If you want to create a plan of what your going to read for all of this seasons tasks you can post the information in this thread. It IS NOT a requirement of the challenge that you create such a list but I know some people have found it helpful.

5 Points

10 Points

15 Points
15.8 Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson / Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs

20 Points

25 Points
3. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
5. TBD / The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
6. Rainbow Valley - L.M. Montgomery
8. TBD / On the Banks of Plum Creek - Laura Ingalls Wilder

*Books I own

5 Points
1. Disney: Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie*
2. Betsy Ross: Until I Find You - John Irving*
3. Royal Reading: King Lear - Shakespeare*
4. Winning Reading: (Pulitzer Prize): The Road* or Interpreter of Maladies* or Olive Kitteredge or Oscar Wao
5. Librarian Pick: TBD
6. Dirty Job: Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
7. Chinese New Year: The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath*
8. Cozy Mystery: And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie*
9. Romantic: The History of Love - Nicole Krause*
10. Alliteration: Nicholas Nickelby* or The Pickwick Papers* or Sense and Sensibility or The Master and Margarita* or When We Were Orphans*

10 Points
1. Circus: A Son of the Circus - John Irving*
2. Louis Braille: Talk Talk - T.C. Boyle* or Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor*
3. Harlem Rennaissance: Beloved - Toni Morrison*
4. Winner 5 Star:
ROSEANN: The Zookeeper’s Wife*
DIANE: Middlesex*
WENDY: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, The Woman in White*, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo*, The Angel's Game
5. Popularity Contest: The Last Dickens - Matthew Pearl
6. Local Lit: (Olympia) Jane Eyre* (Tamara) or Thirteen Reasons Why (Heather)
7. TV Show: (Lost) The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne*
8. Canada: Generation A - Douglas Coupland
9. Hawaii: Fluke - Christopher Moore*
10. Russia: The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky*

15 Points
1. Black Comedy: Infinite Jest - DFW* or Hocus Pocus - Vonnegut* or Ulysses - Joyce
2. Lewis Carroll: something by Alice Hoffman* and Absurdistan*
3. Women Writers: (series) A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle*
(non-fic) Flannery O'Connor: A Proper Scaring - Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner
4. Fun and Games:
5. 5 Star Countries: ( C - Rob from Cape Verde): Middlesex* or Under the Banner of Heaven*
(P - Mimi from Poland): The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle*, An Artist of the Floating World, or The Master and Margarita*
6. Gifts and Giving;
7. Food: The Pioneer Woman Cooks - Ree Drummond
8. Holiday: (book)
(movie) Four Christmases
9. Old/New: (old): Life After God - Douglas Coupland*
(new): You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas - Augusten Burroughs
10. Remembrance: (author): Concrete Island - JG Ballard or The Basketball Diaries - Jim Carroll*
(movie): Sixteen Candles (director John Hughes died Aug 6, 2009)

20 Points

25 Points
1. Bonnie: PENDING
2. Helen (sci-fi): Stranger in a Strange Land or Something Wicked This Way Comes (past)
Under the Dome - Stephen King (current)
3. BJ Rose (snowed in): TBD
4. Resolution: A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor (fic) & The Five Love Languages of Marriage* (non-fic)
5. Posthumous: (narrator): Death of an Ordinary Man - Glen Duncan*
(author): The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens* or Persuasion - Jane Austen* or Suite Francaise - Nemirovsky*
6. Dream Vacation:(London) Our Mutual Friend - Dickens*
7. Multi-Task: At Swim -Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien* (fits black comedy and color by numbers)
8. Lewis & Clark: (person): Streams to the River, River to the Sea - Scott O'Dell (fiction)
(event): The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride - Daniel James Brown (non-fiction)
9. Newberry Award: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler* & Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me - Konigsburg*
10. Color by Numbers: (color): The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories*
(number): The 158-Pound Marriage - John Irving*

30 Points
1. Dewey Decimal:
2. Winter Vacation: (Northern Lights) A Northern Light* & The Unbearable Lightness of Being*
3. Time: A Widow For One Year - John Irving* or The Hour I First Believed*

5.1 Disney: (Beauty and the Beast) Beauty by Robin McKinley
5.2 Flag: High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
5.3 Royal: The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory OR The Hidden Queen by Alma Alexander
5.4 Winning Decade: 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Literature – The Known World by Edward P Jones
5.5 Librarian: A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris OR The Demon’s Librarian by Lilith Saintcrow
5.6 Dirty Job: Taxi Driver – Hack by Melissa Plaut
5.7 Chinese New Year:
5.8 Cozy Mystery: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris
5.9 Romantic: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
5.10 Alliteration: Blood Bank by Tanya Huff OR The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J Sullivan OR Ella Enchanted by Gail Levine OR Pretty in Plaid by Jen Lancaster


10.1 Circus: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
10.2 Five Senses: A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts OR This is All I Ask by Lynn Kurland
10.3 African American: A Mercy by Toni Morrison OR The Color Purple by Alice Walker

10.4 Winner’s Choice:
PJREADS: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
DONNA JO (private)
DLM ROSE (private)
ROSEANN: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Wind in the Willows, The Zookeeper’s Wife
DIANE: Middlesex, The Kite Runner, Night, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Life of Pi, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Red Tent, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Like Water for Chocolate
WENDY: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, The Kite Runner, The Secret Life of Bees, The Dante Club, Across the Nightengale Floor, Cryptonomicon, Grass for His Pillow, The Green Mile, Better, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Ella Enchanted, Siddhartha, The Thief Lord, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Dragon’s Kin, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Salmon of Doubt, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Kabul Beauty School, The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem’s Eye, Ptolemy’s Gate, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, The Red Tent, The Virgin’s Lover, The Poisonwood Bible, Snowflower and the Secret Fan, Night, The Bookseller of Kabul, Catch-22, Sophie’s World, Coyote Blue
JAN THE GRYPHON (private)
KARI: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, A Lion Called Christian, Catlore
RACHEL LEE: Ella Enchanted, City of Bones
TERESA IN OHIO (private)

10.5 Popularity: Pretty in Plaid by Jen Lancaster OR Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris OR Shanghai Girls by Linda See OR Storm Glass by Maria V Snyder OR The City & The City by China Mieville OR Monster A Lee Martinez OR The Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts OR Magic in the Blood by Devon Monk

10.6 Local Literature: The Stand by Stephen King, The Young Unicorns, The Tender Bar, A Thousand Splendid Suns, High Fidelity, The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees, We Were the Mulvaneys, A Thousand Acres, Small Changes, Corelli’s Mandolin, The Hot Zone, My Sister’s Keeper,

10.7 Small Screen: (Sesame Street) Sesame Street: A Celebration of 40 Years of Life on the Street by Louis A Gikow
10.8 Canada: Smoke and Shadows by Tanya Huff
10.9 Hawaii: Fluke by Christopher Moore
10.10 Russia: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

15.1 Black Comedy: Pride and Predjudice and Zombies, Catch-22, The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-time, You Suck, The Satanic Verses, Gravity’s Rainbow, Slaughterhouse Five,
15.2 Alice/Lewis or Fictional Land: Cape Storm by Rachel Caine OR Lucky by Alice Sebold or Educating Alice by Alice Steinbach
15.3 Women:
15.4 Fun and Games: The Crossword Obsession by Coral Amende, Crossword Puzzles
15.5 Readers Unite: (Japan -- Kirei) The Good Earth or The Remains of the Day or Murder on the Orient Express (Luxembourg – Henry Dixon) Never Let Me Go or The French Lieutenant’s Woman or Becoming a Man or A Prayer for Owen Meany or The Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Pillars of the Earth
15.6 Giving/Gifting: Adopt A Family Holiday Project and (paying off school debt) Moo by Jane Smiley
15.7 Cooking:
15.8 Holidays:
15.9 Old/New: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and She by H Rider Haggard
15.10 Dead People: A Season in Hell by Marilyn French
Sixteen Candles directed by John Hughes
20.1 TBA
20.2 TBA
20.3 TBA

25.1 TBA
25.2 TBA 25.3 About Time:
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
Remains of the Day by Kazue Ishiguro
The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
25.4 Resolutions: Eat Less Processed Food
PartA: The Food of Love by Anthony Capella
PartB: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
25.5 Posthumously Speaking:
PartA: A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb OR Where I Want to Be by Adele Griffin
PartB: 2666 by Roberto Bolano
25.6 Winter Staycation: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Europe by Reid Bramblett OR Almost French by Sarah Turnbull
25.7 Multi-tasking: Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Reader’s Unite and About Time) OR The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-time (Winner’s Choice and Black Comedy)
25.8 Lewis & Clark:
PartA: Lewis and Clark Among the Indians by James P Ronda
PartB: Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow or Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
25.9 Newberry: 1968 Medal Winner: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (Honor book: The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell)
OR 2004 Medal Winner: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo (Honor book: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes)
25.10 Color By Numbers:
Blue Moon Rising by Simon A Green OR Low Red Moon by Caitlin Kiernan OR Blue Diablo by Ann Aguirre
One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost OR A Thousand Words for Stranger by Julie E Czerneda

30.1 Dewey Decimal
30.2 Winter Vacation: Cozy Fire
Cozy Interiors by Jessica Lawson
Dies the Fire by S M Stirling


50 TBA

5 POINT TASKS
1. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY (The Little Mermaid OR Beauty and the Beast):
2. SHE WAS A GRAND OLD FLAG MAKER:
3. ROYAL READING:
4. A WINNING DECADE:
5. A LIBRARIAN'S JOB IS NEVER DONE: Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter
6. IT'S A DIRTY JOB BUT…:
7. EYING THE YEAR OF THE TIGER (Rabbit): Sabriel by Garth Nix OR [something:] by Charles de Lint
8. BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE : The Tale of Hill Top Farm by Susan Wittig Albert* OR Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton
9. ISN'T IT ROMANTIC:
10. THE ALLURE OF ALLITERATION:

10 POINT TASKS
1. UNDER THE BIG TOP: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn* OR Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter*
2. LOUIS LOUIS:
3. RENAISSANCE READING: The Color Purple by Alice Walker*
4. WINNERS CHOICE:
5. POPULARITY CONTEST: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
6. LOCAL LITERATURE LOVERS: Soulless by Gail Carriger OR Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co. by Maria Amparo Escandon OR The Help by Kathryn Stockett
7. SMALL SCREEN STORIES:
8. OH CANADA!: [something:] by Charles de Lint OR Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay*
9. REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR:
10. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy*

15 POINT TASKS
1. MAKE ME LAUGH:
2. ADVENTURES WITH ALICE AND LEWIS: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis OR Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin AND
3. WHAT WOMEN WANT (TO READ AND WRITE):
4. IT'S ALL ABOUT FUN AND GAMES:
5. READERS ROUND THE WORLD UNITE: Catch-22 OR Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell from Michel Vuijlsteke's profile (Belgium) AND Women Who Run With the Wolves* OR Winnie-the-Pooh OR The Wind in the Willows* from Hope Swann's profile (Mexico)
6. THE SEASON OF GIFTING & GIVING:
7. FOOD + FAMILY AND/OR FRIENDS = READING FUN: Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran
8. SILVER SCREEN CELEBRATIONS: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens AND A Christmas Story
9. OUT WITH THE OLD & IN WITH THE NEW BOOKS: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez* AND Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse*
10. WE WILL REMEMBER YOU: The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike OR The Glass of Time by Michael Cox AND a movie w/ an actor, actress or director who died in 2009

20 POINT TASKS
1. MOST IMPROVED PLAYER - PENDING
2. ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - PENDING
3. GROUP READS: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

25 POINT TASKS
1. BONNIE'S TASK - PENDING:
2. HELEN'S TASK - SCIENCE FICTION - PAST AND PRESENT:
3. BJ ROSE'S TASK - SNOWED IN AND LOVING IT:
4. ROSEANN'S TASK - READ ABOUT YOUR RESOLUTION:
5. DIANE'S TASK - POSTHUMOUSLY SPEAKING: Saving Fish From Drowning: A Novel by Amy Tan OR A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb AND The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov*
6. WENDY'S TASK - WINTER VACATION DREAMS: Las Vegas Noir by Todd James Pierce*
7. JAN THE GRYPHON’S TASK - MULTI-TASKING:
8. KARI ♪'S TASK - EXPLORING WITH LEWIS AND CLARK:
9. RACHEL LEE'S TASK - THE NEWBERRY AWARD: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz AND Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
10. THERESA IN OHIO'S TASK - COLOR BY NUMBERS: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig* AND 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff*

30 POINT TASKS
1. PJ READS - FUN WITH THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM:
2. DONNA JO'S TASK - GOING ON A WINTER VACATION: Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name AND The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3. DLM ROSE'S TASK - IT'S ABOUT TIME: Sin in the Second City


50 POINT MIDWAY TASK

An asterisk (*) indicates that I currently own the book.

