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06.Mar.2009 Dewey’s Books Reading Challenge

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There’s another challenge that’s long overdue for me to officially join. Readers may remember when I posted about Dewey in December. This challenge is a tribute for her. Also, I can definitely complete the challenge, since it seems that whatever book I read is read and reviewed by Dewey!

There are 2 options for Dewey’s Books Reading Challenge:

1. Pick one book from each of the 6 years that Dewey has archives of. You can access her archives by clicking on the archive link in the sidebar of her website. It’s a dropdown menu. For instance, you would read one book that she reviewed in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 for a total of six books.

2. The other option is to read 5 books that Dewey reviewed. These can be from any year and I’m guessing that each of us has at least 5 books on our TBR list because of Dewey!

I picked Option 2. Or I can change my mind to Option 1. We’ll see.

Duration is 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009.

So far my list of books:

1) The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot [my review] [Dewey's review (2008)]
2) The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett [my review] [Dewey's review (2008)]
3) The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly [my review] [Dewey's review (2008)]
4) The Sandman Vol 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman [my review] [Dewey's review (2008)]
5) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling [my review] [Dewey's review (2007)]
6) The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman [my review] [Dewey's review (2008)]
7) The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman [my review] [Dewey's review (2008)]
8) The Color Purple by Alice Walker [my review] [Dewey's review (2008)]
9) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini [my review] [Dewey's review (2008)]
10) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling [my review] [Dewey's review (2007)]
11) Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [my review] [Dewey's review (2008)]
12) American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang [my review] [Dewey's review] (2008)

For collection of reviews from the others visit Dewey’s Challenge reviews blog.

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  • Suko says:
    6 March 2009 at 11:46 am

    Mee, this is a very nice way to honor Dewey. I’m sure that several books on my own TBR list
    (currently posted on my blog) have been reviewed by Dewey.

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  • Robin says:
    4 April 2009 at 5:26 am

    Welcome to our Dewey’s Challenge! This is a late greeting, but something went wrong with the email notification, and I just found your email letting us know that you are participating. I’ll make sure your name is included on this list of participants, and I apologize for the delay! We’re glad to have you with us!

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  • mee says:
    5 April 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Suko: Yes she definitely has read lots of books. It’s not at all hard for me to do this challenge :)

    Robin: Thanks Robin. I’ve actually completed the challenge since then, but I’m gonna continue to keep track of all Dewey’s books that I read here until the end of the challenge and see how many I will get!

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  • American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang | Books of Mee says:
    8 November 2009 at 10:15 am

    [...] Book Awards III (book #5), Dewey’s Book (book #12), Graphic Novels (book #17), China Challenge (book #1) — Not sure if this book [...]

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  • Dewey’s Books Challenge Wrap-Up | Books of Mee says:
    20 December 2009 at 11:05 am

    [...] near the end of year and I have a bunch of challenges need wrapping up. I’ll start with Dewey’s Books Reading Challenge since it’s probably the first that I completed a long time ago, and Chris has called for a [...]

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