Spring Reading Thing

Spring is here and I am beyond ready! It is such a good feeling to have all of the windows thrown open and to let the kids play outside for hours. And I love the rain so a good thunderstorm is always welcome :) Vasilly posted about the Spring Reading Thing 2012 Challenge and I just couldn't resist.

I decided to come up with a list of books for this challenge based off of categories. My goal is to read two books from the following categories:

• 2 review books off my shelves
• 2 NetGalley books
• 2 books from own shelves (not for review)
• 1 book that I have bought for my Kindle
• 1 new release
• 2 library books
• 2 random reads
• 2 award nominees

I think I can do pretty well with this challenge considering I can change my reading choices at any time :) Here are the books that I'm thinking about for this challenge (and yes, I think the fun part is coming up with a list of possibilities)











Is that too many??? Probably but I can't take any off because they all look too good. I tried to throw some fantasy choices in the mix....can you guess why??? Yep, be on the lookout for a post on the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Woohoo for springtime and fun reading challenges!

Spring Reading Thing 2009

I am so excited about this challenge as I've always meant to join in on the fun and never have. So this will be my first year and I'm looking forward to participating. I had a hard time at first trying to figure out which books I wanted to read for this but then just went for a wide variety. Here they are in no particular order :) Oh yeah, sorry for double posting the past couple of days but my goal is to be completely caught up with reviews by the end of March.

• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls


• I Choose To Be Happy by Missy Jenkins


• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga


• Blindness by Jose Saramago


• The Girl She Used To Be by David Cristofano


• Kissing Sin by Keri Arthur


• Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie


• A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin
  
• A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray


• The Traitor's Wife by Susan Higginbotham

I ended up using a mix of books that are either on my challenge lists or that need to be read from my ARC pile. I didn't want to list too many more and overwhelm myself so hopefully I can finish these....and I hope that 10 isn't too much :) In other challenge news, I should probably mention somewhere on my blog that I have joined the Classics Challenge, the 1% Well Read Challenge, and the Orbis Terrarum Challenge but since I'm not making lists for these I was lazy and didn't do separate posts. Sorry to the hosts! Anyways, I'm looking forward to hearing what everyone else is reading for the Spring Reading Thing and all that good stuff.