The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

My first post, finally!

10.1 In Their Own Words - Read The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel. Jean Auel was interviewed by Goodreads Voice.

10.6 Big Game Hunter - Read Angelology by Danielle Trussoni. My edition had 642 pages.

15.7 Beginnings and endings - Read Spectres by رضوى عاشور. Author was Radwa Ashour.

20.9 Lucky Me! - Jayme VA's task: Vegas Vacation - Read Talking Wild by Eanna Ni Lamhna. Book is short essays from her radio show on animals and wildlife.

25.1 -- Rosemary's task: Happiness Is...A Big Library

Book A - Read The Best of Ray Bradbury: The Graphic Novel by Ray Bradbury. I borrowed this from the library.

Book 2 - Read Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell. (I,N,E,R)

25.2 - Sandy's Task: Math Class – It’s as Easy as 1, 2, 3!. Both books were over 300 pages.

Book A - Read Sister by Rosamund Lupton. I went to hear this author talk. She lives not far from me in Chiswick. And, it turned out to be a good book too!

Book B - Read Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann.

Goodreads authors and Big Books info

Rosamund Lupton is a goodreads author so I claim one ticket.

Colum McCann is a goodreads author so I claim one ticket.

The Land of Painted Caves is 757 pages long so I claim 2 big book tickets.

Angelology is 642 pages, so I claim 1 big book ticket.


Points for above tasks: 105
Tasks above completed: 6
Total tasks completed: 6/87
Points completed: 105/1100
Books read & claimed: 8
Books by Goodreads authors: 2
Big Books: 1 (500+), 1 (750+), 0 (1000+)]

Sandy MN

15.5. I Can See My House From Here

Nefertiti by Michelle Moran

**Goodreads Author**

Total points: 555
Total GR Authors: 16

30.10 - Shopping at the School Store


First die - I rolled 4: a book between 400-499 pages:

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré 432 pages


Second Die - I rolled 1: a book in which a significant character is an author:

The Case of the Murdered Muckraker by Carola Dunn
Approved in the help thread, posts 16 and 19.


Total points to date 325

STESSE

20.4 Author! Author! - Erin NY's task Series Lover

Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston (Prendergast #11) (356 p)
Published August 2011

25.6 Denise NC’s Task: Fall Days and Nights

Book A – Fall Days
Autumn Lover (Maxwells, #1) by Elizabeth Lowell (416 p)

Book B – Fall Nights
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (288 p)

Points this Post: 45
Tasks Completed this Post: 2
Books Read this Post: 3
Pages Read this Post: 1060
GoodReads Authors this Post: 0
Big Books this Post: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

Total Points: 640
Total Tasks Completed: 37
Total Books Read: 50
Total Pages Read: 19734
Total GoodReads Authors: 15
Total Big Books: 500+ (9), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

hpaddict

20.4 Author! Author!


The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan

task requirements:
1. this series book came out in October 2011, #2 in series
2. #1 in series came out in 2010
3. book is 513 pages long
4. identified as the Heroes of Olympus series

this post = 20pts
challenge total = 275pts

30.4 - Trusty Shellback

Focus: A simplicity manifesto in the Age of Distraction by Leo Babuata - 121 pages

Initials LB are contained in SHELLBACK

Pearl: A Novelby Mary Gordon - 368 pages

While I would not have considered a pearl to be a gemstone, it is included at the link in the task description.

30.7 - When I Was Young

A. While I Was Gone by Sue Miller - 304 pages


This book has a primarily white cover.

B. The Last Temptation by Val McDermid - 432 pages

I would love to dress up like DCI Carol Jordan. In this novel, she goes undercover as a high end smuggler of illegal immigrants and has to fool an Eastern European crime boss. She meets him (for the first time) at the opera in a long gown, fur jacket, hair and makeup done, etc.

Points this Post:60
Total Points: 420

Total Tasks Completed: 24
Total Books Read: 33
Total Pages Read: 9971
Total GR Authors: 6
Total Big Books 500+: 2
Total Big Books 750+: 0
Total Big Books 1000+: 0

15.10. Roaming Wild

I just completed Task 15.10. Roaming Wild by reading .

Great Book!
CathyNJ

5.9 – Back to School

Winner of the ALA Alex Award (1999):

Last Days of Summer Rev Ed: A Novel by Steve Kluger

+5 Points

15.6. Brrrrrrrrrrrr……….. ChamBER

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories byAngela Carter

+15 Points

25.8 – Mrs. soule’s task: Genre Studies

Genre: Multicultural Fiction

East-Asian Interest:

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe

Muslim Interest:

The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra

+25 Points

Points this Post: 45
Grand Total: 555

25.8 - Mrs. soule's task: Genre Studies
Genre: Humorous
Sub-Genre: Humorous Westerns
Telegraph Days (2006) by Larry McMurtry (Hardcover, 289 pages)

Sub-Genre: Southern / Small Town
Bet Your Bottom Dollar: A Bottom Dollar Girls Novel (Bottom Dollar Girls #1) (2004) by Karin Gillespie (Hardcover, 295 pages)

370 + 25 = 395




Tasks Completed: 18
Points for this task: 25
Points thus far: 370 + 25 = 395
Books read: 28
Pages Read: 7939
Read but not claimed: 7

Goodreads Authors: 6

Readerboard Name: Danielle Louise

10.4 - Moniker Math
My readerboard name is 14 characters, so I added 1+4 to get 5.
Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady by L.A. Meyer

Points This Post: 10
Total Points: 215
Tasks Completed: 12
Books Read: 16
Pages Read: 5506
Goodreads Authors: 4
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(-), 1000+(-)

I would like to move Storm Born from task 10.1 to task 15.8.

Add 5 points for moving it.

Total Points 905/1100
Tasks Completed 50/61
Books Read 80/87
Total Pages Read 27790
Goodreads Author 35
Big Books 1

This is my first post of the season- sorry that I haven't been able to split it up more. Time has been tight.

5.6 - Labor Day
I read The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

10.10 - Back to Our Roots
I read The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

20.4 Author! Author!
I read First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde

Requirements:
1) One of Our Thursdays Is Missing published March 2011
2) All other books were published prior to 2011
3) 363 pages
4) Defined as a series

30.6 Donna Jo's task: I'd Like to See Your ID, Please.
Book 1: C- Blue Eyes (Cover)- I read by Jasper Fforde

Book 2: E- 160cm- I read Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris- this is book one of the Lily Bard series

30.7 - Jennifer N's task: When I Was Young
Book 1: A- 5 words- I read Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

Book 2: B- Thusday Next- Spec Ops costume- I read Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde

30.10 – Christina's task: Shopping at the School Store:
I rolled two 3's
Book 1: 3- 336 pages- I read Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

Book 2: 3- Non-fiction- I read The Story of the Coco Palms Hotel: The Grace Buscher Guslander Years 1953-1985 by David P. Penhallow
** I read this book while on vacation in Kauai; it is a beautiful story and I recommend it to anyone that has ever visited or lives in Kauai. Beautiful story **

50.1 Butterflycager's Task - Let's Build A Haunted House!
Book 1: B- Funny/5- part of a series- Hitchhiker's Guide, #2 - I read The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Book 2: C: Spider in title/5- part of a series-Temperance Brennan Series #13- I read Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs

Book 3: E- 3- Vampires/5 part of a series- A Love Story #3- I read Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore

Total Points: 175

Thank you!

AprilDT

50.1-Butterflycager"s Haunted House

B. Spooky Laughter - read a funny book and #2 never read author before
Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong by Jen Yates. Found from the Link Funniest Books Ever provided on taks page.

E3. Monster in the Closet-human deviating (vampire) and #1,2, and 6 - Goodreads author, never read before, and three word title
Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill

%^&*Chloe Neill is a Goodreads Author%^&*

F. Mad Scientist -read a book with "science" in title and #2 -never read author before
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson


Points this post: 50
Total points: 325
Tasks completed: 18
Books read: 23
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0

Tammy AZ

30.5 Stranger In A Strange Land:
Culture Shock - Little Bee* also published as The Other Hand AND

Estrangement - Cutting for Stone. The author was born in Ethiopia and lives in the U.S. The book takes place mainly in Ethiopia.

30.7 When I Was Young:
Book with Five Words in the Title - Before I Go to Sleep* AND
Book with A White Cover -

* Chris Cleave is a Goodreads author
* S.J. Watson is a Goodreads author

Cutting for Stone is a Big Book with 541 pages.

Post Total: 60
Grand Total: 315

30.8 Head of the Class Book A Option D Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide Finished 11/3

30.8 Book B Kiss Of Death Claire is a college student and spends a lot of time in class/ doing her school work/ and her research, when she's not getting into trouble with the vampires of course! Finished 11/14 Rachel Caine is a Good Reads Author. Nevermind, she is not!

Points to date: 455
Big Books 500+: 5
Big Books 750+: 1
Big Books 1000+: 0
Good Read Authors: 10

Joy Marie

10.8 Readers Also Enjoyed

Read Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub

The book I used is Candles Burning by Tabitha King

Total Points: 105

Kimber

50.1 Let's Build A Haunted House!

Book 1-
A. Creaky Front Door
World Without Endby Ken Follett
4. 1014 pages long

Book 2-
B. Spooky Laughter In The Hallway
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich
1. Author is a Goodreads author

Book 3 -
E. The Monster In The Closet
5/Main character has a bond with a leviathon huge in size when in water & 2/Ugly dragon/snakelike creature scares people
Secondhand Charm by Julie Barry
1. Author is a Goodreads Author.

Please note this task allows me 2 tickets for Goodreads Author and 1 big book ticket - thanks!

This task: 50
Tasks completed: 20
Total points: 440
Goodreads authors: 17
Big Book: 1/500+, 1/750+

STACIE MI

Task 10.7 - Hot Off the Presses

I read a book released in June of 2011:

Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

Points this task: 10
Total points: 715
Tasks completed: 34
Books read: 51
Pages read: 13128
Goodreads authors: 13
Big books: 500+ (0); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

10.4 Moniker Math
Read a book by an author whose LAST name has the same number of letters as your Readerboard name.



15.10 Roaming Wild
Read any book you choose.

**Sarah Addison Allen is a Goodreads Author**

Points This Post: 25

Total Big Book Tickets earned this season: 1
Total GR Authors read this season: 2
Total Points: 60

CHRISTINE US


Task 30.9 Bookfest

Book 1: The School of Night by Louis Bayard

Book 2: This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

****Sarah Dessen is a GR author

TOTAL: 660

Repost 1783

50.1 Butterflycager's Task - Let's Build A Haunted House!

A. by Stephanie Perkins option 1 ***Goodreads Author***

D. by Robyn Carr option 3-42 books (Robyn Carr Book List)

F. by Richard P. Wenzel option 2


Points for this Task: 50
Total Points: 255
Goal Total Points: 240
Completed Tasks: 5.9, 10.1, 20.9, 20.10, 30.3, 30.6, 30.7, 30.9, 30.10, 50.1
Tasks in Progress: 25.1, 25.2, 25.6, 30.2
Pages Read: 2586
Books Read: 17
Goodreads Authors: 10 (Cassandra Clare, Sarah Dessen, Amanda Howells, Lauren Oliver, Mary E. Pearson, Stephanie Perkins, Tatiana de Rosnay, Rachel Vincent (x2), Jennifer Weiner)
Big Books: 500+(1) 750+() 1000+()

Readerboard Name - Denise NC

Task 5.7 African Safari

List - Books by African Authors

Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith is a Goodreads Author

Pages - 233

Points - 5


Task 5.10 Women and Cats, Men and Dogs

Men and Dogs Option

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Pages - 226

Points - 5


Task 15.2 Back to School - English Class

Option B - One Book - Too and To

Too Good To Be True by Kristan Higgins

Pages - 384

Points - 15


Task 15.6 BRRRRRR...

Fireflies in December by Jennifer Erin Valent

Jennifer Erin Valent is a Goodreads Author

Pages - 344

Points - 15


Task 15.9 Get Out the Winter Clothes

Gloves on Cover

by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Susan Elizabeth Phillips is a Goodreads Author

Pages - 374

Points - 15


Task 25.5 Valorie's Task: SRC's Virtual Safari

Book A - Zebra - Black and White Cover

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson is a Goodreads Author

Pages - 208

Book B - African Elephant - 400 pages minimum

The Prize by Julie Garwood

Pages - 408

Points - 25


Task 25.8 Mrs. Soule's Task: Genre Studies

Book A - Romance - Historical Romance

Hearts Aflame by Johanna Lindsey

Pages - 368

Book B - Romance - Regency

A Proper Mistress by Shannon Donnelly

Shannon Donnelly is a Goodreads Author

Pages - 288

Points - 25


Points This Post - 105

Total Points - 830

Tasks Completed This Post - 7

Total Tasks Completed - 46

Total Goodreads Authors - 21

Total Big Book Tickets - 5(500) / 1(750) / 4(1000)

Lauren Marie

20.5 Bigger is Better- Katy's task: Falling

Though I love autumn, as a very accident-prone person, when I hear fall I usually think of falling down! So for this task, answer the question of why you might fall this fall, and read a corresponding book.

E. I was staring up at a strange thing in the sky and lost my balance! – Read a science fiction or fantasy book. The genre “science fiction” or “fantasy” must appear on the book’s main GR page.

I Read Priestess of the White by Trudi Canavan.

Points this post: 20
Total Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Goodreads Authors: 0
Big Books: 0

5.2. Lat & Long

The 0 line of longitude (prime meridian) and the 0 line of latitude (equator) both go through Africa. Read a book set on the other side of one of these lines from where you live.

Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself by Pamela Constable

I live in the United States, and this book is set in Pakistan.

This Post: 5
Total Points: 625
Tasks Completed: 40/61
Books Read: 60/87

25.6 Denise NC’s Task: Fall Days and Nights
Book A – Fall Days
Read a book that has one of the following words associated with a fall day in the title or subtitle, but not the series title - day, leaves (leaf), apple, autumn, crow, harvest, rake.
Harvest Moon (Five Hundred Kingdoms #5.5) (2010) by Mercedes Lackey, Michelle Sagara and Cameron Haley (Goodreads Author) (Paperback, 384 pages)

Book B – Fall Nights
Read a book with a cover that is predominantly fall night colors – black, dark blue, silver, or white.

The Seduction of Water (2003) by Carol Goodman (Goodreads Author) (Hardcover, First Edition, 368 pages)


***Goodreads Author*** Carol Goodman
***Goodreads Author*** Cameron Haley

395 + 25 = 420




Tasks Completed: 19
Points for this task: 25
Points thus far: 395 + 25 = 420
Books read: 30
Pages Read: 8679
Read but not claimed: 6

Goodreads Authors: 8

hpaddict

20.3 Music Around the Fire


I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

musical term = sings

this post = 20pts
challenge total = 295

5.1- Boo!

I read Half-Minute Horrors by Various. The cover shows a kid in the third row eating a candy bar (approved by Kristi in help thread)

Points for this task- 5
Total points- 430

Jodi Tx

5.9 Back to School-

Room by Emma DonoghueRoom Won the Alex Award.


15.1 Bye, Bye!

Evermore by Alyson Noel Evermore
Noel was retired in 2007

15.4 It's Not Too Late, but Don't Wait Any Longer

A. The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade The Ghost and the Goth This was my 10.9 for the summer.

B. New Girl in Town by Nancy Rue New Girl in Town

Goodreads Authors: 3- Emma Donoghue, Alyson Noel, and Stacey Kade

Points this Post: 35
Total points: 155

15.4 Read
A. Devil's Food Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke fit Summer 2011 task 5.4
and
B. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll added to my Ebooks in July.

20.10 Read The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley for the group read - posted my comment with post 38.

25.7 Book A - Option 3. Read Death on a Vineyard Beach by Philip R. Craig-didn't get to it in Summer.
Book B- Option 1- dessert - read Peach Cobbler Murderby Joanne Fluke

30.8 Book A - picked A. Liturature- Read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
and
Book B - read Vanished by Kristi Holl set in a boarding school

Points this task: 90
total points: 465

Task 10.1 - In their own words

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory ***Big Book 664 pages***

Total Big Books for Challenge = 15

Challenge total = 380

ANNA E

30.6 I'd Like to See Your ID, Please

A) I read a book where the author's initials matched my official initials (AH)
Gently Does It by Alan Hunter

E) For book set in the area of my birth I read:
On Brick Lane by Rachel Lichtenstein

Total Points this post: 30
Total Points this Challenge: 195
Total Tasks Completed: 9
Total Books Read: 13

Total GoodReads Authors: 0
Total Big Books: 500+ (1), 750+ (1), 1000+ (0)

5.8 S.O.N

The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson

*Maureen Johnson is a goodreads author*

Points this post: 5
Total points: 300
Tasks completed: 18
Books read: 23
Goodreads Authors: 12
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0

Readerboard Name= Lindy-Lane


Task 20.6 Sarah Dee's Oh, the horror!...choose a villain option and read a book that meets that villain's requirement:

I chose Option B: the Wolfman (read a book that features a wolf) and read Lone Wolf by Kathryn Lasky 219 pages (11.15)

My Goal Points for this Season: 550
Points earned for this task: 20
Points Achieved to date: 395
Updated last on: 11.15.11
Total # of books read: 31
Total # of pages read: 10,635
Total # of tasks completed: 20
Total # of Goodreads Authors: 11
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (3)
700+ (1)
1000+ (0)

BJ Rose

1 new task

30.6 Donna Jo's task: I'd Like to See Your ID, Please

Read two books. Select two different choices from the following options:

C. Eye Color--Chose a book with either the word of your eye color in the title or with mainly that color on the cover.
My eyes are blue. This book has blue in the title & on the cover
- Blue Skies by Catherine Anderson

D. Hair Color--Chose a book with a pictures of person with the same color hair as yours. Cover model need not have any other points of reference. Required:Include cover picture when posting. If there is more than one person on the cover, indicate which one you used when posting.
My hair is the same color as the woman on the cover
- Seduction is Forever by Jenna Petersen

Jenna Petersen is a Goodreads Author


New points this post = 30

Total Points = 960

Tasks Completed = 50
Total Pages = 24,769
Goodreads Authors = 15
Big Books = (500+) = 3

30.6 I'd Like To See Your ID Please

Option D: person on the cover has my hair colour
Les Miserables, volumes 1 and 2
The girl holding the baby has my hair colour.

Big Book: total pages for this book are 750+

Option F: set in the area of your birth
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
set in south-east London, I was born near there

This is probably all from me for this challenge. I'm doing the National Novel Writing Month so reading very little this month. Congratulations to everyone who has completed or is heading for completion!

Points this post: 30
Total points: 805
Tasks completed: 47
Books read: 65
Goodreads Authors: 9
Big Books: 500=4, 750=1, 1000=0

30.7 When I Was Young

a-White Cover

I read by Chelsea Handler.

b-Halloween Costume

I read Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between by Theresa Brown. The book was autobiography, and I would dress up as a nurse for Halloween.

Points this post:30
Total points: 340
Tasks completed:21
Books read: 28
Goodreads Authors: 14
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0

TANYAPT

30.8 A (choice B - sci-fi)
Book: Embassytown by China Miéville
*** Goodreads Author ***

B - Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
Main character is student & most of the action is at the academy.
*** Goodreads Author ***

Points this post: 30
Total Points: 310
Tasks Completed: 13
Books Read: 18
Goodreads Authors: 11
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

ANGIE CA

10.8 Readers Also Enjoyed
Book: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
Notes: The previous book I read was Hearts in Darkness.
*GoodReads Author*

This Post: 10
Total to Date: 555
GRA Tickets: 22
BB Tickets: 6
Books Read: 38

20.6 Oh the Horror

Freddy Krueger

Dreamland by Sarah Dessen goodreads author

Total points: 235

Jen UT

5.10 - Roaming Wild

Tournaments, Cocoa & One Wrong Move by Nancy Rue

Total Points: 45
Total Books Read: 8
Total Tasks Completed: 6

10.6 Big Game Hunter

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is longer than 400 pages.

The book was 550 pages. This is a Big Book.

He is a Goodreads author.

25.8 Genre Studies

I picked Historical Fiction.

Sub-genre: 1940's (World War II in Europe)
22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson.

She is a Goodreads author.

Sub-genre: 1920's (this occured in a Colorado mining town)
Whiter Than Snow by Sandra Dallas.

30.6 I'd Like to See Your ID, Please

C. Eye color. My eyes are blue. This book has a blue cover.

The Red Thread by Ann Hood.

D. Hair color. My hair is dark brown. The person on the cover of the book has dark brown hair.

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox.

Points this post: 65
Total points: 760
Tasks: 39
Books: 55
Goodreads authors: 16
Big books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0

10.8 Readers also Enjoyed A World Without Heroes by Brandon Mull Used Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

25.3 Game Night Mrs. Scarlet – by Nancy Farmer

Option Two book B by Hilari Bell (Goodreads Author) – Knife option

Points this post: 35
Total Point Earned: 230/1100
Books Read: 19
Task Completed 13
Good Read Authors: 5
Big Book Tickets: 500(1), 750(), 1000()

15.10 Roaming Wild

I read The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart

points: 255
books read: 20
tasks completed: 14
GR authors: 6
Big Books: 2 (500) 1 (750+)
pages read: 8043

Chris MD

20.4 Series Lover

The Trap by Michael Grant

This book was published this year and is the second in the Magnificent 12 series.

Michael Grant is a GR author.

30.1 Rock Island, Illinois

Book A, Option 2: Train on cover



Book B, Option 2: Civil War general - Fitz John Porter was a Union general.

Billy Creekmore by Tracy Porter

30.2 Unique Fall Holidays

1. I would write a fantasy novel. I read

City of Bones

2. Clean Your Refrigerator. My son always asks me to buy salami and then eats one piece, so there’s often a skuzzy-looking salami in the fridge. I read

I Got a D in Salami #2

Points for this post: 30 + 30 + 20 = 80
Total points: 445
Tasks completed: 16
Books read: CORRECTION 28
Goodreads authors: 4
Big books: 500=3, 750=0, 1000=0

Sandy MN

15.10 Roaming Wild

The Gap Year by Sarah Bird

**Goodreads Author**

Total Points: 570
Total GR Authors: 17

Finished 20.3.A
Read Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières.
That's 195 points and 12 books

30.2 Cheryl TX/Lori BNPL’s task: Unique Fall Holidays

1. If I could write my own novel I would probably choose a friends-to-lovers Contemporary Romance. I read Letters from Home (Harlequin Blaze, #474) by Rhonda Nelson, which is a friends-to-lovers Contemporary Romance.

2. I don't have a favorite book, but in the M/M genre one of my favorites is Zero at the Bone. I read
I'll Be Your Drill, Soldier by Crystal Rose(pre-approved in the ebook thread). Although different settings, both dealt with a relationship that wasn't supposed to happen, a little of the forbidden due to career choices, but ultimately they worked it out.

*Crystal Rose* is a GR Author

Points for this task- 30
Total points- 460

CASSELM

15.9 Get out the winter clothes


30.1 Sheila’s Task - My Hometown, Rock Island, Illinois
Book A: Ellis Island Interviews: In Their Own Words by Peter Morton Coan
(The word 'island' is in the title)
Book B: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Macabre Tales by Washington Irving
(John Irving Rinaker fought for the Union army during the Civil War)

30.2 Cheryl TX/Lori BNPL’s task: Unique Fall Holidays
1. Fatally Frosted by Jessica Beck
This is a mystery novel, and it contains nontraditional material(recipes), option F.
6. Carrot Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
The book has the word 'cake' in the title, and options J and H--the book is part of a series and there is a picture of a dessert on the cover.

Points this post: 75
Total points: 395.

25.2. Sandy's Task: Math Class – It’s as Easy as 1, 2, 3!

2. 300 X 2 = FINISHED
Read 2 books, each with 300 or more pages.

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (406 pages)

The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter (304 pages)

This Post: 25
Total Points: 650
Tasks Completed: 41/61
Books Read: 63/87

30.2 Unique Fall Holidays

Option 1: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows

I would like to write a WWII era Historical Fiction book. This book also fits option C: Award - Times Paperback of the year- 2009

Option 2: Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith ***** GR Author *****

I liked The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. This book also fits option I: animal on cover

Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 290
GR Authors: 5
Big Books 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(1)