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So a few more reading challenges to help get through that tbr pile of mine…
The Wind-Up Book Chronicle Challenge
What: To participate, you must use books that you’ve read more than 50 pages of BEFORE MAY 1 but never finished. (…haha this is so perfect for me since I already have a list of these! Seriously, I have a problem!)
- When: May 15 through November 15, 2008.
emmegail’s “Never-ending Books that I’ve Started but Never Finished” list:
- Katherine by Anya Seton (Historical Fiction Challenge, also on the BBC’s The Big Read list)
- Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank Abagnale
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Historical Fiction Challenge and 1% Well-Read Challenge)
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (why have I never finished this?)
- Light in August by William Faulkner (started when it was on Oprah’s Book Club…)
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (started when it was on Oprah’s Book Club…)
- The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
I know there’s more but I’m limiting my list to these since at this point it’s been so long for the others that I’ll probably have to start over.
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1% Well-Read Challenge
What: The goal of this challenge is to read 10 books in 10 months from the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list.
When: May 1, 2008 – Feb. 28, 2009
Although we all know this list is only one opinion, I would like to read more classics. I have the entire list on my Challenges/Lists page with the books I’ve read crossed out and the ones in blue that I own and will someday get around to reading.
emmegail’s list:
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Historical Fiction Reading Challenge, Wind-Up Book Chronicle)
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Historical Fiction Reading Challenge, somehow I missed reading this in school)
- The Once and Future King by T.H. White (Arthurian Challenge)
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Professor’s House by Willa Cather
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Wind-Up Book Chronicle)
- A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Emma by Jane Austen
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So I just saw on Amazon, which I really peruse more than I should, that this week is Children’s Book Week. Even though it’s already Wednesday, I’ve decided to put my other books aside and read a few children’s books that I have on my shelves.
