26.Jan.2009 Martel-Harper Challenge Wrap-Up
I joined Martel-Harper Challenge in October, which was hosted by Dewey, who passed away recently. Sadly, I was unable to complete the challenge. I had Persepolis and To Kill a Mockingbird on my list. I read Persepolis, but my copy of To Kill a Mockingbird was left somewhere at my parents’ shelf back in Indonesia, and I’m not gonna read another people’s copy for a title I already have.
Rebecca Reid picked up the quarterly challenge. Please visit her Martel-Harper challenge site if you’re interested to join. I’d love to read some of the books in the list, but for now I’m stepping back from a lot of challenges, so I’m not joining.
Best of luck Rebecca! Hope the challenge continues well!
If you’re lazy to click away, here is the list of the books. The list grows every 2 weeks. For more information about the the books that Yann Martel sends to Canadian Prime Minister Harper, visit What Is Stephen Harper Reading?
The ones I read are in blue. The ones I have in green. And the ones I’d like to read in red.
Current book
# Book Number 47: The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror, by Michael Ignatieff
Previously sent books
# Book Number 46: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics 1965-1999, by Paul McCartney
# Book Number 45: Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges
# Book Number 44: The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (read but unfinished)
# Book Number 43: The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett
# Book Number 42: Gilgamesh, in an English version by Derrek Hines
# Book Number 41: Gilgamesh, in an English version by Stephen Mitchell
# Book Number 40: A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
# Book Number 39: Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones
# Book Number 38: Anthem, by Ayn Rand
# Book Number 37: A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift
# Book Number 36: Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Flannery O’Connor
# Book Number 35: Under Milk Wood, by Dylan Thomas
# Book Number 34: The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
# Book Number 33: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
# Book Number 32: The Rez Sisters, by Tomson Highway
# Book Number 31: Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
# Book Number 30: The Kreutzer Sonata, by Leo Tolstoy
# Book Number 29: Drown, by Junot Díaz
# Book Number 28: Read All About It!, by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush
# Book Number 27: To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
# Book Number 26: Birthday Letters, by Ted Hughes
# Book Number 25: The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi, by Larry Tremblay
# Book Number 24: Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett
# Book Number 23: Artists and Models, by Anaïs Nin
# Book Number 22: Meditations, by Marcus Aurellius
# Book Number 21: The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway
# Book Number 20: The Educated Imagination, by Northrop Frye
# Books Number 19: The Brothers Lionheart, by Astrid Lindgren; Imagine A Day, by Sarah L. Thomson and Rob Gonsalves; and The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, by Chris Van Allsburg
# Book Number 18: Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
# Book Number 17: The Island Means Minago, by Milton Acorn
# Book Number 16: Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke
# Book Number 15: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson
# Book Number 14: Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
# Book Number 13: To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
# Book Number 12: Maus, by Art Spiegelman
# Book Number 11: The Watsons, by Jane Austen
# Book Number 10: Miss Julia, by August Strindberg
# Book Number 9: Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel García Márquez
# Book Number 8: Short and Sweet: 101 very short poems, edited by Simon Armitage, published by Faber and Faber
# Book Number 7: Candide, by Voltaire
# Book Number 6: Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan
# Book Number 5: The Bhagavad Gita
# Book Number 4: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, by Elizabeth Smart
# Book Number 3: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
# Book Number 2: Animal Farm, by George Orwell
# Book Number 1: The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy
