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Carly20.7. Shorter is Sweeter: Jayalalita's Task - Happy Rama Navami!
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Beauty is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast which originates out of France.
Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 145
Tasks Completed: 8
Tasks in Progress: 1
Books Read: 9
GoodReads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(-), 750+(-), 1000+(-)
Pages Read: 2552
Jessica PDX15.6 - They're On Fire
Michael Connelly is listed on January 8th, 2012 list at #12 with The Drop.
by Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)I am claiming a Big Book ticket for this one.
Points this Post: 15
Total Challenge Points: 215
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Books: 500+ - 3; 750+ - zero; 1000+ - zero
10.3 Run or Ride?Map of Ireland: A Novel
Takes place in South Boston in the 1970s.
10.4 Fire Signs
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
Jean Shepherd was born on 7.26.21, making him a Leo.
10.10 April Fools!
Amelia Rules! Volume 1: The Whole World's Crazy
25.3 Naming Things
Max And Helen and Amelia O'Donohue Is So Not a Virgin, which is by Helen Fitzgerald
25.4 Words With a Twist
The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941, from which you can make the word "Dust," so for the second book I read Out of the Dust
25.9 Red Hot
b: The Hunger Games, published in 2008
c: Bronx Masquerade, takes place in NYC
25.10 Happy Ending
6 (Roo/YA): Scars
6 (Roo/YA): Sisterland
25.11 Take to the Links
4 (wedge/old favorite): Ender's Game
5 (putter/short book): Etre the Cow (135 pgs)
25.12 Easter Eggs and Leprechauns
A3 (female main char): The Day Before
B4 (5star from friend): Bud, Not Buddy (from Kathy G, among others)
Total: 180 + 170 (from earlier) = 350 points
Kimber20.9 I Can't Wait For Spring!
Ain't No Sunshine by Leslie DuBois
LESLIE DUBOIS IS A GOODREADS AUTHOR
This task: 20
Tasks completed: 8
GR Authors: 7
Total points: 150
20.6. Seasoned Reader: Jennifer W’s task- She Works Hard for the Money Rolled 4: Wildlife biologist.
All the Way Home: Stories from an African Wildlife Sanctuary by Bookey Peek
Points this post: 20
Total points: 300
Tasks completed: 13
Books read: 19
Goodreads Author: 13
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0); 750 (0); 1000(3)
ALICIA T25.6 Fire and Ice
I rolled two heads, so I read:
Hot Ice by Nora Roberts (Ice in the title).
and
Northern Lights by Nora Roberts (Robert in last name).
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 50
AprilDT20.1 Clean those shelves!
1.Book owned as of March 1
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Points this post= 20
Challenge total= 100
Tasks completed= 4
Books read= 6
Goodreads Authors= 3
Big Books= 500 (1), 750 (0), 1000 (0)
Christie Guatemala10.7. Fuel to the Fire
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
This author was new to me in the winter challenge, when I read Leviathan.
Points this post: 10
Total points: 180
Goodreads authors: 6
30.5 - CLIMBING THE FAMILY TREEA. ROMANCE - Grace
C. Gap Creek by Robert Morgan who shares his first name with my paternal grandfather.
TOTAL POINTS - 520
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 12
BIG BOOKS - 1
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: Jayalalita's Task - Happy Rama Navami! read a fiction or nonfiction book about or containing an aspect of myth, legend, folklore, fairy tale, or fable from any culture or part of the world you would like to learn more about.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
This book is based on the myth of the Trojan War.
This Post: 20
Total Points: 170/1090
Tasks Completed: 16/61
Books Read: 22/86
Nick KY10.1 Happy Birthday Dr Seuss Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier, “Now” backwards is “Won” – 303 pages
15.5 X,Y,Z White Jazz by James Ellroy, 2 “z’s” in the title, 1 “y” in the author’s name, 368 pages
25.11 Take to the Links
Book 1: The Woods -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Gordon Byron, # 440 on the Must Read Classics listopia, 188 pages
Book 2: The Putter -- Hurlyburly by David Rabe, 186 pages
Task Points this Post: 50
Total Points: 400
Total Pages: 10,659
Big Books: 750+ (1)
Sheila5.3 Let's Hear it for the Boys
I picked a book from my friend Dustin's list and read
The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
5.8 Too Long To-Do List
The Villa of Mysteries by David Hewson
This book has been on my TBR list for over 2 years. I am sorry I waited so long to read it. It is really good.
