The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

Teresa wrote: "Sara wrote: "Teresa wrote: "Would someone mind checking my list, and seeing if I have any books that are wrong?"

THanks for checking for me,

5.9 – Sudoku Puzzle Murders – Is that about a "se..."

Hi - just wanted to chime in about the Sudoku Puzzle murders. I just finished this book about 3 days ago. It is NOT about a senior. The main character is 25. Her aunt is in the book, but is definitely not a main character. She only has a few scenes - definitely not enough to qualify for the senior citizen task.

Bridgit wrote: "...It is NOT about a senior. The main character is 25..." regarding the Sudoku Puzzle Murders.

The main character of the series is Cora Felton, the aunt, who is the one who solves the mysteries with the help of her niece, Sherry Carter.

The Synopsis for A Clue for the Puzzle Lady: (Puzzle Lady Series #1) on bn.com states the following: Cruciverbalists, rejoice! Pick up a pencil and get ready to solve a puzzling murder-and an actual crossword puzzle-in this sparkling debut of a unique amateur detective: Miss Cora Felton, an eccentric old lady with a syndicated puzzle column, an irresistible urge to poke into unsettling events, and a niece who's determined to keep her out of trouble.

If I remember correctly, Sherry had a little more involvement in the Sudoku Puzzle Murders, but Cora was still the main "detective."

You know what - i read The Sudoku Murder A Katie McDonald Mystery not The Sudoku Puzzle Murders - what a difference a word makes. though really, the plots sound very similar. both involve a niece/aunt relationship.

Bridgit wrote: "You know what - i read The Sudoku Murder A Katie McDonald Mystery not The Sudoku Puzzle Murders - what a difference a word makes. though really, the plots sound very..."

That's interesting. I might check out the Katie McDonald one just to compare the two.

Bridgit wrote: "You know what - i read The Sudoku Murder A Katie McDonald Mystery not The Sudoku Puzzle Murders - what a difference a word makes. though really, the plots sound very..."

that is wierd, the one I am talking about is by Parnell Hall, and the aunt has a little drinking problem too

Teresa wrote: "that is wierd, the one I am talking about is by Parnell Hall..."

The series by Parnell Hall would work for a senior citizen. Enjoy!

5 Point Tasks
5.1 The Emperor's Children
5.2 TBD
5.3 The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig
5.4 Sea Swept by Nora Roberts
5.5 Rebecca by Dauphne du Maurier
5.6 Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
5.7 Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
5.8 TBD
5.9 Forever by Judy Blume
5.10 Time of My Life by Allison WInn Scotch

10 Point Tasks
10.1 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
10.2 Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
10.3 On Bear Mountain by Deborah Smith
10.4 The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
10.5 Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
10.6 One Thousand White Woman: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
10.7 Wonder WOman: Love and Murder by Jodi Picoult
10.8 Random Word Genertor results-- boiling, bible and toast--The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover
10.9 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
10.10 Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart

15 Point Tasks
15.1 Prepositions: The World Before Her by Deborah Weisgall and The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe
15.2 TBD
15.3 Addition: 9 Letters-- Straight Talking: A Novel by Jane Green/ Division a book between 400-450 pages TBD
15.4 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell/Movie TBD
15.5 TBD
15.6 The Cross-Country Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini
15.7 TBD
15.8 G-Greece: The Memoirs of HElen of Troy: A Novel by Amanda Elyot and R:Russia The Romanov Bride by Robert Alexander
15.9 Home Safe: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg
15.10 The Piano Teacher and The Perks of Being a Wallflower

20 Point Tasks
Most Improved Player: TBD
Rookie of the Season: TBD
Group Read: TBD

25 Point Tasks
Roseann's Task: Current Job: Attorney, Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult Dream Job: TBD
Donna Jo's Task: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Candace's Task: Pride & Prejudice
Janice's Task: Fortune's Daughter by Alice Hoffman
BJ Rose's Task: Counterpoint: Tecumseh vs. WIlliam Henry Harrison
Cindy's Task: TBD
Caits Task: TBD

Gina, I was just looking at your list and thought I'd mention that Candace's task requires the book to have been written in the last 10 years and the movie version to have been made within the last 5. Pride and Prejudice is definitely outside of that 10 year requirement. Wanted you to be aware before you read it and try to claim points for it! :)

4. CANDACE'S TASK - Read A Book That Has Been Written Within The Last 10 Years And Made Into A Movie Within The Last 5. Read The Book And Watch The Movie Both, Then Post A Little Review Of The Two And Tell Us Which One You Liked Better And Why. (Examples: Atonement, Twilight, The Time Traveler's Wife, Angels & Demons, Harry Potter (5& 6).

5 Point Tasks
5.1 The Children of Men - PD James or Son of a Witch A Novel - Gregory Maguire
5.2 Freakonomics Rev Ed A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Levitt/Dubner
5.3 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
5.4 Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
5.5 A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
5.6 Dark Harvest - Norman Partridge
5.7 TBD
5.8 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
5.9 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
5.10 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

10 Point Tasks
10.1 Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 1st pub 1955
10.2 Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
10.3 The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
10.4 Zorro - Isabel Allende
10.5 The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
10.6 Green Grass, Running Water - Thomas King
10.7 The Superman Handbook The Ultimate Guide to Saving the Day - Scott Beatty
10.8 The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown random word=symbol
10.9 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
10.10 Londonstani - Gautami Malkani

15 Point Tasks
15.1 Lady Knight - Tamora Pierce/The Meaning of Night A Confession - Michael Cox
15.2 First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde (hope this works, I've read the rest of the series, but not this one yet)
15.3 addition-14 Graceling - Kristin Cashore/subtraction - 7 The Road - Cormac McCarthy
15.4 Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
15.5 The Trial - Franz Kafka/The Neverending Story - Michael Ende both originally German
15.6 Drama Club As You Like It - William Shakespeare
15.7 TBD
15.8 In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson (Australia) How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn (Wales)
15.9 Home from the Vinyl Cafe A year of stories - Stuart McLean
15.10 teacher The Piano Teacher
student How I Paid for College A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater - Marc Acito

20 Point Tasks
20.1
20.2
20.3 Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane

25 Point Tasks
25.1
25.2 married You Shall Know Our Velocity! - Dave Eggers/Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name A Novel - Vendela Vida
25.3 Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn & David Leviathan
25.4 The City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
25.5 The Prophet of Yonwood (The Ember Series, #3) - Jeanne DuPrau
25.6 TBD
25.7 Generica - Will Ferguson/Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins/Three Bags Full - Leonie Swann
25.8
Person Jack Absolute - C.C. Humphreys
Place Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw Travels in Search of Canada - Will Ferguson
Thing The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
25.9
25.10

30 Point Task
30.1 Millionaire - work at a bank/Dreaming in the Rain How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest - dream job, working in film industry in Vancouver (or anywhere really)

5.1 Mother-Daughter Book Club: Heather Vogel Frederick (p.236)
5.2 Madapple: Christina Meldrum (p.416)
5.3 To Catch A Pirate: Jade Parker (p.320)
5.4 In Between: Jenny B. Jones (p.347)
5.5 The Most Dangerous Game: Richard Connell (p.48)
5.6 My Haunted House (Araminta Spookie, #1): Angie Sage (p.144)
5.7 Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir: Jennette Fulda (p.300)
5.8 Betrayed (House of Night, #2): P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast (p.310)
5.9 Romancing Hollywood Nobody (p.194) or Goodbye Hollywood Nobody: Lisa Samson
5.10 Gideon the Cutpurse (The Gideon Trilogy: Book One): Linda Buckley-Archer (p.416)

10.1 The Secret of the Mansion (Trixie Belden #1): Julie Campbell (p.272)
10.2 Shoe Addicts Anonymous: Beth Harbison (p.327)
10.3 The Frog and Toad Treasury: Arnold Lobel (p.192)
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7 The Lightning Thief: Rick Riordan (p.375)
10.8 (secret, management, supernatural)
10.9
10.10

15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6 Drama Club- Romeo & Juliet: William Shakespeare (p.336)
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10

20.1 TBD
20.2 TBD
20.3 TBD

25.1
25.2
25.3
25.4 Inkheart: Cornelia Funke (p.534)
25.5 Bad Connection: Melody Carlson
25.6
25.7
- Evermore
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- Pretty Little Liars
25.8
- Person- Emma: Jane Austen
- Place- Tuscan Holiday: Holly Chamberlin
- Thing- The Fellowship of the Ring: JRR Tolkien

Thanks El. I definitely missed that.

