Lizzy’s Literary Life

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***** Masterpiece
**** Excellent
*** Enjoyable
** Dodgy
* Why did I bother?

The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth


Cleave - Anthology of Scottish Women's Writing


The Ice Princess - Camilla Lackberg

THEMED READING CHALLENGE

Objective 4 Books Jan - June 2008
Theme: Our Feathered Friends

1) The Bower Bird
2) The Cry of the Owl
3) The Falconer
4) The Midwich Cuckoos


Objective: 4 titles describing characters within March - May 2008
1) A Partisan's Daughter
2) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
3) The Man In The Window
4) The Artificial Silk Girl




Objective: Discover 2 new authors Feb-May 2008

1) Penelope Fitzgerald
2) Wolfgang Koeppen

Objective 1: 8 published 2008
1) A Vengeful Longing
2) The Long Delirious Burning Blue
3) A Partisan's Daughter
4) Trauma
5) The Man in the Window
6) Pandora in the Congo
7) The Falconer
8) Being Emily


Objective 2: 7 published 2007
1) The Bower Bird
2) The Book of Words
3) The One from the Other
4) Fault Lines
5) Where Three Roads Meet



Objective: 9 books, 9 authors, 9 countries April - December 2008
1) Death in Rome - Germany
2) Pandora in the Congo - Spain
3) The Fifth Woman - Sweden

Objective: 10 titles from 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
May 2008 - Feb 2009

1) The Lost Honour of Katherina Blum
2) The Siege of Krishnapur


Objective: 6 Booker nominees Jan - Dec 2008
1) Lies of Silence
2) The Colour of Blood
3) The Doctor's Wife
4) Fasting, Feasting
5) The Remains of the Day
6) The Stone Diaries
7) The Siege of Krishnapur
8) The Bookshop
9) Offshore
10) The Secret River


Objective 12 historical reads from differing genres jan - Dec 2008
Young Adult Fiction
1 ) Here Lies Arthur
2 ) Crusade
3 ) Blood Red, Snow White
Adult Fiction
4 ) The Radetzky March
5 ) Innocent Traitor
6 ) The Secret River
7) The Blue Flower
Non-Fiction
8 ) Death and The Maiden
9 ) Lizzy Siddal - Tragedy of A Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
Alternative History
10 ) Resistance
Historical Crime
11) A Gentle Axe
12) The One From The Other


Jan-Dec 2008
Colour:
Snow White, Blood Red
Animal:
The Bower Bird
First Name:
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Place:
Death in Rome
Weather:
Snow
Plant:
The Blue Flower



Objective: 5 books with numbers in the title Jan - August 2008
1) The One From The Other
2) First Among Sequels
3) The Fifth Woman
4) Where Three Roads Meet
5) ?


Objective 3 books recommended by others
May - November 2008
1) The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
2) Engleby
3) ?


Objective: 6 novellas April - September 2008
1) The Falconer
2) Michael Kohlhaas
3) The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Objective: 8 Books 8 Consecutive Decades Jan - Dec 2008

1861/1864 The Grey Woman / Cousin Phillis
1891 Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1900 The Touchstone
1932 The Artificial Silk Girl
1940 The Power and the Glory
1954 Death in Rome
1962 The Cry of the Owl
1974 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
1987 The Colour of Blood
1993 The Stone Diaries 1997 Fall On Your Knees





Objective: 4 books by Russian authors or set in Russia
Jan - Dec 2008

1) Selected Tales - Leo Tolstoy
2) A Vengeful Longing
3) Leviathan
4) The Helmet of Horror
5) The Shooting Party
6) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

C19th Women Writers
Objective: Works from 6 C19th Women
Jan - Dec 2008

1) Elizabeth Gaskell


1) Fall On Your Knees
2) On Beauty
3) If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
4) Night and Day
5) Nightwebs
6) Spiderweb
7) The Blue Flower (Link Penelope)
8) Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
9) Before The Frost
10) The Falls

Objective: 12 prizewinners in 12 months July 2007 - June 2008

1) Gone With The Wind
2) Sacred Hunger
3) The Lizard Cage
4) The Boy and The Sea
5) Consolation
6) Mister Pip
7) The Tenderness of Wolves
8) Joseph Knight
9) The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
10) Foreign Parts
11)A Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam
12)The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt
Challenge complete! However, still lots of prizewinners in the TBR. Let Round 2 commence! 13)Restless
14) The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
15) Set In Stone
16) The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
17) What Was Lost
18) The Bower Bird
19) The Stone Diaries
20) Fall On Your Knees
21) The Road
22) The Great Victorian Collection
23) The Secret River
24) Death in Rome
25) Fault Lines 26) The Blue Flower