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Nov 21 2008

Reading Challenges - 2009

Published by Carrie

My goal: at least 135 books read in 2009

1. Blankets by Craig Thompson - 4 stars
2. The House at Riverton by Kate Morton - 4 stars
3. Gossamer by Lois Lowry - 4 stars
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - 3 stars
5. Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg - 3 stars
6. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (audiobook) - 4 stars
7. Testimony by Anita Shreve - 4 stars
8. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang - 3 stars
9. Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich (audiobook) - 4 stars
10. O Jerusalem by Laurie R. King - 3 stars
11. Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith - 3 stars
12. Mayflower Adventure by Colleen L. Reece (read aloud) - 3 stars
13. The Case for Christ for Kids by Lee Strobel & Rob Suggs (read aloud) - 3 stars
14. The Case for a Creator for Kids by Lee Strobel & Rob Suggs (read aloud) - 3 stars
15. The Love Letters by Madeleine L’Engle - 4 stars
16. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (read aloud) - 5 stars
17. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler - 3 stars
18. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon (audiobook) - 4 stars
19. In the Woods by Tana French - 4 stars
20. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - 4 stars
21. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart (read-aloud) - 4 stars
22. Sea Changes by Gail Graham - 4 stars
23. Plymouth Pioneers by Colleen Reece (read-aloud)- 3 stars
24. The Laws of Harmony by Judith R. Hendricks - 5 stars
25. He Chose the Nails by Max Lucado - 4 stars
26. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons - 3 stars
27. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon (audiobook) - 4 stars

My goal: 70 of my own books

1. The House at Riverton by Kate Morton - 4 stars
2. Gossamer by Lois Lowry - 4 stars
3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - 3 stars
4. Testimony by Anita Shreve - 4 stars
5. The Case for Christ for Kids by Lee Strobel and Rob Suggs (read aloud) - 3 stars
6. The Case for a Creator for Kids by Lee Strobel and Rob Suggs (read aloud) - 3 stars
7. The Love Letters by Madeleine L’Engle - 4 stars
8. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler - 3 stars
9. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart - 4 stars

My goal: 25 books from my public library

1. Blankets by Craig Thompson - 4 stars - related post
2. Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg - 3 stars
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (audio) - 4 stars
4. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang - 3 stars
5. Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich (audio) - 4 stars
6. O Jerusalem by Laurie R. King - 3 stars
7. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon (audio) - 4 stars
8. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - 4 stars
9. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon (audio) - 4 stars

My goal: 12 audiobooks

1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon - 4 stars
2. Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich - 4 stars
3. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon - 4 stars
4. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon - 4 stars

1. Leonardo’s Swans by Karen Essex
2. The Sense of Paper by Taylor Holden
3. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
4. The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
5. Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
6. The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe

My goal: to read 30 essays during 2009.

1. The Aeroplanes at Brescia by Franz Kafka
2. Chicago by Rudyard Kipling
3. Market Day by D.H. Lawrence
4. Chrysanthemums by Maurice Maeterlinck
5. Anna Karenina by Thomas Mann
6. Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham
7. Manhattan: The Great American Desert by Jean Paul Sartre
8. The Sentence is a Lonely Place by Gary Lutz
9. Chesterton on Shaw by Bernard Shaw
10. On Being Found Out by William Makepeace Thackeray
11. On Art by Leo Tolstoy
12. Hamlet and Don Quixote by Ivan Turgenev
13. Traveling with a Reformer by Mark Twain
14. The Bible as Poetry by Walt Whitman
15. Impressions of America by Oscar Wilde
16. How Should One Read a Book? by Virgina Woolf
17. Magic by William Butler Yeats

Goal: to read the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon in order before the fall release of the next book, An Echo in the Bone.

1. ~~Outlander~~ - finished 1/28/2009
2. ~~Dragonfly in Amber~~ - finished 3/12/2009
3. ~~Voyager~~ - finished 4/16/2009
4. Drums of Autumn
5. The Fiery Cross
6. A Breath of Snow and Ashes

My goal: to read at least 6 graphic novels in 2009.

1. Mom’s Cancer by Brian Fies (technically, this is a graphic memoir, but hey…)
2. Black: The Birth of Evil by Ted Dekker, adapted by Matt Hansen & Bob Strachan
3. Red: The Heroic Rescue by Ted Dekker, adapted by Matt Hansen & Bob Strachan
4. White: The Great Pursuit by Ted Dekker, adapted by Matt Hansen & Bob Strachan
5. Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes
6. ~~Watchmen~~ by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons - completed April 14, 2009
7. ~~Blankets~~ by Craig Thompson - completed January 5, 2009
8. ~~Plain Janes~~ by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg - completed January 25, 2009
9. ~~American Born Chinese~~ by Gene Luen Yang - completed February 6, 2009

My goal: to read the following twelve books from my to-be-read stacks during 2009.

1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners by James Joyce
3. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
4. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
5. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
6. Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather
7. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
8. So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
9. The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
10. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
11. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - finished 1/23/2009

1. The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton
2. Wives and Daughtersby Elizabeth Gaskell
3. Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa Cather
4. Angle of Reposeby Wallace Stegner
5. Women in Loveby D.H. Lawrence
6. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

(This challenge is a holdover from 2008.)

1. Three by Andrea Lee
2. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Lee
3. Ghosts by Edwidge Danticat
4. Spinning Sugar by Morag Prunty
5. At Least There’ll Be Diamonds by Martina Devlin
6. Part-time Lover by Tina Reilly
7. Deep Throat by Clare Dowling
8. Facades by Patricia Scanlan
9. Irish Girls Are Back in Town by Suzanne Higgins
10. How Emily Got Promoted by Sarah Webb
11. The Wake by Una Brankin
12. Waiting by Amos Oz
13. The Calling by Cecilia Ahern
14. You, Me and Tallisker by Julie Parsons
15. Blue Murder by Joan O’Neill
16. Flesh and Blood by Marita Conlon-McKenna
17. Insight by Annie Sparrow
18. A Life of Two Halves by Deirdre Purcell
19. First Love by Mary Ryan
20. Carrot for Breakfast by Rosaleen Linehan
21. Secret Letter Writers by Catherine Foley
22. Dinner with Annie by Gemma O’Connor
23. The End of (Their) Affair by Aine Greaney
24. The Kiss by Guy de Maupassant
25. The Limner by Julian Barnes
26. The Missing Statues by Simon Van Booy
27. Free Radicals by Alice Munro
28. Soldier’s Joy by Antonya Nelson
29. The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr
30. The Iron Shroud by William Mudford
31. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. Daughters of the Vicar by D.H. Lawrence
33. The Harvest by Amy Hempel
34. A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
35. The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
36. A Case of Identity by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
37. The Boscombe Valley Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
38. The Five Orange Pips by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
39. The Man With the Twisted Lip by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
40. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
41. The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
42. The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
43. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
44. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
45. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle