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[Ritika]

30.8 Delicious Dee's task: It's Time for the Summer Country Concert Series

Group A- 1

The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy

THIS IS A BIG BOOK (512 pages).

Group B- 4

The Forest of Stories

I received the book free from a book review programme.
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 175/1080
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

[Kristi]

Kristi CO

20.8 It's My Birthday

Option 3: Marble Cake
A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson

multi-cultural: English missionaries in 1923 travel through Asia; a Yemeni immigrant and Englishwoman become friends in modern-day England

Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

[Kristi]

Kristi CO

30.3 Aye, Aye, Matey!

A1: Caribou Island by David Vann

B1: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey: initial E and I from 'whiskey'

David Vann is a Goodreads author
Eowyn Ivey is a Goodreads author

Points this post: 30
Total points: 50
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 3
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

[BJ Rose]

BJ Rose

2 new tasks

10.7 A Reason to Celebrate POETS Day
She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems by Caroline Kennedy is a lovely book of poems

30.3 Sheila/Kathy G.'s task- Aye, Aye, Matey!
A3: Pieces of Eight: there are 8 letters in 'Madeline'
Stealing Heaven by Madeline Hunter

B1: Pass the Jug: the author's initials KH are found in "wHisKey"
Confessions of a Scoundrel by Karen Hawkins

Points this post = 40

Total Points = 395
Tasks Completed = 23
Total Pages = 10,278

[Kristi]

Kristi CO

20.2 School's Out for Summer

Option 2: Delirium by Lauren Oliver (main character graduates from high school)

Lauren Oliver is a Goodreads author

Points this post: 20
Total points: 70
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

[Kristi]

Kristi CO

25.2 6 Parks

Option 4: Elements: Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones

Option 5: East Coast: Tell The Wolves I'm Home: A Novel by Carol Rifka Brunt takes place in New York

Tayari Jones is a Goodreads author
Carol Rifka Brunt is a Goodreads author

Points this post: 25
Total points: 95
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 5
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

[Kristi]

Kristi CO

30.7 The Final Battle

Option 1: Orphan: The Likeness by Tana French

Option 2: No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel (author's initials in S-T-A-R-K)

Ramona Ausubel is a Goodreads author

Points this post: 30
Total points: 125
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 7
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

[[deleted user]]

MICHAEL LA


10.6 – Contraction Action

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P.G. Wodehouse


Points this post: 10
Total points to date: 115
GR Authors: 1

[MJ]

5.10 -- Up, Up, and Away
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

***Claiming GRA ticket***

Points this post: 5
Total points: 40
Big books total: 0
Goodreads author total: 1

[MJ]

10.8 No Boredom Zone
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain

It's all about traveling the world and eating amazing food with Anthony Bourdain. I imagine that would be the complete opposite of boredom.

Points this post: 10
Total points: 50
Big books total: 0
Goodreads author total: 1

[Meagan]

15.3 Summer Romance
Option 2: Wallis & Edward Letters 1931-37: The Intimate Correspondence of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor edited by Michael Bloch

25.6
Option 2: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter- the main character Cameron Morgan is a teenager.
Option 1: by Becca Fitzpatrick this has a night scene on the cover.
Becca Fitzpatrick is a Goodreads Author

30.9 North by Northwest
Option 1: by John Green and David Levithan


Option 2: by J.K. Rowling uses the word Fire.
Big Book Ticket 500 pages

Points this post: 70
Total Points: 260
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500 (1)

[Audiaa]

15.2 Those Hazy Lazy Days of Summer
City of Lost Souls* by Cassandra Clare*
*Cassandra Claire is a goodreads author
*Big book 536 pages
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
Cost and Lost are rhyming words

25.5 Even more fun with the holidays
Pretty Little Liars #11: Stunning by Sara Shepard*
#6 - read anything
*Sara Sheppard is a goodreads author
Escape from Evil: Married at 17 to a Serial Killer, She's One Victim Who Escaped by Cathy Wilson
4 - same eye color (blue)


Total Points 120+15+25=160

[MJ]

15.5. “Summer in the City”
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi
Set mainly in Los Angeles, California.

Points this post: 15
Total points: 65
Big books total: 0
Goodreads author total: 1

[Kim]

Kimber

AMENDMENT

Please change task 30.5 from Angel's Game to
Doll House by Anya Allyn
The continent Dollhouse takes place is Australia.

I'll use Angel's Game in another task

This will not change my points, but as Anya Allyn is a Goodreads author, please add one GR author to my record.

Thanks!
Kim

[Jennifer]

Jennifer KS

10.10 Air Conditioned Cool

I read Blood Relations by Rett MacPherson

points this task 10
Total Points 195
pages 5562
task done 14

[Jane]

25.5 Stacie MI’s Task: Even More Fun With Holidays!!

Option 2: Hug Holiday (two people embracing on cover)

by Zoe Winters

**Zoe Winters is a GoodReads Author**


Option 6: Just Because Day (read any book you desire)

The Vampire Relationship Guide: Meeting & Mating by Evelyn Lafont

**Evelyn Lafont is a GoodReads Author**

Points this post: 25
Total Points: 210
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 15
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0

[Kayleigh]

Keltie Lee

10.6 Contraction Action

Is He Or Isn't He?
by John Hall

*Isn't is in the title*

10.7 A Reason to Celebrate

Married by Monday
by Catherine BybeeGRA

*Monday is in the title*

Points this post: 20
Total points: 505/1080
Tasks: 32
Books: 42
Goodreads authors: 21
Big Book Tickets: 500 (8), 750 (1)

[Becca]

5.4 Chemical Compound
KNitting WithOut Tears: Basic TechNiques and Easy-tO-Follow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizes

20.9 Lucky Me

Option 1: Book mentioned within a book I already claimed points for.

Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir by Susan E. Isaacs (Goodreads Author)

In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, the book I claimed for task 15.10 (post 99), the author is telling a story about Susan Isaacs and says something like, "My friend Susan Isaacs, who wrote Angry Conversations with God."

Points this post: 25
Total Points: 185
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(0),750+(0),1000+ (1)

Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 17 (I have so many half-finished tasks, haha)
Pages Read: 6186

[Randi]

20.2 Rookie on Top - Nicola's task: School's out for Summer

Option 1: takes place in summer Pilgrims Don't Wear Pink by Stephanie Kate Strohm **who is a Goodreads author**

**Claiming 1 GR author ticket**

Points this post: 20
Total points: 240
Books read: 17
GR author tickets: 9
Big Book tickets: 0

[Cassie]

Casselm

15.10 "Feel Good Hit of the Summer"

Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl by Debra Ollivier

Points this post: 15
Total points: 180

[Skandia]

20.6- Seasoned Reader-Michelle WI's task: My Spring Favorites into Your Summer Read

Rolled 3 – fantasy genre

Shadowland by Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot is a Goodreads Author

Points this post: 20
Total points: 290
Tasks completed: 13
Books read: 19
Goodreads Author: 12
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0); 750 (0); 1000(0)

[Gayla]

5.8 Summer Lovin'

Read a book from one of the following lists of love stories.

I used "Love" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read" List

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

This Post: 5
Total Points: 400/1080
Tasks Completed: 24/60
Books Read: 38/84

[[deleted user]]

MICHAEL LA

20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter

I chose option 2: Borges won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1979.


The Book of Sand & Shakespeare's Memory by Jorge Luis Borges


Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 135
GR Authors: 1

[Carly]

Carly

15.7 -- “The First Day of Summer”

Anno-Dracula by Kim Newman

Anno-Dracula is the first book in its series.

Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 90
Tasks Completed: 5
Tasks in Progress: 3
Books Read: 6
GoodReads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(-), 750+(-), 1000+(-)
Pages Read: 2157

[Kara]

30.6 It's the End of the World As We Know It...And I Feel Fine

OPTION B: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

Shelved as dystopia, apocalyptic AND post-apocalyptic. Do I get any bonus points for that? ;)

Karen Thompson Walker is a Goodreads author.

OPTION D: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

On the list for Best War Novels.

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New points this post: 30
Total points: 320
Total Goodreads authors: 5
Big Books: 500+ (3), 750+ (0), 1000+ (1)

Total tasks completed: 13
Total pages: 6,794
Total books: 19

[Deedee]

Task 30.5 Bluemoon's task: BEG, BORROW, OR STEAL YOUR WAY AROUND THE WORLD

My home country is USA.

B. BORROW
Required: Identify where you got your book
I borrowed a book from my local library:

To Timbuktu (1997) by Mark Jenkins (Paperback, 224 pages)
A non-fiction account of the author and a buddy traveling through North Africa, destination: Timbuktu, Mali.


