Saturday, January 2, 2010

Challenge Number One



I'm taking the A to Z challenge from http://2010atozchallenge.blogspot.com/ hosted by Becky. I learned of it from a great blog -- http://www.findyournextbookhere.com.

I have chosen the Read 26 books in order alphabetically by author. (I reserve the right to swap out as appropriate). These are the 26 that I have chosen:

A -- Allende, Isabel, Portrait in Sepia
B -- Brown, Dan, The Lost Symbol
C -- Crichton, Michael, The Andromeda Strain
D -- Dubus III, Andre, House of Sand and Fog
E -- Elliot, Anna, Twilight of Avalon
F -- Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary
G -- Gregory, Phillipa, The Constant Princess
H -- Hardy, Thomas, Tess of the d'Ubervilles
I -- Iles, Greg, The Devil's Punchbowl
J -- Jordan, Chris, Taken
K -- Kostova, Elizabeth, The Historian
L -- LeCarre, John, The Little Drummer Girl
M -- Meyer, Stephanie, The Host
N -- Niffenegger, Audrey, The Time Traveler's Wife
O -- Orczy, Baroness, The Scarlet Pimpernel
P -- Powell, Julie, Julie and Julia
Q -- Quindlen, Anna, One True Thing
R -- Robotham, Michael, Shatter
S -- Seybold, Alice, The Lovely Bones
T -- Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina
U -- Unger, Lisa, Beautiful Lies
V -- Voltaire, Candide
W -- Wells, Rebecca, Ya-yas in Bloom
X -- Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Y -- Yates, Richard, Revolutionary Road
Z -- Zafon, Carlos Ruis, The Shadow of the Wind

I tried to balance new and old, books from the can't wait to read list and the I should read list. So let's see where the reading takes me. I am hoping to join other challenges but one step at a time, right?

Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy New Year... I am officially insane!

Okay, if my husband did not need any further proof that I was INSANE, I started another blog. But I have been inspired by some of the wonderful blogs about books and encouraging writing and well, I couldn't resist joining up. So here I am. I will be participating in reading challenges and hopefully some writing challenges, as well.

So here's to a happy 2010 and a more literate one!
:-)