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Spring Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS)
ALICIA T.50.1- I Need to Know What Happens Next
For this I read:
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (# 7 in the series)
From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris (# 8 in the series)
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (# 9 in the series)
Points this post: 50
Total Points: 125
NICOLE AR-50 Point Task:
For this task, I read Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (#1), Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (#2) and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (#3) all by Ann Brashares.
Points for this task: 50
Total Points: 140
Katie OH 30.7. Diane's Task: Title Connections
Cooking Up Murder by Miranda Bliss & Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett
10.4 Elementary, My Dear Watson
Murder on the Menu by Miranda Bliss
Points This Post: 40
Total Points: 260
Tasks Completed: 15
Books Read: 20
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Erin NYDepending on whether or not I finish the last book I am reading, this may or may not be my final post this challenge:
15.8 Book told from a different perspective: this is a retelling of Where the Wild Things Are:
I read:
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
15.10 Read any book
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Challenge Totals:
Total Points: 375
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 25
Pages Read: 7848
LAST POST 5.9 Shrimp on the Barbie
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (198 pages)
15.3 Earth Day
A reduce: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
C recycle: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - library book
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 500
Total GR Authors: 7
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
Glad you finished this one, Christine.
LeslieK 5.2 Circle of Friends
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
Total points: 5
Just in time for it to end - looking forward to the summer challenge
Kimber15.9 In Like A Lion, Out Like A Lamb
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
This task: 15
Total # tasks completed: 33
Total points earned: 490
Kimber25.2 Your Bucket List
I am very simple. All I want to do in my lifetime is love my family as much and as long as I can.
Love You More by Lisa Gardner
Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
(from the 1001 Books you must read list)
This task: 25
# tasks completed:34
Total points earned: 515
Goodreads Authors: 9
Big Book: 1/500+, 2/750+
20.7 Quips and Quotes"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." --Maya Angelou
Real Live Boyfriends : Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren't complicated, I wouldn't be Ruby Oliver. by E. Lockhart .
This makes my final total 125
25.1 In My Backyard - D - Food - Cream Puff Murder by Joanne Fluke
H - TV show is based on - Deadly Decisions #3 by Kathy Reich
10.9 No Lawyer Jokes - Strategic Moves by Stuart Woods
Points This Task: 30
Tasks Completed: 18
Total Points: 335
Books Read: 28
My final post!20.7 - Tami's task: Quips and Quotes - Read De Niro's Game: A Novel by Rawi Hage. My quote was by Mother Theresa. I love it!
"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game , play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
25.1 - Coralie's Task:In my Backyard -
Book A: Chose A, anchor. Read Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh. Most of this book was set on a ship, The Ibis.
Book B: Chose H, a television screen. Read Q & A by Vikas Swarup. This was the book that the movie Slumdog Millionaire was based on. The book is based on the TV gameshow, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, or in India the show was called Who Wants to be a Billionaire. This was approved in the task help thread.
25.4 - Science-Fiction/Fantasy Masters -
Book A: Read Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1 by Isaac Asimov as a Science Fiction master.
Book B: Read The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin as a Fantasy master.
30.4 - Like I Needed an Excuse....... -
Book A: Read The Way We Garden Now: 41 Pick-and-Choose Projects for Planting Your Paradise Large or Small by Katherine Whiteside. I so admire gardeners and would love to learn more!
Book B: Read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Need I say that Jane Eyre was a governess? :) I love this book!
Sea of Poppies and Jane Eyre were both over 500 pages so I claim 2 big book tickets.
Points for above tasks: 100
Tasks above completed: 4
Total tasks completed: 21/54
Points completed: 375/910
Books read & claimed: 30
Books by Goodreads authors: 3
Big Books: 3 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)
5.3 Gimme me 5 - Lynette Eason - Too Close to Home (Women of Justice #1)
Points This Task: 5
Tasks Completed: 19
Total Points: 345
Books Read: 29
10.5 It Takes Two - Salem Falls by Jodie Picoult
20.2 Random Words - holly, monkey, sled, bully, ego - Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
Points This Task: 30
Tasks Completed: 21
Total Points: 375
Books Read: 31
50.1 What Happened next The Quinn Brothers trilogy25.1 In My Back Yard
B. Needle and Thread - The Quilter's Apprentice
C. Building Site That Camden SummerThe Main Character's house is a building site
20.7 Quips & Quotes Impossible
"because these daft and dewey eyed dopes keep building up impossible hopes impossible things are happening every day!" http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/cinder...
15.9 - Lion , Lamb I know it's little but there is a dog on this cover. (Big Book 1072 pages)
Points this post 110
Total Points 440
Total task 21
Total books 28
Total big books (500+)1; (1000+) 1
RACHEL CA: 430 points total30.06 MYTH-BEHAVING GREEKS
4. Hades: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Gar, the protagonist's father, is dead after the first half of the book, yet appears and speaks as a ghost during the remainder of the book)
BIG BOOK (576 pgs (500+))
5. Socrates: Tune Up Your Spanish with MP3 Disc by Mary McVey-Gill
Points: 30
Total points: 430
Tasks completed: 28
Books read: 36
Goodreads authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
This is it for me this time around, Congrats to all those that finished!5.1 Waltzing Matilda
Waltz With A Vampire by Maggie MacKeever (Goodreads author)
5.2 Circle of Friends
Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning
10.5. It Takes Two
Tutu Deadly by Natalie Roberts
15.2 -- Blurb It
I read First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones (Goodreads author) which had a blurb from MaryJanice Davidson, so I read Swimming Without a Net
Total Points This Post: 35
Total Tasks This Post: 4
Goodreads Authors This Post: 2
Grand Total Points: 825/910
Total Books Read: 63
Tasks Completed: 50/54
Total Goodreads Authors: 25
Big Book Tickets This Post: 0
Total Big Books: 2
5.8 Blow Your Stack:I read City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Points this post: 5
Grand Total: 295
Thanks to everyone who kept score and made this challenge happen :-) Looking forward to Summer :-)
Finished50. I need to know what happens next
Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke - 2nd
Blueberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke - 3rd
Lemon Meringue Pie Murderby Joanne Fluke - 4th
Task points 50
Total points/ Big Spring End 445
Total tasks 18
Total books 30
Michelle WI25.3 A Better World
Book A: The Likeness by Tana French (crime fighter)
Book B: 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny: Life Lessons from Teaching by Phillip Done (teacher)
15.10 Spring Break
1st to Die by James Patterson
Points this task: 40
Total Points: 275
This is my final post of the Spring challenge. Thanks again to the moderators for always making it fun. Congrats to everyone who finished.5.3 Gimme Five - author has 5 or fewer letters in last name.
The Third Option by Vince Flynn
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 565
Tasks Completed: 37
Books Read: 49
GoodReads Authors: 11
Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (2), 1000+ (0)
30.2 - Sheila's Guilty Pleasures4. Carrie Underwood:
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
1. Alec Mazo:
Jalna by Mazo de la Roche
Total points this challenge 775
20.4 The Royal WeddingDie heimliche Ehe by Diane Haeger
The German title would translate to "The Secret Marriage ".
Total Points: 645/910
Tasks Completed: 38
Books Read: 50
Goodreads Authors: 15
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(2), 1000+(0)
I lied. I got in another book.15.9 In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
It's Raining Pigs & Noodles by Jack Prelutsky
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 515
Total GR Authors: 7
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
So I sort of spaced out for this whole challenge. I've been reading but not necessarily reading based on tasks. I just went through my books and found ways to make most of them fit. I'm really, really sorry to be so last minute on this-I pinky promise this is the only time I will let it get to the wire like this!Previously Completed:
5.9, 15.8, 20.1, 20.10 (60 Points)GR authors-1
New tasks:
5.3 Gimme Five-Horns by Joe Hill
5.7 Going Green-Don't Sing at the Table by Adriana Trigiani which I read as an e-book (that I borrowed from my sister with the Kindle lending feature!)
