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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2010
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Summer Challenge 2010 Completed Tasks (do NOT delete any posts in this thread)
25.2 - Coralie's Task - Q & AFor this task you will need to select one of the following options...
A. Read a book with WHERE in the title AND a book with a place name in the title.
B. Read a book with WHEN in the title AND a book with a time or date in the title.
C. Read a book with WHO in the title AND a book with a person's name in the title.
The Cat WHO Brought Down the House by Braun and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Meyers
D. Read a book with the word HOW in the title AND a book with an adverb in the title.
E. Read a book with WHY in the title AND a book with the word BECAUSE in the title.
25 points
180 total
Finished another task today,5.1 - Heat Wave
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.
Totals:
Total Points: 50.00
Total Books: 4.00
Total Tasks: 3.00
Total Pages: 2144
20.8 - The AwakeningDownloaded a free version from Project Gutenberg and read this one at work. :)
Points: 65
This is the 2nd year i've done the Summer Challenge. Last year did about 150 and hope to do over 200 points this year. Here's my start5.3 MM-Merrill Markoe-What the Dogs have Taught Me
15.7 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
I would like to see politicians look beyond their political parties and really discuss issues that concern the American people and vote how the people in their community want them to. I plan to vote for people who will listen to the people and not just their party leadership.
15.10 The Wednesday Sisters-Meg Waite Clayton-Goodreads author
I love that my sister is a great gardener. Her has the prettiest flower garder in her neighborhood and is a master gardener.
15.7 - "You Must Be The Change You Want To See In The World." ~ The Jungle BooksThis is the first time I've actually read this book, and I wasn't really looking forward to it. I must say I thoughouly enjoyed it!! I especially like Rikki Tikki Tavi. That was one of my favorite stories as a child, and even more enjoyable now.
REPOST because I forgot to label 15.1 A. Fifteen by Beverly Cleary (borrowed from the library, and old)
B. A Time to Mend by Angela Hunt (blue cover and new author)
25.4 - Nicole OH's Task - Happy Birthday to Me!A. Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White (born July 11, 1899)
AND
B. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin (the word "morning" appears on page 31 of Charlotte's Web)
Gretchen is a Goodreads Author.
Task Points: 25
Total Points: 75
Tasks Completed: 5
Books Read: 7
Pages Read: 2645
Books by Goodreads authors: 1
Big Books: 2(500+), 0(750+), 0(1000+)
25.1 - Valorie's Task - Independence DayIn honor U.S. Independence Day (July 4th)...
A. Read a book with a character that is in the military or retired from the military.
AND
B.Read a book of your choice with a Blue, Red, or White cover.
A. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas the main character's father was a soldier.
B. Blood Game
for a red cover.Task Points: 25
Total Points: 35
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 5 (working on 2 tasks)
Pages Read: 1,136
Books by Goodreads authors: 0
Big Books: 0(500+), 0(750+), 0(1000+)
20.5 - Library LoveThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (5*)
(goodreads author & BIG BOOK: 500+ pgs)
Tasks: 4
Books: 4
Goodreads authors: 1
Pages: 1,959
TOTAL POINTS: 85
I just finished 25.9 C. Tankini - The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon published Aug. of 2005, and 1400+ pages (I don't know the exact amount but I know it exceeds the 850 pg. limit)
25.6 Summer Song..B. Singer's Biography
I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne(5 stars)
One summer, while I was a teenager, I went to visit a new friend. She had older brothers, and they were playing Black Sabbath. I especially remember the song "Paranoid". It was the first time I'd ever heard heavy, dark music, and I was instantly drawn to it. To this day, I love bad boys, loud drums, and the feeling of freedom heavy metal conjures up in me.
Ozzy's book was a 5 star read for me, based on the stories alone.
+25
points: 25
books: 1
tasks: 1
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A. tank suit 850+ World Without End by Ken Follett 1014 pages
Not quite as good as The Pillars of the Earth but still a good read
+25
total 105
Stephanie wrote: "Nicole wrote: "I just completed task 5.5. I had never read Janet Evanovich before, so I read her most popular book One for the Money. Now I am an addict. Total Pages: 2779
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And have you heard about the movie version?? I heart Katherine Heigl! I really want to read more of the series NOW, but I don't want to ditch any of my other challenge books. Sigh. lol
Stephanie wrote: "Nicole NC wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "15.5- "The Great Authors Were Great Readers, And One Way To Understand Them Is To Read The Books They Read." — Mortimer J. AdlerOn this website (Top Ten Books) ..."
