SPRING/SUMMER 2010: Official Task List (and rules)

[Kemi]

5 Points:

1. Reading Is Fun Week- (May 10th-14th): Mr. Maybe by Jane Green

2. Fight Procrastination: The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

3. Make A Friend: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

4. Alfred Hitchcock Day: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

5. Neither Here no There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson

6. Bibliophiles Unite: TBD

7. April Showers Bring May Flowers: The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas

8. Summer Scenes: TBD

9. Passionate Reading: Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

10. Do You Believe In Magic? : The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

10 Points:
1. Be Amused: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

2. It’s the Future: Oryx and Crake by Margret Atwood

3. Life’s a Beach: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

4. Directionality: South of the Border, West of Sun by Haruki Murakami

5. Dear Diary: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

6. Island Dreams: Possession by A.S. Byatt

7. African Liberation Day( May 25th): The Trouble With Nigeria by Chinua Achebe

8. International Women's Day (March 8th): Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

9. Doctor’s Day (March 30th): The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

10. Point of View: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente

15 Points:

1. July 17, 1918: Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushikin

2. Book Club Favorites: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

3. In The Year You Were Born : The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

4. Barbie Girl: Wasted - A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher

5. Nom de plume: Belle de Jour - Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl by Belle de Jour

6. Albert Einstein’s Birthday (March 14th): TBD

7. Family Matters: TBD

8. In A Lifetime: TBD

9. Young Authors: TBD

10. Philosopher John Locke’s birthday (August 29th) : The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

20 Points:

1. Group Read: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2. Annashu’s Challenge(Completed the School Year Challenge) : TBD

3. Verity’s Challenge (Completed the School Year Challenge): TBD

4. Jules' task (2nd place Winner of the Fall/Winter challenge): TBD

25 Points:

1. Evolution of a Country: TBD

2 . Ethical Issues: TBD

3. Mia Hamm’s birthday (March 17th): TBD

4. William Wordsworth birthday (April 7th): TBD

5. Body & Mind: TBD

6. Under & Over Rated: TBD

7. A Body of Work: TBD

8. Judge a Book by Its Cover: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordian AND Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

9. The Great Debate: TBD

10. Emotional Reading: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

[Ali]

Here is my Chart: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?ke...

I am excited to attempt all of this.

[Caitlin]

5 Points:

1. Reading Is Fun Week- (May 10th-14th) – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

2. Fight Procrastination: Dracula

3. Make A Friend: A Brief History of Time

4. Alfred Hitchcock Day: Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer +5

5. Passport Required: Eat, Pray, Love

6. Bibliophiles Unite: The Book Thief

7. April Showers Bring May Flowers: Flowers for Algernon

8. Summer Scenes: Light in August (two girls in dresses walking in the woods, with umbrellas)

9. Passionate Reading: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (combines music and psychology! Win!) +5

10. Do You Believe In Magic? : TBD

10 Points:
1. Be Amused: Water for Elephants +10

2. It’s the Future: Atlas Shrugged

3. Life’s a Beach: Gone With the Wind

4. Directionality: North and South

5. Dear Diary: Diary +10

6. Island Dreams: Treasure Island

7. African Liberation Day( May 25th): Out of Africa

8. International Women's Day (March 8th): Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

9. Doctor’s Day (March 30th): Doctor Glas

10. Point of View: The Tenth Circle +10

15 Points:

1. July 17, 1918: Most Beautiful Princess

2. Book Club Favorites: The Time Traveler's Wife

3. In The Year You Were Born : Batman: Arkham Asylum

4. Barbie Girl: Thin

5. Nom de plume: Middlemarch (George Eliot is a pen name for Mary Ann Evans)

6. Albert Einstein’s Birthday (March 14th): TBD

7. Family Matters: Between Mom and Jo

8. In A Lifetime: Love in the Time of Cholera

9. Young Authors: The Outsiders

10. Philosopher John Locke’s birthday (August 29th) : TBD

20 Points:

1. Group Read: The Handmaid's Tale

2. Annashu’s Challenge(Completed the School Year Challenge) : Coast to Coast:
East: Salem Falls
West: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest +20 total

3. Verity’s Challenge (Completed the School Year Challenge): Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

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. TBD

25 Points:

1. Evolution of a Country: How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe and Mother Ireland: A Memoir

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

TBD

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): Down and Derby: The Insider's Guide to Roller Derby

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:
Over 50,000: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Less than 1000: The Cutting Room

7. A Body of Work:
Only One: Thirteen Reasons Why
More than Ten: Neverwhere +25

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.
Cover I 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.)

Will add more as I find them.

Points: 100
Completed: 8

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[Christie]

5 points
1.Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
2. The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
3. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Vailed Threats by Lloyd Frankland
5. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
6. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
7. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
8. Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
9. Cherry Ames Student Nurse by Helen Wells
10. Hunted by PC Cast

10 points
1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
2. The Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn
3. Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
4. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
5. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
6. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
7. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
8. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
9. On Call In Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story by Cdr. Richard Jadick
10. Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay

15 points
1. Anastasia's Secret by Susanne Dunlap
2. Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos
3. Whirlwind by James Clavell
4. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
5. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Erick Arthur Blair)
6. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett
7.Burned by PC and Kristin Cast
8. love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
10. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

20 points
1.The Girl with the Dragon Tattooby Stieg Larsson
2a.Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
2b.Dangerous Medicine by Jane Toombs
3. Aesop's Fables
4a. Cherry Ames Army Nurseby Helen Wells
4b. Cherry Ames Flight Nurseby Helen Wells

25 points
1a.
1b.
2a.The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2b.The Fighting 69th: The Remarkable Journey of Gotham's Weekend Warriors from Ground Zero to Baghdad by Sean Michael Flynn
3. Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox
4. Poems from the Women's Movementby Honor Moore
5a. Don't Leave Me This Way: Or When I Get Back on My Feet You'll Be Sorry by Julia Fox Garrison
5b. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhoodby Julie Gregory
6a. Summer People: A Novel by Brian Groh
6b.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
7a. Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital by Heidi Squier Kraft
7b. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
8a.The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
8b.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
9.This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklud
10a. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
10b. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

[Eden]

Here's my tentative list!

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...

[Lydia]

Here is my list! Hope I'm not to late to get in on the action!!!

5 Points
1- Shopaholic and Baby- Sophie Kinsella
2-Jesus for President- Shane Claiborne
3-Restaraunt at the end of the Universe- Douglas Adams
4-Salems Lot- Stephen King
5-Eat, Pray, Love- Elizabeth Gilbert
6-Neverending Story-Michael Ende
7-Rose Daughter- Robin Mckinley
8-
9-Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey,by Will Hodgkinson
10- the Magicians- Lev Grossman

10 Points
1- Water for Elephants- Sarah Gruen
2- Shades Children- Garth Nix
3- Middlesex- Jeffery Eugendes
4-East of Eden- john Steinbeck
5-Bridgit Jones:Edge of reason- Helen Fielding
6- Lord of the Flies- William Golding
7- What is the What- Dave Eggers
8- Reading Lolita in Tehran-Azar Nafisis
9-Memory Keepers daughter- Kim edwards
10- Rules of Attraction- Brett Easton Ellis

15 Points
1-Kitchen Boy- Robert Alexander
2-the Book theif - Marcus Zuzack
3-(1987) Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency- Adams
4-Pretties- Scott Westerfield
5-Animal Farm- George Orwell
6-A wrinkle in time- Madeline LeEngle
7-Weetzie Bat- Francesca Lia Block
8-the Namesake - Jhumpira Lahiri
9-PS I love you- Cecilia Ahern
10-the Fountainhead- Ayn Rand

20 Points
1-TBD
2- (east) City of Bones- Cassandra Claire, (west) missing Angel Juan- Francessca lia Block
3- Confessions- St Augestine
4- White Teeth- Zadie Smith, Marked-PC Cast

25 Points
1- TBD, TBD
2-(cloning)- a)spares- Michael Marshal Smith
b)Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World by Lee M. Silver
3-Derby Girl- shauna Cross
4)a)Leaves of grass- Whitman,
b)From Totems to hip hop Poetry anthology-Ishmael Reid
5-a)stoner and Spaz-Ron Koertge
b) Prozac Nation- Elizabeth Wurzel
6-(underrated) John Dies at the End-David Wong
(overrated) the Host-Stephanie Meyer
7-(1 book) Hero by Perry Moore
(more than 10) Good Omens -Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (both have more than 10 books published)
8-(love the cover) Abraham Lincoln,vampire hunter-Seth Grahm Smith
(hate the cover) the Forrest of hands and teeth-carrie ryan
9-
10-a-
b- 19 minutes- Jodi Picoult

[HeatherMarie]

Here is my list. Never posted anything here before but this challenge looks exciting.

5 points
1. Catherine, Called Birdy - Karen Cushman
2. East of Eden- John Steinbeck
3. The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas
4. And Then There Were None- Agatha Christie
5. In a Sunburned Country- Bill Bryson
6. The Secret of Lost Things- Sheridan Hay
7. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan- Lisa See
8. Three Men in a Boat- Jerome K. Jerome
9. The Piano Teacher- Janice Lee
10. The Golden Compass- Phillip Pullman

10 points
1. Water for Elephants- Sara Gruen
2. Brave New World- Huxley
3. She's Come Undone- Wally Lamb
4. Watership Down- Richard Adams
5. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal- Christopher Moore
6. Jar City- Arnaldur Indrioason
7. King Leopold's Ghost- Adam Hochschild
8. TBD
9. Beat the Reaper- Josh Bazell
10. Between the Bridge and the River- Craig Ferguson

15 points
1. The Kitchen Boy- Robert Alexander
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo- Stieg Larsson
3. A Widow for One Year- John Irving
4. Fat Girl: A True Storyy- Judith Moore
5. Riders of the Purple Sage- Zane Grey
6. The Selfish Gene- Richard Dawkings
7. My Family and Other Animals- Gerald Durrell
8. The Reader- Bernhard Schlink
9. Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera

20 points
1. When you are Engulfed in Flames- David Sedaris
2. The Thin Man- Dashiell Hammett & Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee- Dee Brown
3. The Golden Ass- Apuleius
4. Middlesex- Eugenides & Death of a Gossip- M.C. Beaton

25 points
1. (China) The Painted Veil- W. Somerset Maughamn & Lost in Translation- Nicole Mones
2. (War) All Quiet on the Western Front- Remarque & Making the Corps- Thomas E. Ricks
3. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running- Haruki Murakami
4. The complete Poetry of William Blake- Blake & Morning Poems- Robert Bly
5. Emergence: Labeled Autistic- Temple Grandin & The Icarus Girl- Helene Oyeyemi
6. Abraham Licoln: Vampire Hunter- Set Grahame-Smith(289 ratings) & Wicked- Gregory Maquire (93,444 ratings)
7. TBD & Maltese Falcon- Dashiell Hammett
8. Shiver- Maggie Stiefvater & My Year of Meats- Ruth L. Ozeki
9. Geek Love- Katherine Dunn & The Sorrows of Young Werther- Goethe

[Kelly]

This is my list so far I'll be adding more

5 Points:

1. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
2. Good in Bed
3. Thirteen Reasons Why
4. Shutter Island
5. Passport Required:
6. The Book Thief
7. Love in the Time of Cholera
8. The Exile of Sara Stevenson: A Historical Novel
9.Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
10.The Sweet Far Thing

10Points
1.Be Amused:
2.Catching Fire
3.Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
4.Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island
5.Diary:
6.Island Dreams:
7.African Liberation day:
8.International Women's Day:
9.The Memory Keeper's Daughter
10.Will Grayson, Will Grayson

15 Points
1.July 17, 1918: The Imperial Romanov Family
2.The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel
3.one- By Richard Bach
4.I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts About Being a Woman
5.Nom de plume: Read a book by an author who writes under a pen name.
6.Stiff
7.The Secrets of Peaches
8.One Hundred Years of Solitude
9.Frankenstein
10.The Unbearable Lightness of Being

20Points
1.The History of Love
2.Coast to Coast:
3.pre-1700s AD:
4.The Bell Jar and I Capture the Castle

25Points
1.Evolution of a Country:
2.Ethical Issues:
3.book pertaining to sports: Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life
4.William Wordsworth birthday:
5.Body & Mind: Blindnessor Going Bovine , andA Mango-Shaped Space
6.Under & Over Rated: The Vanishing of Katharina Linden And The Catcher in the Rye
7.The Secret of Lost Things
8.Judge a Book by Its Cover:Red Glass and Publish This Book: The Unbelievable True Story of How I Wrote, Sold and Published This Very Book
9.The Great Debate:
10.Love and Peaches, and Marley & Me

[Gillian]

Spring/Summer Official Task List

5 Points:
1. For fun: Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
2. Fight Procrastination: Dune
3. 5 Star: The Glass Castle
4. Mystery: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
5. Travel: Tales of a Female Nomad Living at Large in the World
6. Book about Books: The Book Thief
7. Flower-Themed: Oryx and Crake
8. Summer Scenes: Life of Pi
9. Hobby Book: Bury Me Standing The Gypsies and Their Journey
10. Magic: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

10 Points:
1. Circus: Water For Elephants
2. Future: Brave New World
3. Beach Reading: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
4. Direction: East West
5. Diary: Diary
6. Island: Catch-22
7. Africa: King Leopold’s Ghost
8. International Women's Day: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
9. Doctor’s Day: Mountains Beyond Mountains The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer a Man Who Would Cure the World
10. Point of View: The History of Love

15 Points:
1. Romanov Dynasty: The Brothers Karamazov
2. Book Club Favorite: Requiem for a Dream
3. Year You Were Born: The Rape of Nanking
4. Body Image: Wintergirls
5. Nom de plume: Jane Eyre
6. Science: Stiff
7. Family: Lullabies for Little Criminals
8. Lifetime: The Poisonwood Bible
9. Young Author: Everything is Illuminated
10. Philisophical: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

20 Points:
1. Group Read: The Handmaid’s Tale
2. Annashu’s Challenge: American Rust (East), Pulp or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (West)
3. Pre-1700s: Don Quixote
4. New Loves: The Metamorphosis, The Satanic Verses

25 Points:
1. Evolution of a Country: The God of Small Things (India, Late 1960s), The White Tiger (Modern India)
2 . Environmental Ethics: The Monkey Wrench Gang (Fiction), The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Non-Fiction)
3. Sports: Born to Run A Hidden Tribe Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Ever Seen
4. Poetry: --
5. Body & Mind: Exile and Pride (Body), The Bell Jar (Mind)
6. Under & Over Rated: Hos Hookers Call-Girls and Rent Boys Prostitutes Writing on Life Love Work Sex and Money (52), Middlesex (+50,000)
7. A Body of Work: The Secret of Lost Things (One book), Choke (10 books)
8. Judge a Book by Its Cover: The Girl Who Played With Fire (Love), Slaughterhouse-Five (Hate)
9. The Great Debate: The Creationists From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design
10. Emotional Reading: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Emotion in Title), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Emotional)

[abbey sophia]

for some reason i can't find my original list that i posted at the start of the challenge. has this happened to anyone else?

here it is again for reference:

5.1 Darkly Dreaming Dexter
5.2 Black White & Jewish
5.3 Angela's Ashes
5.4 Dearly Devoted Dexter
5.5 Nickel & Dimed
5.6 Northanger Abbey
5.7 White Oleander
5.8 She's Come Undone
5.9 The Omnivore's Dilemma
5.10 Dead Until Dark

10.1 Water for Elephants
10.2 Brave New World
10.3 The Princess Bride
10.4 East of Eden
10.5 Go Ask Alice
10.6 Shutter Island
10.7 The Poisonwood Bible
10.8 An Education
10.9 The Female Brain
10.10 The Heart of the Matter

15.1 Anna Karenina
15.2 The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
15.3 The Other Boleyn Girl
15.4 Wasted
15.5 Wuthering Heights
15.6 Dexter in the Dark
15.7 One Big Happy Family
15.8 Middlesex
15.9 The Outsiders
15.10 To Be Real (replacement)

20.1 Dracula
20.2 Paint it Black & Summer
20.3 Don Quixote
20.4 Agnes Grey & A Room With a View

25.1 Oliver Twist & Mrs. Dalloway
25.2 The Cider House Rules & The Story of Jane
25.3 The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
25.4 The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours & Poems of Phillis Wheatley
25.5 Sybil & The Good Thief
25.6 A Tale of Two Cities & Provocateur
25.7 Tell-All & Female Chauvinist Pigs
25.8 Dexter by Design & In Defense of Food
25.9 The Language of God
25.10 The Valley of Fear & Pollyanna

[Silvia]

Okay I am quite late on this challenge, and I have not been very successful at completling the past challenges, but here goes TRY NUMBER 3....late...but stilll exciting!

5 POINTS
1. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible
2.Catch-22
3.The Book of Tea
4. The Collector
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6.The Secret of Lost Things
7.Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad
8.The Woman in the Dunes
9.The Time of Our Singing
10.Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

10 POINTS
1.A Corner Of The Universe
2.The Road
3.Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
4.At the Back of the North Wind
5.The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister
6.Shutter Island
7. Things Fall Apart
8. Manic
9.The Cider House Rules
10.The Virgin Suicides

15 POINTS
1.Doctor Zhivago
2.Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
3.Dance, Dance, Dance
4.Purge: Rehab Diaries
5.Pride and Prejudice
6.Why We Love: The Nature And Chemistry Of Romantic Love
7.My Family and Other Animals
8. Shanghai Girls
9. The Mind Tree: A Miraculous Child Breaks the Silence of Autism
10.Meditations

20 POINTS
1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2. Moloka'i AND Three by Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Music for Chameleons
3.The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
4.The Old Man Who Read Love Stories AND A Fine Balance

25 POINTS
1.TBA
2.TBA
3.Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
4.One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan AND Goodnight Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning
5.I Never Promised You a Rose Garden AND Out of My Mind
6. Beatrice and Virgil: A Novel AND Love in the Time of Cholera
7.TBA
8.TBA
9.TBA
10.Random Acts of KindnessAND The Solitude of Compassion

[Anna]

For Ethics (25.2) would polygamy work? I am just about finished reading Under the Banner of Heaven which deals with fundamental LDS, especially polygamy. I just received The Lonely Polygamist and may use that for the fiction or The 19th Wife

EDIT: Thanks Lori, sorry I didn't realize I had posted this here

[Lori]

I'll allow it Annashu.

[Lori]

I'm thinking I'll join. I probably won't outright win, but as long as I beat Jamie, I'll be happy. ;-)

Here's my tentative list, which I'll update as I go:

5 Points:

1. The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder: A Novel
2. Lady Chatterley's Lover
3. Gone to Soldiers
4.
5. A Year in Provence
6.
7. The Cement Garden
8.
9.
10.

10 Points:

1. Water for Elephants
2. 1984
3. TBD--So many good choices! It will depend on what I read first.
4. North and South
5. Bridget Jones's Diary
6. Treasure Island
7.
8. Out of Africa
9. MASH
10.

15 Points:

1.
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The Black Dahlia (from 1987)
4.
5. Jane Eyre
6.
7. Peyton Place
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude
9.
10. The Fountainhead

20 Points:

1. On the Road
2.
3. The Canterbury Tales
4. All the King's Men; The Golden Compass

25 Points:

1. Team of Rivals (US 1860s) and The Fifties (US 1950s)
2. Catch-22 and Guns of August
3. The Legend of Bagger Vance
4. John Donne, Sylvia Plath
5.
6. Fifth Avenue, 5:00AM;
7. Gone With the Wind; Life of the Mississippi
8. Atlas Shrugged (don't like);
9. The Feminine Mystique
10. Seeking Peace; The Subtle Knife

[Lauren]

Lauren's Spring/Summer 2010 Challenge!!!

5 Points
1. Reading is fun week: Missed this week!
2. Fight procrastination:
3. Make a friend:
4. Alfred Hitchcock day: The Surrendered
5. Passport required:
6. Bibliophiles unite: The Bookseller of Kabul
7. April showers bring may flowers: Red Azalea
8. Summer scenes:
9. Passionate reading: Women of the Silk
10. Do you believe in magic:

10 Points
1. Be amused:
2. It’s the future:
3. Life’s a beach:
4. Directionality: When Broken Glass Floats
5. Dear diary: In My Hands
6. Island dreams: Honolulu
7. African Liberation Day: Tears of the Desert
8. International Women's Day: Left to Tell
9. Doctor’s Day: Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
10. Point of view: The History of Love

15 Points
1. Romanov dynasty (1613-1917):
2. Book club favorites:
3. In the year you were born:
4. Barbie girl:
5. Nom de plume:
6. Albert Einstein’s birthday:
7. Family matters: The Wet Nurse's Tale
8. In a lifetime: The Commoner
9. Young authors: I am Nojood, Age 10 and Divorced
10. Philosopher John Locke’s birthday:

20 Points
1. Group read: Middlesex
2. Annashu’s challenge:
3. Verity’s Challenge:
4. Jules' challenge: The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine and Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos

25 Points
1. Evolution of a country:
2. Ethical issues: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and.... a fiction book about slavery
3. Mia Hamm’s birthday:
4. William Wordsworth's birthday:
5. Body and mind:
6. Under and overrated:
7. A body of work:
8. Judge a book by it's cover:
9. The great debate:
10. Emotional reading: Do They Hear You When You Cry and When the Emperor Was Divine

Total points: 180

[Lori]

Lauren, the specific weeks aren't ones that you must read the book for that category during that week. You can read the "reading is fun" book even though you missed that week.

[Lauren]

Ohhh ok. Do the rest of my books look ok? Thanks Jamie!!!

[Richard]

5 Points:

1. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
2. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
3. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
4.Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
5. TBD
6. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
7. The Dark Tower by Stephen King
8. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
9. Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
10. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

10 Points:

1. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
2.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
3. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
4.TBD
5. the perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
6. Island of Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
7. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
8. TBD
9. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

15 Points:

1. TBD
2. The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
3. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
4. TBD
5. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
6. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
7. Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
8. Atonement by Ian McEwan
9. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
10. TBD

20 Points:

1. Dracula by Bram Stoker
2. TBD
3. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
4. TBD

I'm a little late to the game and might not be able to read much due to upcoming things that will take over my schedule, but I will try to read as many as possible!