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Just So They Do Not Feel Left Out…

Nov 8th, 2008
by Caribousmom.
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…I thought I’d share some photos of my cats. They are a little bent out of shape with the dogs getting so much attention in the header. So here are some of their best shots (several photos are “clickable” for larger views):

Maia – we think she is about 6 years old (she showed up at [...]

Notable Book Challenge – 2008

Nov 8th, 2008
by Caribousmom.
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**Button compliments of TypoGenerator
January 1 – December 31, 2008

I am hosting the Notable Book Challenge for 2008 – this will replace the New York Times (NYT) Most Notable Book Challenge, but will include books from the NYT Most Notable list for 2007. The blog for this challenge is here. If you would like to participate as a contributor to the blog, please send me your email and I will invite you. Rules for participate are located on the Notable Books blog.

I’m choosing 8 books to read from several lists on this site.

My preliminary list (subject to change):

  1. Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson (from NBCC Best Books- 2007 and NYT Most Notable-2007)
  2. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Moshin Hamid (from PW Best Books – 2007 and NYT Most Notable-2007) – Completed January 11, 2008; rated 4/5; read my review.
  3. The Gathering, by Anne Enright (from NYT Most Notable-2007)
  4. In the Country of Men, by Hisham Matar (from NYT Most Notable-2007)
  5. Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name, by Vendela Veda (from NYT Most Notable-2007)
  6. There is No Me Without You, by Melissa Fay Greene (from ALA Most Notable – 2007)
  7. The Secret River, by Kate Grenville (from ALA Most Notable – 2007)

New Header…

Nov 8th, 2008
by Caribousmom.
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…many thanks to Michelle at 1MoreChapter who has created a new header for my blog. If you are reading on a feeder, please stop in and see my new look!

Rebecca – Book Review

Nov 8th, 2008
by Caribousmom.
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The house was a sepulchre, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection. When I thought of Manderly in my waking hours I would not be bitter. I should think of it as it might have been, could I have lived there without fear. I should remember the [...]

2008 Decades Challenge

Nov 8th, 2008
by Caribousmom.
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January 1, 2008 – December 31, 2008

Michelle is hosting the Decades Challenge again … this time for 2008. She’s changed the rules slightly:

1. Read a minimum of 8 books in 8 consecutive decades.
2. Books published in the 2000’s do not count.
3. Titles may be cross posted (you know I LOVE that!!)
4. You may change your list at any time.

She’s dedicating a new blog to this challenge: Decades ‘08

Of course, I can’t resist. I’ve decided to make a list of books to choose from in each decade (Decades bolded in red are complete):

1800’s or Earlier

(1720’s) – Moll Flanders, by Daniel DeFoe
(1800’s) – Castle Rackrent, by Marie Edgeworth

1810’s

Emma, by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
Persuasion, by Jane Austen

1820’s

Melmoth the Wanderer, by Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery, by Sir Walter Scott
The Pirate, by Sir Walter Scott
The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper

1830’s

Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens

1840’s

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

1850’s

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov
Home of the Gentry, by Ivan Turgenev

1860’s

The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens - Completed January 25, 2008; rated 3/5; read my review.
Consuelo, by George Sand
Toilers of the Sea, by Victor Hugo
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy (new translation)

1870’s

1880’s

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1890’s

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin

1900’s

House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton

1910’s

Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maughan
The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton
Summer, by Edith Wharton
The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington
Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust

1920’s

The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
Giants in the Earth, by O.E. Rolvaag
So Big, by Edna Ferber – Completed January 17, 2008; rated 5/5; read my review

1930’s

Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne Du Maurier

1940’s

Embers, by Sandor Marai
The Power and The Glory, by Graham Greene
Independent People, by Halldor Laxness
The Women of Rome, by Albert Moravia

1950’s

Gift From The Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Cairo Trilogy, by Naguib Mahfouz

1960’s

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1970’s

Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
Moving On, by Larry McMurtry
The Lives of Girls and Women, by Alice Monroe
Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner

1980’s

Paradise of the Blind, by Duong Thu Huong
Cat’s Eye, by Margaret Atwood - Completed February 29, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review
The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett

1990’s

The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
She’s Come Undone, by Wally Lamb
Stones From the River, by Ursula Hegi
A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth
Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
The Giver, by Lois Lowry – Completed January 1, 2008; rated 4.5/5; read my review
Ship Fever, by Andrea Barrett
Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth