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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2012: WIND/AIR
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50.1 Coralie's task: Moonshadow – the Musical
Option 1: "CAT" can be found in author's name Catherine Coulter
Whiplash by Catherine Coulter
Option 4: J.D. Robb is a pseudonym of Nora Roberts
Survivor In Death by J.D. Robb
Option 8: According to Goodreads, Georgette Heyer was born in the UK
Bath Tangle by Georgette Heyer
Points this post = 50
Total Points = 580
Tasks Completed = 32
Total Pages = 14,671

5.10 -- Up, Up, and Away
Read a book with the letters "AIR" found intact within a word in the title or subtitle.
The Tycoon's Secret Affair by Maya Banks
10.6 Contraction Action
Beauty and the Beast: The Only One Who Didn't Run Away by Wendy Mass
10.7 A Reason to Celebrate
Read a book with a day of the week in the title or subtitle
Come Monday by Mari Carr
Goodreads Author
15.10. ”Feel Good Hit of the Summer"
Sit back, relax, and read a book that makes you feel good.
Dare To Love by Jaci Burton
Goodreads Author
25.3 - Keltie Lee's task: Hands and Feet
Read 2 books- Book 1 AND Book 2
Book 1 Read a book with a hand(s) on the cover.

Unexpected Pleasures by Mary Wine
Book 2: Read a book with a foot/feet on the cover.

Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Goodreads Author
25.5 Stacie MI’s Task: Even More Fun With Holidays!!
For this task, you will read TWO books. Pick two of the options below and read a book for each.
Required: Please state the options you chose when you post.
2. Hug Holiday falls on June 29th. Celebrate by hugging a loved one and reading a book with two people embracing on the cover.

Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt
Goodreads Author
6. Just Because Day falls on August 27th. Celebrate by reading any book you desire, just because!
Undone by Her Tender Touch by Maya Banks
Points this post: 90
Total points: 625
Tasks completed: 35
Books read: 48
Goodreads Authors: 28
Big Books: 500= 3,750=0, 1000=0

Read a book featuring a musician or musical group.
The Sopranos: A Novel by Alan Warner
This Post: 15
Total Points: 650/1080
Tasks Completed: 37/60
Books Read: 58/85

5.2 -- Pack Your Bags

20.1 - Most Improved - Stesse's task: Fifty Shades of Whoa!
Option 4:
Fade to White by Wendy Clinch
Wendy Clinch is a Goodreads author.
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 495
Goodreads Authors: 17
Big Book Tickets: 1

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
This book is listed in message 741 of the Scavenger Hunt thread.
(MOVED from 10.2)
10.2 Eat an Oreo Day
The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard
The sandwiched word is "Usual," U-S-U.
(REPLACING Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron, MOVED to 5.7)
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Points this post: 5
Total points: 1050/1080
Goodreads Authors: +1/28
Big Books: 500+ (6); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

Task 5.1 - Olympic Word (“gold”)
Heart of Gold by Robin Lee Hatcher (8/9/12)
***Robin Lee Hatcher is a GR Author***
Task 20.1 - Stesse
OPTION 3 – 50 Shades “You” in Title:
Something About You by Julie James (7/31/12)
***Julie James is a GR Author***
Task 20.3 - Anne (Booklady)
ROLLED a 2 – Spring Challenge Task 10.4 – Fire Signs
A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean (8/15/12)
***Sarah MacLean is a GR Author***
I didn’t compete in the Spring Challenge, so I was free to choose any 5-, 10-, or 15-point task. I chose Task 10.4, which was to read a book by an author who was a Fire sign (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius). Sarah MacLean was born Dec 17, making her a Sagittarius, according to the Task specifications.
Task 20.7 - Isabell
Options 1 (& 2) – Died since 1/1/1990 (& won World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, 2007):
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (8/8/12)
(This book just happens to satisfy both Options 1 & 2, so I thought I’d brag… haha!)
Task 25.5 - Stacie MI
OPTION 2 – Embracing Cover:

***Julie James is a GR Author***
&
OPTION 6 – Any Book You Want:
About That Night by Julie James (8/1/12)
***Julie James is a GR Author***
Task 30.1 - Cindy AL
ROLLED a 1 – Science Fiction Genre:
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (7/11/12)
&
ROLLED a 5 – Flying Creature Cover (bird):

Task 30.3 - Sheila/Kathy G
OPTION A2 – X Title/Author:
Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins (6/22/12)
***Stephanie Perkins is a GR Author***
&
OPTION B2 – Sword Cover:

***Melina Marchetta is a GR Author***
***596 pages = BIG TICKET BOOK***
Task 30.4 - Dlmrose
OPTION A – AEIOU in title+author:
Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean (7/18/12)
Eleven ScAndals tO Start to WIn a DUke’s Heart
***Sarah MacLean is a GR Author***
&
OPTION B – Y Title word/Author:
How Not to Spend Your Senior Year by Cameron Dokey (8/14/12)
Task 30.6 - Peebee
OPTION D – War Book Lists:
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (7/1/12)
Lists: Best War Novels #14 & War/Romance Novels #107
&
OPTION E – Lyrics Cover (uniform):

The “thing” from the song is a UNIFORM, and the people on the cover are in uniform!
***Jennifer Echols is a GR Author***
Task 30.8 - Delicious Dee
OPTION A3 – New Book by Favorite Author:
Size 12 and Ready to Rock by Meg Cabot (7/30/12)
Meg Cabot is definitely one of my favorite authors, and this book just came out on July 10th.
***Meg Cabot is a GR Author***
&
OPTION B1 – Number Title:
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean (7/15/12)
***Sarah MacLean is a GR Author***
Task 30.11 - Laurie ME
OPTION 1 – Alliterative Title/Author:
A Lot Like Love by Julie James (7/31/12)
This one happens to have an alliterative title AND author!
***Julie James is a GR Author***
&
OPTION 4 – Food Cover:

There’s a little husk of corn between the title and author & she’s holding some wheat. (OK’d in help thread, messages 21 & 23.)
Task 50.1 - Coralie
OPTION 1 – “Shadow” Title:
The Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan (8/3/12)
&
OPTION 4 – Multi-Pseudonym Author:
Glory in Death by J.D. Robb (8/9/12)
J.D. Robb = Nora Roberts
&
OPTION 7 – Song (“Time”) Title:
Love Beyond Time by Nancy Campbell Allen
Song title = “Time”
***Nancy Campbell Allen is a GR Author***
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CURRENT STATS
Tasks Completed: 34/60
Books Read: 55/83
Pages Read: 18,829
Points Earned this Post: 320/1080
Points Earned Total: 725/1080

"Champions" in title:
Breakfast of Champions: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
+5 Points
5.3 — Dust in the Wind
Native American Culture/ Essays & Poetry
A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales by Joy Harjo
+5 Points
10.3 What’s Your Exit?
New Jersey Author & Setting:
Shelter by Harlan Coben
+10 Points
10.4 Air Signs
Charles Dickens was born on February 7th
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
+10 Points
15.1. The Colors of Summer
A. Blue Cover / "Bleu" in title:

B. "Green" in title:
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
+15 Points
Points this Post: 45
Grand Total: 500

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
5.6 Blowin' in the Wind

The seagull is carried by the wind.
10 points this post.
295 total points.

Task 30.8 - It's Time for the Summer Country Concert Series
For Group A, I decided to do option 3 and read a book by Louise Rennison, who is one of my favorite authors:
Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? by Louise Rennison
For Group B, I decided to do option 4 and read a book that I took out from my local library:
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores by Brian K. Vaughan
Points this task: 30
Total points: 900
Tasks completed: 51
Books read: 116
Pages read: 17686
Goodreads authors: 14
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

Rhyming words: chaperone and own
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
+15 Points
15.4. Summer Reading
Option 1
A.“Summer Wind”
NorWegIan wooD
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
B. “Summertime” MM
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
+15 Points
15.9. “Summer Nights”
Published in 1958 and set in the 50s:
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
+15 Points
Points this Post: 45
Grand Total: 545


The cover features clouds, approved in the task.
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Points this post: 5
Total points: 1055/1080
Goodreads Authors: 0/28
Big Books: 500+ (6); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

From Mrs. Soule http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/25...
10.3 What's Your Exit?
Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich

30.7 The Final Battle
Option 4
Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter

Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris

Total Points = 45

15.10 Feel Good Hit of the Summer
Shadows in Flight
25.8 Going to the Ball Park
Option A2 Away
Embassytown by China Miéville who lives in the UK, I am in Australia
Option C2 The Men’s Room
Jack of Shadows – 157 pages
Total points 1005

Beautiful Sacrifice by Elizabeth Lowell
Approved in post 47 of help thread
5.8 Summer Lovin'
It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#23 on Dramatic Love Stories list
25.8 Going to the Ballpark
Option E-
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beloved (Long, Tall Texans, #18) by Diana Palmer
points this post: 35
Total points: 525
Tasks completed: 27
Books read: 41

15.3 Summer Romance
Option 1A-
Bannon Brothers: Honor by Janet Dailey
Boy word-brother
Option 2A-
All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
Girl word-girl


15.7 - The First Day of Summer

Points this Post: 15
Total Challenge Points: 735
Goodreads Authors: 18
Big Books Tickets: 5

15.7 -- “The First Day of Summer” Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowen
*Michelle Rowen is a Goodreads Author*
30.6.1 -- Peebee's Task: It's the End of the World As We Know It...And I Feel Fine Article 5 by Kristen Simmons
B: “end of the world as we know it” Apocalyptic is one of the genres listed
*Kristen Simmons is a Goodreads Author*
30.6.2 -- Peebee's Task: It's the End of the World As We Know It...And I Feel Fine The Hunt: A Novel

E: “A Cover Tune”: The jacket on the cover is the traditional uniform of a Master of the Hunt in foxhunting
*Jan Neuharth is a Goodreads Author*
Points this post: 45
Total points: 150
Goodreads Authors this post: 3
Total Goodreads Authors: 8

Task 30.2- I'll Leave My Heart in San Francisco!...choose 2 options and read a book that fits each criteria.
I chose Option #4 [Cable Cars] (read a book with some method of transportation on the cover) and I read

394 pages (8.15)
I also chose Option #6 [Flower Power] (read a book first published in the 1960's) and I read

Points earned for this task:30
Points Achieved to date: 595
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 12
Total # of Big Books:
500+ = 3
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)

30.11 - Laurie ME's task: Fun Summer Holidays
Option 1 - Repeat Day (June 3): A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming
The initials of the author's name repeat.
Option 4 - National Culinarians Day (July 25: Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life

There is a cupcake on the cover.
Sandra Beasley is a GoodReads Author.
Points This Task: 30
Total Points: 165
Tasks Completed: 8
Tasks in Progress: 3
Books Read: 11
GoodReads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(-), 1000+(-)
Pages Read: 3765

The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter **who is a GR author** takes place in Budapest, population ~1.7 million according to 2011 census
25.1 Donna Jo's task: I'm Solidly Behind You
A. Impulse by Ellen Hopkins **who is a GR author** has 666 pages ** claiming 1 big book ticket**
E. Liesl and Po by Lauren Oliver **who is a GR author** sOLidly ~ Lauren Oliver
***Claiming 3 GR author tickets***
***Claiming 1 Big Book ticket***
Points this post: 40
Total points: 520
Books read: 36
GR author tickets: 21
Big Book tickets: 1

10.7 A Reason to Celebrate
Selected Poems by Alfred Tennyson
Points this post: 10
Total points: 410
Goodreads authors: 10
Big Books: 500=1

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
This book is #3 on the Dramatic Love Stories list.
(MOVED from 30.1; Big Book ticket previously claimed)
30.1: SuperHero Summer
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
I rolled a 3 (and a 6, previously claimed in post 748). This book is #13 on the Most Emotional Books list.
(REPLACING The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, MOVED to 5.8)
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Points this post: 5
Total points: 1060/1080
Goodreads Authors: 0/28
Big Books: 500+ (6); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
(three books left!)

