The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

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task 5.3 Dog Days


Dog on It by Spencer Quinn


Task 10.1 For Real?
Bumped by Megan McCafferty
Speculative fiction - approved in thread

***Megan McCafferty is a GR author

Task 10.8 Baby It's Hot outside

by Joanne Fluke

Total points:
120

Rebekah
10 pt Tasks

10.1 For Real? Soulless by Gail Carriger(goodreads author)

10.4 Here Kitty, Kitty

10.8 Baby it's hot outside

30 pts for above tasks
65 pts = Grand Total
4 = Goodreads Authors total

Rebekah
15 pt Tasks

15.6 Speak English! Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (goodreads author)
The word 'garden' is used for 'yard' in Great Britian...and India too! Example "Go outside and play in the garden." I think of a garden as full of vegtables and/or flowers.

15.9 Pulling Weeds Nurse at Playland Park

30 pts for above tasks
95 pts = Grand Total
5 = Goodreads authors total

Kathleen FL

20.5 Family Reunion:

Option C: The House on Tradd Street takes place in Charleston, SC which is where I live.


Points This Post: 20
Total Points: 75
Goodreads Author Books: 2
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

Colleen MN

I finished Task 5.9. A short book with a long title. I readStash Envy: And Other Quilting Confessions And Adventures. I really enjoyed it.

20.5 Family Reunion
The Sentry by Robert Crais (book is set in LA where my sister lives)

Tasks completed: 5
Total Points: 65 points
Books read: 5

RACHEL CA: 75 pts total

10.10 GIMME S’MORE

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (I read his The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie earlier this year)

Alan Bradley is a GOODREADS AUTHOR

Points: 10
Total points: 75
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 6
Goodreads authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

ADEL

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

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Required: Post the place(s) or activities where you read.
I read this book in the bath as relaxation/ME time as well as out on the back patio while supervising the children playing.

20 points.

25.3 - Sandy's task: The Ice Cream Truck.
* Bullet Firecracker Pop- mystery/crime book.
The Sex Club by L.J. Sellers.

L.J. Sellers is a GoodReads author.

* Big Dipper Cone- Sci Fi/Fantasy.
Witch and Wizard by James Patterson.

James Patterson is a GoodReads author.

25 points.

Points earnt this post: 45
Total Point Earned: 75
Total Pages Read: 2406 pages.
Total Books Read: 7
Good Read Authors: 3
Big Book Tickets: 500(1), 750(), 1000()

ADEL

I posted on June 13th and linked the audio tape instead of the book, sorry fixing it now.

10.3 -- Spare Me.
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas by Abby Sunderland

My place of terror for the vast amount of open waters. lol

Points earnt this post: already counted.
Total Point Earned: 75
Total Pages Read: 2406 pages.
Total Books Read: 7
Good Read Authors: 3
Big Book Tickets: 500(1), 750(), 1000()

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

Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares
Everlasting is an eleven letter word.


Points this post: 20
Total Points: 290
Total Tasks Completed: 17
Total Books Read: 21
Total Pages Read: 6938
Total GoodReads Authors: 5
Total Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

15.9 - Pulling Weeds


I have very few books on my To Read shelf so I used the second option - a book with an average rating below my personal average rating. My average rating is 3.75 and the average rating for this book is 3.33.


My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin


I can't find the edition I read on Goodreads, but it's a paperback with 500 pages, so I would like to claim a *Big Book* ticket.


Total points to date 155

Emmalita

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

The Help by Kathryn Stockton

I read The Help mostly on my back porch drinking multiple glasses of lemonade.

Kathryn Stockton is a Goodreads author

This post: 20 points
Total points to Date: 110 points
Goodread authors: 4
Total tasks completed: 6

Readerboard Name= Lindy-Lane

My Goal Points for this Season: 350
Points earned for this task: 20
Points Achieved to date: 105
Updated last on: 6.29
Total # of books read: 9
Total # of pages read: 3,038
Total # of tasks completed: 8
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 3
Total # of Big Books: 500+ (0)

Task 20.5 Bigger is Better Sue T's Family Reunion...[Option D] read a novel where one of the characters is researching their family history.

I read The Little Women Letters by Gabrielle Donnelly 368 pages (6.24)

NICOLE AR-

15.10 Summertime, And the Reading is Easy:

For this task, I read "Savannah Blues" by Mary Kay Andrews.

Points for this task: 15
Total Points:50

MASANOBU

20.6 Seasoned Reader - Hearther KS's task (Summer Reading)

I've read La mujer que buceó dentro del corazón del mundo by Sabina Berman.

Summer activities: sunbathing in my terrace and travelling.


30.7 Jennifer N's task (Choose Your Own Adventure - SRC Style)

I chose Borges as a starting point and got Italo Calvino for the first book (Option 1: an author I had never read before). I read If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.

I loved it so much that I chose Option A (another book by the same author) for the second book and read Why Read the Classics?. As a consequence of this task, I'm now hooked on Italo Calvino!


Total Points: 5 + 20 + 30 = 55
Total Tasks: 3

Readerboard Name= Lindy-Lane

My Goal Points for this Season: 350
Points earned for this task: 5
Points Achieved to date: 110
Updated last on: 6.29
Total # of books read: 10
Total # of pages read: 3,422
Total # of tasks completed: 9
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 3
Total # of Big Books: 500+ (0)

Task 5.5 Maple Leaf Rag... read a book by a Canadian author.

I read Single White Vampire by Lynsay Sands (6.26)

STESSE

10.1 -- For Real?

Steampunk by Ann VanderMeer (373 p.)
(In the GoodReads book description, the authors include both Ann VanderMeer (Editor) and Jeff VanderMeer (Editor), who also happens to be a GoodReads author. So I'm hoping I can claim credit for this...)

10.7 -- It’s Been a Year Already??!!

Whiplash by Catherine Coulter (416 p.)
June 2010, #83

10.9 -- Around the Campfire

The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb (326 p.)

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

I rolled a 3- Strong female heroine.

Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts (472 p.)

Rowan is a strong female in an untraditional profession – she’s a fire fighter who jumps from planes.

Points this Post: 50
Tasks Completed this Post: 4
Books Read this Post: 4
Pages Read this Post: 1587
GoodReads Authors this Post: 1

Total Points: 215
Total Tasks Completed: 17
Total Books Read: 19
Total Pages Read: 6637
Total GoodReads Authors: 4
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

30.5 To The Moon
A. October Sky by Homer Hickam (biography of someone involved in space program: approved on help thread under its alternate title, Rocket Boys)
B. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany (features space travel to several different planets)

Points for this post: 30
Total Points: 550
Tasks Completed: 33
Books Read: 44
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

20.5 Family Reunion

I chose option C and read Meet Me In St. Louis - I've lived most of my life in the St. Louis area.

25.4 Color Me Happy
I rolled a 5 - blue and read

Option 1 - book cover matches color We'll Always Have Parrots by ***Goodreads Author***Donna Andrews

Option 5 - mystery by M.C. Beaton


Points this post: 45
Total Points: 205
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 16
GoodReads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

Kimber

30.1 Best Friends and Lovers

Part A. My best friend throughout childhood was Kim Smith. I read Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Part B. To fulfill number 3, I read Night Road by Kristin Hannah. The word night is included in this title.

KRISTIN HANNAH IS A GOODREADS AUTHOR

This task: 30
Total points to date: 115
# tasks completed: 5
GR Authors: 4

20.4 - Focus on my Favorite GR Author - Kitty's House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn, a Goodreads author

I rolled a 2: wolf on the cover -


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Points Claiming: 20
Total Points: 160

20.1 Most Improved Player - Ashley FL's task: Birthday Time!


My birthday is in April so I chose to read a book in option 1:

Hand of Fate by Lis Wiehl AND April Henry

This book was approved in help msg. 8

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/a...

April Henry is a goodreads author

Total Points = 575

Jen UT

5.8 - But No Shoplifting!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
I got this book as a birthday gift.

5.10 - Summer Fun

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Points in this Post: 10
Total Points: 20

10.7 — It’s Been a Year Already??!!

June 2010, #4:

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan a Goodreads Author

+10 Points

15.1- Beware of Thorns- June is National Rose Month.

This book fits both A and B:


The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
Big Book Ticket: 768 pages

+15 Points

15.2 Summer Stock

A. Novel in which all characters are connected to the theater as actors, including Ophelia from Hamlet, or other related jobs:

Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev a Goodreads Author

B. A Play:

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

+15 Points

20.2 Rookie at the Top – Nickboy’s task: NETHERLANDS Is an Eleven Letter Word

Option B: orange:

The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin

+20 Points

20.5 Bigger is Better – Sue T’s task: Family Reunion

C. Set in Seattle:

Stringz by Michael Wenberg, a Goodreads Author

+20 Points

25.3 – Sandy’s task: The Ice Cream Truck

1. Bubble Gum Bar / YA:

Dark Life by Kat Falls

8. Big Dipper Cone – read a science fiction/fantasy book:

The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card

+25 Points

Points this Post: 25+20+20+15+15+10=105
Goodreads Authors this Post: 3
Big Books this Post: 1
Grand Total: 310

Heather KS

Finished task 10.7 with This Must Be the Place: A Novel. It was #68 on the July 2010 list.

