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I'd Like To Buy a Vowel (2014)
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Melissa
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Sep 26, 2014 07:40AM
Yah, Alessandra!
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I just have no Os left and I'll be done. Yay!
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So, from 1st Sept:
No As- The Turn of the Screw
No Es-
No Is-
No Os- A Study in Scarlet
No Us- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
No Ys- The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
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Now that I've discovered The Namesake has no Is, I hope to finish this week!
No Es- 1Q84
No Is- The Namesake
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No Es- Dracula
No Is- Henry V
No Os- A Study in Scarlet
No Us- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
No Ys- The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Completed, on 18th Oct! Luckily, things just fell into place!
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Great job Holly! One left for me (no 'e's) which I plan to finish next week with Dracula.
Yah!!! Good for you, Holly!!! You are racking up points, too!
I know this is going over the top, but this one could even be a monthly challenge, finding books that fit the vowels and the genre challenge per month, if this makes sense.Lets see if this one works for the Horror genre -- I'll give it a try. (What do you think Renee, would this be legal?)
No As- The Body; READ 10/26/14
No Es- A Good Man Is Hard To Find; READ 10/25/14
No Is- The Tell-Tale Heart; READ 10/24/14
No Os- The Witches; READ 10/9/14
No Us- Dark Places; READ 10/13/14
No Ys- Into the Darkest Corner; READ 10/16/14
Great job Melissa. I love that you were able to match your selections to the genre for October.
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Thanks! I'm trying not to use the Group Reads, which could have made this a bit easier.
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I STILL have two vowels to go, so I could never pull that off. Kudos!
Entirely legal. The only books on which I'm crying foul in the mini-challenges are the group read books, since we're trying to expand our reading with the minis.
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Yah! I finished my second Vowel Challenge today! And 10 points too!
Yay, Dracula completes this mini-challenge for me! Woo-hoo!
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(The Readathon is helping us all finish up.)
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Does anyone remember which question it was?
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I'll try this one for November, too.No As - The Purloined Letter; READ 11/18/14
No Es- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis; READ 11/21/14
No Is- The Fall of the House of Usher READ 11/2/14
No Os- Rip Van Winkle; READ 11/3/14
No Us- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow READ 11/1/14
No Ys- The Haunting of Hill House; READ 11/20/14
FINISHED CHALLENGE 11/21/14
Yes, I like the points and also add books towards our end of the year.
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November Vowels!No As- The Duchess
No Es- Carmilla
No Is- Brave Old World
No Os -
No Us- The Historian
No Ys- Sons and Lovers
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I'm going to do this one for November as well, it's a great way to rustle up some points!
Challenge Completed November 27th!I'd Like to Buy a Vowel (November):
No A's - My Sort-of, Kind-of Hero
No E's - As You Wish
No I's - God, No!
No O's - Mud Puddle
No U's - Dust
No Y's - Julius Caesar
Holly wrote: "What did you think of Carmilla, Lucy? :D"Hi Holly! I actually really enjoyed it - it was a quick, fun read, and there were some 'horror' moments that were a lot more effective and creepier than Dracula. I also enjoyed the fact it was all from a female POV.
How about you?
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No As-
No Es- Fangirl
No Is- Manhattan Transfer
No Os- A Streetcar Named Desire
No Us- The Catcher in the Rye
No Ys- The Sense of an Ending
Inadvertently, I've mostly completed this from what I've read so far this month... Love it when coincidences happen!
Holly wrote: "Rather gay, slightly archaic female vampires? Hell yes! Aha, I really liked it, as you can probably tell. Despite being considerably shorter, I really think it packed a punch equal to that of Dracula!"Absolutely - in fact I actually found it much creepier than Dracula, probably because it was a lot shorter and got rid of all of that gung-ho, Victorian, manly adventure stuff (which, in all honesty, is a bit of a guilty pleasure!).
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I just wish Carmilla was more widely recognised as PURE AWESOMENESS.
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One more book to finish this challenge! Can I say that I kinda like this one. :D
Yah! 10 points for me! *Happy Dance* Yes, finished another vowel challenge! :D
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