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Challenge #7 - REPORT POINTS HERE
50.2 - Djrmel’s task Read 2 books written by 2 different authors, set in the same country, at least 50 years but no more than 100 years apart.
1/2
Roots by Alex Haley
America 1750-1960 (pre-approved by Djrmel)
729 pages = 6pts
HF = 1pt
challenge total = still 82
100 point bonus: A job well done! The 7 people who completed Challenge #6 have each selected a favorite book of theirs. Read any 4 of the books listed. All 4 books must be completed before points will be awarded. 2/4 complete:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
320 pages = 4pts
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
398 pages = 4pts
challenge total = still 82
10.1 - Take an island vacation. Read a book that is set on an island.Read: Skinny Dipby Carl Hiaasen
Pages: 496 = 4 points
Task Points: 10
HF: 0
Task Total: 14 points
Challenge Total: 26 points
15.3 - By royal decree! Read a HF book with a royal title in the title. (ex. Empress Orchid, The White Queen, etc.) King Solomon's Mines
272 pages = 2
hf = 1
Total = 18
5.2 - It's A Scorcher Out There Summer Sisters
415 Pages = 4 points
Task Total 9 points
10.1 Take An Island Vacation
Now You See Her
Set in Key West
432 pages = 4 points
Task Total = 14 points
10.2 Let's Take A Trip
Dawn on a Distant Shore
Traveled from Canada to Scotland and back to New York
HF 1792 = 1 point
672 pages = 6 points
Task Total = 17 points
10.3 All Work and No Play
The Lincoln Lawyer
404 pages = 4 points
Task Total = 14 points
15.02 Hot Off The Presses
Deliverance From Evil: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
HF 1692 = 1 point
320 pages = 2 points
Task Total = 18 points
15.03 By Royal Decree
The Pirate Queen: The Story of Grace O'Malley, Irish Pirate
HF 16th century = 1 point
368 pages = 2 points
Task Total = 18 points
Challenge Points = 90
50.2 - Djrmel’s taskRead 2 books written by 2 different authors, set in the same country, at least 50 years but no more than 100 years apart. (SET 50-100 years apart)
My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira (US 1860's)
HF 1 pt
364 pgs 4 pts
A Marked Man by Barbara Hamilton (US 1770's)
HF 1 pt
336 pgs 4 pts
Task total 60 pts
Challenge total 185 pts
100 point bonus: A job well done! The 7 people who completed Challenge #6 have each selected a favorite book of theirs. Read any 4 of the books listed. All 4 books must be completed before points will be awarded.1/4 - Pride and Prejudice
320 pages = 4pts
Rachel wrote: "I redid the entire scoresheet and correct some scoring problems this morning. Sorry again for typos!!Updated Scoreboard:
Butterflycager 317
Kiri 214
Zee 229
Luckngrace 211
Holly 200
Rachel 195
..."
Your right. I was cheating myself of points. I'm unable to do simple adding apparently. What would we all do without you? Sorry.
100 point bonus: Read 4 of 7: Suttree 471 pages
Gross Joel : Books of Rachel 450 pages
Pride and Prejudice 320 pages
The Princess Bride 398 pages
Page points-16 points
Task total-116 points
Challenge total- 327 points
100 point bonus: A job well done! The 7 people who completed Challenge #6 have each selected a favorite book of theirs. Read any 4 of the books listed. All 4 books must be completed before points will be awarded.Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett
Page Count: 4 Points (423 pages)
HF: 1 point
The Books of Rachel by Joel Gross
Page Count: 4 points (450 pages)
HF 1 point
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
Page Count: 4 points (368 pages)
HF: 1 point
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
HF: 1 point
Page Count: 4 points (356 pages)
Total Task Points: 120 points
Total Challenge Points: 293 points
20.3 Coulda Been ThereThe Golden One by Elizabeth Peters
Task Points: 20 Pts
HF: 1 Pt
512 Pages: 6 Pts
Task Total: 27 Pts
Challenge Total: 109 Pts
Task completed:100 point bonus: A job well done! The 7 people who completed Challenge #6 have each selected a favorite book of theirs. Read any 4 of the books listed. All 4 books must be completed before points will be awarded.
