The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

15.2 ALICE AND LEWIS
Part A) Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
Part B) The Lion,The Witch,And The Wardrobe by CS Lewis

points this task: 15
tasks completed: 17
total points: 300

I completed two more tasks:

TASK 5.1 - DISNEY For this task, my favorite Disney movie is Fantasia, especially the section with the dancing mushrooms. I read The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers, which is a mystery where a mushroom expert dies from eating poisoned mushrooms. In reality, though, the mystery about the mushrooms is secondary to the books actual topic, which is "The Meaning of LIfe."

TASK 5.3 - READ ABOUT A MONARCH For this task I chose option B, read a non-fiction book about a monarch. I read The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir. If you are at all interested in the subject of Henry VIII's wives, this book is excellent. Weir discusses many legends and theories surrounding the fall of Henry's second wife.

POINTS:

POINTS SO FAR 110
TASK 5.1 5
TASK 5.3 5
TOTAL POINTS 120

5.10 The Crossroads Cafe by Deborah Smith.

+5
total: 40

Petra wrote: "Asho wrote: "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.."

Asho, I had this one as one of my Task books as well but haven't gotten to that task. I hope to fit it in somewhere next Challenge. I'm glad to hear th..."

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! I can see how it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, but I thought it was great.

Finished 20.2 Cheryl's task by reading The Help which I really enjoyed. I thought that it was really well written. I thought the end left me hanging a bit. I gave it 4*.

This brings me to 460 points.

30.8. KARI ♪'S TASK - EXPLORING WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
January 18th Marked The Beginning Of The Lewis And Clark Bicentennial (1804-1806). The Expedition Laid Much Of The Groundwork For The Westward Expansion Of The US. In Honor Of This, Read One Fiction And One Non-Fiction (Or 2 Non-Fiction BUT NOT 2 FICTION) Book Related To This Time Period.
A. One Book Needs To Be About One Of The Following People: Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark Or Sacajawea (Or Can Involve All).The Person In Question Needs To Be Involved In AT LEAST 1/2 Of The Book).
Sacagawea by Flora Warren Seymour
B. And The Other About One Of These Events: The Louisiana Purchase, The Western Expansion, Or Exploration And/Or Pioneers During The Time Period Of 1800 To 1880.
C. When Claiming Points For This Task - Briefly Explain (3-5 Sentences) Why You Would Have Liked/Disliked To Have Lived During That Time Period.
The Irish-Americans by Watts
The Irish settle in Chicago in 1860 (Western Expansion from Ireland to New York to Chicago) I cannot imagine living in the 1800’s. I am very outspoken, liberal, gay and Jewish and I can’t imagine that would have gone over well. LOL! Living through the politics of 2010 is a nightmare for me. Where’s my public option health care and my Democratic Senator. Oh the horrors.
This Is A Good Website With Links Near The Top (It's A Teacher's Web Page) For Some Ideas:Westward Expansion
30 points
1090 total

Finished 30.3 BJRose's task
The Sea of Monsters- Rick Riordan
The Titan's Curse- Rick Riordan
The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide- JR Ward
1069 Total pages

New Total: 295

For Task 25.10 - Don't Judge a Book by It's Cover..., I read:

A. by James McKean - I chose this book because Leonardo's lovely Ginevra de'Benci is on the cover. I didn't like the book, but isn't the cover beautiful? Proves the old adage, though.

and

B. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi - I didn't enjoy this as much as the first, maybe because Marjane was more interesting as a precocious child than as a morose teenager (weren't we all?). It was still great, though.

Total Points: 105

I completed task 30.10 by reading Blue Sky July: A True Tale of Love, Light and 'Impossible Odds' and Tenth Circle.

I really hated Blue Sky July, there is a reason people don't typically get their diaries published, because they are self-indulgent and whiny.

I was surprised by how much I ended up liking tenth circle by the end!!

Point Total: 230
Page Total: 7149
Book Total: 23

Finished 35.3 DLM Rose's task ...it's about time
read Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

you're almost there, wendy! :)

finished task 10.10 by reading Lolita. a re-read for me, but just as good as the first two times! i love this book!




Total Points: 855/1100
Books Read: 53/81
Tasks Completed: 37/58
Tasks in Progress: 3

30.9. RACHEL LEE'S TASK - THE NEWBERRY AWARD
(2003) Crispin: The Cross of Lead**
and
The House of the Scorpion****

I liked The House of the Scorpion so much better than Crispin. I think it lent itself more to all ages of reader and it would lead to great discussions in a book club or literary circle.

30.10. THERESA IN OHIO'S TASK - COLOR BY NUMBERS
A. The Golden Compass *** GOLDEN
AND
B. The 19th Wife, Goodreads Author, 525 pages.

Total Points:470

10.5 POPULARITY CONTEST - My birthday is in July, so I read Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris. This edition was released on my actual birthday, too. I'm happy to have finally started this series. I like it quite a bit more than I thought I would.

Total Points: 895/1100
Tasks Completed: 51/58
Tasks in Progress: 2

25.1 Read 2 books off the 1001 list

I read "The Black Dahlia" by James Ellroy and "The Shipping News" by Anne Proulx.

I have only found a couple of books of that list that I actually liked, and neither of these are on that short list!

30.1

A. The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones

and

B. Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson: Complete & Unabridged by Louise Rennison

Total Books: 16
Total Pages: 3462
Total Points: 185

25.8 Inane answering machine day - read The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir and Stiff

10.8 Oh Canada! - read A Tangled Web

Finished task 5.6: The Piano Teacher by Janice JK Lee - I would really not like to teach piano (or anything else) to a child who did not want to learn and who did not make the effort to practice between lessons!
TOTAL POINTS = 225

Completed 30.7 - Multi Tasking - by listening to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows. This book could have fit many other tasks for me: 10.4, 10.5, 28.8 & 30.5. I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Good story, cute ending, 4*s!!
My Total 260

25.9 Bridgit's Task - I read The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster - It included a map in the City of Glass and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer which included quite a bit of extra content.

30.1 Bonnie's Task - I read City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare - It was published in 2008 and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - A movie was made in 2006 about it.

30.2 Helen's Task - I read Neuromancer by William Gibson - It was a 1984 Nebula and Hugo award winner and Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - It is a present novel. I found Neuromancer difficult to understand and kept having to re-read parts of it because of it's technical nature and wording. Uglies, on the otherhand, doesn't attempt to explain the workings of the technology and doesn't use many technical terms.

Getting Down to the wire...

30.5 Posthumously
A. The Lovely Bones
B. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Total Points - 70

Another task completed:
15.9 OUT WITH THE OLD...
Part A: Invisible Lives - Anjali Bannerjee
This book had been sitting on my physical bookshelf for a couple of years, and I kept passing it over. Glad to finally be done with it, because I didn't think it was all that great.

Part B: Truly, Madly - Heather Webber
Really enjoyed this one! I'll definitely be reading more in this series.

Heather Webber is a Goodreads Author

Previously Completed Tasks
25.10 EMILY'S TASK
PART A: Time of My Life - Allison Winn Scotch
PART B: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

30.6 WENDY'S TASK - WINTER VACATION DREAMS The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes (Destination: Ireland) (02.14.10)

20.2 BETH MN'S TASK - REVISITING THE PAST It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff by Peter Walsh (revisiting task 15.7)

30.5 DIANE'S TASK - POSTHUMOUSLY SPEAKING
The Ten Best Days of My Life by Adena Halpern
AND The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson

10.7 The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister (read 01.01.10)

35.3 Some Days There's Pie: A Novel by Catherine Landis (01.22.10)

30.8 Fatally Flaky by Diane Mott Davidson (fits 5.8 and 5.10) (01.20.10)

15.7 PART A: All-new Complete Cooking Light Cookbook by Ann C. Cain
PART B: Made Spinach & Artichoke dip and Baked Feta Marinara

30.3 The Secret of Joy by Melissa Senate
Queen of Babble in the Big City by Meg Cabot
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
(Total Pages = 841)(01.10.10)

5.1 Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story by Carolyn Turgeon (01.05.10)

5.10 Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler (12.23.09)

10.9 Swimsuit by James Patterson (12.19.09)

25.5 This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen (12.17.09)

20.3 The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0 by Christopher Moore. (12.15.09)

25.6 Behaving Badly by Isabel Wolff (12.09.09)

Total Points: 330
Tasks Completed: 16
Books Read: 21

I Decided it was time to give up looking for a place for this book, and then I remembered the Odd man Out task!

25.5 - Odd Man Out
James Potter and the Curse of the Gate Keeper by G. Norman LippertMr. Lippert is a Good reads Author.


Totals:
Points: 485
Books: 30
Tasks: 21
Pages: 9289

Sorry, realized that I left off part of task 30.8. My points aren't changing, but my complete task is below. Points total should be 465. Thanks!

5.1 Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi(12/17)
5.8: The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green 1/4/10

10.1: The Ringmaster's Secret by Carolyn Keene 12/3
10.5: Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom 12/27

15.2: Alice Sit-By-The-Fire by JM Barrie and The Marvellous Land of Oz 12/29
15.8 I read Charles Kuralt's Christmas and watched The Flinstone's Christmas. completed 1/4
15.9: Superstitious by R.L. Stine and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (**Goodreads author) 12/10

20.1: Old task 20.3: Christian Fiction: Dinner with a Perfect Stranger An Invitation Worth Considering by David Gregory 12/28

25.1 The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West and Where Angels Fear To Tread by EM Forester completed 1/1
25.2: A Prayer for Owen Meany. (637 pages)
25.4 The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent and The Man Without a Country and Its History by Edward Everett Hale completed 1/4/10

30.1 Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog (movie) Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife (published)

30.3: Hideaway by Dean Koontz (400 pgs) and The King of Torts by John Grisham (432 pgs) completed 1/3

30.4 The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
30.5 Elsewhere by G. Zevin (***Goodreads Author) and The Amateur Emigrant by R.L. Stevenson

30.7: Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis 12/7 Counts for 35.3 and 10.1.

30.8 A. First Across the Continent. The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks and Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo (1424 pages)

So glad I committed to Sacajawea. I highly recommend it! I would not want to live during this time period in this location, as I think it was probably very hard for women in the new frontier. I think it would have been interesting to see history unfolding as America expanded, but I think the hardships out-weigh that. That said, it would have been wonderful to meet these characters as they all seem to be so interesting.

30.10: A. The Red House Mystery by AA Milne B. The 39 Steps by John Buchan

35.3: Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham 1/10

50.1: Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle (1/25) and The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp, Or, Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats by Laura Lee Hope (1/26)

I completed:
Task 15.7 FOOD + FAMILY AND/OR FRIENDS = READING FUN by reading Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off Cookies and Bars and making and sharing the cherry bars.

Task 30.6 WENDY'S TASK - WINTER VACATION DREAMS by reading Education of a Maiden, set in England. I love winter in England because of the fun at Christmas time, but without the summer tourists.

Task 30.7 JAN THE GRYPHON’S TASK - MULTI-TASKING by reading The Neighborhood Bake Shop: Recipes and Reminiscences of America's Favorite Bakery Treats by Jill Van Cleave, which I could have used for 15.9. OUT WITH THE OLD & IN WITH THE NEW BOOKS (new author) or 15.7 FOOD + FAMILY AND/OR FRIENDS = READING FUN

Total points: 310
Total pages: 5593

5.8 (Cozy Mystery)

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz(Goodreads author)

(5 stars)

Most often, when I give a book 5 stars, it is because I found it to be profound and poetic. This book, on the other hand, received my highest rating simply for its enjoyment factor. I never read mysteries, but this story of a family of private investigators, was so colorful and endearing that I couldn't wait for reading time. I'm looking forward to reading the other books in the series.

