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ARC Reading Challenge 2011

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on December 24, 2010
Posted in 2011 Challenges  | 34 Comments

January 1-December 31, 2011
I hope all of you ARC Readers will join me again in 2011 for the ARC Reading Challenge.  I welcome old and new participants.  I don’t know about you, but my ARC pile is way too big.  That is why I am making one big change to this challenge.  For 2011 you don’t have to list all of the ARCs that you have.  That’s right, no more “wall of shame.”  LOL!  Although you can list them if you want to.  

Note:  I use the term “ARC” loosely,any book a publisher or author gives you with the expectation that you review it, counts for this challenge.

The Levels
Level Bronze: .a. All of us who have or will have less than 12 ARCS must read all of the ARCS we have. Note, that if you have 11 ARC’s and then receive a 12th one you will be bumped up to catagory b.

b. All of us who have or will have 12 or more than 12 ARCS  must read and review at least 12.

Level Silver: Read 24 ARCS

Level Gold: Read 25 ARCS

Level Platinum: Read 30 or more ARCS

Rules:

  • To sign up, leave a direct link to your blog post about this challengePlease leave a comment as well.
  • You don’t have to make a list of which ARC’s you plan to read, but you can if you want.
  • If you choose a lower level, you can always change it to a higher level if you like.  However, you cannot go from a higher level back down to a lower level.

  • Crossovers with other challenges are allowed and Audio-books and ebooks are allowed as long as they are ARC’s.
  • Read the books and review them on your blog. If you don’t have a blog, you can post your review on sites like Powells, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. 
  • Please subscribe to my blog, as I will be doing a monthly post with MR LinkyPlease add your reviews for each month in MR Linky in the monthly post.  For your Name, please use this format Name: (Your Name, Book Title and Author’s Name) for example: (Teddy, Obsessive Reading by Helen Reader).  Please be sure to use the direct link to your review, not just to your blog.  Then please leave a comment. 
  •  HAVE FUN!

My Progress:

2.Threads West by Reid Lance Rosenthal
3.The Arrow Chest by Robert Parry
4. To Defy a King by Elizabth Chadwick
5.Messages From an Unknown Chinese Mother by Xinran
6. The Betrayal of Maggie Blair by Elizabeth Laird
7. Fresh and Fast Vegetarian: Recipes That Make a Meal by Marie Simmons
8.The Grammar Girl Devotional by Mignon Fogarty
9. Wither by Lauren DeStefano
10. Deadly: How to Catch an Invisible Killer by Julie Chibbaro
11. House Arrest by Ellen Meeropol
12. The Beauty Chorus by Kate Lord Brown
13. The Beautiful One Has Come by Suzanne Kamata
14.The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
15.Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey
16.Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick
17.Love At Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks

 

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Maibox Monday

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on December 21, 2010
Posted in Mail Box Mondays  | 7 Comments

MailBox Monday now has it’s very own blog, Mailbox Monday.  It is also on tour and is being hosted by Lady Q at Let Them Read Books in December.  


I just received one book:

Thanks to Brianne of Hachette Book Group for the ARC of this book.

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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on December 20, 2010
Posted in Short Story Read in 2010  | 11 Comments

First published in 1892 in the New England Magazine, The Yellow Wallpaper is said by many to be Charlotte Perkins Gilman best short story.  This is the first story I have read by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.  If her other shorts are only half as good as The Yellow Wallpaper, I want to read them all.

Narrated in the first person by an un-named woman, The Yellow Wallpaper delves into the woman’s post-partum depression.  Her husband, John takes her to a rented summer home, where she is kept in a roon with yellow wallpaper, that use to be a nursery.  Her husband/doctor prescribed total rest without any stimulation what so ever.  She is not even allowed to see her baby.
The woman thinks that some work, going outside, and meeting with friends would help her but her husband will not allow it.  So the woman goes about stimulating herself by staring at the ugly yellow wall paper for hours at a time.  She notices different patterns and shapes where the wallpaper has torn away from the wall and eventually she sees that there is a woman trapped in the wallpaper.
Total rest and no stimulation was the prescription for postpartum depression and depression for women back then. Both were viewed by men as “in the woman’s head” rather than an actual disease.  Luckily things have changed.  Now exercise other stimulating activities are seen as very beneficial.
This is a gem of a story.  It’s very deep and contemplative and explores the treatment of women.  Ms. Gilman had trouble getting anyone to publish it at first.  I would guess that it dug a little too deeply into woman’s issues.  Highly recommended.  You can read it here.

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If you reviewed this story as well, please leave a link and I will post it.  Also, if you have any other writing by Charlotte Perkins Gilman to recommend, please leave a comment.  Of course any and all comments are always welcome.

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