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Rebekah wrote: "I checked Book Swap too, but no luck. I guess I'll have to put it in my daily book order. (I wish!)"

I know! My library doesn't have The Summer Bookand neither does Paperback Swap. I've Wish Listed the book there, but I doubt I'll get a copy before the end of the challenge. Now I'm debating between A Game of Thrones and You Know When the Men Are Gone.

20.3 Iambic Pentameter

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
Lexile 1170

+20 Task
+10 Oldies published 1902

Task Total: 30
Grand Total: 340

Krista wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "I checked Book Swap too, but no luck. I guess I'll have to put it in my daily book order. (I wish!)"

I know! My library doesn't have The Summer Bookand neither does..."

A Game of Thrones. It's long but sooo good.

We can repeat the Group Reads task can't we? I wanted to read You Know When the Men are Gone, too, but I'm on the hold list for that one. Of course it works for rhyming, too;) Also, the book I chose Mother's Milk is really good and on the Booker list and the new 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list and its alliteration for those of you who might be still looking for a good choice.

Karen GHHS wrote: "We can repeat the Group Reads task can't we? I wanted to read You Know When the Men are Gone, too, but I'm on the hold list for that one. Of course it works for rhyming, too;) Also, the book I chos..."

Hi Karen:

I was looking at Mother's Milk but from the blurb it sounded like it was part of a series. (Or came after a series?) Does this need to be read in any particular order with the author's other books?

Yes -- you can repeat the Group Reads task.

Krista wrote: "Karen GHHS wrote: "We can repeat the Group Reads task can't we? I wanted to read You Know When the Men are Gone, too, but I'm on the hold list for that one. Of course it works for rhyming, too;) Al..."

I haven't read any other books by the author of Mother's Milk and I didn't notice anything, but I guess I should check that out, too. I have owned the book for awhile, so I didn't look too closely at the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ description!

You can repeat the tasks as much you like unless otherwise stated.

Well, now I have another book on my TBR. It looks like Some Hope: A Trilogy is about the childhood of the father in Mother's Milk. From my reading experience, Mother's Milk is complete in itself, but I plan to go back and read Some Hope as a prequel.

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "You can repeat the tasks as much you like unless otherwise stated."

Thanks. Now we'll see if I have time to carry through on reading multiple group reads!

Completed Spring Cleaning 15.2 Science Fiction-"I Am Number Four"

Task Points: 15
Grand Total: 210

Claiming
Task: 10.6 - Lab Lit
A Death of Honor by Joe Clifford Faust
The hero and his friends are bio-engineers working at a BioTech company. Several scenes occur in the hero's lab.

+10 Task
+ 5 Style: 1. Combo (5 points) (also fits 10.3 - Cyberpunk!)

Task Total: 10 + 5 = 15

Grand Total: 80 + 15 = 95

10.1 - Reduce, Reuse Recycle: Winter Challenge Task 10.1 - Turkey Coma:

The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales by Nikolai Leskov
10 task points
+10 Canon
+10 Oldies (1865-1888)

Task total: 30
Grand Total: 100

Task 15.8: Biography/Autobiography
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond by Michael Oher

+15:task
+5: combo (10.7:Scrabble-BOTTOMS)
+20: task total

RwS total: 105 pts.

Let me know if I got this right, please! :)

Task 20.1 Alliteration - Moonlight Mile

Task Total: 20
Grand Total: 70

Task 20.6 Poetry before 1900
Poems

+20 pts - Task
+5 pts - Combo (10,8-Penguin paperback Classics)
+15 pts - Oldies (written in 1820s)

40 pts - Task Total

Task 20.7 Poetry after 1900
Selected Poems by Carl Sandburg

+20 pts - Task
+5 pts - (oldies per LizM)

25 pts - Task Total

440 pts - Grand Total

Task 15.4 Historical Fiction

Watermark: A Novel of the Middle Ages by Vanitha Sankaran

+15 Task

Grand total: 130

RwS Tasks:

10.1 � Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

I chose Noel, Noel as my favorite task and I read:

City of Thieves by David Benioff

+10 Task

10.6 � Lab Lit

One of the primary characters is Doc and he oversees scientists on the spaceship as well as practicing medicine.

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

There is no lexile available for this brand new YA book. My educated guess is that it will come in over 700, but the series points are up to you or tentative:

+10 Task
+ 5 Series (Across the Universe #1)?

Task Total: 15

Points This Post: 25
Grand Total: 230

RwS

20.10 - Sam's Choice: Potent Potables
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell

+ 20 Task
+ 5 Series (The Saxon Stories #1)
Task Total = 25

GRAND TOTAL = 125

READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

20.8 Quotable Quotes

I read Cold Comfort Farm.

+20 Task
+10 Combo (also qualifies for Tasks 10.8 and 20.1)
+10 Oldie (published 1932)

Task Total= 40
TOTAL POINTS=125

10.7 - Scrabble - first letter of each word in title must make a word - A Morning for Flamingos by James Lee Burke - A-M-F-F-J-L-B - Lamb

A Morning for Flamingos

10 task
+5 series
+5 Combo (20.3)

Points This Task: 20
Tasks Completed: 3
Total Points: 55
Books Read: 3

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15.8 � Biography

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

+15 Points

This Post: 15
Grand Total: 245

ERIN C.

15.6 Romance OR Horror (I chose romance!)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

+15 Task
+5 (p. 1847)
+5 (533pp.)

Task Total=25
Grand Total=160

RwS Task 10.1 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (Winter Task 10.3 V-Day) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
+10 Task
+5 Oldies (pub 1936)
+25 Jumbo (1024 pages)

Task Total: 40

Task 20.3 Iambic Pentameter
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

+20 Task


Post Total: 60
Grand Total: 450

20.9 Krista's Choice
B) Mexico

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

+20 Task

Grand Total: 360

20.1 Alliteration
Pyramid Power
+ 20 Task
+ 5 Series (Pyramid book 2)
Task Total = 25 points

Grand Total = 110 points

20.8- Quotable Quotes: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin ("Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven." -Chuang Tzu)

+20 Task
+10 Combo (20.4, Le Guin has published 6 books of poetry including Wild Angels and Hard Words, and Other Poems; 10.6, one the of the POVs and main antagonist is a research scientist in psychology)
+5 Oldies (Publ 1971)
Task Total = 35

Grand Total= 225

ERIN C.

20.10 Potent Potables

Embers by Sándor Márai

Excellent, excellent book, well worth filling this task for lost books...

+20 Task
+5 Oldies (p. 1942)

Task Total= 25
Grand Total=185

Task 15.5 Supernatural
Wilderness by Dennis Danvers (the main character is a werewolf)

15 task points

grand total = 85

Task 10.5 - I'm Tellin' Read a book with "Brother(s)" or "Sister(s)" in the title.

Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists by Jean H. Baker

+ 10 Task

Task Total: 10


Task 20.7 - Post-19th Century Poetry
Read a book of poetry written after 1900.

The Traveler's Calendar by Daniel Mark Epstein (Hardcover, 61 pages)

The Glass House: New Poems by Daniel Mark Epstein (Paperback, 78 pages)

61 + 78 = 139 pages


+ 20 Task
+ 5 Style: 1. Combo (5 points) (20.2 - Rhymes B - A word in the title rhymes with another word in a title - Glass rhymes with House )

Task Total: 20 + 5 = 25

Grand Total: 95 + 10 + 25 = 130

20.1 - Alliteration- same consonant or vowel sound
I read Cherry Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke

+20 Task Points
+5 Series Points (Book 8 of Hannah Swensen Series; 1st book read this challenge)

Task Total = 25

10.9 - Colleen's 1st Place Task- Pi
I read Key Lime Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke.

+10 Task Points
+10 Series Points (Book 9 of Hannah Swensen Series; 2nd book read this challenge

Task Total = 20

Grand Total = 85

OOOO, I read Key Lime Pie and I am reading Cherry Cheesecake Murder. I love her books!

I really enjoy all of them. I love all the little side stories about the town and the people.

The books make me hungry with the recipes. :)

Krista wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "I checked Book Swap too, but no luck. I guess I'll have to put it in my daily book order. (I wish!)"

I know! My library doesn't have The Summer Bookand neither does..."

I really liked You Know When the Men Are Gone. I was in the military during Desert Storm and had done a lot of training at Ft Hood. It was broadening to hear what the families go through. Since it is now a volunteer army, it is the same soldiers going on deployment after deployment in a never-ending string of military objectives. The rest of America who have no loved ones fighting, don't seem to realize the sacrifices they make, not only with their lives, comfort, and safety but also losing a whole year at a time in the lives of their families. Can you imagine missing a whole year of your child's life? Then having to do it again a year or so later. How about the kids? Every once in a while a parent shows up, stays for a while and then has to leave again. The strain on the marriages... well, you can just imagine.
Ok Soapbox done. Point is it is a good read about what our soldiers' and their families are living today, right now.
Oh and you can get combo points for two other tasks as well! (smile)

ERIN C.

