Thursday, December 31, 2009

LibraryThing Author Challenge 2009 Wrap up

January 1- December 31, 2009

Hosted by Dawn at She Is Too Fond of Books.

"Read and review five LibraryThing Authors' books."

Completed books are highlighted or linked to reviews:

Mudbound***** by Hillary Jordan
The Broken Book***+ by Susan Johnson
The Brightest Moon of the Century***+ by Christopher Meeks
Last Night in Montreal**** by Emily St. John Mandel
Belong to Me**** by Marisa de los Santos
The Story of Forgetting**** by Stefan Merrill Block
Into the Beautiful North**** by Luis Alberto Urrea
Conceit***** by Mary Novik
The Flamenco Academy**** by Sarah Bird
The Dante Club**** by Matthew Pearl
Await Your Reply**** by David Chaon

LT authors' books I hope to read in 2010:

31 Hours by Masha Hamilton
Apple by Penelope Holt
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Rocket Man by William Elliott Hazelgrove
Janeology by Karen Harrington
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Houston, We Have a Problema by Gwendolyn Zepeda
Fishing the Sloe-Black River by Colum McCann
Aberrations by Penelope Przekop
Dirty Little Angels by Chris Tusa

This was my second time doing this challenge and I enjoyed it very much. I found some highly recommendable reads among the LibraryThing authors. I read 12 books but fell down on reviewing, I still owe LT a couple. My health has been very spotty in the latter part of the year. But I'd love to do this challenge again. Thank you Dawn.

1 comment:

  1. Oh, Mudbound was a very good book. It was one of my Best Reads of 2008. Enjoy!

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