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OFFICIAL SPRING CHALLENGE - 2009
I found for 1974:Daniel J. Boorstin - Pulitzer in history
Iris Murdoch - Whitbread Award
Isaac Bashevis Singer - National Book Award (fiction)
Lewis Thomas - National Book Award (nonfiction)
Allen Ginsberg - National Book Award (poetry)
Nadine Gordimer - Booker Prize
Arthur C. Clarke - Hugo Award
out of curiosity does anyone think The Devil Wears Prada and the Phantom of the Opera would be close enough for rhyming (Prada/Opera)? They sound similar to my ear but want to get an official ruling before I start into Phantom.
Poor Cynthia. She's going to have over 400 posts to wade through when she returns. Good Golly. I feel like we should take up a collection for her ;-)
2. For Cinco De Mayo – Read a book by a Mexican author. Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King by Reymundo Sanchez-3/15
100 Points
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Hi - A few updates for me: Just finished A Peculiar Grace by Jeffrey Lent and The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry for the 15 point rhyming task. And finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy for the 5 point book read in a mode of transportation. I took the train and flew to Chicago this weekend.
That is a total of 20 new points, added to my previous 30 for a grand total of 50 points.
I've started up on this kind of slowly, but oh well. 5 Points
1. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
10 Points
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
7. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
15 Points
5. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
(I'm only posting what I've already finished)
Points: 40
I just finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.5 points
1.
2. Epistolary - Elisabeth The Princess Bride, Austria-Hungary, 1853
3. Spring Cleaning - Dragon of the Red Dawn
4. Planes, Trains,... - The Princess Diaries
5. Lent/Book about Sacrifice - Confessions of a Closet Catholic
6. Women's History - Stargirl
7. Arbor Day - Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban
8. April Fool's Day/Humorous - Zippity Zinger
9. Spring Animals - Junie B. First Grader: Dumb Bunny
10. Rain-Related - Electric Storm
10 points
1. Ireland - Maggie's Door
2. Mexico - Esperanza Rising
3. Australia - I am the Messenger
4. Author Birthday - The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo - March 25
5.
6. Earth Day - Walk Two Moons
7. Mother's Day - Northanger Abbey
8. Military - Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima
9. TNBBC Top Book List - I Capture the Castle
10. TNBBC Member's 5 Star - Tuck Everlasting
15 points
1. Leo (Royalty) - Fairest
2.
3. TNBBC Group Read - Stardust
4. Spring Break - The Kingdom Keepers
5. Award Winner - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler
6. Translated -Pippi Longstocking
7. Rhyming Books - Blizzard of the BLUE Moon & The TWO Princesses of Bamarre
8. Get to Know Author - Princess Academy
9. Color Book/Food - Where the Red Fern Grows
10. 3, 4, and 5 Books - Reach for the Stars, Have Wheels Will Travel, & Look Before You Leap - Amazing Days of Abby Hayes
25 points
1. G & R - The Goose Girl and River Secrets
2. Diarist - The World of Louisa May Alcott
3. Person below post - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (Susanna)
4. Big Read - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
5. Other genre - Woodsong (non-fiction)
6. 400 page British Monarchy - Horrible Histories?
7. Book from Movie - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from Inkheart
8. 12+ word title - Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country
9. 2 YA novels - Enna Burning and The Wish
New Total: 30
Julie wrote: "I was wondering if anyone was born in 1974. I had a book chosen for 10 pts # 5 but I understood the question wrong and I don't think my book counts. Now I can't even remember how I came up with th..."If you like YA, or some younger fiction, the Newberry Winner in 1974 was The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox. It's really easy, but a good story. She has a few other books too. The Honor Winner that year was The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper, who also has several books. The Dark is Rising is a 5 book series.
I haven't read Susan Cooper yet, but I hear they are really good, and well written. I know a lot of people who really like them. I hope that helps!
