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I gave up on book challenges a year or so ago. Part of it stemmed from the fact that, as I’ve said earlier this year, I want to read what I want to read when I feel like reading it. While I still let a few book reviews impact that, I’ve stuck pretty close to […] Tim July 11th, 2012 | Tags: reading challenges, Reading the World, world literature | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | My year-end list and recaps will be coming at, you guessed it, year end. I have, though, been pondering 2011 in reading and have decided upon a (overused) motto — less is more. No, I don’t mean anything foolish like borrowing, buying or reading fewer books. Instead, it’s a reduction in what I call the […] Tim December 28th, 2010 | Tags: Books, reading, reading challenges | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | As usual, my reading personality is split this year. By the end of June, I’d read 52 books this year, 25 fiction and 27 nonfiction. Of the fiction, nearly half (12) were works in translation with French and Spanish accounting for three each. Of the nonfiction books, 10 were history (if you include recent […] Tim July 5th, 2010 | Tags: Books, reading, reading challenges | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | | It looks like my reading challenge efforts are more than a little weak this year. If you take a gander at the list of them to the right, there’s two I’ve done nothing toward. And the others aren’t get much better. In one — a challenge I came up with — I’ve only read one […] Tim May 27th, 2010 | Tags: Books of the Century challenge, Notable Books Challenge, Random Reading Challenge, reading, reading challenges | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | | I was so intrigued by Daniel Immerwahr’s creation, The Books of the Century website, that I decided to launch a reading challenge based on it. Immerwhar has compiled a list for each year of the 20th Century based on The top ten bestsellers in fiction, as recorded by Publishers Weekly; The top ten bestsellers in […] Tim January 11th, 2010 | Tags: Books of the Century challenge, reading challenges | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | | |
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