Sunday, August 12, 2007

Challenge Challenged!

This week's pecan winner is Lesley at A Life in Books!

Congratulations, girl!



I had promised Lesley a month ago I would join her Airchair Travelers Reading Challenge and am now finally getting to it. With this post, I ask her permission to not make a list, but rather list those I read in that category as I read them. Is that unethical for any reading challenge?

My work reading must come first. I hate to be snobbish. I find the challenge of participating in these challenges, comes from integrating them into articles for the newspapers I serve. My first choice, Eat, Pray, Love, was an easy pick because of its timeliness. It's number one on the paperback bestsellers list; plus, people are really talking about it now. Thus, I read it, wrote about it, and marked it off my Airchair Travelers Reading Challenge list.

One may have noticed the original list for the Non-Fiction Reading Challenge morphed. I replaced books I did plan to read with NFs read within the allotted time period. The original list was my attempt, at looking into the future, to read timely or crowd-pleasing books. Manhunt and Mockingbird remain on the list for I think they still have people appeal.

I just hope Joy at Thoughts of Joy will forgive me.


The idea (not making a list) actually came about as a poke at Ed. The Southern Reading Challenge was countered with a mock Damn Yankees Reading Challenge by Ed at Recycled Thoughts. My reading pattern this summer was Northern as the result of an impending vacation to New York City. As I wrote articles, I noticed just as many books for Ed's challenge as for my very own. So, I thought I would give Ed a little thrill by listing the Northern books read.

Thanks to Sage (his button & title idea), Ed has enjoyed three participants in his joke.

Fellow Bloggers and Challengers, I ask you, am I a reading challenge prima donna?

6 comments:

Joy said...

No forgiveness needed, Maggie. You do what's best for you. :)

maggie moran said...

Ah, thanks Joy! ;D

Anonymous said...

How about a Goober of the Week Award for lazy readers Maggie ? :-)

maggie moran said...

You win, hands down, Paul! Where do I send the boiled peanuts? :D

sage said...

Sometime this week I plan to post my 3rd DamnYankee Reading Challenge book review with a review of Gilead which I read on vacation.

maggie moran said...

Ew, Sage! I look forward to reading your review! Are we to read 3 books akin to the Southern Reading Challenge? :) Glad to have you back and I hope you had fun, too.