888 Finished the challenge? Celebrate!

2008-12-31T14:38:00.001-06:00

1. Becky (Becky\'s Book Reviews)
2. S.Anand
3. 3M (1morechapter)
4. Embejo (Jessica)

5. raidergirl3
6. Lulu
7. bookworm
8. Vasilly

9. LisaQuing
10. Tiny Librarian
11. Laurie

Tiny Little Librarian's Picks

2008-12-31T12:20:00.001-06:00

FINISHED - HOORAY!

(Sorry for the multi-colours, I kept forgetting which blue I'd used.)

Vampires (with the Themed Reading Challenge)
1. Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
2. Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
3. Real Vampires Have Curves by Gerry Bartlett
4. Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith
5. Demons of the Ocean by Justin Somper
6. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
7. Marked by PC Cast
8. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: 8th Grade Bites by Heather Brewer

Titles With Numbers (with the Numbers Challenge)
1. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
2. Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham
3. The Three Miss Margarets by Louise Shaffer
4. The Perfectly True Tales of a Perfect Size 12 by Robin Gold
5. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
6. One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
7. Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress by Tina Ferraro
8. One Dangerous Lady by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Nonfiction
1. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
2. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
3. Rat Pack Confidential by Shawn Levy
4. Down the Nile by Rosemary Mahoney
5. Food and Loathing: a life measured out in calories by Betsy Lerner
6. Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank by Celia Rivenbark
7. Dear Sad Goat: A Roundup of Truly Canadian Tales and Letters compiled by Bill Richardson
8. Gastroanomalies by James Lileks

Southern
1. The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square by Rosina Lippi
2. Deep Dish by Mary Kay Andrews
3. Miss Julia Throws a Wedding by Ann B. Ross
4. The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass Novel by Jill Conner Browne
5. Miss Julia Takes Over by Ann B. Ross
6. Bobbie Faye's (kinda, sorta, not really) Family Jewels by Toni McGee Causey
7. My Summer of Southern Discomfort by Stephanie Gayle
8. Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes by Cathy Holton

Historical Fiction
1. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
2. The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
3. The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
4. The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell by Loraine Despres
5. Star-Crossed by Linda Collison
6. Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
7. Fleur De Leigh's Life of Crime by Diane Leslie
8. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Set in New York
1. The Perfect Manhattan by Leanne Shear and Tracey Toomey
2. The New Yorkers by Cathleen Schine
3. Breakfast at Bloomingdale's by Kristen Kemp
4. Enchanted, Inc. by Shanna Swendson
5.Ten Things to Do Before I Die by Daniel Ehrenhaft
6. The Art of Undressing by Stephanie Lehmann
7. Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein
9. Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson

Mystery
1. Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris
2. Monsieur Pamplemousse and the Militant Midwives by Michael Bond
3. Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews
4. Over Her Dead Body by Kate White
5. Piece of my Heart by Peter Robinson
6. Uncommon Grounds by Sandra Balzo
7. Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
8. Till the Cows Come Home by Judy Clemens

New-to-me Authors
1. Cease to Blush by Billie Livingston
2. Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
3 . Love Walked in by Maria De Los Santos
4. The Marriage of True Minds by Stephen Evans
5. Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking by Aoibheann Sweeney
6. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
7. Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner
8. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

Enter your November/December reviews here!

2008-12-31T00:01:00.001-06:00

1. Cafeshree (No Reservations)
2. Cafeshree (Negative Space)
3. Cafeshree (Sunglasses After Dark)
4. Cafeshree (Exit Music)
5. Cafeshree (Acheron)
6. Cafeshree (God\'s Middle Finger)
7. Cafeshree (Hold the Enlightenment)
8. Cafeshree (On a Hoof and a Prayer)
9. bookworm (romeo romeo)
10. raidergirl3(All She Was Worth)
11. Tiny Librarian (13 Reasons Why)
12. alisonwonderland (Bronte\'s Book Club)
13. alisonwonderland (Mermaids in the Basement)
14. Wendy (Rebecca)
15. Bookworm (Trust Me)
16. Julie - Watermelon
17. Wendy (Black Wave)
18. Tiny Librarian (Guernsey Literary...)
19. Tiny Librarian (Top 10 Uses...)
20. bookworm (wife in the north)
21. Tiny Librarian (Short History of Tractors...)
22. Tiny Librarian (Fleur De Leigh\'s Life of Crime)
23. Tiny Librarian (Private Peaceful)

24. Embejo (Cry, the Beloved Country)
25. Embejo (Jessica)
26. Embejo Honey For a Child\'s Heart)
27. Embejo( The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
28. Embejo( Absolute Power)
29. alisonwonderland (Lucky Man)
30. Cafeshree (Flesh House)
31. Tiny Librarian (Piece of my Heart)
32. Jules - Harry Potter 4
33. bookworm (the reluctant widow)
34. Cafeshree (Girl from Mars)
35. Cafeshree (Hotel World)
36. Pillars of the Earth (Jules)
37. Laura (Castle Waiting)
38. bookworm (the exchange)
39. Ship Fever (Jules)
40. Tiny Librarian (In Defense of Food)
41. Cafeshree (Doors Open)
42. bookworm (the ruins by scott smith)
43. alisonwonderland (Chocolat)
44. alisonwonderland (The House of the Scorpion)
45. Tiny Librarian (Breakfast at Bloomingdales)
46. Tiny Librarian (Art of Undressing)

47. alisonwonderland (Grace Eventually)
48. alisonwonderland (Escape)
49. alisonwonderland (The Eyre Affair)
50. alisonwonderland (The Chocolate War)
51. Sharon (Pieces of My Heart
52. Sharon (The Dragon King\'s palace)
53. Sharon (My Big Old Texas Heart Ache)
54. Sharon (The Walking)
55. Sharon (Year of the Hyenas)
56. Sharon (Medicus)
57. Cafeshree (Given Day)
58. Tiny Librarian (Star-Crossed)
59. Caribousmom (The Ghost Road)
60. alisonwonderland (She\'s All That! Poems About Girls)
61. Tiny Librarian (The Tea Rose)
62. alisonwonderland (The Zookeeper\'s Wife)
63. Tiny Librarian (Down the Nile)
64. Tiny Librarian (Stop Dressing...)
65. Tiny Librarian (Water for Elephants)
66. Tiny Librarian (Vampirates)
67. alisonwonderland (Team Moon)

Wendy's Pick and Categories

2008-12-26T11:00:00.000-06:00

December 26, 2008: UPDATE on Challenge

It is evident I will not complete this challenge - BUT, I am happy with how I did. Out of the 8 categories I chose to read from, I completed half of them (Books Around the World, Books on my TBR shelf for more than a Year, Non Fiction Books and Notables). For the other categories, I completed the following: 2 out of 8 Pulitzers, 5 out of 8 Bookers, 4 out of 8 Banned Books, and 5 out of 8 Classics. Next year I will be focusing more on the award winning books on my shelf. Many thanks to Michelle for hosting this complex, and rewarding challenge!

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Here are my current categories and picks for 2008 (overlaps are in red):

8 Pulitzers

The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington
So Big, by Edna Ferber (COMPLETED January 17, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler
Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner (COMPLETED April 17, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
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8 Bookers

The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (COMPLETED December 25, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
Hotel Du Lac, by Anita Brookner (COMPLETED July 22, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
G, by John Berger
Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey
Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth
The Gathering, by Anne Enright (COMPLETED March 9, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
Life and Times of Michael K, by J.M. Coetzee (COMPLETED February 17, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel (COMPLETED June 23, 2008; rated 3.5/5; read my review)

8 Books Around the World

Independent People, by Halldor Laxness (COMPLETED May 5, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
The White Mary, by Kira Salak (COMPLETED July 16, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
Atonement, by Ian McEwan (COMPLETED June 17, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
The Colour, by Rose Tremain (COMPLETED August 25, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks (COMPLETED July 4, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
The Translator, by Daoud Hari (COMPLETED February 15, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
Alentejo Blue, by Monica Ali (COMPLETED February 22, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
Laughing Without An Accent, by Firoozeh Dumas (COMPLETED May 17, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)

8 Books that have Sat on my TBR Shelf for More than a Year

The World Below, by Sue Miller (COMPLETED April 26, 2008; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
Regeneration, by Pat Barker (COMPLETED December 14, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
Lost and Found, by Jacqueline Sheehan (COMPLETED April 21, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink (COMPLETED August 15, 2008; rated 1.5/5; read my review)
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver (COMPLETED July 12, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
The Eye in the Door, by Pat Barker (COMPLETED December 21, 2008; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
Before You Know Kindness, by Chris Bohjalian (COMPLETED May 31, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier (COMPLETED November 7, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)

8 Non Fiction Books

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, by Elizabeth McCracken (Completed October 24, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
Black Wave, by John and Jean Silverwood (Completed November 11, 2008; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
The Zookeeper’s Wife, by Diane Ackerman (COMPLETED May 12, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
Laughing Without An Accent, by Firoozeh Dumas (COMPLETED May 18, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
Gifts From The Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Completed October 28, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
Have You Found Her: A Memoir, by Janice Erlbaum (COMPLETED January 14, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
Ships Without A Shore, by Anne R. Pierce PhD (COMPLETED September 16, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
Alpine Americas, by Olaf Soot and Don Mellor (COMPLETED November 2, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)

8 Banned Books

The Women of Rome, by Alberto Moravia
The Toilers of the Sea, by Victor Hugo
Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
The Giver, by Lois Lowry (COMPLETED January 1, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison (COMPLETED February 25, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (COMPLETED June 13, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (COMPLETED March 21, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
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8 Notables From This Site

The Secret River, by Kate Grenville (Completed October 13, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Moshin Hamid (Completed January 11, 2008, rated 4/5; read my review)
The Gathering, by Anne Enright (COMPLETED March 9, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
After Dark, by Haruki Murakami (from NYT Most Notable - 2007) - Completed October 28, 2008; rated 2/5; read my review.
Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name, by Vendela Vida (COMPLETED September 30, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo (COMPLETED June 7, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan (from NYT Most Notable - 2007) - Completed August 11, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review.
The View From Castle Rock, by Alice Munro (from NYT Most Notable - 2007) - Completed September 28, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review.

8 Classics

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (Completed January 25, 2008; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
Home of the Gentry, by Ivan Turgenev (Completed June 19, 2008; rated 3/5; read my review)
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier (COMPLETED November 7, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (COMPLETED December 25, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
Emma, by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights, by Emil Bronte
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Gifts From The Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Completed October 28, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)

Finished the 888 Reading Challenge!

2008-12-22T15:40:00.001-06:00

I finished today!

My categories changed a good deal as did many of the titles I chose initially. That was within the rules. I didn't use any overlaps. I also read 18 books that didn't fit any of my categories.

Here are my 8 completed categories with the 8 books I read for each one. 8x8+18= 82 books so far in 2008. I still have a few days to increase that total. In both 2006 and 2007, I read 86 books.

Books Published in 2008
1.The Secret Between Us – Barbara Delinsky 1-24-08
2.Firefly Lane – Kristin Hannah 5-18-08
3.The Broken Window – Jeffery Deaver 7-22-08
4.Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer 8-7-08
5.Say Goodbye – Lisa Gardner 8-8-08
6.The Keepsake – Tess Gerritsen 9-20-08
7.Sweet Love – Sarah Strohmeyer 10-15-08
8.More Than It Hurts You – Darin Strauss 11-1-08

Books Recommended to me by others
1.Hide – Lisa Gardner (my mom) 2-2-08
2.Beauty - Robin McKinley (Marta) 2-23-08
3.Courting Trouble – Deeanne Gist (Mom) 7-13-08
4.13 Little Blue Envelopes – Maureen Johnson (blog) 8-12-08
5.Darcy's Story: Pride and Prejudice told from a whole new perspective – Janet Aylmer (Darlene) 8-18-08 (also fits Austen category, but not an overlap)
6.Seducing Mr. Darcy (Marla) 9-23-08
7.A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (sister Janet) 10-13-08
8.Cook's Treasure – Jennifer Cooper (Jennifer) 12-9-08

Young Adult Fiction
1.ttyl – lauren myracle 1-2-08
2.Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer 1-7-08
3.ttfn – lauren myracle 1-14-08
4.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: a novel in cartoons – Jeff Kinney 2-24-08
5.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules - Jeff Kinney 5-7-08
6.Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze – Elizabeth Enright 8-29-08
7.Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox - Eoin Colfer 10-29-08
8.From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 11-22-08

Non-fiction
1.Lies Homeschooling Moms Believe – Todd Wilson 1-24-08
2.Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer 6-21-08
3.Cockatiels for Dummies 7-8-08
4.Eat This, Not That! 7-8-08
5.Threadbared – Kimberly Wrenn & Mary Watkins 4-26-08
6.The Butterfly Garden – Chip St. Clair 8-18-08
7.How Not To Look Old – Charla Krupp 8-29-08
8.Frontier House – Simon Shaw 12-13-08

Romance Novels
1.Let's Meet on Platform 8 – Carole Matthews 2-23-08
2.Love's Haven (Steeple Hill Love Inspired) – Catherine Palmer 2-27-08
3.Finding Hope (Steeple Hill Love Inspired) – Brenda Coulter 3-15-08
4.Finding Hope – Brenda Coulter 03-15-08
5.A Season of Forgiveness – Brenda Coulter 04-08-08
6.Strapless – Leigh Riker 6-1-08
7.The Dewey Decimal System of Love – Josephine Carr 8-10-08
8.Tumbling Through Time - Gwyn Cready 8-31-08

New Books by Favorite Authors
1.T is for Trespass – Sue Grafton 1-11-08
2.Plum Lucky – Janet Evanovich 1-20-08
3.Candy Cane Murder – Joanne Fluke 1-19-08
4.Charley's Web – Joy Fielding 04-12-08
5.Carrot Cake Murder – Joanne Fluke 4/23/08
6.Sleeping Doll – Jeffrey Deaver 4/29/08
7.Fearless Fourteen – Janet Evanovich 6/28/08
8.Buckingham Palace Gardens (Thomas Pitt Mysteries) – Anne Perry 12-22-08

Christian Novels
1.The Martyr's Song – Ted Dekker 1-1-08
2.Brothers – Angela Elwell Hunt 2-4-08
3.Claire Knows Best – Tracey Bateman 04-05-08
4.I Love Claire – Tracey Bateman 04-18-08
5.Scarlet Thread – Francine Rivers 5/5/08
6.Doesn't She Look Natural – Angela Elwell Hunt 5-12-08
7.Journey – Angela Elwell Hunt 7-8-08
8.Northpointe Chalet (The Austen Series) – Debra White Smith 12-21-08

Jane Austen novels (and related books)
1.Austenland – Shannon Hale 2-10-08 (recommended by Christy, but not an overlap)
2.Pride and Prejudice 3-16-08
3.Making of Pride & Prejudice – Sue Birtwhistle & Susie Conklin 4-30-08
4.Emma 6-18-08
5.Persuasion 7-12-08
6.Mansfield Park 9-14-08
7.Northanger Abbey 10-23-08
8.Jane Austen for Dummies - Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray 11-13-08
9.Sense & Sensibility 12-7-08

END OF CHALLENGE!!!

Sharon's Picks

2008-11-28T13:57:00.001-06:00

As of 11/28/08 I read all but 3 books. They are all in the same category, Oprah's Book club. I have two overlaps so far, Night and Where the Heart Is. All finished books have a review link beside them.

1 Non Fiction (COMPLETE)
*The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson review here
*Pieces of my heart: A Life by robert J. Wagner review here
*Night by Elie Wiesel (overlap) review here
*Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old like a Skank by Celia Rivenbark review here
*The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi review here
*The Dog Who Rescues Cats by Philip Gonzalez review here
*The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn review here
*In Cold Blood by Truman Capote review here

2 Chick Lit (COMPLETE)
*Naughty Neighbor by Janet Evanovich review here
*Moon Pies and Movie Stars by Amy Wallen review here
*Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner by Lisa Wingate review here
*The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King review here
*Cockatiels at Seven by Donna Andrews review here
*Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts (overlap) review here
* Bitsy's Bait and BBQ review here
*Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish review here

3 Mystery/Thriller (COMPLETE!)
*Dark Watch by Clive Cussler review here
*The Yiddisy Policenem's Union by Michael Chabon review here
*The Cat Dancers by P.T. Deutermann review here
*Open Season by C.J. Box review here
*Plague Ship by Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul review here
*Double Cross by James Patterson (CD) review here
*The Chase by Clive Cussler review here
*Cat Pay The Devil by Shirley Rousseau Murphy review here

4 1800s (COMPLETE)
*Samantha at the World's Fair by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley) review here
*The Canterville ghost by Oscar Wilde review here
*The Sheperd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright (tape) review here
*Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome review here
*The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad review here
* Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens review here
*The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde review here
*Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky review here

5 SciFi/Fantasy/Paranormal (COMPLETE)
*The Unnatural Inquirer by Simon R. Green (overlap) review here
*The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison review here
*Traitor to the Blood by Barb and J.C. Hendee review here
*Moon Called by Patricia Briggs review here
*Deja Demon by Julie Kenner review here
*The Darkest evening of the Year by Dean Koontz review here
*Small Favor by Jim Butcher (Overlap)review here
* Odd Hours by Dean Koontz review here

6 Next in a Series (COMPLETE!)
*Small Favor By Jim Butcher (overlap) review here
*Double Cross by James Patterson (overlap) (tape) review here
*Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich review here
*Spider Mountain by P.T. Deutermann review here
*The Unnatural Inquirer by Simon R Green (overlap) review here
*The Miracle at Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith review here
*Holey Moley by Beh Rehder review here
*Child of a Dead God by Barb & JC Hendee review here

7 Books I Just Want To Read (COMPLETE!)
*Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (CD) review here
*Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett review here
*The Kill Clause by Gregg Hurwitz review here
*The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Tape) review here
*The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier (CD) review here
*Atomic Lobster by Tim Dorsey review here
*Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (tape)review here
*The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan review here

8 Oprah's Book Club
*The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III review here
*The Bluest Eye by Toni Morriaon (tape) review here
*Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts (overlap) review here
*Map of the Known World by Edward P. Jones
*Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio review here
*Night by Elie Wiesel (overlap) review here
*The Pillars of the Earth by James Patterson
*One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

raidergirl3's list of 888 lists

2008-11-22T10:00:00.000-06:00

November 22 - Whew, this one is done. It was so much fun picking the lists and crossing them off as completed. Great list of books. Thanks Michelle, for hosting this one, and making us all join in the madness.

As I complete a book or two, I'll link to my review, date it, and bold it.
running total: 64/64 (because I read six books that overlap!)
8/8 categories completed.

Aaah, lists, beautiful lists. I like the flexibility of this idea. Commence:

8 Canadian Books finished as of July 30
1. Yellowknife - Steve Zipp Mar 24
2. The End of East - Jen Sookfong Lee Mar 7
3. The Ravine - Paul Quarrington Apr 8
4. Latitudes of Melt - Joan Clark April 5
5. How to Be a Canadian - Will and Ian Ferguson May 25
6. The Birth House - Ami McKay July 30
7. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen July 4
8. Crow Lake - Mary Lawson July 12

8 Bookers (Man Booker Challenge: 4 winners, 4 shortlisted) finished as of July 10
1. Atonement - Ian McEwan sl Feb 17
2. The Remains of the Day - Kazou Ishiguru Jan 12
3. The Life and Times of Michael K - JM Coetzee Mar 8
4. Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner June 30
5. The Night Watch - Sarah Waters sl July 10
6. The Gathering - Anne Enright Apr 23
7. Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones sl Apri 19
8. In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar sl May 20

8 Books About Books (goes with the themed challenge) finished as of Feb 13
1. The Book Thief Markus Zusak Jan 11
2. 84 Charing Cross Road Helene Hanff Jan 12
3. Housekeeping vs the Dirt Nick Hornby Jan 8
4. Booked to Die John Dunning Feb 3
5. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader Anne Fadiman Jan 28
6. The Case of the Missing Books Ian Sansom Jan 16
7. Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi Feb 13
8. The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde Jan 25

8 More from the Something About Me Challenge finished as of June 8
1. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde Jan 25
2. 84 Charing Cross Road - Helen Hanff Jan 12
3. Booked to Die - John Dunning Feb 3
4. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd May 30
5. The Awakening - Kate Chopin June 8
6. Angry Housewives Eating BonBons - Lorna Landvik Mar 3
7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith May 3
8. The Remains of the Day - Kazou Ishiguro Jan 12

8 Mysteries from Around the World finished as of Nov 17
1. Terra Cotta Dog - Andrea Camilleri (Italy) March 10
2. Silence of the Grave - Arnaldur Indridason (Iceland) Feb 23
3. The Snack Thief - Andrea Camilleri (Italy) July 6
4. Shadow Family - Miyuki Miyabe (Japan) May 31
5. Flying Too High - Kerry Greenwood (Australia) August 20
6. Who Killed Palomino Molero? - Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) Oct 4
7. The Xibalba Murders - Lyn Hamilton (Mexico) Nov 17
8. All She Was Worth - Miyuki Miyabe (Japan) Nov 2

8 Nonfiction (goes with the In Their Shoes challenge) finished as of July 20
1. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed - Alan Alda Feb 11
2. Running With Scissors - Augustus Burrows July 15
3. Persepolis 1, and 2 - Marjane Satrapi Jan 30
4. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson May 17
5. Maus I and II - Art Spiegelman July 20
6. Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi Feb 13
7. Brainiac - Ken Jennings Jan 6
8. A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah June 21

8 Young Adult Books (goes with Joy's YAC) finished as of Mar 23
1. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson Mar 14
2. Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell Feb 4
3. The Princess Academy - Shannon Hale Mar 16
4. Vegan Virgin Valentine - Carolyn Mackler Mar 21
5. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Levithan Mar 8
6. Zel - Donna Jo Napoli Mar 23
7. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler Feb 19
8. So Long, Jackie Robinson - Nancy Russell Feb 15

8 books published in 2008. (In the Pub Challenge) finished as of June 24
1. Remember Me? - Sophie Kinsella Feb 26
2. The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Space - Jim Lebans Feb 24
3. The Bleeding Dusk - Colleen Gleason Mar 21
4. The Ravine - Paul Quarrington Apr 8
5. An Exploding Case of Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif June 23
6. The Outcast - Sadie Jones Apr 27
7. Mudbound - Hillary Jordan June 24
8. The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway June 5

Yati's list

2008-11-01T22:30:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone. Here's my list for the challenge. The first group overlaps with Dewey's Man Booker challenge.

Booker prize winners and shortlisted or longlisted titles

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
» completed 22 March 2008
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
Possession: A Romance by AS Byatt
» completed 7 July 2008
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
» completed 13 July 2008
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
» completed 10 October 2008
number9dream by David Mitchell
» completed 4 June 2008
The Accidental by Ali Smith
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
» completed 22 May 2008

classics

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous
East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Peter Asbjørnsen
» completed 21 September 2008
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
» completed 25 August 2008
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Room with a View by EM Forster

books set (at least partly) in Asia

My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
» completed 30 October 2008
A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
» completed 1 March 2008
The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

young adult/juvenile fiction

Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond
» completed 23 February 2008
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
» completed 24 April 2008
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
» completed 11 February 2008
Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers
» completed 5 April 2008
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
» completed 3 May 2008
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
» completed 4 May 2008
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
» completed 14 May 2008
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
» completed 19 April 2008

speculative fiction

Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint
» completed 15 February 2008
The Giver by Lois Lowry
» completed 26 April 2008
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
» completed 15 May 2008
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A McKillip
» completed 3 May 2008
Winter Rose by Patricia A McKillip
» completed 20 March 2008
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
» completed 1 March 2008
Temeraire by Naomi Novik
» completed 21 February 2008
Starcross by Philip Reeve
» completed 24 March 2008

recommended by my sister

Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernièrs
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday

other books we own

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
» completed 19 October 2008
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
» completed 1 May 2008
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
» completed 19 October 2008
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
» completed 29 February 2008
King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett
» completed 30 September 2008
Predator’s Gold by Philip Reeve
» completed 4 October 2008
The Name of the Wind by Philip Rothfuss
» completed 14 October 2008
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
» completed 15 May 2008

(not the first book!) in a series

Queens’ Play by Dorothy Dunnet
» completed 16 March 2008
The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnet
» completed 26 March 2008
Pawn in Frankincense by Dorothy Dunnett
» completed 28 March 2008
The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett
» completed 30 March 2008
Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett
» completed 1 April 2008
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle
» completed 3 January 2008
Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
» completed 10 March 2008
The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
» completed 21 August 2008

There are currently four overlaps: Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard, The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng, A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul and Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

The list is also mirrored at my site here.

Enter your October reviews here!

2008-10-31T14:35:00.001-05:00

1. Wendy (The Secret River)
2. bookworm (The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter )
3. Julie (Frankenstein)
4. Tiny Librarian (Murder With Peacocks)
5. Anne of Avonlea (Becky)
6. The Sleepy Reader(A Thousand Veils)
7. The Sleepy Reader(The Kommandant\'s Girl)
8. Anne of The Island (Becky)
9. Anne of Windy Poplars (Becky)
10. alisonwonderland (The Birth of Venus)

11. The Sleepy Reader(The Brass Verdict)
12. Becky (Anne\'s House of Dreams)
13. Tiny Librarian (Carpe Demon)
14. alisonwonderland (Library Lion)
15. Tiny Librarian (The New Yorkers)
16. Tiny Librarian (Miss Julia Throws a Wedding)
17. Julie (Harry Potter POA)
18. Becky (Anne of Ingleside)
19. Becky (Rainbow Valley)
20. Becky (Rilla of Ingleside)

21. bookworm (20th century ghosts)
22. J.C. (Interpreter of Maladies)
23. Laura (Rhett Butler\'s People)
24. Laura (Montmorency: thief, liar, gentleman)
25. Moons of Jupiter
26. bookworm (Immortal Warrior)
27. Wendy (An Exact Replica of A Figment of My Imagination)
28. Wendy (Gift From The Sea)
29. The Sleepy Reader(Scratch Beginnings)
30. alisonwonderland (Teach With Your Heart)

Amy's Choices

2008-10-30T08:00:00.000-05:00

8 Book Around the World Books

We Just Want to Live Here - Amal Rifa’i and Odelia Ainbinder (Israel/Palestine)
The Kommandant’s Girl - Pam Jenoff (Poland)
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (Pakistan)
A Thousand Veils - D. J. Murphy
The Septembers of Shiraz - Dalia Sofer(Iran)
The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway(Sarajevo)
The Book Thief - Makus Zusak(Germany)

8 World War II Books

The Kommandant’s Girl – Pam Jenoff
Dream When You’re Feeling Blue – Elizabeth Berg
Resistance - Owen Sheers
The Nazi Officer’s Wife -Edith Hahn Beer
Dear Enemy - Jack Cavanaugh
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Diplomat’s Wife - Pam Jenoff
Clouds Over Mountains - Matt Joseph

8 Urban Fantasy Novels

Moon Called – Patricia Briggs
~~Ill Wind~~ ~~- Rachel Caine~~
Chill Factor – Rachel Caine
Heat Stroke – Rachel Caine
Storm Front - Jim Butcher
Any Given Doomsday - Lori Handeland
Kitty Takes a Holiday – Carrie Vaughn
The Taste of Night – Vicki Pettersson

8 Suspense/Thrillers

Speak No Evil – Allison Brennan
The Brass Verdict - Michael Connelly
Wolf in the Shadows - Marcia Muller
A Place of Execution - Val McDermid
Red Sea - E.A. Benedek
Flowers for Emily - T.L. Vance
Divine Justice - David Baldacci
The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritsen

8 Young Adult Titles

Eclipse-Stephenie Meyer
~~Unwind~~ ~~- Neal Shusterman~~
~~Speak~~ ~~- Laurie Halse Anderson~~
Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Dead and the Gone - Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
Gone- Michael Grant
The Floor of the Sky - Pamela Carter Joern

8 ARCs

The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah
Songs for the Missing - Stewart O’Nan
Testimony - Anita Shreve
The Wednesday Sisters - Meg Waite Clayton
Have You Found Her? - Janice Erlbaum
The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson
The Lace Reader - Brunonia Barry

8 Non-Fiction

Have You Found Her? - Janice Erlbaum
The Devil Came on Horseback - Brian Steidle
When Answers Aren’t Enough - Matt Rogers
The Working Poor: Invisible in America - David K. Shipler
Mayada, Daughter of Iraq - Jean Sasson
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
The Millionaire Next Door - Stanley and Danko
~~Scratch Beginnings - Adam Shepard~~

8 Historical Fiction

People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
The Winter Rose - Jennifer Donnelly
The Heretic’s Daugher - Kathleen Kent
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Schaffer and Barrows
~~The Bone Garden~~ ~~- Tess Gerrisen~~
The Queen's Fool - Phillipa Gregory
The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig

Becky: It is finished :)

2008-10-24T11:00:00.001-05:00

Eight books by Asian and/or Asian-American authors

1. Revolution is not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
2. The Girl with the White Flag by Tomiko Higa
3. Yellow Umbrella by Jae soo Liu
4. Year of the Rat by Grace Lin
5. The Fold by An Na
6. The Mats by Francisco Arcellana
7. Guji, Guji by Chih-Yuan Chen
8. The Dragon's Child by Laurence Yep

For a list of potential books please see this post.

Eight audio books.

I thought long and hard about this category. A challenge is supposed to be challenging. And since I rarely listen to audio books, I thought this might be a good chance to expand my comfort zones and grow as a listener :)

1. Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
2. These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
3. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
4. Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
5. The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
6. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
7. The Composer is Dead by Lemony Snicket
8. Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank You Notes by Peggy Gifford

I own a few titles--the Little House books and the Chronicles of Narnia and both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. But the library may prove invaluable here as well as iTunes podcasts of classics. For example, almost all of Jane Austen's books are available as podcasts one chapter at a time.

8 classics by women writers (any time period pre-1950)

1. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. Persuasion by Jane Austen
3. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
4. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
6. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
7. Camilla by Fanny Burney
8. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

Right now, I'm thinking Zora Neale Hurston, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, etc. I'm sure my list will change as I explore. But I know this is something I'd like to do for 2008.

8 Award-Winning Children's Books (Caldecott, Newbery, Printz, etc.)

1. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Newbery, 1930)
2. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Newbery Honor, 1938)
3. By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Newbery Honor, 1940)
4. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Newbery Honor, 1941)
5. Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Newbery, 1943)
6. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brian (Newbery, 1972)
7. The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman (Sidney Taylor Book Award, 2008)
8. My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (Newbery Honor, 1949)

Extras: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Newbery Winner, 1998) A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck, (Newbery Honor, 1999), A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck, (Newbery Winner, 2001)

For the record, honor books count as well in my book.

8 Nonfiction Books

1. The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
2. I Have Lived A Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
3. The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
4. Painting the Wild Frontier by Susanna Reich
5. Wanda Gag: The Girl Who Loved To Draw by Deborah Kogan Ray
6. My Bridges of Hope by Livia Bitton-Jackson
7. I Will Plant You A Lilac Tree by Laura Hillman
8. The Year We Disappeared by Cylin and John Busby

My list may change, but this is what I'm planning at the moment. No promises though. :)

8 Childhood Favorites

1. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
2. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
3. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
4. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5. Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
6. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
7. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
8. Mandy by Julie Edwards

Alternates:

8 by Beverly Cleary

1. Beezus and Ramona
2. Ramona the Pest
3. Ramona the Brave
4. Ramona and her Father
5. Ramona and her Mother
6. Ramona Quimby Age 8
7. Ramona Forever
8. Ramona's World

8 by L.M. Montgomery

1. Anne of Green Gables
2. Anne of Avonlea
3. Anne of the Island
4. Anne of Windy Poplars
5. Anne's House of Dreams
6. Anne of Ingleside
7. Rainbow Valley
8. Rilla of Ingleside

© Becky Laney of Becky's Book Reviews

Bookworms List

2008-10-04T09:26:00.017-05:00

Bookworms picks:
Challenge Completed 12/11/08

Because I Love to Read:
1. . ~~The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory~~
2. ~~A Jolly Good Fellow by Stephen V. Masse~~
3. ~~The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston~~
4. ~~Considering SomeplacElse by B. L. Lindstrom~~
5. ~~Your Scandalous Ways by Loretta Chase~~
6. ~~First Daughter by Eric Van Lustbader~~
7. ~~Operation Blue Light: My Secret Life among Psychic Spies by Philip Chabot~~
8. ~~Soup in the City by Kelly Hollingsworth~~

Because I felt like staying up late reading:
1. ~~Trust Me by Brenda Novak~~
2. ~~Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen~~
3. ~~Wife In the North by Judith O’Reilly~~
4. ~~The Good Guy by Dean Koontz~~
5. ~~Beneath A Marble Sky by John Shors~~
6. ~~Romeo, Romeo by Robin Kaye~~
7. ~~The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer~~
8. ~~The Exchange by Inga Ellzey~~

Horror/Mystery/Thriller/Suspense
1.~~Dracula by Bram Stoker~~
2. ~~All The Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison~~
3. ~~The Colorado Kid by Stephen King~~
4. ~~Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill~~
5. ~~The Ruins by Scott Smith~~
6.
~~The Ghost of Blackwood Hall (Nancy Drew) by Carolyn Keene~~
7. ~~20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill~~
8. ~~Angels & Demons by Dan Brown~~

Books that were made into movies:
1. ~~The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares~~
2. ~~Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez~~
3. ~~Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See~~
4. ~~The Shining by Stephen King~~
5. ~~The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares~~
6. ~~Persuasion by Jane Austen~~
7. ~~Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman~~
8. ~~Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde~~

Random Picks:
1. ~~Like Lightning by Charlene Sands~~
2. The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work
by Jon Gordon
3. ~~Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Irene Spencer~~
4. ~~Wicked Ties by Shayla Black~~
5. ~~Chasing Windmills by Catherine Ryan Hyde~~
6. ~~Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo~~
7. ~~Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer~~
8. ~~Matrimony by Joshua Henkin~~

More Romance
1. ~~Scandalous Love by Brenda Joyce~~
2. ~~Gone With the Witch by Annette Blair~~
3. ~~Wicked Nights by Nina Bangs~~
4. ~~Return of the Rogue~~
5. ~~Everlasting by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss~~
6. ~~Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts~~
7. ~~Entangled by Kathlee Dante~~
8. ~~Enticed by Kathlee Dante~~

More Random Picks:
1. ~~The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Clayton~~
2. ~~A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle~~
3. ~~An Absolute Gentleman by R. M. Kinder~~
4. ~~I Just Want My Kids to Be Happy! by Aaron Cooper & Eric Keitel~~
5. ~~Perfect on Paper The (Mis)adventures of Waverly Bryson by Maria Murnane~~
6. ~~Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler~~
7. ~~The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman~~
8. ~~The Secret Scroll by Ronald Cutler~~

Fantasy/Sci Fi/Paranormal:
1. ~~Immortal Warrior by Lisa Hendrix~~
2. ~~Coraline by Neil Gaiman~~
3. ~~Carpe Demon By Julie Kenner~~
4. ~~Demons Are Forever : Confessions of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner~~
5. ~~The Host by Stephenie Meyers~~
6. ~~The Taking by Dean Koontz~~
7. ~~Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland~~
8. ~~The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter~~

Post your September reviews here!

2008-09-30T23:59:00.001-05:00

1. bookworm (the shining)
2. bookworm (your scandalous ways)
3. Kimmie (The Regulators)
4. bookworm (first daughter)
5. Kristina (Heart-Shaped Box)
6. The Perfect Storm (Embejo)
7. Bookworm (Operation Blue Light: My Secret Life among Psychic Spies)
8. Amy(Gone)
9. Amy(The Dead and the Gone)
10. Amy(The Bone Garden)
11. Bookworm (dracula)
12. Becky (Mysteries of Udolpho)
13. Tiny Librarian (Perfect Manhattan)
14. bookworm (A Jolly Good Fellow)

15. Tiny Librarian (Among Other Things...)
16. Cafeshree (Van Der Zee)
17. Cafeshree (Vitamin PH)
18. Tiny Librarian (Rat Pack Confidential)
19. bookworm (soup in the city)
20. Tiny Librarian (10 Things to do Before I Die)
21. Laura (Death Note Volume 1)
22. Laura (The Akhenaten Adventure)
23. bookworm (Any Given Doomsday)
24. Cafeshree (Safety of Secrets)
25. Cafeshree (Brief Lives)
26. Cafeshree (Guenevere)
27. Cafeshree (Rose of No Man\'s Land)
28. Alice in Wonderland (Embejo)

29. Morgan\'s Run (Embejo)
30. The Willoughbys (Embejo)
31. The Sea (Embejo)
32. Wendy (Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name)
33. Julie - Les Miserables
34. Julie - Sunday Night Book Club
35. Julie -Chamber of Secretss
36. bookworm (the monster of florence)
37. Tiny Librarian (Revenge of the Kudzu Debs)
38. The Sleepy Reader(Any Given Doomsday)
39. Cafeshree (VanderZee)
40. Cafeshree (VitaminPH)

Lulu`s picks again...

2008-09-14T06:38:00.003-05:00

09/12/08-Updated

I have completed the challenge! Yay! Thanks for hosting!

I signed up for the challenge last year and posted my list and while I updated when I read the books so many things changed with an international move that my list kind of went a bit haywire.

I am now back on track and have deleted my old post to make way for this new one. My list is now complete and I have all but two of the books on the list so I have no excuses not to read them. The books I have read are in Green, and the books with astixes are books I had on my shelves when this challenge began at the beggining of the year. I have 7 crossovers I think meaning 57 books to read. By my count I have 10 left to read but I could be wrong. Without further ado I present my updated list. My blog, www.cherryblossomadventures.com will have the list posted up in a couple of days. Also I am not used to using blogger- and formatting on here is really hard, or is that just me?!

Favourite authors- Chose this category for obvious reasons

1. An offer you can`t refuse- Jill Mansell(Jun)
2. Change of Heart- Jodi Picoult (Jun)
3. Wife for Hire- Janet Evanovich (Cross over-mar)
4. Cage of Stars- Jacqelyn Mitchard* (Jan)
5. Prisoner of Earth- Jeffrey Archer (Cross over-Nov)
6. Dear John- Nicholas Sparks* (Cross over- Mar)
7. Lean Mean thirteen- Janet Evanovich (Cross over-Jan)
8. Black Cat- V.C Andrews (Cross over-Feb)

In a series- Chose this category since I have started a couple of different series but need to catch up on them, plus also already had a couple of these books on my shelves

1. Broken Flower- V.C Andrews* (Feb)
2. Scattered Leaves- V.C Andrews (Oct)
3. Lean Mean thirteen- Janet Evanovich (Cross over-Jan)
4. Fearless Fourteen- Janet Evanovich (Aug)
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Harrows- J.K Rowling*(April)
6. Skinny Bitch- Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouim (Jan)
7. Key Lime Pie Murder- Joanne Fluke (Jun)
8. Honky Tonk Kat- Karen Kijewski ( Oct)

Read because I moved back to Australia and got new books!- Choose this because had an unplanned mid year move

1. Lessons in Heartbreak- Cathy Kelly (Jun)
2. You Drive me Crazy- Carole Matthews (May)
3. It`s a Kind of Magic- Carole Matthews (Jul)
4. Bad Behaviour- Shelia O`Flanagan (Aug)
5.Tales from the Crib- Jennifer Coburn (May)
6. The Babymoon- Melanie La`Brooy (Sep)
7. The Alibi- Sandra Brown (Oct)
8. Second Chance- Jane Green (Nov)

Mystery/Suspense/Thriller- Chose this since mysteries etc are one of my most read style of books, this and chick-lit

1. Bell, book & scandal- Jill Churchill* (Oct?Nov? I think I started it Oct & finished in Nov)
2. Chocolate chip cookie murder- Joanne Fluke* (Jan)
3. Strawberry Short Cake murder- Joanne Fluke (Feb)
4. Count Down- Iris Johansen *(May)
5. Dream man- Linda Howard* (Feb)
6. Ricochet- Sandra Brown* (Apr)
7. Open Season- Linda Howard (Apr)
8. Play Dirty- Sandra Brown (Aug)

Chick-lit- What I read just as much, if not more than mysteries....

1. Baby Proof- Emily Giffin* (Jan)
2. You Could Do Better- Stephanie Lehman* (Feb)
3. Marshmallows for breakfast- Dorothy Koomson*(Jun)
4. Those Faraday Girls- Monica McInerney* (Mar)
5. Artistic Licence- Katie Fforde* (Sep)
6. Remember me- Sophie Kinsella (Oct)
7. Certain Girls - Jennifer Weiner (Jun)
8. Wife for Hire- Janet Evanovich (Cross over-Mar)

Young Adult/Children Fiction- Thought I should go back to some books that make me the reader I am today, and also read some other YA fiction that has had a lot of good reviews or awards!

1. Alison- Margaret Watts (One of my favourite books as a teenager- reread)* (Dec)
2. Dear Venny, Dear Saffron-Libby Hathorn (same as above)* (Nov)
3. The Book Theif- Marcus Zusak* (Nov)
4. Gossipgirl- Cecily Von Ziegesar*(jun)
5. Kira Kira- Cynthia Kadohata* (Jan)
6. All American Girl- Meg Cabot* (Mar)
7. On the Jellicoe Road^ Melina Marchetta* (May)
8. Black Cat- V.C Andrews (Feb- Cross over)

Japanese authors/books about Japan- Live(d) Japan so thought I should try to read some more books that have come from here...

1. In Praise of shadows- Junichiro Tanizaki*(Cross over-April)
2. Snow Country- Yasunari kawebata* (Cross over-Jan)
3. Kitchen- Banana Yoshimoto* (Jan)
4. South of the border, west of the sun- Murakami Haruki*(Cross over-Aug)
5. Yakuza moon- Shoko Tendo* (Feb)
6. Goodbye Tsugumi- Banana Yoshimoto (Feb)
7. Losing Kei- Suzanne Kamata (May)
8. Bar Flower- Lea Jacobson (Apr)

Male Authors- I am trying to broaden my reading horizons a little bit and it seems that most of the books I do read are by female authors...Hopefully this will help me get started on my quest to broaden my reading horizons.

1. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree- Nick Hornby* (Feb)
2. For one more day- Mitch Albom* (Oct)
3.South of the Border West of the Sun-Haruki Murakami (Cross over- read in August)
4. Dear John- Nicholas Sparks* (Cross over- mar)
5. Snow Country- Yasunari kawebata* (Cross over-Jan)
6. In Praise of shadows- Junichiro Tanizaki*(April)
7. Prisoner of Earth- Jeffrey Archer (Cross over-Nov)
8. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini (Apr?)

Post your August reviews here!

2008-08-31T05:25:00.001-05:00

1. Cindy B
2. Aga (Snow Flower and the secret fan)
3. bookworm (chasing windmills)
4. Tiny Librarian (Monsieur Pamplemousse...)
5. Tandia (Embejo)
6. Julie
7. Sharon (Daemons Are Forever)
8. Sharon (In Odd We Trust)
9. Sharon (Night Watchman)
10. bookworm(Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth )
11. Tiny Librarian (Julie and Julia)
12. Intergalactic Bookworm
13. Kristina (Magyk)
14. Aga (Bollywood Nights)
15. Aga (Three Men in a Boat...)
16. bookworm(Breaking Dawn)
17. Tiny Librarian (Bobbie Faye\'s...family jewels)
18. Amy(The Sleepy Reader)
19. Amy(Miss Invisible)
20. Sharon (Cockatiels at Seven)
21. Sharon (The Host)
22. Sharon (Naughty Neighbor)
23. Amy(The Working Poor:Invisible in America)
24. Tiny Librarian (Miss Julia Takes Over)

25. Aga (Berlin Alexanderplatz)
26. Aga (The Gate of Heavenly Peace)
27. Wendy (The Reader)
28. Tiny Librarian (My Summer of Southern Discomfort)
29. bookworm(Matrimony)
30. Tiny Librarian (Elements of Style)
31. Kelsey (Black Dogs)
32. Aga (The Kite Runner)
33. raidergirl3(Flying Too High)
34. bookworm(Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict)
35. Amy(Animal, Vegetable, Miracle)
36. Aga (Trzepot skrzydeł)
37. Aga (South of the Border, West of the Sun)
38. Aga (The Nanny Diaries)
39. bookworm(I Just Want My Kids To Be Happy!)
40. Tiny Librarian (Eighth Grade Bites)
41. bookworm (The Ghost of Blackwood Hall , nancy drew)
42. Wendy (The Colour)
43. bookworm (Considering SomeplacElse)
44. Aga (Lamb)
45. Aga (Tata, one i ja)
46. Kimmie(A Cold Day in Hell)
47. alisonwonderland (Life on the Refrigerator Door)
48. Aga (Promise me)

49. Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo (review by Laura)
50. Tiny Librarian (One Dangerous Lady)
51. alisonwonderland (Nights in Rodanthe)
52. Julie - Les Miserables
53. Kimmie (Lord of the Flies)
54. Julie - Sunday Night Book Club
55. Kristina (Breaking Dawn)
56. Kristina (The Invention of Hugo Cabret)
57. Kristina (The Book of Story Beginnings)
58. Sweetsmoke (J.C.)
59. Cafeshree (Garden of Last Days)
60. Cafeshree (Stopover in Venice)
61. Cafeshree (Not Knowing)
62. Cafeshree (Skinner\'s Trail)
63. Cafeshree (Blood Detective)
64. Cafeshree (Gaudi Key)
65. Cafeshree (Skinner\'s Rules)
66. Cafeshree (Resurrection Club)
67. Jaime (The Face of a Stranger)
68. Jaime (Undead and Unwed)
69. Jaime (The Finishing School)
70. Jaime (Hold Tight)
71. Jaime (Dead Witness)

Aga - update

2008-08-23T06:52:00.007-05:00

As I joined this challenge just on 28th of July my achievements are not sooo big, but I still hope to reach the aim ;)

So, how it's up to now? I still did not select 8 books from each group, it'll just arrive with time.

I. Already owned:

"Elephants can remember" by Agatha Christie
"The clocks" by Agatha Christie
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote
"Uśmiech Dalidy" by Dominika Cosic
"Panther in the Basement" by Amos Oz

II. Around the World:

"Snow Flower and the secret fan" by Lisa See (02.08.08) - review here
"Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin (13.08.08) - review here
"Forbidden City" by William Bell
"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (19.08.08) - review here
"Porte De LA Paix Celeste" by Shan Sa (14.08.08) - review here
"Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood" by Fatima Mernissi
"The Bookseller of Kabul" by Asne Seierstad

III. Books in Polish:

"Tata, one i ja" by Manula Laicka ("Dad, them and me") (28.08.08) - review here
"Zniewolony umysł" by Czesław Miłosz ("Subdued mind")
"Trzepot skrzydeł" by Katarzyna Grochola (22.08.08) - review here
"Jadąc do Babadag" by Andrzej Stasiuk
"Różowe tabletki na uspokojenie" by Krystyna Janda

IV. Books in English:

"Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)" by Jerome K. Jerome (11.08.08) - review here
"Bollywood Nights" by Shobhaa De (09.08.08) - review here
"Bergdorf Blondes" by Plum Sykes
"Notting Hell" by Rachel Johnson
"South of the Border, West of the Sun" by Haruki Murakami (22.08.08) - review here
"The fifth woman" by Henning Mankel

V. Exchanged books (via www.podaj.net or www.bookmooch.com):

"Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore (28.08.08) - review here
"Dangerous Liaisons" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
"Winter's Tales" by Karen Blixen
"The last promise" by Richard Paul Evans
"L'Anneau du pêcheur" by Jean Raspail
"Promise Me" by Harlan Coben (30.08.08) - review here

VI. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (my proposals for today only!):

"Jacques the Fatalist" by Denis Diderot
"The Monk" by M.G. Lewis
"The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf

VII. Classics:

"Crime and punishment" by Fiodor Dostoyevski (31.07.08) - review here
"Plague" by Albert Camus

VIII. Popular Reads:

"The Nanny Diaries" by Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin (22.08.08) - review here
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
"Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J.K. Rowling

Books to be read by Aga - update

2008-08-14T16:29:00.005-05:00

As I joined this challenge just on 28th of July my achievements are not so big, but I still hope to reach the aim ;)

So, how it's up to now? I still did not select 8 books from each group, it'll just arrive with time.

I. Already owned:

"Elephants can remember" by Agatha Christie
"The clocks" by Agatha Christie
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote
"Uśmiech Dalidy" by Dominika Cosic
"Panther in the Basement" by Amos Oz

II. Around the World:

"Snow Flower and the secret fan" by Lisa See (02.08.08) - review here
"Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin (13.08.08) - review here
"Forbidden City" by William Bell
"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (19.08.08) - review here
"Porte De LA Paix Celeste" by Shan Sa (14.08.08) - review here
"Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood" by Fatima Mernissi

III. Books in Polish:

"Tata, one i ja" by Manula Laicka ("Dad, them and me")
"Zniewolony umysł" by Czesław Miłosz ("Subdued mind")
"Trzepot skrzydeł" by Katarzyna Grochola
"Jadąc do Babadag" by Andrzej Stasiuk

IV. Books in English:

"Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)" by Jerome K. Jerome (11.08.08) - review here
"Bollywood Nights" by Shobhaa De (09.08.08) - review here
"Bergdorf Blondes" by Plum Sykes
"Notting Hell" by Rachel Johnson
"South of the Border, West of the Sun" by Haruki Murakami
"The fifth woman" by Henning Mankel

V. Exchanged books (via www.podaj.net or www.bookmooch.com):

"Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore
"Dangerous Liaisons" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
"Winter's Tales" by Karen Blixen
"The last promise" by Richard Paul Evans
"L'Anneau du pêcheur" by Jean Raspail

VI. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (my proposals for today only!):

"Jacques the Fatalist" by Denis Diderot
"The Monk" by M.G. Lewis
"The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf

VII. Classics:

"Crime and punishment" by Fiodor Dostoyevski (31.07.08) - review here
"Plague" by Albert Camus

VIII. Popular Reads:

"The Nanny Diaries" by Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin

Ok, and now I'm going to my bed and start to read "The Nanny Diaries" before going to sleep (it's almost a midnight here ;))

Julie's Choices

2008-08-12T22:16:00.016-05:00

Hi all here are my choices for this contest. I have six completed to date. Blog is here to read

Classics

1 – Catch 22- Joseph Heller
2 – Great Gatsby – Scott. F. Fitzgerald
3 – Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
4 - Girl with a Pearl Earning- Tracey Chevaller
5 – Great Expectations – Charles Dickons
6 – The Waves – Virginia Woolf
7 – Utopia – Sir Thomas Moore
8 – Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut

19th Century Women Writers

~~1 - Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley~~
2 - Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
3 - Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
4 - Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
5 – Manesfield Park – Jane Austen
6 – The Yellow Wallpaper and other writings – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
7 - Final Harvest –Emily Dickenson
8 – The Awakening – Kate Chopin

European Authors

~~1 - Anybody Out There Marian Keyes~~
2 – Always and Forever – Cathy Kelley
~~3 – Les Miserables – Victor Hugo~~
4 –Louise de la Valliere – Alexander Dumas
~~5- Watermelon - Marian Keyes~~
6- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
~~7-The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux~~
8- Emma- Jane Austen

Historical Fiction

1 – Thread of Grace – Mary Doria Russell
2 – Captian Corelli’s Mandolin – Loius de Bernieres
3 – The Book Thief
~~4 - The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory~~
~~5 – Pillars of the Earth~~
6 – Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
~~7 – Ship Fever – Andrea Barrett~~ (Overlap with Short Stories)
8- Shadow Patriots: A Novel of the Revolution – Lucia St. Clair Robinson

Authors with the first/last name beginning with the letter J

1 - Shades of Grey – Jessica James
2 – Catcher in the Rye J.D Salinger
3 – The Wheel of Time: Crown of Swords Robert Jordan
4 – Ulyssess – James Joyce
5 – Comfort Food – Kate Jacobs
6 – Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult
7 – Children of Men – P.D James
8 - The Children of Hurin – J.R.R Tolkien

Fantasy

1 - Elemental Magic- Shannon Shin
2 – The Outstretched Shadow- Mercedes Lackey
3 – Elvenborn –Andre Norton
4 – Mistborn –Brandon Sanderson
5 – Wizards First Rule –Terry Goodkind
6 – Chronicles of Narnia – C.S Lewis
7 – The Wishsong of Shannara – Terry Brooks
8 – Interview with a Vampire – Anne Rice

Short Stories/Novella Collections

~~1 – Runaway – Alice Munro~~
~~2 - Winter Moon – Mercedes Lackey~~
~~3 – Sunday Night Book Club~~
~~4 –Moons of Jupiter~~
5 – Collected Ghost Stories
~~6 – Dubliners – James Joyce~~
7 –Further Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes
~~8- Ship Fever~~ Overlap with Historical Fiction)

Revisiting the Past (Re-Reads)

~~1 – Harry Potter 1~~ ~~& Harry Potter 2~~
~~2 – Harry Potter 3~~ & Harry Potter 4
3 – Harry Potter 5 & 6
4 – Harry Potter 7
5 – The Hobbit
6 –LOTR – The Fellowship of the Ring
7 – LOTR – Two Towers
8 – LOTR – Return of the King

Tammy's picks

2008-08-03T01:50:00.001-05:00

Hi, I'm Tammy

#1: TV/Movie Tie-Ins:
~~1. Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way by Bruce Campbell~~ (January)
2. Have a Nice Day by Mick Foley
~~3. The Quotable Star Wars~~ - April
4. Scotland the Brave by Jennifer Roberson
5. A Stirring of Dust by Susan Sizemore
6. The Lazarus Heart by Poppy Brite
~~7. X-Men: The Last Stand by Chris Claremont~~ - July
8. In the Beginning by Peter David

#2: Story Collections: I'm not a big short story reader, but I seem to have collected several, so...
~~1. Chicks In Chainmail~~ (March)
2. Dark Love
~~3. Love In Vein~~ - April - was utterly bored. Did not finish.
~~4. Love in Vein II~~ - looked like more of the same. Did not read.
5. Midnight Graffiti
~~6. James Herriot's Dog Stories by James Herriot~~(March)
~~7. Red As Blood by Tanith Lee~~ (March)
~~8. The Service of the Sword~~ (March)

#3: Nonfiction: I'm not usually a big nf reader either, but I'm trying to read more, so... (again)
~~1. The Forbidden Body by Shelley Bovey~~ - April
~~2. Sex For One by Betty Dodson~~ - April
~~3. Legends - from Life Magazine~~
4. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer - not sure if I'll see the movie or not. I've tried this one once before and couldn't get into it, but wanted to try again.
5. 200 Ways To Love the Body You Have by Marcia Hutchinson
6. The Wild West - companion book to the PBS(?) series
~~7. The Joy of Writing Sex by Elizabeth Benedict~~ (March)
8. HTML For the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro

#4: Regency Romances: I have a ton of these :)
1. Seduced by Virginia Henley
2. An Improper Proposal by Anthea Malcolm
3. Tangled by Mary Balogh
4. Something Wicked by Jo Beverly
5. Love's Charade by Jane Feather
6. Angel Rogue by Mary Jo Putney
7. Lady of the Night by Georgina Devon
8. A Ghostly Charade by Sheila Rabe

#5: Science Fiction:
1. 1633 by Eric Flint & David Weber
2. Dragonharper by Jody Lynn Nye
3. T2: Infiltrator by S. M. Stirling
~~4. Keeper of the Universe by Louise Lawrence~~ - August
5. The Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
6. Neuromancer by William Gibson
7. Sarek by A. C. Crispin
8. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

#6: Fantasy:
1. Terrier by Tamora Pierce
2. The King of Attolia by Megan Whelan Turner
3. Dragon's Teeth by James Hetley
4. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
~~5. Diana Tregarde Investigates by Mercedes Lackey~~ (January)
~~6. Gold Unicorn by Tanith Lee~~ (February)
7. The Young Wizards by Diane Duane - an omnibus of the first 3/4 books in the Young Wizards series - only counts as one
8. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander - #1 in the Chronicles of Prydain

#7: In a Series:
1. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander - #2 in the Chronicles of Prydain - Fantasy
2. Death Rides a Chesnut Mare by Ralph Compton - first in a trilogy - Western
3. Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell - #8 in the Sharpe series - historical fiction
~~4. Mission Canyon by Meg Gardiner~~ - (March)
5. Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell - first in the Mallory series - mystery
6. The Ladies of Mandrigyn by Barbara Hambly - first in the Sun Wolf trilogy - fantasy
7. Nerilka's Story by Anne McCaffrey - Pern series - science fiction
8. Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn - Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy #1 - science fiction

#8: Historical Fiction:
1. Here Be Dragons by Sharon Penman
2. The Border Empire by Ralph Compton
3. Sharpe's Siege by Bernard Cornwell
4. Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan Eckert
5. Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson
6. Petals in the Storm by Mary Jo Putney
7. Smuggler's Lady by Jane Feather
8. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Some books fit multiple categories, but there are no multiple category books, so that's 64 books.

Post your July reviews here!

2008-07-31T03:02:00.001-05:00

1. raidergirl3 (Hotel du Lac)
2. alisonwonderland (Dark Assassin)
3. Vasilly (Understanding Comics)
4. perfect on paper(bookworm)
5. raidergirl3(Water for Elephants)
6. scandalous love(bookworm)
7. Garden Spells (review by Laura)
8. Bobbi\'s Book Nook
9. Wendy (People of the Book)
10. The Dead and the Gone (review by Becky)
11. The Catcher in the Rye(Embejo)
12. Sharon (where the Heart Is)
13. Sharon (The Cat Dancers)
14. Sharon (Spider Mountain)
15. Sharon (Rhett Butler\'s People)
16. Sharon (Fearless Fourteen)
17. Sharon (Child of a Dead God)
18. raidergirl3(The Night Watch
19. like lightning(bookworm)
20. Sharon (Three Men in a Boat)
21. Sharon (Swine Not?)
22. Kelsey (Slaughterhouse-Five)
23. The Glass Castle (review by Laura)
24. Wendy (The Poisonwood Bible)

25. Kimmie
26. Lisa Quing
27. raidergirl3(Crow Lake)
28. bookworm (love in the time of cholera)
29. raidergirl3(Running With Scissors)
30. Wendy (The White Mary)
31. Sharon (Winter Study)
32. bookworm (sisterhood of the traveling pants)
33. Tiny Librarian (Dead Until Dark)
34. bookworm (The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work
35. Ingo (review by Laura)
36. raidergirl3(Maus I and II)
37. Jaime (The Plot Against America)
38. Jaime (Driving Force)
39. Jaime (Twisted)
40. Kelsey (Midnight\'s Children)
41. Kelsey (Swallows of Kabul)
42. Wendy (Hotel Du Lac)
43. bookworm (Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist\'s Wife)
44. Wild About Books (review by Laura)
45. bookworm (wicked ties)
46. Bobbi (Bobbi\'s Book Nook)
47. Bobbi (Dracula)
48. Bobbi (Mysterious Benedict Society)

49. Bobbi (Fearless Fourteen)
50. Bobbi (Allie Finkle\'s Rules for Girls)
51. Yati (Black Swan Green)
52. CafeShree
53. CafeShree (Death in th Andes
54. CafeShree (I Didn\'t Do It for You)
55. CafeShree (Ex-Libris)
56. CafeShree (Dissolution)
57. raidergil3(The Snack Thief)
58. bookworm (pay it forward)
59. Kimmie(Anna Karenina)
60. raiderigirl3(The Birth House)
61. Aga
62. Kristina (My Life as a Doormat)
63. Kristina (The Prophet of Yonwood)
64. Tammy (X-Men: The Last Stand)
65. Sharon (Blood Trail)
66. Sharon (Moon Pies and Movie Stars)
67. Sharon (Kill Clause)
68. Sharon (Annie Freeman\'s Fabulous Traveling Funeral)
69. Sharon (Stop Dressing Your 6 Year Old Like a Skank
70. Sharon (Moon Called)
71. Jaime (The Neon Rain)
72. Cafeshree (As Meat Loves Salt)

Computer Down

2008-07-30T15:08:00.001-05:00

Sorry for the fact there have been no updates recently - computer crashed and I am in the process of buying a new computer.

Hope to be up and running again in a couple of weeks.

Books to be read by Aga

2008-07-28T10:20:00.013-05:00

Ok, now I'm trying to create a list, which is not so easy as you know ;) After some time of thinking I hope to reach 8 books in all of those 8 categories above. I already wrote some books in a few categories as I'm sure I would like to read them in this year. Some categories are empty and I'll be very flexible during next months to fill them :) So...

I. Already owned:

"Elephants can remember" by Agatha Christie
"The clocks" by Agatha Christie
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote
"Uśmiech Dalidy" by Dominika Cosic
"Panther in the Basement" by Amos Oz

II. Around the World:

"Snow Flower and the secret fan" by Lisa See (02.08.08) - review here
"Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin (13.08.08) - review here
"Forbidden City" by William Bell
"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
"Porte De LA Paix Celeste" by Shan Sa (14.08.08) - review here
"Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood" by Fatima Mernissi

III. Books in Polish:

"Tata, one i ja" by Manula Laicka ("Dad, them and me")
"Zniewolony umysł" by Czesław Miłosz ("Subdued mind")
"Trzepot skrzydeł" by Katarzyna Grochola
"Jadąc do Babadag" by Andrzej Stasiuk

IV. Books in English:

"Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)" by Jerome K. Jerome (11.08.08) - review here
"Bollywood Nights" by Shobhaa De (09.08.08) - review here
"Bergdorf Blondes" by Plum Sykes
"Notting Hell" by Rachel Johnson
"South of the Border, West of the Sun" by Haruki Murakami
"The fifth woman" by Henning Mankel

V. Exchanged books (via www.podaj.net or www.bookmooch.com):

"Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore (in PL)
"Dangerous Liaisons" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (in PL)
"Winter's Tales" by Karen Blixen (in PL)
"The last promise" by Richard Paul Evans (in PL)
"L'Anneau du pêcheur" by Jean Raspail (in PL)

VI. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (my proposals for today only!):

"Jacques the Fatalist" by Denis Diderot
"The Monk" by M.G. Lewis
"The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf

VII. Classics:

"Crime and punishment" by Fiodor Dostoyevski (31.07.08) - review here
"Plague" by Albert Camus

VIII. Popular Reads:

"The Nanny Diaries" by Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin

So, now just need to read 64 books and write reviews, easy :D

LisaQuing's List

2008-07-13T23:03:00.001-05:00

Here is my EDITED list (as of 7/13/08). I have 39/56 so far. I'm sure I'll read more than 56. Last year, I read 86 books.

