2008: Booking Thru Thursday – Gold Medal Reading

This week’s topic: First: Do you or have you ever read books about the Olympics? About sports in general? Fictional ones? Or non-fiction? Or both? And, Second: Do you consider yourself a sports fan? Because, of course, if you’re a rabid fan and read about sports constantly, there’s a logic there; if you hate sports and never read anything sports-related, that, too … but you

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2008: Challenges – The Genre Challenge

This challenge doesn’t begin until November and lasts for a year, so really it’s more of a 2009 challenge. Just go along with my justification, mmmm’kay? In The Genre Challenge, the goal is to read one book in the following genres: crime fiction, detective fiction, mystery fiction, horror fiction, thriller fiction, romance fiction, science fiction, action/adventure fiction, fantasy fiction, realistic fiction, historical fiction, and western

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