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WINTER CHALLENGE 2011: EARTH
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CathyG5.8. Jump!
Read a book with a number of pages that is evenly divisible by 4.
The Runaway Duke by Julie Anne Long
384 pp
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10.9 Earth Signs Read an author who was born under an Earth sign.
April 22- Janet Evanovich
Explosive Eighteen
Goodreads Author
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30.6 - Sassafrass's task: The Many Facets of EARTH
1. you must read a book with three words in the MAIN title
A Novel Seduction by Gwyn Cready
2. read a book that has a brown cover
include the book cover
Never Love a Highlander by Maya Banks
Required: State what numbers you rolled when you post 1/2
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Points this post: 45
Total points: 315
Tasks completed: 20
Books read: 23
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
SOELO30.7 Don't Judge a Book by its Cover
I got one head and tail
The book with the cover I loved is
because of the colors, scenery and birds. It lived up to its cover because of the imagery.and the cover I hated was
. I only "hate" it because it is misleading. The book takes place in India and it shows the Taj Mahal, but the main character never visits the Taj Mahal in the story. The book was better than the cover.Points for this post: 30
Total points so far: 165
Kathy G.20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Stacie MI's task: And They Lived Happily Ever After
Option A- "Time in the Title"
The Time Thief by Linda Buckley-Archer
My favorite fairytale has always been Cinderella. She lives happily ever after.
Total Points- 110
Total Tasks- 6
Goodreads Authors- 1
Big Books (500+)- 2
Delicious Dee
Last Post 1126
5.3. Round Here......
- the round thing is the globe on the cover that she is breaking out of5.4. Let’s Call it a Goal!
The Don't Sweat Guide To Your Finances : Planning, Saving and Spending Stress-Free - my goal this year is to get my credit card debt paid off, and my finances under control - hopefully...this book gave some helpful hints but nothing I didn't really already know
5.10. EARTH
The Heart of Texas - RJ Scott (GR author)
10.4 Blue, White, and the Black of Night
- Darynda Jones (GR Author)15.8 What’s IndieNext?
When She Woke - Hillary Jordan (GR Author) - from the October 2011 Indie Next list
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Stacie MI's task: And They Lived Happily Ever After
Option B - Nothing Ever Happens - Sue Brown (GR Author)
30.2 Sheila’s Task: One Author – Two Series
A. Drink Deep - Chloe Neill (GR Author) - Chicagoland Vampires Book 5
B. Firespell - Chloe Neill (GR Author) - Dark Elite book 1 - book 3 was released January 4
Total Points This Post: 90
Total Points Overall: 500
Books Completed: 43
Tasks Complete: 32
GR Authors: 25
Big Book Tickers: 500(0), 750(1), 1000(0)
30.2 Sheila’s Task: One Author – Two Series Book 1: Terrier by Tamora Pierce
563 pages, Claiming BIG BOOK Ticket
Book 2: Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce
***Claiming TWO GR Author Tickets***
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 275
Total GR Author tickets: 6
Big Book tickets: 5
Liora15.6 Read 'em Their Writes
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez30.1 Unique Winter Holidays
I rolled a 2 and a 5.
2 (Cozy Mystery):
Button Holed by Kylie Logan5 (Boy Scout Merit Badge - Citizenship in the World):
Marcelo In The Real World by Francisco X. StorkBoth Kylie Logan and Francisco X. Stork are new-to-me authors.
Points this post: 45
Total points this challenge: 365
Tasks completed: 17
Books read this challenge: 25
Goodreads authors: 8
Big Books: 2
25.2 Santa by any other name is...well, still SantaOption 3
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey
Tunnels by Roderick Gordon (Goodreads Author), Brian Williams
Points this post: 25
Total points: 75
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 6
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=1, 750=1, 1000=0
Jessica PDX30.3 - DLMRose's Task: Small Changes or Simple Swaps
I changed the word "and" to "end."
by Nancy Pickard
by Adam HochschildPoints this Post: 30
Total Challenge Points: 585
Total Goodreads Authors: 15
Big Books: 500+ - 2; 750+ - zero; 1000+ - zero
AprilDT15.6 Read 'Em Their Writes!
