SIY (Set It Yourself) Reading Challenge Fourth edition
(APRIL-JUNE, 2008)
| Participant | Goal(s) | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| Ladybug768 | 12 books that aren't for school | Finished: Black Sheep and Hidden Beauty by Donna Kauffman; The Scent of Scandal by Carole Matthews; Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak; Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner; The Manning Sisters: The Cowboy's Lady/The Sheriff Takes A Wife by Debbie Macomber; The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig; Season Of Strangers by Kat Martin; Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber; Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella; I'm the Vampire, That's Why by Michele Bardsley; Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire by Michele Bardsley; The Jury by Fern Michaels; Sweet Revenge by Fern Michaels; Lethal Justice by Fern Michaels; Free Fall by Fern Michaels Total: 15 of 12 Current Book: (reported June 12th) |
| Nu-Knees | 100+ Classic pages per week (target for June 29th: 137 of Mary Barton) (possible books for this quarter: The Brothers Karamazov; The Scarlet Letter) |
Finished: Dracula by Bram Stoker; King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard; The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell; Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope Total: April: 4 of 4; May: 4 of 4; June: 5 of 5 Current Book: Mary Barton @p. 139 of 466 (reported June 26th) |
| bluenoser | 24 books • 3 in French • 12 TBRs that have sat on my shelves for over a year • 9 other |
Finished: Vineyard Deceit by Philip R. Craig; Isvik by Hammond Innes; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova; Poisoned Pins by Joan Hess; Redemption by Kay Langdale; Friends From Philadelphia by John Updike; Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie; Murder Wears a Cowl by P. C. Doherty; Paper Money by Ken Follett; Play Dead by Leslie O'Kane; The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke; Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben; The Summer of a Dormouse by John Mortimer; Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky; The Apothecary Rose by Candace Robb; World Without End by Ken Follett; Nine Lives to Murder by Marian Babson; K is for Killer by Sue Grafton; The Book Thief by Markus Zusak; The Queen's Head by Edward Marston; Le Squelette de la Marie by Gerard Delteil; Mes nuits sont belles que vos jours by Raphaele Billetdoux; L'Anneau du Guépard by David Schinkel and Yves Beauchesne Total: Old: 12 of 12; Other: 9 of 9; French: 3 of 3 (reported June 26th) |
| bluecat07 | 18 books
• 9 of them must be TBRs registered by me • 9 must be books from other Bookcrossers |
Finished: Rescuing Rose by Isabel Wolff; Die Romanleserin by Pearl Abraham; The Flamboya Tree by Clara Olink Kelly; Too Little, Too Late by Isabel Wolff; The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson; Emil i Lönneberga by Astrid Lindgren; A Place Called Here by Cecilia Ahern; Girl from the Heart by Irene Hannon; The Unexpected Gift by Irene Hannon |
| istop4books | • 3 books in Spanish (probably one Pablo Neruda, one Isabel Allende, and one Luis Sepulveda)
• Les Misérables Readalong • 12 other books |
Finished: The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy; Tuesdays With Morrie; Un viejo que leía novelas de amor by Luis Sepulveda; Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez; Open House by Elizabeth Berg; Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy; The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier; Confieso que He Vivido by Pablo Neruda; A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena De Blasi; A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson; Mi pais inventado by Isabel Allende; Madame Treymes by Edith Wharton; Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert; How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez; Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Total: Other: 12 of 12; Spanish: 3 of 3 & Les Misérables (reported June 27th) |
| mrsgaskell | • Les Misérables Readalong in French • 10 other books (Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope; The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne; Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill; Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith; Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomallin; Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor; An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym; Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe; Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys; Atonement by Ian McEwan) |
