SIY (Set It Yourself) Reading Challenge Third edition
(January-March, 2008)

Participant	Goal(s)	Progress
Rivercassini	4 hours a week in at least 2 hour blocks reading works by or books about Jane Austen and the literary and political environment she inhabited	Finished: Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen; "Jane Austen and her Early Public" by Charles Beecher Hogan; 3 articles on the Antigua connection in Mansfield Park Total: January: 3 of 4; Current Books: Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen by Janet Todd; (reported January 13th)
Nu-Knees	100+ Classic pages per week (target for March 30th: p. 772 of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens)	Finished: Armadale by Wilkie Collins; Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon by Jane Austen; Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens Total: January: 4 of 4; February: 4 of 4; March 5 of 5 (reported March 25th)
bluecat07	18 books in 13 weeks • 8 of them must be TBRs registered by me • 10 must be books from other Bookcrossers	Finished: The Book Thief; The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin; The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs; The Giver by Lois Lowry; A Separate Peace by John Knowles; Chocolat by Joanne Harris; One for the Money by Janet Evanovich; Dream Country by Luanne Rice; The Lollipop Shoes Total: Own TBRs: 5 of 8; BCers': 4 of 10 Current Books:(reported March 30th)
Megi53	• 10 Newbery Award Winners (Criss Cross; The Dark Frigate; Dobry; The Higher Power of Lucky; Invincible Louisa; Shen of the Sea; The Story of Mankind; Tales From Silver Lands; Waterless Mountain; Daniel Boone) • read four unregistered books that belong to my son and daughter (Water: Ascension by Kara Dalkey; Water: Reunion by Kara Dalkey; Water: Transformation by Kara Dalkey; Moby-Dick by Herman Melville) • to read at least one cookbook or self-help book I own and actually MAKE a recipe or DO a project from it.	Finished: The Higher Power of Lucky; Moby-Dick; Invincible Louisa; Daniel Boone; Dobry; Shen of the Sea; Water: Ascension; Entertaining the Finnish Way by Helena Ahti et al.; Water: Reunion by Kara Dalkey; Water: Transformation by Kara Dalkey; Tales From Silver Lands; Criss Cross; The Story of Mankind; The Dark Frigate; Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer Total: Newbery: 10 of 10; Unregistered: 4 of 4; Cookbook: 1 of 1 (recipe done) (reported March 31st)
Ibis3	• the 5 books on the Canada Reads list (Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson; From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant; Icefields by Thomas Wharton; King Leary by Paul Quarrington; Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley) • the 2007 Governor General's Award winner for fiction in English, Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje • the 2007 Governor General's Award winner for non-fiction in English, I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost • the 2007 Giller winner, Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay	Finished: Brown Girl in the Ring; Not Wanted on the Voyage; I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad; King Leary by Paul Quarrington; From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant; Icefields by Thomas Wharton; Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay; Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje Total: Canada Reads: 5 of 5; GGs: 2 of 2; Giller: 1 of 1 (reported April 1st)
bluenoser	• Read Anne...La Maison aux pignons verts • 16 books from TBR • studying and taking my Highway Code exam in French	Finished: passed the Highway Code exam; Sovereign by C.J. Sansom; Time to Remember by Gemma O'Connor; A Population of One by Constance Beresford-Howe; Toast by Nigel Slater; The Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell; Non Plussed by Monica Quill; Poison for the Prince by Elizabeth Eyre; Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis; O Pioneers by Willa Cathar; Killing Me Softly by Nicci French; Night Fall by Nelson DeMille; The Good Women of China by Xinran; Rasputin's Revenge by John Lescroat; The Hand of Death by Margaret Yorke; Malcom and Me by William J. Thomas; Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel; Anne...La Maison aux pignons verts Total: Code: 1 of 1; TBR: 16 of 16; Anne: 1 of 1 (reported March 16th)
Ladybug768	12 books that aren't for school	Finished: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova; Shadow Dance: A Novel by Julie Garwood; Dark Seduction by Brenda Joyce; The Promise by Danielle Steele; The Warren Witches (Charmed) by Laura J. Burns; Dark Rival by Brenda Joyce; N is for Noose by Sue Grafton; Shadow Music by Julie Garwood; Deadly Deceptions by Linda Lael Miller; Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer; Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich; Passions Promise by Danielle Steel Total: 12 of 12 (reported March 19th)
dryad23	14 books • 2 book club books which are also 1001 books(Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides; Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser) • 4 other 1001 books (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving; The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble) • 8 others (The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman; The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman; The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman; My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult; The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory; To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis; Twilight by Stephenie Meyer; New Moon by Stephanie Meyer)	Finished: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides; My Sister's Keeper; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time; The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman; The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman; The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman; Twilight by Stephenie Meyer; New Moon by Stephanie Meyer; A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving; Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser; The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis; The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble Total: Book Club: 2 of 2; 1001: 4 of 4; Others: 8 of 8 (reported March 16th)
istop4books	• 2 books for bookclub (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan; Hamlet) • Les Misérables Readalong • 3 books from other BookCrossers • 6 books from my TBR	Finished: The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall; Snow Flower and the Secret Fan; Hamlet; Girl in Hyacinth Blue; The Yacoubian Building; Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Pride and Prejudice; Parvana by Deborah Ellis; The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz; Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie; Changes by Ama Ata Aidoo; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; uppies, Jet Set, La Movida y Otras Especies by Carmen de Posadas Total: TBR: 6 of 6; Book Club: 2 of 2; BookCrossers': 4 of 3; Les Misérables (up to date @ month's end) (reported March 13th)
Aramena	• A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon • 9 books from other BookCrossers	Finished: The Ex Files; All-American Girl; Wishes by Jude Deveraux; Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Jude Deveraux; The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw; Temptation by Jude Deveraux; A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon; Fanta C by Sandra Brown; Atonement; A Wrinkle in Time Total: BookCrossers’: 9 of 9; A Breath of Snow and Ashes (reported March 31st)
mrsgaskell	• 4 classics (The Pickwick Papers; Adam Bede; Doctor Thorne; Shirley) • 3 biographies (The Life of Charlotte Bronte; Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA; Charles Dickens) • 2 book club books (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Latitudes of Melt) • 4 other books (Miracles; Confessions; Evangeline and Other Poems; Not Wanted on the Voyage) • Les Misérables Readalong in French	Finished: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley; Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA; Miracles by C.S. Lewis; Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley; Shirley by Charlotte Bronte; Evangeline and Other Poems; Adam Bede; Confessions by Saint Augustine; The Life of Charlotte Bronte Total: Classics: 4 of 4; Biographies: 3 of 3; Book Club: 1 of 2; Other: 4 of 4 Current Books: Les Misérables (up to date) (reported April 3rd)
catsalive	• Read 5 own books each month • Read 10 books from other Bookcrossers each month	Is tracking her own progress.
amoenus	• Read one book from The Western Canon each month • Read one book from NYT list or bookmarks mag. each month	Finished: The Gathering; Madame Bovary; Roots Total: January NYT/bookmarks: 1 of 1; Western Canon: 1 of 1; February Western Canon: 1 of 1; Current Book: The Pillars of the Earth (reported February 26th)
MaryZee	10 books from other BookCrossers + any bookrings/bookrays	Finished: In a Strange City; Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo; The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea; How Reading Changed my Life by Anna Quindlen; Stage by Stage by Jan Jones; The Chocolate Puppy Puzzle by Joanna Carl; The Darwin Awards; The Case of the Missing Books; Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch by Haywood Smith; The Great Taos Bank Robbery and Other Indian Country Affairs by Tony Hillerman; In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant; Michaelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King Total: 6 of 10; + 6 bookrings Current Book: The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone (reported March 29th)
NICNIC2	• 5 books from the 'A list' of TBRs • Les Misérables Readalong	Finished: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen; Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson; The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood Total: 'A' TBRs: 3 of 5; Current Book: (reported March 25th)
nuttyreader	13 books — 1 a week (Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston; Beyond the Mountain / Return to Tasmania by Peter Conrad; Anthony Blunt his lives by Miranda Carter; Petain's Crime by Paul Webster; Daily Life of the Etruscans by Jaques Heurgon; 40 Watts From Nowhere by Sue Carpenter; By Myself and Then Some by Lauren Bacall; Dancing Under the Red Star by Karl Tobien; +5 TBA)
Gnoe	3 of 12 of books on the Best Foreign Book longlist (The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon; The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon; Obsession by A.S. Byatt; The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro; New York Trilogy by Paul Auster; The Sea by Iris Murdoch; In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin; The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov; Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; The Chosen by Chaim Potok)	Finished: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin; New York Trilogy by Paul Auster; Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Total: 3 of 3 (reported March 28th)
