The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

5.3 The Dog Days of Summer

Gone to the Dogs by Susan Conant

15.8 Up in the Air

by ***Goodreads Author*** Chevy Stevens CS is the country code for Serbia.
I won this from Goodreads before its release next week and highly recommend it.

Points this post: 20
Total Points: 160
Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 13
GoodReads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

15.5 Mind the Gap

Read a book from a series that is NOT the first or the last published.

A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords is a Big Book (1128 pages).

This Post: 15
Total Points: 140
Tasks Completed: 12/57
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (1), 1000+ (1)

25.3 Ice Cream Truck

Bubble Gum:
The Last Olympian Rick Riordan narrated by Jesse Bernstein (can I get goodreads author credit for Jesse? If not, that's OK)

Cotton Candy:
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Total points: 50

Sandy MN

Task 10.1 For Real?

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

**Big Book - 807 Pages**


Total Points: 195
Total Big Books: 1 (750 pages)

25.3 - Sandy's task: The Ice Cream Truck

1. Bubble Gum Bar - I read Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, A Pregnant Teenager by Beatrice Sparks

and

6. Pink Panther Pop - I read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Points This Task: 25
Total Points: 105
Total Tasks Completed: 7
Total Books Read: 8
Total Pages Read: 2668
Total GoodReads Authors: 2
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

BJ Rose

1 new task

30.2 -- Sheila/Wendy UK's task: A.K.A. - I read Nora Roberts & her A.K.A. J. D. Robb

A. Daring to Dream by Nora Roberts
B. Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb

Points this post = 30

Total Points = 180

Tasks Completed = 13
Pages Read = 5350
GR Authors = 2
Big Books: (500+) = 1

Jayme(the ghostreader)

I completed task 5.6 As American As... I read "Apple Turnover Murder" by Joanne Fluke.

Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read:7
Big Book ticket 750+ (1)
Grand Total: 95/1000

5.1 AT THE SHORE - Folly Beach: A Lowcountry Tale by Dorothea Benton Frank
***GoodReads Author***

15.1 BEWARE OF THORNS -
A. by Alex Flinn
Roses on the Cover
B. Nothing To Fear by Karen Rose
Author's last name is Rose
***Big Book 515pgs***

20.6 SUMMER READING - Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline
Read while camping
***GoodReads Author***

25.5 US PATRIOTS -
A. Everywhere That Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline
Pennsylvania Author
***GoodReads Author***
B. Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
The hero in the book is a Union soldier

30.6 SHAKESPEARE UNDER THE STARS -
A. A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris
Rolled a 3 - Comedy of Errors - short stories
B. Killing Floor by Lee Child
Rolled a 4 - Hamlet - Read a Murder Mystery

Points: 95
Tasks: 5
Books: 8
GR Authors: 3
Big Books 500+: 2

Total Points: 285
Total Tasks: 20
Total Books: 24
Total Pages: 9925
GR Authors: 9
Big Books 500+: 8

5.8 But No Shoplifting
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
I got this book in a book swap.

Points for this post: 5
Total Points: 460
Tasks Completed: 30
Books Read: 38
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

Erin NY

15.1 Book with rose in title and rose on cover
Roses by Leila Meacham
* Big Book Ticket: Roses is 624pp

Total Points: 110
Tasks Completed: 7
Tasks in Progress: 6
Books Read: 14
Pages Read: 3922

Kate C.

Finished:

15.5 - Mind the Gap:

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

20.2 - NETHERLANDS Is an Eleven Letter Word:

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone

I chose Option A: Remembering is 11 letters

20.4 - Focus on My Favorite Goodreads Author:

I rolled a 5: Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town, and the Search for What Matters Most by Gwendolyn Bounds

The focus of the book is the family struggling to keep the store and pub open and running.

20.6 - Summer Reading:

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

I listened to this while in the car on a road trip.

Total Points: 75

Emily Kate

5.6 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

5.10 My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler

10.3 Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
I have no desire to visit the middle of the country, being an NYC girl myself, in particular, Oklahoma.

15.7 The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
YA fiction category

15.8 The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld
CS is Serbia

25.1 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

25.5 author from PA: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
military: Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

Total: 550

20.5 Bigger is Better - Sue T's task: Family Reunion

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Robert L. Mack

F - this book takes place in central London, where my father-in-law grew up.

Points for this task: 20
Total points: 130
Task Completed: 9
Books Read: 10

5.9 The Long and Short of It
Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of "The Magic Flute" by Cameron Dokey Short book 192 pages with a long title.

