888 Reading Challenge 2008

This is being hosted by 3M
and I'm putting the blog together again now to make it easier for me to find this year and keep track of my books. If anyone is still interested in joining, here are her rules, which are very easy, and for those of us who like to read alot, it's a fun challenge to join! I made sure most of the sections were of books I WANTED to read, and was going to anyway this year. So.....

Challenge Rules
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

1. Challenge runs from January 1 through December 31, 2008.

2. Choose 8 categories of your own that you would like to read 8 books EACH in.

3. You will be allowed 8 overlaps, for a total of 56 unique book titles.

4. You may overlap these 56 titles with any other challenge.

5. You may change your list or your categories at any time.

6. Post a comment here that you are participating, and I will add a link to the sidebar. Request an invite including your e-mail address if you want to post your list to this blog. However, we will NOT be writing reviews here! You may update your lists by providing the link to books read. Please use your name as a label, along with the book categories you're reading from.

7. Check back here to see who is participating and cheer others on.

8. Participants who complete all 56 books will be in the running for in-stock books from paperbackswap.com. (I have mucho credits.) Overseas is okay!

9. Have fun reading!

My list is:

Selection One - LATEST BOOKS BY FAVOURITE AUTHORS - COMPLETED

• By the Time You Read This - Giles Blount * (Canadian Book Challenge) - DONE
• D.A. - Connie Willis - DONE
• Exit Music - Ian Rankin *(Mystery) - DONE
• Kidnapped - Jan Burke - DONE
• The Remains of an Altar - Phil Rickman * (Mystery) - DONE
• Piece of My Heart - Peter Robinson * (Canadian Book Challenge) - DONE
• Widdershins - Charles de Lint ** (Fantasy, Canadian Book Challenge), Chunkster - DONE
• Ysabel - Guy Gavriel Kay ** (Fantasy, Canadian Book Challenge) - DONE

Selection Two - FAIRY TALES (original, rewritten, short story collections)

• Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones (Mythopoeic ) DONE
• The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter - DONE
• Kissing the Witch - Emma Donoghue
• The Classic Fairy Tales - Iona and Peter Opie - DONE
• The Door in the Hedge - Robin McKinley (Mythopoeic) - DONE
• Fitcher's Brides - Gregory Frost
• Enchantment - Orson Scott Card
• Black Heart, Ivory Bones - eds Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling

Section Three - CLASSIC LITERATURE*** (modified at end of post)

Ulysses - James Joyce * (Birthday)

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf * (From the Stacks, Birthday ) - DONE

The Iliad - Homer

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Middlemarch - George Eliot

Beowulf (penguin ed)- DONE

Beowulf - Seamus Heaney new version

O Pioneers - Willa Cather

Persuasion - Jane Austen

****Alternate***
-Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen - DONE

Section Four - SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

• Northern Frights 2 - ed Don Hutchison * (Canadian Book Challenge)
• Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - 6th Annual Collection, eds Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
• Kissing the Witch - Emma Donoghue * (Fairy Tales 888)
• Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman - DONE
• The Door in the Hedge - Robin McKinley * (Fairy Tales Section 888) - DONE
• Harrowing the Dragon - Patricia McKillip
• Everything's Eventual - Stephen King - DONE

Section 5 - FANTASY

• Ysabel - Guy Gavriel Kay * (Latest Books 888, Canadian Book Challenge) - DONE
• Widdershins - Charles de Lint * (Latest Books 888, Canadian Book Challenge, Chunkster) - DONE
• The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Cooper * (First in a Series Challenge)
• Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper * (First in a Series Challenge) - DONE
• The Oracle Queen - Lynn Flewelling
• Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde * - DONE (Latest Books 888)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke (Mythopoeic RC) DONE
• Shaman's Crossing - Robin Hobb DONE *(First in a Series Challenge)

Section 6 - MYSTERY - COMPLETED

• The Remains of an Altar - Phil Rickman *(Latest Book 888) - DONE
• Exit Music - Ian Rankin * (Latest Book 888) - DONE
• Kidnapped - Jan Burke * (Latest Book 888) - DONE
• Rituals of the Season - Margaret Maron - DONE
• Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand - Fred Vargas - DONE
• Piece of My Heart - Peter Robinson - DONE* (Canadian Book Challenge, Latest Book 888)
• Still Life - Louise Penny * (Canadian Book Challenge, First in a Series) DONE
• Fire Sale - Sara Paretsky - DONE

Section Seven - NON-FICTION ****NOT DOING, AMENDED TO HORROR/GOTHIC BOOKS BELOW

• Crossing to Avalon - Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Toast - A Biography - Nigel Slater
• Journal of a Solitude - May Sarton * (Poetry Reading Challenge)
• 1599 A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare - James Shapiro * (Shakespeare Reading Challenge)
• Life of Charlotte Bronte - Mrs Gaskell
• Canadian Settler's Guide - Catharine Parr Traill * (Canadian Book Challenge) - DONE
• The Psychic Pathway - Sonia Choquette
• Tarot for Yourself - Mary K. Greer

Section 8 - Assorted Fiction I've been Meaning to Read......

Obsidian Butterfly - Laurell K. Hamilton

The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald - DONE

Inkheart - Cornelia Funke - DONE

A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby - DONE

White Teeth - Zadie Smith

She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb

The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver

Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky - DONE
****Alternate (added Oct 19 2008)
- Tamsin - Peter S. Beagle - DONE
- Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes
- Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz - DONE

*****Modified July 7 2008 I am counting each Beowulf as a Classics choice. Not grouping them into one! What was I thinking!!?

*****MODIFIED AUG 27/08 HORROR/DARK FANTASY replaces NON-FICTION******
COMPLETED
1. The Harrowing - Alexandra Sokoloff - DONE (Awards Challenge)
2.The Terror - Dan Simmons -DONE
3. The Woman in Black - Susan Hill - DONE
4.Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz - DONE
5. The House of Dr. Dee - Peter Ackroyd (1% challenge)
6. The Night Country - Stewart O'Nan DONE
7. Lonely Werewolf Girl - Martin Millar DONE
8. Wolf Moon - Charles de Lint - DONE (Can Challenge 2)
*Alternates:
(added Oct 19 2008)
- Everything's Eventual - Stephen King - DONE