1010 Challenge - Half Way

Wow!  Half way there, and we are still in March (OK, so I started in October...!).  I decided to change a category from Classics to Film, as I just kept avoiding the Classics, freaked out by the name I guess.  I am also trying to complete 2 other challenges at the same time, 52x 1001 books and 50x Olympic Countries, so I am trying to get as many books to fit these as possible.

Highlights: I would have to say The Midwich Cuckoos and The Siege of Krishnapur, two very different books, but both very good.  I am not a sci-fi fan, but I found The Midwich Cuckoos very exciting.


Group 1: 1001 Books 4/10
1. The Grass is Singing
2. The Successor  ** Olympic
3. Embers ** Olympic
4. The Plot Against America

Group 2: Spain and the Spanish speaking world 9/10
1. Paradise Travel 

2. Captain Alatriste 

3. Purity of Blood 

4. The Old Man and the Sea **1001 Book
5. The Scarlet Cloak 

6. The Return 

7. The Queen's Sorrow 

8. The Book of Murder 

9. Our house in the Last World
 

Group 3: British Writers 4/10

1. Sexing the Cherry  ** 1001 book
2. Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner ** 1001 book
3. The Book lovers' Appreciation Society 

4. Black Dogs  ** 1001 book

Group 4: Books not written in English 1/10

1. D. Maria II
 

Group 5: Travel 2/10

1. Attention. Deficit. Disorder

2. In the Heart of the Sea

Group 6: History 8/10
1. Castle Rackrent  **1001 Book
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society 

3. Very Interesting People Queen Victoria 

4. The Alienist 

5 The Lost Daughter of Happiness

6. The Lady Elizabeth
7. Mademoiselle Boleyn
8. The Concubine of Shanghai

Group 7: Myths and Legends 4/10

1. The Lusiads   **1001 Book

2. Politically Correct Holiday Stories
3. The Snow Cow

4. Stardust (this is the audiobook read by the author)

Group 8 - Made into Film 8/10

1. A Kestrel for a Knave **1001 Book
2. The Midwich Cuckoos **1001 Book
3. The Shining **1001 Book
4. Watchmen **1001 Book
5. Riddle of the Sands **1001 Book
6. The Piano Teacher **1001 Book
7. The Tin Drum **1001 Book
8. Brideshead Revisited **1001 Book

Group 9: Olympic Challenge 6/10
1. Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos 

2. Homo novus - valik hüperboole Estonia 

3. The Eye of the Leopard Sweden / Zambia 

4. This Body Guyana

5. Kisses in the Nederends Tonga
6. Being Here: Modern Short Stories from Southern Africa Swaziland, Botswana

Group 10: Asia 5/10
1. Sacred Games
2. Inheritance 

3. The Siege of Krishnapur ** 1001 Book 

4.  River Town 

5. Tale of a certain Orient ** Olympic