The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

Vicki wrote: "Task 25.8

According To Jane by Marilyn Brant

Brooklyn A Novel by Colm Tóibín

The Brass Bed by [author:Jennif..."

Hi Vicki: What did you think of 'Brooklyn'? It's been on my To-Read shelf for awhile now. I was curious about your reaction to it. Thanks!

Sara☺ wrote: "Cait wrote: "Completed:

Task 25.4 (Candace's book/movie): The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler

Like many others, this is a rare case of me preferring the movie over the book. ..."

So maybe the book is just not that great, regardless of the movie. Plus the movie has the huge benefit of having the adorable Hugh Dancy. *sigh*

Cait wrote: "Sara☺ wrote: "Cait wrote: "Completed:

Task 25.4 (Candace's book/movie): The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler

Like many others, this is a rare case of me preferring the movie o..."

Definitely on Hugh Dancy!!! I think he is the main reason I stop on it and watch some when it has been on cable over and over again ;-)

Finally finished re-reading LOTR, why, I really don't know other than I had not read it in years... now I know why.

20.2 ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - ERIN - Read 3 Books That Begin With Any Three Consecutive Letters In The Alphabet.
R - The Return of the King by Tolkien, 512pp, finished 11/5/2009.
S - Super in the City by Daphne Uviller,292pp, read 10/4/2009
T - The Temptation of the Night Jasmine by Lauren Willig read 9/1/2009, 384 pp.

Total points: 300/690
Tasks completed: 19/45
Books read: 32/59
Total pages: 11386

Another task down - I finished reading A Separate Country by Robert Hicks for task 15.6 the music appreciation option - this book was really good I enjoyed it even more so than his first The Widow of the South. This is about the Confederate General John Bell Hood and his life in New Orleans after the Civil War...his marriage, children, failures in business, etc. - it was an interesting portrait of that time period in the south. To complete the task I listened to some country music (one of my favorite genres) - Carrie Underwood's Play On album which I really enjoyed.

28 TASKS COMPLETE - 2 PARTIALLY DONE
44 BOOK READ
15,360 PAGES READ


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Okay, This is my first post for this challenge.

5.10 The Time Traveler's Wife
25.3 The Book of Lost Things
25.7 Sabriel, New Moon & A Northern Light

Total of 55 points

Cait wrote: "Completed:

Task 25.4 (Candace's book/movie): The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler

Like many others, this is a rare case of me preferring the movie over the book. I absolutely..."

I felt the exact same way about this book compared to the movie, which is rarely the case with me.

It's been a while since I've reported... I've finished 3 books, but only 1 whole task:

Task 10.5 – German author: Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke (11/5/09)

The story was really good, though this book was REALLY REALLY long. 16 CDs... 736 pages, apparently... Oye. But the story was full of twists and surprises and excitement. I'm glad the trilogy ended well! I gave it 4 stars.

CURRENT STATS
Tasks Completed: 31/45
Tasks Partially Completed: 4
Books Read: 46/62
Pages Read: 15,771
Points Earned: 475/690

I read Othello for task 5.5.
Total: 110 points
12 books

I completed task 15.8 (Geography) by reading Death on the Nile and A Golden Age which take place in Egypt and Bangladesh (E and B for my initials). Enjoyed both thoroughly - especially Death on the Nile, a favorite of my recent Agatha Christie reads!

Total Points: 440

finished 2 more tasks!

10.5 Siddhartha (german author)


10.6 Thunder Rides a Black Horse Mescalero Apaches and the Mythic Present (native american)




Total Points: 340/690
Books Read: 26/62
Tasks Completed: 18/45
Tasks in Progress: 3

Hi all! Finished another one:

10.6 Read A Book Written By A Native American Author, With A Main Character Who Is Native American, Or A Non-Fictional Book About Native Americans.

I read: The Blue Tattoo The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin <> The true story of a young girl (Olive Oatman) who lived with the Yavapai and Mohave Indians in the 1850s. Interesting.

250 + 10 = 260

I'm nearly done! My computer's being weird and keeps shutting off and deleting my posts :(.

10 Points

4. Hispanic: Daughter of Fortune A Novel by Isabel Allende.

5. German: The Book Thief by Markus Zasuk.

Total Points: 670

I read Crazy Love Overwhelmed by a Relentless God for task 5.7. The title totally describes what I am thankful for! I am very thankful that I have found a peace that passes understanding and an overflowing joy in being pursued by a God that truly loves me and in turn I pursue him and love others.
Total: 115 points
13 books

20.3 Group selection- Shutter Island

Tasks copleted:8
Total points:125

Wow...it's definitely been a LONG time since I've posted anything for my progress here. I have read a LOT of books since my last post (Sept. 28th), but unfortunately I am unable to apply them to this challenge.

The ones however that are applicable are as following:

Twilight - Stephenie Meyer 5 points October 31 Apple Cover
Lord of Flies - William Golding - 5 points November 4 Reread book from school days
Timeline - Michael Crichton - 5 points October 19 Time traveling character(s)

Total Points: 80 points
Task In Progess: 3
Books Reading: 4

My latest update:

5.4 - The Graveyard Book
5.5 - The Prince and the Pauper - I liked this book much better now vs. reading it for a school paper on Mark Twain.
5.8 - The Expectant Father - by Armin Brott and Jennifer Ash
10.2 - The Dart League King (cocaine)
15.1 (Homophones) - No Time To Wave Goodbye/All We Know of Heaven
15.3 - Addition (14) - Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins and Multiplication (33*19) - The Host by Stephanie Meyer
15.7 - The Gunslinger (audio book)
20.2 - I Thought My Father Was God, (The) Judges, Keeper and Kid
20.3 - Shutter Island
25.7 - Gossamer - Lois Lowry; The Somnabulist - Johnathon Barnes; Lords of Corruption - Kyle Mills

Total Points: 135

5 POINT TASKS
1. Native Son by Richard Wright 10/7/09
2. Twilight By Stephanie Meyer 9/3/09
3. Vanished at Sea: The True Story of a Child TV Actor and Double Murder by Tina Dirmann 10/11/09
4. The Face on the Milk Carton by Carolyn B. Cooney 11/1/09
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 11/2/09 (reason in next post)
6. Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark by Alvin Schwartz, Stephen Gammell (Illustrator) 10/2/09
7. Whatever Happened to Janie? by Caroline B. Cooney 11/3/09
8. The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading by Charity Tahmaseb and Darcy Vance 9/15/09
9. Little Women by Louis May Alcott 11/4/09
10. Something Upstairs : A Tale Of Ghosts by Avi

10 POINT TASKS
1. The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
2. A Child Called it By David Pelzer 9/10/09
3. Cat and the Hat/ Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss 9/1/09
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
5. The Book Thief by by Markus Zusak
6. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell 9/11/09
7. Lemon Meringue Pie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mystery, Book 4) by Joanne Fluke
8. Breaking Dawn By Stephanie Meyer
9. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
10. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who..., #1) by Lilian Jackson Braun

15 POINT TASKS
1. About a Boy by Nick Hornby and Don't You Forget About Me (Gossip Girl, #11) by Cecily von Ziegesar 10/4/09
2. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
3. The Ex Games (Romantic Comedies) by Jennifer Echols 9/26/09 and Hot Six By Janet Evanovich 9/20/09
4. The Host by Stephanie Meyer
5. When Jonathan Died by Tony Duvert and The Tenant by Roland Topor
6. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Volume One in the Wicked Years) by Gregory Maguire
7. Adam Copeland On Edge by Adam Copeland 10/1/09
8. The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky and The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
9. No Place Like Home A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark
10. Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager by Beatrice Sparks (Editor ) 9/30/09 and Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez 9/28/09

20 POINT TASKS
1.Left Behind by Tim LaHaye
2.Jessi's Wish (Baby-Sitters Club, 48) by Ann M. Martin and Kristy's Great Idea (The Baby-Sitter's Club #1) by Ann M. Martin and Logan's Story (Baby-Sitters Club Special Edition) by Ann M. Martin 9/2/09
3. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell

25 POINT TASKS
1. A Light In The Attic By Shel Silverstein 10/15/09 And The Friday Night Knitting Club By Kate Jacobs 10/22/09
2. Carrie by Stephen King and Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
3. Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez 9/21/09
4. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 9/7/09
5. Beauchamp, Or, The Wheel of Fortune (1817) by James Holroyd Fielding
6. Abraham Lincoln, the True Story of a Great Life: Showing the Inner Growth, Special Training and Peculiar Fitness of the Man for His Work
by William O. Stoddard
7. Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer and New Moon by Stephanie Meyer 9/4/09 and Bluberry Muffin Murder by Joanne Fluke 11/01/01
8. Heart and Soul of Nick Carter by Jane Carter and Around a Minnesota Campfire by Ruth Hein , Terry Fisk and Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
9. Knitting for Dummies by Pam Allen, Trisha Malcolm and Julia's Chocolates by Cathy Lamb
10. Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1) by Richelle Mead

30 POINT TASKS
1. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber 10/3/09 and Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke 10/10/09

50 POINT TASKS
1.Of Sound Mind by Jean Ferris and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel by Gaston Leroux - because it was the first play that i saw on broadway

245/690 Points
8268/19878 Pages Read

Task 1.5 I ready Huck Finn in high school and I can still say that I am not a big fan of it.

Finished 25.10 with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

New total: 105 points (oh summer, I miss you!!)

Heather in KS

I finished the Christian fiction task (20 pts) this afternoon by reading Perelandra by C.S. Lewis.




TASKS COMPLETED: 31
TASKS PARTIALLY COMPLETED: 4
BOOKS READ: 41 (+4 kids books)
PAGES READ: 12,632
POINTS EARNED: 420
NUMBER OF BOOKS READ FROM MY 'OWNED AND UNREAD' SHELF: 25

Wow, after looking at the leaderboard I just realized I never posted this task!

Task 20.3 (Group Read): Julie and Julia My Year of Cooking Dangerously - Julie Powell (11/3)
I actually had no desire to read this book, but ended up doing so because I had recently read both of the other Group Read options. What a pleasant surprise! I actually really liked it quite a bit and ended up giving it 4 stars.

Total Points: 485/690
Books Read: 45/62
Tasks Completed: 31/45
Pages Read: 14,094

Completed task 20.2 by reading in alphabetical order, The Rhythm Section, by Mark Burnell, Severed, by Simon Kernick, and Trust Me, by Peter Leonard.

5.4 Then she found me- Elinor Lipman

Finished:

25.7 - One Word Title - Savvy by Ingrid Law
Two Word Title - Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins
Three Word Title - Beyond the Grave by Jude Watson

TOTAL = 60 POINTS

Finished 25.2 - A Cold Heart by Jonathon Kellerman and Sanctuary by Faye Kellerman. They are husband and wife.

Total: 425

Hi,

I've just finished reading
Mr Pip by Lloyd Jones (set in Papa New Guinea) and The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre (set in Kenya) for the 15 point Geography task (8).

Kate.x.

Total points = 105

Here are some more tasks I have done:
10.6. A main character who is Native America - New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
15.3. Subtraction - The Luxe by Anna Godbersen and
Division - Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

25 points, making my total 50 points.

Thanks!

Finished 25.7. Read:

1-word title:
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

2-word title:
River Secrets by Shannon Hale

3-word title:
Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet


TOTALS:
Points: 390
Books: 47
Tasks: 28
Pages: 13,155

5.1 Our Children are our Future - Winter's Child A Retelling of "The Snow Queen"
by Cameron Dokey

Reposting 15.2 Alternative History Challenge - Man in the Dark by Paul Auster. In this book, the alternate world is one where the terrorist attack of September 11th have never occurred and civil war has broken out (because of the whole 2000 election scandal/many people's disatisfaction with Senor Dubya).

I don't think that the alternative is preferable or better in any way to our current situation. Its kind of hard to decide. I think that it sounds nice to think of a world where the Twin Towers are still there and we haven't gone to war under false pretenses, but the idea of civil war in this country is too horrific to deal with.


That should bring me up to 440. I think. I always have trouble adding up my points.

I'm going to repost my points:
5.1 Children - Winters Child by Cameron Dokey
5.3 Sea Travel - Girl at Sea by Maureen Johnson
5.5 Going Back To School - Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe
5.6 Terrifying Titles (spooky, crawly, creepy) - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
5.7 Giving Thanks - I am thankful for having great friends. Best friends forever by Jennifer Weiner
5.8 Two authors - Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
5.9 Coming Of Age Or All Grown Up (And Then Some) – Thumbsucker by Walter Kirn
5.10 Fall Back In Time For Daylight Savings Time – Prada and Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard

5x8= 40

10 POINT TASKS
10.1 Buddy Holly Read A Book First Published During His Lifetime (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959). And then there were none by Agatha Christie. (published November 6, 1939)
10.2 On October 31st, 1993, Addiction (Such As A Memoir Of A Recovering Addict) - Ivy by Julie Hearn
10.6 Native American - The Absolute True story of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
10.10 This Task Is The Cat's Meow - Bad Kitty by Michelle Jaffe

10x4=40

15 POINT TASKS
15.2 Rewriting History - Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
15.3 Discover The Equation For Good Books (Math) - Pick 2 Of The Following...

• Addition - 11 - Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby

• Subtraction - 10 - Kiss of Life by Daniel Waters
15.4 Science Fact vs. Science Fiction - The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood and three episodes of the first season of Mythbusters. (135 minutes)
15.6 Creative Minds (The Arts) - So Punk Rock by Micol Ostow & The Clash's Live at Shea Stadium
15.7 Let's Get Physical (P.E.) - New Moon by Stephenie Meyer while hiking/walking
15.8 Geography Lessons -
S - Spain - Vermeer's Milkmaid by Manuel Rivas
E - England - Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
15.9 Your Homework Assignment - Almost Home by Jessica Blank
15.10 Teacher-Student Relations - Jane Austen Ruined my Life by Beth Patillo
and Skinned by Robin Wasserman (student)

15x8=120

20 POINT TASKS
1. MOST IMPROVED PLAYER – About a Girl Melody Carlson
2. ROOKIE OF THE SEASON -
A - Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
B - Blame by Michelle Huneven
C - Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
3. GROUP READ - Read One Of The 3 Group Reads Julie and Julie by Julie Powell

20x3=60

25 POINT TASKS
3. WENDY'S TASK - Harvey Milk - Empress of the World by Sara Ryan
4. CANDACE'S TASK - Book/Movie - Derby Girl by Shauna Cross (Whip It!)
7. CINDY'S TASK - One, Two, Three -

One - Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Two- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Three - Vision in White by Norah Roberts

8. CAIT'S TASK - Nouns - The Most Basic Definitions State That A Noun Is A Person, Place, Or Thing. Read 3 Books:
• With The Name Of A Person In The Title - The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy by Maya Slater
• With The Name Of A Place In The Title - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• With A Thing/Object In The Title, Such As Tree, Key, Car, Book, Etc - The Jewel Box by Anna Davis
25.9 Self Improvement Task -EnLIGHTenment by Jessica Berger Gross
and Getting It by Alex Sanchez
10. Devil, Witch, Vampire, Zombie or Werewolf - Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange

25x6=150

30 POINT TASKS

1. Dream Job-

Librarian - Dead over Heels by Charlaine Harris
Teacher/Headmistress - Simply Perfect by Mary Balogh

40+40+120+60+150+30= 440

Please let me know if I'm correct Cynthia. Thanks!

Sara wrote: "
...That should bring me up to 440. I think. I always have trouble adding up my points. ..."

Sara, that's why I use a spreadsheet--I let it automatically do the adding for me. Plus I can keep track of how many pages, when I put in requests at the library, and when I recorded the points--all sorts of stuff nobody else wants to know.

10.5 Night by Elie Wiesel

total: 75 points

Hello!

