The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

Readerboard Name=Lindy-Lane

Task 25.3 Beth NC's Game Night!...read two books: Pick a character book and pick a weapon/room book:

For Book #1: I picked character 'A'(Miss Scarlet) and read a book with a red cover. The book I read was Silent Honor by Danielle Steel 432 pages (11.20)

For Book #2: I picked weapon/room #1 (candlestick in the library) and read a book in which a librarian was an integral part. The book I read was Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence byJo Dereske(this is a GRA) 256 pages (11.22)

My Goal Points for this Season: 550
Points earned for this task: 25
Points Achieved to date: 455
Updated last on: 11.27.11
Total # of books read: 36
Total # of pages read: 12,513
Total # of tasks completed: 24
Total # of 카지노싸이트 Authors: 13
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (3)
700+ (1)
1000+ (0)

15.7. Beginnings and endings

Esther's Inheritance by Sándor Márai


20.1 Most Improved Player - Hettie's task: Missing books

I read H.: The Story of Heathcliff's Journey Back to Wuthering Heights by Lin Haire-Sargeant, which fills in the missing years of Heathcliff's absence in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.


20.8 It's My Birthday - Lisa MD's task:The BIG 5-oh!

One for the Morning Glory by John Barnes contains five o's in the title and author's name combined.


30.3 Dlmrose's task: E-ticket Ride

Book One: E) Liberty Square - Daughter of Darkness by V.C. Andrews

Book Two: G) Tomorrowland - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams


Total Points: 295
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 18
Pages Read: 6038

I would like to move Layover in Dubai from 5.2 (no replacement at this time) to task 15.3 for my author that is alive to replace Girl in Hyacinth Blue.


NEW TASKS

15.10 - ROAMING WILD - The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax.


25.9 - RITES OF PASSAGE - B. THE PARTY - Girl in Hyacinth Blue which has a chair on the cover to the right of the girl in the painting. C. THE GIFTS - The Day of the Pelican which has 18 letters in the title.


TOTAL POINTS - 725
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 10
BIG BOOKS - 4

Readerboard Name=Lindy-Lane

Task 30.4 Delicious Dee Trusty Shellback!...read two books:

For Book #1 read a book by an author who's initials are in the word Shellback: I read Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah (this is a GRA) 480 pages (11.23)

For Book #2 read a book that has a gemstone in the title from the link Gemstones: I read The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank (this is a GRA) 176 pages(11.26)

My Goal Points for this Season: 550
Points earned for this task: 30
Points Achieved to date: 485
Updated last on: 11.27.11
Total # of books read: 38
Total # of pages read: 13,169
Total # of tasks completed: 25
Total # of 카지노싸이트 Authors: 15
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (3)
700+ (1)
1000+ (0)

CHRISTINE US

Task 30.2 Unique holidays

Book 1: National Dessert Day, 6H
Cherry Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke

Book 2: National Novel writing month, 1G
The Librarian's Passionate Knight (Dynasties: The Barones) by Cindy Gerard
Cover showing books:

I'd write a romance novel...I'd try to add some humor to it, have some fun with it.

TOTAL: 820

Readerboard Name=Lindy-Lane

Task 20.4 Erin NY's Series Lover!...read a book that meets the requirements of: a book in the series came out in 2011, there was at least one book in the series published before the 2011 release, the book must be 350+ pages, and the book must be identified as a series on GR:

I read 44 Cranberry Pointby Debbie Macomber 384 pages (11.24) (a 2011 release in this series is 1105 Yakima Street)


My Goal Points for this Season: 550
Points earned for this task: 20
Points Achieved to date: 505
Updated last on: 11.27.11
Total # of books read: 39
Total # of pages read: 13,553
Total # of tasks completed: 26
Total # of 카지노싸이트 Authors: 15
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (3)
700+ (1)
1000+ (0)

CASSELM

30.10 – Christina's task: Shopping at the School Store
1. Rolled 2
High Tea - Sandra Harper
Length: 259 pages.

2. Rolled 3
The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History - Lynn Hunt
I chose this book because I want to know more about French history.

Points this post: 30
Total points: 475

5.2 Lat & Long

I live in the USA, which is in the northern hemisphere. The setting of this book is fictional central Africa. The lake which is the destination of The Aftican Queen is thought to be Lake Tanganyika which did have a German boat patrolling it. This lake is located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which is just below the Equator, the southern hemisphere.

