Eden

Okaaay, haven't updated this in ages. Not linking to reviews this time: if you're interested, check the "reviews" tag here.

No picture this time, either, 'cause I'm lazy.

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Long time no post! I've been holding off on posting 'cause I was so very, very close to the end. Now I've made it. I've read my own height (and a tiny bit more). I already have my next challenge in mind -- and indeed, some books read for it, if I decide they count -- but first I need to formally finish this one.

iltaru is still working on hers, of course. If you want to keep following her progress, catch her on the comms.

If you didn't see the rules post, it is here. The comms are readheightetc and readheightetc.

Progress:
(* indicates a reread.)

Current picture.

wilderthan:
Floor to knee:
-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Capricorn Bracelet.
-Nicholas Stuart Gray, The Seventh Swan.
-Surgei Lukyanenko, The Night Watch.
Knee to hip:
-J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers.*
-J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King.*
-Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.
Hip to shoulder:
-Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy.
-Nina Bawden, Carrie's War.
-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield.
Shoulder to top of head:
-Rosemary Rowe, Murder in the Forum.
-Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club.
-Jeannette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry.

iltaru:
Knee to hip:
-Neil Gaiman, Stardust.*
-Diana Wynne Jones, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.*
-Jingo, Terry Pratchett.*
-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber.
-Garth Nix, Sabriel.*
-Garth Nix, Lirael.*
-Kazuya Minekura, Saiyuki vol. 1.*
-Kazuya Minekura, Saiyuki vol. 2.*

If you didn't see the rules post, it is here. The comms are readheightetc and readheightetc.

Progress:
(* indicates a reread.)

No current picture!

wilderthan:
Floor to knee:
-Ursula Le Guin, Powers.
Knee to hip:
-J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit.*
Hip to shoulder:
-Ursula Le Guin, Cheek By Jowl.

iltaru:
N/a.

If you didn't see the rules post, it is here. The comms are readheightetc and readheightetc.

Super pathetic, this week! But it's okay: I have a plan.

Progress:
(* indicates a reread.)

Current picture.

wilderthan:
Hip to shoulder:
-George Orwell, Animal Farm.
-Ursula Le Guin, Sixty Odd.

iltaru:
Hip to shoulder:
-H G Wells, The Time Machine.

This was a pretty good week. I have three books in progress at the moment, too -- two for "serious stuff", and one for "anything goes".

If you didn't see the rules post, it is here. The comms are readheightetc and readheightetc.

Progress:
(* indicates a reread.)

Current picture.

wilderthan:
Floor to knee:
-Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.
-Alan Garner, The Moon of Gomrath.
-Janet Aylmer, Darcy's Story.
Hip to shoulder:
-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
-John Fairfax & John Moat, The Way To Write.


iltaru:
Floor to knee:
-Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors.
-Sanami Matoh, Fake Volume III.
-Sanami Matoh, Fake Volume IV.
-Sanami Matoh, Fake Volume V.
-Sanami Matoh, Fake Volume VI.
-Sanami Matoh, Fake Volume VII.
Hip to shoulder:
Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet.
Shoulder to top of head:
-Sanami Matoh, Fake Volume I.
-Sanami Matoh, Fake Volume II.

Progress post time!

If you didn't see the rules post, it is here. The comms are readheightetc and readheightetc.

Progress:
(* indicates a reread.)

Current picture.

wilderthan:
Floor to knee:
-Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns.
-Stephen Lawhead, Byzantium.
Hip to shoulder:
-Barry Hines, A Kestrel for a Knave.
Shoulder to top of head:
-Stephanie Meyer, Twilight.

iltaru:
Knee to hip:
-Terry Pratchett, Night Watch.*
Hip to shoulder:
-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus.
Shoulder to top of head:
-Terry McLaughlin, Millionaire Cowboy Seeks Wife.

Progress post time!

If you didn't see the rules post, it is here. The comms are readheightetc and readheightetc.

Progress:
(* indicates a reread.)

Current picture.

wilderthan:
Floor to knee:
-The Vintner's Luck, Elizabeth Knox.
-Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters.
-The Lollipop Shoes, Joanne Harris.
Knee to hip:
-The Farthest Shore, Ursula Le Guin.*
-Tehanu, Ursula Le Guin.*
-Tales from Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin.*
-The Other Wind, Ursula Le Guin.*
Shoulder to top of head:
-China Mountain Zhang, Maureen F. McHugh.

iltaru:
-N/a.

I just moved in with my new flatmate, iltaru. If you're already on my shanaqui flist, then you have seen all the pictures and dorkery, and you have also already seen this. But this is an Official Rules Post.

The Plan:
Read our own height (~5'4"/1.5m) each.
The Rules:
1. Floor to knee: must read new books, i.e. ones we haven't read before.
2. Knee to hip: anything goes.
3. Hip to shoulder: serious stuff, i.e. non-fiction, literature, poetry, plays. (Joy's says "Sirius stuff" because she has a character called Sirius.)
4. Shoulder to top of head: unexpected stuff, i.e. stuff we wouldn't have thought to read otherwise. This one is going to be awkward for the two of us: we have long and varied careers in reading.
5a. Joy can only reread a book if she hasn't read it in two years.
5b. I can only reread a book if I intend to do a new review.
6. The challenge ends 1st February 2010.
Picture:
Here.
We currently have only interim charts up: I will update with progress pictures in the future, and hopefully we will realise our dreams of nicely colourful charts.

Progress:
(* indicates a reread.)

wilderthan:
Hip to shoulder:
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens.
Shoulder to top of head:
-Fingersmith, Sarah Waters.

iltaru:
Floor to knee:
-The Demon's Lexicon, Sarah Rees Brennan.
Knee to hip:
-The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan.*
-The Vintner's Luck, Elizabeth Knox.*

Note:
Soon I will be setting up a community on LiveJournal, and possibly a mirror on Dreamwidth, for unorthodox challenges. For example, reading height in books, knitting your weight in yarn, watching your height in DVDs, read around perimeter of room, etc. If you are interested, then let me know so I can poke you with a link sometime soon.
The comms have been created! readheightetc/readheightetc. It's not just reading your own height, either. Anything goes, like I said.