over the summer one of my friends posted a book list challenge on fb to see how well read people are.
they thought that most americans would have read 10 or fewer of the classic books on the list.
(i had read 12)
so i decided to take the challenge seriously.
i love to read, but i never know quite what to read.
and then it gets really hard to justify reading for fun when there's so much reading for church that i really should and could be doing.
all of that aside, i decided to read all 100 of the books on the list, even the ones i'd already read before.
that was back in july, so i'm well into my experiment now.
i started with anne of green gables (looooove it!) but i couldn't just read the 1, i had to read all 8 in the series. it was so much different reading anne as an adult.
still fabulous, of course.
now i've read 14 books and am in the middle of several more.
i'm reading all the pretty horses by myself, charlotte's web with addie, the catcher in the rye with matt (he wanted to read it together:), and listening to the canterbury tales.
some of the books i'm actually reading, some i'm listening to on cd (awesome for cleaning, driving, doing hair), and some i'm listening to on playaway (awesome for exercising, or really anything that keeps ya mobile).
some of the books have been a little hard to get into, most have been books i never would have picked on my own, but they've all been pretty interesting.
but i think i've met my match with the canterbury tales.
i'm only on the second cd, but so far it's been kinda tough. and i'm not really understanding a whole lot. thankfully they give a little synopsis of each section before they read it, so i sort of know what's going on... but wow.
that's ok, i'll get through it.
i can do anything for 15 minutes a day, right?
here's the challenge if you want to check it out for yourself.
(you know you want to!)
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