Reading Rambo

I think I completed Adam's TBR Challenge one year. Once. And I have tried since to reach such heights of glory, with nary a shadow of success. It is, however, what started me having a book blog and for that I will forever view it with affection. Medieval Women , Eileen Power . I've owned this for years. Years. I brought it with me to read on a trip in high school but instead ended up playing ping pong. I will read it. Prep , Curtis Sittenfeld . She's supposed to be good, right? And I really wanted to read this. And then I bought it yeears ago, but I still have not read it. I find that ridiculous. A Confederacy of Dunces , John Kennedy Toole . Do eBooks count? Because I've owned this for like three years, and I REALLY want to read it and it just hasn't happened. But I KNOW IT'S GOOD. I know it's really good. But nope. Not yet. Wigs on the Green , Nancy Mitford . I bought this when Borders was going out of business. And then my prediction came true...

I promise this is the last one I'm signing up for. And I'm kind of re-using some books from one of the other TBR challenges I'm doing, BUT this is the challenge that caused me to create my blog, so I have feelings of fondness towards it. All right. The other ones I picked kind of at random, but these are books I LEGIT want to read and get off my shelf: 1. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell , Susanna Clarke - I mentioned before, I have two copies of this, and it's just...it's just GIANT and intimidating, but also has the best blurbs I've ever read on the back of a book. And the hardcover version takes up so very much space on my shelf. 2. The Looking Glass Wars , Frank Beddor - I tend to hate it when people get into series because they have the same name as the heroine, but...well...it's not my fault; my mom's collected Alice in Wonderland things since I was born. And this looks cool. So I bought it ages ago but never read it because I suck. 3. Henry...

I am almost embarrassed that what I consider to be a huge commitment (30 books) is, in fact, classified as no more than 'Making a Dent' in the Off the Shelf challenge, but I suppose that is pretty much exactly what's happening, as my TBR shelf is currently at 150+. Oh my indeed. So. Here're my proposed 30. Let me know if any are hideously terrible: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (I own this in hardcover and paperback and have yet obviously not read it) The Reef , Wharton A Brief History of Time (stolen from my aerospace engineering professor father — suck it, nerds) Official Book Club Selection , Kathy Griffin (got this in my stocking last Christmas) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil The Looking Glass Wars , Beddor (owned this an embarrassingly long time w/o reading it) Rules of Civility , Towles My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me (I got terribly excited about this and yet have not gotten around to it yet, boo to me) The Crimson Pet...

It's after 1 in the morning. People cleverer than I am have decided to take advantage of Daylight Savings Time by getting extra sleep. I, of course, have decided to use it to dance to the Back to the Future soundtrack. Ok, guys. Prepare to have your face rocked off by my list for the Back to the Classics Challenge of 2012. Any 19th Century Classic Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of '80 , Dickens Any 20th Century Classic The Grapes of Wrath , Steinbeck Reread a classic of your choice Emma , Austen A Classic Play A Doll's House , Ibsen Classic Mystery/Horror/Crime Fiction The Woman in White , Wilkie Collins Classic Romance The Reef , Wharton A Classic translated from its original language to your native language The Divine Comedy , Dante Classic Award Winner A Confederacy of Dunces , John Kennedy Toole Classic set in a country you (realistically speaking) will not visit during your lifetime Pavilion of Women, Pearl S. Buck (China)