The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

Completed tasks:

5.1- On the Shore Stay
5.4- Consecutive Ps Sloppy Firsts GR
5.5- Canadian author Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale GR
5.6 American "Pie" The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie GR
5.7 Teenreads choice: Wintergirls GR
5.9: Long title, short book: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Points this post 30
Total Point Earned: 30/1000
Pages Read:1748
Books Read: 6/77
Task Completed 6/57
Good Read Authours: 4
Big Book Tickets: 500(0), 750(0), 1000(0)

10.1 What if: Soulless
10.3 Setting (hate snow in Wyoming) Unearthly
10.6 Pride:Will Grayson, Will Grayson
10.7 June 2010The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
10.8 Hot Cover:
10.10 Author from before: Melina Marchetta The Piper's Son

Points this post 60
Total Point Earned: 90/1000
Pages Read:3855
Books Read: 12/77
Task Completed 12/57
Good Read Authours: 9
Big Book Tickets: 500(0), 750(0), 1000(0)

15.3 Donoghue was born in Ireland! Room
Mahoney was born in the UK The Iron Witch
15.5 Part of a seriesArchangel's Kiss
15.7 Goodread's Choice awards: Best YA fiction:The Sky Is Everywhere
15.8 Monaco=MC=Megan Megan McCafferty Second Helpings
15.10 Any book Where She Went

Points this post 75
Total Point Earned: 135/1000
Pages Read:5307
Books Read: 18/77
Task Completed 15/57
Good Read Authours: 13
Big Book Tickets: 500(0), 750(0), 1000(0)

Lisa MD

COMPLETED TASKS:

20.5 Bigger is Better - Sue T's task: Family Reunion
Option B - A fictional "family saga" book (min 200 pg)
❀The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon READ 8.13.11
GOODREADS AUTHOR

30.1 Cheryl TX's task: Best Friends and Lovers
A. an author who shares a name with your current or past best friend - A former good friend/roommate named Jenny
❀Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino READ 8.17.11

B. number 7 in the title in any form (7, 17, 70) including series names and subtitles OR seven words in the title OR "Festival, Double, Night, Birthday, Valentine, Chinese, Lunar, Goddess, Queen, Jade, Emperor, Heaven" in title
❀Night Road by Kristin Hannah READ 8.9.11
GOODREADS AUTHOR

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TOTAL TASKS COMPLETED: 29/57
TOTAL BOOKS READ: 35
TOTAL POINTS: 465/1000
TOTAL GOODREADS AUTHORS: 19
BIG BOOK TICKETS: 500+[ ] 750+[ ] 1000+[ ]

KIM NY

5.8. But No Shoplifting!

I read by Gayle Forman. I borrowed this book from the library.

Points this post: 5
Total points for challenge: 270

5.6 As American As...
by Joanne Fluke

10.9 Around the Campfire
Menschenhafen by John Ajvide Lindqvist

15.1 Beware of Thorns
I chose to read two books of the same option, for option A
by Laura Childs and by Paul Richardson (there's roses on the table)

20.2 Netherlands is an eleven letter word
I chose option A: by A. Lee Martinez

20.3 Happy, Happy, Happy
I'm always happy when I can cuddle on the sofa with my boyfriend and watch a movie, so I chose to read Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett.

20.6 Summer Reading
My favorite summer activity is going to festivals. I went to Slovenia for a one-week festival called Metalcamp and there I read Das Evangelium nach Satan by Patrick Graham

30.1 Best Friends and Lovers
For Part A I read Ein Jahr in Montreal: Reise in den Alltag by Maria Rosaria Di Palo. One of my best friends is called Maria too.
And for Part B option C I read The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

Points total: 230
Tasks completed: 21

ANGIE CA

30.3 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Book 1: Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill
Notes: "Friday" in title.
*GoodReads Author*
Book 2: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Notes: "French" in title.
*GoodReads Author*

30.7 Choose Your Own Adventure
Book 1: Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill
Notes: Option 1- Used Richelle Mead to get a new author. I did this task before 30.3, so Chloe Neill was a new author to me. I read a "0 page" ebook, so the paperback has 341 pages.
*GoodReads Author*
Book 2: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Notes: Option B, Option 1- Used Chloe Neill to get a new author.

