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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2011: EUROPE
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Summer Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS)
20.8 Read Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle10.5 Used Salvation in Death by J.D. Robb as my 5 point book- pulled up Promise Me by Harlan Coben
15.1 One book that fits two options:
Read Crimson JoyCrimson Joy by Robert B. Parker which
a. has roses on the cover and
c. has a main character named the ROSE RED KILLER as the protagonist.
points these tasks 45
total points to date 225
NICOLE AR-20.6 Seasoned Reader - Heather KS's task: Summer Reading
For this task, I read Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares. I pretty much read this book in two days and spent my time reading it while relaxing on the couch and enjoying the noiseless sounds around me.
Points for this task: 20
Total Points: 125
15.6 Speak English! Beastly by Alex Flinn
In Slang, beastly means something/someone that is unpleasant or nasty.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 380
Total Tasks Completed: 21
Total Books Read: 27
Total GoodReads Authors: 6
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
20.4 Author, Author - Isabell's task: Focus on My Favorite Goodreads AuthorLe Parlement des fées, Tome 2 : L'art de la mémoire by John Crowley
1 : magic is very present in the book, first with all the world of faery, and second with the Ariel Hawkskill character, who is somehow a magician
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Total points: 40
20.9 Summerthing BetterLike Kate, I need to improve on my healthy eating! So I read Macrobiotics For Dummies by Verne Verona.
Points for this post: 20
Total Points: 680
Tasks Completed: 42
Books Read: 54
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Book Tickets: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
Task 10.7 Its Been a Year Already? Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
Chosen from June 2010 List, #11.
Jackson Pearce is a Goodreads Author
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 75
Total Tasks Completed: 4
Total Books Read: 4
Total Pages Read:1457
Total GoodReads Authors: 3
10.10 – Gimme S’more - Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich, a Goodreads author.----
20.1 – Birthday Time! - Seven Up by Janet Evanovich, a Goodreads author.
My birthday is January 7th.
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Points Claiming: 30
Total Points: 205
30.7 -- Jennifer N's task: Choose Your Own Adventure – SRC StyleOne of the books I really enjoyed from the summer challenge last year was Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen.
I chose option 2 for Book 1 and read Virals by Kathy Reichs
For book 2 I chose Option B and used option 2 again and went back to literature map and read I'll Walk Alone by Mary Higgins Clark
Total Points = 845
Delicious DeeLast Post 954
15.6 Speak English!
The Best Revenge - Best is slang for fine british ale - Andrew Grey (GR Author)
15.7 The Readers Have Chosen
Succubus Shadows - Richelle Mead (GR Author) - Nominee for Paranormal Fantasy
25.5 - Christine US's task: U.S. Patriots - Finished
A Look Again – Lisa Scottoline (GR Author) is a PA author
B Letters From Home - Kristina McMorris (GR Author)
25.6 - Gayla's task: European Landmarks
A Option 1. - Portrait of Seduction (Art forger - approved in task help thread) - Carrie Lofty (GR author)
B Option 3 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
30.5 -- Donna Jo/Deedee's task: To the Moon
A. My Dream of Stars
B. Gabriel's Ghost - Linnea Sinclair (GR Author)
Total Points this Post: 110
Total Points in Challenge: 540
Books Read: 44
Tasks Completed: 35
GR Authors: 22
Big Book Tickets: 500+(0); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
15.8 Up In the Air- Change of Heart by Mary Calmes initials are MC = Monaco. GR Author
Points this post 15
Total points 330
Tasks Completed: 23
Books read: 28
GR Authors: 14
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Kathy G.15.2 Summer Shorts-
(A) Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball by Kathyleen Brady
AND
(b) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Total Poiints- 120
Total Tasks- 7
Big Books- 1
Goodreads Authors- 0
Katie OH30.9 -- Rosemary's task: Vacation Time!
I read 2 books from Option A.
Where Is Joe Merchant? by Jimmy Buffett (The main character travels to many countries all over the Caribbean.)
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas (The main character travels back to her birth country of Iran as well as vacations in France & the Bahamas.)
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 2
Mod
10.2 Phone Home
Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
2 aliens on earth
15.9 Pulling Weeds
lowest rated book on my TBR- 2.81
The Love of My Youth: A Novel by Mary Gordon
I liked it more than the rating would suggest
25.4 Jenn Renee's task: Color Me Happy
I rolled a 4- Green
option 3- color in author's name- Green
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
option 4- color in character's name- Hunter
Dead Men's Dust by Matt Hilton
Joe Hunter #1
25.6 Gayla's task: European Landmarks
Option 1: The Louvre- an artist
Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick
a novel of Van Gogh
Option 6: Peace Palace- Int'l relations & spies
The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds
CIA, terrorists, London to Rome, Istanbul, and Athens
30.1 Cheryl TX's task: Best Friends and Lovers
A: Best friend's name- Diane
Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson
Diane would like this book. She reads chick-lit and cozies. I'll read anything, but I don't normally gravitate to those genres.
