I do love challenges and I want to join some also in 2012. And, really, it can only be onwards an upwards from 2011! Here are some challenges I'm joining for 2012:
Yes, I did not manage to read more than one little book from the list I made for this year's TBP Pile Challenge, but I love the idea of this challnege and I have more than enough books at home waiting for their turn and waiting and waiting...
The goal of this challenge is to read 12 books within 12 months from one's TBR pile. The books should have been waiting for their turn for at least a year. For more details click the link or the button above.
Hopefully I'll do better with this pile than I did with my choices in 2011:
1. Karen Blixen: Seven Gothic Tales (read 9.1.2012)
2. A.S.Byatt: The Children's Book
3. Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (read 19.1.2012)
4. Lewis Crofts: The Pornographer of Vienna
5. Emma Donoghue: Still Life
6. Sarah Dunant: Secret Hearts
7. Madeleine Gagnon: My Name is Bosnia (read 14.4.2012)
8. Adolus Huxley: Brave New World
9. Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall (read 29.4.2012)
10. Kate Pulliger: Mistress of Nothing
11. H.G.Wells: Ann Veronica (read 28.1.2012)
12. Simon Scott: Pretty Birds
Alternates:
+Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room
+Stefan Zweig: Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game
Back to the Classics 2012 Challenge hosted by Sara Reads Too Much
I've been craving for classics for some time now, so, this challenge is just the perfect excuse to read more classics! Like one would need an excuse...
The aim of Back to the Classics Challenge is to read one book from nine different categories i.e. all together 9 classics. Click the link or the button above for more details.
My list:
- Any 19th Century Classic: Emile Zola: Women's Paradise
- Any 20th Century Classic: Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
- Reread a classic of your choice: Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
- A Classic Play: Aristofanes: Lysistrata or The Parliament of Women or Ibsen: A Doll's House
- Classic Mystery/Horror/Crime Fiction: Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (read 19.1.2012)
- Classic Romance: Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
- Read a Classic that has been translated from its original language to your language -if your native language is NOT English, you may read any classic originally written in English that has been translated into your native language: Homeros: Odyssey
- Classic Award Winner: F. E. Sillanpää: Hurskas kurjuus (Meek Heritage) (Sillanpää won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1939) or Ursula Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (Nebula Award 1969)
- Read a Classic set in a Country that you (realistically speaking) will not visit during your lifetime: Anthony Hope: Prisoner of Zenda (Set in the fictional country of Ruritania)
Greek Classics Challenge hosted by Howling Frog
As I've already decided on reading Odysseus by Homeros in 2012 there's really no reason not to join this challenge! I'm joining on Sophocles -level (=1-4 books). I might also read Aristophanes and some other playwrites and maybe also some poetry. (Too bad I've read If Not, Winter by Sappho twice already...)
In addition to these challenges I will participate in the LGBT Challenge also next year and will aim to read 10-12 books for the challenge.
6 comments:
I'm participating in the first two challenges you listed. You have some great choices! I've been meaning to read The Left Hand of Darkness for far too long.
Melissa, I'm very eager to get into those books on my TBR Pile Challenge list & would like to start a number of them asap! hopefully I will still feel this way in January! :) I think Le Guin is a very interesting writer & hope to read Left Hand very soon. I actually started reading it once, but somehow did not finish it, but that had nothing to do with not liking the book, actually what I read I liked very, very much.
Greetings,
Tiina
Glad you're joining us again for 2012, even though 2011 didn't go all that well!
Your list looks interesting - quite a few I haven't heard of, so I look forward to reading your reviews.
I haven't read any Wilkie Collins yet, but I've got The Woman in White on my 2012 Challenge List - looking forward to that (so I can then hopefully, finally, read Drood by Dan Simmons - which I've owned since its release!)
A.S. Byatt is brilliant - I loved Possession and I bought The Children's Book ages ago, still waiting to read that one as well.
I've only read one Woolf novel (To the Lighthouse) and didn't enjoy it, but I'd like to give her another chance. I own Orlando and something else... maybe I'll try again soon.
Definitely need to read Brave New World someday too.. still can't believe I haven't read that one (or Catch-22!).
Anyway - I've gone on long enough - Good Luck!!
Thanks, Adam! I've read The Woman in White -twice. :) Hopefully you'll like it as much as I did. I did not know about the Drood connection! Have to take a look at Drood...
And about Woolf, do try Orlando! It's totally different from To the Lighthouse, a much easier read, a more traditionally narrated story. Or you might try Mrs. Dalloway, it's style is more typically Woolf, but it's not "too experimental".
Greetings,
Tiina
Thanks for joining the Back to the Classics Challenge! I will also be reading Mrs. Dalloway, but it will be my first time. I'm looking forward to it!
Sarah, I'm really looking forward to reading more classics in 2012! Mrs. Dalloway is actually my favorite novel. :) Woolf's books might be quite challenging, but I hope you'll enjoy reading Mrs. D. If you haven't read The Hours by Michael Cunningham yet, I suggest you read it after Mrs. Dalloway. Those two one after the other make a great reading experience.
Greetings,
Tiina
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