Saturday, January 26, 2008

What's In a Name Challenge

These are the books I've chosen for now. I've been meaning to read these books for quite a while now, so this should push me into reading them. See here for details


A book with a colour in the title: Half a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -finished March 08 - see here
A book with an animal in its title: The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney
A book with a first name in its title: My Cousin Rachel, Daphne Du Maurier
A book with a first name in its title: Daniel Isn't Talking, Marti Leimbach - finished March 08 - see here
A book with a place in its title: Winter in Madrid, C J Sansom - finished Jan 08 - see here
A book with a weather event in its title: Snow, Orhan Pamuk
A book with a plant in its title: Gem Squash Tokoloshe, Rachel Zadok


Revised 28 March 2008

Chunkster Challenge


For details of the Challenge see here.

The books I initially chose are:

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack (584 pages)
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox (598 pages)
The Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower (575 pages)
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (529 pages)

Added Winter In Madrid, C J Sansom (530 pages) See here.

Revelation by C J Sansom (546 pages). See here

Revised 15 April 2008