30 Books to Movies Challenge

Timeline:
01 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2010

Goal: To read 30 books that have been adapted into movies, and watch said movies

Details:

• You don't have to select your books ahead of time. You may select books as you go. Even if you list them now, you can change the list if needed. Crossovers from other reading challenges count.

• If you decide to join this challenge be sure to create a post telling others. Also, please make sure you add a link back to this post so others can join in. You can join at any time!

• Non-bloggers may enter as well. If you have a blog, please post the review of BOTH the book and movie on your blog, detailing:

a) Your honest opinions of the book and movie
b) Which one did you enjoy more (book or movie?)
c) What do you think is so good about the book for it to have been made into a movie

Make sure you label the reviews with “30 Books To Movies” so it’ll be easier for me to link them.

• Series only count as one entry. For example, even though there are 7 Harry Potter books, altogether they only count as 1 of the 30 books because they belong to the same series.

• At the end of the challenge, I'll randomly pick 2 participants to receive some goodies. Note that participants are only eligible to win the goodies if they've posted all the reviews of the 30 books and movies on their blog.

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Friday Finds

What great books did you hear about/discover this past week (and add to your TBR lists)? Share with us your FRIDAY FINDS!

My Finds



* 10 Best Arthurian Legends EVER! // Margaret Simpson
* Night of the Living Veg // Philip Reeve
* First Lord's Fury // Jim Butcher
* Dark Side of Dawn // Kathryn Smith
* The Greek Gods
* Horrible Histories Slimy Stuarts
* The Revenge of the Shadow King //Derek Benz & J.S. Lewis

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Teaser Tuesday

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

The young goat-god Pan was shouting with joy. Later he said that it was his shout that made the Titans flee. That is where we get the word "panic"

~; The Greek Gods (Evslin, Evslin & Hoopes)

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1010 Category Challenge

The 1010 Challenge is a group challenge on LibraryThing (challenge link). The challenge is to read books from 10 categories in 2010. I am going to read 10 books in each category.

TimeLine:

January 1st, 2010 - December 31, 2010

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PW’s Best Books of 2009

PW Top 10

* Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey
* Await Your Reply: A Novel by Dan Chaon

* A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
* In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
* Big Machine by Victor LaValle
* The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
* Stitches by David Small
* Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
* Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
* The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

Fiction

* The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
* The Fate of Katherine Carr by Thomas H. Cook
* Spooner by Pete Dexter
* Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
* The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam
* Ravens by George Dawes Green
* Tinkers by Paul Harding
* The Believers by Zoë Heller
* The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
* How to Sell by Clancy Martin
* New World Monkeys by Nancy Mauro
* The Last War by Ana Menendez
* Nemesis by Jo Nesbø
* Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
* The Cry of the Sloth by Sam Savage
* Drood by Dan Simmons
* Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
* The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
* Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
* Once the Shore by Paul Yoon

Poetry

* Chronic by D.A. Powell
* Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker
* The Bitter Withy by Donald Revell
* The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy
* Upgraded to Serious by Heather McHugh

Mystery

* Bryant and May on the Loose by Christopher Fowler
* The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah
* The Dark Horseby Craig Johnson
* The Silent Hour by Michael Koryta
* Londongrad by Reggie Nadelson
* The Lord of Death by Eliot Pattison
* The Cloud Pavilionby Laura Joh Rowland

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

* The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
* Lovecraft Unbound edited by Ellen Datlow
* The Devil’s Alphabet by Daryl Gregory
* The City & the City by China Miéville
* Boneshaker by Cherie Priest

Mass Market

* Captive of Sin by Anna Campbell
* Soulless by Gail Carriger
* A Dark Love by Margaret Carroll
* Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
* Hunt at the Well of Eternity by Gabriel Hunt, as told to James Reasoner

Comics

* Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke and Richard Stark
* Driven by Lemons by Josh Cotter
* Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with art by Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna
* The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Emmanuel Guibert and Didier Lefèvre
* Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
* Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe by Bryan Lee O’Malley
* Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
* A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
* You’ll Never Know: A Good and Decent Man by Carol Tyler
* Pluto by Naoki Urasawa

Nonfiction

* Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater by Frank Bruni
* Land of the Lost Souls: My Life on the Streets by Cadillac Man
* Columbine by Dave Cullen
* Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich
* The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
* Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
* Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
* Food for Thought, Thought for Food edited by Richard Hamilton and Vincente Todolo
* Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
* The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
* The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
* True Compass: A Memoir by Edward M. Kennedy
* Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
* Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
* Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn
* Gabriel García Márquez by Gerald Martin
* Green Metropolis by David Owen
* Larry’s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant—and Save His Life by Daniel Asa Rose
* Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
* Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton
* Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965 by Sam Stephenson
* Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout
* Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 by Gordon S. Wood

Religion

* Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir by Susan E. Isaacs
* The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
* The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Our Pain by Scott Cairns
* Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
* The Future of Faith by Harvey Cox
* Have a Little Faith by Mitch Albom
* In Due Season: A Man’s Life by Paul Wilkes
* Judas: A Biography by Susan Gubar
* Muslims in America: A Short History by Edward E. Curtis IV
* Rashi by Elie Wiesel

Lifestyle

* Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy by Lidia Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali
* Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan
* Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller
* Child Care Today: Getting It Right for Everyone by Penelope Leach Gourmet Today by Ruth Reichl

Source: Publishers Weekly

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704595.html

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TV, Movie Tied-Ins Reads

I love reading the books that has it's own Movie or TV adaptation. So I figured I should start listing them out too.

