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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
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15.4 Summer Reading
book A- read Real Mermaids Don’t Wear Toe Rings by Helene Boudreau (GRA)
and
Book 2- read Seaweedby Elle Strauss Approved for length post 1391
20.7 In Homage to MZB
Option 2. Jane Yolen 2009 winner read Heart's Blood
30.11 Fun Summer Holidays
Option 2 pink cover read
by Sophie Littlefield (GRA)and
Option 5 Romance Genre Fractured Lightby Rachel McClellan (GRA)
50.1 Moonshadow the Musical
Option 1 - author name Cat- read When the Sea is Rising Redby Cat Hellisen (GRA)
Option 7- song title Crazy read Crazy Dangerousby Andrew Klavan (GRA)
Option 8- Author born in England The Last PrincessThe Last Princessby Galaxy Craze
Points this Post: 120
Total points- 1000
Tasks Completed: 54
Books read: 76
Pages Read : 24,735
GR Authors: 48
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
MariyaTask 15.10. ”Feel Good Hit of the Summer"
I read Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch
I adore Ms. Lynch and reading about her life and acting career made me feel very happy.
Task 20.1 - Most Improved - Stesse's task: Fifty Shades of Whoa!
OPTION 4: I read a book with the word GRAY in the title. The book that I read was Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Task 30.8 Delicious Dee's task: It's Time for the Summer Country Concert Series
GROUP A: OPTION 5: I read
by John Irving because there is a picture of a red truck on the cover.GROUP B: OPTION 1: I read The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga because it has a color in the title (the color WHITE).
Points this post: 65
Total points: 350
Jayme VA 5.6 -- Blowin' in the Wind
by L.J. Smith has a flying bird on the cover.5.9 -- Summer Readers
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker
This was on Dlmrose's shelf. She joined in June.
Tiffany Baker is a goodreads author.
15.6. “Hot Fun in the Summertime”
by Hilma WolitzerThis looks like the perfect summer activity for me- sitting outside and reading! Too bad it was a horrible, awful book though.
20.2 - Rookie on Top - Nicola's task: School's Out For Summer
Option 4: Gone byMichael Grant
Half the characters in this book attend a boarding school.
Michael Grant is a goodreads author.
Points this task: 45
Total Points: 495
Goodreads Authors: Jennifer Egan, Sara Shepard**, Garth Stein, Garth Nix, Rachel Hauck, Mark Truffo, Rebecca Rasmussen, Laura Dave, Heather Barbieri, Michael Grant, Tiffany Baker
Big Books: 500+: 3
Good job, SueT.Chaitra and Stacie, we're all pulling for you.
Jen UT5.1 - Let the Games Begin
Kingdom Keepers V: Shell Game by Ridley Pearson
10.2 - Eat an Oreo Day
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
Total Points: 40
STACIE MITask 10.1 - Skip to My Lou
I read:
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
Points this task: 10
Total points: 1065
Tasks completed: 60
Books read: 130
Pages read: 21483
Goodreads authors: 19
Big books: 500+ (2); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Donna Jo wrote: "Good job, SueT.Chaitra and Stacie, we're all pulling for you."
Thanks Donna Jo! One book to go!
Alice GI'm sorry about the long list in one go. I've been away Greek Island Hopping the last few weeks so couldn't post before now. I had a great time though!
Task 15.3 - Summer Romance
Option 1
Book A: Monday to Friday Man
Book B: The Tea Planter's Daughter
Task 15.4 Summer Reading
Option 1
Book A: Let the Great World Spin
Book B: The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller
Task 15.7 The First Day of Summer
Book: The Sunday Philosophy Club
Task 15.9 Summer Nights
Book: Foreign Bodies
This book is set in the 1950s
Task 20.5 Let's Talk about the Weather
Book: The Right Attitude to Rain
Task 20.8 Have Your Cake and Eat it Too
Option 3 Marble Cake
Book: My Daughter My Mother
Meena is one of the main characters in the book and she moved to England from a Sikh country and has spent 20 years struggling to fit in and deal with the conflicts between the East and the West.
Task 20.9 Please Be Patient
Option 3
Book: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
This was in Bernie Plays the Blues also by Alexander McCall Smith listed as another book written by him.
