Do the A-Z author challenge

Ah, I literally just put down Blessings by Anna Quindlen. Such a beautifully, touching book. The ending is a bit sad, but all the same, it’s wonderful!

I suppose next I shall begin to tackle The Fountainhead.

A. Austen, Jane: Pride & Prejudice (complete)
B. Blume, Judy: Then Again, Maybe I Won’t (complete)
C. Craig, Emily: Teasing Secrets from the Dead (complete)
D. Dubus III, Andre: House of Sand and Fog (complete)
E. Eliot, George: Middlemarch
F. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby (complete)
G. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies (complete)
H. Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
I. Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
J. Joyce, James: Ulysses
K. Kingsolver Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible (complete)
L. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird (complete)
M. Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind (complete)
N. Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
O. Orwell, George: 1984 (complete)
P. Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity’s Rainbow
Q. Quindlen, Ann: Blessings (complete)
R. Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead (in progress)
S: Sebold, Alice: The Lovely Bones (complete)
T. Tolkien, JRR: The Hobbit (complete)
U. Unger, Lisa: Beautiful Lies (complete)
V. Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five
W. Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
X. X, Malcom: Autobiography of Malcolm X
Y. Yeats, William Butler: The Celtic Twilight
Z. Zailckas, Koren: smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (complete)

I’m getting there. I’m struggling with finding some of them (my local library is kind of small), but I’ll figure something out…even if it means a trip to the bookstore. My most recent read was Lord of the Flies...which was incredibly disturbing, but a good book nonetheless.

A. Austen, Jane: Pride & Prejudice (complete)
B. Blume, Judy: Then Again, Maybe I Won’t (complete)
C. Craig, Emily: Teasing Secrets from the Dead (complete)
D. Dubus III, Andre: House of Sand and Fog (complete)
E. Eliot, George: Middlemarch
F. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby (complete)
G. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies (complete)
H. Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
I. Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
J. Joyce, James: Ulysses
K. Kingsolver Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible (complete)
L. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird (complete)
M. Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind (complete)
N. Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
O. Orwell, George: 1984 (complete)
P. Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity’s Rainbow
Q. Quindlen, Ann: Blessings
R. Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
S: Sebold, Alice: The Lovely Bones (complete)
T. Tolkien, JRR: The Hobbit (complete)
U. Unger, Lisa: Beautiful Lies (complete)
V. Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five
W. Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
X. X, Malcom: Autobiography of Malcolm X
Y. Yeats, William Butler: The Celtic Twilight
Z. Zailckas, Koren: smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (complete)

I’m getting there, slowly but surely. =] I just finished Gone with the Wind and next up will be whichever book on my list that the library has available. I’m looking for Middlemarch by George Eliot. If they don’t have it in (they didn’t last time), it’ll probably be Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

Finished The Great Gatsby in a matter of hours this afternoon & now I’m working on Gone With the Wind. I hope to have it finished by the end of the weekend, although that may be pushing it. It’s quite a long book!

A. Austen, Jane: Pride & Prejudice (complete)
B. Blume, Judy: Then Again, Maybe I Won’t (complete)
C. Craig, Emily: Teasing Secrets from the Dead (complete)
D. Dubus III, Andre: House of Sand and Fog (complete)
E. Eliot, George: Middlemarch
F. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby (complete)
G. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
H. Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
I. Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
J. Joyce, James: Ulysses
K. Kingsolver Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible (complete)
L. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird (complete)
M. Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind (in progress)
N. Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
O. Orwell, George: 1984 (complete)
P. Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity’s Rainbow
Q. Quindlen, Ann: Blessings
R. Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
S: Sebold, Alice: The Lovely Bones (complete)
T. Tolkien, JRR: The Hobbit (complete)
U. Unger, Lisa: Beautiful Lies (complete)
V. Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five
W. Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
X. X, Malcom: Autobiography of Malcolm X
Y. Yeats, William Butler: The Celtic Twilight
Z. Zailckas, Koren: smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (complete)

I’m getting there! Just finished House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III. Now it’s on to The Great Gatsby.

