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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2011: EUROPE
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Summer Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS)
RACHEL CA: 180 pts total30.04 SUMMER IN EUROPE
2. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (takes place during the summer, after Percy completes a year of school)
4. Mr Skeffington by Elizabeth von Arnim(takes place in the U.K.)
Points: 30
Total points: 180
Tasks completed: 13
Books read: 16
Goodreads authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
15.10 Summertime, And the Reading is EasyRead any book you choose
Debt of Bones by Terry Goodkind
20.6 Seasoned Reader - Heather KS's task: Summer Reading
Read a book while doing your favorite summer activities.
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
I read this book poolside.
Points This Post: 35
Big Book Tickets claimed this post: 0
GR Authors read this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets earned this season: 3
GR Authors read this season: 1
Total Points: 95
Readerboard Name: Cheryl TX10.6 Gay Pride
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sachez
30.7 Adventure - SRC Style
Original Author Kate Brian
Option 2
Cruel Love by Kate Brian
Different Author Option B
The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
Points this post: 40
Colleen MNI finished Task 10.9 I read:
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by HP Lovecraft.I also finished Task 15.10. I read:
Escape by Carolyn Jessop. I would give it 5 stars, it was so terrifying because it was true.Total points this post: 25
Total points so far: 175
KIM NY15.5 Mind the Gap
For this challenge I read
by Kresley Cole. This is the third book in the Immortals After Dark series which currently has a total of 12 books.Points this post: 15
Total points: 135
Heather KSFinished task 15.8 Airline Code
I read The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes
MK is the airline code for the Republic of Macedonia
New point total: 285
Heather KS Finished task 20.2 Netherlands/11 letters
I read Contingency which is an 11 letter word.
The author, Paula Wiseman, is a Goodreads author
New point total: 305
15.8 I read Prodigal Son by Dean KoontzDK is the country code for Denmark
points this post: 15
total points: 175
Cindy FTask 25.3 Ice Cream Truck
For treat #4 Rainbow Snow Cone read Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and for treat #5 Bullet Fire Cracker Pop read A Faint Cold Fear
Points this task: 25
Total points to date: 150
Tasks completed to date: 10
Books read to date: 13
Goodreads Author: 1
Big Books: 500+(1) 750+(0) 1000+(0)
Delicious DeeLast Post 1354
5.1. At the Shore.
On Mystic Lake - Kristin Hannah (GR Author)
20.9 Lucky Me! - Summerthing Better - Finished
Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too - while I haven't been diagnosed with anything that requires me to eat Gluten Free, in the last year, I have noticed that I feel significantly better when I do so - so I am always on the lookout for books with recipes, talking about their experiences etc - and now I have a stack of new recipes to try out and ideas to play with
25.2 - BJ Rose's task: Pulitzer Winners Past & Present
A - Polio: An American Story - History - 2006
B - Angela's Ashes - Biography/Autobiography - 1997
30.2 -- Sheila/Wendy UK's task: A.K.A. -
Charlotte Featherstone AKA Sophie Renwick
Hot in Here - Sophie Renwick (GR Author)
Seduction & Scandal - Charlotte Featherstone (GR Author)
30.7 -- Jennifer N's task: Choose Your Own Adventure – SRC Style
Original Name – Nalini Singh
A. - Option 2 - Sweet Persuasion
B. - Option A - Sweet Seduction
30.10 - Coralie's task: Half and Half
Book from the Spring Challenge – Bone Crossed – Patricia Biggs
A. Magic to the Bone - Devon Monk (GR Author)
B. Star Crossed
Total Points this Post: 140
Total Points in Challenge: 790
Books Read: 63
Tasks Completed: 47
GR Authors: 32
Big Book Tickets: 500+(0); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
ANGIE CA20.5 Family Reunion
Book: Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens
Notes: Option D) Sara searches for her birth parents.
*Good Reads Author*
This post: 20
Total to date: 170
GR Authors: 8
Big Books: 0
Books Read: 15
30.7 Choose Your Own Adventure – SRC StyleI didn't participate in last year's summer challenge, so I used my favorite author, Haruki Murakami, as inspiration. So:
Option 1: Input Haruki Murakami and read The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.
Option B: Input Thomas Pynchon and read Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster.
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 170
Total Tasks Completed: 8
Total Books Read: 11
Total Pages Read: 2563
Total GoodReads Authors: 1
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
STACIE MITask 20.5 - Family Reunion
I decided to read a book set in my local area/region. I read:
Grosse Pointe Girl: Tales from a Suburban Adolescence by Sarah Grace McCandless
Grosse Pointe is just outside Detroit, where I grew up.
***Sarah Grace McCandless is a Goodreads author***
Points this task: 20
Total points: 445
Tasks completed: 22
Books read: 32
Pages read: 7942
Goodreads authors: 6
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
25.3 - Sandy's task: The Ice Cream Truck 4. Rainbow Snow Cone – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
6. Pink Panther Pop – House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Total Points = 95
Cindy FTask 10.8 Baby its Hot Outside
read
by Rebecca Skloot who is a goodreads author!!Points this task: 10
Total points to date: 160
Tasks completed to date: 11
Books read to date: 14
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big books: 500+(1) 750+(0) 1000+(0)
M_ELLEREADS20.4: Author, Author – Isabell’s task; Focus on my Favorite Goodreads Author: I rolled a 2.
#2 “The Immortals”-read a book with HORSE in the title
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Task Points: 20
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 272
20.5: Bigger is Better – Sue T’s task: Family Reunion: Option B-A fictional family saga with two generations (grandfather and granddaughter) as major characters
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
Task Points: 20
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 352
Total Accumulated Points: 125
Cindy FTask 15.7 The Raders Have Chosen
read The 9th Judgment by James Patterson who is a Goodreads Author!!!
2010 Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery and Thriller
Points this post: 15
Total points to date: 175
Tasks completed to date: 12
Books read to date: 15
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big books: 500+(1) 750+(0) 1000+(0)
Simba20.5 - Bigger is Better
Body Double by Tess Gerritsen
*Tess Gerritsen is a GR Author*
I chose option D - in this book, a crime forces one of the main characters to trace her genealogy. As always, this book was awesome and I would recommend Tess Gerritsens work to anyone... just make sure you start at the beginning of the series.
Points on Post: 20
Total Points: 205/1000
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 13
Pages Read: 5021
Goodread Authors: 8
Big Books: 500+ (1)
Name: Anna UK30.8 -- Beth NC's Task: Summer Solstice
Quality Dark Fiction – The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan
Best Humorous Books – One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich is a Goodreads author.
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 95
Tasks Completed: 6
Big Book Tickets: 500(0) 750(0) 1000(0)
Goodreads Authors: 3
Name: Anna UK20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Sandy MN's task: A Trip to the Past
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
The Thousand Autumns... is 560 pages long.
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 115
Tasks Completed: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500(1) 750(0) 1000(0)
Goodreads Authors: 3
50.1 - Emily Kate's Task: Hodge-Podge For my first book I read The Passage by Justin Cronin which qualifies for E (a previous SRC read in Fall 2010) AND 1 (more than 700 pages) 776 pages ***Big Book Ticket***
For my second book I read A Cold-Blooded Business by Dana Stabenow which qualifies for A (Author I have read before) AND 2 (Goodreads author) ^^^Goodreads Author ^^^
For my third book I read Hunting Season by Nevada Barr which qualifies for A (Author I have read before) AND 3 (book that is part of a series) (Anna Pigeon Mysteries #10)
Total Points = 1000
New Big Book = The Passage
New Goodreads Author = Dana Stabenow
*I liked The Passage (at least the first part but absolutely HATED the way it ended!
Readerboard Name: StacyCT10.4 - Here Kitty Kitty
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Task Points: 10
20.4 - Focus on My Favorite Goodreads Author
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
(#2 - "Squirrel" in the title and on the cover)
Task Points: 20
15.4 - Summer Shorts
Stories - edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio
Neil Gaiman is a Goodreads author.
Task Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 8
Total Points Earned: 95
Total Books Read: 8
Pages Read: 2027
GoodReads Authors: 2 (Aimee Bender, Neil Gaiman)
Big Book Tickets: 500+(), 750+(), 1000+()
Readerboard Name: StacyCT30.6 - Shakespeare Under the Stars
1st die:
6) As You Like It -
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee by Sarah Silverman
2nd die:
2) Midsummer Night's Dream - What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire
Task Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 9
Total Points Earned: 125
Total Books Read: 10
Pages Read: 2603
GoodReads Authors: 2 (Aimee Bender, Neil Gaiman)
Big Book Tickets: 500+(), 750+(), 1000+()
STACIE MITask 30.3 - If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
For A, I read The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation by Elizabeth Berg.
