The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

OK, let's try this again, and this time I'll follow all the guidelines! I think I had a brain melt or was caught in a time warp or something. It's amazing how much reading you can do when nothing is allowed to interfere!

#5.2 Red, White and Blue Cover: Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly Feb 26

#5.3 Royal Reading: A Non-fiction book About a Monarch: Charlemagne: From the Hammer to the Cross. by Richard Winston Feb 24

#15.1 Make Me Laugh:
A. Satirical Novel: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Feb 23
B. Watch a Satirical Film: Kelly's Heroes Feb 24

#15.10 We Will Remember You:
A. Book Written by an Author Who Died in 2009 (3.17.09): Savannah Purchase by Jane Aiken Hodge Feb 28
B. Film Starring an Actor Who Died in 2009 (9.14.09): Ghost starring Patrick Swayze Feb 26

Total Pages = 24, 165

Total Points = 1100

Cynthia, I reposted the 4 tasks that were in yesterday's post #3085, but the only change is for task #15.10. Thanks for letting me know so quickly and so kindly that I made a MAJOR mistake.

Congratulations, BJ Rose! I think that would have about killed me, to think I was done on the last day and then have to re-do one! Ack!

So now you have 7 hours to recover ;)

Ok this is my last check-in of the season:

10.4 Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began from Sara Nicole's list.

10.6 The Perks of Being a Wallflower from Kate's list.

15.7 I read Crockpot: The original slowcooker Recipie Collection and we made beef stew tonight

Final stats:
Point Total: 590
Task Completed: 27
Books Read: 39
Pages Read: 12582

congrats, bjrose! :)

ok so the girl who played with Fire will work for 10.6, local literature lovers. It was rated 5 stars by Nicole, bless her, who gave it 5 stars!

My last minute task completion for the winter challenge...

30.10. Color by Numbers
Book with a color - Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Book with a number - Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher



TOTAL = 270 POINTS

25.1 1001 books: Crome Yellow and Tender Is the Night

Pages read: 8532
Books read: 27+
Tasks completed: 20
Total Points: 540
Liz (Bklyn)

30.1. BONNIE'S TASK - CELEBRATE THE END OF THE DECADE (2000-9)!
a) Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
b) New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Books read: 20
Tasks completed: 13
Total Points: 305
Last task; can't wait until tomorrow for Spring to start.

Ok, here are my final points... wish I could've got to more, I don't know how some of you finished this challenge, but good on ya!! :)

15.8. SILVER SCREEN CELEBRATIONS
A. The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale Of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0 by Christopher Moore
B. I watched Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and Cricket on the Hearth in their entirety, plus saw most of The Santa Clause (part 3, I think?), Santa Baby, Shrek The Halls... it's not difficult to watch Christmas shows around Christmas time :)


20.3 GROUP READS
A. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

25.2. GINA'S TASK - FEBRUARY IS INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP MONTH
Read: Hot Chocolate Friendship by Nancy Levene

In the words of Christopher Moore from The Stupidest Angel: "If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. The key... is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own." My dearest friends embrace my crazy, as I do theirs, and we have a blast because of it. The most important thing about friendship, to me, is that ability to just be yourself and be accepted for it anyway. :)

25.8. MICHELLE US' TASK - JANUARY 30TH IS INANE ANSWERING MACHINE DAY
Read:
A. The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
B. Outbreak by Robin Cook

30.10. THERESA IN OHIO'S TASK - COLOR BY NUMBERS
Read:
A. After The Red Night by Christiane Frenette
B. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Point Total: 505
Task Completed: 22
Books Read: 29
Pages Read: 9417

My final tasks for the Winter:

15.6 - I read The Hindi-Bindi Club and made Potato Cauliflour Curry. I actually read the book a while ago and just got around to making the recipe today because I was nervous, it seemed complicated. It turned out to be much easier than I expected and tasty... too bad the book was not as good as the recipe!!

30.7 - I read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. As usual, it was very enjoyable!!


Point Total: 355
Page Total: 10941
Book Total: 31

Congrats to everyone who finished the challenge or reached their goals!!

I finished a few more tasks recently to finish off the winter challenge.

20.1 REVISITING THE PAST
I picked Ashley Id's Task - Read A Dystopian Novel
We

30.3. BJ ROSE'S TASK - SNOWED IN AND LOVING IT
Uglies 425 pages
Everlost 320 pages
In the Country of Last Things 145 pages

30.10. THERESA IN OHIO'S TASK - COLOR BY NUMBERS
Fearless Fourteen and Blue Screen

Total tasks completed: 10
Total points: 240

5.4. [man booker prize 2002:] life of pi - yann martel

5.7. [year of the monkey:] me talk pretty one day - david sedaris

10.4. [helen:] shutter island - dennis lehane

10.7. [tudors:] the boleyn inheritance - philippa gregory

10.8. last night in twisted river - john irving

20.3. the stupidest angel

20.3. [yellow:] baby proof - emily giffin
running with [scissors:] - augusten burrows

30.1. the lost symbol - dan brown
secret life of bees - sue monk kidd

30.3. a history of love - nicole krause (252 pages)
cereal murders - diane mott davidson (335 pages)
evening - susan minot (288 pages)

30.5. midnight sun - stephanie meyer
pirates latitude - michael crighton

30.7. [9.9b & 25.9b:] extremely loud & incredibly close - jonathan safron foer (326 pages)

200 points

Here's my last task for the challenge, I did much better this time around than I did on my first challenge :)

20.1 Most Improved Player – Cheryl ME’s Task – Civil Rights, read The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Stockett is a Goodreads author.

Brings my final total to:

470/1100 points
Tasks Completed: 24/60
Books Read: 31/79
Pages Read: 8,976

Ashley wrote: "Congratulations, BJ Rose! I think that would have about killed me, to think I was done on the last day and then have to re-do one! Ack!

So now you have 7 hours to recover ;)"

Thanks, Ashley! You can bet I'll be triple-checking everything from now on, especially in the last week of the challenge!!

This is my first time posting to the SRC, and I've done my best to follow all the rules. It's a little in-depth, so I hope I haven't missed something!

5.6 The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesteron - the main character is a judge/mystic; it's also full of strange jobs I could never think of.

5.8 A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

15.1 Satirical novel: In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Christopher Morley and Bart Haley
Black comedy film: Manhattan Murder Mystery, directed by Woody Allen

15.2 The Silver Chair and The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #4 and #5) by C.S. Lewis

15.8 Both take place at Christmas:
A Holiday for Murder by Agatha Christie
White Christmas, directed by Michael Curtiz

15.9 On TBR the longest: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw - pretty much wanted to read this since seeing My Fair Lady many years ago
Author never read before: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

20.3 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Caroll (I just posted a comment this afternoon.)

25.1 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

25.5 A House to Let by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter

25.6 Takes place on the island country known as the UK: The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne

25.8 One word title: Shandygaff by Christopher Morley
Seven plus word title: Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Yorkshire Punch, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar by David Wondrich

25.9 Includes a map: The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
Includes a glossary of terms: Un Lun Dun by China Mieville

30.3 889 pages total:
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot (64 pp.)
Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha Christie (191 pp.)
The Black Monk and Peasants by Anton Chekov (90 pp.)
The Language of Sand by Ellen Block - GoodReads author (288 pp.)
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart - GoodReads author (256 pp.)

30.5 A Ghost in the Machine by Caroline Graham - also fits 5.8 (cozy mystery) and 10.7 (related to my favorite TV show, Midsomer Murders)
- this one is over 500 pages at 512 pp.

30.10 Happy color: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous
Number: Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children by Angus Oblong

35.4 How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett


Only two of these were GR authors - Ellen Block and Amy Stewart, both read for 30.3. That's probably because I read a lot of older novels. I also only read one large book for 30.5, A Ghost in the Machine by Caroline Graham was 512 pages. My totals I believe are 340 points and 16 completed tasks. I seem to read much slower than others in this group!

