The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

If you would like a place to plan or share what you'll be reading for the Spring 2017 Challenge you may post a list in this thread. You are NOT required to post here to participate in the challenge.

Spring 2017 planing

5.1- Thoroughly Modern Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure post 1450
5.2 - Location, Location, Location Twenty-One Cardinals post 2391
5.3 - The 20th Century Dial Emmy for Murder post 1078
5.4 - Best Laid Plans One Was Lost post 2197
5.5 - March, April, May When We Were Animals post 570
5.6 - Lady Day Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War post 887
5.7 - Modern Classics
5.8 - Under the Spring Moon
5.9 - Whodunit? The Colorado Kid post 511
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories post 2057

10.1 - Catch Some Z's
10.2 - Initial Success Silver Mirrors post 2057
10.3 - Aim High Norse Mythology post 1644
10.4 - Partners in Crime
10.5 - And The Tony Goes To.... Macbeth post 2315
10.6 - Penguin Places
10.7 - Mad For Plaid The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. post 2621
10.8 - Build A Bridge Taken post 2197
10.9 - Star Wars Stars The Princess Diarist post 1312
10.10 -The 2017 Rooster

15.1. It's a Wonnder!
15.2. May is for Art and Music!
15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15.
15.4. Laughing and Singing
15.5. Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!
15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe post 1671
15.7. It's Contagious!
15.8. How do I Get There?
15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha! The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome post 646
15.10. Spring Gardening Unpossible and Other Stories post 473

20.1- Most Improved Player – Camilla’s Task: Finland 100 Years! The Undesired post 2057
20.2 - Rookie At The Top - McCathy's Task: Lucky Charms Irish Ghost Tales: And Things that Go Bump in the Night post 755
20.3 - Best Review - Lauren Jodi's task: Hidden Figures The Silence of the Lambs post 1535
20.4 – Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers? Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World post 984
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days... Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin's Finches, Einstein's Wife, and Other Myths post 96
20.6 – Seasoned Reader - Bookwrm526's Task: Batter Up!! The Silver Pigs post 365
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball! Mary: The Summoning post 258
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: Over and Under London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets post 1426
20.9 - Chandni's Task: Welcome to My Wheelhouse Killers: the Most Barbaric Murderers of Our Times post 1216
20.10 - Group Reads

25.1 - Diana K’s task - Spring Flowers
25.2 - Sandy's Task: Who Am I? Where Am I?
25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Sydney Harbour
25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride! Enter a Murderer If We Were Villains post 1702
25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine Sleeping Giants The Secret Life and Curious Death of Miss Jean Milne post 541

30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: passed to Sheila: In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole
30.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art
30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary Riveted Jane and His Lordship's Legacy post 2577
30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
30.5 - Jonquil’s task: There Is No Frigate Like A Book The Skeleton Takes a Bow Dreamer's Pool post 1138


Total Points: 435
Books Read: 34
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books:500+(1)750+(0)1000+(0)

reserved for perletwo's reading list

05.01 - The Shrinking Man (RM)
05.02 - They Do It With Mirrors (England)
05.03 - Secondhand Souls (2)
05.04 - Sin
05.05 - The Winter Garden Mystery (240 pgs)
05.06 - All The Dead Lie Down
05.07 - Cannery Row (p. 3) (1945 GO)
05.08 - Milk and Honey (528 pgs BB)
05.09 - Stardust
05.10 - A Shroud For Delilah


10.01 - A Fatal Waltz
10.02 - Death In Holy Orders
10.03 - The Four Loves
10.04 - Spoiled
10.05 - Romeo & Juliet
10.06 - Urn Burial
10.07 - Hangman's Holiday (1933 GO) (verified)
10.08 - An Unwilling Accomplice (cover)
10.09 - Trigger Mortis
10.10 - The Fireman (top pb ed 768 pgs BB)


15.01 - 1. The Most Beautiful House In the World; 2. The Reckoning (ReNNie Airth)
15.02 - 1. Thor Vol. 1; 2. Never A Dull Moment
15.03 - 1. Murder Past Due; 2. The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie
15.04 - 1. Comfort Me With Apples; 2. The Lady In the Lake
15.05 - The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo
15.06 - Salt to the Sea (Catherine ♡ rated 4)
15.07 - Virals (BFBAVoD p.1)
15.08 - Murder at Spoleto
15.09 - Unwind (genre verified)
15.10 - Mr. Darcy's Diary

20.01 - 3. Three Men In a Boat (1889)
20.02 - 1. Judging A Book By Its Lover (Hearts)
20.03 - 3. The Cider House Rules (1999)
20.04 - 2. The Alpine Scandal
20.05 - 2. A Pocket Full of Rye
20.06 - 3. Playmates (1989)
20.07 - 1. From Doon With Death
20.08 - Evil Under the Sun (1941, GO)
20.09 - 1. You Will Know Me (p. 4)
20.10 - The Wonder


25.01 - 2. Tulipomania; 4. Underground
25.02 - Veronika Decides to Die (mmp 287 pgs); London's Glory (pb ed 288 pgs)
25.03 - 1. Sula (174 pgs); 2. Final Jeopardy (top pb ed 336 pgs)
25.04 - 2. The Abolition of Man (113 pgs); 3. Human In Death
25.05 - A) 1. Pale Kings & Princes (1987); 2. Heartbreak Hotel (2017)
25.06 - 1. The Girl With All the Gifts (PNFB p.2)(top mmp ed. 483 pgs); 2. Holy Orders (historical fiction)(this pb ed 304 pgs) (genre verified)


30.01 - 1. Bryant & May & the Bleeding Heart; 2. Break No Bones
30.02 - 1. Dumb Witness (1937, AC, GO); 2. Lady Cop Makes Trouble (2016, AS)
30.03 - 1. The Lonely Silver Rain; Supernatural: Fresh Meat (AN 47; 4+7=11; series #11)
30.04 - 1. Appointment with Death (snake verified); 2. Can't Stop Won't Stop (Generation in subtitle) (pb 560- pgs BB)
30.05 - 1. Diners, Drive-Ins & Death; 2. The Body on the Barstool


50.01 - 1. '09 10.3: Some Days You Get the Bear; 2. Bare Bones (Charlotte NC, 138.41 miles); 3. RE: The Stranger (Sweden)

Spring 2017

5.1- Thoroughly Modern
My Lost Daughter by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg


5.2 - Location, Location, Location
The Ex by Alafair Burke
(New York)


5.3 - The 20th Century
Don't Look Twice by Andrew Gross
(Ty Hauck #2)


5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indriðason
(5.1 - The Ancients
Read a book written by an author whose first and last name initials can be found in ANCIENT. ) from Winter 2016


5.5 - March, April, May
The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø
Mass Market Paperback, 576 pages


5.6 - Lady Day
The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Mary Higgins Clark


5.7- Modern Classics
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler


5.8 Under the Spring Moon
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith


5.9 - Whodunit?
Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner


5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels
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10.1 - Catch Some Z's
Lazybones by Mark Billingham


10.2 - Initial Success
Badlands by C.J. Box


10.3 - Aim High
Blackberry Winter by Sarah Jio


10.4 - Partners in Crime
Snow Blind by P.J. Tracy


10.6 - Penguin Places
Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood
Australia
The description of this book doesn't make it obvious but the series page tells about it at the top of the page. https://www.goodreads.com/series/4477...


10.7 - Mad For Plaid
Peaches and Scream by Susan Furlong
tablecloth


10.8 - Build A Bridge
Robert B. Parker's The Bridge by Robert Knott


10.9 - Star Wars Stars
Blackman's Coffin by Mark de Castrique


10.10 -The 2017 Rooster
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

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15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15
OPTION 1:
Book 1 – A Likely Story by Jenn McKinlay
and
Book 2 – Loyalty by Ingrid Thoft


15.4. Laughing and Singing
OPTION 1:
Book 1 – The Heist by Janet Evanovich
and
Book 2 – Stranger Child by Rachel Abbott


15.5. Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!
Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas


15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends.
Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
My friend Magpie67 rated it 5 stars


15.7. It's Contagious!
The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
page 1 on Best Fiction Books About Diseases or Viruses


15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
False Memory by Dean Koontz


15.10. Spring Gardening
Blood Memory by Greg Iles
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20.1- Most Improved Player – Camilla’s Task: Finland 100 Years!
Option 2. Snow
Midwinter Blood by Mons Kallentoft



20.2 - Rookie At The Top - McCathy's Task: Lucky Charms
Option 1: Hearts
Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts by Laura Benedict



20.3 - Best Review - Lauren Jodi's task: Hidden Figures
Option 3:
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
The movie Hidden Figures from the book of the same name



20.4 – Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers?
Option 1: Dying to Please by Linda Howard



20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days...
Option 2. Virtue Falls by Christina Dodd



20.6 – Seasoned Reader - Bookwrm526's Task: Batter Up!!
Option 3:
Bookplate Special by Lorna Barrett
(first published October 6th 2009)



20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball!
Option 2: The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
set in Paris, France



20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: Over and Under
The Thunder Keeper by Margaret Coel



20.9 - Chandni's Task: Welcome to My Wheelhouse
Option 1: Page 1
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
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25.2 - Sandy's Task: Who Am I? Where Am I?
Book 1: Silencing Eve by Iris Johansen
Main Character is Eve Duncan
Paperback, 432 pages
and
Book 2: Private London by James Patterson
Paperback, 357 pages



25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves
Book 1. Persuader by Lee Child
Mass Market Paperback, 496 pages
and
Book 2: Always Watching by Lynette Eason
Paperback, 336 pages



25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Sydney Harbour
Option 1. Dark Harbor by Stuart Woods
and
Option 2: Dazzling by Elizabeth Hayley
Paperback, 139 pages



25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride!
Option A: Old & New
Book 1: A Savage Place by Robert B. Parker
first published November 1st 1981)
and
Book2: Expecting to Die by Lisa Jackson



25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
1. Spring Forward: The Martian by Andy Weir
Popular Futurism Books - Page 1
Paperback, 387 pages
and
2. Fall Back:
Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
Paperback, 359 pages
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30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: Two Halves of a Whole
Book 1: Spring in the northern hemisphere
Spring Fever by Mary Kay Andrews
and
Book 2: Spring in the southern hemisphere
Cadillac Jukebox by James Lee Burke
(Dave Robicheaux #9)


30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
Book 1: I chose the Element Arsenic
The Arsenic Labyrinth by Martin Edwards
and
Book 2: The Atomic # of Arsenic is 33 so I added the 3's and got 6
Poisoned Ground by Sandra Parshall
(Rachel Goddard Mystery #6)


30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
A collective of Dogs is called a Cry
Book 1: Play Dead by David Rosenfelt
and
Book 2: A Cry from the Dust by Carrie Stuart Parks
Cry
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50.1 - Bryony's Task: Let's Start at the Very Beginning

Option 1. Let's start at the very beginning...
I chose 5.3.- In 1492 Columbus Sailed The Ocean Blue from the Fall 2009 SRC

All by Myself Alone by Mary Higgins Clark All by Myself Alone by Mary Higgins Clark
Paperback, 400 pages
(The Main Character Travels At Sea )


Option 2: It's a very good place to start...

Shot of Tequila by J.A. Konrath Shot of Tequila by J.A. Konrath
Paperback, 274 pages
I used the setting as Chicago with the Straight line distance: 151.22 miles from my birthplace


Option 3. When you read you begin with A, B, C, when you sing you begin with do, re, mi...
RE - a drop of golden sun

The Chosen (Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht #5) by Kristina Ohlsson The Chosen by Kristina Ohlsson
Paperback, 584 pages
Set in Sweden

Kathy G's Spring Plan 2017

5.1- Thoroughly Modern
The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
5.2- Location, Location, Location
(set in California)
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
5.3- The 20th Century
(2 or 0 in the series)- #12
Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie
5.4- Best Laid Plans
(was 5.2 in Winter)
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
5.5- March, April, May
(pages has a 3, 4 or 5- mine 240 pgs.)
Bright Arrows by Grace Livingston Hill
5.6- Lady Day
(Author named Mary)
Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark
5.7- Modern Classics
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
5.8- Under the Spring Moon
(flower in title)
A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama
5.9- Whodunit?
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks

10.1- Catch Some Z's
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
10.2- Initial Success
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
10.3- Aim High
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
10.4- Partners in Crime
All Dressed in White by Mary Higgins Clark
10.5- And The Tony Goes To .....
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
10.6- Penguin Places
(set in Australia)
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
10.7- Mad For Plaid
Widow of Gettysburg by Jocelyn Green
10.8- Build a Bridge
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
10.9- Star Wars Stars
Steel by Carrie Vaughn
10.10- The 2017 Roster
Enchanted Islands by Allison Amend

15.1- It's A Wonder!
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
15.2- May is For Art and Music!
The Hobbit: Graphic Novel by Chuck Dixon
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thad Carhart
15.3- National Library Week is April 9-15.
Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian by Scott Douglas
To Tame a Land by Louis L'Amour
15.4- Laughing and Singing
(#4 and Humor)
Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse
15.5- Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
15.6- I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends
(from Sheila)
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
15.7- It's Contagious!
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
15.8- How Do I Get There?
The Land of 10,000 Madonnas by Kate Hattemer
15.9- They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
15.10- Spring Gardening
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

20.1- Most Improved Player – Camilla’s Task: Finland 100 Years!
Opt. 2- snow on cover
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
20.2-
20.3- Best Review - Lauren Jodi's task: Hidden Figures
Opt. 3- Movie- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde/ Book- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
20.4-
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days...
Opt. 3- RAINBOW in title and author's name
Wildflower Bride by Mary Connealy
20.6 – Seasoned Reader - Bookwrm526's Task: Batter Up!!
Opt. 3- publication year ends in a 9
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball!
Opt. 2- set in Florida
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: Over and Under
"over" in title
After the War Is Over by Jennifer Robson
20.9 - Chandni's Task: Welcome to My Wheelhouse
Opt. 3- Diary Novel (#56)
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
20.10- Group Reads
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

25.1 - Diana K’s task - Spring Flowers
Opt. 1- Bluebell in title
For Whom the Bluebell Tolls by Beverly Allen
Opt. 4- Set in Japan
The Twilight Years by Sawako Ariyoshi
25.2 - Sandy's Task: Who Am I? Where Am I?
Book One- person's name in title
Sarah's Quilt by Nancy E. Turner
Book Two- name of place in title
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves
Opt. 1- no letters WOLF in title
Relativity by Cristin Bishara
Opt. 2- Author's initials in letters FLOWER
The Hamlet by William Faulkner
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Sydney Harbour
Opt 1- word "harbor" in title
Harbor Island by Carla Neggers
Opt 2- 100-150 pages
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel
25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride!
Option B-
Book 1- Blue list
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Book 2- "Retelling"
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
Opt. 1- List: Popular Futurism Books- on page 1
1984 by George Orwell
Opt. 2- Historical Fiction
Wedded to War by Jocelyn Green

30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: passed to Sheila: In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole
Book One- April in title
April Lady by Georgette Heyer
Book Two- #10 in series
The Novel Habits of Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
30.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1-
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Book 2-
Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow
30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
(Book One- Silver - AG #47)
Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle
Book Two- 4+7 = 11 (#11 in a series)
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
Opt. 1- Animal= Fish
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
Opt 2- Animal Group= Catch
To Catch a Bad Guy by Marie Astor
30.5 - Jonquil’s task: There Is No Frigate Like A Book
Options 1 and 2- places to read
Paper Moon by Joe David Brown
Puppet For A Corpse by Dorothy Simpson

Christine V's Spring Reading Plan

5.1 - My Life as a White Trash Zombie
5.2 - The Watsons / Sanditon
5.3 - Time and Chance
5.4 - The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt (5.2)
5.5 - She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
5.6 - A Natural History of Dragons
5.7 - Wide Sargasso Sea
5.8 - Flowers for Algernon
5.9 - Poirot Investigates✔2698
5.10 - Ten Days in a Mad-House (92p)

10.1 - A Canticle for Leibowitz, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
10.2 - Lady Chatterley's Lover✔1808
10.3 - Empress of the Seven Hills✔45
10.4 - In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
10.5 - A Doll's House
10.6 - Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
10.7 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
10.8 - Greenwillow
10.9 - Longbourn, The Turn of the Screw
10.10 - Homegoing

15.1 - 1: Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
2: Gilead, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
15.2 - 1: Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
2: The Cellist of Sarajevo
15.3 - 2: The Time Traveler's Wife
15.4 - 1: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
2:
15.5 - The Girl with All the Gifts
15.6 - Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
15.7 - History: Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
15.8 - The Map Thief
15.9 - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet✔92
15.10 - Norse Mythology

20.1 - 3: King Lear✔309
20.2 - 2: The Secret Scripture (verified)
20.3 - 1b: A Closed and Common Orbit✔208
20.4 - 1: The Virgin's Daughter✔2113
20.5 - 2: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd✔2727
20.6 - 3: The Lottery and Other Stories✔144
20.7 - 3: The Pale Horseman
20.8 - Underground Airlines
20.9 - 3: The Handmaid's Tale✔1775
20.10 - The Wonder

25.1 - (No Kids, 500+) 1: Girl in Hyacinth Blue
3: The Miniaturist
25.2 - (No Kids, 500+) 1: Margaret the First: A Novel✔
2: Villette✔2542
25.3 - (No Kids, >500) 1: 1776
2: The House of Mirth
25.4 - 2: Herland
4: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
25.5 - (A) 1: Fahrenheit 451
2: Lincoln in the Bardo, The Confessions of Young Nero
25.6 - (500+) 1: Lock In, The Three-Body Problem
2: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, The Confessions of Young Nero

30.1 - 1: The Enchanted April: A Trilogy
2: Murder on the Orient Express
30.2 - (No Kids) 1: The Big Four
2: Commonwealth
30.3 - (No Kids) 1: The Silver Linings Playbook
2: Three Act Tragedy
30.4 - (No Kids) Book of Longing and Devil's Brood, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Murder at the Vicarage
30.5 - The Paris Wife and What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir (approved)

50.1 - 1: (5.1) Son of a Witch 444p, America's First Daughter 580p, Wisdom's Daughter: A Novel of Solomon and Sheba 432p, The Children's Blizzard 307p, The Children Act 216p, (10.10) Cat's Eye 445p
2: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Louise Erdrich
3: (So) HF Novel

Points total: 640
GO total: 3
BB total: 5
Tasks completed: 39
Books read: 51

✔5.1- Thoroughly Modern
Belgia, maa Euroopan ytimessä by Noora Eronen

✔5.2 - Location, Location, Location
Crash setting: London, England
ebook approved for length https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

5.3 - The 20th Century
Read a book that contains the number 2 or 0 in the series designation: #2, #10, #12, etc.

✔5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Pahaa parempi task 5.5

✔5.5 - March, April, May
Kuokkavieraat

✔5.6 - Lady Day
Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder

✔5.7- Modern Classics
A Passage to India page 8

✔5.8 Under the Spring Moon
Worm

✔5.9 - Whodunit?
The Clockwork Scarab: A Stoker & Holmes Novel

✔5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
Värisyttävä kosketus 2

✔10.1 - Catch Some Z's
Dark Terrors 6: The Gollancz Book of Horror
*576 pages, claiming one BB ticket*

✔10.2 - Initial Success
The Borgias: The Hidden History by G.J. Meyer
No MMPB available, PB The Borgias: The Hidden History has 512 pages
*claiming one BB ticket*

✔10.3 - Aim High
Noitasisaret

✔10.4 - Partners in Crime
Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat?: True Stories and Confessions

10.5 Skip

10.6 - Penguin Places
Read a book set at least 50% in a country/territory from this list that is a home to penguins: Angola, Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, South Georgia Island, South Sandwich Islands, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay

10.7 - Mad For Plaid


✔10.8 - Build A Bridge


✔10.9 - Star Wars Stars
The House on Cold Hill by Peter James (Peter Cushing)

✔10.10 -The 2017 Rooster
The Fireman
No MMPB available, PB The Fireman 768 pages
*claiming two BB tickets*

15.1. Skip
15.2 Skip

15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15.
OPTION 1:
Book 1: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts
Book 2 – read a book with its author's initials in NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK.

✔15.4. Laughing and Singing
Book 1: The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting
Book 2: Betrayals

✔15.5. Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!
American Girl on Saturn

✔15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends.
Kuninkaiden rakastajattaret -500 vuotta valtaa, valheita ja viettelyksiä
GR friend: Connie (Ava Catherine)

15.7. It's Contagious!
The Kill Order
Best Fiction Books About Diseases page 1

✔15.8. How do I Get There?

ebook approved for length (msg #6122)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
Tähtiviima
Science fiction verified in genre verification thread msg #3

✔15.10. Spring Gardening
Encounters with Animals by Gerald Durrell

✔20.1- Most Improved Player – Camilla’s Task: Finland 100 Years!
Option 1. Elämäni nomadina by Päivi Kannisto

✔20.2 - Rookie At The Top - McCathy's Task: Lucky Charms
Option 1: Black Heart on the Appalachian Trail: A Novel

✔20.3 - Best Review - Lauren Jodi's task: Hidden Figures
Option 1: Hiljainen kehto
The heroine is a physician, this edition contains a better description The Silent Cradle

✔20.4 – Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers?
Option 1: Norsun laulu by Wilbur Smith
*586 pages, claiming one BB ticket*

✔20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days...
Option 2: Vaiettu velka by Hanne Dahl

✔20.6 – Seasoned Reader - Bookwrm526's Task: Batter Up!!
Option 3: Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children 1999
Verified as not being a children's book https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball!
Option 1. Hi I'm a Social Disease: Horror Stories by Andersen Prunty

20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: Over and Under
Under a Broken Sun OR Once It's Over: 13 Dark Tales

20.9 - Chandni's Task: Welcome to My Wheelhouse
Option 1: Watching Edie page 2

25.1 Skip

✔25.2 - Sandy's Task: Who Am I? Where Am I?
Book 1: The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer 349 pages
Book 2: Emmettville
PB 178 pages Emmettville
349 + 178 = 527 pages

✔25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves
Book 1. Painajaisuni 527 pages
*claiming one BB ticket*
(The funny coincidence is that the original English edition is called Wolf Lake)
Book 2. Zombie Tales from Dead Worlds By Rhiannon Frater
PB Zombie Tales from Dead Worlds 148 pages
527 + 148 = 675 pages

✔25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Sydney Harbour
Option 2: It Lives in The Basement (PB 138 pages It Lives in the Basement)
Option 4: The Hospital by the River: A Story of Hope
Health verified in genre verification thread msg #30

✔25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride!
Option A: Old & New
Book 1: Nuoren opettajattaren varaventtiili
*first published 1926, claiming one GO ticket*
Book 2: Silence Fallen

✔25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
1. Spring Forward: Parable of the Sower (MMPB 381 pages, La Parabole du semeur)
Page 2, Popular Futurism Books
2. Fall Back: Ghosts of Tsavo (PB 206 pages, Ghosts of Tsavo
Historical Fiction verified in genre verification thread msg #29
381 + 206 = 587 pages

30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: passed to Sheila: In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole.
Book 1: Spring OR May The Fourth: A Collection of Stories Across Time and Space
Book 2: Slenderman OR The 6th Extinction

✔30.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1: Kuolema Niilillä by Agatha Christie
*first published 1937, claiming one GO ticket*
Book 2: Bury The Children In The Yard by Andersen Prunty first published 2012

✔30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
Book 1: Iron Mike: A boy. A dog. The end of the world.
Element: iron, symbol Fe
Atomic number: 26 -> 2 + 6 = 8
Book 2: Cut to the Bone
no MMPB available, PB 512 pages Cut to the Bone
*claiming one BB ticket*

✔30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
Book 1: dolphin
Book 2: Miss Mabel's School for Girls school

✔30.5 - Jonquil’s task: There Is No Frigate Like A Book
Book 1: I always listen to audiobooks in my car during my daily commute to work
Book 2: I've cruised twice, once in the Caribbean and another time in the Mediterranean. Both times we had a balcony cabin. One of my favorite things to do during the cruise is to sit on the balcony and read, preferably with a yummy drink.

✔50.1 - Bryony's Task: Let's Start at the Very Beginning

1. Let's start at the very beginning...
I'm using task 10.8:
8. You'll Find It In The Dictionary - Noah Webster Was Born October 16, 1758 - In Honor Of Him Visit The Random Word Generator Website And Then Read A Book Whose Title Contains The 9th, 10th, or 11th Word You Come To.
I got the words evil, molecule and rot, so I read Rot & Ruin 458 pages

2. It's a very good place to start...
Kakolan vankila 1853 - 2007 282 pages
Approved in task help thread msg #17
I'm using the setting of the book.
Birthplace: Helsinki
Setting: Turku
Distance: 93.58 miles

3. When you read you begin with A, B, C, when you sing you begin with do, re, mi...
RE - a drop of golden sun
Kenttäharmaita naisia set in Finland
I listened to the audio CD, hardcover edition (no others available) Kenttäharmaita naisia 281 pages

458 + 282 + 281 = 1021 pages

KATRINAT Trying to fill a lot of these from those I didn't get to in the last challenge, plus my Christmas/Birthday presents

5.1 Frog Music, Emma Donoghue
5.2 Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
5.3 Hollow City, Ransom Riggs (check it is allowed)
5.4 The Watchers, Neil Spring
5.5 Swimming Lessons
5.6 Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
5.7 Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
5.8 Hag-Seed Atwood, Hot Milk Levy, Egg and Spoon, Maguire (Check age)
5.9 The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice, Wilkie Collins
5.10 The Good People

10.1 The Zahir, Paulo Coelho or Zorro, Isabel Allende
10.2 The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman
10.3 Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
10.4 Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia
10.5 Look Back in Anger, Translations
10.6 True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
10.7 , Paul Auster
10.8 The Bridge, Iain Banks
10.9 Salt, Earl Lovelace
10.10 The Little Red Chairs, Edna O'Brien

15.1 skip
15.2 The One Hundred Nights of Hero, Isabel Greenberg
The Cellist of Sarajevo
15.3 All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
15.4 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson
Double Share, Nathan Lowell
15.5 The Girls, Emma Cline
15.6 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Mercededs)
15.7 Vixen, Rosie Garland
15.8 A History of the World in 12 Maps
15.9 Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy
15.10 Emma Donoghue

20.1
20.2 The Green Road
20.3 Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi (first and only female Prime Minister)
20.4 The Essex Serpent opt 1
20.5 What is Not Yours is Not Yours
20.6 White Oleander pub 1999
20.7 The Name of the Wind opt 1
20.8 Under Wildwood
20.9 The Couple Next Door (pg1)
20.10 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

25.1 Opt 3: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Dance Dance Dance
combine equals 500 pgs +
25.2 Carol, Patricia Highsmith
Guernica, Dave Boling
25.3 The Trees, Ali Shaw
How Green Was My Valley
25.4 Opt 2: Multiple Choice
Opt 3: Emotionally Weird
25.5 Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
The Enchanted April
25.6Ready Player One
The Peacock Throne
25.7
25.8
25.9
25.10

30.1 SKIP
30.2 SKIP
30.3 SKIP
30.4 The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
Down UnderBill Bryson Down = collective noun for sheep
30.5 under a tree
on a park bench
30.6
30.7
30.8
30.9
30.10

EmilyD1037's Spring Reading Plan:

5.1 Just Desserts by Mary Daheim ****
5.2 A Vow of Obedience by Veronica Black
5.3 Rock With Wings #20 Anne Hillerman
5.4 On the Incarnation (winter #5.7)
5.5 The Sacred Year by Michael Yankoski 354 pg.
5.6
5.7 Their Eyes Were Watching God pg. 2 of list
5.8 The Blue Corn Murders by Nancy Pickard
5.9 Strawberry Shortcake by Joanne Fluke (mystery)
5.10

10.1 Fool's Puzzle by Earlene Fowler
10.2 Death of a Snob by M. C. Beaton
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9 “Peter Cushing/Peter Mayhew”/Peter Tremayne The Monk Who Vanished
10.10

15.1
15.2
15.3 1. Lending a Paw by Laurie Cass 2.
15.4 So Faux, So Good option 2 Humor and #4
15.5 Murder on a Girl's Night Out by Anne George
15.6 A Fatal Thaw by Dana Stabenow 4.2 ****
15.7 Nemesis by Phillip Roth Page 1 #97 Best Fiction
15.8
15.9
15.10

20.1 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie option #2
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5 Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr 3/18/2017
20.6
20.7
20.9
20.10 Readers Discussion Book

25.1 Book 1: Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
25.2
25.3
25.4
25.5
25.6
25.7
25.8
25.9
25.10
25.11

30.1
30.2
30.3 1. The Silver Anniversary Murder by Lee Harris 2. A Groom with a View by Jill Churchill
30.4
30.5
30.6
30.7
30.8
30.9

50.1

Date: 3/23/2017
Points this post: 15
Total points: 40
Task this post: 1
Total Tasks: 3
Pages read this post: 179
Total pages read: 728
Number of books: 1
Total of books read: 3
Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
BBooks - 500+ 0: BBooks - 750+: 0 BBooks - 1000+: 0

LAVENDER

DONE!

