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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2012: WIND/AIR
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Summer Challenge 2012: Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC
30.4 Dlmrose's task: Vowel ProwlBook A: This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers **who is a GR author** (this is not a test by courtney summers)
Book B: The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George (the "y" is in you)
**Claiming 1 GR author ticket**
Points this post: 30
Total points: 295
Books read: 21
GR author tickets: 10
Big Book tickets: 0
20.1 - Most Improved - Stesse's task: Fifty Shades of Whoa!(4) Grey: read a book with one of the following colors in the title or subtitle: white, gray (or grey), or black.
Dead Is the New Black by Christine DeMaio-Rice
Christine DeMaio-Rice is a Goodreads Author
Points this post: 20
Total points: 320
Tasks completed: 15
Books read: 21
Goodreads Author: 14
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0); 750 (0); 1000(0)
Finished20.5 Let's talk about weather
The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard / rain in the title
20.6 My Spring favourite into your Summer read
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pieby Alan Bradley / option 6
Tasks points 40
Total points 205
15.3 “Summer Romance”Option 1:
A. read a book with a noun meaning a male person in the title/subtitle – man, boy, gentleman, etc.
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son by Ian Brown
AND
B. read a book with a noun meaning a female person in the title/subtitle – woman, girl, lady, etc.
Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time by Georgia Pellegrini
This Post: 15
Total Points: 465/1080
Tasks Completed: 27/60
Books Read: 41/84
30.11 - Laurie ME's task: Fun Summer HolidaysOption 1...Cinder by Marissa Meyer
(Author with any two initials that repeat)
Option 5...The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf
(Read a book with "romance" as a genre)
Points this post...30
Total Points...30
25.7 Marcia's task: Youtube Summer Fun
Option 3. This too shall pass. - Read a book by a deceased author.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Olivia E. Butler died 24th February 2006.
Option 5. Annoying Orange - read a book with a fruit in the title.
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Points this task: 25
Total challenge points: 190
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000+=0
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 13
Books Owned Pre-2012: 7
Total Pages Read: 4,123
Option 3. This too shall pass. - Read a book by a deceased author.
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Olivia E. Butler died 24th February 2006.
Option 5. Annoying Orange - read a book with a fruit in the title.
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Points this task: 25
Total challenge points: 190
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000+=0
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 13
Books Owned Pre-2012: 7
Total Pages Read: 4,123
Readerboard Name: Jill Renee25.8 - Kate S's task: Going to the Ball Park
A-1: Home - Choose Author who was born in same city/state as you, I was born in Illinois, as was the author
The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
B-2: Away - Drink Beer at the Ballpark - Light in Title of Book
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
Points this task: 25
Total Points: 165
ALICIA T25.6 Sounds of Summer
I picked Option 2: School's Out Forever- I read Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen. The main character, Auden, was a high school graduate.
And I also chose Option 4: Under the Boardwalk- I read The Help by Kathryn Stockett. This book is number 1 on the Best adult Female Friendship Book list.
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 150
20.6 - My Spring Favourites into Your Summer Read1. A book with Humour as one of the genres on it's main page:
Death of a Travelling Man by M.C. Beaton
Total points 230
Task 15.5 Summer in the CityJoshua's Song, a book set in Boston, and has as its central event the Great Molasses Explosion and Flood. I am adding this event to my history curriculum for the upcoming school year and am looking for books to complement it. This book treats this event with historical accuracy and gives older students with lower reading ability the opportunity to access information on this singular historical event.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 95
Mike MA
15.7 - “The First Day of Summer” The Field Guide - I read this in the box-set The Spiderwick Chronicles ("The Field Guide" is 107 pages in the omnibus.)
30.2 - Sassafrass's task: I’ll Leave My Heart in San Francisco!
Bridge to Terabithia (Option 2) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Option 6 - first published in 1962)
30.5 - Bluemoon's task: BEG, BORROW, OR STEAL YOUR WAY AROUND THE WORLD
Dairy Queen (borrowed from the library - set in North America) and Frenchman's Creek (stolen from Dlmrose's 'read' shelf - set in Europe) (I live in Singapore, in Asia.)
Tasks completed: 33/60
Books read: 41/85
Points claimed in this post: 75
Total points claimed: 550
Leslie KTask: 20.4: Let's go camping
Count to Ten by Karen Rose
This means criteria for die 6 - the use of the word TEN. Rose is a new author to me.
Points this task: 20 Total points: 95
GRA: No TGRA: 3
Big Book: Yes (577 pages) TBB: 1
Leslie KTask: 20.8 Have your cake and eat it too
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
Sparks is a goodreads author. Read Option 2: Red Velvet Cake - too place in North Carolina
Points this task: 20 Total points: 115
GRA: Yes TGRA: 4
BB: no TBB: 1
5.1 Let the Games BeginI read Life Without Summer(Summer)by Lynne Griffin (a GoodReads Author)
Points this post : 5
Total points : 160
Tasks complete : 9
GoodReads authors : 8
25.2 Around The Country In 6 ParksOption 5: Shenandoah
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Set in New York.
Option 6: Road Trip
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
#5 on Best Road Trip Books list.
Points this post = 25
Total points = 430
Big Books = 1
Goodreads Authors = 7
CathyG30.4 Dlmrose's task: Vowel Prowl
Read 2 books, one A and one B:
Book A: AEIOU- Read a book with all 5 vowels- A,E,I,O,U- found in any combination of the title, subtitle, or author's name as it appears on Goodreads.
The TamIng of the Duke
The Taming of the Duke by Eloisa James
Goodreads Author
Book B: And Sometimes Y- Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle or author's name that begins with the letter Y
It’s Always Been You
It's Always Been Youby Victoria Dahl
Points this post: 30
Total points: 395
Tasks completed: 20
Books read: 28
Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Books: 500= 3,750=0, 1000=0
STACIE MITask 15.4 - Summer Reading
I decided to do option 2, which satisfied both requirements, and read:
Oz: The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz by Eric Shanower
**Eric Shanower is a Goodreads author!!**
Points this task: 15
Total points: 635
Tasks completed: 37
Books read: 95
Pages read: 12485
Goodreads authors: 10
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Nick KY15.8 Summer of ‘69 “Read a book featuring a musician or musical group.” I read
A Cure For Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage by pop/jazz pianist Joe Jackson. 296 pages20.9 mstan’s Please Be Patient -- I read Adam, Eve, and the Serpent by Elaine PagelsAdam, Eve and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels which is quoted in Chapter Two of Original Sin: A Cultural History (used for 25.8, see below) and the title mentioned in the bibliographic essay at the end of the book. 189 pages
25.8 Kate S’s Going to the Ballpark
I chose Option E: a Doubleheader. I found it a true challenge to find two books I wanted to read with the exact same title (not counting subtitles). But that challenge is what made it one of my favorite tasks of the summer! I read:
Original Sin by P.D. James, 416 pages, and
Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs, 304 pages.
Task Points This Post: 60
Total Points: 460
Pages Read: 11,141
Big Books: 500+ (1)
MICHAEL LA
15.7 - First Day of Summer
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet is the first in the Sherlock Holmes series.
Points this post: 15
Total points to date: 170
GR Authors: 1
15.7 - First Day of Summer
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet is the first in the Sherlock Holmes series.
Points this post: 15
Total points to date: 170
GR Authors: 1
Lindsay T5.6 -- Blowin' in the Wind
Looking for Alaska by John Green
*John Green is a Goodreads author
Smoke can be carried by the wind.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 30
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3
Goodreads authors: 2
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
5.7 SRC Scavenger HuntMentioned in post #248 of the scavenger hunt thread
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
***At 1462 pages, this is a BIG book***
10.8 No Boredom Zone
The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies by Alan Taylor
I find American History a very interesting subject and reading about it chases away boredom in my life.
30.2 I'll Leave My Heart in San Francisco
Option 2: "Gate" in the title
The Gate House by Nelson DeMille
***At 770 pages, this is a big book***
Option 3: Takes place in a jail
The Green Mile by Stephen King
***At 592 pages, this is a big book***
Post Total: 45
Season Total: 450
25.7 Marcia's task: Youtube Summer Fun1. Uh-Huh Slow , Uh-Huh Fast
Since this was really 2 similar videos, read a book that focuses on 2 main characters that are the same sex. It should be clear in the Goodreads description that the book is about 2 boys or 2 girls.
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead = 7/18/12 ***GR Author
4. A Day in the Life of a Korean Student
a book that has a main character attending High School full-time; the book should be set during the school year, but does not have to involve school.
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa = 7/22/12 ***GR Author
Set during the school year and partially in the school
Previous Total: 195
This Task: 25
New Total: 220
GR Author Tickets: 5
25.5 - Stacie MI’s Task: Even More Fun With Holidays!!3. International Joke Day falls on July 1st. Celebrate by laughing and reading a funny book. Humor must appear on the book’s main Goodreads page!
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett = 7/13/12
4. Compliment Your Mirror Day falls on July 3rd. Celebrate by looking in the mirror and read what you see! Read a book with someone on the cover who shares one of your personal attributes, either your hair color or eye color.
by Julie Kagawa ***GR AuthorI have blonde hair as does the girl on the cover. Unfortunately, I look nothing like her otherwise. :)
Previous Total: 220
This Task: 25
New Total: 245
GR Author Tickets: 6
10.3 What's your exitThe New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass by Bill Mather
Author from New Jersey
30.8 It's time for the summer country concert series
Pure by Julianna Baggott*
*Julianna Baggott is a goodreads author
A - Brad Paisley one word title
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf*
*Heather Gudenkauf is a goodreads author
B - Trace Adkins got for free
Total Points 160+10+30=200
15.10 "Feel Good Hit of the Summer"And what a hit it was! :) My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick **who is a Goodreads author**
**Claiming 1 GR author ticket**
Points this post: 15
Total points: 310
Books read: 22
GR author tickets: 11
Big Book tickets: 0
MICHELLE VA5.9 -- Summer Readers Desperate Duchesses by Eloisa James
On Julia's bookshelf, joined GR in Aug. 2009
*Eloisa James is a Goodreads Author*
15.10 -- ”Feel Good Hit of the Summer" Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques
20.10 – Group Reads I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
Points this post: 40
Total points: 70
Goodreads Authors this post: 1
Total Goodreads Authors: 3
20.1 Stesse’s Task: Fifty Shades of Whoa!Option 1 (read one of the Fifty Shades books):
Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2) by E.L. James
**E.L. James is a GoodReads Author**
**Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2) is a big book at 532 pages**
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 230
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 16
Goodreads Authors: 13
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0
25.2 Jayme VA's Task--Around the Country in 6 Parks:4. Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It by Gabrielle Walker from list Best Geology Books (number 3 on list)
6. Road Trip! Road Fever by Tim Cahill from Best Road Trip Books (number 1 on list today
30.6 Peebee's Task--It's the End of the World....:
A. It starts with an earthquake:
Burning Books by Haig Bosmajian This book was okayed in the task help thread, as book burning would be a disaster in my life (This book was also a boring disaster).
C. Putting on the LBs:
Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic Jim Derogatis Biography of Lester Bangs.
30.11 Laurie ME's task--Fun Summer Holidays:
1. Repeat Day
One Coffee With by Margaret Maron Author initials repeat.
