OK! I am quite good at starting challenges and even fairly consistently finishing them but I am horrible at reporting or posting about it… so let’s see if that can be my goal this year! I am officially joining two for now…the Eclectic Reader Challenge 2012 and The Chunkster Reading Challenge 2012… so… let me tell you a bit about them.
The rules are simple.
Read 12 books (one from each of the following genre) and then post about it and post the link to my reviews.
Genres
Literary Fiction
Crime/Mystery Fiction
Romantic Fiction
Historical Fiction
Young Adult
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Non Fiction
Horror
Thriller /Suspense
Classic
Your favourite genre
And…
I love this challenge. I’ve done it (unofficially) for a couple years now. This will be my third. I am going to get brave and go for the top level… Mor-book-ly Obese!
Participation Level: Mor-book-ly Obese - This is for the truly out of control chunkster. For this level of challenge you must commit to EIGHT or more Chunksters (525 pages or more) of which three tomes MUST be 750 pages or more.
And so… here goes! How fun. Some of these I don’t read on a regular basis, so I am all for the discovery of new ones! If you have suggestions, please feel free to comment. A favorite book you’d like to share? Let me know!
I happened upon some lovely book-related things… a picture and a poem. I am not certain who wrote the poem, I found it in a book but it says it was written anonymously (I found out who it was, see below). I will share them both with you. I hope you like them.
The photo is property of Rune Guneriussen (http://www.runeguneriussen.no/wallno02/02_02.html)
The poem:
I’ve travelled [sic] the world twice over,
Met the famous; saints and sinners,
Poets and artists, kings and queens,
Old stars and hopeful beginners.
I’ve been where no one’s
been before,
learned secrets from writers
and cooks,
All on one library ticket
To the wonderful work of books.
– Janice James (I found the author…with a little google help…)
This one is even better than yesterday’s! I love love love it… so cute! They put a lot of time and energy into this, bravo!
The people who made it posted this,
After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago (http://youtu.be/zhRT-PM7vpA), my wife and I (Sean Ohlenkamp) decided to take it to the next level. We spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto (883 Queen Street West, (416) 366-8973).
Everything you see here can be purchased at Type Books.
Grayson Matthews (http://www.graysonmatthews.com/) generously composed the beautiful, custom music.
Oh. My. I love when creative people think of us bookworms and create cool things like this…
This book tent is made by FieldCandy. You can find it here. This fantastic tent is named “Fully Booked” and the description reads:
Are you a big fan of books? We mean, are you a really big fan of books. Because this is, well, it’s an enormous book. It looks like a giant has dropped his favourite best seller. Plus, it also lets you meet up with other book fans on the campsite. You can even hold book groups in your tent and discuss whether Twilight is better than Harry Potter.
I came across this brilliant idea by accident and I absolutely in love with it! The Little Free Library is a network of people putting up tiny little libaries where people can come by and take a book or leave a book! What a way to promote literacy and a love for reading! You can build your own or buy a kit or one already made from them directly! How cool is that?
According to their website, their goals are:
To promote literacy and the love of reading by building free book exchanges worldwide.
To build a sense of community as we share skills, creativity and wisdom across generations.
To build more than 2,510 libraries around the world–more than Andrew Carnegie!
And so, from their brilliant minds to yours…click here to go to their website and learn more.
This was an interesting story set in the future but not too far into the future that it is easy to see how we got from now to then in the name of ‘progress’. This is the story of Hannah Payne, a very demure young woman who gets caught up in a romantic affair and gets pregnant. She cannot have the baby for reasons I will not give away and chooses to have an abortion which is illegal, punishable by ‘chroming’ a futuristic way of dealing with criminals by genetically altering their skin color according to their crimes. She is chromed red and kept in a stark white room for 30 days which is monitored by cameras broadcasting her transition all over the world. Once released, she must learn deal with the prejudices that come with being a social outcast in her struggle to survive, alone.
The characters are believable. The story line is plausible. I really enjoyed this book.
Book Mooch
A place where you can give a book and get a book or two or three. (Soft Capitalism and eco-friendly reading)
Curious Pages by Lane Smith
A site for all your reading disorders. Here we celebrate the offbeat, the abstract, the unusual, the surreal, the macabre, the inappropriate, the subversive and the funky.
Google Books
A search engine just for books! You can search books and even read a chapter in some before buying them!
Shelfari
Online book-lovers community, a place to hang your bookmark.
The Kindle
The most common wireless reading device.
The Nook
The latest and greatest in eBook readers! You can even loan books with friends!
