Challenges

I like to participate in challenges. Being a ‘Gnu’ (Gnoe) I call it herding ;) Although sometimes it feels more like a stampede…

These are my current challenges –I’ve got a separate page for those that have ended.

In January of this year I decided I would limit the amount of reading challenges for which I need to post reviews, because writing these blogposts cost me A LOT of time. I guess I’m slow ;) Of course I could start writing reviews in my native language, Dutch. That would make a small difference, but I think the extra effort of posting in English is worth it. There’s such a big community of Book Bloggers out there!

The page ends with my ongoing personal ‘Best Foreign Books’ Challenge that started in 2008.

Current challenges in alphabetical order

Chinese Literature Challenge
January 1st – December 31st 2011

~ Merchant ~

Admittance post
Read: 0/1-3
Reviews pending: 0

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Foodie’s Reading Challenge
January 1st – December 31st 2011

~ Nibbler ~
Admittance post

Read: 5/1-3
Reviews pending: 3

World Food Café
La Dolce Vegan!
Bento Box in the Heartland
Verraad, verleiding en verzoening
Vegan Family Meals

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Haruki Murakami Reading Challenge
January 1st – December 31st 2011

~ Toru ~

Admittance post
Read: 6/5
Currently reading: – The Elephant Vanishes / De olifant verdwijnt
Reviews pending: all

Hear the Wind Sing
Pinball, 1973
Underground
1q84 Boek 1
1q84 Boek 2
1q84 Boek 3

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Japanese Literature Challenge #5
June 1st 2011 – January 30th 2012

Admittance post
Read: 6/6

Currently reading: The Elephant Vanishes / De olifant verdwijnt
Reviews pending: 6

The Woman in the Dunes
Underground
Thousand Cranes
1q84 Boek 1
1q84 Boek 2
1q84 Boek 3

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What’s in a Name challenge #4
January 1st – December 31st 2011

Admittance post
Read: 5/6
Reviews pending: all

Pinball, 1973 AND 2666 AND 1q84 [numbers]
I’ll Steal You Away AND Travels in the Scriptorium AND ‘Model flying‘ [movement]
‘Poelie the Terrible‘ AND Crime school AND ‘Treason, seduction and reconciliation‘ [evil]
Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America [life stage]
Vernon God Little [size]
- [jewelry/gem]

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Whip up something new! challenge
January 1st – December 31st 2011
[The challenge was unfortunately stopped halfway 2011]

Admittance post
Posts for this challenge

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My Personal ‘Best Foreign Books’ Challenge (2008 – today)
Read 12 books of 13 of the longlist of the Dutch election for Best Foreign Book that were already on my wishlist:

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (bx-copy)
✔ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
✔ The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon (bx-copy)
✔ Possession by A.S. Byatt (bx-copy)
✔ The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
✔ New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
✔ The Sea, the sea by Iris Murdoch
✔ In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (bx-copy)
✔ The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (bx-copy)
✔ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (bx-copy)
✔ Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
✔ The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (bx-copy)
The Chosen by Chaim Potok (bx-copy)