Update, for Candace's task I will probably be reading and watching Marley & Me.

5 Points

5.1 Rose Daughter
5.2 Twilight
5.3 Pirates!
5.4
5.5 To Kill a Mockingbird
5.6 The Bloody Chamber
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10 Outlander

10 Points

10.1 Rebecca
10.2
10.3 various kids' books
10.4 House of Spirits
10.5 The Book Thief
10.6 Graceling
10.7
10.8
10.9 Across Five Aprils
10.10 The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

15 Points

15.1
15.2 The Thirteenth Child
15.3
15.4
15.5 Inkheart & Inkspell (German)
15.6 The Girl With the Pearl Earring
15.7 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
15.8
15.9
15.10 ? and Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

20 Points

20.1
20.2
20.3

25 Points

25.1 Don't Judge a Girl By Her Cover,
25.2
25.3
25.4
25.5
25.6
25.7 Fire, Catching Fire, The Hunger Games
25.8 The Disreputable History of Frankie of Frankie Landau-Banks, Wildwood Dancing, Poison Study

I really hope all of these work!

5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5 Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
5.6 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
5.7 Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
5.8 Something by James Patterson and someone else
5.9 Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
5.10 Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

10.1
10.2 Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
10.3
10.4
10.5 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10

15.1
15.2 The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
15.3 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and 3rd Degree by James Patterson
15.4
15.5 Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson and Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10

25.1
25.2 Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Mary Higgins Clark and Twanged by Carol Higgins Clark
25.3 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolfe
25.4 Atonement by Ian McEwan
25.5
25.6
25.7
25.8

Here are my selections for the Fall Challenge:

5.1 Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
5.2 One Bad Apple by Sheila Connolly
5.3 The Old Man & the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
5.4 Sea Swept by Nora Roberts
5.5 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5.6 Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
5.7 Family Album by Danielle Steele
5.8 Holidays are Hell by Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands..
5.9 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
5.10 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

10.1 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
10.2 The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
10.3 Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel
10.4 The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
10.5 The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
10.6 The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
10.7 The Taste of Night by Vicki Pettersson
10.8 A Marriage Worth Earning by Mary Sherwood
10.9 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
10.10 What the Cat dragged in by Gilbert Morris

15.1 A Kiss of Shadows by Laurrell K Hamilton and Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
15.2 Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
15.3 Fablehaven by Brandon Mull & Every Which Way but Dead by Kim Harrison
15.4 Dragonflight by Anne McCaffey
15.5 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo & The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larrson
15.6 Country Brides by Debbie MacComber
15.7 TBC
15.8 The Spanish Pearl by Cahterine Friend and The Commander by Patrick Davis
15.9 No Place Like Home by Fern Michaels
15.10 Poison Study by Maria Snyder & The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee

25.1 TBC
25.2 Dragonquest by Anne McCaffery & Dragonsblood by Todd McCaffery
25.3 Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulux
25.4 Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
25.5 TBC
25.6 TBC
25.7 Greywalker by Kat Richardson, Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs, and We'll Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark
25.8 Emma by Jane Austen, Kentucky Rich by Fern Michaels, and Foreign Body by Robin Cook

I'm just going to edit as I go. Normally I like to keep a few open-ended. Sometimes I find that planning your reading down to the last book ruins the process a little...

5.1 The Memory Keeper's Daughter
5.2 Jigs and Reels
5.3 Life of Pi
5.4
5.5 Awake and Dreaming- Kit Pearson
5.6 Satanic Verses
5.7
5.8
5.9 Water for Elephants
5.10

10.1
10.2 The Story of Sisters
10.3 Berenstein Bears Books until I reach 100 pgs
10.4 One Hundred Years of Solitude
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9 Gone with the Wind
10.10 Cat and Mouse or White Tiger

15.1 The Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime and Leaving of Liverpool
15.2 The Eyre Affair
15.3 The Reader- Bernhard Schlink and The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
15.4
15.5 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played With Fire
15.6
15.7
15.8
15.9
15.10 Never Let Me Go

20.1
20.2
20.3

25.1 An Echo in the Bone and TBD
25.2 Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
25.3
25.4
25.5
25.6 Something to do with FDR
25.7 Two- Kushiel's Dart
25.8 Thing- Tears of the Giraffe
25.9
25.10

50.1

I can't get my list done!!! Actually, this summer my list changed so much that the post was sort of worthless. I guess that is a bit selfish, because what posting a list does is help other people who are struggling to find a book for a task - but, hey, we've got a super thread for that now.
I will get some GOALS into writing:
1) Get 500 points
2) Read only books that are interesting and enjoyable - there were a few stinkers last time, I need to post those.
3) Don't buy any books especially for the challenge
4) Read at least 1 book from a genre that I don't usually touch

My family felt ignored this summer, and have no vacation time this fall, so to remain sane, I have to control the reading.

Here are my plans so far:

5.1 The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardener
5.2 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
5.3 To Catch A Pirate by Jade Parker
5.4 Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
5.5 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
5.6 Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
5.7 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
5.8 Tempted by P.C. Cast
5.9 Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
5.10 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

10.1 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
10.2 Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella
10.3 TBD
10.4 TBD
10.5 The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
10.6 Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
10.7 TBD
10.8 TBD Expectation/Swap/Hunting
10.9 TBD
10.10 TBD

15.1 Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen and Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
15.2 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
15.3 The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly and Rampant by Diana Peterfreund
15.4 Specials by Scott Westerfeld
15.5 Blindness by José Saramago and The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
15.6 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
15.7 Deep Drive A Long Journey to Finding the Champion Within by Mike Lowell
15.8 TBD
15.9 TBD
15.10 The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown and Tap & Gown An Ivy League Novel by Diana Peterfreund

20.1 TBD
20.2 TBD
20.3 TBD

25.1 The Appeal by John Grisham and TBD
25.2 TBD
25.3 My Most Excellent Year A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park by Steve Kluger
25.4 New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
25.5 TBD
25.6 Dark Horse The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield by Kenneth D. Ackerman
25.7 Pretties by Scott Westerfeld, Twelve Sharp and Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich
25.8 Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes, Here Today, Gone to Maui by Carol Snow and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
25.9 TBD
25.10 Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

All finished!
5 POINT TASKS
1. Our Children Are Our Future - The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
2. An Apple A Day Keeps The Librarians Away - Little Lady, Big Apple by Hester Browne
3. In 1492 Columbus Sailed The Ocean Blue - The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
4. Adoption Story – Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
5. Going Back To School - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
6. Terrifying Titles - Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
7. Giving Thanks - Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery
8. Two Heads Are Better Than One - Court of the Lion by Elanor Cooney and David Altieri
9. Coming Of Age Or All Grown Up – The Secret History of Tom Trueheart by Ian Beck
10. Fall Back - Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

10 POINT TASKS
1. Buddy Holly's Lifetime – Animal Farm by George Orwell
2. River Phoenix Addict or Addiction - A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
3. Stanley "Stan" Berenstain - Pickle-Chiffon Pie by Jolly Roger Bradfield (64pgs), That's Not My Monster by Fiona Watt (10pgs), The World is Your Oyster by Tamara James (50pgs) total:124pgs
4. Hispanic Heritage Month - The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
5. Oktoberfest - The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka,
6. Native American Heritage Month - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
7. Faster Than A Speeding Bullet - Savvy by Ingrid Law
8. The Dictionary, Random Word Generator - (Entity, Champagne or Chamber) The Gilded Chamber: A Novel of Queen Esther by Rebecca Kohn
9. Gone With The Wind - The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
10. The Cat's Meow - Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

15 POINT TASKS
1. Brush Up On Your Grammar - Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan and The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
2. Rewriting History - The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
3. Equation For Good Books - Addition - 13 - An Englishman in Paris by Michael Sadler and Multiplication - 459 - Confidence Game by Michelle M. Welch
4. Science Fact vs. Science Fiction - Next by Michael Crichton and Cracking the Code of Life by NOVA
5. Study Abroad - Witches Forest by Mishio Fukazawa and Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi
6. Creative Minds - Drama Club - Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
7. Let's Get Physical - The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
8. Geography Lessons - Journey to Mauritius by Bernardin De Saint-Pierre and Gifts by Nuruddin Farah
9. Homework Assignment - Nice to Come Home to by Rebecca Flowers
10. Teacher-Student Relations - The Teaching of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castenada and Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

