Heya! This is my first post here. I've been meaning to add to the melee since Tamie started this blog challenge! I usually read fiction, but my selections thus far in 2008 generally reflect the fact that I'm pregnant. Don't be dismayed, I read books of general interest as well.
First of all, I read:
Happenstance
by Carol Shields
380 pages
(not worth the time involved)
The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another
by Cindy Champnella
251 pages
(highly recommended: a true story of how a four year old daughter adopted from China lobbied for the adoption of her favourite friend still living in the orphanage she left behind. She lobbied with such fierce tenacity that her spirit is an inspiration)
Women of the Klondike
by Frances Backhouse
193 pages
(lively history book about the gold rush in Western Canada in the 1890s, specifically women from that era and place)
Dr. Jack Newman's Guide to Breastfeeding
by Dr. Newman
330 pages
Between Interruptions
which I've misplaced, so I can't tell how many pages...but I will locate it and add later...
The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
by Henci Goer
271 pages
(Definitely biased away from current medical obstetrical management, but a thorough and much needed analysis of obstetrical research. Highly recommended for expectant moms and obstetrical professionals)
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
287 pages
(So good I read it all in one day. With 2 kids jumping on me. Takes commitment. Reminds me of Oryx and Crake but more bleak and descriptive, and with the added element of a child)
This makes for a grand total of:
1712 pages (more, once I find my 'Between Interruptions' book and add its page numbers)
Whew! Who knew I read so much???
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
January reading
Time to join Tamie's excellent reading adventure, although I don't think I'll compete by posting page numbers, etc. Tamie has recommended to me some of the best books I've ever read, so it's a no-brainer for me to pay attention to her new reading site!
I asked for and received several books for Christmas. But before I could get around to them, I had to finish The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield (my husband's favorite author). Bromfield is perhaps better known for his writings on conservation, but he also won the Pulitzer Prize for his fiction work Early Autumn. The Rains Came is a novel that takes place in India during a flood caused by an earthquake and the breaking of a dam during the monsoon season. It was made into a motion picture, which I have yet to see. Excellent characterization, which is what I find most interesting and appealing in fiction.
Now I've begun a fascinating book given to me by my sister-in-law, Coreen Gilbert, the librarian. It's called Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, by Georgina Howell. I can't believe Gertrude's not more well known anymore, considering she was the first woman to receive a First in Modern History at Oxford University (in two years instead of the usual three). She worked with the Cairo intelligence office of the British government during WW I. The cover blurbs say that "she was the woman behind the creation of modern Iraq . . . promoting and engineering the election of King Faisal to the throne and helping to draw the borders of the fledgling state." From the preface: "Lawrence [of Arabia] kick-started the Arab Revolt, but it was Gerturide who gave the Arabs a route to nationhood. She cajoled and intruded, guided and engineered, and finally delivered the often promised and so nearly betrayed prize of independence." In the cover photo, Gertrude is between Winston Churchill and Lawrence of Arabia—all three seated on camels in front of the Sphynx!
I just finished a book recommended to me by Tamie, called How (Not) to Speak of God, by Peter Rollins. I'll be quoting passages from this book for years to come, such as: "revelation is often treated as if it can be deciphered into a dogmatic system rather than embraced as the site where the impenetrable secret of God transforms us. In the former, revelation is rendered into an eleoquent doctrine, while in the latter revelation is that which transforms."
And now I must stop typing and get back to proofreading my husband's forthcoming book called Indiana. Jerry is a photographer and is compiling his photos into several "coffee table" books. Future books will be on Kauai, Sweden, and Arizona. This first one is a visual feast and will soon be available at his web site, JerryMcCoy.com.
I'll be back!
Bev
I asked for and received several books for Christmas. But before I could get around to them, I had to finish The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield (my husband's favorite author). Bromfield is perhaps better known for his writings on conservation, but he also won the Pulitzer Prize for his fiction work Early Autumn. The Rains Came is a novel that takes place in India during a flood caused by an earthquake and the breaking of a dam during the monsoon season. It was made into a motion picture, which I have yet to see. Excellent characterization, which is what I find most interesting and appealing in fiction.
Now I've begun a fascinating book given to me by my sister-in-law, Coreen Gilbert, the librarian. It's called Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, by Georgina Howell. I can't believe Gertrude's not more well known anymore, considering she was the first woman to receive a First in Modern History at Oxford University (in two years instead of the usual three). She worked with the Cairo intelligence office of the British government during WW I. The cover blurbs say that "she was the woman behind the creation of modern Iraq . . . promoting and engineering the election of King Faisal to the throne and helping to draw the borders of the fledgling state." From the preface: "Lawrence [of Arabia] kick-started the Arab Revolt, but it was Gerturide who gave the Arabs a route to nationhood. She cajoled and intruded, guided and engineered, and finally delivered the often promised and so nearly betrayed prize of independence." In the cover photo, Gertrude is between Winston Churchill and Lawrence of Arabia—all three seated on camels in front of the Sphynx!
I just finished a book recommended to me by Tamie, called How (Not) to Speak of God, by Peter Rollins. I'll be quoting passages from this book for years to come, such as: "revelation is often treated as if it can be deciphered into a dogmatic system rather than embraced as the site where the impenetrable secret of God transforms us. In the former, revelation is rendered into an eleoquent doctrine, while in the latter revelation is that which transforms."
And now I must stop typing and get back to proofreading my husband's forthcoming book called Indiana. Jerry is a photographer and is compiling his photos into several "coffee table" books. Future books will be on Kauai, Sweden, and Arizona. This first one is a visual feast and will soon be available at his web site, JerryMcCoy.com.
I'll be back!
Bev
The Face of the Other
Jeremy reporting back in. First of all, I've heard some rumors that people are astounded at Buffy and my page counts. The simple reason is, we do nothing else. We eat, we sleep, we read. When we go out, we go to the library. I go to class to discuss what I've read. Buffy gets together with other women to discuss what she's read. For family time, we read out loud together. This results in a lot of books being checked off the list. On the other hand, some of you may have more diverse lives than we do. These are the choices we make.
So: I finished Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn: Green Angel Tower, Part 2 (815 pages). Not much to say - a classic overly sprawling fantasy epic, but well worth your time if you think Tolkien is a much better writer than, say, James Joyce, and if you've ever spent an entire 24 hours playing Dungeons and Dragons with breaks only for Pizza and Mountain Dew.
In a more scholarly vein, I'm reading Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity for my philosophy colloquium and finding it immensely rewarding (although terribly hard work). I said to my philosophy professor (the kind and eminently qualified Dr. Frank Seeberger, an expert in Heidegger) that I hadn't been happy with philosophy lately, that I didn't feel like it was making me a better person - and that Levinas had changed my mind. He laughed and said that reading Wittgenstein was like taking a cold bath - it didn't necessarily feel good at the time, but it refreshed your mind to do something more constructive. He also said in class that if you are reading Levinas carefully, you cannot emerge from it without being changed.
In a sentence, Levinas insists that before all society and all language, we are confronted by the face of the Other, the stranger, the widow and the orphan. We can either try to force the Other to be the same as us, or we can encounter them honestly in language - and it is this openness in language that produces infinity rather than the "sameness" of totality that grinds everybody into cookie-cutter molds. Beautiful and moving, and requiring the intense discipline of a marathon runner to comprehend. I highly recommend it. (180 pages so far.)
Keep on reading, brothers and sisters!
-- Jeremy
So: I finished Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn: Green Angel Tower, Part 2 (815 pages). Not much to say - a classic overly sprawling fantasy epic, but well worth your time if you think Tolkien is a much better writer than, say, James Joyce, and if you've ever spent an entire 24 hours playing Dungeons and Dragons with breaks only for Pizza and Mountain Dew.
In a more scholarly vein, I'm reading Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity for my philosophy colloquium and finding it immensely rewarding (although terribly hard work). I said to my philosophy professor (the kind and eminently qualified Dr. Frank Seeberger, an expert in Heidegger) that I hadn't been happy with philosophy lately, that I didn't feel like it was making me a better person - and that Levinas had changed my mind. He laughed and said that reading Wittgenstein was like taking a cold bath - it didn't necessarily feel good at the time, but it refreshed your mind to do something more constructive. He also said in class that if you are reading Levinas carefully, you cannot emerge from it without being changed.