Finished:Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor; An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym; Atonement by Ian McEwan; Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope; Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith; Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomallin; Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill; The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne; Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe; Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys; Les Misérables Total: Other: 10 of 10; Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (reported June 18th) |
| Megi53 | • 1 book from each of my children's collections (On the Road (Original Scroll) by Jack Kerouac; The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares)
• 2 books from school library (Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet; Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng • 10 books acquired in 2008, 5 of which from other BookCrossers (Giant in the Sun by Ivan O'Riley; Sick of Shadows by Sharyn McCrumb; Election by Tom Perrotta; Peace Pilgrim; No Man's Land by Paul Swift), 5 bought myself (Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee; Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith; The Forest of Hours by Kerstin Ekman; To All Gentleness by Neil Baldwin; The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein) |
Finished: The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein; Sick of Shadows by Sharyn McCrumb; Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet; To All Gentleness by Neil Baldwin; On the Road by Jack Kerouac; Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng; No Man's Land by Paul Swift; The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares; Election by Tom Perrotta; Peace Pilgrim; Giant in the Sun by Ivan O'Riley; Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee Total: Self-purchased: 3 of 5; 2008 BCers': 5 of 5; library: 2 of 2; childrens': 2 of 2 Current Book: (reported June 26th) |
| likestoreadinFL | 15 books (3 of which 1001 books) |
Finished: Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky; Never Let Me Go by Kazuo
Ishiguro;
The Universe in a Single Atom by the Dalai Lama; Sky Burial by
Xinran; Invisible Monsters by Chuck
Palahniuk; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith;
The Photograph by Penelope Lively; Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson; Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver; Lest Innocent Blood be Shed by Phillip Hallie; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon; Franipani by Celestine Vaite; Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence; Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts; The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War |
| Ibis3 | • 27 chapters of Meteorology by Aristotle • finish current CanLit Challenge book (Winter Studies and Summer Rambles) & 2 others (As For Me and My House; TBD) • 3 poems by Shakespeare (“Lucrece”; “The Passionate Pilgrim”; “The Phoenix and the Turtle”) • 1 non-fiction TBR (either The Papacy or Roman Literature and Society) • 1 fiction TBR (Lorna Doone) • 2 wishlist books from the library (TBD) • 1 motivational book that my sister wants me to read (A Happy Pocket Full of Money) • finish The House of Mirth on audio |
Finished: “Lucrece” by Shakespeare; I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton; Winter Studies and Summer Rambles by Anna Brownell Jameson; The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket; The Passionate Pilgrim poems by William Shakespeare; “The Phoenix and the Turtle” by WIlliam Shakespeare; As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross Total: Shakespeare: 3 of 3; Wishlist: 2 of 2; CanLit: 2 of 3 Current Books: Meteorology by Aristotle @Book II, Chapter 9 (8 of 27); The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton @Book 2, Chapter 1 (15 of 29); Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore @p500 of 627 (reported June 28th) |
| shimi | 18 books • 9 TBRs from other BookCrossers • 9 other |
Finished: Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb; Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel; Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto; Presidentens valg by Anne Holt; The Book Thief by Markus Zusak; The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson; Oscar och den rosa damen by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; Elskeren (The Lover) by Marguerite Duras; The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson; Livstråden by Sarah Waters; Så går en dag ifrån vårt liv och kommer aldrig åter by Jonas Gardell; The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell Total: Own: 5 of 9; BookCrossers: 8 of 9 Current Books: Pianolærerinnen by Elfriede Jelinek (reported June 9th) |
| dryad23 | 18 books | Finished: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny; The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards; The Road by Cormac McCarthy; Wicked by Gregory Maguire; Tithe by Holly Black; Valiant by Holly Black; Shirley by Charlotte Brontë; Mansfield Park by Jane Austen; Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir; Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith; Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan; The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo; Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe; Amazing Gracie: A Dog's Tale by Dan Dye and Mark Beckloff; Little (Grrl) Lost by Charles DeLint;
