2012 challenges
And that time of the year is here again! The time of announcing new challenges!
2012 TBR Pile Challenge (hosted by Adam at RoofBeamReader)
I failed miserably the 2011 edition, but this year I'm determined to completing this challenge.
1. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (>7 years)
2. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (1 year)
3. María by Jorge Isaacs (>7 years)
4. King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard (>7 years)
5. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (1 year)
6. Quo Vadis? by Henrik Sienkiewicz (>7 years)
7. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1-2 years)
8. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (>7 years)
9. Miss Pettigrew lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (1 year)
10. The Gods will have Blood by Anatole France (>7 years)
11. Robin Hood by Walter Scott Pierce Egan, translated from English by Alexandre Dumas (*) (>7 years)
12. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (1-2 years)
Alternates:
Minnie's Room by Mollie Panter-Downes
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
What's in a name 5 (hosted by Beth at Beth Fish Reads)
1. A book with a topographical feature (land formation) in the title:
2. A book with something you'd see in the sky in the title:
3. A book with a creepy crawly in the title:
4. A book with a type of house in the title: The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
5. A book with something you'd carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title:
6. A book with a something you'd find on a calendar in the title: Miss Pettigrew lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
1001 Books
1. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
2012 TBR Pile Challenge (hosted by Adam at RoofBeamReader)
I failed miserably the 2011 edition, but this year I'm determined to completing this challenge.
1. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (>7 years)
2. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson (1 year)
3. María by Jorge Isaacs (>7 years)
4. King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard (>7 years)
5. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (1 year)
6. Quo Vadis? by Henrik Sienkiewicz (>7 years)
7. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1-2 years)
8. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (>7 years)
9. Miss Pettigrew lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (1 year)
10. The Gods will have Blood by Anatole France (>7 years)
11. Robin Hood by Walter Scott Pierce Egan, translated from English by Alexandre Dumas (*) (>7 years)
12. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (1-2 years)
Alternates:
Minnie's Room by Mollie Panter-Downes
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
What's in a name 5 (hosted by Beth at Beth Fish Reads)
1. A book with a topographical feature (land formation) in the title:
2. A book with something you'd see in the sky in the title:
3. A book with a creepy crawly in the title:
4. A book with a type of house in the title: The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
5. A book with something you'd carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title:
6. A book with a something you'd find on a calendar in the title: Miss Pettigrew lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
1001 Books
1. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson