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I chose Option 3, a book first published in 2012.
Above by Leah Bobet
*** Leah Bobet is a Goodreads Author ***
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Total points: 280 + 20 above = 300
GR Authors: 6 + 1 above = 7
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Tasks Completed: 14
Books read: 18

5.3 Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy

I used Joseph-Daniel Peter Paul Abondious as my male member
5.4 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

5.8 Finger Lickin Fifteen by Janet Evonovich

10.9 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

15.6 Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evonovich

20.2 Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evonovich

Total points: 60


25.6. Keltie Lee's Task: Fire and Ice
Book 1: Heads: The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman (ice in title)
Book 2: Heads: The Baker Street Letters by Michael Robertson (Robert in last name)
30.5 Donna Jo's task: Climbing the Family Tree
Option A: Wicked by Sara Shepard has romance listed as a genre on its page. Sara Shepard is a goodreads author.
Option B: Button, Button: Uncanny Stories by Richard Matheson
My father's father's name was Richard.
Points this task: 60
Total Points: 670
Goodreads Authors: Alex Flinn, Sara Shepard**, Janet Lee Carey, James Patterson, Susan Cooper***, Karen Levine, Richard Farr, Laurie Halse Anderson

10.9 I'm on Fire
Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward
30.4 Dlmrose's task: Burning Ring of Fire
Book 1 - Set in Russia
The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak
Goodreads Author
Book 2 - ING
Body Surfing by Anita Shreve
Total Points: 430
Total GR Authors: 13

25.7 Mstan’s Task: Cooking….
Book 1: Cooked
I read

General Tso’s Chicken.
Here are two recipe’s. http://appetiteforchina.com/recipes/g...
Book 2: Uncooked
I read

25.10 Mrs. Soule's Task:I love a happy ending! Option B. 2 books from character options:
Book 1: Piglet. The following was probably recommended to me because of its gothic nature, but “Romance” appears higher on its most popular genre list. House of Many Shadows by Barbara Michaels. 343 pages
Book 2: Eyore. Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James, #100 on the “Quality Dark Fiction” listopia, #45 on “The Best Gothic Books of All Time,” 368 pages
Task Points this Post: 50
Total Points: 750
Total Pages: 17,206
Big Books: 750+ (1)

I rolled a 6.
6. Arryn: Read a book which has a predominantly white and blue cover OR the word ‘moon’ in the title OR read a thriller or mystery.
For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George
This Post: 20
Total Points: 320/1090
Tasks Completed: 25/61
Books Read:40/86

25.10 I Love a Happy Ending
B.5 - Tigger

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this post = 25
challenge total = 230
Goodreads authors = 1
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0

10.06 Middle Name Pride Day
The Flexitarian Diet: The Mostly Vegetarian Way to Lose Weight, Be Healthier, Prevent Disease, and Add Years to Your Life by Dawn Jackson Blatner
Points: 10
Total points: 200
Tasks completed: 16
Books read: 17
Goodreads authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

15.3 - We Go Together Like...

This was approved in the task thread.
Points this Post: 15
Total Challenge Points: 455
Goodreads Authors: 16
Big Books: 500+ - 5; 750+ - zero; 1000+ - zero

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (179 p)
20.7. Shorter is Sweeter: Jayalalita's Task - Happy Rama Navami!
Harvest Moon by Mercedes Lackey (384 p)
Approved in Help Thread.
20.8. It's My Birthday: Mary Beth's Task - Party Time!
The Law of Angels by Cassandra Clark (368 p) – had 68 ratings.
Cassandra Clark is a GRA.
20.9 Lucky Me!: Bea's Task - I Can’t Wait for Spring!
2. Flowers on cover: Deadline by Fern Michaels (262 p)

Points this Post: 75
Tasks Completed this Post: 4
Books Read this Post: 4
Pages Read this Post: 1193
GoodReads Authors this Post: 1
Big Books this Post: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Total Points: 475
Total Tasks Completed: 29
Total Books Read: 36
Total Pages Read: 13312
Total GoodReads Authors: 14
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

Task 15.9 - Geek Pride Day
I read a book where the main character, Flavia, is obsessed with chemistry:
I Am Half Sick Of Shadows by Alan Bradley
**Alan Bradley is a Goodreads author!!**
Points this task: 15
Total points: 440
Tasks completed: 28
Books read: 38
Pages read: 9543
Goodreads authors: 15
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

Task 5.3 Let's Hear it for the Boys
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
This book came from Jake's "read" list
Task 5.4 The FIRE within
La Petite FourbyRegina Scott
Claiming Goodreads Author Ticket
Task 5.5 Possession
The Zookeeper's Wife By Diane Ackerman
Task 10.1 Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
Ten Cents a Dance By Christine Fletcher
Claiming Goodreads Author Ticket
Ten spells net backwards
10.5 All Fired Up!
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World By Eric Weiner
I traveled abroad last year in college to Spain and I am all fired up about traveling now! I just love it. In this book Eric Weiner travels all over the world to try and find what happiness means.
10.6 Middle Name Pride Day
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
15.4 ABC's, 123's.....
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You by Hanna Jansen
Chosen and Thousand are the number and word
15.8 International Worker's Day
The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato
20.1 Most improved" Jen C's Task- Clean those shelves
The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden
E-book I already owned
20.8 It's my birthday: Mary Beth's Task-Party Time
Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Underground Railroad by Judith Redline Coopey
250 ratings at time read
Points: 115
Total Points: 115
Tasks Completed:10
Books Read:11
GoodReads Authors:2

I read The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, which was already on the NYT bestseller list (hardcover fiction) at #16 during the first week of 2012 (Jan. 1). The book remained on the list (at places between #16 through #35) every week through Feb. 26.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 135
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 8
GR authors: none
Big Books: The Prisoner / The Fugitive

20.3 - Fiery Tunes
I chose the song GREAT BALLS of FIRE and read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Points this post: 20
Total points: 160
GR authors: 1
Big Books: 1000+(1)

Sheila
Task 25.12: Denise NC’s Task: Easter Eggs and Leprechauns
Book A – Easter Eggs:
Option 1 – Pastels: Read a book with a primarily pink cover.

AND
Book B – Leprechauns:
Option 4 – Pot o’ Gold: Read a book from a friend’s bookshelf that they rated 5 stars.
The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
which was rated 5 stars by my GR friend Jan McGill
Total Points = 985

15.7 - Spring Into Action!
I read Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 80

I rolled a 3.
3: Customer service/ first job. Like many people, I started out working customer service. Read a book about working in a customer service industry (Starbucks, Walmart, diner, etc.)
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan
This was approved in the task thread.
This Post: 20
Total Points: 340/1090
Tasks Completed: 26/61
Books Read:41/86

5.6 SRC Recommends Redux
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (position: 21) **GR Author**
Voted for:
The Book Thief (4)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (7)
Water For Elephants (6)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (12)
10.5. All Fired Up!
I have been wanting to read the bible from cover to cover and also been seeking to understand it better
I think the title of this book speaks for itself:
How to Read the Bible for all Its Worth by Gordon D. Fee & Douglas Stuart
25.12: Denise NC’s Task: Easter Eggs and Leprechauns
Book A/3 (female main character): Brida by Paulo Coelho
Book B/4 (Friend: Ann Keller): Paradise Lost by John Milton
30.1 Ms. Anderson's Task: We Didn't Start the Fire (1955 - 1& 2)
I picked 1955 and rolled 1 & 2
Book 1: A bio on Einstein as he died in 1955: Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity by Andrew Robinson
Book 2: Author born in 1955: A Painted House by John Grisham **GR Author**
30.4 Dlmrose's task: Burning Ring of Fire
Book 1: The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield Set in NZ
Book 2: Wanting by Richard Flanagan
30.5 Donna Jo's task: Climbing the Family Tree (A & B)
Book A (romance): Middlemarch by George Eliot (904 pages) Big Book Ticket (750+)
Book B (pub. 1957): Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Total this post: 135 points
Total to date: 310 points
GR Authors (to date): 6
Big Book (to date): 1 (500+); 2 (750+)

Finished task 20.8 Party Time!
I read
Thirteen Reasons Why which had 53,176 ratings at the time I added it.
New point total: 125

Finished task 10.5 All Fired Up!
I read Divine Mercy: A Guide from Genesis to Benedict XVI
I am fired up about devotion to the Divine Mercy! Great book!
New point total: 135

20.3. Best Review: Chris MD's Task - Fiery Tunes
*** I chose the word RAIN from "Set Fire to the Rain."***
The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith
***Claiming Goodreads Author***
Here is the paperback (did not show Mass Market)
and Hardcover--- to check pg. numbers.
The Right Attitude to Rain
The Right Attitude to Rain
Total Points- 115
Total Tasks- 6
Goodreads Authors- 4
Big Books (500+)- 2

10.8 I Have a Question
When You Reach Me
"when" in title
30.8 The Breakfast Club
Option 1 "The Brain": The Art of Fielding
a big book at 528 pages
(NOT claiming a big book ticket)
Option 5 "The Criminal": Oryx and Crake
borrowed from the library
Points this post: 40
Total points: 155
Tasks completed: 9
Books read: 11

I chose Option A.
Read: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James and Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 100
Claiming: 2 Goodreads Author tickets for E.L. James and 2 Big Book Tickets (Fifty Shades of Grey Kindle Edition, 552 pgs. / Fifty Shades Darker Paperback Edition, 532 pgs.)

