Much Madness is Divinest Sense

Reading England Challenge

Commitment: Level 2, 4-6 Counties.

Books I’m counting for the challenge:

• The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde (London and Hertfordshire)
• Hollow City, Ransom Riggs (Wales and London)
• Library of Souls, Ransom Riggs (Victorian London)

Sign up yourself here.

 

 

Reading New England Challenge

Commitment: Six-State Challenge

Books I’m counting for the challenge:

• Massachusetts:
• Vermont:
• New Hampshire:
• Maine:
• Connecticut:
• Rhode Island:

Sign up yourself here.

 

Shelf Love Challenge

Commitment: “Pat Your Shelves on the Back,” 11-20 books

Books I’m counting for the challenge:

• The Rock and the River, Kekla Magoon (purchased 2010)
• When She Woke, Hillary Jordan (won in a giveaway in 2011)
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (purchased November 2015)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (purchased November 2015)
• The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (requested from PaperBack Swap in June 2015, put on my to-read list in May 2015)
• Hollow City, Ransom Riggs (purchased in 2014 and set aside)

Sign up yourself here.

 

Mount TBR Challenge

Commitment: Pike’s Peak, 12 Books

Books I’m counting for the challenge:

• The Rock and the River, Kekla Magoon (purchased 2010)
• When She Woke, Hillary Jordan (won in a giveaway in 2011)
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (purchased November 2015)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (purchased November 2015)
• Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Antonia Fraser (purchased January 2011)
• The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (requested from PaperBack Swap in June 2015, put on my to-read list in May 2015)
• Hollow City, Ransom Riggs (purchased in 2014 and set aside)

Sign up yourself here.

 

Historical Fiction Challenge

Commitment: Medieval Level, 15 Books

Books I’m counting for the challenge:

• The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova (1950’s and 1970’s Europe, some flashbacks to 1930’s)
• The Rock and the River, Kekla Magoon (1968 Chicago)
• Euphoria, Lily King (1933 New Guinea)
• The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (1968, Vietnam)
• Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng (1970’s Ohio)
• The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (antebellum America)

Sign up yourself here.

 

 

R. I. P. Challenge

Commitment: Peril the First, 4 books

Books I’m counting for the challenge:

• Hollow City, Ransom Riggs (peculiar children, wights, shapeshifting ymbrynes, and lots of chills)
• Library of Souls, Ransom Riggs (see above)

Sign yourself up here.

 

I haven’t seen an announcement about the Where Are You Reading Challenge, but whether the challenge officially runs or not, I plan to keep track of all the places where my books are set in the Google map below.

My post announcing 2016 Reading Challenge Signups is here.