Here are my recent completed tasks:

a) Task 15.4 ~ Science/SF: I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and I also watched the science/nature documentary The March of the Penguins

b) Task 15.10 ~ Student/Teacher: I read The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta and A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay.

c) Task 20.1 ~ Christian Fiction: I read The Red Tent by Anita Diamant





# of tasks completed: 26
# of books read: 40
# of points accrued: 415
# of pages read: 11,330

For the first 5 point task I have just finished Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

Previous reads

5.2 Apple a day - Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
5.4 Adoption - Digging to America by Anne Tyler
5.10 Fall back in time - Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson

10.1 Buddy Holly's lifetime - Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
10.4 Hispanic Heritage Month - The Forest of Pygmies by Isabel Allende Allende is chilean.
10.5 Oktober fest - The Witch's Trinity by Erika Mailman this book is set in Germany.
10.7 Faster than a Speeding Bullet - A Song Flung up to Heaven by Maya Angelou
10.8 Word Generator - Something Might Happen by Julie Myerson (might)
10.10 The Cat's Meow - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Marukami

15.3 Addition - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday (Alice Gould) Muliplication - Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (10x27=270, 276 pages)
15.9 Homework - Home by Marilynne Robinson
15.10 Teacher - The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Less Student - Testimony by Anita Shreve

20.3 Group Read - Shutter Island by Dennis LeHane

25.4 Film and Book - Mystic River by Dennis LeHane
25.5 Fortune in the title - Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
25.8 Nouns - person The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, thing Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, place Brick Lane by Monica Ali

30.1 current job and dream job - The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury(I work in a University) and The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (I would love to own a bookshop).

50.1 Sense - The Scent of the Night by Andrea Camilleri Emotion - Even the Stars Look Lonesome Tonight by Maya Angelou Memory The Great Divorce by Valerie Martin


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15.3: Read Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey for subtraction and Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey for 3rd in a series.

Total points: 35

Finished 15.1
FALLING Leaves Return to their Roots Adeline Yen Mah
The Cradle Will FALL Mary Higgins Clark

For task 15.1 (grammar task), I read Kiss of Midnight and Life of Pi. Both have the preposition "of" in the title.

I read Kiss of Midnight very early in the challenge and remember not liking it at all. I won't be reading another book by that author. I was pleasantly surprised by Life of Pi because I had gotten so many bad reviews from people I know.

That should bring me up to 220 points. I feel so accomplished! I know I won't come anywhere near finishing the challenge, but I think I've done pretty well for being incredibly busy with college and family this semester.

"Cait wrote: "Completed:

Task 25.4 (Candace's book/movie): The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler

Like many others, this is a rare case of me preferring..."

After reading the book I had no desire to see the movie, but now you all have me thinking I will look for it next time it is on cable! at least to see this Hugh Dancy person!

Finally completed 50.1 PJREADS task

Senses: Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
A lovely book with a metaphysical flair and filled with senses. The senses of taste and smell from the herb and flower garden were described beautifully almost to the point of really experiencing them.

Emotions: A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds
A badly disfigured girl is rejected by society and she takes solace in befriending the ghosts who inhabit the graveyard she tends. Filled with strong emotions - fear of her by the children of the town, her resentment and anger at the people in the community, and her developing comradeship with a ghost of her own era. Her life begins to change as an old classmate, also rejected by his peers, begins to show her respect and friendship. Very good book.

Memories: Pawley's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank - The token of the memory is a glass jar filled with sea shells collected from many summers spent vacationing along the Grand Strand of the South Carolina coast. The memory is the warm feeling of having spent two weeks each summer by the ocean with my family. A trip to Pawley's Island was a highlight of each vacation.

Points: 635
Books: 58
Pages: 15834
Tasks: 42
In Proc: 3

TOTAL POINTS: 160 + 15 = 175

New Tasks:

15.3 Addition (12) Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder
Subtraction (13) Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss

Past Tasks:

5.2 Apple of My Eye by Helene Hanff
5.7 Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
5.9 The Last Time I Wore A Dress by Daphne Scholinski
10.3 Dolores Meets Her Match (32p) by Barbara Samuels
Dolores On Her Toes (40p) by Barbara Samuels
Duncan and Dolores (20p) by Barbara Samuels
Cosmo Zooms (32p) by Arthur Howard
My Cat Likes Milk (14p) by Nancy Prasad
10.5 The Book Thief Markus Zusak
10.10 Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
20.1 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
20.3 Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
25.5 Prophecy by Elizabeth Haydon
25.7 ONE: Doubleblind by Ann Aguirre, TWO: Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs, THREE: The Shadow Queen by Anne Bishop
25.10 Daughter of Witches by Patricia Wrede

5-6. Terrifying Titles - Read A Novel That Has An Adjective In The Title That Relates To Halloween...I.E. Spooky, Creepy, Crawly, Scary etc. Plum Spooky Janet Evanovich

5.4 two heads better than 1: Read 3rd Degree by James Patterson and Andrew Gross

Finished Donna's task 25.2 by reading The Second Time Around by Mary Higgins Clark (Mother). And reading Iced by Carol Higgins Clark (Daughter). Both were ok. This will bring my total to 485 points.

Completed Tasks
5 Point Tasks
#2 The Poison Apples
#3 The Old Man and the Sea
#6 Down a Dark Hall

10 Point Tasks
#3 The Complete Adventures of Curious George
#6 Walk Two Moons
#7 Wonder Woman Love and Murder

5 Point Tasks
#4 read: Catching Fire watched: March of the Penguin

25 Point Tasks
#8 Person: Madame Bovary; Place: Sundays at Tiffany's; Thing: The Lost Symbol

Total Points Earned: 85
Total Books Read: 13
Total Pages Read for Completed Tasks: 2917


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A couple more done:

I just finished the first in the Wheel of Time series (a re-read) for the prophecy task. I hope this one counts as although there isn't a lot of prophecy in the first book the series is all based on prophecy.

I also hope the books I read for Diane's task count - I didn't get answers to my questions so I just went ahead! :) I read two 'how to' quilting books as there were a lot of pictures in one, and the fiction book is about five quilters overcoming challenges throughout a year.

25.5 Fortune and prophecy – The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

25.9 Self-help – The Cross-Country Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini, The Sampler Quilt Book by Lynne Edwards and Sylvia's Bridal Sampler from Elm Creek Q The True Story Behind the Quilt 140 Traditional Blocks by Jennifer Chiaverini

Total: 230/690 points
18/59 books
13/45 tasks
6619 pages

I completed task 30.1:

I am a stay at home mom and read Ursula, Under which has a stay at home mom who was also a librarian before. So both fit me as I was a librarian before becoming a stay at home mom:-) I always dreamed of being a musician so I read Juliet, Naked A Novel. Of course I would have had to had musical talent for that:-)

My total is now 280.

Completed 5-2 with 'My Life in France' by Julia Child. My book is the movie cover with Meryl Streep and she is shopping in an outdoor market and there are apples in the lower left corner.

410 points

Reposting 15.9 Homework assignment - I read Almost Home by Jessica Blank.

For the work portion, I think the assignment would be geared towards at-risk teens. The book itself is about runaway teens who live on the streets and the hardships of their lives. I would have an assignment that takes the different characters from the book, and have the students identify 1. the reasons the character ran away from home and 2. alternative solutions for the teens to deal with their problems.

Also, I finished 5.4 the adoption challenge by reading Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey. The main character in this book was adopted from Romania and raised in America, only to find out later that she is a Vampire Princess, once her betrothed shows up to claim her. It was actually really good, I enjoyed it in a very refreshing non-Twilight sort of way. (Don't get me wrong, I love Twilight, even with its creepy stalker sparkly vampires and wet noodle protagonist).

That should bring me up to 445.

Donna Jo, I think I'm going to definitely do the spreadsheet deal next challenge.

Also, thanks Cynthia for your speedy replies and for all you do for us crazy bibliophiles!

25.8
Person:The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn A Novel
Place: Living Dead in Dallas
Thing: The Broken Teaglass A Novel

The Broken Teaglass is one of my newest 5 star reads!

Total points: 275