The February Reading Review
Posted: 28 February 2011 Filed under: Literature, North-East, Opinions, Quotes | Tags: 50 book, 50 book challenge, book quotes, book review, Catherine Lim, Karen Blixen, Wendy Moore Leave a comment »
I’m a little disappointed in myself that I haven’t read as many books this month as I did in January! However I am still very much on target with the 50 book challenge I started this year.
The books I chose in February seem to carry a mutual theme, that of strong women living inspiring lives and exchanging the socially acceptable in a struggle for empowerment and freedom. I’m not sure whether my choices were deliberate on a subconscious level or just random, but they made a good month’s reading nonetheless.
The January Reading Review
Posted: 31 January 2011 Filed under: Asia, Discworld, Literature, North-East, Opinions, Quotes | Tags: 50 book, 50 book challenge, book, book quotes, book review, books, challenge, Deborah Rodriguez, Discworld, G. P. Taylor, Ha Jin, Interesting Times, January, Kensuke's Kingdom, Michael Booth, Michael Morpurgo, reading, review, Shadowmancer, Sushi and Beyond, Terry Pratchett, The Kabul Beauty School, Waiting Leave a comment »
As I’ve taken up the challenge to read 50 books (or more!) in 2011, I thought it would be a good idea to share my thoughts about the books I’ve finished reading every month.
If you work out the challenge, the goal is to read a book a week, give or take two weeks; thus I’m pretty pleased with myself to have finished six books so far with two still on the go. I haven’t yet finished the monster book of stories by Hans Christian Andersen yet with which I began the year (should I count it as more than one book?). However, I’m really enjoying the challenge so far.
The 50 Book Challenge
Posted: 4 January 2011 Filed under: Literature, Personal | Tags: 50 book, 50 book challenge, book, books, challenge, reading 1 Comment »
Following on from the positivity of my last post, I’ve taken on two new challenges for this year; firstly, I’m going to give the Post a Day 2011 WordPress challenge a try, and secondly, I’m going to take up a challenge I found on a friend’s blog.
The idea is to read at least 50 books in one year. Given my hermit-come-packrat tendencies when it comes to books, I’m up for that! (It may even solve this ‘book waiting list’ problem I have so I can go out and buy more books! YAY!)
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