Please Leave A Link For Books Read In January and February Here

I don't know how to get rid of the Mr. Linky that I used two years ago so that I can start a new one and I think there are few enough of us to make leaving links in the comments work. Once we get through February, I'll post the links so that we can all see what the others have read so far for the challenge. I'm eager to hear how you're all doing! I tried to rent my favorite version of "Romeo & Juliet" last night but the store didn't have it. Going to have to check Hulu because I was really hoping to get a couple of items ticked off my list for this challenge this week. Have any of you seen the Franco Zefferelli version? I absolutely adore it!

I Think I Can, I Think I Can...

I'm trying to get a game plan together for my reading for this challenge - of course I do this every year and it sure didn't help last year!

I'm grateful that my hubby minored in English in college and that we've moved all of the books he read many times so that I was able to find The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, a full collection of Charles Dickens' books, and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I'm planning to read the Hemingway, the Twain, and at least one of the Dickens for this challenge plus I was also able to scrounge off of our shelves William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury and Rebecca Wells' The Divine Secrets of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood. I'll possibly add a re-read of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (now what shelf is that on?) and probably will read Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and The White.  Then I'm up in the air as to whether or not I'll do a couple of movies to round things out or do more reading.

When you sign up for challenges, do you make a plan at the beginning or do you wing it? If you've made a plan, what's on your agenda for this challenge this year?

Better Late Than Never!

A few weeks ago, I asked if any of you were interested in giving this Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge a try again. Thanks to those of you who responded that you'd would, I was convinced that a) I wasn't the only one who had a hard time getting to this one last year and b) I should run the challenge again. And then my gall bladder kicked up and I've been pretty much out of it for the past month. Argh! Still, I'm game if you are and we'll just run this challenge with a slightly different start date than planned.

 

Here are the rules for 2012:

1. The challenge will begin February 1, 2012 and run through January 31, 2013.

2. There will continue to be three reading levels:

    EMILY: Read 3 books from 2 different categories

    LORELEI: Read 5 books from 3 different categories

    RORY: Read 10 books from at least 3 different categories

3. As we've done previously, movie adaptations of any of the movies can be counted. For the EMILY level, one movie can be substituted, for the LORELEI level 2 movies can be substituted, and for the RORY level, 3 movies can be substituted. 

4. The categories to choose from are: Classics, Childrens/YA, Modern Classics, Non-fiction and Other. 

5. A complete list of the books to choose from can be found here.

6. Cross over books from other challenges count.

7. Any book that you have started this year but not read more than half of by February 1st will count. 

At the end of the challenge, a winner will be chosen at random from those who have successfully reached the level that they signed up for. You do not need to announce your books now and do not have to have a blog to participate. If you do have a blog, please link a starting post and leave it in a comment. 

Hope you'll decide to read along with us!

Epic Fail!

My sincere apologizes for letting this challenge entirely go by the wayside in 2011. We've had a situation in my household this year that meant that some things so had to be let go of and this, unfortunately was one of them. I thought very seriously of letting it go entirely but, having just looked at the list of books I have yet to read, I'm not sure I'm ready to do that just yet.

Let's try this again in 2012, shall we? If you're still interested, just leave a comment here so I know if it's worth the bother of giving it another go.

Sign Up Form for 2011 Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge!

Completely forgot to do this!  Here the Mr. Linky for this year's challenge:



Even if you participated last year, will you please be sure to sign up separately for this year's challenge.

For those that participated last year, you have until Friday January 21st to let me know if you reached any of the levels of the challenge to be entered in the prize drawing!

Who Reached Their Goal?

So the 2010 version of the Gilmore Girls Challenge is officially at an end and I'm wondering: how many of you managed to reach your goal?  If you were shooting for the Rory level, did you at least reach the 15 book level?  How many of you reached 10 books? 

If you even reached the Emily level, please let me know by Friday, January 14th and I'll get your name entered into the drawing for the year end prize!  Even if you didn't reach the goal this year, are you going to join us again?  I'm making the goals much easier for 2011 including the option of watching movie adaptations for some of your choices.  I know I'm going to be taking advantage of that option! 

Change In The Rory Goal

Round about November I began to think that setting the Rory goal at 20 books was just plan crazy.  Maybe, I thought, that's just me because I'm having such a hard time reaching it.  But when I asked for any of you who had reached 20 books to let me know, I only heard crickets chirping.  Hooray, I'm not alone!

So my Christmas present to you is that the Rory level goal is now only 15 books.  If you were shooting for the Rory level and you've gotten that far, give yourself a pat on the back! 

Next year, we're starting off with more realistic goals!