5.8 Blow Your Stack-Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo
10.4 Elementary my dear Watson-The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley-Alan Bradley is a GR Author
10.5 Couples Appreciation Monty-You Suck by Christopher Moore
10.10 Final Frontiers-Watcher in the Woods by Florence Engell Randall
15.5 Award Me- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters which was nominted for the Man Booker Prize in 2002. This is also a big book-542 pages.
15.7 Lab Lit-Bite Me by Christopher Moore. Steven "Foo Dog" Wong is a scientist/student in the book and he creates a serum to reverse the vampire virus.
15.10-House Arrest by Ellen Meropol who is a GR Author
20.3 International Women's Day-Faithful Place by Tana French who lives in Ireland
20.5 Alliterative Authors Association-Cost by Roxana Robinson
25.2 Bucket List-A. I've been wanting to learn to knit so my mom bought me Stich n Bitch:A Knitter's Handbook by Debbie Stoller. With the book and some help from my mom I am now a knitter!
B. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Kurakami
25.5 March Madness-Tournament of Books
1. A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (GR Author) 2011 List
2. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (GR Author) 2010 List.
New Points-150
Total GR Authors-5
Big Books-1
Total Points for Challenge-210
Joanna TTask 15.6 Truth Is...
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
I have read a few novels about royal romance. The choice was most recently inspired by The Boleyn Inheritance, which I read for the Winter Challenge.
Grand total: 485
Readerboard Name: StacyCT25.2 - 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
B. Atonement by Ian McEwan
Task Points: 25
30.1 - Literature Map by Gender
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire
(used author Haven Kimmel)
(I'm claiming a Big Book ticket for "A Short History..." -- it was 544 pages)
Task Points: 30
20.8 - The Night I Was Born
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Task Points: 20
20.9 - Lucky Me!
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
(Margaret Atwood is a GoodReads author)
Task Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 15
Total Points Earned: 255
Total Books Read: 19
Pages Read: 6528
GoodReads Authors: 1 (Margaret Atwood)
Big Book Tickets: 500+(1), 750+(), 1000+()
Repost to claim a GR Author ticket:
Task 25.4 - Science Fiction and Fantasy Masters
A: Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
B: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman ****GR AUTHOR*****
Task points = 25
Total GR Authors for Challenge = 4
Final Challenge total = 550
5.7 Going Green: Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke - borrowed from Amanda
Points this task: 5
Tasks completed: 22
total points: 380
Books read: 32
10.10 The Final FrontiersMarked by P.C. Cast
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 290
Challenges Completed: 19
Books Read: 24
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.8. It's My Birthday. Jayme VA's Task: The Night I was BornEmma by Jane Austen (and the Emma miniseries)
Total points : 175
Readerboard Name: StacyCT30.5 - All the world is a birthday cake, so take a piece, or a book
(My birthday is July 10th)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Kate H - March 10)
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Angela NY - March 10)
Task Points: 30
25.3 - A Better World
A. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
B. Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy I. Height(social worker, civil rights and women's rights advocate)
Task Points: 25
25.6 - It's All About Australia & Oceania
2.) Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health by Rick Smith
4.) In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Task Points: 25
10.10 - The Final Frontiers
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Task Points: 10
15.10 - Spring Break
Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America by Dana Milbank
Task Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 20
Total Points Earned: 360
Total Books Read: 27
Pages Read: 9192
GoodReads Authors: 1 (Margaret Atwood)
Big Book Tickets: 500+(1), 750+(), 1000+()
5.7 Going GreenFalling For Gracie by Susan Mallery - GoodReads author -- I listened to this as an audiobook10.10. The Final Frontiers Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie -- GoodRead author -- (This was a fun mix of paranormal and romance!)
