Australia Women Writters Challange 2012

I have joined this challange and am going for Franklin-fantastic (read 10 and review at least 4 books)*. for more detals of this challange go to http://www.australianwomenwriters.com/p/australian-women-writers-book-challenge_25.html

Australian Women Writers 2012 Reading and Reviewing Challenge

Keen on romance, fantasy, crime, YA, literary, mainstream women’s fiction? Contemporary or historical? Memoir, other nonfiction or poetry?

Whatever your preference, whether you’re a fan of one genre or a "devoted eclectic", the 2012 Australian Women Writers Book Reading & Reviewing Challenge invites you to a year of the best of Australian women’s writing for the National Year of Reading.

Objective: This challenge hopes to help counteract the gender bias in reviewing and social media newsfeeds that has continued throughout 2011 by actively promoting the reading and reviewing of a wide range of contemporary Australian women’s writing. (See here for recent discussions on gender bias and here for the rationale behind the challenge and here for information on The Stella Prize.)

Readers should approach this challenge with a spirit of willingness. There are no failures, just personal goals. Reviews can be long or short, favourable or “this book is not for me”. Hopefully, along the way, we’ll all discover some future classics and perhaps a few surprises among genres we’re not familiar with. The main aim is to have fun.

Challenge period:  1 January 2012 -  31 December 2012

Goal: Read and review books written by Australian women writers throughout 2012, the National Year of Reading – hard copies, ebooks and audiobooks, new, borrowed or stumbled upon bybook-crossing. 

Challenge levels: 
Casual: 
Stella (read 3 and review at least 2 books)
Miles (read 6 and review at least 3)* 
Franklin-fantastic (read 10 and review at least 4 books)*
* The higher levels should include at least one substantial length review  

Where are you Reading Challenge

This Challenge comes from Sheila at Book Journey The below is some info. You can find more by clicking the above image.

You will be able to see where I have read by clicking on the link to my map under the icon on the side (just give me a day or so to set it up).

So what is the point of this challenge?  It is to try to read in each of the 50 States between January 1 2012 – December 31, 2012. 

So how do you decide what state a book is categorized under?

1.  In a fiction read it would be the State or Country that the book spends the most time in.  (Ie. If your main character is from Wisconsin but the book is all about his/her time in college in California – the books should categorize under California….)

2.  Non fiction reads categorize  in whatever State or Country it is about (Ie…. a book about fly fishing in Colorado is a Colorado point, and a book about women in Afghanistan is an Afghanistan point.

3.  If the book goes from one state to another… go with the state that most of the time is spent.