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Task 10.4 Air Signs
I read Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell who is a Goodreads Author!!!!
Birthdate: June 9/56
Claiming 1 Big Book ticket
Points this post:10
Total points:75
Tasks completed:5
Books read:6
Goodreads Authors:4
Big Books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(0)

I chose options:
1. Repeat Day: Cold Case Cop by Mary Burton
AND
3. Moon Day:

Points this post: 30
Season Total: 65



Donna Freitas is a GoodReads Author
20.3 Best Review - Anne(Booklady)'s Task: Reading... by the Numbers
I rolled a two
2: Repeat Spring I did not complete Task 5.7 I Love Paris in the Springtime

Juliette Sobanette is a GoodReads Author
**Approved in SRC ebook chart
20.4 - Author!Author! - Jecca's Task:Let's Go Camping
I rolled a 5
5. Beach

Virginia Jewel is a "new to me" author.
Ellie found the ability to allow herself to get involved again, and found a new love.
Virginia Jewel is a GoodReads Author
**Approved in post 1262
20.8 – It’s My Birthday – Putterpal’s Task:Have Your Cake and Eat it Too!
Option 2: Red Velvet Cake

Cry No More by Linda Howard is set in Texas
20.9 - Lucky Me!- mstan's task: Please Be Patient...

Sleeping in Paris by Juliette Sobanette was mentioned (an excerpt given) in Kissed in Paris, which I used for task 20.3.
Juliette Sobanette is a GoodReads Author
**Approved in SRC ebook chart
25.8 Kate S's Task: Going to the Ball Park
A2 Away

Caroline B. Cooney was born in the U.S.A (according to GoodReadsCaroline B. Cooney, I was born in Canada. Close neigbours, but different countries!
C1 The Women's Room

E.L. James is a GoodReads Author
Fifty Shades Freed is a BigBook
Points this post = 110
Total points: 110 + 125 = 235
Goodreads Authors: 5 + 4 = 9
Big Books: 500+= 2, 750+=0, 1000+ = 0
Page count: 2157 + 2975 = 5132
Personal Goal: 700 points

Points this post:10
Total Points:95/1080
GR Author:4
BB Tix:0


First book of a series
15.9 Summer Nights Book published in the 1950's

Points this post: 30
Total points :30
Big book: 500 (0) 750 (0) 1000 (0)
Goodreads Author: 0

For this task, I read Time Regained by Marcel Proust. This book is mentioned repeatedly in Proust's Way: A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time by Roger Shattuck, a book I read for task 20.8 and claimed points for in post #407. Proust's Way is literary criticism about Time Regained, as well as the other six volumes of Proust's epic novel, In Search of Lost Time. Time Regained is mentioned by name repeatedly, whenever the book is quoted and when Shattuck describes in his final essay the rapid succession of Proustian moments that take place in the volume.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 80
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Goodreads Authors: Vaddey Ratner
Big Books: (1) - (2) The Fires of Heaven (3) -
20.6 - Seasoned Reader-Michelle WI's task: My Spring Favorites into Your Summer Read
I rolled a 6 - Historical Fiction genre
Katherine by Anya Seton
Big Book ticket claimed - 576 pages
Points this task: 20
Total challenge points: 105
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000+=0
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 6
Books Owned Pre-2012: 3
Total Pages Read: 2,265
I rolled a 6 - Historical Fiction genre
Katherine by Anya Seton
Big Book ticket claimed - 576 pages
Points this task: 20
Total challenge points: 105
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000+=0
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 6
Books Owned Pre-2012: 3
Total Pages Read: 2,265

Option A2: author from outside US
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman, who lives in Australia.
With 531 pages this book qualifies for ONE Big Book Ticket.
Option C1: Women's Room
Eona by Alison Goodman
With 637 pages this book qualifies for ONE Big Book Ticket.
Alison Goodman is a GR Author, so I am claiming TWO GRA Tickets.
Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 165
GRA Tickets: 5
Big Book Tickets: 2
Tasks Completed: 10
Books Read: 12

10.8 -- No Boredom Zone --
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific - J. Maarten Troost
(task help approval)
30.11 -- Laurie ME's task: Fun Summer Holidays
Option 5:

Option 6:

Janet Evanovich is a GOODREADS AUTHOR
Points Earned This Post: 40
Points Achieved to Date: 145
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Book Tickets:
500+ (1)
750+ (0)
1000+ (0)


15.2. “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer”
1: The Red House: A Novel by Mark Haddon
and
2: Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield (read a publisher's advance copy)
Kat Rosenfield is a GRA.
rhyme: "red" and "dead"
15.3. “Summer Romance”
1: Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
I listened to the audio. There is no MM edition, but based on this paperback edition, which lists 603 pages, I am claiming a Big Book.
and
2: Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel
nouns are "men" and "girl"
Points this post: 30
Total points: 95
Tasks completed: 8
GRA: 5
Big Books 500+(1), 750+ (), 1000+()


Task 20.9 - Please be patient...
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters ***Big Book 528 pages = 1 ticket***
Option 2: Mentioned on the cover of The Little Stranger which I claimed for task 20.8.


Task 30.8 - It's time for the summer country concert series
Group A, Option 2 - Rascal Flats: I would love to visit Paris, France
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig **GR Author**
Group B, Option 4 - Trace Adkins: Gook I got for free from the library
The Books of Rachel by Joel Gross
Total Big Book tickets = 4
Total GR Authors = 2
Challenge total = 185

Option 1, Repeat Day (book title with two consecutive words that repeat their first letter):
Tangled Tinsel by Vivian Arend
**Vivian Arend is a Goodreads Author**
ebook approved on line 444 of the SRC ebook Verification spreadsheet
Option 5, Chinese Valentine’s Day (book with “romance” as a genre):
The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa
**Julie Kagawa is a Goodreads Author**
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 100
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 8
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

I read Suspect by Michael Robotham (1st in Joseph O'Loughlin series,
Points this post: 15
Total points: 45
Tasks Completed: 3
Big books total: 0
Goodreads author total: 2

The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion by Herman Wouk.
According to GR biographical info he was born May 27, 1915, making him a Gemini.
20.10 Group Reads:
I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella. I posted #19 on thread.
30.4 Dlmrose's Task--Vowel Prowl:
A. All Five vowels:
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
B Sometimes Y:
Let Love Find You by Johanna Lindsey
30.10 Butterflycager's Task--Honor the Flag and My Dad:
1. Flag:
MADE IN AMERICA by Bill Bryson

2. Alternate History:

Today's total: 90
Grand total: 360

15.2 – Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer
Books that rhyme:
Knowing Your Value: Negotiating Your Way to the Salary You Deserve – WAY
Day - DAY
Points this post: 15
Goodread Authors This Post: 0
Big Book Tickets This Post: 0
Total Goodreads Authors: 1
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Total Points: 80

Task 30.2 I'll Leave my Heart in San Fancisco!
Option 4: The San Francisco Treat
Book: State of Wonder

Transport: Rowing Boat
Option 5: A Taste of Asia
Book: The Midnight Palace
Country: India
Task: 30.8 It's Time for the Summer Country Concert Series
Group A Option: 4 Brad Paisley
Book: Runemarks
Group B Option: 3 Brooks and Dunn
Book: The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Total Points: 220
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I read The Bar Mitzvah and the Beast: One Family's Cross-Country Ride of Passage by Bike which was approved on the help thread.
Points: 130
Books read: 13
Tasks completed: 11
GR authors: 3
Big Boos 1(500)
pages read: 3844


5.1 -- Let the Games Begin A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
*Big Book - 800+ pages*
10.1 -- Skip to My Lou Matched by Ally Condie
A
Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 15
Total Goodreads Author Tickets: 0
Total Big Books Tickets: 500+ (0); 750+ (1); 1000+ (0)

15.2. “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer”
I read I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles Payne and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.
Rhyming words - "light" and "night"
Points this post: 15
Total points: 50

15.7- First Days of Summer
Morrigan's Cross
Points this post: 15
Challenge total: 60
Completed tasks: 4
Goodreads authors: 0
Big Books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

5.2 Pack Your Bags....
I read a book shelved under travel on its main page.
Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks by Andrea Lankford
(****)
***Andrea Lankford is a Goodreads Author***
+5
total: 60
tasks: 4
books: 5
GR Authors: 2

10.6 Contraction Action
Gone 'Til November by Wallace Stroby
10.7 A Reason to Celebrate
Wednesday's Child by Peter Robinson
Total Points = 435

The Scent of Rain and Lightning
25.5 Even More Fun with Holidays
Option 3 – a funny book
The Sirens of Titan
Option 6 – Just Because
The Broken Kingdoms
Total points 330

Read a book with the letters "AIR" found intact within a word in the title or subtitle.
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim
This Post: 5
Total Points: 155/1080
Tasks Completed: 11/60
Books Read: 19/84

One For The Money by Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich is a Goodreads Author
25.7 Youtube Summer Fun
Option Four: A Day in the Life of a Korean Student
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake the main character Cas is a high school student who hunts ghosts.
Kendare Blake is a Goodreads Author
Option Five: Annoying Orange
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Points this post: 35
Total Points: 155
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 0


Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (contraction don't in title) by Sandra Beasley ***who is a Goodreads author***
30.8 Delicious Dee's task: It's Time for the Summer Country Concert Series
Group A #4 Brad Paisley (one word title): Shine by Lauren Myracle
Group B #2 Tim McGraw ("hot" cover - approved in help thread):

***Claiming 2 GR author tickets***
Points this post: 40
Total points: 100
Books read: 7
GR author tickets: 4
Big Book tickets: 0

20.6 My Spring Favorites In Your Summer Read-I chose option 3 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 4
Goodreads Authors:1, Alan Lazar
Big Books: 500pp(0), 750pp(0), 1000+ (0)
Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 65


10.2: Eat an Oreo Day:
Obsession by Karen Robards
10.6: Contraction Day
I'm In No Mood For Love by Rachel Gibson
20.3: Best Review: Anne (booklady)'s Task: Reading ... by the Numbers: Rolled a 5: book takes place in North America:
Everybody Loves Evie by Beth Ciotta. Beth Ciotta is a GRA.
20.8: Shorter is Sweeter: Isabell's Task: In Homage to MZB: Option 1: Beverly Barton died 4/21/11:
Every Move She Makes by Beverly Barton
25.4: Sandy/Kristi's Task: All About the Author
1. Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie
2. They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
Points this Post: 85.
Total Points: 260.
GRA this Post: 1.

10.6 - Contraction Action

Points this Post: 10
Total Challenge Points: 165
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Books Tickets: 3

I need to replace a book in 30.8. I am taking away Arranged: A Novel by Catherine McKenzie, which I used for Concert 1, and replacing it so that 30.8 now looks like this:
30.8 Delicious Dee’s Country Concerts
Concert 1: Brad Paisley, book with a 1-word title – I read Fiskadoro by Denis Johnson. 221 pages
Concert 2: Blake Shelton, city in title – I read The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey. 320 pages
There is no change in points in this substituition.
NOW, I will add
20.1 Stesse’s Fifty Shades…. I chose Option 2 and read a book from the “Romance” genre, which I rarely read – Arranged: A Novel by Catherine McKenzie -- 416 pages. In fact, I think the last time I purposefully read a Romance was for a challenge a couple of seasons ago when I read a Harlequin Nocturne.
Task Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 240
Total Page Count: 5,404

20.8 Have Your Cake And Eat It Too!

option 6 - title in white
this post = 20
challenge total = 40

5.1 -- Let the Games Begin
“Games” = Private Games by James Patterson (448 p)
James Patterson is GRA.
10.10 Air Conditioned Cool
Lost December: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans (346 p)

