The Challenge Begins!

Our books FINALLY arrived. It took Amazon forever to ship them. We ordered Generation X, two used copies. Steve has an aversion to used things, but he'll have to manage. I also got a used copy of Anna Karenina for the Russian Reading Challenge. It is much longer than I remembered. I have to admit, I'm cheating a little. I actually read half of it the summer before I went to college. I left the book behind and never finished it. So I'm really re-reading the first half. I think it still counts for the challenge anyway, because that was almost 16 years ago. (God, I'm getting old...)

We have a busy weekend of cleaning up after the destruction unleashed upon the house by the children after Christmas, but then we will start reading and post our thoughts about the book.

We are both gen-xers, so it should be an intersting read.

The List (Still Awaiting Steve's Picks...)

January is the Nineties (Steve's pick):
Generation X, Douglas Coupland

February is the Eighties (Monique's pick):
The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer.

March will be the Seventies:
Northern Lights, Tim O'Brien

April is the Sixties:
The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck

May is the perfect month for the Fifties:
Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl

June will be the Forties:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

July is the Thirties:
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

August is the Roaring Twenties, which of course requires reading:
The Portable Dorothy Parker

September brings us the 1910s:

October and the 1900's:
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

November is the 1890s:

Finally, December is the 1880s:
The Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen

Dirty Dozen Reading Challenge 2008

The challenge is simple:

One book from each decade, starting with the 1990's in January, working our way backwards.

Steve will pick the first book and we will alternate months.

It must be a book neither of us has read before.

Nothing longer than 800 pages, since we have 3 kids and full time jobs.

After reading the book, we'll post our reviews of the book.