#10.6. Middle Name Pride Day Read a book by an author who uses his or her middle name
Tera Lynn Childs Goddess Boot Camp
Goodreads Author
______________________________________________________________________
#10.7. Fuel to the Fire Read another book by an author you first read during the winter challenge. If you did not read any new authors during the winter challenge, read a book by an author who is new to you now.
REQUIRED: state in your post whether the author was new to you in the winter challenge or is new to you now.
On the Steamy Side Louisa Edwards
Goodreads Author
This author was new to me in the winter challenge
______________________________________________________________________
#25.9. Stacie MI's Task: Red Hot
you will read two books. Each book must be from a different option.
Required: Please state the options you used when you post.
Option A: In honor of the new record, read a book with a 2 and a 3 in the page total.
Required: State the number of pages in your book when you post.
May B. by Caroline Starr Rose
Goodreads Author
231 pages
Option C: Read a book that takes is set in the state or Canadian province that your choice team hails from.
Black Magic Woman by Christine Warren
Takes place in NYC /New York Islanders
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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.
REQUIRED: When you post, state which option you’re using.
A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare
Goodreads Author
Flat-Out Sexy by Erin McCarthy
Goodreads Author
_____________________________________________________________________
#Task 25.12: Denise NC’s Task: Easter Eggs and Leprechauns
For this task, you will read two books.
Book A – Easter Eggs:.
Option 1 – Pastels: Read a book with a primarily pink cover.

Book B – Leprechauns:
Option 1 – Green: Read a book with a primarily green cover.

REQUIRED: For options that specify cover requirements, please include a link to the cover in your post.
Points this post: 95
Total points: 455
Tasks completed: 27
Books read: 36
Goodreads Authors: 21
Big Books: 500=3, 750=0, 1000=1

Task 30.2 - What I Want to Be Meets What Did I Become...
When I was younger, I was convinced that I would become a doctor, so I read:
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl by Brian K. Vaughan
Dr. Mann is one of the central characters.
I currently am a nanny, so I read a book about one of my favorite fictional nannies:
Mary Poppins Opens the Door by P.L. Travers
Points this task: 30
Total points: 470
Tasks completed: 29
Books read: 40
Pages read: 9959
Goodreads authors: 15
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

5.4 The FIRE Within
The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids
by Bob Sehlinger
*The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids*
25.8 Science Fiction and Fantasy Award Winners/Nominees
Book 1: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J.K. Rowling
734 Pages Big Book Ticket
*2001 Hugo Winner*
Book 2: The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
*1987 Nebula Nominee*
Points this post: 30
Total points: 510
Tasks: 32
Books: 44
Goodread authors: 17
Big Book Tickets 500: 4

A. I chose 1955 for my year.
B. I rolled a 2 and read In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan who was born on 4/6/55.
I also rolled a 4 and read Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh which was originally published in 1955.
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 700
Goodreads Authors: Alex Flinn, Sara Shepard**, Janet Lee Carey, James Patterson, Susan Cooper***, Karen Levine, Richard Farr, Laurie Halse Anderson

Task 30.4 Dlmrose's task
Fun and Games by Duane Swierczynski
Set in California
Duane Swierczynski is a GoodReads Author
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
"ing" in the title
Task 30.5 Donna Jo's task
Beastly by Alex Flinn
Option A: Book genre is romance
Alex Flinn is a GoodReads Author
Lord of the Flies Centenary Edition by William Golding
Option B: published originally in 1954
Task 30.6 Delicious Dee's task
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Option A: 1st book is fiction about a serial killer
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
Option A: 2nd book is non-fiction about a serial killer
This post: 90 points
Total to date: 455 points
Goodreads Authors:10
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0


20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: Jayalalita's Task - Happy Rama Navami! I read The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. Lang published his collected fairy tales in books with different color binders, but there seems to be no apparent organization to them. The “Grey” book contains a lot of fairy tales from Turkey, but it’s not exclusive. 236 pages
Task Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 770
Total Pages: 17,442
Big Books: 750+ (1)

Task 5.4 The Fire Within!...read a book with the letters F,I,R,E in the title or subtitle:
I read

Points earned for this task: 5
Points Achieved to date: 435
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 3
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (0)= 3
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)

