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SPRING/SUMMER 2010: Official Task List (and rules)
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5 Points:
1. Reading Is Fun Week- (May 10th-14th): Read a book of your choice that is something you would consider just a “fun” read..light, fluffy, & just pure fun.
2. Fight Procrastination: The second week in March is Procrastination week. Let’s help fight our procrastination by:
-Read a book that you have owned the longest but have never read
OR
-Read a group read that you planned to read but didn’t end up reading
OR
- Read a book that you have started more than once but have never finished
3. Make A Friend: Read a book by somebody on your GR friend’s list that they have rated 5 stars OR a book that they have previously recommended to you. If you don’t have anybody on your friend’s list, pick somebody in this group and read a book that they gave 5 stars to.
4. Alfred Hitchcock Day: In honor of Alfred Hitchcock, pioneer of many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genre, read a mystery/suspense/psychological thriller book.
5. Passport Required: In the months when the travel bug bites, read a travel memoir or a fiction book where the main character is traveling for most of the book. This book must take place outside of your own country.
6. Bibliophiles Unite: Read a book about books or a book where the main character is a bibliophile.
7. April Showers Bring May Flowers: Read a book with the name of a flower in the title or on the cover.
8. Summer Scenes: Read a book with a summer image on the cover: beach, ocean, boat, sun, sandcastle, seashell, pool, lake, etc.
9. Passionate Reading: Read a book pertaining to an interest/hobby/activity that you enjoy doing. If you are into horses, you could read a fiction book about a jockey, a nonfiction book about horses, etc.
10. Do You Believe In Magic? : In honor of Harry Houdini’s birthday (March 24th 1874): Read a book with a main character who has magical powers.
10 Points:
1. Be Amused: Amusement park, carnivals, zoos, and circuses are popular spring/summertime attractions. Read a book that is (mostly) set at an amusement park, zoo, carnival, or circus OR read a book with an amusement park ride in the title (rollercoaster, swings, Tilt-A Whirl, Carousel, Merry Go Round, Ferris Wheel, etc.) or has a ride on the cover.
2. It’s the Future: In honor of 2010, a very future sounding year, read a dystopia or apocalyptic book.
3. Life’s a Beach: Read a book off the NPR 100 best beach reads list- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...
4. Directionality: Read a book with one of the following directions in the title: North, South, East, West, Up, Down, Left or Right.
5. Dear Diary: Read a published journal or diary OR read a fiction book that is written in the form of a journal or diary.
6. Island Dreams: Read a book that takes place primarily on an island.
7. African Liberation Day( May 25th): In honor of the many countries in Africa with tumultuous pasts who have been liberated & those who still are in that process, read a fiction or non-fiction book that primarily takes place in Africa.
8. International Women's Day (March 8th): Read a memoir written by a woman from a different country than you.
9. Doctor’s Day (March 30th): Read a fiction/non fiction book where the main character is in the medical field.
10. Point of View: Read a book that is written from the point of view of multiple characters.
15 Points:
1. July 17, 1918: The Imperial Romanov Family was shot and killed—Read a book that takes place in Russia during the Romanov dynasty (1613-1917)
2. Book Club Favorites: Read a book off the GR’s most popular book club books list of all time. http://www.goodreads.com/book/popular...
3. In The Year You Were Born : Read a book that won an award the year you were born OR read a book that is on the top 100 popular books published in the year you were born list. To find this go to the "Explore" tab. Then click "books". Click the "popular" tab. Click on Popular books by date. You will then see on the right hand side a way to change year to your birthday. Or here’s the link and you can change the year accordingly. http://www.goodreads.com/book/popular...
4. Barbie Girl: Barbie Doll's first appearance was March 9 1959-- Barbie has always been a source of controversy when it comes to body image. Read a fiction/non fiction book related to body image. It could deal with things like anorexia, bulimia, obesity, “ugliness”, etc .
5. Nom de plume: Read a book by an author who writes under a pen name. Example – Nora Roberts writes under the name JD Robb or Mark Twain is really a pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens. You could also use a classic where a female first put the book out under a pen name (Charlotte Bronte wrote under a pen name when she wrote Jane Eyre) for gender neutrality reasons.
6. Albert Einstein’s Birthday (March 14th): Read a non-fiction book related to any aspect of science OR a fiction book where the main character is a scientist.
7. Family Matters: Read a book a “non traditional/unconventional” family. Basically could be a book with a single parent, same sex parents, etc. There could be a few different options so just ask if you aren’t sure.
8. In A Lifetime: Read a fiction book that spans several decades of a character’s life (or the life of a family) in detail. (Example—Love in the Time of Cholera, The Poisonwood Bible, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Namesake). It doesn’t need to be a whole lifetime but should be more than 3 or 4 decades.
9. Young Authors: Read a book that was written by someone before they were the age of 25.
10. Philosopher John Locke’s birthday (August 29th) : Read a book with strong philosophical undercurrents, such as, The Fountainhead or The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
20 Points:
1. Group Read: Read a past group read OR a group read that happens during one of the months of this challenge AND post to the discussion thread what you thought about the book.
2. Annashu’s Challenge(Completed the School Year Challenge) : Coast to Coast: I live on the West Coast and my family lives on the East Coast so it feels like I am always going back and forth. Read one book set on the East Coast and one set on the West Coast.
3. Verity’s Challenge (Completed the School Year Challenge): Spring is a time of beginnings and growth, and literature had to start somewhere too. Read a book that was written pre-1700s AD; it can be from any country, fiction or non-fiction.
4. Jules' task (2nd place Winner of the Fall/Winter challenge): Spring, the time for new love: Read two books by authors you haven't read before.
25 Points:
1. Evolution of a Country: Read 2 books from the same country set at least 30 years apart. So, you might pick a book set in China in the 1800’s and then one set in China from the 1970’s.
2 . Ethical Issues: Read a fiction book that deals heavily with one of the following ethical issues AND then read a non-fiction book related to that subject.
-War
-Animal Rights
-Abortion
-Euthanasia
- Death Penalty
-Environmental Ethics
-Cloning
So you would read a book like Slaughterhouse Five and then a nonfiction book about war or a soldier if you picked war. I’m open to other ethical issues if you have something in mind..just let me know.
3. Mia Hamm’s birthday (March 17th): Read a fiction/non fiction book pertaining to sports. This could be a memoir written by an athlete, a book about a sports team or a sport, or a fiction book with a main character who is an athlete, etc.
