Saturday, January 9, 2010

A new book challenge

I was reading through some of the posts in the Goodreads group, 144 Books in 2010 & found this awesome idea for a challenge by a Goodreads member named Lynn
WHAT'S IN A TITLE? 2010

Challenge: Choose one book from each of the categories. This challenge will run from January 1st until December 31st.

1. Profession - An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor
2. Time of Day - Troubled Midnight by John Champlin Gardner Jr.
3. Relative - The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
4. Body Part - Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
5. Building - Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
6. Medical Condition - Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West
7. Town - Dubliners, by James Joyce
8. Plant Name - The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
9. Color - The Black Cat by Martha Grimes
It is too late to do this, or maybe it's not. Perhaps I could cut the number of books by favorite authors to incorporate this challenge. I saw someone else with a challenge to read a book with numbers in the titles, numerically, instead of alphabetically. I'm already reading Janet Evanovichs by the numbers books. She is one of my favorite authors.

I could use Numbers, Weather, Gender ... A challenge for another year would be to read a book with the name of each of the 50 states in the title.

Today I went to the library & picked up a book from my "May Never Read" list, The Runaway Quilt, #4 by Jennifer Chiaverini. I finished it & gave it 3 stars.

I also picked up a biography & another Jennifer Chiaverini book that is actually the sequel to Runaway Quilt.

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