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Lauren Marie

Lauren Marie

15.7. “The First Day of Summer��

I read written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. It was the first book in the House of Night Series.

Points this Post: 15
Total Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 1
GR Author: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

10.5 Caribbean Queen

Read a book set in the Caribbean

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

The Dew Breaker is set in Haiti.

This Post: 10
Total Points: 45/1080
Tasks Completed: 5/60
Books Read: 8/84

20.7 In homage to MZB
Option 2
The Witches by Roald Dahl Dahl won the lifetime achievement award in 1983.

30.6 It's The End Of The World As We Know It.

Option B The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
*Margaret Atwood is a ŷ������ Author*

Option G Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Sirius Black spends 12 years alone in Azkaban and after escaping spends a year alone on the run from the Ministry of Magic.

Points this post: 50
Total Points: 75
ŷ������ Authors: 1
Big Books: 0

hpaddict

20.2 School's Out for Summer

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

option 4 - set in a boarding school

this post = 20
challenge total = 20

Task 15.7 - "The First Day of Summer"

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

First in the Fifty Shades series. E L James is a ŷ������ author.


Task 15.10 - "Feel Good Hit of the Summer"

Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James

Guilty pleasure so doubly good! E L James is a ŷ������ author.



Task 20.1 - Most Improved - Stesse's task: Fifty Shades of Whoa!

Option 1: Fifty Shades Freed by E.L. James

E L James is a ŷ������ author.


Points this post: 50
Total points: 50
Books by ŷ������ author total: 3

Sandy MN

20.9 - Lucky Me!- mstan's task: Please Be Patient...

Book X is Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver, which I claimed in task #20.6

New book is Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. This book is mentioned on the cover of Book X. Lauren Oliver is a ŷ������ Author

Total Points: 110
Total GR Authors: 4

10.4 Air Signs

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

(136 pages in The Complete Sherlock Holmes)

Arthur Conan Doyle was born May 22, 1859.

Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 45

GRA Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0

Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 5

SARAH THE LIBRARIAN

10.3 What's Your Exit?

Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good by Kevin Smith

According to his GR author's page, Smith was born in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Points this post: 10
Total points: 20
Tasks completed: 3
GRA: 1
Big Books 500+(), 750+ (), 1000+()

BUTTERFLYCAGER

5.6 -- Blowin' in the Wind - Past Malice by Dana Cameron has sand on the cover.


10.5 Caribbean Queen - The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey is set in Trinidad.

15.2. “Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer��
The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George
(lake and sake)

20.2 - Rookie on Top - Nicola's task: School's Out For Summer
Option 1: School's out for summer - book with beach or summer scene on cover - The Cottage At Glass Beach by Heather Barbieri


Heather Barbieri is a ŷ������ Author.

20.3 Best Review- Anne (booklady)'s task: Reading...by the Numbers
I rolled a 3, and chose to read a mystery: Judgment of the Grave by Sarah Stewart Taylor

20.9 - Lucky Me!- mstan's task: Please Be Patient...
My Book X is Mansions of the Dead by Sarah Stewart Taylor, which I used for task 5.4. I chose option 3 and read O' Artful Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor, which is mentioned in Book X as a previous work of this author.

30.3 Sheila/Kathy G.'s task- Aye, Aye, Matey!

A-3 Pieces of Eight - The Dancing Floor by Barbara Michaels (8 letters in author's last name)

B-1 Pass the Jug - The Murderer's Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers (R, M from RUM)

Randy Susan Meyers is a ŷ������ Author.

30.11 - Laurie ME's task: Fun Summer Holidays

1. Repeat Day - The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich (repeating author initials)

2. Moon Day - Midnight Is a Lonely Place by Barbara Erskine (moon on cover)


Points this post: 150
Total challenge points: 210
Tasks completed: 12
Books read: 16
ŷ������ Authors: 4
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000=0

Kimber

5.7 SRC Scavenger Hunt

Undone by Karin Slaughter

mentioned in Scav Hunt thread #171

Undone is a big book at 592 pages.

This task: 5
# tasks completed: 3
GR Authors: 2
Total points earned: 30
Big Book: 1/500+

15.7 The First Day of Summer

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

This is the first book in the series "The Cousins' War."

I read the abridged audio version. It has 6 disks and lasts 6 hours.

30.3 Aye, Aye, Matey!

Book A, Option 4: Golden Doubloons



Eye of the God by Ariel Allison

The Hope Diamond is on the cover

Book B Option 1: Pass the Jug

The Southwest Corner by Mildred Walker

The Author's initials are in the words "ruM" and "Whiskey"

45 points this post
45 total points

25.1 Donna Jo's task: I'm Solidly Behind You

Option A: Big Book: A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

Claiming 3 big book tickets as A Clash of Kings has over 1000 pages.

Option E: Authors initials in the word SOLIDLY Fever by Lauren DeStefano

*Lauren DeStefano is a goodreads author*


Points this post: 25
Total points: 60
Books read: 4
GR Authors: 1
Big Book Tickets: 3

ANGIE CA

30.5 Beg, Borrow, or Steal Your Way Around the World

I live in North America.

Book 1: Stolen: A Letter to My Captor by Lucy Christopher
Notes: B) Library. Set in Australia.

Book 2: Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning
Notes: C) Kristi. Set in Europe.

This Post: 30
Points to Date: 80

5.3 -- Dust in the Wind
Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs �� heroine is Native American

10.10 Air Conditioned Cool
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas


15.1. The Colors of Summer
A. “Summertime Blues��
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith

B. “The Green Leaves of Summer��
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard


15.8. “Summer of 69��
Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn �� heroine is a (really bad) violinist in her family quartet

20.2 - Rookie on Top - Nicola's task: School's Out For Summer
Option 2: School's out forever
Opportunities in Overseas Careers by Blythe Camenson - Non-fiction job search/interview


Points This Post: 65
Total Points: 65

Jennifer KS

15.1. The Colors of Summer

A. “Summertime Blues�� --A Comedy of Heirs by Rett MacPherson

B. “The Green Leaves of Summer�� Tripwire by Lee Child
Iwould like to claim a big book for Tripwire at 581 pages.

Points this task 15
Total points 35
Tasks complete 2
Pages 1146
Big Book 1 (500)

10.5 Carribean Queen
read Wreckedby Elle Casey (GRA)

30.7 The Final Batter option 1 Thor Vs. Loki
read by Brian Selznick lightning on cover- Big book ticket 640 pages
and
Norse Mythology by Wendy Delsol (GRA)



Points this Post: 40
Total points- 135
Tasks Completed: 11
Books read: 8
Pages Read : 3,581
GR Authors: 5
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

15.9 Summer Nights
I read a book that takes place in 1954 as stated in GR description
The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew**GRA**

Previous points: 50
New Points: 15
Total: 65
Previous GRA tickets: 0
New GRA tickets: 1
Total tasks: 3
Total Books: 4

Michelle WI

20.1 Fifty Shades of Whoa!

option 4: Black in the title

Bitter is the New Black : Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass, or Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office : A Memoir by Jen Lancaster



20.6 My Spring Favorites into Your Summer Read

rolled 5: another book by the same author

Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz



30.1 Super Hero Summer

rolled 1 and 5

option 1: Science Fiction genre

Breathless by Dean Koontz

option 5: bird on the cover

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Lisa Lutz and Hillary Jordan are GR Authors



Points This Post: 70
Total Points: 90
Tasks Completed: 4
GR Authors: 2

10.3 what's your Exit?

I read by Gabrielle Hamilton, who grew up in Lambertville, NJ, not far from where I grew up actually.

Points: 45
Pages read: 1006
Big books: 1
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 3

20.4 Let's Go Camping

I rolled a 5 - Beach option (someone/thing is found)

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

The main character's little brother is stolen by the Fey and she must go find him.

Julie Kagawa is a GoodReads Author who is new to me.

Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 65

GRA Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets: 0

Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 6

Jayme(the ghostreader)

15.10 Feel Good Hit of the Summer- I read by Charlaine Harris

Tasks Completed: 1
Boos Read: 1
GR Authors
Big Books: 500pp, 750pp, 1000pps
Task Points: 15
Grand Total: 15

10.9 Recycled Group Reads

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley is a ŷ������ Author.

This book was the selection for the Fall 2011 Group Read- Mysteries That Make You Laugh.

Points this post: 10
Total Points: 65/1080
ŷ������ Authors: 1
Big Books: 500+(0), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

Deyara


�� Task #25.7 - Marcia's task: Youtube Summer Fun

2. People are Awesome - gymnastics

Letters to a Young Gymnast by Nadia Comaneci

4. A Day in the Life of a Korean Student - hero attends school, heroine hangs around it but does not attend in this book

Afterlife by Claudia Gray


�� Task #30.8 - Delicious Dee's task: It's Time for the Summer Country Concert Series

Group A - 4. Brad Paisley

Supernaturally by Kiersten White

Group B - 1. Maroon 5

Raw Blue by Kirsty Eagar


Kiersten White is a ŷ������ Author


Points this post: 55 points
Total to Date = 55 points
GR Authors: 1

CHRISTINE US

Task 5.6 Blowin in the Wind

Coming Up for Air by Patti Callahan Henry

There are clouds on the cover, which can be moved by the wind

Patti Callahan Henry is GR author



Task 10.10 Air Conditioned

Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke

The book starts out 10 days before Christmas. December in Minnesota would definitely be cold!


TOTAL: 15

Chaitra

30.11 FUN SUMMER HOLIDAYS
Choosing
2. National Pink Day - Book with a pink cover.
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta.

(Approved in help thread).

and
5. Chinese Valentine's Day - Book with a red cover.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
.

Wolf Hall is a big book. My copy had 532 pages.

Points: 30

5.8 SUMMER LOVIN'
A book from the list 'Love' on Guardian's Top 1000.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. #9 on this list.


Points: 5

15.7 THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER
First book in a series.
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett. First book in the series Discworld.


Points: 15

Points this task: 50
Total Points: 60
ŷ������ Authors: 0
Big Books: 500=1, 750=0, 1000=0

Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 5
Total Pages Read: 1,646

Readerboard Name= Lindy-Lane

Task 15.9- Summer Nights!...read a book first published in the 1950's:

I read *(first published in 1959)Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie 368 pages (6.13)



Points earned for this task: 15
Points Achieved to date: 120
Total # of ŷ������ Authors: 2
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (0)
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)

5.4 Chemical ComboThe Temptation of the Night Jasmine Lauren Willig is a goodreads author

30.2 I'll leave my Heart in San Fran
(3) Al Capone Does My Shirts This takes place on Alcatraz and several characters in the book work at the prison. Gennifer Choldenko is a good reads author.
(6)Valley of the Dolls First Published in 1961. It's 849 pages, so 2 Big Book Tickets.

Total Points: 35/1080
Big Book Tickets: 2
ŷ������ Author: 2

Finished

15.5 Summer in the city
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard / set in Paris

20. Please be patient
Feed the Hungry: A Memoir with Recipes by Nani Power / this book is mentioned in praise section in Lunch in Paris which I read for task 15.5

Task points 35
Total points 45

Sandy MN

20.2 - Rookie on Top - Nicola's task: School's Out For Summer

Option 1: School's out for summer
Straight from the Hip by Susan Mallery ŷ������ Author

This book takes place in the Summer in hot,steamy Texas!

Total Points: 130
Total GR Authors: 5

5.10 Up, Up, and Away:

I found "AIR" in "Chair"
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch

10.1 Skip to My Lou:

The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths

Author's initials E (Skip F) G


Today's total: 15
Grand Total: 85

5.6 Blowin' in the Wind
(334 pages)
Dandelion seeds are blowing in the wind.

20.1 - Most Improved - Stesse's task: Fifty Shades of Whoa!
(532 pages)

*A review is posted on my READ list*

E.L.James is a GoodReads Author
Fifty Shades Darker is a BigBook

20.2 - Rookie on Top - Nicola's task: School's Out For Summer
Option 1: (402 pages)

30.8 - Delicious Dee's task: It's Time for the Summer Country Concert Series

Group A: Option 4-Brad Paisley
(367 pages)

Group B: Option 1-Maroon Five
(317 pages)

Janet Evanovich is a GoodReads Author


30.11 - Laurie ME's task: Fun Summer Holidays

4. National Culinarians Day (July 25):
(379 pages)

5. Chinese Valentine’s Day (August 23):
(363 pages)

Susan Mallery is a GoodReads Author

Points this post = 105
Total points: 0 + 105 = 125
ŷ������ Authors: 0 + 3 = 4
Big Books: 500+= 1, 750+=0, 1000+ = 0
Page count: 281 + 2694 = 2975
Personal Goal: 700 points

Readerboard Name: Kari

30.3 Sheila/Kathy G.'s task- Aye, Aye, Matey!

Option A-3: A book that is the 8th in a Series: Poppy Done to Death by Charlaine Harris (Aurora Teagarden Book #8)

Option B-3: A book who's top genre includes mystery or suspense: The Vanishing Game by Kate Kae Myers (mystery is the 2nd to top genre listed on the first page)

ŷ������ Author Ticket claimed for Kate Kae Myers.

Points earned for this task: 30
Points Achieved to date: 45
Total # of ŷ������ Authors: 2
Total # of Big Books:
500+ (0)
700+ (0)
1000+ (0)

15.7- The First Days of Summer

Assassin by Grace Cavendish

Points this post: 15
Total points: 55

15.10 Feel Good Hit of the Summer

I read Meet Me At The Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan ... a great big warm cuddly hug in a book! It definitely made me feel good!

Points this task: 15
Total points: 65

20.9 Lucky Me! - Please Be Patient

I read Welcome To Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop Of Dreams by Jenny Colgan, which is mentioned at the end of Meet Me At The Cupcake Cafe by the same author, which I read for 15.10.

Two great, happy, light reads :)

Points this task: 20
Total points: 85

20.8 - It's My Birthday - Putterpal's task: Have Your Cake And Eat It Too!

Option 2 - Red Velvet Cake: read a book set in the South.

The Kingdom by Amanda Stevens

This book is set in South Carolina.

ŷ������ Author ticket claimed.

Points this task: 20
Total challenge points: 70
ŷ������ Authors: 2
Big Books: 500=0, 750=0, 1000+=0

Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 4
Books Owned Pre-2012: 1
Total Pages Read: 1417

20.2 School's Out for the Summer
Option 3: School's Been Blown to Pieces

This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
post-nuclear war Earth

Points this post: 20
Total points: 35

Delicious Dee

5.1 - Let the Games Begin
Twenty Boy Summer - Sarah Ockler (GR Author)

5.9 - Summer Readers
Lover Reborn (Big Book Ticket 572 pages) - from Mrs Soule’s shelf who joined ŷ������ in August 2009

5.10 - Up, Up, and Away
Office Affair - air in aff”air�� - ebook only approved in msg 1121 on the verification thread

10.2 Eat an Oreo Day
Redemption - Olivia Duncan Craig (GR Author) - ede in r“ede”mption - ebook only approved in msg 1180 on the verification thread

10.3 What's Your Exit?
One For The Money - Janet Evanovich (GR Author) - Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter in NJ

20.3 Best Review- Anne (booklady)'s task: Reading...by the Numbers
rolled a 6 �� choose any other option
Option 3 - The Keepsake - Tess Gerritsen (GR Author) - 175 people have it shelved as mystery

25.4 - Sandy/Kristi's task: All About the Author
Author �� Eloisa James
Book 1 - Paris in Love: A Memoir - Eloisa James (GR Author) - about her year living in Paris and learning to take life as it comes and not for granted
Book 1 - A Kiss at Midnight - Eloisa James (GR Author)

30.8 Delicious Dee's task: It's Time for the Summer Country Concert Series
Book 1 - 1. WMZQ Summerfest - Supernatural �� 3 of the 4 authors are GR Authors
Book 2 - 4. Trace Adkins A Book of Tongues - Gemma Files (GR Author) - review copy received for free from the audiobook producers

Total Points This Post: 110
Total Points Overall: 110
Books Completed: 10
Tasks Complete: 8
GR Authors: 8
Big Book Tickers: 500(1), 750(0), 1000(0)

15.6 Hot Fun in the Summertime

by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer

This book is set in an amusement park and there is a roller coaster on the cover.

Both Crusie and Mayer are GoodReads Authors - I am claiming ONE GRA ticket.

Points this Post: 15
Total Points:80

GRA Tickets: 2
Big Book Tickets: 0

Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 7

10.1 Skip to My Lou

Inquisition by Alfredo Colitto

Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 45

Sheila

10.8 No Boredom Zone


Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement


10.9 Recycled Group Reads

Fall 2011 Group Reads category
Mysteries That Make you laugh


Size 12 Is Not Fat

Total �� 145

BABBLING C


30.2 Sassafrass's task: I’ll Leave My Heart in San Francisco!

4. The San Francisco Treat: Cable Cars!

One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost (GRA) -- a motorcycle




6. Flower Power: For this option, you can read a book with a flower or flowers on the cover, a book with the name of a flower in the title, subtitle, or author’s name.

The Last Of The Winter Roses by Jeanne Savery




THIS POST
Points: 30
Completed Tasks: 1
Good Read Authors: 1
Big Books: 0

Total This Season
Points: 30
Completed Tasks: 1
Good Read Authors: 1
Big Books: 0

15.10 Feel Good Hit of the Summer
Kiss the Dead by Laurell K. Hamilton

20.1 Fifty Shades of Woah!
Morganville Vampires #12: Black Dawn by Rachel Caine
5 - Black in title

20.8 Have your cake and eat it too
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth*
*Emily M. Danforth is a goodreads author
5 - angel food cake; the death of Cameron's parents is central to the plot

Total Points = 55

Task 30.2 - I'll leave my heart in San Francisco

Option 4 - Transportation on the cover (skateboard): The Griff: A Graphic Novel by Christopher Moore

Option 6 - Set in the 1960s:The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Challenge total = 115

new task claimed

5.2 Pack Your Bags
read 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson.(GRA) Travel Genre listed

repost:

10.5 Carribean Queen - e-book approved for length post 1235
read Wreckedby Elle Casey (GRA)

30.7 The Final Batter option 1 Thor Vs. Loki
read by Brian Selznick lightning on cover- Big book ticket 640 pages
and
Norse Mythology by Wendy Delsol (GRA) The book deals with the Frost Giants and Jack Frost and Viking descendants. Approved in help thread.





Points this Post: 45
Total points- 140
Tasks Completed: 12
Books read: 9
Pages Read : 3,581
GR Authors: 6
Big Books: 500+(1), 750+(0), 1000+(0)

20.10 Group Read

A comment was posted on the group read thread.

I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella.

30.11 Fun Summer Holidays

Option 4. National Culinarians Day

This book has pictures of food on the cover.

Southern Living Farmers Market Cookbook: A Fresh Look at Local Flavor.

Option 6. National Dog Day

This book has a dog on the cover, and a dog plays a major role in the book.

A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron.

W. Bruce Cameron is a ŷ������ author.

Points this post: 50
Total points: 75
Tasks: 4
Books: 5
ŷ������ authors: 2

Jennifer KS

20.3 Best Review- Anne (booklady)'s task: Reading...by the Numbers

3. Reading - Read a book from any of my Favorite Genres:

I read Private: #1 Suspect by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

I am requesting a ŷ������ author

Points this task 20
Total points 55
Task done 3
ŷ������ Authors 1

15.7 The First Day of Summer: The Camel Club This is the first in the Camel Club series and the last one I'll be reading. There are at least 5 books in this series.

Post Total: 15
Grand Total: 60

10.2 Eat an Oreo Day

The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith

Nobody has O-B-O

10.9 Recycled Group Reads
off the winter 2011 mystery with a female protagonist list

Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

30.1 SuperHero Summer

rolled a 3 and a 4

3. The Hulk-article of clothing in the title
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

4. Captain America-set in the spring of 1940

Pied Piper by Nevil Shute

Post Total: 50
Season Total: 115