Sketchbook Challenge 2011
January theme: Highly Prized
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February theme: Opposites
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March theme: Spilling Over
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April theme: Branching Out - Out on a Limb
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May theme: Can't Resist This
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June theme: Pathways
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July theme: Element
August theme: Everyday Objects
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September theme: Unfurl
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October theme: View
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November theme: Imaginary Animals
December theme: Trashed, Ruined and Decay
US Civil War Reading Challenge 2011
Goal - 3-5 books. Completed 5/23/2011.
1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - finished 1/27/2011
2. March by Geraldine Brooks - finished 2/6/2011
3. All Other Nights by Dara Horn - finished 5/23/2011
4. The March by E.L. Doctorow - finished 7/18/2011 (audio book)
5. Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles - finished 8/5/2011
6. The Black Flower by Howard Bahr - finished 9/4/2011
7. Shadow of a Quarter Moon by Eileen Clymer Schwab - finished 1/1/2012
Link to Reading List
New Author Challenge 2011
Goal - 15 books. Completed 11/05/2011.
1. The Help by Kathryn Stockett - finished 1/4/2011
2. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards - finished 2/15/2011
3. Coventry by Helen Humphreys - finished 2/20/2011
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon - finished 3/10/2011
5. The Fiction Class by Susan Breen - finished 3/27/2011
6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - finished 5/8/2011
7. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - finished 7/2/2011
8. The March by E.L. Doctorow - finished 7/18/2011 (audio book)
9. Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles - finished 8/5/2011
10. Letter to My Daughter by George Bishop - finished 9/7/2011
11. Two Rivers by T. Greenwood - finished 9/21/2011
12. Buffalo Land by William D. Berry - finished 9/22/2011
13. Shipping News by Annie Proulx -finished 10/20/2011
14.Watercolor Fast and Loose by Ron Ranson - finished 10/22/2011
15.Dinner at Antoine's by Frances Parkinson Keyes - finished 11/05/2011
16. Very New Orleans by Diana Hollingsworth Gessler - finished 11/11/2011
17. Keeping a Watercolor Sketchbook by Brenda Swenson - finished 11/12/2011
18. Raw Art Journaling by Quinn McDonald - finished 11/22/2011
19. Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie by Lauren Redniss - finished 12/07/2011
Off the Shelf Reading Challenge 2011
Goal - 5 books. Completed 3/6/2011.
1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - finished 1/27/2011
2. March by Geraldine Brooks - finished 2/6/2011
3. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards - finished 2/15/2011
4. Coventry by Helen Humphreys - finished 2/20/2011
5. The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton - finished 3/6/2011
6. Abundance - A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund - finished 4/24/2011
7. Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones - finished 5/28/2011
8. 1984 by George Orwell - finished 7/19/2011
9. Keeping a Watercolor Sketchbook by Brenda Swenson - finished 11/12/2011
2nds Challenge 2011
Goal - 3 books. Completed 4/24/2011.
1. The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton - finished 3/6/2011
2. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster - finished 4/5/2011
3. Abundance - A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund - finished 4/24/2011
I Want More Book Challenge 2011
Goal - 2-4 books. Completed 3/19/2011.
1. March by Geraldine Brooks - finished 2/6/2011
2. Day After Night by Anita Diamant - finished 3/19/2011
3. All Other Nights by Dara Horn - finished 5/23/2011
4. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - finished 6/10/2011
New Author Challenge 2010
Challenge Website.
Goal - 15 books. Completed 9/7/2010.
1. The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent - finished 2/3/2010
2. Waiting by Ha Jin - finished 2/17/2010
3. In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien - finished 2/24/2010
4. Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin - finished 3/7/2010
5. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan - finished 3/18/2010
6. Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors - finished 4/5/2010
7. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay - finished 4/11/2010
8. The Unwanted by Kien Nguyen - finished 5/5/2010
9. Queen of Camelot by Nancy McKenzie - finished 5/26/2010
10. The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff - finished 6/5/2010
11. Fatal Light by Richard Currey - finished 6/6/2010
12. In the Image by Dara Horn - finished 7/9/2010
13. Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott - finished 7/28/2010
14. Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann - finished 8/13/2010
15. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers - finished 9/7/2010
16. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley - finished 9/20/2010
17. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi - finished 9/22/2010
18. A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton - finished 10/12/2010
19. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford - finished 10/25/2010
20. A Life in Hand - Creating the Illuminated Journal by Hannah Hinchman - finished 11/12/2010
21. Daisy Miller by Henry James - finished 11/27/2010
22. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin - finished 12/4/2010
Vietnam War Reading Challenge - 2010
Challenge Website.
Goal - 5 books. Completed 8/13/2010.
1. In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien - finished 2/24/2010
2. The Unwanted by Kien Nguyen - finished 5/5/2010
3. Fatal Light by Richard Currey - finished 6/6/2010
4. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien - finished 7/15/2010
5. Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann - finished 8/13/2010
6. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien - finished 11/25/2010
7. Letter to My Daughter by George Bishop - finished 9/7/2011
Link to Reading List
WWII Reading Challenge - 2009
Challenge Website.
Goal - 5 books. Completed 7/26/2009.
1. A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell - finished 2/1/2009
2. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson - finished 3/17/2009
3. The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan - finished 4/5/2009
4. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - finished 4/15/2009
5. Agent Zigzag by Ben MacIntyre - finished 7/26/2009
6. Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian - finished 9/17/2009
7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows - finished 12/5/2009
8. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut - finished 12/13/2009
9. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne - finished 12/25/2009
10. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson - finished 1/14/2010
11. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay - finished 4/11/2010
12. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford - finished 10/25/2010
13. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - finished 11/10/2010
14. Coventry by Helen Humphreys - finished 2/20/2011
15. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake - finished 5/20/2012
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