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Fall 09/Winter 10 Challenge (not sure I will actually get to the list, but like the creative challenge to use only the unread books in my collection)
5 points
2. Henry Miller, December: The Books in My Life
3. Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons The Story of Phillis Wheatley
4. Drums of Autumn
5. The Decameron
6. Bread and Wine
7. The Haunted Bookshop
10 points
1. Tamara De Lempicka
2. Heart of Darkness
4. WWII: Night, Dawn, 'Day' triology by Elie Wiesel
5. The Whole Woman and The Female Quixote or The Adventures of Arabella
6. Voyager
7. Breathers A Zombie's Lament by S.G. Brown
8. The Book on the Bookshelf
15 points
2. In the Walled Gardens A Novel and The Space Between Us A Novel
3. Dune Messiah
5. Animal Farm
6. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
8. "Galaxy" was the word on the 4th try, so The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
20 points
1. North and South and Shirley
25 points
1. Realism: 'The American' by Henry James and moderism: My Antonia
2. Classic classic: Paradise Lost and new classic: Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America
3. Persuasion and Captain Wentworth's Diary
4. "Dead Souls" - Joy Division (Nikolai Gogol)
5. The Crying of Lot 49 and The French Lieutenant's Woman
6. The Labyrinth of Solitude The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre and We Are Iran The Persian Blogs
7. :) Anthropology: Bone Voyage A Journey in Forensic Anthropology and :( History: 'A History of Mexico'
Book Buyer-aholic: number of days without having bought a book for ones self = 18
And on the 19th day I bought Ayn Rand's plays with a coupon and a bike maintenance book, so they are not entirely frivolous(?) buys...I guess this means I should start the count over!
Book Buyer-aholic: number of days without having bought a book for ones self = 9 (starting in August)
Big surprise, by late August I bought another book, but at least it is one in a series, and will probably get through it in a day or so.
October: bought the last book to complete the CS School Year Challenge and supported my local library with a purchase. Hum, perhaps am conquering my addiction.
Running Total of Books Read This Year: Part II
*=books currently reading; **=really should read next
July
25. Sunshine
26. Jane Austen's Guide to Dating
27. The Book of the City of Ladies
28. Passing
August
29. Mr. Darcy, Vampyre
30. Candide, or Optimism
31. 206 Bones
32. The Night of January 16th
September
33. Dubliners
34. Three Cups of Tea One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
35. Year of the Elephant A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence
October
36. Negotiating with the Dead
37. The Course of Irish History, 4th Edition
38. A Great and Terrible Beauty
39. Fermat's Enigma The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
November
40. Me Talk Pretty One Day
41. Witch Child
42. Cultural Resource Laws and Practice, Second Edition
December
43. *North and South
44. *King John
8 more books to read in the next two months...not too hard to do, I hope.
Though this list isn't being helped by getting into NCIS and needing a fix of episodes like Abby needs Caf-Pow! Damn McGee and his nerdy cuteness! And now a really attractive Robert Downey Jr.
("On an island in the sun, we'll be reading and hav'n fun...hip hip") <-- Stuck in my head!
The Original CS Challenge List; subject to changes and additions...
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Total Points: 370
Hum, I was hoping for an open treasure chest at the end...:( but I did finish the challenge in time :)
Perhaps with the new challenges coming up, I will get more books on the shelf read, but here's a list of of books on my bookselves that aren't apart of the challenge that I hope to get to in the near future:
[b:Paradise Lost|15997|Paradise Lost|John Milton|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5108PHW65RL._SL75_.jpg|1031493]
[b:The Mysteries of Udolpho|229438|The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics)|Ann Radcliffe|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172898525s/229438.jpg|3253891]
[b:Death on the Installment Plan|106096|Death on the Installment Plan|Louis-Ferdinand Céline|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YYNQWANPL._SL75_.jpg|881096]
[b:The Decameron Second Edition|640894|The Decameron Second Edition (Penguin Classics)|Giovanni Boccaccio|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176633696s/640894.jpg|1320474]
[b:Sanditon and The Watsons Austen's Unfinished Novels|166180|Sanditon and The Watsons Austen's Unfinished Novels|Jane Austen|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172344339s/166180.jpg|160466]
[b:The Woman in White|5890|The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)|Wilkie Collins|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165553488s/5890.jpg|1303710]
[b:Dune Messiah|117902|Dune Messiah|Frank Herbert|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1213426839s/117902.jpg|3634570]
[b:The Faculty of Useless Knowledge|1687239|The Faculty of Useless Knowledge|Yury Dombrovsky|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186900480s/1687239.jpg|1684020]
[b:The Princesse de Cleves The Princesse de Montpensier, The Comtesse de Tende|2190105|The Princesse de Cleves The Princesse de Montpensier, The Comtesse de Tende (Oxford World's Classics)|Marie-Madeleine de LaFayette|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41R9S19392L._SL75_.jpg|2195824]
[b:Night|1617|Night|Elie Wiesel|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158292300s/1617.jpg|265616]
[b:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|6429603|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |Douglas Adams|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240815310s/6429603.jpg|3078186]
[b:The Treasure of the City of Ladies or The Book of Three Virtues|124502|The Treasure of the City of Ladies or The Book of Three Virtues (Classics S.)|Christine de Pizan|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171872482s/124502.jpg|119896]
[b:Crying of Lot 49|9834|Crying of Lot 49|Thomas Pynchon|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JvtztutiL._SL75_.jpg|1477756]
[b:V.|3136171|V.|Thomas Pynchon|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230061361s/3136171.jpg|2999000]
[b:Voyager|1013592|Voyager (Outlander, #3)|Diana Gabaldon|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1227310142s/1013592.jpg|1131570]
[b:A Hero of Our Time|750487|A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)|Mikhail Lermontov|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178027612s/750487.jpg|166902]
[b:Dead Souls|28381|Dead Souls|Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946416s/28381.jpg|1001298]
[b:The Books in My Life|9262|The Books in My Life|Henry Miller|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165875309s/9262.jpg|12137]
[b:In the Stacks Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians|1527318|In the Stacks Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians|Michael Cart|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184762322s/1527318.jpg|1519277]
[b:Book Row An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade|1293673|Book Row An Anecdotal and Pictorial History of the Antiquarian Book Trade|Marvin Mondlin|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182549985s/1293673.jpg|1282778]
[b:A Passion for Books A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books|56412|A Passion for Books A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books|Harold Rabinowitz|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170458088s/56412.jpg|1395803]
[b:The Labyrinth of Solitude The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre|11702|The Labyrinth of Solitude The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre|Octavio Paz|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166485566s/11702.jpg|14112]
[b:We Are Iran The Persian Blogs|124974|We Are Iran The Persian Blogs|Nasrin Alavi|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171887544s/124974.jpg|120359]
[b:Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America|1869|Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America|Barbara Ehrenreich|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158960262s/1869.jpg|1840613]
[b:Sor Juana Or, the Traps of Faith|11704|Sor Juana Or, the Traps of Faith|Octavio Paz|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166485567s/11704.jpg|14114]
[b:An Acquaintance with Darkness|1414524|An Acquaintance with Darkness (Great Episodes)|Ann Rinaldi|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183411301s/1414524.jpg|138058]
[b:The History of Western Philosophy|2804722|The History of Western Philosophy|Bertrand Russell|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202878133s/2804722.jpg|1167354]
Hum, this list is rather long though not exhaustive of everything in my collection...
Running Total of Books Read This Year: Part I
Fueled by the desire to read more of what I own and sparked by Jamie's CS challenge, I also hope to read 50 books this year. I think I'll just list them as I go...(*=currently reading)
February
1. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
2. Letters of a Portuguese Nun Uncovering the Mystery Behind a 17th Century Forbidden Love
3. The Library at Night
4. Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
5. The Thin Man
March
6. Dragonfly in Amber
7. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
8. Jude the Obscure
9. Verity
10. The Wild Irish Girl A National Tale
11. Putin's Russia Life in a Failing Democracy
April
12. Four Major Plays by Henrik Ibsen
13. Black Boy
14. The City Of Dreaming Books
May
15. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
16. The Tao of Pooh
17. The Te of Piglet
18. Three Women A Novel by the Abbe De La Tour
19. Whisky Galore
June (Can't believe it's June already!)
20. Night World No. 1 Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder
21. Night World No. 2 Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate
22. The Boarding-School Girl
23. Night World No. 3 Huntress, Black Dawn, Witchlight
24. The Unlikely Disciple A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
Yikes! It's July already!? Time for a new post.
24 more books to go for the year, 13 more for the CS challenge, infinite number of places to go!
(Now the sing-a-long, to the tune of 99 bottles of beer: "31 more books on the shelf, 31 more books to go. You take 1 down, read it sometime; 30 more books on shelf!" Well, it almost worked)
