2012 Challenges

Challenges For 2012!

For the third year in a row I am participating in the What’s In A Name? Challenge, hosted by Beth Fish Reads. This year’s categories are:

- Read a book with a topographical feature (land formation) in the title, eg Black Hills
- Read a book with something you’d see in the sky in the title, eg Seeing Stars
- Read a book with a creepy crawly in the title, eg Spider Bones
- Read a book with a type of house in the title, eg The Glass Castle
- Read a book with something you’d carry in your purse/backpack in the title, eg Sarah’s Key
- Read a book with something you’d find on a calendar in the title, eg Elegy For April

I’ve also signed up for the first Australian Women Writer’s Challenge, hosted over at the Australian Women Writer’s page. I’m choosing to be a devoted eclectic (trying as many genres as I can find) and at the Franklin-fantastic level (read 10 books by Australian women and review at least 4 of them). I’ll be attempting to broaden the experience for myself further by trying to read books set in lots of different Australian locations and by authors who are from different parts of the country. I’d love to cover as much of the country as I possibly can!

Shannon over at Giraffe Days is hosting the Around the World in 12 Books Challenge. Shannon picked 12 countries across the globe to visit, one per month:

JANUARY: South Africa
FEBRUARY: Bangladesh
MARCH: Guatemala
APRIL: Tanzania
MAY: Cuba
JUNE: Germany
JULY: Iran
AUGUST: Mexico
SEPTEMBER: Philippines
OCTOBER: Denmark
NOVEMBER: Peru
DECEMBER: Iceland

Books must be set in that country and preferably be also by an author from that country. I have some choices picked out already but there’s a few there that I’m going to have to really search to find some good options!

My final challenge (well so far) that I’ve signed up for in 2012 is Carrie over at Books And Movies’ Graham Greene Reading Challenge. I’ve signed up to Wade on in, which is reading 3 books by Greene but given how many we own, I may end up reading more. Just have to see how the reading year pans out.