SRC Spring Challenge 2017 Reading Plan

This list is subject to change based on pending validation, availablility of planned books and general whims.

BOLD books are finished. ITALICS books are in progress.

For the first time since I started doing this challenge, I am going to try and actually finish it. I know its a long shot, but it's good to have goals!


05.01 A Quest of Heroes (The Sorcerer's Ring, #1) by Morgan Rice

05.02 The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3) by Agatha Christie

05.03 Nemesis (Miss Marple #12) by Agatha Christie

05.04 Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future by Caitlin Shetterly

05.05 Hosts (Repairman Jack, #5) by F. Paul Wilson

05.06 Stormqueen! (Darkover, #3) by Marion Zimmer Bradley

05.07 Siddharta by Hermann Hesse

05.08 The House of Worms by Harvey Click

05.09 Sparkling Cyanide (Colonel Race, #4) by Agatha Christie

05.10 At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie

10.01 The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

10.02 In the Blood by R.L. Martinez

10.03 Life of Pi by Yann Martel

10.04 Summoned to Tourney by Mercedes Lackey & Ellen Guon

10.05 Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

10.06 The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race, #1) by Agatha Christie

10.07 Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon

10.08 Above the Bridge by Deborah Garner

10.09 The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

10.10 Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

15.01 Civil Engineering Practice by David D.A. Piesold
AND
15.01 A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

15.02 Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman
AND
15.02 Emma by Jane Austen

15.03 The Dark Talent (Alcatraz, #5) by Brandon Sanderson
AND
15.03 Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey by Washington Irving

15.04 Girl 99 by Andy Jones
AND
15.04 All the Rage by F. Paul Wilson

15.05 The Girl (Guardians, #1) by Lola St.Vil

15.06 The Night Eternal (The Strain Trilogy, #3) by Guillermo del Toro

15.07 Plague Year (Plague, #1) by Jeff Carlson

15.08 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

15.09 Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

15.10 Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

20.01 The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7) by Arthur Conan Doyle

20.02 Enchantment of the Faerie Realm by Ted Andrews

20.03 Terminus (Fringe Worlds, #1) by Kevin Hardman

20.04 The Self-Esteem Workbook by Glenn R. Schiraldi

20.05 A Pocketful of Rye (Miss Marple, #7) by Agatha Christie

20.06 The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

20.07 Devil's Garden: Book One of the Paladin Sequence by Lance Tuck

20.08 The Undertaker's Gift (Torchwood, #14) by Trevor Baxendale

20.09 Hanover House by Brenda Novak

20.10 The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox

25.01 The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
AND
25.01 The Complete Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Mushashi

25.02 Miss Marple's Final Cases (Miss Marple, #14) by Agatha Christie
AND
25.02 The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity by Salima Ikram, Aidan Dodson

25.03 Risk Assessment by James Goss
AND
25.03 Beyond the Ever Reach (Mortality, #1) by Everly Frost

25.04 Mosig At Last: A Psychologist Looks At H.P. Lovecraft by Yozan Dirk W. Mosig
AND
25.04 The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4) by Agatha Christie

25.05 They Do it with Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6) by Agatha Christie
AND
25.05 No Darker Place (Shades of Death, #1) by Debra Webb

25.06 Anthem by Ayn Rand
AND
25.06 Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction by Alan H. Gardiner

30.01 A March of Kings (The Sorcerer's Ring, #2) by Morgan Rice
AND
30.01 A Caribean Mystery (Miss Marple, #10) by Agatha Christie

30.02 Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) by Agatha Christie
AND
30.02 Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple, #13) by Agatha Christie

30.03 The Clockwork God (Aboard the Great Iron Horse, #1) by Jamie Sedgwick
AND
30.03 4:50 From Paddington (Miss Marple, #8) by Agatha Christie

30.04 Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey #7) by Dorothy Sayers
AND
30.04 Nest by Terry Goodkind

30.05 Problem at Pollensa Bay by Agatha Christie
AND
30.05 Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie

50.01 The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple #9) by Agatha Christie
AND
50.02 Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving
AND
50.03 Easy Street: The Hard Way by Ron Perlman


Total Planned Points: 850
Current Points: 850
Total Planned Books: 69
Current Books: 69
Total Planned Tasks: 52
Current Tasks: 52

5.1- Thoroughly Modern Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
5.2 - Location, Location, Location Seize the Day
5.3 - The 20th Century A Fatal Grace
5.4 - Best Laid Plans Wise Blood
5.5 - March, April, May The Leavers
5.6 - Lady Day All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
5.7- Modern Classics Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
5.8 - Under the Spring Moon Hot Milk
5.9 - Whodunit? London Fields
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder

10.1 - Catch Some Z's The Sympathizer
10.2 - Initial Success Lady Chatterly's Lover: Novel by D. H. Lawrence
10.3 - Aim High The Mayor of Casterbridge
10.4 - Partners in Crime Banking on Death
10.5 - And The Tony Goes To.... Read a play.
10.6 - Penguin Places State of Wonder
10.7 - Mad For Plaid Left of Boom: How a Young CIA Case Officer Penetrated the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
10.8 - Build A Bridge The Bridge
10.9 - Star Wars Stars The Postman Always Rings Twice
10.10 -The 2017 Rooster Mississippi Noir

15.1. It's a Wonder!
Book 1. book with the mpg engineering or architecture.
Book 2
15.2. May is for Art and Music!
Book 1 – Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Book 2 – book with a musical instrument on the cover.
15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15. OPTION 2: – The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
15.4. Laughing and Singing OPTION 2: Sick Puppy
15.5. Girls Just Wanta Have Fun! The House Girl
15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends. The Nightingale
15.7. It's Contagious! The Plague
15.8. How do I Get There? Invisible Cities
15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha! Sleeping Giants
15.10. Spring Gardening Stardust

20.1- Most Improved Player – Camilla’s Task: Finland 100 Years! Option 3. The House by the Medlar Tree
20.2 - Rookie At The Top - McCathy's Task: Lucky Charms Option 2 - Dubliners
20.3 - Best Review - Lauren Jodi's task: Hidden Figures Option 3: Heart of Darkness
20.4 – Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers? Option 1: Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days... Option 1.- The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
20.6 – Seasoned Reader - Bookwrm526's Task: Batter Up!! Option 3: The Children's Book
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball! 1. The White Tiger
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: Over and Under David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
20.9 - Chandni's Task: Welcome to My Wheelhouse Option 1: The Couple Next Door
20.10 - Group Read The Wonder

25.1 - Diana K’s task - Spring Flowers
Option 1: The Immortal Irishman: Thomas Meager and the Invention of Irish America
Option 4: Kafka on the Shore
25.2 - Sandy's Task: Who Am I? Where Am I?
Book 1: Lincoln in the Bardo
Book 2: Sag Harbor
25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves
Book 1. The Reader
Book 2. History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Sydney Harbour
Option 2. The Body Artist
Option 3. The Bean Trees
25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride!
Option A: Old & New
Book 1: Lolita
Book 2: All Grown Up
25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
1. Spring Forward: The Martian
2. Fall Back: A Gentleman in Moscow

30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: passed to Sheila: In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole.
Book 1: March
Book 2: The Long Way Home
30.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Book 2: Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
Book 1 - The Copper Beech (29)
Book 2 - The Nature of the Beast
30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
Book 1 The Magician's Assistant
Book 2 Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto
30.5 - Jonquil’s task: There Is No Frigate Like A Book
Book 1: That Old Cape Magic
Book 2: The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

50.1 - Bryony's Task: Let's Start at the Very Beginning
1. Let's start at the very beginning...
5.9. Coming Of Age Or All Grown Up (And Then Some) –Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
2. It's a very good place to start... Caleb's Crossing
3. When you read you begin with A, B, C, when you sing you begin with do, re, mi...
SO - The Given Day

Spring 2017

5.1 The Circle by Dave Eggers
5.2 Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer
5.3 The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
5.4The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
5.5 Anne of the Island by LM Montgomery
5.6 SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
5.7 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
5.8 The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky
5.9 The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
5.10 Sabriel by Garth Nix

10.1 Jazz by Toni Morrison
10.2 Anne's House of Dreamsby LM Montgomery
10.3 The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre
10.4 Banking on Death by Emma Lathen
10.5 Le Misanthrope by Moliere
10.6 Open Door by Iosi Havilio
10.7 by Diana Gabaldon
10.8 by Mervyn Peake
10.9 Ulysses by James Joyce
10.10 The Girls by Emma Cline

15.1
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
15.2
Watchmen by Alan Moore
by Louis de Bernieres
15.3
Lirael by Garth Nix
Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas
15.4
Therapy by David Lodge
Married By Morning by Lisa Kleypas
15.5 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
15.6 Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
15.7 The Stand (Original shorter version) by Stephen King
15.8 by VE Schwab
15.9 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
15.10 Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews

20.1 Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
20.2 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
20.3 Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shatterly
20.4 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie or see list
20.5 Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
20.6 Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
20.7 The Magician King by Lev Grossman
20.8 A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
20.9 Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty
20.10 The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

25.1
The Darkroom Of Damocles by Willem F Hermans
Silence by Shusaku Endo
25.2
To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn or
Smiley's People by John Le Carre
Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock
25.3
Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
25.4
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
25.5
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
The Alchemists of Loom by Elise Kova
25.6
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Lustrum by Robert Harris

30.1
Scandal in Spring by Lisa Kleypas
The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin
30.2
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Full Tilt by Emma Scott
30.3
Rain of Gold by Victor Viallasenor
The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin
30.4
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
by Katherine Arden
30.5
by Elena Ferrante
by Elisabeth Gaskell

50.1

Date: 27/05/17
Points this post: 25
Total points: 305
Task this post: 1
Total Tasks: 20

Golden Oldies this post: 0
Total Golden Oldies: 6
Big Book Tickets this post: 0
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
BBooks - 500+: BBooks - 750+: 0 BBooks - 1000+: 0

Kristen IA's Reading List

Spring 2017 Reading Plan

5.1 Thoroughly Modern - My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni
5.2 Location, Location, Location - Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas
✔5.3 The 20th Century - Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich
✔5.4 Best Laid Plans - The Heist by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
✔5.5 March, April, May - The Chase by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
5.6 Lady Day - Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews
5.7 Modern Classics - The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
5.8 Under the Spring Moon - The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
5.9 Whodunit? - The Job by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
✔5.10 Your Own 8th Wonder - Descent by Tim Johnston

20/50



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10.1 Catch Some Z's - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
10.2 Initial Success - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
✔10.3 Aim High - Beautiful Oblivion by Jamie McGuire
✔10.4 Partners in Crime - Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy
10.5 And the Tony Goes To... - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 by John Tiffany
10.6 Penguin Places - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
✔10.7 Mad For Plaid - Still the One by Jill Shalvis
✔10.8 Build A Bridge - Catching Air by Sarah Pekkanen
10.9 Star Wars Stars - Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James
✔10.10 The 2017 Rooster - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

50/100



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15.1 It's a Wonnder
Book 1: Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski
Book 2: The Aloha Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
15.2 May is for Art and Music!
✔Book 1: Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
✔Book 2: Infinity + One by Amy Harmon
✔15.3 National Library Week is April 9-15 - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
15.4 Laughing and Singing - The Scam by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
15.5 Girls Just Wanna Have Fun! - Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
15.6 I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends - It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
15.7 It's Contagious! - World Without End by Ken Follett
15.8 Ho Do I Get There? - Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
15.9 They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha! - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
15.10 Spring Gardening - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

30/150


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20.1 Finland 100 Years!
Option 2 - Barefoot with a Bodyguard by Roxanne St. Claire
20.2 Lucky Charms
Option 1 - Kaleidoscope Hearts by Claire Contreras
20.3. Hidden Figures
Option 1 - Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs
20.4 April Showers?
Option 3 - Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You by John Burke
✔20.5 It Was One of Those March Days
Option 2 - Tangled by Emma Chase
20.6 Batter Up!
Option 3 - Second Chance Pass by Robyn Carr
20.7 Play Ball
Option 2 - Barefoot in the Rain by Roxanne St. Claire
20.8 Over and Under - Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
20.9 Welcome to My Wheelhouse
Option 1 - All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
20.10 Group Reads - The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox

20/180


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25.1 Spring Flowers
✔Book 1: Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
✔Book 2: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
25.2 Who Am I? Where Am I?
Book 1: Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
✔Book 2: The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society by Darien Gee
25.3 No More Wolves
Book 1: Sugar Daddy by Lisa Kleypas
Book 2: The Storm Sister: A Novel by Lucinda Riley
25.4 Sydney Harbour
✔Option 2 - The Trial by James Patterson
Option 3 - Whisper Falls by Toni Blake
25.5 Here Comes the Bride!
Option B1 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Option B2 - The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
25.6 A Stitch in Time Saves Nine
✔Book 1: The Martian by Andy Weir
✔Book 2: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

50/150



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30.1 In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole
Book 1: April Showers by Karli Perrin
✔Book 2: London Bridges by James Patterson
30.2 Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Book 2: The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz
30.3 It's Elementary
✔Book 1: Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber
✔Book 2: Mary, Mary by James Patterson
30.4 A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks
✔Book 1: Then Came You by Jill Shalvis
Book 2: Pack Up the Moon by Rachael Herron
30.5 There is No Frigate Like a Book
✔Book 1: Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer
Book 2: Holly Lane by Toni Blake


30/150


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50.1
Book 1: The Last Child by John Hart
Book 2: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Book 3: Drive by Brenda Rothert

0/50

5 point tasks

5.1- Thoroughly Modern
5.2 - Location, Location, Location
5.3 - The 20th Century
5.4 - Best Laid Plans
5.5 - March, April, May
5.6 - Lady Day
5.7- Modern Classics
5.8 - Under the Spring Moon
5.9 - Whodunit?
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder

10 point tasks

10.1 - Catch Some Z's
10.2 - Initial Success
10.3 - Aim High
10.4 - Partners in Crime
10.5 - And The Tony Goes To....
10.6 - Penguin Places
10.7 - Mad For Plaid
10.8 - Build A Bridge
10.9 - Star Wars Stars
10.10 -The 2017 Rooster

