The 6th Canadian Book Challenge- January Round Up (Sticky Post— Scroll down for most recent post)
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2. Add a link to your review. (Please link to your specific review, not an entire webpage.)
3. Add your name and in parentheses the title of the book, such as John Mutford (Anne of Avonlea)
4. In the comment section below, tell me your grand total so far. (ex. This brings me up to 1/13)
Labels: 6th Canadian Book Challenge, 6th Roundup
posted by John Mutford | 1/31/2013
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60 comments
a rather belated #1
can't seem to find a search bar, so couldn't find the november linky to add that review - it's now in december's :)
I have a couple more to add, but not sure if i should continue on december's or january's or if you can email me the link to November, I'll add it there. Thanks & HapPy New Year!
i've just added my thirteenth book: writing home, edited by constance rooke.
ha! accidental rhyme.
I just finished number 9!
Just added my 10th...actually it's a set of 5 books all on one post. The Molly Stories - Marlene Reimer from Steinbach, MB.
Just reviewed book #12!
Just joined! So here is review 1/30.
2/30 "The Japan We Never Knew" by David Suzuki.
Hi John,
I am at 40/13.
Take care,
Irene
A Read Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradly; Read by Jayne Entwistle makes 14/13 for the challenge (and my first of the new year!)
BTW, I'm still tracking this challenge under my 2012 Challenges page. I'll plan on doing the 7th Canadian Book Challenge (I DO hope you're doing a 7th) on the 2013 Challenge page.
3/30 The Sacrifice
i've just added my fourteenth book: susan musgrave's things that keep and do not change.
And now for something completely different, Love and the Mess We're In. (No. 7)
I just added my 15th and 16th books.
Just added my first Canadian read of 2013. Now at 40/13 books.
Just reviewed #17 The Age of Hope by David Bergen. This is also the second of the Canada Reads books and I'm hoping to get to Away and February before the challenge starts.
I've just linked book #2
Added my review of Born Weird! Bringing me up to 8 books
i've just added my fifteenth book: hologram by p.k. page.
4/30 Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison.
Enjoying everyone's reviews!
#14 with Forgotten by Catherine McKenzie.
#11 added ~ Mark Buchanan's Holy Wild at goodreads..
#6 for me:
Rebel Heart by Moira Young
Here's number 28/13.
Now at 2 out of 13!
I have reached 5 out of 13
read and buried by Erika Chase makes 15/13 for me.
Added #15 - The Emperor of Paris by CS Richardson.
Silence (The Queen of the Dead, Bk 1) by Michelle Sagara makes 16/13 for me.
Dear Life brings me to 5 of 13, John.
i've just added my sixteenth review: stephen scobie's gospel.
5/30 Sheila Watson's The Double Hook
Added my review of The Gypsy King bringing me to 9 books! (I'm also posting my reviews at More Than Just Magic instead of Hooked on Books from now on)
Giraffe and Bird by Rebecca Bender and A Few Bites by Cybèle Young makes books 17 and 18.
That's Theodore Goodridge Roberts, the r was missing from Roberts in my link! published in 1912! This makes 5/13 for me!
I'm now at 29/13
Northwoods Nightmare is book 11/13. A quick easy read, part of the Trailsman Series.
John, Teena says you might throw me out for reading this crap, but please don't. This is my brains fast food which it craves every once in awhile!
Just added my 10th book - One Thousand Gifts
Posted books 41 and 42 today. Oddly enough both are Canada Reads finalists and both are my top picks to win (so far, 2 books left to read) but I'm rooting for February.
Added A Year of Lesser by David Bergen, now at 8/13.
Happy New Year!
Added #16 - The Age of Hope by David Bergen.
HI John, doing a bit of book keeping and found that I missed an earlier review:
#6 Highland Rebel by Judith James
and added another this month:
#7 The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor
With #7 i did a special post as I have been celebrating my 1000 post. it was a recap of some of my favourite First Nations authors posts.
6/30 Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
This month brings me to a total of 14.
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson is 12/13 for me.
Up to 30/13
7/30 Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) a play by Ann-Marie MacDonald
So good!
#8 is now up.
Eat Raw, Eat Well by chef Douglas McNish of Toronto.
\Now up to 31/13
I just finished #15.
As I like to read one book from each province and territory, and at least 13 from the North, here's my progress so far:
Northern Reads:
1. Renallta Arluk- Thoughts and Other Human Tendencies
2. Edith Iglauer- Denison's Ice Road
3. Mike Vlessides- The Ice Pilots
4. Tyler Heal- The Times Behind the Signs
5. Vicky Delany- Gold Mountain
6. Eric Wilson- The Inuk Mountie Adventure
7. Neil Christopher and Alan Neal- Ava and the Little Folk
8. Kathy Reichs- Bones are Forever
9. Michael Kusugak- Baseball Bats for Christmas
10. Fran Hurcomb- Old Town
Canada Wide:
Ontario
1. Victoria Dunn- Alice Hearts Welsh Zombies
2. Joseph Boyden- Through Black Spruce
3. Susanna Moodie- Roughing it in the Bush
4. Paul Glennon- Bookweird
5. Jeff Lemire- Sweet Tooth, Out of the Woods
6. Michelle Wan- Deadly Slipper
7. Malcolm Gladwell- Outliers
8. Cory Doctorow- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
9. Robert Munsch- Finding Christmas
10. Jane Urquhart- Away
Northwest Territories
11. Tyler Heal- Sign of the Times
12. Reneltta Arluk- Thoughts and Other Human Tendencies
13. Mike Vlessides - The Ice Pilots
14. Edith Iglauer- Denison's Ice Road
15. Kathy Reichs- Bones are Forever
16. Fran Hurcomb- Old Town
Newfoundland and Labrador
17. Greg Malone- You Better Watch Out
18. Sharon E. McKay- Charlie Wilcox
The Yukon
19. Vicky Delany- Gold Mountain
Quebec
20. Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon- The Pride of Baghdad
British Columbia
21. Douglas Coupland- Shampoo Planet
22. Keith Morgan- Ruta's Closet
23. Richard Wagamese- Indian Horse
Nunavut
24. Eric Wilson- the Inuk Mountie Adventure
25. Neil Christopher and Alan Neal- Ava and the Little Folk
26. Michael Kusugak- Baseball Bats for Christmas
Saskatchewan
27. Beth Goobie- Jason's Why
New Brunswick
28. Corey Redekop- Husk
PEI
29. David Helwig- Close to the Fire
Manitoba
30. Andrew Davidson- The Gargoyle
For my own personal goal I still have to read 3 more books from North of 60, and books from Alberta and Nova Scotia. Getting there!
38/30 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
ooops, that last comment should be #8/30.
An Ordinary Decent Criminal (monty Haaviko, Bk 1) by Michael Van Rooy makes 19/13 for me.
#14 for me!
Just posted my eighteenth book for the challenge which was Away by Jane Urquhart. By coincidence I see that John has also posted his review. Mine is not as damning as John's but I don't think it was Urquhart's best.
6/13 for me now!
Whirl Away was my 14th book reviewed.
Hi John,
I'm at 41 out of 13.
Talk to you soon,
Irene
#9/30 Mad Shadows by Marie-Claire Blais