Chelsea's Corner

[Chelsea]

Yearly Goal of 40 books 31/40 Completed

1. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Completed 1/15 *****

2. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Completed 2/1 ***

3. The Help by Kathryn Stockett Completed 2/7 *****

4. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe Completed 2/14 *****

5. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne Completed 2/21 **

6. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer Completed 2/22 *

7. Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch Completed 2/26 ****

8. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott Completed 3/2 ****

9. Divergent by Veronica Roth Completed 3/4 ****

10. Unwind by Neal Shusterman Completed 3/10 ****

11. The Red and the Black by Stendhal Completed 3/13 *****

12. The Castle by Franz Kafka Completed 3/22 *****

13. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Completed 3/25 **

14. Ida by Gertrude Stein Completed 3/27 **

15. The Tao Of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff Completed 3/28 *****

16. Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk Completed 4/2 *****

17. Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry Completed 4/10 ****

18. Hiding Place by John Edgar Wideman Completed 4/17 ****

19. Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection by A.J. Jacobs Completed 4/27 ****

20. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Completed 6/5 ***

21. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami Completed 6/8 ****

22. Redburn by Herman Melville Completed 3/? ***

23. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Completed 6/24 ***

24. 11/22/63 by Stephen King Completed 6/27 **

25. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt Completed 6/28 *****

26. Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle by Rachel Dratch Completed 6/29 ***

27. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Completed 7/11 ****

28. The Pearl by John Steinbeck Completed 7/21 ****

29. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Completed 8/4 *****

30. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Completed 8/19 ***

31. The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty 9/10 ****

[Chelsea]

June- Something Borrowed/Something Blue Mini Challenge 4/4 Completed
1. Something old: read a book that’s considered a classic

Little Women COMPLETED 6/24 ***

2. Something new: read a book that’s been published in 2012

Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
COMPLETED 6/29 ***

3. Something borrowed: read a book borrowed from a friend/library

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance Borrowed from the library
COMPLETED 6/28 *****

4. Something blue: read a book with a blue cover

A Wild Sheep Chase COMPLETED 6/8 ****


CHALLENGE COMPLETE

[Chelsea]

TBR Twins- July

by Jeffrey Eugenides

With ~*Ro*~

Completed 7/11 ****

[Chelsea]

Buddy Read- July

by John Steinbeck

With Kara

Completed 7/21 ****

[Chelsea]

3rd Quarter Spell-Out Challenge

B- Beloved
E- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 7/11 ****
L- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
G- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
I- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 8/4 *****
U- The Unbearable Lightness of Being 8/19 ***
M- The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty9/10 ****

Completed 4/7