After the start of the challenge, please feel free to share how you’re doing with the challenge by leaving a comment below! We’d love to hear what books you’ve read, how you’re progressing (or struggling) through the challenge, and/or any other thing related to the challenge.
You don’t have to post after each book you finish, but you can leave us a link to your personal blog posts about the books you’ve finished.
Another option is that you can JOIN THE YAHOO! GROUP created for this challenge! You can share your challenge ups and downs with other participants there!
Thanks again for participating!
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July 1, 2008 at 5:43 pm
I finished “The Thirteenth Tale” by Diane Setterfield on June 16th, as it was for my face-to-face book group that month. I’m counting it, as per the “updated” rules.
July 6, 2008 at 8:49 pm
I finished four books this week from my list! And all of them lived up to their raves….For Whom the Bell Tolls…Sundays in America…My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead…The Age of Gold….
I spent several hours yesterday looking over lists of great books and my TBR. I ended up completely revising my list of books I want to read. This should be a very good list for me!
http://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2008/06/raved-about-book-list.html
July 11, 2008 at 6:00 am
Here is my first Book review for the Raved About Challenge.
*smiles*
Kim
http://pageafterpage-kim.blogspot.com/2008/07/book-book-thief-by-marcus-zusak-pages.html
August 8, 2008 at 1:00 am
I just finished The Thirteenth Tale and can’t believe that I waited so long to read it. It was just as good as everyone has raved!.
August 24, 2008 at 8:19 pm
As of August 24, 2008, I’ve read 4 out of my 73 books — “The Thirteenth Tale” / “Twilight” / “New Moon” / and “Eclipse” (can’t wait to read “Breaking Dawn”!).
September 6, 2008 at 6:35 pm
As of September 6, 2008:
Merina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian – 4 stars
Rebecca Wells: Little Altars Everywhere – 2 stars
Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees – 3 stars
Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie – just started
September 24, 2008 at 10:39 am
During the weekend, I read The Book Thief. Great book and also my first book for this challenge.
July 30, 2009 at 3:30 am
I’m not officially in this challenge, but I always keep a list of “to-read” books, a number of which are classics (or are recent but raved about). This year I have finally read The Color Purple, Kite Runner, and The God of Small Things, among others. I’m halfway through the most excellent Godel, Escher, Bach, as well. I would highly recommend Kite Runner and God of Small Things.