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Goal - To read 100 books in 2009. Also considering the Alphabet Challenge just for the fun of it
Title Challenge
A - Anna Karenina
B - Broken Angel
C - A Clockwork Orange
D - Dragon
E - Epic of Gilgamesh
F - Feet of Clay
G - Glimpses of the Moon
H - House of Seven Gables
I - Interesting Times
J - Jake's Wake
K - Kidnapped
L - The Last Hero
M - Men at Arms
N - The New Arabian Nights
O - Oliver Twist
P - Pride and Prejudice
Q
R - Red Dragon Codex
S - Soultaker
T - Traumatized
U - Urban Gothic
V - Vilette
W - War and Peace
X
Y
Z - Zombie Queen of Newberry High
Author Challenge:
A - Douglas Adams
B - Sigmund Brouwer
C - Clive Cussler
D - Charles Dickens
E - George Elliot
F
G - Cody Goodfellow
H - Nathanial Hawthorn
I
J - Hetry James
K - Brian Keene
L - HP Lovecraft
M - William Meikle
N
O
P - Terry Pratchett
Q
R - Gord Rollo
S - Wayne Simmons
T - Leo Tolstoy
U
V
W - Edith Wharton
X
Y
Z
Read so far since January 1, 2009:
1) Dragon
2) Jake's Wake
3) Broken Angel
4) The Epic of Gilgamesh
5) Drop Dead Gorgeous
Week 3 - Been a busy week... no time to read
9) Castaways by Brian Keene
10) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
11) Coreline by Neil Gaiman
Week 4
12) Traumatized by Alexander S. Brown
13) Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
14) The Chair by Alexander S. Brown (though I hate to count this one)
15) Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
16) Everything You Pretend to Know and are Afraid Someone will Ask by Lynette Padwa
Jeremy wrote: "Wow - you read War and Peace in one week plus 2 other books and that was a busy week? Nice!"
I actually started War and Peace in Dec, that's just the week I finished it. Took around 3 weeks I think... maybe 4.
Week 6
17) Soultaker by Bryan Smith
18) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
19) Summer by Edith Wharton
20) The Sirens by William Meikle
Week 7
21) Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett Audio book format on the way back from Florida
22) The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft
23) Crimson by Gord Rollo
24) The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett
How was the Pratchett? I really liked the few I have read by him but even though I have a few more titles I for some reason keep pushing him back in the queue.
I love 90% of Pratchett's books that I have read... I really enjoyed Men at Arms and since my whole family listened to it in the car, they all loved it. I still think Interesting Times was my favorite of all of them.
I liked The Truth better than Interesting Times, but I liked them both. I have Thud!, Monstrous Regiment and Going Postal. Normally I would try to read a series in order but since I've already done it out of order I'll probably just go at random. It'll be like Pulp Fiction, I guess.
I enjoyed The Truth, but Since I had been following Rincewind and Cohen from the first book and really loved the Silver Hoard.
27) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
28) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Akelsandr I. Solzhentsyn
29) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
30) Dick Goes to the Bank by George Larson
31) House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
32) The Moneychangers by Upton Sinclair
I've been Slacking!
33) Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
34) The New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson
35) Jingo by Terry Pratchett:
36) Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett:
As in you "only" read 4 books in a couple of weeks or slacking on reporting them? I was wondering where you had been, but I see you've been reading some Pratchett. I'm lined up to read Thud!. It's 3rd up after my current read.
Jeremy wrote: "As in you "only" read 4 books in a couple of weeks or slacking on reporting them? I was wondering where you had been, but I see you've been reading some Pratchett. I'm lined up to read Thud!. It..."
I'd been down to one a week or less and I had forgotten all about putting them on here for over a month!
37) Avery Dick Walks Small by George Larson
38) Maybe Yes Maybe No Maybe Maybe by Susan Patron
39) Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
40) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
41) Silas Marner by George Elliot
42) Pain Killers by Jerry Stahl
43) Illiad by Homer
44) Mirrormask by Neil Gaiman
45) The Machine by Upton Sinclair
46) Succulent Prey by Wrath James White (Read this one in Jan and forgot to add it to the list)
47) The Monster Within Idea by R. Thomas Riley
48) Jane of Chelsea by J.J. Edwards
49) Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace by Ayelet Waldman
50) The Hermit and the Wild Woman and other stories by Edith Wharton
Whoo hoo, Half way there!
Read a lot on Vacation
55) The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
56) Cover by Jack Ketchum
57) The Golem by Edward Lee
58) Pressure by Jeff Strand
59) The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
60) The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
61) The Brass Dragon Codex by RD Henham
62) Winning in Turbulent Times by Darrell Rigby
63) If Ignorance is Bliss, why aren't there more happy people by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
64) Drood by Dan Simmons (Audio Book)
65) Tale of a Tub by Johnathan Swift
66) Brothers Karmazov by Fyodor Dosteovsky
Lady Killer, the Near assassination of Lee Kitchimoto by Vesper Strand
67) Bomb Shelter Romance - Patrick M Garry
68) The Terror - Simmons
69) Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
70) The Princess of Cleaves - Madam De Layayatte
71) 2001 - Arthur C Clarke
72) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
73) Me Talk Pretty one day - David Sedaris
74) Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
75) The Pilgrim's Progress - John bunyon
76) The Ambassadors - Henry James
77)Bare Bones #11 - Various
78) King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggards
79) The Green Dragon Codex - RD Henham
80 - Robinson Caruso
81 - The Zombie Queen of Newbury High
82 - The REd Dragon Codex
83 - The Curious Incident of the dog in the night time
84 - Emma
85 - Northanger Abbety
86 - Urban Gothic
87 - Agnes Grey
89 - Hard Times by Charles Dickens
90 - The Bone Factory by Nate Kenyon
91 - Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
92 - Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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