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SIY (Set It Yourself) Reading Challenge Eleventh edition<br />
(January-March, 2010)
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Participant Goal(s) Progress
Nu-Knees 3 classics – 1 per month (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne; The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope; Mr Harrison's Confession and My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell)
• 3 non-fiction books – 1 per month (Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry; Nathaniel's Nutmeg by Giles Milton; Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox)
Finished: Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Total: Non-fiction: 1 of 3; Classics: 1 of 3
Current Book: (reported January 14th)
janey-canuck • 10 books from TBR
Finished: Dear Undercover Economist by Tim Harford; Still Alice by Lisa Genova; The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
Total: 3 of 10
Current Books: Intellectual Capital by Thomas A. Stewart (reported January 29th)
nancynova

25 books:
• 1 1001 book
• 2 biographies
• 1 non-fiction
• 10 romance
• 10 others

Finished: Right Next Door by Debbie Macomber; Virgin River by Robyn Carr; Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr; Who Moved My Blackberry by Lucy Kellaway; Sun at Midnight by Rosie Thomas; The Bridal Quest by Candace Camp; Yours, Mine or Ours by Karen Templeton; Weekends at Bellevue by Julie Holland; Suddenly One Summer by Barbara Freethy; Baby’s First Christmas by Cathy Gillen Thacker; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Ann Barrows; The Runaway Bridesmaid by Kaitlyn Rice
Total: Romance: 7 of 10; Other: 4 of 10; Biographies: 1 of 2
Current Books: The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory; Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres (reported January 30th)
Ibis3

• Finish 2 CanLit Challenge books in progress (They Shall Inherit the Earth by Morley Callaghan; Antoinette de Mirecourt by Rosanna Leprohon)
• Finish Paradise Lost by John Milton
• 2 new CanLit Challenge books (The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence; Armand Durand by Rosanna Leprohon)
• 3 classics (War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne; Candide by Voltaire)
• 2 TBRs from other BookCrossers (Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff; The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco)
• 2 others (The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie; The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket)

Finished: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie; Antoinette de Mirecourt by Rosanna Leprohon; The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket; War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Total: Other: 2 of 2; CanLit: 1 of 4; Classics: 1 of 4
Current Books: Paradise Lost by John Milton @Book V, p.105 of 303; They Shall Inherit the Earth by Morley Callaghan @p.128 of 254; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne @p. 71 of 418 (reported February 5th)
Neuilly 4 books
• 3 TBRs
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Finished: Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman; Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Total: TBRs: 2 of 3
Current Books: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts @p.198 of 933; Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (reported January 31st)
Geileis

6 books (Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad; The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge; Christmas Books by Charles Dickens; Land Below the Wind by Agnes Keith; A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sack; Nostromo by Joseph Conrad)

Finished: The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins; Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad
Total: 2 of 6
Current Books: The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge @.p.99; Nostromo by Joseph Conrad @p.20, c. IV (reported January 31st)

bluenoser 26 TBRs Finished: The Bookman's Promise by John Dunning; To Kill or Cure by Susanna Gregory; The Optimist by Lawrence Shorter; The Road by Cormac McCarthy; The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell;Satan's Fire- Paul Doherty First Light by Peter Ackroyd; Bon Appétit! by Peter Mayle; The Poisoned Chalice by Bernard Knight; Strip Jack by Ian Rankin
Total: TBRs: 10 of 26
Current Books: A Conspiracy of Violence by Susanna Gregory; Blood Rain by Michael Dibdin (reported January 31st)
MaryZee • 4 books registered by BCers
• 3 pre-2005 books
Current Book: London by Edward Rutherfurd @c.12 of 21 (reported January 31st)
Neige49

