ggchickapee




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  1. 1. read every Booker Prize winning novel
    7 entries . 68 cheers
    41 people
  2. 2. read the National Book Award winners
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    5 people
  3. 3. Read all pulitzer prize winning novels
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    84 people
  4. 4. read all the National Book Critics award winners
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    1 person
  5. 5. Read Modern Library's Top 100 Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century
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    5 people
  6. 6. finish my secret project
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    9 people
  7. 7. make one new recipe from each cookbook on my shelf
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    3 people
  8. 8. Catch up on my scrapbooking
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    82 people
  9. 9. organize recipes and compile "cookbook"
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    39 people
  10. 10. volunteer for a conservative organization on a regular basis
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    1 person
  11. 11. Read every book, or nearly every book, on the Enclyopaedia Britannica list of the Great Books of the Western World
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    5 people
  12. 12. Research my family tree
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  13. 13. Attend a church on a semi-regular basis
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  14. 14. Evolve discreetly into a 1950s domestic goddess
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  15. 15. Read "Don Quixote"
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    81 people
  16. 16. read Anna Karenina
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  17. 17. create a will and a living will
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  18. 18. finish the cross stitch Christmas stocking I started 8 years ago
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    1 person
  19. 19. Organize my 72 Hour Kit for Emergency Preparedness
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    36 people
  20. 20. watch all seasons of The Sopranos
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  21. 21. Read the Daily Telegraph's 1899 List of the Top 100 Novels of All Time
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    7 people
  22. 22. get braces
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    562 people
  23. 23. Read Radcliffe Publishing Course's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
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    12 people
  24. 24. Read books by all the winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature
    2 entries . 14 cheers
    7 people
  25. 25. improve my German
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    478 people
  26. 26. Read the Easton Press 100 greatest books ever written
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    13 people
  27. 27. Read Erica Jong's Top 100 Twentieth Century Novels by Women
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    3 people

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Recent entries
Read Modern Library's Top 100 Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century (read all 5 entries…)
Black Boy (American Hunger) 6 days ago

Richard Wright is famous for his novel, Native Son, which is a classic of American realism, made it to the Modern Library’s list of Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, and was the first Book of the Month Club title by an African-American author. His autobiography – at least part of it – is an acclaimed account of life in the Jim Crow South.

Only the first part of Richard Wright’s autobiography, Black Boy, was published contemporaneously with his finishing it in 1945. The second part, American Hunger, was not published until 1977.

Understandably. . . .

(Read the rest of the review on Rose City Reader.)



Read Radcliffe Publishing Course's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century (read all 8 entries…)
The Wind in the Willows 3 weeks ago

The Wind in the Willows is as daffy and charming as it must have seemed when it was first published in 1908. Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s novel follows the anthropomorphic adventures of several woodland creatures, primarily Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad.

They enjoy many pastimes, including “messing about in boats,” Christmas caroling, and driving motor cars. This last becomes Mr. Toad’s passion, landing him in all sorts of trouble and, eventually, a dungeon. The animals have many adventures along the river and in the Wild Wood, but they all love home best, where they like to cozy up in front of a fireplace and enjoy simple meals with friends.

Full review posted on Rose City Reader.



Read all pulitzer prize winning novels (read all 13 entries…)
Advise and Consent 3 weeks ago

Advise and Consent, Allen Drury’s 1959 Pulitzer winner, thoroughly covers the machinations of the Senate confirmation process as that august body deliberates the nomination of a controversial figure for the post of Secretary of State. Although long and sometimes exhausting, Drury’s landmark novel is a rewarding book for the patient reader.

At over 600 dense pages, this is not a quick read. The first 100 pages seem especially slow as the characters are introduced and the stage set. This behind-the-scenes look at the Senate may have been more interesting before 50 years of televised politics in general and C-SPAN in particular leached any tantalizing mystery out of Senate subcommittee hearings.

Once the story builds up steam, however, it powers right along. The candidate under consideration, peacenik Bob Leffingwell, has his avid supporters, including the somewhat Machiavellian President who nominated him. But he faces stiff opposition from those who think he will be unable to protect America on the brink of a nuclearized Cold War with an increasingly belligerent Soviet Union determined to send men to the moon to claim it as Soviet territory. While the details of the controversy seem anachronistic now, the underlying issue of diplomacy versus military might is as pertinent today as it was 50 years ago.

The rest of the review is posted on Rose City Reader.



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