Chris at Stuff Dreams Are Made Of and Robin at A Fondness for Reading are hosting a very special challenge in honor of Dewey from The Hidden Side of A Leaf. Chris writes:
Dewey was such a prolific reader and her reviews were honest, intriguing, and beautifully written. What better way to celebrate her wonderful life than by having a year long challenge in her name!
The point is to go browsing through Dewey's archives (on her website) and read books she read. I'm choosing option 2, so to read 5 books that Dewey reviewed. Additionally, I want them to be books I only heard of through her, not books that I've been wanting to read anyway. I list some possibilities below.
Completed: ALL 5/5 as of 10 July 2009
After Dachau by Daniel Quinn
Body Drama by Nancy Amanda Redd
Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
The Ha-ha by Dave King
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Kings Are Already Here by Garret Freymann-Weyr
The Little Women bz Katharine Weber
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Others:
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
4 comments:
I have "After Dachau" and "Pesthouse" in my sights for this year, too. I'm looking forward to your thoughts on them!
Lezlie
great list!! Glad to have you aboard!
Lezlie - I've never heard of them, but Dewey's reviews intrigued me...
Chris - Thanks!
Thanks Chris!
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