My Challenges (timed)


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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
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

World Citizen challenge complete

I really enjoyed this challenge. It encouraged me to read books that I probably would not have picked up otherwise. Be sure to check out the challenge blog to see what others read. My books ended up as follows:

Politics: Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin Ebadi -- completed 5/29/09; review here

Economics: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus -- completed 3/22/09; review here

History: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild -- completed 5/16/09; review here

Culture or Anthropology/Sociology: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer -- completed 1/27/09; review here

Worldwide Issues: Gestures: The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World by Roger E. Axtell -- completed 6/18/09; review here

Memoirs/Autobiographies: The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah -- completed 3/25/09; review here

7th book: Everyday Life in Imperial Japan by Charles J. Dunn -- completed 6/7/09; review here

1 comments:

joanna said...

wow, I'm impressed, it always takes me forever to finish these more serious challenges! Your books sound really interesting!