Nittnut's 1010 Challenge - April to ????

March is found here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/86802

My categories along with what I've accomplished so far (again for me):

1. The Classics: The Jungle, Siddartha, Villette, Anthem, The Aeneid, Dracula, Atlas Shrugged, The Prince and the Pauper

2. Memoir, Biography and Autobiography: Strength in What Remains, The Nazi Officer's Wife, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Living to Tell the Tale, Kindertransport

3. History and Politics: 5000 Year Leap, When the Emperor Was Divine, Liberal Fascism, The Real Thomas Jefferson, America's Prophet, The Devil in the White City, Remarkable Creatures, Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black and White, Wolf Hall

4. The Books Gathering Dust on my Bedside Table: The Help. The Lost Symbol, North and South, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, The Pleasure Seekers,

5. Short Stories, Essays, Poetry and Plays: Nocturnes, The Trouble with Poetry, The Eloquent Essay, Free Range Knitter, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, I Feel Bad About My Neck

6. Mysteries: Oolong Dead, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Tears of Pearl, The Dante Club, The Sultan's Seal, The Abyssinian Proof, The Winter Thief, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Girl Who Played With Fire, Emily Dickinson is Dead

7. World Current Events, Non-Fiction: Chasing Goldman Sachs, Stones Into Schools, Into the Wild

8. Newbery Award Winners Crispin: the Cross of Lead, The Higher Power of Lucky, The Graveyard Book, Maniac Magee, Lincoln: A Photobiography, The Story of Dr. Dolittle, Jacob Have I Loved, Johnny Tremain, Bud, Not Buddy, The Slave Dancer, A Single Shard

9. Cookbooks and Craft Books: Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitter's Almanac, Bend the Rules Sewing, Sew U, A Knitter's Year, Weekend Sewing, Fairytale Knits

10. Books I Haven't Read by Favorite Authors: 3177::Moods, 8408626::Shanghai Girls, 7468896::The Girl Who Chased the Moon, 501058::The Silent Boy, 6341234::La's Orchestra Saves the World, My Name is Memory. 8415466::The Lacuna

ETA: moving this list and dividing it up - touchstones are getting weird.

in the gathering dust category, just finished North and South, reviewed here - http://www.librarything.com/work/17525/edit/54738485.

I am starting Where the Bluebird Sings for a group read, and for the short stories, essays, etc. category.

Reading Free Range Knitter for cookbooks and craft books, and for the History section, The Real Thomas Jefferson, in memoir, Living to Tell the Tale.

That's probably enough for now...

Loving all my books!

Just started the film adaptation of North and South and it really is good.

Where the Bluebird Sings is a wonderful book, with the exception of most of the Habitat section, which makes me want to tear my hair out a little bit. It must be said that while I deeply disagree with his militant environmentalist leanings, he does state his case beautifully. (:

Free Range Knitter is everything I hoped it would be.

Living to Tell the Tale is surprisingly captivating in a way that One Hundred Years of Solitude was not.

I still want to meet Thomas Jefferson.

Finished Where the Bluebird Sings

http://www.librarything.com/work/231719/book/60191164

Loved it!

Hi there! I'm considering reading North and South as well. I just finished watching the BBC version with Richard Armitage and I loved it.

I am serial copying this from Stasia's Thread - just for fun.

Do you snack while you read? If so, favourite reading snack?
I read all the time, so sometimes eating is involved. I try not to snack habitually while I read - I'd be eating all the time.

What is your favourite drink while reading?
Water is my favorite. Cold water.

Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
If the book is mine, it probably has writing in it.

How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ear? Laying the book flat open?
All of the above. I try to use a book mark. I end up using whatever is to hand. Lots of my books have yarn in them as markers.

Fiction, non-fiction or Both?
Both.

Are you a person who tends to read to the end of a chapter, or can you stop anywhere?
I try and finish the chapter. If I fall asleep, oh well.

Are you the type of person to throw a book across the room or on the floor if the author irritates you?
The Time Traveler's Wife Argh!

If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop and look it up right away?
No. I'm too impatient. I sometimes look it up later.

What are you currently reading?
Villette, Living to Tell the Tale, and Moby Dick

What is the last book you bought?
Siddartha in English and German from Tattered Cover.

Are you the type of person that reads one book at a time, or can you read more than one?
I am reading more than one book most of the time.

Do you have a favourite time/place to read?
On my big squishy couch or in bed.

Do you prefer series books or stand-alones?
I like both.

Is there a specific book or author you find yourself recommending over and over?
Yes. I love the classics and re-read those often. Books I re-read every couple of years: Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Poisonwood Bible, anything by Georgette Heyer by way of escape, The Count of Monte Cristo, Little Women and more.

How do you organize your books? (by genre, title, author's last name etc)
Organized? Eh. I joined LT with the thought of at least cataloging them... Does neatly stacked count? On a shelf in the bookcase?

Recently added to the list:

Siddartha and Villette in classics.

I just added Maniac Magee to the Newbery category.

What a wonderful book!

This is a unique story. It is really more of a legend type tale along the lines of Paul Bunyan. It is about a boy who is an orphan and is homeless by choice. He is a unique person, and he sees the world in a way that is innocent, but not necessarily naive. He has some amazing skills. He is athletic, he can read and teaches himself and he can untangle difficult knots. People are drawn to him and to like him. He changes the lives of those he comes in contact with. The town he is living in is deeply divided along racial lines. He is able to cross the line and befriend both black and white. One thing I really liked is the way the author deals with racial issues through a person (Magee) to whom they don't matter at all. On my list of memorable reads.

edited to add review

Living to Tell the Tale added to memoir and biography category. Not my favorite read.

Added to the lists:

Newbery Awards: Lincoln: A Photobiography
Gathering Dust: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Memoir: Kindertransport

Adding Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress to the gathering dust category.

Adding to mysteries - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Adding to history and Politics - The Real Thomas Jefferson

Adding to classics: Anthem
Adding to Mysteries The Girl Who Played With Fire
Adding to Newbery Awards: The Story of Dr. Dolittle

Currently reading for non-fiction - Chasing Goldman Sachs.
Currently reading for Classics The Aeneid

Adding I Feel Bad About My Neck to essays and short stories.

Finally finished Chasing Goldman Sachs for Current Events/non-fiction.

Well worth reading, especially if you, like me, don't know much about finance and how Wall Street works.

Some reading planned for August:

Stones Into Schools - current, non-fiction - READING
The Aeneid - classics - COMPLETED
America's Prophet - non-fiction- COMPLETED
John Adams - biography
Mother Said - poetry

ETA status update

Finished America's Prophet and briefly reviewed here - http://www.librarything.com/topic/92204

By finishing Emily Dickinson is Dead I have completed 10 books in the mystery category. Which is kind of funny, because I really don't read that many mysteries, usually.

Just added Jacob I Have Loved to the Newbery Award Winners.

I am still reading Stones Into Schools.

Just added Stones into Schools to world current events and La's Orchestra Saves the World to books by authors I love. I have some work to do here...

Added Johnny Tremain and Bud, Not Buddy to Newbery Awards.

Johnny Tremain! I have very fond memories of that book in late elementary school. We had a reading program that offered points when you took tests about books you could read, which you could then spend on toys and random things. Johnny Tremain was worth something like 13 points -- way more than most! I read and quite enjoyed it, got my points, spent them on something undoubtedly silly, and watched the movie a few years later. Very fond memories. I hope you enjoyed it too!

Hi. I did - I enjoyed Johnny Tremain very much. I had also read it in elementary school at some point, and I remembered liking it. It was just as good as I remembered.

I'm up to 10 in Mysteries and Newbery Awards. I just added The Slave Dancer which was a wonderful story. Although painful reading at times, it was so beautifully written. The story begins in New Orleans, takes us to Africa and back to New Orleans via Cuba and a shipwreck. I was impressed by a couple of things, one, that children are without prejudice unless taught it, that good people will remain good even in the worst circumstances and friends can be found in the most unexpected places.

I am reading Dracula for classics. I've got some work to do to make 10 in all categories by the end of the year. Not sure it's going to happen.

Just added a bunch of books. I finished Dracula and another Newbery Award book, A Single Shard. I also added Atlas Shrugged to classics and a couple more in the cooking/craft book category.
I've got to get busy on my History/current events topics.

I just added My Name is Memory to the list of books I haven't read by authors I like. Also reading for that category, The Lacuna.

