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.. and we got our bonus as well, with Ezi's Surviving Raine

Update (8/20)


Finished : A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess
Alphabet to be Used : A

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Up Next : The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold
Alphabet can be used : L or A

Abbie, there seems to a difference of 10 points in the results posted for last week. We earned 295 points as against the 285 that are mentioned. Could you please check with the admins ?

Update (8/17/2014)


Finished : Naughty Neighbor | Janet Evanovich
Alphabet : N (Title), E (Author), L (Character - Louise Brannigan)
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Up Next : A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess
Alphabet : A

Well.. atleast the covers of the books under this genre are good :P ;)

Possible read-outs this week to start with :


- W : We | Yevgeny Zamyatin (Title)
- L or A : The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold (L : Title, A : Author)
- N or E : Naughty Neighbor | Janet Evanovich (N : Title, E : Author)

.. and for some reason, U and L never leaves us ! :P

Hmm.. interesting !

Though, I tend to think why do we not get short and quick words like Crime etc :P

But, nevertheless, this is new ! :)

Greta, I have got the Spreadsheet updated.
I will be online till the deadline so if anyone has any further addition to make, I can get that done !

No worries !

It seemed like a busy week for all of us, but we did good ! 295 points is a cool score ! :)

With that we complete two spell-outs.
We have 6/9 for the third !

Can we get to third in time ? The world awaits to see.. :P

Update (8/16/2014)


Finished : A Sticky Wicket in Bollywood | T.A. Chase
Alphabet to be Used : I (Series)

Hehe, yeah ! I was leaving office and I saw Greta's comment and just couldnt control from logging that in. Haste never works ! :P

Did some shifting around in the third read-through.. to fit in Greta's book.

Abbie, you might just wanna refer the Spreadsheet for ease of understanding.

Crossed 1500 points in total for the challenge over on the 5th week ! *small jig* :)

Just as an update, first priority to be completed before the deadline is :
U : To complete the second read-through

Update (8/13/2014)


Finished : The Last Suppers | Diane Mott Davidson
Alphabet Used : L (Title)

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Up Next : Saving CeeCee Honeycutt | Beth Hoffman
Alphabet to be Used : S or T

Following suit : A Sticky Wicket in Bollywood | T.A. Chase
Alphabet to be Used : S or T or R

Its always interesting to see if you complete the whole alphabet series with variegated authors.

Challenge : Author Alphabet Reading Challenge - 2014
Duration : January, 2014 - December, 2014

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Alphabets

✔ A
Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart | 4/29/2014
Albom, Mitch | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | 4/8/2014
Albom, Mitch | Tuesdays with Morrie | 7/11/2014
Alexie, Sheman | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | 3/24/2014
✔ B
Barnes, Julian | The Sense of an Ending | 2/3/2014
Barr, Nevada | Blood Lure | 6/15/2014
Brennert, Alan | Moloka'i | 5/31/2014
Burd, Nick | The Vast Fields of Ordinary | 7/21/2014
Burroughs, William | The Cat Inside | 4/30/2014
✔ C
Cain, James M. | Double Indemnity | 2/28/2014
Cain, Susan | Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking | 4/11/2014
Camus, Albert | The Stranger | 4/15/2014
Cather, Willa | One of Ours | 6/29/2014
Christie, Agatha | Murder on the Orient Express | 3/22/2014
Cohn, Rachel | Dash & Lily's Book of Dares | 7/5/2014
✔ D
Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol | 2/25/2014
Ducornet, Rikki | Netsuke | 3/2/2014
✔ E
Evanovich, Janet | One for the Money | 7/26/2014
✔ F
Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The Great Gatsby | 6/17/2014
Ford, Jamie | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | 3/27/2014
✔ G
Goldberg, Billy - Leyner, Mark | Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini | 3/5/2014
Green, Abby | The Brazilian's Blackmail Bargain | 7/18/2014
Green, John | The Fault in Our Stars | 3/12/2014
✔ H
Haddon, Mark | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | 2/13/2014
Halliday, Gemma | Spying in High Heels | 5/17/2014
Halliday, Gemma | Killer in High Heels | 5/21/2014
Halse Anderson, Laurie | Speak | 6/13/2014
Heinlein, Robert A. | Between Planets | 1/31/2014
Hemingway, Earnest | The Old Man and the Sea | 6/23/2014
Higashida, Naoki | The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism | 4/4/2014
Higgins Clark, Mary | Loves Music, Loves to Dance | 3/19/2014
Hinton, S.E. | Taming the Star Runner | 7/15/2014
I
✔ J
Johnson, Craig | As The Crow Flies | 6/8/2014
✔ K
King, Stephan | Carrie | 4/19/2014
Knowles, John | A Separate Peace | 3/31/2014
✔ L
Levithan, David | Boy Meets Boy | 4/11/2014
Levithan, David | Two Boys Kissing | 1/21/2014
Lowry, Lois | The Giver | 7/28/2014
✔ M
Maher, Bill | When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism | 4/1/2014
Murakami, Haruki | Norwegian Wood | 2/8/2014
Murakami, Haruki | After Dark | 5/3/2014
N
✔ O
Olsen, Tillie | Yonnondio: From the Thirties | 7/27/2014
Orwell, George | Animal Farm | 2/28/2014
✔ P
Peck, Dale | Sprout | 7/7/2014
Plath, Sylvia | Ariel | 4/22/2014
Q
✔ R
Raskin, Ellen | The Westing Game | 6/30/2014
Roberts, Nora | Enchanted | 7/31/2014
Rose, Karen | I Can See You | 6/22/2014
✔ S
Seles, Monica | Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self | 1/5/2014
Sparks, Nicolas | The Notebook | 6/7/2014
✔ T
Thompson Walker, Karen | The Age of Miracles | 5/25/2014
U
V
✔ W
Waller, Robert James | The Bridges of Madison County | 1/11/2014
X
Y
Z

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Summary
Total Alphabets Read : 18 / 26
Total Books Read : 52

You might just wanna refer the spreadsheet.. its the name of the series that Amy's book is a part of.

Abbie wrote: "I put it as A, but i don't see the Amy's P you were talking about."


I was talking about I Hunger For You which you have added as I in the second read-through.. I thought we can use it as P in the first read-through and try completing it as early as possible.

Update (8/12/2014)


Finished : Pegasus Bridge | Stephen E. Ambrose
Alphabet Used : A (Author's Last Name)

Using this book for A, fits Amy's one into P

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Up Next : The Last Suppers | Diane Mott Davidson
Alphabet to be Used : L

Update (8/10)


Finished : A Walk to Remember | Nicholas Sparks
Alphabet Used : S or L
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Up Next : Pegasus Bridge | Stephen E. Ambrose
Alphabet to be used : P or S or A