This post: 60
Total to date: 470
GR Authors: 22
BB Tickets: 1 [500(1); 750(0); 1000(0)]
Books Read: 35

Erin NY

Sorry I haven't posted in a while and have a lot to report:

5.7 Book from the teen ultimate reading list
If I Stay by Gayle Forman

10.1 Speculative Fiction
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
(was approved in the task help thread)

10.3 Place you don't want to go to
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
Most of the book takes place is South-East Asia (Laos and Thailand), where I have no desire to travel to

20.3 Book about something that make you happy
Who Loves You Best by Tess Stimson
I love playing with my twin daughters, they make me really happy. This book is about a mother of twins embracing motherhood.

30.2 2 books by the same author who writes under different names
Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott
Low Red Moon by Ivy Devlin
* both Ivy Devlin and Elizabeth Scott are goodreads authors

Total Points: 335
Tasks Completed: 21
Tasks in Progress: 8
Books Read: 32
Pages Read: 10188

5.7. Don't Stop Reading

Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan.

*David Levithan is a goodreads author*

Points this post: 5
Total Points: 685
Total Tasks Completed: 40
Total Books Read: 52
Total GoodReads Authors: 20
Big book tickets: 4

In post number 379 I read Rebel Angels by Libba Bray but didn't claim her as a goodreads author, which she is.

I'd like to add this one to my goodreads author count which should now be 21.

Thanks! :)

10.5 - WHAT'S NEXT - I entered The School of Essential Ingredients and read Playing For Pizza from the list.


30.7 - CHOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE - I entered Sarah Addison Allen into the literature map and chose to read The Safe-Keeper's Secret by Sharon Shinn. I then chose to read another book by Shinn and read Gateway.


TOTAL POINTS - 740
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 26
BIG BOOKS - 4

Task 30.9 Vacation Time

A)In my first book,the author is an international cricket player and in this book he plays in three countries-England, Australia and South Africa.

A Year in the Sun by Michael Vaughan

B)I chose a book with the word 'sea' in title

Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs by Andy Hillstrand


Points this task:30
Total Points:560
Goodreads Authors:11
Big Book Tickets:5

30.6: Shakespeare Under the Stars

For part A, I rolled a 5 and read A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah which tells the story of a boy soldier.

For part B, I rolled a 4 and read My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart which is a murder mystery around the death of Michael.

I also noticed that I forgot to claim Goodreads author Ticket. I read Paulo Coelho for task 15.3. Coelho is a goodreads author.

Points this task: 30
Total Points: 345
Goodreads Authors: Berwin, Skye, Coelho
Big Books: 500+: 1

50.1 Emily-Kate's Task: Hodge-Podge


A. Read a book by an author you've read and liked.
Lord John and the Private Matter

C. Read a book with a 1-word title
Coraline **Neil Gaiman is a Goodreads author**

D. Read a book that a friend rated 5 stars
Chainfire Deirdre rated it 5 stars
Claiming 2 big book tickets for 756 pages


Points This Post: 50
Big Book Tickets claimed this post: 2
GR Authors read this post: 1

Total Big Book Tickets earned this season: 5
GR Authors read this season: 2
Total Points: 175

M_ELLEREADS

25.3: Ice Cream Truck:
Choose TWO Bubble Gum Bars treats:
The Shadows: The Books of Elsewhere: Volume 1 by Jacqueline West (GOODREADS AUTHOR)
Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter

Task Points: 25
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 241 + 298 = 539


Total Accumulated Points: 175
Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter

AMANDA A


5.10 - Summer Fun
On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison

10.7 - It’s Been a Year Already (August 2010 #87)
1022 Evergreen Place by Debbie Macomber

20.3 Best Review Contest - Sera's task: Happy, Happy, Happy
My dog makes me happy.
One Good Dog by Susan Wilson
Susan Wilson is a Goodreads Author

20.5 Bigger is Better - Sue T's task: Family Reunion
C. A fictional book set in your local area or region.
Baby, Come Home by Stephanie Bond
This book is set in the North Georgia mountains which are nearby.

