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These are totally subject to change.5 Points
1. The Scarlet Letter
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3.
4. The Sun Also Rises
5. Under the Tuscan Sun
6. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler
7. The Notebook
10 Points
1.
2.
3. The Wizard of Oz
4.
5. Taming of the Shrew/10 Things I Hate About You
6. The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
15 Points
1. The Thorn Birds
2. Lady Chatterley's Lover from Lindsay's Shelf
3. Swann’s Way
4.
25 Points
1. The Last Campaign
2. Profiles of Courage (John F. Kennedy) and A Separate Peace (John Knowles)
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Prince and the Pauper or Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
Point Total: 55
5 Points1.
2. Child/Animal Narrator:
3. May/Jun/Jul/Aug b-day:
4.
5.
6. 5th/6th/7th grade:
7.
10 Points
1. American historical fiction/nonfiction:
2. food:
3. owned the longest:
4.
5. Shakespeare/classic (http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/mov...
6.
15 Points
1. recommended:
2. 5 star rating by someone from the College Students group whose name starts with the same first letter as yours:
3. France:
4. non-fiction current event:
25 Points
1. biography about somebody who made a positive difference in the world and go do something charitable in your community. We will make a thread where you can post pictures and share your stories about it.
2. two books-same names:
3. Read 2 books by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, or 3 of Shakespeare’s plays in the original Elizabethan English.
Current: 55 Points
I've only just started mine, and it's still subject to change but:Liz's Challenge!
5 pts
1.) UNDECIDED
2.)
3.) The Satanic Verses by Salaman Rushdies (born June 19th)
4.) A Thousand Splendid Suns
5.) Neither Here Nor There: Travels Throughout Europe by Bill Bryson
6.) UNDECIDED
7.) The Princess Bride by William Goldman
10 pts
1.) UNDECIDED
2.) Like Water for Chocolate OR Chocolat
3.) UNDECIDED
4.) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
5.) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
15 pts
1.) North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell (recommended by my friend Virginia)
2.) All Quiet on the Western Front (rated by Lori)
3.) UNDECIDED
4.) UNDECIDED
25 pts
1.) Reading Lolita in Tehran OR Three Cups of Tea
2.) UNDECIDED
3.) UNDECIDED
4.) Virginia Woolf: The Waves AND Orlando OR Jacob's Room
TOTAL POINTS: 10
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1. The Color of Water A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
3. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (June birthday!)
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
5. Neither Here nor There Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
6. The Giver or A Little Princess
7. The Martian Child A Novel About A Single Father Adopting A Son
10 points:
1. The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
3. Another Bullshit Night In Suck City--Nick Flynn
5. Emma by Jane Austen
6. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories or No One Belongs Here More Than You Stories
15 points:
3. tbd
4. tbd
25 points:
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books
2. Dubliners by JAMES Joyce & A Million Little Pieces by JAMES Frey
3. Steinbeck's Travel's with Charley & East of Eden
Total Points: 50
Summer Challenge Categories5 Points
1. The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
2. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
3. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
4. The Beach by Alex Garland
5. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
6. Redwall by Brian Jaques
7. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
10 Points
1. When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
2. ?
3. In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
4. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
5. Emma by Jane Austen
6. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
15 Points
1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
2. Divine Secrets of Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
3. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
4. ?
25 Points
1. ?
2. ?
3. Catcher in the Rye & Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Total Points: 0
Summer Challenge Categories 5 Points
1.Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
2.
3.
4.
5.Travels with Charley In Search of America
6.
7.
10 Points
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.King Lear and A Thousand Acres (15 pts)
6.
15 Points
1.
2.
3.The Count of Monte Cristo
4.