20.4 A Poet's Non-Poetry

Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare has published multiple books of poetry, including "Youthful Inspiration", "Dreams" and "My Century"

+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.1) Spring Frost, Spring Flowers
+5 Combo (20.9 part B) Story takes place in Albania

Task Total= 30

10.7 Scrabble!

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek

Letters: T. P. T. E. J. Spells out JET or PET

+10 Task
+5 Oldies (p. 1983)
+5 Combo (10.9)

Task Total: 20

Points this Post: 50
Grand Total= 235

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15.10 Non-Fiction
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

15 Task
10 Page bonus (544 pages)

Task points = 25
Total points = 65

Reading with Style
Task 20.2 Part B (Rhymes)

I read The Red Thread by Ann Hood
20 task points

= 155 Total RWS Points

RwS Task

10.2 � Women’s History Month

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

+10 Task
+ 5 Combo: 20.2 Rhymes (Ethan and Wharton)
+10 Canon
+10 Oldies: 76 to 150 years old(1911)

Task Total: 35

Spring Cleaning

15.2 � Science Fiction

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

+ 15 Task

Points this Post: 15 + 35 = 50
Grand Total: 295

Spring Cleaning Task 15.2 Science Fiction
VALIS by
Philip K. Dick
+15 Task
+5 Oldies (pub 1981)

RwS Task 20.5

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
+20 Task
+15 Oldies (pub 1855)

Post Total: 55
Grand Total: 505

Task 15.1 Spring cleaning Mystery/Thriller Gideon's Sword by Douglas & Lincoln Child Preston

Task points 15

Total points 150


Task 15.6 Spring Cleaning Horror Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Task points 15

Total points 165

15.8: Biography/Autobiography

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Task points: 15
Total points: 15

10.4 Say What?
- WHO
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

+10 Task
+5 Series
+10 Jumbo - 724 pgs.

Task Total: 25
Grand Total: 385

nsfancy wrote: "Task 15.1 Spring cleaning Mystery/Thriller Gideon's Sword by Douglas & Lincoln Child Preston

Task points 15

Total points 150 ....

Task 15.6 Spring Cleaning Horror Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris ..."


Sam has indicated that the Sookie books are classified as supernatural, no horror.

From the Spring Cleaning Q&A folder (Msg #20) "For our purposes here, "supernatural" means books that feature ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches etc. in a macabre way. Gandalf and Harry Potter are not macabre (i.e., fantasy), whereas The Dresden Files and the Sookie Stackhouse books are."

10.6 Lab Lit A Fierce Radiance


+10 Task
+ 5 Jumbo (527 pages)

Task Total = 15

Grand Total = 180

Task 20.9 - Krista's Choice:
B) Read a book set in one of the current Peace Corps host countries.
Country: CHINA

I read:

A House Divided (House of Earth #3) (1935) by Pearl S. Buck

+ 20 Task
+ 5 Style: 1. Combo (5 points) (also fits 20.8 Quotable Quotes : A House Divided found in the Bible Luke 11:17 )
+ 5 Style: 2. Series (5 points) (3rd of a series)
+ 5 Style: 4. Oldies (5 to 15 points): -25 to 75 years old: 5 points (1935-1985)

Task Total: 35

Grand Total: 130 + 35 = 165

Completed 20.1 Alliteration- "Cherry Cheesecake Murder" by Joanne Fluke

Task Points: 20
Style: 0
Grand Total: 230

10.4 Say What - The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
]The Girl Who Chased the Moon

Task points: 10

Spring Cleaning - 15.6 Romance - Don't Look Down by Jennifer Cruise
[book:Don't Look Down|225024

Task points: 15

Points This Post: 25
Tasks Completed: 5
Total Points: 75
Books Read: 5

Task 20.3 Iambic Pentameter

You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs

Task points: 20

Total points: 150

READERBOARD NAME: Rachel OH

I completed...

15.2 Spring Cleaning

Sci-Fi: Delirium.

+15 Task

Task Total=15
TOTAL POINTS=140

Task 10.10 Group Reads:

You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon

+10 Task
+10 Combo (10.4 Say What: when; 20.2 Rhymes: Part B when/men)
Task Total: 20

Grand Total: 165 + 20 = 185