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We are soon to enter the fourth quarter of 2009. Time to get organized if I am to accomplish a couple of reading goals by the end of the year.
One of these goals is to complete the
Colorful Reading Challenge. So far, I have read five of the nine books I picked for the challenge. Those books are listed here, with links to my reviews:
RED:
Red Square by
Martin Cruz Smith (
review)
BLACK:
Black Cherry Blues by
James Lee Burke (
mini-review)
GOLD:
Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California by Dinkelspiel, Frances (
review)
GREEN:
Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom? by Vaclav Klaus (
review)
YELLOW:
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris (
review)
I have four left, but I am halfway through my
SILVER book,
The Silver Palate Cookbook by Julee Rosso.
I originally picked the following books for the remaining three colors:
BLUE:
My Blue Notebooks: The Intimate Journal of Paris's Most Beautiful and Notorious Courtesan by Liane de Pougy
WHITE:
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
BROWN:
Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosely
But I am going to make a couple of changes. For one thing, I am going to read
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham for my "
WHITE" book, because that one is languishing on my
guilt list. If I read it by the end of the year, I can accomplish two goals at once.
Also, I am switching one of my extra colors. Instead of "
BROWN" I am going to read a "
RUST" book. So, "bye bye" to
Bad Boy Brawly Brown, and "hello" to
American Rust, which has been on my
LibraryThing list even longer than the Andrew Jackson book. Another two-fer.
Thanks, again, to Rebecca at
Lost in Books for hosting this challenge.
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