For B, I read Spain or Shine by Michelle Jellen.
Points this task: 30
Total points: 475
Tasks completed: 23
Books read: 34
Pages read: 8438
Goodreads authors: 6
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
30.10 Half and HalfI used the 2 word title from last season, Burning Up, and I read...
The Burning Wire by Jeffrey Deaver (claiming GOODREADS AUTHOR ticket!)
and
Cracked up to Be by Courtney Summers (claiming GOODREADS AUTHOR ticket!)
New Total: 330
30.1 Best Friends and LoversA. My best friend (of more than 30 years) is Christy, so I read The Labours Of Hercules by Agatha Christie.
B. I chose option c) book with Festival, Double, Night, Birthday, Valentine, Chinese, Lunar, Goddess, Queen, Jade, Emperor, Heaven in title and read Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 355
Tasks Completed: 20
Books Read: 26
GoodReads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (2), 1000+ (0)
Thanks Sue, this was a great challenge.
Mandy S.20.6 Summer Reading
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by John Krakauer
I read parts of this while camping at Yosemite!
Points this post: 20 points
Total: 105 points
Tasks Completed: 7
5.1 At the Shore Read a book set primarily on an island or at the seashore or a lakeshore.
The Watery Part of the World by Michael Parker
This Post: 5
Total Points: 310
Tasks Completed: 24/57
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (1), 1000+ (2)
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10.9 -- Around the Campfire Summer is the time for camping. Camping and ghost stories go hand in hand. Read a scary book, a collection of spooky stories, or a book with a ghost or a haunted house in it. Ex: The Haunting of Hill House, The Amityville Horror, Northern Haunts] Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella
Hettie15.1- Beware of Thorns
One book that fits two options
fits A and B
(picture of a rose is in the O on Rose on the cover)
15.4 Summer Shorts
Read ONE anthology short stories by several contributing authors
Strange New Worlds II
20.3 Best Review Contest - Sera's task: Happy, Happy, Happy
My dog makes me happy so I read a book about dogs
The Dog That Saved My Life: Incredible True Stories of Canine Loyalty Beyond All Bounds
20.5 Bigger is Better - Sue T's task: Family Reunion
Fits option d as approved in help thread
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
30.3 -- DLMRose's task: If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
A - book with day in the title
The Only Day Girl
and
B - Book with England in the title
England, Our England
Previous points total: 100
Points this post: 100
Total: 200
Task 15.10 SummertimeTrue Everest Adventure Stories by Paul Dowswell
Task 20.3 Happy Happy Happy
The one thing I do love about summer is that there is lots of cricket on the TV! So I picked a cricket biography of the current England captain to read.
Coming into Play by Andrew Strauss
Task 20.7 A trip to the past
The Shadow of the Pomegranate by Jean Plaidy
Points these tasks:55
Total Points:315
Goodreads Authors:9
Big Book Tickets:0
30.6 Delicious Dee's task: Shakespeare Under the Stars For this task, you will roll two dice (one time only!). I rolled two 5s.
First Die:
5. Henry V - read a non-fiction book in which a war or battle is featured
Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades by Jonathan Phillips
Second Die:
5. King Lear - read a book (fiction or nonfiction) featuring a member of royalty
Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart by Chris Skidmore
This Post: 30
Total Points: 340
Tasks Completed: 25/57
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (1), 1000+ (2)
Katie OH30.4 -- MsOPP's task: Summer in Europe
Option 2. Read a book that takes place during the summer.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Option 3. Read a coming of age novel from the Best Coming of Age Stories list.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Points this task: 30
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 4
Goodreads authors: 0
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Repost50.1 - Emily Kate's Task: Hodge-Podge
For my first book I read The Passage by Justin Cronin which qualifies for E (a previous SRC read in Fall 2010) AND 1 (more than 700 pages) 766 pages ***Big Book Ticket***
For my second book I read A Cold-Blooded Business by Dana Stabenow which qualifies for A (Author I have read before) AND 2 (Goodreads author) ^^^Goodreads Author ^^^
For my third book I read Hunting Season by Nevada Barr which qualifies for A (Author I have read before) AND 3 (book that is part of a series) (Anna Pigeon Mysteries #10)
Total Points = 1000
New Big Book = The Passage
New Goodreads Author = Dana Stabenow
*I liked The Passage (at least the first part but absolutely HATED the way it ended!
