Bookfest, year 3
Well here we are again, preparing to embark on our third year of Bookfest. The contrinbuting members have been selected and confirmed and selections made. This year Bookfest welcomes contributing member, Mirlandra, which makes for a grand total of 8 members, each with 3 selections.
The list for 2008 is as follows (for those of you who might wish to plan ahead to read along):
JANUARY
1. Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis (Sky)
2. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe (calon lan)
FEBRUARY
1. Holes, by Louis Sachar (Rose)
2. Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger (QOC)
MARCH
1. Safely Home, by Randy Alcorn (Carrie)
2. The Bookseller of Kabul, by Asne Seierstad (Ani)
APRIL
1. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, by Stephen Greenblatt (Mirlandra)
2. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco (Alaina)
MAY
1. Fountain and Tomb, by Bauib Mahfouz (calon lan)
2. Race for the Park Street Treasure, by Sigmund Brouwer (Rose)
JUNE
1. Life Among the Savages, by Shirley Jackson (QOC)
2. Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (Carrie)
JULY
1. A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle (Ani)
2. Cordelia Underwood, by Van Reid (Sky)
AUGUST
1. Feint of Art, by Hailey Lind (Alaina)
2. Redeeming Love, by Francine Rivers (Mirlandra)
SEPTEMBER
1. The Decline and Fall of Practically Everbody, by Will Cuppy (Rose)
2. An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro (calon lan)
OCTOBER
1. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, by Louise Murphy (Carrie)
2. Comstock Lode, by Louis Lamour (Sky)
NOVEMBER
1. Leepike Ridge, by N.D. Wilson (Alaina)
2. Middlemarch, by George Eliot (Mirlandra)
DECEMBER
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khalid Hosseini (Ani)
2. The Chosen, by Chaim Potok (QOC)