Sweet Soliloquies

I discovered and am joining The 2010 Pub Challenge hosted by Michelle at 1More Chapter. You might want to join, too.

The rules seem easy to live by:

• Read a minimum of 10 books first published in 2010. You don’t have to buy these. Library books, unabridged audiobooks, or ARCs are all acceptable. To qualify as being first published in 2010, it must be the first time that the book is published in your own country. For example, if a book was published in Australia, England, or Canada in 2009, and then published in the USA in 2010, it counts (if you live in the USA). Newly published trade paperbacks and mass market paperbacks do not count if there has been a hardcover/trade published before 2010.

• No children’s/YA titles allowed, since we’re at the ‘pub.’

• At least 5 titles must be fiction.

• Crossovers with other challenges are allowed.

• You can add your titles as you go, and they may be changed at any time.

• Sign up at the Pub Challenge site using Mr. Linky.

• Have fun reading your 2010 books!

Tentative Reading List:

1. Choices to follow

Another cool book challenge I’ve joined is The Short Story Reading Challenge hosted by Kate. You’ll find the group blog for this challenge HERE.

I joined a similar challenge near the end of last year and didn’t have enough time to complete it. Hopefully, starting in January will help! There are four goal options to choose from and I’m choosing #1.

#1 – If you’re short on time, you can simply commit to reading ten short stories by ten different authors over the course of 2010. If you’re relatively new to reading short stories, any ten will do.

Tentative Reading List:  Stories from

1. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
2. The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories Edited by Peter Haining
3. …and more.

This awesome challenge is hosted at Book Chick City and I, for one, want to be a part of it.  I love many of the sub-genres for thriller and suspense so I’m thinking it shouldn’t be too hard.  For the challenge rules, please check out THIS POST.  And check this out:

“Courtesy of publisher SIMON & SCHUSTER UK, all participants of this challenge will receive a free ARC of either RandomVenom by Joan Brady to start you off on your challenge! Once you have signed up for the challenge, email me with your full name, address, blog URL (if you have one) and your entry number from the participants list below (so I can verify) and I will pass on your details. This is INTERNATIONAL!” by Craig Robertson or

Tentative Reading List:

1. The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
2. Bury Your Dead by Louise Penney (to be released later this year)
3. If Books Could Kill by Kate Carlisle (to be released February, 2010)
4. Espresso Shot by Cleo Coyle
5. Death on Demand by Carolyn G. Hart
6. … and more.

I hope you’ll join me in these reading challenges.  If you do, please let me know by commenting here as I’d love to read your thoughts and reviews on the books you’ve read!