I have no overlaps in my list, which I hope then allows me to skip a couple if needed. I do own many of these books already.

I will be posting reviews and updates on my movie & book review blog - Mirkwood Reflections. I have bolded the choices I have completed and changed the font to green.

I am really looking forward to this challenge! A lot of times I can't figure out what I want to read, so this should help with that dilemma.

I did find some books that weren't on my original list that I wanted to read. When I read it, I just added the new book to the beginning of the list and kept the original books. So some of my lists now have more than 8.

Books Recommended to me by others
1. Hide – Lisa Gardner (my mom) 2-2-08
2. Austenland - Shannon Hale (sister Christy) 2-10-08
3. Beauty - Robin McKinley (Marta) 2-23-08
4. Courting Trouble – Deeanne Gist (Mom) 7-13-08
5.The Furies of Calderon – Jim Butcher (sister Christy) – couldn't get into it
6.Vineyard series – Philip Craig (mom) – couldn't get into it
7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith (sister Janet)
8. librarian series (Christy)

Young Adult Fiction
1.ttyl – lauren myracle 1-2-08
2.Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer 1-7-08
3.ttfn – lauren myracle 1-14-08
4.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: a novel in cartoons – Jeff Kinney 2-24-08
5.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules 5-7-08
6.Holes – Louis Sachar
7.Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze – Elizabeth Enright
8.Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox - Eoin Colfer
9.Eragon – Christopher Paolini
10.Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
11.Magic by the Lake – Edward Eager

Non-fiction - This category has been completed!
1.Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom – Ursula Nordstrom 1-20-08
2.Lies Homeschooling Moms Believe – Todd Wilson 1-24-08
3.The Well-fed Writer – Peter Bowerman 2-8-08
4.Careers for Bookworms 3-22-08
5.Into the Wild 6-21-08
6.Back for Seconds – Peter Bowerman 6-22-08
7.Cockatiels for Dummies 7-8-08
8.Eat This, Not That! 7-8-08
9.Ordering Your Private World – Gordon MacDonald
10.Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 62 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life – Joe Schwarcz
11.Walk Away the Pounds : The Breakthrough 6-Week Program That Helps You Burn Fat, Tone Muscle, and Feel Great Without Dieting – Leslie Sansone
12.Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Your Romance Published - Julie Beard
13.I Saw the Angel in the Marble - Chris Davis and Ellyn Davis
14.Making God's Word Stick – Emmett Cooper & Steve Wamberg
15.Life Management for Busy Women – Elizabeth George
16.Family Fragrance: Practical Intentional Ways to Fill Your Home with the Aroma of Love – J. Otis & Gail Ledbetter

Books I Want to Reread - Eek! Better get moving on these!
1.Drums of Autumn – Diana Gabaldon 1-31-08
2.The Bible
3.Out of this Silent Planet – C.S. Lewis
4.Perelandra – C.S. Lewis
5.That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
6.Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
7.She's Gonna Blow: Real Help for Moms Dealing with Anger – Julie Ann Barnhill
8.Mark of the Lion trilogy – Francine Rivers (3 books)
9.The Fiery Cross – Diana Gabaldon (audiobook)

Books about Tolkien or Lord of the Rings - I need to get moving!
1.Finding God in Lord of the Rings – Kurt Bruner & Jim Ware
2.The Gospel According to Tolkien – Ralph C. Wood
3.Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings – Matthew Dickerson
4.Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of Lord of the Rings – Mark Eddy Smith
5.The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien
6.The Origins of Tolkien's Middle Earth for Dummies – Greg Harvey
7.Walking with Frodo: A devotional journey through Lord of the Rings – Sarah Arthur
8.J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century – Tom Shippey

Romance Novels - one more!
1.Love's Haven (Steeple Hill Love Inspired) – Catherine Palmer 2-27-08
2.Finding Hope (Steeple Hill Love Inspired) – Brenda Coulter 3-15-08
3.Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 3-16-08
4.Finding Hope – Brenda Coulter 03-15-08
5.A Season of Forgiveness – Brenda Coulter 04-08-08
6.Strapless – Leigh Riker 6-1-08
7.Persuasion – Jane Austen 7-12-08
8.Taking a Chance (Heartsong Presents) – Kelly Eileen Hake
9.Once Upon a Family (Love Inspired) – Margaret Daley
10.The Stranger (Harlequin Superromance) – Kathleen O'Brien
11.The King's Mistress (Harlequin Historical) – Terri Branson
12.Unforgettable (Heartsong Presents) – Janet Lee Barton
13.Danver's Touch (Silhouette Classics) – Elizabeth Lowell
14.Perfect - Judith McNaught
15.Christmas on the Prairie: Take Me Home/One Wintry Night/The Christmas Necklace/Colder Than Ice (Christmas Anthology) - Tracey V. Bateman, Pamela Griffin, Maryn Langer, Jill Stengl

New Books by Favorite Authors - one more!
1.T is for Trespass – Sue Grafton 1-11-08
2.Plum Lucky – Janet Evanovich 1-20-08
3.Candy Cane Murder – Joanne Fluke 1-19-08
4.Charley's Web – Joy Fielding 04-12-08
5.Carrot Cake Murder – Joanne Fluke 4/23/08
6.Sleeping Doll – Jeffrey Deaver 4/29/08
7.Fearless Fourteen – Janet Evanovich 6/28/08
8.Buckingham Palace Gardens (Thomas Pitt Mysteries) – Anne Perry
9.Skeletons at the Feast – Chris Bohjalian
10.Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer

Christian Novels - one more!
1.The Martyr's Song – Ted Dekker 1-1-08
2.Brothers – Angela Elwell Hunt 2-4-08
3.Claire Knows Best – Tracey Bateman 04-05-08
4.I Love Claire – Tracey Bateman 04-18-08
5.Scarlet Thread – Francine Rivers 5/5/08
6.Doesn't She Look Natural – Angela Elwell Hunt 5-12-08
7.Journey – Angela Elwell Hunt 7-8-08
8.Showdown – Ted Dekker (didn't like it)
9.Once Upon a Cross – Thom Lemmons
10.Catching Katie – Robin Lee Hatcher

Vasilly's wrap-up post

2008-07-03T19:45:00.003-05:00

Finished - 7/3/08
Titles in italics are overlaps. Thanks, 3M, for hosting this challenge. It was one of my favorite challenges this year.

Books , books, and more books
Comfort - Ann Hood
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
Dinner with Friends - Donald Margulies
The Arrival - Shaun Tan
All of us - Raymond Carver
What now? Ann Patchett

In the moment
Dinner with Friends - Donald Margulies
Proof -
Steel Magnolias - Robert Harling
The Sandman Vol 1. Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
Fables Vol. 4 March of the Wooden Soldiers
Time and Materials - Robert Hass
The Well-Adjusted Child - Rachel Gathercole
The Sufi Book of Life - Neil Douglas -Klotz

Books I can escape to
Fables Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers
Fables Vol. 1 Legends in Exile - Bill Willingham
Fables Vol. 5: The Mean Seasons
The Arrival - Shaun Tan
Fables Vol. 2 Animal Farm -Bill Willingham
Fables Vol. 3 Storybook Love
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi

When I was a little girl…children’s books
Into the Woods - Lyn Gardner
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Fables Vol 1. Legends in Exile - Bill Willingham
Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Diary of a wimpy kid - Jeff Kinney
Flower - John Light
The Book eating Boy - Oliver Jeffers

My name is Natasha and I’m addicted to books
52 projects - Jeffrey Yamaguchi
Every Monday Matters -
Not quite what I was planning - by the editors of Smith magazine
Persepolis 2 - Marjane Satrapi
Courage and the Craft - Barbara Abercrombie
Monsters of Templeton - Lauren Groff
The End of the Alphabet - CS Richardson
Understanding Comics- Scott McCloud

Size doesn’t matter: Novellas, short stories, poetry, plays, and graphic novels
The Book of Other people - Zadie Smith
The Braid - Stanley Kunitz
Amulet - Kazu Kibuishi
A good man is hard to find - Flannery O’Connor
Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry
Time and Materials - Robert Hass
Goodbye, Chunky Rice - Craig Thompson
All of us - Raymond Carver

What am I going to read next?
Eating heaven - Jennie Shortridge
The Happiness Code - Amy Herrick
Goodbye, Chunky Rice - Craig Thompson
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore
All of us -Raymond Carver
Love walked in - Marisa de los Santos
The Resurrectionist - Jack O’Connolly
Wit: a play - Margaret Edson

Everything but the Kitchen Sink….Books I feel like reading for no reason at all
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Julia’s Chocolates - Cathy Lamb
The Devil Wears Prada
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Horns and Wrinkles - Joseph Helgerson
Diary of a wimpy kid - Jeff Kinney
Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician - Daniel Wallace
Penelope - Marilyn Kaye

alisonwonderland's progress

2008-07-03T10:00:00.001-05:00

completed books are linked to my reviews.

as of july 3: 28/64 (including four overlaps) with two categories completed
(since the year is half over, i ought to be at 32 books, i guess. but i'm still hopeful that i'll accomplish my goals for this challenge.)

as of may 2: 24/64 (including four overlaps) with one category completed

as of march 9: 15/64 (including two overlaps) with one category completed

as of january 26: 7/64 (including one overlap)

Oh, To Be Young Again! (young adult or older children's novels)

Call It Courage

Clementine

A Dance for Three

The Giver*

Nothing but the Truth (and a Few White Lies)

Pictures of Hollis Woods

Princess Academy

Specials

Escapism Reads (books from the genres of mystery, suspense thriller, science fiction, fantasy, chick lit, or maybe even romance)

An Absolute Gentleman

Dark Assassin

Dead Time

Double Cross

The First Patient

Laced

Remember Me?

"T" is for Trespass

In Their Shoes (memoirs, biographies, or autobiographies)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*

Bee Bonanza (books from the 2008 Beehive Book Nominees)
- Bella at Midnight
- Dairy Queen
- Fairest
- Library Lion*
- Pieces of Georgia
- The Rhyming Season
- She's All That: Poems about Girls
- Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
Salt Lake County Library Reader's Choice (books from either the 2008 nominees or past winners)

The Camel Bookmobile*

The Kommandant's Girl

The Life You Longed For

The Society of "S"

Banned Books (books from the many that have ever been challenged or banned)

Flowers for Algernon

The Giver*

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*

Speak*

IRL Book Club Picks (picks from those chosen for my in-real-life book clubs)

The Other Boleyn Girl

Picture Perfect

Speak*

Books about Books (books - fiction or non-fiction - about books or reading)
- The Book Thief
- Booked to Die (the first in the Cliff Janeway series)
- The Camel Bookmobile*
- Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
- Library Lion*
- People of the Book

note: overlapping picks are marked with an asterisk.

Enter your June reviews here!

2008-06-30T08:12:00.001-05:00

1. alisonwonderland (Dairy Queen)
2. The Chase (Sharon)
3. return of the rogue (bookworm)
4. Vasilly
5. CafeShree (Mortal Causes)
6. Bullyville (review by Laura)
7. Beatrix Potter - Complete Tales (Embejo)
8. Effect of Light (CafeShree)
9. raidergirl3(The Cellist of Sarajevo)
10. Tiny Librarian (Cease to Blush)
11. Vasilly (Driving Miss Daisy)
12. Vasilly (Wit: a play)
13. Vasilly (The Sandman)
14. Wendy (Bridge of Sighs)
15. Vasilly (Time and Materials)
16. The Wednesday Sisters (bookworm)
17. raidergirl3(The Awakening)
18. Keeping Score (review by Laura)
19. Tiny Librarian (Till the Cows Come Home)
20. Kristi (Dead Girls Are Easy)

21. Kristi (Lord of the Fading Lands)
22. Kristi (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
23. Mrs Kimble (Embejo)
24. Sharon (Icy Sparks)
25. Wendy (Uncle Tom\'s Cabin - Late entry for March)
26. Vasilly (Fables in Exile)
27. Vasilly (The Secret Garden)
28. Vasilly (Steel Magnolias)
29. Vasilly (The Flower)
30. A New Earth (bookworm)
31. Wendy (The Kite Runner)
32. Vasilly (twilight)
33. Beastly (review by Laura)
34. (Tiny Librarian) Suite Scarlett
35. Kelsey (The Daydreamer)
36. beneath a marble sky (bookworm)
37. Wendy (Atonement)
38. gone with the witch(bookworm)
39. Splat the Cat (review by Laura)
40. Tiny Librarian (The Marriage of True Minds)

41. Wendy (Home of the Gentry)
42. all the pretty girls(bookworm)
43. The Giver (Yati)
44. raidergirl3(A Case of Exploding Mangoes)
45. Wendy (Life of Pi)
46. raidergirl3(Mudbound)
47. Tiny Librarian (Marked)
48. wicked nights(bookworm)
49. Kelsey (Forgive Me)
50. Kelsey (The English Patient)
51. Kelsey (Never Let Me Go)
52. the taking(bookworm)
53. Tiny Librarian (Love Walked In)
54. Vasilly (What Now?)
55. Vasilly (New Moon)
56. alisonwonderland (Dead Time)
57. Amy(No Colder Place)
58. Kelsey (Kreutzer Sonata)
59. Kelsey (Oh Pure and Radiant Heart)

Enter your May reviews here!

2008-05-31T07:21:00.001-05:00

1. Coraline (bookworm)
2. Resistance (Embejo)
3. angels & demons (bookworm)
4. raidergirl3(A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
5. Cafeshree
6. Snap Catch
7. Caribousmom (Independent People)
8. Twilight (The Biblio Brat)
9. practical magic (bookworm)
10. persuasion (bookworm)
11. Less Than Angels (Cafeshree)
12. Field of Blood (Cafeshree)
13. The Bonesetter\'s Daughter (sharon)
14. Winter Rose (Yati)
15. The Blind Assassin (Yati)
16. demons are forever (bookworm)
17. Cafeshree (Letters)
18. Out of the Silent Planet
19. Wendy (Laughing Without An Accent)
20. Tiny Librarian (Pajama Girls of Lambert Square)
21. raidergirl3(The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid)
22. Year of Magical Thinking (Passion for the Page)
23. First You Run (Passion for the Page)
24. Strlady (Killer Heat)
25. Strlady (All Night Long)
26. Strlady (Forbidden)
27. Strlady (Freedom\'s Price)
28. Strlady (After the Kiss)
29. Vasilly (The Stolen Child)

30. Starcross (Yati)
31. Becky (Mandy by Julie Edwards)
32. the host (bookworm)
33. Horns and Wrinkles (Medbie)
34. The Yiddish Policemen\'s Union (sharon)
35. Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner (Sharon)
36. raidergirl3(In the Country of Men)
37. everlasting (bookworm)
38. Tiny Librarian (Strawberry Shortcake Murder)
39. Tiny Librarian (Perfectly True Tales...)
40. raidrgirl3 (How to be a Canadian)
41. alisonwonderland (Picture Perfect)
42. alisonwonderland (The Camel Bookmobile)
43. Amy(When Answers Aren\'t Enough)
44. Tiny Librarian (Dear Sad Goat)
45. A Certain Slant of Light (The Biblio Brat)
46. heart shaped box (bookworm)
47. raidergirl3(The Secret Life of Bees)
48. Amy(The Cellist of Sarajevo)
49. Vasilly (The End of the Alphabet)
50. Lazybones (Cafeshree)
51. raidergirl3(Shadow Family)
52. Postcards from No Man\'s Land (Yati)
53. Becky (Anne of Green Gables)
54. Miracke at Speedy Motors (Sharon
55. Moving Pictures (Sharon)
56. Double Bind (Jan Review by Laura (late posting)
57. Leepike Ridge (Feb Review by Laura (late posting))
58. Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians (Feb Review by Laura (late posting))

Medbie's 888 Challenge

2008-05-18T19:08:00.002-05:00

Steampunk

Short Stories

Classics
1-The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon | read 12 May 2008

Vampire Books
1-Dead Until Dark: Charlaine Harris | read 15 February 2008

2-Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean: Justin Somper | read 22 February 2008

Newberry Award Winners

Recommended Reads
1-The Ragamuffin Gospel: Brennan Manning | 16 March 2008
Recommended by my Mom

2-2-The Ship Who Sang: Anne McCaffrey | read 14 April 2008
Recommended by my friend, the author Kate McKeever.

Pre-20th Century Works
1-1-The Way of the Pilgrim | read 23 February 2008

To-Be-Read Shelves
1-Horns and Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson | read 19 May 2008
review can be read here.

For more details on my list (why I chose what I did, what the categories mean to me, more details on the books, etc), go to my original post here on my blog.

A Scholar of Magics

2008-05-18T18:58:00.000-05:00

I liked this one better than the first, A College of Magics. I liked the main character, Samuel Lambert, more than Farris in the first book. Really the two books are hardly related, except that they are both set in the same alternate world and they are faintly connected by both featuring Jane, a witch of Greenlaw who gets involved in this story by trying to help her friend Farris, the warden of the north, get in touch with the new warden of the east. Honestly, the whole warden stuff was kind of confusing and not well explained at all. But I still liked Lambert and his story, so I'm giving it 4/5 stars.

Enter your April reviews here!

2008-04-30T13:05:00.002-05:00

1. Five Days in London (Embejo)
2. The Thirteenth Tale (Embejo)
3. Shopaholic Abroad (Sandra)
4. Imperium (CoversGirl)
5. Alaine
6. The Borrowers(Embejo)
7. Melissa
8. A Study in Scarlet (Sandra)
9. Alice\'s Adventures in Wonderland (Becky)
10. An Absolute Gentleman (bookworm)
11. Amy(Clouds Over Mountains)
12. Cindy B
13. raidergirl3 (Latitudes of Melt)
14. Diary of a Young Girl (Becky)
15. Blue Dahlia (bookworm)
16. Free Life (Cafeshree)
17. Amy(Bootlegger\'s Daughter)
18. Tiny Librarian (Deep Dish)
19. Tiny Librarian (Agnes and the Hitman)
20. Tiny Librarian (1 of those hideous books)
21. raidergirl3(The Ravine)
22. Change of Heart (Alaine)
23. Tiny Librarian (Tantalize)
24. A Thousand Acres (Biblio Brat)
25. Prince Caspian (Becky)
26. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (Becky)
27. Amy(Mayada, Daughter of Iraq)
28. Beezus and Ramona (Becky)
29. The Ice Queen (bookworm)

30. Ramona the Pest (Becky)
31. Camilla by Fanny Burney (Becky)
32. Ramona the Brave (Becky)
33. The Princess and The Pea (Strlady)
34. Ramona And Her Father (Becky)
35. The Shadow of the Wind (CoversGirl)
36. Under the Greenwood Tree (CoversGirl)
37. Left To Tell (Embejo)
38. Long Way Gone(Embejo)
39. The English Patient(Embejo)
40. Ramona And Her Mother (Becky)
41. Ramona Quimby Age 8 (Becky)
42. Frozen Moments
43. Wendy (Angle of Repose)
44. The Interpretation of Murder (Biblio Brat)
45. Entangled (bookworm)
46. The Crimson Petal and the White (CoversGirl)
47. Throne of Jade (Yati)
48. Enticed (bookworm)
49. The Female Quixote (Ashleigh)
50. I Have Lived A Thousand Years (Becky)
51. Ramona Forever (Becky)
52. raidergirl3 (Mister Pip)
53. Black Powder War (Yati)
54. Dragonrider (Strlady)
55. varun
56. Wendy (Lost and Found)
57. Tammy (The Forbidden Body)
58. Tammy (Sex For One)

59. The Notebook(Embejo)
60. I Am David (Embejo)
61. Tiny Librarian (Enchanted, Inc)
62. My Bridges of Hope (Becky)
63. Ramona\'s World (Becky)
64. raidergirl3(The Gathering)
65. Gone With The Wind (Becky)
66. The Secret Scroll (bookworm)
67. Sleuthfoot
68. Queens\' Play (Yati)
69. The Middle Place (Lead Momma)
70. nadine
71. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
72. The Outlaw Demon Wailes (Shron
73. TThe memory Keeper\'s Daughter (Sharon)
74. The House of Sand and Fog
75. Dark Watch (Sharon)
76. Crime and Punishment(Sharon)
77. The Unnatural Inquirer(Sharon)
78. The World Below (Wendy)
79. The Colorado Kid (bookworm)
80. raidergirl3(The Outcast)
81. Tammy (Legends)
82. Tammy (Quotable Star Wars)
83. Amy(Dear Enemy)
84. N. Vasillis (The Arrival)
85. N. Vasillis (Love Walked In)
86. Tiny Librarian (Shakespeare\'s Landlord)

Book Review: 1776

2008-04-29T11:44:00.001-05:00

I heard so many things about this book, and I was really looking forward to reading it. So here's my take.

Pros:

The opening. Every other Revolutionary War book starts with the Americans. This one started with the British. There was some great stuff in there I'd never read before, and I really enjoyed the reminder that this was a war with TWO sides.

The information. Lots of good stuff in there, thoroughly researched.

Cons:

A little too much information. Get to the action already!

The layout. There were 2 or 3 sections of pictures and maps and that was it.

No maps. Maybe it's just me, but I have trouble following the action of a battle. A map right where the battle is being described is much more helpful than if I have to turn back to look at it. There actually were 2 maps, both drawn at the time and almost impossible to read. Not helpful.

In summary, I compared this with Washington's Crossing which I read this year and I found 1776 lacking. I wasn't as motivated to pick it up and keep reading. Still, I'm glad I read it. But if you wanted to read a book on the subject, I would recommend Washington's Crossing and not this one.

Paula's 8/8/8

2008-04-29T09:13:00.003-05:00

Hi, my name is Paula. I am still working on my creating my list, it is subject to change.
Here is my 8/8/8 list: Books in blue are completed. Happy Reading!

Classics

Robinson Crusoe

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Three Musketeers

Dante's Inferno

Don Quixote

Around the World in 80 Days

Hamlet

Canterbury Tales (selected sections)

Science Fiction/Fantasy

The Hobbit
Journey to the Center of the Earth
20,000 leagues under the Sea
The Time Machine
Raising Dragons
The Candlestone
A Wrinkle in Time
Ender's Game

Youth Fiction

The Great Brain
Caddie Woodlawn
Stormbreaker
Point Break
Skeleton Key
Wind in the Willows

Non-fiction

Plot & Structure
The Creative Call
Man's Search for Meaning
The Unheard Cry of Meaning
Latin Centered Curriculum
Write Great Fiction - Revision & Self Editing
Destination Moon - Jim Irwin

Historical Fiction

Devil's Arithmetic

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry

Let the Circle be Unbroken

Bully for you, Teddy Roosevelt

Journal of Sean Sullivan

Golden Goblet

Bronze Bow

Christian

Case for the Creator - Student Edition
Case for Faith - Student Edition
Case for Christ - Student Edition
Pilgrim's Progress

Books begging to be read

Tales of King Arthur

Jane Austen book club

Sense & Sensibility

Books that call to me throughout the year

Common Sense - Thomas Paine

Posted by Paula at 8:29 AM 0 comments

CoversGirl's List

2008-04-19T00:12:00.000-05:00

I didn’t originally intend to sign up for this challenge, as I never know in advance what books I’ll get to read each year; it all depends on the availability at the BookFest and the library. But then it occurred to me that I could put my own spin on it: instead of a list of books I must read, I could compose a list of books I will read if at all possible and let serendipity take care of the rest. If I can track them down, great; if I can’t, it doesn’t matter. A pressure-free challenge with the added fun of testing fate!

1. The Collections

Books composed of short stories

Cat o’ Nine Tales - Jeffrey Archer

The Ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke

Ghost Stories - Charles Dickens

In a Glass Darkly - J. Sheridan le Fanu

Life’s Little Ironies - Thomas Hardy

Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman

Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman

Waifs and Strays - Charles de Lint

2. Eighteen Hundred and Something

Books that have withstood the test of time

Shirley - Charlotte Brontë

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

She - H. Rider Haggard

Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy

The Aspern Papers - Henry James

Indiana - George Sand

The Way We Live Now - Anthony Trollope

3. A Little Light Reading

Books that are fun to read

Welcome to Temptation - Jennifer Crusie

The Big Over-Easy - Jasper Fforde

Lola Carlyle Reveals All - Rachel Gibson

Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy

Austenland - Shannon Hale

Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

The Man with Two Left Feet - P. G. Wodehouse

The Trials of Tiffany Trott - Isabel Wolff

4. Next, Please

Books that are next in a series or sequence

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams

Seeing Redd - Frank Beddor

The Angel of Darkness - Caleb Carr

Venus in Copper- Lindsay Davis

Cat in a Midnight Choir - Carole Nelson Douglas

Voyager - Diana Gabaldon

Rosa and the Veil of Gold - Kim Wilkins

To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis

5. The Rest of the World

Books set in the past of a country outside Britain

Shogun - James Clavell (1600s Japan)

Cocaine Blues - Kerry Greenwood (1900s Australia)

Imperium - Robert Harris (100s BC Rome)

Jerusalem - Cecelia Holland (1100s and guess where?)

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry (1800s America)

The Honest Courtesan - Margaret Rosenthal (1500s Italy)

Perfume - Patrick Süskind (1700s France)

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (WW2 Germany)

6. Screen First, Page Second

Books I've seen an adaptation of

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

A Room with a View - E. M. Forster

The Quiet American - Graham Greene

Runaway Jury - John Grisham

Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand

Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman

The Cider House Rules - John Irving

Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

7. Things that Go Bump in the Night

Books that are mysterious, spooky, or just plain weird

Every Dead Thing - John Connolly

Neuromancer - William Gibson

The Woman in Black - Susan Hill

The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin

Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake

Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake

Titus Alone - Mervyn Peake

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield

8. We Meet at Last

Books I've been wanting to read for ages

Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel

The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Euginedes

The Crimson Petal and the White- Michel Faber

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Northern Lights (a.k.a The Golden Compass) - Philip Pullman

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Cindy B's 888

2008-04-07T14:25:00.002-05:00

I'm making this even more difficult on myself by trying to get it done by 8/8/08 - or August 8th. I'm almost halfway there, and if I can just avoid getting distracted by new and more fabulous books, I'll be just fine. So here are my categories:

1. Books I gathering dust - ones I've had for more than a year and haven't read. 3/8

1. The Golden Goblet - done
2. Goodbye to Poplarhaven - written by one of my professors at BYU - currently reading
3. Fear Nothing - tbr
4. A Devilish Dilemma - tbr
5. The Bourne Identity - tbr
6. Diary of a Nobody - done
7. Eminent Victorians - tbr
8. The Girl with a Secret - done

2. Science/History books 7/8

1. The Book of Man - This was an easy to read account of the Human Genome Project. - done
2. Weighing the soul - About scientific discoveries that caused controversy. - done
3. A Brief History of Time - tbr
4. Chaos: making a New Science - done
5. Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars - done
6. Krakatoa:The Day the World Exploded - done
7. The 13th Element - done
8. The Signers - done!

3. Teen/kids books 4/8

1. Ark Angel - tbr
2. Snakehead - tbr
3. The Ruins of Gorlan - tbr
4. The Sisters Grimm: Unusual Suspects - done
5. The King's Swift Rider - tbr
6. The Thief of Always - done
7. Stone Fox - done
8. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - done

4. Books about faith and religion 4/8

1. Just as I am by Virginia Smith - funny story (but not funny enough for list 8, as I didn't actually laugh out loud) of a wild child's baptism into Christianity. - done
2. Way to Be! - tbr
3. Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism - done
4. Sugar House Hill - done
5. Inspiring Experiences that Build Faith - done
6. Amazing Love - currently reading
7. not sure yet!
8. not sure yet!

5. Books with little or no redeeming value 7/8

1. Hitched by Carol Higgins Clark - fun Valentine's read. - done
2. The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars by Anthony Boucher - done
3. Around the Rugged Rock by Elizabeth Cadell - done
4. The Lexicon of Stupidity - done-- funny!
5. Down Under by Patricia Wentworth - so done!
6. Five Rings, Six Crises etc. - a book of lists - done
7. World's Worsts - another book of lists - done
8.

6. Recommended by others 5/8

1. 1776 - tbr
2. The Historian - done! (I gave up)
3. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - tbr
4. Deliver Us From Normal - done
5. Fablehaven - done
6. The Master of Ballantrae - done!
7. The Zookeeper's Wife - tbr
8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - done

7. Tried and true - books I am rereading 8/8

1. Charmed Life - all done!
2. The Mysterious Commission - done
3. Kaleidoscope by Dorothy Gilman- still pretty good, but not great. - done
4. Dead Men Don't Ski - done
5. Murder a la Mode - done
6. Death on the Agenda - done
7. Death and the Dutch Uncle - done
8. Black Widower - done

8. Books that made me laugh out loud 5/8

1. Murder With Peacocks - done
2. For Time and All Absurdity - done
3. Bachelors Anonymous - done
4. Leaven of Malice (audio) - done
5. Moving Pictures - done
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2008-04-05T17:11:00.003-05:00

I saw the list of categories on the right. How do I add my categories to those?

So excited to sign up!

Becky's List & Updated Links

2008-03-31T14:26:00.000-05:00

Eight books by Asian and/or Asian-American authors

1. Revolution is not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
2. The Girl with the White Flag by Tomiko Higa
3. Yellow Umbrella by Jae soo Liu
4. Year of the Rat by Grace Lin
5. The Fold by An Na
6. The Mats by Francisco Arcellana
7. Guji, Guji by Chih-Yuan Chen
8.

For a list of potential books please see this post.

Eight audio books.

I thought long and hard about this category. A challenge is supposed to be challenging. And since I rarely listen to audio books, I thought this might be a good chance to expand my comfort zones and grow as a listener :)

1. Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
2. These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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I own a few titles--the Little House books and the Chronicles of Narnia and both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. But the library may prove invaluable here as well as iTunes podcasts of classics. For example, almost all of Jane Austen's books are available as podcasts one chapter at a time.

8 classics by women writers (any time period pre-1950)

1. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2. Persuasion by Jane Austen
3. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
4. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
5. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
6. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Right now, I'm thinking Zora Neale Hurston, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, etc. I'm sure my list will change as I explore. But I know this is something I'd like to do for 2008.

8 Award-Winning Children's Books (Caldecott, Newbery, Printz, etc.)

1. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field (Newbery, 1930)
2. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Newbery Honor, 1938)
3. By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Newbery Honor, 1940)
4. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Newbery Honor, 1941)
5. Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Newbery, 1943)
6. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brian (Newbery, 1972)
7. The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman (Sidney Taylor Book Award, 2008)
8. My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (Newbery Honor, 1949)

Extras: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Newbery Winner, 1998)

For the record, honor books count as well in my book.

8 Nonfiction Books

1. The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
2. I Have Lived A Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
3. The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
4. In My Hands: Memories of A Holocaust Rescuer
5. Alicia My Story: Alicia Appleman-Jurman
6. Night by Elie Wiesel
7. I Will Plant You A Lilac Tree by Laura Hillman
8. To Life by Ruth Minsky Sender

My list may change, but this is what I'm planning at the moment. No promises though. :)

8 Childhood Favorites

1. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
2. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
3. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Alternates:

8 by Beverly Cleary

1. Beezus and Ramona
2. Ramona the Pest
3. Ramona the Brave
4. Ramona and her Father
5. Ramona and her Mother
6. Ramona Quimby Age 8
7. Ramona Forever
8. Ramona's World

8 by L.M. Montgomery

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Enter your January through March reviews here!

2008-03-31T13:02:00.004-05:00

1. Revolution is Not A Dinner Party (Becky)
2. Girl with the White Flag (Becky)
3. Yellow Umbrella (Becky)
4. Year of the Rat (Becky)
5. The Fold (Becky)
6. The Mats (Becky)
7. Guji Guji (Becky)
8. Little Town on the Prairie (Becky)
9. These Happy Golden Years (Becky)
10. Persuasion (Becky)
11. Northanger Abbey (Becky)
12. Wives and Daughters (Becky)
13. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Becky)
14. Sense and Sensibility (Becky)
15. Hitty Her First Hundred Years (Becky)
16. On the Banks of Plum Creek (Becky)
17. By Shores of Silver Lake (Becky)
18. The Long Winter (Becky)
19. Adam of the Road (Becky)
20. Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH (Becky)
21. The Entertainer and the Dybbuk (Becky)
22. My Father\'s Dragon (Becky)
23. The Cage (Becky)
24. I Will Plant You A Lilac Tree (Becky)
25. Winnie the Pooh (Becky)
26. Little House in the Big Woods (Becky)
27. Little house on the prairie (Becky)
28. So Big (Wendy)
29. Life and Times of Michael K (Wendy)
30. The Translator (Wendy)
31. Alentejo Blue (Wendy)
32. Have You Found Her (Wendy)
33. Song of Solomon (Wendy)
34. The Gathering (Wendy)
35. The Giver (Wendy)
36. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Wendy)
37. Great Expectations (Wendy)
38. HP and the Sorcerer\'s Stone (3M)
39. HP and the Chamber of Secrets (3M)
40. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time) (3M)
41. Life & Times of Michael K (3M)
42. The Bluest Eye (3M)
43. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! (3M)
44. Independent People (3M)
45. Silence by Endo (3M)
46. Embers (3M)
47. Cat\'s Eye (3M)
48. Anne of Green Gables (3M)
49. Sitting Practice (3M)

50. Dreamers of the Day (3M)
51. The House at Riverton (3M)
52. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (J.C.)
53. Pillars of the Earth (J.C.)
54. The Gathering (J.C.)
55. The Stone Angel (J.C.)
56. The French Lieutenant\'s Woman (J.C.)
57. The Stone Diaries (J.C.)
58. The Time Travelers Wife (J.C.)
59. The Shadow of the Wind (J.C.)
60. We Just Want to Live Here(Amy)
61. The Reluctant Fundamentalist(Amy)
62. The Septembers of Shiraz(Amy)
63. Dream When You\'re Feeling Blue(Amy)
64. Resistance(Amy)
65. The Poet(Amy)
66. Slaughterhouse-Five (Sarah)
67. Bagombo Snuff Box (Sarah)
68. Brave New World (Sarah)
69. 1984 (Sarah)
70. The Secret Garden (Embejo)
71. For the Children\'s Sake(Embejo)
72. Pippi Longstocking (Embejo)
73. The Widow and Her Hero (Embejo)
74. The Well Trained Mind (Embejo)
75. Wuthering Heights (Embejo)
76. A Voice in the Wind (Embejo)
77. Sarah (Embejo)
78. The Pilot\'s Wife(Embejo)
79. Forrest Gump (Embejo)
80. Schindler\'s List (Embejo)
81. Just So Stories(Embejo)
82. Adventures of Pioneer Women in NZ(Embejo)
83. The Handmaid and the Carpenter (Embejo)
84. Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way (Tammy)
85. Diana Tregarde Investigates (Tammy)
86. Gold Unicorn (Tammy)
87. James Herriot\'s Dog Stories (Tammy)
88. Red As Blood (Tammy)
89. Chicks In Chainmail (Tammy)
90. Mission Canyon (Tammy)
91. The Service of the Sword (Tammy)
92. The Joy of Writing Sex (Tammy)
93. N. Vasillis
94. Everyone Worth Knowing (Sandra)
95. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Sandra)
96. Flowers for Algernon (Sandra)
97. The World is Flat (Sandra)
98. Pride and Prejudice (Sandra)

99. The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (Sandra)
100. P.S. I Love You (Sandra)
101. To Say Nothing of the Dog (CoversGirl)
102. Cat O\' Nine Tales (CoversGirl)
103. The Quiet American (CoversGirl)
104. Every Dead Thing (CoversGirl)
105. The Thirteenth Tale (CoversGirl)
106. Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell (Tiny Librarian)
107. Food and Loathing Tiny Librarian)
108. Uncommon Grounds (Tiny Librarian)
109. A Wind in the Door (Yati)
110. The Penderwicks (Yati)
111. Someplace to be Flying (Yati)
112. Temeraire (Yati)
113. Gastroanomalies (Tiny Librarian)
114. Kit\'s Wilderness (Yati)
115. Absolutely True Diary of a Parttime Indian (Cafeshree)
116. Perma Red (Cafeshree)
117. Killing Kind (Cafeshree)
118. Blood Orchid (Cafeshree)
119. Blind to the Bones (Cafeshree)
120. Round Heeled Woman (Cafeshree)
121. Practice of Deceit (Cafeshree)
122. Delirium (Cafeshree)
123. Last Night at the Lobster (Cafeshree)
124. Bay of Angels (Cafeshree)
125. The Game of Kings (Yati)
126. Sunshine (Yati)
127. Wendy (So Big)
128. Wendy (Life and Times of Michael K)
129. Wendy (The Gathering)
130. Wendy (Alentejo Blue)
131. Wendy (The Translator)
132. Wendy (Have You Found Her)
133. Wendy (The Giver)
134. Wendy (Song of Solomon)
135. Wendy (The Reluctant Fundamentalist)
136. Wendy (The Gathering)
137. Wendy (Great Expectations)
138. Ashleigh (A Tale of Two Cities)
139. Ashleigh (Cold Comfort Farm)
140. Where Angels Fear to Tread (Ashleigh)
141. Middlemarch (Ashleigh)
142. On Beauty (Ashleigh)
143. Water for Elephants (Ashleigh)
144. The Namesake (Ashleigh)
145. Bee Season (Ashleigh)

3M's List

2008-03-31T08:43:00.003-05:00

I decided NOT to have any overlaps.

8 Award Winners

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (Whitbread)
Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee (Booker)
The Gathering by Enright (Booker)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Nobel)
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Pulitzer)
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Booker)
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz (Newbery)
Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Kertesz (Nobel)

8 New-to-me authors

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Transformations by Anne Sexton
The Only Road North by Erik Mirandette
Maus I by Art Spiegelman

8 ZUQX (Hard to find letters of the alphabet)

I Am the Messenger by Zusak
Zenzele by ?
Unless by Carol Shields
Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife by Sigrid Undset
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
X Stands for Unknown by Asimov
Sky Burial by Xinran

8 diferent languages in translation

Independent People by Halldor Laxness (Icelandic)
Solaris by Lem (Polish)
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gardner (Norwegian)
Silence by Shusaku Endo (Japanese)
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino (Italian)
The Castle by Franz Kafka (German)
Lolita (Russian)
Embers by Sandor Marai (Hungarian)

8 different countries (Around the World)

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (Mexico)
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene (Cuba)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini (Afghanistan)
Things Fall Apart by Achebe (Nigeria)
The Translator by Daoud Hari (Sudan)
Strangers by Taichi Yamada (Japan)
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8 different Canadian authors

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Collected Stories of Carol Shields
Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson
The Road Past Altamont by Gabrielle Roy
Kanada by Eva Wiseman
Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson

8 newly published in 2008

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Winter Haven by Athol Dickson
Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
The Sister by Poppy Adams
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
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8 Fantasy

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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This way when a challenge comes up, I'll be able to see if it fits with what I'm already planning on reading. Obsessive, I know. :-)

Challenge Rules

2008-03-30T12:22:00.000-05:00

1. Challenge runs from January 1 through December 31, 2008.

2. Choose 8 categories of your own that you would like to read 8 books EACH in.

3. You will be allowed 8 overlaps, for a total of 56 unique book titles.

4. You may overlap these 56 titles with any other challenge.

5. You may change your list or your categories at any time.

6. Post a comment here that you are participating, and I will add a link to the sidebar. Request an invite including your e-mail address if you want to post your list to this blog. However, we will NOT be writing reviews here! You may update your lists by providing the link to books read. Please use your name as a label, along with the book categories you're reading from.

7. Check back here to see who is participating and cheer others on.

8. Participants who complete all 56 books will be in the running for in-stock books from paperbackswap.com. (I have mucho credits.) Overseas is okay!

9. Have fun reading!

Sarah's Choices

2008-03-27T10:16:00.007-05:00

I didn't know about this until a couple days ago, so I am probably not going to be able to finish. But I'll start! My list is ridiculously ambitious, anyway, so it's more of a to-read thing than something I expect to finish within the year. I don't have any overlaps, either. Someone slap me!

Blue is read, with a link to a review when I get round to writing it.

19th Century Women
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Emma, Jane Austen
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Villette, Charlotte Bronte
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Middlemarch, George Eliot

Dystopias and Antiutopias
1984, George Orwell
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Trial, Franz Kafka
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Anthem, Ayn Rand
Island, Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

Classic Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells
Dune, Frank Herbert
Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkein

By Brits I Already Love
Leave It to Psmith, Wodehouse
My Uncle Oswald, Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl: Collected Stories
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, A. C. Doyle
Brideshead, Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Moab is My Washpot, Stephen Fry
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

By Others I Already Love...maybe more Brits
Pale Fire, Nabokov
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
Something Happened, Joseph Heller
Closing Time, Joseph Heller
Collected Essays, George Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
Pnin, Nabokov
A Moveable Feast, Hemingway

Things I've Avoided
Dubliners, James Joyce
Walden, Thoreau
Great Expectations, Dickens
East of Eden, Steinbeck
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
The Three Musketeers, Dumas
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan
~~Slaughterhouse-Five~~
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Mother Night
Player Piano
Jailbird
~~Bagombo Snuff Box~~
Galapagos

Started, but Haven't Finished [and by now will have to start over]
The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
David Copperfield, Dickens
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Notre-Dame de Paris, Hugo
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner
Candide, Voltaire

Rach's List

2008-03-19T23:10:00.001-05:00

8 Books Recommended To Me:

1/ American Gods by Neil Gaimon
2/ Flatland by Edwin A Abbott
3/ The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
4/ Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson
5/ Pollen by Jeff Noon
6/ Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
7/ The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
8/ Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman - finished 1st Jan 08 - my thoughts

8 Biographies

1/ High Hopes by Billy Hopkins - currently reading
2/ My Booky Wook by Russel Brand - completed 21st Jan my thoughts
3/ On The Edge by Richard Hammond
4/Bigger Than Hitler: Better Than Christ by Rik Mayall
5/ Nicholas Cage by Ian Markham-Smith
6/ A Long Walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela - finished 26th February my thoughts
7/ If I am Missing or Dead by Janine Latus
8/ Paula Yates by Paula Yates

8 John Grisham books:

1/ The Testament
2/ Playing for Pizza
3/ The Appeal
4/ The Rainmaker
5/ The Client
6/ The Chamber
7/ Pelican Brief
8/ The Street Lawyer

8 Books that have been made into film:

1/ Memoirs of a Geisha
2/ Bridget Jones - Edge of Reason
3/ Hannibal Rising
4/ The Body (made into Stand by Me) - finished 2nd Jan 08 - my thoughts
5/ Da Vinci Code
6/ War of the Worlds
7/ Christine
8/ Bone Collector

8 Penguin Classics:

1/ Moonfleet - John Meade Falkner
2/ Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
3/ Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
4/ One flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
5/ Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
6/ Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
7/ Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
8/ Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence

8 Travel Books:

1/ Fried Eggs With Chopsticks - Polly Evans - completed 13th Jan my thoughts
2/ Talk to the Snail - Stephen Clarke - completed 3rd March my thoughts
3/ Down Under - Bill Bryson
4/ Long Way Down - Ewan McGregor
5/ Blood River - Tim Butcher
6/ Happy Slapped by a Jellyfish - Karl Pilkington
7/ Pies and Prejudice - Stuart Macone
8/ Round Ireland With a Fridge - Tony Hawks

8 Trashy Novels

1/ The Man of my Dreams - Curtis Sittenfield
2/ Good at Games - Jill Mansell
3/ The Other Woman's Shoes - Adele Parks -completed 15th March- my thoughts
4/ The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho- - completed 9th March my thoughts
5/ Queen Mum - Kate Long
6/ Camberwell Beauty -Jenny Eclair
7/ It's Not You, It's Me - Helen Dunne
8/ Onwards and Upwards - Arabella Weir

8 from Amazon's 'Society, Politics and Philosophy' Section

1/ Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown
2/ Reconcilation: Islam, Democracy and The West - Benazir Bhutto
3/ God is not Great - Christopher Hitchins
4/ Tribe: adventures in a Changing World- Bruce Parry
5/ Life in the UK: A Journey to Citizenship
6/ Six Thinking Hats: Edward De Bono
7/ Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - Charles Seife
8/ Playto and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar - Thomas Cathcart

Rach
Broken Down Angel

The Biblio Brat's Progress

2008-03-17T21:42:00.002-05:00

Progress:
4/8 Women Writers
1/8 From TBR Shelf
0/8 Short Story Collections
0/8 Fantasy/Dark Fantasy
2/8 Award Winners
2/8 Banned Books
2/8 Historical Fiction
1/8 Books with a "Book" Theme

08/56 Completed (accounting for overlaps)

Poodlerat's List

2008-03-05T21:38:00.004-06:00

1: Juvenile and Young Adult Fantasy

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
Freaks: Alive, on the Inside! by Annette Curtis Klause
The Spell of the Sorcerer’s Skull by John Bellairs
The Mansion in the Mist by John Bellairs
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

2: Direct Sequels to Books I’ve Read
(second books only—later books in a series don’t count)

The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Scardown by Elizabeth Bear
Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz
The Demon and the City by Liz Williams
Mollie Peer by Van Reid
Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

3: From North Africa and the Middle East

The Sand Child by Tahar ben Jelloun (Morocco)
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (Libya)
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (Sudan)
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa el-Aswany (Egypt)
Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti (Palestine)
Look for Me by Edeet Ravel (Israel)
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmeena Khadra (Afghanistan)

4: Classic Works of Science Fiction
(x-over with Sci-Fi Classics Challenge)

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Hyperion by Dan Simmons

5: Books by Agatha Christie I’ve Never Read
(x-over with the Anything Agatha Challenge)

Murder in Mesopotamia
Sparkling Cyanide (or Remembered Death)
Crooked House
Ordeal by Innocence
The Pale Horse
Elephants Can Remember
Come, Tell Me How You Live
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

6: The Mary Russell Series by Laurie R. King
(re-reads, in preparation for the release of #9, The Language of Bees, in 2009)

