No
review this week as I am working through some lengthy tomes at present. But
instead this 150th post will share thoughts on the Popsugar 2015
Reading Challenge.
Although
nominally the challenge is to read 50 books (52 really as one has to be a
trilogy) it is actually a list of 50 characteristics to tick off. And as most
books will satisfy several criteria it should be possible, within my normal
reading pattern, to cover most bases. We shall see.
In
fact, thirteen books into the new year, seventeen boxes can already be checked
off, some multiple times, as I have no problem with ‘nonfiction’, ‘set in a
different country’, ‘female author’ or ‘translated from another language’.
Looking
at the rest of the list I foresee difficulties stumbling over a book by an author
with my initials, or one published in my year of birth. Also a graphic novel
and one featuring non-human characters will stretch my normal literary
parameters, but then that is the whole point.
And
the final box – a book started but never finished – means that Moby Dick could
raise his head once more.
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