The African Queen

Points: 5


15.9 Get out the winter clothes

by Helen Simonson

Points: 15

Helen Simonson is a GR author.


30.1 My Hometown, Rock Island, Illinois

A. The Shadow Lines - word "lines"

B. A Drop of Murder by Benjamin Joshua - Option 2 Confederate General Benjamin Hardin Helm

Points: 30


30.10 Shopping at the School Store

I rolled 5,5.

Book between 500-599 pages: The Winthrop Woman - 586 pages BIG BOOK

Journal (epistolary format): The Color Purple - diary entries

Points: 30


Total Points: 325
Total GR authors: 6
Total Tasks Completed: 20
Total Books Read: 36
Big Books: 1

First I would like to change a book claimed:
5.4 54
Remove The Keep
Add The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Deduct one GR Author

New Tasks:
25.5 SRC's Virtual Safari
I saw an elephant (option 2) and a wildebeest (option 4)
2. A book over 400 pages
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
My copy had 496 pages
***Janet Fitch is a GR Author***

4. A book with "wild" in the title
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë


25.7 Hockey Party Night
Book A: "Blue" in the title
Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross, #7) by James Patterson
***James Patterson is a GR Author)

Book B: I would bring a fresh veggie platter including snap peas
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

25.8 Genre Studies
My favorite fictional genre is historical fiction
Sub-genre 1: 16th Century Fiction
Elizabeth I by Margaret George
***Big Book at 662 pages)

Sub-genre 2: World War 1 Fiction
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Points this Task: 75
Season Total: 970
Tasks Completed: 56/61

Congrats Jenn Renae!

Boston Kate

25.3 Game Night

Book One: (option A) Miss Scarlet (because I always picked Miss Scarlet when I played Clue)



Book Two: (option 2) Knife in the Dining Room



Points this post: 25
Total points: 180
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 12

Reposted with Corrections


25.1 - Rosemary's task: Happiness Is...A Big Library
A. Plymouth District Library
The Girls of Slender Means 11/26

B. The Memory of Running
- e,n,r,i 11/27

25.2 - Sandy's Task: Math Class – It’s as Easy as 1, 2, 3! Read 3 books, each with 200 or more pages.
Fun and Games with 256 pages, 9/18
Duane Swierczynski, 카지노싸이트 author
Bless Me, Ultima with 290 pages 11/21
Disco for the Departed with 256 pages 11/20

25.3 Beth NC'S task: Game Night
A. Miss Scarlet – read a book with a red cover =
The Sword Thief Sep 20, 2011

2. Knife in the Dining Room –read a book in which food or cooking is an integral part of the plot or The Epicure's Lament read 9/25

25.4 Nickboy’s Task: Blood Diamonds!
Book #1 – A Diamond Dagger
Elmore Leonard winner 2006, A Coyote's in the House 11/27/11
Book #2 – A Red Diamond!
Mixed Blood: A Thriller, takes place in Cape Town, South Africa, read 9/27

25.5 - Valorie's task: SRC's Virtual Safari
4. Wildebeest: Read a book with the word 'Wild' or 'Beast' in the title/subtitle.
The Wild Hog Murders: A Dan Rhodes Mystery 10/13/11
Bill Crider, 카지노싸이트 author

6. Zebra: Read a book with a mainly white and black cover.
Good OmensTerry Pratchett
카지노싸이트 authors 10/20/11

25.6 Denise NC’s Task: Fall Days and Nights
Book A – Fall Days
Red =
Kiss Me, Deadly by Mickey Spillane
This particular edition has 251 pages (reporting to a librarian) 10/7/11

Book B – Fall Nights -blue and black night scene
Wonderstruck 11/17/11
640 pages

30.10 – Christina's task: Shopping at the School Store:.
First Roll was a 6. Wildcard!
Fieldwork with 336 pages 11/24
Second Die was a 1: Pencil –
An Improper Bostonian: The Life and Career of Cleveland Amory by Marilyn Greenwald. 11/18

50.1 Butterflycager's Task - Let's Build A Haunted House! :
A. The Creaky Front Door - read a book with a door on the front cover.
The Between by Tananarive Due
2. Author is one you've never read before. 10/28/11

D. Secret Passageway Behind the Library - read a collection of short stories with multiple authors.
4. 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories Book is 561 pages long 11/14/11

F. Mad Scientist's Laboratory in the Basement - read a book in which a scientist is a central character Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain(And they are "mad" too.)