The Eyre Affair The main character is SpecOps in alternate history.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 215
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 13
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big books: 500+(1); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
30.4 - Donna Jo's task: Double or NothingI rolled a 2 and a 4
For Book A: I read one of my all time favorite books.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier first published in 1938 (double D's in author name)
For Book B: I read a book with double letters.
Short Squeeze: A Mystery by Chris Knopf
Total Points = 860
**NOTE. I questioned whether duMaurier was a D book or and M book. At my library it was shelved as F DUM.
BUTTERFLYCAGER5.3. Round Here...... - The Hollows Insider by Kim Harrison. The round thing on the cover is the moon.
10.9 Earth Signs - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
According to Goodreads, her birthday is December 31, which makes her a Capricorn.
Doomsday Book is 578 pages, thus making it a Big Book.
25.9 - Denise NC’s Task: My Favorite Genres
Option 2 - Urban Fantasy - Unshapely Things by Mark Del Franco (Connor Grey, #1)
Option 3 - Mystery - The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #1)
Points this post: 40
Total challenge points: 565
Tasks completed: 29
Books read: 41
Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
Alice GTask 30.4 Double or Nothing
Book A
First Dice Roll: Even
Book: War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Book B
Second Dice Roll: Even
Book: Shadows in the Street
Total Points: 120
Previous Reads
5.6 Other People Liked it why not me? - A Discovery of Witches
5.7 Third Stone from the Sun - The Knife of Never Letting go
10.2 As You Like It - Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
10.3 Here be the Dragons - Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
15.6 Read 'em their writes - Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
15.8 What's Indie Next - The cellist of Sarajevo
30.6 The Many Facets of Eart - Monsters of Men and The Ask and the Answer
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Joanna T30.1 Unique Winter Holidays
First Die = 6: Get a Different Name
I chose Kate, which is the name of one of my cousins and has always seemed like a nice regal name with a lot of flexibility for different nicknames.
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Kate Morton is a new-to-me author.
The Forgotten Garden is a big book, with 552 pages. Kate Morton is a GR Author.
Second Die = 5: Boy Scout Day
I chose the "Indian Lore" merit badge.
The Soul of the Rhino: A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and Bureaucrats, Shamans and Scientists and the Indian Rhinoceros by Hemanta Mishra
Hemanta Mishra is a new-to-me author.
Points this post: 30
Grand total: 180
25.8 - 2011: The Year in Review3. A fiction book about the British royal family:
Queen Camilla by Sue Townsend
4. A book set in Iraq:
Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family by Tamara Chalabi
Total points 275
10.5 It's Summer SomewhereLawn Boy Returns by Gary Paulsen
Takes place during the summer in Minnesota
10.9 Earth Signs
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen (88 pages)
and
The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech by Gary Paulsen (96 pages)
Gary Paulsen was born May 17 (Taurus)
20.8 It's all about ME (Myself, and I)
The Last Time I Was Me by Cathy Lamb
Cathy Lamb is a Goodreads Author
Points this post: 40
Total points: 200
Total tasks: 13
Books read: 16
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Book Tickets: 2
15.10 Sweet!: Found in Bliss by Sophie Oak***Sophie Oak is a Goodreads Author***
50.1 For the Love of Middle School:
book1--The Girls Like: (a book that is also a TV show) Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
book 2--The Boys Like: (a book shelved as Dystopia) Demon Bait by Moira Rogers
book 3--Everyone Loves: (I rolled a 4--which is the category for Lacrosse) and read Siren in Waiting by Sophie Oak which has a main character who is an NFL player.
***Sophie Oak is a Goodreads Author***
Total Points this Post: 65
Total Points in Challenge: 865
Books Read: 65
Tasks Completed: 45
GR Authors: 48
Big Book Tickets: 500+(0); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Karen F's task: Baby, It’s Cold OutsideOption C- Curl Up By the Fire (fire on cover)
by Rick RiordanPoints this task: 20
Total Points: 320
Goodreads Authors: Lauren Kate, Stacey Jay, Kendare Blake, SJ Watson, James Patterson*, Chevy Stevens, Jillian Lauren, Gregg Olsen
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
15.7 Directionally ChallengedPies and Prejudice: In Search of the North by Stuart Maconie
This Post: 15
Total Points: 110
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 10
Goodreads Authors: 1 (Michele Hauf)
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
30.5 Butterflycager’s Task: Christmas Caroling1. Storm Born by Richelle Mead for the Christmas carol "When a Child is Born"
**Richelle Mead is a Goodreads Author**
2. Silver-Tongued Devil by Jaye Wells for the Christmas carol "Silver Bells"
**Jaye Wells is a Goodreads Author**
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 235
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 16
Goodreads Authors: 15
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
10.1 Climb Every Mountain Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
I've been wanting to read this book for a very long time.
