Reading Our Heights in Books, and Other Stories

Reading My Own Height Again: Progress (shanaqui)

2010-02-06T14:15:21Z

Plenty of progress to report this time, too, mostly in the "new books" section, which is now completely full. I need to reread more!

New Books
-Sam Bourne, The Righteous Men.
-Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
-Anne Finch, Selected Poems.
-Virgina Woolf, A Room of One's Own.
-L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Rereads
-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children.

Reading My Own Height Again: Progress (shanaqui)

2010-01-27T14:50:54Z

Okaaay, haven't updated this in ages. Not linking to reviews this time: if you're interested, check the "reviews" tag on wilderthan.

No picture this time, either, 'cause I'm lazy.

( Cut for extreme length )

Going to try

2009-11-12T17:26:01Z

This is a marvelous idea. My height is somewhere between 5'7" (~1.7 m) and 5'8"; let's call it five-eight for this. As I understand the rules, I post books I read from what's on my shelves now in two categories: never read before, and re-read. Is that correct?

Update from iltaru

2009-11-03T12:17:10Z

So since shanaqui finished her height in books (and started the challenge again with new rules), I have actually finished quite a few books. I know. AMAZING.

*denotes a re-read

New
The Forgotten Garden, by Kate Morton

Anything Goes
Sabriel, by Garth Nix*
Lirael, by Garth Nix*
Abhorsen, by Garth Nix*
Saiyuki volume I, by Kazuya Minekura*
Saiyuki volume II, by Kazuya Minekura*

...So it's been quite a productive couple of weeks, really.

Reading My Own Height Again: Introduction

2009-10-29T22:35:09Z

Participants: Just me, this time!

The Plan:
Read my own height (~5'4"/1.5m) again.
The Rules:
1. This must include only books owned before 01/11/2009.
2. There are only two sections: "rereads" and "new".

This is in an effort to clear my shelves a bit faster! Hence the relative lack of rules. I don't even have to review anything, though I probably will, just read it.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-10-29T10:31:52Z

Long time no post! I've been holding off on posting 'cause I was so very, very close to the end. Now I've made it. I've read my own height (and a tiny bit more). I already have my next challenge in mind, but first I need to finish up with this one.

iltaru is still working on hers, of course.

* = reread.

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Shoulder to top of head ("unexpected"):
-Rosemary Rowe, Murder in the Forum.
-Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club.
-Jeannette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry.
Hip to shoulder ("serious stuff"):
-Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy.
-Nina Bawden, Carrie's War.
-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield.
Knee to hip ("anything goes"):
-J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers.*
-J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King.*
-Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.
Floor to knee ("new reads"):
-Rosemary Sutcliff, The Capricorn Bracelet.
-Nicholas Stuart Gray, The Seventh Swan.
-Surgei Lukyanenko, The Night Watch.

Current picture:
Here.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-09-28T22:36:38Z

Sorry I didn't update last week! I wasn't in flandom, and it was a weird week. I haven't been reading that much anyway, to my disgust... I did read some other stuff, but they were children's books so I didn't count them.

* = reread.

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Hip to shoulder ("serious stuff"):
-Peter Hunt, An Introduction to Children's Literature.
Knee to hip ("anything goes"):
-J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.*
Floor to knee ("new reads"):
-Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did.

Current picture:
Here.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-09-15T00:29:30Z

* = reread.

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Hip to shoulder ("serious stuff"):
-Ursula Le Guin, Cheek By Jowl.
Knee to hip ("anything goes"):
-J R R Tolkien, The Hobbit.*
Floor to knee ("new reads"):
-Ursula Le Guin, Powers.

Current picture:
N/a.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-09-07T23:02:12Z

* = reread.

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Hip to shoulder ("serious stuff"):
-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene.
-The Bhagavad Gita.
-John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps.
-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers.
-Thomas Love Peacock, Maid Marian.
Knee to hip ("anything goes"):
-Ursula Le Guin, Gifts.*
Floor to knee ("new reads"):
-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader.
-Ursula Le Guin, Voices.
-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber.

Current picture:
Here.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-08-31T09:58:33Z

Super pathetic, this week! But it's okay: I have a plan.

* = reread.

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Hip to shoulder ("serious stuff"):
-George Orwell, Animal Farm.
-Ursula Le Guin, Sixty Odd.

Current picture:
Here.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-08-24T15:51:32Z

Not the best week ever. Oops. I blame feywood.

* = reread.

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Hip to shoulder ("serious stuff"):
-Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale.
Knee to hip ("anything goes"):
-Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana.*

Current picture:
Here.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-08-17T11:22:20Z

This was a pretty good week. I have three books in progress at the moment, too -- two for "serious stuff", and one for "anything goes".

* = reread.

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Hip to shoulder ("serious stuff"):
-Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
-John Fairfax & John Moat, The Way To Write.
Floor to knee ("new reads"):
-Alan Garner, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.
-Alan Garner, The Moon of Gomrath.
-Janet Aylmer, Darcy's Story.

Current picture:
Here.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-08-10T11:29:00Z

This week started very slow and then I recovered. And I bought lots and lots of books, too.

* = reread.

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Shoulder to top of head ("unexpected"):
-John Grisham, The Partner.
Hip to shoulder ("serious stuff"):
-Richard Matheson, I Am Legend.
Knee to hip ("anything goes"):
-Dewey Gram, Gladiator.*
-Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock.*
Floor to knee ("new reads"):
-Neil Gaiman, Coraline. (Graphic novel adaptation.)

Current picture:
Here.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-08-03T13:58:52Z

A slower week. Not bad, though!

* = reread.

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Shoulder to top of head ("unexpected"):
-Stephanie Meyer, Twilight.
Hip to shoulder ("serious stuff"):
-Barry Hines, A Kestrel for a Knave.
Floor to knee ("new reads"):
-Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns.
-Stephen Lawhead, Byzantium.
Current picture:
Here.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-07-27T09:47:37Z

A veeeery productive week, reading-wise. I should really try to focus on "serious stuff" sometime soon. That's looking woefully under-represented.

* = reread.

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Shoulder to top of head ("unexpected"):
-Haruki Murakami, After Dark.
-The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks.
Knee to hip ("anything goes"):
-Sailing to Sarantium, Guy Gavriel Kay.*
-Lord of Emperors, Guy Gavriel Kay.*
-Magician's Law, Michael Scott.*
-Demon's Law, Michael Scott.*
-Death's Law, Michael Scott.*
Floor to knee ("new reads"):
-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon.
-Nation, Terry Pratchett.
Current picture:
Here.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-07-20T17:50:35Z

Already time for another progress post? It's been a good week. I finally got some activity in my "new" section, and reread some old favourites. I guess next I should work on my "serious stuff" section.

* = reread.

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Shoulder to top of head ("unexpected"):
-China Mountain Zhang, Maureen F. McHugh.
Knee to hip ("anything goes"):
-The Farthest Shore, Ursula Le Guin.*
-Tehanu, Ursula Le Guin.*
-Tales from Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin.*
-The Other Wind, Ursula Le Guin.*
Floor to knee ("new reads"):
-The Vintner's Luck, Elizabeth Knox.
-Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters.
-The Lollipop Shoes, Joanne Harris.
Current picture:
Here.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-07-13T23:26:43Z

Progress post time! Not much, since it hasn't been a full week yet, but more progress than some I could name...

Not that I'm smug or anything.

* = reread.

Plan post:
Here.
New additions:
Shoulder to top of head ("unexpected stuff"):
-Blankets, Craig Thompson.
Knee to hip ("anything goes"):
-A Song for Arbonne, Guy Gavriel Kay.*
-A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula Le Guin.*
-The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula Le Guin.*
Current picture:
Here.

readheightetc @ 2009-07-09T18:24:00

2009-07-09T17:28:12Z

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.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Progress (shanaqui)

2009-07-09T16:49:42Z

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.

Reading Our Own Height In Books: Introduction

2009-07-09T16:08:38Z

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.