Friday, December 25, 2009

2010 Reading Challenges

If you need to find reading challenges, go to A NOVEL CHALLENGES!

(NOTE: ** = Finished reading and reviewing the book)

This is part of my reading plan for 2010.




I received these books as presents and haven't read them yet.
Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck


I need to read more poems and short stories in my TBR.
Fume o Peak - John McDonald
New Voices - A Collection of Soviet Short Stories - Raduga Publications - Moscow
Shorter Fiction - Oscar Wilde


I read these books and forgot to blog about them. So, I will re-read them and review them this time.

Lady Susan - Jane Austen

Martin Sloan - Michael Redhill


I am a Board Member of Save Our Cemeteries and need to read about them.


New Orleans Architecture - Vol. III - The Cemeteries - Leonard Huber, Peggy McDowell, and Mary Christovich





The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood - Kien Nguyen


This Must Be My Brother - Leann Thieman and Carol Dey




2010 Reading Resolutions Challenge - My goal is to read the TBR books that are 3 years or older or books that I didn't finish in last year's challenges.


1. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (I've read about 3/4 the book on Daily Lit but won't finish it before Christmas 2009)
2. Aesop's Fables (I've read about 1/2 book and don't think that I can finish by Christmas 2009)


The following are in my TBR and need to be finished:

3. Wildflower - Nick Bantock

4. Fort Amity - A Story of French Canadian Life in the Time of Wolfe and Montecalm by "Q" (A. T. Quiller-Couch)

5. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

6. We - Evgeny Zamyatin

5 comments:

Serena said...

Welcome to the Vietnam war Reading Challenge. Thanks for signing up in the google form as well!

A Cajun Down Under said...

War and Peace? You are a brave soul. I could not get through it -- not even the movie. In fact, the Cliff notes were pretty hard to manage too if I remember correctly from high school. Good luck!

Isabel said...

Serena - I am looking forward to the Vietnam War Reading Challenge. I am trying to spread the word!

ACDU - I have an old edition of W&P. I have started making a list of the characters, so I don't forget who they are! I will try again in the summer, when it's too hot to do anything. This is one novel that you have to read straight through.

I started it twice, put it down, and forgot EVERYTHING!

If I don't succeed this time, that's it for W&P.

Anna said...

I'm so glad you're joining us for the Vietnam challenge, and I look forward to reading your reviews.

--Anna
Diary of an Eccentric

Isabel said...

Anna - I have started reading a Novel without a Name. Very good. I am glad to be part of this challenge.