throws down the gauntlet (or Let's Read)

[darlingfox]

day 06 → whatever tickles your fancy

Anyone up for a reading challenge?

Risingshadow.net has an interesting one going on and while I'm not joining them (no account, too lazy to make one), I thought I might try it here.

The challenge is to read sixteen books with titles that each fit one of the following categories:

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Comments

[fujiko1601]

I think I'm not going to take it because I have other things to read and the internet and dramas have been monopolising my reading time for a long time now, but the challenge sounds interesting.

A medical condition?

Seriously? I don't remember ever reading anything with medical condition in the name. Unless death counts, but that's the only one I can think of.

[darlingfox]

Heh, and that's exactly why I thought I should do this. I used to read a lot more than I do now when the internet and TV take so much time. Lately I haven't been happy about it, maybe partly because I'm surrounded by books at work. XD It's not like I won't read other books too, I'll just try to read at least those.

From what I read from other people's lists, medical condition can be a sickness or disability or indeed death. Some examples I saw: Albert Camus's The Plague, Daniel Dafoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, Stewart O'Nan's A Prayer for the Dying and Jeff VanderMeer's City of Saints and Madmen.

[fujiko1601]

Heh, that's part of the reason I started the Austen project. I really should read more, they even declared this year the reading year here, but I think for me it is easier to start with the books that I really want to read, not the ones that I should or have specific words in the title. I used to have a notebook with a page for every letter of the alphabet and I used to write all the books I read there. I never found something to write on the ä page. :( I once saw grandmother reading a book starting with an ä, but it didn't feel like a reason enough to read that book.

[darlingfox]

Projects seem to be the way to go! Well, I think that anything that gets people to read books should be encouraged.

I'll try to be clever and use this as an opportunity to read some books I've wanted to read but never got around to. XD I actually got two from the library today (an amazing coincidence: people returned them to the library I was in instead of any of the others) and they both do happen to fit a category from the list.

[postingwhore]

That's an interesting challenge! Though I'm not going to do it because I wouldn't complete it XD

[darlingfox]

I'm not sure if I will either, but I hope so! I have a whole year, though I hope that it won't take that long. That'd be just sad...

[mipeltaja]

Ooh, that sounds interesting! Might even give it a try, since I don't read nearly as much as I used to and it's really a shame.
Counting short stories would probably be cheating, but the first thing that came to mind was that if I were to count short stories, I'd have most of this covered with Sherlock Holmes.

[darlingfox]

My thoughts exactly.

Do it twice? XD Once with short stories and then with novels.