Jules' (Bookworm Jules) 999 Challenge

Here's my categories:

1 - 1001 Books Before You Die
2 - War Time Fiction
3 - D Books (Authors Name Begins with)
4 - 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a Series
5 - Woman Writers
6 - Philosophy, Religion, Mythology,Pop-Culture
7 - Recommended Reading (thanks to those who helped!)
8 - Dystopian Lit
9 - Last Years Leftovers

You can also see my list here: http://bookworm-jules.blogspot.com/2008/12/999-challenge.html

And when the time comes my reviews will be here: http://juliebooks.blogspot.com/

1001 Books Before You Die

1 Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe **My Review
2 Amsterdam by Ian McEwan **My Review**
3 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
4 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell - **REVIEWED**
5 -Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
6 - Middlemarch George Eliot
7 - The Awakening by Kate Chopin
8- Of Mice and Men - **REVIEWED**
9 - The Stone Diaries -**REVIEWED**

5/9

War Time Fiction

1 - All is Quite on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ** My Review**
2 - A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
3 – Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
4 - The Patriot- by Stephen Molstad **My Review**
5 – T4 Anne by Clare LeZotte
6 - The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
7 - The Wars by Timothy Findley ** My Reviews**
8 - April Morning by Howard Fast
9 - The Diplomat's Wife - Pam Jenoff **My Review**

4/9 Books read for this category

D (Books Authors Name Begins with)

1 - Bleak House by Charles Dickens
2 – The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexander Dumas
3 - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4 - The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
5 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams **My Review**
6 - Final Harvest – Emily Dickinson
7 - Moon Women - Pamela Dunca
8 - Ireland: A Novel - Frank Delaney
9 - Fifth Life of the Cat Woman - Kathleen Dexter ** My Review**

2/9 Books read for this category

1st, 2nd or 3rd in a Series

1 Twilight by Stephanie Meyer **My Review**
2 Sorcery Rising by Jude Fisher
3 Witch & Curse (Wicked) by Nancy Holder
4 Servant of the Shard: The Sellswords, Book I
5 The Outstretched Shadow: The Obsidian Trilogy: Book One (The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy) by Mercedes Lackey
6 Interview with a Vampire
7 Marked by P.C. Cast - ** My Review **
8 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins **My Review**
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3/9

Woman Writers

1 - Angels - Marian Keyes **My Review**
2 - Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
3 - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel - Lisa See** My Review**
4 – Orlando - Virginia Woolf **My Review**
5 – The Birth House - Ami McKay
6 - David Golder - Irene Nemirovsky **My Review**
7 - The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood **My Review**
8 - A Good House - Bonnie Bunard ** My Review**

7/9 Books Read for this category

The Luck of the Irish

1 - Ireland - Frank Delaney
2 -Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
3 - The Gathering - Anne Enright **My Review**
4 - Further Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes
5 - Ulysses - James Joyce
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1/9 Books read for this category

Recommended Reading

1. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut **My Review**
2 - The Plague By Albert Camus
3 - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
4 - The Floating Opera by John Barth
5 - The End of the Road by John Barth
6 - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
7 - Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
8 - Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
9 - Shadows over Innsmouth by Stephen Jones

1/9 Books read for this category

Dystopian Lit

1 - A Brave New Word - Aldous Huxley **My Review**
2 - Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury **My Review**
3 - Anthem - Ayn Rand **My Review**
4 - The Children of Men – P.D. James **My Review**
5 - The Road - Cormac McCarthy
6 - Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood **MyReview**
7 - V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
8 – I am Legend – Richard Matheson
9 - The Time Machine - H.G. Wells. **My Review**

5/9 Books read for this category

Last Years Leftovers

1 The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman **My Review**
2 The Book Thief Markus Zusak **My Review**
3 The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
4 The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
5 The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
6 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
7 Girl with a Pearl Earning - Tracey Chevaller
8 Chronicles of Narnia – C.S Lewis
9 The Children of Hurin – J.R.R Tolkien **My Review**

3/9 Books Read

A really good selection of books here. I also have Kevin Crossley-Holland's The Norse Myths in my 999 list, I loved his Gatty's Tale.

Have you thought of Diane Mott Davidson, Christina Dodd or Jude Deveraux in your D author category? They're a few of my favorites.

Good to see someone else doing Dystopian literature. I've just read Brave New World as my first book for that category and loved it. I'd be interested in hearing what you thought of it when you read it. I'll probably read Fahrenheit 451 from your list too and perhaps The Road.

I like your D category.

I'm reading Fahrenheit 451 right now, and I can barely put it down.

Thanks, my D category is inspired from my initial for my last name, (Dobson) when I attempted the 888 Challenge I did "J" names. Good luck!

Just finished my first book! Here's my review Fahrenheit 451

I'm motoring though this challenge :) Finished Book two. Another dystopian lit.

Here's my review

#16> Your review of Brave New World was enlightening, as it's on my TBR list for this year. A lot of lists overlap and on some of the others I'd like to see what you think as they're some of my favorites (like The Amber Spyglass, I love that whole trilogy :). I'll be interesting to keep up with your thread!

