Spring Reading Thing 2010

Yesterday was the first sign-up day for the 2010 Spring Reading Thing, hosted by Katrina at Callapidder Days. I enjoyed this one a lot last year and got more reading done than I thought I would, so I'm definitely signing up again for the 2010 edition. Besides, Katrina always has such adorable buttons for her Things. How could I resist?

You can read all about the challenge and sign up by visiting the announcement page here. The guidelines are pretty simple; basically, just make a list of the books you think you might want to read between March 20th and June 20th, and post it on your blog. And then sign up.

These are some of the books I'm thinking of choosing from:

• Fiction:
  A Fair Maiden. Joyce Carol Oates
  Angels of Destruction. Keith Donohue
  The Children's Book. A.S. Byatt
  The Family Man. Elinor Lipman
  Good Morning, Midnight. Jean Rhys
  Heroic Measures. Jill Ciment
  The Late George Apley. John P. Marquand
  Lethal Legacy. Linda Fairstein
  Liberty. Garrison Keillor
  Los Alamos. Joseph Kanon
  The Lost Symbol. Dan Brown
  Olive Kitteridge. Elizabeth Strout
  The Rapture. Liz Jensen
  The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. Alan Bradley
  
  
• Nonfiction:
  Just Kids. Patti Smith
  Manhattan, When I Was Young. Mary Cantwell
  The Pattern in the Carpet. Margaret Drabble
  Shakespeare and Company. Sylvia Beach
  The Story of the Armory Show. Milton W. Brown
  

My list is ridiculously long, I know – I'll never get all those books read, but hope (like spring) springs eternal. Fortunately, lists can be changed, and I'm sure mine will be. But whatever happens, I'll be updating my progress on my challenge blog during the next three months.