20.7 A Trip to the Past
Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India, 1627 by Kathryn Lasky

30.8 Solstice
Option 1
From the Darkest Books of All Time list Night by Elie Wiesel
and from the Light But Not (too) Dumb list The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

Points this post: 55
Total Points: 190
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books Tickets: 0

20.9 Read Ultrametabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss by Mark Hyman. The extreme healthy eating has definitely made me feel better!

points this task 20
total points 130
tasks complete 9

Fiona (Titch)

5.10 -- Summer Fun

Nature Girl - Carl Hiaasen

Points this task: 5

Total points: 120

15.7 The Readers Have Chosen

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot **Goodreads Author**

This was The Best Debut Novel as well as the Best non-fiction novel.

**What a strange topic for a first novel.

Total Points = 555
New Goodreads Author = Rebecca Skloot

5.10. Summer Fun
I read I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood. I can always count on Dave Barry to keep me laughing.

10.1 -- For Real?
I read Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi. Speculative fiction is one of the genres listed on the book's main page.

20.1 Most Improved Player - Ashley FL's task: Birthday Time!
I went with choice c and read Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger, published in 1953, the year I was born.

Total points: 220

Jennifer W wrote: "25.3 Ice Cream Truck

Bubble Gum:
The Last Olympian Rick Riordan narrated by Jesse Bernstein (can I get goodreads author credit for Jesse? If not, tha..."

Since a narrator is not an author, that isn't going to work here. Sorry.

25.3 - Sandy's task: The Ice Cream Truck

I chose to have the Bubble Gum Bar twice, and so read the following two books from the same series.

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

Maggie Stiefvater is a goodreads author, so I'd like to claim twice for her.



Points this post: 25
Total Points: 260
Total Tasks Completed: 15
Total Books Read: 19
Total Pages Read: 6384
Total GoodReads Authors: 5
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

Total Points = 230

30.8
Dark Book: Blindness by Jose Saramago
Light Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

10.5 What's Next used Death by Bikini- readShadowlandShadowland by by Meg Cabot

30.4 Summer in Europe: Option 2 Read a book that takes place during the summer.
read Robyn 2. Read a book that takes place during the summer.

5. Read a book that has the word 'summer' in the title.
Black Rabbit Summer


Points this post: 40
Total Point Earned: 330/1000
Pages Read: 7882
Books Read: 26/77
Task Completed 21 /57
Good Read Authours: 9
Big Book Tickets: 500(1), 750(), 1000()

20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Sandy MN's task: A Trip to the Past: Read one work of Historical Fiction

Drums of Autumn

1070 pages - claiming 3 Big Book Tickets, for a total of 3.

Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 25

10.4 -- Here Kitty, Kitty

When the cat's away by Jackie Rutherford


Points this post: 10
Total Points: 270
Total Tasks Completed: 16
Total Books Read: 20
Total Pages Read: 6589
Total GoodReads Authors: 5
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

Alice G

Task: 10.4 Here Kitty, Kitty

Book: The Tiger's Wife

Total Points: 140

Previous Reads
5.4 SUMMMMMMER - Great House by Nicole Krauss
5.10 Summer Fun - Dave Gorman vs The Rest of the World

10.1 For Real? - Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
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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20.1 Birthday Time

My birthday is on the thirteenth of May, so I used option 2 for the book choice.

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Points: 20

Total Points: 135
Total Books Read: 14
Total Tasks Completed: 7

Cindy AL


20.1 Birthday Time:

Winter in June by Kathryn Miller Haines

My birthday is in June.

20.3 Happy, Happy Happy:

A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines by Anthony Bourdain

Travel and good food are two of the things that make me the most happy.

20.8 Female Authors of Sci-Fi:

CryoBurn by Lois McMaster Bujold

30.2 AKA:

Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire and

Feed by Mira Grant

Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant are the same person.

Seanan McGuire is a Goodreads Author.

30.3 If it's Tuesday, this Must be Belgium:

Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit by Sonny Brewer and

French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia by Joshua Clark

30.6 Shakespeare Under the Stars:

I rolled 4 and 4.

Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey and

The Dinosaur Hunter: A Novel by Homer Hickam

Elizabeth I is on both lists and Dinosaur Hunter has murders.


Points in this post - 150
Total Points - 360/1000
Books - 30/76
Pages - 9952
Goodreads Authors: 10
Big Books:500+ - (0), 750+ - (0),1000+ - (0)

Total Points = 260

30.4
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens from the coming of age list
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Scotland, a European country

Finished

20.4 Focus on my favourite goodreads author
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman - 1

Task points 20
Total points 130
Total tasks 7
Total books10

Carly

20.2 Rookie at the Top - Nickboy's task: NETHERLANDS Is an Eleven Letter Word

I chose Option A and read The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green by Joshua Braff.

The word Unthinkable has 11 letters in it.

Points This Task: 20
Total Points: 100
Tasks Completed: 6
Tasks in Progress: 1
Books Read: 6
GoodReads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Pages Read: 2181

Task 20.8 Female Authors of Sci-fi

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Points this task:20
Total Points:160
Goodreads Authors:5
Big Book Tickets:0

Colleen MN

For Task 10.6 I read Three Junes by Julia Glass. One of the main characters, Fenno McLeod, is a gay Scottish man living in New York City in the AIDS-ravaged '80s.

15.10 Summertime, And the reading is Easy
The Hunger Gamesby Suzanne Collins

10.8 Baby, It’s hot outside
by Suzanne Collins

Points this post 25
Total Point Earned: 50/1000
Books Read: 5/77
Task Completed 5/57
Good Read Authors: 2
Big Book Tickets: 500(1), 750(0), 1000(0)

My readerboard name is aprilallyear.

20.5 Bigger is Better - Sue T's task: Family Reunion

For this task I read Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman. I chose B - at least two generations are main characters in this book.

Points this task: 20
Total points: 70
Tasks completed: 3
Books: 4
Big Book tickets: 0
Goodreads authors: 1

My readerboard name is aprilallyear.

I am reposting to claim a GR author that I forgot... Emma Donoghue. I read her book room for task 20.4, claimed in post 310.

Moving a book:

I would like to move Cold Comfort Farm from task 5.8 to task 5.10 (Summer Fun).

No change to points.

30.4 Summer in Europe
Option 2: Posted To Death by Dean James
set during August
and
Option 4: Dear Nobody by Berlie Doherty
set in the UK

Points for this post: 30
Total Points: 490
Tasks Completed: 31
Books Read: 40
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

15.10
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

points this post: 15
total points: 95

Fiona (Titch)

15.6 -- Speak English!

Flowers in the Attic - V.C. Andrews (Loft/Attic)

Points this task: 15

Total points: 135

KRISTEN MA

5.4 S U M M M M M E R - Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. *** Richelle Mead is a GOODREADS AUTHOR. I would like to claim a goodreads author ticket.

Total Points: 115
Tasks Completed: 7
Total Books: 10
Total Pages: 3735
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books 500+(), 750+(1), 1000 ()

20.10- Group Read

Bitten by Kelley Armstrong

I was #16 in the discussion.

Kelly Armstrong is a GR author.

Points this post 20
Total Point Earned: 75/1000
Books Read: 6/77
Task Completed 4/57
Good Read Authors: 3
Big Book Tickets: 500(0), 750(0), 1000(0)

Kelly G.

25.3 - Ice Cream Truck

Chose option C: Pink Panther Pop - book made into a movie Something Borrowed by: Emily Giffin.

Chose option D: Jolly Rancher Pop - humorous book. Bossypants by: Tina Fey.

Points this task: 25
Total Points: 60
Books Read: 4
Tasks Completed: 3
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Ticket Books: 500+(1) 750+(0) 1000+(0)

30.7 Choose Your Own Adventure - SRC Style
I entered one of my favourite authors, Dorothy Sayers.
For the first book I picked option 3 and read The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey, which I have read before.
For the second book I picked option A and read Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey, which I had not read before.

Points for this post: 30
Total Points: 520
Tasks Completed: 32
Books Read: 42
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

10.10 - Gimme S'more
I read Grave Goods by Ariana Franklin, who I've read before.

20.7 - Historical Fiction
I read The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin - set in medieval England

Total Points: 70

10.3 Spare me

I read Children and Fire by Ursula Hegi Ursula Hegi
This books was set entirely in Germany, which, at this point, I have no interest in visiting, although I am sure it is a lovely country

Total points: 130
Tasks Completed:
Total books read:
Total pages read:
Goodreads authors:
Big Books: 750 (1)

10.3 Spare me

I read Children and Fire by Ursula Hegi Ursula Hegi
This books was set entirely in Germany, which, at this point, I have no interest in visiting, although I am sure it is a lovely country

Total points: 130
Tasks Completed: 7
Total books read: 10
Total pages read: 3447
Goodreads authors:5
Big Books: 750 (1)

5.5 - Maple Leaf Rag - The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

About pets that travel alone across the Canadian wilderness to reach their home.

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10.4 - Here Kitty, Kitty - Kitty Raises Hell by Carrie Vaughn, a Goodreads author.

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Points Claiming: 15
Total Points: 140

Kathleen FL

20.10 Group Read:

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
Michelle Moran is a GoodReads Author.

20.8 Female Authors of Sci-Fi:

Mockingjay



Points This Post: 40
Total Points: 55
Goodreads Author Books: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

15.3 In the Eurozone

Book set in Austria which does use the Euro:
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth (who was also born in Austria)

Book set in Denmark (and Iceland) which does not use the Euro:
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg

Post Total: 15
Grand Total: 355

Rebekah
5 pt Tasks

5.6 American as ......Easy As Pie at Bobby's Diner by Susan Wingate(goodreads author)

5.9 The Long and Short of it The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs by Alexander McCall Smith (goodreads author)
Book has 128 pages

10 pts for above tasks
35 pts = Grand Total
3 = Goodread authors total