In a sentence, Levinas insists that before all society and all language, we are confronted by the face of the Other, the stranger, the widow and the orphan. We can either try to force the Other to be the same as us, or we can encounter them honestly in language - and it is this openness in language that produces infinity rather than the "sameness" of totality that grinds everybody into cookie-cutter molds. Beautiful and moving, and requiring the intense discipline of a marathon runner to comprehend. I highly recommend it. (180 pages so far.)
Keep on reading, brothers and sisters!
-- Jeremy
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
January Totals: 1,328
Finished books
Stranded in Moscow
Rick Furmanek, Square Peg Press, 286 pages
Authored by a friend of my parents, this one's a true account of an American family living abroad shortly after the end of the Soviet Union.
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson; Anchor Books, 394 pages
Another true account, but of two inexperienced hikers walking the Appalachian Trail.
The Dangerous Book for Boys
Conn & Hal Iggulden; HarperCollins, 267pages
Like the Boy Scout Handbook but way more useful. Best re-gift ever.
In Progress
The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages
Joan Chittister, OSB; Crossroad Books
On page 65.
The Worldchanging Book
Edited by Alex Steffen; Abrams, New York
On page 134. Tips for living an integrated life.
Magazines
HOW February 2008 119 pages - advertisements = 83 pages
The Typograghy Issue
GOOD Jan/Feb 2008
The Big Ideas Issue 128 pages -advertisments = 99 pages
1300 pages! way more than I was expecting!
-Nick S.
Stranded in Moscow
Rick Furmanek, Square Peg Press, 286 pages
Authored by a friend of my parents, this one's a true account of an American family living abroad shortly after the end of the Soviet Union.
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson; Anchor Books, 394 pages
Another true account, but of two inexperienced hikers walking the Appalachian Trail.
The Dangerous Book for Boys
Conn & Hal Iggulden; HarperCollins, 267pages
Like the Boy Scout Handbook but way more useful. Best re-gift ever.
In Progress
The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages
Joan Chittister, OSB; Crossroad Books
On page 65.
The Worldchanging Book
Edited by Alex Steffen; Abrams, New York
On page 134. Tips for living an integrated life.
Magazines
HOW February 2008 119 pages - advertisements = 83 pages
The Typograghy Issue
GOOD Jan/Feb 2008
The Big Ideas Issue 128 pages -advertisments = 99 pages
1300 pages! way more than I was expecting!
-Nick S.
the book was....
Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson. It's....not plot-driven. It's gorgeous prose, beautiful and broken characters, incredible observations about the earth, reality, human nature. I highly recommend the book, and I recommend her other well-known book, Gilead, which was tender and profound and stunningly beautiful.
Monday, January 28, 2008
i'm so far behind, i think i might be ahead
Oh man. What was I thinking, starting this reading challenge? I have read ONE book this year, and it was 218 pages long. Alas. It was so good though! It was so good that I could only read about 10 pages at a time, and then I'd have to stop and stare out the window and think in a melancholy fashion about life and loss and everything.
So, I'm about to head off to the library to get 44 Scotland Street,so that I can pretend to begin to catch up to the infamous Garbers, who between the two of them have read OVER TEN THOUSAND PAGES in just this year. And that's to say nothing of Fiona, who herself has probably already read more than me! And she is 4-years-old!
So, I'm about to head off to the library to get 44 Scotland Street,so that I can pretend to begin to catch up to the infamous Garbers, who between the two of them have read OVER TEN THOUSAND PAGES in just this year. And that's to say nothing of Fiona, who herself has probably already read more than me! And she is 4-years-old!
Saturday, January 26, 2008
The Race is On
All right, Buffy pointed out that she'd read more than I had, so it's time to catch up. With the revision of Year of Living Biblically (+141 pages) and the addition of Part I of the third volume of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (815 pages - that's right, the last book in the trilogy was so large they had to split it into TWO SEPARATE PAPERBACKS), my competitive side has been aroused.
