Wendy's Introduction and Challenge List

I have completed this challenge today: July 28, 2007!

Hello everyone - I'm excited to be here. You can also find me at Caribousmom (my blog) as well as at A Novel Challenge and some of the other challenge blogs (Dystopian blog, NYT Most Notable Blog, and Something About Me blog).

I almost didn't do this one - I'm a little "over challenged" right now! BUT, Amanda is being very generous with the rules...so I think I can pull this off.

My goal is to read some of my book group reads (which I've been struggling to keep up with lately). I have two months - I'm choosing four books. Here they are:

1. The Flea Palace, by Elif Shafak (completed June 15, 2007)
2. Slow Man, by J.M. Coetzee (completed June 4, 2007)
3. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck (completed July 13, 2007)
4. Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernieres (completed July 28, 2007)

Introduction - Pheelya

I know I'm a little behind. I just got my invite yesterday and couldn't wait to get started. I'm an elementary school library media specialist and mainly read children's book through the school year. I use my summers to catch up on some adult novels. This this morning I perused all the goodies I have on my bookcases and chose the ones I would read this summer. Here is my list:

The Poe Shadow - Matthew Pearl
Danse Macabre - Laurell K. Hamilton
The Double Bind - Chris Bohjalian
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
A Killer Stitch - Maggie Sefton
Mistreal's Kiss - Laurell K. Hamilton
Rain Village - Carolyon Turgeon
Black Moon Rising - Damien Ashton
The Demon Awakes - R.A. Salvatore
Disobedience - Naomi Alderman
Ophelia - Lisa Klein
Voodoo Season - Jewell Parker Rhodes
Wild Women's Weekend - Lynne Kaufman

Happy Reading everyone

K list of Kucki

So I had some time today and figured out what books should be in my summer reading challenge. It was more difficult than I thought to find nine books with authors whose last name starts with K in my Mt. TBR, but that garantees I read some I would have left off otherwise. So here is the list:

1968 by Mark Kurlansky
Probability Moon by Nancy Kress
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Briar King by Greg Keyes
English Passangers by Matthew Kneale
Das weissse Land der Seele by Olga Kharitidi
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Murder at the Manassas by Michael Kilian
Stormy Challenge by Jayne Ann Krentz

As you can see this makes quite a diverse reading and since all of them are in my house I assume I wanted to read them at one point or the other. Now seems like a good time.

Introduction

So it is Week One and I am finally figuring out my summer reading challenge. I am trying to get back into the Knit the Classics groove, read the books I purchased recently (or will purchase in the case of Harry Potter), and read the books that have been sitting on my shelves for far too long.

Here is my summer reading list!

Mansfield Park (Knit the Classics selection)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Knit the Classics selection)
Tender is the Night (Knit the Classics selection)
Galapagos (recently purchased for airplane reading)
Jurassic Park (recently purchased for airplane reading -- this is a reread for me)
The Great Train Robbery (recently purchased for airplane reading -- this is a reread for me)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (I won't need too much motivation to read this!)
Smashed (on the shelf for too long)
The Devil in the White City (on the shelf for too long)
In Cold Blood (on the shelf for too long)

Introduction Kucki68

Hi,

I am Karin in Germany and I need to decrease my Mt. TBR so I decided an additional challenge will help. I have decided to read 9 books by authors whose last name starts with a K (as does mine). I have not yet made a final decision on which ones, so no list just now.

Kucki

Hello and Here's my SRC

I'm a librarian from the Pacific Northwest. I'll be reading some old books, new books, fiction and non-fiction.

My Challenge for this Summer is to read:

1. The elusive Pimpernel : a romance, by Baroness Orczy
2. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
3. Broken for You, by Stephanie Kallos
4. The raw shark texts, by Steven Hall
5. Memories of Philippine kitchens : stories and recipes from far and near, by Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan ; photographs by Neal Oshima
6. Urban shaman, by C.E. Murphy
7. War for the Oaks, by Emma Bull
8. The Verneys : a true story of love, war, and madness in seventeenth-century England , by Adrian Tinniswood

I'm almost done with Elusive Pimpernel, and I'll get the first week post about it up shortly.
Hello again,
Yorick.

Off and running on Week 1

Hello from the Pacific Northwest. Sherrill here. My challenge is to read those Harry Potter books. I did not jump on the band wagon when it was a big hub-bub...so I'm a little behind, as per the norm in my life.

Besides my first time through the HP books, I have Mansfield Park, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Tender is the Night from the other book-blog I belong to.

I always read before going to sleep, but I'll need to step it up to get these books done before the end of the SRC.

Happy Week 1 to all!

Hello! Pattie's Intro

Thanks for letting me play Summer Challenge with you all! I'm excited about finishing the spring books I didn't finish, and whittling down the Mt. TBR over the summer months.

Week 1 reading: PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern, My Heart's in the Lowlands by Liz Curtis Higgs, and A Seahorse in the Thames by Susan Meissner.

Summer TBR:
The first two Yada Yada Prayer books by Neta Jackson. The first one is a double-challenge book, shared with the 2007 TBR challenge. The second isn't on a challenge list, I don't think.

Others on the Summer TBR List, not currently on other lists:
Wishing on Dandelions by Mary De Muth
The Oak Leaves by Maureen Lang
Wild Rose by Ruth Axell Morren
The Plight of Mattie Gordon by Jeanne Marie Leach
The Secret of Us by Roxanne Henke
What She Left for Me by Tracie Peterson

Hello, and I'm Starting

My name is Benjie. I blog at Loom & Wheel, and review at Book 'em Benj-O. I have a tumbling to be read pile, but here are the first picks for the summer:

• (currently reading) True Grit by Charles Portis (recommended at The Rap Sheet)
• Skin by Ted Dekker
• The Great Giveaway by David Fitch
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (this is a re-read, before renting the new movie)

More to come as I dig into the pile.

Janiejane's List and Introduction

Hi there! I'm Janiejane and I blog over at So Many Book Reviews.

I'm going to give the Summer Reading challenge a try, even though I am also studying for the bar exam. So here is my modest list:

The Plague Tales - Ann Benson
The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd
Children of God - Mary Doria Russell
What We Keep - Elizabeth Berg
Durable Goods - Elizabeth Berg
The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton
Harry Potter 7 - J.K. Rowling
The Hours - Michael Cunningham

I will probably read more than that, but at least it is a goal!

Greetings. I am Barbara from Nova Scotia. This challenge will be a good opportunity for me to add some quality to my reading. I have been lurking and reading from Knit the Classics, and I will continue to do so as well as getting through this list:

1. The Divine Comedy by Dante (I was late starting the Inferno; only at CANTO XII, which was May's selection for KTC, but my intention is to read the complete Divine Comedy)
2. The Contrary Farmer by Gene Logsdon
3. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
4. Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs
5. The Osterman Weekend by Robert Ludlum

If I get side tracked by any other book(s), as I so often do, I shall confess.

Happy Reading!

Jenn's week 1 list

Hello all,
My name is Jennifer, and I came across this blog while randomly searching for lists of good books! I decided to join, so here I am.
I have always wanted to read the whole Chronicles of Narnia series but I have never gotten around to it, so my first goal for the summer was to read all 7 books. I have completed the first three so this week I will be reading:

1. Prince Caspian
2. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
3. The Silver Chair
4. The Last Battle

(All by C. S. Lewis of course.)
They are actually quite entertaining and quick reads too!

Happy Reading!

Valerie's Hello and List

-=wave=- Hello all! My name is Valerie and I came acrossed this blog in a random web search. I thought it was genius and quickly signed myself up. I am more of a horror/sci-fi reader but I decided to break out of that mold. I want to read what some of my friend have dubbed as "Classics".

Here's my list:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Animal Farm - George Orwell
1984 - George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

Introduction

My name is Becky Laney, and I have two blogs: Becky's Book Reviews, and Becky's Christian Reviews. These keep me very busy. I'm always reading. As far as the challenge goes, I suppose I don't necessarily have a list as of yet. I have two challenges I am participating in that will finish up on June 21rst. (The Once Upon A Time Challenge, and the Spring Reading Thing Challenge.) I'm also participating in the Dystopian Challenge, although that deadline isn't until November. My real goal of this challenge is to catch up on books in my TBR pile. Right now, I've got about twenty or thirty books in the pile that I am needing to get read and reviewed. There are young adult books, children's books, and a few Christian fiction titles waiting for me. My goal is to make some headway with this stack, and have it become more manageable.

