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SIY (Set It Yourself) Reading Challenge Twelfth edition<br />
(April-June, 2010)
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Participant Goal(s) Progress

Nu-Knees
6 books
• 3 classics – 1 per month (The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope; The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton; Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh)
• 3 non-fiction books – 1 per month (Catherine the Great by Virginia Rounding; The Mermaid Tree by Robert Tiley; Are You Somebody? The Life and Times of Nuala O'Faolain by Nuala O'Faolain)
Finished: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope; Catherine the Great by Virginia Rounding; The Mermaid Tree by Robert Tiley; The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton; Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh; Are You Somebody? The Life and Times of Nuala O'Faolain by Nuala O'Faolain
Total: Classics: 3 of 3; Non-fiction: 3 of 3
(reported September 8th)

dutch-book

12 books:
• 6 of the oldest TBRs registered by other BCers
• 6 of the oldest self-registered TBRs

(reported June 18th)

NMReader
10 TBRs currently in the home Finished: The Strange Case of Origami Yoda; The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie; Big Nate: In a Class by Himself; C Is for Corpse by Sue Grafton; Post Mortem by Patricia Cornwell; Comic Poems by Peter Washington, ed.; Foul Play by Janet Evanovich; Murder on the Links; Tex Appeal; Love Poems; Poems of Fun and Fancy; Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times; Full House by Janet Evanovich
Total: 13 of 10
(reported September 28th)

bluenoser
30 TBRs Finished: One Good Deed by Kate Atkinson; Eleven Hours by Paulina Simons; The Seventh Son by Reay Tannahill; Feline Felons by Debbie Keller; The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell; Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult; The Tinner's Corpse by Bernard Knight; Bee Season by Myla Goldberg; The White Queen by Philippa Gregory; Affinity by Sarah Waters; The Girls by Lori Lansens; The Lighthouse by P. D. James; Dead Cold by Louise Penny; The Queen's Man by Sharon Penman; Excellent Women by Barbara Pym; The Raphael Affair by Iain Pears; Eve Green by Susan Fletcher; Fear in the Forest by Bernard Knight; Bethlehem Road by Anne Perry; Murder Most Holy by Paul Harding; House of Shadows by The Medieval Murderers; Petrified by Barbara Nadel; Stone's Fall by Iain Pears; The Tinder Box by Minette Walters; The Witch Hunter by Bernard Knight; Rough Ride by John Francome; The Millstone by Margaret Drabble; The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastien Faulks; The Resistance by Matthew Cobb; The Portrait by Iain Pears
Total: 30 of 30
(reported September 25th)

Caroley
20 TBRs
• 6 Big Read List books
• 6 1001 books
• 6 from other BCers
• 2 Others
Finished: Shout at the Devil by Wilbur Smith; The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt; Hogfather by Terry Pratchett; The Beach by Alex Garland; The Shipping News by Annie Proulx; Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki; The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy; Cry Wolf by Tami Hoag; Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson; Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie; Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy; Les Miserables by Victor Hugo; Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë; Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen; Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore; August Is A Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien; The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; Ruined City by Nevil Shute
Total: BCers: 6 of 6; 1001: 6 of 6; Big Read: 6 of 6; Other: 2 of 2
(reported September 27th)

Neige49

13 books
• 4 TBRs
• 5 Want-to-Read list
• 4 Others

Finished: Sauce For the Goose by Peter De Vries; Atonement by Ian McEwan; Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane; The Shape of Sand by Marjorie Eccles; Tryst by Elswyth Thane; The Winter Mantle by Elizabeth Chadwick; The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield; Overnight Float by Clare Munnings; As Told At the Explorer's Club by George Plimpton (ed.); Walk Through Darkness by David Anthony Durham; We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson; Monument by Ian Graham; Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson
Total: Want-to-Read: 5 of 5; TBRs: 4 of 4 ; Other: 4 of 4
(reported September 26th)

mrsgaskell
12 TBRs
Finished: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie; Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri; Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson; The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton; March by Geraldine Brooks; A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym; The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery; Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope; Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama; The Queen's Sorrow by Suzannah Dunn; Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh; A Dark Night's Work and Other Stories1 by Elizabeth Gaskell
Total: 12 of 12
(reported September 28th)

Ibis3

16 books:
• 3 CanLit Challenge books (In the Village of Viger by Duncan Campbell Scott; Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies; Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton)
• 2 TBRs from other BookCrossers (The Garden Party & Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield; To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis)
• 2 classics (Scienza Nuova (New Science) by Giambattista Vico; The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens)
• 2 Shakespeare plays (Double Falsehood by William Shakespeare et al.; All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare)
• 4 others (P is for Peril by Sue Grafton; A Pinch of Snuff by Reginald Hill; The Armageddon Factor by Marci McDonald; If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino)
• 3 Audiobooks (H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian; The Vile Village by Lemony Snickett; Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn)

Finished: Requiem for a Mezzo by Carola Dunn; A Pinch of Snuff by Reginald Hill; Double Falsehood by William Shakespeare et al.; P is for Peril by Sue Grafton; To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis; H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian; All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare; The Vile Village by Lemony Snickett; If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino; Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies; The Armageddon Factor by Marci McDonald
Total: Audiobooks: 3 of 3; Other: 4 of 4; Shakespeare: 2 of 2; BCers': 1 of 2; CanLit: 1 of 3
Current Books: The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens @p. 139 of 556; The Garden Party & Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield @p. 14 of 153; In the Village of Viger by Duncan Campbell Scott @p. 77 of 131 (reported September 29th)

Heaven150
10 Books:
• 4 1001 books (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey; Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford; Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller; Summer by Edith Wharton)
• 2 True Crime (Buried in Silence by Connie Sampson; Bundy: The Deliberate Stranger by Richard W. Larsen)
• 3 New Authors (The Church of the Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns; Wake by Beth Goldner; 24 Hours by Greg Isles)
• 1 Other (The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton)
Finished: Buried in Silence by Connie Sampson; Wake by Beth Goldner; Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford; The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton; The Church of the Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns; Bundy: The Deliberate Stranger by Richard W. Larsen; 24 Hours by Greg Isles; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey; Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller; Summer by Edith Wharton
Total: True Crime: 2 of 2; New Authors: 3 of 3; 1001: 4 of 4; Others: 1 of 1
(reported September 10th)

nancynova

30 books:
• 10 Wishlist books
• 10 Pre-2010 TBRs
• 10 Others

Finished: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry; Farewell to Manazar by Jean and James Houston; Pieces of my Sister’s Life by Elizabeth Joy Arnold; Too Old to Be a Grandma, Too Young to be an Exotic Dancer by Donna Dakotah; Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson; Manhunt by Janet Evanovich; Wyoming Brides by Debbie Macomber; Late Bloomer by Fern Michaels; Smitten by Janet Evanovich; Watch Over Me by Christa Parrish; A Mother in the Making by Lilian Darcy; The Daddy Deal by Kathleen O’Brien; Windfall by Cathy Holby; House Rules by Jodi Picoult; Temptation by Nora Roberts; Eggstra Courage for the Chicken Hearted by Susan Duke et al.; Secrets Dark and Deep: A Lake George Mystery by Anne White; The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells; A Captain’s Duty by Richard Phillips; The Mommy Wish by Pamela Browning; A Thread of Truth by Marie Bostwick; Arranged Marriage by Chitra Divakruni; And the Rains Came by Sue Sword; Gilead by Marilynne Robinson; A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks; The Christmas Hope by Donna Van Liere
Total: pre-2010 TBRs: 10 of 10; Other: 10 of 10; Wishlist: 7 of 10
Current Books:The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis; The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman (reported September 28th)

gypsysmom

16 books:
• 1 bookclub book (Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
• 3 books for John Mutford's Challenge (The Prairie Bridesmaid by Daria Salamon; The Intelligence of Dogs by Stanley Coren; Fishing with John by Edith Iglauer)
• 7 books from other BCers (Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones; River in a Dry Land by Trevor Herriot; Leaning, Leaning over Water by Frances Itani; The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean; Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin; For One More Day by Mitch Albom; Shadow Play by David Cole)
• 3 1001 books (Shirley by Charlotte Bronte; Neuromancer by William Gibson; Adam Bede by George Eliot)
• 2 Nevada Barr books (Deep South; Hunting Season)

Finished: The Prairie Bridesmaid by Daria Salamon; Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin; River in a Dry Land by Trevor Herriot; Leaning, Leaning over Water by Frances Itani; Shadow Play by David Cole; Fishing with John by Edith Iglauer; Neuromancer by William Gibson; For One More Day by Mitch Albom; Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean; Deep South; Hunting Season; Adam Bede by George Eliot; The Intelligence of Dogs by Stanley Coren; Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones; Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
Total: Mutford's: 3 of 3; BCers': 7 of 7; 1001: 3 of 3; Bookclub: 1 of 1; Nevada Barr: 2 of 2
(reported September 30th)

FeistyPom2Love

20 books
• 5 Olympic Challenge books (The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux; Nomad's Hotel by Cees Nooteboom; For the Love of Chocolate by Karen Rowe; My Children! My Africa! by Athol Fugard; Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
• 15 Other TBRs

Finished: A Veiled Deception by Annette Blair; Larceny & Old Lace by Tamar Myers; For the Love of Chocolate by Karen Rowe; My Children! My Africa! by Athol Fugard; To Kill a Mockingbird; March by Geraldine Brooks; Death at Play by Nancy Gotter Gates; Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert; Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee; Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien
Total: TBRs: 8 of 15; Olympic: 2 of 5
Current Books: (reported September 1st)

lane1088

37 books
• 35 TBRs
• 2 bookclub books

Finished: The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R King; Running from the Law by Lisa Scottoline; Songs of Earth & Power by Greg Bear; Goodbye, Nanny Gray by Susannah Stacey; The Wall Around Eden by Joan Slonczewski; The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories by Agatha Christie; Genesis by Poul Anderson; The Forge of Mars by Bruce Balfour; A Knife at the Opera by Susannah Stacey; Dead Lines by Greg Bear; Kinsman by Ben Bova; Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie; The Telling by Ursala LeGuin; Narabedla INC by Frederik Pohl; Ellery Queen (July 2006); Timescape by Gregory Benford; Dead in the Water by Dana Stabenow; STNG: The Eyes of the Beholders by A.C. Crispen; Funerals are Fatal by Agatha Christie; The Genesis Code by John Case; STNG: Gulliver's Fugitives by Keith Sharee; The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson; Hitchcock (Mid-December 1991)
Total: TBRs: 22 of 35; Bookclubs: 2 of 2
Current Book: (reported September 30th)

CynthiaA
6 TBRs from other BCers (The Birth House by Ami McKay; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; On Beauty by Zadie Smith; Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith; The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion; The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway) Finished: The Birth House by Ami McKay; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; On Beauty by Zadie Smith; Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith; The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion; The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Total: 6 of 6
(reported September 25th)

MaryZee
• 10 books registered by BCers Finished: Liberating Paris by Linda Bloodworth Thomason; Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood by Bill Hayes; The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton; Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor; The Archivist by Martha Cooley; Enslaved by Ducks: How One Man Went from Head of the Household to Bottom of the Pecking Order by Bob Tarte; Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen; The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy; The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children by Keith McGowan; Love and Meatballs by Susan Volland
Total: 10 of 10
(reported September 26th)
minesayn 10 books
• 3 from the library reading list (The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by D. Wroblewski; Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell; Tell Me Where it Hurts by Nick Trout)
• 3 books from other BCers (Geek Love by Katherine Dunn; Thumbsucker by Walter Kirn; An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Clarke)
• 3 TBRs (Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux; Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne; Mistress of the Game by Tilly Bhagshawe)
• the next Tres Navarre mystery
Finished: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by D. Wroblewski; Southtown by Rick Riordan; Tell Me Where it Hurts by Nick Trout; Mistress of the Game by Tilly Bhagshawe; Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell; Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Total: Library: 3 of 3; Tres Navarre: 1 of 1; TBRs: 1 of 3
Current Books: Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (reported September 16th)

