Challenges

Wednesday, November 07, 2012

R.I.P. VII Challenge
September 1, 2012 -- October 31, 2012
1. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Review)
2. Enshadowed by Kelly Creagh (Review)
3. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Review)
4. Dracula by Bram Stoker (Review)
Read: 4
To read: 0

1. "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe (Review)
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)
4. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (718 pages) (Review)
5. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1290 pages) (Review)
6. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (544 pages) (Review)
7. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (601 pages) (Review)
8. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (625 pages) (Review)
9. Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier (580 pages) (Review)
Read: 9
To read: 1 (1 more must be over 750 pages)

Once Upon a Time VI
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

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
Read: 6
To read: 44

European Reading Challenge
Hosted by: Rose City Reader
January 1, 2012 - January 31, 2013
I plan to read:
1. Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale (England) (Review)
2. Paris, My Sweet by Amy Thomas (France) (Review)
3. In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (Germany) (Review)
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
Read: 1
To read: 6


The 2012 Harry Potter Reading Challenge
Hosted by: Reading Fever
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (review)
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Review)
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Review)
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Review)
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Review)
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Review)
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Read: 6
To read: 1

Mixing it Up Challenge
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
My level: Mixing bowl: 9-12
CLASSIC - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Review)
COOKERY, FOOD, AND WINE - Paris My Sweet by Amy Thomas (Review)
HISTORY - In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (Review)
MODERN FICTION - The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
GRAPHIC NOVELS - Wintertown by Stephen Emonds (Review)
HORROR: Dracula by Bram Stoker (Review)
SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY - Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (Review)
JOURNALISM AND HUMOR - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY - Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku (Review)
CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT - Chime by Franny Billingsley (Review)
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PHILOSOPHY - The Social Animal by David Brooks (Review)
Read: 9
To read: Only as many as I want. 

2012 New Adult Challenge
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
My level: Just graduated (3 books)
1. Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett (review)
2. The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons (review)
3. The Cranes Dance by Meg Howrey (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
Read: 6
To read: 4

Back to the Classics 2012
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012
1. 19th century classic - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Review)
2. 20th century classic - A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
3. Reread a classic of your choice (Oh joy. I can do this one!) - East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Review)
4. Classic play - Henry VIII by Shakespeare (Review)
5. Classic murder/horror/crime novel - Dracula by Bram Stoker (Review)
6. Classic romance - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell(Review)
7. A classic that has been translated from another language into your language - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Review)
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.
1. Henry VIII by William Shakespeare (Review)
2. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Review)
3. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Review)
4. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Review)
5. A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Review)
6. Dracula by Bram Stoker (Review)
7. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins(Review)
Read: 7
To read: 0


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