20 POINT TASKS
1. MOST IMPROVED PLAYER – JULIE KS - Christian Fiction - The Wishing Jar by Penelope J. Stokes
2. ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - ERIN - ABC's - Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery, Billy Budd Sailor and Other Stories by Herman Melville, and Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
3. GROUP READ - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron

25 POINT TASKS
1. NICOLE OH'S TASK - Rhyme Time - A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks and The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
2. DONNA JO'S TASK - Related By Blood Or Marriage - Acorna's Rebels by Anne McCaffery and Dragonsblood by Tod McCaffery
3. WENDY'S TASK - Harvey Milk - Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
4. CANDACE'S TASK - Made Into A Movie - The Other Boleyn Girl by Philipa Gregory
5. JANICE'S TASK - Fortune Telling - Good Omens the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
6. BJ ROSE'S TASK - “Curse Of Tippecanoe” - Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
7. CINDY'S TASK - One, Two, Three - Magician by Raymond E. Feist, Making Money by Terry Pratchett, and The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones
8. CAIT'S TASK - Nouns - Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by J.K. Rowling, The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherford, and Rose in Winter by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
9. DIANE'S TASK - Self-Improvement Month - The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff and Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment by Julie Powell
10. SAM'S TASK - Monsterfest - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

30 POINT TASKS
1. ROSEANN'S TASK - Your Job/Dream Job Challenge - Illustrator/Egyptologist - Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier and The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters

50 POINT MID-WAY TASK
1. PJREADS TASK – Minding the World – Senses -Site Unseen by Dana Cameron, Emotions - The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, Memories (kaleidescope) - The Song of the Blackbirds in the Reeds: In Which Great-Grandpa Nicholas Winslow Applewood Entertains the Young Folk with Stories and Fables and Has Some Remarkable Adventures Betimes by H. J. Adams.


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Teresa's list ( first time doing a challenge) About 90% done

1book:The Black Jewels Trilogy Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, Queen of the Darkness|47953] HAVE
2Candy Apple Red ( have)
3 Pacific Lady The First Woman to Sail Solo across the World's Largest Ocean REQUESTED
4 When the Black Girl Sings (have)
5book:The Scarlet Letter|12296] REQUESTED
6 dead until dark REQUESTED
7 book whisper ( children and books) (have)
8fifth horseman HAVE
9 The Sudoku Puzzle Murders (have)
10 lost in a good book HAVE

10 point tasks
1 Clue of the tapping shoes 1939 Nancy Drew REQUESTED
2 Basketball diaries REQUESTED
3 berenstain books that total 100 pages
4 skull duggery REQUESTED
5 Rochelle Majer Krich ( REQUESTED) FINALLY a german author I can read) THANKS CYNTHIA
6 eagle catcher margart coel HAVE
7 last olympian ( percy jackson) (have)
8 eyes of prey ( words were work ethic prey, pantheistic) REQUESTED
9 solider's heart REQUESTED
10 book:The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers|72816] ( have)

15 point tasks
1 city of ashes, city of bones REQUESTED
2eyre affair REQUESTED
3 The Keepsake A Novel and Eclipse (addition and multipication) HAVE
4 Earth, school house rock REQUESTED
5 shadow of the wind, angel game Carlos Ruiz Zafón, translated from spanish REQUESTED
6 cross country quilters, COUNTRY MUSIC REQUESTED
7 bleachers REQUESTED
8 Number 1 detective agency(boswana) REQUESTED and bangkok 8 (have)
9 all the way home HAVE
10 helping students become strategic learners, Teaching math for 1st and 2nd graders (REQUESTED)
20 point tasks
1 tbd
2 tbd
3 tbd

25 points
roseann carved in bone, HAVE(forensic) waiting on answer on book I chose for my magazine merchanidiser job
donna jo kellermans capital crimes, sunstroke(have)
wendy REQUESTED Something with dreams in it ( approved by wendy)
candace marley and me (have)
janice fortune teller daughter HAVE need approval waiitng on answer may use the black jewel trilogy also
bk rose lincoln and fdr(have)
cindy
one word evermore
two word die trying HAVE
three word last to die HAVE

Cait
noun what happened to cassie mcbride Requested
place bones of betrayal Body Farm book (cait okay it , thanks)
object 206 bones HAVE

I think my list is good to go, anyone see a problem?

thanks

Cindy wrote: "I can't get my list done!!! Actually, this summer my list changed so much that the post was sort of worthless. I guess that is a bit selfish, because what posting a list does is help other people w..."

but isn't it nice to help others who are struggling or new and not sure if the book they chose worked?

I was so perplexed on the German task, that having someone hold my hand and literally walk me to the author I could use was very helpful : )

5.1. One Child by Torey Hayden
5.2. An Apple (Book) A Day Keeps The Librarians Away - undecided
5.3. In 1492 Columbus Sailed The Ocean Blue - undecided
5.4. Adoption Story – undecided
5.5. Going Back To School - undecided
5.6. Mortal causes - Ian Rankin (DONE)
5.7. Call the Midwife - Jennifer Worth (DONE)
5.8. Out of the Dark by Linda Caine and Robin Royston (DONE)
5.9. I'm not scared by Niccolo Ammaniti (DONE)
5.10. Fall Back In Time For Daylight Savings Time – undecided

10.1. The fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)
10.2. Lullabies for little criminals by Heather O'Neill (DONE)
10.3. This Year Thanksgiving Falls On November 26th - undecided
10.4. My invented country - Isabel Allende (DONE)
10.5. Oktoberfest Is A Sixteen-Day Festival Held Each Year In Munich, Germany During Late September (And Running To Early October)-
undecided
10.6. November Is Native American Heritage Month - undecided
10.7. Can You Read Faster Than A Speeding Bullet?- undecided
10.8. Lords of the Horizons Jason Goodwin (the word is horizon)
10.9. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (DONE)
10.10. This Task Is The Cat's Meow-
undecided

15.1.
• The cradle will fall by Mary Higgins Clark (DONE)
• Falling leaves return to their roots by Adeline Yen Mah (DONE)
15.2. Rewriting History- undecided
15.3.
• Addition - Long time coming by Sandra Brown (11 letters) (DONE)
• Division - Milk and Honey by Faye Kellerman (3rd in series of Peter Decker) (DONE)

15.4.Science Fact vs. Science Fiction - undecided
15.5. Sweden
The Girl Who Played with Fire Stieg Larsson (DONE)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest Stieg Larsson (DONE)
15.6. All's well that ends well Shakespeare
Watch the play and read the text (DONE)
15.7. Golf, the mental approach to scoring - JP Vaillant and play a round of golf (DONE)
15.8.
• S:Winter in Madrid CJ Sansom (Spain)
• K:The red queen Margaret Drabble (Korea)
15.9. Your Homework Assignment
Home by Marylinne Robinson (DONE)
15.10.
• Teacher: The Piano Teacher Janice Lee
• Student: Dance on my Grave Aidan Chambers

20 POINT TASKS

1. MOST IMPROVED PLAYER – TBD

20.2 ERIN - Learn Your ABC's -
Mudbound Hilary Jordan (DONE)
Night Watch Sarah Waters (DONE)
On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan (DONE)
20.3. GROUP READ - Read One Of The 3 Group Reads (TBD).

25.1. NICOLE OH'S TASK - Rhyme Time - Read ONE Fiction Book And ONE Poetry Book That Have A Word That Rhymes From Each Of The Titles. undecided
25.2. DONNA JO'S TASK - Find Two Authors Who Are Related By Blood Or Marriage And Read A Book By Each. undecided
25.3. WENDY'S TASK -
The 19th Wife David Ebershoff (DONE)
25.4. CANDACE'S TASK - The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
25.5. JANICE'S TASK - Fortune Telling Has Long Been A Halloween Tradition - undecided
25.6. BJ ROSE'S TASK - Following The “Curse Of Tippecanoe” Theme Explained Below, Read A Non-Fiction Book Of At Least 500 Pages About One Of The 7 Presidents Listed Below OR About A President Or Prime Minister (Of Any Other Country) Who Has Been Democratically Elected (No Dictators Or Totalitarian Governments Or Military Juntas). - undecided

25.7. CINDY'S TASK - One, Two, Three
• Cross James Patterson (DONE)
• Blue Smoke Nora Roberts (DONE)
• What I loved Siri Hustveld (DONE)

25.8. CAIT'S TASK - Nouns -
• Emma by Jane Austen (DONE)
• Salmon fishing in the Yemen Paul Torday (DONE)
• Saturday by Ian McEwan (DONE)

9. DIANE'S TASK -
. Instant Confidence Paul McKenna (DONE)
AND
• The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner (DONE)
10. SAM'S TASK - Halloween Part III: Monsterfest - Read A Book With One Of The Following In The Title: Devil, Witch, Vampire, Zombie, Or Werewolf. Variations Of The Words Are Fine (E.G., The Witching Hour Or The Witches Are Okay), But They Must Appear In The Title (E.G., Queen Of The Damned Or Dead Until Dark Are Not Okay).

30 POINT TASKS
1. ROSEANN'S TASK - Your Job/Dream Job Challenge - First Read A Book That Is Somehow Related To Your Current Profession (Students Count) AND Then Read A Book That Is Related To Either Your Current Or Childhood Dream Job. The Books Can Either Have A Character Or Setting That Relates To That Job.

50 POINT MID-WAY TASK
PJREADS TASK
Minding the World - 3 books:
I. Senses – The Little Prince by Saint-Exupéry (DONE)
II. Emotions – Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen (DONE)
III. Memories – Salem Falls Jodi Picoult (DONE)
I played The Crucible in high school and have a very fond memory of it.

50.1. PJ's Task – senses: Paradise of the Blind, The Sound of Waves, Blind Man With a Pistol, Blindness, The Blind Owl, The Parable of the Blind
emotion:The Inheritance of Loss, Fear and Trembling, The House of Mirth, The Sorrows of Young Werther, The Passion According to G.H., Heartbreak Tango, On the Heights of Despair, Love in a Cold Climate, Enduring Love
memory: Look Homeward, Angel, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Leaden Wings

30.1. Roseann's Task – Current Profession: Phantom of the Opera, Acqua Alta, Murder at the Opera, Peony In Love, The Rest is Noise
Dream Profession: Mao II, Everything Is Illuminated, Pale Fire

25.1. Nicole's Task – Rhyme Time:
Break Blow Burn/Summer will show, The Crow Road, No One Writes to the Colonel
Good Poems/God's Bits of Wood

25.2. Donna Jo's Task – Related Authors:
Little Dorrit/Moonstone
The Waves/Vanity Fair
Money: A Suicide Note or London Fields/The Old Devils or Lucky Jim
The Sorrows of an American/ The Music of Chance or Moon Palace

25.3. Wendy's Task - Positive Gay/Lesbian Char.:
Brideshead Revisited, The Member of the Wedding, A Boy’s Own Story, The Memoirs of Hadrian, The Swimming Pool Library, The Immoralist, or The Counterfeiters

25.4. Candace's Task - Book since 1999, movie since 2004:
The Line of Beauty, The Namesake, Everything is Illuminated

25.5. Janice's Task - Fortune Telling:
Fools of Fortune, The War of the End of the World? The Violent Bear it Away?

25.6. BJ Rose's Task - The “Curse of Tippecanoe”:

25.7. Cindy's Task - One word title: Platform, Austerlitz, Underworld, Birdsong, Monica, Summer, Amok
Two word title: Animal's People, Mother's Milk, Small Island, The Swarm, Pale Fire, The Waves, The Devils, Little Dorrit
Three word title: Carry Me Down, Your Face Tomorrow, Lady Number Thirteen, The Kreutzer Sonata, Almost Transparent Blue, The Berlin Stories, Goodbye to Berlin, Everything Is Illuminated

25.8.Cait's Task – Person: The Last of Mr. Norris, Little Dorrit
Place: Goodbye to Berlin
Thing: The Moonstone

25.9. Diane's Task - Self-Improvement, non-fiction:
Main character with self-improvement: Little Dorrit

25.10. Sam's Task - Monsterfest:
The Devils, Interview with the Vampire, The Devil in the Flesh, The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, The Old Devils, The Devil's Pool

20.1. Juile's Task - Christian Fiction Book: Inferno, Paradise Lost

20.2. Erin's Task - ABCs:

20.3. Group Read: Julie & Julia, Shutter Island, Shadow of the Wind

15.1. Grammer, Same Preposition:
Notes from the Underground/News from Nowhere
The Holder of the World/The Inheritance of Loss/The Music of Chance/Memory of Fire/Dictionary of the Khazars
Or Homophones: At Swim-Two-Birds/Goodbye to Berlin or Reasons to Live

15.2. Alternate History:
It Can't Happen Here, The Difference Engine, Making History, The Yiddish Policemen's Union

15.3. Addition - Author with 14 letters:Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen, The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind, The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway, Murder at the Opera by Margaret Truman
Subtraction - Title with 15 letters: The Line of Beauty, Remains of the Day, Invisible Cities, Goodbye to Berlin, A Farewell to Arms, The House of Mirth

15.4. Science Book: Traffic, The Swarm, Contact, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Day of the Triffids, The Glass Bead Game, We
Science Film:

15.5 – Originally Published in a Foreign Language:
Two Spanish: Money to Burn, The Witness, The Savage Detectives, Lady Number Thirteen, The War of the End of the World, The Back Room, Memory of Fire
Or two Russian: Notes from underground, Crime & Punishment, The Devils, We, Eugene Onegin, Dead Souls, Oblomov

15.6. Music Title & event of that genre: The Floating Opera

15.7. Audiobook while Exercising:

15.8. Takes place in an E country: Miramar (Egypt) Professor Marten's Departure (Estonia) The New World (Ethiopia), Little Dorrit (England)
and in an M country (Mexico): In Search of Klingsor, The Labyrinth of Solitude, Here's to You, Jesusa!, The Burning Plain, The Underdogs, The Savage Detectives

15.9. "Home" or "Work" Title:
The Home and the World, Love’s Work, Look Homeward, Angel

15.10. Teacher book:
The Piano Teacher, Herzog, Pnin, Waterland, The Last of Mr. Norris
Student book:
A Boy's Own Story, Blood and Guts in High School


10.1. Published Sept. 7, 1936 to Feb. 3, 1959:
Day of the Triffids, The Long Goodbye, Casino Royale, The Leopard, Absalom, Absalom!, The Big Sleep, The Berlin Stories, At Swim-Two-Birds

10.2. Addiction:
Junkie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Naked Lunch

10.3. "Bear" in title:
The Violent Bear it Away

10.4. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Chile:
The Savage Detectives, In Search of Klingsor, The Labyrinth of Solitude

10.5. Germany:
The Swarm, Austerlitz, Vertigo, The Pigeon, The Glass Bees, The Last of Mr. Norris

10.6. Native American:
Two Old Women

10.7. Superhero/Real Hero:
Legend, The Princess Bride?

10.8. Random: space, wasting, pot:
2001: A Space Odyssey

10.9. Set During Civil War:

10.10. Cat Cover or Title:
Cat and Mouse, Cat’s Cradle, The Leopard, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

I'm still working on my list so I'm not going to post yet. I am trying to only work in books that I OWN for this challenge. It is actually working out pretty good so far. Haven't found one for every task, but a large bit of them.

