Monthly Challenges discussion

Please post the tasks you have completed in this thread.

The following format is greatly appreciated:

Scoreboard name (if different from GR name)
Task # and Title
Link to book AND Author
Date book was completed
Points for this task
Pages for this task
Total Points
Total Pages
Rating (optional)
Review (optional)
Total Books (optional)

Scoreboard
(Updated- post #18)

Most Points
Tessa - 5
Linda C - 5
Amber - 2
**Marilyn - 6
Bethany - 3
Diana S - 12


Most Pages
Tessa - 1693
Linda C - 1363
Amber - 702
**Marilyn - 1707
Bethany - 1304
Diana S - 4023

TESSA

Task 1.4: Tea for Two Tuesday
Word "TUESDAY" in text
Affairs of Steak ✔ - 01Mar19 - 294 p
page 220 - "We meet with him Tuesday.

THIS TASK
Points earned - 1
Pages read - 294

Total points earned to date - 1
Total pages read to date - 294

TESSA

Task 2.1: Surprise Me Linda C picked for me
✔ - 01Mar19 - 335 pg
✔ - 06Mar19 - 448 pg


THIS TASK
Points earned - 2
Pages read - 783

Total points earned to date - 3
Total pages read to date - 1077

Task 1.1 I Want You to Be Happy Day (3/3)
Read a book that makes you Happy :D

Flipped – Wendelin Van Draanen (4 stars) 3/8/19 [212]

Task 1.4 Tea for Two Tuesday
Read a book with the word Tuesday in its text (give pg# & sentence)

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland – Jim DeFede (3 stars) 3/7/19 [260]
“All night Tuesday she expected the worst.” p. 101

Task 2.2 (Diana S task) We Bought A Zoo
1. Crocodiles
a. Read a book that has water on the cover (show cover).
(Saved by Pirates, #2) – G. Bailey (3 stars) 3/10/19 [304]

2. Sea Horses
b. Read a book with the number 8 in its page count.
Escape the Sea (Saved by Pirates, #1) – G. Bailey (3 stars) 3/9/19 [268]

Points these tasks - 4
Pages these tasks - 1044

Total points - 4
Total pages - 1044

2.2 (Diana S task) We Bought A Zoo
Two Books

A) Read a book that has water on the cover (show cover). -OR- the word lake(s) or river(s) in its title.
by Elizabeth Lynn Casey 03.13.19

pages 304

A)Read a book that starts with letter F-R- or Y (excluded the, an , a)
Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan03.06.19

pages 398

Task pages 702
Task points 2

2.1 Surprise Me
Read two books

1. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett--3/6/19--352 pages
2. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward--3/8/19--285 pages

Points this task--2
Pages this task--637

Total points--2
Total pages--637

1.3 Hug a GI Day
Read a book with a MC in the armed services. Bonus Point: If they served during WWII.

The Reckoning by John Grisham--3/2/19--The main character was in WWII, and an entire section takes place on the battlefields where he served, so he was actively serving in the military for part of the book--420 pages

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1.4 Tea for Two Tuesday
Read a book with teacup(s) on the cover (show cover), or the number 2 (two) in the title, or the word Tuesday in its text (give pg# & sentence)

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher--3/1/19--257 pages

The word Tuesday is on loc. 1680, and the sentence is "So there we were, Tuesday night sitting in the lurch that he would leave me in."

Points these tasks--3
Pages these tasks--677

Total points--5
Total pages--1314

1.1 I Want You to Be Happy Day (3/3)
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer by Harvey Karp 3/2/19

Points: 1
Pages: 336

1.3 Hug a GI Day
Watchers by Dean Koontz 3/9/19

Points: 1
Pages: 624

Total points: 2
Total pages: 960

1.5 (Linda C's task) Listopia: Microhistory:Social Histories of Just One Thing
#416, page #5
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang
3/17/19
Points: 1
Pages: 344

Total points: 3
Total pages: 1304

1.1 I Want You to Be Happy Day (3/3)
Read a book that makes you Happy :D

The Muse by Jessie Burton--3/19/19--I love the book's premise centering around an artist and her work, jumping between 1936 in Spain during its Civil War and in New York City at an art gallery in the 1967.--393 pages

Points this task: 1
Pages this task: 393

Total points: 6
Total pages: 1707

Welcome back Bethany!

TESSA

Task 1.7 - Auth F & L in SPRING HAS SPRUNG
Gail Honeyman / Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine ✔ - 15Mar19 - 327 p

THIS TASK
Points earned - 1
Pages read - 327


Total points earned to date - 4
Total pages read to date - 1404

TESSA

Task 1.1 - Want To Be Happy Day
A book that makes me happy
A River of Stars ✔ - 12Mar19 - 289 p

THIS TASK
Points earned - 1
Pages read - 289

Total points earned to date - 5
Total pages read to date - 1693

Task 1.7 (Tessa's task) Vernal Equinox is March 20.
Author First & Last initials in: SPRING HAS SPRUNG (ignore middle initials, if used)
Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer, #2) – Nora Roberts (3 stars) 3/29/19 [319]

Points this task - 1
Pages this task - 319

Total points - 5
Total pages - 1363

1.2 The power of ONE WORD
Sky in title

A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
(3/8/19) 366 pp. 4.5 ****

1.5 Listopia: Microhistory

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (3/17/19) 256 pp. 4 ****

1.7 Vernal Equinox
Author's initials: SpriNg Has Sprung

Noah Hawley's Before the Fall (3/10/19) 391 pp. 4 ****

Points Earned: 3
Pages Read: 1013

Surprise Me

1. A Time to Kill by John Grisham (3/28/19) 515 pp. 5*****

2. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll (3/19/19) 352 pp. 2**

Points Earned: 2
Pages Read: 867

2.2 We Bought A Zoo
a. water on cover

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan (3/31/19) 320 pp. 4 ****


b. 8 in page count

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (3/14/19) 358 pp. 3.5 ***

Points Earned: 2
Pages Read: 678

Total Points: 7
Total Pages: 2558

5.1 Dirty Cloud
Spell-out: SMOKE

Stage Zoje - Baby Teeth (3/15/19) 304 pp. 4****
MacLachlan, Patricia - Caleb's Story (3/21/19) 134 pp. 5*****
O'Reilly, Bill - Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation (3/29/19) 336 pp. 4****
Katarina Bivald's The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (3/24/19) 394 pp. 3.5 ***
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (3/3/19) 297 pp. 3.5***




Points Earned: 5
Pages Read: 1,465

Total Points: 12
Total Pages: 4023