2. Author is one you've never read before.
and 1. 카지노싸이트 author. Kirsten Menger-Anderson 10/22/11

Tammy AZ

For 10.7 Please remove The Bird Sisters and replace with Explosive Eighteen which was published November 2011. Janet Evanovich is a 카지노싸이트 author.

10.10 Back to Our Roots - The Bird Sisters

Total Points this Post: 10
Grand Total Points: 415

ANGIE CA

15.6 Brrrrrrrrrrrr...........
Book: Ember by Bettie Sharpe
Notes: Approved for length in post #411.
*GoodReads Author*

This Post: 15
Total to Date: 675
GRA Tickets: 24
BB Tickets: 7
Books Read: 46

JACKIE NC

10.8 - Readers Also Enjoyed
One Bad Apple by Sheila Connolly
Book used wasOld World Murder by Kathleen Ernst

15.9. Get out the winter clothes
by Agatha Christie

Sheila Connelly is a 카지노싸이트 author.

Points this post: 25
Total Points: 360
카지노싸이트 Authors: 12
Big Book Tickets:

CASSELM

5.10 Women and Cats, Men and Dogs
The Cat Who Came to Breakfast - Lilian Jackson Braun

Points this task: 5
Total points: 480

Jodi2

5.9 – Back to School
A Step from Heaven (Printz Award 2002)

10.9 – Words of Wisdom
Fortune: To be eighty years young is more cheerful and hopeful than forty years old.

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (word – hopeful)

15.6 – Brrrrrrr…
Juniper Berry

Total Tasks Completed: 25
Total Books Read: 35
Points This Post: 30
Total Points: 430

TJ

30.6 ID
Love's Magic by Traci Hall
Option A Initials TH

The Mistress' House by Leigh Michaels
Option D Hair Color-the woman
Task Points: 30

30.7 When I Was Young
A Cottage by the Sea by Ciji Ware
5 words in title

Medical Error by Richard L. Mabry
Dress up as a doctor and white cover
Task Points: 30

30.10 School Store
The Privateer by Dawn Thompson, Dawn Mactavish (Pseudonym)
325 pages
1st Die: 3 Read book between 300-399 pages

Code Blue by Richard L Mabry
2nd Die: 2 Markers
Task Points: 30

50.1 Haunted House
Book 1. Graveyard Gamesby Sheri Leigh
G. Cemetery in the Backyard & 1. Good Reads Author

Book 2. The House of Cobwebs and Other Book 2. Stories by George R. Gissing
C. Creepy Cobwebs in the Living Room
2.Author I've never read

Book 3. Moon Dance by J.R. Rain
E. Monster in the Closet
5. Part of a Series
Task Points: 50

Points this post: 140
Total points: 175
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 12
카지노싸이트 Authors this post: 3
Total 카지노싸이트 Authors: 5
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

20.3 Music Around the Fire

I chose option A and read a book with a musical term in the title: The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright.

Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 255

Total Tasks Completed: 11
Total Books Read: 15
Total Pages Read: 3577
Total GoodReads Authors: 2
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

25.6 Fall Days & Nights
Twice a Rake by Catherine Gayle
Book A: Rake

Wish On The Moon by Karen Rose Smith
Book B Moon
Task Points: 25

25.8 Genre Studies
Sweet Ophelia by Kenneth Rosenberg
Romantic Comedy/ Contemporary Romance

All I Want for Christmas is You by Lisa Mondello
Holiday Romance
Task Points: 25

30.2 Unique Holidays
Hot Item by Carly Phillips
1J: Romance

Yours for the Taking by Robin Kaye
2A: One of my favorite books is Hot Item By Carly Phillips
Task Ppints: 30

30.3 E-Ticket Ride
By Magic Alone by Tracy Madison
Fantasyland

Wickedly Charming by Kristie Grayson
Fantasyland
Task Points: 30

30.4 Trusty Shellback
Antiques Roadkill by Barbara Allen (Max Allen Collins)

The Emerald Talisman by Brenda Pandos
Task Points: 30

Points this post: 140
Total points: 315
Tasks completed: 11
Books read: 22
카지노싸이트 Authors this post: 6
Total 카지노싸이트 Authors: 11
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

Just completed Task 5.1 - Boo!
I read

CathyNj

Kimber

10.1 In Their Own Words

Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead. Richelle Mead is a 카지노싸이트 author AND was featured in an interview by 카지노싸이트 Voice.

