First Challenge - 2008
July 13th, 2008This is the challenge that I and my son set for ourselves to start 2008.
- January through June (or until a minimum of 3500 pages of previously purchased books have been read, which ever comes
LAST)
we promise not to purchase any books. Library book may be read but
will not count toward the minimum number of pages of previously
purchased books to read. - July through December (or when the 1st condition is
met, whichever comes first) at least 6 more previously purchased books
must be read
AND any book (books) purchased must be read (pick your favorite alternative) before January 1, 2009. - At least 3 of the books come from suggestion offered
by the other participant. These should be chosen from librarything.com
from any book that is unrated. Below find the list offered for reading
by the other participant.
| Recommendations for Tucker |
Recommendations for Carolyn |
| McCullough, David: John Adams |
Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep; Farewell My Lovely |
| Bonhoeffer, Dietrich: Letters and Papers from Prison | McCaffrey, Anne: The Dragonriders of Pern |
| Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice (you haven’t read it!?) (No! I’m not a chick!) |
Herbert, Frank: Dune (This one is #1 on my recommended list) |
| Hugo, Victor: Les Miserabeles; The Hunchback of Notre Dame (I loved both of these) | Card, Orson Scott: Ender’s Game (and this is a close #2) |
| Dumas, Alexandre: The Three Musketeers (I plan to read this) | Gardner, Martin: Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science |
| Stendhal: The Red and the Black (I plan to read this) | Costas, Bob: Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball |
| Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenenina (I plan to read this) | Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451 |
| Shaara, Jeff: Gods and Generals |
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| Chesterton, G.K.: The Man Who Was Thursday (I plan to read this) | Pullman, Philip: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass |
| Any poetry book of your choice–I noticed a few on your list | Eiseley, Loren: The Immense Journey–read 2/2008 |
| Twain, Mark: The Prince and the Pauper and A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Asimov, Isaac: The Complete Stories, Vol 1 |
| Wier, Alison: The Princes in the Tower (I had planned to read this but can’t find my copy) | Robb, Candace: The Lady Chapel, The Nun’s Tale |
| Peake, Merwyn: The Gormanghast Novels (I thought you had read this?) | Mallory, Sir Thomas: Le Morte d’Arthur |
| Kennedy, John F.: Profiles in Courage | LeGuin, Ursula K.: The Left Hand of Darkness (this would be my #3 recommendation) |
| Menken, H.L.: The Vintage Menken (if it’s any good lend it to me) | Paulos, John Allen: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper–read 2/2008 |
| Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse |
Gaiman, Neil: Neverwhere |
| Tremayne, Peter: Smoke in the Wind |
Darwin, Charles: On the Origin of Species |
| Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men (Have you really not read this?) |
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| Follett, Ken: The Pillars of the Earth |
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| Camus, Albert: The Plague |
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| Tolkein, J.R.R. The Silmarilion (Really? I mean, REALLY?) read 5/26 |
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| Hemmingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises |
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| Asimov, Stanley: Yours, Isaac Asimov |
Below, indicate the books you have read which meet the qualifications, along with the number of pages.
| Tucker’s Read Books |
Number of Pages |
Carolyn’s Read Books |
Number of Pages |
| Bryson, Bill: A Walk in the Woods |
300 |
Alban, E.L.: Stories That Words Told Me | 130 |
| Howard, Madeleine: The Dark Sacrifice |
385 |
Kenney, Catherine: The Remarkable Case of D.L. Sayers | 273 |
| Landsburg, Stephen: More Sex is Safer Sex |
250 |
Abbott, Anthony: The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat | 65 |
| LeGuin, Ursula K.: The Dispossessed |
387 |
Thurber, James: Lanterns and Lances | 192 |
| Gaiman, Neil and Michael Reaves: Interworld |
239 |
Cooper, Susan: Over Sea, Under Stone |
243 |
| Turner, Megan Whalen: The Thief |
280 |
Cooper, Susan: The Dark Is Rising | 244 |
| Westerfeld, Scott: Uglies |
425 |
Cooper, Susan: Greenwitch |
131 |
| Card, Orson Scott: Treason |
309 |
Cooper, Susan: The Grey King | 165 |
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Flanagan, John: Ranger’s Apprentice vol. 1 - The Ruins of Gorlan |
260 |
Cooper, Susan: Silver on the Tree | 274 |
| Riorden, Rick: The Lightning Thief |
375 |
Eisley, Loren: The Immense Journey (Tucker Suggested) | 210 |
| Wooding, Chris: The Storm Thief |
310 |
Sayers, Dorothy L.: The Man Born to Be King |
337 |
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Orwell, George: Down and Out in Paris and London |
213 | ||
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Paulos, John Allen: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (Tucker Suggested) |
203 | ||
| Lorenz, Konrad: King Solomon’s Ring |
242 |
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| Chesterton, G.K.: The Man Who Was Thursday | 232 | ||
| Tey, Josephine: The Man in the Queue |
250 |
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| Frost, Robert: Versed in Country Things | 65 | ||
| Saroyan, William: Essential Saroyan | 193 | ||
| Bohjalian, Chris: The Double Bind | 356 | ||
| Hoving, Thomas: King of the Confessors | 356 | ||
| Milosz, Czeslaw: A Book of Luminous Things–An International Anthology of Poetry | 312 | ||
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Skom, Edith: The Mark Twain Murders |
277 | ||
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Fadiman, Anne: At Large and At Small (Gift from T & V) |
220 | ||
| Greene, Douglas G. and Robert Adey, ed.: Death Locked In–An Anthology of Locked Room Stories |
553 | ||
| James, P.D.: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman |
250 |
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| Stevenson, R.L.: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
123 |
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| Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Silmarillion (Tucker Suggested) |
366 |
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| Haddon, Mark: the curious incident of the dog in the night-time |
226 |
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| Stout, Rex: The League of Frightened Men |
212 |
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| Stout, Rex: The Rubber Band |
189 |
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| Godfrey, Thomas, ed.: The Country House Murders |
368 |
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| Cowan, James: A Mapmaker’s Dream | 159 |
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| Wiesel, Elie: Night (33 books read in 6 months) |
134 |
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| Current Total |
3520 |
Current Total |
7763 |
July 13th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
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