College Students! discussion

This thread is where we will be posting all of our lists as far as keeping track of our individual points and where we will do a weekly leaderboard. There should be no other posts in here. (Lori and I will post first to give an example for those who are new). You are able to post your lists on the other thread as well if you are wanting to share with the others what your list looks like.

Things to remember:

- You are only able to claim the points for the task if you have completed the WHOLE task. There are no "half" points.
- To be included on the leaderboard you MUST post a list here that has your updated total at the bottom. You are in charge of adding up your totals and keeping track of that.

- Please remember to cross off the ones you have completed and update your totals at the bottom.

5 points:

1. THe Mirror & My Cousin Rachel
2. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris--born in December
3. The Winter of Our Discontent
4. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
5. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
6. My Friend Leonard by James Frey
7. s> Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
8. Gay author: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
10 points:

1. Cash The Autobiography by Johnny Cash
2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
4. March by Geraldine Brooks
5. A Great and Terrible Beauty & A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
7. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
8. Stiff by Mary Roach by Mary Roach

15 points:

1. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
2. Love in the Time of Cholera & Demian by Herman Hesse (Germany)
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
4. Gift From The Sea by Annie Marrow Lindbergh--brown
5. The Good Good Pig The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
6. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
7. The Alienist & The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Late 1800's--1896 & 1893)
8. Tim Gunn A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style

25 Points:

1. Naked Lunch The Restored Text & The Dharma Bums
2. Mansfield Park & Love in the Time of Cholera
3. Pride and Prejudice & Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. Wuthering Heights-- in an Alphabeat song
5. The Sun Also Rises & Never Let Me Go
6. The God of Small Things & Geisha A Life
7. Freakonomics Rev Ed A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (economics) & Deluxe How Luxury Lost Its Luster (marketing)
8. The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl


TOTAL: 85 points

Molly's Fall/Winter List:

5 points:

1. TBD & TBD
2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
3. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
4. Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
5. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
6. Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
7. Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
8. Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters


10 points:

1. Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana
2. To Kill A Mockingbird
3. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
4. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
5. The LOVELY Bones & Me Talk PRETTY One Day
6. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
7. Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
8. Geisha: A Life


15 points:

1. TBD
2. The Kite Runner & The Book Thief
3. TBD
4. TBD
5. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
6. Romeo and Juliet
7. The Other Boleyn Girl & Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
8. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

25 points:

1. On The Road & Howl
2. Frankenstein & The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
3. TBD
4. Tom Sawyer-- from the Rush song
5. Catch 22 & Brideshead Revisited
6. TBD
7. Worst--(COOKING CLASS!)--
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen; BEST--(English)--
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
8. Into Thin Air

Total Points: 0

1. In My Sister's Country and Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
3. In Cold Blood
4. Leaf Storm and Other Stories
5. The Color Purple
6. A Million Little Pieces
7. I Am Legend
8. Almost Like Being in Love A Novel

10 points:

1. Dream Brother The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley
2. Middlesex
3. Twilight
4. The Things They Carried
5. The Beautiful And Damned and Me Talk Pretty One Day
6. A Walk to Remember
7. Flowers in the Attic
8. The Pluto Files The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet

15 points:

1. A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth
2. Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books and The Book Thief
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. Push A Novel
5. The Black Sheep
6. A Streetcar Named Desire
7. Water for Elephants
8. The Double Bind

20 Points:

1. About a Boy and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

25 Points:

1. The Red Badge of Courage and The Awakening
2. The Secret Garden and The Road
3. Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Their Eyes Were Watching God
6. Mao's Last Dancer and The Namesake
7. A Beautiful Mind and Negotiating with the Dead
8. Voices from Chernobyl The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Books Read: 8
Total Points: 85

Kat's Challenge:

1. Ender's Game & The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
3. Candy Girl A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
4. Things Fall Apart
5. The Color Purple
6. Smashed Story of a Drunken Girlhood
7. The Shining
8. Dry A Memoir

10 points:

1. Conversations With Tom Petty
2. Animal Farm
3. Hype: Twilight
4. The Book Thief
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude & The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
6. TBD
7. The Screwtape Letters
8. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich A History of Nazi Germany

15 points:

1. Christmas Jars
2. Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books & My Life in France
3. Neverwhere A Novel
4. TBD
5. TBD
6. Les Misérables
7.TBD
8. Gain, Copper, notation, grab

25 Points:

1. TBD
2. Frankenstein & ?
3. Hamlet & The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
4. Lolita
5. TBD
6. Memoirs of a Geisha & ?
7. TBD
8. TBD

ehh I might join although I should probably focus on schoolwork this semester!

but I'm gonna go ahead and claim a spot here... might delete it later if I don't have enough time.

5pts
1. the bully 190 and marry anne saves the day. 357/357
2. the londen eye mystery by sibhan dowd born feb 4th.
3. Candy Cane Murder by Joanne Fluke, Leslie Meier , Laura Levine 0/288
4. The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr 0/208
5. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden 0/234
6. glass by Hopkins 0/688
7. Being Dead by Vivian Vande Velde 0/224
8. dark walker
pts 15/40 pages/ 357/2400

10 pts
1. A Hard Day's Write, Revised Edition: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Songby Steve Turner 0/224
2. Growing Up by Russell Baker 0/352
3. uglies 425/425
4. The River Between Us by Richard Peck 0/176

5. Size 12 Is Not Fat (Heather Wells, Book 1) by Meg Cabot 0/368
The Next Big Thing by Johanna Edwardsn 0/342
6. Body Language (Yaoi Novel) Morimoto, Aki
7. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 0/192
8. marrige and the catholic church

pts 20/80 pgs 425/2728

15pts
1. Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge 0/176
2. The Dancer from Atlantis by Poul Anderson Greece 0/192
Chocolat by Joanne Harris France 0/306
3. pretties 370/370
4. fudge cupcake murder. 304/304
5. The Goats by Brock Cole0/194
6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 0/592
7. Little Miss Strange by Joanna Rose 0/384
Turning Points - Actual and Alternate Histories: America in Revolt during the 1960s and 1970s (Turning Points) by J. Golson 0/238
8. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Way was my word. 0/230

30/120
674/2986
20 pts
jenny nimmo for one.


25 pts

1, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 0/256
The Rise of Silas Lapham (Penguin Classics) by William Dean Howells 0/400
2. call of the wild. Jack London 0/190
Krik? Krak!by Edwidge Danticat 0/240
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray 0/354
& Dorian An Imitation 0/288
4. the darkest passions Dr. Jeckel and Mr Hyde was mentioned in the background of the chorous of Blue October’s Inner Glow. 0/190
5. Loving by Henry Green 0/206
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs 0/304
6. whichever Bluford high book I am reading African American and lebonise.
Untill we meet again bluford high 144/144 &
10 things i hate about me 297/297
7. some history book for worst A History of Western Art Revised by Laurie Schneider Adams 640/640
And a poetry book for best. writing poems by michelle Boisseau. 336/336
8. the darkness Anthony eaton 170/17

pts 75/200
pts pgs 441/4229+

pts 140/460
pages 2407/12343+

FALL/WINTER TASKS:

5 Points

1. TBD
2. Negotiating with the Dead
3. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
4. Strange Pilgrims
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6. TBD
7. The Graveyard Book
8. TBD

10 Points

1. TBD
2. "Coming to Writing" and Other Essays
3. TBD
4. Gone With The Wind
5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
6. TBD
7. TBD
8. TBD


15 Points

1. TBD
2. TBD
3. TBD
4. TBD
5. Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
6. August Osage County
7. TBD
8. Invitation to a Beheading (word: invitation)

25 Points

1. TBD
2. The Liars' Club A Memoir and
3. Anna Karenina and What Happened to Anna K?
4. Lolita
5. Rabbit, Run and To the LighthouseTo the Lighthouse
6. Ceremony and Embroideries
7. TBD
8. Into the Wild

5 Points:

1.V for Vendetta – Allan Moore. (10/05) Angels and Insects - A.S. Byatt
2. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K LeGuin
3. Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson
4. Classic Stories 1: The Golden APPLES of the Sun & R Is for Rocket – Ray Bradbury
5. The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury (09/19)
6. A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick
7. Her Fearful Symmetry - Audry N
8. The Color Purple - Alice Walker

