2013 - RDI Challenge #3

[Bianca]

Tara, I'm about to read Blogger Girl! How did you like it?

[Tara]

I loved it Bianca!!

[Bianca]

Awesome!! I'll hopefully be starting it today. :)

[Stacy]

Julie wrote: "Hi Stacy! Hope you're having a wonderful summer! Not that it really makes a difference or anything, but wanted to let you know I actually have 20 points now, not 15. :)"

Sorry about that Julie!! I fixed it!

[Stacy]

Jenger wrote: "For task 10.8 - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, would searching for your mother's killer be considered an adventure? I may just be grasping here to fit the book I'm currently reading to a task. ..."

Sure! Whatever seems like an adventure to you. :)

[Alicia]

Task Completed

5.3 When Harry Met Sally – The Thing About Jane Spring, Sharon Krum 8/13/13


11/40 books
40/310 points

Physical Books off my Shelf: 4

[Alicia]

Task Completed

5.2 Sixteen Candles – Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters, Annie Choi 8/14/13


12/40 books
45/310 points

[Tara]

TASK COMPLETED

15.1 The Princess Bride-Whatever After: If the Shoe Fits-Sarah Mlynowski, The Week Before the Wedding-Beth Kendrick

11/40 Books
55/310 Points

[Marissa]

Task Completed:

25.2 National Lampoon’s European Vacation – The End of the Affair by Graham Green (finished 8/12), On Dublin Street by Samantha Young (finished 8/4), and Down London Road by Samantha Young (finished 8/15)

Books: 6/40
Points: 45/310

[Melanie]

Task completed

5.8 A Nightmare on Elm Street – Poppet - Mo Hayder

14/40 books
75/310 points

[Jenger]

TASKS COMPLETED:

5.5 Driving Miss Daisy – Looking for Salvation at tthe Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore

10.8 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Frozen Heat by Richard Castle (a woman searching for her mother's killer)

18/40
125/310

[Bianca]

TASK COMPLETED:

10.3 Say Anything: Blogger Girl – Meredith Schorr

4/40 books
30/310 points

[Tina]

Task Completed:

5.1 Pretty in Pink – Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Beth Harbison

6/40 books
35/310 points

[Nicole]

10.3 Say Anything – Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad (guitar)

105/310

[Maria]

task completed:

15.2 Who Framed Roger Rabbit – read two books from two very different points of view (like how Roger Rabbit is both live action and cartoon)
-->learns to hate her ex; "Ladies' Night" by Mary Kay Andrews
-->learns to love her ex; "Spring Fever" by Mary Kay Andrews

3/40 books
20/310 points

thanks!

maria :-)

[Stacy]

Sorry, behind in posting the leaderboard again...

LEADERBOARD
Jenger - 125
Nicole - 105
Jencey - 75
Melanie - 75
Tara - 55
Stacy - 50
Alicia - 45
Leeba - 45
Marissa - 45
Tina - 35
Bianca - 30
Julie - 20
Maria - 20
Eva - 15

[Jenger]

I have a question about task 15.2. I think I misunderstood so if you could provide clarification I'd appreciate it. Does it mean to read 2 books both written from 2 different characters' perspective such as each book being narrated by 2 characters

OR

1 book from 1 perspective and a 2nd book from an opposite perspective rather than having the 2 competing perspectives contained in each single book?

I hope this makes sense. Thanks for the assistance!

[Bianca]

Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all I do with my free time. Haha! Anyone like that show? I don't know what I was doing with my life when it came out because I should have been watching it. I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE it. So yeah...definitely keeping me from reading and, well, doing just about everything else.

[Stacy]

Jenger wrote: "I have a question about task 15.2. I think I misunderstood so if you could provide clarification I'd appreciate it. Does it mean to read 2 books both written from 2 different characters' perspectiv..."

It's more like your second thought - two books, each from a different perspective. Like one book from a woman's perspective and one book from a man's perspective. Or from one perspective and multiple perspectives (like when the author writes the chapters from different characters' voices).

Hope that helps!

[Stacy]

Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all I do with my free time. Haha! Anyone like that show? I don't know what..."

I think I might've watched one or two episodes of it. I've been kind of in a reading funk lately. All I've been doing in my spare time is playing games or surfing the net on my ipad, knitting, or just getting out of the house. I haven't even been working on my house like I should be. LOL, I started painting my kitchen sometime around early June and I'm still not done. :)

[Beth]

Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all I do with my free time. Haha! Anyone like that show? I don't know what..."

I LOVED Lost. I loved that I never knew what was going to happen. I cried my eyes out when I watched the series finale. Seriously.

[Bianca]

Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all I do with my free time. Haha! Anyone like that show? I ..."

Beth, that's what I've heard from so many people!!! Unfortunately, the movie This is Forty tells you what happens in the end of Lost and I was SO MAD. Seriously cannot believe I wasted my time on such a bad movie just to have them ruin the end of Lost for me. BUT I've heard there's more to it than that, so here's to hoping I cry my eyes out in the end, too! Haha.

[Bianca]

Stacy wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all I do with my free time. Haha! Anyone like that show? I ..."

Stacy...totally know how you feel. I'm in SUCH a reading funk. I just started Finding Colin Firth, which is due to the library soon, and even though it's good so far I just can't tear my eyes away from Lost in my free time. Haha! Reading funks always annoy me.

[Stacy]

I want to read that one! Let me know how it is!

[Jencey/]

Task completed: 5.2 Sixteen Candles – Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
As close as I could get.

books 16/40

points 75/310

[Beth]

Bianca wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all I do with my free time. Haha! Anyone like ..."

I didn't see that movie so I don't know quite how much they gave away, but I think it won't matter. If you watch the entire series by the time you get to the end you will be so attached to the characters that it will be an emotional experience saying goodbye to them. At least it was for me.

[Bianca]

Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all I do with my free time. Hah..."

That's good to know! Ahhh I am SO obsessed with the characters. I'm on season 3 right now and when my boyfriend asks who my favorite character is I go, "Jack. No, John. Sawyer. No wait it's Claire. Wait it's Charlie. Oh it's Kate. No, Hurley." hahahaha. I can't pick just one! I love all of them!!!!

[Bianca]

Stacy wrote: "I want to read that one! Let me know how it is!"

Stacy, will do! Since I'm in my reading funk I am hoping that I finish it before it's due to the library. Haha. But I'll keep you posted either way. :)

[Stacy]

Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all I do with my free time. Hah..."

LOL, that's what I did on the last episode of Sex in the City. I didn't watch it while it was on HBO - got it from Netflix about a year or so after it ended. But I was still sad to see it end. That is my all-time, favorite show. :)

[Stacy]

Bianca wrote: "Stacy wrote: "I want to read that one! Let me know how it is!"

Stacy, will do! Since I'm in my reading funk I am hoping that I finish it before it's due to the library. Haha. But I'll keep you pos..."

Good luck!

[Alicia]

Task Completed

15.2 Who Framed Roger Rabbit –
Wolf: Forever, Maggie Stiefvater 7/28/13
Person: Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout 8/22/13

14/40 books
60/310 points

[Tina]

Task Completed:

10.6 Mannequin – Secrets of a Shoe Addict by Beth Harbison 8/22

7/40 books
45/310 points

[Bianca]

Stacy wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all I do with my f..."

Yes! I LOOOOOVE Sex and the City! My all-time favorite show is Friends, and seriously there is never a point in time when I'm not watching the series all the way through from the beginning. I finish, watch it again. Finish, watch it again. And I ALWAYS cry at the finale even though I've seen it hundreds of times. Haha. Sex and the City is probably my second favorite! I like watching them all the way through and then finishing them off with the movies :)

[Beth]

Stacy wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all I do with my f..."

I really liked the finale of "Sex in the City" also. And the first movie. The second movie not so much. Are any of you watching the show "Girls"? I watched the first season and liked it but I almost didn't make it through the 2nd season -- and it's only 10 half hour episodes! I'm at the point where I really can't stand the main character, Hannah. She is sooooo self-absorbed. And I'm really tired of looking at her naked body. I get the whole it's good to see a naked woman who's not a size 2, but enough already! Even my husband, who is usually very pro-nudity, is sick of looking at her. OK, rant over. I guess I just needed to get that out of my system :)

[Jenger]

TASKS COMPLETED:

5.4 The Little Mermaid - Yarn to Go by Betty Hechtman
10.1 Weird Science - Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell (forensic pathologist)

20/40 books
140/310 points

[Jenger]

Stacy wrote: "Jenger wrote: "I have a question about task 15.2. I think I misunderstood so if you could provide clarification I'd appreciate it. Does it mean to read 2 books both written from 2 different charact..."

Yes, it definitely helps! Would a serious thriller murder mystery vs a light cozy murder mystery count? Just want to make sure I'm not stretching the boundaries.

Thank you for your help!

[Jencey/]

Beth wrote: "Stacy wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all ..."

Stacy,
I loved the fashion in both movies. I could live in Carrie's wardrobe.

[Tara]

TASK COMPLETED

25.3 Ferris Bueller's Day Off-Ladie's Night-Mary Kay Andrews, Rose Harbor Inn-Debbie Macomber, Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave him the Wrong Finger-Beth Harbison

12/40 Books
80/310 Points

[Jencey/]

Task completed: 15.2 Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Imperfect Pairings by Jackie Townsend (narration), The Gallant Outlaw by Gilbert Morris

books: 19/40
points: 90/310

[Jencey/]

Task completed: 15.3 Airplane! –Girl Unmoored by Jennifer Gooch Hummer, The White Knight by Gilbert Morris

books 19/40

points 105/310

[Nicole]

5.8 A Nightmare on Elm Street – Close My Eyes by Sophie McKenzie

110/310

This book was amazing!!!

[Melanie]

Task completed
5.10 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic - Emily Croy Barker

15/40 books
80/310 points

[Jenger]

TASK COMPLETED:

10.2 Teen Wolf – Overbite by Meg Cabot (vampires)

21/40 books
150/310 points

[Bianca]

Beth wrote: "Stacy wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all ..."

Beth - yes! I remember a while ago I started watching the first episode of Girls and turned it off right away thinking it was really weird not my type of show. Then earlier this year I was like well...why not? Everyone is talking about how good it is. So I gave it another shot and ended up watching the whole first season in a few days and really liked it. And I completely agree with you about the second season - it's so weird!! I did end up watching all of it but only because I kept hoping it would get better. And it didn't. Also...I absolutely adore Emily Giffin and all her books, but the other day (I THINK it was her so don't take my word for it) posted on Facebook asking who people like better...Big or Adam (from girls). Ummm BIG!! Every girl who commented wrote that haha. There is no comparison!!!

[Tina]

Task Completed:

5.9 Fast Times at Ridgemont High – Hope in a Jar by Beth Harbison

8/40 books
50/310 points

[Alicia]

Task Completed

10.8 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure – (Solving a mystery/hanging out with ghosts) Ninth Key, Meg Cabot 8/27/13

17/40 books
70/310 points

Physical Books off my Shelf: 6

[Bianca]

Tina wrote: "Task Completed:

5.9 Fast Times at Ridgemont High – Hope in a Jar by Beth Harbison

8/40 books
50/310 points"

Just got that book from the library and am so excited to read it!! How did you like it, Tina?

[Beth]

Bianca wrote: "Beth wrote: "Stacy wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. S..."

I cannot imagine ANYONE would choose Adam over Big. Of course, I never understood why anyone would choose Jacob over Edward in Twilight either.

[Stacy]

Bianca wrote: "Stacy wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Beth wrote: "Bianca wrote: "Wow I need to hurry up and finish these books! I just started watching Lost for the first time and I'm ADDICTED. Seriously all ..."

My other favorite show is How I Met Your Mother - that show can make me laugh no matter what mood I'm in. And of course, Pretty Little Liars. I make sure I watch that every week! I'm sad that the season ended last night. And HOLY CRAP!!!! For anyone that watches it, you know what I'm talking about!

[Stacy]

Jenger wrote: "Stacy wrote: "Jenger wrote: "I have a question about task 15.2. I think I misunderstood so if you could provide clarification I'd appreciate it. Does it mean to read 2 books both written from 2 dif..."

I always say, stretch as far as you need to make it work. :)