Challenging

I started 2008 with the intention to participate in the Decades Challenge, but various turns of life took my reading in other directions (or temporarily stopped it entirely), so I decided to bow out, rather than driving myself crazy over a game.

But I want to expand my book blog reading, so in 2009 I think I'll try to follow through on some challenges. There are enough of them that dovetail with what I'd be reading anyway, and I guess what I need is undemanding networking.

Linked from Bookgirl's Nightstand is this challenge clearinghouse maintained by Wendy, where I found a number of possibilities:

• Read 12 books from your public library.
• Read a selected number of books you own.
• Read 6 books in translation.
• Read books linked thematically by title.
• Read from A to Z (title or author).
• Read a few classics.
• Read those books that Yann Martel keeps sending to Stephen Harper.
• Read Chekhov stories.
• Decades (again)

The first three, especially, should be almost effortless, though I'm quite fond of the Chekov one as well.