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Emmalita20.10 Group Reads
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
I posted in the Group read thread on 5/28
This post: 20 points
Total points to Date: 100 points
Goodread authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 3
Total tasks completed: 5
5.3 Let's Hear it for the BoysFrom Sam's Shelves I read The Walking Dead, Book Two by Robert Kirkman
*The hard back collection was approved by DLMRose in task help*
50.1. Cindy AL's Task: North to Alaska
Option 1: SEWARDSFOLLY: Bunheads by Sophie Flack
Option 3: Predominantly Blue/Green cover
by Kiera CassOption 5: Favorite Genre = Sci-Fi/Fantasy (dystopia)
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
**Cass and Roth are both GRs Authors = (2 Author Tickets)**
**Insurgent is a 525 pages = 1 BB Ticket**
Points this Post: 55
Total points- 610/1090
Tasks Completed: 34/62
Books read: 47
Pages Read : 16137
Minutes Listened To: 630
GR Authors: 23
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(1x2), 1000+(0)
Christie Guatemala10.4. Fire Signs
American Law: An Introduction by Lawrence M. Friedman
Lawrence Friedman was born on April 2, 1930:
Wikipedia: Lawrence Friedman
20.10 Group Reads
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle--Comment on thread: message 21
50.1. Cindy AL's Task: North to Alaska
Option 2: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Option 3: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller
--Sapphire = blue coverOption 5: Insurgent by Veronica Roth--I love reading books in the fantasy genre.
Veronica Roth is a Goodreads author.
525 pages claiming Big Book ticket.
Points this post: 80
Total points: 500
Goodreads authors: 14
Big Books: 500=3, 750=1
25.2 Out with the Old, In with the New... and it's Fire Option 1: Author's Last Name Begins with I
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
***John Irving is a GR Author***
***At 637 pages, this is a Big Book***
Option 2: yellow cover, approved in Help Thread msg 34
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie30.2 “What I want to be” meets “What did I become”...
Book 1: I wanted to be an author when I grew up
by Carol ShieldsBook 2: I spent ten years in social services before I became a stay at home aunt
by Karen Rose Cercone-the female lead in this mystery is a house manager for immigrants in 1905 Pittsburgh and is described as a social worker. Her advocacy of her residents is reminiscent of my main focus in my chosen career.Post total: 55
Season Total: 975
15.10 Where There's SmokeMockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Katniss was caught in a fire bomb dropped by the rebels into a group of children and their own first-responders.
15 points this post
245 total points
30.6 Truth is Stranger than FictionOption A
Book 1: Fiction
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
Book 2: Non Fiction
The Princes in the Tower by Elizabeth Jenkins
Both books talked about life in the Lancaster Court during the Wars of the Roses.
30 points this post
275 total points
claiming Big Book Ticket for The Lady of the Rivers 497 pages
2 Big Books total
KAREN F10.6 Middle Name Pride Day
Since the Surrender by Julie Anne Long
20.2 April Showers
Option 3: The Winter Garden Mystery by Carola Dunn
Main characters name is Daisy.
20.9 I Can't Wait for Spring
Option 4 Colors: Tricked by Kevin Hearne
Yellow/Orange Cover
**Kevin Hearne is a Goodreads Author**
25.2 Out with the Old..
I used Option 1 (FIRE) for both.
Book 1: Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep
**Jennifer Estep is a Goodreads Author**
Book 2: Tempted by Elisabeth Naughton
**Elisabeth Naughton is a Goodreads Author**
Jennifer Estep was a new to me author.
50.1 North to Alaska
Option 2 Mystery: Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris
Option 5 Favorite Genre is Romance: Immortal Rider by Larissa Ione
**Larissa Ione is a Goodreads Author**
Option 6 Set in Alaska: The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper
Set in Grundy, Alaska.
