Showing posts with label Challenges 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Challenges 2012. Show all posts

Monday, January 2, 2012

2012 European Reading Challenge



I'm joining the 2012 European Reading Challenge hosted by Rose City Reader. For this challenge, each book read must be by a different author and set in a different country. Once again, I'll draw first from books I already own, but I'm increasingly interested in the history of Eastern European countries, so I will most likely pick up a non-fiction history or two during the course of the 13 months this challenge runs.

Timeline: January 1, 2012 to January 31, 2013

Level:  Five Star (Deluxe Entourage): Read at least five books by different European authors or books set in different European countries.

Personal Challenge:  If I change out any of the following titles, it must be for a book I already own.

1. Romania - NO ONE IS HERE EXCEPT ALL OF US by Ramona Ausubel

2. Hungary - THE COUNTESS by Rebecca Johns
3. Russia - THE WINTER PALACE by Eva Stachniak
4. France - SUITE FRANCAISE by Irene Nemirovsky
5. Turkey - THEODORA by Stella Duffy
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

2012 South Asian Reading Challenge



I'm joining the 2012 South Asian Reading Challenge hosted by Swapna at S. Krishna's Books. This is a favorite subgenre of mine, so I've a lot of titles to choose from. I'm first going to focus on reading books that I already own which fit this challenge.

Countries included: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and the Maldives


Timeline: January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012

1. SISTERS OF THE SARI by Brenda Baker
2. LITTLE PRINCES by Conor Grennan
3. SAFFRON DREAMS by Shaila Abdullah
4. HAUNTING JASMINE by Anjali Banerjee
5. AN ATLAS OF IMPOSSIBLE LONGING by Anuradha Roy
6. RADIO SHANGRI-LA by Lisa Napoli
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