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- A-Z Shorter Fiction: The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol
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- TSS: A Very Special Library Reservation + Giveaway
- Book Group - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
- Books Read Index
- Long Term Projects
- Lies of Silence - Brian Moore
- That Summer / In Another Light - Andrew Greig
- Challenges
- Books Read 2008
- Book Group: The Power and The Glory - Graham Greene
- Sunday Salon on a Tuesday: Announcing Short Story September
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Edinburgh Book Festival(s) 2008
This is Not About Me - Janice Galloway
Helpless - Barbara Gowdy
The World According to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith
Doctor Glas - Hjalmar Soderberg
Late Nights on Air - Elizabeth Hay
The Book of Chameleons - Jose Eduardo Agualusa
The Road of Bones - Anne Fine
A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
Romanno Bridge - Andrew Greig
Cleave - Various
Lorraine Connection - Dominque Manotti
Country of the Grand - Gerard Donovan
Mothers and Sons - Colm Toibin
Glister - John Burnside
The Long Delirious Burning Blue - Sharon Blackie
The Ice Princess - Camilla Läckberg
The Story of A Marriage - Andrew Sean Greer
The Falconer - Alice Thompson
The Man In the Window - K O Dahl
Trauma - Patrick McGrath
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
That Summer - Andrew Greig
Clara - Janice Galloway
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Challenge 2008 Part I
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
9) The Ice Princess
10) Glister
11) Lorraine Connection
12) A Case of Exploding Mangoes
13) Country of the Grand
14) Late Nights on Air
15) This is Not About Me
16) Burning Secret
17) The Bachelors
18) Glenfarron
19) Typhoon
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
6) Helpless
What An Animal!
6 books with animals in the title or animals as the main character
July - December 2008
1) The Book of Chameleons
2) The White Tiger
3) The Silver Swan
4) Nightingale
5) Out Stealing Horses
6) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
3 books
September - December 2008
1) The Remains of the Day
2) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
3) The Age of Innocence
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Challenge 2008 Part II
Objective 12 historical reads from differing genres jan - Dec 2008
Young Adult Fiction
1 ) Here Lies Arthur
2 ) Blood Red, Snow White
Faction
3) Author! Author!
Memoir
4) This is Not About Me
Adult Fiction
5 ) The Radetzky March
6 ) Innocent Traitor
7 ) The Secret River
8 ) The Blue Flower
Art History
9 ) Stealing the Scream
10) Lizzy Siddal - Tragedy of A Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
Historical Crime
12) A Gentle Axe
12) The One From The Other
Jan-Dec 2008
Colour:
The White Tiger
Animal:
The Bower Bird
First Name:
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Place:
Death in Rome
Weather:
Dirty Snow
Plant:
The Blue Flower
Objective: 8 Books 8 Consecutive Decades Jan - Dec 2008
1842 The Overcoat
1850 ?
1861/1864 The Grey Woman / Cousin Phillis
1870 ?
1888 The Lesson of the Master 1891 Tess of the D'Urbervilles
1900 The Touchstone
1913 Burning Secret
1925 The Age of Innocence
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) The Overcoat - Nikolai Gogol
4) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
C19th Women Writers
Objective: Works from 6 C19th Women
Jan - Dec 2008
1) Elizabeth Gaskell
2) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3) Kate Chopin
4) Elizabeth Mary Braddon
5) George Eliot
6) ? -
Challenges 2008-2009
Books Awards Challenge II Objective: 10 prizewinners in 10 months August 2008 - June 2009
Oops - I started early!
1) Lorraine Connection - Dominque Manotti
2) The Book of Chameleons
3) Late Nights on Air
4) The Remains of the Day
5) Catholics
Objective: 10 titles from 1001 Books to Read Before You Die
May 2008 - Feb 2009
1) The Lost Honour of Katherina Blum
2) The Remains of the Day
3) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
4) The Radetzky March
5) Amok
6) The Turn of the Screw
7) The Age of Innocence
April 2008 - March 2009 1) Arthur - The Seeing Stone
2) Here Lies Arthur
3) The Gawain Mystery
4) Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
5) The Crystal Cave
6) ?
13 Canadian books
July 2008 - June 2009
1) Late Nights on Air
2) Helpless
3) The Emperor of Ice Cream
4) Cold Heaven
5) Fergus
6) Moral Disorder
7) The Other Side of the Bridge
8) The Immaculate Conception
9) Catholics
10) The Doctor's Wife
11) The Feast of Lupercal
12) The Mangan Inheritance
13) Girlfriend in A Coma
UNREAD AUTHORS CHALLENGE
6 Books August 2008 - January 2009
1) David Lodge
2) Henry James
3) Colm Toibin
4) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
5) Gaetan Soucy
6) Nikolai Gogol -
Challenges Completed 2008
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
4) The Story of A Marriage - USA
5) Lorraine Connection - France
6) Romanno Bridge - Scotland
7) A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Pakistan
8) Country of the Grand - Ireland
9) Late Nights on Air - Canada
Objective: 6 novellas April - September 2008
1) The Falconer
2) Michael Kohlhaas
3) The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
4) Doctor Glas
5) The History of the Master
6) The Bachelors
Objective: 6 Booker nominees Jan - Dec 2008
1) Lies of Silence
2) The Colour of Blood
3) Fasting, Feasting
4) The Stone Diaries
5) The Secret River
6) A Case of Exploding Mangoes
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
2 New to U
Objective: Discover 2 new authors Feb-May 2008
1) Penelope Fitzgerald
2) Wolfgang Koeppen
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) The Other Two
Objective 3 books recommended by others
May - November 2008
1) The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
2) Engleby
3) The Remains of the Day
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