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Challenges & Projects

The following is an index of the projects and challenges that I am participating in. If you would like more information regarding any of these items, click on its header/icon.

Links to my lists are found above through the pull-down menu, or underneath each challenge in the bullet points. Feel free to use them as suggestions if you are stumped about what books to read for your own projects.

 

  • Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
  • The goal is to read 100 or more books
  • No need to list books in advance
  • If listed in advance, list can be changed if needed
  • Overlaps with other projects or challenges allowed
  • Here is my list of the hundred, which is subject to change - often

 

  • Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
  • Choose one author for each month of the year (12 birthdays = 12 books)
  • Can be read in any order
  • I’m assuming overlaps are allowed

 

  • Runs from February 1 to January 31, 2011
  • Regular print books must be 450 pages or more
  • Large print books must be 525 pages or more
  • I am choosing: Do These Books Make my Butt Look Big? This option is to read 4 Chunksters 
  • Overlaps with other projects or challenges are allowed
  • I hope to read 4 of the following:
    • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (590 pages)
    • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (581 pages)
    • The Hummingbird’s Daughter (495 pages)
    • Kept by D.J. Taylor (454 pages)
    • A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving (543 pages)
    • She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb (465 pages)

 

  • Join anytime, but don’t start reading until January 1, 2010
  • Challenge ends November 30, 2010
  • Choose a goal of reading 10, 20, or 30 essays
  • Essays do not have to be listed ahead of time
  • Some I plan to read:
    • by Virginia Woolf
    • by Alice Walker
    • by Mark Twain
    • by James Baldwin

 

  •  5-Year Project to read 100 books
  • Runs April 1, 2009 to April 31, 2014
  • The project carries a  25% accident forgiveness feature, meaning if you finish 75 titles in 5 years, you may consider yourself to be victorious
  • List should be made up of books you feel “fill in the gap” between what you read, and have read, and what you feel you should read or should have read.

 

  • Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
  • Books can be listed ahead of time and changed at will
  • I am assuming overlaps with other projects or challenges are allowed

 

  • Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
  • Authors must be new to you
  • You can pick to do either 15, 25 or 50 new authors
  • Once you reach your goal, you don’t have to stop
  • Overlaps with other projects and challenges allowed
  • Here is my list of authors (TBA)

 

  • Perpetual Challenge
  • Create & read a list of books that you’ve always heard others rave about
  • List must have at least 3 books on it
  • Can overlap with other challenges
  • My list of raves:
    • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
    • The Girl Who Played With Fire
    • Hunger Games
    • Catching Fire 

 

  • Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
  • Review each book you read
  • Can Overlap with other challenges
  • Due to the nature of this challenge, the list will start (and grow) as I read 

 

  • Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
  • Pick the number of books you would like to read in one year (75)
  • Books must come from your own collection
  • Re-Reads not allowed
  • Due to the nature of this challenge, the list will start (and grow) as I read

 

  • Runs from January 1 to December 31, 2010
  • I am taking Option B: Read 6 books in 12 months
  • Can overlap with other challenges
  • My List (subject to change):
    • Alias Grace
    • Cannery Row
    • Fried Green Tomatoes
    • Snow Falling on Cedars
    • Brideshead Revisited
    • Heart-Shaped Box

 

 

  • Perpetual Project
  • Read books making a most notable list (New York Times, Publishers Weekly, etc.)
  • Set a goal at the beginning of each year
  • Overlaps with other projects and challenges allowed
  • Due to the nature of this challenge, the list will start (and grow) as I read

 

  • Perpetual Project
  • Read the books on this list 
    I know it’s Australian, but reading enjoyment is universal
  • Set a goal at the beginning of each year
  • Overlaps with other projects and challenge allowed
  • Due to the nature of this challenge, the list will start (and grow) as I read

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