Thanks everyone for your great ideas...I'm officially not taking any more task suggestions and will post the official challenge (minus the 25 pointers) tonight when I get home from work (sometime after 9pm EST)!!!

Read a debut book by a young author (under 35)

Read Risk Society by Ulrich Beck. That should be worth about 500 points.

I think anything hard to search should be at least 10 or 15 points

Could legal books be worth 15+ points (NOT light reading)?

Read a political history book!! (worth 20 pts!)

I like this idea.

cute one, Fiona!

Read my nanowrimo attempt

(is that cheating? haha!) or just read some writing by a member of this group.

Read poetry by someone famous for their screenplays (like Leonard Nimoy, for example)

Read poetry by someone NOT famous in HIS/HER lifetime

Read a junior (teen) book by a fantastic author (saw Lois Lowry, Jack London or Gloria Wheelan, Stephen King--The Talisman, an early amazing work)

Read a social consciousness book (as opposed to a self-help book) say perhaps: Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

Read a legal precedent-based book (such as To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee Harper)

Read a legal case law book (nonfiction) For example, We the Students: Supreme Court Decisions for and About Students
by Jamin B. Raskin

Thanks Susana for the link www.imdb.com (Internet Movie Database) and Charity for adapted screenplays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awa... (I'm gonna read Quentin Tarentino's)

Here's one:

Tell someone on TNBBC to pick a book from your TBR and then you MUST read what they pick.

I think this should be worth at least 15-20 pts!

well i went on the Academy Award website to get a link for ya'll and what happens? everyone else was more on top of it than me :) thanks for the links!!

one more idea: Read a book by an author you've already read, but don't re-read a book you've already read by them

totally wordy i know, but since you managed to figure out my last one i think you'll get this one too :D

p.s i'm getting excited! haha

I can't wait either....it's almost like waiting for Christmas morning!

ONE WEEK TILL I POST THE FINAL WINTER CHALLENGE TASKS...I've got a rough idea of what the challenges are going to be but I'll still accept more ideas - if they don't get used this go around I have a running list for future challenges.

When do we find out what the challenges are going to be? I can't wait!

Read a book with the name of a day of the week (MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, etc.) in the title.

Read a book you read as a child (growing up).

Read a book about cupid or with cupid in the title or something like that.

This is a little different but how about listen to 1 audio book in the challenge time?

These might have already been suggested but how about

Read a book and read it's sequel.

Read a book that you've started but never finished.

I had more ideas but I forget and my family is begging me to get off the computer so we can get dinner!

Amber-The Winter Challenge has not started yet...It goes from Dec 1st-Feb 28th...This thread is just for the suggestions of what tasks people would like to see on the challenge. The tasks will be posted @ the end of the month...

I may have missed this but when does the winter challenge start?

The Oscars are in late February this year.

Read a book about the movies.

I like To Kill a Mockingbird maybe even better than the book - and I like the book a great deal.

Hmmm... normally people talk about great books being turned into horrible, movies, I have never really heard the opposite. Though, I do have to admit that I like the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice (with Colin Firth) a little bit better then the book.

I love the idea of the adapted screenplays, but all of the discussion about which one you will read is making me feel a little old--I would read MASH, which sounds very interesting. Also, I read Forest Gump years ago (which won), but I thought the book was horrible. I wonder if there will be others that made a good movie, but a really bad book.

February 28th

That is an interesting idea. I can't wait to start this challenge. It goes from Dec. 1st till when?

I was also going to throw the idea out there to maybe calculate the point total according to the number of pages for 5-15 points instead of the actual task.
5 points for a book with 250 pages and under
10 points for a book with 250-400
15 points for 400+

I am currently reading a book for the fall challenge that has almost 600 pages with the word November in it, but it is only going to be 5 points.

Just thought I would throw it out there...

Same here, Heather.

Oh I like the adapted screenplay Idea...from my birth year I would get to read Schindlers List...Yay!

I like the idea, though I personally want to read one that won. There are some that look really good. I can't wait to see what the challenges are. I am so excited! I haven't ever done one before and I think it will be great!

I like that plan too. I wouldn't mind reading the book-adaptedintoascreenplay-academyawardwinningmovie-ofmybirthyear, but there are others I'd rather read instead.

If I use that task this go around (or for future challenges) I will probably include nominees and winners from any year.

Or...it could be: Read ANY book that became a Best Adapted Screenplay Winner (not just for the year you were born)

Ha! Thanks Laura and Heather!

I think if we were to implement that task, we might want to make it include the nominees from that year, not just the winner, to give people more options.

Oh, Charity I'd write a letter of recommendation for you too. Not because of your awesome research abilities, but because you're just cool.

Scary, Weird Moment. I just read the new posts. Used google to find which screen play I'd have to read. Returned here and Charity posts the site I was looking at while I was looking at it. (Twilight Zone music in the background).

Oh, and I just check my local library for the book and they have it.....in large print only. I need glasses, but not that badly.

Do it, Charity! We'll all write letters of recommendation for you :)

Thanks! It all falls in with my dream of becoming a Research Librarian one day. :-)

Charity... you are so resourceful!! :)

This should help:

Best Adapted Screenplay

Okay! Thank you so much for the tip. So I think that means that I have to read Dangerous Liasons... or the Rainmain. Not really sure which.

Kathryn - you might try the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), they have Oscar and other award-winners listed by year.

For example, to fulfil that one I see I'd have to read a play, A Man for All Seasons.

Read a book of poetry by an author famous for their fiction.

Read a novel by an author famous for their poetry.

Read play written by a novelist or a poet.

There are so many great ideas out there! What about reading a "classic" that you haven't already read? I'm thinking 10 points?

Kathryn,

Thanks for your last post. I thought the exact thing you did, but then when you stopped to think about it I did the same and now I understand:

Find out which movie won the Oscar for "Best Adapted Screenplay" the year you were born, then read the book it was based off of.

That's a good one, Alyssa. Is there a site where you can easily look this up?

Wow Alyssa, that is an intense one. Oh, wait, I think I understand it now. lol, I thought you were saying something else. That is a good one!

read a book who's movie counterpart won the oscar for best adapted screenplay the year you were born

yahoo!!!!

I believe Cynthia is going to post them on November 25th.

Is it the first of December that it starts???? I am so curious about the challenge, which ideas will have been chosen.

Thank you Charity. I tried.

There are so many good ones! I love it! I am so looking forward to this winter challenge.