January 1 – December 31, 2012 I am not only co-hosting this challenge – I’m joining it! Sign ups may be found on this post. Last year I did not reach my goal for this challenge, so I’ve chosen a different level this year: The Plump Primer level challenges the reader to read SIX chunksters. [...]
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Notable Books Challenge 2012
Although a perpetual challenge, The Notable Books Challenge asks that participants set yearly goals. This year I hope to read at least 12 books from the lists. Visit the dedicated blog to see reviews of Notable Books or to join the challenge. Here is what I read in 2012: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (2011 NYT [...]
Notable Books Challenge 2011
Although a perpetual challenge, The Notable Books Challenge asks that participants set yearly goals. This year I attempted to read 15 books from the lists. I fell short, but I am still happy with what I accomplished. Books Read: The Three Weismanns of Westport by Cathleen Shine (from 2010 NYT Most Notable) – COMPLETED January [...]
Chunkster Challenge 2011
February 1, 2011 – January 31, 2012 I joined this challenge in 2011 at the Does the Book Make My Butt Look Big level (read six chunksters in 12 months as follows: 2 books which are between 450 – 550 pages in length; 2 books which are 551 – 750 pages in length; 2 books [...]
2011 Memorable Memoirs Challenge – COMPLETED!
January 1 – December 31, 2011 December 16, 2011: I have completed this challenge! Many thanks to Melissa for hosting. Follow the links below to read my reviews of the books I read for the challenge. **************************************** Once again Melissa at The Betty and Boo Chronicles is hosting The Memorable Memoir Challenge – a challenge [...]
The 2012 Chunkster Challenge and Chunky Book Club
January 1 – December 31, 2012 2012 will be here before we know it – and The Chunkster Challenge is back. This year Vasilly from 1330V has joined me in hosting this popular challenge…and we’ve made a couple of changes (including moving the start date up to January 1st) which you can read about on [...]
Literary Novels from my Stacks: A Personal Challenge
I love the literary prizes and I own a ton of books which have either won or been nominated for those prizes…but which I have yet to read. I track many of the prizes on this page of my blog. I also have joined some individual challenges which are perpetual and encourage reading from certain [...]
Schoolgirl – Book Review
We have a vague notion of the best place we should go, or the beautiful places we should like to see, or the kinds of places that would make us grow as a person. We yearn for a good life. We have real hopes and ambitions. We feel impatient for an unshakable faith that we [...]
Solitaria – Book Review
Revisiting my childhood is like standing on the shores of a turbulent sea: achingly beautiful and dangerous – the thunderclap of breakers, the foamlicks of crests, the way swells undulate, graceful as pregnant women, the boil of froth through sand in a rip tide. And I, who never learned to swim, long to submerge myself [...]
The Marriage Artist – Book Review (and Giveaway)
When he thought of Wind, when he thought of Aleksandra, when he thought of his father – when Daniel thought of anyone he had known who was now dead – what survived of them was not only love. What survived also were the echoes of all the resistance they had thrown up to life (and [...]
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