For the third year in a row Hotchpot
Cafe is sponsoring the wonderful Birth Year Reading Challenge. My favorite reading challenge. This
year, in addition to the regular option to read books from our own
birth year, we were offered the chance to select the birth year of
someone special that we would like to honor.
I jumped in with both feet--'cause, you see, I had two people that
I'd like to honor. And they both have some pretty good books that just
happen to have been hanging out on my TBR list for a while. [I really wanted to do honor to three people--Sorry, Dad, but
the list of books for your year didn't do a whole lot for me.] My commitment was for four books for each of my honorees.
First, up 1947. This is the year of
Gloria, my mom. Not only is my mom totally great and deserving of the
honor just for being a wonderful mom--but she also gets the credit for
introducing me to Nancy Drew and starting me on my long love affair with
the written word in general and mysteries in particular. Mom gave me
her set of 5-6 Nancy Drew books that had been a Christmas gift from her
mom back in the '50s and I never looked back. I'm not sure that Mom
realized that she was creating such a dedicated biblioholic when she did
that.....
Books read from 1947:
1. The Clue in the Old Album by Carolyn Keene (3/22/12)
2. Full Moon by P. G. Wodehouse (3/23/12)
3. New Graves at Great Norne by Henry Wade (5/31/12)
4. Swan Song by Edmund Crispin (4/3/12)
My
second honoree burst onto the scene in 1955. Richard is a dear friend
who gets the credit for my most recent obsession--book blogging. Again,
I'm not sure he knew what he was doing when he told me about his blog
(animal/picture-oriented), but had I not checked out his blog and also his
daughter's and moved from there to discovering a
whole world of book blogging I don't think I'd be out here in the
blogosphere today.
Books read from 1955
1. A Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (3/6/12)
2. Compartment K by Helen Reilly (7/15/12)
3. So Many Steps to Death by Agatha Christie (5/25/12)
4. Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis (7/31/12)
Commitment Complete: 7/31/12. But still reading! J. G. is offering an overachiever prize....and, well, I am a bit of an overachiever. Just a bit.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment