SPRING/SUMMER 2010: Leaderboard & Completed Tasks (Updated 8/19)

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Official Leaderboard (updated through message 542 on 8/22):

Jess 600
Ali 575
Kelly (24)525
Rebecca 425
Jules 415
Annashu 380
Danielle 355
Jen 355
alicia (FL) 325
R 315
Abbey Sophia 305
Daisy 295
Emily 290
Tami 260
Paula (NC) 250
Tahleen 240
Allison B. 220
Chelsea 200
Barbara 195
Kayla 190
Paula (Chile) 190
Lauren W. 180
Verity 175
Rene 165
Allison 145
David 145
Natanya 140
Jamie 120
Maria 115
Caitlin 105
Silvia 105
Eden 105
Alicia CA 95
Lori 85
Christie 80
Mark 60
Alicia (KS)55
Sarah 55
Kelly(21)55
Melissa 40
Jessi 40
Rachel 40
Kellie 30
Ashley 25
Kathryn 20
Gillian 15
Richard 15
Hyemi 10
Bianca 10




A few things:

-Please let me know if your total is wrong. I make mistakes sometimes. :)
- PLEASE just post the COMPLETED tasks..not completed books that you read for 2 part tasks. I'm getting really confused as to which ones are actually completed. Just post the completed task when BOTH books are finished.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

This is also where you will post what you have completed so that it can be updated on the leaderboard. You can claim your points every time you complete a task or every few tasks that you complete; however often you choose to.

Claiming your points should look something like this:

Just finished "This Book" for "this task" for x points.

New Total: x points

I'll have an Excel spreadsheet going with the totals so I'll be keeping track for you but it helps if you post your totals too just in case I miss something.

[Kate]

10.5 - "Dear Diary" Catherine, Called Birdy. This was written in dairy format.

Total Points: 10
Tasks Complete: 1
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 212

[Alicia]

Finished 5.10's Harry Houdini challenge with Poison Study by Maria Snyder.

Total Points: 5
Tasks Complete: 1
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 416

[Bárbara]

5.3. Make A Friend: Strait is the Gate, by André Gide

Total Points: 5

[Hyemi]

Finished "The Virgin Suicides" for "Point of View task" for 10 pts.

Total Pts: 10
Tasks Complete: 1
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 243

[Jess]

25.3—Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. 25 points.

Total Points: 25

[Jess]

25.4—Mary Oliver's New and Selected Poems: Volume Two. Points not counted (I haven't finished the other part of this task, the Wordsworth poems).

Total Points: 25
Books Read: 2
Tasks Complete: 1

[Kate]

10.10 Impulse Told through three different characters point of view.

Total Points: 20
Tasks Complete: 2
Books Read: 3
Pages Read: 1078

[René]

5.1 Covet for "Reading is fun week"

Total Points: 5
Tasks Complete: 1
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 474

[Alicia]

10.6 Robinson Crusoe for "Island Dreams"

Total Points: 10
Tasks Complete: 1
Books Read: 1

[Jess]

25.4—William Wordsworth's Selected Poems and Prefaces. I put in my requisite 75 pages (probably a few more, actually), though it was painful in comparison to Mary Oliver. Luckily, I had a decent amount of time today to devote to 17th century poetry...

Total Points: 50
Books Read: 3
Tasks Complete: 2

[Lori]

Just a quick FYI for everyone: Jamie said she had a spreadsheet for this part of the contest, so I'm going to let her use her own method to compile y'all's points. So there won't be an update here until Jamie comes back.

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Lori wrote: "Just a quick FYI for everyone: Jamie said she had a spreadsheet for this part of the contest, so I'm going to let her use her own method to compile y'all's points. So there won't be an update here..."

Thanks! I've had a few minutes here and there to get on and update the leaderboard. Tomorrow and Saturday will be a little more hectic because of the viewing and funeral so I doubt I will be able to update it. I need things to do to keep my mind off of it so I figured, hey, why not go update the leaderboard! haha :)

[Daisy]

5.1 The Last Olympian for Reading is Fun

Total points: 5
Books read: 1
Tasks complete: 1

[Verity]

15.8 Lifetime: Time Traveler's Wife
5.1 Lady Susan/The Watsons/Sanditon

Total points: 20 (07 Mar)
Books read: 2

[Ashley]

Just finished Shutter Island for 10.6 Island dreams

Total points: 10
Books read: 1
Tasks Complete: 1

[Anna]

10.9 Doctor-The Apothecary's Daughter for 10 points (assuming you consider an apothecary a medical profession, if not let me know)

Total Points: 10

[Alicia]

Finished The Handmaid's Tale for my 10.2 challenge.

Total Points: 15
Tasks Complete: 2
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 727

[Emily]

I've been on a roll recently. I've had lots of time since my boyfriend has been distracted by a paper he's writing. I'm hoping to have even more time over Spring Break. But seriously, I'm almost doing a book a day here, though admittedly they are all short and easy so far.

Completed:
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye for 25.7
Stardust for 25.6
Because God Is Real: Sixteen Questions, One Answer for 25.9
The Inner Game of Tennis for 25.3

Tasks Complete:
25.3
25.9

Total Points: 50
Books Read: 4

[Kayla]

5.1 A Great and Terrible Beauty for "Reading is Fun Week"

Total:5

[Alicia]

I am about to make your life more fun...apparently there are several Alicia's to keep track of...

Just finished Survivor for task 5.1

Total points: 5
Tasks Complete: 1

[Jules]

For 20.3, the pre-1700s literature task, I finished Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain (12th century).

Total: 20 points

[Alicia]

I noticed there are a bunch of Alicia's. If it makes it easier, jamie, you can add FL next to mine. (FL for Florida since that's where I'm from.) You could also add my last name, I don't mind either way.

I finished 5.1 "Fun Read" Fearless Fourteen

Totale Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2

[abbey sophia]

Finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter for 5.1 and Dearly Devoted Dexter for 5.4.

Total points: 10
Books read: 2
Tasks completed: 2

[jessi]

Finished The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity by Lee Strobel for 25.9.

Total points: 25
Books read: 1
Tasks completed: 1

[Jess]

10.5—Agnes Humbert's Résistance. 10 points.

Total Points: 60
Books Read: 4
Tasks Complete: 3

[V]

5.3: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
5.5: Under the Tuscan Sun
5.9: Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
25.7.1: Hush, Hush
25.8.2: The Secret Year
25.9: The Shape of Mercy

Total Points: 40
Books Read: 6
Tasks Complete: 4

[Jen]

Task 20.1 - Group Read

I read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and posted in the discussion thread (message 7).

Total Points: 20

[Chelsea]

i just finished True North by Kathryn Lasky completing task 10.4

tasks done 1
books read 1
points total10

[René]

10.2 The People of Sparks (The Ember Series, #2) by Jeanne DuPrau

Total Points: 15
Tasks Complete: 2
Books Read: 2

[Ali]

I just finished Catherine, Called Birdy for the Dear Diary challenge for 10 points.

and The London Eye Mystery for the Be Amused challenge (Ferris Wheel) for 10 points, too.

New Total: 20 points

[Emily]

I just finished To Kill a Mockingbird for 25.7

Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 25.3, 25.9, 25.7
Total Points: 75

[Alicia]

I completed 5.3 GR reccommendation. I read The Silence of the Lamb

Total Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3

[jessi]

Finished The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton for 15.9.

Total points: 40
Books read: 2
Tasks completed: 2

[René]

10.9 Finished Cutting for Stone

Total points: 25
Books read: 3
Tasks completed: 3

[Jules]

Finished The City of Dreaming Books for 5.6.

Total: 25 points

[Alicia]

Completed The Time Traveler's Wife for 15.2.

Total Points: 30
Tasks Complete: 3
Books Read: 3
Pages Read: 1263

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Alicia--how did you like The Time Traveler's Wife? It was one of our group reads awhile back..we had a pretty good discussion about it. I ended up enjoying it!

[Kelly]

5-4. Too Pretty to Die (Debutante Dropout Mystery, #5) by Susan McBride (3/16/10)
10-2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (3/9/10)
10-5. Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829 by Anna Kirwan (3/27/10)
10-6. Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889 by Ellen Emerson White (3/26/10)
15-5. Heat Wave by Richard Castle (3/15/10)
15-6. Death Du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2) by Kathy Reichs (3/16/10)
15-7. Teen, Inc. by Stefan Petrucha (3/27/10)
20-2. Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3) by Kathy Reichs (3/21/10); The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse by Jonathan Selwood (3/26/10)
20-4. Timeline by Michael Crichton (3/7/10); Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (3/24/10)

Total: 120

[Alicia]

Jamie wrote: "Alicia--how did you like The Time Traveler's Wife? It was one of our group reads awhile back..we had a pretty good discussion about it. I ended up enjoying it!"

I don't know where to start - I loved it. Defintely a new book to add to my all time favorites. The "baby punks" scene was my favorite. I've never imagined the concept of timetravel to have it's drawbacks - usually in science fiction an old guy steps into some weird machine, and boom. I wish it had another ending, but I understand why this one was necessary.

[Alicia]

10.9 - Doctor

Until It Hurts: America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids

The author interviewed and shares the opinions/stories of several doctors/surgeons/therapists throughout the book. Very interesting for anyone interested in youth sports (I coach a boys basketball team).

Total points: 15
Tasks Complete: 2

[Jules]

Jamie, you overlooked my message 37 when updating. I'm immersed in Pillars of the Earth, so I probably won't have any new points to record for some time, sooo I thought I'd bring that to your attention :)

[Anna]

10.10 multiple POV The Postmistress for 10 pts


Total: 20

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner), The Founding Bookworm]

Jules wrote: "Jamie, you overlooked my message 37 when updating. I'm immersed in Pillars of the Earth, so I probably won't have any new points to record for some time, sooo I thought I'd bring that to your atten..."

Ahh! Sorry! Thanks for letting me know!

[Tami]

Finished The Count of Monte Cristo for 5.2
Finished The Old Man and the Sea for 5.8

New Total: 10 Points

[abbey sophia]

Finished Dexter in the Dark for task 15.6.

new total: 25
tasks completed: 3

[Alicia]

Completed 10.1 with Water for Elephants.

Total Points: 40
Tasks Complete: 4
Books Read: 4
Pages Read: 1598

[Alicia]

Read The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game for 25.3 Mia Hamm's Birthday. And I learned more about football reading this book than I ever have watching it my whole life. :)


Total Points: 45
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4

[Caitlin]

Read: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain for 9, Passionate Reading.

Total Points: 5
Tasks Completed: 1

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