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FALL CHALLENGE 2011: AFRICA
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Fall Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC!

10.2 Queen of Denial
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Task points = 10
Total points - 10

5.1: Boo!

5.9: Back to School: The Alex Awards winner 2007:

10.3: Headless Horseman:

Ramona Wray is a Goodread author.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 20

His at Night by Sherry Thomas, a 카지노싸이트 author.
Published in 2010, the same year the hurricane name Tomas was retired.
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Points Claiming: 15
Total Points: 30

25.7 Bluemoon's task: Hockey Night Party!
Option A
#3 Book I didn't get to in last challenge
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Option B
#1 I would bring Paula Deen's Peach & Blueberry Cobbler!
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
카지노싸이트 Author
Task 30.1 Sheila’s Task - My Hometown, Rock Island, Illinois
Book A, Option 1
Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
카지노싸이트 Author
Book B, Option 2
Union General Thomas Maley Harris
Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
Total Points: 75
Total GR Authors:3

Junky by William S. Burroughs
There are 158 pages in this book.
Points for this task: 5
Total points: 5
Task Completed: 1
Books Read: 1

I read The Sweet By and By: A Novel by Todd Johnson* (a GoodReads Author).
Points this post: 5
Total points: 20
Tasks completed:
Books read: 3
카지노싸이트 Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Posted on thread, post #2
Alan Bradley is a 카지노싸이트 Author
Points this post: 20
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
카지노싸이트 Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

20.5 Bigger is Better- Katy's task: Falling
I chose option D. and read Where She Went by Gayle Forman which is the latest/second book in a series.
This Post: 20
Total Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 1
카지노싸이트 Authors:
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

I rolled a 4 so I read
Back to Sullivan's Island by Dorthea Benton Frank
Total Points = 95

Task: 10.4 Moniker Math
My readerboard name (Alice G) has 5 letters
Book: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
Total Points: 20

I read No Going Home by T.A. Chase.
10.8- Readers Also Enjoyed
I previously read and loved Attachments and used that book to find what readers of that book enjoyed. When I first looked it up at least a week ago, Seven Exes Are Eight Too Many by Heather Wardell was listed. I read this book and really enjoyed it.
*Heather Wardell* is a GR Author
Points For Post- 20
Total Points- 25
GR Authors- 1
Total Tasks- 3

25.1 Rosemary’s Task. Happiness is…A Big Library.
Book A – Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism by Richard Fantina, borrowed from a lending library, 224 pages
Book B -- Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain, without the subtitle the letters from ALEXANDRIA are (A,R,E,D), 215 pages
Task Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 35
Pages Read: 1,128

15.1 Bye, bye!
My retired hurricane name was Donna, which was retired in 1960. I chose the two-book option.
A Year on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, which was published in 1960.
Donna Ball is a 카지노싸이트 Author.
Points this post: 15
Total challenge points: 75
Tasks completed: 8
Books read: 9
카지노싸이트 Authors: 5
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0

Finished Task 10.6
I read "Peter and the Starcatchers"

Points this post: 10
Total points: 20

A: borrowed from library
Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey
B: Down with Skool! (D,N,I,L)
Points this post: 25
Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 7
카지노싸이트 Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

I chose to read one book that was over 600 pages.
The Passage by Justin Cronin
**This is a Big Book at 784 pages, so I'd like 2 Big Book tickets please**
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 2
Total Books: 2
Pages Read: 992
GoodReads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(1), 1000+(0)

20.3 Music Around the Fire
Option A: The Bells: A Novel

Richard Harvell is a 카지노싸이트 Author
20:5 Falling
Option B: I tripped over my own feet! Petticoat Ranch

Mary Connealy is a 카지노싸이트 Author
Points this post: 40
Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 5
카지노싸이트 Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

15.10. Roaming Wild
I read Wicked Games by Jill Myles for this challenge.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 50

15.10 -- Roaming Wild
Hand Dyeing Yarn and Fleece: Dip-Dyeing, Hand-Painting, Tie-Dyeing, and Other Creative Techniques by Gail Callahan
Points This Post: 15
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
Pages Read: 608
카지노싸이트 Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(-), 750+(-), 1000+(-)
5.1 Boo! read
15.2 Back to school – English class
read
Points this Post: 20
Total points- 50
Tasks Completed: 4
Books read: 4
Pages Read : 890
GR Authors:
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