Finished up another two tasks right under the wire.

25.7 - The Pearl by John Steinbeck AND Animal Farm by George Orwell

I was kind of meh on The Pearl - it was good but I didn't really like the ending. Animal Farm was great.

25.10 - Moregasm: Babeland's Guide to Mind-Blowing Sex by Rachel Venning and Claire Cavanah AND Maus I by Art Spiegelman

I was drawn to Moregasm's cover because it's provocative and I liked the shades of pink. It was a great book, too. Lots of information, pics, diagrams - I highly recommend it.

Maus was a re-read and I liked it just as much now as I did the first time I read it.

I'm so excited to be finishing my first challenge! There were a few tasks I was only able to complete partially, but I think I did well for my first go. I can't wait to get started on the next one.

Tasks Completed: 11
Books Read: 16
Pages Read: 4403
Points Earned: 185

Whoops, I forgot to say in my other update that the author of one of my books, The Last River Child, is a Goodreads author: Lori Ann Bloomfield.

Also, congrats to everyone who finished the challenge! I wish I had enough time to read all those books.

5.10. THE ALLURE OF ALLITERATION - Read A Book Whose Title Contains Alliteration - The Title Must Have 2 Or More Words That Begin With Same Letter Back To Back OR With Only A Short Word In Between

Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs

TOTAL = 100

Ok - I finished my last book! I didn't think I would in time!

10.6 I read "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini and liked it even more than "The Kite Runner."

That brings my final total to 235.

Hello, everyone! What a horrid season for me in participating in this online community of readers! This is my first (and only!) post this winter!! If I do anything wrong (since I have really, really not be following) let me know!

5.1 An Offer From a Gentleman - Julia Quinn
This book is pretty much a retelling of the Cinderella story.. there is even a glass shoe on the cover!

5.2Devil's Bride - Stephanie Laurens
5.5 Lord of Scoundrels - Loretta Chase (librarian recommend)
5.6 The Interior - Lisa See
She is a undercover investigator in China. Something I would never, ever want to do... ever.
5.9 It's In His Kiss - Julia Quinn
5.10 When He Was Wicked - Julia Quinn

10.4 The Duke And I - Julia Quinn
5 star on Sara's list
10.6 Secret Desires of a Gentleman - Laura Lee Guhrke

20.1 Romancing Mister Bridgerton - Julia Quinn
This has been translated into multiple languages, including German and Chinese

25.4 And Then He Kissed Her - Laura Lee Guhrke (set in Victorian/Turn of the century England)
25.4 The Viscount Who Loved Me - Julia Quinn (set during the Regency)
I would chose to live in the turn of the century because of the women's right things... the series was about "Girl bachelors" which was a nice change for a romance novel. I'd rather be independent (however little they had).
25.5How to Marry a Marquis - Julia Quinn

25.10 With Seduction in Mind - Laura Lee Guhrke
The design of this just wows me because the word seduction leads my brain toward thoughts of ... well seduction. And to have the girl who looks like she is pleasuring herself just made me want to read to see how this book went!
25.10 Hana-Kimi, Volume 1 - Hisaya Nakajo

30.3 To Taste Temptation - Elizabeth Hoyt (362)
30.3 It's in His Kiss: The Epilogue II - Julia Quinn (35*)
30.3 When He Was Wicked: The Epilogue II - Julia Quinn (35*)
30.3 Romancing Mister Bridgerton: The Epilogue II - Julia Quinn (35*)
30.3 To Catch an Heiress - Julia Quinn (384)
30.3 The Viscount Who Loved Me: The Epilogue II - Julia Quinn (35*)

Total ~886?
*These were all eBooks which I checked out from the library. Apparently you can't go back and look up page numbers, so I estimated they were about 35 pages each.
30.6 The Wicked Ways of a Duke - Laura Lee Guhrke
I've always wanted to go to England, if only for the fact that I read so many historical romance novels. It would be awesome for me to be able to experience some of these places I've read so much about.
30.7 All Things Beautiful - Cathy Maxwell (fits the red/white/blue color cover challenge and the different times in history challenge)

