State to State: steven03tx

visited 15 states (30%)

Create your own visited map of The United States

I'm joining this challenge on May 22, 2010. Most of my reading is international, so my progress will be slow. I'll take full advantage of the rule allowing me to include previously read books from 2009 on.

I'll be breaking my posts down by region.

Northeast

Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts - Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (10/16/10)
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York - American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (12/18/09)
- Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (1/6/10)
- The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (1/17/10)
- Permanent Obscurity by Richard Perez (7/11/10)
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island - The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike (10/16/09)
Vermont

South

Alabama
Arkansas
Florida - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (10/27/09)
Georgia - The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1/27/09)
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi - Black Boy by Richard Wright (3/22/09)
North Carolina - Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (10/28/09)
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas - No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy (1/1/09)
Virginia - The Known World by Edward P. Jones (8/31/09)

Midwest

Illinois - Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (11/9/10)
Indiana
Iowa - Gilead by Marilynne Robsinson (4/28/10)
Kansas
Michigan - The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (1/8/09)
- them by Joyce Carol Oates (8/8/09)
Minnesota
Missouri - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (5/20/10)
Nebraska
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Dakota
West Virginia
Wisconsin

West

Alaska
Arizona
California - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (5/31/10)
Colorado
Hawaii
Idaho - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (6/18/09 & 4/7/10)
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
Utah
Washington
Wyoming

Welcome to the challenge. It look like you're off to a great start!

I still need an Idaho book, so Housekeeping caught my attention. You have two dates - did you like it so much you read it twice? I followed the link and saw you gave it 5 stars. Maybe I'll add that for Idaho.

As you add titles going forward, will you be adding mini-reviews or star ratings? Some of us have the lists like you do at the top (love your map by the way) and add the title within that list, but also add a new post to talk about the addition. I learned the hard way that if you only ever "edit" the original post, it doesn't show up as a new post in the summary of the challenge threads. Just a thought/request.

Are you in the Endless European Challenge too? you said you do more international.

I read Housekeeping the second time for a reading group. (It's not part of LT, but has its own web site at www.readliterature.com.) Not that Housekeeping isn't worth a second reading, but I wouldn't have read it again so soon otherwise.

Yes, I'll be posting additional books as separate messages. I know what you mean about edits not showing up.

I wasn't aware of the Endless European Challenge, but why not? The other geographic group to which I belong is "Reading Globally," so there is overlap all around.

California - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

This famous detective story shows the grittier side of Los Angeles.

Being from Missouri, I appreciate very much that you correctly placed it in the Midwest. For some reason a lot of people think we're Southerners...

Massachusetts - Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, set mostly in Boston.

Illinois - Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow takes place mainly in Chicago.