I gave in to another challenge, the Eponymous Reading Challenge hosted by Coversgirl at Between the Covers. The aim of the challenge is
to read 4 books whose titles are the name of one or more of the characters (e.g. Evelina, Oscar and Lucinda); or a description of one or more of the characters (e.g. The Merchant of Venice, Sylvia’s Lovers).
The challenge runs from March 1 till May 31. Non-fiction and overlaps with other challenges are allowed as are books named after four-legged characters.
These are three books I will definitely read:
* Penelope by Goar Markosyan-Kasper;
* Ali and Nino by Kurban Said;
* The Kite-Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
The fourth will either be Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore (which will definitely be an overlap with the Russian Reading Challenge) or Tali, The Miracle of Chegem by Fazil Iskander (which I could also count towards the Russian Reading Challenge, though I might chose not to – I’m still undecided about that).
In Europa - Geert Mak
Kindertijd Jeugdjaren Jongelingschap (Childhood Boyhood Youth) - Lev Tolstoy
Welcome to the challenge! Young Stalin sounds interesting.
I’m looking forward to the challenge as I get to read some books within the next few months that otherwise would probably have stayed on the TBR-pile for quite some time. This was an excellent reason to move them way up to the top of the list.
If I don’t manage to read Young Stalin for this challenge I will certainly read it later in the year for the Russian Reading Challenge.
This one sounds fun! Unfortunately, since it was my first year choosing challenges, I went overboard, fitting as many as possible, rather than being really selective. So I can’t possibly add another! Though I recommend The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.
Dewey, I’ve never read anything by Margaret Atwood, but she is on my list of authors I really want to try. I will keep The Penelopiad in mind.
I know what you mean with not being selective enough. There are a lot more challenges that I would like to join, because I just plain like the theme, they would make me read outside my comfort zone or they would give me an opportunity to read books or authors that I want to read. I have decided to only join challenges that fit in with my TBR-pile. This challenge happened to do so. I just happened to have enough books with an appropriate title (I actually had more than the five I mention).
I am finding out that living in a place where good books are not readily available and book delivery from Amazon takes at least three weeks to arrive, is really a good brake on joining challenges!
As a new book-blogger, I’ve been amazed at the amount of creative reading challenges to participate in – like this one!
However, I’ve managed to curtail myself to just one (the Short Story Reading Challenge) because I know myself well enough to realize I couldn’t possibly finish all those that interest me – and then I’d be annoyed!
Thanks for joining me in The Sunday Salon this week. I will definitely enter you in my giveaway for the Alice Munroe short stories. Her work is well worth reading
I enjoy reading your posts about Armenia – my father is Armenian, and both his parents were born there. My grandfather’s family sent him to France when he was young, so he narrowly escaped the genocide in the early 1900’s. His parents were not so fortunate.