Getting sick didn't help. But here's the list:
MY BOOK CHALLENGE FOR 2009: I MUST READ THE FOLLOWING BOOKS
*The Decameron ~ Boccaccio (completed 08/02/2009)
The Divine Comedy ~ Dante Alighieri (NOT completed. Alas.)
*Don Quixote de la Mancha ~ Miguel de Cervantes (completed 05/06/2009)
*Paradise Lost ~ John Milton (NOT completed. Alas.)
The Fairie Queene ~ Edmund Spenser (NOT completed. Alas.)
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ~ Mark Haddon (completed 12/03/2009)
*Life of Pi ~ Yann Martel (completed 10/04/2009)
*On the Origin of Species ~ Charles Darwin (completed 27/09/2009)
*The Qur'an (completed 11/10/2009)
*The Pilgrim’s Progress ~ John Bunyan (completed 19/06/2009)
*Metamorphoses ~ Ovid (completed 16/08/2009)
*The Red and the Black ~ Stendhal (completed 10/06/2009)
*Life Class ~ Pat Barker (completed 16/10/2009)
*My Name is Red ~ Orhan Pamuk (completed 17/11/2009)
*The Reluctant Fundamentalist ~ Mohsin Hamid (completed 03/03/2009)
*Blood River ~ Tim Butcher (completed 01/08/2009)
A Long Long Way ~ Sebastian Barry (completed 18/12/2009)
*Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion ~ Charles Townshend (completed 27/03/2009)
The State of Africa ~ Martin Meredith (NOT completed. Alas.)
*Shadow of the Silk Road ~ Colin Thubron (completed 27/11/2009)
*Robinson Crusoe ~ Daniel Defoe (completed 13/01/2009)
*Gulliver's Travels ~ Jonathan Swift (completed 07/05/2009)
*Catch-22 ~ Joseph Heller (completed 15/02/2009)
*The Giver ~ Lois Lowry (read 30/09/2009)
Pillars of the Earth ~ Ken Follett (completed 21/12/2009)
*The Wives of Henry VIII ~ Alison Weir (completed 02/07/2009)
*The Age of Innocence ~ Edith Wharton (completed 05/04/2009)
*A Brief History of Time ~ Stephen Hawking (completed 10/03/2009)
*In Search of Lost Time - Volume 1: The Way By Swann's ~ Marcel Proust (completed 13/12/2009)
*A Short History of Nearly Everything ~ Bill Bryson (completed 21/04/2009)
Lord of the Flies ~ William Golding (completed 14/06/2009)
*The Solitude of Emperors ~ David Davidar (completed 01/09/2009)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ~ John Boyne (read 13/09/2009)
The Outsider ~ Albert Camus (read 28/11/2009)
*A Canticle For Leibowitz ~ Walter Miller (completed 12/07/2009)
The Aeneid ~ Virgil (completed 11/11/2009)
*The Sparrow ~ Mary Doria Russell (completed 20/02/2009)
*Cancer Ward ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (completed 30/04/2009)
*The Gormenghast Trilogy ~ Mervyn Peake (First book of the trilogy read 11/04/2009. Second book completed 11/05/2009. Final book completed 18/05/2009.)
The Last Samurai ~ Helen DeWitt (completed 22/07/2009)
*These are the ones we actually own, so I'll also be buying a whole pile of books!
ALSO READS:
A Grief Observed ~ CS Lewis (completed 06/01/2009)
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters ~ GW Dahlquist (completed 21/01/2009)
These Old Shades ~ Georgette Heyer (completed 22/02/2009)
Watchmen ~ Alan Moore (completed 26/02/2009)
Run For Your Life ~ James Patterson and another man although he pretends that he wrote it by himself (completed 15/03/2009)
Last Tango In Aberystwyth ~ Malcolm Pryce (completed 29/03/2009)
The Dresden Files: Turn Coat ~ Jim Butcher (completed 08/05/2009)
The Masqueraders ~ Georgette Heyer (completed 12/06/2009)
A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini (read 26/07/2009)
The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde (completed 07/09/2009)
The Book Thief ~ Markus Zusak (read 10/09/2009)
Pretty Monsters ~ Kelly Link (completed 09/10/2009)
The Name of the Wind ~ Patrick Rothfuss (completed 29/10/2009)
MY BOOK CHALLENGE FOR 2009: I MUST READ THE FOLLOWING BOOKS
*The Decameron ~ Boccaccio (completed 08/02/2009)
The Divine Comedy ~ Dante Alighieri (NOT completed. Alas.)
*Don Quixote de la Mancha ~ Miguel de Cervantes (completed 05/06/2009)
*Paradise Lost ~ John Milton (NOT completed. Alas.)
The Fairie Queene ~ Edmund Spenser (NOT completed. Alas.)
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ~ Mark Haddon (completed 12/03/2009)
*Life of Pi ~ Yann Martel (completed 10/04/2009)
*On the Origin of Species ~ Charles Darwin (completed 27/09/2009)
*The Qur'an (completed 11/10/2009)
*The Pilgrim’s Progress ~ John Bunyan (completed 19/06/2009)
*Metamorphoses ~ Ovid (completed 16/08/2009)
*The Red and the Black ~ Stendhal (completed 10/06/2009)
*Life Class ~ Pat Barker (completed 16/10/2009)
*My Name is Red ~ Orhan Pamuk (completed 17/11/2009)
*The Reluctant Fundamentalist ~ Mohsin Hamid (completed 03/03/2009)
*Blood River ~ Tim Butcher (completed 01/08/2009)
A Long Long Way ~ Sebastian Barry (completed 18/12/2009)
*Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion ~ Charles Townshend (completed 27/03/2009)
The State of Africa ~ Martin Meredith (NOT completed. Alas.)
*Shadow of the Silk Road ~ Colin Thubron (completed 27/11/2009)
*Robinson Crusoe ~ Daniel Defoe (completed 13/01/2009)
*Gulliver's Travels ~ Jonathan Swift (completed 07/05/2009)
*Catch-22 ~ Joseph Heller (completed 15/02/2009)
*The Giver ~ Lois Lowry (read 30/09/2009)
Pillars of the Earth ~ Ken Follett (completed 21/12/2009)
*The Wives of Henry VIII ~ Alison Weir (completed 02/07/2009)
*The Age of Innocence ~ Edith Wharton (completed 05/04/2009)
*A Brief History of Time ~ Stephen Hawking (completed 10/03/2009)
*In Search of Lost Time - Volume 1: The Way By Swann's ~ Marcel Proust (completed 13/12/2009)
*A Short History of Nearly Everything ~ Bill Bryson (completed 21/04/2009)
Lord of the Flies ~ William Golding (completed 14/06/2009)
*The Solitude of Emperors ~ David Davidar (completed 01/09/2009)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ~ John Boyne (read 13/09/2009)
The Outsider ~ Albert Camus (read 28/11/2009)
*A Canticle For Leibowitz ~ Walter Miller (completed 12/07/2009)
The Aeneid ~ Virgil (completed 11/11/2009)
*The Sparrow ~ Mary Doria Russell (completed 20/02/2009)
*Cancer Ward ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (completed 30/04/2009)
*The Gormenghast Trilogy ~ Mervyn Peake (First book of the trilogy read 11/04/2009. Second book completed 11/05/2009. Final book completed 18/05/2009.)
The Last Samurai ~ Helen DeWitt (completed 22/07/2009)
*These are the ones we actually own, so I'll also be buying a whole pile of books!
ALSO READS:
A Grief Observed ~ CS Lewis (completed 06/01/2009)
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters ~ GW Dahlquist (completed 21/01/2009)
These Old Shades ~ Georgette Heyer (completed 22/02/2009)
Watchmen ~ Alan Moore (completed 26/02/2009)
Run For Your Life ~ James Patterson and another man although he pretends that he wrote it by himself (completed 15/03/2009)
Last Tango In Aberystwyth ~ Malcolm Pryce (completed 29/03/2009)
The Dresden Files: Turn Coat ~ Jim Butcher (completed 08/05/2009)
The Masqueraders ~ Georgette Heyer (completed 12/06/2009)
A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini (read 26/07/2009)
The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde (completed 07/09/2009)
The Book Thief ~ Markus Zusak (read 10/09/2009)
Pretty Monsters ~ Kelly Link (completed 09/10/2009)
The Name of the Wind ~ Patrick Rothfuss (completed 29/10/2009)
*MySmiley*
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
50-book challenge complete!
