The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

10.9 -- Around the Campfire

The Dollhouse Murders

15.5 Mind the Gap

Faefever

Task Points: 25
Total Points: 40

Jennifer KS

10.7 -- It’s Been a Year Already??!! I read Summer Island by Kristin Hannah, it was #33 on the June 2010 popular list.

Kristin Hannah is a Good Reads Author

Points this task 10
Total Points 45
Tasks done 5
Books read 5
Good Reads Authors 2
Pages 1771

Task 5.8 - But No Shoplifting!: read a free book

A Very Special Delivery by Linda Goodnight

This was a free ebook download from eHarlequin

Points this post: 5
Total points: 5

5.7 - DON'T STOP READING - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho


5.8 - NO SHOPLIFTING - The Quiet Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott


20.7 - TRIP TO THE PAST - Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli which takes place in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.


20.10 - GROUP READ - Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran.


Michelle Moran and Paulo Coelho are Goodreads authors.


TOTAL POINTS - 85
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 3
BIG BOOKS - 2

Kelly G.

20.4 Author Author - Focus on my favorite Goodreads Author. Rolled a 5. Jane Eyre by: Charlotte Brontë. Jane is poor/working class for the majority of the book. Big Ticket book - 533 pages.

Points this task: 20
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Big Ticket Books: 500(1) 750(0) 1000(0)
Goodreads Authors: 0

20.4 Author, Author--Isabell's Task:

I chose 3. Protector of Small Things and read Blackout by Connie Willis, which features two strong females among the cast of many. Merope (who goes by the alias Eileen when she is in 1940's England ) and Polly both assume roles during the Second World War that require them to support other people emotionally, financially, and in some cases, physically. They accept help from the men in the book, but do not depend on it.

20.6 Seasoned Reader

All Clear by Connie Willis was read while sitting (lolling) under a shady tree, contemplating pulling weeds.

Today's total 40
Grand total 140

5.8 - NO SHOPLIFTING - The Quiet Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott which I borrowed from the library.

TOTAL POINTS - 85
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 3
BIG BOOKS - 2

20.9 - Lucky Me! - Kate.x.'s task: Summerthing Better

For this task, read a non-fiction book on a subject that you think you need to improve on to feel better.

I am implementing a new design of the website that my husband and I run. Finishing the redesign will definitely improve my life! (Approved in task thread)

GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos by Jeff Johnson

This Post: 20
Total Points: 45
Tasks Completed: 4/57
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

I should have planned this better...

I would like to make a change. I previously claimed Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris for Task 15.10 - Summertime And The Reading Is Easy.

I would like to change this to Task 15.8 - Up In The Air. Charlaine Harris' initials are CH, which is the country code for Switzerland.

This switch makes no change to my total points.

Thanks!

Total Challenge Points = 30

Jennifer KS

5.3. The Dog Days of Summer. I read Men and Dogs: A Novel by Katie Crouch

Points this task 5
Total Points 50
Pages 2048

20.4 Author! Author!

i rolled a 6, so i chose option 3 (read a book by a female author) and read The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing. wow, what a creepy book!

Books Read: 3/ 76+
Points Completed: 40/ 1000
Tasks Completed: 2/ 57

Mary Beth

Task #15.10 - Reading Is Easy

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

563 pages claiming Big Book ticket

This Post = 15 points
Total to Date = 15 Points

10.10 Gimme S'More

Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton

This makes my total points 30.

Readerboard Name= Lindy-Lane

My Goal Points for this Season: 350
Points earned for this task: 10
Points Achieved to date: 55
Updated last on: 6.10
Total # of books read: 5
Total # of pages read: 1,677
Total # of tasks completed: 4
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 1
Total # of Big Books: 500+ (0)

Task 10.3 Spare Me... Read a book set in a place you really don't want to visit.

I have no desire to visit New York City...way too many people and too much traffic for my comfort zone.