30.4 Dlmrose's task: Vowel Prowl
Book A: AEIOU- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling (240 p)
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Book B: And Sometimes Y- Thank You Notes by Jimmy Fallon (176 p)
Points this Post: 45
Tasks Completed this Post: 3
Books Read this Post: 4
Pages Read this Post: 1210
GoodReads Authors this Post: 1
Big Books this Post: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Total Points: 185
Total Tasks Completed: 11
Total Books Read: 14
Total Pages Read: 4489
Total GoodReads Authors: 4
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

Option 1: School's out for summer
Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
Morgan Matson is a goodreads author
Total points = 35

I rolled a 5 and chose Red:the Americas
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
20.8 - It's My Birthday
5)Angel Food Cake
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Total points = 75

20.4 - Author! Author! - Jecca's task: Let’s Go Camping
I rolled a 1 so I listened to a "squiggly" book.
Robopocalypse: A Novel by Daniel H. Wilson who is a new author to me.
The squiggly word in the title is Robopocalypse
Total Points = 455

Red Velvet Cake
Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris
considered the Southern Vampire series, takes place in Bon Temps Louisiana
If I were you I would choose white cake with white frosting:)
Points this post: 20
Total points: 96
Big books total: 0
Goodreads author total: 0

25.3 Hands and Feet
Hands:

Feet:

25.4 All About the Author
Book A: Save Karyn: One Shopaholic's Journey to Debt and Back
by Karyn BosnakGRA
Book B: 20 Times a Lady: A Novel
by Karyn Bosnak GRA
*approved in help thread post #81*
30.11 Fun Summer Holidays
Option 1: The Coffin Club
by Ellen Schreiber
*Coffin Club*
Option 5: Fifty Shades Freed
by E.L. JamesGRA
579 pages claiming big book ticket
*has romance listed as a genre*
Points this post: 80
Total points: 300/1080
Tasks: 20
Books: 26
Goodreads authors: 10
Big Book Tickets: 500 (6), 750 (1)

5.4 -- Chemical Combo
I read Foxy Roxy by Nancy Martin.
I would like to claim a Goodreads author for this
Points this task 5
Total points 125
Tasks done 7
pages read 3464
Goodreads authors 4

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
30.9 North by Northwest
Book A: Option 2: The word "White" is in the title.
The White Mary: A Novel by Kira Salak
Book B: Option4: Set in the State of Washington on San Piedro Island, North of Puget Sound.
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
40 points this post
85 total points

10.8 No Boredom Zone
Play These Games: 101 Delightful Diversions Using Everyday Items by Heather Swain
10.10 Air Conditioned Cool
Frozen Planet: A World Beyond Imagination by Alastair Fothergill

15.8. “Summer of 69”
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood - two of the principal characters, Iris and Eden, are both musicians. Iris is a cellist, and Eden is an organist.
15.10. ”Feel Good Hit of the Summer"
Blood Lite III: Aftertaste edited by Kevin J. Anderson.
This collection contains a story by
Jim Butcher, who is a Goodreads Author.
At 528 pages, this is a Big Book.
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter- Isabell's task: In homage to MZB
1. Author who died since January 1, 1990.
On the Night of the Seventh Moon by Victoria Holt (died January 18, 1993 according to Goodreads page)
30.2 Sassafrass's task: I’ll Leave My Heart in San Francisco!
Option 2, book with golden in title: The Golden
Hour by Margaret Wurtele
Option 5, book set in Asia: A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson (set in China)
Points this post: 100
Total challenge points: 485
Tasks completed: 27
Books read: 36
Goodreads Authors: 10
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0

The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection by Wendy Northcutt (AWA in Awards)
Points this post: 10
Total points: 140
Books read: 9
GR Authors: 3
Big Book Tickets: 3

