Monday, May 21, 2012

Summer Reading Challenge

Another challenge I'm sure to fail ;) but thought you'd like to read about it!


Summer Reading Challenge
May 28, 2012 to August 31, 2012


Fulfill the categories in any order. Don't forget to share why you chose the titles you did. Also, share comments about the books you're reading! We invite conversations :) GOAL: Commit to completing 8 titles that you have never read before! (10 for a bonus.) CRITERIA: Choose any title in the following categories:

1. A book in an unfamiliar genre [Read outside your comfort zone!]

2. A book that is part of a series
Catching Fireflies
Sherryl Woods

3. A book that your friend or wider society has been raving about!

4. A book that ‘could’ [This category is open to your interpretation*]
Consent to Kill
by Vince Flynn

5. A book from the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels List. [See NY Times link]

6. A book that reminds you of your childhood.
 

7. A banned or contested book, OR a book that lied to us*
 

8. A book you judged by the cover. [For whatever reason, the cover attracted you.]

Forbidden Heat
by Opal Carew


9. Bonus: A blog turned book [OR a book turned blockbuster movie] 

The Blind Side
by Michael Lewis

10. Bonus: Free choice! 
Memorial Day
by Vince Flynn


REASONS:

8 - book I judged by the cover
Well? Look at it!


4 - espionage thriller, we'll never hear about it if it does but still. . .



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2 comments:

  1. I planning on creating my own "summer challenge", reading books from my shelf...LOL good luck with this one.

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  2. Thanks Diane. I think your challenge might be a better one for me ;)

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