Coffee & Books discussion

August is here! This is another one of those "How many books can you read" types of challenges.

For this challenge keep a running log for the month of August for Male Authors!

Just keep a rolling log, update it each time you finish a book that was written by a male author only!

Good luck!

Joining in!

1. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac ✖

2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

3. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

I'm in!

1. Elsewhere By Richard Russo 8/17/13
2.The Tempest Tales: A Novel-in-Stories By Walter Mosley 8/28/13
3. Rabbit Hole By David Lindsay-Abaire 8/30

Male Author August
8/1/13-8/31/13

1. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - 8/11/13
2. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie - 8/31/13
3. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill - 8/31/13

I'm in...
Completed: 7

1. The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry - 02 AUG - *****
2. Under a Falling Star by Fabian Black - 02 AUG - ***
3. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson - 04 AUG - *****
4. Unrelenting Love by Jack Gunthridge- 07 AUG - ***
5. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson - 11 AUG - *****
6. The Mozart Conspiracy by Scott G. Mariani- 18 AUG - *****
7. Murder Takes Time by Giacomo Giammatteo - 31 AUG - *****

I'm in

August Challenge - Male Authors
Completed: 1

1. Cape Light by Thomas Kinkade, 4.5 Stars, Read: 8/9/2013

AUGUST Challenge - Male Authors
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1.The Feast of the Goat- Mario Vargas Llosa ✔ – 04Aug13
2. Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly - Robert Dalby ✔ – 05Aug13
3. Thereby Hangs a Tail - Spencer Quinn - ✔ – 05Aug13
4. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - ✔ – 14Aug13
5. The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat - Edward Kelsey Moore - ✔ – 16Aug13
6. The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival - Ken Wheaton - ✔ – 22Aug13
7. The Sandcastle Girls - Chris Bohjalian - ✔ – 22Aug13
8. Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson - ✔ – 28Aug13
9.Still Water Saints - Alex Espinoza - ✔ – 30Aug13 (256 pg)
10. Rusty Nail - J A Konrath - ✔ – 30Aug13

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I'm hoping to work through the Song of Fire and Ice Series, so I'm definitely in :)

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Read - 5

1.The Lake House by James Patterson
2.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
3.The Shining by Stephen King
4.The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
5.Riptide by James Humphreys

OK - Here goes:
1 - To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer

C&B Monthly Challenged: August 2013
Duration: 8/1 - 8/31

01) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ***** 8/1/13
02) The Call of the Wild by Jack London **** 8/4/13
03) The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells **** 8/9/13
04) Loch: A Novel by Paul Zindel **** 8/13/13
05) Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz **** 8/14/13
06) Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card *** 8/15/13
07) Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith **** 8/21/13
08) The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare **** 8/21/13
09) The Dance by Dan Walsh **** 8/22/13
10) Extra Credit by Andrew Clements **** 8/29/13
11) Colony East by Scott Cramer **** 8/29/13
12) Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas by Ace Collins ***** 8/30/13
13) A Way Through The Sea by Robert Elmer **** 8/30/13
14) The Giver by Lois Lowry **** 8/31/13

I'm in for this, too. Go figure....at the moment, only one book I'm reading is by a male author. :D

1. The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner
2. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
3. The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill

I'm in :)

1. Swimsuit by James Patterson 7/8/13
2. NOS4R2 by Joe Hill 26/8/13
3. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 31/8/13

Sounds like fun

It's a little late, but I'm in. :)


1. The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell 09 Aug ✔
2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

August
2 181 Kinkade, Thomas A Christmas Promise bk 8 512 rated 5
4 183 Evans, Richard Paul A Perfect Day 352 rated 10
6 184 Parker, Robert B, The Widening Gyre bk 10 GR 192 rated 4
7 185 Sanford, John Storm Prey bk 20 418 rated 4
9 187 Parker, Robert B. Looking for Rachel Wallace bk 6 274 rated 4.5
9 188 Grogan, John Marley and Me

Did 2 more

21 196 Barclay, Linwood A Tap on the Window
26 202 Sherwood, Ben The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

I'm in, as late as I am. Haven't got a hand on this challenge thing yet.
Thoreau in Love by John Schuyler Bishop - 8/28
Life of Pi by Yann Martel - 8/27
The Blood of the Lamb - Peter de Vries - 8/22
A Widow for a Year - John Irving - 8/19
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis - 8/17
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis - 8/16
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - 8/2

Seven...

Congrats everyone!!!

My stars ... I finished 10 books by Male authors this month! (and FIVE of them were tagged "women" ... to satisfy a challenge over on Crazy Challenge Connection!)

I am somewhat new to this area and just came across this challenge. Hope it's not to late to enter this information

I finished 6 books by male authors the month of August:

Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson
Middle School - How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli and Snake Hill by James Patterson
Seconds Away by Harlan Coben
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabestein

Congrats to everyone who completed/entered this months challenge!

So annoying I only seen this is and I read 4 books and thy were all females lol
But congrats everyone

I didn't even see this challenge! I think all the books I read were by famle authors anyway!