10 Points:

1. Heroin Diaries – Nikii Sixx
2. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (11/17)
3. Julie and Julia – Julie Powel (10/31)
4. Dog Soldiers – Robert Stone
5. Notes from a SMALL Island - Bill Bryson. A SHORT History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
6. The Erotic Spirit: An Anthology of Poems of Sensuality, Love, and Longing - Sam Hamill
7. Possession – A.S. Byatt (10/24)
8. The History of the End of the World – Jonathan Kirsch

15 Points:

1. Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury (09/16)
2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (10/07) , The Life of Pi by Yann Martel (10/04)
3. The Dispossessed: an Ambiguous Utopia – Ursula K LeGuin (12/20)
4. Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
5. All Creatures Great and Small – James Harriot
6. Wicked - Gregory Maguire
7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - Mary Ann Shaffer. Night - Elie Wiesel
8. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (11/16)

20 points:

1. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams, Mort - Terry Pratchett

25 Points:

1. I chose Romanticism: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, and Collected Short Stories by Edgar Allen Poe
2. Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare, The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers (from the song The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Reba McEntire)
5. Beloved – Tony Morrison, Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou, Never Let me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (10/11)
7. My best was Earth Science: The Varieties of Scientific Experience - Carl Sagan (1/28). My worst was PE: The Inner Game of Tennis (2/18)
8. Panic in Level Four – Richard Preston

Books Read: 16
Total Points: 125

5 points

1. 2 library books
2. The Bell Jar
3. In Cold Blood
4. Salem Falls
5. As I Lay Dying
6. Dry A Memoir
7. The Graveyard Book
8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

10 points
1. Dolly My Life and Other Unfinished Business
2. The Canterbury Tales
3. Watership Down
4. Suite Française
5. A Short History of Nearly Everything & The God of Small Things
6. Lolita
7. Elizabeth Costello
8. nonfiction/learning

15 points
1. holiday
2. Kafka on the Shore & The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3. Ender's Game
4. The Girl Who Played with Fire
5. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
6. A Streetcar Named Desire
7. historical fiction/nonfiction from same period
8. Aid: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

20 points
1. The Red Queen & Saturday

25 points
1. Postmodernism: The Crying of Lot 49 & White Noise
2. Persuasion & The Handmaid's Tale
3. Mrs. Dalloway & The Hours
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. Atonement & Infinite Jest A Novel
6. Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books & Push
7. Band Fags! & What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
8. Columbine

Points: 045/460

5 points

1. An Abundance of Katherines and Disgrace
2. The Beautiful and Damned
3. Wintergirls
4. Salem Falls
5. TBD
6. TBD
7. The Graveyard Book
8. Curious Wine A Novel

10 Points

1. TBD
2. The Idiot
3. My Sister's Keeper - 423
4. The Book Thief
5. TBD
6. Just Ella - 218
7. Franny and Zooey
8. TBD non-fiction / learning


15 Points

1. A Wallflower Christmas - 213
2. Rich Man, Poor Man & The Castle
3. Coraline
4. Thirteen Reasons Why -288
5. The Black Sheep - 352
6. A Doll's House - 72
7. The Alienist & Jack the Ripper The Facts
8. TBD wait sabotage gut sandwich

20 Points

P.G. Wodehouse Read 2 books by 2 different contemporary British authors

25 Points

1. Lost Generation: A Moveable Feast (reread) & Black Obelisk
2. Of Human Bondage & TBD
3. Anna Karenina & What Happened to Anna K? -960
4. Brave New World
5. Catch-22 - 462 & The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 192
6. Stupeur Et Tremblements and TBD on cultures -186
7. How to Read Literature Like a Professor A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines and physics (worst) A Brief History of Time
8. Columbine

TOTALS
Books: 13
Pages: 2706
Points: 135/460

5 points:

1. The Lovely Bones and Water for Elephants
2. Once Upon a Time The Story of Princess Grace, Prince Rainier and Their Family
3. Shiver
4. Things Fall Apart
5. The Catcher in the Rye
6. Go Ask Alice
7. The Graveyard Book
8. Middlesex

10 points:

1. Strange Fruit The Biography of a Song
2. Brave New World
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
4. The Book Thief
5. Little Women and Girl in Hyacinth Blue
6. Perfect Match (it was listed on b&n under "Contemporary Romance")
7. Franny and Zooey
8. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee An Indian History of the American West

15 points:

1. The Gift
2. The Kite Runner & The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass?
4. The Thirteenth Tale
5. Animal Farm
6. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
7. Those Who Save Us and The Kingdom of Auschwitz 1940-1945
8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Resolving, Registration, Holiday, Witch)

20 Points:

1. Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
2. Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love

25 Points:

1. The Bell Jar and The Awakening
2. Sense and Sensibility and The Glass Castle A Memoir
3. Pride and Prejudice and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. Wuthering Heights
5. The Grapes of Wrath and Never Let Me Go
6. Season of Migration to the North and Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books
7. How to Read Literature Like a Professor A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines and Confessions (English and History)
8.Life of Pi

Total: 40/460

5 Points

1. The Kite Runner & The Glass Castle A Memoir
2.Murder on the Orient Express
3. An Ice Cold Grave
4. Fall on Your Knees
5. A Light in the Attic
6. Go Ask Alice
7. Frostbitten
8. She's Not There A Life in Two Genders

10 Points

1. TBD
2. Lord of the Flies
3. Angels & Demons
4. The Diary of a Young Girl
5. TBD
6. Vamps and the City
7. The Great Gatsby
8.The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning

15 Points

1. Blue Christmas
2. Shanghai Girls A Novel & The Woman and the Ape
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
4. Nature Girl
5. Charlotte's Web
6. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
7. TBD
8. (Random word :Green) Gorgeously Green Every Girl's Guide to an Earth-Friendly Life

20 points
1.Coraline & Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

25 Points

1. Postmodernism GARDENS IN THE DUNES A Novel & Lolita
2. Practical Magic & Dracula
3. Pride and Prejudice & Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5.A Clockwork Orange & Naked Lunch
6Kosher Sex A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy & Autobiography Of A Geisha
7. TBD
8. The Zombie Survival Guide Complete Protection From the Living Dead

Totals: 5/460

5 Points

1. Garden Spells and The History of Love
2. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (birthday: Jan. 1st)
3. TBD
4. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
5. Fahrenheit 451
6. Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
7. The Graveyard Book
8. Running with Scissors: A Memoir

10 Points

1. TBD
2. The Great Gatsby
3. Twilight
4. Those Who Save Us
5. A Great and Terrible Beauty and The Elegance of the Hedgehog
6. TBD
7. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
8. TBD

15 Points

1. The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0
2. The Book Thief and The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3. The Eyre Affair
4. Catching Fire
5. Five Little Pigs
6. TBD
7. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America and TBD
8. Something Borrowed (Random Word: Something)


20 Points

1. TBD and TBD

25 Points

1. Beat Generation: On the Road and Naked Lunch The Restored Text
2. Known Classic: Lolita and New Classic: The Kite Runner
3. Pride and Prejudice and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. Wuthering Heights - Song by Kate Bush
5. To Kill a Mockingbird and The Great Gatsby
6. Season of Migration to the North and TBD
7. TBD and TBD
8. The Perfect Storm A True Story of Men Against the Sea

5 points
1.
-Invitation Only -Kate Brian
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2.
3. The Winter of Candy Canes -Debbie Viguie
4. The Spring of Candy Apples -Debbie Viguie
5.
6. Crystal Lies -Melody Carlson
7. The Graveyard Book -Neil Gaiman
8. Evermore -Alyson Noel


10 points
1.
2.
3. Uglies -Scott Westerfeild
4.
5.
-Wicked Lovely -Melissa Marr
-My Beautiful Disaster -Michelle Buckman
6. The boys next door- Jennifer Echols
7. Chosen -P.C. Cast
8.


