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Challenge #9: Report Points Here
50.1 - Happy Birthday To Me! In honor of my birthday (March 1st) I’m giving everyone a free pass to read any HF book they want as long as it’s over 310 pages The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
320 pages = 4
HF = 1
Total = 55
20.2 – Make Them Proud! Read a HF book you'd be proud to tell your High School English Teacher (or parent, pastor, etc) you're reading
Absalom, Absalom!
320 pages = 4
HF = 1
total = 25
Challenge total - 298
20.3 – Make Love Not War! Read a HF about war told from the point of view of a non-combatant 
Sea of Glory by Ken Wales This was an historical fiction/inspirational novel based on the heroic acts of four chaplains aboard the USAT Dorchester.
Pages=>358=>4pts
HF=>1pt
Task Total=>25pts
Challenge Total=>276pts
5.3 - Super Powers! Read a book with a character who has an enhanced sense A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
1061 pages - 10 points
15 task points
414 Challenge points
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund666 pages: 6 Pts
HF: 1 Pt
Happy Birthday To Me!: 50 Pys
Task Total: 56 Pts.
Challenge points: 87 Pts.
15.3- Looking for Me Pot O'GoldQueen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland
by Susan Fraser King336 pgs= 4 pts
HF= 1 pt
Post total= 20 pts
Challenge total= 345
20.2 Make Them Proud! - for my old English teacher, not sure why, but I didn't read much in high school, if only he could see me know :)The Prince and the Pauper
224 pages - 2 pts
HF - 1 pt
Task total - 23 pts.
Challenge total - 369 pts
20.1 – Free At Last! In honor of African American History Month read a HF book that features slavery Chains
316 pages - 4
HF - 1
Total = 25
Challenge total = 323
10.2 What's in a Name?A Wicked Way to Burn by Margaret Miles
336 pts. - 4 pts.
HF - 1 pt
Task Total: 16 pts
Challenge total: 383 pts.
Margaret wrote: "10.2 What's in a Name?A Wicked Way to Burn by Margaret Miles
336 pts. - 4 pts.
HF - 1 pt
Task Total: 16 pts
Challenge total: 383 pts."
that should be 15 pts, not 16
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100 Best of the Best
Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning
Winner: Favorite PNR
594 pages = 6 pts
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Winner: Favorite Book of Year
487 pages = 4 pts
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
Nominee: Favorite Fiction
273 pages = 2 pts
Task Total: 112
20.1 Free at Last!
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
369 pages = 4 pts
HF = 1 pt
Task Total = 25 pts
20.2 – Make Them Proud!
Kindred by Octavia Butler
287 pages = 2 pts
HF= 1 pt
Task Total = 23 pts
20.3 Make Love Not War
The Soldier's Wife by Margaret Leroy
416 pages = 4 pts
HF = 1 pt
Task Total=25 pts
15.1 Keeping it read!
Becoming Marie Antoinette by Julia Grey
453 pages = 4 pts
HF = 1
Task Total= 20 pts
Challenge Total: 369 pts
10.1 Oh Romeo! Oh Romeo!
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
In the book, Jesus is referred to as Joshua, which is also my husband's name!
444 pages = 4
Task Total= 14
Challenge Total = 387
100 – Best of the Best! Read 3 books from Goodreads Choice Awards (yes, nominees count) Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
344 pgs 4 pts
HF 1 pt
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
396 pgs 4 pts
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
352 pgs 4 pts
HF 1 pt
Task total 114 pts
Final challenge total 426 pts*
*barring any other errors by my defective calculator :). Thanks for catching those, Jackie!
100 – Best of the Best! Read 3 books from Goodreads Choice Awards (yes, nominees count) Letters from Home
356 pgs = 4 pts.
HF = 1 pt.
Shine
pgs. = 350 = 4 pts.
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
pgs. = 320 = 4 pts.
Total 113 pts.
Challenge total 372 pts.
Task 20.1 Free at Last
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
470 pages- 4 points
HF- 1 point
Task total= 25
Challenge total= 267
Updated Scoreboard:Cheryl- 426
Jen C.- 421
LemonLinda- 414
HeatherJ- 387
Margaret- 383
Kristine- 376
Diane- 372
JoLene- 369
April- 345
BethNC- 345
Rachel- 323
Holly- 284
Christina- 276
Kirsten- 267
Butterflycager- 257
Nancy- 217
Luck- 187
Sarah (Loudog) Louise- 169
HollyP- 157
Ladywallingford- 156
Diane Whitney- 120
Robyn- 112
Melissa- 88
JennBunny- 23
Jayme- 9
JenniferB- 7
One more week left!! :)
None of the books i am reading right now, fit in the challenge. At least that will be read in time to count.
5.01 LET'S LEARN SOME HISTORY - At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire368 pages = 4pts
Task Points = 9
50.02 BE PROUD TO SHOW - Tall Woman by Wilma Dykeman
HF (1800's)= 1pt
315 pgs = 4 pts
Task Points = 55
Challenge Total = 409
One more book to go!
15.2- Hail Caesar! Not!The Blind Assassin was about betrayal. in the 1930's and 1940's
521 pgs= 6 pts
Task total= 22 pts
Challenge total= 376
5.1 – Let’s Learn Some History! Read a microhistory of something Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn from Them by Liz Curtis Higgs
256 pages - 2 points
Task Total - 7 points
Challenge Total - 421 points
One more book to go and I am almost done with it.
The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name by Toby Lester480 Pages:4 Pts.
5.1 – Let’s Learn Some History! Read a microhistory of something: 5 Pts
Book Total: 9 Pts.
Challenge Total: 97 Pts.
