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A - Z Author's Name Challenge
Copy the form below and fill in the author's names as you finish a book. This challenge will last for one year.CHALLENGE : A TO Z AUTHOR'S NAME CHALLENGE
DURATION: August 23, 2013 - August 22, 2014
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LAURIE'S PAGECHALLENGE:A TO Z AUTHOR'S NAME CHALLENGE
DURATION:August 23,2013-August 22,2014
A Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
B Patricia Bracewell, Shadow on the Crown
C Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
D Darcey Bonnette, The Tudor Princess
E Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
F F Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate
G Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
H Pamela Hicks, Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten
I Ian McEwan, Atonement
J Sebastian Junger, A World Made of Blood
K Kate Chopin, The Awakening
L Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
M Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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O Emmuska Orzy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
P Oliver Potzsch, The Hangman's Daughter
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R Kenneth Roberts, Arundel
S Sally Armstrong, The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor
T Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve
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W Elissa Wald, The Secret Lives of Married Women
X Xinran, Sky Burial
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May I join, too? An I wrong to assume that I can start adding authors whose books I have finished reading on 24 August and after?
Of course you can join in Anil. And yes, begin with authors you've read since August 23rd.And do find the folder for Books Read in August under Book Statistics and include all that you read for the month. At the end of December members can take this list and then choose from it their top ten books, their new to me author books, top ten dislikes and so on.
Thank you, Nancy. I'll add books to the thread you mentioned as soon as I finish books. (Only 40+ pages left to finish the first one.)
I hope you won't mind me adding my list: ANIL'S PAGE
CHALLENGE : A TO Z AUTHOR'S NAME CHALLENGE
DURATION: August 23, 2013 - August 22, 2014
A Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
B Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
C Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
D The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
E Xingu by Edith Wharton
F The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
G Middlemarch by George Eliot
H Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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K Kim by Rudyard Kipling
L Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
M The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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P Regeneration by Pat Barker
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R The Artificial Princess by Ronald Firbank
S Sleeping with Dogs: A Peripheral Autobiography by Brian Sewell
T The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
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W Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace
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18 down, 8 to go.
Everybody is welcome to post their challenge page. This is a very inclusive group!!!!
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CHALLENGE : A TO Z AUTHOR'S NAME CHALLENGE
DURATION: August 23, 2013 - August 22, 2014
A - Craig Anderson - Getting Lucky
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Deborah Hautzig - Hey Dollface
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H Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown
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Laura - I set up a page for you message #5 - should I delete it?
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Yes. I thought you wanted me to setup a page for you but that's all right, I just deleted that page.
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I have just edited my list. 3 down, 23 to go.
Thanks, Laura. It could have been better, but Kim by Kipling took longer than I thought. I realised that I don't know anything about India especially colonial India. That is why I couldn't enjoy the book as much as I thought. I'll give it another chance after reading some books on India and British colonialism there.
SAMMY'S PAGECHALLENGE : A TO Z AUTHOR'S NAME CHALLENGE
DURATION: August 23, 2013 - August 22, 2014
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C - Cassandra Clare - City of Fallen Angels
D - Derrolyn Anderson - The Turning Tides
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F - Flynn Meaney - Bloodthirsty
G - John Green - Looking For Alaska
H - Cindy M. Hogan - First Kiss
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K - Kristin Cashore - Bitterblue
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S - Sarah Mlynowski - Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)
T - Tamara Ireland Stone - Time After Time
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I am not having the best trading month thus far
I am not doing well, either. I am about to finish only the second book this month.:-/
Just checking...I've made an A-Z list of TITLES...not authors names. Can we use that? I suppose I could always go back through and keep my fingers crossed that by some miracle, all the authors of the books I've already chosen will fit the alphabet challenge, but I somehow doubt it lol. Just checking! :-)
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we can make a separate thread of a to z titles if you like.!
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would anyone else want to participate in an a to z Title challenge?
I would. Will we be able to use the books that we will add to A-Z Author's Name Challenge?
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Teresa wrote: "Just checking...I've made an A-Z list of TITLES...not authors names. Can we use that? I suppose I could always go back through and keep my fingers crossed that by some miracle, all the authors of t..."
I created a widget on our group home page under Books we are reading.
It's a fairly new feature of goodreads from what I understand, so if you have any questions, let me know.
Thank you!
LaLaLa Laura wrote: "hows everyone doing with this?I am not having the best trading month thus far"
This takes time Laura and unless you choose titles to fit it can be a challenge especially with certain letters.
I began this challenge on January 1st and in some cases many of the letters from my reading can have several answers. We only enter one author per letter. on other groups as well.
Laura said, "I created a widget on our group home page under Books we are reading."With 26 letters I would assume that there will be 26 books read. I'm not sure what the purpose o the widget is for this challenge. I know widget are used for open ended challenges where you set a number and then meet it and change it or don't.
Nancy wrote: I'm not sure what the purpose o the widget is..."Personally I love the widgets! I'm a very visual person, and I like to see the progress bar travel along. :)
I don't see a progress bar. I just put in the number of books I'm going to read. I know that there is a way of putting in something called ticker - is that what you're referring to.
I just did see the progress bar - never even realized it was there. It's great how much one can learn from these groups.
LaLaLa Laura wrote: "hows everyone doing with this?I am not having the best trading month thus far"
I'm getting a ton of books. Now the amount of time reading I get is a bit different. :/ I wish I had more time but school has really gotten harder this year. :/
Thanks for this interesting challenge! :-)A- The Little Prince by Antoine St. Exupery
B- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
C- The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne M. Valente
D- Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
E- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
F- The Woman Who Died a Lot by Jasper Fforde
G- Gris Grimly's Frankenstein by Gris Grimly
H- The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill
I- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
J- Some Kind Of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
K- The Snowflake by Kenneth Libbrecht
L- The Last Dragon Chronicles Complete Set, Books 1 5: The Fire Within, Icefire, Fire Star, The Fire Eternal, And Dark Fire by Chris d'Lacey
M- Beloved by Toni Morrison
N- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
O- Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O'Donohue
P- The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
Q- Marie Curie. by Susan Quinn
R- The House of Hades by Rick Riordan
S- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
T- The Testament of Mary by Colm Tobin
U- The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula le Guin
V- 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut
W- Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
X- Apology of Socrates by Xenophon
Y- Earth from Above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Z-The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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thanks Sammy!
I'm very excited to have found Xenophon. I've studied and taught Plato's "Apology", and I'm looking forward to reading Xenephon's account, which is only 28 pages long.
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Yes, and I just found it for free online :-) http://www.mckinley.k12.hi.us/ebooks/...It's quite short, but I found this comment to be so very human:
"And now if my age is still to be prolonged, I know that I cannot escape paying the penalty of old age, in increasing dimness of sight and dullness of hearing. I shall find myself slower to learn new lessons, and apter to forget the lessons I have learnt. And if to these be added the consciousness of failing powers, the sting of self reproach, what prospect have I of any further joy in living? It may
be, you know," he added, "that God out of his great kindness is intervening in my behalf to suffer me to close my life in the ripeness of age, and by the gentlest of deaths. For if at this time sentence of death be passed upon me, it is plain I shall be allowed to meet an end which, in the opinion of those who have studied the matter, is not only the easiest in itself, but one which will cause the least trouble to one's friends, while engendering the deepest longing for the departed. For of necessity he will only be thought of with regret and longing who leaves nothing behind unseemly or discomfortable to haunt the imagination of those beside him, but, sound of body, and his soul still capable of friendly repose, fades tranquilly away."
How well this goes with Plato's Phaedo, which tells of Socrates' death. Here's the section that would often bring some students to tears (Socrates has just been given the cup of hemlock):
"Then raising the cup to his lips, quite readily and cheerfully he drank off the poison. And hitherto most of us had been able to control our sorrow; but now when we saw him drinking, and saw too that he had finished the draught, we could no longer forbear, and in spite of myself my own tears were flowing fast; so that I covered my face and wept, not for him, but at the thought of my own calamity in having to part from such a friend. Nor was I the first; for Crito, when he found himself unable to restrain his tears, had got up, and I followed; and at that moment, Apollodorus, who had been weeping all the time, broke out in a loud and passionate cry which made cowards of us all. Socrates alone retained his calmness: What is this strange outcry? he said. I sent away the women mainly in order that they might not misbehave in this way, for I have been told that a man should die in peace. Be quiet, then, and have patience. When we heard his words we were ashamed, and refrained our tears; and he walked about until, as he said, his legs began to fail, and then he lay on his back, according to the directions, and the man who gave him the poison now and then looked at his feet and legs; and after a while he pressed his foot hard, and asked him if he could feel; and he said, No; and then his leg, and so upwards and upwards, and showed us that he was cold and stiff. And he felt them himself, and said: When the poison reaches the heart, that will be the end. He was beginning to grow cold about the groin, when he uncovered his face, for he had covered himself up, and said--they were his last words--he said: Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? The debt shall be paid, said Crito; is there anything else? There was no answer to this question; but in a minute or two a movement was heard, and the attendants uncovered him; his eyes were set, and Crito closed his eyesand mouth.
Such was the end, Echecrates, of our friend; concerning whom I may truly say, that of all the men of his time whom I have known, he was the wisest and justest and best."
(His final request was to ask a friend to sacrifice a cock to Asclepius, the god of healing, as a way of thanking him for being delivered from the painful disease of life.)
CHALLENGE : A TO Z AUTHOR'S NAME CHALLENGEDURATION: December 1, 2013 - August 22, 2014
Books Read: 8/26
Updated: 12/27/13
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Evans, Richard Paul - The Locket (12/2/13)
Fluke, Joanne - Sugar Cookie Murder (12/10/13)
Gray, Shelley Shepard - Christmas in Sugarcreek: A Seasons of Sugarcreek Christmas Novel (12/21/13)
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Keller, Cynthia - An Amish Gift: A Novel (12/4/13)
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McLaughlan, David - The Top 40 Traditions of Christmas: The Story Behind the Nativity, Candy Canes, Caroling, and All Things Christmas (12/3/13)
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8 months and 21 days to go and I have completed half of the challenge. My aim is to finish the challenge by the end of April.
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Hi, Laura! Thanks, things have gotten better. Hope you are well! I think I can do taking into account there are 20 novels to read for the second term.:-) Happy New Year, by the way.
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15 down, 11 to go! I hope I'll be able to complete the list before my 30th birthday, which is on 26 June. :)
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They are not a must for our group but just a good way to keep track of what you read either fitting them into a challenge or reading a particular book as part of a challenge.
This challenge if you're interested asks you to read a book and fill in the author's name in a list from A to Z. You can use either the first name or the last name. But you can only use the name once.
EX: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
You could use the name Jojo for the letter J or Moyes for the letter M. But once you use the author's name remember it can't be used again. This is relatively easy for most letters but watch out for letters X,Y and Z.
This will last one year from today's date so hurry up and finish those books.