Being a planner type, I've made my list of possible books for this Saturday's Readathon. (Don't know about Readathon? Check it out here.) I've decided on the following:
A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle -- just for fun and because it's been sitting on my shelf forever
Forever England: North and South by Beryl Bainbridge
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackyroyd -- not on my list for the 10 Out of 100 Challenge, but is on the 1001 Books list
Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener -- will count for Book Awards II Challenge and the Pulitzer Project
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis -- will count for Booker Challenge; also on the 1001 Books list
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan -- another just because book
Youth by J.M. Coetzee -- will count for 10 Out of 100 Challenge
Each book is relatively short; Tales of the South Pacific is the longest at 384 pages, so I don't expect to finish it in 1 day, but maybe I can get a start. I would like to at least finish Youth and Time's Arrow, since they're both on my challenge lists. Last Readathon I read 3 books. I'm making that my goal this time, too.
A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle -- just for fun and because it's been sitting on my shelf forever
Forever England: North and South by Beryl Bainbridge
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackyroyd -- not on my list for the 10 Out of 100 Challenge, but is on the 1001 Books list
Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener -- will count for Book Awards II Challenge and the Pulitzer Project
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis -- will count for Booker Challenge; also on the 1001 Books list
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan -- another just because book
Youth by J.M. Coetzee -- will count for 10 Out of 100 Challenge
Each book is relatively short; Tales of the South Pacific is the longest at 384 pages, so I don't expect to finish it in 1 day, but maybe I can get a start. I would like to at least finish Youth and Time's Arrow, since they're both on my challenge lists. Last Readathon I read 3 books. I'm making that my goal this time, too.
3 comments:
Awesome pile :)
I was here to remind you about the read-a-thon :) But I m glad, that you already remember and are excited about it as much as I am :)
Have fun participating!!
On Oct 18th!
For Read-a-thon
My BLOG
How you have a great time!
You might be interested in heading over to Arukiyomi's blog and picking up a copy of the new version of Arukiyomi's 1001 books spreadsheet .
Along with calculating how many books you need to read a year before you die, there's all the 2008 edition books, all those removed from the 2006 edition, links to wikipedia , amazon.com and .co.uk and Google books.
Happy reading!
PS - bit sobering to be posting after the late great Dewey :-(
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