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SPRING/SUMMER 2010: Leaderboard & Completed Tasks (Updated 8/19)
Completed two tasks:15.2 - Book Club Favorites - I read Sarah's Key.
25.3 - Mia Hamm’s Birthday - I read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Total Points: 60
I have read Something Blue by Emily Griffin for 5.1, the fun read.PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern for 15.9, young author.
and A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson for 10.7, set in Africa.
(The GttBoEA is an absolutely wonderful book, if you are still looking for a book set in Africa.)
Total Points: 50
Tasks Completed: 5
15.9: Young Authors- I read The Outsiders20.3: Pre-1700s- I read Aesop's Fables. This one was a toughie to get through. Lots of breaks!
Total Points: 80
Completed Tasks: 6
Books Read: 6
Finished The Pillars of the Earth for 15.3, the year I was born (1989).Total Points: 40
Completed Tasks: 3
Books Read: 3
Pages Read: 1,893
25.9 - The Great DebateI just finished We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication for this task. I originally started reading this because I thought the author had the same views I did on the misuse/overuse of medications for mental illness that I have. The author explains in the first or second chapter that she initially had the same view but changed through the course of her research and the book morphed into something completely different. The book did not change my views on the subject.
Total Points: 40
Tasks Complete: 3
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Completed 5.1 with Nightlight: A Parody of TwilightTotal Points: 5
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 160
Finished: 5.4 Art of Murder / Clara y la PenumbraPoints: 5
Tasks Complete: 1
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 537
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Total: 25 points
5.2 American Gods by Neil Gaiman for 5 pointsTasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 480
Total Points: 5
15.8 I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres for 15 points, the in a Lifetime challenge. 25.8 My Life in France by Julia Child and Carney's House Party: A Deep Valley Book By Maud Hart Lovelace for 25 points, the love/hate cover challenge.
I loved My Life in France, whose cover I adored, better of the two. (Although Carney's House Party was very sweet as well... sans its cringe-worthy cover.)
Tasks completed: 7
Books read: 8
Pages read: 2396
Total points: 90
5.7
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See for 5 pointsTotal: 25
Finished Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith for task 15.6!Total points: 15
Tasks completed: 1
Yay!
Read: The Redheaded Princess for 10.6 Island Dreams AND
The Giver for 15.2 It's The Future
Tasks Completed: 2
Points earned: 25
Total Points: 25
Total Tasks Completed: 2
Finished The Lady Elizabeth and Northanger Abbey for task 25.1Total points: 30
Books read: 3
Tasks complete: 2
Just finished 15.6 The Alchemist. Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 677
Total Points: 20
Oh and there are two Paula's in the challenge, so you can list me as Paula A. if you need too.
15.8 The Timetraveler's Wife15.2 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Tasks: 3
Books: 3
Points: 35
Nophoto-f-25x33 5.1: Fables: The Good Prince5.6: The Book of Lost Things
5.10: City of Bones
15.1: The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
25.1.1: And Only to Deceive
25.1.2: The White Queen
Total Points: 95
Books Read: 13
Tasks Completed: 9
Finished The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self by Woody Hochswender for the underrated half of 25.6.No points, because I still need to read an overrated book.
Total points: 40
Books read: 3
Tasks completed: 2
taks 5.1Little Darling (Yaoi)by Matsuri Kouzuki, Naduki Koujima
tasks done 2
points total 15
Read Flowers for Algernon for five points, for the April Showers bring May Flowers challenge.Total Points: 40
Tasks Completed: 5
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The Dud Avocado for 5 points, the travel challenge and The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of Maud Hart Lovelace plus The Tale of Despereaux for 20 points, the two new authors challenge.
Books read: 11
Tasks Completed: 9
Points: 115
5.2 got it from a friend and never read it Delivery cupid by CJ Mihalskitasks completed 3
total points 20
Finished The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick for 25.3, Mia Hamm's birthday.Total Points: 65
Completed Tasks: 4
Books Read: 5
Pages Read: 2,424
5.1—Susan Wiggs' Just Breathe. 5 points.Total Points: 85
Books Read: 6
Tasks Complete: 5
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New Total: 35 Points
I finished:1.1 Fun Red: Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
1.5 Travel: On Wings of Faith by Frederick Babbel
2.4 Direction: North! or Be Eaten by Andrew Peterson
Total Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 3.5
Books Read: 4
Pages Read:1112 plus parts of 7 books currently being read.
Read The Secret of Lost Things for 5.6 Bibliophiles UniteTotal Points: 100
Tasks Completed: 9
Books Read: 9
10.9: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books15.4: Wintergirls
25.8.1: The Dark Divine --> I liked The Secret Year better, which also happened to be the book whose cover I liked.
Total Points: 145
Books Read: 16
Tasks Completed: 12
Finished Dexter By Design and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto for task 25.8 (Judge a Book by Its Cover).Though I liked both books, I must say that "In Defense of Food" (the cover that I liked) is the book that was a better read, in my opinion (this surprised me, as I'm not a big non-fiction reader by any means). I definitely recommend it. It really gets you thinking about nutrition(ism) and about how much we rely upon nutrition 'authority figures' to tell us what we should be eating.
new total: 50
books read:5
tasks completed: 4
5.4—Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played with Fire. 5 points.Total Points: 90
Books Read: 7
Tasks Complete: 6
I just finished The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution for task 15.6Tasks Completed: 5
Total Points: 105
25.10 Finished Love You Hate You Miss You and My Sister's KeeperTotal Points: 50
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 5
Read: Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen for 5.1 Read: Hunted by PC Cast for 5.10
Total Points:10
Task Completed:2
Books Read:2
Just found this group so ill try to join in and see if i can catch up with everybody, so i'll try to remember what books i've finished up the past month that fit the challenge, but so far so good.5.5 Finished: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
15.7 Finished: House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Total Points:20
Task Completed:2
Books Read:2
task 10.6 done a friend told me to read it becuase they thought i would think it was funny.aunt effie and the island that sank by Jack Lasenby
that makes
four tasks completed and
30 total points
I finished reading The Clouds Beneath the Sun for 10.7.Total Points: 75
Completed Tasks: 5
Books Read: 7
Pages Read: 3,065
Finished One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love for task 15.7 (Family Matters).new total: 65
books read: 6
tasks completed: 5
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Harper Lee (other topics)
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Total Points: 80
Books Read: 5
Tasks Complete: 4