Classics Club Spin 18 #ccspin

Update: The spin was #9. My selection...drumroll, please...Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen! Perfect for Austen in August!

The 18th Classics Club Spin! My last one didn't go well. Rabbit, Run by John Updike. UGH! Read all about it here.

Here's what you do...list 20 books from your Classics Club list before August 1. The Club will choose a number randomly from 1 - 20 and that number is the one you will read from your list. Fun! The challenge is to read that book by August 31.

Here's mine:

1. Emma, Jane Austen
2. Roxana, Daniel Defoe
3. The Diary of Anne Frank
4. Cheri (with The Last of Cheri), Colette
5. The Collector, John Fowles
6. Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
7. Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
9. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
10. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
11. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
12. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
13. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
14. The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham
15. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
16. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
17. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
18. Roderick Hudson, Henry James
19. The Princess of Cleves, Madame de Lafayette
20. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

Since my reading schedule is already crammed full, all of these pretty much scare me. lol

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RIP Challenge 2009--Completed (sort of)

The RIP Challenge was hosted by Stainless Steel Droppings.

So, I had originally stated I would read four books from the following pool of books:

1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
2. 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
3. The Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
4. Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty
5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
6. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

I ended up reading:

206 Bones by Kathy Reichs (my review here)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty

3 out of 4 completed (not too bad, I guess!)

I am still in the process of reading Frankenstein...along with everything else...so I don't know when I'll finish it!

Still, I will be looking forward to this challenge again next year!

New Challenge Announcement

The True Book Addict is proud to announce The Michener Challenge.  I have created a new blog especially for the challenge.  Click here to go to the new blog to learn the details and for sign up.  I hope you will join me in reading the works of this great American author!




Happy Reading!

Countdown Challenge 2010

UPDATE POST

Okay, I'm officially crazy....another challenge! I just couldn't resist.  I've been seeing this one around the book blogosphere and it's just so listy! It speaks to my inner organizational self (way inner...I'm talking buried deep inside the outer layers of procrastinator self!).

1.The goal of this challenge is to read the number of books first published in a given year that corresponds to the last digit of each year in the 2000s — 10 books from 2010, 9 books from 2009, 8 books from 2008, etc. The total number of books required, therefore, is 55.

2.This challenge lasts from 9/9/09 through 10/10/10.

3.Crossovers with other challenges are allowed and your lists may change at any time.

Click here to go to the site and sign up/link with Mr. Linky.


I'm not going to completely fill in the list now.  I'll have to come back to it.  And the 2010 books I know will be filled in mostly by ARCs!

MY LIST OF BOOKS--EITHER TO READ OR COMPLETED AFTER 9/9/09

2010

1. ???
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???
5. ???
6. ???
7. ???
8. ???
9. ???
10. ???

2009

1. 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs--completed
2. Arch Enemy by Frank Beddor--completed
3. ???
4. ???
5. ???
6. ???
7. ???
8. ???
9. ???

2008

1. ???
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???
5. ???
6. ???
7. ???
8. ???

2007

1. Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor--completed
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???
5. ???
6. ???
7. ???

2006

1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer-to be read
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy-currently reading
3. ???
4. ???
5. ???
6. ???

2005

1. ???
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???
5. ???

2004

1. ???
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???

2003

1. ???
2. ???
3. ???

2002

1. ???
2. ???

2001

1. ???
   

101 Fantasy Reading Challenge

I've decided to take on Bella's, at A Bibliophile's Bookshelf, 101 Fantasy Reading Challenge.  I'm going to follow her lead and pick 30 books (of which I already own)...15 from the actual 101 and 15 from the rest of the list. 

Addendum:  I'm adding one more book to the latter 15...I recently acquired The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss so I'm adding it to the list.  This brings my total to 31 books!
So here are the rules:

1. Pick the number of books you want to read. It can be a mixture of the top 101, and/or the whole list. For example, you might want to aim to read 5 from the top 101 and 5 from the rest of the list.
2. Create a list of the books you want to tackle. You can create a list now, or add them as you go. Completely up to you.
3. The challenge runs from 10/10/09 to 10/10/10.
4. Please post the direct link to your 101 Fantasy Reading Challenge post. (so that other participants can visit and see what you are reading)

Click on Bella's blog title above to go to the Mr. Linky and sign up.  Be sure to do your post first and then link it there.

Here is the PDF version of the entire list of the 101 of the Best Fantasy Books.

Now, on to my list!

From the top 101:

1. New Moon--Stephenie Meyer
2. Eclipse--Stephenie Meyer
3. Dead Until Dark--Charlaine Harris
4. Living Dead in Dallas--Charlaine Harris
5. Club Dead--Charlaine Harris
6. Stardust--Neil Gaiman
7. The Graveyard Book--Neil Gaiman
8. Good Omens--Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--Lewis Carroll
10. Guilty Pleasures--Laurell K. Hamilton
11. Beauty--Robin McKinley
12. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows--J.K. Rowling
13. The Hobbit--J.R.R. Tolkien
14. A Wrinkle in Time--Madeline L'Engle
15. Ella Enchanted--Gail Carson Levine

From the rest of the list:

1. The Sword of Shannara--Terry Brooks
2. Elfstones of Shannara--Terry Brooks
3. The Wishsong of Shannara--Terry Brooks
4. A Song for Arbonne--Guy Gavriel Kay
5. The Drawing of the Three--Stephen King
6. A Wizard of Earthsea--Ursual K. Le Guin
7. Wicked--Gregory Maguire
8. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister--Gregory Maguire
9. Daughters of the Forest--Juliet Mariller
10. Ombria in Shadow--Patricia McKillip
11. Eragon--Christopher Paolini
12. The Vampire Armand--Anne Rice
13. Dragonsbane--Patricia C. Wrede
14. The Smoke Thief--Shana Abe
15. Prophecy of the Sisters--Michelle Zink
16. The Name of the Wind--Patrick Rothfuss

Wish me luck!

Happy Reading!

The RIP Challenge-Halloween Here We Come!

I have been wanting to do a challenge since I started my blog in early August, but there are so many out there, I have to admit I was a little overwhelmed. Then tonight as I was looking through the new posts of blogs I follow, I saw the RIP Challenge on Bibliofreak's blog. This challenge is hosted by Carl from Stainless Steel Droppings and it consists of the following guidelines:

Choose from these genres:

mystery

horror

gothic

dark fantasy

suspense

thriller
supernatural

The number of books that have to be read are 1, 2, or 4....very easily accomplished!

This challenge runs from September 1st through October 31. A very Halloween appropriate challenge!



So now, without further ado, here are the books I have chosen to read (I'm doing four!):



(Addendum: I'm adding a couple more books to the pool because I need to read these before the movies come out in October)



1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

(I'm also reading this for the Literature by Women group at B & N Book Clubs)

2. 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs

(ARC I won from Library Thing)

3. The Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink

4. Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty

5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

6. Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane



I'm excited that my first challenge is in one of my favorite book genres--horror and the like! I am SO ready to begin!