25 Points
1.Mother Teresa Come Be My Light
2.Beautiful Boy A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction / Tweak Growing Up On Methamphetamines. (The first book is by the father and the second is by the son)
3.Emma / Pride and Prejudice
TOTAL: 115 pts
5 points:2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (August bday)
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
5. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
6. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgsen Burnett
10 points:
1. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
2. Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Cafe
3. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
4. Things I want my Daughters to Know-- Elizabeth Noble
5. Twelfth Night--Shakespeare (She's the Man)
6. Dubliners By James Joyce
15 points:
2. Drinking: A Love Story (off of Michelle Kay's shelf)
3. The Stranger by Albert Camus
4. Not sure yet
25 points:
1. Three Cups of Tea
2. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova & Me and Emma by Elizabeth Flock
3. Beloved & Sula by Toni Morrison
Total Points: 25
Summer Challenge Categories 5 Points
1.My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
2.Towelhead A Novel by Alicia Erian
3.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (May)
4. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
5.Getting Stoned with Savages A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu by J. Maarten Troost
6.The White Mountains by John Christopher
7.The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
10 Points
1.The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
2.A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
3.Lolita by Valdimir Nabokov
4.The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
5. The Taming of the Shrew/ Things I hate about you
6. Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros
15 Points
1. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
2. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (from Daena's list)
3. Les Misérables- Victor Hugo
4.Engaging the Muslim World by Juan Cole
25 Points
1. Free the Children A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves That Children Can Change the World by Craig Kielburger
2. Read two books where the authors’ names (first or last) are the same, for example William Faulkner and William Shakespeare.
3.Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Total Points: 0
Summer Challenge Categories 5 Points
1. White Boyz Blues by Kenneth Lincoln
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. ALWAYS LOOKING UP The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox
4. Mango Elephants in the Sun How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin by Susana Herrera
5.
6. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
7.
10 Points
1. Girl In Blue by Ann Rinaldi
2. In Defense of Food An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
3.
4. Emma by Jane Austen
5. Othello by William Shakespeare and “O”
6. Barrel Fever Stories and Essays by David Sedaris
15 Points
1.
2.
3. Chocolat by Joanne Harris
4. Noah's Choice The Future of Endangered Species by Charles C. Mann
25 Points
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
2. Lush Life A Novel by Richard Price and Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
3.
TOTAL POINTS: 50
Kelsey's Summer Challenge5 Points
1. The Red Tent
2. Read a book where the narrator is a child or an animal.
3. Read a book by an author who was born in May, June, July, or August.
4. Read a book with sun, summer, beach, wave, sand, heat, sea, towel, camping, vacation, lake, cabin, or mountain in the title.
5. Notes from my Travels
6. Running Out of Time
7. The Bourne Identity
10 Points
1.
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
3. Sabriel
4. Things I Want My Daughters to Know
5. Pride and Prejudice
6. Who is Mark Twain
15 Points
1.
2. I'm leaving my options open here, but these are some of my ideas:
Kimberly:
The Hunger Games
Ender's Game
Young Wizards, Book 1 So You Want to Be a Wizard (20th) Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
kelsey:
Into the Wild
3. The Count of Monte Cristo
4. Read a non-fiction book about a current event, such as the environment or the conflict in the Middle East.
25 Points
1. Three Cups of Tea
2. Read two books where the authors’ names (first or last) are the same, for example William Faulkner and William Shakespeare.
3. The Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Total Points: 25
Summer Challenge Categories5 Points
3. May/June/July author birthday: Scarpetta- Patricia Cornwell (June)
4. Summer word in title:
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale- Jeanne Birdsall
5. Travel memoir: Neither Here Nor There- Bill Bryson
6. 5th/6th/7th grade reread: Sideways Stories from Wayside School- Louis Sachar
7. Favorite Movie Based on Book: Deja Dead- Kathy Reichs (Bones)
10 Points
1. Important Historical Event: Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer- James L. Swanson
2. Food in Title: Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot- Patricia C. Wrede
3. Owned the longest: How To Re-imagine the World- Anthony Weston
5. Shakespeare Book & Movie: The Taming of the Shrew/10 Things I Hate About You
6. 150 pages of poetry/short stories: McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales- Michael Chabon (short stories- 480 pages)
15 Points
1. Recommendation: Three Cups of Tea- Greg Mortinsen (recommended from mother-in-law)
2. 5-stars from College Student w/ same initial: A Great and Terrible Beauty- Libba Bray (April)
3. France: The Stranger- Albert Camus
4. Nonfiction about Current Event: Reading Lolita in Tehran- Azar Nafasi
25 Points
1. Charitable Person: More Than A Dream- G.R. Kearney
2. Same Author's Names: Raven Black- Ann Cheeves and Ex Libris: Confessions of A Common Reader- Anne Fadiman
3. Read 2 books by Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion
Total Points: 20
5 points1. The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
5. A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle
6. 1984, by George Orwell
Subtotal: 4/7 = 20/35
10 points
1. The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
2. A Case of Exploding Mangoes, by Mohammed Hanif
Subtotal: 4/6 = 40/60
15 points
3. ?
Subtotal: 3/4 = 45/60
25 points
1.
2.
3. ?
Subtotal: 1/3 = 25/75
Total: 12/20 = 130/230
5 points1. White Noise
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Watership Down (May 9)
4. The Sun Also Rises
5. Neither Here nor There Travels in Europe
6.
7.
10 points
1. The Real Lincoln A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
2. The Omnivore's Dilemma
3. Kafka on the Shore
4. The Road
5. Twelfth Night/She's the Man
6. Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
15 points
1. A Confederacy of Dunces
2. On the Road (Jamie)
3. The Stranger
4. Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books
20 points
1. The Billionaire Who Wasn't How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune
2. The Red Queen/The Blind Assassin (Margaret Drabble and Margaret Atwood)
3. Tortilla Flat/The Grapes of Wrath
Total: 10/230 points
5 Points1. Something Blue by Emily Griffin
2. Three Bags Full-- Leonie Swann
3. The Time Machine--HG Wells (August)
4. The Sun Also Rises-- Hemingway
5. Eat, Pray, Love --Elizabeth Gilbert
6. Little House on the Prairie-- Laura Ingalls Wilder
7. Big Fish
10 Points
1. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephan Crane
2. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle-- Barbara Kingsolver
3. The History of Love-- Nicole Krauss
4. The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
5. Emma & Clueless
6. Ariel by Sylvia Plath
15 Points
1. The Turtle Catcher by Nicole Helget
2. On the Road--Jack Kerouac
3. My Life in France-- Julia Child
4. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
25 Points
1. The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
by Julia Butterfly Hill
2. 1984 by George Orwell & Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
3. Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck and Travels with Charley by Steinbeck
5 points:1. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
3. Atonement by Ian McEwan
4. The Sea by John Banville
5. The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost
7. The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
10 points:
1. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephan Crane
2. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. Things I want my Daughters to Know-- Elizabeth Noble
6. Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
15 points:
2. Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
3. Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
4. The Highway War: A Marine Company Commander in Iraq by Seth W.B. Folsom
25 points:
1. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
2. Everything is Illuminated by Johnathan Safran Foer and What a Carve Up! by Johnathan Coe
3. The Catcher in the Rye & Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Total Points: 30
Here's my tentative list! 5 Points:
3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (July birthday!)
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns
5.Eat, Pray, Love
10 Points
1. A Separate Peace
3.A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
4. TBA
5. The Taming of the Shrew/10 Things I hate About You
6. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More - Roald Dahl
15 Points
1. The Thornbirds
3.The Hunchback of Notre Dame
4.Fast Food Nation
25 Points
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran
2.
3.
and Emma by Jane Austen
Total Points so Far:82.5 (but i have a whole lot more free time now so I should be catching up over the next couple of weeks!)
Summer Chalenge List5 Points
1.Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
2.Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
3.The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
4.The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
5.13 Little Blue Envelopes by Moureen Johnson
6.
7.The Memory Keppers Daughter by KIm Edwards
10 Points
1.
2.
3.
4.Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble
5.
6.Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
15 Points
1.
2.Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (off Anastasia shelf)
3.
4.Home of the Brave by Katherine Alice Applegate
25 Points
1.One Day When I Was Lost by James Baldwin
2.Dracula by Elizabeth Miller and Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wartzel
3.
Total: 100/230
5 Points1. The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel
2. The White Bone: A Novel
3.
4. Copper Sun
5. Notes from a Small Island (Paperback)
6. Shantymen of Cache Lake
7. Blood Diamonds
10 Points
1.
2. Let Them Eat Cake
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Letter to My Daughter]
5. Seven Years in Tibet
6. Interpreter of Maladies
15 Points
1.
2. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
3. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
4. The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur (Hardcover)
25 Points
1. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback)
2. A Suitable Boy: A Novel and Red Earth and Pouring Rain: A Novel
3. As I Lay Dying and Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories
Points Total: 30/230
All right, here goes nothin'! And these are subject to change...5 points:
1.
2. His Monkey Wife by John Collier
3.
4. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson or Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver or The Scandalous Summer of Sissy Leblanc by Lorraine Despres
5. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
6. No Coins, Please by Gordon Korman
7. In God We Trust, All Others Must Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd (movie: A Christmas Story)
10 points
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Macbeth by Shakespeare and then watch Scotland, Pa.
6. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor
15 points
1.
2. The Hunger Games (one of Tami’s 5-star books)
3. ?
4. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
25 points
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
2.
3. To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Total: 90 points
More than half of these are likely to change... but here's a tentative list!5 pts.
1. White Man’s Grave by Richard Dooling
2. Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
3. something by Paulo Coelho
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
5. TBD
6. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
7. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
10 pts.
1. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
2. Crooked Cucumber by David Chadwick
3. have to check around for this one…
4. Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska
5. Emma by Jane Austen
6. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15 pts.
1. The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
3. The Prospector by J.M.G. Le Clezio
4. The Much Too Promised Land by Aaron David Miller
25 pts.
1. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
2. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. The Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
5 Points 1. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
2. Max by James Patterson
3.
4. Beach Road - James Patterson
5. Neither Here nor There by Bill Bryson
6.
7.
Subtotal: 3/7
10 Points
1. Inside the LRRPs by Michael Lee Lanning
2.
3. Inside Delta Force
4.
5.
6. From Boys to Men by Robert R. Williams
Subtotal: 3/6
15 Points
1.
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick
4. Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? By Morgan Spurlock
Subtotal: 1/4
25 Points
1. When Invisible Children sing
3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court by Mark Twain
Subtotal: 1/3
Total: 8/20 = 85/230
5 Points 1. Gurganus, White People
2. Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
3. Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange
4. Woolf, The Waves
5. Clarke, Merde Actually
6. TBA
7. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
10 Points
2. Barnes, A Pedant in the Kitchen
4. Moore, The Bishop's Daughter
5. TBA
6. Auden, Selected Poems
15 Points
1. TBA
2. Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
3. Brennan, A Pig in Provence
4. Brooks, Nine Parts of Desire
25 Points
1. TBA
David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster
3. Morrison, Jazz and Beloved
Total: 45
5 Points 1. The Crimson Petal and the White, Faber
2. Black Beauty, Sewell ;)
3. The Letters of Allen Ginsberg, Ginsberg
4. Summer Reading, Wolitzer
5. The Summer of my Greek Taverna, Stone
6. The Giver, Lowry
7. Q & A, Swarup
10 Points
1. Dessa Rose, Williams
2. Comfort Food, Jacobs
3. Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
4. Fathers and Daughters, Markovitz
5. Othello
6. Flash Fiction, Hazuka
15 Points
1. Letters to a Young Sister, Harper
2. ReThe Secret Life of Bees, Kidd
3. Les Miserable, Hugo
4. Flat Broke, Jeter
25 Points
1. If they come in the Morning, Davis
2. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley and Watchmen, Alan Moore
3. Song of Solomon, Jazz, Toni Morrison
I'm updated as of 6/75 Points
1.
2.
3.
4. Shadowed Summer
5.
6. The Secret Garden
7. The Bourne Identity
10 Points
1. Girl In Blue
2. Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country
3. The Screeps
4. For Mother and Father’s Day, read a book that centers on a mother/daughter, mother/son, father/daughter, or father/son relationship.
5. The Count of Monte Cristo
6. Silver Pennies
15 Points
1. Read a book that was recommended to you by a relative or a friend that you have never read.
2. Kami rated The Book Thief five stars.
3.
4.
25 Points
1. Three Cups of Tea Young Reader's Edition
2. First Rider's Call by Kristen Britain and Graceling by Kristin Cashmore
3. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
50/230
Completely neglected to notice I needed to post my list. Here it is...tada!1. The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires by Katie MacAlister
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
5. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
6. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
7. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
10 Points
1. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
2. Chocolat by Joanne Harris
3. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
5. Beowulf
6. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
15 Points
1. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
2. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
3. Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
25 Points
1. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
3. Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Okay, as always, these picks are subject to DRASTIC change! I'm looking forward to this challenge. Now that I'm on summer break, I'll have lots of time for reading! Happy Reading Everyone!5 Points
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5. UNDECIDED
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10 Points
1.
2.
3.
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5. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6.
15 Points
1.
2.
3. THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Alexandre Dumas
4. UNDECIDED
25 Points
1. THREE CUPS OF TEA by Greg Mortenson
2. THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin and CASE HISTORIES by Kate Atkinson
3. and MANSFIELD PARK by Jane Austen
TOTAL POINTS: 110 of 230
PAGES READ: 4,396
I'm excited to complete this list and hopefully get a lot of books off of my TBR list!
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5 Points:
1. The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
2.
3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
4.
5. Read a travel memoir or a novel about someone’s vacation:
6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
7.
10 Points:
1. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Just because this sounds fun!
3.
4. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
5.
6.
15 Points:
1.
2. Tahleen has
3.
4. Read a non-fiction book about a current event, such as the environment or the conflict in the Middle East.
25 Points:
1. In light of “Join Hands Day” read a biography about somebody who made a positive difference in the world and go do something charitable in your community. We will make a thread where you can post pictures and share your stories about it.
2. Arthur Golden
3. John Steinbeck:
115 points 3/11/10
5 Points 1.
2. Read a book where the narrator is a child or an animal.
3. Blood Meridian Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy(born in July)
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5.
6. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
7. Read a book one of your favorite movies in based on.
10/35
10 Points
1.
2. Read a book about food or with a food in the title and then cook that food or something related to that type of food (for example, cook spaghetti if you read a book about Italian food).
3. Nothing Like It In the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose
4. For Mother and Father’s Day, read a book that centers on a mother/daughter, mother/son, father/daughter, or father/son relationship.
5. Read Shakespeare or another classic and then watch a modern day adaptation. (http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies...)
6. Read a collection of short stories or poetry with at least 150 pages.
10/60
15 Points
1. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
2. Read a book rated 5 stars by someone from the College Students group whose name starts with the same first letter as yours.
3. In honor of Bastille Day (July 14th), read a book written by a French author, set in France, or about France.
4.
15/60
25 Points
1. In light of “Join Hands Day”, read a biography about somebody who made a positive difference in the world and go do something charitable in your community. We will make a thread where you can post pictures and share your stories about it.
2.
3. Read 2 books by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, or 3 of Shakespeare’s plays in the original Elizabethan English.
35 points so far.
I changed my mind about Lush Life being about father/son relationships, it is an important aspect of the book though.
