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May 15, 2010 01:17PM
I hope Cynthia doesn't mind me jumping into this thread. I am so excited to see the summer list up! I'm already pulling books down off the shelf that might fit. Although it's not required, I always find the seasonal challenge plan section to be handy.
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5.1 Heat Wave - Catching Fire5.2 Blockbuster Books - By Blood We Live
5.3 S.U.M.M.E.R - The Heretic Queen
5.4 Lesser Known Awards - Graceling
5.5 Dropping Names - I Capture the Castle
5.6 I Only Regret - The Borne Identity
5.7 I Confess - The Road to Memphis
5.8 Take a Walk - Suite Francaise
5.9 Get Caught Reading - The Diary of Anne Frank
5.10 If One Cannot - Let the Circle be Unbroken
10.1 Stormy Weather - The Phantom of the Opera
10.2 The...Who - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
10.3 Save Place - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
10.4 Roll the Dice - (513) The Blind Assassin
10.5 Beach - Beowulf on the Beach
10.6 Stand Up - Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
10.7 Truth - On Writing
10.8 Under the Sea - Island of the Blue Dolphins
10.9 You cannot Open - The Planets
10.10 Great Minds - Ender's Game
15.1 Wedding Bells - Beautiful Creatures & 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
15.2 Stars & Stripes - The Colorado Kid & The Witch of Blackbird Pond
15.3 Books and Blogs - Little Brother 75 of 307 pages
15.4 Learn your Numbers - Horns & The First Man in Rome 500 of 931 pages
15.5 The Great Authors - Lord of the Flies & Bag of Bones
15.6 River Runs - Blindness & Mockingjay
15.7 Change - Shalamar the Clown
15.8 Double Double - No One You Know Finished 06/19/10 pages & Driftwood Summer Finished 06/24/10
15.9 Enlightened - Pretty in Plaid
15.10 Family - The Magicians Nephew
20.1 Most Improved - I Was Told There'd Be Cake
20.2 Rookie - Nefertiti
20.3 Best Review - MacBeth
20.4 Bridesmaid - The Crystal Cave
20.5 Just Joined - The Thirteenth Tale Finished 07/22/10
20.6 Goodreads Authors - The City & The City
20.7 Big Books - The Lies of Locke Lamora
20.8 Birthday - Pride & Prejudice
20.9 Luck of the Draw - The Help
20.10 Group Reads - The Hunger Games 111 of 384 pages
25.1 Valorie's Task - Jarhead 100 of 272 pages & Zombie CSU
25.2 Coralie's Task - Write it When I'm Gone & Four Past Midnight 387 of 698 pages
25.3 Jennifer N's Task - Under the Net & The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest
25.4 Nicole OH's Task - The Red Tent & Map of Bones 173 of 350
25.5 Helen's Task - Dune Finished 06/02/10 & I, Claudius 84 of 468
25.6 Ashley FL - Flipped
25.7 Wendy - Tribe of the Tiger & Cat Among the Pigeons
25.8 Sandy - What the Dickens & The Tales of Beedle the bard.
25.9 Donna Jo - The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1 500 of 1088 pages
25.10 Belinda's Task - The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe & The Dumb Shall Sing
30.1 Ms Anderson - The Mother Tongue & The Girl Who Played with Fire
30.2 PJ Reads - Charlotte's Web & To Kill a Mockingbird
30.3 Sheila - Lincoln Legends & The Devil in the White City
30.4 Cheryl TX - Darkly Dreaming Dexter Finished 06/16/10 & In the Woods 111 of 600 pages
30.5 DLM Rose - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society & Breaking Free of Emotional Eating
5 Points1. Heat Wave: Firegirl ~ Abbott
2. Blockbuster Books: Robin Hood ~ Howard Pyle
3. SUMMER: Stuck Down ~ Eileen Rosenbloom
4. Lesser-Known Awards: Graceling ~ Kristin Cashore (Sakura Medal nominee)
5. Dropping Names: Goose Girl ~ Shannon Hale
6. “I Only Regret...”: I Could Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You ~ Ally Carter
7. “I Confess That...” Airman ~ Eoin Colfer
8. Take a Walk on Wall Street: Half Magic ~ Edward Eager from “Books to Read Aloud”
9. Get Caught Reading:
10. “If One Cannot...”:
10 Points
1. Stormy Weather: Diva ~ Alex Flinn
2. “The --- Who...”: The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank ~ Ellen Feldman
3. Same Place, Same Time: Catching Fire ~ Suzanne Collins
4. Roll the Dice: Tripping to Somewhere ~ Kristopher Reisz (363pgs)
5. If You Can’t Go to the Beach...: Summer Sisters ~ Judy Blume
6. Stand Up for Your Rights: Torn ~ Amber Lehman
7. I Think We Can Handle the Truth: The Great Fire ~ Jim Murphy
8. Under the Sea: Dolphin Island ~ Arthur C. Clark
9. “You Cannot Open...”: Year 1000 ~ Robert Lacey
10. Great Minds Think Alike: Life as We Knew It ~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
15 Points
1. Wedding Bells are Ringing: The Cat in the Cradle ~ Jay Bell (new blue) and The Search for Delicious ~ Natalie Babbit (old borrowed)
2. Stars and Stripes Forever: Bound for Oregon ~ Jean van Leeuwen and My Brother Sam is Dead ~ James Lincoln Collier (Connecticut)
3. Books and Blogs: Fallen ~ Lauren Kate (http://aleapopculture.blogspot.com/20...)
4. Learn Your Numbers: (me = 4) Second Coming ~ David H. Burton and
5. “The Great Authors...”: The Pesthouse ~ Jim Crace and The Tin Drum ~ Gunter Grass
6. “Eventually, All Things...” Death with Interruptions ~ Jose Saramago and Dark Fire ~ Chris d’Lacey
7. “You Must Be...”: A Suitable Boy ~ Vikram Seth
8. “Double Double Toil...”: Breathless ~ Lurlene McDaniel and Breathless ~ Jessica Warman
9. “He Who Knows...”: Nerds ~ Michael Buckley
10. "Other Things May...”: Son of the Mob ~ Gordon Korman
20 Points
1. Most Improved
2. Rookie
3. Best Review
4. Always Bridesmaid
5. Just Joined In
6. Supporting GR
7. Big Books
8. Happy Bday
9. Luck of the Draw
10. Group Read: Hunger Games
25 Points
1. Pending
2. Q&A: The Boy Who Reversed Himself ~ William Sleator and I, Houdini ~ Lynne Reid Banks
3. Ode to IL: The Good Earth ~ Pearl S. Buck (Oprah pick) and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ~ Seth Grahame-Smith (Lincoln)
4. Forensics: Darkly Dreaming Dexter ~ Jeff Lindsay and House Rules ~ Jodi Picoult
5. Virtual Block Party: A Mango-Shaped Space and Like Water for Chocolate ~ Laura Esquivel
6. Summer Lovin’: To Hell and Back ~ Meat Loaf (autobio) to go with Paradise with the Dashboard Light
7. Passions: Gamer Girl ~ Mari Manusi (fiction) and The Ultimate History of Video Games (nonfiction)
8. Once Upon a Time: Gail Carson Levine’s retold fairy tales
9. Swimsuit Edition: Battle Royale ~ Takami Koushun and Oryx and Crake ~ Margaret Atwood
10. Pending
30 Points
1. Bdays and Bmonths: The Way Things Work ~ David Macauley and Courtship of Princess Leia ~ Dave Wolverton
2. For the Children: Ramona the Brave and Ramona and Her Father ~ Beverly Cleary
5 points1. The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston
2. BLOCKBUSTER BOOKS ?
3.
4. 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (British Fantasy Award for Best Collection 2006)
5. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
6. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
7. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein
8.
9.
10. The Odyssey by Homer
10 points
1. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
2.
3. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Currently read by Matt Kilby)
4. I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles (536-556)
Timestamp: 2010-05-15 20:56:06
5. IF YOU CAN'T GO TO THE BEACH ?
6. Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee by Robert J. Norrell
7.
8. UNDER THE SEA ?
9.
10. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (Lisa, pg 6)
15 points
1. OLD-Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (blue)
NEW-Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver (borrowed)
2. STARS-?
STRIPES-Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich (New Jersey)
3. Neuromancer by William Gibson (The Millions)
4. The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life by Laurie Notaro*
Missy: A Novel-by Chris Hannan
Your number is: 5
The characteristics of #5 are: Expansiveness, visionary, adventure, the constructive use of freedom.
5. Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes*
Candide by Voltaire (#5)
6. The Poisonwood Bible-by Barbara Kingsolver
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg (480pgs)
7. YOU MUST BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD ?
8. DOUBLE, DOUBLE ?
9. The Learners: A Novel by Chip Kidd
10. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
20 points
1. SWELTERING SUMMER DAYS ?
2. Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer (1387)
3B. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
4. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
5.
6.
7. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
8. The Iliad by Homer
9. Stitches by David Small (Adult Nonfiction Honor Award recipient 2010)
10 GROUP READ
25 points
1. Company K by William March
2. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis
3. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
4. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
"I told her to stop behaving like a child, for she wore a woman's belt."
