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[Leora]

Oops, I forgot to add that Clarissa is an epistolary novel, on one of the posts they were approved as an alternative perspective. I am SO HAPPY to cross that one of my 1001 list!!

[Jayme Pendergraft]

Jayme VA

15.5: Award Me: The White Tiger won the Man Booker Prize

15.8: Different Perspective: Girls of Riyadh is an epistolary novel written in the form of emails.

20.1: Mardi Gras Task option 2: Black Order has black in the title.

25.6: It's all about Australia and Oceania
Option 1: Natural Disaster:
33 Men Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners (approved in task help thread)
Option 4: Slow Man takes place in Australia.

30.7: Title Connections
Option 1: Treasure Island and Island Beneath the Sea

Points this post: 105
Total Points: 375
Big Books: 1 (500+)
Goodreads authors: 3

Sorry for the last minute posts- I just finished up a bunch of these and got online. Thanks for all your hard work!

[Michelle]

Readerboard Name: Michelle VA

10.1 Sing Out: Marrying Mozart *Stephanie Cowell is a Goodreads Author*

Points this Post: 10
Total points: 100


Thanks!!

[Joanna]

Joanna T

My final post for this challenge:

Task 30.1 Literature Map by Gender

I used the map of Walt Whitman. I read:

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyám

AND

Small Steps by Louis Sachar

Grand total: 515

[Kate]

Kate H

30.4 Like I Need an Excuse

A. Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant
B. The Help by Kathryn Stockett **GOODREADS AUTHOR**

Pages: 384 & 464
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Points this Post: 30
Total points: 445
Total Pages:13,282
GoodReads Authors: 14
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(1), 1000+(0)

[Diane]

Diane

20.10 Group Read - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. My post in the thread is #41.


Grand Total Points: 740/910
Tasks Completed 42/54
Total Goodreads Authors: 4
Total Big Book Tickets: 10

[Diane]

Congrats, Gayla!

[Karen Michele]

My last two tasks for this challenge:

10.3. Beware the Ides of March:

The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden

+10 Points

15.2 — Blurb It

Red Glove by Holly Black, a Goodreads Author

was blurbed by Scott Westerfeld so I read:

Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld

+15 Points

Points this Post: 25
Goodreads Authors This Post: 1
Grand Total: 795

[Danielle Louise]

15.3 -- Earth Day
A. Reduce - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood was one of the oldest books on my TBR list
C. Recycle - The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg was borrowed from a friend

Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 70
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 6
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+

[Stacie]

STACIE MI

Task 5.2 - Circle of Friends

I read Matched by Ally Condie.

Points this task:5
Total points: 800
Tasks completed: 47
Books read: 62
Pages read: 16600
Goodreads authors: 7
big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

[Tracyj]

Final post for the spring challenge!

15.10 - Spring Break

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss*

*Patrick Rothfuss is a goodreads author

**662 pagess - claiming a big book ticket


30.2 - Sheila's Guilty Pleasure -

City of Thieves by David Benioff
(American Idol #7 - David Cook)

Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg (DWTS - Mark Ballas)


50pt task - "I Need to Know what happens next!"

Make Lemonade

True Believer

This Full House Virginia Euwer Wolff

Points this Post: 95

Total books read - 22

Total Tasks Completed - 15

TOTAL POINTS - 345

[Ms.soule]

10.6. Respect Your Elders
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster - ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 890
Goodreads authors this post: 0
Goodreads authors total: 13
Total Big Books: (500+) 4

[Lisa]

Lisa MD

COMPLETED TASKS:

5.2 Circle of Friends:
"Friends" tab, and then "Popular Books".
❀The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan READ 5.30.11

15.6 The Truth Is...
choose a novel that contained a topic you'd like to know more about and read a non-fiction book about this topic - All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris - Like to know more about Hurricane Katrina and how people started to put their life back together in New Orleans
❀Zeitoun by Dave Eggers READ 5.31.11

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COMPLETED TASKS: 50/54
TOTAL POINTS: 840/910
BOOKS READ: 65/71
GOODREAD AUTHORS: 20
BIG BOOKS: 500 pp. [ ✔ ✔✔ ] 750 pp. [ ✔ ] 1000 pp. [ ]

[RedSycamore]

10.2 -- Say What?
The Man Who Forgot How to Read

15.4 -- It's A Repeat
Words For Empty and Words for Full

15.7 -- Lab Lit (Father/inventor of time travel)
How to Live Safely in Science Fictional Universe

15.8 -- From A Different Perspective (Multiple Perspectives)
Let the Great World Spin

15.10 -- Spring Break
Utopia

20.5 -- Rachel Renee: Alliterative Authors Association
A Brief History of Anxiety...Yours and Mine by Patricia Pearson

20.10 -- Group Read
Outlander + post #31 in the discussion thread

25.2 -- Sandy: Your Bucket List
25.2.1 -- Personal: Play Poker in Vegas! -- Poker Wisdom of a Champion
25.2.2 -- 1001 Books List -- The Ravishing of Lol Stein

30.2 -- Sheila: Guilty Pleasures
30.2.1 -- Idol: David Cook -- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
30.2.2 -- DWtS: Emmitt Smith -- The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith

30.5 -- Delicious Dee: All The World Is Birthday Cake (My Date: 30th)
30.5.1 -- Manday(30th) -- The Yellow Wallpaper
30.5.2 -- Bluemoon(30th) -- The Lost Symbol

30.6 -- Melanie: Myth-Behaving Greeks
30.6.1 -- Roll(1): Zeus/Royalty -- The 13 Clocks
(Main characters are a prince and princess)
30.6.2 -- Roll(4): Homer/Fantasy -- The Fires of Heaven

50 Point Task -- MsOPP: "I Need to Know What Happens Next!
50.1 -- Agamemnon
50.2 -- Coephori
50.3 -- Euminedes

(Approved in thread!)

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Points This Post: 275
Total Points: 480

[Carly]

Carly

15.4 -- It's a Repeat

I read Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny by Marlo Thomas.

The word "story" is repeated.

15.9 -- In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

I read The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise by Julia Stuart.

The animal tortoise is in the title. Also on the cover are pictures of a giraffe, a monkey, a bird and a tortoise.

Points This Task: 30
Total Points: 205
Tasks Completed: 13
Tasks in Progress: 0
Books Read: 17
GoodReads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Pages Read: 5301

[Rachel]

RACHEL CA: 520 points total

5.10 KIA ORA
The White Horse Inn by Georges Simenon (written in French)

15.06 THE TRUTH IS…
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman (Russian history and literature--"War and Peace" Leo Tolstoy, for example, talks about both)

20.06 YOUNG ADULT SERIES
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley 374 pages GOODREADS AUTHOR
Quidditch Through the Ages by J.K. Rowling(56 pgs)

50.01 I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout

The League of Frightened Men byRex Stout

The Rubber Band by Rex Stout

For the first two, I read a two-volume thing: Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men, but single volumes exist per the rules, above.

Points: 90
Total points: 520
Tasks completed: 32
Books read: 43
Goodreads authors: 4

[Kristina Simon]

The Spring 2011 Challenge has now drawn to a close.

Congratulations to all the finishers and to everyone who met or exceeded their goals for this season! Great job!

Let the Summer Challenge begin...