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WINTER CHALLENGE 2011: EARTH
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Jodi 210.2 – As You Like It (Memoir shelf)
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
Points this post: 10
Total points: 25
Tasks completed: 3
Books Read: 3
5.3 Round Here...
The blue globe is round.
Tasks completed: 1
Points for this task: 5
Points thus far: 5
Books Read: 1
Correction for post 434Sorry about that! The Big Book Ticket goes to
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton 648 pgs.
10.4 - Blue, White & The Black of Night 
- the cover is mainly blue
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
GoodReads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+ 0, 750+ 0, 1000+ 0
10.4 Blue, White, and the Black of Night
total points 45
5.8 JumpEverything You Know by Zoë Heller
208 pages
This Post: 5
Total Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 3
Goodreads Authors: 0 ()
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
10.6. Can't Wait 'Til Spring! Get ready for spring by reading a nonfiction book about gardening, a novel featuring a gardener, or a book with a flower (or flowers) on the cover.
by Lauren MyracleThis Post: 10
Total Points: 75/985
Tasks Completed: 8/57
Books Read: 8/79
Kimber30.1 Unique Winter Holidays
Rolled 2 & 5
For 2 (cozy mystery) I read The Sixes by Kate White
For 5 (word from Boy Scout Badge) I read The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children by Keith McGowan Cooking is one of the scout badges & Keith McGowan was a NEW TO ME author
This task: 30
#tasks completed: 5
Total points: 35
GR authors: 3
15.6 Read 'em Their Writes!Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin
Goodreads author
Silas "32" Jones is the Constable.
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 15
KIM NY20.2 - Rookie on Top - Connie's task: The Nutcracker
1. Clara and Fritz, the Stahlbaum children - the two main characters are 18 years old.
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
Points for post: 20
Total points for challenge: 105
5.5 It's the Latest Thing!The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman
Points this task: 5
5.6 Other People like it, why not me?
Bossypants
Tina Fey
Best Humor
Points this task: 5
5.8 Jump
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell
296 pages
Points this task: 5
10.8 Hidden Gems
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Avi Steinberg
Goodreads author
945 ratings
Points this task: 10
Total Points: 40
Total Goodreads authors: 2
15.1 Cause Knowledge is Power!I read one book that fits two categories:
B. Superlative "Best" in the title.
C. Pronoun "I" in the title.
The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives by Katie Couric.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 125
Tasks: 7
Books: 8
Goodread authors: 2
5.2 That Bugs Me!Still Alice by Lisa Genova*
*Lisa Genova is a goodreads author
5.4 Let's Call it a Goal
Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories edited by Megan Kelley Hall*
My goal is to be more sensitive to/help prevent bullying in my classroom
*many goodreads authors were contributors
30.6 The Many Facets of EARTH
A) My Life, Deleted by Scott Bolzan
B) The Watchers by Shane Harris
(ebook - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79...)
Total Points: 45
Keltie Lee10.9 Earth Signs
Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn’t Have)
by Sarah Mlynowski (a Capricorn)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
Tasks: 1
Books: 1
Goodread authors: 1
30.2 Sheila’s Task: One Author – Two Series 1 - Dream a Little Dream by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, a Goodreads author.
4th in a series of 7.
2 - Fancy Pants by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, a Goodreads author.
1st in a different series of 7 by the same author.
Total Points: 150
GRA: 4
25.9 - Denise NC's task: My Favorite GenresOption 2 – Urban Fantasy
Option 5 – Romance
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 205
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 17
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Laurie ME15.1: Cause Knowledge is Power:
1. Option A. Russell Martin - Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
2. Option C. Kat Jorgensen - Your Eight O'Clock is Dead
15.2 Make It Work
1. Brunonia Barry - The Lace Reader
2. Lynn MIchaels - Marriage by Design
20.4: Author! Author! Valorie's Task: Happy New Year: Option 2:
Nora Roberts - Blue Smoke
Points this Post - 50
Total Points - 115
5.8. Jump!
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 210
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 18
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
20.7 And they Lived Happily Ever AfterForever by Maggie Stiefvater (approved in task help thread)
** Claiming GR Author Ticket **
This Post: 20
Total Points: 275
Tasks Completed: 15
Books Read: 19
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Books: 500=1, 750=1x2, 1000=0
5.3. Round Here...... This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson – approved in task board post 58
15.9 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing:
Archangel's Consort by Nalini Singh
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 55
Christie Guatemala30.5 - Butterflycager's task: Christmas Carolling
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
(O Little Town of Bethlehem)
Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
(Most Wonderful Time of the Year)
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 65
KAREN F15.9 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Vampire Mine by Kerrelyn Sparks
Main female character is a angel in human form.
20.9 Honoring the Grands
B: Book with "Grand" in the title
Grand Passion by Jayne Ann Krentz
**Jayne Ann Krentz is a Goodreads Author**
Points this Post: 35
Total Challenge Points: 65
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(0),750+(0),1000+(0)
5.8. Jump! "No of Pages should be evenly divisible by 4"
✔ Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
Total No of Pages = 448
Also, James Patterson in a GR Author.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 30
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Keltie Lee10.10 The Winter Blues
The Future of Us
by Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler
20.2 - Rookie on Top - Connie's task: The Nutcracker
1. Clara and Fritz, the Stahlbaum children
Rhymes with Cupid
by Anna Humphrey (Goodreads Author)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 40
Tasks: 3
Books: 3
Goodread authors: 2
Michelle WI20.2 The Nutcracker
Option 2 Herr Drosselmeyer, a toymaker and magician
Book containing magic realism The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 50
Tasks Completed: 3
5.6. Other People Liked It, Why Not Me? Iron House by John Hart
This book was nominated in the Mystery & Thriller
category
5.10. EARTH
Tabula Rasa by Shelly Reuben
15.1 Cause Knowledge is Power!:
A. Conjunction Junction: Read a book with a title or subtitle that contains a coordinating conjunction: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.
Undead and Undermined by MaryJanice Davidson
D. Interjections!- !
Pacific Vortex! by Clive Cussler
Total Points = 240
15.5 - All Shiny & New The Night Before Christmas
Published 27th October 2011 - definately a new author as this is her first book.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
GoodReads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+ 0, 750+ 0, 1000+ 0
5.3 Round Here
by Ally CondieThere is a round green orb containing a girl on the cover.
This Post: 5
Total Points: 280
Tasks Completed: 16
Books Read: 20
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Books: 500=1, 750=1x2, 1000=0
Finished:5.8 Jump!
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai which has 324 pages.
This book left me with some of the same disturbing feelings as Room by Donahue
10.2 As You Like it:
The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook was recommended on my steampunk shelf and it was a welcome addition for me.
10.7 Featuring Earth:
The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa. This Graphic novel was not one of my favorites.
15.2 Make It Work:
A. Blue Velvet by Iris Johansen
B. Wanted: Mail-Order Mistress by Deborah Hale
20.6 Seasoned Reader--Joanna %'s Task--Microhistory:
by Catherine Friend is a short course on sheep and sheepherding and how it fits into the world.25.1 Rachel Lee's Task--Where Have All the Flowers Gone?:
A. Red Rose: Romance
by Julianne MacLeanB. White Lilacs: YA
by Frances O'Roark DowellToday's total: 85
Grand total: 130
5.6 - Other People Liked it, Why Not Me? I read Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens, which was nominated in the mystery and thriller category.
Chevy Stevens is a Goodreads author.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 5
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
10.3 Here, there be dragons
by Anne McCaffreyPoints this post: 10
Total Points: 75
Total GR Author tickets: 1
Big Book tickets: 1
JACKIE NC5.8. Jump!
Murder Between the Covers by Elaine Viets
288 pages
10.8 Hidden Gems
Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh
761 ratings
10.9 Earth Signs
The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie
Birthdate: 9/15/1890
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 25
Goodreads Authors:
Big Book Tickets:
1010.4 Blue, White, and the Black of Night[bookcove:The Eight|251217]
Points: 10
BIG BOOK TICKET (550pp)
Total Points: 85
Total Books Read: 11
Total Tasks Completed: 5
Total GR Authors: 1
Total Big Books: (500) 1
15.5 All Shiny and NewMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs - new author to me, published in June 2011
20.2 The Nutcracker
I tried out for Clara and Fritz (option 1) and read The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan - both of the main characters (Carter and Sadie Kane) are teenagers.
Total Points: 35
5.3 Round Here
Sex, Lies and Edelweiss by J.L. MerrowThe round things are the dots after J and L in the author name, approved on the help thread.
The book was approved for a 5 point task in the ebook verification.
