The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

KAREN F

5.8 S.O.N.

Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison

**Thea Harrison is a Goodreads Author**

15.9 Get Out the Winter Clothes

The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn

Glove on the cover:

**Julia Quinn is a Goodreads Author**

Points this Post: 20
Total Challenge Points: 20
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500+(0),750+(0),1000+(0)

BUTTERFLYCAGER

15.6 Brrrrrr! Read a book with "ber" in title.

Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris

Points this post: 15
Total challenge points: 40
Tasks completed: 5
Books read: 5
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

10.3 - Headless Horseman


The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin



Total points to date 25

5.4 54

I read Hector and the Search for Happiness by Francois Lelord, which has 135 pages

Points this post: 5
Total Points: 20

Jess Philly

10.6 Big Game Hunter

I finally got around to actually reading A Game of Thrones, which according to my book and the corresponding goodreads edition has 714 pages.

Total Points: 10
Big Book Tickets: 1

Jennifer KS

10.7 - Hot Off The Presses I read The Union Quilters: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini.

This was published February 2011

Points this task 10
Total Points 10
pages 352

10.2: Queen of Denial No Place to Run by Maya Banks

10.5: Blood Moon Blood Stains by Sharon Sala ** Sharon Sala is a Goodreads Author**

10.8: Readers Also Enjoyed Save the Date by Jenny B. Jones which was also enjoyed by readers of The Art of Romance **Jenny B Jones is a Goodreads Author**


Points this Post 30

Total Points 30/1100
Tasks Completed 3/61
Books Read 4/86
Total Pages Read 1274
Goodreads Author 2
Big Books 0

Nickboy.

First Post of the Fall Challenge.

5.7 African Safari. The White Nile by Alan Moorehead, 385 pages, Books for an African Safari

5.9 Back to School. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, Newberry Honor, 2003, 304 pages

This post: 10 points
Total Points: 10 points
Total pages: 689

5.10 - Women and Cats, Men and Dogs

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Goodreads Author


15.7. Beginnings and endings

Dreams of the Dead by Perri O'Shaughnessy

Total Points = 40
New Goodreads Author = Garth Stein

Liora


15.1 Bye Bye

Retired hurricane name: Allison, 2001
Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator by Jennifer Allison, 336 pages
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn, 2001, 205 pages

Points this post: 15
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 3
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

5.5-Birth of a Nation

How Institutions Think by Mary Douglas

This book was published in July 1986

Total Books Read: 1
Total Challenges Completed: 1
Total Pages Read: 146
Big Book Tickets:0
GoodReads Author Tickets:0
Total Points: 5

Username: TANYAPT

Task: 20.7 Shorter is Sweeter (using book from my own TBR shelf)
Book: Orientation: And Other Stories, Daniel Orozco

Points this post: 20
Total Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

Sandy MN

20.5 Bigger is Better- Katy's task: Falling

Option D

Divergent by Veronica Roth
This is the first (and most recently published) book in the Divergent series.

**Goodreads Author**

Total Points:20
Total GR authors: 1

10.1 In their own Words read Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore

20.7 Refreshingly Short read Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler used my TBR list.


Points this Post: 30
Total points- 30
Tasks Completed: 2
Books read: 2
Pages Read : 467
GR Authors:
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

BJ Rose

3 new tasks

5.1 - Boo! It's Halloween time! Read a book with: skeleton on the cover.
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley

15.1. Bye, bye! Retired Hurricane Names
I chose the 1-book option:

B. One book - Read one book by an author whose name is on the “retired names” list that was published in the same year that the name was retired.

The Road to Avalon by Joan Wolf was published in 1988, the same year that 'Joan' was retired

20.10 Group Read
Read one of the following Group Read Selections and make at least one post in the discussion thread for that book.

"Magical Realism" - The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen - I commented in post #5

Sarah Addison Allen is a Goodreads Author
Alan Bradley is a Goodreads Author
Joan Wolf is a Goodreads Author

Points this post = 40

Total Points = 40

Tasks Completed = 3
Total Pages = 1029
Goodreads Authors = 3
Big Books = 0

20.7 Refreshingly short

The Budding Tree by Aiko Kitahara it was added to my own TBR in August of 2008 and comes in at 161 pages

Total points: 20

20.5 Bigger is Better- Katy's task: Falling
E. I was staring up at a strange thing in the sky and lost my balance!
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

Points this post: 20
Total challenge points: 20
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

25.2 Math Class
Perdido Street Station
(1 book, 600+ pages)

Claiming both Goodreads Author and Big Book tickets for this one.

