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WINTER CHALLENGE 2011: EARTH
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Winter Challenge 2011: Completed Tasks -DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC
Readerboard Name: Stacy CT10.1 - Climb Every Mountain
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
*Margaret Atwood is a Goodreads author*
Task Points: 10
10.8 - Hidden Gems
Introducing Feminism (Introducing by Cathia Jenainati
This book has 26 ratings on Goodreads.
Task Points: 10
15.9 - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
Task Points: 15
Total Points: 65
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 6
Pages Read: 1348
Goodreads Authors: 1 (Margaret Atwood)
Cindy FTask 5.2 That bugs me!
I read Blackfly Season by Giles Blunt
I grew up in the town the novel is about and had many spring seasons fighting blackflies off! Memories!!!!
Points this task: 5
Total points: 105
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 8
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
Readerboard Name: StacyCT25.1 - Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
White Lilacs (youthful innocence) - Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Plumeria (new beginnings) - Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
This is the first book in the "Uglies" series.
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 90
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 8
Pages Read: 2143
Goodreads Authors: 1 (Margaret Atwood)
KIM NY30.2 Sheila’s Task: One Author – Two Series
Book 1: Spell of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning. From the Highlander Series.
Book 2: Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning. The 1st book from the Fever series.
Points for this post: 30
Total points for challenge: 135
STACIE MITask 15.7 - Directionally Challenged
I read:
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Points this task: 15
Total points: 75
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 7
Pages read: 1571
Goodreads authors: 1
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Jessica PDX25.7 - Amanda A's Task: Name Train
Book 1 - "A"
by Inger Ash WolfeBook 2 - "R"
by Michael RobothamPoints this Post: 25
Total Challenge Points: 240
Total Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ - zero; 750+ - zero; 1000+ - zero
10.4 Blue, White and the Black of Night 
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (ebook version with page count of 143) The cover is white with blue letters (ebook library version)
Tasks Completed: 3
Points for this task: 10
Points so far: 35
Books read: 3
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
5.3 Round Here....
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry round sun and planets on cover
5.9 Trash to treasure
Big Nate: In a Class by Himself by Lincoln Peirce
This book was on my friend Kristen's shelf. She gave it a 2 and I rated it 4.
10.4 Blue, White, and the Black of Night
by Shel Silversteinwhite cover
20.2 The Nutcracker
Option 4-Snow - Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer Stephenie begins with S
756 pages
2 big book tickets claimed
30.5 Christmas Carolling
"Carol of the Bells"
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Points this post: 70
Total points: 70
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 6
Big book tickets: 2
5.8. Jump!One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
352 pages is divisible by 4
Points this post: 5
Total points: 5
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Goodreads Authors: 1
25.8 - Gayla's task: 2011: The Year in Review2. Read a book that a 2011 movie was based on
One Day by David Nicholls
movie release date August 8th, 2011
4. Upheaval in the Middle East.
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra
Points this post: 25
Total points: 30
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 3
KIRA5.8 - Jump
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
This book has 288 pages. That's evenly divisible by four.
This Post = 5 points
Total = 5 points
10.4 Blue, White, and the Black of Night
Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia
Points this post: 10
Total points: 40
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 4
Goodreads Author: 1
Big Book : 500+ = 1
30.5 Butterflycager's task: Christmas CarolingBook A Song: White Christmas
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Book B Song: Oh Come, All Ye Faithful
The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
**Alex Berenson is a Goodreads Author.**
Task Points in This Post: 30
Goodreads Authors in This Post: 1
Big Book Tickets in This Post: 0
Pages Read in This Post: 656
Total Points: 110
Total Goodreads Authors: 3
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(4), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 8
Total Books Read: 10
Total Pages Read in the Winter 2011-12 SRC: 4103
Reviews Available. Anne (Booklady) Winter 2011-12 Reviews
5.3. Round Here...... Since the earth is round, read a book with something round or oval on the cover.
by Stephen GreenblattThis Post: 5
Total Points: 80/985
Tasks Completed: 9/57
Books Read: 9/79
Task 5.10 EARTHA Golden Sorrow: Humble and Loyal - Katherine of Aragon by Dixie Atkins
Task 10.8 Hidden Gems
A Golden Sorrow: Most Happy - Anne Boleyn by Dixie Atkins
*This book had a rating of '1' when I picked it!*
Task 15.7 Directionally Challenged
South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953 by Wilfred Noyce
Points these tasks:30
Total Points:150
Goodreads Authors:2
Big Book Tickets:0
Carla 20.02 The Nutcracker
I auditioned for Clara and Fritz (option 1), and read
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley. The main character is 10 year old Flavia.
May I claim a Goodreads Author ticket for Alan Bradley please?
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 35
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 972
GoodReads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (), 1000+ ()
20.9 I chose option D and read The Judge Who Stole Christmas by Randy Singer.Christian and Christian Fiction are listed in the genre tags.
Total Points: 50
5.8 Jump! Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom by Jennifer S. Holland (160 pgs; divided by 4 = 40)
Points this post: 5
Total points: 45
Tasks completed: 3
Total books read: 3
Total pages read: 800
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneTask 25.1 Flowers Gone?...pick two different flowers from the list & read a book fitting the description for each:
I chose White Lilacs (youthful innocence)and read the young adult book
The Project by Brian Falkner(this is a GRA) 343 pages (12.9)I also chose Marigold (pain & grief:death) and read the mystery book
Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves 340 pages (12.17)Points earned for this task: 25
Points Achieved to date: 75
Updated last on: 12.19.11
Total # of books read: 7
Total # of pages read: 2,391
Total # of tasks completed: 6
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 1
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (0)
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)
15.10 Sweet!How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber
20.4 - Author! Author! - Valorie's task: Happy New Year!!
1. Get Fit/Lose Weight:
Or knock some lbs. from your "owned to be read" pile by reading a book you already own but haven't gotten to yet.
Grave Concerns by Gwen Hunter
Points this post: 15+20=35
Total Points: 35
Tasks Completed: 1Points for this task: 30
Points thus far: 30
Books read: 2
30.1 - Cheryl TX/Lori (BNPL)'s Task: Unique Winter Holidays - Rolled double ones.
1. January: title includes a word found in the name of a soup.
Yellow Pea Soup - A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley
AND
Lobster bisque - Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
20.6 Microhistory: Genes, Chromosomes, and Disease: From Simple Traits, to Complex Traits, to Personalized Medicine by Nicholas Wright GillhamA very readable and helpful book about how genes cause disease.
Season total: 260
20.9 Honoring the GrandsOption A: Featuring a Senior Citizen (Betty White)
If You Ask Me: And of Course You Won't by Betty White
This Post: 20
Total Points: 300
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 21
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Books: 500=1, 750=1x2, 1000=0
20.7 And They Lived Happily Ever AfterOption A: Once Upon a Time
By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters featuring the word "time"
Points this post: 20
Total points: 55
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets: 0
Joanna T15.5 All Shiny and New
Becoming sage by Kasi Alexander
Published April 11, 2011; the only book by this author and thus a new to me author.
Kasi Alexander is a GR author.
Grand total: 50
Janice CA10.5 It’s Summer Somewhere.......
I read a book set in Namibia which is south of the equator.
Soul of a Lion by Barbara Bennett
4 stars
***Goodreads Author***
+10
total: 60
tasks: 5
books: 5
GR Authors: 2
KIM NY10.9 Earth Signs
Glimpse by Stacey Wallace Benefiel. Author's birthday is: 5/13/75.
Points for post: 10
Total points for challenge: 145
5.5 - ALL AROUND THE WORLD(set in during the reign of Queen Victoria)
Rules of Attraction by Christina Dodd
5.6 - OTHER PEOPLE LIKED IT, WHY NOT ME?
(2011 Goodreads Choice Awards - Historical Fiction)
The Dark Enquiry by Deanna Raybourn
5.7 - THIRD STONE FROM THE SUN
(book that is 3rd in a series)
Murder in the Sentier by Cara Black
5.8 - Jump!
(# of pages evenly divisible by 4)
According to Jane by Marilyn Brant (Goodreads Author) - 352 pages
10.4 - BLUE, WHITE, AND THE BLACK OF NIGHT
(cover is mainly black)
by Milda Harris (Goodreads Author)10.6 - CAN'T WAIT 'TIL SPRING!
(book with a flower on the cover)
by Lisa Kleypas (Goodreads Author)15.9 - HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING
(book with "heaven" in the title)
Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn (Goodreads Author)
15.10 - SWEET!
(book of choice)
Such a Perfect Sister by Donna Hay
20.9 - LUCKY ME!
(book about twins)
Double Trouble by Claire Cross
25.1 - WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?
Marigold - death is central to the plot
The Nightmare Thief by Meg Gardiner
Sweetbriar - one word title
Bridesmaids by Jane Costello
25.4 - ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
A1: "prince" in the title
The Perils of Pursuing a Prince by Julia London
B1: "ice" in the title
Ice Storm by Anne Stuart (Goodreads Author)
Points this post - 140
Goodreads Authors this post - 5
TOTAL POINTS - 140
TOTAL GOODREADS AUTHORS - 5
10.8. Hidden Gems Find a hidden gem, SRC-style, by reading a book with less than 1,000 ratings.
After the Apocalypse: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh
After the Apocalypse currently has 388 ratings.
This Post: 10
Total Points: 90/985
Tasks Completed: 10/57
Books Read: 10/79
Coralie10.8 Hidden Gems
A Girl Called Dog which had just one rating before I read it
15.4 Go Green
by Kerry Greenwood, options B and C.15.5 All Shiny and New
Alice Miranda at Sea by Jacqueline Harvey, published October 1st 2011.
15.9 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
The Sons of Heaven
Total points 145
10.8: Hidden Gems
by Imre KertészIt had 35 ratings when I selected it.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 85
Total GR Author tickets: 1
Big Book tickets: 1
I'm finally on the reader board!5.6. Other People Liked It, Why Not Me?
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (Goodreads author).
Nominated for Favorite Book of 2011
15.9 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Darkness Descending by Devyn Quinn (Goodreads author).
Approved in help thread - one of the main characters is a fallen angel.
20.4 - Author! Author! - Valorie's task: Happy New Year!
Option 3: Drink Less Alcohol - Silenced By Syrah by Michele Scott (Goodreads author).
Story takes place at a winery
25.5 - Mstan's task: "Movies - Ruining (Advertising?) the Book Since..."
Option A: Made the Grade A - The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Goodreads/Tomato ratings (4.18/92%)
Option D: Eyes of the Beholder - Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
(BIG BOOK TICKET).
Goodreads/Tomato ratings (3.71/36%)
30.7 - Delicious Dee's task: Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover
I flipped heads and tails.
Book 1: Pretty Cover - The Dark Glamour by Gabriella Pierce
I think the cover looks pretty, but simple and elegant.
Book 2: Ugly Cover - Uncommon Grounds by Sandra Balzo (Goodreads author)
I think the cover looks plain and seems thrown together.
Total Points This Post: 95
Total Tasks This Post: 5
Goodreads Authors This Post: 4
Grand Total Points: 95/985
Total Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 5/57
Total Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Book Tickets This Post: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 1
20.5- Off to War
- Read a book involving a real-life war.I read Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai.
I chose Option A. This book involves the Vietnam War, and it's a pretty big part of the book.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 80
Tasks Completed: 6
GR Authors: 3
Big Books: 0
30.1 REPOSTRolled 2 and 3.
2. cozy mystery: Hangman's Root by Susan Wittig Albert who is a GOODREADS AUTHOR****
3. hot male cover:
by Lauren DaneSeason total: 290
Vanessa S.5.6. Other People Liked It, Why Not Me?
A Discovery of Witches
Favorite Book of 2011
Points so far: 15
ANGIE CAI would like to move Ingenue from 25.1 to 25.9 and replace it with Beautiful Disaster.
15.4 Go Green
Book:
by Rachel CarsonNotes: C) Green Cover and D) Non-fiction Environment.
25.1 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Book 1:
by Heather DixonNotes: Hibiscus- Beautiful cover.
Book: Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
Notes 2: Red Rose- Romance
*GoodReads Author*
25.9 My Favorite Genres
Book 1: Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
Notes: 5) Romance. Black Dagger Brotherhood #1.
Book 2: Ingenue by Jillian Larkin
Notes: 6) Historical Fiction. Flappers #2.
This Post: 40 {+65, -25}
Total to Date: 165
GRA Tickets: 4
BB Tickets: 0
Books Read: 11
20.2. The Nutcracker3. The nutcracker and the soldiers
Still Standing: The Story of SSG John Kriesel
Current challenge total. 25
5.8. Jump! Christmas at Harrington's by Melody Carlson
176 pages is divisible by 4.
Total Points: 175
GRA: 4
15.7 Directionally Challenged The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver by E. Lockhart
Word 'map' in title.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 170
Tasks completed: 12
Books read: 13
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
Mod
I read The Revisionists
5.9. Trash to treasure.
I read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Beth NC gave it 2 stars and so did I.
25.3 - Mrs. Soule's task: A Series in Your Stocking
I read Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich, in her Stephanie Plum series, and Visions of Sugar Plums, a Christmas Stephanie Plum book.
Total points: 85
10.10 WInter Blues I have been on the library waiting list forever to read Kris Jenner and all this Kardashian
, which I freely admit despite the obvious low-brow nature of my proclivities it reveals. Oh, well.Total Points: 55
books read: 6
tasks completed: 5
Pages read: 2178
Task 5.4 Let's call it a goalMy goal for 2012 is to save up my money and go and watch a few cricket matches in the summer. My book choice is the biography of one of the England cricket team.
Crossing the Boundary: The Early Years in My Cricketing Life by Kevin Pietersen
Task 25.8 The Year in review
option 3-royal family
A Golden Sorrow: Jane Seymour & Anne of Cleves by Dixie Atkins
option 6-memorable event of 2011
My best memory of the year was the England cricket team winning the Ashes from Australia at the start of 2011. This is the book about the tour
766 and All That: Over by Triumphant Over – How England Won the Ashes by Matthew Hancock
Points these tasks:30
Total Points:180
Goodreads Authors:2
Big Book Tickets:0
ALICIA T10.9 Earth Signs
I read The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks.
He's a capricorn, born on December 31st.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 30
Sandy MN20.5 - Bigger is Better - Bec's task: Off to War
Option A: Involves World War I
The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey
**Goodreads Author**
30.5 - Butterflycager's task: Christmas Carolling
Song: The Christmas Song
Book: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor by Lisa Kleypas
**Goodreads Author**
Song: Angels, From the Realms of Glory
Book: Where Angels Go by Debbie Macomber
Total Points:230
Total GR Authors: 6
hpaddictrepost for:
**860 pages big book ticket**
from post #415
hpaddict
10.3 Here, There Be Dragons
Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
this post = 10
challenge total = 10
Big Books: 500=0, 750=1, 1000=0
MG15.6 Read 'Em Their Writes! A Cold Treachery by Charles Todd **GR Author
30.4 - Donna Jo's task: Double or Nothing
Book A: Recalled to Life by Reginald Hill (after 1975)
Book B: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton (before 1975)
Rolled 3 & 3
30.5 - Butterflycager's task: Christmas Carolling
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr (Carol - O Little Town of Bethlehem)
The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution by Larry Gonick (Carol - Joy to the World)
Points this post: 75
Total Points: 100
Tasks Completed: 6
Books read: 8
GR Authors: 3
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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*Simone Elkeles is a goodreads author*
Points this post: 10
Total points: 155
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 12
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0