Big Book at 594 pages

This task: 10
# tasks completed: 25
Total points: 545
GR authors: 22
Big Book: 2/500+, 2/750+

Kimber

Not sure if I'm posting this in the proper place??

I'd like to switch the book I have for 25.1 (the betty white book) for Eight Keys by Suzanne LeFleur. Eight Keys is also a library overdrive book so it fits that task.

Then I'll place the BW book here...


20.8 The Big 5-oh

If YOu Ask Me (and Of cOurse yOu wOn't) by Betty White. Has exactly five o's in the title

this task: 20
#tasks completed: 26
Total points: 565

Laurie ME

25.9: Gayla's Task: Rite of Passage:

Option 1: Arlene Sachitano - Quilt as You Go

Option 3: Stephanie Bond - Kill the Competition

Points this Post: 25.
Total Points: 1065.

5.7 African Safari - Read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. This book was on the Best by African Authors list, and an amazing book it is! A reread for me, but never a waste!

20.8 It's My Birthday - Lisa MD's task:The BIG 5-oh! - Read The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow. There are 3 O's in the subtitle, and 3 O's in the author's name, making 6 all together.

30.2 Unique Fall Holidays

Book A - Read The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender. This fit option 6 and H. Had the word cake and had a dessert on the cover

Book B - Read Solar by Ian McEwan. This fit option 2 and C. I loved the book Amsterdam by Ian McEwan and this book won the Wodehouse Prize in 2010.


30.5 Stranger in a Strange Land

Book A - Read Ascension by Steven Galloway. Option A - Steven Galloway is a Canadian but this book is set half in Hungary and most of the rest in the US.

Book 2 - Read The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam. Option C - Tahmima Anam was born in Bangladesh but now lives in London. This book is wholy set in Bangladesh though.

30.7 - When I Was Young.

Book A - Read Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart. Option A - The title had 5 words.

Book B - Read The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Option B - One of the main characters, or at least a very pivotal character was the woman in white. I could dress up as her for Halloween! If that wouldn't work though, this book is from the Victorian times and one of the other main characters is Marian Halcombe. I could certainly dress up in general as a lady from Victorian times.

30.10 - Shopping at the School Store. I rolled two 2's.

Book A - Read Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. This book was 208 pages.

Book B - Read Blue Sky July by Nia Wyn. Had the colour word 'blue' in the title.

50.1 - Let's Build A Haunted House.

Book A - Read The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami. This fit option D (short stories) and 6.

Book B - Read One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde. This fit option B as a funny book and 5 as part of the Thursday Next series.

Book C - Read The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse. This fit option H, taking place in a haunted town and 6 with 3 words in the title.

카지노싸이트 authors and Big Books info

Aimee Bender is a goodreads author so I claim one ticket.

The Woman in White is over 500 pages, so I claim 1 big book ticket.


Points for above tasks: 195
Tasks above completed: 7
Total tasks completed: 13/87
Points completed: 300/1100
Books read & claimed: 21
Books by 카지노싸이트 authors: 3
Big Books: 2 (500+), 1 (750+), 0 (1000+)]

Big Book Tickets: 500(3), 750(0), 1000(0)
Wonderstruck 640 pages
100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories 559 pages
The Time Traveler's Wife 536 pages

Cindy F

Task 25.10 Fall Back In Time

Option A I read The Peach Keeper bySarah Addison Allen who is a 카지노싸이트 Author! I joined GR in March 2011.

Option C I read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood who is a 카지노싸이트 Author! From banned book list 2000's #88


Points this post: 25
Total points: 365
Tasks completed: 21
Books read: 28
카지노싸이트 Authors: 11
Big books: 500+(2)750+(1)1000+(0)

Amanda A


10.1 - In Their Own Words
Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich (카지노싸이트 Author)

10.5 - Blood Moon
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake (카지노싸이트 Author)

10.6 - Big Game Hunter
The Devil Wears Plaid by Teresa Medeiros (카지노싸이트 Author)

15.5 - I Can See My House From Here
Shadow of the Sheikh by Nina Bruhns (카지노싸이트 Author)
Set in Egypt

15.9 - Get out the winter clothes
by Becky Barker (카지노싸이트 Author)

15.10 - Roaming Wild
The Only Way Out by Susan Mallery (카지노싸이트 Author)

