Pick-a-Shelf discussion

JANUARY


1.1 mini SAT - 50 Points DONE
teen Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban completed 3/15/11
teen-fiction Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
poetry Where the Sidewalk Ends completed 6/18/11
graphic-novel A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History completed 7/2011
graphic-novels A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
children Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
children-books Where the Sidewalk Ends
childrens Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
children-s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
childrens-books [[book:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban|5]
children-s-books Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
philosophy Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values completed 8/2011


1.2 Debut Novel - 20 Points DONE
The Body Finder completed 2/5/11
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society completed 3/27/11
The Help completed 4/20/11
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit completed 5/29/11
The Lightning Thief completed 3/19/11

1.3 Australia Day - 30 Points
Shallows completed 3/26/11
The Spare Room completed 3/5/11
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Australian author) completed 6/4/11

1.4 Coming of Age/Japan

1.5 Civil Rights/African-American Author - 30 Points

(If book only is listed, it has something to do with civil rights but is not by an African-American author. If author is listed, s/he is an African-American person.)

Something to Prove by Yvonne S. Thornton completed 1/27/11
The Help completed 4/20/11
The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories by Gloria Naylor completed 5/21/11
Fences by August Wilson completed completed 6/5/11
The Color Purple by Alice Walker


Points
1.1: 4 books = 50 points
1.2: 5 books @ 20 points each = 100 points
1.3: 3 books @ 30 points each = 90 points
1.4:
1.5: 4 book @ 30 points each = 120 points

Bonus Pointers:
Thick (>500 pages): 1 book @ 50 points each = 50 points (The Book thief)
Mini SAT: 4 books for January shelves = +50 points

Grand Total: 460 points

Hey, Bea... you may find the following format helps in tracking your points:

1.1:
1.2: 5 books @ 20 points each = 100 points
1.3: 2 books @ 30 points each = 60 points
1.4:
1.5: 1 book @ 30 points each = 30 points
Bonus Pointers:
Thick (>500 pages): x books @ 50 points each = 50x points
Wide (Monthly shelf): x books @ 25 points each = 25x points
Mini SAT: x books for ‘month’ shelves = +50 points or -(x-5)15
Grand Total: 190 points

You're doing great!! :) Read ON!

Kazza wrote: "Hey, Bea... you may find the following format helps in tracking your points:

1.1:
1.2: 5 books @ 20 points each = 100 points
1.3: 2 books @ 30 points each = 60 points
1.4:
1.5: 1 book @ 30 ..."

Thanks for looking at this, Kazza. Yes, that format will help a lot!

FEBRUARY


2.1 mini SAT - 50 Points DONE
thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo completed 4/25/11
thrillers The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
guilty-pleasures The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
sf-fantasy Friday completed 2/27/11
science-fiction-fantasy Friday
scifi-fantasy Friday
sci-fi-fantasy Friday
contemporary The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
contemporary-fiction The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
music A Visit from the Goon Squad completed 5/3/11
english Friday
erotica Murder at Roissy completed 7/4/11

2.2 Groundhog Day - 20 Points DONE
Lyon's Pride (horse) completed 4/30/11
Monkey: A Journey to the West (monkey) completed 3/27/11
Shallows (whale) completed 3/26/11
Starting from Scratch (cat) completed 3/13/11
Burnt Shadows (cranes) completed 2/22/11

2.3 Valentine's Day - 20 Points DONE
completed 2/12/11
completed 4/1/11
completed 4/5/11
completed 3/21/11
completed 2/22/11


2.4 Library Lovers Month - 30 Points DONE
The Grand Complication: A Novel completed 5/14/11
The Help completed 4/20/11
The Book Thief completed 6/4/11
The Thirteenth Tale completed 6/27/11
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie 9/5/11

2.5 Reading around the world - 30 Points DONE
Lie Down With Lions (Afghanistan) completed 4/10/11
The Kite Runner (Afghanistan) completed 4/23/11
Shallows (Australia) completed 3/26/11
The Spare Room (Australia) completed 3/5/11
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Australian author)

2.1: 4 books = 50 points
2.2: 5 books @ 20 points each = 100 points
2.3: 5 books @ 20 points each = 100 points
2.4: 5 book @ 30 points each = 150 points
2.5: 5 books @ 30 points each = 150 points

