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A-word Winning Troublemakers' Activities

A-word Winning Troublemakers Spreadsheet

9~ Almeta
3 ~ Amanda B
6 ~ Berit
4~Jamie
4~Kat
5~Kaylene
12~ Lanelle
7 ~Lara
5 ~ Lisa
4 ~ Liz
2 ~ Mariab
1 ~ Pandora
7 ~ Sam
11 ~ Susan
0 ~Tanita
9 ~Teanka
6 ~Theresa
A Beautiful Mind ~ ✔Liz, ✔Jamie, ✔Lisa, ✔Susan, ✔Theresa
Cool Runnings ~ ✔Susan, ✔Lanelle, ✔Lisa, ✔Kaylene, ✔Almeta, ✔Sam, ✔Theresa, ✔Amanda
Make a comment here when you have completed your task.

Come back to the same message and EDIT in order to add your next completion.

Whether in a cup or a glass, announce your drinking! TIME FOR TIPPLING

- Of course we have to drink with the characters in our books (double the amount if they’re drinking tea)
- Whenever someone wins something (doesn’t have to be an award)
- Whenever someone travels by plane, train, or automobile
- Whenever someone has dessert (a good drink is a great dessert)
- Whenever someone gets injured from a weapon
- Whenever something makes you burst out laughing


It's like a "As seen on TV" advertisement!!!

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE...

JUST FOR FUN Nominate Books for the Alternative Toppler Awards

Bald Archy Prize
This award is open to books with the worst cover.

Bulwer–Lytton Fiction Contest
This award is open to books with the worst opening sentence.
This award is also open to books with the worst title.


Darwin Awards
This award is open to books with one of the stupidest characters you have ever come across. If a significant character makes you want to reach into the book and slap them silly, that book qualifies.

Foot in Mouth Award
This award is open to books with a ridiculous plot or conversation by relatively sane and intelligent characters. If this makes you want to fling the book across the room, give them the award.

Golden Raspberry Awards
Given to the worst in film. Also known as the Razzies.
This award is open to books in the following categories:

Worst character
Worst partners (business, relationship)
Worst editing
Worst book

Bad Sex in Fiction Award
This award is open to books with really unsatisfying sex scenes (to read), or the worst description of a sex scene.

Can I come over and make false reports? ☺



(Heehee, don't tell Almeta but I'm going to delete this later so it won't mess up Trouble's reporting, and the I'll sneak in once in a while and make some fake posts.)

jaxnsmom wrote: "Can I come over and make false reports? ☺..."

Sure, as long as you report your points as well!☺

OK, but I'll be reporting to you what points I have earned for MY team! LOL

jaxnsmom wrote: "OK, but I'll be reporting to you what points I have earned for MY team! LOL"

lol No, no, that's not going to work!☺

Here we go!
Cool Runnings 5 points ✔
The Giver - Newbery Medal 10 points ✔
The House at Pooh Corner (1928) - Academy 15 points ✔
Island of the Blue Dolphins - Hans Christian Andersen 10 points ✔
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team - Olympics/actual Olympics athletes 15 points ✔
Out of His League - Other sports (American football and Australian Rugby League) 10 points ✔
Still Alice - Golden Globe 10 points ✔
A Beautiful Mind 5 points ✔
In the Bleak Midwinter - Agatha 10 points ✔
I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50 - Humor 10 points ✔
Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen - Food and Beverage 10 points ✔
Mumbo Gumbo - Left Coast Lefty Award 10 points ✔
Traveling with the Dead - Lord Ruthven (vampire fiction) 10 points ✔

Finished
5 points ✔ Cool Runnings
10 points ✔ Humor, Bank Shot, Donald E. Westlake
10 points ✔ Academy Award, The Wheel Spins, Ethel Lina White (The Lady Vanishes)


10 points ✔ Academy Award The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie

10 points ✔ Academy Award The Invention of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm



10 points ✔ Beauty The Sound and the Furry (A Chet and Bernie Mystery #6), Spencer Quinn 15 Jun

10 points✔ AVN Award (Adult industry) Tangled, Emma Chase
Caution! View this graphic at your own risk, after all I just read Erotica! Rated X☻
WHY STICK PEOPLE ARE EXTINCT: (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

✔15 points Academy, The Diary of a Nobody (1892)

✔10 points Food and Beverage, Monsieur Pamplemousse, Michael Bond


Golden Globe The Map of Time, Félix J. Palma, Premio Ateneo de Sevilla 10 points ✔

Susan wrote: "Here we go!
Cool Runnings 5 points ✔
A Beautiful Mind 5 points ✔
"

Susan, first to report!

