2012 Challenges

I did extremely poorly with the challenges I joined this year. I read only one book for the TBR Pile Challenge and two for the One, Two, Theme Challenge. I completely forgot I had signed up for the Year of Feminist Classics!! How could I forget something like that!?! I did rather well with both the GLBT and Historical Fiction Challenges and also with the Steampunk Challenge when it comes to reading, but I failed miserably with reviewing and linking my reviews to the challenge sites. Well, it can only be onwards an upwards from here!

I do love challenges and I want to join some also in 2012. And, really,  it can only be onwards an upwards from 2011! Here are some challenges I'm joining for 2012:

The TBR Pile Challenge hosted by Roof Beam Reader

Yes, I did not manage to read more than one little book from the list I made for this year's TBP Pile Challenge, but I love the idea of this challnege and I have more than enough books at home waiting for their turn and waiting and waiting...
The goal of this challenge is to read 12 books within 12 months from one's TBR pile. The books should have been waiting for their turn for at least a year. For more details click the link or the button above.
 
Hopefully I'll do better with this pile than I did with my choices in 2011: 
 
1. Karen Blixen: Seven Gothic Tales (read 9.1.2012)
2. A.S.Byatt: The Children's Book
3. Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (read 19.1.2012)
4. Lewis Crofts: The Pornographer of Vienna
5. Emma Donoghue: Still Life
6. Sarah Dunant: Secret Hearts
7. Madeleine Gagnon: My Name is Bosnia (read 14.4.2012)
8. Adolus Huxley: Brave New World
9. Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall (read 29.4.2012)
10. Kate Pulliger: Mistress of Nothing
11. H.G.Wells: Ann Veronica (read 28.1.2012)
12. Simon Scott: Pretty Birds
Alternates:
+Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room
+Stefan Zweig: Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman & The Royal Game

Back to the Classics 2012 Challenge hosted by Sara Reads Too Much



I've been craving for classics for some time now, so, this challenge is just the perfect excuse to read more classics! Like one would need an excuse...

The aim of Back to the Classics Challenge is to read one book from nine different categories i.e. all together 9 classics. Click the link or the button above for more details.

My list:

• Any 19th Century Classic: Emile Zola: Women's Paradise
• Any 20th Century Classic: Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
• Reread a classic of your choice: Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
• A Classic Play: Aristofanes: Lysistrata or The Parliament of Women or Ibsen: A Doll's House
• Classic Mystery/Horror/Crime Fiction: Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (read 19.1.2012)
• Classic Romance: Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
• Read a Classic that has been translated from its original language to your language -if your native language is NOT English, you may read any classic originally written in English that has been translated into your native language: Homeros: Odyssey
• Classic Award Winner: F. E. Sillanpää: Hurskas kurjuus (Meek Heritage) (Sillanpää won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1939) or Ursula Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (Nebula Award 1969)
•  Read a Classic set in a Country that you (realistically speaking) will not visit during your lifetime: Anthony Hope: Prisoner of Zenda (Set in the fictional country of Ruritania)

Greek Classics Challenge hosted by Howling Frog

As I've already decided on reading Odysseus by Homeros in 2012 there's really no reason not to join this challenge! I'm joining on Sophocles -level (=1-4 books). I might also read Aristophanes and some other playwrites and maybe also some poetry. (Too bad I've read If Not, Winter by Sappho twice already...)

In addition to these challenges I will participate in the LGBT Challenge also next year and will aim to read 10-12 books for the challenge.