**Molly Harper is a Goodreads Author**
Points this Post: 105
Total Challenge Points: 735
Goodreads Authors: 31
Big Books: 500+(1),750+(0),1000+(0)
Can I please move Second Time Around by Beth Kendrick from 15.4 ABC's, 123's.... and replace it with 92 Pacific Boulevard?Both are written by GoodReads authors, so no change there.
5.2 Get Caught Reading
has books on the chair.Beth Kendrick is a GoodReads author.
Points this post = 5
Total points: 825 + 5 = 830
Goodreads Authors: 29 + 1 = 30
Big Books: 500+= 1, 750+=0, 1000+ = 0
Personal Goal: 600
Jessica PDX15.4 - ABCs, 123s
by Amanda Hodgkinson (Goodreads Author)Points this Post: 15
Total Challenge Points: 655
Goodreads Authors: 23
Big Books: 500+ - 8; 750+ - zero; 1000+ - zero
Queenarwen30.1 - I read Paper Towns by John Green and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Newbery) for options 2 and 5.
30.3 - I read The Spring of the Ram (ng) for option 5 and Notes from a Spinning Planet: Ireland for option 3.
30.4 - I read Terra Incognita, about Antarctica and The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag.
30.6 - I read Maine and Settled in the Wild (fiction and non-fiction respectively) -- both about Maine
25.8 - I read Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon, which won both the Hugo (2008) and Nebula (2007) Awards.
20.1 - I read Gone to Green for task 1.
20.10 - I read Divergent and commented in the discussion thread.
15.6 - I read War Horse (Jan. 29)
15.9 - I read Bringing Down the House -- using math to "take" the casinos
10.5 - A Quilter's Holiday; quilting was the topic that excites me
10.9 - Coastliners
5.1 - The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
5.3 - The Acts of the Apostles - my friend Elwyn Garaza recommended it.
5.7 - From Here, You Can't See Paris
5.9 - The Screwtape Letters - about the devil
5.10 - The Printmaker's Daughter - Katharine Govier
➜15.3 -- We Go Together Like..ONE book option: Lost and Found by Jayne Ann Krentz
Points this post: 15
Season Total: 65
PUTTERPAL20.5- a Game of Books
I rolled a 6 and chose a mystery.
Flip by Martyn Bedford
20.9- I can't Wait for Spring
Option 1
by Kristin Levine25.10- I love a happy ending
Option A- Winnie the Pooh
The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
The Clearing by Heather Davis
25.12- Easter Eggs and Leprechauns
A- Option 4- stickers
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
B- Option4- Pot o Gold- chose this from my friend Lorna's bookshelf
Whiter Than Snow by Sandra Dallas
50.1- North to Alaska
Option 2- The Death Cure by James Dashner
Option 3-
by Sarah WeeksOption 5- Night Road by Kristin Hannah Chick-lit is my favorite genre
Points this Post: 140
Total Points: 280
10.2 "The Shot Heard 'Round the World"Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson ***who is a Goodreads author*** takes place from May 1776-January 1777.
***claiming 1 GR author ticket***
Points this post: 10
Total points: 290
Total tasks completed: 14
GR tickets: 8
Coralie5.5 Possession
Carrie's War
10.1 Happy Birthday, Dr Seuss!
WAS=SAW
The House That Was Eureka
Total points 875
Mod
5.10 Good Minds Suggest read
Sloppy Firstsby Megan McCafferty recommended by Sarah Dessen
10.5 All Fired up! I love video games I read Epic by Megan McCafferty
20.10 Group read read Divergent (GRA) by Veronica Roth post #49 in the discussion
Points this Post: 40
Total points- 1050
Tasks Completed: 56
Books read: 79
Pages Read : 27,471
GR Authors: 48
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
JennRenee--- You are so close!!!:-)
soo close Jenn Renee - you can do it!! 3 days no sweat ;)
30.1 We Didn't Start the FireI chose 1955 and rolled a 4 and a 3.
Published in 1955: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Author died in 1955: How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
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Points this post: 30
Total points: 690
Total Goodreads authors: 10
Big Books: 500+ (5), 750+ (1), 1000+ (1)
Total tasks completed: 29
Total pages: 15,848
Total books: 44
Mod
Points this Post: 5
Total points- 1055
Tasks Completed: 57
Books read: 80
Pages Read : 27,471
GR Authors: 49
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
AprilDT20.3- Fiery Tunes
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
Title: I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
Both have WORLD in title
Points this post= 20
Challenge total= 510
Tasks completed= 20
Books read= 31
Goodreads Authors= 9
Big Books= 500 (4), 750 (1), 1000 (0)
Readername: Beth Lynn25.11
Wedge (Old favorite) - Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson (250 pages).
Putter (Short book) - The Emperor's Code by Gordon Korman (190 pages).
Points This Post - 25
Total Points - 245
Tasks Completed - 7
Books Read - 17
Pages Read - 5,462
Goodreads Authors - 4
Big Books - 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
Claiming Big Book Ticket for The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 550 pagesPost # 1064 (4/15/12)
Apparently there was some confusion in the way I posted it and it did not get recorded on the reader board.
2 total BB tickets
Thanks!
SUZANNE VN10.6 Middle Name Day
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
30.2 What I Want to be vs. What I Became
Real Murders by Charlaine Harris - Growing up, I wanted to be a librarian. All my childhood books still have the little library cards taped in the front from when I played librarian. Aurora Teagarden, the protagonist of Real Murders, is a librarian.
Oxygen by Carol Cassella - Currently, I am a medical research assistant in the Department of Family Medicine at a state university. My boss, for whom I do research, is a physician and her primary interst is "Patient Safety." Safety meaning that the patient is treated appropriately, that the correct tests are ordered, that the tests are carried out, that there are no false positives, that the patient doesn't slip between the cracks. Oxygen features a physician who makes a fatal error during an operation and spends the book trying to figure out what went wrong, essentially patient safety research.
Total points this post: 40
Total points: 340
30.5 Climbing the Family TreeOption C: My Mom's, Mom was Muriel and it was from her I got my love of reading. For this option I read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Option D: I read The Eight which has been on my to-read list for about 10 years.
The Eight is a Big Book with 608 pages
Post Total: 30
Grand Total: 315
15.3 - We Go Together Like...If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern
You - Me
Points this post: 15
Total points: 650
Tasks completed: 30
Books read: 45
Goodreads Author: 27
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0); 750 (0); 1000(3)
20.6 - She Works Hard for the MoneyI rolled a five, and read Sacrificial Magic (the main character is trying to find a murderer).
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Total points: 520 + 20 above = 540
GR Authors: 20 + 1 above = 21
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Tasks Completed: 25
Books read: 34
15.2 - Dewey be Different Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean (336 p.)
Call number is 636.7376092
Susan Orlean is GRA.
Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles by Michael Gross (496 p.)
Call number is 979.41 L881GRO
Michael Gross is GRA.
15.4 - ABC’s, 123’s ......
Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway by Matt Dellinger (288 p)
20.3. Best Review: Chris MD's Task - Fiery Tunes
“Set the World on Fire”
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (333 p)
Susan Cain is GRA.
25.6. Keltie Lee's Task: Fire and Ice
1. Heads: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (391 p)
2. Tails: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (374 p)
Points this Post: 75
Tasks Completed this Post: 4
Books Read this Post: 6
Pages Read this Post: 2179
GoodReads Authors this Post: 3
Big Books this Post: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Total Points: 865
Total Tasks Completed: 49
Total Books Read: 66
Total Pages Read: 24328
Total GoodReads Authors: 25
Total Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
So close to the end! I might move this one in the final hours, depending on how my reading goes; but for now, I think I’ll claim it:Task 10.4 Fire Signs Read a book by an author who was born under an Fire sign.
Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21)
Sue Ann Jaffarian was Born: December 21, 1952
Ghost a la Mode (A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery #1) (2009) by Sue Ann Jaffarian (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 302 pages)
****Goodread Author**** Sue Ann Jaffarian
Tasks Completed: 29
Points for this post: 10
Points thus far: 610 + 10 = 620
Books read: 41
Pages read: 12,800
Read but not claimed: 2
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+
10.6-Middle Name Pride DayThe Neon Rain by James Lee Burke- Approved on help thread.
20.3- Fiery Tunes
Save Me by Lisa Scottoline
Song Title: SET ME on FIRE- The word ME is in the book title.
***Lisa Scottoline is a GRA***
25.2-Out With The Old in With The New
I chose option 1 twice using the letters F & E.
F=Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke- Joanne Fluke is a new author to me
E=A Deeper Darkness by J.T. Ellison
***JT Ellison is a GRA***
25.5- 100 Years Ago
Book 1: The Captain's Daughter by Leah Fleming- The first part of the book is set on the Titanic & follows over the years the impact the Titanic has on the lives of 3 families.
Book 2: Squeeze Play by Kate Angell- Suggested book by task creator.
Points this post: 80
Total Points: 650
Tasks Completed: 29
Books Read:43
BB Tickets Claimed:4
GRA Tickets Claimed: 13
Kimber10.4 Fire Signs
Spell Bound by Rachel Hawkins
Rachel Hawkins Birth Date as found on her Goodreads page is 11/23/79, making her a sagitarius
30.7 Option #1 - The Calling by Kelly Armstrong. The main character shifts into a mountain lion.
Option #4 - The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory. Romance is listed as a genre on the book's goodreads page.
20.1 Clean Those Shelves!
Option #2 - Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes. I listened to this audiobook.
25.3 Naming Things
Book 1 - A Circle in the Woods by Winston Emerson
and
Book 2 - A Chesapeake Shores Christmas by Sherryl Woods
Woods being the common 'name' word to both books.
Total task points this post: 85
Total # tasks completed to date: 27
Grand total points: 550
Thank you moderators for all of your hard work! I get tons of enjoyment from this challenge and it gets better with each season! I am done for Spring, didn't make even close to my goal, but...the summer challenge tasks are looking incredibly FUN! I will finish the entire challenge this time. (heh heh)
MariyaTask 10.4. Fire Signs
I read The Inhabited Woman by Gioconda Belli
The author of this book was born December 9
Points this post: 10
Total points: 375
Jennrenee you are killing us here! And Marcia look at you go! People have really racked up the points this season.
Mod
I got so behind this round. I am cutting it really close. I am listening and reading in every possible moment. too bad I had to come to work today!
Yeah that darn work does get in the way doesn't it!
Heather KSFinished task 30.8 The Breakfast Club
Option 1: Brain-big book 500+ pages I read Fifty Shades of Grey
Option 5: The Criminal: I read a book that was loaned to me. I read A Handbook for Classroom Instruction That Works
I would like to claim a big book ticket for Fifty Shades of Grey
New point total: 240
Heather KSFinished task 30.5 Family Tree
Option C: My grandfather (my mother's father) was named Charles. I read The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of Future Life by Charles Arminjon
Option D: 8 Words in the Title I read Raising Great Kids - Parenting with Grace and Truth
New point total: 270
Heather KSFinished task 30.3 Spring Delights
Option 4: Tulips/two lips I read After You
Option 5: der Frühling I read Regret-Free Living: Hope for Past Mistakes and Freedom from Unhealthy Patterns using r/F from der Frühling.
Julie Buxbaum is a GR author
New point total: 300
Heather KSFinished task 15.6 They're On Fire
I read I've Got Your Number which was on the March 4 list.
