Lynda's Book Blog

* 18th & 19th century Women's Literature, Gothic literature, modern thrillers and crime fiction * the plays of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, and Medieval Mystery plays * the poetry of Sylvia Plath, R.S. Thomas, Byron, Elizabeth Jennings, Christina Rossetti, W.B. Yeats * Chaucer's Canterbury Tales * travel books, knitting books, feminist theory * ...and much, much more...

Around the World in 80 Books 7/80
1. The Scarlet Letter 30/03/08
2. The Rape of Sita 1/5/08
3. The Whale Rider 15/05/08
4. Breath, Eyes, Memory 25/05/08
5. They Who Do Not Greive 01/06/08
6. House on the Lagoon 07/06/08
7. The Kite Runner 29/06/08
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Suspense & Thriller Challenge 5/12
2008/2009
1. Tenderness of Wolves 26/03/08
2. Nothing To Loose 20/04/08
3. Ice Hut 23/04/08
4. World War Z 10/05/08
5. The Bone Garden 31/05/08
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Short Story Reading Challenge 5/10
2008
1. Violet 18 May
2. The Rainy Moon 18 May
3. Madam Crowl's Ghost 9 June
4. The Other Side of The Hedge 16 June
5. Misfortune 23 June
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Russian Reading Challenge 1/8
Jan - Dec 2008
1. War and Peace
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. Gulag
4. Chekhov short stories
5.Angel of Vengence
6. First Love 21/05/08
7. The Devils
8.A dirty war : a Russian reporter in Chechnya
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Another Blooming Challenge 2/2
March - June 20th 2008
Completed
1. The Ghost Orchid 01/06/08
2. The Military Orchid 10/06/08
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Southern Reading Challenge 0/3
May 15 - August 15
1. The Awakening
2. Ellen Foster
3. Dreams of Sleep
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Non Fiction Five Challenge 0/5
May - September 2008
1. With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet 21/06/08
2. The Book of the Courtesans
3. The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins
4. Medieval Women
5. Roman Shakespeare
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The Neustadt Challenge 0/3
May - August 2008
1.The Issa Valley
2.Elizabeth Bishop Prose
3.Garcia Marquez collected stories
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Banned Books Challenge 2/4
24 February - June 30th 2008
1.The Scarlet Letter 30/03
2. Snow Falling On Cedars 10/03
3. Dr. Zhivago
4. The Kite Runner 29/06
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The Orbis Terrarum Challenge 1/9
April 1 - December 20th 2008
1. The Rape of Sita 1/5/08
2. The Whale Rider 15/05/08
3. Katha: Short Stories by Indian Women
4. Shanghai Baby
5. War & Peace
6. Evelina
7. The Princesse De Cleves
8. Faust
9. Divine Comedy
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Initial Reading Challenge 2/5
April 1 - November 30 2008
1.Bid Me To Live 26/05
2. Devoted Ladies
3. The Uninhabited House
4. The Lighthouse 09/03
5.The Jacaranda Tree
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Classics Challenge 0/6
July - December 2008
1.War and Peace
2 A Woman's Kingdom
3 A Winter's Tale
4 Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
5 To Kill a Mockingbird
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Back To History Challenge 6/12
January - December 2008
1. Belinda /01
2. The Tenderness of Wolves 26/03
3. The Scarlet Letter 30/03
4. Eating Fire, Tasting Blood 29/04
5.Bound Feet and Western Dress 12/05
6. The memsahibs : the women of Victorian India 18/06
7. Welsh convict women
8.. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England
9. Artemisia: The Story of a Battle for Greatness
10. Margaret Pole, 1473-1541: Loyalty, Lineage and Leadership
11. Nuns: A History of Convent Life 1450-1700
12. A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada
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My own chalenges for my 101 blog:
Feminista 100 Books by Women 20/100
Re-read Shakespeare's Plays 2/37
Shakespeare's Sonnets 16/154
Re-read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 0/26
Re-read Milton's Paradise Lost 0/10
Feminist / Literary theory books 0/10
Buddhist books 2/10
Italian Short Stories in Italian 0/10