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The 2nd Canadian Book Challenge is well underway, and I am progressing well toward my goal — well, sort of. I’m doing well with the reading of books. I’m not doing so well with the reviewing, or with reading the books I originally set out to do. But, I am sure that John Mutford will be lenient (right, John?) as I am providing a comprehensive mid-challenge update here!

To begin with, here’s my original list of picks:

1. The Sacrifice, by Adele Wiseman
2. The Wars, by Timothy Findley
3. Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
4. Solomon Gursky was Here, by Mordecai Richler

Books! In July! I read ‘em! It was, in fact, a particularly excellent month in terms of my reading, especially as regards things I’d never read before (marked, as always, with an asterisk).

Here are the goods:

*V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore. My brothers had been bothering me to read this for a good while now. And so I read it, and enjoyed it. It’s dark and gritty and graphic; I thought that the premise/world was exceedingly interesting. I discussed V for Vendetta in a little more detail here.

Challenge update! I have now read two books from my list for the Daring Books Challenge, thusly:

Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry
Messenger, by Lois Lowry
Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry
The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, by Brothers Grimm
The Secret of the Old Clock, by Carolyn Keene
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
Challenge status: Incomplete.

Ooh, a reading challenge! The idea here is to read (at least) one hundred books in the period of one year. I’m game!

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You can also keep track of how I’m doing here. I’ve started writing down  all of the books I’ve read as of the beginning of this month — pre-March ‘08 books are listed as well, but only ones which have been mentioned on this blog. I don’t think I could reconstruct too much more than that.