5. Salem's Lot by Stephen King (HORROR)
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (MYSTERY)
6. SUMMER LOVIN ?
7. I'M PASSIONATE ABOUT ?
8. Russian Fairy Tales by Alexander Afanasyev
9. Tankini
Crooked Little Vein
The Writing Class by Jincy Willett
Water Ghosts: A Novel by Shawna Yang Ryan
10. Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Francis Moore*
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
30 points
1. BIRTHDAYS & BIRTHMONTHS ?
2. CHILDREN'S CLASSIC ?
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
3. AN ODE TO ILLINOIS ?
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (Oprah)
4. THE SCIENCE OF CRIME ?
5. VIRTUAL BLOCK PARTY ?
Up in Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard
5 Point Tasks (2/10)5.1 -
5.2 Blockbuster Books -
5.3 - S.U.M.M.E.R - Gorgeously Green by Sophie Uliano, 309 pages
5.4 Lesser Known Awards -
5.5 - Dropping Names - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, 465 pages
5.6 "I Only Regret That I Have but One Life to Lose for My Country" -
5.7 - "I Confess That In 1901 I Said To My Brother Orville That Man Would Not Fly For Fifty Years. " - The Secret Duke by Jo Beverley, 413 pages (has a ship on the cover)
5.8 Take A Walk On Wall Street -The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (5 Best Coming of Age Tales)
5.9 Get Caught Reading -
5.10 -
10 Point Tasks (0/10)
10.1 Stormy Weather - Tempt Me At Twilight by Lisa Kleypas, 373 pages
10.2 "The (Fill In The Blank) Who" - The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson, 503 pages
10.3 Same Place, Same Time...Same Books
10.4 Roll the Dice - Rolled 212, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, 219 pages
10.5 If You Can't Go to the Beach...Bring the Beach To You - Galapagos
10.6 Stand Up for Your Rights -
10.7 I Think We Can Handle the Truth - Jack the Ripper: Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
10.8 Under The Sea - Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia Dunlop, 352 pages
10.9 "You Cannot Open A Book Without Learning Something" (Confucius) -
10.10 Great Minds Think Alike - Dead As A Doornail by Charlaine Harris (last book I gave 5* to was A Knight In Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux, picked book from Deanne Deserto's 5* list)
15 Point Tasks (0/10)
15.1 Wedding Bells Are Ringing -
A. Old/Borrowed - The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmusky Orczy (published 1905)
B. New/Blue - Simply Perfect by Mary Balogh, 464 pages
15.2 Stars and Stripes Forever -
15.3 Books and Blogs -
15.4 Learn Your Numbers - my number is 1 (initiating action, pioneering, leading, independent, individual, attaining)
A. Passion and Principle by Jane Aiken Hodge
B. Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession by Julie Powell
15.5 "The Great Authors Were Great Readers..." -
A. I chose Jennifer Weiner, Goodnight Nobody
B. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
15.6 "Eventually, All Things Merge Into One, and A River Runs Through It" -
15.7 "You Must Be the Change You Want to See in the World" -
15.8 - "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble" - A. Days of Gold by Jude Deveraux, 384 pages AND Days of Gold by Ardyce Czuchna-Curl, 128 pages
15.9 "He Who Knows Others is Wise. He Who Knows Himself is Enlightened" -
15.10 "Other Things May Change, but We Start and End With Family" - Sisters of Sinai: How two lady adventurers unearthed the lost gospels by Janet Martin, 320 pages
20 Point Tasks (0/10)
20.1 Sweltering Summer Days - Cookies & Cream
Dirty Sugar Cookies by Ayun Halliday, 256 pages
20.2 A Trip to the Past -
20.3 School May Be Out -
20.4 Anniversary Gift - 4th Fruit/Flowers or Appliances
20.5 Library Love - Nice Girls Don't Live Forever by Molly Harper (main character is a children's librarian turned vampire)
20.6 List Maker - The Magicians by Lev Grossman, 402 pages
20.7 For Those We Love to Hate -
20.8 B&N Classics-
20.9 The Spirit of Independence -
20.10 Group Reads - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
25 Point Tasks (0/10)
25.1 Independence Day -
A. Ruff's War
B. The Elusive Bride by Stephanie Laurens, 436 pages (Blue/White cover)
25.2 Q&A -
25.3 Virtual Foreign Vacation -
25.4 - Happy Birthday to Me! -
25.5 Share the Summer Love -
25.6 Ashley FL's Task - "Summer Lovin"
25.7 I'm Passionate About... -
25.8 Sandy's Task - Once Upon A Time...
25.9 Time for the Swimsuit Edition -
25.10 Let's Play the Name Game -
30 Point Tasks (0/5)
30.1 Ms Anderson's Task - Birthdays and Birthmonths
A. October - Hundred Years' War
B. Tuesday: Alternate History - The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
30.2 PJ Read's Task - For the Children
30.3 Sheila's Task - An Ode to Illinois -
A. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith, 352 pages
B. The Devil In the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson, 447 pages
30.4 Cheryl TX's Task - The Science of Crime
30.5 DLM Rose's Task - Virtual Block Party - Red Velvet Cake
A. Sugar by Bernice McFadden, 240 pages *GR Author
C. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, 205 pages
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?ke...5 POINTS
5.1 Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5.2
5.3 The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
5.4 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (South Carolina Book Awards)
5.5 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
5.6 The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss
5.7 No Frills: The Business Behind the Low-Cost Revolution in the Sky by Simon Calder (plane)
5.8 Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (Novels on Immigrants in America)
5.9 The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers by Lilian Jackson Braun
5.10
10 POINTS
10.1 Thirty-nothing by Lisa Jewell
10.2 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steigg Larsson
10.3 The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
10.4 Nocturne by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran (221 +/-10)
10.5 Summer Things by Joseph Connolly
10.6 Hanged at Auschwitz: An Extraordinary Memoir of Survival by Sim Kessel
10.7
10.8
10.9 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (science)
10.10 The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
15 POINTS
15.1
15.2 Gangs of New York by Herbert Ashbury/Back Spin by Harlan Coben (Pennsylvannia)
15.3 The Girl who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson (http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5...)
15.4 Standoff by Sandra Brown (3)/
15.5 That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx/The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
15.6
15.7 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
15.8 Drop Dead Gorgeous by Katie Agnew/
15.9
15.10 My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
20 POINTS
20.1 The Discovery of Chocolate by James Runcie (B&J Chocolate Macadamia)
20.2 Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
20.3 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
20.4 The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (6 Candy/Iron or Wood)
20.5
20.6 The Crow Road by Iain M Banks
20.7
20.8 The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason
20.9 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski/TBD
20.10
25 POINTS
25.1 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller/A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
25.2 The Woman who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle/Eric by Terry Pratchett
25.3 The World Below by Sue Miller (America)/Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grange (French)
25.4 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse/Bad Heir Day by Wendy Holden (day)
25.5
25.6 Painting Ruby Tuesday by Jane Yardley
25.7 Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table by Nigel Slater/The Food of Love by Anthony Capella
25.8
25.9 Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern (400 pgs)/The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell (464 pgs)
25.10 The Necropolis Railway by Andrew Martin/Adrift in the Oceans of Mercy by Martin Booth
30 POINTS
30.1
30.2 TBD/Castle in the Air by Diane Wynne Jones
30.3 TBD/The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
30.4
30.5 Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith/Recipes for a Perfect Marriage by Kate Kerrigan
50 POINTS
Aug 13: shuffling books around to fit them all in before the end of the Challenge.......
5.1 Heat: How To Stop The Planet From Burning by George Monbiot
5.3 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
5.6 The Scarlet Pimpernel
5.8 Wuthering Heights (Books on Obsession list)
10.2 The Boy Who Dared
10.3 (Same Time, Same Place) Water For Elephants
10.5 The Island
10.6 Sarah's Key
10.7 Eating Animals
10.8 Fluke: Or, I know Why the Winged Whale Sings
10.9 Dead Men Do Tell Tales (forensic anthropologist)
15.3 Beat The Reaper (http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.c...)
15.4* Everyman Dies Alone & Children of God (Fr. Sandoz is all of these: Analysis, understanding, knowledge, awareness, studious, meditating)(numerology 7)
15.5 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (Alexander McCall Smith) & One Hundred Years of Solitude
15.8 The Night Watch by Sarah Waters & The Night Watch by Sean Stewart
15.9*
15.10* Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
20.2 The Penelopiad (12th Century?)
20.3 Walden by Thoreau (first published 1854)
20.5
20.7 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
20.8 Pride & Prejudice
25.1 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand & Mudbound (red cover)
25.2
25.3 The Disappeared (Cambodia) & Suite Francaise (translated from French)
25.4 Coming Up For Air by George Orwell (June 25) &
25.6* A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
25.7 Bound To Please by Michael Dirda & People Of The Book
30.2 The Magician's Nephew & The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
30.5* The Birds Fall Down (Part A) + Salt: A World History (post potluck recipe with poultry)
Task 50.1 (Past)
Reading Plan:5points
5.1 Heat Wave
5.2 Blockbuster books
5.3 S.U.M.M.E.R
5.4 Lesser known Awards
5.5 Dropping names
5.6 "I Only Regret That I Have ..."
5.7 "I Confess That In 1901 I Said..."
5.8 Take A Walk On Wall Street
Ghost Tales List, #3
The Haunting of Hill House By Shirley Jackson
5.9 Get Caught Reading
by Stephenie Meyer
5.10 "If One Cannot Enjoy Reading A Book Over..."
10 points
10.1 Stormy Weather
The Fury (Vampire Diaries #3)
by Lisa Jane Smith
10.2 "The (Fill In The Blank) Who..."
10.3 Same Place, Same Time...Same Books
10.4 Roll The Dice... Roll 2,4,5
10.5 If You Can't Go To The Beach...
10.6 Stand Up For Your Rights
10.7 I Think We Can Handle The Truth
10.8 Under The Sea
10.9 “You Cannot Open A Book Without..."
10.10 Great Minds Think Alike
Memoirs of a Geisha
15 points
15.1 Wedding Bells Are Ringing
15.2 Stars And Stripes Forever
15.3 Books And Blogs
15.4 Learn Your Numbers
Anne Rice (number 6)
15.5 "The Great Authors Were Great Readers..."
15.6 "Eventually, All Things Merge Into One..."
15.7 "You Must Be The Change You Want To See..."
15.8 "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble..."
15.9 “He Who Knows Others Is Wise..."
15.10 “Other Things May Change Us..."
