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Kimber10.2 As You Like It
The Future of Us by Jay Asher
Goodreads recommended from my fairytale-ish shelf because I had read Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children.
This task: 10
# tasks completed: 20
Total points: 305
5.6 Other People Liked it Why Not Me?Is Everybody Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Keling
Category = humor
30.7 Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover
A) Tomorrow #4: Darkness, Be My Friend by John Marsden
Tails - don't like cover
B) Growing Up Amish by Ira Wagler
Tails - don't like cover
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...
25.9 My Favorite Genres
A) Tomorrow #2: The Dead of Night by John Marsden
1 - Young adult series
B) Gemma Doyle #3: The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray*
*Libba Bray is a goodreads author
**Big book (819 pages)
2 - Historical Fiction Series
Points: 335
Deyara➜ Task # 5.7 - Third stone from the sun
Face the Fire by Nora Roberts
Book 3 in Three Sisters Island trilogy
➜ Task # 5.10 - EARTH
On the Edge by Richard Hammond
Points this post: 10 points
Total to Date = 75 points
GR Authors: 1
Readername - Beth Lynn25.9
Genre #1 - YA
Heist Society by Ally Carter. 287 pages.
Genre #2 - Adventure/Thriller
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. 644 pages.
Points this Post: 25 points
Total Points: 140 points
Tasks Completed: 5 tasks
Books Read: 12 books
Page Read: 4,126 pages
Goodreads Authors: still 6 authors
Big Books 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0
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ALICIA T10.4 Blue, White, and the Black of Night
I read:
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 115
Liora25.4 On This Day in History
Book 1 - January (B.1.) -
by Chris d'LaceyBook 2 - February (C.2.) -
by Alan Bradley (Using the word 'without' from the song "Within You, Without You")Alan Bradley is a Goodreads Author.
30.2 Two series by the same author
Book 1 -
by Scott Westerfield, the 2nd book in the Leviathan series.Book 2 -
by Scott Westerfield, the 1st book in the Uglies series. Points this post: 55
Total points this challenge: 420
Tasks completed: 19
Books read this challenge: 29
Goodreads authors: 9
Big Books: 2
Keltie Lee 20.9 - Honoring the Grands
Option D
Twin Seduction
by Cara Summers
30.4 - Double or Nothing
Book A:Odd
The Three Faces of Eve
by Corbett H. Thigpen
*originally published in 1957*
Book B:Even
Twin Temptation
by Cara Summers
Points this post: 50
Total points: 570
Tasks: 32
Books: 41
Goodread authors: 21
Cindy FTask 25.9 My Favorite Genres
Option 3 Mystery
I read Flesh and Boneby Jefferson Bass
Option 6 Historical Fiction
I read Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson who is a GOODREADS AUTHOR!!
Points this post: 25
Total points: 240
Tasks completed: 15
Books read: 18
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(0)
hpaddict - reposting from 180330.1 Unique Winter Holidays - both authors are new to me
#3
Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlinhot guys on the cover are Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman
#5
The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre*** Big Book = 552 pages***
Boy Scout badge of Citizenship of the World (a Polish-French priest learns about the culture of Calcutta, India)
this post = 30pts
challenge total = 230pts
Goodreads Authors = 2
Big Books: 500=3, 750=1, 1000=0
20.3 - Best Review - Chris MD's task: Words Among FriendsA Game of Thrones by George R R Martin
A G O T = GOAT
Claiming a Big Book Ticket - 835 pages
This post: 20 points
Total to Date = 105 points
KIM NY20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Stacie MI's task: And They Lived Happily Ever After
Option B: Happily Ever After: After by Amy Efaw.
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25.8 - Gayla's task: 2011: The Year in Review
Option 3:The Wedding by Julie Garwood.
Option 5: Between the Lines by Tammara Webber. This book takes place in Austin, Texas which hosted an "Occupy Austin", (Occupy Wall St), protest.
Points for these posts: 45
Total points for challenge: 655
20.6 MICROHISTORY - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot***GR Author***
20.9 HONORIND THE GRANDS - Double Take by Brenda Joyce
Option C - Book about twins
25.1 - WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE -
A. Bodyguard by Jennifer Ashley
Red Rose - Romance
***GR Author***
B. The Woods by Harlan Coben
Marigold - murder mystery
25.3 A SERIES IN YOUR STOCKING -
A. Christmas Mourning by Margaret Maron
B. Three-Day Town by Margaret Maron
25.4 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY -
A. A Darker Justice by Sallie Bissell
Jan - ICE in title
B. Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman
Dec - Blue in title
***GR Author***
25.7 NAME TRAIN -
A. Echo Burning by Lee Child
Readerboard name ends in C
***GR Author***
B. The Endless Forest by Sara Donati
Lee Child ends in D
***Big Book 640pgs***
Points: 140
Tasks: 6
Books: 10
Pages: 3874
GR Authors: 4
Big Books: 1
Total Points: 740
Total Tasks: 45
Total Books: 62
Total Pages: 25445
GR Authors: 24
Big Books 500+: 7
Big Books 750+: 1
Big Books 1000+: 1
Coralie5.6 Other People Liked it, Why not Me?
State of Wonder nominated for best fiction
10.9 Earth Signs
Looking for Jake: Stories by China Miéville who was born on September 6th
15.6 Read ‘Em their Writes!
Tangled Up In Blue in which most of the characters are police officers
30.3 Small Change or Simple Swaps
we/wed, in/I, the/thee
We Have Always Lived in the Castle & I Thee Wed
Total points 650
Task 20.3 - Words among friends
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin **835 pages = 2 Big Book Tickets**
Anagram = GOAT
Total Big Book Tickets = 3
Challenge total = 535
ALICIA T10.8 Hidden Gems
I read Life Safari by John Strelecky, which had a whopping total of 19 ratings when I read it.
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 125
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20.3 - Best Review - Chris MD's task: Words Among Friends
The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi- word = Atom
25.4 - Sandy’s Task: On This Day in History
Book 1- December #2= moon on cover
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferBook 2- January #1- ice in title
Ice Moon by Jan Costin Wagner
30.2 Sheila’s Task: One Author – Two Series
A Test of Wills by Charles Todd Ian Rutledge #1
A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd Bess Crawford #1
30.5 - Butterflycager's task: Christmas Carolling
book 1- Carol: From Heaven Above to Earth I Come- "heaven" The Thieves Of Heaven by Richard Doetsch
book 2- Carol: We Three Kings of Orient Are- "kings" Stone of Kings: In Search of the Lost Jade of the Maya by Gerard Helferich
total 890
5.1 It’s the Latest Thing!
For this task, let’s be trendy and read a book with a title or subtitle containing the suffix “ist.”
The Revisionists (2011) by Thomas Mullen (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, 435 pages)
****Goodreads Author**** Thomas Mullen
Tasks Completed: 14
Points for this task: 5
Points thus far: 220 + 5 = 225
Books read: 16
Pages Read: 5,030
Read but not claimed: 10
Goodreads Authors: 3
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneTask 10.10 Winter Blues...give yourself a pick-me-up from the "winter blahs" by reading a book of your choice:
I read Guests of My Life by Elizabeth Watson 189 pages (1.27)
Points earned for this task: 10
Points Achieved to date: 300
Updated last on: 1.30.12
Total # of books read: 24
Total # of pages read: 8,530
Total # of tasks completed: 20
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 6
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (2)
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)
5.3 Round HereI read
The Pearls are round -- this book was approved on the help thread.points: 265
books read: 22
tasks completed: 20
GR authors: 2
Big Books 1 (750+)
pages read: 8033
25.1 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?White Lilac: Young Adult book.
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Marigold: Death central to plot.
Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo
The plot centers around a search for a serial killer.
25 points this post
215 total points
Jessica PDX10.2 - As You Like It
Recommended based on my "magical realism" shelf:
by Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author)Definitely a fluff treat, but I enjoyed it.
