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I am the queen of failed challenges, so I know that I will not be signing up for very many this year. However, I watched with interest as first Chris and Debi, and then Amy and Hannah posted on their blogs that they planned on swapping reading lists with each other for 2011. The idea [...]
Winner of the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, this unforgettable portrait of a young black girl, her friends, family, and lovers is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life. – Goodreads The month of July is coming to a close and with it comes the end of our reading [...]
I have committed myself to a number of challenges this year, and I figure that the halfway point in the year would be a good time to check in and see just how well or how poorly I am doing with what I had set out to accomplish. I am hoping that I will have [...]
Heather, from Age 30+…A Lifetime of Books has posted the sign up post for our readalong of The Color Purple this month. Signing up is super easy, as is this readalong. Just comment that you will be reading with us on Heather’s post. Heather will have a discussion post with a few question about the [...]
One of the great things about having a blog is that it jogs my memory about the books that I have read over the last couple of years. I still don’t remember all the nitty gritty details but if I glance at a review it triggers a fair amount of the book to come back [...]
How did the time sneak up on me so fast? Julie, from Booking Mama, created a wonderful challenge to host – all about the rediscovery of classic teenage fare, and I hope she hosts a part II so that I can redeem myself a little! But more on that later. Shelf Discovery, by Lizzie Skurnick is [...]
Aren’t you sad? We are going into the last few months of the Shelf Discovery Challenge, hosted by Julie of Booking Mama. I have had a ton of fun going back and re-visiting these old classics, and I am finding that a few of them still resonate with me and are some of my favorite books even [...]
I’m in! Check out what Candace has to say about the perpetual challenge that she is hosting reading through the Amy Einhorn Imprint! The Amy Einhorn Books challenge was born on Twitter (where all evil occurs) and was inspired by (in no particular order) Swapna from S. Krishna’s Books, Trish from Hey Lady! Whatcha Reading?, Jenn [...]
Swapna is hosting the South Asian Author Challenge. She says: This challenge is to encourage people to read books by South Asian Authors – South Asia being India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Please not that it does not include the Middle East! The books can be from any time period, contemporary or classic. There are two requirements [...]
MizB at Should Be Reading is hosting the 2010 TBR Challenge. We can’t change our lists after December 31st so I made sure to have a full 12 alternates to fall back on just in case I find there is stuff that I don’t want to read after all. Here is what she has to [...]
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