20.8 It's My Birthday - Riona's task: Female Authors of Sci-Fi
This author was listed on the Female Sci-Fi shelf in the task description.
Changeless by Gail Carriger

Points this post: 75
Total Points: 635
Goodreads Authors: 23 (1 this post)

15.7 - The Readers Have Chosen


My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira - Historical Fiction



Total points to date 385

Task 10.8 Baby, It's Hot Outside!

By Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi are both Goodreads Authors

Points this post: 10
Total Points: 115


Total Tasks Completed: 9
Total Books Read: 9
Total Pages Read:2809
Total GoodReads Authors: 8

RACHEL CA: 420 pts total

25.05 U.S. PATRIOTS
1) The Inheritance by Louisa May Alcott
2) The American by Henry James (Mr. Newman, the main character, was previously a colonel in the U.S. army)

Points: 25
Total points: 420
Tasks completed: 26
Books read: 34
Goodreads authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

30.1 -- Cheryl TX's task: Best Friends and Lovers
Part A of this task, read a book by an author who shares a name with your current or past best friend.
My friend Susan was my college roommate in addition to being part of my high school gang.

Girl in Hyacinth Blue (1999) by Susan Vreeland (Paperback, 242 pages)

Part B
3) Read a book with one of the following words in the title. The word must be exactly as printed here:
Festival, Double, Night, Birthday, Valentine, Chinese, Lunar, Goddess, Queen, Jade, Emperor, Heaven.

A Night in the Lonesome October (1993) by Roger Zelazny ; illustrated by Gahan Wilson (Hardcover, 280 pages)
Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1994)


435 + 30 = 465




Tasks Completed: 24
Points for this task: 30
Points thus far: 435 + 30 = 465
Books read: 36
Pages Read: 10,809

Read but not claimed: 6
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books:
(1) 500+
(0) 750 +
(0) 1000 +

ALICIA T.

15.10 Summertime, and the Reading is Easy

I read Disney after Dark by Ridley Pearson


10.2 Phone Home

I read I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore


Points this Post: 25
Total Points: 240

BJ Rose

1 new task

50.1 - Emily Kate's Task: Hodge-Podge
1. Book 700+ pages + Part of Series: The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon @ 979 pages = Options A & D
2. Goodreads Author: Stardust by Neil Gaiman = Options A & C & D & H
3. Part of Series & Goodreads Author: Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean = Options A & D & F

Sarah MacLean is a Goodreads Author
Neil Gaiman is a Goodreads Author

Claiming 2 Big Book Tickets for The Fiery Cross at 979 pages


Points this post = 50

Total Points = 635

Tasks Completed = 35
Pages Read = 18,386
GR Authors = 11
Big Books: (500+) = 2
Big Books: (750+) = 3

STACIE MI

Task 15.7 - The Readers Have Chosen

I read a book that was nominated in the Graphic Novels & Comics category:

Mercury by Hope Larson

**Hope Larson is a Goodreads author**

Points this task: 15
Total points: 740
Tasks completed: 41
Books read: 56
Pages read: 14264
Goodreads authors: 11
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

Task 25.1 Tennis Anyone?
Book 1 Contains the word "game"
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Book 2 Professional Tennis Player as major character
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie

25.6 European Landmarks
The Louvre: story about an artist
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Westminster Abbey: author buried there
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
***Margaret Atwood is a GR Author***

30.8 Summer Solstice
Option 1
Dark Book #47 on Quality Dark Books : The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells and
Light Book #1 on Best Humorous Books: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Points this Post: 80
Total Summer Points: 1000
Tasks Completed: 57/57

Congrats Kate!

10.6 Gay Pride

I read The Invisible Bridge by Julia Orringer. ***Julie Orringer (Author) is a Goodreads author.

CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!!!