Off the "Crazy Love" List
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
10.6 Contraction Action
What's=What is
What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges
20.3 Reading by the Numbers
I rolled a 5 and chose the Red Ring (book set in the Americas)
11/22/63 by Stephen King
***At 849 pages, 11/22/63 is a Big Book***
Post Total: 35
Season Total: 285

Read a book set in a city.
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
The Chaperone is set in New York City.
This Post: 15
Total Points: 170/1080
Tasks Completed: 12/60
Books Read: 20/84

You must select ONE book from Group A and ONE Book from Group B
Group A - Concerts I am seeing this summer
Option 4. Brad Paisley
Read a book that has only one word in the title
Triggers (2012) by Robert J. Sawyer (Hardcover, 352 pages)
Group B - Concerts I have seen
Option 3. Brooks and Dunn
Read a book that is written as a single title by 2 authors
The Long Earth (2012) by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (Hardcover, 336 pages)
110 + 30 = 140
Tasks Completed: 7
Points for this post: 30
Points thus far: 110 + 30 = 140
Books read: 9
Pages read: 2,831
Read but not claimed: 6
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750+
(0) 1,000+

30.10 Honoring the Flag and My Dad
Option 2:
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
The number 13 is in the title
Maureen Johnson is a GR author
Option 4: Testimony by Anita Shreve
This book is set at Avery Academy, a private boarding school in Vermont.
Points this post: 30
Total Points: 100
Total GR Authors: 5

The Journal of Jesse Smoke : A Cherokee Boy, Trail of Tears, 1838
5.5 Diamond Jubilee
Orphan At My Door: The Home Child Diary Of Victoria Cope
Set in Canada, which (to my surprise) is still technically run by Queen Elizabeth II. Unplan-ed-ly enough, it's set during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, too!
5.7 Scavenger Hunt
Alias Madame Doubtfire
From post 399 in the Scavenger Hunt Thread: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...
5.9 Summer Readers
The Call of the Wild
I pulled from Bluemoon's "Read" shelf...she liked it better than I did lol http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/24...
5.10 Up, Up, and Away
Fair Weather
10.9 Recycled Group Reads
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
This was the runner-up for Winter '11 Steampunk: http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/56...
15.3 Summer Romance
Boy vs. Girl
20.5 Let's Talk About the Weather

30.1 Superhero Summer
Roll 3 (from emotional list): Love, Stargirl
This was number 92 on the list http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/95...
Roll 4 (set between 1900-1950): Betsy in Spite of Herself
This was set in 1907-1908
Total: 100 + 550 (from earlier) = 650 pts

Task 30.5-Beg, Borrow, or Steal!...choose 2 of the options and read a book set on a different continent for each of those 2 options:
I chose option B (borrow a library book) and read

I also chose option C (steal a book from a moderators Read shelf..[I stole from DLMROSE's Read shelf]) and read

*I live on the North America continent.
Points earned for this task: 30
Points Achieved to date: 215
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 4
Total # of Big Books:
500+ = 1
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)

Task 10.8-No Boredom Zone!...read a non-fiction book about any subject or activity that would chase boredom away:
I'm new to birding as a hobby so I read

Points earned for this task: 10
Points Achieved to date: 225
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 4
Total # of Big Books:
500+ = 1
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)

Read a book featuring musicians.
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
Jennifer Egan is a Goodreads author.
20.2 School's Out For Summer.
Option 1: Beach or summer scene on cover.

20.8 Have Your Cake and Eat It Too!
Option 5: Death of someone is an integral part of the story.
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler.
25.8 Going to the Ball Park
Option A 1: Author lives in Westport, Connecticut. I live in Connecticut too.
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan.
Charlotte Rogan is a Goodreads author.
Option C 2: A short book written by a man. This book had 120 pages.
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett.
Points this post: 80
Total points: 155
Tasks: 8
Books: 10
Goodreads authors: 4
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I chose option 5: Angel Food Cake. The Truth About Forever is about a girl who recently lost her father and how she dealt with grief, family and friends as a result of his death.
Sarah Dessen is a GR author.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 75
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
Goodreads Authors to date: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0