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

[Daisy]

25.6 Over and Underrated: finished The Count of Monte Cristo (today) and Blood Royal (earlier)

Total points: 235
Books read: 23
Tasks complete: 18

[Daisy]

25.10 Emotional reading: finished Zwaar Verliefd! (verliefd meaning in love in dutch) and Take a Chance on Me (feel-good book)

Total points: 260
Books read: 24
Tasks complete: 19

[Daisy]

25.8 Judge a book by its cover: finished Twenties Girl (loved this cover and loved the book) and Colman (didn't like the cover and liked the book less than Twenties Girl)

Total points: 285
Books read: 25
Tasks complete: 20

[Bárbara]

25.6. Fanny Hill, John Cleland & Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

New total: 180

[Jess]

10.4—John Steinbeck's East of Eden. 10 points.

Total Points: 600

[Tami]

Finished In Cold Blood by Truman Capote for half of 25.2

still 255 Points 8/09/10

[Richard]

5.2 - The Host by Stephenie Meyer for 5 points.

Total: 15

[abbey sophia]

Finished The Beach for task 10.6 and The Language of God for 25.9.

new total: 260
tasks completed: 18
books read: 20

[Alicia]

25.5- Disabilities: I read Freak the Mighty and Sybil: The True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed By Sixteen Separate Personalities.

Books Read: 26
Tasks Completed: 22

Total Points: 305

[Jen]

10.2 - 'It's the Future': I read Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.

Books Read: 30

Total: 355 points

[Kayla]

5.10 The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

Total: 190

[Anna]

Finished
Books: The Whiskey Rebels (1700's) Olive Kitteridge (present)

Task 25.1

Total 340

[Kelly]

10-9. Voyager (Outlander, #3) by Diana Gabaldon (8/10)

Total: 480/630
Books Finished: 42/54
Tasks Completed: 32/44

[Alicia]

5.8- Summer Scene: I read That Summer by Sarah Dessen


Tasks Completed: 23
Books Read: 27

Total Points: 310

[Jules]

25.1 - I read Redcoat and The Telling.

Completed tasks: 28
Books read: 37
Total points: 415

[Daisy]

10.4 Directionality - I read The Left Hand of God

Total points: 295
Books read: 26
Tasks complete: 21

[abbey sophia]

Finished Fight Club and The Good Thief for task 25.5.

new total: 285
tasks completed: 19
books read: 22

[Kelly]

15-2. The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins (8/14)

Total: 495/630
Books Finished: 43/54
Tasks Completed: 33/44

[Kelly]

5-7. Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan" (Once Upon a Time) by Cameron Dokey (8/15)

Total: 500/630
Books Finished: 44/54
Tasks Completed: 34/44

[Anna]

Finished
Books: Shadow Tag (607 ratings) and The Hunger Games (64,000+ ratings)
Task: 25.6 (605 and over 64,000 ratings)

Books: The Black Dahlia
Task: 5.4

Total: 370

[Tami]

Finished The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, & Bench Clearing Brawls byJason Turbow and Michael Duca for 5.9

260 points 8/16/10

[Bárbara]

15.5. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

New Total: 195

[Alicia]

15.7- Unconventional Family: I read The 19th Wife.

Books Read: 28
Tasks Completed: 24

Total Points: 325

[Emily]

Finished Been Here a Thousand Years for 10.10

Finished Kitchen for 15.5

Finished Tipping the Velvet and Eats Shoots & Leaves for 20.4

Finished The Wizard of Earthsea for 5.1

Points: 290
Books Read: 22
Tasks Complete: 18

[R]

Read Turn Again Home by Carol Birch for 15.8;
Read Uzumaki by Junji Ito and The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga for 20.4

Total points: 315
Books read: 32
Tasks completed: 23

[abbey sophia]

Finished My Horizontal Life and The Good Earth for task 20.4.

Books read: 24
Tasks completed: 20
New total: 305

[Anna]

Book : Catching Fire
task 10.2

Total 380

[paulabits]

5.3 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

10.1

20.4
Tejedora de Suenos
Mala Onda / Bad Vibes

25.1 (Spain)
Niebla
La colmena

Tasks Complete: 19
Books Read: 26
Pages Read: 7078

Total Points: 250

[Ali]

I finished Delaying The Real World by Colleen Kinder for 5.9. (my hobby is exactly the title of this book!)

for 5.10, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling.

for 10.9, Nights in Rodanthe by Nick Sparks.

for 15.10, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, which was absolutely wonderful. For those who love Kundera's work, which of his should I read next?

for 25.4, I finished Always a Reckoning: And Other Poems, a truly awful set of poems by Jimmy Carter, and The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow, which I actually enjoyed quite a bit.

for 25.9, I finished The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella.

Tasks Completed: 41
Number of Books Read: 52
New Points Total: 575

I am disappointed I won't be able to completely finish the challenge, but I feel lucky to have read so many great books I never would have otherwise set my eyes on.

[Kelly]

25-10. Tales of Burning Love by Louise Erdrich (7/16); Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4) by Diana Gabaldon (8/21)

Total: 525/630
Books Finished: 45/54
Tasks Completed: 35/44

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

Congrats to everyone who participated! So very close in the end!! Congrats to Jess--the winner of the Spring/Summer Challenge with 600 points!!