Task 25.7 Youtube Summer Fun
Option 4
Book: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Option 5
Book: At the Sign of the Sugared Plum
Task 25.8 Going to the Ball Park
Option A:2
Book: The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
Mari Strachan was born and lives in Wales.
Option B:1
Book: The Dark Monk: A Hangman's Daughter Tale by Oliver Pötzsch
Points: 170
Total Points: 550
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Meera5.1 -- Let the Games Begin Howards End by E.M. Forster. The majority of the novel takes place in London.
25.3 - Keltie Lee's task: Hands and Feet
Book 1:
North and South by Elizabeth GaskellBook 2:
Pictures Of Perfection by Reginald Hill30.4 Dlmrose's task: Vowel Prowl
Book A:
A Pale Horse by Charles Todd A Pale Horse: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery. GR AuthorBook B: Blood Red Road by Moira Young
Points this post: 60
Total Points: 555
Books read: 40
Tasks Completed: 28
GR Authors: 13
Big Books: 500+(5),750+(0),1000+(0)
Jodi230.8 It's Time for the Summer Country Concert Series
A 4. Read a book that has only one word in the title.
Heaven
B 1. Read a book that either has a number or a color in the title (one)
Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story
20.2 Rookie on Top - Nicola's task: School's Out For Summer
Option 1: Read a book that has a beach or a summer scene on the cover
Wild Times at the Bed and Biscuit
Points this post: 50
Total Points: 150
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 10
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25.2 Aournd the country in 6 Parks
Option 1- Eighth Grade Bitesby Heather Brewer
and
option 6 second list 1st page. read In Honorby jessi Kirby (GRA)
Points this Post: 30
Total points- 1030
Tasks Completed: 56
Books read: 79
Pages Read : 25,398
GR Authors: 49
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
nearly there jennrenee - only 50 points to go!! you can do it!!
20.1 - Most Improved - Stesse's task: Fifty Shades of Whoa!B) Shades- 1066 and All That
Historical Non fiction is a completely new genre for me.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 300/1080
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000+(3)
10.9 Recycled Group ReadsThe Fault in Our Stars
from the Spring 2012 Published in Twenty Tens List
10.10 Air Conditioned Cool
I read
which is set in winter and features a snowman on the cover. 30.8 Summer Concert Series
A.2 I read Jericho's Fall which is set in the Rocky Mountains at a huge home. Though I wouldn't like to be there when the plot unfolds, I'd love to visit there!
B.4 I read The Unit -- I got it for free at the library.
30.11 Fun Summer Holidays
Option 1 -- Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz (GOODREADS AUTHOR) -- consecutive alliteration in the title
Option 5 -- predominately red cover --
New Total: 445
25.4 All About the AuthorBook A. Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch (biography)
Book B. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Points this post: 25
Total points: 310
Tasks completed: 17
Goodreads Authors: 7
20.4 - Author! Author! - Jecca's task: Let’s Go Camping:Rolled a 3. Campfire – The Lightning Thief. This book is talked about because it was made into a movie so it was talked about in reviews and magazines.
20.6 - Seasoned Reader-Michelle WI's task: My Spring Favorites into Your Summer Read:
Rolled a 3. . Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs(fantasy genre) - A Game of Thrones
*Big Book Ticket. 864 pgs
25.5 - Stacie MI’s Task: Even More Fun With Holidays!!
4. Compliment Your Mirror Day -
by Lauren KateHave long black hair just like girl on the cover.
*Goodreads Author
6. Just Because Day - Divergent by Veronica Roth
*Goodreads Author
25.6 - JennRenee's task: Sounds of Summer:
1.Endless Summer Nights by Richard as Marx-
This is a night scene.
2.School’s Out Forever by Alice Cooper- The Battle of the Labyrinth
This book has both a trip and the main character is a teenager.
30.1 Cindy AL's task: SuperHero Summer
2) Thor - The Titan's Curse
The genre is fantasy>mythology
6) Spiderman - The Sea of Monsters
Sea can be anagrammed from Spiderman
I rolled a 2&6 with the dice
30.7 Ms. Anderson’s Task – The Final Battle:
2a - Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys The letters R and S are in STARK
This is a Goodreads Author
2b - Ender's Game
30.8 Delicious Dee's task: It's Time for the Summer Country Concert Series
Group A #5 -
by Lauren BarnholdtThere is a car on the cover
This is a Goodreads Author
Group B #1 - Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743 by Kristiana Gregory
The number 1743 is in the title
This is a Goodreads Author
Total Points: 180
Goodreads Authors:5
Book Book: 750+ (1)
Kristi CO 5.6 Blowin' in the Wind
by Chris Bohjalian, sand can blow in the windChris Bohjalian is a Goodreads author
25.1 I'm Solidly Behind You
Option D: The Chaotic Age of Harold Bloom's Western Canon, Great Britain and Ireland
1984 by George Orwell
Option E: SOLIDLY
Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver, initials L and O
Lauren Oliver is a Goodreads author
Points this post: 30
Total points: 325
Tasks completed: 16
Books read: 22
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0
COMPLETED TASK
Task 10.4 - Air Sign
Forever Princess by Meg Cabot (8/27/2012)
***Meg Cabot is a GR Author***
Meg Cabot was born on February 1st, which makes her an Aquarius, according to the task description.
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CURRENT STATS
Tasks Completed: 46/60
Books Read: 68/83
Pages Read: 23,115
Points Earned this Post: 10
Points Earned Total: 930/1080
20.10 Group ReadsThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
msg #21 in discussion thread
This is a Big Book, 536 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 550
Tasks completed: 27
Books read: 37
Goodreads Author: 26
Big Book Tickets: 500 (2); 750 (0); 1000(0)
Jayme(the ghostreader)15.4 Summer Reading
Option A Summer Wind- Read a book with the letters W.I.N.D-
by Jane Yolan. the W in sword, I in rightful, N in King and D in sword make up wind.Option B Author's initals from Summertime -
by Maggie Stiefevater. The second M in summer and the first S.Tasks Completed 9
Books Read: 14
GR Authors: 2 Sara Shepard, Ellen Hopkins
BB 1 500+
Task Points: 15
Grand Total 165
20.1 Most Improved Option 2: new-to-me genre (Cultural > Canada)
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
I am claiming ONE GRA Ticket for Margaret Atwood.
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 635
GRA Tickets: 7
Big Book Tickets: 3
32 Tasks Completed
44 Books Read
Let the Games begin - The Glimpse by Claire Merle Goodreads author - book is set in a dystopian LondonPoints this task: 5
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 7
Pages read: 2365
Goodreads authors: 4
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
**Please replace Pretty Woman in Task 30.2 with 
My Man Pendleton by Elizabeth Bevarly (384 pages) (flower on front) – post 1063.**15.5 Summer in the City
Marriage by Mistake by Alyssa Kress (265 pages)(set in Las Vegas and Boston, both of which have populations of more than 100,000 people )
Alyssa Kress is a GoodReads Author
*Approved for length in post 1422
30.5 Bluemoon’s Task: Beg, Borrow or Steal Your Way Around the World
Option A: Beg
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walters (337 pages)Recommended by a “real life” friend and set in Europe
Option B: Borrowed
Pretty Woman by Fern Michaels (will use 384 pages from My Man Pendleeton in order to have an accurate count)
Borrowed from the library and set in the United States, North America
I live in North America too – but a different country (Canada)
Points this post =
Total points: 725 + 45 = 770
Goodreads Authors: 25 + 1 = 26
Big Books: 500+= 2, 750+=0, 1000+ = 0
Page count: 15521 + 986 = 16507
Personal Goal: 700 points
Original Post 1063:
**Please replace High Five by Janet Evanovich with Wild Justice by Liz Fielding in task 30.8. This book was a free kindle download. They are both written by GoodReads authors, so no change there.**
5.2 Pack Your Bags
Return to Paradise by Carol Grace (144 pages)*Approved for length in post 1316
Carol Grace is a GoodReads Author
10.2 Eat an Oreo Day
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume (217 pages)EyEs
10.3 – What’s Your Exit?
The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain (368 pages)Diane Chamberlaine is a GoodReads Author
20.6 – Seasoned Reader – Michelle WI’s Task:My Spring Favorites into Your Summer Read!