Bonus Pointers:
Mini SAT: 4 books for February shelves = +50 points

Grand Total: 600 points

MARCH


3.1 mini SAT - 50 Points DONE
paranormal Once Upon a Rose completed 6/21/11
2007 The Kite Runner completed 4/23/11
anthologies Once Upon a Rose
anthology Once Upon a Rose
fiction The Kite Runner
ya-fiction The Lightning Thief completed 3/19/11
ya The Lightning Thief
ya-lit The Lightning Thief
contemporary-romance Once Upon a Rose
harlequin Lawless completed 9/21/11
american The Kite Runner
american-history The Help completed 4/20/11


3.2 Read the Month - 20 Points
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban completed 3/15/11 591pp (Minerva McGonagall - The head of Gryffindor House, a stern but deeply concerned witch, and a great aficionado of Quidditch)
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void completed 7/24/11
Lawless completed 9/21/11 (author's first name = Diana)
No Good Deeds completed 9/10/11

3.3 Reading the Rainbow - 20 Points DONE
(orange) completed 3/3/11
(green) completed 4/8/11
(yellow) completed 4/25/11
(violet) completed 3/29/11
(blue) completed 5/2/11

3.4 International Women's Day - 30 Points
The Help (women's issues) completed 4/20/11
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (feminist) completed 7/18/11
The Color Purple completed 10/16/11


3.5 Read Around the World - 30 Points
A Cottage in Portugal (Portugal) completed 3/18/11
Milton Goldsmith's the Rabbi and the Priest (Russia) completed 5/4/11
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden) completed 4/25/11

3.1: 5 books = 50 points
3.2: 4 book @ 20 points each = 80 points
3.3: 5 books @ 20 points each = 100 points
3.4: 3 books @ 30 points each = 90 points
3.5: 3 books @ 30 points each = 90 points

Bonus Pointers:
Thick (>500 pages): 1 books @ 50 points each = 50 points (Harry Potter book)


Grand Total: 460 points

Don't forget that you can use the same book across different month challenges, For instance,Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban shows on the "paranormal" shelf within the first 2 pages of its shelves... and it could have gone under groundhog's day challenge with the mystical animal on cover (if you had any room left)!! And the monthly bonus points for Thick and Wide you get during the month you complete them. So this month you can get credit only for books on the "American History" shelf (regardless which months challenges it satisfies. Hope this helps. Other than that great job :)

By the way, as for earning the bonus points for the Mini SAT being completed with less than 5, I think you can earn it as completed as long as the numbers match but I don't know...If someone gets this here, can you confirm this?? I will ask on the main page too. (I've been meaning to but I keep forgetting) :)

And the Harry potter book works for which ever task is the Roman gods task as Minerva McGonagal is a character in the book. You can use the same book for up to 7 tasks.

Lahni wrote: "And the Harry potter book works for which ever task is the Roman gods task as Minerva McGonagal is a character in the book. You can use the same book for up to 7 tasks."

Lahni, since I used the Harry Potter book so many times in the mini Sat, do you mean that still only counts for 1 task and I can used it 6 more times?

Hi Bea...I asked that same question and the answer was that the mini-SAT is only considered one task. Regardless of how many shelves you use a book for within the same mini-SAT, it only counts as 1 task. You can absolutely use your Harry Potter book 6 more times

Amy wrote: "Hi Bea...I asked that same question and the answer was that the mini-SAT is only considered one task. Regardless of how many shelves you use a book for within the same mini-SAT, it only counts as 1..."

Oh...getting out my list and checking off where else it will fit.

APRIL


4.1 mini SAT DONE
young-adult - Mockingjay completed 6/11/11
young-adult-fiction - Mockingjay
relationships - The Glass Castle completed 4/3/11
juvenile - Where the Sidewalk Ends completed 6/2011
juvenile-fiction - Where the Sidewalk Ends
picture-book - Where the Sidewalk Ends
picturebooks - The Giving Tree completed 7/1/11
picture-books - Where the Sidewalk Ends
2006 - The Glass Castle
kids - Where the Sidewalk Ends
kids-books - Where the Sidewalk Ends
theory - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values completed 8/13/11

4.2 National Poetry Month - 20 Points
Where the Sidewalk Ends completed 6/2011
A Light in the Attic completed 6/2011
Versed completed 7/30/11


4.3 April Fools Day - 20 Points DONE
Diary of a Modern Day Goddess completed 4/20/11
High Fidelity completed 8/31/11
A Hand To Hold, An Opinion To Reject completed 8/19/11
Double Whammy completed 9/30/11
Lean Mean Thirteen completed 11/5/11


4.4 World Health & Earth Days - 50 Points DONE
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo completed 4/25/11 590pp library
Black for Remembrance completed 4/16/11 264pp own
Murder to Go completed 4/10/11 224pp own
Making Money completed 4/8/11 394pp library
A Painted House completed 4/16/11 388pp library

Intermediary: Walked on Wii Step for 1860 steps

4.5 Celebrate Easter - 30 Points DONE
Good in Bed (good) completed 5/11/11
Bloodroot (blood) completed 5/8/11
The Death of a King (death) completed 6/4/11
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (life) completed 10/1/11
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (good) completed 7/16/2011

4.1: 5 books = 50 points
4.2: 3 books @ 20 points each = 60 points
4.3: 5 books @ 20 points each = 100 points
4.4: 5 books @ 50 points each = 250 points
4.5: 5 books @ 30 points each = 150 points

Bonus Pointers:
Thick (>500 pages): 1 books @ 50 points each = 50 points (Girl/Dragon Tattoo book)


Grand Total: 660 Points

MAY


5.1 mini SAT - 50 Points DONE
scifi - Mockingjay completed 6/11/11
sci-fi - Mockingjay
science-fiction - Mockingjay
sf - Mockingjay
20th-century - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values completed 8/13/11
religion - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
short-stories - Once Upon a Rose completed 6/21/11
mysteries - The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story completed 6/5/11
mystery - The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story
mystery-suspense - The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story
mystery-thriller - The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story
christian-fiction - The Shack completed 9/25/11

5.2 Election/Political Theme - 30 Points



5.3 WW II Europe - 30 Points
A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History completed 7/2011
A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began 9/21/11


5.4 Choice Awards - 20 Points
Mockingjay (best YA fantasy) completed 6/11/11
Room (best fiction) completed 12/11
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (best nonfiction) completed 10/1/11
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (best mystery/thriller)
Dead in the Family (best paranormal fantasy) completed 7/2/11


5.5 TOWEL Day - 20 Points


5.1: 5 books = 50 points
5.2: x books @ 30 points each = points
5.3: 2 books @ 30 points each = 60 points
5.4: 4 books @ 20 points each = 80 points
5.5: x books @ 20 points each = points


Grand Total: 190 Points

JUNE


6.1 mini SAT DONE
general - Tuesdays with Morrie completed 6/5/11
general-fiction - Tuesdays with Morrie
action - I Am Number Four completed 6/12/11
action-adventure - I Am Number Four
college - Tuesdays with Morrie
business - Freakonomics completed 8/2/11
school - Tuesdays with Morrie
stories - Once Upon a Rose completed 6/21/11
horror - The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story completed 6/5/11
memoir - Tuesdays with Morrie
memoirs - Tuesdays with Morrie
economics - Freakonomics


6.2 LGBT Month - 30 Points
The Color Purple completed 10/16/11

6.3 Spelling Bee - 30 Points DONE

word is POSSESS - spelled by author last name

P = Double Deuce by Robert B. Parker completed 7/17/11
O = The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht completed 10/4/11
S = At First Sight byNicholas Sparks completed 6/15/11
S = Like a Charm by Karin Slaughter completed 6/24/11
E = The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards completed 8/21/11
S = The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield completed 6/27/11
S = Doomsday Conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon completed 8/20/11


6.4 Opposites - 20 Points
(Winter) completed 9/25/11
(Summer) completed 11/6/11
(Spring) completed 7/23/11


6.5 Father's Day - 20 Points
Double Whammy completed 9/30/11

6.1: 5 books = 50 points
6.2: 1 books @ 30 points each = 30 points
6.3: 5 books @ 20 points each = 100 points
6.4: 3 books @ 20 points each = 60 points
6.5: 1 books @ 20 points each = 20 points

Bonus Pointers:
Thick (>500 pages): x books @ 50 points each =
Wide (Monthly shelf): 1 books @ 25 points each = 25 points (Memoirs of a Geisha started 6/19/11
Spelling Bee: 2 books @ 50 points = 100 points

Grand Total: 385 Points

JULY


7.1 mini SAT
fantasy - The Giving Tree completed 7/2/11
spirituality - The Color Purple completed 10/16/11
nature - The Giving Tree
classic - The color Purple
classics - The Color Purple
2000s - The Lovely Bones completed 10/7/11
writing -
children-s-literature - The Giving Tree
children-s-lit - The Giving Tree
childrens-picture-books - The Giving Tree
2003 - The Lovely bones
all-time-favorites - The Giving Tree


7.2 Independence Day- 30 Points

7.3 RAW: k-o - 30 Points

7.4 Read Across Generation - 20 Points DONE
20s: Mrs. Dalloway completed 7/18/11
30s: The African Queen completed 11/24/11
40s: The Loved One completed 9/18/11
50s: The Winthrop Woman completed 11/27/11
60s: House Made of Dawn completed 9/17/11

7.5 New Seven Wonders of the World - 20 Points
War: The People of the Book completed 7/14/11
Culture: Memoir of a Geisha completed 8/6/11
Art: A Single Shard completed 10/30/11
Magic:
Archeology: Paying the Piper completed 10/3/11

7.1:
7.2: x books @ 30 points each = points
7.3: x books @ 30 points each = points
7.4: 5 books @ 20 points each = 100 points
7.5: 4 books @ 20 points each = 80 points

Bonus Pointers:
Thick (>500 pages): 1 books @ 50 points each = 50 points (Winthrop Woman 587pp)
Wide (Monthly shelf): 1 books @ 25 points each = 25 points - Lonesome Dove started 7/21/11
Mini SAT: x books for ‘month’ shelves = +50 points or -(x-5)15

Grand Total: 255 Points

AUGUST


8.1 mini SAT
2004 - The Lovely Bones completed 10/7/11
chick-lit - The Lovely Bones
chicklit - Lean Mean Thirteen completed 11/5/11
adventure - Lean Mean Thirteen
political - Freakonomics completed 8/2/11
politics - Freakonomics
academic - Freadonomics
art -
adult - The Lovely Bones
adult-fiction - Dewey: The Library Cat... completed 9/28/11
biography - Dewey: The Library Cat...
autobiography - Dewey: The Library Cat...


8.2 RAW: u-z - 30 Points DONE
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie completed 9/5/11
House Made of Dawn completed 9/17/11
The Loved One completed 9/19/11
Lawless completed 9/21/11
A Drop of Murder completed 9/3/11


8.3 Back to School - 30 Points DONE
English: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie completed 9/5/11
Math (at least 630 pages): Lonesome Dove completed 8/26/11
Science: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks completed 10/1/11
Geography: The Right Attitude to Rain completed 9/8/11
Mod Hx: Winthrop Woman completed 11/27/11

8.4 Proverbial Sayings - 20 Points

8.5 Common Sense - 20 Points
touch: A Hand To Hold, An Opinion To Reject completed 8/19/11
sight:
taste: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie completed 9/5/11
hearing:
smell:

8.1:
8.2: 5 books @ 30 points each = 150 points
8.3: 5 books @ 30 points each = 150 points
8.4: x books @ 20 points each = points
8.5: 2 books @ 20 points each = 40 points

Bonus Pointers:
Thick (>500 pages): x books @ 50 points each =
Wide (Monthly shelf): 1 books @ 25 points each = 25 points (The Apprentice - GR author and on my TBR since 1/11)
Mid-month bonus points: 20 (see above)
Mini SAT: 1 books for ‘month’ shelves = 50 points or -(x-5)15

Grand Total: 435 Points

SEPTEMBER


9.1 mini SAT - 50 Points DONE
childhood - The Giver completed 10/9/11
childhood-favorites - The Giver
2010 - The Giver
2008 - The Giver
21st-century - The Lovely Bones completed 10/7/11
animals - Dewey: The Library Cat completed 9/28/11
historical - Dewey: The Library Cat
historical-fiction - The Winthrop Woman completed 11/27/11
historical-romance - The Winthrop Woman
lit - The Giver
literature - The Color Purple completed 10/16/11
crime - The Lovely Bones


9.2 Banned Books - 30 Points
A separate Peace completed 12/25/11
The Color Purple
The Giver

9.3 Pirate Day - 20 Points

9.4 Peace Day - 20 Points
A Separate Peace

9.5 Branching Out - 25 Points
Michael Connelly
James Patterson
Jodi Picoult
Lean Mean Thirteen ompleted 11/5/11
Alice Hoffman