15 points
1.
2.
Notes from a spinning planet: Ireland
-Melody Carlson
Notes from a spinning planet: Papua New Guinea -Melody Carlson
3.
4. The Fall of Candy Corn -Debbie Viguie
5.
6.
7.
8. Freak the Mighty -Rodman Philbrick

20 points
1.
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25 points
1.
2.
3.
4. Lord of the Rings -JRR Toliken
5. Are you there God it's me Margaret -Judy Blume
The Lion the Witch and the wardrobe -C.S. Lewis
6.
-30 Guys in 30 Days -Micol Ostow
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7.
8.

Points:25/460
Books:5/44

Danielle, I like the way you made your list with the tally of pages and everything! I might do that with mine if that's alright :)

I think this time I'm going to fill them in as I go. Unless I get bored one day.

5 Points

1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and Graceling
2. something by Agatha Christie (born in Sept) or The Blind Side Evolution of a Game (about football, Terry Bradshaw was born in Sept)
3. Shiver
4. Thanksgiving
5. Banned book
6. The Tequila Worm
7. Masquerade
8. Annie on My Mind

10 Points

1. Book about or by your favorite artist/musician/band/composer
2. Book that was on a required reading list for high school that you never read OR read a book that a teacher recommended to you.
3. Angels & Demons
4. Book set primarily during a war
5. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All A Novel and Speak
6. My Own True Love
7. Book by an author who uses their initials as part of their name
8. Read a non-fiction book about a subject you find fascinating but truly don’t know much about. You must share with the group a few interesting things you learned before you can claim your points.


15 Points

1. Comfort & Joy A Novel
2. Around the world: Unbearable Lightness of Being and Things You Either Hate or Love
3. The Hunger Games
4. Fire
5. Book with a farm animal in the title or with a main character who lives on a farm
6. Play or a book that a Broadway play was based on or a book that was based on a Broadway play
7. Read both a historical fiction and non-fiction set in the same period
8. Cup of Gold

20 Points

Solace of the Road and On Beauty

25 Points

1. The Call of the Wild & White Fang (Naturalism)
2. Known classic and new classic
3. Alice in Wonderland and The Looking Glass Wars
4. Read a book that is mentioned in a song (or if a song mentions an author you can just pick a book by that author) and then also listen to that song.
5. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret and Wide Sargasso Sea
6. Julie of the Wolves and Bless Me, Ultima
7. Read a book that has to do with your BEST and WORST subject in school
8. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

TOTAL:
Books read: 20
Tasks Completed: 13/33
Point total: 150/460

September 7th 2009 - February 22nd 2010.

5 Points

1. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
and Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
2. Blood Promise - Richelle Mead (November)
3. Read a book with a winter word:
4. Read a book with a fall word- leaf/leaves, turkey, autumn, fall, pumpkin, acorn, thanksgiving, apple, hayride, harvest, pilgrims, Indians, feast, thanks,
5. read a book on the banned or challenged book list. http://deletecensorship.org/downloads/bo...
6. Read a book about a person struggling with an addiction or with the name of a drug/alcoholic drink in the title.
7. Alice Hoffman - Practical Magic
8. Read a book about LGBT issues, with an LGBT main character, or by an LGBT author.

10 Points

1. Read a book about or by your favorite artist/musician/band/composer
2. Back To School: Read a book that was on a required reading list for high school that you never read OR read a book that a teacher recommended to you.
3. The Seventh Scroll
4. Veteren’s Day: Read a book set primarily during a war (the war cannot be a fictitious war)
5. Read 2 books that have 2 words that are synonyms: for example..reading Little Woman & The God of Small Things
6. Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward
7. Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward
8. Read a non-fiction book about a subject you find fascinating but truly don’t know much about. You must share with the group a few interesting things you learned before you can claim your points.


15 Points

1. Read a book primarily set during one of these holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanza.
2. Canada: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
USA: The Host by Stephenie Meyer
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
4. Artemis Fowl
5. Jade and the Serpent's Circle by Maggie Fikkert
6. read a play or a book that a Broadway play was based on or a book that was based on a Broadway play.
7. Read both a historical fiction and non-fiction set in the same period
8. Use a random word generator
Cardboard / Exclusive / Corrupt / Metal


20 points:

Kelly's Choice-- TBD

25 Points

1. Pick one of the following American literary movements from the PBS website and read 2 books from 2 different authors in this literary movement. (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/ti...) There will be a dropdown that says Literary Movements. There will be a blurb about each along with some important authors in each movement.
2. - Read a known classic and THEN read a book of Entertainment Weekly's List called "The New Classics:" The 100 Best Books of the Last 25 Years
(http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076... After reading both write a tiny review in our thread about whether or not you think the "new" classic has the ability to stand the test of time.
3. Read a "pair" of books: A classic and then a contemporary book that was inspired by it
4. Read a book that is mentioned in a song (or if a song mentions an author you can just pick a book by that author) and then also listen to that song.
5. Read 2 books from Time's Top 100 novels list(http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/t...)
6. Expanding Your Horizons: Read 2 books either written by 2 authors of these cultures, about one of these cultures or with a main character from 2 of these cultures.
7. Read a book that has to do with your BEST and WORST subject in school.
8. In honor of 9/11-- read a fiction/nonfiction book about a disaster --can be natural (tornado, flood hurricane etc.) or manmade—(Titanic, fires, bombing, etc.)

Points: 95

Other: Spud , Ink exchange, The Hobbit, Tales of Beedle the Bard , Married with Baggage

5 Points
1.Crime and Punishment & The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2. Push
3.Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
4.Strange Pilgrims
5.Fahrenheit 451
6.Addicted A Novel
7.The Haunting of Hill House
8.Keeping You a Secret

10 Points
1.I, Tina
2.Memoirs of a Geisha
3.Uglies
4.Mila 18
5.Little Women & Small Town Girl
6.Jane Eyre
7.Betrayed
8.In Cold Blood

15 Points
1.Hallowe'en Party
2.The Kite Runner & Letters from Rifka
3. The Hunger Games
4. Catching Fire
5.On a Pale Horse
6.The Woman in White
7.Number the Stars & Schindler's List
8. Once Dead, Twice Shy

20 Points
Kelly's choice: The Millstone & Neverwhere A Novel

25 Points
1.The Scarlet Letter & Uncle Tom's Cabin
2.Persuasion & The Liars' Club A Memoir
3.Mrs. Dalloway & The Hours
4.Wuthering Heights
5.Beloved & The Big Sleep
6.Roots & Indian Killer
7.BEST:HISTORYAztec & WORST:HEALTH Sugar Isn't Everything
8.The Serpent's Coil

BOOKS: 4/44
TOTAL: 50/460

5 Points
1. El Si De Las Ninas & La Regenta / the Regent's Wife
2. San Manuel Bueno, Martir
3. Alice in Wonderland
4. The Autumn of the Patriarch
5. Tropic of Cancer
6. Junky The Definitive Text of Junk
7. Dracula
8. Journal du voleur

10 points
1. Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain
2. Misericordia
3. Angels & Demons
4. Empire of the Sun
5. Don Alvaro o la Fuerza del Sino/ Don Alvaro or The Force of Fate & The Power and the Glory
6. Pride and Prejudice
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
8. Guia Muggle del Mundo Magico

15 Points
1. A Christmas Carol
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude & Luces De Bohemia
3. Fahrenheit 451
4. Little Birds
5. The Horse and His Boy
6. HAMLET
7. The Other Boleyn Girl & Tudor England
8. The Campaign

20 points
1. Trainspotting & The remains of the day

25 Points
1. Modernism: Ada, or Ardor A Family Chronicle & For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. Wuthering Heights & High Fidelity
3. Mrs. Dalloway & The Hours
4. 1984
5. Atonement & On the Road
6. Japan/Iran: Stupeur et tremblements & سووشون
7. English/Maths: On the Sublime & A Beautiful Mind
8. Into the Wild


BOOKS: 15/46
POINTS: 135/460

5 Points

1. The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait: Kahlo, Frida AND
The Whale Rider: Ihimaera, Witi
2. Anything We Love Can Be Saved (Paperback):Alice Walker
3. The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel (Paperback): Paul Beatty
4. House of Leavesby Mark Z. Danielewski
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou
6. Crank: Ellen Hopkins
7. The Bad Seed: March, William
8. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel: Fannie Flagg

10 Points

1. Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics: Alicia Keys
2. The White Bone: A Novel by Barbara Gowdy
3. Eclipse (Twilight, #3) by Stephenie Meyer
4. Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror: Goldberg, Jeoffrey
5. Sister of My Heart: A Novel: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee* AND The Old Man Who Read Love Stories: Sepúlveda, Luis
(heart, love)
6. The Time Traveler's Wife:Audrey Niffenegger
7. Dead Poets Society: N.H. Kleinbaum
8. Freakonomics Rev Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner


15 Points

1. The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0
by Christopher Moore
2. Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village: Sarah Erdman AND A Fine Balance: Rohinton Mistry
3. Flowers for Algernon: Daniel Keyes
4. Interpreter of Maladies: Jhumpa Lahiri
5. A Wild Sheep Chase: Haruki Murakami
6. A Raisin in the Sun: Lorraine Hansberry
7. Suite Française: Irène Némirovsky AND The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister: Nonna Bannister
8. Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah. (my word was Falling)

25 Points

1. The House on Mango Street: Sandra Cisneros AND The Good Earth (Enriched Classics): Pearl S. Buck
2. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics):Thomas Hardy AND The Road: Cormac McCarthy
3. Pride and Prejudice (Paperback): Jane Austen AND Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Seth Grahame-Smith
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's: Truman Capote
(SONG: "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Something)
5. The Painted Bird: Jerzy Kosiński AND Lucky Jim: Kingsley Amis
6. What Is the What: Dave Eggers AND Black Rain: A Novel: Masuji Ibuse
7. Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love (Hardcover): Helen Fisher AND Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain: Oliver W. Sacks
8. The Teahouse Fire: Ellis Avery

Just as a reminder..with Kelly's task added..there is no a total of 460 points that can be earned.

I might give this a try! Love the idea. I too should focus more on my upcoming semester, but hey :) And I totally stole loads of you guys' ideas as well.

5 Points
1. Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice, Edward J Blakely & Poe: A Life Cut Short, Peter Ackroyd
2. Rant An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, Chuck Palahniuk
3. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
4. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, Edgar Allan Poe
5. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
6. Go Ask Alice, Anonymous (reread)
7. Dracula, Bram Stoker
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

25/40

10 Points
1.
2. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
3. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
4. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
5. Plain Girl, Arthur Miller & A Simple Heart, Gustave Flaubert
6. Persuasion, Jane Austen
7. The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, JT Leroy
8. Guia de História da Arte, Giulio Carlo Argan
I took an Art History class this semester, knowing absolutely nothing about it previous to that. With this book, I learned about iconology and iconography (the imagery/symbolism, and the way it is represented), how historians and critics have the same role (just critics will only talk about things they are contemporary with), and what makes a piece relevant (which is the innovation, and how it's reinvented through time).

30/80

15 Points
1. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
2. Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan & The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The Time Machine, HG Wells
4. Carrie, Stephen King
5.
6. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
7.
8. Nest: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey

90/120

20 points:
Kelly's Choice--
Disgrace, JM Coetzee & Restless, William Boyd

0/20

25 Points
1. Romanticism: The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne & Mary, Vladimir Nabokov
2.
3.
4. Franny and Zooey, JD Salinger (Akron/Family - Franny/You're Human)
5. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf & To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
6.
7.
8.

50/200


Total: 195/460

5

1a- Shanghai Girls A Novel (315)
1b- The World Without Us (304)
2- Summer Sisters (416)
3- Cold Mountain (464)
4- Salem Falls (434)
5- Beloved (275)
6- A Million Little Pieces (432)
7- The Lovely Bones (328)
8- Middlesex (529)
(00/40 points)
(0/9 books)


10

1- Comfort from a Country Quilt (192)
2- The Joy Luck Club (288)
3- The Fellowship of the Ring (398)
4- The Things They Carried (246)
5a- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (224)
5b- The Guy Not Taken Stories (304)
6- The Time Traveler's Wife (536)
7- The Catcher in the Rye (214)
8- A New Earth Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (316)
(00/80 books)
(0/9 books)

15
1- Dear James (Thanksgiving) (586)
2a- Sister of My Heart A Novel (336)
2b- Bound (192)
3- Coraline (192)
4- The Help (464)
5- Pigs in Heaven (352)
6- Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (406)
7a- The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (447)
7b- The Alienist (512)
8- Mountains Beyond Mountains The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (336)
(000/120 points)
(00/10 books)


20
1a- Atonement (368)
1b- Anansi Boys (416)
(00/40 points)
(0/2 books)

25
1a- Junky The Definitive Text of Junk (Beat Generation Literary Movement)(208)
1b- On the Road (307)
2a- Case Histories A Novel (336)
2b- Anne of Green Gables (304)
3a- King Lear (384)
3b- A Thousand Acres A Novel (384)
4- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (368)
5a- To Kill a Mockingbird (336)
5b- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (149)
6a- The Outside World (304)
6b- Tracks (240)
7a- To Dream Anew (historical fiction for best subject of history) (400)
7b- Carbon Dreams- by Susan M. Gaines (worst subject= science) (351)
8- The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (340)
(000/200 points)
(00/14 books)

(00/44 TOTAL books)

(00000/15233 pages)

(000/460 TOTAL points)

5 Points
1.The Memory Keeper's Daughter-Kim Edwards AND The Roots of Evil The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence - Ervin Staub
2. Walt Disney Hollywood's Dark Prince A Biography - Marc Eliot
3. Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
4. One Bad Apple - Sheila Connolly
5. 1984 - George Orwell
6. TBH
7. Wolf at the Door - Christine Warren
8. Parrotfish - Ellen Wittlinger

10 Points
1. Heart Full of Soul An Inspirational Memoir About Finding Your Voice and Finding Your Way - Taylor Hicks
2. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone- J.K. Rowling
4. Atonement - Ian McEwan
5. True Devotion - Dee Henderson AND Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks
6. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
7. Unconventional- J.J. Hebert
8. Disney's Junior Encyclopedia of Animated Characters Including Characters from Your Favorite Disney Pixar Films - M.L. Dunham

20. ?

15 Points
1. Christmas Letters- Debbie Macomber
2. Canada - Ice Trap A Novel of Suspense - Kitty Sewell
Japan: Chain Mail Addicted To You - Hiroshi Ishizaki
3. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
5. On a Pale Horse - Piers Anthony
6. Grease - Jim Jacobs
7. Historical fiction: The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Historical nonfiction: TBH
8. How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls - Zoey Dean

25 Points
1. Harlem Renaissance: Not Without Laughter - Langston Hughes AND Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
2. Classic: Lord of the Flies - William Golding
New Classic: Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
3. Mrs. Dalloway AND The Hours
4. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
5. Never Let Me Go AND Deliverance
6. TBH
7. Gifted A Novel AND End of Story
8. TBH

5 Points

1. (a.) TBA
1. (b.) The Soloist A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez - 289 pages
2. Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut - 240 pages
3. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote - 343 pages
4. Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah - 278 pages
5. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - 304 pages
6. Pill Head by Joshua Lyon - 288 pages
7. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum - 370 pages
8. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden - 263 pages

10 Points

1. The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz - 992 pages
2. The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho - 167 pages
3. The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer - 2,444 pages
Twilight - 498 pages
New Moon - 563 pages
Eclipse - 629 pages
Breaking Dawn - 754 pages
4. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien - 246 pages
5. (a.) A Million Little Pieces by James Frey - 513 pages
5. (b.) The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - 321 pages
6. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks - 213 pages
7. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis - 227 pages
8. A People's History of the United States 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn - 688 pages

15 Points

1. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris - 150 pages
2. (a.) Life of Pi by Yann Martel - 401 pages
2. (b.) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - 371 pages
3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - 336 pages
4. How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely - 322 pages
5. The Pigman by Paul Zindel - 159 pages
6. Wicked by Gregory Maguire - 560 pages
7. (a.) The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski - 213 pages
7. (b.) To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life by Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin - 316 pages
8. The Glass Castle A Memoir by Jeannette Walls - 288 pages

20 Points

1. (a.) High Fidelity by Nick Hornby - 336 pages
1. (b.) Atonement by Ian McEwan - 368 pages