I rolled a 3
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (348 pages)25.2 – Jayme VA’s task: Around the Country in 6 Parks
Option 4: Canyonlands National Park, Utah
The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa (358 pages)Iron is listed in the List of Elements as Fe
Julie Kagawa is a GoodReads Author
Option 5: Shenandoah National Park
High Five by Janet Evanovich (I will use 480 pages – the page count for Wild Justice in order to offset the booktitle change I made) is set in New JerseyJanet Evanovich is a GoodReads Author
30.2 Sassafrass’s Task: I’ll Leave My Heart in San Francisco
1 Say Cheese
Keeping Kennedy by Debra Webb (174) Douglas Drake – the hero – is a freelance photographer.
Debra Webb is a GoodReads Author
6 Flower Power
Pretty Woman by Fern Michaels (329 pages)30.7 Mrs. Anderson’s Task: The Final Battle
4.Black Widow vs. Red Guardian
A - Main character is a spy in training
I’d Tell You I Love You, But The I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter (284 pages)B - Genre Romance on Main Page
Almost Perfect by Julie Ortolon (304 pages)Points this post = 130
Total points: 130 + 235 = 365
Goodreads Authors: 5 + 9 = 14
Big Books: 500+= 2, 750+=0, 1000+ = 0
Page count: 3006 + 5132 = 8138
Personal Goal: 700 points
Also: (for my book exchange this was originally shown in post 286)
30.8 - Delicious Dee's task: It's Time for the Summer Country Concert Series
Group A: Option 4-Brad Paisley
(367 pages)Group B: Option 1-Maroon Five
(317 pages)And here is the link for Wild Justice
it is needed
10.3 What's Your Exit? Wicked Businessby Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich is from New Jersey
*** Janet Evanivich is a Goodreads Author***
15.2- Those Lazy Crazy Hazy Days Of Summer
Devil May Cry by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Beauty to Die For: A Spa Mystery by Kim Alexis
Die & Cry are pure rhyming words
15.10- Feel Good Hit Of The Summer
Criminal by Karin Slaughter
I always eagerly await Karin Slaughter's latest books & this one didn't disappoint.
20.7 - In Homage to MZB
Option 1- Don't Cry by Beverly Barton
Beverly died in April 2011
30.4- Vowel Prowel
A. The Cutting Room by Jilliane Hoffman
AEIOU found across book title & Authors name.
B. Year of the Tiger by Lisa Brackmann
Year starts with a Y
***Lisa Brackman is a Goodreads author***
30.10- Honoring The Flag & My Dad
2. One Silent Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13 in Dark Hunter series
4. One Breath Awayby Heather Gudenkauf
Book is about a school shooting
***Heather Gudenkauf is a Goodreads author***
50.1- Moonshadow -the musical
3. The White Pearl by Kate Furnivall
Book is set in Malaya which is now Malaysia & is on the list of countries where Islam is a major religion- Approved on help thread
4. Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sherrilyn Kenyon also writes as Kinley MacGregor
***Claiming BB ticket***
5. Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman
Book is set in Australia- approved on help thread
***Claiming BB ticket***
Points this post:170
Total points:630
Books Read: 41
Tasks Completed:27
GRAs:11
BBs:6
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read Huntedby P.C. Cast (GRA) main character native american
15. 3 Summer Romance
Lola and the Boy Next Doorby Stephanie Perkins(GRA)
and
Me and Earl and the Dying Girlby Jesse Andrews (GRA)
Points this Post: 20
Total points- 1050
Tasks Completed: 58
Books read: 82
Pages Read : 26,069
GR Authors: 49
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
only 30 points to go - you can do it!!!!!
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I just posted this lol. First thing that came to mind. whoa stalkers, then I realized wait-- I am too.