Totals:
Books: 22
Challenges: 15
Points: 235

In February:

10.2 - The Tailor's Daughter by Janice Graham

15.5 - It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (from Fiordiligi's booklist - Austria) and Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie (from Leigia's bookshelf - Greenland)

25.6 - Haunted Ground by Erin Hart (setting is Ireland)
25.8 - Coraline by Neil Gaiman and If I am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation by Janine Latus

30.9 - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin and The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (from 1979 - these were two very different and enjoyable books, but I agree that the Westing Game should win out over The Great Gilly Hopkins, because it was just so darn clever!)

35.2 - Sleigh Ride: A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards by Ann Bauer and A Body in the Sleigh by Katherine Hall Page


Total from February: 140
January: 125
December: 90

Grand Total: 355
Not bad for my first one :)

Congrats BJ Rose!

30.6 Wendy's Task - Winter Vacation Dreams
Lime Tree Can't Bear Orange by Amanda Smyth
Like everyone else living in the Northeast, I'm so sick of snow. Mother Nature and Old Man Winter must be having a fight or something. I would love to be somewhere warm, sunny and tropical. I just went to the library and searched for a book that took place in a tropical setting. This took place in Trinidad and Tobago. Very lush and sultry story, just what I needed to warm my soul. Reading this book I could very easily imagine myself soaking in the sun on a beach with my toes in the water. Spring can't get here soon enough for me! That's my final book for the Winter Challenge! I'm proud of how I did for my first challenge, now I have to get ready for the spring challenge.
Books Read - 28
Tasks Completed - 20
Pages Read - 8,395
TOTAL POINTS - 440

Congrats to everyone who has finished and met their goals!! I'm just happy I finished off the remaining multi-book tasks I had started! Final tasks for me are:
15.3 Dead to the World and Amelia Earhart: The Sky's No Limit
25.4 His Majesty's Dragon (WWI) & Sarah's Key (WWII)
50 The Silver Pigs & The Skeleton in the Closet

Total points: 830

Oops. Sorry Cynthia. I have a replacement for 25.5 Abigail's Odd Man Out: SOMETHING BORROWED by Emily Giffin (Good Reads author).

323 pages
This should now bring me up to 155 points.

My last task:

25.1. 1001 Books
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
and
Lord of the Flies by William Golding

I also forgot to claim my ticket for "I like big books and I cannot lie". My last posting was Crime and Punishment which is 656 pages long.

10.5 - POPULARITY CONTEST – Discovering The Hot Books Of 2009….
A. Go To http://www.goodreads.com/book/popular...

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

15.6 - THE SEASON OF GIFTING & GIVING
Before Midnight: A Retelling of "Cinderella"

In this re-telling she gains a stepmother who loves her and my stepfather is the greatest gift I ever received.

B. I donated presents to Toys For Tots and also participated in a book drive for a children's hospital.

Task 20.2-
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

Task 25.8:

On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Fire

Task 30.3:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
224 Pages

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
213 Pages

The Sacred Cipher: A Novel

352 Pages

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

272 Pages


Total Books: 25
Total Pages: 5935
Total Points: 285

BJ Rose wrote: "OK, let's try this again, and this time I'll follow all the guidelines! I think I had a brain melt or was caught in a time warp or something. It's amazing how much reading you can do when nothing i..."

Go BJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations.

Last posting task to slide in before the deadline!

25.8 Inane answering machine day Part A: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison

Part B: Sepulchre by Kate Mosse


New points: 25

Former points: 180

Total points: 205

Rebecca MA

New tasks are in bold. Moved a couple around: I moved the 30.10 The 39 Steps to 25.6 and replaced it with Slaughterhouse Five. Moved Pinocchio to 15.6.

