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SIY (Set It Yourself) Reading Challenge Twenty-fourth edition (April-June, 2013)

Participant Goal(s) Progress

dark-draco

27 books
• 22 Fiction TBRs
• 5 Non-fiction TBRs
6 Fiction Magazines
1 chapter of The Horse by Warren Evans

Finished: Sorceress of Darshiva by David Eddings; The Seeress of Kell by David Eddings; Wives and Lovers by Jane Elizabeth Varley; The Spirit Gate by Kate Elliott; The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle; Sense and Nonsense in Psychology by Hans Eysenck; Echoes of a Great Song by David Gemmell; On the Edge of Darkness by Barbara Erskine; The Diamond Throne by David Eddings; The Ruby Knight by David Eddings; The Sapphire Rose by David Eddings; Chapter 1of The Horse by Warren Evans
Total: Fiction: 10 of 22; Non-Fiction: 1 of 5; Chapters of The Horse: 1 of 1
Current Book: Matrix (reported May 12th)

Nu-Knees
9 books
• 3 books by Wilkie Collins (The Dead Secret; Miss or Mrs?; TBA)
• 3 non-fiction books according to the Dewey decimal system – 1 per month (300s The Natural History of Unicorns by Chris Lavers; 400s Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling by David Crystal; 500s)
• 3 TBR non-fiction books – 1 per month (Catherine de Medici by Leonie Frieda; The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother by Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin and Michael Jones)
Finished: The Natural History of Unicorns by Chris Lavers; The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins; Catherine de Medici by Leonie Frieda; Miss or Mrs? by Wilkie Collins; Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling by David Crystal; The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother by Philippa Gregory
Total: Dewey: 2 of 3; Collins: 2 of 3; Non-fiction TBRs: 2 of 3
Current Book: (reported May 9th)

foxy737
11 books (The Colour of Magic: The First Discworld Novel by Terry Prachett; Welcome to the Real World by Carole Matthews; The Ex-Wife's Survival Guide by Debby Holt; A Weekend With Mr Darcy by Victoria Connelly; Farm Boy by Michael Morpurgo; The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards; The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1) by Sophie Kinsella; Just Another Manic Mum-Day by Mink Elliott; The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh; Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh; Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson) Finished: Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson; The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh; Farm Boy by Michael Morpurgo; Just Another Manic Mum-Day by Mink Elliott
Total: 4 of 11
Current Books: A Weekend With Mr Darcy by Victoria Connelly (reported May 5th)

Diane-Fraser

12 books
• 6 books from SIY23 (Sovereign by CJ Sansom; The Constant Gardener by John le Carre; King by Right of Blood and Might by Anna L Walls; Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult; Married in Seattle by Debbie Macomber; Room by Emma Donoghue)
• 4 BookCrossed books (I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; Catch Me When I Fall by Nicci French; A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly; Booked to Die by John Dunning)
• 2 TBRs (Nothing to Lose by Lee Child; Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child)

Finished: Catch Me When I Fall by Nicci French; A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly; Married in Seattle by Debbie Macomber
Total: BC: 2 of 4; SIY23: 1 of 6
Current Book: Nothing to Lose by Lee Child (reported May 12th)

gypsysmom

21 books:
• 4 Library books
• 2 books by Thomas Hardy
• 3 Bookclub books
• 8 books from BCers
• 1 1001 book
• 3 Library Thing books

Finished: One Native Life by Richard Wagamese; The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas; Him Standing by Richard Wagames; Food, Sex and Salmonella by David Waltner-Toews; The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy; My One Square Inch of Alaska by Sharon Short; Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger; The Garneau Block by Todd Babiak; True Confessions of a Heartless Girl by Martha Brooks; The Thirteenth Rose by Gail Bowen; The Free Lunch by Spider Robinson
Total: Library: 4 of 4; Library Thing: 2 of 3; Hardy: 1 of 2; BCers': 3 of 8; Bookclub: 1 of 3
Current Books: Runaway by Alice Munro (reported May 20th)

minesayn

14 books
• 3 Library Book Group books (Bel Canto by Ann Patchett; The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern; The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach)
• 3 Bookring books (Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini; Psychic Cats by Theresa Cheung; Brian, His Granddad &the Cup of Ages by P.J. Taylor)
• 2 books from other BCers (In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner; Beloved by Toni Morrison)
• 6 Others (Cold Edge by Robert Walker; Butterfly Soup by Nancy Pinard; V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton; A Handbook of American Prayer by Lucius Shepard; Three Deuces Down by Keith Donnelly; The Rosary Girls by Richard Montanari)

Finished: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern; Psychic Cats by Theresa Cheung; Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini; Brian, His Granddad &the Cup of Ages by P.J. Taylor; Beloved by Toni Morrison; Bel Canto by Ann Patchett; In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner; Butterfly Soup by Nancy Pinard
Total: Library: 2 of 3; Book Rings: 3 of 3; BCers: 2 of 2; Others: 1 of 6
Current Books:V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton (reported May 23rd)

LiniP

8 books from 2013 TBR list (Les Miserables 1 by Victor Hugo; Les Miserables 2 by Victor Hugo; Les Miserables 3 by Victor Hugo; Die drei Musketiere by Alexandre Dumas; Quo Vadis by Henrik Sienkiewicz; Tausendundeine Nacht by Anonymous; Letzte Ausfahrt Brooklyn by Hubert Selby; Mein Herz so weiß by Javier Marias; Catch 22 by Joseph Heller; Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen by Honoré de Balzac; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoi; Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein by Johannes Mario Simmel; Die Kameliendame by Alexandre Dumas; Die Clique by Mary McCarthy; Himmel über der Wüste by Paul Bowles; Der Großtyrann und das Gericht by Werner Bergengruen; Jürg Jenatsch by Conrad Meyer; Und sagte kein einziges Wort by Heinrich Böll; Und die Bibel hat doch Recht by Werner Keller; Ein Mann by Oriana Fallaci; Der Kuss der Spinnenfrau by Manuel Puig; Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller; Der Geschichtenerzähler by Mario Vargas Llosa)

Finished: Die drei Musketiere by Alexandre Dumas
Total: 1 of 8
Current Books: (reported April 4th)

NancyNova

12 books

Finished: Home by Julie Andrews; Under the Lake by Stuart Woods; Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn; Claude and Camille by Stephanie Cowell; The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar; Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts; Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner; The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom; Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy; The Captain’s Wife by Douglas Kelley; The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski; Annie’s Ghosts by Steve Luxemberg
Total: 12 of 12
(reported May 22nd)

bluenoser
7200 pages Finished: The Lake House by James Patterson; Over Hill and Dale by Gervase Phinn; The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield; Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier; Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory; Lunenburg by Keith Baker; The Miracles of Santo Fico by D. L. Smith
Total: 2980/7200pp
Current Books: A Summer of Discontent by Susanna Gregory; Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday (reported May 15th)

Ibis3

10 books
• 3 previously started books (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë; The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; Principles of a New Science by Giambattista Vico)
• 3 CanLit Challenge books (A Search for America by Frederick Philip Grove; White Narcissus by Raymond Knister; Fruits of the Earth by Frederick Philip Grove)
• 4 Others (Peril at End House by Agatha Christie; Fortune's Light by Michael Jan Friedman; TBA; TBA)

Finished: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; Fortune's Light by Michael Jan Friedman; Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
Total: Previous: 1 of 3; Other: 2 of 4
Current Books: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë @min. 415 of 986; A Search for America by Frederick Philip Grove @p.350 of 460 (reported May 23rd)


Fifna

9 books or 2700pp

Finished: Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay; England, England by Julian Barnes; The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy; The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom; Cycling Home from Siberia by Rob Lilwall
Total: Books: 5 of 9; Pages: 1628 of 2700pp
Current Book: Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo (reported May 24th)

lamelemon

16 books
• 5 Earliest Written owned 1001 books (The Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous; Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais; The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette; Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos; The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg)
• 5 Oldest BC TBRs (Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell; Home by Marilynne Robinson; Acid Row by Minette Walters; Murder in Moscow by Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain; In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje)
• 2 1001-Library books (The Colour Purple by Alice Walker; The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery)
• 2 books bought in 2012
• 2 books bought in 2013

Finished: The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis; Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Total: 2012: 1 of 2; Oldest BC TBRs: 1 of 5
Current Books: The Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous (reported April 27th)