Points this Post: 10
Total Challenge Points: 745
Total Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Books: 500+ - 2; 750+ - zero; 1000+ - zero
30.1 Unique Winter Holidays - rolled a 2 & 62. Cuddle Up with Cozy Mystery - new author to me
Ghost in the Polka Dot Bikini by Sue Ann Jafferian -- #2 in the "A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery" series
6. Get a Different Name - new author to me - Choose a first name that you like
Death By Sarcasm by Dani Amore -- both the first and last names are definitely different but cute
****Sue Ann Jaffarian is a Goodreads Author ****
****Dani Amore is a Goodreads Author ****
30.3 Small Changes or Simple Swaps
1. Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs
2. Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome
Option C - switched the "g" in Gold to "t" for Told
Points Today = 60
Total Points = 560
Total Tasks = 35
Total Books = 47
Total Pages = 12,255
I have completed task #5.10 EARTH by readingYou Shall Never Know Security by J.R. Hamantaschen
Initial of author's last name is highlighted to show compliance with task requirement.
Total = 45 points
50.1 - Ms Anderson's task: For the Love of Middle SchoolBook 1: The Girls Like...
Heat Wave by Richard Castle - TV-series Castle
Book 2: The Boys Like...
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Book 3: Everyone Loves...
option 3 Ugg Boots
Head Over Heels by Sara Downing
e-book verified for length at help thread
Sara Downing is a Goodreads Author
Total points: 330
Tasks completed: 16
Books read: 24
Goodreads Authors total: 9
Big Book total : 500+ = 1
Beth~a~holic5.4. Let’s Call it a Goal! (something you'd like to do in 2012)
Organizing for Dummies by Eileen Roth
I sooooo need to get organized and currently have time off work to do it, so this is a practicle goal that fits the task requirement
Points this post: 5
Total points: 25/985
Tasks completed: 4/57
Books read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
5.4Let's Call It a GoalOrganize for a Fresh Start: Embrace Your Next Chapter in Life by Susan Fay West (My goal is to organize my home in a way that works for our family. This book wasn't as helpful as I hoped. :)
5.7 Third Stone from the Sun
The Death Cure by James Dashner (3rd in The Maze Runner trilogy)
**Claiming GR Author Ticket**
Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 795/985
Tasks Completed: 42/57
Books Read: 59/77
Goodreads Authors: 32
Big Books: 500=5, 750=1x2, 1000=0
TANYAPT30.4 Book A - odd die, so author's name has double consonants.
Book: You Are Free: Stories, Danzy Senna
Book B - even die, so double letters in title.
Book: Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 180
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 11
GR Author: 6
TANYAPT20.9 Option D
Book: The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
(Inspirational and Spirituality are listed as genres)
*** Goodreads Author ***
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 200
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 12
GR Author: 7
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
15.7 Directionally ChallengedThe word "globe" is in the subtitle.
The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by Glynis Ridley.
20.8 And It's All About Me, Myself, and I
The word "I" is in the title.
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak.
Markus Zusak is a Goodreads author.
Points this post: 35
Total points: 485
Tasks: 23
Books: 32
Goodreads authors: 5
Big books: 500=1
BUTTERFLYCAGER15.1 Cause Knowledge is Power!
B. Unpack Your Adjectives: The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities by Matthew White ("worst" in subtitle)
D. Interjections! MythBusters: Don't Try This at Home! by Mary Packard (! in subtitle)
The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities has 560 pages and is therefore a Big Book.
50.1 - Ms Anderson's task: For the Love of Middle School
Book 1: The Girls Like... I read Christy by Catherine Marshall, which was a TV show from 1994-95.
Book 2: The Boys Like... I read Divergent by Veronica Roth.
Book 3: Everyone Loves... I rolled a 1 and read The Real State of America Atlas by Cynthia Enloe, which has 116 pages.
Christy is 512 pages and therefore a Big Book.
Veronica Roth is a Goodreads Author.
Points this post: 65
Total challenge points: 755
Tasks completed: 38
Books read: 56
Goodreads Authors: 22
Big Books: 500=4, 750=0, 1000=0
Keltie Lee30.4 - Double or Nothing
Book A:Odd
The Three Faces of Eve
by Corbett H. Thigpen
*originally published in 1957*
Book B: Odd
Twin Temptation
by Cara Summers
10.4 Blue, White, and the Black of Night
by Jennifer E. Smith *Goodreads Author*
Points this post: 40
Total points: 580
Tasks: 33
Books: 42
Goodread authors: 22
DebraT (reposted with readerboard name - sorry about that!)20.1 Baby It's Cold Outside
The Dark at the End by F. Paul Wilson
Option F: DARK RUM
20.4 Happy New Year
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
I own this audiobook
Neil Gaiman is a GoodReads Author
This post: 40 points
Debra Treposted to make correction
15.8 What's IndieNext?
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
On the Indie Next list, November 2011
944 pages claiming 2 Big book tickets
BJ Rose2 new tasks
10.8 Hidden Gems -read a book with less than 1,000 ratings.
Future Perfect by Suzanne Brockmann has 120 ratings
25.2 - Jenn Renee's task: Santa by any other name is..... well, still Santa
I chose Option 1: Catherine & Kathryn - approved in Post #60 in Help Thread
Sun Kissed by Catherine Anderson
A Seductive Offer by Kathryn Smith
Kathryn Smith is a Goodreads Author
Points this post = 35
Total Points = 545
Tasks Completed = 30
Total Pages Read = 15,098
Goodreads Authors = 11
Alice GTask 5.3 Round Here
Book: The Last Werewolf
Task 5.4 Call it a Goal
Book:
My goal is to travel to a few different Greek Islands this summer. Since reading this book a week or so ago I have now booked the flights and a lot of the hotels with my boyfriend so now very excited!
Task: 5.10 E.A.R.T.H
Book: Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill
15.5 All Shiny and New
Book:
20.3 Word among Friends
Book:
Anagram: FAST
Total points: 145
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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Kristi COThe Nutcracker
Option 2: Herr Drosselmeyer
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Points this post: 20
Total points: 200
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 14
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Jessica PDX25.6 - Laurie ME's Task: Winter Fun and Games
Option A:
by James Thompson (Goodreads Author)Option B:
by John BurdettBoth books were approved in the task thread.
Points this Post: 25
Total Challenge Points: 770
Total Goodreads Authors: 19
Big Books: 500+ - 2; 750+ - zero; 1000+ - zero
10.4 Blue, White, and the Black of Night
by Chris BohjalianChris Bohjalian is a goodreads author.
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Stacie MI's task: And They Lived Happily Ever After
Option A: Dance Upon the Air by Nora Roberts
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 435
Goodreads Authors: Lauren Kate, Stacey Jay, Kendare Blake, SJ Watson, James Patterson*, Chevy Stevens, Jillian Lauren, Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Skloot, Janet Evanovich*, Lauren Oliver, Chris Bohjalian
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Nick KY5.7 Third Stone Suffer Little Children by Peter Tremayne, “Sister Fidelma” no. 3, 320 pages
10.10 Winter Blues The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd, because Percy B Shelley is a major character in this book, I’ve wanted to read it for quite a while now. 368 pages
15.9 Hark! The Herald Angels…
Archangel by Sharon Shinn, 400 pages
20.4 Valorie’s Happy New Year Option 5. Take a trip. Trespass by Rose Tremain, takes place in southern France where I wish to visit someday. 253 pages
Task Points this Post: 50
Total Points: 650
Pages Read: 16,254
Big Books: 500+ (4) 750+ (1)
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I read A Stranger in Mayfair, set in 1867.
10.5 It’s Summer Somewhere
I read Thirteen Hours, set in South Africa.
25.2 - Jenn Renee's task: Santa by any other name is..... well, still Santa
I read Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir and Crossed by Ally Condie.