A. Austen, Jane: Pride & Prejudice (complete)
B. Blume, Judy: Then Again, Maybe I Won’t (complete)
C. Craig, Emily: Teasing Secrets from the Dead (complete)
D. Dubus III, Andre: House of Sand and Fog (complete)
E. Eliot, George: Middlemarch
F. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby (in progress)
G. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
H. Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
I. Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
J. Joyce, James: Ulysses
K. Kingsolver Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible (complete)
L. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird (complete)
M. Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind
N. Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
O. Orwell, George: 1984 (complete)
P. Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity’s Rainbow
Q. Quindlen, Ann: Blessings
R. Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
S: Sebold, Alice: The Lovely Bones (complete)
T. Tolkien, JRR: The Hobbit (complete)
U. Unger, Lisa: Beautiful Lies (complete)
V. Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five
W. Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
X. X, Malcom: Autobiography of Malcolm X
Y. Yeats, William Butler: The Celtic Twilight
Z. Zailckas, Koren: smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (complete)

Finished The Hobbit & Beautiful Lies.

Now it’s on to House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III.

Just finished 1984 by George Orwell. It was okay, but not my favorite by far.

Next up Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger.

I’m getting there. Today I finished Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. I’m trying to figure out how I never read this book before. I think everyone should grow up with a father like Atticus and the curiousity of Scout. We’d learn a lot more about life that way!

Next up George Orwell’s 1984.

Today I finished Emily Craig’s Teasing Secrets from the Dead. It truly was a really good book! That is if you can get past the graphic descriptions. I wouldn’t recommend it to the faint of heart, but otherwise, go for it. =]

I started Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird as well. I’m really looking forward to getting further into the plot and getting to know the characters. It’s going to be good, I can tell!

Updated List Progress
A. Austen, Jane: Pride & Prejudice (complete)
B. Blume, Judy: Then Again, Maybe I Won’t (complete)
C. Craig, Emily: Teasing Secrets from the Dead (complete)
D. Dubus III, Andre: House of Sand and Fog
E. Eliot, George: Middlemarch
F. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
G. Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
H. Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
I. Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
J. Joyce, James: Ulysses
K. Kingsolver Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible (complete)
L. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird (in progress)
M. Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind
N. Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
O. Orwell, George: 1984
P. Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity’s Rainbow
Q. Quindlen, Ann: Blessings
R. Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
S: Sebold, Alice: The Lovely Bones (complete)
T. Tolkien, JRR: The Hobbit
U. Unger, Lisa: Beautiful Lies
V. Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five
W. Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
X. X, Malcom: Autobiography of Malcolm X
Y. Yeats, William Butler: The Celtic Twilight
Z. Zailckas, Koren: smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (complete)

A – Austen, Jane: Pride & Prejudice (Complete)
B – Blume, Judy: Then Again, Maybe I Won’t (Complete)
C – Craig, Emily: Teasing Secrets from the Dead (In Progress)
D – Dubus III, Andre: House of Sand and Fog
E – Eliot, George: Middlemarch
F – Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
G – Golding, William: Lord of the Flies
H – Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
I – Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
J – Joyce, James: Ulysses
K – Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible (Complete)
L – Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
M – Mitchell, Margaret: Gone With the Wind
N – Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
O – Orwell, George: 1984
P – Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity’s Rainbow
Q – Quindlen, Ann: Blessings
R – Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
S – Sebold, Alice: The Lovely Bones (Complete)
T – Tolkien, JRR: The Hobbit (In Progress)
U – Unger, Lisa: Beautiful Lies
V – Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five
W – Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
X – ??? Any Suggestions?
Y – Yeats, William Butler: The Celtic Twilight
Z – Zailckas, Koren: smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (Complete)