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My first step, reading Carrie's short stories and novella. I've read her two short story collections so far and have just started her novella. Loving them! I will post reviews soon. My next step, reading Stephen King. I started with his On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I finished that book even more inspired. My plan... read more King!
A few days ago, thanks to the wonderful Bookstack blog, I learned about The Stephen King Project reading challenge.
The Stephen King Project Overview
- This will run from January through December 2012
- Anyone can join. But you should have a blog OR an account with Goodreads, Shelfari, etc., so you can write your reviews and we can visit via the link at The Stephen King Project.
- The Project will be hosted at The Stephen King Project. Participants should link their reviews to the Linky there.
- Audiobooks count.
- E-books count.
- A King Novice: 1 book
- A Lil Bit of King: 3 books
- A King to Balance It All: 6 books
- A King Legend: 9 books
- A King for All Seasons: 12+ books
- Hell. YEAH. Same rules from the above apply, except...
- You can mix and match but you should have more books than films in your end-of-year total tally.
What Should You Do Now?
- Write an announcement post on your blog.
- You don't have to put a list of books together in your announcement post. Or you can.
- Use one of the blog buttons from the sidebar.
- Enter the link to your announcement post here at The Stephen King Project at the appropriate post.
- Every time you write a review, enter the link to it for the appropriate month at the review site. (On the 1st of each month, a new entry will be posted at the review site, and you can link up your reviews there).
- At the end of each month, one participant from that month will be selected via random.org and will win a book from either Kathleen or I (or we may both have a book to give you). The book may or may not be King-related.
- At the end of the year, one participant from the year will win a $50 gift card!
I'm going for A Lil Bit of King. Since I just reviewed On Writing, I have a good start. But my next King is 11/22/63, quite a big book. 3 books seems doable and a good start to what I suspect will be a lifelong love of Stephen King.
I'll keep everyone updated.
I've asked before, but please leave your favorite Stephen King books in the comments below. I still need to pick one more.
2 comments:
Yay! Welcome to The Project! Kathleen and I, your co-hosts for The Project, are so excited to have everyone join. I'm a new fan of Uncle Stevie. In the past two months, I've read 11/22/63 (Loved!), 'Salem's Lot (Loved!), and the novella The Colorda Kid (not bad). I've got lined up Full Dark, No Stars, which is a short story collection and apparently is quite creepy.
On Writing is definitely one I'm planning to read this year, but I want to wait just a bit to read it after I've taken in a few more of his works, particularly his "classics." It's going to be an extremely fun year!
Can't wait to read what you think of 11/22/63; while a chunkster, it reads quickly. I don't normally read exceptionally fast, but I read it in less than a week!
Thanks, I'm really looking forward to participating. I'm eager to read the reviews and might even bump up to reading more books.
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