Kate Racculia is a Goodreads author.

New point total: 145

KRISTEN MA

20.6 SEASONED READER - HEATHER KS'S TASK: SUMMER READING - The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly. I read it at the beach and next to a pool. ***Michael Connelly is a GOODREADS Author. I Would like to claim a GOODREADS ticket.

***Also the book had 505 pages so I would like to claim a BIG BOOKS ticket.

Total Points: 135
Tasks Completed: 8
Total Books: 11
Total Pages: 4240
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books 500+(1), 750+(1), 1000 ()

LaurenVA

30.4 -- MsOPP's Task: Summer in Europe

2. Read a book that takes place during the summer.

Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner is a Goodreads Author.

This book follows a family and what happens to them over a summer and fall. One daughter, Lizzie, is spending the summer in Philadelphia with her sister, taking care of her nephew until she is to go back to New York to start taking photography classes. The mother escapes to her childhood beach home for the summer to avoid her husband after he publicly cheats on her. She ends up staying there through the fall.

4. Read a book set in a European country.

The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

The main characters grow up and meet in Italy. Mattia eventually moves to Germany, but the two reunite in Italy for a short time.

Task Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 4
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Total Points: 45

30.7 Choose Your Own Adventure SRC Style

Used Cassandra Clare and chose Options 1 and A.

Spells by Aprilynne Pike

and

Illusions by Aprilynne Pike

This makes my point total 100.

STACIE MI

Task 25.2 - Pulitzer Prize Winners Past & Present

From the Biography or Autobiography category, I read:

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

From the Fiction category, I read:

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan is a Goodreads author!

Points this task: 25
Total points: 150
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 10
Pages read: 2455
Goodreads authors: 1
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

Emmalita

30.4 -- MsOPP's Task: Summer in Europe

Option 1:Dead Reckoning by Charlene Harris
This is on the Cool Summer Books 2011 list

Option 4:Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch
This book is set in Germany

This post: 30 points
Total points to Date: 140 points
Goodread authors: 4
Total tasks completed: 7

Laurel C

5.4 - Summmmmmmmer

I Am Not A Serial Killer (two ll's)


5.8 But No Shoplifting

(borrowed from the library)


5.10 Summer Fun

(humorous take on fantasy)


10.6 Gay Pride

(one of the two main protagonists is an openly gay man)


10.8 Baby, Its Hot Outside

(cover is bright red)


15.10 Summer time

(any book I choose)


20.2 Rookie at the Top (eleven letter word in title)

Retribution Falls


20.4 Author (strong female heroine or female author)

(meets both criteria)


20.5 Family Reunion

(story features characters of multiple generations trying to complete a quest)


20.9 Lucky Me

(this is a non-fiction book selected to help improve my skills as an artist)


25.4 Color Me Happy - rolled a dice of 5

(color of cover is blue)
(genre is murder mystery)


This Post: 155 points
Total Points to Date: 155 points
Total Tasks Completed: 11

5.10 Summer Fun
Stuff White People Like by Christian Lander

10.3 Spare Me
Empty by Suzanne Weyne
This book is set in a time where oil is really expensive (and gas) and there is a flood and food (and electricity) is hard to come by. I wouldn't want to be there, because I like living comfortably.

15.10 Easy Reading
Evernight #4: Afterlife by Claudia Gray

20.2 Netherlands is an Eleven Letter Word
Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares
Option A (Everlasting is an 11 letter word)

25.3 Ice Cream Truck
Exile by Anne Osterlund*
*Anne Osterlund is a goodreads author
Bubble Gum Bar
Powerless #1: The Synthesis by Jason Letts*
*Jason Letts is a goodreads author
Bubble Gum Bar

points = 205

5.7. Don't Stop Reading. Amazing Grace 6/29

20.3 Best Review Contest - Sera's task: Happy, Happy, Happy: I LOVE food and eating so I picked a book about food.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 6/27
I still don't like the author's tone, but I do like some of the recipes, and some of the methodology is interesting.

Points this post 25
Total points 175
Tasks Completed: 14
Books read: 15
GR Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

I'm LindseyMA And I completed 1 task.

Task 30.8 (Summer Solstice) - I read A Game of Thrones which was one of the longest books on my list (at 835 pages) and Of Mice and Men which was one of the shortest (at 107 pages). Since Game of Thrones was over 800 pages long, it gives me 1 big book ticket.

Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 6
Goodreads' authors: 2
Big Book Tickets: 1
Total Points: 135pts

Jennifer KS

15.1- Beware of Thorns-I read Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts. It fills both parts A & B because it has roses on the cover and Roses in the title.

