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Spring/Summer 2012: Leader Board and Completed Tasks
AlicynJust finished by I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton for 15.5 Letter Perfect for 15 points.
New Total: 45 points
15.2 - Poisson d'AvrilUnder the Same Sky by Genevieve Graham
Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 6
Points Total: 65
Finished 10.7 The Color PurpleTotal Points: 65
Books Finished: 10
Tasks Completed: 6
Finished 10.4 The Long and the Short of It: How Miss Rutherford Got Her Groove BackFinished 15.5 Letter Perfect: A Rogue By Any Other Name
Total points: 50
Books read: 8
Tasks completed: 6
Megan L. Finished 5.3 Spring Cleaning: Moonfire by Linda Lael Miller
Total Points: 45
Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 3
Finished:25.2: Hot- Flashman Cold- Let the Right One In
10.5: Goodreads Recommends - Mr. Fox
15.3: Until I Find You by John Irving
20.3: Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Letham and The Passage by Justin Cronin
Total Points: 70/500
Books Finished: 6/45
Tasks Completed: 4/35
Finished 5.1 Splish Splash:
Total points: 55
Books read: 9
Tasks completed: 7
Finished:5.1Troubled Waters
15.7 Sixty Acres and a Bride
Total Points: 55
Books read:7
Tasks completed 6
Finished5.1Troubled Waters
15.3 Body for Life
15.6 Sixty Acres and a Bride
Total points: 70
Books read: 8
Tasks completed: 7
*Kelly R.Finished:
20-1. Franny & Zooey by J. D. Salinger (4/11); POST: It was not what I expected at all. I’ve heard the title a lot over the years but realized, once I started reading it, that I’d never heard anything about what the book was about or who the characters were. I’d heard that Zooey was the boy and that Franny was a girl and had assumed it was a love story. While reading it and once I finished I couldn’t and can’t decide if I liked it or not. However, I did come away feeling like – as I did when I read Catcher in the Rye in high school - that I read it at the perfect time in my life. Where either a character’s age or opinions or confusion fit where I am at the time of reading.
Total Points: 115/500
Books Finished: 10/45
Tasks Completed: 8/35
Finished 5.1 Water SongTotal Points: 70
Books Finished: 11
Tasks Completed: 7
Rachel S.10.2 April Fools: Damn You, Autocorrect!
10.4 The Long and the Short of It: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Point Total: 85
Books Read: 11
Tasks Complete: 8
Finihed 25.6 Catching Fire and MockingjayTotal Points: 95
Books Finished: 12
Tasks Completed: 8
Finished 10.7 Fahrenheit 451Points Total: 45
Books Read: 4
Tasks Completed: 3
15.4 Red, White, and Blue: Adam by Ted Dekker
Points Total:60
Books Read: 5
Tasks Completed: 4
Finished 15.4 Red, White and Blue:
20.2 Intimidating Reads: A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow and Secrets of an Accidental Duchess
Total points: 90
Books read: 13
Tasks completed: 9
Finished 25.8 Death Comes to Pemberly and The House of the Scorpion. I actually liked the book with the cover I didn't like. The House of the Scorpion was amazing, it took me less than a day to read it!
Finished 10.5 The Night Circus
Total Points: 130
Books Finished: 14
Tasks Completed: 10
Finished:25.2: Hot- Flashman Cold- Let the Right One In
10.5: Goodreads Recommends - Mr. Fox
15.3: Until I Find You by John Irving
20.3: Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Letham and The Passage by Justin Cronin
25.1: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones and The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
Total Points: 95/500
Books Finished: 8/45
Tasks Completed: 5/35
5.1 Splish, splash: Blood Will Tell by Samantha Young5.5 And the award goes to...: Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn
10.5 (GoodReads Recommends): The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines
15.8 Bard Bash: The Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper
25.6 To be Continued..: Double Clutch and Junk Miles by Liz Reinhardt
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Total Points: 140
Books Finished: 13
Tasks Completed: 12
Rachel S.5.6 Earth Day: Ishmael
Point Total: 90
Books Read: 13
Tasks Complete: 9
Megan L. Finished 20.1 Group Read: The History of Love
Total points: 80
Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed:5
Finished:25.8
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Total Points: 95
Books Read: 12
Task Complete: 7
Rachel S.10.3 Calvin Coolidge's Birthday: Naked
15.4 Red, White, & Blue: American on Purpose
Point Total: 115
Books Read: 15
Tasks Complete: 11
Rachel S.25.2 Hot and Cold:
Hot setting: The Devil We Don't Know (deals with Egypt)
Cold setting: The Kitchen Boy (set mostly in Russia)
Point Total: 140
Books Read: 17
Tasks Complete: 12
Rachel S.25.8 Don't Judge a Book by its cover:
Cover Liked:
(even though it doesn't say on GR, its 286 pages long)Cover Disliked:
Reason: I actually disliked the cover available for the ebook version of Austenland due to its very cliche cartoon drawings. I actually had put the book off for a long while because of it. Ended up choosing it since it was going to become a movie with JJ Field as one of the men characters in it, and I quite like him. ;-) But overall, I liked the Jean Plaidy story of a young Queen Victoria more and was drawn to the edition by the cover because it was different than other novels about Victoria in that it didn't focus on her face and "queenly" appearance, but rather it made it seem like just any other girl from that time period, but yet you knew without ever seeing her face that she wished for freedom that wasn't given to her.