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The Next Door Boys by Jolene B. Perry
266 pages = 2 pts
Task total = 12 pts
Challenge Total = 381
5.2 – Touch Down! In honor of the upcoming Super Bowl read a book that either features football or has New England as a location The American Heiress - Partial happens in Rhode Island
468 pages - 4
HF - 1
total - 5
Challenge total - 333
20.2 Make Them Proud!Bridge of Scarlet Leaves by Kristina McMorris
This novel has to do with the interment of Japanese Americans during WWII. I had a college professor who was interned as a child, and I think he would be proud of me for reading this.
Pages: 420
Task points: 20
Page points: 4
HF bonus: 1
Total this task: 25
Challenge total: 282
15.3 – Looking for Me Pot o’ Gold! Read a HF book with a green or gold cover. Beulah Land by Lonnie Coleman H 536 pp = +6+1 = +7 = 22 task points
Beulah Land by Lonnie Coleman
536 pages - 6 points
HF - 1 point
Task total - 22 points
Challenge total - 443 points
Completed all tasks - lots of fun and good reading!
20.1 Free At Last!A Voice in the Wind
520 pages - 6 pts
HF - 1 pt
Task Total: 27 pts
Challenge Total: 410 pts.
one more to go...
10.3 Oh Mr. President!
American Adulterer: A novel
352 pages = 4
HF = 1
Task Total = 15
Challenge Total = 402
100.1Divergent
(487pp) +4
15.1 Keeping It Real!The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great
444 pages - 4 pts
HF - 1 pt
Task total: 20 pts
Final Challenge Total: 430 pts. (whew I am done - great challenge!)
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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
336 pages = 4
HF = 1
Task Total = 10
Challenge Total = 391
20.2 – Make Them Proud! Read a HF book you'd be proud to tell your High School English Teacher (or parent, pastor, etc) you're reading 
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 489 pages=>4pts
HF=>1pt
Task Total=>25 pts
Challenge Total =>301pts
<50.2- Be Proud to show your age!Born 1975
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow was first published in 1975.
270pgs= 2 pts
HF= 1
Post total= 53 pts
Final Challenge total= 429
50.1 Happy Birthday to Me!Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Task points = 50
312 pages = 4 points
HF bonus = 1 point
Challenge Total: 167 points
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Bluffing Mr. Churchill by John Lawton
416 pages=4 pts
HF= 1 pt
Task total 20 pts
Challeng Total=411
50.2 – Be Proud to show your age! Read a book published in the year of your birthA Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary first published in 1954.
288 pgs. = 2
Total = 52
Challenge total = 424
Think I am done.
Reminder: All points must be reported by 11:59pm PST on March 31, 2012 to be counted. I'll be updating the scoreboard tonight.
I don't think i will be getting any books in tonight.
15.1 – Keeping It Real! Read a HF book that has a real historical figure as a character or takes place around a historical event: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant - The real historical figure is Dinah and her family (in the Bible).
Task Points: 15
Pages 321: 2
HF: 1
Total Task Points: 18
Total Challenge Points: 41
20.3 – Make Love Not War! Read a HF about war told from the point of view of a non-combatant: The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
Task Points: 20
Pages 320: 2
HF: 1
Total Task Points: 23
Total Challenge Points: 64
Task 20.3 Make Love Not War
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
602 pages -6 points
HF- 1 point
Task total- 27 points
Challenge total - 294 points
That was fun!!
Yeah, pretty sure I won't be finishing any more books tonight, but this challenge was sooo much fun. I'm really proud of how far I got, especially while managing to keep up with my last semester of college! Can't wait for the next one!
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But decided to take a breather so I can get through my April TBR list.
Was really fun, although a lot of tasks for only 2 months.
I agree with the previous two posts. It was fun and I loved adding up my points. Can't believe I got as many books done as I did!
Sorry, didn't get a chance to update last night, but here is the -Updated Final Scoreboard:
LemonLinda- 443
Margaret- 430
Cheryl- 426
Diane- 424
Jen C.- 421
April- 420
JoLene- 411
BethNC- 409
HeatherJ- 402
Kristine- 376
Rachel- 333
Kirsten- 304
Holly- 302
Christina- 301
Butterflycager- 282
Nancy- 217
Luckngrace- 192
Shay- 187
Sarah (Loudog) Louise- 169
Robyn- 167
HollyP- 157
Ladywallingford- 156
Diane Whitney- 120
Melissa- 97
JennBunny- 64
Jayme- 9
JenniferB- 7
Congratulations to: LemonLinda, Margaret and Cheryl
Also congratulations to those who finished all the tasks:
Margaret, April, Diane, LemonLinda and Cheryl
Great job everyone and thank you for participating! :D
Thanks - I really enjoyed this challenge - loved the tasks - love finding the books that fit them and reading them. Oddly enough - most of the books for this challenge fit into my already made reading plan for the year. I just had to tweak when I was reading them. I only added a couple so as to finish the complete list of tasks.
Becky and Jackie,I just noticed we are missing a book in the #4 slot.
It should be by by Elizabeth Chadwick The Scarlet Lion.
Can you add it? If not, just let it go. Thanks.
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I just noticed we are missing a book in the #4 slot.
It should be by by Elizabeth Chadwick The Scarlet Lion.
Can you add it? If not, just let it go. Thanks."
I went ahead and added it. I'm sure it was my error somewhere along the line. LOL
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Scarlet Lion (other topics)The Scarlet Lion (other topics)
The Invisible Bridge (other topics)
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel (other topics)
The Red Tent (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Anita Diamant (other topics)Louise Murphy (other topics)
E.L. Doctorow (other topics)
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Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
15 pts
HF 1 pt
533 pages 6 pts
total 22 points
grand total 334