13 books
• 6 TBRs
• 7 others

Finished: The Pact by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins & Rameck Hunt; 100 Cupboards by N. D. Wilson
Total: TBRs: 1 of 6; Others: 1 of 7
Current Books: A Story Like the Wind by Laurens Van Der Post; Bed in a Tree by Bettina Kowalewski (reported January 16th)

nicolesinger 12 books
• 6 TBRs
• 6 from“want list”
Finished: Ironman by Chris Crutcher; Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris; A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell; The Help by Kathryn Stockett; Coyotes by Ted Conover; My Folks Don't Want Me To Talk About Slavery by Belinda Hurmence, ed.; P.S. You're Not Listening by Eleanor Craig; Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
Total: TBRs: 4 of 6; Want List: 4 of 6
Current Books: Under the Dome by Stephen King; Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger (reported January 31st)
Heaven150 10 Books:
• 3 1001 books (Vanishing Point by David Markson; Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh; Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro)
• 3 new authors (The Absence of Nectar by Kathy Hepinstall; She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb; The Vulture Fund by Stephen Frey)
• 2 true crime (The Evil Mother by Fred Rosen; A Woman Scorned by Lisa Pulitzer)
• 2 others (U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton; Thinner by Richard Bachman (Stephen King))
Finished: U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton; The Absence of Nectar by Kathy Hepinstall; Vanishing Point by David Markson; The Evil Mother by Fred Rosen; Thinner by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
Total: Others: 2 of 2; New: 1 of 3; 1001: 1 of 3; True Crime: 1 of 2
Current Book: She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (reported January 27th)
mrsgaskell 5 books
Finished: The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope; The Time Machine by H.G. Wells; The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
Total: 3 of 5
Current Book: (reported January 29th)
FeistyPom2Love

12 books

Finished: Mona Lisa Blossoming by Sunny; Espresso Shot by Cleo Coyle; Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott; Our Purpose: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2007; Thirty-Three Swoons by Martha Cooley
Total: 5 of 12
Current Books: (reported January 30th)
lane1088

33 books
• 30 TBRs
• 3 bookclub books

Finished: Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg; Way Station by Clifford Simak; The Eye of the Heron by Ursala LeGuin; The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry; Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley; Hunting Party by Elizabeth Moon; Fantasy & Science Fiction (August 2005); The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella; Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters; The Queen of the Big Time by Adriana Trigiani; STNG: The Romula Prize by Simon Hawke; A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Total: TBRs: 10 of 30; Bookclubs: 2 of 3
Current Book: (reported February 3rd)
sshahid 10 TBRs Finished: Animal Farm by George Orwell; Truckers by Terry Pratchett; Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Total: 4 of 10
Current Book: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (reported January 25th)
CynthiaA 6 TBRs (The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur; Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott; The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton; Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels) Finished: The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Total: 2 of 6
Current Book: Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott (reported January 23rd)
Chania 20 TBRs
• 10 among the oldest
• 10 others
Finished: Salamanterisota by Karel Capek; Journey to the South by Annie Hawes; Petturin muisti by Elizabeth George; The Catsitters by James Wolcott; Curtain of Green and Other Stories by Eudora Welty; Syyllisyys by Iain Banks; The Northern Exposure Book by Louis Chunovic; The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing; Mistään kotoisin by Marjaneh Bakhtiari; Where Have All the Boys Gone? by Jenny Colgan
Total: Others: 4 of 10; Older: 6 of 10
Current Book:(reported February 3rd)
tqd 25 books Finished: The Broken Shore by Peter Temple; At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft; The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies; A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle; Blind Submission by Debra Ginsberg; The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry; Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta; Ransom by David Malouf; Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
Total: 9 of 25
Current Books:Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; The Boat by Nam Le (reported February 3rd)
Miss-Owl 6 1001 books (TBD) Finished: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka; Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks; A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift; The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett; The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Total: 5 of 6
Current Book: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky; The Successor by Ismail Kazare (reported February 2nd)
mysticcat 10 2009 TBRs
• 2 from Sandwood
• 8 others
Finished: Zwei zarte Lämmchen weiss wie Schnee by Hans Fallada; Schönes aus Stoff- gemalt, gefärbt, genäht by Moewig Verlag; Das Geheimnis des roten Zimmers by Paul Twoman; Affäre Nina B. by Johannes Mario Simmel; Signale aus dem Jenseits
Total: Others: 4 of 8; Sandwood: 1 of 2
Current Book: (reported January 15th)
dutch-book

15 books:
• 5 1001 books
• 5 books self-registered
• 5 books registered by other BCers

(reported December 29th)
Ladybug768 16 books that aren't for school
• 8 TBRs
• 8 others
(reported December 30th)
Megi53

4 books (Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene; The Headmaster by John McPhee; Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon; Four Past Midnight by Stephen King)

