Challenge completed – The Pub ‘09

Okay, just realized I finished another one!  This time it’s The Pub Challenge.  And I’m a terrible participant, I don’t think I’ve added ONE review to the site yet.  Well, I better go get on that.  Anyway, here’s my list:

1. The Bishop’s Daughter – Tiffany L. Warren review

2.  Jane Austen Ruined My Life – Beth Pattillo review

3.  Everyone is Beautiful – Katherine Center review

4.  Zig-Zagging: Loving Madly, Losing Badly…How Ziggy Saved My Life – Tom Wilson review

5.  Sonata for Miriam – Linda Olsson review

6.  Handle With Care – Jodi Picoult review

7.  Breathing – Cheryl Renee Herbsman review

8.  Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson  review

9.  The Purity Myth – Jessica Valenti review

I’m sure I’ll read lots more books published this year, but for the purposes of this challenge, I’m finished!

Challenge completed – Dewey’s books

Just a quick note to mention that I just realized I’m finished with the Dewey’s Books Challenge.  My list is as follows:

1.  American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang review

2. Looking for Alaska – John Green review

3. Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters – Courtney E. Martin review

4.  The Adoration of Jenna Fox – Mary E. Pearson review

5.  The Road – Cormac McCarthy review

 

I still have many books that I was considering reading for the challenge on my shelves and I’ll probably read some more of them this year because let’s face it, Dewey had freakin awesome taste.  But for the official challenge, which was to read five books read by Dewey during the time she was blogging, I’m done.

World Citizen Challenge

Since the moment Eva announced her World Citizen Challenge, I knew immediately that I would participate.  I finally have taken a look around her suggested reading lists and decided on the books that I’ll choose from for the challenge.  I’ll be participating at the post-graduate level, which means reading seven books with at least one from each category.  Here are the possibilites for what I’ll be reading:

Politics:

• The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

History:

• King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
• Life along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield

Economics:

• No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart: The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice by Tom Slee
• The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs

Culture/Anthropology/Sociology:

• Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations by Jonathan Sacks
• Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam by John L. Esposito

Worldwide Issues:

• The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria
• The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
• The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade by Victor Malarek
• Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill by Jessica Stern

Memoirs/Autobiographies:

• Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway
• Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright
• Wild Swans by Jung Chang
• Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir

first post! new blog!

Ok so I’m sort of organized with this challenge blog finally.  The reason I created it is because my one challenge page on my regular blog was starting to overwhelm me, so I figured that if I organized everything separately I would feel a lot better about the situation.  So far, I do.

I will be adding at least one more challenge – Eva’s World Citizen.  For that one, though, I have no earthly idea of which books I’d like to read so it’s going to take me some time to get my thoughts together about that.  In the meantime, I better start reading…