SIY (Set It Yourself) Reading Challenge Sixth edition
(October-December, 2008)
| Participant | Goal(s) | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| janey-canuck | 10 books from TBR • 1 classic • 9 others |
Finished: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison; Getting Things Done by David Allen; Blink by Malcolm Gladwell; The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell; You: The Smart Patient by Michael Roizen & Mehmet Oz; How to be Good by Nick Hornby; Why Companies Fail by Mark Ingebretsen; Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler Total: Other: 8 of 9 Current Book: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (reported December 28th) |
| bluenoser | 27 books • 12 TBRs that have sat on my shelves for more than two years • 15 others |
Finished: Whistling for the Elephants by Sandi Toksvic; Grasshopper by Barbara Vine; The Night Watch by Sarah Waters; Writers of the Purple Sage by Barbara Burnett Smith; Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym; Rockbound by Frank Parker Day; The Soul Slayer by Paul Doherty; At Death's Door by Robert Barnard; A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini; Still Life by Louise Penny; Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown; Paddington Marches On by Michael Bond; Anything Considered by Peter Mayle; Murder in Ordinary Time by Sister Carol Anne O'Marie; Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner; The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig; The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier; The Woman Who Walked into the Sea by Philip R. Craig; The Lady Chapel by Candace Robb; Last Tango in Toulouse by Mary Moody; The Polkerton Giant by Ian Ogilvy; Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard; The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. LeGuin; Revelation by C. J. Sansom; Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome; Vanity Dies Hard by Ruth Rendell; Jack Absolute by C. C. Humphreys Total: Others: 15 of 15; Old TBRs: 12 of 12 (reported January 2nd) |
| mrsgaskell | • 6 classics (The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope;
Pamela by Samuel Richardson;
Hard Times by Charles Dickens;
Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell;
Moby Dick by Herman Melville;
Washington Square by Henry James) • 7 Canadiana (As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross; No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod; The Clockmaker by Thomas C. Haliburton; The Imperialist by Sara Jeanette Duncan; The Diviners by Margaret Laurence; The Innocent Traveller by Ethel Wilson; Bonheur d’occasion (The Tin Flute) by Gabrielle Roy) • 1 Readalong (East of Eden by John Steinbeck) |
Finished: Hard Times by Charles Dickens; Washington Square by Henry James; The Innocent Traveller by Ethel Wilson; East of Eden by John Steinbeck; Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell; As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross; No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod; The Diviners by Margaret Laurence; Pamela by Samuel Richardson Total: Classics: 4 of 6; Readalong: 1 of 1; Canadiana: 4 of 7 Current Book: (reported December 31st) |
| Nu-Knees | • 100+ Classic pages per week • 3 non-fiction books (1 per month: Visions and Voyages; Daughters of Britannia; Now Then Lad) |
Finished: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton; Visions and Voyages by Fay Sampson; The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope; Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell; Daughters of Britannia by Katie Hickman; The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas; Now Then Lad: Tales of a Country Bobby by Mike Pannett; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde; Fathers and Sons by I. S. Turgenev Total: October: 4 of 4; November: 5 of 5; December: 4 of 4; Non-fiction: 3 of 3 (reported December 23rd) |
| Geileis | 6 Award-winning TBRs (+2 to complete a trilogy) |
Finished: Atonement by Ian McEwan; The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy; The Shipping News by E.Annie Proulx; The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert; When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro; Regeneration by Pat Barker; The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker Total: 6 of 6 (reported December 31st) |
