Two questions

[Sarah (Mood Reader)]

Can someone recommend books for two of the summer challenges?

First... I would like some recommendations for

10 Points

3. Hans Christian Anderson – Died August 4, 1875 – Read a Collection of Fairy Tales or a Novel That Is An Adaptation Of A Classic Fairy Tale.


AND....


50 Point Mid-Way Task
1. ROSEANN'S TASK - Read a "Book About Books" (non-fiction) and then read one of the books mentioned within it (fiction). In your post, give the reason you chose the second book and if your opinion matches that of the author who mentioned the fiction book.


Thanks!

[Teresa]

The Emperor's New Clothes

Books That Changed the World The 50 Most Influential Books

[Liz M]

50 Point Mid-Way Task:

Beowulf on the Beach What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits
The Novel 100 A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time
Great Books
The Polysyllabic Spree
Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books
Book Lust Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
The New Lifetime Reading Plan The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded
The Well-Educated Mind A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
How to Read Literature Like a Professor A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
500 Great Books by Women A Reader's Guide
The New York Public Library's Books of the Century
By a Woman's Hand A Guide to Mystery Fiction by Women
Book Sense Best Books 125 Favorite Books Recommended By Independent Booksellers
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Book Savvy
Promised Land Thirteen Books That Changed America
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Required Reading Why Our American Classics Matter Now
Romance Fiction A Guide to the Genre
Why Read the Classics?
The American Classics A Personal Essay

[Josie]

For the 10 point task, you could try these fairy tale re-tellings:
Ella Enchanted (Cinderella)
The Goose Girl (The Goose Girl)
Wildwood Dancing (The Twelve Dancing Princesses)
Beauty A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast)
A Curse Dark as Gold (Rumpelstiltskin)
Fairest (Snow White)
Good luck!

[Abigail (42stitches)]

Bird by Bird Some Instructions on Writing and Life Fir the second one. Only I wouldn't recommend anything else Anne Lammott wrote. I haven't been able to finish a single one of her novels...

[Mary]

For the second challenge you could try Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life. I read this ages ago but your post jogged my memory. I remember really liking it and now I am going to read it again!