I hadn’t really planned on participating in this one in ‘09 (don’t I always say that?), but then I said to myself that I could always just participate in the new TBR Lite Challenge. Then I had another talk with myself that said, ‘You didn’t finish the tbr challenge in ‘08, so do you really want to go out on a bad note?’.
No, I didn’t, so here I am signing up for this one again. With, hopefully, some easy books that will be a cinch to complete. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective series and the Eyre Affair series are books that I thought I could get to in ‘08 but didn’t. They’re easy and fun to read, and I want to read them! So read them I will for this challenge. Most of the other books listed qualify for the 1% Well Read Challenge, so there is additional motivation for those titles as well. Thanks, Jenn for hosting again! (I also love the Scrabble button — I’m a Scrabble freak!)
- Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith
- In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
- Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
- Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
- The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
- Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
- First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
- Fear and Trembling by Nothomb
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- The Reader by Schlink
Alternates:
- Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
- Unless by Carol Shields
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak
- Ficciones by Borges
- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
- Remains of the Day by Ishiguro
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Calvino
- Possession by A.S. Byatt
- The Devil and Miss Prym by Coelho
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
