cornelia Funke Originally in German
Points this task 5
Total points 900/910
Tasks Completed: 53/54
Books read: 70/71
Total pages: 20711
GR Authors: 23
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
DianeI have to make changes. Again. So sorry.
From my previously claimed 30.6 Myth Behaving Greeks remove The Crossing from A:3 Poseidon, and replace it with Dark Voyage by Alan Furst.
The removed book will go here:
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. The Crossing by Luis Cardoso and Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé.
Points: 690
Ok, this will be my last task completed for the spring challenge!I have completed task #30.6 "Myth-behaving Greeks" by reading....
Book A4: The President's Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth*
The main character in this book is considered to be a dead thing. He is a vampire.
*Christopher Farnsworth is a Goodreads Author
Book B3: Leaving Van Gogh: A Novel by Carol Wallace
This is a historical fiction novel and is set well over 30 years prior to when it was written.
Total = 220 points
5.8 Blow Your Stack: Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews - ★ ★ ★ ★
Goodreads Author: Ilona Andrews
30.2 - Sheila's Task: Sheila’s Guilty Pleasures
A. American Idol: David Cook
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore & David Lloyd – ★ ★ - approved on task help board message 37
B. Dancing With the Stars : Dancer Cheryl Burke from Season 2 & 3
Forbidden Fantasy by Cheryl Holt - ★ ★
30.4 Dlmrose's Task: Like I Needed an Excuse.......
A. Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life by Zoe Weil – ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - saving the planet & political activism
Goodreads Author: Zoe Weil
AND
B. Boys Over Flowers: Hana Yori Dango, Volume 18 by Yoko Kamio – ★ ★ ★ - Makino Tsukushi (heroine) becomes a maid in the Domyouji household
Points This Post: 65
Total Points: 880
Goodreads authors this post: 2
Goodreads authors total: 13
Total Big Books: (500+) 4
Jayme(theghostreader)Completed 5.5 I'm Telling "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" by Ann Brashares
Tasks Completed 19
Books Read: 24
GR Authors: 2, (Neal Shusterman, Holly Black)
Big Books: 0
Grand Total: 285
Lisa MDCOMPLETED TASKS:
10.3. Beware the Ides of March:
book about, or set during, the time of the Roman Empire (44 BC to 476 AD)
❀Daughters of Rome by Kate Quinn READ 5.26.11
GOODREADS AUTHOR
20.9 Lucky Me: Laurie's Task
words (or derivative) in its title: thief, murder, crime, criminal, exile, convict, robber or stolen.
❀Real Murders by Charlaine Harris READ 5.26.11
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COMPLETED TASKS: 42/54
TOTAL POINTS: 750/910
BOOKS READ: 55/71
GOODREAD AUTHORS: 18
BIG BOOKS: 500 pp. [ ✔ ✔✔ ] 750 pp. [ ✔ ] 1000 pp. [ ]
20.5 Alliterative Authors AssociationThe Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
This Post: 20
Total Points: 385
Tasks Completed: 22
Books Read: 28
Goodreads Authors: 3 (Elle Amery, Bella Andre, Emma Donoghue)
Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
15.8 From a Different Perspective: The Color Purple by Alice Walker Written in the form of letters and prayers.20.1 Lassiez Les Bon Temps Rouler!: In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote
Total Points: 140
Total Tasks Completed: 12
Total Books Read: 14
Total Pages Read: 4115
Total GoodReads Authors: 3
Total Big Books: 500+ 1, 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
15.4 It's a RepeatThe Rabbi and the Hit Man: A True Tale of Murder, Passion, and Shattered Faith
and
Milton Goldsmith's the Rabbi and the Priest
Points: 15
Title Connections
The Company of Women and The Women of Brewster Place
Points: 30
Total Points: 620
Total Books Read: 44
Total Tasks Completed: 29
Total Big Books: 3
Total GR Authors: 4
RE-POST to correct GR Authors25.1 In My Backyard
I chose A (anchor) & G (needle and thread).
A. Birds of Prey by J.A. Jance
This book is set on a cruise ship.
G. Triangle: A Novel by
Katharine Weber - GR AUTHOR
This historical novel's main theme is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. The central character was a seamstress in that factory. The story focuses on finding out what happened during the fire.
Points: 25
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30.2 Sheila's Guilty Pleasures
American Idol Winners: Kris Allen
The Grand Complication: A Novel by Allen Kurzweil
Dancing With the Stars: Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner - GR AUTHOR
Points: 30
Total GR Authors Read: 4
Mod
Cleopatra's Daughterby Michelle Moran
Points this task 10
Total points 910/910
Tasks Completed: 53/54
Books read: 71/71
Total pages: 21,153
GR Authors: 24
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Ashley FLTask 15.2 Blurb It: Absolutely, Positively by Heather Webber has a blurb on the cover by Charlaine Harris and I read her book, Dead Reckoning
**Heather Webber is a Goodreads Author**
Total Points: 525
Jennifer L.15.10 - Spring Break - Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
Total Challenge Points = 100
15.3 -- Earth DayA. Reduce - Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris (number 7 on TBR)
B. Recycle - Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture by Leslie Simon (Library book)
25.6. Jennifer N's Task: It’s All About Australia and Oceania
Option 1 - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Missionaries in the Congo)
Option 5 - Spirited: Taking Paganism Beyond the Circle by Gede Parma (Author is from Australia).
Leslie Simon is a goodreads author
The Poisonwood Bible is a big book - 546 pages
Total points this post - 40
Total points - 520
Tasks completed - 30
Pages read - 15139
Books read - 41
Goodreads authors - 14
Big books - 500+(6), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
**And this marks the end of my challenge! I know I won't read any more books before the 1st, but this was SO much fun. I'm excited for Summer!**
15.2 - Blurb itA. Book with blurb: Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer - 272 pages
B. Blurbed by Steve Martin, who wrote An Object of Beauty - 292 pages
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 610
Total Tasks Completed: 37
Total Books Read: 49
Total Pages Read: 14,502
Total Goodreads Authors: 8
Total Big Books: 500(3);750(0);1000+(0)
Joanna T15.4 It's a Repeat
Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami
Points this post: 15
Grand total: 470
Task: 5. 7 Going GreenBeastly by Alex Flinn
Borrowed from the library
Points This Post: 5
Total points: 220
Total Tasks Completed: 17
Total Books Read: 19
Total Pages Read: 5104
Total GoodReads Authors: 5
Sandy MNTask 25.5. Gayla's Task: March Madness
Option B:
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (2010), and Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2010)
Total Points: 710
Yea Jenn Renee - You did it!!!
Carla 25.2 Bucket List
Part A: I listened to K2: Life and Death on the World's Dangerous Mountain by Ed Viesturs. I love hiking and climbing and would one day like to conquer a big mountain. I think K2 might be a little out of my league though :)
Part B: I read The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Total Points: 290
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 21
Pages Read: 6278 + 3 audiobooks
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
CHRISTINE USTask 5.1 Waltzing Matilda
The Belly Dancer by DeAnna Cameron
Task 15.2 Blurb it
Beth Harbison wrote "Hilarious! I read it in one sitting and was sorry when it was over. Turns out Jen Lancaster, who was already a master of memoir, is a genius at fiction" about Jen Lancaster's newest book. It is on the back cover.
I read:
Jen Lancaster
If You Were Here: A Novel
Beth Harbison
Secrets of a Shoe Addict
**Beth Harbison is a GR author
Total: 880
Kathleen FL30.2 Sheila’s Guilty Pleasures :
American Idol Carrie Underwood: I read Confinement by Carrie Brown
DWTS Emmitt Smith and his partner Cheryl Burke: I read Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 370
Goodreads Author Books: 2
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
Heather KSFinished task 15.1 by reading two books:
A Long Way Down for "down" and
Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter for "under."
Also, Michael J. White, author of Weeping Underwater, is a Goodreads author.
New point total: 220
30.7 Title ConnectionsRites of Passage by William Golding and A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Points for this task: 30
Total points: 260
Task Completed: 17
Books Read: 19
10.4 Elementary, Dear WatsonThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Points this post: 10
Total points: 730
GR Authors: 7
Big Books: 500+(5), 750+(0), 1000+(1)
Kathy G.30.3 Yours, Mine, and Ours-
A) In My Father's House by Ann Rinaldi
"My" in title of book
B) Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (Kindle Edition)
Total Tasks- 10
Total Points- 175
Goodreads Authors- 1
Big Books- (500+)- 1
5.7 I read Austenland by Shannon Hale which I borrowed from the library Points this post: 5
total points: 225
10.2 Say what?The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas G. Carr
15.10 Spring Break
My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy by Nora Titone
Points this post: 25 pts
Total points: 50 pts
TANYAPT20.4. Read a book whose title or sub-title contains - royal, wedding, prince, princess, husband, wife or marriage.
Book: The Marriage Bureau for Rich People, Farahad Zama
Points this post:20
Total Points: 345
Tasks Completed: 18
Books Read: 22
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
STACIE MITask 20.6
I read The Luxe by Anna Godbersen.