This fits option 3, since Ally is a nickname for Alison. (Actually, I believe it may fit option 1 as well, since her website is allyson.condie, so it looks as if her actual name would be pronounced the same but spelled differently.)
Total points: 550
name: Suzannetask 20.3 - word Among Friends
A Game of ThronesbyGeorge R.R. Martin
Anagram = A G O T = TOGA
Big Book ticket 800+
total points : 265
STACIE MITask 25.6 - Winter Fun and Games
For Book 1, I read a book where the main character is a hockey player:
Simply Irresistible by Rachel Gibson
For Book 2, I read a book that takes place on a a cruise ship in the Caribbean:
Girl Overboard by Aimee Ferris
**Aimee Ferris is a Goodreads author!!**
Points this task: 25
Total points: 560
Tasks completed: 34
Books read: 44
Pages read: 10618
Goodreads authors: 13
Big Books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
CathyG5.9. Trash to treasure.
Using the “read” list for any of your GR friends, find a book that your friend gave only 1 or 2 stars, but that sounds like a book you might like. Required: Name the friend whose list you used.
Captive Bride by Johanna Lindsey
BJ Rose gave the book 2 stars
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10.10 The Winter Blues give yourself a pick-me-up by reading a book you've been dying to read.
Vampire Mine by Kerrelyn Sparks
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15.6 Read 'Em Their Writes!: Read a book with a police officer or law enforcement professional as a significant character or non-fiction subject.
Required: Please identify the character if it is not clear in the book description.
Faith & Fidelity by Tere Michaels
Main character Evan Cerelli is a police officer
Goodreads author
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Points this post: 30
Total points: 500
Tasks completed: 30
Books read: 36
Goodreads Authors: 19
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
20.1 - Most Improved Player - Karen F's task: Baby, It’s Cold Outside C - Curl up by a fire
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Looks like fire to me...
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 135
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 9
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
15.7 Directionally Challenged: Read a book with one of these words: north, south, east, west, map, globe, compass, chart in the title or subtitle. Plurals, possessive, and variations (northern, charting, mapped, globetrotter, southwestern, etc.) work.
Western Union (1939) by Zane Grey (Hardcover, 297 pages)
225 + 15 = 240
Tasks Completed: 16
Points for this task: 15
Points thus far: 225 + 15 = 240
Books read: 17
Pages Read: 5,327
Read but not claimed: 10
Goodreads Authors: 3
25.8 2011: The year in review3. Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain
Michael Farquhar
This is a history of the royal Family
6. The Last Chinese Chef
Nicole Mones
I visited China in May, 2011.
Total this post: 25
Total this challenge: 165
GRA: 3
5.3 - Round Here....
There's a red circle in the background (approved in help thread)
* Big Book = 614 pages *
Points for this task: 5
Total Points: 20
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 1x 500
There's a red circle in the background (approved in help thread)
* Big Book = 614 pages *
Points for this task: 5
Total Points: 20
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 1x 500
15.10 Sweet!Read The Book of the Shepherd: The Story of One Simple Prayer, and How it Changed the World by Joann Davis
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 175
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 13
Goodreads Author: 5
Big Books: 500 = 0, 750 = 0, 1000 = 0
15.10 Sweet!I read The Bathroom by Jean-Philippe Toussaint.
20.4 Happy New Year!!
I chose option 1 and read Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach, which I've owned for over a year and only now gotten around to reading.
20.6 Microhistory!
I read The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us by Sheril Kirshenbaum, a microhistory of lip-lockin'.
20.8 ...and it's all about ME (Myself, and I)
I read Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield.
Points This Post: 75
Total Points: 130
Total Tasks Completed: 8
Total Books Read: 8
Total Pages Read: 2144
Total GoodReads Authors: 0
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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Book 1: ("home" from I'll be Home for Christmas)Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
Book 2: ("angel" from Angels We Have Heard on High) Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare ***who is a GR author*** - claiming 1 GR author ticket
Points this post: 30
Total points: 225
Tasks completed: 12
Books read: 18
Goodreads Author Tickets: 13
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0