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Hey Y'all! Nice to be back. I'm hoping to actually finish this time around, lol. I missed the last challenge by 10 points! Arghh...

I finished 10.5 - My birthday is in September, I chose to read Liar by Justine Larbalestier. There was a lot of controversy about this book because of the cover (The protagonist in the book is a biracial girl, described as having short nappy hair, and the original cover featured a white girl with very long hair). The publisher wound up relenting and redoing the cover with a model who actually looked like the character.

This book was interesting. The main character, Micah, is a pathological liar and you just don't know what to believe. I will say that halfway through, Larbalestier throws in a twist that many who read the book felt left down by, but I really enjoyed this book. A quick and compelling read, with a much better cover.

Current Score: 10 points

For more info on the cover scandal, check this out:

I finished 5.1, Disney related with

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins is my favorite Disney movie so I went back to the source. Disney used all the best bits.

+5
total 40

Roseann wrote: "Petra wrote: "I guess I don't have that kind of attention span either. I couldn't watch a DVD movie (something without commercials) and read a book and count that as watching the movie as I wouldn'..."

hahaha, my husband says the same thing about me.

10.4 I chose a book from Donna Jo's 5 star list.To Kill a Mockingbird
good writing
10 pts down, many more to go :)

Finished another one--

35.1--BIOMEDICAL ETHICS by Terry O’Neil (174.2)

I was fully ready to hate this book, but it actually was pretty interesting. Not only does it cover the timeline of ethics in medicine from Greek and Roman times to the present, but it also presents many essay on subjects ranging from Euthanasia to Cloning to Eugenics. Considering the subject matter, it was written in layman's terms and pretty easy to follow.

and

WHAT IN THE WORD by Charles Harrington Elster (422)
This book covers people's questions about the origins to words, to grammar issues, to even how words have been "Americanized." If you are a Logophile you will LOVE this book!

This brings me to 170 points!

I finished 10.2 Louis Louis: Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner who is a Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Author

Total points: 10.

I finished 10.9 "Remembering Pearl Harbor" by reading

Here Today, Gone to Maui by Carol Snow.

Carol Snow is a Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ author.

Total Points: 10

I finished 5.4 A Winning Decade by reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie which won The National Book Award in 2007. I gave this book 4 stars. I really liked it.

Total Points: 5

Task 5.8 Veiled Threats by Deborah Donnelly

Just finished Beauty A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast as my favorite Disney movie is Beauty and the Beast. Might have been the book thing idk?! haha


total--5 points

5.2
Ugly Americans The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions - An interesting look at Ivy league "hedge fund cowboys" who raided the mid 90's Japanese financial markets for millions while navigating the underbelly of Yakuza run sex trade and night life.


25.10
A - TBD
B - The Umbrella Academy Dallas - A superhero family, time travel, sadistic assassins in Banana Splits masks, and a very unexpected person behind the "trigger" at the end.

Points: 5
Books: 2
Tasks: 1

25.9 bridgit's task
Dragonsong- Anne McCaffrey (includes map of the land of Pern)

Lover Avenged- J.R. Ward (includes extra content - glosssary of terms used through the series)

** Lover Avenged is over 500 pages ** (527)

Tasks complete - 2
points - 40

I Read The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. I really enjoyed this book. It was a bit hard to follow each story (there are 8 in a relatively short book), but quite good overall! 5 stars. I played Majong today -- this game is so fun! I brought it back from China this summer but haven't gotten a chance to play it yet until now!

New Point Total: 30
Task Completed: 2
Books Read: 2
Pages Read: 633

10.4 - To Kill a Mockingbird - Sara Nicole

Tasks completed: 1
Points: 10

I finished another task
5 Points
8. Baby It's Cold Outside
I read "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie.

I am working on my third challenge. It have one book read for the two book task.



Books Read: 3
Total Points: 30/1100
Completed Tasks 2

I finished 30.7 Jan's Multi-Tasking with
Finger Lickin' Fifteen. This fits 5.10 - The Allure of Alliteration & 15.3 What Women Want to Read
I give this book 4-stars. If you like this series, you'll like this book. If you haven't tried any of this series & like a good laugh, I recommend any of the series.

35.3 It's About Time: The Hours

It's a good book. Seems like it's trying too hard, though...all the pieces fit together, but the author writes like he's trying to be deep...but doesn't manage to say anything profound. Oh, well.

Total: 35 + 115 (from earlier) = 150 points

One more down--

30.9--Rachel Lee/GOOD MASTERS! SWEET LADIES! VOICES FROM A MEDIEVAL VILLAGE by Laura Amy Schlitz (Newbery Award, 2008)

Written as a sort of stage play for kids to perform, this story follows the many individuals who live in a Medieval Village and teaches what their jobs were and what their lives were like from beggar to noble.

and

FEATHERS by Jaqueline Woodson (Honor Book, 2008)

A new boy shows up at school and it's immediately apparent that he belongs at the school across the tracks. This story of racism and acceptance set in the 1960's is a sweet tale of the education of a group of African-American student.

This brings me to 200 points!

5.2-(Betsey Ross) I read "The Last Girls" by Lee Smith. (The cover is mostly Red, White and Blue).

I liked the premise of the story, but never felt connected to any of the women, sometimes I could't keep straight who was who! And it didn't have a complete ending for me.

But I am on the board with 5 points! Yay!

5.1- Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

My favorite movie is The Lion King, and it's based on Hamlet. I've read it twice before and seen the play twice, but I don't remember it being so funny. Since humor doesn't really age well it must have been hilarious when it first showed.

Points: 5
Tasks: 1
Books: 1
Pages: 286

20.1 Revisiting the Past Riff on Six New and Selected Poems

My favorites are "Memorial Quilt, Central Park," but "A Day in Ohio" is beautiful, too.

I used "10. April Is National Poetry Month � Read A Book Of Poetry Or A Book About A Famous Poet." I assume it is from a Spring Challenge, though I'm not sure what year it's from (this is my first time participating).

Total: 20 + 150 (from earlier) = 170 points

Laura wrote: "5.1- Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

My favorite movie is The Lion King, and it's based on Hamlet. I've read it twice before and seen the play twice, but I don't remember i..."

Oh wow I don't think I'd ever linked the two but now you say it I can see it and feel I should have worked that one out!!

5.4 Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman (2003 Bram Stoker Award)

total: 105 points

Wow, I didn't know The Lion King was based on Hamlet... that is so interesting!

Finished my first task for this challenge (Rachel Lee's). I read From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler which won in 1968 and The Egypt Game. I gave both 3*. The winner is about a 12 year old girl who decides to runaway with her 9 year old brother. They decide to stay at the Metropolitan Museum in NY. It was a book I remember reading when I was little. The Egypt Game is about a group of children who create a game about Egypt. It tells of the ceremonies that they make up and then weird things start to happen in Egypt. I really did not like one over the other.

This gives me 30 points.

5-10 A Cedar Cove Chrsitmas by Debbie Macomber.

15 points

15.9 Out With The Old & In With The New
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (on my TBR shelf since Aug. 24, 2009)
Black Friday by Alex Kava

Total points: 25

I finished my first task of the season - I complete task 5.10 - THE ALLURE OF ALLITERATION - by reading Naughty Neighbor. So I realized that for the 3rd challenge in a row I've read an Janet Evanovich for my first book - I guess it is because they are nice and easy books to ease my way in. This was another of her cute romances and as usual I enjoyed it a lot but I really can't wait for the next Stephanie Plum - they always make me laugh.

Pages Read - 229
Tasks Completed - 1

Finished 30.7: Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

Fits other tasks 5.7 and 10.5

Total Points: 30

Hello all! Finished my second task of the season:
20.3 GROUP READS : Read One Of The Following Group Read Selections And Make At Least One Post In The Discussion Thread.
C. Romance : The Princess Bride by William Goldman

(see message #7 in the Princess Bride Discussion thread for the "at least one post" part of the task)

10 + 20 = 30



Tasks Completed: 2
Points for this task: 20
Points thus far: 30/1100
Books read: 2
Pages Read: 736

Ok here is my first task completed! 25 pointer Yay!

3. SARA NICOLE'S TASK - A GAME OF CLUE
A. Suspects (Cover Color - Blue)The Darkest Kiss by Gena Showalter


B. Weapons (Sword)Master of Swords by Angela Knight

Book B was from my local library!

Tasks Completed: 1
Points for this task: 25
Points thus far: 25
Books read: 2

I completed Task 20.3 by listening to The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0 by Christopher Moore.
If you want to read a Christmas story with many, many twists and zany, crazy characters then this is it. I really enjoyed it. The characters are all loopy and warm and loving and bizarre. I now want a Fruit Bat, too.
I've posted in the Discussion thread and hope that others will join in, too.

Erin wrote: "I Read The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. I really enjoyed this book. 5 stars..."

This is exactly what I am planning to do also Erin! I am glad the hear you enjoyed the book and that there is another mahjong junkie in the house! :)

15.2 The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold and Peter Pan by JM Barrie (Neverland)

Finished the Group Reads task 20.3 The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0 and put a post on the feed, #9.

I loved this book! Glad it was chosen ;P

Tasks Completed: 4
Points for this task: 20
Points thus far: 50/1100
Books read: 6
Pages read: 1409

*cheers for who read Kitchen Princess, Volume 1!!* I'd have selected that one for the cooking challenge or the manga portion but I already read the WHOLE SERIES! :P

Oooh awesome that many are enjoying The Stupidest Angel A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0!! Plan to finish this one today!

Finished 25.2 Friendship
Read Good Harbor by Anita Diamant.

What friendship means to me:

This book made me reflect on female friendship.
There were times in my life when I was so focused on my married and professional lives that I completely forgot about friends, particularly female friends.