My list so far (subject to change):
(last update: Oct. 4)

5.1 The Children of Men 09/10
5.2 Sporadic Memories or Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner
5.3 Treasure Island
5.4 A Theory of Relativity by Jacquelyn Mitchard
5.5 The Old Man and The Sea
5.6 The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins
5.7 (Family): The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West (family saga)
5.8 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
5.9 A Map Of Home by Randa Jarrar
5.10 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde or Kindred

10.1 Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe, 1958 09/04
10.2 Crank by Ellen Hopkins or Cost: A Novel by Roxana Robinson
10.3 A Bear Called Paddington
10.4 (Chile) Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin by Gabriel García Márquez
10.5 Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
10.6 Eclipse 09/03
10.7
10.8 (Baroque, Bad, Scarf) Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
10.9
10.10 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

15.1 (Preposition: "of") The Book of Air & Shadows and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
15.2 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
15.3 (subtraction: 38): Run At Destruction: A True Fatal Love Triangle by Lynda Drews & (addition: 14) Ironweed by William Kennedy
15.4 Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach & watch a Sci-Fi movie (Planet of the Apes?)
15.5 (Arabic): Sugar Street and Palace Of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz
15.6 Cross Country and listened to Buckles & Boots (Ridley Bent) and No Fences (Garth Brooks)
15.7 (Audio Book) New Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
15.8 (P=Poland) In the Memory of the Forest by Charles Powers OR The Zookeeper's Wife & (B=Botswana) Blue Shoes and Happiness
15.9
15.10 Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard & A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

20.1 The Screwtape Letters 09/11
20.2 Erin's Task:
Empire Falls by Russo
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
God's Secretaries

20.3 Shutter Island

25.1 Nicole's Task: I'm a Stranger Here Myself & Danger On The Tracks
25.2 Donna Jo's Task: Charles Dickens/Wilkie Collins (father-in-law/brother of son-in-law) A Christmas Carol & The Two Destinies
25.3 Wendy's Task: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolfe
25.4 Candace's Task: Coraline (Book=2002; movie=2009)
25.5 Janice's Task: Fortune's Daughter
25.6 BJ Rose's Task: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
25.7 Cindy's Task:
One: Fallen 09/02
Two: a Nevil Shute novel (TBD)
Three: The Glass Castle

25.8 Cait's Task
(Name) Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
(Place) Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
(Thing) The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine (stairs)

25.9 Diane's Task: The Okinawa Diet Plan & Before Night Falls: A Memoir
25.10 Sam's Task: The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

30.1 (Current Job) Oxygen: A Novel by Carol Cassella; (Dream Job) Amelia Peabody's Egypt

UPDATED AS OF 8/29/09


5 POINT TASKS
1. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
2. Twilight By Stephanie Meyer
3. Vanished at Sea: The True Story of a Child TV Actor and Double Murder by Tina Dirmann
4. The Face on the Milk Carton by Carolyn B. Cooney
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark by Alvin Schwartz, Stephen Gammell (Illustrator)
7. Whatever Happened to Janie? by Caroline B. Cooney
8. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
9. Little Women by Louis May Alcott
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
3. Berenstain Bears Books
4.. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
5. The Book Thief by by Markus Zusak
6. Crossing the Starlight Bridge (Aladdin Fiction) by Alice Mead
7. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
8. The Motive by John Lescroart
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
2. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
3. The Ex Games (Romantic Comedies) by Jennifer Echols and You're the One That I Want (Gossip Girl, Book 6) by Cecily von Ziegesar
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
8. The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
9. No Place Like Home A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark
10. The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee and Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez

20 POINT TASKS
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25 POINT TASKS
1. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber and Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
2. Carrie by Stephen King and Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
3. Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez
4. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
5. Daughter of Fortune: A Novel (P.S.) by Isabel Allende
6. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
7.Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and Hell's Kitchen by Chris Niles and Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
8. Heart and Soul of Nick Carter by Jane Carter and The Minnesota Road Guide to Haunted Locations by Chad Lewis, Terry Fisk and Change of Heartby 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

0/610 Points
0/17082 Pages Read

Jenna wrote: "I'm still working on my list so I'm not going to post yet. I am trying to only work in books that I OWN for this challenge. It is actually working out pretty good so far. Haven't found one for e..."

I'm trying to do the same thing Jenna. I need to get my "to read" stack down and not buy so many books this challenge.

5 point task
1. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
2. Song of the Humpbacked Whale - Jodie Picoult
3.
4. Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
5. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
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8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and nnie Barrows
9. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
10. The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

10 points
1. Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfield
2. A Child Called It - Dave Pelzer
3. Vicky Angel - Jaqueline Wilson
4. Love in a Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. The Book Theif - Martin Zuzak
6. New Moon - Stephanie Mayer
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9. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
10.

15 points
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4. The Host - Stephanie Meyer
5. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho and
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20 points
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25 points
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8. Coraline - Neil Gaiman
9. Middlemarch - George Elliot
10.

To Be Continued

Rora wrote: "Jenna wrote: "I'm still working on my list so I'm not going to post yet. I am trying to only work in books that I OWN for this challenge. It is actually working out pretty good so far. Haven't f..."

I don't have a huge TBR list, but I tend to use the library for most of my books. Since I don't want them all to come in at the same time, I tend to use the "Vacation" factor to mark hold on certain books to kick in at a later date. The biggest problem is if I am using very popular new books the holds list is sometimes too long so I either have to choose a different book or break down and buy it. Anyway, the library is certainly a cheaper way to go.

Donna Jo wrote: "I don't have a huge TBR list, but I tend to use the library for most of my books. Since I don't want them all to come in at the same time, I tend to use the "Vacation" factor to mark hold on certain books to kick in at a later date."

I do the same thing. I don't buy books for the challenge unless I was already planning to buy them. We simply don't buy new books often at all, since our budget is so tight. I do buy used books occasionally, use paperbackswap, and go to the library. It's much cheaper, and I get to read a lot more.

Amanda R. in Louisville

I really should go to to the library. I love to book shop too much, especially at discount sites like bookcloseouts.

5.1 Ake The Years of Childhood
5.2 Garden Spells
5.3 The Old Man and the Sea
5.4 Digging to America
5.5 Heart of Darkness
5.6 Mutant Message Down Under
5.7 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
5.8 Sundays at Tiffany's
5.9 Gilead A Novel or Edisto A Novel
5.10 The Accidental Time Machine

10.1 Things Fall Apart
10.2 Go Ask Alice
10.3 The Sneetches and Other Stories
10.4 Portrait in Sepia A Novel
10.5 All Quiet on the Western Front
10.6 House Made of Dawn
10.7 The Three Musketeers or an X-Men book
10.8 Bad Blood A Novel (BAD, I also got SELF and PANIC)
10.9 March
10.10 Cat's Cradle

15.1 He's Just Not That Into You (The Newly Expanded Edition) The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys AND Into the Wild OR The Bluest Eye AND How I got to be perfect
15.2 The Eyre Affair
15.3 To the Lighthouse AND The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love OR The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
15.4 The Invisible Man OR The Lost World
15.5 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly AND Nausea (French)
15.6 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead OR The Agony and the Ecstasy A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
15.7 Can't remember name (about football player fiction)
15.8 D (Denmark) - Number the Stars AND P (Peru) The Bridge of San Luis Rey
15.9 The Long Walk Home A Novel
15.10 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie AND A Study in Scarlet

Part 2:

20.3 Julie and Julia 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (I hope it made the cut)

25.1 (Current profession) The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down OR Implant AND (Dream Job) Down Came the Rain My Journey Through Postpartum Depression (the actress part, not the depressed part)
25.2 Everything Is Illuminated A Novel AND The History of Love A Novel
25.3 The Hours
25.4 Marley & Me Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog
25.5 Fatima's Good Fortune A Novel
25.6 The Defining Moment FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (347 pgs) AND The Kennedy Curse Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years (225 pgs)
25.7 Summer AND The Choice AND The Lucky One
25.8 Olive Kitteridge A Novel in Stories AND The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories AND The Hammer of Eden OR A Box of Matches
25.9 The Inner Game of Stress Outsmart Life's Challenges and Fulfill Your Potential AND The Undomestic Goddess
25.10 The Devil and Miss Prym A Novel of Temptation OR The Devil's Teardrop

Those who are planning on reading Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

I don't know if you all like ebooks or where the hell I found out about this (it may very well have been somewhere here) but there is still time to download the full book from the publisher (i think it ends Sept 5th?)

So if you are interested you can get the book here

Julia wrote: "Those who are planning on reading Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

I don't know if you all like ebooks or where the hell I found out about this (it may very well have been somewhere here) but there is s..."

Thanks so much for the heads-up, Julia! I've been wanting to read this for a while, but hadn't yet been up to braving the wait list at the library. I'm so happy to have a chance to escape it entirely!

This is my list and I love it. Let me know if there are any discrepancies!

