Was that TwentyTen or 2010? On the second day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I'm chatting about one of my favourite challenges of the year: the TwentyTen Reading Challenge. Finding the right combinations for these categories was just plain ol' reading fun. Young Adult - Any book classified as young
All in the Numbers On the first day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I'm chatting about challenges that were all about numbers, be they percentages or quotients or years. One of my favourite reads for 2010 was Winifred Holtby's South Riding and I chose it for Nymeth's 1930s Mini Challenge. I'd
Right now there are about 25 URLs lingering in a document titled "2011 Challenges" in my reading folder. And those are the ones that "really" interest me. The ones that make my reader's heart beat a little faster. And those are not including the two challenges to which I've already
The Heroine's Bookshelf Challenge Check it out here! Come on, you know you want to! (If all this is news to you, check out yesterday's response to this sweet little volume.) Or, if you'd rather, the book itself is structured in such a way that it invites a twelve-month exploration. The website
Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat (1970) Putnam Publishing, 1984 In between, I forget how chilling they are. Muriel Spark novels. Somehow I mix them up with other skinny reads (like Penelope Fitzgerald novels) and other UK authors (like Penelope Lively), and they don't seem so upsetting, sitting there tidily pressed between
