Women’s History Month Challenge

Hi all,

Thanks to Care I came across a challenge for Women’s History Month, which apparently is March.  Having been out of school for a while, I feel like I’m not told these things, so it was pure luck that I now happen to know. The challenge is brought to you by this blog:

http://regularrumination.wordpress.com/

The challenge is to read books written by women, you can pick how many from the list the blogger provides. I’m sorry, I don’t know a lot about this blog writer, so I’m sure they’re a lovely person but I can’t fill anybody in.  I was going to just write around that and sound knowledgable but let’s just called a spade a spade. Their blog is great though, so check it out.  I picked the challenge of reading 5 books and I of course will write about them when I finish one.  Um… I’m not sure which ones, but my plan is to pick books that I wouldn’t otherwise be reading right now since I have been meaning to get around to some classics. Right now I am actually reading a book by a woman, but I would be reading it anyway so I don’t think I’m going to count it. I know for sure that one of the books will be To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I started it several years ago while vacationing in Canada and I just never finished it because I left the place where it was located, but I’ve always wanted to read it.

Any other suggestions as to books I should read?

It’s a shame I’m not counting the books I’m reading now because  I will definitely finish 5 of them in the next month and they’re all written by the same woman.

I suppose I should mention that I’m kind of a fan of vampire novels. Not the insane kind that haunts Twilight message boards and posts about how they’re moving to Forks, Washington in hopes of finding their Edward Cullen, but the kind that will pick up a vampire novel if it looks interesting. I’ve read everything from Anne Rice, Jocelyn Drake, Stephen King, Tanya Huff, and Laurell K. Hamilton to what I’m reading now, which is Charlaine Harris’s  (Harris’ ?) Southern Vampire Mysteries.  Plus many others, just a sampling so you get the idea. I figure I read enough non-vampire fiction to make up for the fact that I like something that is now very commercialized.

Regardless, Charlaine Harris is a really interesting writer. I’m not sure I can exactly describe her style, but it lends itself more towards the “less is more” approach.  She describes things in few words, and her characters are really growing on me.  I was up till 5am this morning reading the third in the series, which so far is my favorite I think, and I really wanted to finish it but I have this thing about refusing to go to bed after dawn, so I had to call it a night before the sun peeped through my window.  The problem now though is that I can’t find the fourth book ANYWHERE. Every bookstore in town is out of it and I really want to read it. I could buy it online but it would take some time to ship and the library has like 4 people waiting on it and I’m way too impatient to wait with them. So… I’m not sure. I need to call Target and ask them and then I’m out of ideas until the used bookstore opens again tomorrow (they’re closed on Mondays- don’t ask)  and I can search in there. *SIGH*

In any case, as soon as I decide on a first book for the challenge I will let everybody know and you all can be regaled by my attempt to write commentary on it.  Check out the site and join the challenge, everybody should read a little more.