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Today I am proud to announce that I have finalised one of my challenges. There will probably not be that many that I have managed to follow up thoroughly, so very proud of this achievement. The challenge is the Full House Reading Challenge 2017 hosted by Kathryn at Book Date . Here is the list Non fiction - Kapare och Pirater/Privateers and Pirates by Lars Ericson Wolke On TBR for 2+ years - The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears More than 500 pages - Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann Page Turner - Effie by Suzanne Fagence Cooper Middle Grade Book - Lisbeth by Ragnhild Hallén 2017 published - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman Published pre 2000 - Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (1995) UK/European author - The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry (Ireland) Back List book from fav. author - Eden Close by Anita Shreve Book from a list - Kim by Ridyard Kipling Award Winner - Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd Book about books - All Roads Lead to Austen - A Yearlong...

As of 8 December, 2016, I have finalised this challenge. I am quite happy about it. Partly, because most, if not all, of the books come from my TBR shelves. I did change one title, which is allowed, and that was 'Debut novel'. I just could not find any, or did not look hard enough. You never know. I changed it to a 'Nobel Prize Winner' instead. One has to take advantage of having read one of those winners. It does not happen every day, or even every year! Great challenge! Thank you to Kathryn at Book Date for hosting. Luckily, she is also hosting for 2017, and I have already signed up! Author you wish was known better - Alex Connor - The Other Rembrandt Published in 2016 - The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel Book from series you love - The Black Moon by Winston Graham Debut novel - change to Nobel Prize Winner - Nässlorna blomma (Flowering Nettle) by Harry Martinsson Thought Provoking book - The Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe Had lau...

This interesting challenge is hosted by Book Date  who have created a card à la Bingo, with five criteria in each direction, 25 in all. I will try to cover them all in my quest to lower my TBR shelves. Here is the card. So how have I done so far? Author you wish was known better - Alex Connor Published in 2016 - The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel Book from series you love - Debut novel - Thought Provoking book - The Sage of Waterloo by Leona Francombe Had laugh out loud moments - The Almost Nearly Perfect People - Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth Book club worthy - Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler Color word in title -  The Woman in White  by Wilkie Collins Authors' surname starts with same letter as yours - The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco You didn't want to put it down - The Other Rembrandt by Alex Connor Way out of comfort zone -  The Circle by Clive Eggers Family relationship word in ti...

This book is part of the challenge What’s in a Name hosted by Wormhole , the first entry being a country in the title. It is also part of the challenge Full House Reading Challenge 2016 hosted by Book Date , relating to a book published in 2016.  A couple of weeks ago I went to Passa Porta here in Brussels to meet up with Yann Martel . He was here to promote his new novel The High Mountains of Portugal. I wrote about the very interesting interview in an earlier post (see link under name).  I have now finished his new book. I was not overenthusiastic about his Life of Pi , even if I might see it differently now, after hearing him talk about his writing, his thoughts and his way of seeing the world. Maybe I would have read and interpreted his new book differently if I had not heard his ideas behind the stories. Nevertheless, I loved his new book. The novel is divided into three parts, taking place in 1904, 1939 and 1989. They are about three persons, in different...