C. STEAL - Since the moderators are so busy keeping track of all our posts check out their bookshelves and steal a book from them.
Required: Include which mod's shelf you raided
I raided DLMROSE’s shelf. I chose a book set in Europe, specifically, Scotland:

Kidnapped (David Balfour #1) (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson (Hardcover, 289 pages)


270 + 30 = 300


Tasks Completed: 14
Points for this post: 30
Points thus far: 270 + 30 = 300
Books read: 21
Pages read: 6,998

Read but not claimed: 6

Goodreads Authors: 4

Big Books:
(0) 500+
(1) 750+
(0) 1,000+

[Wendy UK]

Let's Go Camping


I rolled 6 - A book with the word TEN in the title - TENT:

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith*Goodreads Author*


Total points 195

[SandyC]

Sandy MN

25.8 - Kate S's task: Going to the Ball Park

Option A - 2 AWAY
The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
The author was born in Canada; I was born/live in the USA

Option C - 1 Book longer than 400 pages by a woman
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James Goodreads Author
Big Book 514 pages

Total Points: 370
Total GR authors: 13
Total Big Books: (2) 500; (0)750; (1)1000

[Kim]

Kimber

10.1 Skip to my lou

Matched by Ally Condie

This task: 10
Tasks completed: 13
GR Authors: 10
Total # points to date: 230

[Kathy G.]

Kathy G.

20.9- Please Be Patient

I chose option #1- Read a book mentioned in Book X-
I first read I've Got Your Number by
Sophine Kinsella (for Task 20.10)

She mentioned my book on page 4 of her story.

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Total Points- 220
Total Tasks- 13
Goodreads Authors- 3
Big Books (500+)- 1

[Kristina Simon]

5.2 -- Pack Your Bags
I read , which has a suitcase on the cover.


Points this post: 5
Season Total: 115

[Sheila]

Sheila

30.10 Butterflycager's Task - Honoring the Flag and My Dad

Option 1: by Ben Coes

flag approved in help thread msg. 12

Option 2: 13 Steps Down by Ruth Rendell


Total Points = 940

[Stacie]

STACIE MI

Task 20.6 - My Spring Favorites into Your Summer Read

I rolled a 5 and read a book that both is listed as a mystery and has double L's for the author's initials:

This Pen For Hire by Laura Levine

**Laura Levine is a Goodreads author!!**

Points this task: 20
Total points: 520
Tasks completed: 31
Books read: 87
Pages read: 10999
Goodreads authors: 9
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

[Jill Renee]

Readerboard Name: Jill Renee

30.2 Sassafrass's task: I’ll Leave My Heart in San Francisco!

Option 3 - The Rock - Book Set in a Prison

Affinity by Sarah Waters

Option 6 - Flower Power - Book with a Flower on Cover

by Sarah Blake

Points this Task: 30

Total Points: 140

[Erin]

ERIN B.

20.4 - Author! Author! - Jecca's task: Let’s Go Camping

For option 2, I read Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt. The author lives in Maine.

Points this post: 20
Total points: 175

[[deleted user]]

5.1 Let the Games Begin

Read a book set in London

Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo by Julia Stuart

10.2 Eat an Oreo Day

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Word: Fever

Laurie Halse Anderson is a Goodreads author

Points this task: 15
Total challenge points: 150
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000+=0

Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 10
Books Owned Pre-2012: 6
Total Pages Read: 3,308

[Jessica]

Jessica PDX

10.2 - Eat an Oreo Day

I used "Seven" as my word

by Shawn Achor

Points this Post: 10
Total Challenge Points: 445
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Books Tickets: 5

[[deleted user]]

MICHAEL LA

20.8 - It's My Birthday

I chose Option 2: Red Velvet Cake.

The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole


The Neon Bible takes place in Mississippi.


Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 155
GR Authors: 1

[Stacie]

STACIE MI

Task 25.7 - YouTube Summer Fun

I decided to do options 2 and 3.

For option 2, I read a book about a baseball player:

Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs by Ron Koertge

And I had to do option 3, with my longstanding love of Ok Go!! (Seen them live 7+ times...such an awesome band!) I read a book by Agatha Christie, who died January 12, 1976:

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

Points this task: 25
Total points: 545
Tasks completed: 32
Books read: 89
Pages read: 11431
Goodreads authors: 9
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

[Maria Jo]

10.10- Air-Conditioned Cool

The Rescue by Nancy Rue

This book takes place in in the winter in Salem, MA

Points this post: 10
Total points: 85

[Butterflycager]

BUTTERFLYCAGER

10.3 What's Your Exit?
Mobbed: A Regan Reilly Mystery by Carol Higgins Clark is set in New Jersey.

10.4 Air Signs
Borrower of the Night by Elizabeth Peters, born on 9/29 according to her GR page.

10.9 Recycled Group Reads-
I picked Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot, which was a nominee for Fall 2011 Mysteries That Make You Laugh.

Meg Cabot is a Goodreads Author.