Katethegreyt
18 books (Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett; Picked-up Pieces by John Updike; The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford; Understanding Rhetoric A Graphic Guide to Writing by Elizabeth Losh, Jonathan Alexander, Kevin Cannon, and Zander Cannon; Hygiene and the Assassin by Amelie Nothomb; Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea) Finished: Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett; Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea; The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan; The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford; Understanding Rhetoric A Graphic Guide to Writing by Elizabeth Losh, Jonathan Alexander, Kevin Cannon, and Zander Cannon; Hygiene and the Assassin by Amelie Nothomb; Darkness in Summer by Kaiko Takeshi; Kokoro by Soseki Natsume
Total: 8 of 18
Current Books: Picked-up Pieces by John Updike; The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima Yukio (reported May 16th)

lane1088

23 books
• 14 TBRs
• 6 books from any Series
• 3 Bookclub books
15 magazines

Finished: A Poisoned Season by Tasha Alexander; Marks of Cain by Tom Knox; Entertainment Weekly (November 2nd 2012; November 16th 2012; November 23rd 2012; November 30th 2012; December 7th 2012; December 14th 2012; December 21st 2012); Science (October 12 2012; October 26 2012; November 2 2012; November 16 2012; November 23 2012; ; November 30 2012; December 7 2012; December 14 2012; December 21 2012; January 4 2013; January 11 2013; January 18 2013; January 25 2013); The Burning City by Larry Niven & Purnelle; Fool's War by Sarah Zettel; Specter of the Past by Timothy Zahn; Visions of the Future by Timothy Zahn; White Heat by M.J. McGrath
Total: TBRs: 3 of 14; Bookclubs: 2 of 3; Magazines: 20 of 15; Series: 2 of 6
Current Book: (reported May 14th)

neige49

14 books
• 1 Graphic novel
• 4 TBRs
• 2 Non-fiction
• 1 Mystery
• 6 Others

Finished: The Lost City of Z by David Grann; Vermilion Ink by David Su Liqun and Diana Gore; The King's Gold by Yxta Maya Murray; The Scar by China Mieville; Dandelion Summer by Lisa Wingate; Maps For Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam; Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley; Visions of a Vanished World: The Extraordinary Fossils of the Hunsruck Slate by Gabriele Kuhl, Christopher Bartels, Derek E. G. Briggs, Jes Rust and Richard Fortey; The Treasure Box by Penelope Stokes
Total: Non-fiction: 2 of 2; Other: 4 of 6; TBRs: 3 of 4
Current Books: (reported May 17th)

NICNIC2
15 books
• 5 books already started (The Book of Lost Tales Part 1 by J.R.R Tolkien; Quiet by Susan Cain; The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien; The Power of Art by Simon Schama; Granta 119)
• 10 Other TBRs
Finished: Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver; Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams by Jenny Colgan; John Saturnall's Feast by Lawrence Norfolk; Granta 119: Britain; Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway; The Cleaner of Chartres by Sally Vickers; The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey; The Book of Lost Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien; The Liars' Gospel by Naomi Alderman; The Roots of Evil by Philip Reeve; Gifted: The Tale of 10 Mysterious Book Sculptures Gifted to the City of Words and Ideas by Anonymous
Total: Other: 9 of 10; Started: 2 of 5
Current Books:(reported May 7th)

Charlotte1924

40 TBRs (Darkness & Light by John Harvey; Watermelon by Marian Keyes; The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes; Blood & Ice by Robert Masello; A Tiny Bit Marvelous by Dawn French; The Ex-Boyfriends Handbook by Matt Dunn; From Here to Paternity by Matt Dunn; West End Girls by Jenny Colgan; How to Lose a Husband and Gain A Life by Bernadette Strachan; Home Truths by Freya North; The Marrying Game by Kate Saunders; The Gobbler by Adrian Edmondson; If the Shoe Fits by Jaye Carroll; Looking for Andrew McCarthy by Jenny Colgan; Nine Uses for an Ex-Boyfriend by Sarra Manning; Recipe for Scandal by Debby Holt; The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold; The Gap Year for Grown Ups by Annie Sanders; Slam by Nick Hornby; Should I Stay or Should I Go? by Jessica Adams; Every Dead Thing by John Connolly; The Villa of Mysteries by David Hewson; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith; Harvest by Tess Gerritsen; Down to Earth by Melanie Rose; Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody by Michael Gerber; Swimming Pool Sunday by Madeleine Wickham; One for my Baby by Tony Parsons; Baby be Mine by Paige Toon; Come Together by Josie Lloyd & Emlyn Rees; Take a Chance on Me by Jill Mansell; Breakfast at Darcy's by Ali McNamara; Life Swap by Jane Green; Pleading Guilty by Scott Turow; Four Blind Mice by James Patterson; Bookends by Jane Green; Swimsuit by James Patterson; The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien; The Va Dinci Cod by A.R.R.R Roberts; Eating Peaches by Tara Heavey)