25 Points

1. (a.) Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs - 232 pages
1. (b.) On the Road by Jack Kerouac - 254 pages
2. (a.) East of Eden by John Steinbeck - 601 pages
2. (b.) His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman - 943 pages
3. (a.) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison - 581 pages
3. (b.) Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green - 264 pages
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ("Paranoid Android" by Radiohead) - 815 pages
5. (a.) Native Son by Richard Wright - 432 pages
5. (b.) Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates - 463 pages
6. (a.) Invisible Life A Novel by E. Lynn Harris - 268 pages
6. (b.) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - 420 pages
7. (a.) worst subject: math: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner - 268
7. (b.) best subject: religion - Why I Am Not a Christian & Other Essays on Religion & Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell - 266 pages
8. Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo - 336 pages

TOTALS:
Books: 21/44
Points: 180/460
Pages: 6,830/19,172

5 points
1a) A Murder of Quality, by John le Carre
1b) Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain
2) Call for the Dead, by John le Carre
3) The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, by John le Carre
4) Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh
5) The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
6) A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K Dick
7) H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 1: At The Mountains of Madness
8) ?
Subtotal: 3/8 tasks = 15/40 points

10 points
1) And the Ass Saw the Angel, by Nick Cave
2) The New World of Mr. Tompkins, by George Gamow
3) Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
4) Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Bernieres
5a) ?
5b) ?
6) Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
7) A Room With A View, by E.M. Forster
8) Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension, by Michio Kaku
Subtotal: 1/8 tasks = 10/80 points

15 points
1) Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
2a) ?
2b) ?
3) Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
4) The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
5) Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett
6) Copenhagen, by Michael Frayn
7a) ?
7b) ?
8) (Screen)
Subtotal: 2/8 tasks = 30/120 points

20 points
1a) The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
1b) Poor Things, by Alasdair Gray
Subtotal: 1/1 task = 20/20 points

25 points
1a) The Awakening and Other Stories, by Kate Chopin
1b) Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (Romanticism)
2a) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
2b) The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
3a) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
3b) Automated Alice, by Jeff Noon
4) Billy Liar, by Keith Waterhouse
5a) The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
5b) Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
6a) The Glass Palace, by Amitav Ghosh
6b) Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7a) New Worlds for All, by Colin G Calloway (History)
7b) Napoleon's Buttons, by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson
8) ?
Subtotal: 3/8 tasks = 75/200 points

Total: 9/33 tasks = 150/460 points

5 Points


1.The Book about Blanche and Marie, Per Olov Enquist AND Sexing the Cherry, Jeanette Winterson
2.Matilda, Roald Dahl
3.The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, John le Carre
4.The Golden Apples, Eudora Welty
5.The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
6.The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
7.Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
8.Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

10 Points

1.Riders on the Storm My Life with Jim
Morrison and the Doors, John Densmore
2.The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
3.Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
4.Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
5.The Glass Castle A Memoir, Jeannette Walls AND Moon Palace, Paul Auster
6.Love's Encore, Sandra Brown
7.Ragtime A Novel, E.L. Docotorow
8.The Social Brain: Discovering the Networks of the Mind, Michael S. Gazzaniga

15 Points

1.The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0, Christopher Moore
2.Midaq Alley, Naguib Mahfouz ANDThe Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
3.Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
4.After the Quake, Haruki Murakami
5.A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami
6.Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
7.Perdita The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous
Life of Mary Robinson, Paula Byrne AND The Prince's Mistress A Life of Mary Robinson, Hester Davenport
8.Life's Little Ironies, Thomas Hardy (Irony)

20 Points

1.Atonement, Ian McEwan AND The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde


25 Points

1.On the Road, Jack Kerouac AND Naked Lunch
The Restored Text, William Burroughs (Beat Generation)
2.Little Women, Louisa May Alcott AND
Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates
3.Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf AND The
Hours, Michael Cunningham
4.Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote (Song by Deep Blue Something)
5.Housekeeping A Novel, Marilynne Robinson AND Play It As It Lays A Novel, Joan Didion
6.Animal's People, Indra Sinha AND
Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie
7.English was my best subject-The Elements of
Style, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White; Gym was my worst subject-Game, Phil Truman
8.The Hot Zone A Terrifying True Story, Richard Preston

Total:225

FALL/WINTER CHALLENGE:

5-1. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (12/14/09)
5-1. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (12/16/09)
5-2. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman [11/10 B-day:] (12/27/09)
5-3. Winter's Child by Cameron Dokey
5-4. Empire Falls by Richard Russo (1/10/10)
5-5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
5-6. Whiskey Sour by J. A. Konrath
5-7. Soulless by Gail Carriger
5-8. Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
10-1. This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin (12/3/09)
10-2. Brides of Eden by Linda Crew (10/11/09)
10-3. Atonement by Ian McEwan
10-4. Just Jane by William Lavender OR The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
10-5. Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs
10-5. Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs
10-6. Sea Swept by Nora Roberts
10-7. Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
10-8. The Psychology of Women (6th edition) by Margaret W. Matlin (12/5/09)
10-8. Facts that should be more widely known that I learned from this book:
* “… physical attractiveness is more important for pre-school girls than for preschool boys. Compared to less attractive little girls, cute little girls are more likely to be patted and praised – and less likely to be hit and pushed. However, physical attractiveness is generally irrelevant for little boys” (p. 123).
* “In North America, women are currently more likely than men to pursue higher education. For example, 57% of all full-time university students in Canada are female (Statistics Canada, 2006). Women also constitute 56% of students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities… U.S. women now earn 51% of all the Ph.D. degrees awarded to U.S. citizens” (p. 130-1).
* “…the front page of the Boston Globe featured an article about economist Dr. Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University (Bombardieri, 2005). Summers had been invited to address a conference sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, and he chose to discuss why there are so few high-ranking women in science and engineering at the most prestigious universities. According to Summers, one of the reasons why male faculty members are more successful at Harvard than female faculty members in science and engineering is that women do not have the same innate ability as men in those disciplines… The Harvard faculty later voted ‘no confidence’ in Dr. Summers, and he resigned in February 2006” (p. 145).
* “social and cultural explanations [for the differences between men and women:] play a more important role than biology does… women and men are typically similar in their general intelligence and complex cognitive abilities” (p. 145 & 151).
* “Representative studies show that females earn higher grades in fifth-, sixth-, eighth-, and tenth-grade mathematics as well as in college math courses…However, the math portion of the SAT has a specific validity problem because it predicts that women will receive lower grades in college math courses than they actually do receive” (p. 155 & 156).
* “Several factors related to the social setting have an important influence on the size of the gender differences in social and personality characteristics…: 1. Gender differences are usually largest when other people are present… 2. Gender differences are generally largest when gender is prominent and other shared roles are minimized… 3. Gender differences are usually largest when the behavior requires specific gender-related skills” (p. 178).
* “According to data from 2004, U.S. women earn $.76 for every $1.00 that U.S. men earn” (p. 210).
* “Most infants who spend time in a day-care center have the same kind of emotional closeness to their mothers as do children whose mothers do not work outside the home” (p. 242).
* “In the United States, less than half of divorced fathers actually pay the mandated child support” (p. 268).
* “as DePaulo and Morris (2005) emphasize, ‘Enlightened citizens come to realize that you don’t need to be a man to be a leader, you don’t need to be straight to be normal, you don’t need to be White to be smart, and you don’t need to be coupled to be happy’” (p. 286).
* “In another study, Horgan (1983) measured people’s attitudes toward pregnant women by checking where maternity clothes were located in department stores. The expensive, high-status stores placed maternity clothes near the lingerie and loungewear. This arrangement suggests an image of femininity, delicacy, luxury, and privacy. In contrast, the less expensive, low-status stores placed maternity clothes near the uniforms and the clothing for overweight women. This placement implies that pregnant women are fat, with a job to do” (p. 328).
* “The research confirms that children raised by lesbians are well adjusted and that they do not differ substantially from children raised by heterosexuals. In light of these findings, professional organizations have emphasized that the courts should not discriminate against lesbian mothers in custody cases and that lesbians should be allowed to adopt children. However, in many parts of the United States, same-gender parents cannot legally adopt a child. Lesbian parents would never anticipate. For example, a hospital security guard refused to let two lesbian parents visit their child in the pediatric ward of a California hospital. As the guard said, the regulations allowed ‘only parents’ on the ward” (p. 342).
* “The term cardiovascular disease includes disorders of the heart (such as heart attacks) and the blood vessels (such as strokes, which occur for blood vessels in the brain). Cardiovascular disease is the major cause of death for U.S. women. In fact, it is more deadly than all forms of cancer combined. Each year, cardiovascular disease kills about 500,000 women in the United States…” (p. 363).
* “Smoking also has gynecological consequences. Women who smoke increase the risk of cervical cancer, infertility, miscarriages, premature birth, and early menopause. Furthermore, babies born to smokers weigh less than babies born to nonsmokers… the average female smoker has a life expectancy of 75, in contrast to 85 for a female nonsmoker” (p. 382).
* “The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has been ratified by more than 170 countries throughout the world. The signers include Iraq and Afghanistan – two countries not known for policies consistent with feminism. The CEDAW legislation condemns female genital mutilation, selling women for prostitution, domestic abuse, and other actions that harm women. However, several countries have refused to sign the document, including Somalia, Sudan, Oman, Brunei, and . . . the United States (Quindlen, 2005b)” (p. 489-90).
15-1. Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich (1/21/10)
15-2. A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes (1/14/10)
15-2. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (1/21/10)
15-3. Timeline by Michael Crichton
15-4. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly - red cover (1/20/10)
15-5. Going Bovine by Libba Bray (12/13/09)
15-6. Wicked by Gregory Macguire
15-7. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (10/9/09)
15-7. 1776 by David McCullough (10/20/09)
15-8. The All-TRUE Travels & Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley (9/30/09)
20-1. Stardust by Neil Gaiman (10/25/09)
20-1. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (11/3/09)
American Postmodern Lit. (25-1):
25-1. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
25-1. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
25-2. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (2/11/10)
25-2. The Giver by Lois Lowry (1/24/10)
25-3. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (2/14/10)
25-3. The Hours by Michael Cunningham (2/18/10)
25-4. "Oscar Wilde" by Company of Theives - The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1/23/10)
25-5. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
25-5. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Rdg)
25-6. Forbidden Red: Widowhood in Urban Nepal by Kathy-Lee Galvin (2/15/10)
25-6. Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay (2/18/10)
25-7. BEST subject - English: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (12/19/09)
25-7. WORST subject - Biology: Life on Earth with Physiology by Teresa Audesirk, Gerald Audesirk & Bruce E. Byers (8th ed.) (11/22/09)
25-8. Fire on the Wind by Linda Crew (2/20/10)