10.2 As You Like It
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
This book was recommemded my Historical Fiction shelf. I really enjoyed the book and would probably have never heard about it were it not for the challenge. Thanks!
30.5 Christmas Caroling
1. The Last Child by John Hart ("What Child is This")
2. Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag by Karl Tobien Goodreads Author
("Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer")
50 points this post.
150 total points
1 GR Author this post
1 total GR Author
BJ Rose2 new tasks
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Karen F's task: Baby, It’s Cold Outside
D. Snuggle up with your Honey: How the Marquess was Won -
by Julie Anne Long *the genre Romance appears on the book's main page20.10 Group Read - I chose Steampunk
by Scott WesterfeldI posted messages #23 & #24
Points this post = 40
Total Points = 360
Tasks Completed = 21
Total Pages Read = 10,259
Goodreads Authors = 4
Task 25.2 - Santa by any other name is..... well, still Santa
Option 2: Three Fates by Nora Roberts and Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
Challenge total = 485
25.8 Year in Review-1. Notable book of 2011: 11/22/63 by Stephen King 849 pages***2BigBook tickets***2. Movie version released 25Dec,2011: War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Winter total: 675
KIM NY25.6 - Laurie ME's task: Winter Fun and Games
Book 1: In Dreams by J. Sterling. The two main male characters are ice hockey players.
Book 2: Unleashed by Cherrie Lynn. This book takes place in Hawaii.
Points this post: 25
Total points for challenge: 470
10.10 Winter BluesThe Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
**Claiming GR Author Ticket**
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 665/985
Tasks Completed: 33/57
Books Read: 46/77
Goodreads Authors: 27
Big Books: 500=4, 750=1x2, 1000=0
Boston Kate10.5 It's Summer Somewhere
In a Sunburned Country
set in the southern hemisphere
25.1 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Book 1: White Lilacs (young adult book)
Extras
Book 2: Marigold (death central to plot)
The Wake
most of the book revolves around the funeral/wake of the main character (approved in help thread)
Points this post: 35
Total points: 110
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 10
5.8 Jump!When The Emperor Was Divine - 160 pages (Divisible by 4)
5.9 Trash to Treasure
My friend, Susan, gave 2* to:
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
I didn't love the book either - it had lofty goals, but I found it too sappy. Barely 3*
Jamie Ford is a GoodReads Author
20.8 It's My Birthday
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
"Me" in title
Points this post: 30
Tasks completed this post: 3
Big Book Tickets, GR authors this post: 0,1
Total points: 150
Total tasks completed: 10
Total number Big Books: 500(2) 750( ) 1000(1)
Total Big Book tickets: 5
Total GoodReads authors: 4
15.5 All Shiny and New Bossypants by Tina Fey
(277 pgs; pub. April 5, 2011; new-to-me author)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 115
Tasks completed: 8
Total books read: 8
Total pages read: 2485
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
20.2 - Rookie on Top - Connie's task: The Nutcracker I auditioned for the Snow Queen and the Snowflakes by reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (last name starts with 'W').
At 578 pages, this was a Big Book, and I'd like to claim a ticket for it.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 170
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 13
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0
Laurie ME10.6: Can't Wait 'Til Spring:
Hope Ramsey - Home at Last Chance
30.5: Butterflycager's Task: Christmas Carolling:
Susan Andersen - All Shook Up (All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth)
Fiona Veitch Smith - The Peace Garden (Let There Be Peace on Earth)
Points This Task: 40.
Total Points: 495.
Hope Ramsey and Susan Andersen are goodreads authors
Kimber15.8 What's Indie Next?