Ironside by Holly Black;
Rescuing Sprite by Mark Levin; The Great Dane Thor by Walter Farley Total: TBRs: 18 of 18 (reported June 22nd) |
| lane1088 | 21 books
• 15 TBRs • 3 Rea Readers Book Club books • 3 Charlotte Sleuths books |
Finished: Year's Best SF3 by David G. Harwell; Treasure of Kahn by Clive Cussler; Double Dead by Terry Hoover; The Collaborator of Bethlehem by Matt Beyon Rees; A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare; Third Girl by Agatha Christie; Bad Twin by Gary Troupe; 13 at Dinner by Agatha Christie; Spy in Chancery by Paul C. Doherty; Delilah Doolittle and the Careless Coyote by Patricia Guiver; Dead on Arrival by Dorothy Simpson; Dying for Chocolate by Diane Mott Davidson; The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz;
The Cereal Murders by Diane Mott Davidson; Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett; Black Fly Season by Giles Blunt; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie; Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox; The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie; The Last Suppers by Diane Mott Davidson; The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie; The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie; The Golden Ball & other Stories by Agatha Christie; A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie; A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie; The Main Corpse by Diane Mott Davidson; The Black Dove by Steven Hockensmith; Lost Lake by Philip Margolin; Candy Apple Red by Nancy Bush; Mrs. Jeffries Appeals the Verdict by Emily Brightwell; Bantam of the Opera by Mary Daheim; The Grilling Season by Diane Mott Davidson Total: TBRs: 26 of 15; Rea: 3 of 3; Charlotte Sleuths: 3 of 3 (reported June 23rd) |
| Modmouse | 7+ hours reading of TBRs a week (TBD) | (reported March 22nd) |
| janey-canuck | • 300 pages per week from TBRs (including Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Confederacy of Dunces; Seven Ages of Paris) • finish Vanity Fair |
Finished: Shelf Monkey by Corey Redekop; Turn Left at Sanity by Nancy Warren; In the Red by Alexis Hall; Sap by John Swan; The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory; The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver; The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory; Mental Traps by Andre Kukla; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire; A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole; Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes; Vanity Fair; Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne Total: April: 4 of 4; May: 4 of 4; June 5 of 5 (4539pp of 3900); (reported June 30th) |
| Neuilly | • Finish His Dark Matierials trilogy by Philip Pullman (The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)
• get halfway through Nana (p.225) • 1 bookring (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers) • 2 other books |
Finished: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li; The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman; Mister Pip; Appetite for Murder by Cecile Lamalle Total: bookring: 1 of 1; HDM: 1 of 2; Other: 2 of 2 Current Book: Nana @p.74 of 255; The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman @p. 136 (reported June 4th) |
| nawoo82 | • 3 classics (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Dubliners by James Joyce) • 3 non-fiction books about Australia (The Latham Diaries by Mark Latham; The World Moves Slowly: A Documentary History of Australian Women by Beverley Kingston; Journey Among Men by J. Marshall & R. Drysdale) • 6 fiction books (The Constant Gardener by John Le Carré; Death of a Whaler by Nerida Newton; The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon; Papillon by Henri Charrière; The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux; Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee) |
Finished:Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Death of a Whaler by Nerida Newton; Papillon by Henri Charrière; Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Dubliners by James Joyce Total: classics: 3 of 3; fiction: 3 of 6 Current Book: (reported June 22nd) |
| MaryZee | 10 books from other BookCrossers + any bookrings/bookrays | Finished: The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone; Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich; Talk Nerdy to Me by Vicki Lewis Thompson; Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton; A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah by Harry Harrison; Alive by Piers Paul Read; The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe; I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak; Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy; Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Palin; Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne; Miss Zukas and the Library Murders by Jo Dereske; Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson; Alma by William Bell; Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers Total: 15 of 10 (reported June 23rd) |
| NICNIC2 | • 2 books from the 'A list' of TBRs (One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson; Mother's Milk by Edward Aubrey) • release 91 books |
Total: Releases: 9 of 91 (reported April 14th) |
| ireland424 | • finish Anna Karenina • start and finish 6 other books |
(reported March 26th) |
| Hawaii-Bookworm | 20 books • 5 from other BCers • 5 1001 books • 5 from new authors • 5 from favourite authors |
Finished: Embers by Sandor Marai; Perdido Street Station by China Mievelle; 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith; The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Carlissa); The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini; Vanishing Act by Jodi Picoult; Amsterdam by Ian McEwan; The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis; About Time by Jack Finney; Expiration Date by Tim Powers; In Matto's Realm by Friedrich Glauser; The Mystic Masseur by V. S. Naipaul; The Scar by China Mieville; The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall; Timbuktu by Paul Auster; Buddha by Deepak Chopra; The Color Purple by Alice Walker; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe; Ireland by Frank Delaney; American Fuji by Sara Backer Total: 1001: 5 of 5; New: 5 of 5; Favourite: 5 of 5; BCers: 5 of 5 (reported June 14th) |
| Nagwan | • 7 chapters from the Qura'an (in Arabic) a week • 2 chapters from The Sealed Nectar a week • 2 chapters from Explanation of Bulough Almaram a week • 2 chapters from Explanation of Forty Nawawi Hadeeth a week • 9 other books (Self Matters by Dr. Phil Mcraw; Mishakatul Masabih; The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo; Qura'an [English]; Cable Channels; Life Lessons For Loving The Way You Live by J. R. Hawthorne, et al.; What do they want from us?; First Things First by Stephen R. Covey; Will They Ever Trust Us Again by Micheal Moore) |
Finished: The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo; Cable Channels; Life Lessons for Loving the Way You Live by J. R. Hawthorne, et al.; The Sealed Nectar; Nawawi Hadeeth; Bulough Almaram; The Library Policeman by Stephen King Total: week 1: 3 of 4 (+3 extra chapters); week 2: 0 of 4; week 3: 2 of 4; week 4: 3 of 4; week 5: 2 of 4 (+1 extra chapter); week 6: 0 of 4 (+3 chapters); week 7: 1 of 4 (+1 chapter); week 8: 1 of 4 (+ 1 chapter); week 9: 1 of 4 (+1 chapter); week 10: 1 of 4 (+2 chapters); week 11: 2 of 4 (+2 chapters); week 12: 2 of 4; week 13: 1 of 2; Other: 5 of 9 Current Books: ; Mishakatul Masabih @p.10; Self Matters by Dr. Phil Mcraw @p.116 (reported July 1st) |
| snoopypoo | 3 books (The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson; Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery; Labyrinth by Kate Mosse) | Finished: The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson Total: 1 of 3 Current Book: Labyrinth by Kate Mosse @p.283 of 697; Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery @p. 221 of 391 (reported June 7th) |
| starfish6188 | 4 books a month (including Life of Pi by Yann Martel; Stones in the River; Diary of Anne Frank) | (reported April 3rd) |
| Annimanni | finish the Alphabet Challenge (books for letters D, E, F, L, N, O, P, Q, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Å, Ä, Ö) | Finished: Sisters by Shobhaa Dé; Gem Squash Tokoloshe by Rachel Zadok; Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster; August Is a Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien; In the Place of Fallen Leaves by Tim Pears; Cezara. Vaene Dionis by Mihai Eminescu; Eluvöödid by Milvi Lembe; Candide by Voltaire; Menneisyydestä säihkyvät silmät by Jessica North; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson; Mustelmilla by Anna Quindlen; Miss Chopsticks by Xinran; Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto; Arkadinen laulu by Gösta Ågren; The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea; Namibia: rikas ja köyhä by Heikki Älli; Pieniä maanjäristyksiä by Jennifer Weiner; Herrasmiehet by Klas Östergren Total: 18 of 18 (reported June 26th) |
| krin511 | 12 books • 6 TBRs from other BookCrossers • 6 other |
Finished: Mine by Robert R. McCammon; Killing Floor by Lee Child; A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories by Robin McKinley; The Attraction by Douglas Clegg; Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke; 3rd Degree by James Patterson; Night Watch by Terry Pratchett; 1776 by David McCullough; One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead by Clare Dudman; Ellison Wonderland by Harlan Ellison; We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Total: BCers': 6 of 6; Other: 5 of 6 Current Books: (reported June 1st) |