The Wind-Up Book Chronicle Reading Challenge hosted by Michelle (3M)

*To participate, you must use books that you've read more than 50 pages of BEFORE MAY 1 but never finished.
*The challenge will run from May 15 through November 15, 2008.
Books can overlap with other challenges.
*Your list can be changed at any time, BUT you must use the 50 page rule to books read BEFORE May 1, 2008.
*I'd like to set a minimum of three books, but I'm going to allow even 1 or 2 because most of you probably don't have as many started as I do. (I'm going to go for 6 because I have that many and because the challenge lasts 6 months.)
*You must sign up for this challenge by June 1, 2008. Sign up using Mr. Linky below -- the Linky will be closed on June 1.
Read your selections and feel great about finishing what you started!

http://windupbook.blogspot.com/2008/05/rules-and-sign-up.html

To visit 3M's regular site go here: http://1morechapter.com/

My List:
1. Par for the Course by Ray Blackston
2. Defiance by Don Brown
3. Betrayed by Jeanette Windle

By The Decades Reading Challenge

Michele (3M) is hosting a By The Decades reading challenge for 2008. I didn't participate in the 2007 challenge, but I was hoping that there'd be another opportunity this upcoming year.The rules are :
1. Read a minimum of 8 books in 8 consecutive decades in ‘08.
2. Books published in the 2000’s do not count.
3. Titles may be cross-posted with any other challenge.
4. You may change your list at any time.
For more details visit her site at http://1morechapter.com/decades/

My list is not final but here is what I have so far:
1880s - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
1890s - The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
1900- "A Room With a View" by E. M. Forster

1910 - Kilmeny of the Orchard by L. M. Montgomery
1920 - This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1930 - The Hobbit by J. R. Tolkien
1940 - "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

1950 - Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1960 - The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
1970 - The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

I will take suggestions for a while if anyone has recommendations for me.