College Students! discussion

Allison

25.1 Now and Then: Now- Angel Eyes by Shannon Dittemore and Then- The Witches by Roald Dahl

Points Total: 205
Books Read: 17
Tasks Completed: 13

Megan L.

Finished 5.1 Splish Splash- Rainbow Valley by LM Montgomery

Total Points: 200
Books Read: 21
Tasks Completed: 17

Just Finished:
20:2: Intimidating: Best American Short Stories of the Century (Updike) Reward: Little Children (Perrotta)


Points So Far: 255/500
Tasks Completed: 21/35
Books Read (For Challenge): 26

Allison

20.1 Group Read: Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

Points Total:225
Books Read:18
Tasks Completed:14

Emily

10.7 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Total points: 120

5.4 (Flowers) The Space Between by Brenna Yovanoff

15.4 (Red, White & Blue) Match Me If You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Total Points: 105

Jana

5.1: Splish, Splash - Lies Beneath
10.8: Take a trip! - Flirting in Italian
25.6: To be Continued...: Tempest Rising and Tempest Unleashed


Point Total: 195
Books Read: 21
Tasks Completed: 15

10.4 The Long and the Short of It: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Points Total:135
Books Read: 12
Tasks Completed: 10

*Kelly R.

Finished:
5-6. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (7/23)
15-3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (7/24)
15-7. My Ántonia by Willa Cather (7/12)
20-2. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (7/21); The Next Always by Nora Roberts (5/7)

Total Points: 325/500
Books Finished: 31/45
Tasks Completed: 23/35

Just Finished:
5:1: The Chronology of Water (Yuknavitch)
25:7 West Coast: Wild (Strayed) East: Walden (Thoreau)

Points So Far: 285/500
Tasks Completed: 23/35
Books Read (For Challenge): 29

Allison

10.4 I Am What I Ate...and I'm frightened!!!: And Other Digressions from the Doctor of Comedy by Bill Cosby

Points Total:235
Books Read:19
Tasks Completed:15

Finished

5.3 The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker - This has been on my TBR list the longest, since early 2009!

Total Points: 210 / 500
Books Finished: 18 (+1 for a two part task)
Tasks Completed: 14 / 35

*Kelly R.

Finished:
25-4. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (7/24); The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (7/30)
25-1. Pub. 1980: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (8/1); Pub. Jan 2012: The Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith (4/16)

Total Points: 375/500
Books Finished: 35/45
Tasks Completed: 25/35

Finished The Invisible by Mats Wahl for "Splish Splash" for 5 points.

Finished Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift for "Take a Trip" for 10 points.

Finished A Paper Life by Tatum O'Neal for "Letter Perfect" for 15 points.

Finished Othello by William Shakespeare for "Bard Bash" for 15 points.

Finished Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson for "Group Read" for 20 points.

New Total: 185 points

Allison

25.2 Hot and Cold: Hot climate- Making Waves by Lorna Seilstad. It is set in the Midwest out at a lake in the summer and the main character is often talking about how hot it is and complaining that she has to wear heavy dresses in the heat. Cold climate- Restoring Grace by Katie Fforde. It is set in England and they live in a huge house that they can't afford to heat so they are always freezing.

Points Total:260
Books Read:21
Tasks Completed:16

*Kelly R.

10-7. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling (8/2)

Total Points: 385/500
Books Finished: 36/45
Tasks Completed: 26/35

Just Finished:
15:2: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Boo)

Points So Far: 300/500
Tasks Completed: 24/35
Books Read (For Challenge): 30

*Kelly R.

10-1. Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter (8/5)
10-4. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter (8/3)

Total Points: 405/500
Books Finished: 38/45
Tasks Completed: 28/35

Allison

15.4 Red, White, & Blue: by Susan Ford

Points Total: 275
Books Read: 22
Tasks Completed: 17

*Kelly R.

Finished:
10-6. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (8/5)

Total Points: 415/500
Books Finished: 39/45
Tasks Completed: 29/35

Finished:

15.6 (Cinco de Mayo): Incantation by Alice Hoffman

25.7 (East Coast/West Coast): The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong (set mainly in New York)

Holding the Dream by Nora Roberts (set in Monterey, CA)

Total: 145

Megan L.

Finished 15.6 For a Twist Swap: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Total Points: 215
Books Finished: 22
Tasks Completed: 18

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with posting here - but this is where I got to :)

10.8. Take a Trip: The Book Of Fame by Lloyd Jones

15.4. Red, White, & Blue: Harlequin Rex by Owen Marshall
15.5. Letter Perfect: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
15.7. Homestead Act of 1862: Slow Water by Annamarie Jagose

25.4. 1001 Books to Read Before You Die: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
25.5. Ripped from the Headlines: To the Is-land: An Autobiography and Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame
25.7. East Coast/West Coast: From the North Island Stonedogs by Craig Marriner and from the South Island The Hut Builder by Laurence Fearnley
25.8. Don't judge a book by its cover: Liked The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox and disliked Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins

Total Points: 200/500
Books Finished 15/45
Tasks Completed 11/35

5.4 The Language of Flowers
10.7 Alice in Wonderland
20.2 A A Game of Thrones (intimidating)
20.2 B The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fun)

Total: 285/500
Total tasks: 26/35

Emily

25.7 Just Kids by Patti Smith (east coast) AND Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson (west coast)

Total points: 145

*Kelly R.

