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Kathy G's Reading Plan - Spring 20165.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
Sing To The Dawn by Minfong Ho
5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
5.4 -A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
Maximum Ride, Vol. 1 by James Patterson
Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns
Midnight Pearls: A Retelling of The Little Mermaid by Debbie Viguié
5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi
Night by Elie Wiesel
5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
Specials by Scott Westerfeld
5.10 Self-portrait
Killing Time by Caleb Carr
10.1 - Ever So POPular
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence
10.2 - Andy Warhol
Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase by Louise Walters
10.3 - It's So Surreal
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
10.4 - Remembering David Bowie
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
10.6 - And Alan Rickman
58 Minutes by Walter Wager
10.7 - Happy Pi Day
Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
10.8 - Hey, Einstein!
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
10.9 - March Madness
Mirage by Clive Cussler
10.10 - Tournament of Books
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
15.1. From Soup to ............Breakfast??
The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
15.2. I'm Not Answering my Phone until December
Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran
by Roxana Saberi
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
15.3. Still Flying.........
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
15.4. Towel Day
The Declaration by Gemma Malley
15.5. No More Snow!
Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon
15.6. Light My Fire
The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
15.7. Tax time!
The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money by Carl Richards
15.8. It's Magic
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
15.9. Three/Four/Five
An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
(3.54 rating on Feb. 13th)
15.10. Batter up!
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
20.1 - Most Improved - MegSCL's task: Pick a card
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (rolled 7 of hearts)
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
The Twelfth Child by Bette Lee Crosby
20.3 - Best Review: mstan's Task: Returning to My Source of Inspiration...
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
20.4 -Golden Oldie: Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
Previously Loved Treasures by Bette Lee Crosby
20.5 - Bigger is Better- Catherine T's Task: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book
The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
20.6 Seasoned Reader: Val TX's Task: Eurovision Calling!
One Summer by David Baldacci
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter: Pamela3265's Task: When Books Went to War
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes: SpiderMac's task: Making It Worth Watching
Tides of War by Stella Tillyard
20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Seakbee's Task: Give Yourself Permission…
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
20.10- Group Read
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
25.1 - Sandy's task as suggested by Katy: Fact and Fiction
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
25.2 - Brooke TX's Task: #ReadingGoals
Once upon a Summer by Janette Oke
The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
25.3 - Whitnie I's Task: Celebrate Spring
Sarah's Ground by Ann Rinaldi
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Pop Voices
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
25.5 - Andy P's Task: Symmetry
Safekeeping by Karen Hesse
Paper Roses by Amanda Cabot
25.6- Robin ♥'s Task: Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Red #15)
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (blue #14)
25.7 - Dakimel's Task: Sibling and Niece Season
Article 5 by Kristen Simmons
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
30.2 - Daphne's task: Peering really close at the world
Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Langford
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
30.3- NO TASK
30.4 - Jonquil's Task: Every letter counts
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police
It's. Nice. Outside. by Jim Kokoris
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
30.6 - Donna Jo's Task--Making a Name for Yourself
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed
Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov
50.1 - Perletwo's task: Primary Colors
Apple Turnover Murder by Joanne Fluke
Sapphire Blue by Kerstin Gier
A Death in Dulcinea by Laramee Douglas
Fandury's Spring 2016 SRC planingTotal Points: 875
Books Read: 68
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books:500+(6)750+(1)1000+(0)
Points Total: 87510/10
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5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
5.4 -A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns
5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi
5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
5.10 Self-portrait
10.1 - Ever So POPular
10.2 - Andy Warhol
10.3 - It's So Surreal
10.4 - Remembering David Bowie
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too
10.6 - And Alan Rickman
10.7 - Happy Pi Day
10.8 - Hey, Einstein!
10.9 - March Madness
10.10 - Tournament of Books
A. Wild Ginger by Anchee Min
B. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
15.2. I'm Not Answering my Phone until December
15.3. Still Flying.........
15.4. Towel Day
15.5. No More Snow!
15.6. Light My Fire
15.7. Tax time!
15.8. It's Magic
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
15.9. Three/Four/Five
15.10. Batter up!
20.1 - Most Improved - MegSCL's task: Pick a card
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
20.3 - Best Review: mstan's Task: Returning to My Source of Inspiration...
Option C: First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
20.5 - Bigger is Better- Catherine T's Task: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book
20.6 Seasoned Reader: Val TX's Task: Eurovision Calling!
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter: Pamela3265's Task: When Books Went to War
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes: SpiderMac's task: Making It Worth Watching
Option 4:The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck
The book takes place in California.
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
25.1 - Sandy's task as suggested by Katy: Fact and Fiction
Βοοκ 1: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Book 2: The Great Depression: America 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine
25.2 - Brooke TX's Task: #ReadingGoals
Option 2:A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Option 3: To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
25.3 - Whitnie I's Task: Celebrate Spring
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Pop Voices
25.5 - Andy P's Task: Symmetry
A.
B.
25.6- Robin ♥'s Task: Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands
25.7 - Dakimel's Task: Sibling and Niece Season
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
30.2 - Daphne's task: Peering really close at the world
30.3- NO TASK
30.4 - Jonquil's Task: Every letter counts
30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police
Part A: Genesis by Bernard Beckett
Part B: Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
50.1
Spring 2016 Reading Plan5 points
5.1 Read a book by an author who, at the time you select your book, is deceased.
The Mystery of the Blue Train
5.2
5.3 Read a book with a "good" rating of 3.5 or above.
Ο κατάσκοπος του Θεού
5.4 Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle that ends in -ER
The Silencer
5.5 Read a book with the genre Sequential Art, comics or manga on the GR main page.
The Complete Maus
5.6 Read a book with a TITLE of six or more words.
You Have the Right to Remain Puzzled
5.7 Read a book with a genre that contains "Retellings" on its main book page.
Cinder
5.8 Read an autobiography or memoir
Πουλημένες
5.9 Read a book that is identified on Goodreads as #3 in a series
Never Never: Part Three
5.10 Choose your own masterpiece
This Sweet Sickness
10 points
10.1 Using the Goodread's Popular function, read one of the top 200 books published from 1955 through 1959
My Family and Other Animals
10.2 Read a book written by an author whose initials can be found in ANDY WARHOL
10.3 Read a book found on the first 5 pages of the Popular Surreal Books list.
Fight Club
10.4 In remembrance of this creative bookworm, read one of David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books.
1984
10.5 In memory of this accomplished singer, songwriter, and music producer, read a book with a title/subtitle that contains a word of at least 4 letters that can also be found in the lyrics of the band's first single, Take It Easy.
The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God (love)
10.6 In remembrance of this talented actor, read a book on this list of The Literary Roles of Alan Rickman.
Smiley's People
10.7 Read a book with the letters "PI" found together, in order, and intact in the title/subtitle or the author's name.
I Am Pilgrim
10.8 In honor of Einstein, read a book with the main page genre "Science" or "Philosophy."
Written in Bones: How Human Remains Unlock the Secrets of the Dead
10.9 Read a book with a two-word, alliterative title OR written by an author whose first and last initials are the same.
10.10 read a book found on The 2016 Tournament of Books Longlist.
15 points
15.1 Book 1. Read a book the title of which contains a word from this list of Campbell's soup flavors.
Book 2. Read a book the title of which contains a word from this list of the best 27 pop tart flavors.
The Chocolate Cat Caper
15.2 Book 1. Read a NONFICTION book with the main page genre politics or government.
Politics
Book 2. Since dystopian books are generally about "government gone wrong," read a book with "dystopia"
Extras
15.3 A. Read a book whose title/subtitle contains a word that matches one of the words from the titles of the songs on the Airplane's first album (when Anderson was with the band) Jefferson Airplane Takes Off.
B. read a book whose author's initials can be found in JEFFERSON AIRPLANE.
3rd Degree
15.4 A. Read a book with the main page genre science fiction or fantasy
Shadow and Bone
B. Read a book whose author's initials can be found in DOUGLAS ADAMS.
Wish You Were Here
15.5 Read a book containing all the letters of SPRING in its title/subtitle.
15.6 Read a book with the word FIRE in the title or fire/flames on the cover
15.7 Read a book with the main page genre Finance or Finances.
15.8 So read a book with "Magical Realism" as a GR genre.
The Night Circus
15.9 Read a book whose average rating is made up of the numbers 3, 4, and 5
15.10 Aruba, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Venezuela.
In recognition of the international aspects of American baseball, read a book set at least 50% in one of the countries listed above.
Playing for Pizza
20points
20.1 draw a random card: ace diamond
Diamonds: Fantasy or Non Fiction or Chick Lit
number of letters OR words in the title (Ace=1)
Graceling
20.2 Option A:Read a book with a genre on its main book page that contains "History" or "Historical"
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
20.3 Option 3: Read a book by an author who is new to you this season.
Siege and Storm
20.4 Option C:read a book with "Fantasy" or "Supernatural" genre on the book's main GR page.
Shadow and Bone
20.5
20.6 Option 3: Read a book found in the Best Friendship Books list
A Study in Scarlet (page 3, 226)
20.7 B. Read ONE of the books that was published by the Council on Books in Wartime: Armed Service Editions.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
20.8 Option 2: read a book from the Orange Prize list or Women's Prize list - Orange Prize post 2013
We Need to Talk About Kevin (page 1)
20.9 6) Pets:Read a book with the complete TITLE in white OR in black on the cover.
20.10
25points
25.1 Book 1: Read a book with the genre "Historical Fiction"
Book 2: Read a nonfiction book that is about the same era (same general time and place) as Book 1.
25.2 2. #TooLong: one of the 10 books that have been on your to-read list the longest.
Extras (4/5/11) (https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...)
3. #OldFavorites: Choose a new to you book by one of the authors on this list.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... , #7, 12 books
The Guardian
25.3 Option 1: Read a book written by an author whose first and last name initials appear in the word OSTARA.
Option 2:Read a NONFICTION book found on the Best Self Help Books list.
25.4 Book 1. Read any book written by any of the Good Minds authors. Mitch Albom (November, 2015 1st page)
The First Phone Call from Heaven
Book 2. Option A. Good Choices. Read any of the five choices recommended by the author of your first book.
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
25.5 Book 1.Read a book written by an author who has the same number of letters in his/her first and last names
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto (5/5)
Book 2. Read a book whose TITLE consists of words of the same number of letters
25.6 Plan B Peanut
1. Yellow Watchmen (page 1, #5)
3.Read a book with a female on the cover.
A Bend in the Road
25.7 B. Read a book with the genre “Urban,” “Urban Fantasy,” or “Gardening” on its main book page.
Storm Front
C. Read a book with a digit (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) on the cover. 2nd Chance
30 points
30.1 Choose 2 Options
Option A: Read a book with all the letters “R-E-D-B-L-U- E” in the TITLE.
Option B: For this option, read a book with at least 2 items on the cover that are identical.
Option C: For this option, read a book that is identified on Goodreads as #1 in a series that is new to you AND the TITLE can only have exactly 3 words.
Option D: Read a book with “Travel” as a main page genre.
30.2 Please read 2 books from 2 different options. Identify the options when you post.
1)Pick a book from the collection Very Short Introductions
Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
2)read a book from the first 2 pages of Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
3)Read a book shelved at least 4 times under Microbiology (here is link to the top shelved Popular Microbiology Books OR read a book from this listopia: Microbiology
30.3
30.4
Book 1 Each word in the title is exactly one letter longer than the previous word.
The Last Juror
Book 2 Each word in the title is exactly one letter shorter than the previous word.
Mystic River
30.5 2 Options
Option 1. Brush up on your grammar: Read a non-fiction book with the genre Language on its main book page.
Languages: A Very Short Introduction
Option 2. Read a book with one of these most commonly confused words in the TITLE: They’re, Their, There, Your, You’re, Its, It’s.
Option 3.Read a book with the entire TITLE in Red on the cover.
30.6
Part A:If the last letter of your Readerboard Name is A-M, do option 1 Read a book by an author whose first and last name start with the same letter
War Horse (165 pages)
Part B:If your Part A book had 100-300 pages do option 3
Read a book with a one, two or three word TITLE.
Omerta
Spring 2016 Reading PlanPoints total: 315
GO total: 3
BB total: 0
Tasks completed: 23
Books read: 25
✔5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol
Old Whaling Days
Author approved in task help thread, link:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
*GO, 1895*
✔5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
Selected Short Stories Featuring Cry Wolf
Word: cry
✔5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
Salametsästäjä
rating 4.15 05 April 2016
✔5.4 -A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
River Marked rivER
5.5 - Skip
✔5.6 - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns
Read a book with a genre that contains "Retellings" on its main book page.
5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi
Ensimmäinen kesäni Sierravuorilla
*GO, 1911*
✔5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
The Last Town
✔5.10 Self-portrait
Déjà Dead
10.1 - Skip
✔10.2 - Andy Warhol
Noah's Ark: Survivors by Harry Dayle
✔10.3 - It's So Surreal
The Picture of Dorian Gray found on page 1 of the list. I listened to the audio CD, link to MMPB Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
*GO, first published 1890*
10.4 - Skip
✔10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too
Children of the Mind
word: mind
10.6 - Skip
✔10.7 - Happy Pi Day
Pikku lordi
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 11.0
*Golden Oldie, first published 1877*
10.8 - Hey, Einstein!
Blood On the Table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Science verified in genre verification thread, link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔10.9 - March Madness
Tigerlily's Orchids by Ruth Rendell
I listened to the audio CD, link to PB (no MMPB available): Tigerlily's Orchids
10.10 - Tournament of Books
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
15.1. From Soup to ............Breakfast??
Book 1. Almost French: A New Life in Paris word: French in "French Onion"
Book 2. Blue Moon word: blue in "Blue Raspberry"
15.2. I'm Not Answering my Phone until December
Book 1. Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo Politics verified in genre verification thread, link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
+Book 2. Unworthy: Marked to die. Raised to survive.
✔15.3. Still Flying.........
Option 1.
A. Down to Sleep word: down
B. Kolme by Sarah Lotz initials SL
✔15.4. Towel Day
Option 2. Alien Hunters by Daniel Arenson initials DA
15.5. No More Snow!
Clear Waters Rising: A Mountain Walk Across Europe
15.6. Light My Fire
Wings of Fire
15.7. Skip
15.8. It's Magic
read a book with "Magical Realism" as a GR genre.
✔15.9. Three/Four/Five
A Few of the Girls rating 3.33 (06March)
✔15.10. Batter up!
Alberta Skies set in Alberta, Canada
✔20.1 - Most Improved - MegSCL's task: Pick a card
I drew a ten of hearts. I selected YA genre and the book I read was The Glimpse, containing 10 letters in the title
✔20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
Option A - Jäähyväiset nunnille
20.3 - Best Review: mstan's Task: Returning to My Source of Inspiration...
Deadline
*584 pages*
Required: LINK to the Completed Task post that uses the previous book you read by the author AND state that the author is new to you this season.
✔20.4 -Golden Oldie: Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop
Option C: The Golden Apples Of The Sun
✔20.5 - Bigger is Better- Catherine T's Task: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book
Option 1: Slussen
✔20.6 Seasoned Reader: Val TX's Task: Eurovision Calling!
Option 3: Me kolme ja jengi
On page 1, #4 (I read the Finnish translation, the original is The Outsiders)
20.7 Skip
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes: SpiderMac's task: Making It Worth Watching
Option 1:
✔20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Seakbee's Task: Give Yourself Permission…
6) Pets
title in black20.10 Group Read
Notes from a Small Island
Link to discussion post:
25.1 Skip
25.2 - Brooke TX's Task: #ReadingGoals
1. #MoreGenre: Aurora from the 2015 Locus SF Novels Recommended Reading List; 466 pages
+3. #OldFavorites: Pienten muutosten kauneussalonki by Alexander McCall Smith; 364 pages
Link to author's page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
#7 on my list, I've read 14 of his books
Both books are new to me. 466 + 364 = 830 pages
25.3 Skip
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Pop Voices
Book 1: Author Mira Grant was interviewed in October 2013, found on page 3. I read Feed
*599 pages*
Book 2: Mira Grant recommended The Ruins
*509 pages*
25.5 - Andy P's Task: Symmetry
No kids
Book 1. 12 Years a Slave: A True Story by Solomon Northup 7 letters
*Golden Oldie, originally published 1853, claiming one GO ticket*
+Book 2. Pahan polku 5 letters
✔25.6- Robin ♥'s Task: Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands
Plan B Peanut
Option B-2: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain 5 letters in first name
I listened to the audio, link to PB (no MMPB available) The Paris Wife
Option B-3:
✔25.7 - Dakimel's Task: Sibling and Niece Season
A. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman initials NG
I listened to the audio CD, link to PB (no MMPB available) Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
B. Bone Crossed
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
Option C: The Golden Compass
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19.0
The series is new to me
Option D: The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France? Amazon? Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon: Gripping Accounts of All Known Fatal Mishaps in the Most Famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders? A Piano In The Pyrenees: The Ups and Downs of an Englishman in the French Mountains? My 'Dam Life: Three Years in Holland?
30.2 Skip
30.3. No task
30.4 - Jonquil's Task: Every Letter Counts
+Book 1 Finns abroad: new forms of mobility and migration 5 letters in Finns, 6 letters in abroad
Book 2 Bird Box 4 letters in Bird, 3 letters in Box
30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police
Option 2. Their Fractured Light
+Option 3.
30.6 - Donna Jo's Task--Making a Name for Yourself
I chose part C, one book, and option 1
City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare initials CC
*BB, 733 pages*
Sheila's Spring 2016 Reading Plan5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol
Family Honor by Robert B. Parkerdied in 2010
5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
Cherry Bomb by J.A. Konrath(bomb)
5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
Over the Edge by Jonathan Kellerman(3.86 rating on 2/13/16)
5.4 -A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd5.6 - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling by Lawrence Block5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
Murder Season by Robert Ellis5.10 Self-portrait
Above Suspicion by Lynda La Plante◆◆◆◆◆◆◆
10.1 - Ever So POPular
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson(# 5 on 1959 list)
10.2 - Andy Warhol
First Degree by David Rosenfelt10.3 - It's So Surreal
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane(page 3)
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too
Night Road by Kristin Hannah10.7 - Happy Pi Day
The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult(PIcoult)
10.9 - March Madness
Dark Places by Linda Ladd10.10 - Tournament of Books
Slade House by David Mitchell◆◆◆◆◆◆◆
15.1. From Soup to ............Breakfast??
Book 1.
Black Diamond by Martin Walker(Black Bean Cumin and Cilantro)
and
Book 2.
Red Bones by Ann Cleeves(red)
15.3. Still Flying.........
Option 1:A
Betrayal in Death by J.D. Robb(2. "Let Me In" - in)
and
Option 1:B
Dead Simple by Peter James15.4. Towel Day
Option 1:A
Blood Rites by Jim Butcherand
Option 1:B
Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline15.5. No More Snow!
Spring Remains by Mons Kallentoft15.6. Light My Fire
Into the Fire by Suzanne Brockmann15.9. Three/Four/Five
The Wrong Man by Kate White(Rating of 3.44 on 2/13/16
15.10. Batter up!
Truth by Peter Temple(Australia)
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20.1 - Most Improved - MegSCL's task: Pick a card
I drew a 7 of Hearts and went with a 7 letter mystery
Killjoy by Julie Garwood20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
Option C - set in Ireland
Aftermath by Casey Hill20.3 - Best Review: mstan's Task: Returning to My Source of Inspiration...
Option 3: Referring Peter James in task 15.3 - link the post
Looking Good Dead by Peter JamesRequired: LINK to the Completed Task post that uses the previous book you read by the author (see Help Thread post 4) AND state that the author is new to you this season.
20.4 -Golden Oldie: Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
Option A: Miami Vice - The word is KILL in the 6th line
The Kill by Jane Casey20.5 - Bigger is Better- Catherine T's Task: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book
Option 2:
David Livingstone (missionary/explorer) - 3rd Row (David)
Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci20.6 Seasoned Reader: Val TX's Task: Eurovision Calling!
Option 4: Graham Norton (Graham)
Dead on the Dance Floor by Heather Graham20.8 - Nickels & Dimes: SpiderMac's task: Making It Worth Watching
Option 2: Women's Prize list - Orange Prize post 2013(winners or nominees) page 1
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Seakbee's Task: Give Yourself Permission…
Option 6) Pets:
Murder on the Yukon Quest by Sue Henry◆◆◆◆◆◆◆
25.2 - Brooke TX's Task: #ReadingGoals
2. #TooLong: Option A. # 8 on my wom-nominees shelf since May 2012
Standoff by Sandra BrownI listened to the audiobook
Standoff by Sandra BrownPaperback, 261 pages for page count
and
3. #OldFavorites:
I picked Linwood Barclay who is number 76 on my list and I have read 7 books by him. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
I read the audiobook
No Safe House by Linwood Barclayppb is 464 pages for page count
No Safe House by Linwood Barclay25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Pop Voices
Book 1: Michael Connelly on December, 2012 on page 4
Echo Park by Michael Connelly and
Book 2: Option A:
Only One Life by Sara Blaedel25.5 - Andy P's Task: Symmetry
Book 1.
Where Memories Lie by Deborah Crombieand
Book 2.
Play With Fire by Dana Stabenow25.6- Robin ♥'s Task: Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands
I am a plain M&M girl
Plan A Plain
Option A-1 from the Red list page 3
Relentless by Dean Koontzand
Option A-2:
Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay25.7 - Dakimel's Task: Sibling and Niece Season
Option A:
Hostage by Robert Craisand
Option B:
NYPD Red 4 by James Patterson◆◆◆◆◆◆◆
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
Option A: Red Fish, Blue Fish, One Fish, Two Fish
The Buzzard Table by Margaret Maronand
Option C: Go, Dog, Go
The Long Fall by Walter Mosley(Leonid McGill #1)
30.4 - Jonquil's Task: Every Letter Counts
Book 1
Remote Control by Stephen Whiteand
Book 2
Find Her by Lisa Gardner30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police
Option 2.
Close Your Eyes by Iris Johansen(your)
and
Option 3.
Broken Promise by Linwood Barclay30.6 - Donna Jo's Task--Making a Name for Yourself
Option 1.
Double Take by Catherine Coulterpb Double Take 340 pages
and
Option 4.
A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton◆◆◆◆◆◆◆
10/10 = 505.10 Choose your own masterpiece - Sorcery 2: Khare: Cityport of Traps
10/10 = 100
9/10 = 135
Book 2. Read a book the title of which contains a word from this list of the best 27 pop tart flavors. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon? (Interlibrary)
Book 2. Since dystopian books are generally about "government gone wrong," read a book with "dystopia" Watchmen
15.3 Cover Her Face (Auckland Library)
B. Read a book whose author's initials can be found in DOUGLAS ADAMS. - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
15.10 50% in Aruba, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Venezuela - Totally Captivated, Volume 5
7/10 = 140
20.3 2. Originally in Italian The Prince; 3 New Author
20.5 Title in Peter Blake Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - 2. I'm Not Stiller
20.7 - ASE book Kim
20.10 - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Barbican)
6/7 = 150
25.2 - 2. TBR List The Trick Is to Keep Breathing 3. New book by Fav author The Toll-Gate
25.4 - 1. The Satanic Verses;
3/5 = 90
30.2 2.
30.5 1. Non fiction language;
5 Point Tasks2. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
6. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
7. Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
10 Point Tasks
1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Popular in 1955
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
6. The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood
7. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
8. The Stranger by Albert Camus
10. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
15 Point Tasks
Book 2: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Book 2: The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski
3. Option 2: How To Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis
6. The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
7. The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
10. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
20 Point Tasks
1. 5 of Spades: Science Fiction: 5 words: The War of the Worlds
3. Option 3: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
7. B. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
8. Option 2: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
10. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
25 Point Tasks
1. Book 1: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Book 2: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2. 2. #TooLong: A: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
3. Option 1: Magyk by Angie Sage IL: MG - BL: 6.0 - AR Pts: 18.0
Option 2: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Found on page 3
4. Book 1: The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin March 2016
Book 2: Option A: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
5. Book 1: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Book 2: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
Option A-2: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
7. A: The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
B: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
30 Point Tasks
1. Option C: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Option D: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
2. 1. Children's Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Kimberley Reynolds
2. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
3. n/a
4. Book 1: Under Gemini by Rosamunde Pilcher
Book 2: Princess Academy by Shannon Hale IL: MG - BL: 6.0 - AR Pts: 10.0
5. Option 2: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Option 3: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
6. Part A: Option 2: Calvin by Martine Leavitt 181 pages
Part B: Option 3:
Total points:265
Books read: 25
perletwo's spring 2016 reading plan05.02 - The Cuckoo's Calling
05.03 - The Shape Shifter (3.96 @ 2/13/16)
05.04 - Waiter Rant
05.05 - All-New X-Men Vol. 1: Yesterday's X-Men
05.06 - Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron
05.07 - Scarlet
05.08 - Silver Screen Fiend
05.09 - Supernatural: Bone Key (Supernatural #3)
05.10 - Murder on the Links
10.02 - Her Fearful Symmetry
10.03 - Slaughterhouse Five (p.1)
10.04 - The Great Gatsby
10.05 - The Floating Girl
10.06 - Sense & Sensibility
10.07 - A Sleeping Life
10.08 - How to Teach Physics to Your Dog
10.09 - Dear Daughter
10.10 - Slade House
15.01 - 1. Fun & Games (Avengers Fun Shaped Pasta Soup); 2. The Red Door (Red Velvet)
15.02 - 1. Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (politics); 2. The Last Policeman
15.03 - 1. Baltimore Blues; 2. Other People's Skeletons
15.04 - Option 2: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
15.05 - Strong Poison
15.06 - A Walk Through the Fire
15.07 - The Money Answer Book
15.08 - Chocolat
15.09 - How to Drink (3.54 @ 2/13/16) (approved on help thread)
15.10 - Dead Man's Chest (Australia)
20.01 - (king of hearts) Once A Crooked Man
20.02 - A. The Suspicion at Sanditon
20.03 - The Solitude of Prime Numbers
20.04 - C. Supernatural: Witch's Canyon
20.05 - (1) All the Rage
20.06 - 4. All the Bright Places (Jennifer Lawrence)
20.07 - B. Not Quite Dead Enough
20.08 - 1. To Fetch A Thief (cover)
20.09 - 6. Introverts In Love
20.10 - The Buried Giant
25.02 - 1. A God In Ruins (480 pb, 2015 Locus Fantasy Novels Recommended Reading List); 2. Home Ec 101 (12/30/11)
25.03 - 1. The Girl in 6E; 2. Outliers (p.7)
25.04 - 1. Breakdown (Jonathan Kellerman, Aug. 2015, p. 1); 2B. Eminent Hipsters
25.05 - 1. Vanishing Point; 2. Broken Harbor
25.06 - B-1. (green, p.1) Linger; B-3. The Selection
25.07 - A. Trigger Warning; E. Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
30.01 - A. Bluebeard; C. Rest You Merry
30.02 - 1. Fashion: A Very Short Introduction; 2. Salt
30.04 - 1. Heat Rises; 2. Pretty Girls
30.05 - 1. The Mother Tongue; 3. A Faint Cold Fear
30.06 - A-2. Some Buried Caesar (252 pps); B-3. Blindsighted
50.01 - 1. The Raven King (setting); 2. Even the Wicked (setting); 3. Everyday Justice (list page 5)
5.1- Romance d’A Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta by Ariano Suassuna5.2-
5.3-
5.4-
5.5-
5.6- Todo lo que podríamos haber sido tú y yo si no fuéramos tú y yo by Albert Espinosa
5.7- El hijo de las sombras by Juliet Marillier
5.8-
5.9- A Bride's Story, Vol. 3 by Kaoru Mori
5.10-
10.1- O Retorno do Rei by J.R.R. Tolkien
10.2-
10.3- Minha Querida Sputnik by Haruki Murakami OR Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez
10.4- 1984 by George Orwell OR The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10.5-
10.6- Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola OR Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
10.7-
10.8-
10.9-
10.10- O Gigante Enterrado by Kazuo Ishiguro
15.1- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg AND O Vermelho e o Negro by Stendhal
15.2- A Educação Sentimental Dos Pássaros: Onze Contos Sobre Anjos, Demónios, E Outras Pessoas Quase Normais by José Eduardo Agualusa
15.3-
15.4-
15.5-
15.6-
15.7-
15.8- Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Pam’s 2016 Spring Reading Plan*- Books I own. Read first!
5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol
*White Fang by Jack London or It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
The Ha-Ha by Dave King
5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
5.4 -A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
SKIP
5.6 Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
*The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker
5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns
5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi
5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
5.10 Self-portrait
10.1 - Ever So POPular
10.2 - Andy Warhol
10.3 - It's So Surreal
10.4 - Remembering David Bowie
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too
10.6 - And Alan Rickman
10.7 - Happy Pi Day
*Morning Star by Pierce Brown
10.8 - Hey, Einstein!
10.9 - March Madness
*Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
10.10 - Tournament of Books
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
15.1. From Soup to ............Breakfast??
15.2. I'm Not Answering my Phone until December
*Book 1: Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Jon Meacham
*Book 2: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
15.3. Still Flying.........
Book1: Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
*Book2: authors: Nick Jans, Ruth Ozeki, Emma Straub
or Both:
15.4. Towel Day
15.5. No More Snow!
*Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
15.6. Light My Fire
15.7. Tax time!
15.8. It's Magic
15.9. Three/Four/Five
15.10. Batter up!
* Quicksand by Steve Toltz Set in Australia
20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10 The Buried Giant or Notes from a Small Island
25.4
Bk1: From Page 3 Dec 2013 The Winter Sea
Bk2: Option A- The House on the Strand
25.7
A: *Middlemarch by George Eliot
C: *The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
30.1
*Option C: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
*Option D: The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson
30.2 Non-fiction
Option1: Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Option 2: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
30.3
30.4 Jonquil's Task: Every Letter Counts
Book 1: *The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million or The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle or The Door by Magda Szabó
Book 2: *Penguin Island by Anatole France
30.5
Option 1: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
Option 2: The Clothes On Their Backs by Linda Grant
Option 3: Fire and Ice or The O'briens, The Sword of Shannara, The Lion
30.6
Option 1: *One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson 509 pages
Option 5: *Anne of Green Gables or *Sophie's World or Rebecca
SPRING CHALLENGE5.1.
5.2.
5.3. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
5.4. Lover Eternal
5.5. Câmera Secreta
5.6. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
5.7.
5.8. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
5.9. Poderosa 3
5.10. Toda Mafalda
10.1.
10.2.
10.3. The Metamorphosis
10.4.
10.5.
10.6.
10.7. Princesa Adormecida
10.8. The Death of Ivan Ilyich
10.9.
10.10.
15.1.
15.3.
15.4.
15.5.
15.6.
15.8.
15.9.
15.10.
20.1. Hannibal Rising
20.2.
20.3.
20.4. Annihilation
20.5. Hold Me Closer
20.6.
20.7.
20.8. Blindsighted
20.9. Story of the Eye
20.10.
25.1.
25.2.
25.3.
25.4. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? + Bossypants
25.5.
25.6.
25.7.
30.1.
30.2.
30.4.
30.5.
30.6. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
50.1.
Books read: 18
Total points: 220/875
Total tasks: 17/53
Golden Oldies: 3
Big Books: 2
5.25.4 Japanese Lover, Adv of Kavalier & Clay, Worst Person Ever, Perfect Hatred, Just One Damned Thing After Another, Kristin Lavransdatter
5.5
5.6 In Defense of a Liberal Education, Just One Damned Thing After Another, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Lovers at the Chamleon Club Paris 1932, Without You There is No Us, The Ghose in the Electric Blue Suit, The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance, How to Survive a Horror Movie, Why Cant U Teach me 2 read, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, The Dead Duke His Secret Wife & the Missing Corpse, The YonahLossee Riding Camp for Girls, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, At the Edge of the Orchard, Junius & Albert's Adv in the Confederacy, The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
5.8 Before they're gone, Born on the Bayou, Year of reading Dangerously, Hold Still, Things a Little Bird Told Me, Good Life Lab
5.9
5.10 any
10.1 Agony & the Ecstasy,
10.2 Let's Get Lost, Yonahlossee Riding Class for Girls, Apple Tree Yard, Andy & Don, Childrens Blizzard, Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Importance of Being Earnest. John Dies @ the End, Renovation of the Heart, Golem & the Jinni, Love & Treasure
10.3 100 Years of Solitude, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, John Dies @ the End
10.4 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
10.5 Walking the Rez Road, Love & Treasure, Love in the Time of Cholera, City of Women, Theft, Secret Place, Someone Else's Love Story, Hold Still, Last Stand, Love Nina, Japanese Lover, Sweet Thursday
10.6 Harry Potter
10.7 Right Turn @ Machu Picchu, Winter Solstice,
10.8
10.10 Slade House
15.1
1. Bean Trees, French House, No Bed for Bacon
2. Wild Things
15.2
15.3
2. Star Side of Bird Hill, Walking the Rez Road, Last Stand
15.4
2. Space Between, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
15.5 Importance of Being Earnest, She Flew the Coup, Good Life Lab, Silver Linings Playbook, Unlikely allies, 50 Children, Before They're Gone, Andy & Don
15.6
15.7
15.8 Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
15.10
20.3
20.7 Ethan Frome, Tree Grows in Brooklyn, David Copperfield, Rebecca
25.1
25.2
25.3
25.4 Lake House - Rebecca
Son - Lonesome Dove
The Angel's Game - The Club Dumas
25.5
25.8
25.9
25.10
30.1
b. Slade House, Bernadette,
d. Breakfast w/ Buddha, Before They're Gone, Mystical Backpacker, Out of Africa, Motorcycle Diaries, Journals of Lewis & Clark
30.2
1. Reformation, New Testament
2. Children's Blizzard, Into the Wild, Boys in the Boat, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Lost in Shangri-la, The Colony (Molokai),
3.
30.4
1. Bean Trees, The Farm, Torch Ginger, The Wild Truth, The Lake House
2. Agnes Grey, Manila Demon, Saving Grace, Perfect Hatred, Aegean Dream
30.5
a.
b. Before They're Gone
c.
30.6
c. Agony & the Ectasy, Brothers Karamazov, Historian, Lonesome Dove, Far Pavillions, Corrections, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, Lorna Doone
Spring 2016 Reading Plan5.4 - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
*5.6 - When Christ and His Saints Slept
5.7 - Longbourn (Verified)
5.8 - Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
5.10 - Self-portrait - book of your choice
10.1 - 1958: Flowers for Algernon
10.2 - The Glass Key*
10.3 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass*
10.4 - As I Lay Dying*
10.5 - The Girl with All the Gifts (girl)
10.6 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
*10.8 - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
10.10 - The Buried Giant
15.1 - From Soup to ............Breakfast??
1. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (wars)
2. Tipping the Velvet (velvet)
15.2 - I'm Not Answering my Phone until December
1. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2.
15.3 - A&B: Watership Down (down) AR Info: IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25.0
15.4 - 1&2: Oryx and Crake
15.6 - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
15.7 - The Millionaire Next Door
15.8 - The Master and Margarita, A Tale for the Time Being
15.9 - Surfacing (rating 3.44 on 2/17/16)
15.10 - The Edible Woman (Canada)
20.1 - Ace of Clubs: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
20.7 - B: Jamaica Inn*
20.10 - Notes from a Small Island
25.1 - Sandy's task as suggested by Katy: Fact and Fiction
1.
2. The Children of Henry VIII or The Life of Elizabeth I
25.2 - Brooke TX's Task: #ReadingGoals
2. A: Exodus
3. Emma*
25.3 - Whitnie I's Task: Celebrate Spring
1. An Unnecessary Woman, The Mysteries of Udolpho*
2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Pop Voices
1. On Immunity: An Inoculation - Good Minds page
2. Option A: A Journal of the Plague Year*
25.5 - Andy P's Task: Symmetry
1. Wide Sargasso Sea, The Picture of Dorian Gray
2. After Alice
B-2: Far from the Madding Crowd*✔
B-3: Agnes Grey*✔
A: And Then There Were None✔
D: To the Lighthouse* (Verified)✔
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
A: Tess of the D'Urbervilles*
B. A Canticle for Leibowitz (Verified)
30.2 - Daphne's task: Peering really close at the world
2.
3. Popular Microbiology Books The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History^ OR Polio: An American Story
30.3 - NO TASK
30.4 - Jonquil's Task: Every Letter Counts
1. Sprig Muslin, Still Waters, Modern Romance
2. Burial Rites
30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police
2. The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
3. The Mysterious Affair at Styles*
30.6 - Donna Jo's Task--Making a Name for Yourself
C: Option 4: The Agony and the Ecstasy^ (776 pages)
50.1 - Perletwo's task: Primary colors - NO KIDS
1: (setting) The Kitchen House, As I Lay Dying
(cover) Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
2: (setting) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Gilead
(cover)Catch-22
3: (list) Americanah, A Room of One's Own, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Boston KateTotal points: 170
Tasks completed: 12
Books read: 16
5.1 (view spoiler)
✔5.2 Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (view spoiler) - read 5/2/16 - post 2012
5.3 Gathering Blue (view spoiler)
✔5.4 Silver on the Tree (view spoiler) - read 4/12/16 - post 1506/1533
✔5.5 Preacher, Vol. 1: Gone to Texas (view spoiler) - read 5/21/16 - post 2818
✔5.6 This Song Will Save Your Life (view spoiler) - read 4/27/16 - post 2012
5.7 Splintered (view spoiler)
✔5.8 Everybody's Got Something (view spoiler) - read 5/16/16 - post 2818
✔5.9 Acceptance (view spoiler) - read 4/10/16 - post 1506
✔5.10 The Giver (view spoiler) - read 5/22/16 - post 2818
10.1 Catch-22 (view spoiler) or Flowers for Algernon (view spoiler)
10.2 Go Set a Watchman (view spoiler)
10.3 House of Leaves (view spoiler)
10.4 Wonder Boys: A Novel (view spoiler)
10.5 Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show (view spoiler)
10.6 Sense and Sensibility (view spoiler)
10.7 Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (view spoiler)
10.8 The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code (view spoiler)
10.9 Son (view spoiler)
10.10 Delicious Foods (view spoiler)
15.1
Book 1: The Black Dahlia (view spoiler)
Book 2: The Red Queen (view spoiler) or Tipping the Velvet (view spoiler)
15.2
Book 1: Assassination Vacation or The Wordy Shipmates (view spoiler)
Book 2: The Kill Order (view spoiler)
15.3 Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (view spoiler)
15.4 Life, the Universe and Everything (view spoiler)
15.5 Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie is Not the Answer (view spoiler)
✔15.6 Lips Touch: Three Times (view spoiler) - read 3/30/16 - post 1160
15.7 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (view spoiler)
15.8 Her Fearful Symmetry (view spoiler)
15.9 Skin Game (view spoiler)
15.10 In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (view spoiler)
20.1 Nightlife (view spoiler) or What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (view spoiler)
✔20.2 The Winter Sea (view spoiler) - read 3/9/15 - post 352
20.3 The Firebird (view spoiler)
20.4 The Magician's Land (view spoiler)
20.5 The Walking Dead, Vol. 08: Made to Suffer (view spoiler)
20.6 The Keeper of Lost Causes (view spoiler)
20.7 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (view spoiler)
20.8 The Goldfinch (view spoiler)
20.9 Carry On (view spoiler)
20.10 Notes from a Small Island (view spoiler) or The Buried Giant (view spoiler)
Boston Kate, cont.25.1
Book 1: L.A. Confidential (view spoiler)
Book 2: L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City (view spoiler)
✔25.2
Book 1: Finders Keepers (view spoiler) - read 5/30/16 - post 2933
Book 2: Triangles (view spoiler) - read 4/18/16 - post 2933
25.3
Book 1: Out of the Easy (view spoiler) or Watership Down (view spoiler)
Book 2: The Tao of Pooh (view spoiler)
25.4
Book 1: Snowblind or Soulless or The Myth Hunters (view spoiler)
Book 2: The Shining (view spoiler)
✔25.5
Book 1: The Art of Racing in the Rain (view spoiler) - read 3/15/16 - post 2065
Book 2: Devil Bones (view spoiler) - read 5/4/16 - post 2065
25.6
Book 1: The Touch of Twilight (view spoiler)
Book 2: China Dolls (view spoiler)
25.7
Book 1: Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (view spoiler)
Book 2: Princeps' Fury (view spoiler)
30.1
Book 1: The Aeronaut's Windlass (view spoiler)
Book 2: Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid (view spoiler)
30.2
Book 1: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (view spoiler)
Book 2: Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science (view spoiler)
30.4
Book 1: Frost Burned (view spoiler)
Book 2: Duma Key (view spoiler), Doctor Sleep (view spoiler), or Night Film (view spoiler)
30.5
Book 1: She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (view spoiler)
Book 2: Let it Snow (view spoiler)
30.6
Book 1: NOS4A2 (view spoiler)
✔50.1
Book 1: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (view spoiler) - read 5/17/16 - post 2970
Book 2: The Shining Girls (view spoiler) - read 5/11/16 - post 2970
Book 3: The Bluest Eye (view spoiler) - read 5/31/16 - post 2970
5.2 - onomatopoeia
5.4 - Orbiting Jupiter (-ER)
5.5 - Displacement: A Travelogue (sequential art/manga)
5.6 - title of six or more words
5.7 - retelling
5.9 - Use of Weapons (#3 in series)
5.10 - book of choice
10.1 - The Stars My Destination
10.2 - author initials in ANDY WARHOL
10.4 - Nights at the Circus
10.5 - Love in a Cold Climate ('sweet love')
10.6 -
10.8 - Science/Philosophy
10.10 - Fortune Smiles
15.1 - War with the Newts and Gone, Gone, Gone
15.4 - The Ghosts of Heaven (SF/fantasy, author initials in DOUGLAS ADAMS)
15.5 - SPRING in title/subtitle
15.6 - word FIRE in title/subtitle or FIRE on cover
15.7 - A Random Walk Down Wall Street
15.8 - Magical Realism
15.10 - Inspector Imanishi Investigates or Malice: A Mystery (book set in Italy, Japan, NZ, Netherlands, Germany...)
