My 2016 Reading Challenge
Right!
I am starting a reading challenge for 2016. Between now and the end of 2016 I need:
A book published this year (will be the new Ben Aaronovitch when it comes out in July)
A book I can finish in a day (undecided! This one is open. Suggestions welcome)
A book you've been meaning to read (The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters)
A book recommended by your local librarian or bookseller. (I don't have one of those. I am therefore making this 'stranger's choice' by which I mean 'person reading social media'. The only rule is that I can't have heard of the book or writer at all)
A book you should have read in school. (What does this even mean? A book I should have read but didn't? But I did the reading! I had many flaws as a student, but I did the reading. Ohhh...maybe not for Scot Lit 2 at uni. I may check Edinburgh University's reading list)
A book chosen for you by your spouse, partner, child, sibling or bff. ( +Jez Pop has suggested Gore Vidal - The Games)
A book that was published before you were born. (Undecided. This one is open. Suggestions welcome!)
A book that was banned at some point. (In Cold Blood, Truman Capote)
A book you previously abandoned. (Death Comes to Pemberley, PD James)
A book you own but have never read. (Alan Garner, Boneland)
A book that intimidates you. (Anything by Ernest Hemmingway)
A book you've already read at least once (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte)
I'm doing this as my reading has drizzled away lately and been replaced by social media and trash. I don't want to keep doing this, so I'm giving myself a list. I'll write reviews on livejournal too. But for the moment, any suggestions?
I am starting a reading challenge for 2016. Between now and the end of 2016 I need:
A book published this year (will be the new Ben Aaronovitch when it comes out in July)
A book I can finish in a day (undecided! This one is open. Suggestions welcome)
A book you've been meaning to read (The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters)
A book recommended by your local librarian or bookseller. (I don't have one of those. I am therefore making this 'stranger's choice' by which I mean 'person reading social media'. The only rule is that I can't have heard of the book or writer at all)
A book you should have read in school. (What does this even mean? A book I should have read but didn't? But I did the reading! I had many flaws as a student, but I did the reading. Ohhh...maybe not for Scot Lit 2 at uni. I may check Edinburgh University's reading list)
A book chosen for you by your spouse, partner, child, sibling or bff. ( +Jez Pop has suggested Gore Vidal - The Games)
A book that was published before you were born. (Undecided. This one is open. Suggestions welcome!)
A book that was banned at some point. (In Cold Blood, Truman Capote)
A book you previously abandoned. (Death Comes to Pemberley, PD James)
A book you own but have never read. (Alan Garner, Boneland)
A book that intimidates you. (Anything by Ernest Hemmingway)
A book you've already read at least once (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte)
I'm doing this as my reading has drizzled away lately and been replaced by social media and trash. I don't want to keep doing this, so I'm giving myself a list. I'll write reviews on livejournal too. But for the moment, any suggestions?