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FALL CHALLENGE 2010
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Fall Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks (do NOT delete any posts in this thread)
5.1 Fall Colors - 5.2 The Play Must Go On -
5.3 Thanksgiving -
5.4 I'm Glad My Mother Didn't Name Me - The bold by Dick Francis
5.5 Ball Game -
5.6 Beauty -
5.7 Circle of Life -
5.8 Banned -
5.9 Comfort Read -
5.10 Name That Car -
10.1 Short Stories -
10.2 Drink -
10.3 Freedom! -
10.4 Leaving Civilization Behind -
10.5 First Estate -
10.6 In the Pink - The Luxe
10.7 City -
10.8 What a Way to Make a Living -
10.9 Under the Covers -
10.10 Group Hug -
15.1 New Horizons - Horror:
15.2 Recommended -
15.3 Continental Divide - Australia:
15.4 Equinox -
15.5 Literatrue Map -
15.6 One Hit Wonders -
15.7 Mystery -
15.8 Picasso -
15.9 Coin Collector - 2 DO IT! (500 pgs) -
15.10 Second Chances -
25.1 And the Story Continues - A. AND B.
25.2 As Her Debut - AND B.
30.1 It's In the Cards -
30.2 In and Outs - A. AND B.
30.3 Shipwrecked! -
30.4 Mysteries & Animals - A. AND B.
30.5 Life Lessons - AND 4.
30.6
30.7 Good Spirits - A. AND B.
30.8 Fall Back - A. AND B.
Please post just the new tasks you've completed.
5.6 - She's a BeautyNovember 20th is Beautiful Day. Read a book with a cover you consider beautiful.
Finished 9/1/10Total Point Earned: 5/990
Total Pages Read: 291/18087
Total Books Read: 1/53
Good Read Authours:
Big Book Tickets: 500(), 750(), 1000()
5.4
The main characters name is Lingonberry Knudsen.
Finished:5.5 Take Me Out to the Ballgame
The Nine Giants
by Edward Marston.This books is a doubleheader--Nine being the number of positions on the field and the number of innings in the game and the San Francisco Giants team.
Task total 5
Grand total 5
Pages 236
15.9 - COIN COLLECTOR! 2 do it!= 300 p.
Impulse & Initiative: What If Mr. Darcy Didn't Take No for an Answer?
by Abigail Reynolds 416 pages. Points: 15/????
Books Read: 1/???
Good Read Authours:
Big Book Tickets: 500(), 750(), 1000()
20.10 GROUP READS: MOST WANTED
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Scholastic, 2010
390 pg.
Read - 9/1/10
3 Stars
(My post is #2 in the discussion thread.)
TOTAL POINTS: 20
10.4 LEAVING CIVILIZATION BEHIND: In The Forest Of Harm by Sallie Bissell - Book takes place in the NC/TN Mountains.15.8 IS THAT AN EYE UNDERNEATH THAT NOSE: Pawleys Island by Dorothea Benton Frank Rebecca is an artist.
Dorothea Benton Frank is a GR Author
Total Points: 25
Total Tasks: 2
Total Books: 2
Total Pages: 762
GR Authors: 1
Kate.x. 5.9 Comfort Read, i read Definitly Dead by Charlaine Harris. I consider it a comfort read, because I know all the mian characters (it's book 6) and it balences action with romance and a heroine you can (sort of) relate to. I snuggled up with a nice cup of tea.
Total points = 5.
ERIN C5.9 "Comfort Read"
Lord Of The Silent by Elizabeth Peters
I read this because I love the Amelia Peabody series, and find myself reading it over and over again because I love to get lost in this world!
This is a BigBook Read for 1 ticket, at 640 pg.
Total Points: 5
Total Tasks: 1
Total Books: 1
Total Pages: 640
Goodreads Author: 0
BigBook Tickets: 1
Carly5.1 - Fall Colors
I read Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay.
Saffy is short for the color Saffron. All the children in the story were named after a different color. I got this book approved by Kristi in the Help Tasks thread (post 16).
Points This Task: 5
Total Points: 5
Tasks Completed: 1
Tasks in Progress: 0
Books Read: 1
GoodReads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Pages Read: 152
15.7 - SOLVE THE MYSTERY Naked in Death picked from http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/11..., 314 pages.
Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
GoodReads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Pages Read: 314
10.7 - City LightsChildren of Pithiviers by Sheila Kohler
Points for this task: 10
Total Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 204
Task 5.5 Take me out to the Ballgame - Blockade Billy by Stephen King
Jennifer TN20.10 Group Reads - B. Most Wanted of 2010
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Posted in group discussion
Total Points=20
5.3 T.H.A.N.K.S.G.I.V.I.N.G.:Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
Total points: 5
5.2 - The Play Must Go On'night, Mother: A Play
I don't usually read plays, but I enjoyed it.
15.2 - RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Thirteen Reasons Why
This was a great book, I loved it. I added She's Come Undone to the list. It is one of my favorite recent reads.
Points: 20
Total Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Pages: 377
15.6 One -Hit WondersThe God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Total points to date 15
I started to read this book when it was first published and didn't like it. I didn't even finish it.
Since it fitted the task I thought I'd give it another try and I liked it much better. I enjoyed the language this time - I think that was the stumbling block before. I find it amazing that Arundhati Roy wrote a Booker prize winning novel 13 years ago and hasn't written another since!
5.5 Take Me Out To The Ball GameRead Night Game by Christine Feehan
Points for this task-5
Total Points- 5
Books Read- 1
Goodreads Authors-
Pages Read- 469
15.10 Second ChancesOOPS! Didn't have part b in my spreadsheet.
15.1 New HorizonsTwelfth Night - shelf was drama
Total Points 15/890
Tasks Completed 1/53
Books Read 2/69
Total Pages 418
Total Big Book Tickets 0
Total Goodreads Authors 0
Tanja20.10 Group Read
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (3 Stars)I made two comments to the Group Read Discussion - Msg 7 & 10. This wasn't the way I imagined the series to end but I still ADORE Book 1 & 2.
Total Points: 20
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5.1 - Fall ColorsGolden Threads by Kay Hooper
5.2 - The Play Must Go On
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Total Points = 10 Points
10.2 WE NEED A DRINKAre You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Points: 10
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
Pages: 641
5.6 SHE'S A BEAUTYBride of the Water God (vol. 1) by Mi-Kyung Yun
Task points: 5
Total points: 10
Alice GTask: 5.9 Comfort Read
Book: The L-Shaped Room
I chose this book as a comfort read for a variety of reasons. It is one of my Mum's favourite books and she introduced it to me when I was about 16. I have always known that she had got one of my brother's name from a character in it and it turns out that another character in the book has what is my brother's middle name and yet another character has the name of my other brother. I did mention it to mum last night and she said that she hadn't chosen them all from that book but I don't believe her! I was half expecting an Alice to turn up in it!
I remember really enjoying it when I read it as a teenager and followed it by then reading every other book by Lynne Reid Banks that I could get my hands on. It was a comfort read as I was returning to an old favourite but it turned out that I couldn't actually remember it at all and even when I was reading it nothing of the story came back to me. It is a brilliant book and I could really feel the emotions that are evoked throughout it.
It turned out to be even more of a comfort read than I first expected as I loved it so much and didn't remember it well so it was like discovering an old and best friend all over again!
The book is actually a first in a trilogy so I have now managed to fit the next two books into this challenge and am looking forward to reading them! For some reason I only have the first and last book so have ordered the middle book online today.
Total points: 5
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10.7 CITY LIGHTS— When in Rome...A Novel of Piazzas and Passion - Gemma TownleyTotal Points: 10
15.8 - IS THAT AN EYE UNDERNEATH THAT NOSE? Succulent Flesh by Wrath James White (Goodreads Author)
The main character, Joseph Miles, is a painter. There's a few significant scenes that occur in his art class, as well as a later scene that occurs with his live model.
Points This Task: 15
Total Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
GoodReads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
30.4 - Cheryl TX's task: MYSTERIES AND ANIMALSA. Read a MYSTERY book involving any animal.
B. Read a MYSTERY book involving an animal OTHER than dog or cat. Ex. The Lions of the North, Border Prey, Blue Wolf in Green Fire: A Woods Cop Mystery, The Anteater of Death: A Zoo Mystery,Death by Dressage, The Boreal Owl Murder: A Bob White Birder Murder Mystery, The Case of the Ill-Gotten Goat, Murder With Peacocks
The Mystery at the Dog Show and The Secret of the Silver Dolphin
Total Point Earned: 35/990
Total Pages Read: 587/19686
Total Books Read: 3/57
Good Read Authours:
Big Book Tickets: 500(), 750(), 1000()
5.7 Circle of LifeI read
Carrie Fisher was born in October.
Total points earned: 5
Points this task: 5
30.1- pjreads's task as suggested by Jen B: IT'S IN THE CARDS 4 Club- His at Night by Sherry Thomas 2010. Goodread Author.
AND
K <3- The Last Man in the World: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Abigail Reynols 2007, England.
Points: 45/890
Books Read: 3/???
Good Read Authours: 1
Big Book Tickets: 500(), 750(), 1000()
Jessica VAFirst Challenge, First Task Completed. : D
10.7 CITY LIGHTS - Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn *GoodReads Author*
Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 1
Tasks in Progress: 1
Books Read: 1
GoodReads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Claiming a GoodReads Author ticket on this one.
Pages Read: 470
Congratulations on completing your first Task, Jessica, and welcome to the Challenge!I completed Task 5.7 (Circle of Life) by reading Next by Michael Crichton, who passed away on Nov. 4th, 2008.
Interesting story of biogenetics-gone-crazy. The Genie has been let out of the bottle and gene manipulation and control and ownership are let loose into Society.
Although not the best written story, this is an interesting look at what can happen when the Law and Scientists and bio-genetic companies look more into the money-to-be-made and the control of "cells", rather than the outcome of their "work".
The story has many story tracks, all with a different aspect of the issues.
Gerrard and Dave are interesting and one both feels wonder that such beings/animals/? may come to being and fear that they will.
10.3 - FreedomResistance, Book 1
Points for this task: 10
Total Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 128
First challenge, first task!
Readerboard Name: StacyCT10.4 - Leaving Civilization Behind
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Task Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 1
Total Points Earned: 10
Total Books Read: 1
GoodReads Authors:
Big Book Tickets: 500+(), 750+(), 1000+()
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5.8 Freedom to Read
Looking for Alaska by John Green #77 on list #1
5.9. Comfort Read
Strip by Thomas Perry
Looking for Alaska was required reading for both my kids in high school and it might be the only book that they both ever liked. I can see why it was challenged- it contains almost every teenage sin. But it had real authenticity and thought. I'm glad my school used it to start a dialogue with their students.
Strip is my 18th Thomas Perry book- smart, fast, fun and calculating. Perry won the Edgar for best first novel with The Butcher's Boy in 1983. Perry's Jane Whitefield 5 book series Vanishing Act (book 1) was really good, but 9/11 security changes really impacted these books about a woman who helps abused women escape and create new identities. His later books use many of the same elements and always surprise.
+10
total 10
ERIN C25.1 And the Story Continues...
The Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters as the 10th book in the Amelia Peabody series, and The Falcon at the Portal by Elizabeth Peters as the 11th book in the Amelia Peabody series.
The total pages for both books is 960 pg.
I am also claiming 1 Big Book ticket for The Ape Who Guards the Balance since it was 576 pg.
Points This Task: 25
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 3
Pages Read: 1,600
GoodReads Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(2), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Jennifer D. Task 10.10 ~ Group Hug ~ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
It is a group read at Reading with Style.
Points this task: 10
Total Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 479
GR Authors: 0
Big Books: 500+(0); 750+(0); 1000+(0)
Stacey10.7, City Lights
City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare (Goodreads author)
eBook, but 485 pages per Goodreads
Points This Task: 10
Total Points: 10
Tasks Completed: 1
Tasks in Progress: 3
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 673
GoodReads Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)
Brenda WI15.2 Recommended - I read I Am the Messenger and I'm on the board
Points this task: 15
Tasks Completed 1
Books read: 1
Total points: 15
5.2-The Play Must Go OnAntigone by Sophocles (translated into English since I don't read Greek!)
I'd read Antigone a few times before and re-read it yesterday. Sophocles isn't my favorite of the Greek playwrights (I prefer Aristophanes' comedies) but since I have to teach Sophocles I'll take Antigone over overdone Oedipus any day! I feel like it touches on many of the same themes and has the same tragic structure, and Antigone is a more sympathetic character than anyone in Oedipus.
Total pages in book(s): 80
Total Challenges Completed: 1
Total Books Read: 1
Total Pages Read: 80
Total Points: 5
10.7 City LightsThe Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Total Points: 10
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