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bookgazing) wrote2008-12-30 12:52 pm
bookgazing) wrote2008-12-30 12:52 pm
Challenges - 2009
I swore I wasn't going to join lots of challenges this year but I seem to have signed up at several of the challenge blogs. Perhaps I did it in my sleep. I've just put together some of my lists for the challenges below:
The Victorian Challenge
The Victorian challenge is all about reading novels set in Victorian times or written in Victorian times or non-fiction books about the period. You can pick a reading level, which all have clever Victorian related names. I'll be taking a drink at Whitechapel by redaing three books, which will be:
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskill
The Great Stink - Clare Clark
The Science Challenge
This challenge aims to create a more scientifically literate society by challenging participants to read three non-fiction scientific/science history books. I'll be reading:
The Anatomy of Melancholy - Richard Burton
Flowers Hunters - Mary and John Gribbin
I think my third book will be The Age of Wonder - Richard Holmes which will be part of my own personal challenge to read around the 17th century. I'll be buying up fiction written during and about the time as well as dipping into some juicy new non-fiction. I'll be back with a list of possible reads later on.
The YA Challenge
This challenge should be pretty easy for me to complete. You have to read 12 young adult books and I already have 12 appetising YA picks lying in my bedroom. This is the challenge I'm most looking forward to (excuse me but I got bored of typing in authors names so now I'll just use titles):
Once Upon a Time in the North
Dooley Takes the Fall
Slam
Notes from the Teenage Underground
Saints of Augustine
Looking for Alaska
Lonely Werewolf Girl
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Empresses of the World
Ten Cents a Dance
The Juliet Club
Chronicles of Darkness (Book 1)
Possible rotation - Twilight
What in a Name Challenge (2)
I missed taking part in this fun challenge last year but Annie is back with all new categories. You have to read books with the following in their titles (one book for ever category):
A book with a profession in the title: Ode to the Banker
A book with a time of day in the title: Twilight
A book with a relative in the title: Wives and Daughters/The Pirates Daughter
A book with a body part in the title: The Broke Heart Blues (reread)
A book with a Building in the title: The Other Side of the Bridge
A book with a medical condition in the title: The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Year of Living Dangerously Challenge (2)
I failed miserably at this Estella run challenge last year. This year you just have to pick 12 books you deem 'dangerous' and so far I've decided on:
The Scarlet Letter
Empresses of the World
Jude the Obscure
The Plot Against America (Roth freaks me out a little)
The Lizard Cage
A Passage to India
Jazz
Then there's The Year of Reading which starts on Thursday (yay) and goodness knows what else I'll sign up for. Everything just looks too interesting!
The Victorian Challenge
The Victorian challenge is all about reading novels set in Victorian times or written in Victorian times or non-fiction books about the period. You can pick a reading level, which all have clever Victorian related names. I'll be taking a drink at Whitechapel by redaing three books, which will be:
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskill
The Great Stink - Clare Clark
The Science Challenge
This challenge aims to create a more scientifically literate society by challenging participants to read three non-fiction scientific/science history books. I'll be reading:
The Anatomy of Melancholy - Richard Burton
Flowers Hunters - Mary and John Gribbin
I think my third book will be The Age of Wonder - Richard Holmes which will be part of my own personal challenge to read around the 17th century. I'll be buying up fiction written during and about the time as well as dipping into some juicy new non-fiction. I'll be back with a list of possible reads later on.
The YA Challenge
This challenge should be pretty easy for me to complete. You have to read 12 young adult books and I already have 12 appetising YA picks lying in my bedroom. This is the challenge I'm most looking forward to (excuse me but I got bored of typing in authors names so now I'll just use titles):
Once Upon a Time in the North
Dooley Takes the Fall
Slam
Notes from the Teenage Underground
Saints of Augustine
Looking for Alaska
Lonely Werewolf Girl
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Empresses of the World
Ten Cents a Dance
The Juliet Club
Chronicles of Darkness (Book 1)
Possible rotation - Twilight
What in a Name Challenge (2)
I missed taking part in this fun challenge last year but Annie is back with all new categories. You have to read books with the following in their titles (one book for ever category):
A book with a profession in the title: Ode to the Banker
A book with a time of day in the title: Twilight
A book with a relative in the title: Wives and Daughters/The Pirates Daughter
A book with a body part in the title: The Broke Heart Blues (reread)
A book with a Building in the title: The Other Side of the Bridge
A book with a medical condition in the title: The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Year of Living Dangerously Challenge (2)
I failed miserably at this Estella run challenge last year. This year you just have to pick 12 books you deem 'dangerous' and so far I've decided on:
The Scarlet Letter
Empresses of the World
Jude the Obscure
The Plot Against America (Roth freaks me out a little)
The Lizard Cage
A Passage to India
Jazz
Then there's The Year of Reading which starts on Thursday (yay) and goodness knows what else I'll sign up for. Everything just looks too interesting!