Take It or Leave It Challenge - April 2012 - Page 2

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Add your books to the master list, but do NOT list the same book twice under different challenges. You may move your books from one challenge to another at any time. Your books should be either unmarked, marked Reading, or marked COMPLETED. Should you not finish a book, delete it from the wiki without guilt! Any book not marked COMPLETED at the end of the month *will be deleted* soon thereafter.

You may add a "counter-challenge" to the wiki within the first week (only up to day #4) of the month. One per person, please.

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DIRECTIONS for adding your book(s) and how to increase the point value of this challenge are on the FAQs page (see link at the bottom of this page). You worry about adding/deleting your books; I'll worry about the point value.

[edit] April 2012:

[edit] Challenge #7: Spring Cleaning: Finish a book that you started between January 1, 2012 and March 28, 2012 - started by Zoe

1. Anathem - Neal Stephenson - streamsong - COMPLETED (4.25)
2. Barnaby Rudge - Charles Dickens - souloftherose - COMPLETED (2.5)
3. Best American Short Stories 2011 - edited by Geraldine Brooks - bell7 - COMPLETED
4. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger - JonHutchings - COMPLETED
5. A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin - JeanneD - COMPLETED
6. Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese - bohemima - COMPLETED (4.75)
7. *Darkness Take My Hand - Dennis Lehane -Crazymamie - COMPLETED (4)
8. *Darkness Take My Hand - Dennis Lehane - christiguc - COMPLETED
9. Dr. Riemann's zeros - Karl Sabbagh - Athabasca - COMPLETED
10. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman - EBT1002 - COMPLETED
11. A Fatal Grace - Louise Penny - AnneDC - COMPLETED
12. Genesis by John C Jeske - streamsong - COMPLETED
13. The Girl Who Disappeared Twice - Andrea Kane - SugarCreekRanch - COMPLETED (2.5)
14. Good Bait - John Harvey - elkiedee - COMPLETED
15. The Gothic Quest - Montague Summers - lyzard - COMPLETED
16. Heroes and Saints - Richard Barber - calm - COMPLETED
17. *Hide Me Among the Graves - Tim Powers - yoyogod - COMPLETED
18. *Hide Me Among the Graves - Tim Powers - LizzieD - COMPLETED
19. The Hunter - John Lescroart - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
20. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace - Donna828 - COMPLETED (4.5)
21. Isaiah 2 - John A Braun - streamsong - COMPLETED
22. The Issa Valley - Czesław Miłosz - christiguc - COMPLETED
23. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke - Morphidae - COMPLETED
24. Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami - avatiakh - COMPLETED (5)
25. The life of Senna - Tom Rubython - sbarrow57 - COMPLETED
26. Lirael - Garth Nix - mbellerose - COMPLETED
27. Losing Nelson - Barry Unsworth - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
28. Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis - streamsong - COMPLETED (4.5)
29. Mrs Robinson's Disgrace - Kate Summerscale - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
30. The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus - Morphidae - COMPLETED
31. On Little Wings - Regina Sirois - countrylife - COMPLETED (3.7)
32. One Was a Soldier - Julia Spencer-Fleming - klobrien2 - COMPLETED
33. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey - avatiakh - COMPLETED
34. Panther Baby - Jamal Joseph - kidzdoc - COMPLETED (4.5)
35. A Passion for Books - edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan - bell7 - COMPLETED (4)
36. The Pride of Chanur - C.J. Cherryh - DorsVenabili - COMPLETED
37. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain - labfs39 - COMPLETED
38. Raven Calls - C. E. Murphy - Morphidae - COMPLETED
39. The Ridge - Michael Koryta - SugarCreekRanch - COMPLETED (4.5)
40. *The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis - bell7 - COMPLETED (5)
41. *The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis - Donna828 - COMPLETED (4.5)
42. The Secret Keeper - Brea Brown - countrylife - COMPLETED (1.0)
43. Selections from The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: 1937-1999 - Arthur C. Clarke - antqueen - COMPLETED
44. Shark's Fin and Sichuan Peppers - Fuchsia Dunlop - gennyt - COMPLETED
45. Sup with the Devil - Barbara Hamilton - lindapanzo - COMPLETED
46. Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin - bohemima - COMPLETED (4.70)
47. The Unquiet Bones - Melvin Starr - klobrien2 - COMPLETED
48. Waiting for Sunrise - William Boyd - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
49. Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture - Audrey L. Becker & Kristin Noonan - ivyd - COMPLETED
50. What is the What - Dave Eggers - Soupdragon - COMPLETED

3 points - final tally

[edit] Challenge #8: Read a book by a different author that is related to another book you've read for TIOLI - started by Citizenjoyce

1. 11/22/63- Stephen King (Related to the topic of presidential assassination Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President - Candice Millard) - Citizenjoyce - A-COMPLETED (4)
2. At One-Thirty: A Mystery - Isabel Ostrander (name-checked in The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club) - lyzard - e-COMPLETED
3. Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel (Involving the same characters in Tudor England featured in Winter King by Thomas Penn & several other TIOLI books I've read) - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
4. Dali's Mustache - Salvador Dali (features photos by Philippe Halsman) Halsman at Work - Yvonne Halsman - brenpike - COMPLETED
5. *The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman (Related to the genre Jewish folklore of Golem: The Story of a Legend - Elie Wiesel) - Citizenjoyce - COMPLETED (4.5)
6. *The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman (matched) - countrylife - COMPLETED (3)
7. *The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman (matched) - avatiakh - COMPLETED (2.5)
8. Dr Thorndyke's Casebook - R. Austin Freeman (name-checked in The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club) - lyzard - COMPLETED
9. Flight - Shernman Alexie - (Related to the topic of Native American history of The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History - Joseph M. Marshall III) - Citizenjoyce - COMPLETED (4.5)
10. Forfeit - Dick Francis -(related to horses and mystery) in Riding Shotgun - Rita Mae Brown - streamsong - COMPLETED
11. Golem: The Story of a Legend - Elie Wiesel) - (Related to the genre Jewish folklore of The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman) - Citizenjoyce - COMPLETED (4)
12. Halsman at Work - Yvonne Halsman (features photography by Philippe Halsman) Dali's Mustache - Salvadore Dali - brenpike - COMPLETED
13. Hitlerland - Andrew Nagorski (Related by topic of Americans witnessing rise of Nazi Germany in In The Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson) - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
14. *The Jungle Book- Rudyard Kipling- (Mentioned in The The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht) - AnneDC - COMPLETED
15. *The Jungle Book- Rudyard Kipling- (Mentioned in The The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht) - Citizenjoyce - E-COMPLETED (4)
16. The Kitchen Man - Ira Wood - (Related by marriage to Marge Piercy, author of Sex Wars) - Citizenjoyce - COMPLETED
17. Lady Audley's Secret - M.E. Braddon (read by a main character in The Sealed Letter - Emma Donoghue) - Citizenjoyce - E-COMPLETED (4.5)
18. Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Elinore Pruitt Stewart (Shares topic of pioneer women with Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey - Lillian Schlissel) - brenpike - COMPLETED
19. Life Work - Donald Hall- (Related by marriage to Jane Kenyon), author of Jane Kenyon: Collected Poems- VioletBramble - COMPLETED
20. * The Little Red Guard - Wenguang Huang (Related to the topic of China in Fighting Angel - Pearl S Buck - streamsong - COMPLETED (3.5)
21. * The Little Red Guard - Wenguang Huang (matched) - thornton37814 - COMPLETED
22. Masters of Enterprise - H.W. Brands (another Modern Scholar imprint title, Classical Mythology by Peter Meineck) - pbadeer - COMPLETED (4)
23. Miss Zukas in Death's Shadow - Jo Dereske (set in Whatcom County, Washington, as was This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff) - lahochstetler - COMPLETED
24. Natural Birth - Toi Derricotte (related to the April 2010 read a living author challenge, as is Morning Haiku by Sonia Sanchez) - kidzdoc - COMPLETED
25. Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger - (author is a character in Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella) - ivyd - COMPLETED
26. Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick (Related to the topic of North Korea in The Orphan Master's Son) - Nancy618 - COMPLETED (4.5)
27. Private Games - James Patterson (drama set around the London Olympics of 2012, as is Gold by Chris Cleave) - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
28. Rock Bottom - Erin Brockovich (Related to the topic of children with disabilities in Four Feet Tall and Rising Shorty Rossi)- Citizenjoyce - A-COMPLETED
29. The Rose and the Beast - Francesca Lia Block (related to The Canterbury Trail as both are retellings of old stories) - raidergirl3 - COMPLETED (4)
30. The Sister Queens - Sophie Perinot (Shares the topic of historical fiction about medieval English/European queens in When Christ and His Saints Slept - Sharon Penman) - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
31. The Sisters Brothers - Patrick Dewitt (related to Western gunslingers which is the topic of Doc - Mary Doria Russell) - Citizenjoyce - A-COMPLETED (4.5)
32. Soldier Dogs - Maria Goodavage - (Shares the topic dogs/war in Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle, 2010 - Brian Dennis) - Citizenjoyce - COMPLETED (4)
33. The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey - (Shares the topic of Russian folklore/fairy tales with Enchantment - Orson Scot Wells) - souloftherose - COMPLETED (3.5)
34. Stories I Only Tell My Friends - Rob Lowe - (celebrity memoir like Bossypants by Tina Fey) - katiekrug - COMPLETED
35. True Story: A Novel - Bill Maher - (shares the topic of comedians withBossypants by Tina Fey) - Citizenjoyce A-COMPLETED - (2.5)
36. The Web Of Iniquity - Catherine Ross Nickerson (study of early detective fiction by American women including Metta Fuller Victor, read for TIOLI #11) - lyzard - COMPLETED
37. When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man - Nick Dybek (related topic of deep sea fishermen in The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger) - countrylife - COMPLETED
38. When I Was a Poet - David Meltzer (related to the April 2010 read a living author challenge, as is Morning Haiku by Sonia Sanchez) - kidzdoc - COMPLETED
39. World War Z - Max Brooks (related to Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson) - katiekrug - Reading ?????????

