R.I.P. VII Challenge
September 1, 2012 -- October 31, 2012
Read: 4
To read: 0
Read: 1
To read: As many more as I want.
Chunkster Challenge
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
1. Berlin 1961 by Frederick Kempe (608 pages) (Review)
2. Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage (804 pages) (Review)
3. The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons (656 pages) (Review)
6. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (544 pages) (Review)
8. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (625 pages) (Review)
Read: 9
To read: 1 (1 more must be over 750 pages)
Once Upon a Time VI
Hosted by: Stainless Steel Droppings
March 19, 2012 -- June 19, 2012
1. Goddess, Interrupted by Aimee Carter (Review)
2. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Read: 1
To read: 0 unless I want to. :-D
The Classics Club
Hosted by: Jillian @ A Room of One's Own
March 7, 2012 - March 7, 2017
1. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
2. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Review)
3. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
4. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
5. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
6. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
7. Wings of the Dove by Henry James
8. Paradise Lost by John Milton
9. A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
10. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
12. My Antonia by Willa Cather
13. Dracula by Bram Stoker (Review)
14. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell(Review)
15. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
16. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
17. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
18. Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
19. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Review)
20. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
21. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
22. Summer by Edith Wharton
23. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
24. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
25. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Review)
26. The Portrait of A Lady by Henry James
27. Silas Marner by George Eliot
28. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
29. Night by Elie Wiesel
30. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
31. The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
32. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
33. Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim
34. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
35. Evelina by Fanny Burney
36. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
37. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
38. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
39. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
40. Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
41. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
42. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
43. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
44. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
45. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Review)
46. The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
47. The Hounds of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
48. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
49. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
50. Agnes Gray by Anne Bronte
3. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
4. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
5. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
6. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
7. Wings of the Dove by Henry James
8. Paradise Lost by John Milton
9. A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
10. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
12. My Antonia by Willa Cather
14. North and South
15. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
16. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
17. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
18. Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
20. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
21. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
22. Summer by Edith Wharton
23. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
24. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
25. The Woman in White
26. The Portrait of A Lady by Henry James
27. Silas Marner by George Eliot
28. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
29. Night by Elie Wiesel
30. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
31. The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
32. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
33. Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim
34. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
35. Evelina by Fanny Burney
36. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
37. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
38. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
39. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
40. Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
41. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
42. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
43. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
44. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
46. The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
47. The Hounds of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
48. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
49. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
50. Agnes Gray by Anne Bronte
Read: 6
To read: 44
European Reading Challenge
Hosted by: Rose City Reader
January 1, 2012 - January 31, 2013
I plan to read:
Read: 3
To read: 0
South Asian Challenge
Hosted by: S. Krishna's Books
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
I plan to read:
1. American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar (Review)
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Read: 1
To read: 4
Award Winning Reads Challenge
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
I plan to read 7 of these babies:
* How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
* Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
* Speak by Laurie Halse Andersen
* The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
* The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
* The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
* Bridge to Terabithia by Katerine Paterson
* Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
* Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
* The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Review)
* An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
* The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
* Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
* Speak by Laurie Halse Andersen
* The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
* The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
* The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
* Bridge to Terabithia by Katerine Paterson
* Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
* Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
* An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
* The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
Read: 1
To read: 6
The 2012 Harry Potter Reading Challenge
Hosted by: Reading Fever
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Read: 6
To read: 1
Mixing it Up Challenge
Hosted by: Musings of a Bookshop Girl
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
My level: Mixing bowl: 9-12
MODERN FICTION - The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
JOURNALISM AND HUMOR - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Read: 9
To read: Only as many as I want.
2012 New Adult Challenge
Hosted by: A Tapestry of Words
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
My level: Just graduated (3 books)
2. The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons (review)
Read: 3
To read: 0
Alex Awards Challenge
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
My goal: 10 books
1. Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok (Review)
2. Room by Emma Donahue (Review)
3. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (Review)
4. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Review)
5. Never Let Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
6.The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls(Review)
7. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
8. Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett (Review)
9. Stiff by Mary Roach
10. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
5. Never Let Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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7. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
9. Stiff by Mary Roach
10. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Read: 6
To read: 4
Back to the Classics 2012
Hosted by: Sarah Reads Too Much
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
2. 20th century classic - A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
8. A classic award-winner - Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
9. A classic set in a country you will probably never visit. - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Read: 6
To read: 3
2012 A Classics Challenge
Hosted by November's Autumn.
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
Read seven classics -- these will probably mirror the ones from the challenge above.
Read: 7
To read: 0
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