BookCrossing's Set It Yourself Reading Challenge

SIY (Set It Yourself) Reading Challenge Nineteenth edition (January-March, 2012)

Participant	Goal(s)	Progress
Nu-Knees	6 books • 3 classics – 1 per month (The Betrams by Anthony Trollope; Belinda by Rhoda Broughton; The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux) • 3 non-fiction books – 1 per month (Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir; Toast by Nigel Slater; A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett)	Finished: The Betrams by Anthony Trollope; Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir Total: Classics: 1 of 3; Non-fiction: 1 of 3 Current Book:(reported January 19th)
Elizabeth101	45 TBRs	Finished: The Leper of St. Giles by Ellis Peters; Outcast of Redwall by Brian Jacques; The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz; Inheritance by Christopher Paolini; Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James; Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Total: 6 of 45 Current Books: The Arcadian Cipher by Peter Blake & Paul S. Blezard (reported January 14th)
minesayn	19+ books • 9 SIY18 books • 2 Bookring books (Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert) • 5 books from other BCers (On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony; The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; Mimosa Grove by Dinah McCall; The Blood-Dimmed Tale by Rennie Airth; The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch) • 2 books self-registered on BC (Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg; Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides) • 3 Library Book Group books (House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus; TBA; TBA) • 2 Oldest TBRs (The Midnight Club by James Patterson; Guardian by John Saul) • 5 Others (Hell's Corner by David Baldacci; V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton; The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks; On Dark Shores by J.A. Clement; Life Support by Tess Gerritsen) • any ring books received in the quarter	Current Books: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; The Midnight Club by James Patterson; The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks; On Dark Shores by J.A. Clement; Hell's Corner by David Baldacci (reported January 21st)
Ibis3	17 books • 3 books from SIY 18 (A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies; Crackpot by Adele Wiseman; Principles of a New Science by Giambattista Vico) • 1 Shakespeare play (A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare) • 3 CanLit Challenge books (Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove; The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy; Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery) • 2 Non-fiction books (Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey; God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens) • 2 TBRs from other BookCrossers • 6 Others	Finished: God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens; Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove; Web of the Romulans by M.S. Murdock Total: Non-fiction: 1 of 2; CanLit: 1 of 3; BCers': 1 of 2 Current Books: A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies @min. 92 of 769; A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare @Act II, sc. i @ p. 43 of 220; Crackpot by Adele Wiseman @p. 112 of 304 (reported February 3rd)
Katethegreyt	21 books • 4 BC TBRs (The Ha-Ha: A Novel by Dave King; The Age of Consent by Geoffrey Wolff; Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading by Steven Gilbar; The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid • 3 books by Canadian authors • 3 books for the 12th graders • 11 Others	Finished: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman; Eldest by Christopher Paolini; Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading by Steven Gilbar; The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood; Little Bee by Chris Cleave; The Ha-Ha: A Novel by Dave King Total: 12th Graders: 1 of 3; Others: 3 of 11; BC TBRs: 2 of 4; Canadian: 1 of 3 Current Book: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (reported January 30th)
eparks4232	2? books • A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipal, plus 12 of these 13 books for the Around the World Challenge (The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead; Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin; A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry; Rashōmon by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost; Faces in the Water by Janet Frame; Lost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff; The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid; Pitcairn’s Islands by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall; Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev; The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje; Breadfruit: A Novel by Célestine Hitiura Vaite; The Lover by Marguerite Duras) • 3 1001 Group Read books (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte; Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens; TBA) • ? Pulitzer Group Read books (The Known World by Edward P. Jones) • ? Nobel Group Read books • 1 Non-fiction • 3 TBRs	Finished: A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipal; Pitcairn’s Islands by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall; The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost; Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser; Heat Lightning by John Sanford; My Boyfriend's Back by Donna Hanover; The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte; Breadfruit: A Novel by Célestine Hitiura Vaite Total: ATW/Jan Nobel: 1 of 1; ATW: 2 of 12; TBRs: 3 of 3; Non-fiction: 1 of 1; 1001: 1 of 3 Current Books: The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead (reported January 26th)
bluenoser	24 books • 4 books from other BCers (The Bishop Must Die by Michael Jecks; Domino by Ross King; Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris; Wycliffe and the Four Jacks by W. J. Burley) • 20 TBRs	Finished: The Bishop Must Die by Michael Jecks; Watching Out by Ann Granger; Country Vet by Denis Farrier; Do Butlers Burgle Banks? by P. G. Wodehouse; Wycliffe and the Four Jacks by W. J. Burley; Railway to the Grave by Edward Marston; Domino by Ross King; The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee Total: BCers': 3 of 4; TBRs: 5 of 20 Current Books: The Warden by Anthony Trollope; Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris (reported February 1st)
neige49	14 books • 3 TBRs • 5 Children's (125+pp) • 1 Mystery • 5 Others	Finished: Into the Silence by Wade Davis; The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly; The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne; The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell; All My Life for Sale by John D. Freyer; Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner Total: Other: 3 of 5; Children's: 1 of 5; Mysteries: 1 of 1; TBRs: 1 of 3 Current Books:The Chronicles of Harris Burdick by various; Scurvy Goonda by Chris McCoy; Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses by Harriette Gillem Robinet (reported January 31st)
NancyNova	7 books (CloudSplitter by Russell Banks; Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand; Cutting for Stone by Abraham Varghese; The Book of Evidence by John Banville; The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies; Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire)	Finished: Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand; CloudSplitter by Russell Banks; Cutting for Stone by Abraham Varghese Total: 2 of 7 Current Books: (reported February 4th)
MaryZee	15 books • 10 books registered by other BCers • 5 older self-registered books	Finished: Sand in my Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road by Various; An Alchemy of Mind by Diane Ackerman; How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein Total: BCers': 3 of 10 Current Book: The Measure of all Things by Ken Alder (reported January 21st)
Nauris	10 books • 1 book about Carl Larsson • 3 BookCrossing books (Kirjeitä Jekaterinburgiin by Riina Katajavuori; TBD; TBD) • 6 Others (Rautatie by Juhani Aho; The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White; Muistelmia polkupyöräretkeltäni by I. K. Inha; Nykyaikaa etsimässä by Olavi Paavolainen; Museologia tänään by Pauliina Kinanen, ed.; Kitsch the World of Bad Taste by Gillo Dorfles)	Finished: Kirjeitä Jekaterinburgiin by Riina Katajavuori; Muistelmia polkupyöräretkeltäni by I. K. Inha Total: BookCrossing: 1 of 3; Others: 1 of 6 Current Books: The Life and Times of Little Richard by Charles White; Nykyaikaa etsimässä by Olavi Paavolainen; Museologia tänään by Pauliina Kinanen, ed.; Kitsch the World of Bad Taste by Gillo Dorfles; (reported January 30th)
NICNIC2	20 books • 10 TBRs • 10 1001 books	Finished: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James; Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris Total: 1001: 1 of 10; TBRs: 1 of 10 Current Books: Pure by Andrew Miller (reported February 2nd)
gypsysmom	16 books: • 9 TBRs • 5 Bookclub books • 2 Library books	Finished: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi; The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks; The Sea Captain's Wife by Beth Powning; The Tiger by John Vaillant Total: Bookclub: 3 of 5; TBRs: 2 of 9 Current Books: Count to a Trillion by John C. Wright (reported February 3rd)
klaradyn	40 books • 26 TBRs • 3 volumes of A Dance to the Music of Time (A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell; A Buyer's Market by Anthony Powell; The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell) • 8 borrowed books (Children of the Storm by Elizabeth Peters; Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters; The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters; The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters; Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami; The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami; The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace; The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht) • 3 books for the Wishlist Tag game (The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins; Guardian of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters)	Finished: The Dog Who Came in From the Cold by Alexander McCall Smith; The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters; You Lost Me There by Rosecrans Baldwin; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; Send in the Idiots by Kamran Nazeer; Home by Julie Myerson Total: TBRs: 4 of 26; Borrowed: 1 of 8; Wishlist: 1 of 3 Current Book: (reported January 25th)
mrsgaskell	10 books • 9 classics (Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster; The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell; The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells; Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain; A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter; Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte; TBD by Anthony Trollope; Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy) • 1 Other (Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan)	Finished: The History of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte; Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster; Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain; The Claverings by Anthony Trollope; Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan Total: Classics: 4 of 9; Other: 1 of 1 Current Book:(reported January 31st)
Diane-Fraser	20 books • 3 SIY18 books (The Simple Soul and Other Stories by Catherine Cookson; Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell; Beloved by Toni Morrison) • 4 books from World Book Night (A Life Like Other Peoples by Alan Bennett; Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre; A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters) • 3 TBRs • 10 BookCrossed books	Finished: The Simple Soul and Other Stories by Catherine Cookson; The Family by Martina Cole; A Cotswold Killing by Rebecca Tope; Die Trying by Lee Childl Kill Your Darlings by Terence Blacker Total: SIY18: 1 of 3; TBRs: 2 of 3; BC: 2 of 10 Current Book: Little Face by Sophie Hannah (reported January 28th)
dark-draco	30 books • 15 SIY18 Books (Priestess of the White by Trudi Canavan; The Plague by Albert Camus; Last of the Wilds by Trudi Canavan; Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra; Voice of the Gods by Trudi Canavan; How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card; The Horse: A Complete Encyclopedia by Pam Cary; The Moon by Jules Cashford; Score by Jilly Cooper; A General System of Horsemanship by William Cavendish; Pandora by Jilly Cooper; Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; You Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson; Wicked by Jilly Cooper; The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins) • 15 TBRs (Double Cross by Malorie Blackman; Ride the Right Horse by Yvonne Barteau; Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman; Ribbons and Rings by Gillian Baxter; Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman; Don Quixote by Cervantes; Checkmate by Malorie Blackman; The Unleashed by Elizabeth Chadwick; Enchantments End by Marc Alexander; 61 Hours by Lee Child; Ancient Dreams by Marc Alexander; The Sword of the Templars by Paul Christopher; Shadow Realm by Marc Alexander; Pacific Vortex by Clive Cussler; Magic Casements by Marc Alexander)	Finished: Score by Jilly Cooper; You Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson; A General System of Horsemanship by William Cavendish; Pandora by Jilly Cooper Total: SIY18: 4 of 15 Current Book: The Moon by Jules Cashford; Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; Wicked by Jilly Cooper (reported January 24th)
lane1088	19 books • 10 TBRs • 2 non-fiction TBRs • 2 bookclub books • 1 Series of 5 or 2 Series of 3 (Sundiver by David Brin) 30 magazines	Finished: Valentine Pontifex by Robert Silverberg; The Marching Season by Daniel Silva; The Mountains of Majipoor by Robert Silverberg; The Bone Yard by Jefferson Bass; Glamour (August 2011; September 2011; October 2011; November 2011); Science (June 3/10 2011; June 17/24 2011; July 1/8 2011; July 15/22 2011; July 29/August 5 2011; August 12/19 2011); Stranger in Paradise by Robert Parker; DSI: Date Scene Investigation by Ian Kerner; Book Lust by Nancy Pearl; Entertainment Weekly (September 30 2011; October 7 2011; October 14/21 2011; October 28 2011; November 4/11 2011; November 18/25 2011); Free Fall by Robert Crais; The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton; Sundiver by David Brin; SoCRA (February/August/November 2011) Total: TBRs: 6 of 10; Bookclubs: 1 of 2; Magazines: 17 of 30; Non-fiction: 2 of 2; Series: 1 of 5/6 Current Book: (reported January 22nd)
lamelemon	16 books • 6 SIY18 Books (The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown; Life of Pi by Yann Martel; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon; Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller; The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman; Even Back Then, the Fox Was the Hunter by Herta Muller) • 10 1001 Books	Finished: Life of Pi by Yann Martel; Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Total: SIY18: 1 of 6; 1001: 1 of 10 Current Books: Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Doctor Jivago by Boris Pasternak @ tape 7 of 28 (reported January 14th)
kirstykat	5 TBRs (Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Muriakami; Winter in Madrid by C J Samson; Lights Out Liverpool by Maureen Lee; Four Meals for Fourpence by Grace Foakes; Second Honeymoon by Joanna Trollope)	(reported January 9th)