October, 2011 Indie List
The Dovekeepers
This task: 15
Tasks completed: 13
Total points: 210
GR Authors: 7
Kimber20.3 Words Among Friends
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
WYAEIF = WIFE
This task: 20
Tasks completed: 14
Total points: 230
GR authors: 7
CASSELM10.2 As You Like It
The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne, recommended from the "This Modern Life US" shelf. I can understand why GR recommended it, but it's not an author that I would read again.
10.8 Hidden Gems
Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri. This book only had 758 ratings as of November 18, 2011.
10.9 Earth Signs
High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories by Robertson Davies. Davies was born August 28, 1913.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 85.
5.5 All Around the World - A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray Goodreads Author20.4 Author! Author! - Valorie's task: Happy New Year!! - 4) Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward (bookswap)
25.4 Sandy’s Task: On This Day in History - A1)The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory B2) Trail of Tears by Gloria Jahoda
Points this post: 50
Total points: 50
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Kimber10.6 Can't Wait 'Til Spring
by Alan Brennertflowers on cover
This task: 10
Tasks completed: 15
Total points: 240
name:Suzanne15.4 Go Green
B. Read a book by an author named "green"- "green" should be found intact in any name
C. Read a book with a green cover
OR
Read ONE book that fits 2 of the above categories
edited byMartin H. Greenberg and Russell Davistotal points:150
AprilDT20.2-The Nutcracker
2. Auditioned for the toymaker and magician
Like Water for Chocolate
Points this post: 20
Total points: 235
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 14
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big books: 500+(1); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
Cindy FTask 10.8 Hidden Gems
I read The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylorby Sally Armstrong
(105 ratings)
Points this post:10
Total points:200
Tasks completed:13
Books read:15
Goodreads Authors:3
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
25.1 -- Where Have All the Flowers Gone?White Lilacs: YA book - Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Sweetbriar: One word title - Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
Points this post: 25
Season Total: 30
20.9 - Lucky Me! - Luckngrace's task: Honoring the Grands D. Read a book a book of religious or inspirational fiction or a non-fiction book about religion.
D.H. Nevins(Goodreads Author)
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 455
Tasks Completed: 29
Books Read: 37
Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0D.H. Nevins
GayleReposting information from post 1496:
Task 30.1: Cheryl TX/Lori BNPL's task: Unique Winter Holidays
I rolled a 2: Cozy Mystery
Them Bones by Carolyn Haines 336 pages
***Goodreads Author***
And, I rolled a 6: Name I like: Courtney
Unlocked by Courtney Milan 111 pages
***Goodreads Author***
Both authors are new to me.
Joy Marie20.9 Honoring the Grands
Option C
Read:
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Total Points: 115
Laurie ME10.6: Can't Wait 'Til Spring:
Hope Ramsey - Home at Last Chance
30.5: Butterflycager's Task: Christmas Carolling:
Susan Andersen - All Shook Up (All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth)
Fiona Veitch Smith - The Peace Garden (Let There Be Peace on Earth)
Points This Task: 40.
Total Points: 495.
Hope Ramsey and Susan Andersen are goodreads authors
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20.3 - Best Review - Chris MD's task: Words Among FriendsI read And One Last Thing ... by Molly Harper. I made the word alto and double-checked it on the US Scrabble website- a low female singing voice.
*Molly Harper is a GR Author*
Points This Post- 20
Total Points- 300 *Thank you for pointing out my adding error in earlier post!* Should be correct now :)
GR Authors- 11
Jessica PDX10.9 - Earth Signs
by Agatha ChristieChristie was born September 15, 1890, making her a Virgo.
Points this Post: 10
Total Challenge Points: 595
Total Goodreads Authors: 15
Big Books: 500+ - 2; 750+ - zero; 1000+ - zero
STACIE MI10.9 - Earth Signs
I read a book by Agatha Christie, who was born September 15th:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Points this task: 10
Total points: 365
Tasks completed: 22
Books read: 29
Pages read: 7215
Goodreads authors:9
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
10.1 Climb Every Mountain:I read The Guy Not Taken by Jennifer Weiner *A Goodreads Author*
Points this post: 10
Total points: 160
Tasks completed: 12
Books read: 13
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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Option 2: Brown Cover
The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge
Option 4: Biography or Autobiography
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Points for this task: 30
Points thus far: 255
Goodreads Authors: 4