I read (this story takes place in New York City) The Darlings Are Forever by Melissa Kantor. 336 pages (6.09)

30.8 -- Beth NC's Task: Summer Solstice

Option 2

Impulse was one of the 10 longest books on my TBR

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back was one of the 10 shortest books on my TBR

Task Points: 30
Total Points: 70

FIONA AKA TITCH:

30.10: Coralie's task: Half and Half: Bad Move - Linwood Barclay (BAD BLOOD)

10.4 -- Here Kitty, Kitty: Magic Kitten 08. A Glittering Gallop & Double Trouble #4 - Sue Bentley

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My Goal Points for this Season: 10
Points earned for this task: 10
Points Achieved to date: 10
Updated last on: 11/6/11
Total # of books read: 3
Total # of pages read: 621
Total # of tasks completed: 1 n 1/2
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 0
Total # of Big Books: 500+ (0)

Nickboy



First of all, I need to move a book, so here goes nuthin’.

I would like to move The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor from 5.8 But No Shoplifting!

This means: Total Points = 80 minus 5 = Total Points 75.

And then move it to…

15.8 Up in the Air
Moving The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor here, because Andrew Taylor’s initials – AT – are the code for Austria. (no additional page numbers)

Then add what I’ve read since my last post:

5.3. The Dog Days of Summer.
Dogs In The Moonlight by Jay Lake Plural of "dog" -- "Dogs" -- approved for use in the help thread. 188 pages

5.5 Maple Leaf Rag Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood, who is Canadian. 336 pages

15.3 In the EuroZone
A. Country that uses the Euro – The Second Objective by Mark Frost, set in Belgium, 336 pages
B. Country that does not use the Euro -- Wreckers by Julie Hearn set in the U.K. (Cornwall), 352 pages

Task Points: 40
Total Points: 115/1000
Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 12
Pages Read: 3,700
Big Books: 500+ (1)

Stacey

10.9 Around the Campfire
The Turn of the Screw

15.8 Up in the Air
Breaking Dawn
by Stephenie Meyer
(Country code: SM for San Marino.)
Breaking Dawn is a Big Book, at 754 pages

New points: 25
Total points: 35

20.1 -- Birthday Time!

Option 2 - Read a book that has the number of your birth day (numeric or ordinal) in the title -- my birthday is June 3rd so I read:

Why My Third Husband Will Be A Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman by Lisa Scottoline

Points this post: 20
Total Points: 40

Leslie NJ

5.6 As American as.......: Read My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches from Just the Other Side of Young by Stephanie Dolgoff.

5.9 The Long and Short of It: Read Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering by David Gregory at 112 pages.

20.9 Summerthing Better: Read 30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog by Tamar Geller.

**I read this book because I have a 7 month old puppy that I want to train to be a well-mannered dog. I think that it is important for my well-being to have a well-trained dog and this author's methods work well with my dog.

This post: 30 points

Total to Date = 120 points

monkeytoe

Task #20.4 - Happy, happy, happy

The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig

I love research and the framing story fo the novel involves reasearch for a graduate dissertation.

This post: 20 pts
Total to date: 35 pts

25.4 Color Me Happy
Rolled 1: red.
1. red cover:The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

5. romance: The Heart of Texas by RJ Scott
approved for length in ebook verification thread
** R.J. Scott is a Goodreads Author **

Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 255
Tasks Completed: 17
Books Read: 20
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Book Tickets: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

KRISTEN MA

15.8 UP IN THE AIR - Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris. The country is Switzerland and the code is CH.

Total Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 1
Total Books: 2
Total Pages: 1317
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books 500+(), 750+(), 1000+()

5.9. The Long and the Short of It.

Scary Stories 3 More Tales to Chill Your Bones

A short book with a long title.

Task points: 5
Total points: 75

Jennifer KS

5.4. S U M M M M M M E R. I read Secret Keepers by Mindy Friddle

Mindy Friddle is a Good Reads Author

Points this task 5
Total points 55
Good Reads Authors 3
Pages 2341

10.5 -- What’s Next?

My 5 star book was Worst Case by James Patterson and when I put it in to the search engine. Safe Harbour by Danielle Steel was one of the choices. So I read

Safe Harbour by Danielle Steel

I usually like her books but I found this one to be just way too predictable and a bit of a snore.

Total Points = 195

STACIE MI

Task 20.3 - Happy, Happy, Happy

Road trips are something that make me happy, so I read Lost At Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley.