Points this task 15
Total points 140
Pages 5123

10.10 Gimme S'more
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

Points for this post: 10
Total Points: 560
Tasks Completed: 34
Books Read: 45
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

Janice CA

5.9 The Long and Short of it.......

I read a long book (432 pages) with a short title.

Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck
4 stars

***Goodreads Author***

+5
total: 45
tasks: 5
books: 5
GR Authors: 2

10.10 -- Gimme S’more

A Thread of Truth by Marie Bostwick **Goodreads Author**

Total Points = 585
New Goodreads Author = Marie Bostwick

ANNA E

5.8 But No Shoplifting

Sister by Rosamund Lupton (Library book)

10.3 Spare Me

Trust Me by Lesley Pearse (set in an orphanage where I really wouldn't want to have grown up)

10.4 Here Kitty, Kitty

A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber (Cat on the cover)

15.3 In the Eurozone

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (author was born in Germany)
AND
When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman (set in England)

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

C. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (set in Sussex where I live)

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

Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco (Read by the pool in Corfu)

30.6 Delicious Dee's Task: Shakespeare Under the Stars

Rolled a 3 and 4 so read:

3. Yiddish Folktales by Beatrice Weinreich AND
4. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton

Total Points this posting: 110

5.7 - Don't Stop Reading


Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky *Goodreads Author*


Total points to date 160

Could I claim a *Big Book* ticket for:


My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin (Task 15.9, Post 821)

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstone...

5.4 Summmmmmer!
Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Points for this post: 5
Total Points: 565
Tasks Completed: 35
Books Read: 46
Goodreads Authors: 7
Big Book Tickets: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

Reader Board Name: Jamie IN

5.7. Don't Stop Reading. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 110
Total Tasks Completed: 8
Total Books Read: 9
Total Pages Read: 3093
Total GoodReads Authors: 2
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

15.6 Speak English- read Fringe Girl in Love by by Valerie Frankel Fring= Bangs in England

20.8 Female Authors of Sci-Fi readMatched by Ally Condie

Points this Post: 35
Total points-365/1000
Tasks Completed: 22/57
Books read: 28/77
Total pages: 8458
GR Authors: 9
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

5.2. Sun, Sea and PIRATES! Read a book about pirates.
I read:
Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas (Piratica #1) (2003) by Tanith Lee (Hardcover, 288 pages)

30 + 5 = 35




Tasks Completed: 4
Points for this task: 5
Points thus far: 30 + 5 = 35
Books read: 4
Pages Read: 1131
Read but not claimed: 7

STESSE

15.10 Summertime, And the Reading is Easy

The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels -- A Love Story by Ree Drummond (341 p.)

20.3 Best Review Contest - Sera's task: Happy, Happy, Happy

Sewing, quiliting, and crafts make me happy. I just don’t have enough time to do them very often, and the gals I used to sew/scrapbook with have moved away or “retired”! But… I joined Meetup.com to try to meet some new friends to do this hobby with… we’ll see how it goes!

The Union Quilters: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini (342 p.)

Points this Post: 35
Tasks Completed this Post: 2
Books Read this Post: 2
Pages Read this Post: 683
GoodReads Authors this Post: 1

Total Points: 250
Total Tasks Completed: 19
Total Books Read: 21
Total Pages Read: 7320
Total GoodReads Authors: 4
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels -- A Love StoryRee Drummond

20.4 Focus on My Favorite Goodreads Author- Rolled a two- The Immortals: Bird on Cover
read by Suzanne Collins

Points this Post: 20
Total points-385/1000
Tasks Completed: 23/57
Books read: 29/77
Total pages: 8849
GR Authors: 9
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

Nickboy



15.1 Beware of Thorns
A. Rose on the Cover: The Anniversary: A Novel by Amy Gutman,352 pages
D. Written by an author named Rose: Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music by Rose Rosengard Subotnik, 406 pages

15.10 Summertime and the Reading is Easy
Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa, 601 pages

Claiming one BIG BOOK for Conversation in the Cathedral

Task Points: 30
Total Points: 310/1000
Tasks Completed: 18
Books Read: 28
Pages Read: 9,060
Big Books: 500+ (4)

Need to claim Good Reads Authors--(I have already posted these, but did not claim GR Authors)
Post # 158-Task 30.1 Marlene Perez

Post # 705-Task 10.9 Chris Grabenstein
Task 15.7 Sarah Addison Allen

Total Points: 150
Total GR Author Points: 3

5.10. Summer Fun. Read a book that makes you smile, giggle, or laugh out loud! Looking for ideas? Try Best Humorous Books. Or, try this to get lots of lists: GR Lists of Humorous Books

Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding