It’s that time — lots of bloggers are wrapping up the year with their ‘best of 2010′ posts. I know I’m not alone in finding so many lists of great books that I didn’t get around to reading this year … Julie at BookingMama suggested that someone create a 2011 reading challenge based on the ‘best [...]
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Many thanks to Alaine at Royal Reviews for hosting the 2010 Audio Book Challenge! I joined at the “Addicted” level, committing to listen to 12 audiobooks in 2010. The next level up was “Obsessed” at 20 audiobooks. I came close to that (with reviews of Room, Matterhorn, and Earth pending), but met my “Addicted” level with [...] A quick glance at the calendar tells me it’s mid-way through the year and time to take stock of the many reading challenges I joined last fall. A few have ended without me checking off all the books I intended to read, a few continue through the end of 2010 (there’s still hope that I’ll complete them!). One [...] No, you don’t need a secret decoder ring to read the posts here! That post title translates to: July is To Kill a Mockingbird month You may have heard that July 11, 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lees’ To Kill a [...] For being the shortest month of the year, February was a very long month … 28 days that will forever be known as BLOB Month! It turns out that I AM A BIG LOSER (OF BOOKS), but not The Biggest Loser (of Books)! That title belongs to Nicole at Linus’ Blanket – congrats, Nicole! Our final scores are [...] Fizzy Thoughts created a February mini-challenge for the New York Reading challenge, which is: For the month of February, your task (should you choose to accept it) is to compile a list of ten things about New York. It can be a reading list, a list of songs, restaurants, places to visit (or that you’d like to visit), [...] Fizzy Thoughts is going to New York in May for BEA and Book Blogger Con … along with many other folks from the book-blog-osphere. To get us in a New York state of mind, she’s designed a fun reading challenge called … wait for it … The New York Challenge! All the details are here; this is [...] There’s a new(ish) imprint in town – Reagan Arthur Books, from Little, Brown & Company. Reagan Arthur Books is: an imprint with a simple, single focus: great writing in the service of great stories. It will be a home for writers of literary novels, adventures, memoir, true narrative—a place where books aren’t separated by genre, but bound [...] Yeah, you read that correctly. I want to be a BLOB, as in Biggest Loser of Books! You see, I have a problem; the stacks of books are out of control. And they are stacks, just ask my friend Kristine, who came for coffee on Friday. I was a bit embarrassed to be able to see into [...] Anna and Serena are again hosting the War through the Generations reading challenge. In 2010 the challenge focuses on the Vietnam War. You can read this post at the War through the Generations (Vietnam War) blog to get all the details, in a nutshell: any genre (children’s, fiction, non-fiction) and any format (print, audio, e-book) counts |
 
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