As if I didn't have enough on my plate already, and as if I didn't know what I'd be in for judging from my experiences with the A-Z Reading Challenge in 2010, I took on-- not just one-- but two challenges this year! Yes, I'm a laidback kinda girl...
I signed up for FFP's 2011 Quantity Challenge, where I get to dictate how many books I aim to finish, which is good except I put down 100 books because it's such a pretty number, without really thinking if I can read that many. Anyway, I figure I can make things easier by reading 50 children's books, because they are books, too, and 50 novels. But knowing me, I'll think that's cheating so that won't happen. In fact, for the A-Z, I read the books in alphabetical order, because that's how the alphabet goes. Just so you know, I finished way before the deadline. [insert smug grin here]
I also signed up for another one, the Whodunit Reading Challenge by GatheringBooks because, hopefully, it can push me to blog more often; because it sounds like a lot of (geeky) fun; because they have cute buttons I can decorate my page with; because there are book prizes and I have never won anything in my life; because I'm a big masochist (duh); and because it can overlap with the other challenges I've already signed up for. Besides, I'm only supposed to read 9 or more crime/mystery/suspense novels to reach Level 4: Criminal Genius/Mastermind. That's not so many.
I'm currently on my 23rd (and 24th, and 25th... I'm a polybookist) book for the year so I only have to read... hold on while I do the math... one book every 4.35897436 days!
So if there's anyone out there who wants to talk to me or invite me for coffee, please pencil me in for January 2012. This one's going to be a busy year.