This is my most ambitious undertaking yet-- besting raising a teenager, an 8-year old who's as OC as his mom, and a little girl who's showing signs of surpassing my sister in the kikay department.
I don't really keep track of the number of books I read in a year (I'm positive I'm not as rabid as most in FFP). I can't say for sure if I can finish 26 books in... (what date is it today?) 361 days. The quantity, however, poses less of a problem than my resolve, because I have an instinctual aversion to being told what to do.
I've never accepted any reading challenges, until now. I've made a concession in this case because, fortuitously, the first book I read for the year is Paul Auster's Auggie Wren's Christmas Story and I'm now on Anita Brookner's Incidents in the Rue Laugier. Done with A, doing B. I'm off to a good start. But I'm thinking I might be rearranging the English alphabet very soon.
Here's my tentative list from my TBR:
A - Auster, Paul (Auggie Wren's Christmas Story)
http://mentalwayfarer.blogspot.com/2010/01/pau-auster-auggie-wrens-christmas-story.html
B - Brookner, Anita (Hotel Du Lac)
http://mentalwayfarer.blogspot.com/2010/01/anita-brookner-hotel-du-lac.html
C - Chai, Arlene (The Last Time I Saw Mother)
http://mentalwayfarer.blogspot.com/2010/01/arlene-chai-last-time-i-saw-mother.html
D - DiCamillo, Kate (The Tale of Desperaux)
http://mentalwayfarer.blogspot.com/2010/01/kate-dicamillo-tale-of-desperaux.html
E - Ellis, Virginia (The Wedding Dress)
http://mentalwayfarer.blogspot.com/2010/01/virginia-ellis-wedding-dress.html
F - Frey, James (My Friend Leonard)
http://mentalwayfarer.blogspot.com/2010/01/james-frey-my-friend-leonard.html
G - Gaitskill, Mary (Veronica)
H - Hosseini, Khaled (The Kite Runner)
http://mentalwayfarer.blogspot.com/2010/02/khaled-hosseini-kite-runner.html
I - Iggulden, Conn (Emperor)
http://mentalwayfarer.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-for-iggulden-j-for-jones-and-other.html
J - Jones, Diana Wynne (Howl's Moving Castle)
K - Kallos, Stephanie (Broken For You)
http://mentalwayfarer.blogspot.com/2010/04/k-for-kallos-l-for-lindqvist.html
L - Lindqvist, John Ajvide (Let The Right One In)
M - Murakami, Haruki (Norwegian Wood)
http://mentalwayfarer.blogspot.com/2010/04/m-for-murakami-and-n-for-nix.html
N - Nix, Garth (Sabriel)
O - Oppel, Kenneth (Airborn)
P - Patchett, Ann (Bel Canto)
Q - Quindlen, Anna (Rise and Shine)
R - Restrepo, Laura (The Dark Bride)
S - Shreve, Anita (Where or When)
T - Thomas, Scarlett (The End of Mr. Y)
U - Updike, John (The Centaur)
V - Vonnegut, Kurt (Slaughterhouse-Five)
W - Watson, Brad (The Heaven of Mercury)
X - Xialong, Qiu (Death of a Red Heroine)
Y - Yamanaka, Lois-Ann (Blu's Hanging)
Z - Zusak, Markus (The Book Thief)