4. William Wordsworth birthday (April 7th) -- Read a book of poetry from the 18th century AND a book of Contemporary poetry (after World War II) The book of poetry must be at LEAST 75 pages. If you are reading from an anthology just pick 75 pages to read from.
5. Body & Mind: Read a book about a person with a physical disability/handicap AND a book about a person with an emotional/social/psychological disorder.
6. Under & Over Rated: Read a book with less than 1,000 ratings on Goodreads AND read a book with over 50,000 ratings.
7. A Body of Work: Read a book by an author who has only written one book (at the time you are reading the book) AND read a book by an author who has written 10 or more books.
8. Judge a Book by Its Cover: Read a book with a cover that you love AND read a book with a cover that is not appealing to you. To claim your points, tell us which book was a better read—the one with the cover you loved or the one you didn’t love.
9. The Great Debate: Read a book about an issue written by someone who disagrees with your stance. (So you if you were pro-choice, you might read a book written by someone who supports pro-life or if you are someone that believes in Creationism you might read about evolution, etc.)
10. Emotional Reading: Read a book that has an emotion in the title (anger, sad, happy, joy, pride, fear etc.) AND read a book that is known for eliciting a strong emotion (a “tear-jerker, a “feel good” book, a book that angers, etc.)
Please remember that the Fall/Winter task ends on the 22nd of February so additional tasks could be added in the 20 point category.
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5 Points:
1. The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
2. The Glass Castle
3. Emma
4. The Alienist
5. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
6. The Secret of Lost Things
7. The Name of the Rose: Including Postscript
8. Life of Pi
9. Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style
10. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
10 Points:
1. Geek Love
2. The Hunger Games
3. Cannery Row
4. East of Eden
5. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
6. Shutter Island
7. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
8. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
9. Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities
10. Nineteen Minutes
15 Points:
1. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
2. People of the Book
3. The Handmaid's Tale
4. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
5. Jane Eyre
6. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
7. Running with Scissors: A Memoir
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude
9. The Outsiders
10. The Alchemist
20 Points:
1. Her Fearful Symmetry
2. Daughter of Fortune: A Novel, Fever 1793
3. The Princesse de Cleves
4. TBD--Winner of Fall/Winter of Challenge
25 Points:
1. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
2. Mercy, TBD
3. My Losing Season
4. Lyrical Ballads, A Working Girl Can't Win : And Other Poems
5. Slow Man, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
6. The Hypocrisy of Disco: A Memoir, The Kite Runner
7. The Secret of Lost Things, Fahrenheit 451: Fahrenheit 451--The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns
8. Suite Française, The Shadow of the Wind
9. The Blind Watchmaker
10. Pride and Prejudice, My Sister's Keeper
5 points1.
2. Stories & Parables - 546pp.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. The Name of the Rose
8. The Waves or To the Lighthouse or Life of Pi or Wide Sargasso Sea
9.
10. Living Dead in Dallas
10 points
1. Water for Elephants
2. The Second Coming
3.
4.
5. replaced task:
6. Robinson Crusoe
7.
8. Jane Austen's Letters - 469pp.
9.
10.
15 points
1. Anna Karenina
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
20 points
1.
2.1
2.2 Tortilla Flat
3.
4.1
4.2 American Psycho - 399pp.
25 points
1.1
1.2
2.1 Sold (prostitution - fiction)
2.2 Fucking Berlin (prostitution - non-fiction)
3.
4.1 English Romantic Poetry
4.2 Selected Poems of Ted Hughes
5.1
5.2
6.1
6.2
7.1
7.2
8.1
8.2
9. Homosexualität aus katholischer Sicht (no English translation)
10.1 Tender Is the Night
10.2
13,800 pages/37 books
28/44 tasks completed
415 points as of 08/12/2010
5 Points:1.
2. Orlando, Virginia Woolf
3.
4. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
5. Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, Jerome K Jerome
6. Bibliophiles Unite
7. The Name of the Rose: Including Postscript, Umberto Eco
8.
9. Passionate Reading
10. Do You Believe In Magic?
15/50
10 Points:
1. The Great Gatsby, FS Fitzgerald
2.
3. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
4. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
5. The Diary of a Nobody, George Grossmith
6. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo (Île de la Cité, Paris)
7. Disgrace, JM Coetzee
8. International Women's Day (March 8th)
9. Doctor’s Day
10.
20/100
15 Points:
1. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
2. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
3.
4.
5.
6. Albert Einstein’s Birthday (March 14th)
7.
8.
9.
10. The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
90/150
20 Points:
1.
2. The Godfather, Mario Puzo (East Coast) & Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck (West Coast) (reread)
3. Inferno, Dante Alighieri (1308)
4. Restless, William Boyd & The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
20/80
25 Points:
1. O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra, Eça de Queirós (1884) & Aparição, Vergílio Ferreira (1959)
2.
3. Mia Hamm’s birthday (March 17th)
4. William Wordsworth birthday (April 7th)
5. Body & Mind
6.
7. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë & A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
8. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess & Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell
9. The Great Debate
10. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner & A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
50/250
Total: 195/630
5 Points
1. For Fun: The Host or Fight Club
2. Fight Procrastination: The Catcher in the Rye
3. 5 Stars by GR Friend: Paper Towns (Jessica)
4. Mystery: The Shadow of the Wind
5. Travel: One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children
6. Book about Books: The Book Thief
7. Flowers on the Cover: The Truth About Forever
8. Summer Scenes:
9. Hobby/Interests: The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet
10. Magical Powers: Poison Study
0/50
10 Points
1. Carnivals/Zoos/Amusement Parks: Something Wicked This Way Comes
2. Dystopia/Apocalyptic: Fahrenheit 451: Fahrenheit 451--The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns
3. NPR Beach Read: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. Directionality: East of Eden
5. Dear Diary: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
6. Island Dreams: Shutter Island
7. African Liberation Day( May 25th): Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
8. International Women's Day (March 8th): Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad
9. Doctor’s Day (March 30th): The English Patient
10. POV Multiple Characters: Bent Hope: A Street Journal
0/100
15 Points
1. Russia, Romanov dynasty (1613-1917):
2. Book Club Fav: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
3. 1988: The Silence of the Lambs
4. Barbie Girl:
5. Nom de plume: Jane Eyre
6. Science/Scientist: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
7. Family Matters:
8. In a Lifetime:
9. Young Author: PS, I Love You
10. Philosophical: Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
0/150
20 Points
1. Past Group Read: The History of Love (from this group)
2. East Coast & West Coast: The Cider House Rules & Cannery Row
3. Pre-1700s AD:
0/60
25 Points
1. Evolution of a Country: 1800s England Emma & 1977 England Stories We Could Tell
2. Ethical Issues fiction & non-fiction: animal rights The 101 Dalmatians & Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter
3. Sports: The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
4. 18th C & 21st C Poetry:
5. Physical & Mental Disabilities: & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
6. Underrated & Overrated: The Cutting Room & 1984
7. A Body of Work: Dirty Little Secrets & A Widow for One Year
8. Judging covers:
The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli Creepy &
The Tipping Point Boring9. The Great Debate: There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
10. Emotional Word & Read: Pride and Prejudice & Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog
0/250
Total
Tasks 0/43
Points 0/410
Books
Pages
5 Points
1.
2.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (1001)
3.*Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut (1001)
4.The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
5.Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World, Rita Golden Gelman
6.Inkheart, Cornelia Funke
7.
8.*Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier
9.Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books, Maureen Corrigan
10.
10 Points
1.
2.
3.
4.The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
5.Diary, Chuck Palahniuk
6.
7.The Color Purple, Alice Walker (1001)
8.My Life in France, Julia Child
9.When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery, Frank T. Vertosick, Jr.
15 Points
1.*The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar, Robert Alexander
2.*The Red Tent, Anita Diament
3.Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard (1001)
4.The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
5.
6.
7.Playing Botticelli, Liza Nelson
8.
9.
10.The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera (1001)
20 Points
1.The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
2.East of Eden, John Steinbeck AND
3.
4.
25 Points
1.
2.My Year of Meats, Ruth L. Ozeki AND Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer
3.*Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, H.G. Bissinger
4.The Realm of Possibility, David Levithan AND 18th-century poetry
5.
6.*A Carnivore's Inquiry: A Novel, Sabina Murray AND *Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer
7.
8.1
(Hate)8.2
(Love)9.The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
10.My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult AND The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Total: 190
*Being Used for Another Group Challenge
(1001) Books You Must Read Before You Die
5 Points:1. Confessions of a Shopaholic
2. Uglies (past group read)
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jamie)
4. Shutter Island
5. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
6. The Thirteenth Tale
7. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
8. Remarkable Creatures (Seashells)
9. Holding on to the Air: An Autobiography (ballet)
10. Poison Study
10 Points:
1. Geek Love
2. The Hunger Games
3. Little Women
4. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
5. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
6. Lord of the Flies
7. The Poisonwood Bible
8. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
9. The Memory Keeper's Daughter
10. Nineteen Minutes
15 Points:
1. Rasputin's Daughter
2. The Help
3. It
4. Wintergirls
5. Jane Eyre
6. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
7. Running with Scissors: A Memoir
8. Atonement
9. In the Forests of the Night
10. The Alchemist
20 Points:
1. Dracula
2. TBD
3. TBD
25 Points:
TBD
5 Points2. TBD
5.The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour
9.Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
10 points
1.
4.Left Behind by Tim laHaye
5.TBD
7.Out of Africa
8.TBD
9. The Cider House Rules
15 Points
1. The Romanov Bride
3.
4.TBD
5.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
6. TBD
8.
10.TBD
20 Points
1.Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2.The Choice & The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
4.
25 Points
1.TBD
2.TBD
4.TBD
6.
7.
8.TBD
9.The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Row
10.
Total 325/630 as of 08/18/10
5 Points1.
2.
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Steig Larsson)
5. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Jon Krakauer)
6. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
7.
8. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
9. The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (Samuel C Florman)
10.
10 Points
1.
2.
3. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
4. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
5.
6. The Beach (Alex Garland)
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9.
10.
15 Points
1.
2.
3. The Ruby in the Smoke (Phillip Pullman)
4.
5. Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon(Rosamond Smith)
6. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Brian Greene)
7. About a Boy (Nick Hornby)
8.
9. The Outsiders (SE Hinton)
10. Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
20 Points
1. Franny and Zooey (JD Salinger)
2.1. - East Coast
2.2. Cannery Row (John Steinbeck) - West Coast
3.
4.1.
4.2.
25 Points
1.
2.1. - Fiction
2.2. - Non-fiction
3. Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior (Phil Jackson)
4.1. - 18th Century
4.2. - Contemporary
5.1. Every Second Counts (Lance Armstrong) - Physical
5.2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey) - Mental
6.1. - <1000
6.2. Fahrenheit 451: Fahrenheit 451--The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns (Ray Bradbury) - >50000
7.1. The Secret of Lost Things (Sheridan Hay) - One book
7.2. Snuff (Chuck Palahniuk) - >10 books
8.1. Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market (Eric Schlosser) - Love
8.2. Fraud: Essays (David Rakoff) - Not-appealing
9.
10.1.
10.2.
Claiming my task list spot. 11 is easy to remember. :)5 Points:
2. Owned long time/old GR/Started several times: (Book Thief)
3. Make A Friend:
4. mystery/suspense/psychological thriller: (Under The Skin)
6. Bibliophiles: (Inkdeath)
9. interest/hobby/activity:
10 Points:
1. amusement park/zoo/carnival/circus OR amusement park ride title/cover:
2. dystopia/apocalyptic:
3. NPR 100 best beach reads list (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...
5. journal/diary:
6. island:
7. Africa:
8. woman from different country:
9. medical field:
15 Points:
1. Russia Romanov dynasty (1613-1917):
3. 1983 award OR top 100 popular books published in 1983 (if any): (The Witches by Roald Dahl)
4. body image:
5. Nom de plume:
6. science:
8. several decades of a character’s life:
9. Young Author:
10. philosophical undercurrents:
20 Points:
1. Group Read/discussion thread:
2. East Coast/West Coast:
2.1:
3. pre-1700s AD:
25 Points:
1. 2 books, same country, 30 years apart:
1.1:
2 . Ethical Issue (fiction and non-fiction):
2.1:
3. Sports book:
4. 18th century poetry AND a post WWII poetry (75 pages):
4.1:
5. physical disability/handicap AND emotional/social/psychological disorder:
5.1:
9. Opposite Viewpoint:
10. Emotional Reading: Emotion in title AND Emotional book
10.1:
Tasks Completed: 13
Points: 170
5 Points1. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger or Riding in Cars with Boys by Beverly Donofrio
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera or His Dark Materials Omnibus by Philip Pullman or Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck or Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
4. something by Edgar Allan Poe
5. TBD
6. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler or The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
7. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
8. TBD
9. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
10. Carrie by Stephen King
10 Points
1. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn or Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
2. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin or The Stand by Stephen King
3. TBD
4. East of Eden by John Steinbeck or Watership Down by Richard Adams
5. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
6. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
7. Biko by Donald Woods or The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
8. Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
9. This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund
10. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides or As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
15 Points
1. TBD
2. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
3. Watchmen by Alan Moore or It by Stephen King or Forrest Gump by Winston Groom or The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins or Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
6. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
7. TBD
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez or The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse or The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand or The Prophet by Kahlil Gibrán or The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
20 Points
1. TBD
2. b. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck or Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
3. TBD
4. a. TBD
4. b. TBD
25 Points
1. a. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1. b. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess or Atonement by Ian McEwan
2. a. TBD
2. b. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
3. In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais
4. a. TBD
4. b. TBD
5. a.
5. b. Blindness by José Saramago or Sybil: The True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed By Sixteen Separate Personalities by Flora Rheta Schreiber
6. b. TBD
7. a. TBD
7. b. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut or The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut or Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
8. a. TBD
8. b. TBD
10. a. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
10. b. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
TOTALS:
Books: 4/54
Points: 40/630
Pages: 1,062/?
Alright, I am going to attempt to do this challenge (mainly as a way to clean out my to-read list, which has gotten FAR too long) Most of these books are one's I've been hoping to read in this year anyway, so hopefully I can make this happen! 5 points
1.
2.
3. Cat's Cradle
4. Mistress of the Art of Death
5. *Under the Tuscan Sun
6. The City of Dreaming Books
7. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
8. Three Men in a Boat
9. Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
10.
15/50 points
10 points
1.
2. The Handmaid's Tale
3.
4.
5.
6. *The Island of the Day Before
7. The Poisonwood Bible
8. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
9. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
10.
50/100 points
15 points
1.
2.
3. The General in His Labyrinth
4. Fat Is a Feminist Issue
5. Marianne
6.
7. The Orange Girl
8.
9. The Outsiders
10. The Stranger
60/150 points
20 points
1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. Going To See the Elephant(West Coast);Breakfast at Tiffany's (East Coast)
3. *Gargantua and Pantagruel
4.
20/80 points
25 points
1.
2. *The Windup Girl;The Demon in the Freezer
3. Fever Pitch
4. TBD
5.
6.
7.
8.
9. *Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir
10. The History of Love (emotion in title); The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers (emotional)
75/250 points
*These books may change if I find something more suitable...
5 points1.
2.Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
3.The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey
4.
5.
6.The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
7.
8.Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks
9.The King's Rose by Libby Alisa
10.Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder
10 Points:
1.Fair Weather by Richard Peck
2.
3.The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
4.East by Edith Pattou
5.
6.
7. No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
8.Bound Feet and Western Dress by Pang Mei Chang
9. Doctors/Medicine
10.
15 Points:
1. Anastasia's Secret by Susanne Dunlap
2.
3. Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey
4. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
5. That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton (initials were adopted to disguise her gender)
6.
7. The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer
8. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
9. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
10.
20 Points:
1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (AND post to the discussion thread what you thought about the book).
2. The Golden Hour by Maiya Williams and
3. Othello by William Shakespeare
4. Wabi:A Hero's Tale by Joseph Bruchac and
25 Points:
1.
2. Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement, and Femininity in Japan by William T. Vollmann
AND Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
3. Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
4. Beowulf by (honestly, who really knows) and A Working Girl Can't Win by Deborah Garrison
5. Lighthouse Land by Adrian McKinty AND Dirty Little Secrets by C.J. Omololu.
6. The Thirteenth Scroll by Rebecca Neason and Lord of the Flies by William Golding
7. The Better Part of Darkness by Kelly Gay and Magic's Promise by Mercedes Lackey
8. I Am Apache by Tanya Landman AND Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach (To claim your points, tell us which book was a better read)
9. The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow
10. The Smile by Donna Jo Napoli and The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Spring/Summer 2010 Challenge(Obviously, subject to changes and additions, and margueritas/pin`a coladas!)
01 March - 22 August
5.1
5.2 The Female Quixote, Or, the Adventures of Arabella
5.3 The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5.4 The Woman in White
5.5 The Cruise of the Vanadis
5.6
5.7 The Flowers of Evil
5.8 The Italian
5.9 Bone Voyage: A Journey in Forensic Anthropology
5.10
10.1 TBD
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5 TBD
10.6 Captain Blood Returns
10.7 the Africa section of Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
10.8 TBD
10.9 Drums of Autumn
10.10
15.1 Dead Souls
15.2
15.3 Schindler's List
15.4 The Whole Woman
15.5 Shirley
15.6 TBD
15.7 TBD
15.8
15.9 TBD
15.10 For the New Intellectual
20.1 Franny and Zooey
20.2 East:
20.3
20.4 The Decameron: Second Edition and Lady Macbeth
25.1 England: A Simple Story and The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
25.2 War: Night and The Women Who Wrote the War
25.3 TBD
25.4 The Heritage of Russian Verse
25.5 TBD
25.6 Under: The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre, Over: TBD
25.7 (1):
25.8 Like:
25.9
29.10 Vampire Darcy's Desire: A Pride and Prejudice Adaptation and The Second Sex
Total points: 175/630
Total books: 16/52
Total tasks: 13/44
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Just a question! I haven't participated in any of the challenges so far, but do we have to complete the tasks in the order listed (or in the case of some specific events, on the day listed)? I tend to read a lot, and so I usually borrow my books from the library, so it makes more sense to jump around! Let me know!
Mod
Some of these I'm still not sure about (and, of course, I have a number that I still need to fill in).5 points
1. The Lost Symbol
2. Catch-22
3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
4. Either The 6th Target or And Then There Were None
5. Eat Pray Love One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy India and Indonesia
6. The Thirteenth Tale
7.
8.
9.
10.
10 points
1.
2.
3. Franny and Zooey
4. East of Eden
5. Love Stargirl
6.
7. Life and Times of Michael K
8. Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books
9. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
10.
15 points
1. The Kitchen Boy
2. The Hunger Games
3. Sophie’s World
4.
5. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
6. Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
7. Running with Scissors
8. Love in the Time of Cholera
9. Bonjour Tristesse
10. The Alchemist
20 points
1. Her Fearful Symmetry
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,
3.
25 points
1. The Pillow Book, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
2. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Eating Animals
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. Fahrenheit 451, The Help
8.
9.
10.
5 points1.
2.
3.
4.
5. In a Sunburned Country
6.
7.
8.
9. Woman: An Intimate Geography
10. Alanna: The First Adventure
10 points
1.
2.
3. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
4.
5. The Blue Notebook
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
15 points
1.
2.
3.
4. Hungry
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
20 points
1.
2.
3. Macbeth
4.
25 points
1. The Black Tulip and My 'Dam Life: Three Years in Holland
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9. A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir
10. Possessing the Secret of Joy and ?
5 Points:1.
2. Catch-22
3. The Secret Life of Bees
4.
5.
6. How to Read a Book
7. The Dark Tower
8. Life of Pi
9. To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
10. The Outstretched Shadow
10 Points
1. Water for Elephants
2. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
3. The Great Gatsby
4. East of Eden
5. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
6. The Swiss Family Robinson
7. Heart of Darkness
8. Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
9. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
10. The Accidental
15 Points
1. Notes from Underground
2. The Road
3. The Alchemist
4. Wintergirls
5. 1984
6. Rendezvous with Rama
7. The Brothers Karamazov
8. Atonement
9. Frankenstein
10. Sentimental Education
20 Points
1. Dracula
2. Into the Wild,
3. King Lear, Othello
4.
25 Points
1. Pride and Prejudice, A Clockwork Orange
2. Slaughterhouse-Five, The Morality of War
3. The Game
4. Lyrical Ballads, Coke Machine Glow
5.
6.
7. Memoirs of a Geisha, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
8. Jimmy Stewart: A Biography (Classy!), American Psycho (Nah)
9. The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition
10. Rage, A Farewell to Arms
5 Points1.
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
3.
4.
5. In a Sunburned Country
6. The Secret of Lost Things
7.
8.
9. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (language)
10.
10 Points
1. The Great Gatsby
2.
3. Lolita
4. Season of Migration to the North
5. The Blue Notebook
6. Ella Minnow Pea
7. Little Bee
8. The Nazi Officer's Wife
9. Love in the Time of Cholera
10.
15 Points
1. Anna Karenina
2.
3.
4.
5. Jane Eyre
6.
7. TBD
8.
9.
10. TBD
20 Points
1.
2.
3. Verity’s Challenge: The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
4. Jules' Task: - Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky AND TBD
25 Points
1. TBD
2. Slaughterhouse-Five(fiction) AND A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (nonfiction)
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. Love Cover:
9. TBD
10.
Totals:
355/630 points
30/54 books
5.1 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian: A Novel5.2 Great Expectations
5.3 Catch-22
5.4 American Psycho
5.5 Measuring the World: A Novel
5.6 Northanger Abbey
5.7 The Name of the Rose: Including Postscript
5.8 Death in Venice
5.9 The Kreutzer Sonata (Late 19th to early 20th century Russian literature is def one of my main interests!)
5.10 Midnight's Children
10.1 Water for Elephants
10.2 2666
10.3 The Great Gatsby
10.4 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
10.5 The Sea
10.6 Robinson Crusoe
10.7 Disgrace
10.8 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
10.9 Love in the Time of Cholera
10.10 The Hours
15.1 Crime and Punishment
15.2 To Kill a Mockingbird
15.3 Sophie's World
15.4 Bitter Ice: A Memoir of Love, Food, and Obsession
15.5 Vernon God Little
15.6 A Brief History of Time
15.7 Running with Scissors: A Memoir
15.8 One Hundred Years of Solitude
15.9 Frankenstein
15.10 Siddhartha
20.1 Slaughterhouse-Five
20.2 East: Gone with the Wind West: Sometimes a Great Notion
20.3 The Princesse de Cleves
25.1 The Scarlet Letter and The Handmaid's Tale
25.2 Abortion: The Cider House Rules and The Bedroom and The State: The Changing Practices and Politics of Contraception and Abortion in Canada, 1880-1980
25.3 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
25.4 18th century: Alexander Pope/ edited by Pat Rogers contemporary: Ariel
25.5 physical: Animal's People psychological: The Bell Jar
25.6 under: The Engineer of Human Souls over: Animal Farm
25.7 1: The God of Small Things 10+: The Shining
25.8 like: Neuromancer dislike: Song of Solomon
25.9 TBD
25.10 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream and A Farewell to Arms
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?ke...5 points
5.1 Fluff:
5.2 Procrastination:
5.3 Recommended:
5.4 Thriller: The Black Dahlia
5.5 Travel: Away
5.6 Bibliophile: The Secret of Lost Things
5.7 Flower:
5.8 Summer:The Lace Reader
5.9 Pleasure:
5.10 Magic:
10 points
10.1 Amusement:
10.2 Dystopia/Apocalyptic: The Year of the Flood OR Blindness
10.3 100 Beach Reads:
10.4 Direction: Down and Out in Paris and London
10.5 Diary: book:[The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath|11623:]
10.6 Island: Honolulu
10.7 Africa: The Camel Bookmobile
10.8 Memoir: The House at Sugar Beach: A Memoir
10.9 Medical:
10.10 Multiple POV:
15 Points
15.1 Russia:
15.2 GR Popular Sarah's Key OR Snow Flower and the Secret Fan OR The Hunger Games
15.3 Birth Year (1983): Eva Luna OR Paula OR The Garden of Eden
15.4 Body Image:
15.5 Nom de Plume:
15.6 Science: Remarkable Creatures
15.7 non-trad Family
15.8 decades: Hanna's Daughters
15.9 Young Authors:
15.10 Philosophy: Jitterbug Perfume
20 points
20.1 a. Group Read:
b.
20.2
East:
West:
20.3 Pre-1700's
20.4 New love
a.The Elegance of the Hedgehog
b.The Gargoyle
25 Points
25.1 30 years:
a.
b.