5 POINT TASKS
1. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY Peter Pan in Scarlet
2. SHE WAS A GRAND OLD FLAG MAKER Look Who It Is! My Story
3. ROYAL READING The Little Princesses The Story of the Queen's Childhood by her Nanny, Marion Crawford
4. A WINNING DECADE IRISH POPULAR FICTION BOOK- This Charming Man
5. A LIBRARIANS JOB IS NEVER DONE The Shadow of the Wind
6. IT'S A DIRTY JOB BUT…Day Job, The Adventures of a Jobbing Gardener
7. EYING THE YEAR OF THE TIGER - DRAGON- 1952 -Wedding Season
8. BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE Death of an Outsider
9. ISN'T IT ROMANTIC - A Hopeless Romantic
10. THE ALLURE OF ALLITERATION -Déjà Dead
10 POINT TASKS
1. UNDER THE BIG TOP -
2. LOUIS LOUIS - Emma and I
3. RENAISSANCE READING -
4. WINNERS CHOICE -
5. POPULARITY CONTEST –
Time of My Life
6. LOCAL LITERATURE LOVERS - Libbeth- Pride and Prejudice
7. SMALL SCREEN STORIES -
8. OH CANADA! -
The Tenderness of Wolves A Novel9. REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR -
10. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE - From Russia with Love
15 POINT TASKS
1. MAKE ME LAUGH -
2. ADVENTURES WITH ALICE AND LEWIS -
3. WHAT WOMEN WANT (TO READ AND WRITE) -
4. IT'S ALL ABOUT FUN AND GAMES -
5. READERS ROUND THE WORLD UNITE -
Khazakstan- NEUTRINO- Heidi
FRANCE- PARAPH - The Jungle Books
6. THE SEASON OF GIFTING & GIVING -
7. FOOD + FAMILY AND/OR FRIENDS = READING FUNFast Cakes
8. SILVER SCREEN CELEBRATIONS
9. OUT WITH THE OLD & IN WITH THE NEW BOOKS- Memoirs of a Geisha
10. WE WILL REMEMBER YOU Sheila Walsh(born in my local town)- Until tomorrow

20 POINT TASKS
20.1 MOST IMPROVED PLAYER - PENDING
20.2 ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - PENDING
20.3 GROUP READS
Read One Of The Following Group Read Selections And Make At Least One Post In The Discussion Thread.
A. Classic
B. Winter
C. Romance A PRINCESS BRIDE

25 POINT TASKS
1
2 SCI FI
3. 4. ROSEANN'S TASK - READ ABOUT YOUR RESOLUTION
5. DIANE'S TASK - POSTHUMOUSLY SPEAKING the Book Thied
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
6. WENDY'S TASK - WINTER VACATION DREAMSBeach Girls
Warm-
7. JAN THE GRYPHON’S TASK - PENDING
8. KARI ♪'S TASK - EXPLORING WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
9. RACHEL LEE'S TASK - THE NEWBERRY AWARD
10. THERESA IN OHIO'S TASK - COLOR BY NUMBERS Green Grass
700 Sundays _ Billy Crystal
30
1. PJ READS TASK - FUN WITH THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM
2. DONNA JO'S TASK - GOING ON A WINTER VACATION
3.DLM ROSE'S TASK - IT'S ABOUT TIME The Cinderella Hour

50 POINT MIDWAY TASK

5 Points

1. Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
(Peter Pan)
2.A Catch-22 by Joseph Helle
OR
2.B The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester OR Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
3.A The Once and Future King by T.H. White
OR
3.B Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean P. Sasson
4. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
5.A PENDING
OR
5.B Here Lies the Librarian OR The Book of Flying by Keith Miller
6.A Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
OR
6.B PENDING
7. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
8. Quieter than Sleep by Joanne Dobson
9. Chocolat by Joanne Harris
10. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli


10 Points

1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
2. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers OR Things Not Seen by Andrew Clemens
3. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
4. The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker (Donna Jo's list)
5. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (January 2009)
6. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
7. The Recruit by Robert Muchamore (related to childhood television's Kim Possible)
8. Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy OR The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander


15 Points

1. Jennifer Government by Max Barry OR Feed by M.T. Anderson
2.A The Color Purple by Alice Walker
AND
2.B Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
3.A Tithe by Holly Black
AND
3.B Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
4.A Hide and Seek by James Patterson
AND
4.B (Play hide-and-seek)
5.A Mariana by Susanna Kearsley (Fiordiligi: Austria)
AND
5.B Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars (Nathaniel Calhoun: Liberia)
6.A The Piano Tuner: A Novel by Daniel Mason (related to the gift of music and the piano, given by my father.)
AND
6.B Giving back: Donating food to feed the hungry and volunteering.
7.A Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel
AND
7.B PENDING recipe
8.A A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (New Years' Eve)
AND
8.B MOVIE PENDING
9.A Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn
AND
9.B At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel by Jamie O'Neill
10.A Rabbit, Run by John Updike
AND
10.B Movie: The Handmaid's Tale with Natasha Richardson


20 Points

1. PENDING
2. PENDING
3.A Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
OR
3.B The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0 by Christopher Moore
OR
3.C The Princess Bride by William Goldman


25 Points

1. PENDING
2.A Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (published 1953)
AND
2.B Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (published 2008)
AND
2.C Comment on the differences between the two novels and speculate on why (i.e. authors' styles, timeframe in whcih they were written, topic choice, etc.)
3. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (335 pages)
AND
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (536 pages)
Total pages: 871
4.A Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
AND
4.B Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
5.A Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
AND
5.B The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
6. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Barcelona, Spain) OR The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke (Venice, Italy)
7. The Fierce and Beautiful World by Andrei Platonov
Applies to 15.5 (B: country corresponding to last name) and 10.9 (Russia)
8.A Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose (nonfiction: Meriwether Lewis and the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase)
AND
8.B These Is My Words by Nancy E. Turner (fiction: American West, late 1800s)
8.C Why I would've liked/disliked living in that time period.
9. A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (2001 Newbery Medal) AND The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (2001 Newbery Honor) OR Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (2001 Newbery Honor)
Which was better?
10.A A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess OR Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
AND
10.B Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut OR Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher OR 2666 by Roberto Bolano


30 Points

1.A Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
AND

5.1 Peter Pan by JM Barrie
5.2 If I Stay by Gayle Foreman
5.3 The Lady in the Tower by Allison Weir
5.4 A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif(Commonwealth Award 2009)
5.5 The Time-Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger
5.6 Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
5.7 Pillars of Earth by Ken Follett
5.8 Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowan
5.9 The Sapphire Rose by David Eddings
5.10 Sense and Sensability by Jane Austen

10.1 Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
10.2 Blindness by Jose Saramago
10.3 Jazz by Toni Morrison
10.4 1000 Splendid Suns by Khalad Hosseini(PJReads)
10.5 The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
10.6 Anna Karenina (5 star read of Don H)
10.7 Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy or one of the Buffy graphic novels
10.8 The Outlander by Gil Adamson
10.9 Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
10.10 Invitation to a Beaheading by Vladimir Nabakov

15.1 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
15.2 The Yellow Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee and The Ruby Knight by David Eddings
15.3 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins and The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser
15.4 The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Canon Doyle
15.5 Maus by Art Spiegelman (Max in Russia) and The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman(Charlotte in Korea, Democratic People's Republic)
15.6 The Photograph by Penelope Lively
15.7 Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
15.8 The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
15.9 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Coraline by Niel Gaiman
15.10 The Diamond Throne by David Eddings

20.3 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

25.3 Open
25.4 ? and The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
25.5 In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater Rose and The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
25.6 Winter in Madrid
25.7 The Hidden City by David Eddings (5.3, 15.2, 15.10)
25.8 Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose and Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingells Wilder
25.9 From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler and The Egypt Game
25.10 Devil in a Blue Dress and Four Loves by CS Lewis

30.1 Orient Express by Graham Greene (385-rail travel) and Carrie by Stephen King (133-parapsychology and occultism)
30.2 ? and Domes of Fire by David Eddings
30.3 My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park

I am going to actually do one of these this time!

5 points
1. Related to favorite Disney film:

2. R/W/B color OR "stars" or "stripes" in title: Stargirl

3. Featuring a monarch: The Constant Princess

4. Literary award winner 2000-2009:

5. Recommended by a librarian or about a librarian:

6. About a job you could never imagine doing:

7. Dragon Zodiac sign:

8. Cozy Mystery:

9. Love, romance, cupid, sweetheart, valentine, heart, kiss, chocolate, rose, or jewelry in title:

10. Alliteration: Revolutionary Road


10 points
1. Circus, circus performers, circus animals:

2. Novel where character is missing one of their senses OR non-fiction account of someone missing at least one sense:

3. Novel by an African American with an African American protagonist: Minion

4. 5-Star book from one of the FC winners: Wendy read it and rated it 5*Stars Xenocide

5. Popular books from June 2009:

6. 5-Star read from someone else who lives in SA: Melissa from SA, TX rated A Wizard of Earthsea as 5-Stars

7. Read a book inspired by your favorite television show: From Dead to Worse - True Blood. Alias is my all-time favorite TV show, but I've read all the books

8. Canada theme:

9. Hawaii theme:

10. Russian theme: Resurrection


15 points
1. Black comedy or satirical novel AND black comedy or satirical film:

2. With character OR author named Alice/Lewis AND a novel that takes place in a fictional land:

3. Female author with female main character AND biography of a female you admire:

4. Book with game title AND spend an hour or more playing the game:

5. 5-Star read of the first person from a country that starts with "A"
Afghanistan - Paul Daigle rated The Subtle Knife as 5-Stars
5-Star read of the first person from a country that starts with "B"
Brazil - Dina rated The Secret Garden as 5-Stars

6. Relates to best gift you've been given (state who and why) AND spend some time volunteering:

7. Read a novel with recipes or a cookbook AND cook one of the recipes for family or friends:

8. Read any book (100 pg+) that relates to any holiday during this challenge AND watch a film that involves the same holiday:

9. Read the book that's been on TBR shelf/pile the longest AND read a book by an author you've never read before:

10. Read a book by an author who died in 2009 AND watch a film starring an actor/actress who died in 2009:


20 points
1. Most improved player:

2. Rookie of the season:

3. Group read:


25 points
1. pjreads task - Dewey Decimal System (2 books):

2. Donna Jo's task - winter vacation:

3. DLM rose's task - read a book with a "time" word in the title: The Hour I First Believed A Novel

4. Roseann's task - read about resolution (fiction AND non-fiction):

5. Diane's task - read a book with a narrator who was deceased before the story started AND read a book that was first published after the death of the author:

6. Wendy's task - read a book that takes place in your dream vacation spot and tell us where and why:

7. Jan the Gryphon's task - read a book that will fit into 2+ tasks for the winter challenge and tell which tasks. Only count your points here: Outlander fits the first part of 15.3 (woman protagonist and woman author) and 15.9 (by an author I've never read before)

8. Kari's task - fiction and non-fiction book related to Lewis and Clark:

9. Rachel Lee's task - Newberry award winner and honor book:

10. Theresa in Ohio's task - bright or happy color word in title AND a book with a number in the title


50 points

5 Points:

1. Disney: Snow: A Retelling
2. RWB: A Farewell to Arms
3. Monarch: The Other Boleyn Girl
4. Award: Middlesex
5. Library: Pride and Prejudice or Hunger Games
6. Worst Job: Cannery Row
7. OX: The God of Small Things
8. Mystery: Agatha Christie?
9. Love: Love in the Time of Cholera
10. Alliteration: Sense and Sensibility

10 Points:
1. Circus- Geek Love: A Novel
2. Senses: Blindness
3. Renaissance: The Bluest Eye
4. Winner: The Curious Incident of Dog at Nighttime
5. Popular: ?
6. Local: The Alchemist or HP
7. TV: Dead Until Dark
8. Canada: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
9. Hawaii: East Wind Rain
10. Russia: Crime and Punishment

15 Points:
1. Black Com: Catch-22
2. Alice & Lewis: A Grief Observed & The Handmaid's Tale
3. Female series: A Great and Terrible Beauty & Edie
4. Games: (War)--Suite Francaise
5. Around the World: The Glass Castle & Everything is Illuminated
6. Gift: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
7. Recipes: Like Water From Chocolate
8. Holiday: Skipping Christmas
9. OLD/NEW: The Great Gatsby & Never Let me Go
10. John Updike

20 points:

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2.
3.

25 Points:

1. Bonnies
2. Farenheit 451 & The Hunger Games
3. tbd
4. The Worst Hard Time & Time Management from the inside out
5. The Lovely Bones & Persuasion
6. Neither Here Nor There
7. Nineteen Minutes ?
8. Undaunted Courage; Little HOuse on the Prairie
9. The Graveyard Book & Savvy
10. The Red Tent & The Five Love Languages

30 Points:

1. The Lolita Effect & My Sister's Keeper
2. Northern Lights & Through Painted Deserts
3. Me Talk Pretty One Day

5 POINT TASKS
1. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY - In Honor Of Walt Disney (Born December 5, 1901 – Died December 15, 1966) Read A Book Related To Your Favorite Disney Film.
Ex. If Your Favorite Film Is Cinderella You Could Read Godmother The Secret Cinderella Story Or Before Midnight A Retelling of "Cinderella".

2. SHE WAS A GRAND OLD FLAG MAKER - In Honor Of Betsy Ross (Born January 1, 1752 – Died January 30, 1836) Famously Credited With Sewing The First American Flag…
A. Read A Book That Has A Red, White, And Blue Cover. (Other Colors May Appear But R/W/B Should Be The Primary Colors Of The Book)
Ex.:
OR
B. Read A Book That Has The Word Stars And/Or Stripes In The Title (Words Such As Starry Or Striped Are Also Acceptable).
Ex. Number the Stars Or Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf

3. ROYAL READING - In Honor Of Elizabeth Of York (Born February 11, 1466 – Died February 11, 1503) Wife, Mother, And Grandmother To Members Of One Of The Most Famous Monarchies In History (The Tudors) …
A. Read A Novel Featuring A Monarch As A Main Character (Ex. The Monsters of St. Helena About Napoleon Bonaparte)
OR
B. A Non-Fiction Book About A Monarch(s).(Ex. Suleiman the Magnificent About The Longest-Reigning Sultan Of The Ottoman Empire.)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mon...)

4. A WINNING DECADE - As We Transition From One Decade To The Next We Should Recognize The Books That Won Us Over In The Last One…For This Task Read A Book That Has Received A Literary Award During The Years (2000-2009).
Ex. 2000 - Man Booker - The Blind Assassin
2001 - Edgar Allan Poe Award - The Bottoms
2002 - Miles Franklin Award - Dirt Music
2003 - Orange Prize for Fiction - Property
2004 - The Goncourt Prize - The House of Scorta
2005 - Toucan Prize - Ruin
2006 - Agatha Award For Best First Novel - Heat of the Moon, The
2007 - Hugo Award For Best Novel - Rainbows End
2008 - RITA Awards: Best First Book - Dead Girls Are Easy
2009 - Western Heritage Award - Jackalope Dreams

For A List Of Literary Awards With Links To Lists Of Winners Go To (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lit...) And Please State Which Award The Book Won When Claiming Points For This Task.

5. A LIBRARIANS JOB IS NEVER DONE - In Honor Of February Being Library Lovers Month…
A. Visit Your Local Library And Ask One Of The Librarians To Recommend Their Favorite Book And Then Read That Book.
OR
B. Read A Book Where The Main Character Is A Librarian Or A Library Plays An Important Role In The Plot. Ex. Charlaine Harris' Aurora Teagarden Series or Murder at the Library of Congress

6. IT'S A DIRTY JOB BUT… - In The Fall Challenge We Read About Our Current And Dream Job So For This Task...
A. Read A Novel Where The Main Character Does A Job You Could Never Imagine Doing.
OR
B. A Non-Fiction Book About That Job/Industry.
Ex. Prison Guard - Slammer Or Newjack Guarding Sing Sing

7. EYING THE YEAR OF THE TIGER - In Honor Of Chinese New Year Which Falls During This Challenge (February 14th, 2010) Read A Book Written By An Author Who Shares Your Chinese Zodiac Sign.
If You Go To (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New...) You Will Find A Chart Of The Different Signs; Click On The Animal And You Will See All Of The Years That Correspond To That Sign.

Ex. I Was Born In The Year Of The Dog So I Could Read A Book Written By Mitch Albom (1958) Or Kurt Vonnegut (1922)

For Help Finding Authors Born In A Particular Year See http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/years

8. BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE - While Outside It May Be Cold And Blustery; Inside You Can Cozy Up To A Cozy Mystery. Visit http://www.cozy-mystery.com/ If You Need Help Picking A Book/Author.
(*It's Not Required But Feel Free To Enjoy This Book Curled Up In Front Of A Fire Or Wrapped Up In A Comfy Blanket With A Hot Beverage Of Your Choice!)

9. ISN'T IT ROMANTIC - Read A Book With The Words: Love, Romance, Cupid, Sweetheart, Valentine, Heart, Kiss, Chocolate, Roses, Or Jewelry In The Title. (Alternate Forms Of These Words Are Acceptable I.E. Romantic Or Kissing Would Be Fine.)
Ex. Kiss the Girls Or Cupid and Diana a novel

10. THE ALLURE OF ALLITERATION - Read A Book Whose Title Contains Alliteration - The Title Must Have 2 Or More Words That Begin With Same Letter Back To Back OR With Only A Short Word In Between (i.e. A, And, In, On, The etc.)
Ex. Fatally Flaky Or Handbags and Homicide

10 POINT TASKS
1. UNDER THE BIG TOP - In Honor Of Charles Ringling (Born December 2, 1863 – Died December 3, 1926) One Of Seven Brothers Who Formed Ringling Brothers Circus - Read A Book About The Circus, Circus Performers, or Circus Animals.
Ex. Water for Elephants Or A Son of the Circus

2. LOUIS LOUIS -In Honor Of Louis Braille (January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) Famous For Devising The Braille Method Used By The Blind For Reading And Writing…
A. Read A Novel With A Character Who Lost Or Was Born Not Having The Use Of One Or More Of Their Five Senses (I.E. A Character Who Is Blind, Deaf Etc.)
Ex. The Long Silence of Mario Salviati A Novel
OR
B. Read A Non-Fiction Account Of The Life Of A Person Who Lost Or Was Born Not Having The Use Of One Or More Of Their Five Senses (I.E. A Character Who Is Blind, Deaf Etc.).
Ex.The Story of My Life

3. RENAISSANCE READING - In Honor Of Zora Neale Hurston (Born January 7, 1891– Died January 28, 1960) Famous Harlem Renaissance Author…
A. Read A Novel That Was Written By An African American That Also Has An African American Protagonist.
OR
B. Read A Non-Fictional Account Of The Harlem Renaissance Or A Biography/Autobiography Of An Important African American Figure From That Time Period. Ex. Langston Hughes Or Billie Holiday

4. WINNERS CHOICE
A. Read A 5-Star Book From One Of The Winners Of The Fall Challenge (If You Are A Winner You Can't Use Your Own List)
PJREADS
DONNA JO
DLM ROSE
ROSEANN
DIANE
WENDY
JAN THE GRYPHON
KARI ♪
RACHEL LEE
TERESA IN OHIO

Please State Which Person You Selected When You Claim Points For This Task

5. POPULARITY CONTEST – Discovering The Hot Books Of 2009….
A. Go To http://www.goodreads.com/book/popular_by...
B. Click On The By Month Tab, Select The Month You Were Born In And Read One Of The Books From That List.

6. LOCAL LITERATURE LOVERS - Start By Going To http://www.goodreads.com/user/near_me
A. If You Live In The US - Select Within 5 Miles & Type In Your Zip Code - Then Select One Of The People Found On That Page (Not Yourself) And Read One Of Their 5-Star Books.
B. If You Live Outside The Us - Select The Country You Live In - Then Select One Of The People Found On That Page (Not Yourself) And Read One Of Their 5-Star Books.

7. SMALL SCREEN STORIES - Read A Book Inspired By, OR Was The Inspiration For, OR Is In Some Way Related To Your Favorite Television Show (Past Or Present).
Ex. If Your Favorite Show Is Dexter You Could Read A Book From Jeff Lindsay's Dexter Series Or Another Book About A Serial Killer(s).

8. OH CANADA! - To Commemorate The Upcoming Winter Olympics That Will Be Held In Vancouver, Canada - Read A Novel Written By A Canadian Author, Set In Canada, Or A Non-Fiction Book About Canada.
Ex. Saul Bellow, Mrs. Mike, So, You Want to Be Canadian All About the Most Fascinating People in the World and the Magical Place They Call Home

9. REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR - In Honor Of Pearl Harbor Day (December 7th) Read A Book Written By An Author Who Was Born In Hawaii, A Book Set In Hawaii, Or A Non-Fiction Book About Hawaii.
Ex. Kiana Davenport, Hawaii A Novel, Culture Shock! Hawaii A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

10. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE - Read A Novel Written By A Russian Author, Set In Russia, Or A Non-Fiction Book About Russia.
Ex. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Kitchen Boy A Novel of the Last Tsar, From Nyet to Da Understanding the New Russia

15 POINT TASKS
1. MAKE ME LAUGH - In Honor Of Richard Pryor (Born December 2, 1940 – Died December 10, 2005) Famous African American Comedian….
A. Read A Black Comedy Or Satirical Novel (Ex. Infinite Jest A Novel Or Catch-22)
AND
B. Watch A Black Comedy Or Satirical Film (Ex. Burn After Reading Or Blazing Saddles)

2. ADVENTURES WITH ALICE AND LEWIS - In Honor Of Lewis Carroll (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898) Author Most Famous For Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland…
A. Read A Book Featuring A Character Or Person Who Is Named Alice/Lewis (First Or Last) OR Was Written By An Author With The Name Alice/Lewis (First Or Last).
AND
B. Read A Novel That Takes Place In A Fictional Land Such As Narnia Or Oz.
Finding Alice by Melody Carlson OR
The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman

3. WHAT WOMEN WANT (TO READ AND WRITE) - In Honor Of Betty Friedan (Born February 4, 1921 - Died February 4, 2006) Famous Feminist…
A. Read A Novel Written By A Female Author From A Series That Has A Female Main Character.
Ex. Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Series
AND
B. Read An Autobiography Or Biography Of A Woman You Admire (Book Must Also Have Been Written By A Woman).
Ex. Ayn Rand and the World She Made

4. IT'S ALL ABOUT FUN AND GAMES
A. Read A Book That Has Your Favorite Game (Card, Board, Video, Computer Etc.) In The Title Or Relates In Some Way To That Game .
AND
B. Spend An Hour Or More Playing That Game.

Ex. If you enjoy the game LIFE you could read an (auto)biography i.e. the story of someone's life OR a book with the word LIFE in the title such as The Secret Life of Bees AND then play the game.

5. READERS ROUND THE WORLD UNITE - One Of The Best Things About Goodreads Is That It Allows Readers From Around The World To Share Thoughts About The Books They Love So For This Task…

A. Go To This Page (http://www.goodreads.com/user/near_me) There You Will Find A List Of Countries.
B. Choose A Country That Corresponds To Your First Initial And Hit Meet People; Go To The Profile Of The First Person On That List; Read A 5-Star Book From That Persons List.
AND
C. Choose A Country That Corresponds To Your Last Initial And Hit Meet People; Go To The Profile Of The First Person On That List; Read A 5-Star Book From That Persons List.

If That Person's Profile Is Private Or They Have No 5-Star Books You May Choose Another Country Or Go To The Next Person On That Countries List.
The Only Letter Not Found On This List Is X If Your First Or Last Initial Is X You May Use Your Middle Initial Instead.

Please Post The Name Of The People/Countries You Selected When Claiming Points For This Task.

6. THE SEASON OF GIFTING & GIVING
A. Read A Book That Relates To Best Gift You've Ever Been Given (It Doesn't Have To Have Been A Holiday Present). Please State Who Gave You The Gift & Why It's Your Favorite Gift When Claiming Points For This Task)
AND
B. This Is Also The Season For Giving Back - You Can Spend Some Time Volunteering Or Donate Money/Clothing/Food To A Local Charity. Post How You Gave Back When Claiming Points For This Task.

7. FOOD + FAMILY AND/OR FRIENDS = READING FUN
A. Read A Novel With Recipes Or A Cookbook.
AND
B. Prepare One Or More Of The Recipes From The Book And Share It With Others (Family/Friends/Co-Workers Etc.).
Recipes for a Perfect Marriage by Morag Prunty
The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister

8. SILVER SCREEN CELEBRATIONS
A. Read A Book That Relates To Any Holiday That Occurs During This Challenge (December, January, Or February) Such As (Christmas, Hanukah, Valentine's Day, New Years Etc.)…It Can Either Be A Novel, A Non-Fiction Book About The Holiday, Or Several Children's Books (100+ Pages Worth) About The Holiday.
AND
B. Watch A Film That Involves That Same Holiday.
Ex. If You Chose Groundhog's Day You Could Read Gary Shteyngart's The Russian Debutante's Handbook (A Character In This Book Is Called Groundhog) And Watch Groundhog's Day Starring Bill Murray.

9. OUT WITH THE OLD & IN WITH THE NEW BOOKS
A. Read The Book That Has Been On Your TBR Pile/Shelf The Longest.
AND
B. Read A Book Written By An Author You Have Never Read Before.

10. WE WILL REMEMBER YOU
A. Read A Book Written By An Author Who Died In 2009. (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/years/...)
AND
B. Watch A Film Starring An Actor/Actress Or That Was Directed By A Director Who Died In 2009.
Ex. Kill Bill w/David Carradine or The Handmaids Tale w/Natasha Richardson.


20 POINT TASKS
20.1 MOST IMPROVED PLAYER - PENDING

20.2 ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - PENDING

20.3 GROUP READS
Read One Of The Following Group Read Selections And Make At Least One Post In The Discussion Thread.
A. Classic
B. Winter
C. Romance

25 POINT TASKS
1. PJ READS TASK - FUN WITH THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM – Read 2 Books...
A. Read A Book Written About The Dewey Decimal Subject That Matches (+/-2) The Number Of Pages Of One Of The Books You Rated Highest From The 2009 Fall Challenge (Or Your GR Read List).
EX. If One Of Your Highest Rated Books From The Fall Challenge Was 183 Pages Your Choices For The First Book Are…
181 Oriental Philosophy
182 Pre-Socratic Greek Philosophies
183 Sophistic & Socratic Philosophies
184 Platonic Philosophy
185 Aristotelian Philosophy

B. For The Second Book, Imagining The Dewey Decimal Numbers As A Circle With 000 Following 999, Move Forward Or Backward 250 Numbers (+/-2) From The Subject Chosen For The First Book.
EX. If You Decided To Read A Book About Oriental Philosophy (181) Then 250 Decimals Forward = 431, 250 Decimals Backward = 931 So Your Choices Would Be...
429 Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
430 Germanic Languages German
431 German Writing System & Phonology
432 German Etymology
433 German Dictionaries
929 Genealogy, Names, Insignia
930 History Of Ancient World
931 History Of Ancient World China
932 History Of Ancient World Egypt
933 History Of Ancient World Palestine

For A Listing Of The Dewey Decimal Classifications Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_... Or Go To Your Local Library!

2. DONNA JO'S TASK - GOING ON A WINTER VACATION
A. Pick One Of The Following: 1)Ski Trip, 2)Warm Beach, 3)Cozy Fire, 4)Sleigh Ride.
B. Read Two Books For This Task; Each Must Have A Word In The Title Of The Vacation You Chose (I.E., Ski Trip Might Be Ski Weekend By R.L. Stine And A Trip With A Tycoon By Nicola Marsh).

3. DLM ROSE'S TASK - IT'S ABOUT TIME
Read A Book With One Of These Words In The Title: Second(S), Minute(S), Hour(S), Day(S), Week(s) Month(S), Season(S), Year(S).
Fifteen Minutes of Shame by Lisa Daily OR
Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks,
Light Years or Tammar Stein
A Year on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball
4. ROSEANN'S TASK - READ ABOUT YOUR RESOLUTION
Figure Out What Your New Year's Resolution Will Be (Make One Up If You Don't "Do" Resolutions) Then…
A. Read A Fiction Book With A Word In The Title That Pertains To The Resolution--For Losing Weight Examples Would Be: Fat, Thin, Skinny, Weight, Scale--You Get The Point.
AND
B. Read A Non-Fiction Book Which Talks About Your Resolution i.e.-A Diet Book, A Money Management Book, Etc.

5. DIANE'S TASK - POSTHUMOUSLY SPEAKING
A. Read A Fiction Book Told By A Narrator Who Is Deceased While Telling The Story (I.E. The Lovely Bones, Elsewhere, Or Stories Told By Characters Who Are Among The "Undead").
AND
B. Read Either Fiction Or Non-Fiction Book That Was First Published After The Death Of The Author (I.E. Maurice A Novel By E.M. Forster, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society By Mary Ann Shaffer) .

6. WENDY'S TASK - WINTER VACATION DREAMS
With The Economy So Very Tight This Winter My Vacation Will Be Imaginary. Read A Book That Takes Place In Your Dream Vacation Spot Then Take A Moment To Imagine That You Are There. Tell Us Where And Why.

7. JAN THE GRYPHON’S TASK - PENDING

8. KARI ♪'S TASK - EXPLORING WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
January 18th Marked The Beginning Of The Lewis And Clark Bicentennial (1804-1806). The Expedition Laid Much Of The Groundwork For The Westward Expansion Of The US.

In Honor Of This, Read One Fiction And One Non-Fiction Book Related To This Time Period..
A. One Book Needs To Be About One Of The Following People: Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark Or Sacajawea (Or Can Involve All).
B. And The Other About One Of These Events: The Lousiana Purchase, The Western Expansion, Or Exploration And/Or Pioneers During The Time Period Of 1800 To 1880.
C. When Claiming Points For This Task - Briefly Explain (3-5 Sentences) Why You Would Have Liked/Disliked To Have Lived During That Time Period.

This Is A Good Website With Links Near The Top (It's A Teacher's Web Page) For Some Ideas:Westward Expansion

For Those Of You Living Outside The US - If You Find It Difficult To Find Books On Jefferson, Lewis & Clark And/Or Sacajawea - Choose An Explorer, And A Historically-Based Exploration Event Up Through 1880. Please Be Sure To Include What Country You Are In When You Post.

9. RACHEL LEE'S TASK - THE NEWBERRY AWARD
Winter Break Was Always My Favorite Growing Up Because I Got To Read So Many New Books And Usually My Aunt (An English Teacher) Would Bring Me The Newberry Award Winner From That Year For My Present.

Pick A Year And Read Both The Newberry Winner And One Of The Honor Books From That Year. Then Let Us Know Which You Thought Was Better And Why.

Here Is The Website Listing All The Winners And Honor Books.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/a...

10. THERESA IN OHIO'S TASK - COLOR BY NUMBERS
A. Winter Can Be Drab, Cold, And Bleak. Read A Book With A Bright Or Happy COLOR Word In The Title. ACCEPTABLE WORDS: Red, Green, Purple, Yellow Etc., NOT ACCEPTABLE: Black, White, Gray Or Brown Tones.
AND
Red by Erica Spindler

B. At The End Of The Year, Many Lists Appeared, From Best Of To Worst Of Biggest Seller Of Years, Most Money Made By Celebrities, Etc. So Read A Book With A NUMBER In The Title. It Can Be Written (Thirteen) Or An Actual Number (13).

5 points
1. The Wonderful World of Disney: The Big Over Easy-Jasper Fforde
2. She Was A Grand Old Flag Maker: -Michelle Tea
3. Royal Reading: I, Elizabeth A Novel-Rosalind Miles
4. A Winning Decade: The Blind Assassin-Margaret Atwood
5. A Librarian's Job Is Never Done: The House of Paper-Carlos María Domínguez
6. It's A Dirty Job But: Ballad of the Whiskey Robber A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts-Julian Rubinstein
7. Eying The Year of the Tiger: The Gun Seller-Hugh Laurie (Pig)
8. Baby It's Cold Outside: Twelve Sharp-Janet Evanovich
9. Isn't It Romantic: Heart-Shaped Box-Joe Hill
10. The Allure of Alliteration: The Land of Laughs-Jonathan Carroll

10 points
1. Under the Big Top: Nights at the Circus-Angela Carter
2. Louis Louis: Blindness-José Saramago
3. Renaissance Reading: Black Noir-Otto Penzler
4. Winner's Choice: Water for Elephants-Sara Gruen (Kari)
5. Popularity Contest: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie-Alan Bradley
6. Local Lit. Lovers: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families Stories from Rwanda-Philip Gourevitch (Desiree)
7. Small Screen Stories: Chocky-John Wyndham (The X-Files)
8. Oh Canada!: Louis Riel A Comic-Strip Biography-Chester Brown
9. Remembering Pearl Harbor: Behold the Many A Novel-Lois-Ann Yamanaka or All I Asking for Is My Body-Milton Murayama
10. From Russia With Love: Night Watch-Sergei Lukyanenko

15 points
1. Make Me Laugh: Shambling Towards Hiroshima-James Morrow
2. Adventures With Alice and Lewis: The Lovely Bones-Alice Sebold
3. What Women Want:
Wild Seed-Octavia E. Butler
Thinking In Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism-Temple Grandin
4. It's All About Fun and Games: Howl's Moving Castle-Diana Wynne Jones (Maplestory)
5. Readers Round the World Unite:
2001 A Space Odyssey-Arthur C. Clarke (Christian/Denmark)
Perfume The Story of a Murderer-Patrick Süskind (Dina/Brazil)
6. Season of Gifting & Giving: The Master and Margarita-Mikhail Bulgakov
7. Food + Family: ?
8. Silver Screen Celebrations: The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0-Christopher Moore
9. Out With the Old:
Born Standing Up A Comic's Life-Steve Martin
Lowboy-John Wray
10. We Will Remember You: Concrete Island A Novel-J.G. Ballard

20 points

25 points
1. Bonnie's Task:
2. Donna Jo's Task:
3. DLM Rose's Task: The Day of the Locust-Nathanael West

My plan.

5 POINT TASKS
5.1 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY -- The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
5.2 SHE WAS A GRAND OLD FLAG MAKER -- Red, white and blue cover: Beat the Reaper A Novel by Josh Bezell
5.3 ROYAL READING
5.4 A WINNING DECADE The Tale of Despereaux Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo (won the Newberry in 2004)
5.5 A LIBRARIANS JOB IS NEVER DONE -- Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
5.6 IT'S A DIRTY JOB BUT…
5.7 EYING THE YEAR OF THE TIGER - I Was Born In Year Of The Dog (1970) And Julia Quinn Was Also Born In The Year Of The Dog (1970) What Happens in London
5.8 BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE - Cozy Mystery is A Peach of a Murder by Livia Washburn
5.9 ISN'T IT ROMANTIC -
5.10 THE ALLURE OF ALLITERATION - Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

10 POINT TASKS
10.1 UNDER THE BIG TOP - Geek Love A Novel by Katherine Dunn
10.2 LOUIS LOUIS -
10.3 RENAISSANCE READING -
10.4 WINNERS CHOICE -
10.5 POPULARITY CONTEST – Bite Me! by Melissa Francis is in the August 2009 list.
10.6 LOCAL LITERATURE LOVERS - Scarlett gave 5 stars to Great Gatsby, The
10.7 SMALL SCREEN STORIES - One of my favorite shows is "Survivor" and I am going to re-read Lord of the Flies by William Golding
10.8 OH CANADA! -
10.9 REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR - Here Today, Gone to Maui by Carol Snow
10.10 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE -

15 POINT TASKS
15.1 MAKE ME LAUGH -
15.2 ADVENTURES WITH ALICE AND LEWIS -
15.3 WHAT WOMEN WANT (TO READ AND WRITE) -
A: My Sister the Vampire #4 Vampalicious! by Sienna Mercer
B:
15.4 IT'S ALL ABOUT FUN AND GAMES - One Across, Two Down by Ruth Rendell (Crossword Puzzles)
15.5 READERS ROUND THE WORLD UNITE -
A. First name begins with A, first person on list for Antarctica is G.P. Marcello and a 5* book is Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
B. Last name begins with I, first person on list for Iceland is Charlane Brady and a 5* book is Jane Goodall 40 Years at Gombe
15.6 THE SEASON OF GIFTING & GIVING -
15.7 FOOD + FAMILY AND/OR FRIENDS = READING FUN -- Julie and Julia My Year of Cooking Dangerously
15.8 SILVER SCREEN CELEBRATIONS
15.9 OUT WITH THE OLD & IN WITH THE NEW BOOKS
OLD: In a Sunburned Country
NEW: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
15.10 WE WILL REMEMBER YOU
Author who died: The Dark of Day by Barbara Parker
Actor/ Director who died:

20 POINT TASKS
20.1 MOST IMPROVED PLAYER - PENDING
20.2 ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - PENDING
20.3 GROUP READS
Read One Of The Following Group Read Selections And Make At Least One Post In The Discussion Thread.
A. Classic
B. Winter
C. Romance The Princess Bride by William Golding

25 POINT TASKS
25.1 BONNIE'S TASK
25.2 HELEN'S TASK
25.3 DLM ROSE'S TASK - IT'S ABOUT TIME
25.4 ROSEANN'S TASK - READ ABOUT YOUR RESOLUTION My resolution is to help my kids get along better.
A. Fiction Book with word in title: The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman (I have three girls)
B. Non-Fiction: Reread "Siblings without Rivalry" by Adele Ferber OR read "Getting to Yes"
25.5 DIANE'S TASK - POSTHUMOUSLY SPEAKING
A. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
B. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaefer
25.6 WENDY'S TASK - WINTER VACATION DREAMS
25.7 JAN THE GRYPHON’S TASK - Multitasking
The White Queen by Philipa Gregory would fit 5.3 (Royal Reading) and 10.5 (on popular list for August 2009)
25.8 KARI ♪'S TASK - EXPLORING WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
25.9 RACHEL LEE'S TASK - THE NEWBERRY AWARD
Winner in 1999: Holes by Louis Sachar
Honor book in 1999: A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
25.10 THERESA IN OHIO'S TASK - COLOR BY NUMBERS

30 Point Task
30.1 PJ READS TASK - FUN WITH THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM
Number of pages in "Midwives" = 374 Adult Education
When I searched that DD #, there were a lot of books about book clubs. So: The Dead of Midnight A Mystery by Catherine Hunter which is a mystery about a book club.
374 minus 250 = 124 (previously: Infinity). 126 is The Self: Genesis by Bernard Beckett APPROVED message 71
30.2 DONNA JO'S TASK - GOING ON A WINTER VACATION Using "Cozy Fire":
Gone with the Groom (as per Donna Jo's list, a cozy mystery) by Janice Thompson and
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

50 POINT MIDWAY TASK

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t...

My spreadsheet thus far...

5 POINT TASKS
1. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
2. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
3. 1984 by George Orwell
4. The Tattoo Artist: A Novel by Jill Ciment (2005 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize)
5. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
6. Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
7. The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
8. Fudge Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen Mystery, Book 5) by Joanne Fluke
9. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
10. Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison


10 POINT TASKS
1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
2. The Story of My Life (Bantam Classic) by Helen Keller
3. Double Dutch by Sharon M. Draper
4. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (DIANE)
5. Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
6. East of Eden (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
7. When Lightning Strikes (1-800-Where-R-You, #1) by Meg Cabot
8. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
9. Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case by David E. Stannard
10. The House of the Dead (Dover Thrift Editions.) by Fyodor Dostoevsky


15 POINT TASKS
1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel and The Wizard of Oz (Great Illustrated Classics) by L. Frank Baum
3. Sugar Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mystery, Book 6) by Joanne Fluke and My Point...and I Do Have One by Ellen DeGeneres
4. The Clue of the Broken Locket (Nancy Drew, #11) by Carolyn Keene
5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (AMY RWANDA) and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling ( SCOTT Réunion)
6. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
7. Peach Cobbler Murder by Joanne Fluke
8. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
9. The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls and Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
10. Bech: A Book by John Updike

20 PONT TASKS
1.
2.
3.

25 POINT TASKS
1. Music, Physics and Engineering by Harry F. Olson and The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel by Gaston Leroux
2. The Beach House by James Patterson, Peter de Jonge and Beach Road by James Patterson, Peter de Jonge
3. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
4. Size 12 Is Not Fat (Heather Wells, #1) by Meg Cabot and The Biggest Loser Simple Swaps: 100 Easy Changes to Start Living a Healthier Lifestyle by Cheryl Forberg RD, Melissa Roberson
5. The Afterlife by Gary Soto and Persuasion by Jane Austen
6.
7.
8. Sacajawea (Lewis & Clark Expedition) by Joseph Bruchac and Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847 by Kristiana Gregory
9. Holes by Louis Sachar and A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
10. The Color Purple by Alice Walker and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey


0/15010 Pages Read
0/610 Total Points

5 Point Tasks:
5.1 The Wonderful World of Disney -

5.2 She Was A Grand Old Flag - I'm A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson


5.3 Royal Reading -

5.4 A Winning Decade -

5.5 A Librarian's Job Is Never Done - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingslover (recommended by my librarian)

5.6 It's A Dirty Job But... -

5.7 Eyeing the Year of the Tiger -

5.8 Baby It's Cold Outside - Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris

5.9 Isn't It Romantic -

5.10 The Allure of Alliteration - A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch

10 Point Tasks:
10.1 Under the Big Top - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

10.2 Louis Louis -

10.3 Renaissance Reading -

10.4 Winner's Choice -

10.5 Popularity Contest -

10.6 Local Literature Lovers -

10.7 Small Screen Stories -

10.8 Oh Canada! -

10.9 Remembering Pearl Harbor -

10.10 From Russia With Love -

15 Point Tasks:
15.1 Make Me Laugh:
A.
B.

15.2 Adventures with Alice & Lewis:
A. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
B. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

15.3 What Women Want (To Read & Write):
A.
B.

15.4 It's All About Fun & Games -
A. The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn
B. Game - Cooking Dash, both have to do with being a Chef and cooking under pressure

15.5 Readers Round the World Unite:
A. L
B. C

15.6 The Season of Gifting & Giving:
A. No Touch Monkey: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late by Ayun Halliday (best gift was a backpacking trip to Europe from my husband)
B. Charity - TBD

15.7 Food + Family/Friends = Reading Fun:
A. Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey: Desserts For the Serious Sweet Tooth by Jill O'Connor
B. Recipe Prepared - TBD

15.8 Silver Screen Celebrations:
A. Holiday - TBD
B. Film - TBD

15.9 Out With the Old & In With the New Books:
A. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
B. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

15.10 We Will Remember You:
A. TBD
B. Film - TBD

20 Point Tasks:
20.1 Most Improved Player - TBD
20.2 Rookie of the Season - TBD
20.3 Group Reads - Romance - The Princess Bride by William Goldman

25 Point Tasks:
25.1 Bonnie's Task - TBA
25.2 Donna Jo's Task - Going on a Winter Vacation
A. TBD
B. TBD

25.3 DLM Rose's Task - It's About Time

25.4 Roseann's Task - Read About Your Resolution
A. Fiction - TBD
B. Non-Fiction - TBD

25.5 Diane's Task - Posthumously Speaking:
A.
B. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

25.6 Wendy's Task - Winter Vacation Dreams - Maldives

25.7 Jan the Gryphon's Task - Multi-Tasking

25.8 Kari's Task - Exploring with Lewis & Clark
A. Fiction
B. Non-Fiction

25.9 Rachel Lee's Task - The Newberry Award
A. Newberry Winner - Year TBD
B. Honor Book - TBD

25.10 Theresa in Ohio's Task - Color by Numbers
A. Color
B. Number

30 Point Task:
30.1 PJ Read's Task - Fun with the Dewey Decimal System
A. TBD
B. TBD

plans for me go here! just need to start my list :)

5.1 Godmother The Secret Cinderella Story
5.2 Moon Tiger
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8 Grave Sight
5.9 Censoring an Iranian Love Story
5.10 The Land of Laughs

10.1
10.2
10.3 A Mercy
10.4 Wendy: The Book Thief
10.5 Beautiful Creatures
10.6 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
10.7
10.8 Last Night in Twisted River A Novel
10.9
10.10

15.1 A Dirty Job and Burn After Reading
15.2 The Story Sisters and The Girl with Glass Feet
15.3 Chosen and TBD
15.4
15.5 Korea, Republic of (Beth) Outlander and Papua New Gunea (Inuitdebonair) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
15.6
15.7 The Hindi-Bindi Club
15.8
15.9 Me Talk Pretty One Day and Evermore
15.10 Rabbit Redux and Weird Science (John Hughes)

20.1
20.2
20.3 The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0

25.1
25.2 To Say Nothing of the Dog and Specials
25.3 Chosen, Untamed, and Hunted
25.4
25.5 The Late, Lamented Molly Marx A Novel and Persuasion
25.6
25.7
25.8
25.9 The Graveyard Book and Savvy
25.10 Blue Tango and The 19th Wife A Novel

30.1
30.2 Into the Beautiful North A Novel and Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name A Novel
30.3 Day After Night A Novel

My goal is approximately 400-500 points for this challenge. Here is my list (so far) -

5.2. She Was A Grand Old Flag Maker - Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvick
5.3. Royal Reading – I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles
5.4. A Winning Decade – Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay (Soctiabank Giller Prize, 2007)
5.5 - A Librarian's Job Is Never Done - More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
5.6. It's A Dirty Job But...- Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
5.7 - Eyeing the Year of the Tiger - Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay (Year of the Ox)
5.8 - Baby It's Cold Outside - The Kalahari Typing School For Men by Alexander McCall Smith
5.9. Isn't It Romantic - Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
5.10. The Allure of Alliteration - Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich

10.4. Winner's Choice - The Help by Kathryn Stockett (WENDY'S list)
10.5 - Popularity Contest - From April 2009, either The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters OR Laura Rider's Masterpiece by Jane Hamilton
10.6. Local Literature Lovers - Practical Demon Keeping by Christopher Moore (from Jenn in Oshawa)
10.7. Small Screen Stories - The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin (for the CSI shows)
10.8. Oh Canada! – The Year of The Flood by Margaret Atwood
10.9. Remembering Pearl Harbour - Honolulu by Alan Brennart
10.10. From Russia With Love - Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak OR Russka by Edward Rutherfurd

15.1 - Make Me Laugh - TBA
15.2. Adventures With Alice and Lewis - American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld and TBA
15.3. What Women Want (To Read and Write) - Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich and Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
15.5. Readers Around The World Unite - My initals are J & L- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares (Kirei Kirei from Japan) and Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follet (Henry from Luxembourg)
15.8. Silver Screen Celebrations - How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas by Jeff Guinn, and watch Four Christmases
15.9. Out With The Old and In With The New - The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields and The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson

20.1 Most Improved Player - PENDING
20.2 Rookie of The Season - PENDING
20.3 Group Reads - The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore

25.2 - HELEN'S Task - Sci-Fi Past and Present - Ender's Game by Orsen Scott Card and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
25.3 - BJROSE'S Task - Snowed In - New York by Edward Rutherfurd (880 pages)
25.5 - DIANE'S Task - Posthumously Speaking - Interview With A Vampire by Anne Rice and Persuasion by Jane Austen
25.6 - WENDY'S Task - Winter Vacation Dreams - TBA
25.7 - JAN THE GRYPHON’S Task - Multi-Tasking - Voyager by Diana Gabaldon (25.3 at 1000+ pages & 15.3 female lead in a series written by a woman) OR Russka by Edward Rutherfurd (25.3 at 900+ pages & 10.10 since it's about Russia)
25.9 - RACHEL LEE'S Task - The Newbery Award - TBA
25.10 - THERESA IN OHIO'S Task - Colour By Numbers - Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich and Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani

30.3 - DLM ROSE'S Task - It's About Time - The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer

50.1. PENDING

Starting my list:

5.1 Disney favorite: Beauty & the Beast" The Bride and the Beast by Teresa Medeiros
5.2 Red, White and Blue: Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly
5.3 Royal Reading:
5.4 A Winning Decade: 2009 Pulitzer for fiction: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout
OR 2002 Hugo Award: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
OR Red Maple Award (yr?): Over the Edge by Norah McClintock
5.5 Ask Your Librarian:
5.6 It's a Dirty Job:
5.7 Year of the Tiger:
5.8 Cozy-Mystery: The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
5.9 Isn't It Romantic: To Romance a Charming Rogue by Nicole Jordan
5.10 Alliteration: Loving a Lost Lord by Mary Jo Putney OR Since the Surrender by Julie Anne Long

10.1 Under the Big Top:
10.2 Louis Braille: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (mute)
10.3 Harlem Renaissance Reading:
10.4 Winner's Choice:
10.5 Popularity Contest: March: Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh OR Cream Puff Murder by Joanna Fluke
10.6 Local Literature Lovers: Kathryn: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
10.7 Inspired by/Related to TV show:
10.8 Oh, Canada!: Norah McClintock?
10.9 Remembering Pearl Harbor: Pearl Harbor Child by Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson (Hawaiian author)
10.10 From Russia with Love: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

5 point
1. Disney
2. Flag Presumed Innocent – Scott Turow
3. Monarch
4. Decade award: Pulitzer 2006: March – Geraldine Brooks
5. Librarian
6. Dirty job
7. Chinese new year
8. Cozy mystery
9. romantic Heart of Dixie – tami Hoag
10. alliteration Harvesting the Heart – Jodi Piccult

10 point
1. Circus
2. Lost senses
3. Afro-Am A Mercy – Toni Morrison
4. Winners: Diane Night – Elie Weisel
5. Popularity: Oct – Sizzle – Julie Garwood
6. Local: Jen- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
7. Small screen
8. Canada Heartbreaker – Joy Fielding
9. Hawaii
10. Russia Moscow Rules – Daniel Silva


15 point
1. Satire (book/film) Shades of Gray – Jasper Fforde
2. Alice/Lewis The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Fictional land: Beauty – Sheri Tepper
3. Female Series: Seven Up – Janet Evanovich
Bio woman:
4. Game Outcasts United: a refugee team, an American town – Warren St John
5. Global readers (2) Nikki – New Zealand, Guilty pleasures / Laurell K. Hamilton.
Jaylene – Kenya – God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
6. Best gift
7. Recipes
8. Holidays (book/film) Blue Christmas – Mary Kay Andrews
9. Old: Empire Falls – Richard Russo
New author Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil – John Berendt
10. Died 09 (book/film)

20 point
1.
2.
3. The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0 -Christopher Moore

25 point
1.
2.
3. Time: My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park – Steve Kluger
4. resolution (2)
5. Posthumous (2) Midnight sun – Stephanie Meyer
Nothanger Abby – Jane Austen
6. Vacation Captain Corelli's Mandolin
7. Multi-tasking (2) Sense and sensibility – Jane Austen (Diane’s 5-star10.4)
Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris (15.3 female series)
8. Exploring
9. Newbury: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
10. Color/Number No One You Know by Michelle Richmond
True Blue – David Balducci

30 point
1. Dewey Decimal (2)
Private papers of Eastern Jewel : a novel / Maureen Lindley
Judaism: Diary of Anne Frank
2. Warm Beach (2) On The Beach By Nevil Shute
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven - Susan Richards Shreve

This is my first challenge back after a little hiatus for fall. My goal is just to finish all of these books (most of which I own), not the entire challenge.

5 POINT TASKS
5.4 [b:This Charming Man|3421456|This Charming Man|Marian Keyes|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515hKen6%2BWL._SL75_.jpg|2080189] - Marian Keyes (winner of the 2009 Irish Book Award in Popular Fiction)
5.5 [b:Girl's Guide to Witchcraft|248583|Girl's Guide to Witchcraft (Jane Madison, Book 1)|Mindy Klasky|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173121081s/248583.jpg|240864] - Mindy Klasky
5.6 [b:The Likeness A Novel|1914973|The Likeness A Novel|Tana French|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255897334s/1914973.jpg|6504351] - Tana French
5.7 [b:The Blonde Theory|502296|The Blonde Theory|Kristin Harmel|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175291512s/502296.jpg|490370] - Kristin Harmel (Sign: Ram/Goat)
5.9 [b:The Chocolate Lovers' Club|351711|The Chocolate Lovers' Club|Carole Matthews|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173996594s/351711.jpg|341941] - Carole Matthews
5.10 [b:Slightly Settled|22774|Slightly Settled (Red Dress Ink)|Wendy Markham|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167357526s/22774.jpg|23781] - Wendy Markham

10 POINT TASKS
10.1 [b:Water for Elephants|43641|Water for Elephants|Sara Gruen|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170161179s/43641.jpg|3441236] - Sarah Gruen
10.3 [b:The Coldest Winter Ever|106393|The Coldest Winter Ever|Sister Souljah|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171563873s/106393.jpg|1241552] - Sister Souljah
10.4 [b:Kabul Beauty School An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil|316558|Kabul Beauty School An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil|Deborah Rodriguez|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173713094s/316558.jpg|2893104] - Deborah Rodriguez (5-stars from Wendy's List)
10.5 [b:Along for the Ride|5664985|Along for the Ride|Sarah Dessen|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1227215705s/5664985.jpg|5836517] - Sarah Dessen (June 2009)
10.6 [b:The Hunger Games|2767052|The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, #1)|Suzanne Collins|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41siRDoeqWL._SL75_.jpg|2792775] - Suzanne Collins
10.7 [b:Two Years, No Rain|5466432|Two Years, No Rain|Shawn Klomparens|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41rky0pS45L._SL75_.jpg|5534038] - Shawn Klomparens

15 POINT TASKS
15.3 [b:Two for the Dough|6427|Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)|Janet Evanovich|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FSC9JA77L._SL75_.jpg|617151] - Janet Evanovich | [b:Escape|818811|Escape|Carolyn Jessop|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178663788s/818811.jpg|2782429] - Carolyn Jessop
15.4 [b:The Love of Her Life|3637633|The Love of Her Life|Harriet Evans|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P2oouVRWL._SL75_.jpg|3680508] - Harriet Evans
15.5 [b:Snow Flower and the Secret Fan A Novel|4633087|Snow Flower and the Secret Fan A Novel|Lisa See|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255699255s/4633087.jpg|1453585] - Lisa See (Lolly LKH in Japan) | [b:The Shadow of the Wind|1232|The Shadow of the Wind|Carlos Ruiz Zafón|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1247930410s/1232.jpg|3209783] - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Kim in Belgium)
15.6 [b:The Love Letter A Novel|478071|The Love Letter A Novel|Cathleen Schine|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175099770s/478071.jpg|1594639] - Cathleen Schine (after the birth of my oldest son, my husband wrote me a very sweet letter that couldn’t have been more special
15.7 [b:Entertaining Disasters A Novel|4884278|Entertaining Disasters A Novel (With Recipes)|Nancy Spiller|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41xmRV3q9cL._SL75_.jpg|4949663] - Nancy Spiller
15.9 [b:In Full Bloom|246857|In Full Bloom|Caroline Hwang|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173112088s/246857.jpg|239183] - Caroline Hwang (on my bookshelf since 2007) | [b:The Salaryman's Wife|412242|The Salaryman's Wife|Sujata Massey|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PNW89VWZL._SL75_.jpg|401484] - Sujata Massey (new author)

25 POINT TASKS
25.3 Will be where I count all my books that don't fit any other tasks!
25.4 [b:The School of Essential Ingredients|4313522|The School of Essential Ingredients|Erica Bauermeister|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235767676s/4313522.jpg|4361300] - Erica Bauermeister | [b:Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone|798875|Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone|Jenni Ferrari-Adler|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178480805s/798875.jpg|2121228] - Jenni Ferrari-Adler (resolution - to take more cooking classes/indulge my love of cooking, and to experiment with new ingredients)
25.6 [b:Hollywood Car Wash|501175|Hollywood Car Wash|Lori Culwell|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175285207s/501175.jpg|489278] - Lori Culwell
25.7 [b:Four to Score|6422|Four to Score (Stephanie Plum, #4)|Janet Evanovich|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256163835s/6422.jpg|2322486] - Janet Evanovich (fits 15.3 - About a woman; and fits 25.10 - Number in the title)
25.10 [b:The Secret History of the Pink Carnation|84351|The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Pink Carnation, #1)|Lauren Willig|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255828889s/84351.jpg|2950861] - Lauren Willig | [b:Three To Get Deadly|6854|Three To Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)|Janet Evanovich|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256066072s/6854.jpg|1341652] - Janet Evanovich

30 POINT TASKS
30.3 [b:The Off Season|649514|The Off Season|Catherine Gilbert Murdock|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176744169s/649514.jpg|635653] - Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Total Points: 0/280
Total Books: 0/27

My List So Far:

5 Points
1.
2. FLAG COLORS - Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
3. ROYAL READING - Thorn Queen
4. WINNING DECADE - Wolf Hall or Olive Kitteridge
5.
6.
7.
8. MYSTERY - Girl With A Dragon Tattoo
9. ROMANTIC -
10. ALLITERATION - Sword of Shannara

10 Points
1. CIRCUS
2. LOUIS LOUIS
3. HARLEM RENAISSANCE
4. WINNERS CHOICE - Edgar Sawtelle, Girl with a Dragon Tattoo, Girl who Played With Fire
5. POPULARITY CONTEST - Heat Wave - Richard Castle OR Sea Glass - Maria Snyder
6. LOCAL LIT
7. SMALL SCREEN STOREIS - Heat Wave - Richard Castle
8. OH CANADA
9. HAWAII
10. RUSSIAN - The Romanovs

15 Points
1. BLACK COMEDY
2. ALICE and LEWIS
3. WOMEN
4. FUN & GAMES
5. WORLD READERS
6. GIFTS
7. FOOD+FAMILY
8. HOLIDAY TV
9. OLD AND NEW
10. DEAD AUTHOR

