So a few more reading challenges to help get through that tbr pile of mine…

The Wind-Up Book Chronicle Challenge

What: To participate, you must use books that you’ve read more than 50 pages of BEFORE MAY 1 but never finished. (…haha this is so perfect for me since I already have a list of these! Seriously, I have a problem!)

1. When: May 15 through November 15, 2008.

emmegail’s “Never-ending Books that I’ve Started but Never Finished” list:

1. Katherine by Anya Seton (Historical Fiction Challenge, also on the BBC’s The Big Read list)
2. Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank Abagnale
3. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Historical Fiction Challenge and 1% Well-Read Challenge)
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (why have I never finished this?)
5. Light in August by William Faulkner (started when it was on Oprah’s Book Club…)
6. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (started when it was on Oprah’s Book Club…)
7. The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
8. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

I know there’s more but I’m limiting my list to these since at this point it’s been so long for the others that I’ll probably have to start over.

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1% Well-Read Challenge

What: The goal of this challenge is to read 10 books in 10 months from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list.

When: May 1, 2008 – Feb. 28, 2009

Although we all know this list is only one opinion, I would like to read more classics. I have the entire list on my Challenges/Lists page with the books I’ve read crossed out and the ones in blue that I own and will someday get around to reading.




emmegail’s list:

1. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Historical Fiction Reading Challenge, Wind-Up Book Chronicle)
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Historical Fiction Reading Challenge, somehow I missed reading this in school)
3. The Once and Future King by T.H. White (Arthurian Challenge)
4. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
5. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
6. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
7. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Wind-Up Book Chronicle)
8. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
9. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
10. Emma by Jane Austen

So school’s finally out and I’m hoping to catch up on all my reviews soon. Now that studying and finals are out of the way I can finally read about things other than plate tectonics, foreland basins, and seismic interpretation. I love geology, probably much more than the average person, but even I find it hard to wade through some of the articles and textbooks. I spent part of the last few weeks writing a wikipedia article, which I think is pretty cool. I dare you to try it out…it’s not as easy as it may look!

I currently have about 5 books that I’ve been reading through this past month but haven’t quite finished any of them yet.

Reviews to come:

Katherine by Anya Seton – which I’m loving!

Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale – which I borrowed like 2 years ago from mel…i don’t think she’s noticed yet…

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke – I’m about half way through this book – so far it’s not as good as I had hoped and I often forget I was even reading it…maybe I’ll try again soon

Giants of Geology by Carroll Fenton – I picked this up at the library while researching for my wikipedia article

and I need to plug my ebook reader in so I can finish that A.J. Jacobs’ book…

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Historical Reading Challenge Begins Tomorrow!

Hosted by Annie

Timeframe: April 1 – October 1

Challenge: 6 historical fiction books

Here are my picks…

Keeping up in the blog world is hard work and I’m obviously not very good at it…oh well…

Well after I finish the 3 books I’m currently working on…plus all the articles I need to read for class…I plan to read these books in February…which may end up being in March…

Catch Me If You Can by Stan Redding and Frank Abagnale
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Books That I’ve Started Reading but Have Yet to Finish

Emily of the Wild Rose Inn by Jennifer Armstrong
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Anne Burns
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
A Christmas Carol by C. Dickens
The Reluctant Tuscan by Phil Doran
Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
The Sound and the Fury by W. Faulkner
Light in August by W. Faulkner
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Blood and Fog by Nancy Holder
The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest… by A.J. Jacobs
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Christy by Catherine Marshall
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry
Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Rising from the Plains by John McPhee
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
The Grand Tour or the Purloined Coronation Regalia by Patrecia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer