May/June 2009 Reviews

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May 9, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized

March/April 2009 reviews

1. The Remains of the Day (Laura - Musings)
2. House of Spirits (katrinasreads)
3. Sense and Sensibility (Susan Evans)
4. The Shining (Susan Evans)
5. Wide Sargasso Sea (Priscilla - Evening Reader)
6. Glimpses of the Moon
7. The Mill On The Floss (Adrienne Teague)
8. The Reader
9. The Scarlet Letter (Susan Evans)
10. Schindler’s Ark (Laura - Musings)
11. Fictions (Jessica)
12. The Moonstone (Janet)
13. Cat’s Cradle (Adrienne Teague)
14. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Tammy)
15. Around the World in 80 Days (Tammy)
16. The Cement Garden (Michelle)
17. The Reader (Susan Evans)

18. The Yellow Wallpaper (Gena)
19. Regeneration (Michelle)
20. Watchmen (Ms. SP)
21. Name of the Rose (Quenby)
22. Smilla’s Sense of Snow (Beverly /PoMoGolightly)
23. The Reader (Beverly /PoMoGolightly)
24. Cloud Atlas (Caroline)
25. Lisa Hill (War and Peace)
26. Lisa Hill (Doctor Zhivago)
27. The Color Purple (Mee)
28. The Reader (Adrienne Teague)
29. Old Man and the Sea (Susan Elliott)
30. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Jess)
31. All Quiet on the Western Front (Bookworm Jules)
32. The Cement Garden (Becky @ One Literature Nut)
33. I, Robot (Carrie)
34. Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ (Susan Evans)

35. I’m Not Scared (Jess/Barney’s Book Blog)
36. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Ms. SP)
37. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Book Psmith)
38. Suite Francaise (Joanna)
39. Slaughterhouse 5 (Joanna)
40. A Suitable Boy (Steven)
41. The Island of Dr, Moreau (Bookworm Jules)
42. Gone with the Wind (Susan)
43. The Rings of Saturn (Bookworm Jules)
44. Memoirs of a geisha ( Scrap girl)
45. All Quiet on the Western Front (Book Psmith)
46. Virgin Suicides (Caroline)
47. The Time Machine (Heather J.)
48. The Castle of Otranto (Heather J.)
49. Lisa Hill (A Tale of a Tub)

February 28, 2009 | Filed Under Reviews

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(Another) 1% Well-Read Challenge

I hope everyone had fun with the last 1% Well Read Challenge. Even if you didn’t complete the challenge, if you read any books at all from the list, you are at least a little more ‘well-read’ than you were before!

The editors of the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die threw a kink into our challenge when they updated the books with new titles last year. So, I’ve got three options for you on this next challenge:

Read 10 titles from the original list from March 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
Read 10 titles from the new list from March 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009.
Read 13 titles from the combined list (of almost 1300 titles) from March 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010. In other words, “What were they thinking dropping titles from Dostoevsky and Jane Austen?”

For all options, overlaps with other challenges are allowed, and you may change your list at any time.

I have begun to update the 1001 list HERE. Please note that the unnumbered books are from the new titles added. Unfortunately, I do not have all the new titles added yet but will be working on it in the next week or two. Asterixed titles are ones that were dropped from the new list.

Alternatively, you can go HERE for an Excel spreadsheet of the old list, and HERE for an Excel spreadsheet of the new list.

Happy reading, and may you be more ‘well-read’ this year than last!

To sign up, please leave your specific link rather than your general blog link. If you don’t have a blog, just leave the url blank or join in the comment section.

February 27, 2009 | Filed Under Rules/Sign-up

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Completed the challenge? Give your link here!

1. Wendy (Caribousmom)
2. Jessica (mangomissives)
3. Michelle (Fluttering Butterflies)
4. Beverly
5. Laura (Musings)
6. Lisa Hill

7. Veronica (The First Draft…)
8. Becky (Becky’s Book Reviews)
9. Heather J. (Age 30 … A Lifetime of Books)
10. Nise’
11. Eva (A Striped Armchair)
12. Teresa (Shelf Love)

13. tanabata (In Spring it is the Dawn)
14. Lisa L
15. Jessica (Both Eyes)
16. 3m (1morechapter)
17. Tammy

January 6, 2009 | Filed Under Completions

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January/February 2009 reviews

1. Middlesex (Teresa)
2. Howards End (Eva)
3. Silk (Eva)
4. Rashomon (tanabata)
5. The Bluest Eye (Lisa)
6. The Virgin Suicides (Lisa)
7. Animal Farm (Lisa)
8. Unless (Beverly)
9. Irish ( Possession )
10. Lisa Hill (Moby Dick)
11. Lisa Hill (The Child in Time)
12. Disgrace (Beverly
13. The Temple of My Familiar(Quenby)
14. Veronica (The Poisonwood Bible)
15. Veronica (Emma)
16. Veronica (the Virgin Suicides)
17. Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow (tanabata)
18. Fingersmith (Michelle)
19. Laura (Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate)
20. A Fine Balance (Laura)

21. Susan (A Bend in the River)
22. Lisa Hill (Shroud)
23. The New York Trilogy (Michelle)
24. A Severed Head (Laura)
25. Tipping the Velvet (Danielle)
26. Lisa Hill (Perfume)
27. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Lisa)
28. What I Loved (Michelle)
29. The Story of Lucy Gault (tanabata)
30. Tammy (Catch-22)
31. Sister Carrie (Danielle)
32. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (tanabata)
33. The Fall of the House of Usher (Heather J.)
34. A Modest Proposal (Heather J.)
35. Veronica (Casino Royale)
36. An Artist of the Floating World (tanabata)
37. Cakes and Ale (Teresa)
38. Phineas Finn (Heather J.)
39. Becky (Never Let Me Go)
40. Becky (Emma)

41. Becky (Fanny Hill)
42. Their Eyes Were Watching God (Eva)
43. Becky (Don Quixote)
44. The Pit and the Pendulum (Heather J.)
45. Becky (Silas Marner)
46. Tipping the Velvet (Eva)
47. The Heart of the Matter (Teresa)
48. 3M (Fear and Trembling)
49. Rabbit Redux (Danielle)
50. The Optimist’s Daughter (Danielle)
51. The Inheritance of Loss (Danielle)
52. tanabata (Bonjour Tristesse)
53. Cat’s Eye (Lisa)
54. Black Dahlia (Susan)
55. 3M (The Reader)
56. 3M (Kitchen)
57. 3M (So Long a Letter)
58. 3M (Solaris)
59. Lisa Hill (Doctor Zhivago)

January 1, 2009 | Filed Under Reviews

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1% Well-Read Rules & Sign-Up

The goal of this challenge is to read 10 books in 10 months from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. For you non-math people, 10 out of 1001 is approximately 1%, hence the title. The challenge will run from May 1, 2008 through February 28, 2009.

You may change your list at any time and cross-posting to other challenges is permitted. The only requirement is that your ten book choices must be on the ‘1001 List‘. Another helpful tool is an Excel spreadsheet by Arukiyomi that is found here.