Challenge Wrapup 2008

Total completed challenge count – 17!

Total challenge books/stories read – 80+.

Further details with links to my reviews below:

Jan-Dec 2008
Colour:
The White Tiger
Animal:
The Bower Bird
First Name:
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Place:
Death in Rome
Weather:
Violets and Strawberries in The Snow
Plant:
The Blue Flower

3 books September – December 2008

1) The Remains of the Day (No review) 2) Catholics  3) The Turn of the Screw

Objective: 9 books, 9 authors, 9 countries April – December 2008
1) Death in Rome – Germany  2) Pandora in the Congo – Spain 3) The Fifth Woman – Sweden 4) The Story of A Marriage – USA 5) Lorraine Connection – France  6) Romanno Bridge – Scotland  7) A Case of Exploding Mangoes – Pakistan  8. Country of the Grand – Ireland 9) Late Nights on Air – Canada

Objective: 6 novellas April – September 2008
1) The Falconer  2) Michael Kohlhaas  3) The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum  4) Doctor Glas (No Review) 5) The Lesson of the Master 6) The Bachelors

Objective: 6 Booker nominees Jan – Dec 2008
1) Lies of Silence  2) The Colour of Blood  3) Fasting, Feasting
4) The Stone Diaries  5) The Secret River (No Review)  6) A Case of Exploding Mangoes

THEMED READING CHALLENGE

Objective 4 Books Jan – June 2008
Theme: Our Feathered Friends

1) The Bower Bird  2) The Cry of the Owl 3) The Falconer 4) The Midwich Cuckoos

Objective: 4 titles describing characters within March – May 2008
1) A Partisan’s Daughter  2) Tess of the D’Urbervilles  3) The Man In The Window  4) The Artificial Silk Girl

2 New to U
Objective: Discover 2 new authors Feb-May 2008
1) Penelope Fitzgerald  2) Wolfgang Koeppen

Objective: 5 books with numbers in the title Jan – August 2008
1) The One From The Other  2) First Among Sequels  3) The Fifth Woman  4) Where Three Roads Meet  5) The Other Two

Objective 3 books recommended by others
May – November 2008
1) The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets 2) Engleby (No review)  3) The Remains of the Day (No review)

July 2007 – June 2008 Objective 12 award-winning titles
1) Gone With The Wind 2) Sacred Hunger 3) The Lizard Cage 4) The Boy and The Sea 5) Consolation 6) Mister Pip 7) The Tenderness of Wolves 8. Joseph Knight 9) The Trick Is To Keep Breathing 10) Foreign Parts 11)A Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam 12) The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt 13) Restless 14) The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne 15) Set In Stone 16) The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox 17) What Was Lost 18. The Bower Bird 19) The Stone Diaries 20) Fall On Your Knees 21) The Road 22) The Great Victorian Collection 23) The Secret River (No review) 24) Death In Rome 25) Fault Lines 26) Pack of Lies (No review) 27) The Oxford Murders 28. The Blue Flower 29. The Lost Honour of Katherina Blum

   

Objective: 4 books by Russian authors or set in Russia
Jan – Dec 2008

1) The Grasshopper  2) A Vengeful Longing  3) The Overcoat 4) The Road of Bones (No review)

Objective 1: 8 published 2008
1) A Vengeful Longing  2) The Long Delirious Burning Blue
3) A Partisan’s Daughter 4) Trauma  5) The Man in the Window  6) Pandora in the Congo  7) The Falconer  8) Being Emily  9) The Ice Princess  10) Glister  11) Lorraine Connection 12) A Case of Exploding Mangoes  13) Country of the Grand  14) Late Nights on Air
15) This is Not About Me  16) Burning Secret  17) The Bachelors  18) Glenfarron
19) Typhoon 20) The White Tiger  21) The Secret Scripture  22) The Behaviour of Moths

Additional Personal Objective 2: 7 published 2007

1) The Bower Bird  2) The Book of Words  3) The One from the Other  4) Fault Lines  5) Where Three Roads Meet  6) Helpless  7) Binu and The Great Wall (No review)

Objective 12 historical reads from differing genres jan – Dec 2008
Faction
1) Author! Author!
Memoir
2) This is Not About Me
Adult Fiction
3 ) The Radetzky March (No review) 4 ) Innocent Traitor  5 ) The Secret River (No review) 6 ) The Blue Flower  7) North and South   Beware of Pity  9) Land of Marvels (Review pending)

Historical Crime
10) A Gentle Axe  11) A Vengeful Longing  12) The One From The Other

What An Animal!
6 books with animals in the title or animals as the main character
July – December 2008
1) The Book of Chameleons (No review)
2)The White Tiger  3) The Raven  4) The Behaviour of Moths
5) The Grasshopper  6) One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (No review)

UNREAD AUTHORS CHALLENGE
6 Books August 2008 – January 2009
1) David Lodge
2) Henry James
3) Colm Toibin
4) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
5) Anton Chekhov
6) Nikolai Gogol

Objective: 8 Books 8 Consecutive Decades Jan – Dec 2008
1888 The Lesson of the Master

1891 Tess of the D’Urbervilles
1900 The Touchstone
1913 Burning Secret
1922 Amok and Other Stories
1932 The Artificial Silk Girl
1940 The Power and the Glory
1954 Death in Rome
1962 The Cry of the Owl
1974 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
1987 The Colour of Blood
1997 Fall On Your Knees