Tea and Books Reading Challenge 2012
COMPLETED
Birgit at The Book Garden is hosting the Tea and Books Reading Challenge for 2012, inspired by C.S. Lewis’ words: “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
To honour the spirit of those words, Birgit has thrown down the gauntlet: to settle in with a large cup of tea, because in this challenge I must read … wait for it … books with more than 700 pages.
Since both A Suitable Boy
YEAR-END UPDATE
Although I didn’t read London, I completed this challenge with the following books:
1. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth 1488 pages
2. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 764 pages
3. 11/22/63 by Stephen King 849 pages
4. Mordecai: His Life & Times by Charles Foran 717 pages (in progress)
A little voice in the back of my brain tells me I ought to read A Suitable Boy. I rescued it from my dad who had given up on it. Poor thing, he’d been trying to read it for the longest time and it completely put him off reading.
Errr… not that I’m trying to discourage you at all there, or myself that is… but like War & Peace that book does frighten me somewhat a lot. You’re incredibly brave and the best of luck with that double-brick of a book.
Thanks, Fiona. I think it’s the first book I’m going to tackle in the new year – just to get it off my plate. We’ll see how it goes.