Hope we get to hear from some other folks too! Tamie, how about you?
- Jeremy
Hope we get to hear from some other folks too! Tamie, how about you?
- Jeremy
Okay, I think I'm all caught up with what I've read...
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith -- really liked this one -- Tam, did I already tell you that I thought you should read it? by the author of the No. 1 Detective Agency series, of which I'm not that a big a fan.325 pages
T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton -- the latest in her alphabet mysteries. I'm always a bit sheepish about reading them, but I do like her stuff -- it's what I read for fluff. 387 pages
The Ghost by Robert Harris -- more fluff... a thriller-ish book. The title refers to the ghost writer for an "auto"biography of a former prime minister -- political intrigue abounds. 335 pages
Rules by Cynthia Lord -- Michelle, you may want to check this one out... A Newbery Honor book, really excellent. About a 12 yo girl whose brother is autistic. The author's son is autistic. 200 pages
Bird Lake Moon by Kevin Henkes -- another late grade school/middle school book -- an advance reader's copy, not to be published for a few more months. Main character's parents are getting divorced. 179 pages
Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope by Brian D. McLaren
Quote from the book flap:
...invites us to imagine what would happen
if people of faith moved beyond political polarization and a few hot-button issues to the deeper questions nobody is asking.
if the world's leading nations spent less on weapons and more on peace-making, poverty-alleviation, and creation-care.
if a renewed understanding of Jesus and his message sparked a profound spiritual awakening in a global movement of faith, hope, and love.
if we believed that God's will really could be done on earth and not just in heaven.
Good stuff. In some ways, it's all so obvious, but it's really not being said in many circles... 256 pages.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt In 1001 Books to Read Before You Die. About six college students in New England, an elite group studying Greek. Secrets abound and much drama and tension.. I liked it. A sort of a mystery -- though you know what happened from almost the first page, you don't know why or very many of the details...559 pages
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. story of a woman's life from birth (1905) til death (mid-90's.) One of those books where there are certain paragraphs that you just want to copy down cause they are so cool. Other times I felt like I was just plodding through... 361 pages
The Luxe by Anna GodbersenYA historical fiction set in Manhattan in 1899. I think I read this in one day. about NYC's "elite", focusing on several families/teenagers. I liked it. There is a sequel, maybe a third... 433 pages
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesOkay -- I think I was supposed to love it, but didn't necessarily. Haven't seen the movie. 5 sisters commit suicide throughout the course of the book, to the fascination of the neighbors (especially the young male neighbors.) 249 pages
Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy by Michael Tucker (non-fiction) Man, this was great. This is the guy from L.A. Law, the one whose wife played his wife in the show. He's hysterical -- it was a really fun book. It was also just nice to read about a really pleasant relationship, you know. Good stuff. Though you might not be able to get through without some major cravings of different foods he's talking about, not to mention a glass or two of wine (and I'm not even a drinker!) 255 pages
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon Second in the Outlander series 752 pages
Note -- I can not promise that my page number count to the left will be accurate -- that's what comes of a 52nd percentile on the SAT in math and 99th in verbal.... :)
Buffy in Denver
T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton -- the latest in her alphabet mysteries. I'm always a bit sheepish about reading them, but I do like her stuff -- it's what I read for fluff. 387 pages
The Ghost by Robert Harris -- more fluff... a thriller-ish book. The title refers to the ghost writer for an "auto"biography of a former prime minister -- political intrigue abounds. 335 pages
Rules by Cynthia Lord -- Michelle, you may want to check this one out... A Newbery Honor book, really excellent. About a 12 yo girl whose brother is autistic. The author's son is autistic. 200 pages
Bird Lake Moon by Kevin Henkes -- another late grade school/middle school book -- an advance reader's copy, not to be published for a few more months. Main character's parents are getting divorced. 179 pages
Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope by Brian D. McLaren
Quote from the book flap:
...invites us to imagine what would happen
if people of faith moved beyond political polarization and a few hot-button issues to the deeper questions nobody is asking.
if the world's leading nations spent less on weapons and more on peace-making, poverty-alleviation, and creation-care.
if a renewed understanding of Jesus and his message sparked a profound spiritual awakening in a global movement of faith, hope, and love.
if we believed that God's will really could be done on earth and not just in heaven.
Good stuff. In some ways, it's all so obvious, but it's really not being said in many circles... 256 pages.
The Secret History by Donna Tartt In 1001 Books to Read Before You Die. About six college students in New England, an elite group studying Greek. Secrets abound and much drama and tension.. I liked it. A sort of a mystery -- though you know what happened from almost the first page, you don't know why or very many of the details...559 pages
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. story of a woman's life from birth (1905) til death (mid-90's.) One of those books where there are certain paragraphs that you just want to copy down cause they are so cool. Other times I felt like I was just plodding through... 361 pages
The Luxe by Anna GodbersenYA historical fiction set in Manhattan in 1899. I think I read this in one day. about NYC's "elite", focusing on several families/teenagers. I liked it. There is a sequel, maybe a third... 433 pages
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesOkay -- I think I was supposed to love it, but didn't necessarily. Haven't seen the movie. 5 sisters commit suicide throughout the course of the book, to the fascination of the neighbors (especially the young male neighbors.) 249 pages
Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy by Michael Tucker (non-fiction) Man, this was great. This is the guy from L.A. Law, the one whose wife played his wife in the show. He's hysterical -- it was a really fun book. It was also just nice to read about a really pleasant relationship, you know. Good stuff. Though you might not be able to get through without some major cravings of different foods he's talking about, not to mention a glass or two of wine (and I'm not even a drinker!) 255 pages
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon Second in the Outlander series 752 pages
Note -- I can not promise that my page number count to the left will be accurate -- that's what comes of a 52nd percentile on the SAT in math and 99th in verbal.... :)
Buffy in Denver
Friday, January 25, 2008
Let's see....
Well, I'll need to go back and see what I've read so far this year, which will take a bit (Jeremy has made vague promises to find the page numbers for me...) But for now I'll start with what I just finished.
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
This is the the third in her Outlander series. Have others here read these? In the first book, Claire, an English woman in 1945, travels to 1747 Scotland. And the crazy hijinks continue. :) I really like the story line, but there is some violence that makes me a bit uncomfortable...
1059 pages.
I'll try to get back here soon to catch myself up entirely! (come on, Jeremy, you know you want to get to work my other 13 books!)
Oh, I forgot I also read A Year of Living Biblically, so that's another 341 pages.
Buffy in Denver
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
This is the the third in her Outlander series. Have others here read these? In the first book, Claire, an English woman in 1945, travels to 1747 Scotland. And the crazy hijinks continue. :) I really like the story line, but there is some violence that makes me a bit uncomfortable...
1059 pages.
I'll try to get back here soon to catch myself up entirely! (come on, Jeremy, you know you want to get to work my other 13 books!)
Oh, I forgot I also read A Year of Living Biblically, so that's another 341 pages.
Buffy in Denver
Michelle here...
Hi all! Wanted to add my progress...I'm a little intimidated by Jeremy's numbers, but hey.
All fun books:
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore - I read this a while back but was reminded of Joshua (a.k.a. Jesus) learning to create heat to warm himself while meditating in the Himalayas due to my present flippin' cold climate. I couldn't get it out of my head, so I re-read it. (444 pages)
The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook - A cute book my Grandma gave me for Christmas about a woman who works at a Harvey House on the railroad line back in the day (I'm not quite sure which day...). She keeps a journal and her great granddaughter is reading it and piecing together the past. It's cute. (451 pages)
Whirligig by Paul Fleischman - The seventh grade reading teacher lent this to me. It is a beautiful story about a young man searching for redemption after some drinking and driving on his part ends a young girl's life. I'm a big fan of middle school books! (133 pages)
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements - A boy wakes up one day to find he is invisible. Then what? (272 pages)
That and a couple pages out of my new Moosewood cookbook rounds me to a total of 1305 pages in 2008, so far...
Thanks Tamie, this is fun! Keep on reading!
All fun books:
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore - I read this a while back but was reminded of Joshua (a.k.a. Jesus) learning to create heat to warm himself while meditating in the Himalayas due to my present flippin' cold climate. I couldn't get it out of my head, so I re-read it. (444 pages)
The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook - A cute book my Grandma gave me for Christmas about a woman who works at a Harvey House on the railroad line back in the day (I'm not quite sure which day...). She keeps a journal and her great granddaughter is reading it and piecing together the past. It's cute. (451 pages)
Whirligig by Paul Fleischman - The seventh grade reading teacher lent this to me. It is a beautiful story about a young man searching for redemption after some drinking and driving on his part ends a young girl's life. I'm a big fan of middle school books! (133 pages)
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements - A boy wakes up one day to find he is invisible. Then what? (272 pages)
That and a couple pages out of my new Moosewood cookbook rounds me to a total of 1305 pages in 2008, so far...
Thanks Tamie, this is fun! Keep on reading!
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Jeremy Begins the Challenge
All right, I'll bite. Here's my reading so far for 2008, separated into Fun Reading and Required Reading (often fun but not strictly optional). Don't have time for reviews at the moment but I'll do short comments.
Fun Reading
Over Christmas I started re-reading through some of my favorite sprawling geek epics.
Fun Reading
Over Christmas I started re-reading through some of my favorite sprawling geek epics.
- Stephen King, Song of Susannah (Dark Tower Series Vol. 6) - Rightfully called King's magnum opus. How come this guy doesn't get more respect? 560 pgs.
- Likewise, The Dark Tower, 864 pgs.
- Tad Williams' fantasy epic Memory, Sorrow, Thorn, with an intriguing alternate Christianity. The Dragonbone Chair, 672 pgs.
- The Stone of Farewell, 576 pgs.
- And finally, a wonderful light-hearted romp through a year of taking the Bible as absolutely literally as possible, with some implications for actual spiritual hermeneutics. A. J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. 200 pgs.
Required Reading
First for my philosophy colloquium. It's probably good for me to feel dumb once in a while to sympathize with undergraduates. And boy, do I.
- Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals. 320 pgs.
- Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations. 250 pgs. This should count at least triple.
Next my pedagogy course - how to encourage undergraduates to learn without falling asleep, and also hopefully how to get a job.
- Eric Gould, The University in a Corporate Culture. Gould argues that the modern university is caught between giving diplomas and encouraging learning in the same tension between capitalism and democracy. Thought-provoking, especially for academics. 272 pgs.
- David Kelsey, To Understand God Truly: What's Theological About a Theological School. Somewhat dated in the contemporary post-Christendom context; Kelsey calls for re-aligning theological schools in a quest to understand God through studying congregations. Meh. 272 pgs.
- Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach. Palmer advocates teaching from one's personal sense of identity, placing the subject at the heart of the pedagogical process rather than the teacher or the students. Simultaneously uplifting and uneasily vague. 272 pgs. (Is this really right or is Amazon malfunctioning right now?)
- bell hooks, Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Best one so far. Teaching people to think critically is in itself a revolutionary enterprise, especially when it involves personal narrative, emotion, and passion. 224 pgs.
Total so far: 4482 pages. Just wait until Buffy posts.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Welcome to the Reading Challenge!
Tamie Harkins has issued a challenge: read in 2008! The purpose of this blog is to encourage everyone to read as much as possible in 2008, and to keep track of your reading progress here.
The person who reads the most in 2008 will receive the book of his/her choice from Tamie at the end of the year! So read read read, and keep track of number of pages read. For the purpose of simplicity, we will be mainly keeping track of book pages read.
If you want to add to this blog, just post a comment at the bottom of any blog post, and I'll send you the password to the blog.
Happy Reading!!!
PS: If you want to just update the number of pages you've read, you can do so at the right, where the list of names are. Just put the number of pages read in parentheses next to your name. If your name isn't there yet, add it!
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