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15.5 All Shiny and New:
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 225
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 19
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Kimber10.1 Climb Every Mountain
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Had been on my Goodreads TBR list for over a year.
This task: 10
tasks completed to date: 6
total points: 45
gr authors: 3
15.1 - Cause Knowledge is PowerI Don't Care About Your Band: Lessons Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated by Julie Klausner - 256 pages
A. Conjunction - "and"
C. Pronoun - "I"
15.6 - Read 'Em Their Writes
All The Colours Of Darkness by Peter Robinson - 448 pages
Main character (of the series) is DCI Alan Banks.
20.1 - Baby, it's cold outside
Skein of the Crime by Maggie Sefton - 304 pages
B. Series centers around a wool shop where much knitting goes on!
20.2 - The Nutcracker
Snow White by Donald Barthelme - 192 pages
4. Has the word "snow" in the title.
Points this Post: 70
Total Points: 100
Total Tasks Completed: 6
Total Books Read: 6
Total Pages Read: 1583
Total GR Authors: 0
Total Big Books 500+: 0
Total Big Books 750+: 0
Total Big Books 1000+: 0
5.1- It's the latest thing!I read I'm Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship: Hilarious, Heartwarming Tales About Man's Best Friends from America's Favorite Humorists by Wade Rouse.
Points This Post- 5
Total Points- 95
GR Authors- 3
20.1 Baby, It’s Cold OutsideIn New England we need to be creative in keeping warm over the long winter. These are some of my favorite ways to warm up. For this task read one book from the options below.
Option B. Put on your Woolies – It’s time to layer up the sweaters. For this option read a fictional book where knitting or crocheting is featured.
A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber
Points this task: 20
Total Points: 70
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 7
Goodreads Author: 2
Big Books: 500 = 0, 750 = 0, 1000 = 0
25.1 Flowers-Marigolds (pain & grief) Co. Aytch, Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment; Or, A Side Show Of The Big Show by Sam R. WatkinsHollyhock (my ambition to learn gardening) Hangman's Root by Susan Wittig Albert who is a GOODREADS AUTHOR****
Season total: 285
Christie Guatemala5.6. Other People Liked It, Why Not Me?
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Book was nominated for the category: Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
Lauren Oliver is a Goodreads Author.
Points this post: 5
Total Points: 70
Goodreads Authors: 1
5.9. Trash to treasure.My friend Daniel Jr. rated this one 2 stars:
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I gave it 3 stars because I really liked the beginning and the end, but got bored in the middle. I loved the tie-in to the Salem witch trials!
+5 Points
Points this Post: 5
Grand Total: 80
BUTTERFLYCAGER10.1 Climb Every Mountain - Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres (has been on my TBR since January 2010)
Julia Scheeres is a Goodreads Author.
Points this post: 10
Total challenge points: 295
Tasks completed: 15
Books read: 19
Goodreads Authors: 13
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
5.2. That bugs me! 
The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E. Pearson
5.3. Round Here......
Twelve Days of Christmas - Trisha Ashley
Round wreath on the door :)
15.5 All Shiny and NewI read Bossypants by Tina Fey. This book was published in 2011 and the author is new to me.
20.2 The Nutcracker
I chose Option 1 and read City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author). The main character is 16.
20.4 Happy New Year!
I chose Option 4 and read Emma by Jane Austen. This book was a free download on my Kindle.
Points This Post: 55
Total Points: 55
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.5 Off to WarThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank-takes place during World War II
30.2 One Author-Two Series
Book 1: Hour Game by David Baldacci-this is the second book in the Sean King & Michelle Maxwell Series
and
Book 2: The Camel Club by David Baldacci-this is the first book in the Camel Club series
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 115
Kimber 30.6 The Many Facets Of Earth
Started out by rolling a 3 and 5.
For 3, I read Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl. Involves many different cover-ups - community, familial and individual regarding the main character, Lena (whether her powers will end up evil or good on her upcoming 16th b-day). Her relationship with her only friend & bf also involves some kind of secret upcoming 'fatal attraction' kind of thing to be revealed on the dreaded 16th birthday as well. Also the uncle in the story is a cover up of his own. He is known as some kind of crazy loner as he never leaves the house (until uncovering himself to the community toward the end of the book).
For 4 I read Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres. Listed as an autobiography on GR.
Beautiful Creatures was a big book at 563 pages. Both listed authors are also GR authors - not sure if I can use 2 GR author tickets for 1 book? I'm just assuming I can use 1 , which is what shows in my calculations below.
This task: 30
tasks completed: 7
total points to date: 75
gr authors: 4
big book: 1/500+
20.3 - Best Review - Chris MD's task: Words Among Friends The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
My anagram = S-I-T-E
***Erica Bauermeister is a GR author
Points this post: 20
Total points: 35
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Number of pages: 261/645
Goodreads Authors to date: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
CHRISTINE USTask 20.6 Microhistory
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond
approved in thread
Task 30.3 Small Changes
Letters becomes Letter when you drop a "s"
Book 1:Letters From Home byKristina McMorris
Book 2: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
****Kristina McMorris & Tom Franklin are GR authors
TOTAL: 90
KIM NY10.5 It’s Summer Somewhere: Read a book that takes place over the summer.
The Summer of Skinny Dipping by Amanda Howells
Points this post: 10
Total points for challenge: 155
REPOST OF #406 with correct Readerboard NameKIM NY
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Karen F's task: Baby, It’s Cold Outside
D. Snuggle up with your Honey –
You Against Me by Jenny Downham
Points this post: 20
Total points for challenge(after repost): 155
STACIE MITask 15.1 - Cause Knowledge is Power
I read one book that contained category A (the conjunction "and") and B (the pronoun "my"):
Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To-Do List by Janette Rallison
**Janette Rallison is a Goodreads author!!**
Points this task: 15
Total points: 90
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 8
Pages read: 1763
Goodreads authors: 2
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
20.8 It's My Birthday - Dionisia's task: ...and it's all about ME (Myself, and I) Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver by E. Lockhart
Word 'I' in title.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 190
Tasks completed: 13
Books read: 14
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
Task 10.4 - Blue, White, and the Black of night
Lord John and the Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon ***GR Author***
Total GR Authors = 8
Challenge total = 190
5.7 Third Stone from the SunA Great and Terrible Beauty (the first book in the Gemma Doyle trilogy) by Libba Bray
***Libba Bray is a Goodreads author***
Points this post: 5
Total points: 110
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 10
Goodreads Author Tickets: 7
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
SOELO20.9 Honoring the Grands
I read Her Fearful Symmetry which meets option C because the main characters, Julia and Valentina, are twins.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Jayme(thegostreader)5.3 Round Here-I read "The Grim Grotto" by Lemony Snickett.
. The scuba helmets are rounds as well as the squids on the cover.Task Completed: 5
Books Completed: 5
GR Authors: 1, Diane Chamberlain
Big Books: 500(0), 750(0), 1000(0)
Task Points: 5
Grand Total: 45/985
Finished15.8 What indie inside
The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha
Is from Top 10 reading suggestions
Naseen Rakha is Goodreads Author
Task points 15
Total points 70
Total tasks 6
Total books 6
GR AUTHOR - 1
Big books - 500-1, 750-0, 1000-0
Delicious Dee
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5.1. It’s the Latest Thing!
I, Nadia: Wife of a Terrorist - terrorist
5.5. All Around the World
Changeless - Gail Carriger (GR Author) - set in the 1870's
5.9. Trash to treasure
Patience - Lisa Valdez (GR Author) - Samantha gave it 2 stars in April 2010 and I agree/think even 2 stars is too much
10.10 The Winter Blues
Cowboy Casanova - the newest book in Lorelei James series...when they are released I usually read them the same day
15.1 Cause Knowledge is Power! (Repost with book substitution)
Option A
A. - The Scent of Rain and Lightning
B. - A Thread of Deepest Black -Finn Marlowe (GR Author)
20.2 - Rookie on Top - Connie's task: The Nutcracker
Option 1. - Lola and the Boy Next Door - Stephanie Perkins (GR Author) - Lola is 17 in the book
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Bec's task: Off to War
Option A - The Bronze Horseman - set during WW2 on the Russian front, specfically the siege of and battle for Leningrad - (2 Big Book Tickets - 894 pages)
20.9 - Lucky Me! - Luckngrace's task: Honoring the Grands
I would like to move The Best Man from 15.1 - the mc is a twin - his brother shows up through-out and several times they tell stories of switching places at important times (like his brothers wedding rehearsal)
25.1 - Rachel Lee's task: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
White Lilacs - Shine - shelved by 221 users as YA
Sweetbriar - Merciless
Total Points This Post: 125
Total Points Overall: 210
Books Completed: 17
Tasks Complete: 13
GR Authors: 9
Big Book Tickers: 500(0), 750(1), 1000(0)
10.7 - Featuring EarthA book with EARTH in the series title:
The Land of Painted Caves(Earth's Children#6) by Jean M. Auel
Total points 120
20.8 It's All About Me If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 320
Tasks Completed: 18
Books Read: 22
GayleSassafrass's task: The Many Facets of EARTH
I rolled a 1. Astronomy: 3rd book in series
Tripwire by Lee Child 592 pages This is the 3rd book in the Jack Reacher series.
