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[April]

I've completed 10 point task #4 I read Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper who was born May 23, 1935.

My point total is now at 180.


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[Megan]

5 Points
1. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
7. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
8. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

10 Points
4. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
6. The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
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)

New Points Total: 70

[Lori]

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I finished reading The Boyfriend List : 15 Boys 11 Shrink Appointments 4 Ceramic Frogs and me Ruby Oliver for 25.9 task.

That makes my total 150 points.

I really liked this book. Now I want to read the next one, but don't know where I could fit it into the challenge. Oh, well, it will still be there in June. LOL

[[deleted user]]

Another book to cross off...

5 POINTS-

1. Twilight 3/27/09
2. Bridget Jones's Diary 4/1/09
3. Hunted A House of Night Novel 3/25/09
4. Three Weeks with My Brother
5. Redemption
6. J. K. Rowling The Wizard Behind Harry Potter
7. Confessions of a Shopaholic 3/16/09
8. One for the Money 3/26/09
9. The Secret Life of Bees
10. Henderson the Rain King

10 POINTS-

1. Bard The Odyssey of the Irish
2. Like Water for Chocolate
3. The Magicians' Guild
4. Good in Bed
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
6. New Moon
7. Mr. Darcy's Diary
8. The Lucky One 3/8/09
9. Water for Elephants
10. Eragon 3/8/09

15 POINTS-

1. SAGITARIUS: Moneyball The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
2. Where the Sidewalk Ends
3. Stardust 3/18/09
4. The Leisure Seeker A NovelUPDATE (Disneyland)
5. Foreign Affairs A Novel
6. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler
7. The Picture of Dorian Gray/Me Talk Pretty One Day
8. The Choice
9. White Noise
10. Black Dagger Brotherhood 3/4/5: Lover Awakened 3/20/09/ Lover Revealed 3/25/09/ Lover Unbound 4/1/09

25 POINTS-

1. The Girls from Ames A Story of Women and Friendship/Romeo and Juliet
2. Diaries, 1885-97 With Earlier and Later Diary Fragments from 1875-1917
3. Little Women/ A Wrinkle in Time 3/3/09
4. Anne of Green Gables
5. In Cold Blood
6. Diana Story of a Princess
7. UNDECIDED
8. Eclipse/ Specials 3/12/09
9. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West


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[Sara ♥]

Lori wrote: "I finished reading The Boyfriend List : 15 Boys 11 Shrink Appointments 4 Ceramic Frogs and me Ruby Oliver for 25.9 task.

That makes my total 150 points.

I really liked this book. Now I want to read the next one, but don't know where I cold fit it into the challenge. Oh, well, it will still be there in June. LOL "

Have you already read both of your YA novels for Task 25.8?

I'm really excited that you liked this book! I've read it before, but I'm going to be reading it again, since it's been so long and the second book is my oldest TBR book.... :)

[Lori]

Sara wrote: "Lori wrote: "I finished reading The Boyfriend List : 15 Boys 11 Shrink Appointments 4 Ceramic Frogs and me Ruby Oliver for 25.9 task.

That makes my total 150 points.

I really liked this boo..."

I finished 25.8 a while back. I love YA fiction. I have several other series books to read, so I will just have to wait to read the next one. I need to read Fablehaven 3 and Dresden Files 2~~Fool Moon and Mindgame by Christine Feehan which is #2 in its series. I also have some new series I am starting with this challenge. I have The Angel Experiment, Moon Called, and The Ruins of Gorland on my challenge list. I am a glutton for punishment. LOL

[Kristen]

Read the fourth book in the Fablehaven series for challenge 5.1 and could not put it down. Loved it until I got to an ending that made me literally shout aloud in disbelief. Cliffhangers are EVIL!

5 point challenge
1. Fablehaven Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary
2. The Naked Mole Rat Letters
3. Blood Bound
4. The Wright 3
5. Serenity--New Bad Girl in Town
6. Selkie Girl
7. Artemis Fowl The Time Paradox
8. Mascot to the Rescue!
9. May Bird and the Ever After Book One
10. Storm Glass

10 point challenge
1. The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer (Irish Author)
2. Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs
3. The Siege of Macindaw by John Flanagan (ARC copy)
4. Kandide and the Secrets of the Mists
5. City of Glass
6. Shooting the Moon
7. Wintersmith A Discworld Novel
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
9. I Capture the Castle #1
10.The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - 5 stars from Mary

15 point task
1. Lay-ups and Long Shots An Anthology of Short Stories - Sagittarius
2. How to (Un)cage a Girl by Francesca Lia Block
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
4. Evermore The Immortals, Book 1 by Alyson Noel
5. Runt by Marion Dane Bauer - Won the Jane Adams Children's Book Award in 1984.
6. Tiger Moon translated from the German
7. True Blood and The New Policeman
8. I'll pick later
9. White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison
10. Artemis Fowl The Eternity Code, Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception, Artemis Fowl The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

25 points
1. Green Jasper and Running Out of Time
2. Wagner by Michael Tanner
3. Must Love Black and The Patron Saint of Liars (2 books Heather read)
4. Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett
5. Outliers - I never read nonfiction.
6. The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor
7. Gulliver's Travels (from Pagemaster)
8. Surviving the Applewhites and The Hollow Kingdom
9. Damosel In Which the Lady of the Lake Renders a Frank and Often Startling Account of her Wondrous Life and Times


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[Cyndee]

Wow! You are all reading some great books! My TBR list continues to grow out of control. I've done quite a bit of reading and listening this week so here's what I've got to add for my totals:

5 pt. #2 - Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See, collected by Bill Shapiro--with a very few exceptions, these weren't all that interesting to me.

5pt. #4 - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, listened to in my car going to and from work everyday. Though I love the story, the narrator left quite a bit to be desired.

5pt. #7 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (eBook). I could read this over and over again. Who am I kidding? I DO read it over and over again! And I still tear up when I get to the end of Mr. Darcy's letter where he writes "God bless you."

25 pts. #9 - Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit, M.D. -- I hope against hope that parents would pick up this book instead of listening to Jenny McCarthy!!!

So this bring my total so far to 95 points...still so far to go!

[Lori]

Kristen wrote: "Read the fourth book in the Fablehaven series for challenge 5.1 and could not put it down. Loved it until I got to an ending that made me literally shout aloud in disbelief. Cliffhangers are EVIL!
..."

I love the Fablehaven books...when is book 5 coming out?

[Kristina]

Ohhh! I am going to read P.S. I Love You for the Irish task, too. I didn't really want to read Annie Dune.

I wanted to read books off my to be read list and hadn't thought of that one. Woo!

[Sara ♥]

I'm really excited about PS, I Love You. I LOVED the movie! In fact.... maybe I'll read that next instead of I Capture the Castle... I think I'm more in the mood for PS, I Love You.... (Not that I even know what ICtC is about... hahaha...)

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

Ashley - The sequel to Enchantress from the Stars is also good - it's called The Far Side of Evil.

[Kristen]

Lori,

Rumor is next spring 2010. I don't know how I'm going to survive!

[Jeane]

5 points
4. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Task – Read or listen to a book while you are on a plane, on a train, or in a car (or other mode of transport like a bus/combinations of transportation)
- For this task you can’t, for example, start a book in the airport and finish it on the plane...the book must be read entirely while inside one of those modes of transportation.
- But the plane/train/car etc. does not have to be moving the entire time for it to count – exe. you can start reading the book once you board the plane before it takes off.
- DOES NOT have to be read in one sitting.


The book of lost books


total 40 points

[Lori]

Kristen wrote: "Lori,

Rumor is next spring 2010. I don't know how I'm going to survive!"

LOL...2010 sounds like a long way off...until you stop and think that this is 2009.

I still have to read 3 and then 4. But it will still be a long time to wait for 5. I love reading series books, but the waiting is agony.

[Ashley]

Susanna wrote: "Ashley - The sequel to Enchantress from the Stars is also good - it's called The Far Side of Evil"

Dang...! Thanks though! I am going to have to read it now... Hmm... I kind of liked the way the other book ended, I felt everything was resolved nicely, but it doesn't look like this is a contination of that story though. Hmm... I'll have to check it out... Thanks!

Hmm... Do you know what the revision to the book was? It mentions revisions that are relevant to today's reader... Do you know any more about that?

[Donna Jo]

for 10.6 I just finished Jade Star by Catherine Coulter.
I thought I'd read this years ago when I was collecting all of Coulter's books, but I sure didn't remember any of it.

[Tobie]

Yay, up to 40 pts!


5 Point

1. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
2. Love, Rosie - Cecelia Ahern
4. Manhunt – Janet Evanovich

10 Point
1. Sushi for Beginners - Marian Keyes

15 Point
1. (Sag) Natural Born Charmer - Susan Elizabeth Phillips

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

No idea about "revisions," Ashley - my copy is from the 1970s.

[Lily]

Read a couple more & changed a few titles.

5 points:
1. Fantasy: A Clash of Kings
2. Epistolary: Flowers for Algernon
3. Spring cleaning: Mahabharata
5. Sacrifice: All Quiet on the Western Front
6. Women's history: Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
7. Arbor day: Anne of Avonlea (e-book)
8. Humor: Slapstick
9. Spring animal: Birdsong
10. April showers: The Shadow of the Wind

10 points:
1. Ireland: The Book of Lost Things
2. Mexico: All the Pretty Horses
3. Australia: Mister Monday
4. Spring birthday: Closing Time (Heller was born May 1st)
5. Magician: The Prestige
6. Earth day: Around the World in Eighty Days
7. Mother's rec: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
8. Military: Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
9. TNBBC top books: The Bell Jar (#9)
10. 5 stars from another member: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

15 points:
2. Poetry: Songs of Innocence And of Experience
3. Past group read: The Road
6. Translated: The Brothers Karamazov
7. Rhyming titles: The Dogs of Babel + Cat's Cradle (although I might swap one for Aesop's Fables)
8. Get to know the author : Through a Window

25 points:
1. GR: The Golem's Eye + Ragtime: A Novel
3. The Lovely Bones + Ender's Game
4. Big Reads: The Secret Garden
5. Not my usual genre: The Alchemist
7. Referenced in a movie: Hamlet (referenced in Atonement)
8. YA: The Amulet of Samarkand + The Graveyard Book

Total: 150

...Now I'm off to finish The Graveyard Book. Done! How excellent. Now, onto Karamazov...

[Ashley]

Susanna wrote: "No idea about "revisions," Ashley - my copy is from the 1970s."

Oh. Cool. Thanks anyway. I will try to look up more. I don't know what I want to read one with revisions, but I don't know. My library doesn't have it, and I can't buy books for a while... College gets in the way of my spending habits... Anyway, so I will look into that. Thanks again for the recommendation though!!

[Jen]

woo been a while for me but I got some new books read finally :)

25.2 - A Midwife's Tale The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
25.7 - The Devil Wears PradaLaura Weisberger - being read by the Grandmother on the beach in The Nannie Diaries

15.4 - My Philadelphia Father, Cordelia Drexel Biddle - Went to Philly for spring break one year with the family.

10.6 - From the Earth to the Moon and 'Round the Moon - Jules Verne
10.10 - The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kid - off Krittle's shelf

5.1 - The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
5.5 - The Silent Harp - 1935, Gilbert Morris
5.7 - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Robert Lous Stevenson - PDF acquired from planetpdf.com


TOTAL - 100

Next is Angela's Ashes and Water for Elephants, finally got them from the library! Not in time to hit them for the month but at least I got them :)

[Kristen]

Lori wrote:LOL...2010 sounds like a long way off...until you stop and think that this is 2009.

I still have ..."

I agree.. make you almost wish you weren't caught up in a series. That happened to me with the Ranger's Apprentice series and Kim Harrison's Hollows series.

[Rory M.]

I just finished 1/2 task #7 In honor of both Dr. Seuss’ birthday (March 2) and Mother Goose Day (May 1) find and read two books with rhyming titles:
COMPLETED Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix (4/1/09) THREE STARS - Great intro to dystopian literature!

BEGINNING TONIGHT: The Sorrows of Young Werther by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Rhyme: Among & Young

I finally figured it out!

[Elizabeth (NC)]

Rory wrote: "I just finished 1/2 task #7 In honor of both Dr. Seuss’ birthday (March 2) and Mother Goose Day (May 1) find and read two books with rhyming titles:
COMPLETED [b:Among the Hidden|227651|Among the ..."

I always feel like such a dunce--I have a hard time figuring out the rhyming words until the person says what they are! :) This might be why I have not completed this task yet. I have probably read several books that would fit and just don't recognize the rhyming words in there! LOL

[Kristen]

Elizabeth, I just took some of the books I wanted to read and looked up words in the title in a rhyming dictionary. I also searched my own goodreads list to see if any matched up. So I found I needed to finally read True Blood and looked up rhyming words to "True" and found another book on my shelf - The New Policeman - "new". It was kind of fun... like an easter egg hunt!

[Eva-Marie]

Kristen wrote: "Elizabeth, I just took some of the books I wanted to read and looked up words in the title in a rhyming dictionary. I also searched my own goodreads list to see if any matched up. So I found I need..."

That's exactly what I did with my GR lists. I picked a few I really wanted to read and started searching for words that rhymed in my to-read list and was amazed how what came up. I had such a hard time finding anything before that.

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Hayes 60 + 15 = 75

4. Read a novel that takes place in a location you plan to visit during this challenge OR have visited previously during spring break

Amagansett My grandparents had a house in Amagansett when I was young, where we would go for lots of vacations, spring and otherwise. I liked this, good mystery, good story, nice characters... fun too to read about places I haven't thought of in over 30 years

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

This has been the sort of thing that makes this Challenge so fun. I don't pay much attention to the authors as people. Who is Irish, Mexican, or Australian? I just have never paid attention to that sort of thing. Obviously that has been a requirement and I think it has been to my benefit. I don't have books planned for the rhyming task, but that is mostly because I have such a stack of books for so many of the other tasks, that I feel I'm not going to get to them all anyway. If that changes, it will be fun to see how I can make something fit.

[Kristina]

My first points

15.8. 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.

I finished I Like It Here by Kingsley Amis and listened to a radio interview with him.

[Meghan]

Finished Persuasion for Darla's task, 25.7.
5 Points
1. Fire Study (3/14/09)
2. Ella Minnow Pea A Novel in Letters
3.
4.
5. The Shack
6. Blackout Girl Growing Up and Drying Out in America (3/8/09)
7.
8. Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (3/10/09)
9. Down the Rabbit Hole An Echo Falls Mystery
10. The Shadow of the Wind (3/23/09)
Total: 20

10 Points
1. The Likeness A Novel (3/9/09)
2. Rain of Gold
3. Tender Morsels - Margo Lanagan (3/2/09)
4. Until I Find You A Novel - John Irving (March 2nd)
5. Magic Study (3/12/09)
6. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
7. Postmortem - Patricia Cornwell (3/31/09)
8. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
9. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
10. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Total: 40 points

15 Points
1. Deadline (3/24/09)
2. Where the Sidewalk Ends (3/11/09)
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (3/28/09)
4.
5. The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike (National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction - 1981)
6. Ines of My Soul A Novel - Isabel Allende
7. Night (3/25/09) and A Northern Light (4/1/09)
8. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman 3/3/09
9. The White Darkness (3/15/09)
10. Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time; The Rule of Four; Slaughterhouse-Five
Total: 90 Points

25 Points
1. The Glass Castle A Memoir (3/17/09 - audiobook); The Red Shoe (3/15/09)
2.
3. The Art of Racing in the Rain (3/19/09) and Whale Talk (3/18/09) [from Eva's TBR shelf:]
4. Noughts & Crosses (3/26/09)
5. Blood Brothers (3/26/09 - audiobook)
6. Shadows Of A Princess An Intimate Account by Her Private Secretary (3/30/09)
7. Persuasion (as seen in The Jane Austen Book Club) (4/2/09)
8. On The Jellicoe Road (3/16/09) and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (3/8/09)
9. The Boyfriend List 15 guys, 11 shrink appointments, 4 ceramic frogs, and me, Ruby Oliver (3/10/09)
Total: 200 points

Grand Total
350 points, 22 Tasks

[Joy Marie]

Completed #7 Under the 10 point catagory! YIPEE!!!!

5 POINTS

#4 I listened to this audiobook in my car during the 7 hr drive to and 7 hr drive from the Texas Valley. Andrew Jackson by Robert V. Remini Rating - C 3/21/09

#8 Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich Rating - A 3/31/09

10 POINTS

#2 Like Water for Chocolate byLaura Esquivel Rating - A 3/23/09

#4 Seven Up by Janet Evanovich Rating - B 3/5/09

#7 My mom's name is Kathleen. Calamity Jayne by Kathleen Bacus Rating - C+ 4/2/09

#9 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams #77 off the TNBBC Top Books List (I was born in 1977) Rating - A- 3/26/09