My goal this summer is to read two Christian books and three young adult books each week.

Rhinoa's List

Hopefully I haven't chosen too many books for myself... I have had these sitting on my shelf for ages now and still haven't had a chance to get around to reading them. Everyone who has read them says I will really enjoy them, so I am using this challenge as a chance to really get into the series. My blog can be found at Rhinoa's Ramblings

1) Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton
2) The Laughing Corpse - Laurell K. Hamilton
3) Circus of the Damned - Laurell K. Hamilton
4) The Lunatic Cafe - Laurell K. Hamilton
5) The Bloody Bones - Laurell K. Hamilton
6) The Killing Dance - Laurell K. Hamilton

Introduction

I am Crissy. Until recently I have been a rather nomadic blogger, but I think I have found just the right place to settle down, Soliloquy.
In lieu of a book list I will simply commit to reading one book per week for the duration of the challenge, and I will limit myself to those books already on my shelves. I hope to include a little Steinbeck, a dash of Oates, and maybe a Young Adult selection from my son's shelf.
But in that regard I make no promises.

Happy summer reading, all!

Shannon's introduction

This is my first challenge, as my book blog is fairly new, but I wanted to get involved, in hopes of maybe being spurred on to complete more reading for the summer. My goal is to read 10 books from my TBR list for the year. I am falling desperately behind on my 50 book challenge for the year, hopefully this will help me catch up.
These are the books I hope to read for this challenge:

~Anne of Green Gables by:LM Montgomery
~Anne of Avonlea by: LM Montgomery
~At Home in Mitford (Mitford series #1) by: Jan Karon
~A Light in the Window (Mitford Series #2)by: Jan Karon
~ These High Green Hills (Mitford Series #3) by: Jan Karon
~ What a Girl Wants (Ashley Stockingdale series #1) by: Kristin Billerbeck
~ She's Out of Control(Ashley Stockingdale series #2) by: Kristin Billerbeck
~With This Ring I'm Confused (Ashley Stockingdale series #3) by: Kristin Billerbeck
~Tara Road by: Maeve Binchy
~The Woman Next Door by: Barbara Delinksy
~Hilltowns by: Anne Rivers Siddons
~Emma by: Jane Austen

It is pretty ambitious, but what is better on a hot summer day but a big glass of iced tea and a pile of books?! Good luck everyone on your challenge! My blog can be found at: http://shandord.blogspot.com/

alisonwonderland's list

i'm alisonwonderland - or Alison - and i blog about books at So Many Books, So Little Time. i blog about the rest of my life at We're All Mad Here.

i'm currently working on finishing my Spring Reading Thing list by June 21 (and i'm afraid that i'm not going to succeed) - but on June 22 i'll start to tackle my Summer Reading Challenge list. in attempting to create this list, i considered several possibilities for a theme: biographies/autobiographies, time travel books (since i've been interested in those lately), and selections from my piles of books purchased from the local library surplus sales, among other ideas. i finally decided to pick five novels by one author - Jodi Picoult. i've read two of her books already this year, and i'm very interested in reading more of her - so my Summer Reading Challenge list is as follows:

• Vanishing Acts (2005)
• Nineteen Minutes (2007)
• Plain Truth (1999)
• The Tenth Circle (2006)
• Perfect Match (2002)

Jill's Picks

Hi! I am new to this challenge and excited to get started. My goal for this challenge to is clean out my purple basket that contains one of my TBR piles. Here goes:

Looking for Alaska by John Green
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Black Flower by Howard Bahr
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Lamb: The Gospel Acording to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Billy Bathgate by E.L Doctorow
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

To learn more about me, check out my MySpace page or my LiveJournal blog.

Happy Reading!

Krin's picks!

Ok, so I'm getting close to the deadline. I picked most of these books because I have promised them to others. My blog is called Enough to Read.

Here are the books, in no particular order!:

Sorcerers of Majipoor by Robert Silverberg (cross-posted on Spring Reading Thing Challenge!)
Sweet Thames by Matthew Kneale
Aphrodite by Russell Andrews
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Godforsaken Sea by Derek Lundy (cross-posted on NonFiction Five Challenge and TBR Challenge!)
Five Days in Summer by Kate Pepper
Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner
Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff