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Mini-Challenge #2: June 2011- REPORT POINTS HERE
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Book: My Man Jeevesby P.G. Wodehouse
Pages: 256
Time Period: 1 pt - 1900s
Genre: 5 pt - Historical Fiction, Romance, Short Story or Anthology, Classic, Adventure
Locale: 1 pt - NY
Themes: 2 pt - Sports or entertainment, War
Titles: 2 pt - A Proper Name, An Adjective
Book Cover: 1 pt - Partial face (Profiles allowed)
Random Tasks: 3 pt - family saga, published between 1900-1999, by an author with three names (initials count)
June Events 0 pt -
Task points: 15
Page Bonus: 2
Total: 17
Total Challenge Points: 270
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Book: Not Forgotten by Nancy Holder
Pages: 242
Time Period: 4 pt - Pre-historic, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s
Genre: 7 pt - Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Locale: 3 pt - England, South America, US-NY
Themes: 3 pt - Exploration, Self-discovery, Hero Quest
Titles: 1 pt - A Proper Name
Book Cover: 2 pt - Partial face, yellow
Random Tasks: ? pt - family saga.
June Events ? pt - The Beatles, Father's Day
Task points: 22
Page Bonus: 2
Total: 24
Total Challenge Points: 294
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Book: Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row by Christopher Golden
Pages: 368
Time Period: 6 pt - Pre-historic, Medieval, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, Contemporary
Genre: 8 pt - Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Romance, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Locale: 9 pt - Africa, South America, England, Italy, Sweden, U.S. States - LA, GA, DC, NY
Themes: 6 pt - Exploration, War, Politics, Bibliophilia, Self-discovery, Hero Quest
Titles: 2 pt - A Proper Name, An Adjective
Book Cover: 3 pt - Partial face, Dress or gown, Yellow
Random Tasks: 1 pt - family saga.
June Events 1 pt - Juneteenth
Task points: 36
Page Bonus: 4
Total: 40
Total Challenge Points: 334
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Book: Jumper by Steven Gould
Pages: 352
Time Period: 1 pt - Contemporary
Genre: 4 pt - Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure
Locale: 14 pt - Africa, Canada, England, Italy, India, Middle East, U.S. States - LA, HI, GA, MN, OK, DC, NY
Themes: 4 pt - Exploration, War, Politics, Self-discovery,
Titles: 2 pt - One word title, An Adjective
Book Cover: 3 pt - Partial face, City or town, Yellow
Random Tasks: 2 pt - family saga, published between 1900-1999,
June Events 1 pt - In honor of - Father's Day, creation
Task points: 31
Page Bonus: 4
Total: 35
Total Challenge Points: 369 - 17 (remove traitor's wife) = 352
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Book: American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson
Pages: 268
Time Period: 2 pt - 1900s, Contemporary
Genre: 1 pt - Non-fiction
Locale: 3 pt - England, NY, DC
Themes: 3 pt - Exploration, Politics, Self-discovery
Titles: 2 pt - A Proper Name, An Adjective
Book Cover: 2 pt - Partial face, Star(s)
Random Tasks: 1 pt - family saga.
June Events 1 pt - Beatles
Task points: 15
Page Bonus: 2
Total: 17
Total Challenge Points: 369
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Book: Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid by Denis Leary
Pages: 240
Time Period: 2 pt - 1900s, Contemporary
Genre: 1 pt - Non-fiction
Locale: 3 pt - England, NY, DC
Themes: 3 pt - Exploration, Politics, War, Self-discovery
Titles: 1 pt - An Adjective
Book Cover: 2 pt - Partial face, Star(s), Yellow
Random Tasks: 1 pt - family saga.
June Events 2 pt - Beatles, Father's Day
Task points: 17
Page Bonus: 2
Total: 19
Total Challenge Points: 388
Hey challengers, I will post the final scoreboard tomorrow night. I want to give everyone a chance to get their books in tonight and I really don't want to the board twice. lol.
Unnatural Issue: An Elemental Masters Novel by Mercedes Lackey
400 pages = 4 points
Locale: England = 1 point
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure = 2 points
Time Period: 1900s = 1 point
Theme: Self-Discovery = 1 point
Title: Adjective (Unnatural) = 1 point
Cover: partial face, dress, color yellow = 3 points
June events: father = 1 point
book total: 14 points
Challenge total: 53 points
Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones
Time period: 1900's (1 point)
Genre: science fiction, fantasy, YA (3 points)
Locale: England (1 point)
Themes: exploration, self-discovery, hero quest (3 points)
Title: one word (1 point)
Cover: dog, stars, yellow (3 points)
Random: book originally published in 1975, three-named author (2 points)
Page count: 272 (2 points)
Book total: 16 points
by Zoë Ferraris393 pgs 4 pts
Time - Contemporary 1pt
Locale - Middle East 1pt
Cover - Partial Face, city/town 2pts
Book total 8 pts
Challenge total 150 pts
Hope I get this in in time."Sing You Home" by Jodi Piccoult
Time Period: Contemporary 1pt
Genre: Romance 1pt
Themes: Politics, Self-Discovery, LGBT 3pts
Random Tasks: Can't Wait Book List 1pt
June Events: Musiccian, Court Case 2pts
Book Pages: 466pgs 4pts
Book Total: 12
Grand Total: 104
It was a late night, but I finally finished Fall of Giants. Points as follows:985 pgs 8 pts
1900's. 1 pt
HF and Romance 2 pts
England and NY. 2 pts
Themes: War, Politics 2 pts
Father's Day: 1 pt
Book total. 16 pts
Challenge total: 31
Finishing my first group challenge....priceless!
Thanks to all for making this a fun group!
Finished one more book last night for the mini-challenge. Didn't get very many points this time but I've been trying to read books that people have given me so I can return them before we move.Someday Soonby Debbie Macomber
376 pages = 4 points
Time Perion:Contemporary = 1 point
Genre:Romance = 1 point
Random Task:Book published between 1990-1999 = 1 point
Task Total: 7 points
Challenge Total: 43 points
Congratulations to all the participants! You ladies did great!Kiri- 380
Butterflycager- 350
Shay- 335
LemonLinda- 175
Beth NC- 168
Luckngrace- 164
Cheryl- 150
Jen C- 148
Rachel- 142
KarenF- 133
Heather- 105
Jayme- 104
Becky- 98
Silver- 82
Alexandra- 77
Holly P- 73
Amy- 72
Kayla- 71
KristiJ- 69
Janice- 60
Diane Whitney- 60
Gayle- 53
Laura K- 52
Carla- 44
Jennifer- 43
Lisa- 39
ladywallingford- 37
Ellen- 34
Melissa- 34
Brittany- 34
Kate- 31
Robyn- 31
Babs- 20
Debbie- 15
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Kiri:
Not Forgotten: -1 proper name, -1 family saga, -2 the Beatles and Father's Day--- I can't tell these from the description
Spike and Dru: -1 family saga
Jumper: -1 adjective
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A Special Congratulations to our top three challengers:
Kiri- 19 reported books!!!
Butterflycager- 33 reported books!!!
Shay- 37 reported books!!!
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Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore
Time Period: Contemporary (+1)
Genre: Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure (+3)
Locale: Hawaii, South America (+2)
Title: Adjective (+1)
Cover: Yellow, Water (+2)
June Events: Native Americans (Hawaiians) (+1)
Page Points: 321 pages (+4)
Book total = 14
Final Challenge total = 148