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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2010
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Summer Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks (do NOT delete any posts in this thread)
20.9 - Catching Fire - ★★★★★ I also watched Food, Inc. on Netflix (available as 'Watch Instantly' for any other Netflix users). It is a documentary that appeared on the Indie movie list linked in the task. I was disturbed by it.
I also failed to mention in my last post regarding 20.1 that Chris Cleave is a Goodreads author.
Points: 40
Nicole, I liked your review too - I just added the book to my tbr. It sounds interesting.
20.7 For Those We Love to Hate: The Collector by John Fowles. This novel, written in the 1960's, is about an obsession and a crime. The main character kidnaps a girl after obsessing over her from afar. He wants her to love him, so he thinks that he can isolate her and build a relationship with her, all while holding her captive in a country house. The first half is told from his perspective, and the second part is told from hers. It is fascinating and creepy to put oneself in the minds of the perpetrator and the victim. While slightly dated in its telling, I found it to be current in theme and in its psychological overtones.Total Points: 40
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
Books by Goodreads authors: 1
Big Books: 0 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)
Completed task 30.3 by reading Abraham Lincoln which was concise and well-written. This was a selling point for me since I tend to struggle with my enjoyment of biographies. I also read The Book of Ralph: A Novel, which was set in Chicago.Total Pages= 1828
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Completed Task 20.5Key of Knowledge
The main character is a librarian.
Tasks Completed: 2
Books read: 2
Points earned: 25
30.4A Forensic mystery by male author
Dangerous Undertaking by Mark de Castrique
Forensics: autopsy for cause and time of death; EPA tests for type and extent of illegal dumping of toxic waste.
30.4B Forensic mystery by female author
Lake of Sorrows by Erin Hart* (GR author)
Forensics: main character is a forensic pathologist; autopsies for time/ cause of death and to eliminate smooth knife for serrated wound; CSI evidence to implicate suspects.
145 points
Finished 25.2 Q&A by reading The Penguin Who Knew Too Much by Donna Andrews (3*). A cute who done it about a zookeeper who is murdered and found in the lead characters basement. A unique cast of characters including her father who fosters some of the zoo animals as the zoo grounds have been taken over by the bank. An assortment of animals eventually find their way to her farm. Then I read How Nancy Drew Saved My Life (3*). This book was about a nanny who takes a job in Iceland to escape her past. I felt that it fell apart in the end but still gave it 3*.
15.6Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder- about a refugee from Burundi for a book that takes place in one of the countries that the Congo flows through.
The Hour I First Believed, by Wally Lamb- his second longest book.
Please also enter me in the big books challenge for this book (it is 740 pages).
Task Points: 15
Total Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 3
Pages Read: 1607
Books by Goodreads authors: 0
Big Books: 2(500+), 0(750+), 0(1000+)
20.6 Meg Cabot Avalon High pages 309a wonderful read. it is both hummerous as meg cabot allways is and leaves me wanting to know more about the historical notes in the book.
20 points toatl
Completed task 25.6 - Summer LovinThe Cay
The song is Kokomo by The Beach Boys. In this song, they sing all about different islands in the Caribbean and this book is set mainly on a small island in the Caribbean. This song reminds me of summer because it talks about islands and beaches and going on vacation "to get away from it all."
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 25
Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 1
Pages Read: 144
5.9 - Get Caught ReadingCreating Affluence: The A-To-Z Steps to a Richer Life by Deepak Chopra
I read the whole thing at Starbucks.
Tasks Completed - 4
Books Read - 4
Pages Read - 657
Total Points - 35
5.2 Blockbuster BooksBeezus and Ramona, by Beverly Cleary- A movie based on this book is being released this summer.
Task Points: 5
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 4
Pages Read: 1767
Books by Goodreads authors: 0
Big Books: 2(500+), 0(750+), 0(1000+)
Chelsea wrote: "20.6 Meg Cabot Avalon High pages 309a wonderful read. it is both hummerous as meg cabot allways is and leaves me wanting to know more about the historical notes in the book.
20 points toatl"
I read this book in a past challenge and loved it as well.
10.1 Stormy Weather. I read The Sunflower: A Novel by Richard Paul Evans for 10 points.Total Points: 10
Total Tasks: 1
Total Books: 1
Total Pages: 352
5.9 Get Caught ReadingI read Full Bloom by Janet Evanovich entirely at the gym.
Total Points: 5
eta: author and points
don't forget to add the author for your books and your full points guys. Cynthia is going to have you repost it if you don't do it right.
okay I am on the board. I completed task 15.1 Wedding Bells Are Ringing by reading
by Anne McCaffrey (1973, born in 1976) for my old and borrowed and
by David Sedaris for my new and blue. Tasks Completed: 1
Books Read: 2
Total Points 15/950
Finished 5-9: Get Caught Reading-The Quest Begins Seekers #1
read at the pool while kids swam.
Pages: 293
points:5/950
Finished 25-6: Summer Lovin'-
Meatloaf: To Hell and Back an autobiography
I really loved this album. My favorite was "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" I was in my teens and this was considered "devil music" by my grandmother. My mom and us 4 kids piled in the car, drove through all the back roads of Maine. She was usually drinking a beer, smoking, and singing at the top of her lungs. We usually sang too. What a noise!! One of the few good memories I have of my family.
Pages:285
Points:35/950
5.9 - Get Caught ReadingThere is an age old saying...If a tree falls in the woods, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Likewise if a person reads a book and no one is there to see them...did the book ever get read? For this task you must read a book of at least 100 pages in public...at a park, or the beach, or on a plane, or a bus, or at a library...any public place will do.
The School Mouse by Dick King-Smith
163 pages, read on the bus and in restaurants.
10.2 - "The (Fill In The Blank) Who..."
For this task find and read a book whose title follows the formula "The (insert noun here) Who (insert verb here)...". (EXAMPLE: The Man Who Ate the 747).
The Cat Who Went Up the Creek by Lilian Jackson Braun
Points: 35/475
Books: 3
Tasks: 3/56
Pages: 885
Here we go!This morning I finished my first task ^w^
10.4 - Roll The Dice...
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
My number was 312 and the book had 310 pages.
Points: 10
Books: 1
Tasks: 1
Pages: 310
Finished 5.10 by reading Proof: A Play. I read it a while ago and had to read again for a book club, and I enjoyed it just as much as I did before!Total Points: 55
Tasks Completed: 5
Tasks in Progress: 2
Books Read: 9
Pages Read: 2793
Task 20.4 First Challenge, first anniversary: clockAround-The-Clock Protector
written by Jan Hambright
Tasks Completed: 3
Books read: 3
Points earned: 45
20.2. Rookie Of The Season - Kiri’s Task - A Trip To The PastThree Plays of Euripides Alcestis Medea The Bachae, Euripides
20.10. Group Reads - ABC Murders, Agatha Christie
85 points/4 tasks/5 books
20.1 Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies by Erin Dionne My favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate! Yum!
Completed my first task of my first challenge!15.1 Wedding Bells are Ringing.
I read Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
It was first published in 1862 and I borrowed it from the library.
Then I read Being Emily by Anne Donovan, whose work I haven't read before, and it has a blue cover
15.9 - “He Who Knows Others Is Wise. He Who Knows Himself Is Enlightened.” - Lao TzuIn 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)
AND
B.Explain if and how the main character (presumably whom the title refers to) does or does not remind you of yourself.
Lucid Intervals by Woods
Stone Barrington and I are very different. Stone is very rash private eye. However, crazy Herbie who has occasional lucid moments and I share that one common denominator.
15 points
100 total
Finished Task 5.7 (transportation on cover) I read Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline: Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties. One Crazy Year Working on Cruise Ships by Brian David Bruns.
Here's a picture of the cover with a cruise ship on it.
New Total: 15 Points
Hello once again...Just wanted to take one more opportunity to invite everyone to "Reading with Style," the challenge within a challenge just a little ways down on the Seasonal Reading Challenge main page.