15 POINTS

#8 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Rating - A+ 3/6/09

25 POINTS

#3 From Eva's List (THANKS EVA!) The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve AND The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Rating on both of these is A-. 3/20/09

#5 Manhunt The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson I NEVER read true crime and don't plan to again any time soon!....Rating - C+ 3/13/09

#8 Beauty Shop for Rent . . . fully equipped, inquire within by Laura Bowers and Eva Underground by Dandi Daley Mackall Give a B+ to both these books. 3/30/09


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[Avory]

Teeny little bump: finished the 5 point Arbor Day task by reading the Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit e-book, which puts me at 145 points. It's a fabulous book, by the way, and I fully recommend it to anyone who wants a quick and humorous, but also artistic and intelligent, read.

[Avory]

Lizzi, I'm going to be reading At Swim, Two Boys A Novel for the Ireland task, which is supposed to be brilliant and romantic to boot (though the book is about a lot more than just the romance.) I also used to love Maeve Binchy books as a teenager, and I'd imagine at least some of them are romantic.

[Rhiannon]

5 POINT TASKS

1. Prey by Michael Crichton
2. Carrie by Stephen King
3. Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella 3/13/09
4. Janet Enavovich Visions of Sugar Plums 3/2/09
5. Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery by Joanne Fluke
6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 3/17/09
7. A Midsummer's Night's Dream by William Shakespheare 3/8/09
8. 101 Vacation Jokes by Jovial Bob Stine 3/8/09
9. Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter 3/8/09
10. When Lightening Strikes by Meg Cabot 3/14/09


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. The Worderful WIzard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 3/19/09
5. Harry Potter and The Sorcer's Stone 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 3/17/09
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. Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich and Shoe Addicts Annomyus
8. Jake Riley : Irreparably Damaged by Rebecca Fjelland Davis
9. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) by Walter Mosley
10. Janet Evanovich 3-5 3/15/09


25 POINT TASKS

1. Grafitti Girl and Romone and Juliette
2. John Adams by David McCullough
3. A Bend in the Road and Message in A bottle by Nicholas Sparks
4. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
5. The Glass Castle
6. The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
7. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 3/20/09
8. Hit and Run By Lurlene McDaniel and Love on Cue by Catherine Hapka 4/1/09
9. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire


125/525

[Liz]

5 POINT TASKS

6. In Honor Of Women’s History Month…
- Read an autobiography/biography of a woman you admire OR
- A novel with one of the following in the title (woman, women, lady, ladies, female, feminine, girl, girls, maiden, madame).


Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

TOTAL - 40 pts (I THINK)

[Bridgit]

I just finished task 15.6, a book translated from another language. Henning Mankell - Kennedy's Brain. It was translated from the original version in Swedish.

Total points: 310

[Cynthia]

LEADERBOARD
MEGHAN - 365
DONNA JO - 355
LIZZI - 345
BRIDGIT - 310
SANDY - 305
SHARON - 305
BEV - 300
BONNIE - 295
ASHLEY ID - 290
LEORA - 290
KRISTEN IL - 280
KRISTINA - 255
PERS - 240
RORA - 240
BJ ROSE - 235
EVA - 230
JOSIE - 230
KRISTENR - 230
CAIT - 220
BETH MN - 215
FIONA (TITCH)- 215
COURTNEY - 210
SARA - 205
TINA - 200
LIZ BRKLYN - 195
RORY - 195
KRITIKA - 190
SUZIER - 190
ANGELA - 180
APRIL - 180
ANGIE - 175
JON - 175
LOUISE - 175
REBECCA J - 175
ALICE - 170
LINDSEY - 170
CATHEROO - 165
JAMIE MN - 165
MAGGIE - 165
EL - 160
LIZ VEGAS - 160
MARY BETH - 155
STEPHANIE - 155
LILY - 150
LORI - 150
ROS - 150
SUSAN - 150
BECKY - 145
ELIZABETH NC - 145
FALLON - 145
JUDITH IA - 145
SANDIE - 145
ASHLEY AL - 140
DAVID - 140
JOY - 140
VICTORIA - 140
KAREN - 135
STEPH - 135
ALISHA - 125
CYNTHIA (SCM) - 125
RHIANNON - 125
NICOLE NC - 125
ROSEANN - 125
CASSIE - 120
JEGKA - 120
KATE - 120
ANN FROM SC - 115
LYNLEE4 - 115
RENFREW - 115
SERA - 115
CAROL - 100
JENNIFER IN - 100
CYNDEE - 95
TRYPHENA - 95
CYNTHIA - 90
MANDAY - 90
LAUREN - 85
MEREDITH H - 85
TRACY - 85
AMY - 80
ELIZABETH (ALASKA) - 80
JOANNA - 80
POTJY - 80
BETH - 75
HAYES - 75
HEATHER KS - 75
JULIE UK - 75
KICKI - 75
LINDA - 75
RYAN - 75
SUSANNA UK - 75
MEGAN - 70
MELODY - 70
NATALIA - 70
SLAIMI - 70
ABBIE - 65
KATHRYN - 65
SAI - 65
AMANDA - 60
JEN B - 60
KELLY - 60
ALYSSA - 55
JENNY - 55
JOANIE - 55
MEL - 55
ROBIN - 55
JESSICA MI - 50
SHANNON - 50
SARAH - 50
ALLISON - 45
ELIZ - 45
JEN - 45
WV HEATHER - 45
JAMIE WA - 40
JEANE - 40
JENNIFER MD - 40
JULIE (ID)'S - 40
KIM - 40
LDB - 40
LIZ NY - 40
TOBIE - 40
KATIE - 35
JULIE TN - 30
SHELLIE - 30
ASHLEY UT - 25
DOROTHY - 25
JAIME 26 - 25
JESSICA SC - 25
KRISTI - 25
LACY - 25
MELISSA - 25
RACHEL - 25
MACKENZIE - 20
NICOLE CA - 20
VICKI - 20
CAITLIN - 15
JENNI - 15
KRISTINA UK - 15
LISA CO - 15
GREG - 10
MALIADES - 10
MORGAN - 10
TERRI - 10
CATHERINE - 5
JAMIE 23 - 5
JUDITH NY - 5
MICHELLE - 5
SHELBY - 5

[Lizzi]

Thank you so much to everyone who has left suggestions for the Ireland and Australia tasks! I've got some great ideas now and they are very appreciated! :-)

[Leora]

Completed Bonnies task, 25:5. Read 'Watchmen' the graphic novel. Ick.

This brings my total to 290.

[Sara ♥]

Leora wrote: "Completed Bonnies task, 25:5. Read 'Watchmen' the graphic novel. Ick."

I take it you WON'T be going to see the movie?

I don't know anything about the comic other than my husband just read it.

[Sara ♥]

Hey, guys--I just noticed the list on the right side of this forum that says, "Books mentioned in this topic." I clicked the "More..." button, and there are SEVENTY PAGES of books listed... :) There are also TEN pages of authors mentioned...

I wonder if this topic has the most books mentioned of any topic on goodreads....

[Kate]

Just finished 25 points
3.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time & My Antonia

Total is now 120

[Sandy]

Books I've read and the current one is striked:

5pts:
4.The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

10pts:
1. St. Patrick's day: Maire Fires of Gleannmara Linda Windsor
3.Anzac Day: Faith in the Great Southland Mary Hawkins
5. Magic: The Magician's Nephew C.S. Lewis
8. Memorial/Armed Forces day: Military Daddy-Patricia Davids
10. TNBBC Date Joined: Eclipse

15Pts:
1. Aries: The Greek's Bridal Purchase
2. Poetry: Where the Sidewalk Ends
3. TNBCC group read: Stardust
4. Read a book where you've visited or will vistit for Spring Break: Bayou Justice Robin Caroll
5. Literary prize award: Robin McKinley
6. Translated: The Fifth MountainPaulo Coelho
7. Rhyming Books: Bridal Veil Cathy Marie Hake and THE LONG TRAIL TO LOVE - H S #753 Pamela Griffin
8. Author interview: Operation Married by Christmas Debra Clopton
9. Color book title: Bluegrass Peril Virginia Smith
10. 3rd,4th and 5th book in series: The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader-C.S. Lewis

25pts:
1. Karen's task: Glory Be! Ron Benrey
3. Angela's task: The Undomestic Goddess and Can You Keep a Secret? Sophie Kinsella
4. Ros' task: Anne of Green Gables
8. Cassie's task: Confessions of a Serial Kisser Wendelin Van Draanen and If We Kiss [author:Rachel Vail|15952

Total:
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[BJ Rose]

Oops! I've slipped quite a bit on the leaderboard, but my diarist choice was a bear to get thru. There were 2 or 3 very interesting segments - Thoreau could make the mundane sound beautiful, and I loved the sections on the sounds & sights of nature. Unfortunately, when he was pontificating, he could make the mundane sound very boring and dull. My apologies to those who truly love this book.

Recently completed challenges:

25.2 diarist: Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau completed 4.2.09

5.8 April Fools book: Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett& Neil Gaiman completed 3.31.09

30 points added to previous 205 points makes new total as of 4.2.09 = 235 points

[Alisha Marie]

Five Point Tasks
1.Science Fiction Novel: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
2. Epistolary Novel: The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters A Novel
3. Spring Cleaning: Off Season
4. Commute???
5. For Easter/Lent: Persuasion
6. Women's History Month: Girl, Interrupted
7. Arbor Day: Love the One You're With(swapping it on paperbackswap)
8. Humorous Novel: Revenge of the Spellmans
9. Spring Animal Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
10. Book with Rain related word: The House of Thunder
Category Totals:

10 Point Tasks
1. Irish Author:PS, I Love You
2. Mexican Author: The Hummingbird's Daughter
3. ANZAC Day: The Book Thief
4. Author B-Day in March: Goodnight Nobody
5. Book about Magic: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
6. Earth Day: The Pillars of the Earth
7. Mother's Day:????
8. Armed Forces Day: Cold Mountain
9. TNBBC Top Books List: The Secret History
10. Five Stars Member's List: Memoirs of a Geisha
Category Totals:

15 Points
1. SCORPIO: The Waste Lands by Stephen King OR Wastelands Stories of the Apocalypse
2. National Poetry Month: Transformations by Anne Sexton
3. TNBBC Unread Group Read: House of Leaves
4. Location You've Been (CT): Swapping Lives
5. Award Winning Author:Beloved (Pulitzer in 1988)
6. Translated Book: Love in the Time of Cholera
7. Rhyming Novels: Alias Grace & No Place Like Home A Novel
8. Get to Know the Author: The Kite Runner
9. Book with Color Title: The Green Mile Book Box Set
10. 3-4-5: All That Remains, Cruel and Unusual, & The Body Farm
Category Totals:

25 Points
1. Karen's Task: The Good Guy AND Rebecca
2. El's Task: Alice's Adventures: Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture-Will Brooker
3. Angela's Task: The Historian AND Blue Diary
4. Ros's Task: The Stand
5. Bonnie's Task: I Am Legend
6. Jon's Task: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
7. Darla's Task: Emma by Jane Austen
8. Cassie's Task: Looking for Alaska AND The Truth About Forever
9. Sara's Task: Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale by Catherine Orenstein

Just finished The Stand by Stephen King. I loved it even though it was an extremely long book. It definitely held me captivated (and a bit stressed at what the characters were going through). It was my first Stephen King book and I'm looking forward to reading more of his books. (Although maybe I'll try one of his shorter works like Cujo or Salem's Lot next.)

That brings me up to 125 points.


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[Cait]

I've just finished reading 101 Best-Loved Poems edited by Philip Smith for the 15.2 poetry task. I'm still not a huge poetry fan, but it was nice reading some of my favorites again. I really liked the mini biographies for each poet as well.

That brings me to 220 points.

[Jon]

Judith wrote: "Teeny little bump: finished the 5 point Arbor Day task by reading the Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

one of my favourites

[Victoria]

5 Points
1.Read a fantasy novel-Undead and Unemployed
4.Planes, Trains, and Automobiles-Me Talk Pretty One Day
10 Points
5.Read a book about magic-White Is for Magic
15 Points
2.Read a book of poetry-What My Mother Doesn't Know
8.Get to know the author-Silver Is For Secrets
10.Read the 3rd, 4th, and 5th book in a series-Undead and Unappreciated, Undead and Unreturnable, and Undead and Unpopular
25 Points
3.Angela's Task: Read 2 books that are on the shelves of the person below your first post- **Jamie**
The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book
5.Bonnie's Task: Read a book outside your normal genre-Watchmen
7.Cassie's Task: Read 2 YA novels- Hunted andBlue Is For Nightmares


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Judith wrote: "Teeny little bump: finished the 5 point Arbor Day task by reading the Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit..."

Thank you, Judith... another for TBR!!