Dates: July 1st, 2008 through June 30, 2009
Host: Kristi
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The challenge (put simply): Read 6 books with any combination of the following: animal in the title, animal on the cover, animal plays big part in book, main character turns into an animal.
My list of possibles (after wasting a great deal of time pulling out every book with an animal in its title off my TBR shelves, excluding books that are in the middle of a series):
*The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
*The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge by Harry Harrison
*The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World by Harry Harrison
*Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
*The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
*Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
*The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
*Lord of the Flies by William Golding
*The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
*The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
*Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey (thanks, Jean!)
*The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
*The Ugly Duckling by Iris Johansen
*Dark Horse by Tami Hoag
*Stone Monkey by Jeffery Deaver
*Wolf by Gillian Cross
*May-Bird and the Ever After by Jodi Lynn Anderson
*Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul by Edward Humes
*The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
*Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
*The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
*The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie
*The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell
*...I never saw another butterfly...: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
*The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot
*The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater
Well, I definitely have a eclectic mix to choose from anyway. :)
5 comments:
That is quite a wide choice. But, hey, I don't know about you, but I like my challenges that way ;>). Hope you enjoy reading for the challenge!
This looks like a fun challenge! And you do have an interesting mix of titles to choose from. If you're interested in a memoir to add to your collection, I can highly recommend Bill Seaton's My Seven Years in Captivity: Tails and Misadventures in the San Diego Zoo as a light-hearted and entertaining read.
I can highly recommend The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (I give this a high recommendation; I think you'd REALLY get into this one), Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences, Stone Monkey (assuming you like Jeffery Deaver; some people don't), and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Don read Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants and liked it. Not that I should be enabling you here, but hey, why not!
Thanks for this post ... i've gone over & joined this challenge too ;0)
I loved The Curious Incident of The Dog...I hope you do, too.
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