laura_88´s 1010 Challenge

Here are my categories:
1.Plays
2.1001 books
3.Books I Own
4.Crime/Mystery
5.From the library
6.Recommendations
7.Authors that are new to me
8.Published in 2010(in Finland)
9.Romantic/Chicklit
10.Miscellaneous

Plays
1.Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare read (December 8th -09)
2.The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht read (May 3rd -10)
3.Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett read (May 13th -10)
4.Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen read (May 23rd -10)
5.The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen read (May 26th -10)
6.Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare read (June 6th -10)
7.As You Like It by Shakespeare read (June 9th -10)
8.Macbeth by Shakespeare read (July 9th -10)
9.Tempest by Shakespeare read (July 24th -10)
10.The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare read (Sept 28th -10)

1001 books
1.The story of O by Pauline Réage read (October 7th -09)
2.Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro read (October 13th -09)
3.Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas read (November 25th -09)
4.Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh read (November 26th -09)
5.Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro read (January 11th -10)
6.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens read (April 23rd -10)
7.Summer Book by Tove Jansson read (May 15th -10)
8.Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde read (May 17th -10)
9.Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf read (May 23rd -10)
10.A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess read (July 22nd -10)

Books I Own
1.Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris read (Dec 17th -09)
2.Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris read (March 1st -10)
3.The Bostonians by Henry James read (March 28th -10)
4.Virtahevon huippunopeus ja muita outoja lukuja by Jürgen Brater read (May 14th -10)
5.Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen read (June 27th -10)
6.The Luxe by Anna Godbersen read (June 28th -10)
7.Club Dead by Charlaine Harris read (Sep 1st -10)
8.The Outsider by Albert Camus read (Oct 14th -10)
9.Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris read (Oct 20th -10)
10.Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse read (Nov 1st)

Crime/Mystery
1.Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs read (October 4th -09)
2.Three to get Deadly by Janet Evanovich read (October 7th -09)
3.Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri read (November 14th -09)
4.Please Pass the Guilt by Rex Stout read (December 1st -09)
5.The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri read (December 26th -09)
6.Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri read (January 5th -10)
7.Death Du Jour by Kathy Reichs read (March 10th -10)
8.Excursion to Tindari by Andrea Camilleri read (May 19th -10)
9.Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith read (Oct 5th -10)
10.Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams read (Oct 10th -10)

From the library
1.A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain read (October 19th -09)
2.Peony in Love by Lisa See read (November 3rd -09)
3.The Gift by Cecelia Ahern read (November 9th -09)
4.Anthropology and a other Hundred Stories by Dan Rhodes read (November 11th -09)
5.Keskiajan keittiö by Hannele Klemettilä read (November 19th -09)
6.And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer read (December 6th -09)
7.A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin read (December 28th -09)
8.In the Forests of Serre by Patricia A. McKillip read (January 4th -10)
9.A Storm of Swords part one by George R. R. Martin read (July 18th -10)
10.A Storm of Swords part two by George R. R. Martin read (July 25th -10)

Recommendations
1.Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin read (Oct 2nd -09)
2.Drowning People by Richard Mason read (Oct 25th -09)
3.People of the Book Geraldine Brooks read (Oct 30th -09)
4.Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar read (Jan 18th -10)
5.Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri read (March 7th -10)
6.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows read (Marc 11th -10)
7.The Elegance of a Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery read (April 27th -10)
8.Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami read (June 2nd -10)
9.Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier read (July 2nd -10)
10.Yhdeksän miehen saappaat by Pentti Haanpää read (Sep 11th -10)

Authors that are new to me
1.Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux read (October 10th -09)
2.The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee read (October 24th -09)
3.The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri read (November 1st -09)
4.Lord Peter Views a Body by Dorothy L. Sayers read (November 18th -09)
5.Too Many Clients by Rex Stout read (November 29th -09)
6.Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang read (January 7th -10)
7.Queen, Empress, Concubine: Fifty Women Rulers from the Queen of Sheba to Catherine the Great by Claudia Gold read (May 2nd -10)
8.A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf read (May 8th -10)
9.Fine van Brooklyn by Mika Waltari read (May 10th -10)
10.The Road by Cormac McCarthy read (Oct 4th -10)

Published in 2010 (in Finland)
1.Vettä vain/ Bara vanligt vatten by Kajsa Ingermarsson read (May 25th -10)
2.The Scent of the Night by Andrea Camilleri read (May 31st -10)
3.Finding the Dream by Nora Roberts read (June 14th -10)
4.Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain read (July 17th -10)
5.L'échappée belle by Anna Gavalda read (July 29th -10)
6.The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer read (July 30th -10)
7.Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger read (August 10th -10)
8.Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett read (13 Aug -10)
9.Muodistamo Los Milagros by Maria Cecilia Barbetta read (Sep 4th -10)
10.Rumors by Anna Godbersen read (Sep 28th -10)

Romantic/Chicklit
1.Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro read (October 30th -09)
2.Nappikaupan naiset by Tuija Lehtinen read (November 10th -09)
3.The Beach House by Jane Green read (November 29th -09)
4.Radan väärällä puolella/I en annan del av Bromma by Martina Haag read (January 7th -10)
5.The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes read (May 6th)
6.To Die For by Linda Howard read (May 18th -10)
7.Holding the Dream by Nora Roberts read (May 21st -10)
8.Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer read (July 9th -10)
9.Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella read (August 25th)
10.Crossed Bones by Jane Johnson read (September 22nd -10)

Miscellaneous
1.Four to Score by Janet Evanovich read (March 13th -10)
2.The Truth by Terry Pratchett read (March 21st -10)
3.Nemi 5 by Lise read (May 18th -10)
4.They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy read (May 25th -10)
5.Prey by Michael Crichton read (May 30th -10)
6.The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino read (July 15th -10)
7.Push by Sapphire read (July 22nd -10)
8.Fanny Hill by John Cleland read (July 27th -10)
9.The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett read (July 30th -10)
10.De profundis by Oscar Wilde read (October 18th -10)

Great to have another scandinavian here! That makes three of us at least. If you'll be reading finnish contemporary plays I'll be very interested in your first category (I work as a dramaturg, and think there are interesting things happening across the Baltic!) The newly published in finnish category sounds very interesting too.

Well most of my reading is translated books. I don´t read that much of finnish literature. I could read the new play by Sofi Oksanen called Puhdistus. It´s been very popular here in Finland.

I'm actually reading Oksanen's Stalins kossor (Stalinin lehmät) right now. I like it a lot, so far.

Yes that is actually my favourite from her books.

I had a play category too this year and really enjoyed it. What kind of plays are you interested in reading?

Well I had a Shakespeare category this year so maybe a couple more of his plays in 2010. I also want to read Ibsens Dolls House but I haven´t yet decided about the others.

It´s October and I´m starting right now.
My book #1 is Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. This book is a great fantasy book though it´s long, over 700 pages. I will definitely read the following books in the series.

Hello to my fellow Octoberite from New Jersey, USA!

#19 Hello to you too from Oulu, Finland! :)

Book #2. Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs. First book in the series featuring Temperance Brennan an anthropologist specialised in bones. In this book she is trying to find a brutal serial killer.

Book #3 Three to get Deadly by Janet Evanovich.Another good book in the Stephanie Plum series. I especially liked Lula in this book.

Book #4 The Story of O by Pauline Réage. Story about total submission to another person.

#21.... I've heard so many positive things about the Plum series, so I'm going to read the first three books for my "Numbers" category.

#22 They´re so funny and easy to read so I highly recomend them! :)

Book #5 Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. I absolutely love the movie version and I quite enjoyed the book too! :)

Book #6 Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. My first Ishiguro and I must say I enjoyed it alot.This book tells the story of a butler called Mr. Stevens who goes to visit a women he used to work with on his holliday.While making his way to the meeting place he looks back to the time when he worked to a respected English gentleman. There´s not much happening in this book but is still very good and thought provoking.

Book #7 A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain is looking for the perfect meal all over the world while doing a tv-show.He travels for example in Mexico,Portugal,Japan and Vietnam.

