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Spring/Summer 2014: Leaderboard and Completed Tasks
15.7 Books about BooksThe Art of Slow Reading: Six Time-Honored Practices for Engagement Thomas Newkirk
Task points: 15
Total points: 30
Finished 5.8InkspellbyCornelia Funke25.2 Lover's Day April 3rd. In Bed with a Highlanderby Maya Banks and Moon Day July 20th Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Total Task Points: 30
Total Points: 60
10.6- lolita by Vladimir Nabokov5.7- The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us by Martha Stout
(I like psychology)
Task: 10 + 5
Total Points: 15
Task 10.6 Like a Virgin: Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano for 10 points.Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Total Points: 10
Finished 15.5 Blockbusters: Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnTotal points: 65
Books read: 8
Tasks complete: 5
Finished 15.4 Inkdeath (sorry from my iPad I can't link the title) by Cornelia Funke. book 3 in the Inkheart trilogy. Total Task Points: 15
Total Points: 75
Emily D10.7 Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts (I don't have any vacation plans, but owning a big, beautiful beach house on the East Coast sounds like a wonderful way to spend a summer)
10.8 The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
Total Books: 7
Total Points: 80
Finished 15.6 the word I got was perfect. The Perfect Match by Kristan Higgins. Task Points: 15
Total Points: 90
25.7 Classics, Old and New: Old: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
New: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Task points: 25
Total points: 75
I really enjoyed both books and although they are very different they are both absolutely beautiful. I think a lot of people will be reading these books for many more years.
25.8 Two Become OneA. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
B. Everybody Sees the Ants by AS King
Becomes: Ishmael, everybody sees the ants.
Task points: 25
Total points: 70
20.1 Wheel of Fortune ChallengeLet's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
Task Points: 20
Total Points: 90
15.5 BlockbustersThe Maze Runner by James Dashner
Task points: 15
Total points: 105
I guess I'm getting a lot of reading done over Memorial Day weekend...
Task 10.2 (Hopefully not) Lost in Translation: The Oath by Elie Wiesel for 10 points.Task 10.7 What I Did on My Summer Vacation: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas for 10 points. (Hopefully I'll have time to get a little sun! And also watch the Veronica Mars movie.)
Task 10.8 April Fool's Day: Ransom My Heart by Mia Thermopolis for 10 points.
Task 15.4 Trilogy: The One by Kiera Cass for 15 points.
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
Total Points: 55
25.8 Two Become OneWe Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver and Fighting Redemption by Kate McCarthy
"We need to talk about Kevin fighting redemption."
Task points: 25
Total points: 105
5.8: Children's book weekTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Task points: 5
Total points: 110
5.4. Get OutdoorsA Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson May 25
Task points: 5
Total points: 110
10.7 What I Did on My Summer VacationReading Specialists and Literacy Coaches in the Real World by MaryEllen Vogt
While technically not fun, by the end of June I will have finished my licensing requirements to become a Reading Specialist! Using this text (and others) to study for my Praxis test.
Task points: 10
Total points: 120
Task 5.4 Get Outdoors: Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks by Andrea Lankford for five points.Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 6
Total Points: 60
10.7 What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing by Janet Abbate Fun thing I'm doing this summer: research in health technology! & I'm representing women in computing by doing so (:
+10
10.6 Like a Virgin: Sex and the City Uncovered: Exposing the Emptiness and Healing the Heartbreak by Marian Jordan
(I thought it was only fitting that I fulfilled this task with a book about sex. Terrible read though; a coworker gave it to me for graduation years ago and I finally got around to reading it. Wish I hadn't, but I'll take the points as a consolation!)
+10
20.1 Wheel of Fortune: 51/50 The MagicaL Adventures of a Single Life by Kristen McGuiness
All of the WoF letters are in the author's first name except for the L!
+20
Total points to date: 40
10.8. April Fool’s Day:The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Task points: 10
Total points: 85
It might not be the biggest change in name, but this one was specially created to fool people: anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book (Harry Potter) written by a woman, Joanne Rowling's publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name.
5.4 - Get Outdoors - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed 5/6/14 15.6 - The Dictionary Challenge: "Keep" - Keeping the House by Ellen Baker 5/19/14
Task points: 20
Total Points: 30
5.2 Women's NamesTell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
10.5 PotterMORE
Skin Game by Jim Butcher (Harry Dresden is a wizard)
Task points: 15
Total points: 135
5.1 I Still Believe in 398.2- City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra ClareTasks completed: 5
Total points: 65
10.7 What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Twilight by Stephanie MeyerTraveling to Washington this summer for a short vaca!
Task points: 10
Total points: 125
25.2 Bizarre, Unique, Special HolidaysEscape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden (East Meets West Day, April 25)
and
Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom by Daniel T. Willingham (Teacher Appreciation Day, May 9)
Task points: 25
Total points: 160
Task 25.8 Two Become One: The Dilemma of Charlotte Farrow by Olivia Newport & Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger for 25 points.Tasks Completed: 7
Books Read: 8
Total Points: 85
10.7 What I Did on My Summer Vacation- The Turtle Lady: IIa Fox Loetscher of South Padre by Evelyn SizemoreWhat I did/ am doing: I work at the Sea Turtle center the Turtle Lady founded :)
Tasks completed: 6
Total points: 75
This is the first post for me (Emily G.) in this challenge:Finished:
5.1. I Still Believe in 398.2 Daughter of Smoke & Bone
10.5. PotterMORE Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
15.4. Trilogy Allegiant
15.7. Books about Books The Burgess Boys
15.8. Bethany’s Task The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
20.1. Allison’s task The Astronaut Wives Club
25.6. Take A Vacation (Australia Volunteer work) Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Total Points: 105
10.4. Study Abroad:Aunt Dimity and the Wishing Well by Nancy Atherton June 8
Task points: 10
Total points: 145
Also, need a fix - I put Karaoke Week as a 10 pt. task, but it is actually 15, so add 5 points.NEW TOTAL : 150 pts.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (other topics)Washington Square (other topics)
Shirley (other topics)
Mad About the Boy (other topics)
The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation (other topics)
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The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin
...on Asperger's/the autism spectrum
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 55