(Hyperlinks to my reviews on Lizzy’s Literary Life)
2010 Challenge (Complete)
2 Young Adult: Blood Red, Snow White – Marcus Sedgwick (Read, not reviewed) / Reckless – Cornelia Funke
2 Unknown to Me: Miss Thing – Nora Chassler / After The Fire, A Still Small Voice – Evie Wyld
2 Win, Win: Soldiers of Salamis – Javier Cercas / The Sweetness of Life – Paulus Hochgatterer
2 Bought from Charity Shops: The Silence of The Rain / Faustine
2 Bought In 2010: The Ninth Wave / White Ravens
2 Non-Fiction: Family Romance – John Lanchester / The Snows of Yesteryear – Gregor von Rezzori
2 Bad Bloggers: Hearts and Minds – Amanda Craig / The White Woman on the Green Bicycle – Monique Roffey
2 in TBR on 1.11.2009: Dirty Snow – Georges Simenon / May Day – F S Fitzgerald (Read, not reviewed)
2 Shiny and New: The Long Song – Andrea Levy / Midnight In A Perfect Life – Michael Collins (Read, not reviewed)
2 Older Than Me: The Eternal Husband – Fyodor Dostoevsky / The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
The Tin Drum Readalong
Part One: 31.01.2010
Part Two: 28.02.2010
Part Three: Coming soon!
Really Old Classic Challenge
1. Parzival – Wolfram von Eschenbach (Missed the deadline – will read, but not in 2010.)
Themed Reading Challenge (Bloggers Recommendations) (Complete)
1. Blood Red, Snow White – Marcus Sedgwick (Recommended by Gaskella) (Read not reviewed)
2. Hearts and Minds – Amanda Craig Recommended by Dovegreyreader)
3. The Snows of Yesteryear – Gregor von Rezzori (Recommended by A Common Reader)
4. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle – Monique Roffey (Recommended by Other Stories)
5. After the Fire, A Still Small Voice – Evie Wyle (Recommended by Reading Matters)
Wilkie Collins Mini Challenge (Complete)
1. Basil (Read, not reviewed)
2. The Moonstone (Read, not reviewed)
British Authors (Complete)
1. The Long Song – Andrea Levy
2. Hearts and Minds – Amanda Craig
3. Daphne – Justine Picardie (Read, not reviewed)
4. A Razor Wrapped in Silk – Roger N Morris
5. The Ninth Wave – Russell Celwyn Jones
6. The Rapture – Liz Jensen
What’s In A Name 3 (Complete)
1. A book with a food in the title: The Unbearable Lightness of Scones – Alexander McCall Smith (Read, not reviewed)
2. A book with a body of water in the title: Dirty Snow – Georges Simenon
3. A book with a title (queen, president) in the title: My Lady Elizabeth – Alison Weir (Read, not reviewed)
4. A book with a plant in the title: The Boys In The Trees - Mary Swann
5. A book with a place name (city, country) in the title: Homage to Barcelona - Colm Toibin
6. A book with a music term in the title: The Long Song – Andrea Levy
Read the Book, See The Movie
Doesn’t watching the 4 episodes of the TV adaptation of “Any Human Heart” count?
Chunkster Challenge 2010
1. The Snowman – Jo Nesbo
2. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins (Read, not reviewed)
3. Gentlemen and Players – Joanne Harris (Read, not reviewed)
4. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
Awesome Author Challenge (Complete)
1. Georges Simenon
2. Kader Abdollah
3. Alberto Manguel
4. Irene Nemirovsky
5. Josephine Tey
6. John Lanchester
The Pub Challenge 2010 (Complete)
1. Miss Thing – Nora Chassler
2. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
3. A Razor Wrapped in Silk – Roger N Morris
4. The Long Song – Andrea Levy
5. The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag – Alan Bradley (Read, not reviewed)
6. The Arsenic Century – James C Whorton
7. Room – Emma Donoghue
8. Midnight in a Perfect Life – Michael Collins (Read, not reviewed)
9. In A Strange Room – Damon Galgut
10. The Existential Detective – Alice Thompson
Decades Challenge 2010 (Incomplete)
1. 1868 – The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins (Read, not reviewed)
2. 1870 – The Eternal Husband – Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. 1886 - The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
4. 1896 – My Life – Anton Chekhov
5. 1902 - Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
6. 1912 – Greyfriars Bobby – Eleanor Atkinson
7. 1925 – Fear – Stefan Zweig
8. 1930 – TBD
9. 1945 – Died In The Wool – Ngaio Marsh
10. 1953 – Dirty Snow – Georges Simenon
Award Winners IV (Complete)
1. Chronicle of A Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Nobel Prize 1982)
2. The Sound of My Voice - Ron Butlin (Best Foreign Novel – Prix MillePages (2004) and Prix Lucioles (2005) )
3. The Soldiers of Salamis - Javier Cercas (Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2004)
4. Stone in a Landslide – Maria Barbal (Joaqim Ruyra Prize 1984)
5. The Sweetness of Life - Paulus Hochgatterer (2009 European Prize for Literature – Austria)
6. The Lantern Bearers - Ronald Frame (Saltire Award – Best Scottish Book 2000)
7. After the Fire, A Still Small Voice - Evie Wyld (2009 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize)
8. The Last Patriarch – Najat El Hachmi (2009 Prix Ulysse First Novel)
9. A Not So Perfect Crime – Teresa Solana (2007 Brigada 21 Best Crime Novel)
10. Portrait of a Mother as a Young Woman – Friedrich Christian Delius (2009 Lutheran Book Prize)
Colourful Reading Challenge 2010 (Incomplete)
1. Black Black Water Rising - Attica Locke
2. Blue
3. Red Snow White, Blood Red – Marcus Sedgwick (Read, not reviewed)
4. White The White Woman on the Green Bicycle – Monique Roffey
5. Gold
7. Yellow
8. Grey Shades of Grey – Jasper Fforde (Did not finish)
9. TBD
Countdown Challenge 2010 (45 Read = 83% complete)
2001 (1/1)
Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold
2002 (0/2)
2003 (2/3)
Old School – Tobias Woolf
The Silence of The Rain – Luis Alfredo Garcia Roza
2004 (2/4)
Settlement – Christoph Hein (Trans. 2008)
Tearjerker – Daniel Hayes
2005 (5/5)
A Happy Man – Hansjorg Schertenleib (Trans. 2010)
The Island – Victoria Hislop (Read, not reviewed)
The House of the Mosque – Kader Abdollah (Trans. 2010)
Poor Mercy – Jonathan Falla
Gentlemen and Players – Joanne Harris
2006 (2/6)
The Sweetness of Life – Paulus Hochgatter (Trans 2008)
Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
2007 (7/7)
Blood Red, Snow White – Marcus Sedgwick (Read, not reviewed)
The Silver Swan – Benjamin Black
Foolish Mortals – Jennifer Johnston
The Girl With The Golden Eyes – Honore De Balzac (Trans. 2007)
Family Romance – John Lanchester
The Bethlehem Murders – Matt Rees
The Outcast – Gil Adamson
2008 (7/8)
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – Kate Summerscale
The Allure of Chanel – Paul Morand (Trans. 2007)
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
Stone In A Landslide – Maria Babal (Trans 2010)
The Boys In The Trees – Mary Swan
Daphne – Justine Picardie (Read, not reviewed
The Last Patriarch – Najat El Hachmi (Trans 2010)
2009 (9/9)
After The Fire, A Still Small Voice – Evie Wyld
Black Water Rising – Attica Locke
Glasshopper – Isabel Ashdown
Ordinary Thunderstorms – William Boyd
Dismissed Dead – Ron Brammer
The Ninth Wave – Russell Celwyn Jones
White Ravens – Owen Sheers
Talking About Detective Fiction – P D James
Hearts and Minds – Amanda Craig
2010 (See Pub Challenge) (10/10)
My goodness me – you are going to be busy!!