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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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New Yorker: 0/36
New York Review of Books: 0/20
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Monday, August 17, 2009

What are you reading on Mondays? - August 17

You may have noticed that The Brothers Karamazov has been on my Reading This Week list for several weeks now. The book is a chunkster, so it's going to take me a bit. But it doesn't help that I didn't actually start reading it until two days ago. And I have to say that so far, I'm not impressed. I've previously read Crime and Punishment and didn't care for it either; maybe Dostoevsky just isn't for me. I'm going to keep plugging away at this one, though, and hope for the best.

Recent completions:

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis -- review

Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik -- review


Reading this week:


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Challenge progress:

1% Well-Read: 7/10
18th and 19th Century Women Writers: 4/5
A to Z Challenge: 22/26
Baker Street Challenge: 1/4
Book Awards 3: 0/5
Chunkster: 2/3
Classics Challenge: 4/6
Decades '09: 7/9
Elizabeth Gaskell: 1/2
Fill in the Gaps 100 Books: 3/100
George Eliot: 1/2
Guardian's 1000 Best Novels: 4/10
Nonfiction 5: 4/5
Orbis Terrarum: 7/10
Summer Vacation Reading: 5/6
Support Your Local Library: 28/50
TBR Lite: 5/6
Well-Rounded Challenge: 2/5
What's in a Name 2: 4/6

999 Challenge (overall): 57/81

999 Subcategories:
  • 1001 Books: 6/9

  • Booker/National Awards: 2/9

  • Through the Decades: 7/9

  • Dewey's Books: 7/9

  • C.S. Lewis: 4/9

  • Biographies: 7/9

  • Travel: 9/9 ***complete

  • Catholicism: 7/9

  • Dewey Decimal: 9/9 ***complete

2 comments:

Mary (Bookfan) said...

Nice list. Enjoy your reading this week!

Cynthia said...

What a wonderful list of books! I have been meaning to read The Brothers Karamazov for ages (it has been sitting on my bookshelf for about 3 years now) as well as Tender is the Night. Hope you enjoy your reading this week :)