Finished: Watermelon by Marian Keyes; Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody by Michael Gerber
Total: 2 of 40
Current Books: (reported April 20th)

Rhonder

12 books
• 3 Series books (N is for Noose by Sue Grafton; O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton; P is for Peril by Sue Grafton)
• 3 Birthday books
• 3 Book Club books
• 3 BC TBRs

Finished: N is for Noose by Sue Grafton; 44 Charles Street by Danielle Steel; Seeds of Evil by Carlton Smith; Between A Wok and A Hard Place by Tamar Myers; The Christmas Wedding by James Patterson; No One You Know by Michelle Richmond; O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton
Total: Series: 2 of 3; Birthday: 3 of 3; BC: 1 of 3
Current Book: Other People's Dirt by Louise Rafkin (reported May 16th)

Nauris
3 vocational books
2 theses
Finished: Care of Collections by Simon Knell, ed.; Radio primas - lastulevyn restaurointi by Maria Kangaskolkka
Total: Booke: 1 of 3; Theses: 1 of 2
Current Books: (reported May 10th)

Elandria
30 books (including 15 TBRs)
• 7 English books
• 7 German books
• 7 Dutch books
• 9 Others
Finished: Die Tochter des Salzsieders by Ulrike Schweikert; Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce; Wolf-Speaker by Tamora PierceHet familiegraf van Jezus by Simcha Jacobovici & Charles Pellegrino; Das Erbe des Highlanders by Amanda Scott; Der Inka by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa; Die Erfinder des Todes by Val McDermid; Een tafel vol vlinders by Tim Krabbé; Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan; Grappas Gespür für Schnee by Gabriella Wollenhaupt; The Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce; Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce; Het sprekende woud (De Kronieken van Fantasia 3) by Geronimo Stilton; De stenen kist by Kjell Eriksson; Die Medica von Bologna by Wolf Serno
Total: German: 6 of 7; English: 5 of 7; Dutch: 4 of 7; (TBRs: 5 of 15)
Current Book: Die Vampire by Kim Newman; Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (reported May 24th)
book-a-neer 15 books (Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes; Day After Night by Anita Diamant; Seizure by Kathy Reichs; The Green Mile Part 2: The Mouse on the Mile by Stephen King; The Green Mile Part 3: Coffey's Hands by Stephen King; The Green Mile Part 4: Bad Death of Edouard Delacroix by Stephen King; The Green Mile Part 5: Night Journey by Stephen King; The Green Mile Part 6: Coffey on the Mile by Stephen King; A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin; King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard; Till We Meet Again by Leslie Pearce) Finished: Split by Tara Moss; Do You Come Here Often by Alexandra Potter; Games of Thrones by George R R Martin; Echo Burning by Lee Child; The Green Mile Part 1: The Two Dead Girls by Stephen King; The Green Mile Part 2: The Mouse on the Mile by Stephen King; The Green Mile Part 3: Coffey's Hands by Stephen King; The Green Mile Part 4: Bad Death of Edouard Delacroix by Stephen King; The Green Mile Part 5: Night Journey by Stephen King; The Green Mile Part 6: Coffey on the Mile by Stephen King; Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Total: 6 of 15
Current Book: Jack and Jill by James Patterson (reported May 15th)

anathema-device

24 books

Finished: Goodnight Dune by Julia Yu; Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig; Wild Children by Ales Kot & Riley Rossmo; The Grain Kings by Keith Roberts; Dune by Frank Herbert; Robin Hood: Geschichte einer Legende by Andrew James Johnston; Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert; Black Vodka by Deborah Levy; The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes; The Magic Spectacles by James P. Blaylock; Children of Dune by Frank Herbert; A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer; Das Kartengeheimnis (OT: Kabalmysteriet) by Jostein Gaarder
Total: 13 of 24
Current Books: Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas (reported May 20th)