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Challenge #13 - October/November

Tasks and Rules

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If you got approval for a book, please list the message number in the questions thread for reference.


Use this thread to report your points for the Challenge #13.

Here's an example of how it will look when reported:

15.1 Happy Turkey Day! : read a HF book set during the colonial times or during the revolutionary war.
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
316 pages - 4 points
HF = 5 points

Total - 24 points

Post the cover and the title link if it is a task cover challenge.

NOTE: At this time there will be no scorecard unless I get a volunteer.

20.2 Supporting Our Own - Group Read

Nefertiti by Michelle Moran

Task points: 20
Page bonus(463 pages): 4
HF bonus: 5

Challenge total: 29

The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree
304 pages +4
HF +5
Task 20.1 Read a book with two words that start with the same letter in the title
Book total =29
Challenge total=29

20.1 Double Take - author's first and last names start with the same letter
The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys

Task points: 20
Page bonus: 2 (208 pages)
HFU bonus: 5

Challenge total: 27

20.1) Double Take (Author's name, Steven Saylor)= 20 points
288 pgs = 2pts
Historical Fiction = 5 pts
Book Total = 27pts


502 pgs = 6pts
5.3) One of the main characters has supernatural powers (demigods, elemental control, etc.) = 5pts
Book Total = 11pts


368 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5 pts
5.1) Celebrate Children- A large portion (I would say 75%) of the book focused on Uhtred between the ages of 10-14 = 5pts
Book Total = 14pts


376pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
10.3) Book title contains the abbreviation of the word Saint = 10pts
Book Total = 19pts

Challenge total = 61pts

10.3 All Saints Day In honor of All Saints Day on Nov 1, read a book where the author, setting or title has the word Saint (or an abbreviation for Saint).
City of Saints
336 pgs +4
HF +5
Task total 19 pts

15.2. Finish a Series Read the final book in a series or trilogy.
The Far West
378 pgs +4
Task total 19 pts

Challenge total 38 pts

15.2 Finish a series - Read the final book in a series or trilogy
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487 pages - 4 pts

Task & Challenge Total - 19 points

5.3 Ghosts and Goblins, Oh My: In honor of Halloween, read a book where one of the main characters is a supernatural creature.

Dracula
488 pages +4 pts

Task Total = 9 pts
Challenge Total = 9 pts

by Oliver Pötzsch 10/8/14
20.3 Learning your history - Germany
page bonus: +4 pts (449 pgs)
HF: +5

Book total: 29
Challenge total:29

A Time to Die by Wilbur Smith

20.1 Double Take 2 words in the title start with the same letter

Page bonus: 448pp 4pts

Book total: 24 pts

The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak
20.2 Supporting our own: Read a HF book which we have read as part of a group read
HF: +5
Page Bonus (448 pages): +4

Book total = 29
Challenge total = 29

The Girl On Legare Street
Pages 335=+4
Task 5.3 read a book in which a character is a supernatural creature

Book total=+9
Challenge total=38

The Passion of the Purple Plumeria by Lauren Willig
20.1 Double Take: Read a book where the author’s name or 2 words in the title start with the same letter.
HF: +5
Page bonus (468 pages): +4

Book total = 29
Challenge total = 58

15.3 Finding New Faves

Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure by Richard Evelyn Byrd

On Robert F Scott's home page

Task points: 15
Book bonus (310 pages): 4
Task total: 19
Challenge total: 48

Fatherland by Robert Harris
20.3 Learning your history Read a book HF fiction book that is set in a country that your great-grandparents lived.
HF = +5
Page bonus = +4

Book total = 29
Challenge total = 87

Holly Blues
304 pages=4 points

Book total=4 points
challenge total=42

5.3 Ghosts and Goblins, Oh My: In honor of Halloween, read a book where one of the main characters is a supernatural creature.

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

length bonus: +4 (398 pages)

Book total: 9
Challenge total: 38

A Daughter of Zion
278 pages=+2
HF=+5

Book total=+7
Challenge total=+49

Blue Bloodsby Melissa de la Cruz

20.1 Double Take
302pp +4

Book Total: 24
Grand Total: 24

Lexicon by Max Barry

387pp 4 pts
Book Total: 4 pts

Challenge total: 28 pts

I'm not certain how this Challenge thing works, but I'm interested in message 15, "Read a book set in a country where your great grandparents lived." Can anyone recommend a novel set in late 18th-c, early 19th-c New Brunswick, Canada? Especially if it involves Loyalist refugees?

