| Participant | Goal(s) | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| mrsgaskell | 14 books • 2 classics • 2 CanLit • 2 re-reads • 2 new authors • 2 other countries • 4 others |
Finished: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson; Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden; The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson; Star Gazing by Linda Gillard; The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale; Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen;
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus;
I Am Hutterite by Mary-Ann Kirkby;
Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner;
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill; The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence; Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope; Smilla's Sense of Snow; The Hobbit Total: Other Countries: 2 of 2; CanLit: 2 of 2; New: 2 of 2; Other: 4 of 4; Classics: 2 of 2; Re-reads: 2 of 2 (reported June 3rd) |
| Chania | 18 books • 9 1001 books • 5 for the 6 continents/6 countries/6 books- challenge • 4 TBRs |
Finished: Musteloitsu by Cornelia Funke; How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard; The Quilter's Legacy by Jennifer Chiaverini; Päiväkirja 1942-44 by Helene Berr; Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin; Minun Pietarini by Mark Netsajev; Näkemiin, pikku naiset by Marcela Serrano; May We Borrow Your Husband? by Graham Greene; The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton; The Turn of the Screw by Henry James; Illuusioiden kirja by Paul Auster; Dead Air by Iain Banks; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R.L. Stevenson; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon; Amsterdam by Ian McEwan; The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley; New York Trilogy by Paul Auster; Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys Total: TBRs: 4 of 4; 6C/6C/6B: 5 of 5; 1001: 9 of 9 (reported June 16th) |
| Nu-Knees | • 100+ Classic pages per week • 3 non-fiction books (1 per month from these: Casanova or the Art of Happiness by Lydia Elem; Istanbul Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk; Lives of Mothers and Daughters (Growing Up with Alice Munro) by Sheila Munro) |
Finished: Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie; Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell; Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; Casanova or the Art of Happiness by Lydia Elem; Lives of Mothers and Daughters (Growing Up with Alice Munro) by Sheila Munro; Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope Total: April: 4 of 4; May: 5 of 5; June 4 of 4; Non-fiction: 3 of 3 (reported June 25th) |
| FeistyPom2Love | 8 books | Finished: Stranded With A Spy by Merline Lovelace; Hide In Plain Sight by Marta Perry; The Christmas Ball by Gayle Eden; Snowbound by Gayle Eden; Speed Dating by Nancy Warren; The Scent of God by Beryl Singleton Bissell; Curtain by Agatha Christie; Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Total: 8 of 8 (reported May 10th) |
| tqd | All bookrings/rays (Silas Marner by George Eliot; Darkmans by Nicola Barker; Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton; A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz; The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith; The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins; The Fern Tattoo by David Brooks; Tomaree by Debbie Robson; The Master and Margharita by Mikhail Bulgakov) | Finished:Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton; The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith; The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks; Tomaree by Debbie Robson; Silas Marner by George Eliot; The Fern Tattoo by David Brooks Total: 6 of 10 Current Book: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (reported June 13th) |
| Ibis3 | • 4 CanLit Challenge books (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler; Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie; They Shall Inherit the Earth by Morley Callaghan; Antoinette de Mirecourt by Rosanna Leprohon) |
Finished: Past Caring by Robert Goddard; The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane; The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler Total: Other: 1 of 3; BCers': 1 of 3; CanLit: 1 of 4 Current Books: Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare @III, ii; Collected Stories from the Canadian Magazine @88 of 235; The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa @184 of 320 (reported June 29th) |
| bluenoser | 20 books • 5 books with more than 400pp • 15 others |
Finished: The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd; Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich; Wasted Years by John Harvey; Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd; Witch Hunt by Ian Rankin; Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House by M. C. Beaton; Absolution for Murder by Peter Tremayne; Beneath the Bleeding by Val McDermid;
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton; The Devil's Hunt by P. C. Doherty; The Woods by Harlan Coben; Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs; The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill; The Dream Lover by William Boyd; A Darker Domain by Val McDermid; An Ancient Evil by P. C. Doherty; A Mapmaker's Dream by James Cowan;
The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd;
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym;
The Devil's Domain by Paul Doherty; A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke; A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant; Paws Before Dying by Susan Conant; The Butcher of St Peter's by Michael Jecks; Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd; Poisoned Cherries by Quintin Jardine; Total: 400+pp: 6 of 5; Others: 20 of 15 Current Books: Helen of Troy by Margaret George; A Killer in Winter by Susanna Gregory; Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton (reported June 15th) |
| Miss-Owl | 10 books (Mountain Rain by Eileen Crossman Fraser; Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky; White Teeth by Zadie Smith; The Fern Tattoo by David Brooks; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie; The Lord of the Flies by William Golding; The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R. L. Stevenson; TBD) | Finished:Mountain Rain by Eileen Crossman Fraser; How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton; The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R. L. Stevenson; The Lord of the Flies by William Golding; White Teeth by Zadie Smith; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie; The Fern Tattoo by David Brooks; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Total: 9 of 10 Current Book: Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (reported June 22nd) |
| Annimanni | 15 books • 2 books from the 1001 list • 1 book from the 1000 years—100 books list • 6 books for the Ultimate Challenge • 3 books for the Geographical Challenge • 3 other books |
(reported March 15th) |
| perfect-circle | 13 books • 10 1001 books (Vanity Fair by W. M. Thackeray; Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco; Villette by Charlotte Brontë; David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; Light in August by William Faulkner; The Child In Time by Ian McEwan; For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway; The Trial by Franz Kafka; The Sea by John Banville; For by J. M. Coetzee) • 3 non-fiction (Sleepers by L. Carcaterra; Hidden Agendas by J. Pilger; Hellish Nell by M. Gaskill) |
Finished: Foe by J. M. Coetzee The Sea by John Banville; Hidden Agendas by J. Pilger; Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco; David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; The Child In Time by Ian McEwan; The Trial by Franz Kafka Total: 1001: 6 of 10; Non-Fiction: 1 of 3 Current Book: Villette by Charlotte Brontë (reported May 19th) |
| nicolesinger | 10 TBRs (TBD) | Finished: The Ultimate Cheapskate's Road Map to True Riches by Jeff Yeager; Eight Strange Tales by Vic Ghidalia, ed.; Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris; Black Powder War by Naomi Novik; Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett; Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman; Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik; Rube Goldberg vs. the Machine Age; Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett; Horrible Beginnings by Steven H. Silver & Martin H. Greenberg eds.; Liberated Parents, Liberated Children by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish Total: 10 of 10 (reported June 19th) |
| bindibooks | 15 books • 2 non-fiction • 2 fantasy • 1 Neil Gaiman book • 2 related to religion/spirituality • 1 over 300pp long • 5 others • up to 3500pp for the year |
(reported March 16th) |
| Geileis | 6 Award-winning/listed TBRs (Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; In Custody by Anita Desai; I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward; The Riders by Tim Winton; What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies; Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood) |
Finished: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; In Custody by Anita Desai; I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward; What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies; The Riders by Tim Winton; Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Total: 6 of 6 (reported June 27th) |
| jneni | 20 books • 6 books for The Ultimate Challenge 2009 • 8 books for The Color Challenge 2009 • 2 1001 books/classics • 4 books by new authors |
Finished: Small Sacrifices;
The Poet;
The Secret History;
Cross Bones; Smoke Screen;
Size 12 Is Not Fat/Size 14 Is Not Fat Either;
Eyes; Killing Floor;
Death on The Nile;
Death in the Clouds; The Wasp Factory;
CatNap;
Kafka on the Shore;
Exquisite Corpse; The Black Echo; Dust to Dust; A Clockwork Orange; Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town; Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time; Murder on the Prowl Total: Ultimate: 8 of 8; New: 4 of 4; Colour: 6 of 6; 1001: 2 of 2 (reported June 28th) |
| Neige49 | 10 books |
Finished: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson; The Museum Guard by Howard Norman; The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles; Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett; Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah; The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; Ends of the Earth by Roy Chapman Andrews; Summer of a Dormouse by John Mortimer; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Total: 10 of 10 (reported June 11th) |
| Nagwan | 10 Books | Finished: The Time in Between by David Bergen; Thanks For the Memories by Cecelia Ahern Total: 2 of 10 Current Book: (reported April 18th) |
| janey-canuck | • 10 books from TBR |
Finished: Watermelon by Marion Keyes; Living the Good Life by David Patchell-Evans; Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe; Three Black Skirts by Anna Johnson; Twilight by Stephenie Meyer; New Moon by Stephenie Meyer; How Starbucks Save My Life by Michael Gates Gill; Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes; The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs; Angels by Marian Keyes Total: 10 of 10 (reported June 28th) |
| lane1088 | 18 books
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Finished: STNG: Power Hungry by Howard Weinstein; Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston; Hidden Prey by John Sandford; Crewel World by Monica Ferris; Come Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie; The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill; Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card; Delusions of Grandma by Carrie Fisher; Tek War by Willam Shatner; The Chicago Way by Michael T Harvey; Tek Lords by Willam Shatner; Clay's Ark by Octavia Butler; The Regatta Mystery & Other Stories by Agatha Christie; Tek Lab by William Shatner; Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris; Where Memories Lie by Deborah Crombie; Nimisha's Ship by Anne McCaffrey; Promises in Death by J. D. Robb; Tek Vengence by Willam Shatner; Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann; Wyrms by Orson Scott Card; The Secret Books of Paradys I by Tanith Lee; The Secret Books of Paradys II by Tanith Lee; The Secret Books of Paradys III by Tanith Lee; The Secret Books of Paradys IV by Tanith Lee; Dead Ringer by Lisa Scottoline; The Underdog and Other Stories by Agatha Christie; STNG: Here There Be Dragons by John Peel Total: TBRs: 25 of 15; Bookclubs: 3 of 3 (reported June 23rd) |
| Ladybug768 | 13 books that aren't for school • finish Atlas Shrugged • 12 other TBRs |
Finished: Cutting Loose by Susan Andersen; Wife for Hire by Janet Evanovich; The Grand Finale by Janet Evanovich; Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews;
Tribute by Nora Roberts; Trailblazer: An Intimate Biography of Sarah Palin by Lorenzo Benet;
Little Bitty Lies by Mary Kay Andrews Total: TBRs: 4 of 12 Current Book: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (reported May 8th) |
| MaryZee | • 7 books registered by BCers • 3 registered pre-2004 |
Finished: Phantom Lover by Rebecca York; The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster; The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life by Kathy L. Patrick; Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder; Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy; Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown; Rest in Pieces by Rita Mae Brown; Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett; Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre by Miss Read; The Arm of the Stone by Victoria Strauss Total: pre-2004: 3 of 3; BCers: 7 of 7 (reported June 21st) |
| Neuilly | 3 books | Finished: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Total: 1 of 3 Current Books: (reported May 7th) |
| NICNIC2 | 4 1001 books | Finished: The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd; A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell; Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell Total: 4 of 4 (reported May 29th) |