Uh, reading. Yeah. Remember when I used to do that? WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME?
I signed up for four different reading challenges this year. We’re three-quarters of the way through the year and I’ve read only 48 books (I read 109 last year so I’m not even close!). Here’s how I’m doing so far for my challenges:
Back to the Classics Challenge 2012 - 33% complete (but I am close to finishing two more for this challenge)
- A 19th century classic: The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (review)
- A 20th century classic: Currently Reading The Beautiful and the Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald
- Reread a classic of your choice:
- A classic play: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (review)
- A classic mystery / horror / crime: The Stand by Stephen King (review)
- A classic romance: Currently Reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte
- A classic that has been translated from its original language to your language:
- A classic award winner:
- A classic set in a country you will not visit during your lifetime:
2012 Audio Book Challenge (listen to 25 audiobooks) - COMPLETE (plus some)
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (review)
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson (review)
- The Gunslinger by Stephen King (review)
- The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (review)
- Bossypants by Tina Fey (review)
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (review)
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King (review)
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (review)
- The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (review)
- Leviathan by Scott Westfeld (review)
- The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee (review)
- The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (review)
- Wonder by RJ Palacio (review)
- The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King (review)
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler (review)
- Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (review)
- The Stand by Stephen King (review)
- Stiff by Mary Roach (review)
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (review)
- Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro (review)
- Old Filth by Jane Gardham (review)
- The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (review)
- The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (review)
- A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin (review)
- Delirium by Lauren Oliver (review)
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (review)
- The Passage by Justin Cronin (review to come)
What’s in a Name 5 - 66% complete
- A book with a topographical feature in the title:
- A book with something you’d see in the sky in the title: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (review)
- A book with a creepy crawly in the title: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (review to come)
- A book with a type of house in the title:
- A book with something you’d carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title: Wine to Water by Doc Hendley (review)
- A book with something you’d find on a calendar in the title: 11/22/63 by Stephen King (review)
2012 TBR Pile Reading Challenge (read 40 currently owned books, not including review copies) - 60% complete
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (review)
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (review)
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson (review)
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (review)
- The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson (review)
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (review)
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (review)
- Crazy Love by Francis Chan (review)
- Love Does by Bob Goff (review)
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler (review)
- The Stand by Stephen King (review)
- Stiff by Mary Roach (review)
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (review)
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling (review)
- Old Filth by Jane Gardam (review)
- Wine to Water by Doc Hendley (review)
- Wine to Water by Doc Hendley (review)
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (review)
- The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood (review)
- A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin (review)
- Delirium by Lauren Oliver (review)
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (review to come)
- The Four Loves by CS Lewis (review)
- The Passage by Justin Cronin (review to come)
Even though I finished my audiobook challenge, I’m farther behind in the others than I’d like. I just haven’t been reading like I used to — just not as much free time, plus my aux jack in my car busted so I can’t listen to books while I drive (THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED). Maybe I’ll complete these…or maybe not. I’m not going to worry about it too much. I’ve got enough on my plate!
