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5.8. S.O.N. Read a book where the letters S, O, and N (September, October, November) are found consecutively in the title, subtitle, or author’s name.
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
This Post: 5
Total Points: 400
Tasks Completed: 29/61
Books Read: 44/87
CHANGE IN TASK/BookPreviously Posted:
15.10. Roaming Wild
Wraith 9/26/11
by Goodreads author Phaedra Weldon
Please change this to:
5.2 - Lat & Long
Wraith 9/26/11
by Goodreads author Phaedra Weldon
**set in USA; I live in Japan
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Points this post: 5
Total Points: 125
Tasks Completed: 8 (-1, +1 in this post)
Books Read: 11 (0 new in this post)
GoodReads Authors: 6 (0 new in this post)
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
5.4 - 54 Africa has 54 countries After Dark 10/28/11*352 pages
5.8 - S.O.N.
Hunting Season 10/15/11
5.9 - Back to School
The Grey King 10/15/11
List: Newbery Medal (1976)
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Points this post: 15
Total Points: 140
Tasks Completed: 11 (3 in this post)
Books Read: 14 (3 in this post)
GoodReads Authors: 6 (0 new in this post)
Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
10.9 - Words of Wisdom:One old friend is better than two new ones.
New Moon by Midori Snyder 10/9/11
15.1. Bye, bye!
The Becoming by Jeanne C. Stein 10/4/11
Option B: "Jeanne" was retired in 2004
15.10. Roaming Wild
Fire Me Up 10/8/11
By Goodreads Author: Katie MacAlister
20.5 Bigger is Better- Katy's task: Falling
Option E. I was staring up at a strange thing in the sky and lost my balance!(“fantasy”)
The Sleeping Beauty by Mercedes Lackey 10/10/11
25.2 - Sandy's Task: Math Class – It’s as Easy as 1, 2, 3!
1. 600 X 1 = FINISHED
Read 1 book with 600 or more pages.
Shadow of the Moon 10/18/11
614 pages.
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Points this post: 85
Total Points: 225
Tasks Completed: 16 (5 in this post)
Books Read: 19 (5 in this post)
GoodReads Authors: 7 (1 new in this post)
Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0) (1 new in this post)
Task 30.7 - When I was Young
A: Labor Day (White cover) The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead by Max Brooks
B: Halloween (Witch) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling ***Big Book 759 Pages = 2 tickets****
Total Big Book tickets = 13
Challenge total = 265
Readerboard Name= Lindy-Lane Task 30.5 Mstan's Stranger in a strange land...choose 2 books from options A,B, and C:
Book #1: I chose option A (read a book that is predominantly set in a place other that the author's birth-country) and I read
(story takes place in Scotland)Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith(author was born in Zimbawe)[this is a GRA]272 pages (10.24)Book #2: I choose option B (read a book which carries a different title in another country) and I read
(published in UK in 1934)Murder on the Orient Expressby Agatha Christie272 pages (10.28) (In 1940 this book was published in the US under the titleMurder in the Calais Coach).
My Goal Points for this Season: 550
Points earned for this task: 30
Points Achieved to date: 300
Updated last on: 10.29.11
Total # of books read: 22
Total # of pages read: 7234
Total # of tasks completed: 14
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 8
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (1)
700+ (1)
1000+ (0)
30.2 Cheryl TX/Lori BNPL’s task: Unique Fall Holidays1. November is National Novel Writing Month—I'd write in my favorite genre, Urban Fantasy/paranormal
The Mage in Black 10/16/11
By Goodreads Author Jaye Wells
criterion: A, J
2. Book Lover’s Day (11/5) and Read a Book Day (9/6)—Favorite Book: Poison Study
Inside Out 10/26/11
by Goodreads Author Maria V. Snyder
criterion: A, E, J
30.3 Dlmrose's task: E-ticket Ride
E) Liberty Square- location of the Haunted Mansion- Read a Paranormal book*
Archangel's Blade 9/2/11
by Goodreads Author Nalini Singh
G) Tomorrowland- Read a Science Fiction book*
Dark Taste of Rapture 10/8/11
30.4 Delicious Dee's Task: Trusty Shellback
Book 1: Deadly Desire
by Goodreads Author Keri Arthur
Book 2: Etched in Bone 9/30/11
by Goodreads Author by Adrian Phoenix
30.6 Donna Jo's task: I'd Like to See Your ID, Please.
E. Height--68 inches, #6 in the series
The Darkest Kiss 10/3/11
by Goodreads Author Keri Arthur
F. Address (set in Seattle in my home state of Washington)
Succubus Revealed 9/23/11
by Goodreads Author Richelle Mead
30.10 – Christina's task: Shopping at the School Store:
First Die:
You rolled 1 die:
4
Timestamp: 2011-08-31 06:22:07 UTC
4. Read a book between 400-499 pages
Deeper Than Midnight 416 pages 10/12/11
by Goodreads Author Lara Adrian
Second Die:
You rolled 1 die:
6
Timestamp: 2011-08-31 06:22:42 UTC
6. Pocket Folder – Read an anthology or collection of essays, short stories, poems, or novellas by several contributing authors.
Yours For Eternity 9/21/11
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Points this post: 150
Total Points: 375
Tasks Completed: 21 (5 in this post)
Books Read: 29 (10 in this post)
GoodReads Authors: 15 (8 in this post)
Big Books: 500+ (2), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)
Jodi225.6 Denise NC’s Task: Fall Days and Nights
Book A –
(yellow cover)Book B – The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
Total Tasks Completed: 14
Total Books Read: 21
Points This Post: 25
Total Points: 285
10.7 Hot Off The PressesMy Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
Points this post: 10
Total points: 695
Tasks completed: 42
Books read: 56
Goodreads Authors: 9
Big Books: 500=4, 750=0, 1000=0
Readerboard Name= Lindy-Lane Task 5.2 Lat & Long...read a book set on the other side of one of these lines from where you live:
I live in the US, which is north of the equator and west of the prime meridan so I could read a book set in the southern hemisphere or in the eastern longitudes. I chose to read a book set in the eastern longitudes and I read
(story takes place in Italy & Turkey)An Echo in the Darknessby Francine Rivers480 pages (10.27)My Goal Points for this Season: 550
Points earned for this task: 5
Points Achieved to date: 305
Updated last on: 10.29.11
Total # of books read: 23
Total # of pages read: 7714
Total # of tasks completed: 15
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 8
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (1)
700+ (1)
1000+ (0)
5.5 - Birth of a NationStories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (* * *)
*Ben Loory is a Goodreads author.
15.10 - Roaming Wild
Stupid Fast (* * *)
*Geoff Herbach is a Goodreads author.
30.2 - Cheryl TX/Lori BNPL’s task: Unique Fall Holidays
The River Why (one of my favourite books is The Brothers K by David James Duncan - Option 2E - three names) (* * * *) and The Perilous Gard (The suffix "-gard" comes from the Norse "gard," meaning "enclosure" or "walled town"; in the book, the word 'gard' refers to the name of a remote castle. - Option 4B - author died in 1992) (* * * *)
Points in this post: 50
Total points: 545
Goodreads authors: 11
Big Book tickets: 500+ (2), 750+ (2) = 4
Books read: 46/87
CHRISTINE USTask 5.2 Lat & Long
Her Secret Fling by Sarah Mayberry
Book is set in Australia (south hem). I am from the US (north hem)
***Sarah Mayberry is a GR author
Task 15.6 -Ber
Dating Mr. December by Phillipa Ashley
"DECEMBER"
****Phillipa Ashley is a GR author
Task 25.4 Diamonds
Book 1: The Complaints by Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin won the Diamond Dagger award
Book 2: The Mistress Of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
set in Egypt (Africa)
Task 25.10 Fall Back in time
Option A: published in 2010
Forgive My Fins by Tera Lynn Childs
Option D: historical fiction
The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran
****Johanna Moran & Tera Lynn Childs are both GR authors
TOTAL: 375
Laurie ME25.6: Denise NC's Task: Fall Days and Nights:
Book A: Fall Days:
Lisa Kleypas - It Happened One Autumn
Book B: Fall Nights:
Carla Neggers - Dark Sky
30.9: Kate S's Task: Bookfest
Margaret George - The Autobiography of Henry VIII
Steve Berry - The Third Secret
Points this Post: 55.
Total Points: 725.
Lisa Kleypas is a Goodreads Author
Steve Berry is a Goodreads Author
The Autobiography of Henry VIII is 2 big tickets.
BJ Rose2 new tasks
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Bea's task: Refreshingly Short
Sort your TBR shelf by date added. Find the oldest book which is between 100-200 pages and read it for this task.
Without Rainbows by Virginia Hart has 189 pages, and is from my TBR
25.5 - Valorie's task: SRC's Virtual Safari
2. African Elephant: Read a big book (400 or more pages)
And One Rode West by Heather Graham has 464 pages
4. Wildebeest: Read a book with the word 'Wild' or 'Beast' in the title/subtitle.
Wild Heart by Lori Brighton
Points this post = 45
Total Points = 670
Tasks Completed = 37
Total Pages = 17,949
Goodreads Authors = 11
Big Books = (500+) = 2
BUTTERFLYCAGER10.3 - Headless Horseman: Odd Mom Out by Jane Porter
15.10. Roaming Wild: Harm None: A Rowan Gant Investigation by M.R. Sellars
Jane Porter and M.R. Sellars are Goodreads Authors.
Points this post: 25
Total challenge points: 1030
Tasks completed: 58
Books read: 80
Goodreads Authors: 46
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0
15.5 - I CAN SEE MY HOUSE FROM HERE - The Mummy Case which takes place in Egypt and has a pyramid on the cover.20.9 - LUCKY ME - I rolled a 4 and read Pirate Latitudes which takes place on an island, on the sea and has pirates in it.
TOTAL POINTS - 445
GOODREADS AUTHORS - 7
BIG BOOKS - 3
15.3 Dead Or AliveI threw one heads and one tails.
One book by a living author: Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart
One book by a deceased author: The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey, died 1952
Points this post: 15
Total points: 710
Tasks completed: 43
Books read: 58
Goodreads Authors: 9
Big Books: 500=4, 750=0, 1000=0
STACIE MITask 25.5 - Virtual Safari
I decided to "see" the Crocodile and the Wildebeest.
For the Crocodile, I decided to read a book about a mermaid:
Fins Are Forever by Tera Lynn Childs
For Wildebeest, I read a book with "wild" in the title:
Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern
**Both Julie Halpern and Tera Lynn Childs are Goodreads authors!!**
Points this task: 25
Total points: 510
Tasks completed: 23
Books read: 36
Pages read: 9454
Goodreads authors: 11
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
STACIE MITask 15.3 - Dead or Alive
I flipped 1 heads and 1 tails.
For heads, I read:
Frequently Asked Questions: An Unshelved Collection by Gene Ambaum
For tails, I read:
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie died in 1976.
Points this task: 15
Total points: 525
Tasks completed; 24
Books read: 38
Pages read: 9834
Goodreads authors: 11
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)
Finished 30.6 I`d like to see your Id
option C/blue cover - blue eyes
by Anna Quindlenoption E/ 1st in the serie , Im 165cm
by Elisa LorelloTask points 30
Total points 240
Total tasks 14
Total books 19
30.6 Donna Jo's task: I'd Like to See Your ID, Please Option E:
My height is 163cm, so I read the sixth in the series
Killer by Sara Shepard
*Sara Shepard is a goodreads author*
Option D:
My hair colour is red, so I read a book with a girl that has red hair on the cover.
by Nova Ren SumaPoints this post: 30
Total points: 225
Tasks completed: 13
Books read: 17
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0
KIM NY25.6 Denise NC’s Task: Fall Days and Nights
BOOK A: Fall days-I read Blood Harvest Moon by Kelly Abell
BOOK B: Fall Nights-I read
by Darcie ChanBook for this post: 25
Total points for challenge: 545
Jenny ChicagoTask 5.8 S.O.N. I read Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E.Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat by Jeff Benedict http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11... I couldn't get the book link to what it was supposed to.
Task 15.3 Dead or Alive. I got two heads, so two authors who are alive. I read The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian by Phil Doran and On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town by Susan Herrmann Loomis.
Points this Post 20
Total Points 75
Goodreads Authors
Big Books: 1
Leslie KChallenge 30.6: I'd like to see your ID, please
Option B - Too Many Women by Rex Stout I was born in 1945, the '40s decade. This book was published in 1947.
Option F - Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child This book primarily takes palce in New York City. I was raised on Long Island, and consider New York my home!
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 315
GRA book, no Total: 5
Big Book, no Total: 2
15.2 Back to school-homophones: thyme and timeThyme of Death by Susan Wittig Albert***Goodreads Author*** 320 pages
Endeavor in Time by Chris Hambleton***Goodreads Author*** 368 pages
Season total to date: 545
15.9 Get out the winter clothesThe Pledge by Kimberly Derting*
*Kimberly Derting is a goodreads author
Head scarf
Points = 315
Jayme(the ghostreader)I completed task 25.1 Happiness is A Big Library.
For part A,
I borrowed it from my library. For part B,I read
. The letters E,R,N,A are found in the word Alexandria. Shilpi Somaya Gowda is a Goodreads author.Tasks Completed: 8
Books Read: 11
Big Books 500+, 750+, 1000+
Goodreads Authors: 8
Task Points: 25
Grand Total: 140/1100
30.5. mstan's task: Stranger in a Strange LandA: Reimaginings - Read a book that is predominantly set in a place other than the author's birth-country, or where a place other than the author's birth-country plays a significant role in the story.
Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler
Becoming Jane Eyre is set in England. Sheila Kohler was born in South Africa.
C: Estrangement - Read a book written by a writer who has left a particular country, but has written about it.
An Elegy for Easterly: Stories by Petina Gappah
Petina Gappah is from, and An Elegy for Easterly is set in, Zimbabwe. Gappah now lives in Geneva, Switzerland.
This Post: 30
Total Points: 430
Tasks Completed: 30/61
Books Read: 45/87
25.10 - Amanda A's task: Fall Back in TimeFriday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream is ranked 89th on this list (Option C) (* * *) and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a historical fiction book (Option D) (* * *)
30.4 - Delicious Dee's Task: Trusty Shellback
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (H,S) (* * *) and
Daughter of Smoke and Bone (gemstone: bone) (* * * * * - highly recommended!!)
*Helen Simonson and Laini Taylor are Goodreads authors.
Points in this post: 55
Total points: 600
Goodreads authors: 13
Big Book tickets: 500+ (2), 750+ (2) = 4
Books read: 50/87
30.8 Jenn Renee's task: Head of the ClassMy favorite subject is history, so I read
.For part B, I listened to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling, read by Jim Dale
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is a big book at *870* pages******total points:210
books read: 17
tasks complete: 12
GR authors: 5
Big Books 2
total pages: 6842
Chris MD
25.6 Fall Days and Nights
Book with fall day colors: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
(Cover approved in the help task thread)
Book with fall night colors: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Gaiman is a GR author.
Points for this task: 25
Total points: 275
Tasks completed: 9
Books read: 16
Goodreads authors: 3
Big books: 500=3, 750=0, 1000=0
ERIN B.5.10 - Women and Cats, Men and Dogs
I read Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
Points this post: 5
Total points: 70
Mod
5.8 S.O.N. read The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pear
author)
25.5 SRC's Virtual Safari- Option 5 Flamingo - Pink Cover read
by Natalie Standiford (goodreads author)and
Option 6 Zebra black and white cover read
by S.A. BodeenPoints this Post: 35
Total points- 785
Tasks Completed: 42
Books read: 58
Pages Read : 17,876
GR Authors: 20
Big Books: 500+(4), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
20.4 Author, Author!- Erin NY's task Series Lover
The Affair by Lee Child
As Listed on Goodreads:
Hardcover, 405 pages
Published September 27th 2011 by Delacorte Press (first published 2011)
ISBN0385344325 (ISBN13: 9780385344326)
primary language: English
original title: The Affair
series: Jack Reacher #16
25.4 Nickboy's Task: Blood Diamonds!
1. A Diamond Dagger
Sue Grafton 2008
2. A Red Diamond
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
30.4 Delicious Dee's Task: Trusty Shellback
Shellback: K S
Fractured by Karin Slaughter
Gemstone: bone
Bone Cold by Erica Spindler
Bone Cold is 506 Pages - Big Book
Task Points in This Post: 75
Goodreads Authors in This Post: 0
Big Ticket Books in This Post: 1
Page Read in This Post: 1989
Total Points: 420
Total Goodreads Authors: 8
Total Big Book Tickets: 500=(3), 750=(1), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 25
Total Pages Read in the Fall SRC: 11,139
Reviews Available. (Except Green Hills - spent 2 days trying to write about Papa Hemingway's nonfiction tale of his and Pauline's time in Africa in 1933 4 Stars) Anne (Booklady) 2011 Challenge Reviews
My Home Town, Rock Island, IllinoisA. Rock in the title:
Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
B. Wind in the title:
The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens
Total points 270
5.1 Boo!
Web by John WyndhamSkull on the cover
Points this post: 5
Total points: 715
Tasks completed: 44
Books read: 59
Goodreads Authors: 9
Big Books: 500=4, 750=0, 1000=0
JACKIE NC30.4 Delicious Dee's Task: Trusty Shellback
Book 1:
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Initials AC in SHELLBACK
Book 2:
Cat with an Emerald Eye by Carole Nelson Douglas
Carole Nelson Douglas is a Goodreads author
Points this task: 30
Total Points: 205
Goodreads Authors: 5
Big Book Tickets:
30.3 Dlmrose's task: E-ticket RideF. Fantasyland- I read 2 books shelved more than 100 times each as Fantasy-
Stargazer and Hourglass both by Claudia Gray.
Points For Post- 30
Total Points- 345
GR Authors- 17
Total Tasks- 21
LDB20.8 THE BIG 5-OH!
Read Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa by Antjie Krog.
The title and subtitle combined have 7 "Os" plus one "O" in the author's name.
Total points: 45
Pages read: 953
Tasks done: 3
Books read: 3
BJ Rose1 new task
50.1 Butterflycager's Task - Let's Build A Haunted House!
Read three books, each having to do with some different aspect of haunted houses.
You may visit each part of the house only once: a different option from A-H must be chosen for each book.
A. The Creaky Front Door - read a book with a door on the front cover: (approved in Help thread message #29)
A Mind to Murder by P.D. James - Option #5 this is book 2 of the Adam Dalgliesh series
B. Spooky Laughter in the Hallway - read a funny book: (approved in Help thread message #58)
Psmith Journalist by P.G. Wodehouse - Option #5 this is 3rd in the Psmith series
G. Cemetery in the Backyard - read a book with "grave" in the title.
Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris - Option #5 this is the 2nd book in the Harper Connelly series
Points this post = 50
Total Points = 720
Tasks Completed = 38
Total Pages = 18,662
Goodreads Authors = 11
Big Books = (500+) = 2
25.8 Mrs. soule's task: Genre Studies
From the romance genre I read
a paranormal romance: Biss zum Abendrot (Eclipse) by Stephenie Meyer (German paperback edition counts 640 pages, which makes this a ** Big Book ** ) and
a time travel romance: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon (Diana Gabaldon is a ** Goodreads author ** and the book is 963 pages long, so this counts for two ** Big Book ** tickets)
25.10 Amanda A's task: Fall Back in Time
A - Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (Paperback edition has 432 pages): I joined Goodreads in 2010, Mini Shopaholic is #75 for that year's most popular list.
D - Alexander by Gisbert Haefs (Paperback edition has 637 pages, which makes this a ** Big Book ** ): The story is about Alexander the Great's youth and his parents. Historical fiction in every sense of the word.
30.2 Cheryl TX/Lori BNPL's task: Unique Fall Holidays
1, A: Spy Glass by Maria V. Snyder (With 543 pages (this is a Kindle edition that shows the corresponding page numbers and the paperback edition with the same cover has 535 pages) this is a ** Big Book ** . Also, Maria V. Snyder is a ** Goodreads author ** .)
Years ago I even began writing a novel, which was a fantasy story focusing on a person searching for something, just as Opal is searching for her blood in this book.
As stated above Maria V. Snyder is a Goodreads author.
2, I: Mastiff by Tamora Pierce (the hardcover edition (there isn't a paperback one yet) has 560 pages, so this is a ** Big Book ** . In addition to that Tamora Pierce is a ** Goodreads author **
I love all of Tamora Pierce's books and can't really name a favorite among them as they are all awesome. So another Tamora Pierce book it was for this task.
There are two animals on the cover: A dog and a black cat (they are a bit hidden in the fog, but you can see them quite clearly next to Beka on the enlarged cover).
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Points this post: 80
Total points: 360
Goodreads authors: 4
Big Books: 500+ (6), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)
KAREN OZTask 15.5. I Can See My House From Here
Palace Walk:Cairo Trilogy 1 by Naguib Mahfouz
Task 30.10 – Christina's task: Shopping at the School Store:
4. Read a book between 400-499 pages
Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern (489 p)
1. Pencil – read a biography of an author or a book in which a significant character is an author.
Halowe’en Party by Agatha Christie (Mrs Ariadne Oliver is a mystery writer and is one of the main character in this novel with Hercule Poirot)
Task 5.7 - African Safari
Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
Task 30.6 Donna Jo's task: I'd Like to See Your ID, Please.
B. Date of Birth: Born in 1980 & book published in 1980
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
E. Height: 160cm
The Neon Rain: Dave Robicheaux 1 by James Lee Burke
Task 10.1 - In Their Own Words
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho GR Author
Task15.7. Beginnings and endings
A Wizard of Earthsea: The Earthsea Cycle 1 by Ursula Le Guin -ignoring series/subtitle
Total this post: 105 points
Total to date: 315 points
15.7. Beginnings and Endings Read a book with a title that begins and ends with the same letter.
Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
This Post: 15
Total Points: 445
Tasks Completed: 31/61
Books Read: 46/87
Mod
30.3 Dlmrose's task: E-ticket Ride
We start every trip to the Magic Kingdom with Splash Mountain in Frontierland:
western- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Then we go to Fantasyland before it gets too crowded
fantasy- Joust by Mercedes Lackey
30.7 - Jennifer N's task: When I Was Young
A book- white cover ok post 49 in HT:
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
B book- costume- I'll be a demon a la Mrs Abernathy, the demon Ba'al stitched into the human Mrs. Abernathy's body- with some demon parts peeking through
The Infernals by John Connolly
30.10 – Christina's task: Shopping at the School Store
I rolled a 3 and a 5
3- 300 pg range: The Detachment by Barry Eisler 324 pages
5- journal- epistolary format: Getting the Picture by Sarah Salway
From the description:Told through letters, emails, and other communications, Getting the Picture is an irresistible, charming novel of family secrets, regrets, and abiding love.
total 1,005
KIM NY25.9 - Gayla's Task: Rite of Passage
B. The party-Read a book with a chair on the cover. I read
by Stephanie Perkins which has a chair (bench) on the cover.C. The gifts-Read a book with exactly 18 letters in it's title. I read The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson.
30.6 Donna Jo's task: I'd Like to See Your ID, Please.
C. Eye Color-I read
by Donna Alward which has a golden brown cover. I have hazel eyes which look golden brown.E. Height-I read Always Been Mine by Elizabeth Reyes. Thiis the second book in the series and I am 5'2" tall.
Points for these posts: 55
Total points for challenge: 600
10.1 In their own wordsHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Author was interviewed by Goodreads Voice
Jamie Ford is a Goodreads Author
20.3 Music around the fire
Option B
The Night Train: A Novel by Clyde EdgertonBoy on the cover is playing a guitar
25.5 A big library
A. - Defining Dulcie by Paul Acampora
Checked out from our public library
Paul Acampora is a Goodreads Author
B. - BEst Foot ForwARD by Joan Bauer
Contains letters E,A,R & D from Alexandria
30.7 When I was young
A.
Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems bySamuel Menashebook has a white cover
B. The Gifted by Deborah Andreasen
Main character is Pyper. Costume - an emerald green gown with an empire waist and a cascade of fabric that flows from the shoulder to the floor along with a wig of vibrant red hair pulled into a french braid.
Deborah Andreasen is a Goodreads Author
Points this post: 85
Total points: 165
Tasks completed: 10
Books read: 13
Goodreads Authors: 4
50.1 Haunted house-3booksA. door on cover:
All the Lovely Bad Ones. Required 2&3.D. anthology (Volume 6): The Witch and Other Stories
. Required 2&5.H. haunted house:
The Ghost Sitter. Required 2&3.Total: 595
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Tammy AZ15.3 Dead or Alive
I rolled 2 tails and read:
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklos Nyiszli who died in 1956
and
Magic Time: A Novel by Doug Marlette who died in 2007.
Post Total :15
Grand Total: 190
5.10 - Women and Cats, Men and DogsThe Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse by Leann Sweeney (Goodreads author)
10.1 - In Their Own Words
Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead (Goodreads author)
20.2 Rookie at the Top - Angie CA's task: Word of the Day
Buzzword: Devil's Advocate - 04/04/2011
Angel's Advocate by Mary Stanton (Goodreads author)
30.9 - Kate S's task: Bookfest!
Book 1: Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire
Book 2: Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky (Goodreads author)
30.10 – Christina's task: Shopping at the School Store
First Die: Rolled 2, Book btw 200-299 Pgs
Tapped Out by Natalie M Roberts (272 Pgs)
Second Die: Rolled 6, Anthology
Mysteria by MaryJanice Davidson, P.C. Cast, etc.
Total Points This Post: 95
Total Tasks This Post: 5
Goodreads Authors This Post: 4
Grand Total Points: 460/1100
Total Books Read: 37
Tasks Completed: 28/61
Total Goodreads Authors: 16
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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I read The Wrong Kind of Blood: An Irish Novel of Suspense
25.1 - Rosemary's task: Happiness Is...A Big Library
For A, I read The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude, borrowed from my local public library.
For B, I read Election - letters E,L,I,N
25.8 - Mrs. soule's task: Genre Studies
One of my favorite genres is science fiction.
For book A, I read Matched, fitting the sub-genre of Dystopian Futures.
For book B, I read Ready Player One, which fits the sub-genre of Games and Gaming.
Total points: 555