For Biography I am currently reading Personal History and for short stories I am working my way through The Complete Short Stories of Earnest Hemingway. Those are some big books, so we'll see how it goes.

To add to my history/politics category:

Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black and White

One of the most fascinating history books I have read in a long time. It is very well documented and contains 40 pages of notes and index material. This is the history of African Americans in American politics from before the Revolutionary War to today. I have some new heroes to admire and teach my children about. I learned things about Frederick Douglass, for example, that I was never taught in school.

Quotes:

I was, on the anti-slavery question,...fully committed to (the) doctrine touching the pro-slavery character of the Constitution...I advocated it with pen and tongue, according to the best of my ability...Upon a reconsideration of the whole subject, I became convinced... that the Constitution of the United States not only contained no guarantees in favor of slavery, but on the contrary, it is in its letter and spirit an anti-slavery instrument, demanding the abolition of slavery as a condition of its own existence as the supreme law of the lad. Here was a radical change in my opinions...Brought directly, when I escaped from slavery, into contact with a class of abolitionists regarding the Constitution as a slaveholding instrument, it is not strange that I assumed the Constitution to be just what their interpretation made it...But I was now conducted to the conclusion that the Constitution of the United States was not designed to maintain and perpetuate a system of slavery - especially as not one word can be found in the Constitution to authorize such a belief. Frederick Douglass

I am the slave of principles; I call no political party master...I have ever most sincerely embraced the democratic ideal - not, indeed, as represented or professed by any party, but according to its real significance as transfigured in the Declaration of Independence and in the injunctions of Christianity. Representative Robert Brown Elliot

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect (party) of the candidate - look to his character. Noah Webster

For classics: The Prince and the Pauper

Loved it.

I am relisting my list here - touchstones were getting weird.

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1. The Classics: The Jungle, Siddartha, Villette, Anthem, The Aeneid, Dracula, Atlas Shrugged, The Prince and the Pauper, Lady Susan

2. Memoir, Biography and Autobiography: Strength in What Remains, The Nazi Officer's Wife, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Living to Tell the Tale, Kindertransport, Personal History

3. History and Politics: 5000 Year Leap, When the Emperor Was Divine, Liberal Fascism, The Real Thomas Jefferson, America's Prophet, The Devil in the White City, Remarkable Creatures, Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black and White, Wolf Hall

4. The Books Gathering Dust on my Bedside Table: The Help. 9101638::The Lost Symbol, 4448::North and South, 1541442::The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, 2354::Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, 9627563::The Pleasure Seekers,

5. Short Stories, Essays, Poetry and Plays: 60624::Nocturnes, 47859::The Trouble with Poetry, 671560::The Eloquent Essay, 5127794::Free Range Knitter, 231719::Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, 1139039::I Feel Bad About My Neck

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6. Mysteries: Oolong Dead, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Tears of Pearl, The Dante Club, The Sultan's Seal, The Abyssinian Proof, The Winter Thief, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Girl Who Played With Fire, Emily Dickinson is Dead

7. World Current Events, Non-Fiction: Chasing Goldman Sachs, Stones Into Schools, Into the Wild

8. Newbery Award Winners Crispin: the Cross of Lead, The Higher Power of Lucky, The Graveyard Book, Maniac Magee, Lincoln: A Photobiography, The Story of Dr. Dolittle, Jacob Have I Loved, Johnny Tremain, Bud, Not Buddy, The Slave Dancer, A Single Shard

9. Cookbooks and Craft Books: Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitter's Almanac, Bend the Rules Sewing, Sew U, A Knitter's Year, Weekend Sewing, Fairytale Knits, Sewing Clothes Kids Love

10. Books I Haven't Read by Favorite Authors: Moods, Shanghai Girls, The Girl Who Chased the Moon, The Silent Boy, La's Orchestra Saves the World, My Name is Memory, The Lacuna

Working on what will most likely be my final addition this year - Personal History. There's an outside chance I'll get to some short stories, but we'll see.

Final Count:

1. Classics: 9
2. Memoir, etc.: 6
3. History/Politics: 9
4. Gathering Dust: 6
5. Short Stories, etc.: 6
6. Mysteries: 10
7. Current Events: 3
8. Newbery Award: 10
9. Cookbooks/Craft: 7
10. Favorite Authors: 7

Total: 73

I did much better in some categories than I thought I would, especially history/politics. It was fun.