BookCrossing.comGenre Challenge - hosted by Kell
Twelve months, twelve genres. That’s it. That’s the simple idea – you decide if you want to take part in the mini, midi or maxi challenge and then choose from the list of twenty genres. You then read at least one book of your chosen genre for each of your months as follows:
I've gone for the Maxi challenge, which is -
Maxi Challenge – choose twelve genres and allocate one to each month, reading at least one book from each genre in turn.
And these are my chosen genres and the months that I'll be reading them in. That's not set in stone though, the order may change on a whim. I've allocated books to a couple of the genres, but again, that may change.
January - Children's / Young Adult - Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson
February - Modern Classic (post WWI to 1980s) - A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole
March - Historical Fiction (Pre-WWII) - Tipping the velvet by Sarah Waters
April - Crime Fiction / Mystery - The Retribution by Val McDermid
May - Speculative Fiction - Matter by Iain M. Banks
June - Horror / Thriller - The thirteenth tale
July - Classic (pre-WWI) - Dickens
August - Supernatural / Paranormal
September - Mash-Up - Sense and Sensibility and Sea monsters
October - Science Fiction / Steampunk
November - Newly published in 2012
December - Fantasy / Urban Fantasy
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2012 Country-Hopping Reading Challenge - hosted by NancyNova on BookCrossing
Rules:
1) Any country, territory or dependency counts
2) Only one book/country
3) Can be setting OR author from the country
4) All genre's welcome, as long as it's a book. It could be Fiction, Non-Fiction, Childrens/teens. No travelogues, like Zagat's guide to xxx - that's TOO easy
5) Books can be from any source: TBR pile, rabck, library, borrowed
Ideas for countries can be found here
Countries listed by continent here
Dependencies here
Fiction authors here
I haven't set a specific goal for this challenge. I'm just going to keep track here and see how many different countries I can find. Listed by continent.
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N. America
Mexico - The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Antigua - Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
Haiti - The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
USA - The gravedigger's daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
Canada - The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Cuba - To have and have not by Ernest Hemingway
S. America
Suriname - Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Chile - 2666 by Roberto Bolano (author's nationality)
Europe
Sweden - Vanished by Liza Marklund
Czech republic (Bohemia) - Closely observed trains by Bohumil Hrabal
Slovenia - Veronika decides to die by Paulo Coelho
Spain - The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway
England - Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Netherlands - The Twins by Tessa de Loo
Italy - A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway
Germany - Group portrait with lady by Heinrich Boll
Ireland - The Gathering - Anne Enright
Africa
South Africa - A dry white season by Andre Brink
Sudan - Season of migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Kenya - In memory of greed by Al Boudreau
Asia
Russian Federation - Novel with cocaine by M. Ageyev
Pakistan - The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
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1001 books you must read before you die
I'm up to 320 on the combined list at the start of 2012 and I'd rather like to make 360 by the end of the year. More would be a bonus. I've set my target at 40 on the 2012 BC 1001 thread and have signed up for the VBB again. I've got plenty of books to read, more will be on their way from the bookboxes, there are loads of freebies available for my Kindle and if all else fails, there's the library. All I have to do is read them.
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