I invite everyone to join me in a reading challenge for 2015. The rules are simple:
1) Agree to read and blog about at least six books in 2015, with the following stipulations:
- At least one book must be by a North American author.
- At least one book must be by a South American author.
- At least one book must be by a European author.
- At least one book must be by an African author.
- At least one book must be by an Asian author.
- At least one book must be by an Australian author.
2) The books may be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama–anything.
3) The authors may be from any time period, dead or alive.
4) If you want to participate, just indicate your interest, along with the link to your blog, in the comments section below.
5) After you have done a blog post for this challenge, indicate that you have done so in the comments section, include the name of the book and author, and provide a link to your post
That’s it! Happy reading and blogging! Hope to read your posts next year!
Interested! Here’s mine on Mexico: http://oberventures.blogspot.kr/2016/01/review-into-beautiful-north-by-luis.html
Last book – for Africa.
Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley:
http://philturton.dscloud.me/wordpress/2015/12/31/a-girl-called-aeroplane/
And that completes the challenge – at the last minute. 🙂
Congratulations and thanks for joining my challenge!
It moved me out of my comfort zone… Thank _you_!
My offer for Asia: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
http://philturton.dscloud.me/wordpress/2015/12/19/the-temple-of-the-golden-pavilion/
Which just leaves me with Africa to complete… 🙂
I was in two minds what to do for South America but in the end Gabriel García Márquez won with No-one Writes to the Colonel – simply because it’s the best book I read all year. 🙂
http://philturton.dscloud.me/wordpress/2015/08/10/gabriel-garcia-marquez-minus-magical-realism/
Regardless whether anyone here bothers to read my thoughts upon it, it’s a book that I cannot recommend highly enough!
Here’s my European review: https://secretsofatrailingspouse.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/around-the-world-reading-challenge-the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis/
Nearly there now!
Hi, I just stumbled upon this… is it too late to join in? I see that above you said that we can count in the books we’ve read earlier in the year which leaves me at this moment 3 continents short, I think. Which I’m sure I can manage…
It’s a real wake up call actually to realise that I’m mostly focused on American & European literature, I never thought about it before!
My blog is called:
Waterblogged; Dry Thoughts on Damp Books
And the link is:
http://philturton.dscloud.me/wordpress/
Please let me know if it’s okay to join.
Sure! Welcome aboard. I look forward to reading your posts.
Thanks. 🙂
I chose a French book for my entry for Europe: Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Link: http://philturton.dscloud.me/wordpress/2015/11/11/glassfuls-of-water-into-a-forest-fire-flight-to-arras/
You said in your “About” page that your native language isn’t English. That surprised me because your writing is so error-free. What is your native language?
Hungarian… And thank you for saying this – made my day! 🙂
People seldom praise my English; but they sure pick me up on my mistakes (which can be disheartening at times).
I’m on my fourth book. I have my last two books in sight. http://regroovenating.com/2015/10/around-the-world-reading-challenge-book-4-the-essential-neruda-selected-poems.html/
Seems to be mostly just me here but I’ll post the link anyway in case someone finds it useful. I did North America, Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey this time. https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/book-review-the-snow-child/
After a few months off I have resumed reading internationally! My Australian choice is now one of my favourite books of all time: http://wp.me/p4JWCG-71
I posted today on an African novel, We Need New Names. Here it is: https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/we-need-new-names-book-review/
Okay, here’s my first review. We’re off to Europe, and this is How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran. https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/book-reviewer-advisory-explicit-admiration/
I love the idea! I rarely read anything that isn’t written by a European or an American author so this is a great opportunity to broaden my horizons. This is my blog: https://hundredandcounting.wordpress.com
I think this is a great challenge. I’m reading a book called “World Between Two Covers” right now on World Literature, and also worked on a project called Invitation to World Literature, which was designed to get high school and college students engaged in World Lit. Both might be helpful for titles. http://www.learner.org/courses/worldlit/
I thought I read on here the other day specifically about not doing Antarctica – I know, because nobody’s actually “from” there but of course then that’s what I just had to do – especially since I just happened to have a book on Journeys to the South Pole so if it’s okay I’m going to link to the post I did about it
https://donnainthesouth.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/around-the-world-antarctica
That’s great!
It’s August and I’ve only just come across this challenge but I’m up for it 🙂 what a fantastic idea
hardbackjunkie.wordpress.com 🙂
Welcome aboard!
This sounds right up my alley. Thanks for the push in the right direction!
Hey! I would love to join the challenge. I just have one query – will it be alright if I blog about books which I’ve already read in 2015? Or do I have to read the books now and then blog about them? Here’s the link : https://bookreviewsiwrite.wordpress.com
Sure, that would be fine!