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I'm starting slowly, with one of the current challenges. Once this is over (I very likely won't be finished with the challenge by the ending date), I'll make it on to the next.

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Back to School Challenge

English:
-read a book set in the UK or Ireland—Just Like Heaven
-read a book by a British or Irish born author-Uncle Silas
-read a nf book about a British celebrity
-read a book with a British main character set in any country—Impulse & Initiative: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

History:
-read a historical fiction novel—Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
-read a nf book about any period of history that interests you
-read a book printed before you went to school-The Maltese Falcon
-re-read a childhood favourite

Geography:
-read a book set in a country other than your own—The Mosquito Coast
-read a nf travel book—Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle
-read a book set in a place you want or don't want to visit--Galápagos
-read a nf book about a celebrity born outside your country

Phys Ed:
-read a book about a sports celebrity
-read a health related self-help book
-read a book with a sport in the title
-read a book where main character takes part in a sport

Classical Studies:
-read a novel where mythology is central to the plot
-read a literature 'classic'
-read a book set in or with author from Greece,Italy,China,India,Egypt or Scandanavia
-read a book from Norse,Greek,Roman,Egyptian,or Chinese mythology

Science:
-read a non fiction science book
-read a science fiction novel
-read a dystopian novel about an advanced or cruel Earth regime-Crossed
-read a f or nf book about a natural or man made disaster

Music:
-read a nf book about a group or singer
-read a book connected to a musical
-read a book with the word music in the title or a type of music or instrument in the title
-read a novel where music plays a vital role—Jane

Religious Studies:
-read a nf book about religion-Mere Christianity
-read a book where main character is connected to a religious order(anything from nuns to cults)
-read a celebrity biography of someone who talks about their faith ie Donny Osmond,Susan Boyle
-read a novel where religion or cult plays a prominent part

Art:
-read a nf book about art or crafts(includes things like photography, sculpture, quilting, cross stich etc)
-read a fiction book about someone involved in arts or crafts as a job or hobby—Lola and the Boy Next Door
-read a nf book about an artist or craftsperson

Business Studies:
-read a nf book about someone in management or who runs their own business
-read a nf book about the business world
-read a novel where the main character runs their own business-The Maltese Falcon

Languages:
-read a book set in France,Italy,Germany or Spain—Anna and the French Kiss
-read a book first published in another language-The Plague
-read a book by an author born or living in France,Italy,Germany or Spain
-read a travel book about one of the four countries

Home Economics:
-read a book about cooking
-read the biography of a chef
-read a book where the main character cooks a lot
-read a book with a type of food or drink in the title-The House on Mango Street

Drama:
-read a biography of an actor or actress
-read a book made into a film or TV series or read a book that was based on a film or series--Running With Scissors
-read a companion guide to a favourite TV series
-read a play or book of poetry

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Seasonal Reading Challenge: Fall 2011

5.1 Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
5.2 Brighter Than the Sun Julia Quinn
5.3 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
5.4 Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn
5.5 On Beauty by Zadie Smith
5.6 Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
5.7 Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
5.8 The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself by Lawrence E. Harrison
5.9 Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
5.10 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

10.1 Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
10.2 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
10.3 Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Draus
10.4 Impulse & Initiative: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Abigail Reynolds
10.5 In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote
10.6 Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
10.7 Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
10.8 Delirium by Lauren Oliver
10.9 Empty by Suzanne Weyn
10.10 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

15.1 Eva Luna by Isabel Allende and The Classic Ten: The True Story of the Little Black Dress and Nine Other Fashion Favorites by Nancy MacDonell Smith
15.2 Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund and American Ways: A Guide for Foreigners in the United States by Gary Althen
15.3 Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen and The Telling by Beverly Lewis
15.4 Evening by Susan Minot and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
15.5 The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
15.6 number9dream by David Mitchell
15.7 Day of the Dead by J.A. Jance
15.8 Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens
15.9 The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
15.10 Jane by April Lindner

20.1 Darcy's Story by Janet Aylmer
20.2 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
20.3 Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
20.4 Crossed by Ally Condie
20.5 Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
20.6 Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
20.7 Daisy Miller by Henry James
20.8 Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle by Moritz Thomsen
20.9 The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
20.10 The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

25.1 Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and The Ruins by Scott B. Smith
25.2 Duma Key by Stephen King
25.3 Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley and Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya by Joel Wainwright
25.4 The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré and The Plague by Albert Camus
25.5 King Lear by William Shakespeare and The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
25.6 The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie and The Night in Question: Stories by Tobias Wolff
25.7 Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood and Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
25.8 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Como agua para chocolate by Laura Esquivel
25.9 Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger and The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
25.10 Lord of the Flies by William Golding and America's Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard

30.1 The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler and The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
30.2 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
30.3 The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois and American Gods by Neil Gaiman
30.4 Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
30.5 Bitter Fruit by Stephen Kinzer and The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
30.6 Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keefe by Laurie Lisle and Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez
30.7 I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson and Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban
30.8 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
30.9 Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
30.10 Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan and Living in the Light of Eternity: Discovering God's Design For Your Life by K.P. Yohannan

50.1 Diversity Dialogues by Lee Gutkind, The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein and Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer

Total Points: 220
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 500=2

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Seasonal Reading Challenge Winter 2011

5.1 Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keefe by Laurie Lisle
5.2 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
5.3 I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson
5.4 How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein
5.5 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5.6 Delirium by Lauren Oliver
5.7 Neuromancer by William Gibson
5.8 The Night in Question: Stories by Tobias Wolff
5.9 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
5.10 Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

10.1 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
10.2 A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
10.3 Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
10.4 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
10.5 Higher Than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson Mandela by Fatima Meer
10.6 Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
10.7 The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
10.8 Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books by William Kuhn
10.9 Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
10.10 On Beauty by Zadie Smith

15.1 The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself by Lawrence E. Harrison
15.2 Wither by Lauren DeStefano and The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
15.3 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
15.4 Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
15.5 Divergent by Veronica Roth
15.6 The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
15.7 North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
15.8 The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
15.9 Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens
15.10 The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

20.1 When Sparks Fly by Lynnette Kent
20.2 The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
20.3 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
20.4 Evening by Susan Minot
20.5 Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
20.6 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
20.7 Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
20.8 If I Stay by Gayle Forman
20.9 Living in the Light of Eternity: Discovering God's Design For Your Life by K.P. Yohannan
20.10 Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

25.1 American Gods by Neil Gaiman and Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
25.2 Duma Key by Stephen King and Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
25.3 Hercule Poirot's Christmas and The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
25.4 The Color Purple by Alice Walker and What Your Doctor Hasn't Told You and the Health Store Clerk Doesn't Know: The Truth About Alternative Treatments and What Works by Edward Schneider
25.5 Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves by Farley Mowat and Firestarter by Stephen King
25.6 Simply Irresistible by Rachel Gibson and The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
25.7 Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen and Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund
25.8 Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger and Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott
25.9 The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré and Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan

30.1 Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie and A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
30.2 A Kiss of Shadows and Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton
30.3 What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones and Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
30.4 Day of the Dead by J.A. Jance and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
30.5 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell and Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
30.6 Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
30.7 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and The Plague by Albert Camus

50.1 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Legend by Marie Lu and The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Total points: 315
Goodreads Authors: 5

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Cover Art Challenge 2012

1)Weapon -
2)Warm colour cover(red,orange,yellow,brown etc) -
3)Cold colour cover(blue,green,white,purple etc) -
4)Animal/Monster(birds,spiders,insects ok) -
5)City skyline -
6)Water -
7)Transport -
8)Building -
9)Planet/Sun/Star/Moon -
10)Flower/Plant/Tree -
11)Tattoo/BodyArt/Piercings/jewellery -
12)Scenic landscape
13)Fire/Flame/Bright Light(candle,torch etc ok) -
14)Food/Drink/Potion -
15)Book -
16)Sexy male
17)Sexy Female -
18)Scary
19)Beautiful -
20)Child/Teenager on cover -
21)Adult on cover -
22)Weather -
23)Famous Historical/Current/Mythical person -
24)Favourite cover -
25)Disliked cover -
26)Spring Theme
27)Summer Theme -
28)Autumn Theme
29)Winter Theme -
30)This cover made me buy it! -

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Seasonal Reading Challenge Spring 2012

5.1 Little Bee by Chris Cleave
5.2 The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
5.3 If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
5.4 Up To Jerusalem: Devotions For Lent And Easter by John A Braun
5.5 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5.6 City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
5.7 Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
5.8 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
5.9 Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire
5.10 The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart

10.1 Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
10.2 My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier
10.3 The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
10.4 American Law: An Introduction by Lawrence M. Friedman
10.5 Searching for Everardo: A Story of Love, War, and the CIA in Guatemala by Jennifer K. Harbury
10.6 On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
10.7 Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
10.8 The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham & the Making of a Masterpiece by Simon Winchester
10.9 Forest Born by Shannon Hale
10.10 Hark! a Vagrant by Kate Beaton

15.1 Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver and Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
15.2 Imperial by William T. Vollmann and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
15.3 North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
15.4 Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
15.5 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
15.6 Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich
15.7 Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
15.8 The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
15.9 The Magicians by Lev Grossman
15.10 River Secrets by Shannon Hale

20.1 I've Got Your Number: A Novel by Sophie Kinsella
20.2 The Shack by William P. Young
20.3 Living in the Light of Eternity by K.P. Yohannan
20.4 Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
20.5 A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
20.6 Villette by Charlotte Brontë
20.7 Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
20.8 Thumped by Megan McCafferty
20.9 Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
20.10 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

25.1 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
25.2 Nanny Returns by Emma McLaughlin and Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
25.3 Jane Eyre's Daughter by Elizabeth Newark and Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen
25.4 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa
25.5 The Odyssey by Homer and The Art of Fielding: A Novel by Chad Harbach
25.6 The Desire of the Nations by Oliver O'Donovan and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
25.7 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen and Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
25.8 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
25.9 The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery and The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
25.10 Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews and Where She Went by Gayle Forman

30.1 Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence In America, 1830-1930 by Louis Adamic and The Man Behind the Rosenbergs by Alexander Feklisov
30.2 The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht and The Farm on the River of Emeralds by Moritz Thomsen
30.3 The Rocky Road to Romance by Janet Evanovich and The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
30.4 Death In The Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa and Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
30.5 The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer and The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
30.6 The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann and
30.7 The Magician King by Lev Grossman and Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
30.8 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

50.1 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller and Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Total points: 500
Goodreads authors: 14
Big Books: 500=3, 750=1

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Seasonal Reading Challenge Summer 2012

5.1 Gold by Chris Cleave
5.2 Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa
5.3 The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
5.4 A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine
5.5 Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
5.6 Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
5.7 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
5.8 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
5.9 Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
5.10 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

10.1 Dune by Frank Herbert
10.2 Lily's Sister by Karen J. Hasley
10.3 I Am America by Stephen Colbert
10.4 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
10.5 Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
10.6 You'll Never Know, Vol. 1: A Good and Decent Man by C. Tyler
10.7 Selected Poems by Alfred Tennyson
10.8 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
10.9 Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
10.10 Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

15.1 The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
15.2 One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott Turow and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin
15.3 The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
15.4 Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries are Leading the Way by Steven Radelet
15.5 The Family Fortune by Laurie Horowitz
15.6 The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
15.7 The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
15.8 Wunderkind: A Novel by Nikolai Grozni
15.9 The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
15.10 Made for Heaven: And Why on Earth It Matters by C.S. Lewis

20.1 Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
20.2
20.3 One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School by Scott Turow
20.4 The Violence of Love by Oscar A. Romero
20.5 Breakfast Of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction by John H. Vandermeer
20.6 The Iron Knight by Julie Kagawa
20.7 An Introduction to Legal Reasoning by Edward H. Levi
20.8 The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa
20.9 The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa
20.10 Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally

25.1 A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin and I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
25.2 Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews and Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
25.3 Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo and The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
25.4 And So it Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields and God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut
25.5 The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey and What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know: An Introduction to the Study of Law by Tracey E. George
25.6 The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson and The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
25.7 The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis and Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie
25.8 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

30.1 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
30.2 The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham and The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
30.3 Sabriel by Garth Nix and Death In The Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa
30.4 Learning the Law: Success in Law School and Beyond by Steven J. Frank and 1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School by Andrew J. McClurg
30.5 The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and
30.6 Pretties by Scott Westerfeld and The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
30.7 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn and Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
30.8 Como Agua para Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews
30.9 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America by John Charles Chasteen
30.10 A Separate Peace by John Knowles and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
30.11 The Ages of American Law by Grant Gilmore and Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews

50.1 Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente, Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo, and The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

Total points: 425
Goodreads authors: 10
Big Books: 500=1