Point this task: 20
Total points: 745
Tasks completed: 42
Books read: 56
Pages read: 14747
Goodreads authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
25.2. Sandy's Task: Your Bucket ListA. Think of something that’s on your personal “bucket list” and read a book that somehow relates to it. This can be anything you personally want to do (Travel to a particular place? Cook your way through Julia Child? Learn to speak Japanese?) and the book must somehow relate to that.
One of the things I want to do is visit London, so I read The London Train by Tessa Hadley.
B. Read a book from the list of 1001 Books to Read Before You Die.
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
This Post: 25
Total Points: 810
Tasks Completed: 50/54
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ (4), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
Diane5.4 Fan Club: Go to the profile page of one of your favorite authors and navigate to their fan listing. Click on a fan's profile and read a 5-star book from their Read shelf. Required: Post a link to the author and state the fan whose list you used.
I chose Barbara Kingsolverand picked a 5-star book from Jill's shelf - The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue.
Ronlyn Domingue is a GOODREADS AUTHOR
Total: 695
Angela NY10.1. Sing Out
Sing You Home
This Post: 10
Total Points: 230
Tasks Completed: 13
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Task 15.3 Earth DayA Reduce
Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
C Recycle Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
Read the book and then put it on Goodreads Book Swap
Task 25.1 In my Backyard
Feature a(anchor) The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
Feature g (needle and thread) The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe (goodreads author)
+40 points for these tasks
+5 points for Goodreads Author
505 points - Grand Total
20.6 Royal WeddingOne Second After by William R. Forstchen
** This book was 508 pages. I would like to claim a big book ticket.**
Task Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 19
Books Read: 24
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Total Points: 360
aka Metshaft50.1
I read the first three novels in James Patterson's Alex cross series.
Along came a spider was 502 pages, so can I have a big book token please?
James Patterson is a Goodreads author
Points claimed: 50
New total: 195
Congrats to all those that finished the challenge. This will be my last post for spring.10.2 - SAY WHAT? - What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
15.8 - DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE - The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and OdysseusThe Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood
15.10 - ANY BOOK - When the Women Come Out to Dance by Elmore LeonardElmore Leonard
25.2 - BUCKET LIST - I would love to visit Egypt so I read The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters. From the 1001 Books I read 1984 by George Orwell
25.3 - A BETTER WORLD - Improving health The Postmistress by Sarah Blake in which one of the main characters is a doctor. Improving Safety - War by Sebastian Junger which is about our troops on the ground in Afghanistan.
Sebastian Junger, Sarah BlakeSarah Blake, Margaret Atwood and Laura Lippman are all Goodreads authors.
TOTAL POINTS - 700
TOTAL GOODREADS AUTHORS - 17
30.1. Cheryl's Task: Literature Map By Gender I put in Stephenie Meyer as one of my favorites...
by Rick Riordan &
by Scott WesterfeldPoints for this Task: 30
Total Points: 140
Completed Tasks: 5.2, 10.4, 15.10, 30.1, 30.6, 50.1
Tasks in Progress: 5.1, 5.8, 10.6, 20.10
Goodreads Authors: 5 (Cassandra Clare, William Manchee, Sara Shepard x3)
Big Books: 500+(1) 750+() 1000+()
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneMy Goal Points for this Season: 225
Points earned for this task: 20
Points Achieved to date: 410
Updated last on: 5.28
Total # of books read: 32
Total # of pages read: 10,453
Total # of tasks completed: 25
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 8
Total # of Big Books: 500+ (1)
Task 20.6 Kathryn C's YA Series...Read one or multiple YA books from a series to total 400 pages.
I read
Good Ghouls Do(Beth Frasier Series #2) by Julie Kenner240 pages (5.24) Julie Kenner is a GOODREADS AUTHORI also read
Now and Zen(Students Across the Seven Seas Series) by Linda Gerber 224 pages (5.25)Linda Gerber is a GOODREADS AUTHOR
Total pages read for this task = 464.
STACIE MITask 15.3 - Earth Day
I did option B and option C.
For B, I read a book that is an old favorite and that I had planned to read for the Winter challenge - Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot.
For C, I read Book Club: An Unshelved Collection by Gene Ambaum, which I got from my library.
Points this task: 15
Total points: 760
Tasks completed: 43
Books read: 58
Pages read: 15254
Goodreads authors: 6
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
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B. Biography/Authobiography/Memoir: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
I posted to the discussion thread, message #39.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 220
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 17
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)