15 point tasks

15.1 - It's a Wonnder!
15.2 - May is for Art and Music!
15.3 - National Library Week is April 9-15.
15.4 - Laughing and Singing
15.5 - Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!
15.6 - I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends.
15.7 - It's Contagious!
15.8 - How do I Get There?
15.9 - They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
15.10 - Spring Gardening

20 point tasks

20.10 - Group Reads

25 point tasks

25.1 - Diana K’s task - Spring Flowers
25.2 - Sandy's Task: Who Am I? Where Am I?
25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves

30 point tasks

30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: passed to Sheila: In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole.
30.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art
30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
30.5 - Jonquil’s task: There Is No Frigate Like A Book

Date:
Total points:
Total Tasks:
Number of books:
Total Golden Oldies:

TessaVanessa's Reading list Spring 2017

5.1 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
5.2 The Girl with no shadow by Joanne Harris
5.3 Falling star by Arianne Richmonde
5.4
5.5 #girlboss by Sophia Amoruso
5.6 The good girl by Mary Kubica
5.7 Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
5.8 The Hidden flower by Pearl S. Buck
5.9 Last call by J.A. Konrath

10.1 The Zombie Room by R.D. Ronald
10.2 Mademoiselle chanel by GW Gortner
10.3 The pearl John Steinbeck
10.4 In my hands: Memories of a Holocaust rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke and Jennifer Armstrong
10.5 The Crucible by Arthur Miller
10.6
10.7 Plaid and Plagiarism by Molly Macrae
10.8 Bridge of the river Kwai by Pierre Boulle
10.9 $10,000,000 marriage proposal by James Patterson

Susan's Spring 2017 Reading Plan

5 Point Tasks
1. Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure by Ryan North
2. The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
3. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
4. 10.3 - They're Old! The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
5. Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book by Jennifer Donnelly
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10. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

10 Point Tasks
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3. Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
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7. This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge by David Levithan
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10. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

15 Point Tasks
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6. Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick

20 Point Tasks
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5. Option 3: Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris

25 Point Tasks
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5. Option A: Book 1: Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
Book 2: Wintersong

Total Points: 100
Total Books: 12

Spring 2017 Reading Task Ideas

5.1: Posted (Missing Butterfly)

5.2 Holiday In Death JD Robb In Death book

5.3: Posted: (Trouble by JM Dabney)

5.4: Posted (Wedding Trap)

5.5 Posted (The Guy From Glamour)

5.6: Read a book written by an author named Mary or any of the related names found at Behind the Name - Mary

Authors on Kindle: Marianne Stephens, Mimi Barbour, Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, Mia Diamond, Anne Marie Novak, Marie Sexton, Marie Force, Marie Ferrarella, Lisa Marie Rice, Bernadette Marie, Mari Carr, Mary Jo Putney, Mary Calmes,

5.7 Read a book that has been shelved at least 10 times as “modern classic” from this list Popular Modern Classics
Required: State the page.

Possibles: Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier, The Book Thief, Tuesdays with Morrie,

5.8:The Wolf Who Hatched an Egg on Kindle

5.9: Conspiracy in Death by JD Robb book

5.10: Read a book of your choice. (Interlude in Death? 88p.)

10.1: Posted (Berzerker)

10.2: Posted (Scary by JM Dabney)

10.3: Posted (Archangel's Enigma)

10.4: Read a book co-authored by two female authors.

Sticks and Stones in the Cut and Run series

10.5: Read a play. Fantastic Beasts

10.6: Read a book set at least 50% in a country/territory from this list that is a home to penguins: Antarctica, Australia, Brazil, New Zealand

10.7 Read a book with something plaid on the cover.
Required: Include the cover.

Kindle Books: Torn Between Two Highlanders, The Ties That Bind (Cade Creek), Some Girls Lie, Six Months in Montana, Right Back Where, Run Baby Run, A Promise of Home, Murder Most Yowl, Let it Snow,

10.8: Midnight in Death (7.5) (kindle version has a bridge...)

10.9: Authors on my Kindle: Carrie Ann Ryan, Keri Ford, Rhys Ford, Pepper Anthony, J. Daniels, Katy Baker, St. James, Juliet James, Kristy K. James, Linda Winstead Jones, Jules Jones, Carolyn Anderson Jones, Annie Jones, Lisa Renee Jones

10.10: Today Will be Different by Maria Semple

15.1: Posted (Animal Architecture and The Impossible Boy)

15.2: Book 1: To celebrate Free Comic Book day on May 6, read a book with the main page genre graphic novels, sequential art, comics, etc.

Book 2: Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover. This should be a commonly recognized musical instrument, not just any object that could theoretically be used to make noise.

A Kind of Truth (hoopla)

15.3: OPTION 1: (Two books) Book 1: Open Season Linda Howard, Breathe Kristen Ashley,

Book 2: Read a book with its author's initials in NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK. All initials must be used.

OR

OPTION 2: (One Book) Read one book that meets both criteria for option 1.

15.4: OPTION 1: ONE FOR THE MONEY JANET EVANOVICH

Book 2: FALCON'S FOX...

OR

OPTION 2: (One Book) Read a book that fits both criteria for option 1. Stephanie Plum: Four to Score

15.5: Read a book with the word “girl” found intact in the title/subtitle of the book. Kindle Books: Cinnamon Girl, Girl of My Dreams, The Girl and the Genie, Two Geeks and their Girl, Kiss a Girl in the Rain, Girl Most Likely, Other Harlow Girl, Duke's Match Girl

15.6: Read a book that a GR friend has rated 4 or 5 stars. REQUIRED: Give the name of the friend in your post. Laura: Burn for Me Ilona Andrews, most of the Darynda Jones books, most of The Edge books, Julie Garwood historicals

15.7: Read a book from one of the following lists: Best Fiction Books About Diseases or Viruses or History of Disease
Best Fiction Books: Fever 1793, Station Eleven, Peeps (All page 1)

15.8: Read a book with a map on the cover. REQUIRED: Include the cover in your post. It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini or On The Map by Simon Garfield

15.9 Kindle Books: Close Liasons, Wireless, Surviving Passion, Knight Errant, Night of Fire, C791, Among Galactic Ruins, Marcus (Hell Squad), Star King, Lady Blue Crew Series, Heart of Stone, Hunted (Flash Gold), Skies of Fire

15.10: Kindle Authors: Elianne Adams, Noelle Adams, Elena Aitken, R.G. Alexander, Donna Alward, Evangeline Anderson, Natalie Anderson, Eden Ashe, Reeni Austin, Andrea Dalling, Isabel Dare, Alianne Donnelly, Gabrielle Evans, Amy Gamet, Eliza Gayle, Alex Gilove, Aria Grace, Abbi Glines, Rachel Grant, Abigail Graves, Andrew Grey, Elisabeth Naughton, Rhonda Nelson, Erin Nicholas, Nancy Radke, Isabelle Rowan

20.1: One Book Option 2: Snowblind by Eli Easton!

20.2: One Book Task...Read a novel with a heroine who is one of these kinds of scientists: Physician, Engineer, Mathematician, Physicist, Biologist, Chemist, Psychologist, Sociologist, Anthropologist, Forensic Scientist. No amateurs in any of these fields.

20.3
20.4: One Book Task...

Option 1: Read a book whose author’s initials can be found in the phrase "APRIL SHOWERS". If the book has more than one author, only one author’s initials need to be used. Spaces determine names. All author initials must be included. Letters may only be used as often as they appear.

Option 2: Read a book with a picture of rain or an umbrella on the cover.
Required: Include the cover.

20.5:Read a book written by a woman whose first and last name initials can be found in "BE BOLD FOR CHANGE". OR Read a book where ALL the letters in the word RAINBOW are found in any combination of the title, subtitle and/or author's first and last name.


20.6: Option 3: 1999 Loyalty in Death

20.7 One Book Task...read a book written by a single author initials can be found in the phrase “GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE.” Or Read a book with a cover that shows a flame (Breath of Fire)

20.8: One book task...Read a book with "over" or "under" intact in the title, subtitle or author's name.

Kindle Books: Over the Line, Over the Fence, Over the Top, Starting Over, Underground: Special Teams, Under a Harvest Moon, Love Under...Cara Covington books

20.9: One Book Task...

Option 1: You by Caroline Kepnes. The Woman in Cabin 10, Pretty Girls, Consequences, The Couple Next Door, Room, I See You, The Passenger by Lisa Lutz, The Girl in 6E, Dark Matter

Option 2: Devil in the White City, any book by Ann Rule

20.10: Posted (Wonder)

25.1: Two Book Task w/ 500+ pages combined...Required: Tell which two options selected.

Option 1: Kindle Books: Wild Irish Heart, Fighting for Irish, Irish Wishes

Option 2: NOT SELECTING THIS OPTION!!!

Option 3: Read a book set at least 75% in The Netherlands.

Option 4: Read a book set at least 75% in Japan.

25.2: Posted (Slaying Isadore's Dragons and Air and Earth)

25.3: Two Book Task...501 p. minimum

Book 1: Vengeance In Death by JD Robb

Book 2: TOOTH AND FANG BY LIV OLTEANO!!!!!!

25.4: Read a book with 100-150 pages... Crave and American Love Songs by Ashlyn Kane

25.5: Two Book Task...Option A: Old (Pre-1992 publication date) Classic Nora, Jayne or Amanda Quick. New: 2017 Publication Date (Check Hoopla)

25.6: Two Book Task...500 p. minimum

Book 1: Read a book from the first 5 pages of Popular Futurism Books (Ready Player One, Hunger Games) or Popular Near-Future Books (The Host, Dark Matter)
Required: State the list you used and the page

Book 2: Read a book with a genre that contains "historical" or "history" intact as MPG

30.1: Two Book Challenge...Book 1: Read a book with one of the words: Spring, March, April or May in the title. The word must match exactly but need not stand for the month.

Possible Kindle books: Mike and the Spring Awakening,

Book 2: Judgment in Death (#11)

30.2: Two Book Task...

Book 1: Read a book FIRST published between 1890 and 1939 whose author’s first and last name initials can be found in ONE of theses words/phrases: "ART DECO" or "ART NOUVEAU" or "BAUHAUS". Something by Agatha Christie?

Book 2: Read a book FIRST published between 1970 and the present whose author’s first and last name initials can be found in ONE of these phrases: "CONTEMPORARY ART" or "POST MODERN ART".

30.3: Posted (Tin Star, Ceremony in Death)

30.4: Posted (Unleashing, Murder Most Yowl)

30.5: Posted (Sammy's Place, Personal Best)

50.1

5.1- Thoroughly Modern
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

5.2 - Location, Location, Location


5.3 - The 20th Century
The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

5.4 - Best Laid Plans
5.3 Winter Task: "Sole Survivor" - read a book labeled #1 in a series: The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

5.5 - March, April, May
Read a book with the number of pages as listed on Goodreads that includes the number 3, 4, or 5.
Asylum - Madeleine Roux

5.6 - Lady Day
Read a book written by an author named Mary or any of the related names found at Behind the Name - Mary such as Maria, Molly, Miriam, Mia, Polly.

5.7- Modern Classics
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (shelved 102 times - page 1)

5.8 Under the Spring Moon
Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle from the names used by various tribes to describe the spring season’s moons: worm, sap, pink, sprouting, grass, seed, egg, fish, flower, corn, milk.

5.9 - Whodunit?
While You Were Sleeping - Kathryn Croft

5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
Read a book of your choice.

10 point tasks

10.1 - Catch Some Z's
Read a book with the letter Z in the title or subtitle.

10.2 - Initial Success
CN tower: read a book with an author who uses exactly 2 initials instead of a first name as it appears on Goodreads, e.g. J.K. Rowling, H.G. Wells.

10.3 - Aim High
Read a book that has at least 1,454 5-star ratings on Goodreads. On a book's main page immediately to the right of the star ratings, click on rating details to see the rating frequency chart. The number of ratings is the far right column with the heading "#".

10.4 - Partners in Crime
Read a book co-authored by two female authors. The co-authors must be evident on the Goodreads book record.

10.5 - And The Tony Goes To....
Read a play.

10.6 - Penguin Places
Read a book set at least 50% in a country/territory from this list that is a home to penguins: Angola, Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, South Georgia Island, South Sandwich Islands, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay

10.7 - Mad For Plaid
Dorothy Must Die - Danielle Paige

10.8 - Build A Bridge
Read a book with the word "bridge" or "bridges" (no other variations) in its title/subtitle OR with a bridge on the cover.

10.9 - Star Wars Stars
Read a book by an author who shares a name with one of these actors who appeared in the film: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, James Earl Jones.

10.10 -The 2017 Rooster
Read a book from the Tournament of Books Longlist

15.1. It's a Wonnder!
Book 1. Read a book with the main page genre engineering or architecture.

Book 2. read a book with 2 n’s found sequentially in the title/subtitle/author’s name.

15.2. May is for Art and Music!
Book 1 – read a book with the main page genre graphic novels, sequential art, comics, etc.
Book 2 – read a book with a musical instrument on the cover.

15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15.
Book 1 – read a book featuring a library or librarian.
(Shadow of the Wind?)
Book 2 – read a book with its author's initials in NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK.


15.4. Laughing and Singing
OPTION 1:
Book 1 – Read a book with a main page genre of humor.
Book 2 Read a book that is #4 in a series.

15.5. Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!
The Girl Before - J.P. Delaney

15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends.
Read a book that a GR friend has rated 4 or 5 stars.

15.7. It's Contagious!
Read a book from one of the following lists: Best Fiction Books About Diseases or Viruses or History of Disease

15.8. How do I Get There?
Read a book with a map on the cover.

15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
Read a book with the main page genre Science Fiction.

15.10. Spring Gardening
Read a book whose author's initials can be found in GARDENING.

20.4 - April Showers?
Option 1: Read a book whose author’s initials can be found in the phrase "APRIL SHOWERS"
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

25.1 - Diana K’s task - Spring Flowers
The combined page count for both books must be at least 500 pages.
Option 1: Spring Bulbs
Read a book with one of these spring flowers found intact in the title/ subtitle: Bluebell, crocus, daffodil, hyacinth, iris, snowdrop.

Option 4: Blooming Trees and International Friendship,
Read a book set at least 75% in Japan.

25.2 - Sandy's Task: Who Am I? Where Am I?
Your two books combined should have a total of at least 500 pages.

Book 1: Read a book with the name of a person in the title/subtitle that is the name of a character in the book.

Book 2: place in book is in title

25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves
Book 1.Read a book whose title does NOT contain any of the letters in the word WOLF. If the book has a subtitle none of the letters in WOLF may appear in the subtitle
HINT: Books with Title: A Novel will not work as OL are in WOLF.

Book 2. Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in the word FLOWER.

30 point tasks

30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: passed to Sheila: In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole.
Book 1: Spring, March, April or May in the title.

Book 2: read a book that is designated in the GR series metadata as the 9th, 10th or 11th in a series.

30.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1: Read a book FIRST published between 1890 and 1939 whose author’s first and last name initials can be found in ONE of theses words/phrases: "ART DECO" or "ART NOUVEAU" or "BAUHAUS".

Book 2: Read a book FIRST published between 1970 and the present whose author’s first and last name initials can be found in ONE of these phrases: "CONTEMPORARY ART" or "POST MODERN ART".

30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
Book 1
Read a book which has the name of any element on the Periodic Table in its title, subtitle or series name.
Book 2
Using the atomic number of the element chosen for book 1 read a book that has the same number in a series. It must be identified as a book in a series in the Goodreads metadata (series #).
For Elements with atomic numbers above 12 all the digits can be added together to get a lower number. You may continue to add the digits until you get to a number below 12.

30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
Book 1 Read a book with an animal from this list of Animal Groups on the cover.
Book 2 Using the same animal as book 1, select an Animal Group word associated with that animal from the same list and read a book with that word in the title or subtitle. Plurals and Possessives are ok, no other variations.

30.5 - Jonquil’s task: There Is No Frigate Like A Book
Book 1: Read a book with a cover that shows the type of place where you like to read.

Book 2: Read a second book with a cover that shows a different reading spot or a variation on book 1's spot.

Total Points: 45

5.1
✔5.2 Never Cry Wolf
5.3
✔5.4 When Everything Feels Like the Movies (this is task 10.2 from the winter of 2017 challenge. Has a word ending in "ing"
5.5
✔5.6 Mary: A Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10

✔10.1 The Kreutzer Sonata
10.2
✔10.3 Famous Last Words
✔10.4 Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim
✔10.5 A Doll's House and Little Eyolf
10.6
10.7 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
✔10.8 Alexander's Bridge
10.9 The Tragedy of Puddn'head Wilson by Mark Twain
10.10

15.1
15.2
✔15.3 The Uncommon Reader
✔15.4 The Scam
✔15.5 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
✔15.6 Nostalgia
✔15.7 The Girl with All the Gifts
✔15.8 Paper Towns
15.9 Brown Girl in the Ring
✔15.10 Ginny's Sacrifice - A Time Travel Novella

✔20.1 The Summer Book
✔20.2 Heart of Darkness
✔20.3Brooklyn
✔20.4 Option 1;The Canterville Ghost
20.5 Landline by Rainbow Rowell
✔20.6 If I Stay
✔20.7 (1) Yes Please by Amy Poehler
✔20,8Notes from Underground
✔20.9 84, Charing Cross Road
✔20.10 The Wonder

25.1
✔25.2 Walt and✔ The Cellist of Sarajevo
✔25.3A Beautyand Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories
✔25.4 The House on Mango Street and Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
✔25.5 The Red Badge of Courage and A Piece of the World
✔25.6Sweetland and Company Town


✔30.1 The Violets of March and Murder on the Orient Express
✔30.2 Crome Yellow and The Danish Girl
✔30.3 The Silver Star and Dead Reckoning
✔30.4 Ape House and The Troop
✔30.5 Our Souls at Nightand Housekeeping

50
✔1. Task 10.3 Read a book with "Bear" in the Title
The Bear 208
✔2. The Rain Barrel Baby 188
✔3. So Historical Fiction
Alias Grace 636

Total pages: =1032

Points Total:
Tasks Completed:
Books Read:

5.1 Us by David Nicholls
5.2 The Foundling Boy by Michel Déon
5.5 Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
5.6 The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes
5.7 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
5.8 The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
5.9 Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
5.10 Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

5.1 Pianist in a Bordello (author's initials in MODERN) 25/03/2017
5.2 The Edible Woman (Canadian setting) 19/03/2017
5.3 J is for Judgment (series #10) 03/04/2017
5.4 Swimming Home (10.2 in winter) 14/03/2017
5.5 Perfect 361 pages 20/03/2017
5.6 Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Mary) 03/04/2017
5.7 Catch-22 (54 modern classic & p1 of list) 30/03/2017
5.8 The Worm Ouroboros (worm moon) 25/03/2017
5.9 The Lie Tree (mystery) 10/03/2017
5.10 1913: The Year Before the Storm 14/03/2017
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10.1 Mazie Baby (Z in title) 05/04/2017
10.2 Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind14/03/2017
10.3 Out 4943 5 star ratings 11/03/2017
10.4 Snow Blind (duo) elibrary 16/03/2017
10.5 Death of a Salesman 31/03/2017
10.6 Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins 04/04/2017
10.7 The Corpse Wore Tartan 05/04/2017
10.8 Someday, Someday, Maybe 02/03/2017
10.9 Longbourn (BAKER) 05/04/2017
10.10 Commonwealth 06/04/2017

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NICKELS AND DIMES COMPLETE

15.1 Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Dead Wrong 04/04/2017
15.2 Guards! Guards!: The Graphic Novel
Musical Youth (KU)
15.3 The Uncommon Reader 27/03/2017
15.4 Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries 29/03/2017
15.5 The Girl in the Ice 22/03/2017
15.6 At the Water's Edge (Pat 5 stars) 28/03/2017
15.7 Do No Harm
15.8
15.9 The Mine 07/04/2017
15.10 The Life We Bury 27/03/2017

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20.1 The Year of the Hare (option 1 page 1 number 5 library)01/04/2017
20.2 Paula Spencer 03/04/2017
20.3 Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (option 1) 28/03/2017
20.4 Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 06/03/2017
20.5When Breath Becomes Air (option 1)
20.6 Ruby Red (option 3 2009 pub) 06/04/2017
20.7 The Invitation (option 1)12/03/2017
20.8 Down Under 20/03/2017
20.9 The Couple Next Door (option 1 page 1 of list) 05/03/2017
20.10 The Wonder 01/04/2017 post comment number 22

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25.1 Option 1 Bluebell Hollow (392)
Option 2 The Black Tulip 24/03/2017
25.2 Inspector Cadaver 03/04/2017
The Ashes of London (496) 22/03/2017
25.3 Skipping Christmas (198) 09/04/2017
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found (336) 09/04/2017
25.4 Option 2 - Reginald13154713] 112 pages
Serious Sweet Option 3 - authors name in outback 10/04/2017
25.5 The Woodlanders (OLD) 23/03/2017
A List of Cages (NEW)
25.6 The Last Policeman (Page 1 popular near future)
A Symphony of Echoes 04/03/2017



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30.1 The Cloning of Joanna May 17/04/2017
Watching the Wind Blow
30.2 Murder at the Vicarage 07/04/2017
The Paris Wife 29/03/2017
30.3 The Helium Murder 11/04/2017
The Angel of Darkness 31/03/2017
30.4 verified e book post 6102
School Days
30.5 Classic in the Barn
The House Of Trembling Leaves 11/04/2017


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50.1
a) Sapphire Blue (task 5.10 2009 time travel)
b) The Dark Days Club
Straight line distance: 172.77 miles
c) Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives (Mi Memoir)

Total points for challenge = 850

Blueberry

10.1 Z, Saint Mazie
10.2 Harry Potter, Peder Victorius, Swami & Friends, Blue Castle, Far Pavillions, Highway,
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9 Postman, Right Turn at Machu Picchu, Junni's & Albert's Advs in the Confederacy, Theft, SweetSmoke, Wintering, Under Cover of Daylight, Tsar of Love & Techno, Year of Lear, Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Fools Crow, John Dies at the End
10.10 LaRose, Hag-Seed
15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4 Both: Sick Puppy
15.5 YonahLossee Riding Camp for Girls, Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Mannequin Girl
15.7
15.8 Wintering
15.9 Road, Divergent, Ready Player One, Postman, Wool Omnibus,
15.10 Gauguin Connection, Lost Wife, Suite Francaise, Ways to Disappear, Swami & Freinds, Stardust, Doldrums, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, Signature of all Things, Ruth, Rescue Artist, YonahLossee Riding Camp for Girls, Claire of the Sea, Sister of My Heart, House of Sand & Fog, Japanese Lover
20.3
20.6
3. House of Sand & Fog, Hole in Our Gospel, Big Sleep, Gap Creek, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Dark Places, Cocaine Blues, Haunting of Hill House, Jesus Interrupted, Stardust, Hundred-year-old Man who Climbed out the window and Disappeared, Nothing to Envy, Fool's Crow, Challenge of Jesus, Unlikely Allies, Pensees
20.8 Big Over Easy, Under Cover of Daylight, Under the Overpass, Virgin's Lover, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Escape on the Pearl, Undermajordomo,
20.9 Dark Places, Woman in Cabin 10, Likeness, Reconstructing Amelia, Secret Place, Winter People, Apple Tree Yard, Tuesday's Gone, Haunting of Hill House, Close My Eyes
25.1
25.3
a.
b. Pain Parties Work, Woman in Cabin 10, Gauguin Connection, Peder Victorius, Mannequin Girl, River at Night, Barbarian Days, LaRose, Love Medicine, Crooked Heart
25.4
2. Ethan Frome, Once Upon a Time in the North, A Different Kind of Hero, Caught By the Sea, Help Thanks Wow, Between Heaven & Hell
3. Valley of Amazement, Bohemians, Hiding Place, Good Prose, Here is Where, Charlie Chaplin, Rainbow Comes & Goes, Wise Child, Molokai'i, If you were here, Double Bind, Close your Eyes Hold Hands, This Time Together, Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, Life After Life
25.5
opt. a
1. King Solomon's Mines, The Cross, Death Comes to the Archbishop, Cold Comfort Farm
2. River @ Night, Dreamland Burning
opt. b
1. Hag-seed, Big Over Easy
2. Life as We Knew it, Divergent, Stardust
25.6
1. Ready Player One, Parable of the sower, Divergent, Road, Wool Omnibus,
2. Historical fiction
25.7
25.8
25.9
30.1
a.
b. Longmire,
30.3
30.4 Who Censored Roger Rabbit/ The Colony.
Zookeeper's Wife / Pride, Prejudice & Cheese Grits
Junkyard Dogs / A Cry From the Dust
30.6
30.7
30.8
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Spring 2017
Goal : get more than 300 points

05.01 - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
05.02 - Behind Her Eyes set in London, england
05.03 - Blood Bound
05.04 - Fall 5.05 2 included in pages Hounded pages 292
05.05 - Britt-Marie Was Here 324 Pages
05.06 -
05.07 -
05.08 -
05.09 -
05.10 -


10.01 - Zombies for Breakfast
10.02 -The Twilight Wife
10.03 - The Fault in Our Stars
10.04 -
10.05 -
10.06 - The Light Between Oceans
10.07 - To Scotland With Love
10.08 - London Bridges
10.09 - A Not So Model Home by David James
10.10 - The Girls

15.01 -
15.02 -
15.03 - The Library at Mount Char
15.04 -
15.05 -
15.6.1 Naked in Death
15.07 - Virals Page 1 of best fiction books about Disease or viruses
15.08 - Paper Towns
15.9 The Twelve
15.10 - Coraline

20.01 -option 1 Ice Moon
20.02 - Heart-Shaped Box
20.03 - option 3 Little Women
20.04 - option 1 Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess
20.05 - Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
20.06 - Number the Stars
20.07 - Knots and Crosses
20.08 - The Big Over Easy
20.09 - Sharp Objects
20.10 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell


25.01 - option 4 Extras
25.02 -book 1 :Bridget Jones's Diary book 2:Rivers of London
25.03 - book 1:Never Never book 2:The Woman in Cabin 10
25.04 -
25.05 -
25.06 -


30.01 - a: Spring Snow b:The Miracle at Speedy Motors 9th in series
30.02 - a: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 1st published 1926
b:The Girl They Couldn't Steal BY Phil Martin 2011
30.03 - a: Copper Sun 29 atomic number b:The Double Comfort Safari Club 11 in series
30.04 - A: B:
30.05 -A: 3/2/2017 B:

Jessie Marie
Spring 2017 Challenge

5.1 Prophecy by Ellen Oh
5.2 The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
5.3 Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
5.4 The Color Purple by Alice Walker
5.5 We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
5.6 The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
5.7 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5.8 Black Flowers, White Lies by Yvonne Ventresca
5.9 Night Film by Marisha Pessl
5.10



10.1 Please Ignora Vera Dietz by A.S. King
10.2 The Girl in 6E by A.R. Torre
10.3 Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
10.4 This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
10.5 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
10.6 The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
10.7 Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
10.8 The Painted Bridge by Wendy Wallace
10.9 Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence
10.10 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead



15.1
A The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City That Arose with It by Alice Sparberg Alexiou
B Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
15.2
A Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu
B Forever My Girl by Heidi McLaughlin
15.3 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
15.4
A Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
B Lady of the Eternal City by Kate Quinn
15.5 Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
15.6 Written in Red by Anne Bishop
15.7 Feed Feed by Mira Grant
15.8 Let's Get Lost by Adi Alsaid
15.9 Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
15.10 Uprooted Uprooted by Naomi Novik



20.1
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20.10 The Wonder by Emma Donaghue



25.1
A Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
B Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach
25.2
A Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
B Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
25.3
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30.1
A Long May She Reign by Rhiannon Thomas
B One Shot by Lee Child
30.2
30.3
A Tin God by Stacy Green
B Opposition by Jennifer L. Armentrout
30.4
A The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
B Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop
30.5
A Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson
B A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams



50.1

Michelle GA

~Michelle~'s Reading Plan


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50.1

5.1 On Trails: An Exploration
5.2 The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
5.3 Tears of the Giraffe
5.4 Succession Planting for Year-round Pleasure
5.5 The Impossible Fortress
5.6 Being Esther
5.7 Of Mice and Men
5.8 Leaving the Pink House
5.9 Universal Harvester
5.10 Small Great Things

10.1 Jazz
10.2 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
10.3 Yellow Crocus
10.4 Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat
10.5. The Glass Menagerie
10.6 In a Sunburned Country
10.7 The Paris Wife
10.8 The Bridge
10.9 Wishful Drinking
10.10 My Name is Lucy Barton

15.1 1) Invention by Design
2) Time Enough for Love - Suzanne Bookman
15.2 1) Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
2) The Violin of Auschwitz
15.3 Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin
15.4 The Scam
15.5 Girl at War
15.6 Ordinary Grace
15.7 --- ---
15.8 Prisoners of Geography
15.9 The Martian Chronicles
15.10 The Velvet Hours

20.1 The Summer Book
20.2 ----
20.3 Hidden Figures
20.4 Faithful
20.5. This is How It Always Is
20.6 Tulip Fever
20.7 Fatality by Firelight
20.8 The Underground Railroad
20.9 I Let You Go
20.10 The Riddle of the Labyrinth

25.1 The Black Tulip
The Coffee Trader
25.2 Bk 1Marlene & Sofia - A Double Love Story
Bk 2 Paris in Love

25.3.

