Friday, January 29, 2010

Completed 2009 Challenges

Once Upon a Time Challenge III
(only need to read 4)
Fairy Tales Fantasy:
East by Edith Pattou
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia Wrede
Mythic Fantasy:
The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint
The Ivory and the Horn by Charles de Lint
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
Folklore Fantasy:
The Presence: A Ghost Story by Eve Bunting
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and their Meanings by Jan Harold Brunvand
Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural by Will Storr
Fantasy:
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
Magyk by Angie Sage
Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
Ill Wind by Rachel Caine
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star
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RIP IV Challenge
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Feast of Fools: Morganville Vampire Book 4 By Rachel Caine
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
We have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Nocturnes by John Connolly

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Young Adult Reading Challenge 2009
lehaven by Brandon Mull
Fablehaven: The Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull
Hunted: A House of Night Novel (Book 5) by PC Cast and Kristin Cast
Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and The Struggle by L. J. Smith
th of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
Midnight Alley: Morganville Vampires (Book 3) by Rachel Caine
Feast of Fools: Morganville Vampires (Book 4) by Rachel Caine
Lord of Misrule: Morganville Vampires (Book 5) by Rachel Caine
Magyk by Angie Sage

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Paper Towns by John Green
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrrick Ness

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Unfinished challenges 2009

Non-Fiction 5 Challenge
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
Pictures of a Revolution: 5 Movies and the Birth of new Hollywood by Mark Harris
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of Hell's Angels by Jay Dobyns
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students who took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamine by Nick Sheff
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through his Son's Addiction by David Sheff
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall
Escape by Caroline Jessop
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind he Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
Infidel by Ayaan Hirisi Ali
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Bush At War by Bob Woodward
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan
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End of the World Challenge II
Uglies by Scott Westerfield (and maybe a couple of the others in the series)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Rising by Brian Keene
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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Classics II Challenge
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Doestoevesky
Far from the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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The 2nd Canadian Challenge
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Time in Between by David Bergen
Runaway by Alice Munroe
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
Fall on Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald
Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
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Dewey's Reading Challenge
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichu
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
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What's in a Name II Challenge
Profession: The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perotta
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Time of day: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Relative: American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Body Part: Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Building: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Medical Condition: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier

Friday, January 8, 2010

2009 Books and Reviews

1. Eclipse by Richard North Patterson
2. Who by Fire by Diana Spechler
3. Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
4. North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
5. The Break-Up Diet by Annette Fix
6. Looking for Alaska by John Green
7. Zig-Zagging: A Memoir by Tom Wilson
8. Cry of Justice by Jason Pratt
9. Wicked Loveyly by Melissa Marr
10. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
11. Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star by Brandon Mull
12. The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
13. Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Wellingham
14. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
15. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
16. Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore
17. Hunted: A House of Night Novel by PC Cast and Kristin Cast
18. Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
19. The Dreaming Place by Charles de Lint
20. Magyk: Septimus Heap Book 1 by Angie Sage
21. The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman
22. Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham
23. Two Years, No Rain by Shawn Klomparens
24. The Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine by April Lurie
25. The City in the Lake by Rachel Neumeier
26. Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
27. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
28. Midnight Alley: Morganville Vampires Book 3 by Rachel Caine
29. Everything Sucks by Hannah Friedman
30. Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
31. Monster by Walter Dean Myers
32. Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas
33. Babydoll by Allyson Roy
34. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
35. Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
36. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
37. Feast of Fools: Morganville Vampire Book 4 by Rachel Caine
38. Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane by Suzanne Collins
39. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
40. Preacher: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis
41. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
42. Lord of Misrule: Morganville Vampires Book 5 by Rachel Caine
43. Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
44. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
45. The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
46. Nocturnes by John Connolly
47. Monster by A. Lee Martinez
48. Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest
49. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill