| Challenge |
Progress
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| 3/9 | |
| 3/3 | |
| 7/7 and 5 prompts | |
| 25/25 (to link up still) | |
| 1/10 | |
| Many that I linked up regularly | |
| Many that I linked up regularly | |
| 1 | |
| 6/7 | |
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6/6
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What’s in a Name: COMPLETED – 6/6
My list of books for this challenge – the ones I actually read as opposed to the ones I actually made in the start here.
- A book with a topographical feature (land formation) in the title: Journeys on the Silk Road (man-made topographical feature!)
- A book with something you’d see in the sky in the title: The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells (also works for another challenge) – Completed – Jan 26 2012
- A book with a creepy crawly in the title: Margaret and the Moth Tree – completed Nov 12th 2012
- A book with a type of house in the title: The Lilac House http://myrandrspace.blogspot.com/2012/03/world-of-words-wednesday-book-reviews.htmlby Anita Nair (Release date: Apr 24, 2012) – completed March 19, 2012
- A book with something you’d carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title: Nutshell Library – completed Dec 3 2012
- A book with a something you’d find on a calendar in the title: Thimble Summer – completed Dec 3 2012
South Asian challenge– NOT COMPLETED – 6 out of 7 – Here are the books I completed – 6/7 – I did read a few others but did not complete reviews for them
The Sari Shop (Review completed)
The Twentieth Wife (Review completed)
Last Man in the Tower (Review completed)
The Lilac House (Review completed) (crossover from another challenge)
The Immortals of Meluha (review completed)
Journeys on the Silk Road (review completed)
Feast of Roses (Completed reading – review to come – still)
Secret of the Nagas(reading now)
Books-published-in-the-first-years-of-my-life-challenge – COMPLETED – 3 OUT OF 3 – I picked the Toddler Level for this challenge – first three years
For my level picked up, here are the books I finally read from the choices I had here
1974:
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
1975: Danny, the Champion of the World is a 1975 children’s book by Roald Dahl.
1976:
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
Classics Challenge 2012 –
Back
to the Classics Challenge at Sarah Reads Too Much – NOT COMPLETED -(3/9 – if I consider reviews completed and posted. If I take into account the books I completed reading but did not post reviews for, then it is 6/9) –
- Any 19th Century Classic: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen first published in 1813 – completed reading – yet to review
- Any 20th Century Classic- The First Men in the Moon by H.G.Wells first published in 1901 🙂 completed.
- Reread a classic of your choice: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne – completed reading – yet to review
- A Classic Play: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw – completed
- Classic Mystery/Horror/Crime Fiction: Sherlock Holmes – started reading – did not finish
- Classic Romance – The Fox by D.H.Lawrence – reading – almost done
- Read a Classic that has been translated from its
original language to your language – To clarify, if your native language is NOT
English, you may read any classic originally written in English that has
been translated into your native language. - I am choosing – The Little Prince – – reading – almost done
- Classic Award Winner –
To clarify, the book should be a classic which has won any established
literary award. – Thimble Summer– completed - Read a Classic set in a Country that you (realistically
speaking) will not visit during your lifetime – To Clarify, this does not have to be a country
that you hope to visit either. Countries that no longer
exist or have never existed count. – What Katy Did – – completed reading – yet to review
The League of ExtraÂorÂdiÂnary GenÂtleÂmen Challenge 2012
NOT COMPLETED – Again, the same comments as for the previous ‘Back to Classics Challenge’ hold true here.
The books are (in no speÂcific order):
– DracÂula by Bram Stoker – could not finish reading (not because did not like it but other things came in the way)
– Twenty ThouÂsand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne – – completed reading – yet to review
– Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis StevenÂson – – completed reading – yet to review
– The InvisÂiÂble Man by H.G. Wells – did not get to reading
– The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells – Completed – Jan 26 2012
– Any Fu Manchu novel – The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu – – did not get to reading
– Any SherÂlock Holmes novel – could not finish reading (not because did not like it but other things came in the way)
– Any Allan QuaterÂmain novel – Allan Quatermain — could not finish reading (not because did not like it but other things came in the way)
– Any James Bond novel- did not get to reading
GenÂtleÂmen graphic novel to tie it all together. (if you don’t have it
in your local library AmaÂzon sells affordÂable issues). — did not get to reading
2012 e-book Challenge COMPLETED – Need To Link UP YET – For the eBook Challenge, I never got around to linking up, but I must have finished it since many of the books I read and reviewed this year were eBooks, so maybe I should link up and consider this completed 🙂