5 Points 1. red white, or blue in the title: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
2. Child/animal narrator The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia- 11 years old)
3. May, June. July Aug. Author: The Master Butchers Singing Club (Louise Erdrich, July 7th)
4. Summery word in title The Last Summer
5. Travel memoir/vacation novel True At First Light A Fictional Memoir
6. Re-visit childhood favoriteA Ride into Morning The Story of Tempe Wick (read in 7th grade)
7. Favorite movie: The Cider House Rules
10 Points
1. Important in US history The Help(civil rights movement)
2. Food in title, cook food Bread Alone A Novel (baked an applesauce bread)
3. Longest owned
4. Parent/child relationshipThe Almost Moon
5. Classic and modern adaption
6. Short stories/poetry: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
15 Points
1.recommended by friends/ relative: Déjà Dead
2.5 star same first letter: A Great and Terrible Beauty (from Amanda)
3. Frenchie book
4. Non-fiction about current events
25 Points
1. Read about do-gooder then do some good: Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books and donated money to send kids to local summer camp
2. 2 books by authors with similar names Little Bee and Skeletons at the Feast (Chris Cleaves and Chris Bohjalian)
3.2 books by Steinbeck- Travels with Charley In Search of America and The Grapes of Wrath
Total Pts 170
5 Points 10 Points
1. Native Son (Richard Wright)
4. Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
5. Othello (William Shakespeare)
15 Points
25 Points
3.
Total: 175/230
5 Points1.
2. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
3. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
4. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
5. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
6. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
7.
10 Points
1. The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
2. Playing for Pizza - John Grisham
3. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
4. Emma - Jane Austen
5. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
6. Jesus' Son: Stories - Denis Johnson
15 points
2.
3. Suite Française - Irène Némirovsky
25 points
1. Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
2. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen and Bookends - Jane Green
3. East of Eden & Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Total: 55/230
First challenge :)5-1. Something Blue (Emily Giffin)
5-2.
5-3.
5-4. The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway); or The Beach (Alex Garland)
5-5. Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
5-6.
5-7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (JK Rowling)
10-1. Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
10-2. Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (Ruth Reichl)
10-3. Native Son (Richard Wright)
10-4. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
10-5. Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton); or Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
10-6. Cheaters: and Other Stories (Dean Albarelli)
15-1. Beginner's Greek (James Collins)
15-2.
15-3. The Vagabond (Colette)
15-4. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)
25-1. The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Randy Shilts)
25-2. Primal Fear (William Diehl); & Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
25-3. Franny & Zooey; and The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
Total: 30
5 Points 1. Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts
2. TBA
4. The Wave by Walter Mosley
5. Honeymoon with My Brother: A Memoir by Franz Wisner
6. Jelly Belly by Robert Kimmel Smith
7. The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov
10 Points
1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
2. TBA
3. The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
4. What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
5. K-Pax by Gene Brewer
6. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
15 Points
1. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
2. Watership Down by Richard Adams
3. The Secret Garden by France Hodgson Burnett
4. Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg
25 Points
1. Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography by Kathryn Spink
2.
3.
Points: 235
May 25th - August 31st. 5 Points
1.
2. Read a book where the narrator is a child or an animal.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
10 Points
1. In light of summer’s Patriotic Holidays, read either an historical fiction or nonfiction book about an important time in American history (such as the Civil War).
2. Read a book about food or with a food in the title and then cook that food or something related to that type of food (for example, cook spaghetti if you read a book about Italian food).
3. Tutankhamun the Exodus Conspiracy The Truth Behind Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
4. For Mother and Father’s Day, read a book that centers on a mother/daughter, mother/son, father/daughter, or father/son relationship.
5. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
6. Read a collection of short stories or poetry with at least 150 pages.
15 Points
1.
2.
3.
4. Read a non-fiction book about a current event, such as the environment or the conflict in the Middle East.
25 Points
1. In light of “Join Hands Day”, read a biography about somebody who made a positive difference in the world and go do something charitable in your community. We will make a thread where you can post pictures and share your stories about it.
2.
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
3. 2 Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
or Sense and Sensibility
or Emma
Other read:
Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2) - J.R. Ward
Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #3) - J.R. Ward
Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #4) - J.R. Ward
Independence Day Novelisation
POINTS: 75
A few words on the scoring:I did not count points for the two part categories if only one of the books has been read.