I have 3 books. I think I can I think I can! :)
CHRISTINE USTask 15.4 Summer Reading
W-I-N-D Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
S-M (from Summertime) The Best of Friends by Susan Mallery
***Lisa Kleypas & Susan Mallery are both GR authors.
Total: 480
lol, I just happened to be bs'ing online before my 9am mtg
Jessica PDX50.1 - Coralie's Task - Moonshadow - The Musical
Option 1 - "Shadow"
by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)Option 7 - Song title "Lady"
by Elspeth MarrOption 8 - Author born in the UK
by S.J. Bolton (Goodreads Author)Points this Post: 50
Total Challenge Points: 890
Goodreads Authors: 22
Big Books Tickets: 5
30.11 - Laurie ME's task: Fun Summer Holidays1. Repeat Day (June 3):
Darkness Dawns by Dianne Duvall
Goodreads Author
3. Moon Day (July 20):
That Devil Moon
Points this Post: 30
Total Challenge Points: 335
Goodreads Authors: 16
Sandy MN10.10 Air Conditioned Cool
Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night by Kresley Cole
Goodreads Author
Total Points:550
Total GR Authors: 20
PUTTERPAL20.3- Reading by the numbers
I rolled a 2- repeat Spring. I chose 5.5 from the spring challenges. (read a book with a word in possessive form)
The Teacher's Funeral : A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck
20.4- Let's go Camping
I rolled a 3 and read The Night Circus by new to me author Erin Morgenstern This book was talked about on last seasons group read as well as by many of my friends.
20.9- Please be patient
Book X was claimed for 25.5 this season. I chose option 2- this book was mentioned on the cover of book X.
Ida B. . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan
30.4- Vowel Prowel
Book A. thE gIrl whO coUld fly by victoriA forester
The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
Book B. YOU
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Points this post: 90
Total Points: 220
Could I make a change please:I would like to remove The Anatomy School from task 10.2 (making my points total 465) and then use it as follows:
25.7 - A day in the Life of a Korean Student
3. This Too Shall Pass - A book by a deceased author:
Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame who died 29th January 2004
4. A day in the Life of a Korean Student - A book that has a main character attending High School full time:
The Anatomy School by Bernard MacLaverty
Total points 490
25.3 Hands and FeetHands:
by Bryan Burrough a big book at 624 pages Johnny Depp's hands are visible at his sides.Feet:
by Sarah Tregaygoodreads' authorTotal points: 310
Sarah Eva20.9 - Lucky Me!- mstan's task: Please Be Patient...
I chose option 3. and read
Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward.
At the end of book 3 there is a sample chapter of Lover Revealed and I claimed book 3, Lover Awakened in task 30.8
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 375
Big Book Total: 4x500
Goodreads Author Total: 9
Tasks Completed: 21
15.5. “Summer in the City”The Seville Communion by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Set in Seville, Spain
15.10. ”Feel Good Hit of the Summer"
Alabama Song: Roman by Gilles Leroy
Post total: 30
Books read: 2
Total Points: 30
20.1 - Most Improved - Stesse's task: Fifty Shades of Whoa!(2) Shades
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
I'm not usually reading Young Adult, but this season I'm reading Harry Potter and very much linking it
20.2 - Rookie on Top - Nicola's task: School's Out For Summer
Option 4: No more pencils No more books No more teacher's dirty looks
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Miss Jean Brodie is a teacher
20.3 Best Review- Anne (booklady)'s task: Reading...by the Numbers
5. Olympic Rings
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Blue: Europe
20.6 - Seasoned Reader-Michelle WI's task: My Spring Favorites into Your Summer Read
1. Bossypants by Tina Fey (humor genre)
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
Humoristic book
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter- Isabell's task
1. Death
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig died in 1942
20.8 - It's My Birthday - Putterpal's task: Have Your Cake And Eat It Too!
3) Marble Cake
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Clash of cultures between Jamaicans and English
20.9 - Lucky Me!- mstan's task: Please Be Patient...
Option 3
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
As referenced in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (read for 20.1): referenced as a book previousely written
Post total: 140
Books read: 9
Total Points: 170
30.8 Delicious Dee's task: It's Time for the Summer Country Concert SeriesA3. Toby Keith: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
B5. Blake Shelton : Palo Alto by James Franco
30.11 - Laurie ME's task: Fun Summer Holidays
1. Repeat Day (June 3): Le coeur cousu by Carole Martinez
4. National Culinarians Day (July 25): The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
involves the preparation of a lemon cake and other dishes
Post total: 60
Books read: 13
Total Points: 230
Jodi25.9 - Find a SRC member that joined Goodreads (not the SRC) in June, July, or August (of any year) and read a book that appears on one of their bookshelves (any bookshelf). http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/58...
