Casvelyn's 5x10 Challenge
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1casvelyn
I'm altering my 11-11 Challenge slightly and bringing it over here, for four reasons:
- I really like my categories and want to get started on them now.
- I'm a grad student, so I need an easier challenge - I can manage 40-50 books per calendar year, if I'm disciplined.
- I just finished Anna Karenina and I want to get "credit" for reading over 900 pages.
- Ten is a much better number than eleven. It's nice and round and even.
So, I'm going to post my categories below, with explanation where needed. I'm starting this challenge today and I hope to be done by December 31, 2011. Rereads do count, but part of my goal with this challenge is to cut down my TBR list.
- I really like my categories and want to get started on them now.
- I'm a grad student, so I need an easier challenge - I can manage 40-50 books per calendar year, if I'm disciplined.
- I just finished Anna Karenina and I want to get "credit" for reading over 900 pages.
- Ten is a much better number than eleven. It's nice and round and even.
So, I'm going to post my categories below, with explanation where needed. I'm starting this challenge today and I hope to be done by December 31, 2011. Rereads do count, but part of my goal with this challenge is to cut down my TBR list.
2casvelyn
Category One: Indiana (aka my home state)
This includes authors from Indiana, books set in Indiana, non-fiction about Indiana, etc.
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This includes authors from Indiana, books set in Indiana, non-fiction about Indiana, etc.
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3casvelyn
Category Two: 1001 Books to Read Before You Die/Guardian 1000 (since they overlap so much)
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. Howards End by E. M. Forster
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1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. Howards End by E. M. Forster
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Category Five: Science fiction and fantasy (tied for second favorite genre)
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I expect to put some Le Guin, Fforde, and Adams in here over Christmas break.
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I expect to put some Le Guin, Fforde, and Adams in here over Christmas break.
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Category Six: TBR from my library (getting through stuff I've bought but never got around to reading)
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Category Seven: Victorian novel (because the class never fit in my schedule in undergrad)
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I'm thinking Bronte sisters and Trollope on this one.
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I'm thinking Bronte sisters and Trollope on this one.
11casvelyn
Category Ten: Miscellaneous/catch-all/overflow/anything goes/whatever I want it to be
1. Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery
2. Emily Climbs by L. M. Montgomery
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1. Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery
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12casvelyn
I finished Howards End today. It was okay - I like Forster's writing style but I really didn't care for any of the characters at all.
13christina_reads
I agree with you about Howards End. I much prefer A Room with a View!
14casvelyn
I'll have to try A Room with a View, since I do like Forster overall.
Today I read A Caribbean Mystery. Typical Christie - not one of her best, but thus far I haven't found that any of her mysteries are truly bad.
Today I read A Caribbean Mystery. Typical Christie - not one of her best, but thus far I haven't found that any of her mysteries are truly bad.