* Goodreads author: J.L. Merrow
10.5 It's Summer Somewhere
Wight Mischief by J.L. Merrow
Takes place in summer.
Approved for length on the ebook verification.
* Goodreads author: J.L. Merrow
15.8 What's IndieNext
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
On the list for July 2009.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 85
GR authors: 2
Big book tickets: 0
Tasks done: 7
Books read: 7
10.8 Hidden GemsI read The Promised World: A Novel by Lisa Tucker(a GoodReads Author). It had 386 reviews at the time I read it.
20.1a-Baby it's Cold Outside (Drink a hot beverage)
I read Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo.
Points this post:30
Total points: 70
Tasks completed:4
Books read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
20.9 - Lucky Me! - Luckngrace's task: Honoring the Grands The Christmas Dog by Melody Carlson
This book actually fit 2 categories: A - main character is a senior citizen and grandparent; and D - inspirational/Christian fiction.
Total Points: 170
GRA: 4
BJ Rose1 new task
25.7 - Amanda A's task: Name Train This is a two book task.
Book 1 - If your Readerboard name has more than one word, you may use the last letter of any word in the name.
Readerboard name is BJ Rose, so I chose to use the J and read
Daring by Jillian Hunter
Book 2 - Read a book whose author's first, middle, or last name begins with the last letter of the previous author's first or last name.
I read Tonight and Always by Nora Roberts, where both the 'n' in Jillian & the 'r' in Hunter work for this author.
Points this post = 25
Total Points = 80
Tasks Completed = 6
Total Pages Read = 2433
Liora20.2 Rookie on Top - Connie's Task: The Nutcracker
I am auditioning for Clara and Fritz, the Stahlbaum Children.
DivergentThe main character, Tris, is sixteen years old.
25.3 Mrs. Soule's Task: A Series in Your Stocking
A Clue for the Puzzle Lady and
A Puzzle in a Pear TreeBoth Parnell Hall and Veronica Roth are Goodreads authors.
Points this post: 45
Total points this challenge: 125
Tasks completed: 7
Books read this challenge: 9
Goodreads authors: 2
Readername = Beth Lynn30.1. I rolled a 2 and a 3.
2. Read a cozy mystery.
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author). 364 pages.
3. Read a book with a man on the cover.
by Da Chen. 432 pages.Points this post: 30
Total points: 30
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 2
Pages read: 796
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
15.5 All Shiny and New: December is Read a New Book Month- read a book published since January 1, 2011 by a new-to-you author.The Christmas Shoppe by Melody Carlson
The Christmas Shoppe
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 40
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
Goodreads Author: 2
Big Books: 500 = 0, 750 = 0, 1000 = 0
10.8 Hidden Gems
An Irish Christmas by Melody Carlson
An Irish Christmas
This book has 99 ratings
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 50
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 6
Goodreads Author: 2
Big Books: 500 = 0, 750 = 0, 1000 = 0
ERIN MNTask 5.3: Peppermint Twisted by Sammi Carter (wheels on wagon are round)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 10
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
ERIN MNTask 25.1:
-Marigold (Death & Pain) - Chocolate Dipped Death by Sammi Carter
-Plumeria (New Beginnings) - Candy Apple Dead by Sammi Carter
Points this post: 25
Total points: 35
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Jayme(theghostreader)10.1 Climb Every Mountain
"The Slippery Slope" Lemony Snickett
This book has been on my TBR list for over three years.
Task Completed: 4
Books Completed: 4
GR Authors: 1, Diane Chamberlain
Big Books: 500(0), 750(0), 1000(0)
Task Points: 10
Grand Total: 40/985
REPOST of #49510.4 Blue, White, and the Black of Night
Points: 10
BIG BOOK TICKET (550pp)
Total Points: 85
Total Books Read: 11
Total Tasks Completed: 5
Total GR Authors: 1
Total Big Books: (500) 1
Cindy FTask 30.2 One Author-Two Series
Book 1 I read Bootlegger's Daughter by
Margaret Maron
Book 2 I read One Coffee With by Margaret Maron
Points this post: 30
Total points: 100
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 7
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
REPOST:5.3. Round Here......
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson – globe on cover - approved in task board post 58
Points This Post: 5
Total Points: 55
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Sula by Toni Morrison.
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 65
Total GR Author tickts: 1
Big Book tickets: 1