One of the main characters, Eli Polaner, is a gay, Jewish, Hungarian man in 1937-42 in Hungary and Paris. He is abused at architectural school when he is outed (by a self-hating gay man with whom he has had a relationship). He enlists in the French Foreign Legion when the Nazis occupy Paris. After being shipped to a labor camp and witnessing one of the first reported mass killings of Jews in Hungary, he is able, after much abuse from Nazis and great kindness from one, to return to his homeland and his friends. He and his surviving friends and their families make their way to America after the war.

total points: 305
Books read: 26
Tasks completed: 16
Goodreads authors: 10
Big Books 1 (750+)
pages read: 8347

ADEL

10.2 -- Phone Home.
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore.

Points for task: 10.

20.4 Author, Author - Isabell's task: Focus on My Favorite Goodreads Author.
I rolled a 3 so my task was to read a book featuring a strong female heroine or a book written by a female author.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

The color purple is about an african american lady that is married off young yet gains the confidence to leave and make a better life for herself, it is also written by a woman.

Points for task: 20.

20.5 Bigger is Better - Sue T's task: Family Reunion.
B. A fictional "family saga" book.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

The Kite Runner is about a father and son that leave Afghanistan and head to America for a better life. It tells about the generation of 3 in this family.

Points for task: 20.

20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Sandy MN's task: A Trip to the Past.
The Bridge to Holy Cross by Paullina Simons.

The bridge to Holy Cross is a historical fiction set in World War 2, Germany.

Claiming big book 500 please. (556 pages)

Points for task: 20.

Points earnt this post: 70 points.
Total Point Earned: 245
Total Pages Read: 6677 pages.
Total Books Read: 18
Good Read Authors: 4
Big Book Tickets: 500(4), 750(), 1000()

50.1 Hodge-Podge

1. Book 700+ pages and H. more than 25K ratings:
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Big book: 500+ pages

2. Book by a Goodreads Author and F. published in 2011:
Muscling Through by J.L. Merrow
Approved for length in ebook verification thread
J.L. Merrow is a Goodreads Author

3. Book that is part of a series and A. by an author I have already read and liked:
Lessons in Love by Charlie Cochrane
Charlie Cochrane is a Goodreads Author

Points for this post: 50
Total Points: 945
Tasks Completed: 55
Books Read: 75
Goodreads Authors: 17
Big Book Tickets: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0

Great going Kate!

Rosemary you are getting really close!

Sheila wrote: "Great going Kate!

Rosemary you are getting really close!"

Yes I should finish, but not by 19th! I have 3 books to read.
You finished so fast Sheila! I bet you are looking forward to the tasks being posted for the next one :-)

This is my last book! I finished!!!

10.7 -- It’s Been a Year Already??!! - One Day by David Nicholls
June 2010 # 42

Total Points: 1000
Tasks Completed: 57
Pages Read: 20473
Books Read:77
Goodreads Authors: 22
Big Book Tickets (3) 500

ANGIE CA

20.6 Summer Reading
Book: Luck of the Devil by Patricia Eimer
Notes: I read this on my brand new Kindle, under the fan, escaping the nasty Californian Summer heat.
*GoodReads Author*

This post: 20
Total to date: 490
GR Authors: 23
BB Tickets: 1 [500(1); 750(0); 1000(0)]
Books Read: 36

Shannon South Africa

5.8 But no Shoplifting!

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Borrowed from the library

Task points = 5
Total points = 140

Christina wrote: "This is my last book! I finished!!!

10.7 -- It’s Been a Year Already??!! - One Day by David Nicholls
June 2010 # 42

Total Points: 1000
Tasks Completed: 57
Pages Read: 20473
Books ..."

Congrats, Christina!

Wow, congratulations to all of the finishers. 1000 points!

Christina's done - yea!!!

Rosemary wrote: "Sheila wrote:
Yes I should finish, but not by 19th! I have 3 books to read.
You finished so fast Sheila! I bet you are looking forward ..."

Yep it is hard to wait. I am looking forward to tomorrow's posting. Picking the books is one of my very favorite parts of the challenge.