The story takes place on a road trip.

Points this task: 20
Total points: 45
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3
Pages read: 513
Goodreads authors: 0
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

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10.10 - Gimme S'more

Bitter End (* * *)

20.10 - Group Read

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution (* * *)
* Michelle Moran is a Goodreads author

Points this post: 30
Total points: 185
Tasks completed: 11
Books: 14
Pages: (will update this later - it doesn't affect my total anyway)
Big Book tickets: 0
Goodreads authors: 1

My first post, I hope I do this correctly!

10.9 Around the Campfire
Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley

Total points: 10

20.6 Maid to Match by Deeanne Gist

I read this book while I was watching my kids do swimming lessons and while traveling in the car on a summer trip.

Total Points: 40

15.6 Speak English
The Cider House Rules by John Irving

Chose the word "cider" meaning an alcoholic beverage

This is a big book at 587 pages

Post Total: 15
Grand Total: 135
Big Books: 1

REBEKAH

15.5 Mind The Gap
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)

This is the second book out of three published so far of the Flavia de Luce series

15 pts - Task Total
25pts - Grand Total
1 - Goodreads Author

NICOLE VA

10.7 -- It’s Been a Year Already??!!

I read Only the Good Spy Young which was #8 on the list for June 2010.

Total points = 85

5.5. Maple Leaf Rag
Born to Bite by Lynsay Sands

10.3 -- Spare Me
Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann (Goodreads author)
This book is set in a very small town with a population of 212. I wouldn't want to visit such a small town. No In N Out Burger, No Starbucks, YIKES!!!!

10.8 -- Baby, It's Hot Outside!
by Joanne Fluke

20.5 Bigger is Better - Sue T's task: Family Reunion
Option B: After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughn (Goodreads author)
This was approved for "Family Saga" in the help thread message #40. The story is about how a woman deals with being the daughter of superheroes without having any powers of her own, and the family problems that she tackles.

Total Points This Post: 45
Total Tasks This Post: 4
Goodreads Authors This Post: 2
Grand Total Points: 115/1000
Total Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 8/57
Total Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Book Tickets This Post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 1

Dlmrose

5.6 As American As...

American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads by Pascale Le Draoulec

Enjoyable, but it incited pie cravings

5.10 Summer Fun

Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite by June Casagrande

I live with a grammar snob, so this was hysterical to me. It's not a concise grammar guide. It does explain why grammar can be so confusing.

10.1 For Real?

Soulless by Gail Carriger

10.3 Spare Me

God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant

I would not want to go to Sierra Madre- drug cartels, bandits, corruption, and a murder rate 8 times that of the most dangerous American cities.

10.4 Here Kitty, Kitty

Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat by David Dosa

A dear friend entered an Alzheimer's care facility this week. This book was comforting.

10.9 Around the Campfire

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

Some of these stories were so strong I wish they had been novels of their own.

total = 100

Delicious Dee

5.3. The Dog Days of Summer.
Kiss of Snow - Nalini Singh (GR Author)

5.5. Maple Leaf Rag.
Love Bites

5.7. Don't Stop Reading.
Catalyst - Laurie Halse Anderson (GR Author)

10.4 -- Here Kitty, Kitty
The Mane Event - lion shifter

10.6 -- Gay Pride
Broken Rules - Jade Buchanan (GR Author)

15.1- Beware of Thorns
(Rose in the title and on the cover) - A.J. Llewellyn (GR Author)

15.2 Summer Stock - Finished
A. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
B.Our Town

15.4 Summer Shorts
Candy Cane Murder - anthology of 3 authors

20.6 Seasoned Reader - Heather KS's task: Summer Reading
My One and Only – during the summer, I love to read outside, especially when I take the dog to the park in the afternoons (although it normally goes, read a couple of pages, throw the Frisbee, read a few and repeat)…so I read my book at the park over the last few days, it has been gorgeous out here

Total Points this Post: 100
Total Points in Challenge: 100
Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 9
GR Authors: 4
Big Book Tickets: 500+(0); 750+(0); 1000+(0)

10.4 - Here Kitty, Kitty: Magic Kitten 08. A Glittering Gallop - Sue Bentley

CHRISTINE US

Task 5.2 PIRATES
The Pirate Lord by Sabrina Jeffries

***Sabrinda Jeffries is a GR author

Task 5.4 SUMMMMER

The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
There are double letters in Kepper, Addison & Allen

****SAA is a GR author

Task 15.5 Mind the Gap
Ceremony in Death by JD Robb
This is book #5 in a series that is currently around book #30

Task 30.7 Choose your Adventure
Book #1: The Last Viking by Sandra Hill
Book #2: Truly, Madly Viking by Sandra Hill

I started by picking option #1, using Linda Howard from last summer's challenge.
Then for the 2nd book, I used option #1 again.

Total: 75

Task 10.3 Spare Me!

Personally I wouldn't want to go to Australia because I'm terrified of spiders and the thought of being in a country where they can KILL you...*shudder*

The Dead Of Night by John Marsden

Points this task:10
Total Points:65
Goodreads Authors:2
Big Book Tickets:0

15.1 Beware of Thorns

The Tudor Rose by Margaret Campbell Barnes

I'm claiming A and B - Rose is in the title and she is holding a rose in her hand.



Points for this task: 15
Total points: 40
Task Completed: 3
Books Read: 3

15.5 Mind the Gap-



Dead and Alive ( Dean Koontz's Frankenstein #03 ) DEAD AND ALIVE ( DEAN KOONTZ'S FRANKENSTEIN #03 ) by Koontz, Dean R. ( Author) on Jul, 28, 2009 Mass Market Paperbound by Dean Koontz

This was # 3 in the Frankenstein series out of 5.

Total Points = 210

Stacey

5.5 Maple Leaf Rag
Mercury (set in Canada)
Hope Larson is a Goodreads author.

5.7 Don't Stop Reading
Mockingbird

New points: 10
Total points: 45

15.10 Summertime, And the Reading is Easy

Disney after Dark

20.5 - Family Reunion

D - A character is trying to uncover a family secret:

House of Silence by Linda Gillard*Goodreads Author*

This was approved in the help thread, and as it's only available for Kindle also approved for length.



Total points to date 45

REBEKAH
Re-post for message 171
Task 10.3 - Spare Me
1984 by George Orwell

This book was set in what was the future at the time it was published. Ominous "Big Brother is Watching You" has even become a catchphrase now in our pop culture because the idea of no privacy and always being monitored seems so uncomfortable and like virtual prison that one always feels they must guard against it really happening. Thought Police?, Tortured confessions? Abolishment of romantic love? Chronic war? Children trained to spy on parents? The nation's motto, "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength", well need I say more? Who would want to live like that?! Hell on earth!

+10 pts - Task Total
25 pts - Grand Total
1 - GoodReads Author

Please can I claim another Goodreads Author ticket for Elly Griffiths. I missed it in post 82. I read The Janus Stone.

That will make 3 Goodreads Author tickets to date.

Thanks!

5.8 No Shoplifting

The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen Good Reads Author

I won this book in a drawing on Good Reads.

Points this post: 5
Total Points: 10
Total Books: 2
Total pages: 683
Good Reads Author: 1
Big Books: 0

20.6 Summer Reading readThe Midnight Twins I listened to this while walking the dog, sitting outside on break at work. while on the computer surfing, while playing Sims, and in the car.

20.9 Summerthing Better read Eat This Not That: Thousands of Simple Food Swaps That Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds—or More! by David Zinczenko to improve my health and weight.

30.2 AKA read Love You Hate You Miss You by Elizabeth Scott who also wrote Low Red Moon as Ivy Devlin (Goodreads Author)

Both Elizabeth Scott and Ivy Devlin are goodreads authors



Points this post 70
Total Point Earned:160 /1000
Pages Read: 3882
Books Read: 12/77
Task Completed 9/57
Good Read Authours: 5
Big Book Tickets: 500(1), 750(), 1000()

10.2 Phone Home

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

10 Points

10.9 Around the Campfire

The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill

10 Points

20.8 Female Authors of Sci-Fi

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

20 Points

Total Points: 40
Total Books Read: 9
Total Tasks Completed: 3