Spring Reading Thing and Once Upon a Time
While checking out some of the links at the Spread the Love link party over at The Steadfast Reader, I encountered a couple of posts about the Spring Reading Thing. The Spring Reading Thing is an event hosted by The Musings of a Book Addict. Sandra invites us to organize our reading for spring with a list of potential books to read this season. There are prizes available to those whose lists and wrap-up posts are linked in a timely manner — that’s tomorrow for the initial list!
I’m organizing my list by topic because of something Bryan at Still Unfinished wrote about today — I need balance in my reading!
England
finish Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
finish Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson
The Illustrated Longitude by Dava Sobel
Jane Austen’s England by Roy and Leslie Adkins
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
A Guide to Dickens’ London by Daniel Tyler
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
England As You Like It by Susan Allen Toth
Book Club
Transatlantic by Colum McCann
Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart
Substitute Me by Lori L. Tharps
Writing
finish Emotional Impact by Karl Iglesias
Wired for Story by Lisa Cron
A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
Health
The Diet Fix by Yoni Freedhoff
Shades of Hope by Tennie McCarty
Fun (mostly set in England)
finish The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters
finish The Fierce Reads Anthology
Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
An Unwilling Bride by Jo Beverly
That’s a total of 23 books, so probably at least 5 more than I’ll really read. But I want to read them all, so I’m not going to make a choice right now!
Since two of the books on my list (Clockwork Prince and Etiquette & Espionage) are fantasies, I’m going to also sign up for Once Upon a Time VII hosted by Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings.
What are your reading plans for spring?
Hey Joy, I like your list! I just bought Wired for Story, and I liked Oliver’s A Poetry Handbook. It’s almost dry enough to hang my hammock. That’s when I get really great reading done!
I like the idea of balance…I usually try to impart some balance to my reading, though not with a great deal of organization. Mostly it becomes something like “just read a dystopia, need something fun now…” And I largely rely on Carl’s challenges to help me get at least some throughout-the-year balance to my genres! Anyway, I hope you have fun with your reading!
As I mentioned over on Google Plus, thanks for the shout-out. That looks like quite a list. I’d join in, but I don’t know what I’m getting to this spring — for the most part. Right now I only have one book for sure on the horizon: Code Zero by Jonathan Maberry, which comes out Tuesday. Other than that, it’s pretty wide open, although I do want to tip the balance toward some nonfiction and some poetry. Just what exactly, beyond the ones I mentioned over on my blog today, I’m not sure.
I love the way you organized your list by category. Great list! Welcome to Spring Reading Thing. I wish you lots of luck when it comes to reading your list.
I am excited about Once Upon a Time! I am about to go and check it out and sign up right now!
I love the Once Upon a Time challenge and have a few books which I’m planning to read. The first one is The Golem and the Djinni, and so far it’s really good.
Glad to see you’re joining as well. The more, the better.
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Loving all the England titles!
Great looking books on those lists. Good luck!
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