2010 Bibliophilic Books Challenge - Completed

The 2010 Bibliophilic Books Challenge was one of my favorite challenges of this or any year – I just can't get enough of books about books. The challenge was hosted (and is still being hosted, until the end of the month) by Lesley of A Life in Books. I signed up at the "Bookworm" level (three books), and almost made it to "Litlover" (six books). I even managed to review most of the books I read, although I haven't been very good about remembering to post my reviews to the challenge review site (my brain is old and slow – just like my body).

Here's my list of books read, with links to my reviews:

1. The Anthologist. Nicholson Baker
2. The Forgotten Garden. Kate Morton
   
3. The Egypt Game. Zilpha Keatley Snyder
   
4. The Inheritance. Simon Tolkien
   
5. People of the Book. Geraldine Brooks (Review to come)
   

I thoroughly enjoyed them all, even though I wasn't quite as wowed by People of the Book as I had expected to be (explanation to come in my review).

I had hoped to get in a nonfiction work or two, but it just didn't happen. Maybe next time around (if there is one). My thanks to Lesley for hosting and to all the other participants for helping me add many, many new titles to my already overwhelming TBR list!

2010 Bibliophilic Books Challenge

And another one! I had promised myself I'd cut back on reading challenges in 2010, but so many creative bloggers keep coming up with challenges I just can't refuse! So here's yet another challenge I'll be signing up for.

The 2010 Bibliophilic Books Challenge runs throughout the coming year, and is being hosted by Lesley of A Life in Books. And it sounds like a really fun challenge. Participants will read a set number of books (fiction or non-) that focus on books or reading - basically, books on books. Now that's one of my favorite genres, and I was just recently thinking that it would make a wonderful reading challenge. So I'm really pleased that Lesley has had the same idea and done something about it - now I don't have to!

To find out more about the challenge, and to sign up, just head on over to the announcement page. The rules are pretty flexible (which I love), and there are three different levels of participation:

• Bookworm (read three books)
• Litlover (read six books)
• Bibliomaniac (read twelve books)

I think I'll play it safe and just sign up for the Bookworm level; but since I really enjoy this subject, I'm hoping to do better than that. And there's no requirement to make a list of books, but I've already got quite a few "books-about-books" tags on my TBR list, and I'm sure I'll be discovering more as the year goes on. And I'll be updating my progress on my challenge blog.