Update on By the Decade Reading Challenge 2007

I'm starting a little late, but I thought that I would give it a go!
Completed titles are in blue italics
1860’s- “The Woman in White” Wilkie Collins
1870’s- “Return of the Native” Thomas Hardy
1880’s- “She” by H. Rider Haggard
1890’s- “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin
1900’s- “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad
1910’s- “O’Pioneers” by Willa Cather
1920’s- “The Beautiful and Damned” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1930’s- “Grapes of Wrath” by James Steinbeck
1940’s- “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers
1950’s- “Go Tell it on the Mountain” by James Baldwin
1960’s- “Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
1970’s- “The Hiding Place” by Corrie ten Boom
1980’s- “A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving
1990’s- “The Shipping News” by E. Annie Proulx
2000’s- “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel

Update on By the Decade Reading Challenge 2007

I'm starting a little late, but I thought that I would give it a go!

Completed titles are in blue italics

1860’s- “The Woman in White” Wilkie Collins

1870’s- “Return of the Native” Thomas Hardy

1880’s- “She” by H. Rider Haggard

1890’s- “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin

1900’s- “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad

1910’s- “O’Pioneers” by Willa Cather

1920’s- “The Beautiful and Damned” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1930’s- “Grapes of Wrath” by James Steinbeck

1940’s- “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers

1950’s- “Go Tell it on the Mountain” by James Baldwin

1960’s- “Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut

1970’s- “The Hiding Place” by Corrie ten Boom

1980’s- “A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving

1990’s- “The Shipping News” by E. Annie Proulx

2000’s- “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel

Decades Reading Challenge 2008

I participated in the Decades Reading Challenge 2007 but I started late so this time I am going to start alot earlier.

1990's-"The Deep End of the Ocean" by Jacquelyn Mitchard

1980's- "The Cider House Rules" by John Irving

1970's- "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

1960's- "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1950's- "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

1940's- "1984" by George Orwell

1930's- "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

1920's- "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

1910's- "Dubliners" by James Joyce

1900's- "Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1890's- "Tess of the Dubervilles" by Thomas Hardy

1880's- "King Solomon's Mines" by H. Rider Haggard

1870's- "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

1860's- Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

1850's- "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville

1840's- "Vanity Fair" by William Thackery

1830's- "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens

Reading Full Circle

I am really excited about this upcoming challenge! It took me awhile to link together 12 books, but I did it and I am really proud of my list. I am also glad that some of the books on my listare also Oprah's Book Club books. I have been working on reading her entire list for several years now. So here is my list: (Complete Rules here: http://thoughtsofjoyblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/just-for-fun.html )

River God by Wilbur Smith

Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson

Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage

Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

The Secret's of a Fire King by Kim Edwards

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

Dark Angels by Karleen Koen

Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz

November 2007

Books on CD:

"The Firefly Cloak" by Sherri Reynolds

"Saturday" by Ian McEwan

"Dead Witch Walking" by Kim Harrison

Books I've Read:

"The Awakening" Kate Chopin

"O'Pioneers" by Willa Cather

Movies of October 2007

Movies of October 2007

Evan Almighty-4/5
Knocked Up-4/5
Saw IV-4.5/5