Ed's Reading Plan and Progress (FINISHED)

[Ed]

Ed wrote: "added my week #45"

I finished!

✔1. a book with more than 500 pages - The Tontine by Thomas B. Costain
✔2. a romance- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
✔3. a book that became a movie - Atonement by Rod McKuen
✔4. a book published this year - Yes Please by Amy Poehler
✔5. a book with a number in the title - 1919 by John Dos Passos
✔6. a book written by someone under 30 - Dubliners by James Joyce
✔7. a book with nonhuman characters- At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien (the characters are literary creations who rebel against their author who is also a literary creation of the author)
✔8. a funny book- The Worshipful Lucia by E.F. Benson
✔9. a book by a female author- Middlemarch by George Eliot
✔10. a mystery or thriller- They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
✔11. a book with a one-word title- Mother by Maxim Gorky
✔12. a book of short stories- Girls At War by Chinua Achebe
✔13. a book set in a different country - Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
✔14. a nonfiction book- A Room of One's Own by Virgina Woolf
✔15. a popular author's first book - The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
✔16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet - Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas
✔17. a book a friend recommended- God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
✔18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book - Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
✔19. a book based on a true story-Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
✔20. a book at the bottom of your to read list- The Penlopiad by Margaret Atwood
✔21. a book your mom or dad loves - Timbuktu by Paul Auster
✔22. a book that scares you- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
✔23. a book more than 100 years old- Fanny Hill by John Cleland
✔24. a book based entirely on its cover- Getting Stoned by Savages by J. Maarten Troost
✔25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't - Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
✔26. a memoir- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas- which despite the title, is really a Memoir by Gertrude Stein
✔27. a book you can finish in a day - How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz
✔28. a book with antonyms in the title- The Cunning Linguist: Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun by Richard Lederer
✔29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit - Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson (Brazil)
✔30.. a book that came out the year you were born- Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
✔31. a book with bad reviews- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
✔32. a trilogy (the first)- Night by Elie Weisel
✔33. a trilogy (the second)- The Blood Spilt by Asa Larsson
✔34. a trilogy (the third)- Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
✔35.. a book from your childhood- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
✔36. a book with a love triangle- A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
✔37. a book set in the future- The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delaney
✔38. a book set in high school- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
✔39. a book with a color in the title - White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
✔40. a book that made/makes you cry- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
✔41. a book with magic- Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
✔42. a graphic novel- The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
✔43. a book by an author you've never read before - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
✔44. a book you own but have never read- Lamb by Christopher Moore
✔45. a book that takes place in your hometown- Mexican White Boy by Matt de la Pena
✔46. a book that was originally written in another language -The Thief and the Dogs (Arabic) by Naguib Mafouz
✔47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday)-Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
✔48. a book written by an author with your same initials- It's Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir by Eduard Limonov
✔49. a play- Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
✔50. a banned book - The Awakening by Kate Chopin
✔51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show- Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
✔52. a book you started but never finished- American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush byKevin Phillips

[Ed]

updated.

[Ed]

added Timbuktu by Paul Auster to week 21.

[Ed]

completed week 48 -It's Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir by Eduard Limonov

[Ed]

added a few more

[Ed]

added my week #45

[Ed]

4 more to go...just finished Oliver Twist for week 35.

[Michelle, Mod Assistant]

Awesome work, Ed! Keep it going! You're almost there.

[Ed]

thanks Emm

[Ed]

Another one down....just finished Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis for week #30. Just 3 more to go.

[Ed]

I just noticed on Kateryna's board that she read The Awakening for week #50....which I had also read and forgot it was a banned book.... so, added that and I'm just 2 away.

[Jenny]

Go, Ed! Go, Ed!!

[Ed]

Another one bites the dust...just have to finish The Perks of Being a Wallflower for week 38 and I'm done!

[Ed]

I'm done! Happy New Year everyone.

[Bana AZ]

Congratulations! :)

[Zaz, Mood Minion]

Congrats! :)

[Baheya]

Congratulations Ed!