Book Challenge - 2009

[Fiona (Titch)]

101. The Armada Boy - Kate Ellis

[Fiona (Titch)]

102. American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld

[Fiona (Titch)]

103. Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell
104. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson

[Donna, The Pusher]

Did my first audio!!!! The Curious Case of Benjamin Button! I gotta say once I get passed the beginnings of the book I can handle it!

[Fiona (Titch)]

Donna wrote: "Did my first audio!!!! The Curious Case of Benjamin Button! I gotta say once I get passed the beginnings of the book I can handle it! "

So gad you tried 1 hon x

[Fiona (Titch)]

105. Betty:The Autobiography - Betty Driver

[Fiona (Titch)]

106. Run For Your Life - James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

[Fiona (Titch)]

107. Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
108. Cry, Baby - Jill Atkins

[Fiona (Titch)]

109. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
110. Furies - Elizabeth Kay
111. Partners in Crime - Nigel Hinton
112. Liar - Pete Johnson

[Fiona (Titch)]

113. Until Proven Guilty - Nigel Hinton

[Fiona (Titch)]

114. Genesis - Karin Slaughter
115. Speed - Alison Prince
116. Clone Zone - Jonathan Meres

[Fiona (Titch)]

118. Swimsuit - James Patterson
119. Alex Cross's Trial - James Patterson

[Donna, The Pusher]

I like how you do it. I usually just edit my list.

THX for sharing, Fiona!

[Fiona (Titch)]

120. I, Alex Cross - James Patterson

[Donna, The Pusher]

Jenni wrote: "So I changed my challenge yet again, and decided to just see how much I read from May 2009 - December 2009. My goal is to try to read 35 books in this time. This should help me figure out what a ..."


Where have you been Jenni!?

[Jen]

I've been around! I'm still reading Shantaram, although I'm sitting at 27 books or so:

May
1. The Lucky One
2. Handle with Care
3. The Art of Science
4. Gone With The Wind
5. Little Heathens Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
June
6. Body of Knowledge
7. Guilty Pleasures
8. Something Borrowed
9. The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #2)
10. Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #3)
July
11. The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #4)
12. Bloody Bones (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #5)
13. The Killing Dance
14. A Little Bit Wicked Life, Love, and Faith in Stages
15. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
16. Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #7)
August
17. Blue Moon
18. An Artist of the Floating World - currently reading
19. The Color of Magic
20. Eclipse
21. Breaking Dawn
22. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Guilty Pleasures Volume 1 (graphic novel)
23. Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter The First Death
September
24. Midnight Sun
25. House of Leaves
26. The Graveyard Book
October
27. Shantaram - currently reading
28. The Pillars of the Earth - currently reading

[Donna, The Pusher]

How are you liking Shantaram?

[Jen]

I like it so far! Right now they're having the discussion about suffering... not sure about that, but the rest of the book has been entertaining. :)

[Donna, The Pusher]

Does anyone know of any books titles that start with any of these letters?

Q
X
Z

I am finishing up on my ABC's book title challenge

[Fiona (Titch)]

121. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
122. The Quickie - James Patterson & Micheal Ledwidge

[Fiona (Titch)]

Donna wrote: "Does anyone know of any books titles that start with any of these letters?

Q
X
Z

I am finishing up on my ABC's book title challenge"

The Quickie - James Patterson & Micheal Ledwidge is a Q hon x

[Jen]

Xenocide - Orson Scott CardXenocide
Zipporah, Wife of Moses A Novel
Zorro
Young Zorro The Iron Brand

[Donna, The Pusher]

OOOH ur awesome!!!! THX

[Fiona (Titch)]

123. Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
124. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
125. Hannibal - Thomas Harris
126. Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris

[Fiona (Titch)]

127. Horrid Henry and the Secret Club - Francesca Simon
128. The Colour of Heaven - James Runcie

[Donna, The Pusher]

For my Alaphabet title challenge I need to read the following:

F - Fidali's Way OR The Fraction of the Whole (own both)
K - Kitchen Confidential (own)
Q - Queenpin (library)
R - Rant OR Rebel Angels (own both)
V - Vacations from Hell
X - The Xibalba Murders: An Archeological Mystery
Y - The Yellow-Lighthed Bookshop
Z - Zipporah Wife of Moses: A Novel

[Fiona (Titch)]

129. Poor Little Bitch Girl - Jackie Collins

[Donna, The Pusher]

So I got like 9 more books to go for my 65. I doubt I will do it but I am getting pretty darn close!

[Jen]

You can do it! You're close!

[Fiona (Titch)]

130. Rising Tide - Anne Rooney
131. Uglies - Scott Westerfeld

[Donna, The Pusher]

OK So I just have to finish it out at what I have left of my ABC is:

F - Freaks & Geeks, Fidali's Way, or The fourth Hand (haven't decided yet)
V- Vacations from Hell (next)
X - The Xibalba Murders: An Archeological Mystery

And then I am done. I think it will be possiblle to read these in 3 weeks!

[Fiona (Titch)]

Don't think I can possibly get to 150 before end of year, but can try as far as possible lol.

[Donna, The Pusher]

150 is a big list I think you did pretty darn good otherwise!

[Fiona (Titch)]

Donna wrote: "150 is a big list I think you did pretty darn good otherwise!"

Thanks Donna, will see how far I get in the next few days and weeks lol x

[Fiona (Titch)]

132. Pretties - Scott Westerfeld

[Donna, The Pusher]

I am reading my X book now and then all I have lef is my F!!!

[Jen]

Awesome!

[Donna, The Pusher]

I almost made my 65! Oh well, I slacked a lot but in the end I really tried to catch up and I almost did it!

Better Luck next time!!!

PS I did finish out my ABC tho!

[Jen]

Well, I ended up with about 32 read books from May to December... which I'm pretty happy with. (Especially considering that several of them were quite large.)
I'm hoping to hit at least 50 in 2010!

[Donna, The Pusher]

Well I'm still finishing my 2009 since I started them in 2009 it still counts! I will probably start my 2010 in a week or two. My first sould be 1984