Saturday, December 1, 2012

An Attempt at the 2013 Sub-Genre Reading Challenge

Hello! I haven't done too much with this blog yet, other than type into the wild spaces of the internet, but I thought that it might be fun to try some reading challenges for next year! I am not totally sure how to effectively find them, but I saw one on drifting drifting..., a blog kept by fellow cross stitcher Star, and figured that it would be as good a place to start as anywhere. The challenge, hosted by Gina at the nifty looking blog Book Dragon's Lair, is called the 2013 Sub-Genre Reading Challenge! In it, you read two or three books each from a relatively basic list of genres, depending on how ambitious you feel, and and then make sure that each book from those aforementioned genres fits in a different sub-genre. I'm not sure that I'll be able to categorize everything properly as I'm going, but it sounds like it could be fun, so I'm going to try it, and go for the three-book-per-genre level of the challenge, too! Plus, it starts today rather than on January 1st, so if I can figure out where The Mysteries of Udolpho, which I'm currently about a third of the way through, would be categorized, I have a decent head-start on the challenge.

If you'd like more information on the 2013 Sub-Genre Reading Challenge, you can find it in this post from Book Dragon's Lair. I'm really hoping to pass it, since it's only 15 books, so I wish everyone else participating good luck, too!  If I can find four more interesting challenges like this before the end of the month, I think that I may be more than set in terms of reading goals for next year.