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5.10 magic

jinx by Meg Cabot.


points total 115

I finished Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie for 25.1, the country evolution challenge. Snow Flower is set in mid 19th century in Hunan Province, China, and Balzac is set in Sichuan Province during the cultural revolution in the late 1960's-70's. Although SF was well written, B was by far the better of the two, so beautiful.

I also read Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris for 10.3, the beach read. Definitely my least favorite book of the challenge.

Tasks Completed: 28
Number of Books Read: 36
New Points Total: 365

10.2—Suzanne Collins' Catching Fire. 10 points.

Total Points: 400
Books Read: 39
Tasks Complete: 31

I'm all caught up with the leaderboard after 3 FREAKING hours of starting from scratch basically! lol. The spreadsheet I had crashed with my computer when it was giving me problems so basically I have been dreading/not having time to sit down and update 4-5 pages! You guys have been reading like crazy!! :) I love it..however..my fingers feel very differently write now lol

25-2. War: Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2) by Diana Gabaldon (6/15); Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack Rakove (5/28)

Total: 360/630
Books Finished: 34/54
Tasks Completed: 25/44

20.1: Her Fearful Symmetry

Total points: 85
Tasks completed: 6
Books read: 7

25.8 A Certain Slant of Light (loved the cover) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
(disliked)

I loved both of these books, but I enjoyed EL&IC a bit more. A Certain Slant of Light took me a while to get into because I was having trouble getting a feel for the two main characters, but I loved Oskar in EL&IC from the very first page.

Total: 140

**(For the Surprise) I posted about EL&IC in the group read thread (EL&IC Chapters 7-9) and I posted about A Certain Slant of Light in the YA Books thread.

Kayla--I fell in love with Oskar right away too!! One of my favorite characters ever!!

Ok, it looks like you missed a couple of posts of mine, but that's ok because I haven't posted any for a while, so this will update the 12 tasks I've finished/rearranged for a whopping 145 points thus far!!

5.1-Fun Read: Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
5.5-travel memoir or traveling: On Wings Of Faith by Frederick Babbel
5.7-Flower: Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
5.8-Summer Cover: Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
5.10-magic: Syren by Angie Sage

10.4-Direction: North! or Be Eaten by Andrew Peterson
10.10-multiple characters: The Icebound Land by John Flanagan

15.2-GR’s most popular: Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
15.7-non traditional/unconventional family: The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan (foster home, then apprenticeship)

20.4.1-two new authors: Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George
20.4.2: Arthur and the Minimoys by Luc Besson

25.6.1-1,000 ratings: Erak's Ransom by John Flanagan (Currently at 961, but I'm sure will get more soon.)
25.6.2:-50,000 ratings: The Giver by Lois Lowry
25.7.1-one book published author: The Heroes of Nightingale by Mark Basker
25.7.2-10 or more books: Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

I'll post as I go from now on.
(That's 145 total....please don't add that to the 40 or 45 you have me at now) Thanks. :)

Sorry about that! I wonder how I missed them! I'll go ahead and change your total now.

Does everybody else have the correct total on the leaderboard?

I added a lot more to this list, you probably only missed one (I think I should've been at 60). :)

Gotcha! Alright, well, sorry about that!

It's all good. Thanks for all you do.

Finished The Necromancer by Michael Scott for 5.10

Finished Once Upon a Fastball by Bob Mitchell for 25.3

165 points 6/17/10

You didn't miss them Jamie, I missed posting. :) I was doing it the old way on the list.

Ohhh. I wonder if people had been doing that. I knew that it would probably happen this first time we did it this way. Hopefully I'm not missing anybody else.

10.10—Emily Giffin's Heart of the Matter. 10 points.

Posted to this thread for the challenge Jamie posted!

Total Points: 410
Books Read: 40
Tasks Complete: 32

20.4

drummer boy at bull run By Gilbert Morris and Belle by Beverly Jenkins

135 points

15.4 - I read The Shadow of the Wind.

New Total: 260
Completed Tasks: 21
Books Read: 29

(post for surprise will come later, when I'm not at uni anymore...)

ETA: Posted in the bibliomysteries thread for the surprise.

Completed 5.3 with The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner for 5 points.
Completed 5.7 with The Prophecy of the Sisters for 5 points. (There is a small flower on the cover)

Total Pages: 3970
Total Books Read: 12
Tasks Complete: 8

Total Points: 85

Finished Heart of the Matter for 10.10. Discussion post here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1... .


new total: 120
tasks completed: 10
books read: 11

25.8—Elizabeth Bard's Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes. (Finished Diana Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava: A Memoir.) 25 points.

I loved the cover for Bard's memoir but hated the one for Abu-Jaber's. I ultimately liked both books, but definitely preferred Bard's. Her writing is delightfully humorous, while still poignant and wry.

Posted to this thread for the challenge Jamie posted!

Total Points: 435

Finished Tell-All for task 25.7 and posted here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/3... . Previously finished Female Chauvinist Pigs to complete the task.

new total: 145
tasks completed: 11
books read: 13

20.1 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Books Read:6
Tasks Complete: 5
Points: 60

5-5. Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson (6/18)

Total: 365/630
Books Finished: 35/54
Tasks Completed: 26/44

10.1--Water for Elephants. I LOVED this book. And I have Reese Witherspoon to thank.

5.7--The Cement Garden. (I asked a few times if it was OK, but I never heard back, so I went ahead and counted it)

Total--20

I fallen so behind on my spring/summer challenge!

25.10-Emotional Reading: I read The Grapes of Wrath and Columbine. Both were definitely full of emotions.

Books Read: 18
Tasks Completed: 15

Total Points: 175

Finished The Necromancer by Michael Scott for 5.10

Finished Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy for 25.1

180 points 6/21/10

20.4a-Cherry Ames Army Nurse
20.4b-Cherry Ames Flight Nurse

Total books read: 8
Tasks completed: 7
Total Points: 75

20.3 The Princess de Cleves

Total Points: 135

Read Mutants & The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom for 25.7

Total points: 220
Books read: 24
Tasks completed: 17

15-3. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman (6/22)

Total: 380/630
Books Finished: 36/54
Tasks Completed: 27/44

10.8—Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey. 10 points.

Total Points: 445

5.10 A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

15.3 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
(this book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the year I was born)

Total Points: 280
Books Read: 23

15.7—Jeanne Birdsall's The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy. 15 points.

Total Points: 460

25.7 - I read Becoming Jane Austen (one book) and The Count of Monte Cristo (10+ books) for this task.

New Total: 285
Completed Tasks: 22
Books Read: 30

15.8—Anita Diamant's The Red Tent. 15 points.

Total Points: 475

1.5 Slumdog Millionaire

Books Read:7
Tasks Complete: 6
Points: 65

10.10 You Belong To Me by Mary Higgins Clark

Total: 150

20-3. The Aeneid of Virgil translated by Allen Mandelbaum (6/25)

Total: 400/630
Books Finished: 37/54
Tasks Completed: 28/44

5.4 The Surrendered
5.6 The Bookseller of Kabul
5.7 Red Azalea
5.9 Women of the Silk
10.4 When Broken Glass Floats
10.5 In My Hands
10.6 Honolulu
10.7 Tears of the Desert
10.8 Left to Tell
10.9 Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
10.10 The History of Love
15.7 The Wet Nurse's Tale
15.8 The Commoner
15.9 I am Nojood, Age 10 and Divorced
20.4 The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine and Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos
25.10 Do They Hear You When You Cry and When the Emperor Was Divine

Total points: 180

Jamie.. make sure I did this right.. I'm a lil rusty on book challenges! :)

Just finished 25.5 with Blindness for they physical and Into the Wild for mental

Total Tasks: 15
Total books: 18
Total Pages: 6,779

Total Points: 195

15.9 - I read Twelve.

New Total: 300
Completed Tasks: 23
Books Read: 31

25.9—Bernard Lewis' The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. 25 points.

Total Points: 500

25.5

Finished Song of Susannah and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Total Points: 55
Books Read: 8

15.2- Goodreads Most Popular Books: I read The Secret Life of Bees.

Books Read: 19
Tasks Completed: 16

Total Points: 190

10.10 Multiple POV: I finished A Game of Thrones this afternoon, which I absolutely loved! It has a different narrator each chapter.

Total points: 155
Books read: 18
Tasks complete: 13

10.3—John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. 10 points.

Total Points: 510

10.10 - I read Shiver.

New Total: 310
Completed Tasks: 24
Books Read: 32

10.1

water for elephants Sara_Gruen

145 points total

20-1. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (6/28); Copy of Post: I liked it overall, mostly the portion before Valentina's plan. I thought it was rather weak of her to get away from her sister in that way (not to mention the pain she thoughtlessly inflicted on her family). I don't think if she was strong enough to leave her twin while alive she would have been strong enough to live a life on her own after gaining her body back afterwards (if the plan had gone as scheduled).
I really disliked the ending. After spending so much time with Robert, we weren't shown where he ends up or given any kind of conclusive ending to his "journey". It also ended with my least favorite character, Elspeth. My favorite character was Martin, I ended up caring about his progress more than most everybody but Robert.

Total: 420/630
Books Finished: 38/54
Tasks Completed: 29/44