20 Points
1. MOST IMPROVED
2. ROOKIE
3. GROUP - Princess Bride

25 Points
1. DEWEY DECIMAL
2. WINTER VACATION
3. TIME - 100 Years of Solitude
4. RESOLUTION
5. POSTHUMOUS - Damien and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
6. WINTER DESTINATION
7. MULTI-TASK - Girl with Dragon Tattoo
8. LEWIS & CLARK
9. NEWBERRY
10. COLORS & #s

WINTER 2009 CHALLENGE

5 POINT CHALLENGES

5.1--BE A DOG WITH A BONE:ALWAYS GO FOR YOUR DREAMS
by Peggy McColl

5.2--JIMMY’S STARS by Mary Ann Rodman

5.3--DOOMED QUEENS:ROYAL MONARCHS WHO MET BAD ENDS
by Kris Waldherr

5.4--THE BOTTOMS by Joe R Lansdale (Edgar A. Poe Award 2001)

5.5--THREE BEDROOMS, ONE CORPSE by Charlaine Harris

5.6--THE CORONER’S LUNCH by Colin Cotterill

5.7--THE INCANTATION OF FRIDA K by Kate Braverman (Tiger, 1950)

5.8 AGATHA RAISIN & THE FAIRIES OF FRYFAM by M C Beaton

5.9--SWEETHEART:THE STORY OF MARY PICKFORD by Robert Windeler

5.10--SENSE & SENSIBILITY & SEA MONSTERS by J Austin & Ben H Winters

10 POINT CHALLENGES

10.1--SERPENT GIRL by Matthew Carnahan

10.2--TOUCH THE TOP OF THE WORLD:A BLIND MAN’S JOURNEY TO CLIMB FARTHER THAN THE EYE CAN SEE by Erik Weih

10.3--INFANTS OF THE SPRING by Wallace Thurman

10.4--CAKE WRECKS by Jen Yates (Donna Jo’s list)

10.5--WINTERGIRLS by Laurie H. Anderson (Full list:December baby)

10.6--DANGEROUS DAYS OF DANIEL X by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge
(Kandice’s list)

10.7--THE WILLOW FILES VOL. 1:BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER by Yvonne Navarro (Fave show and fave character)

10.8--THE END OF EAST by Jen Sookfong Lee

10.9--THE FLAMING LUAU OF DEATH by Jerrilyn Farmer

10.10--OLGA’S STORY by Stephanie Williams

15 POINT CHALLENGES

15.1--THIS IS YOUR LIFE:A NOVEL by John O’Farrell & watch Burn After Reading

15.2--ALICE AT HEART by Deborah Smith & OZMA OF OZ by L Frank Baum

15.3--A CAT NAMED BRAT by Lydia Adamson & MICHELLE OBAMA by Elizabeth Lightfoot.

15.4--DESERT SOLITAIRE by Edward Abbey (also play game for an hour)

15.5--SUM:FORTY TALES FROM THE AFTERLIVES by David Eagleman (from Max Nemtsov’s list “Russia”) & LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE by Nancy Mitford (From Selena in the Bahamas)

15.6--FINAL PAYMENT by Steven Havill (bicycle) & give yearly toys to Toys for Tots

15.7--THE BODY IN THE BONFIRE by Katherine Page (also prepare recipe for others)

15.8--THE GIFT by Nora Roberts (also watch Christmas movie)

15.9--SOUL OF THE BRIDE by Constance M Burge & FANGS BUT NO FANGS by Kathy Love

15.10--RUNNING WILD by J G Ballard

20 POINT CHALLENGES

20.1--PENDING

20.2--PENDING

20.3--THE STUPIDEST ANGEL by Christopher Moore

25 POINT CHALLENGES

20.1--Bonnie/PENDING

20.2--Helen/ STARTIDE RISING by David Brin (Hugo 1984) & POWERS by Ursula K LeGuin (2007-won Nebula 2008) Also state differences/reasons.

20.3--BJ Rose/find books up to 825 pgs total.

20.4--Roseann/THIN WOOD WALLS by David Patneaude & THE SKINNY by Melissa Clark

20.5--Diane/ELSEWHERE by Gabrielle Zevin & THE SALMON OF DOUBT by Douglas Adams

20.6--Wendy/AUNT DIMITY AND THE NEXT OF KIN by Nancy Atherton (also imagine where set and why you want to be there).

20.7--Jan the Gryphon/SWEET REVENGE by Diana Mott Davidson (fits 15.7 & 15.8)

20.8--Kari/SACAGEWEA SPEAKS by Joyce B Hunsaker & BLACK PIONEERS:AN UNTOLD STORY by William Loren Katz (also tell whether you would like to have lived in the time and why).

20.9--Rachel Lee/GOOD MASTERS! SWEET LADIES! VOICES FROM A MEDIEVAL VILLAGE by Laura Amy Schlitz (Newbery) & FEATHERS by Jaqueline Woodson (Honor Book) both 2008.

20.10--Theresa In Ohio/THE GREEN REVOLUTION by Ralph McInerny & THIRTEEN AT DINNER by Agatha Christie

30 POINT CHALLENGES

30.1--PJ Reads/tbd

30.2--DonnaJo/COZY:A STANLEY HASTINGS MYSTERY by Parnell Hall & THE FIRE BABY by Jim Kelly

30.3--DLM Rose/DAY OF THE IGUANA by Henry Winkler

50 POINT CHALLENGE

TBD

5.1 Disney
5.2 A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol 2, Winston S. Churchill
5.3 Royal The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes, Elizabeth Longford
5.4 The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, Hugo, 2009
5.5 Librarian
5.6 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Robert Getchell
5.7 Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, DOG
5.8 The Accusers, Lindsey Davis
5.9 Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
5.10 Alliteration
10.1 Big Top
10.2 The Tailor's Daughter, Janice Graham
10.3 Renaissance
10.4 Catlore, Desmond Morris (Kari)
10.5 Popularity
10.6 Local
10.7 Small Screen Jeopardy
10.8 Oh Canada
10.9 Pearl Harbor
10.10 Rusalka, C.J. Cherryh
15.1 Black Comedy/Satire (also watch movie)
15.2 Alice/Lewis
15.3 Female MC Series by female author
& bio of Woman
15.4 Fun & Games & play the game
15.5 Jamaica-Noelle: Adam's Fall, Sandra Brown and Canada-Seth: Mystic River, Dennis Lehane
& Canada or Colombia
15.6 Gift (roses) & Charity/Volunteer
15.7 Novel w/recipes & make one of recipes for family
15.8 Silver Screen holiday book & movie
15.9 Mistral's Daughter, Judith Krantz AND undiscovered author
15.10 Posthumous
20.1 MOST IMPROVED PLAYER - PENDING
20.2 ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - PENDING
20.3 GROUP READS
25.1 BONNIE's TASK -
25.2 Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula LeGuin AND
25.3 DLM ROSE'S TASK - IT'S ABOUT TIME
25.4 ROSEANN'S TASK - READ ABOUT YOUR RESOLUTION
25.5 DIANE'S TASK - POSTHUMOUSLY SPEAKING
25.6 WENDY'S TASK - WINTER VACATION DREAMS
25.7 JAN THE GRYPHON’S TASK - Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut (5.7 & 10.6)
25.8 KARI ♪'S TASK - EXPLORING WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
25.9 RACHEL LEE'S TASK - THE NEWBERRY AWARD
25.10 THERESA IN OHIO'S TASK - COLOR BY NUMBERS
30.1 PJ READS - Dewey Decimal
30.2 DONNA JO'S TASK - GOING ON A WINTER VACATION
50.1 PENDING

5.1 (Disney) - Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
5.2 (Betsy Ross) - Citizen Democracy by S. Frantzich
5.3 (Royal) -
5.4 (Awards) - The Human Stain by P. Roth
5.5 (Librarians) -
5.6 (Dirty Job) - The Good Earth by P. Buck
5.7 (Chinese NY) - Go Tell It on the Mountain by J. Baldwin
5.8 (Cozy) - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5.9 (Romance) - The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by O. Hijuelos
5.10 (Alliteration) - How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by J. Alvarez

10.1 (Circus) -
10.2 (Braille) -
10.3 (Harlem) - Beloved by T. Morrison
10.4 (Winner's Choice) - Things Fall Apart by C. Achebe
10.5 (Popularity) -
10.6 (Local) - Into Thin Air A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by J. Krakauer
10.7 (Small Screen) - All the President's Men by C. Bernstein and B. Woodward
10.8 (Canada) - Martin Sloane A Novel by M. Redhill
10.9 (Hawaii) - Fluke Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by C. Moore
10.10 (Russia) - August 1914 by A. Solzhenitsyn

15.1 (Satire) - Brave New World by A. Huxley
15.2 (Alice/Lewis) - A. Living by the Word by A. Walker
B. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by G. Maguire
15.3 (Women) -
15.4 (Games) - A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
15.5 (World) - A. White Teeth by Z. Smith
B. Running with Scissors A Memoir by A. Burroughs
15.6 (Giving) - In the Lake of the Woods by T. O'Brien
15.7 (Food) - The Tofu Cookbook by C. Bauer
15.8 (Silver Screen) - Saving Fish from Drowning A Novel by A. Tan
15.9 (Old/New) - A. Black Boy by R. Wright
B. Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
15.10 (Remember) -

20.1 (Pending) -
20.2 (Pending) -
20.3 (Group Read) - The Princess Bride by W. Goldman

25.1 (Pending) -
25.2 (Sci-Fi) - A. Fahrenheit 451 by R. Bradbury
B. American Gods by N. Gaiman
25.3 (825 pages) - Tell My Horse Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Z.N. Hurston
Flash of the Spirit African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy by R.F. Thompson
In a Free State A Novel by V.S. Naipaul
25.4 (Resolution) - A. Washington, D.C. A Novel by G. Vidal
B. How to Overthrow the Government by A. Huffington
25.5 (Posthumous) - A. The Lovely Bones by A. Sebold
B. A Confederacy of Dunces by J. Toole
25.6 (Dream Vacation) - The Lost Painting by J. Harr
25.7 (Multi-tasking) - Cloud Atlas by D. Mitchell
25.8 (Exploring) -
25.9 (Newberry) - A. The Twenty-One Balloons by W. Du Bois
B. Misty of Chincoteague by M. Henry
25.10 (Color/Number) -

30.1 (Dewey) - A. Thus Spoke Zarathustra A Book for None and All by F. Nietzsche
B. A Tale of Two Cities by C. Dickins
30.2 (Vacation Words) -
30.3 (Time) - Mama Day by G. Naylor

50.1 (Pending) -

5 POINT TASKS
5.1 Disney – Beauty by Robin McKinley
5.2 Stars & stripes – Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchley
5.3 Royal reading – The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
5.4 A winning decade – Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Hugo Award for Best Novel)
5.5 Library lovers month – The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
5.6 It’s a dirty job –
5.7 Chinese zodiac (goat/sheep) – Home Truths by Freya North
5.8 Cozy mystery – Gunpowder Green by Laura Childs
5.9 Romance – Black Rose by Nora Roberts
5.10 Alliteration – Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb

10 POINT TASKS
10.1 Circus – Water for Elephants
10.2 Sensory loss – tbc
10.3 African American – tbc
10.4 Winner’s choice – Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts (Rachel Lee’s list)
10.5 Popularity contest – Promises in Death by JD Robb
10.6 Local literature lovers – Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell (from Rhiannon in the UK’s list)
10.7 Small screen – something by Kathy Reichs
10.8 Canada – Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
10.9 Pearl Harbor – tbc
10.10 Russia – Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

15 POINT TASKS
15.1 Black comedy/satire – Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbon
15.2 Alice/Lewis – American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld, Born in Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon or The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
15.3 Women – Four to Score by Janet Evanovich, tbc
15.4 Fun and games – Fire Study by Maria Synder
15.5 Readers around the world – Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon (from Chase in Namibia), The Kite Runner by (from Heather in Lesotho)
15.6 Gifting and giving – Paris?
15.7 Food – an Aunt Dimity book
15.8 Holidays – Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich
15.9 Old and New – Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
15.10. Remembering – something by Jane Aiken Hodge

20 POINT TASKS
20.1 MOST IMPROVED PLAYER - PENDING
20.2 ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - PENDING
20.3 GROUP READS

25 POINT TASKS
25.1 BONNIE'S TASK - PENDING
25.2 Cozy/Fire – tbc, The Girl Who Played with Fire
25.3 Time – Jane and the Man of the Cloth: Being the Second Jane Austen Mystery by Stephanie Barron
25.4 New Year's Resolution – tbc
25.5 Posthumously speaking – The Book Thief?, Northanger Abbey?
25.6 Dream vacation – Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
25.7 Multitasking – Seeing Stars by Christina Jones (5.2 and 5.10)
25.8 Lewis and Clark –
25.9 Newberry Award –
25.10 Color by numbers – Red Lily by Nora Roberts, Three to get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

30 POINT TASKS
30.1 Dewey Decimal System –

50 POINT MIDWAY TASK

To be edited as I go along!