B-2: 7 word title
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
total 575
RACHEL CA: 140 pts total5.05 MAPLE LEAF RAG
The Boggart by Susan Cooper (most of the book is set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, though the beginning and end take place in Scotland)
Points: 5
Total points: 140
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 13
Goodreads authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
ALICIA T.15.8 Up in the Air
I read Firestarter by Stephen King.
I chose to use Slovakia, which is SK.
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 105
Morgan P. 10.8- Baby, It's Hot Outside!
I read The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The book cover is predominately red.
Points: 10
Total Points: 10
Jennifer KS10.4 -- Here Kitty, Kitty I read Hiss of Death by Rita Mae Brown
Points this task 10
Total Points 185
Pages 6617
Mod
I read Kabul Beauty School. I like to travel and I like to experience different cultures, but I think Afghanistan is a little too dangerous for me!
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Sandy MN's task: A Trip to the Past
I read The Dry Grass of August, published in 2011, set in 1954. Another look at race relations in the south, not quite as optimistic as The Help.
30.6 -- Delicious Dee's task: Shakespeare Under the Stars
First Die - I rolled a 3, so read a book of short stories, Swim Back to Me: Stories.
Second Die - I rolled a 2, so read a fantasy book,
Unnatural Issue: An Elemental Masters Novel by Mercedes Lackey.
Total points: 470
Jennifer KS10.3 -- Spare Me I read A Game of Thrones by George R Martin
This book takes place in part on a land called Winterfell where winter lasts for years at a time. I don't like 4 months of winter I would hate years worth.
My copy has 807 pages so I would like to claim 2 big book tickets
Points this task 10
Total Points 195
Big Book Tickets 3
Pages 7424
Heather KSFinished task 10.6 GLBT by reading The Borrower
Also, Rebecca Makkai is a Goodreads author.
New point total: 225
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter-A Trip to the PastHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
This book was published in 2006 and is set in the 1960s.
20.9-Summerthing Better
The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy by Vicki Iovine
I read this book because I recently found out I'm pregnant for the first time and I feel like I need to read everything I can get my hands on to try to get over my vague sense of panic and fear (not that I'm not also really, really excited, of course!). This book wasn't the best pick, actually, but it was the first thing I could get at the library. Now I'm going to have to figure out how to work all my other pregnancy books into the challenge. Haha.
Total Books Read: 4
Total Challenges Completed: 4
Total Pages Read: 1583
Big Book Tickets:0
GoodReads Author Tickets:0
Total Points: 60
Kate.x.25.3 Sandy's Ice Cream truck task.
3. Scribblers = Chuck Palahniuk "A walk in Portland, Oregon"
5. Bullet Firecracker Pop - MC Beaton "Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham"
Total points = 125
I'd like to move a book.10.4 - HERE KITTY, KITTY - White Cat. This book was originally claimed for task 25.3 in post 559.
25.3 - ICE CREAM TRUCK - I read 2 Bullet Firecracker pops. Hot Six and Hard Eight both by Janet Evanovich.
This will give me one more Goodreads author for Janet Evanovich.
TOTAL POINTS - 335
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 12
BIG BOOKS - 3
Elizabeth NC10.1 (Steampunk) Soulless by Gail Carriger
10.3 (Book set in place I don't want to go) The Fall by Guillermo Del Toro. I love New York City, but I do not want to go there during a vampire epidemic. It's a great book though and I look forward to the last one coming out in October.
10.9 (Scary book) The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro. First of a trilogy--very good.
20.4 (I rolled a 5--mystery book) Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton
20.6 (Read book while doing favorite activity) Ruby Redby Kerstin Gier. I read this sitting on the beach with my toes in the water.
20.7 (Historical fiction) The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
25.3 (Ice cream truck)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (YA)
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde (mystery)
30.1
Part A--name of best friend Good-bye and Amen: A Novel by Beth Gutcheon. My best friend when I was very young was named Beth
Part B--Seven words in title Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
30.6
first die = 6 (humorous) Swift Justice by Laura DiSilverio
second die = 4 (murder mystery) The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
Total Points: 175
Task 20.6 Summer ReadingI read my book while watching the Tour de France on Eurosport-two of my biggest passions at once!