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Pages: 471 = 4 points
HF: 1 point
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Pages: 356 = 4 points
HF: 1 point
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pages: 320 = 4 points
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
Pages: 368 = 4 points
HF: 1 point
Task points: 100
Page bonus: 16
HF: 3
Task total: 119
Challenge total: 436
If I'm not mistaken, I'm all done...
10.1 - Take an island vacation. Read a book that is set on an island.Flashman's Lady - England, Indonesia & Madagascar!
336 pages = 4
HF = 1
Total = 15 points
15.2 - Hot off the presses! Read a HF book published in 2011.The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel
HF: 1 point
Page Count: 8 points (757 pages)
Total Task Points: 24 points
Total Challenge Points: 317 points
Well done butterflycager!50.2 - Djrmel’s task
Read 2 books written by 2 different authors, set in the same country, at least 50 years but no more than 100 years apart. (SET 50-100 years apart)
1. The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick - 1098, Wales/England
361 pages
2. The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin - 1176, England
371 pages
Task points: 50
Page bonus: 8
HF bonus: 2
Task total: 60
Challenge total: 289
Butterflycager wrote: "Task completed:100 point bonus: A job well done! The 7 people who completed Challenge #6 have each selected a favorite book of theirs. Read any 4 of the books listed. All 4 books must be complete..."
Wow, and in only one month! Great job!
20.2-set where I live: Sunday's Child272 points-2pts+1HF=3pts
Total-23 points
Challenge Total- 350 points
Luckngrace wrote: "Butterflycager wrote: "Task completed:100 point bonus: A job well done! The 7 people who completed Challenge #6 have each selected a favorite book of theirs. Read any 4 of the books listed. All..."
I know- very fast- just a little over a month. Is anyone else close to being done? Not me, I still have 6 books.
I'm not finishing this one; I knew from the start I wouldn't be able to fit the books I plan to read this summer into the tasks and I'd rather read what I want to right now, so I'm just fitting what I can and enjoying seeing what others are reading and posting.
20.1 - Celebrate Freedom! Read a HF book that celebrates any kind of freedom. (religious, race, gender, political, etc.) Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman Gender/Race
HF 1 pt
256 pgs 2 pts
Task total 23 pts
20.2 - It’s a stay-cation. Read a HF book that is set where you live or in your local region.
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly Central Texas
HF 1 pt
338 pgs 4 pts
Task total 25 pts
20.3 - I wish I coulda been there! Read a HF book that is set in your favorite time period and setting.
An Empty Death by Laura Wilson WWII England
HF 1 pt
432 pgs 4pts
Task total 25 pts
Challenge total 258 pts
Two more left!!
Shay wrote: "Luckngrace wrote: "Butterflycager wrote: "Task completed:100 point bonus: A job well done! The 7 people who completed Challenge #6 have each selected a favorite book of theirs. Read any 4 of th..."
Not me, and I think I'll skip the graphic novel anyway.
20.1 Read HF that celebrates any kind of freedom.Bound by Sally Gunning
320pgs: 4pts
HF: 1pt
Total: 25 pts
Grand total: 189pts
Luckngrace wrote: "Butterflycager wrote: "Task completed:100 point bonus: A job well done! The 7 people who completed Challenge #6 have each selected a favorite book of theirs. Read any 4 of the books listed. All..."
Thanks! I had a lot of fun with this challenge. And by the way, thanks so much for suggesting His Majesty's Dragon for the bonus - I was skeptical at first, but once I got into it, I couldn't put it down. Awesome book!
Butterflycager wrote: "Luckngrace wrote: "Butterflycager wrote: "Task completed:100 point bonus: A job well done! The 7 people who completed Challenge #6 have each selected a favorite book of theirs. Read any 4 of the ..."
