Friday, January 2, 2009

2009 TBR Challenge

I look at the huge pile of books that I can't wait to read (actually, they're standing up between bookends on my coffee table, not exactly piled up...) so this is the first challenge I'm going to take on this brand new year:
The website: http://tbrchallenge.blogspot.com
The rules:
* the challenge is to read 12 TBR books in 12 months -- you can read those all in one month if you want, or one a month, or however you wanna do it.
* you need to have a list posted somewhere for others to see (even if it's in a comment here)
* you CANNOT change your list after January 1st, 2009!!!
* you can create an Alternates list of MAXIMUM 12 books, if you want, in order to have options to choose from (you can read these in place of books on your original list).
* audiobooks and e-books ARE allowed
* re-reads are NOT allowed, as they aren't TRUE "TBRs"
* you CAN overlap with other challenges
* OPTIONAL: you can join the Yahoo! Group created for participants of the TBR Challenge, if you want to have a place to keep your list, or just to share with others about how you're doing! :)

My TBR List:

1. Labyrinth (Mosse)
2. One Good Turn (Atkinson)
3. Triangle (Weber)
4. Illuminated (Bronleewe)
5. The Ring (Molist)
6. Midnight Cactus (Pollen)
7. Black Olives (Dudman)
8. At Ease with the Dead (Satterthwait)
9. Mission to Sonora (Cramer) READ
10. Gray Ghost (Tapply) READ

My Alternates:

11. Shoot the Moon (Letts)
12. Coyota (Egan)
13. The King's Lizard (Christie)
14. The Mortician's Daughter (Bloom)
15. Three Cups of Tea (Mortenson & Relin)
16. Not the End of the World (Atkinson)
17. Nol! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club (Ironside)
18. Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Bryson)
19. They Did It with Love (Morgenroth)
20. Alphabet Weekends (Noble)

BOOKS READ
1. Mission to Sonora (Cramer) slow, set in Tucson with lots of references to places around town
2. Gray Ghost (Tapply) after reading, found that Tapply died in the last year of cancer. So sorry.

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