Challenges
March 1, 2008 by lizzysiddal
This page became too unwieldy …. simply because I’ve joined too many challenges. So I’ve started a separate blog to keep track of my addiction.
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Challenges Completed 2008
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
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Recently Published
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
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Challenge 2008 Part 1
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
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Challenge 2008 Part 2
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
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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
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Welcome!! This challenge will be really great! I haven’t read any of the books on your list. I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez…I have read at least 4 of his books.
Check in when you are done reviewing a book, I’ll have a Mr. linky so that everyone can head straight to your review from my blog. I Can’t wait to read the reviews you give these books!
Again, WELCOME~!
Thanks for joining my challenge!