I finally subscribed to my friend’s book blog, and was introduced to the wonderful world of reading challenges. I was too late to sign up for a bunch of the interesting year-long ones and I’m actually a little nervous about signing up for any of them, so I devised my own reading challenge and thought I would post the challenge and my progress so far. It is based on the Triple 8 Challenge, which is to read 8 books in 8 different categories in 2008. Since I started in May, and have never attempted a reading challenge before, I am going to do Sue’s 4 of 8 in 2008. Here are my categories and books and we’ll see where I end up on December 31. Maybe I’ll be brave enough to sign up for one in 2009!
Back to History
Sisters: The Lives of America’s Suffragettes
Dearest Friend
1776
The Nazi Officer’s Wife
Continuing Series
The Horse and his Boy
After Goliath
Dear America: Where Have all the Flowers Gone?
Back on Blossom Street
Newbery Award winners
Rifles for Watie
Rabbit Hill
Invincible Louisa
Out of the Dust
Sci Fi/Fantasy
Enna Burning
River Secrets
Allegiance
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Leslie’s Recommendations
The Eyre Affair
Pride and Prejudice
Princess Academy
Stones for Ibarra
Convention Speakers
The Goose Girl
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Gather Together in My Name
Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas
Southern Women
Miss Julia Strikes Back
Peaches
The Widow of the South
Girl from the South
Owned for more than 2 years
Ahab’s Wife
Little City by the Lake
Captain’s Peril
A Fresh Start in Fairhaven
you’ve created some great categories and picked some terrific books! i’ve got a couple of the same ones on my challenge(s) lists. i’ll be eager to hear what you think of them.
i’m so glad i read Why the Caged Bird Sings earlier this year. hearing Maya Angelou’s keynote address at the National PTA convention this past week was just fabulous!
and i thought Shannon Hale at the Utah PTA convention in May was terrific too! the only one of her books i’ve read so far is Princess Academy, but my daughters have read them all and are big fans.
happy reading!