Ever since the challenges started pouring in, I’d been looking out for a TBR challenge to participate in. However not one or two or even three TBR Challenges turned up, but more than that. I found myself hemming and hawing after espying each one when I finally came across Roof Beam Reader’s challenge. I think what I like about it the most is that it challenges us to read books that have been on our shelves for over a year. Not only that, but it challenges us to pick out certain titles that we ought to stick to. I must say, this is a really good one. Looking at all the other challenges in this category I found myself thinking of listing down all the books I’ve been buying recently. But this one had me actually contemplating my TBR list. I think I would be quite overjoyed if I got get the following list out of the way, and then some. There is bound to be some overlapping of books with other challenges I have signed up for, but while those give leave-way to change our titles as and when we want to, this one will have me in my place.
So, without any more rambling, here’s the list I have fixed for 2012:
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- Roots by Alex Hailey
- The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
- Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
- Wuthering Heights by Emile Bronte
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
- Byzantium by Stephen R Lawhead
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
- The Odyssey
Two Alternatives:
- Phantastes by George MacDonald
- Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
So, yeah, I’m really trying to say that I haven’t done any short story reading this past week, and I’m feeling too tired to read one now. I’m in the mood to just aimlessly browse around the net and mess a bit with the blog layout.
