KristenR’s Comments (group member since Aug 18, 2010)

KristenR’s comments from the The Well-Rounded Reader group.

April


31. The Five Boons of Life - Mark Twain*
32. My Beloved Edith - Tom Gillespie*
33. Visiting the Millionaire - George Anthony*
34. Professor Panini - Matthew Griggs*
35. The Star - Esther Claes*
36. An Uncomfortable Bed - Guy de Maupassant*
37. A Little Fable - Franz Kafka*
38. Hope and Comfort - A.J. McKenna*
39. The Yellow Paint - Robert Louis Stevenson*
40. In the Evenings - Melissa Checker*
41. Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory - Rudy Rucker+
42. Zeppelin City+

March

22. A Respectable Woman - Kate Chopin#
23. Juice Baby - Freda Churches~
24. Believe It - Brian Tiernan~
25. Aubergine - Selma Dabbagh~
26. Postcard from New York - Tom Murray~
27. The Cut Glass Bowl - F Scott Fitzgerald#
28. The Brass Teapot - Tim Macy* (oohh...this one was creepy)
29. Tone - YZ Chin*
30. Love - Chris Delahunty*

February

13. Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne*
14. The Horla - Guy de Maupassant*
15. Pumping up Napoleon - Maria Donovan*
16. The Eclipse - James Fenimore Cooper*
17. My Soul to Lose - Rachel Vincent
18. Tourists - Sean Craven+
19. Last Son of Tomorrow - Greg van Eekhout+
20. The Star and the Rockets - Harry Turtledove+
21. Firstborn - Brandon Sanderson+

January

1. Case of the Half Demon Spy - Kelley Armstrong"
2. The Horrid Glory of Its Wings - Elizabeth Bear+
3. To Sit in the Sun - Joanna Leyland*
4. Bleeding Jungle - Charlie Fish*
5. Bugs in the Arroyo - Steven Gould+
6. Phase in Space - Paul O'Neill*
7. Rachel's House - Ian Phillips*
8. Chastisement by the Lambs - Fernando Sorrentino*
9. We Haven't Got There Yet - Harry Turtledove+
10. The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder - Elizabeth Bear+
11. The Mummy's Foot - Theophile Gautier*
12. The Empire of the Parakeets - Fernando Sorrentino*

I'm trying to read lots of short stories. I love the format and until recently have not read that many. I've been scouring the internet creating my own short story collections to read on my kindle.

where I found them:
* eastoftheweb.com/short-stories
+ tor.com
^ feedbooks.com
" kelleyarmstrong.com
# http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/
~ http://www.fishpublishing.com/short-stor...
& http://www.classicshorts.com
! http://www.hubfiction.com/
$ http://www.horrormasters.com/
% http://www.manybooks.net

Biography - Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties

Also, if you like SF/Fantasy, www.tor.com/stories has great stories.

I started a list of books beginning with X. I was having to wade through all the X-Men and X-Files titles, so I thought I would share some of my results. If you know of more, please add them :)

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/69...

Tragedy - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

I think either way would be fine. I like to do it for the calendar year, just makes more sense for me. If you fill in with books you've read so far this year, it would be interesting to see how close you've come without trying, and then reset for 2011.

I realized that this folder wasn't showing up on the page, so here's a thread to let it pop up :)

Use this folder for any other challenges you are keeping track of. I look forward to seeing more fun and creative challenge ideas! If there's a challenge that has a lot of interest I can add a separate folder for it.

www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories

I stumbled across this site and and I love it - there is such a wide range of short stories.

There is actually a folder for other personal challenges, but since there are no posts in it yet it doesn't show up on the page.

I was thinking that we'd each create our own threads under each challenge - do you see any problems doing it that way?

YAY! Hi Becky and Kathy!

I didn't realize you worked in a bookstore, Kathy...I'd love that job, but most of my paycheck would probably be put right back in the register :)

Got a suggestion for something you'd like to see in this group? Don't hesitate to mention it!

Xinran - I read Sky Burial and loved it!
Gao Xingjian
Xi Xu

A – Always You
B – Boneshaker
C – Conspiracy in Death
D – Dead Eyes Open
E – Eden
F – Faefever
G – The Good The Bad and the Undead
H – The Hunger Games
I – I City
J – The Joy Luck Club
K – Kiln People
L – Loyalty in Death
M – The Man in the High Castle
N – Night of the Living Trekkies
O – Old Man's War
P – Puck of Pook's Hill
Q – Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
R – Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories
S – Seduced by Moonlight
T – Turncoat
U – Under the Amoral Bridge
V – The Vicious Circle
W – The Wind-up Girl
X – XYZ A Detective Story
Y – The Year’s Best SF 10th
Z – The Zero

Very simple: Read one title beginning with each letter of the alphabet :)

Autobio./Memoir -- The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances
Biography -- Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Fable, Fairy tale, Folklore -- The Akhenaten Adventure
Adventure novel -- The Emerald Storm
Humor -- Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through the Pearly Gates
Crime or Detective fiction -- Judgment in Death
Fantasy -- Men of the Underworld
Graphic novel -- Preludes and Nocturnes
Historical fiction -- Dreamers of the Day
Horror -- Fangland
Nonfiction -- Couldn't Keep It to Myself Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
Philosophical -- Tao Te Ching
Political -- No Apology
Romance novel -- Lucky's Lady
Saga, Family Saga -- A Spot of Bother
Satire -- Shades of Grey
Science fiction -- Green Mars
Thriller -- Caught Stealing
Tragedy -- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Short Story -- McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories

1850s -- The Coral Island
1860s -- The Woman in White
1870s -- For a Night of Love
1880s -- A Study in Scarlet
1890s -- The Great God Pan
1900s -- The Marvellous Land of Oz
1910s -- Tarzan of the Apes
1920s -- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1930s -- Brave New World
1940s -- Gather, Darkness
1950s - A Canticle for Leibowitz
1960s -- A Man For All Seasons
1970s - The Tombs of Atuan
1980s -- Money
1990s -- The Ultimate Witch
2000s - Scat