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10
The Sunday Salon & Book Awards Reading Challenge
2008 at 4pm Posted by Rebecca Joines Schinsky
It’s been a full week here in Readerville. I started the week with a spoilerific review of Breaking Dawn that got so many hits that I spent 2 days in the WordPress Blogs of the Day (Top 100) and made a brief appearance on the front page! That was pretty exciting and way more than I expected. I made an unexpected trip home to visit my parents this week, so I’ve had extra reading time in airports and at home.
On Tuesday, I wrote about my weekly memes, then on Wednesday, I reviewed Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks and announced my contest to win a signed copy of this great collection of short fiction. Thursday brought a discussion of the literary worlds I’d like to explore, and other bloggers’ responses reminded me of other favorites and added a few new books to that ever-growing TBR list. Yesterday I reviewed Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with my Dad, which I thoroughly enjoyed and want to share with everyone. It was just a good, thoughtful, well-written summer read.
Last night, I finished The Handmaid’s Tale and was totally blown away by it–that review will come later this week.
And now I’d like to officially announce (and yes, I know that is a split infinitive) that I’ll be participating in the Book Awards Reading Challenge II. The challenge began on August 1st and will run through June 1, 2009. The goal is to read ten award-winning books over ten months, with the condition that the books represent at least five different awards. Here’s my proprosed reading list…I promise they do come from at least five different awards, but I didn’t bother to write down which ones...in no particular order.
1. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (complete)
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
3. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
5. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
7. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
8. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
9. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
10. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
So, that’s the list. I’ve been wanting to read several of these for some time, but I hadn’t heard of a few of them until recently, and I’m looking forward to this opportunity to broaden my literary horizons. Look for a review of The Handmaid’s Tale early this week.
If you’d like to join either The Sunday Salon or The Book Awards Reading Challenge (or both), click on the icons to visit their sites.
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Ooh, I can’t wait for you to read The Remains of the Day! It was my favorite book of last year and I almost wish I could forget the entire book so I could read it for the first time all over again. The Time Traveller’s Wife is also pretty good.
Oooh, I read A Long Way Gone earlier this year. It was excellent. Graphic and disturbing and eye opening. I reveiwed it here: http://embejoetc.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/a-long-way-gone/
Congratulations on making the Top 100 list for your Breaking Dawn review! Maybe one of these days I’ll get around to reading the series myself.
It looks like you have a great reading list ahead of you for the challenge. I do hope you enjoy Half a Yellow Sun as much as I did. Several others on your list are books I hope to read one day too.
Have a great week!
You have picked some really awesome books! I loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. The Time Traveler’s Wife is also interesting. I’ll be curious to read your review. The Remains of the Day was just lovely. We’re both going to read We Need to Talk about Kevin. I hope we can sleep at night afterwards. Have a great week!
It is very exciting to be on WP top 100 of the day. The double dating with my dad book sounds interesting; this summer, I have done some work with assisted living and I am certainly curious about the perspective of a loved one.
I just realized that the book is called assisted LOVING, not living! Sorry for the confusion
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So glad that you like Tha Handmaid’s Tale (enjoyed your review), it is on my challenge list too. I just finished The Time Traveler’s Wife.
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