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Volume 1, Book 7, Ch 11I've gotten a bit behind and am just getting ready to start the last book if Volume 1 (book 8). So I've just finished the exciting courtroom scene. Wow! The wild ride to get there in time for sentencing, the many obstacles, and equal number of opportunities. It had me on the edge of my seat!
Then the courtroom! I can imagine that people went wild for this when it was printed in serial form. What a decision to have to make!
March total: 10Books to date: 42
I decided to go with a children's book called Hot Dog that I read for the Elementary, My Dear challenge. Entirely because I want to start this over again today, April 1st. ... And I'll have a "No E" all lined up already. So sly!
Elementary, My DearI'm using this challenge as an excuse to explore the juvenile fiction downloads from my local library. I love the idea of a parent being able to call up books for their child in any location. (In addition to the stack of picture books they have at home, of course.)
Level 1 Preschool 2-3 books
1) Leave Me Alone! Very cute!
2) They All Saw a Cat Love the concept.
3) Hot Dog Emergent Reader text.
Level 2 Kindergarten 4-6 books
4) Chloe, Instead Very Sweet.
5) Flora and the Flamingo No text. Adorable!
6) Steam Train, Dream Train Loved!
Level 3 Graduate 7+ books
7) Heidi
Lol. I'll definitely look into that one, Linda!
My first stop is France with Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas. It's riveting and terrifyingly based on real events.
Dracula is a great read. So much more interesting than I expected it to be.
This month I did pretty well with the theme...The Signature of All Things and In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox are both about string women, one fictional, the other famous.
But these all had great women characters who stood out in their situations...
The Game of Kings
Bel Canto
June
A Few of the Girls: Stories
Even, Heidi
I completely agree! Rick Riordan is a terrific writer who keeps the action interesting without skimping on character development. I flew brought the both series.
I think it's interesting to scroll back and look over how everyone is doing with this challenge after a few months. Like me, many challenges show how we tend to gravitate toward certain periods in our reading. It's one of my favorite challenges because it really pushes me out of my comfort zone.
Hoarder's Lament...I don't seem to be capable of reading anything I own.
I've been basically posting in order, but skipping if the most currently finished book isn't missing the next letter... Which is why I have nothing in E. Am considering both Solaris and Lolita for April. Then probably doing this again. :D
I get so obsessed with setting up challenges in January that I forget to post my own. Here's mine to date...Renee's Anti-Alphabet Challenge
No A- Little House in the Big Woods**
No B- A Town Like Alice**
No C- The Bell Jar**
No D- Framley Parsonage**
No E- Hot Dog**
No F- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress**
No G- The Quiche of Death**
No H- Rise of Empire**
No I- The Jungle**
No J- The Old Curiosity Shop**
No K- Still Life**
No L- Theft of Swords**
No M- Heir of Novron**
No N- Life After Life**
No O- Hide**
No P- The Neverending Story**
No Q- A Passage to India**
No R- Eugene Onegin
No S- Brown Girl Dreaming**
No T- Alone**
No U- Bel Canto**
No V- The Woodlanders**
No W- The Game of Kings**
No X- Heidi**
No Y- The Good Soldier**
No Z- The Swans of Fifth Avenue**
March: Read 10 of 17 Victorians!: The Woodlanders**
Trollope Project: The Small House at Allington
Readers Review: Eugene Onegin
Les Misèrables: 31 chapters**
Aubrey-Maturin: The Reverse of the Medal
Rory: Bel Canto**
Guardian 1000: The Good Soldier**
Boxall 1001:
Children's 1000: Heidi**
Little House: Little House on the Prairie
Dunnett: The Game of Kings**
Outlander Saga: Dragonfly in Amber
Gastronomy: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
MONTHLY THEME: Women's History
- The Signature of All Things**
- June**
- In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox**
Minis ...
Irish: A Few of the Girls: Stories**
Ides: The Last American Vampire**
Madness:
Late departures! Thank goodness! I had such great plans then couldn't get anything in. :(
I'm using this challenge as an excuse to explore the juvenile fiction downloads from my local library. I love the idea of a parent being able to call up books for their child in any location. (In addition to the stack of picture books they have at home, of course.) Level 1 Preschool 2-3 books
1) Leave Me Alone! Very cute!
2) They All Saw a Cat Love the concept.
3) Hot Dog Emergent Reader text.
Level 2 Kindergarten 4-6 books
4) Chloe, Instead Very Sweet.
5) Flora and the Flamingo No text. Adorable!
6) Steam Train, Dream Train Loved!
Level 3 Graduate 7+ books
7) Heidi Very Sweet.
This is a multi-level challenge that will run from April 1 through December 31. (You may cross post this with the longer challenges and bingos, but only count books read within the April-Dec. timeframe. Goal: Read books with a rainbow of covers.
(Use your judgement on colors. Blue could be aquamarine or Navy. Red could be scarlet or carnelian. Etc.)
Level 1: Painter's Palette - Any 3 colors
Level 2: Ride The Rainbow! - rainbow 6
Level 3: Beyond the Pale - All 12! (Which is actually 11. You can add a twelfth title of your choice. Be creative!)
Rainbow Six:
Red:
Orange:
Yellow:
Green:
Blue/Indigo:
Purple/Violet:
Beyond the Pale:
Pink:
Gray:
White:
Black:
Brown:
Time Frame: This one is only good for one month! From April 1-30. Mission: Find and read one book with a word or words in the title that are somehow associated with the weather. Fiction or Non-Fiction. For example:
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Gone with the Wind
The Snow Child
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
The Hurricane Sisters
Twister
The Drought
The Year of the Flood
Sunshine Becomes You
Heat Wave
“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”-T. S. Eliot
Mission: Read something with a deliciously wicked villain. This is a one book/play mini-challenge to be completed between April 1 - 30.
Who's the cruelest of them all? Voldemort. Cruella de Vil. Mr. Tulkinghorn. Bill Sikes. Claude Frollo. Count Olaf. Mrs. Danvers. Iago. Macbeth/Lady Macbeth. Dracula. Sauron. Gil-Martin. Screwtape. Nurse Ratchet. Dorian Grey. Steerpike. Smaug.