New points: 25
Total pointS: 35

BUTTERFLYCAGER

10.8 Readers Also Enjoyed

My original book was Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher.

On its Readers Also Enjoyed list was:

Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow

This book contains a story by Melissa Marr, who is a Goodreads Author.


This book has 539 pages = Big Book


Points this post: 10
Total challenge points: 50
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 6
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0

10.7 Hot Off The Presses

Sister by Rosamund Lupton
published June 7, 2011

Rosamund Lupton is a Goodreads Author.

Points this post: 10
Total points: 10
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Goodreads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

15.1 Bye, Bye

The name Thomas was retired in 2010

Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy was published in 2010.


***Big Book 950 pp***

Points this post: 15
Total Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
GoodReads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

5.2 - Lat & Long

The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri

I live in the US and this takes place in Italy and Sicily

Total Points = 45

15.7-Book where title begins and ends with the same letter.

I read Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn.


Points this post: 15
Total points: 15
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 2
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

Stacey

5.5 Birth of a Nation
Old Man's Cave

5.6 Labor Day
The Great Cow Race by Jeff Smith

15.4 It's Not Too Late
A: Ghost Circles (intended for last challenge's task 5.9 "No Shoplifting" - from the library)
B: FreakAngels: Volume 5

15.7 Beginnings and Endings
Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border

15.8 Stormy Weather
Eyes of the Storm

30.3 E-Ticket Ride
A: Cinderella's Castle: The Fire Rose
B: Fantasyland: Crown of Horns

New points: 85
Total points: 120

CHRISTINE US

Task 15.5 I can see my House...

Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick

***Janice Hamrick is a GR author

Total: 20

Kathy G.

5.10- Women and Cats, Men and Dogs
Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan

Total Points- 10
Total Tasks- 2
Goodreads Authors- 0
Big Books- 0

20.7 - Refreshingly Short
I read The Wave by Todd Strasser which is 138 pages and from my own TBR list sorted by date added.

Total Points: 20

20.10 Group Read


The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen Goodreads Author

I posted comment #6 in discussion forum


Total Points = 65
New Goodreads Author = Sarah Addison Allen

Coralie
15.6 Brrrrrrrrrrr
Nine Princes in Amber read in The Chronicles of Amber

Total points 15

10.1 - In Their Own Words: Read any book by an author interviewed by Goodreads Voice

I read Dead Reckoningby Charlaine Harris for this task.

Task Total: 10
Challenge Total: 10

LauraFL

10.3 Moniker Math

The King's Mistress by Emma Campion. My readerboard name has seven letters, as does Campion's last name.

10.7 Hot Off the Presses

Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands: A Young Politician's Quest for Recovery in the American West by Roger L. Di Silvestro

Today's total 20
Grand total 50

Colleen MN

Completed Task 10.3

I read "The Thin Man" by Dashiell Hammett.

Point this Task: 10

Total points: 10

20.10 Group reads

I read The Peach Keeper and posted on the discussion thread

Sarah Addison Allen is a **Good reads author**

total points: 30
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 2
Goodreads authros: 1
Pages: 655

Heather KS

Finished task 15.4 Late/Wait

I read The Journals of Eleanor Druse: My Investigation of the Kingdom Hospital Incident. It fit task 5.8 from the Summer Challenge as I was given this book for free.

I also read The Summer of Naked Swim Parties. I just purchased this book and read it right away!

Point total: 15

Readerboard Name - Jodi2
1 new task
5.7 – African Safari. Africa list
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Points this post = 5

Total Points = 20

Tasks Completed = 3
Total Pages = 806
Goodreads Authors = 0
Big Books = 0

BUTTERFLYCAGER

10.7 Hot Off The Presses

The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature by Jeff VanderMeer

This book was published in 2011.

Jeff VanderMeer is a Goodreads Author.


Points this post: 10
Total challenge points: 60
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 7
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0

Finished my first task

30.5 - mstan's task:Stranger in a Strange Land

For Option A, I read by Barbara Demick, which was approved in the task thread. I gave it 5 stars.

