We have decided to add yet another challenge to our plate this year! We are a few months late starting this year-long challenge, but there's always time to read more books.
For this challenge, we've picked several themes. For the first theme, you read one book; the second has two but one must be non-fiction; the third has three; and on and on. Here are our themes and some of the books we plan to read:
Frances ~
1) Books About Books
Howard's End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home - Susan Hill
2) Left-Handedness (Including Books by Left-Handed Authors)
3) Trains
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia - Paul Theroux
Travels with My Aunt - Graham Greene
4) Cornwall
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier
5) Literary France (1920s-1930s)
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties - Noel Riley Fitch
Rose ~
1) Physics
The Science of Doctor Who - Paul Parsons
2) Australia
The History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
3) Scandinavia
D'Aulaire's Book of Norse Myths - Ingri d'Aulaire
4) The Art of Wit
The Bodley Head - Saki
Wodehouse
The Fine Art of Political Wit - Leon A. Harris
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