Queen's Ransom
336 pages=+4
HF=+5

Book total=+9
challenge total=+58

Joanne wrote: "I'm not certain how this Challenge thing works, but I'm interested in message 15, "Read a book set in a country where your great grandparents lived." Can anyone recommend a novel set in late 18th-c..."

Hi Joanne - you might want to ask your question by making a new thread under the "Recommendations" heading. It is likely more people would see your question then. :-)

Thanks!

Lake Como
228 pages=+2

book total=2

Mourning Gloria
301 pages=+4

Book total =4

Challenge total =64

20.1 Double Take:

Any Man of Mine by Rachel Gibson
Task points = 20
Book length 373 pp +4

Book total = 24 pts
Challenge total = 24 pts

20.2 Supporting our own: Read a HF book which we have read as part of a group read.

Katherine
500 pages +4
HF +5

Book Total = 29 points
Challenge Total = 38 points

20.1 Double Take - Read a book where the authors' name or 2 words in the title start with the same letter:
Scarlet byMarissa Meyer
452 pgs +4 pts
Task total 24 pts

25.2 Guy Fawkes Day - Read a HF book which features a plotline about overthrowing the government or assassinating a leader:
Booth: A Novel by David M. Robertson
326 pgs +4 pts
HF +5 pts
Task total 34 pts

25.3 Cult of the New - Read 2 HF books from link:
The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin
480 pgs +4 pts
HF +5 pts
Book total 9 pts
The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla by Lauren Willig
496 pgs +4 pts
HF +5 pts
Book total 9 pts
Task total 43 pts

Post total 101 pts
Challenge total 139 pts

10.3 all Saints Day - author's name includes a form of 'saint': The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James

Task points: 10
Page bonus (318 pages): 4
HF bonus: 5
Book total: 19

Challenge total: 46

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
15.2 Final book in a series or trilogy
537pp 6 pts
Book Total: 21 pts

Challenge Total: 49

Louise wrote: "10.3 all Saints Day - author's name includes a form of 'saint': The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James

Task points: 10
Page bonus (318 pages): 2
HF bonus:..."

Louise- I think you actually get 4 bonus pts for > 300pp book. FYI, I'm reading this book also. Just started & it's a little slow. Hope it picks up!

Chris wrote: "Louise wrote: "10.3 all Saints Day - author's name includes a form of 'saint': The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James

Task points: 10
Page bonus (318 page..."

Hi Chris - thanks so much for the tip! I see you are right. That book was a bit slow at first but I found that the pace did actually pick up after a bit.

15.2. Finish a Series Read the final book in a series or trilogy.
Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled by Dorothy Gilman
Page bonus , 216 = +2
Book total = 17
Challenge total = 104

50.1 How do you like your history?: Read a HF book and a non-fiction book about the same historical figure or event.
Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers by Barbara Hambly
Page bonus, 410 = +4
HF = 5
Book total = 9

1776 by David McCullough
Page bonus, 386 = +4
Book total = 4
Task total = 63
Challenge total = 167

15.3 Finding new Faves: Go to one of your favorite authors' main page and read a book by one of the "similar authors". (Louise Penny - Elly Griffiths)
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
320 pgs +4 pts
Task total 19 pts

50.2 Book-ish Competition: Read 2 books that were part of the Morning News Tournament of Books.
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2012)
261 pgs +2 pts
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (2013)
313 pgs +4 pts
Task total 56 pts

Post total 75 pts
Challenge total 214 pts

50.1 How do you like your history?: Read a HF book and a non-fiction book about the same historical figure or event.
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Page bonus (936 pages): +8
HF: +5
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The War Of The Roses by Sarah Gristwood
Page bonus (432 pages): +4
Task total: 67


25.2 Guy Fawkes Day Read a HF book, which features a plot line about overthrowing the government or assassinating a leader.
Shakespeare's Rebel by C.C. Humphreys
Page bonus (416 pages): +4
HF bonus: +5
Book Total: 34


50.2 Book-ish Competition: Read 2 books that were part of the Morning News Tournament of Books.
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Page bonus (336 pages): +4
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Page bonus (544 pages): +6
HF bonus: +5
Task total: 65

