I’m still working on finishing up my 2011 challenges, which I absolutely went overboard on. But in the meantime, while I’m preparing for the holiday festivities and finishing up challenges and making the Best of list, I wanted to get out there with two challenges I will definitely be participating in.
Ok, yes, they are challenges I have a hand in creating, but that’s just half the fun.
First, I’ll be signing up for the Wade level (4-10 books) in the WWI Reading Challenge at War Through the Generations. I know one of the books will be A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway since it is the book that we selected for the mid-year read-a-long.
I hope you’ll consider joining us in the new year for some reading about The Great War.
Second, I’ll be joining my own Fearless Poetry Exploration challenge by reading and reviewing books as usual. But I also hope to make the National Poetry Month blog tour even better and bigger than it has been in the past. Also, I hope to get some more discussion going during the Virtual Poetry Circles on Saturdays.
I hope you’ll consider joining too, since there are so many more options for those concerned about reviewing poetry books. There are new ways to participate.
Also, as an aside, I hope you’ll get your nominations in for the Indie Lit Awards in the poetry category and the others. You have until Dec. 31, 2011, to nominate up to 5 books published this year.
Finally, I’ll be joining the Finishing the Series Challenge over at Socrates’ Book Reviews.
I’m going to be ambitious and finish 2 series of books and I’m shooting for James Patterson’s Alex Cross series and the Sookie Stackhouse series. For the Sookie series, these are the ones I have left to read:
- Dead as a Doornail (Book #5)
- Definitely Dead (Book #6)
- All Together Dead (Book #7)
- From Dead to Worse (Book #8)
- Dead and Gone (Book #9)
- Dead in the Family (Book #10)
- Dead Reckoning (Book #11)
- Deadlocked (Book #12) – expected publication: May 1, 2012
However, I may change my mind about what series to finish since I have started quite a few and not finished them.
***Update 1/5/12***
Since I’ll be reading more from my own books this year, I want to sign up again for the Ireland Reading Challenge. This level has changed since last year, but I’m still sticking with the Shamrock Level, which is now 4 books.
I don’t have a planned set of reads, but I’d like to read Dubliners this year, so that’s definitely on the list of books.
I love this challenge. I can use books from other challenges, and I’m always reading new-to-me authors. I just adore this one, and I always seem to surpass my goal on this one. This year, I’m still signing up for 25 authors, but I’ll be sure to meet and exceed that goal.
Which reading challenges are you joining?
