casvelyn's [very belated attempt at the] 1010 Challenge

Hi everyone! I decided to join the Challenge so that I could motivate myself to read more and shorten my TBR list. My categories are as follows:

1. Books by authors that are not from the US, the UK, Canada, or Australia (because 99% of the books I've read in my entire life are by authors from those four places)
2. Books I've read before
3. Random stuff from the TBR
4. History/biography
5. Cookbook/culinary
6. Mystery
7. TBR that I own
8. Classics
9. Authors I haven't read before
10. Published since 2000 (FINISHED)

All books are intended to be ones that I haven't read before, unless otherwise noted.

What I've read so far this year to follow!

Books by authors not from the US, the UK, Canada, or Australia

1. Inkheart (Cornelia Funke, Germany)
2. The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco, Italy)

Books I've read before

1. The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
2. The Moor (Laurie R. King)
3. Locked Rooms (Laurie R. King)
4. Mara, Daughter of the Nile (Eloise Jarvis McGraw)
5. The Wind's Twelve Quarters (Ursula K. Le Guin)
6. N or M? (Agatha Christie)
7. The Language of Bees (Laurie R. King)

Random stuff from the TBR

1. To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis)

History/biography

-nothing yet-

Cookbook/culinary

-ibid-

Mystery (aka "I must really like Agatha Christie")

1. The Tuesday Club Murders (Agatha Christie)
2. Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories (Agatha Christie)
3. Murder at the Vicarage (Agatha Christie)
4. Sad Cypress (Agatha Christie)
5. Towards Zero (Agatha Christie)
6. Dead Man's Folly (Agatha Christie)

TBR that I own

1. The Two Gentlemen of Verona (William Shakespeare)
2. The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)
3. The Life and Death of King John (William Shakespeare)

Classics

1. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

Authors I haven't read before

1. A. S. Byatt - Possession
2. Penelope Fitzgerald - The Bookshop

Published since 2000

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J. K. Rowling, 2000)
2. The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan, 2005)
3. The Sea of Monsters (Rick Riordan, 2006)
4. The Titan's Curse (Rick Riordan, 2007)
5. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Rick Riordan, 2008)
6. The Last Olympian (Rick Riordan, 2009)
7. Something Rotten (Jasper Fforde, 2004)
8. First Among Sequels (Jasper Fforde, 2007)
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J. K. Rowling, 2003)
10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J. K. Rowling, 2005)

Did you like Inkheart? I've been wanting to read it in German, but I've been too lazy to get a copy of the book so far. At some point I'll give up and get an English copy, especially if the book ends up being as good as I've heard mention of!

I enjoyed Inkheart - I read it while on vacation and it was a nice, light, entertaining read. The only "problem" I had with it (if this can even be called a problem) is that since it is a children's book, the tone is not quite as "heavy" (I suppose "dark" is the word I'm looking for) as I think it should be, considering the plot. But I did like it - I gave it 4 stars - and I'm planning on reading the sequel.