Tuesday, 1 January 2013

Around the World in 80 Books Challenge



Did you read the word “challenge”? Yes. I join another daunting yet interesting challenge, hosted by Stacey from Have Books, Will Travel. The fun of it lies in the rules that we can arrange ourselves, since the rules from the host is a little bit too much for me personally (sorry Stacey).

Here's the rule:
  • I start this journey at January 1st 2013 and thus the challenge will end at December 31st 2018.
  • I will count a book to one country only. If there are two countries or more in the setting, I'll put it to the one not in my list yet.
  • I will try to make a research on the countries. Since I read mostly classics I think it would be more interesting to research on the historical setting as well, not just the country as it is today.
  • I will separate the country research and the book review for convenience. (Maybe I won't be able to do this for every country, but I will try to do so as often as I can, when I have the time to makes such research and posts.)


Haha. Huft. With Classic's Club Project not yet finished and around 5 more challenges in my sleeves I still don't know what I'm going to do with this challenge. Let's hope I can manage.


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6 comments:

  1. Cassandra1 January 2013 at 03:50

    Wow, this sounds amazing on the one hand and absolutely terrifying on the other!
    You're very ambitious for the next year and I'm really curious to see how you'll manage, since I am personally unable to keep track of more than 3 challenges...
    Anyway, I'm looking forward to your posts :)

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    1. Lemon Tree1 January 2013 at 06:37

      I know. I myself don't know how I will manage. But I was a swift reader once, and I hope I will be able to increase my reading speed plus decrease my fangirling time to be able to finish them all. :D

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  2. Marian1 January 2013 at 11:40

    This sounds like a fascinating challenge! I don't think I'm up to it, but I'm looking forward to reading your reviews. :)

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    1. Lemon Tree3 January 2013 at 18:10

      Thank you. I'm very excited to do this because I tend to read English and French books and ignore the others. :)

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  3. Melisa7 January 2013 at 19:36

    Somewhere around 2011 I joined this challenge and made a little change to the rules for myself. I attempted to read 52 books set in 52 different countries within a year. Needless to say that I failed. Then because I like to divide my readings to the places or countries they are set in, I made this feature on my blog: http://surgabukuku.wordpress.com/index-reviews/browse-by-setting/
    So for me it's not a challenge anymore, but a list of "where" I have been reading in so far. That way I wouldn't be so overwhelmed of reading challenges, hehehe.


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    1. Lemon Tree8 January 2013 at 22:59

      It's interesting. But I already have so many stuff on my sidebars. I will just try this year and track my progress.

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