The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

Kate.x.

10.8 Baby it's hot outside, I read The High Window by Raymond Chandler, which is mainly orange.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

20.7 A Trip to the past, I read Dissolution by C.J. Sansom

20.9 Summerthing better, I read The Thrift book by India Knight. I think this will improve my life by helpping me to save money so I can buy more books!

Total points = 55
Total books - 4

karen oz

Task 5.8 - But No Shoplifting!

48 Shades of Brown by Nick Earls
I got this book through a book swap (bookmooch.com)

Task 15.1 - Beware of Thorns

Denniston Rose by Jenny Pattrick
Book fits option B (has "ROSE" in the title) and option C (main character is called Rose of Tralee)

Task 25.3 - Sandy's Task: The Ice Cream Truck

2 x 1 - Bubble Gum Bar (YA Books)
The Two Pearls of Wisdom (also known as Eon) AND
Eona (also known as The Necklace of the Gods)
Both books by Alison Goodman

Task 30.6 - Delicious Dee's task: Shakespeare Under the Stars

I rolled 3 & 2:
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (book contained 4 short stories)
Trading in Danger: Vatta's War 1 by Elizabeth Moon (sci-fi)

This Post: 75 points
Total to date: 75 points

Readerboard Name= Lindy-Lane

My Goal Points for this Season: 350
Points earned for this task: 5
Points Achieved to date: 65
Updated last on: 6.22
Total # of books read: 7
Total # of pages read: 2,382
Total # of tasks completed: 6
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 3
Total # of Big Books: 500+ (0)

Task 5.3 Dog Days of Summer...read a book with a picture of a dog on the cover.

I read The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. This is a Goodreads Author.
321 pages (6.19)

Jess Philly

10.10 -- Gimme S’more

I've read a lot of Terry Pratchett, and just finished his Making Money.


20.6 Seasoned Reader - Heather KS's task: Summer Reading

Having spent the first half of this week on the beach, I was able to start and finish Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, which was maybe not the most traditional beach read but which was pretty fascinating all the same.

Points this post: 30
Total points:40

5.1 - At the Shore

Shutter Island (* * *)

20.8 - It's My Birthday - Riona's task: Female Authors of Sci-Fi

To Say Nothing of the Dog (* * *)

25.1 - Denise NC's task: Tennis, Anyone?

Ender's Game (* * * *) and The Rivals: Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship (* * *)

30.1 - Cheryl TX's task: Best Friends and Lovers

Part A - The Man Who Loved Clowns (* *) (writen by June Rae Wood - one of my best friends is named June)

Part B, option 3 - Night (* * * *)

30.3 - DLMRose's task: If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Part A - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (* * * *)

Part B - My Life in France (* * * *)

Points this post: 110
Total points: 310
Tasks completed: 17
Books: 24
Pages: 7,681
Big Book tickets: 0
Goodreads authors: 1

15.8 Up in the Air

Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence by Joseph D'Agnese and Denise Kiernan

Denise Kiernan=DK=Denmark (approved in help thread)

both Joseph and Denise are goodreads' authors

Total points: 25

Readerboard Name= Lindy-Lane

My Goal Points for this Season: 350
Points earned for this task: 20
Points Achieved to date: 85
Updated last on: 6.22
Total # of books read: 8
Total # of pages read: 2,670
Total # of tasks completed: 7
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 3
Total # of Big Books: 500+ (0)

Task 20.2 Netherlands is an eleven letter word... [option A] read a book with a word in the title that is eleven or more letters in length:

I read A Conventional Corpse by Joan E. Hess (6.20)

Alice G

Task: 10.1 For Real?

Book: Something Rotten

Total Points: 125

Previous Reads
5.10 Summer Fun - Dave Gorman vs The Rest of the World

10.10 Gimme S'more - Generation A by Douglas Coupland

15.5 Mind the Gap - Excursion to Tindari by Andrea Camelleri
15.9 Pulling Weeds - Rescue by Anita Shreve

20.4 Focus on My Favourite Goodreads Author - Death and the Penguin by Andrea Kurkov
20.7 A Trip to the Past - Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant

30.8 Summer Solstice - Memory of Love and Where or When by Anita Shreve


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Erin NY

10.6 Book with a gay main character
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
* David Levithan is a goodreads author

Total Points: 75
Tasks Completed: 5
Tasks in Progress: 5
Books Read: 12
Pages Read: 2765

20.7 A Trip to the Past

i read Mariette in Ecstasy. it was set in 1906, written in 1991. interesting look inside a turn of the century convent. beautifully written.

Books Read: 9/ 76+
Points Completed: 170/ 1000
Tasks Completed: 8/ 57

ERIN C.

10.1 For Real?

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Listed in the GoodReads genre of "Speculative Fiction"

Task Points: 10
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 3
GoodRead Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0

Lisa MD

COMPLETED TASKS:

10.5 What’s Next?
Choose a 5-star book from your GR read shelf. Go to What Should I Read Next - I chose Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter and I read next:

❀ You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon READ 6.22.11
GOODREADS AUTHOR


10.9 Around the Campfire
a scary book, a collection of spooky stories, or a book with a ghost or a haunted house in it

❀ Changeless by Gail Carriger READ 6.21.11
GOODREADS AUTHOR

*******************************************************************





TOTAL TASKS COMPLETED: 10/57
TOTAL BOOKS READ: 11
TOTAL POINTS: 140/1000
TOTAL GOODREADS AUTHORS: 6
BIG BOOK TICKETS: 500+[ ] 750+[ ] 1000+[ ]

ALICIA T.

15.4 Summer Shorts

I read Out of this World, which had 4 short stories written by J.D. Robb, Laurell K. Hamilton, Susan Krinard, and Maggie Shayne.

Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 45

I'm LindseyMA and I comleted tasks:

Task 30.6 (Shakespeare) - I rolled the die and got a 6 and a 5. So for book 1, I got 6 (As You Like It), so I read Bossypants by Tina Fey who is a comedienne. For book 2, I rolled a 5 (King Lear), so I read The Beggars' Queen by Kathleen M Basi.

Task 20.3 (Happy, happy, happy) - I read
Teach Your Baby to Sign by Monica Beyer. Two things make me happy that are part of the book, my baby and sign language. I'm in the process of becoming a sign language instructor and I absolutely love it.

Books Read: 6
Tasks Completed: 5
Goodreads' authors: 2
Total Points: 105pts

RACHEL CA: 60 pts total

30.09 VACATION TIME!

A. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl (various travels between Norway and the Americas—the main travel in the book is from Peru to the islands of Polynesia by balsa raft)

B. The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (sand)

Points: 30

Total points: 60
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 4
Goodreads authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

Reader Board Name: Jamie IN

15.8 Up In the Air
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin SM - San Marino

Points This Task: 15


20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Sandy MN's task: A Trip to the Past

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier This book takes place in the early 1900's published in the year 2002.

Points This Task: 20
*Tracy Chevalier is a Goodreads Author


15.10 Summertime, And the Reading is Easy
After Life by Rhian Ellis

*Rhian Ellis is a Goodreads Author

Points for this task: 15


Total Points: 80
Total Tasks Completed: 6
Total Books Read: 6
Total Pages Read: 2078
Total GoodReads Authors: 2
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

20.4 Author, Author - Isabell's task: Focus on My Favorite Goodreads Author

I rolled a 3 & 5 so I had to read a book by a female author or strong female lead and a book focused on a murder.

I read:
3) Last Scene Alive by Charlaine Harris

5) Apple Turnover Murder- Apple Turnover Murder Bundle with Key Lime Pie Murder, Cherry Cheesecake Murder, Lemon Meringue Pie Murder, and an EXTENDED excerpt of Devil's Food Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke

20.6 Seasoned Reader - Heather KS's task: Summer Reading

I read The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares on a patio enjoying yummy drinks :-)

25.3 - Sandy's task: The Ice Cream Truck
I choose 6. Pink Panther Pop (book made into a movie) and 5. Bullet Firecracker Pop (Mystery)

I read Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates - which has been made into a movie and Devil's Food Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke which is a mystery.

30.8 -- Beth NC's Task: Summer Solstice
Option 1- Quality Dark Fiction
I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Option 2- Light but not too dumb
I read Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares.

Total Points: 95
Grand Total: 95

Taryn

25.3 Sandy’s Task – The Ice Cream Truck

Bubble Gum Bar – read a YA book.

Bumped by Megan McCafferty

Megan McCafferty is a Goodreads author.

Jolly Rancher Ice Pop – read a humorous book.

Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me by Chelsea Handler


Points this post: 25
Total Points Earned: 50
Books read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 1

Jayme(the ghostreader)

Completed 15.5 Mind The Gap "Dead Reckoning" by Charlaine Harris. It is book 11 in the Sookie Stackhouse series.

Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read:5
Big Book ticket 750+ (1)
Grand Total: 70/1000

20.7 A Trip To The Past
The Merrybegot by Julie Hearn
set in the 1640s

25.1 Tennis, Anyone?
1. Counterpoint: Dylan's Story by Ruth Sims
'counterpoint' approved as a compound word in help thread
** Ruth Sims is a Goodreads Author **
2. Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
character Nevil Strange is a professional tennis player who has played in the Wimbledon tournament

25.3 The Ice Cream Truck
1. Bubble Gum Bar: If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
4. Rainbow Snow Cone: Adam & Steve by Craig Chester

Points for this post: 70
Total Points: 405
Tasks Completed: 24
Books Read: 30
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

Gayle This is my first post so I hope I do it right.


5.9 The Long and the Short of It:


The World According to Oprah: An Unauthorized Portrait in Her Own Words by Ken Lawrence

long title, short book (160 pages)



10.7: It's Been A Year Already

The Passage by Justin Cronin

784 pages (Big Book Ticket of 750+)



15.5: Mind the Gap

Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb

In Death Series #25 (384 pages)


15.7: Goodreads Choice Award 2010

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Best NonFiction/Best Debut (369 pages)

Rebecca Skloot is a Goodreads Author.


20.5: Bigger is Better Option D


Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky

Barbara Delinsky is a Goodreads Author. (368 pages)


20.7: Shorter is Sweeter: A Trip to the Past

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran

Michelle Moran is a Goodreads Author. (481 pages)

Points this post 85
Total Point Earned: 85
Pages Read: 2546
Books Read: 6
Task Completed: 6
Good Read Authors: 3
Big Book Tickets: 500(0), 750(1), 1000(0)

5.6 As American As... read Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
by Jordan Sonnenblick

5.9 The Long and Short of It
read The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer 7 words 177 pages

10.2 Phone Home
read The Dangerous Days of Daniel Xby James Patterson
James Patterson is a goodreads author

10.9 Around the Campfire Homecomingby Tonya Hurley
Tonya Hurley is a goodreads author

20.3 Happy Happy Happy- I love treasure hunts and scavenger hunts. read Paper Townsby John Green
In this book a girl leaves clues for the main character to find her when she ran away.

Points this task 50
Total points-240/1000
Tasks Completed: 15/57
Books read: 19/77
Total pages: 5777
GR Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

5.4 Consecutive letters in title or author's name

The Mummy by Anne Rice

This Post: 5
Total:15
Pages Read:729
Books Read: 2
Task Completed:2
Good Reads Author: 1

Jennifer KS

10.8 -- Baby, It's Hot Outside!

I read Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan

Points this task 10
Total Points 110
Pages 4051

Gayle

Oops...I goofed. I typed the wrong book in message #627. Sorry for the confusion.

Please change the title to:

15.5: Mind the Gap

Innocent In Death by J.D. Robb
In Death Series #24 (385 pages)

The other book is still on my to-read list.