Meridian by Amber Kizer
*Claiming a Goodreads Author ticket*
Points this task:20
Total Points:225
Goodreads Authors:8
Big Book Tickets:0
Kelly G."Summer Reading"
I love running in the summertime - something about dodging sprinklers and the smell of cut grass I guess. I listened to Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me by: Chelsea Handler, while running. Always good to laugh when you are sweating it out!
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 80
Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 4
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Ticket Books: 1(500+) 0(750+) 0(1000+)
Sandy MN30.3 -- DLMRose's task: If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
A. Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
**GR Author**
B. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
**GR Author**
Total Points: 225
Total GR Authors: 5
10.2 I Am Number Four by Pitticus Lore10.3 Vacations From Hell by Libba Bray & others Wouldn't want to go to France(My ultimate dream vacation/bucket list wish)and be accused of murder while there!
10.8 Loser/Queen by Jodi Lynn Anderson
15.4 Faeries Gone Wild by MaryJanice Davidson and others
20.8 A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
25.2 Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon 1991 Drama
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty 1973 Fiction
Total Points: 240
GR Authors: 4
Mod
James Patterson is a goodreads author
20.1 Birthday Time- I was born in April read The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June by Robin Benway
Points this Post: 25
Total points-545/1000
Tasks Completed: 32/57
Books read: 42/77
Total pages: 13020
GR Authors: 15
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
30.8 -- Beth NC's Task: Summer SolsticeI chose option 1 and read:
I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells **Goodreads Author**
From the Quality Dark Fiction # 49 list
AND
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
From the Light but not too dumb # 190 list
Total Points = 875
New Goodreads Author = Dan Wells
**Note - Can you believe it? Here I am at 60 years old and this is the first time I have read a Nancy Drew book!! I had an older brother that was in to the Hardy Boys so I read those instead. Thanks Beth NC for introducing me to Nancy Drew.
sclosson5.6 As American As...
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Alan Bradley is a Goodreads Author
Points: 5
Total Points: 150
Tasks Completed: 9
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneMy Goal Points for this Season: 350
Points earned for this task: 10
Points Achieved to date: 185
Updated last on: 7.13
Total # of books read: 17
Total # of pages read: 5,813
Total # of tasks completed: 15
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 4
Total # of Big Books: 500+ (0)
Task 10.8 Baby, It's Hot Outside!...read a book with a cover that is predominately made up of hot colors.
I read
The Redheaded Princess by Ann Rinaldi 224 pages (7.9)
NICOLE VA30.4 -- MsOPP's Task: Summer in Europe
I chose option 4, read a book set in a European country:
Uncommon Criminals which is set in Monaco
and I chose option 5, read a book with 'summer' in the title:
The Last Summer.
Total points = 215
20.6 Summer Reading Places Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose.I started this book while at the library (a favorite place to go whatever the season) and finished it lying in my backyard in the shade. I spend all winter waiting for summer so I can go outside and read!
Total points: 75
Sheila wrote: "**Note - Can you believe it? Here I am at 60 years old and this is the first time I have read a Nancy Drew book!! I had an older brother that was in to the Hardy Boys so I read those instead. Thanks Beth NC for introducing me to Nancy Drew ..."Isn't it great when we truly enjoy reading a book for this challenge that we would have never read without it? That is one of the main reasons I am on Goodreads and in this challenge.
I am so glad you finally found Nancy, she kept me very occupied as a pre-teen. I spent many a day, hiding in the corner behind the wing chair reading Nancy Drew Mysteries. I have introduced my 9 yr old granddaughter to them now.
And speaking of the Hardy Boys do you remember the tv series with Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson?
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneMy Goal Points for this Season: 350
Points earned for this task: 10
Points Achieved to date: 195
Updated last on: 7.13
Total # of books read: 18
Total # of pages read: 6,191
Total # of tasks completed: 16
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 4
Total # of Big Books: 500+ (0)
Task 10.10...read s'more by an author you've read before.
I read
McKettricks of Texas: Austin (McKettricks of Texas #3) by Linda Lael Miller 378 pages (7.12)
5.8 But No ShopliftingI Think I Love You by Allison Pearson a GoodReads author
I borrowed this book from my local library.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 30
Total tasks completed: 3
Total books read: 3
Total GoodReads authors: 3
KRISTEN MA10.10 GIMME S'MORE - Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman. This is the 7th book that I have read by her. ***Also Carol Goodman is a GOODREADS AUTHOR. I would like to claim a GOODREADS AUTHOR ticket.***
20.3 SWRA'S TASK: HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY - Fireworks over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff. This book has 272 pages and what makes me happy is fireworks, especially because fireworks usually take place during a happy occasion like the 4th of July and other holidays. ***Jeffrey Stepakoff is a GOODREADS AUTHOR. I would like to claim a GOODREADS AUTHOR ticket.***
Total Points: 165
Total Tasks Completed: 10
Total Pages: 5641
Total Books Read: 15
Total Goodreads Authors: 6
Total Big Book Tickets: 500+ (1), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
Taryn20.4 Author, Author - Isabell's task: Focus on My Favorite Goodreads Author
I rolled a 3 - Read a book featuring a strong female heroine (if you choose this option please say how the heroine in the book is “strong” when you post the task) or a book written by a female author.
An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is a female author, and Harper Connelly is definitely a strong heroine. Not only does Harper help people find the dead bodies of their loved ones, she is always determined to get to the bottom of any fishy business, regardless of the physical/mental/emotion toll it takes on her.
10.10 -- Gimme S’more
Speaking of camping... August 10 is National S'mores Day. Read s'more by an author you've read before. No rereads allowed.
Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads author)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 115
Goodreads authors: 4
EllenCATask 15.4 Summer Shorts: I read The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 compiled by Dave Eggers.
Total Points: 55
Completed Tasks: 3
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 0
Beth NC wrote: "Sheila wrote: "**Note - Can you believe it? Here I am at 60 years old and this is the first time I have read a Nancy Drew book!! I had an older brother that was in to the Hardy Boys so I read those..."I also loved Nancy Drew as a kid--never got into the Hardy Boys except on the TV show. I had a big poster of Shaun Cassidy in my room and his record (did he have more than one?) with Da Do Run Run on it. I cried so hard when it got left in the car and warped. I also remember that on the show every once in a while there would be a Nancy Drew episode. I really looked forward to those and thought it was completely unfair that she did not get a series in her own right. Have you read Confessions of a Teen Sleuth? It's a great parody of the Nancy Drew books (but I think only enjoyable if you read them a lot as a kid). It was a few chapters too long, but brought back a lot of memories.
Username: TANYAPTTask: 25.3
Option #6: read a book that was made into a movie
Book: The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
Option #8: read a science fiction/fantasy book.
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 170
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 11
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
I'll have to check that out Elizabeth. And yes I do remember the TV show Beth but always prefered Parker. Memories.This has been a great challenge for me. I have found a bunch of new authors that I have never read before, read some really good books and made some new friends. Thanks SRC!
10.3 -- Spare Me One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
The idea of living in a neighbourhood like hers (rough area of New Jersey) scared me a lot, Stephanie's car was vandalised, people tried to kill her several times and it didn't sound at all like somewhere I'd want to go.
Janet Evanovich is a goodreads author
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 390
Total Tasks Completed: 22
Total Books Read: 28
Total GoodReads Authors: 7
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
LISA NC15.4 Summer Shorts-read ONE anthology or collection of short stories.
Stingray Bit My Nipple!: True Stories from Real Travelers by Erik Torkells
This book has been preapproved in the Summer Task Help Thread
This Post: 15 points
Total: 85 points
25.6 - Gayla's task: European LandmarksFor parts 5 and 6, I read Imperialism and Jewish Society 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. by Seth Schartz (religious history) and Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran (novel set in ancient times)
These were both approved in the task thread.
*** Michelle Moran is a goodreads author *** Michelle Moran (Author)
total points: 195
total books read:14
tasks completed: 10
Goodreads authors :6
Big Books 750 (1)
pages read: 4867
STACIE MITask 10.8 - Baby, It's Hot Outside
I read Stupid Cupid by Rhonda Stapleton, who is a Goodreads author!
Points this task: 10
Total points: 330
Tasks completed: 16
Books read: 23
Pages read: 5595
Goodreads authors: 4
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Dianarobi20.10 Group Read - Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Points this post - 20
Total points - 25
Posted in discussion - complete
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
5.7 Don't Stop ReadingWintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (***Claiming GOODREADS AUTHOR ticket***)
15.5 Mind the Gap
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
(book 3 out of 7)
30.4 Summer In Europe
Option 3:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (number 11 on coming of age list)
Option 4: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (set in England)
New Total Points: 265
The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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I read The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
The main character in this book is trying to uncover a family secret (option D) and the book is set in North Carolina where I was born and raised and where a majority of my family still lives (option F). Great book, too! I really enjoyed it.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 200