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SPRING CHALLENGE 2012: FIRE
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Amanda A5.5 - Possession
Kitty's House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn (GR Author)
10.1 - Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
Time Out by Jill Shalvis (GR Author)
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10.6 - Middle Name Pride Day
The Dark Highlander by Karen Marie Moning
10.10 - April Fools Day!
Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales by Ali Wentworth
15.4 - ABC’s, 123’s ......
Second Chance Pass by Robyn Carr
20.9 Lucky Me!: Bea's Task - I Can’t Wait for Spring!
Option 2 - Flower on cover
by Jude Deveraux (GR Author)30.4 Dlmrose's task: Burning Ring of Fire
Book 1: Trail of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz (GR Author)
Set in California
Book 2: Driving Mr. Dead by Molly Harper (GR Author)
Points this post: 100
Total Points: 100
GR Authors: 5
20.8 Party Time!i read Cutting for Stone, which as of March 10th when i chose it, had 55,994 ratings. i know it has at least one more, because i rated it! :)
Cutting for Stone is a Big Book, coming in at 667 pages
Total points: 50/1090
Tasks Completed: 2/61
Books read: 3/83ish
Goodreads Authors:
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0
20.2 - APRIL SHOWERSB3. Once Upon a Marigold. One of the main characters is Princess Marigold.
TOTAL POINTS - 205
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 5
BIG BOOKS - 0
KAREN OZ5.1 Silhouette on the Shade
Forever The Wolves of Mercy Falls 3 by Maggie Stiefvater **GR Author**
20.8. It's My Birthday: Mary Beth's Task - Party Time!
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
60,882 ratings
25.9. Stacie MI's Task: Red Hot
Option A: Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (623 pages) Big Book Ticket (500+)
Option B: Coraline by Neil Gaiman **GR Author** (Pub. 2002)
15.5 - ...... And XYZ
Disgrace by JM Coetzee
15.7 - Spring Into Action!
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins **GR Author**
Total this post: 80 points
Total to date: 80 points
GR Authors: 3
Big Book: 1 (500+)
Mandy SueTask #20.2 - Rookie on Top: Queenarwen's Task: April Showers
Option A, #2
The Shack by William P. Young
On the Books That Made You Cry list, #73.
This book was sad because it was about a man learning to forgive his daughter's abductor and killer through a visit from God.
This post: 20 points
Total: 65 points
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 5
Pages Read: 2,039
GR Authors: 1
Big Books: 500 (0), 750 (1), 1000+ (0)
20.8 - PARTY TIME - The Pirate Captain's Daughter which has 115 ratings.TOTAL POINTS - 225
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 5
BIG BOOKS - 0
30.3 Sheila/Kathy G's task: Spring Delights2. Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
Maria V. Snyder's birthday is April, 15
http://officialmariavsnyder.blogspot....
Maria V. Snyder is a Goodreads Author
5. The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings "DE"
Kaui Hart Hemmings is a Goodreads Author
Points this post: 30
Total points: 140
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 9
Goodreads Author: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0); 750 (0); 1000(3)
15.3 - We Go Together Like...Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
I chose the one book option and used the pair over/under, which was approved in the help thread.
Susan Cooper is a goodreads author.
Points this task: 15
Total Points: 175
Goodreads Authors: Alex Flinn, Sara Shepard, Janet Lee Carey, James Patterson, Susan Cooper
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
30.1 Ms. Anderson's Task: We Didn't Start the FireI chose the year 1963 and rolled double 2's so I read books by two authors born in 1963.
The Burying Place by Brian Freeman
Born on March 28, 1963
AND
Panic by Jeff Abbott
Born on January 01, 1963
Total Points = 205
**I chose 1963 because anyone of a certain age --cough, cough -- remembers November 22, 1963.
Lavinia30.7 Fire Elementals
Option 1: Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs
This story is about a pack of werewolves, so all of the main characters change from humans to wolves.
Option 6: Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall
This book has 207 pages, as indicated on the main GR page.
