My friend, Isabel, came up with a great reading challenge for next year. I originally had told myself that I wouldn’t participate in challenges that required more than 6 books but I’ll make an exception for this one. So, tonight I’ve been going through my stacks and selecting books that I can read for this challenge.
Visit the 9 for 09 challenge blog for all the details and what each of the categories mean.
I’ll be relying on books from my stacks but as we all know I’m sure to make some changes along the way. For now here’s my tentative list:
- Long – The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins fits the long category for me as my copy has 544 pages.
- Free – The Year of Fog by Michelle Redmond is a book I received at a bookstore event for our book group.
- Dusty – The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama was a book I blogged about finding back in March 2005. I think it’s pretty dusty. Granted, I know I have a lot more that have probably been sitting on my shelves longer.
- Used – Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson is the last book I bought at Half Price Books. It’s also a reading group choice so hopefully this means I will read it soon.
- Letter – I went with the first letter of my name to choose In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson. I love the Inspector Banks series so I’m looking forward to this, the 10th installment.
- STR – I don’t read many essays so The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby should fit this one.
- Cover – It’s hard to find a pretty or ugly cover. All of a sudden I can’t decide. For now I’ll go with The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel. I like it and it seems fitting for the subject matter.
- AN – I’ve been meaning to read something by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, for a long time. I’m going to read The Fifth Child as this year it seems I heard about it quite a bit.
- Dis – Choosing a book set more than 1,000 miles from my location was quite easy. I’ll go to 17th century Hindustan and read Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors.
Now I better get the weekend started with catching up on my reading. I’m also planning to spend some time with one of my friends, going to yoga, eating a lot of Cuties (I’m addicted to these at the moment) and coming up with more lists because I’m going to be joining a lot more challenges. I tried to resist but it’s useless.
Hope you all have a great weekend and check back soon because I have a book giveaway coming up!
Elo! You’ve got a couple of books there I have on my TBR list: Hornby, Shors and Koppel. Started Hornby’s book earlier this year but got distracted with a couple of new purchases. I think I will pick it up after my current read. I’m taking a break today, but will be baking Pineapple Tarts on Sunday for Christmas (will post pixs) and trying to crack copy for a bank campaign due Tuesday.
It sounds like a fun challenge but I’m going to stick to shorter ones, six or less books, for next year, except for Orbis Terrarum. I never seem to do well with those that require a lot of books.
I had to click the link to see what Cuties were! I can relate, I have a bowl full of mandarin oranges that I keep eating!
Ooooh, neat challenge! Even though I never actually get to participate in them, I love hearing about all of these interesting challenges.
LOL Iliana! Your challenge resolution didn’t last long! 🙂 You will like Polysyllabic Spree and find you add a number of books to your TBR pile because of it.
I had planned on joining Isabel’s challenge as well, but I didn’t realize there would be specific categories–this is going to take some thought on my part. I may have to borrow generously from the lists of books I already have made that I want to read next year. And I love Clementines, too!! I’m generally not an orange eater during the year (though I like juice), but I look forward to this time of year when these are available. I even bought a bag of them at the store today. I hope you enjoy The Moonstone! And I liked The Red Leather Diary, too. Enjoy!
The Fifth Child is a quick and creepy read. You will like it.
Thanks for joining!
sounds fun!
Kisane – Ooh, pineapple tarts. That sounds yummy! Hope your work goes well.
tanabata – I really wanted to stick to shorter ones too but Isabel would never forgive me if I didn’t join 🙂 Aren’t mandarin oranges so good? I ran out of Cuties already so I need more. haha..
Jordan – How can you resist participating. Tell me how you do it? 🙂
Stefanie – I know right! haha… Ok, now I’m not sure I want to read Polysyllabic Spree… My wish list can’t take any more 🙂
Danielle – It was fun to go through the categories but I have a feeling I’ll be changing out books once I start. It all depends on what reading mood I’m in 🙂
Isabel – I wouldn’t miss it girl. I remember your review of the Fifth Child. I’m looking forward to it.
Jessica – I know! 🙂
I enjoyed The Moonstone and The Samurai’s Garden. I’ve still got to get around to Polysyllabic Spree!
I loved The Samurai’s Garden when I read it. It’s a quiet book, but so beautifully written. It made my Top Ten the year I read it. Enjoy!
This is a neat challenge. I liked Moonstone. I’ll have to think of doing this one. I was trying to limit my challenges too Iliana. 🙂
Jenclair – It sounds good doesn’t it? I bet we are going to love it!
Les in NE – Ohh, I’m so glad I put that on my list. I’m going to try really hard not to change it out 🙂
Wisteria – Isn’t it fun. I really wanted to hold back but it’s just a lot of fun to do these and I figure I’m whittling away at my TBR stacks so that’s got to be a good thing 🙂
i m doing this challenge too 🙂 OMG! I am doing so many challenges… sometimes it scares me 😀
This challenge sounds very fun! It’s a change of air! The easiest category to choose is probably “dusty!”