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Aug 14 2007

A Midway-ish Update

... on The 50 Book Challenge.

 

How am I doing? Check it out ...

 

= loved it

 = hated it

 = recommended for under age 15

 = somewhere from "eh" to good

 

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 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood

 'Safe Passage' by Ellyn Bache

 'Fahrenheit 451' by Ray Bradbury

 'Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood' by Ann Brashares
 'The Year of Magical Thinking' by Joan Didion

 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' by Kim Edwards

 'Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class' by Barbara Ehrenreich

 'For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women' by Barbara Ehrenreich

 'Everything Is Illuminated' by Jonathan Safran Foer

 'Stardust' by Neil Gaiman

 'The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance' by Catherine Ryan Hyde

 'Girl, Interrupted' by Susanna Kaysen (reread)

 'Couldn't Keep It to Myself' by Wally Lamb & the women of York Correctional Institute

 'Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx' by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

 'Life As It Comes' by Anne-Laure Mondoux

 'Taking Precautions' by Shyama Perera

 'My Sister's Keeper' by Jodi Picoult

'The Pact' Jodi Picoult

 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' by J.K. Rowling (reread)
 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' by J.K. Rowling (reread)
 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' by J.K. Rowling (reread)
 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince' by J.K. Rowling (reread)
 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' by J.K. Rowling

 'The Four Agreements' by Don Miguel Ruiz

 'Contact' by Carl Sagan

 'Naked' by David Sedaris

 'The Sirens of Titan' by Kurt Vonnegut

 'Armageddon Summer' by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville

 

So I'm at 28/50 ... how are you folks doing?

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50 Book Challenge
Posted on August 14, 2007 at 2:03 PM by Janine
I'm at 35/50, and I think that's good since I didn't start until early march. I've read all the Harry Potter books, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer, and so many others. Right now I'm reading The Color of Water by James McBride and Mirror Mirror by Gregory MaGuire.
Question..
Posted on August 14, 2007 at 4:22 PM by "Anonymous"
Hey Cari! I have a question. When does 'Extras' by Scott Westerfield come out?
BEHIND!
Posted on August 14, 2007 at 6:37 PM by "Anonymous"
I've read 5! only 5! I'm so behind!
u rock
Posted on August 16, 2007 at 7:42 AM by *mash*
oh my god i looooove the Twilight seires. I havent got the 3rd one yet but when i do im going to do the sane thing that your doing... savorying it!!! lol i get so caught up in her books thuogh so i dont know how im gonna b able to do it but i will. i loooove to read just like u do and ials want to work 4 red. girl ur ausome!!!
Posted on August 16, 2007 at 12:07 PM by "Anonymous"
Everything is Illuminated is such a phenomenal book. I highly suggest Johnathan Safran Foer's other book, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. It's the best piece of work on 9/11 I've ever read. It's tragic, heartrending, and uplifting all in one. Check it out.
i've read 57 books this summer
Posted on August 18, 2007 at 3:24 PM by kel-kel

soo far this summer i've read 57 books. here's  the grading scale ( i'll keep it the same as cari's)

= loved it

 = hated it

 = recommended for under age 15

 = somewhere from "eh" to good

okay here i go

 All twelve Daughter of the moon

All four Sons of the Dark

Scorpia by Anthony Somthing

Abarat

Eclipse (twice)

New Moon

Twilight

Vampire Kisses

Pirates!

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Maximum Ride 3 (THEY"RE GONNA MAKE A MOVIE!)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

9 out of 14 of Sweep

Road of the Dead

4 amelia Atwater/ Rhodes

5 out of i think 7 the Clique

2 out of 3  The midnighters

All American girl

Peeps

6 out of 6 The mediator

That's all i guess i could 've said i loved them all but wheres the fun in that????and  some people can check my math cuz i suck at math lol... P.s if u need descriptions just tell me. BYE 

 

Posted on August 23, 2007 at 1:02 PM by Sam
I started February or so, and I'm at 38/50. The most recent book I finished was Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton - phenomenal! It's fifty years old, but it's a beautiful story; of course, some of the oldest are the best. Read it if you get a chance!
Posted on August 24, 2007 at 12:04 PM by "Anonymous"
I've read somewhere in the range of 60 books, counting rereads in order to read the next book in a series....maybe more, because I didn't start counting until mid-summertime and I had read i think 123 books in the first 10 or so days of summer that i didnt count because i don't remember specifically what they were.  but i am crazy, so it doesn't matter too much