Sorry, you must be a member of this group to do that.
College Students! discussion
Reading Goals/ Challenges
>
Lynn's Reads
date
newest »
newest »
And here is a copy of my list for the School Year Reading Challenge:Lynn's list:
5 points
1)
2)The Case of the Missing Books
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)A Clockwork Orange
9)
10)
10 points
1)With Their Eyes September 11th--The View from a High School at Ground Zero
2)
3)Old School
4)
5)
6)Holes
7)Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
8)
9)
10)Tale of the White Crow Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Latvia
15 points
1)
2)
3)
4)The Alchemist
5)I'm Proud of You My Friendship with Fred Rogers
6)
7)
8)To the Lighthouse
25 points
1)
2)Katherine
3)Siddhartha
4)The Shining
Total: 190 points
yeahh! im so glad i got this idea inspired. great work on your list so far.
Wow, I commend you for working on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before you Die. I'm too intimidated to even start that! Have you been enjoying the ones you've read from that list so far?
Kelsey, I've only read 2% of the list so far, but I'm hoping to knock out several this summer. You'd probably be surprised at how many you've already read! Of course, most of the "classics" are on there. However, at my HS, we mostly just talked about the books and watched the movie version rather than actually reading.There's a really awesome Excel spreadsheet you can download for free. It calculates everything for you and tells you how many you need to read per year to reach the total. It says I need to read about 16 books per year (at age 21 and having already read about 20 books). So I figure if I could focus most of my reading on the 1001 list then I could conceivably be done by age 50 which would be very cool. But in reality, I don't think I'll actually read all 1001. There's some that I will probably hate and I might never finish those. But I use it as a good guide for introducing me to new books and forcing me to read the classics.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die:Pre-2008
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (05 or 06)
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (2007)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (2007)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (2004)
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (05 or 06)
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (2005)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (2005)
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allen Poe (01 or 02)
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe (01 or 02)
2008
Atonement - Ian McEwan
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
2009
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri (291 pgs)
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer (276 pgs)
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink (218 pgs)
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides (249 pgs)
Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel (246 pgs)
Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow (270 pgs)
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (215 pgs)
Everything That Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor (269 pgs)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (139 pgs)
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger (201 pgs)
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (83 pgs)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson (234 pgs)
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (247 pgs)
Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne (208 pgs)
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (546 pgs)
Emma - Jane Austen (422 pgs)
2010
total: 32 -- 3.197%
Summer Challenge Categories 5 Points
1. Read a book with red (crimson or scarlet is fine), white, or blue in the title.
- The Scarlet Letter OR Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
2. Read a book where the narrator is a child or an animal.
-
3. Read a book by an author who was born in May, June, July, or August.
-
4. Read a book with sun, summer, beach, wave, sand, heat, sea, towel, camping, vacation, lake, cabin, or mountain in the title.
-
5. Read a travel memoir or a novel about someone’s vacation.
- Travels With Charley
6. Re-read a book you read in childhood that you have not read since you were in 5th, 6th, or 7th grade.
-
7. Read a book one of your favorite movies in based on.
-
10 Points
1. In light of summer’s Patriotic Holidays, read either an historical fiction or nonfiction book about an important time in American history (such as the Civil War).
-
2. Read a book about food or with a food in the title and then cook that food or something related to that type of food (for example, cook spaghetti if you read a book about Italian food).
-
3. Read the book you have owned the longest but have not yet read.
-
4. For Mother and Father’s Day, read a book that centers on a mother/daughter, mother/son, father/daughter, or father/son relationship.
-
5. Read Shakespeare or another classic and then watch a modern day adaptation. (for 15 points since it's a classic with a modern adaptation)(http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/mov...)
- King Lear / A Thousand Acres
6. Read a collection of short stories or poetry with at least 150 pages.
-
15 Points
1. Read a book that was recommended to you by a relative or a friend that you have never read.
-
2. Read a book rated 5 stars by someone from the College Students group whose name starts with the same first letter as yours.
-
3. In honor of Bastille Day (July 14th), read a book written by a French author, set in France, or about France.
- The Count of Monte Cristo
4. Read a non-fiction book about a current event, such as the environment or the conflict in the Middle East.
-
25 Points
1. In light of “Join Hands Day”, read a biography about somebody who made a positive difference in the world and go do something charitable in your community. We will make a thread where you can post pictures and share your stories about it.
- Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light OR I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Mr. Rogers
2. Read two books where the authors’ names (first or last) are the same, for example William Faulkner and William Shakespeare.
- Beautiful Boy / Tweak
3. Read 2 books by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, or 3 of Shakespeare’s plays in the original Elizabethan English.
- Emma / Pride and Prejudice
22 books total / 230 pts total
TOTAL: 12 books / 115 pts
new year... new list!2010
January
2nd - Such a Pretty Fat - Jen Lancaster (384 pgs)
9th - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (420 pgs)
February
0 books finished -- So many other things going on!
March
Total:
2 books (0 from the 1001 list) / 804 pages
Don't know if I'll have time for this.. we'll see.Spring/Summer Official Task List
5 pts
1. Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral OR Swim to Me
2.
3. The Jungle OR Lord of the Flies
4. The Shining
5. My Life in France
6. The Book Thief
7.
8. To the Lighthouse
9.
10.
10 pts
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
6.
7. Out of Africa
8. A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle
9. Aging with Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives
10.
15 pts
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. Frankenstein
7.
8.
9. The Outsiders
10. Siddhartha
20 pts
1.
2.
3. Orronoko
4. Christy
AND
25 pts
1.
2.
3. Friday Night Lights
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
AND Marley and Me
TOTAL: books / points
I started keeping track of books I've read in my journal in late December of 08. I also include # of pages. So just for kicks, here are my December books:
December
21st - We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates (454 pgs)
29th - The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb (740 pgs)
2009
January
3rd - *The Hours - Michael Cunningham (226 pgs)*
25th - Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer (505 pgs - PDF)
27th - Saints Behaving Badly - Thomas J. Craughwell (186 pgs)
February
3rd - Bright Lights, Big Ass - Jen Lancaster (385 pgs)
23rd - *The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides (249 pgs)*
March
3rd - Commonwealth - Joey Goebel (511 pgs)
7th - French By Heart - Rebecca Ramsey
11th - *The Reader - Bernhard Schlink*
14th - Love Me - Garrison Keillor (272 pgs)
19th - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie (230 pgs)
22nd - *Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day - Winifred Watson (234 pgs)*
25th - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
29th - *The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (83 pgs)*
April
7th - The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (640 pgs - Large Print)
10th - *Everything That Rises Must Converge - Fannery O'Connor (269 pgs)*
10th - The Long Loneliness - Dorothy Day (288 pgs)
28th - Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia - Dennis Covington (240 pgs)
May
8th - *Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger (201 pgs)*
10th - God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut (79 pgs)
11th - *Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (215 pgs)*
20th - Life's Journeys According to Mr. Rogers - Fred Rogers
20th - *Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne (208 pgs)*
24th - *The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (247 pgs)*
24th - Midnight Sun - Stephenie Meyer (264 pgs - PDF)
28th - *Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer (276 pgs)*
June
9th - Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden - Morgan Spurlock (290 pgs)
9th - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven - Sherman Alexie (223 pgs) REREAD
12th - For One More Day - Mitch Albom (197 pgs)
16th - Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh (298 pgs) REREAD
21st - The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls (288 pgs)
23rd - *Like Water For Chocolate - Laura Esquivel (246 pgs)*
29th - In Country - Bobbie Ann Mason (245 pgs)
30th - Auntie Mame - Patrick Dennis (299 pgs)
July
2nd - Summer at Tiffany - Marjorie Hart (266 pgs - Large Print)
2nd - Freddy and Fredericka - Mark Helprin (553 pgs)
9th - *Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow (270 pgs)*
August
30th - Cabin Pressure - Josh Wolk (270 pgs)
September
12th - Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller (242 pgs)
20th - It's Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini (444 pgs)
October
0 books read :[ School has been ruling my life!
November
15th - Twenty Something Essays by Twenty Something Writers (292 pgs)
29th - The Moon Is Down - John Steinbeck (188 pgs) REREAD
December
10th - The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University - Kevin Roose (324 pgs)
13th - *Emma - Jane Austen (422 pgs)*
13th - Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom (199 pgs)
20th - *One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (139 pgs)*
21st - Columbine - Dave Cullen (388 pgs)
25th - *The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri (291 pgs)*
31st - *Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (546 pgs)*
totals:
48 books (17 from the 1001 list)