25.2 Ethics
a.Fiction:
b.Non-fiction
25.3 Sports
25.4 Poetry
a. 1800's
b. Contempory
25.6 Ratings
<1,000:
>50,000:
25.7 Authors
a. one book
b. 10+: Hemingway
25.8 Covers
love:
dislike:
25.9 Disagree
25.10 Emotion
a. Title
b. Elicit
5.1 The Devil Wears Prada5.2 The Highway War A Marine Company Commander in Iraq
5.3 The Book Thief
5.4 Stone Cold
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10 one of the Harry Potters
10.1 Water for Elephants
10.2 The Hunger Games
10.3 Dead Until Dark
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7 The Poisonwood Bible
10.8
10.9 My Sister's Keeper
10.10
15.1 Crime and Punishment
15.2 Loving Frank
15.3 The Cider House Rules (1985)
15.4 Wasted A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
15.5 Jane Eyre
15.6
15.7
15.8 Love in the Time of Cholera
15.9 P.S. I Love You
15.10
20.1
20.2 LA Candy and Prep A Novel
20.3 The Divine Comedy
25.1
25.2 Slaughterhouse Five and Making the Corps
25.3
25.4
25.5
25.6 Dirty Little Secrets (69) and The Kite Runner (213,050)
25.7 Memoirs of A Geisha and
25.8 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Dear John
25.9
25.10
5 points
1)
2)
4) The Mortdecai Trilogy, by Kyril Bonfiglioli
5)
Subtotal: 6/10 tasks = 30/50 points
10 points
3) The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
4) The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K LeGuin
5) The Prestige, by Christopher Priest
7) Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8) 84 Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff
10) Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
Subtotal: 4/10 tasks = 40/100 points
15 points
2) The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Luis Zafon
9) Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
10) A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, by Janna Levin
Subtotal: 7/10 tasks = 115/150 points
20 points
2a) East:
3) The Theban Plays, by Sophocles
Subtotal: 2/4 tasks = 40/80 points
25 points
1a)
1b)
4a)
5a) The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
5b)
8a) Love: Porterhouse Blue, by Tom Sharpe
8b) Hate: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
9)
10b) In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
Subtotal: 4/10 tasks = 100/250 points
Total: 23/44 tasks = 315/630 points
5 Points:10 Points:
15 Points:
3. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
9. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (Marya Hornbacher)
20 Points:
25 Points:
5 Points1.
2. Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
4.
5. The Odyssey
6. Fahrenheit 451
7.
8.
9.
10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
10 Points
1.
2.
3. Dead Until Dark
4. West of Rome: Two Novellas
5.
6.
7. Out of Africa
8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
9. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
10. La guaracha del Macho Camacho / Macho Camacho's Beat
15 Points
1. Notes from the Underground
2.
3. Less Than Zero
4. Völlig schwerelos. Miriam ist magersüchtig.
5.
6. In Search of Klingsor
7.
8.
9.
10. The Revolt of the Masses
20 Points
1. Dracula
2.
By Night in Chile
3.
4.
25 Points
1.
2. Fiction & Non-fiction War: A Farewell to Arms & Homage to Catalonia
3. Fever Pitch
4. Lyrical Ballads & Poesia chilena contemporanea. Breve antologia critica
5.
6. 1000 & 50000: CIRCE Y EL PAVO REAL & Middlesex
7. 1 &
8. Love & Hate:
&
9. Homophobia: A History
10. Tres Tristes Tigres & The Sorrows of Young Werther
Points: 190/630
Pages: 5839/15628
Jamie wrote: "Allison--Absolutely no order or specific events! You read whatever you want at whatever time you wish :) Glad that you are joining us!!"Thanks for the reply! I love things like this, so I can't wait!!
5 points1.Extras
2.Catch-22
3.Adverbs: A Novel
4.
5.In a Sunburned Country
6.The Eyre Affair
7.Oryx and Crake
8.Life of Pi
9.The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters (art & design)
10.The Lightning Thief
10 points
1.Geek Love
2.Brave New World
3.
4.East of Eden
5.Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
6.
7.The Poisonwood Bible
8.Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
9.The Memory Keeper's Daughter
10.The Virgin Suicides
15 points
1.The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
2.The Help
3.Cat's Eye
4.Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
5.Jane Eyre
6.The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
7.Running with Scissors: A Memoir
8.The Namesake
9.The Outsiders
10.The Unbearable Lightness of Being
20 points
1.
2.The Bell Jar(East) & The Kitchen God's Wife(West)
3.The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
4.
25 points
1.
2.Slaughterhouse-Five &
3.What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
4.
5.
6.The Dud Avocado & Middlesex
7.Wuthering Heights & The Moonstone
8.
9.
10.
Totals:
Books: 6
Tasks: 3
Points: 25
Here is my list.5 points
2.A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's
4. Fahrenheit 451
5.
6.
7.
8.
9. Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
10 points
1. The Great Gatsby
3. The Hobbit
5.
6.
7. Heart of Darkness
8.
9. Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
15 points
1.
2. The Giver
3. The Remains of the Day
4.
7.
9. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
20 points
2.
3.
25 points
1.
2.
4. The Major Works: Including The Prelude, Poems by Richard Wilbur.
5.
6.
Points: 290
Books Read: 22
Tasks Complete: 18
Mod
1.
2.
3. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
4.
5. On the Road by Jack Kerovac
6. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
7. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
8.
9.
10.
10 Points:
1. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
2.
3.
4. To the North by Elizabeth Bowen
5. The Sea by John Banville
6. Robinson Cruseo by Daniel Defoe
7. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
9. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
10.
15 Points:
1.
2. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
3. Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy by John le Carre
4.
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
6. The Sweetness At The Bottom of The Pie by Alan Bradley
7.
8. Atonement by Ian McEwan
9.
10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
20 Points:
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2.
3. The Princess of Cleves by Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, & Comtesse de
4.
25 Points:
1.
2.
3.
4. William Wordsworth birthday (April 7th) -- Read a book of poetry from the 18th century AND a book of Contemporary poetry (after World War II) The book of poetry must be at LEAST 75 pages. If you are reading from an anthology just pick 75 pages to read from.
5. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
6. Fanny Hill by John Cleland and Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
7.
8. Love:
9. The Great Debate: Read a book about an issue written by someone who disagrees with your stance. (So you if you were pro-choice, you might read a book written by someone who supports pro-life or if you are someone that believes in Creationism you might read about evolution, etc.)
