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Apr. 27th, 2008 @ 09:32 pm

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Did you participate in the By the Decade Challenge last year? Would you like to again? Or, if you didn't take part in 2007, are you interested in doing so?

The rules are simple:

1. Read a minimum of 8 books in 8 consecutive decades in ‘08.

2. Books published in the 2000's do not count.

3. Titles may be cross-posted with any other challenge.

4. You may change your list at any time.

5. Peruse the eligible book lists and reviews from last year. Any book from that decade is eligible; it doesn't have to be on the list to qualify. Another good source to find out when books were published is wikipedia. For example if you follow this link, you will see how easy it is to search books by a particular decade. Another resource is fantasticfiction.co.uk.

6. If you participated in By the Decade '07 and I didn't put your review up, please let me know in the comments for the appropriate decade and I'll include it in the space before the Mr. Linky. Please don't post '07 reviews in the Mr. Linky--that's for the '08 reviews.

7. Sign up through Mr. Linky below. Please use the url of your specific post for this challenge rather than just your blog url.

8. Come back and post your reviews in the appropriate Mr. Linky (I'll have them up after January 1). You are encouraged to post all the books you've read for that decade if you're participating in Decades '08.

9. Prizes: One credit or in-stock book each will be given away to 8 individuals through paperbackswap or bookmooch. International is okay. The grand prize winner will get 8 credits or in-stock books! If you complete 8 decades, that is one entry for the prize. For each additional decade you complete consecutively, that is an additional entry. So, if you complete 12 consecutive decades, that would be 5 entries for the prize.

10. Have fun reading!

1880:
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Sevenson

1890:

1900:
The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit

1910:
My Antonia by Willa Cather

1920:
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

1930:
Dreamland by Clarence Budington Kelland
A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley

1940:
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

1950:
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger

It's time for another challenge. This one runs from January 1 - June 30, 2008. It's being hosted by caribousmom.

Here are the rules:

If you're like me, you have a stack of TBR books a mile high and you are just looking for an excuse to read them! I'm hosting a Themed Reading Challenge beginning January 1st and running 6 months. Here are the rules:

1. Choose at least 4 books that share a theme - such as historical romances or books with animals as the central character or books set in a particular part of the country or books about family secrets. It doesn't matter what the theme is - your choice!

2. Sign up here using Mr. Linky to link to your post of book selections by DECEMBER 31, 2007.

3. Write a review about each book you complete and a final wrap up at the end of the challenge.

4. Feel free to use the banner above on your blog.

5. Come back in January when I will have a Mr. Linky set up for you to link to your reviews of the books you have read.

And here are my books. My theme is buildings.

1. The City by Scott and Soja
2. The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
3. A City on a Hill by George V. Higgins
4. City-Makers by Remi A. Nadeau
5. How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand
6. Manhattan is Missing by Edmund Wallace Hildick
7. San Francisco by John Haase
8. Simulcron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye
9. The San Francisco Earthquake by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts
Bonus books / Alternates

10. A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynn Jones
11. Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson
12. Hidden City by David Eddings

The Challenge Runs from January 1 through December 31, 2008. Read as many biographies or memoirs you want.

I will chose from:

1. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird
2. At Her Majesty's Request by Walter Dean Myers
3. Burnt Bread and Chutney by Carmit Delman
4. Colin Powell and the American Dream by Judith Cummings and Stefan Rudnicki
5. Desilu by Coyne Steven Sanders, Tom Gilbert
6. Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man by Tim Allen
7. Every Night Josephine! by Jacqueline Susann
8. Expecting Adam by Martha Bock
9. Four Quarters of Light by Brian Keenan
10. Four Seasons in Five Senses by David Mas Masumoto
11. Garbo and Gilbert in Love by Colin Shindler
12. Gracie: A Love Story by George Burns
13. Havana
14. I'm Only One Man by Regis Philbin and Bill Zehme
15. In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd
16. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
17. It's Always Something by Gilda Radner
18. Jimmy Buffett by Steve Eng
19. Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond
20. King of the World by David Remnick
21. My Pet Virus by Shawn Decker
22. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda
23. On My Own at a 107 by Sarah L. Delany
24. Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell

That comes out to two books a month. I will review them on my book blog.