Well, I'm glad to say that I finished the 2008 Fall Into Reading Challenge! I did have some substitutions, but here is the final list:
1. The Man Who Loved China - Simon Winchester
2. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination - Elizabeth McCracken
3. The Heretic Queen - Michelle Moran
4. The Fire - Katherine Neville
5. The Best Day of Someone Else's Life - Kerry Reichs
6. House and Home - Kathleen McCleary
7. Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe - Jennie Shortridge
8. Hot Mess: Summer in the City - Julie Kraut & Sharon Lester
9. Soup in the City - Kelly Hollingsworth
10. The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff
11. The Likeness - Tana French
12. When Will There Be Good News - Kate Atkinson
13. The Last Queen - C.W. Gortner
14. My Husband's Sweethearts - Bridget Asher
15. Altared - Colleen Curran
16. The Memorist - M.J. Rose
17. The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory
18. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larson
19. The Caliph's House - Tahir Shah
20. The Memory of Water - Karen White
I replaced the following books:
How Perfect is That - Sarah Bird
Riding Rockets - Mike Mullane
with:
Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe - Jennie Shortridge
The Memory of Water - Karen White
This was my first challenge, and despite the substitutions, I'm glad I did it!
9 comments:
I read everything on my original list except for one book I gave up on, I think that means I finished? LOL! I need to do this post as well!
Congratulations on finishing this. I didn't do so well - I got too distracted by new titles that came into my house.
Congrats on finishing the challenge Swapna. My original list and my final one are quite different. lol. I need to get that posted sometime this weekend too-I'm a little behind on blogging things.
Congratulations Girl :)
:)
U diong any more challenge :)
first challenge?? congrats on finishing it.. are you doing the chick lit challenge next year.. I guess you'll breeeze through that in a week:)
Good job. I haven't read any of those on your list but I do want to read The Memory of Water. My Fall Reading Challenge wrap-up has been posted too. I wander off the list a lot and then come back but I always read as many as I hope to. Mine is here:
http://freshinkbooks.blogspot.com/2008/10/fall-into-reading-challenge.html
(I'm sorry, I don't know how to make a link appear as text, or highlighted, when there is no gadget for it.)
congrats on finishing the challenge. I finished mine as well with substitutions as well.
I think I'm getting addicted to this challenges! I've signed up for 3 next year that I hope will help me read what I really want to be reading, we'll see!
I nominated you for a blog award :) http://aleapopculture.blogspot.com/2008/12/kreativ-blogger-award.html
Congrats!
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