TSS: Challenges

First, congratulations to everyone who participated the Read-a-thon! I imagine things will be quiet in blogland today...everybody's asleep! This past week, I've been thinking about the challenges I signed up for earlier in the year, and I decided that with the exception of the two books I already have out of the library (one is …

World Citizen Challenge: Falling Leaves

  For my first book in the World Citizen challenge, I selected the memoir Falling Leaves: The True Story of An Unwanted Chinese Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mah. Someone gave this book to me eight or nine years ago, quite oddly in response to the fact that I was then reading (and enjoying) Memoirs of …

Reading Challenge: World Citizen Challenge

Last year, I tried a couple of reading challenges, but I petered out sometime in the late spring. That's not going to stop me from trying again! The first challenge I decided to sign up for this year is the World Citizen Challenge, hosted by Eva from A Striped Armchair, and I chose this one …