The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

Tammy AZ

25.4 Nickboy's Blood Diamonds:

Book 1 Diamond Dagger Winner: Going Wrong - Ruth Rendell is a Diamond Dagger winner

Book 2 Red Diamond: State of Wonder - This book takes place in Brazil.

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 365

20.7 Refreshingly Short-The oldest book on my TBR shelf with 100-200 pages

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
***Margaret Atwood is a GR author***

25.1 Happiness is. . .A Big Library
Part A: borrowed from my public library
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
***Jennifer Egan is a GR Author***

Part B: Includes E-D-A-R in the title
The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard
***Joyce Maynard is a GR Author***

25.4 Blood Diamonds
Part A: Winner from 2006
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

Part B: Red Diamonds: Nigeria
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

30.3 E-Ticket Ride
Main Street USA X2
Book 1: White Noise by Don DeLillo

Book 2: Sula by Toni Morrison

Task 30.4 Trusty Shellback
Book 1: Author's initials in "shellback"
The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizabeth Berg

Book 2: Gemstone-Pearl
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
***Matthew Pearl is a GR author***

Season Total: 895/1100
Tasks Complete: 53/61

25.1 - Rosemary's task: Happiness Is...A Big Library
A. Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones – borrowed from library
B. About A Dragon by G.A. Aiken - ADRN

25.6 Denise NC’s Task: Fall Days and Nights
A.Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Ellen Schreiber

B. Killing Moon by Rebecca York

30.2 Cheryl TX/Lori BNPL’s task: Unique Fall Holidays
2A. Book Lover’s Day (11/5) and Read a Book Day (9/6)—
When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James
(Favorite Book: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley)

5E. National Adoption Day (11/19)
There Are Babies To Adopt: A Resource Guide for Prospective Parents by Christine A. Adamec

30.5 - mstan's task: Stranger in a Strange Land
Book A: Reimaginings
Archangel's Kiss by Nalini Singh – born in New Zealand, important book settings include New York City & Beijing
Book C:
The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith

50.1 Butterflycager's Task - Let's Build A Haunted House!
A5: Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith


B3: The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett - author has published 71 books by my count - Goodreads lists 235 distinct works

G1. Nightwalker by Jocelynn Drake


Points This Post: 160
Total Points: 1000

10.2 Queen of Denial
-im = (not) proper

The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove by Susan Gregg Gilmore

Susan Gregg Gilmore is a Goodreads Author.

15.7 Beginnings and Endings

Murder in Foggy Bottom by Margaret Truman

20.3 Best Review - Amanda VA's Task: Music Around the Fire

A. Musical term MINOR in Title

Minor in Possession by J.A. Jance

25.3 Beth NC's Task: Game Night!

Colonel Mustard
by Ralph Peters

MI Army 2nd Lt. Roy Banks recalls events leading up and concluding with Lt. Jessie Lamoreaux murder. Both are members of the Officers Club.

with A Rope in the Conservatory:
Murder Mystery
Murder by the Book by Rex Stout

25.7 Bluemoon's Task: Hockey Night Party

A. Buffalo Sabres History
Blue Cover
by Sue Grafton

B.Party Food
Dessert = Fudge Cupcake
by Joanne Fluke

Task Points in This Post: 95
Goodreads Authors in This Post: 1
Big Ticket Books in This Post: 0
Pages Read in This Post: 2204

Total Points: 615
Total Goodreads Authors: 10
Total Big Books: 500=(4), 750=(1), 1000=(0)
Total Tasks Completed: 34
Total Pages Read in Fall SRC: 15,874

Reviews Available. Anne(Booklady) 2011 Challenge Reviews Forgot to Add.

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

Based on your roll, visit one of the following hotels:

I rolled a 2.

2. Read a book in which an animal (real/imaginary/shapeshifting) or a clown is a main character or is central to the plot/book's focus.

The Natural History of Unicorns by Chris Lavers

This book was approved in the task thread.

This Post: 20
Total Points: 845
Tasks Completed: 50/61
Books Read: 72/87

KIM NY

5.10 - Women and Cats, Men and Dogs - I read Hollowmen by Amanda Hocking. One of the major characters in this book is a Lioness (cat) named Ripley.

10.1 - In Their Own Words - I read Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead who was interviewed by Goodreads Voice.

Total points for these posts: 15
Total points for challenge: 730

Task 25.6 - Fall days and nights

Book A (fall colors on cover): Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Book B ('star' in title): Every Fixed Star by Jane Kirkpatrick

Challenge total = 460

Jayme(the ghostreader)

20.7 Shorter is Sweeter I read "Catherine: The Great Journey Russia 1743 by Kristiana Gregory. Kristiana Gregory is a Goodreads Author.

This is a historical fiction about Catherine the Great as a young girl about to be married. The book was 166 pages long.

Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 15
Big Books 500+ (1) 750+, 1000+
Goodreads Authors: 10,
Task Points: 20
Grand Total: 230/1100

25.1 Happiness is a Big Library

A. This book was borrowed from the library.

Wish You Were Here by Phillipa Ashley.

Phillipa Ashley is a Goodreads author.

B. This book has four different letters from the word Alexandria.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

Points this post: 25
Total points: 800
Tasks: 41
Books: 58
Goodread authors: 16
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0

50.1 Let's Build a Haunted House!



(Option A, door on cover; Option B, a humor book; Option D, a short story collection. All are by authors I've never read before.)

20.8 The BIG 5-oh!

I read Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks by Micah Toub, which has 6 O's in the title and author name.

15.10 Roaming Wild

I read South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami.

10.2 Queen of Denial

I read That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion by Rachel Herz-- "unraveling" being the operative word.

Points This Post: 95
Total Points: 235

Total Tasks Completed: 10
Total Books Read: 14
Total Pages Read: 3314
Total GoodReads Authors: 2
Total Big Books: 500+ (0), 750+ (0), 1000+ (0)

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

B. Spooky Laughter in the Hallway:Bossypants by Tina Fey is a funny book and I have never read a book by Fey before (Option 2)

D. Secret Passageway: The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson is a book of short stories. Jackson has 14 distinct works according to wikipedia (option 3)

H. Put it all together: Frenzy by Robert Liparulo takes place in a haunted house. Liparulo is a goodreads author (option 1) and the book is part of the Dreamhouse Kings series (Option 5)

Points this post: 50
Total challenge points: 646
Goodreads Authors: Lauren Kate, Robert Liparulo***, Tamora Pierce, Sarah Addison Allen, James Patterson*, Joyce Maynard, Jennifer Haigh, Libba Bray*, Ruta Sepetys, Lilith Saintcrow, Michelle Richmond, Christopher Buehlman, Rachel Simon
Big Books: 500+: Rebel Angels

Hettie

15.8. Stormy Weather
Storm in the title
Stormbreaker




25.8 - Mrs. soule's task: Genre Studies
Science fiction is my favorite genre and I chose
Star trek: other series and read House of Cards
AND Science fantasy and read Dragonflight




30.2 Cheryl TX/Lori BNPL’s task: Unique Fall Holidays
Book 1
1. November is National Novel Writing Month and C. Book has won or been nominated for an Award or Prize
If I was to write a book it would be science fiction and so I read Childhood's End which was a Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel in 1954.

Book 2
5. National Adoption Day and I. Animal on the cover.

This book is about the adoption of a cat.
Gwen Cooper is a goodreads author


Previous points 375
Points this post 70
Total points 445

GR author claim this post 1
Total GR author claims 3

10.1 - In Their Own Words

Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg

10.4 - Moniker Math

The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory

10.6 - Big Game Hunter

Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland book over 400 pgs.

10.10 - Back to our Roots

by Seth Grahame-Smith

15.1 - Bye Bye

The Door to December by Dean Koontz *Big Book

15.7 - Beginnings and Endings

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

20.2 - Word of the Day

Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich *Goodreads Author
Buzzword = Holiday 12/24/10

20.4 - Author Author!

To the Nines by Janet Evanovich *Goodreads Author
2011 series book Smokin' Seventeen

20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter

Alice in Wonderland used my own TBR

30.7 - When I was Young

All That Lives: A Novel of the Bell Witch by Melissa Sanders-Self Option B

and

Diary of a Mad Bride by Laura Wolf Option B

Points this post: 160
Total points: 285
Tasks completed: 19
Goodreads Authors: 8
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0

Rebekah
25.3 Game Night
Col Mustard - A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley(GoodReads Author)

Library - The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark

+25 pts - This Post
120 pts - Total
1 - GRA

10.4 - Moniker Math: Read a book by an author whose LAST name has the same number of letters as your Readerboard name. Include all symbols and punctuation in the count, but not spaces. If your Readerboard name is 12 characters or longer, you have the option of adding the digits together to produce a single digit number- 12 characters = 1+2 = 3 letter last name

Dear Fatty - Dawn French

Readerboard name: Claire

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

3. 200 X 3 = FINISHED
I read the following:
Shakespeare's Christmas by Charlaine Harris - 224 pages
Shakespeare's Trollop: A Lily Bard Mystery by Charlaine Harris - 224 pages
Shakespeare's Counselor by Charlaine Harris - 240 pages

New Grand Total: 225

Task 10.4 - Moniker Math
Readerboard name = Laurie = 6
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trailby Bill Bryson

Points = 10

Task 10.6 - Big Game Hunting
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by
Thomas L. Friedman

Total Pages = 438

Points for task = 10
Total Points to DAte = 20

Task 15.10 Roaming Wild
Book of my choice
Amy and Isabel by Elisabeth Stout

Points this task = 15
Total Points to date = 35

Task 20.1 - Most Improved Player
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Sequel to The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Points this task = 20
Total Points to date = 55

Task 20.3 - Best Review - Music Around the Fire
A) Violin on the cover
The Fiddler in the Subway: And Other Great Pieces You May Have Missed by Gene Weingarten

Points this task = 20
Points to date = 75

Task 20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Falling
D. I was tired from staying up reading
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Points this task = 20
Points to date = 95

Task 25.1 - Happiness Is...A Big Library
A. From the public library
Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar? by Dave Barry

B. 4 Letters from ALEXANDRIA - L, E, D, R
Crooked Little Heart by Anne Lamott

Points this task = 25
Points to Date = 120

Task 25.2 - It's as Easy as 1, 2, 3
3 books with 200 - 299 pages
1. 256 pages
Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, But Some Actual Journalism! by Dave Barry

2. 254 pages
I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood by Dave Barry

3. 224 pages
Dave Barry's History of the Millenium byDave Barry

Points this task = 25
Points to date: = 145

Task 30.7 When I was Young
A. 5 Letters in Title
Zorro by Isabel Allende

A. 5 Words in Title
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert

Points this task = 30
Points to date = 175

Task 30.9 Bookfest!
A. Pontoon by Garrison Keillor

B. Hardball by Sara Paretsky

Points this task = 30
Points to date = 205

Task 30.10 Shopping at the School Store
Rolled 2 and 6
Rolled 1 and 3
1. Pencil - bio of an author 208 pages
John Muir: Magnificent Trampby Rod Miller

3. Nonfiction - 208 pages
The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in AmericaBill O'Reilly

Points ths task = 30
Points to date = 235

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.

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

(I used my own shelf for this task.)

This Post: 20
Total Points: 865
Tasks Completed: 51/61
Books Read: 73/87

5.5 Birth of a Nation The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Finished 11/18 Published July 2008

10.1 In their own words Before I Fall Finished 11/ 22 Lauren Oliver is a GoodReads Author

30.7 When I was Young Book A: Letter to a Christian Nation Finished 11/23 Has 5 Words in the Title.
Book B: The Wind in the Willows Finished 10/ 19 I'd Dress up as "Mole"



Points to date: 510
Big Books 500+: 5
Big Books 750+: 1
Big Books 1000+: 0
Good Read Authors: 11

5.8 S.O.N
Variant by Robison Wells*
*Robison Wells is a goodreads author

I would like to switch Bloodlines by Richelle Mead from task 10.5 to 10.1 In their Own Words and then add for 10.5 Blood Moon Blood Wounds by Susan Beth Pfeffer
10.1 Bloodlines by Richelle Mead (already posted points)
10.5 Blood Wounds by Susan Beth Pfeffer (10 points here)

20.2 Word of the Day
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and why Outsiders Thrive after High school by Alexandra Robbins*
*Alexandra Robbins is a goodreads author
1/26/2011 Quirk

30.3 e-ticked ride STATE options
E) Liberty Square- location of the Haunted Mansion- Read a Paranormal book
Academy of the Fallen #1: Wide Awake by Daniele Lanzarotta*
* Daniele Lanzarotta is a goodreads author
E) Liberty Square- location of the Haunted Mansion- Read a Paranormal book
Morganville Vampires #11: Last Breath by Rachel Caine


