January 1, 2010

Reading Challenge(s)

Since it’s a nice neat date for making pledges, and I need direction in my reading, I am signing on for these reading challenges, and will keep track of my progress here, since I don’t seem to be doing anything else with this tumblr.

“The 2010 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge”

http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/2009/11/2010-support-your-local-library-reading.html

The general gist is to check out and read X number of books from the library. Since I normally get very few books and save them until they’re incredibly overdue, I pledge in for 50.

“Woolf In Winter”

http://nonsuchbook.typepad.com/nonsuch_book/2009/11/woolf-in-winter-an-invitation.html

Read the following:

Mrs. Dalloway: Jan 15

To The Lighthouse: Jan 29

Orlando: Feb 12

The Waves: Feb 26

“The Chunkster Challenge”

http://chunksterchallenge.blogspot.com/

This is pretty much just reading thick books. Which I often do anyway… . but I am committing myself to “6 or more books of 450 pages or more, OR 3 or more books of 750 pages or more” All adult lit. Perhaps this means that I will actually finish part one of my never-ending personal Proust challenge (the CK Scott Moncrieff translation, part two is the new Penguin translations)

Perhaps my list will look like this:

1. In Search of Lost Time vol. V: The Captive & The Prisoner: M. Proust

2. Buddenbrooks: T. Mann

3. Ulysses: J. Joyce

4. Demons: F. Dostoyevsky

5. ?

6. ?

Hm. there will probably be more.

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