Challenge total to date: 212

15.3 Finding new faves: Agatha Christie similar author -> P. D. James

Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

Task points = 15
Length 291 pp +2
Hist Fiction +5
Book total = 22 pts

Challenge total = 46 pts

416 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts


418 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts

25.3) Two Historical Fiction Novels from 2014 = 25 pts
Book(s) total = 43 pts


304pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
5.2- Breast Cancer Awareness- Book has pink on the cover or title is in pink = 5pts
Book Total = 14pts


507pgs = 6pts
HF = 5pts
25.2 Guy Fawkes Day- A book about a government being overthrown = 25pts
Book total = 36pts
Challenge Total = 154pts

10.3 All Saints Day: author's name has the word (or abbrv) "Saint"
The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James
318pp - 4pts
HF - 5pts
Book total: 19 pts

Challenge total: 68pts

5.1 Celebrate Children
An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg
Main character is 9 years old.

272pp +2
Book total: 7
Grand Total: 31

10.1 Homecoming: Read a book which features a main character returning home for a reunion.
Time Flies by Claire Cook
320 pgs - 4 pts
Task total - 14 pts

5.3 Ghosts and Goblins: Read a book where one of the main characters is a supernatural creature.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
488 pgs - 4 pts
Task total - 9 pts

Post total - 23 pts
Challenge total - 237 pts

5.1 Celebrate Children: Read a book where the main character is a child under 14.
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
(Jack Baker - 13 yrs)
306 pgs +4 pts
HF +5 pts
Task total 14 pts

10.2 Remembrance Day: Read a book set during WWI
Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson
400 pgs +4 pts
HF +5 pts
Task total 19 pts

Post total - 33 pts
Challenge total - 270 pts

15.1 Happy Turkey Day! Read a book based on Colonial America, Pioneers or Native Americans.
Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
Page bonus , 216 = +2
Historical Fiction = +5
Book total = 22
Challenge total = 189

10.3 All Saints Day In honor of All Saints Day on Nov 1, read a book where the author, setting or title has the word Saint (or an abbreviation for Saint).
The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James
Page bonus , 318 = +4
Historical Fiction = +5
Book total = 19
Challenge total = 208

5.3 Ghosts and Goblins Read a book where one of the main characters is a supernatural creature.

Three Souls by Janie Chang
Page Bonus +4 (430pp)
HF +5
Book Total: 14
grand Total: 45

100.1 Best of the Best: Read 3 books that are at least 300 pages from any of the GoodReads Readers Choice nominees or winners. At least one of the books needs to be HF.
2013 GR Readers Choice, 2012 GR Readers Choice, 2011 GR Readers Choice

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - nominee 2013
Page bonus (369 pages): +4
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith - nominee 2013
page bonus (455 pages): +4
The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro - HF nominee 2013
page bonus (464 pages): +4
HF bonus: +5
Task Total: 117

Challenge Total to date: 329

10.2 Remembrance Day: In honor of Armistice Day, read a book set during WW I.
Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson
Page bonus, 400 = +4
Historical Fiction = +5
Book total = 19
Challenge total = 227

Murder on Astor Place
278 pages=+2
HF=+5
Book total=+7

Daughters of Rome
370 pages=+4
HF=+5
Task 20.2 Supporting our Own=+20
Book total=+29

Under the Wide and Starry Sky
496 pages=+4
HF=+5
Book total=+9

Winter of the World
940 pages=+8
Task 25.2 Guy Fawkes Day=+25
HF=+5
Book total=+38

The White Princess
544 pages=+6
HF=+5
Book Total =+11

Challenge total=178

50.2 Book-ish Competition: Read 2 books that were part of the Morning News Tournament of Books.

The Orphan Master's Son
443 pages +4 pts

The Fault in Our Stars
313 pages +4 pts

Task total: 58 points

Challenge total: 96 points

Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

15.3 Read a book by an author identified as a "similar author" on your favorite authors page (Geraldine Brooks)

HF: 5 pts
Page bonus: 2pts
Book Total: 22 pts

Challenge total: 71 pts

5.2 Breast Cancer Awareness: Read a book with a pink over or title in pink.
Driving with the Top Down by Beth Harbison
352 pgs +4 pts
Task total +9 pts

15.1 Happy Turkey Day: Read a book based on Colonial America, Pioneers or Native Americans.
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
461 pgs +4 pts
Task total +19 pts

Post total +28 pts
Challenge total 298 pts