+5
points: 200
books: 15
tasks: 14

30.3 B.J Rose's task Snowed in and loving it
the Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 328 pages
High Five by Janet Evanovich 292 pages
great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray 416 pages= 1036 pages

this was the perfect challenge for February. Here in Northern Kentucky we have had as much snow in these first weeks of February as we normally get all winter. Oh well... When snowed in read more!!!!

My next grouping of completed tasks:

10.8 Anne of Green Gables
10.9 Honolulu
15.8 Home for Christmas and watched White Christmas
25.1 The God of Small Things and Ethan Frome
25.4 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village and Fever 1793 (I moved the second book from a different task) - This is a tough call...the pestilence and filth of the middle ages, or a chance of getting the yellow fever? I am going with yellow fever.
25.7 Cannery Row and Lord of the Flies
30.8 Sacajawea and The Jeffersonian Republicans: The Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812 : 1800-1823

the book I substituted in for Fever 1793 for task
30.4 (disease) An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

My husband was curious what all of the yellow fever reading was about. :)

ALMOST THERE! THREE TASKS TO GO!

At some point my point total stopped matching yours, not sure how long ago that happened!! Here are all of the tasks I have finished!! I don't know if I forgot to post some, or if I did not read an eligible book for one of them or something, let me know!! Thanks!! :-)

5 POINT TASKS
1. THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY
Beauty by Robin McKinley
4. A WINNING DECADE
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (Newberry Medal 2004)
5. A LIBRARIANS JOB IS NEVER DONE
House of Leaves
7. EYING THE YEAR OF THE TIGER
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Year of the Rat, Nov 1960)
8. BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
9. ISN'T IT ROMANTIC -
77 Love Sonnets edited by Garrison Keillor

10 POINT TASKS

1. UNDER THE BIG TOP
Water for Elephants by sara Gruen
4. WINNERS CHOICE
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling (Diane)
6. LOCAL LITERATURE LOVERS
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Jodi in Westerville)


15 POINT TASKS
5. READERS ROUND THE WORLD UNITE
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling (from the five star selections of Eric from Andorra)
The Stranger by Albert Camus(all from Muhammed from Yemen.)
8. SILVER SCREEN CELEBRATIONS
A. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
B. Watch Love Actually

20 POINT TASKS
20.3 GROUP READS
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carol
(and comment in discussion thread)

25 POINT TASKS
6. STEPHANIE US' TASK - ISLAND DREAMS
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

7. SAM'S TASK - THE LOST GENERATIONS
A. Tender Buttonsand Picasso by Gertrude Stein
B. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling

8. INANE ANSWERING MACHINE DAY
A. The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University by Kevin Roose
B. Kim by Rudyard Kipling

30 POINT TASKS
10. DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER...UNLESS IT'S REALLY WELL DESIGNED
A. The Amnesiac by Sam Taylor
B. We are on Our Own by Miriam Katin

35 Point Tasks
10. THERESA IN OHIO'S TASK - COLOR BY NUMBERS
A. Blue Sky July by Nia Wyn
AND
B. The Tenth Circle by Giardinelli, Mempo

Two more down...

10.3 RENAISSANCE READING - In Honor Of Zora Neale Hurston Famous Harlem Renaissance Author…
A. Read A Novel That Was Written By An African American That Also Has An African American Protagonist.
For this task I read Shadow Blade by Seressia Glass. Great Urban Fantasy book.

10.6 LOCAL LITERATURE LOVERS - If You Live In The US - Select Within 5 Miles & Type In Your Zip Code - Then Select One Of The People Found On That Page (Not Yourself) And Read One Of Their 5-Star Books.
For this task I read A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle from Teddy's 5 star books in my zip code.

