Challenges in Progress
Classics Challenge (April 1 to October 31, 2009)
Read Your Own Books (January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2009)
Completed Challenges
RIP (Readers Imbibing Peril) Challenge III
From the Stacks Challenge (completed December 9, 2008)
Book Awards II Challenge (completed December 19, 2008)
The 1% Well-Read Challenge (completed Feb. 28, 2009)
Once Upon a Time III (completed June 20, 2009)
What’s in a Name 2 (completed July 24, 2009)
New Author Challenge (completed July 24, 2009)
2009 Pub Challenge (completed July 7, 2009)
[...] soon as I posted this review, I realized that it would work with the RIP III challenge. That’s three down, one to go in order to complete Peril the [...]
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[...] Policière Prize in 1969, so it qualifies for the Book Awards II Challenge. That puts me at four down, six to go. And now for a quick Read-a-Thon [...]
[...] won the 2004 Alex Award, so it qualifies for the Book Awards II Challenge. That puts me at five down, five to go. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)The Absolute Sandman, vol.3persepolis (Marjane [...]
[...] book qualifies for two challenges: the 1% Well-Read Challenge (3 down, 7 to go) and the Book Awards II Challenge (6 down, 4 to [...]
[...] attention, but it’s worth the effort. This book qualifies for two the 1% Well-Read Challenge (3 down, 7 to go). Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Godly Seed – A Reflection on the Heels of [...]
[...] I also liked that Hornby doesn’t seem to be pressing an agenda regarding teen pregnancy. Sam is a pretty capable dad, and he finds ways to cope and even be sort of happy. Alicia’s pregnancy wasn’t a total disaster, and Sam and Alicia’s son is not neglected or mistreated. Sam, however, knows that his life is much harder because he’s a teenage father. He even recognizes that he might have to step off the ladder he’s climbing in order to take care of his son. Hornby neither celebrates nor condemns his characters; he’s just telling a story. I respect him for that. This book qualifies for two challenges I’m participating in: The From the Stacks Challenge (1 down, 4 to go) and the Countdown Challenge (3 reads for 2007 down, 4 to go). [...]
Glad you joined Countdown — I’ll look forward to your reviews!
[...] I may have mixed feelings about Gatsby, but the letters read by Robert Sean Leonard are a delight. I loved getting the inside scoop on how the book was developed, how Fitzgerald felt about it, and how contemporary readers reacted. There’s a particularly wonderful letter to Willa Cather in which Fitzgerald assures her that he was not attempting to copy a passage from her recently published A Great Lady; he even encloses his notes from when he was working on a passage in Gatsby to show that he was developing his idea before her work was published. This book qualifies for the 1% Well-Read Challenge, so that’s 4 down, 6 to go. [...]
[...] This book is my fourth 2007 selection for the Countdown challenge. [...]
[...] family would agree with me there. This is my 5th book from 2007 and my 20th overall for the Countdown Challenge. I only have two 2007 books left and 25 books overall. Possibly related posts: (automatically [...]
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