Interesting People, Amazing Places, and Good Food

By admin | December 31, 2008

Submitted by Book Nut

This is a sticky post; scroll down for newer posts…I’ve been thinking about whether or not I want to do the Expanding Horizons Challenge again next year. And… I think not. Before you get all depressed (like you would. Really.), I’m not doing away with it entirely. I just came up with another idea for a challenge instead. It was born out of my love of food books, my missing Lesley’s Armchair Traveler Challenge this year (I don’t think she did it at all…), and my desire to host a challenge, but not the exact same one I did last year.

This year, I give you the Well-Seasoned Reader Challenge.

Here’s how it works:

Rule #1: The challenge runs from January 1 to March 31. (No cheating and starting before!)

Rule #2: You must read three books. After that, it’s up to you how much you want to read.

Rule #3: The books must:

have a food name in the title
OR
be about cooking/eating
OR
have a place name in the title
OR
be about one (or more) person’s travel experience
OR
be about a specific culture
OR
be by an author whose ethnicity is other than your own (see, I squeezed it in!)

I’ll leave it up to you to choose how the three books you read fit the criteria.

Rule #4: They must be middle-grade on up, but can be either fiction or non-fiction.

The purpose, this winter, is to take yourself someplace out of the ordinary, to go on a literary trip, whether that be challenging your expectations, discovering a new place, or enjoying the experience of reading about good food, places, and people.

Sign up using the Mr. Linky below. I’ll probably set up a blog for the challenge sometime before January. This post will stay up until the challenge starts.

1. Amira
2. Stacey @ book:thirty
3. Becky (So excited!!!)
4. Callista (SMS Book Reviews)
5. Sandra (Fresh Ink Books)
6. Laza (Gimme More Books!)
7. lupingirl
8. Lindy
9. katrina
10. Diane (Bibliophile By the Sea)
11. Jessica (yay! food books!)
12. Muse in the Kitchen
13. Kristen
14. BiblioHistoria
15. Tiny Librarian
16. Lynda
17. W7
18. Beth F (reading list up)
19. Kylee
20. Lesley (A Life in Books)
21. bybee
22. Veronica (the first draft…)
23. Corinne (Book Nest)
24. Frances (Nonsuch Book)
25. Jenny
26. Herschelian
27. Betty
28. TheLibraryNook
29. Nicole
30. Jeska
31. Melanie (Lit Chick )
32. LisaMM (Books on the Brain)
33. Heather (Belle of the Books)
34. R. L. Anderson
35. Maria
36. Cafeshree
37. Arial
38. kim in ohio
39. J.C.
40. Violette
41. Melissa/Babushka
42. lilly
43. Kerri@Latte’Buddies!
44. Jessi
45. veens
46. blackadder
47. Nise’
48. bubbins11
49. Judie (Judiefication)
50. (Judy) Intergalactic Bookworm
51. Sherrie
52. Penelope (Life’s Sweet Passions)
53. Kristina (Kristina’s Favorites)
54. April
55. Erin
56. Kristi (Books and Needlepoint)
57. Eva
58. Word Lily
59. Bridget
60.

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