Final point total: 315
10.8 I Have A Question
Points this post = 10
Total points: 830 + 10 = 840
Goodreads Authors: 29 + 1 = 30
Big Books: 500+= 1, 750+=0, 1000+ = 0
Personal Goal: 600
50.1. Cindy AL's Task: North to AlaskaOption 1:
by Garth Stein ***Goodreads Author***Option 2:
by Adam Mitzner Option 3:
by Anna Carey ***Goodreads Author*** (approved in help thread for blue cover=Sapphire)Points for this Task: 50
Total Points: 320
Goal Points: 335
Completed Tasks: 12/61
Tasks in Progress: 25.11
Goodreads Authors: 10 (Kelley Armstrong, Anna Carey, Kelly Creagh, Lauren DeStefano, Carrie Harris, Maureen Johnson, Richelle Mead, Sarah Mlynowski, Maria V. Snyder, Garth Stein, Laini Taylor)
Big Book Tickets: 500+() 750+() 1000+()
25.2 Out with the Old, In with the New..and it's FireOption 1 twice
Book 1 All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum (new author for me)
Book 2 Ten Miles Past Normal by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Points this post: 25
Total points: 305
Total tasks: 17
Books read: 20
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Book tickets: 2
Goodreads is being buggy! I already tried to post this, but it seems to have disappeared. If you see a duplicate post, I appologize.10.5 All fired up
Lowboy by John Wray
I'm fired up about helping people with mental illnesses. The main character has schizophrenia.
30.5 Climbing the Family Tree
A) Sunday in title: Come Sunday: A Novel by Isla Morley
C) My dad's father was named Karl:
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes a big book at 600 pages
New points: 40
Total points: 260
sounds like you need to take a mental health day (wink nudge)JennRenee wrote: "Sheila wrote: "Jennrenee you are killing us here! And Marcia look at you go! People have really racked up the points this season."
I got so behind this round. I am cutting it really close. I am ..."
Kathy G.15.5 ...... XYZ-
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
*** Y in title ***
Use this book to check pg. numbers-
Just Take My Heart - Mass Market Paperback
Total Points- 300
Total Tasks- 15
Goodreads Authors- 8
Big Books (500+) 2
CathyG5.8 Too Long To-Do List Read one of the books that has been on your to-read pile for too long.
Wanted by Her Lost Love by Maya Banks
10.3. Run or Ride Read a book with a horse on the cover
REQUIRED: If using one of the cover options, post a link to the cover of the book. If not using a cover or title option, explain how your book fits the task.
Saddled and Spurred by Lorelei James15.7 - Spring Into Action!
Read an action/adventure book. Either the genre "action" or the genre "adventure" (or both) must appear on the book's main GRs page for it to fulfill this task.
Warrior by Zoe Archer
Goodreads Author
25.8. Helen's Task: Science Fiction and Fantasy Award Winners/Nominees
For this task, select an award winner or nominee book from each of the following categories. REQUIRED: Post the name of the book, the author, the year and whether the book was the award winner or nominee.
Category 1: HUGO AWARD for Best Novel -- awarded yearly by the World Science Fiction Society. "Retro Hugos" are included.
Category 2: NEBULA AWARD for Best Novel -- awarded yearly by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Nebula Awards
you must list the book twice and provide the pertinent information for each category.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Won 2008 Nebula Award
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Won 2008 Hugo Award
Points this post: 55
Total points: 885
Tasks completed: 48
Books read: 67
Goodreads Authors: 28
Big Books: 500=4, 750=0, 1000=1
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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Book 1: I chose option 2, to read a book where the main character embarks on a new stage of life. I read The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. In this book the main character, Tony, has just retired and throughout the novel is coming to realizations about what his former life really meant for him. I think the book blurb (can be read via the link above) says it all as far as cleansing and embarking on a new stage.
Book 2: I chose option 6, to read a book with a page number count ending in 6 or 7. I read West of Here by Jonathan Evison. My copy has 486 pages.
**Jonathan Evison is a Goodreads author.**
Points this post: 30
Total points: 240
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 14
GR authors: Jonathan Evison
Big Books: The Prisoner / The Fugitive