Point Total: 165
Books Read: 18
Tasks Complete: 13
Paula | 102 comments Finished:25.2: Hot- Flashman Cold- Let the Right One In
10.5: Goodreads Recommends - Mr. Fox
15.3: Until I Find You by John Irving
20.3: Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Letham and The Passage by Justin Cronin
25.1: Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones and The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
20.1: Game of Thrones by George R Martin
Total Points: 115/500
Books Finished: 9/45
Tasks Completed: 6/35
Finished 10.1 Aunt Dimity Goes WestTotal Points: 140
Books Finished: 15
Tasks Completed: 11
25.6 To Be Continued...The Maze Runner
The Scorch Trials
Total Points: 55
Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 3
Finished 20.3 The Lacemaker and the Princess and The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-AntoinetteTotal Points: 160
Books Finished: 16
Tasks Completed:12
Kaitlyn10-2. Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle by Rachel Dratch
Total Points: 10/500
Books Finished: 1/45
Tasks Completed: 1/35
Megan L. Finished: 10.3 Calvin Coolidge's Birthday- Thr3e by Ted Dekker
Total Points: 90
Books Read: 8
Tasks Completed: 6
5.4 (April Showers Bring May Flowers): Touch of Power by Maria V. Snyder25.1 (Now and Then): The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner and Noah by Elizabeth Reyes
Total Points: 170
Books Finished: 16
Tasks Completed: 14
Megan L. Finished 25.6 To Be Continued... Anne of Windy Poplars & Anne's House of Dreams by LM Montgomery
Total Points: 115
Books Read:9
Tasks Completed: 7
Megan L.Finished 10.2 April Fools: Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth by Jenny McCarthy
Total Points: 125
Books Read: 10
Tasks Completed: 8
Kaitlyn15-2. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Total Points: 25/500
Books Finished: 2/45
Tasks Completed: 2/35
Just finished:5.6 Earth Day: The Death Cure
20.1 Group Read: Divergent
Point Total: 80
Books Read: 9
Tasks Completed: 5
Taylor T.10.3 Carmilla - Sheridan LeFanu
15.1 Let the Right One In - John Lindqvist
15.8 Hamlet - Shakespeare
25.4 Dracula - Bram Stoker; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
Points Total: 65
Books Read: 5/45
Tasks Complete: 4/35
Allison10.2 April Fools:
Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth by Jenny McCarthy
15.1 Lost in Translation: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
20.3 Bek's Task/Point of View: Easy by Kerry Cohen and The Language of Sex: Experiencing the Beauty of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage by Gary Smalley
5.1 Splish Splash: Whispers of the Bayou by Mindy Starns Clark
15.3 Honor thy Mother and Father: Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope. by Christopher Yuan (Mom as central character)
Points Total: 65
Books Read: 6
Tasks Complete: 5
EmilyAh, sorry I'm so late on posting any of these!
Finished: 5.5 The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins
Finished: 5.7 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Gueterson
Finished: 10.2 Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales by Ali Wentworth
Finished: 15.3 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Finished: 15.6 The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Finished: 25. 6 City of Bones by Cassandra Clare AND City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
Total points: 75
Kaitlyn10-3. Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
Total Points: 35/500
Books Finished: 3/45
Tasks Completed: 3/35
Allison15.7 Homestead Act of 1862: A Tailor-Made Bride by Karen Witemeyer
15.2 Poisson d'Avril: The Redemption by M.L. Tyndall (My library only had the large print but the original is still 320 pages.)
Points Total: 95
Books Read: 8
Tasks Complete: 7
Taylor T.15.5 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
15.6 Happy Hour at Casa Dracula by Maria Acosta
Points total: 90/500
20.1 Group Read: Bag of Bones by Stephen King5.1 Splish, splash: Relentless by Dean Koontz
Points Total:85
Books Read: 7
Tasks Completed: 6
It's been a while since I updated this!Finished:
5.2 Summer Loving: The Summer My Life Began
10.5 Goodreads Recommends: Gilt, probably for my Tudor obsession in the past and it totally worked!! :D I loved it!
10.8 Take a Trip: Midnight in Austenland
15.1 Lost in Translation: Hemlock, my primary language is Dutch
15.7 Homestead Act: The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae
15.8 Bard Bash: When You Were Mine
Total points: 160
Books read: 20
Tasks completed: 15
10.3 Calvin Coolidge: book:Insurgent|11735983]Total points: 90
Books read:10
Tasks completed: 6
*Kelly R.Finished:
5-1. Born in Ice by Nora Roberts (5/18)
5-4. Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts (5/14)
5-7. Page Fright by Harry Bruce (4/25)
10-8. Born in Shame by Nora Roberts (5/20)
15-4. The Anglo Files by Sarah Lyall (5/5)
25-7. East Coast (Maryland) – The Last Boyfriend (Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy, #2) by Nora Roberts (5/9); West Coast (main characters tour the Pacific Northwest) – The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour (5/23)
25-8. The Hunger Games (#1) by Suzanne Collins (3/20); Savor the Moment (Bride Quartet, #3) by Nora Roberts (5/15); POST: THE HUNGER GAMES’ cover I like because it is simple, cool, striking and portrays a symbol that is very much a part of the individual novel and the series. It ties into the covers of the other two books in the trilogy with the symbol and the layout/style of lettering, etc.; SAVOR THE MOMENT has a cover of an ugly yellow wedding cake. The colors and image and the thing itself (a wedding cake) are not appetizing to me on a reading or food consumption level. I would not have picked it up except for the fact that it is the third in a quartet and I knew who the main characters were going to be and had already fallen in love with them, so despite the awful cover art I read it.
I enjoyed both of these novels, however I would have to say that I enjoyed THE HUNGER GAMES more. It is a more complex novel and has the better cover on top of having a more expansive plot.
Total Points: 205/500
Books Finished: 21/45
Tasks Completed: 15/35
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Finished:
5-5. Mockingjay (Hunger Games, #3) by Suzanne Collins (3/24)
5-8. Catching Fire (Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins - Melissa's List (3/22)
Total Points: 95/500
Books Finished: 9/45
Tasks Completed: 7/35