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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2010
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Summer Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks (do NOT delete any posts in this thread)
For task 5.9 - Get Caught Reading, I read Hector and the Search for Happiness in the doctor's office waiting room and at Starbucks. It was only OK, I gave it 2 stars.New Points: 5
Total Points: 55
slowly catching up, i started in late :D!Book: Edith Wharton--The Touchstone
Task: 5.9 Get Caught Reading
Points for this task: 5
Book: Edith Wharton--Ethan Frome
Task: 20.8 B&N Classics
Points for this task: 20
Total Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 2
20.6 List MakerThe Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
This is the mother of all fantasy novels. From dwarfs to dragons to giant spiders and invisibility, there isn't a dull moment, and it all feels so original. And you can see that it was an inspiration for many of your favorite fantasy adventure authors. This book came before the Lord of the rings, so it retains a very sweet feel, before rings get dangerous. I vote this as an absolute must read.
Total points 45.
20.10 Read The Hunger Games and posted on the discussion thread.25.5 My favourite genre is speculative fiction, encompassing pretty much all of science fiction and fantasy. I read The Dance of Time which is the last in a series about beings from the future trying to change our history.
My second favourite genre is historical fiction. In particular, I like books about fictional people in real history. I read Shadows in Bronze which is one of a series of murder mysteries set in ancient Rome.
I like both these genres because they stretch your imagination and make you think about ways in which the world could be different. Or, it could just be that I feel like a fish out of water in modern society.
30.1 I was born in April (dystopia) on a Thursday (disasters) so I read for dystopia Guernica Night and for disasters Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
10.5 - If You Can't Go To The Beach...Bring The Beach To You ~
Total Points: 360/950
Tasks Completed: 23
Books Read: 28/74
Books by Goodreads authors: 2
Big Books: 1 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)
10.10 Great Minds Think AlikeMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. This was from my last 5 star book...The Book Thief.20.4 Anniversary Gifts: This is my first challenge, so I read Notes Left Behind by Brooke Desserich for Paper. Heartbreaking. I absolutely suggest it to anyone looking for a book to show them to appreciate the children in their life.
25.4 Happy Birthday to Me: Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz who is a Cancer (born 7/9). A noun on page 31 was Glass, so I read Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll.
30.2 For the Children: Classic book: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie and read passages to my students at my summer camp. I also read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll for a book with a child as the main character.
Total Points: 215
Total Tasks: 14
Total Books: 17
Total Pages: 6209
30.1 - Non-fiction video games...Game On!: From Pong to Oblivion - The Greatest Video Games of All Time by Simon Byron (3 stars) and fiction sports...Tangerine by Edward Bloor (4 stars)New total: 255 points
I just joined this group/challenge so hopefully I am doing this correctly...10.9 Part B - Read "Year of Fog" by Michelle Richmond. Main character was a photographer and that is something I am very interested in.
Total Points: 10
Total Tasks: 1
Total Books: 1
Total Pages: 369
- working on fitting my other books into challenges!
10.1 – Stormy WeatherName: Lisa
Far from You by Lisa Schroeder
Goodreads Author
15.2 – Stars And Stripes Forever
Stars:
Arkansas by John Brandon
Stripes: New York
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
15.3 – Books And Blogs
Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy by Paula Butturini
My husband usually reads only nonfiction and when he heard about this book on NPR, he checked it out from the library. He told me it was a must read and I should give it a go. I wanted to check it out first, since it wasn’t my usual fiction fare, so I visited Caribousmom to see a review. It was a great 5 star review, so the book became my Books and Blogs choice.
