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I\’m also signing up for the 2009 TBR Challenge! For this one, you pick twelve books to read before 12/27/09, with twelve \”alternates\” in case one of the first ones just doesn\’t work for you. Here\’s my first list:
Adventures of a Zoologist by Victor Scheffer
Clay Walls by Kim Ronyoung
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Dolphin Chronicles by Carol Howard
The Edge of Day by Laurie Lee
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My Orphans of the Wild by Rosemary Collett
A Paddling of Ducks by Dillon Ripley
Reindeer Moon by Elizabaeth Marshall Thomas
Sandy by Dayton O. Hyde
Say You\’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
Vet on the Wild Side by David Taylor
My alternate list:
Anya by Susan F. Schaeffer
The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon
Dust Bowl Diary by Ann Marie Low
An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
The Horse\’s Mouth by Joyce Cary
Ice Bound by Jerri Nielsen
No Room in the Ark by Alan Moorehead
Maggie-Now by Betty Smith
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Peacock Spring by Rumer Godden
Psycho Kitty by Pam Johnson-Bennett
And Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
The best thing about all this? My husband saw me making my 9 for \’09 list and he was intrigued by the categories. He decided to participate, too! He doesn\’t have a blog, but I\’ll post his list, and maybe he\’ll do guest review posts of his books here, as well.