It was perhaps inevitable that I would be unable to resist some of the enticing shorter challenges on offer in the book-blogging world. As we embark on September (2016) I am embarking on two such challenges.
Heavenali’s Woolfalong This challenge has been running all year so it can scarcely be called a short challenge. But coming late to the party, as I am, means it can only a few months for me. Phase 5, through September and October, is non-fiction, which works perfectly. I plan to read:
A Room of One’s Own
A Writer’s Diary
Both of course, written by Virginia herself.
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R.I.P. XI This challenge also runs from September through October – and this is its eleventh year, so again, I’m a late starter. I plan to read a short story or two and a couple of novellas so I’m not sure quite which peril I’ll be overcoming, but here’s what I plan to read:
The Birds and Other Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier
Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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I can’t resist a Christmas Challenge! I’ve signed up for the Christmas Spirit Reading Challenge hosted at Christmas Spirit. Here’s what I’m hoping to read:
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- A Christmas Tree by Charles Dickens
- A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
- Christmas Holiday by W Somerset Maugham
- Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome
- Happy Christmas by Daphne du Maurier
- A Snow Garden and other Stories by Rachel Joyce
- Mistletoe and Murder by Robin Stevens
- Storms in a Tea-cup (from Cornish Silhouettes) by C C Rogers (later to become Lady Vyvyan)
A Corner of Cornwall 