tqd
25 TBRs
• 10 from other BCers
• 15 others
Finished: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith; Fledgling by Octavia Butler; Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne; A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym; Howards End by E. M. Forster; The Long Firm by Jake Arnott; The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck; Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott; Fighting France: From Dunkirk to Belfort by Edith Wharton; Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling; Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger; The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson; By The Pricking of my Thumbs by Agatha Christie; Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn; Empowered by Adam Warren; Empowered (Vol. 2) by Adam Warren; The Ghost Writer by John Harwood; Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Foundling (Monster Blood Tattoo #1) by D.M. Cornish; The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith; Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith; The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan; The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle; Boyhood by J.M. Coetzee
Total: BCers': 10 of 10; Others: 15 of 15
(reported September 29th)

sshahid
20 books
• 10 Big Read Top 200 books
• 5 books from the Reduce Mt. TBR Challenge 2010
• 5 other TBRs
Finished: The Taking by Dean Koontz; The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle; While My Pretty One Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark; Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis; A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute; Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett; The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan; Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck; The Village by the Sea: An Indian Family Story by Anita Desai; The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Total: Other: 5 of 5; Big Read: 4 of 10; TBR Challenge: 1 of 5
Current Book: (reported September 25th)

Nauris
6 books
• 3 vocational books
• 3 BookCrossing books
Finished: Earthborn by Orson Scott Card; Modern Scandinavian Furniture by Ulf Hård Segerstad; Loukom the "Little Prince" of Belleville by Calixthe Beyala; Sarasvatin hiekkaa by Risto Isomäki
Total: BookCrossing: 3 of 3; Vocational: 1 of 3
Current Book: Miten sisustan asuntoni by Salme Setälä (reported August 23rd)

blackwidow1971
17 TBRs to be BookCrossed Finished: Back When We Were Grown-Ups by Anne Tyler; Pascali's Island by Barry Unsworth; Venture into the Interior by Laurens Van Der Post; Frost in May by Antonia White; The Good Women of China by Xinran; A Coin in Nine Hands by Marguerite Yourcenar; Marry Me, Stranger by Anne Vinton; Nemesis by Agatha Christie; Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh; The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie; Gem Squash Tokoloshe by Rachel Zadok; Blood by Janice Galloway; The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende; The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale; Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce; Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty; The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Total: 17 of 17
(reported September 26th)

Geileis

4 TBRs by August 31st

Current Books: Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee @p. 84; Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett @p. 214; Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks @p. 77; The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood; Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene; Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier; As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee; The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler; For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (reported September 5th)

Megi53

9 books acquired in 2010 (Seekers: The Quest Begins by Erin Hunter; Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling; TBA)

Finished: Seekers: The Quest Begins by Erin Hunter; Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; Seabird by Holling Clancy Holling; Mary Gilliatt's Complete Room by Room Decorating Guide by Mary Gilliatt and Andreas von Einsiedel (photog.)
Total: 5 of 9
Current Book: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer @p. 17 of 629 (reported August 21st)

zz-neena

2 classics from the following: (East of Eden by John Steinbeck; Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell; Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy)

(reported June 26th)

Miss-Owl
15 books
• 8 TBRs
• 2 books on drama
• 5 1001 books
Finished: Blue Like Jazz by Don Miller; V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Total: TBRs: 1 of 1
Current Book: (reported July 5th)
kawaiikitty78 11 books
• 6 fiction (Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden; Property Of by Alice Hoffman; TBD by Alice Hoffman; Sookie Stackhouse novel by Charlaine Harris; TBD; TBD)
• 4 non-fiction books (memoir; mental-health related book; TBD; TBD)
• 1 200pp+
(reported July 2nd)

Lemon-Crisis
12 books
• 10 TBRs
• 2 1001 books
Finished: The Host by Stephanie Meyer; The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon
Total: TBRs: 2 of 10
Current Book: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (reported July 5th)