***Big Book Ticket***
I rolled a 6.
Die Trying by Lee Child 576 pages. This is the 2nd book in the Jack Reacher series.
***Big Book Ticket***
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 2
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+=2
AprilDT30.5 Christmas Carolling
Joy to the World - Brave New World
We Three Kings - Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
Points this task: 30
Total points: 90
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 6
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big books: 500+(1); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
25.9 - Denise NC’s Task: My Favorite GenresFor Option 1, young adult, I read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares, part of the series of the same name.
For Option 4, I read The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore, part of the Lorien Legacy Series.
Points this task: 25
Total Points: 105
Goodreads Authors: Lauren Kate
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
15.4 Go Green:I went with option B and C and read one book with a green cover and a green author
by Jane GreenTotal Points = 265
Keltie Lee15.7 Directionally Challenged
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
15.8 What’s IndieNext?
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White(GRA)
(autumn ’10 Kids list)
Points this post: 30
Total points: 70
Tasks: 5
Books: 5
Goodread authors: 2
Michelle WI20.4 Happy New Year!
Option 4: Save Money/Manage Debt
I received this book as part of a swap from swap.com
U Is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 70
Tasks Completed: 4
EllenCATask 30.4: I rolled a 6 and a 1. For book A: This Fine Life by Eva Marie Everson (published in 2010) For book B: Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett (originally published in 1877)
Points this Task: 30
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 1
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Option 2 - Movie Diary of a Wimpy kid Roderick Rules came out in 2011 read Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
and
Option 6- Best memory is when my brother was given the all clear of cancer after 8 Months of chemo and radiation. read After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick
30.1 Unique Winter Holidays
Rolled 2- Cozy Mystery read One for the Money by Janet Evanovich- Goodreads author- (new to me author)
and
rolled 6 -Get a Different Name Day- I have always liked the name Colleen where I first heard on The Young and the Restless. :) read Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck - Goodreads author- (new to me author)
30.4 Double or Nothing Rolled 3- odd for book A and rolled 1- odd for book B
Book a read
30.Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
published first January 1975
book b read
Mates, Dates, and Tempting Trouble by Cathy Hopkins published 2005
Points this Post: 85
Total points- 315
Tasks Completed: 16
Books read: 22
Pages Read : 6,318
GR Authors: 10
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Cindy FTask 15.1 Cause Knowledge is Power!
I read I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
Fits 2 Categories A: Conjunction "and"
C: Pronoun "other"
Points this post: 15
Total points: 120
Tasks completed: 8
Books Read: 9
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)
Joanna T25.7 Name Train
Joanna T --> T ennessee William s --> Fyodor S ologub
Joanna T: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Williams: The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub
Points this post: 25
Grand total: 75
BUTTERFLYCAGER20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Stacie MI's task: And They Lived Happily Ever After
Option B: The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means by Jeff Yeager
My favorite fairy tale is "East of the Sun and West of the Moon." I love the winter imagery.
Points this post: 20
Total challenge points: 315
Tasks completed: 16
Books read: 20
Goodreads Authors: 13
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
15.6 Read 'Em Their Writes!Cop Out by K.C. Burn
*K.C. Burn is a Goodreads author*
15.10 Sweet!
Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead
20.2 - Rookie on Top
The Outsider by Melinda Metz
I tried out for 1. Clara and Fritz, the Stahlbaum children (characters are minors in high school)
*Melinda Metz is a Goodreads Author*
25.1 Rachel Lee's task: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Book 1: Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
Flower used: Sweetbriar (simplicity)
Book 2: Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead
Flower used: White Lilacs (youthful innocence)
Points this post: 75
Total points: 165
Tasks completed: 12
Books read: 14
Goodreads Authors: 8
Finished:5.10 Earth!:
A Will and a Way by Nora Roberts Roberts starts with R
10.6 Can Wait 'Til Spring:
Summer On Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber. There are flowers scattered on the cover.
15.8 What's IndieNext?:
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma. This book is a gem. It was on the May 2011 list.
30.2 Sheila's Task: One Author--Two Series:
A. Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope This is #1 of the Palliser novels
B. The Warden by Anthony Trollope #1 of Barsetshire Chronicles
Today's total: 60
Grand total: 190
GayleTask 5.9: Trash to Treasure
My friend Jody rated this as 2 stars. I have to agree with her.
The Christmas Lamp: A Novella by Lori Copeland
Task 15.4: Go Green
Microgreens byEric Franks Subtitle: A Guide to Growing Nutrient Packed Greens. 192 pages
One book meets two requirements: A. green in title & D. Goodreads Shelves: non fiction, environment
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 50
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 4
20.3 Words Among FriendsThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
Anagram: T O M A T S = MOAT, MATS
30.4 Double or Nothing
I rolled a 1 for the first die, then another 1 for the second die.
Book A: Odd-read a book by an author whose name has double consonants.
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.
This was originally published in 1927.
Book B: Odd-read a book that contains consecutive words that begin with the same letter in the title.
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith.
This was published in 2005.
Alexander McCall Smith is a Goodreads author.
Points this post: 50
Total points: 175
Tasks: 9
Books: 11
Goodreads authors: 3
MARY M10.4 Blue, White and the Black of Night
Read a book that's cover is mostly blue, white, black or a combination of those colors
Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck
Tasks completed 2
Points for this task 10
Points Thus far 15
Books read 2
15.8 What's IndieNext?Room by Emma Donoghue - Sept 2010 list
Emma Donoghue is a GR Author.
Points: 15
Total Points: 100
Total Tasks Completed: 6
Total Books Read: 12
Total GR Authors: 2
Total Big Books: 500+ (1)
jennbunny20.3 - Best Review - Chris MD's Task: Words Among Friends
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan
R O T M W = WORM
Unabridged Audiobook
Tasks Completed: 4
Points for this task: 20
Points so far: 55
Books read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
15.9 Hark! The Herald Angelfs Sing:
by Debbie MacomberPoints for this Task: 15
Total Points: 30
Goal Total Points: 325
Completed Tasks: 2/57 (15.6, 15.9)
Tasks in Progress: 15.7, 15.8, 30.5
Pages Read: 136
Books Read: 2/77
Goodreads Authors: 1 (Susan Mallery)
Big Books: 500+() 750+() 1000+()
25.1: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Marigold:
(the story revolves around a woman dying of cancer)White Lilacs:
(Young Adult)Points this post: 25
Total Points: 110
Total GR Author tickets: 1
Big Book tickets: 1
Jessica PDX20.9 - Luckngrace's Task: Honoring the Grands
I chose option A - Senior Citizen/Grandparent
by Inger Ash WolfeApproved in task thread, post #47
Points this Post: 20
Total Challenge Points: 260
Total Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+ - zero; 750+ - zero; 1000+ - zero
Task 25.7 - Name Train (I used 'C' for my letter)
Book 1: Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore
Book 2: Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt ***GR Author***
Total GR Authors = 9
Challenge total = 215
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I got 1 heads and 1 tails when I flipped the coin so I read:
What If?: Alternative Views of Twentieth Century Ireland by Diarmuid Ferriter because of its interesting cover featuring some of the most famous people in modern Irish history. I love history and so I loved this cover!
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...
The second book I read was Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer by Michael Mansfield. Which had a cover I thought was boring and so didn't like.
512 pages - claiming Big Books ticket
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69...
Points for this task: 30
Total points: 30
Big Books: 1