Points this post: 30
Total points: 100
Carly10.7 -- Fuel to the Fire
The Daughters by Joanna Philbin
Joanna Philbin is a new author to me and I didn't participate in the Winter Challenge.
Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 60
Tasks Completed: 4
Tasks in Progress: 1
Books Read: 4
GoodReads Authors:
Big Books: 500+(-), 750+(-), 1000+(-)
Pages Read: 1067
10.1 - Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss! Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads Author)
"But" spelled backwards is "tub"
10.6 Middle Name Pride Day
Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Goodreads Author)
20.5 Bigger is Better: A Game of Books
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads Author)
I rolled a 6 and got the Arryn option: book with a blue and white cover
Points this Post: 40
Total Points: 80
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 0
I completed:20.8. It's My Birthday: Mary Beth's Task - Party Time!
By reading:
Acts of Love by Judith Michael which only had 151 ratings at the time I finished it.
Tasks Complete: 1
Total Points: 20
Sandy MN15.5 - ...... And XYZ
Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris
"Y" in Series Title: Harper Connelly
Total Points: 215
20.1 Group ReadThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
And I have message 11 in the topic.
(This is a reread.)
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Points this post: 20
Total points: 115
Total Goodreads authors: 1
Big Books: 750+ (1)
Mandy SueTask #20.7 -- Shorter is Sweeter: Jayalalita's Task - Happy Rama Navami!
Beastly by Alex Flinn
The book is inspired by the classic fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast.
** Alex Flinn is a GoodReads Author **
This post: 20 points
Total: 85 points
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 6
Pages Read: 2,343
GR Authors: 2
Big Books: 500 (0), 750 (1), 1000+ (0)
Boston Kate5.5 Possession
Sarah's Key
25.8 Science Fiction and Fantasy Award Winners/Nominees
(I was able to use the same book for both categories)
Category 1: HUGO AWARD, nominee in 2001
A Storm of Swords
Category 2: NEBULA AWARD, nominee in 2002
A Storm of Swords
Points this post: 30
Total points: 30
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneTask 20.7 Happy Rama Navami...Read a book about/containing an aspect of a fairy tale:
I read
The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley 284 pages (3.14)*this book was inspired by the Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales.
Points earned for this task: 20
Points Achieved to date: 105
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 1
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (0)
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)
Readerboard Name= Lindy-LaneTask 10.10 April Fools Day!...Read a book that has "humor" as one of the genres listed on the book's main page:
I read
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein 176 pages (3.15)Points earned for this task: 10
Points Achieved to date: 115
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 1
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (0)
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)
Sheila10.3. Run or Ride?
Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner
This book takes place in Boston
Total Points = 215 Points
Delicious Dee
5.4 The FIRE Within
Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma (GR Author) - FRIE (as found in title order)
15.7 - Spring Into Action!
The Blade Itself - (Big Book Ticket 500+ pages - this is 517 pages) - 19 people shelved it as adventure
15.8 - International Worker’s Day
The Janitor - Jan Irving (GR Author)
20.5. Bigger is Better: Masanobu's Task - A Game of Books
Mind's Eye - rolled a 6 - 66 ppl have it shelved as mystery and 4 as thriller
20.8. It's My Birthday: Mary Beth's Task - Party Time!
Gravitational Attraction - Angel Martinez (GR Author) - 8 reviews as of 2 March
25.5. Laurie ME's Task: 100 Years Ago
A. Fateful - set on the Titanic
B. The Art of Fielding: A Novel (Big Book Ticket 500+ pages - book is 528 pages)
Total Points This Post: 100
Total Points Overall: 100
Books Completed: 7
Tasks Complete: 6
GR Authors: 3
Big Book Tickers: 500(2), 750(0), 1000(0)
5.10 Good Minds Suggest I read Eric Weiner (one of the featured authors)'s The Geography of Bliss
total points: 35
Tasks completed: 5
books read: 6
GR authors: 1
10.4 Fire SignsHerman Melville's Birthday is 1 August-making him a Leo
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
10.5 All Fired Up
I get all fired up about The Innocent Project which plays an important role in this book:
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham
10.8 I Have a Question
What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz
***At 521 pages, this is a big book***
20.6 She Works Hard for the Money
I rolled a 6 and chose to read a book of poetry
Lovers of the Lost: New & Selected Poems by Wesley McNair
Post Total: 50
Season Total: 135
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Candlewax by C. Bailey Sims (GRA)
20.9 I Can't Wait til Spring
Option 4 pink cover
by Kate Ellison (approved in help task)Points this Post: 30
Total points- 195
Tasks Completed: 11
Books read: 13
Pages Read : 4,909
GR Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
CHRISTINE USTask 10.6 Middle Name Pride Day
Ain't She Sweet by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
***Susan Elizabeth Phillips is a GR author
Task 15.3 We Got Together
Word Combo "Lord & Lady"
Lord and Lady Spy by Shana Galen
TOTAL: 70
20.3. Best Review: Chris MD's Task - Fiery Tunes Angel Fireby Valmore Daniels
*Goodreads author*
With fire in the title - any song would work :)
20.7. Shorter is Sweeter: Jayalalita's Task - Happy Rama Navami!
The Darkest Seductionby Gena Showalter
*Big Book*
Greek gods and goddesses are characters
20.9 Lucky Me!: Bea's Task - I Can’t Wait for Spring!
2: Flower
by Laila Ibrahim*Goodreads Author*
Points this post: 60
Total Points: 80
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter: Happy Rama Navami! A Quick Bite by Lynsay Sands
This is a book about vampires (myths about which seem to come from everywhere), but in this story the vampires originated in Atlantis. The legend of Atlantis was part of Greek mythology, related by Plato, but the Greeks may have gotten the idea of a sunken civilization from the Egyptians.
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 100
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 6
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 0
Jessica PDX10.9 - I'm On Fire
I've had this book on hold for 3 months, so I was definitely eager to read it!
by Mary Doria Russell (Goodreads Author)Points this Post: 10
Total Challenge Points: 130
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+ - 1; 750+ - zero; 1000+ - zero
10.7. Fuel to the FireAs this is my first SRC, I read a book by an author that is new to me now.
New to me now author: The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
**Goodreads Author**
Points this Post: 10
Total points- 125/1090
Tasks Completed: 7/62
Books read: 8
Pages Read : 2450
GR Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
DebraTTask 20.3 Best Review
So Cold the River by Michael Koryta
Used the song "Cold Fire"
528 pages claiming Big Book ticket
This post: 20 points
Total to date: 100 points
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
Finished10.5 All fired up
Rose Petal Jam: Recipes and Stories from a Summer in Poland by Beata Zatorska
- I choosed this book as Im interesting in food photography and book is full of great photos.
15.6 They are on fire
The Lucky Oneby Nicholas Sparks
-NYT, best sellers in ebook and print fiction/ 22.01
30.8 The breakfast club
How I Live Nowby Meg Rosoff
- option 4, Prints Award 2005
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
-option 3/ Next Book Club
tasks points 55
Total points 55
total tasks 3
Total books 4
SHANNON SOUTH AFRICA15.6 They're On Fire
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Author on Yew York Times Bestseller list 15 January 1012
Task points: 15
Total points: 15
SHANNON SOUTH AFRICA15.7 Spring into Action
The Chase by Clive Cussler
Genres on GR book page: Adventure and Action
Task points: 15
Total points: 30
25.11 - TAKE TO THE LINKS4. Wedge - Dockside. I really like this series and have been meaning to get back to it for a while now.
Susan Wiggs is a Goodreads author.
5. PUTTER - A Dog Named Christmas which has 148 pages.
TOTAL POINTS - 250
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 6
BIG BOOKS - 0
15.7 - Spring Into Action!The Barefoot Sisters: Southbound by Lucy & Susan Letcher
Shelved as ‘adventure’ on the book’s main page.
Total Points: 60
GRA: 2
20.6 She Works Hard for the MoneyI rolled a 3 for customer service.
It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks by Howard Behar
This was approved in the help thread (message 71).
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Points this post: 20
Total points: 135
Total Goodreads authors: 1
Big Books: 750+ (1)
Sheila25.1. Jessica PDX’s Task: This One Goes Out to the One I Love
Book A: “1979” - Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
This a non-fiction book about Pat Tillman who was the NFL player who gave up his career to become an Army Ranger after 9/11 and was subsequently killed by "friendly fire."
The word "where" is in line 9 of the song 1979
AND
Book B: “Thirty-Three” - Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
The word "everyone" appears in line 3 of the song Thirty three.
Total Points = 240 Points
Laurie ME30.3 Sheila/Kathy G's Task: Spring Delights:
B. Option B: Suzanne Young: Murder by Yew
This book was 'scary' and made me jump since it was in a way plausible, using yew needles to make a tea to kill someone then the parts about the hurricane and blackouts with break ins in the main character's house was just plain creepy.
10.5 All Fired Up! Read a book (fiction or nonfiction) about a subject you're passionate (fired up) about.
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laural Thatcher Ulrich
One of the subjects I am passionate about is women's history. This book is by one of the leading women's historians working today, and explains what she was talking about when she coined the title phrase, with chapters devoted to different time periods and aspects of women's history.
This Post: 10
Total Points: 90/1090
Tasks Completed: 9/61
Books Read: 12/86
30.7 Fire Elementals Option 2: Cleansing
A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Stories--The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
In A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge is cleansed of his bitterness towards the world after a visit from three spirits, and begins a new stage of his life where he intends to make up for the wrongs he has done.
Option 4: Romance
One Day by David Nicholls
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 130
Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 8
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 0
hpaddict25.3 Naming Things
1.
The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince - "Mary"2.
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell***Big Book - 640 pages***
this post = 25
challenge total = 25
goodreads authors = 0
big book: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
10.9 I'm on Fire! Read Munich Signatureby Bodie Thoene
15.4 ABC's, 123's
Read Rules to Live By: 52 Principles for a Better Life by Jerry White
15.10 Where There's Smoke...
Read Fire by Sebastian Junger - A GOODREADS AUTHOR
30.3 Sheila/Kathy G's task: Spring Delights
first book chose option 2.
Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich - author was born April 22, 1943.
Second book chose option 5.
Free To Be You: Discovering Identity, Purpose And Self Worth by Robi Sonderegger - consecutive letters "FR" in Free
EllenCAFor task 30.8 Meghanly's task: The Breakfast Club, I pick options 1 & 5. For option 1 I read Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire. For option 5 I read Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, which I borrowed from the Kindle lending library.
Total Points: 30
TANYAPT20.5 Option 6 (mystery/ thriller)
Book: The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
*** Goodreads Author ***
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 80
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
GR Author: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.4 Author! Author!: Skandia's task - to be continued... in the spring!For this task, I read Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver ***who is a GR author*** I read Delirium in the winter challenge (task 5.6), the first in the Delirium series.
***claiming 1 GR author ticket***
Points this post: 20
Total points: 50
Total tasks completed: 2
GR tickets: 2
EllenCA30.3 Spring Delights - For this task I picked from option 2: Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac who was born May 20, 1799 and from option 5: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (using "in")
Total Points: 60
Kimber20.4 To Be Continued...In Spring
Winter11/12 I claimed points for Captivate, Needs #2 by Carrie Jones. For this task, I read Entice, Needs #3 by Carrie Jones.
Carrie Jones is a Goodreads Author
This task: 20
Tasks complete: 3
GR Authors:3
Total Points to date: 60
5.4 The FIRE Within: The Tiger's WifeThe Tiger's Wife
*Tea Obreht is a Goodreads author*
5.9 The Devil Made Me Do It: The Devil All the Time
15.1 Spring Forward:
Future: The Hunger Games
Past: The Solitary House takes place in Victorian era England.
*Lynne Shepherd is a Goodreads Author*
Post Total: 25
Grand Total: 25
Goodreads Authors: 2
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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, who appears #1 on Jan 8, 2012 in Children's Series on the New York Times Bestsellers List.
Points this task: 15
Total points: 15
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Goodreads authors: 0
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)