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SIY (Set It Yourself) Reading Challenge Seventh edition<br />
(January-March, 2009)
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Participant Goal(s) Progress
blackteiwaz 10 books
• 4 for the Rescue Those Books Challenge
• 4 for school
• 2 others
Mail 2 reserved books
Read and mail all rings & rays
(reported December 14th)
lane1088

14 books
• 8 TBRs
• 3 Charlotte Sleuths books
• 1 Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club book
• 2 anthologies
16 magazines
6 short stories magazines
write 4 blog posts
4 releases at new locations

(reported December 28th)
Neige49

• 2 mysteries
• 2 sci-fi/fantasy
• 2 TBRs
• 4 others

(reported December 14th)

Nu-Knees • 100+ Classic pages per week (target for January 11th: 212 of The Last Chronicle of Barset)
(books for this quarter: Moonfleet by J Meade Falkner; The Red and the Black by Stendahl)
• 3 non-fiction books (1 per month: One Red Paperclip by Kyle Macdonald; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt; Days before Dibley by Jill Swallow)
Total: January: 1 of 4;
Current Book: The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope @p. 112 of 861 (reported January 2nd)
tqd Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (reported December 14th)
MaryZee • 7 books registered by BCers
• 3 registered pre-2004
(reported December 14th)
Ibis3

• the 5 books on the Canada Reads list (The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill; The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay; Fruit by Brian Francis; Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards; The Outlander by Gil Adamson)
• the 2008 Governor General's Award winner for fiction in English, The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci
• the 2008 Governor General's Award winner for non-fiction in English, Fifteen Days: Stories Of Bravery, Friendship, Life And Death From Inside The New Canadian Army by Christie Blatchford
• the 2008 Giller winner, Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden

(reported December 14th)
bluenoser 18 books
• 8 pre-2006 TBRs
• 11 others
(reported December 15th)
Miss-Owl 10 1001 Books (Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Enduring Love by Ian McEwan; The Monk by M. G. Lewis; Dracula by Bram Stoker; Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice; The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco; The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro; The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch; A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess; The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai) (reported December 15th)
janey-canuck • 10 books from TBR
• 4 Canada Reads books (The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay; Fruit by Brian Francis; Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards; The Outlander by Gil Adamson)
(reported December 15th)
Geileis

6 Award-winning TBRs

(reported December 15th)

perfect-circle • 10 1001 books (Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams; The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing; The Siege of Krishnapur by Farell; Youth by J.M. Coetzee; Cannery Row by John Steinbeck; Kidnapped by R.L. Stevenson; The Sun Also Rises (aka Fiesta) by Ernest Hemingway; The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré)
• 5 BBC Big Reads (Soul Music by Terry Pratchett; Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett; Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie; East of Eden by John Steinbeck; Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake)
• 3 non-fiction (Pies and Prejudice by S Maconie; Fall of the House of Bush by Craig Unger; Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss)
(reported December 16th)
jneni • 2 books by J.R.R. Tolkein (The Silmarillion; The Two Towers)
• 8 books for The Ultimate Challenge 2009
• 4 books for Chills and Spills Challenge 2009
• 6 books for The Color Challenge 2009
• 2 classics
(reported December 17th)
Annimanni 25 books
• 2 books from the 1001 list
• 4 books for the Geographical Challenge
• 1 book from the 1000 years—100 books list
• 1 book from the Rescue Those Books Challenge
• 9 books for the Ultimate Challenge
• 2 books for the Keep Them Moving Challenge
• 6 other books
Finished: Lumoavien mausteiden kahvila by Marsha Mehran
Total: Ultimate: 1 of 9
Current Book: Magoria by Alexandra Berkova; Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie; Tiedon tyttäret by Marjo T. Nurminen (reported January 2nd)
-Nika- • read 7000pp
• release 7 books
(reported December 17th)
Buffheart 8 books
• 2 BC books
• 2 books that have been on the shelf for over 2 years
• finish 4 current books
(reported December 16th)
mrsgaskell • 6 others
• 2 classics
• 2 CanLit
• 2 re-reads
• 2 new authors
(reported December 16th)
nicolesinger 10 TBRs
• 1 from other BCers (The Organized Student by Donna Goldberg and Jennifer Zwiebel)
• 1 listed in 2006
• 1 listed in 2007
• 7 others
Current Book: Essentials of Real Estate Finance by David Sirota (reported January 2nd)
Jare 8 books
• 4 books registered in 2003
• 2 books registered by other BCers
(reported December 19th)
Hawaii-Bookworm 20 books
• 5 from other BCers
• 5 1001 books
• 10 others
Finished: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Total: Others: 1 of 10
Current Books: Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai; Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle; Oxygen by Andrew Miller; Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe; The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall (reported January 1st)
MollyGrue • Sally Lockhart series by Philip Pullman (The Ruby in the Smoke; The Shadow in the North; The Tiger in the Well; The Tin Princess)
• 1 nonfiction book
• 1 other TBR
(reported December 21st)
Ladybug768 16 books that aren't for school
• 8 TBRs
• 8 others
Current Book: The Duchess by Bertrice Small (reported January 2nd)
Neuilly The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
• 1 other book (TBD)
(reported December 26th)
Gnoe 3 Bookcrossing books Current Book: Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier @p.126 of 353 (reported January 2nd)
Nagwan 10 Books (reported January 2nd)
FeistyPom2Love

• 4 books to finish (The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman; Nature Girl by Carl Hiassen; Cane River by Lalita Tademy; Healing From The Heart by Mehmet Oz)
• 4 Others

(reported January 2nd)