5 Points:
5.1- Peter Pan and Wendy
5.2- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
5.3-
5.4- White Tiger OR March
5.5-
5.6-
5.7- In the Woods- Tana French (OX)
5.8- Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder- Johanne Fluke
5.9-
5.10- Strawberry Shortcake Murder- Johanne Fluke

10 Points:
10.1- Water for Elephants
10.2- I’ll Scream Later- Marlee Matlin Biography
10.3-
10.4- The Elegance of the Hedgehog (5 Star on PJ Reads’ Shelf)
10.5-
10.6-
10.7-
10.8-
10.9-
10.10-

15 Points:
15.1-
15.2-
15.3- Voyager- Diana Gabaldon AND ???
15.4-
15.5-
15.6-
15.7- Blueberry Muffin Murder- Johanne Fluke
15.8-
15.9-
15.10-

20 Points:
20.1-
20.2-
20.3- The Stupidest Angel

25 Points:
25.1-
25.2-
25.3- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (841 pgs)
25.4-
25.5- The Lovely Bones AND Northanger Abbey
25.6-
25.7- Life of Pi (Also fits 5.4 and 10.4)
25.8-
25.9- The Graveyard Book AND The Underneath
25.10-

30 Points:
30.1-
30.2-
30.3-

50 Points:
50.1-

5 Points
1: Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of Sleeping Beauty by Cameron Dokey
2: Stardust by Neil Gaiman
3: The Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman
4: My Lord and Spymaster by Joanna Bourne
5: Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
6: Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
7: Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
8: The Chick and the Dead by Casey Daniels
9: Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
10: The Pirate Prince by Gaelan Foley

10 Points
1: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
2: The Giver by Lois Lowry
3: Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden
4: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
5: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
6: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
7: The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
8: Broken by Kelley Armstrong
9: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore
10: The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin

15 Points
1: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
2: An Echo in Time by Sherry Lewis & Lord of the Fading Land by C.L. Wilson
3: Four to Score by Janet Evanovich & Infidel by Ayaan Hirisi Ali
4:
5: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
6: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year by Anne Lamott
7: World of Pies by Karen Stolz
8: The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
9: Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett & Undead and Unwed by Mary Janice Davidson
10:

20 Points
1: Pending
2: Pending
3: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0 by Christopher Moore

25 Points
1: Pending
2: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury & Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
3: Secrets of a Summer Night, It Happened One Autumn & Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
4:
5: Real Vampires Have Curves by Gerry Bartlett & A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
6: Scandal in Spring by Lisa Kleypas
7: Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
8:
9: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo & Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes
10: The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel & Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

30 Points
1: American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld & An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
2: Cozy Knits for Cuddly Babies by Elanor Lynn & Playing with Fire by Katie MacAlister
3: Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn

50 Points
1: Pending

5.1 Beauty*
5.2 Outlander*
5.3 The White Queen*
5.4 The Blind Assasin*
5.5 Dewey
5.6 All Together Dead
5.7 Misery*
5.8 The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers
5.9 Frogs and French Kisses
5.10 Dragons of Dwarven Depths*

10.1 A Living Nightmare or Water for Elephants
10.2 The Blade Itself*
10.3 Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
10.4 The Choosen* - PJ's List
10.5 The Lost Symbol*
10.6 Of Mice & Men*
10.7 Definately Dead
10.8 The Lions of Al'Rassan*
10.10 Anna Karinina

15.2 Alice in Wonderland & Magicians Nephew*
15.3 Graceling* & Wishful Drinking
15.4 World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal*
15.5 Nine Princes in Amber* & 1984*
15.6 I Am America! and So Can You*
15.7 Julie & Julia
15.8 Autobiography of Santa Claus*
15.9 Interview with the Vampire* & The History of the Snowman*
15.10 Time Line

20.3 The Stupidest Angel

25.3 The Hour I First Believed*
25.5 Lovely Bones* & Suite Francaise*
25.6 Pillars of the Earth*
25.7 From Dead to Worse
25.9 The Tale of Desperaux* & Olives Ocean
25.10 Yellow Star & The Taking of Phelam 1-2-3 OR The Blue Sword* & The First Man in Rome*

* Books I already own

My reading plan!!

5 POINT TASKS:
1. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY

2. SHE WAS A GRAND OLD FLAG MAKER

3. ROYAL READING

4. A WINNING DECADE

5. A LIBRARIANS JOB IS NEVER DONE

6. IT'S A DIRTY JOB BUT…

7. EYING THE YEAR OF THE TIGER

8. BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE

9. ISN'T IT ROMANTIC

10. THE ALLURE OF ALLITERATION

10 POINT TASKS:
1. UNDER THE BIG TOP

2. LOUIS LOUIS

3. RENAISSANCE READING

4. WINNERS CHOICE

5. POPULARITY CONTEST

6. LOCAL LITERATURE

7. SMALL SCREEN STORIES

8. OH CANADA!

9. REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR

10. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

15 POINT TASKS:
1. MAKE ME LAUGH

2. ADVENTURES WITH ALICE AND LEWIS

3. WHAT WOMEN WANT (TO READ AND WRITE)

4. IT'S ALL ABOUT FUN AND GAMES

5. READERS ROUND THE WORLD UNITE

6. THE SEASON OF GIFTING & GIVING

7. FOOD + FAMILY AND/OR FRIENDS

8. SILVER SCREEN CELEBRATIONS

9. OUT WITH THE OLD & IN WITH THE NEW BOOKS

10. WE WILL REMEMBER YOU

20 POINT TASKS:
1. MOST IMPROVED PLAYER - PENDING

2. ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - PENDING

3. GROUP READS

25 POINT TASKS
1. BONNIE'S TASK - PENDING

2. DONNA JO'S TASK

3. DLM ROSE'S TASK

4. ROSEANN'S TASK

5. DIANE'S TASK

6. WENDY'S TASK

7. JAN THE GRYPHON’S TASK

8. KARI ♪'S TASK

9. RACHEL LEE'S TASK -
2009 Winner: The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Honor: The Underneath - Kathi Appelt

10. THERESA IN OHIO'S TASK

30 POINT TASKS:
1. PJ READS TASK

50 POINT MIDWAY TASK
PENDING

5 PTS
1.Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
2.An Englishman in Paris L'education Continentale by Michael Sadler
3.Four Queens The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone
4.The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
5.The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
6.Whatever You Do, Don't Run True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison
7.Marley & Me Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
8.The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
9.Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
10.The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel

10 PTS
1.Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
2.A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
3.Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
4.Animal Farm by George Orwell
5.The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
6.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
7.Marked by P.C. Cas and Kristin Cast
8.Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery
9.Hawaii A Novel by James A. Michener
10.Russka The Novel of Russia by Edward Rutherfurd

15 PTS
1.Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and TBD
2.The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker and Confidence Game by Michelle M. Welch
3.The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters and The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
4.A Clue for the Puzzle Lady by Parnell Hall and 1 hour of CLUE
5.The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist and Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
6.Cyber Cinderella by Christina Hopkinson
7.Hello, Cupcake! Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make by Karen Tack AND TBD
8.A Redbird Christmas A Novel by Fannie Flagg
9.The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel and The Court of the Lion A Novel of the T'Ang Dynasty by Eleanor Cooney
10.

20 PTS
1.
2.
3.The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0 by Christopher Moore

25 PTS
1.
2.Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein and Making Money by Terry Pratchett
3.Witches' Forest by Mishio Fukazawa, The Secret History of Tom Trueheart by Ian Beck, and The Wishing Jar A Novel by Penelope J. Stokes
4.The Weight of All Things A Novel by Sandra Benitez and French Women Don't Get Fat The Secret of Eating for Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano
5.Saving Fish from Drowning A Novel by Amy Tan and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
6.The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
7.The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
8.Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo and Bound Away Virginia and the Westward Movement by David Hackett Fischer
9.The Tale of Despereaux Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo and An American Plague The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
10.The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham

30 PTS
1.Book Lust Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl and Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
2.Surprise Island by Gertrude Chandler Warner and Tropical Kiss by Jan Coffey
3.My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki

50 PTS
1.

5:4 The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
5:7 The Eyre Affair (the author is a metal Ox)
5:8 Still Life
5:9 Love The One You're With
5:10 Austere Academy

10:1 Water for Elephants
10:4 Unaccustomed Earth (Wendy)
10:5 Chronic City
10:6 The Kite Runner
10:7 Street Gang

15:2 Practical Magic and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
15:5 Japan - Waiting
Togo - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
15:7 A Tuscan in the Kitchen
15:9 Old - Prep
New - The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry

25:3 A Good Year
25:5 Lovely Bones
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
25:6 Hotel Pastis : A Novel of Provence
25:10 My Life as a Furry Red Monster
The Rule of Four

5 POINTS

5.1 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
5.2 The Harlot's Prerogative
5.3 The Virgin's Lover
5.4 The Interpretation of Murder
5.5 TBD
5.6 Hard Choices (Politician)
5.7 The Double Eagle
5.8 Yankee Doodle Dead
5.9 Kissing Frogs
5.10 The Bernini Bust

10 POINTS

10.1 The Final Confession of Mabel Stark
10.2 TBD
10.3 TBD
10.4 Portrait in Sepia (pjread)
10.5 TBD
10.6 Amsterdam (Rhiannon)
10.7 Living Dead in Dallas (True Blood)
10.8 Two Solitudes
10.9 Hotel Honolulu
10.10 Anna Karenina

15 POINTS

15.1 Strip Tease/Grosse Point Blank
15.2 Spellbound/TBD
15.3 Grave Secrets/My Life With John Thaw
15.4 TBD
15.5 People of the Book (Isabel - South Africa)/The Remains of the Day (Kirei Kirei - Japan)
15.6 TBD
15.7 TBD
15.8 TBD
15.9 The Rule of Four/Natural Selection
15.10 TBD

20 POINTS

20.1 TBD
20.2 TBD
20.3 The Princess Bride

25 POINTS

25.1 Addition (2008)/Animal Husbandry (movie 2001)
25.2 TBD
25.3 Angels (496)/That Old Ace in the Hole (384)
25.4 TBD
25.5 TBD
25.6 TBD
25.7 Size 12 is Not Fat
25.8 TBD
25.9 TBD
25.10 Purple Hibiscus/The Five People You Meet in Heaven

30 POINTS

30.1 TBD
30.2 Faintheart:An Englishman Ventures North of the Border/Northern Lights (Northern Lights)
30.3 Bad Heir Day

50 POINTS

50.1 TBD

5.1 Mrs. Beast - Pamela Ditchoff
5.2 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
5.3 A Year With The Queen - Robert Hardman
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7 Doomsday Book- Connie Willis (1945)
5.8 Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
5.9 Chocolat - Joanne Harris
5.10 Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs

10.1
10.2 Adventures in Darkness: Memoirs of an eleven year old blind boy - Tom Sullivan
10.3
10.4 Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik
10.5 The Crowning Glory of Call Lily Ponder - Rebecca Wells
10.6 The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10

15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10

20.1
20.2
20.3

25.1
25.2
25.3 One Second After - William R. Forstchen
25.4
25.5
25.6 Oh. My. Gods. - Tera Lynn Childs
25.7Dead of Winter - Stuart M. Kaminsky
25.8
25.9 A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle AND Thistle and Thyme Tales and Legends from Scotland - Sorche Nic Leodhas
25.10 AND Unclutter your Life in One Week - Erin R. Doland

30.1

50

My list is posted at http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/4237...

Perhaps I will post the whole thing here when its done

5 Point Tasks
1.Peter Pan
2.The White Tiger
3.The Constant Princess
4.The Blind Assassin(Man Booker, 2000)
5.
6.A Dirty Job
7.The Angel's Game(year of Dragon)
8.And Then There Were None
9.Love in the Time of Cholera
10.East of Eden

10 Point Tasks
1.
2.The Stand
3.
4.The Time Machine(PJreads)
5.Her Fearful Symmetry
6.The Hunger Games
7.Darkly Dreaming Dexter
8.Oryx and Crake
9.
10.

15 Point Tasks
1.
2.Still Alice & Dune
3.
4.
5.One Hundred Years of Solitude & Slaughterhouse-Five
6.
7.
8.
9.Brave New World & Never Let Me Go
10.

20 Point Tasks
1.
2.
3.

25 Point Tasks
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.The Graveyard Book & Savvy
10.A Clockwork Orange & The Thirteenth Tale

30 Point Tasks
1.
2.
3.The Year of the Flood

5 POINT TASKS
1. Briar Rose
2. The Star of Kazan
3. The Constant Princess
4. how i live now (Printz 2005)
5. The Underneath
6. Conservatize Me: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon Sean Hannity Toby Keith and Beef Jerky
7. Sea Glass (1969)
8. The Book With No Name
9. Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss One Song at a Time
10. Darkly Dreaming Dexter

10 POINT TASKS
1. The Magician's Elephant
2. Lighthousekeeping
3. Bad Boy: A Memoir
4. Slaughterhouse Five (pjreads)
5. Beautiful Creatures (Dec)
6. Wicked Lovely
7. Dexter in the Dark
8. Hearts and Bones
9. The Descendants: A Novel
10. Hunger: A Novel

15 POINT TASKS
1. Nighlight: A Parody
2. The Probable Future and The Maze Runner
3. The Shamer's Daughter and
4. Madapple AND Apples to Apples
5. The Fortunes of Indigo Skye (Monaco - Mahnoor)
6. The Angel's Game (the gift of reading); weekly volunteering at Meals on Wheels
7. Rosewater and Soda Bread
8. The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
9. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian and Bog Child
10. WE WILL REMEMBER YOU

20 POINT TASKS
20.1 PENDING
20.2 PENDING
20.3
A. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
B. The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror Version 2.0
C. The Princess Bride

25 POINT TASKS
1. PENDING
2. Parable of the Sower (Nebula 1999); The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Nebula 2007)
3. The Maze Runner (374p);
4. Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self and Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World
5. The Afterlife and Suite Francaise
6. Into the Wild - I have always wanted to go to Alaska, for the fishing and the whale-watching! A cruise would be especially nice!
7. Dearly Devoted Dexter (10.7) and (5.10)
8. I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark and
9. A Single Shard and Everything on a Waffle (2002)
10. 13 Little Blue Envelopes and Thirteen Reasons Why

30 POINT TASKS
1. seriously?
2. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and Last Light
3. Sin in the Second City: Madams Ministers Playboys and the Battle for America's Soul

50 POINT MIDWAY TASK
PENDING

5 POINT TASKS
1. The Once and Future King/sword in the stone
2. The Painted Veil
3. Henry IV, Part 2 or the Illiad by Homer (King Agememnon)
4. Philip Roth, 2001- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Metal (The Plot Against America was published 2004)
5.
6. The Pearl- pearl diver
7. 1900- Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward Angel, year of the rat
8.
9. Love's Labours Lost, Shakespeare
10.The Pickwick Papers, Dickens


10 POINT TASKS
1.
2. Oil! By Upton Sinclair- the son goes deaf in an accident
3.
4.PJREADS- Anthony and Cleopatra OR DIANE- Age of Innocence OR
WENDY- Tess of the D'Ubervilles
5.
6. Me Talk Pretty One Day, or The Sun Also Rises
7. John Adams Miniseries- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
8. Henderson the Rain King, Alias Grace, Cat's Eye
9.
10. Brothers Karamazon, the Possessed, Fathers and Sons, Dostoevsky's short stories, Tolstoy's short stories, Dr Zhivago


15 POINT TASKS
1. Cold Comfort Farm/ some movie
2. Babbit by Sinclair Lewis, Pilgrim's Progress
3. A Wrinkle in Time, Reading Lolita in Tehran
4. card game war- Fugitive Pieces, Birdsong, play war!
5. Australia, Shannon-The Odyssey
Netherlands, zerospinboson- The Trial, Brothers Karamazov

6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

20 POINT TASKS
20.1 MOST IMPROVED PLAYER - PENDING
20.2 ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - PENDING
20.3 GROUP READS
Read One Of The Following Group Read Selections And Make At Least One Post In The Discussion Thread.
A. Classic
B. Winter
C. The Princess Bride

25 POINT TASKS

1.
2.
3.
4.
5. A. TBD B. The Trial, Persuasion, Between the Acts, Maurice
6.
7. Brother's Karamazov- fits Russian task, and around the world task (the second guy from the Netherlands)
8. A. Nonfiction book B. Centennial
9.
10.A Curtain of Green, Eudora Welty, 1421: The Year China Discovered America
House of Seven Gables, Hawthorne

30 points
1. PJ READS TASK
Middlemarch had 912 pages, plus 2 is 914 "Europe"- How the Irish Saved Civilization
-250 is 664 "food technology" The Botany of Desire

2.

50 POINT MIDWAY TASK
PENDING

5 POINT TASKS

1. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY (Mary Poppins and Dumbo) -Mary Poppins or Elephants Can Remember

2. SHE WAS A GRAND OLD FLAG MAKER - Number the Stars

3. ROYAL READING - King Lear

4. A WINNING DECADE - The Inheritance of Loss or White Tiger (Man Booker) or Interpreter of Maladies (Pulitzer) or The Graveyard Book (Hugo, re-read), or Powers (Nebula)

5. A LIBRARIANS JOB IS NEVER DONE - Will need to ask my local librarian(s)!

6. IT'S A DIRTY JOB BUT… - Fast Food Nation or Chew On This or The Jungle

7. EYING THE YEAR OF THE TIGER - choosing from Etgar Keret, Jhumpa Lahiri, Barbara Kingsolver, J.D. Salinger, Daphne DuMaurier (we're all sheep!)

8. BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE - Halloween Party or Nemesis or other Agatha Christie (definitely going with Christie for this one!)

9. ISN'T IT ROMANTIC - The Chocolate War

10. THE ALLURE OF ALLITERATION - Black and Blue or Ella Enchanted or re-read of The Ersatz Elevator

10 Point Selections Coming Soon!

This is what I have so far.

5 point tasks

.1- Disney-sleeping beauty- Going to read Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
.2-Starless Nights by R.H. Salvatore
.3-The Other Boleyn Girl
.4-American Gods-Neil Gaimen
.5
.6
.7-Author who shares chinese zodiac-Joy Fielding. Will read Missing Pieces
.8-Cozy Mystery-Sookie Stackhouse #2 (?)
.9-Romance Word-Kiss the Girls-James Patterson
10-Alliteration-The Time Travelers Wife

10 point tasks
.1- Water for Elephants
.2-Blindness-Jose Saramango
.3-
.4-Winner's Choice-Time Machine (took from PJREADS profile)
.5-Book from month I was born-The Scarecrow-Michael Connelly
.6-Local 5 star rating-the Picture of Dorian Gray
.7 TV show-I currently love FlashForward and will read that
.8
.9
.10

15 points
.1
.2-Ficitional land-Will read the Narnia chronicles, not sure about the Alice one yet
.3-Female author-Sookie Stackhouse #3 and still working on the woman I admire
.4
.5-Memoirs of a Geisha-Thailand and Great Gatsby-Bahamas
.6
.7
.8-Will read Christmas Carol and another Christmas book and watch White Christmas
.9-New Author-Jodi Picolt, Old Book from TBR-
.10-Witches of Eastick by John Updike and watch Dirty Dancing or some other Patrick Swayze movie

20 points
.1
.2
.3-Princes Bride

25 points
.1 I have quite a few James Patterson lying around, will probably pick up some of his books
.2 I like this topic since I like Sci-fi/fantasy, but don't know which authors/books yet...
.3
.4
.5
.6
.7 Multi-tasking-Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell-Will fit into a new author and a award winner for the decade 2005
.8
.9-the giver and Dragon Gate
.10-Red Rain and 4th of July

30 points


If anyone has any suggesstions for any of the points I left blank that would be AWESOME. Thanks much..this is fun.

All I can think of so far, and probably still ambitious considering the holiday season and the two kids.

5 POINT TASKS
1. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

2. SHE WAS A GRAND OLD FLAG MAKER: Stardust by Neil Gaiman

3. ROYAL READING: A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

4. A WINNING DECADE: 2008 winner of the Agatha Award for Best Novel: Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews

8. BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE: Lean, Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich

10. THE ALLURE OF ALLITERATION: Faith of the Fallen by Terry Goodkind

Tracy, for one of the 30 point tasks, I'm thinking of reading The Northern Clemency and Friday Night Lights to meet the requirement for "Northern Lights"...

Holding my place as I plan things out ...

5.1 Ash - Malinda Lo
5.2
5.3
5.4 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
5.5 Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving * my local librarian recommended it yesterday as being her fav book :)
5.6 - Candy Girl by Diablo Cody
5.7 Are You There God, It's Me Margaret - Judy Blume (re-reading)
5.8 Every Crooked Nanny - Kathy Hogan Trocheck
5.9 Love in the Driest Season - Neely Tucker
5.10 July, July - Tim O'Brien

10.1 A Son of The Circus - John Irving
10.2 Blindness - José Saramago
10.3 Song Yet Sung - James McBride
10.4 Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
10.5 Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
10.6 Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
10.7 Darkly Dreaming Dexter- Jeffrey Lindsay
10.8 The Day The Falls Stood Still -Cathy Marie Buchanan
10.9 Moloka'i - Alan Brennert
10.10

15.1 Nightlight: A Parody - Harvard Lampoon/Film TBD
15.2 TBD/The Magicians - Lev Grossman
15.3 The Likeness - Tana French/TBD
15.4
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9 TBD/The Sugar Queen by Addison Allen
15.10

20.1
20.2
20.3 Either Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll or The Princess Bride???

25.1
25.2
25.3 Something Missing by Matthew Dicks & Gone by Michael Grant
25.4
25.5 Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin/The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
25.6
25.7 Stand the Storm - Breena Clarke
25.8
25.9
25.10 TBD/Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith

30.1
30.2
30.3 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Kingsolver

50

Here's my lists...


5 Point Tasks - 0/50
1.
2. Cage Of Stars - Jacquelyn Mitchard
3. The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory
4. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (Pullitzer Prize 2008)
5.
6. Tricks - Ellen Hopkins
7. Someone Like You - Sarah Dessen (Rooster, 1970)
8. Deeper Than The Dead - Tami Hoag
9. Sweetheart - Chelsea Cain
10. Vegan Virgin Valentine - Carolyn Mackler

10 Point Tasks - 0/100
1. The Circus Fire - Stewart O'Nan
2. Tangerine - Edward Bloor
3. The Warmest December - Bernice L. McFadden
4. The Art Of Racing In The Rain - Garth Stein (Donna Jo)
5. Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
6. The Painter Of Shanghai - Jennifer Epstein
7.
8. Late Nights On Air - Elizabeth Hay
9. Honolulu - Alan Brennert
10. Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith

15 Point Tasks - 0/150
1A.
1B.
2A. Still Alice - Lisa Genova
2B.
3A. Bed Of Roses - Nora Roberts
3B.
4A. Bad Things - Michael Marshall Smith
4B. play 1 hour of Things
5A. Lullabies For Little Criminals - Heather O'Neill (Selena from Bahamas)
5B.
6A. Driving Sideways - Jess Riley (gift: car)
6B.
7A. The Recipe Club - Andrea Israel & Nancy Garfinkel
7B.
8A.
8B.
9A. Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
9B. Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah
10A. Too Much Money - Dominick Dunne
10B.

20 Point Tasks - 0/60

1.
2.
3.

25 Point Tasks - 0/250

...the rest is coming soon...

Dee wrote: "All I can think of so far, and probably still ambitious considering the holiday season and the two kids.

5 POINT TASKS
1. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens


..."

mine's very ambitiouse too..i'll be lucky if I get throught 5 of those (not counting the really short ones) But it's fun to try!

5.1 Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella by Cameron Dokey
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6 Ten Cents A Dance by Christine Fletcher
5.7 A Kind Of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth
5.9 The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine
5.10

10.1 A Son of the Circus by John Irving
10.2
10.3
10.4 The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Helen)
10.5 Fire by Kristin Cashore
10.6 Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (Alecea)
10.7
10.8
10.9 Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
10.10

15.1
15.2
15.3 My Point and I do have one by Ellen Degeneres AND TBD
15.4
15.5 The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (Beth in Korea) AND TBD
15.6 What the Dog Did: Tales from a formerly reluctant dog owner by Emily Yoffe
15.7 Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanna Fluke
15.8
15.9 All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris AND Fishbowl by Sarah Mlynowski
15.10

20.1
20.2
20.3 The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore

25.1
25.2
25.3 From Dead to Worse, Dead and Gone, A Touch of Dead- all by Charlaine Harris (863 pgs)
25.4
25.5
25.6 Greetings from Jamaica: Wish you were queer by Mari SanGiovanni
25.7 Season's Revenge:Christmas Mystery by Henry Kisor (Tasks 5.8 & 15.8)
25.8
25.9 Year 2006 -Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins AND Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
25.10 The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff AND TBD

30.1
30.2

5 POINT TASKS

1. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY – Aladdin: The Akhenaten Adventure

2. SHE WAS A GRAND OLD FLAG MAKER - Enchantress from the Stars

3. ROYAL READING - The Lady Elizabeth A Novel

4. A WINNING DECADE - Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature-2002: The Curse of Chalion

5. A LIBRARIANS JOB IS NEVER DONE - Librarian Character In Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

6. IT'S A DIRTY JOB BUT… - I have such bad stage fright that I couldn’t even imagine being an actress: Death In Daytime A Soap Opera Mystery

7. EYING THE YEAR OF THE TIGER -Born In Year Of The Ox (1985) And Lois Bujold Was Also Born In The Year Of The Ox (1949) - The Hallowed Hunt

8. BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE - Espresso Shot

9. ISN'T IT ROMANTIC - I Heart Bloomberg

10. THE ALLURE OF ALLITERATION - The Crown Conspiracy

10 POINT TASKS

1. UNDER THE BIG TOP - Water for Elephants

2. LOUIS LOUIS - A Silent Terror

3. RENAISSANCE READING - One Must Wait

4. WINNERS CHOICE – Bonnie: Princess Ben
5. POPULARITY CONTEST –Moonlight

6. LOCAL LITERATURE LOVERS : Kathy C : Enchanted, Inc.

7. SMALL SCREEN STORIES - My Favorite TV Show Is Legend of The Seeker- Based on the Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind: Wizard's First Rule

8. OH CANADA! - Personal Demon

9. REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR - Distant Echoes Book One in The Aloha Reef Series

10. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE - Nicholas and Alexandra

15 POINT TASKS

1. MAKE ME LAUGH: You Suck A Love Story

2. ADVENTURES WITH ALICE AND LEWIS
A. The Ghost and Mrs. McClure
B. Stone of Tears

3. WHAT WOMEN WANT (TO READ AND WRITE)
A. French Pressed
B. Cleopatra Last Queen of Egypt

4. IT'S ALL ABOUT FUN AND GAMES - My Favorite Computer Game Is Diablo: Blue Diablo

5. READERS ROUND THE WORLD UNITE
A. R: Romainia : Delia-Blood of the Fold
B. C: Columbia: Iv-The Little Prince (my edition has 112 pages)

6. THE SEASON OF GIFTING & GIVING – My mom gave me a framed picture containing the graduation pictures of my maternal great-grandmother, grandmother, my mom, and my high school picture for high school graduation: Garden Spells-concerns multiple generations of the main family

7. FOOD + FAMILY AND/OR FRIENDS = READING FUN - Decaffeinated Corpse

8. SILVER SCREEN CELEBRATIONS
A. Holiday Grind

9. OUT WITH THE OLD & IN WITH THE NEW BOOKS
A. – OLD The Bourne Identity
B. – NEW Meridian

10. WE WILL REMEMBER YOU
A. The Dark of Day

20 POINT TASKS

20.1 MOST IMPROVED PLAYER - PENDING

20.2 ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - PENDING

20.3 GROUP READS: Romance: The Princess Bride

25 POINT TASKS

1. BONNIE’S TASK – PENDING
2. HELEN’S TASK- SCIENCE FICTION PAST AND PRESENT
A. Doomsday Book
B. Paladin of Souls

3. BJ ROSE’S TASK-SNOWED IN AND LOVING IT: Gift of the Unmage, Spellspam, Cybermage

4. ROSEANN'S TASK - READ ABOUT YOUR RESOLUTION
A. Ariel A Book of the Change
B. The Money Answer Book Quick Answers to Everyday Financial Questions

5. DIANE'S TASK - POSTHUMOUSLY SPEAKING
A. Tainted
B. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
6. WENDY'S TASK - WINTER VACATION DREAMS –Australia: Alyzon Whitestarr

7. JAN THE GRYPHON’S TASK - MULTI-TASKING Temple of the Winds Fits 10.7-Small Screen and 15.2b Imaginary World with Alice and Lewis

8. KARI ♪'S TASK - EXPLORING WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
A. Fiction - Meriwether A Novel of Meriwether Lewis and the Lewis & Clark Expedition
B. Non-Fiction about Oregon Trail-

9. RACHEL LEE'S TASK - THE NEWBERRY AWARD (1968)
A. Medal Winner - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
B. Honors - Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth

10. THERESA IN OHIO'S TASK - COLOR BY NUMBERS
A. Red
B. 2 Bodies For The Price Of 1

30 Point Tasks

1. PJ READS TASK - FUN WITH THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM
One of My Favorite Books From The Fall Challenge Was First Light Which Had 336 Pages.
A. 334-338 offshoots of economics: Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
B. 584-589 botany: Mum's the Word

2. DONNA JO'S TASK - GOING ON A WINTER VACATION-Sleigh Ride
A. The Sound of Sleigh Bells
B. To Ride Hell's Chasm

3. DLM ROSE'S TASK - IT'S ABOUT TIME - Split Second

50 POINT MIDWAY TASK