9.1: 5 books = 50 points
9.2: 3 books @ 30 points each = 90 points
9.3: x books @ 20 points each = points
9.4: 1 books @ 20 points each = 20 points
9.5: 1 books @ 25 points each = 25 points

Bonus Pointers:
Thick (>500 pages): x books @ 50 points each =
Wide (Monthly shelf): 3 books @ 25 points each = 75 points
Mini SAT: x books for ‘month’ shelves = +50 points or -(x-5)15

Grand Total: 260 Points

OCTOBER


10.1 mini SAT
2005
fun - The Feng Shui Detective completed 12/3/11
humor - The Feng Shui Detective
friendship
science - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack completed 10/1/11
parenting
nonfiction - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack
non-fiction - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack
language
education
psychology
reference


10.2 It's Our birthday - 30 Points DONE
P - Paying the Piper completed 10/3/11
I - My Invented Country completed 10/5/11
C - Children of the Street completed 11/30/11
K - The Peach Keeper completed 12/21/11
A - Angel's Advocate completed 10/30/11

10.3 It's Our Birthday (cont)- 30 Points DONE
S - A Single Shard completed 10/30/11
H - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack completed 10/1/11
E - The Faberge Egg completed 12/4/11
L - The Lonely Silver Rain completed 10/13/11
F - The Feng Shui Detective completed 12/3/11

10.4 Halloween - 20 Points
Windy City Blues completed 10/29/11
Angel's Advocate completed 10/30/11

10.5 Children/Teachers - 25 Points
Lovely Bones (child main character) completed 10/7/11
The Angel of Death (teacher main character) completed 10/19/11
A Separate Peace (set at a school) completed 12/26/11
(child on cover) completed 10/30/11


10.1: x books = 50 points
10.2: 5 books @ 30 points each = 150 points
10.3: 5 books @ 20 points each = 150 points
10.4: 2 books @ 20 points each = 40 points
10.5: 4 books @ 25 points each = 100 points

Bonus Pointers:
Thick (>500 pages): x books @ 50 points each =
Wide (Monthly shelf): 1 books @ 25 points each = 25 points (Windy City Blues - 10/29/11)
Mini SAT: x books for ‘month’ shelves = +50 points or -(x-5)15

Grand Total: 465 Points

NOVEMBER


11.1 mini SAT
2009
suspense - Darkness, My Old Friend completed 12/3/11
christian
modern-fiction
travel
theology
vampires
series - The Feng Shui Detective completed 12/3/11
drama
film
sports - The Picasso Flop completed 12/14/11
cookbooks

11.2 RAW: f-j - 30 Points DONE
The Eight (France) completed 12/18/11
Murder on the Eiffel Tower (France) completed 12/8/11
Seven Blessings (Israel) completed 11/6/11
Shadow Lines (India) completed 11/21/11
Children of the Street (Ghana) completed 11/30/11

11.3 St. Andrew's Day - 20 Points

11.4 Thanksgiving - 20 Points DONE
Children of the Street
Shadow Lines
Winthrop Woman completed 11/27/11
When Red is Black completed 12/12/11
Shakespeare's Christmas completed 12/16/11

11.5 International Men's Day - 25 Points
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand completed 11/16/11

11.1: x books = points
11.2: 5 books @ 30 points each = 150 points
11.3: x books @ 20 points each = points
11.4: 5 books @ 20 points each = 100 points
11.5: 1 books @ 25 points each = 25 points

Bonus Pointers:
Thick (>500 pages): x books @ 50 points each =
Wide (Monthly shelf): x books @ 25 points each = points
Mini SAT: x books for ‘month’ shelves = +50 points or -(x-5)15

Grand Total: 275 Points

DECEMBER in progress


12.1 mini SAT
comic-books
comics
manga
mythology
history
feminism
collection
self-help
inspirational
military
love
romance

12.2 Non-ROAR books - 25 Points

12.3 2011 Shelves - 25 Points

12.4 2011 Shelves (cont) - 25 Points

12.5 NEW Books - 25 Points


12.1: x books = points
12.2: x books @ 30 points each = points
12.3: x books @ 20 points each = points
12.4: x books @ 20 points each = points
12.5: x books @ 25 points each = points

Bonus Pointers:
Thick (>500 pages): 1 books @ 50 points each = 50 points
Wide (Monthly shelf): 1 books @ 25 points each = 25 points (The Eight)
Mini SAT: x books for ‘month’ shelves = +50 points or -(x-5)15

Grand Total: Points