Jenny Chicago

Task 10.8 Baby Its Hot Outside: I read and really enjoyed by Daniel Silva

Task 10.10 Gimme Smore: I read Cover Her Face by P.D. James. Although this is the first in the Adam Daglish series, its not my first P.D. James or Adam Daglish book.

Total Points This Post 20
Total Points: 170
Good Reads Authors: 4
Big Book Tickets: 3

Congratulations to all who finished!! I am like you, Sheila - looking forward to planning my next reading blitz!

mstan wrote: "Congratulations to all who finished!! I am like you, Sheila - looking forward to planning my next reading blitz!"

Got my spreadsheet ready to go. I can't believe how revved I get about a new SRC being posted. I read all the time anyway, but it is just so much fun seeing how books I am planning on reading anyway can be slotted into a task.

AND I appreciate our moderators be willing to devote another season to the SRC. Lots of work and dedication on their end I'm sure.

Sheila wrote: "mstan wrote: "Congratulations to all who finished!! I am like you, Sheila - looking forward to planning my next reading blitz!"

Got my spreadsheet ready to go. I can't believe how revved I get a..."

I am with you. I read all the time but there is just something great about finding that one special book to fit the task. Its quite fullfilling. I think it also helps me to choose next to read and I am a spreadsheet NUT!!!! any reason to do a spreadsheet makes me happy.

congrats to all who have already finished and tmrw can't get here any faster!

I can't wait to see the tasks - this is the perfect reward to finally finishing my killer written exam that is due tonight ;)

STESSE

10.10 -- Gimme S’more

Force of Nature by Suzanne Brockmann
(audiobook, but 512 p. = mass market paperback)
This is a BIG BOOK.

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

A. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (400 p)

B. Warlord by Ted Bell (main character was in military) (688 p.)
This is a BIG BOOK. Ted Bell is a GoodReads Author.

Points this Post: 35
Tasks Completed this Post: 2
Books Read this Post: 3
Pages Read this Post: 1600
GoodReads Authors this Post: 1
Big Books this Post: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

Total Points: 800
Total Tasks Completed: 48
Total Books Read: 63
Total Pages Read: 23286
Total GoodReads Authors: 16
Total Big Books: 500+ (5), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

Heather KS

Finished task 15.10 Anything (my favorite kind of task!!)

I read This Is Where I Leave You

New point total: 375

Heather KS

Finished task 20.6 Summer Reading

I read The Lonely Polygamist

Read in the pool, while getting my highlights and pedicure, and lounging around my backyard

This book had 599 pages, so I'm also claiming a big book ticket

New point total: 395

Cindy F

Task 5.6 As American As "Pie" in the title

I read by Mary Ann Shaffer

Points this post: 5
Total Points: 285
Tasks completed: 18
Books read: 24
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Books:1

25.2 Pulitzer Winners

Biography/Autobiography, 1997: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Fiction, 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Points for this post: 25
Total Points: 970
Tasks Completed: 56
Books Read: 77
Goodreads Authors: 17
Big Book Tickets: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0

5.8 – But No Shoplifting! - Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line by Abby Johnson

Borrowed from the library.

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Points Claiming: 5
Total Points: 320

BJ Rose

1 new task

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

First Die - I rolled a #3 - read a book of short stories or an anthology (the book must contain at least 3 stories).
Secrets of a Perfect Night by Stephanie Laurens, et al

Second Die - I rolled a #4 - read a murder mystery. The mystery MUST involve a murder - a guest author is murdered in the bathroom of the bookstore during a book-signing
Bookmarked For Death by Lorna Barrett

Lorna Barrett is a Goodreads Author


Points this post = 30

Total Points = 665

Tasks Completed = 36
Pages Read = 19,060
GR Authors = 12
Big Books: (500+) = 2
Big Books: (750+) = 2

sclosson

20.9 - Summerthing Better
Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous! by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
I need to learn about healthy eating and living a healthier life. This book gave ways and reasons to cut things out of your diet and explained those mystery ingredients on labels and what they can do to you. It also gave a month's worth of menus!

Points: 20
Total Points: 280
Tasks Completed: 16