2011 Name Your Own Challenge

[mupt02]

Here is the place for all of those personal challenges that we have for ourselves.  It can be to read a certain number of banned books, to read a book from certain places, to read a book written in different decades or years - what ever you want.

In your post, please include what you are challenging yourself to and then keep us updated on your progress.  If you would like, please add a list of books that you have read.

Let me know if you have any questions.

[mom2ryneandsam]

 My personal challenge for 2011 is to read all the books I own that I haven't read yet before bringing any more books in the house

[JaydensMom12308]

My challenge for 2011 is to read at least one book every month from the group's BOTM

January: Read Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

                 Read Matched by Ally Condie

                 Read Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

February: Read Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

                   Read Room by Emma Donoghue

March: Read The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

             Read The Hole We're In by Gabrielle Zevin

April: Read Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult

May: Read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

June: Read Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster

           Read Summer People by Elin Hilderbrand

           Read You Suck by Christopher Moore

July: Read Save Me by Lisa Scottoline

August:

September: Read Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

 

 

[jen_pas]

It's possible that this will take me more than a year....but I found a blog that has a list of books shown and/or referenced in the television series Lost.  I loved the show and thought it would be fun to read my way through this list.

http://coyotemercury.com/the-lost-book-club/

From this list I have already read (but just might re-read):

Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
A Wrinkle in Time- Madeleine L'Engle
Are You There God?  It's Me Margaret- Judy Blume
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand
Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
The Chronicles of Narnia- C.S. Lewis
The Little Prince-  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 

[princesskelcie2]

My challenge for 2011 is to read a Danielle Steele book every month.

[bocamom62]

 My challenge is to read 12 non-fiction books in 2011.

[Bleacheddecay]

Various Cat books:
The Norton Cat Series:

The Cat Who Went To Paris by Peter Gethers 4/5

A Cat Abroad by Peter Gethers 4.5/5

The Cat Who'll Live Forever by Peter Gethers 4/5

Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat by Gwen Cooper 4/5

Dewey's Nine Lives:The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions by Vicky Myron and Bret Witter 3.5/5

Making Rounds With Oscar by David Dosa, M.D. 4.5/5

Historical Cats by Norton 2/5

All My Patients Are Under the Bed by Dr. Louis J. Camuti 4/5

[ButterflyCager]

My challenge for 2011 is to read at least 36 books I already own.

1.  Bloody Good by Georgia Evans

2.  Howling at the Moon by Karen MacInerney

3.  The Very Best of Charles de Lint by Charles de Lint

4.  Whiter Shades of Pale by Christian Lander

5.  Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schlansky

6.  Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

7.  84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

[lisakansas]

I'm more trying to slow down how quickly I read books.  It really sucks to wait for a book to come out for a year or more and then be done with it in an evening.  If anybody else has had this problem and figured out a solution, please share!

[MELLI80]

my challenge for myself is to stop reading more then one book at a time... i have finally realized that it actually takes me longer to read a book, not because i get the story lines mixed up but because i have a book upstairs and a book downstairs and depending on where im at thats what im reading.. ohh and also not to bring any more boosk into the house until i read all the ones that i have.. which are quite a few!

[ArmyWifeJennRN]

Well....I am going to try to read all the Book of the Month books on BBC this year. Although I'm a little nervous about some of the pics.

I'd be glad to do it here....do we have a book of the month that is discussed each month?