What's In a Name? On the ninth day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I'm bookchatting about What's in a Name Challenge 3? Like the TwentyTen Challenge, this one has a huge fun quotient because, I think, by its very nature, it's whimsical. It reminds me of those creative writing exercises
Watch and Learn (Er, Read) On the eighth day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I'm bookchatting about The Read the Book, See the Movie Challenge. Matinee: One Book, One Movie This challenge was the perfect opportunity to revisit Margaret Laurence's wonderfully-accomplished novel,The Stone Angel, in conjunction with a viewing of
Oh, the Places we went and the People we met! On the seventh day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I'm bookchatting about challenges rooted in people and places. First, the Japanese Literature Challenge 4. It was with mixed feelings that I read my last of Banana Yoshimoto's translated works: 1999's Hardboiled
Oh, Canlit! (Or: Oh, Lit-de-Can!) On the sixth day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I'm bookchatting about three Canlit-based reading projects: Canadian Book Challenge 3, Canada Reads, and Canada Reads Indie. Canada Reads: Nicolas Dickner’s Nikolski (2005) Translated French-English, Lazer Lederhendler (2008) Marina Endicott’s Good to a Fault (2008) Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees (1996)
On a Theme On the fifth day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I'm bookchatting about two theme-based challenges: Our Mutual Read and Women Unbound. It took me only a few seconds to sign up for the Bibliophilic Challenge, but I had to think about Our Mutual Read for awhile. I'm a
