Lately I’ve been amazed by the number of Reading Challenges circulating on the Internet. Social Networks like Goodreads, Facebook and Crimespace abound with such challenges, lists and bookish-memes.
I’ve found one I like and I’m going to do it, and blog about it here.
The challenge is from Dorte Jakobsen in Denmark who blogs at DJ’s Krimiblog and who is part of the FriendFeed Crime and Mystery Fiction group (which I’m proud to say, Hypercrime is now a member of). The challenge has three levels: easy, medium and hard. I’m going to start easy, as follows:
Read one novel from each of these continents in the course of 2010:
Africa
Asia
Australasia
Europe
North America (incl Central America)
South America
From your own continent: try to find a country, state or author that is new to you.
(See the full post with the medium and hard levels here).
I’ve decided this is a perfectly simple and engaging challenge which will allow me to not only read, but blog and review in new territory. So I’m going to add a few details to the challenge.
All books will be crime fiction.
All books will be reviewed here.
The North American read will be a non-American author, set outside of the US (just because, I’m an American and I read a ton of American stuff anyway. This is a good opportunity for me to expand my reading of Mexican, Canadian or Central American writers. After all, that’s the point of the challenge.)
I’ve got stacks of books that I’ve amassed which will get me started on this challenge, so I’ll start thinking about my selections, and post them here as soon as I’m ready. Then I’ll start posting my reviews as I go.
I encourage others to take this challenge. Remember, it’s only 6 books and it could lead you to discover a new favorite book or author. Remember to visit the challenge page to see linked reviews and other peoples reading lists.