4 points - final tally

[edit] Challenge #9: Read a book with a title that includes only the vowels in the word "April" - started by cbl_tn

1. *April In Paris - Michael Wallner - DeltaQueen - COMPLETED (3.6)
2. *April in Paris - Michael Wallner - brenpike - COMPLETED
3. April Lady - Georgette Heyer - countrylife - COMPLETED (2.8)
4. Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig - majkia - COMPLETED (4.5)
5. *Blacklands - Belinda Bauer - katiekrug - COMPLETED
6. *Blacklands - Belinda Bauer - Crazymamie - COMPLETED (4)
7. Britain B.C. - Francis Pryor - calm - COMPLETED
8. Dark warning - Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick - avatiakh - COMPLETED (3.5)
9. Girl Giant - Kristen den Hartog - labfs39 - COMPLETED
10. Girlchild - Tupelo Hassman - lahochstetler - COMPLETED (3.5)
11. Hark! A Vagrant - Kate Beaton - klobrien2 - COMPLETED
12. Inda - Sherwood Smith - Athabasca - COMPLETED (4)
13. Katarina - Kathryn Winter - cbl_tn - COMPLETED (4)
14. Manja - Anna Gmeyner - elkiedee - COMPLETED
15. Math Girls - Hiroshi Yuki - swynn - COMPLETED
16. Mr. Kill - Martin Limon - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
17. Night - Elie Wiesel - cbl_tn - a-COMPLETED (4.5)
18. Sita's Ramayana - Samhita Arni & Moyna Chitrakar - brenpike - COMPLETED
19. Slag Attack - Andersen Prunty - yoyogod - COMPLETED
20. Straight- Dick Francis - ccookie - COMPLETED (3.5)
21. *Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - ccookie - COMPLETED (3.5)
22. *Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - cbl_tn - COMPLETED (5)
23. *Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - Crazymamie - COMPLETED (4.5)
24. Thirst - Andrei Gelasimov - kidzdoc - COMPLETED (2)
25. Twilight's Dawn - Anne Bishop - Morphidae - COMPLETED
26. Waifs and Strays - Micah Ballard - kidzdoc - COMPLETED (2)

4 points - final tally

[edit] Challenge #10: Read a book which features people (or groups of people) from different cultures coming into contact with each other - started by wandering_star

1. Across Many Mountains - Yangzom Brauen - bell7 - COMPLETED (3.5)
2. *American Chick in Saudi Arabia - Jean Sasson - Citizenjoyce - E-COMPLETED
3. *American Chick in Saudi Arabia - Jean Sasson - Chatterbox - E-COMPLETED
4. American Notes - Charles Dickens - souloftherose - COMPLETED (3.5)
5. Caleb's Crossing - Geraldine Brooks - Citizenjoyce - A-COMPLETED (4)
6. The Headhunter's Daughter - Tamar Myers - cbl_tn - COMPLETED
7. The Holy Road - Michael Blake - DeltaQueen - COMPLETED
8. Jack the Giantkiller - Charles de Lint - humouress - COMPLETED
9. The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier - klobrien2 - COMPLETED
10. People Who Eat Darkness - Richard Lloyd Parry - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
11. A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Morphidae - COMPLETED
12. Rich Relations: the American occupation of Britain 1942-1945 - David Reynolds - wandering_star - COMPLETED (3.5)
13. Servant of the Empire - Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts - Morphidae - COMPLETED
14. Shanghai Girls by Lisa See - streamsong - COMPLETED
15. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells - pbadeer - COMPLETED (4)
16. Under the Green Star - Lin Carter - swynn - COMPLETED
17. Up the Country - Emily Eden - LizzieD - COMPLETED

1 point - final tally

[edit] Challenge #11: Read a first-person narrative in which the narrator is the opposite sex from the author - started by lyzard

1. Anything But Typical - Nora Raleigh Baskin - countrylife - COMPLETED (3.9)
2. The Beacon Hill Murders - Roger Scarlett (Dorothy Blair and Evelyn Page) - lyzard - COMPLETED
3. The Beginner's Goodbye - Anne Tyler - elkiedee - COMPLETED
4. Box - Penelope Todd - avatiakh - COMPLETED (3.5)
5. The Dead Letter - Metta Fuller Victor - lyzard - COMPLETED
6. The Figure Eight - Metta Fuller Victor - lyzard - COMPLETED
7. *The First Rule of Ten - Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsay - lahochstetler - COMPLETED (3.8)
8. *The First Rule of Ten - Gay Hendricks and Tinker Lindsay - cyderry E-COMPLETED (3.75)
9. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn - SugarCreekranch - COMPLETED (4.5)
10. *Heresy - S J Parris (Stephenie Merritt) - majkia - COMPLETED
11. *Heresy - S. J. Parris - cbl_tn - a-COMPLETED
12. My Antonia - Willa Cather - Morphidae - COMPLETED
13. On Canaan's Side - Sebastian Barry - Nancy618 - COMPLETED
14. Prophecy - S. J. Parris - majkia - COMPLETED
15. *Sacrilege - S.J. Parris - majkia - COMPLETED
16. *Sacrilege - S.J. Parris - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
17. Seeker - Jack McDevitt - antqueen - COMPLETED
18. *The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
19. *The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller - souloftherose - COMPLETED (5)
20. *The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller - AnneDC - COMPLETED (4.7)
21. *The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller - wandering_star - COMPLETED (5)
22. *The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller - kidzdoc - COMPLETED (4.7)
23. *The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller - christiguc - COMPLETED
24. *The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller - brenpike - COMPLETED
25. *The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller - brenzi - COMPLETED (4.6)
26. *The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller - Citizenjoyce COMPLETED (4.5)
27. The Sweet By and By - Todd Johnson - swynn - COMPLETED
28. Why We Broke Up - Daniel Handler - mbellerose - COMPLETED

8 points - final tally

[edit] Challenge #12: Read a Sherlock Holmes novel, collection of stories, or another "Sherlockian" work - started by Chatterbox

1. The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade - M.J. Trow - lahochstetler - COMPLETED (3.7)
2. *Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - casvelyn - COMPLETED (4.7)
3. *Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - countrylife - COMPLETED (3.9)
4. Beekeeping for Beginners - laurie R. King - cyderry - COMPLETED (4)
5. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - casvelyn - COMPLETED (4.5)
6. The Final Solution - Michael Chabon - cbl_tn - a-COMPLETED
7. His Last Bow - Arthur Conan Doyle - casvelyn - COMPLETED (4.3)
8. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle - casvelyn - COMPLETED (4.3)
9. A letter of Mary - Laurie R. King - Athabasca - COMPLETED (4)
10. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - casvelyn - COMPLETED (4.7)
11. The Moor - Laurie R King - elkiedee - COMPLETED
12. *The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - souloftherose - COMPLETED (3.5)
13. *The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - casvelyn - COMPLETED (4.6)
14. *The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan-Doyle - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
15. *The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle - casvelyn - COMPLETED (4.5)
16. *The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle - AnneDC - COMPLETED
17. *A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan-Doyle - Chatterbox - COMPLETED
18. *A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan-Doyle - wandering_star - COMPLETED (3.5)
19. *A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle - EBT1002 - COMPLETED
20. *A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle - casvelyn - COMPLETED (4.5)
21. *A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle - Nancy618 - COMPLETED (4.25)
22. The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle - casvelyn - COMPLETED (4.1)

7 points - final tally

[edit] TIOLI Challenge Point Value = 108

(Updated 5/1/12 at 0857)

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