30.8 Head of the Class
#1 My Point and I Do Have One by Ellen Degeneres
D) Math (number one in title)
#2 Privilege #2: Beautiful Disaster by Kate Brian
Book takes place at a boarding school

Points = 515

25.9 Rite of Passage
read by Shannon Delany (goodreads author)
and
by Lauren DeStefano (goodreads author)

25.10 Fall Back in Time read by Claudia Gray
Popular in 2010 #62
and
by Margaret Peterson Haddix added to my TBR august 2010

30.9 bookfest read
by Cassandra Clare (goodreads author)
and
Born to Rock by Gordon Korman

Points this Post: 80
Total points- 1075
Tasks Completed: 56
Books read: 80
Pages Read : 25,410
GR Authors: 34
Big Books: 500+(4), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

ANGIE CA

In post #1222, I forgot to claim a GRA ticket for Rochelle Staab (task 5.1)! My total should now be 23 tickets.

TANYAPT

50.1 (6F) - Triptych by J.M. Frey (scientist (Basil) central character)
*** Goodreads Author ***

2D - The Outlaw Album: Stories by Daniel Woodrell

3E - Blood PromiseRichelle Mead (503 pages - vampires)
*** Goodreads Author ***

Points this post: 50
Total Points: 360
Tasks Completed: 14
Books Read: 21
Goodreads Authors: 13
Big Books: 500+(4), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

Christie Guatemala

10.1 - In Their Own Words

Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich is a Goodreads Author.

Points this post: 10
Total Points: 220
Total Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500=2

Chris MD

Reposting to correct problems in post 1839.

Please delete my submissions for 20.4 and 30.2. In their places, please accept the following:

20.4 Series Lover

City of Bones

This book was published in 2007. The latest in series, "City of Fallen Angels," was published in 2011.
Book is 485 pages.
GR lists as #1 in the Mortal Instruments series.


30.2 Unique Fall Holidays

2. Book Lover's Day - I enjoyed the first in a new young adult series called The Magnificent 12 this year that I snatched up the second book as soon as it came out.
The Trap by Michael Grant

4. National Dessert Day - What's better than some yummy cake? Weirdly decorated yummy cake!
Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong by Jen Yates

Note: edited for bad HTML tag.

ANNA E

25.4 Blood Diamonds

The Face of Trespass by Ruth Rendell (1991)

and

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith (set in Botswana, Africa)

Total Points this post: 25
Total Points this Challenge: 220
Total Tasks Completed: 10
Total Books Read: 15

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

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans

My Readerboard name is GAYLA (5 letters).

This Post: 10
Total Points: 875
Tasks Completed: 52/61
Books Read: 74/87

20.2 Word of the Day

Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg
Durable was the Daily Buzzword on 12-29-10

30.1 My Hometown, Rock Island, Illinois

A. Shutter Island by Dennis
Lehane
B. Gone by Michael Grant 558 Pages
1 Big Book Ticket
Michael Grant is a Goodreads Author

Points this post: 50
Total points: 400
Task completed: 20
Books read: 28
Goodreads Authors: 9
Big Book Tickets: 1

Emmalita

30.8 Jenn Renee's task: Head of the Class

Book A

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

This book qualifies for C. History, because it is historical fiction

Book B

The Cereal Murders by Diane Mott Davidson

This book mainly takes place in a school.


This post: 30 points
Total points to Date: 90 points
Goodread authors: 2
Big Book Tickets: 3
Total tasks completed: 3

20.4 Series Lover -
Bright Young Things (Bright Young Things #2 Beautiful Days pub. Sept 2011)

20.10 Group Read
The Peach Keeper. I posted in #38 Sarah Addison Allen (GR Author)

25.5 Virtual Safari
Opt 1. Lion (Lion on the cover)
Opt. 5 Flamingo Book with pink cover - approved in help thread

30.7 When I was Young
a. by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (GR Author) - white cover
b. One Good Knight by Mercedes Lacky
I could dress up as a princess.

30.8 Head of the Class
Opt. D Math Tracy Anderson's 30-Day Method: The Weight-Loss Kick-Start that Makes Perfection Possible (Number numeric or ordinal in title)
Opt. B Heresy (Main character is student or educator or setting is school or academy) Book is set at Oxford University.

30.10 Shopping at the School Store
a. Rolled a 4 Read a book with 400-499 pages
The Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor. (GR author) Book has 432 pages
b. Rolled a 1 biography of author or where main character is an author
The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O. McNees (GR author)

Total points this post: 155
Total points/challenge: 370
GR Authors this post: 4 (Sarah Addison Allen, Vanessa Diffenbaugh, Brad Thor, Kelly O. McNees)

20.1. Most Improved Player - Hettie's task: Missing books

For this task, read a continuation of a book or series written by someone OTHER than the original author.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

This book is a continuation of the Sherlock Holmes books by Arthur Conan Doyle and is a sequel (approved in the task thread).

This Post: 20
Total Points: 895
Tasks Completed: 53/61
Books Read: 75/87

STACIE MI

Task 50.1 - Let's Build a Haunted House

For A and criteria 1, I read:

Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

For B and criteria 6, I read:

Pearls Sells Out: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury by Stephan Pastis

For E (human deviating from normal character, the book is about vampires) and 3 (author has written 68 distinct works), I read:

Undead and Unpopular by MaryJanice Davidson

**Stephanie Perkins is a Goodreads author!!**

Points this task: 50
Total points: 885
Tasks completed: 41
Books read: 62
Pages read: 16199
Goodreads authors: 15
Big books: 500+ (1); 750+ (0); 1000+ (0)

Tammy AZ

15.6 Brrr - 11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944

25.3 Game Night - Professor Plum in the Study with a Revolver
Professor Plum -
In the Study (nonfiction book) -

Post Total: 40
Grand Total: 405

Janet Evanovich is a Goodreads author

20.3 Best Review - Amanda VA's task: Music Around the Fire

I chose option A. Read a book with a musical instrument or a musical term in the title and/or subtitle. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay who is a ***Goodreads author***.

Points this post: 20
Total points: 385
Tasks completed: 15
Books read: 24
Number of pages: 293/7859
Goodreads Authors to date: 4
Big Books: 500=3, 750=0, 1000=0

10.1 In their other words

Delirium by Lauren Oliver
*Lauren Oliver is a goodreads author*

she has been interviewed on goodreads voice


Points this post: 10
Total points: 315
Tasks completed: 20
Books read: 25
Goodreads Authors: 13
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0

25.3 Game Night

Book 1, Mrs. White: The Wishing Trees by John Shors GR Author


Book 2, In the Library: Valentine Murder by Leslie Meier
The victim was a librarian.

25 points this post
405 total points
1 GR Author this post
10 total GR Authors
26 tasks completed
32 books read

That's all for me this fall. Thanks for a really fun and interesting challenge!

30.4 - Trusty Shellback

1 - Hawks Mountain by Elizabeth Sinclair, a Goodreads author.
Her initials are found in SHELLBACK.

2 - Nicholas by Elizabeth Amber, a Goodreads author.
Her last name is an approved gemstone.

----
Points Claiming: 30
Total Points: 250

20.8 It's My Birthday - Lisa MD's task:The BIG 5-oh!

Blood and Memory (The Quickening #2) (2003) by Fiona McIntosh (Paperback, 463 pages)

2 o's: Blood
1 o: Memory
1 o: Fiona
1 o: McIntosh
5 = Total o's

505 + 20 = 525




Tasks Completed: 25
Points for this task: 20
Points thus far: 505 + 20 = 525
Books read: 37
Pages Read: 11,881
Read but not claimed: 5

Goodreads Authors: 10

Big Books:
(0) 500+
(0) 750 +
(1) 1000 +

25.5 - Valorie's task: SRC's Virtual Safari

1. African Lion: Read a book with a main character that is a king, or has the word 'Lion' or "Lioness" in the title/subtitle, or has a picture of a lion on the cover.

Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson by David Grossman

6. Zebra: Read a book with a mainly white and black cover, or has the word 'Zebra' in the title/subtitle, or has a picture of a zebra on the cover.

by Daniel Polansky

This Post: 20
Total Points: 920
Tasks Completed: 54/61
Books Read: 76/87

15.7 - Beginnings and Endings


Title begins and ends with the same letter (T)

The Sugar Camp Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel by Jennifer Chiaverini


Total points 400

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

E. I'm 65 inches, so I read Blue Screen, the 5th book in the Sunny Randall series by Robert B. Parker.

F. I was born in Massachusetts, so I read Split Image, set in Massachusetts.


30.8 Jenn Renee's task: Head of the Class

Book A - I went to science class and read Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card, science fiction.