20 points
20.1 The Most Improved Player
20.2 Rookie Of The Season
20.3 Best Review Contest
20.4 Always The Bridesmaid...
20.5 Just Joined In - Amber GA's Task
20.6 Supporting Goodreads Authors
The Strain by Guillermo del Toro/Chuck Hogan
20.7 I Like Big Books And I Cannot Lie
20.8 Happy Birthday To You - B&N Classics
20.9 Luck Of The Draw - The Spirit of Independence
20.10 Group Reads
25 points
25.1 Valorie's Task - Independence Day
25.2 Coralie's Task - Q & A
25.3 Jennifer N'S Task - Virtual Foreign Vacation
a.
b. Written in foreign language - Let The Right One In
25.4 Nicole OH's Task - Happy Birthday to Me!
25.5 Helen's Task - Share the Summer Love
Paranormal- From Dead To Worse by Charlaine Harris YA- The Sea Monsters by Rick Riordan
25.6 Ashley FL'S Task - "Summer Lovin"
25.7 Wendy's Task - I'm Passionate About...
25.8 Sandy's Task - Once Upon A Time…
25.9 Donna Jo's Task - It's Time For The Swim Suit...
Tankini (850 pages/last 5 years)
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25.10 Belinda's Task - Let's Play The Name Game
The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith
30 points
30.1 Ms Anderson's Task - Birthdays and Birthmonths
30.2 PJ Read's Task - As Suggested By Shannon
30.3 Sheila's Task - An Ode To Illinois
30.4 Cheryl TX's Task - The Science Of Crime
30.5 DLM Rose's Task - Virtual Block Party
So far, I'm determined to read:5.1. Nothing Like the Sun, Anthony Burgess
5.2. Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger
5.4. International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award – Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
5.5 A Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
5.6. The Quiet American, Graham Greene
5.7. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
5.10. Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges
10.2. The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
10.4. (rolled 224) Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (215 pages)
10.8. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Douglas Adams
15.6. Blindness, Jose Saramago & Bleak House, Dickens
15.7. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
15.8. Youth, Tolstoy & Youth, J.M. Coetzee
20.3. The Warden, Anthony Trollope
20.5. Matilda, Roald Dahl
20.10. ABC Murders, Agatha Christie
25.2. Treasure Island, R.L. Stevenson & What Massie Knew, Henry James
25.5. Cake and Ale, W. Somerset Maugham
25.9. Mill on the Floss, George Eliot (467 pages) & Lady Wintermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde (68 pages) & The Warden, Anthony Trollope (336 pages)
5.1 5.2
5.3 Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
5.4
5.5
5.6 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - In Progress
5.7 The Master - In Progress
5.8 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
5.9
5.10
10.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10
15.1 The Return of the Native - In Progress &
15.2
15.3
15.4 Robinson Crusoe & Vanity Fair
15.5
15.6
15.7
15.8 Blindness - In Progress &
15.9
15.10 Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
20.1 Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
20.2 The Golden Ass - In Progress
20.3 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
20.4 The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
20.5
20.6
20.7 The Butcher Boy - In Progress
20.8 Moll Flanders - In Progress
20.9
20.10
25.1
25.2
25.3 A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute & The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Next by Stieg Larsson
25.4
25.5
25.6 Possession - In Progress
25.7 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - In Progress & The Children's Book - In Progress
25.8
25.9 ?? &
25.10 The Accidental by Ali Smith and White Teeth by Zadie Smith
30.1
30.2
30.3
30.4 Silent Witness & In the Woods
30.5 A Clockwork Orange - In Progress & Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
50.1
5.1 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini5.4 Dead Until Dark by Charlane Harris
5.6 The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
5.7 The White Tiger by Aravind Adaga
5.8 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
10.3
10.5 True Colors by Kristen Hannah
10.8 Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
10.10
15.1 Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susan
Fly Away Home: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner
Queen of Babble in the Big City by Meg Cabot
Queen of Babble Gets Hitched by Meg Cabot
15.5 The Mistress of Spices: A Novel by Chitra Divakaruni
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
15.6 Blindness by Jose Saramago
15.7 The Palace of Illusions: A Novel by Chitra Divakaruni
15.8 (similar titles/covers)
20.2 Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
20.3 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20.4 The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato
20.5 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
20.6
20.7 The Collector by John Fowles
The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen
25.2
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green
25.3
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
25.5
Linger by Maggie Stiefvatter
25.7 The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
The Accidental Bestseller by Wendy Wax
What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire
25.9 The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
25.10 Club Dead by Charlane Harris
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
30.3 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
30.4 Shutter Island: A Novel by Dennis Lehane
The Likeness by Tana French
Winter Garden by Kristen Hannah
50.1 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Total Points: 455
Tasks Completed: 27
Tasks in Progress: 4
Books Read: 39
Pages Read: 10044
Goodreads Authors: 6
Big Books: 3 (500+), 1 (750+), 0 (1000+)
Claiming a spot, too. I'm so excited. The Spring Challenge was difficult for me, there were a lot of holes in my challenge list, several tasks that I couldn't find a book to fit, then the six weeks have been tough - I'm looking forward to this one!First go at a list
5.1- heat - A World Lit Only by Fire
5.2- Blockbuster - Dead to the World
5.3- SUMMER
5.4- Award - The Prisoner of Azkabahn
5.5- Names - Fantasy Lover or High Fidelity
5.6- Spies - Withces Incorporated
5.7- Flight - Middlesex
5.8- WSJ - Alexandria
5.9- Reading - ???
5.10- Oscar Wilde - ???
10.1- Hurricanes - Sharyn McCrumb book
10.2- The WHo - The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
10.3-Same books Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
10.4- Dice - Sarah's Quilt
10.5- Beach -???
10.6- Discrimination - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
10.7- Truth - Animal Vegetable Mineral
10.8- Ocean - ???
10.9- Learning - Bridge
10.10- Great Minds - Living Dead in Dallas
15.1- Wedding - Mrs Mike and She Walks These Hills
15.2- Stars and Stripes - ???
15.3- Blogs - The war Against Miss Winter
15.4- Numbers - Steven Saylor book
15.5- Great Authors - The City of Your Final Destination and The Towers of Trebizond
15.6- Portugal and Africa - Whitechapel Gods
15.7- India - Shantaram
15.8- Doubles - Limitations and Alex Cross's Trial
15.9- Know Yourself - The Kitchen God's Wife or The Red-haired Girl from the Bog
15.10- Family - Daughter of the Forest
25.1- Birthdays - River of Doubt and Already Dead or The Big Sleep
25.2- Children - ???
25.3- Illinois - Honor's Voice or Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Changes
25.4-
25.5- Block Party - The Sonoran Grill
25.6- Summer Lovin - La vie en rose - Almost French or Endless Night
25.7-
25.8- Tooth Fairy - In the Night Garden
25.9- Bathing Suits - ???
The Seasonal Reading Challenge Group: Summer 2010Duration: 6/01/10 - 8/31/10
Task List: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/3...
* = OWNED
5.1: Catching Fire
5.2: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
5.3: Kristin Lavransdatter 1: The Wreath*
5.4: Soulless
5.5: Dead in the Family
5.6: The Masque of the Black Tulip
5.7:
*5.8: Housekeeping
5.9: Real Vampires Have Curves
5.10: *
10.1: The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
10.2: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
10.3: Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison - Kim in Bakersfield, CA
10.4: 3-6-2 Unzipped*
10.5:
*10.6: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
10.7: In Cold Blood
10.8: Fluke Or I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
10.9: The Seduction of the Crimson Rose – historical fiction is one of my favorite genres although I seldom read anything that isn't set in the UK or USA--this takes place in France. Learning experience? Perhaps!
10.10: Slaughterhouse-Five - Anna in Phillipsburg, NJ – we both gave Dracula 5 stars
15.1: Fahrenheit 451 (old, borrowed) AND
* (new, blue)15.2: Resort to Murder: Thirteen More Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Writers AND Three to Get Deadly
15.3: Devil's Cub review at: http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.co...
15.4: Suddenly You - author and I are both 4’s - AND Succubus on Top - a novel where a character demonstrates one or more “4” characteristics: A foundation, order, service, struggle against limits, steady growth. Main character works in a book store (service) and can’t kiss the guy she loves without stealing his life force (struggle against limits)
15.5: Morality for Beautiful Girls AND One Hundred Years of Solitude
15.6: Blindness AND The Sugar Queen*
15.7: Interpreter of Maladies
15.8: The Duke AND The Duke
15.9: Good in Bed
15.10: Sugar Daddy
20.1
20.2
20.3: North and South
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8: Great Expectations*
20.9
20.10 The ABC Murders
25.1: An Echo in the Bone* AND
25.2: Where Are You Now?* AND 16 Lighthouse Road
25.3 The Owl Killers* AND The Count of Monte Cristo
25.4 Black and Blue* AND The Deception of the Emerald Ring
25.5 Magic Bites AND Wicked Burn*
25.6: Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off
25.7: 60 Quick Knits in Cascade 220: 20 Hats*20 Scarves*20 Mittens AND The Knitting Circle
25.8: 400 pages of fairy tales
25.9: Tankini - Lover Mine AND Silver Borne – 854 pages
25.10: Saving Grace* AND The Full Cupboard of Life
30.1: The Sea Ranch* AND Changes
30.2: James and the Giant Peach AND The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
30.3: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter AND Some Girls Bite
30.4: Postmortem AND The Bone Collector
30.5: I’m bringing a delicious WW salad - Orange-Cilantro Black Bean Salad Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit AND Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook*
5.9 John F. Kennedy Lives in the Future! by Matthew Ward10.9 Long For This World: The Strange Science of Immortality by Jonathan Weiner
10.10 Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors by Jenny Nimmo
15.3 How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
15.4 A.I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley B. Blood Song by Cat Adams
20.2 Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Anonymous edited by Stephen Mitchell
20.6 Lady of the Butterflies by Fiona Mountain
20.8 Persuasion by Jane Austen
25.8 Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson and The Inside Story by Michael Buckley (592/400pgs)
Total: 140 points
I am so excited that the list is available already. AND I'm on vacation so I can spend some time with it and my books!
5.1 - Heat Wave: Catching Fire5.2 - Blockbuster Books: The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
5.3 - S.U.M.M.E.R.: Flashforward
5.4 - Lesser Known Awards: South Carolina Book Award All We Know of Heaven
5.5 - Dropping Names: One for the Money
5.6 - One Life To Lose: Harriet the Spy
5.7 - Orville: The God of Animals
5.8 - Wall Street: Ficciones
5.9 - Get Caught Reading: Dead and Gone (gonna read it on one of my 2 plane trips!)
5.10 - Re-read: High Fidelity
10.1 - Stormy Weather: Ruined: A Ghost Story
10.2 - The Fill in the Blank Who: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
10.3 - Same Time, Same Place: Going Bovine
10.4 - Roll the Dice: (224) Shakespeare's Landlord
10.5 - Beach: Beach Girls
10.6 - Stand Up for Rights:The Beautiful Room Is Empty
10.7 - Truth Day: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
10.8 - Under the Sea: Whale Talk
10.9 - Learning: The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living
10.10 - Great Minds: A Northern Light
15.1 -Wedding Bells: A. Old and Borrowed Lie Down in Darkness B. New and Blue
15.2 - Stars and Stripes: A. Looking for Alaska B. Chains
15.3 - Books and Blogs: from http://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.c...
Horns
15.4 - Learn Your Numbers: 9 A.From Dead to Worse B. Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath
15.5 - Great Authors: Picture Perfect and Life of Pi
15.6 - Congo River: The True Sources of the Nile and Accomplice
15.7 - Change: The Twentieth Wife
15.8 - Double, Double: Magic Hour and Magic Hour
15.9 - Enlightened: Miss Understanding
15.10 - Family: Dead in the Family
20.1 - The Most Improved Player: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
20.2 - Rookie Of The Season
20.3 - Best Review Contest: Great Expectations
20.4 - Always The Bridesmaid, Never The Bride
20.5 - Just Joined In
20.6 - Supporting Goodreads Authors
20.7 - I Like Big Books And I Cannot Lie: A Clockwork Orange
20.8 - Happy Birthday To You!: Dracula
20.9 - Luck Of The Draw
20.10 - Group Reads: The Hunger Games
25.1 - Valorie's Task: For Whom the Bell Tolls and
25.2 - Coralie's Task: The Girl Who Chased the Moon and Loving Frank
25.3 - Jennifer N's Task: A Long Way Down and Kafka on the Shore
25.4 - Nicole OH's Task: Distant Waves and If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation
25.5 - Helen's Task: Literary Fiction: Every Last One: A Novel and Fantasy: A Touch of Dead
25.6 - Ashley FL’s Task: "Summer of '69" The Ten Best Days of My Life
25.7 - Wendy’s Task: The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems and Good Poems
25.8 - Sandy’s Task: A Kiss in Time and The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
25.9- Donna Jo’s Task: The Kane Chronicles, Book One: The Red Pyramid and The Seven Year Bitch Tankini/total of 864 pages
25.10 Belinda's Task: Garden Spells and Food, Girls, & Other Things I Can't Have
30.1 Ms. Anderson’s Task: Chick Ink: 40 Stories of Tattoos--And the Women Who Wear Them and Making History
30.2 PJ Reads Task: Peter Pan and The Book of Bright Ideas
30.3 Sheila’s Task: Abraham Lincoln and The Book of Ralph: A Novel
30.4 Cheryl Texas’ Task: Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Postmortem
30.5 DLM Rose’s Task: (bringing my WW potato salad) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Thank You Dionisia for making this post as it totally slipped my mind! Here is my plan...
5.1 - Sizzling Sixteen - DONE
5.2 - Dead in the Family (yes I am highly looking forward to Eclipse so I will read another vampire book). - DONE
5.3 - Marsha Moyer's Return of the Stardust Cowgirl: A Lucy Hatch Novel - DONE
5.4 - Ransom - (All About Romance (AAR) Yearly Reader Award for Favorite Cabin or Road Romance (1999)) - DONE
5.5 - Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin who is on page 2 of the list
5.6 - A Rogue of My Own - DONE
5.7 - Men and Dogs: A Novel
5.8 - On Agate Hill: A Novel - Books on Southern Fiction
5.9 - Counterfeit Lady - DONE
5.10 - An Echo in the Bone
10.1 - The Whole World Over: A Novel by Julia Glass
10.2 - The Woman Who Would Be Pharaoh: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
10.3 - The Wedding (Brenna from Newport News was reading this when I was on at 9:18 PM on May 17th)
10.4 - (I got 613 so that means I have 603-623). Morgan's Run
10.5 -
- DONE10.6 - My Name is Mary Sutter
10.7 - Three Weeks with My Brother
10.8 - The Coral Thief (Coral is an animal.)
10.9 - Metro Girl - I wish I knew more about cars...one character worked in a garage and the other is a NASCAR driver. - DONE
10.10 - Libby - 5 Star from her list Motor Mouth - DONE
15.1 - A. Old & Borrowed - The Enchanted Land - DONE
B. New & Blue - A Loving Scoundrel - DONE
15.2 - A. - The Kingdom of Ohio - DONE
B. - Beach Girls - DONE
15.3 - Free Book Friday this blog featured...Nanny Returns: A Novel on December 12th last year - DONE
15.4 - A. Falling Angels
B. - Fire and Ice - DONE
15.5 - A. Sister Noon
B. Emma
15.6 B. The True Sources of the Nile
C. Prince Charming - DONE
15.7 - Almost Single
15.8 - Saving Grace - DONE & Saving Grace
15.9 - The Girl Next Door - DONE
15.10 - Family Pictures
20.1 - Big Cherry Holler (Cherry Garcia)
20.2 - The Secret - DONE
20.3 - 8 Plays by Moliere
20.4 - The Mulberry Tree - (A Willow Tree) - DONE
20.5 - A Kiss of Fate: A Novel
20.6 - Beyond This Moment - DONE
20.7
20.8 - Dracula
20.9 - Water for Elephants
20.10 - The Hunger Games
25.1 - A. From a Distance - DONE
B.
25.2 - C. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming & The Wives of Henry Oades
25.3 - A. The Devlin Diary - England - DONE &
B. Lilah: A Novel (Originally in French)
25.4 Holy Fools: A Novel (Cancer) & Blackbird House (Blackbird found on page 31)
25.5 Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married & The Maiden: Saga Montgomery - DONE
25.6 Summer Lovin' - Grease is my favorite movie so this was an obvious pick. - DONE
25.7 A. America Dances
B. Dance With Me - DONE
25.8 - Grimm's Fairy Tale Collection
25.9 - C. Invisible Boy - 418 - DONE
Beguiled - 332 - DONE
Wild Ride - 351 - DONE
25.10 - Breathing Room & Hot Stuff - DONE
30.1 - A. Occult -
B. FanFic -
30.2 - A.
B. - The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
30.3 - A. Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln
C. - Here on Earth
30.4 - The Anatomy of Deception & Mistress of the Art of Death
30.5 A. Murder Takes the Cake
B. Deep Dish - DONE
My Seasonal Reading Challenge Blog Page
5 Points
1. Heat Wave
Solar by Ian McEwan
2. Blockbuster Books
Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead for Robin Hood if it's still in the theaters June 1.
3. SUMMER
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
4. Lesser-Known Awards~Award:
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2007)
Book: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
5. Dropping Names
The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison
6. “I Only Regret...”
Montmorency's Revenge by Eleanor Updale
7. “I Confess That...”
Airborn by Kenneth Oppell
8. Take a Walk on Wall Street
Category: The Five Best Books on Immigrants in America
Book: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao By Junot Diaz
9. Get Caught Reading
?
10. “If One Cannot...”
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
10 Points
1. Stormy Weather
Name: Lisa
Far From You by Lisa Schroeder
2. “The --- Who...”
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
3. Same Place, Same Time
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
4. Roll the Dice
Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick 122p(Roll:115)
5. If You Can’t Go to the Beach...
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
6. Stand Up for Your Rights
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
7. I Think We Can Handle the Truth
What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction by Toni Morrison
8. Under the Sea
The Arm of the Starfish by Madeline L'Engle
9. “You Cannot Open...”
Subject: Art History
Book: Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland~ fiction about the life and art of Renoir
10. Great Minds Think Alike
North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
15 Points
1. Wedding Bells are Ringing
New/Blue: The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk
Old/Borrowed: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevski, 775 pages
2. Stars and Stripes Forever
* Stars *
Arkansas by John Brandon
= Stripes=
State: New York
Book: Scarlett Fever by Maureen Johnson
3. Books and Blogs
A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whelan Turner from Becky's Book Reviews
4. Learn Your Numbers
#7 ~ The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Attributes: The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig or Education of Bet by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
5. “The Great Authors...”
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
6. “Eventually, All Things...”
Set in Portugal: Alentejo Blue by by Monica Ali
2nd Longest Book: The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
7. “You Must Be...”
A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee
8. “Double Double Toil...”
Gone by Lisa McMAnn and Gone by Michael Grant
9. “He Who Knows...”
Mostly Happy by Pam Bustin
10. “Other Things May...”
The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
20 Points
1. Ice Cream Flavor
Flavor: Rocky Road
Book: Epitaph Road by David Patneaude
2. Rookie
3. School May be Out
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, 378 pages
4. Always Bridesmaid
The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
5. Just Joined In
6. Supporting GR
7. Villains POV
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella
8. B&N Classics
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
9. Luck of the Draw
10.Group Read
The Hunger Games
25 Points
1. Independence Day
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
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2. Who? When? Where? Why? How?
Still deciding:
For WHO:
Alison Who Went Away by Vivian Vande Velde OR The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
AND
Debbie Harry Sings in French by Meagan Brothers OR Pedro and Me by Judd Winick OR Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
OR
For WHEN:
When We Were Saints by Han Nolan OR When the Black Girl Sings by Bil Wright
AND
?
3. Virtual Trip
4. Happy Birthday
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
The Dress Lodger by Sherri Holman
5. Share the Summer Love
6. Summer Lovin’
Song: Summer in the City
Book: Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher
7. I'm Passionate About
My Passion: Cats
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
White Cat by Holly Black
8. Once Upon a Time
Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George: 280 pages
Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale: 144 pages (graphic novel)
Beastly by Alex Flinn: 300 pages
9. Swimsuit
Tankini - Read 850 pages of book(s) published in last 5 years.
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness: 603 pages
Exposure by Mal Peet: 430 pages
Total: 1033 Pages
10. Name Game
Fallen by Lauren Kate and Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson
OR
Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
30 Points
1. Bdays and Bmonths:
Architecture:
January: Architecture: Let There Be Light: A Book About Windows by James Cross Giblin
(Traces the development of the window throughout history. My fathers family had a stained glass business in Pennsylvania)
Book in Verse:
All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg
2. For the Children
Children's Classic:
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Child Character:
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
3. Ode to IL
The Land of Lincoln: The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming &/or Mr. Lincoln's Wars by Adam Braver
Chicago Setting: The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
4. Science of Crime
Framed! by Malcolm Ross
The Angel of Death by Alene Ferguson
5. Virtual Block Party
Signature Dish: Deviled Eggs
Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader
50 Points
5 Points1. Half of a Yellow Sun
2. Blockbuster Books: Eclipse- Stephanie Meyer
3. Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson
5. The Shack- William Young
6. Ian Fleming- Diamonds are forever
7. Catherine Cookson- Rosie on the river
8. Sisters- I capture the castle- Dodie Smith
10 Points
1. Danielle Steel - Messages from Nam
3. Same Place, Same Time: Amanda- House Rules- Jodi Picoult
4. 341- The Chocolate Run- Dorothy Koomson (336)
5. Beach Girls- Luanne Rice
6. Stand Up for Your Rights: Anne Franks Diary
8. Songs of the Humpback Whale- Jodi Picoult
10. Anne- THis charming Man - Marian Keyes
15 Points
1. Wedding Bells are Ringing- Agatha Christie
b- Love in the Air-
2. a- Montana Sky- Nora Roberts
b- Bed of Roses- Nora Roberts
3. Books and Blogs- Twilight- Stephanie Meyer- http://Bfgb.wordpress.com Blogging for a good book
4. 8 Maeve Binchy- The Return Journey
5. Jodi Picoult- Picture Perfect and The Time Travellers Wife- Audrey Niffeneger
6. “Eventually, All Things...”a-Baking cakes in Kigali-Gail Parkin
c- Breaking Dawn- Stephanie Meyer or The House at Riverton- Kate Morton
7. Kim- Rudyard Kipling
8.
9. A hopeless romantic- Harriet Evans
10.Summer Sisters- Judy Blume
20 Points
1. Crazy like chocolate- Elizabeth Hyde
2. The Red Tent
3. A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens
4. Bedknobs and Broomsticks- Mary Norton
5. The Historian- Elizabeth Kostova
6. Twenties Girl- Sophie Kinsella
7. Perfume- The Story of a murderer
8. Dr Jeckyl and Mr hyde
500 Days of summer
25 Points
1. a-
b-The Wedding Season- Katie Fforde
2. b- Where or when- Anita Shreve
4.50 from Paddington- Agatha Christie
b- Faceless Killers- Henning Mankell (written in Swedish)
b- Village- Village School- Miss Reid
b- thriller- James Patterson- Run for your life
6. a- My life with Madonna-
c- The Holiday- Erica James
b- A dog Year- Jon Katz
8.
b- OH Carol- Carol McGiffin - 304p
c- A perfect proposal- Katie Fforde
10 a- Glamour- Louise Bagshawe
b- Showdown- Tilly Bagshawe
30.1 a-
b-
30.2 a- What Katy Did
b- What Katy Did next
30.3 a- Mrs Lincoln-
b-
30.4 a- The Coffin Dancer- Jeffrey Deaver
b- Deja Dead- Kathy Reics
30.5 a- The various flavours of coffee- Anthony Capella
b-Recipes for a happy marriage- Kate Kerrigan
tbr- SJH- Family ties- Danielle Steel
read- Jo Burton- The Weight of Silence
currently reading- SusanWalton- The House at Midnight
3
Books read - 24
Challenges- 13
Challenges in progress- 3
Points- 235
15.2b- Bed of Roses- Nora Roberts Conneticut
25.5- Chick lit- Envy- Colleen Nolan
25.6c The Holiday- Erica James
The Summer I dared- Barbara Delinsky 355p
No one you know- Michelle Richmond
I vow to stick with it this summer ....5.1 Once in a House on Fireby Andrea Ashworth
5.2 Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris (Eclipse!)
5.3 Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
5.4 A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz (Guardian First Book Award)
5.5 Tell No One by Harlan Coben
5.6 The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
5.7
by Monique Roffey 5.8 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Immigrants in America list)
5.9 Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy - to be read on the plane to Florida in July ... if the stupid Icelandic volcano stops blowing its ash all over the place!
5.10 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath O
10.1 Hide (Detective D.D. Warren, #2) by Lisa Gardner
10.2 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
10.3 The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
10.4 Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (I rolled 545)
10.5
by Erica James 10.6 The Help by Katherine Stockett
10.7
10.8 The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
10.9 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
10.10 The Birth House by Ami McKay (from Anne Cater's list)
15.1 a.
15.1 b.
by Garth Stein15.2 a Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
15.2 b The Lost Book of Salem by Katherine Howe (Massachusetts)
15.3 The Little Stranger by Sarah Walters on http://www.lovelytreez.com/
15.4 a Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (number 3)
15.4 b The Tea House on Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens (artist)
15.5 a House Rules by Jodi Picoult
15.5 b Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
15.6 a Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
15.6 bOne Day by David Nicholls
15.7 The Life You Want by Emily Barr
15.8 a
by Pattie Callahan Henry15.8 b
by Michelle Richmond15.9 Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife by Niamh Greene
15.10 Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
25.1 a (architecture)
25.1 b (sports)
25.2 a Matilda by Roal Dahl
25.2 b The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
25.3 a Mrs Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman
25.3 c A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
25.4 a Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen
25.4 b
25.5 a Bitter Chocolate by Lesley Lokko
25.5 b Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
25.6 Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones by Everett True
25.7 a The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
25.7 b The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
25.8
25.9 c
5 Points1 -
2 - This Is Not a Game: A Novel
3 - Calculating God
4 - Making History
5 -
6 - A Fold in the Tent of the Sky
7 -
8 - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
9 -
10 - Replay
10 Points
1 - A Canticle for Leibowitz
2 - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
3 - The Looking Glass Wars
4 -
5 - Startide Rising
6 - Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
7 - Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
8 - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
9 - How to Draw Stupid and Other Essentials of Cartooning
10 - Ringworld Via Steve Stair by way of Jumper
15 Points
1 - A. The End of Eternity (Old and Borrowed from Dad)
1 - B.
2 - A. The Kingdom of Ohio
2 - B. Intervention set in New Hampshire
3 - Boneshaker from John Scalzi's Whatever blog
4 - B. The God Engines
5 - The Running Man
5 - 1984
6 - B. Congo
6 - D. The Last Stormlord
7 - The Beast with Nine Billion Feet
8 - Utopia
8 - Utopia
9 - Just a Geek
10 - Seventh Son
20 Points
1 - A Chip Called Wanda
2 - The Many-Coloured Land
3 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4 - The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything
5 - The Virtual Librarian
6 -
7 - Brains: A Zombie Memoir
8 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
9 - The Lost City of Z
10 - The Hunger Games
25 Points
1 - Without Warning
1 - Spellwright
2 - D. How to Survive a Horror Movie
2 - D. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
3 - A. The Silent Stars Go By
3 - B. The Art of War
4 - A. The Magicians
4 - B.
5 - Snow Crash
5 - Growing Pains
6 - Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
7 - A. Power Hungry
7 - B. Ecotopia
8 - A. Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer
8 - B. The Tooth Fairy: A Novel
9 - Tankini
9 - My Boring-Ass Life (407 pages)
9 - Memories of the Future - Volume 1 (138 pages)
9 - Altar of Eden (398 pages)
10 - A. Feed
10 - B. Colony
30 Points
1 - September: Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
1 - Thursday: METAtropolis
2 - A. Peter Pan
2 - B. Ender's Game
3 - A. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
3 - B. How I Helped the Chicago Cubs (Finally!) Win the World Series
4 - A. The Andromeda Strain
4 - B. Gravity
5 - A. Playing For Pizza: A Novel
5 - B.Cooking for Geeks
Tasks: 3
Points: 15
Books Read: 3
Pages Read: 862
5.7 10.4 (632)
15.4
15.10
20.6
25.5 (a) Literary Fiction:
(b) Dystopian/apocalyptic:
25.9 C Tankini:
Points: 115/950
5.1 Heat Wave Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form5.3 S.U.M.M.E.R. Swimming in the Congo
5.4 Lesser Known AwardsColumbine (Edgar Award)
5.5 Dropping Names The Shining
5.6 One Life to Lose for my CountryThe Scarlet Pimpernel
5.7 Man Would Not Fly For Fifty Years The World According to Garp
5.8 Take a Walk on Wall StreetMiddlemarch
10.2 The ...Who... The Girl Who Chased the Moon
10.5 Bring the Beach to You The History of Love
10.6 Stand Up for your Rights I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
10.7 Handle the Truth The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
10.8 Under the Sea
10.9 You cannot open a book without learning something
10.10 Great Minds Think AlikeEmpire Falls (also rated ***** by Ldrutman, who agrees that Island rocks)
15.1 Wedding Bells A. Disobedience: A Novel (new and blue) B. Old and Borrowed
15.2 Stars and Stripes Forever A.
15.4 Learn Your Numbers My # is 5,
15.5 Great Authors are Great ReadersMonkeys and Mansfield Park
15.6 And a River Rungs Through it A.
15.7 Be the change you want to see A. The Hamilton Case: A Novel
15.8 Double Double Toil and Trouble
20.1 - Ice Cream
20.2 - Trip to the Past
20.3 - School May Be Out B. Medea and Other Plays (240pgs) and The Double(144pgs)
20.5 LIbrary Love
20.6 - Supporting Goodreads Authors - PENDING
20.7 - Those We Love to Hate A Clockwork Orange
20.8 - B&N Classics Les Misérables
20.9 Spirit of Independence
20.10 - Group Reads The ABC Murders
25.1 Independence Day Love and War, and Heaven and Hell
25.2 Q & A How Proust Can Change Your Life and Still Missing
25.3 Summer Vacation Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo and Ich ging durchs Feuer und brannte nicht.
25.4 Happy Birthday to Me The Chrysalids and Starting Out In the Evening
25.5 Share the Summer Love Shiver (YA fantasy) and ?? - classic
25.6 Summer Lovin
25.7 I'm Passionate About
25.8 Fairy TalesThe Fairy-Tale Detectives and The Unusual Suspects
25.9 Swim Suit Edition A. David Copperfield
25.10 The Name Game
30.1 Birthdays A. Cedar Point: The Queen of American Watering Places and Fan Fic
30.3 Ode to ILAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and ????
30.4 Science of Crime
30.5 Virtual Block Party Simply In Season and Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
Points: 100
Tasks: 7
Pages: 3928
Books: 13
(have not added)
Summer 2010 Reading Plan5 Point Tasks
5.1 Heat Wave - Hot Stuff by Janet Evanovich Done June 5
5.2 Blockbuster Books - Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer Done June 5 Big Book
5.3 SUMMER - Locked In by Marcia Muller Done June 5
5.4 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 Espionage - Trust Me by Jeffery Abbott
5.7 Travel (Pictured) - Men and Dogs by Katie Crouch
5.8 Wall Street - Tales of mystery and imagination by Edgar Allen Poe
5.9 Get Caught Reading - Injustice for All by J.A. Jance (while at baseball practices)
5.10 Re-read - Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson
10 Point Tasks
10.1 Hurricanes - Hide by Lisa Gardner
10.2 The (Fill in the Blank) Who - The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lillian Jackson Braun
10.3 Same Place, Same Time - Vision in White by Nora Roberts
10.4 Roll the Dice 361 pages - Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen (352 pages Pre-release version given to me by the Tess Gerritsen group here on Goodreads)Done June 5
10.5 Bring the Beach - Sandcastles by Luanne Rice
10.6 Discrimination - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford Done June 5
10.7 The Truth - Kitchen Privileges-A Memoir by Mary Higgins Clark
10.8 Under the Sea - Dolphin Song by Lauren St. John
10.9 Learn Something - Irish Chain by Earline Fowler - museum curator
10.10 Great Minds Think Alike - Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells
15 Point Tasks
15.1 Wedding - Rebecca 1938 blue cover by Daphne du Maurier
- Summer Hideaway by Susan Wiggs
15.2 Stars - Colorado Kid by Stephen King
15.2 Stripes - Hell Gate (New York) by Linda Fairstein
15.3 Blog - Poisoned Pen Blog by
15.3 Blog - Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow Done June 5
15.4 Numeralogy (I'm a 3) - The Switch by Sandra Brown
15.4 Numeralogy (arts, joy) - Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark
15.5 Great Authors - Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
15.5 Great Authors - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
15.6 Congo - Lovers in Lisbon by Barbara Cartland
15.6 Congo - Hard Truth by Nevada Barr
15.7 India - Foreign Body by Robin Cook
15.8 Toil and Trouble - Borderline by Nevada Barr
15.8 Toil and Trouble - Borderline by Mark Schorr
15.9 Know Himself - Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
15.10 Family - Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
20 Point Tasks
20.1 Most Improved - Deirdre - Ice Cream - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke (Ice Cream flavor)
20.1 Most Improved - Deirdre - Ice Cream - Peach Cobbler Murder by Joanne Fluke (Ice Cream flavor)
20.2 Rookie of the Season - Kiri - Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
20.2 Rookie of the Season - Kiri - The Virgin Warrior by Larrisa Taylor
20.2 Rookie of the Season - Kiri - by before 1450 AD
20.2 Rookie of the Season - Kiri - The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson LP at MPL
20.2 Rookie of the Season - Kiri - The Secret by Garwood
20.3 Best Review - Amanda Va - Puddn'head Wilson by Mark Twain (Victorian Novel)
20.4 Always the Bridesmaid - Shelley - Kansas Troubles by Earlene Fowler Anniversary Gift
20.4 Always the Bridesmaid - Shelley - by cotton or wood
20.4 Always the Bridesmaid - Shelley - The Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
20.5 Just Joined In - Amber - Mrs. Zukas and the Library Murders by Jo Dereske LP
20.5 Just Joined In - Amber - by Library Love
20.6 Supporting GR Authors - Nicole Ga - by Listmaker
20.6 Supporting GR Authors - Nicole Ga - by
20.7 I Like Big Books - Dionisias - Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
20.7 For Those We Love to Hate - Dionisias - A Simple Plan by Steve Smith
20.7 From the Villians Point of View - by
20.8 Happy Birthday to You - Rhiannon - War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
20.8 Barnes & Noble - Rhiannon - by
20.9 Luck of the Draw - Terri - Catching Fire by Indie Awards
20.9 Luck of the Draw - Terri - The Guernsey Literary by Mary Ann Shaffer
20.9 Luck of the Draw - Terri - The Graveyard book (Locus Award) by Neil Gaiman GR author
20.9 Luck of the Draw - Terri - Juno by Best Feature 2008
20.9 Luck of the Draw - Terri - Brokeback Mountain by Best Feature 2006
20.10 Group Reads - ABC Murders - Agatha Christie by
25 Point Tasks
25.1 Valerie - Independence Day - 9th Judgement by James Patterson (Peter Gordon)
25.1 Valerie - Red/White/Blue - Rules of Prey by John Sandford - blue cover edition
25.2 Coralie - Where are you now? by Mary Higgins Clark
25.2 Coralie - Savannah Breeze - abridged by Mary Kay Andrews
25.3 Jennifer N - Foreign Vacation - Assassins of Athens by Jeffery Siger
25.3 Jennifer N -Translated from - Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
- by Stieg Larsson
- Out by Natsuo Kirino Japanese
25.4 Nicole's - Happy Birthday - Breathless by Dean Koontz -- July 9, 1945 (page 31 - chair)
25.4 Nicole's - Happy Birthday - Empty Chair by Jeffery Deaver - abridged
25.5 Helen's - Fav. Genre - Rough Justice by Lisa Scottoline (mystery)
25.5 Helen's - 2nd Fav. Genre - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (fantasy)
25.6 Ashley: Summer Lovin' - The Warmth of the Sun by Brian Wilson and Mike Love
25.6 Ashley: Summer Lovin' - Wouldn't It be Nice:My Own Story by Brian Wilson with Todd Gold
25.7 Wendy's I'm Passionate - The American quilt : a history of cloth and comfort, 1750-1950 by Roderick Kiracofe and Mary Elizabeth Johnson
25.7 Wendy's I'm Passionate - The Winding Ways Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini LP at MPL
25.8 Sandy-Once Upon a Time - Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold by Datlow, Ellen 165pages 400 pages total
25.8 Sandy-Once Upon a Time - What the Dickens by Gregory Maguire
- the story of the rogue tooth fairy by 322 pages
25.9 Donna Jo's Task-Swimsuit - Bikini read 2 books total 850 pages by published since 1946
- A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillian 496
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins 391
25.10 Belinda Name Game - What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George
25.10 Belinda Name Game - The Night Gardener by George Pelacanos
30 Point Tasks
30.1 Ms. Anderson/Birthdays - by
April: Disasters NF AND - The End: Natural Disasters by Marq De Villiers ----> Done June 5
30.1 BD is Saturday: Sports - Playing for Pizza by John Grisham Done June 5
30.2 PJ - Childrens book - Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren Done June 5
30.2 PJ - Childrens book AND - The Black Stallion by Walter Farley Done June 5
Children as Main Character - Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman Done June 5
30.3 Sheila - Illinois-Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
- Mary by Janis Cooke Newman
AND Chicago - Murder at Wrigley Field by Troy Soos (Audiobook)
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen
30.4 Cheryl's Forensic Female - Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
30.4 Cheryl's Forensic Male - Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
30.4 Cheryl's Forensic Male - Flesh and Bone by Jefferson Bass
30.5 DLM Rose's:Block Party - signature dish -Apple Crisp by
- Apple Turnover Murder by Joanne Fluke
AND - The Last Suppers by Diane Mott Davidson
5.3 Kristin Lavrandstatter 1 by Singrid Unset5.4 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
5.5 The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
5.7 If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
5.8 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
5.10 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10.1 Straight Man by Richard Russo
10.3 Olive Kitteridge
10.4 rolled 266
10.6 Sarah's Key
10.10 No Country For Old Men By Cormac Mccarthy
15.2 Looking For Alaska/ South of Broad by Pat Conroy
15.3 The Art of Racing in the Rain/ stackofspines.com
15.5 Drop City by TC Boyle/ White Noise by Don DeLillo
15.6 All The Names by Jose Saramago/ The Hour I First Believed
15.7 A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
15.8 Infinite Jest/ Netherland
15.9 A Fine Balance
20.10 The Book Thief by
25.1 The lost City of Z/
25.3 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln/ Devil in the White City
25.8 The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
25.9 Outlander
My plans... *OWNED5.1 (Heat): The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway*
5.2 (Blockbuster): The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson*
5.3 (Initials): The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - RLS*
5.4 (Award): Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill*
5.5 (Name): The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath*
5.6 (Spy): The Constant Gardener - John LeCarre*
5.7 (Transportation): The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving*
5.8 (WSJ): The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain*
5.9 (Public) TBD
5.10 (REREAD): The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen*
10.1 (Nicole): The History of Love - Nicole Krauss*
10.2 (Who): The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sachs*
10.3 (Online now) Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami*
10.4 (dice): Cancer Ward - Solzhenitsyn*
10.5 (beach): I'll Steal You Away - Niccolo Ammaniti*
10.6 (rights): The Chosen - Chaim Potok*
10.7 (truth): In Cold Blood - Truman Capote*
10.8 (Sea):Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn*
10.9 (learn): The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
10.10 (Great Minds): Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
15.1 (wedding): Old/Blue The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass* & Borrowed/New Tinkers - Paul Harding
15.2 (state): Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson & The Law of Similars - Chris Bohjalian*
15.3 (blog): East of Eden - John Steinbeck*
15.4 (#7): Bite Me - Christopher Moore* & Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside*
15.5 (author fave): A Widow for One Year - John Irving* & David Copperfield - Charles Dickens*
15.6 (portugal): Death With Interruptions - Jose Saramago* &
The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb*
15.7 (india): A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry*
15.8 (double): Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace* & Netherland - Joseph O'Neill*
15.9 (character): Just a Geek - Wil Wheaton*
15.10 (family): The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky*
20.10 (group): The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie*
25.1 (MS A) Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent - Anthony Rapp & The Road - Cormac McCarthy*
25.2 (kids): The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery* & Little Women - Louisa May Alcott*
25.3 (IL): Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith & The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck*
25.4 (Forensic): Tethered: A Novel - Amy McKinnon & Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay*
25.5 (recipe): The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov* & Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer*
25.6 (summer love): Island - Aldous Huxley*
25.7 (Passion): Lost Encyclopedia *(will own) & What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn*
25.8 (fairytale): The Boy Detective Fails - Joe Meno & The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter*
25.9 TBD
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5 point 1. hot words in title
2. summer films
3. Authors initial in summer
4. lesser awards
5. Spring authors
6. spy
7. travel pictured
8. WSJ list
9. public place
10. reread
10 POINT TASKS
1. Bridge of sighs – Richard Russo
2. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest – Steig Larrson
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
4. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir – Neil White
5. beach scene
6. Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town by Warren St. John
7. non fic by fiction writer
8. ocean animal in title
9. keep learning
10. Sima's Undergarments for Women - by Ilana Stanger-Ross
15 POINT TASKS
1. The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
Austenland – Shannon Hale
2. Not in Kansas anymore : a curious tale of how magic is transforming America - Wicker, Christine.
On What Grounds – Cleo Coyle
3. Shanghai Girls – Lisa See
4. No One You Know – Michelle Richmond
Steal Across the Sky – Nancy Kress
5. Certain Girls – Jennifer Weiner
Pearl by Tabitha King
6. All the Names – Jose Saramago
You’re not you – Michelle Widgen
7. Six Suspects – Vikus Swarup
8. Twilight by William Gay
Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
9. role embodied in title
20 POINT TASKS
1. Ice Cream
2. Mistress of the Art of Death – Ariana Franklin
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Candy/iron or wood
5. Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi
6. Belong To Me – Marisa de los Santos
7. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella – Stephenie Meyer (online)
8. Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
9. Indies
10. N/A
25 POINT TASKS
1. Into the Fire – Suzanne Brockmann
The Lollipop Shoes (The Girl With No Shadow)– Joanne Harris
2. Hannah’s Dream – Diane Hammond
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carre
3. Airs Above the Ground – Mary Stewart
The Club Dumas - Arturo Pérez-Reverte
4. Blackberry Wine - Joanne Harris
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County – Tiffany Baker
5. 2 favorite genres
6. songs of summer
7. Passion
8. Enchantment – Orson Scott Card
9. Titan’s Curse - Rick Riordan (304)
Winter Garden – Kristen Hannah (394)
Why My Third Husband will be a dog – Lisa Scottoline (320)
10. Same Name
30 point
1. Hundred Years’ War
Sports
2. The Witches – Roald Dahl
A Tree grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
3. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Open House – Elizabeth Berg
4. Medical drama (male & female author)
5. Toast – Nigel Slater
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter - Phoebe Damrosch
1 / 71 books
1 / 56 tasks
15 / 950 points
Subject to change...5.1 - The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
5.2 - Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
5.3 - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice
5.4 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
5.5 - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
5.6 - The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
5.7 - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
5.8 - Shame by Salman Rushdie
5.9 - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
5.10 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
10.1 - The Whole World Over by Julia Glass
10.2 - The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
10.3 - Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock
10.4 - The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (352 pages)
10.5 - The Sea by John Banville
10.6 - Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
10.7 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
10.8 - Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
10.9 - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
10.10 - The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
15.1 - The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs (borrowed) and The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (blue)
15.2 - Looking for Alaska by John Greene and The Honey Thief by Elizabeth Graver
15.3 - blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris via Lovelytreez.com
15.4 - The History of Love by Nicole Krauss and unknown
15.5 - The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett and Persuasion by Jane Austen
15.6 - Little Boys Come From the Stars by Emmanuel Dongala, Val Vinokurov, Joel Reouis and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
15.7 - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
15.8 - Heat Wave by Richard Castle and Heat Wave by Penelope Lively
15.9 - Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
15.10 - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
20.10 - ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
25.1 - Forever Leisl by Charmain Carr and Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
25.2 - Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech and The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
25.3 - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith and The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
25.5 - Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl and Beat This! Cookbook by Ann Hodgman
25.6 - Tales From Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett
25.8 - The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno and Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling
25.9 - The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
I'm not going to finish the challenge anyway, so I tried to see how impossible I could make it. I had a lot of fun researching.Edit- I ended up replacing a bunch of my books with shorter ones, there are just so many I really want to read.
Edit2- This actually didn't work well for me, I keep changing my mind about everything.
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5.3- Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (295/1168)
5.4- Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (0/1006)
5.6- The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy (150/432)
5.7- The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon (1040)
5.8- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1488)
5.9- Ulysses by James Joyce (783)
5.10- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (1216)
10.1- Richard Wright: Early Works by Richard Wright (936)
10.3- The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny (1258)
10.5- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1276)
10.6- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (110/581)
10.7- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (225/1944)
10.9- Masks of God by Joseph Campbell (2432)
10.10- The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1200/1796)
15.1- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1079) and All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (200/438)
15.2- New York by Edward Rutherfurd (1020) and Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1024)
15.3- East of Eden by John Steinbeck (608)
15.4- Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams (2352) and Love and War by John Jakes (1101)
15.5- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (648) and Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (386/821)
15.6- The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan (1008) and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (576)
15.7- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (533)
15.8- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (528) and North and South by John Jakes (816)
15.9- The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (1824)
15.10- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (256)
20.1- Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson (944)
20.2- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (1182)
20.3- William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare (1248)
20.4- The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks (1200)
20.5- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (536)
20.8- Don Quixote by Cervantes (1072)
20.9- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (651)
20.10- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (552)
25.1- Romance of Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong (1384) and Aegypt by John Crowley (390)
25.2- When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman (928) and Hunger's Brides by Paul Anderson (1376)
25.3- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1392) and Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1488)
25.4- The Belgariad by David Eddings (193/1152) and Robin McKinley Collection by Robin McKinley (1008)
25.5- The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake (397/1168) and Journey to the West by Cheng'en Wu (2346)
25.6- New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures by Anonymous (1600)
25.7- The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (950) and A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes (668)
25.8- Color Faerie Books by Andrew Lang (86/1494)
25.9- The Story of a Stone by Cáo Xuěqín (2576)
25.10-
30.1- The Chinese Conception of the Theatre by Tao-Ching Hsu (230/685) and A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (352)
30.2- David Cooperfield by Charles Dickens (974) and Three Complete Novels by Frances Hodgson Burnett (484)
30.3- Freedom by William Safire (1437) and Summer Knight by Jim Butcher (371)
30.4- The Alienist by Caleb Carr (512) and Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell (342)
30.5- The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (763) and The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer (130/1152)
50.1- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (776), 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (206/1123) and The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson (1120)
Pages- 8881/72638
Books- 9
Points- 85
Other books read- Heroes, Monsters and Other Worlds from Russian Mythology, Russian Myths, The People of Sparks, Merry Meet, The Valley of Horses, Blasphemy: Art that Offends, Moving Pictures, Second Sight, Bad Moon Rising, The Man Who Was Thursday, and Mrs. Dalloway.
5.1 Heat Wave - Heat Seeker5.2 Blockbuster Books - Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
5.3 S.U.M.M.E.R - Wicked Lovely
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25.2 PJ Reads -
25.3 Sheila -
25.4 Cheryl TX -
25.5 DLM Rose -
25.6 Ashley FL -
25.7 Wendy -
25.8 Sandy -
25.9 Donna Jo -
Laura wrote: "I'm not going to finish the challenge anyway, so I tried to see how impossible I could make it."Your list is so awesome Laura; such a great selection of fantastic books!!! There should be an award for most pages read during a challenge! even if you don't finish, your summer will rock with reading. Enjoy!!
