Barbara's TDRC to read and completed list

[Barbara]

Stages complete:

Task complete:

Tasks:

1. Read a book that takes place in 3 different mythical/imagined realms - parallel dimensions, mythical worlds. Planets do not count, unless they're in another dimension. Earth does not count either, so you can't read a book that features only Earth, heaven and hell, unless the book features a mythical place on Earth.
Also, you can't cheat by using 3 different cities in one mythical world or something.



2. Read a book that has been banned (not just challenged) in 3 or more countries.


3. Reread a book (give a second chance to) a book you previously gave a bad rating/review.



4. Finish a book that you started but gave up on.

I started a book about Pontius Pilate that I stopped and a book about Heinrich Harrer. Both I can read for this challenge.
Probably will read Scarlett. Started this once but had troubles because it was too long ago since I had read Gone with the wind but I have seen the movie last week and have my facts straight again.

5. Choose a series that you a gave a low rating to, and read the second book.



6. Read a book with the word second, (not seconds) two or twice in the title. The catch is it can't be the second book in a series.

7. Read a book that was nominated for an award/awards but never won (came in second :D)

8. Read a book with 7 or more words in the title. Subtitles don't count (ie. nothing after the colon).



9. Read a book that is number 7,8 or 9 in a stand alone series.

The vampire huntress series by L.A. Banks


10. Read a book where a main character has the same name as your mother (we can speak about it if your mother has a random name etc).
Wikje Geertruida


11. Read a book that's cover depicts someone that is about to die in some way or other.

12. Read a book that has a two part title that coincides with your initials (just first and last name). For example, mine is LC = Long Cannons by blah blah



13. Read a book with 1500 or more pages.



14. A title with 4 or more words, each starting with consecutive letters of the alphabet. For example: A Boat Can Drift Everywhere

15. Ratings matching my birth date.

4 Watership Down
by Richard Adams
4.02 avg rating — 41,276 ratings
Erin rated it 5 stars
see review my rating:

Has been found for me by Lauren



16. Read a book that is not written by a south African and does not take place in south Africa, but where in south Africa is mentioned.

17. Read a book that at least three of your friends have given less than three stars to.

18. Read a book translated from Finnish.

19. Read any novel by Tolstoy or Ayn Rand.

Will probably read something by Ayn Rand, since I am reading something by Tolstoy for task 13. Or i am going ot read Anna Karenina

20. Go to a second-hand bookstore. Find the last book on the fiction shelf. If you do not have it, buy it and read it.



21. Read a book that is set on an ocean vessel that is not a passenger cruise ship.

22. Get three of the other sado-masochists here to choose a book that they think you'll HATE but that they think you should read. Choose one of the books and read it.
(For this challenge, just announce that you want three nominations and the first 3 to come in will be the books you have to choose from.)

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Oryx and Crake
Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson


23. Read a book published in the year that your father was born

24. Read a book with the originals authors signature in the front



25. Read an entire series consisting of 6 or more books. Re-reads not allowed!

The Mediator series

26. Read a book with a reference to a classic book in it and read that classic too.
So you have to read two books here and you have to post the quote.

27. There are 3 steps
1. Choose a book to read. A classic, multiple award-winning or literary book is best. Fiction or non-fiction.
2. Read a novel (fiction) based on the book in step 1. eg. read Hyperion if your book is The Canterbury Tales.
3. Read a non-fiction book related to the book in step one. Eg. a collection of essays on the novel, a book about the author etc, a book about a theme of the novel (eg. vampires, dystopias) where the novel is discussed at length. It can be a study guide, but remember that it should fit the 100 page minimum requirement.

28. The terrible threes: Read three trilogies. (Not ones you've already started.)



Wild Swan trilogy

29. Read a graphic novel.
The last one isn't hard, but it's something else and perhaps I'm not the only one who hasn't ever read one.

I discovered that in my very large collection of Star Trek memorabilia are several graphic novels. So I'll read

30. Pick a theme, any theme fantasy, horror, whatever and read 6 different books belonging to that theme written by 6 different authors coming from the 6 different continents so from Europa, Africa, Asia, Australia, North-America and South-America. I know Antartica is counted as a continent, but I don't think they have many native authors there. I think it would be nice to see what the different continents do with the themes.

My theme/genre is crime/mystery

31. colour coded theme - You have to read 9 books. Each book must contain a colour in the title. The following colours should be used -
1. Yellow
2. Red
3. Blue
4. Green
5. White
6. Black
7. Brown
8. Any other colour like Orange, Purple, Turquoise, Pink
9. Last book should contain a word that implies colour, like rainbow, polka-dot, stripes

32. Read a book set in colonial Australia.

33. Read any book of your choosing, but then post a picture (a real picture - no photoshopping!) of yourself in the exact locations of a scene from the book. The picture/location should be verifiable. So don't use a photo of a beach that could be a beach anywhere in the world.

34. Re-create a cover. You have to take a pic where you have recreated a cover, using props, dressing up etc. You can't just use photoshop, except when putting a title on it and so on :)
Oh and read the book obviously :)

35. There is a song called "The Book Lovers" by the Divine Comedy. Read one book of 3 authors mentioned in the song.



36. Word Quest - One of your goodreads friends must choose a word for you, for example "driving", then you must find 3 books relating to that word and read it.

My word: Pen

37. Read 33 novels from your favourite genre provided that each novel is more than 333 pages OR you can choose to read 11 novels from your favourite genre, provided that each novel is by an author you haven't read yet and that each novel is more than 333 pages.

I am going to read historical novels and paranormal novels.

38. a) Read 9 debut novels by different authors (first actual novel in print by a major publisher).
b) Then read 3 novels published before the death of its author. (That author's last novel).

39. Nomination : read an original greek mythology novel as close to the original text as you can get your hands on (obviously not greek)

40. A one-word title with 10 letters.

[Barbara]

The Lyrics of the son The Book Lovers:


Aphra Benn: Hello
Cervantes: Donkey
Daniel Defoe: To christen the day!
Samuel Richardson: Hello
Henry Fielding: Tittle-tattle Tittle-tattle...
Lawrence Sterne: Hello
Mary Wolstencraft: Vindicated!
Jane Austen: Here I am!
Sir Walter Scott: We're all doomed!
Leo Tolstoy: Yes!
Honore de Balzac: Oui...
Edgar Allen Poe: Aaaarrrggghhhh!
Charlotte Brontë: Hello...
Emily Brontë: Hello...
Anne Brontë: Hellooo..?
Nikolai Gogol: Vas chi
Gustav Flaubert: Oui
William Makepeace Thackeray: Call me 'William Makepeace Thackeray'
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The letter 'A'
Herman Melville: Ahoy there!
Charles Dickens: London is so beautiful this time of year...
Anthony Trollope: good-good-good-good evening!
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Here come the sleepers...
Mark Twain: I can't even spell 'Mississippi'!
George Eliot: George reads German
Emile Zola: J'accuse
Henry James: Howdy Miss Wharton!
Thomas Hardy: Ooo-arrr!
Joseph Conrad: I'm a bloody boring writer...
Katherine Mansfield: [cough cough]
Edith Wharton: Well hello, Mr James!
DH Lawrence: Never heard of it
EM Forster: Never heard of it!

Happy the man, and happy he alone who in all honesty can call today his own;
He who has life and strength enough to say 'Yesterday's dead & gone - I want to live today'

James Joyce: Hello there!
Virginia Woolf: I'm losing my mind!
Marcel Proust: Je me'en souviens plus
F Scott Fitzgerald: baa bababa baa
Ernest Hemingway: I forgot the....
Hermann Hesse: Oh es ist alle so häßlich
Evelyn Waugh: Whoooaarr!
William Faulkner: Tu connait William Faulkner?
Anaïs Nin: The strand of pearls
Ford Maddox Ford: Any colour, as long as it's black!
Jean-Paul Sartre: Let's go to the dome, Simone!
Simone de Beauvoir: C'est exact present
Albert Camus: The beach... the beach
Franz Kafka: WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!
Thomas Mann: Mam
Graham Greene: Call me 'pinky', lovely
Jack Kerouac: Me car's broken down...
William S Burroughs: Wowwww!

Happy the man, and happy he alone who in all honesty can call today his own;
He who has life and strength enough to say 'Yesterday's dead & gone - I want to live today'

Kingsley Amis: [cough]
Doris Lessing: I hate men!
Vladimir Nabokov: Hello, little girl...
William Golding: Achtung Busby!
JG Ballard: Instrument binnacle
Richard Brautigan: How are you doing?
Milan Kundera: I don't do interviews
Ivy Compton Burnett: Hello...
Paul Theroux: Have a nice day!
Gunter Grass: I've found snails!
Gore Vidal: Oh, it makes me mad!
John Updike: Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run...
Kazuro Ishiguro: Ah so, old chap!
Malcolm Bradbury: stroke John Steinbeck, stroke JD Salinger
Iain Banks: Too orangey for crows!
AS Byatt: Nine tenths of the law, you know...
Martin Amis: [burp]
Brett Easton Ellis: Aaaaarrrggghhh!
Umberto Eco: I don't understand this either...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Mi casa es su casa
Roddy Doyle: ha ha ha!
Salman Rushdie: Names will live forever...


Just saving these you never know if I might need them. I don't think so but who knows.
37.1 Changeless by Gail Carriger
37.2 Passage to Pontefract by Jean Plaidy
37.3 The Star of Lancaster by Jean Plaidy
37.4 Blameless by Gail Carriger
37.5 Epitaph for Three Women by Jean Plaidy
37.6 Heartless by Gail Carriger
37.7 The Sun in Splendour by Jean Plaidy
37.8 Uneasy Lies the Head by Jean Plaidy
37.9 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

[Barbara]

Total books read: 94/94
Total task finished: 40/40

1.1 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
2.1 Ulysses by James Joyce
3.1 Before and After by Matthew Thomas
4.1 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley
5.1 The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
6.1 The Second Duchess by Elizabeth Loupas
7.1 The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
8.1 The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Deadby David Shields
9.1 Sword of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson
10.1 Zondaarskind by Marion Pauw
11.1 Hell's Bells by John Connolly
12.1 Black Man by Richard K. Morgan
13.1 Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
14.1 A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
15.1 Watership Downby Richard Adams
16.1 The Bounty Mutiny by William Bligh
17.1 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
18.1 The Egyptian by Mika Waltari
19.1 Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
20.1 Mevrouw Bentinck by Hella S. Haasse
21.1 Men Against the Sea: A Novel by Charles Nordhoff
22.1 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
23.1 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
24.1 Willem de troubadour (1071-1126): Hertog van Aquitanië by Guus Pikkemaat
25.1 Love You to Death by Meg Cabot
25.2 High Stakes by Meg Cabot
25.3 Mean Spirits by Meg Cabot
25.4 Young Blood by Meg Cabot
25.5 Grave Doubts by Meg Cabot
25.6 Heaven Sent by Meg Cabot
26.1 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home by Vonda N. McIntyre
26.2 Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Bernard Nordhoff
27.1 Dracula by Bram Stoker
27.2 Minion by L.A. Banks
27.3 From Demons to Dracula: The Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth by Matthew Beresford
28.1 Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country by Rosalind Miles
28.2 The Knight of the Sacred Lake by Rosalind Miles
28.3 The Child of the Holy Grail by Rosalind Miles
28.4 Heart of Light by Sarah A. Hoyt
28.5 Soul of Fire by Sarah A. Hoyt
28.6 Heart and Soul by Sarah A. Hoyt
28.7 Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
28.8 Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey
28.9 Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey
29.1 Enemy Unseen by Keith R.A. DeCandido et al.
30.1 Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
30.2 Lemon Meringue Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke
30.3 The Killer by Patrícia Melo
30.4 The Devil's Whisper by Miyuki Miyabe
30.5 The Embroidered Corpse by Brian Kavanagh
30.6 Dead-End Road by Richard Kunzmann
31.1 The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
31.2 The Red Rose of Anjou by Jean Plaidy
31.3 The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
31.4 Green Darkness by Anya Seton
31.5 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
31.6 The Black Veil and other tales of Supernatural Sleuths. by Mark Valentine
31.7 The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
31.8 The Golden Tree by Kathryn Lasky
31.9 The Shadow of the Pomegranate by Jean Plaidy
32.1 The Secret River by Kate Grenville
33.1 Sissi Keizerin uit Liefde by Bob wallagh
34.1 Triangle: Imzadi II by Peter David
35.1 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
35.2 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
35.3 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
36.1 This Pen For Hire by Laura Levine
36.2 Death of a Poison Pen by M.C. Beaton
36.3 The Pen Pal by Richard Thomas Banegas
37.1 Second Sight by Amanda Quick
37.2 The Vagrant King by E.V. Thompson
37.3 Two Little Lies by Liz Carlyle
37.4 Lilith's Dream by Whitley Strieber
37.5 The Queene's Cure by Karen Harper
37.6 Virgin Widow: England's Forgotten Queen by Anne O'Brien
37.7 Katherine by Anya Seton
37.8 Secrets of The Tudor Court by Darcey Bonnette
37.9 The People's Queen by Vanora Bennett
37.10 Red Lotus by Pai Kit Fai
37.11 Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
38.1 I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
38.2 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
38.3 Capable of Murder by Brian Kavanagh
38.4 The Ghost Writer by John Harwood
38.5 Into the Wild by Erin Hunter
38.6 Seduction Amanda Quick
38.7 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
38.8 A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
38.9 Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
38.10 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
38.11 Villette by Charlotte Brontë
38.12 Emma by Jane Austen
39.1 Three Tragedies: Antigone, Oedipus the King & Electra by Sophocles
40.1 Impossible by Nancy Werlin

[Barbara]

Yeah, I finished my first book for this challenge called The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead. Of course this is my book for task 8. I have finished my first task! I will update this book for every other challenge later on because I can't wait to start my second book.

[Lu]

Congratz Barbara!

[Barbara]

I'm going strong. I finished my graphic novel. So I have read two books today (I did set my alarm so I could start reading early) and I finished two tasks.
Total finished tasks 2.

[Barbara]

Can we use the graphic novel in other challenges? I am mostly thinking about the A-Z challenges. Anyone any thoughts on that one?

[Lu]

Yea you can use it as long as it is more than 150 pages :) In all other challenges that is :)

[Barbara]

I have finished task 24. I have read Willem de Troubadour by Guus Pikkemaat. The photo's as proof I have posted below. This is the third task that I have completed.

[Claudia]

I'll just be signing the next book on my to-read list myself. Who will know?
Kidding.

[Barbara]

LOL. It is a hard task, but I lucked into this book. I bought it like 2 or 3 weeks ago and when I went to pay for it the man behind the counter asked if I was interested in a signed copy. They still had a few because the author had been in for a signing sesion some weeks earlier and they had asked if he would sign extra copies. I didn't have to pay extra or stand in line or anything and I still have a copy with the author's signature.

[Lu]

That's lucky :D

[Lauren]

That is lucky :) This task is either very easy (because you already have a signed copy) or very difficult (because signed copies aren't easy to come by).

[Barbara]

I know. The funny thing was that even though I was shopping for books for this challenge I didn't realise at the time that I could use the book for this challenge because of the signature.
I have finished another book. Again a dutch book which was unexpectedly good. I read this one because of my mum's name. She is called Wikje Geertruida, because her first name is an uncommon name even in the Netherlands I was allowed to use her middle name. The name of the main character in the book is called Geertruida Amalia Langhout. This is the fourth task I finished.

[Lu]

Congratz!

[Barbara]

Why do I feel like I want to break out in song now that I have obtained the first rank????
La La La...

[Crusader]

I think some cheating is going on here. Must be...

;)

Congratz!

[Barbara]

LOL.

You're just jealous! :)

I just had time to read and for once I read books that didn't have that many pages. I was lucky with finding books for tasks that you have to read the book you can find instead of a book you want to read. Like with the task were you have to read a book with your mum's name. My mum's name is unusual but the book I found only had 280 pages instead of the 400 or more pages my books normally have.

[Barbara]

I have a question and I don´t know where to post it so I´ll do it here. Is everyone ok???? There is so little chatter going on and I hardly see any updates for this new challenge that I am getting worried about you guys. So once again is everyone and everything ok????

Having asked that I have two more books finished. Before and After for task 3 and that was pretty hard because I now remember why I didn't like this book the first time around and I still don't like it and I have finished Impossible for task 40 which was a pleasure to read. So that's two more tasks completed and that makes my total 6 tasks.

I will try to read one more book for a task before I go offline for a couple of days. I will be less online than normal the coming days because my mum is coming tomorrow and I don't know how much time I have to be online and of course we're going to Vienna on monday and we'll be back thursday evening. I don't think I will be online before next friday and maybe even sunday because if I'm not online friday I don't think I will have much time to be online saturday because I will then be celebrating my birthday.