Finished:
15-8. Juliet by Anne Fortier (8/9)

Total Points: 430/500
Books Finished: 40/45
Tasks Completed: 30/35

Emily

25.4 The Collector by John Fowles AND Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Total points: 170

Allison

25.8 Don't Judge a Book by It's Cover: Cover I like- by Jenny B. Jones. The cover I don't particularly like- by Tom Rath.
I really enjoyed both books! They were very different because one was fiction and the other non-fiction so it is hard to compare. I think if I had to choose I enjoyed the first better just because I tend to like fiction more.

Points Total: 300
Books Read: 24
Tasks Completed: 18

*Kelly R.

Finished:
25-5. Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede (8/10); Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden (7/27)

Total Points: 455/500
Books Finished: 41/45
Tasks Completed: 31/35

Megan L.

Finished:
15.1 Lost in Translation: The City of Dreaming Books (Dreaming Books, #1) by Walter Moers

25.2 Hot and Cold: hot, Angelfire by Linda Lael Miller & cold, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews

Total Points: 255
Books Finished: 23
Tasks Completed: 20

*Kelly R.

Finished:
10-3. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (8/12)

Total Points: 465/500
Books Finished: 42/45
Tasks Completed: 32/35

Megan L.

Finished 20.2 Intimidating Read: The Baby Bump: 100s of Secrets to Surviving Those 9 Long Months & Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J Fox

Total Points: 275
Books Read: 25
Tasks Completed: 21

5.7 Blind Date: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
10.8. Take a Trip: Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams

Points Total:150
Books Read: 14
Tasks Completed: 12

*Kelly R.

Finished:
25-3. Reread an old favorite & one I remember disliking. Post: Is the old favorite still pleasing & is the book you remember disliking not as bad as you first thought? : Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (8/14); Waterland by Graham Swift (7/30); POST: Outlander: This is one of my favorite books. I have re-read it at least once a year for almost a decade. I never get tired of the story or characters and something new occurs to me every time I re-read it (which I do a lot). Waterland: I remember not liking entirely, it was a very different novel than I usually read, I was reading it for school, and I ended up really hating some of the plot turns and they way that it ended. Rereading it I remembered how much I loved (and still enjoyed) how the novel begins. I disliked it in the same way, but the parts that were hard to read the first time were even harder to read the second.

Total Points: 490/500
Books Finished: 43/45
Tasks Completed: 33/35

Emily

25.8 The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (liked the cover) AND The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (didn't like the cover)

I enjoyed both books despite the cover choices, but I did enjoy the book with the pretty cover more.

Total points: 195

Allison

25.6 To be Continued...: Anne's House of Dreams and Anne of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery

Points Total: 325
Books Read: 26
Tasks Completed: 19

Emily

15.4 Love As Always, Kurt: Vonnegut As I Knew Him by Loree Rackstraw

Total points: 210

Allison

15.5 Letter Perfect: O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton

Points Total: 340
Books Read: 27
Tasks Completed: 20

Jana

20.2 - Intimidating Read
The intimidating one was Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. It was my first epic fantasy, and I was kind of scared of it! The reward was Gentlemen Prefer Nerds by Joan Kilby, which was a lot of fun.

Point Total: 215
Books Read: 23
Tasks Completed: 16

*Kelly R.

Finished:
5-2. Delirium by Lauren Oliver (8/19)
5-3. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (8/18)

Total Points: 500
Books Finished: 45
Tasks Completed: 35

Finished:

15.5 (Letter Perfect): Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe

25.2 (Hot and Cold): Tears of the Moon by Nora Roberts (set in Ireland) AND Love's Encore by Sandra Brown (set in Mississippi)

25.4 (1001 Books to Read): The Hamlet by William Faulkner AND Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Total: 210

Completed:

26.7 East Coast My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Rhode Island)
26.7 West Coast: The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore

Total: 310/500

Finished
15.1: Lost in Translation - The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
25.4: 1001 books to read before you die - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
1001 books to read before you grow up - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

New Point Total: 225 points
Books Read: 18
Tasks Completed: 15
Pages Read: 5860

Best I've ever done in a challenge :)

Finished:

25.1 Holes by Louis Sachar (pub. in 90s) AND A Million Suns by Beth Revis

Total: 235

I have a little over 100 pages to go on another book. Maybe I'll be able to finish it in the next 3 hours :)

Has everyone finished posting their points?