Book B - I read Legacies, set in a school. All of the main characters are either students, teachers or administrators.

Total points: 975

15.9. Winter Clothes


My current total= 185

RACHEL CA: 470 pts total

30.01 MY HOMETOWN, ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS

A1. The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner (rock) (BIG BOOK: 536 pgs)

B2. Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (Union general George Henry Gordon)

Points: 30
Total points: 470
Tasks completed: 31
Books read: 42
Goodreads authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(3), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

Laurie ME

15.10 - Roaming Wild:

Katie Macalister - Love in the Time of Dragons

Points this post - 15.
Total Points - 990.

Katie Macalister is a goodreads author

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

A. Marysvale by Jared Southwick

This is a free ebook from Amazon. Amazon was approved in the help thread (message #82)

B. Mama Does Time by Deborah Sharp

The title contains the following letters: A-D-E-I

Deborah Sharp is a Goodreads author.

This post: 25 points
Total to Date = 75 points

5.6 – Labor Day

Sapphique by Catherine Fisher

+5 Points

25.9 – Gayla’s Task: Rite of Passage

B. The party: Chair on Cover (approved in help thread)

by George R.R. Martin - Big Book 835 pages

C. The gifts: Published in the 1800s

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin published 1833

+25 Points

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

5. National Adoption Day (11/19) / A. Author is a Goodreads Author
This book is about rescuing another human and creating a new family:

Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos, Goodreads Author

3. Clean Your Refrigerator Day (11/15) / Cheese is the very molded object I have found / B. Author is deceased: Robert Cormier born: January 17, 1925 / died: November 02, 2000

I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

+30 Points

Points this Post: 60
Big Books: 1
Goodreads Authors: 1
Grand Total: 665

20.5 Bigger is Better- Katy's task: Falling - Naked in Death by J.D. Robb Category E

Total Points: 70
Tasks Completed: 6
Total Pages: 2382
Books Read: 7
Goodreads Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=0 750=0 1000=0

BJ Rose

1 new task

30.4 Delicious Dee's Task: Trusty Shellback - read 2 books:

Book 1
Read a book by an author whose initials are in the word SHELLBACK - SL

The Reckless Bride by Stephanie Laurens

Stephanie Laurens is a Goodreads Author

Book 2 - Gemstones - I used Bone
The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver

New points this post = 30

Total Points = 1015

Tasks Completed = 54
Total Pages = 26,825
Goodreads Authors = 18
Big Books = (500+) = 3

10.2 Queen of Denial

"In" is in title.

Invisible Gardens by Julie Shigekuni.

Points this post: 10
Total points: 810
Tasks: 42
Books: 59
Goodreads authors: 16
Big Books: 500=2, 750=0, 1000=0

Readerboard Name: StacyCT

10.2 - Queen of Denial
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Task Points: 10


10.3 - Headless Horseman
by Laura Kipnis

Task Points: 10


20.1 - Missing Books
Out of OzGregory Maguire (sequel to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
568 pages = 1 Big Book Ticket

Task Points: 20


20.9 - Vegas Vacation
4. - Treasure Island
The Watery Part of the World by Michael Parker (this book takes place on an island)
Michael Parker is a GoodReads author.

Task Points: 20


25.3 - Game Night
First Book: A - Miss Scarlett
by Toni Morrison
Second Book: 5 - Lead Pipe in the Ballroom
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary ObsessionAllison Hoover Bartlett

Task Points: 25


30.10 - Shopping at the School Store
First Die: 2. Book between 200-299 pages
Possible Side EffectsAugusten Burroughs (291 pages)
Second Die: 6. Pocket Folder
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's FeminismDaisy Hernandez (collection of essays)

Task Points: 30


Tasks Completed: 13
Total Points Earned: 270

Total Books Read: 19
Pages Read: 5856
GoodReads Authors: 2 (J.A. Konrath, Michael Parker)
Big Book Tickets: 500+(2), 750+(), 1000+()