November 1, 2007 through January 30, 2008
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Last year’s From the Stacks Challenge was my very first challenge ever, so of course I have to participate again this year. It felt really great completing that first challenge!
The rules for this challenge are:
To read 5 books that we have already purchased, have been meaning to get to, have been sitting on the nightstand, and haven’t read before.
This is an ongoing challenge that includes not only works that Orson Scott Card has written, but also works that he has edited, introduced, and recommended. Officially begins January 1, 2008. For more info, go here.
My working list:
Asimov, Isaac (any)
Austen, Jane (any)
Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson. Peter and the Starcatchers. Peter and the Shadow Thieves
Bradbury, Ray (any)
Bronte sisters (any) Card, Orson Scott (any)
Ender’s Game
Ender in Exile
Christie, Agatha (any)
Dickens, Charles (any)
Evanovich, Janet (any)
Gaiman, Neil (any)
Smith, Alexander McCall (any)
Tolkien, J.R.R. (any)
Twain, Mark (any)
Tyler, Anne (any)
Wells, H.G. (any)
White, E.B. Charlotte’s Web
White, T.H. The Once and Future King
Winspear, Jacqueline (any)
Extras/Alternates:
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder ’98
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver ’02, ’06
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant ’06
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden ’98, ’02, ’06
Winnie-the-Pooh – A.A. Milne ’98, ’02
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje ’98
The Other Boleyn Girl – Phillippa Gregory ’02, ’06
Northern Lights – Philip Pullman ’02, ’06
The Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult ’02
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold ’06
Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier ’98
I said I would only read 5-6 books for this challenge, and I’ve completed 5 [edit: I actually finished 7 before Dec. 31] so I’m saying that this challenge is complete. I’ll likely add at least 2 more links to reviews of the remaining titles on this list by the end of the year. But, it just feels so good to cross things off my to-do list, so I’m crossing this one off. I have other challenges I need to worry about now!
I really enjoyed this challenge, and I’m hoping that Lisa will continue this or someone will host a similar one next year.
Beowulf trans. by Seamus Heaney
The Thirteenth Tale
Nicholas & Alexandra
Evening Class
Pride & Prejudice
Jane Eyre
East of Eden
The Screwtape Letters
Persuasion
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Awakening
Wuthering Heights
Twelfth Night
Little Women
To Kill a Mockingbird (Review)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Review)
Where the Red Fern Grows
Booked to Die
The Eyre Affair (Review)
Grapes of Wrath
Shadow of the Wind
Charlotte’s Web
The Echo Maker (Review)
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Review)
March (Review)
Mere Christianity
My Sister’s Keeper (Review)
Fahrenheit 451 (Review)
Anna Karenina
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Review)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Giver (Review)
Number the Stars (Review)
Island of the Blue Dolphin
A Wrinkle in Time (Review)
Flowers in the Attic
Read at least 6 unread authors.
September 2007 through February 2008
I finished this challenge with 6 books of new-to-me authors. I’ll continue to post reviews here, though, of new unread authors until the end of December.
For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. (Psalm 84:11, ESV)