Jules - I've read your Brave New World review. I enjoyed the book more than you did, but I too was initially disappointed by Bernard's behaviour in the latter part of the novel. However thinking about it, I think it was understandable as a lot of his behaviour earlier and attitudes towards the society were because he was already an outsider, whereas Helmholz was genuine in his opposition. As for the science side of it, I tried not to get too bogged in the terms and things and just excepted it!

Just finished my third book for the challenge! Here's my review, this one is from my Woman Writers, category

The Edible Woman Review

Finished Book 4 for the challenged a while back, but had a brain melt, and forgot to post it. Here's m review for Angels, which is in My Woman Writers category.

Angles Review

Finished Book 5! The Time Machine H.G. Wells.

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

Book 6 completed, another from the dystopian lit category.

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

I have a category for dystopian lit as well and thought you might be interested in a quote from Alberto Manguel's A Reading Diary. Manguel is rereading The Island of Dr Moreau and he writes "the utopian ideal had long faded into its shadow image: the dystopia, the place that allows our worst qualities to bloom unhampered, like carnivorous plants."

Book 7 Completed, it's another dystopian lit, and it was a HUGE disappointment......very huge.

Here's the review. The Children of Men - P.D. James

Oohh! I really liked that Quote. I think I have the Island of Dr. Moreau on another list of this years reading challenge.

You are racing through those dypstopian books! I'm doing the same topic and didn't have The Children of Men in my list and don't think I'll bother to add it either.

Racing through the dystopian books is partly due to the library. I put a hold on a bunch of books, and those ones where available first. So they were read quickly. I would have had clockwork orange and v for vendetta read by now, but I mixed due dates up for clockwork, and had to return it, (it had holds, didn't want to pay fees) and V for Vendetta I missed the hold, because I was on vacation. Also, they, for the most part, are good books. Although, a little depressing at times. What authors are you doing for your dystopian lit section?

I had The Children of Men on my list (it's now removed). I highly recommend Clockwork Orange. Once you get used to Burgess' language, it's a short, addictive read. It's interesting that Part 3 was not published in the first american edition of the book and not included in Kubrick's movie.

Another finished, this time from the D Books (Authors first or last name begins with)

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galacy

I've read Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World which you have also read. Plus The Declaration by Gemma Malley which is a Young Adult dystopian novel. I plan to read Handmaid's Tale, The Road and something by John Wyndham but not sure what yet. The rest are still open.

Handmaids Tale was a fantastic books, one of my favourites. I'd be interested in your opinion of it when you read it.

Finished another book! 9/81.....
**My Review - The Gathering **

Nice review of The Gathering! Those were pretty much my thoughts about it, also. The strange thing about this book, though, is that I read it more than a year ago, and it keeps coming back to me, and I seem to remember it more clearly than other books I read then (and liked better).

I agree, that the book is one of the ones that will stay with you. And glad I'm not the only one who thought this way.

Book 10 finished, one from my Woman Writers category.

Here's my review - Orlando - Virginia Woolf

Finished another book, this time from the 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a series catagory. The Book was Twilight? Ever heard of it? Snort. Okay, so heres my review.

Twilight - Stephanie Meyer Review

is any one a big bookworm on twilight

Read another book. This time Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Bella likes to read, but I don't think she's a bookworm like alot of readers I've seen in the blogverse.

Finished two books today for this challenge.

From the 1001 Books Section
Of Mice and Men

And from the Women Writers Section
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

From the War Time Category

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

Here's my review

15 Books read so far in this challenge.

Been on a roll this month! Another book read and reviewed

This time from my "Last Years Left Overs" Category

My Review - Children of Hurin by J.R.R Tolkien

16/81

Another review!

My Review - Diplomat's Wife by Pam Jenoff

I'm trying to get my self a head on my reading for this month, as Im about to start final exams in a few weeks and moving, so I may not be able to do as much as I would like. Either way, Im happy with my progress.

Another book Read!

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Here's My Review

19 books read so far!

David Golder - Irene Nemirovsky, from my Women Writers Category.

My Review

Hope everyone has been having a great challenge! :)

20 down, 61 to go.

Just finished another book. I have to say this was a big disappointment for me. Here's a link to my review.

The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman Review (from my last year leftovers category)

I have read both Cancer Ward and Castle Rackrent! Neither one seems to be very popular, so I'm happy to see someone else reading them. I'll be anxious to see what you think.

Another book to add, I've been negecting this challenge while I concentrate on others, and just realized I forgot to post a review. So I'll post both here.

First is Amsterdman by Ian McEwan -

25/81 Done - I'm a little behind on this one. Ah well!

The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields Review

26 and 27

# 26 A Good House

#27 Snow Flower and The Secret Fan

# 28 from the "D Authors" Category

The Fifth Life of the Cat Woman

I think I may have messed up counting on here somewhere. But I think this is my actual 28th review, another from the dystopian lit category.

Anthem

Another Review: The Hunger Games

Latest Review hoping I can finish the challenge by December.

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Two more books one is from the 1001 Books catagory and the second from war time

Robinson Crusoe

The Patriot