Reading Challenge 2012

It’s a New Year, and that means it’s time for a new reading challenge: The 2012 Lovely Little Reading Challenge! Anyone can join at any time, and the rules are as follows:

• You must read all required books (104 total) between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012.
• If this is new to you, or you don’t feel like two books a week is feasible for your situation, you can participate on the Jr. level, which requires only 52 books, or one per week. Honestly, just set your goal and read along with us! The more voices in the chorus the better!
• Each book may only count once. You can read Pride and Prejudice once every week, but it can only count once in 2012.
• No cheating. This is about feeding and enriching our minds, so Green Eggs and Ham only counts if you’re five.
• Books from more specific challenges can count towards this one also.
• Keep a list of your finished books, even if it’s just in the back of a journal. You’ll be glad you did.

I will be keeping track of my progress, with links to each review, below. Happy Reading!

1: Fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science: Lucia Greenhouse

2: The Apothecary: Maile Meloy

3: Pulphead Essays: John Jeremiah Sullivan

4: An Unquenchable Thirst: Mary Johnson

5: Archenemy: Frank Beddor

6: The Tiger’s Wife: Tea Obreht

7: Real Marriage: Mark& Grace Driscoll

8: The Nazi Officer’s Wife: Edith Hahn Beer

9: Creative Counterpart: Linda Dillow

10: The Tragedy of Arthur: Arthur Phillips

11: The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition: Norton Juster

12: The Language of Flower’s: Vanessa Diffenbaugh

13: Letters to a Young Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke

14: Rilke’s Book of Hours: Rainer Maria Rilke

15: A Matter of Prejudice and Other Stories: Kate Chopin

16: Searching For God Knows What: Donald Miller

17: When Life and Beliefs Collide: Carolyn Custis James

18: A Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Nicholas Drayson

19: One Thousand White Women: Jim Fergus

20: The Magicians: Lev Grossman

21: Weird: Craig Groschel

22: 100 Cupboards: N.D. Wilson

23: Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin

24: Charlotte’s Web: E.B. White

25: The Story of Charlotte’s Web: Michael Sims

26: A Discovery of Witches: Deborah Harkness

27: The Death of King Arthur: Peter Ackroyd

28: State of Wonder: Ann Patchett

29: The Devil in the White City: Erik Larson

30: New and Selected Poems: Mary Oliver

31: Gone Girl: Gillian Flynn

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