The Giver - Newbery Medal 10 points ✔


The House at Pooh Corner (1928) Academy 15 points ✔"

"...Island of the Blue Dolphins 10 points ✔..."

...The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team - Olympics/actual Olympics athletes 15 points ✔ ..."



"...Out of His League - Other sports (American football and Australian Rugby League) 10 points ✔..."

Still Alice - Golden Globe 10 points ✔



In the Bleak Midwinter - Agatha 10 points ✔

I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50 - Humor 10 points ✔

Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen- Humor 10 points ✔


Mumbo Gumbo - Left Coast Lefty Award 10 points ✔

Traveling with the Dead- Lord Ruthven (vampire fiction) 10 points ✔

I've put a link to your thread in the top message so that you can find it easily!.

Come join us Susan discussing The Giver over in the buddy read thread. I'm really enjoying it. I've just got to the assignments part.

My post for recording books read. (And movies, too.)
Books read : 12

watched Cool Runnings 6/15/15

Academy Awards -
5 extra points for Around the World in Eighty Days 6/17/15 **** (pub. 1873)
5 extra points for The Hound of the Baskervilles 6/17/15 **** (pub. 1902)
5 extra points for The Thirty-Nine Steps 6/18/15 **** (pub. 1915)

Independent Film Awards -
The Other Slipper 6/18/15 *** 1/2
Not So Snow White 6/19/15 ***
Victor 6/20/15 ****

Olympics -
Letters to a Young Gymnast 6/13/15 **** (5 points extra for a real athlete)

Children's Lit (Newbery Honor) -
Hope Was Here 6/13/15 ***
The Tale of Despereaux 6/14/15 ***
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 6/16/15 ****

Humor -
Flying Dutch - 6/14/15 ****

Food and Beverage -
The Baker's Man - 6/15/15 ***

My first book was Imperfect Chemistry for Olympics (she does archery).
Book 2 was The Huntress for the Independent Film category
Number 3 was Last Call for SFF--it won both the Mythopeic and World Fantasy Awards
Fourth was The Colour of Magic for Humor
5th was Wickedest Witch for AVN Awards
#6 was Buck Fever and Edgar Award mystery nominee
And the 7th was Austenland by a winner of a Newberry Medal (it was also made into a movie)

Almeta wrote: "Susan wrote: "Here we go!
Cool Runnings 5 points ✔
The Giver - Newbery Medal 10 points ✔"

Susan, first to report!

I've put a link to your thread in the top message so that you c..."

Thanks! That's quite handy. :)

My Achievements:
A Little Princess - Academy Award 10 points + 5 points published before 1929
All the Birds, Singing - Miles Franklin Award (2014) 10 points
Watched Cool Runnings - 5 points
Little Women - Classics 10 points
Tom's Midnight Garden - Carnegie Medal 10 points
Looking for Alaska - Michael L Printz Award 10 Points

My post for recording books read and films watched:

Cool Runnings - 5 points.
A Beautiful Mind - 5 points.

Affinity by Sarah Waters - Emmy Award (there was a tv adaptation in 2008) - 10 points.
Sherlock: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - Academy Award - 10 points + 5 points if published before 1929.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) - 10 points.
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion - Humour - 10 points.
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo - Academy Award (there was a film released in 2012) - 10 points.

Lanelle wrote: "...

Olympics - Letters to a Young Gymnast, extra for a real athlete)"15 points ✔

Children's Lit (Newbery Honor) - Hope Was Here ..."10 points ✔

Humor - Flying Dutch - ..."10 points ✔



Children's Lit (Newbery Honor) The Tale of Despereaux" 10 points ✔

Food and Beverage - The Baker's Man 10 points ✔

Children's Lit (Newbery Honor) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH10 points ✔

Academy Award Around the World in Eighty Days (pub. 1873) 15 points ✔


Academy AwardSherlock: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (1902) - 15 points ✔

Academy AwardThe Thirty-Nine Steps - 15 points ✔

Indie - The Other Slipper 10 points ✔


Indie - Not So Snow White 10 points ✔


Independent Film Awards Victor - 10 points✔

Lara wrote: "My first book was Imperfect Chemistry for Olympics (she does archery)." 10 points ✔


"The Huntress for the Independent Film category" 10 points ✔

Last Call for SFF--it won both the Mythopeic and World Fantasy Awards 10 points ✔



The Colour of Magic for Humor 10 points ✔

Wickedest Witch for AVN Awards 10 points ✔


Buck Fever Edgar Award mystery nominee 10 points


Austenland by a winner of a Newberry Medal (it was also made into a movie) 10 points

Kaylene wrote:

"The Little Princess - Academy Award published before 1927 " 15 points ✔

"All the Birds, Singing - Miles Franklin Award" 10 points ✔


Little Women, Academy Awards before 1929 - 15 points✔


Tom's Midnight Garden - Carnegie Medal 10 points✔


Looking for Alaska - Michael L Printz Award 10 Points✔

I've finished my second book and put it on the spreadsheet. However, I will wait until tomorrow morning to post to the reporting thread as I'm on my tablet now.

My finished books thread:
1) Missing Person by Patrick Modiano (Nobel prize winner) - 10 pts
2) The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin (World Fantasy Award winner, Mythopoetic nominee 2002 - 10 pts
3) Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, SF, Hugo award - 10 pts
4) Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer prize - 10 pts
5) The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - 15 pts (made into movie and book written before 1929)
6) Lock In by John Scalzi, Alex award - 10 pts
7) The Forever War by Joe Haldeman SF, Hugo and Nebula awards - 10 pts
8) The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, SF, Hugo Award - 10 pts
9) Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro, Nobel prize - 10 pts
total 95 pts

Teanka wrote: "My finished books thread:

Missing Person by Patrick Modiano (Nobel prize winner) ..." 10 points ✔

"...The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin (World Fantasy Award winner, Mythopoetic nominee .." 10 points ✔

Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein, SF, Hugo award 10 points ✔


Gilead, Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer prize - 10 pts✔

The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells - 15 pts✔ (made into movie and book written before 1929)


Lock In by John Scalzi, Alex award - 10 pts✔

The Forever War, Joe Haldeman SF, Hugo and Nebula awards - 10 pts

The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick, SF, Hugo Award - 10 pts



Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro, Nobel prize - 10 pts

My Toppler Books

1World After 10 points
Self published
2 Just This Once self published 10 points

Berit wrote: "My Toppler Books

World After Self published" 10 points ✔

"Just This Once self published" 10 points ✔


AVN Overruled 10 points ✔





INDE Just Good Friends 10 points ✔


INDE The Art Forger 10 points ✔


YA Prince award The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks 10 points ✔

My Toppler Report: 85 points earned

1) Ross Poldark by Winston Graham for the Emmy Awards. This series has twice been made into a TV series by a BBC/PBS collaboration, with the most recent premiering on PBS next Sunday. 10 points

2) The Road by Cormac McCarthy for Pulitzer. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007. 10 points

3) The Awakening by Kate Chopin for Academy Awards. This book, published in 1899, was made into a movie in 1991 titled Grand Isle. 15 points

4) Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy for Academy Awards. This book, published in 1874, was made into movies in 1967 and 2015. 15 points

5) Beauty's Kingdom by A.N. Roquelaure aka Anne Rice for the AVN Award. This is the 4th and most recent book of the erotic Sleeping Beauty series. 10 points

6) Watched Cool Runnings for 5 points

7) Watched A Beautiful Mind for 5 points

8) Finished Black Beauty by Anna Sewell for Academy Awards. This book was published in 1877 and made into movie several times. 15 points

Finished books
The Road
The Exorcist
All the Birds, Singing
3,096 Days

Total: 40 points

I watched A Beautiful Mind last night for 5 points.
Finished:
Gilead - Pulitzer - 10 pts
Amsterdam - Booker - 10 pts
The Haunting of Hill House - Penguin Classics -10 pts
Slaughterhouse-Five - Hugo - 10 points

Total 45 points

Almeta wrote: "Everyone who has reported in should have a link to their thread here in message 1."

I reported my first finish in Message #27 but am not linked yet in Message #1.

Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "My Toppler Report: 10 points earned

1) Ross Poldark by Winston Graham for the Emmy Awards. This series has twice been made into a TV series by a BBC/PBS collaboration,... 10 points ✔

"The Road by Cormac McCarthy for Pulitzer. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007. " 10 points ✔


"The Awakening by Kate Chopin for Academy Awards. This book, published in 1899, was made into a movie in 1991 titled Grand Isle" 15 points ✔

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy for Academy Awards. This book, published in 1874, was made into movies in 1967 and 2015. 15 points✔


Beauty's Kingdom by A.N. Roquelaure aka Anne Rice for the AVN Award. This is the 4th and most recent book of the erotic Sleeping Beauty series. 10 points✔


Black Beauty, Anna Sewell for Academy Awards. This book was published in 1877 and made into movie several times. 15 points✔

Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "Almeta wrote: "Everyone who has reported in should have a link to their thread here in message 1."

I reported my first finish in Message #27 but am not linked yet in Message #1."

Hmm was it not working or just not there?

