Monday, December 22, 2008

Lost In Translation 2009

How can I resist all those wonderful challenges out there? Someone please help me!

I'll take part in Lost In Translation 2009 - I think it's a fun idea!


My list will follow here:
1) Donna Kauffman: The Cinderella Rules (English to German)
2) Lauren Weisberger: The Devil Wears Prada (English to German)
3) Nora Roberts: Red Lilies (English to German)
4) K.A. Applegate: (English to German)
5) Naomi Alderman: Disobedience (English to German)
6) Nalini Singh: Slave to Sensation (English to German)

Decades Challenge 2009

So, I have not yet made up my mind about the exact books I will be reading for the Decades Challenge 2009, but I am pretty sure my list will be ready before January 1st.



I'll post the books below:
1) Jane Austen: Lady Susan (1794)
2) Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice (1809)
3) Jane Austen: Emma (1814)
4) Agatha Christie: Murder On The Links (1923)
5) Stendahl: Le Rouge Et Le Noir (1830)
6) Bronte: (184X)
7) Charlotte Bronte: The Professor (1857)
8) Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1860/1861) or Victor Hugo: Les Miserables (1862)
9) Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1870) or Jules Verne : Around The World In 80 Days (1873) or Louisa Mae Alcott: Rose In Bloom (1976) or George Eliot: Daniel Deronda (1876) or Mark Twain: The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer (1876) or Henry James: Daisy Miller (1878) or Harriet Beecher Stowe: Poganuc People; Their Loves And Lives (1878) or Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (1878) or J.W. Goethe: Iphigenie Auf Tauris (1781) or Friedrich Schiller: Die Räuber (1781) or Friedrich Schiller: Kabale Und Liebe (1784) or Mary Wollstonecroft: Mary, A Fiction (1788)

100+ Reading Challenge 2009

I've decided to join a few more challenges - maybe I'm addicted, but I figured the more challenges I joined the bigger is my chance of actually finishing a few...

One of them is the 100+ Reading Challenge, which should be manageable for me. After all, I'm simply supposed to read 100+ books!



A complete list of my finished books can be found here. I finished it!

Friday, December 12, 2008

And more challenges...

... because it is fun joining them and picking books :)

There's Rhinoa's Manga Challenge, which will be fun and easy for me, I think.
My list will slowly develop here:
1) Eun-Ah Park: Sweet & Sensitive 4
2) Eun-Ah Park: Sweet & Sensitive 5
3) Maki Minami: Special A Vol.1-3
4) Gosho Aoyama: Case Closed Vol.15-18
5) Yuna Kagesaki: Cheeky Vampire Vol. 7-8
6) Tomoko Hayakawa: Perfect Girl Vol.6-9

Then there's Eva's World Citizen Challenge, for which I've decided to take on the World Citizen 101 class. That means I "only" have to read one book, but I may up it, if I have enough time for "fun reading".
The book(s) will be listed here:
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And as an additional, for some fun, I'll try to do J.Kaye's YA Challenge.
My list will appear here:
1) Meg Cabot: Jinx
2) Meg Cabot: How To Be Popular
3) Rachel Caine: Glass Houses
4) Nick Sagan: Idlewild
5) Jay Asher: 13 Reasons Why
6) Meg Cabot: The Princess Diaries 9
7) Cassandra Clare: City of Bones
8) Gareth P. Jones: The Thornthwaite Inheritance
9) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: Marked
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Series Challenge Season 3 - my list

So, I'm in the middle of making up my lists for all the challenges, but I just realized I didn't even have a post for my list for the challenge I host! How can that be?

Well, this is the post and here comes my (most likely incomplete) list:
1) Robert Fate: Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues(#2 Baby Shark)
2) Robert Fate: Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption (#3 Baby Shark)
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two more challenge for 2009

So, now that I found out that the Audiobook Challenge doesn't require me to create my list of reads upfront, I'll also definitely take part in that challenge.
I have an account with Audible and am on a plan where I get two audio books each month. In the past 5 months, I didn't get around to listen to all the books I got and I want to get back on track with that.

I'll add my list for this challenge here:
1) Linwood Barclay: No Time For Goodbye
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And the second challenge I'll try to do is Kim's Amateur Sleuth Challenge 2009, which she'll host at A Novel Challenge.
The guidelines are:
1) Read 12 books featuring an amateur sleuth.
2) Each sleuth must have a different vocation or hobby ie shopping, cooking, writing, advice column, crafts store, school psychologist, gardening, remodeling, etc.
3) Can be first in series or else where.
4) Can be cross used for other challenges.

My list - at least a tentative one:
1) Agatha Christie: The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side

2) Alice Kimberly: The Ghost And The Femme Fatale
3) Jessica Fletcher: Manhattans & Murder
4) Victoria Laurie: Crime Seen
5) Victoria Laurie: Demons Are A Ghoul’s Best Friend
6) Marion Chesney: Hasty Death
7) Anna Maclean: Louisa And The Missing Heiress
8) Elizabeth Peters: The Mummy Case
9) Mary Jane Maffini: Organize Your Corpses
10) Madeleine E. Robins: Point Of Honor
11) Elaine Viets: Shop Till You Drop
12) Harry Kemelman: Sunday The Rabbi Stayed Home

Sunday, November 30, 2008

more challenges for 2009

So, aside from the Series Challenge, I picked my challenges for 2009!

I picked the following 5 challenges:

The Jewish Literature Challenge starting December 21, 2008 and ending April 27, 2009












My list of books will follow here:
1) Johann Maier: Judentum
2) Naomi Alderman: Disobedience
3) Kizzur Shulchan Aruch
4) Harry Kemelman: Sunday The Rabbi Stayed Home
(Chaim Potok: The Chosen)

Then there's the Casual Classics Challenge all throughout 2009.
My picks are the following:
1) Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
2) Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
3) Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
4) Oscar Wilde: A Woman Of No Importance

Then there's the Read Your Own Books Challenge in 2009. I really need to decrease my Mount TBR, so I'll participate in that one as well.
I have yet to create a list for that one, but once I'm done it will follow here:
1) Jane Austen: Emma
2) Oscar Wilde: A Woman Of No Importance
3) William Shakespeare: Hamlet
4) Patricia Davids: Military Daddy

Of course, I can't pass on the Shakespeare Challenge for 2009!
For that one, as well, I have yet to make my list, but it will be posted here once I'm done:
1) Shakespeare's Sonnets
2) William Shakespeare: Hamlet
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And last, but not least, I figured the TBR Challenge Lite would be a nice addition. So my list will follow here:
1) Jane Austen: Emma
2) Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
3) Chaim Potok: The Chosen
4) William Shakespeare: Hamlet
5) Harry Kemelman: Sunday The Rabbi Stayed Home
6) Katie MacAlister: Sex And The Single Vampire