Five Point Tasks 1.Science Fiction Novel: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
3. Spring Cleaning: Off Season by Jack Ketchum
4. Commute???
5. For Easter/Lent: Persuasion by Jane Austen
6. Women's History Month: Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
7. Arbor Day: Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin (swapping it on paperbackswap)
8. Humorous Novel: Revenge of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
9. Spring Animal Title: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
10. Book with Rain related word: The House of Thunder by Dean Koontz
Category Totals:
10 Point Tasks
1. Irish Author:PS, I Love You by Cecilia Ahern
3. ANZAC Day: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. Book about Magic: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
6. Earth Day: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
7. Mother's Day:????
8. Armed Forces Day: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
9. TNBBC Top Books List: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
10. Five Stars Member's List: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Offmat)
Category Totals:
15 Points
1. SCORPIO: The Waste Lands by Stephen King OR Wastelands Stories of the Apocalypse
3. TNBBC Unread Group Read: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
4. Location You've Been (CT): Swapping Lives by Jane Green
5. Award Winning Author:Beloved by Toni Morrison (Pulitzer in 1988)
6. Translated Book: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. Rhyming Novels: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood & No Place Like Home A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark
8. Get to Know the Author: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
9. Book with Color Title: The Green Mile Book Box Set by Stephen King
10. 3-4-5: All That Remains, Cruel and Unusual, & The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell
Category Totals:
25 Points
1. Karen's Task: The Good Guy by Dean Koontz AND Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
2. El's Task: To Be Decided
3. Angela's Task: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova AND Alphabet Weekends Love on the Road from A to Z by Elizabeth Noble
4. Ros's Task: The Stand by Stephen King
6. Jon's Task: The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Wier
7. Darla's Task: PENDING
8. Cassie's Task: Looking for Alaska by John Green AND The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
I just finished Transformations by Anne Sexton for the poetry challenge. I thought it was an interesting twist on old fairy tales, but I didn't like it enough to pick up other poetry books (poetry's just not my thing). Although, I don't regret reading it.
That's for a total of 80 points.
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My updated reading list!I've numbered each task as it was numbered on the introduction page by Cynthia, and bolded the ones I've finished so far.
25 POINT TASKS:
1. Gossamer (Lowry) AND TBD
2. The Maine Woods (Thoreau)
3. The Time Traveler's Wife AND Ella Enchanted
4. Persuasion (Austen) - READ 3/8/09
5. Till We Have Faces (Lewis)
6. TBD
8. The Woman in the Wall (Kindl) - READ 3/2/09 AND Society of S - READ 3/14/09
9. Flower Confidential, The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
15 POINT TASKS:
1. The Truth Teller's Tale (Shinn) - READ 3/9/09
2. Emily Dickinson's Collected Works (Barnes and Noble Classics series)
3. Stardust (Gaiman)
4. TBD
5. TBD
6. Inkheart (Funke)
7. Around the World in 80 Days (Verne) - READ 3/9/09 AND House of Many Ways (Jones) -READ 3/4/09
8. The Historian (Kostova) - READ 3/6/09
9. The Green Angel (Hoffman) - READ 3/8/09
10. Lemony Snicket Books 3, 4, and 5
10 POINT TASKS:
1. TBD
2. Meet Josephina - READ 3/11/09
3. TBD
4. Practical Magic (Hoffman)
5. TBD
6. A Wizard of Earthsea (Le Guin)
7. These Happy Golden Years (Wilder)
8. TBD
9. The Eyre Affair - READ 3/10/09
10. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
5 POINT TASKS:
1. Bellwether (Willis)
2. Sorcery and Cecilia (Wrede) - READ 3/15/09
3. TBD
4. Fiddler on the Roof - READ 3/15/09
5. TBD
6. Girl in Hyacinth Blue
7. The Shivering Sands (Holt) - READ 3/10/09
8. Good Omens - READ 3/13/09
9. Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
10. Thunder on the Right (Stewart)
NEW POINT TOTAL: 150
finished a 10-pointer:10.4 Read a book by an author who was born in March, April or May.
10.4
added to:
5.7
15.6.
15.8.
25.8
AND
new total = 70 points
Points UpdateTasks Completed
5 Points
#1 Read a sci-fi or fantasy novel- Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
#6 Read a book while in a car- Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward
#9 Read a book with a type of bird in the title- The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney by Suzanne Harper
10 Points
#5 Read a book about magic- Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
15 Points
#6 Read a book that has been translated from its original language- Perfume The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
#9 Read a book w/a color in the title- Redwall by Brian Jacques (I ate grape tomatoes and strawberry Wallaby Yogurt.)
25 Points
#5 Read a book outside of your normal genres-Ghost Walk by Brian Keene
Total Points= 80
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5 POINT TASKS1. Prey by Michael Crichton
2. Carrie by Stephen King
3.
4.
5. Chocolate Chips Cookie Mystery by Joanne Fluke
6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
7.
8.
9.
10.
10 POINT TASKS
1. P.S. I Love You by Cecilia Ahern
2. The Wild Girl by Jim Fergus
3. The book Theif by Markus Zusak
4.
5. Harry Potter and The Order of the Pheonix by: J.K. Rowling
6. New Moon By Stephanie Meyer
7. Friday Night Knitting Club
8. The Sum of ALl Fears by Tom Clancy
9. The Scarlet Letter -Nathaniel Hawthorn
10. Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine
15 POINT TASKS
1. Angels Watching over me by Lurlene McDaniel
2. Inferno by Dante Alighieri
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
4. BEYOND THE MELTING POT By Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan
5. Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians by Peter Guralnick
6. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. Big Stone GAP & Miss MAPP
8. Jake Riley : Irreparably Damaged by Rebecca Fjelland Davis
9. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) by Walter Mosley
10.
25 POINT TASKS
1. G Is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton and Romeo and Juliet
2. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. A Bend in the Road and Message in A bottle by Nicholas Sparks
4. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
5. Sullivan's Island
6. The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
7. Teen Idol by Meg Cabot and Love on Cue by Catherine Hapka
8. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
55/500
15 points5. Read a book written by an author who won a major literary prize (Nobel, Pulitzer etc.) in the year you were born - 1975
PD James – An Unsuitable Job for a Woman READ
POINTS TOTAL
175
Over the weekend I finished The White Tiger and ate some cauliflower and potatoes for 15 points and I also finished the Shape of Water for 15 points5 POINTS
1. A Neil Gaiman book
2. Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend
3. Half of Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. ?
5. The Shack by William P. Young
6. The Girls by Lori Lansons
7. ?
8. The Difficult Second Book by Chris Moyles
9. ?
10. ?
10 POINTS
1. The Gathering by Anne Enright (Set in Ireland)
2. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
3. His Illegal Self by Peter Carey (Aussie Author)
4. Mr Pip by Lloyd Jones (Born 23rd March)
5. Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
6. East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
8. The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
9. I Capture the Castle (no. 1 of TNBBC top 10 list)
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (One of Meg's 5 star rated books).
15 POINTS
1. ?
2. Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
3. Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
7. The Girl who was going to die by Glyn Maxwell and The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thompson
8. The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
10. ?
25 POINTS
1. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson and The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
2. ?
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger (from Angela's bookshelves)
4. Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
6. ?
7. ?
8. Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini
9. ?
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5 points1 Inkheart (Inkheart, Book 1) by Cornelia Funke
2 The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
4 Little Women - EBOOK
5 The Red Tent – Anita Diamant (ordered)
6 Mah, Adeline Yen Title Falling leaves return to their roots : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter
7 Barbara Trapido – Juggling - read then give to charity (on shelf)
8 Three bags full / Leonie Swan /
9 The One Flew over the cukoos nest – Kesey
10 The House of Thunder – Dean Kootz
10 points
4 SUE GRAFTON O is for Outlaw
5 Practical Magic – Alice Goffman
7 Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
8 Catch 22-Joseph Heller (on shelf)
9 Numer 1 on the list - I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
15 points
1 Riordan, Rick Title The lightning thief
3 The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama (ordered)
One city / Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh READ
6 Love in the time of Cholera
7 : Alias Grace Mary Higgins Clark & No Place Like Home A Novel Margaret Atwood
Then read about him online. DONE
CARROT AND SWEET POTATO MASH
10 Stirling, Jessica - Sisters three (on shelf)
Caldwell, Ian – Rule of Four (on shelf)
Harris, Joanna – Five quarters of the orange(on shelf)
25 points
1 Restless – William Boyd (on shelf) and The Gargoyle – Andrew Davidson READ
2 Louisa May Alcott: A Biography by Madeleine B. Stern
When Will There Be good news – Kate Atkinson
6 In The Footsteps of Robert Bruce – Alan Young & Michael J Stead 190 pages (on shelf)
On the Trail of William Wallace – David R. Ross 146 pages (on shelf)
7 Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice (on shelf)
Private peaceful – Michael Morpurgo
9 Waiting for Daisy : the true story of one couple's quest to have a baby / Peggy Orenstein (ordered)
Total 230 points
Today I finished a fantasy/science fiction book, A Darkling Plain(fourth and final in a series by Philip Reeve, the whole series is fast-paced, terrifically imaginative, and makes for exciting reading!), for 5 points.Total: 110 points.
April wrote: "Louise wrote: "I've had a long week so I've only managed to do the Arbour day task:5 pts, no 7: I listened to an audiobook of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.
That's 130 pts overall..."
I really like the story and characters but it was ruined by the audiobook that I chose! The man who read it insisted on doing all the female voices and in places it was just funny! I'm not a big fan of audiobooks and find that I need to rewind sections to make sure that I've been listening! How are you finding the novel?
LEADERBOARD
FIONA (TITCH)- 195
BEV - 175
SHARON - 175
SANDY - 160
LIZZI - 150
PERS - 150
ROS - 150
EVA - 145
ASHLEY ID - 140
KAREN - 135
KRISTINA - 130
LOUISE - 130
BONNIE - 125
SUZIER - 125
CASSIE - 120
LEORA - 115
MEGHAN - 115
JOSIE - 110
KRITIKA - 105
ANGELA - 100
ANN FROM SC - 100
RORA - 100
ALICE - 95
CAIT - 95
LYNLEE4 - 90
RENFREW - 90
SUSAN - 90
CATHEROO - 85
EL - 85
LIZ VEGAS - 85
MARY BETH - 85
SARA - 85
STEPHANIE - 85
VICTORIA - 85
ALISHA - 80
ANGIE - 80
CAROL - 80
STEPH - 80
BETH MN - 75
CYNTHIA - 75
FALLON - 75
JUDITH IA - 75
LORI - 75
ROSEANN - 75
BECKY - 70
BJ ROSE - 70
JON - 70
LINDSEY - 70
NATALIA - 70
SANDIE - 70
APRIL - 65
JULIE UK - 65
REBECCA - 65
COURTNEY - 60
KICKI - 60
LIZ BRKLYN - 60
RORY - 60
JAMIE MN - 55
JENNY - 55
SUSANNA UK - 55
BRIDGIT - 50
JOY - 50
KATHRYN - 50
MAGGIE - 50
RYAN - 50
SERA - 50
ASHLEY AL - 45
ELIZ - 45
RHIANNON - 45
BETH - 40
KATE - 40
KRISTENR - 40
MANDAY - 40
ME (SCM) - 40
MEL - 40
MELODY - 40
TRACY - 40
ELIZABETH AK - 35
KRISTEN IL - 35
ABBIE - 30
DONNA JO - 30
MEGAN - 30
AMANDA - 25
DOROTHY - 25
ELIZABETH NC - 25
JAIME 26 - 25
JEGKA - 25
JOANIE - 25
JOANNA - 25
KRISTI - 25
LAUREN - 25
MELISSA - 25
NICOLE - 25
TINA - 25
AMY - 20
ASHLEY UT - 20
JEANE - 20
LINDA - 20
CAITLIN - 15
JEN - 15
JESSICA - 15
KELLY - 15
LIZ NY - 15
NICOLE CA - 15
POTJY - 15
ROBIN - 15
VICKI - 15
WV HEATHER - 15
ALYSSA - 10
RACHEL - 10
SHANNON - 10
JAMIE 23 - 5
JAMIE WA - 5
JENNIFER - 5
JUDITH NY - 5
LISA CO - 5
MICHELLE - 5
TOBIE - 5
Cynthia wrote: "LEADERBOARDFIONA (TITCH)- 195
BEV - 175
SHARON - 175
SANDY - 160
LIZZI - 150
PERS - 150
ROS - 150
EVA - 145
ASHLEY ID - 140
KAREN - 135
KRISTINA - 130
LOUISE - 130
BONNIE - 125
SUZIER - 125
CASSIE..."
welocme back! did you have a nice time?
I'm back - I had a good time and I see you all were busy too.I personally finished a few tasks on my trip/since my last update...
Right before I left I Can You Keep a Secret? - it earned 5 stars from GR member Joanie who joined on the same page as me.
I read The Dominant Blonde on the plane from Texas. I read The Measure of a Lady A Novel for the women's history task. And I read Sunrise for the Earth Day task.
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ps. Rhiannon - books for 10 point tasks and higher have to be at least 100 pages so Green Eggs & Ham doesn't qualify for book written by an author born in march, april, may task.
Also Darla did get in touch with me so I'm going to add her task back in.
I'm not on the leaderboard :-( I just read 84 Charing Cross Road for my epistolary novel earning 5 points.
Total as of 3/16/09, 25 points
Finished another task!I have now read:
25pts
(5) Kiss (Dekker and Healy) - Christian Thriller - two genres I don't typically read
That brings me to 40pts
Cynthia wrote: "I'm back - I had a good time and I see you all were busy too.I personally finished a few tasks on my trip/since my last update...
Right before I left I [b:Can You Keep a Secret?|33724|Can You Ke..."
Hi Cynthia ! I am new to both the group and the challenge, and I am thrilled. Great personalities and interesting discussions lead to a heavy briefcase full of books.
Joanie - you were on the board just with the wrong score but it's fixed nowWelcome Amy!!
Welcome back Cynthia!I finished "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by Jean-Dominique Bauby for 5 points (spring animal).
My total is now 90 points.
Cynthia! You're back! Have you read through all the posts you missed? How long did it take?And now, of course, I have a question. Would you count a mouse as a Spring Animal?
Anyone know what they're going to do for Darla's task? For some reason, all I can think of is that bookstore scene in 10 Things I Hate About You, and I can't even remember what book it was that the main chick wanted to buy...Except for The Jane Austen Book Club... I suppose I could take another crack at Mansfield Park...
I´m having a hard time with this task too... And it´s not something you can just google it. lol
finally on the board after just getting back from Punta Cana! :)Finished Night by Elie Wiesel on my flight to Punta Cana for the trains, planes, automobiles challenge for 5 pts.
TOTAL:
Jamie(23)-- 5 pts
Carol wrote: "I´m having a hard time with this task too... And it´s not something you can just google it. lol"And I've been trying, so I know that first hand! I'm going to go through my DVDs and see if I remember "book" scenes, then fast forward to that scene and zoom in. I think. Unless someone gives me an idea before I go home for lunch... :)
Hi Cynthia, welcome back!I think you may have missed two of my latest tasks. I don't blame you with all of the posts you had to catch up on! I completed two 15 point tasks:
3. TNBBC Group Read - Blindness - Jose Saramago(3/13/09)
4. Vacation Location Book - The Journal of Mortifying Moments - Robyn Harding (3/14/09)
Bringing me to a total of 95 Points
Thanks for all of your hard work! :o)
Sara wrote: "Carol wrote: "I´m having a hard time with this task too... And it´s not something you can just google it. lol"And I've been trying, so I know that first hand! I'm going to go through my DVDs a..."
Good luck! I know "You´ve got Mail" has bookshops, and "Nothing Hill" too! Oh! Nothing Hill! Yeah, a guy asks about Dickens, I´ll fast foward the movie to see if he says the title lol
Sara wrote: "Carol wrote: "I´m having a hard time with this task too... And it´s not something you can just google it. lol"And I've been trying, so I know that first hand! I'm going to go through my DVDs a..."
In the recent movie The Reader, the main character reads to Hanna from several books - Huck Finn is one, and I think The Odyssey?
This task will occupy my mind for the rest of today, I'm sure. Did Dead Poets Society reference any specific books?
Steph wrote: "Sara wrote: "Carol wrote: "I´m having a hard time with this task too... And it´s not something you can just google it. lol"And I've been trying, so I know that first hand! I'm going to go throug..."
I think maybe Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is referenced in it...I remember Robin Williams mentioning "Uncle Walt" quite a bit...
Jen wrote: "Steph wrote: "Sara wrote: "Carol wrote: "I´m having a hard time with this task too... And it´s not something you can just google it. lol"And I've been trying, so I know that first hand! I'm go..."
Catcher in the Rye shows up in a LOT of movies! I was going to read that for one of my YA books, but I might switch it over:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural...
Did you have a nice time Cynthia?
Sara wrote: "Anyone know what they're going to do for Darla's task? For some reason, all I can think of is that bookstore scene in 10 Things I Hate About You, and I can't even remember what book it was that th..."Sara, the book Julia Stiles was picking up at the bookstore in 10 Things I Hate About You was The Feminine Mystique. She was also seen reading The Bell Jar at one point towards the beginning of the movie.
Amy wrote: "Amy wrote: "I found you five minutes ago and joined two minutes ago. I am So In on this challenge...there goes my Saturday cleaning :)"Hi Lori - I clicked on your profile per the 25 point tasks..."
I really like Feehan's Dark Series. The only one I didn't like was Dark Symphony and gave up trying to read it and moved on to the next one. Hope you like them.
El wrote: "Sara, the book Julia Stiles was picking up at the bookstore in 10 Things I Hate About You was The Feminine Mystique. She was also seen reading The Bell Jar at one point towards the beginning of the movie."Yeah, I just googled it. I forgot about You've Got Mail. All the Noel Streatfeild "Shoes" books are referenced in that. And I'm sure it shows a LOT more books than that. I'll have to rewatch.
I was thinking of The Holiday. Kate Winslet had a ton of books in her little cottage, and Cameron Diaz had a bunch of books on the plane with her, all of which were spine-facing-camera. I just can't remember any of them at the moment.
Previously completed:25.4 - The Woman in White - 3/5/2009
15.1 - The Other Boleyn Girl - 3/7/2009
15.5 - Eros, Eros, Eros Selected and Last Poems - 3/9/2009
Newly completed:
15 Points #8 - Get To Know The Author - Read a book by an author AND then either attend a reading by that author OR read/listen to an interview with that author.
3/14/2009 - read The Numerati, and listened to an interview with Stephen Baker on NPR.org
Total Tasks Completed: 4
Total Ponts Earned: 70
Ohh that´s great Sara, I think we have a few options now lol
Sara wrote: "El wrote: "Sara, the book Julia Stiles was picking up at the bookstore in 10 Things I Hate About You was The Feminine Mystique. She was also seen reading The Bell Jar at one point towards the begin..."Good call on The Holiday! IMDB actually lists the books in that stack!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457939/t...
Hi all,This weekend I completed 15 Point task #9...read a book with a color in the title and make a meal with two foods of that color. I read White Witch Black Curse and ate...get this...cauliflower with ranch dressing (both white) and had white kydney beans in my soup.
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Kelly,What did you think of the ending? Wasn't it a little too wrapped up?
yeah...this wasn't my fav of the series :(
For any Jane Austen fans out there, the film The Jane Austen Book Club features several of Austen's works:The order of the books are: - February: Emma - March: Mansfield Park - April: Northanger Abbey - May: Pride & Prejudice - June: Sense & Sensibility - July: Persuasion.
This might just be my way of completing Darla's task.
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I liked it. It wasn't as good as I thought it would be, but definitely worth a read. I didn't cry at all, but I know most people do, so maybe I'm just heartless! Kidding, I cry a lot during some books, but just didn't with this one for some reason.