My Review Link:
Keeping the Feast by Paula Butturini
Blog Review Link:
Caribousmom Review
I also discovered the author’s blog:
Paula Butturini's Blog
25.6 “Summer Lovin”
Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher
Goodreads Author
But tonight it’s a different world
Go out and find a girl
Come on, come on and dance all night
Despite the heat it’ll be alright
And, babe, don’t you know it’s a pity the days
Can’t be like the nights in the Summer in the City
In the Summer in the City
from memory: Summer in the City by the Lovin’ Spoonful
My memories of this great song of summer are tied to my experiences working at an amusement park in Denver, Elitch’s. The park had all the rides and games, but it had something more: a summer theater and the Trocadero Ballroom. Every summer I could watch the couples coming in their gowns and suits to dance to the music of the Big Bands of the 40s that the management brought in. The music and the dancing made me imagine what life was like in that time and the book Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher gave me lots of insight into the time period in a different big city, Chicago. At first, I didn’t think the book was going to be tied to summertime. The story begins in the fall when the weather is turning colder, but as it turned out there were two perfect connections to the song Summer in the City and my teenage summer memories:
The instant I saw the Ferris wheel, lit up bright as Christmas, I knew. “Riverview!” I cried. (p. 229)
Eleven o’clock and outside it still sweltered. The day’s heat rose onto my bare legs as though coals burned under the sidewalk.
(p. 286)
Although Ruby lived in another time and place, one full of racial prejudice and the morality and beliefs popular during the WWII era, my memories of working through the nights in Denver summers were rekindled. To say more about the inside life of Elitch’s and the more seedy connections to the book would be to give away spoilers, so read it first and then ask me about it!
10 + 15 + 15 + 25 = 65
This Claim: 65 points
2 Goodreads Authors
Points So Far: 350
5.9-Get Caught ReadingI read Ask Again Laterby Jill A. Davis. I read at the doctor's office and at work.
Brings me to 120 points.
I just completed "One Good Dog" by Susan Wilson. I read this book for task: 20.6 - Supporting Goodreads Authors - Nicole CA's Task - List Maker. Points Claimed: 20
15.4 Numerology- my #-8 same as the author Cherise Sinclair-
I read Master of the Mountain
#8 personalities care about gaining status, power,seek practical, high-material goals
I read the book Match Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. The hero of this book was a business mogul that cared only about status and power. He came from very humble beginnings and rose to the top of the financial world. He cared so much what image he projected and wanted everyone to see him as high class and powerful.
Cherise Sinclair is a GR Author
Points for this task- 15
Total Points- 135
Total books read- 14
Pages Read- 3712
GR authors- 6
20.6 - List MakerConfessions of a Jane Austen Addict
This was a five star book for me. I thoroughly enjoyed it and believe if you have ever wished you could live in Jane Austin's time you must read it! New point of view on the time.
20.7 - For Those We Love To Hate
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella
Total Points: 70
20.2 Pompeii by Robert Harris (set in AD79)Total Points: 35
I completed task 5.8 Take A Walk On Wall Street. I read "By The Shore of Silver Lake" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It was listed on Barbra Bush's list of books under Little House on The Prarrie Series.Completed Tasks: 6/53
Books Read: 11/71
Grand Total: 85
10.3 - Same Place, Same Time...Same BooksThe Place - Goodreads. The Time - Whenever is convenient for you. For this task you will need to discover who is visiting Goodreads at the same time you are and what they are reading. Go to Online Now, click on page 6,7, or 8 and select one of the books that these fellow Goodreaders are currently reading to read for this task. You can visit the pages as often as you like.
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Current Point Total: 95
Jessica MI
30.2 For The ChildrenThe first book that I read was the classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. I loved it, gave it 5 stars and passed it on to my niece.
The second book that I read was Messenger by Lois Lowry. Matty is the child at the center of the story. I gave this book 4 stars. It gave a me satisfying conclusion to the trilogy that started with The Giver. I still feel that the second book in the series, Gathering Blue, was the best of the three.
Total Points: 130 + 30 = 160
I completed task 10.4 by reading The Alchemyst: The secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. I rolled a 365 and the books was 369 pages long.total points- 30
tasks completed--3
task in progress--1
3/64 books read
pages read-- 993
good reads authors-0
For 20.5 I read Stones from the River, who's main character is the librian and owner of a "pay-library" in Germany around WWII.This book was an honest look at both the misery of being different (a dwarf) and the horror of Germany during WWII. It was written so that you feel the impact and from that sense it was a success. However, I found it a slow read and was plodding through it. And though the author painted the main character's challenging life in a way that you understand her anger, I didn't really like her.
Claiming a big book, as it was 525 pages.
Total points: 140
Task 15.4~~~~~~~I am a 3.Rebecca Fjelland Davis is a 3. I just finished reading her book Jake Riley Irreparably Damaged.
A while back I read Keys to the Demon Prison by Brandon Mull. I think this would count as Joy of Living (one of 3's characteristics) because they are out to Save the World.
If this counts that will make my total points 55.
30.2 PJ Read's taskA. A Children's Classic - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - recommended to my friend's daughter Bianca in hopes she loves the series as much as I do.
B. A book with a child as main character read
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan number 3 in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. Great series also!
Points this task 30
Total Points 315
total books 30
total Pages 8406
15 points15.1 A: Bid Time Return - Richard Matheson
B:The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie - Jennifer Ashley*
A is a borrowed, old and B is a new, blue.
20 Points
20.7 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Totals
Points:115
Challenge Completed: 9
Books Read: 17
Goodreads Authors: 3 (One new this time)
Note: I just started a book blog that reviews any book that I do for any type of reading challenge. You can see 15.1's outlined here
25.3 For the country I want to visit I read Born in Shame (Born In trilogy #3) which takes place in Ireland (4*). For the book that was translated I read The Last Dragon which was translated from Italian (2*)
15.9 - “He Who Knows Others Is Wise. He Who Knows Himself Is Enlightened.” - Lao Tzu
In life more often than not we come to see ourselves in certain roles (the cheerleader, the jock, the nerd etc.) or titles if you will...for this task you will need to read...
A. A book whose title in someway reflects who you think you are; that describes you in someway. (EXAMPLES: A Hopeless Romantic, Company Man)
I like to tell stories, so I read the fantasy novel:
Story Teller (2003) by Amy Thomson (Paperback, 384 pages)
AND
B.Explain if and how the main character (presumably whom the title refers to) does or does not remind you of yourself.
The main character (the one the title refers to) is psychologically a middle-aged woman who is also a mother; and, she likes to tell stories. That sounds like me :0). However, the title character has other characteristics that are nothing like me.
165 + 15 = 180
Tasks Completed: 10
Points for this task: 15
Points thus far: 180/950
Books read: 14
Pages Read: 4232
Books by Goodreads authors: 1
(Goodreads Author) Sheramy Bundrick (20.4)
Read but not claimed: 3
(Parts of the following 2-book tasks: 15.4, 25.4, 30.1B)
Two more books - both OK but nothing special. Not Joanne Harris at her best but it was her debut novel.25.10 Belinda's Task - Let's Play The Name Game
The Evil Seed by Joanne Harris
The Observations by Jane Harris
Total points: 90
Tasks completed: 5
Tasks in progress: 3
Books read: 11
Pages read: 4723
Big Book tickets: 1 (500+)
Goodread authors: 0
30.3 Ode to IllinoisThe Land of Lincoln:
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman Cover to Cover
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace FlemingPortions Read
Chicago Setting:
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon Goodreads Author
Last summer I had the good fortune to attend the American Library Association Conference in Chicago. I stayed with my sister in Evanston and drove Lakeshore Drive along the beautiful Lake Michigan every day. When a challenge about Illinois appeared on the Seasonal Reads Challenge, I was excited to learn more about Illinois native, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War era. I knew a lot of the story because this is a part of our country’s history that I find fascinating but I don’t think we as a collective country still understand the depth of emotions at play that effect us to this day. I read Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman cover to cover and read parts of The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming to fill in details and learn more about Mary Lincoln. Both books included primary source documents and a complete picture of our 16th president. One saying that I never knew was attributed to Abraham Lincoln was:
It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
From a speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1858. (p. 135)
Fast forward around 100 years, and although freedom has been achieved, equality has not. I was born in 1953, so I lived through and remember the Civil Rights struggles, but I was raised in Denver, so wasn’t touched directly by the major demonstrations and violence of the times. I read an excellent historical fiction book, The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon, the 2008 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winning book. The book takes place in 1968, the year of Martin Luther King’s assassination, and follows two brothers as they choose between their father’s peaceful leadership in conjunction with the work of MLK and the emerging Black Panther Party in Chicago. I think this honest telling through a fictional voice captured and instructed me more than any history book or current events articles of my teenage years as I learned about the real ideals of the BPP. I don’t think this understanding diminishes the work of Martin Luther King (or other non-violent protesters), who will always remain a true hero of our country, but I recommend this book highly as a way to enhance your knowledge about the developments of race relationships in our country. Not only that, but it is a gripping and emotional story well told by Magoon.