15.4 -- It's a Repeat
B. Read two books that have the same word in the title
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
and
Elisha's Bones by Don Hoesel
25.2. Sandy's Task: Your Bucket List
A. Think of something that’s on your personal “bucket list” and read a book that somehow relates to it.
Read: The Wild Sight by Loucinda McGary. One of the items on my bucket list is to spend some time in Ireland. The book was set in Ireland.
AND B. Read a book from the list of 1001 Books to Read Before You Die. The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis. I'm actually trying to read more of the books on this list so I loved this challenge.
Total Points: 140
Tasks Completed: 9
Pages Read: 4148
Books Read: 11
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
15.6 The Truth Is...Actually there were three books - The Kite Runner, Burndt Shadows and Lie Down with Lions - which sparked my interest in the history of events in Afghanistan.
Since the Taliban and Al Qàeda are intricately linked in Afghanistan, I chose to read Al Qaeda by Paul L. Williams.
Points: 15
Total Points: 650
Total Tasks Completed: 32
Total Books Read: 47
Total GR Authors: 4
Total Big Books: 3 (500+)
Casey TN5.9 - Shrimp on the Barbie
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera (168 pages)
25.4 - Science Fiction/Fantasy Masters
Book A: Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov (Winner - 1987)
Book B: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Winner - 1977)
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 420
GoodReads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(5), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Right under the wire!15.1 -- The Land Down Under
Read two books. One with the word “Down” and one with the word “Under” anywhere in the title, subtitle, or author’s name.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
This Post: 15
Total Points: 910
Tasks Completed: 54/54
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ (5), 750+ (1), 1000+ (1)
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Carla 15.4 It's a repeat
I read Victoria Line ; Central Line by Maeve Binchy.
Total Points: 305
Tasks Completed: 15
Books Read: 22
Pages Read: 6590 + 3 audiobooks
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
50.1 - What Happens Next?#14 - Reunion in Death by J.D. Robb
#15 -Purity in Death by J.D. Robb
#16 -Portrait in Death by J.D. Robb
Points this post: 50
Total Points: 335
Congrats Gayla, that is cutting it close girl!
WTG Gayla!5.7 - Going Green
Jewel of Atlantis by Gena Showalter
Source: An ebook.
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5.8 - Blow Your Stack
Virgin River by Robyn Carr
Date added: 2/8/11.
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20.2 - Rookie at the Top. Travelgirlut's Task: Random Words
Heart of the Dragon by Gena Showalter
heart, throne, nib, belt, formula
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Points Claiming: 30
Total Points: 350
LaurenVA 25.2. Sandy's Task: Your Bucket List
Reading the 1001 Books list is on my personal bucket list, so I am using a second book from the list.
Slaughterhouse-Five
and
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Task Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 11
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Total Points: 130
Jenny Chicago Task 20.7 Quips and Quotes.
For this I used the one Quip (I think) I have posted in a few spaces around my house. Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History. So I read A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History by Michael Farquhar. A book full of badly behaving men and women who went down in history.
Points this post 20
Total Points 80
Last points post-so excited to start the Summer Tasks-Congrats to all of the finishers!Readerboard name: Leora
I finished:
Task 15.2 Blurb It- I read Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs who wrote a blurb for the book: The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister. Both were good reads!
15.4 It's a Repeat: He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope.
15.8 From a Different Perspective Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson. I read all 9 stinkin volumes of this. I thought it would never end.
20.5 Rachel Renee's Task: Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
495 points total
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15.10: Spring Break
]Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (GoodReads Author)
Task Points: 15
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 340
20.2: Rookie at the Top. Random Words
Random Word Generator (generated 3/23):
• bell
• giant
• nose
• rescue
• witch
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Task Points: 20
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 250
My FINAL “Completed” Tally:
Tasks Completed: 14
Total Books: 20
Total Pages: 6,333
Total Accumulated Points: 240
Goodreads Author Books: 9
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
It was a good Reading Challenge for my first! Now on to the Summer Challenge!!