My lists for the 888 challenge
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Here they are! Already revised once since being added to my post.....I am so eager for 2008 to start now, so I can start reading my chosen ones! They are piled on one of my shelves, each in their little group. I made a change already because I realized I had left off mysteries and fantasies as a category each, which are both the type of book I read most frequently......I want my challenge books here to be books I am going to read, plus books I want to read, plus books I've been meaning to read.....that way I will finish this challenge! And not try to make myself read books I feel I should read, which I have a bad habit of thinking I need to do.....
*Note: this challenge was revised before Christmas 2007 on my sidebar, but I forgot to go back and redo the original post (still new at blogging.) This was finally updated, with the first books completed also marked, on March 25 2008. :-)
888 CHALLENGE – 8 BOOKS IN 8 CATEGORIES IN 2008
i) Short Story Collections
- Northern Frights 2 – ed Don Hutchison
- Everything's Eventual – Stephen King
- Year's Best Fantasy and Horror – 6th Annual Collection, Datlow and Windling
- Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang
- Kissing the Witch – Emma Donoghue *
- The Door in the Hedge – Robin McKinley * - Done
- Harrowing the Dragon – Patricia McKillip
- Fragile Things – Neil Gaiman - currently reading
ii) Latest Books by Favourite Authors
- By the Time You Read This - Giles Blunt -Done
- Widdershins – Charles de Lint - Done
- Exit Music – Ian Rankin
- Ysabel – Guy Gavriel Kay - Done
- DA - Connie Willis
- Piece of My Heart – Peter Robinson
- The Remains of an Altar – Phil Rickman - Done
- Kidnapped - Jan Burke
iii) Classic Literature
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - Done
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- O Pioneers – Willa Cather
- Beowulf
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- The Iliad - Homer
iv) Fairy Tales (original and re-written, short story collections and novels)
- Enchantment – Orson Scott Card
- Fitcher's Brides – Gregory Frost
- Kissing the Witch – Emma Donoghue *
- The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter
- Black Heart, Ivory Bones – eds Datlow and Windling
- The Door in the Hedge – Robin McKinley * - Done
- The Classic Fairy Tales – Iona and Peter Opie
- Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones
v) Non-Fiction
- Canadian Settler's Guide – Catherine Parr Traill - Done
- Life of Charlotte Bronte – Mrs Gaskell
- 1599 A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare – James Shapiro
- Journal of a Solitude – May Sarton
- Tarot for Yourself – Mary K. Greer
- The Psychic Pathway – Sonia Choquette
- Crossing to Avalon – Jean Shinoda Bolen
- Toast - A Biography - Nigel Slater
vi)Mysteries
The Remains of an Altar - Phil Rickman *(Latest Book 888) - DONE
Exit Music - Ian Rankin * (Latest Book 888)
Kidnapped - Jan Burke * (Latest Book 888)
Rituals of the Season - Margaret Maron
Wash This Blood from My Face - Fred Vargas
Piece of My Heart - Peter Robinson * (Canadian Book Challenge, Latest Book 888)
Still Life - Louise Penny * (Canadian Book Challenge, First in a Series)
Fire Sale - Sara Paretsky
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vii)Popular Books I've Been Meaning to Read....
- Inkheart - Cornelia Funke - currently reading
- Obsidian Butterfly – Laurell K. Hamilton
- A Long Way Down – Nick Hornby
- White Teeth – Zadie Smith
- She's Come Undone – Wally Lamb
- The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
-Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
- The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald - Done
viii) Fantasy – (all are in 1st in a Series Challenge)
Ysabel - Guy Gavriel Kay * (Latest Books 888, Canadian Book Challenge) - DONE
Widdershins - Charles de Lint * (Latest Books 888, Canadian Book Challenge, Chunkster) - DONE
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Cooper * (First in a Series Challenge)
Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper * (First in a Series Challenge) - DONE
The Oracle Queen - Lynn Flewelling
Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde * (Latest Books 888)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke (Mythopoeic RC)
Shaman's Crossing - Robin Hobb * (First in a Series Challenge)
The ones with a star are my cross-overs......I think I'm happy with my list now :-) Thanks for thinking this challenge up, 3M!!
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