I was already moping around the house because I thought it was too late to join. MizB at Literary Cache has made my day! It turns out you have time till Jan 31st to join the 2007 TBR Challenge.
What you're supposed to do:
* Pick 12 books - one for each month of 2007 - that you've been wanting to read (have been on your "To Be Read" list) for 6 months or longer, but haven't gotten around to.
* Then, starting January 1, 2007, read one of these books from your list each month, ending December 31, 2007.
* Then, starting January 1, 2007, read one of these books from your list each month, ending December 31, 2007.
I've had the most difficult time choosing these 12 books. All of them were like little children jumping and shouting PICK ME, PICK ME!
Anyway, here's my list (in no particular order as yet)
- Mist - Miguel de Unamuno
- Tithe - Holly Black
- Possession - A. S. Byatt
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler
- A Separate Peace - John Knowles
- Saturday - Ian McEwan
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
- Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
FOR EXTRA CREDIT:
- Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
- The Brief History of the Dead - Kevin Brockmeier
- The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
- The Book of Imaginary Beings - Jorge Luis Borges
With 3 challenges, a pile of compulsory reading, and a mountain of overdue books, I must confess that I'm a happy, avid, beginning-to-panic reader! :)
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Heather
www.thelibraryladder.blogspot.com
That's it, I'm going. :)