Bk 2
25.4 book 1Opt 3 The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
Book 2 Opt 2 Multiple Choice
25.5 Opt A A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Lucky Boy
25.6 Forty Signs of Rain
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30.1 Book 1They May Not Mean To, But They Do
Friends in High Places
30.2 Easy to Kill
A Gentleman in Moscow
30.3 The Silver Swan
1105 Yakima St

30.4 Bk 1
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Bk 2Caravans


30.5
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50.1. Book 1 The Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil War
Book 2 To Sleep with the Angels - The Story of a Fire
Book 3 Master of Spies: The Memoirs of General Frantisek Moravec

Goals:
Total Points: +420
Tasks completed: +28
Books Read: +33
GO +9/ BB +5

5.1 Author initials found in MODERN Gilead
5.2 Peril at End House
5.3 Death in the Clouds
5.4 Book that fits one of the Winter Challenge 5, 10 or 15 point tasks. 15.6 originally written n another language The White Lioness (Swedish)
5.5 The Magician's Land (402)
5.6 Author named Mary or related names found at Behind the Name - Mary such as Maria, Molly, Miriam, Mia, Polly. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
5.7 The Alchemist
5.8 Words worm, sap, pink, sprouting, grass, seed, egg, fish, flower, corn, or milk in title or subtitle The Perks of Being A Wallflower
5.9 The Likeness
5.10 Book of choice Thinking, Fast and Slow

10.1 Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine
10.2 Author who uses exactly 2 initials instead of a first name The Fifth Season
10.3 The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
10.4 co-authored by two female authors. The Ship Who Searched
10.5 Antony and Cleopatra
10.6 Set +50% in Angola, Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, South Georgia Island, South Sandwich Islands, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay The Dry
10.7 Something plaid on the cover. Kidnapped
10.8 "bridge" or "bridges" in title/subtitle or bridge on the cover The Bridge of San Luis Rey
10.9 author shares a name with actors in Star Wars: Peter Mayhew, The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
10.10 Tournament of Books Longlist My Name Is Lucy Barton

15.1
Book 1: genre engineering or architecture To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Book 2: 2 n’s found sequentially in the title/subtitle/author’s name The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
15.2
Book 1: genre graphic novels, sequential art, comics Saga, Vol. 7
Book 2: musical instrument on the cover Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
15.3 One book meets both criteria
Book 1: featuring a library or librarian. The Book of Speculation
Book 2: author's initials in NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
15.4 One book meets both criteria
Book 1: genre of humor Me Talk Pretty One Day
Book 2: #4 in a series.
15.5 The Girl of Fire and Thorns
15.6What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
15.7 Lists: Best Fiction Books About Diseases or Viruses or History of Disease The Maze Runner
15.8 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
15.9 genre Science Fiction Armada
15.10 initials can be found in GARDENING Goldenhand

20.1 A Room with a View
20.2
Option 2: genre of "Fairies", "Ireland", or "Irish Literature" Dubliners
20.3
Option 1: non-fiction about women who were the first to achieve something significant in their field or about female Physician, Engineer, Mathematician, Physicist, Biologist, Chemist, Psychologist, Sociologist, Anthropologist, Forensic Scientist Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Option 2: lists Space Race! Books or Space Exploration and Planet Colonization
Option 3: book from the Wikipedia list of films nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.
20.4 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
20.5 Five Little Pigs
20.6
Option 1: about baseball or featuring a baseball player as a main character. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
20.7 Empire of Storms
20.8 The Underground Railroad
20.9
Option 1: Popular Psychological Thrillers shelf. Sharp Objects
20.10 Group read The Wonder

25.1
Option 2: Tulip mania or bubble Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
Option 4: set 75% in Japan. Memoirs of a Geisha
25.2 at least 500 pages for 2 books
Book 1: name of a person in the title/subtitle that is the name of a character in the book. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Book 2: name of a place in the title/subtitle where at least some of the plot of the book takes place in that specific named place. The Boston Girl
25.3 books must exceed 500 pages
Book 1: title does NOT contain any of the letters in the word WOLF. King's Cage
Book 2: author whose initials can be found in the word FLOWER. Leading With Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton
25.4
Option 2: book of 100-150 pages in length. Double Indemnity
Option 3: initials in OUTBACK. Dark Matter
25.5
Option a:
Book 1: published before 1992 Capitalism and Freedom
Book 2: published in 2017 Lincoln in the Bardo
25.6
Book 1: lists Popular Futurism Books or Popular Near-Future Books The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Book 2: genre that contains "historical" or "history" intact In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

30.1
Book 1: Spring, March, April or May in the title.
Book 2: 9th, 10th or 11th in a series. A Caribbean Mystery
30.2
Book 1: published 1890-1939, author’s initials can be found in "ART DECO," "ART NOUVEAU" or "BAUHAUS". The A.B.C. Murders
Book 2: published 1970-present, author’s initials in "CONTEMPORARY ART" or "POST MODERN ART". The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
30.3
Book 1: element on the Periodic Table in its title, subtitle or series name. The Silver Linings Playbook
Book 2: Using the atomic number of the element chosen for book 1 read a book that has the same number in a series. Numbers above 12 all the digits can be added together to get a lower number. (47) At Bertram's Hotel
30.4
Book 1: animal from this list of Animal Groups on the cover. birds -> flight snakes -> nest
Book 2: Animal Group word associated with that animal from the same list The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
30.5
Book 1: cover that shows the type of place where you like to read. McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
Book 2: cover that shows a different reading spot or a variation on book 1's spot.

50.1 3 books equal 1000 pages
Book 1: 5 or 10 point task from Feb 2009
( 10.1. Buddy Holly Was Born On That Day In 1936 - Read A Book Published During His Lifetime (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959). ) Farewell, My Lovely Oct 1940 292
Book 2: set within 200 miles of the place you were born or b) written by a single author born within 200 miles of the place you were born. Madrid Spain The Monk 386
Book 3:
RE - set at least 75% in a country that experiences the midnight sun The White Lioness Sweeden (576)
MI - autobiography or memoir
SO - historical fiction novel.

Homegoing

5.1
5.2- City of Fallen Angels
5.3- Independent Study
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20.9- option 1 The Likeness
20.10

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50.1

where is it? l=library, k=kobo, t=tablet, p=phone, s=shelf

5.4: This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation T
5.5: Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail S
5.10: Sorcerer to the Crown L

10.1: Who We Be: The Colorization of America K
10.2: The One: The Life and Music of James Brown L
10.3: Doomsday Book BB K
10.6: The Summer Prince L
10.8: Gaijin: American Prisoner of War L
10.9: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present p
10.10: The Vegetarian P

15.1.1: Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape BB L
15.1.2: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work L
15.2.1: Incognito S
15.2.2: The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart L
15.4.1: F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems P
15.4.2: Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom
15.6: To Say Nothing of the Dog K
15.7: Oryx and Crake K
15.9: Nameless S
15.10: The Ocean at the End of the Lane T

20.5: Option 3 all letters of RAINBOW in title/subtitle/author First Bite: How We Learn to Eat L

25.2.1: John Dies at the End L
25.2.2: Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China L

Date: 4 apr
Points this post: /215
Total points: 25/215
Total Tasks: 3/18
Number of books: 5/22
Golden Oldies this post: 0/0
Total Golden Oldies: 0/0
Big Book Tickets this post: 0/2
Total Big Book Tickets: 0/2
BBooks - 500+: 0/2 BBooks - 750+: 0/0 BBooks - 1000+: 0/0

Current points: 320
Tasks completed: 17

5 point tasks
Current points: 30/50

✔ 5.1- Thoroughly Modern
Dead Man Talking by Roddy Doyle

✔ 5.2 - Location, Location, Location
Looking for Captain Poldark by Rowan Coleman

✔ 5.3 - The 20th Century
Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
(Shortlist: The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

✔ 5.4 - Best Laid Plans
Task 5.1. - The Ancients
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

✔5.5 - March, April, May
The Gentle Sleep Book: A Guide for calm babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers by Sarah Ockwell-Smith

✔ 5.6 - Lady Day
Amy's Diary by Maureen Lee

✔ 5.7- Modern Classics
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Required: State the page (7)

✔ 5.8 Under the Spring Moon
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr

✔ 5.9 - Whodunit?
A Cool Head by Ian Rankin

✔ 5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder
What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge

10 point tasks
Current points: 10/100

✔ 10.1 - Catch Some Z's
Twenty Tales From The War Zone: The Best Of John Simpson by John Cody Fidler-Simpson

✔ 10.2 - Initial Success
An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley

✔ 10.3 - Aim High
Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin

✔ 10.4 - Partners in Crime
The Nanny Diaries
(Shortlist: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer)

✔ 10.5 - And The Tony Goes To....
Our Day Out and Other Plays by Willy Russell

✔ 10.6 - Penguin Places
Love Is Blind by Kathy Lette

✔10.7 - Mad For Plaid
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge

✔ 10.8 - Build A Bridge
A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts by Arthur Miller

✔ 10.9 - Star Wars Stars
Street Cat Bob: How one man and a cat saved each other's lives. A true story. by James Bowen

✔ 10.10 -The 2017 Rooster
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra

15 point tasks
Current points: 135/150

✔15.1. It's a Wonnder!
Book one:
✔The J.M. Barrie Ladies' Swimming Society by J.M. Barrie
(Shortlist: Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain by John Grindrod)

Book two:
✔ A Very Distant Shore: Quick Reads by Jenny Colgan

✔ 15.2. May is for Art and Music!
✔Book 1: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
✔Book 2 – What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland

✔ 15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15.
Option two: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

✔15.4. Laughing and Singing
✔ Book one: The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

✔ Book two: Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler

✔ 15.5. Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

✔ 15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
(Rated by George)

✔ 15.7. It's Contagious!
The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
(Page one of Best Fiction Books About Diseases or Viruses)

✔ 15.8. How do I Get There?
Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch
(Shortlist: Fall of Giants)

✔ 15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

✔ 15.10. Spring Gardening
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 by Gretchen Rubin

20 point tasks
Current points: 180/200

✔ 20.1- Most Improved Player – Camilla’s Task: Finland 100 Years!
Option three: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
(First published in 1912)

✔ 20.2 - Rookie At The Top - McCathy's Task: Lucky Charms
Option two: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
(Genre: Irish Literature)

✔ 20.3 - Best Review - Lauren Jodi's task: Hidden Figures
Option three: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

✔ 20.4 – Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers?
Option three: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
(Genre: self-help)

✔ 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days...
Leap Year by Helen Russell

✔ 20.6 – Seasoned Reader - Bookwrm526's Task: Batter Up!!
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
(Option three, first published in 1959)

✔ 20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball!
Option one: Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

✔ 20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: Over and Under
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

✔ 20.9 - Chandni's Task: Welcome to My Wheelhouse
Option 4 The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

✔ 20.10 Group Reads
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

25 point tasks
Current points: 150/150

✔25.1 - Diana K’s task - Spring Flowers
Option 1: Spring Bulbs
✔ Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Yeats Is Dead!: A Mystery by 15 Irish Writers
Option 3: The Netherlands
✔Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

✔ 25.2 - Sandy's Task: Who Am I? Where Am I?
✔ Book 1: Educating Rita by Willy Russell
✔ Book 2: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

✔ 25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves
✔ Book 1: Cav: At Speed by Mark Cavendish
✔ Book 2: The Soul of Man and Prison Writings Oscar Wilde

✔ 25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Sydney Harbour
✔ Option two: A Baby at the Beach Café by Lucy Diamond
✔ Option three: The Other Side of You: Quick Reads by Amanda Craig

✔ 25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride!
Option A
✔ Book one: The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business (first published in 1988)
✔ Book two: My Not So Perfect Life (published in 2017)

✔ 25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
✔ Book one: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (page three of near future books)
✔ Book two: The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (main page genre historical fiction)

30 point tasks
Current points: 150/150

✔30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: passed to Sheila: In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole.
✔ Book one: A Spring Affair by Milly Johnson
✔ Book two: At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #11)

✔ 30.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art
✔ Book one: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
✔ Book two: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

✔ 30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
✔ Book one: The Hydrogen Murder
✔ Book two: Casino Royale

✔ 30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
✔ Book one: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (cover has a picture of a cat)
✔ Book two: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A simple, effective way to banish clutter forever by Marie Kondō (contains the word clutter)

✔ 30.5 - Jonquil’s task: There Is No Frigate Like A Book
✔ Book one: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
✔ Book two: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Amy O.'s Spring Challenge reading list

Top books to read:
Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Booth Tarkington)
The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
Super Sad True Love Story (Gary Shteyngart)
The Vagina Monologues (Eve Ensler)
All About Love (bell hooks)
Half the Sky (Nicholas D. Kristof)
The Argonauts (Maggie Nelson)
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Clarissa Pinkola Estes)
Stern Men (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (J. K. Rowling)
The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan)
The Riddle of the Labyrinth (Margalit Fox)


5.1- Thoroughly Modern - The Night Circus
5.2 - Location, Location, Location - Lisa, Bright and Dark
5.3 - The 20th Century
5.4 - Best Laid Plans - Killed At The Whim Of A Hat
5.5 - March, April, May - News of the World by Paulette Jiles
5.6 - Lady Day
5.7- Modern Classics - Their Eyes Were Watching God
5.8 Under the Spring Moon
5.9 - Whodunit? - Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
5.10- Your Own 8th Wonder

10.1 - Catch Some Z's
10.2 - Initial Success - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2
10.3 - Aim High - All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
10.4 - Partners in Crime - Dogs and Goddesses
10.5 - And The Tony Goes To.... - The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
10.6 - Penguin Places
10.7 - Mad For Plaid - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
10.8 - Build A Bridge - Bridge Daughter by Jim Nelson
10.9 - Star Wars Stars - I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck / By James Baldwin; Compiled and Introduced by Raoul Peck by James Baldwin
10.10 -The 2017 Rooster - The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

15.1. It's a Wonnder!
15.2. May is for Art and Music! - March: Book One and Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15. - The Archivist or The Library at Mount Char and The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
15.4. Laughing and Singing
15.5. Girls Just Wanta Have Fun! - The Good Girl
15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
15.7. It's Contagious!
15.8. How do I Get There?
15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha! - Super Sad True Love Story
15.10. Spring Gardening - Stern Men

20.1- Most Improved Player – Camilla’s Task: Finland 100 Years! - The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo
20.2 - Rookie At The Top - McCathy's Task: Lucky Charms - Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa
20.3 - Best Review - Lauren Jodi's task: Hidden Figures - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
20.4 – Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers? - Go Set a Watchman
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days... - All About Love: New Visions
20.6 – Seasoned Reader - Bookwrm526's Task: Batter Up!! - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
20.7 Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball! - Landline
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: Over and Under - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
20.9 - Chandni's Task: Welcome to My Wheelhouse - The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
20.10 - Group Reads - The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox

25.1 - Diana K’s task - Spring Flowers - Yellow Crocus and The Miniaturist
25.2 - Sandy's Task: Who Am I? Where Am I? - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay or The Book of Ruth or Alice Adams and The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend or Gilead or Empire Falls
25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves - Stern Men and This Is How It Always Is
25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Sydney Harbour - The Magnificent Ambersons and Big Little Lies
25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride!
25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Garden of Lies by Amanda Quick

30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: passed to Sheila: In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole.
30.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art - The Murder on the Links and Love Story
30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
30.5 - Jonquil’s task: There Is No Frigate Like A Book

50.1 - Bryony's Task: Let's Start at the Very Beginning

csichick's Spring Reading Challenge reading list

The Wonder for the group read.

Everything else TBD.

Lost in a Good Book
Usurper of the Sun
Mrs. Dalloway
Secret Rendezvous
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
The Uncommon Reader
Girl, Interrupted
A Menina Que Tinha Dons
O Preço do Sal
Antes de Dormir
The Wonder
Enquanto agonizo
Catch-22
Nós
Heart of a Dog
Cry, the Beloved Country
Uma breve história de quase tudo
Precisamos Falar Sobre o Kevin

Planning! :)

1BK
15.3. National Library Week: w/librar-y/-ian AND auth init in NATIONALLIBRARYWEEK
15.4. Laughing and Singing: book with a main page genre 'humor' AND #4 in series
15.5. Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!: book with the word “girl” found intact in the sub/title
15.6. I Get By with a Little Help From My Friends: GRfrnd rated 4+str; REQ:frnd name
15.7. It's Contagious!: from lists; REQ:specify the list and the page of the list
15.8. How do I Get There?: book with a map on the cover; REQ: post cover
15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!: main page genre Science Fiction
15.10. Spring Gardening: author's initials can be found in GARDENING

20.1 - Finland 100 Years! - set/auth.brn/lives in Finland; Cvr:snowORsun; 1STpub<1917
The Imitation of Christ
20.2 - Lucky Charms - sub/titl.wd:Heart,Shooting Star,horseshoe,Clover,Blue Moon,Rainbow,Balloon, Hourglass; main page genre of fairies/Ireland/Irish Lit
20.3 - Hidden Figures - non-fic.fml1stAchv;fml.scitst;fromLists
Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
20.4 – April Showers? - auth.init in APRIL SHOWERS; cvr=rain or umbrella; gnr:Ancient,Christian/ity,
Inspirational, Judaica, Judaism, Mythology, Old Testament, Personal Development, Religion,
Self-Help, Spirituality, Theology
The Blessed Life
20.5 - It Was One of Those March Days... - Titl.wd:sure,when,step,with,care,great,tact,remember,that
life's,Balancing,will,succeed,indeed,percent,guaranteed; fml.auth.init in "BE BOLD FOR
CHANGE";ALL ltrs in RAINBOW in sub/title,+auth first/last name; Mexican auth
20.6 - Batter Up! - non/fic abt baseball/player;set in Georgia;1st pub year ending in 9
You Gotta Have Wa
20.7 - Play Ball! - auth.init in GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE; set in Florida/France; flame onCvr,REQ:post.cvr
20.8 - Over and Under - sub/title/auth.nm word "under" or "over"
20.9 - Welcome to My Wheelhouse - genr:TrueCrime; Lst:PsychThrill/Epist/Diary/FairyTale Wicked
20.10 - Group Reads: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell / The Riddle of the Labyrinth

2BK
30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: passed to Sheila: In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole
Book 1: Spring in the northern hemisphere: EXACT TitlWd:Spring,March,April,May
Book 2: Spring in the southern hemisphere: 9th, 10th or 11th in a series

30.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1: FIRST published 1890-1939; auth 1st/last initls in "ART DECO" OR "ART NOUVEAU" OR "BAUHAUS"
Book 2: FIRST published 1970+; auth 1st/last initls in "CONTEMPORARY ART" OR "POST MODERN ART"
Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do

30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
Book 1: EXACT name of any element in sub/title/series name
Book 2: Atomic# frm bk1=# in series (if >12 sum all digits)

30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
Book 1: cover = animal from list of Animal Groups; REQ: post cover
Book 2: sub/title wd= animal grp wd (+plrl/possv) from bk1 animal

30.5 - Jonquil’s task: There Is No Frigate Like A Book
Book 1: cover shows place where you like to read
Book 2: cover shows different reading spot a variation on book 1's spot

Plans for this season: Lots tbd!


10.9 - Star Wars Stars
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Way too appropriate for the section! Carrie Fisher matches Carrie Fisher ;)

15.3. National Library Week is April 9-15.
The Librarian by Larry Beinhart


15.5. Girls Just Wanta Have Fun!
The Girl Who Played with Fire

15.7. It's Contagious!
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World From History of Disease list.

15.8. How do I Get There?
The Map Thief
Confirmed for front cover.

15.9. They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!
Changeless MPG Science Fiction > Steampunk

20.1- Most Improved Player – Camilla’s Task: Finland 100 Years!
My First Murder by Leena Lehtolainen

20.2 - Rookie At The Top - McCathy's Task: Lucky Charms
Ironside by Holly Black

20.3 - Best Review - Lauren Jodi's task: Hidden Figures
Option 1: Read a non-fiction book about a woman or group of women who were the first to achieve something significant in their field.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Because what else would be good for this section :)

20.4 – Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers?
Option 3: Read a book with one of the following main page genre: Inspirational.
Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

20.5 - Bigger is Better - Pia's Task: It Was One of Those March Days....
Soulless by Gail Carriger

20.6 – Seasoned Reader - Bookwrm526's Task: Batter Up!!
Super Freakonomics

20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Play Ball!
Long May She Reign by Rhiannon Thomas

20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Coralie's Task: Over and Under
Magic Under Glass

20.9 - Chandni's Task: Welcome to My Wheelhouse
Shutter Island

20.10 - Group Reads
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code

25.1 - Diana K’s task - Spring Flowers
Option 3 - Located 75% in the Netherlands
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister pg 372
Takes place in Holland, region of Netherlands

Option 4: Located 75% in Japan
Geisha, a Life pg 297
Takes place fully in Japan

25.2 - Sandy's Task: Who Am I? Where Am I?
Book 1: Read a book with the name of a person in the title/subtitle that is the name of a character in the book.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes pg 307 (GO)

Book 2: Read a book with the name of a place in the title/subtitle where at least some of the plot of the book takes place in that specific named place.
A Gentleman in Moscow pg 462

25.3 - Andy P.’s task: No More Wolves
Book 1: Read a book whose title does NOT contain any of the letters in the word WOLF.
1984 Pg 328

Book 2: Read a book written by a single author whose initials can be found in the word FLOWER.
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams Pg 304

25.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Sydney Harbour
Book 1:
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick Found in OUTBACK
Book 2:
If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body MPG Health

25.5 - Brooke TX's Task: Here Comes the Bride!
Option A:
Book 1: For this option read a book FIRST published before 1992.
A Study in Scarlet Published 1887 (GO)

Book 2: For something new, read a book FIRST published in 2017
Wintersong Published 2017

25.6 - Perletwo's task: A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
Book 1:
Fahrenheit 451 Pg 249 On first page of Popular Futurism Books

Book 2:
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation Pg 339
Confirmed for MPG History

30.1 - Schatzie’s Task: passed to Sheila: In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole.
Book 1: Read a book with one of the words: Spring, March, April or May in the title.
Devil May Care

Book 2: Read a book that is designated in the GR series metadata as the 9th, 10th or 11th in a series.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (GO) 9th in series.

30.2 - Ava Catherine’s Task-Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
All initials found in ART DECO. Published 1892 (GO)

Book 2:
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
All initials found in POST MODERN ART. Published 2014.

30.3 - MAZZA1's Task: It’s Elementary
Book 1: Book w/ name on Periodic Table
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

Book 2: Read book has same # in series of atomic number. Can add if > 12.
Silicon: 14 1 + 4 = 5
The Hound of the Baskervilles # 5 in Sherlock Holmes (GO)

30.4 - Dlmrose's Task: Passed to Delicious Dee: A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks?
Book 1: Read a book with an animal from this list of Animal Groups on the cover.
Required: Include the cover and state the animal.
Snake!

Book 2: Animal Group word associated with that animal and read a book with that word in title.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Snakes - Nest (BB)

Potential points so far:
Total Points: 555
Golden Oldies: 5
Big Books: 2

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5.3The Obelisk Gate

5.5Summer Knight

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10.2The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

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10.3The Last Wish

10.8Sins of Empire

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20.5 Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
20.6The Stolen Throne
20.7The Adversary

20.9A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West

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5.1
5.2 The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
5.3
5.4 My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10
10.1
10.2
10.3 Guards! Guards!
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10
15.1a
15.1b
15.2a
15.3a
15.3b
15.4a
15.4b
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10
20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5 Taken at the Flood
20.6 The Wench Is Dead
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10 The Wonder or The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
25.1a
25.1b
25.2a
25.2b Death in Bayswater 288 pages
25.3a Pride and Prejudice
25.3b
25.4a
25.4b
25.5a
25.5b
25.6a
25.6b
30.1a Rites Of Spring or March
30.1b Soulless October 09
30.2a
30.2b Necropolis: London and Its Dead
30.3a The Hydrogen Murder
30.3b The Equivoque Principle
30.4a
30.4b
30.5a
30.5b

Total Points: 90
Total Tasks: 6
Golden Oldies: 1
Big Books: 0

KTKIZZIE
Spring 2015
Duration: March 1, 2017 - May 31, 2017

5.1 One Day by David Nicholls
5.2 The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
5.3 Flyte (Septimus Heap, #2) by Angie Sage
5.4 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (from Winter task 10.10...a book with the main page genre Horror)
5.5 MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood (394 pages)
5.6 The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
5.7 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (list page 1)
5.8 Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
5.9 The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
5.10

10.1 Zone One by Colson Whitehead
10.2 The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
10.3 Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels
10.4 Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy
10.5 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
10.6 In Cold Pursuit: A Mystery from the Last Continent by Sarah Andrews
10.7 by Molly MacRae
10.8 Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
10.9 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
10.10 The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

15.1 Book 1: Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
15.1 Book 2: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
15.2 Book 1: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
15.2 Book 2: by Jennifer Egan
15.3 Book 1: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris
15.3 Book 2: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
15.4 Book 1: Fool by Christopher Moore
15.4 Book 2: The Julius House by Charlaine Harris
15.5 The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
15.6 Hollow City by Ransom Riggs (4 stars from Cheryl)
15.7 The Passage by Justin Cronin from page 1 of Best Fiction Books About Diseases or Viruses
15.8 by John Green
15.9 The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
15.10 Soulless by Gail Carriger

20.1 Option 2: by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
20.2 The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

Total points: 5/618
Total Tasks: 1/51
Number of books: 1
Total Golden Oldies:
Total Big Book Tickets: 0
Big Books (500+): 0 | Big Books (750+): 0 | Big Books (1000+): 0

Bouchra's Spring 2017 Reading Plan
✔

5.1 Thoroughly Modern - The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
✔5.2 Location, Location, Location - Contagion by Robin Cook
✔5.3 The 20th Century - Palace of Stone by Shannon Hale
✔ 5.4 Best Laid Plans - Winter 2017 5.5 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
5.5 March, April, May - The Plague by Albert Camus
5.6 Lady Day -
5.7 Modern Classics - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5.8 Under the Spring Moon -
5.9 Whodunit? - Tripwire by Lee Child
5.10 Your Own 8th Wonder - Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

15/50


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10.1 Catch Some Z's - Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by Zoya
10.2 Initial Success - The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
10.3 Aim High - The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
10.4 Partners in Crime - Abundance Now: Amplify Your Life and Achieve Prosperity by Lisa Nichols and Janet Switzer
✔10.5 And the Tony Goes To... - As You Like It by William Shakespeare
10.6 Penguin Places -
10.7 Mad For Plaid -
10.8 Build A Bridge -
10.9 Star Wars Stars - She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur by Carrie Green
10.10 The 2017 Rooster -

10/100


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15.1 It's a Wonnder
Book 1:
Book 2: Heidi by Johanna Spyri
15.2 May is for Art and Music!
Book 1:
Book 2:
✔15.3 National Library Week is April 9-15 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba
15.4 Laughing and Singing
Book 1: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Book 2: Running Blind by Lee Child
15.5 Girls Just Wanna Have Fun! - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
15.6 I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends -
✔15.7 It's Contagious! - The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
15.8 How Do I Get There? -
15.9 They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha! -
15.10 Spring Gardening - Les enfants du nouveau monde by Assia Djebar

30/150

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✔20.1 Finland 100 Years! - A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
✔20.2 Lucky Charms - The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
20.3. Hidden Figures - Ringworld by Larry Niven
20.4 – Golden Oldies – Amy O's Task: April Showers?
✔20.5 It Was One of Those March Days... - Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles by Gabrielle Bernstein
20.6 Batter Up!! - Killing Floor by Lee Child
20.7 Play Ball! - Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin
20.8 Over and Under - My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story by Latifa
20.9 Welcome to My Wheelhouse - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
20.10 Group Reads - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

60/180

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25.1 Spring Flowers
Book 1:
Book 2:
25.2 Who Am I? Where Am I?
Book 1: What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Book 2: Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović
25.3 No More Wolves
Book 1:
Book 2: 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot by Richard Wiseman
25.4 Sydney Harbour
Book 1: Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Book 2: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
25.5 Here Comes the Bride!
Book 1: Sold by Zana Muhsen
Book 2: Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire
✔25.6 A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
Book 1: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Book 2: The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman

25/150


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30.1 In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole
Book 1: May Cause Miracles: A 40-Day Guidebook of Subtle Shifts for Radical Change and Unlimited Happiness by Gabrielle Bernstein
Book 2: One Shot by Lee Child
30.2 Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1: any Agatha Christie
Book 2: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
30.3 It's Elementary
Book 1: The Copper Scroll by Joel C. Rosenberg
Book 2: #11 or #29
✔30.4 A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks
Book 1: Bird By Bird: Some Instructions On Writing And Life by Anne Lamott
Book 2: The Flock by James Robert Smith
30.5 There is No Frigate Like a Book
Book 1:
Book 2:

30/150

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✔50.1
Book 1: 5.7 Thankful for The Conjoined by Jen Sookfong Lee
Book 2: Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris
Book 3: MI Driving the Saudis: A Chauffeur's Tale of the World's Richest Princesses by Jayne Amelia Larson

50/50

Elon Musk: Inventing the Future by Ashlee Vance
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson

5.1 Invisible Man
5.2 I Hotel
5.3 Green Mars
5.4 (using Winter Challenge 10.6) The Known World
5.5 Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World
5.6 Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
5.7 For Whom the Bell Tolls
5.8
5.9
5.10 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

10.1 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
10.2
10.3 Homage to Catalonia
10.4
10.5 Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
10.6 In a Sunburned Country
10.7
10.8Bridge of Sighs
10.9 All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
10.10 The Daredevils

15.1 Book 1
Book 2 Girl, Interrupted
15.2 Book 1Saga, Vol. 7
Book 2
15.3 Book 1
Book 2
15.4 Book 1
Book 2
15.5
15.6 The Sport of Kings
15.7
15.8
15.9 Too Like the Lightning
15.10 Bad Feminist

20.1 3. Walden and Other Writings
20.2 2. The Hounds of the Mórrígan
20.3 2. The Martian
20.4 1. Mrs. Caliban
20.5 2. Planetfall
20.6
20.7 Swamplandia!
20.8 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
20.9 The Perks of Being A Wallflower
20.10 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

25.1 1

25.2 1. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
2. Seven Years in Tibet
25.3. 1. Tinkers
2. Independence Day
25.4 2. Star Journal: Selected Poems
3. High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
25.5 A. Lincoln in the Bardo and Animal Dreams
25.6 Snow Crash and War and Peace

30.1
30.2 1. Johnny Got His Gun
2. The Bone Clocks
30.3.
30.4 Small Wonder
30.5

50.1
Book 1: 4. The Guest Cat
Book 2: The Three Pillars of Zen
Book 3:Flight Behavior

Spring 2017 Reading Plan

5.1: The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America by Michael Ruhlman READ

5.2 : Louis XIII, tome 1 by Jean-Christian Petitfils READ

5.3: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

5.4: Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess by Sally Bedell Smith READ

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

5.6: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach


5.7 The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

5.8: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

5.9: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

5.10: The Tudors: History of a Dynasty by David Loades

10.1: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann READ

10.2: Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse

10.3: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

10.4:

10.5: Le Cid by Pierre Corneille

10.6:

10.7

10.8: Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language by Esther Schor

10.9:

10.10:

15.1: Book 1 : Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King

Book 2 : Rules, Britannia: An Insider's Guide to Life in the United Kingdom by Toni Summers Hargis

15.2: Book 1 :

Book 2: The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin

15.3: OPTION 1: 2 books

Book 1: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

Book 2: Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet by Ruth Reichl

15.4: OPTION 1: 2 books.

Book 1 : My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Book 2: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie


15.5: Third Girl by Agatha Christie

15.6: From Ella : Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers

15.7: History of disease page 1 : Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story by Steven Hatch

15.8: Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

15.9 : The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

15.10:

20.1: Option 3 : Persuasion by Jane Austen

20.2:

20.3 : Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

20.4:

20.5:

20.6:

20.7

20.8:

20.9:

20.10:

25.1: 2 books, 500+ pages combined...

25.2:

25.3: 2 books, 500 + pages combined

25.4: 2 books

25.5: 2 books

25.6: 2 books, 500 + pages combined

30.1: 2 books

30.2: 2 books

30.3:

30.4:

30.5:

50.1 :

5.1 - Thoroughly Modern - The English Patient
5.2 - Location, Location, Location - Murder in Mesopotamia
5.3 - The 20th Century - The Novel Habits of Happiness ✔
5.4 - Best Laid Plans - Death Comes as the End
5.5 - March, April, May - Criss Cross ✔
5.6 - Lady Day - Might As Well Laugh About It Now
5.7 - Modern Classics - Mrs. Dalloway
5.8 - Under the Spring Moon - The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
5.9 - Whodunit? - The Bat
5.10 - Your Own 8th Wonder -

10.1 - Catch Some Z's - The Zero
10.2 - Initial Success - Carry On, Jeeves
10.3 - Aim High - Still Life with Bread Crumbs ✔
10.4 - Partners in Crime -
10.5 - And the Tony Goes To - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
10.6 - Penguin Places - Summertime
10.7 - Mad For Plaid - My Life in France
10.8 - Build a Bridge - Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America ✔
10.9 - Star Wars Stars - Parrot and Olivier in America
10.10 - The 2017 Rooster -Homegoing

15.1 - It's a Wonnder! - Loving Frank and Cannery Row
15.2 - May is for Art and Music! -
15.3 - National Library Week - The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
15.4 - Laughing and Singing - Something Rotten ✔
15.5 - Girls Just Wanta Have Fun! - The Girl in the Italian Bakery
15.6 - I Get By... Born to Run ✔
15.7 - It's Contagious! - The Stand
15.8 - How do I Get There? -
15.9 - They're Coming...
15.10 - Spring Gardening - The Glass Palace

20.1 - Finland 100 Years! - Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
20.2 - Lucky Charms - Maeve's Times ✔
20.3 - Hidden Figures - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
20.4 - April Showers? -
20.5 - It Was One of Those..Siddhartha. - Hotel du Lac
20.6 - Batter Up!! - The Financial Lives of the Poets
20.7 - Play Ball! - The Power and the Glory
20.8 - Over and Under - The Underground Railroad
20.9 - Welcome to My Wheelhouse - I Capture the Castle
20.10 - Group Reads - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

25.1 - Spring Flowers - An Irish Country Doctor and Kitchen
25.2 - Who Am I? Where Am I? -
25.3 - No More Wolves - Amsterdam and Peace Like a River
25.4 - Sydney Harbor - Siddhartha and This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection
25.5 - Here Comes the Bride! - Bunner Sisters and Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
25.6 - A Stitch in Time Saves Nine - The War of the Worlds and Alexander Hamilton ✔

30.1 - Two Halves of a Whole - March and The Narrows ✔
30.2 - Modern and Contemporary Art - Murder Is Easy and Not Dead Yet: The Memoir ✔
30.3 - It's Elementary - Red Gold and Death of a Prankster ✔
30.4 - A Pride of Lions...- Mink River and Murder in the White House ✔
30.5 - There Is No Frigate -

READING PLANS - MELANIE

5.1 Thoroughly Modern
Vision in White by Nora Robertsread 4/2/17 - 5*
N.R. (author initials) can be found in MODERN.
Nora Roberts is a GR author
Pages: 325

5.2 Location, Location, Location
Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas, read 3/1/17 - 5*
This book is set in England
Lisa Kleypas is a GR author
Pages: 332

5.3 The 20th Century
Just Good Friends by Rosalind James, read 3/4/17 - 4.5*
This book is the second in the Escape to New Zealand series.
Rosalind James is a GR author
Pages: 308

5.4 Best Laid Plans
Task 5.3 of the SRC Winter Challenge (read the first book in a series)
Welcome to Paradise by Rosalind James, read 3/8/17 - 5* 
* This is the first book in the Kincaid series.
* Rosalind James is a GR author
* Pages: 340

5.5 March, April, May
Miss Wonderful by Loretta Chase, read 3/12/17 - 4*
The MMP has 352 pages.

5.6 Lady Day


5.7 Modern Classics

5.8 Under the Spring Moon -
Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale, read 3/30/17 - 4.5*

Laura Kinsale is a GR author
Pages: 533p - I'm claiming one BB ticket.

5.9 Whodunit?

5.10 Your Own 8th Wonder
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase, read 3/28/17 - 5*
Pages: 357

35/50
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10.1 Catch Some Z's
The Prize by Julie Garwood, read 3/20/17 - 5*
Julie Garwood is a GR author.
Pages: 408

10.2 Initial Success -
Sudden Response by R.L. Mathewson, read 3/20/17 - 4*
R.L. Mathewson is a GR author
Pages: 262

10.3 Aim High
Blue-Eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas, read 3/11/17 - 5*
This book has 12,058 5* ratings as of 4/7/17.
Lisa Kleypas is a GR author.
Pages: 328

10.4 Partners in Crime

10.5 And the Tony Goes To...

10.6 Penguin Places -
Just for Now by Rosalind James, read 3/4/17 - 4*
*This book is set 100% in New Zealand.
*Rosalind James is a GR author
Pages: 310

10.7 Mad For Plaid -
The Bride by Julie Garwood, read 3/20/17 - 5*
*Julie Garwood is a GR author.
*The Mass Market Paperback has 358p.
*Cover:

10.8 Build A Bridge -
Nothing Personal by Rosalind James, read 3/9/17 - 4*
Pages: 336
*Rosalind James is a GR author.
*The Golden Gate Bridge is on the cover:


10.9 Star Wars Stars -
Asking for Trouble by Rosalind James, read 3/9/17 - 4*
*Rosalind James is a GR author
Pages: 318

10.10 The 2017 Rooster -
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
70/100

70/100
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15.1 It's a Wonder
Book 1:
Book 2:

15.2 May is for Art and Music!
Book 1:
Book 2:

15.3 National Library Week is April 9-15
One book option: Breathe by Kristen Ashley, read 3/1/17 - 4.5*
Faye, the heroine, is a librarian in Carnal, Colorado, AND the author's initials are K and A. This book therefore meets both criteria.
*This book is 656p long, I'm claiming one BB ticket.
*Kristen Ashley is a GR author.

15.4 Laughing and Singing
Book 1: Kiss an Angel
Book 2: Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts, read 4/4/17 - 4*
*This book is # 4 in the Bride Quartet series.
*Nora Roberts is a GR author

15.5 Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

15.6 I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends -
Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas, read 3/13/17 - 5*
My GR friend Lisa Kay rated this book 5*
Lisa Kleypas is a GR author
Pages: 375

15.7 It's Contagious!

15.8 How Do I Get There? -

15.9 They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha!

15.10 Spring Gardening
Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts, read 4/3/17 - 4*
*Author initials NR are found in GARDENING
*Nora Roberts is a GR author
*Pages: 335

45/150
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20.1 Finland 100 Years!
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas,
*Option 2: snow on cover:

*Lisa Kleypas is a GR author
*Pages: 368

20.2 Lucky Charms

20.3. Hidden Figures

20.4 - April Showers
Option 1: The Charm School by Susan Wiggs, read 3/18/17 - 5*
*Susan Wiggs' initials are found in APRIL SHOWERS.
*Susan Wiggs is a GR author
*Pages: 391

20.5 It Was One of Those March Days...
Option 2: Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop, read 3/6/17 - 4*
*This book fits option 2, author initials are A.B. and are found in BEBOLDFORCHANGE
*Pages: 489

20.6 Batter Up!!
Option 3: Tempt Me at Twilight by Lisa Kleypas, read 3/13/17 - 5*
* This book was first published in 2009.
* Lisa Kleypas is a GR author
* Pages: 373

20.7 Play Ball!

20.8 Over and Under
Overruled by Emma Chase, read 3/29/17 - 3*
* Emma Chase is a GR author
* Pages: 259

20.9 Welcome to My Wheelhouse
Option 4: Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
by Jessica Day George, read 4/2/17 - 4*.
* This book is #31 on the Best Fairytales and Retellings list.
* Jessica Day George is a GR author.
* Pages: 330

20.10 Group Reads
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

120/180
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25.1 Spring Flowers
Book 1:
Book 2:

25.2 Who Am I? Where Am I?
Book 1: Passion by Lisa Valdez, read 4/2/17 - 4*
*The main character's name is Passion Elizabeth Dare
*Pages: 311
Book 2:

25.3 No More Wolves
Book 1: Saving Grace by Julie Garwood, read 3/19/17 - 5*
* No W, O, L, or F in the title/subtitle.
* Pages: 544 - I'm claiming one BB ticket
Book 2:

25.4 Sydney Harbour
Option 1: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor by Lisa Kleypas, read 3/13/17 - 4.5*
* Lisa Kleypas is a GR author
* Pages: 211
Option 3: Sweet Dreams by Kristen Ashley, read 3/1/17 - 4*
* Author initials are found in OUTBACK
* This book is 688p, I'm claiming one Big Book ticket.

25.5 Here Comes the Bride!
Option 1
A. The Lion's Lady by Julie Garwood, read 3/12/17 - 5*
* This book was published in 1988
* Pages: 360
* Julie Garwood is a GR author
B. Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop, read 3/7/17 - 4*
* This books was published in March 2017
*Pages 397

25.6 A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
Book 1:
Book 2: It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas, read 3/14/17, 5*
* This book's genre is "historical romance."
* Lisa Kleypas is a GR author
* Pages: 382

50/150
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30.1 In Honor of Earth Day - Two Halves of a Whole
Book 1 ("spring" in title): Scandal in Spring by Lisa Kleypas, read 3/2/17 - 5*
* Lisa Kleypas is a GR author
* Pages: 374
Book 2 (9th, 10th or 11th in series): Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, read 4/9/17 - 4*
* This is book # 10 in the Hercule Poirot series.
* Pages: 322

30.2 Modern and Contemporary Art
Book 1:
Book 2: One Dance with a Duke by Tessa Dare, read 3/13/17 - 4*
* The book was published in 2010, and the author initials T.D. are present in POST-MODERN ART.
* Tessa Dare is a GR author.
* Pages: 384

30.3 It's Elementary
Book 1:
Book 2:

30.4 A Pride of Lions or a School of Sharks
Book 1: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
* Sara Gruen is a GR author
* Pages: 350
* Elephants on cover

Book 2: The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah

30.5 There is No Frigate Like a Book
Book 1:Out Of Her League by Kaylea Cross, read 4/3/17 - 4.5*
* Pages: 296
* I go to the sports field by my apartment in the summer and sit out and read in the stands when there are no games on.

Book 2:

30/150
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50.1
Book 1:
Book 2:
Book 3:

0/50

GR authors:
BB Tickets:
Golden Oldies Tickets:
Total points: 350