Reading Challenges 2009 - Update

Orbis Terrarum Challenge - Completed
March - Dec 2009

My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar (Iraq)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (Ireland)
The Scent of Sake by Joyce Lebra (Japan)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie(Nigeria) ****.5
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra (Algeria)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Canada)
Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman (India)
Genghis Khan - Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden (England)
The No:1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Scotland)
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (Germany)
God grew tired of us by John Bul Dau (Sudan)
In the time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez ( Dominican Republic)


War Through the Generations Challenge : WWII 2009 - Completed

The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie barrows
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro **
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

New Author Challenge 2009 - Completed
25 New Authors

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ***
Dumbfounded by Matt Rothschild **.5
In the time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez ***
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman **
The Hours - Michael Cunningham **
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ****
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly ****
Boomtown - Chang's Fireworks factory by Nowen N Particular **
Climbing the stairs by Padma Venkatraman
Maya Running by Anjali Bannerjee **
My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar ***.5
The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne ****
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro ****
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje ****.5
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs ***
The Scent of Sake by Joyce Lebra **.5
The No:1 Ladies Detective Agency by Andrew McCall Smith ***.5
The Woman who would be Pharaoh by William Klein **.5
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink ***
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra **.5
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine de L'Engle **
Oscar Wilde & A Game called Murder by Gyles Brandreth ***
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows ****.5
Genghis Khan, Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden ***
God grew tired of us by John Bul Dau ***


The truth is I lost track of the books I read once I stopped writing reviews :(
Aaargh! How tragic can that be?
This is what happens when you have no one around to discuss the books and you tend to forget all about the story within minutes of reading it.

3 more books from the Ladies Detective Agency series
Knit Two by Kate Jacobs
Harry Potter 6 & 7 (one needs familar words between heavy books)
Trollbridge by Jane Yolen (it can never be boring)