5.1- 5.2- Annotated Movies in 15 minutes: Wizards (6/13)
5.3- When You Reach Me (6/17)
5.4-
5.5- Mockingjay
5.6- The Spymaster's Lady (6/14)
5.7- Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
5.8- I Capture the Castle
5.9-
5.10- The Lords of Discipline
10.1- Ten Things I Love About You (6/4)
10.2- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
10.3- Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
10.4- Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo (6/11)
10.5-
10.6- Middlesex
10.7- Eating Animals
10.8- Island of the Blue Dolphins
10.9- Weather for Dummies
10.10- Unlikely Diciple: A Sinners Semester at Americas Holiest University
15.1- A: Bid Time Return (7/5)
B: The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie (6/8)
15.2- A:
B: Summer at Tiffany
15.3-A Lady's Guide to Improper Behavior
15.4- A:Everything Is Illuminated
B:I Am the Messenger
15.5- A:
B:
15.6-A: Blindness
B: One Dance with a Duke
15.7-
15.8- A:
B:
15.9- The Romance Reader
15.10- Daughter of the Forest
20.1-
20.2- Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle
20.3-
20.4-
20.5- The Girls
20.6- Beastly (6/15)
20.7- Lolita (7/6)
20.8- Pygmalion
20.9-
20.10- The ABC Murders
25.1- A:
B:
25.2- A:Dream When You're Feeling Blue
B:A Kiss at Midnight
25.3- A:The Taming of the Duke (6/1)
B:Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (6/11)
25.4- A:The Outsiders (6/6)
B:My Name Is Memory (7/11)
25.5- A:Pleasure for Pleasure (6/3)
B:Dream Warrior
25.6- Almost Heaven
25.7- A:
B:
25.8- A:Briar Rose
B:Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
25.9- The Last Lecture (6/4)
(the short eBooks go here)
Changeless - Gail Carriger (7/31)
The Mermaid's Pendant
25.10 A: Promise Me Tonight: A Weston Novel (6/18)
B: Something by Johanna Lindsey
30.1-Dec: The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (6/2)
Tues: Soulless
30.2-A:The Secret Garden
B: The Lightning Thief (6/9)
30.3-A:
B:
30.4- A:
B:
30.5- A:Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China
B: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
50.A:
B: Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
C:
Here are mine so far...this will be my first time participating. :)5.1 Under the Tuscan Sun
5.2 Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
5.3 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
5.4 Columbine - Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime 2010)
5.5 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
5.6 The 39 Steps
5.7 Nature Girl - Canoe on the cover
5.8 The Fifth Child - books with characters on the edge
5.9
5.10
10.1 The History of Love
10.2 The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
10.3 The Hunger Games
10.4 I rolled and got 255 - The Virgin Suicides
10.5
10.6 The Book of Negroes
10.7 Souvenir of Canada
10.8 Ella Minnow Pea
10.9
10.10 Me Talk Pretty One Day - My Last 5 star rating was Water for Elephants
15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4 I, Robot &
15.5 Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
One Hundred Years of Solitude
15.6 The Poisonwood Bible & ?
15.7 Slowly Down the Ganges
15.8 [image error] &
15.9
15.10
20.1 - Most Improved Player - TBA
20.2 - Rookie of the Season - TBA
20.3 - Best Review - TBA
20.4 - Always The Bridesmaid...-TBA
20.5 - Just Joined In - TBA
20.6 - Supporting GR Authors - TBA
20.7 - I Like Big Books - TBA
20.8 - Happy Birthday - TBA
20.9 - Luck of the Draw - TBA
20.10 The Book Thief
25.1 The Things They Carried &
25.2 Those Who Save Us & Sarah's Key
25.3 ? & Say You're One of Them
25.4
25.5
25.6
25.7
25.8 The Book of Lost Things & Ella Enchanted
25.9 Eclipse & ?
25.10
30.1 The Architecture of Happiness & ?
30.2 ? & The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
You are going to love it Jen. Half the fun is picking books from your tbr list that fit each task. I hope you like my "Ode to Illinois" task.
Groan! I start picking out books, see interesting books on the reading plans here, then dither about which to choose for my plan! My TBR just keeps growinnnnggg...
I know EXACTLY what you mean Louvaine.
Thanks Sheila...I have found a bunch from my TBR list...I'm just going through it again and seeing how others might fit in! I'm not a particularily fast reader what with work and two small children with lots of activities but it will be fun to participate!
Laura wrote: "I'm not going to finish the challenge anyway, so I tried to see how impossible I could make it. I had a lot of fun researching.5.1- The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon (1456)
5.2- The Exorcist by W..."
I love it Laura!
Jen - It's my first time too! We can be new together. :)
Eowynmn wrote: "Jen - It's my first time too! We can be new together. :)"Great! Glad there is another newbie along!
It's my first challenge as well! I'm looking forward to having a reason to take a break from life and read.I have a question -- do the books have to be on my TBR list? It's not terribly long and I don't think it fits most of the categories.
Christine wrote: "I have a question -- do the books have to be on my TBR list? It's not terribly long and I don't think it fits most of the categories...."Welcome to everyone new! This is a fun way to find new books and read your TBR list.
Christine, you can use any book you like. Stick with us and your TBR list will grow exponentially. Check out the "Summer Task Help" threads to find many, many great books.
I have never been more excited for a challenge in my life! This semester really kicked my butt and I'm glad to finally be done with school! Time to read what *I* want for a change!5 Points
Total: 10
1. Heat Wave: The Sun Also Rises
2. Blockbuster Books: Eat, Pray, Love
3. SUMMER: Vanishing Point - Marcia Muller
4. Lesser-Known Awards: The Girl in the Glass (Edgar award)
5. Dropping Names: Sarah Palin - Going Rogue
6. “I Only Regret...”: The Tourist - Olen Steinhauer
8. Take a Walk on Wall Street: The Journals of Lewis and Clark
10. “If One Cannot...”: Lord of the Flies - William Golding
10 Points
Total: 20
1. Stormy Weather - Alex Bradley - The sweetness at the bottom of the Pie
2. “The --- Who...”: The man who ate the 747
3. Same Place, Same Time: (Loyce) The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
4. Roll the Dice: (232 pgs)
5. If You Can’t Go to the Beach...: Beach trip: A Novel
6. Stand Up for Your Rights: A Taste of Reality
7. I Think We Can Handle the Truth:
8. Under the Sea:
15 Points
Total: 15
1. Wedding Bells are Ringing
2. Stars and Stripes Forever:
3. Books and Blogs
4. Learn Your Numbers
5. “The Great Authors...”:
6. “Eventually, All Things...”
7. “You Must Be...”: Slowly Down the Ganges
8. “Double Double Toil...”
9. “He Who Knows...”:
10. “Other Things May...” North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters
20 Points
Total:
1. Most Improved
2. Rookie
3. Best Review
4. Always Bridesmaid
5. Just Joined In
6. Supporting GR
7. Big Books
8. Happy Bday - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
9. Luck of the Draw
10. Group Read - The ABC Murders
25 Points
Total:
25.1 Ms Anderson -
25.2 PJ Reads -
25.3 Sheila -
25.4 Cheryl TX -
25.5 DLM Rose -
25.6 Ashley FL -
25.7 Wendy -
25.8 Sandy -
25.9 Donna Jo -
25.10 - Belinda's Task - Let's Play The Name Game
30 points:
Total:
1. Ms Anderson's Task - Birthdays and Birthmonths: Jan- God's country : historic churches and chapels of the Genesee Valley
Tues- The Yiddish Policeman's Union
2. PJ Read's Task - As Suggested By Shannon South Africa - For The Children
A:James and the Giant Peach
B: The Lightning Thief
3. Ode to Illinois -
A. The Emancipator's Wife
C. Edgar Sawtelle
4.
5.
50 Points
Overall Total: 45
Total Books Read: 6
Here's to starting my first official challenge!5.1 - Catching Fire
5.2 - Shiver
5.3 - Michelle Moran - Nefertiti
5.4 - Poison Study
5.5 - The Art of Racing in the Rain
5.6 - The Scarlet Pimpernel
5.7 -
The Eye of the World5.8 - Sisters - I Capture the Castle
5.9 - Unwind
5.10 - To Kill a Mockingbird
10.1 - The Spellman Files
10.2 - The Girl Who Chased the Moon
10.3 - The Summoning
10.5 -
The Last Song10.7 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
10.8 - Hamlet
10.9 - Religion - The Miracle of Forgiveness
10.10 - PS, I Love You
15.1 -A. Old/Borrowed - Rebecca B. New/Blue -
Peace Like a River 15.3 - The Yellow House: A Novel
15.4 - 9 A. Dead Until Dark B. Cold Mountain
15.5 - A. Skeletons at the Feast B. Les Misérables
15.6 - A. Blindness C. The Tea Rose
15.7 - The Twentieth Wife
15.8 -
AND
The Awakening AND A Countess Below Stairs 15.9 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
15.10 - The Rice Mother
20.1 - Blood and Chocolate
20.2 - The Falcons of Montabard
20.3 - North and South
20.4 - Always The Bridesmaid, Never The Bride
20.6 - Supporting Goodreads Authors
20.8 - Pride and Prejudice
20.9 - Luck Of The Draw
25.1 - A. The Lucky One B.
Vampire Academy25.2 - A. Those Who Save Us B. My Name is Mary Sutter
25.3 - A. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand B. The Shadow of the Wind
25.4 - A. 1776 B. "people" - Rhett Butler's People
25.5 - : dystopia - Oryx and Crake historical fiction - Signora Da Vinci
25.7 - learning/school - A. Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan B. The School of Essential Ingredients
25.8 - Stardust AND Book of a Thousand Days
25.9- C. Linger, Mockingjay, The Iron King
25.10 - A. Uglies B. The Alchemyst
30.1 - December - The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way & Sunday/Noir - The Thin Man
30.2 - A. Little Women B. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
30.3 - A. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter B. Storm Front
30.4 - A. Mistress of the Art of Death B. The Alienist
30.5 - A. The Sugar Queen C. A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
I tried this last year and didn't get too far into it due to school etc. (I tried a different season.)I'm read a lot over the summer so I'm hoping to be able to check more off of my TBR list.
Do you have to state your intentions first?
Rita wrote: "I tried this last year and didn't get too far into it due to school etc. (I tried a different season.)I'm read a lot over the summer so I'm hoping to be able to check more off of my TBR list.
Do..."
No, you do not need to state your intentions first. Some folks just like to lay it all out in the beginning or just rifle through other people's lists. Sometimes it's nice to see what book someone else chose when you're stuck on a task.
For those of you that have found books for 10.4....is there a place you can search by number of pages? I rolled 661...which means between 651 and 671 pages. How did you go about finding a book to meet your page number?Thanks...new here!
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