20.1 - Q in title/subtitle, YA/mystery/romance (Queen of Hearts)
20.3 - Option 2 - The Wine-Dark Sea
20.4 - Option A (everything) - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
20.5 - Dog Will Have His Day
20.6 - The Road from Coorain (Option 1 - Australian)
20.7 - The Summing Up
25.5 - Graham Greene (6 letters in first and last names) and Some Luck
(B-3 - female on cover)30.1 - two identical things/ Travel/ (3-word title; first in series)/ REDBLUE in title
30.5 - The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets (Option 2 - their) and
(Option 3 - title in red)50.1 -
, A Dance At The Slaughterhouse (NY), Points: 80, 125, 165, 285
Post page #: 16, 24, 30, 44 (two posts)
5.4 A Bigger Splash by David Hockney title word ends in -ER<
5.5 Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein art/comic
5.7 Flag by Jasper Johns genre "retellings"
10.1 Ever So POPular
10.2 Andy Warhol - author initials in Andy Warhol - The Martian by Andy Weir
10.4 Remembering David Bowie
10.7 Happy Pi Day
10.8 Hey, Einstein!
10.10 Tournament of Books
15.1 From Soup to ............Breakfast?? book one (soup): The Fault in Our Stars, The Black Dahlia
book 2:
15.2 I'm Not Answering my Phone until December
15.4 Towel Day
15.6 Light My Fire - flames on cover
15.7 Tax time!
15.8
15.9 rating #'s 3,4,5 The Nightingale 4.53 02/17/16
20.9 Give Yourself Permission... 500 pgs+ Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
25.1 - Sandy's task as suggested by Katy: Fact and Fiction
Book 1:
Book 2: Read a nonfiction book that is about the same era (same general time and place) as Book 1.
25.2 Brooke TX's Task: #ReadingGoals
Book 1: 4. #NewBooks
Book 2:
25.4
Book 1/American Appetites by Joyce Carol Oates
25.7 Dakimel's Task: Sibling and Niece Season
book 1/option C: # in title Catch-22
book 2/option A: author initials VEGETARIANACTUARY
30.1 Book 1: option B/ identical items Life After Life
Book 2: option C/ 1st in series new to me, 3 word title The White Queen
30.2 Book 1: option 2/ micro history Silent Spring
Book 2:
30.5 Book 1: option 3/ red title Defending Jacob
Book 2: option 2 "they're their there" Their Eyes Were Watching God
Kristen IA's Spring 2016 Reading Plan✔5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol - Night Passage by Robert B. Parker
✔5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein - Drop Shot by Harlan Coben
✔5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol - Stardust by Neil Gaiman
#★5.4 -A Bigger Splash by David Hockney - Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr
✔5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein - The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
~★5.6 - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton - The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain
#★5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns - Beauty by Robin McKinley
✔5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi - The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball
#★5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol - Just for Now by Rosalind James
~★5.10 Self-portrait - Truly Madly Yours by Rachel Gibson
25/50 (5 to go)
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✔10.1 - Ever So POPular - Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie (1956)
#★10.2 - Andy Warhol - Smart Girl by Rachel Hollis
✔10.3 - It's So Surreal - The Giver by Lois Lowry
~★10.4 - Remembering David Bowie - As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
✔10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too - Baby Proof by Emily Giffin
✔10.6 - And Alan Rickman - The Warden by Anthony Trollope
✔10.7 - Happy Pi Day - Hostage Taker by Stefanie Pintoff
✔10.8 - Hey, Einstein! - The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
✔10.9 - March Madness - Rainshadow Road by Lisa Kleypas
✔10.10 - Tournament of Books - Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
80/100 (2 to go)
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15.1. From Soup to ............Breakfast??
✔Book 1: Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson (Super Mario Brothers)
✔Book 2: Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke (Strawberry)
15.2. I'm Not Answering my Phone until December
~★Book 1: The Roosevelt Women: A Portrait In Five Generations by Betty Boyd Caroli (politics)
Book 2: Allegiant by Veronica Roth
✔15.3. Still Flying.........
Option 2: Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins (shared word "and")
✔15.4. Towel Day
Option 2: The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
✔15.5. No More Snow! - Spring Fever: A Novel by Mary Kay Andrews
~★15.6. Light My Fire - Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
✔15.7. Tax time! - Smart Money Smart Kids: Raising the Next Generation to Win with Money by Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze
#★15.8. It's Magic - Dream Lake by Lisa Kleypas
✔15.9. Three/Four/Five - The Children's Crusade by Ann Packer (3.54 on 5/12/16)
✔15.10. Batter up! - That Night by Chevy Stevens
115/150 (3 to go)
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✔20.1 Pick a Card - Ace of Hearts
Captive by Brenda Rothert (one word/Romance)
✔20.2 Time for Celebration -
Option C: Northern Lights by Nora Roberts
✔20.3 Returning to My Source of Inspiration...
Option 1: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
✔20.4 Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
Option A: Alone by Lisa Gardner
✔20.5 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book
Option 2: Unlucky 13 by James Patterson (James Joyce)
✔20.6 Eurovision Calling!
Option 2: When in Doubt, Add Butter by Beth Harbison
~★20.7 When Books Went to War
Option 2: Random Harvest by James Hilton
✔20.8 Making It Worth Watching
Option 4: Sweet Girl by Rachel Hollis
✔20.9 Give Yourself Permission...
Option 2: Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
#★20.10- Group Reads - Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
160/200 (2 to go)
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25.1 Fact and Fiction
Book 1:
~★Book 2: Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
25.2 #Reading Goals (600+ pages)
#★Option 2A: Bones Are Forever by Kathy Reichs (10/23/2012, #1 on my GR to-read list)
~★Option 3: Seduce Me at Sunrise by Lisa Kleypas (#8, 9 books)
25.3 Celebrate Spring
✔Book 1: His First and Last by Terri Osburn
✔Book 2: To-Do List Makeover: A Simple Guide to Getting the Important Things Done by S.J. Scott (page 1)
25.4 Pop Voices
#★Book 1: The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
Book 2:
25.5 Symmetry
✔Book 1: Anything for You by Kristan Higgins
✔Book 2: True Love by Jude Deveraux
25.6 Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands
✔Option A-1: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
✔Option A-2: Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis
25.7 Sibling and Niece Season
✔Option C: 14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson
✔Option D: Just Good Friends by Rosalind James
100/175 (5 to go)
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30.1 Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
✔Option A: The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. by Nichole Bernier
✔Option C: Something About You by Julie James
30.2 Peering Really Close at the World
#★Option 2: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Option 3: ???
30.3 No Task
30.4 Every Letter Counts
✔Book 1: Home Front by Kristin Hannah
✔Book 2: Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
30.5 Call the Grammar Police
✔Option 2: Until There Was You by Kristan Higgins
✔Option 3: Defending Jacob by William Landay
30.6 Making a Name for Yourself
#★Part A/Option 1: A Lot like Love
✔Part B/Option 3: Insurgent by Veronica Roth
90/150 (3 to go)
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50.1 Primary Colors
✔Book 1: Invisible by James Patterson
✔Book 2: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
✔Book 3: Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally
50/50 (0 to go)
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Total Points: 610/875
Tasks Completed: 36/53
Books Read: 47/69
✔★
Amy O.'s Reading Plans Spring 2016The Grace Keepers
The Night Circus
Smoke and Mirrors
Herodotus - The Histories
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
The Road
5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
5.6 - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns
5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi
5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
5.10 Self-portrait - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
10.1 - Ever So POPular
10.2 - Andy Warhol
10.3 - It's So Surreal
10.6 - And Alan Rickman - Sense and Sensibility
10.7 - Happy Pi Day
10.8 - Hey, Einstein!
10.10 - Tournament of Books - books on hold through OverDrive
15.1. From Soup to ............Breakfast??
15.2. I'm Not Answering my Phone until December -
15.3. Still Flying.........
15.6. Light My Fire
15.7. Tax time!
15.8. It's Magic - The Night Circus (magical realism genre)
15.9. Three/Four/Five
15.10. Batter up!
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter: Pamela3265's Task: When Books Went to War - The Island of Dr. Moreau
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes: SpiderMac's task: Making It Worth Watching: Option 2 - Lesley Glaister book, or The Country of Ice Cream Star
20.10 - Group Reads - The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
25.1 - Sandy's task as suggested by Katy: Fact and Fiction
25.2 - Brooke TX's Task: #ReadingGoals:
25.3 - Whitnie I's Task: Celebrate Spring
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Pop Voices
Book 1: Yeah, I Said It by Wanda Sykes
Book 2: Slade House by David Mitchell
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
30.2 - Daphne's task: Peering really close at the world.
30.3 - Ava Catherine's task: No task at the finisher's request.
30.4 - Jonquil's Task: Every Letter Counts
30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police
50.1 - Perletwo's task: Primary Colors
5 points1. Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
2. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
3. The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle [4.28 - 2/20/16]
4. PanthER in the Hive by Olivia A. Cole
5. Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation by Sheena C. Howard
6. Bring Me Flesh, I'll Bring Hell by Martin Rose
7. Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
8. Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs!: My Adventures in The Alice Cooper Group by Dennis Dunaway
9. Red, White, and Blood by Christopher Farnsworth
10.
10 points
1. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham [popular 1955]
2.
3. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov [pg 1]
4. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
5.
6. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
7. Famous Suicides of the Japanese EmPIre by David Mura
8. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
9.
10. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
15 points
1. B1: The Green Man by Kingsley Amis [flavor = green pea]
B2: The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
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Season total: 150 points5.1 - Marilyn Diptych -
5.2 - Whaam! -
5.3 - Campbell's Soup Cans -
5.4 - A Bigger Splash -
5.5 - Drowning Girl -
5.6 - Just what is it... -
5.7 - Flag -
5.8 - I was a Rich Man's Plaything -
5.9 - Triple Elvis -
5.10 - Self-portrait -
10.1 - Ever So Popular -
10.2 - Andy Warhol -
10.3 - It's So Surreal -
10.4 - Remembering David Bowie -
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too -
10.6 - And Alan Rickman -
10.7 - Happy Pi Day -
10.8 - Hey, Einstein! -
10.9 - March Madness -
10.10 - Tournament of Books -
15.1 - From Soup to...Breakfast? - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
15.2 - I'm Not Answering my Phone... - Believer: My Forty Years in Politics and Never Let Me Go
15.3 - Still Flying... - Peace Like a River
15.4 - Towel Day -
15.5 - No More Snow! - Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
15.6 - Light My Fire - Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
15.7 - Tax Time! - Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
15.8 - It's Magic - The House of the Spirits
15.9 - Three/Four/Five - These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
15.10 - Batter Up! - Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy
Jacki's Spring Task List
5 Point Tasks
*** 5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews
5.3 -
5.4 -A Bigger Splash by David Hockney Never Never by Colleen Hoover
5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein Dr. Horrible and Other Horrible Stories by Zack Whedon
5.6 - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns. Winter by Marissa Meyer
5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day
5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol Earth's End by Elise Kova
5.10 Self-portrait READERS CHOICE
10 Point Tasks
10.1 - Ever So POPular - The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
10.2 - Andy Warhol - Dangerous Boys by Abigail Haas
10.3 - It's So Surreal Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. (page 2)
10.4 - Remembering David Bowie-In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too - City of Women by David R. Gillham
10.6 - And Alan Rickman - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
10.7 - Happy Pi Day - Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
10.8 - Hey, Einstein! - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
10.9 - March Madness - The Unnaturalists by Tiffany Trent
10.10 - Tournament of Books - In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
15 Point Tasks
15.1 From Soup to ............Breakfast?? - Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and Because of Low by Abbi Glines
15.2 I'm Not Answering my Phone until December - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer and Tabula Rasa by Kristen Lippert-Martin
15.3 Still Flying......... Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling and Unborn by Amber Lynn Natusch
15.4 Towel Day - The Rowan by Anne McCaffrey
15.5 No More Snow! - Black Spring by Alison Croggon
15.6
15.7 Tax time! - Freakinmics OR Numbered Account or The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
15.8 It's Magic - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
15.9 Three/Four/Five - Greywalker - 3.43 on 2/25/2016
15.10 Batter up! Norweigan Wood by Haruki Murakami
20 Point Tasks
20.1 Most Improved - MegSCL's task: Pick a card
- Card picked: Queen of Hearts
- One book, must be - Romance/Young Adult/Mystery; Q in title. Some Quiet Place
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration - Firefly Lane (option C)
20.3 - Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill
20.4 - read a book with "Fantasy" or "Supernatural" genre on the book's main GR page.
20.5 - Bigger is Better- Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis
20.6 C -Will Grayson, Will Grayson
20.7 - When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
20.8 - Half of a Yellow Sun
20.9 - Winter
20.10 - Notes from a Small Island
25 Point Tasks
25.1 -
- historical fiction - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America-3/11/2016
- non-fiction book set during same era (same general time and place) - The Jungle
25.2 -
2 - Lady Midnight-added 05/2012
4 - Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
25.3
1- Author's initials in OSTARA
2- The Alchemist
25.4
1 - Felicia Day
2- The Last Unicorn
***25.5
1 - Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill
2 - Glass Sword
25.6 - Plan B Peanut
1- Fangirl - #2 on green
2- Armada by Ernest Cline-3/13
25.7
1- (a) Because of Low by Abbi Glines
2- (b) Greywalker by Kat Richardson
30 Point Tasks
30.1
C-#1 in new series, 3 words The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett
D- The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World. by Jennifer Baggett
30.2
B - In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
C - The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
30.3
30.4
1- The Veil by Chloe Neill (3,4)
2-Beautiful Oblivion by Jamie McGuire (9,8)
30.5
2-There is No Light in Darkness by Claire Contreras
3-Follow You Home by Mark Edwards
30.6 - Option 1, 4
A - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
B - The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
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ESHAY5.1 Deceased author
5.2 onomatopoeia
5.3 rating 3.5+
5.4 title word ends in -ER
5.6 title 6+ words
5.7 genre "retellings"
5.8 autobiography/ memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
5.10 choice
10.1 popular 1955-1959 The Quiet American
10.2 initials can be found in ANDY WARHOL
10.3 popular surrealism Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
10.4 read one of David Bowie's Top 100 Must Read Books
10.5 word in "Take It Easy" The Road
10.6 Book on this list of The Literary Roles of Alan Rickman Smiley's People
10.7 Letters "PI" found together, in order, and intact in the title/subtitle or the author's name
10.9 Two word alliterative title Red Rising
10.10 Tournament of books longlist A Little Life
or Seveneves
15.1
Book 1: title/subtitle of which contains a word from list of Campbell's soup flavors.
Book 2: title/subtitle of which contains a word from list of the best 27 pop tart flavors
15.2
Book 1: NONFICTION book with the main page genre politics or government
Book 2: "dystopia" main page genre
A: title/subtitle contains a word that matches one of the words from the titles of the songs on the Airplane's first album (Secret, road, like, blues, airplane, run, come, years, together) On the Road
B: initials can be found in JEFFERSON AIRPLANE Interpreter of Maladies
Option 2: Satisfies both A and B
15.4 two books or satisfy both criteria
Option 1: Genre SciFi/fantasy + Option 2: initials can be found in DOUGLAS ADAMS Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
15.6 FIRE in the title/subtitle or fire/flames on the cover
15.7 genre Finance or Finances.
15.8 "Magical Realism" as a GR main page genre.
15.9 rating #'s 3,4,5
20.1 King of spades: Crime, SciFi or memoir
K in the title Leviathan Wakes
Option C: set at least 50% in Ireland or with a cover that's at least 50% blue Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
20.3
Option 1: book by Elena Ferrante.
Option 2: originally written in Italian
Option 3: author who is new to you this season. You must have claimed at least one other task with a book by this author by the time you post your completion of my task.
Option C: "Fantasy" or "Supernatural" genre Red Queen
Option 3: non-fiction book by or about a person you would add to or remove from the album cover Cary Elwes As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
20.6
Option 3: book found in the Best Friendship Books list The Perks of Being a Wallflower
20.7
Option A: When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
20.8
Option 2: book from the Orange Prize list On Beauty
Option 1: genre Biography or Autobiography The Wright Brothers
20.10 Group read Notes from a Small Island
25.1
Book 1: Historical fiction genre The Nightingale
Book 2: nonfiction book that is about the same era (same general time and place) as Book 1. WWII France
25.2 two books combined >600 pages
Option 1: Book from 2015 Locus lists
Option 2: One of 10 books on TBR list longest or one of 10 longest books on list For Whom the Bell Tolls Added Sep 2011
Option 3: New to you book by most read author published 2016
25.3 two books
Book 2: NONFICTION book found on the Best Self Help Books list On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
25.4 Two books
Book 1:
Book 2: Option A: Recommended by Cary Elwes: The Princess Bride
25.5 two books no kids
Book 2: TITLE consists of words of the same number of letters (5) Glass Sword
25.6 All books fiction & Peanut :)
B-1: Green The Maze Runner
B-2: a single author with 5 letters in the first OR last name
B-3: female on the cover. You must be able to see at least from the head to the waist or the full body Queen of Shadows
25.7 Two books
Option A: Author's initials all appear in VEGETARIANACTUARY The Cuckoo's Calling or American Gods
Option C: book with a digit on the cover Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
Option D: body of water large enough to snorkel in and/or with a fish or sea creature (whale, octopus, goldfish, tadpole - anything that lives primarily beneath the water) on the cover
30.1 Two books
Option A: “R-E-D-B-L-U- E” in the TITLE no subtitles
Option B: at least 2 items on the cover that are identical
Option C: 1st in series new to me, 3 word title
Option D: Travel genre
30.2 two non fiction books
Option 1: very short introductions list
Option 2: microhistory The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Option 3: microbiology
30.3 no task
30.4
Book 2: Each word in the title is exactly one letter shorter than the previous word. American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day or Juliet, Naked
30.5 two books
Option 1: non-fiction book with the genre Language
Option 2: commonly confused words in the TITLE: They’re, Their, There, Your, You’re, Its, It’s
Option 3: Entire TITLE in Red on the cover
30.6 Two books or 1 book from options >650pgs
Last letter Y
Option 2: Book 1:first and last initials are adjacent letters in the alphabet
Book 2: depends on page numbers (update)
50.1
Book 1: set at least 50 percent in a "red" U.S. state or red cover On Beauty or Me Before You
Book 2: set at least 50 percent in a "blue" U.S. state or blue cover Luckiest Girl Alive (set in NY)
Book 3: Popular social justice books or green cover Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity or I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
5.4 - A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
5.6 - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns
5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi
5.9 - Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
5.10 - Self-portrait -- A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls by Jessica Spotswood (354 pages) (GoodReads Author)
10.1 - Ever So POPular
10.2 - Andy Warhol
10.3 - It's So Surreal
10.4 - Remembering David Bowie
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too
10.6 - And Alan Rickman
10.7 - Happy Pi Day
10.8 - Hey, Einstein!
10.9 - March Madness -- On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle (275 pages) (GoodReads Author)
10.10 - Tournament of Books
15.1 - From Soup to ............Breakfast??
Book 1:
Book 2:
15.2 - I'm Not Answering my Phone until December
Book 1:
Book 2:
15.3 - Still Flying.........
Book 1:
Book 2:
15.4 - Towel Day
Book 1:
Book 2:
15.5 - No More Snow!
15.6 - Light My Fire
15.7 - Tax time!
15.8 - It's Magic
15.9 - Three/Four/Five
15.10 - Batter up!
20.1 - Most Improved - MegSCL's task: Pick a card -- Carry On (2 of Hearts [two word or two letter title about Romance, Young Adult or Mystery])
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
20.3 - Best Review: mstan's Task: Returning to My Source of Inspiration...
20.4 -Golden Oldie: Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
20.5 - Bigger is Better- Catherine T's Task: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter: Pamela3265's Task: When Books Went to War
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes: SpiderMac's task: Making It Worth Watching
20.10 - Group Reads
25.1 - Sandy's task as suggested by Katy: Fact and Fiction
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.2 - Brooke TX's Task: #ReadingGoals
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.3 - Whitnie I's Task: Celebrate Spring
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Pop Voices
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.5 - Andy P's Task: Symmetry
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.6 - Robin ♥'s Task: Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands
Plan B
Option B-2: Mosquitoland by David Arnold (342 pages) (David has 5 letters in his first name.)
Option B-3: The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman by Ben H. Winters (264 pages) (IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7.0)
25.7 - Dakimel's Task: Sibling and Niece Season
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.2 - Daphne's task: Peering really close at the world.
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.3 - Ava Catherine's task: No task at the finisher's request.
30.4 - Jonquil's Task: Every Letter Counts
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police
Book 1:
Book 2:
30.6 - Donna Jo's Task--Making a Name for Yourself
Book 1:
Book 2:
5.1 deceased author: The Bridge of San Luis Rey5.2 onomatopoeia: The Way the Crow Flies or Bark: Stories
5.3 rating 3.5+: Bad Behavior
5.4 title word ends in -ER: Tenth of December
5.5 art/comic: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
5.7 genre "retellings": My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
5.8 autobiography/ memoir: Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
5.9 #3 in series: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
5.10 choice: ???
10.1 popular 1955-1959: The October Country ('56) or The Vet's Daughter ('59)
10.2 ANDY WARHOL: Boy, Snow, Bird
10.3 popular surrealism: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
10.4 Bowie: As I Lay Dying
10.5 word in "Take It Easy": A Home at the End of the World
10.6: Thérèse Raquin
10.7 Pi: Housekeeping
10.8 Science: Everything Bad is Good for You
10.9 2 word alliterative title: Rabbit, Run
10.10 Tournament of Books: Avenue of Mysteries
15.1
Soup: White Noise
Breakfast: The Fun Parts
15.2
Politics: Zeitoun
Dystopia: Station Eleven
15.3
Song title: Road Ends
Author initials: Purity
15.4 Option 2: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or What I Didn't See: and Other Stories
15.5 title/subtitle contain "SPRING": Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
15.6 Fire: Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone
15.7 Finance: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
15.8 Magical Realism: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
15.9 Rating: Whirl Away (3/2/16, rating 3.35)
15.10 Batter up: Cloudstreet
20.1 Gaudy Night or The Bottoms (10 of hearts)
20.2 Blue: 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
20.3 The Story of a New Name
20.4 Nautical Novels: We, the Drowned
20.5 Sgt Pepper cover: A Head Full of Ghosts (Paul)
20.6 Best friends (option 3): A Little Life
20.7 Armed Services: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
20.8 Orange Prize (option 2): We Need to Talk About Kevin
20.9 White Title: Battleborn
20.10 Group Read: The Buried Giant
25.1
Fact: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Fiction: The Grapes of Wrath
25.2 Reading Goals
1: Old Favorites: Island of the Sequined Love Nun (#15, 6 books)
2:Too Long: Sense and Sensibility
25.3
OSTARA: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Self Help: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun or How to Be a Woman
25.4
Good minds: Stranger Things Happen
Good choices: The Truth About Celia
25.5
1) The Lottery and Other Stories
2) Jane Eyre
25.6 Plan B - peanut
Yellow: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
5 Letters: To the Lighthouse
25.7
Math: 11/22/63
Snorkeling: Leaving the Sea
25.8
25.9
25.10
30.1
Go Dog Go: My Brilliant Friend
Cat in Hat: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
30.2
Microhistory: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Microbio: The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World or The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
30.3 no task
30.4
Longer: The Snow Queen
Shorter: After Life or Termite Parade
30.5
Words: Fall on Your Knees
Red: Every House is Haunted
30.6
Author initials: There's Something I Want You to Do: Stories or The Story of a New Name
Book 2: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
CANDY's Reading Plan (Tasks Finished)
5 Point Tasks
5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol: The Time Machine
5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein: Saga, Volume 2
5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi: Not My Father's Son
5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol: The Highlander's Touch
10 Point Tasks
10.1 - Ever So POPular: Starship Troopers
10.4 - Remembering David Bowie: Madame Bovary
10.8 - Hey, Einstein!: Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
15 Point Tasks
15.8. It's Magic: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
15.10. Batter up!: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
20 Point Tasks
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration: Option A: To Tame A Highland Warrior
20.5 - Bigger is Better- Catherine T's Task: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book: Option 2: 11/22/63
30 Point Tasks
30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police: Option 2: Who Goes There? Option 3:
50 Point Task
50.1 - Perletwo's task: Primary Colors: Book 1:
Book 2:
Book 3: Page 43: The AlchemistPoints: 15
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets: 0
Total Points: 125
Total Golden Oldies: 2
Total Big Book Tickets: 2
Terri Fl's Reading Plan
5.1 - deceased author -
5.2 - onomatopoeia - Hard Laughter by Anne Lamott
5.3 - "good" rating 3.5+ - Discover Magazine's Vital Signs: True Tales of Medical Mysteries, Obscure Diseases, and Life-Saving Diagnoses by Robert A. Norman
5.4 - word ending in 'ER - Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
5.5 - sequential art - Fugue State by Brian Evenson, Zak Sally (Illustrator)
5.6 - 6+ words in title - A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
5.7 - "Retellings" genre -
5.8 - autobiography/memoir -
5.9 - #3 in series - Faithful Place - Tana French
5.10 - book of choice - Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel by Annie Cohen-Solal
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10.1 - popular book from 1955-1959 - Night by Elie Wiesel
10.2 - author's initials in ANDY WARHOL -
10.3 - popular surreal book - American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
10.4 - David Bowie's top 100 -
10.5 - word from song, 'Take It Easy' - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
10.6 - literary role of Alan Rickman -
10.7 - letter PI found together - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
10.8 - genre of "science" or "philosophy" -
10.9 - alliterative title or author - The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman
10.10 - 2016 ToB longlist - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
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15.1 - From soup to breakfast?
.....Book 1 -
.....Book 2 - Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China by Ian Johnson
15.2 - Politics & Dystopia
.....Book 1 - China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
.....Book 2 - Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
15.3 - Option C - The Round House
15.4 - Towel Day
.....Book 1 -
.....Book 2 -
15.5 - Title has letters SPRING - This Generation: Dispatches from China's Most Popular Literary Star by Han Han
15.6 - Flames on cover - The Last Flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday
15.7 - Finance - Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise by Carl Walter & Fraser Howie
15.8 - Magical Realism genre - Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
15.9 - rating with 3, 4, 5 -
15.10 - set in a baseball country (Italy) - Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
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20.1 - 9 clubs - Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski
20.2 - Option B: set in Asia (North Korea - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
20.3 - Option 1: by Elena Ferrente - The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrente
20.4 - Option C: Fantasy/Supernatural genre -
20.5 - Option 2: match for Karl Marx -
20.6 - Option 3: On 'Best Friendship Books' list - Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
20.7 - Option B: on armed service list - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
20.8 - Option 2: Orange prize winner - The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
20.9 - Option 6: title in black letters -
20.10 - Group read -
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25.1 - Fact & Fiction
.....Book 1: Historical Fiction - The Turtle Catcher by Nicole Helget
.....Book 2: Non-fiction set in during same time period (1918) - The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John Barry
25.2 - Reading Goals
.....Option 2: longest on Russian literature list -
.....Option 3: one of my most read authors -
25.3 - Celebrate Spring
.....Book 1: author's initials in OSTARA - The Art of War by Sun Tzu
.....Book 2: on best self-help list - The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
25.4 - Pop voices
.....Book 1 - Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
.....Book 2 - Decoded by Mai Jia
25.5 - Symmetry
.....Book 1 - Open City by Teju Cole
.....Book 2 - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
25.6 - M&M task
.....Option B-1 - green list -
.....Option B-3 - female on cover -
25.7 - Sibling & Niece
.....Option A: Author's initials in VEGETARIANACTUARY -
.....Option B: Gardening genre -
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30.1 - Dr. Seuss
.....Option A: letters REDBLUE in title - A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
.....Option D: Travel genre -
30.2 - Peering closely
.....Option 1: Very short introductions -
.....Option 2: Microhistory -
30.4 - Every letter counts
.....Book 1 -
.....Book 2 -
30.5 - Grammar police
.....Option 1: Language genre - I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World by Jag Bhalla
.....Option 3: Red title - At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life by Francine du Plessix Gray
30.6 - Name for yourself - Part C: Option 5 - Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
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50.1 - Primary Colors
.....Book A -
.....Book B -
.....Book C -
Barbara ★ Reading Plan5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol
5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
Ghosts & Echoes - Lyn Benedict
5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
5.4 - A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
The Hotter You Burn - Gena Showalter
5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein ~ SKIP
5.6 - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend - Victoria Laurie
5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns
5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi ~ SKIP
5.9 - Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
If I Should Die - Allison Brennan
5.10 - Self-portrait
10.1 - Ever So POPular ~ SKIP
10.2 - Andy Warhol
Hallowed Circle - Linda Robertson
10.3 - It's So Surreal
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
10.4 - Remembering David Bowie ~ SKIP
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too
Viking in Love - Sandra Hill
10.6 - And Alan Rickman ~ SKIP
10.7 - Happy Pi Day
One Lucky Vampire - Lynsay Sands
10.8 - Hey, Einstein! ~ SKIP
10.9 - March Madness
Deadly Deception - Alexa Grace
10.10 - Tournament of Books ~ SKIP
15.1 - From Soup to ............Breakfast??
White Night - Jim Butcher
Red Velvet Cupcake Murder - Joanne Fluke
15.2 - I'm Not Answering my Phone until December ~ SKIP
15.3 - Still Flying.........
Spirited Away - Cindy Miles
Guardian - Jo Anderton
15.4 - Towel Day
Invisible Sun - David Macinnis Gill
15.5 - No More Snow!
The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz
15.6 - Light My Fire
Wings of Fire - Caris Roane
15.7 - Tax time! ~ SKIP
15.8 - It's Magic
15.9 - Three/Four/Five
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
15.10 - Batter up!
In Too Deep - Tracey Alvarez
20.1 - Most Improved - MegSCL's task: Pick a card
Sweep in Peace - Ilona Andrews
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
Invision - Sherrilyn Kenyon
20.3 - Best Review: mstan's Task: Returning to My Source of Inspiration...
SKIP
20.4 - Golden Oldie: Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
Drowning Mermaids - Nadia Scrieva
20.5 - Bigger is Better- Catherine T's Task: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book
Shadow on the Sun - David Macinnis Gill
20.6 - Seasoned Reader: Val TX's Task: Eurovision Calling!
Gods & Monsters - Lyn Benedict
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter: Pamela3265's Task: When Books Went to War ~ SKIP
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes: SpiderMac's task: Making It Worth Watching ~ SKIP
20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Seakbee's Task: Give Yourself Permission…
The Shadows - J.R. Ward
20.10 - Group Reads ~ SKIP
25.1 - Sandy's task as suggested by Katy: Fact and Fiction ~ SKIP
25.2 - Brooke TX's Task: #ReadingGoals
The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
A Dance With Dragons - George R.R. Martin
25.3 - Whitnie I's Task: Celebrate Spring ~ SKIP
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Pop Voices
Fired Up - Jayne Ann Krentz
Heroes Are My Weakness - Susan Elizabeth Phillips
25.5 - Andy P's Task: Symmetry
Burning Skies - Caris Roane
Arcane Circle - Linda Robertson
25.6 - Robin ♥'s Task: Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands
Deadly Relations - Alexa Grace
How to Pursue a Princess - Karen Hawkins
25.7 - Dakimel's Task: Sibling and Niece Season
Small Favor - Jim Butcher
Dark Sapphire - Lisa Jackson
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
Daughter of the Blood - Ann Bishop
The First Sin - Cheyenne McCray
30.2 - Daphne's task: Peering really close at the world. ~ SKIP
30.3 - Ava Catherine's task: No task at the finisher's request.
30.4 - Jonquil's Task: Every Letter Counts
Play Dirty - Lorie O'Clare
Dragon Storm - Katie MacAlister
30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police
Got Your Number - Stephanie Bond
Silenced - Allison Brennan
30.6 - Donna Jo's Task--Making a Name for Yourself
League of Dragons - Naomi Novik
The Lady is a Vamp - Lynsay Sands
Diana S Reading Plan for Spring ChallengeBooks Read: 3
5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol
5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
5.4 - A Bigger Splash by David Hockney
The Hotter You Burn - Gena Showalter
5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
5.6 - Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? by Richard Hamilton
5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns
5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi
Forever, Erma by Emra Bombeck
5.9 - Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol
5.10 - Self-portrait
10.1 - Ever So POPular
10.2 - Andy Warhol
10.3 - It's So Surreal
10.4 - Remembering David Bowie
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too
10.6 - And Alan Rickman
10.7 - Happy Pi Day
10.8 - Hey, Einstein!
10.9 - March Madness
10.10 - Tournament of Books
15.1 - From Soup to ............Breakfast??
15.2 - I'm Not Answering my Phone until December
15.3 - Still Flying.........
15.4 - Towel Day
15.5 - No More Snow!
15.6 - Light My Fire
15.7 - Tax time!
✔ 15.8 - It's Magic
Magicial Realism
The Glass Kitchen: A Novel of Sisters by Linda Francis Lee (GRA) (3/11/16) 3.5 ★★★ 384 pp.
15.9 - Three/Four/Five
15.10 - Batter up!
20.1 - Most Improved - MegSCL's task: Pick a card
Picked: 2 of clubs
Clubs: Historical Fiction or Contemporary or Horror
Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff (GRA)
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Gabriella's Task: Time for Celebration
20.3 - Best Review: mstan's Task: Returning to My Source of Inspiration...
20.4 - Golden Oldie: Anne (Booklady)'s Task: Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows
20.5 - Bigger is Better- Catherine T's Task: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book
Shadow on the Sun - David Macinnis Gill
20.6 - Seasoned Reader: Val TX's Task: Eurovision Calling!
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter: Pamela3265's Task: When Books Went to War
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes: SpiderMac's task: Making It Worth Watching
20.9 - Moderator's Pet: Seakbee's Task: Give Yourself Permission…
20.10 - Group Reads
25.1 - Sandy's task as suggested by Katy: Fact and Fiction
25.2 - Brooke TX's Task: #ReadingGoals
25.3 - Whitnie I's Task: Celebrate Spring
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Pop Voices
25.5 - Andy P's Task: Symmetry
✔ Book 1: Author
Syrie James (5/5) GRA
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen (3/9/16) ★★★★
Book 2: Title
25.6 - Robin ♥'s Task: Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands
Plan B - Peanut
Opt. B1: Green (Pg.2 #191)
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (GRA)
✔ Opt. B2: 5 letters in first/last name
Alexander McCall Smith
The Double Comfort Safari Club (3/7/16) ★★★★
25.7 - Dakimel's Task: Sibling and Niece Season
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
30.2 - Daphne's task: Peering really close at the world.
30.3 - Ava Catherine's task: No task at the finisher's request.
30.4 - Jonquil's Task: Every Letter Counts
30.5 - Dlmrose's task: Call the Grammar Police
30.6 - Donna Jo's Task--Making a Name for Yourself
30.6 - Making a Name for Yourself - REQ.650+pg: auth.inits=allit.OR.seqent(+/-); 1-3.wd.title; name in title; TITL.wd.2x(dup.ok)=A,An,The,And,If,But20.1 - Pick a card - (A of Dmnds)genre:Fantasy,Non-Fic,Chick-Lit AND 1.wd.title
20.2 - Time for Celebration - genre:Histor-y/ical;set=S.Amer,Afr,Asia,Irlnd; blue.cvr
20.3 - My Source of Inspiration - auth=ElenaFerrante;orig.Itln;bk#2 by new to me auth
20.4 - Golden Oldie Pop TV Shows - 4.ltr.title.wd.frm"Smuggler's Blues";60+female.mn.chrctr; gnr=Fantasy/Supernatural; bk.frm Cruises/Nautical/Vacations from Hell Lists
20.5 - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Book - title.in'Peter Blake Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band';auth.name=someone who appears on the album cover
20.6 - Eurovision Calling! - 50%set/auth.brn=Australia;4.ltr.sub/title.wd.frm“Heroes”;Best Friendship Books list;auth.nm=Graham,Norton,guest/band member frm Series 18
20.7 - When Books Went to War - Read it or from list: www.goodreads.com/review/list/
1199649-pamela?shelf=armed-services-editions&sort=rating&utf8=%E2%9C%93
20.8 - Making It Worth Watching - cvr=elephant; gnr=nature/animals; Orange/Women's Prize list;title.wd=Buddha,festival,balloon,New Year;
20.9 - Give Yourself Permission - gnr.auto/biography;500+pgs;REread;set..., Florida, France, Japan, Hong Kong, Hawaii, cruiseship; mn.chr=competitive female athlete;white OR black title
20.10 - Group Reads - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
15.3. Still Flying... - auth.init in 'JEFFERSON AIRPLANE' AND
sub/title.wd=Airplane,Around,Away,Blues,Bringing,Chauffeur,Come,Don't,Down,from,Get,
I,In,It/'s,Let/'s,Like,Me,No,Road,Run,Secret,Slip,Tobacco,Together,Up,Years
15.4. Towel Day - gnr=scifi/fantasy AND auth.init.in'DOUGLAS ADAMS'
15.5. No More Snow! - sub/title has ALL.ltrs.in'SPRING'
15.6. Light My Fire - sub/titl.wd='fire';cvr=fire/flames
15.7. Tax time! - gnr=Finance/s
15.8. It's Magic - gnr=Magical Realism
15.9. Three/Four/Five - GRrating.only.uses.#s.3-5
15.10. Batter up! - 50%set=Aruba,Australia,Brazil,Canada,Colombia,Cuba,Curaçao,Dominican Republic,Germany,Italy,Japan,Mexico,Netherlands,New Zealand,Nicaragua,Panama,South Africa,South Korea,Taiwan,Venezuela
30.1 - Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss - (2dif) A:TITL.ltrs='REDBLUE';B:cvr=2.idntcl.things;
C:3.wd.TITL AND 1st in series AND new2me; D:gnr=Travel
30.2 - Peering really close at the world - (2dif) 1.micro.hist(disappearing spoon)
2.srs='v.Shrt Intros'; frm:/list/show/29693.Microbiology
30.3 - No Task
30.4 - Every Letter Counts - 1:Each.wd.ltrs=(n+1); 2:Each.wd.ltrs=(n-1)
(TITL=2+wds.w/no.symbl(@)#s(250,3)pnct(?!),apost(I'm),hyph)
30.5 - Call the Grammar Police - (2dif) cvr.titl=red;
TITL.wd=they're,there,their,your,you're,its,it's
25.6 - Melts in Your Mouth - (comics)2of=rd/blu/brwn list;7ltr.auth.nm;cvr=male
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25.1 - Fact and Fiction
25.2 - #ReadingGoals
25.3 - Celebrate Spring
25.4 - Pop Voices - Danielewski AND (2666)
25.5 - Symmetry
25.7 - Sibling and Niece Season
10.1 - Ever So POPular - frm: goodreads.com/book/popular_by_date/1955/ (thr.1959)
10.2 - Andy Warhol - auth.init in 'ANDY WARHOL'
10.3 - It's So Surreal - frm pg1-5: goodreads.com/shelf/show/surreal
10.4 - Remembering David Bowie - frm:/list/show/43962.David_Bowie_s_Top_100_Must_Read_Books
10.5 - Glenn Frey, Too - 4.ltr.sub/title.wd.frm“Take It Easy"
10.6 - And Alan Rickman - HP book
10.7 - Happy Pi Day - sub/titl or auth.nm="PI"
10.8 - Hey, Einstein! - gnr= Science or Philosophy
10.9 - March Madness - 2.wd.title/auth.nm=allit
10.10 - Tournament of Books(long.list) - SladeHouse,Seveneves,(BuriedGiant;bats of.t repub)
5.1 - Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol - Deceased author
5.2 - Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein - title.wd frm http://www.onomatopoeialist.com/
5.3 - Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol - GR.rating = 3.5+
5.4 -A Bigger Splash by David Hockney - sub/titl.wd terminates in -ER.
5.5 - Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein - gnr=Sequential Art/comics/manga
5.6 - Just what is it that makes today's homes so... by Richard Hamilton - 6+wd.TITL
5.7 - Flag by Jasper Johns - (sub)gnr=Retellings
5.8 - I was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi - autobio or memoir
5.9 Triple Elvis 1963 by Andy Warhol - #3 in a series (whole.#.only)
5.10 Self-portrait - Any bk (gnr=children/kids NOT found in ARBookfinder MAY be used)
15.1. From Soup to...Breakfast??
15.2. I'm Not Answering my Phone - NONfic.gnr=politics/govnmt; gnr=dystopia
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