Post your August reviews here!
Sunday, August 31, 2008

1. Cindy B
2. Aga (Snow Flower and the secret fan)
3. bookworm (chasing windmills)
4. Tiny Librarian (Monsieur Pamplemousse...)
5. Tandia (Embejo)
6. Julie
7. Sharon (Daemons Are Forever)
8. Sharon (In Odd We Trust)
9. Sharon (Night Watchman)
10. bookworm(Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth )
11. Tiny Librarian (Julie and Julia)
12. Intergalactic Bookworm
13. Kristina (Magyk)
14. Aga (Bollywood Nights)
15. Aga (Three Men in a Boat...)
16. bookworm(Breaking Dawn)
17. Tiny Librarian (Bobbie Faye\'s...family jewels)
18. Amy(The Sleepy Reader)
19. Amy(Miss Invisible)
20. Sharon (Cockatiels at Seven)
21. Sharon (The Host)
22. Sharon (Naughty Neighbor)
23. Amy(The Working Poor:Invisible in America)
24. Tiny Librarian (Miss Julia Takes Over)		25. Aga (Berlin Alexanderplatz)
26. Aga (The Gate of Heavenly Peace)
27. Wendy (The Reader)
28. Tiny Librarian (My Summer of Southern Discomfort)
29. bookworm(Matrimony)
30. Tiny Librarian (Elements of Style)
31. Kelsey (Black Dogs)
32. Aga (The Kite Runner)
33. raidergirl3(Flying Too High)
34. bookworm(Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict)
35. Amy(Animal, Vegetable, Miracle)
36. Aga (Trzepot skrzydeł)
37. Aga (South of the Border, West of the Sun)
38. Aga (The Nanny Diaries)
39. bookworm(I Just Want My Kids To Be Happy!)
40. Tiny Librarian (Eighth Grade Bites)
41. bookworm (The Ghost of Blackwood Hall , nancy drew)
42. Wendy (The Colour)
43. bookworm (Considering SomeplacElse)
44. Aga (Lamb)
45. Aga (Tata, one i ja)
46. Kimmie(A Cold Day in Hell)
47. alisonwonderland (Life on the Refrigerator Door)
48. Aga (Promise me)		49. Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo (review by Laura)
50. Tiny Librarian (One Dangerous Lady)
51. alisonwonderland (Nights in Rodanthe)
52. Julie - Les Miserables
53. Kimmie (Lord of the Flies)
54. Julie - Sunday Night Book Club
55. Kristina (Breaking Dawn)
56. Kristina (The Invention of Hugo Cabret)
57. Kristina (The Book of Story Beginnings)
58. Sweetsmoke (J.C.)
59. Cafeshree (Garden of Last Days)
60. Cafeshree (Stopover in Venice)
61. Cafeshree (Not Knowing)
62. Cafeshree (Skinner\'s Trail)
63. Cafeshree (Blood Detective)
64. Cafeshree (Gaudi Key)
65. Cafeshree (Skinner\'s Rules)
66. Cafeshree (Resurrection Club)
67. Jaime (The Face of a Stranger)
68. Jaime (Undead and Unwed)
69. Jaime (The Finishing School)
70. Jaime (Hold Tight)
71. Jaime (Dead Witness)

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Posted by 1morechapter at 8/31/2008 05:25:00 AM 10 comments

Aga - update
Saturday, August 23, 2008

As I joined this challenge just on 28th of July my achievements are not sooo big, but I still hope to reach the aim ;)


So, how it's up to now? I still did not select 8 books from each group, it'll just arrive with time.


