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Spring/Summer 2015: Leaderboard and Completed Tasks
Task 15.5 Spring/Summer 2013: Eat an Oreo Day: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker (Aga)Points This Post: 15
Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 10
Total Points: 160
*Kelly R.Finished:
10-3. About blossoming love or with a flower on the cover - A Court of Thorns & Roses by Sarah J. Maas (5/28) - has both a flower on the cover and a story of "blossoming love."
20-1. Past group read; AND posted to the general discussion thread - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (6/1); Post: This was a re-read for me. I'd forgotten a lot of things about it (I finished it the first time in December of 2008), but I loved it just as much as I remembered I did. They way Markus Zusak uses language is just so beautiful. I've recently read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and saw a lot of kinship between these two very different authors in the way they use language.
Total Points: 195/480
Books Finished: 20/43
Tasks Completed: 14/34
Finished:20.2 The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Task Points: 20
Total Points: 255
Books Read: 20
Tasks Completed: 15
Task 15.7 Fall/Winter 2012-2013: A'phabet Day AKA No "L" Day: The Heir by Kiera CassPoints This Post: 15
Books Read: 13
Tasks Completed: 11
Total Points: 175
Finished: 25.8 These are a few of my Favorite Things:
Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books by Gary Paulsen (a favorite author from my childhood)
Divergent by Veronica Roth (favorite genre: YA dystopia)
Task points: 25
Total points: 265
Tasks completed: 16
10.2 A Day at the Park The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle (Awesome underground Goblin parks!)10.5 Attention Grabber Close Kin by Clare B. Dunkle
(Sable say beside the dead body of her best friend, too miserable to cry.)
Finished 25.3 Mother's and Father's Day
Mother
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games
Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows
by Joe Hill
Father
Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom
Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks
Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega
by Joe Hill
(This series begins with the father's death and throughout the series the kids attempt to figure out the father's path. Meanwhile the Mother is struggling with a drinking problem after her husbands death and the kids have to help her through it while struggling with the other events of the novels.)
Task Points: 45
Total Points: 470
Books Read: 42
Completed Tasks: 33
Finished:25.1 Spring Cleaning
The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Task Points:25
Total Points:155
Tasks Completed:11
Finished:15.2 - Spring/Summer 2014: Like a Virgin
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt 04/02/15
20.2 - Mickslibrarian challenge
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 03/22/15
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 04/17/15
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith 06/06/15
25.1 - Spring Cleaning:
The Elite by Kiera Cass 06/04/15
The One by Kiera Cass 06/06/15
Halfway Finished:
25.6 - Health Craze
The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger (Fluff)
25.8 - Favorite Things:
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (Gothic Tales, Historical Fiction)
Task Points: 15 + 20 + 25
Total Points: 360
Books Read: 37
Tasks Completed: 26 + 1
Finished:10.1 Darkest Hour by Meg Cabot
10.3 Haunted by Meg Cabot
10.5 More Than This by Patrick Ness
Task Points: 30
Total Points: 285
Books Read: 23
Tasks Completed: 18
1.5 Passion for Posters: rereadHarry Potter ja Azkabanin vanki by jk rowling3.10 April Showers bring May Flowers: Léon ja Louise by Alex Capus Has a cute romance
4.10 Laughter is the best medicine:Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
8.10 Star Gazing: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald from Jackies list
5.15 Spring/Summer 2013: Eat an Oreo Day: Tasanko liekeissä by Juan Rulfo e-k-e
7.15 Fall/Winter 2012-2013: A'phabet Day AKA No "L" Day: Matigari by by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
3.25 Mother’s and Father’s Day: Book 1: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Book 2: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
6.25 Health Craze: Book 1:Viimeinen haltia by Silvana De Mari and Book 2: Syötäväksi kasvatetut by Elina Lappalainen
7.25 Choose your own Adventure:Book 1: Ekovuosi Manhattanilla by Colin Beavan and Book 2: Maailma on teonsana: Suomalaisia runoja by Anne Helttunen
Total task points: 180 + 140 = 320
Books read: 14 + 12 = 26
Task completed: 11 + 9 = 20
Task 20.1 Group Read: The Secret Lives of Dresses by Erin McKean Points This Post: 20
Books Read: 14
Tasks Completed: 12
Total Points: 195
15.5 - Eat an Oreo Day - Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country TeamRunning has "n-i-n" making an Oreo.
Task points: 15
Total points: 40
Finished: 10.4 Laughter is the Best Medicine Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast(The book is full of dark humor that play off themes of death and old age.)
Task Points: 10
Total Points: 480/480
Books Read: 43/43
Completed Tasks: 34/34
Final Page Count: 13188
15.6. Fall/Winter 2012-2013: Dress-Up: Not Just for Kids Anymore:
How to Grow Up and Rule the World, by Vordak the Incomprehensible by Scott Seegert June 13Task Points: 15
Total Points: 390
Finished10.1 A Day at the Beach
Summer Lies: Stories by Bernhard Schlink
10.8 Star Gazing
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - Rated 5* by Holly
Task Points: 20
Total Points: 175
Tasks Completed: 13
Finished:25.8 Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (favorite author) and Paper Towns by John Green (favorite genre)
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 310
Books Read: 25
Tasks Completed: 19
10.4. Laughter is the best medicine: My Life as a Book by Janet Tashjian June 17
Task Points: 10
Total Points: 400
15.1 Road Trip: Dylan by Linda Lael Miller25.3 Mother's Day/Father's Day: The Daughter's Walk by Jane Kirkpatrick/ The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
Total Points: 145
Books read: 15
Tasks complete: 10
Finished:10.2 - “A day at the park”
Murder on the Eiffel Tower by Claude Izner 06/22/15
Take place mostly on the Champ de Mars in Paris.
Halfway Finished:
25.6 - Health Craze
The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger (Fluff)
25.8 - Favorite Things:
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (Gothic Tales, Historical Fiction)
Task Points: 10
Total Points: 370
Books Read: 38
Tasks Completed: 27 + 1
Finished:25.4 Birth Month and Order
Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride Born in February.
And
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (Read 17/5/15)
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 200
Tasks Completed: 14
Finished:20.1 The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
Post here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Task Points: 20
Total Points: 330
Books Read: 26
Tasks Completed: 20
Finished:25.8 - Favorite Things:
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton 04/19/15 (Gothic Tales, Historical Fiction)
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell 06/27/15 (Rainbow Rowell)
Halfway Finished:
25.6 - Health Craze
The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger (Fluff)
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 395
Books Read: 39
Tasks Completed: 28 + 0,5
Finished:15.8 Talk Like A Pirate Day
Disclaimer by Renée Knight
Task Points: 15
Total Points: 215
Tasks Complete: 15
Finished:25.6 - Health Craze
The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger (Fluff) 03/30/15
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai (Informational) 06/29/15
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 420
Books Read: 40
Tasks Completed: 29
Finished:5.4 Movies
The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler (similar to The Little Mermaid)
10.5 Attention Grabber
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
Task points: 15
Total points: 280
Tasks completed: 18
I've earlier used The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as the novel for 10.7, but only gave myself 5 points because it was so short (130 pages).I would like to add:
10.7 - Memorial Day
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett, in memoriam of Pratchett.
Hence I give myself 5 points, and thus completing the task with 10 points.
Task points: 5
Total points: 425
Books read: 41
Tasks completed: 29
Finished:5.4 Movies
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The plot of Blade Runner #62 on the list is based on this book.
Task Points: 5
Total Points: 220
Tasks Complete: 16
Task 25.5 Awareness: Book 1: Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich (green)
Book 2: Lizzy and Jane by Katherine Reay (red)
Points This Post: 25
Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 13
Total Points: 220
*Kelly R.Finished:
15-2. An author who is completely new to me - Graceling by Kristin Cashore (6/4)
25-4. By an author that shares my birthday month (March - Lois Lowry b. 3/20/27) AND Coincides with my birth order (I'm the oldest) - Son by Lois Lowry (3/19); Levathan Wakes (#1) by James S. A. Corey (6/12)
10-5. Great first line And Post that line - Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson (7/1); POST: "So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians."
Total Points: 245/480
Books Finished: 24/43
Tasks Completed: 17/34
Task 5.3 Pac-Man, Frogger and Pong: Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich (One of the main characters in the story is a gamer.)Points This Post: 5
Books Read: 17
Tasks Completed: 14
Total Points: 225
Finished:10.5 Attention Grabber
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger:If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
Task Points: 10
Total Points: 230
Tasks Complete: 17
Finished: 15.4 Blind Date: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
25.2 May the 4th Be With You: Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon (set far away) & Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson (set 50+ years ago)
Total points: 185
Books read: 17
Tasks complete: 12
Hello all! New here, thanks for such a fun challenge. Let me jump right in:Finished:
10.5."Attention Grabber" The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
First sentence is "Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of the ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss." After reading this sentence (and the rest of the first page) in the bookstore I knew I had to read this.
15.1. "Road Trip" The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
15.2. "Like a Virgin" Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
15.3. "Alliteration" The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
15.4. "Blind date" The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
15.5. "Oreo" Anna Karenina (n-i-n) by Leo Tolstoy
15.7. "No L" Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
15.8. "R" Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Total points: 115
5.2. Sticker Books: Real Mermaids Don’t Wear Toe Rings by Helene Boudreau July 3 (Mermaids)
Task Points: 5
Total Points: 405
15.8. Fall/Winter 2012-2013: September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling July 7
Task Points: 15
Total Points: 420
Task 25.4 Birth Month and Order: Book 1: The Maze Runner by James Dashner (November)
Book 2: Made to Last by Melissa Tagg (First in a series/firstborn)
Points This Post: 25
Books Read: 19
Tasks Completed: 15
Total Points: 250
Finished:5.2 Sticker Books: The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette
Task points: 5
Total points: 285
Tasks completed: 19
Task 25.8 8. These are a few of my Favorite Things: Book 1: Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich
Book 2: Summer of Promise by Amanda Cabot
Points This Post: 25
Books Read: 21
Tasks Completed: 16
Total Points: 275
*Kelly R.Finished:
5-5. About an inventor of some sort - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (7/6)
15-4. Go to the library & pick a book from the shelves at random - Storm Front by Jim Butcher (7/7)
10-4. Funny & about a comedian - Yes Please by Amy Poehler (7/9)
25-3. About a mother AND about a father - The World Forgot by Martin Leicht & Isla Neal (5/20); Any Other Name by Craig Johnson (7/10)
Total Points: 300/480
Books Finished: 28/43
Tasks Completed: 21/34
Finished:10.1 - A day at the beach
The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne 07/14/15
The book takes place on a Scottish Island and their daughter plays a lot on the beach.
Task points: 10
Total points: 435
Books read: 42
Tasks completed: 30
10.7. Memorial Day:Winona of the Camp Fire by Margaret Widdemer July 18 (In memory of my grandmother)
Task Points: 10
Total Points: 430
Finished:15.1 - Spring/Summer 2014: Road Trip:
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 07/21/15 (New York)
15.4 - Spring/Summer 2013: Blind Date
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro 07/22/15
Task points: 15 + 15
Total points: 465
Books read: 44
Tasks completed: 32
10.8. Star Gazing:Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling July 20 (Bethany)
Task Points: 10
Total Points: 440
Task 15.1 Spring/Summer 2014: Road Trip: Love Finds You in Annapolis, Maryland by Roseanna M. WhitePoints This Post: 15
Books Read: 22
Tasks Completed: 17
Total Points: 290
Finished:10.3 - April Showers bring May Flowers:
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker 07/24/15
Task points: 10
Total points: 475
Books read: 45
Tasks completed: 33
10.5. Attention Grabber: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling June 23 ("Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.")
Task Points: 10
Total Points: 450
Task 5.2 Sticker Books: The Boyfriend App by Katie SiseTask 25.6 Health Craze:
Book 1: Bridezilla: True Tales from Etiquette Hell by Noe Spaemme
Book 2: How She Really Does It: Secrets of Successful Stay-at-Work Moms by Wendy Sachs
Points This Post: 30
Books Read: 25
Tasks Completed: 19
Total Points: 320
Finished:10.7 Memorial Day
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Task Points: 10
Total Points: 240
Tasks Complete: 18
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Book 1: The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy by Diane Stanley May 8 (when I was a kid I wanted to go to boarding school, I know, I'm weird)
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Book 2: At Home on the Range by Margaret Yardley Potter May 31 (not interested in being a cook)
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 375