ireland424	9 books from TBR pile or received as holiday gifts	Total: 1 of 9 (reported January 31st)
janey-canuck	• 300 pages per week from TBRs • finish Vanity Fair	Finished: Girl Sleuth; Notes on a Scandal; Prodigal Summer; The Martha Rules; Lynne Truss Treasury; Letters to My Husband; Sweets' Rich by Thirty; You Suck Total: January: 3 of 4; February: 2 of 4; March: 1 of 5 (2711 pp of 2700); Current Books: The Memory Keeper's Daughter; Vanity Fair (reported March 4th)
acomplicatedlie	12 books • 4 non-fiction • 8 other
meexia	• 2 award winners • 2 1001 books • 2 books from other BookCrossers
lane1088	15 books • 9 TBRs • 3 Rea Readers Book Club books • 2 Mystery Book Club books	Finished: Foul Play by Tori Carrington; The Alienist by Caleb Carr; A Fatal Thaw by Dana Stabenow; Now and then by Robert Parker; Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher; Cinnabar by Graham Diamond; Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles; STNG: The Children of Hamlin by Carmen Carter; Death in the Air by Agatha Christie; So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane; T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton; Polar Shift by Clive Cussler; Chocolat by Joanne Harris; The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie; Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie; Becoming Jane by Jon Spence; Murder Among the OWLS by Bill Crider; Old Scores by Aaron Elkins; Agatha Christie Chronology by Nancy Blue Wynne (ed.); Lady Jane Grey and the House of Suffolk by Alison Plowden; The Cloud of Unknowing by Thomas Cook; The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon; 7th Heaven by James Patterson; Strangers in Death by J. D. Robb Total: TBRs: 19 of 9; Rea Readers: 3 of 3; Mystery Book Club: 2 of 2 Current Books:Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox (reported March 30th)
PokPok	13 books in 13 weeks
shimi	18 books • 9 TBRs from other BookCrossers • 9 other	Finished: Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee; Sleep with Me by Joanna Briscoe; Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood; Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for snø by Peter Høeg; The Poisonwood Bible by Joanna Briscoe; American Gods by Neil Gaiman; The Reader by Bernhard Schlink; Det synger i gresset by Doris Lessing; The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath; The Final Solution by Michael Chabon; Samleren by Julian Barnes; Arthur & George by Julian Barnes; Studio Sex by Liza Marklund; The Plot Against America by Philip Roth; Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman; The Passion by Jeanette Winterson; Utvalgte emner i katastrofefysikk by Marisha Pessl; Trekkoppfuglen by Haruki Murakami Total: BookCrossers': 9 of 9; Other: 9 of 9 (reported March 31st)
krin511	15 books • 8 books from other BookCrossers • 7 other	Finished: A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine; The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian; The Red Room by Nicci French; The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov; Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See; Paingod and Other Delusions by Harlan Ellison; Close to the Wind by Pete Goss; The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams; Arthur and George by Julian Barnes; Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole; Powers of Detection by Dana Stabenow, et al.; Fire Me Up by Katie MacAlister; Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler Total: BookCrossers': 8 of 8; Others: 5 of 7 Current Book: (reported March 1st)
jumpingin	12 books from TBR: • 6 TBRs registered by me • 3 borrowed (non-Bookcrossing) books • 3 others	Finished: The Hippopotamous Pool; Living Out Loud; Little House in the Big Wood; The Reading Group; Plain Truth; Knitting for Peace; One for the Money Total: Own TBRs: 7 of 6; Borrowed: 1 of 3; Other: 4 of 3 (reported April 1st)
likestoreadinFL	13 books • 5 WWII books (including Mein Kampf) • 5 books from other Bookcrossers • 3 books for book club (including Water for Elephants)	Finished: Water for Elephants; Child of the Hunt; Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander; Ordinary Men: Police Reserve Battalion 101 and the Final Solution; Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway; All Rivers Run to the Sea; The Devil and Miss Prym; Pop Goes the Weasel; Siddhartha Total: book club: 3 of 3; Other Bookcrossers': 3 of 5; WWII: 3 of 5 Current Book: All Rivers Run to the Sea by Elie Weisel (reported March 24th)
Neuilly	• 3 books I've started (3 Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Redin; Brick Lane by Monica Ali; Atonement by Ian McEwan) • 1 classic (Nana) • 1 book from my bookshelf (TBD)	Finished: 3 Cups of Tea; Atonement by Ian McEwan; Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Total: books started: 2 of 3; TBR: 1 of 1 Current Book: Nana @29 (reported March 7th)
lynlee4	• 10 chapters a week of Anna Karenina • 6 books from TBR	Finished: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseni; A Lifetime of Secrets by Warren Total: TBRs: 2 of 6; Anna Karenina: 3 of 13 weeks Current Book:(reported January 21st)
mefeather	• finish Judgment of the Grave by Sarah Stewart Taylor • Still as Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor • 4 books from BC TBR (including Pretty Boy by Lauren Henderson; Genootschap van de Steen by David Morrell)	Finished:Judgment of the Grave by Sarah Stewart Taylor; Pretty Boy by Lauren Henderson Total: to finish: 1 of 1; BC TBRs: 1 of 4 (reported April 6th)