20.5. Bigger is Better: Masanobu's Task - A Game of Books
I rolled a 4 so I read a fantasy book.
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Total Points = 430
10.4 Fire SignsMastiff by Tamora Pierce. Tamora Pierce was born December 13, which makes her a Sagittarius.
10.5 All Fired Up!
I am certainly enthusiastic about wearing hats--the fancier the better. I own over 60 and wear most of them.
Women's Hats of the 20th Century: For Designers and Collectors by Maureen Reilly
15.3A We Go Together Like...
Using the two book option, I used shoes and socks and read
Italian Shoes: A Novel by Henning Mankell
Same Socks Marriage by Dani O'Connor
Quite a contrast in books!
20.9 Lucky Me--Bea's Task--I Can't Wait for Spring:
Option 4 Cover is green, and yellow and her dress is a pink-ish white.
The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After
by Patricia C. WredeToday's total: 55
Grand total: 380
30.6 Delicious Dee's task: Sometimes truth is stranger than fictionI chose option A and read:
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater, which is a fiction book. It's main focus (apart from the lovestory) are werewolves.
Maggie Stiefvater is a Goodreads author.
and
The Book of Werewolves by Sabine Baring-Gould, which is a non-fiction book detailing with the origin of the werewolf-myths.
___________
Points this post: 30
Total points: 205
GR authors: 3
Big Book Tickets: 3 (500+)
Mod
read Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (goodreads author)
10.3 Run or Ride read The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
20.3 by Wendelin Van Draanen read Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (goodreads author) song choice SMOKE from a DISTANT FIRE
25.6 Fire and Ice flipped heads then tail
book a read The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson (goodreads author)
and
Book B read Eve by Anna Carey (goodreads author)
30.1 we didnt start the fire - picked year 1984 - first year that came to my head.
rolled 2- read Heart's Blood by Jane Yolen published 1984
and rolled 4 read
Cinder by Marissa Meyer (goodreads author) born 1984
Points this Post: 90
Total points- 335
Tasks Completed: 18
Books read: 23
Pages Read : 8,989
GR Authors: 11
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
5.7 - I Love Paris in the Spring TimeCandide by Voltaire
10.2 - ”The Shot Heard Round the World”
1776 by David McCullough
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 160/1090
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 14
GoodReads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (), 1000+ ()
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneTask 10.3 Run or Ride?...read a book with a horse on the cover:
I read
Full Cry by Rita Mae Brown 384 pages(3.24)
Points earned for this task: 10
Points Achieved to date: 205
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 1
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (0)
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneTask 30.8 The Breakfast Club...choose two different options and read a book from each of your chosen options:
I chose option #5 (criminal...read a book that isn't yours) and I read the library book
Out on a Limb by Shirley Maclaine 368 pages (3.10)The second option I chose was #1 (the brain...read a "big book") and I read
Green Darkness by Anya Seton 591 pages (CLAIMING A BIG BOOK TICKET) (3.24-3.26)Points earned for this task: 30
Points Achieved to date: 235
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 1
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (0)= 1
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)
5.1 Silhouette on the Shade
by Justin Torres**Justin Torres is a GR Author**
Points this Post: 5
Total points- 230/1090
Tasks Completed: 13/62
Books read: 17
Pages Read : 5238
GR Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
MariyaTask 10.6. Middle Name Pride Day
I read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Points this post: 10
Total points: 80
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 9
Boston Kate5.1 Silhouette on the Shade
(approved in thread)
10.7 Fuel to the Fire
Wonderstruck
during the winter challenge I read The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick was a new-to-me author
20.10 Group Read
Divergent
post #14 in discussion thread
Points this post: 35
Total points: 65
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
I'm going to post one to get myself on the Reader board - and then try to figure out some other books!30.7 Beth NC's task FIRE ELEMENTALS
Option 4 -- Read a romance book
The Cinderella Moment
03/17/2012Option 6 -- read a book where the number of pages end in a 6
Family By Design
256 pages 03/06/2012
5.3 Let's Hear it for the Boys
Joseph-Daniel Peter Paul Abondius' Books
Silence 03/15/2012
points this post = 35
Total points= 35
20.10 Group ReadsThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
This is my first task completed!
Total now of 20 points I guess/think!
BABBLING C5.4 The FIRE Within -- Read a book with the LETTERS F, I, R, E in the title or subtitle. The letters do not need to appear consecutively
Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James GRA
10.10. April Fools Day! -- Read a book that has “humor” as one of the genres listed on the book’s main page.
Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire GRA
25.10. Mrs. Soule's Task:I love a happy ending!
Option A: Winnie-the-Pooh - If you love romance novels too, you’re in luck! Read any two romance novels. “Romance” must be in the genre list of the book’s main page.
Storm Kissed by Jessica Andersen GRA
Mad About the Earl by Christina Brooke GRA
THIS POST
Points: 40
Completed Tasks: 3
Good Read Authors: 4
Big Books: 0
Total This Season
Points: 95
Completed Tasks: 5
Good Read Authors: 5
Big Books: 0
Cindy FTask 15.10 Where There's Smoke....
I read Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury
Points this post:15
Total points:170
Tasks completed:11
Books read: 13
Goodreads Authors:1
Big books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(0)
10.1 Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin
DOG spelled backwards is GOD
Grace Lin is a Goodreads Author
20.2 April Showers
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Option A-2 Books that Made You Cry list.
This book is sad because it deals with teen suicide.
30.3 Spring Delights
Book 1 - option 5 - "der Fruhling"
The Big CRUnch by Pete Hautman RU in title
Book 2 - option 6 - Spring in Your Step
Switched by Amanda Hocking
The book was creepy and made me jump because the main character was a changeling who was switched at birth by trolls. Her "host" mother tried to kill her with a butcher knife when she was 6 years old!
Amanda Hocking is a Goodreads Author
Points this post: 60
Total points: 110
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 7
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Book Tickets: 1
5.4 The FIRE WithinFirst Impressions
Goodreads Author. 03/25/2012
10.6 Middle Name Pride Day
Love in Bloom by Karen ROSE Smith
Goodreads Author. 03/27/2012
20.1Most Improved:Jen C's Task -- Clean The Shelves
Option 1: Read a book I own as of March 1st
Convictions
20.3Best Review:Chris MD's Task - Fiery Tunes
Song: Set Me on Fire
Word chosen: ME
Book read: Love Me If You Must
20.4Author!Author!:Skandia's Task - To be continued...in Spring,
I did not take part in the Winter Challenge, therefore I began the Hex Hall Series with book number 1.
Hex Hall
Goodreads Author
25.10Mrs. Soule's Task: I love a happy ending!
Option A: Winnie - the Pooh
The Last Song
03/28/2012A Secret Kept
Goodreads Author 03/10Previous points = 35
Points this post = 100
Total Points = 135
Goodreads Authors = 6
Big Books = 0
Edit to post #690Two book covers are missing - sorry
Family by Design
ALSO:
Both authors, Justesen and Fitzpatrick, are Goodreads Authors
Casselm25.2 Jenn Renee's task:Out with the Old, In with the New... and it's Fire
I used option 1 for both books.
Book 1: Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities by Alexandra Robbins (letter R),
*Alexandra Robbins is a GOODREADS AUTHOR*
Book 2: Four Major Plays: A Doll's House / Ghosts / Hedda Gabler / The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen (letter I)
25.10 Mrs. Soule's Task:I love a happy ending!
Option B--I am not a great lover of romance novels.
2. Eeyore--Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad from the list "Quality Dark Fiction"
6. Roo--The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer
25.11 Kate S's Task: Take to the Links!
1. The Driver; The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, from the "Best Beginnings" list.
*Alan Bradley is a GOODREADS AUTHOR*
5. The Putter; On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, length is 112 pages.
Points this post: 75
Total points: 180
GR authors: 2
Sheila15.6 - They're On Fire
I read The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly was #11 on the hardcover fiction list on Jan 8 2012 for The Drop
Total Points = 445
Cindy AL25.9 Red Hot:
Devil's Business by Caitlin Kittredge
New Jersey "Devils" and
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception by Maggie Stiefvater
Lament was published in 2008.
Maggie Stiefvater is a Goodreads Author.
30.2 What I Want to Be:
Artifacts by Mary Anna Evans
Intern With The Vampire by Kit Iwasaki
Kit Iwasaki is a Goodreads Author
When I was young (12ish) I really wanted to be an archaeologist. Then I found out that you spent a lot of time out in the sun, not a good career choice for me. So I became a doctor instead.
Points in this post - 55
Total Points - 625/1090
Books - 43/85
Pages - 15580
Goodreads Authors: 25
Big Books:500+ - (0), 750+ - (0),1000+ - (0)
Points for these tasks: 10Points thus far: 120
Goodreads Author: 0/2
10.4. Fire Signs Read an author who was born an Aries
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, who was born April 13, 1960.
5.3 - Let's Hear it for the BoysTravels With Charley (* * * *) - on SRC member Stephen's shelf
25.8 - Helen's Task: Science Fiction and Fantasy Award Winners/Nominees
Cat 1 - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick (Hugo Award nominee, 1975) (* * *)
Cat 2 - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick (Nebula Award nominee, 1975) (* * *)
30.8 - Meghanly's task: The Breakfast Club
Option 1 - The Brain
Angle of Repose (* * * * *) - I read the kindle version, which has no page numbers, but the mass market paperback (Angle of Repose) has 592 pages.
Option 4 - The Princess
Where Things Come Back (* * * *) - Printz Award winner 2012
Tasks completed: 15/61
Books read: 18/86
Points claimed in this post: 60
Total points claimed: 260
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneTask 25.2 Out with Old, In with New...choose an option(s) and read two books...choosing at least one from a new to you author:
I chose to use option #1 for both of my books (author's first or lat name starts with a F.I.R.or E. and I read:
Book #1:
The Pink Ghetto by Liz Ireland (this was a new for me author) 345 pages (3.19))Book #2:
Cinnamon Roll Murder by Joanne Fluke 304 pages (3.27)Points earned for this task: 25
Points Achieved to date: 260
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 1
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (0)= 1
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneTask 30.6 Truth is stranger than Fiction...read 2 books that are both either from option A or option B:
I chose option A (read a fiction book of your choice & then read a non-fiction book that relates in some way to your fiction book). I read:
Fiction book:
Reincarnation of Peter Proud by Max Simon Ehrlich 288 pages (3.28)Non-Fiction book:
Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon--Survival of Bodily Death by Raymond A. Moody, Jr. (explores other beliefs of death & the spiritual hereafter) 208 pages (3.30)Points earned for this task: 30
Points Achieved to date: 290
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 1
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (0)= 1
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)
30.8 Meghanly's task: The Breakfast ClubOption 1 (Big Book): Jenseits der Schatten (Beyond the Shadows) by Brent Weeks (the edition I read had 614 pages, so this is a Big Book and Brent Weeks is a Goodreads Author.)
Option 5 (book that isn't mine, I borrowed it from the library): The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
__________
Points this post: 30
Total points: 235
GR authors: 4
Big Books: 4 (500+)
Mod
10.1 Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
War at Home by Kris Nelscott
War = Raw
10.2. ”The Shot Heard Round the World”
Jack Absolute by C.C. Humphreys set in 1777
10.6. Middle Name Pride Day
Red Knife by William Kent Krueger
15.1 - Spring Forward
Book 1 set in 2047: Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
Book 2 set in 1940: The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
15.10 - Where There's Smoke.......
Firestorm by Iris Johansen with arson investigator Kerry Murphy
total 300
Laurie ME10.2: The Shot Heart Round the World:
Suzanne Adair - Camp Follower
10.5: All Fired Up! I'm fascinated, entranced by bombs, explosions and the investions afterwards.
Julie Garwood - Slow Burn
10.9: I'm on Fire:
Julie Garwood - Shadow Dance
25.6: Keltie Lee's Task: Fire and Ice: I got 2 Heads:
Option A: Julie Garwood - Fire and Ice
Option B: Nora Roberts - The Perfect Neighbor
25.12: Denise NC's Task: Easter Eggs and Leprechauns
Book 1: option 3: Main characher - Mallory Devereaux (female) is the focus of the book:
Jana DeLeon - Unlucky
Jana DeLeon is a goodreads author
Book 2: option 3: mystery
Karen Rose - You Belong to Me
Points this Post: 80
Total Points: 430
ANGIE CA10.6 Middle Name Pride Day
Book: Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning
10.9 I'm On Fire!
Book: Drink Deep by Chloe Neill
20.8 Party Time!
Book: The Annihilation of Foreverland by Tony Bertauski
Notes: It had 16 ratings when I chose it.
This Post: 40
Total to Date: 240
Edit to post 695 - oops I am really mixing things up today! Sorry, I have posted the incorrect book cover for Love in Bloom it should be
by Karen Rose Smith.
Jodi2Task 10.9 – I’m On Fire
Read a book that you're hot to read
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Points this Post: 10
Total points: 80
Tasks Completed: 6
Books read: 7
Kimber10.1 Happy Birthday Dr Suess!
This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Live = evil
This task: 10
tasks completed: 9
GR authors: 7
Total points: 160
20.1 Clean Those Shelves!i chose option 1 and read Infidel, which has been on my to-read shelf for ages! heavy read, wow.
20.9 I Can't Wait for Spring!
i chose option 2 (flower on cover) and read Rose
. didn't like it as much as her first two. 
Total points: 125/1090
Tasks Completed: 6/61
Books read: 7/83ish
Goodreads Authors:
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0
BABBLING C
20.9 Lucky Me!: Bea's Task - I Can’t Wait for Spring!
2. FLOWER: Read a book that has either a flower(s) or a flowering plant on the cover.
Flowerbed of State by Dorothy St. James
THIS POST
Points: 20
Completed Tasks: 1
Good Read Authors: 0
Big Books: 0
Total This Season
Points: 115
Completed Tasks: 6
Good Read Authors: 5
Big Books: 0
Leah20.5 - A Game of Books
I rolled a 4 (Targaryen)and I chose to read a Fantasy book:
A Bloody Good Secret by Sierra Dean
*Sierra Dean is a Goodreads author*
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Total points: 115 + 20 above = 135
GR Authors: 3 + 1 above = 4
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Tasks Completed: 6
Books read: 9
20.2. Rookie on Top Queenarwen's Task: April ShowersOption April Showers: Read a book from "Books that Made You Cry" List
Read: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (currently #142 on that list)
Why it made me cry: It's a story about teens with cancer falling in love. Of course it made me cry.
Points this Post: 20
Total points- 250/1090
Tasks Completed: 14/62
Books read: 18
Pages Read : 5556
GR Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(1), 1000+(0)
10.3. Run or Ride? Horse on Cover -
by John Steinbeck15.5 - ...... And XYZ
Y and Z in Title - Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
25.8. Helen's Task: Science Fiction and Fantasy Award Winners/Nominees
*Magically turning 2 into 1*
Cat 1 Hugo Award: Winner 2002 **American Gods by ***Neil Gaiman
Cat 2 Nebula Award: Winner 2002 **American Gods by ***Neil Gaiman
**Big Book - American Gods is 656 Pages**
***Neil Gaiman is a Goodreads Author***
Points in This Task: 50
Goodreads Authors in This Post: 1
Big Book Tickets in This Post: 1
Pages Read in This Post: 992
Totals:
Total Points: 140
Total Goodreads Authors: 4
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(1), 750=(0), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 7
Total Books Read: 9
Total Pages Read in Spring 2012 SRC: 3186
Reviews Available. Anne (Booklady) Spring 2012 Reviews
Lav 5.5- Possession
Read a book with a word in the possessive form.
The Lover's Dictionary
Task points: 5
Total points: 50
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20.8 It's My Birthday: Mary Beth's Task - Party Time!
Read a book with fewer than 500 ratings on Goodreads.
Today (March 29, 2012) this book has 333 ratings:
The London Train (2011) by Tessa Hadley (Paperback, 326 pages)
115 + 20 = 135
Tasks Completed: 8
Points for this task: 20
Points thus far: 115 + 20 = 135
Books read: 8
Pages Read: 2,423
Read but not claimed: 6
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750 +
(0) 1000 +