Then I found myself quite isolated as I got to work away from home during the weeks for 9 years.
I got to meet a few colleagues of my own age (50+) and got very close to one of them in particular. She helped me tremendously pulling through rough time at work, breast cancer and finally giving up my job as I couldn't cope with the pressure.
She means a lot to me even now, although I'm not posted in the UK anymore and I see less of her.

Nothing can replace female friendship. Not only close friends but also women with whom we can share "girly" stuff and understand each other.

I now have a number of friends and really make an effort to keep the warmth of those relationship around me and around them.

Finished 5-3 I read 'The Princess of Cleves' by Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette. Boooorrring!

20 points

I am on the boards!! :-)

I finished task 5.9 by reading 77 Love Sonnets by Garrison Keillor. It was quite good! One of the best collections of poems I have read, and the book is the perfect size to tuck into your purse, and has really neat paper and layout. 5 stars!

Point Total: 5
Page Total: 173
Book Total: 1

Finished

30.9-1968

(Winner)From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler-5*-This is my absolute favorite book from childhood. I loved it and re-read it so often throughout the years. This time around (after many years since I have read it) I listened to the audio version. I still really enjoyed this story, partly because of the nostalgia I felt while listening. There are parts of this book that I can almost recite from memory.

AND

(Honor)Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth-3.5*- I had never read this book. Despite the fact, that EL Konigsburg was the author of my favorite book, I hadn't read anything else by her. I enjoyed this book also, but not nearly as much as I enjoy "The Mixed Up Files"

Total Points 60/1100
Total Books 5/80
Total Tasks Completed 2/58
Total Pages 1170

First task complete:

5.1 The Wonderful World of Disney: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

I originally read this book as a child, and it was still sitting on my old bookshelf in my parents house, but I didn't remember much of it, only the movie. The book is very sweet, rather droll and a bit darker than the Disney movie.

Finished another one--

20.2--ROSA PARKS by Douglas Brinkley

Story of the woman who was so tired after a long day of work she refused to get up out of her seat on a bus and in doing so become the "mother" of the civil-rights movement in America. I am always so suprised at the fact that these people often don't see what they did as earth-shattering. In the end, accordng to Mr. Brinkley, Ms. Parks still did not understand why people saw her as so important.

This brings me to 220 points!

15.1 MAKE ME LAUGH - Read a black comedy - Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire AND watch a black comedy - Freeway, starring Reese Witherspoon (before she was famous).

GREAT book and great movie!

Total Points: 65
Tasks Completed: 4

I finished Wendy's task 30.6: Winter Vacation Dreams by reading In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson.

This book is about several trips the author made to Australia. He spent several weeks there exploring odd and unusual places. He did a lot of reading about Australia and its history and ties it all into his travels.

I would LOVE to go there -- though I would spend a lot more time at Great Barrier Reef. I love scuba diving and think it would be an amazing experience! I went to Australia as a child, but of course going as an adult, and setting my own itinerary, would be amazing!

It takes so long to get there, and I have small kids, so we're not going anytime in the near future. But I can imagine it perfectly!

Total Points: 40
Total Tasks: 2

10.9 Hawaii Task: The Broccoli Tapes

Edit:
20.2 Civil Rights Movement: The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
I love this book. Highly, highly recommend it. I think people passing my door at work thought I was insane for laughing as hard as I did at the first half.

Total: 30 + 170 (from earlier) = 200 points

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Dang it all why can I not get the Ticker to work???

I finished 35.4, Read about your Resolutions with:

My resolution is to reduce the clutter in my life- especially my work clutter- I have a hard time trying to figure out what to save and what to throw away.

A. Fiction: Crime and Clutter
B. Non-fiction: Throw Out Fifty Things Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life

Crime and Clutter is a "Friday Afternoon Club Mystery" but there was no mystery in the book at all. There was a lightweight plot arc involving 60's counter-culture and an absent father. But it is quite a multi-tasker: alliteration title, on the cozy mystery list, about a group of supportive women friends, with recipes.

Throw Out Fifty Things was the right book at the right time for me- it doesn't provide any guidance on filing or storage options, instead it urges the reader to deal with the emotional clutter that takes up so much time and energy.

+35
total 75

Cheryl wrote: "Dang it all why can I not get the Ticker to work???"

I'm not sure but this may be the wrong link? The one I copy has an "a" at the beginning and end. Maybe check to see if your code is the right one?

Anyways here are my completed tasks:
5.2 Sixteen Scandals by William Strauss and Elaina Newport

10.2 The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
10.3 The Harlem Renaissance by Richard Worth
10.8 I Know It's Over by C.K.Kelly Martin

25.9A Shattered The Tarrant Tornadoes by The Start Telegram--included a map of where the tornadoes touched down

25.9B The Awakening by Debra White Smith included drawings and a cast of characters

That makes 60 points for today

Previous total 60
Added total 60
Challenge Total 120