[Lu]

Hi Barbara :)

Lauren F and I have some family things to attend to, death in the family, so that's why we have been a bit quite.

I know Lauren S is going to Ethiopia in a few days.

And Niecole is writing exams soon. I think others in the group too.

I think it just that time of the year :(

[Barbara]

I am so sorry to hear that. My condolences to both of you.
I knew about Laures S and Niecole but I didn't know about you and Lauren F.
I was just wondering because it was so quiet. I am glad you're back!

[Lu]

Thanks Barbara :)
This weekend I'll be able to chat a bit more :)

[Lauren]

I'm here, but just lurking! Haven't had much time to sit down at a pc.

I hope everything is going a well as can be expected Lu.

[Barbara]

Ok, Like I said I was just getting a bit worried. I know I am an overachiever (I know this because you all have called me that in the past :D) but I was feeling like me and Kahlan were the only ones reading for this challenge and the chatter was way done so I was just wondering were everyone was. Thanks for checking in and putting my mind at ease!

[Lauren]

Don't worry - once I'm settled I'll be a force to be reckoned with! The Kindle is loaded and ready.

[Claudia]

I've actually half-finished another task. Well, I've finished reading the book and I was going to redesign the cover, but I just sat there for 5 minutes pulling a face at the "no photoshop" thing ... and then I gave up. Haha.

[Lauren]

Well, it's not so much redesign as recreate - make the same cover but with yourself in it. Although redesigning could actually be really fun too, especially if you think the cover is deceptive or something. The no photoshop rule would still stand though, I'm afraid.

[Barbara]

So we have to choose a cover with a person in it? Because there are lots of covers without persons in it or someone of the other sex.

[Lauren]

Actually no, wait, my bad, the cover doesn't have to have a person (or you) in it. I remember chatting about it to Lu and talking about dressing up, but the task description doesn't specify that you have to be in it. I think you would still have to choose a cover that requires you to set something up and photograph it, not, for example, a cover that only has words on it and can only be photoshopped.

[Claudia]

This is the third task I misunderstood/misread. I think I need to concentrate more! I was really into the idea of redesigning a cover, but hmm ... now I have to read another book because the cover I had in mind won't work too well. See :

[Lauren]

Lu might be open to the idea of redesigning a cover though - it's more creative.

[Lu]

We can do that too if you guys want?

[Claudia]

Nah, it's OK. =)

[Barbara]

It shouldn't be too hard to recreate this cover. Just find a field (back yard) and put a large stone in the back and use a fan to let your hair blow in the wind and ask someone to take your photo. Shift the colours to the grey side of things, put the words in and you're there.

[Barbara]

Went with my mum to what we call a second chance store. My mum likes to browse and I still needed a book for task 20. I got the boek called Mevrouw Bentinck by Hella S. Haasse. It is a dutch historical book by a dutch author and is nearly 800 pages. I must say I look forward to reading this book since I have always wanted to read something by this author and I never did.

[Barbara]

Finished the Eyre affair which takes care of tasks 1 and makes my finished tasks now 7. Also finished Changeless which I am using for the 33 books task. Vampire novels has always been a favorite genre of mine even though I haven't read much of them lately I read them a lot when I was younger. Also finished part one of the mediator series which is the first book for the task where you have to read a series of 6 or more books.

[Barbara]

Ok I was sick and these were very easy books to read. How is it anyway that were I normally read books with 700-800 pages I find all these thin books for this challenge? Well I can tell you I have some books waiting that will be a lot thicker. Having said that I have started and finished all six books of the Mediator series by Meg Cabot. Which completes task 25 for me and which means I have now completed 8 tasks in total.

[Lu]

Congratz Barbara!

[Barbara]

Reread Guenevere the queen of the summer country for the terrible threes and now I know why that task is called the terrible threes. I have read this book many years ago and all I remembered was that I didn't like it but that I wanted to reread it so I could read part 2 and 3. I wish I could go back to that state because no I know why I didn't like the book and all I can do is hope that his time I will also forget.

[Barbara]

I am so happy. I just went rummaging through my books in the attic searching for a book I thought I had and I did!!!! I found it. What is so special about this is that my plan worked. When I went to Vienna I asked some tourists to make a photo of me on the terras of palace Schonbrunn. Knowing that Sisi empress of Austria had lived there. I knew that in the films made there about her life that there was a scene where she is in the exact same location, I also knew that there were books written with the story of the movie and I thought I had those books but wasn't sure. And I do have those books!!! Jippie! I checked and the scene I am talking about is in the books. So all I have to do is read them. Since I am getting tired of myself and my "luck" that I manage to find books with few pages for this challenge I will read both books for this one task. The first book with the scene in it is 190 pages and the second book is 166 pages. I shall also try to find a still from the movie with Sisi in the exact location as me.

[Lauren]

Hehe, that's cool! You don't have to be so diligent with the page numbers, although admittedly you're the last person who needs to worry about finishing challenges!
I totally forgot to take pictures of myself at book locations in Cape Town. If I'm lucky I've already got one I can use; if not I'll have to plan better on my next trip.

[Barbara]

I know, if they have more than 150 pages they count. It's just a mind set I adopted when I was in high school and we had to read books. Everyone always took the books with the fewest pages and I always had this thick volumes and when they asked me why I answered that books under 250 pages weren't worth reading. And I know that isn't true but I still have this feeling when I read a book with 250 pages or less that I am cheating somehow.

That's too bad. I hope you have photo's already you can use. I am not in the habit of taking photo's of myself in famous locations so this was a first for me. Aren't there any great books about Ethiopia that you can use?

[Barbara]

First of all I want to thank Lu, Niecole and Liezel for giving Wuthering Heights two stars. This gave me the opportunity to read it for this challenge and I loved it. So that takes care of task 17. I have also finished task 16 by reading the bounty mutiny.
What I am really here for though is post the necessary photos and evidence for task 33. I have read both Sissi Keizerin uit Liefde en Sissi Keizerin en Moeder. In the first one on page 83 it says that: Ze sloot vriendschap met de dieren van Schonbrunn etc. (she made friends with the animals of Schonbrunn) This establishes that we are at this particular palace. In the pages following we follow Sissi's life while she is at this palace. Then on page 97 it says : Intussen kwam Sissi in een vrolijk zomerjurkje en met een grote bos rode rozen in haar armen de stenen trappen van het terras opgesneld etc. (In the meanwhile Sissi came running up the stairs of the terrace wearing a summerdress and carrying a bunch of red roses in her arms).
Photos of Schonbrunn can be found both on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B... and http://www.schoenbrunn.at/en/things-t... On the Wikipediapage there is a photo of the backside of the palace taken from the Neptune well. Here you can see the terrace at the back. Also there is a photo taken from the Great Parterre (road in the park) of this Neptune well and the Gloriette. The Gloriette is a big archlike kind of structure. The books were written to accompany three movies made about the life of Sissi and the scene I am using is also used in the film so I have taken photos of my television too so you can see it is the same.

my photo taken of the terrace


photo taken of the movie where Sissi is walking up the stairs of the terrace from the other side but it is still recognizable as the same place


photo taken from the film where Sissi stands on the terrace acting the scene I described above


Photo taken of me (looking very shaby, it being the end of the day and I had been pushing my mum in her wheelchair all day and got soaked by the rain 3 times)in the exact same spot

[Barbara]

Ok, That means I have read 18 books so far and finished 11 tasks.

[Lu]

Way to go Barbara!

[Lauren]

That's a beautiful palace!

[Barbara]

It was indeed and this was on a dull and dreary day. Can you imagine it with the sun shining and the flowers in bloom. I have posted a link to more Vienna photos in my reading goals thread.

[Barbara]

I thought I was really lucky when I went to the second hand bookstore and found that the last book on the shelf was a book by an author I always wanted to read (the author not the book) even though it was 795 pages I was happy. Untill I read it. It wasn't at all what i expected. It wasn't a bad book but it wasn't great either. That having been said I have finished Mevrouw Bentinck and that means I have finished task 20 and that means I have finished 12 tasks in total.

[Lu]

Congratz Barbara!

[Barbara]

Finished Dracula for task 27. Going to read Minion next and then some book that I have ordered and forgot the name of but it is on its way. Also Finished Speak. Can't remember who nominated it for me for task 22 but it wasn't a bad book. It wasn't good but I liked reading it. So thanks. That means I finished another task and that makes my total 13 tasks.