15.2 Back to school – English class
read

Points this Post: 20
Total points- 50
Tasks Completed: 4
Books read: 4
Pages Read : 890
GR Authors:
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

Scared Stiff

On the cover it has a skeleton and a pumpkin
5.4 - 54: Ecstasy
This book had 156 pages
카지노싸이트 Author
Total points: 10
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Pages read:492
카지노싸이트 authors:1

15.3 Dead or Alive: I had 2 tails: 2 dead authors:
1.

2.

Points this post - 15
Total: 35.

The Higher Power of Lucky from the Newbery Award list.
Points this post: 5
Total points: 15
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
카지노싸이트 Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

I live in the United States. This book takes place in the Belgium Congo and Uganda.
The Making of The African Queen, or: How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
20.9 Lucky Me
Die roll=1 for historical fiction. This book takes place in the 19th Century.
Remarkable Creatures
Tracy Chevalier is a 카지노싸이트 author.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 45
Tasks completed: 4
Books read: 4
카지노싸이트 authors: 2
Big books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

Little Bee by Chris Cleave 카지노싸이트 Author
This was on the Africa list
Total Points = 100
New 카지노싸이트 Author = Chris Cleave

5.5 Birth of a Nation
A Taste of the Nightlife by Sarah Zettel
Published in July 2011.
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Bea's task: Refreshingly Short
I read The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys. It was 192 pages, and it was on my TBR list.
Points this post: 25
Total challenge points: 100
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 11
카지노싸이트 Authors: 5
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0

Points this post: 5
Total points: 5
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
GR Authors: 0

Task: 20.9 Option 2. Read a book in which an animal is central to the plot/book's focus.
Book: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
(werewolves play a prominent role and is one of the main characters)
*** 카지노싸이트 Author ***
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 40
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
카지노싸이트 Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Tasks
5.1) Boo! Real Vampires Get Lucky
10.1) In Their Own Words. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
5+10=15
5.1) Boo! Real Vampires Get Lucky
10.1) In Their Own Words. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
5+10=15

A Land of Ash by David Dalglish 124 pages
This was on my TBR list on my Kindle. Since I haven't added all of my TBR list to 카지노싸이트 yet, I also found this on my friend Patricia's TBR list.
David Dalglish is a Goodread's Author.
Points this post: 20
Total Points: 20

10.4 Moniker Math
A Scattered Lifeby Karen McQuestion
Aleksandra and McQuestion both 10 letters
30.5 Stranger in a Strange Land
option ANever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (author born in Japan, book set up in UK)
option CThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KUndera (Czeh but live in France and book is set up in Czech)
Task points 40
Total points 50
Total tasks 3
Total books 4

10.3 – Headless Horseman
I've had this one on my TBR for a long time, and found one with a cover that is headless!

+10 Points
15.8. Stormy Weather
The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan
+15 Points
Points this Post: 25
Grand Total: 25

Task 25.3: Beth NC's task: Game Night
Book 1, Option F: Professor Plum
Violet Dawn by Brandilyn Collins 336 pages
Cover is a shade of purple.
Brandilyn Collins is a Goodread's Author.
Book 2: Option 6:
Wicked Game by Wicked Game 443 pages
The book centers around high school friends who come back together after bones are found at their old school. Two renew an old relationship.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 45

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
approved in help thread #21 as a prequel to Jane Eyre
Total Points = 120

10.7 Hot Off The Presses....
The book I read was published in August 2011.
Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
3.5 stars
+10
total: 10
tasks: 1
books: 1

20.2 Word of the Day
I chose the word "submissive" which was the word of the day on Sept. 8, 2010.
Submissive Desires by Carolyn Faulkner
(Though I read the kindle version, there is a paperback version of this book with 168 pages.)
Grand total: 20

I read Death Is Not an Option: Stories by Suzanne Rivecca. 'Option' was the daily buzzword on 6/16/2011.
Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 20
Total Tasks Completed: 1
Total Books Read: 1
Total Pages Read: 222
Total GoodReads Authors: 0
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

30.2 - Cheryl TX/Lori BNPL's task: Unique Fall Holidays
5A: National Adoption Day: Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, ***who is a GR Author***. Criteria - author with 3 names; a little girl is adopted in this book.
4F: National Dictionary Day: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Criteria - word used: "peregrine." I knew the noun definition, but not that it could also be used as an adjective. The word used in the title uses the noun (bird) definition. Book uses untraditional material in the form of photographs throughout the book.
Points this task: 30
Total Point Earned: 30
Total Pages Read: 577
Total Books Read: 2
GoodRead Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things: The Unusual Book of Euphemisms by Linda Berdoll
Has 144 pages. I used my 'owned-and-unread' tbr shelf which is always nice to chip away at.
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25.1 - Happiness Is...A Big Library
1 - Glory in Death by J.D. Robb
Borrowed from my local library.
2 - Play Dead by Anne Frasier
ALEXANDRIA = L, A, D, E
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Points Claiming: 45
Total Points: 75

10.1 - In Their Own Words: I read Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
Points this task 10
Total Points 45
Pages 1383
15.7 Beginnings and Endings read The Gift
by James Patterson, James Patterson is a goodreads author
Points this Post: 15
Total points- 65
Tasks Completed: 5
Books read: 5
Pages Read : 1,210
GR Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
by James Patterson, James Patterson is a goodreads author
Points this Post: 15
Total points- 65
Tasks Completed: 5
Books read: 5
Pages Read : 1,210
GR Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

You Are My Only by Beth Kephart - Advanced Reader Copy
Beth Kephart is a 카지노싸이트 author.
Points this post: 15
Total points: 30
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3
카지노싸이트 Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

***Kris Cook is a goodreads author
15.5 Dead or Alive I got two heads so I did two authors who are alive: Rough Play by Christina Crooks and Damien by Jacquelyn Frank
***Christina Crooks is a goodreads author
***Jacquelyn Frank is a goodreads author
30.1 My Home Town, Rock Island, Illinois: Book A, Option 1, Rock Me by Cherrie Lynn--with word "rock" in title and Book B, Option 1, Dancing with Venus by Roscoe James--has the word "with" in the title
***Cherrie Lynn is a 카지노싸이트 author
***Roscoe James is a goodreads author
30.6 I'd Like to See Your ID, Please: Option C--I have brown eyes so I read Bad Case of Loving You

***Wren Boudreau is a goodreads author
30.7 When I Was Young: Part A -- The One That Got Away by Rhianne Aile and Madeline Urban ( the book has 5 words in the title) and Part B-- I'd dress up like a vampire, so I read Shades of Midnight by Lara Adrian.
***Lara Adrian is a goodreads author
Total Points this Post: 110
Total Points in Challenge: 110
Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 5
GR Authors: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500+(0); 750+(0); 1000+(0)

I completed task 15.1 Bye, Bye. The retired hurricane name I chose was Janet. So I read "High Five" by Janet Evanovich. Janet Evanovich is a 카지노싸이트 author.
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 2
Big Books 500+, 750+, 1000+
카지노싸이트 Authors: 2 Janet Evanovitch
Task Points: 15
Grand Total: 15/1100

20.7 Refreshingly Short
Book: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Notes: The Kindle edition has no page count, so the MMP is 183 pages. I added this to my TBR on 7/20/11.
30.2 Unique Fall Holidays
Book 1: Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2) by Richelle Mead
Notes: 2+A) My favorite book is Succubus Revealed also by Richelle Mead.
*GoodReads Author*
Book 2: Angelina's Bachelors: A Novel with Food by Brian O'Reilly
Notes: 6+F) "Food" in title, and recipes in the book.
30.8 Head of the Class
Book 1: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Notes: B) Non-Fiction 카지노싸이트.
Book 2: Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Notes: "Academy" in title.
*GoodReads Author*
This Post: 80
Total to Date: 150
GRA Tickets: 5
BB Tickets: 0
Books Read: 9
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15.10-Roaming Wild
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Points this post: 20
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
카지노싸이트 authors: 1
Big books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0