15.4. Summer Reading
Option 2
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan

15.9. “Summer Nights”
Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie is set in 1953.

25.3 - Keltie Lee's task: Hands and Feet
Book 1 - An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd

(gloved right hand visible if you look closely, approved in help thread, message 106)

Charles Todd is a Goodreads Author.

Book 2 - Armistice by Nick Stafford


25.5 - Stacie MI’s Task: Even More Fun With Holidays!!
5. Wiggle Your Toes Day - Brownies and Broomsticks by Bailey Cates has cat feet on the cover.


6. Just Because Day - Blue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall

30.9 Nick KY's Task: North by Northwest
Option 1 - Small Favor by Jim Butcher is set in Chicago.

Jim Butcher is a Goodreads Author.

Option 2 - black in title - Black Wings by Christina Henry

Christina Henry is a Goodreads Author.

Points this post: 140
Total challenge points: 805
Tasks completed: 43
Books read: 60
Goodreads Authors: 15
Big Books: 500=3, 750=0, 1000=0

[Jenifer]

Readerboard Name: Jenifer

10.9 Recycled Group Reads
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Points this post: 10

Total Points: 85

[Judith]

MRS MOOSE

5.3 Dust In The Wind - The Painted Drum

10.3 Whats You Exit - The Sportswriter

Lead character lives in New Jersey

10.4 Air Signes - Haroun And The Sea Of Stories

Salman Rushdie is a Gemini born on June 19, 1947

10.8 No Boredom Zone - The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

Cooking always chases boredom away for me

15.8 Summer of Love - A Visit from the Goon Squad

Current Results
Total Books Read - 5

Total Points - 50

[Anne (Booklady)]

15.10. ”Feel Good Hit of the Summer"

I feel good when I read Michael Connelly.

**The Fifth Witness by *Michael Connelly

**Big Book: The Fifth Witness is 576 Pages**

*Michael Connelly is a Goodreads Author*


Points in This Task: 15
Goodreads Authors in This Post: 1
Big Book Tickets in This Post: 1
Pages Read in This Post: 576






Totals:
Total Points: 265
Total Goodreads Authors: 6
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(4), 750=(1), 1000=(1)
Total Tasks Completed: 16
Total Books Read: 19
Total Pages Read in Summer 2012 SRC: 8110

Review Available. Anne (Booklady) Summer 2012 Reviews

[Regan]

20.9 - mstan: Please be Patient

Option 2: Book mentioned on another book’s cover

Frankenstein by Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley

From The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (task 20.1 posted @ #366) on the front fly leaf: “With an introduction and notes by the poet’s widow, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein."


20.10 -- Group Read

Option: "Books to read at the Beach"

I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

commented in posts 12 & 27



Points this post = 40
Goodreads authors = 0
Big Books: 0

Totals:
Points: 230
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+= 2, 750+=1, 1000+ = 0

[Angie]

ANGIE CA

15.1 The Colors of Summer
Book 1: by Nikki Jefford
Notes: A) Blue cover.

Book 2: Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown
Notes: B) Greenwood.

This Post: 15
Points to Date: 305

[Riya]

Mariya

Task 30.4 Dlmrose's task: Vowel Prowl

Book A: Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou

The title of the book and the author name contain the letters a e i o u

Gather Together In My Name by Maya Angelou

Book B: Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir by Bill Clegg

The word "Young" in the book title starts with the letter Y

Points this post: 30
Total points: 115

[Ritika]

15.7. “The First Day of Summer”

A Game of Thrones

This is a BIG BOOK (835 pages)

Points this post: 15
Total Points: 190/1080
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+(0)

[Jessica]

Jessica PDX

10.4 - Air Signs

Follett was born 6/5/49.

by Ken Follett

Points this Post: 10
Total Challenge Points: 455
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Books Tickets: 5

[Cherie]

25.2 - Jayme VA's task: Around the Country in 6 Parks

Option 2: Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
We rafted down the Snake river when we visited Jackson Hole in Grand Teton National Park. Read a book with one of the following words in the title or author’s name: Raft, Snake, River, Jackson, Hole, or Grand. Plurals and possessives will work, no other variations.
River Marked by Patricia Briggs = 6/1/12


Option 5: Shenandoah National Park
We can’t forget the East Coast! One hundred and one miles of the Appalachian Trail are in this park. Hike part of the trail by reading a book set in one of the states through which the trail passes: Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
Delirium by Lauren Oliver = 7/19/12 ***GR AUTHOR
Set in Maine

Previous Total: 170
This Task: 25
New Total: 195
GR Author Tickets: 3