March
15.3 – Summer Romance
A. The Boys of Summer "Brother"
The Things a Brother Knows
B. The Girls of Summer "Girl)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
20.3 - Reading...by the Numbers
Rolled a 6: You get to choose any of the 5 Options!
Option #5 – Setting in North America (Red ring)
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
25.5 - Even More Fun With Holidays!!
3. International Joke Day falls on July 1st. Celebrate by laughing and reading a funny book.
Learn Me Good
6. Just Because Day falls on August 27th. Celebrate by reading any book you desire, just because!
Mockingbird
Points this post: 65
Total Points: 215
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 16
5.5 - Diamond JubileeKnocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas by Louise Rennison
Set in Great Britain
5.9 - Summer Readers
Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 by Stephenie Meyer
Tien joined in August
5.10 - Up, Up, and Away
Family Affair by Debbie Macomber GRA
10.2 - Eat an Oreo Day
Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 2 by Stephenie Meyer
Twilight - ili
10.3 - What's Your Exit?
The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan GRA
10.10 - Air Conditioned Cool
by Jaci Burton GRASet during winter and there are also snowflakes on the cover
ebook verification line 692
15.1 - The Colors of Summer
A:
by Sabrina Darby GRAB:
by Brenda Novakebook verification line 675
15.3 - “Summer Romance”
A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone GRA
25.1 - Donna Jo's task: I'm Solidly Behind You
Option B - solid color cover
by Adrienne Maria Vrettos GRAOption E - author's initials in SOLIDLY
I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder GRA
Points this post: 100
Total Points: 920
GRA: 47 (7 this post)
Task 25.1 - I'm Solidly Behind You:Option A. Big Book
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (688 pages)
1 Big Book ticket claimed
Option D. "Solid" subject matter
The Guide by R.K. Narayan
Listed in Part IV, India of Harold Bloom's list of best books
Points this post: 25
Tasks completed this post: 1
Big Book Tickets, GR authors this post: 1, 0
Total points: 355
Total tasks completed: 19
Total number Big Books: 500(2) 750(0) 1000(0)
Total Big Book tickets: 2
Total Goodreads authors: 5
50.1 Moonshadow The MusicalOption 2: Wicked by Gregory Maguire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_%...
Option 5: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Option 6: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Points this post = 50
Total points = 875
Big Books = 9
Goodreads Authors = 12
15.10 - Feel Good Hit of the SummerI read Trouble in Mudbug by ***Goodreads Author Jana Deleon. Mysteries with a little romance thrown in always make me happy.
20.8 - It's My Birthday - Putterpal - Have Your Cake and Eat it Too
I chose White Cake and read Miracle Cure
by ***Goodreads Author Michael PalmerPoints this post: 35
Total Points: 785/1080
Tasks Completed: 41
Books Read: 60
GoodReads Authors: 24
Big Books: 500+ (), 750+ (), 1000+ (1)
10.2 Eat an Oreo Day The Truth About Forever, Sarah Dessen is a GR author10.4 Air Signs Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen was born June 06, 1970 and is a GR author
15.5. “Summer in the City” Fifty Shades Darker is set in Seattle, Washington.
20.1 Fifty Shades of Whoa! (1)Fifty Shades Freed
20.8 Have Your Cake and Eat it (1) Keeping the Moon Sarah Dessen is a GR author
(5) A killing FrostA Killing Frost I don't want to give away too much of the story, but one of the main character is killed in the book. I can give more details if needed!
Update totals
Points this post: 75
Total Points: 415/1080
GR Author:18
BB Tix:3
Task 50.1 - Moonshadow, the musical
Option 1 ('shadow' in title): Shadow of Night ***Big Book 584 pages*** by Deborah Harkness ***GR Author***
Option 3 (muslim character): People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Muslim character: Ozren Karaman
Option 8 (author born in UK): Fall of Giants ***Big Book 985 pages*** by Ken Follett
Big book tickets this post = 3
Total Big book tickets = 12
GR author tickets this post = 1
Total GR author tickets = 10
Challenge total = 480
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Rock Deadly by ***Goodreads Author Kathryn Lively
e-book approved post 1289 of the help thread.
Points this post: 15
Total Points: 750/1080
Tasks Completed: 39
Books Read: 58
GoodReads Authors: 22
Big Books: 500+ (), 750+ (), 1000+ (1)