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Spring Reading Challenge
Starting March 20, and ending on June 19 (the day before Summer), I am having a book challenge for any and all interested in participating. I thought that this would be a fun way to encourage trying new books and dusting off the covers of the ones you just haven't gotten to yet. It will be done seasonally, with me starting a new Summer challenge on June 20. The rules are few and simple. I will list six categories. You can read four books for a Level 1 challenge or six books for a Level 2 challenge. After you pick the books, please post the titles and authors here in order of which category each is in (please see my entry for an example). I will personally smooch the first to complete the Level 2 challenge (unless it happens to be me, of course!), and smooching is fully encouraged for anybody else who wants to congratulate the other winners. Please feel free to discuss the books you read for this challenge with the other participants. And be sure to notify everybody when you finish the challenge! In all fairness, I should add another rule: no books under 150 pages are allowed. If novelettes counted, it wouldn't be fair to those that wished to read Ben-Hurr. ;-) If you have any questions at all, please feel free to either post them here or email me. :-) The categories:
1. Read a book by a new-to-you author.
2. Read a book with the first letter of the title being "A".
3. Read a book written by a foreign-born author. (Meaning foreign to wherever YOU are.)
4. Read a book with a plant in the title. (It is spring, after all!)
5. Read a book written by multiple people. (It can be just two.)
6. Read a book taking place over one hundred years ago. My choices: (I'm doing Level 2)
1. Cheaper By The Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (both new authors to me, although I saw the movies.)
2. A Hawaiian Anthology, by Gerrit P. Judd, editor
3. Chekhov: The Major Plays, by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, translated by Ann Dunnigan
4. The Trees, by Conrad Richter
5. Polar Shift, by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
6. Custer, by Will Henry (a collection of two short-ish novels put together.)
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