20.1 - Most Improved Player - Hettie's task: Missing books
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Approved in task thread - Prequel to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

25.4 - Nickboy's Task: Blood Diamonds!
Book #1 - B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
Won the Diamond Dagger in 2008

Book #2 - Lord of the Desert by Nina Bruhns (카지노싸이트 Author)
Set in Egypt

25.10 - Amanda A's task: Fall Back in Time
A. Austenland by Shannon Hale (카지노싸이트 Author)
Joined 카지노싸이트 in November 2007 (#51 on 2007 Most Popular Books list)

B. Time Travel - Hearts Through Time by Marie Higgins (카지노싸이트 Author)

Points this post: 145
Total Points: 1000
카지노싸이트 Authors: 49 (9 this post)

Readerboard Name=Lindy-Lane

Task 50.1 Butterflycager's Let's build a Haunted House!...read 3 books; pick a different option for each book and choose one of the 6 categories listed in this task.

Book #1: I picked option 'C' (creepy cobwebs..spider/web in title) and category #5 (part of a series) and I read Spider Web(series name Benni Harper Mysteries) by Earlene Fowler 320 pages (11.27)

Book #2: I picked option 'B' (spooky laughter..funny book) and category #6 (three word title) and I read Yankee Doodle Dixie by Lisa Patton 320 pages (11.12)

Book #3: I picked option 'G' (cemetery in the backyard..grave in the title) and category #3 (author has published 28+ books) and I read Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris 306 pages (11.18)

My Goal Points for this Season: 550
Points earned for this task: 50
Points Achieved to date: 555
Updated last on: 11.28.11
Total # of books read: 42
Total # of pages read: 14,499
Total # of tasks completed: 27
Total # of 카지노싸이트 Authors: 15
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (3)
700+ (1)
1000+ (0)

25.7 Bluemoon's task: Hockey Night Party!

A1: Blue Cover
by Robert Liparulo

B1: I'm making Cheeseburger and Hamburger sliders as an appetizer.

The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk

Josh Berk and Robert Liparulo are both 카지노싸이트 authors.

Points this post: 25
Total challenge points: 670
카지노싸이트 Authors: Lauren Kate, Robert Liparulo****, Tamora Pierce, Sarah Addison Allen, James Patterson*, Joyce Maynard, Jennifer Haigh, Libba Bray*, Ruta Sepetys, Lilith Saintcrow, Michelle Richmond, Christopher Buehlman, Rachel Simon, Josh Berk
Big Books: 500+: Rebel Angels

I'd like to remove my previous claim of That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion for task 10.2 Queen of Denial, and use that book for the following task instead:

25.5 Virtual Safari

On my safari, I spot a flamingo and a zebra:



Points This Post: 15 (-10, +25)
Total Points: 270

Total Tasks Completed: 11
Total Books Read: 16
Total Pages Read: 3831
Total GoodReads Authors: 2
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

hpaddict

10.10 Back to Our Roots


A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

on the TNBBC's "read" shelf

25.1 Happiness is a big library

A)
Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery

borrowed this book from my local library

B)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

"EAIN" from ALEXANDRIA

30.10 Shopping at the school store

1)
Even Silence Has an End by Ingrid Betancourt

first die I rolled a 5 for 500-599 pages, this book has 528

2)
A Little History of the World by Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich

second die I rolled a 3 for non-fiction

total this post = 65pts
challenge total = 360pts

I know some folks are getting REALLY close to finishing. I hope you find time to "git er done"

AprilDT

30.5-Stranger in a Strange Land

A:Book set other than author's birth-country

Sarah by Marek Halter
Halter was born in Poland and book set in Middle East

B:Book carries more than one title in single language

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
This book is aka The Book of Negros


Points this post: 30
Total points: 385
Tasks completed: 20
Books read: 27
카지노싸이트 Authors: 7
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0

FINCALIAN

15.10 Roaming Wild
It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living

20.5 E I was staring up at a strange thing in the sky and lost my balance!

Beyond the Deepwoods for fantasy

Points this post: 35
Points to date: 170
카지노싸이트 Authors: 3
Big Books: 500=1

20.8. It's My Birthday - Lisa MD's task:The BIG 5-oh!

Read any book whose title, subtitle, series name and/or author contains 5 - "o's".

Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War by Deb Olin Unferth

(2 Os in "Revolution," 3 Os in the subtitle, and 1 bonus O in the author's name.)

This Post: 20
Total Points: 990
Tasks Completed: 57/61
Books Read: 82/87

STACIE MI

Task 15.7 - Beginnings and Endings

I read a book whose title both began and ended with an "e":

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

**Gabrielle Zevin is a 카지노싸이트 author!!**

Points this task: 15
Total points: 950
Tasks completed: 44
Books read: 66
Pages read: 17365
카지노싸이트 authors: 17
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

25.2 Read Blueberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke 320 p and
read Eleventh Hour by Catherine Coulter 352 p.

30.3 Option C Adventure - read The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan and
Option F Fantasy - read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.
NEIL GAIMAN is a 카지노싸이트 Author

50.1 E. Read Monster by Frank E. Peretti Category 3
C. read Spider BonesbyKathy Reichs category 5- Temperance Brennan series.
B. read Bite Meby Christopher Moore hilarious Category 5- part of A Love Story Series #3.

15.10 read The Blessed Life by Robert Morris

20.5 B. read by Julie Garwood dancer's feet show on the lower corner.

Task 20.8 - The Big 5-Oh!

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Title has 3 O's + Author's name has 2 O's = 5 O's

Challenge total = 480

30.10 – Christina's task: Shopping at the School Store:
First Die:
6. Wildcard! Choose your book length.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) by Brian Selznick (Hardcover, 533 pages)

Second Die:
3. Pencil Sharpener – Read a non-fiction book to sharpen your brain on a new topic or something you are interested in.
An African in Greenland (1981) by Tete-Michel Kpomassie (Paperback, 300 pages)
An African from Togo travels to Greenland and spends a year there; afterwards, from his notes and diary, he writes up an account of (1) how he travelled from Togo through France to Greenland; and (2) the life of the indigenous people of Greenland.

580 + 30 = 620



Tasks Completed: 28
Points for this task: 30
Points thus far: 580 + 30 = 610
Books read: 43
Pages Read: 13,640
Read but not claimed: 1

카지노싸이트 Authors: 11

Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750 +
(1) 1000 +

Last Post

10.1 - In Their Own Words

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich (260 p)

10.4 - Moniker Math

Readerboard Name = STESSE = 6 letters

The Burning Wire by Jeffery Deaver (448 p)
Deaver is GRA.

10.6 - Big Game Hunter

Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire (568 p)
This is a Big Book

10.10 - Back to Our Roots

The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (339 p)

15.3. Dead or alive

Flipped 2 heads – both authors are alive (as of me reading the books!)

A. The Alexandria LinkSteve Berry (534 p).
Berry is a GRA. This is a Big Book.

B: Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (336 p).
Hale is a GRA.

15.4. It’s Not Too Late, but Don’t Wait Any Longer!

A. Used Task 5.8 from Summer 2011 – any library book.
Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn Childs (293 p)
Childs is a GRA.

B. Tithe by Holly Black (310 p)
Black is a GRA.
Added to my TBR on August 28, 2011

15.7. Beginnings and endings

Eight Days to Live by Iris Johansen - Letter "E" (408 p)

20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Bea's task: Refreshingly Short

A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking (176 p)
Added to my TBR on April 20, 2010

25.9 - Gayla's Task: Rite of Passage

A. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson (288 p) – Bill Bryson wrote about his travels back to the land of his youth.

B. Cross Roads by Fern Michaels (384 p) – Chair on Cover

50.1 Butterflycager's Task - Let's Build A Haunted House!

A. Door on Cover: 44 Charles Street by Danielle Steel

Fits #3 – author has published 382 books (as per GR). (336 p)
(include cover image)

D. 2 short stories in one book: Tall, Dark and Fearless: Frisco's Kid\Everyday, Average Jones by Suzanne Brockmann (586 p)
Fits #4 – book is at least 500 pages* long; also fits #3 – author has published 90 books (according to GR). *Note: the book I read contains 586 p, and it has the same ISBN as the one on GR, which claims only 384 p, which is very confusing. So since it fits two categories, I included both. Have you run across this before?

F. Main character(s) are scientists: Shadow Zone by Iris Johansen (344 p)
Fits #3 – author has published 112 books (as per GR).

Points this Post: 180
Tasks Completed this Post: 10
Books Read this Post: 15
Pages Read this Post: 4902
GoodReads Authors this Post: 5
Big Books this Post: 500+ (3), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

Total Points: 825
Total Tasks Completed: 47
Total Books Read: 65
Total Pages Read: 24636
Total GoodReads Authors: 19
Total Big Books: 500+ (11), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

Thank you to all moderators & task authors, point talliers and volunteers. This was a great season!

Carla

10.6 Big Game Hunter
I read The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King, which is 463 pages.

Points this post: 10
Total points: 120
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 8
Pages read: 3590
카지노싸이트 Authors: 3
Big Books: 500 (1), 750 (1), 1000 (0)

30.6 I'd Like to See Your ID, Please.
C. Eye Color
Solomon's Oak by Jo-Ann Mapson
blue-gray cover/eyes

D. Hair color
Sebastian by Anne Bishop
black hair

30.7 When I Was Young
A. 5 Words
The Royal Road to Fotheringhay by Jean Plaidy

B. Halloween
Tournaments, Cocoa & One Wrong Move by Nancy Rue
Would dress as a basketball player with crutches, carrying a large book.

Points this post: 60
Total points: 395
Tasks completed: 17
Books read: 23
카지노싸이트 Author: 4
Big Books: 500(3) 750 (1)

Here goes my last post:

15.4. It’s Not Too Late, but Don’t Wait Any Longer!

Book 1: A: 5.4 Summmmer (letter repeated)
I read The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker. The letter L and E are repeated.

Book 2: B: added to my e-reader
I read Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris

Grand Total: 240

Thank you to everyone who has kept score through out the fall challenge :-)

AprilDT

20.3 Music Around the Fire

A: Book with musical term in title

A Christmas Carol


Points this post: 20
Total points: 405
Tasks completed: 21
Books read: 28
카지노싸이트 Authors: 7
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0

15.9 Get Out the Winter Clothes

Royal Flush by ***카지노싸이트 Author*** Rhys Bowen (Girl in foreground is wearing gloves)


Points this post: 15
Total Points: 415
Tasks Completed: 19
Books Read: 30
GoodReads Authors: 12
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (1)

50.1 Let's Build a Haunted House

1. Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich - B (funny), 1 (GR author), 3 (published 89 distinct works per GR), 5 (Stephanie Plum series #13), and 6 (3 word title)

2. Spider Woman's Web - C ("spider"), 2 (author I have never read before), and 6 (3 word title)

3. A Nice Class of Corpse - G (picture of a gravestone on the cover - see post #264 in thread "anyone with librarian status..."), 2 (author I have never read before), 3 (published 115 distinct works per GR), and 5 (Mrs. Pargeter Mystery series #1)

Points: 50

Janet Evanovich is a GR author.

Total Points: 375
Total Books Read: 37
Total Tasks Completed: 21
Total GR Authors: 7

Task 10.4 - Moniker Math

Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs

JenC. = 5, Hobbs = 5

Challenge total = 490

Jenny Chicago

Task 5.5: Birth of a Nation I read Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italyby Michael Tucker. It was published July 10, 2007

Task 10.2: Queen of Deniel I read My Mercedes is Not for Sale: From Amsterdam to Ouagadougou...An Auto-Misadventure Across the Sahara by Jeroen Van Bergeijk

Task 25.2: Math Class I read The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost This was 272 Pages, I read Michael Palin's Hemingway's Adventure by Michael Palin This was 255 pages, and finally I read A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson This had 400 pages.

Points this post: 40
Total Points:115
Big Books
카지노싸이트 Authors

Joanna T

Repost of Task 30.7

30.7 When I Was Young

Book 1 - Option A (Five word title): The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez

Book 2 - Option A:

Five word titles:
Moo, Baa, La La La by Sandra Boynton - 14 pgs
Little Ladybug: Finger Puppet Book by Lenz Mulligan - 12 pgs
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper - 48 pgs
The Tale of Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter - 64 pgs
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter - 80 pgs
Little Puppy Finger Puppet Book: Finger Puppet Book by Klaartje Van Der Put - 12 pgs
Touch And Feel Baby Animals by Jennifer Quasha - 12 pgs
Gallop!: A Scanimation Picture Book by Rufus Butler Seder - 12 pgs
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig - 32 pgs
The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too! by Mo Willems - 10 pgs
My Treasury of Christmas Stories by Caroline Pedler - 192 pgs
Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel - 64 pgs

Grand total: 375 (same, since this is just a repost)