Oh god. Now I am worrying about reading it. I chose it for that same task. What to do, what to do!
25.3 Virtual Foreign VacationWant to visit Japan-
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Other lang--- Danish
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairytales
Total pages read- 517
Total Tasks - 2
Total Points earned- 30
TOTAL POINTS: 2020.10 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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25.1 Valorie's Task: Independence DayI read 61 Hours by Lee Child (Which has a blue cover and whose main character, Jack Reacher is a retired Army MP)
and The Apostle (Which has a white cover and whose main character, Scot Harvath, is an ex-Navy SEAL)
I know I'm a nerd, but I was excited that these two books fit the challenge no matter which way I listed them.
Points for this Task: 25
Total Points: 45
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 6
Pages Read: 1608
5.9 Pulling myself together- Denise WelchMy sister and dad were in the same hospital last week- so I had a lot of travelling and waiting between visiting times. So this book was almost entirely read in the hospital waiting room- the rest on the bus!
My dad is now out of hospital- so down to an hour visiting now!
5.3 - S.U.M.M.E.RNefertiti - Michelle Moran
I moved this weekend so I've barely had time to read. I feel so far behind!
Total Points: 5
Tasks Completed: 1
Tasks in Progress: 1
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 945
Messed up on my last posting. It should be 30 points instead of 35 points. Sorry.I have one to add. I read ABC Murders by Christie for the group read and posted in the discussion group. That brings me to:
20.10 brings me to 50 points out of 950
207 pages for total of 785 pages
I have finished 3 tasks:5.2 (Blockbuster) - For the movie Splice, about 2 scientists who genetically engineer a half human I read The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA
5.10 (Re-read a book you loved the first time) - I re-read Mo'Nique's Skinny Women Are Evil: Notes of a Big Girl in a Small-Minded World
and for 20.10 (Group Read) - I read The Book Thief and posted on the forum, post number 8.
Total: 30
Kim wrote: "5.9 Pulling myself together- Denise WelchMy sister and dad were in the same hospital last week- so I had a lot of travelling and waiting between visiting times. So this book was almost entirely..."
Kim, Sorry to hear about your relatives in the hospital. Best wishes for them.
5.7 - "I Confess That In 1901 I Said To My Brother Orville That Man Would Not Fly For Fifty Years. "On August 8, 1908 Wilbur Wright made his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It was the Wright Brothers' first public flight. In honor of this important event in transportation history...Read a book (fiction or non-fiction) that has a mode of travel pictured on the cover..i.e. airplane, boat, train, car etc.
Angels Flight Michael Connolly
Car on cover
5 points
185
Completed task 10.8 by reading Whale Talk. I wasn't sure at first, but what an INCREDIBLE book. Total Pages= 3003
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5.3 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
5.2 Blockbuster BooksI am really looking forward to seeing Eclipse so i read:
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella by Stephenie Meyer
Total points: 25
I have finished my 1st task : for 10.8 - Under The Sea, I read The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton
Books read: 1
Challenges accomplished: 1/58
Points : 10
I finished task 5.3 S.U.M.M.E.R I read
by Melissa Marr for the letters M.M.Task Completed: 2
Books Read: 4
New Total 20/950
Hello!Task 10.7 - The Truth - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Total # Points: 35
Total # Pages Read: 1125
Total # Tasks Completed: 3
Total # Books Read: 4
20.5 Library LoveHere Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
I had so much fun reading this book!!!
Total Pages Read: 662
Total Tasks: 3
Total Points: 50
Jayme wrote: "I finished task 5.3 S.U.M.M.E.R I read by Melissa Marr for the letters M.M.Task Completed: 2
Books Read: 4
New Total 20/950
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I have this book free on Kindle and I was thinking about using it for this task. Is it good?
25.3A Fiction set in unvisited country want to visit = Japan
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
25.3B Originally written in foreign language = Russian
The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories byLeo Tolstoy
300 points
15.3 - Books & blogs: American on PurposeMy review: Really, really enjoyable! Made me love Craigy Fergs even more. Hearing about his out of control years in Scotland, London and the U.S. from his POV was really enlightening and entertaining. He manages to inject a lot of humor with the harsh truth of his addiction problems. I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoys his late night tv show.
