Rivercassini's SIY (Set It Yourself) Reading Challenge

Participant	Goal(s)	Progress
Nu-Knees	75+ Classic pages per week (target for September 30th: p. 330+)	Finished: North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell; Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope; Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë; Total: July: 4 of 4 weeks; August: 5 of 5 weeks; September: 4 of 4 Current Book: The Golden Bowl by Henry James @page 336 of 464 (reported September 29th)
mrsgaskell	7 classic books on 1001 List & TBR (The Grapes of Wrath; Uncle Silas; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Mrs. Dalloway; Castle Rackrent; Our Mutual Friend; The Forsyte Saga	Finished: The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote; Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens; Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth Total: 7 of 7 (reported September 22nd)
dryad23	10 books, 5 of which are on 1001 List (The Picture of Dorian Gray; King Rat; Life of Pi; Flush; Brave New World; Girl With A Pearl Earring; Dracula; Shaman's Crossing; Never Let Me Go; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)	Finished: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (7/5/07); King Rat - China Mieville; Life of Pi - Yann Martel; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling; Flush - Virginia Woolf; Brave New World - Aldous Huxley; Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier; Dracula by Bram Stoker; Shaman's Crossing; Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Total: 1001: 5 of 5; Other: 5 of 5 (reported September 9th)
istop4books	3 months- 12 weeks- 12 books • 3 books for bookclub (Salem Falls; Water for Elephants; Abundance) • 2 Shakespeare Read-a-Longs • 2 books from bookrings (Life and Times of Michael K; 1 other) • 5 books from my TBR including one classic	Finished: The Life and Times of Michael K (7/8/07); Leeway Cottage - Beth Gutcheon; A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini; Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen; Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck; The Trouble with Islam Today - Irshad Manji; Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver; The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins; Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult; Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare; Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund; Othello - William Shakespeare Total: book club: 3 of 3; Shakespeare readalongs: 2 of 2; bookrings: 2 of 2; TBR: 5 of 5 (reported September 23rd)
bluecat07	18 books in 12 weeks, 6 of them must be TBRs registered by me	Finished: The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides (7/4/07); Love your Life! - Werner and Marion Küstenmacher (7/10/07); Der träumende Delphin - Sergio Bambaren (7/11/07); Rund um den Tee - Curt Maronde (7/14/07); So many books, so little time - Sara Nelson (7/15/07); 24 Hours - Greg Iles; Honigfalle - Thea Wolff; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling; Pizza zum Frühstück - Suzy Becker; Das Mädchen im roten Mantel - Roma Ligocka; Tel Aviv liegt am Meer - Raya Harnik; Männer zappen und Frauen wollen immer reden - Allan Pease, Barbara Pease; So viele Bücher - Gabriel Zaid; Der Kronprinz von Mandelstein - Siegfried van den Bergh; Kaddish for a Child not born - Imre Kertész; How Reading Changed My Life - Anna Quindlen; Pompeji - Robert Harris; In a Place of Danger - Paula Fox Total: TBR: 6 of 6; Other: 12 of 12 (reported September 16th)
likestoreadinFL	• 4 books a month • finally finish As I Lay Dying	Finished: The History of the World in 6 Glasses; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; Blink; Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know- And Doesn't; As I Lay Dying; The Bookseller of Kabul; Ghengis Khan and The Making of the Modern World; The Memory Keeper's Daughter; Wise Blood; Veil of Roses; The Book Thief; Memoirs of a Geisha; The United States of Wal-Mart Total: July: 4 of 4; August: 4 of 4; September: 4 of 4; As I Lay Dying (reported September 14th)
MollyGrue	• The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin by 15/8 • Mars series - Edgar Rice Burroughs (12 books) by 30/9	Finished: The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin; A Princess of Mars; The Gods of Mars; The Warlord of Mars; Thuvia, Maid of Mars; Chessmen of Mars; A Fighting Man of Mars; Swords of Mars Total: Darwin: 1 of 1; Mars series: 7 of 12 Current Book: (reported September 19th)
knitwit	• 6 books from other Bookcrossers • 3 plays for Shakespeare Readalong • finish The News About the News	Finished: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; The News About the News; Twelfth Night by Shakespeare; The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett; True History of the Kelly Gang; Steppenwolf; The Love of a Good Woman; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Total: Bookcrossers: 6 of 6; Book Club: 1 of 1; Shakespeare: 1 of 3 Current Book: (reported September 18th)
Buffheart	• finish The Great Gatsby • Great Expectations • finish Wasted • 3 BookCrossing books	(reported July 7th)
Ibis3	• finish Physica (6 chaps.) • De caelo (40 chaps.) • De generatione et corruptione (21 chaps.) for a total of 67 chapters of Aristotle	Finished: Physica Total: 29 of 67 chapters Current Book: De caelo @Book II, Chapter 12 (reported September 4th)
Gnoe	2 of the 5 remaining books on the shortlist for the Best Dutch Book to be finished by the end of the year (De ontdekking van de hemel - in August; and one of Het huis van de moskee; Max Havelaar; Publieke werken; Het Bureau)	Finished: De ontdekking van de hemel; Het Bureau - deel 1 Total: 2 of 2 (reported September 13th)
Katethegreyt	12 books from TBR list	(reported July 13th)
Rivercassini	9 books of which • 3 will be for study • 3 will be for pleasure • 3 will relate to William Hazlitt	Current Book: Hazlitt in Love by Jon Cook (reported July 14th)
QueenMrSarah	• finish To Kill a Mockingbird; The Crucible; Tropic of Capricorn; The Amateur Marriage; First to Die; Invisible Monsters; Chart Throb; The Clergyman's Daughter; The Rotters Club • War of the Worlds	(reported July 20th)