The Book Mine Set: To my faithful readers: Thank-you for your patience these past three years.

Thursday, April 21, 2016

To my faithful readers: Thank-you for your patience these past three years.

... and now back to our regularly scheduled program.

7 comments:

Front Deck Text said...: Congrats!; Thursday, 21 April, 2016
Kate said...: Congratulations!; Thursday, 21 April, 2016
gypsysmom said...: Congratulations. Very impressive.; Thursday, 21 April, 2016
raidergirl3 said...: Congratulations!; Friday, 22 April, 2016
John Mutford said...: Thank-you everyone!; Friday, 22 April, 2016
Teena in Toronto said...: Congrats!!!; Friday, 22 April, 2016
Barbara Bruederlin said...: Wonderful! Well done, my friend! When do we get to read your thesis and review it for our Canadian Book Challenge?; Sunday, 24 April, 2016

Canadian Book Challenge

The 10th Annual Canadian Book Challenge - The Standings so far...

THE ATWOODS (13+)

Buried in Print (18)
Raidergirl (15)
Kate (15)
Luanne (13)
Sharon (40)
Shonna (24)
Heather (17)
Bill (15)

Eric (33)
Pooker (15)
Pussreboots (24)
Teena (61)
RIEDEL Fascination (34)
John (35)
Nicola (20)
Irene (241)
Melwyk (130)

THE MONTGOMERYS (12)
Swordsman
Lisa

THE PENNYS (11)

THE BRADLEYS (10)

Mary R

THE ARMSTRONGS (9)

THE BARCLAYS (8)

THE MUNSCHS (7)

THE LEMIRES (6)
Jules

THE SHIELDS (5)

THE LAURENCES (4)
Darlene
Barb in BC

THE SAWYERS (3)

THE COUPLANDS (2)

THE HILLS (1)

Corey

Ittybittyturtlepiggy

Check out the results and fantastic book lists from the first nine Canadian Book Challenges:

1st Canadian Book Challenge
2nd Canadian Book Challenge
3rd Canadian Book Challenge
4th Canadian Book Challenge
5th Canadian Book Challenge
6th Canadian Book Challenge
7th Canadian Book Challenge
8th Canadian Book Challenge
9th Canadian Book Challenge

Glaring Omissions

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (International edition)
~~1. Harper Lee- To Kill A Mockingbird~~
~~2. Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice~~
~~3. Joseph Conrad- Heart of Darkness~~
~~4. Bill Bryson- A Short History of Nearly Everything~~
~~5. Joseph Heller- Catch 22~~
~~6. Vladimir Nabokov- Lolita~~
7. ~~Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude~~
~~8. J. R. R. Tolkien- The Hobbit~~
~~9. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- The Hound of The Baskervilles~~
~~10. Charles Dickens- A Tale of Two Cities~~
11. ~~Louisa May Alcott- Little Women~~
12. ~~Ian McEwan- Atonement~~
~~13. Douglas Adams- The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy~~
~~14. Don Delilo- White Noise~~
~~15. Carson McCullers- The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter~~
~~16. Richard Adams- Watership Down~~
~~17. Scott O'Dell- Island Of The Blue Dolphins~~
~~18. Salman Rushdie- The Satanic Verses~~
~~19. Madeleine L'Engle- A Wrinkle In Time~~
~~20. Katherine Patterson- Bridge To Terebithia~~

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Canadian edition)

1. Rohinton Mistry- A Fine Balance
2. Jane Urquhart- Stone Carvers
3. ~~Margaret Laurence- Stone Angel~~
~~4. Donna Morrissey- Kit's Law~~
~~5. Richard B. Wright- Clara Callan~~
6. Hugh McClennan- The Watch That Ends The Night
7. William Gibson- Neuromancer
~~8. W.P. Kinsella- Shoeless Joe~~
9. Ethel Wilson- Swamp Angel
10. ~~Wayson Choy- Jade Peony~~
11. Brian Moore- The Luck of Ginger Coffey
12. Marie-Claire Blais- A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
~~13. Michel Tremblay- The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant~~
~~14. Sheila Watson- The Double Hook~~
~~15. Stephen Leacock- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town~~
~~16. Joseph Boyden- Through Black Spruce~~
17. Kenneth Oppel- Silver Wing
~~18. Thompson Highway- The Rez Sisters~~
~~19. Susannah Moodie- Roughing it in the Bush~~
~~20. David Adams Richards- For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down~~

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Northern edition)

1. Yellowknife - Dennis St. John
~~2. Dennison's Ice Road- Edith Iglauer~~
3. ~~Gold Mountain- Vicki Delany~~
~~4. Bad Latitudes- Al Pope~~
~~5. Pale Indian- Robert Alexie~~
6. Uqalurait- John Bennett
7. ~~The Inuk Mountie Adventure- Eric Wilson~~
8. ~~Bloody Falls of the Coppermine- McKay Jenkins~~
~~9. The Wildfire Season- Andrew Pyper~~
~~10. Bones Are Forever- Kathy Reichs~~
~~11. Mountie in Mukluks- Patrick White~~
~~12. The Hudson's Bay Boy- John Seagrave~~
~~13. Midnight Sun- Lawrence Osgood~~
~~14. The Man Who Mapped the Arctic- Peter Steele~~
~~15. Nunaga- Duncan Pryde~~

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read(?) but haven't-- yet (Populist edition)
1. ~~Twilight- Stephenie Meyer~~
2. ~~Fifty Shades of Grey- E.L. James~~
3. ~~Confessions of a Shopaholic- Sophie Kinsella~~
~~4. the Sisters Brothers- Patrick deWitt~~
5. ~~The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo- Stiegg Larsson~~
~~6. The Gargoyle- Andrew Davidson~~
7. ~~Outlander- Gil Adamson~~
~~8. Flashforward- Robert J. Sawyer~~
9. ~~Fear the Worst- Linwood Barclay~~
10. ~~No One Here Gets Out Alive- Jerry Hopkins~~
11. A Fatal Grace- Louise Penny
~~12. Room- Emma Donoghue~~
13. Bitten- Kelley Armstrong
~~14. The Book of Awesome- Neil Pasricha~~
~~15. Outliers- Malcolm Gladwell~~
~~16. The Lightning Thief- Rick Riordan~~
~~17. Freakonomics- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner~~
~~18. Water For Elephants- Sara Gruen~~
~~19. Book Thief- Markus Zusak~~
~~20. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini~~

GLARING OMISSIONS! Books I should have read but haven't-- yet (Plays edition):
~~1. Ann-Marie MacDonald- Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)~~
2. Joseph Kesselring- Arsenic and Old Lace
3. Thorton Wilder- Our Town
~~4. Oscar Wilde- The Importance of Being Earnest~~
~~5. Tennessee Williams- A Streetcar Named Desire~~
~~6. Eugene O'Neill- The Iceman Cometh~~
7. Edward Albee- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
~~8. David Mamet- Glengarry Glen Ross~~
~~9. Tom Stoppard- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead~~
10. Neil Simon- Lost in Yonkers
11. Agatha Christie- The Mousetrap
12. ~~Moliere- Tartuffe~~
13. ~~George Ryga- The Ecstasy of Rita Joe~~
14. Daniel David Moses- Coyote City
15. ~~Sally Clark- Moo~~
16. ~~Anton Chekov- The Cherry Orchard~~
17. ~~Euripides- Medea~~
18. ~~Tony Kushner- Angels in America~~
19. ~~Lorraine Hansberry- A Raisin in the Sun~~
20. Bertolt Brecht- Galileo

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Thursday, April 21, 2016

To my faithful readers: Thank-you for your patience these past three years.

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