The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
A Letter of Mary
The Moor
O Jerusalem
Justice Hall
The Game
Locked Rooms

7: Contemporary Fantasy

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Widdershins by Charles de Lint
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton
Swallowing Darkness by Laurell K. Hamilton
Little, Big by John Crowley
Blood Debt by Tanya Huff

8: Classic Works of Fantasy
(x-over with Fantasy Classics Challenge)

Little, Big by John Crowley
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
Beauty by Robin McKinley
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Dunwich Horror and Other by H.P. Lovecraft
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

Ashleigh's List

2008-02-25T14:05:00.005-06:00

I'm reposting my list because I have a new blog :

I'm using this opportunity to mark some books off the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die as well as take the time to check out some books that I've been meaning to read for awhile.

completed books written in red

1 :: Books by Charles Dickens
: Our Mutual Friend
: A Tale of Two Cities (review)
: Hard Times
: Bleak House
: David Copperfield
: Martin Chuzzlewit
: Nicholas Nickleby
: Oliver Twist

2 :: Written in the 1700s
: Robinson Crusoe . Daniel Defoe
: Gulliver's Travels . Jonathan Swift
: The Female Quixote . Charlotte Lennox (review)
: Dangerous Liasons . Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
: The 120 Days of Sodom . Marquis de Sade
: Hyperion . Friedrich Holderlin
: Fanny Hill . John Cleland
: The Vicar of Wakefield . Oliver Goldsmith

5 :: Written in the 1800s
: She . H. Rider Haggard
: Fruits of the Earth. Andre Gide
: Kidnapped . Robert Louis Stevenson
: By the Open Sea . August Strindberg
: Far From the Maddening Crowd . Thomas Hardy
: In A Glass Darkly . Sheridan le Fanu
: The Moonstone . Wilkie Collins
: Madame Bovary . Gustave Flaubert

4 :: Written in the 1900s
: Underworld . Don DeLillo
: Empire of the Sun . J.G. Ballard
: Cold Comfort Farm : Stella Gibbons (review)
: 2001: A Space Odyssey . Arthur C. Clarke
: The Last Temptation of Christ . Nikos Kazantzakis
: Les Enfants Terribles . Jean Cocteau
: Tarzan of the Apes . Edgar Rice Burroughs
: Where Angels Fear to Tread . E.M. Forster (review)

5 :: Over 500 pages
: The Three Musketeers . Alexandre Dumas
: Pamela . Samuel Richardson
: Les Misérables . Victor Hugo
: Middlemarch . George Eliot (review)
: The Brothers Karamazov . Fyodor Dostoevsky
: Ben-Hur . Lew Wallace
: Germinal . Emile Zola
: Remembrance of Things Past . Marcel Proust

6 :: Books Written by Last Names Beginning with - M
: One Hundred Years of Solitude . Gabriel Garcia Marquez
: A Woman's Life . Guy de Maupassant
: Saturday . Ian McEwan
: Kafka on the Shore . Haruki Murakami
: Don't Move . Margaret Mazzantini
: Wittgenstein's Mistress . David Markson
: The Black Prince . Iris Murdoch
: The Man of Feeling . Henry Mackenzie

7 :: The Last 8 on the List (unless listed above or previously read)
: Never Let Me Go . Kazuo Ishiguro
: On Beauty . Zadie Smith (review)
: Adjunct: An Undigest . Peter Manson
: The Sea . John Banville
: The Red Queen . Margaret Drabble
: The Plot Against America . Philip Roth
: The Master . Colm Toibin
: Vanishing Point . David Markson

8 :: Popular Books I've Been Meaning to Read
: Water for Elephants . Sara Gruen (review)
: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell . Susanna Clarke
: The Namesake . Jhumpa Lahiri (review)
: The Book Thief . Markus Zusak
: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan . Lisa See
: The Memory Keeper's Daughter . Kim Edwards
: Bee Season . Myla Goldberg (review)
: The Thirteenth Tale . Diane Setterfield

:: Ashleigh :: random field notes ::

Sandy M (Strlady)'s Triple 8 Lists

2008-02-16T21:51:00.020-06:00

I'm really excited about joining the challenge, and it is just that, a challenge since narrowing down the categories and deciding what to read has really been taxing but I have made up my list and have filled out my categories with as many books as I could think of. i still have a few categories that have open slots but I don't expect those to be empty for very long.

I will be posting my reviews on my blog at: Sandy's Reading Journal

When I complete a book and post the review I'll edit the list to change the color of the selection and include a link to the postings. If I do not review the book I'll still change the color of the selection to reflect that I have already read it.

Here are my categories and selections:

Group 1: Anthologies
1) Stroke of Midnight
2) Dead and Loving It
3) Hot Spell
4) Bite
5) Hero, Come Back
6) A Gift of Love
7) Veils of Time
8) Just One Sip

Group 2: Audiobooks
1) An Arranged Marriage by Jo Beverley
2) An Unwilling Bride by Jo Beverley
3) Mirror Image by Sandra Brown
4) Play Dirty - Sandra Brown
5) Seventh Heaven by Catherine Anderson
6) Running from the Law by Lisa Scottoline
7) Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein
8) The Collectors by David Baldacci

Group 3: Romantic Suspense
1) Play Dirty - Sandra Brown
2) Mirror Image - Sandra Brown
3) Kill and Tell - Linda Howard
4) The Missing by Shiloh Walker
5) Slightly Shady by Amanda Quick
6) Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown (read but not reviewed)
7) Death Angel by Linda Howard
8) Midnight Rainbow by Linda Howard (read but not reviewed)

Group 4: Paranormals
1) Lover Enshrined - J.R. Ward
2) Through the Veil by Shiloh Walker
3) A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K.Hamilton
4) A Caress of Twilight by Laurell K.Hamilton
5) Seduced by Moonlight by Laurell K.Hamilton (read but not reviewed)
6) A Stroke of Midnight by Laurell K.Hamilton (read but not reviewed)
7) Mistral's Kiss by Laurell K.Hamilton (read but not reviewed)
8) A Lick of Frost by Laurell K.Hamilton (read but not reviewed)

Group 5: Published before 2000
1) The Princess and the Pea - Victoria Alexander
2) A Valentine Wedding - Jane Feather
3) All Night Long by Michele Albert
4) Family Man by Jayne Ann Krentz
5) Lady Be Good by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
6) Bewitching by Jill Barnett
7) Dreaming by Jill Barnett
8) Running from the Law by Lisa Scottoline

Group 6: Series Romance:
1) The Littlest Cowboy - Maggie Shayne
2) Expecting his Royal Baby by Susan Stephens
3) Indiscreet by Mary Balogh
4) Baby, I'm Yours by Karen Templeton
5) Forbidden by Suzanne Brockmann
6) Freedom's Price by Suzanne Brockmann
7) Awakening Beauty by Amy Fetzer
8) Body Language by Suzanne Brockmann

Group 7: YA
1) Sweet Far Thing - Libba Bray
2) Brisnger - Chris Paolini (read but not reviewed - DNF)
3) Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
4) Dragon Rider - Cornelia Funke
5) Redwall - Brian Jacques
6) Twlight by Stephenie Meyer
7) New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
8) Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Group 8: New Authors
1) The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe
2) Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
3) Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
4) One Wicked Night - Sari Robins
5) After the Kiss by Karen Ranney
6) Bewitching by Jill Barnett
7) The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
8) Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

J.C. Montgomery's List

2008-02-12T14:13:00.002-06:00

Books which are overlaps are in bold.
Books I have already read and reviewed show as links back to my blog.

Women Authors

The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
Pilgrim At Tinker Creek by Anne Dillard
What The Dead Know by Laura Lippmann
Katherine by Anya Seton
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins

From My TBR Shelf

The Declaration by Gemma Malley
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Kept by D.J. Taylor
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld

Short Story Collections

Classic Ghost Stories - Ed. by John Grafton
The Ebony Tower by John Fowles
Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
Later, At The Bar by Rebecca Barry
Sunstroke: And Other Stories by Tessa Hadley
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
Dubliners by James Joyce
Into The Dreamlands - Various

Fantasy/Dark Fantasy (a whole new genre for me!)

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Unquiet Dreams by Mark Del Franco
Unshapely Things by Mark Del Franco
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Into The Dreamlands - Various
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

Award Winners

Independence Day by Richard Ford
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Gathering by Anne Enright
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
The Known World by Edward Jones
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Banned Books

The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett
The House Of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck

Books with 'Book' Theme

The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moer
The Yellow-Lighted Bookstore by Lewis Buzbee
An Alphabetical Life by Wendy Werris
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
The Rule Of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
The Archivist's Story by Travis Holland

Historical Fiction

Katherine by Anya Seton
The Winthrop Woman by Anya Seton
Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan by Lisa See
March by Geraldine Brooks
Soul Catcher by Michael C. White
The Commoner by John Burnham Scwartz

Amy E's List

2008-02-09T12:26:00.004-06:00

As of Feb: 3/59

Emboldened works are my duplicates.

1. Queer Fiction

Fiction with LGBTTQQIAAP themes

Jack, A.M. Homes
Maurice, E.M. Forester
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
A Son Called Gabriel, Damian McNicholl
Choir Boy, Charlie Anders
Best Lesbian Erotica 2007, Tristan Taormino (I swear it’s not cheating.)
Rose of No Man’s Land, Michelle Tea
Orlando, Virginia Woolf

2. Authored by a female-identified person

Everything You Need, A.L. Kennedy
My Sister’s Continent, Gina Frangello
Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Everyone’s Pretty, Lydia Millet
In the Country of the Young, Lisa Carey
The End of Mr Y, Scarlett Thomas
The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, Michelle Tea

3. French (aka Books by Colette and Anaïs Nin)

I intended to make this category more diverse, but I’ve had these books on my to-read list for so long the Colette/Nin thing just sort of happened.

Cities of the Interior: Book 1, Anaïs Nin
Cities of the Interior: Book 2, Anaïs Nin
Cities of the Interior: Book 3, Anaïs Nin
Cities of the Interior: Book 4, Anaïs Nin
Cities of the Interior: Book 5, Anaïs Nin (Okay, this was probably cheating.)
The Complete Claudine, Colette
Little Birds, Anaïs Nin
Delta of Venus, Anaïs Nin

4. Poetry

My goal here is not to read the entirety of these poets’ works but to find at least one poem from each that I really really like.

Ariel, Sylvia Plath
Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton
The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poems of W.B. Yeats, W.B. Yeats
Poems of John Keats, John Keats
Rossetti: Poems, Christina Rossetti
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (because he looks like Gandalf)

5. Feminism and Queer Theory

A nonfiction counterpart to the queer fiction category

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminism Abortion Service, Laura Kaplan
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women, Naomi Wolf
Myths of Gender, Anne Fausto-Sterling
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade, Ann Fessler
The Riddle of Gender, Deborah Rudacille
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, Anne Fausto-Sterling
Gender, Race, and Class, Lynn S. Chancer et al.

6. Books that are older than me

Things published before 1984.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek
The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
An Introduction to Mathematics, Alfred North Whitehead
The Aims of Education, Alfred North Whitehead

7. Philosophy and/or Activism

An Introduction to Mathematics, Alfred North Whitehead
The Aims of Education, Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophical Writings, Simone de Beauvoir
The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir
Scientific Inquiry: Readings in the Philosophy of Science, Robert Klee
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough et al.
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Alfie Kohn

8. Light Reading – A respite from my own list

A Practical Guide to Racism, C.H. Dalton
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, Natile Angier
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasure of Obituaries, Marilyn Johnson
The Farewell Chronicles: How We Really Respond to Death, Anneli S. Rufus
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, Pierre Bayard
The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Catherynne Valente
Dahlia Season, Myriam Gurba

Edit (2/16): Replaced a duplicate of Choir Boy with the second volume of The Orphan's Tales and a dup. of Maurice with The Sun Also Rises.

Edit (2/24): Added Dahlia Season to light reading. I’m not sure why it didn't make it on the list the first time.

Embejo's List

2008-02-08T22:52:00.036-06:00

Categories:

1. Children’s Favourites
2. Classics
3. Non-Fiction
4. Historical Fiction
5. Books I’ve wanted to read
6. Light Fiction/Easy to read
7. Homeschooling/Education
8. Books made into Movies
9. About or Set in Africa

Progress: 38/64

Children’s Favourites:
1. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. The Willoughbys - Lois Lowry
3. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
4. The Borrowers - Mary Norton
5. The Complete Tales - Beatrix Potter
6. Pollyanna - Elanor Porter
7. Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
8. Pipi Longstocking - AstridLindgren

Classics:
1. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
3. Lord of the Flies - Golding
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. 1984 - George Orwell
6. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
7. The Catcher in the Rye - J D Sallinger
8. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
9. The Sea - John Banville

Non-Fiction:
1. Adventures of Pioneer Women in NZ
2. Five Days in London - John Lukacs
3. Boy: Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
5. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
6. Absolute Power - Ian Wishart
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Historical Fiction:
1. The Handmaid and the Carpenter - Elizabeth Berg
2. Sarah - Orson Scott Card
3. A Voice in the Wind - Francine Rivers
4. The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory
5. The Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory
6. Resistance - Owen Sheers
7. Morgan's Run - Colleen McCullough
8. Jessica - Bryce Courtenay

Books I’ve wanted to read:
1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
2. The Colour Purple - Walker
3. My Left Foot - Christy Brown
4. I am David - Anne Holm
5. Once Were Warriors - Alan Duff
6. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
7. The Widow and Her Hero - Thomas Keneally
8. Lies That Go Unchallenged - Charles Colson

Light/Easy Fiction:
1. The Pilot’s Wife - Anita Shreve
2. A River Runs Through it - Norman Maclean
3. Lucy Sullivan Got Married - Marian Keyes
4. Mrs Kimble - Jennifer Haigh
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Homeschooling/Education:
1. Honey for a Child’s Heart - Gladys Hunt
2. The Well Trained Mind - Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer
3. For the Children’s Sake - Susan Schaeffer Macauley
4. Dumbing us Down - John Gatto
5. Romancing Your Child's Heart - Monte Swan
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Books Into Movies:
1. Master and Commander - Patrick O’Brian
2. The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
3. The Perfect Storm - Sebastion Junger
4. Forest Gump - Winston Groom
5. Schindler’s List - Thomas Keneally
6. Corelli’s Mandolin - Loius DeBernieres (didn't finish)
7. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
8. The Noteboo k - Nicholas Sparks

About/ Set in Africa
1. Tandia - Bryce Courtenay
2. Left to Tell - Immaculee Ilibagiza
3. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier - Ishmael Beah
4. Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
5 There is no me without You - Melissa Fay Greene
6. Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
7. I Dreamed of Africa - Kuki Gallman
8. The Sound of Thunder - Wilbur Smith

Yes, I know I have 9 categories....I'm changing it as I go along. It will be settled by the end.

Sandra's choice

2008-02-06T12:53:00.003-06:00

Hi here's my list finally... =)

The Sherlock Holmes Series (9 books as I want to complete my series)

A Study In Scarlet
The Signs of Four
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Valley of Fear
The Last Bow
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

2000s

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
TBC
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1900s

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
TBC

1800s and before

Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

19th Century Women Writers

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
The Awakening – Kate Chopin

From the Movies

Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring) - J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Ring (The Two Towers) - J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Ring (The Return of the King) - J.R.R. Tolkien
P.S I Love You - Cecilia Ahern
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
TBC
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Chick Lit

Everyone Worth Knowing - Lauren Weisberger
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic Abroad - Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic & Sister - Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic & Baby - Sophie Kinsella
TBC
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Non-Fiction

The World Is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
The Age of Turbulence - Alan Greenspan
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
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