Update: Essay Reading Challenge 2009

We’re over halfway through the year, so I thought it would be a good time to highlight some of the great reviews coming from Essay Reading Challenge bloggers:

~ Abolishing Christianity by Jonathan Swift – reviewed by Dwell in Possibility
~ At Large and at Small by Ann Fadiman – reviewed by A Life in Books
~ Calm Things by Shawna LeMay – reviewed by Susan Olding
~ Conversations by Samuel Johnson – reviewed by Lost in Books
~ Cosbyology by Bill Cosby – reviewed by Sherrie
~ The Courage to Kill: Meeting the Panthers by Eldredge Cleaver – reviewed by Lost in Books
~ Dog Years by Mark Doty – reviewed by Just Books
~ Essays Presented to Charles Williams edited by C.S. Lewis – reviewed by Dwell in Possibility
~ Existentialism and the Beats: A Renegotiation by Erik Ronald Mortensen – reviewed by Lusid Disilliusions
~ The Freedom to Offend by Ian Buruma – reviewed by Books ‘N Border Collies
~ Ground Zero by Suzanne Berne – reviewed by Tripping Toward Ludicity
~ The High Road to Narnia by George Watson – reviewed by Dwell in Possibility
~ How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom – reviewed by Tripping Toward Lucidity
~ The Love of Reading by Virgina Woolf – reviewed by Lost in Books
~ My Mother Never Worked by Bonnie Smith-Yackel – reviewed by Tripping Toward Lucidity
~ Narnia’s Secret: The Seven Heavens of the Chronicles Revealed by Dr. Michael Ward – reviewed by Dwell in Possibility
~ Obscenity by Kurt Vonnegut – reviewed by Lost in Books
~ Once More to the Lake by E.B. White – reviewed by Tripping Toward Lucidity
~ Pathologies: A Life in Essays by Susan Olding – reviewed by She Reads and Reads
~ Understanding The Lord of the Rings by various authors – reviewed by Dwell in Possibility

A few bloggers have finished the challenge already. Here are their wrap-up posts:

Bookstore People
Book Psmith
Books and Movies

If you’re an Essay Reading Challenge participant, and I’ve missed any of your reviews or wrap-up posts, please leave a comment here with a link, or else e-mail me at nnjmom at yahoo dot com.