All our tasks our now posted as well, so check us out!
25.4 - Nicole OH's Task - Happy Birthday to Me! ~~ I read Flutter by Amanda Hocking who's birthday is July 12th. Page 31 of Flutter had the noun MOON so I read Full Moon Rising
Task 20.9 - Spirit of Independence - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2009 Best Indie YA Buzz Book) and watched Little Miss Sunshine which was a nominee in 2007 (not sure if it was the winner because the site keeps freezing on me)Cynthia, I'd like to make a change...I previously claimed The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman for Task 5.4 but would like to change it to Task 20.9.
10.3 -- Same Place, Same Time...Same BooksOn page 7, I found Kaci Cloud reading From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris which allowed me to continue the series ;o).
Points for this task: 10
Total Points: 35/950
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
Books by Goodreads authors: 1
Big Books: 0 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)
5 Point Tasks5.4 Lesser Awards
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Choice Award for Chick Lit 2009)
5.5 - Dropping Names
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
5.6 - "I Only Regret That I Have But One Life To Lose For My Country."
Trust Me by Jeff Abbott
5.7 - "I Confess That In 1901 I Said To My Brother Orville That Man Would Not Fly For Fifty Years. "
Men and Dogs: A Novel by Katie Crouch5.8 - Take A Walk On Wall Street
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
10 Point Tasks
10.3 - Same Place, Same Time...Same Books
Vision in White by Nora Roberts
10.7 - I Think We Can Handle The Truth
Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir by Mary Higgins Clark
10.9 - “You Cannot Open A Book Without Learning Something.” - Confuci
Irish Chain by Earlene Fowler
Story about duties of being a museum curator and preserver and documentation of antique quilts. I am an avid quilter and have been involved in the documentation of quilts from the Iowa/Illinois area.
15 Point Tasks
15.6A - "Eventually, All Things Merge Into One, And A River Runs Through It."
Lovers in Lisbon by Barbara Cartland
AND
15.6B Congo
Hard Truth by Nevada Barr
20 Point Tasks
20.3 - Best Review Contest - Amanda VA's Task - School May Be Out
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (Victorian novel) 228 pages
20.9 - Luck Of The Draw - Terri's Task - The Spirit of Independence
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
I watched Brokeback Mountain
Current Total = 110
Task 5.9 Get Caught Reading- Hot Spell - Emma Holly and three others in an anthology. I read at the library the other day; the salon and then at borders this afternoon
Total Points This post: 5
Total Points: 45 / 950
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
Books by Goodreads authors: 3 (2 of the books in the anthology I finished were by goodreads authors)
Big Books: 0 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)
25.6 - Summer Lovin' Voyager by Diana Gabaldon (5*) (870 pgs = 750+ big book)
My summer song is Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero." Whenever the weather got warm & school was almost out, my friend & I would always drive around with the windows down & "car dance" while playing this song. It was always a sign of summer.
This song describes the main male character of this book perfectly - allusions to a Greek god, strong, fast, rides a "fiery steed," is "fresh from the fight," etc. I swear this song was written for him-LOL!
Tasks: 2
Books: 2
Goodreads authors: 0
Pages: 1,245
TOTAL POINTS: 45
10.4 - Roll the DiceI rolled a 333 - so I read Ragtime - 336 pages.
TOTAL POINTS: 10
BOOKS READ: 1
TASKS COMPLETED: 1
Erin B.
10.4 Roll the Dice - I rolled 3,6,5I read Dead After Dark (Includes: Dark-Hunter, Related Books #10) with 373 pages
Total points: 70
10.1 Take Two by Julia DeVillers and Jennifer Roy
5.9 = Black Hills by Nora Roberts. I read it on the beach!
Task 10.6 Stand up for Your RightsI read The Help
I really enjoyed it.
10 points
****Kathryn Stockett is a goodreads author****
Total points: 20
Completed task 5.9 - Read "Suicide Notes" by Michael Thomas Ford while doing my laundry at the laundromat!
10.5 -- If You Can't Go To The Beach...Bring The Beach To YouRead Marriage by the Book by Joan Johnston
Points for this task: 10
Total Points: 45/950
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
Books by Goodreads authors: 1 (Sarah Addison Allen)
Big Books: 0 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)
10.3 Same Place, Same Time...Same Books: Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David LevithanPoints this task: 10
Total Points: 50
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 5
Books by Goodreads authors so far: 1
Big Books: 0 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)
20.2 - Fool by Christopher Moore, which is set in 13th Century Britain. An awesome book! :)UPDATED TOTALS:
Points: 35
Tasks completed: 2
Tasks in progress: 0
Books read: 2
Pages read: 663
I'm on the board, Yay!5.2 - Blockbuster Books
For this task read a book that relates to the film you are most looking forward to seeing this summer.
I'm looking forward to watching The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Nicholas Cage, so I read Changes by Jim Butcher. This series is about a Wizard private eye.
5.9 - Get Caught Reading
For this task you must read a book of at least 100 pages in public...at a park, or the beach, or on a plane, or a bus, or at a library...any public place will do.
I read Elijah by Jacquelyn Frank (Goodreads author). I read it at the library, at a Dr. appt while waiting, and at the airport while waiting to pick up my mom from a trip.
25.3 - Jennifer N'S Task - Virtual Foreign Vacation
A. Read a fictional book that takes place in a country that you have always wanted to visit but have never had the chance to.
AND
B. Read a book that was originally written in a foreign language.
For part A I read One With the Shadows by Susan Squires which takes place in Italy. I would love to go to Italy and Rome. For part B I read Cyrano de Bergerac translated by Edmond Rostand.
Total Points: 35
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 4
Goodreads Author: 1
I finished 20.9 by watching the movie "Prescious" and reading Stitches.Total Points: 75
Tasks Completed: 6
Tasks in Progress: 3
Books Read: 9
Pages Read: 2793
5 POINT TASK5.3 - S.U.M.M.E.R
For this task read a book written by an author whose initials are found in the word Summer.
Behind Closed Doors: Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily, Maria Messina.
15 POINT TASK
15.10 - “Other Things May Change Us, But We Start And End With Family.” - Anthony Brandt
Summertime is often the time when families get together to catch up on things so for this task let's read....
A. A book that has the word Family in the title OR a book with a specific family member in the title i.e. Sister, Brother, Cousin etc.
AND
B. Tell the group at least one thing that you love about your own family or the family member from your title.
A. The Dead Man's Brother, Roger Zelazny.
B. My whole family is pretty cool, and we all get along (now, at least), but my oldest brother and I are especially close. We packed up and moved to another state together about seven years ago because we both needed a change and figured it was safest to do it together to be able to keep an eye on each other. He's a reader like me, which makes for fun conversations. We live in the same town, but our work schedules don't match so we don't hang out as much as we would like. But when we do, it usually involves a trip to the library and/or bookstores, a lot of snooty book talk, and dinner. Being able to raid his library whenever I want has its perks as well.
20 POINT TASK
20.7 - I Like Big Books And I Cannot Lie - Dionisia's Task - For Those We Love To Hate
Read a book written from a villain's point of view.
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis.
TOTAL POINTS: 40/950.
Finished 10.2 by reading The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa. I really wanted to like this book but it fell flat for me. It is told in alternating chapters. The female character plays go and is Chinese living in Manchuria during the Japanese invasion in the late 30's. The male is a Japanese soldier who plays go with the female while trying to be a spy for his regiment. It was well written but not much action. I gave it 2*.
Finished:10.6Know Your Rights: Dream Lucky: When FDR was in the White House, Count Basie was on the radio, and everyone wore a hat... by Roxane Orgill, which is an account of the two years in the 1930's when Count Basie was moving up in the music world from Kansas City jazz scene to New York City. Also discusses other people and events from Joe Louis to Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Total Points This post: 10
Total Points: 40 / 950
Tasks Completed: 4
Books Read: 4
Books by Goodreads authors: 1
Big Books: 0 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)