I had the same experience with HMD. I had never read fantasy before, but this one blew me away. I've finally rounded up the rest of the series and hope I can use the 2nd one for the next challenge. I think there are 5 of them in all.
Luckngrace wrote: "Butterflycager wrote: "Luckngrace wrote: "Butterflycager wrote: "Task completed:100 point bonus: A job well done! The 7 people who completed Challenge #6 have each selected a favorite book of t..."
There are 6 in the series. I liked the first enough to keep reading them. Just have to request the next one from the library.
Shay wrote: "Luckngrace wrote: "Butterflycager wrote: "Luckngrace wrote: "Butterflycager wrote: "Task completed:100 point bonus: A job well done! The 7 people who completed Challenge #6 have each selected a f..."
Thanks, Shay, but I'm housebound. I keep an eye on ebay for deals on books I want to read. My kids are always fussing because they have to drag all those boxes of books home. "I know," I say, "I'll never live long enough to read all these books." But they're so beautiful just sitting there waiting for me to discover all the secrets of men's hearts. I know all you here at GR understand what I'm talking about.
5.3 - A trip down the rabbit hole... Read a re-imagined fairy tale. Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Task pts: 5
Page Bonus: 4 (320 pgs)
Total:9
10.3 - All work and no play... Read a book that has the name of an occupation in the title.
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Task pts: 10
Page Bonus: 4 (402 pgs)
Total: 14
20.1 - Celebrate Freedom! Read a HF book that celebrates any kind of freedom. (religious, race, gender, political, etc.)
To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Sandra Byrd (Religious freedom-reformation)
Task Pts: 20
Page Bonus: 4 (352 pgs)
HF: 1
Total: 25
Cumulative Total: 231
Beth NC wrote: "5.2 - It's A Scorcher Out There Summer Sisters
415 Pages = 4 points
Task Total 9 points
10.1 Take An Island Vacation
Now You See Her
Set in Key West
432 pages..."
Hi Beth - you missed a couple of points!! Both Deliverance from Evil & Pirate Queen get 4 points for length! :)
This weeks scoreboard!!Butterflycager 436
Shay 357
Luckngrace 353
Zee 289
Kiri 271
Cheryl 268
Holly P 231
Rachel 228
Christy 209
Holly 200
JenC 150
Emily 119
HeatherJ 114
KarenF 109
ladywallingford 108
Beth NC 94
Carla 82
Diane 76
Jamie 59
Ellen 55
Babs 24
Amy 47
LP Heather 45
Gayle 35
Jennifer 26
LemonLinda 22
Margaret 18
Drjmel 13
Shannon 13
Jayme 9
Congrats on a VERY quick finish Butterflycager!!
Luckngrace - you missed 3 points for your HR for the 100 pt challenge!
20.1 Celebrate FreedomThe Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant 403 pages
Task points = 20
page bonus = 4
HF = 1
Total task points = 25
Challenge points = 60
Shay wrote: "I think I should only have 317 points."You're right! There was a glitch in the spreadsheet formula. Thanks for catching this Shay.
10.3 - All work and no play... Read a book that has the name of an occupation in the title. Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet by M.C. Beaton
Task Points: 10
224 Pages: 2
Task Total: 12 Pts
Challenge Total: 121 Pts
15.1-set in the 1960s. Downtown512 pages + HF = 7 points
Task total: 22 points
Challenge Total: 375 points
50.2 - Djrmel’s task Read 2 books written by 2 different authors, set in the same country, at least 50 years but no more than 100 years apart.
2/2
Roots by Alex Haley
America 1750-1960 (pre-approved by Djrmel)
729 pages = 6pts
HF = 1pt
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
America 1830s-2000s
514 pages = 6pts
HF = 1
task total = 64 pts
challenge total = 146 pts
20.1 - Celebrate Freedom! Read a HF book that celebrates any kind of freedom. (religious, race, gender, political, etc.)North and South by John Jakes
HF: 1 point
Page Count: 8 points (816 pages)
Total Task Points: 29 points
Total Challenge Points: 346 points
Plugging in others I have read that will fit the challenge:20.1 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
Task points - 20
HF - 0 (published 1862/book goes through 1830s)
Page Count - 10 points (1435 pages)
Total Task points - 30
20.2 Off Season by Anne Rivers
Siddons
Task points - 20 points
Page Count - 4 points - (350 pages)
Total Task Points - 24
50.1 Shay's task - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Task Points - 50 points
HF - 1 point
Page Count - 8 points (945 pages)
Total Task Points - 59 points
Total Challenge Points - 135 points
10.1 - Take an island vacation. Read a book that is set on an island.The Lady in the Tower The Fall of Anne Boleyn by: Alison Weir
288 pages - 2 points
Task Total - 12 points
Challenge total - 120 points
Task 20.3 Read a HF book that is set in your favorite time period and settingThe Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
602 pages
Task Points = 20
Page Points = 6
HF Points = 1
Total Points for Task = 27
Task 10.2 Read a book about a journey or traveling
The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
484 pages
Task Points = 10
Page Points = 4
Total Points for Task = 14
Total Points for Challenge = 88
15.1 - Summer of Love! Read a HF book set in the 1960’s.Heaven, Hell and Mademoiselle by Harold Carlton
368 pages
Task points: 15
Page bonus: 4
HF bonus: 1 (as per exception for this task)
Task total: 20
Challenge total: 309
Time to start working on the 100 point bonus, I think.
Rachel wrote: "Hi Beth - you missed a couple of points!! Both Deliverance from Evil & Pirate Queen get 4 points for length! :)..."Thanks for catching this Rachel
20.01 - Celebrate Freedom Someone Knows My Name
Celebrates Freedom from American Slavery
HF 17th Century = 1 point
470 pages = 4 points
Task Total = 25 points
50.01 Shay's Task
John Adams
Won Pulitzer in 2002 for Biography
HF 1765-1800 = 1 point
751 pages = 8 points
Not Fiction = 1 point
Task Total = 60 points
50.2 Djrmel's Task
Fall of Giants
Set in America 1911-1924
HF 1911-1924 = 1 point
985 pages = 8 points
Tripwire
Set in America late 1900's
432 pages = 4 points
Task Total = 63 points
Challenge Points = 242
Completed task 50.2Read a book written by 2 different authors, set in the same country, set at least 50 years but no more than 100 years apart
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Task points: 50
HF: 1
Page bonus: 2
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Task points: 53
Total challenge points: 108
15.1 - Summer of Love! Read a HF book set in the 1960’s.Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy
HF: 1 point (set in 1962, published 1987)
Page Count: 8 points (768 pages)
Total Task Points: 24 points
Total Challenge Points: 370 points
Ellen wrote: "Completed task 50.2Read a book written by 2 different authors, set in the same country, set at least 50 years but no more than 100 years apart
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Task po..."
Ellen - you get page points for Chinese Cinderella as well! Since it was between 200-300 pages, you have 2 more points.
Beth NC wrote: "20.01 - Celebrate Freedom Someone Knows My Name
Celebrates Freedom from American Slavery
HF 17th Century = 1 point
470 pages = 4 points
Task Total = 25 points
50.01 Shay's T..."
Beth - you actually got 59 points for 50.1 Shay's Challenge. You get the Non-fiction point, but not the HF one.
ladywallingford wrote: "10.1 - Take an island vacation. Read a book that is set on an island.The Lady in the Tower The Fall of Anne Boleyn by: Alison Weir
288 pages - 2 points
Task Total - 12 points
Cha..."
ladywallingford - You missed your HF point for this! Task total is really 13!
LemonLinda wrote: "Plugging in others I have read that will fit the challenge:20.1 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
Task points - 20
HF - 0 (published 1862/book goes through 1830s)
Page C..."
LemonLinda - I'm not able to give you points for 20.1 or 20.2 since the tasks are for HF books.
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I posted this in Message 141, but the points weren't included in the most recent scoreboard. Thanks.
Thanks for reposting this Shay!