Read a book with travel listed as a genre on its main GRs page OR a book with a suitcase or backpack on its cover.
Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents by Jim Malusa
This Post: 5
Total Points: 655/1080
Tasks Completed: 38/60
Books Read: 59/85

30.8 Delicious Dee's task: It's Time for the Summer Country Concert Series
For this task I selected:
Group A
3. Toby Keith
- this summer is going to be the third time that I have seen TK in the last 5 years, so let's re-read an old favorite, or a new or previously unread book by a favorite author
and read a book by one of my favorite authors: Lover Eternalby J.R. Ward
AND
Group B
2. Tim McGraw
- I don't remember too much about this concert because I readily admit I was too busy oggling Tim on stage with a wife-beater on. Read a book that has a "hot" cover

Points this post: 30
Total Points: 290
Big Book Total: 4 x 500
Goodreads Author Total: 9
Tasks Completed 16

Task - 20.6 - Seasoned Reader-Michelle WI's task: My Spring Favorites into Your Summer Read
Die Roll # 5
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Points this Task: 20
Total Points: 265

Solid cover:

Solid subject:

Total points: 255

Completed 10.9 recycled reads. Read Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Task Points 10
total points 30

25.2 Around the Country in 6 Parks
Book 1: My Blood Approves by Amanda Hocking
Notes: 1) Hocking's first book.
Book 2: The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
Notes: 4) Iron (Fe) is an element.
This Post: 25
Points to Date: 475

Last Post 1637
5.2 -- Pack Your Bags

5.8 -- Summer Lovin'
Fancy Pants - Susan Elizabeth Phillips (GR Author) - #36 on the Dramatic Love Stories list
10.5 Caribbean Queen
Death by Marriage - Jaden Skye (GR Author) - Set in St Thomas, in the US Virgin Islands, ebook only – length approved in msg 1038
15.1. The Colors of Summer
Book 1- Red+Blue - A.B. Gayle (GR Author)- Blue in title
Book 2 - The Fault in Our Stars - John Green - Green in authors name
15.10. ”Feel Good Hit of the Summer"
Timeless Desire - nothing like a romance novel to make you feel good ;)
20.2 - Rookie on Top - Nicola's task: School's Out For Summer
Kiss the Morning Star - Elissa Janine Hoole (GR Author) - option 2 - just graduated high school, finding themselves in life, find faith in a world that they feel has betrayed them
20.4 - Author! Author! - Jecca's task: Let’s Go Camping
rolled 2
Getting Personal - Diane Amos - Diane Amos is a new to me author that I found on a Maine website for writers from the state
20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Wendy UK's task: Let's Talk About the Weather
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter- Isabell's task: In homage to MZB
Home - William Neale - according to his GR page he died in March 2012 – I remember it being announced in one of the GR’s groups I am part of
25.6 - JennRenee's task: Sounds of Summer.
Book 1- option 1 -

Book 2 - option 3 -

25.8 - Kate S's task: Going to the Ball Park
Book 1- option A.1 - All Bets Are Off - Marguerite Labbe (GR Author) - author is from Southern MD like me - http://www.blogger.com/profile/074403...
Book 2- option A.2 - The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo - the author is from Cape Verde, Africa
30.5 Bluemoon's task: BEG, BORROW, OR STEAL YOUR WAY AROUND THE WORLD
re-post with a book substitution
my home country is the USA
Book 1 I borrowed from the Library - Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island - set on the Marshall Islands, Oceania
Book 2 I stole from DLMRose’s Europe shelf - Andorra - set in Andorra, Europe
50.1 Coralie's task: Moonshadow – the Musical
Book 1- Option 1 - Laugh with the Moon
Book 2- Option 2 - Anne of Avonlea - the musical Anne and Gilbert (from the provided link) is based on this book and the next book in the series
Book 3- Option 3- Kingdom of Strangers: A Novel - Zoë Ferraris (GR author) - set in Saudi Arabia which is on the list of countries with primarily Muslim populations
Total Points This Post: 230 (+30 in a task repost)
Total Points Overall: 1080
Books Completed: 86
Tasks Complete: 61
GR Authors: 53
Big Book Tickers: 500(4), 750(0), 1000(0)

(2) Shades:
I stear clear of memoirs, so I decided to try one after enjoying Stephen King's On Writing. This one was good, but it's still really not my favorite genre:
Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo
+20 Points
20.9 – Lucky Me!- mstan’s task: Please Be Patient…
1. The book can be mentioned within Book X itself:
My book was thrown across the room on page 461 of Special Topics in Calamity Physics, a book I claimed for task 25.1 Donna Jo’s task: I’m Solidly Behind You, post 1303:
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
+20 Points
25.4 – Sandy/Kristi’s task: All About the Author
For Book A – Read a biography, autobiography, or memoir of an author:
On Writing by Stephen King
For Book B – Read a book or collection of works written by the author that is the focus of book A:
Blockade Billy by Stephen King
+25 Points
25.7 Marcia’s task: Youtube Summer Fun
3. This Too Shall Pass
The Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulley, Died in 1958
5. Annoying Orange
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
+25 Points
30.2 Sassafrass’s task: I’ll Leave My Heart in San Francisco!
4. The San Francisco Treat: Cable Cars!
Boat on the cover:

5. A taste of Asia:
Author of Asian descent/Japanese American main characters:
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
+30 Points
Points this Post: 120
Grand Total: 665

Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
***Karen Lord is GR Author***
25.1 I'm Solidly Behind You
Option A: A Book with over 500 pages
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
***Bleak House is a Big Book***
Option C: Solid synonym: "unbroken"
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
30.4 Vowel Prowl
Book A
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Hound of the Baskervilles
Book B
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
Post Total: 70
Season Total: 770

Night Soldiers (There are 12 books in this series.)
Task 20.5 - Let's Talk About the Weather
The Scent of Rain and Lightning
Task 25.8 - Going to the Ball Park
Option C2 - The Men's Room (short book by a man):
Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller (128 pages)
Option D2 - Nonfiction about baseball:
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
Points this post: 60
Tasks completed this post: 3
Big Book Tickets, GR authors this post: 0, 0
Total points: 255
Total tasks completed: 15
Total number Big Books: 500(1) 750(0) 1000(0)
Total Big Book tickets: 1
Total GoodReads authors: 5

20.1 Fifty Shades Of Whoa
The Stranger Beside You by William Casey Moreton
Option 3: "you" in title
ebook length approved in post 1386
This task: 20
# tasks completed: 28
GR authors: 17
Total points: 510

1. "cat" in author's name
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
3. set in an Islamic country - Afghanistan
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
8. author born in UK - J K Rowling
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
Points: 50
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Total Points: 295
MICHAEL LA
20.10 - Group Reads
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
My post is #20 in the thread.
The Name of the Rose is a big book at 536 pages.
Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 480
GR Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+ (1) 750+ (1)
20.10 - Group Reads
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
My post is #20 in the thread.
The Name of the Rose is a big book at 536 pages.
Points this post: 20
Total points to date: 480
GR Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+ (1) 750+ (1)


Excellent job to all the finishers - that is amazing!

Choose a book mentioned in the Scavenger Hunt thread to read for this task.
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Day of the Locust is mentioned in message #718.
This Post: 5
Total Points: 660/1080
Tasks Completed: 39/60
Books Read: 60/85

Delicious Dee
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5.2 -- Pack Your Bags

5.8 -- Summer Lovin'
Fancy Pants - Susan Elizabeth Philli..."
Yay, Dee!


May Day by Jess Lourey
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Points this post: 10
Total Points: 630/1080
Tasks Completed: 32
Books Read: 48
GoodReads Authors: 19
Big Books: 500+ (), 750+ (), 1000+ (1)
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Points this post: 5
Total points: 350
Big book tickets so far: 1
Goodreads authors: 2