Rainbow Reads Again: 2009!

After challenging myself for the first time in 2008 and succeeding by hitting 150% of my goal (75 books!), I feel it's only natural to challenge myself again this year.

In 2008, I challenged myself to read more new books than rereads and it went very well. I was forced to read books on my shelf that had previously gone ignored in favor of old favorites. I'm going to challenge myself to do that again this year.

My personal challenges, aside from reading 50 books, will be:
01. Read more new books than rereads
02. Reread all of the Harry Potter books in the run-up to the new movie's release
03. Reread all of my Laura Ingalls Wilder and -related books (including my two biographies)
04. Review all of my LibraryThing books (at least the ones that I've read) by the end of the year. (Currently: 91 out of 183)

Here I go! I'll tally my list in this first post and I'll try to keep my post more updated than I did my last one (as in, maybe I won't take four months between posts!).

Past Challenges: 2008 - Completed!

Finished

01. The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
02. Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandler
03. Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country by Rosalind Miles
04. The Knight of the Sacred Lake by Rosalind Miles
05. The Child of the Holy Grail by Rosalind Miles
06. Marley and Me by John Grogan
07. I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles
08. Midwife of the Blue Ridge by Christine Blevins
09. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
10. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
11. Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
12. The Late, Lamented Molly Marx by Sally Koslow
13. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
14. By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
15. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
16. Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
17. These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
18. The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
19. On the Way Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
20. West from Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder *
21. Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Donald Zochert
22. Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson
23. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
24. Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner

Now Reading

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

In Queue

Little House on Rocky Ridge by Roger Lea Macbride *
New Dawn on Rocky Ridge by Roger Lea Macbride *
On the Banks of the Bayou by Roger Lea Macbride *
Bachelor Girl by Roger Lea Macbride
Tales from the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells
Discovering the Golden Compass: A Guide to Philip Pullman's Dark Materials by George Beahm
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1935-1942 by L.M. Montgomery
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1921-1929 by L.M. Montgomery
An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray
A Writer's Guide to EVeryday Life in Regency and Victorian England from 1811-1901 by Kristine Hughes
The Women Who Wrote the War by Nancy Caldwell Sorel
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket
The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket
Roller Coasters, Flumes and Flying Saucers by Robert R. Reynolds
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Harry Potter and Philosophy by David Baggett

* denotes a reread

Hi, Rainbowdarling!
Good luck with your 2009 challenge! I have read all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I love them. I haven't read any biographies, though. Happy Reading! :)
--BJ

I haven't read them in a while, so I'm looking forward to reading them again. I'm excited about the books that are on my list for this year. They should be a nice variety.

Thanks!

I'm having a slow reading year, I think. I'm only up to six books as of today, and my to-read list seems to be getting longer instead of shorter. Ah well.

I enjoyed the first two books of the Guenevere series, really enjoyed Marley and Me, and was decidedly disappointed by The Professor and Song of the Sparrow. I'm going to start on I, Elizabeth today, and I'm hoping that it will be a quick read. I'm not getting my hopes up, though, because it's over 600 pages long. Ah well!

Hi rainbowdarling! You and I have (had?) very similar tastes in reading! Last year, I re-read all of the Laura Ingalls books as well as read the Rose Years books for the first time. I enjoyed them all as well as some of the biographies, etc. I've never read West From Home however and just put it on hold at my library.

Ooh, how did you like Song of the Sparrow? I've heard good things about it.

hello

may i join u

nvm ill leave

5> I meant to read them last year but I guess I never got around to it, so I figured I'd give it a go this year. Once I finish with what I'm reading now I think I'll be picking them up.

6> I didn't like it at all, actually. I found the style very tiresome and the characterizations were unpleasant. It's an interesting concept but I'm afraid it was entirely lost on me.