Melissa at The Betty and Boo Chronicles is hosting the 2012 Memorable Memoirs Reading Challenge. I am signing up at the Autobiographer level to read five to nine memoirs in 2012, although I think I will be closer to five than nine.
One of my general reading goals for this new year is to read more of the non-fiction books on my TBR shelves. This challenge dovetails with the Non-Fiction, Non-Memoir Challenge I am also doing.
Click the button or the link above to go to the challenge post for details and to sign up.
MY BOOKS
I am not sure yet which books I will read for this challenge, but some possibilities include:
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (which I started this weekend)
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Witness by Whittaker Chambers
Greene on Capri by Shirley Hazzard
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Books by Larry McMurtry
The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley by Elizabeth Romer
Shaken and Stirred: Through the Martini Glass and Other Drinking Adventures by William L. Hamilton
My Grandfather's Son by Clarence Thomas
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn
There is a lot of crossover possibility with this list. All will crossover with the TBR challenges I joined, and others will count for the Foodie's Challenge, the Chunkster Challenge, or the European Reading Challenge.
2 comments:
I recommend you Jeanette Winterson's "Why be happy when you could be normal?" and Alan Alda's two books :) They are all simply wonderful!
Have fun with the challenge!
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