Weekly Geeks #9: Challenges

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1. If you participate in any challenges, get organized! Update your lists, post about any you haven’t mentioned, add links of reviews to your lists if you do that, go to the challenge blog if there is one and post there, etc.

2. If you don’t participate in any challenges, then join one! There’s a good selection of possibilities over on my right hand sidebar (scroll down) where I list those I participate in. There’s also A Novel Challenge, a blog that keeps track of all sorts of reading challenges.

3. Towards the end of the week, write a wrap-up post about getting your challenges organized OR if you’re joining your first challenge, post about that any time during the week.

This is a timely post. I need to update my challenge lists anyway.

Let's start with the newest:

The ARC Challenge hosted by Teddy (June 21- September 21, 2008)
I just joined The ARC Challenge and hadn't blogged about it yet. Here you go, Teddy.
(4-6 ARC's then pick at least two to read and review for this challenge.)

1. *The Other by David Guterson
2. *False Colours by Georgette Heyer
3. *Master Pip
4. *Loyalists and Layabouts
5. *Farworld
   
6. *There maybe others depending if they were sent.

The Canadian Book Challenge (Part 2. Begins July 1, 2008- July 1, 2009)

1. The Assassin's Song by M.G. Vassanji
2. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnson
3. Negotiating with the Dead by Margaret Atwood
4. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
5. The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
6. Yellowknife by Steve Zipp
7. Coureurs de Bois by Bruce MacDonald
   
8. Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
   
9. Getting Over Edgar by Joan Barfoot
10. Jane Austen by Carol Shields
11. No Great Mischief by Alastair MacLeod
12. Late Nights On Air by Elizabeth Hay
13. Something from Timothy Findley

The Canadian Book Challenge (The Original. Ends July 1, 2008))

• The Assassin's Song M.G. Vassanji (New Canadian- Ontario)
• A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews (Manitoba)
• The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood (Ontario)
• Larry's Party by Carol Shields (New Canadian- Manitoba)
• Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery (PEI)
• The Long Stretch by Linden MacIntyre (NS- Obscure: couldn't find much online)
• The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston (NL)
• The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart (Ontario)
• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (Ontario)
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (New Canadian-Ontario)

The Classics Challenge (July-December, 2008)

1. The Lifted Veil: George Eliot
2. Summer: Edith Wharton
3. Far From the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy
   
4. North & South: Elizabeth Gaskell
5. Hard Times: Charles Dickens

The Novella Challenge (April- September, 2008)

1. Lesley Castle: Jane Austen
2. Stardust: Neil Gaiman
3. Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
4. Breakfast at Tiffany's: Truman Capote
   
5. The Lifted Veil: George Eliot
6. Summer: Edith Wharton

19th Century Women Writers Challenge (all 2008)

• The Last Man By Mary Shelley (For free from Girlebooks)
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Anne of the Windy Poplars by Lucy Maude Montgomery
  
• A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott
• Sonnets from the Portuguese (poetry) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  

I finished The Austen Mini Challenge.

I think that's it! It's more than I thought, actually. I was trying to cut back. Yikes!