Thursday, August 7, 2008

Naming Conventions Challenge

THIS CHALLENGE IS COMPLETED AS OF 12/21/08!!!

**This was a fun challenge, choosing books around the letters of my name. I would like to do it again but use my middle or last name instead!**

OK, one more.

Naming Conventions Challenge--Beginning Sept. 1, 2008, pick and read 1-3 books a month based on the letters of your first name. You can choose by book title, author's first name, or author's last name--any or all. This challenge ends at different times for different people--depending up on the number of letters in your name, of course. Mine will conveniently end Dec. 31, 2008.

Tentative list: (this may be changed or added to)

Sept: L (Author/s: Lois Lowry(9/16/08), Lloyd Alexander (9/19/08). Title: Lisey's Story (9/9/08) --FINISHED!!!
Oct: I (Author/s: Washington Irving, Issac Asimov. Title: I Am Mordred) --FINISHED!!!
Nov: S (Author/s: John Steinbeck; Stephen King. Title: Sound and the Fury)--FINISHED!!
Dec: A (Author/s:
Margaret Atwood; Andre Norton. Title: Abarat
)--FINISHED!!

Here are the links to the books read for this challenge:


Holes by Lois Lowry
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Foundation by Issac Asimov
I Am Mordred by Nancy Springer
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Zero Stone by Andre Norton
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Abarat by Clive Barker

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