While I’m starting to wonder what I’ll have to do since I’m sitting on 97 books this year and am 450 pages into an 800 page compendium of Heinlein, Massachusetts librarians are issuing a challenge for 2011:
Could you read 50 books in a single year?
The New Bedford Public Library is challenging adults to do just that in its 50 Book Challenge, which runs through Dec. 10, 2011.
Pikers.
Off course, I’m not the standard citizen here. I’m the literary equivalent of the crazy cat lady. Come to think of it, according to those who market pet products, I’m the crazy cat lady equivalent of a crazy cat lady, too.
I think I’ll finish this one local memoir and maybe this collection of sonnets, which will put me at 99, and if I don’t get good push on the Heinlein book, I might have to pick up a coffeetable book or short paperback to make quota.
(Link seen here.)
Actually, I don’t count children’s books that I read to my children. Children’s books that I read on my own, though, are fair game.
Your kids’ picture books can also add to your book count.