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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
25.5 - MOVIES... - I chose option B. and read The Tale of Despereaux which has a 3.96 rating on Goodreads and a 56% rating on Rottentomatoes. And then read The Hours for option C which had a 3.79 rating on Goodreads and a 81% rating on Rottentomatoes.25.9 - MY FAVORITE GENRES - I chose MYSTERY and read The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry. I also chose HISTORICAL FICTION and read Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Steve Berry is a goodreads author.
Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine is a big book with 512 pages.
TOTAL POINTS - 140
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 3
BIG BOOKS - 2
20.4 - Author! Author! - Valorie's task: Happy New Year!!Option 4 - The Litigators by John Grisham
I checked this book out of the library.
Total Points: 125
15.5 All Shiny and New:Dragon's Oath by P.C. Cast. It was published July 12, 2011 and this is the first book I've read by P.C. Cast.
20.4 Author! Author!--Valorie's Task--Happy New Year:
Resolution #1. Six Weeks to Skinny Jeans: Blast Fat, Firm Your Butt, and Lose Two Jean Sizes by Amy Cotta It hasn't worked yet.
20.5 Bigger Is Better--Bec's Task--Off to War:
Scarlet Sash by Garry Douglas Kilworth fiction about the Anglo-Zulu War.
20.7 Shorter Is Sweeter--Stacie-MI's Task--And they Lived Happily Ever After:
Option A. Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie
Today's total: 75
Grand Total: 490
10.5 It’s Summer Somewhere - A Stolen Season by Steve Hamilton (takes place in the summer on the upper peninsula of Michigan)Total Points – 65
Tasks Completed – 6
Books Read – 6
15.8 15.8 What’s IndieNext? Read a book that has appeared on any Indie Next List at IndieBound.orgI read The Paris Wife
, which was from the Indie list in March 2011.total points; 170
books read: 14
tasks completed: 12
GR Authors: 1
Big Books 1 (750)
pages read: 5298
LDB20.10 GROUP READ
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
I posted comment #14 in the discussion thread
Total Points: 75
Books read: 4
Tasks done: 4
Pages read: 1,095
QueenarwenI finished Dragon Bound for 10.3 - Here, There Be Dragons.
Thea Harrison is a GR author.
Jessica PDX10.10 - The Winter Blues
by Karen Russell (Goodreads Author)Points this Post: 10
Total Challenge Points: 460
Total Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Books: 500+ - 2; 750+ - zero; 1000+ - zero
10.4 Blue, White, and the Black of NightCover is Black:
by Cormac McCarthy20.8 It's My Birthday--Dionisia's task:...and it's All about ME (Myself and I)
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
**S. J. Watson is a Goodreads Author.**
Task Points in This Post: 30
Goodreads Authors in This Post: 1
Big Book Tickets: 0
Pages Read in This Post: 627
Total Points: 225
Total Goodreads Authors: 7
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(5), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 14
Total Books Read: 18
Total Pages Read in the Winter 2011-12 SRC: 6910
Reviews Available. Anne (Booklady) Winter 2011-12 Reviews
15.5 All Shiny and NewThe Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
Published January 20, 2011 and Eleanor Brown is a new author.
***Eleanor Brown is a GR Author***
25.4 On This Day in History
December Option 2: Read a book with the word "moon" in the title
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
January Option 1: "i-c-e" appear in succession in a single word
The Tenth Justice by Brad Meltzer
***Brad Meltzer is a GR Author***
25.6 Winter fun and Games
Book 1: Snow Angels by James Thompson-takes place in a ski village
Book 2: Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie-while I may not want to visit Mesopotamia right now, an archaeological dig in a desert climate would be a welcome break to the cold weather
***James Thompson is a GR Author***
30.5 Christmas Carolling
Book 1: Using the carol "Joy to the WORLD"
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Book 2: Using the carol: "I'll be HOME for Christmas"
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Points the Post: 95
Season Total: 385
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Stacie MI's task: And They Lived Happily Ever After Option B: Happily Ever After
Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts
10.3 - Here, There Be Dragons
Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison
Thea Harrison is a Goodreads Author
Total points: 225
Tasks completed: 12
Books read: 17
Goodreads Authors total: 5
Big Book total : 500+ = 1
Laurie ME10.9: Earth Signs - born 9/15/1890 - Virgo
Agatha Christie - Towards Zero
20.9 Lucky ME! Luckngrace's Task: Honoring the Grands:
C. twins - Agatha Christie - A Murder is Announced
(the villan of the book is one of a set of identical twins, one of which has died. The one that survived took the other's identity to inherit a fortune.)
20.10 - Group Read (review posted - #20)
Scott Westerfield - Leviathan
25.7: Amanda A's Task: Name Train: last letter is E
1. Janet Evanovich - The Rocky Road to Romance
2. Heather Graham - Ghost Story
30.4: Donna Jo's Task: Double or Nothing - Rolled a 2 and a 5:
1. Georgette Heyer - Behold, Here's Poison (1936)
2. Virginia Brown - Dixie Divas (2009)
Points this Post: 105.
Total Points: 405.
Heather Graham is a goodreads author
20.4 - Author! Author! - Valorie's task: Happy New Year!! I have been wanting to go on a vacation out of the country here soon so maybe this will be the year...therefore I chose option 5!
by Jennifer DonnellyThis book mostly takes place in France.
Points for this Task: 20
Total Points: 115
Goal Total Points: 325
Completed Tasks: 6/57 (15.6, 15.7, 15.9, 20.1, 20.4, 30.5)
Tasks in Progress: 20.2, 30.1
Pages Read: 1533
Books Read: 7/77
Goodreads Authors: 1 (Susan Mallery)
Big Books: 500+() 750+() 1000+()
5.3 Round here... 
Very big round moon on cover.
5.8 Jump!
A Walk in the Woods Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
320 pages : 4 = 80
15.8 What's IndieNext?
Shanghai Girls
Appeared on june 2009 list.
Lisa See is a GR-author, thus claiming a GR Authors-ticket.
20.3 Words among friends
Story of the Eye
SOTE = TOES
Points this post: 45
Total points: 45
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
20.4 Happy New Year Option 4: Checked out from a libraryThe Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge
This Post: 20
Total Points: 545/985
Tasks Completed: 28/57
Books Read: 38/77
Goodreads Authors: 20
Big Books: 500=3, 750=1x2, 1000=0
Elizabeth NC10.8 (few ratings)
by Matthew Norman. This book has 502 ratings.15.6 (police officer as character)
by Janet Evanovich Joe Morelli--police officer20.10 (group read)
by Scott Westerfeld I posted in the discussion thread--post #16That gives me:
Points: 140
Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 9
Pages Read: 3280
5.2 It Bugs Me!
Butterfly on the front
Awesome, awesome book!
5.4 Let's Call It a Goal >_>
Hungry Girl 300 Under 300: 300 Breakfast, Lunches & Dinner Dishes Under 300 Calories
My goal is to eat better so I can shed some pounds in the contest at my gym (and not totally let down my partner, since it's a team workout contest this time, and I don't want to be the reason we lose (if we lose))
10.7 Featuring Earth
Mother Earth: An Epic Drama of Emma Goldman's Life
Very interesting...
10.10 The Winter Blues
Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go
I was so excited to read this...and then it was awful. Definitely skip it.
25.5 Movies: Ruining/Advertising the Book Since...
B: Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye (4.12 GR; 78% RT) <--Kinda agree (pretty noir art, but I felt a little awkward reading this in public)
C: How to Train Your Dragon (3.78 GR; 98% RT) <--Definitely agree (I couldn't wait for the book to end, but I've seen the movie 50+ times and still love it)
25.9 My Favorite Genres
1 (YA): Shimmer (Riley Bloom #2)
6 (Historical Fiction): Clover (Carr Family #4)
Total: 80 + 855 (from earlier) = 935 points! Yay!
Katie OH 15.2 - Make it Work
A: Framed in Lace by Monica Ferris
B: The Perfectly True Tales of a Perfect Size 12 by Robin Gold
Points this post: 15
Total points: 15
Tasks Completed: 1
Books read: 2
Goodreads authors: 0
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
ALICIA T30.7 - Delicious Dee's task: Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover
I flipped 1 head and 1 tail.
For Heads, I chose
, because I love dinosaurs, so I thought this book would be a good-read.For Tails, I picked
, because I wasn't a fan of the burnt orange color, plus I thought it looked kind of dull.After reading the two, I actually loved Game of Thrones and disliked Lost World, which I found pretty amusing.
Points this Post:30
Total Points:90
STESSE20.3 - Best Review - Chris MD's task: Words Among Friends
2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks (375 p)
Note: On the cover of the book, the title is 2030 Twenty Thirty: The Real Story of What Happens to America. So I used the first letters from THAT title to find my anagrams... not that I really needed the extra "T's"!
TTTRSOWHTA: trash, toast, thaws, straw, roast, wrath, oaths, throat, thwarts, tarot, what, that, Torah
30.6 - Sassafrass's task: The Many Facets of EARTH
Rolled 1 & 5:
1. 3 words – One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell (576 p)
This is a Big Book.
5. Electronic Format – Dark Watch by Clive Cussler (496 p)
Points this Post: 50
Tasks Completed this Post: 2
Books Read this Post: 3
Pages Read this Post: 1447
GoodReads Authors this Post: 0
Big Books this Post: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Total Points: 210
Total Tasks Completed: 15
Total Books Read: 20
Total Pages Read: 6723
Total GoodReads Authors: 6
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
30.1 - Cheryl TX/Lori (BNPL)'s Task: Unique Winter HolidaysI rolled a 3 (Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day): I read Rogue
by Danielle Steeland
I rolled a 4 (National Backward Day): My initials are CB, I read River, Cross My Heart
by Breena ClarkeBoth authors are new to me.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 130
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 8
Number of pages: 608/2741
Goodreads Authors to date: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
10.10 The Winter BluesA book I have been dying to read:
Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer
**Andrea Cremer is a Goodreads author**
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 150
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 10
Goodreads Authors: 9
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Laurie ME30.4: Donna Jo's Task: Double or Nothing - Rolled a 5 and a 2:
1. odd: Georgette Heyer - Behold, Here's Poison (1936)
2. even: Sharon Sala - Blood Trails (2011)
Points This Post: 30.
Total Points: 405.
Sharon Sala is a goodreads author
5.10. EARTHDating Mr. December by Phillipa Ashley, a Goodreads author.
Ashley starts with 'A'.
Total Points: 270
GRA: 7
10.4 Blue, White, and the Black of Night
Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane20.8 It's My Birthday - Dionisia's task: ...and it's all about ME (Myself, and I)
Learn Me Good by John Pearson ***Goodreads Author***
Total Points = 615
New Good Reads Author - John Pearson
25.8 Gayla's Task: 2011: The Year in Review2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett who is a GR author
movie release date: 8/10/11
1 big book ticket - book is 534 pages
5. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare who is a GR author
set in New York City
***Claiming 2 GR author tickets AND 1 big book ticket***
Points this post: 25
Total points: 135
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 12
Goodreads Author Tickets: 9
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
I completed:10.10 The Winter Blues
by reading:
by Stephen King. I LOVE him and his books and was DYING to read this as soon as it came out. Luckily my mom got it for me for Christmas!I would also like to claim 1 big book ticket since this book was over 800pgs long!
Tasks Complete: 4
Total Points: 45
I completed:10.4 Blue, White, and the Black of Night
by reading:
by Mary Balogh. The cover is pretty much entirely blue.Tasks Complete: 5
Total Points: 55
30.5- Christmas Carolling1. The Most Wonderful Day Of The Year- I read New Year's Kiss by Tielle St. Clare
2. Mistletoe and Holly- I read Men Under the Mistletoe by Josh Lanyon
25.1- Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
Sweetbriar (1 word title)- I read Austenland by Shannon Hale
White Lilacs (YA)- I read Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
*Jamie McGuire, Shannon Hale, Josh Lanyon, are GR Authors*
Points This Post- 55
Total Points- 195
GR Authors- 7
5.6 Other People Liked It, Why Not Me?
What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen (Goodreads author)Nominated for Best Young Adult Fiction
15.9 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand (Goodreads author)20.6 Seasoned Reader - Joanna T's task: Microhistory!
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary RoachPoints this post: 40
Total points: 295
Tasks completed: 20
Books read: 23
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Books read, not yet claimed: 7
REPOST25.5 Movies Ruining/Advertising the Book
B: Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye (4.12 GR / 78% RT)
D: The Stepford Wives (3.44 GR / 26% RT)
Total: 25 + 910 (from earlier) = 935 points
Mod
10.4 Blue, White, and the Black of Night
by Alyson Noël (goodreads author) 20.7 Happily Ever After read Afterlife by Claudia Gray
30.5 christmas Caroling read
for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Red Glove by Holly Black (goodreads author)
for Here Comes Santa Clause
Something Deadly This Way Comes by Kim Harrison
Points this Post: 70
Total points- 505
Tasks Completed: 29
Books read: 38
Pages Read : 11,713
GR Authors: 16
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
KIM NY5.10. EARTH
A Kingdom's Cost: by J.R. Tomlin. Author's last name begins with "T".