Book #8 The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee.This book tells about Will who comes to Hongkong and falls in love with Trudy. WW2 starts and separates them from each other.The second storyline is about Claire who moves to Hongkong with her husband Martin in the 1950s. Claire starts to give piano lessons to the daughter of the Chen family and falls in love with their driver.The story slowly connects these stories and shows what happened during the war.

Book #9 Drowning People by Richard Mason. The book begins when a 70 year old man called James tells the reader that he has killed his wife. They had been married for over forty years and James starts to tell the story why he ended up killing his wife. The story goes back to a time when James was in his twenties and deeply in love with his wifes cousin Ella.

Finished two books today:
#10 Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro .Louise founds a book called Elegance from the bookstore and starts to transform herself to be more elegant. Doing that she realizes how unhappy her marriage is.
#11 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks.Hanna Heath is a book conservatorist who is called when an old Jewish haggada is found in Sarajevo. The story takes the reader to the books past and to the peoples past who have protected the book over the centuries.

Wow, I'm impressed that you've finished 11 already! Interesting choices, too!

#31 Thanks :)

Book #12 The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri.The first book in the Inspector Montalbano series. A man is found dead in his car and is identified as engeneer Luparello, who was involved in politics. He died from natural causes but Montelbano is not ready to close the case just yet.

Book #13 Peony in Love Lisa See. Set in 17th century China this book tells the story about Peony who falls in love with a man whom she meets at her familys garden.

Book #14 The Gift by Cecelia Ahern. Lou Suffern is always busy. He is always thinking about the thing he must do next instead of living in the moment. One cold winter morning he starts to talk to a homeless man called Gabe. Lou gets him a job from the same firm he is working. Gabe starts appearing everywhere Lou goes. But does Lou have something he can learn from Gabe?

Book #15 Nappikaupan naiset by Tuija Lehtinen. Saskia has to find a new job after leaving her former job in a restaurant and her boyfriend. She starts working in a local buttonshop. Soon some interesting men appear in the picture but who is the right one for Saskia?

Book #16 Anthropology and a other Hundred Stories by Dan Rhodes Little stories (in english they all are exactly 101 words long) about love and relationships.

Book #17 Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri. This is the second book in Inspector Montalbano series. An old mafioso Tano u grecu tells Montalbano the location of an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. He discovers a passage to a smaller cave where he finds two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-size terra-cotta dog. Montalbano starts investigating this old case but can anyone help him identify these young lovers?

Book #18 Lord Peter Views a Body Dorothy L. Sayers. This was my first encounter with lord Peter. This book contains eleven short stories with different kind of crimes murders,robberys etc. This was a good read and I will definitely read more from Sayers.

18 already :o, if you keep up this rate it won't be much of a challenge for you.

Do you usually read a series out of order? Recently started with Whose Body myself and it convinced me to pick up the second book in the series.

#39 Well I started on the first of October and some of the books I have read have been quite short. I usually read in order, but I think this is the kind of series that you don´t have to read in order. And the book I read contained short stories so I thought it would be a good introduction to this series.

Book #19 Keskiajan keittiö by Hannele Klemettilä. This non-fiction book is about cooking in the Middle Ages. When you read the book you get a good impression about what kind of things people ate and drank back then. Klemettilä is one of my favourite non-fiction authors and she has written very good books about Middle Ages.

And another one; from what I've read about the Lord Peter Wimsey series is that it has good character development. There are also two Lord Peter Wimsey on the 1001 list Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors, but you probably already knew that.

If I may give you a suggestion for your 1001 list category: Salmon Rushdies Midnight's Children, one of my favorite books.

#41 Maybe I need to find Whose Body? next. :)
I have been meaning to check out Midnight's Children but always forgot. Thanks for the tip.

Book #20 Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas I finally finished this book. Altough it took me awhile it was SO worth it.
Edmond Dantès is betrayed by his friends and he goes to prison. He escapes and years later he returns as a rich man called Count of Monte Cristo to revenge. There are alot happening in this book and a lot of characters but I managed to keep up with who is who. The only thing that bothered me was that in the end the reader doesn´t know what happened to most of the characters, only the most important ones.

