It’s the time of year where I start thinking about new reading challenges. I’m going to keep my challenge participation light again in 2013. Here are the challenges I’ve selected:
I’m signing up for the Wade level of 4-10 books for the American Revolution Reading Challenge 2013 at War Through the Generations that I’m co-hosting with Serena. I don’t own any books about the American Revolution, so I think I’m going to start this challenge by browsing my local library. The Girl and Jerry have signed up as well for the Dip level of 1-3 books.
I’m signing up for the Ancient History level of 25+ books for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2013 at Historical Tapestry. It’s not much of a challenge for me to read historical fiction, but I can’t resist this challenge and want to see how many books I can read in this genre in a year.
I’m signing up for the Dive Into Poetry Challenge 2013 at Savvy Verse & Wit. Since I already comment on all of Serena’s weekly Virtual Poetry Circle posts, I’m committing to review at least 1 poetry book and participate in her National Poetry Month blog tour. There are several options for this challenge, so I hope you’ll see how easy it is to get your feet wet in terms of reading poetry.
I’m signing up for the Shamrock level of 4 books for the 2013 Ireland Reading Challenge at Books and Movies. I probably should have signed up for this challenge long ago since I tend to read a handful of books every year that are written by Irish authors, set in Ireland, or feature Irish characters or Irish history.
Literature and War Readalong 2013
I also want to take part in the Literature and War Readalong 2013 at Beauty is a Sleeping Cat. Caroline hosts a discussion on a war-themed novel once a month throughout the year. I plan to read as many of these books as I can get my hands on. Here’s the schedule:
January 28: The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (Iraq War)
February 28: The Flowers of War by Geling Yan (Chinese/Japanese War)
March 28: The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (WWII)
April 29: The Wars by Timothy Findley (WWI)
May 31: All That I Am by Anna Funder (WWII)
June 28: Winter in Wartime by Jan Terlouw (WWII)
July 29: Children of the New World by Assia Djebar (French/Algerian War)
August 30: Grey Souls by Philippe Claudel (WWI)
September 30: There’s No Home by Alexander Baron (WWII)
October 28: Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman (Post-War)
November 29: Death of the Adversary by Hans Keilson (WWII)
December 30: The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh (Vietnam War)
What challenges are you committing to in 2013?
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Ooh, I didn’t know about the poetry one, sounds interesting! I signed up for the Ireland challenge one year and didn’t read a single book. But I have so many on my list, maybe it’s time to try again. Good luck with your challenges!
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Thanks! I hope you’ll join Serena’s poetry challenge. She really works hard to raise awareness of poets and new poetry collections.
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I’m looking foward to the American Revolution Reading Challenge but I have no idea what books there are. I’ll see what others pick.
Thank you so much for joining the Literature and War Readalong and for posting the whole list of books. I’m really looking forward to this year’s titles. There should be quite a few great ones among the 12.
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The Literature and War Readalong is one of my favorite challenges, and I thank you so much for hosting! I really enjoy the discussions, even when I haven’t read the book. I’m not off to a good start, though, since I’m still #27 in the library queue for The Yellow Birds.
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Good luck, Anna!
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Thanks, Kathy!
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I might join you for part of the war and literature reading challenge if you remind me each month what the book is.
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I don’t know how good I’ll be at reminding you lol.
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I think you’ve picked some great challenges!!! Have fun in 2013!
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Thanks, Staci!
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I’m so glad you’re joining the Ireland Challenge! I am going to do WTTG, but not sure which level yet. I also want to check out the historical one… (I apologize if this is a duplicate comment, my computer pooped out on me.)
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I already have a few books set aside for the Ireland channel, which is more than I can say for the WTTG challenge…
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I’m trying not to enter any challenges in 2013 but only participate in some personal ones. Hope you have fun with all of these!
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Thanks! Good luck with your personal challenges.
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This is a huge commitment. I’ve still not decided which challenge I’ll be participating in. Not yet.
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I know it seems huge, but they’ll be a lot of overlap.
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Hi Anna, just wanted to pop in and wish you a very happy, healthy and peaceful new year. {{Hugs!}} Have fun with your challenges in 2013. I just plan on trying to clean out some shelves and e readers.
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Thanks, Kaye. Happy reading and happy new year to you, too!
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I am participating in the Historical Fiction challenge, too. For some reason I didn’t realize it was Serena who was hosting that Poetry challenge. I wanted to make sure if I signed up for a poetry challenge, it would be one by her. I now need to look at it closer and see if I can fit it in.
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I hope you’ll join Serena’s poetry challenge. I think you only need to read 1 book, so that’s pretty easy. 🙂
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I’m also participating in the War Through the Generations Challenge and Ireland Reading Challenge,. I’m also participating in 10 other challenges. I wanted to do both the Dive into Poetry and Literature in War Reading Challenge (although with this one I’m still debating about it), but there just isn’t enough time. Good luck with the challenges.
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Glad you’ll be joining us for WTTG again this year!
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We are glad to have you back on board for the Historical Fiction challenge even it is an unchallenging challenge! It is for me too, but this year I have made it more difficult for myself by limiting my challenge reads to Aussie authors only.
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I don’t think I’d enjoy challenges if it was too much of a challenge to complete them, lol.
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