| MaryZee | 10 books registered by BCers | Finished: Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson; Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich; A Cat Abroad by Peter Gethers; Blame it on Chocolate by Jennifer Greene; The Lithium Murder by Camille Minichino; Fashionistas by Lynn Messina; Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden; Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki; Anything Considered by Peter Mayle; The Lonely Silver Rain by John D. MacDonald Total: 10 of 10 (reported December 27th) |
| Miss-Owl | 10 1001 Books (TBD) | Finished: Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth; Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen; Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov; Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides; Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky; The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole; Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier; An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro; The Trial by Franz Kafka; Vathek by William Beckford Total: 10 of 10 (reported January 1st) |
| istop4books | • 3 pre-WWII books • 10 TBRs • 2 book club books |
(reported September 15th) |
| Neige49 | • 3 books by African American authors |
Finished: Shopping For Porcupine by Seth Kantner; Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips; One in a Million by Kimberla Lawson Roby; Winter Solstice; Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein; The Daughters of Music by Susannah Lawrence Total: Others: 2 of 2; African-American: 2 of 3; TBR: 2 of 3 Current Book: The Quest of the Silver Fleece by W.E.B DuBois (reported December 31st) |
| Megi53 |
12 books that do not qualify for Reduce Mt. TBR Challenge (TBD) |
Finished: The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino; Horse People by Michael Korda; Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Total: 3 of 12 Current Book: (reported November 26th) |
| lane1088 | 16 books
• 12 TBRs • 3 Charlotte Sleuths books • 1 Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club book • 65 magazines including science, alumni, LHJ, etc • 10 short stories magazines including ellery queen, scifi age, asimov |
Finished: Asimov's Science Fiction (March 1980; August 1981; May 1983; June 1983; July 1983; July 1984; November 1986; June 1989); The Voyage by David Drake; Prince of Darkness by Sharon Kay Penman; Science (317, no. 5838; 317, nos.5841-5846; 318, nos. 5847-5858; 319, nos. 5859-5871; 320, nos. 5872-84; 321, nos. 5885-5897; 322, nos. 5898-9); A Dangerous Mourning by Anne Perry; AMWA Journal (22, nos.1-3; 33, nos. 2-3); Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris; Grass by Sherri Tepper; A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava; Analog (July 1982); Hitchcock (November 1987); 100 Q &A on Bone Marrow Transplants by EWA Carrier; One Hundred Days by David Biro; Index to Murder by Jo Deresko; Long Time Gone by J. A Jance; 100 questions about Leukemia by Edward Ball; Coping with Leukemia by Ann Apel; Childhood Leukemia by Nancy Keene; The Ice Trap by Kitty Sewell; Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith; Street of the Five Moons by Elizabeth Peters Total: Short Story Magazines: 10 of 10; TBRs: 14 of 12; Charlotte Sleuths: 3 of 3; Magazines: 66 of 65; Sci Fi/Fantasy: 1 of 1 |
| Annimanni | 20 books • 5 books for the geographical challenge • 3 books from the 1001 list • 2 books from the 1000 years–100 books list • 3 books of nonfiction • 7 other books |
Finished: Theresen valinnat by Hanne-Vibeke Holst; The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Sky Burial by Xinran; Digging to America by Anne Tyler; Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones; Hyvästä kodista by Bonnie Burnard; Pysäytä ilmastonmuutos by Katja Antila; God's Own Country by Stephen Bates; Rakkautta ruukin varjossa by Katja Alvik; Curling-vanhemmat ja lapsityrannit by Bent Hougaard; Syttymispiste by Patricia Cornwall; Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins; Pieni hiljainen mies by Vesa Ämmälä; Inca-Kola by Matthew Parris; Arpi by Niina Repo;Yoga School Dropout by Lucy Edge;Lukija by Bernhard Schlink; Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat by J. L. Runeberg; Essays by Michel de Montaigne Total: Geographic: 5 of 5; 1001: 3 of 3; Other: 7 of 7; Non-fiction: 3 of 3; 1000 years: 2 of 2 (reported December 30th) |
| blackwidow1971 | • complete A-Z author challenge • 5 TBRs (TBD) |
Finished: Suffer the Little Children by Donna Leon; The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee; The Possession of Delia Sutherland by Barbara Neil; In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje; The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon; America by Joe Queenan; Island by Jane Rogers; Waterland by Graham Swift; Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor; Away by Jane Urquhart; Death At The Bar by Ngaio Marsh; The Sign of Jonah by Boeli Van Leeuwen; Death In Cyprus by M.M. Kaye; Between The Acts by Virginia Woolf; Sky Burial by Xinran Xue; Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto; The Attack on the Mill & Other Stories by Emile Zola; The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin; The Great Fire of London by Peter Ackroyd Total: A-Z: 15 of 15; TBRs: 5 of 5 (reported December 19th) |
| MollyGrue | • original Dune saga (Dune; Dune Messiah; Children of Dune; God Emperor of Dune; Heretics of Dune; Chapterhouse: Dune) | Finished: Dune; Dune Messiah; Children of Dune; God Emperor of Dune; Heretics of Dune; Chapterhouse: Dune Total: 6 of 6 (reported January 1st) |
| Ibis3 | catch up all journal entries, blog posts, releasing & bookrings |
Finished: blog - As For Me and My House; Winter Studies and Summer Rambles; Anne of Green Gables; journal - As For Me and My House; Winter Studies and Summer Rambles; One for the Money; Lorna Doone; Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; release - One for the Money Total: blog posts: 4 of 4; journal entries: 6 of 6; releases: 1 of 2 (reported December 31st) |
| nicolesinger | 10 TBRs • 3 from other BCers (Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture by Carol Queen; The Screenwriter’s Workbook by Syd Field; Be My Guest by Conrad Hilton; The Best of Lester del Rey by Lester del Rey) • 1 listed before 2007 • 1 listed before 2008 • 5 others |
Finished: Real Live Nude Girl by Carol Queen; Spider, Spin Me a Web by Lawrence Block; The Screen-writer's Workbook by Syd Field; How To Do Financial Asset Investigations by Ronald L. Mendell; Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue by Danielle Ofri; The Best of Lester del Rey by Lester del Rey; Zodiac by Neal Stephenson; Stranger by Night, Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett (eds.); Idoru by William Gibson; Homeschooling the Teen Years by Cafi Cohen Total: BCers': 3 of 3; pre-2007: 1 of 1; pre-2008: 1 of 1; Other: 5 of 5 (reported December 31st) |
| -Nika- | 13 books • finish reading Sybil • 3 English TBRs (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey; The Man Who Wasn't There by Pat Barker; The Lake of Darkness by Ruth Rendell) • finish ABC Thriller Challenge (A; I; J; N; Q; U; X; Y; Z) |
Finished: Sybil; Noorderveen by Arnaldur Indridason; The Man Who Wasn't There from Pat Barker; De commissaris en het zwijgen by Håkan Nesser; One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey; Het laatste uur by Iris Johansen; Die je niet ziet by Mari Jungstedt; Duistere dreiging by Margareth Yorke; De regels by Peter de Zwaan; The Lake of Darkness by Ruth Rendell; Mooie Leugens by Lisa Unger; Wraak by Patrick Quinlan; Een delicate dans by Qiu Xiaolong Total: Sybil: 1 of 1; ABC: 8 of 9; English TBRs: 3 of 3 (reported December 29th) |
| Gnoe | 3 Bookcrossing books (Obasan; +2 of White Oleander; The Golden Notebook; Victorine; Falling Angels; Wild Berries) | Finished: Obasan; The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing; Wild Berries by Jevgeni Jevtoesjenko Total: 3 of 3 (reported December 31st) |
| tqd | 6 TBRs that have been in possession for over a year (TBD) | Finished: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg; Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore; Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde; Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce; The Power and The Glory by Graham Greene Total: 6 of 6 (reported December 26h) |
| Nagwan | 10 Books (Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert; The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey; If Life Is a Game These Are the Rules by Cherei Carter Scott) | (reported October 9th) |
| jneni | 10 Books (The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco; Dracula by Bram Stoker; Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison; Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie; The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak; Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood; The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro; Amsterdam by Ian McEwan) | Finished: The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco; Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell; The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak; Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood; Amsterdam by Ian McEwan; Dracula by Bram Stoker; Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Total: 7 of 10 Current Books: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (reported December 7th) |