Was that TwentyTen or 2010? On the second day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I'm chatting about one of my favourite challenges of the year: the TwentyTen Reading Challenge. Finding the right combinations for these categories was just plain ol' reading fun. Young Adult - Any book classified as young
All in the Numbers On the first day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I'm chatting about challenges that were all about numbers, be they percentages or quotients or years. One of my favourite reads for 2010 was Winifred Holtby's South Riding and I chose it for Nymeth's 1930s Mini Challenge. I'd
Right now there are about 25 URLs lingering in a document titled "2011 Challenges" in my reading folder. And those are the ones that "really" interest me. The ones that make my reader's heart beat a little faster. And those are not including the two challenges to which I've already
Matthew Quick's Sorta Like a Rock Star Little Brown, 2010 In a reading month that included War and Peace and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, you can imagine that I was craving something a little lighter. Enter Amber Appleton and her loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy, in the pages of this
Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) Penguin, 1978 She's "goodness made interesting". That's what Irving Howe calls Tess, the main character in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Interesting is one way to put it. Not all of his Victorian readers found it so however. His religious skepticism and his
