Bucketyell's 250 Challenge - 2011

Well here goes nothing...

1) Born to Buy by Schor - 02/01/11
2) How Walmart is Destroying America by Quinn - 04/01/11
3) Le Bal by Nemirovsky - 05/01/11
4) King Leary by Quarrington - 09/01/11

5) Practical Jean by Cole - 15/01/11

6) Wedding Season by Fforde - 26/01/11

Exams are done for now so I can read again!

7) The Blind Assassin by Atwood - 29/01/11
8) Blue Water by Ansay - 30/01/11
9) Ritual by Hayder - 30/01/11

10) The Book Shop by Fitzgerald - 01/02/11
11) Oranges Are Not the Only fruit by Winterson - 01/02/11
12) Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke - 02/02/11
13) The Island Means Minago by Acorn - 03/02/11

14) Seven Loves by Trueblood - 04/02/11
15) The Metamorphosis by Kafka - 05/02/11
16) Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro - 06/02/11
17) The Educated Imagination by Frye - 11/02/11
18) Brideshead Revisited by Waugh - 15/02/11

19) Distant Hours by Morton - 20/02/11
20) Auriel Rising by Redfern - 21/02/11
21) Election by Perrotta - 21/02/11

Did you mean to start your own thread? :)

22) Waiting for Godot by Beckett - 24/02/11
23) Swan by Mayes - 26/02/11
24) Son of Holmes by Lescroart - 27/02/11
25) Rasputin's Revenge by Lescroart - 28/02/11

26) The Club Dumas by Perez-Reverte - 03/03/11
27) The River Queen by Morris - 04/03/11
28) My Movie Business by Irving - 05/03/11

29) The Girl in the Green Raincoat by Lippman - 11/03/11
30) The Nautical Chart by Perez-Reverte - 12/03/11
31) The Meditations by Aurelius - 13/03/11

32) Gideon's Sword by Preston & Child - 18/03/11
33) Treachery in Death by Robb - 19/03/11
34) Birthday Letters by Hughes - 20/03/11

35) Damage by Lescroart - 24/03/11
36) And I Shall Have Some Peace There by Roach - 25/03/11
37) Now You See Her by Fielding - 26/03/11
38) A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies by Cooney - 27/03/11
39) Building the Pauson House: The Letters of Frank Lloyd Wright and Rose Pauson by Green - 27/03/11
40) Kiss of the Fur Queen by Highway - 28/03/11

41) Under This Unbroken Sky by Mitchell - 02/04/11
42) The Peach Keeper by Allen - 06/04/11

43) The Lake of Dreams by Edwards - 12/04/11
44) Sounder by Armstrong - 13/04/11
45) The Fire-Eaters by Almond - 13/04/11
46) Kalila by Nixon - 15/04/11
47) Night Road by Hannah - 16/04/11
48) Left Neglect by Genova - 16/04/11
49) Grimpow by Nuevo - 17/04/11

50) The Rez Sisters by Highway - 18/04/11
51) The House of Doctor Dee by Ackroyd - 19/04/11
52) Persepolis by Satrapi - 19/04/11
53) Water Witches by Bohjalian - 20/04/11
54) Drown by Diaz - 21/04/11
55) Tuck Everlasting by Babbitt - 22/04/11
56) The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Wilde - 23/04/11
57) Invisible River by McEwan - 24/04/11

Hello! What is your favorite book?

Hmmm... let's see.... Grimpow by Nuevo was quite a neat little kid's book (I say little but it was a hefty tome).

I have now 'discovered' Paul Quarrington (just after his death) with King Leary and hope to enjoy more of his stuff.

Practical Jean is a strange, strange book but very compelling at the same time. It's quite different from my normal fare :)

58) The Emperor's Tomb by Berry - 29/04/11
59) Hotel de Dream by White - 30/04/11
60) The Land of the Painted Caves by Auel - 07/05/11

61) The Road by McCarthy - 14/05/11
62) Alas, Babylon by Frank - 17/05/11
63) Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Ehrenreich - 21/05/11
64) Richistan by Frank - 22/05/11

65) Rainwater by Brown - 22/05/11
66) Under Milk Wood by Thomas - 23/05/11

67) Brothers Lionheart by Lindgren - 27/05/11
68) Girl from the South by Trollope - 28/05/11
69) Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Torday - 29/05/11

70) How to Bake a Perfect Life by O'Neil - 02/06/11
71) Allergic Girl by Miller - 03/06/11
72) First There is a River by Steffen - 04/06/11

73) Cold Comfort Farm by Gibbons - 05/06/11
74) The Rose Garden by Kearsley - 07/06/11
75) In the Heart of the Seas by Agnon - 08/06/11
76) Aesop's Fables by Aesop - 09/06/11
77) The Lambs of London by Ackroyd - 10/06/11
78) Emily and Einstein by Lee - 11/06/11
79) Redwork by Bedard - 11/06/11
80) Dogs at the Perimeter by Thien - 12/06/11

81) The Crucible by Miller - 18/06/11
82) Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by Richards - 18/06/11
83) White Crosses by Watson - 23/06/11
84) Cause for Alarm by Ambler - 24/06/11
85) Naked in Death by Robb - 26/06/11

86) I Am Not Esther by Beale - 28/06/11
87) There's a Seal in My Sleeping Bag by Hancock - 30/06/11
88) A Red Herring Without Mustard by Bradley - 02/07/11
89) Don't Breathe a Word by McMahon - 03/07/11

90) There Will be Wolves by Bradford - 05/07/11
91) Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Freinkel - 06/07/11
92) The Reading Promise by Ozma - 07/07/11
93) Postman Always Rings Twice by Cain - 08/07/11 (omnibus with three stories)
94) More Than You Can Say by Torday - 08/07/11
95) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Angelou - 09/07/11

96) A Modest Proposal by Swift (and other satirical works) - 11/07/11
97) Anthem by Rand - 12/07/11
98) Strange Heaven by Coady - 15/07/11
99) The Tiger's Wife by Obreht - 17/07/11
100) The Price of Everything by Porter - 17/07/11

Yeah lucky number 100! At this rate, I will be surprised to hit 200 by year-end :)

Congratulations on 100!

Thanks! I am plugging along slow as molasses this year but hope to make at least 200 by year end. My problem is that I keep taking courses so school is eating up valuable reading time :)

101) Blackbird Singing by McCartney - 18/07/11
102) Barnacle Love by De Sa - 18/07/11
103) Jane Austen by Shields - 20/07/11
104) The Steal by Shteir - 22/07/11
105) Late Nights on Air by Hay - 23/07/11
106) Mister Pip by Jones - 23/07/11
107) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Higgin - 24/07/11
108) The Betrayer by Hennessey - 24/07/11

109) Sixpence House by Collins - 27/07/11
110) The Katyn Order by Jacobson - 28/07/11
111) Down From Cascom Mountain by Wiliams - 28/07/11
112) Good to a Fault by Endicott - 29/07/11
113) I Am Hutterite by Kirby - 30/07/11
114) The Phantom Tollbooth by Juster - 30/07/11
115) The Red Leather Diary by Koppel - 31/07/11
116) The Lesser Evil by Ignatieff - 01/08/11

I have been away from LT so missed saying congratulation on passing the 100 mark.

Thanks! Exams are winding down so I am trying to make up for lost time. Its amazing how much one misses reading when they have to focus on school and work :)

117) The Road Home by Tremain - 05/08/11
118) Nights Below Station Street by Richards - 06/08/11
119) Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace By Richards - 08/08/11
120) So Many Books, So Little Time by Nelson - 09/08/11

121) Back To Our Future by Sirota - 11/08/11
122) For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down by Richards - 13/08/11
123) Gilead by Robinson - 14/08/11
124) The Sentimentalists by Skibsrud - 15/08/11
125) Olive Kitteridge by Strout - 16/08/11

Halfway there!

126) Molly Fox's Birthday by Madden - 18/08/11
127) Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography by Brown - 19/08/11
128) What is Stephen Harper Reading? by Martel - 20/08/11
129) Gilgamesh by Mitchell & Gilgamesh by Hines- 20/08/11 & 17/10/11 (the second one is too small to count on its own - 59 pages!)
130) A Single Shot by Jones - 21/08/11
131) Aftershocks by Lavender - 21/08/11
132) To the Lighthouse by Woolf - 21/08/11

A very productive weekend spent finishing off a ton of half-read books I had lying around the house. Let's see if this week allows me to continue this trend...

133) Evenings at Five by Godwin - 22/08/11
134) The Good Earth by Buck - 23/08/11
135) The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Tsukiyama - 24/08/11
136) Everyman by Roth - 25/08/11
137) Big Fish by Wallace - 28/08/11
138) Coraline by Gaiman - 29/08/11

139) Generica by Ferguson - 31/08/11
140) Smokin' Seventeen by Evanovich - 01/09/11
141) The Colour by Tremain - 01/09/11
142) Generation A by Coupland - 02/09/11
143) Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee - 03/09/11
144) Sands of Time by Erskine - 03/09/11

145) Outfoxing Fear by Ragan - 05/09/11
146) Eunoia by Bok - 08/09/11
147) Shelter by Greenslade - 11/09/11
148) Portrait in Sepia by Allende - 18/09/11

149) Hiroshima Mon Amour by Duras - 29/09/11
150) Everything That Rises Must Converge by O'Connor - 30/09/11

Congratulations, more than half way there. Can you read 100 books in 3 months?

Doubt it. I have work, school and a basement to complete. I think 200 is a more reasonable number this year :)

151) Pao by Young - 03/10/11
152) A Visit from the Goon Squad by Egan - 06/10/11
153) Delta of Venus by Nin - 07/10/11

154) The Door by Atwood - 09/10/11
155) A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn - 10/10/11

156) Home by Robinson - 15/10/11
157) Requiem by Itani - 20/10/11
158) Wordcraft by Frankel - 21/10/11
159) The Diagnosis by Lightman - 22/10/11
160) The Virgin Secretary's Impossible Boss by Mortimer - 24/10/11 (almost embarrassed to even type that title but I read it for a challenge... never again though!)

161) Property by Martin - 29/10/11

162) Schindler's Ark by Keneally - 17/11/11 - hunh, first book of November. Crazy busy month. Hopefully December will be calmer.
163) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Riggs - 19/11/11
164) Brand Failures by Haig - 05/12/11
165) New York to Dallas by Robb - 09/12/11
167) Empire of the Sun by Ballard - 10/12/11

168) Lucky Break by Freud
169) The Shepherd, The Angel and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog by Barry

170) Tropic of Hockey by Bidini

And with that, I am done for the year. Things promise to be less hectic next year so I will try again. With work and school and everything else, I am still happy with 170. Of course, there is also that competitive side of me that wants to race over to a bookstore and 'read' 80 picture books between now and midnight just to say I finished :)

Happy new year to everyone. See ya next year!

Congratulations! It is much harder than one would think. I certainly am going to try again, 2011 was filled with moving, illness, vision problems and other things that worked against reading time. I now have a good source of books to read but I need to work it up to the monthly goal of 20 so I meet the year end total of 250.

54 - Sucky how life gets in the way sometimes isn't it? Here's to a less stressful, healthy 2012 filled with lots of wonderful new books and lots of time to read them. :)