My Challenge

I'm inspired by Julie and Julia. Watching the film on the flight from England to Philly with a cranky baby, I came up with my own challenge. Instead of cooking my way through a cookbook, I am going to read my way through "Penguins Classic's 100 Classic Books You Must Read Before You Die" . This challenge has a thrifty budget - I plan to check out each book from Philadelphia Free Library. This means I have three weeks to read each book, so I'll be done in 300 weeks or 6 years. Crap, now I have written that this seems like a bit of a extreme undertaking.

Challenge Rules (because I am an anal teacher)

1. Books must be checked out of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
2. Books must be read in the three weeks allowed by the library.
3. There must be at least two blog entries per book.
4. I can only give up on books after reading the first 100 pages.

First up is Lucky Jim by Kinsley Amis. I thought it would be a Conradesque novel (probably because of Lord Jim), but after reading the blurb it is about 1950s university professors in England. Judging the book by its cover. the chances of me reading this outside of the challenge would be zero. But, happily I have no choice in the reading materials. All I have to do is read and opine.