Total: 305

5 Points
X 1. Two library books Beach Music and French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew
2. Author (specialist) B-day: Alias Grace
X 3. Winter word in title: The Winter of Our Discontent
4. Fall word in title
5. Banned Book
6. Addiction
7. scary story
8. LGBT
(5)
10 Points
1. Favorite band ect.
X 2. Required reading : Across Five Aprils
3. Hype.
X 4. Set during war Suite Française
X5. 2 books with synonyms The Winter Vault and Grave Secrets (Vault and Grave)
6. Romance/erotica
7. Initials in Authors name
8.non-fiction about fascinating subject The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection

15 Points
X 1.Holiday theme The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0
X 2. 2 books from 2 separate countries
The Girl with No Shadow A Novel (France) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden)
X 3. Alternate universe Coraline
X 4. Read books with fall colored cover:
5. Farm animal in title or about farm
6. Based on Broadway play (or reverse)
X 7. Historical fiction and non-fiction A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings The Ghost Map The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
X 8. random word generator (wrap, purchase, place, lost)The Lost Symbol


20 Points
X 1. 2 books by Contemporary British authors: The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs A Novel(Irvine Welsh) and Juliet, Naked (Nick Hornby)

25 Points
/ 1. 2 books from 2 authors in same literary movement Beat: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
X 2. known classic and new classic Known: For Whom the Bell TollsNew:The Kite Runner
X 3. Classic and inspired contemporary My Life in France and Julie and Julia 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
X 4. Book in song A Moveable Feast (Streetlight Manifesto, Here's to Life "Hemingway never seemed to mind the banality of a normal life")

5. 2 books from Time's Top 100 novels list
X 6. 2 books from different cultures The Complete Persepolis (Middle East) The Power of One(Africa)
/7. Best and worst subject The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (best, English)
X 8. disasterExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Total: 315 points

5 Points
1. Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Haunting of Hill House
2. Light in August
3. Waiting for Snow in Havana Confessions of a Cuban Boy
4. The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
5. Fahrenheit 451
6. Wishful Drinking
7. Twilight
8. Boy Meets Boy

10 Points
1. Meet the Beatles A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World
2. A Problem from Hell America and the Age of Genocide
3. The Devil Wears Prada
4. The Killer Angels
5. Gone With The Wind and The Lost Symbol
6. The Notebook
7. The Outsiders
8. Skinny Bitch A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous


15 Points
1. The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0
2. Dumb Luck A Novel by Vu Trong Phung and This Earth of Mankind
3. Dune
4. Pompeii
5. Lamb The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
6. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
7. The Steel Wave A Novel of World War II and D-Day June 6, 1944
8. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

20 Points
1. A Clockwork Orange and Saturday


25 Points
1. Winesburg, Ohio and An American Tragedy
2. The Count of Monte Cristo and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and The Looking Glass Wars
4. On the Road
5. Atonement and Slaughterhouse-Five
6. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and 101 Stories for Foreigners to Understand Chinese People
7. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (psychology) and Freakonomics Rev Ed A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (economics)
8. Isaac's Storm A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

TOTALS
Books: 8/44
Points: 55/460

5 points
1. Unaccustomed Earth Stories & I Am the Messenger
2. The Shadow of the Wind
3.Snowflower and the Secret Fan
4. House of Leaves
5.The Bell Jar
6.Go Ask Alice
7.Something Wicked This Way Comes
8.TBD

10 points
1.TBD
2.Gulliver's Travels
3.My Sister's Keeper
4.All Quiet on the Western Front
5.TBD
6.Persuasion
7. Franny and Zooey
8.TBD

15 Points
1.TBD
2.A Thousand Splendid Sunsand The Salt Roads
3.TBD
4. On the Beach
5.Animal Farm
6.The Importance of Being Earnest
7.TBD
8.TBD

20 Points
1.TBD & The Thirteenth Tale

25 Points
1.TBD
2.Brave New World and The Road
3.TBD
4.TBD
5.The Blind Assassin and Never Let Me Go
6.TBD
7.TBD
8. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Totals
Books: 9
Points: 65/460

5 Points

1. Life on the refrigerator door by Alice Kuipers & Still Alice
2. The Stand (Stephen King's birthday is September 21)
3. Shiver
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Pie is my autumn word)
5. The Giver
6. Are you there Vodka? It's me Chelsea Handler
7. Destined for an Early Grave
8. The Laramie Project

10 Points

1. TBA
2. Animal Farm
3. The Da Vinci Code
4. The Book Thief
5. The Hunger Games & Stuffed and Starved
6. Halfway to the Grave
7. The Catcher in the Rye
8. TBA

15 Points

1. The Stupidest Angel
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns & The Thirteenth Tale
3. The Host
4. Catching Fire
5. I am Hutterite
6. Wicked
7. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress & The Red Mirror: Children of China's Cultural Revolution
8. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

20 points:

1. TBA

25 Points

1. TBA
2. Little Women & The Poisonwood Bible
3. Pride and Prejudice & Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's
5. Are you There God? It's Me, Margaret & One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
6. Shanghai Girls & Such a Long Journey
7. TBA
8. TBA

TOTAL:
Books read: 16
Tasks Completed: 9/33
Point total: 85/460

5 Points

1. Two Library Books: Alcatraz Versus The Scrivener's Bone (336 pages) by Brandon Sanderson and Artemis Fowl (396 pages) by Eoin Colfer
2. September-February birthday: The High King (272 pages) by Lloyd Alexander
3. winter word: The Christmas Box (128 pages) by Richard Paul Evans
4. fall word: Thank You, Jeeves (256 pages) by P.G. Wodehouse
5. Banned Book: Many Waters (224 pages) by Madeline L'Engle
6. addiction:
7. scary/spooky/horror novel: The Unspoken (176 pages) by Thomas Fahy
8. LGBT:

10 Points

1. artist/musician/band/composer:
2. high school:Consolation of Philoophy (160 pages of tiny writing)by Boethius
3. hyped:Eragon (503 pages) by Christopher Paolini
4. war:
5. synonyms (2 books): 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 by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer and The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan or Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
6. romance:Fairest (336 pages) by Gail Carson Levine
7. initials:The Halfling's Gem (352 pages) by R.A. Salvatore
8. non-fiction:Sometimes the Magic Works:Lessons from a Writing Life (208 pages) by Terry Brooks. I'm not much of a fantasy writer. Mostly childrens books.

15 Points

1. holiday setting: The Grey King (192 pages) by Susan Cooper
2. different countries (2 books): Greenwitch (176 pages) by Susan Cooper and The Alchemist (197 pages) by Paulo Coelho
3. alternate universe: The Game (176 pages) by Diana Wynne Jones
4. red cover: Sceptor of the Ancients (416 pages) by Derek Landy
5. farm animal in the title:The Goose Girl (400 pages) by Shannon Hale
6. Broadway play:
7. historical fiction/non-fiction period:
8. Scenario/Basket/Pool/Forbidding

20 points:

1. Contemporary British Authors: Coraline (208 pages) by Neil Gaiman and Artemis Fowl: Eternity Code (320 pages) by Eoin Colfer

25 Points

1. literary movement(2 books):
2. classic/Entertainment Weekly's List called "The New Classics:" The 100 Best Books of the Last 25 Years(2 books):
3. classic/contemporary book inspired by it:
4. song:
5. 2 books from Time's Top 100 novels list(http://www.time.com/time/2005/100book...
6. Expanding Your Horizons:

1. African/African-American.
2. Asian/Asian-American (This is not just East Asian -- Chinese, Korean and Japanese -- but also Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, and the Central Asian -Stans.)
3. Hispanic/Latin American
4. Indian/Indian-American (Again, books by Indian authors; not books by white authors set in India.)
5. Middle Eastern (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Turkey...)
6. Native Peoples (Can include Native American, Inuit, Polynesian --Maori, Samoan, etc -- Siberian natives and Australian Aborigines.)

7. BEST and WORST subject: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night compiled by Scott Rice and
8. disaster:


TOTAL:
Books read: 23
Books read that don't have anything to do with the challenge: 12
Tasks Completed: 18/33
Point total: 185/460

FALL/WINTER TASKS:

5 Points

1. September is Library Card Sign-Up Month: Go to the library and check two books out and read them.
2. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (sept. 24)

3. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
4. Read a book with a fall word- leaf/leaves, turkey, autumn, fall, pumpkin, acorn, thanksgiving, apple, hayride, harvest, pilgrims, Indians, feast, thanks,
5. Beloved by Toni Morrison

6. September is Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. Read a book about a person struggling with an addiction or with the name of a drug/alcoholic drink in the title.
7. Dracula by Bram Stoker
8. Don't Ask Don't Tell became Public Law No: 103-160 on November 30, 1993. Read a book about LGBT issues, with an LGBT main character, or by an LGBT author.

10 Points

1. Legend Johnny Cash died on September 12th: Read a book about or by your favorite artist/musician/band/composer
2. Wuthering Heights
3. Redeeming Love
4. A Tale of Two Cities
5. Read 2 books that have 2 words that are synonyms: for example..reading Little Woman & The God of Small Things
6. Rebecca by Daphne Dumaurier
7. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
8. "Growing Up Bin Laden" by Jean Sasson. This book was narrated by Osama bin Laden's first wife, Najwa, and his fourth son, Omar. Apparently, in his early years Osama wasn't much of an extremist and was very softspoken. Obviously he changed over time. Also, apparently Osama experienced some kind of eye injury while fighting and so one of his eyes (I think it was the right one but I could be wrong) has lost a lot of sight.

15 Points

1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns and Dr. Zhivago
3. Sabriel
4. The Thornbirds
5. Farmer Boy
6. West Side Story" premiers on Broadway, 1955 on September 26th-- read a play or a book that a Broadway play was based on or a book that was based on a Broadway play. The minimum page number can be negotiable on this one if you are reading a play. Please ask but try to stay above 60 pages.
7. Read both a historical fiction and non-fiction set in the same period
8. Use a random word generator ([ http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytoo... ]http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytoo...) to pick a word. This word must be in the title of the book you read for this challenge. You can use the Pick a new word button only 4 times. I would suggest changing the parameters to very common word or common. The word should be a noun, adjective, or verb.


20 points:

Kelly's Choice-- Read 2 books by 2 different contemporary British authors.

25 Points

1. Pick one of the following American literary movements from the PBS website and read 2 books from 2 different authors in this literary movement. ([ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/ti... ]http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/ti...) There will be a dropdown that says Literary Movements. There will be a blurb about each along with some important authors in each movement.
2. - Read a known classic and THEN read a book of Entertainment Weekly's List called "The New Classics:" The 100 Best Books of the Last 25 Years
([ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076... ]http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076... After reading both write a tiny review in our thread about whether or not you think the "new" classic has the ability to stand the test of time.
3. Read a "pair" of books: A classic and then a contemporary book that was inspired by it
4. Read a book that is mentioned in a song (or if a song mentions an author you can just pick a book by that author) and then also listen to that song.
5. Read 2 books from Time's Top 100 novels list([ http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/t... ]http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/t...)
6. a. Roots (african-amrican)
b. The Kite Runner (middle eastern)
7. BEST and WORST subject:
8. disaster:

FALL/WINTER TASKS:

5 Points

1.
2. Lisey's Song by Stephen King
3. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
4. The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven and Other Poems and The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
5. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
6. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
7. Dracula by Bram Stoker
8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

10 Points

1.
2. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
3. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
4. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
5. Inferno by Dante and The Bonfire of Vanities by Tom Wolfe
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
7. Lady Chatterly’s Lover by DH Lawrence
8. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi

15 Points

1. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
2. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audry Neffinger (England) and Not Art by Peter Esterhazy (Hungary)
3. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
4. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
5. Animal Farm by George Orwell
6. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
7. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld and Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady by Ronald Kessler
8. The Invisible Man by HG Wells (word was invisible)

20 Points

1. Saturday by Ian McEwan and 1984 by George Orwell

25 Points

1. Realism 1865-1910: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
2. Known: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway New: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and March by Geraldine Brooks
4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (song White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane 1967)
5. Atonement by Ian McEwan and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kessey
6.
7.
8.


155 pts (02/22/10)

Fall/Winter Book Lists:

5 points:

1)Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason
2) Little Women
3)Snow Falling on Cedars
4)So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
5)Twelfth Night
6)Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
7) Dracula
8)Middlesex

10 points:

1)The Way You Wear Your Hat Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'
2)Slaughterhouse-Five
3)The Da Vinci Code
4)Never Surrender
5)Ordinary People
Glenn Beck's Common Sense The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
6)Northanger Abbey
7)The Fellowship of the Ring
8)The God Delusion

15 points

1)Hogfather
2)Under the Tuscan Sun
Master and Man and Other Stories
3)The Golden Compass
4)Dune
5)The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
6) Much Ado About Nothing
7)Innocent Traitor A Novel of Lady Jane Grey
Elizabeth The Struggle for the Throne
8)Word: good Good Omens The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

20 points:

Stardust
Atonement

25 points:

1)Romanticism: Invitation to a Beheading
The Bell Jar
2)Persuasion
The Road
3)Pride and Prejudice
Me and Mr. Darcy A Novel
4)Breakfast at Tiffany's
5) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
On the Road
6) Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books
Sula
7)Worst subject: Economics Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Best subject: Politics Arguing with Idiots How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government
8) Life of Pi

Totals:
Read: 10
Point Totals: 100 out of 460

5 Points
1. Two library books
2. September-February
3. winter
4. fall
5. The Chocolate War
6. alcohol/drugs
7. Twilight
8. LGBT

10 Points
1. artist/musician/band/composer
2. catch-22
3. Read a book that was really hyped that you swore you would never read.
4. war
5. Read 2 books that have 2 words that are synonyms
6. romance/erotica
7. The Catcher in the Rye
8. Read a non-fiction book about a subject you find fascinating but truly don’t know much about. You must share with the group a few interesting things you learned before you can claim your points.


15 Points
1. Read a book primarily set during one of these holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanza.
2. Around the World: Read 2 books set in 2 different countries that are different from where you live and that you have never traveled to before.
3. Read a book set in an alternate universe.
4. Monster
5. farm
6. Romeo and Juliet
7. historical fiction and non-fiction set in the same period
8. random word

20 points
Kelly's Choice-- Read 2 books by 2 different contemporary British authors.

25 Points
1. literary movement
2. classics
3. Read a "pair" of books: A classic and then a contemporary book that was inspired by it
4. Read a book that is mentioned in a song (or if a song mentions an author you can just pick a book by that author) and then also listen to that song.
5. Read 2 books from Time's Top 100 novels list
6. cultures
7. best/worst subject
8. disaster

total: 30 points

5 points:

1. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay; Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
2. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
3. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
4. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
7. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
8. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk

10 points:

1. The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours by Jill Scott
2. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
3. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
4. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
5. Utopia by Thomas More; Paradise by Toni Morrison
6. Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin
7. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
8. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

15 points:

1. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
2. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver; Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
3. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
4. Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk
5. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
6. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
7. The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser; The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
8. Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

20 points:

Kelly's Choice. The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory; Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking? by Zoë Heller

25 Points:

1. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
2. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver; Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Los Campesinos! – Don’t Tell Me to Do the Maths)
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey; Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
6. Shanghai Girls A Novel by Lisa See; Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
7. The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine; Push: A Novel by Sapphire
8. The Perfect Storm A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger

5 Points

1. Troubled Waters and Prey
2. Night
3. White Fang
4. Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
5. The Joy of Sex

6. TBD
7. The Silence of the Lambs
8. TBD

10 Points

1. TBD
2. Washington Square
3. Love in the Time of Cholera
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
5. TBD
6. Gone With The Wind
7. The Year of Living Biblically
8. Breakfast at Sally's: One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey (I learned that many homeless are Vietnam veterans, I learned how difficult it is to get out of that place once you are there. I highly recommend this one!)


15 Points

1. TBD
2. Maus and
3. TBD
4. Enchantment
5. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
6. TBD
7. The Boleyn Inheritance and The 6 Wives of Henry VIII
8. Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth


20 points:

The Gun Seller and The Constant Princess

25 Points

1. Postmodernism- The Catcher in the Rye and Lolita
2. - TBD and The Glass Castle
3. The Crucible and Practical Magic
4. TBD
5. Revolutionary Road and The Man Who Loved Children
6. -
1. TBD
2. TBD
3. TBD
4. TBD
5. TBD
6. TBD
7. TBD
8. The Road

70 points as of 12/09/09

I know I'm jumping in here late, but I'll see how many I can do.

5 points:

1. Handle with Care and City of Bones
2. The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
3. The Winter of Our Discontent
4. TBD
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
7. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
8. TBD


10 Points:

1. Jack's Mannequin by Jack's Mannequin
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. The Lovely Bones It turned out to be amazing!
4. Slaughterhouse Five
5. Gone With The Wind and Far From the Madding Crowd
6. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
7. The Catcher in the Rye
8. The Blind Side Evolution of a Game


15 Points:

1. TBD
2. Amsterdam and TBD
3. A Lion Among Men
4. Ford County
5. TBD
6. TBD
7. TBD
8. For Love of Evil The word was "love."


20 Points:

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Saturday


25 Points:

1. TBD
2.TBD
3. TBD
4. TBD
5. TBD
6. TBD
7. TBD
8. The Road



110 points as of 2/10/10

I'm late to join in, but I hope it's okay if I use the books I've read since the challenge officially began. Luckily my read-list tells me what I finished when...

5 Points
1.1 The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend
1.2 The History of the Kings of Britain
2. Jungle Child (346pp.) - author born December 25
3. The Winter King (495pp.)
4. The Shadow of the Wind (563pp.)
5. Death of a Salesman (173pp.)
6. TBD
7. Dracula (263pp.)
8. Maurice


10 Points
1. TBD
2. The Catcher in the Rye (214pp.)
3. Hamlet (259pp.)
4. Generation Kill (463pp.)
5.1 Enemy of God (473pp.)
5.2 The Blind Assassin
6. Jane Eyre (447pp.)
7. Peter Pan (185pp.)
8. Living Religions (436pp.)


15 Points
1. A Christmas Carol (95pp.)
2.1 Dubliners (256pp.) - Ireland
2.2 Norwegian Wood (416pp.) - Japan
3. Star Wars: Tempest (472pp.)
4. Anne of the Island (340pp.)
5. A Wild Sheep Chase (312pp.)
6. A Streetcar Named Desire (197pp.)
7.1 TBD
7.2 The Three Musketeers
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray (252pp.)


20 points
1.1 About a Boy (307pp.)
1.2 Excalibur (480pp.)


25 Points
1.1 Tender Is the Night (392pp.) - Lost Generation
1.2 A Farewell to Arms - Lost Generation
2.1 Uncle Tom's Cabin (415pp.)
2.2 Atonement (372pp.)
3.1 Mrs. Dalloway (205pp.)
3.2 The Hours (221pp.)
4. Smoke and Mirrors (384pp.) - Tori Amos: Carbon
5.1 I, Claudius (396pp.)
5.2 The Great Gatsby (115pp.)
6.1 The Kite Runner (341pp.) - Middle East
6.2 Daughter of Fortune (483pp.) - Latin America
7.1 An Introduction to the Study of Narrative Fiction (188pp.) - best subject: English
7.2 A Handbook of Greek Mythology (330pp.) - worst subject: History
8. The Road (307pp.)

8,846 pages/28 books
21/33 tasks completed
310 points as of 02/20/2010

5 points:
1
2. Ragweed by Avi (born Edward Irving Wortis; December 23, 1937) 9/21*
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. Blood and Chocolate by Annete Curtis Klause
8. Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger 1/10*

10 points:
1.
2.
3. Twilight by Stephanie Meyers or 5 People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
4. Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky 2/14* (WWII)
5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 9/16
A Fabulous Creature by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 1/02 (fabulous/wondrous)*
6. The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks 12/28 *
7. Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum 12/9*
8.

15 points:
1. Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones 12/7*
2. Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori (Japan) 2/12
The Romanov Prophecy: A Novel by Steve Barry (Russia) 11/8*
3. Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones 1/4 *
4. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke 12/1 (red) *
5. Animal Farm by George Orwell
6.
7.
8. “Full” “Badge” “Document” or “Heterosexual”

20 points:
Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones 10/27
Doctor Who Beautiful Chaos by Gary Russell 12/17*

25 points:
1. Modernism: ee cummings and Ernest Hemingway
2. Known classic: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 1/28
New classic: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (UK) 10/15*
I think The Curious Incident… can definitely hold up. Parenting’s hard in any generation- and the book is remarkable in its ability to make the struggles of an autistic boy universal in this ear- I think it can make it. (My whole family read it in a week… and let’s just say they aren’t all bookworms like me.) As for Pride and Prejudice, I’m actually surprised it’s so popular (its values are painfully dissonant with my modern ones)- but it’s definitely successful as a “social document”. (Or at least of what we think of 19th century upper middle- class England.)
3. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 11/23
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West 11/24*
4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 11/17 (song:”Montag” by Steel Prophet- yeah it’s pretty awful)*
5. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 12/17
Slaughter-house 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
6. Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquival (Mexico) 9/20
The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) 12/30*
7. Best subject (Law): The Runaway Jury by John Grisham 9/28
Worst subject (History): The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare 2/10*
8.

Tasks completed:
5 pts X 2 = 10 pts
10 pts X 4 = 40 pts
15 pts X 4 = 60 pts
20 pts X 1 = 20 pts
25 pts X 5 = 125 pts

Total points: 260