5.1. Our Children: Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble (400)

5.2. Apple: Teach Me by R.A. Nelson (272)

5.3. Travels At Sea: Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier (208)

5.4. Adoption Story: Girls in Trouble by Caroline Leavitt (368)

5.5 Back To School : The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (216)

5.6. Terrifying Titles : Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (292)

5.7. Giving Thanks: A Happy Marriage by Rafael Ygleias (384)

5.8. Two Heads: Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (412)

5.9. Coming Of Age: The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll (224)

5.10. Fall Back: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (374)

10.1. Labor Day: 1984 by George Orwell (268)

10.2. Addiction: Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (352)

10.3. "Stan" Berenstain: The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor (256)

10.4. Hispanic Heritage Month: Swift as Desire by Laura Esquivel (208)

10.5. Oktoberfest: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (576)

10.6. Native American: Tracks by Louise Erdrich (240)

10.7. Superheroes: Wonder Woman: Love and Murder by Jodi Picoult (128)

10.8. Dictionary: The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha (304)

10.9. U.S. Civil War: Numbering the Bones by Ann Rinaldi

10.10. Cat's Meow: Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston (288)

15.1. Grammar (English): Prepositions (OF)
The Year of Yes by Maria Dahvana Headley (276)
Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: 8th Grade Bites by Heather Brewer (182)

15.2. Alternative Historical Novel: The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (391)

15.3. Equation(Math): Addition (14)- Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin (288)Subtraction (11) - Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas (240)

15.4. Science: Read: Extras by Scott Westerfeld (417) Watch: An Inconvenient Truth
15.5. Study Abroad (Foreign Language): Japanese: After Dark by Haruki Murakami (208) and Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (160)

15.6. Drama Club: Othello by William Shakespeare (256)

15.7. Let's Get Physical (P.E.): Damage by A.M. Jenkins (192) and a Giants game

15.8. Geography Lessons: (Norway) The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder (151) and (Britain) Ralph’s Party by Lisa Jewell (304)

15.9. Homework Assignment: At Home in the World by Joyce Maynard (384)

15.10. Teacher-Student Relations: Teacher: The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta (368) Student: Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan (336)

20.1. MOST IMPROVED PLAYER – TBD

20.2. ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - TBD

20.3. GROUP READ - Read One Of The 3 Group Reads (TBD)

25.1 NICOLE’S TASK: Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston (304) and The Gold Cell by Sharon Olds (112)

25.2. DONNA JO'S TASK : Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (208) and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (320)

25.3. WENDY'S TASK: Almost Like Being In Love by Steve Kluger (368)

25.4. CANDACE'S TASK: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenger

25.5. JANICE'S TASK: Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink (352)

25.6 BJ ROSE’S TASK: A Question of Character: A Life of JFK Thomas Reeves (544)

25.7 CINDY’S TASK: One- Mercy by Jodi Picoult (400)
Two- Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty (258)
Three- The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman (336)

25.8 CAIT’S TASK: Person- Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger (281)
Place- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (208)
Thing- If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister’s Story by Janine Latus (320)

25.9 DIANE’S TASK: The Joy of Appreciative Living by Jacqueline Kelm (224) and The Wishing Year: An Experiment in Desire by Noelle Oxenhandler (304)

25.10 SAM’S TASK: Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig (272)

30.1. ROSEANN'S TASK: Current Profession: Letters to a Teacher by Sam Pickering (256) and Dream Job: The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper (368)

Tani wrote: "Julia wrote: "Those who are planning on reading Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

I don't know if you all like ebooks or where the hell I found out about this (it may very well have been somewhere here) ..."

Yeah it was one of the reasons I ended up reading it when I did! No wait! I didn't even bother my eyes to read it on a computer like some ebooks do! I am glad to have helped alleviate the wait!

I am only going to post the five point tasks, because after that I am winging it. This is, of course, subject to whims of fate and fancy.

5.1 Daughter of Kura by Debra Austin
5.2 Candy Apple Red by Nancy Bush
5.3 The Captain's Wife by Douglas Kelley
5.4 Somebody's Daughter by Marie G. Lee
5.5 Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
5.6 Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
5.7 The Touch by Colleen McCullough
5.8 Elvenborn by Andre Norton & Mercedes Lackey
5.9 Goose Girl by Hale or The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson
5.10 Legend by Jude Deveraux

5.1 Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
5.2 Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
5.3 The Terror by Dan Simmons
5.4 The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
5.5 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5.6 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
5.7 Forever in Blue: 4th Summer of Sisterhood by Ann Brasheres
5.8 Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortinson and David Oliver Relin
5.9 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
5.10 Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

10.1 Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote
10.2 Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
10.3 Assorted children's books
10.4 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
10.5 The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
10.6 The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
10.7 Runaways
10.8 Bedford Square by Anne Perry
10.9 March by Geraldine Brooks
10.10 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

15.1 Girl with a Dragon Tattoo/Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larson
15.2 Guns of the South by Henry Turtledove
15.3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (3rd in series)/Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling(311-361 pgs)
15.4 Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
15.5 Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabakov/Notes from the Underground by Fyoder Dostoevsky
15.6 Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy by Robert Farris Thompson
15.7 Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight Game by Nestor Capoeira
15.8 Dracula by Bram Stoker/Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
15.9 Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Long Way Home by Joss Whedon
15.10 ?

20.1 Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
20.2 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalad Hosseini/The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath/Coraline by Neil Gaiman
20.3 Julie and Julia by Julie Powell

25.1 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls/Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
25.2 Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer/History of Love by Nicole Kraus
25.3 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
25.4 Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix by JK Rowling
25.5 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
25.6 An Unfinished Life: John F Kennedy 1917-1963
25.7 Blink by Malcolm Gladwell/Case Histories by Kate Atkinson/On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
25.8 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince/Prague by Arthur Phillips/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
25.9 The Go-Girl Guide: Surviving your Twenties with Style, Savvy, and Soul/Travelling with Pomegranates by Sue and Tracy Kidd
25.10 The Witch of Portabello by Paulo Coellho

30.1 Feint of Art by Hayley Lind/Dreaming of the East by Barbara Hodgson

50.1 King Lear/Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkgaard/Homer's The Iliad

My list seems to change daily, but here goes:

5.1 Rashi's Daughters by Maggie Anton*
5.2 The Little Lady Agency in the Big Apple by Hester Browne
5.3 Life of Pi by Susan Monk Kidd*
5.4 Adoption Digest by Tim O'Hanlon and Rita Laws*
5.5 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe*
5.6 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman*
5.7 ---
5.8 Tempted by P.C. & Kristin Cast (10.27.09)
5.9 If I Knew Then What I Know Now... So What? by Estelle Getty*
5.10 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

10.1 French Chivalry by Sidney Painter (1957)*
10.2 A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict by John Baxter
10.3 The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotz
10.4 Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez
10.5 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
10.6 ---
10.7 A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield
10.8 ---
10.9 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier*
10.10 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut*

15.1 In the Woods by Tana French* & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon*
15.2 The United States of Atlantis by Harry Turtledove*
15.3 The Sunday List of Dreams by Kris Radish* & ---
15.4 Logan's Run by William F. Nolan*
15.5 Death with Interruptions by José Saramago* & ---
15.6 ---
15.7 ---
15.8 Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden* & ---
15.9 Working for the Devil by Lilith Saintcrow*
15.10 Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder* & ---

20.1 TBD
20.2 TBD
20.3 Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

25.1 A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein* & Gifted: Out of Sight, Out of Mind by Marilyn Kaye*
25.2 The Snow Garden by Christopher Rice & The Witching Hour by Anne Rice*
25.3 Maurice by E.M. Forster
25.4 The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
25.5 ---
25.6 ---
25.7 Zinnia by Jayne Castle* & Personal Demons by Stacia Kane & City of Bones by Cassandra Clare*
25.8 Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen* & Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane & The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly*
25.9 The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl by Shauna Reid & ---
25.10 Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn*

30.1 ---

50.1 TBD

5 Point Tasks
1)Daughter of the Empire (The Empire Trilogy #1) by Raymond E. Feist, Janny Wurts
2)Garden Spell by Sarah Addison Allen
3)On Stranger Tides by Tim powers
4)The Secret life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
5)Before We Were Free by Julia Alverez I still like it. It was an interesting read and looking through a child eyes through the whole traumatic event was great fun. But reading it a second time was a little anticlimactic. Although I did notice some details I didn't notice before.
6)Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Shwartz
7)For all those who thrive and grew through harsh circumstances, whether or not history remembers them or not: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
8) Cathy's Ring by Jordan Weisman and Sean Stewart
9)The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer
10)The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Nifenegger

10 Point Tasks
1)The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
2)The perks of being a wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
3)Six by Seuss by Dr. Seuss
4)Times of Butterfly by Julia Alvarez
5)The Diary of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
6)My Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
7)Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
8)The word is :Barrier, The Invisible Wall: The Love story that broke Barriers by Harry Bernstein
9)The Killer Angel by Michael Shaara
10)Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

15 Point Tasks
1)The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson and The Girl Who played with fire by Steig Larsson
2)Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
I think it would be awesome if our world was exciting as Westerfeld's? I mean can you imagine? Cross bred animals and highly advance war machines? ok so that doesn't sound so good but trust me it is amazing in the book. Plus I'm sure there are much more peaceful inventions in that alternate history, but the story takes place during World War I so of course there will be a lot of tanks and ships. It would also be cool to have seen what would have happen if the Archduke's children were legitimate heirs to the Austrian throne. I can't say the world would be better per say, as there will still be war and death but it would be ALOT more interesting for Europe and the world.
3)Anna Nguyen: Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch and 1994/15=132 The Blade Itself (The First Law) by Joe Abercrombie
4)Hunger by Micheal Grant and Mega Disasters
5)Momo by Micheal Ende and The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
6)Walt Disney: An American Original by Bob Thomas, Walt Disney Company
7)Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen read by Stina Nielsen
8)Initials: AN: Australia: While I live (Ellie Chronicles #1) by John Marsden and N: Norway: Kristen Lavransadatter by Sigrid Undset
9)Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher, HW assignment: TBD
10)The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

20 Point Tasks
1)Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
2) Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen TBD
3)The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

25 Point Tasks
1)Seasons by Robert Frost and The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
2)The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson and The Blue Sword by Robin Mckinley
3)Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
4)Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
5)Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
6)Team of Rivals: The political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kerns
7)TBD, Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay, and The Marvelous Effect by Troy Cle
8)Fledgling: JASON STEED by Mark A. Cooper, Great Call of CHINA by Cynthia Liu, Perdido Street STATION by China Mieville
9)The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
10)Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

30 Point Tasks
1)Prospero Children by Jan Siegel and Assassin's aprrentice by Robin Hobb
TBD

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I'm scheduled to have my second baby by c-section in 10 days so I really don't know what I'll get done here but wanted to at least start thinking about it.

5 POINT TASKS
1. Our Children Are Our Future-Seventh Son
2. An Apple (Book) A Day
3. In 1492
4. Adoption Story
5. Going Back To School
6. All Together Dead
7. Giving Thanks
8. On Becoming Babywise
9. Coming Of Age Or All Grown Up-Gingerbread
10. Fall Back In Time

10 POINT TASKS
1. (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959).
2. River Phoenix Dies From A Drug Overdose -Beautiful Boy
3 Read A Book With The Word Bear Or Bears In The Title.OR A Collection Of Children's Stories.OR• Several Children's Books (The Number Of Pages Should Add Up To At Least 100).
4. Hispanic Heritage Month
5. Oktoberfest
6. November Is Native American Heritage Month
7. Christopher Reeve
8. Random word-Fever Pitch
9. Set During The U.S. Civil War.
10. The Cat's Meow-Witch Way to Murder

15 POINT TASKS
1. Brush Up On Your Grammar
2. Rewriting History
3. Discover The Equation For Good Books
4.Science Fact vs. Science Fiction
5. Time To Study Abroad (Foreign Language)
6. Creative Minds
7. Let's Get Physical (P.E.)
8. Geography Lessons
9. Your Homework Assignment
10. Teacher-Student Relations Testimony and ?
20 POINT TASKS
1. MOST IMPROVED PLAYER – JULIE KS
2. ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - ERIN - 2. ROOKIE OF THE SEASON - ERIN - Learn Your ABC's - Read 3 Books That Begin With A,B,C Or Any Three Consecutive Letters In The Alphabet. "The" Does Not Count, Unless You Are Using T As One Of Your Letters. Books Must Be Over 100 Pages



25 POINT TASKS
1. NICOLE OH'S TASK - Rhyme Time
2. DONNA JO'S TASK - By Blood Or Marriage
3. WENDY'S TASK - Harvey Milk
4. CANDACE'S TASK - Read A Book That Has Been Written Within The Last 10 Years And Made Into A Movie Within The Last 5.
5. JANICE'S TASK - Fortune Telling
6. BJ ROSE'S TASK - Following The “Curse Of Tippecanoe”
7. CINDY'S TASK - One, Two, Three - Read Three Books...
• One With A One Word Title
• The Second With A Two Word Title
• And The Third With A Three Word Title.

8. CAIT'S TASK - Nouns
9. DIANE'S TASK - September Is Self-Improvement Month.

10. SAM'S TASK - Halloween Part III: Monsterfest

30 POINT TASKS
1. ROSEANN'S TASK - Your Job/Dream Job Challenge

50 POINT MID-WAY TASK
TBD

9/8/09-10 pts.

Here is my list now that all the challenges have been announced:

5.1 – I’m Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog – Diana Joseph
5.2 – Ghost a La Mode: A Granny Apples Mystery - Sue Ann Jeffarian
5.3 – Life of Pi - Yann Martel
5.4 – The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
5.5 – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
5.6 – Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffenegger
5.7 – Life Among the Lutherans - Garrison Keillor
5.8 – Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
5.9 – A Long Way Down - Ishmael Beah
5.10 – Outlander - Diana Gabaldon

10.1 – The Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner (1942)
10.2 – Addition – Toni Jordan
10.3 – The Berenstain Bears and the Slumber Party / The Berenstain Bears' New Neighbors / The Berenstain Bears Go to School / The Berenstain Bears and Baby Makes Five – Stan & Jan Berenstain
10.4 – The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
10.5 – Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936 - David Clay Large
10.6 – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
10.7 – Joseph Smith - Robert V. Remini
10.8 – The Lost City of Z - David Grann (Scaling, Lost, Profit)
10.9 – Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt
10.1 – The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

15.1 – Outliers : The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell / City of Thieves - David Beinoff
15.2 – 1984 – George Orwell
15.3 – But Enough About Me – Jancee Dunn (Addition = 10) / Paper Towns – John Green (Subtraction = 10)
15.4 – The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
15.5 – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Steig Larsson / The Girl Who Played With Fire – Steig Larsson
15.6 – Mary Poppins - P.L. Tavers
15.7 – Notes From The Underwire - Quinn Cummings
15.8 – Crocodile on the Sandbank (Egypt) - Elizabeth Peters / Girlfriend in a Coma (Canada) – Douglas Coupland
15.9 – Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry to the Value of Work - Matthew B. Crawford
15.10 – The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch / Eclipse – Stephanie Meyer

20.1 – The Shack - William P. Young
20.2 – The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship – Andrea Israel / Shooting Stars - LeBron James / Tea Time for the Traditionally Built – Alexander McCall Smith
20.3 – The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafron

25.1 – Something Big Was Here – Jack Prelutsky / Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life – Barbara Kingsolver
25.2 – Where Are You Now – Mary Higgins Clark / Decked – Carol Higgins Clark (Mother/Daughter)
25.3 – Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
25.4 – Q & A - Vikas Swarup
25.5 – The House on Fortune Street - Margot Livesey
25.6 – Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield - Kenneth D. Ackerman
25.7 – columbine - Dave Cullen / College Girl - Patricia Weitz / Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
25.8 – The Crowning Glory of Calla Lilly Ponder – Rebecca Wells / L.A. Candy - Lauren Conrad / Baking Cakes in Kigali - Gaile Parkin
25.9 – The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite - David A. Kessler / Julia’s Chocolates – Cathy Lanb
25.10 – The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America – Erik Larson

30.1 – A Proud American: The Autobiography of Joe Foss – Joe Foss / Tales From the Teachers Lounge – Robert Wilder

50 - Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste - Ayun Halliday / The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things - Barry Glassner / The Fall of the Berlin Wall - William F. Buckley, Jr.

Claiming my spot! Just joined the group..figuring out my list now!

