Some of you may have been around in 2012 when I lost my mind and entered 63 (yep – you read that right: sixty-three) reading challenges, 48 of which I successfully completed.

Since then, I’ve sworn off challenges publicly.

Privately, I sometimes see if I can’t meet the criteria for a favourite few. This year I’ve decided to officially throw my hat in the ring for three challenges. Each of them can draw from books across a wide cross-section of topics and genres, and I like that variety. I hope to also make a couple of my months’ reading “thematic” because I always find that fun to do

So here are the three:

The very popular What’s In a Name, hosted by Andrea at Carolina Book Nook

the brand new Bookbloggers 2020 Fiction Reading Challenge hosted by Lynne at Fictionophile,

and the first Book Challenge by Erin of 2020 which runs from Jan 1st to April 30th. Erin hosts this through a Facebook group

I’ve-sort of- picked out some titles already, but I’m not committing at this early date.

Have you entered any of these? Which challenges sound like fun to you?

PhotoBucket was down, guys! You might have noticed since every blinking image on my blog was “unavailable” for over a week!

Until I googled my problem, I’d been trying for three days to get my First Book photo to upload to my PhotoBucket account, so I missed getting this post up in time to join in with Sheila (again!)

ANYWAY – my first book this year was to be Marina Endicott’s The Difference. As with last year’s book, it’s by a Canadian author and I hope that sets the tone for me to keep including lots of Canadian writing in my 2020 reading list. I say ‘was to be’ because I’m not quite finished the Penelope Lively novel I started on December 31st. (blush) Endicott is next.

What are you reading first this year?

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