Challenges

I have decided, out of the madness of my mind within to take part in reading challenges, despite knowing that I’m generally rubbish at them – but who cares about that.

Back to the Classic Challenge

Hosted by Sarah Reads Too Much

1.  No Name by Wilkie Collins (19th C)
2. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (20th C)
3. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Re-read)
4. Hamlet by Shakespeare (Play)
5. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Mystery)
6. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore (Romance)
7. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy (Translated)
8. The Saga of Gosta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf (Nobel Prize)
9. Passage to India by E.M Forster (Unvisited Setting)

2012 TBR Challenge

Hosted by Roof Beam Reader

1. The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi (6 years) ✔
2. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley (10 years)
3. No Name by Wilkie Collins (5 years)
4. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (5 years, minimum)
5. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (4 years)
6. Otherland:  River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams (10 years)
7. One for Sorrow by Clive Woodall (10 years)
8. Lorna Doone by R. D Blackmore (5 years)
9. The Dream Merchant by Isabel Hoving (4 years)
10. The Swarm by Frank  Schatzing (4 years)
11. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy (2 years)
12. The Recruit by Robert Muchamore (4 years)

Alternates:

1. The Bourne Identity by Robery Ludlum (5 years)
2. Faceless Killers – Henning Mankell (2 years) ✔

Tea & Books Reading Challenge

Hosted by: The Book Garden

The aim of this challenge is to read brickish books numbering over 700 pages. I am challenging myself to EIGHT books which include these four, two from the above challenges:

1.  Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
2.  The Swarm by Franz Schatzing
3. Otherland:  River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams
4. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

I am going to leave the other four to the fates. I’ll add them to this list as I read them.

Books in Translation

Hosted by The Introverted Reader

For this challenge I have chosen the Conversationalist level and I aim to read at least six books in translations – 4 of which will be from my other challenges, and two extra ones.

These are the ones from my other challenges:

1. The Saga of Gosta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf (Swedish)

2. The Dream Merchant by Isabel Hoving (Dutch)

3. The Swarm by Frank  Schatzing (German)

4. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Japanese)

Read:

1. Esther’s Inheritance by Sándor Márai (Hungarian)