Year of Reading Dangerously

We are going to join in this challenge: http://dangerouslychallenge.blogspot.com/.


The rules are: Read 12 books you deem "dangerous." between January 1st and December 31st 2009. They may be banned or challenged books, new-to-you genres, books that seem to inhabit a permanent space on your stacks, or authors you're afraid of.

We're obviously starting a little late, but hey, that's how we do it around here.

Steve and I will come up with a list. He'll be thrilled, I can tell you that much, because I can guarantee that I will pick either (maybe both!) Faulkner or Joyce (Ulysses, anyone? I mean, seriously, has anyone actually finished it?) How much more dangerous could it get?

We could also pick Mein Kampf, and get it from the library, thus testing that old story you'd hear about if you checked it out of the library, your name went on some government list somewhere.

Oh, the possibilities are endless.

We Suck.

Well, life got the better of us. Monique had two bajillion trials over the course of a few months, and Steve started working again, and the kids, well, they were the kids. We just sort of gave up. I think Steve actually read quite a few of the other books on the list, and Monique started the Big Sleep, and was enjoying it, but we never got it together.

We'll start afresh in '09. We clearly won't do a book a month, since it's now February, but I'm sure we'll come up with something, and we'll post the list.