Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelieavably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Challenges 2012

Mt TBR Challenge

Read 50 in my TBR stack starting January 2012

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Chubby Chunkster - 4 books at least 450 pages of an adult book

My books:
1. 11/22/63 Pages 849 Pages
2. The Lost Girls Pages 560 Pages
3. Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century985  Pages
4. Out of Oz by Gregory McGuire 568 Pages
5. Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides 529 Pages



What's in a Name Challenge?

Between January 1 and December 31, 2012, read one book in each of the following categories:
  1. A book with a topographical feature (land formation) in the title: Black Hills, Purgatory Ridge, Emily of Deep Valley The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World 
  2. A book with something you'd see in the sky in the title: Moon Called, Seeing Stars, Cloud Atlas
  3. A book with a creepy crawly in the title: Little Bee, Spider Bones, The Witches of Worm
  4. A book with a type of house in the title: The Glass Castle, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Ape House
  5. A book with something you'd carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title: Sarah's Key, The Scarlet Letter, Devlin Diary
  6. A book with a something you'd find on a calendar in the title: Day of the Jackal, Elegy for April, Freaky Friday, Year of Magical Thinking I FINISHED READING 11/22/1963 which you could have found on the calendar, way back when. EXCELLENT BOOK!!!


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