Sunday 1 January 2012

2012 Challenges

Here's how I'm faring with the challenges I've signed up for this year :)

Murakami Challenge - January 1st, 2012 - December 31st, 2012
-Toru Level (read any three Haruki Murakami books)
1) Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words by Jay Rubin
2) The Sheep Man's Christmas by Haruki Murakami

Japanese Literature Challenge 6 - June 1st, 2012 - January 31st, 2013
- Read any work of Japanese literature
1) The Wild Geese by Ogai Mori
2) Modern Japanese Literature edited by Donald Keene
3) Flowers of Grass by Takehiko Fukunaga
4) The Gate by Natsume Soseki
5) When I Whistle by Shusaku Endo
6) Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami
7) Frozen Dreams by Wahei Tatematsu
8) Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
9) Ukigumo (Drifting Cloud) by Shimei Futabatei
10) Japan's First Modern Novel - Ukigumo by Marleigh Ryan
11) Some Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
12) Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words by Jay Rubin
13) The Sheep Man's Christmas by Haruki Murakami
14) Volcano by Shusaku Endo
15) The 210th Day by Natsume Soseki
16) Rivalry - A Geisha's Tale by Nagai Kafu 
17) The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata
18) The Briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 Longlist
- Read the fifteen books on the longlist as part of the Shadow Panel!
1) Jenseitsnovelle (Next World Novella) by Matthias Politycki
2) 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- Book One, Book Two & Book Three
- Aferthoughts: Part One, Part Two & Part Three
3) Please Look After Mother by Kyung-sook Shin
4) Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
5) From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón
6) The Prague Cemetry by Umberto Eco
7) Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad
8) Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz
9) Blooms of Darkness by Aharon Appelfeld
10) Hate - A Romance by Tristan Garcia
11) Alice by Judith Hermann
12) Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas (Part One & Part Two)
13) The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg
14) Seven Houses in France by Bernardo Atxaga
15) New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani

Aussie Author Challenge - January 1st, 2012 - December 31st, 2012
- Dinky-Di Level (read twelve books by six different Australian writers) 

Australian Women Writers Challenge - January 1st, 2012 - December 31st, 2012
- Franklin-Fantastic Level (read and review ten books by female Australian writers)
1) Carpentaria by Alexis Wright***
2) Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany***
3) Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany***
4) Mr. Scobie's Riddle by Elizabeth Jolley***
5) Legacy by Larissa Behrendt***
6) The Promise of Iceland by Kári Gíslason
7) My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin***

*** - Eligible for both Aussie challenges