Sunday, May 27, 2012

Summer Book Challenge: Week 4

Photo via Alexandru Jigovan

Current scoreboard:
  1. Nova @ My Seryniti —80
  2. Heather @ A Cupcake Love Affair —75
  3. Sarah @ Books, Jeans, and Awesome — 70
  4. Cristina @ Bonjour, Je M'appelle Cristina — 70
  5. Momma Sunshine @ Cross-Stitching Diva —65
  6. Stacey @ Stacey's Daze — 60
  7. Jessica @ Sweet Green Tangerine —50
  8. Jen @ Grown in Southern Ground — 50
  9. Joslin @ Joslin as Mrs. Williams —45
  10. Erinn @ It's the Journey — 40
  11. Megan @ Semi-Charmed Kind of Life (host) — 40
  12. Amy @ Delightful Witticisms — 35
  13. Jessica @ Eternally Enlisted — 35
  14. Abby S. on Goodreads — 35
  15. Pinar @ Pinuccia's World of Books — 35
  16. Jenna @ Cannery Row Reads — 25
  17. Becky Ingle — 20
  18. Darlene @ Darlene's Book Nook — 20
  19. Hannah — 20
  20. Lindsay @ Lindsay in Progress —15
  21. Book Dragon @ Book Dragon's Lair — 15 
  22. Amanda @ Amanda's Weekly Zen — 15
  23. Rebecca @ Garrulous and Bookish —15
  24. Sarah @ The Roaring Twenties — 10
  25. Katrina @ Elements of Fun — 10
  26. Patty @ Pitter from Patty — 10
  27. Jessica @ Random Thoughts — 5 
  28. Erin J. on Goodreads — 5
  29. Amanda @ Words From My Heart — 0
  30. Amanda @ Down to Sanity — 0
  31. Kevin @ The Blog of the System — 0
  32. Tina @ Like Ordinary Life — 0
  33. Caroline @ Carenpants — 0
  34. Michelle @ The True Book Addict — 0
  35. Angie @ Angels are Kids and Furkids — 0
  36. Gabs @ Novel Ideas — 0
  37. Jennifer S. — 0
  38. Jo @ In Which We Start Anew — 0
  39. Laura Swan — 0
Here's what I read this week:
15 points: Read a book in one calendar day. — Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green & David Levithan (310 pages)
5 points: Read a book chosen for the 2012 World Book Night. — The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri (291 pages)
PREVIOUS POINTS: 40
TOTAL POINTS: 60
To be honest, reading a book in one day was completely an accident. I decided to read Will Grayson, Will Grayson for another challenge and started it on my lunch break on Wednesday. It was going pretty quickly, so I kept at it for a few hours when I got home. I watched the season finale of Law & Order: SVU at 9 p.m. and finished the book shortly afterward. It was great!

I also read the first book of my antonym pair, Plainsong by Kent Haruf. My other half is Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz, but I haven't picked it up yet. I still have quite a stack of library books to get through. (Plain and Odd: Antonyms, yes?)

Please update me on your progress in a comment on this post. I usually don't write the scoreboard post until Saturday, so as long as you check in by Friday I should have your most up-to-date score on the board. If you forget to check in one week, no worries! Just catch yourself up on the next week's check-in. If you just joined the challenge, welcome! Please feel free to include all books you've read since May 1 that were at least 200 pages long. You can review the full list of rules here. Good luck!