Points total should be 610. Thanks!

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

10.8: The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

Galloway is from Canada.

15.2: Alice Sit-By-The-Fire by JM Barrie and The Marvellous Land of Oz 12/29

15.4: The Romance of a Christmas Card

My favorite games are card games, and over Christmas I spent hours playing cards with my family.

15.6: Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi(12/17)
I think the heart of Pinocchio is love and friendship and I think that is the greatest gift anyone can ask for. No matter how far Pinocchio strayed, he still yearned for the love and friendship of his family throughout this weird little book. My husband and I donate food almost every week to our church's food bank, which provides meals for people in need in our community.

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

25.6: The 39 Steps by John Buchan

Takes place in Scotland and England.

25.10: Shutter Island Graphic Novel and The Hidden Life of Dogs

30.1 Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog (movie) Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife (published)
30.2 A. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson and B. State of Fear by Michael Crichton (688 pgs)
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

30.6 Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks (2/28)

This books takes place for the most part in Rodanthe, off the coast of North Carolina. Right now, after two months of snow, I'd love to go to any beach and even though the book takes place during a hurricane, I still loved the descriptions of the ocean!

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)
30.10: A. The Red House Mystery by AA Milne B. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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)

Last report:

Task 30.1 – Bonnie – 2000-2009 Book & Book into Movie: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (1/24/10) AND Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (2/28/10)

And one switcheroo (from an incomplete task):

Task 15.6 – Favorite Gift: Hot Mama by Jennifer Estep (2/5/10) (I'm going to be a mother come August and am grateful for the gift of creating life!) + I participated in a couple of service projects before Christmas... We crocheted hats for kids in need and we sewed heart-shaped pillows for women recovering from breast cancer surgery.

FINAL STATS
Tasks Completed: 31/58
Books Read: 43/81
Pages Read: 12,687
Points Earned: 610/1100



PS - Here's a breakdown of the whole shebang: http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/3...

Oops! I forgot to post how Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is multitasking! (thanks cynthia for reminding me). It fits the following tasks:

10.4 (its rated five stars by Diane)
25.6 (takes place on an island)
25.7B (featured on Lost)
30.1 (was published and made into a movie in the last decade)

Therefore, I can use it for 30.7, multitasking.
I have to say, this multitasking is one of my favorite challenges!!

5.2
Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions - An interesting look at Ivy league "hedge fund cowboys" who raided the mid 90's Japanese financial markets for millions while navigating the underbelly of Yakuza run sex trade and night life.

10.5
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures - Parts of it were a little weak for me but overall another home run for Galdwell.


25.5
Soccernomics - Take the data into the basement and torture it until it confesses


25.10
A - How to Be Inappropriate - Maybe there's something I'm not getting, but I wasn't nearly as impressed with the author or the book as the author is with himself.
B - The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas - A superhero family, time travel, sadistic assassins in Banana Splits masks, and a very unexpected person behind the "trigger" at the end.


30.4
The Strain - Vampires, i guess, but a pretty loose interpretation. Pretty scary in parts though, i certainly won't forget Mr. Leech's visits to grandma's house.



Points: 95
Books: 6
Tasks: 5

alright, last one. can't believe i got through this today, but i powered through it (taking time out for the hockey, of course!)

finished task 15.6 by reading On The Road and for christmas i donated to www.heifer.org in my family member's names. they're an incredible organization that helps impoverished people be able to become self-sufficient and then pay it forward. i read On The Road because my bestest gift ever was the car my parents helped me buy when i was 18. (they paid most of, left me a year's worth of car payments.) the gift taught me responsibility (payments, upkeep, safe driving) and allowed me to become more independent. i drove that car for 16 1/2 years and i'd still be driving it if someone hadn't front-ended me and totaled her! :(




Total Points: 970/1100
Books Read: 63/81
Tasks Completed: 43/58
Tasks in Progress: 0


i got a heck of a lot further in this challenge than i expected to. 3 weeks off for christmas helped! i'm doing a limited amount of tasks for spring, but i'm planning on busting my butt on the summer challenge!

thanks, cynthia! you rule! :)

Final Task for me.

Finished 30.8 Kari's Task with:
Undaunted Courage and Little House on the Prairie

I grew up learning about Lewis and Clark every year in Montana History and was really surprised how much I did not know. Great task - Thanks. My final point total is 415. Looking forward to the Spring Challenge!

Two more tasks:

30.2 - Scifi past and present
Past - Virtual Light by William Gibson
Present - Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card

30.4 - Epidemic
Cell by Steven King

So as a recap of everything I read:
5.4 - Paper Towns
5.5 - The Art of Racing in the Rain
5.8 - Brother Odd
5.9 - Heartfire
5.10 - Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King
10.10 - Script of Fiddler on the Roof
15.2 - Alvin Journeyman + The Dueling Machine
20.1 - The Client
20.2 - Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
20.3 - Alice in Wonderland
25.1 - Oliver Twist + A Clockwork Orange
25.2 - James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
25.3 - The Amber Spyglass + The Subtle Knife
25.4 - Beowulf: A New Verse Translation + A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
25.5 - James Potter and the Curse of the Gate Keeper
25.7 - This Side of Paradise + Carrie
25.8 - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex + Night
25.10 - The Shadow of the Wind + Whiteout
30.2 - Shadow of the Hegemon + Virtual Light
30.3 - Odd Thomas + Dragon Tears
30.4 - Cell
30.6 - The Broker
30.7 - The Lost Symbol
30.9 - The Slave Dancer + The Dark Is Rising
30.10 - The 13 Clocks + The Red Pony
35.3 - Three Weeks with My Brother
50.1 - The Golden Compass + The Physics of Skiing

Totals:
Points:605
Tasks:27
Books:39
Pages:12292

Ok, I'm really leaving it to the last minute but here goes!
5.2 - Number the Stars
15.2 - Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker and The Wild Things (imaginary land)
20.2 - Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice - a terrific story of the teenage girl who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus almost a year before Rosa Parks.
25.2 - Uglies - to me, friendship is about standing by a person and being there for them even when it isn't easy, and it's about wrestling with the issues when you disagree with a friend, rather than either giving in or standing by your guns thoughtlessly. In the book, I thought there were examples of great friendship and also some failures of friendship - which of course is also part of being a friend!

So that should be 65 more points, bringing my final total to 440! Whoo hoo - can't wait for the spring challenge! (Ok, so I only have to wait 45 minutes...still!)

This was a tough challenge for me. The timing was bad. Winter seems to be really busy and there's not a lot of time for reading. Next time I'll do way better.

5.5 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
5.8 The Cat Who Blew The Whistle by Lilian Jackson Braun
10.10 Broken Song by Kathryn Lasky
25.5 Lottery by Patricia Wood

Total points: 45

Here's the tasks I finished up this last week, and my last post for the challenge! :)

15.2 - Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin (Goodreads author!) - Character named Alice
AND Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder (another Goodreads author!) - set in a fictional land

25.4 - The Road to Sardis by Stephanie Plowman - set in 400 BC
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt - set during the Victoria age *675 pages*

Of these two historical periods, I would definitely prefer to live in the Victorian age, when women were beginning to get at least some limited rights. In 400BC, women were barely even thought of except as property - not a fun time to live.

25.10 - The Doomsday Key by James Rollins (Goodreads author!) I LOVE this cover for this book:
AND Fables: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham - graphic novel

30.3 - Heat Wave by Richard Castle (198 pages)
AND Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim (288 pages) (Goodreads authors!)
AND Boys Over Flowers, Volume 35 by Yoko Kamio (192 pages)
AND Boys Over Flowers, Volume 36 by Yoko Kamio (200 pages)

Final Totals for the challenge:
TOTALS:
Points: 400
Tasks completed: 19/58
Books read: 30
Pages read: 8,791