4. National Culinarians Day
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop
Today's total: 85
Grand total: 760
10.7 A Reason to CelebrateI read Impulse by Ellen Hopkins which is a novel in verse.
Ellen Hopkins is a Goodreads Author
Big Book Ticket 500+ pages
10.10 Air Conditioned Cool
by Caroline Starr RoseCaroline Starr Rose is a Goodreads author
15.5 Summer in the City
Perfect by Ellen Hopkins the book is set in Reno, Nevada Population 227,511
Ellen Hopkins is a Goodreads author
Big Book ticket 500+ pages
Points this post: 35
Total Points: 295
Goodreads Authors: 9
Big Books: 500 (3)
Kathy G.15.4- Summer Reading
Batter Off Dead by Tamar Myers
(T.M. for the author in the word SUMMERTIME)
Clues in the Woods by Peggy Parish
(W.I.N.D.- in the title: Clues in the Woods)
Total Points- 235
Total Tasks- 14
Goodreads Authors- 3
Big Books (500+)- 1
Kimber30.8 It's time for the summer country concert series
Group A
Task #2 place you'd like to visit
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
set in Barcelona Spain a place I'd love to visit
Group B
Task #4 free book
The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
checked this book out from the library
This task: 30
# tasks completed: 14
GR authors: 10
Total points to date: 260
30.4 Vowel. Prowl Book 1-I read Outside Wonderland by Lorna Jane Cook (a GoodReads Author) .
Book 2- I read In Stitches by Anthony Youn (a GoodReads author) .
Points for this task :30
Total points :190
Tasks completed:11
GoodRead authors :10
Coralie25.2 Around the Country in 6 Parks
Option 4 Canyonlands National Park, Utah
The Silicon Mage – silicon in title
Option 6 Colorado and Utah
On the Jellicoe Road – on page 2 of popular road trip books
Total points 800
25.3 Keltie Lee's task: Hands and FeetBook 1
Read a book with a hand(s) on the cover. Other body parts may be shown, but not feet or complete lower bodies.
by T.M. LuhrmannAND
Book 2
Read a book with a foot/feet on the cover. Other body parts may be shown, but not hands.
by Barbara TrapidoThis Post: 25
Total Points: 490/1080
Tasks Completed: 28/60
Books Read: 42/84
Michelle WI30.1 Aye, Aye Matey!
Book A, option 3: The Reversal by Michael Connelly (Connelly has 8 letters) *****
Book B, option 3: Look Again by Lisa Scottoline (mystery listed as genre) *****
30.10 Honoring the Flag and My Dad
option 4: The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (takes place at a boarding school for special children) *****
option 5: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (alternate history as genre)
30.11 Fun Summer Holidays
option 1: Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain (C's repeat in authors name)
option 5: The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella (romance genre)
***** Connelly, Scottoline and Stewart are Goodreads authors *****
Points This Post: 90
Total Points: 295
Tasks Completed: 13
GR Authors: 8
Emmalita30.1 Cindy AL's task: SuperHero Summer
Room by Emma Donoghue
This is for dice roll 3. It is on the list of Most Emotional Books.
Emma Donoghue is a Goodreads author
Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris
For dice roll 5, there are bats on the cover
This post: 30
Total points to date: 230
Goodread authors: 4
Big book tickets: 1
Total tasks completed: 11
Sheila50.1 Coralie's task: Moonshadow – the Musical
Option 1: Steven in name
The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
AND
Option 4 – Cat Stevens and Yusuf are the same person performing under different names
Crystal Gardens by Amanda Quick aka Jayne Ann Krentz
I believe the authors real name is Jayne Ann Krentz and the pseudonym for Krentz is Amanda Quick.
AND
Option 8 - born in Sweden
The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell was born on February 03, 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden
Total Points = 1050
Congrats Sheila!!! :-)Only a little more.
Thanks Kathy, just one more task!
Mod
I read Ruins, set in Cuba.
25.3 - Keltie Lee's task: Hands and Feet
Book 1 - hands, no feet, on cover. I read
Book 2 - feet, no hands, on cover. I read
Total points: 570
25.4 - Sandy/Kristi's task: All About the Author Book A:
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
This book is a memoir about the author's friendship with fellow classmate and writer Lucy Grealy.
Book B:
Run by Ann Patchett
This book is one of Ann Patchett's novels.
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Points this post: 25
Total points: 740/1090
Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Books: 500+ (6); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Kristi CO 30.1 SuperHero Summer
I rolled a 4 and a 6
Option 4: Captain America
No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel takes place in 1939 and the 1940s.
Option 5: SPIDERMAN: Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
PEA can be spelled from SPIDERMAN
*In a previous post, I listed my # of books read incorrectly. I am making the correction in this post.*
Points this post: 30
Total points: 125
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 8
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Delicious Dee
Last Post 1183
10.6 Contraction Action
I would like to move Seriously, I’m kidding (from posting 537) from this task and replace it with What I Didn't Say - Keary Taylor (GR Author) - didn’t contraction of did not
15.9. “Summer Nights”
The Toll-Gate - first published 1954
25.5 - Stacie MI’s Task: Even More Fun With Holidays!!
Book 1 - Option 3 - Seriously...I'm Kidding – 152 people have it shelved as humor
Book 2 - Option 6 - Quarantine - this was a e-ARC, but the GR list for the book shows the HC page count
30.2 Sassafrass's task: I’ll Leave My Heart in San Francisco!
Book 1- option 5 - Never Fall Down - Set in Cambodia
Book 2 - option 6 -
- flowers on the cover30.10 Butterflycager's Task - Honoring the Flag and My Dad
Book 1- option 1 -
- Eden Winters (GR Author) - length approved in spreadsheet approx. line 550Book 2 - option 4 - Foxe Tail - Haley Walsh (GR Author) - majority of the book set in a high school, with the mc being an English lit teacher
Total Points This Post: 100 (+10 from a task re-organization)
Total Points Overall: 720
Books Completed: 57
Tasks Complete: 42
GR Authors: 37
Big Book Tickers: 500(2), 750(0), 1000(0)
Sarah EvaI really enjoyed this series, even if it is bizarre. Also, the third book in the trilogy is the worst. I read the whole series in one week! woah.
10.2 Eat an Oreo Day
Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James by
Oreo word: FiFty
15.5 Summer in the City
Fifty Shades FreedE.L. James
City: Seattle, Washington
Also, both of these books are over 500 pages.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 130
Tasks completed: 9
Goodreads author: 2
Big book count: 500 (4); 750 (0); 1000 (0)
Kristi CO 30.8 Summer Country Concert Series
Group A: Option 2: A place I would love to visit
The Likeness by Tana French takes place in Ireland
Group B: Option 1: Number in title
1222 by Anne Holt
Points this post: 30
Total points: 155
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 10
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
Kristi CO 20.3 Reading by the Numbers
I rolled a 5, Olympic Rings
I selected Black: Africa
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron takes place in Rwanda
Naomi Benaron is a Goodreads author
Points this post: 20
Total points: 175
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 11
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
ANNA E30.11 - Laurie ME's Task: Fun Summer Holidays
1) Ma Polinski's Pockets by Sara Sheriden
2)
by Penny Vincenci (pink cover)Total points: 30
25.8 Going to the ball parkOption A - 2, away:
I'm living in the Netherlands, so I decided to read The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Option C - 2, the men's room:
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Totals
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 90
Total books read: 6
Total pages read: 1457
Big Books: 0
Goodreads Author: 3
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Vision in White by Nora Roberts
Option 6 Letters are in white
30.8 Section A Option 4/ Brad Paisley
Medusa by Clive Cussler
Section B Option B/ Number in title Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
30.10 Option 1/Flag on the Cover
Option 4/Boarding School In the book, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart Frankie Landau Banks attends a boarding school in Massachusetts.
30.11 Option 1/Repeat Day Witch and Wizard by James Patterson
Option 2/National Pink Day
Points this post: 110
Total points: 135