01.Feb.2010 Japanese Season Has Ended, For Now
Can you believe we have gone through the third round of Japanese Literature Challenge, and it has again, ended?
I did a lot better this time around than last year. Funny. Last round I intended to read a lot and ended up reading much less. This round I intended to read one or two, and ended [...]
24.Jan.2010 Read the Book, See the Movie Challenge
1 January 2010 – 31 December 2010
You do know that I need to join this challenge, right? Comparing book and its movie adaptation is really my thing. In 2009, I did that with:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Color Purple
Silk
A Christmas Carol
Wicked (not a movie, but with its musical)
Dracula + movie (separate post)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [...]
19.Jan.2010 Aussie Author Challenge, Oi!
In conjunction with my own personal challenge to read more Aussie authors, I should naturally join the Aussie Author Challenge! (1 Jan-31 Dec 2010)
There are many to choose from. The ones more known internationally like Markus Zusak and Geraldine Brooks, Steve Toltz for his A Fraction of the Whole, to the ONLY two double Booker [...]
11.Jan.2010 Book Awards IV, Bring It On!
Book Awards IV
1 January – 1 November 2010
10 months. 10 awards.
Do I dare say, “Bring it on!” ? I do!
Books read:
Waiting by Ha Jin (finished 01/10, rating 5/5)
1999 National Book Award for Fiction
2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Finalist of 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (finished 01/10, rating 5/5)
1966 Nebula Award for [...]
09.Jan.2010 Orbis Terrarum Wrap-up
I kinda dreaded wrapping up this challenge, because I predicted it would be the longest of them all. And it is. But here we go, my last challenge wrap-up of 2009!
I joined Orbis Terrarum Challenge in March 2009, running from 1 March to 31 December 2009. The rule is to read 10 different books by [...]
08.Jan.2010 Foodie Books (or End of The Spice of Life Challenge)
I’m rather sad that The Spice of Life Challenge has ended (it ran from 1 July to 31 December 2009). I’m a huge foodie and though I only ended up reading 3 books, I had lots of fun thinking about books that could fit into the challenge.
There are 4 categories:
Cookbooks
Nonfiction
Memoirs, autobiographies, or essays
Fiction
I joined A [...]
06.Jan.2010 Herding Cats II Herded
Herding Cats II Challenge ran from 1 April to 31 December 2009. In this challenge we list 5 books we love (read in 2007-2009 only) and everybody’s recommendations make the master list from which everybody would read any number of books for the challenge.
There are 163 books in the list and I read 3:
Dracula by [...]
04.Jan.2010 Lost in Translation Challenge (Barely) Completed
Frances @ Nonsuch Books hosted Lost in Translation Challenge running from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009, required us to read 6 books in translation. I said, it sounds like an easy rule. I did manage to complete it, but barely. I read 6 books, sort of, or 5 1/3 if you want to [...]
02.Jan.2010 Can’t Get Enough Graphic Novels
I joined Graphic Novels Challenge in 2009. I read 20 books and achieved the Masters level (18 books required):
The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot (finished 02/09, rating 4/5)
The Sandman Vol 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman (finished 03/09, rating 3.5/5)
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman (finished 03/09, rating 5/5)
Fables: 1001 Nights [...]
27.Dec.2009 End of Dream King, Start of Pratchett
Before year 2009 I had never read any Neil Gaiman’s. With the encouragement of The Dream King Challenge I managed to read three books and watched one movie based on his book:
The Sandman Volume 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman Vol 2: The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman
Movie: Coraline
I accomplished the second level: Acolyte, [...]