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30.7 - Delicious Dee's task: Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover
Rolled 2 heads-read 2 books with covers that I love
by Cherrie Lynn
by Laura KayePoints for posts: 35
Total points for challenge: 385
CHRISTINE USTask 5.7 Third Stone from the Sun
Shades of Earl Grey by Laura Childs
Task 5.9 Trash to Treasure
Where's My Hero? by Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn and Kinley MacGregor
Stephanie marked it a 2.
****Lisa Kleypas is a GR author
Task 15.7 DirectionallyChallenged
A Lady of the West by Linda Howard
WEST
Task 25.4 This Day in History
Book 1: December #2
Eclipse Bay by Jayne Ann Krentz
Book 2: January #1
Fire and Ice by Julie Garwood
*** Jayne Ann Krentz is a GR author
TOTAL: 235
10.7 Featuring Earth
by Pearl S. BuckPoints this post: 10
Total Points: 245
Total GR Author tickets: 4
Big Book tickets: 4
Heather KSFinished task 10.9 Earth Signs
I read The Best of Me
Nicholas Sparks is a Capricorn, birthday is 12-31.
New point total: 110
25.6 Winter Fun 1. horseback riding in the snow:
High Mountain Winter by Ardath Mayhar2. getting away from the cold in south Texas: Twisted Creek by Jodi Thomas
Season total: 545
10.2 As You Like It - My Reading Life by Pat Conroy. This was a Goodreads recommendation based on my ALA (American Library Assoc) shelf.15.9 Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke
Post Total: 25
Grand Total: 120
CASSELM15.1 Cause Knowledge is Power!
Option A) Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald by Scott Donaldson (Conjunction: for)
Option D) Let's Be Jolly! by Janet Dailey (exclamation point in title)
Points this post: 15
Total points: 55
10.5 It's Summer Somewhere13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson ***who is a goodreads author - claiming 1 GR author ticket***
This book takes place during the summer.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 145
Tasks completed: 9
Books read: 13
Goodreads Author Tickets: 10
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
CHRISTINE USTask 20.3 Words among Friends
Always Something There to Remind Me by Beth Harbison
STAR (or you could do START)
****Beth Harbison is a GR author.
Total: 255
20.3 Words Among FriendsMarcelo In The Real World by Francisco X. Stork
M I T R W = Trim, Writ
Total Points: 565/985
Tasks Completed: 29/57
Books Read: 39/77
Goodreads Authors: 20
Big Books: 500=3, 750=1x2, 1000=0
I forgot to claim a big book ticket in my last post (1229). I read The Jefferson Key: A Novel which is 512 pages long.
15.10 Sweet!I read Gun Games by Faye Kellerman
total points: 185
books read: 15
tasks completed: 13
GR authors: 1
Big Books: 1 (750+)
pages read: 5682
REPOST- TO CLAIM GOODREADS AUTHOR ONLYKathy G.
25.1 - Rachel Lee's task: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
(White Lilac- Read a YA Book)
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
(Plumeria- Read a book that is first in a series)
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
*** Series- Mistborn #1***
Claiming Big Book- 657 pages
Claiming Goodreads Author for Brandon Sanderson
Total Points- 90
Total Tasks- 5
Goodreads Authors- 1
Big Books (500+)- 2
Correction for post 117815.9 What's Indie Next
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness ( BB ticket @ 579 pages and GR Author) Appeared on the Feb '11 list
Thanks!
10.1 - Climb Every MountainThe Year of the Flood (* * *) (on my to-read list since Nov '09)
*Margaret Atwood is a Goodreads author.
20.3 - Best Review - Chris MD's task: Words Among Friends
A Mango-Shaped Space (* * *) - M-A-S-S (hyphenated words approved as two separate words in task help thread)
30.7 - Delicious Dee's task: Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover
2 tails - I think I tend not to judge books by their covers but I disliked these two books just as much as I did their covers, unfortunately.
(*) - the covers of sci-fi novels can be pretty cheesy, and this is a classic example*C.J. Cherryh is a Goodreads author.
(*) - I think the relative positions of the two persons pictured are so strange and disproportionateTasks completed: 27/57
Books read: 32/77
Points claimed in this post: 60
Total points claimed: 375
GR authors to date: 5
BB tickets to date: 2
AprilDT20.6- Microhistory!
Salt: A World History
Points this post: 20
Total points: 220
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 13
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big books: 500+(1); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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10.1 Climb Every Mountain
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
This book has been on my personal computer TBR list for several years.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 185
Goodreads Authors: 3