There we go. Again…

I have given in once again. With this post I will sign up for the Orbis Terrarum Challenge hosted by Brad and Bethany over at B&b Ex Libris. For at least a week I’ve been fretting over this: join one more challenge or not? But even before I started fretting, I had already made a list of books from my stacks. Actually I made a deal with myself. I was also thinking about joining Joy’s Non-Fiction Five Challenge, but I decided against that one: I don’t need a challenge at the moment to get to reading non-fiction as I have been reading more non-fic than fiction for the last couple of months and all the books I would read for this challenge would double for another one anyway. Instead, I allowed myself to join the Orbis Terrarum Challenge. Sometimes a woman has to be kind to herself….

These are the rules of the challenge:

- The challenge runs from April 1 through December 20, 2008;
- Choose 9 books
- Each book must be by an author from a different country.

Easy, no?

Here is my list:

- Penelope by Goar Markosyan-Kasper from Armenia (doubles for the Eponymous Reading Challenge);
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini from Afghanistan (doubles for the Eponymous Reading Challenge);
- The Gathering by Anne Enright from Ireland;
- My Father’s Suitcase and two other essays by Orhan Pamuk from Turkey;
- Eine Hand voller Sterne (A Hand full of Stars) by Rafik Schami from Syria;
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf from England / the UK;
- Don’t Call it Night by Amos Oz from Israel;
- Ararat by Frank Westerman from The Netherlands;
- Generations of Winter by Vassily Aksyonov from Russia (doubles for the Russian Reading Challenge).