2008 Challenges

Housekeeping post... 

These are the challenges I participated in in 2008:

1% Well-Read Challenge - done

10 out of 100 out of 1001 - done

100+ Reading Challenge

342,745 Ways to Herd Cats - done

888 Challenge

A-Z Challenge - done

Bang Bang Book Challenge

Banned Books Challenge - done

Book Awards II

Book to Movie Challenge - done

Chick Lit Challenge - done

Chunkster Challenge - done

Classics Challenge - done

Decades '08 Challenge - done

Eponymous Challenge - done

Genre Challenge

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge - done

Initials Reading Challenge - done

Japanese Literature 2

Lit Flicks Challenge - done

Man Booker Challenge - done

Mythopoeic Challenge - done

Naming Conventions

New Classics Challenge

Non-Fiction Five Challenge - done

Novella Challenge - done

Numbers Challenge - done

Once Upon a Time II - done

Orbis Terrarum Challenge - done

R.I.P. III - done

Seconds 2008 - done

Southern Reading Challenge - done

Spring Reading Challenge - done

Title Master Reading Challenge - done

Unread Authors

What an animal!

YA Romance Challenge

Jewish Literature Challenge

Callista is hosting the second Jewish Literature Challenge - it runs from 21 December 2008 until 27 April 2009 and requires us to read at least 4 books by Jewish authors or about Judaism.

I have tons of ideas, which are listed below - the list might change though!

Completed: ALL 4/4 as of 22 April 2009

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Night by Elie Wiesel
Maus I and II
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
The Story of God by Robert Winston
Nothing's Sacred by Lewis Black
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Lost in Translation Reading Challenge

Frances of NonSuch Book is hosting the Lost in Translation challenge - a year long challenge to read at least 6 books in translation. Visit the challenge post for more info.

I have so many of these on my list that I think I'll be able to make it no problem! My possible books are listed below.

Completed: ALL 6/6 as of 28 February 2009 (view my wrap-up post here)

The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Stieg Larsson (Swedish)
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (German)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Russian)
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shibiku (Japanese)
Out by Natsuo Kirino (translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Spanish)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Spanish)
The Witch of Portobello by Paolo Coelho (translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (translated from the French by Mattias Ripa and Blake Ferris)
Karlson on the Roof by Astrid Lindgren (translated from Swedish)
Aesop's Fables by Aesop (translated from the Greek)
Night by Elie Wiesel (translated from the French by Stella Rodway)