This Challenge is hosted by words, words, words.
My post giving all the Challenge's details can be found here....
But the bottom line is that for this Challenge, we are looking to read books that were published during Queen Victoria's reign, namely 1837 - 1901.
I am aiming to read at the Great Expectations Level, which is reading 5-9 books during the 2011 year.
Proposed titles are listed in red.
Completed titles are listed in blue, with links to the review.
I ALSO want to do The Broke and the Bookish's Nonfiction Challenge 2011. To help remind me, the categories are as follows:
Culture, Art, Food, Medical, Travel, Memoir/Biography, Money, Science/Nature, and History.
I will list my books here and link to my review.
1. Today the World is Watching You (History)
2. My Lobotomy (Memoir)
3. Cook's Illustrated Cookbook (Food)
I'm committing myself to the Chubby Chunkster Level - which means I will read 4 books of adult literature (fiction or non-fiction) that are at least 450 pages long between February 1, 2011 and January 31, 2012.
I will list the books here as they are completed, linking to my review. ClickHERE for the challenge's website for more information or to sign up!
1. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
2. House Rules by Jodi Picoult
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4. The Likeness by Tana French
Bonus: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The goal of this challenge is to read books that are set in each of the fifty states. Your books can be of any genre and any format (ie. paperback, ebook, audiobook, etc.). No short stories. Re-reads and crossovers from other reading challenges are fine. You can list your books in advance or list them as you read them.
This challenge is hosted by Book Obsessed... you can sign up here.
For the record, I am going to list my books as I read them.... even if I have more than one book per state. I'm kind of looking at it as sort of study... as in Do I naturally gravitate toward books set in certain places? sort of study. I'm sure by the end of summer I'll have to start hunting down certain states!!
** - This book takes place evenly between two states. I will read another book set in one of the states.
30/50
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona Spooky Little Girl
- Arkansas Today The World is Watching You
- California Twenty Boy Summer
- Colorado Hybrid
- Connecticut Revolutionary Road
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia Paper Woman
- Hawaii Bet Your Bones
- Idaho
- Illinois Turn of Mind
- Indiana
- Iowa Softly and Tenderly** , These Things Hidden
- Kansas The Ice Harvest
- Kentucky
- Louisiana Dead Reckoning
- Maine Cost
- Maryland The Kingdom of Childhood
- Massachusetts Fenway 1912
- Michigan The Virgin Suicides
- Minnesota Shiver
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana Montana 1948
- Nebraska The Coffins of Little Hope
- Nevada
- New Hampshire A Separate Peace
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York - The Age of Innocence
- North Carolina - The Midwife's Confession
- North Dakota
- Ohio I am Number Four
- Oklahoma The Outsiders
- Oregon The Day Before
- Pennsylvania Better Together
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee Softly and Tenderly**
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont House Rules
- Virginia My Name Is Memory
- Washington Stay
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin Carry Me Home
- Wyoming
Hosted by Two Bibliomaniacs
Step1: Read book
Step 2: Watch movie
Step 3: Talk about it
Challenge runs from June 1st to December 31st, 2011
My reviews:
1. A Single Man (book / film)
2. Romeo and Juliet (book) Gnomeo and Juliet (film)
3. The Outsiders (book / film)
4. The Scarlet Letter (book) Easy A (movie)
Here's How It Works
Between January 1 and December 31, 2011, read one book in each of the following categories:
Proposed titles are listed in red. Completed titles are listed in blue, with links to the review.
- A book with a number in the title: I am Number Four
- A book with jewelry or a gem in the title: The Pearl
- A book with a size in the title: Spooky Little Girl
- A book with travel or movement in the title: Carry Me Home
- A book with evil in the title: The Blind Assassin
- A book with a life stage in the title: Twenty Boy Summer
Other Things to Know
- Books may be any form (audio, print, e-book).
- Books may overlap other challenges.
- Books may not overlap categories; you need a different book for each category.
- Creativity for matching the categories is not only allowed but encouraged.
- You do not have to make a list of books before hand.
- You do not have to read through the categories in any particular order.
Challenge hosted by Adam at Roof Beam Reader.
The Goal: Read 12 books off my to be read list in 12 months
Specifics:
1. Each of these 12 books must have been on your bookshelf or "To Be Read" list forAT LEAST one full year. This means the book cannot have a publication date of 1/1/2010 or later (any book published in the year 2009 or earlier qualifies, as long as it has been on your TBR pile - I WILL be checking publication dates). Caveat: Two (2) alternates are allowed, just in case one or two of the books end up in the "can't get through" pile.
My list:
(As I finish each book, I will link the title to my review and add the finished on date)
1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov completed 2/10/11
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain completed 2/2/11
3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne completed November 2011
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte completed May 2011
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson completed 1/30/11
6. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro completed 1/17/11
7. Choke by Chuck Palahnuik completed 3/23/11
8. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
9. The Awakening by Kate Chopin completed 12/11
10. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates completed 1/19/11
11. My Antonia by Willa Cather completed October 2011
12. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood completed 6/8/11
Alternates:
A. Invisible Man by H.G. Wells completed 3/18/11
B. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky completed 1/28/11
Get Ready for the "Back to the Classics Challenge 2011" hosted by Sarah Reads Too Much (hey, that's me!) I am constructing this challenge to encourage myself to read more Classic Literature... you know, all those books that we want to read "someday". Well, the time is now. I hope you will join me!
This challenge is open to anyone who would like to participate. You can join in at any point. If you do not have a blog of your own, please feel free to update using the Comments section of this post. I will start a separate page on this blog to track my own progress, and you can feel free to comment there as well. This is intended to be a stress-free challenge, and therefore I am giving a 6 month time frame for completion. The Challenge will be open from January - DECEMBER 2011. You can list you book choices before the challenge starts, or as you go along.... whatever works best for you.
The goals to complete:
The titles I plan to read will be listed in red.
Completed titles will be listed in blue, with links to the review.
- A Banned Book The Bluest Eye
- A Book with a Wartime Setting (can be any war) For Whom The Bell Tolls
- A Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) Winner or Runner Up: The Age of Innocence
- A Children's/Young Adult Classic A Separate Peace
- 19th Century Classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 20th Century Classic Lolita
- A Book you think should be considered a 21st Century Classic The Blind Assassin
- Re-Read a book from your High School/College Classes Romeo & Juliet