5.04 A WINNING DECADE: 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, “Out Stealing Horses” Per Petterson
5.06 IT’S A DIRTY JOB BUT…: “West with the Night” Beryl Markham (bush pilot)
5.07 EYEING THE YEAR OF THE TIGER: “The Accidental Tourist” Anne Tyler
5.08 BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE: "The Old Contemptibles" by Martha Grimes
10.02 LOUIS LOUIS: "Seeing Voices" by Oliver Sacks
10.06 LOCAL LITERATURE LOVERS: (Lucy Alford) “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” C.S. Lewis
10.08 OH CANADA! "Chronicles of Avonlea" by Lucy Maud Montgomery (written by a Canadian author and set in Canada)
15.02 ADVENTURES WITH ALICE AND LEWIS: A)”The Magician’s Nephew” C.S. Lewis B)”Odd and the Frost Giants” Neil Gaiman
15.08 SILVER SCREEN CELEBRATIONS: (Christmas) A) “Light from Heaven” Jan Karon (book) B) “The Bishop’s Wife” (film)
15.10 WE WILL REMEMBER YOU: A) “A Rumpole Christmas” John Mortimer B) Watched John Hughes film, “Pretty in Pink”
20.01 BETH MN’S TASK, REVISITING THE PAST: (Bonnie’s Task, 25.6, read genre outside of normal reading habits—science fiction) “Tales of Ten Worlds” Arthur C. Clarke
25.01 LEORA’S TASK – 1001 BOOKS: A) “The Double” Jose Saramago B)”A Christmas Carol” Charles Dickens
25.02 GINA’S TASK – FEBRUARY IS INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP MONTH: “Friends, Lovers, Chocolate” Alexander McCall Smith. The most important part of friendship is assuming good intentions.
25.03 SARA NICOLE’S TASK-A GAME OF CLUE: A) “Don’t Try This at Home” [from public library, see cover at the end of this post) ed. Kimberly Witherspoon B) “The Axe” Sigrid Undset
25.06 STEPHANIE US’ TASK – ISLAND DREAMS: “Paddington Here and Now” Michael Bond
25.08 MICHELLE US’ TASK – JANUARY 30TH IS INANE ANSWERING MACHINE DAY: A) “The man who made lists: Love, death, madness, and the creation of Roget's Thesaurus" Joshua Kendall B) “South” Sir Ernest Shackleton
25.09 BRIDGIT’S TASK-THE WORLD OF BOOKS: A) “The Anodyne Necklace” Martha Grimes (contains treasure map) B) “A Taste for Adventure” Anik See (contains recipes)
30.03 BJ ROSE’S TASK – SNOWED IN AND LOVING IT: "A Taste for Death"PD James [497] "The Lamorna Wink" Martha Grimes [448:]
30.07 JAN THE GRYPHON’S TASK: MULTITASKING: "Voices" by Arnaldur Indridason (fits tasks 25.05 and 25.08)
35.03 DLM ROSE’S TASK – IT’S ABOUT TIME: “The Magic Years” Selma H. Fraiberg

TOTAL POINTS: 360
Rachel

This is my last post and finished task for this challenge:

35.3 DLM ROSE'S TASK - IT'S ABOUT TIME – An Emily Dickenson Year Book (edited by H. Arnold) (132 pages) 2/28

Total Points: 285
Pages read: 3479
Books read: 14
Tasks completed: 12





I wish I could have finished more tasks, but I feel like it's pretty good for a first challenge:) Can't wait to start the Spring Challenge. Thanks Cynthia:)

25.3 Sara's Task: Part I (Color-White Cover) Winter's Child: A Retelling of "The Snow Queen" - 3 Stars 2/26/10

Sara's Task: Part II (Weapon - Knife) The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School - 4 Stars 2/28/10

Total Points: 115
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Sad to say I didn't read as much this challenge as the prior two. Maybe I'll make up for it in the next!

This will be the end of the winter challenge - congrats everyone! I'm going to update the board with the last few posts and work on figuring out the 20 pointers now.