Elizabeth NCI want to move a book:
15.6 (book with word from slang list) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Stone is on the food and drink list). This book was previously in task 25.3
25.3
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire--YA (this is the replacement for HP and the Sorcerer's Stone.
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing--mystery book. This one is the same.
That gives me:
Points: 190
Books Read: 13
Tasks Completed: 11
Pages Read: 4908
15.6 Speak EnglishFrom the motoring list I picked "wing" and read Buffalo West Wing by ***Goodreads Author***Julie Hyzy
30.10 Coralie - Half and Half
Book from Spring Challenge - Sea Glass
Book 1 - Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts
Book 2 - City of Glass by ***Goodreads Auther*** Cassandra Clare - 541 pp. Big Book
Points this post: 45
Total Points: 400
Tasks Completed: 24
Books Read: 29
GoodReads Authors: 7
Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (2), 1000+ (0)
Jennifer KS20.6 Seasoned Reader - Heather KS's task: Summer Reading
I read Burn Out by Marcia Muller
Since we are in the middle of a major heat wave here I read this while laying on the couch in the air conditioning and sitting on the patio during the coolest parts of the day!
Points this task 20
Total Points 220
Pages 8133
ANGIE CA15.7 The Readers Have Chosen
Book: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
Notes: Genre- Young Adult Fantasy
This post: 15
Total to date: 185
GR Authors: 8
Big Books: 0
Books Read: 16
Hi, I have three tasks in this post.5.4: SUMMMMMER - consecutive letters in the title: I read The Wednesday Letters - consecutive "t".
Pages: 280
20.3: Summerthing better: I read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. This fits into the task because it is an inspiring look into raising one's own food, becoming aware of where your food comes from, and trying to eat local. I live in Nevada- agriculture is a big part of this region, and I am trying to eat better (more organic, seasonal produce) and contribute to the local economy.
Pages: 354 (excluding the list of references at the end!)
5.9: The Long and Short of It: I read
Pages: 483
Tasks this Post: 3
Points this Post: 30
Total Tasks Completed: 5/57
Total Points: 60
Total Big Books: 500+ (1)
Total Pages read: 868 from previous posts, plus 1117 here = 1985!
25.3 - Sandy's task: The Ice Cream Truck Bubble Gum Bar:
by Sara Shepard ***Goodreads Author***Rainbow Snow Cone:
by Sara Shepard ***Goodreads Author*** (Emily was lesbian in previous books, but realized this book that she is bisexual)Points for this Task: 25
Total Points: 95
Goal Total Points: 165
Completed Tasks: 20.2, 20.10, 25.3, 30.1
Tasks in Progress: 20.8, 30.4, 50.1
Pages Read: 1041
Books Read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 4 (Kelley, Armstrong, Sara Shepardx3)
Big Books: 500+() 750+() 1000+()
Sandy MNTask 10.8 - Baby, It's Hot Outside!
Yellow Cover:
Bridget by Linda Lael Miller.
Total Pointss: 360
30.8 Beth NC's Task: Summer SolsticeOption 2:
Read one of the 10 longest books on your TBR list
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (1016 pages)
(A Dance with Dragons is thus a Big Book.)
AND
Read one of the 10 shortest books (that is over 100 pages) on your TBR list
If You're Not Yet Like Me by Edan Lepucki (102 pages)
Edan Lepucki is a GoodReads Author.
This Post: 30
Total Points: 370
Tasks Completed: 26/57
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (1), 1000+ (3)
EllenCAFor 10.10 - Gimme S'more I read Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire. I've read the Wicked series books by him.
Total points: 65 Points
Completed Tasks: 4
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
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Read a book that is set (at least partially) in a place you really don’t want to visit.
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The setting of this book, a remote part of the Amazonian jungle, includes miserable heat, malaria-carrying insects, and a neighboring tribe of cannibals. Not my cuppa.
This Post: 10
Total Points: 305
Tasks Completed: 23/57
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (1), 1000+ (2)