A-Z Author Challenge - 2016

[Brina]

I didn't realize but the author lives in Chicago now so I am excited to read it. Next week I hope to also get to A Doll's House for my I and then I can count it for two challenges.

[Duane]

Update for message 6.
25/26 now complete.

Joan Didion for her award winning book The Year of Magical Thinking.

www.goodreads.com/review/show/1563270388

[Brina]

Read Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea 4/29
Read A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen by 4/30

15/26 done

[Pink]

Duane wrote: "Update for message 6.
25/26 now complete.

Joan Didion for her award winning book The Year of Magical Thinking.

www.goodreads.com/review/show/1563270388"

You're nearly there!

[Duane]

Update for message 6.
I have completed my A to Z author challenge for 2016.

My last author and book was E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers.

[Brina]

Duane that's amazing. i bet you have time to do a second challenge.

[Pink]

Duane, well done on completing your challenge :)

[Kathleen]

Excellent, Duane! And what an impressive list. I took a look through and added yet another one to my TBR. :-)

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Well Duane you have blown your cover, might as well take off the glasses we all now know you are superman, no more secrets.

Seriously I think this is the hardest challenge the group does and to complete it in four months is remarkable. Congratulations!!

[Duane]

Thanks guys. I've still got a ways to go on my other challenges. Things just seemed to fall in place with this one.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Wow, Duane. I am not close on this or actually any of my other challenges. Good for you!

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Duane wrote: "Update for message 6.
I have completed my A to Z author challenge for 2016.."

Wow -- Congrats! Indeed you are a superhero reader!

[Wreade1872]

Update message 82. 18/26
Got a U with Berth Upton and The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures.

[Brina]

Will be reading Night at the Fiesta: Stories by Kristen Quade for Q.

[Kathleen]

Brina wrote: "Will be reading Night at the Fiesta: Stories by Kristen Quade for Q."

I hadn't heard of Kristen Quade, but this looks interesting, and something I need to try. Thanks Brina!

[Brina]

Thanks Kathleen. I hope to get next week and will let you know how it is.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Cool finds Wreade & Brina.

[Wreade1872]

Update Message 82: 19/26
Orwell for O. I also have L. Frank Baum if i get desperate and can't find another F. But i have my dignity, i'm not resorting to middle initials unless i have to ;) .

[Pink]

For F how about some Gustave Flaubert, F Scott Fitzgerald, or E.M. Forster?

I might resort to middle initials later, but only if I get stuck.

[Lu]

Update to message 15. I'm now halfway done with this challenge.

[Brina]

Found Wayne Johnston for J. Will try to read one of his books this summer.

[Wreade1872]

Update Message 82 : 20/26
A short one In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka for K, or maybe F, i'll use it for K at the moment.

[Wreade1872]

Wreade1872 wrote: "Update Message 82 : 20/26
A short one In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka for K, or maybe F, i'll use it for K at the moment."
I need to pay more attention i just got my elusive F without reading anything just needed some reshuffling.

Moved Frank Norris from N to F. E. Nesbit from E to N and pushed Eleanor Cameron who i read back in March or something, to E.
So Update Message 82: 21/26

[Wreade1872]

Wreade1872 wrote: "Wreade1872 wrote: "Update Message 82 : 20/26
A short one In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka for K, or maybe F, i'll use it for K at the moment."
I need to pay more attention i just g..."

Up to 21 now, Princess of Babylon by Voltaire gives me an A :P . His real name is François-Marie Arouet .
Wait i miscounted 22/26 :D .

[Pink]

Looks like that reshuffling is working, well done on completing 22!

[Hayley]

I posted message 152, and this is an update. I'm done.

A-Z Author Challenge 2016
A Arthur Conan Doyle- A Study in Scarlet
B Bram Stoker- Dracula
C Connie Shelton – Sweet Masterpiece
D Dan Brown- Inferno
E Edgar Allan Poe- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
F Florence Osmund- Regarding Anna
G G.K. Chesterton- The Ballad of the White Horse
H Harriet Beecher Stowe- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
I Iain Rob Wright- Ravage
J John Steinbeck- The Grapes of Wrath
K K.P. Yohannan- No Longer a Slumdog
L Lindsay Buroker- Shadows Over Innocence
M Mary Shelley- Frankenstein
N Noelle Adams- Married For Christmas
O Ophelia Sikes- Dwell in Possibility
P Patricia McLinn- Almost a Bride
Q *Amanda Quick- Otherwise Engaged
R Roxie Rivera- Ivan
S Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Christabel and Kubla Khan
T T.S. Eliot- The Wasteland
U Unknown- Beowulf
V Victoria Alexander- What Happens at Christmas
W Walt Whitman- Leaves of Grass
X Xenophon- Anabasis
Y Yael Politis- Olivia, Mourning
Z Zane Grey- Riders of the Purple Sage
*I used the last name for the Q entry.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Congrats, Hayley. Good work.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Congrats Hayley. Cool that you worked mainly with the given name of the author -- that is a neat way to mix up the challenge.

[Duane]

Well done Hayley!

[Wreade1872]

Very nice Hayley :) , it hadn't occurred to me to use unknown for U :P .

[Hayley]

Kathy wrote: "Congrats Hayley. Cool that you worked mainly with the given name of the author -- that is a neat way to mix up the challenge."
Thanks.

[Hayley]

Wreade1872 wrote: "Very nice Hayley :) , it hadn't occurred to me to use unknown for U :P ."
Yeah, isn't it cool how that worked?

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Nice job Hayley, Congrats!!

[Pink]

It's been a while, but I've just finished my 20th book for the letter O -

Oliver Sacks - Awakenings

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Pink wrote: "It's been a while, but I've just finished my 20th book for the letter O -

Oliver Sacks - Awakenings"

Way to go.

[Laurie]

Not completing this challenge quickly, but I am making slow progress. What I've read so far:

16/26 completed

A Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
B Fredrik Backman - A Man Called Ove
C Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me
D
E
F
G Shirley Ann Grau - The Keepers of the House
H Kent Haruf - Our Souls at Night
I Kazuo Ishiguro - A Pale View of Hills
J Tove Jansson - The Summer Book
K Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
L Laila Lalami - The Moor's Account
M Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
N
O Eugene O'Neill - Anna Christie
P Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red
Q
R
S Johanna Spyri - Heidi
T Daniel Tammet - Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
U
V
W Richard Wright - Native Son
X
Y
Z Fareed Zakaria - In Defense of a Liberal Education

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

More than halfway there, so you are on target to finish this year Laurie.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Nice progress, I would say. I am whittling at mine very slowly.

[Brina]

Same here Sara. Can't say I've tried much. I get hooked on authors and that cuts into reading different authors.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

I seem to have long strings of the same letter. To finish this, I will have to intentionally choose some books for author's names alone.

[Wreade1872]

Update Message 82: 23/26

T.H. White's the Ill made Knight gives me a W.

just I, X & Q left.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

Wreade1872 wrote: "Update Message 82: 23/26

T.H. White's the Ill made Knight gives me a W.

just I, X & Q left."

Way to go. X is a toughie, but you will be done before you can blink twice.

[Erin]

I have nine authors remaining on my A-Z challenge. I visited the library yesterday and it felt very strange to only view certain shelves in search of certain letters. I came home with a suitable E, F, U and Z.

[Pink]

Odwyer wrote: "I have nine authors remaining on my A-Z challenge. I visited the library yesterday and it felt very strange to only view certain shelves in search of certain letters. I came home with a suitable E,..."

Oh I hadn't thought of checking out certain A-Z shelves in the library! That could be interesting! Good luck with your E, F, U and Z books. What did you pick?

[Erin]

Pink wrote: "Odwyer wrote: "I have nine authors remaining on my A-Z challenge. I visited the library yesterday and it felt very strange to only view certain shelves in search of certain letters. I came home wit..."

It felt pretty strange ignoring every other shelf but hey, needs must.
I chose Fleming, Eliot, Updike and Zusak - they'll keep me out of trouble for a few weeks.

[Brina]

Odwyer, are you reading James Bond? I am curious how 007 is in print form.

[Pink]

Odwyer wrote: "I chose Fleming, Eliot, Updike and Zusak - they'll keep me out of trouble for a few weeks..."

That looks an interesting selection. I've read a couple of Eliot and Zusak's The Book Thief if I have the right person. Nothing by Updike of Fleming yet. Let us know how you get on :)

[Erin]

Brina wrote: "Odwyer, are you reading James Bond? I am curious how 007 is in print form."

I only started to read it last night. I wanted Casino Royale but it wasn't there so chose Octopus/The Living Daylights instead. So far, I'm enjoying it, it was an easy reading style and the pages whipped by. Not a huge book either just 123 pages in total.

[Brina]

Looks promising. I have Casino Royale on my TBR but my all time favorite bond is for your eyes only. I think I will save for when I do bingo next year.

[Katy, Quarterly Long Reads]

Odwyer wrote: "I have nine authors remaining on my A-Z challenge. I visited the library yesterday and it felt very strange to only view certain shelves in search of certain letters. I came home with a suitable E,..."

Okay, that really made me smile! Glad you found some possibilities.