My challenge

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Okay my next challenge is just going to be to read 10 books I own and haven't read yet. I've got to make a dent! Once I've posted the book that means I'm done with it.

1. The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman.
2. Before the Frost, Henning Mankell
3. The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, John Keegan
4. The Flight of the Falcon, Daphne du Maurier
5. South Wind, Norman Douglas
6. Regeneration, Pat Barker
7. Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin
8. The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil, Andrew Delbanco
9. Innocent Blood, P.D. James
10. A New England Girlhood, Lucy Larcom

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

And a new challenge.

1. A travel memoir.
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier.

2. A nonfiction work having to do with WWI.
Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I by Michael S. Neiberg.

3. A book by a woman.
This Body of Death by Elizabeth George.

4. Something published by NYRB Classics.
Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge.

5. A work of fiction in which music is a central theme.
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro.

6. A biography.
George Sand: A Biography by Curtis Cate.

7. A novel whose title begins with "A."
Arctic Summer by E.M. Forster.

8. A work by an author whose last name begins with "L."
The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré.

9. A book of poetry.
Twelve American Poets.

10. Something published in the 18th century.
Robinson Crusoe.

[Sally, la reina]

What is NYRB?

[Phil]

MYOB

[Sally, la reina]

BYOB

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sally wrote: "What is NYRB?"

New York Review Books. They republish old or neglected classics, and they all have similar cover design: artwork with title in rectangular box, as so:

[~Geektastic~]

My challenges have all gone up in smoke this year. Maybe next year...

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I make all my challenges open-ended in terms of time. It makes it a lot easier.

[Riona]

I thought I had posted some random challenge in here ages ago, but maybe not. So now I will!

1. A nonfiction costume or fashion book
2. The last book in a series (I have too many in-progress series, so this will force me to finish one)
3. A memoir or autobiography Coal to Diamonds
4. A book that I got for free on my kindle
5. A science fiction masterwork
6. A book that's more than 750 pages
7. A book published before the year 1900.
8. A book I own, rather than only reading things from the library.

That's all I can think of now. I like the idea of open-ended challenges, though.

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I do the 52 books in a year challenge every year. Before Larry I used to exceed it...always. Now, I find it harder and harder. I was well ahead of schedule heading into the summer. Now I am currently 2 books behind schedule and I'm dilly-dallying over 285 pages of free kid's book! I should be able to knock this out on one rainy day!

[Charlotte]

Since we're getting ready to ramp up in to 2013, I decided to challenge myself further this year than simply the number of books that I will read- although I am shooting for a total of 30. As a mother of two and a full-time paralegal, 30 is just about my limit.
1. At least 15 books from my "To Read" list, limiting myself to those that I already own.
2. At least 2 works of non-fiction.
3. Finish a series that I have started (either/or/both Updike's Rabbit series and/or Game of Thrones).
4. At least 10 authors I've never read before.