31/12/2009 10:02:42 PM
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What did you think of Three Men on a Boat? One of the more underrated comedies out there, IMO. *NM*
01/01/2010 12:02:36 AM
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I think Jerome K Jerome was brilliant, and wish there were more like him.
01/01/2010 11:21:07 AM
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Good job, Tim!
01/01/2010 01:09:20 AM
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Not only that: my current read is Matter, the last Culture novel.
01/01/2010 11:16:34 AM
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Me too.
01/01/2010 11:53:57 AM
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You counted a book about contract law???
01/01/2010 04:16:53 PM
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fnords!!!!!
01/01/2010 07:29:09 PM
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by the way
01/01/2010 07:30:04 PM
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Three. If they were originally published separately, the fact that someone collected them into...
01/01/2010 11:55:22 PM
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The Night Watch series just got progressively worse. I liked all of them, though. *NM*
01/01/2010 10:18:15 PM
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Of course. It's the 50-book challenge, not the 50-SciFi-or-Fantasy-book challenge.
02/01/2010 12:14:59 AM
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I would never have considered case books "books" for purposes of the 50-book challenge.
02/01/2010 05:41:02 PM
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It's a textbook, not a case book.
02/01/2010 08:43:42 PM
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I think even books we called textbooks were essentially case books.
03/01/2010 05:42:45 PM
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Re: You counted a book about contract law???
04/01/2010 10:30:24 AM
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We both speak Spanish already.
04/01/2010 02:00:06 PM
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Do you really figure...
05/01/2010 01:57:54 AM
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I don't think it would take less time than for Portuguese or French, but...
05/01/2010 04:53:27 AM
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I think you should teach her Koine before French
05/01/2010 04:01:44 AM
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If I could convince my wife, I would
05/01/2010 04:57:05 AM
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There's always Amharic, I suppose
05/01/2010 07:32:50 AM
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For some reason I always want to read that word as though it were in Gaelic
05/01/2010 01:49:44 PM
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Well, at least it's not Klingon!
05/01/2010 11:30:48 PM
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I have a cursory knowledge of Old Persian and a smattering of Gatha Avestan...why do you ask?
07/01/2010 06:09:20 AM
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Oh, come on. Finnish is all kinds of awesome.
05/01/2010 05:01:16 PM
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I know the word "omenapiraaka" means "apple pie" - I went to the Helsinki McDonald's.
07/01/2010 06:10:49 AM
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Since 50 and a half seems to be quite a popular number this year, here are mine.
01/01/2010 04:38:09 PM
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I think I managed, too. However, after that, my reading just... ceased.
01/01/2010 06:02:16 PM
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I failed my challenge.
01/01/2010 11:13:59 PM
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What did you think of Foucault's Pendulum?
02/01/2010 08:42:02 PM
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Because I'm not American.
03/01/2010 05:50:36 AM
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Yes, but you lot have lost so much more...
03/01/2010 06:03:38 AM
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Is the subjunctive any more alive in America than in Britain?
03/01/2010 06:23:09 AM
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Not in any meaningful sense. I suppose there are some irregularities which could be subjunctive...
03/01/2010 09:54:46 AM
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Would y'all ( ) say it's the same situation as with French (and I think Spanish)?
05/01/2010 02:05:59 AM
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Not exactly
05/01/2010 04:00:04 AM
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All I know about French is what's in Louisiana, and it's just completely incomprehensible.
06/01/2010 08:20:53 AM
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Aaah.
03/01/2010 09:04:45 AM
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I should have mentioned...
03/01/2010 11:39:27 PM
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Illuminatus! is so great. I finished the trilogy last year, I think.
05/01/2010 06:58:14 AM
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If this will be your first Eco, I definitely recommend The Name of the Rose rather than FP. *NM*
05/01/2010 11:13:07 AM
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I finished with 90 books.
09/01/2010 09:45:29 PM
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