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2 Challenges Trish Is Hosting

Trish from Trish’s Reading Nook is hosting a couple of challenges coming up, and since I already knew I’d be joining one, I decided I might as well join the other…I’m writing one post already, right?

Besides, The Classics Challenge sounds really tempting!

You can sign up to read four, five, or six classics.  I’m going to sign up to just read four of them, but maybe I’ll read more.  

Besides, since it goes from April 1st to October 31st, I might use a few novellas when I host the November Novella Challenge this year.

Here’s some possibilities of what I might read:

The Ladies’ Paradise
Wuthering Heights 
Agnes Grey 
A Room of One’s Own 

Additionally, Trish is compiling two lists.  Classics that you recommend, and books that you think will someday become classics.  

My all time favorite classic is Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure.  For the will be a classic someday list, I think I have to go with Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie.

I really enjoyed the Nonfiction Five Challenge last year, so I’m excited to join this one again.  I actually read quite a bit of nonfiction anyways.

While any nonfiction goes for this one, at least one book must be different from the rest.  Trish explains that you could read four memoirs and one self-help book.  Of course, if I read four memoirs I’d pluck my eyes out.  Same if I read even one self-help book.  But that’s just me.

For me, it’ll probably be like, read four books about religion and one book about science.  Or something like that.  I’ll probably dip into my lists for the Essay Reading Challenge, The War Through the Generations: Vietnam, and  the World Religion Challenge and the Science Challenge.

Here’s my list (and what I actually read) from last year.

This challenge goes from May 1st to September 30th.