This is my plan for now:

5.1. The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir by Laurie Sandell
5.2. Orginal Cyn by Sue Margolis

5.3. Love Overboard by Janet Evanovich
5.4. Sea Swept by Nora Roberts
5.5. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
5.6. Speak No Evil by Allison Brennan
5.7. Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout (thankful for my mom)
5.8. Sundays at Tiffany’s by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet or The Real Real by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
5.9. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
5.10. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

10.1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
10.2. Crank by Ellen Hopkins
10.3. Berenstain Bears Collection by Stan Berenstain
10.4. Lovesick by Angeles Mastretta
10.5. Night by Elie Wiesel
10.6. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
10.7. Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers by Sean Hepburn Ferrer
10.8. The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society by Beth Pattillo
10.9. Ashes in the Wind by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
10.10. The Grand Finale by Janet Evanovich

15.1. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and The Prey by Allison Brennan
15.2. Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
15.3. Six Reasons to Stay a Virgin by Louise Harwood (13 letters) and Delicious by Susan Mallery (21-20=1 word title)
15.4. The Host by Stephenie Meyer and Earth
15.5. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
15.6. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier and paint
15.7. It Had To Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips and U of Mich. football
15.8. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) and Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella (Great Britain)
15.9. Going Home by Harriet Evans
15.10. The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta or Prey by Lurlene McDaniel and Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

20.1. Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke
20.2. Are You There Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler, Bachelor Boys by Kate Saunders, and Catch of the Day by Kristan Higgins
20.3. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

25.1. Love Poems by Anne Sexton and Above and Beyond by Sandra Brown
25.2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
25.3. Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
25.4. Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
25.5. The Family Fortune by Laurie Horowitz or Fortune’s Daughter by Alice Hoffman
25.6. Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House by Sally Bedell Smith
25.7. Thanksgiving by Janet Evanovich, Baby Proof by Emily Giffin, and The Marrying Game by Kate Saunders
25.8. Violet in Private by Melissa C. Walker, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, and The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
25.9. Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff For Teens by Richard Carlson and Julia’s Chocolates by Cathy Lamb
25.10. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

30.1 Bitter is the New Black Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster (unemployed) and The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey (therapist)

Roseann wrote: "25 POINT CHALLENGES

7. ONE ACROSS, TWO DOWN by Ruth Rendell, TWO BEAR MAMBO by Joe R. Lansdale, and THREE AMONG THE WOLVES by Helen Thayer (Lr) ..."

Hello! Just a heads up but this task was referring to the amount of words in your book titles. So far only Two Bear Mambo would fit this task as the 3 word title. Your other books have too many words for this task. I'm sure you'll have no trouble finding ones that fit from your TBR list though.

5.1 The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
5.2 A Place called Sweet Apple by Celestine Sibley (title)
5.3 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
5.4 A Family in Full by Vanessa Del Fabbro (adopts a child)
5.5 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
5.6 Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
5.8 Three Cups of Tea by Greg Morntenson & David Relin
5.9 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (coming of age)
5.10 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
total: 45

10.1 Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
10.2 Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff
10.3 Among the bears by Benjamin Kilham (title)
10.4 The Postman by Antonio Skarmeta (Chile)
10.5 Skeletons at the Feast by Christopher Bohjalian (set in)
10.6 Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (character)
10.7 The Fun of it: Random Records of my own Flying by Earhart
10.8 By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman (11th- thread)
10.9 Dixie Widow by Gilbert Morris
10.10 Dewey: The Small Town Cat who touched the world by Vicki Myron
total:100

15.1 The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
The Whole World Over by Julia Glass (over)
15.2 Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
15.3 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (mult. 434 pgs)
Betrayed by P.C. Cast (bk2- House of Night series) (division)
15.4 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (book)
? (movie)
15.5 Club of Angels by Luis Fernando
?
15.6 Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (book)
opera (music)
15.7 Playing Ball with the Enemy: a baseball prodigy, a war, and a field of broken dreams by Gary Moore
15.8 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseine (Afghanistan)
Midnight Moon by Lori Handeland (Haiti) (begins in Us but takes place in Haiti)
15.9 An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England by Brock Clark (homework pending read)
15.10 Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (teacher)
Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lygra (student)
total: 135

20.2 (c) Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Hadden
(d) Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
(e) Evernight by Claudia Gray
20.3 Julie & Julia by Powell
total: 40

25.2 Crusader's Cross by James Lee Burke
Judgment Calls by Alafair Burke (father/daughter)
25.4 The Nanny Diaries by Emma Mclaughlin (book) & movie of same title
25.5 House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesay
25.7 Marked by P.C. Cast (one word)
Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton (two words)
Bookmarked for Death by Lorna Barrett (three words)
25.8 Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (person)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi(place)
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (thing)
25.9 Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child (Nonfic.)
My Life in France by Julia Child (her bio on how she overcame not knowing how to cook & moving to a foreign country where she didn't know how to speak their language and became a famous chef & fluent speaker of French)
25.10 Devil May Cry by Sherrilyn Kenyon
total: 175

30.1 Murder at the Library of Congress by Margaret Truman
(librarian)
& Death Booked a Return by Marion Moore Hill(librarian)
total: 30

total:525

edited: changed from Darkest Hour to Betrayed on task 15.3
edited: changed from Darkest Kiss to Dead and Gone task 20.2
edited: changed from Rex Libris to Death Books a Return task 30.1

5 Point Tasks

5.1 Marilyn's Child by Lynne Pemberton
5.2 TBD
5.3 Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brien
5.4 Drag Queen by Robert Rodi
5.5 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
5.6 Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
5.7 TBD
5.8 Full Tilt by Janet Evanovich & Charlotte Hughes
5.9 TBD
5.10 Making History by Stephen Fry

10 Point Tasks

10.1 The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (1948)
10.2 The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
10.3 The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel
10.4 Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
10.5 TBD
10.6 TBD
10.7 TBD
10.8 With One Lousy Free Packet of Seeds by Lynne Truss (Rank, Free, Saving)
10.9 March by Geraldine Brooks
10.10 Yankee Doodle Dead by Carolyn Hart

15 Point Tasks

15.1 The Best a Man Can Get by John O'Farrell/Getting Over Jack Warner by Elise Juska (Participles)
15.2 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
15.3 Daydream Girl by Bella Pollen (Addition 11 letters)/Waiting in the Wings by Donna Hay (Subtraction 17 letters)
15.4 A Short History of Nearly Everythingby Bill Bryson/Sci-Fi film
15.5 Flight of the Storks by Jean-Christophe Grange/Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (French)
15.6 The Dark Clue by James Wilson (Artist Turner)
15.7 TBD
15.8 (SJ) 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith (Scotland)/Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Japan)
15.9 TBD
15.10 An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender (Teacher)/Bee Season by Myla Goldberg (Student)

20 Point Tasks

20.1 TBD
20.2 Fag Hag by Robert Rodi/Girl Meets Ape by Chris Manby/How To Be Good by Nick Hornby
20.3 The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

25 Point Tasks

25.1 I Like This Poem/Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
25.2 TBD
25.3 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
25.4 Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller (Book 2003, Movie 2006)
25.5 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
25.6 TBD
25.7 Manhunting by Jennifer Crusie/Strange Bedpersons by Jennifer Crusie/Wife For Hire by Janet Evanovich
25.8 Miles McGinty by Tom Gilling (Name)/Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris (Place)/One Glass is Never Enough by Jane Wenham-Jones (Thing)
25.9 TBD
25.10 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

30 Point Task

30.1 TBD

50 Point Task

50.1 TBA

Here is my list! Now to begin reading!

5 Point Tasks
1. The Horsemaster’s Daughter by Susan Wiggs
2. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
3. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
4. Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts
5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
6. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
7. Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer
8. The Nanny Diaries by Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus
9. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
10. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’engle

10 Point Tasks
1. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
2. Choke by Chuck Palahunik
3. The Princess and the Goblin by George Macdonald
4. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
5. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
6. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyers
7. Diary of Anne Frank
8. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
9. Ashes in the Wind by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
10. Dewey: The Small Town Cat Who Changed the World by Vicki Myron

15 Point Tasks
1. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf
2. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
3. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
4. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
5. The Wind up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Woman in the Dunes by Abe Kobo
6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
7. TBA
8. (Russia) Crime and Punishment by Theodor Dostoevsky
(Afghanistan) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaleid Hosseini
9. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
10. The Professor and the Housekeeper by Yoko Ogawa
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak


20 Point Tasks
1. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
2. Ethan Frome by Edit Wharton
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Grendel by John Gardner
3. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

25 Point Tasks
1. TBA
2. Villete by Charlotte Bronte
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
3. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
4. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
5. The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan
6. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
7. Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
8. Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Kite Runner by Khaleid Hosseini
9. Keeping the Love You Find by Harville Hendrix
French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guillano
10. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame Smith

30 Point Tasks
1. (Teacher) The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
(Actor) Perfect by Judith Mcnaught

50 Point Tasks
TBA