Book Challenge

So, Jessica has been doing a lot of blog surfing to find ways of expanding our reading horizon's and to make this blog of ours better. One thing that she ran across was that a lot of bloggers do reading challenges. I found this to be an interesting concept. The one challenge that really intrigued me was the birthday challenge. The idea is for each month to pick an author born in that month and read at least one of their books. So, at the end of the year, you'd have 12 authors. But the problem with that particular challenge is that the lady running it closed sign-ups in January. But I thought I might participate unofficially and I would run from Feb 2008 to Jan 2009.

So, using the website Author Birthday/Web Directory these are the authors I have chosen to highlight in the challenge. I am picking authors I haven't read before and am trying hard to pick from genres that I don't normally read.

February 2008- Jeff Shaara
March- Louis L'Amour
April- Tom Clancy
May- Robert Ludlum
June- Marion Zimmer Bradley
July- Erle Stanley Gardner
August- Orson Scott Card
September- F. Scott Fitzgerald
October- J.D. Robb (maybe Anne Rice... we'll see)
November- Dale Brown
December- Patricia Gaffney
January 2009- Jack London

I of course, reserve the right to change my choices and will update this list accordingly. I'll also use the graphic on this post each time I post a review that is related to this challenge. I enourage others to try this challenge. Read books out of your comfort zone (notice I didn't pick any romance authors... well, J.D. Robb doesn't count and I'm leaning more toward Anne Rice anyway). Post here if you'll read along with me and I'd love to hear some words of encouragement. And by the way, I just put a request on Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara from the library. So, I'll get that one done in this month.