Book #21 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Charles Ryder meets Sebastian while they are both studying in Oxford. They become good friends but life separates them. Years later Charles is a famous painter when he meets Julia Sebastians sister and they fell in love.
This book just didn't do it for me. I was a bit bored in the beginning but I liked the part where Julia told about her life after Charles had left. The book was well written but just not for me.

Book #22 The Beach House by Jane Green Nan Powell starts to rent rooms from her house in Nantucket because of her financial problems. The books follows the lifes of these people and their problems with love and children etc.
This was pretty basic chicklit book with some plot twists.Though it was better than some other Green books.

Book #23 Too Many Clients by Rex Stout. This was my first Nero Wolfe book. I got this from the library and didn't know when I borrowed it that it was number thirtysomething in the series, but that didn't ruin my reading experience. There was a couple mentions of previous cases but nothing specific about them. Its been awhile since I last started and finished a book in one day but this was a quick read.

Book #24 Please Pass the Guilt by Rex Stout I've read a lot of mystery books lately... I think I will go to the library today and borrow some more Nero Wolfe books. I'm hooked!

Book #25 And Another Thing.. by Eoin Colfer This is book #6 Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy-trilogy. I'm not sure if Douglas Adams started this book himself before he died or not. Its been about four or five years since I read parts 1-5 so I can't say how similar the style of this book is compared to the others. I like Colfers style and have enjoyed his Artemis Fowl- books. This book made me laugh and it's a pity that the series will not continue.

Book #26 Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare My first one in the plays category. Troilus' and Cressida's unhappy lovestory during the war of Troy.

>49 laura_88: What did you think of Troilus and Cressida? When I read it a couple of years ago, I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it. I hadn't re-read it since I was in college, when I didn't much care for it.

#50 I liked the references to the war of Troy but didn't like the main characters.

My reading has slown down because of all the exams that I have before Christmas. Luckily I have only three more to go

I'm studyin to be a librarian and in 2011 I have a Literature seminar. Before that I need to read 21 books. I have read three of them. I'm going to list them here because I'm probably reading some of them as a part of my challenge.

List:

Olviretki Schleusingenissä Aleksis Kivi
Sudenmorsian Aino Kallas
Mirdja L. Onerva
Yhdeksän miehen saappaat Pentti Haanpää
Fine van Brooklyn Mika Waltari
Täällä Pohjantähden alla Väinö Linna
Veitikka Veikko Huovinen
Ratsumies Paavo Haavikko
The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht
Collected Stories Franz Kafka
Lady Chattarley's Lover D. H. Lawrence read
A Room of Ones Own Virginia Woolf
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh read
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck read
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler
They Shoot Horses Don't They Horace McCoy
The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir
Companion of the God Ogum Jorge Amado
The Baron in the Trees Italo Calvino
Prey Michael Crichton
Smillas Feeling for Snow Peter Hoeg

The teacher said he wanted the list to be more contemporary than it has been previously. I would have rather liked the classics.

#27 Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris I have heard a lot about Sookie Stackhouse here in LT and finally read the first book in the series in English. I normally read all my books in Finnish but it was nice to see that reading the book in English wasn't as hard as I had thought. Of course there were some words I didn't understand but that didn't bother me too much.
I became intrigued about how would the translator say certain sentences in Finnish.
I liked the book and will be reading the following book soon.

#28 The Snack Thief Andrea Camilleri Book #3 in the Montalbano series. I liked that in this book Livia was more involved, but I missed Ingrid and Anna that were in the previous books.
#29 A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin Book #2 in the "Song of Ice and Fire" - series. Martin does a wonderful job in this book also. I think my favourite characters are Tyrion and Arya.

#53: Hope you enjoy the series! :)

#55 Thanks! :)

Book #30 In the Forests of Serre by Patricia A. McKillip I have read two books from McKillip before Song for the Basilisk and Ombria in Shadow. This wasn't my favourite but I liked the fantasy elements in it. The "love" story was a bit thin but I liked the fact that not all secrets were revealed in the end and the reader will have to wonder what really happened.

#31 Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri Book #4 in the Montalbano-series. Another great book in the series. I'm waiting how long will it take before Camilleri tells how Livia and Salvo met and why they live so far from eachother. Only the first five books have been translated to Finnish so I have only one book left of those...

Glad you liked Dead Until Dark! I'm thoroughly addicted to that series now.

#32 Radan väärällä puolella/I en annan del av Bromma by Martina Haag This is a Swedish chicklit book about Bella who is married to Matte and they have two sons. Matte is succesfull tv-star while Bella is working as a receptionist at TV4. Bella starts to wonder why she is feeling that her life is stuck. This was a fun read, but I liked the previous book about Bella more:Underbar och älskad av alla (och på jobbet går det också jättebra)/Ihana ja todella rakastettu (ja töissä menee myös superhyvin)

#33 Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang The title of this non-fiction book explains well what this book is about. It's mainly about the girls working in factories in Dongguan and their personal history and their problems in every day life. It was weird reading how lying in job interview is very common and after you have the job then you can learn how to do it. The author tells interesting stories about how the girls date men,learn English and how they interact with their parents.
Chang also tells the story of her family in the book. When I first started reading this book I for some reason stopped when Chang started to talk about her family history, not that it wasn't interesting, but at the time I didn't undestand how this was connected to the lives of the factory girls. (Of course when I finally finished the book I realised how these things were connected.) I picked up the book a couple of days ago and read the rest of it. My reading experience suffered because of the pause because I didn't remember that some of the girls were mentioned earlier in the book... I still enjoyed the book very much and the topic was very interesting. Now I just wish I'd had the time to reread it soon so I could read it through without long pauses in between.

#34 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
It's really hard to review this book without spoilers so I will just say that because of my sister I knew the "secret" before I read the book. This was one of the best reads for this month.

#35 Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar

I might change my YA category to YA/Children category... I have so much school stuff right now, that I have very little time to read. If I change it I could count my weekend reading:
Jan 23rd: Muumipeikko 2, Muumipeikko 3
Jan 24th: Muumipeikko 4 and Muumipeikko 18, all by Tove Jansson. :)

I am glad you enjoyed Never Let Me Go. I just finished A Pale View of Hills and just didn't get it. I still have hope for his other books though. :)

#36 Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
I finally finished another book! This was a great book to read right now because yesterday the first season of True Blood-series began in Finland. This was book #2 in the series. It was a nice read. I just missed Sams character in this book, but obviously this one was more about Sookie and Bill. I needed something light to read, because my attention span at the moment is not good. Luckily I have a break from school after Thursday. Maybe I get some more freetime reading done... ;)

#37 Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
This book is a collection of 8 short stories. I very rarely read short story collections, but I have heard so much good about this book so I had to read this. This book totally sucked me in and when it ended I just wanted to read more from Lahiri. I read the Finnish translation of this but it would be interesting to read it in English too... Maybe if I have time in summer. I definetely have to read more books from Larihi.

#38 Death Du Jour by Kathy Reichs
#39 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
#40 Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

I will review these books when I have more time...

#41 The Truth by Terry Pratchett
This was an excellent Discworld book for the weekend. It was about the first newspaper in Ankh-Morpork and also about an evil plot against Lord Vetinari.
Ok that was a bit simplified but the book was great and I enjoy Pratchett's humour very much. ;)

#42 The Bostonians by Henry James
This book was a find from library book sale. I am also going to do a presentation about it for school.
I had never read anything from Henry James before this book. The book is about three persons: Verena, Olive and Ransom. Olive is Ransom's distant relative who invites Ransom to Boston. Olive and Ransom go to a gathering, where they meet Verena for the first time. Olive is a strong suporter of women's emansipation and she sees that Verena would be a great spokesperson for the movement. Ransom, on the other hand, doesn't support the movement, but is very interested in Verena. The book deals with the struggle between Ransom and Olive, as they fight for Verena and her loyalty.

More about The Bostonians... I liked the book although in some parts my mind started to wander because of the writing style. I didn't like the ending of the book, but I can understand why James wanted to end the book as he did...

#43 Great Expectatations by Charles Dickens
This was my first Dickens read. I don't know why I haven't read any of his books before, but I definitely will be reading more Dickens in the future.

#44 The Elegance of a Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
I heard about this book everywhere, but it was a bit too filosophical for my taste.

#45 Queen, Empress, Concubine: Fifty Women Rulers from the Queen of Sheba to Catherine the Great by Claudia Gold
It took me a while to read this book, (a couple of months I think...) because it was so easy to leave it because it was divided in to 50 parts, one for each woman. I didn't like the fact that there were a few women, that are mentioned in the Bible, but you can't get any information about them outside the Bible.
I think I would have liked the book more if the writer would have put less women in the book, and more information about the ones who are in the book.

#46 The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
This was a nice short play. My first Brecht work and I enjoyed the humor in this play. Nice mixture of beggers, thiefs, prostitutes and policemen.

#47 The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes
This was not my favourite of Keyes' books... Maybe because there was a little bit of "magic" in the book, like in Cecelia Ahern's books. I still love Keyes' books but I'm hoping the next one will be a bit better than this one.
#48 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
This was my first book by Woolf. I have heard that this would be the "easiest" of her books. This book was about women and literature. It was short and quite a quick read. I'm planning on reading Mrs Dalloway soon, so I can compare these two.

#49 Fine van Brooklyn by Mika Waltari
This is my first Waltari. I read it for school. It's a about a young man from Finland who is studying literature in France. He takes a little holliday in Carnac, which is a small town by the sea. While being there she mets Fine van Brooklyn, a young beautiful Dutch girl. He falls in love with her, but Fine is just playing with his emotions.
This was a short book and an easy read but I didn't like the main character. He was complaining alot and feeling sorry for himself. This book completes my "Authors that are new to me" category! :)

My favorite Dickens is David Copperfield. I thought it was a lot better than Great Expectations. It was surprisingly easy to read.

#76 I will probably read that at some point when I have time. I liked the way Dickens has written. Thanks for the tip! :)

#50 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
In this play Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot, who doesn't arrive during the play. While they are waiting they meet Pozzo and Lucky. The play shows two days, and on the second day Estragon has forgotten what happened on the first day.

#51 Virtahevon huippunopeus ja muita outoja lukuja by Jürgen Brater
Non-fiction book that has little pieces of information that are connected with numbers.

#52 Summer Book by Tove Jansson
I started this book about three or four months ago, but at the time I coudn't concentrate and I didn't finnish it. Yesterday I started the book from the beginning and read it in two days.
Summer Book tells the story of a young girl named Sophia who lives every summer in an island with her grandma and her father.

#53 Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
This is a story about a man who has a painting that shows his own beauty. After awhile Dorian notices that while he dosn't change on the outside the painting does.

#54 To Die For by Linda Howard
Blair Mallory witnesses a murder in a parking lot and when the police arrive Blair meets her ex Wyatt Bloodsworth, who starts to investigate the case. Sparks start to fly between the two when Wyatt is trying to protect Blair from the killer. Basic romance fluff. I've heard the author has made a sequal to this. I will probably read that as well, although I wonder why she decided to write more about these characters...

#55 Nemi 5 by Lise Myhre
#56 Excursion to Tindari by Andrea Camilleri
The fifth book in the Montalbano series. Montalbano has two cases. A young man is murdered and a couple who lived in the same house as the man disappear. But are these two things connected or not?

#57 Holding the Dream by Nora Roberts
A pretty good romance book. Maybe I'm just not in the mood for romances right now because I almost rolled my eyes at few parts of the book. I may have to read a couple of more serious books before I read a romantic book again...

#58 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Woolf describes one day in the life of Mrs Dalloway, when she is preparing a party she is having on the same day. The reader also gets to know things about people Mrs Dalloway knows.

#59 Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen
Nora is trying to keep a secret from her husband.
#60 Vettä vain/Bara vanligt vatten by Kajsa Ingermarsson
Stella Friberg is a succesfull author who has a handsome boyfriend and a dream appartment. Everything starts to go wrong when there appears a water damage in Stella's appartment. I didn't like the main character at all. She was too self-centered.
#61 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
Robert attends to a marathon dance competition with a woman called Gloria.

#62 The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
#63 Prey by Michael Crichton
Story about the dangers of nanotechnology.

#64 The Scent of the Night by Andrea Camilleri
Another good Montalbano-mystery. First Montalbano must solve a hostage situation and then he starts to look for a man who was the manager of a financial joint. The man has disappeared with the savings of a lot people.

Changed my YA category to Books I own.
#65 Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
K is love with Sumire, and Sumire is in love with Miu. Miu and Sumire go to work trip in Europe and in Greece Sumire disappears. Miu calls K and K comes to Greece to look for Sumire.

#66 Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare
One of Shakespeare's most violent dramas.

I think Titus Andronicus is the only one of his plays that I dislike.

#91 Yes the bit about Tamora eating her own sons in a pie was a bit much...

#67 As You Like It by Shakespiere
One of Shakespiere's comedys. This is a lovestory between Orlando and Rosalind.

#68 Finding the Dream by Nora Roberts
The last book in the Dream-trilogy. A bit too sweet for me in this point. I'm in a mood for something completely different...

#69 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
A different version on this old classic. Well I still prefer the original more.

#70 The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
I quite enjoyed this one although I think it could have been at least 50 pages shorter. I will definetely read the next one in the series.

95 I've had this book on my radar for a while. I found it browsing through my library's audio download selections. I think the cover was what first attracted me. I've been a little leary to give it a try for some reason, hadn't heard anything about it. Good to see a positive reccomendation.

#71 Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
I had seen the movie before I read the book so I knew what was going to happen. I liked the fact that my copy had pictures of the paintings mentioned in the book.

#72 Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The beginning of this book was a bit freaky, but the end was a good way to finish this series.

You have quite an interesting selection of books! I'm also reading a couple of Shakespeare's plays. I've started The Tempest and plan to read As You Like It next. I live near the Stratford Festival of Canada and have tickets to see these later in the summer.

#99 It would be so much fun to see a Shakespeare play live...

#73 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
A classic Shakespeare play that I hadn't read before.

#74 The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
A weird story about a boy named Cosimo who climbs in a tree after an argument with his family and never comes down again.

#75 Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain
A good book to end the series...

#76 A Storm of Swords part one by George R. R. Martin
I so enjoy this series and luckily I have the next two books borrowed from the library :)

#77 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
I have never seen the movie that was made about this book, but now I have at least read it.

#78 Push by Sapphire
The movie Precious was based on this book. I would like to watch the movie also.

I saw the film Precious on an airplane and I really enjoyed it. It was depressing and disturbing but not nearly as depressing or disturbing as I'd come to expect from the reviews I'd heard (don't get me wrong, it is very disturbing, but I thought it would be even more so). I expect the book may be more so.

Apparently although the film teacher is light-skinned and very pretty, that's an explicit change from the books -- I recall that bit of trivia best of all. I think there are probably some very smart people commenting on the book, the movie, and the intersection of the two, if you're into that kind of thing.

#106 Thanks for the tip! :)

#79 Tempest by Shakespeare
I really enjoyed this one. Shakespeare at his best.

#80 A Storm of Swords part two by George R. R. Martin
There were some twists at the end of this book that I didn't see coming at all...

#81 Fanny Hill by John Cleland

#82 L'Échappée belle by Anna Gavalda
Garance, Lola and Simon are siblings who are going to a dull wedding. When they arrive they hear that their youngest brother Vincent isn't coming. They decide to go and visit Vincent.

#83 The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
On the other hand I thought this book was OK, but on the other hand I don't see the point why this book was written. It didn't bring anything new to the twilight series.

#84 The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
I think I have read this before but I didn't remember anything so it was ok.

Extra #1
Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
I liked this story and I enjoy Lahiri's use of language but I still enjoy her short stories more.

Extra #2 Mysteries of History Robert Stewart
In this non-fiction book the writers are telling about some mysteries like "who really killed JFK" and "who build the Stonehenge".

Extra #3 Watchmen by Alan Moore
I have never been the type of person who reads a lot of comics but this book was very impresive. I can definitely understand why this book was on the 1001 list.

#85 Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
I didn't like this one as much as I liked The Time traveller's Wife. The story was good but I didn't like the ending at all...

Extra #4
DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore
After reading Watchmen I wanted to read some more from Alan Moore.
I liked Watchmen more because it was all one story, this was more stories from here and there.

Extra #5 Interpeter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

#86 Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett

Extra #6 Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
Can't wait for the next book to be published!
#87 Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
Pretty good fluff read.

What did you think of Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri? That one's been recommended to me by a friend, but I can't tell from the overview summaries whether it's worth taking a shot at or not.

#120 I liked the book. It has several short stories that are about Indian people and how they adapt to American culture. Although I liked the stories in Unaccustomed Earth more. You should give it a try.

#88 Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
After this book I can't wait what is going to happen between Sookie and Eric...

#89 Muodistamo Los Milagros by Maria Cecilia Barbetta
This book tells the story of Mariana Nalo who works as a seamstress in Los Milagros. One day a woman called Analia Moran comes to the shop with her wedding dress. This women are connected in a way which they have no idea.
I didn't understand everything that was going on in this book and some questions remained unanswered.

Extra #7
Syntikirja by Katja Kallio
Story about three people: Sofia and her parents Tuulikki and Henri. Henri leaves Tuulikki after 35 years of marriage. Sofia finds a lump in her chest.

Extra #8
Mirdja by L. Onerva
This one I read for school... I liked the beginning and ending of the book, but in the middle was too much conversations and philosophy.

#90 Yhdeksän miehen saappaat by Pentti Haanpää
This book tells the story of nine different soldiers of the point of view of boots.

Extra #9
Veitikka by Veikko Huovinen
Book about Hitler's life from childhood to the end of WW2.

#91 Crossed Bones by Jane Johnson
Great book about pirates, love and stitching.

#92 Rumors by Anna Godbersen
Like the first book in the series this one was also a bit too long, but I liked the cliff-hanger ending a lot. Will be reading the third one soon...

#93 The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Another enjoyable play by Shakerpeare about two sets of twins that were seperated when they were babies.

#Extra 10 Rietas orkidea
Collection of erotica short stories.

#94 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A very dark and sad dystopian story.

#95 Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
A serial killer is on loose in the Soviet Union and is killing children. But how can you invistigate crimes like these which officially don't exist?

Laura, your last two books, The Road and Child 44 are both books that I read and loved this year. I actually thought that The Road, although very dark had a small message of hope with it's ending.

#134 I agree with you about the ending of The Road. I was just so teary in the end of the book that it affected my review. Still, I truly enjoyed the book.

#96 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Only four left and I will be finished with this challenge!

#97 The Outsider by Albert Camus
Three to go.

Awesome! Getting close!

#139 I know! :) I'm so ready to start the 11 in 11 challenge after I am done with this challenge.

#98 De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
This one is a long letter that Wilde wrote from prison to the man responsible for his imprisonment.

#99 Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
Sookie finds a halfnaked Eric while she is getting back home from work. Eric doesn't remember anything about himself. In this book Sookie encounters vampires,shifters,weres,witches and a fairy.
SPOILER ALERT
I liked the fact that Sookie and Eric got together in this book. That may be because I'm not a big fan of Bill. I'm curious what will happen in the following books...

Wow! Just one more book and you are done. I will be curious to see what your last book for the challenge will be......

The last book: #100 Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
I love the tv-series and I liked this book too.
I'm officially done with this challenge!! :)

Congratulations, Laura! Are you starting on the 11 in 11 right away?

Actually I have already started it... Hopefully I can read 121 books in one year.

Congratulations on completing your challenge!

Three Cheers for finishing your 1010. Good luck on starting your 11 in 11.

Congrats on finishing and what a great book to finish with! Love Wodehouse.

#146-148 Thanks! :)

Congrats! It feels good, huh? See you in 2011.

Congratulations, Laura! Something to be proud of, certainly. Good luck on your 1111!

congrats! See you next year.