Welcome to the fifth annual Essay Reading Challenge! If you’re an avid essay reader, or just want to expand your reading horizons a bit, this is the challenge for you. If you’re thinking, “What would I read?” – check out this post: Recommended Reading for the Essay Challenge – and “Why read essays?”
~ This challenge runs from January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013.
~ If you read a book of essays, that book can also apply to any other challenges you are working on.
~ To sign up, choose a goal of reading 10, 20, or 30 essays, and then write a challenge post.
~ Copy your challenge post’s link into the Mr. Linky on this main challenge page.
~ You don’t have to list your essays ahead of time – just have fun reading throughout the year.
~ This main challenge page will stay in my header for the whole year. Come back and link any reviews you write.
~ In the past, I have offered a giveaway prize for participants. Since our financial situation is still uncertain, I have decided not to offer a giveaway this year.
Sign up here:
Link your reviews here:
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Looking forward to getting around to those Emerson essays.
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Tania – glad you’re joining!
I am very much looking forward to this challenge.
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Patricia – I’m glad you’re joining!
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I’m now signed up.
This is my sign up post – http://alexinleeds.com/2012/12/26/essay-reading-challenge-2013/
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I’ve just signed up but I have a silly question: do the essays have to be from published collections or can they be from current periodicals (The New Yorker, for example)?
Looking forward to this challenge!
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Suzanne – yes, essays in periodicals absolutely count for the challenge!
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I love this challenge but I’m torn about joining. I always fail.
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V – that’s okay – you can join anyway!
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I have finished and reviewed one essay. I really like this as I would not have read an essay except for coming across this challenge.
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First up, David Foster Wallace’s Both Flesh and Not. Almost forgot to link to it.
I’m very interested in this challenge, and have a question–I’ve got two books of essays I want to read this year, each containing dozens of essays. How would that fit into this challenge? Is it ten essay collections, or ten individual essays? Would I post only two reviews, or choose ten essays out of the two books and review them seperately? Thanks!
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Amy – the challenge is for individual essays – so if you commit to ten, then ten individual essays completes your challenge. As far as how you review them – as a collection, individually, etc. – that is completely up to you.
Great–I’m in!
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