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Lisa J's 2012 Challenge List
21. The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test-Wolfe22. The Bluest Eye-Morrison
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23. Midnight's Children-Rushdie24. Shalador's Lady-Bishop
25. Go Down Moses-Faulkner
26. Tender Is the Night-F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. Out of Oz-Maguire
28. David Copperfield-Dickens
29. The Magician King-Grossman
31. The Great American Medicine Show-An Illustrated History of Patent Medicines in America...
33. White Noise-Don DeLillo34. Willow-Julia Hoban
35. Surfacing-Margaret Atwood36. Magic Trash-Gertie Poole
40. This Side of Paradise-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Are you reading the "1001 books You must read before you die" list? Cuase I think alot of these are on it! You're doing great!!!
Joy, Yep! I'm doing those 3 combined lists, for roughly 1249 or so books, plus any of the Banned/Challenged lists, interspersed with "free reads", like the 50 Shades series, & the Spice Necklace book, which I'm about halfway through :)
Lisa wrote: "Joy, Yep! I'm doing those 3 combined lists, for roughly 1249 or so books, plus any of the Banned/Challenged lists, interspersed with "free reads", like the 50 Shades series, & the Spice Necklace b..."How that is quite a challenge! Looks like you're doing really well!!
44. The Spice Necklace: My Adventures in Caribbean Cooking, Eating, & Island Life-Ann Vanderhoof
48. Andersonville-Kantor49. Crash-Jerry Spinelli
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I just read my first book by Thomas Hardy this month ("The Mayor of Casterbridge") I loved it! How did you like Tess of the D'Urbervilles?
Tess is one of those books that was hard to put down, & took me through a range of emotions. It was the first book of his I've read, & I'm working on Return of the Native now...
Lisa wrote: "Tess is one of those books that was hard to put down, & took me through a range of emotions. It was the first book of his I've read, & I'm working on Return of the Native now..."Awesome!
62. The Dirty Girls Social Club-Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
65. The Unbearable Lightness of Being-Milan Kundera66. The Hope Diamond: The Legendary History of a Cursed Gem-Richard Kurin
Did you enjoy The Unbearable Lightness of Being? I have it on my "to read" list.
It was interesting! The stories between the characters were good, if a trifle complicated since they were intertwined. It was his veering off into philosophical tangents every so often that threw me a bit, but if you take the time to read those too, they make sense & give you more insight into the characters. :)I'm halfway through Far From the Madding Crowd by Hardy now, & about 20 pages in to both The Jungle by Sinclair & a historical fiction novel called In the Company of the Courtesan, which takes place in Rome. Of the 3, finding The Jungle the hardest to get through...
67. Far From the Madding Crowd-Thomas Hardy
68. In the Company of the Courtesan-Sarah Dunant
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Andrea, I really did, even though it was a fictionalized memoir, I felt it touched on enough that was true in her life to make it FEEL like a real biography. I mean, of course it was sad because we all know how tragically she ended up, but it's well worth the read...
2. The Temple of My Familiar-Walker
3. Uncle Tom's Cabin-Stowe
4. The Shadow Queen-Bishop
5. Beach Blondes-Applegate
6. Go Ask Alice-Anonymous
7. Eleonora-Poe
8. Serendipity-Schaffer
9. Ligeia-Poe
10. The Man That Was Used Up-Poe
11. The Masque of the Red Death-Poe
12. The Cask of Amontillado-Poe
13. The Purloined Letter-Poe
14. The Oval Portrait-Poe
15. Hop Frog-Poe
16. Ethan Frome-Wharton
17. Summer-Wharton
18. Sophie's Choice-Styron
19. The Fall of the House of Usher-Poe
20. Message Found In A Bottle-Poe