I hope it is okay to jump into this challenge even though the year has started. I joined LibraryThing in March and I am having lots of fun thinking about books and reading reviews of so many book lovers. I have a lot of TBR books and I hope this challenge will chip away at my list. Here are the 12 I want to finish by the end of the year.
1.
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich message 6
2.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See message 9
3. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
4. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
5.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert6. Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn
7.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy8.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides message 5
9.
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby message 7
10.
Franny and Zoe by J.D. Salinger message 10
11. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
12.
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
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Hi, Welachild!
I'm happy to see you joining the TBR Challenge! :) I joined late last year. The nice thing about this challenge is that it is only 12 books, so it is definitely doable when joining late. It looks like you have lots of good books on your list. Have a great day!
--BJ
An interesting list welachild. I read and really, really liked
Snow Flower and
Middlesex last year. I hope you will enjoy them just as much.
Yay, I finally finished a book off my TBR list.
1)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - This book was amazing. I was constantly suprised by the plot and his ability to create an image on the page is awesome. I loved the way he weaved the story of his characters with actual historical facts. I will definately be adding his other book to my TBR pile!
2)
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich - A great story with lots of interesting characters. The story is told through a handful of people from two different families who are connected by certain events. I like the way the story jumped back and forth through time. What was most interesting to me was the glimpse of life on a reservation and how being Native American did have an impact on the characters lives, even though the author never really gets deep into the politics and such. Love Medicine left me wanting more and I understand Erdrich wrote a bunch more books about the two families in Love Medicine.
3)
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby - This book was awesome!! I'm currently reading two other books so when Spree came in I decided to hold off reading it until I had finished one of my other books but then I had the brilliant idea to just read the first essay (since this book is a collection of Hornby's essays in the Believer magazine, there are 14 essays) just to get a taste of what is to come. Well, I just kept going and before I knew it I had finished the book and my abs had got a workout. I was seriously laughing aloud. When I was finished with this book I raised it in my hands and shouted, "This is me!" (If I were more clever and capable of pining down my thoughts so concisely.) At one point he is talking about how much he liked a book named
Moneyball by Michael Lewis and he writes, "Anyway, I understood about one word in every four of
Moneyball, and it's still the best and most engrossing sports book I've read in years. If you know anything about baseball, you will enjoy it four times as much as I did, which means that you might explode." Not only did I laugh, I added Moneyball to my TBR pile. That is the only problem with Spree, you will be adding tons of books to your TBR mountain.
It sounds terrific!
--BJ
4) Finally finished a book. I've been busy doing a lot of outdoor activities and so it took me a while to finish Snow Flower but it definately wasn't the books fault! I really liked the story. The characters are interesting as well as the storyline. Considering that I read this book in small pieces and left it for days before picking it up again, I never felt like I had lost my place or anything. I was immediately transported to another time and place.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel by Lisa See is a must read.
5)
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.
This book was a lot different than I expected it to be and it held my attention to the end. I felt like I was learning a moral or something but didn't really know what to think about the end of the book. I'm glad I've finally read it but will have to give the contents more thought before I can really decide what I think of the book. It was a fast read and the characters are interesting.
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