Total Points: 765/1100
Books Read: 55
Tasks Completed: 40/58

25.1. LEORA'S TASK - 1001 BOOKS Silk by Alessandro Baricco and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Books Read: 53
Pages Read: 17459
Tasks Completed: 39
Tasks in Progress: 3

10.1 - UNDER THE BIG TOP

I read Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. I feel bad saying this since I know a lot of people like this book, but I really didn't like it. I gave it 2 stars, because it was at least original! I hated all of the characters and found most of the book to0 depressing and ick factor to actually enjoy it.

10 points

Total Points: 525
Total Books Read: 36
Total Pages Read: 11,658
Tasks in Process: 50 Point Midway

30.3 - Snowed in and Loving it - The Last Summer (306), Fire (461), Dear John(276) - 1043 total pages

Task Points:30
Total Points:265
Tasks:14
Books:20

Nicki - STL

finished task 25.10 by reading and Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood. the cover of the hurston book is one of my all-time favorite covers...i just love the greens and blues and purples. and i love that book! persepolis was wonderful and i'm going to have buy persepolis 2 soon!




Total Points: 880/1100
Books Read: 55/81
Tasks Completed: 38/58
Tasks in Progress: 3


i'm getting "close" but i won't be finishing. there's just no time! le sigh...

I read Love and Intimacy: Five Ways to Get Together and Stay Together for task 20.1 (I did task 15.7 of the Fall Challenge and read the book while exercising). I also read The Help for 20.2, which gives me a ticket for reading a GOODREADS author.
Points: 245

Finished task 35.3 with The Year of Yes.

New total: 135 points

Heather in KS

Adding 5 more little points to my score:

5.10 THE ALLURE OF ALLITERATION - Lush Life: A Novel

Total - 105

Completed 3 additional tasks:
5.4 A winning decade -- Chose the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novel: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

10.4 Winners Choice -- Selected a 5 star book from Diane's list: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.

15.2 Adventures with Alice and Lewis
(A) Character named Alice -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by L. Carroll, and
(B) Novel that takes place in a fictional land -- Magic Kingdom for sale/sold by Terry Brooks

Points added: 30
total pages to date: 2036 (none over 500)

Prudence

In my post for Task 25.3, I forgot to mention my definition of friendship.

There are so many different levels of friendship, but I consider a good friend to be someone who you always feel safe and comfortable expressing your true feelings to without fear of judgment. A friend will be by your side in good times and bad, and will listen when you just need to talk.

I have just completed Roseann's 50 point midway challenge by reading:

Murder on Ice: A figure skating mystery by Alina Adams
and
The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt

This brings my totals to:

50 new points
330 total points
21 books read
15 tasks compleated

kiki wrote: "you're almost there, wendy! :)

finished task 10.10 by reading Lolita. a re-read for me, but just as good as the first two times! i love this book!




Total Points: 855/1100
Books ..."

Thanks did we really read 81 books, no wonder I'm exhausted.

A few more tasks...

30.5 For the book narrated by a deceased character, I read Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. This book is excellent and comes highly recommended, esp. for those of you that like YA lit. It was wonderful, different, inspiring, etc. It's about a young girl who dies in a tragic hit and run accident, and finds herself in Elsewhere, where she has to learn to deal with death, age backwards and find love and work, etc.

For the book published posthumously, I read Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky. Ms. Nemirovsky wrote the book while living in occupied France (she was an ex-pat Russian Jew who had converted to Catholicism). Unfortunately, her life was tragically ended when the Nazis sent her to Auschwitz, and the manuscript survived because it was smuggled in a suitcase along with her daughters, who the Nazis unsuccessfully tried to hunt down. This book was also incredible, as a portrait of what life was like for the French people during the occupation. It is incredibly unfortunate that Ms. Nemirovsky was lost, because I feel like the world lost a great talent when she was murdered.

35.4 New Years Resolution - My resolution has to do with eating better. Namely, not eating Cheez Doodles and Pop Tarts as much. The fiction book I read was
Fat Cat by Robin Brande, a YA book featuring a junk food loving teen who decides to adopt the diet of our ancestors (namely the hominids) as a science experiment, and goes as far to try and adopt their lifestyle (walking, no cars, no cellphones, etc.) The book was cute and fun, and the main character learns a lot about herself.

