These are the NINE categories to celebrate 2009!
The Challenge starts 12/27/08 to 12/27/09
1. Long: You decide how long is long. If you normally read 250 pages, then 251 is LONG: Inkheart
2. Free: Stardust: gifted to me by Serena
3. Dusty
4. Used: A book that has been previously owned, that you paid for. The Lovely Bones
5. Letter: Find a Letter, Any Letter. Select any letter (from the alphabet) in your first name or blog name. Find the letter anywhere in the title of the book: N
The Virgin's Lover
6. Strange: Leave Your Comfort Zone.
Read something that you normally don’t pick up
Science Fiction
Fahrenheit 451
7. Distance:Read a book in which the author’s birthplace or setting is more than 1000 miles (1609.344 kilometers) from your present location:
Saudi Arabia: Distance is 10,548 kilometers or 6554 miles or 5695 nautical miles:
In The Land of Invisible Women
8. Alive or Not: ALIVE Or NOT!
Select an author that was nominated or won any literary prize. (Your book does NOT need to be the prize winner.)
But if you can’t find any prize nominated/winning, live authors in your collection, choose any dead author from your stacks. The dead author doesn’t have to have won anything.
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells: 21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946
9. Cover: Find the book with the prettiest or ugliest cover.
Let us know which you selected and whether the work lives up to the illustration or photograph.
Just Ella: Pretty Cover. Yes, the story does relate to the cover art.
check out the challenge blog for details
