The closest I’ve come to a New Year’s resolution this year is to try and branch out from my comfort zone of fantasy, and read other genres. The Historical Fiction Reading Challenge plays into this semi-resolution beautifully. I’m actually a pretty big fan of historical fiction, but often forget to look for it, so this […]
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Read for the Really Old Classics Reading Challenge. The Decameron was written in the 14th century, and frames 100 short stories as stories told by a group of ten friends over ten days when they have escaped to the country while the plague ravages Florence. It’s known for its bawdy tales, as well as being
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Another challenge I’ll be repeating this year is the Young Adult Reading Challenge. I’ll be doing the mini-YA reading challenge, which is to read 12 YA books through the year. The list doesn’t need to be determined up front. For the moment, I’m aiming to read the following, but the list may change: The Tale
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I’m back at home after a lovely New Year’s trip to the Boston area, happily filled up with dim sum, and back to the house before the beginnings of what may be snowy Armageddon. What better way to celebrate the new year than to start signing up for reading challenges? I’ll be repeating the TBR
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This reading challenge immediately caught my eye. I have a number of classics in my reading queue, and it seemed like the perfect excuse to dust off that portion of my virtual TBR pile. The challenge is to read just one book. (There’s a higher level to read four books, but I tend to read
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