Finished: Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene; The Headmaster by John McPhee
Total: 2 of 4
Current Book: Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (reported January 28th)
klaradyn 20 books (Ways of Staying by Kevin Bloom; My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan; The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang; The Theban Plays by Sophocles; A Short History of Modern Philosophy by Roger Scruton; Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami; Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto; Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh; Nijinsky by Romola Nijinsky; Markova: The Legend by Maurice Leonard; How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers; The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters; Children of the Storm by Elizabeth Peters; The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters; Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth Peters; Paris: Biography of a City by Colin Jones; The Night Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko; Charlemagne's Tablecloth by Nichola Fletcher) Finished: The Night Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko; Ways of Staying by Kevin Bloom
Total: 2 of 20
Current Book: My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan (reported January 8th)
gypsysmom 20 books (The Bookwoman's Last Fling; Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner; The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy; Revelation by C. J. Sansome; Killing in Kluane by Jim Lotz; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson; Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan; Angels and Insects by A. S. Byatt; An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon; Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott; Strip Jack by Ian Rankin; City of Ice by John Farrow; Neuromancer by William Gibson; Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones; A Superior Death by Nevada Barr; The Bird Artist by Howard Norman) Finished: The Bookwoman's Last Fling by John Dunningby; Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner; Revelation by C. J. Sansome; The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy; Killing in Kluane by Jim Lotz; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Total: 6 of 20
Current Book: Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan (reported February 2nd)
NICNIC2 11 books Finished: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster; Belovedem by Toni Morrison
Total: 2 of 11
Current Books: Middlemarch by George Eliot; (reported January 24th)
blackwidow1971 16 books
• 5 fiction TBRs
• 5 non-fiction TBRs
• 5 unspecified TBRs
Period Piece by Gwen Raverat
Finished: 84 Charing Cross Road / The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff; The Pampas and The Andes by Major W. T. Blake; Alexandria by Lindsey Davies; The Courage Consort by Michel Faber; Period Piece by Gwen Raverat; Moving Through The Streets by Joseph C Veramu; The Immaculate Deception by Iain Pears
Total: Non-fiction: 3 of 5; Fiction: 4 of 5
Current Book: Yemen by Tim Mackintosh-Smith (reported February 5th)
Nauris 15 books
• 3 BookCrossing books
• 4 comics/graphic novels (Ester Pärbergin tarinoita; Twisted Sisters: A Collection of Bad Girl Art by Diane Noomin, ed.; [1 from Helsinki Comics Festival 2009]; [1 bought a long time ago])
• 4 vocational books (Kunnosta, kultaa ja verhoile Mestareiden opissa by Hannu Tähtinen, Kimmo Oksanen, Laura Carlborg & Taina Hietavuo; Chairs Through the Ages by Harold H. Hart, ed.; Pihka by Harri Metsälä; Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, ed.)
• 4 Others (The Memory of Earth (Homecoming, Vol 1) by Orson Scott Card; Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships by David Levy; Hashiksenkäyttäjä: eli katkelmia pythagoralaisen elämästä by Fitz Hugh Ludlow; Järvinen:Tunne itsesi, suomalainen by Liisa Keltikangas)
Finished: Salka Valka by Halldor Laxness; Ester Pärbergin tarinoita; The Memory of Earth (Homecoming, Vol 1) by Orson Scott Card; Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, ed.
Total: BookCrossing: 1 of 3; Graphic: 1 of 4; Others: 1 of 4; Vocational: 1 of 4
Current Book: Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships by David Levy; Kunnosta, kultaa ja verhoile Mestareiden opissa by Hannu Tähtinen, Kimmo Oksanen, Laura Carlborg & Taina Hietavuo; Chairs Through the Ages by Harold H. Hart, ed.; Pihka by Harri Metsälä; The Call of Earth (Homecoming, Vol 2) by Orson Scott Card (reported February 3rd)
bookguide 24 books
• 3 1001 books
• 3 thick books
• 9 books set in different countries
• 6 old TBRs
• 3 non-fiction
Finished: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood; Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquival; Transit by Hella S. Haasse; Ruby Fruit Jungle: the Adventures of Molly Bolt by Rita Mae Brown; The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama; Open House by Jill Mansell; Sushi & Chardonnay by Yoyo van Gemerde; Behaving Badly by Catherine Heath
Total: 1001: 2 of 3; Different Countries: 4 of 9; Old TBRs: 1 of 2
Current Book: (reported February 1st)