12-26-2007
The Dark Side Challenge
I decided to create my own personal challenge, because at the moment, well since I discovered Stephenie Meyer's Series Twilight, I really want to read books about vampires, werewolves, and also witches. A few years ago, I was addicted to this genre, but as time passed I grew more open-minded in my readings, but at the moment, I'm kind of subject to nostalgia, so here is my Dark Side List :
- Blue Bloods : Masquerade - Melissa de la Cruz
- Peeps - Scott Westerfeld
- Eden City : Bienvenue en Enfer (French : Welcome to Hell) - N.M. Zimmermann
- The Gardella Vampire Chronicles : The Rest Falls Away - Colleen Gleason
- Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
- A Modern Faerie Tale : Tithe - Holly Black
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Bitten - Kelley Armstrong
- The Ballad of Kirin Widowmaker : Blood Magic - Matthew Cook
- I am Legend - Richard Matheson
- Par le sang du démon - Virginia Schilli (French)
- Season of the Witch - Natasha Mostert
If you want to join me in this challenge, feel welcome to leave a comment, with a link to your own list;o)
2008 TBR (To Be Read) Challenge
I've found out that a TBR Challenge was organised by MizBooks and decided that it would be a good way to cross some books in my TBR list, so here is my list for the 2008 TBR Challenge :
- Tideland - Mitch Cullin
- Stardust - Neil Gaiman
- A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
- The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson through Sweden - Selma Lagerlöf
- Laisse-moi te raconter...les chemins de la vie - Jorge Bucay (Let me tell you...the ways of life)
- Looking For Alaska - John Green
- Just in Case - Meg Rosoff
- Sixty Million Frenchmen can't be wrong - Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow
- Pobby and Dingan - Ben Rice
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint - Brady Udall
- The Merlin Conspiracy - Diana Wynne Jones
My Alternates are :
- Emma - Jane Austen
- The Poe Shadow - Matthew Pearl
- Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
- Castle in the Air - Diana Wynne Jones
- La Théorie des Nuages - Stéphane Audéguy (French)
- American Desert - Percival Everett
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
- Neuromancer - William Gibson
- Oniria - Patrick Sénécal
- A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
- Big Fish - Daniel Wallace
- The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
- A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
Well, you know what would be great? It's if I managed to read all the books in the official list, and all the alternates;o)
Firts in a Series Challenge
There is a big difference between the french and the english speaking blogosphere. French prefer Swaps, whereas english speakers prefer Challenges. For 2007, I was in for the ABC Challenge that consisted in choosing one author for each letter of the alphabet. I decided to travel around the world with books and I chose one country for each letter of the alphabet. Well I started the journey in Finland and I stayed there : only one book of my 2007 list is crossed;o)
And I discovered several small challenges, and said why not, I can at least try. So I chose The First in a Series Challenge, organised by Joy, because I am a serial reader. So here's my selection :
- Midnighters : The Secret Hour - Scott Westerfeld
- Septimus Heap : Magyk - Angie Sage
- Millenium : Les Hommes qui n'aimaient pas les femmes - Stieg Larsson (not translated in english yet : 'Men who didn't like women)
- Discworld : The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
- The Dark is Rising : Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper
- The Chronicles of Narnia : The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
- The Children of The Red King : Midnight for Charlie Bone - Jenny Nimmo
- Le Cycle des Dieux : Nous, les Dieux - Bernard Werber ( author of Empire of the Ants, but the God Series has not been translated in english yet)
- Thursday Next : The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
- The Spiderwick Chronicles : The Field Guide - Holly Black
- The Blue Rose Trilogy : Koko - Peter Straub
- The Mayfait Witches : The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
So here is my list, and I really hope that for 2008 I'll be serious to see the end this challenge and also the others;o)