Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The wrap up...

Two more down...
Fall into Reading ended December 20. I didn't finish quite as much as I planned (13 out of 15 books), but not too bad. Those last two will hopefully be read by either the end of the year or VERY early next year. That's the plan anyway. I read a pretty wide variety of books, trying to fit in all the books from my various challenges. My books were...

1. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 5/5
2. The Pilgrim of Hate - Ellis Peters 4/5
3. Daisy Miller - Henry James 2/5
4. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson 2/5
5. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 5/5
6. The Alienist - Caleb Carr
7. The Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury 3/5
8. Adolphe - Benjamin Constant 2/5
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 3/5
10. Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas - Louise Rennison
11. American Gods - Neil Gaiman 3/5
12. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy 5/5
13. The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond

Like I said, a pretty wide variety. A couple rereads...some I loved, some I didn't like much at all...a good mix. Also completed...

The goal was to read 8 books from consecutive decades in '08. I tried to be ambitious and read 12 books (one for each month) in consecutive decades in '08. I only managed to get through 10, and know I won't be getting to the last two any time soon. So. I fulfilled the requirements, but fell short of my own goal. Not too bad. My books were...

1. Persuasion - Jane Austen 3/5
2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving 4/5
3. The Red and the Black - Stendhal 4/5
4. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 4/5
5. Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert 3/5
6. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 5/5
7. Daisy Miller - Henry James 2/5
8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson 2/5
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde 3/5
10. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy 5/5

It's funny...I'm looking back at some of the books I read early in the year and I think my ratings are a little high for the impression the books left on me...like The Red and the Black and Wuthering Heights. I was sure I had rated those 3/5. Interesting. An interesting challenge and I am looking forward to participating this coming year.

2 comments:

Lezlie said...

That's why I don't put ratings on my reviews. I'm never sure what I *really* thought until later. :-) Congratulations on finishing these challenges up!

Merry Christmas!
Lezlie

Just Mom said...

Congratulations on what you accomplished during the challenge! The classics you chose are heavy reading - I think they count for at least two each.