29
May
2010
On Challenges Started & Completed
Yup. This is one of those posts about challenges. Somes that I’m starting, somes that have ended.
Remember last year when T.Y. and Raych made each other read really really cosmically absurdly outstandingly dizzyingly awful books? This summer they’ve decided to choose just three books and read them and opened it up for the rest of us. They picked:
L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad: pseudo-reality books! By vapid starlets!
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick: paranormal romance, now with fallen angels!
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater: anthropomorphized animalz or animalized peoplez, depending on how you look at it.
And, O.K., I admit, I do sorta want to read Hush, Hush because the cover speaks to my inner tween, whom I usually keep locked in the basement and only bring out to watch Buffy DVDs.
When Stephanie created the Everything Austen Challenge last year, little did she know that she’d start a trend of classic female authors challenges. Thus we know have the All Things Alcott Challenge. You only have to read one book for this one, and DVDs, etc., count, and I want to read Jo’s Boys anyways, so I’m signing up. It goes until the end of the year.
The 1% Well Read Challenge is back for the third time. Though it’s the first time for me. Basically there’s this whole incredibly long list of like 1300 books and you have to read 1% which, is 13 books. The list comes from 1001 Books to Read Before You Die, but then there was a new list and so those combined make 1300ish books. And seeing as I own but haven’t read at least 13 of those, I thought I’d go ahead and join. It started last month and goes until next April.
The Pre-Printing Press Challenge ended, and I’m re-signing up for this year’s installment. I read Reading Judas by Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King, which includes the Gospel of Judas.
Funny enough, this was not on my original list of books to read (though I did read at least some of the Koran). This time around, I’ll try to get to that list, and am thinking more specifically of reading Gilgamesh and Hrfaenkel’s saga (I may have not spelled that correctly).
All books for this challenge must have been written before the invention of the printing press in 1440.
The Much Ado About Shakespeare challenge ended. For it I read:
Manga Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Manga Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
Sandman vol 3: Dream Country
The Wednesday Wars
And I watched:
I love the unicorn graphic.
I very slightly want to read Hush, Hush, myself, because I like the cover, except I know! It’s going to be trashy! So, so trashy!
So glad you decided to join the All Things Alcott challenge.Hope you enjoy reading Jo’s Boys or whichever Alcott novel you choose.
Glad you’ve joined. Misery loves company… And trust me, you WILL BE MISERABLE. *Cue Sinister Cackle*
Welcome to the challenge again. Glad to see you (partly because your posts about reading for the challenge would guilt me into getting back to my list
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I very slightly want to read Hush, Hush, myself, because I like the cover, except I know! It’s going to be trashy! So, so trashy!
Wow, that’s a lot of challenges. Good luck. I have Hush, Hush on the shelf, but I haven’t read it yet because its going to be bad, but sooo good in a cheesy way!