The non-fiction book I read was Raw Food Life Force Energy: Enter a Totally New Stratosphere of Weight Loss, Beauty, and Health by Natalia Rose. Rose basically recommends a diet of raw, natural foods for health reasons, and while I felt like she had many intelligent points and some actually tasty sounding recipes (along with a fairly easy plan for working your way towards a better diet) I think she is still being to stringent. I just like bacon wayyy to much.

50 point - I read The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause, a teen vampire book that was surprisingly good, and for the sport portion I read The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolano, a murder/mystery/love triangle featuring embezzling government officials, crazy buskers, poets, and a lovely ice skater who is going for Olympic gold, all in the coastal Catalan town Z.

Previous Score: 660
Current Score: 775

OK, work just infringes way too much on my reading time! Finally completed 10.10 with Jeff Lindsay's Dexter By Design, and I have to say that as per usual for me, I prefer the book to the screen adaptation. There's something richer about the reading experience for me that the visual aspect just doesn't touch.

Current Total: 530 points

Ok, finally actually posting something new! I finished...
5.10 with - Government Girl: Young and Female in the White House. I got this through GR for free so it was already exciting, and the fact that I also enjoyed it was just a great extra :) Not to mention the fact that it fit a task so nicely!

10.4 with - City of Bones which I totally adored.

And 20.1 - I went back to Ashley Id's Task - Read A Dystopian Novel...For This Task You Would Read A Book About A Dystopian/Totalitarian Government; Or A Novel Where The Government Creates A Dystopian Society. I read Gathering Blue which I don't think I liked as much as The Giver.

That's 35 points for a new total of 320!

Whoops...I forgot to say that I got City of Bones from Rachel Lee's 5-star list for 10.4 :)

I posted at message 2659 on Feb 14.
"30.5 : 825 pages up, with these books. total 1004 pages read.
344 pages from All That Glitters by Linda Howard
186 pages from Sexiest Man Alive by Sandra Marton
472 pages from Tipping the velvet by Sandra Waters"

I 'd like to replace Tipping the Velvet with
365 pages from To Wed a Scandalous Spy by Celeste Bradley
Total pages will be 895 pages.


And use Tipping the Velvet on another task
20.1 Favorite Task From A Past Challenge. I pick task 25.3 from Fall Challenge (WENDY'S TASK - Harvey Milk, The First Openly Gay Man To Be Elected To Public Office In California, Was Murdered On November 27, 1978. In Honor Of Him Read A Book With A Positive Gay Or Lesbian Character.)


points : 215
New points : 235

30.3 Snowed in and Loving it: Glass Houses 248 pages, Shopaholic Ties the Knot 407 pages and Wake 210 pages = 865 pages total

Tasks: 14
Books: 18
Total Pages: 5658
Total Points: 200/1100

Stephanie wrote: "Finished 20.2 Cheryl's task by reading The Help which I really enjoyed. I thought that it was really well written. I thought the end left me hanging a bit. I gave it 4*.

This brin..."

Forgot to mention that Katherine Stockett is a goodreads author.

Was going through my multibook tasks that I have not finished yet to see what I can reasonably finish and decided to move Hidden Warrior by Lynn Flewelling who is a good reads author to task 20.1. The task I chose was the prophesy task from the fall challenge. I liked this book but not as much as the first one. I gave it 3 stars. This book is also 551 pages so I get a ticket for a big book also.

This will bring me to 480 points.

I completed task 35.2. DONNA JO'S TASK - GOING ON A WINTER VACATION with two island books.

The Jekyl Island Club*** by Brent Monahan was a little slow at times.

Island Trilogy Bind-Up**** by Gordon Korman was a good YA my daughter had been bugging me to finish.

Total points: 345
Total pages: 6313

My personal goal for any of these challenges is 400 and I think for the first time I'm actually going to get there!

5.10 I read Faux Finished by Peg Marberg for the Alliteration task

points: 680/1150
books: 39
Tasks: 31/58