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Weekly Geeks Week #9

Another edition of Weekly Geeks goodness from The Hidden Side of a Leaf. This time around, the theme is challenges.

I don’t participate in challenges, but see all the wonderful badges of so many Weekly Geeks who do.  Because I read non-fiction (almost) exclusively, I noticed there were fewer options.  There is an active non-fiction challenge now, but it kind of felt like cheating to sign up and then read what I’d already planned to read (Veteran book challengers - is that a faux pas or?).  What I decided to do instead was challenge myself to read a fiction book - and a fiction book that wasn’t about animals. Gasp!  It’s true.

The Boat by Nam Le is going to be reviewed in the LA Times next week and reviews looked interesting.  I also heard an interview with Le on the NPR Books podcast about a month ago.  So far I have only read the first chapter, which is about an author exploring his own multi-cultural identity by recalling his father’s stories and also inviting his father to recount those stories with him during a visit.

I checked out the entries of some other Geeks who are new to challenges (and may inspire me to take the plunge!).

I was inspired by Moo who just finished her first challenge.  Yay!  There’s even a handy post, What’s the appeal of reading challenges? which I have tagged for future reading.  Tasses at Random Wonder also admits to not being much for challenges, but she also wrote about her first experience with them recently, in My very first reading challenge.  (She’s also go lots of -ologies as categories that I’m looking forwad to checking out!)

Belated Scavenger Hunt thank yous!

Dewey was kind enough to list ReadingAnimals in the scavenger hunt for Week #8 - during a week when I was (coincidentally) out of town teaching a seminar.  Doh!  I can’t believe I missed it.  At any rate, a big thank you to Dewey (are you still having trouble commenting here?) and all the Weekly Geeks who visited during the scavenger hunt!

A few of the Weekly Geeks who linked here during the scavenger hunt were:

Just Books

Tiny Little Reading Room

Out of the Blue

Puss ReBoots

(I’ll be updating my blogroll soon. )