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson and American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
260 points 8/16/10
10042 pages
24 books
5 Pts5.1)Persuasion
5.2)American on Purpose
5.3)
5.4)Gerald's Game
5.5)Son of a Witch
5.6)Northanger Abbey
5.7)The Thistle and the Rose
5.8)Life Without Summer: A Novel
5.9)Great American Conservative Women (politics)
5.10)Heirs of Prophecy
10 Pts
10.1)Water for Elephants
10.2)The Stand
10.3)Dune
10.4)East of Eden
10.5)
10.6)Taliesin
10.7)Infidel
10.8)I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
10.9)The Memory Keeper's Daughter
10.10)The Halls of Stormweather
15 Pts
15.1)
15.2)The Other Boleyn Girl
15.3)The Alchemist
15.4)Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
15.5)
15.6)Deception Point
15.7)In the Shadow of the Crown
15.8)War and Peace
15.9)PS, I Love You
15.10)Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
20 Pts
20.1)A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
20.2 A)
20.2 B)
20.3)
20.4 A)Unhooked
20.4 B)He's Just Not That Into You (The Newly Expanded Edition): The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
25 Pts
25.1 A)The Man in the Iron Mask
25.1 B)Les Miserables
25.2 A)Non-fiction: Welcome To Afghanistan: Send More Ammo
25.2 B)Fiction: Never Surrender
25.3)The Damned Utd
25.4 A)Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry & Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke
25.4 B)Sylvia Plath: Collected Poems
25.5 A)Sybil: The True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed By Sixteen Separate Personalities
25.5 B)Three Tragedies: Antigone, Oedipus the King & Electra
25.6 A)Underrated: Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student
25.6 B)Overrated: Little Women
25.7 A)Thirteenth Tale
25.7 B)Hood
25.8 A)Like:Merlin: The Pendragon Cycle, Book Two
25.8 B)Hate:
25.9)Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
25.10 A)
25.10 B)Atonement
5 Points:1. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
2.The Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Year of the Flood
4.The Lost Symbol
5.Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
6.
7.Flowers for Algernon
8.The Summer King
9. The Friday Night Knitting Club
10.Practical Magic
10 Points:
1.The Five People You Meet in Heaven
2. 1984
3. Cannery Row
4.The Widow of the South
5. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
6.Island of the Blue Dolphins
7.The Poisonwood Bible
8.
9.Beat the Reaper: A Novel
10.
15 Points:
1.
2.The Hunger Games
3.The Witches
4.Uglies
5.Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll -> Charles L. Dodgson
6.
7.
8.The Namesake
9.Brisingr
10.
20 Points:
1.The Book Thief
2.
3.
25 Points:
1.
2.
3.Dairy Queen
4.
5.
6.Over 50,000The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe
Under 1000
7.
8.Like:The Monsters of Templeton
Hate:Sharp Teeth
9.
10.
5 points:2. Fight Procrastination: A Tale of Two Cities
4. Alfred Hitchcock Day: The 39 Steps
10 points:
1. Be Amused: Water for Elephants
2. It's the Future: Little Brother
4. Directionality: North and South
7. African Liberation Day: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
15 points:
2. Book Club Favorites: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
3. In the Year You Were Born: V for Vendetta
4. Barbie Girl: Uglies
20 points:
2. East Coast; West Coast: The Kitchen God's Wife
5. Body & Mind: & The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
*Kelly R.SPRING/SUMMER CHALLENGE (3/1-8/21/10): - Finished in 3rd place (last post on 8/21/10) w/ Total Points: 525/630; Books Finished: 45/54; Tasks Completed: 35/44
5-6. Didn't finish a book for this task
5-8. Didn't finish a book for this task
10-4. Didn't finish a book for this task
10-7. Didn't finish a book for this task
15-1. Didn't finish a book for this task
15-8. Didn't finish a book for this task
25-9. Didn't finish a book for this task
5 Points:1.
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4. The Hunt for Red October, by Tom Clancy
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8. The Last Summer of the Death Warriors, by Francisco X. Stork
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10 Points:
1. Nights at the Circus, by Angela Carter
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5. The Folk Keeper, by Frannie Billingsley
6. Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn
7. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
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15 Points:
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5. Shadowland, by Meg Cabot/Jenny Carroll
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7. Lucky in the Corner, by Carol Anshaw
8. The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
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10. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
20 Points:
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3. The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare
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25 Points:
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4. The Complete Poems, by William Blake &
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40/54 books
30/44 tasks
425/630 points
I can't wait to start! 5 points
1. (Reading is fun) A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas by. Chuck Klosterman
2. (Fight Procrastination) The virgin suicides by. Jeffrey Eugenides
"3. (Make a friend) I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl
by Laurie Notaro "
4. (Alfred Hitchcock Day) Silence of the Lambs by. Thomas Harris
5. (Passport Required) Eat, Pray, Love by. Elizabeth Gilbert
6. (Bibliophiles Unite) 1001 Books for Every Mood: A Bibliophile's Guide to... by Hallie Ephron
7. (April Showers Bring May Flowers) Mercy by. Jodi Picoult
8. (Summer Scenes) Boy Crazy Hailey Abbott
9. (Passionate Reading) Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
10. (Do You Believe In Magic) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by. J.K. Rowling
10 points
1. (Be amused) Geek Love by. Katherine Dunn
2. (It's the future)Gathering Blue by. Lois Lowry
3. (Life's a beach)Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte (76)
4. (Directionality)The Westing Game by. Ellen Raskin
5. (Dear diary) Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq by Zlata Filipović, Melanie Challenger
6. (Island dreams) Island of the Blue dolphins by. Scott O'Dell
7. (African liberation) Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe (COMPLETED)
8. (international women's day) The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith Hahn-Beer, Susan Dworkin
9. (Doctor's dayThe Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
10. (point of view) Leaving Paradise by. Simone Elkeles
15 points
1. (July 17, 1918)The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
2. (Book club favorites) Middlesex by. Jeffey Eugenides
3. (In the year you were born) The Witching Hour by. Anne Rice
4. (Barbie Girl) Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina by. Rosie Molinary
5. (Nom de plume) Scandal by. Kate Brian (Kieran Scott)
6. (Albert Einstein’s Birthday) Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
7. (Family Matters) Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
8. (In A Lifetime) The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
9. (The Outsiders by. SE Hinton
10. (John Locke’s birthday) For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand
20 points
1. (Group Read: )TBA
2. (Coast to Coast East) Twelve by Nick McDonell
2.2 (West) Hollywoodland: An American Fairy Tale by Jennifer Banash
3. (Verity’s Challenge ) Antony and Cleopatra by. William Shakespeare (first published 1623)
4.1 (Jules' task) Push by Saphire
4.2 Dirty Little Secrets by C.J. Omololu
25 Points
1.1 (Evolution of a Country) Memoirs of a Geisha by.Golden, Arthur
1.2 Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
2.1 (Ethical Issues) Cleaned Out by Annie Eranaux
2.2 The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan
3. (Mia Hamm’s birthday ) fever Pitch by Nick Hornby or Boy Toy by barry Lyga
4.1 (William Wordsworth birthday) Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4.2 A Working Girl Can't Win by Deborah Garrison
5.1 (Body & Mind) The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal by Jonathan Mooney
5.2 Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder by Rachel Reiland
6.1 (Under & Over Rated)The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd(over)
6.2 Kiss in the Dark by Lauren Henderson (under)
7.1 (A Body of Work) Breathingby Cheryl Renee Herbsman (only 1)
7.2 The End of Forever by Lurlene McDaniel (over 10)
8.1 (Judge a Book by Its Cover)(love) Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles
8.2 (not so much) The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Lucia Graves
9. (The Great Debate) The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow
10.1 (Emotional Reading) Love You Hate You Miss You by Elizabeth Scott
10.2 Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
209 pages/1 books
1/44 tasks completed
10 points
Hope you don't mind Jamie, I used your list as a template to make mine as a spreadsheet as well.http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?ke...
5 Points:
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2. Middlesex
3. Love Is a Mix Tape
4. Mystic River
5. Eat, Pray, Love
6. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
7. Flowers in the Attic
8. It's Not Summer Without You
9. Dancer: A Novel
10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
10 Points:
1. Jumping Off Swings
2. The Road
3. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
4. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
5.Bridget Jones's Diary
6. Shutter Island
7. What Is the What
8. The Story of a Childhood
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15 Points:
1. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
2. Uglies
3. This Boy's Life: A Memoir
4. Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image
5. Land of the Living
6. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
7. A Child Called "It"
8. Love in the Time of Cholera
9. PS, I Love You
10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
20 Points:
1. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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4. The Outlander and
25 Points:
1.Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Mao's Last Dancer
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7. Columbine and Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
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New to the site,(actually I joined a long time ago and forgot..) new to the group; so this will be my first time joining in for the challenge. =)Here's mine:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?ke...
Used your spreadsheet too :) very good way to prevent chaos from entering my list. It's very incomplete, but I'll add to it later.http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?ke...
5 points1. sanctuary meg Cabot
2. Life of Pi Martel, Yann
3. When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
4. and then there were none Agatha Christie
5. An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof
6. the book thief by Markus Zusak
7. The Rose That Grew From Concrete Shakur, Tupac
8. summer sisters By judy Blume
9. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (A Hannah Swensen Mystery, #1) Fluke, Joanne
10. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
10 points
1. water for elephants Sara_Gruen
2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
3. Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding
4. Going Down South: A Novel by Bonnie Glover
5. What Kind of Love? The Diary of a Pregnant Teenager by Sheila Cole
6. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
7. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
8. Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa
9. The Wet Nurse's Taleby Erica Eisdorfer
10. identical by ellien Hopkins
15 points
1. Romanov Autumn: Stories from the Last Century of Imperial Russia (Taschen Specials)
2. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
3. The Joy Luck Clubby Amy Tan
4. Diary of an Exercise Addict by Peach Friedman
5. Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe
6. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
7. "My Brother, My Sister, and I," by Yoko Kawashima Watkins.
8. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
9. Eragon (Inheritance, #1) by Christopher Paolini
10. The Strangerby Albert Camus, Matthew Ward
20 points
1, group read TBD
2, New York size 12 is not fat meg cabot and A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore 3, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
4, tbd tbd
25 points
1. Tales Of Old Las Vegas by Sam O'Connor and Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien
2. Mercy by Jodi Picoult And The Last Goodnights: Assisting My Parents with Their Suicides
by John West
3. Tangerine by Edward Bloor
4. Songs of Innocence And of Experience by William Blake AND Ariel by Sylvia Plath
5. The Art of Seeing: A Novel by Cammie McGovern AND The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
6. Bad as I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman, Tim Keown AND The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
7. White Teeth by Zadie Smith AND TBD
8. TBD AND TBD I’ll just look at the library
9. TBD
10. Fearless (Fearless #1) and Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Here's mine! I used a spreadsheet- so much easier! There are lots of TBDs but that will change! :)http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?ke...
I decided to use the spreadsheet, too! There's still a bunch of empty spaces... I'm still working on the list! Ahh so excited for this. :)https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...
Rene wrote: "I wanted to use the spreadsheet idea. Here's mine:http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?ke..."
just FYI - you have to set settings so that its "shared" otherwise we cant view it
Thanks Hyemi! Sorry about that. I think I fixed it now :)
Rene wrote: "Thanks Hyemi! Sorry about that. I think I fixed it now :)"Yay, I LOVE your chart! (i'm a huge freakin spreadsheet nerd). I hope you dont mind me copying your points accured, total #, etc? =]
Hyemi wrote: "Yay, I LOVE your chart! (i'm a huge freakin spreadsheet nerd). I hope you dont mind me copying your points accured, total #,..."That's fine with me. I kinda poached that idea from Jamie. It'll make it easier to keep track of.
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1. This challenge will start March 1st 2010 (12:01 am EST) and will end at 11:59 pm on August 21st 2010.
2. You can only use books that you have started after you post a list on the official challenge thread. Books will not count unless they were started after March 1st. If you are less than halfway in book, that will be fine.
3. Books can only be used for one category.
4. Re-reads are fine, except where stated otherwise.
5. All books should be over 150 pages unless otherwise stated.
6. To claim your points, you must post completed tasks in the "Leaderboard & Completed Tasks" thread.
6. If you have any doubts as to whether a book fits a particular challenge, please feel free to ask.
7. Above all, remember this challenge is supposed to be FUN, a good way to tackle some of your TBR list, and to expand your horizons.
8. Those who finish the challenge will be able to pick a category for the Fall/Winter challenge.
Also, feel free to post your task lists here to keep track of them for your own personal reference or to see what others are reading for a particular task. You must claim your points in the thread for claiming points not on here. This is a change from the way we did the last challenge.