Reading Our Own Height In Books: Introduction

[shanaqui]

Let's get things started!

Participants: shanaqui & iltaru

The Plan:
Read our own height (~5'4"/1.5m) each.
The Rules:
1. Floor to knee: must read new books, i.e. ones we haven't read before.
2. Knee to hip: anything goes.
3. Hip to shoulder: serious stuff, i.e. non-fiction, literature, poetry, plays. (iltaru's says "Sirius stuff" because she has a character called Sirius.)
4. Shoulder to top of head: unexpected stuff, i.e. stuff we wouldn't have thought to read otherwise. This one is going to be awkward for the two of us: we have long and varied careers in reading.
5a. iltaru can only reread a book if she hasn't read it in two years.
5b. shanaqui can only reread a book if she intends to do a new review.
6. The challenge ends 1st February 2010.
Picture:
Here.
We currently have only interim charts up: we will update with progress pictures in the future, and hopefully we will realise our dreams of nicely colourful charts.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

[shanaqui]

Progress post time! Not much, yet. Yet!

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Shoulder to top of head ("unexpected stuff"):
-Fingersmith, Sarah Waters.
Hip to shoulder ("serious stuff"):
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens.
Current picture:
N/a.

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[iltaru]

So I'm reading my own height in books, following this plan. I'm precisely 5'4", which is kind of handy for statistics. (Metric translation: 1.62~ metres). I also want to write reviews for them, so I need to catch up on writing them. I'll link to reviews here, but post them elsewhere.

So far the wall-chart reads

New (floor to knee):
The Demon's Lexicon, by Sarah Rees Brennan

Anything goes (knee to hip):
The Dragon Reborn, by Robert Jordan*
The Vintner's Luck, by Elizabeth Knox*

...and nothing for Sirius stuff (imaginatively named by shanaqui, because one of my protagonists is named Sirius, and that's also the name of my laptop) or Unexpected, yet.

Asterisks denote re-reads of books (I'm only allowed to count re-reads if it's over two years since I read the book). So between us, shanaqui and I have covered all four sections, so far. Go us!

Now I need to go find a slightly thicker 'New' book, because The Book of Enoch is going to add about a millimetre to my chart, but it's really wordy and hard to read.