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SPRING/SUMMER 2010: Leaderboard & Completed Tasks (Updated 8/19)
15.8 - In a LifetimeI finished Kevin My Military Man for this task. The book follows the main characters from high school through middle age.
Total Points: 60
Tasks Complete: 5
Finished Death in Venice and Other Stories for 5.8.Total Points: 5
Books Read: 1
Completed Tasks: 1
Task 20.4 finished. Read Never Let Me Go and The Book of FlyingTasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 4
Pages Read: 1253
Total Points: 40
25.7.1: Hush, Hush25.7.2: From a Whisper to a Scream (Newford, #3)
25.5.1: Heart's Blood
25.5.2: A Mango-Shaped Space
25.3: Whip It
Total Points: 220
Books Read: 21
Tasks Completed: 15
25.7 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' and 'The Books in My Life'Total Points: 60
20.2—Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent. No points counted yet; second book not yet read.Total Points: 90
Books Read: 8
Tasks Complete: 6
10.7 - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe for 10 pointstotal point: 10
Books Read: 1
Tasks Completed: 1
5.6 - BibliophilesThe Executor - The main character is a philosophy student at Harvard. He loves to read, spends a lot of time in the library, and inherits a huge library during the story.
Total Points: 65
Tasks Complete: 6
5.8—Susan Wiggs' Summer by the Sea. 5 points.Total Points: 95
Books Read: 9
Tasks Complete: 7
Read 5.1My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands10.2 Catching Fire
Total Points: 15
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
5.9 finished Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession for 5 points. Meat and Cooking are my interest/hobby.Total points: 45
Read Does My Head Look Big In This? and The Forest of Hands and Teeth for 20.3, new authors.Total points: 35
Tasks completed: 2
Books read: 3
5.4 I Am the Messenger20.4 Long Time Coming and Gang Leader for a Day
Total Points: 75
Tasks Completed: 6
Books Read: 8
5.3 - GR FriendDoom Magnetic - William III rated it 5 stars
Total Points: 70
Tasks Complete: 7
I've read Oryx and Crake for 5.7 (April Showers Bring May Flowers) and Bel Canto for 10.3 (Life's a Beach).New Total: 20
Read Among the Thugs for 25.3.Total Points: 30
Books Read: 2
Tasks Completed: 2
10.10 - I read Thirteen Reasons Why25.5 - I read Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love and Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
Total Points: 95
Tasks Completed: 5
10.2 Oryx and Crake10.4 North of Beautiful
15.2 The Help
20.4.1 Wake
20.4.2 Evermore
Total Points: 275
Books Read: 25
Tasks Completed: 19
5.2—The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley. 5 points.5.3—Man's Search for Meaning. 5 points.
Total Points: 105
Books Read: 11
Tasks Complete: 9
Finished The Voices of Marrakesh for 5.5.Total Points: 95
Completed Tasks: 7
Books Read: 10
Pages Read: 4,459
Read:Salem Falls (east coast)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (west coast)
For Annashu’s Challenge for 20 points
Total Points: 60
Tasks completed: 6
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20.4 (two new authors)The Giver by Lois Lowry
Arthur and the Minimoys by Luc Besson
5.7 (flower in title/on cover)
Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
(cover has flowers on a tree with petals falling on the skeletal horse)
Update:
Tasks Completed: 5
Points: 45
Books read: 6
I want to replace 15.1 July 17, 1918: The Imperial Romanov Family
I read Treasure Island in it's place
Tasks completed: 3
Points: 30
books read: 3
I'm replacing 15.5 with another book. I read Slow Hands in its place for 15 points. (I needed a break after three long, heavier books!)Total Points: 130
Books Read: 13
Tasks Complete: 11
Read: The Time Traveler's Wife for 10 points, 10.10 Point of View.Total Points: 20
Tasks Completed: 3
Mod
Finished Sweet Little Lies by Lauren Conrad and Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld for 20.2 (East Coast/West Coast)Total Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 4
Mod
15.8 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia MarquezTasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 5
Pages Read: 1636
Total Points: 55
I've finished:"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" for 25.1
"Kabul Beauty School" for 5.5
"Nothing to Envy" for 10.10
Total Points: 40
Tasks Completed: 3
Finished Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska for the east coast half of 20.2.No points, because I still need to read a west coast book.
Total points: 40
Books read: 4
Tasks completed: 2
Mod
New total-- 5o points
I'm using the surprise to substitute 15.3 - the year you were born with Sistemas Políticos Comparados, which I read for uni.New total: 20 points
5-3. Must Love Black by Kelly McClymer (3/25)15-4. Manhood in America: A Cultural History by Michael S. Kimmel (4/8)
Total: 140
Books Finished: 15
25-8. Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1) by Gail Carriger (4/3) - Cover that I liked; Wake (Dream Catcher, #1) by Lisa McMann (4/9) - Cover that I really don't care forI loved them both, however I liked Soulless better. Not really because of the cover but because it has a more complex (and longer) storyline and was hilarious. Wake was great but wasn't especially intricate or all that funny.
Total: 165
Books Finished: 16
I'd like to replace 15.4 with Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.Total Points: 45
Books Read: 3
Tasks Completed: 3
25.2—Andrew Exum's This Man's Army. No points counted yet.Total Points: 130
Books Read: 14
Tasks Complete: 11
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New total: 125
Books read: 12
Tasks completed: 10