Points: 15
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Total Points: 60
Completed Tasks: 5
5.9 Get Caught Reading - Greener than you think - Greg MooreI read this while at the gym, and I have to say, it makes cycling a bit more interesting and definitely helped raise my minutes on the machine :P
Points for this task: 5
Total Points: 30
Tasks Completed: 3
Books Read: 3
Books by Goodreads authors: 0
Big Books: 0 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)
5.8 Take a Walk on Wall StreetHalf Magic from the "Books to Read Aloud" list
A very cute book that I would definitely read aloud :3
20.8 B&N Classics
A Room with a View
Took forever to read. I know what he was getting at and I understand why it is the way it is, but man, it was like pulling teeth x_x I'm so glad I didn't live 100 years ago.
Total: 25 + 175 (from earlier) = 200pts
I finished another book today. For task 5.9 (read a book in public), I've been reading The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc at work. I'm 9 months pregnant and in the Army so there's really not much they can do with me. I just sit at a desk and read all day.
New total: 35
15.1 - Wedding Bells Are Ringing: Old/Borrowed (published 1970, borrowed from the library):
New/Blue:
Points: 15
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Total Points: 75
Completed Tasks: 6
5.9 - I read at my high school every day, so to pick one book, haha: The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly20.7 - A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
20.9 - Catching Fire, Susanne Collins
20.10 - The Hunger Games, Susanne Collins
Total Points: 65
Total Tasks: 4
Books Read: 4
Pages Read: 1296
Tasks in Progress: 2
Hoping I did this correctly. :/
I finished 10.4 - The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble. I rolled 455 and this book was 464 pages. I thought it was a pretty boring, predictable book. Oh well!!
5.10 - "If One Cannot Enjoy Reading A Book Over And Over Again, There Is No Use In Reading It At All." - Oscar WildeI re-read Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I don't re read a lot of books, but I fell in love with the characters in this story and could read this over and over.
This book is also 500+ pages
10.4 - Roll The Dice...Do you feel lucky...are the dice on your side? For this task you will need to visit the website (3 Random Dice). The amount shown on the dice (+/- 10) will be the amount of pages that you will need to read for this task. I.E. if you rolled a 3,5,2 you would need to read a book between between 342 and 362 pages long (EXAMPLE: Son of a Witch (Wicked Years, #2)). You can only click on the link one time.
I rolled 332 and read American Adulterer by Jed Mercurio which is 336 pages
Current Point Total: 10
Jessica MI
I posted 10.2 for The Glass Castle and I meant I meant 10.3. Same place, same time, ect. Sorry for the confusion. Tasks completed: 1
Books read: 1
Pages read: 288
Total points: 10
Finished:20.10 Group Read: ABC Murders. Comment 20 in Group Reads.
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15.10 Other Things May Change Us: The Stepsister Scheme by Jim Hines.
I've been so luck with my family, both birth and by marriage. I think one reason is because we each have a sense of humor that enables us to smooth over some of the bumpy spots in life. While technically we have some "steps" in the extended family, we have a policy of the more the merrier. Family is family regardless of how you arrived here.
I've been tempted to buy and display the plaque that reads "Remember, as far as anyone knows we're a normal family."
Donna Jo wrote: "Finished:20.10 Group Read: ABC Murders. Comment 20 in Group Reads.
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15.10 Other Things May Change Us: The Stepsister Scheme by Jim Hines.
I've been s..."
Wow that is a great plaque.
Although, it would not work for me...we are too obviously NOT normal (but we like that)
Task 5.5 - Dropping NamesOld Man's War by John Scalzi
He is a Goodreads author.
Points for this task: 5
Total Points: 10 / 950
Tasks Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Books by Goodreads authors: 1
Big Books: 0 (500+), 0 (750+), 0 (1000+)
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I read The Giver by Lois Lowry while waiting in a hospital waiting area.
20.10 - Group Reads
The Hunger Games and posted a comment on the discussion site. My advice.... don't read this until you have time to complete it. I started it in May and had to return it to the library to keep from going over the half way mark before the challenge started.
25.10 - Belinda's Task - Let's Play The Name Game
I read Killing Floor by Lee CHILD and Still Life with Crows by Douglas Preston and Lincoln CHILD.
Total points: 50