January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2011
Aim: Great Expectations (5-9 books)
Completed – Final Recap
1. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
2. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
3. The American Senator by Anthony Trollope
4. The Rector and The Doctor’s Family by Margaret Oliphant
5. The Warden by Anthony Trollope
January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2011
Aim: Scholar (12 books)
Final Recap (11 books read)
1. A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova (Russia)
2. The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori (Romania)
3. The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff (Russia)
4. Far to Go by Alison Pick (Czech Republic)
5. The Gardener’s Year by Karel Čapek (Czech Republic)
6. The Legends of Prague by František Langer (Czech Republic)
7. Skylark by Dezső Kosztolányi (Serbia)
8. Sunflower by Gyula Krúdy (Hungary)
9. How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulić (Assorted Countries)
10. Café Europa by Slavenka Drakulić (Assorted Countries)
11. Prague Tales by Jan Neruda (Czech Republic)
July 1st, 2010 – July 1st, 2011
Aim: To read and review 13 Canadian Books
Completed – Final Recap
1. Why We Act Like Canadians by Pierre Berton
2. Great Expectations: Twenty-Four True Stories About Childbirth editted by Dede Crane and Lisa Moore
3. Women of the Raj by Margaret MacMillan
4. The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
5. Player One by Douglas Coupland
6. Locavore by Sarah Elton
7. The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
8. Moving Pictures by Kathryn & Stuart Immonen
9. The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff
10. The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks by Stuart McLean
11. Far to Go by Alison Pick
12. Stephanie by Joan Austen-Leigh
13. The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery
That Eastern Europe Reading Challenge looks very promising. I wonder if I should do the same…