Wednesday, October 31, 2007

What's in a Name Reading Challenge










Dates: January 1st through December 31st

Host: Annie

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The Challenge (put simply): Read one book in each of 6 categories...a book with a color in its title, a book with an animal in its title, a book with a plant in its title, a book with a place in its title, a book with weather event in its title, and a book with a person's name in its title.

My list:

*Light on Snow by Anita Shreve (weather event)

*Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (plant)

*Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (place)

*Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule (color)

*The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (first name)

*I Was a Rat by Philip Pullman (animal)

Substitutes:

*The Floods: Good Neighbors by Colin Thompson (weather event)

*The Rose and the Beast by Francesca Lia Block (plant)

*New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers by Robert S. Desowitz (place)

*The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson (first name)

Book Around the States Reading Challenge

Dates: Ongoing, as in no time limit! (This makes it impossible to resist!)

Host: Bonnie

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My list: (filled in as I come up with appropriate books)

Alabama--Sonny's House of Spies by George Ella Lyon
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas--100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts--The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon--Emily's Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary
Pennsylvania--Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Monday, October 29, 2007

Hometown Challenge

***What can I say? I totally forgot about this one! And all I needed to do was read a single book. Oh well.***

Dates: November 1st through March 1st

Host: Callista

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The Challenge (put simply): Read at least 1 book either set in your hometown or by an author from your hometown.

My list:

*The Tenth House by Phillip Tomasso III (set in the Rochester, NY area)

*If, and only if, I enjoy the first, I'll also read the sequel, Third Ring.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Y.A. Reading Challenge

Dates: January 1st through December 31st

Host: Joy

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The Challenge (put simply): Read 12 Young Adult books.

My list:

*elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

*Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

*Stardust by Neil Gaiman

*The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

*The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

*The Secret Hours by Scott Westerfield

*Gossamer by Lois Lowry

*The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint

*The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

*The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer

*Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

*The Legend of Holly Claus by Brittney Ryan

Substitutes:

*The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

*The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

*Star Split by Kathryn Lasky

*Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

*The Missing Girl by Norma Fox Mazer

*Sonny's House of Spies by George Ella Lyon

*Enna Burning by Shannon Hale

*Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Friday, October 12, 2007

Numbers Challenge

***WooHoo! Finished this baby in the knick of time! (Seriously, with just a couple hours to spare.) Well, thanks to Callista's extension, that is.***

Dates: January 1st through August 1st

Host: Callista

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The Challenge (put simply): Read 5 books with numbers in their title.

My list:

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson

The 6th Target by James Patterson

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

Alternates:

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

24 Hours by Greg Iles

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Vampire Plagues, London 1850 by Sebastian Rook

Book of A Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Decades Challenge 2008

Date: January 1st through December 31st

Host: 3M

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The Challenge (put simply): Read at least 8 books from 8 consecutive decades.

My "possibles" list:

1860s-

*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

1870s-

*The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

1880s-

*The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

*Heidi by Johanna Spyri

1890s-

*The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

*The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

*Dracula by Bram Stoker

1900s-

*Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

*Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

*The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

1910s-

*The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

*Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

1920s-

*Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

*All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

1930s-

*Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

*And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

1940s-

*Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

*A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

*All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

1950s-

*Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

*The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

1960s-

*Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

*The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

1970s-

*Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

*The Princess Bride by William Goldman

*All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

1980s-

*The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

*Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

*Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

1990s-

*The Giver by Lois Lowry

*The Stand: Complete and Uncut edition by Stephen King

*Stardust by Neil Gaiman

--This is obviously many more books than I will actually read for the challenge. I just wanted to give myself some leeway as to not only what 8 consecutive decades I actually tackled, but also which particular from each decade.