Task 5.1 Silhouette on the shade!...read a book with a silhouette on the cover:
I read

Points earned for this task: 5
Points Achieved to date: 440
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 3
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (0)= 3
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)

20.1 Clean Those Shelves
The Awakening read in 8 Classic American Novels which I have had for many years and only now realised that I had not read one of them.
25.3 Naming Things
China Mountain Zhang and
Kraken by China Miéville
30.8 The Breakfast Club
Option 1 The Brain
Middlemarch 850 pages
Option 2 The criminal
The Welsh Girl borrowed from the library
Total points 475

15.10 - Where There's Smoke

This was approved in the task thread
Points this Post: 15
Total Challenge Points: 470
Goodreads Authors: 17
Big Books: 500+ - 5; 750+ - zero; 1000+ - zero

Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back by Claire Fontaine
"hell" in the subtitle
20.1 Clean Those Shelves Option 1:
Intervention by Robin Cook
owned since December 2011
25.5 100 Years Ago
Book 1: About the Titanic
Raise The Titanic! by Clive Cussler
Book 2: About Baseball
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 470
Tasks Completed: 31

15.1 Spring Forward
Book 1 (Future) - The Hunger Games
Book 2 (Past) - Deadly Shaker Spring From the author's note, "By 1937, the period in which this story is told, no Shaker villages remained in Kentucky or anywhere else outside the northeastern United States."
Points this post: 15
Total points: 120

5.5 Possession-
***Possessive form used in the title-
I used "Popper's"***
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Total Points- 120
Total Tasks- 7
Goodreads Authors- 4
Big Books (500+)- 2

5.4 The FIRE Within
Book: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
15.5 ...And XYZ
Book: Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin
Notes: Has a "Y" in the title.
25.2 Out With the Old, and In With the New...and it's Fire
Book 1: Exiled by RaShelle Workman
Notes: Option 1, she is a new to me author.
Book 2: The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine
Notes: Option 1
This Post: 45
Total to Date: 390

5.1 Silhouette on the Shade

Claiming Goodreads author ticket
Total points above:5
Points total:120

30.3 Spring Delights
option 2: Spring Thing
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Raskin birthday March 13, 1928)
option 3: Luck O' the Irish

***** Alan Bradley is a Goodreads author *****
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 240
Tasks Completed: 12
Goodreads Authors: 6

25.2 Jenn Renee's task:Out with the Old, In with the New... and it's Fire


Task points 25
Total points 275

I read The Lightning Thief and it is about Greek mythology.
Points this Post: 20
Total points: 105
Tasks Completed: 5
Books read: 7
Pages Read : 2627
GR Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

5.4 The Fire Within

The Letters F, I, R & E are in the Subtitle.
Points this post 5
Total Points 85
Total GRA Tickets 2
Total BB Tickets 1

A book with humor listed as one of the genres on its main page:
A Conspiracy of Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
15.7 - Spring into Action
A book with the genre adventure on its main GR page:
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
25.4 - More Fun with Words - With a Twist
Book 1: Killed At The Whim Of A Hat by Colin Cotterill
Book 2: Whim Hat At The
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
Total points 255


A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 715
Goodreads Authors: Alex Flinn, Sara Shepard**, Janet Lee Carey, James Patterson, Susan Cooper***, Karen Levine, Richard Farr, Laurie Halse Anderson

25.11- Take to the Links
3.The Wedge- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 68,243 ratings on 4/20/12 Big Book
5.The Putter- Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings by Kerry Miller 161 pages
Points this post= 25
Challenge total= 225
Tasks completed= 9
Books read= 14
Goodreads Authors= 4
Big Books= 500 (2), 750 (1), 1000 (0)

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
20.6 She Works Hard for the Money

I rolled a 4 - Wildlife biologist
A sighting of the extinct Lazarus Woodpecker plays an important role in this story.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 195
Total tasks: 12
Books read: 13
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Book Tickets: 1

Task 15.4 - ABC’s, 123’s ......
I read Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Points this post: 15
Total points: 145
Tasks completed: 12
Books read: 13

Task 5.8 Too Long To-Do List
I read The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Points this post: 5
Total points: 150
Tasks completed: 13
Books read: 14
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Option A: Read a book with a 2 and a 3 in the page total.
The Stranger by Albert Camus has 123 pages.
Option B: This book was published in 2008.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan.
30.3 Spring Delights
Option 5: This title has the letters "er" from "derFruhing".
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
Option 6: This book was scary because it involved a war and hiding from the Nazis. It was approved on the task help thread.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
Points this post: 55
Total points: 455
Tasks: 23
Books: 30
Goodreads authors: 5
Big books: 500=1