Saturday, December 30, 2023

2023 Alphabet Challenge Finished

 Books I Read for the Alphabet Challenge this year


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Letters:

A: A Place in the World by Frances Mayes

B: The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan

C: The Choreography of Everyday Life by Annie-B Parson

D: Devolution of the Nude by Lynne McMahon

E: Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker

F: Fly Girl by Ann Hood

G:  Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

H:  Hooked by Sutton Foster

I:  The Impossible Country by Brian Hall

J:  Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

K: Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg

L:  Laughing Stock by Bennett Cerf

M: Main Street and Other Poems by Alfred Joyce Kilmar 

N: North to Ithaka by Eleni Gage

O:  Old Possum Book of Practical Cats by T.S Eliot

P: Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist

Q:  Queen of the Turtle Derby by Julia Reed

R:  Rain by Melissa Harrison

S: Surf Life by Gill Hutchison

T: Tango, Two-Step and LA Night by Eve Babitz

U:  Upstream by Mary Oliver

V:  Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey

W: Welcome Home by Lucia Berlin

X:  Xingu by Edith Wharton 

Y:  Yoga for People who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer

Z:  Zaire by Voltaire

2023 European Reading Challenge

 Books I read for this challenge 

List of them, no reviews 


1. Only in Spain by Nellie Bennett (Spain)

2. North to Ithaka by Eleni. N Gage (Greece)

3. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim (Italy)

4. The Impossible Country by Brian Hall ( Croatia)

5. The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan (Scotland)

6.  Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir (France)

7. The Pathseeker by Imre Kertesz ( Hungary)

8. The Club by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg ( England)


Host site : https://www.rosecityreader.com/2022/12/2023-european-reading-challenge-wrap-up.html

2023 Creativity Challenge Completed

 Finished the 2023 Creativity Challenge 


Books I read:

1. Tango, Two Step and the LA Night by Eve Babitz

2. Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

3. Winter Season by Toni Bentley

4. The Choreography of Everyday Life by Alice-B Pearson

5. Hooked by Sutton Foster

6. Only in Spain by Nellie Bennett

7. Dancers Among Us by Jordan Matter

8. Homebody by Joanna Gaines

9. The Creative Life by Julia Cameron

10. Photo Op by David Hume Kennerly 


Host site : https://jannghi.blogspot.com/2022/10/creativity-reading-challenge-2023.html 


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