I was probably linking it up as you were messaging me.

Kat wrote: "I finished ...

The Road " 10 points ✔

" The Exorcist for Academy Awards" 10 points ✔


All the Birds, Singing for Miles Franklin 10 points ✔

Academy 3,096 Days, 10 points✔

Almeta wrote: "Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "Almeta wrote: "Everyone who has reported in should have a link to their thread here in message 1."

I reported my first finish in Message #27 but am not linked yet in Me..."

It's linked now...thanks!

I have finished my first book in Children's Lit for the Newberry Medal calledDoll Bones

I have updated message 25 to reflect my first finished book
Gilead.

Booooorrrrrrrrinnnnnggg.

Liz wrote: "...Booooorrrrrrrrinnnnnggg."

I am sorry that your book was not enjoyable. Thanks for sticking with it for the team.

Do you haave another more promising one coming up?

Gilead - Pulitzer" 10 points ✔


Amsterdam~ Booker 10 points ✔

The Haunting of Hill House - Penguin Classics -10 pts✔


Slaughterhouse-Five for Hugo - 10 points✔.

Liz wrote: "I have updated message 31 to reflect my first finished book
Gilead.

Booooorrrrrrrrinnnnnggg."

Liz, you can nominate it as "Worst Book" for the Golden Raspberry Award!

I stuck with it because I've been wanting to read it for a long time. I've had it on my physical bookshelf, unread, since 2004, plus it's book one of a series, so I can count it toward the series challenge. The second book in the series is on the 1001 list that I'm also trying to make a dent in, so no harm no foul! :)

Jamie wrote: "I have finished my first book in Children's Lit for the Newberry Medal called Doll Bones" 10 points ✔



The World We Found 10 points ✔


Boomerang Bride for the Rita Award 10 poiints✔


Union Atlantic for the LAMBDA award for gay fiction 10 points✔

Almeta wrote: "Jamie wrote: "I have finished my first book in Children's Lit for the Newberry Medal called Doll Bones"

Excellent! What's next?

Finished The World We Found for LAMBDA award for lesbian fiction.

I just finished Boomerang Bride for the Rita Award

Now starting Union Atlantic


I am having trouble adding my books to the spreadsheet. I can't seem to edit it. Can someone help me please?

Lisa wrote: "...Affinity by Sarah Waters - Emmy Award (there was a tv adaptation in 2008) ...." 10 points ✔

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle - Academy 15 points ✔

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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (hide spoiler)]

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) - 10 points✔.



The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion - Humour - 10 points✔.



Private Peaceful, Michael Morpurgo - Academy Award (there was a film released in 2012) - 10 points✔.

OMG! I figured it out! I edited my above post ;-)

Berit wrote: "OMG! I figured it out! I edited my above post ;-)"

I finished . I'm still trying to figure out if I found it depressing because I've been in a strange mood this week, or if it is just a depressing book. I did enjoy it though. I read it for Academy Award (book which has been made into a movie.)

I also read Unleashed (Erotica) and The Windup Girl (Nebula award).

I watched Cool Runnings, too.

Amanda wrote: "I finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower. ..." 10 points✔



AVN Unleashed for my second book instead. 10 poiints ✔



Nebula award, The Windup Girl 10 points✔


Cool Runnings 5 points✔

Finished
Farmer in the Sky by Heinlein, for SF Hugo Award. 10 points. (Im in the app now, so I cant edit anything)

Finished
The Wickedest Witch for AVN Award (Adult industry) 10 points

Mariab wrote: "Finished
Farmer in the Sky by Heinlein, for SF Hugo Award." 10 points ✔

Wickedest Witch for AVN Award (Adult industry) 10 points ✔

Thanks for the lovely gif Almeta!
And very apt for the book's plot too!!!

I've finished The Exorcist for Academy Awards and updated the spreadsheet.

Go team!

Just reporting my first book finish with How To Build A Girl for humorous book. Can't add a link or update the spreadsheet as ising the app and it won't let me...grrrr

Sam wrote: "Just reporting my first book finish with

How To Build A Girl humor.... " 10 points ✔



Academy, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer 15 points ✔


Cool Runnings 5 points✔

horror awards, Doctor Sleep 10 points ✔


Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson also gets a grand 15 points✔

The Life of Mammals, David Attenborough for Beauty-10 points✔


Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan -10 points✔


Mrs Fry's Diary by Mrs. Stephen Fry, both for humorous books -10 points✔

Hahaha love this pic^^ Almeta, it suits perfectly the title :)

Mariab wrote: "Thanks for the lovely gif Almeta!
And very apt for the book's plot too!!!"

You are welcome!