BOOKS AND MOVIES

Last year’s Essay Reading Challenge was a lot of fun – and several people have expressed interest in joining again for the New Year. I’m going to add an element that I think could make it even more interesting.

Here are the basics:

~ Join anytime, but don’t start reading until January 1, 2010. The challenge ends November 30, 2010.
~ If you read a book of essays, that book can also apply to any other challenges you are working on.
~ Choose a goal of reading 10, 20, or 30 essays, and then write a challenge post, linking back to this post. Feel free to copy and paste the above image into your challenge post.
~ Copy your challenge post’s link into Mr. Linky on the challenge post.
~ You don’t have to list your essays ahead of time – just have fun reading throughout the year.
~ I will put up a page for the challenge in my left sidebar, and add a Mr. Linky for essay reviews and wrap-up posts as the year goes on.
~ Everyone who completes the challenge and writes at least one review will be eligible for the giveaway prize: A copy of Best American Essays 2010.
~ New for 2010: You can earn extra credit – and an extra entry in the giveaway – by writing an essay of your own and leaving the link at the challenge page.
~ I will put up a wrap-up and giveaway post sometime early in December – that’s why the challenge only runs through November.

Participants:

1330v
Babblings of a Belligerent Bibliophile
The Betty and Boo Chronicles
The Biblio Blogazine
Bibliofreak
BookNAround
Bookstore People
English Major’s Junk Food
Ex Libris
Fleur Fisher
An Intellectual Etch-a-Sketch
A Life in Books
The Lumas Chronicles
Lynda’s Book Blog
Man of Errors
Min/min
My Eyes Are Burning
Tripping Toward Lucidity
Winter Write
The Written World

Reviews:

~ Essays on Literature by Umberto Eco, reviewed by Caniad at Dwell in Possibility.
~ The Giant Water Bug by Annie Dillard, reviewed by Andi at Estella’s Revenge.
~ The Knife by Richard Selzer, reviewed by Andi at Estella’s Revenge.
~ My Famous Evening by Howard Norman, reviewed by A Life in Books.
~ The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby, reviewed by me.

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