{"id":1002,"date":"2008-05-16T03:08:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T08:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2008-05-16T03:08:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T08:08:54","slug":"new-reading-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"new reading challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m going to join two new reading challenges:<\/p>\n<p>Maggie Reads is hosting the second annual <a href=\"http:\/\/maggiereads.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/southern-reading-challenge-yall.html\">Southern Reading Challenge<\/a>. I intended to sign up for it last year and failed miserably, so I want to make up for it this year. The challenge is to read three Southern works between now and August 15.<\/p>\n<p>My selections will be (with the option of switching out books):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mules and Men<\/em> by Zora Neale Hurston<\/li>\n<li><em>The Member of the Wedding<\/em> by Carson McCullers<\/li>\n<li><em>The Secret Life of Bees<\/em> by Sue Monk Kidd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The second challenge is the <a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtsofjoyblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/non-fiction-five-challenge-2008.html\">Non-Fiction Five Challenge<\/a>, which runs through September.<\/p>\n<p>Again, with the option of subbing in other selections, I&#8217;m hoping to read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The 20-Minute Vegetable Gardener<\/em> by Tom Christopher and Marty Asher<\/li>\n<li><em>The Geography of Bliss<\/em> by Eric Weiner<\/li>\n<li><em>Why the Wind Blows: A History of Weather and Global Warming<\/em> by Matthys Levy<\/li>\n<li><em>Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy through Jokes<\/em> by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein<\/li>\n<li><em>Walden<\/em> by Henry David Thoreau<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conveniently, I owe a blog review on the advance reader copy of the Levy book, so that should get read shortly, and I&#8217;m supposed to be reading <em>Walden<\/em> with Karen as we speak, so this should spur me to alleviate the guilt I feel every time I see my copy of it sitting on my desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m going to join two new reading challenges: Maggie Reads is hosting the second annual Southern Reading Challenge. 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