Sarah Reads Too Much's Completed Challenges: January 2013

Hosted by Beth Fish Reads

Categories for 2012:

1. A book with a topographical feature in the title
Island of Lost Girls

2. A book with something you'd see in the sky in the title
The Fault in our Stars

3. A book with a creepy crawly in the title
The Maltese Falcon

4. A book with a type of house in the title
The Red House

5. A book with something you'd carry in your pocket, purse or backpack in the title
The List

6. A book with something you'd find on a calendar in the title

The Evening Hour

Hosted at Dead End Follies

Categories are as follows: (Just making notes for possible titles!)

1.  Hardboiled Classic The Maltese Falcon/Dashiell Hammett
2. Noir Classic  In A Lonely Place/Dorothy B. Hughes
3. Prison Book
4. Book Written by an author who did time The Importance of Being Earnest / Oscar Wilde
5. Book with a Psychopath Protagonist The Talented Mr. Ripley/ Patricia Highsmith
6. Gothic Novel  The Yellow Wallpaper/Charlotte Perkins Gilman
7. Classic Where the plot revolves around a crime  True Grit/Charles Portis
8. The "Why The Hell Am I Doing This To Myself?" Book Anna Karenina/Leo Tolstoy

Hosted by Books and Movies

1. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
2. The Absolutist by John Boyne
3. Broken Harbor by Tana French
4. Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan

Hosted by Book Obsessed.

This is where I pledge to read pairs of books with antonyms in their titles.

The levels:

Diploma: 6-10 books

Bachelors: 12-20 books

Masters: 22 - 30 books

Doctorate: 32+ books

I'm signing up conservatively, and choosing the Diploma Level... but depending on how this works out, I may move on to my Bachelors! (Helpful websites: Opposite Word and Thesaurus. )

Book List:
1. Lola and the Boy Next Door
2. Such a Pretty Girl

3. When the Night
4. Around the World in Eighty Days

5. The Discovery of Jeanne Baret
6. Island of Lost Girls

Hosted by November's Autumn
Read 7 Classics - 3 can be re-reads. Then participate in discussions on the 4th of each month.

1. Anna Karenina
2. The Color Purple
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. The Importance of Being Earnest
5. Oliver Twist
6. The Stranger
7. Around The World in Eighty Days

Hosted by Literary Escapism.

This is where I pledge to read 50 new-to-me authors in 2012!
The list of authors, titles with links to the review:

1. Tolstoy, Leo (Anna Karenina)
2.   Keener, Jessica (Night Swim)
3. Walker, Alice (The Color Purple)
4. McKenzie, Catherine (Spin)
5. Watson, S.J. (Before I Go To Sleep)
6.   Valentine, Jenny (Double)
7. Sickels, A. Carter (The Evening Hour)
8.   Alcott, Kate (The Dressmaker)
9. Green, John (The Fault in our Stars)
10.    Highsmith, Patricia (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
11. Jahn, Ryan David (The Dispatcher)
12. Austen, Jane (Pride and Prejudice)
13. Ridley, Glynis (The Discovery of Jeanne Baret)
14.     Ivey, Eowyn (The Snow Child)
15.   Wallace, Daniel (Big Fish)
16.   Vivian, Siobhan (The List)
17.   Eulberg, Elizabeth (Take a Bow)
18.   Portis, Charles (True Grit)
19.   Camus, Albert (The Stranger)
20. Whitney, Daisy (The Mockingbirds)
21.   Hughes, Dorothy B. (In A Lonely Place)
22.   Stuber, Barbara (Crossing the Tracks)
23.   Comencini, Cristina (When the Night)
24.   Brooks, Ben (Grow Up)
25. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (The Yellow Wallpaper)
26. Webb, Charles (The Graduate)
27.  Foer, Jonathan Safran (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
28. Verne, Jules (Around the World in Eighty Days)
29. Esquivel, Laura (Like Water for Chocolate)
30. Lawson, Jenny (Let's Pretend This Never Happened)
31.  Riggle, Kristina (Keepsake)
32. Goolrick, Robert (A Reliable Wife)
33. Walker, Karen Thompson (The Age of Miracles)
34. Gifford, Barry and Lawrence Lee (Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac)
35. Woolf, Virginia (Mrs. Dalloway)
36. Doller, Trish (Something Like Normal)
37. Joyce, Rachel (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry)
38. Klein, Alina (Rape Girl)
39. Matson, Morgan (Amy & Roger's Epic Detour)
40. Lawton, Stephanie (Want)
41. Voltaire (Candide)
42. Brennan, Sarah Rees (Demon's Lexicon)
43. Groom, Winston (Forrest Gump)
44.  Rowell, Rainbow (Attachments)
45. Hammett, Dashiell (The Maltese Falcon)
46. Zusak, Markus (The Book Thief)
47. Strohmeyer, Sarah (Smart Girls Get What They Want)
48. Tolkien, J.R.R. (The Hobbit)
49. Gaiman, Neil (The Graveyard Book)
50. Baum, L. Frank (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

Hosted by My Reader's Block.

This is where I pledge to read books from my already overflowing ~~TBR Shelf~~
TBR Bookcase. I will make a list of all the books I own on January 1, 2012 and do my best to work through the list.

The levels of completion are:
Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Vancouver: Read 25 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Ararat: Read 40 books from your TBR piles/s
Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 50 books from your TBR pile/s
El Toro: Read 75 books from your TBR pile/s
Mt. Everest: Read 100+ books from your TBR pile/s

I am starting conservatively, and choosing the Mt. Vancouver level. After all, you can go up a level, but not down!

1. Anna Karenina

2. The Color Purple

3. The Talented Mr. Ripley

4. Lola and the Boy Next Door

5. Pride and Prejudice

6. Big Fish

7. The Importance of Being Earnest

8. Oliver Twist

9. The Stranger

10. The Mockingbirds

11. In A Lonely Place

12. The Yellow Wallpaper
13. Such a Pretty Girl