Points this post 85
Total Point Earned: 85
Pages Read: 2547
Books Read: 6
Task Completed: 6
Good Read Authors: 3
Big Book Tickets: 500(0), 750(1), 1000(0)

10.8 -- Baby, It's Hot Outside!
I read

Definitely hot - not just in color, but depicting an erupting volcano!

15.6 Speak English!
From the "motoring" list, I chose the phrase "hand brake" and read Sleight of Hand

25.5 - Christine US's task: U.S. Patriots

For book 1, I read The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly. His GR bio shows him as having been born in Philadelphia.

For book 2, I read Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, about an American airman who was a POW in Japan during WWII. I don't usually go for war books, but I had heard good things about this book - and it was incredible. I had trouble putting it down.

Total points: 185

Joy Marie

30.4MsOPP's Task: Summer in Europe

Option 3: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

and

Option 4: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

***Big Book Ticket for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo which is 642 pages.***

Total Points: 45
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Book Tickets: 1
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 4
Pages Read: 1453

Finished
10. 4 Here kitty, kitty
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Task points 10
Total points 80
Total tasks 5
Total books 7

Coralie
15.4 Summer Shorts
Roman Poets of the Early Empire

Total points 165

15.8 Up in the Air

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

SJ: Svalbard and Mayen Islands (Norway)

Points for this task: 15
Total points: 110
Task Completed: 8
Books Read: 9

5.8. But No Shoplifting! To help you save $$$ for your vacation, this task requires you to read a book that was free to you - for instance, borrowed from the library or a friend, a free ebook download, a gift. REQUIRED:In your post, you must tell how you got the book you read.

Going Dutch - Katie Fforde

Swapped with a friend.

Points this post 5
Total Point Earned: 15/1000
Pages Read: 1083
Books Read: 3/77
Task Completed 3/57

15.4 Summer Shorts
option 2: two anthologies or collections each by a single author.
The Woman Novelist and Other Stories by Diana Gardner
Consider the Years by Virginia Graham

Points for this post: 15
Total Points: 420
Tasks Completed: 25
Books Read: 32
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

REPOST

Message 14

15.5 Mind the Gap - Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich is a Goodreads Author

Message 92

10.3 Spare Me - The Rocky Road to Romance by Janet Evanovich
I would not want to travel to Washington D.C. again. The traffic and crime is just not worth it!
Janet Evanovich is a Goodreads Author

Message 353

5.10. Summer Fun
Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich is a Goodreads Author

10.8 -- Baby, It's Hot Outside!
by Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich is a Goodreads Author

KRISTEN MA

30.8 BETH NC'S TASK: SUMMER SOLSTICE -

Option 2: One of the 10 longest books on my TBR list was The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz. It was 992 pages. *** I would like to claim 2 Big Books Tickets.

One of the 10 shortest books on my TBR list was The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz.

Total Points: 90
Tasks Completed: 5
Total Books: 8
Total Pages: 3096
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books 500+(), 750+(1), 1000()

30.2 -- Sheila/Wendy UK's task: A.K.A.


To Live & Die in Dixie by Kathy Hogan Trocheck

A.K.A.

Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/k...

Total Points = 440

Sandy MN

25.5 - Christine US's task: U.S. Patriots

Book 1: Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberger (author born in PA)

Book 2: SEALed with a Kiss byMary-Margret Daughtridge (main character is a Navy SEAL)

**Mary Margret Daughtridge is a GR author

Total Points:185
Total GR Authors: 4
Please note: I am adding 1 GR author as Janet Evanovich has become a GR author since I last posted one of her books in the current challenge

15.7 The Readers Have Chosen-

I read the Best Mystery and Thriller:

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

Big Book Ticket (562 pages)

+15

30.6 — Delicious Dee’s task: Shakespeare Under the Stars

I rolled double 2s:

2. Shakespeare’s Sonnets – read a book of poems:

Face by Sherman Alexie

2. Midsummer’s Night Dream – Read a fantasy, sci-fi, or paranormal novel.

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White, a Goodreads Author

+30

30.10 – Coralie’s task: Half and Half

I selected the book Winter Garden and I read:

The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse

The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman

+30

Points this Post: 75
Big Books: 1
Goodreads Authors: 1
Grand Total: 155

Nickboy

15.4 Summer Shorts

I chose to read two different collections by two different authors. I read:

Paper Trail: Essays by Michael Dorris, a collection of essays I re-read periodically, 384 pages, and

Collected Poems by Stevie Smith, a poet I’ve liked for a long time and I’ve never made it through the entire collection before now. 591 pages

Claiming 1 BIG BOOK for Collected Poems by Stevie Smith… 591 pages


Task Points: 15
Total Points: 215/1000
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 20
Pages Read: 6,080
Big Books: 500+ (2)

20.4 - Focus on my Favourite Goodreads Author


I rolled 4 and read a book in which the main character works as a spy:

Call for the Dead by John Le Carré


Total points to date 90

Gayle

In reference to Post #627

10.7: It's Been a Year Already

The Passage by Justin Cronin was listed #2 in June, 2010.

15.7 The Readers Have Chosen

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

This book was nominated for the "Best History" category.

Total Books Read: 2
Total Challenges Completed: 2
Total Pages Read: 860
Big Book Tickets:0
GoodReads Author Tickets:0
Total Points: 20

15.1 Beware of Thorns:
The Rose Killer by Pat Gragg - rose on cover and in name



15.7 The Readers Have Chosen Mystery Thriller
The Reversal (Mickey Haller #3) by Michael Connelly



Points This Task: 30
Tasks Completed: 6
Total Points: 70
Books Read: 9

5.1 At the Shore

Southern Comfort by Fern Michaels

15.3 In the Euro Zone

Tears of the Moon by Nora Roberts - set in Ireland which uses the Euro

The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie - set in England (Great Britain) which does not use the Euro

15.5 Mind the Gap

Hangman's Root by ***Goodreads Author Susan Wittig Albert #3 of 19 in the series

Points this post: 35
Total Points: 140
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 11
GoodReads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

Boston Kate

Task 15.2 Summer Stock

A. A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages by Kristin Chenoweth

B. Macbeth by William Shakespeare (read as part of compilation: Works of William Shakespeare


This post: 15 points
Total to date: 20 points
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 3

15.6 - Speak English


As I speak British English I used the word Fall , the American term for the season I call Autumn :

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett *Big Book* - 864 pages


Total points to date 105

10.2 -- Phone Home

I Am Number Four by
Pittacus Lore
About an alien living on earth.

Points this post: 10
Total Points: 235
Total Tasks Completed: 14
Total Books Read: 17
Total Pages Read: 5632
Total GoodReads Authors: 3
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

Jayme(the ghostreader)

10.4 Here Kitty, Kitty "Cream Puff Murder" by Joanne Fluke.
Main character has a cat in which she had a mini mystery to solve where her cat hid his cat food.

Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read:6
Big Book ticket 750+ (1)
Grand Total: 80/1000

20.4

I rolled a 4. I read a book in which a main character finds himself in a foreign country.

Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift

points this task: 20
total points: 80

25.5 - Christine US's task: U.S. Patriots

Book 1: For this task, read a book by an author born in PA.

Faith: A Novel by Jennifer Haigh

This bio states that Haigh was born in Pennsylvania: http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/p...

Jennifer Haigh is a GoodReads author.

Book 2: Read a book, fiction or non-fiction, with a main character that is (or was) a U.S. military service member.

The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days by Karen J. Greenberg

This book was approved in the task thread.

This Post: 25
Total Points: 105
Tasks Completed: 8/57
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

5.2 Sun, Sea and Pirates
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Points for this post: 5
Total Points: 425
Tasks Completed: 26
Books Read: 33
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0