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So I just saw on Amazon, which I really peruse more than I should, that this week is Children’s Book Week. Even though it’s already Wednesday, I’ve decided to put my other books aside and read a few children’s books that I have on my shelves.

To find out more about it, go to http://www.bookweekonline.com, but the main premise is for kids and adults to find a book and enjoy!

Here are a few from my shelves that I plan on reading through the rest of this week…

The Twits by Roald Dahl

The BFG by Roald Dahl

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

and possibly finishing Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

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

Wind-Up Book Chronicle Challenge

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

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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…

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Planet Earth 2008

As a geologist, I simply cannot pass up this reading challenge!

Planet Earth Reading Challenge

When: 2008

What: Read one book about each of these four parts of our planet that are studied by earth scientists:

  • Lithosphere: the rocky (and molten) part of our planet
  • Hydrosphere: the oceans and the water cycle
  • Biosphere: evolution and the global ecosystem
  • Atmosphere: our thin, blue blanket of air

or two or three books on geology (since there are so many of them), and one on another topic.

emmegail’s list:

  1. Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
  2. Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth by Marcia Bjornerud
  3. Seashell on the Mountaintop: How Nicolaus Steno Solved an Ancient Mystery and Created a Science of the Earth by Alan Cutler
  4. Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock by Matthew Simmons
  5. The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester
  6. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

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