http://beanbagtales.blogspot.com/2010/05/post-151515.html

Here’s my last:
http://churchyear.blogspot.com/2010/05/book-15-of-15-rapture-ready-adventures.html

I loved this challenge. It’s encouraged me to go ahead and read all those books that look hard, because this has reminded me that hard often equals rewarding. My favorite would probably be a toss-up between “Carry On, Jeeves” and Aristotle’s “Ethics”, though I really enjoyed “Manalive” and “Rapture Ready!” and Wollenstonecraft’s “Vindication”. Least favorite was, sorry, Dillard. But at least I know she has other stuff that I do like.

11 off my TBR shelf, which makes me very happy. I loved seeing another book on the stairs everyday, waiting to go up and be shelved. I don’t even know how many have been added to the TBR list though. I know I’ll have a pile waiting on the hold shelf at the library when I go in next week.

Thanks for hosting this; it was great!

anne of green gables lucy m. montgomery
anne of avonlea lucy m. montgomery
anne of the island lucy m. montgomery
sense & sensibility jane austen
darklight leslie livingston
the weed that strings the hangman’s bag alan bradley
splendor falls rosemary clement moore
splendor anna godberson
the chocolate war robert cormier

I enjoyed all of my books even the silly one (splendor - gossip girls from the 1890s!) I recommend them all to anyone who has a need for a little escape. Except the Cormier. He’s pretty dark and sad but a great read nonetheless. Thanks again!

I LOVED that two of you read Carry On Jeeves independent of one another. I also liked hearing from a few others what I found, too: that there’s no way to tell a dud from a gem without reading it, sometimes.

I count 69 books read from those who’ve commented. Brava, everyone.

Book One: Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter’s Uncommon Year (Laura Brodie)

Book Two: An Abundance of Katherines (John Green)

Book Three: Rules of the Road

Book Four: The New Global Student (Maya Frost)

Book Five: Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes; an abridgement)

Book Six: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (Philip Pullman)

Book Seven: As You Like It (William Shakespeare)

Book Eight: I Am Not a Serial Killer

Book Nine: The Other Family (Joanna Trollope)

When I first signed on –

http://mentalmultivitamin.blogspot.com/2010/04/fifteen-books-fifteen-days-fifteen.html

– I said that seven books seemed like a good goal for me, so completing nine felt good, *very* good. I’ll have another link-back to your site tomorrow, BTW, because my reading life review post for April notes which books I completed during the challenge.

I liked your idea about a Baroque summer and may “cheat” a bit by getting a few pages a day in during May. We’ll see. Count me in, if you decide to host that challenge.

Best regards.

Melissa

15 of 15 … The Little Prince. And I carefully chose this one. I wanted a book i could read in a day that I had never read before. I wanted a book that mattered.

http://alwayschasingboys.blogspot.com/2010/05/to-fly-to-read.html

favorite: The Little Prince
least favorite: The Emperor’s Code
# of books off the TBR pile: 5
# of books added to the TBR pile: too many to count
something I learned: graphic novels may be good? I’ve never read one. I have one on hold at the library - on the Beat Generation. I’ll try.
next book: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
on deck:Henry V (graphic retelling for J., full text for me, movie for everyone)
next project: Ulysses (this summer)

Do you own Asterios? May I borrow it?

Lessons learned…take advantage of weekends to read ahead. Don’t pick books that require slow reading, even if they’re short. Read a lot of different formats.

Favorite that I read…Twelve Days in Persia, I think, maybe tied with Blankets. Least favorite: The Comfort of Strangers.

http://beanbagtales.blogspot.com/2010/05/book-15-village-of-stepanchikovo.html