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√ Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper

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Teaser Tuesday

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Pleskit's bodyguard is a tough guy. He packs a gun and I figure he knows all kinds of martial arts and stuff. I'm using him as the hero of a comic book I'm trying to write.

So I was surprised to hear him scream in terror.

On the other hand, I suppose I would have screamed, too, if I had picked up my coffee cup and it turned into a squirming lizard-thing in my hand.

~; The Attack of the Two-Inch Teacher (I Was a Sixth Grade Alien #2) (Bruce Coville)

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What are you Reading on Mondays

The books I have read in the past week:

1. Playing Games (Disney's Winnie the Pooh) by Mary Hogan
2. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Books I am currently reading:

• The Nanny Diaries By Emma Mclaughlin

Books I plan on reading this week:
Not sure... I have lots to choose from atm



What are YOU reading?

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Challenges in Progress

Timeline:
November 1, 2009 and ends November 2, 2010
My Post

Time Frame:
January 1, 2010- December 31, 2010
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Monthly Mixer Mele

Timeline:
November 1, 2009 and ends November 2, 2010

All you have to do is read a book that begins with a letter of each month or read a book that begins with the authors name (first or last name, doesn’t matter).

There are 74 letters so you will have to have 74 different books to complete the challenge. Books can however be used to complete other challenges.

You don’t have to do the months in any kind of order, just fill in books as you go along until you have each letter a book by it.

Challenge begins November 1, 2009 and ends November 2, 2010 so you have a whole year to complete! Lets break out them books and get busy!

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Once Upon a Time: 2010 Reading Challenge

Time Frame:
January 1, 2010- December 31, 2010

This challenge is quite simple..... read the fairy tales you grew up reading but from another view than Disney's version. There are so many great fairy tale books out there, that might take the same story we know but with an added twist.

These books can be Young Adult, Romance, Erotic, e-books, audio books.... your only limited by your own imagination.

I am going to make this an easy challenge to finish, and say the goal is to read at least 5 books, again if you want to go big or go home... read more!

The time frame for this challenge will be January 1, 2010- December 31, 2010. Plenty of time. Please do not start this challenge before the time, and don't use books you have already read.

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Booking through Thursday: Bad Books

Suggested by JM:

“Life is too short to read bad books.” I’d always heard that, but I still read books through until the end no matter how bad they were because I had this sense of obligation.

That is, until this week when I tried (really tried) to read a book that is utterly boring and unrealistic. I had to stop reading.

Do you read everything all the way through or do you feel life really is too short to read bad books?

I read bad books. tormently. I have the give it a try thing, just in case if it picks up after a few. But most of the time I just put it down and look for something else to read.

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WWW Wednesday

To play along, just answer the 3 questions below!

* What book(s) are you currently reading?
* What did you recently finish reading?
* What do you think you’ll read next?






* What book(s) are you currently reading?
I'm currently reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult. I must admit, I just finished watching the movie. I didn't really know what's the hype was about. but I know now.



* What did you recently finish reading?
I was supposed to be cataloging this but I ended up reading this earlier. Was very stressed out and ended up reading one of the Pooh books. I must admit it's a good light read.




* What do you think you’ll read next?
I probably be reading this one next.

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Teaser Tuesdays

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

There is Kate with hair and Kate all bald; one of Kate as a baby sitting on Jesse's lap; one of my mother holding each of them on teh edge of a pool. There are pictures of me, too, but not many. I go from infant to about ten years old in one fell swoop.

Maybe it's because I was the third child, and they were sick and tired of keeping a catalog of life. Maybe it's because they forgot.

~; My sister's keeper (Jodi Piccoult)

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Raved Books TBR

Actually this began as a challenge. But I thought, since my challenges are far more than I could handle, I say I just place the list in here. This list only consist of books that has been given really good publicity, given people keeps raving others to read them.

(This List will grow throughout the time)

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- Amulya Malladi - A Breath of Fresh Air
- Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
- Anna Godbersen - Splendor
- Ariana Franklin - Mistress of the Art of Death
- Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveller’s Wife

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- Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Bram Stoker - Dracula

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- Charlaine Harris - Southern Vampire series
- Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
- Cornelia Funke - The Inkworld Trilogy (Inkheart; Inkspell; Inkdeath)

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- Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love
- Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank
- Ernest J. Gaines - A Lesson Before Dying

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- Frank Herbert - Dune

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- Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

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- Jane Austen - (Persuasion; Pride & Prejudice; Manfielf Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey, Sense & Sensibility)
- Jay Kopelman, Roth - From Baghdad, with Love
- John Grogan - Marley and Me
- John Irving -A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Jonathan Anthony Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy (The Amulet of Samarkand; The Golem's Eye ; Ptolemy's Gate )

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- Neil Gaiman - American Stand; StarDust

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- Richard Paul Evans - A Perfect Day
- Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson & The Olympian Series (The Lightning Thief; The Sea of Monsters; The Titan's Curse; The Battle of the Labyrinth; The Last Olympian)

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- Scott Westerfeld - Uglies Series (Uglies; Pretties; Specials; Extras )
- Stephen King - The Stand
- Sue Monk Kidd - The Secret Life of Bees
- Susan Beth Pfeffer - Life As We Knew It
- Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
- Stephenie Meyer - Twilight; New Moon; Eclipse; Breaking Dawn

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Yes I haven't read some of these but what can I say, they are still in my list.

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