I. Already owned:

  1. "Elephants can remember" by Agatha Christie
  2. "The clocks" by Agatha Christie
  3. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo
  4. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote
  5. "Uśmiech Dalidy" by Dominika Cosic
  6. "Panther in the Basement" by Amos Oz


II. Around the World:

  1. "Snow Flower and the secret fan" by Lisa See (02.08.08) - review here
  2. "Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin (13.08.08) - review here
  3. "Forbidden City" by William Bell
  4. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (19.08.08) - review here
  5. "Porte De LA Paix Celeste" by Shan Sa (14.08.08) - review here
  6. "Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood" by Fatima Mernissi
  7. "The Bookseller of Kabul" by Asne Seierstad


III. Books in Polish:

  1. "Tata, one i ja" by Manula Laicka ("Dad, them and me") (28.08.08) - review here
  2. "Zniewolony umysł" by Czesław Miłosz ("Subdued mind")
  3. "Trzepot skrzydeł" by Katarzyna Grochola (22.08.08) - review here
  4. "Jadąc do Babadag" by Andrzej Stasiuk
  5. "Różowe tabletki na uspokojenie" by Krystyna Janda


IV. Books in English:

  1. "Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)" by Jerome K. Jerome (11.08.08) - review here
  2. "Bollywood Nights" by Shobhaa De (09.08.08) - review here
  3. "Bergdorf Blondes" by Plum Sykes
  4. "Notting Hell" by Rachel Johnson
  5. "South of the Border, West of the Sun" by Haruki Murakami (22.08.08) - review here
  6. "The fifth woman" by Henning Mankel


V. Exchanged books (via www.podaj.net or www.bookmooch.com):

  1. "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore (28.08.08) - review here
  2. "Dangerous Liaisons" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  3. "Winter's Tales" by Karen Blixen
  4. "The last promise" by Richard Paul Evans
  5. "L'Anneau du pêcheur" by Jean Raspail
  6. "Promise Me" by Harlan Coben (30.08.08) - review here


VI. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (my proposals for today only!):

  1. "Jacques the Fatalist" by Denis Diderot
  2. "The Monk" by M.G. Lewis
  3. "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
  4. "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf


VII. Classics:

  1. "Crime and punishment" by Fiodor Dostoyevski (31.07.08) - review here
  2. "Plague" by Albert Camus


VIII. Popular Reads:

  1. "The Nanny Diaries" by Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin (22.08.08) - review here
  2. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
  3. "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J.K. Rowling

Posted by Agnieszka Tatera at 8/23/2008 06:52:00 AM 0 comments

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Books to be read by Aga - update
Thursday, August 14, 2008

As I joined this challenge just on 28th of July my achievements are not so big, but I still hope to reach the aim ;)
So, how it's up to now? I still did not select 8 books from each group, it'll just arrive with time.
I. Already owned:
  1. "Elephants can remember" by Agatha Christie
  2. "The clocks" by Agatha Christie
  3. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo
  4. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote
  5. "Uśmiech Dalidy" by Dominika Cosic
  6. "Panther in the Basement" by Amos Oz

II. Around the World:
  1. "Snow Flower and the secret fan" by Lisa See (02.08.08) - review here
  2. "Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin (13.08.08) - review here
  3. "Forbidden City" by William Bell
  4. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (19.08.08) - review here
  5. "Porte De LA Paix Celeste" by Shan Sa (14.08.08) - review here
  6. "Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood" by Fatima Mernissi

III. Books in Polish:
  1. "Tata, one i ja" by Manula Laicka ("Dad, them and me")
  2. "Zniewolony umysł" by Czesław Miłosz ("Subdued mind")
  3. "Trzepot skrzydeł" by Katarzyna Grochola
  4. "Jadąc do Babadag" by Andrzej Stasiuk

IV. Books in English:
  1. "Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)" by Jerome K. Jerome (11.08.08) - review here
  2. "Bollywood Nights" by Shobhaa De (09.08.08) - review here
  3. "Bergdorf Blondes" by Plum Sykes
  4. "Notting Hell" by Rachel Johnson
  5. "South of the Border, West of the Sun" by Haruki Murakami
  6. "The fifth woman" by Henning Mankel

V. Exchanged books (via www.podaj.net or www.bookmooch.com):
  1. "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore
  2. "Dangerous Liaisons" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  3. "Winter's Tales" by Karen Blixen
  4. "The last promise" by Richard Paul Evans
  5. "L'Anneau du pêcheur" by Jean Raspail

VI. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (my proposals for today only!):
  1. "Jacques the Fatalist" by Denis Diderot
  2. "The Monk" by M.G. Lewis
  3. "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
  4. "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf

VII. Classics:
  1. "Crime and punishment" by Fiodor Dostoyevski (31.07.08) - review here
  2. "Plague" by Albert Camus

VIII. Popular Reads:
  1. "The Nanny Diaries" by Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin

Ok, and now I'm going to my bed and start to read "The Nanny Diaries" before going to sleep (it's almost a midnight here ;))

Posted by Agnieszka Tatera at 8/14/2008 04:29:00 PM 1 comments

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Julie's Choices
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Hi all here are my choices for this contest. I have six completed to date. Blog is here to read


Classics

1 – Catch 22- Joseph Heller
2 – Great Gatsby – Scott. F. Fitzgerald
3 – Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
4 - Girl with a Pearl Earning- Tracey Chevaller
5 – Great Expectations – Charles Dickons
6 – The Waves – Virginia Woolf
7 – Utopia – Sir Thomas Moore
8 – Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut

19th Century Women Writers

1 - Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
2 - Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
3 - Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
4 - Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
5 – Manesfield Park – Jane Austen
6 – The Yellow Wallpaper and other writings – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
7 - Final Harvest –Emily Dickenson
8 – The Awakening – Kate Chopin

European Authors

1 - Anybody Out There Marian Keyes
2 – Always and Forever – Cathy Kelley
3 – Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
4 –Louise de la Valliere – Alexander Dumas
5- Watermelon - Marian Keyes
6- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
7-The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
8- Emma- Jane Austen

Historical Fiction

1 – Thread of Grace – Mary Doria Russell
2 – Captian Corelli’s Mandolin – Loius de Bernieres
3 – The Book Thief
4 - The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
5 – Pillars of the Earth
6 – Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
7 – Ship Fever – Andrea Barrett (Overlap with Short Stories)
8- Shadow Patriots: A Novel of the Revolution – Lucia St. Clair Robinson

Authors with the first/last name beginning with the letter J

1 - Shades of Grey – Jessica James
2 – Catcher in the Rye J.D Salinger
3 – The Wheel of Time: Crown of Swords Robert Jordan
4 – Ulyssess – James Joyce
5 – Comfort Food – Kate Jacobs
6 – Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult
7 – Children of Men – P.D James
8 - The Children of Hurin – J.R.R Tolkien

Fantasy

1 - Elemental Magic- Shannon Shin
2 – The Outstretched Shadow- Mercedes Lackey
3 – Elvenborn –Andre Norton
4 – Mistborn –Brandon Sanderson
5 – Wizards First Rule –Terry Goodkind
6 – Chronicles of Narnia – C.S Lewis
7 – The Wishsong of Shannara – Terry Brooks
8 – Interview with a Vampire – Anne Rice

Short Stories/Novella Collections

1 – Runaway – Alice Munro
2 - Winter Moon – Mercedes Lackey
3 – Sunday Night Book Club
4 –Moons of Jupiter
5 – Collected Ghost Stories
6 – Dubliners – James Joyce
7 –Further Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes
8- Ship Fever Overlap with Historical Fiction)

Revisiting the Past (Re-Reads)

1 – Harry Potter 1 & Harry Potter 2
2 – Harry Potter 3 & Harry Potter 4
3 – Harry Potter 5 & 6
4 – Harry Potter 7
5 – The Hobbit
6 –LOTR – The Fellowship of the Ring
7 – LOTR – Two Towers
8 – LOTR – Return of the King

Posted by Jules at 8/12/2008 10:16:00 PM 0 comments

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Tammy's picks
Sunday, August 3, 2008

Hi, I'm Tammy

#1: TV/Movie Tie-Ins:
1. Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way by Bruce Campbell (January)
2. Have a Nice Day by Mick Foley
3. The Quotable Star Wars - April
4. Scotland the Brave by Jennifer Roberson
5. A Stirring of Dust by Susan Sizemore
6. The Lazarus Heart by Poppy Brite
7. X-Men: The Last Stand by Chris Claremont - July
8. In the Beginning by Peter David

#2: Story Collections: I'm not a big short story reader, but I seem to have collected several, so...
1. Chicks In Chainmail (March)
2. Dark Love
3. Love In Vein - April - was utterly bored. Did not finish.
4. Love in Vein II - looked like more of the same. Did not read.
5. Midnight Graffiti
6. James Herriot's Dog Stories by James Herriot(March)
7. Red As Blood by Tanith Lee (March)
8. The Service of the Sword (March)

#3: Nonfiction: I'm not usually a big nf reader either, but I'm trying to read more, so... (again)
1. The Forbidden Body by Shelley Bovey - April
2. Sex For One by Betty Dodson - April
3. Legends - from Life Magazine
4. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer - not sure if I'll see the movie or not. I've tried this one once before and couldn't get into it, but wanted to try again.
5. 200 Ways To Love the Body You Have by Marcia Hutchinson
6. The Wild West - companion book to the PBS(?) series
7. The Joy of Writing Sex by Elizabeth Benedict (March)
8. HTML For the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro

#4: Regency Romances: I have a ton of these :)
1. Seduced by Virginia Henley
2. An Improper Proposal by Anthea Malcolm
3. Tangled by Mary Balogh
4. Something Wicked by Jo Beverly
5. Love's Charade by Jane Feather
6. Angel Rogue by Mary Jo Putney
7. Lady of the Night by Georgina Devon
8. A Ghostly Charade by Sheila Rabe

#5: Science Fiction:
1. 1633 by Eric Flint & David Weber
2. Dragonharper by Jody Lynn Nye
3. T2: Infiltrator by S. M. Stirling
4. Keeper of the Universe by Louise Lawrence - August
5. The Skies of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
6. Neuromancer by William Gibson
7. Sarek by A. C. Crispin
8. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

#6: Fantasy:
1. Terrier by Tamora Pierce
2. The King of Attolia by Megan Whelan Turner
3. Dragon's Teeth by James Hetley
4. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
5. Diana Tregarde Investigates by Mercedes Lackey (January)
6. Gold Unicorn by Tanith Lee (February)
7. The Young Wizards by Diane Duane - an omnibus of the first 3/4 books in the Young Wizards series - only counts as one
8. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander - #1 in the Chronicles of Prydain

#7: In a Series:
1. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander - #2 in the Chronicles of Prydain - Fantasy
2. Death Rides a Chesnut Mare by Ralph Compton - first in a trilogy - Western
3. Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell - #8 in the Sharpe series - historical fiction
4. Mission Canyon by Meg Gardiner - (March)
5. Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell - first in the Mallory series - mystery
6. The Ladies of Mandrigyn by Barbara Hambly - first in the Sun Wolf trilogy - fantasy
7. Nerilka's Story by Anne McCaffrey - Pern series - science fiction
8. Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn - Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy #1 - science fiction

#8: Historical Fiction:
1. Here Be Dragons by Sharon Penman
2. The Border Empire by Ralph Compton
3. Sharpe's Siege by Bernard Cornwell
4. Incident At Hawk's Hill by Allan Eckert
5. Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson
6. Petals in the Storm by Mary Jo Putney
7. Smuggler's Lady by Jane Feather
8. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Some books fit multiple categories, but there are no multiple category books, so that's 64 books.

Posted by Tammy at 8/03/2008 01:50:00 AM 0 comments

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