Total this post: 30 points
1 Goodreads Author
Total So Far: 380
I completed...--15.1:
A. old and borrowed (from the library): Love in a Cold Climate
B. new and blue: Outlander
Outlander was over 800 pgs., so I'm claiming a big book! :)
TOTALS:
POINTS= 25
TASKS= 3
BOOKS= 4 [big books: 1; GoodReads author books: 0]
Spent the afternoon reading some more!20.1 Sweltering Summer Days: My favorite ice cream is Birthday Cake Remix from Coldstone, so I read Murder Takes the Cake by Gayle Trent. It was a freebie on my Kindle, and it wasn't awful, but it wasn't great either.
10.5 If You Can't Go To the Beach...:
by Lurlene McDaniel. I read this book back in middle school and really enjoyed it then...it wasn't as good as I remembered the second time around.Total Points:245
Total Tasks:16
Total Pages: 6741
Total Books: 19
10.2 - The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen 7/10/10, 269 pagesTotal Points: 60
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
Pages Read: 1,556
5.9 - Born of Fire (The League, #2) by Sherrilyn KenyonI read most of this on the bus but also read it while standing outside waiting for the bus, sitting in the skyway downtown during my lunch hour and I finished today while sitting in a parking lot waiting for my mom.
Points: 135
5.10 - "If One Cannot Enjoy Reading A Book Over And Over Again, There Is No Use In Reading It At All." - Oscar WildeGood Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Tasks:12
Books:16
Pages: 4,895
Points: 210
10.8 Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult Tasks: 12
Points:160
10.7-TruthI read A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana byHaven Kimmel
Total is 130 points.
5.10 - "If One Cannot Enjoy Reading A Book Over And Over Again, There Is No Use In Reading It At All." - Oscar WildeI read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone... again. I thought I would reread a book in the series each month so that I'm reading the last book in November, just in time for the movie.
Total Points 40/900
For Task 30.2 - For the Children, I read A) Anne of Green Gables. It was on a list of the 100 top childrens books of all time and was the highest ranked book that I'd never read. I really enjoyed it and can see why it is a classic. I recommended it to my niece. I think she would like it because she has a very strong imagination, just like Anne. For part B) I read The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World . The main character, Amadeo is in sixth grade, so that would make him 11 or 12. It was OK, but E.L. Konigsburg is one of my favorite children's authors and I didn't enjoy this one as much as her other books. New Points: 30
Total Points: 85
Finished10.7 Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (10 points)
15.3 The Book of Lost Things By John Connolly (15 points)
Total points 225
Total tasks 15
10.9 - “You Cannot Open A Book Without Learning Something.” - ConfuciusWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
I wanted to learn more about the circus and Water For Elephants takes place in a circus and the main characters work at a circus.
Tasks:13
Books:17
Pages: 5,230
Points: 220
This will be my last post for awhile, I'm off on vacation, and I hope to be just a few books short of the goal by the time I'm home.5.3 SUMMER author: The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd, 762pp, finished on 7/10/2010.
15.1 Old New (author) Borrowed Blue (cover): The Body in the Library old book and borrowed from the library and The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker new book new author with a blue cover (see below) by Leanna Renee Hieber (Goodreads author) and Agatha Christie, 511pp finished 7/9/2010.
20.1 Ice cream, book with word from favorite IC, tell type IC: Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman, 275pp read 7/10/2010.
Turtle tracks from Mayfield is one of my favoritefavorite kinds of ice cream. It is like Moose tracks but with peanut butter cups. Yum.
20.10 Group reads: [bookThe ABC Murders:] by Agatha Christie, 252pp, read 6/10/2010.
I'll post on the discussion thread.
Because Cynthia is trying to catch up, I'm including my last post as well, #1406.
10.3 Book Goodreader is currently reading: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Cheri, pg 6, by J K Rowling, 759pp, read 7/6/2010.
10.6 Discrimination: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, 369pp, read 6/27/2010.
15.5 Author and his/her top ten book: The City of Your Final Destination and The Towers of Trebizond by Peter Cameron and Rose Macaulay, 589pp read 6/2/2010 and 7/8/2010.
15.6 Portugal/Portugese author OR African setting AND Second longest book of an author: Land of a Thousand Hills and Whitechapel Gods byRosamond Halsey Carr and S.M. Peters, 609pp, read 6/3/2010 and 7/7/2010.
15.7 India AND what you would change about country state city: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts, 933pp, read 7/8/2010.
30.4 Science of crime, male and female author: Deja Dead and The Anatomy of Deceptionby Kathy Reichs and Lawrence Goldstone, 340pp read 7/4/2010 and 6/3/2010
Books read: 40/74
Tasks completed: 26/56
Points: 445/950
Pages read: 14271
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For Task 10.1 (Hurricane Names) I read The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz. **GOODREADS AUTHOR**For Task 10.9 (learning something) I read Vision in White by Nora Roberts. I want to learn more about photography. I really stink at it and as a result our family pictures are not good! Also, I am struggling with my business website and have been procrastinating doing the photos for that. This book is inspiring from that point of view -- the main character is truly inspired by photography!
220 Points total
Goodreads Authors: 3
Big Books: 2
20.10 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I had some reservations about this book but thought I would give it a try as so many loved it. I am glad I did I really enjoyed it (4*). I did post in the discussion thread.
TOTAL POINTS: 65 + 25 = 9025.9 TANKINI: At Grave's End, Destined for an Early Grave, First Drop of Crimson all authored by Jeaniene Frost for a total of 1000+ pages published in the last 5 years.
COMPLETED TASKS
5.2 Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine
5.9 Bloodsucking Fiends, A Love Story by Christopher Moore
10.7 He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
20.10 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
25.1 Kitty Goes to War by Carrie Vaughn and The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff
I completed Task 30.3 (Ode To Illinois) by reading Mary by Janis Cooke Newman (about Mary Todd Lincoln) and Night by Elie Wiesel, from Ophrah's list.I highly recommend Mary by Janis Newman. I gave it 5*.
I had expected to enjoy this book but enjoyed it so much more than expected. It's a very readable book and Mary is portrayed as a woman of deep emotional feelings....in a time when feelings and emotions were normally kept subdued. Trying to repress her emotions caused outlets in other ways...such as obsessive shopping.
Mary lived through more pain and grief and tragedy than anyone ever should. It's not a wonder that her obsessions overcame her for periods of time.
She may not have been mentally strong but she wasn't insane, as her son proclaimed....at least I don't think so.
This book packs a punch. The Assassination scene was heart-wrenching, as were the deaths of her sons.
I think I've claimed for a 500 page Big Book ticket but, just in case I haven't, I'd like to claim one now. This book was 636 pages long.
I didn't enjoy Night.
This book was really "meh" for me throughout and there were details that didn't fit with what I'd read in other Holocaust books so I kind of disbelieved some of this story. (if interested, there's more details in my Review. I didn't want to spoil it for anyone here).
I felt as if I were reading a YA book; the writing was very young, and yet I can't find a reference to this being a YA book. If it were one, I'd give it another star....maybe.
However, I think the main weakness of this book is somehow making the experience lighter than it was. Survivors and Victims of the Holocaust deserve more. They deserve nothing less than the real truth to be told.
I just got back from vacation and so I have a few more additions to my Summer Reading TasksI've completed:
10.3 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo- Steig Larsson
5.1 The Girl Who Played With Fire- Steig Larsson
10.2 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
This brings my total Points to 35.
Tasks Completed: 4
I think, perhaps, you should believe Night, rather than the other Holocaust books. It is non-fiction and the events are what this author lived.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I think, perhaps, you should believe Night, rather than the other Holocaust books. It is non-fiction and the events are what this author lived."Perhaps. I've read other (many) non-fiction Holocaust books. This one isn't on my top list.
10.6 Stand Up For Your Rights - Read "The Heretic's Daughter" by Kathleen Kent. The characters in the book face religious discrimination.Tasks Completed: 2
Total Points: 20
I finished 3 books this week and two of them were completions of 2 part tasks, woo hoo! These tasks also helped me finally break 100, so all around a good week. My accomplishments this week were:
by Herman Hesse, 1922 for Old/Blue part to complete task 15.1. (I read
in June for the New/Borrowed part)15.8
by Judy Blume (Finished 6/25) and
by Karen Kingsbury (Finished 7/11)AND
I started 15.2 with
by Nora Roberts takes place in Connecticut Books read so far:
5.2 Dark Lover by J.R. Ward (Finished 7/2)
10.3 Christi Salt Lake City, UT (576 mi) – from page 6: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein— Jun 14, 2010 04:22pm (Finished 6/23)
10.4 (Rolled 6-2-6) The Host by Stephanie Meyer, 619 pages (Finished 6/10)
10.5 Savannah Breeze by Mary Kay Andrews (Finished 6/16)
10.7 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (Reading Now)
10.8 Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult (Finished 7/5)
10.9 Visions in White by Nora Roberts (Finished 6/19)
15.1 New/Borrowed: Otherwise Engaged by Eileen Goudge (Finished 6/3); Old/Blue: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, 1922 (Finished 7/10)
15.2 Stars: (task not yet finished); AND Stripes: Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts takes place in Connecticut (Finished 7/10)
15.4 - # 8: Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters - pen name for Barbara Mertz (Finished 6/14) and … (task not yet finished)
15.6 Part A/B: (task not yet finished) & Part C: Mr. Maybe by Jane Green (Finished 6/21)
15.8 Forever by Judy Blume (Finished 6/25) and Forever by Karen Kingsbury (Finished 7/11)
20.10 ABC Murders by Agatha Christie (Finished 6/19)
25.10 The Blue Notebook by James Levine (Finished 6/25) and The Price of Privilege by Madeline Levine (Reading Now)
Total Pts: 105/900
Books Read: 14/71
Tasks Completed: 9/53
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Getting Rid Of Bradley by Jennifer Crusie July 2
#15.4 Numerology
A. Book written by author who has same number: I am a 5 and so is Julie Garwood
I read Saving Grace July 9
B. Character demonstrates one or more of my number's characteristics: A 5 is adaptable and likes adventure; is also clever, analytical, and a quick thinker
I read Twelve Across by Barbara Delinsky July 6
Leah is an urban gal from New York City who relocates to the woods of New Hampshire. She demonstrates her cleverness and analytical skills by being a professional crossword puzzle creator.
#25.5 Helen's Task: Share the Summer Love
A. My favorite genre is Historical Romance - I like reading about historical times and seeing how people lived and dealt with the mores and problems of their times. I read Married By Morning by Lisa Kleypas June 1 This is part of a series about the Hathaway family and how they adjusted to a change in social status when the brother unexpectedly inherited a title.
B. My 2nd favorite genre is Paranormal, because it expands reality and explores things that go beyond the normal & expected, such as psychic abilities, magic, other species; anything from the possible to the far-fetched. I read Dreamveil by Lynn Viehl July 8 which is the 2nd book in the Kyndred series about genetic experiments on orphans that cause a variety of unique powers in the children. When Rowan touches someone, her ability allows her to appear to be whoever that person most loves. Comes in handy when she wants to know if a guy loves her or someone else!
Jennifer Crusie and Barbara Delinsky are both GoodReads Authors
Total Pages = 9,135
Tasks Completed = 23
Total Points = 290