Must-Reads, Ongoing Personal Challenges On the twelfth and final day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I'm bookchatting about what I affectionately but determinedly call my Must Reads. The current year's are listed here and there will be links to archived lists in the future. Classics: 1. Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
The Heroine's Bookshelf Challenge Check it out here! Come on, you know you want to! (If all this is news to you, check out yesterday's response to this sweet little volume.) Or, if you'd rather, the book itself is structured in such a way that it invites a twelve-month exploration. The website
Erin Blakemore's The Heroine's Bookshelf HarperCollins, 2010 Have a favourite book that you tend to revisit when times get tough? Or maybe at just any ol' time that you find yourself missing the characters therein? Perhaps you have a fondness for Jane Eyre, or you can't help but re-read Little Women over
Elizabeth Waterston's The Magic Island Oxford University Press, 2008 I've been reading this book for months. You could actually say 'years'. Which is pretty funny actually because I bought it immediately upon publication...in 2008. But its format got me hooked in a rather unusual way and in some ways I
Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear Bantam Books, 1980 I had started high school when I read Jean Auel's first novel in the Earth's Children series, but I don't know if it was the 9th grade or the 13th. It was my grandmother's copy -- she bought a