For Option C, I read by Abraham Verghese. Verghese was born in Ethiopia, but now resides in the United States. The book is primarily set in Ethiopia. I gave it 4 stars.

CUTTING FOR STONE IS A BIG BOOK AT OVER 600 PAGES.

Total Points: 30
GR Authors:
Big Books: 500+ (1)

10.7 - Hot Off The Presses

Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich Goodreads Author

Total Points = 75
New Goodreads Author = Janet Evanovich

Cindy F

Task 5.4 54

I read Book Of The Dead by Patricia Cornwell that has 511 pages.

Points this post: 5
Total points: 5
Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big books: 0

Cindy F

Could I please claim a big book 500+ for Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell for task 5.4 post 95 thanks

15.3 Dead or Alive

I flipped one of each.

Dead: The Young Man from Atlanta by Horton Foote, who died in 2009 - 128 pages

Alive: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande - 224 pages

15.7 Beginings and Endings

The Idle Parent: Why Less Means More When Raising Kids by Tom Hodgkinson - 230 pages
(Subtitle disregarded here.)

25.1 Happiness is a Big Library

Ristorante Paradiso by Natsume Ono - 176 pages
Borrowed from the public library.

Blankets by Craig Thompson - 582 pages
Uses letters [L,A,N,E]

25.3 Game Night

A. Miss Scarlet: Filthy Rich by Brian Azzarello - 200 pages
Main character is hired by his boss to keep tabs on his daughter, the "Femme Fatale" in this graphic novel.

B. Rope in the Conservatory: Narcoleptic Sunday by Jeremy Haun - 160 pages
Main character seeks the killer of a woman he spent a night with.

Points this Post: 80
Total Points: 80

Total Tasks Completed: 4
Total Books Read: 7
Total Pages Read: 1700
Total Goodreads Authors: 0
Total Big Books 500+: 1
Total Big Books 750+: 0
Total Big Books 1000+: 0

Jennifer KS

25.3 Beth NC'S task: Game Night

A. Miss Scarlet I read by Brenda Novak

4. Rope in the Conservatory I read Laughed 'Til He Died by Carolyn Hart

Carolyn Hart is a Good Reads author

Points this task 25
Total Points 35
Good Reads Authors 1
pages 1059

KIM NY

10.6 Big Game Hunter

I read City of Glass by Cassandra Clare. I read the hard cover version with 541 pages.

10.9 Fortune was, "You will live a long and healthy life". I read Suicide Girls in the Afterlife by Gina Ranalli.

Total points this post: 20 (2 10 pt tasks)
Total points for challenge: 35

5.7 - African Safari
I read The Poisonwood Bible, from the Africa list.

20.10 – Group Reads
I read The Forgotten Garden and posted in the discussion thread.

Total: 25

20.9 Lucky Me! - Jayme VA's task: Vegas Vacation

Rolled for Option 4

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Beauty Queens is set on an island/beach where a plane crashes and the girls are forced to forage for food/build shelter in order to survive.

*Libba Bray is a goodreads author*

Points this post: 20
Total points: 50
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0

10.2 Queen of Denial
An Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose*
*Kevin Roose is a goodreads author

15.8 Stormy Weather by Maria V. Snyder*
Maria V. Snyder is a goodreads author

10+15=25

Readerboard Name - Jodi2

5.2 Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad(Live in North Carolina - Finished 9/3/11)
Points Earned: 5
Total Points: 5
Tasks Completed: 1
Goodreads authors: 0
Total Pages Read: 240
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1,000+ (0)

10.10 Blindness (Finished 9/2/11)
Points Earned: 10
Total Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 2
Goodreads authors: 0
Total Pages Read: 326
Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1,000+ (0)

Task 20.9 Lucky Me

I rolled a 3 which stated read a book where the character practices magic or is influenced by it. I just finished Harry Potter and the Sourcerer's Stone

Pts this task 20.

5.4 54

Read a book that has a 5 or 4 in the total number of pages (423, 354, and 215 are examples).

The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst

My edition of this book has 564 pages.

This Post: 5
Total Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 2/61
Books Read: 4/87

TOTAL POINTS = 20

20.5 selection "E"
Aftermath by Ann Aguirre