Ebba's 888

This challenge was too tempting to resist! I have chosen my eight categories, and will list my books in each category as I read them. I doubt very much that I will be able to read 64 (or even 56 if I cross list eight) in a year, but why not give it a try?

I 1001 Books
1. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Feb 2008)
2. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (April 2008)
3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (December 2008)
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (December 2008)
II Canadian Authors
1. King Leary by Paul Quarrington (Jan 2008)
2. Icefields by Thomas Wharton (May 2008)
3. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (August 2008)
4. The Garneau Block by Todd Babiak (November 2008)
5. From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant (November 2008)
6. Mercy among the children by David Adams Richard (December 2008)
7. The Outlander by Gil Adamson (December 2008)
III Swedish Authors (read in Swedish)
1. Den allvarsamma leken by Hjalmar Söderberg (March 2008)
2. Hennes mjukaste röst: roman by Bengt Ohlsson (June 2008)
3. Hummerfesten by Viveca Lärn (June 2008)
4. Mig äger ingen by Åsa Lindeborg (August 2008)
5. Mandelkärnan by Inger Alfven (September 2008)
6. Ur vulkanens mun by Helena von Zweigbergk (November 2008)
IV Non Fiction
1. The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama by Thomas Laird (March 2008)
2. The Translator A Tribesman's Memoir by Daoud Hari (June 2008)
3. When you are engulfed in flames by David Sedaris (August 2008)
4. A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong (October 2008)
V Unread Books I Own
1. Alentejo Blue by Monica Ali (Jan 2008)
2. Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy (July 2008)
3. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (October 2008)
VI Books from my Wish list
1. Be near me by Andrew O'Hagan (March 2008)
2. Kinesen by Henning Mankell (August 2008)
3. The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther (November 2008)
VII Award Winners
1. The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy - Booker (Jan 2008)
2. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell - Alex Award(May 2008)
3. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje - Trillium (August 2008)
4. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - Booker (October 2008)
5. Strandernas svall by Eyvind Johnson - Nobel (November 2008)
VIII Books in a Series
1. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Feb 2008)
2. Dragonfly in Amberby Diana Gabaldon (Apr 2008)
3. The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (August 2008)
4. Vargskinnet by Kerstin Ekman (October 2008)

King Leary is a book about a former hockey star who won the Stanley Cup in the year of 1919. I had read that this book would be full of laughs, but that was not the case for me. (2/5)

I have now been marked "dormant". I don't post messages after every book, I just make an addition to my "Master List".
I'd better change my strategy before I get kicked out ! :0)

It is now only two months left of 2008 and I am not even half way done with my 888 challenge ! I just saw a new group being started for 2009 - The 999 challenge ! I think I will join.....in January of 2009.

Hi Ebba:

Looks like you've read some great books. You do the same thing that I do - edit your master list. I really prefer to see everything together, just like you've got yours and I've got mine.

What I do to avoid 'dormancy' is to post a comment or two about what I'm reading every once in a while to keep my thread active.

I don't think I'm going to succeed at the 888 challenge either, but that's okay.

I'm in the 999 challenge and have already picked most of my books. I got quite a few via bookmooch and found lots more from my tbr piles.

See you around!