What’s on tap for August: Camilleri, Hurston, etc.

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I learned about this via Naida at the bookworm, who in turn learned about it from J. Kaye at J. Kaye’s Book Blog.

The basic idea is:

• to post a picture, or tell how and when these books got into your to-be-read pile, or give a mini-review of the books in progress.

For more details, visit the site.

Now for my photo, and a little bit about the books, in case, you the print is too small for you to read:

From top to bottom (not necessarily how I’ll choose them):

1. A Fable by William Faulkner for Book Awards II Reading Challenge and The Pulitzer Project
2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky for 1% Well-Read Challenge and Classics Challenge 2008
3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman for Book Awards II
4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens for 1% Well-Read and Classics challenges
5. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe for Orbis Terrarum Challenge
6. A Death in the Family by James Agee for The Pulitzer Project and Book Awards II
7. Middlemarch by George Eliot for 1% Well-Read and Classics challenges
8. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver for Herding Cats Challenge
9. The Wisdom Teachings of the Dalai Lama by the Dalai Lama with Matthew Bunson for Orbis Terrarum
10. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust for Orbis Terrarum Challenge
11. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston for 1% Well-Read and Southern Reading challenges
12. The Known World by Edward P. Jones for The Pulitzer Project and Book Awards II
13. The Prophet by Khalil Gibran for Orbis Terrarum
14. The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster for the 1% Well-Read
15. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho for Orbis Terrarum Challenge
16. The Giver by Lois Lowry for Book Awards II Challenge
17. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar for Book Awards II Challenge

All will count toward the 100+ Book Challenge, which may or may not happen at this point.

One of the first books that I will tackle, as soon as I finish Andrea Camilleri’s The Snack Thief (not pictured), will be the Zora Neale Hurston book, with the Southern Reading Challenge ending next Friday, Aug. 15. I originally had dropped this because of a couple of being influenced by a few negative reviews. However, I’ve been swayed by one of my favorite bloggers, Heather at Age 30: A Year of Books, and am still going to give it a shot.

Will I get to all 17? With tomes like Dostoevsky and Middlemarch amongst the group, I don’t think so. At this point, all I know for sure is the Hurston and Camilleri books. Beyond that, it’s all up in the air, although I’m leaning toward Kingsolver and Gaiman as good bets of books I will get to read here in the next month.

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