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Liz's Book Challenge 2009
Another Challenge that I'm in is the 7 Classics Challenge (but I changed mine to 17)The 17 Classics Challenge
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2. Fjodor Dostojevskij � Crime And Punishment
3. Jane Austen � Emma
4. Charlotte Brontë � Jane Eyre
5. Gaston Leroux � The Phantom of the Opera
6. H. P Lovecraft � The Loved Dead
7. Herman Melville � Moby Dick
9. Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
10. F. S Fitzgerald - Tender Is The Night
11. Anne Brontë - The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall
12. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
13. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
14. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
15. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
17. Karin Boye - Kallocain
Variety is the Spice of Life Challenge
Rules:
1. Each book can only satisfy one requirement.
2. Only one book per author. The idea is to branch out after all.
Read one book by a living author. The Long Walk by Stephen King
Read one book by deceased author. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Read one genre book
- Sci-Fi: Greg Bear: Star Wars - Rogue Planet
- Mystery: Simon Beckett - Written In Bone
- Western: Laura Ingalls Wilder - The Golden Years
- Horror: Dean Koontz - Midnight
Read a poetry collection, poetry anthology, or an epic poem. Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson
Read a graphic novel.
Read a banned book. George Orwell - 1984
13. Magician part 1: The Magician's Apprentice (L), In Sweden, this book is divided into three parts. I've just finished the first part.
18. Raymond E. Feist - Magician part 2: Between Two Worlds (L). As mentioned earlier, Magician is divided into three parts in Sweden...
19. Philippa Gregory - The Constant Princess (L). I liked this book a lot and thought that it was an interesting portrait of Katherine of Aragon. It made me want to read more about her.
22. Anonymous - Sweeney Tood or The String of Pearls (O, C) An amazing horror story!
23. J.M Coetzee - Disgrace (L).I don't know what to say about this book. It was special. I still don't know if I like it or if I dislike it :P
24. Peter Pohl - Johnny, My Friend (L)
25. Reginald Hill - On Beulah Height (O)
26. Raymond E. Feist - Master of Magic (part three of Magician)(L). I have now, finally, finished reading the first part of the Riftwar Saga. As I mentioned previously it is divided into three parts in Sweden (the first book that is). I really like this saga and I'm looking forward to reading the following parts of it. The only bad thing is that I will have to wait before I can read them because someone feels the same way as me and has borrowed all the books from the library! :S
27. Stephen King - Carrie (O).This was the first book I ever read by Stephen King, I think I was about eleven years old then. I re-read it when I was in secondary school and thought that the book was great. But re-reading it now, for the third time I actually think that this is one of my fav. novels by Stephen King. I will definitley read it again one day!
28. Roberto Saviano - Gomorrah (O, H).I found this book to be very interesting and at the same time scary. In a way it was a difficult book to read, it is not a book that you read in just two days. It took me 1 ½ month to finish it but I'm glad I read it. I will probably read it again one day.
I would recommened it to everyone that are interested in learning more about the mafia, especially the camorramafia.
29. Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House (L, C)30.Simon Beckett - Written In Bone (O)
38. Simon Beckett - Chemistry of Death (L)
39. Doris Lessing - The Fifth Child (O)
40. Patricia Cornwell - Body of Evidence (O)
41. Diana Gabaldon - The Fiery Cross (O)
42. Markus Zusak - The Book Thief (L)
43. Joe Hill - 20th Century Ghosts (L)
45. Mitch Albom - Five People You Meet In Heaven (L)
46. Patricia Cornwell - All That Remains (L)
Current status: 29/40 borrowed books19/40 "owned" books
3/15 classics
1/5 history/society books.
49. Charles Dickens - Bleak House (O, C)
50. Sheila O'Flanagan - Too Good To Be True (O)
52. P.D James - Unnatural Causes (O)
53. Meg Cabot - All American Girl (L)
54. Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark (L)
55. Norman Lewis - The Honoured Society (O,H)
56. Mari Jungstedt - Den Döende Dandyn (L)
58. Patricia Cornwell - Cruel And Unusual (L)
The Book Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Echoes from the Dead (other topics)The Long Walk (other topics)
Pet Sematary (other topics)
The Remains of the Day (other topics)
The Dark Half (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Johan Theorin (other topics)Stephen King (other topics)
Stephen King (other topics)
Kazuo Ishiguro (other topics)
Stephen King (other topics)
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I shall read:
- 40 books that I own
- 40 books that I've borrowed
- 15 classics
- 5 non-fiction/history books.
I will mark them with "O" for Own, "L" for Loan, "C" for Classics and "H" for nonfiction-history.
January
1. Long Way Round Chasing Shadows Across the World (O)
2. Star Wars The Thrawn Trilogy II - Dark Force Rising (O)
3. Star Wars Darth Maul - Shadow Hunter(O)
4. New Moon (L)
5. Eclipse (L)
6. No Country for Old Men (L)
February
7. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (O)
8. Let the Right One In (L)
9. Star Wars The Thrawn Trilogy III - The Last Command (L)
10. The Golden Compass (L)