Today is the last day that I'm going to spend writing about reading. If I don't actually start to turn some book-chat time into book-reading time, I'll be signing myself into book-therapy before the end of the month, a page-turning failure. But it's true that, even though I've mentioned a
When I first started making the list of books I’d like to read for this Challenge, I immediately began to list classic English and American texts (and not that that wouldn’t make for a fitting challenge, with the likes of Wollstonecraft and Pankhurst brushing up with Stanton and Lorde) but
Also inflating this year’s reading list, but escaping the burdensome Must-Read List, are my choices for the Shelf Discovery Challenge. My 2008 Reading Project was to focus on children’s and young adult literature and I used that as an excuse to revisit a lot of my old favourites, so when
I intuitively gravitate towards Canlit. A third of the books I read last year were been penned by Canadian writers and I’m aiming to be an Igloo for The Canadian Book Challenge. Not only does that feel suitably wintry (and I’m writing this on a wintry Canadian afternoon, the sky
The thing about my readolutions is that they are never simple. So, yes, there's this concise list of 12 books, casually distributed across various categories of interest that I declare I must read in 2010. But this tidy list only hints at other lists. For instance, there are 3 Canlit
