Challenges Complete!!

I have finished TWO challenges!! Woo Hoo!!

Wanna know which ones?


The Pub '09

Read a minimum of 9 books first published in 2009

Here's my list:



While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky (finished 5/1/09, rated 6/10)
Still Alice by Lisa Genova (finished 7/11/09, rated 9/10)
The Believers by Zoe Heller (finished 4/16/09, rated 5/10)
Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand by Gioconda Belli (finished 3/19/09, rated 7/10)
The Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap (finished 2/10/09, rated 7/10)
A World I Never Made by James LePore (finished 3/26/09, rated 7/10)
Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress (finished 5/1/09, rated 8/10)
My Abandonment by Peter Rock (finished 5/4/09, rated 9/10)
Sonata for Miriam by Linda Olsson (finished 5/15/09, rated 8/10)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (finished 5/28/09, rated 10/10)
Saints in Limbo by River Jordan (finished 5/29/09, rated 7/10)
Palace Circle by Rebecca Dean (finished 6/1/09, rated 7/10)
20 Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler (finished 5/29/09, rated 7/10)
All Other Nights by Dara Horn (finished 6/7/09, rated 8/10)
Best Intentions by Emily Listfield (finished 6/11/09, rated 8/10)
Life's That Way by Jim Beaver (finished 6/14/09, rated 10/10)
Sunnyside Blues by Mary Carter (finished 6/19/09, rated 7/10)


I've actually read more than this, I just stopped keeping track!





New Authors 2009

Read books by 50 authors that are new to me

Here's my list:



1 - Big Big Sky by Kristyn Dunnion
2 - By the Shore by Galaxy Craze
3 - The Eyes of a King by Catherine Banner
4 - Alaska by James Michener
5 - The Musician's Daughter by Susanne Dunlap
6 - Fatal Light by Richard Currey
7 - Convergence by Christopher Turner
8 - Canvey Island by James Runcie
9 - The Marchessa by Simonetta Agnello Hornby
10 - Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand by Gioconda Belli
11 - The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
12 - Deep Night by Caroline Petit
13 - 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
14 - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
15 - The Silent Note by Patrick Davis
16 - Family Plots by Mark Patrick Kavanaugh
17 - Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress
18 - Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
19 - Somebody Else's Daughter by Elizabeth Brundage
20 - My Abandonment by Peter Rock
21 - Losing my Religion by William Lobdell
22 - Sonata for Miriam by Linda Olsson
23 - The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
24 - Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
25 - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
26 - Saints in Limbo by River Jordan
27 - 20 Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
28 - The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
29 - Palace Circle by Rebecca Dean
30 - The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
31 - Best Intentions by Emily Listfield
32 - Cutting Loose by Nadine Dajani
33 - A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy by Charlotte Grey
34 - All Other Nights by Dara Horn
35 - Wings by Aprilynne Pike
36 - Skellig by David Almond
37 - Life's That Way by Jim Beaver
38 - Crossed Wires by Rosy Thornton
39 - Sunnyside Blues by Mary Carter
40 - The Fifth Vial by Michael Palmer
41 - Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
42 - A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
43 - The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
44 - Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson
45 - Still Alice by Lisa Genova
46 - Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs
47 - Written in Blood by Sheila Lowe
48 - Gentle Infidel and Queen's Cross by Lawrence Schoonover
49 - Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
50 - The Widow's Season by Laura Brodie


Again, I know I've read more than this, but when I reached 50 I stopped keeping track.

I feel very proud - this was my first year to join challenges, and I've actually finished two of them. Of course, you know what that means - time to join some more!! Stay tuned....