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The Pub 2008 Challenge

Mar 17th, 2008
by Wendy.
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January 1 – December 31, 2008

Isn’t this a beautiful button? Now can you see why I couldn’t resist joining? Especially once Michelle agreed to allow books completed after Christmas (instead of making me wait until January 1st!). Michelle’s idea for The Pub 2008 Challenge is this:
  1. Read a minimum of 8 books published in 2008. (Library books are acceptable!)
  2. No children’s/YA titles allowed, since we’re at the ‘pub.’
  3. At least 4 titles must be fiction.
  4. Crossovers with other challenges are allowed.
  5. Titles may be changed at any time.

I have been getting ARCs of late, and these will fit right in!

Here is my list (in progress):

1. The Outlander, by Gil Adamson (Completed December 27, 2007; rated 5/5; read my review)
2. The Winter Rose, by Jennifer Donnelly (Completed January 5, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
3. The Outcast, by Sadie Jones (Completed February 3, 2008; rated 3.5/5; read my review)
4. The House at Riverton, by Kate Morton (Completed January 9, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
5. Have You Found Her – A Memoir, by Janice Erlbaum (Completed January 14, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review)
6. The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur, by Daoud Hari (Completed February 15, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review)
7. Resistance, by Owen Sheers (Completed March 6, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review)
8. The Story of Forgetting, by Stefan Merrill Block

On the TBR Mountain

Mar 17th, 2008
by Wendy.
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This morning I gazed at my stack of books I have yet to read this month…and realized, yet again, I have overextended myself. Lately, I have been requesting (and receiving) quite a few Advance Reader’s Editions. These are the books I really need to read first; and yet there are so many other great books [...]

Suspense-Thriller Challenge

Mar 16th, 2008
by Wendy.
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January 1, 2008 – December 31, 2009

J.Kaye is hosting this one – and although I feel stupid joining yet another challenge after admitting I’m already in over my head… I decided to do this because I have a towering stack of books in this genre which have sat on my TBR shelf for years. This seems like a good way for me to make a dent in the stacks. The challenge rules are to read a total of 12 different sub-categories in the suspense-thriller genre (J. Kaye gives a huge list of these sub-categories on the challenge blog). I have two whole years to read 12 books. Piece of cake, right?

Below are the books on my shelf from which I will create my reading list. Where I can, I’ve delineated the sub-categories. If I haven’t delineated a sub-category, it is because I’m not sure what it is! Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated!!

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Warning Signs, by Stephen White
The Tangent Objective, by Lawrence Sanders
Broken Wings, by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker (Conspiracy Thriller)
Whiteout, by Ken Follett (Medical Thriller)
Cold Case, by Stephen White (Crime Thriller or Psychological Thriller)
The Clinic, by Jonathan Kellerman (Psychological Thriller)
Critical Judgment, by Michael Palmer (Medical Thriller)
The Princess of Burundi, by Kjell Eriksson
Eye Contact, by Cammie McGovern
Rose, by Martin Cruz Smith (Historical Thriller)
Persuader, by Lee Child
Someone to Watch Over Me, by Judith McNaught
Mortal Prey, by John Sandford
Q is for Quarry, by Sue Grafton (True-Crime Thriller)
The Crush, by Sandra Brown (Erotic/Romance Thriller)
Hide, by Lisa Gardner (Serial Killer Thriller)
Step on a Crack, by James Patterson (Political Thriller)
The King of Torts, by John Grisham (Legal Thriller)
The Simple Truth, by David Baldacci (Legal Thriller)
Eyes of A Child, by Richard North Patterson
What the Dead Know, by Laura Lippman

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Books Read
(with date completed, rating and link to review)

The Secret Scroll – Book Review

Mar 16th, 2008
by Wendy.
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Israel as a whole was an archaeological mother lode, but the area around Jerusalem was particularly rich, and particularly complex. Home to some of the holiest sites in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, it was rich with history and rife with conflict. -From The Secret Scroll, page 31- Josh Cohan, an American archaeologist on sabbatical in [...]

Sunday Salon – March 16, 2008

Mar 16th, 2008
by Wendy.
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March 16, 2008 9:00 AM Winter showed its stormy face yesterday with a mixture of hail, thunder and lightening, and a couple of inches of wet snow. This morning the sun is out and the snow is melting. March is like this – it can’t seem to make up its mind whether to be spring [...]

The Story of Forgetting – Book Review

Mar 15th, 2008
by Wendy.
11 comments

From the empty streets of its ancient, golden capital spreads the land of Isidora, a land without memory, where every need is met and every sadness is forgotten. -From The Story of Forgetting, page 13- Stefan Merrill Block’s debut novel – The Story of Forgetting – is a haunting story about shared grief, the connectivity [...]

THEMED READING CHALLENGE – Links to May/June Reviews

Mar 11th, 2008
by Wendy.
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May and June Reviews Please use Mr. Linky below to link to your reviews read for this challenge in May and June ONLY. Please do not link to your main blog, but instead link DIRECTLY to your posted review. Thank you!!! 1. Kailana (Ghost Rider) 2. 3M (Silk) 3. SuziQoregon (Harvest) 4. Kailana (Roadshow) 5. [...]

THEMED READING CHALLENGE – Links to March/April Reviews

Mar 11th, 2008
by Wendy.
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March and April Reviews Please use Mr. Linky below to link to your reviews read for this challenge in March and April ONLY. Please do not link to your main blog, but instead link DIRECTLY to your posted review. Thank you!!! 1. juliette2. Tiny Librarian (Real Vampires…)3. juliette4. booklogged(Midnight for Charlie Bone)5. booklogged(Bare Bones)6. booklogged(Cross [...]

The Gathering – Book Review

Mar 9th, 2008
by Wendy.
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I would like to write down what happened in my grandmother’s house the summer I was eight or nine, but I am not sure if it really did happen. I need to bear witness to an uncertain event. -From The Gathering, page 1- Anne Enright won the 2007 Booker Prize for this novel set in [...]

The Complete Booker

Mar 9th, 2008
by Wendy.
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The Complete Booker
An Ongoing Challenge to Read All the Booker Prize Winners

My bookie soul-mate, Laura at Musings, is hosting an ongoing challenge with no time limit. The goal: to read every Booker Prize Winner. She’s started a group blog called The Complete Booker for participants to track their progress and post their reviews.

I’ll be posting there, but also keeping track here on my blog.

Read in 2007:

The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai – won in 2006 (completed March 16, 2007; rated 4.25/5; reviewed here)
The Bone People, by Keri Hulme – won in 1985 (completed July 12, 2007; rated 4.5/5; reviewed here)
The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood – won in 2000 (completed August 1, 2007; rated 4.5/5; reviewed here)
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy – won in 1997 (completed September 29, 2007; rated 5/5; reviewed here)
Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee – won in 1999 (completed December 14, 2007; rated 4.5/5; reviewed here)

Read in 2008:

Life and Times of Michael K, by J.M. Coetzee – won in 1983 (completed February 17, 2008; rated 4/5; reviewed here)

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