Off the Shelf (Making a Dent, 30 books): 15/30, 5 read in March
The 4 Month Challenge: Points for March: 20; Points total: 250; Challenge completed
TBR Dare: Challenge completed
Shakespeare Reading Challenge: Will work on it next month... maybe.
2011 progress:
Books: 15
Pages: 4,035
Thursday, March 31, 2011
March Reading Challenges Summary
Saturday, March 19, 2011
I finished A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner today. I really hope there is a fifth book coming. I will wait years for it (and I probably will have to).
I think I am going to tackle The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. I have only read The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway and I was in eighth grade at the time. I'm hoping I enjoy him more the second time around.
I think I am going to tackle The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. I have only read The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway and I was in eighth grade at the time. I'm hoping I enjoy him more the second time around.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Meme Monday
1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
Pat the Bunny... or something that used to belong to my parents/siblings.
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?
Current: The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
Last: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Next: A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Atonement by Ian McEwan
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?
Maybe Wuthering Heights, but I hope I will finally read it someday.
5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?”
None. Or possibly The Stand by Stephen King.
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
I will usually read the last line of a book when I buy it or pick it out (which is a while before I actually read it).
7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
I read them. I think they're interesting.
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
Lyra from HDM.
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place,
a time)?
Lots of books remind me of childhood. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo reminds me of February 2001 (I haven't read it since).
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
I stole a couple of books from a hostel in the UK... well, the first one was a bookcrossing book so I felt I had the right to take it, but it still probably counts as stealing. For the others, I traded a book for the one I took, but that also still probably counts as stealing. One of the books was Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer though, which I had to take so I could finish it.
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
I think I gave my friend one of my copies of Skellig by David Almond.
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (I never finished either of these the first time I was supposed to read them).
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
Money?
15. Used or brand new?
Either.
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
I've never read any Stephen King. But I am hoping to get to On Writing this year.
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
The Notebook. The movie is far superior to the book.
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
The Golden Compass.
19. Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this
question?
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?
I usually read whatever my friend Alison recommends to me, even though we have pretty different tastes in books.
Pat the Bunny... or something that used to belong to my parents/siblings.
2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?
Current: The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
Last: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
Next: A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner
3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Atonement by Ian McEwan
4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?
Maybe Wuthering Heights, but I hope I will finally read it someday.
5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?”
None. Or possibly The Stand by Stephen King.
6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
I will usually read the last line of a book when I buy it or pick it out (which is a while before I actually read it).
7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
I read them. I think they're interesting.
8. Which book character would you switch places with?
Lyra from HDM.
9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place,
a time)?
Lots of books remind me of childhood. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo reminds me of February 2001 (I haven't read it since).
10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
I stole a couple of books from a hostel in the UK... well, the first one was a bookcrossing book so I felt I had the right to take it, but it still probably counts as stealing. For the others, I traded a book for the one I took, but that also still probably counts as stealing. One of the books was Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer though, which I had to take so I could finish it.
11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
I think I gave my friend one of my copies of Skellig by David Almond.
12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (I never finished either of these the first time I was supposed to read them).
14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
Money?
15. Used or brand new?
Either.
16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
I've never read any Stephen King. But I am hoping to get to On Writing this year.
17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
The Notebook. The movie is far superior to the book.
18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?
The Golden Compass.
19. Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this
question?
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?
I usually read whatever my friend Alison recommends to me, even though we have pretty different tastes in books.
Friday, March 4, 2011
March Reading Challenges Updates
Off the Shelf (Making a Dent, 30 books)
1. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
2. The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
3. A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
5. Mr.Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Total for March: 5
Total: 15
The 4 Month Challenge
1. Read a book written in 2010, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu; 5 points
2. Read a book set in a country/place you'd like to visit, The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig (set in the UK); 15 points
Total for March: 20
Total: 250
Challenge completed!
The Shakespeare Reading Challenge (Desdemona, 6 plays)
I need to get on this....
1. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
2. The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
3. A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
5. Mr.Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Total for March: 5
Total: 15
The 4 Month Challenge
1. Read a book written in 2010, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu; 5 points
2. Read a book set in a country/place you'd like to visit, The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig (set in the UK); 15 points
Total for March: 20
Total: 250
Challenge completed!
The Shakespeare Reading Challenge (Desdemona, 6 plays)
I need to get on this....
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