Please use the coding to
Also, if you could keep track of how many points you have at the bottom of your post, that will make it a lot easier on me because I won't have to add up your books each time.
Thanks!
Here are the totals as of July 11, 2009:
Lynn & Jess-115
Annashu--100
Adriana--75
Michelle--65
Kelly--60
Tahleen & Kristen--50
David & Judith & R--45
Alexandria--40
Lori--35
Dacey & Tami & Anthony & Lu--30
Jamie & Molly & Kelsey & Megan--25
Allison & Devin & Ralph--20
Michelle & Silvia--15
Liz & Justine--10
Sarah--5
Anna & Dalia & Jessica & Julia & Alaina & Marin & Abbey Sophia--0
Melissa's Summer ChallengeTotal Points- 75
5 Points
1. WHITE NOISE BY DON DELILLO
2. Read a book where the narrator is a child or an animal.
3. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO BY STIEG LARSSON
4. Read a book with sun, summer, beach, wave, sand, heat, sea, towel, camping, vacation, lake, cabin, or mountain in the title.
5. TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY BY JOHN STEINBECK
6. Re-read a book you read in childhood that you have not read since you were in 5th, 6th, or 7th grade.
7. Read a book one of your favorite movies in based on.
10 Points
1. In light of summer’s Patriotic Holidays, read either an historical fiction or nonfiction book about an important time in American history (such as the Civil War).
2. Read a book about food or with a food in the title and then cook that food or something related to that type of food (for example, cook spaghetti if you read a book about Italian food).
3. Read the book you have owned the longest but have not yet read.
4. For Mother and Father’s Day, read a book that centers on a mother/daughter, mother/son, father/daughter, or father/son relationship. THE TENDER BAR BY J.R. MOEHRINGER
5. Read Shakespeare or another classic and then watch a modern day adaptation. (http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies...)
6. Read a collection of short stories or poetry with at least 150 pages.
15 Points
1. MRS. DALLOWAY BY VIRGINIA WOOLF
2. Read a book rated 5 stars by someone from the College Students group whose name starts with the same first letter as yours.
3. In honor of Bastille Day (July 14th), read a book written by a French author, set in France, or about France.
4. Read a non-fiction book about a current event, such as the environment or the conflict in the Middle East.
25 Points
1. READING LOLITA IN TEHREN/HUMANE SOCIETY (see my profile pic!)
2. Read two books where the authors’ names (first or last) are the same, for example William Faulkner and William Shakespeare.
3. Read 2 books by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, or 3 of Shakespeare’s plays in the original Elizabethan English.
Ughhhhhhhh, I read The Great Gatsby but I don't think I'm going to be able to finish Tender is the Night in time :(
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Good job everyone!! You still have a little more time to get your final points in and some more books read! I'm thinking Kelly is going to finish!! Go Kelly!! :)
Kelly--225
Jess--175
Annashu--160
Lynn --115
Michelle (29 from CA)--95
Tahleen-90
Ralph-85
Adriana-75
Tami-75
Megan 70
R 60
Lu 60
Lori 55
David 55
Alexandria 55
Devin 50
Kristen 50
Melissa 50
Jamie 50
Michelle 50
Judith 45
Anthony 35
Dacey 30
Silvia 30
Abbey Sophia 30
Molly 25
Kelsey 25
Allison 20
Justine 10
Liz 10
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Kelly 235
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Jess 175
Annashu 160
R 130
Lynn 115
Michelle (29 from CA) 110
Adriana 100
Tahleen 90
Ralph 85
Tami 75
Lu 75
Melissa 75
Megan 70
Lori 55
David 55
Alexandria 55
Devin 50
Kristen 50
Jamie 50
Michelle 50
Judith 45
Anthony 35
Dacey 30
Silvia 30
Abbey Sophia30
Molly 25
Kelsey 25
Allison 20
Justine 10
Liz 10
FINAL Leaderboard! You still have 20 minutes to get in any last points. Just let me know and I will update this! :)
Congrats everyone!
College Students!
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