2011 Challenges & Events

Challenges

Reading Like Rory – Books from the Rory Gilmore Reading List

1. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
3. Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
4. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
5. Bee Season – Myla Goldberg
6. Daisy Miller – Henry James
7. Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn
8. Emma – Jane Austen
9. Fatland – Greg Crister
10. Old School – Tobias Wolff
11. Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
12. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
14. The Nakesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
15. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

 

Foodie Reading Challenge

1. Announcement Post
2. Book 1 – Substituting Ingredients: The A to Z Kitchen Reference
3. Book 2 – Season to Taste by Molly Birnbaum 
4. Book 3 – Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard
5. Book 4 – French Women for All Seasons – Mireille Guiliano
6. Book 5 – Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual – Michael Pollan 
7. Book 6 – Maman’s Homesick Pie – Donia Bijan

 

 

Events

Agatha Christie Summer Celebration

1. Announcement Post
2. Book 1 – 4:50 from Paddington

 

Paris in July – Kicks off July 1st

1. Announcement Post
2. Bonjour Paris – Where to learn French online 
3. Midnight in Paris – Movie Review
4. Book 1 – 13 Rue Therese by Elena Mauli Shapiro 
5. Book 2 – Fire in Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
6. Book 3 –Entre Nous: Finding Your Inner French Girl by Debra Ollivier
7. Book 4 –Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard 
8. Book 5 –French Impressions: The Adventures of an American Family by John Littel
9. Book 6 –No and Me by Delphine de Vigan

 

Southern Belle Reading Challenge – September 2011

1. Introduction Post
2. Book List Post
3. Book 1: My Summer of Southern Discomfort

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