My Challenges (timed)


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Completed 9 of 10


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My Challenges (perpetual)

100 SHOTS OF SHORT
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CHECKIN’ OFF THE CHEKHOV
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THE COMPLETE BOOKER
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MARTEL-HARPER CHALLENGE
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MODERN LIBRARY'S 100 BEST NOVELS

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
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THE PULITZER PROJECT
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TAMMY'S BEYOND BOOKS CHALLENGE

New York Times Book Review: 6/40
New Yorker: 0/36
New York Review of Books: 0/20
Vogue: 1/16
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Challenge update as of February 28, 2009


I officially completed the 1% Well-Read Challenge. The goal was to read 10 books from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. I only replaced 1 of the books from my original list. The books I read (with links to my reviews) are:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain -- review here

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh -- review here

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller -- review here

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck -- review here

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- review here

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison -- review here

Life of Pi by Yann Martel -- review here

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- review here

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre -- review here

A new 1% Well-Read Challenge has already started, so I've got to get on it and pick my next group of books. For others interested in participating, note that you now have 3 choices because of the changes made to the 1001 list.


The Lit Flicks Challenge is officially over and I completed 4 out of 5 books. Not bad, I guess, but still disappointing. Again, a list of the books I read with links to my reviews (if not given above):

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Howards End by E. M. Forster -- review here

The World According to Garp by John Irving -- review here



Also ended was my self-imposed Banned Books Challenge (I picked 12 books to read by this year's Freedom to Read week). I completed 11 in all. In addition to Huck Finn, Catch-22, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, and One Hundred Years of Solitude, I completed:

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